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The Washington times., 1931-07-23
Brooklyn Minister
BIameS Walker
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

occasion that almost uni
versal habit of wives. With
miraculous wisdom she accepted
the fact that here was a man.
not in the making, but made"
Yeah? Well, maybe. But
what's your idea? Could you
do it? Not with Cal, Of course.
But take any man-any hus-
band
CAN ANY WOMAN
SHOULD ANY WOMAN
LIVE WITH A HUSBAND
WITHOUT ADVISING HIM?
What would any husband
amount to if he were not ad'
vised by his dear, loyal mate?
Or would he, maybe, amount
to q whole. lot more?
Mans Inspiration
Isn't it universally conceded,
particularly by the ladies them.
selves, that woman is mans
inspiration, and that no man
ever gets anywhere unless some
female tells him how? Haven't
you heard men say that, right
out loud, in front of their
wives, or other female voters?
Then didn't they mean it?
OF were the false wretches
just helping the dear little
woman kid herself along?
And as for, that female intui'
ton racket. which Grace Cool
idge should use but doesn't, is
or isn't it a pipe dream?
Think of all the money your
husband would have made in
the stock market If he'd lis
tened to you, Angie. On the
other hand, think Of all he lost
when he did?
Be that as 1t may, are or
aren't men able to manage
their own affairs without ad-
vice from their wives? IF so,
I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW
WHY THEY CAN'T EVER RE.
MEMBER TO BUY A NEW
TUBE OF SHAVING CREAM.
But maybe Cal does. If so,
he DESERVES to be President.
Copyright, 1881, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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Mrs. Calvin Coolidge doesn't
criticize her husband. Doesn't
even advise. Never says
''Now Cal, dear, you know
perfectly we'll we need a new
car. Why, we've been going
around in that old wheelbarrow
ever since we left the White
House. What will people be
saying! You don't care what
they say? Well, you ought to
care. You might think of my
feelings once in a while
"And then there's that no
tion you have of giving up
writing. That's the very worst
thing you could do-giving up
writing Just when you're begin
ming to get a good start. What's
that? 1 don't know anything
about business? I do, too. May
be I haven't had your expert
ence but have intuitions about
things like that.
That Old Brown Tie
"And, while we're at it, I
want to mention that old brown
tie you're wearing. I've told
you so times, Calvin Coolidge,
that that's a Perfectly Awful
Tie. Why I could sink right
through the floor every time I
see that tie. But that's the
way you are. Never pay the
least mite of attention to any
thing I say"
No, Mrs. Grace Coolidge
never says anything like that.
She goes right on, preserving
the well-known Golden Silence
while Husband Cal commits all
the 8,735,6 miSdemeanors for
which other wives give other
husbands the 1-unaround. At
any rate, that's Alice Booths
story in the, July GOOD
HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE
and she sticks to it.
"It is a safe assumption"
says she. that probably never
in her life has Grace Coolidge
told her husband what he
should have said or what he
should have done on q given
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
HOOver's Tribute to Wilson =: By Claude G. Bowers

formation. He was told that
the conditions of unemploy-
ment are worse instead of bet
ter. But he was told that the
problem could not be solved by
q city government. He was
told something more:
"The State and Federal Gov.
ernments must consider some
plan for developing nationwide
employment service, unemplOy-
ment plans, etc. Industry
must form some method of
better regularizinS employment.
In other words, the unemplOy-
ment situation is much larger
than the local New York Situa-
ton, and therefore cannot be
settled by either the city gov
ernment or the social agen-
cies.'
One Would Expect
He'd Call on Hoover
With this solicited view of
experts before him, one would
have thought that the minister
would have called upon Presi-
dent Hoover and his Admins
tration for some action.
That he would have con-
demned, the President for his
objectionable veto of the Wag-
ner bill, providing the nation
wide employment SERVICE" the
welfare council demands.
But he evidently preferred
to attack Mayor Walker for
unemployment, and he stuck
to his text.
The minister also had be-
fore him a letter from the
commissioner of public welfare:
"UnleSs America tries to solve
this question, something seri-
Gus will result. No considerable
number Of people will Starve in
silence when hunger begins to
gnaw. Rather let us face this
question and become concerned
about these five to seven mil.
lion men who want work and
can't get it."
The commissioner clearly as
Sumes that the problem is one
for the nation: that it is far
beyond the solution of a city,
and he might have added that,
proportionately, New York has
done infinitely more than the
Federal Government. And he
might have concluded that If
the Federal Government can
reverse its policy to send two
members of the Cabinet to Eu-
rope to help solve the problem
of suffering there, it might well
devote some thought to the con.
ditions here.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23

must work at his union trade idle man cannot be COM
PEELED to accept work outside of his own union.
Thus there in England 100 900 coal miners the doe
Coal mining at low ebb, and many of those may die
without finding jobs miners But under the rules they
not compelled to look for work outside of coal mining And
unless things change they go into old receiving the
dole, waiting vanly for work at coal mining.
All of this foolish to and part of it is foolish.
man should take anv work he can ret AZ long az II is re-
spectacle work in preference to charity by whatever
call it. And the dole is NATIONAL CHARITY.
At the time while making rules toeratng bread
lines and long lines of unemployed is not for to crt
cize what other nations do
The British give the doe to 100000 out of work 1t
many millions of pounds many hundreds of millions of
dollars But they consider cheaper than rskng the posi-
biy 2500O00 dissatisfied turning toward revolution
Let hope that world conditions will improve and the de-
preston disappear like fog the morning take in with the
crowd that awaits in England for hard cash. and the other
crowds that wait in America for soup job
The Washington times., 1931-07-23

Jumping now from city to
international affairs, the con.
ference in London, seeking a
solution for the troubles of
Germany and Central Europe,
will find two members of our
Cabinet at the table in "full
, co-operation.". It is the greatest
tribute Mr.. Hoover has ever
paid to Woodrow Wilson.
Just what the status of our
representatives is to be is a
bit confusing. The press re-
ports all agree that the con-
ference will deal with both
economic and political ques-
tions,". and then we are in
formed that while Mr.. Stimson
and Mr.. Mellon will cooperate
fully" they will have nothing
to do with the political queS-
tions, and then, that they will
give advice upon these.
Cut In ReparatiOnS
Believed Needed
The common belief in Europe
is that there can be no real
relief for Germany without a
drastic scaling down Of the
reparations, for a year from
now she will be as much en-
barraSsed as she is today. This
will not be agreed to by the
nations to which reparations
are paid unless there is a
corresponding scaling down OF
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
Wanderlust in Children

We have lately had exceptional Of wanderlust in
children and the attempt Of parents to control it, while large
numbers Of people gave much advice to how the children
should be punished or not punished.
Pychiatrists psychologists and other students of
and the strange bents of humanity will
give learned opinions the subject Of children possessed Of
unusual impulses and determinations to stray away from their
homes parents and paymates but after ALL it will be mostly
theories .......
Primitive had the impulse for adventure and it
has come down through hundreds of thousands of years
It not easily gotten rid of where it is pronounced
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
Hearst Rapers Advocate

l. Honest friendship Nth all nations entGngng alliances
NTH none"-George Washington.
Proportional representation United States Senate no
State to haze than Senator's Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional reupporonmnet In the House OF
Representatives.
SeparGte departeuts OF the Ary Of the Nauy OF the
Air Forces all united under Secretary OF National DEFENSE
Federal action to the limit of Federal power to GooSh
HHterdcy under Secretary OF Education.
s. Installation President the first Of January too
ing the November election.
Selecre tmqrdtton admit only those suited for Anet
citizenship and American needs.
z Deportation undesirable aliens and extension OF citizen
ship period to 10 years.
Complete publicity GreS to pTeDnt o0 tGT
dodgers from escaping TAXATION
Modification of the VolSteGd act to permit light Htnes ana
beers Under Federal regulation
The Washington times., 1931-07-23

the debts, and that will be put
up to US.
The President has abandoned
his position that there is no re-
lation between the reparations
and the debts-and he will be
reminded Of that in due time.
If it develops that the private
loans are in danger without a
reduction in the reparations, de-
pending on a reduction in the
debts, pressure will be brought
to bear upon him to agree to
the reduction if not the cancel
lation of the debts. That will
merely mean an increase in the
taxation of the American people.
Meanwhile the vigorous pro-
test Of Senator Glass has
brought forth the promise that
the Federal Reserve system will
not be dragged into European
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
You Must Believe This

You may kick about this summers heat but the weather
scientists with their hands volumes of statistics tell you
that the present summer is mot half bad"
Comparisons Of heat cold humidity rain, ETC., with
figures other years and figures lie they say These
weather scientists have the facts Some other scientists may
not be of their conclusions.
The weather men get bumps and then when they
predict thunder showers that do not come when they
fail predict showers that do but they have the
s:dope" as to heat and humidity in other summers.
So cool down and have good time Washington has had
normal conditions Many times this has been
Portable when citizens of western States and cities were
actually suffering Then too do forget that when these
western places in the oes Of billiards. in the winter this
city enjoys moderate weather.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
Our TheaterS Are Clean

Efforts to make appear that there vulgarty foul
language the stage Washington theaters do not
have the support Of the Washington Police Department
ministers of the city Such charges will not have tue backing
Of the general public.
There may be occasional instances where vaudeville artists
possibly obscene but such instances checked by
managers poicewomen who attend performances.
There may be motion pictures that do meet the stand
ards Of all people to what pictures should portray but
mighty seldom in this city that either pictures performers
approach impurity in language or action. .....-
The quite plain truth is that Washington people do not take
to rque stuff in theats and theater uniformly
careful to cater to tAe tastes of their patrons.
The average lca theater manager marvel Of insight
into public gOol will It good business that he should
know what hi audience wants and does not want He has
his policies of theater cleanliness and adheres to them
Suggestive things creep into plays and performances
that night just well be eliminated but they are in line
with what the majority prefer and seek.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
TIMES TEST

Mark each statement "True"
or False:
/. ''Manon" was composed by
MaSSenet.
2. The Leatherstocking Tales
were written by HaW-
thorne. @
3. The Hartz Mountains are
in Sweden.
4. John Muir is remembered
as a naturalist.
5. Cape HatteraS is in South
Africa.
6. Shakespeare said,
"Who'er she be
That not impossible she
That shall command my
heart and me-"
z. Ethan Allen was a hero
of the American Revolu-
tion.
8. The Congo River is in
Africa.
9. Let me have men about
me that are thin
Sleek-headed m en-, and
such as sleep o'nights."
10. The Colosseum Is in Rome.
Match correctly:
II. Edmund Andres
founded Salem.
IL. Robert Dinwiddie.
discovered the mouth Of
st. Laurence River.
13. Jacques Cartier
American sculptor.
IA. John Endicott
royal Governor of Virginia.
Is. Gutzon Borglum
royal Governor Of New
England.
ANSWERS On Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1931-07-23

debacle, that the Government
will not join in the guaranteeing
of private loans abroad.
Just what our part will be in
London must wait on the event.
But If we are to fully cooper
ate" we are going to cooperate
fully-and that is that.
X Il
Brooklyn Minister
BIameS Walker
A Brooklyn minister evidently
is determined to hold Mayor
Walker and the city admins.
tration responsible for unem-
ployment and suffering in New
York. In the hope, perhaps,
of securing the support for his
theory, he appears to have
asked the Welfare Council of
New York, which. is neither
partisan nor reformist, for in
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
WISE WORDS

He knows little who will tell
his wife all he knows.
Fuller.
Truth is truth,
To the end of reckoning.
Shakespeare.
A little wind kindles. much
puts out the fire.-9erbert,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
New War "PrOfts"

Very soon, members of the cabinet and congress
will report on what they find may be done TO pro-
mote peace by removing profit from war, but their
report viii not mention the fact that Japan is buy
ing great stocks of cotton in the United States and
Shipping them across the Pacific.
Something like four million bales of cotton have
been purchased by Japan within the last few months,
q decided increase over normal buying. Germany
bought similar quantities cotton in this country
in the early part Of 1914 Cotton one of the basic
ingredients Of high explosives.
Already southern farmers are storing half the
cotton ginned in expectation of higher prices Other
industries may find themselves busy on the
Strength Of oriental orders unless Japan is salts
ned to stop the war; that she has created puppet
governments to rule Manchuria for her.
All of which means what? Better times for a
little perhaps, but at what pricel
No prohteering here-just legitimate business
with will help our suffering unemployed2 But every
thinking man knows that if Japan can smash the
peace machinery today Europe can do so next. That
would another World war. Food for the I'M
employed today-shrapnel tomorrow. A prosperous
nation for little while-and then possibilities we
dare not face
1t is not enough to study and control the rela-
ton Of private profit OF war after war has begun.
Unless we are hypocrites must, when we say we
profit and when other nations offer to buy
from the sinews of war.
Instead of calling its task complete, the war
policies commission should start its work again. and
this time, start at the beginning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

wide latitude" Of opinion. 1t would be far safer
be wide" on matters Of literary criticism or classical
scholarship than subjects pertaining to contem-
porary economic controversies
Yet it is precisely in the latter field that we most
need courageous and fortnight statements by such
experts college professors held to be- Quarrels
over Shakespeare or Aeschylus not likely to be of
any considerable aid in "salvaging civilization"
Certainly, nothing less than complete Iattude"-
within the limits Of the laws governing obscenity pro-
family, insanity and feeble nindedness-must be
guaranteed at all times to college professors in the
classroom. Otherwise. they can not function as
emancipated inteecs and decisive leaders of student
opinion.
The question Of expression of PROFESSIONAL opinion
outside the classroom brings out another defect in
the attitude of the trustees There here no assur-
ance whatever that professor may not be snapped
up and summarily dismissed for unconventional
articles or lectures on public utilities, Russia, India
reparations, Manchuria, the British elections Mr.
Hoover and the like Niller's speech on India was
given during leave of absence
The sensible procedure in regard to the extra
mural expressions of professors would seem to be
about as follows ID When professor speaks or
writes for the non-college audience, he should be
under limitations beyond legal penalties and con-
siderationS of elementary good taste-and we should
avoid identifying the latter with mere convention
aty; CO the professor never should speak in the
of the institution unless officially requested to
do so.
The investigating committee closes with a ringing
challenge to the university administration:
Until the president and board definitely can as
the faculty that all university procedures and
policies, including decisions of the board ITSELF are
legitimate topics for orderly discussion and criticism
by the faculty. it is idle to assert that freedom of
speech prevails at Ohio State university"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
| Take HearSay Evidence

A S matter of fact, I have no
L n first hand familiarity with the
beasts of the jungle, and my Curl
osity is not so great that would
establish contacts beyond those
which can be made in our molten
picture theaters.
1t seems to me an excellent thing
that the average tripper to Africa
now takes with him motion pic
ture camera instead of a rife. I
have grown more than little tired
of seeing the Sunday newspaper
pictures of Mrs. Martin johnson
perched upon some trophy of the
chase.
One is almost led to believe that
the young lady becomes cushion
conscious save at such times as she
sits upon the head of dead lion.
Yet, though am not much in
spired by the sight of dead animals,
I do not get an altogether pleasant
thrill from meeting the wilder kind
face to face. A few afternoons ago
I went to a tea party, and right
beside the bar there lay tiger cub.
Yes, it was a tiger cub. Several
other people at the party saw him
just as plainly as I did.
There was a disposition on the
part of the ladies to pat his head
and lift him up on top of the table.
Not, I may add, the table where I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Free Speech in Colleges

The Committee of the American Association OF
University Professors has investigated and reported
on the case of Professor Herbert A. Miller. distin-
gished socologist of Ohio State university summariy
dismissed last spring. His discharge was announced
as being on the ground of speech sympathetic with
Indian independence at Bombay.
There is no doubt that DR.. Miller made the speech
1t may have had something to do with his dismissal
It has been charged that the British diplomatic
agencies and secret service got the of the trustees
and administration.
But it also was well established that the main
reason for his discharge his opposition to COM
pulsory military training for male students of the
university.
The investigating committee looked into the stand
of the trustees as related to freedom of speech for
professors The best they could obtain was state
nent that: Members of the faculty have enjoyed
and now enjoy wide latitude in expressing their opin
ions In the classroom"
The committee rightly comments that: NO
faculty would consider this adequate recognition
of freedom of speech"
In the first place, the trustees and administration
reserve the right to pass just what cons flutes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
When Youngsters Drive

One of the most disturbing traffic accidents of
the season is that recently recorded in Kansas City.
where an auto driven by 14-year-old boy knocked
down and killed pedestrian at street intersection.
No youngster of IA, of course, or of an age any
where IA, should ever be permitted to drive an
automobile on any public street. In this case, to be
sure the lad is said to have been driving without his
parents consent; but that fact only adds to the
weight of the object lesson.
Parents must not only keep their children out of
the drivers seat. They must to it, very rigdly,
that the ruling is obeyed. When a child of that age
does drive, and gets involved in accident, the
major part of the responsibility rests his father
and mother.
Keeping child-drivers off the streets is primarily
their job, not the police departments
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Admit the Mistake

sign of bgness is willingness to admit
mistake Yet such willingness is one of the rarest of
human traits.
1t is inconcevable that President Hoover now re-
CARDS the Hawley- tariff as anything else than
a mistake.
Evidence of that fact has mounted constantly since
the bill was signed.
Reprisals from abroad, flight" of American in
dustry and American capital TO foreign lands de-
creased exports increased Representatives, have been
the result.
AS critic sums it up the Hawley-Smoot tariff
mas substituted the hostility of foreign countries for
previous friendship has resulted in retalatory action
and markets closed to commerce in all parts of
the land has driven huge of capital into foreign
fields where, within foreign tariff walls American
capitalists escape the retaliatory and other tariff
barriers and employ foreign labor in place of pre-
viousy-paid American labor"
No one in this nation is in better position to see
and to realize the blghtng results than is President
Hoover. His experience alone as secretary of COM
merce equipped him to sense in detail the funda-
mental weaknesses of the thing which he, in time
of great political pressure signed and which consti-
tutes the great mistake of the Hoover administration
That mistake be remedied and remedied quick
~. A repeal of the Hawley-Smoot bill would be
inevitable If recommended by the President to con-
greSs That would throw the tariff back to where it
before the bill enacted And the weight that
America has been carrying since the bill was signed
would be removed from the heavily burdened Shout
ders of the American people.
Will President Hoover have the bigness that is
necessary TO admit mistake?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
It BELONGS to the Pennle

From any angle it is considered the report of
the Hoover Muscle Shoals commission is only the
opinion of nine men, appointed by the President and
the Governors of Tennessee and Alabama.
1t contained than was expected 1t was
a blueprint of President Hoover's known ideas of
what should be done with this great power plant.
1t favored lease of the shoals to some private cor
poration. Indeed it hardly could have favored any
thing else since one member of the commission ad-
mitted they went to the White House for orders"
But only congress dispose Of Muscle Shoals.
Twice before 1t has insisted on the federal govern
ment operating the power plants there. Twice con-
greSs thwarted, once by President Coolidge and
by President Hoover.
This will not deter congress from acting again.
and in favor again, we believe. of government
operation.
President Hoover given excellent oppor-
tunity to lease the fertilizer manufacturing plants
at Muscle Shoals under the bill the last congress
passed. But he vetoed it. Now, however, his COM
mission makes suggestion very similar. If congress
plan was wrong why is his commissions plan in this
regard right?
Under the bill Hoover vetoed the people who
paid for Muscle Shoals would have been able to pur
chase some of the surplus power manufactured there
Under the Hoover commission plan, the chances OF
the people getting any of this power are nil.
Congress- We believe will accord the Hoover report
but casual consideration, and will insist, again.
that Muscle Shoals belonging to the people and the
government, must be retained for them.