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The Washington times., 1931-08-05
Child Health and Habits
In First Six Years
Washington Mothers Fortunate in Child Clinics

The tremendous Importance of the first six Of
Chld e-he preschool AGES impressed upon parents in
edition of publication by the ohildrens Bureau Of
the Department of Labor.
This book is full Of valuable information for parents and
should be in the hands of all fathers and mothers who
urged cooperate the and training Of their little
Good health habits important Habit the tendency Of
human beings repeat what has been done before Good
habits amount much in the bringing up of children.
Washington mothers exceedingly fortunate in having at
her disposal the benefit of children from infancy
years Of age splenddly managed child hygiene stations
operated by the District Board of Health
There twelve of these public stations at each Of which
is physician and graduate nurse put there mothers
There also number of private child clinics.
No treatments given sick children but there is nstruc
on the of little ones who weighed measured
and given careful physical examinations Defects that dis
covered made known to parents that they may be
reced but the real work Of these stations that of furnishing
scientific information to diet for babies and children
The diet is changed to meet conditions and increasing
Thousands Of Washington mothers take their babies and chill
dren to these stations regularly and profit by the constant
supervision Of experienced attendants.
This written largely for those mothers who do not know
about these places who fail to take advantage of the
usual opportunities offered them to raise healthy children
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
Gangland Replies
The War Is On

The underworld answered New York citys challenge With
another hail Of bullets Mayor Walkers order to the police
to shoot above the wane in dealing with gangsters had
hardly been issued before the body Of Brooklyn clothing
manufacturer picked up in Ocean Parkway rdded with
fourteen ugs The attack similar to that in 10th Street
last Tuesday night except that children happened to be
slain
And that by the way, was merely lucky accident, for
Ocean Parkway the of the shooting is street of
attractive hoes-a street where and children may be
found rong at almost any time during the daylight hours
It the merest chance that the 1Qh Street massacre was
not reenacted there
You get from this incident true picture Of the cynical
cruelty gangand You have thought after the 10th
Street affair that there would be at least momentary eup
in the killings But the guns blaze out the same ever
And until the city for that matter the State and the nation
realize that they are AT WAR with the forces of crime murder
as a business will 60
It will 90 while certain corrupt officials allied with
the gangs.
It will while corrupt lawyers and easily brbed jurors
and soft" judges acquit the gangsters when caught
will while the Federal Government refuses to regu
late the sale of frearms-whch open scandal in New
York State and in all other States.
will 60 while prohibition goes on, because the gangs
product of prohibition and kept in employment by
prohibition
These not pleasant facts to face But they facts that
no rational will dispute and the American people have
got to face them.
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
Crockett's Washington Mirror By Claude G. Bowers

he is only three years older than
I am. His face Is a good deal
shriveled, and he looks sorry,
not for anything he has gained,
but what he may lose.
His mind beats around like
a tame bear tied to a stake, in
a little circle hardly bigger than
the circumference of the head
in which it is placed, seeking no
other object than to convert the
Government into an instrument
to serve himself or his office
holding friends"
A Comparison Of
Great Men
And again:
HE has become q great man
without any reason for it, and
So have /. He has been nOmi-
mated for President without the
least pretensiOns; and so have
/. But here the similarity stops.
From his cradle he was ON the
nOncOmmittal tribe. I never
was. He had always two ways
to do a thing: I never had but
one. He was generally half
bent; tried to be as straight
as q gun barrel. He could not
bear his rise; never minded
mine. He forgot all his old as
sOciates because they were poor
folks; / stuck to the people
that made me.
"He travels through the
country in an English coach
with English servants in uni
fOrm-I think they call It liv.
cry. eating in room by him.
self and carrying himself so
stiff in his gait and grim in
his dress that he is what the
English call a Dandy"
And more:
when he enters the Senate
chamber in the morning he
struts and swaggerS like a crow
in a gutter" and is laced up in
cOrSets such as women in towns
wear and If possible tighter
than the best Of them. and
it is impossible from his ap-
pearance to tell whether he is
a man or a woman"
None Of the present day
authors of Mirrors of Wash
ington" have anything on Davy
Crockett, the first of the race.
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

you. Keep him guessing. Don't
let him think he's the Only
One. Play on his jealousy.
Above all, watch him night
and day, and never, NEVER.
give him a chance to put any
thing over on you.
Sexes Are Equal
This, I repeat. is what Every
Woman thinks of Every Man in
her secret heart-and has been
thinking for the last 0,0OO, 600
years, And if you think that
a few years of co-education and
equal suffrage are going to put
a. dent in a tradition like that,
you don't know feminine ma
ture. Why is marriage still
such heavy risk, though
we've been practicing it Tor
centuries? Why is frinedship
almost impossible between men
and women-and business part
nership a. continual pain in the
neck? That's why. Because
, women have inherited these
idiotic notions from the old
DAYS when squaws whispered
nutiny over grinding bowls
and houris raised heck in
harems.
But it's time we got over It,
sisters. The simple truth is
that Man and Woman were
modelled from the same hunk
of mud, endowed with exactly
the same emotions. Neither
sex has a monopoly on de-
cency or indecency courage
or cowardice sense or
nonsense, Men aren't out to
Get Women any more than
women are out to Get Men.
It flatters our conceit to think
they are, girls, but s'matter OF
fact we women aren't half as
much of a Treat or a Tempta-
ton as we think we are.
Nihety-nine out of a hundred
men get fed up with romance
mighty pronto, and much pre-
fer a snappy game Of poker or
q lazy hour of fishing to any
CLEOPATRA that ever sm1rked
from a tiger skin.
All of which is the truth
s'help me. But just try to
make any Nice Lady believe it!
For what's there left to make
life exciting for a Nice Lady if
you take away all the dirt?
(CopyrtTht, 1881, King Features
Syndicate XAca)
The Washington times., 1931-08-05

Women believe such amazing
tommyrot about men. And I'm
not now a1luding to Giggley
Cert, of the notion counter, or
Bashful Bess, out in the sticks.
I'm referring to smart, modern
mamas bachelor working
girls college graduates -.
brilliant, professional She's. One
and all, regardless of age, creed,
color or condition, females have
these notions about males.
Namely:
Man is an entirely different
animal from Woman.
His tastes, attitudes and re-
actions are utterly unlike hers.
She has a highly attuned and
refined nervous system" He's
just put together with rivets.
All men are by nature philan.
derers-no matter how long
they may have been married or
how faithfully they may have
served the Missis. Just give the
Old Boy a chance and he'll turn
tomcat! For the chief and con-
stant desire of the male heart
is to Make Some Woman"
The Selfish Sex
But no man is ever fair to a
woman, for the whole sex is
selfish, jealous, coarse. unrea-
sonable, stupid, unreliable.
But, in spite Of their obvious
stupidity. men think they know
everything, and are terribly
stuck on themselves for no good
reason at all.
Because of this. any Smart
Gal can make a fool of any man
without half trying. \
Men boast about their
strength, but actually they are
lost without women.
At heart every man is both a
villain and a great, big, help
less cry-baby.
So things being as they are,
the only way a Nice Woman
can get along with a Horrid
Man is to-
Flatter him necessarily.
Never let him know what
you're thinking, but always
make him believe that you're
thinking of him.
Be nice to him-when he de-
serves it-but never too nice.
Never do too much for him or
he won't appreciate you.
Never let him be too sure Of
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
"TalkieS" In Education

The of talking pictures in the public schools of the
United States part Of the educational courses de-
clared to be than possibility Judging from experiments
already made here and elsewhere.
It is mighty interesting possibility because it may ui
atey lessen the number of teachers and books use
tainly increase educational opportunities.
The powerful influence of talking pictures is well
to doubt that they be put schools colleges
Visual education may sink in quickly than that obtained
from porng books but American educators will take moth
ing for granted They and hear about tests that do
show beyond all question advantages of the visual way
present methods, advantages of combining the two
In studies talking pictures may not accomplish much
present Of teaching In other studies they may
complsh more.
With dumb and feebemnded children the talking pictures
may do wonders when prepared carefully for this type
pupils difficult to handle in classes made up largely Of
NAL children.
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
Days of High Poker

Remodeing Of the famous Little Green House" Street
reawakens memories and scandals associated with public men,
for there that many distinguished played
poker and other card games for less high stakes
Poker stories that from there yet heard among the
poker faithful of Washington and they of the
country's noted of the past many of them dead.
Poker for years the most fascinating card games
national celebrities but with the attractions of bridge
dwindled in popularity Wives of great men, when able to
control their hubbs take them to bridge games and play for
stakes, often high
Where poker the national card game for gambling
purposes alone taking part bridge the national
game with and striving to win. Poker wrecked
the lives of many and Of many families Bridge is doing
the thing not much maybe from financial losses
from contentious and bitternesses
The Washington times., 1931-08-05

Some people are a bit shocked
at the severity with which Presi-
dent Hoover and other public
men are handled by the anony-
nous author of the Mirrors OF
Washington" and Mrs. Rine.
hart may be constrained to pro.
test anew against the unkind-
ness.
We sometimes hear that writ
ers are becoming too free in
books touching upon the Presi-
dents and other men in public
life. There was "Revelry," and,
although a novel, something of
a history, with more fact than
fiction. Then came "The Mys-
terious Death Of President Hard
ing" and then THE Great Mis-
take" critical Of President
Hoover. Now the Mirrors Of
Washington"
An Interesting
Volume.
But after all none of these
victims Of the satirist or blunt
historian approach biography"
written years ago about Martin
Van Buren. It is strange that so
few people, more than casually
familiar with American political
history, ever heard OF this book
IT. is Interesting in reflecting the
rough and tumble politics Of the
1906, in that it deals with a
most interesting figure, and was
written by Davy Crockett.
How many people know that
Davy Crockett, the frontiersman
of Tennessee and Texas, was the
author of the biography OF Mar
tin Van Buren,?
It was sensational enough to
find the name of this pictur-
eque man of the hunting garb
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
Night Traffic Accidents
Illumination of Streets Reduces Il

TO lack Of proper illumination Of streets is attributable
Of the night traffic accidents in American cities That the
conclusion of traffic experts who have studied accde ts
tics from many angles
The brilliantly lighted city streets the certain
that accidents will be largely cut down. compared streets
that are not we'll lighted.
fair estimate that year 100000 Americans
will this city than in ordinary years. and Washington
is always of the most popular of all American cities
The streets the city will be greatly congested at all hours
Of the day and night To reduce night accidents would be
fine thing if the District Commissioners could get from Con-
gres appropriations for extra illumination of streets beginning
in the early spring of 1892 There should be at least half
dozen prominent thoroughfares lighted in brilliant It
would pay Washington advertising project and certainly
contribute to safety.
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
Why It Gets Hotter

The days get hotter according scientist because of the
storing up of heat.
Northern Hemisphere is stated receives greatest
amount Of heat June e. the longest day of the year the
time of the sosce But that not the time the
Northern Hemisphere has the highest temperatures That
me says the scientist arrives about August The gradual
increase Of heat due to the fact that when area is ex
posed the for hours than the turned away
it stores up heat
This nation be storing up plenty of and to
have been doing it for long tme for July steaming
hot month all through the nation and August sets
attempt to break records
There's nothing you do about It, listen to what the
doctors tell yeu Eat lightly sleep and much as few
clothes possible and keep your temper.
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
TIMES TEST

Fill each blank:
/. The ruler Of Japan is
2. Diverting means -.
8. A passage with only one
outlet is called a --.
4. A spur track is one that
S. Writing in cipher is called
6. loves a shining
mark"
Z. GO where waits
thee"
8. A regent exercises
authority. :
9. can American Tragedy" was
written by --.
10. A nap taken during the
warm hours Of the day is
called a
Match correctly:
II. William Brewster
private secretary to Lincoln
IL. George Gershwin
Marshal of France
13. Ferdinand Foch
the great compromiSer
IA. John Hay
American composer
Is. Henry Clay
an elder of the Pilgrims
(AnSwsrS On Magazine Pagel
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
SnObS Are Many

Montagu Glass, back from Europe, wonders why any
Amercans are sorry for King Alfonso Millions are sorry
hecanse millions are snobs and royalty worshper at heart
It is one thing to call yourself democrat another thing to
be =, -
Fourier that one the strongest instincts of the human
heart ID the ''cabalistic instinct Fourier calls it.
thing little better than others.
It ends snobbery getrch quick society and other like
fooshness But there at time usefulness in it,
made men and stand closely together and built up
what the Socialists call 'Soidarity."
The Washington times., 1931-08-05

} written biography of Van
Bureu.
A Real Vaudeville
Comedy Skit
And it was a comedy skit-
this book; utterly absurd and
yet altogether entertaining be-
cause of the filings at Van
Buren. Take few Illustrations:
HE Wan Buren, is about so
years old, and notwithstanding
his badness. which reaches all
around and half down his head,
like a white pitch plaster, leav-
ing a few white floating locks,
The Washington times., 1931-08-05
WISE WORDS

Whenever I find a great deal
of gratitude in a poor man, I
take it for granted there would
be as much generosity if he
were a rich man. Pope.
I have conquered adversely,
but it remains to be seen
whether I can conquer pros
perity.-Holden.
There is no greater delight
than to be conscious of sin
cerity of self examination.
-Mencius.
Extremes meet. and there Is
no better example than the
haughtiness Of humility.
Emerson.
The Washington times., 1931-08-05

and musket attached to a book
as its author. For Davy really
was no scholar.
He was not an artist in the
stringing of words together. He
would have been sadly out of
place at a literary tea. Had
there been radios in his day and
had he, like some writer's today,
consented to discuss his own
book over the air, it would have
been advertised as a comedy
Skit.
Thus the interest, when it be-
came known that Davy had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, August H.
The boss terror against the Negro
workers of this city has been further
melted by the posting of reward
of $500 for the successful framing
up of some innocent Negro worker
in connection with the hold-up and
shooting of three society women on
August 4. One of the women died
shortly after the hold-up, another
died last Thursday afternoon. The
third woman, Nell williams, was
wounded only in the arm and is not
in danger.
Among the organizations contrib
uting to the indictment of this terror
are several Negro business mems or
ganizations. That the hold-up and
shooting of the society women is be-
ing used only as pretext for terror
izing the Negro masses is clearly
shown by the fact that only militant
Negro workers are being sought and
questioned by the police. Scores of
Negro homes have been raided, not
in hunt for the hold-up man, but
in search for Communist literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
BROOKLYN WORK.
Frs TO COLLECT
FOOD FOR MINERS

The Williamsburgh Section of the
Penn Ohio Miners Relief Commit
tee, 81 Graham Ave, appeals to ev-
cry worker and working class house
wife of Brooklyn in the name of the
thousands of starving miners and
their families in PennOhio, West
Virginia and Kentucky, to help COL
lect food and funds. The Williams
burg Section of the Miners Relief
Committee has arranged a special
day for the purpose of collecting food
and funds. A truck will be at the
headquarters, 81 Graham Ave, on
Wednesday morning, Aug. 10, at $50
am. All unemployed workers and
working class housewives are asked
to participate.
The relief station is open every
night from $50 pm. to IL Jpn.
Workers are urged to come to the
meetings and to participate actively
in the gathering of relief for the
heroic miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Hold Amnesty Day
Parade in Harlem
Election Campaign Is
Spurred in Section

Preparing for the Amnesty Day
parade in Harlem and Yorkville, Sat-
urday, August 22nd, Section of the
Communist Party has issued the fol-
lowing instructions for the various
organizations, outlining the line of
march and order of line up. The
instructions, in part, read:
1.-THE upper Harlem Parade to
start at 10th st. and 9th Ave.-over
9th Ave. to 145th st. down 145th st.
to Lenox Ave, down Lenox to 138th
ST., down 138th to 5th Ave, down
5th Ave. to hath ST., up 134th ST. to
7th Ave. to 129th ST., down 129th st.
to 5th Ave, to Mt Morris Park.
The parade in upper Harlem starts
at 140th st. and 9th Ave. at 2:30
p. m. sharp. Red Front Fighter Band
will lead the parade.
Yorkville: Start at Tooth st. and
End Ave-, 2;3o p. m. sharp to up End
Ave. to 106th ST., to LIST Ave, to
117th ST., up 117th st. to Lexington
Ave. to 113th ST., up 18th st. to 5th
Ave, up 5th Ave. to Mt. Morris Park.
All lower Harlem and Yorkville or
CARNATIONS to report to Tooth st.
and End Ave, concentration point at
Q p. m. with their banners, flags,
signs. All upper Harlem organiza-
tons to report to 10th ST., 9th Ave.
at p. m. with their banners, flags,
signs. About 10 open air meetings
have been arranged along the line,
joining the parade when it arrives.
Election Campaign: Three Elec-
ton Campaign signature stations
have been established in Yorkville
and Harlem as follows. These sta
tions open daily, Saturday and
Sunday
Hungarian Workers Home, $50 e
81st St. All Yorkville organizations
to send their committees to this
station.
Harlem Progressive Youth Club
1892 Madison Ave. near l02nd st. AL
lower Harlem mass organizations to
send their committees to this station
Harlem Workers Center, 10 West
l29th Street. All upper Harlem Or
CARNATIONS send their committees tc
this station.
The candidates follow: Pres. Bor-
ough Manhattan. I. Amter; 10th Ass
District, A. Leitner, Maud White
18th Ass. District. A. Matthew and
A. Rodriguez; 18th Ass. District, VIM
! l.. Patterson, Oh. Alexander.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
CONRAD VEIDT IN NEW
UFA FILM AT CAMEO

Thirteen Men and Girl, a UFA
picture with English dialogue, now
playing at the Cameo Theatre, has
been recognized as work of art by
the German Film Art Commission,
and has proven very popular in Cen
trail Europe.
The picture, which is based on the
German stage success, "The Last
Company" stars Conrad veidt,
known both to Continental and
American screen audiences for his
transformations in 1.-THE Cabinet of
DR.. Caligari," 1.-THE Man Who
Laughs" and 1.-THE Last Perform
ance." Karin Evans takes the par
Of the girl opposite Conrad Veidt.
The period in which the film takec
Ice is that of the early nineteenth
century when Napoleon defeated thc
erussians at Jena.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
5 OMAHA BANKS
CRASH In WEEK;
OTHERS SHAKEN
c.. P. Calls on Small De-
positorS Organize

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. II. - -Four
banks crashed in one weeks time
Two banks crashed Monday, Aug. 10,
the State Bank of Omaha and the
Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Benson. The reason given for the
failure was the shrinkage in value
of the foreign bonds at the State
Bank of Omaha. The Farmers and
Merchants Bank reason was having
deposits in the State Bank of
Omaha.
Friday, Aug. IA, the South Omaha
State Bank closed and on Saturday,
Aug. Is, the Union State Bank
closed and the run on three other
banks developed to the point where
they had to keep open Saturday
after their usual closing hours.
The presidents of all the banks
that have so far crashed are issu-
ing reassuring statements, and yet
it is being rumored that the depos-
itors will lose at least 20 to 80 cents
on a dollar. This is the biggest bank
crash that Omaha has had since
1895.
The three other banks Of Omaha,
the Omaha National, the First Ma
tional and the U. S. National, are
part of the Federal Reserve, and, be-
cause of that, the Omaha Clearing
House Association is trying to stop
: runs on these banks, but hundreds
of workers are demanding their de-
posts. In the last week, through
cut the state of Iowa, four or five
banks have failed and others are
, said to be very shaky.
The Communist Party of Iowa and
Nebraska issued a statement Satur-
day night demanding protection for
, the workers deposits and is also de-
manding that they will be the pre-
ferred claims and that they shall be
paid in full Efforts are being made
by the Communist Party of Omaha
to organize a joint committee OF
workers who have deposits in the
four banks with a committee of the
banks where the run is going on at
this time. A mass meeting for this
purpose is being called for Thursday,
Aug. 20, at Jefferson Park of this
city.
The South Omaha Savings Bank
has just failed. This makes three
banks in 40 hours. They are trying
to stall the run on all the other
banks by putting up free lunch coun-
tiers, where they distribute sand
wiches, coffee, pie and lemonade
Many people are standing in front
of the crashed banks weeping and
lamenting the fact that they have
lost their savings.