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The Washington times., 1932-03-07
Make a Job!
Give It to the UNEMPLOYED

With the District Employment COMMITTEES Threatened +L
collapse because of lack Of funds becomes the dutv Of
every householder in the city to personally share
OF the responsibility of putting to work the local UNEMPLOYED
While the home owners seeking to eke out dav or
week OF work for one or Of the obss the business
men OF tn District should give their utmost support to the
campaign being conducted by the American Legion and other
agencies to place 100000 men in jobs
should not be difficult certainly not impossible to ab
sor6 the 10000 who estimated be without work here
Compared to other cities this relatively small number
OUT 81 work IN city Of nearly half million population
tasks about the city which should be performed
Nearly every household has in it some little lob which
has been hanging fire for months ~ '"-AO1
GIVE It to somebody who is without work
the District Employment Committee has been carving
several hundred made payros for several weeks
Within short time this effort will probably cease
In some way these must be provided with work
up to every citizen to give the matter thought and
to evolve his own part in this necessary program
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

Greenfield Grammar School,
should decide to give her chill
dren A True Picture Of Amer
lea.
Suppose she should inform
them that America is not the
smartest nor the friendliest ma
ton on earth, nor in many
respects, the most enlightened
or honest.
Suppose she should give them
some horrifying data on our
child labor, our illiteracy.
Suppose she should tell them
how politics really works g. .
how votes are juggled how
money is Squandered and
the trust of a people betrayed.
SpiIling the Dirt
And, having done Politics to
a crisp, suppose she should give
her little darlings the Dirt on
Modern Business and Special
Privilege A
Suppose Miss Jones, with her
students interests and her
conntry's future at heart,
should Loyalty arise and do all
this WHAT WOULD HAP.
PEN TO MISS JONES?
You know as well as I do
what would happen.
BY S0NDOWN EVERY PAR
ENT IN MISS ONES
SCHOOL DISTRICT WOULD
BE DENOUNCING HER AS A
RED" AND BY SUNUP
MISS JONES WOULD BE
OUTWARD BOUND WITH A
NONSTOP TICKET TO NO.
WHERE.
Why are our schools failing
to prepare our children ade-
quately for modern life?
That's why-Says DR.. John
Downey. We, ourselves, won't
let 'em.
''It has become 'unpatriotic'
to point out or even admit that
there are any weak spots in our
institutions and habits and to
suggest that there are matters
in which we might: learn from
other countries. There has been
a heavy pail Of 'hush-hush' i'm
posed upon teachers and the
easy way for them, the way Of
inertia, has been to become
yes men and women"
A heavy rall of hush-hush-
And what is it buying us?
Millions Of unframed, bewil-
dered, discouraged men and
women, who fail in everything
they touch
Mounting ignorance and dis
content
RecklessnesS that turns at
last to Vice to find that sue.
cess which it could not find
through Virtue
A nation, consumed in its
own .arkneSS-
III because we can't bear to
face the facts!
Well, believe me, stranger
some day Wen HAVE to face
them. And what a general
collie that win be!
(Copyrigflt. 1892. King features
Syndicate Ine.1
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

SHE MUST LIE OR LOSE
HER JOB!
What is teachers job? Theo-
retically it is to tell little VIII
lie the facts about the world
in which he lives. Which
sounds easy. Actually, it is any
thing but. For the facts about
this modern world are neither
pretty nor popular. We are no
longer the nice, neighborly folk
we were in grandpa'S day. Nor
can we run our jobs by his
copy-book axioms. This twen-
tieth century is both compi-
Gated and cussed, and filled
with sickening surprises for
simple souls.
Rules Of the Game
Now, obviously, If little VIII
lie is to succeed in this highly
precarious society, someone
should teach him the rules Of
the game. He should be told
how our life is organized and
now 1t ISN'T organized. He
should learn about the incom-
petence, stupidity, dishonesty,
cowardice, hypocrisy and gen.
eral unhappiness which he will
meet in every department Of
his public or private life. He
should be given some sort Of
a code-moral, economic and
politically which he may live
in the year 1892, and with the
sort of human we're turning
out this season. ,
But who's going to perform
this service for little Willie?
Teacher should, of course. But
can you imagine her even start
ing? H.
Suppose Miss Jones, of the
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

out just how little you'll accept
and then give you just q lit
tie LESS. When a woman de-
mands everything, she usually
gets a lot. When she demands
only a fair amount, she gets q
little. But when she demands
only a little, she gets nothing.
Why put a time-limit on a
husbands love? No man who
has ever loved a woman like
La Janis-with her wit, her
charm. her personality, her
glamour, her sanity and sweet
ness-could ever get OVER low
ing her. A woman like that,
somehow, gets into a mans
ubconsciousness-and he can
never get her out!
But 1.-TWO years of perfect
happiness" There's no such
thing! Even when your mar.
riage is a glamourouS adven.
ture Of Young Love, you've got
to face the storms and risk the
upSettingS. They're part Of the
adventure! Two years Of bliss,
perhapS-but even a fight
would be a blissful relief from
perfect happiness"
Marriage is a partnership, in
which you share everything and
build a life together. Unless it
is exactly THAT, it is a very
dull and deadly affair. Elsie
and her young Prince Charm.
ing may build a new life, q
home and a career: they may
share their hopes, their dreams,
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
A PeStiferOuS Chain Letter
Tear It Up

Any chain letter is pest but the peserous recently
d the one urging urging an American boycott of Japan.
Nobody knows who started it. is obviously designed
stir up public sentiment along lines that League Nations
mpathzers here advocating with further purpose Of
influencing the Federal Government to interfere in dispute
the other side of the world that does concern us
you get one of these letters, tear it up. It means
trouble and this time for any American in office
ont to monkey with the Far Eastern buzz saw
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
HUSH-HUSH!

HUSH-HUSH!
How many lies does teacher
tell little Willie?
PIE saws DR.. John
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
Administration
Sounded No Warning

sounded NO warning
Those years of the G. O.
P. bubble, which was made
to serve the purposes OF
politics by persuading the
groundlings that we were
rolling in prosperity, were
insane years. Morals in
business were at an exceed
ingly low ebb. Industries,
knowing the actual value OF
their stock and it's earning
capacity, saw it skyrocket-
ing at a figure many times
its value, and innocent IN
vestors mortgaging homes to
buy it.
It was their moral duty to
warn. the public that their
stock, was not worth any
such price. One Italian
bankers in New York did.
But at any rate it was the
duty of the Administration
to sound a warning-and it
did not.
Worse than that-it kept
issuing statements assuring
the public that there was
nothing wrong, that every
thing on the market was
fundamentally sound"
The investigation Of the
stock market, in search Of
the "culprits,' - will natu-
rally touch upon this phase
of the tragedy. The com
mittee should want to hear
from gentlemen in the Treas
ury, and in the Department
of Commerce, as to why
they misrepresented condi-
tions and thus led vast num-
bers of the gullible like
sheep to the shambles. 1t
should want to learn if there
was any reason why these
public officials found it en-
barrassing or impossible to
tell the public the truth.
Oliver Tells
the Story
The Governmen t, or,
rather, the Administration,
was as deep in this mud as
the Ministry Of Stanhope
and Sunderland was in the
mire at the time of the
South Sea Bubble in Eng
land. F. s. Oliver, author
of the brilliant biography
of Hamilton, has given us
the story of the South Sea
Bubble in his fascinating
history, "The Endless Ad-
venture. - It reads like the
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Newspapers are served to
travellers at underground and
railway stations in Berlin, Ger
many, from an attractive auto
matte machine.
To afford a constant check
on the power and amount of
water in an automobile battery
a device has been invented that
can be attached to a steering
column or dashboar.
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

Dewey, of Co
lunnbia U n j.
versity. Not
that teacher
really wants
to be a liar,
e x p lain S
the famous
educator, but
she has no
choice in the
matter.
WE AMER
ICAN TIA x
D A " u . G
WON'T LET
TIE ACH Err
TELL THE
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

A skytocket propelled by
liquid fuel has been invented in
Germany. It has gone up 5000
feet, landing $50 feet from the
starting point.
Glass is now made from
natural gas. The material is
called vinylite and, while hav-
ing the properties of glass, has
additional qualities which
ordinary glass lacks.
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
WISE WORDS.

If you get simple beauty, and
nought else
You get the best thing God
inventS. Browning.
love to lose myself in other
mems minds. Lamb.
In Faith everything depends
on the fact Of believing; what
Is believed is q matter Of indif.
ference. ~ Goethe.
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

WE learn that Admins
w tration Senators who
proposed an investigation of
the "shorts" on the market
are not a little distressed by
the refusal of the Senate to
confine any investigation
to that one thing. None of
them have cared for an in
vestigation going back to
1927, and covering the two
years ending in the most
tragic market crash in his
tory.
The purpose was to inves-
tigate "short selling" now
in 1882, and in some man
ner, known to politicians,
create the impression that
these shorts are the "cul-
prits'. responsible for the
state of the market now and
the economic condition Of
the country. The alibi was
to convince the groundlings
that but for these "cul-
prits' the stocks would
soar, business would boom,
the unemployed would trail
back to- work, the hungry
would be fed.
How silly! The market
today reflects actual con-
ditions, but the market of
1929 reflected nothing of
the sort.
There is less reason for
Indignation now, when Ad-
ministration circles are in
dignant, than there was in
1928 and the first months
Of 1929, when the Admins
tration was vociferous in
the cheering squad.
Meanwhile it is not amiss
to suggest that the Stock
Exchange is merely a mar
ket which renders an essen
tial service to business, and
that brokers are not so
much to blame for the vices
of 1928 and 1929 as their
customers.
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

ried a handsome boy, I gave
that little girl q Great Big
Hand! I was positively joyful!
I knew Elsie Janis, in pre-
war days, when she was turn
ing away young lovers by the
gross. And I have a very clear
idea Of how many offers Of
marriage Americas most popu-
lar woman has passed up.
Apparently, she agrees with
me that there IS a life, after
40'';; and that no woman's
heart should curl up like a cat
and go to sleep, when the clock
strikes 35 There is no dead
line for an interesting and fas-
cinating woman, and no age
limit to her charm.
But, when Miss Janis says
Gas she does in her recent
book, 80 Far, So Good") that
"two years Of perfect happi'
ness" are enough for any wo-
man, and modestly declares
that she would not expect to
hold a husband for more than
two years. .'' she asks too much
in the first place-and expects
too little in the second.
That's the trouble with most
big-hearted, fair-minded, gen.
erouS women. They demand
too little and give too much.
Fate and men are alike in
one thing. They always find
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

their ambitions, their jokes,
their friends, their good times,
and their fights. That is what
marriage is FOR-that Is what
makes it worth all the price
you pay!
Here's to Young Love-and
the GlamourouS Adventure!
Copyright. 1882. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
Let Federal Officials
Answer Too
-By Claude G.. BOuers

Author of "The Party Battles of the Jackson hs Struggle
Democracy in America" Jefferson Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-03-07

story of yesterday. Indeed,
he says that:
1.-TWO centuries have pro-
duced but little change in
the nature of the fraudulent
company promoter"
His description of the
Ministry's attitude reads
like contemporary history:
las for imagination, as
for logic, they had neither
of these. To shout upon a
rising market was as far as
their energy and confidence
could carry them. When
trouble began they had no
idea how to meet it. They
showed no resourcefulness,
no courage"
Thus, in a few words,
Oliver unwittingly sketches
the story of the Administra-
tion here during the infla-
ton Of the G.. o. P. Bubble
and after it burst.
The Public
Wants to Know
Meditating after 200 years
upon the stupidity or crimi-
nality Of the South Sea Bub-
BILE, Oliver thinks it amazing
how men in business and in
public station could have
been so dense. Thus:
1T is hard to understand
how men of intelligence and
probity could possibly have
allowed their steps to stray.
The most facile explanation
is corruption, or else a
shameful ignorance"
For one or the other, the
English people, shamelessly
victimized, held the ministry
responsible. They concluded
that the ministry's smiling
upon and encouraging the
madr less was a betrayal Of
the people. Stanhope, a man
of wealth and probity, had
not been in on the gamble,
but he was head of the Gov
ernment which not only had
not warned the people, but
had encouraged the dance OF
ruin-and he had to go.
Sunderland, involved him
self, though more indiscreet
than guilty, was forced to
resign.
Thus the English, with
their hard common sense,
cast the ministry into the
uttermost darkness.
To what extent was the
Administration, this and the
preceding, responsible for
the betrayal Of the people
here-for leading them on
to the inevitable ruin? Why
did it sound no warning?
Why assure us that every
thing was sound?
IF we are to investigate
the relation Of the market
to our present misery, these
are the things the public
wants to know. It is easy
enough to guess why stocks
are not soaring now; there
is more interest in the
"longs" of 1928 than in
The Washington times., 1932-03-07
Barriers Must
Be Removed

Barriers Must
Be Removed
We have one explanation
for the failure Of industrial
stock to soar now, in the
report from Paris, that the
American Chamber Of Com
merce there is alarmed"
by the additional import re-
strictions on American goods.
The indignation Of our i'm
porters there is accentuated
by the fact that France con-
suited German manufactur-
ers in establishing an i'm
port quota on machine tools,
but did not consult the
Americans.
The reason is apparent
it was the outrageous tariff
act Of ours which forced
other nations to retaliation,
resulting in the economic
isolation which leaves our
freight cars empty and is
forcing great steamship COM
panies toward bankruptcy.
Just as this is running our
import and export brokers
here, it is running our
brokers in Paris.
Industrial stock will 60
up when the earning power
behind it goes up; and this
will go up when normal
trade is restored through
the removal of the barriers
we have erected on the de-
mands of Mr.. Grundy-and
not before.
Evening star., 1932-10-10
BEDTIME STORIES B 3 Tss,s.s" Ss,,s:,'

not enough. he was filled with terror.
He couldn't understand what had hap
pened; he feared what might happen
and he was alone in a strange place not
knowing If ever again he would see any
of his family. He felt so very, very help
less. The Green Forest only that very
morning had been such a beautiful,
wonderful place; now it was such a
dreadful, fearsome place. And all be-
cause of a hunter who also was a
poacher for he had no right to hunt in
the Green Forest owned by Farmer
Brown.
That hunter had had what he called
sport. but he never cnce had thought
OF now those he hunted must feel or
of the helpless misery Of those he
wounded like this young Grouse. He
knew he had wounded the young
Grouse, for he had seen him fall.
He had hunted for him, but the young
Grouse was a good runner and clever at
keeping under cover, so the hunter,
having no dog to help him, had at last
given up and had given the matter no
further thought.
Once, before the arrival Of the Black
Shadows for the night. the young
Grouse had crept from his hiding place
and, being rested, had tried to fly. But
that wing had failed him as before. He
didn't understand why it failed him.
When he stretched the wing out and
looked at it there was gap where sew
eral flight feathers had been cut by the
shot and he wondered if this was the
cause of the trouble, as, of course, it
was. But he didn't know and he Won
dered If ever again he would be able to
fly. One leg ached, so after few min
utes he crept back into his hiding
place and prepared to spend the night
there in helpless misery.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-10-10
LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPE.

Ma was sewing button on my coat
and I was standing there impatient,
saying. Are you finished yet, ma?
When I'm finished III let you know,
my goodness what's your hurry. don't
you know haste makes waist? ma said.
Not always, ma, 1 said, and ma said,
Yes. always, you cant give me an ex-
ample when it doesn't.
Yes, can, G, ma, how about when
you're trying to go to sleep? I said,
and ma said, What's that got to do
with 1t? and said, Lots, G, when
you're trying to go to sleep you don't
want to take your time and go SLOW,
do you? You want to hurry up and
make haste and get to sleep as quick
as YOU can, don't you? So haste don't
make waist then, does it, ma? said.
Certeny it does, mean that's the
silliest argewment 1 ever heard, ma
said, and I said. Why is it ma? G
wiz ma. just imagine trying to go to
sleep slow and terning on one side
and then on the other and Tipping and
Topping around just to make it last
longer instead of hurry up going rite
to sleep naturel as fast as you can,
Evening star., 1932-10-10

Y Z does not build his own house
or grow one, but he watches
his chance to enter the empty
i i house Of another mollusk. The
:. hermit crab Is a squatter and
gets a home by adverse and open pos
session..
At the time he must move from one
home to another he Is in danger and
senses this fact. He has selected a
larger home to accommodate his girth
and he has strolled as close to his new
residence as possible. Then, watching
his chance, he hustles out of the old
dwelling and backs quickly into the new
one It is very well known that the
hermit crab, while having a very fine
front of armor, has a most sensitive
hind body which must be protected
from his enemies.
This shell now becomes not only his
home but his suit of clothes, and here
he will remain until this garment gets
uncomfortably tight. Inside Of this
suit may be found tiny creature which
follows hermit crabs. It Is a sort Of
housekeeper, and lives of the body of
the owner. Yet in return for his room
and board he keeps the lodging free
from any other pest which might do
worse than the wormlike guest which
is tolerated. There is another free
rider who stays on the outside Of the
shell-the anemone.
The hermits. like those Of the human
family, are not sociable. They 60 about
by themselves, hustling along on their
front claws, their eyes looking about
from sockets and the feelers waving
about as if searching for hidden gold.
They are scavengers and help to keep
the shores free of dead matter.
At mating time the hermits travel
IN pairs. There are many battles be-
Evening star., 1932-10-10
Insomnia keeps some too thin

healthy and have good figure to be
considered attractive. Excessive thin
ness or excessive overweight are re-
pellant, because they are not normal.
In an effort to build up thin figure
and round out contours, there are GER
tain definite rules and methods that
one may USE One of these is in
creasing the consumption Of fattening
foods, another is suitable exercises to
improve circulation, stimulate the in
ternal organs and to develop the mus
cles. Massage with nourishing creams
and rich oils Is still another means.
Sufficient sleep, rest and relaxation are
other measures and plenty of fresh air
and sunshine are very important also.
All Of these things together will help
thin, undeveloped person to gain
weight, develop a fiat chest and gain
well-rounded contours, but one with
out the other Is of little value. Re-
member that there is a vast difference
between being too thin and emaciated in
appearance and being slender and 1.-THE
some. Every one admires the latter type
Of figure because it is beautiful and
suggests physical well-being Well
rounded contours, clear skin and shin
ing eyes are indicative Of well-de-
veloped and well-regulated body.
There are other factors, however,
connected with this beauty and health
problem that are not SO easily regu-
lated Underweight persons are very
often troubled with nervousness. indi-
gestion, constipation, lack of appetite
for wholesome and necessary foods,
such as milk, butter, eggs, meat, cheese
and other building foods. The worrying
habit and insomnia make it impossible
for some people to gain weight. They
may eat a great deal without gaining
weight because they do not and can
not assimilate their food. Then. too.
overindulgence in social affairs, sports
and hobbies may keep a girl under
weight if she does not eat sufficient
nourishing food and sleep long enough
at night.
The cure for these troubles lies to
a great extent in better mental control
and the habit of deep, even breathing.
Evening star., 1932-10-10

1 \ If YOU had asked the man
about his reasons for the jour
ney I am not sure that he would have
told them to you, but if he had been
in a conflding mood he might have
said:
For long years I have been trying
to get help from the rulers of Spain,
help for my plan to reach the rich
land of India by sailing west over
the Dark Sea. but they have put me
off with promises and half-promises-
and now I am on my way to France,
But wouldn't you fall off the earth
if you sailed west?" you might have
asked at this point. Isn't the Dark
Sea filled with dangerous monsters?
There may be dangerous monsters In
the Dark Sea, but feel sure that we
can sail west without falling of. The
earth is round! I tell you the earth
is round 1 am not the first to say
so. Toscanell. the learned Italian.
has said 50. Other scholars and think
ers have said So
Hearing such words. most persons in
Spain at that time would have passed
on their way. perhaps tapping their
heads as if to say, Hes crazy. he's as
crazy as can be-
SQElSLOpI1eI SUlulllUuS dL lllLo liO-
ment in his life was close to heart
break. He had tried and tried and
tried. but all in vain. The King of
Portugal had refused him. King Fer
dinand and Queen Isabella had told him
that they were too busy with the war
against the Moors to give help to his
plan. Many man might have given
up, but in Columbus was the warm be-
lief of dreamer and the iron will of
of a man Of action. Now he was going
to ask the King of France to give him
ships to cross the Dark Sea, as the
Atlantic Ocean was then called.
One day Columbus stopped at con-
vent to beg for food. There he met a