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The Washington times., 1932-11-18

The old Gaillard Hunt house
about two and a half miles
southeast of Clarendon, was
damaged by fire today to the
extent of about $4,000.
Hunt for many years had
charge of the State Department
archives, and his home, a frame
building of IA rooms, is not only
one of the oldest houses in Ar
The Washington times., 1932-11-18
Georgetown Dentists
To Hold First Prom

The four dental classes of the
Georgetown Dental School are CO.
operating to sponsor the schools
first annual prom, to be held at
the Mayflower Hotel. Saturday
night. Guests Of honor will in
clude Dean William N. Cogan,
Rev. j. Gippritch and members
of the faculty.
The Washington times., 1932-11-18
Er-TGnln1Gny Boss
Brother MiSsinO

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (U.SD.
Harry w. Holly, SO, manufacturer
and brother of the late Willis
Holly, former secretary of Tam
many Hall, was reported missing
today. His daughter told police
he was last seen yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-11-18
WhitefrOnt Riders
Hunt TOMORROW

The first drag hunt of its sea,
son will be held by the White
front Saddle and Riding Acad
emy of Falls Church, Va, tomor
row at 10 a. m. H. M. Powell
will be master of hounds, anc
huntsman, and James Powell anc
Miss Jerry Carr will be the whips
The general public is invited tc
the hunt which will run for eight
miles.
The Washington times., 1932-11-18
COUNTY CLINICS

Children of the Bowie and Col.
lington schools will be given phys
ical examinations by DR.. A. B,
Hooton, health officer Of Prince
Georges county, on November 80
The Washington times., 1932-11-18

KAREN MORLEY
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18 Q.N.SO
Charles Vidor, film director, and
Karen Morley, actress. today an
nounced their engagement to be
married soon.
Although they entertained
friends at a Culver City night
club. they denied they already
were married.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
Leap Year

The reason for leap year is apparently a puzzle to many persons and is explained as fol- lows:
 The fact that the earth does not make a revolution around the sun ill an even number of days has caused much diff culty in making a calendar that would hold good over any con siderable length of time. In act, such a calendar has never )een devised, but the one in present use is accurate enough or practical purposes.
 In reforming the calendar il Y E. C., Julius Caesar cOnsid 4red year to be 365A days Q he added a day every foul years to take up the fractiona excess. But the true year is on y 365 days, 5 hours, 48 min rtes and 45.51 seconds, so in he course of time the Julian calendar, based on a year some 1 minutes too long, became more and more inaccurate. To correct this, Pope Gregory in 1882 caused 10 days to be dropped from the calendar, md also modified the rule for cap years by emitting the ex- :ra day from the ending year of each century except those divisible by 400. Thus the year 1900 was a leap year, while the years 1700, 1900 and 1900 were not; 2000 will be a leap year, and so on.
 Even with this correction there will be an error of one day in 3323 years, a discrep- ancy hardly great enough to worry about.
 One disadvantage of leap
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

The school benefit entertain ment held Friday was an un- qualified success. The program was an ambitious one for such ] young institution and reflects he greatest credit on the child zen and their teacher, Miss Esther E. Olson. The enter tainment included a debate be- tween children of Hyder and Stewart which was won by the latter. The program was fol- lowed by a dance. Approxi- mately $200 was netted for the purchase of school accessories.
 In the debate Arthur Hall and Donna Balch of Hyder took the affirmative on "Re- solved: That it is more benefic- ial to live in the city than in the country" while the nega- tive side was defended by Mur- iel Crawford and Kingsley Me Leod of Stewart. The judges were Clay Porter, Will Gamer )n and T. w. Mcdonald. Oth- ers participating in the pro- gram were Clarence Coffyh, Josephine Mcfarland, Billy Mcdonald, June Mehlfeld,
 Myrtle Lundvall, Joan Mellor, Mable Mellor, Muriel Craw- ,ord, Della Balch, Agnes Lund- vail, Lillian Stewart, Johnnie Barron, and Mona Mehlfeld.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
No Supermen

Commenting on the recent failure of Samuel Insults great Utilities Investment Company, the Vancouver Sun points out the fallacy of a long popular public belief in the existence of supermen in industry and fi- nance as follows:
 With his Utilities Investment Company threatened with re- ceivership, his great corporate pyramid sadly in need of cash, his vast indebtedness to banks and his financial administrat- ion under fire from all sides, Samuel Insull said last week:
 T do not pose as infallible. l have made many mistakes. !"
 MT. Insull need not have made the admission. The past two years have taught the pub lie just how fallible the grea captains of industry are ane how mythical has been the famed financial superman.
 Indeed, there seems to have been no supermen at all-only rather slick magicians with somewhat pitiful b ags of tricks. The great fortunes that created the myth of the f.nan- cial superman were built on the now well-known fact that in building up new companies, in yramiding organization upon organization, one million can be made to do the work of ten.
 But when these companies start to disintegrate, as they are doing now, the supermen I'd that it takes ten million to
 the work of one. And their
 agic is not quite equal to the
 K of handling this latter sit uation.
 Ivar Kreuger was a case in point. This man of mystery, this enigma, this colossus of fi- nance was in clover 50 long as
 yu.idlng went on. But when ---- process of disintegration started he and his mystery
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

Active development is to be- gin soon on the Alaska Pre- mier group at 11-Mile, the new company being prepared to spend a considerable sum for exploratory work this season. The work will be in charge of Wm. McGrew, who is now en- gagged with a small crew pre- pairing for building a camp.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

year is that a person born on February 29 has a real birth day anniversary only once in four years-if that is q disad- vantage. Based on the law of averages, only one person in about 1,461 would be thus handicapped.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

H. c. Strong of Ketchikan mas taken working bond on
 the Riverside group, better known locally as the Seven
 mile property" owned by Dan and Andy Lindeborg, and ac- tive development work is to commence as soon as the prop erty is free. from snow. Asso-
 ciated with MT. Strong in the bond is president Black of the Seattle Hardware Go.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

Hyder reversed it's verdict of Nov. ?, 1920, when it gave Grigsby 75 votes to Suther- iand's 28, by giving Dan 84 in he primaries this week. Galen received only seven votes. The election officers were Noel Traversy, Clyde Hager and Ed. Evans.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
TEN YEARS OR 50 AGO From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
 April 26, 1922.

Albert Mayer has rigged up an electric light plant in his machine shop and is lighting a number of buildings in the Lin deborg addition, including Pi- oneer Hall.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

The Carmen arrived today from Ketchikan with ten pass engers and a cargo of freight for local merchants, and the Prince Albert arrived from the south Sunday with 65 passen- gers, about 25 of whom were round-trippers.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

This newspaper is not connect ed in any with any stock brokerage firm other establishment associated interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes
 formation relative to local mining development that neved to be in full accord with fact
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

Changes Display Advert ising for weekly issue must be presented not later than the Wednesday evening preceding the day of issue Saturday. insertion will delayed until the follow ing week.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

The Pullman building was moved today from the reserved strip across Frazer Drive. Joe Grashio will open a barber shop there.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
crumbled together.

VT et etIIIUINU IOS OlIIOI.
 The financial superman has passed into the limbo of things forgotten and of myths explod- ed. Samuel Insull did not need to tell us that.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
INTERESTING NOTES

A two-cylinder airship that :an be strapped to a mans pack and carry him 20 miles 1as been designed by a New York inventor.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

An Eastern college student can hold eight baseballs in one hand, according to press re- ports. We suppose that is an other triumph of modern edu- cation.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

A California inventor plans to drive an airplane with a re- volving cylinder having blades both inside and out, instead of using a propeller.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

The Chinese want a national anthem. We might lend them that one with the funny line about a sweet land of Liber- ty."
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

A 4S-letter alphabet is pro- posed, but we're against it. It's hard enough to keep the 26 letters we have now In thiel proper places.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

Candidates never need to in vent new tricks to fool the vot- CTS, because the old ones still work as we'll as ever.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

A cynical Hyderite says that marriage is not a lottery. Ii you draw a blank in a lottery you just drop it.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

No anesthetic yet devised has ever made taXpaying painless.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30
Just for Fun

A lot of time is wasted in try ing to think up ways to save it.
 We always have the satisfact- lon of knowing that our candi- date is the best man, regardless of how many votes he gets.
 We see great hopes for civil izing the Chinese in their adoption of poison gas warfare.
 "The heart of America is sound," declares an orator. And the old lungs seem to be hitting on all cylinders, also.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

A dietician says pork is more easily digested than turkey. Possibly because stom a c h $ nave more practice on pork.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

New "blue-print" paper in- vented in Germany produces copies of tracings in black lines on white backgrounds instead 0f the present reversed re- suits.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

The American Bankers Asso- ciation reports a drop in the nations savingsdeposits for the first time in the 20 years dur -ng which it has collected data.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

Large bundle of old papers for starting fires 25 cents at the Herald office.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

After years of experimenting l white tomato has been pro- iuced which is non-acidic.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-30

If you have an item of news of gen. eral interest phone it to The Herald.
The Washington times., 1932-11-23


pie to live in new ways; harder
still for them to think in new
ways. And so, for every one
person who went forward into
the new life, 10000 held back
and perished miSerably.
This was true of both men
and brutes. Our fossil beds are
filled with the remains of ami
mails that couldn't change their
habits quickly enough to sur
vive in a new world; and our
history is filled with the records
of men who were blotted out
because they couldn't or
wouldn't step lively when the
Big Parade quickened up.
And now another tremendous
change has come over the
world. We have come into the
Machine Age. And no other
change has ever demanded
such tremendous alterations in
the human program.
A Great Change
Life has altered more in the
last 80 years than it altered in
the preceding 800.
THERE IS A GREATER GAP
BETWEEN THE WAY IN
WHICH YOU LIVE AND THE
WAY IN WHICH YOUR
GRANDFATHER LIVED, THAN
THERE WAS BE ZEN
CAESARS LIFE AND GEORGE
WASHINGTON'S.
It was hard for people who
had eaten raw food and slept
like animals in straw lined
holes, to learn to use fire. It
was hard for those people, later
on, to come out of their caves
and live in tents.
But these changes were slight
in comparison with the changes
which we must make to adapt
ourselves to the machine age.
Now we must change not
only our way of sleeping and
eating, but we must change
EVERYTHING in our lives.
We must change our speed, our
time, our ways Of feeling, all
our ideas about home, and gov
ernments and shops, and fac
tories-our ideas about men
and women and loVe-even our
ideas about right and wrong.
For the thing that was right
in a slow world isn't right in
a fast world.
The thing that was fair in
a nation Of 100000 people,
isn't fair in a nation Of 121,-
100000 people.
The thing that seemed effi-
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

It is astonishing what a hold
India has on the mind and
imagination Of men. Ask a
group Of people what one coun-
try they would choose to visit,
could they name their choice,
and it would amaze you to find
how many individuals from vari-
Gus strata of society would I'M
hesitatingly select India.
This writer knows travellers
who have journeyed from one
end of India to the other and
then selected some particular
region or province and made it
their own special field # study.
For everywhere in India there
is much, not only to see, but to
study. It is a country that fas-
cinateS and casts a lifelong
spell.
Many visitors intending to
make a hurried trip through
India have come to Delhi and
spent almost Ill of their allotted
time there. 1t is a city that en-
bodies the history of India; for
always. when rough conquerors
of India de down through the
rugged northwest. they paused
at Delhi, their rush broken
against the grim walls OF that
fortified city.
Around the new Delhi broad
plains everywhere show frag-
ments Of old walls end REM
nants Of ruined cities. Each
The Washington times., 1932-11-23

DREsIDENT HOO E r
l. has worked out a plan,
in conjunction with his
Cabinet, for a saving of
$7O0,OOO,OOO a year in the
cost Of government, accord
ing to the press. This is in
teresting, and, important if
true. 1t provides, it seems,
for the elimination of bu-
reaus and jobs. Four years
ago Mr.. Hoover promised
something of the sort and
for four years nothing was
done. 1t would have re-
quired courage during these
four years to have elimi-
mated these jobs for the
Presidents party wanted
them for observing Re-
publicans. But there has
been an election. The men
holding these jobs will 60
out anyway. And the elimi-
nation now means that no
Democrats shall get them.
1t requires no courage to
eliminate now. Some, with
cynical minds, will conclude
that since President Hoover
has known all the time for
four years how to save $780,
100000 he should have acted
within a year after his in
duction into office.
However, the financial
condition of the Government
calls for drastic reductions
in the personnel of Govern
ment wherever possible, and
the taxpayer is interested
more in saving money than
in serving the politicians;
and the clever politician will
conclude that he will gain
more by offending a few Of
flee seekers than by Of
Tending an entire people. 1t
was because the present Ad-
ministration offended the
entire people by its failure
t. reorganize the Govern
ment in the interest Of
economy that so many went
against it.
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
Seeking to Undo
Mischief of Speech

Now that the election is
over, it becomes more and
more apparent that when
President Hoover momen-
tarily destroyed confidence
in our financial fabric with
the statement that we had
been within two weeks of
being forced off the gold
standard he was mistaken.
Thomas W. Lamont has just
pointed out the absurdity
of that statement. We have
just read the masterful
pamphlet by Benjamin M.
Anderson, economist of the
Chase National Bank, show
ing conclusively that the
gold standard here has not
been in danger for &c years.
These reassurances have
been necessary to undo the
damage done by the Presi-
dents astonishing state
ment.
The one impossible way to
restore prosperity is to de-
stroy confidence in our fl
nancial structure. Happily
the attempt to destroy con-
fidence was speedily at
tackled and is now being
conclusively shown to have
been utterly without justi-
fication.
We are unable to share
in the feeling expressed in
some quarters that the meet
ing between Mr.. Hoover
and Mr.. Roosevelt will
settle anything in regard to
policies. The President
elect would scarcely formu-
late his foreign policy off
the bat in conference with
the leader Of the opposition
to his forthcoming admins
tration. AS far as the debts
are concerned, that has been
settled by the American
people and the American
Congress voicing overwhelm-
ing sentiment of the Ameri-
can people. The future ad-
ministration0 position was
quite unequivocably defined
in the formal party pledge.
On other matters affecting
international relations there
can be no agreement be-
tween the outgoing and the
incoming Presidents unless
the former is prepared to
change his position radi-
cally.
These differences made
The Washington times., 1932-11-23

ployment record before the de-
preston, his eagerneSs to work.
Sounds good said the en-
ployer. Send him over the
first thing in the morning. I
shouldn't wonder if he'd do
"The nurse had had a long
and wearing day, but she went
back to that tenement home at
once, a long subway journey,
with many flights of stairs at
the end of it. She gave the man
the employers message. carfare
and a note of introduction, re-
calling the telephone converse
ton. I'll be there at 8 o'clock
the man promised. His face
was like a SUNRISE the nurse
said when she told me about it.
'The next morning at $3.50
the nurse reached her office to
find the man standing by the
door with a box under his arm.
Disappointed, she exclaimed,
You'll never get that job; it's
too late!'
But said he, 7 can't help
it! After you left, my wife's
pains began. I had no money
to get a doctor, so I went for
a policeman, and he got an am
bulance. The ambulance sur
geon delivered her. But the
baby died and they took my
wife back to the hospital with
them. I couldn't leave the
other children nor the dead
baby, and during the night I
made the little coffin with some
nice wood I had in my room.
Now I don't know what to do
with the box or the baby"
you like it? The way to help
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
The Sweet and LowdOwn

will ever convince him that
the vertigo has passed and
she has got her strength back
again.
There are two ways in which
a woman can usually keep a
man in the straight and mar
row path. One is by making
herself more alluring than his
vices; the other is by spending
his money so fast that he has
neither the time nor the price
left to indulge in his vices.
There ought to be some way,
declares Reno Ruth, to vacci-
nate a married man against
the office siren; or else the
latter should be made to wear
a bell around her neck.
You realize how much the
world has changed when you
reflect that there is a whole
generation of young men to
whom a kiss without lip-rouge
would be a brand new sensa-
ton.
Probably more marital love
has been killed by a mans Sc.
The Washington times., 1932-11-23

tells the story Of some Mongol,
Scythian, Persian or Afghan in
vasion that was halted at Delhi.
When these invaders found they
couldn't seize Delhi, their pro
cedure invariably was to build
for themselves a temporary city
in the form of a garTisoned
fortress. so that adjacent peo-
pies might be properly awed by
the grim invaders.
In all; seven such cite were
built during the passing OF the
years, of which some became,
each in it's turn, the center OF
a mighty empire that endured
until another and bolder in
vader led his hordes in an at
tempt to storm Delhi, the i'm
pregnable.
Through the plains there are
tombs, too, each with inscrip-
tions that tell the story Of
some despot of old who lived
and died by the sword. No
wonder that in Delhi you will
always meet some prominent
historian or archeologist.
However much one may de-
sire it, one finds it impossible
to think or write about India
without calling to mind that
poem in stone, the Tai Mahal.
1t is the architectural wonder
of the world, and one can
safely say that its glory and
beauty have never been
equalled, let alone surpassed.
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
Sales Up.
Despite the Election

An encouraging sign that prosperity may be nearer than
Just around the corner is afforded by reports of the
Association Of National Advertisers in convention Atlantic
City. 49,. ...
Sales increases of % per for the last three months
the preceding three months announced by than half
of the associations members. ..'
Making all allowances for the seasonal pickup, these fig
ures distinctly heartening.
They registered during presidential campaign which
traditionally is bad for business.
Yet in spite of that handicap they showed greater trend
upward than could reasonably have been expected view of
conditions during the summer.
And the time Secretary Chaplin of the Depart
of Commerce reports loadings in October 30
cent above the low point for the year. the steel industry
is improving and the textile industry is decidedly the
upgrade.
Small sraws doubt but indicating that the wind in
the right direction.
The Washington times., 1932-11-23

In 'The Survey for November is Miss Lillian D. Wald
who has devoted her life to doing good founding Settle
ment for Visiting Nurses among the poor In New York.
writes on "What Keeps the Nurses Going"'
It is impossible estimate the amount Of good that Miss
Wad has done in her lifetime Of public service When she
arrives in Heaven many mothers and children will welcome
her with gratitude ..s
Some existence Of the angels described with
wings flying from Heaven earth But there no doubt
about the reality of the ANGEL OF MERCY called Lillian
D. Wald.
At this time with many appeals for help may do good
to print the things that Miss Wad writes about con-
ons seen by and the that she sends out in the
poorest quarters of New York
- "I4aUe you heard a hungry child cry? Haze
vou seen the uncomfortable trembling of parents COIto
h0Oe gone half starUed for uUeeks so that the chill
ren may haue food? Do you knOu Whot it means to
try to minister the sick the dying or the neWly
born in an oUercroDded home Where there IS no heat
mo food no clean clothing bedding, and eLec-
tricity turned off, furniture WOTth patOnng or
selling, an eviction notice tackled on the door!
that picture of REAL LIFE in the richest country In the
world is not convincing read Miss Walds simple account OF
the furniture nisher who had no furniture to 1lnsn
The Washington times., 1932-11-23

some of the outstanding is
sues Of the campaign.
1t is clearly understood
that Mr.. Roosevelt believes
that there are a number Of
things that enter into the
explanation of the stoppage
of foreign trade. One of
these is the prohibitive tar
iff wall for which Mr..
Hoover stood staunchly
during the recent campaign.
Mr.. Roosevelt just as Stoutly
insisted that something must
be done in reference to
these artificial barriers
against trade.
There can be no agree
ment upon that unless Presi-
dent Hoover is prepared to
change his position.
And since these various
things, explanatory of the
stoppage of trade, are inter-
woven, we cannot join in
the jubilation based on the
assumption that out of the
conference we shall emerge
with a general policy to
which both the participants
have subscribed. We may
be foolish, but this seems to