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The Washington times., 1932-04-02
A Dual EnterpriSe
Nation Must Share In Center

The Federal Government will have to give substantial
assistance to the District the present grandose plans for
the Municipal Center to be executed
Thus far in the purchase of land and the rang of old
structures the site the city has borne the burden
But the most casual study of figures showing financial
condition of the local demonstrates that it
much longer devote millions of dollars annually the
project.
The Center has, since 1884, eaten up the surplus Of District
1t has impaired the cash of
which is required to keep the District basis
In the coming year there will be funds available for this
purpose although the budget estimates call for $6O0OOO
This same gigantic expenditure for magnificent "city
hall will have to continue years. It estimated
that the project will cost about $20000000.
Such project probably necessary the local govern
men to keep pace with the tremendous program of the
national government.
not however necessary for purely local purposes
The Federal Government therefore, should assume its
share Of burden and work out with local officials pro-
portionate scheme for carrying the work
Otherwise the District will have to let the plans remain
agnant until there radical change in the fiscal situation
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
Science and the Church
By Archibald Henderson, Ph. D.. D. C. L., LII. D.,
Famous Scientific Authority

edge" about these matters was
unsatisfactory, incomplete or
even actually false. After verify
ing his results and satisfying
himself of the accuracy of his
reasoning and the correctness
of his processes, the scientist
boldly announces his discovery
to the world. It will stand, or
fall, this discovery, if it is
proven to be true and not in
violation of the other funda-
mental laws of nature.
For long time, the modern
spirit of inquiry, practiced by
Archimedes centuries in ad-
vance of his age, remained dor
mant. Other scientists did not
know how to use it, or failed
to used it consistently. But this
spirit found rebirth in the
person of Roger Bacon. Unfor'
tunately, Bacon found himself
in conflict with the spirit of
medieval scholasticism. Roger
Bacon was held by this school
of thought as a practitioner in
the black arts. Human existence
was regarded by the church as
primarily a preparation for the
supernatural life to come. 1t
was considered dangerous, even
heretical, to search out natures
secrets. Had God wanted these
things to be known to man, He
would have revealed them to
man.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
LISTEN. WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

The strength and depth Of
its dark waters
The rise and fall of its
mysterious tides
The beauty of its quiet,
moonlit nights
The terror of it's storms
The stinging salt of its ad-
venturing!
One note, out of the man.
made bedIam; one note, clear
and deep and true, that was
also a part of man.
The call Of the seattle
voice of the mystery that
abides in every man, side by
side with his stupid brutality.
For men are like that.
I thought of myself. 7
thought of all the cheap and
cruel things I have done. I
thought of the shrill bedlam
with which I have filled my
life; of my own arrogant
shrieks and cowardly whimper-
ings.
Voice Of the Sea
An yet, in spite of all that,
sometimes there awakens in me
the voice of the sea-
hear a great, clear note that
has nothing to do with the
stupid clamor; and when that
sounds, the other meaner voices
do not matter.
For suddenly the old mys-
terry moves in me again, and
for a little while I am brave
and kind and wise.
For a little while I remember
the seattle clean, deep sea
from which, somehow, I came.
YES" I thought, II am like
that. We are all like that"
And I stood up and went to
the window and looked down
into the noisy, dirty street; at
the masses of people hurrying
back and forth on little
errands, mosL of them so silly!
But I did not hate those peo-
pie now. I did not even hate
the noise. For saw that be-
yond the dirt and the noise of
the street there stretched the
quiet, clean wonder of the sea.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02

Science has won the greatest
of triumphs in the modern
world. This is not a triumph
registered by some epochal dis
covery or useful invention.
Those triumphS are now so fire.
quently achieved and so widely
disseminated as often to be
taken, less as marvels than as
matters of course. The greatest
of triumphs is to have liberty,
untrammeled freedom for the
exercise of thought. Here and
there, from time to time, an
engagement takes place along
the frontier; and once more a
minor fight is on. But the op-
ponentS of science are so few
and so feeble that the results
of such conflicts are foregone
conclusions. Science is always
the winner.
The great scientist must be a
courageous soul, following truth
withersoever it may lead. mot
infrequently the scientist en-
counters new phenomena which
seem in striking contradiction
with results long accepted as
facts. But he does not shrink
back in horror from these
strange, new phenomena. He
welcomes them as evidence that
the former so-called "knowl-
The Washington times., 1932-04-02

the voice of our greed, our
vulgarity and stupidity-the
ugly yammer of human life.
Holding my hands against
my aching head, I hated man.
I thought of all it had cost
to bring man up out of the
jungle; of the poets and
prophets and heroes who had
given their lives to make him
something better than a beast,
and with what result?
That noise rising from the
street was the result. That
savage yowl was the voice Of
the human spirit.
A Braver Voice
Why, a, timber wolf, bowling
on the ridge against a mid.
night sky, had a cleaner, braver
voice than that!
Why should one believe in
men, if that was all they had
to say after thousands of years
of "civiliZation?"
And then suddenly, across
the shrill, harsh bedlam, there
broke another sound.
Deep and clear, a great ship
signalled from the harbor.
One long. steady note-the
call Of the sea!
And in that note there was
all the wonder and glory of
the sea.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
ONCE-OVERS

hindrances you encounter, to
your way of driving.
In anger you take your
chance around and in front of
other cars.
Those who drive with you
hold their breaths and become
so nervous that their pleasure
is spoiled because you are so
reckless.
Your i'll humor makes con-
versation impossible.
You don't see anything along
the way and the family are so
uneasy that they don't either.
After reaching nowhere in
particular you return in the
mood you started and your
automobile companions have
had no pleasure. Neither have
you.
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
Haste and Pleasure

Haste and Pleasure
Do you keep the members #
your family in a turmoil by
your desire to have everything
done in a hurry?
AS soon as you arrive, dinner
must be served, hot and at
once.
You eat hurriedly and COM
plain because other members Of
the family do not finish as
quickly as you do.
If you are planning to take
a ride, you ask those who are
to accompany you to be ready
as soon as possible.
When you take the wheel,
you are impatient to get into
high speed and are angry when
anyone blocks your way.
During the entire drive you
are out Of sorts because Of
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

that a man can tell woman
half so sweet as that which her
mirror tells her, just after
fresh facial and a brand-new
makeup.
There is, perhaps. no more
magnificent distance" than
that between a modern mans
theories on woman's right to
freedom" and his subcon-
scious longing for an old-fash-
ioned girl, who prefers to be a
RIB"
Adam was not so far wrong
when he discovered that woman
is somehow responsible for what
ever a man does. Woman can
make almost anything she
pleases of men; and just at
present she seems to be doing
her best to emulate Circe.
When a. man pursues you,
pretend to flee and he will fol
low; when he flees from you,
DON'T follow, and he will turn
The Washington times., 1932-04-02

still the bel
low and snarl,
the roar and
era h a n d
whine of the
big city found
its way up
and n1auled
me.
I W a S so
sick of it all.
Coarse, brutal
n o / S e S.
Cheap, silly
noises. There,
making day
and mig h t
hldeOuS. WAS
The Washington times., 1932-04-02

knew the one essential thing
is the balancing of the budget.
and he agreed with the
committee that this was the
simplest way. And while
storm ragged in the House he
bided his time, while the
critics fun d, and his
enemies jeered at the "lack
of leadership No human
being could have led that
House in any other direction
than that of its choice.
But passion grows by
what it feeds on, and impos-
sible and intoIerable things
were said that indicated
possible failure to balance
the budget; and the outside
world was shocked and
shaken, and the market be-
came panicky, and the dol
lar was being sold by the
foreigner!
And its this crisis Jack
Garner entered-just at the
right time.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
Every Man
Had His Say

Real leadership knows the
virtue of patience and of
timeliness. For months the
House has moved forward
with scarcely a hitch; and
then, with the tax bill to
meet the Hoover deficit of
more than a billion thrown
into the arena, and the real
ization of the nations des-
perate plight, the House
went wild. Bitter things
were said. Questionable
things were done. And
every man had his say
because Garner is against
the gag rule. He favored
the bill submitted by the
Ways and Means Committee
providing a manufacturers
tax, albeit theoretically op-
posed to the sales tax prin-
ciple.
He favored it because he
The Washington times., 1932-04-02

how plain your face it; in fact,
if your brains are too obvious,
they won't notice your face at
ALL.
If hope chests were filled
with patience, love, tact and
understanding instead of with
chiffons and baby-ribbon, most
marriages would last a lot
longer.
Some married people never
know how happy they are to-
gether until they have been di.
vorced and discovered how mis-
erable they are apart.
When a mans thoughts be-
gin to wander away from a
girl nothing but a miracle can
keep his feet from just natural
ly following suit.
There is nothing in the world
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
No Evidence of
The Big Stick"

@AS SSOAANS% wv IL 4N4SA
of the chair, and the House
rose in tribute on both sides
the chamber, it was not the
smiling Garner that faced
it. 1t was a serious man,
but there was no evidence
of the "big stick" There
was emotion in his voice and
feeling in his manner-and
no oratory" in his method.
We have been surfeited with
that. His was an appeal,
straight from the mind and
heart, in the conversational
method of a conference
among friends. He told a
simple story. He put the
immediate past behind him
with a calm recital. He un-
folded a tragic tale of the
nations desperate needs. He
made one of the strongest,
manifest appeals for a COM
mon determination to bal
ance the budget for the
country's good that any
human being could have
made.
Thus he told of the reac-
tion to the impression given
that the budget would not
be balanced:
1--WE found the foreigners
selling the dollar. We
found our exchange going
down more than it has at
any time in the last twelve
years. We found that fol-
lowed by a sharp reduction
in United States securities. "
And what did that mean
"It simply means that the
$1,800,O00,000 of money be-
longing to foreigners who
have come to us with the
idea that this flag not only
protected the person but pro-
tected property, and who put
their credits in the banks of
our country because they
thought that the safest place
on the face of the earth, have
transferred their gold to for
eign vaults. -
And the ultimate result to
us in America?
LAS sure as I stand in the
we'll of this House, I believe
with all my soul that if this
Congress today should de-
cline to levy a tax bill there
would not be a bank in ex-
istence in the United States
in go days that could meet
its deposits"
And then he summoned
the members of the House to
stand in the eyes of the
world and be counted as de-
termined to balance the
budget-and they stood ard
cheered. Thus the graveyt
danger to the credit of the
nation in the entire history of
the Republic passed.
And the peroration? None
at all. Just this simple,
human appeal:
II pray to you on this side
to be in good humor as far
as you can. Try to serve
your country, and, gentle
men, let us put through this
legislation at the earliest
date possible in the interest
of our country"
And the effect?
Smell, the Republican
leader, responded with an in
dorsement of Garner's stand
and a pledge; and La
Guardia, who had led a re-
volt among Republicans, rose
and made his pledge; and
Doughton of North Carolina,
mhn had rnnrLnd NTH La
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
The Call of the Sea

One of those days when
noises get you-you know how
it is.
For 10 hours have been
sitting writing in a New York
hotel. Twelve stories up, but
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
Garner TriumphS
For His Country
BIZ Claude e.. BOUers

Author of Battles of the Jackson Period Struggle
for Democracy in America Jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
GARAGE WORK NOT
IN big MONEY!

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Motor
vehicle repair garage employees in 43
cities in Sd states were found to earn
an average of $29.56 per 51-hour
week in Bureau of Labor Statistics
survey just announced.
Average full-time hours per week
ranged by occupations from 498 for
machinists to 585 for the group of
miscellaneous employees. Average
hours actually worked in one week
varied from 43 for wood body work
ers to 58.8 for miscellaneous en-
ployes. The per cent of full-time
worked ranged from 1873 for wood
body workers to 1921 for inspectors.
Part Of the inspectors worked over
time in the week covered in the re-
port.
Average earnings per hour ranged,
by occupations, from BAT cents for
mechanics helpers to 86.7 cents for
blacksmiths, with full-time earnings
per week fluctuating between $18.46
for mechanics helpers to $45.50 for
diagnosticians. Actual average earn
lngs in the week ranged from $17.63
for mechanics helpers to SAB for
diagnosticians.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
RULING OPENS WAY
FOR CONSTRUCTION

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Possi-
bility that certain public building
projects might be held up under the
economy act by application of section
800 has been removed by Comptroller
McCarl, though such danger was al
the most slight.
The McCarl decision exempts most
buildings now under way from the 10
per cent provision and clears the way
for new work to proceed.
The danger was slight because most
building work now is being done at,
roughly, 25 per cent less than the ap-
preparations. Moreover, the treasury
is allowed let contracts coming with
in an excess of 5 per cent of the ap-
preparations, so that even taking off
the economy act 10 per cent cut, con-
tracts can be let at figure around 5
per cent of the appropriations and
still encompass the stipulated 10 per
cent cut
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
More Employment, Object Of
New White House Sessions

date of a conference for a more def
mite development of these ideas. The
areas of positive and definite action
have been further explored by infor-
NAL discussions between representa-
tives of various groups and indus
tries with government officials the
past two weeks.
Twelve committees representing
the federal reserve districts were es-
tablished some weeks ago. / have
asked the chairmen of these commit
tees, together with the government Of
ficials sent out, to meet in Washington
the day before the conference for the
purpose of preliminary preparation of
the program of the organization"
Secretary of Labor w. N. Doak, an
ardent advocate of the shorter work
week and of adequate wages, is among
those to be summoned to meet the
day previous to the general confer
ence. Secretaries Mills, Hyde and
Chaplin, the chairmen of the IL dis
tricts and four chairmen of govern
mental boards and commissions, in
Guiding the Reconstruction Finance
Commission, complete the personnel
of this group.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
MINERS CITE
Early Short Week Stand
to Hoover

indianapolis (ILNS)-With the re.
quest that it be read by the presi
dent into the record of his shorter
| work week conferences, the United
Mine Workers organization has for.
warded to President Hoover a copy
Of an editorial appearing in the cur
rent journal of the union.
The editorial sets fort that "It is
now IA years since the United Mine
Workers of America adopted reso-
luton placing this union on record in
favor of the six-hour day and the
five-day week"
Stronger and stronger all the time
is becoming the movement for the
shorter work day and the shorter
work week, and there is every indica-
ton at this time that the demand for
this reform will continue to grow un-
til the principle shall be accepted and
made effective generally in American
lllUQSIl says IIS SQIIOItdl. IL HAS
been a slow process to induce many
heads of industries and employers of
labor to admit the virtue of this idea
but they are rapidly coming to it.
Even the United States govern
ment recently fell in line for the five
day week. There is provision in the
building section of the new relief bill
passed by congress, that says all con-
tracts for public works shall be based
upon the 30-hour week, which means
five days of six hours each. This is
the first time that such a policy was
adopted by the government. In ad-
dition, the president is having thor
ough survey made of conditions in
the various departments with view
to establishing the five-day week
therein. In fact, one or two depart
ments aready are trying out the plan.
"Way up in hard-boiled New Eng
land, where organized labor always
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
Great Nomad Army Roves Nation
Homeless, Jobless and Hopeless
Riding the Rods" Grows Beyond Railroad Control
Disease Takes Growing Toll as Communities Pass
Victims Along-One Line Elects Half Million in
Eight Months.

Chicago, ILL., (ILNS)-America is
faced with a transient jobless prob
lem such as it has never known.
Hundreds of thousands of unem-
ployed and homeless men are rowing
the country.
An astounding number of these
nomads of unemployment are boys
and young men.
Joblessness, failure of local relief
work, poverty-these are mainly the
forces driving this great army to the
roads. But they take to the brake
leans more often than to the roads.
Kansas City reports that in May
more that 1,500 men and boys daily
passed through the freight yards
there.
Road Elects Thousands
In eight months the Southern
Pacific elected 416,915 members of
this new wandering horde.
Disease is reported running higher
and this will be aggravated by cold
weather.
DR.. A. W. McMillen, associate pro-
fessor of the Graduate School of So
cial Service Administration, Univer-
sity of Chicago, has just assembled
vast amount of information on the
rowing unemployed, with the assist
ance of staff workers in the U. S.
Children's Bureau.
Communities are adding to the
rowing problem by passing on all
transients. They have no place to
stop, so they keep going.
The earlier tramp was a seasoned
and seasonal worker This modern
army is not of the old type. Many
have high school and college educa-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
Bayonet Alternative
To Bread is Forecast
Pennsylvania Labor Accuses Legislature of Hypocrisy
and Failure to Meet Plain Issue-Fear for Conse-
quences This Winter Expressed in Blistering Letter.

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNSi II blis-
tering letter the committee on unem-
ployment relief of the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor has accus-
ed the state legislature of stepping
all around the unemployment issue,
providing no program. "Bayonets as
the alternative to bread" may be the
situation this winter, as the result
of legislative failure, the committee
charges, holding that the attitude of
the legislators has been one of hy-
pocrisy
Speaking directly for many thou
sands of those affected" says the let
ter, "and Indirectly for the great
mass of the victims of this crisis, as
we'll as for the average citizen of our
state who does not stand in need, we
charge that your course has been
hypocritical throughout.
Hungry Must Be Fed
1--WE know, and you should know,
that citizens who are hungry must be
fed. We know, and you should know,
that the taking of their little homes
by sheriffs' levies must be stopped.
1--WE know, and you should know,
that citizens who have any means at
all at their command, and those who
still have jobs, are willing to join
in affording relief. We know, and
you should know, that it is not true
that the citizens of Pennsylvania are
unwilling to pay taxes to have hu-
man lives.
GAS the elected representatives of
the people it is your plain duty to pro-
vide for the people the opportunity
of doing what the people want done,
Thus far you have defantly thwarted
them.
upon your shoulders squarely
rests the responsibility of providing
relief for our citizens who are in dis
tress. You can not evade that respon-
sibility by attempting to pass the
buck to Washington or by robbing
Peter to pay Paul.
There is still time in which you can
reclaim the ground which you have
allowed to slip from under your feet.
This is the solemn obligation that
now confronts you.
"We demand and expect ac-
tion. Unless you do act in way
that is commensurate with the
needs of the people we will go to
them, upon your record of fail
ure, and insist upon such changes
in personnel and in party in our
legislative halls as will restore
courage and responsibility to
government and responsiveness
to the will of it's citizens.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26

eve are making this last appeal
not as supplicants, but as citizens of
Pennsylvania and as the representa-
tives of an harassed and suffering
people, demanding Of our servants in
the senate and in the house Of repre-
sentatives the enactment of adequate
meaures of direct relief, and the
raising of sufficient revenue to
finance them, in order that men, wo-
men and children now unable to Sc
cure the necessaries of life may be
provided for until the regular legis-
lative session convenes.
"The consummation of such pro-
gram will not only relieve mo-
mentous distress, but will, as well, be
an investment in the security of our
citizenship and of government itself.
"Act-before it is too late!"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26
TENTH MONTH OF
STEADY DROP in NY.

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)-Factory
employment and factory payrolls
went slithering downhill again in
June and July, official reports show
Employment registered a net loss
of 5.3 per cent. The payroll net loss
was IL per cent, which means either
that higher paid workers were laid off
or that wages were cut-perhaps
both. Normal July drop in employ
ment is l per cent and on payrolls
1.8 per cent.
July is the tenth consecutive month
showing falling employment and fall
ing payroll totals.
The last monthly decline affected
almost all industries, the few excep-
tions being in those where there were
slight seasonal increases.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-08-26

has had a fight for its life and where
non-unionism f1ourishes, conference
of governors, other public officials
and employers of labor was held re-
Gently with view to installing the
shorter work week, and committee
from that group is to have a confer
ence with President Hoover on the
subject.
"Thus, the shorter work week is
gaining the prestige of governmental
approval and adoption, all of which
will speed the day when the plan will
become practically universal in the
country. Already some of the large
cities have adopted the fve-day week
for their employees"