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The Washington times., 1932-02-19

horizon, the ELSIE ROBINSON
white violets are blossoming in
my back yard! And my new
rose border is coming into
bloom! And they're planting
the vines in the west forty
acres!
All that going on while I
stay here! Oh. I wanna go
home! I wanna go. home! /
WANT TO GO HOME! And
what think of my boss for
keeping me here isn't fit to
print. Particularly in his own
paper!
Yes. I admit it's a nice town.
And they're treating me grand.
And it's my own fault that I'm
here, for wanted to do it. But
what difference does that make?
Seeing that things are your own
fault doesn't make them any
easier to bear.
The fact remains that I'm
homesick. All over. Like
growing pains. Or. hives.
Inside Dirt
Right in the middle of inn
portant occasions it hits me.
There I'll be, prattling with the
Army or Navy or a few of our
choicer congressional knick-
knackS-coying and toying
along until they commit them
selves on a little inside dirt.
And then, suddenly, I won't be
hearing a word they're saying,
nor caring darn.
Instead, I'll be listening to a
meadow lark calling from the
willows by the creek. And I'll
be smelling the wild roses, hot
and spicy, tumbling over the
courtyard wall. Or seeing the
deer slip down to the lake at
dawn.
And while the big shot rum
bles on and on. in a delirium of
delight over his own voice. I'll
feel a big lump swelling and
wedging in my throat, and the
prickle of tears behind my eyes,
and
HomeSick? Oh, gee-whiminy-
crickets, how goldarned home
sick I am!
Queer, isn't ito We're all like
that. Wouldn't give much for a
person who wasn't, would you?
Give us all we ask for-let our
shinieSt dreams come true-and
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
ONCE-OVERS

Trees
Do you ever try to learn a
lesson from the trees?
When the fail winds come
they sway and bend but they
spring back again when the
pressure lets up.
Wind and rain and chilling
blasts from the north strike
at the heart of their abode high
above the ground.
But the leaves curl up and
hang on and grow more and
more beautiful.
In their last effort to with
stand the elements they change
color and become more and
more admired for their beauty.
Finally the trees must give
up their summer friends, their
warm weather children, not
strong enough to maintain their
strength and usefulness.
Their fair weather friends,
the leaves, do pretty we'll in
trying to hang on, but there
comes a time when their tenac-
ity is broken.
The poor, old trees look worn
and sad, but when they are
bare the broken and untruth-
full branches become more ap-
parent and must be pruned.
So it is with human beings.
Copyright. 1892. bv Interratio
Feature Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
Confidence Must
Be Restored

While this furry of the
market was on, and the
moron-minded heaved a sigh
of relief that prosperity
is coming back
Not a jobless man was be-
ing put to work.
Not one drop Of milk was
being put in the mouth Of
a hungry child.
Not one eviction order
was Cancelled.
Not one package more of
American goods was being
loaded in a transatlantic ship
for the foreign markets.
And the merchants OBJ
serve no increase in their
trade.
And no manufacturer put
on extra help because of an
increase in orders.
Prosperity depends pri-
marily upon trade-at home
and in foreign markets;
and, artificially, the Admin
istration has destroyed our
foreign markets. There can
be no revival of home trade,
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
MARRY-GO-ROUND
RY Helen Rowland

wheels go round Just spoils the
whole picture for him.
A man wants to smell the
dinner cooking and hear it
sizzling and see the little woman
rushing around as though
something were really HAPPEN
ING when he makes the grand
entrance. That's why he is sus-
picious of the kitchenette. the
dinette, the vacuum cleaner,
the electric dishwasher, the
can opener-and all the new in
ventions that make woman'S
work lighter.
Not that the modern man
really likes the heavy mutton
and-gravy dinners with which
his mother stuffed him. He
doesn't. He hates to wear
darned socks and patched under
wear and cravats that have
been cleaned in gasoline.
He secretly loathes a house
that is so spick and span that
he can't drop his ashes on the
floor, throw mis- things around
and put his feet on the furni-
ture.
It's just the IDEA of the
thing. The mental picture of
the busy little woman" fussing
and rushing around dolling up
the landscape for the coming OF
her royal lord and master.
THAT'S what he married her
for! 1t doesn't particularly mat
ter what she's doing, just so
she's DOING something-fold-
ing and unfolding his n sws-
paper, pretending to dust the
piano or rearranging the flowers.
Rut the idea that he may
smble home from the office
some day. only to find his wife
lolling on the divan reading a
novel instead of hustling and
bustling about the place, getting
things ready for the Great Mo
ment of his appearance, fills
him with CONSERVATION.
AS a matter of fact, I have
never come across one of these
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

right in the middle of the
whoopee We'll find our hearts
melting and moaning for a
shabby little shanty on the
other side of the world, for the
scent of a flower and the call
of a bird and the sight of a face
we love true.
Always HOmeSick
Homesick? Always. Deep in
the heart of each one of us,
the secret, wistful longing for
a place that once we knew.
And sometimes I'm thinking,
stranger dear, that we're home
sick for something more than
some place here.
This grabby-glittery, hurry
ing hulla5aloo of lif eve
scurry through it, and we call it
home.
But sometimes, in the midst of
it all, the laughter and the
shouting die away, and we
catch ourselves listening for a
song we never heard on earth
and reaching for a peace and.
searching for light that never
was on sea or Land!
Those lost and lonely mo-
ments when we feel we've some
how Strayed-
What are we homesick for
then, my dear?
Homesick, perhaps, for God?
Copyright. 1882. King Featured
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
Keeping POiSe


Certain persons make you
feel uneasy-you do not know
why.
Whether it is the way they
look at you, the questions they
ask or what else there is about
them, you don't know, but they
unnerve you.
They do not know anything
derogative against you which
would be harmful to your repu-
tation, then why should you
feel uncomfortable in their pres
ence?
If you have been fair and
square with the world in gen.
eral and others in particular
you are foolish to let anyone get
you fused.
Better go out more and put
yourself in the way of super
ficial persons socially till you
get accustomed to posing ways
that may or may not be as
Sumed to make others uncom-
Portable.
Trying to avoid persons who
make you feel upset won't help
you any.
Keep to a plan Tor closer as
sociations with a group or per-
sons who SEEM to embarraSs
you till you find out whether
they are so superior.
Meantime fill your mind with
useful knowledge and forget
yourself.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
"A Great and
Wise Leader"

And how is Mr.. Hoover's
committee going to get this
boarded money out of hid
ing? The hoarders are not
misers; they would rather
make money on their money
through investment; but they
would rather have what they
have, than to lose it. The
only way to get this money
out is TO restore the conf
dence of the owners--for it
is their money-in the Gov
ernment and the leaders in
government and finance.
SO the committee will
make a "house-to-house can
vass-presumably as k ing
everyone if they are hoard
ing.
Some will lie.
Some will say: cit is
none of your business"
Some will admit it, and,
when asked why, they will
reply that they have seen so
much skullduggery and de-
ception they no longer have
faith in anything.
When the committee tells
them that in the President
we have "a great and wise
leader" who is also an engi-
neer, and that the Admins
tration promises a return of
prosperity, they may answer
that the President promised
an "elimination of poverty
if elected, and that there
was a "hOuse to house" cam
vass on business streets in
1928 by men who said Hoover
would mean prosperity"
And they may quote a
long string of "reassur-
ances" from Administration
spokesmen since 1928 that
sound "fishy" now. Even
the canvassers may blush a
bit.
A mere child who has
been burned is chary Of the
stove.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

so vital to the merchants,
so long as 100000 men
are out of work, involving
24,00O,00O men, women and
children who no longer have
the money with which to
buy.
This appalling situation is
responsible for the boarding
and the hoarders will not
put their money IN circula-
tion either through the pur-
chase of goods, or stocks, or
by putting it in the banks,
until confidence is restored.
The restoration of trade
depends upon jobs for the
vast army denied the right
to work; and these will not
get work until there is a
greater need to manufac-
ture goods; and there will
be no increased demand on
the factory until there is
an increased demand at the
store; and there will be no
increased demand at the
store until jobleSs men get
work.
With the manufacturer
unable to furnish jobs, the
Government could, on needed
public work, through a pros
perity loan-but it won't.
A more pressing problem
than getting boarded money
in circulation is that of get
ting jobless men to work
with wages.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

THE bank bill intended to
l. hurry business recovery
has passed the House with
a business-like dispatch that
must satisfy the most severe
critics of debate. Three
hours were allowed for the
discussion. If this measure
will restore prosperity speed
ily no one will doubt that
the Democratic House has
put country above party,
for the revival of business
will be credited, not to the
Democrats, nor to co-opera-
ton, but to the Hoover Ad-
ministration.
In these days Of dire dan
ger to us all, no party can
afford to play small politics
with human society. And
that the Democratic House
has not done. Postponing
purely political speeches.
and proper and deserved
criticism of the blunders OF
the Administration u n til
later, it has taken up every
measure proposed by the
President, considered it In a
broad way, and acted upon
it with a minimum Of delay.
There is no doubt that
currency initiation is the pur-
pose of this bank measure;
and whether it is to be
reasonable or an unwhole-
some and dangerous infla-
ton will depend upon the
Federal eserve Board.
That board did not act to
the extent of it's power for
the protection of the public
in 1923 and 1929; but per-
haps it has learned its
lesson.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
American Relief"
Measures

N4OooN IA 90
All the "American relief"
measures of the Administra-
ton have to do with money,
and none with men.
1t has concerned itself
with
How to get more money in
circulation.
How to maintain the divi-
dends of the great corpora
tions.
How TO help the bankers.
How TO keep up the earn
ings of the railroads.
All this is important and
desirable, and the Admins
tration has smashed all prece-
dents, and, trampled like an
army with banners over the
American way" in render
ing service here.
Meanwhile private busi-
ness has been concerning
itself with men - forcing
wages down to keep divi-
dends up.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
A Note of
Warming

Meanwhile, the mere pend
ency of the bill, with the
certainty Of its enactment,
has had an effect which IS
not wholesome. Stock mar
ket minded craftsmanship,
such as we have had in the
Treasury from the day Mr..
Mellon entered, still confuses
wild speculation with pros
perity; and someone circu-
lated some exaggerated re-
ports on the effect of the
bank bill. This resulted in
another wild furry on the
stock market, and Senator
Glass sounds a note of
warning:
The people who have
sent out these exaggerated
reports about this bill and
started another riot of specu-
lation on the stock exchange
are very culpable and are
causing the loss of many mil
lions of dollars to persons
who have been utterly misin-
formed as to the require
ments of this bill"
This use Of false reports by
the sharks among spectators
is not new; it makes one of
the interesting stories of the
very first days of the Re-
public.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

"delicatessen wives" I don't be-
lieve that she exiSts-outSide of
the imagination and the comic
strips.
Yet. no normal man can look
at the picture of the attenuated
Jack Spratt, without believing
that he got that way by living
on canned beans, cold potato
salad and pickles. Or on his
wife's reducing diet!
Copyright, 1?'2. King Features
ENnGICaLe. InC.)
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

Here I am.
W a n d e ng
around Wash
ington, col
lecting tn e
low-down on
the Stars n
Stripes, get
ting all tan
gled up with
brutal 'acts
a n d blowsy
W e a t h err
W h lie, just
lust thre e
t ou S a n d
miles over the
-
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

I'm homesick! I'm so home
sick I could howl, yelp, wheeze,
whine, roar, bleat. yawp, yelp
and yeop like a flea bitten pup.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
DeIicateSSen Wives

DelicateSSen Wives
Every day, if you will go care
fully through the newspaper,
you will find somewhere a sar-
castle crack at the "delicates-
sen wife" The lady who is sup
posed to spend her days at the
movies-and then rush home,
open a can, give the contents a
couple of electric shocks, and
serve it as dinner" to her
starving husband.
All this flutter over the short
comings of the queen-of-the-
dinette is apparently just a mas
u01HING- MAKES VIM eeet WOesk
TAAN 10 SohG HohnE AND
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
Initiation: HOarding:
Results, Not Causes
Bu Claude G.. BOUerS

Author of The Party Battles of the Jackson Period "Tho Struggle
for Democracy in America" Jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

culine fear-complex! Some day.
a man may come home and not
find a woman BUSY!
And nothing gives man such
a thrill as to see woman "bust-
ling around the house!"
The modern wife who runs a
house so easily and efficiently
that you don't hear or see the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
Aviation Bettered
 Financial Position
Losses Reduced in l-Gain in Mileage
 Volume -Sz0,S73,58 From Sale of Planes

New York = The aviation indus try in the United States. closed the year 1891 in an improved financial condition and with a total Income. from aircraft sales tota1iing1 $20,-' 873,588, according to facts revealed in a survey just completed by Avia- tion. The industry achieved increas- es of nineteen per cent in passen- ger volume and twenty per cent in passenger mileage.
 Financial gains shown by the in- dustry were chiefly in the form of curtained losses. Tabulatel earn ings show reduction of sixty per cent in total losses suffered in 1891, as compared with the pre- ceding year. Aeronautic securities declined, approximately, some sew enteen per cent farther in 1881 than did general industrial stocks.
 A total of 1,582 commercial planes of all types was manufac- tured last year. Sales of commercial planes brought an income of $7,- 656,S27. Military aircraft had valuation of $13,216,761, and for the first time since 1927 furnished more than half of the airplane manufacturing industry's gross in come, military business in general showed slight improvement over 1880, developing an increase of g per cent in numbers of planes and 20 per cent in valuation.
 Passenger Traffic
 Tabulations of daily passenger volume outlined in the survey show that the busiest airplane transport service is maintained between New York and Washington. A total of 172 passengers uses this service each 24 hours. Next in daily vol- ume is the route from San Fran cisco to Alameda, with a total of 57 passengers daily. The Cleveland Detroit run comes third with 53. and the New York and Boston An average of 31 passengers fly 26 passengers use daily the planes operating between Los Angeles to San Francisco. Chicago and St Paul service averages p .passen- gers a day; the New York and Chicago route 21 each 24 hours, and the Kansas City-Los Angeles service IS. Six passengers use the Cincinnati and Chicago air route each "A hours.
 Returns from 25 outstanding aviation schools in the United States show the total enrolment for 1891 was 1546 students. while. the 1890 enrolment was 3553. Stu dent permits dropped from 1S,000 to about 16,000. The total income for flying in 1891 is estimated at $2,500. 600. The survey revealed the fact that of the 35 schools report ing only two have been in con- stant operation since 1925. a5S AirpOrts
 Airport construction in 1881 continued the normal rate of gain registered for the. past five years. At the beginning of 1882, there were 631 municipal airports: 671 commercial ports and landing fields, 54 army and 13 navy stations in the United States. Counting auxil-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
Gus SOnnenberg
 Has Decided to
 Become Promoter

Boston, April 25- (UP)-Gus Sonnenberg, heavyweight wrestler, has decided to become a promoter.
 State Tax Commissioner Henry F. Long to-day approved applica- tion for a charter of incorporation of Gus Sonnenberg, Inc, of Boston.
 Officers of the company. char tered to engage in the amusement business, will be: President, Son. nenberg; treasurer, John D. Elliott of Belmont, his father-in- n-law; di- rectors, the latter and Mrs Marie E. Sonnenberg, wife of the wrest- Ter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25

one hold-up and three burglar ies, one which narrowly resulted in the capture of two youths caught red d-handed. were reported to the police over the weekend.
 Miss Pauline Liskus. 19 of 51 Lines Hill avenue, Union City, was held up and robbed Saturday even ing on Highland avenue, Platts Mills while on her way to spend the night with relatives. She was reliev- ed of a purse containing $5 and a pair of shoes, which she was car rying in a parcel. Miss Liskus in describing her experience declared that the man who confronted her and snatched her pocketbook had a revolver in his hand. The hold-up occurred shortly after o'clock near the Bristol company's plant. Detec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
Germany Fails to
 Stop Fascists
(continued from Page |,

proximately 8I per cent compared with 76.1 per cent in the last diet elections held in 1928. Despite the increase, a smaller number of deputies was chosen on the basis of one seat for every 50,000 votes in- stead of 10000.
 Other members of the govern coalition, the Catholic center party and the constitutional party. won 67 and two seats, respectively, for a total of 162. <
 Fascists also made sensational gains in the Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Anhalt, and Hamburg especially in the important state of Prussia, to recoup his loss of prestige from his recent defeat in recent disbanding of his brown placed faith in the political adage, reich" and sought to gain control recently raided his headquarters.
 Preliminary official figures show ed the following standing in the Prussian diet; national socialists (nazis) 1892: nationalists 31; folks party z; Christian socialists 2; total of right wing parties POP; so- cial democrats 93; centrists 67; constitutional party ?; Hanover party I; total of coalition parties, 163; communists 57.
 : Final returns in the Bavarian elections were: Catholics 45; fas- cists 43; socialists 20: Bavarian farmers 9: communists 8; national ists 3; folks party none. The nazis gained 34 more seats than they won in 1928.
 The fascists came up from A to 51 seats in the Hamburg election; socialists from 46 to 49; constitu- tionalists from IA to IS. Com munists, nationalists. folks party, economic party. Christian social ists, and Catholics suffered losses.
 Among the new nazi deputies elected to the Prussian diet was ex-Prince August Wilhelm, 45, fourth son of the former kaiser and widely nicknamed "Auwi." He took no interest in politics until he became a member of Hitler's party in 198O He was one of the most active nazi campaigners in the present election and often appear ed on the same platform with workingmen to emphasizethe all-; inclusive character of the naZi movement.
 There were frequent reports of violence in the final stages of the campaign, but as in the presiden- tial election and the run-off, Berlin police were far from overworked. Udo Curt, 22, nazi was stabbed to death by communists and members of various parties were treated for minor wounds. More than 200 ar rests were made here.
 One nazi was killed in West phalia. A nazi airplane was forced down near Dusseldorf and com- munists attacked the pilot ana at- tempted to burn his plane. Police the attempt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
FUNERAL FOR
 MRS SCHREIBER

Detroit, April 25-CUP)-After funeral services here Tuesday af- ternoon. the body of Mrs Olive Mayo Schreiver, Daughter of Will liam B. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Motor Company. will he taken to Everett, Mass. her former home for burial.
 Mrs Schriber, who was 32 years old, died Sunday in Harper hos- pital. She was survived by the widower, Dr Foldemar Frederic Schreiber. and nn infant son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
Union City Girl Robbed Here; Shoes
 And Money Taken
Youths Plunge Through Window of Bank Street Store and Elude Oficer-North End Business Places Entered, Supposedly By Youngsters

tives John Calvin and Joseph Bend Ter investigated the incident and questioned Miss Liskus.
 Late last evening Patrolman Richard Kenney discovered two youths in the act of robbing a mar ket at 7S6 Bank street. The officer believing that he had the young men trapped went to the rear door to capture them. The pair escaped by plunging through side window. Nothing of value was discovered taken.
 Stores at 155 and 52 Bishop streets were found broken into by Patrolman Michael Bolton. Fouf places on this particular street have been burglarized within the past week. The police suspect young sters as being responsible for the petty breaks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25

At the unemployment bureau 1t was learned to-day that four more men had been given work at odd jobs about local residences as a re- suit of the drive being conducted under the direction of Attorney J. Warren Upson's committee.
 Four applicants given work last week stand a chance of obtaining comparative steady work. One will be for woman for housework in South Britain, another will be for a man on farm in West Cheshire. The two others will be a man and woman for work in Southbury home.
 An application was received to- day for a general housekeeper and cook to go to New Hampshire for the summer. Four persons on the unemployment bureaus list were to be questioned this afternoon by those applying for help.
 William Hayel, who is supervis- ing the work at the unemployment bureau, stated this morning. also, that the man known as MT D." in one of the cases of dire need pub lished last week in the press has been given steady employment of two-days a week for the indefinite period of time. He will do odd work about one of the city's leading resi- dences.
 The balance in the unemployment relief fund to-day according to a report issued by Treasurer Lewis S.. Reed, is $12,856.5S. The total num- Der of persons working for the re- : lief committee as of to-day is D. O3O, according to report made public by Chairman William M. Harris. Of the 2.030 persons, 1922 POS are receiving aid. being unable to perform any special labors.
 The balance on hand week ago in the relief fund was $14,931.23. The receipts during last week to- tailed $10,311.98. Disbursements amounted to $12,386.63.