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The Washington times., 1932-07-19
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

WAS ON AND SHE WAS DE-
TERMINED TO BE IN IT
AND SHE SHOULD WORRY
WHETHER OTHER FOLKS
LIKED 1T OR NOT!
So she didn't worry. She
didn't even care whether the
convention was Democratic or
Republican; whether it went
wet or dry; whether it nomi-
mated Hoover. Roosevelt or Al
kali Bill. Policies or pledges
meant nothing to her.
SHE WAS HAVING FUN
AND MAKING NOISE, AND
THAT WAS ALL SHE
WANTED.
From the instant the con-
ventions opened to the minute
they folded up, the American
woman, en- masse, occupied
ringside seats and yelled,
marched and rioted, regardless
of party or purpose.
JuSb AI1UtuCE OIL dp
What was it all about? They
neither knew nor cared. 1t was
just another prize fight. Some
body had to be murdered. Any
victim would do, as long as
the murder proved exciting.
And how they hated to go
home!
Male politicians dragged
themselves wearily from the
arena; telephoned frantically
for the quickest transportation.
But not so their lady wives,
sisters, mothers, sweeties and
daughters. Had they had their
way, the conventions would ec
holding yet. :;
But this, of course, is against
all tradition concerning females.
Theoretically, the gentler sex
loves to hug the fireside and
can't be torn from cradle or
kitchen. Go. to a big, noisy
dirty, heartless, political con-
vention? Horrors; no!
That's the pretty theory. But
never was theory knocked more
cockeyed by facts. To judge by
those that came, if one single.
female voter in America stayed
by the fireside and cradle dur
ing those convention weeks. 1t
was because she was nailed
there!
All of which moves me to ask,
though I already know the
answer-ARE WOMEN BORN
DID THE BOYS, THEM
SELVES, INVENT THIS PRET-
TY FAIRY TALE ABOUT
GIRLS BEING THE HOME
LOVING SEX?
IS HOME REALLY THE
LAST PLACE WHERE THE
MODERN, LIVELY LADY
WANTS TO BE OR GO?
AND IF so, WHO'S GOING
TO DO THE CONVENING AT
THE NEXT BIG CONVEN-
WILL THE MIssIs PICK
THE BIG SHOTS, WHILE
POP STAYS HOME AND
MINDS THE BABYP
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The Washington times., 1932-07-19
Bonds Could Have
Been Sold

Wagner from the first has
favored an adequate bond
issue for public works to
put men to work and thus
give trade an upward trend.
If there is any other way
to the revival of trade, with
out which we must go under,
no one yet has suggested
the way. The bonds could
have been sold. One year
ago the Government offered
So, ,5OO,OOO,OOO in bonds and
they were oversubscribed
four to one. In April of this
year it offered $9OO,OOO,0OO
in bonds and they were over
subscribed three-and-a-half
to one.
But the Administration
thinks it "wild" and "un-
sound" to sell bonds for
public building to put men
to work to save the lives
of women and children and
give the merchants a chance.
And Wagner asks:
IF the United States
Treasury can borrow money
to aid Germany, England,
Austria and France, why is
it wrong for the United
States Treasury to borrow
money to put Americans to
work?"
It is a question we have
been asking for a year, but
no one has answered it.
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
Secretary Hurley's
Stump Speech

Last week Secretary Hur-
ley, who thinks the unem-
ployed must be left to "shift
for themselves" made a
speech in glorification of the
fruits of the Hoover Admin
istration, and Senator Wag-
ner published an article in
"Liberty" warning against
the Administration S attitude
toward The jobless.
The speech was a charac-
teristic stump speech with a
usual poverty of ideas and the
article is one that thought"
full Americans from bankers
to scrubwomen would do
we'll to ponder. The article
by Wagner is one Of the
best expressions Of the view
point of a humanitarian, who
knows his history, that has
been written on the supreme
tragedy and peril of the re-
public-the ten million
breadwinners denied their
inalienable right to work.
The Washington times., 1932-07-19


hands that you see here.
From the beginning of human history hands have impressed
men, The Laying of hands, to disease by virtue
emanang from higher personality is older than the Chris
tan English Kings and others cured disease by merely
called Kings Evil" because touch of the King
hand cured it,
Fathers of the old school failed to lay their hands
upon the head of blessing him his departure into the
great world, the fathers departure better world
Hands show character clearly the face shows it.
highly developed thumb shows the result of civilization and
of the of the hands backed by thought
The gorilla, whose thumb is used merely hook to put
around the branch of tree has tiny thumb compared with
the rest of his hand.
Nkoa Tesla the distinguished scientist who harnessed
the of Niagara and did other remarkable things has
thumb almost as big around as his wrist.
The lines in the hand that supposed to much
about character really nothing They tell you nothing
baby folded up before born you fold piece
of paper and then raighten it out keeps the of the
folding When babys hand folded wrinkles marks are
formed and they remain.
Thumb prints useful to the police Some ancient rulers
used them important documents pressing the thumb down
on the hot a seal There initiating that.
What Rex Beach tells you in Cosmopolitan Magazine for
August about these powerful hands will interest you whether
or not you believe that improper foot posture
many d ases
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
WISE WORDS

If you would be poor with
out perceiving it, employ work
men and go to sleep.
Oh, that men should put an
enemy in their mouths to steal
away their brain.
Get thy spindle and thy dis
taft ready and God will send
thee flax.
When industry goes out of
the door, poverty comes in at
the window.
Malice sucks up the greatest
part of her own venom and
poisons herself.
A laying hen is better than
a standing mill.
A wise man thinks before he
speaks: a fool aA erwards.
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
A Cossack
With a Whip

The reason nothing effec-
tive has been done to stem
this desperately dangerous
tide of unemployment is i'm
piled in Wagner's comment:
Il cannot look upon suf-
fering with the detachment
of a great engineer. I see
the humanity behind the sta
tistics of unemployment, di-
minished car loadings, fore
closures and bankruptcies. "
All of which suggests
that the tragedy of our sit
uation is that those in pow
er do not think Of govern
ment in terms Of humanity;
and any government that ig-
nores the human equation is
merely a task master-a Cos
sack with a whip.
Is it possible that even
those high-placed financially
see no danger in this detach-
ment from the human misery
about us7
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
Self-COnsciOuSneSS

When you are away from
home are you constantly con-
scious of an effort to conduct
yourself pleasingly to the gen
eral public? -.
You consider how you shall
use your hands; your facial
expression comes in for much
thought as we'll as how you
walk and talk.
You are constantly restrain.
ing your natural impulses and
are posing.
You know your jaws are too
set, your disposition too irrita-
BILE, your face generally too
hard to be pleasing.
At times, among strangers,
you permit your antagoniStic
spirit to crop out and feel much
chagrined should an acquain-
tance appear suddenly to wit
ness your portrayal Of your
The Washington times., 1932-07-19

story there.
In the first
place, it seem
ed as if every
W o m a n in
America who
could get to
t h e conven-
tions went.
She wasn't
needed. urged
or invited to
go. She had
nothing to do
after she got
h ere. She
went in the
face of every
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
Wagner Draws
His Indictment

Senator Wagner has a
right to discuss the crisis be-
cause he saw it among the
first and sought, through
constructive measures, to
prepare for it before it
struck and to prevent, in so
far as it is humanity possible,
a recurrence. His measures
at first were secuted by the
Administration; then they
were defeated by the in
fluence of the Administra-
tion; then some of them were
accepted by the Administra-
tion when there was no es-
cape; but none of these ac-
cepted have been used by the
Administration.
History will want an ex-
planation of such blindness
in those in power.
Wagner draws his indict-
ment:
"The second pathway is to
stop boarding by the Gov
ernment. The Administra-
tion, after unlimbering the
banking machinery, is con-
tent to sit with folded hands,
, like a Buddha serenely con-
templating his navel. While
exhorting the people not to
hoard, Uncle Sam himself is
the most unconscionable of
hoarders. The Government
deliberately delays projects
Investigated and approved by
Congress. Public construc-
ton amounting to $1,000
100000 has been author
lied by law. The blueprints
are ready. Every detail has
been worked out"
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
Wagner Answers
Hurley

Hurley
He answers Hurley with
out intending it in one SEN
tence:
"Our people ask for bread
and we give them bally-
hoo"
He meets Mr.. HOover's ab-
surd, and, under the circum-
stances, almost offensive ig-
norance of or indifference to
the misery of the thirty mil
lion people affected by un-
employment in paragraph:
Today the American
people are suffering from
an unparalleled depression.
The savings of the middle
class are swept away. Mil
lions of families depend for
livelihood upon charity.
But the President urges
them to buy new cars and
exhorts them to refrain
from boarding. That seems
like bitter irony to people
who cannot pay for the re-
newal of a license plate on
last years car
We wish the AdminiStra-
tion group could compre-
hend what Wagner so clearly
sees-that the conditions of
today are a deadly menace
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
The Sweet.and-LowdOwn
The saddest thing about los
ing lover is that it's so much

easier to forget the quarrels
and misunderstanding than it
is to forget the thrills and
kisses.
Some women go to the hos
pital at least once a year, just
in order to have their boredom
removed and their lassitude re-
duced. When a woman has
reached the Symphonic age,
she would rather be in the
hands of a doctor than in the
arms of lover!
Those pioneer feminists, who
fought so har1 for woman's
freedom, could not have fore
seen that lots Of women, who
would never bother to vote,
would snap at the chance to
blow smoke rings and wear
pyjamas.
Man was made to mourn
and so was woman. In the
summer we sigh for winter; in
winter we long for summer;
when we're single we yearn for
a mate; and when we are mar
ried we fight for freedom.
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
Bread VS.. BanyhOO
and Bunk
Blu Claude G.. BOUerS-

to our institutions. 1t seems
incredible that the men en-
trusted with the Government
should be so blissfully aloOf
from the realities of the life
of the masses of the people
that they do not even guess
that a feeling of bitter cynl-
cism is dominating the think
ing of the millions.
The Washington times., 1932-07-19

Are Women Born TrampS?
Those women at the Chicago
conventions interested me. I've
a hunch they were the biggest
The Washington times., 1932-07-19
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

Men have invented high-pow-
cred bombs that will kill a
whole regiment of soldiers
but they have never invented
anything that will kill the
aroma Of a cocktail or the
fragrance of spring onion.
Love has hit the toboggan
when mans kisses cease to
be unexpected and spontaneous
and become just automatic,
like shifting the gears, or wind
ing his watch.
If man should ever come
home with glittering, scarlet
finger-nails, his wife would not
know whether to put a detec-
tive on him or to telephone for
an alieniSt.
Lots of women who we're
counting on a trip to Reno this
season have decided to stay at
home, and to put up with the
same old last years husband
and his sweet, old-fashloned
salary check.
Never imagine that a man is
hiding his love. Love, like a
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cold in the head, is something
that cannot be hidden.
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The Washington times., 1932-07-19

including of the serious from faulty foot
posture and such diseases he cures using the powerful
hands that you see here.
Evening star., 1932-03-11

DR.. Lewis J. Battle
DR.. Clarence A. Weaver
A. G. Hermann
Joseph M. CHATTER
w. w. Keeler
S. E. Blassingharn
Geo. ]. Cleary
Bessie B. Warren
Robert D. Lyons
Allen S. Jackson
Enoch G. Gray
w. w. Horab
DR.. ]. A. Porter
]. Henry Lewis
S. J. Murry
DR.. G. H. Richardson
Andrew L. Mundy
George w. Beasley
P. M. Tolliver
c. N. Martin
H. Lewis, Jr.
N. B. Hudson
Rev. Arthur Chichester
George T. Beasou
II. II. Banks
Evening star., 1932-03-11

A. Julian Brylawski
George w. Offutt
Harry King
J. F. M. Bowie
E. A. Rule
Frank ] Hogan
c. H. Pope
Joshua Evans, Jr.
John E. Locker
S. Percy Thompson
Edgar N. Brawner
Eugene R. Woodson
L. H. Brodie
Miss Elizabeth M. Haney
Henry Schiffert
Maurice L. Townsend
Gordon Bonnette
Mrs. VIM. Lee Corbin
Mrs. Amelia GUIDE Thomas
Mrs. Nell R. Hysong
DR.. VIM. Ballinger
Howard w. Berry
Russell P. Freeman
Lowell Mellett
Edmund S. Jewell
Ira Bennett
Theodore w. Noyes
Norman c. Kal
Arthur B. Marks
Aubrey Taylor
Evening star., 1932-03-11
IT'S OF CITIZENS ASSOCIATIONS

Joseph E. Oliver
John Otto Johnson
Harry Friedman
B. A. Bowles
Myron R. Walker
C L. Scott
Joseph Fitzgerald, Jr.
John S. Driggers
Joseph L. Gammel
Mrs. Ella M. Thompson
w. H. Seaquist
Dr.. A. c. Christie
E J. Brennan
A. J. Driscoll
A. Guy Reber
Will P. Kennedy
]. B. Dickman
]. w. Lambert
Horace J. Phelps
Edgar B. Henderson
Mrs. Leon Arnold
Herbert F. Matt
E. G. Sievers
George 1. Buchanan
Joseph ]. Wilson
Evening star., 1932-03-11

Donald Chamberin
Maj. Geo. o. Totten
Herbert L. Brooks
DR.. Geo. c. Havenner
Fulton R Lewis
Frank James
Charles w. Ray
George r. Ellis
]. S. Gorrell
Wilbur S. Finch
John T. Townsend
F. D. Ryan
H. V. Schneider
Thomas w. Joy
Erwin ]. Hibbs
Burd w. Payne
Albert f. Westrater
E. F. Neagle
E. S. Hobbs
DR.. Ed. E. Richardson
Allen Fisher
VIM. J. Weber
Mrs. Joseph M. Saunders
Mrs. Ruth S. McKelway
E p. Hazelton
Evening star., 1932-03-11

Joseph P. Tumulty
Lloyd B. Wilson
Robert V. Fleming
Stanton c. Peele
Fleming Newbold
Franklin H. Ellis
A. c. Case
B. M. Bergunder
Ralph Goldsmit
Harold Levi
Bryon S. Adams
Arthur Abbott
DR.. Arthur Christie
NJ G. Gibbs
Ralph W. Lee
Samuel H. Kaufman
Rev. T. E. Berry
Geo. A. G. Wood
Frank S. Hight
julius Garfnckel
Frank Jelleff
Henry Spencer
w. Coleman Nevis
Cloyd H. Marvin
Clarence F. Norment, Jr.
Randall H. Hagner
DR.. George F. Bowerman
John H. Cowles
Merle Thorpe
David Lawrence
Evening star., 1932-03-11
PRESIDENT HOOVERS
CITIZENS RECONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATION
District of Columbia Branch
; NEWBOLD MOVES, Chairman

Clarence A. Aspinwall
Edward F. Colladay
w. S. Corby
Frederic A. Delano
Joshua Evans
w. w. Everette
VIM. ]. Flather
Bishop James E. Freeman
c. c. Glover, Jr.
E. c. Graham
DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor
VIM. F. Ham
John Hays Hammond
John H. Hanna
DR.. Geo. c. Havenner
Coleman Jennings
Joseph D. kaufman
John c. Koons
Mark Lansburgh
Sidney B. Lust
Bishop VIM. F. Mcdowell
Bishop ]. McNamara
Rabbi Solomon Metz
DR.. Kelly Miller
Gen. John J. Pershing
John Poole
H. L. Rust, Jr.
DR.. Abram Simon
Gen. Anton Stephan
Corcoran Thorn
Evening star., 1932-03-11

back to the high tide Of
normalcy.
Business in Washington
has been affected less than
in many communities, be-
cause our people have re-
fused to be stampeded by
the bogey-man of Depres-
sion, but there are several
million dollars tucked.
away in our city which
should be turned back into
normal channels of busi-
ness. We all agree that
we must do away with
depression by our own
efforts, if it's yoke is to be
lifted from our shoulders.
Let's make our first effort
an endeavor to put those
idle dollars back to work.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Music and Musicians
Reviews and News of Capitals Programs.

ing group was made up of music
by Henschel, Borodin and Rimsky-
KorSakoff, and the closing numbers
were from Manning and Richard
Strauss, with the wtnningly naive
Con e, I viii Sing You" of the
twelfth century as the last word.
Edwin Steffe offered an extraor-
dinarily diversified group in Verid's
"Cortigiani vii Razza," Rachmani-
noff's In the Silence of the Night"
and ]. Wolfe'S "Quind to Hebben,"
with marked dramatic ability and
a sound understanding of the art
of singing. He also joined with the
chorus in an arrangement of the
"Barcarolle" from the Tales Of
Hoffman"
Ina Householder. like Mr.. Steffe.
a local finalist in the Atwater Kent
radio additions, found scope for
her admirable qualities in Puccini's
I'm Bel Di," Delibes' Bon Jour,
Suzanne" and Bachelet's "Chere
Mutt" besides assisting the chorus
with incidental solos. And both
Miss Holzscheiter and the Tuesday
Evening Club must have taken
pleasure in the honor their good
work did their teacher and director,
Mrs. Howard.
The piano accompaniments were
in the capable hands of Marjorie
Davis and Villa Semple. The violin
obbligato in the Granger choruseS
was given real distinction by Evelyn
Scott. NJ. G. s.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
TOAD POISON GIVES
POTENT MEDICINES
New X-Ray Method to Arrest
Rat Cancer Reported to
Biology Societies.
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,


PHILADELPHIA, April 30.-A prom
ising source of powerful medicines from
toad poisons and discovery of a new
method of using X-rays to arrest growth
of rat cancer were reported to the
Federated Societies for Experimental
Biology today.
The poison glands of Il species of
toadS from five continents have yielded
adrenalin. the energy-making hormone
of human beings and all animals. A
Jamaica species gave three times as
much adrenalin as man and more than
any animal except cattle.
Supply ErgosteroI.
The toads also supplied ergosterol. the
mother of vitamin D When this toad
chemical was placed under ultra violet
light it produced enough vitamin D to
cure rickets in rats.
Very powerful chemicals called bufo-
gins and bufotoXins were found, with
medicinal effects resembling digitaliS
Finally there were seven kinds of
bufotenines, potent substances which
raise blood pressure and stimulate the
heart
The extracts were exhibited here for
the first time They are the results of
several years VIOLA W Or. K. K. Chen
and DR.. A. Chen of the Lilly Research
Laboratories, Indianapolis, and DR.. H.
Jensen of Johns Hopkins University.
For centuries the Chinese have used
a toad poison medicine called chan Su
for sinus trouble, nose bleed and
infammatory pains DR.. Chen said
that these studies show why the an
cient remedy is effective. The adrena-
lin affects sinusitis and nose bleed, and
the bufogins and local anesthetic pain
killers.
S,OO0-and Never a Wart.
Dr. Chen said he has handled 5000
toadS with never a wart. Handling
them. he claimed, is harmless in every
respect.
Growth of certain transplanted can
GERS in rats was arrested by treating
their pituitary glands with X-rays.
This was reported by DIR. Fritz Bischof,
chief chemist of the Santa Barbara,
Calf, Cottage Hospital
He attributed the cancer result to
action of the X-rayS on the growth
hormone, which comes from the pitui-
tary gland alike in humans and ami
mails. Whatever happens to the hor-
none under the rays slows down both
natural growth and cancer. But DR..
Bischoff said he has reason to expect
that some cancers are slowed more
than other growth. This is particularly
the case in old rats.
DR.. Bischoff claimed his experiments
show definitely that the pituitary hor-
none affects cancer growth and that
no other hormone produced by the
bodys endocrine glands has any in
f1uence on this malignant disease.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
SENATOR BARKLEY
ASSA|LS TARIFF
Declares ProvinciaIism One of
Causes of National Un-
employment.
BY the Associated Press.

by Jne ASSoClhbcu EEcSS
PRINCETON, N. j., April 30,-Sena-
tor A. w. Barkley Of Kentucky, key
note speaker and temporary chairman OF
the coming Democratic national cam
paign, in a speech tonight blamed the
tariff and American provincialism for
large measure of the worlds economic
woes.
The Senator spoke for the Democratic
party at the closing session of the
student conference on political issues
of 1882, held under auspices of the
school of public and international
affairs of Princeton University. I'VE
shall criticize this administration in
the coming campaign for the mon
strous tariff law" Senator Barkley said
Lack of Leadership.
I'VE shall go before the American
people, criticizing the lack of leader
ship in the present administration. Too
often has Mr.. Hoover crossed the street
when meeting problem, or he has ap-
pointed a commission"
He said he had no desire to reveal
at this time the contents of his key
note address, and added:
Il may spring some surprises on my
Republican and Democratic friends in
Chicago, but do not wish to forecast
tonight what I shall say there"
John w. Phillips, Assistant Post
master General. spoke in favor of the
Republican party, appealing to the
patriotism" Of Americans to support
President Hoover, whom he called "a
peerless citizen"
Patriotism Today's Need.
"If we exhibited one-hah Of the
patriotism today that we did in the
lays Of the Great War, our country soon
would be on an even keel" he said. DR..
John Grier Hibben, president of Prince
ton, presided at the meeting.
Repeal Of the eighteenth amendment,
cancellation of war debts. system of
Federal unemployment insurance and
Federal ownership and control of cleo
trio power were adopted as planks in
the platform by the conference of stu
dents, attended by delegates from 81
Eastern colleges and universities.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
CITES u. S. CONFLICT
ON RICHMOND PORT
e. Of c. Official Holds One Branch
Seeks Abandonment as Another
Plans to Spend $5,000,000.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, April 30.-Declar
ing that it does not seem like good
business for one department of the Gov
eminent and for Congress to be foster
ing the port of Richmond by spending
thereon millions and another branch of
the Government to be curtailing its ac-
tivities by proposing to abolish the Gus
toms Office" William H Schwarzchild,
president of the Richmond Chamber Of
Commerce, has written Representative
A. j. Montague of the third district
protesting against the proposed abandon
ment of Richmond as a port of entry.
Mr.. Schwarzchild points out that the
Federal Government has recommended
an expenditure of more than $4,000, 900
to straighten the channel in James
River up to Richmond and deepen 1t so
as to encourage additional water-borne
traffic and further develop the port. He
states that the proposal to abandon
Richmond as a port of entry appears
economically unsound."