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Evening star., 1932-07-11

@. How many physicians had per-
mitS to prescribe alcoholic beverages
last year?-F. c.
A. There were s87,62 permits .n
force on June 80, 1881, for physicians
to prescribe and use alcohol or other
intoxicating liquor.
Evening star., 1932-07-11

"
this question to the people of the va
Gous States, acting through constitu-
tional conventions.
For a while in Chicago it looked as
though the whole world had turned
"wet"-that is, the whole voting world
in America. Perhaps it has But some
of the politicians and the voters them
selves are beginning to catch their sec
ond wind and wonder whether there
had not been a bit of hysteria in the
national conventions. The Democrats
are counting on their espousal of the
wringing wet cause to carry States in
the East, even though there may be a
hesitancy on the part of Eastern voters
to support the Democratic ticket, now
charged with radicalism.
X X X
The Republican President, now that
Gov. Roosevelt has had his say, accept
ting the presidential nomination. can
sit back and make reply to Roosevelt
and the Democrats at his leisure, so to
speak This is something new. Usu-
ally the Democrats wait for the Repub-
licans to sound off. Then they make
answer. They held their national con-
vention this year after the Republican
convention, as has been the custom for
years.
No other Democrat, living or dead,
has presided for so many hours over
Democratic national conventions as has
Senator Thomas j. Walsh of Montana.
He probably will 60 down in his history
as the great presiding officer of national
conventions. The Montana Senator did
a wonderful job in Madison Square Gar
den in 1924, when he welded the gavel
for the two weeks convention. He lost
none of his reputation as a presiding
officer when he served as permanent
chairman in the recent Democratic con-
vention at Chicago. When Senator
Walsh speaks, be spaAks with authority.
Evening star., 1932-07-11

@. How does strength of the present
Army compare with its numbers De-
fore the World War?-J. S. w.
A. In 1914 the United States Army
had 8.794 officers and -l19,251 enlisted
men. In 1881 there were 12,lT1 ON
GERS and l25,443 enlisted men.
Evening star., 1932-07-11

Q. Can a right-handed person by
practice make his left hand as dex-
trOus as his right?-N. M. K,
A. The Public Health Service says
this cannot be done, but practice will
increase and improve the use of the
left hand.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Robbing Children
Give the Northeast a Playground

The has opportunity to return to the children Of
the Northeast section of the city play of which the
Federal Government robbed them couple of years ago.
The Senate should the District appropriation bill
as to allow the Park and Planning Commission to the
pended balance of it's present appropriation with definite
provision playground is to be bought in the North
east section.
section served by large playground on the Union
Station Plaza
Congress- in order to beauty the Capitol grounds,
worthy project, dspossessed the children
The playground taken and converted into lawn
part of the Capitol approach.
It said that time that substitute playground would
be quickly provided.
Months and years have elapsed and nothing has been done
to meet the needs of these children for safe play.
The House. in order prevent what termed
sy expenditure under the Capper Cramton act stopped vr
tualy all funds of the Park and Planning Commission
Regardless of the merits of the huge scheme embodied in
that ac the children of the Northeast the who will
suffer under the Collins amendment.
Representative Collins would be the last Congressman who
would Intentionally deprive these children of justice but his
amendment does just that.
The Senate should correct what obviously is mad
vertence but in correcting it it should specify that the
is to be used for this playground.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Arlington Voters
Their Rights Are Threatened

The Civil Service Commission beginning to look like an
"Indian giver' to the citizens of Arlington county
Just year ago President Hoover at the suggestion of the
commission issued executive order permitting Federal en-
yes resident in the county to become candidates for county
offices.
Acting upon that ORDER several Government employees entered
the last election.
Now the commission and threatens to oust them from
their Federal jobs they engaged in political activity
The burden of the commissions complaint is that the Fed
era employees became candidates upon the tickets Of established
parties
It is all right for office says the commission in effect
provided the Federal employe independent ticket
That is an absurd view to take.
Certainly the purpose of the executive order not to de-
stroy Arlington county the party system which is essential
under our form of government
Responsible leaders of the country have been disturbed Tor
some time the intrusion of boc into political affairs
highly doubtful if the through the Civil
Service Commission going into the field to encourage the
bloc system of voting the demen of the party system
Either the order should have been issued or it should
be clarified so as give these Federal workers in Arlington
full rights to engage politics long that participation
does not interfere with their work for the Government
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
East Is Still East
Not West

sofheaded Americans of whom there plenty should
think about Japanese marism recently exhibited in Toxic
and contrast with what is sometimes called mitarism
here.
Japanese junior officers murdered the prime minister in
cold blood attempted the life of the Emperor closest adviser
bombed bank and erroed the city One report says
that members of the group have cut off the tips of their little
fingers sign that they in earnest about their con-
spiracy. It is quite possible.
Gang ridden America cannot much about japanese gangs
But it point that American gangs from the
of the population while this Japanese gang was composed
of sincere and intensely patriotic young who risked their
lives with thought of personal gain and with the sole idea
Of benefiting their country
Imagine West Point cadets Annapolis midshpmen led
by few army captains navy euenants assassinatng high
officials throwing bombs around Washington because they
did like the way the nation being Or cutting off
the tips of their little fingers show that they meant business
You gather from this that East is East and West is West
and that there still difference between them despite
the talk of pacfss and nernatonasts that all people are
alike under the skin.
would be well to remember that before weakening our
defenses further and relying the peace promises Of
foreign gentlemen with such peculiar ideas these
Patriots who murder for the good of their country are not
likely to pay much attention to paper pacts when the time
comes to get rid of them
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
There Is Only
One Way Out

It is sheer nonsense for
him to say that we want to
get back to normal employ
ment; it is incredible that he
should not know that as long
as thirty million people, d.
rectly and indirectly af-
fected by unemployment, are
deprived of purch h a sin g
power there never will be a
return to normal employ
ment. There is only one way
out-a prosperity loan for
public works on a scale COM
mensurate with the magni-
tude of the crisis.
We have no patience with
the Presidents point that,
no matter how desperate and
dangerous the state of un-
employment, no F deral
money must be used on any
thing that does not pay divi-
dends to some one or yield a
revenue in money to the
Government.
Public improvements do
not usually bring in revenue.
New York State has spent
hundreds Of millions on pub
lie parks that pay no man a
dividend and yield scarcely
any revenue; but because
these are the greatest invest
ments New York has ever
made for humanity. More
than that: 1t is investments
such as these for the benefit
of men, women and children
that bind people to their ir-
stitutions with a realization
that their Government has
some interest in them as
human beings.
No one proposes that
bonds be sold that money
may be found to dump into
the sea. The money is to be
spent on roads - and Rome
found they paid dividends
indirectly and enormously,
on rivers and harbors, on
improvements of permanent
value.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
LISTEN. WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

EMPLOYED IN THIS ESTAB-
LISHMENT I NEVER SAW
ONE OF THOSE YOUNG PEO-
PILE UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF LIQUOR.
The shipping clerk and
often went on sleighing parties
10 or IL miles out of tovl, in
zero weather, with every oppor-
tunity and excuse to take any
amount of any kind of bever-
age. ..
I NEVER SAW A FLASK IN
THE PARTY.
A Temperance Worker
Why? I didn't analyze 1t
then, because I saw nothing
unusual in our temperance. But
now I know that we were with
held by a public opinion so
deep that it became an uncon-
sciouS law to every decent
young person. 1t was simply un-
heard of for young people to
drink. Drinking was a thing
that had its certain place and
standing. People who did it to
excess had certain name. Peo-
pie took that so for granted
that it wasn't even discussed.
ASK YOU TO COMPARE
THAT WITH CONDITIONS AS
YOU AND I KNOW THEM TO
DAY.
I have always been a believer
in temperance and a worker to-
ward that end, not because the
evil Of excessive drink ever
touched my own fireside, but
out of sympathy for others less
fortunate. The five years after
prohibition did not bother me,
one way or the other Then
tragedy fell on me. My husband
became tubercular. He needed
liquor, the doctor said, as a
stimulant to counteract his ex-
hauStion.
I WANTED TO KEEP THE
LAW OF MY COUNTRY, BUT
1 COULD NOT AFFORD TO
BUY THAT LIQUOR LEGAL
LY. I HAD TO OBTAIN 1T IN
SOME OTHER WAY. so I
WOULD PLACE THE PRICE
UNDER A BRICK ON THE
FRONT PORCH AND THE
LIQUOR WOULD BE THERE
IN THE MORNING.
Prohibition made me a law
breaker for the sake of the man
I loved. It made me think, too.
I saw that what is denied
the poor man as a medicine on
his death bed can be purchased
openly and easily by anyone
possessing the price.
I SAW THAT A LAW,
WHICH PERMITS DISCRIMI-
NATION BETW WEEN THE
RICH AND THE POOR, IS A
ROTTEN LAW AT HEART,
AND MUST HAVE ROTTEN
RESULTS. AND so I BECAME
ONE OF PROHIBITIONS
MOST BITTER ENEMIES.
I am an old woman now, but
I shall fight as long as I live
to put the liquor traffic where
it belongs. I would rather see
liquor wiped off the face of the
earth, but since it can't be,
say put drink and drinkers
where they belong-out in the
open-and let the public price
them and judge them as they
deserve to be priced and judge.
Then, perhaps, we'll get honest
trade back again, and restore
the old shame that people felt
about drinking.
MARY F. H.
Well? Now it's YOUR turn.
Copyright, 1892, King Features
Syndicate 1nc.l
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

ideals are one ELSIE ROBINSON
thing, while reality is quite
another, and the speakeasy is
our ugly and omnipresent
American reality under prohibi-
ton.
So how about it? Is the
speakeasy as vile as the old
fashioned saloon, or more so?
And, since it seems that we
haven't the gumption to swear
off entirely, which is the lesser
evil-speakeasy or saloon?
Sincere Evidence
Here's a letter giving one
woman's opinion. I don't know
whether it's on your side Of the
fence or not, but whichever
side you're on, this is a sincere
bit of evidence worthy of your
consideration.
My Dear Miss Robinson:
I am much interested in your
comparison of the conditions
in this country before and since
prohibition. I am a white-haired
grandmother now, and I re-
member very distinctly what
pre-prohibition days were like,
for at II worked IS office as
sistant in a wholesale liquor
house.
I literally worked in the
midst of liquor. all the time.
There we're rows and rows Of
barrels fillec with whiskey. The
walls were lined with bottled
goods and the cellar filled with
casks. .............
The working force we're all
young people. The force con-
sisted of two floor statesmen,
two travelling men, one shipping
clerk, the bookkeeper and my
self all under 80 years.
IN ALL THE TIME I WAS
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
This OminOuS Calm:
A Warning
Claude G.. BOUers

ENOR three years the nation
u has been in the throes of
a serious and dangerous eco
nomic crisis, and there are
probably two or three mil
lion men on whom families
depend who have had no
work, or very little, within
this time.
Each year - almost each
month - during these three
years more have been added
to the army Of the dispos-
sessed.
And every time another
man is deprived of job the
purchasing power Of the ma
tion is reduced just that
much.
And every time the pur-
chasing power is reduced the
business Of the retail mer-
chant suffers just a little
more; and that Injuries the
wholesaler just a little more;
and that hurts the manufac-
turer just a little more and
leads to the discharge of
more men from the factories
because there is a decreas-
ing demand for the manu-
facturers' products.
Thus, at the end of three
years we are in worse con-
dition, as far as unemploy-
ment is concerned, than we
have been at any time since
the bursting of the market
bubble.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
WISE WORDS

A handful of luck is better
than sack full of sense.
Have a cage before you get
q mocking bird. ....
Woman is the Sunday Of
mans life.
The man that bushes is not
quite a brute.
The best friends are in the
purse.
He hears but half who hears
but one side only.
Better in a poor hovel living
than a rich Sepulcher dead.
He that mindeth not his own
business shall neyen mind mine.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
All They Want
Is Work.

This man is not starving,
because his friends chip in
to prevent it. But his
morale is gone. His faith is
gone. And all this is per-
fectly natural.
John Pierpont Morgan
would feel the same way
under similar circumstances.
Even Mr.. Hoover. And yet
ali these men want is work
the right to work, which
means the right to live in
self-respect.
Meanwhile the President
persists in his devotion to
dole in preventing actual
starvation. Many months
ago a hundred leading econ
omists protested against the
present dole of public and
private charity y
81 don't want your
money, child - damn your
charity-I want work, " says
the character in Mrs. Gas
kell's novel of the days Of
industrial revolution. From
"Buy an apple" to the
block aid movement, there
has been nothing impressive
or even approaching a real
solution of the grave human
problem of unemployment
and starvation.
The greatest nation in the
world cannot muddle along
forever with pee-wee things,
when from eight to ten mil
lion breadwinners are thrown
into the human scrap heap,
the the number is on the
increase. The President does
not have the slightest con-
ception of the conditions in
the homes of millions Of the
people, who are just as self
respecting as he is; who
want to work and earn their
bread and are denied.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
"The u. S. Is All Right"
Says a Wise Englishman

In refreshing contrast most foreign uterancs about this
country Lord Rohermere great British publisher
in fupage editorial in his London Daily Mail that 1.-THE
United States is all right"
Lord Rothemere thinks recovery at hand than
anybody suspects and that the spirit which in less than
hundred years raised from small and impoverished ag
cultural community to the greatest industrial nation of the
world will be evident again Moreover he does not
believe there any chance of going off the gold standard
This different tune from the funeral marches have
been hearing long at home And right not must be
admitted that outsider often has clearer idea of the facts
than who living in the midst of them Nobody here
could believe there slump ahead during the boom days
of 1928 and 1929 though many of English friends took
gloomy satisfaction in warning of the wrath Not
many Americans predicting the end of the slump now
either.
Perhaps it's the old of not being able the wood
for the trees.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
The Dentists Chair

The Dentists Chair
Why do so many dentists try
to carry on a conversation
with the patient in their chair
while operating on him.
This question will be not
generally answered truthfully,
by the profession.
Possibly they work on the
theory that by keeping UP a
flow of talk there won't be so
much chance to concentrate
on the pain.
This psychology may be
worth something but not to the
degree which is believed by
some dentists.
Most persons visiting a den
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

That they
B 9TH are
evil we did
not d e n y.
That drunk
enness in any
form, from
any source, is
a b o m Unable
and tragic we
never doubt
ed, b elm g
bone dry our
selves anG in
t e n d ing to
stay so. But
l. o vely
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

at hand. A little thing like
the lack of a screwdriver or
a hammer cannot balk her pur-
pose.
When a man starts out to
make a garden he must have
spade, a trowl, a hoe, a rake
and a book of rules; but a
woman can take an old kitchen
spoon, her fingernails and a
few stray nasturtium seeds and
make you a beautiful flower
bed that will GROW.
When a man fixes a lock or
hangs a picture or puts UP the
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
ONCE-OVERS

tist wish to have the work
done as quickly as possible.
Having nerved themselves
for the ordeal, they resent the
time spent in chatter.
It is difficult to believe that
the one doing the work can
do really good work and keep
up an incessant patter of talk.
Such a thought is disturbing
and makes the patient feel
uncertain about the success of
the treatment and work done.
Dentists are paid well for
their tiIae and should give all
their attention to doing o good
job.
Copyright 1892, King Features
Syndicate. Ines
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
The Ingenious Female

Somebody is always rising to
remark that women are not
creative-and that no woman
has ever written, painted or in
vented anything original or i'm
mortal. That no woman has
ever done anything that some
man has not done or could not
do better.
Cock-a-doodle-do! Leaving Rose
Bonheur, Madame Curie and
George Eliot out of the picture,
We'll admit for the sake of
argument, that, thus far, woman
has not done much along crea-
tive and inventive lines. But
give her a CHANCE! Ever since
Eve made a snappy spring en-
semble without needle and
thread, most of the female in
genuity has been consumed in
doing without things.
YOU know how it is! What
ever man does, from invent
ing a machine to cleaning the
car or painting the piazza, put
ting on a tire or getting up a
meal, he must have all the
tools, fixings and mechanical
contrivances with which to do it.
Every man is a plumber at
heart! Always needing some
thing else" which isn't handy.
But, all woman needs in an
emergency is her own wit and
ingenuity and any implement
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

cause l could not keep up the
payments. My small saw
ings in the bank are now
gone. My wife is sick from
worry. My children merely
get enough to eat to keep
body and soul together.
And I am getting bitter. I
have lost all faith in our
kind of government, and all
faith in our social system.
I am ready for a change. ="
This thought is becoming
deeply embedded in the con-
sciousness of millions and
millions of people-because
they cannot possibly be
satisfied with a situation
that takes no thought Of
their conditions.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

the hairbruSh, or make a lock
work with a bent hairpin or an
old nail-file. Or she can climb
up on a kitchen chair and the
dictionary and put up the new
portiers with a paper of pins.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

A man will walk a mile in
order to have his hair trimmed
by an expert, but almost any
woman can cut her own hair
with the garden-ShearS,
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Men Have Submitted
Quietly to Evictions

1ne amazing Inlng is tnaC,
despite the suffering, fre-
quently threatening starva-
tion, where there actually is
not starvation, the millions
of breadwinners out of jobs
have been quiet and orderly.
One would have thought a
few years ago that, under
existing conditions, there
would be a series of riots,
and that radicalism would 60
on a rampage. There has
been nothing of the sort.
Men have quietly submit
ted to evictions from their
rented houses; and there
have been few strikes and
none of any magnitude. This
is true today when unem-
ployment IS greater than
ever before.
To some this is all very en-
couraging. Some agree that
it is highly complimentary to
the self-control of the Ameri-
can worker. Some assume
that he is not on a rampage
because charity has taken
care Of him and his family
to the extent of preventing
starvation. Others, more
thoughtful, we think, con-
clude that he is quiet
through fear-that the mag
nitude Of the disaster has
really stunned him.
And then there are others,
more thoughtful still, who
think this unusual calm is
ominous. They remind US
that it may be like the
deadly quiet just before a
great storm.
A Waning
Faith
We are afraid that men in
power in Washington are not
even curious to know what is
going on in the minds of
these thirty millions who are
IN abject want because of the
unemployment of the bread
winners. We must confess
that we are. And we think
we have a good idea. We re-
ceive hundreds of letters
from among these unfortu-
mates, many from women,
mothers of children, who
paint an appalling picture Of
misery and dumb despair.
Some are threatening - not
many.
But most indicate a wan
ing faith in the perfection of
our political institutions and
social system. We quote
from one of them:
II have never cared to be
rich. I never expected to be,
And I have never been an
noyed because others are
rich. Some of these deserve
to be. And if others do
not, it never struck me it
was anything for me to
worry about.
But I have always
wanted to be comfortable,
and was willing to put in
hard work in a factory to
make me comfortable. But
for two years I have not had
a job. I have lost the home
on which I was paying be-
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Did We Have Temperance Be-
fore Prohibition Came?

Speakeasy or saloon-which
is the greater evil to a land?
We asked for answers.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27

A mans hat must be a HAT,
properly cut, blocked. shaped
and sized by a professional, but
a woman can wind an old piece
of crepe-de-chine around the
remains of a wire basket and
make a snappy little turban in
20 minutes.
A mans idea of making
home is to build a house and
fill it with plumbing, furnaces,
electric wires and furniture.
But a woman can take an
army tent or a dingy back room
in cheap hotel and string
a few draperies, cushions and
photographs around it and
make a "home" of tiff she's
born with the "homing in
stinct."
When a man tries to get a
one-course breakfast there isn't
a clean dish or pan or spoon
left in the place, and the kit
chen looks like a battlefield.
But a woman can cook a five
course dinner on a one-burner
electric grill and serve it on a
tea-wagon.
Of course, men have invented
all the ingenius implements and
labor-saving devices. They HAD
to-because they NEEDED
them!
Copyright, 1892, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)