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The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16
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Roared arplanes and pilots, new Santa Clau.
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The Washington times., 1932-06-13

This picture of British actor named Bobby Howes with
Che pretending he is bahfu ashamed something
else shows Importance Of the human hand and eye
vesling character.
To study character important part of life. Women
It sad can tell mans character glance and at
distance.
Our female ancestors in constant danger of all Sorts in the
old cave days needed intuition tell them whether
the gentleman approaching coming help raise the little
children eat them
Men read character with difficulty compared with women,
but they know d that the hand and the tell
what is in the brain.
The eye especially this picture Interestingly shows ex
emotion and character It the window through which
you can look into the mind the opening through which the
mind looks out the world is and through the optic
nerve sends information and impulses back to the brain cells
In this interesting picture, everything changes when you
up with your thumb the shining eye The hand loses
part its character the life goes out of the picture It IS
extremely difficult read the character of the blind that
have 'no speculation" in their eyes.
There many kinds of there kinds OF human
beings the fearless eye the h eye the eye downcast in
thought the eye turned upward contemplation the that
Is concentrated and the eye not concentrated.
And with hands, you have the firm hand that shows execu
tive capacity the sensual hand showing self ndu
gence you have the hand with the weak thumb small in pro-
portion the of the hand the weakness often reflected in
the mind that directs the hand
The mouth character sensuay generosity
GOODNESS.
The nose indicates breeding the lack Of it, But the
eye and the hand give the most information
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
A Fair Gas Rate
Present Charges Excessive

If the record which the Public Utilities Commission has built
ten on the commission must the demands of the pub
lie for hearing looking reduction Of charges for gas
Figures which the Washington and Georgetown gas light
companies filed with the commission clearly indicate that
the earnings of the companies are excessive.
The rates should be reduced and at once
Furthermore the reduction should not be in the form which
the two reductions took and which resulted in wholesale
complaints that with the cut in the rates the bills Of con-
sumers increased.
The next gas rate cut surface affair It must
be deep enough reflect in the bills which the consumers
shown by figures Of earnings Of the companies that
the the unsatisfactory valuation which has
been established is now running well 10 per cent
its dealings with the Potomac Electric Power Company
the Public Utilities Commission has clearly indicated its belief
that when earnings go cent there should be return
to the consumers the form of reduction in rates
This reasoning resulted in local rate lower
than city in the country At the time it
has ed development of the company which to-
day is in excellent financial condition. ....
There sound why the gas companies should
not be treated in the fashion.
The argument advanced that the valuation upon which
the gas companies of return is figured is below the
actual value.
That is matter which it would take years to determine
I should however be determined at early date the
Commission get around to it.
In the meantime the Commission in its dealings with the
gas companies is proceeding upon valuation of approx
mately $20000,O00.
Upon that figure the rate of return clearly excessive
That fact alone is enough to q hearing gas
rates and subsequent reduction
The Washington times., 1932-06-13

head, can ELSIE ROBINSON
you? Then get this straight,
wherever it will hit you hard
est.
BY FALL, THE SOIL OF
AMERICA WILL HOLD THOU
SANDS OF TINY BODIES
LIKE THAT; BODIES OF LIT
TIE STARVED CHILDREN,
MURDERED BY OUR IN
DOLENCE, OUR IND1FFER-
ENCE!
Oh, we won't mean to do it.
If right at this moment you saw
a baby hungry you'd give your
last dime to feed him. You'd
dream about him all night,
wake up weeping, rouse the
neighborhood to bring his fam
lily aid.
If you saw a baby starving,
that's what you'd do.
BUT WHAT ARE YOU DO
ING FOR THE STARVING
BABIES YOU CAN'T SEE? Are
you starting something to help
them? Will you even acknowl-
edge that they exist; or do you
think it's all "just newspaper
talk?" .........
A PitifuI Letter
Here's a letter which should
make you acknowledge that they
aren't just newspaper talk. It's
just an ordinary letter, written
by an ordinary girl. Two pitiful
young parents. starving them
selves to death to give their
sick child food-AND 1T ISN'T
EVEN FRONT PAGE NEWS!
Read it; and I hope it makes
you feel as swell as it did me!
Dear Miss Robinson:
I don't know why I'm writing
10 you, except that I've just
seen something that I must get
off my chest to someone.
have just returned from a
short visit to a town where
lived for years. While there
looked up a childhood girl
friend, and thank God did!
She is %, her husband is %,
and they have a sickly boy
four years old. The husband
hasn't worked for two years,
and they have no one who could
help them.
Now this is the main part
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
Jeers and JingleS
For the JObleSS
Claude G.. BOWers

"gives further loans to pri-
vate interests"
Loftily, Mr.. Mills says that
"the real way to effect re-
lief is to start the private
economic machine turning"
That is what Wagner
thinks; what Garner thinks.
It is what every one knows.
But the private economic ma
chine will not start turning
so long as 36,000,000 of the
people, not to mention the
30,000,O00 on the farms, are
deprived of purchasing
power.
The private industries will
not employ more men until
the demand from the mer-
chants for their product in
creases; and the demand of
the merchants cannot in
crease until there is more
buying; and there can be no
more buying until more men
in jobs have purchasing
power.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
But the question you ask is

one that every young man seems
to be turning over in his mind,
these days. Whether tho girl
who makes a living or the girl
who makes a home; is the hap
pier choice as a life-mate.
It seems to me that the man
who finds a working partner is
lucky. Even if the old-faShioned
"home-girl" were not already
almost as rare as the buffalo,
the business girl would be the
better bet.
Any girl who has learned how
hard it is to earn a dollar will
have a heart about keeping a
mans nose to the grindStone,
so that she may fritter away his
shekels on bridge parties and
open-mesh stockings.
Any girl who gets up at z
o'clock, six mornings a week,
will soon discover that she can't
stay up until 3 a. m. at jazz
parties, and make the grade.
And she will not try to drag
the man she marrieS around to
night clubs and dances after a
hard days work.
A girl who is busy from 9 to
5 has no time to hang around
the shops Squandering some
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

of the story. The county is CIV
ing them $3.50 a wee. to live
on, and have for some months,
and they have lived on it. How?
I don't know. The doctor has
advised that the baby must
have milk, oranges, cod liver
oil, and you know the rest Of
the story. The boy has had
these things, and the parents
have had mostly nothing-and
they look it.
Now I make $40 week and
have no dependents, and will
from now on take care Of this
family, but what about the
thousands of other families?
Are they, too, to live on this
amount? Can't something be
done?
I'm heartsick about this
whole thing. I'm "a and have
helped here and there all along,
but still have never before
really known just what this
period of unemployment means.
Well, now I feel better. I
guess I'm writing you, Elsie,
because my friends would never
believe me to be this serious.
I'm supposed to be one Of those
wild things" with nothing
under the hat. If something
only could be done to give
jobs to these people! This par
ticular young man would do
ANYTHING to earn money; but
there just isn't ANYTHING to
be done. Sincerely,
" MARY BLACK.
A Terrible Condition
Three people, one of them a
sick child, trying to live on
$3.50 a week! Millions of
people trying to live on that,
or less.
And these people, mind you,
are neither tramps, nor drifters,
nor "shiftless foreigners" They
are the decent kids we went to
school with a few years ago.
They are the kindly folks we
lived next door to, before we
THEY ARE CLEAN, HON.
EST, SELF RESPECTING
AMERICAN CITIZENS, WHO
LOATHE CHARITY AS YOU
AND I WOULD LOATHE IT
WHO ASK ONLY A CHANCE
TO WORK!
And can't anything be done2
YES, 1T CAN!
Those people could be put to
work within two weeks!
Hunger could be stopped, un-
employment would be ended,
the wheels of industry would
be roaring, prosperity would
be booming-W THIN TWO
WEEKS!
AND PROOF OF THE NEED
THAT THIS BE DONE HAS
BEEN BEFORE CONGRESS
FOR MONTHS.
Start work going! No char
ity about that. No dole. A
straight, business-like course
such as we would have to
pursue if we were facing any
other emergency.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
The Government Must
Get Behind the Jobless

Mr.. Mills must know there
are more jobless men today
than there were in May; and
more in May than there were
in April; and that there will
be more in July than there
are in June unless something
is done by the Federal Gov
ernment to put men to work.
Nothing can "start the pri-
vate economic machine turn
ing" until there is an in
crease in the purchasing
power of the people.
just how is Mr.. Mills 60
ing to perform his miracle?
He answers by saying that
repairs and construction is
Is per cent below 1929; and
implies, we presume, that if
money can be loaned private
industry it will begin to
make repairs and to ex-
pand, regardless of whether
there is any demand for the
factory's output.
Thus the Administration
cannot rid itself of the no.
tion that it can rebuild
prosperity from the top
down; it has got to be built
from the bottom up.
It cannot be built at all
until a way is found to re-
store the purchasing power
of the jobless; and the only
way to start "the private
economic machine turning"
2 for the Government to
get behind the jobless as it
has got behind the railroads
and the banks.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13

TH IT was a sorry
l. scene, not without stu
pidity, enacted in the House
in Washington during the
closing debate oil the Garner
unemployment relief meas
ure. 1t developed into a
fight between the Demo
Gratis, with a few Progress
sive Republicans, and the
Administration forces. The
bill was passed to the accom-
paniment Of Republican
jcers and nursery jingles.
There was much laughing
on the Administration side
of the aisle.
The purpose of the bill is
to do something for the ten
million breadwinners of the
nation who are denied their
inalienable right to work.
For them, and for the thirty
million women and children
dependent upon them for
bread. 1t was presented on
the dictates of necessity and
humanity. just before the
debate began, the mayors OF
some of the leading cities IN
the country had appeared at
the Capitol with a plea for
action. They called atten-
tion to the tragic fact that
in New York city the head
of one in every four families
is out of work, that i'll Bos-
ton one in every seven is
iobless, that in Detroit, one
in every three is on the
scrap heap.
1t came just after it was
announced that for the first
time in American history
there was a decrease in en-
ployment in April and May.
Under these circumstances
one, with only a normal
sense of humor, would have
found nothing to incite mer-
riment in the debate. 1t was
a dangerous thing for the
Republicans in the House to
send their jeers and laughter
directly into the homes and
hearts of these millions OF
unfortunates who are denied
the right to earn their bread.
It should have been possible
for the Administration Con-
gressmen to have expressed
their dissent to the Garner
bill with something of the
sobriety due to the gravity
of the situation. One Repub-
lican Congressman had the
humanity to resent the jeer-
ing of his colleagues when
he said:
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
Running True
To Form

To Form
IT will choose to help the
suffering. A member has
said to forget the party.
Yes, I will. I will cross
over to the Democrats and
vote to relieve suffering"
While this jeering Of the
Administration forces was
going on in the House, Og-
den Mills, spokesman of the
Administration, was making
a fight in the Senate against
the Wagner bill, or any,
other, providing for the sale
of bonds for public construc-
tion. This was running true
to form.
For three years the Ad-
ministration has opposed
every plan for the benefit OF
the jobless. For more than
two gears, with a cold cruel
ty almost incredible, it jug
gled figures to convince the
people that more than half
the jobless were at work. 1t
did not discontinue this pol
icy until welfare organiza-
tions of a humanitarian and
non-political character ex-
posed the fallacy of the fig
ures and protested against
the misrepresentation of con-
ditions.
But when Wagner, Garner
and La Toilette moved to
serve the jobless through
the creation of work on pub
lie construction, Mr.. Hoover
amazed the public with the
announcement that he, too,
had a plan.
This plan would have re-
mained the Presidents Sc
cret still had not the others
been introduced and pressed,
and it is presented now for
the purpose of preventing
the adoption of any effective
plan.
The difference between the
Wagner bill and the Admin
istration measure is frankly
defined by Mr.. Mills with the
statement that the latter.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
Mr.. Mills Is
No Prophet.

It is evident from his own
words that Mr.. Mills and the
Administration have no real
faith in their own measure
for the loaning of money to
private industry. w h e n
asked if he thought it would
"bust the depression''-his
own words - he repli e d
lightly that he is no prophet.
He knows, of course, that it
will not. When pressed for
a more definite answer, he
replied that he thought it
would "help.''
The economists of scores
of leading colleges and uni
versities have said that
prosperity loan for public
works will help more.
The jeering in the House
and Mr.. Mills almost flip
pant attitude before the
Senate committee forces the
conclusion that the Admin
istration still is unable to
understand the significance
of the unemployment peril,
not only to the unemployed
but to every business man
and industrialist in America.
Those jeers and jingles of
the playboys of the House
laughing at human misery!
That sort of thing cannot
favorably impress business
men and financiers. These
understand the peril in an
other winter of suffering,
starving, begging. TheX
know the problem is now be-
yond the solving of indi-
viduals or private industry.
They realize the Government
must act-and must get be-
hind the jobless now as it got
behind the bankers and the
railroads. Mr.. Hoover still
thinks that this is a problem
for the individual it is not
it is the problem of organized
society.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

body's money for things she
doesn't want, or to hang
around country clubs and no.
tel lobbies, looking for diver
sion-and compassionate silly
flirtationS.
Moreover, a girl who has
spent a few years in a down
town business office has bet
ter understanding of MEN and
a lot more sympathy with
them. She has few illusions
about them; and all the femi-
nine whims and caprices with
which a woman can torment a
man have been long since
smoothed out by the steam rol-
Ter of office discipline.
WORK is a tonic that builds
character, strengthens the mind
and Sweetens the disposition.
It takes the jaded, world-weary
look out of a bored young Wom-
ans eyes, and puts a light of
enthusiasm into them that no
blue pencil can dim.
Of course, a man does not
marry a girl just because she
is a work girl or because she
isn't, any more than he mar
ries her just because she's a
blonde or because she's a bru-
nette. No man selects a wife
with his brains or his head;
he selects her with his instinct.
Or just because she happens
to be THERE.
But if a man happens to be
the sort who believes that
"woman's place is in the home"
he can find a "home-girl' Just
as easily in a business office
The Washington times., 1932-06-13

in the woods
near Hope
well? Were
you sick with
rage W h e n
you thought
of the shame
t h a t baby's
death put on
this Nation?
One little
lad dead, and
the W h o l e
world mourn
ing. You can't
seem to put
it out of your
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
The Girl On the Job

1nO O1EA On Guc JOD
"Shall I marry a home-girl
or a business girl? Which type
will make a man happier?"
writes Doubtful Thomas"
In the first place, my dear
boy, you will marry the girl
who happens to attract you at
the psychological moment, when
you are in the marrying mood,
whether she be a Hard-boiled
Hannah or a Soft-eyed Sallie-
whether she be plain or beauti-
full, brilliant or dull, the right
one or the wrong. So, nothing
that I can say will change your
fate. It is written.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13
Words From the Lips of Wise Men

Her goodness doth disdain
comparison, and. but herself,
admits no parallel.
-MaSSinger.
Honour is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting
.., on, Butler.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13

as in a beauty parlor or a
ballroom. And the man who
marries a business girl will
always find her on the JOB,
whether it's in the kitchen or
at the desk.
Business does not spoil a
woman for marriage. 1t makes
her livable-and lovable.
Copyright, 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-06-13

All that makes existence
valuable to anyone depends on
the enforcement of restraints
upon the actions of other
people. j. S. Mill.
God made me choose, and !
like my choice. Ring Posy.
The Washington times., 1932-06-13

Can't Something Be Done?
Did you go faint with horror
when you read of the discovery
of that little murdered body
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Plaintiffs Lose
In Stock Case

LOS ANGELES, March 8. U.P)-
A superior court decision here to-
day was against L. E. Seivert, w.
M. Balling and Frank Tschudy,
who sought to recover corporate
stock in the Western Borax COM
pany and $1,000,00O damages from
A. M. Buley and Henry Blumen-
berg.
The plaintiffs contended they
entered into an agreement with
Buley and Blumenberg whereby the
plaintiffs would advance $500000
for developing Kern county mineral
lands in return for stock. They al
legged that the full amount of stock
never was issued to them.
Superior Judge William Freder-
ickson ruled that Buley and Blum
enberg had complied with the
agreement.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Capital City Is
One Sad Place

SACRAMENTO, March 3. up
Men of SAD Afien walked the streets
of Sacramento today. and there
was weeping and Wailing and
gnashing Of teeth.
Federal agents started the des-
t1uction of $4,000 gallons Of fine
wine, valued conservatiYely at S270,-
600.
Fine Angelica, sherry, port and
many others sank sparkling into
the ground behind the famous Silva
Winery at Mills. near here.
Albert {. Sheets, assistant United
States district attorney. said it was
the largest single collection of wines
ever destroyed by prohibition agents
in the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Couple Lost In
Mountain Area

LAS VEGAS. New, March 3.
U.P-Miss Robin Kreutzberger, 81,
daughter of a wealthy Bethlehem,
Pa, business man, and her fiance,
Henry Adams, 81, also of Bethle-
hem, were lost today on French
mountain in a region of deep
crevases and abandoned mine
shafts.
A possee began to comb the re-
gion at dawn, fearing the couple
may have slipped from a ledge
during the night, or be suffering
from exposure.
They began climbing the mount
ain late yesterday afternoon and
were overtaken by darkness. The
girls mother and Leon Neff,
rancher, returned to Las Vegas
when unable to make a search
alone. and organized a posse. The
fasteners are spending the winter
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Municipal Water
System Profits

FRESNO, March 3. tU.Pl-Adyo-
Gates of public ownership of public
utilities were furnished additional
material to support their stand
when the preliminary report Of the
first annual statement of Fresno's
water system was made public
today.
The city bought the water sys-
tenn from the California Water
Service corporation a year ago at
an outlay of approximately
s2,200,0 900.
After all charges are paid and
written off, it appears the city
will profit about S127000 on the
years operation of the system.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Police Probing
Double Tragedy

LOS ANGELES, March 8. Up)-
Police today sought additional de-
tails of an alleged drunken party
at which Mrs. Anna Collins, 30,
was murdered and Joseph Fuller,
80, salesman, committed suicide af-
ter the Staying late yesterday.
Fuller, it was alleged, formerly
was a suitor of Mrs. Collins and
was berating her when James C.
Ivory, disabled war veteran of Long
Beach and his friend, attempted to
interfere.
Fuller asSertedly shot Mrs. Col
Inns and then wounded Ivory in the
hip. He then shot himself, dying
two hours later.
Ivory and Miss Thelma Duffy,
Long Beach, were held as material
witnesses.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
INTENSIVE HUNT
FAILS TO LOCATE
LINDBERCK BABY
Continued From Page ~

sound. State police headquarters
where distribution of news was di-
rected, denied any knowledge of
such direct contact, and also denied
any knowledge of definite results
expected by Sergeant Hausslin.
Lindbergh himself made several
trips from the house to unan-
nounced destinations. It was re-
ported he was attempting to con-
tact the kidnapers, but on reap
pearance at the gates of the estate
he maintained his silence con-
corning all moves in the hunt.
Once, late last night, he reap
peared at the gate and asked
few newspapermen still there to
withdraw to Hopewell, three miles
away, and mot to appear on the
highways"
And after 10 o'clock state police
guarding all roads were enforcing
that request.
In the early morning hours be-
fore dawn, only state troopers,
plainclothesmen and close friends
of the Lindbergh and Morrow fam
lilies were seen about the grounds.
Lindbergh himself was fast asleep
at 3 a. m. The airplane flare re-
Vealed possibly 25 blue-coated
troopers scurrying in its startling
glare.
Tangible clues to the identity OF
the kidnaperS were lacking. Sew
eral of rather doubtful value were
revealed and traced during the aft
ernoon and evening. And radio ap-
pealS which called for cooperation
of the entire nation were expected
to bring more "clues."
Principal among clues which
spurred hope for discovery of the
criminals lay in the identity of
the writer of the $4,000 ransom
note, of the owner of the ladder
used in the crime, in the identity
of the sender of post card ad-
dressed to Charles Lingbergh,
Princeton, N. j." and muddy foot
prints left by the kidnapers.
The post card which announced
that the baby was safe" was
mailed in the heart of Newark.
Police found that three men and
a woman, one carrying a baby, had
applied for a room in the lodging
house near the Hudson Manhattan |
tube station, nor far from where
the card was mailed.
Mrs. Annie Fischer, proprietor, |
had refused them lodging. she told |
the police.
The postcard was mailed about
LOS p. m. Wednesday. The at
tempt to obtain the room was
shortly before noon.
The colonel gave the newspaper
men one brief interview during .
the afternoon when he appeared I
unkempt and pale, his eyes circled |
He was asked if he had sleft. And |
his tired smile seconded his
answer:
well, not as much as I should. |
You know we are pretty busy
here"
He begged that he be not asked
about the $4,000 ransom de-
manded for return of his child,
although it was made known that
the family would not bubble over
terms in negotiating with the kid
napers.
you mustn't ask me about it.
1t might interfere with the investi-
CATION" he explained.