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The Washington times., 1932-06-24
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

career. But that's because I
really know the land.
AND BELIEVE ME, LAND
NEEDS KNOWING.
It's mighty easy to paint
rosy pictures about going back
to-the-soil; but DOING 1T is
quite another matter. And
after a very considerable ex-
perience in seeing 'em come
and go, it is my belief that
nothing gets the goat of the
average city American quicker
or harder than Gods big, beau
tiful outdoors.
A weekend in a trick tent,
or even a couple of weeks vaca-
ton with plenty Of beach pa
jamas, iced drinks, crap games
and dance records, can be en-.
dured with fortitude by almost
anyone. But just let 'em face
the wonderful wilderness with
out all those fancy trimmings,
and watch the grouching begin.
For the truth, we's gone city
soft-we Americans. Our much
vaunted American standard Of
living, with it's millions of mod
ern conveniences, has turned
most of us into a bunch of soft
shelled crabs, if we have to face
any real discomfort.
Mountain trails and desert
mesas, untracked wifds and
babbling brooks listen lively in
broadcasts, but in real life we
want our elevators. electric
fans, gas stoves and hotel
plumbing. And yell our heads
off we can't have them!
AS for solitude-that COM
monest commodity down on the
dear old farm-show me the
city dweller that can stand "a
hours of it without getting the
jitters.
For True Comfort
Nor does this apply merely
to people who winter in
Miami. 1t applies just as much,
if not more so, to the girl in
the 5-and-10 and the family in
the next apartment. Land
scapes are beautiful in the roto-
gravure section: but for true
comfort give us light house
keeping rooms near a few
snappy movies and a good deli
catesSen.
There's the truth about us
virile Yanks who got our sun
tanS in beauty parlors and
break our broncos on merry
go-rounds. We've become, large
ly speaking, a bunch of SIS
sizes.
And unless we toughen up
before we start this back-to-
the-soil movement, they'll have
to bring a few million of us
back in baby carriages.
That is neither a pleasant
nor a proud fact to contem-
plate, but it is what ails us.
and we had better get wise to
the fact. And if the fix we're
now in makes us hep to our
selves, we will not have gone
bust in vain.
Copyright, 1882, King Features
syndicate, Inc.) Il
The Washington times., 1932-06-24

TNORMER Senator Wads-
l. worth interprets the
action of the Republican
convention on prohibition as
a manifestation Of the i'm
perialistic trend in govern
ment in this country. By
this he means a disposition,
more and more, to centralize
power in Washington.
This is the danger fore
seen by the enemies of the
Federalists a hundred and
fifty years ago; and it was
because of this danger that
Jefferson and Madison or
ganized their party of op-
! osition.
But it is scarcely true
that the convention was dis
posed to adopt the imperi-
alistic or centralized plan
which went into the plat
form. But for the pressure
brought to bear by Mr..
Hoover and his agents and
official retainers among the
delegates, more decen-
Trailing plank would have
been adopted.
There were two reasons
for the imperialistic trend Of
the convention. One was
that it was bound to nomi-
nate as its leader a man who
temperamentally is an i'm
perialist. Mr.. Hoover really
believes in Capitalization
Of power in the Executive,
in the National Capital. In
stinctively he is an autocrat.
Without possessing the quail
ties of a dictator he would
like to be one.
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hide off their vertabrae. If God
had intended us to be lizards,
he'd have made us that way.
But, if some bright young med
leo had told them that wearing
a ring in their noses would in
crease their circulation or re-
duce their hips, they'd all be
going around with rings in
their noSeS!"
"Amen" signed Mrs. Divot,
And so would wei"
Copyright. 1882, King Features
SYNDICATE, Incl
The Washington times., 1932-06-24
Words From the Lips of Wise Men

Life is too short for any dis
tant aim:
And cold the dull reward Of
future fame.
Lady M. Wortley Mantagu.
He is a Gentleman, because his
nature
Is kinde and affable to everie
creature. -Barnfield.
Youth is a blunder, manhood
a struggle, old age a regret.
-DiSraeN.
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garden patch,
a few chick
ems, a couple
of pigs and a
COW?
That's what
a lot of poor
folks in New
York S t a t e
are going to
have. if Gov
ernor RooSe-
velt's pl n
works. More
than one per-
son in 10 of
the S t a t e's
population is
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Answer not a fool according
to his folly. lest thou also be
like unto him. Answer a fool
according to his folly, lest he
be wise in his own conceit.
Prov.
He who gives advice to a self
conceited man stands himself in
need of counsel.
La Rochefoucauld.
It is always term-time in the
court of conscience.
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DO YOU KNOW

First-class tailoring is one of
the few professions in which
women have made very little
progress.
To keep the ministry of the
Church of England up to it's
average strength $50 new ordi-
nations are needed every year.
At present there is a shortage
of nearly 1900 priests.
The Denver police report
that the average haul from
hold-ups IN that city is $3.50,
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WadswOrth InterpretS
The Convention
Claude e.. BOUers

alarmingly. 1t is estimated
that today one man in ten
in this country holds some
Federal job.
If public opinion and the
law permits this vast army
to mobilize for common pur-
poses in politics under the
dictation of the appointing
power, it will only be a mat
ter of time until we have
an autocracy of the most
dangerous sort. In the case
Of a strongly dominant
party it would 60 a long way
ward perpetuating a
regime in power.
No Free Will
At the Convention
| do not know to what
extent this scandal can be
ended by law; it can be
ended by a protesting pub
lie sentiment; and should be
ended by the political par
ties.
Otherwise it will be i'm
possible to reflect the free
will Of a party in a conven-
tion. There was no free will
last week in Chicago. The
convention moved under the
Cossacks' whips. 1t was a
bulldozed convention.
But for that, Mr.. Curtis
would not have been re-
nominated-and should not
have been. Personally popu-
lar, in no way offensive, no
cne would suggest that he
possesses the qualities for
the presidency in a crisis.
In equipment he is no
Elihu Root. In normal
times he would be a safe
Vice President; for ordi-
narily he merely presides
over the Senate and eats his
way through his term. But
the next four years will be
critical, and Mr.. Curtis
will be in his seventies when
the next administration be-
gins.
That was the reason, re-
flecting in no way upon Mr..
Curtis personally, that the
sentiment of the convention
was against his renomina-
ton.
But Mr.. Hoover and his
corps of office holders IN
the convention, tremblingly
doing the bidding of Ogden
Mills, literally were forced
to renominate Curtis.
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Why Curtis
Was N amed

There were two reasons
for Mr.. Hoover dictatlon OF
the denomination of his rum
ming mate - and thereon
hangs a tale. Some months
ago, Mr.. Curtis was more
than dubious about the re-
election of the national
ticket. In conversation with
some political friends he
avowed his skepticism and
announced his intention Of
making a survey in Kansas
with the view to seeking the
senatorial nomination should
he find the prospects brighter
there. He made the survey.
just what he found we do
not know. About this time
he was given assurances IN
Administration circles re-
garding a denomination.
But he himself in CONVEX
sation with a correspondent,
during the time Of the rising
tide against his denomination
in the convention, offered an
other explanation. Here
again prohibition enters. He
thought the opposition was
due to the fact that he is
bone dry, an ardent prohibi-
zionist who stands four
square for the Eighteenth
Amendment and all it's fruits.
That unquestionably en-
tered into the explanation Of
the opposition.
1t also enters into the ex-
planation of the grim de-
termination of Mr.. Hoover
and the Federal officers
corps in the convention that
he should be named again.
But the Republican con-
vention is now over. There
is more bitter resentment
than enthusiasm over the re-
suits.
Now the public mind is
turning to the Democratic
convention which will be a
free agent. Whether the
spirit of individualism and
independence there will be
so uncompromising as to split
the party into segments and
give Mr.. Hoover a fighting
chance is still on the lap of
the gods.
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Golf WidOWlOgueS

mo actinic rays for me-" eX-
claimed Mrs. Green, as she
pulled her becoming shade hat
down a little farther over her
eyes and led Mrs. Divot to the
The Washington times., 1932-06-24

Would You Really Enjoy Going
Back to the Land?
Would you like to "go back
to the land"?
Do you think you'd enjoy
little haven of wilderness, with
The Washington times., 1932-06-24
Now the fellow in the center.
Has his turn and says ''I'l tell one"
And his whOpper seems to startle
Munchausen and Ananias.
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

and gone about munching car
rots. and uncooked pruneS,
when we we're longing for a
nice hot juicy beefsteak with
French-fried potatoes.
"We've suffered from the
aching void caused by the milk
diet and tortured our stomachs
and nerves with the Hollywood
diet. We've stuffed spinach
and calves liver and lettuce
down our rebellious throats un-
til we nearly choked. And lots
of us have had most of our
perfectly good teeth pulled out
to cure us of hangnails or
fallen arches"
ooh WE'LL" said Mrs. Divot,
lolling back comfortably in her
beachchair, "self-torment is our
favorite form of amusement.
What should we do for a new
life-interest. if the health fad
distS did not find us a new
way to persecute ourselves,
every few SeaSonS?"
Find one ourselves, I sup
pose," suggested Mrs. Green,
Look at all those lovely ten
derskinned girls lying out there
on the sand courting a thick
epidermis, burned back and
nose-wrinkles and burning the
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ShaQy spot under the gay avn
ing. 1--WE never fallen for the
sun-tan craze, and I'm not
courting peeling nose"
Zone halliday lying in the
sun and I can acquire tan.
But ordinarily, if I manage the
makeup properly, I can pass
for a demi-blonde," agreed Mrs.
Divot, poWdering her nose.
"Leaping from craze to craze
is our national exercise" de-
clared Mrs. Green. We'll
snatch desperately at anything
that promise us beauty,
health, youth or slenderness.
And the more it makes us suf-
fer, the more faith we have
in it,"
,"Any woman who has spent
a whole summer rubbing sooth-
ing ointments on her hus-
bands shoulders and harken-
ing to his proud boasts of how
it hurts, will agree that mans
favorite sport is suffering
and then feeling sorry for him.
SELF" laughed Mrs. Divot.
"And Howl" rejoined Mrs.
Green, We've seen our hus-
bands sacrifice their beauty
sleep, trying to get their daily
dozen before rushing down to
the office. We've listened to
their matin-songs, as they
shudderingly braved the nerve
wrecking shock of the ice-cold
shower on winter mornings.
"We've passed through the
horrors of the rawfood fad,
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No ACT me RAYS koa

shady spot under the gay avn
ing. 1--WE never fallen for the
sun-tan craze, and I'm not
courting a peeling nose."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29
ODDS and ENDS

The bloke who got the toughest break is the villain in movie short, soon to be released featur- ing Jack Dempsey. The old Man assa Mauler had to lay him out seven dimes before the director was satisfied, and each time Jack put nore verve in his left hook. The soft, southern boo, as devel- oped at Tulane, apparently has it all over the Bronx variety, one or the last of the casts traditions to tumble.
 Two members of the St. Mary's eleven have been promised con- tracts with the New York profes- sional Giants next season if they have nothing better in mind. :. A southern gridster, upon being told he was to play in Yankee Stadium, is supposed to have re- marked: You mean Damyankee Stadium, don't you?". Bill Walker has promised to win 18 games for the Cardinals next sea- son.
 Red" Oliver, Texas Christians oackfield ace and leading scorer of
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BLEACHER BACKS
 MENACE PROFITS
 OF PRO GRIDDERS

CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-The Chica- go Cardinals, National league pro football team, is alarmed lest a costly precedent has been estab- lished.
 Playing their home games at Wrlgley Field, the Cards or their opponents sometimes boot footballs into the grandstand, or even over the left field fence, on field goal attempts.
 In a game with the Green Bay reaches, one ball was lost when booted over the fence and another was made away with by an urchin in the bleachers who made one ci the seasons most spectacular broken field runs in escaping from the park with his prize.
 Contrary to the time-honored baseball custom of ignoring balls fouled into the stands, the Car- dinals are desperately eager to have all such wayward kicks of Sl0 footballs returned to the play ing field.
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OFFICIAL STATUS
 FOR PREP SPORTS
 URGED ON SCHOOLS

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 29. A plan whereby competitive inter- scholastic athletics, like physical education, would be made an inte- gral part of the St. Louis public schools program is being consid- cred by the Board of Education.
 Should the system be adopted, a director of athletics would as-' sume centralized control of com- pstitive sports, and the usual prac- tice of supporting sports events through sale of admissions would be discarded. HG
 Dr. David c. Todd, a member .oi the education board, stands sponsor for the proposed change, contending that if interscholastic athletics are to be continued at all, adequate provision for their organization, development and SUD- port" should be made.
 The movement for centralized athletic control received impetus from the action of Henry P Schroeder, board member. in ad- hitting numerous spectators to ai football game at Public Schools Stadium without charge.
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GOLF LINKS
 MAKE MONEY

TULSA. Okla, Nov. 29.-Four- ilfths of the American cities re- porting in municipal golf tour nament by Tulsa newspaper eith- CT were breaking even or showing profit on operation of their links.
 The 58 cities, ranging in popu- lation from 10000 to 400, ,00O, had 116 courses in use. Grand Rapids. Mich, with four courses, reported its profits from gold approximat- ed 40 per cent.
 Eleven of the 13 cities of more than 100000 population either had broken even or made a profit.
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INTRODUCING PETER

Peter is a slim, dark man, who must be somewhere in his foties an employe of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. He's Notrs Danes two-eyed Connolley.
 One day when Knute Rockne and Notre Dame were riding the heights together, Peter managed to attach himself to the great Scandinavian. Once "in" he never could be shaken loose. He be- came Notre Danes unofficial mas cot in the east, for once Peter ar rived Notre Dame couldn't lose.
 Peter took it all very seriously. For days before a big game in New York he would Lombard Rockne with messages, assuring the coach he would be there to help walking if necessary.
 This never failed to loosen up Knute's heart or pocketbook. Sure enough, Peter would be there, car rying Knute's bags, pulling Rock off in corner to advise him. winding up always on the Notre Dame bench for the game.
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THIRTY-SEvEN GRID PLAYERS
 DIE, INJURIES
Football Season Ia k $ Large Toll, Despite
 Added Safeguards

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Despite added safeguards in the rules death again took a heavy toll among football players of the United States during the season that has practically ended.
 Records show that 37 players succumbed to injuries with most Of the victims on high school elev- ems.
 The death total for the year will probably fall well below the record of 50 last year but the present figures the the greatest previous to 1881.
 One of the largest waS 20 in 1925.
 Of the 37 dead this season, five were on college teams, IT on high school teams and Is on sandlot, semi-pro and club team compe- titions.
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HE MEETS MADIGAN

In time, Peter proadened his al- legiance to include the men who had played under the great coach and now are coaches in their own right. Thus did he come in con tact with Madigan.
 The first time Slip" scheduled game in the east Knute said to him:
 "A fellow will come up to you 1n New York, put his hand up to shield his mouth, and whisper hoarsely and confidentially into your ear, Hello, Slip, old boy, old boy, old boy
 That will be Peter Coyle. Put him on the bench. He's good luck
 Everything happened just as Knute predicted. But Peter had trouble getting to the ball park. He arrived between halves with St. Mary's trailing Fordham l2 to 0. St. Mary's promptly came back in the second half to win 20 to 12.
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WHERE DUTY CALLS

Noble Elzer brought Purdue tc
 New York to play New York Uni
 versity the same day Jimmy Crow
 ley was in the East with Michigan
 State team tackling Syracuse. Pet CT was torn between two duties. Finally he wired Crowley his de- cision.
 'NI helped you beat Fordham last week. Kizer and Purdue need me ! this Saturday" To Kizer he sent this telegram 'TIitch-hiking from New Haven to help with team. Save me some
 breakfast"
 So Madigan, with Peter meeting St. Mary's on arrival at New York this year, had every reason to be- Eeve the Fordham game was as good as won. Peter never had failed.
 But as the team rolled back home, beaten IA to 0, Slip had real reason to wonder. It's just possible Peter will be buying his own breakfasts on Saturdays next season.
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NEW STAR AT
 GEORGIA TECH

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 29. = If Georgia Techs surprising defeat of Alabama did nothing else, it gave Coach Bill Alexander a chance to find a new star for his team.
 Norris Dean, Mississippi soph- omore, playing his first full game for Tech, displayed an unusual bunting ability and saved the day for his team several times as the great Tide bore down upon his goal.
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LARRY GAINS KNOCKS MORAT
 OUT IN FIRST
Belgian Heavyweight Con. tender Slumbers for
 Two Minutes

BRADFORD, England, Nov. 29.- Larry Gains, of Toronto, negro holder of the Empire heavyweight title, knocked out A. Morat, a Belgian, in the first round of a scheduled Hereunder here last night.
 Gains used right punch to Morat's jaw.
 Morat was out for two minutes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29
ONE-PUTTS II GREENS

CORSICANA, Tex, Nov. 29. = Floyd Boone, Corsicana Country Club golf professional, toured the new municipal links at Galveston in a tournament with Il one-putt greens out of the IS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

the Southwest conference, was sprinting champion before he made good on the gridiron. -. =. Reggie McNamara, six-day bike veteran, ii the original doctors delight. He has suffered Il broken collar bones three cracked ribs, a fractured skull, a broken jaw and a broken leg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

The Duke University team un- der Coach Wallace Wade has been defeated five times and those were the only games in which the op- posing teams scored.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29
TEXAS LOOP TO
 MAKE PAY CUT

DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 29.-Salar- ies of other years ranging from $500 to $700 monthly merely will be memories in the Texas League next season, judging from com ments of club owners at the cir cult meeting.
 One executive said the highest paid man on his 1883 squad would not receive more than $350, and that he was reserving that sum for a pitcher who was plenty good"
 Most of the club owners predict ed salaries of $200 to $500 per month.
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SPORT SLAMS A.AM eoll1l

AS Edward Slip Madigan roll ed back west with his battered Gaels Of St. Mary's, there was just one thing about the Fordham beat ing in New York he couldn't un- derstand.
 Peter Coyle had failed Notre Dame and it's traditions for the first time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

Members of the Commerce, Okla. High School football squad did nightly chores" for Dick Logan. farm youth, who broke his ankle in a game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

Advertisements are your pocket book editorials. They interpret the merchandise news.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

Let the advertisements help you make your shopping plans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

Steel production III Italy is re- ported to be increasing.
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SPORT BRIEFS

A survey of Kansas City showed "sandlot" baseball and football games had returned to corner lots once occupied by miniature golf courses.
 For two successive seasons an amateur cricket league has played regular schedule in St. Louis.
 Virginia has not used the same starting backfield in any football game this season.
 In two years of football under the coaching of Mike Pecarovich. covering 12 games against many oS the strongest Coast Conferenco teams and St. Mary's, Gonzaga at Spokane has never failed to score at least one touchdown.
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Read the ads as carefully as you read the news articles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-29

Go window shopping in your easy chair. Read the advertisements.
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The Washington times., 1932-07-27
Here and There
in the Realm Of
Broadcastine
By STANLEY BIGELOW

Radio is indeed a fearsome
thing.
It is the most powerful medium
for good, or evil. the world has
ever known.
AS medium tor spreading
propaganda its value cannot be
overeStimated. Think Of the flag.
waving, the patriotic speech-mak.
ing, the hysteria that would
sweep the country in the event
Of war. Powerful. Terrible. That's
radio!
All of which is inspired by
reading a statement from N.B.C.
that enough power is sent into
the air daily by the National
Broadcasting Company to lift the
Empire State Building six feet off
the ground. According to N.B.C.
experts, it figures this way:
The 86 stations Of the NBC
networks have combined total
energy of 824,600 watts. A watt
is 1-746th of horsepower. One
horsepower will lift 33 900 pounds
one foot in one minute. The En-
pire State Building weighs 302 500
tons. The N.B.C. is on the air 18
hours day.
The present total of 824, 800
watts, which represents an av-
erage of 9,588 watts for each
NB.C. station, will be great in.
creased during the remainder OF
the year.
Eight of the present N.B.C.
transmitters have been authorized
by the Federal Radio Commission
to raise their power, six to $4,000
watts and two to $4,000.
This increase, which will amount
to 297,500 watts, will bring the
possible network total to 1922, 100
watts, or an average power per
station of 13,O47, by the first Of
the year.
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They Won't Speak

They're telling a story about
the famous RevellerS' Quartet
which, if true, is a honey.
Not one of the singers lately
has been speaking to any of the
others. They employ secretaries
to carry messages to their erst-
while pals. Nobody seems to know
what made the boys stop speaking
to each other. but if they keep it
up it won't do the act a bit of
good,
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Comedians on WRC

Joe O'Toole and Harry Royale,
two comedy cutups who have
knocked the cash customers out
of their pews in Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land and Buffalo, have been
signed up by WRC to put on a
.15-minute act every Wednesday
and Saturday evening at 5:45. The
act will be sponsored by a dairy
firm and will supplant that funny
harmOnica band,
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Jean Sothern, the beautiful gal
friend of Joe Palooka, came into
the Columbia studio last week,
put on her hilarious stunt and
when the program was over. pro-
ceeded to burst into a paroxysm
of sobbing. Four hours before
she went on the air, she attended
the funeral services of her father.
Just another example of the old
saying, "The show must go on!"