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The Washington times., 1932-03-23
This is AN ACCURATE PICTURE OF WHAT WE CALL
CIVIL. .IZEn LIFE IN AMERICA

Many hotel keepers are driven bankruptcy Many
the finest hotels in receivershp The most expensive
hotel built in the world that in decent times under
government would have rewarded the energetic men
that put their money into it, be bought basis Of
eight cents the dollar for its bonds It's stock is worth
nothing.
Another hotel that cost than seventeen millions of
dollars has been bought in completely furnished, for less
than four million dollars And the furniture alone five
millions.
to the hypocrisy of prohibition the corruption Of government
officials the fanacm of prOhbtonists that have brought
this country the o curse T since the Civil war and
SO SION. ANA "A'F0O"A0AA ~" 1AA PRESENT DArHA"
In big city the traveller arriving at hotel takes mod
erately priced room, puts down his vaise
Then he goes out asks the elevator boy: Where is the
good speaey? boy give him the addresses
of half dozen within block of the hotel.
bic citv There are fiftv thousand sneakeas IN New
York. There that make ten thousand dollars
admitting their customers through basement DOORS and selling
them poisonous liquor at extravagant prices
If frstclass hotel decently rum sell beer
light wine in its dining Government agents would
energetic about it, They would paddock the hotel the
walters and the Everybody knows before proh
ton to this country with its Hypocrisy boot
Of the country respectfully could have glass
Of wine beer with his meals There drunkenness
needless to say, in respectable hotels.
The speakeaes of drunkenness You can see
them dozens OF young girls sixteen upward
sitting at the bar drinking cocktails vley cOncoced, and
every other bootleg compound that they choose order
gather there watching opportunities Occasionally
des committed there And there absolutely
made to interfere with this traffic that makes dunkards
young finances crime and ruins the owners of repu
table hotels.
The Government makes no effort whatever to correct this
condition Occasionally raid made usually because the
person raded has failed to pay backma official
living the bootleg industry
In New York Chicago there few policemen that
couldn't take twenty speakeases within an hour There
isn't prohibition agent that doesn't know about of
them or that could not find out about them he chose
Nothing done about them But let hotel break the
law even to the slightest degree and what happens
We live under prohibition managed for the benefit of
booggers backmaers bbe takers keepers speakeasies
racketeers and gangster and all of this IS TO PRO
H1BITIoN THE BIGOTs THAT FASTENED IT ON THE
COUNTRY. THE FANATICS AND HYPoCRITEs THAT
CONTINUE IT'S RULE.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

peeved at God! And what
angry tears of self-pity I wept
over myself as, one after an.
other, my bubbles burst! And,
Of course. I blamed everyone
but myself, and decided that
I was far too good for the
coarse and vicious human race,
and so abandoned myself to
bitterness.
But bitterness is a lonely
role, and gradually I began to
ask myself a few constructive
questions. Was it possible that
everybody was "out of step ex-
cept myself?" Did I really
have the only perfect scheme
of existence, and had all my
friends and acquair1tances been
dirty double-crossers? That
didn't seem possible. And so
I began to get a little sense.
began to see that my own
attitude was to blame. It
wasn't such a fine and noble
attitude as 1 had thought. It
was really a stupid and silly,
even a selfish, attitude. I had
wanted to be SURE of every
thing, and I had gotten mad
and refused to play if the real
ity fell short of perfection.
BUT THE TRUTH WAS NO
ONE COULD BE SURE OF
ANYTHING; AND ONLY A
VERY CONCEITED AND IG-
NORANT PERSON WOULD
DEMAND SUCH SURETY.
No person was perfect. No
job was perfect. No place was
perfect. No program of life
was perfect. In everyone and
in everything there were quail
ties and attributes which did
not fit my notion of things.
But these things were not
necessarily bad things. They
were things which were alien
to my nature and my desires;
but why should I demand that
all people and things should
conform to my nature and my
desires? Shouldn't I, rather,
do a little conforming and COM
promising myself?
Above all, I found that there
was no such thing as a perfect
act. The act that was right
for me might be absolutely
wrong for the other fellow.
And even in my best A No. l
acts there was plenty of con-
Cealed cussednesS.
And so no longer ask for
surety. I know now that 1t is
impossible, and I realize also
that there is something greater
in life than always being sure"
It's far greater thing to live
life as a gamble, than as a GER
tainty; to never know what will
turn up next; to take a chance
with your heart and your for
tune;S feeling that, if you lose
this time, there's another
chance ahead.
That, to me, is the real hui.
man adventure. The other
way is the plan of a cushioned
cat.
(CopyriEht. 1882, King Features
Syndicate Inca ~
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
Preparing Tax Bills
The Senate and the Mapes Group

Why should the standard of District taxes be the
which residents Of other communities paying?
The Mapes Committee in preparing the bills which
rushed through the House and which pending before
Senate District Committee decided that regardless of all other
conditions citizens Of the District be made to carry the
same tax burden placed the residents of other cities
No consideration given the possibilities of
oical administration in peculiarly constructed city
No consideration was given the fact that Washington
expensive city debt to carry have virtually all other
communities in the country.
No consideration given the fact that with eagle eye
of Congress the National Capital there little possibility
here for the graft which has cost other cities millions
The sole consideration apparently what those other
cities paying in taxes.
In other words preparing the District tax bills the Mapes
committee considered only the factor which was entirely
dregaded by the House Ways and Means Committee in
pairing the national tax bill
The Ways and Means Committee did not consider the COM
parave tax burdens of citizens Europe or South American
countries and then say that citizens of the United States must
be made to pay the amount.
is to be hoped that the Senate District Committee will
work along the lines determining first what
are necessary considering fair contribution the part
the Naon) and then deciding how the necessary funds
be obtained.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

to a friendship.
Above all, I wanted to be
sure that the thing I was about
to do, whatever it might be,
was RIGHT. I didn't want it
to be PARTLY right. I wanted
it to be absolutely right, with
out the slightest tinge of
wrong.
For believed that there
was such a thing as 100 per
cent goodness-100 per cent
happiness. I believed that there
were perfect people, perfect
jobs, perfect places, perfect
deeds; and that if one were
wise enough and looked long
enough, one could find all this
perfection.
All around me I saw multi
tudes of people who had not
found it-peopIe who had
chosen the wrong mate, or the
wrong work, or had made the
wrong decision. But that was
obviously their own fault. If
only they had been a little
more sensible, more patient
and self-controlled, then they
would have arranged life to
their perfect satisfaction. They
could have been SURE of hap
piness.
That is how I believed once
and what a lot of misery it
led me into! How surprised
and shocked I was when my
neat little scheme of things
didn't work. How sore at my
fellow man-how downright
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
ONCE-OVERS

are finding that many Of the
things you considered essen
tials at one time you can very
well get along without.
Doesn't this show you that
you might have saved a lot of
money in the past had you
been so disposed?
You are full of regrets be-
cause you have not fortified
yourself with a bank account
in case of emergency.
But what's the use Of vain
2egrets2
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
Man in the Street
Should Be Questioned

But-there are more than
100000 breadwinners re-
fused the right to work who
are being driven every day
to bitterness, and probably
100000 others, including
dependents, who have grown
cynical in their misery, and
among the masses of the
people the failure of a great
business enterprise is no
more appalling than the daily
eviction of women and chill
dren because of nonpayment
Of rent.
And nothing has been done
for this group of victims of
the ineptitudes of Govern
ment and the gluttony Of the
few. Government actually
throws out it's chest and
makes a virtue of its refusal
to let a penny from the
Treasury, that offers two bill
lion to the powerful, go to
the feeding of the poor. And
it refuses to consider a pros
perity loan to create work on
public improvements-when,
in the vicious circle we are
in, there is no other way to
create a job. Now, if Gov
ernment thinks the masses Of
the people are not thinking
along this line, it would do
we'll to stop the first dozen
ordinary men on the street
and engage them in conver-
sation.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
rHE UNITED STATES as

THE UNITED STATES as
Il a nation is facing a very
grave crisis. 1t may be found
inadvisable to attempt to
balance the budget in one
year.
This tragic state of affairs
has come upon us during the
complete domination of the
party of Mr.. Hoover. 1t was
in control of the House,
where for years there was a
merciless use Of the steam
roller. 1t was in control of
the Senate. 1t had the presi-
dency. There is the respon-
sibility. It is a responsibility
that cannot be met with
SNUG complacency by the
Administration forces. This
three-year panic is a Hoover
panic.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

the laws of economic CON-
mon sense. Banks have
failed as never before in
history; long established
business houses have gone
into bankruptcy; exporters
and importers have been
ruined, and the office build
lngs in great ports like New
York city are being drained
of tenants; railroads have
been threatened with re-
ceiverShips; factories, that
have not cooled their fur
naces, have moved to other
countries to give employ
ment to foreign workers.
This is serious, and the
Administration refuses even
to consider changing the
tariff act, which is collecting
a terrible toll.
But Government has inter-
ested itself actively in the
plight of banks and the
railroads and private indus
tries-that are big. Money
from the Treasury has been
put at the service of the
powerful. Two billion dol
lars are at the disposal of
these. They are being dis
Enthusiastically.
Wrong9 No, we think all
this was necessary to pre-
vent a dreadful collapse.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
Industrial Leaders
Spurn Reforms

And there is another rea-
son for the bitterness: Our
industrial leaders have evil
IDENTIFY turned thumbs down
on any suggestion for a re-
form of the industrial sys-
tenn in the interest of social
justice. We are to have no
readjustment of work days
to meet the menace of ma
chinery. We are to have no
unemployment insurance
through any initiative on
the part of Government. We
are going to have Business
as usual and we won't.
We are passing into the
most critical period civiliza-
tion has known since the
crumbling of the ancient
civilization and the fall of
feudalism, and most of our
industrial and political lead
ers are in utter ignorance
of the fact. They are living
in a FOOLS paradise.
This ignoring of the hu-
man equation is bitterly re-
sented.
And it was reflected last
week in the House when so
many turned in resentment
against the rich and power
full.
1t was a solemn warning.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

ana oOeS n0Cnlng TO QlSpeI Cne
glamor, nobody can wake him
up. He's hers-until she cuts
the wire, turns off the current
or sounds the alarm.
But putting love on the
spot" is woman's long suit
her METER! And there are a
thousand ways in which she
can manage to wreck a ro-
nance.
There's jealousy, for instance;
the fatal temptation to assert
her claims over a man. Just
one flash of it in a woman's
eye-and it's all over but the
funeral. A woman's jealousy
fills a man with conceit at the
same time that it debates the
woman's value in his eyes.
Why any woman ever wants
to mark herself down and
mark the man up so high that
he can't SEE her without bend
ing over, heaven only knows!
Another weapon with which
many a woman cuts her own
throat is her tongue. She just
loves to TELL a man things
everything! She can't be con-
tent to remain a hazy dream
in his mind. She has to tell
him "all ABOUT herself"-her
life, her temperament, her re
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
A Lesson Of Value

A Lesson Of Value
If I should be obliged to live
as some folk do, squeezing every
cent in order to get something
ahead, I'd prefer to wind up in
the poor house.
Possibly you have had such
thoughts when trimming your
expense account.
Perhaps you have conducted
your affairs in the past so
that you have had only enough
to pay your debts.
Or perhaps you have cut your
expenses ta o point where you
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
Social Justice
Long Forgotten

The revolt expressed itself
in bitter demands that the
rich be made to pay until it
hurts. War time taxes were
voted. A tax of IS per cent
on large incomes in days of
peace is one Of the fruits Of
a regime of market-minded-
craftsmanship, with no con-
cept Of popular psychology,
no contacts with the men in
the street, no interest in the
average man. The long prev
alence Of the state of feel
ing expressed last week
would mean, in the end,
legislation to limit private
fortunes through taxation.
And why this bitterness
against the rich and the
great fortunes?
We predicted just such
state of feeling months ago
in these columns unless Gov
ernment and industry found
prescience enough to give
some thought to social JUS
tice.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
Anything Can Happen
If People Lose Faith

Last week in the House the
members Of both parties
broke loose from the leader
ship of both parties, and
things were said on the floor
that one does not often hear
except in revolutionary days.
In the days preceding the
revolution in France, that
country was battling with a
deficit which the Govern
ment was unable to meet.
Minister after minister was
entrusted with the task.
Nothing suited. Nothing met
the situation. And the re-
suit was that the country
completely lost faith in the
government. When the
people lose faith in the gov
ernment, anything can hap
pen. Among other things
when people lose faith in the
government they lose faith in
everything and everybody.
And that means period of
something like chaos.
The Ways and Means
Committee of the House
struggled with it's problem,
considered every plan for
meeting the deficit, and
agreed upon a plan. There
was no minority report.
Both parties representatives
on the committee agreed.
The leaders of both parties
agreed. The Administra-
ton agreed.
And it was agreed that
the appalling situation
called for sacrifices all
along the line. Under any,
thing like normal conditions,
there probably would have
been a general acquiescence.
But there has been a re-
volt in both parties. Mr..
Smell has no more been able
to hold his men in line than
has Mr.. Rainey or Mr.. Crisp.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

I would like
a new job be-
fore I took it.
I wanted
to be SURE
that I would
be happy in
a new place,
b fore I
moved there.
I wanted to
be SURE that
a new friend
W as exactly
what I want
ed a friend
to be, before
T entered in
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

hr, until she chokes all the en-
thusiasm out Of him.
Oh, yes, there are a thousand
ways of putting love on the
spot!" But, once a woman has
landed a mans affections, why
can't she keep a cool head, a
sweet temper and a pleasant
tongue-and let him go ON lov-
ing her? Why can't she just be
STILL!
Copyright. 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
WISE WORDS

Men must be taugh as if you
taugh them not,
And things unknown proposed
as things forgot.-Pope.
May I a small house and large
garden have!
And a few friends, and many
books, both true.-Cowley.
There are as many springs as
there are years, and glad or
sad, we both love this dear old
earth.-Louise 6, Moulton.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
Bursting Bubble
Hits All Alike.

We are expressing no
opinion here. We are try
ing to explain a state of
feeling. Everyone in America
has been hard hit through
the bursting of the purely
artificial a |, unwholesome
G. o. P. Bubble. This has
been accentuated by Admin
istration policies thatEiolate
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
The Fruit of the Tree
And a Warming
Bv Claude G.. BOWers

Author Party Battles of the Jackson Period"
for Democracy in America" Jefferson and Hamilton
Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

You Can't Be Sure
When I was very young, I
wanted to be SURE about
everything I did.
I wanted to be SURE that
The Washington times., 1932-03-23

ducing diet, and sometimes even
the source of her complexion
and where she buys her clothes.
Many a woman has TALKED
herself right out of a mans i'm
agination-and thereby ceased
to be his "dream-girl" and be-
come just an ordinary human
being.
Then, there's the feminine fac
ulty for starting scrap. One
scrap will do more to kill ro-
nance than the breaking of all
the Ten Commandments. You
may kiss-and-make-up, but some
thing between you-the perfect
understanding, the entente cor
diale-haS been snapped and
can never be quite the same
again.
Still another way of snuffing
the fire out of a lovers ardor
is by making scene. A woman
who makes a man conspicuous,
makes him ridiculous-and no
man can forgive or forget that.
And there's the clever wom-
ans temptation to be witty, at
a mans expense. Positively
fatal! And the silly woman's
way of hanging on mans neck
and Wailing that he doesn't love
The Washington times., 1932-03-23
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

Putting Love on the Spot"
The only person in the world
who can kill a mans love for
a woman is the woman herself.
Women may warn him
against her." men may point
out her defects and vamps may
try to steal him from her. But
as long as she keeps her head,
her temper and her tongue,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

15c, 19c Qualities. Boys golf
hose, GIL. Girls Y length hose,
5-9H. Boys and girls derby rib
to toe hose, 5-9H.
Downstairs Store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

FIeeces, herringbOnes,
wills in dark or medium
shades. Half -beIted mod
els, heavy or California
weights. Sizes SO to Al.
And they're only So!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

ChemiSe, dance sets,
slips, panties, stepfns,
Plenty of larger sizes
in chemise, stepins
and panties for stout
women.
Downstairs Store.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
United States
Answers France
CONTINUED from Page -

Secretary of Treasury Mills has
continuously answered the running
attack against the dollar, which
has been in progress since last fall,
with the single word, ridiculous. !"
Other officials answered with
statistics the charges against the
dollar and reports that the United
States would abandon the gold
standard.
Bank and business failures have
steadily decreased since February
l and gold stocks have increased
$46,000,00O during the past five
weeks.
The United States at present
holds $4,396,000,000 of the worlds
monetary gold stocks of $11,000,-
100000.
The United States is now the
only country adhering to a COM
plete gold standard. Even France
with vast gold reserves has linn
tied embargo on gold exports and
is, therefore, operating on a linn
tied gold standard.
Federal reserve officials do not
fear European gold Withdrawals
following passage of the Glass
Steagall emergency bank bill which
has enlarged the supply of free
gold" in the reserve system.
Among factors listed by officials
which insure absolute parity of
the dollar are the following: Over
40 per cent of the worlds none
tary gold stock; assurance of a
balanced budget for the fiscal year
1898; strengthened financial posi-
ton; a continued favorable trade
balance; operations of the recon-
struction finance corporation and
similar agencies; and $10,O00,000,-
900 owed by European nations Of
which Britain and France are the
principal debtors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
BY HARRY FERGUSON

Copyright 1882 by United Press)
Harlan, Ky, April 8-(UP)-The
Joan of Arc" of the Kentucky
coal strike sits in a narrow, third
floor cell of Harlan county jail, but
does not despair of the bright VIC
tory that will come out of this
lull."
She is Doris Parks, communist
organizer charged with criminal
syndicalism-a general without an
army. Outside along the hollows
and ridges of the Cumberland
Mountains there are, she says 1000
of her followers enrolled in the ma
tional Miners Union. But they are
a lost battalion, leaderless and
powerless. All the captains and
the generals either are in Jail or
have been elected from Kentucky.
Miss Parks, clad in a Bingham
dress, ragged gray sweater and
cheap cotton stockings, became ag-
gressive when it was suggested to
her that the calling OF the strike
on January 1 was poor strategy
because there were thousands of
unemployed miners ready to step
into the jobs of the strikers.
1.-The question of strategy doesn't
enter into it," she said. so long
as there are any mines running
and any miners working they
ought to get living wage and
they ought to have a right to strike
for that living wage. What else
can they do? They tell us the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
Big Bonus Struggle
Faces The Capital
Continued From Page ~

increasing the loan value to SO per
cent of the face value" Under
that act approximately 100000
600 was loaned to veterans.
The Patman bill would pay off
the certificates in full that is
pay to their holders now the
amount which otherwise would
come to them on death or in 1915.
In support of the bill it's pro-
ponents argue:
That 100000 veterans holding
certificates are now unemployed
and need money.
That the government, by paying
off the certificates now, would
save administrative expenses from
the present to 1945.
That the veteran would be
saved the payment of compound
interest at IL per cent, which
he now pays the government on
money he has borrowed on his GER
tificate. This interest Is to be paid
when the certificate natures in
1945. Statisticians figure that a
man who has borrowed $500 on d
$1,000 certificate will receive only
$3.50 in cash in 1945 when the
certificate natures, the remainder
going for interest.
That it would put $4,000 O0,-
600 of additional money in circu-
lation not by paying it into
banks, railroads or the hands of
the wealthy, but by distributing it
into every nook and corner of
America"
That issuance of this additional
currency would strengthen COM
modify prices, thus aiding the
commodity producer, quicken trade
and assist in restoration or pros
perity.
Opponents of the measure attack
the plan of issuing additional
currency as being violent and
dangerous measure of initiation.
Then they point to what already
has been done for the veteran and
cite these claims among others:
The government is now paying
out $1.000,000,000 year for the
benefit of veterans.
1t has paid $1,374,004.790 in in
surance.
1t has spent $644,960.s0S for ed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08

An unemployment bureau at
which Waterburians will be ex-
pected to file any jobs they may
have for the unemployed of the
city, even If it means only a few
hours labor, will be opened in the
Chamber of Commerce hall within
the next few days under the direc-
stion of Attorney j. Warren Epson.
W esterday afternoon the unem-
ployment committee met and for
NAL action was taken naming
Charles j. Allen of the Connect
cut Light & Power company chair
man of special committee on the
drive for new pledges and appoint
ing Attorney Epson chairman of
the committee in charge of the I'M
employment bureau.
Chairman Allen of the special
subcommittee will start the drive
for the new pledges Immediately,
it was stated this morning. He will
have a large committee working
under his direction so as to speed
up the registration and have the