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The Washington times., 1932-01-04
The Reckless Must Paw
Maryland's Law Shows Way to D. C.

The operation of the motorists responsibility law in
Maryland will be closely watched by all Washngtonians inter-
ssted in safe driving.
Several different types bills designed to establish the nan
ca responsibility of Washington drivers have been introduced
IN Congress in the past but have failed of enactment
Among these similar the which Maryland
put into effect the first of the year.
Briefly stated the bill requires those who have been in se
ous accidents who have been found guilty of violations Of
major traffic regulations establish their ability to respond
in damages for all future accidents.
There hardship in this legislation for those who drive
carefully and who mindful of the rights of others.
But the reckless and careless individual who believes that
the road he gets behind the wheel automobile
faces the possibility of losing his drivers license until he shows
that he will make amends financially those whom Injuries
Washington residents driving in Maryland subject to the
provisions of the new law there.
will behoove them unless they be barred from the
roads Of the nehborng State required to put up bond
or insurance, to drive cautiously.
Some form OF motorists responsibility legislation will eventu-
ally be enacted Washington have been enacted long
ago-and it may be that study of the working of MARYLAND
new law will show Congress the way.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

Choke right ELSIE ROBINSON
up, don't you? So do I. It's
dollars to doughnuts that more
blubberS have been dubbed
over that ditty than over all
the other theme songs put to-
gether. And it's popularity will
endure as long as belliakin hui
mans inhabit this sphere. Why?
Because it's a song for towards
and show me one of us who
isn't!
Back to the Past
It's a song for those who
want to duck today, with all
its grim responsibilities and
consequences, and HE them
back to the care-free past.
Of course, that past wasn't
really as care-free as we like
to imagine. 1t, too, had re-
sponsibilities and consequences
to be faced, and we Whin1d
plenty when e faced them.
But now, looking back through
the golden mist of dreams, all
those difficulties are forgotten.
If only we could escape from
today's dreary reality into that
delightful existence! No wonder
we ardently wish that someone
would.
"Sho1D US the road to yesterday,
"Sho10 US the paths tUe used to
stray"
Indeed. so ardently do we
long to retrace our steps, that
many of us spend our lives in
doing nothing else but. How
often you've met them-those
pathetic, exasperating people
who insist on living in the
past"
The fluttering ladies over
40 who insist on being sweet
young things, although they
have acquired double chins and
grandchildren
The bay-windowed old boys
of fifty who can never forget
that they were football heroes
in 1908. and who go collegiate
at the slightest provocation.
Funny? No, they're not
funny; they're tragic-as sad
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

as stunted dwarfs which, ment-
ally, they are. They have
found "the road to yesterday"
Indeed, they never left it.
Long ago they stopped grow
ing up. They stopped because
grown-up life seemed so irk-
some and difficult that it
frightened them. And so they
stayed youngsters-hid from
today in the memories of yes
terday.
To some degree we all do
that, and kid ourselves that we
do it because the good old days
were so much cleaner and sader
than the days of 1882. That's
the bunk! We cling to the
dear, sweet sappy memories OF
yesterday.
It's 100 per cent easier than
rolling up our sleeves and tax
ing a good hard strGngle hold
on today.
NIX ON THE ROAD TO
YESTERDAY!
Never mind how much pleas
ure that road held. Never mind
how popular you we're, or how
many records you made. That
road is behind you now. Keep
it behind you.
DO NOT LOOK BACK! THE
PAST. WHICH WAS so
SWEET IN THE LIVING,
WILL BE A TRAP IF YOU
LINGER IN 1T NOW.
Live in today. Here. in to-
day, lie your duty and your op-
portunity.
IF YOU AREN'T LIVING
TODAY YOU'RE NOT LIVING
AT ALL. YOU'RE JUST A
GHOST.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
Limit the Power Of
The Tariff Commission

And something may well
be done with the Tariff Com
mission and the fraudulent
flexibility clause. The COM
mission, as reorganized by
the last Congress, is an IN
strumentality of the execu-
tive; and the original spon-
sors of the commission, like
Senator Bcveridge, never
had any such thing in MIND
The commission is no longer
a nOnpartisan organization
interested primarily in sclen-
tific adjustments of the
schedules; it is a packed
commission converted into a
tool of the executive. Its
primary purpose was to as
semble facts to assist Con-
gress in reaching an accurate
conclusion as to the rates.
When it's high tariff op-
ponents protested that the
fixing of rates is a constitu-
tional function Of Congress,
Beveridge replied:
1.-THE sole purpose is to
assist Congress with the facts
and nothing more. It is ab-
surd to assume that it can
have any other purpose"
Then, with the packing Of
the commissions, came the
flexibility clause through
which the President, with
subservient commission, may
increase or lower rates with
out, reference to the Con
gress. 1t was defended
when proposed on the theory
that the President thus
would be able to lower the
tariff taxes of the people 1t
has never been used to that
end, and almost always to
increase taxes on the people.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
ONCE-OVERS

terms with members of the
family.
Often the quarrel is due to
the position taken by the pa
rents of one or the other.
Not always do parents of a
daughter think that the young
man is good enough for her"
Sometimes parents criticize
the young mans favorite girl
and think she is inclined to be
too frivolous and light and not
the sort for a successful wife.
Sometimes they think their
son was hoodwinked into get
ting married.
But whatever the cause of
hard feelings it is foolish to
keep remembering unpleasant
ness,
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
Burdened Down with
/ Bureaucracy

a Bureaucracy
This is the explanation of
the sh arp comm ent OF
Speaker Garner:
THE Democrats are de-
termined that the cost Of
maintaining the Government
shall come down. Mr.. Hoo
yer has had a commission at
work for eight years to de-
termine what shall be done
about consultations of the
Govern nment departments.
Why has he not acted be-
fore? The answer is that
he never intended to act un-
til he heard that the Demo
Gratis in Congress decided
some time ago that they
would reorganize the Gov
ernment departments to save
the A m erican n taxpayers
money-regardless of polltl-
cal considerations. "
The truth is that this
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
New Parking Worries
May Bring Solution

Conditions which will result from the occupation of the
building of the Department of Commerce by thousands
Of employees should bring to head the long neglected
ton of what is to become of automobiles of Government
workers when the triangle development is completed
Commerce employees their old building were advantage
Ousy placed so far parking facilities concerned
They were relatively the outskirts of the congested
Now they will be in the heart of it.
Throwing hundreds of additional automobiles into the
around Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue should
focus the attention of officials upon the necessity med
ately working solution of the problem which will
be applicable generally when other buildings in the
section completed.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

of a notorious stage beauty, be
put in the charge of an alienist?
Why shouldn't the man who
rushes into matrimony "on a
dare" after an all-nig ht
whoopee party, be given sanity
test?
Why shouldn't there be some
sort of sanity test for the
elderly Lothario who leads to
the altar a blushing bride of
sweet 16, in the firm conviction
that she loves him for his
bald spot and his bridgework,
and will be content to sit at
home and count his calories for
the rest of her life?
And also for the languid youth
who marries a wealthy widow
old enough to be his grand
mammals chum, in the optimis.
tic belief that her kisses will
not prove too much of an in
come-taX?
Likewise, there should be
rigid sanity test for the Big
He-man who marries a brilliant
intellectual woman, in the naive
faith that she will be meekly
content to let him do her
THINKING for he. and to con-
centrate her whole mind on
frying his bacon and listening
to his jokes.
And for the domesticated,
home-loving man who marries a
glittering show-girl or a beauty
prize winner in the fond hope
that she will settle down into a
sweet, retiring Alice-Sit-by-the-
fire, and be delighted to spend
her days darning his socks.
And there should be at least
TWO sanity tests for the
fatuous man, who is dazzled by
the limelight, and deliberately
goes into total eclipse by marry
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

fondly terms his reason"
When he picks out a wife he
appears to be suffering from an
attack of vertigo and delib-
erately planning his own de-
Struction.
Reno would suffer from a
frightful depression if men
chose their wives when rational,
lucid and in their sober senses,
instead of in a moment of men
tai alteration.
For instance, why shouldn't
the man who has just divorced
one woman for two-timing him,
yet who blithely contemplates
becoming the fourth husband
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
Neglected to Fellow Up
His Promise

HIS promise
The reorganization affects
the executive department OF
the Government, and the
President himself is IN the
best position to know where
there are Implications and
overlapping. 1t might have
been expected that long ago
he would have gone before
Congress with specific rec
concentrations for a COM
plete overhauling. He might
have made a point of it in
his recent message.
It now seems passing
strange that in his interview
with the press he should as
sumo belligerent attitude
toward Congress, as though
he had been pressing for
these reforms, specifically
set forth out of his superior
knowledge of conditions IN
the executive department.
The answer of Congress
might we'll be phrased in
the question form:
When have you sub
mitted a plan for a gen.
eral reorganization of the
Government"
And another: What
specific plan for a general
reorganization do you make
now?"
The truth is, Of course, as
every one knows, that he has
neglected to follow up his
almost four-year-Old promise
with action and the impress
sion is not unnatural that
his belated statement, which
might better have been pre-
sented to Congress with a
program, has been forced by
the Forthcoming attacks on
his procrastinatiOn.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
For Their Sake

For Their Sake
Why continue the old quar-
rel you had with some OF your
"in-laws?"
When you married into the
family there were some hasty,
unkind words exchanged or pos
sibly conditions after marriage
brought about ill-feeling.
But what is the use of per-
petuating the disagreement?
Family quarrels are silly and
disrupt otherwise congenial
home gatherings.
It is hard on husband or
wife and relatives when his or
her partner is not on good
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

TN his conference with
l. newspaper men, President
Hoover reiterated his prom
Use made almost four years
ago to reorganize the Gov
ernment to end duplication
and overlapping and save
money. There is nothing
new in the idea. 1t has
been a full generation since
the late Senator Aldrich
said he could save an enor-
nous amount through a re-
organization.
In the campaign of 1928
Governor Smith who, with
out talking so much about
it, proceeded to act on the
reorganization of the New
York State government, at
tackled the bureaucratic gov
ernment in Washington with
it's duplication of duties and
it's resulting inefficiency.
And Mr.. Hoover met the at
tack with the promise to re-
organize the Government If
elected.
That was almost four
years ago. And nothing
much has been done.
1t is a mere coincidence,
perhaps, that the President
promise to newspaper men
last week followed close
upon an attack upon him
by his late opponent because
he had done nothing 70 car
ry out his promise. And
close upon the discovery
that the Democratic House
was planning to take action
along tn e reorganization
line.
One would have more con-
fidence in the Presidential
program had it been revived
under different circum-
stances and not so much
under the aspect of politl-
cal duress.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

over it-you
n me, both.
But just the
same, I think
it should be
abated as a
public n u S.
ance. Renem-
ber? w h o
doesn't!
"Show me
the road to
yesterday,
SHOW me
the paths I
u S e d to
stray"
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

There is a certain famous
and most popular poem which
always arouseS my ire. Don't I
like it? Of course I like it. I
could sit for years in the gloam-
ing listening to it, SniVelling
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
WORDS FROM LIPS OF, WISE MEN

The apple tree never asks
the beech how he shall grow,
nor the lion the horse how he
shall take his prey.-Blake.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

Base envy withers at an
others joy. And hates the
excellence it cannot reach.
Thompson.
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

The average woman marries
for a good reason. But a man
never even thinks of marrying
until he has lost what he
The Washington times., 1932-01-04
PresidentHOOver Vas
PrOdded Into Action
Bu Claude G. BOLOers

country is burdened down
with a bureaucracy; that
one man in ten in the coun-
try has a Federal badge on
his breast; that this vast
army is not directly amena-
BILE to the people; that liter
ally there are thousands
feeding at the public trough
who are living on a dole;
that we are drifting into a
government by commissions,
and that no one has tended
so much in this direction as
Mr.. Hoover himself.
We have come nearer nav
ing government by COM
mission in America in the
last three years than ever
before in history.
Statesmanlike
Suggestions
On the tariff, which has
wrecked our foreign mar
kets, Mr.. Hoover says moth
ing even to the newspaper
men; because he is thor
oughIy committed to the
Grundy Act. A general re-
vision of the tariff in the
traditional sense is impossi-
BILE this session. The Demo-
Gratis have the House only,
and the President would be
waiting at the other end of
the avenue with a veto.
Then, too, our insdfferably
stupid economic policy has
brought upon us the inevita-
BILE retaliation of other ma
tions, and we cannot act
sweepingly without an un-
derstanding that it would
result in reopening to us
the markets of the world.
Two suggestions are worth
considering! Mr.. Rainey,
leader in the House, sug-
gests a revision, the reduc-
tionS in the rate conditional
on reciprocal treatment from
other governments.
Senator Hull, one of the
outstanding statesmen and
economists, proposes a reso-
luton requesting the Presi-
dent to sound out foreign
governments on an interna-
tional conference on tariffs
and trade.
Both are statesmanllke
suggestions - but there is
more that can be done. Re-
ductions can be made in the
rates on cement and lumber,
which the President, strange
ly interested in home build
ing in these days of vacant
houses and evictions, ought
to favor.
These rates were put
through by a scandalous
combination of the cement
and lumber interests, trad
inp
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

ing a glamorous screen star or
a famous prima donna, with the
deluded idea that he will live
his own life" and be 1T" around
the house.
OF course, I have nothing
against Reno. They say the
climate is wonderful out there.
But 1 am sure that floating
population would be greatly de-
creased. if men picked their
wives with any sanity.
Copyright. 1882. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-01-04

Why Reno PrOSEars
Nine men out Of 10 should be
given a sanity test, the moment
they apply for a marriage
license.
Evening star., 1932-06-26
MORTGAGE SALE.

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See OWNER on premises. 7 to $50 pm.
Open and lighted every evening
Evening star., 1932-06-26
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