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The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Sway of Reason
Will Win Battle

The bank holiday was
made necessary because Of
the craven fear and dis
loyalty of "big men" who
have been withdrawing
money from banks in enor-
nous amounts. 1t was wise
and necessary to give time
for action, and for the hys-
terra to die down.
It is not customary for us
to think of Americans, fac
ing an enemy, turning yel-
low, giving way to hysteria,
turning tail and running
like whipped spaniels.
But this is not the first
time resort has been to such
bank action as has been
made necessary by hysteria.
Most of us can remember
that it was done in 1907.
1t was done several times
before.
The moment Americans
permit reason to resume its
sway, and assume some OF
the qualities of courage and
confidence once thought part
of the American birthright,
the battle will be won.
And along with a bank
must go a political holiday.
Mr.. Hoover, Mr.. Mills, and
others of the old admins
tration manifested the right
spirit during the last 49
hours of its regime. There
is no more right for parti-
san maneuvering now than
in the midst of a serious
war with foreign foe. Any
man who feeds the craven
fear for partisan reasons at
this juncture is as much a
traitor as Benedict Arnold.
We see no evidence of
such partisanship just now.
Meanwhile a new leader
has assumed the RESPONSE
bilities Of power.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

Then why go on?
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T IN
HONOR QUIT!
But my life's my own"
you say. I've paid my own
way, always. I don't owe any
one anything, and even if I
did, I've a right to go if I
want"
No, you haven't!
Your life ISN'T your own.
Your life's a gift.
YOUR LIFE IS A GIFT
WHICH WAS BOUGHT FOR
YOU AT A GREAT PRICE.
Millions of people whom you
never saw, who never saw you,
bought your life for you, gave
it to you as a gift.
Tired men, weary women,
frightened, bewildered heart
sick people who found life
tough going-they bought life
for you. They made it possible
for you to live.
They didn't know what it
was all about. either. They, too,
wanted to quit. But something
in them wouldn't let them
quit.
Some vague realization of the
struggles and sacrifices of those
who had gone before-some
muddled dream of their obliga-
ton to those who we're to come
after-wouldn't let them quit;
drive them on.
And so they stuck!
Held on, though their brains
were reeling and their hearts
were breaking.
And with their sweat and
tears, their battles and prayers,
THEY BOUGHT YOUR LIFE
FOR YOU!
And now you want to quit!
But how can you?
Across the years they're
watching-those millions who
have handed their jobs on to
you. See them?
Your mothers there, with
her faith in you still glowing
in her faded eyes.
And your father. How hard
he fought to give you your
chance! How strange his own
hands looked, lying still in their
last sleep.
They gave you that life you
want to throw away. They built
that world you want to quit.
THEY THOUGHT YOU'D
CARRY ON!
And there are others watch
ing you, with eyes which yet
have never known pain-the
eyes of those who'll live when
you are gone.
WHAT SORT OF A WORLD
WILL YOU LEAVE FOR
THEM?
A world made better by YOUR
sweat and tears?
A faith kept shining by
YOUR sweat and tears?
A faith kept shining by
YOUR battles and YOUR
prayers?
Or a place left sad and
shameful BECAUSE YOU
TURNED AND RAN2 --i-..
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
WISE WORDS

Poverty is the mother Of
health.
The virtue of women is often
love of their reputation and of
their quiet.
People love without reason,
and without reason they hate
Regnard.
Ambition breaks the ties of
blood, and forgets the obliga-
tions of gratitude.-Scott.
To be angry is to revenge the
faults of others upon ourselves.
Pope.
The beginning of all is to
have done with falsity; to
eSchew falsity as death eternal.
Carlyle.
Too great eagerness to re-
quite an obligation is a species
of ingratitude.
Men more easily set bounds
to their gratitude than to their
hopes or their desires.
Pride does not like to owe,
and self-loYe does not like to
pay, .-...-,l-l...-s.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

Originally in old New York, your grandfather will tell
you the only dialect supposed to be amusing heard every
where the comic stage English with pronounced
Irish accent.
Harrgan and Hart talked and sang with Irish accent
The little girls their stage sang the language of the
East Side of New York of Ireland Occasionally comic
Dutchman," meaning German, always fat with big
stomach and plaid waistcoat, introduced
Then Germans became than the Irish and
Weber and Fields followed Harrgan and Hart public
favor, with ALL GERMAN dialect. One called the other
Mike but with German accent The Italian has
been used for stage and comic effect but extensively
as the other three, Irish, German and Yiddish.
The and popular thing what you above What
will next?
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

A T THIS hour the United
IA States is at war. 1t is
a war that can and will be
won-unless Americans have
turned yellow. If too many
had not turned yellow in the
last few months, there would
be no such crisis as we have
today.
And now we are at war.
And that means that
henceforth until this war is
over, Americans will be di-
vided into two categories-
those who are loyal and
those who are traitorous.
1t means the necessity for
quick and decisive action
backed by power-and that
means that President Roose-
velt must have powers equal
to those he may exercise in
case of war.
He is ready to assume the
responsibility.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
''Money Changers"
Flee High Seats

Now they have abdicated
too many of them turned
mere hoarders. AS Presi-
dent Roosevelt puts it:
"The money changers
have fled from their high
seats in the temple of our
civilization. We may now
restore that temple to the
ancient truths"
Thus there is a new
leadership, with a new con-
ception, which faces the
realities with a grim de-
termination "a leadership
that understands the needs
and demands. of the millions
and sympathizes with their
wrongs.
With confidence in his
purpose, with cooperation
from the people, with power
to do whatever justice and
reason and necessity may
require, he has the will and
the capacity to meet the
obligations that now are
his.
He has given the nation
in his inaugural address
every reason to have conf
dence in his leadership; and
that confidence can save the
situation.
And any man or element
or newspaper which at this
Juncture seeks to under
mine that confidence stoops
to nothing less than treason.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Men of Wealth
Led the Wreckers

The enemy, today is fear,
hysterical fear; and the
truth will serve-the reason
for the fear in the masses
is that too many men Of
great means have turned
yellow, subordinated their
country and organized So
ciety to personal selfishness,
and turned hoarders. There
have been too many dis
tinguished A mer leans of
great wealth sending gold
out Of the country.
This knowledge had been
spread. It has been COM
mon talk in the streets. And
men of small means, with
life savings in the banks,
have been frightened by
these leaders of wealth and
have initiated them.
It was these "big men"
who formed and headed the
yellow procession; they are
the leaders and the wreck
ers-and the truth will serve.
The time has come to
separate the sheep from the
goats.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Unscrupulous Show
Their CoWardice

Then what is the trouble?
He tells the reason:
The rulers of the ex-
change of mankind's goods
have failed through their
own stubbornness and their
own incompetence, have ad-
mitted their failure and alb
dicated. Practices of the
unscrupulous money chang
ers stand indicted. in the
court of public opinion, re-
jected by the hearts and
minds of men,
For a long while men who
have dwelt upon these prac-
tices have been scorned as
"demagogues" by the money
changers themselves; and we
are afraid too many of their
victims stupidity have echoed
the epithet.
And then came the ex-
posures-and confidence col
lapsed as was inevitable.
And then these beneficiaries
of unscrupulous practices
that now threaten our civil
lization, a little terrified by
what they have wrought,
have sought to restore con-
fidence by plans that have
no application to the pres
ent time. President Roose-
welt speaks plainly and re-
freshingly:
"True they have tried,
but their efforts have been
cast in the pattern of an
outworn tradition . They
know only the rules of a
generation of self-seekers.
They have no vision, and
where there is no vision, the
people perish.
1t is a tragic thing that
the financial and business
world has been unable to
produce a leader in the
present crisis with any con-
ception of the necessities Of
the new day.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Dialects Have Their Day
, Irish. German. Italian. Now Yiddish

Fashions change in everything from hoopskrs to almost
mo skirts from modesty to indecency from odfashioned
saloons to the speakeasy with gang rule killings.
Dialects change also Below you may read two descriptions
modern play written by two experts in the Yiddish da
ect Many will find it difficult read the peculiar language
DO popular at present the stage and ION the air.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

larly these ELSIE ROBINSON
days. Not just because we're
having hard times, either. But
everything's so upside down!
If you let yourself feel, your
hearts on the rack.
If you let yourself think. you
find yourself going round in
dizzy circles.
So then, what?
Where can you find a little
of your old, happy-go-lucky con-
tentment?
What should you believe?
You don't know.
Where are you heading?
You don't know that, either.
Is anything worth while?
You doubt it. '
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

termination of the speaker,
with his realization of his
heavy responsibilities.
1t was an appeal to the
people for confidence and
cooperation, and it carried
a perfect diagnosis of the
reason for the present crisis:
'The only thing we have
to fear is fear itself-name-
less, unreasoning, unjusti-
fled terror, which paralyzes
needed efforts to convert
retreat into advance.
This appeal for conf
dence was not predicated
on any pollyanna view of
the President. He bluntly
called the roll of our ills.
He admitted "the dark
realities Of the moment. "
But he pointed out the alb
surdity of despair:
Mature still offers her
bounty and human efforts
have multiplied. Plenty is
at our doorstep, but a gen.
erous use of it languishes in
the very sight of the sup
ply"
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Roosevelt's Appeal
For Public Confidence

The inaugural speech of
President Roosevelt was a
ma gnif f icent, courageous,
fighting speech - the kind
Of speech that a great gen.
eral addresses to his army
on the verge of battle. No
one of the millions who
heard it or read it but was
impressed with it's power,
with the confidence and de-.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

whole thing
do a fade out
-g o 81 m e.
where?
Go where?
o h, Ou
don't ca r e.!
An y W h e re,
s'long as you
g e t a W a y
TO m every
thing. That
h o W y o u
feel?
Pr O b alb ly.
Many of us
do, particu-
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

"DEED 1 SAW 1T LEST
WICK A PLAY! IT'S BY
DE NAME BIOGRAPHY
WITT HINA CLAIRE. so
GEEVE A LEESTEN AND
I'LL TELL-NO GO BAT
TER YOUSALF BY THE
GILT TEEATRE so
YOU'LL GEEVE GRADU-
ALLY A LOOK WOT
YOU'LL ONNA LEFT
WITT CRY, WOT YOU'LL
ORGET HAL l. 7 O.
GETHER FROM YOU
TROBBLES WOT IT'S A
GUDGEOUS EEAT r E
DERE MITT A WASH
ROOM WOT IT'S FEN
CIER DEN BY OSS DE
PARLOR."
MILT GROSS.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Keep d ping for Their sakes!
cSiol, ~ oIlO

O4CN q 4U OH
Tired of doing the same old
chores-tackling the same old
worries-facing the same old
heartacheS?
Wish you could duck the
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

New York, N. Y.-Since War
den Lawes has started writing
for the movies, Sing Sing has
gone Hollywood. According to
reports, the prison is getting so
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Presidents Ringing
Call to Confidence
Bu Claude G.. BOWers

The Party Battles Of the Jackson PERIOD THE sugEe
Jefferson and Hamilton"
and "Beveridge and the Progressive Era"
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Wonders of Nature

wonders OF Nature
An actor was walking down
Broadway the other morning
with his toupee on backwards,
but it didn't make much differ
ence. He's so absent-minded he
never knows which way he's
going anyhow.
Roscoe Arbuckle has given up
dieting. He says he's not going
to starve himself to death just
for the sake of living a few
years longer.
Seen In a SpeakeaSy
Two gentlemen with st. Vitus'
dance shaking for the drinks.
Our Own Vaudeville
First Chorus Girl: Are you
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Bert Lahr always leaves the
egg stains on his necktie. He

Fred Allen says his radio
sponsors are throwing so many
of his scripts into the waste
basket that he's beginning to
get fan mail from janitors.
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

. BIOGRAPHY ISIS DOT
A FUNNY SHOW! AND
INA CLAIRE! ISIS HE
BEA UT IFUL! AND
: LAUGHS! DERE'S TEN
TOUSAND LAUGHS IN
DOT SHOW. WELL, THEN,
FIVE TOUSAND. WELL,
AT LEAST TWO TOU-
SAND, EIGHT HUNDRED
AND FIFTY! VAS YOU
DERE, SHARLIE"
JACK PEARL.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

A tourist stepped off the Twen-
tieth Century Limited the other
morning with his head all
Swathed in bandages. He for
got he was sleeping in a Pull
man and got out the wrong side
of the bed.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

Take 1t Or Leave 1t
Jack Benny calls his roadster
the "Possum Six" because it's
always playing dead.
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
Seen In a SpeakeaSy

Our Own Vaudeville
First Chorus Girl: Are you
The Washington times., 1933-03-08
MAYBE I'M WRONG!
BY John p. Medbury.

doing anything tomorrow after
noon?
The Washington times., 1933-03-08

Second Chorus Girl: eyes, I'm
going to my husbands funeral
if it doesn't rain.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
TRIAL OF O'DUFFY
TO Be JANUARY z
Military Tribunal to Take
Evidence at Dublin, Whether
He Is Present or Not.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, December
23.-Gen. Ee.n ODuffy, outspoken foe
of both the british and Free State gov
ernments, VIII be tried January on
charges Of slslition and inciting to mur-
der PRESIDED Eamon de Valera.
A milita& tribunal will conduct the
trial in thd. Collins barracks at Dublin
on that cAte, regardless of whether
ODuffy, a So-leader of the United Ire
land PartyE appears, said an order
served on fSn at midnight.
The mills $nt leader of the prescribed
Blue Shir2" emphatically denied pub
lished statsnents attributed to him on
which the Eharges are based.
"Mrsder" Among Words.
These accusations quote him as say
ing at BaRyShannon, County Donegal,
on Decemtf'r 8, that Mr.. de Valera and
his party Murdered Kevin O"Higgins and
Michael CeslinS, that De Valera is new
entitled to- the fate he gave Mick Col
Inns and E3hvin O'Eiggins and that the
fch'J Va fiS PACcCib 10 W
assassinatts Gen. O'Duffy"
The chs7ges were set forth in five
counts.
First. that O'Duffy was member of
the Young Ireland Association between
December Q and December II, contrary
to the pubic safety act.
Second, that O'Duffy was a member
OF the National Guard, formerly known
as the Army Comrades Association, be-
tween Aug Ist % and December 8, con-
trary to tfe same act.
Spsech Called Seditious.
Third lie offered "a seditious speech
at Ballyshhnnon within the hearing of
police and other citizens of the Free
State, ur4ing "all young Irishmen
worthy of She name" to join the unls.w-
full Young ireland Association and wear
its colors.
Fourth. he melted certain persons,
whose names are known, to murder
President Gle Valera at the Ballyshan-
non meeting.
Fifth. he attempted to incite to mur-
der at Ballyshannon.
Gen. O'Duffy was released from Jail
two days ego after judge ruled IN a
hearing here that he and a follower,
Capt. John Sullivan, had been illegally
detained for five days because of a clash
with police at Westport, County Mayo.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
COSTIGAN PREPARES
ANTI-LYNCHlNG BILL
Would Make Counties Liable for
Damages if Officers Ne
elected Duty.

An anti~lynching bill designed to
make the States and counties more
alert to prevent mob violence to pris-
oners is being prepared for introduc-
ton in the Senate at the coming ses-
Sien by Senator Costigan, Democrat of
Colorado.
The measure, which is still in the
process Of being drafted, would make
counties liable for a payment OF $l0,-
900 to the dependents of any person
Iynched, ir' the event neglect by county
officers in dealing with a mob could
be shown. The bill also would impose
penalties on county officers in such
cases.
The measure contains many other
provisions intended to place a greater
responsibility on those in authority to
prevent mob violence. The measure is
being advocated by the National As
sociation Tor the Advancement of Col
ored People, it was said at Senator
Costigan's office.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Y. NJ. c. A. WILL HAVE
CHRISTMAS GUESTS
Men Who Live Far From Home
Are Invited to Attend Spe-
cial Breakfast.

approximately 100 young men, who
are too far from home to spend Christ
mas with "the folks" will sit down to
an old-faShioned home-style breakfast
tomorrow as guests of the Washington
Young Mems Christian Association.
There will be a Christmas tree and
Q number Of surprises, in addition to
program of carol singing, Christmas
message voiced by Rev. j. j. Rives, pas
tor of Emory Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a greeting on behalf of
the Y. NJ. c. A. by Leonard w. De
Cast, general secretary, who will pre-
side.
The men are residents of the Y. M.
c. A. dormit,. Sies at Eighteenth and G
streets. Most of them are employed
In the Government departments and
many are attending school at night.
Their homes: are scattered throughout
the States.
The Y. M c. A. Christmas morning
breakfast is held each year for the
benefit of these temporary residents OF
the Capital. The feast is sponsored oy
the Y. M. c, A. Dormitory Council, OF
which Herbert P. Strople is chairman.
Arrangements are in charge of Louis
B. Nichols, associate business secretary
Of the Central Y. M. c. A.
The breakfast will begin at 9 am. in
the main assembly hall of the Central
"Y" Building, 1876 G street.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
MUTE IS ASSAULTED
AND SHOT TO DEATH
Body of Girl, 22, Found Froz-
en- in MeadoW--Had Been :
Missing Two Days.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, December
23.--Beaten, criminally attacked and
shot three times through the head. the
body of Miss Margaret Peevey. a 22-
year-old deaf mute, was found TODAY in
a meadow 2 miles beyond the city
limits.
Identification was made first at the
morgue here by Patrolman Thomas
Marshall, a friend of the family, and
later confirmed by the young woman's
father, Edward G. Peevey. Her mother
died eight years ago.
The body was discovered shortly after
noon today by Frank Zuidema, farmer.
Apparently it had been lying in the
neld for "a hours or more The cloth
ing was torn; two teeth had been
knocked out, one bullet fired through
the forehead and one through each
cheek
Missing Since Thursday,
Coroner Simeon LIE Roy, who said
the girl had been criminally attacked.
explained that because the body was
frozen his autopsy would have to be
postponed temporarily.
Peevey said his daughter had been
missing since Thursday, but that be-
cause she had disappeared once before.
about year ago, he had not been espe-
cislly worried.
He said the girl had been deaf since
she was 3 years old and had never
learned to talk He said she had
number OF deaf mute friends with whom
she went out occasionally, but that he
had no reason to believe any of them
had been with her since she left home.
Although admitting they were with
out clue to the girls companion prior
to the attack, officers advanced the
theory she might have been accosted
by some one unaware of her inability to
talk, who, becoming angered at her 81
lerce, struck her and rendered her un-
conscious.
Beaten Before Attack.
DR.. LIE Roy said he believed the girl
might have been attacked after having
been struck.
The identification of the victim as &
deaf mute explained the presence, Off
GERS said, of a button found on her
clothing bearing the words American
Association for the Promotion of Teach
ing Speech to the Deaf" 1t also ended
a search for Miss Ora Swartwood a
teacher of the hard-of- of-hearing classes
in the Flint. Mich, public schools.
Miss Swartwood was en- route from.
Flint to her home north of Grand Rap
ids for the Christmas holidays.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
j. s. INVESTIGATES
BEATING OF CUBAN
Exile, Said to Have Been
Close to Machado, At
tackled in Gotham.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 23.-Armando
Infante, Cuban exile, was beaten to-
day In his hotel room by two men
whom police suspect as agents of a
revolutionary society.
One of the men, captured, said he
was John Ayala and that his compan-
ion was Joseph Rocco. Ayala told two
stories-one that he came here from
Key West, Fla, to kill Infante for a
price, and another that he bargained
with a man in New York to remove
Infante.
Infante formerly was a large land
owner in Cuba and authorities said he
apparently was close to the deposed
Machado regime.
Department of Justice agents are in
vestigating the attack.
Ayala was captured as he fled from
1nfante's room. Police records revealed
Stabbing another Cuban.
Infante was taken to a hospital, suf-
fering with scalp wounds and lacera-
tions. He said the men entered his
room by ruse, using the name of one
Infante said they demanded S5 600 un-
der threat of death. He fought them
and noise Of the struggle brought help
Evening star., 1933-12-24
j. s. PENAL EXPERT
TO AID La GUARD|A
Prisons Bureau Official
Named New York Commits
Sioner of Correction.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, December 23.-Mayor-
elect Fiorello H. La Guardia an
nounced today the appointment Of
Austin H. MacCormick, assistant di-
rector of the United States Bureau of
Prisons and now acting superintend-
ent OF the United States Industrial
Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, as
commissioner Of correction for New
York City.
MacCormick has been assistant di-
rector OF the Bureau of Prisons since
July, 1929, and in September, 1888, he
was assigned to the Chillicothe Re-
formatory to study and improve gen.
eral conditions thsye.
He has participated In several
prison investigations and surveys since
1921 and Is regarded as among the
front-rank experts on penal condi-
tions.
From 1917 to 1921 he was executive
officer of the United States Naval
Prison at Portsmouth, N H, and con-
Quoted study of the naval court mar
tial system during that time. He made
a survey, likewise, of all Western
prisons in 1925 for the National So
ciety of Penal Information. The survey
was expanded in 1927 to include all
prisons and adult reformatories in the
country.
He is author of several penal works
and many articles. He is 4 compara-
lively young member of the cabinet,
being 40 years old. He received a
bachelor of arts degree at Bowdoin
College in 1915 and a master of arts
degree at Columbia University the fol-
lowing year.
His home is In Washington, D. c.
He is married and the father of two
children.
La Guardia also announced the ap-
pointment of Rufus E. McGahen as di-
rector of the budget.
McGahen, secretary of the Citizens
Union. has been active in civic affairs
in New York City for more than Is
years.