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The Washington times., 1933-11-03

Millions of young people will be interested in this picture
from Mercer Beasleys book, How to Play Tennis
you read the book have the good fortune be
"coached by Mercer Beasley you will find that in tennis
in everything e depends what you have in
side your skull than nmbleness of feet strength of
wrists and arms, quckness of sight.
Mr.. Beasey coach of the tennis squad at the Lawrence
vile School for Boys of which Dr. Mather Abbott is head
master also coaches the young men Princeton University
called the best tennis coach, which the most
cessful in the production of great players
The boys Lawrenceve all of whom have the benefit Of
Mr. Beasleys coaching whether the tennis squad not
are taught by him first to their brain second to keep
the eye the ball" and that all else comparatively unm
portant,
Mr. Beasley emphasizes especially the importance of
KNOWING IN ADVANCE WHAT YOU ARE GOING
10 DO.
Thi. world would be better off, individual and in gov
could make up their minds advance
they going instead Of waiting until the last
hour second and doing something hit miss.
At this stage of training Beasley coaching requires
the young whom he concentrates to call OUT od
just where he is going place the approaching ball
And he must call his decision concerning that ball before
the ball actually the net toward him.
This that decisions must be quick eyesight
And having made his mind what to do with the ball
when his racquet gets it, he must do exactly as ne has
decided do, changing at the last minute AS he
the ball he must make plan and go through with
it. Successful results in everything based successful
planning and Mr. Beasley insists that boys shall apply that
law in their tennis
Mr. Beasey tells the boys of Lawrencevle that the basic
principle of tennis is accuracy, not strength
That statement applies all sorts of efforts Success would
be simple strength the only thing required Accuracy
in tennis means says Mr. Beasley the ability to return the
ball desired point of the court That the secret of
tennis There player who is able to place the ball. with
any his strokes within two feet of the spot where he wants
it to go. He not hard hitter he doesn't have to be- But
he champion He is exponent of developed accuracy
The emphasis that Mr. Beasey puts keeping your eye
on the BALI can be made to apply all through Life
Keep your MIND, THOUGHT, INTEREST, WILL
POWER, every energy that the job that
you haUe hand, doing it uOeL and doing it better
Mr. Raas
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
Government Heads War
On All Racketeering
BY James T. Williams, Jr.-

into the four corners OF the
country.
Attorney General Cummings
points out that racketeering is
not "a novel type of human
activity" But the racketeer is
none the less dangerous because
he has his counterpart in
history. 1t is estimated that
the crime of racketeering takes
from honest business every
year nearly one billion dollars.
Many racketS in the business
world, Mr.. Cummings says,
"are skillfulIy organized on a
basis of business efficiency,
with adrOit lawyers under re-
tanners, and with social aid
and other contacts, including
office holders.
The assistance rendered by
the office holder to racketeers
frequently involves an attempt
to influence those charged
with administering justice.
In case after case that has
been brought to the attention
of the Department of Justice.
the racketeer, after being
caught, has escaped conviction
or punishment through the
assistance either of an un-
scrupulous lawyer or of a weak
or INSCRIPTIONS official sur
rendering to the pressure OF
political spoilSmen.
The Washington times., 1933-11-03

Maybe you're Elsie Robinson
saying to yourself right now:
"Why start a fuss about
schools? Our schools are all
right. There's one thing at
least that won't go bust in
America. We've always had the
best public schools in the world,
and we always will have"
Wrong on every count,
stranger.
We HAVEN'T always had
the best public schools" Time
was when America had almost
no public schools! For, con-
trary to most of our pretty,
patriotic notions, this nation
didn't start out to be poor
mans land.
There was a lot Of lovely
language in the Declaration of
independence, but the good
British-bred Fathers of Our
Country hadn't the slightest
intention of really going demo
cratic on anything but paper.
Some of them wanted us to go
right on having Lords, Ladies,
Dukes and Earls-and few
gave a hiccough or a boot
whether the butchers boy, or
the grocer's little girl, ever saw
the inside of a book!
Yes, it took plenty of battling
to put the American public
school on the map. And now
ARE WE OR ARE WE NOT,
GOING TO KEEP TT THERE?
For, though it still may be
news to you, the American
public school is on the verge
of folding up. There's an
article by Helen Christine
Bennett in the November issue
of THE COSMOPOLITAN. It
is called THE LITTLE RED
SCHOOLHOUSE IS IN THE
RED" Every American citizen
should read that letter. And
should his face be red!
Give hundred thousand to
100000 were out of school
last spring long before the
school term ended. Many of
them do not expect their
schools to open at all this fall.
"In one State alone l76
schools of the 1000 in the
State reported they would be
unable to open this fall; 500
schools in the same State wiN
open for four months or less.
Only few DiH be open during
the entire term.
"Te0chers' salaries have
been cut 10 per cent, 80 per
cent, so per cent and eUen 100
per cent. Thirtv-three StaGes
hG0e TspOeted $4,000 unens.
pIoy9d te0ehenAa
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
How to Size Her Up

antly orders the most expen-
Sive dishes, regardless of your
pocketbook. If she isn't a
gold-digger, she's probably a
four-flusher, trying to show you
how sophisticated she is. Either
way, she's scarcely worth the
price of the dinner.
Don't marry a girl who Is
more interested in what salary
you are getting than in what
you are doing or accomplish
ing-and don't lose our heart
to one who is more enthusiast
tic about your next raise"
than she is about your work.
After all, a "helpmate" Is not
just somebody to help you spend
your money.
Don't marry a girl who
breaks or forgets her dates with
you. She is probably only
using you for a spare" and
will marry you only if the
other man "goes dead on her
and stick to you only un-
til somebody more interesting
comes along.
Don't marry a girl who il
always reaching for her lip
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
Scientist Predicts

Now nobody laughs out loud
at this prophet, because he hap
pens to be great scientist.
He is j. B. S. Haldane, pro-
fessor of bio-chemistry at Cam
bridge University and one Of
the admittedly great intellects
of science; a facile, gifted
writer and a human test tube.
For DR.. Haldane does such
stunts as take poisons and lock
himself up in gas-filled rooms
to find the effects on the
human system.
The voice of Ching Ling
cries out in China against Mar
shall Kai-Shek and his Nam
king government. She charges
that mediocre men. with darkly
feudal minds, are destroying the
fruits of the rebellion which
liberated China from the
Manchus.
Almost a sacred personality
in China and Ching Ling. better
known to us as Madame Sun
Vat Sen. Before her marriage
she was Ching Ling Soony,
daughter of a Christianized
Methodist Y. M. C. A. worker,
and herself a graduate of the
Wesleyan College at Macon,
Georgia.
She is only AZ, this strong
souled and brilliant widow Of
the George Washington of
modern China. She is famous
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
Splendid Record

This division is the agency
of which John Edgar Hoover is
the able and indefatigable
director. OF the IA kidnapping
cases investigated by Mr..
Hoover's division, the Federal
Government, with the coopera-
ton of the several States and
the support of their local
authorities, is now able to re-
port that convictions in these
cases resulted in one death
sentence, nine life sentences,
and other terms of imprison-
ment totaling nearly 375 years.
In cases involving threats to
kidnap, in which Mr.. Hoover's
Division of Investigation has
been called upon for assistance,
20 persons are under arrest
and awaiting trial; eight have
been convicted, and sentences
totaling rs years have been i'm
posed.
It was the revelation Of this
extraordinary record of what
effective Federal leadership has
done to put a stop to the
crime of kidnapping that
prompted President Roosevelt
to order the Division of 1nvesti-
CATION to take up the case which
caused Congress to enact the
Lindbergh law making kidnap-
ing a Federal crime.
This should have been done
the night the Lindbergh baby
was stolen from his cradle.
Had it been done at that time,
the monster or monsters guilty
of that crime would probably
no longer be at large.
BY applying to the crime OF
commercial racketeering the
same thorough methods and
wise procedure that have been
employed in the national drive
against kidnapping, Federal
leadership, with State support,
will probably put an end "a
the racketeer.
To do this will require an
aggressipA campaign reaching
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
Chinese Communism

Ching Ling and DR.. Sun were
married by bell, book and
candle. They survived the scan.
dial and returned in triumph to
Canton with the aid Of the
Russian Bolsheviki. For several
years they worked for the
emancipation of the men and
women of China, blu another
revolution, in 1922, drove them
from power.
During the fighting, Ching
Ling lay among the corpSes
and feigned death to escape
capture by rebels, who most
certainly would have chopped
off her pretty head. Once more
victory perched on the banner
of DR.. Sun, but it was barely
within his grasp when he gave
mp the breath Of life and went
to his honorable ancestors. I'm
mediately his followers split
with Kai-Shek, brother-in-law
of Ching Ling, who set up the
government at Marking.
Ching Ling fled to Moscow
and has never allowed herself
to be reconciled to General
Kai Shek or the Marking gov
eminent, despite threats and
cajoleries. She is by no means
a Communist or a Red, espe.
cially of the Russian variety.
But she sympathizes with some
of the milder doctrines Of
Communism.
All signs point to a great up
heaval in China. The Japa-
nese see it coming and are pre-
pairing for it. A diluted Com
munism is spreading like wild
fire through the old pieces Of
the Celestial Kingdom. Keep
your eye on China-and on
that fascinating lady, Ching
Ling.
Copyright 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-11-03

Some two hundred years ago
an old Englishwoman, Mother
Shipton, made an almost IN
credible prophecy. She pre-
dicted that man would fly like
a bird, walk on the bed Of the
ocean and talk across great dis
tanceS. She foreSaw most Of
our great inventions. And they
laughed at her for a crazy old
witch,
Today a young Englishman
in our midst predicts wonders
even more startling. He says
that by the end Of this century
electricity, sugar and starch
will be as cheap as Sawdust,
that the oceans will be purple
with fish and the deserts a
mass of vegetation.
He predicts that disease will
be abolished a little later, and
that generations will just dis
integrate together. In the year
five million man will be per-
fected and his span Of life will
be three thousand years. An
other five million years be-
yond that and man will diSin-
tegrate and the people of the
earth will all move to the
planet Venus, shooting there in
projectiles and rockets.
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
ONCE OVERS

difference in your mothers fl
nancial plans to have to supply
you with extra spending money.
And then to forget to reim-
burse the one who loans you
money is ungrateful to say the
least. ......
You should regulate your ex-
penditures by what you've a
right to spend.
You have no right to count
on borrowing, and besides,
often the one from whom you
borrow may have made many a
sacrifice to get that bit OF
money ahead.
Do you ever deny yourself
anything to be able to pay your
own debts?
Don't impose upon your rela"
tiyeS who aus accommodating
enough to loan you money.
(CopriEht. 1898. King Features
-. Syndicate Incl -!
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
Exposing Spoilsmen

AS a first step toward wip-
ing out the crime of COM
mercial racketeering by round
ing up and Furnishing the rack
eteer, the Federal Govern
ment will doubtless enlist the
aid Of the States and local
authorities in exposing the
operations of "shyster" lawyers
and crooked politicians, Who
by protecting racketeers, are
guilty of aiding and abettlng
the crime of racketeering.
Should President Roosevelt
order the Department of Justice
to publish to the country the
list of lawyers and politicians
that have been guilty of aiding
commercial racketeers, it would
breathe the breath of life into
many dormant bar associations.
It would have also q devas-
tating effect upon the corrupt
political gangs that are operat-
ing in so many cities and towns
of this country today.
The fact, however, that the
Department of Justice is organ
izing the plan of campaign
against racketeerS is welcome
assurance that the crime of
racketeering in this country is
soon to get the same treatment
that has been given to the
crime Of kidnapping by organized
Government under intelligent
and forceful Federal leadership
scopyright, 1889. Tha NaahinEton HmszA
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
The Human Side of the News
Future Wonders Fascinating Cling Ling
Blu EdUin C.. Hill

for her beauty, charm and wit
"a lovely lady all ivory and
,sheening silk. She speaks
fluently in the tongues Of many
lands-English, German, French
and Russian, as we'll as her
own ancient Chinese.
Her father was Sun Vat Sens
closest friend and advisor. He
took his charming young daugh-
ter back to China, after her
college commencement in 1911,
and in Yokohama she first. met
the greaot DR.. Sun, then an
exile in Japan. Twenty-one
then, little Miss Ching fell
head over heels in love with
the 50-year-old liberator. To
her he was washington, Carl
baldi and Kosciusko all in one
man. She threw herself into
the Republican movement as
DR.. Suns secretary.
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

"In many States employed
teachers h0Ue not been paid in
cash for periods carrying from
four months to three years.
In Tennessee there are teachers
still working who have not been
paid in three years.
"TwO hundred and fifty
thousand children are nOW per
n1itted to attend only half time
because the available class
rooms and teachers are only
half adequate in number and
must take the children in too
shifts"
But why's all this?
BECAUSE TAXES HAVE
DWINDLED AND DWINDLED
AND EXPENSES HAVE IN
CREASED AND INCREASED.
Schools are largely supported
by taxes on property. You
know what has happened to
taxes. In Michigan alone
$1OO,OoO,OOO property tax has
not been collected! There are
also. in every State, vast areas
of exempt" property, largely
religious. So between taxes
that aren't paid and taxes we
can't collect, things have gone
from plenty bad to mighty
worse. And even when the
money has come in there have
been a thousand uses for it be-
sides the school.
THEY'RE SPENDING TH1R-
TEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN
FLORIDA THIS YEAR FOR
ROADS, AND LESS THAN
FIVE MILLION FOR EDUCA-
TON.
One reason for this, in every
State, lies in the fact that
many of the Big Political Shots,
who run State school affairs,
don't care whether the Little
Red School keeps or not.
THEIR chill dren can go to
private schools. Why should
they worry about the other
fellows?
And all this time, while the
teachers have been starving
and the schools folding up,
more and more children have
been crowding into the schools,
particularly the High Schools.
FOR IF CHILDREN CAN'T
FIND WORK, THEIR PAR
ENTS PUT THEM IN SCHOOL.
IN 1900 THERE WE'RE $780,
900 YOUNGSTERS IN OUR
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS.
TODAY THERE ARE 5,387 900.
So what?
What should we do?
Should we impose more taxes;
eliminate all tax exemptions?
Should we make it compulsory
to set aside a certain adequate
proportion of our State and
Federal money for the purpose
of education. and let our other
institutions share what's left?
Should we make some changes
in the schools themselves. make
the courses more practical"
have technical and trade train
ing instead of the old-fashioned,
academic courses, teach car
pentry, plumbing, automobile
making, instead of Latin and
English Lit?
OR IS THIS IDEA THAT
OUR CHILDREN SHOULD
COME FIRST ALL HOOEY?
AND SHOULD WE CUT OUT
THE HYP RISY, CLOSE
THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL
HOUSE FOR GOOD AND LET
EN- ALL GO NATIVE?
copyright, 1898, King Features 800
Syndicate Inca 49,
The Washington times., 1933-11-03

In the warfare which the
Roosevelt Administration is
waging against crime, the next
battle will be to wipe out
racketeering by rounding up
and Furnishing with due severity
every racketeer the government
can catch.
Under Federal leadership, sup
piled by the Department of
Justice, the crime of kidnapping
has finally yielded to treat
ment."
cit is gratifying to note"
says Attorney General Cum
mipgs, "that every kidnapping
case handled by the Division Of
Investigation since the Lind
bergh law became effective has
been solved"
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
Repay That Loan

You may not make it a prac-
tice to borrow money outside
of your own family. but you
may be a frequent borrower
from relatives and an infrequent
payer of debts.
If they be just amounts why
not pay sister or brother what
you borrowed?
Perhaps it is mother to whom
you go for money when you are
short.
If your mother has an income
aside from what your father
provides, what you borrow and
fail to return may not make so
much difference to her.
But what about taking from a
mother who has no way Of sup
port exeepd that provided hN
your father.
It may make considerable
The Washington times., 1933-11-03


pened to our
S c h o o l S
during these
| a S t tn re e
years what
may possibly
h a p p e n
before II e x t
summer?
c h a n c e S
are you don't.
Lik e m o S t
Am e ri c ans,
you've prob
ahlv take
ur schools
or granted.
NHoNhn uoln,rn
The Washington times., 1933-11-03

"The easiest way to learn how
TO keep your eye on the ball is
to learn how properly to catch
O. ball.
$50 put down your racquet for
D. moment and take a position
about five feet behind the base
line.
"Place your hands on your
Knees, as a baseball player does,
and assume a comfortable crouch,
ready to start off quickly in any
direction.
"Tennis balls are now hit to
you easily from the other side of
the net.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE
BALL as it comes over the net,
bounces in the court; watch it
and watch nothing else until it is
safely in your hands. You should
actually see the ball enter the
fingers of your hands.
"Now do the same thing with
only one hand, the right hand Cor
the left, if you are left-handed).
Watch the ball, catch it., see it
actually enter the fingers of the
hand.
when you have succeeded in
doing this, you have learned how
to keep your eye on the ball.
Never forget it. Never stop
keeping your eye on the ball.
Make this a subconSciouS action.
Make it your tennis law"
The Washington times., 1933-11-03

The small picture in this column shows Mr. Beasev watch
ing the Lawrenceve boys carrying out his instructions You
that he knows how to keep his eye the ball and
the boys.
Mr.. Beasleys book How to Play Tennis published by
Doubleday Doran Company 1ncy be bought at any
rod book sore O. Ep@t4x goods store ~
The Washington times., 1933-11-03

MERCER BEASLEY, TENNIS COACH OF THE LAW
RENCEVILLE SCHOOL WITH TWO YOUNG MEN
COACHED BY HIM TO CHAMPIONSHIPS ON HIS
RIGHT ELLSWORTH VINES. JR. CHAMPION OF
THE UNITED STATES; ON HIS LEFT FRANK
PARKER NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPION.
The Washington times., 1933-11-03
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By T. E. Powers
BY Helen Rowland

stick and repairing her smile.
She may have the loveliest face
in the world but she prob
ably hasn't anything back OF
her temples except "the great
open spaces or a lot of excess
vanity. If you must have
something just to LOOK at,
buy a pretty picture and hang
it on your wall.
Don't marry a girl with an
artificial accent. It. may be a
harmless, innocent pose; but,
in time, it will wear out your
typanum and get on your
nerves, until you'll be tempted
to Strangle her. Don't marry a
girl who tries to improve"
you or to remodel" you. You
may find yourself tied to a
life who will keep you
forever trying to alibi your
self. like a prison in the dock.
Marriage is not a reformatory.
Don't marry girl, who passes
her kisses around. like cocktails
and sandwiches. After all, when
you take a wife, you don't want
a remnant off the bargain
counter-and that easy-kissing-
habit may be chronic.
Don't marry a girl who pans
her own sex. When she tells
you all their little foibles and
meanneSses, she is usually paint
ing her own portrait.
OF course. you may follow all
these rules and still marry the
wrong woman. Because most
men just put off marrying. until
ZGs,7n4
TEZ@Asex)Ai
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The Washington times., 1933-11-03
What Do You Think About
American Public Schools?

Maybe we'd better ask this
one first-what do you KNOW
about American public schools?
Do YOU know what has hap
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-21
GRAY SUEDE SHOES
FOR AUTUMN WEAR

Rivaling the conventional browns
and blacks are the new gray suede
or kid oxfords and sandals for wear
with early fall clothes.
Much gray is promised In street and
sportswear this season, and gray ac-
cessories promise to be more popular
than ever. Gray shoes have already
made their appearance with dark blue
or black street frocks and light-col-
ored sponts clothes this summer.
The new shades for fall are varied.
There is gun gray, flint, and brownish
taupe which blends with many shades.
Gray shoes will be worn with dark
coats trimmed with gray fur and they
also look smart with black, navy. and
certain shades OF brown.
Hosiery with slightly gray cast
In being shown to take the place OF
the clear beige and sun-tan shades OF
the summer. Taupe, which may be
worn with black or brown. and beige
with gray rather than a yellow cast,
are popular colors. These are more
attractive than hosiery In pure gray
shade.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-21


girl finds herself In taxicao In
New York with a strange man VINO
speaks of IAN awful shoo~" He leaves
her for a moment. and she drives on,
for she fears him. She stops al the
Biltmore wondering who she Is Her
memory Is gone. She has wedding
ring. The nameless girl meets young
woman who speaks of her desire 10
go to Reno for a divorce. II she can
get the money. The woman vanishes
with the nameless girls 1900. An ell
Derby woman, Mrs. Oscar Du Val,
cordially greets the nameless girl, ad-
dressing her. as Doris wife OF Mrs
Du Val's son. Rocky. Rocky is abroad,
and Doris, bewildered. is taken to the
home OF Mrs Du Val and her sculptor
husband. Oscar. Doris falls in love with
Rocky's photograph. but cannot re-
member having married him. Visiting
a store she II astounded when sales
woman insists she hide from observa-
tton. Rocky returns. He demands to
know who she Is and why his wife
sent her to his home. She cannot tell
him. They agree. for the sake OF his
parents. to pretend, for the time De-
ing, they arc husband and wife.