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Evening star., 1933-04-16

Totals. .33 s2412 Totals. 30 627 10
:B.tted for Gregory IN eighth
Detroit .......... Q i Q Q Q 2 Q rs
Runs-Gehringer.. Stone 90. Error
Hayes. Runs batted in-Fox go. Two-base
hits-Stone, CRUDE. Appling. White. Sacri-
nce-White. Double pfay-Gregory to Hayes
to Appling, Left on basesaaChieago. 9; Dc;
Gregory. 3. Struck out-By Rowe. 4; by
Gregory, L Hits-On Gregory, ip In
nings; on Frasier,. In inning. Wild pitch
Rowe. Losing pitcher-Gregory.
Evening star., 1933-04-16
GAMES TOMORROW

GAN1kS TONlOBHOW.
0t. Louis. at 0tnci.
BROOKLYN ct Boston.
New York ct PhilA.
Others not scheduled.
Evening star., 1933-04-16
GAMES TODAY,

Bos. at wash. $500,
Phila. at New York.
Chicago ct Detroit.
0eve. a& N. 1ouiA
Evening star., 1933-04-16
GAMES TODAY.

st. Louis ct Cinci.
PhilA. at Boston.
N. York At BROOKLYN
p1ttS. At Chicago.
Evening star., 1933-04-16

CHICAGO at Detroit.
Cleveland at St. Louis.
othess not scheduled
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Congress Learns Lesson
On AbdicatiOn
-Bu James T. Williams, Jr.-

Senator johnson of Califor-
MIA, one of the strongest sup
porters the Roosevelt admins
tration possesses, led this de-
bate. He was ably supported
by Senator Reed of Pennsyl-
Vania, Senator Borah of idaho.
and other Senators on both
sides of the aisle.
Said the Senator from Cali
forniA:
1--WE are being driven now
with all the force of a Jugger-
naut into an adjournment. /
do not object to an adjourn.
ment early. / do not object to
an adjournment whenever it
may occur without harm to
the public service. But if the
Senate vet retains shadow or
a scintilla of a part of it's dig
nifty, there is no reason that
can be presented here, if indi.
divual Senators still have
sense of their responsibility, why
we should not work on this
matter on Monday, with Sun
day intervening, in which we
might familiariZe ourselves with
it,"
Quick to see the wisdom and
the force of the argument of
the Senators opposing this
hasty and ill-advised procedure,
the leaders of both houses then
and there scrapped the sched-
ule which called for the ad-
journment of Congress at mid
night of June 10.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Sail Forever

But there was one of the
immigrants who had been
driven quite mad by the horrors
of their experience. She re-
fused to leave the ship and
fought like wild thing in her
shrieking madness. Leaving her
aboard, the Wreckers towed the
ship toward a sheltered cove
where they hoped to strip her
at their leisure. But another
gale Sprang up, and rather
than run the risk of their prize
being torn away from them by
the storm and perhaps falling
into other hands, the Block
Islanders set her afire. Wrapped
in a mantle of flame, the Pala-
tine drifted out to sea.
And so, as the years passed,
the tradition arose and settled
into fixed belief that the Pala-
tine, like the Flying Dutchman,
was doomed to sail the seas for
ever. Hundreds have claimed to
have seen the apparition, and
the "Palatine Light" is a we'll
known phenomenon along the
New England coast. There is,
apparently, some kind of light,
tr a n G e, mysterious, inexpli-
cable, which is seen far out at
sea at certain times. One
resident of Block Island asserts
that the light from the blaz-
ing ghost ship is strong enough
to illuminate his room at night.
The poet Whittier heard the
tale and put it into a poem,
"The Palatine". Still on many
a moonless night, from King
ston head and from Montauk
Light, the specter kindles and
burns in sight" And there are
people living this day on Block
Island who will tell you, with
their hand on the Book, that
they have gazed Seaward in the
blackness of the night. startled
by bright radiance at sea, and
have watched, with straining
eyes, while the Palatine. blazing
from truck to keelson, swept
along the horizon, while the
screams of the mad woman
came down the wind to chill
the marrow in their bones.
Copyright. 1888 King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

Some Congresses can be led,
other Congresses can be driven.
but no Congress can for long
be taken off its guard without
striking back.
Congress failed to adjourn
according to schedule last Sat
urday midnight because the
Senate refused to approve at
the eleventh hour a plan to re-
organize the Executive depart
ments which it had been given
no opportunity to examine.
There were not more than six
of the 96 Senators who would
have been able to tell their
constituents what kind of a re-
organization they had approved
or why they had approved it.
And yet both houses of Con-
gress were charged with a ire
mendous responsibility in con-
nection with this proposed re-
organization of the Executive
branch.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
No Abdication

Congress was also taken off
its guard in connection with
another part of this same econ
omy laW-that dealing with the
reduction in the compensation
of disabled veterans.
Congress voted authority TO
make drastic reductions in the
compensation received by GER
tain disabled veterans. It WaS
the understanding, however
that the compensation of vet
erans disabled on the battle
front would not be reduced.
When the Director Of the
Budget ordered reductions in this
class of cases in utter disregard
of the intent of Congress. the
legislative branch resented be-
ing taken advantage of and
struck back. This also delayed
adjournment until this wrong
could in measure be righted.
If Congress has learned Its
lesson from these two eXperl-
ences, it will not abdicate any
more of its constitutional all
thority and responsibility to
anybody.
(Copyright 1888, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Our Cheap Dollars and Our
Big Appropriation



The gold standard like cheaper dollars" and
will put surtax of 15 per cent goods from America to
offset the cheapness of dollar supposed put France
y disadvantage in world trade.
It should be difficult to offset that Is per cent
France thinks dollars worth ss she surely will be
goods here permission docks for passenger
and freight ships and for other privileges.
It is for France far her dealings with
concerned to fix dollars value pay accordingly
well ever perhaps better shutting all foreign i'm
ports Our exports amount to less than ten cent of
total production, at most and dispense with the bust
ness of those that dislike and money.
By the way France might find in the dollars cheapness
temptation to pay this country few of the billions that
she borrowed ION her word of honor when opinion of
The dollar higher.
This Government has appropriated three
billion four hundred mine million dollars give
employment and break the depression the largest
appropriated by nation in time of In the last
the nations gayly spent TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS at least ts country lend
Ing which meant giving away ten billions in addition its
wasteu and extravagant spending of other of billions
THE world is paying the bill in this depression.
distinguished Republican the Appropriations Commit
BEE the unemployment appropriations wastefu
pnbalancing the budget
He was probably making e-minute patriotic blurb
speeches in the urging Americans to buy bonds
'to help poor Europe and give their children less
sugar milk and oatmeal No worried about the budget
THEN. Americans, when they start, be the world
champion sckly sentimental geese.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Heartening Debate

The law under which this re-
organization was recommended
set forth in these specific terms
the responsibility of the Con-
greSS:
whenever the President
makes an Executive order under
the provisions of this title, such
Executive order shall be sub
mitted to the Congress while
in session, and shall not be-
come effective until after the
expiration of so calendar days
after such transmission, unless
the Congress shall by law pro-
vide for an earlier effective
date of such Executive order or
orders"
Obviously it was the intent
of Congress in thus wording the
law to require that any reor-
ganization plan should be laid
before the Congress in order
that both houses might have
ample opportunity to examine
it, and if deemed desirable, to
revise it, before the plan could
be put into operation.
To rush the reorganization
scheme into Congress on the
night it was scheduled to ad-
iourn would have deprived the
legislative branch of its rights
and its duty to scrutinize the
scheme in all its parts before
giving the approval of Congress.
One of the most high-minded
and heartening debates that
has been heard at either end OF
the Capitol at the special ses-
sion was precipitated by this
unwise attempt to stampede
Congress into an abdicatlon OF
its duty and It's authority.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Strange Story

Whatever they saw or did
not see, as they strained their
eyes through the dark, out
over the tumbling ocean, there
is a strange story behind it
all. Many years ago, accor\-
ing to tradition, men lived on
Block Island and made a living
by causing the wreck of sailing
ships. They set up false lights
and lured ships upon the rocks
and looted them after they
crashed.
It was in 1852 that a ship
named PaIatine started from
Holland for Philadelphia. She
was crowded with immigrants.
It was in the winter and the
North Atlantic was in one of
the most savage tempers. Gales
drove the Palatine far to the
north of her true course. Mu-
tiny broke out among the crew.
The rebellious Seamen muir
dered their captain and took
charge of the ship. With the
water and food in their control,
they sold these necessaries of
life to the terrified and help
less immigrants. They de-
manded $40 for biscuit and SIS
for a single cup of water. And
when the unhappy passengers
had spent all their money they
were left to Starve to death and
the dead were thrown over
board.
Eventually the mutineers,
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

have into their jobs during the
first few years-then going
stale. Plugging along in the
same old rut day after day.
Doddering. browsing over their
radios every night. No inter-
est in politics. Don't give :,
hoot what happens to the coun-
try.
Stir simple. That is what
they've all become, shut into
the tight, stag lant cells of their
own petty affairs.
Then thy wonder why the
Other Fellow gets all the
breaks; complain bitterly that
they've never had a chance"
There's a dreadful chapter
in Victor Nelson's book,
PRISON DAYS AND NIGHTS"
on this stupor which Saps the
life from brains ar souls.
Victor Nelson has served time
himself; knows what he is talk
ing about when he describes the
deadliest of all prison d-,ngers.
WHY DO MEN GET THAT
WAY? PARTLY BECAUSE
PRISON CONDITIONS FORCE
1T ON THEM: BUT EVEN
MORE BECAUSE THEY WISH
1T ON THEMSELVES.
prison stupor," says he, sis
an escape mechanism like
drugs or liquor-an uncon-
scious fleeing from life. 1t is
based wholly upon an inability
to face the brutal actualities
of prison life. AS Tannenbaum
points out, the prisoner is so
tired of the dullness and misery
of Today that he spends most
of his time in remembering
Yesterdays or imagined Tomor-
rows"
The stir-simple men and
women outside the prison
walls-they also are victims of
environment; BUT, TO A FAR
GREATER EXTENT, VICTIMS
OF THEIR OWN DESIRE.
What's the cure? Often
there's none-for the stir-sim-
pie soul doesn't want to be
cured. He prefers his shadowy
dream world to any open thor
oughfare. Yet he can save or
cure himself if he will. Tom
Mooney, after II years in San
Quentin, is more alive, more
current, than the vast major
ity of free" men. How did he
escape going stir-simple? Some
one asked wondered if he
played chess like other prison
erS.
mo" Mooney declared, IT
have more important things to
occupy my mind. Some prison
ers have their whole lives bound
up in the result of a game of
dominoes or checkers. But I
have studied, read, meditated,
kept in touch with social
changes throughout the world.
That's what has kept me
from getting stir-simple."
What, if anything. is keep
ing YOU from going stir
simple?
(Copyr1ght, 1893, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

condition. h'">lH HO"AN""N
Men Shrek and curse and
batter themselves to bloody
rags against steel walls when
they are first imprisoned. But
presently they becor still
horribly still. The fire dies
out If their eyes and their
blood. In its place comes a
creeping death-daydCeamS that
drug them-apathy and lassi-
tude slowly tighten about
them, closer and colder than
cell bars.
Gradually indifference to real
ity becomes an actual Stupor.
They move through their days
like drugged animals.
So they become STIR-SIM-
PLE-to all purposes idiots;
many actually insane.
A hideous picture? Yes; but
you don't have to go to the
Pen to cind it.
MEN AND WOMEN GO
STIR-SIMPLE OUTSIDE
PRISON WALLS AS WELL
AS INSIDE.
And those who go stir-simple
are not only in the ranks of the
sick and the old and the
desperately discouraged. They
are quite as often found in
charming bungalows anC, mod
ern offices, in school rooms and
pulpits, hospitals and labora-
tories.
ANY HUMAN BEING WHO
HAS NO EXISTENCE BE-
YOND HIS OWN PERSONAL
LIFE AND PRIVATE PROB
LENS, GOES STIR-SIMPLE.
You've seen it happen scores
of times.
Happy, eager young brides
turning into sour. stupid ma
irons who can talk of nothing
but their husbands cussedness
and their babies bleSSedness-
who might as we'll be living in
1888 for all they know of any
thing outside their homes.
Then they complain because
their husbands leave them, be-
cause the neighbors ignore
them, because their children
eventually treat them with
barely yelled contempt!
Ambitious, outstanding young
men. putting everything they
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

Romance has not departed
from the sea. Not even with
the long ago disappearance OF
the Yankee clippers, the great
old square-riggers that spread
their vast, white wings and
went soaring round the Horn
and out to the China coast, re-
turning not with ivory, apes
and peacocks," but with tea al
most worth its weight in gold.
And even now, with sail
almost a memory, the old sea
has it's secrets of strange hap
penings back through the sweep
of time. Even now it can turn
out a tale that has power to
reach the heart and stir the
blood.
From Block Island, in Long
Island Sound, bleak Block
Island, comes a weird tale OF
the old, old sailing days, when
white canvas hummed, Slated
and stood out like white ivory
against sky" Natives Of that
windswept isle, just nine miles
south of the Rhode Island
coast, isle of sinister past,
have been, or think they have
have seen in the darkness of
the night ghost-not the
ghost of a man, but of a ship.
The wrath of the tragic Pala'
tine.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Human Side of the News
-Bu EdUin C.. Hill
Phantom Ships Sail On

with all Of the money and the
valuables of the dead and of
the survivors in their hands,
took to the boats and aban.
doned the Palatine to the fury
of the storms. 1t was in Christ
mas week that the ship went
ashore on the northern tip of
Block Island. The Block Island
wreckers swarmed aboard the
stranded vessel, bent on rob.
bing it. But they we're kind to
the miserable, half-starved i'm
migrants. They took them off
the ship and into their homes.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

1t is not
easy to tell
you W h a t
S tt R SIM
PIE means,
unless you
h a We seen
prisoners in
t h a t condi-
ton, or have
been caught
yourself i n
t h e mental
and spiritual
S t a S n a ton
which pro-
duceS t h a t
condition
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Unhappy is he who trusts
only to time for his happiness.
-Voltaire.
"Tis writ on paradise's gate,
''Woe to the dupe that yields to
ate."-HafiZ.
AS often as a man loses his
own relatives so often he dies,
-Puglilius Syrus.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

square proposition. The trouble
with the wedding VOWS, now, is
that they are too extravaganza.
Nobody takes them seriously
or even remembers them.
But don't let them scare you!
Marriage is NOT the electric
chair! It's neither an ORDEAL
nor an ideal-just a square
deal!
Copyright, 1898, King Features
syndicate, Inc,)
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

If we did not flatter ourselves
the flattery of other people
would not harm us.-La Roch-
foucauld.
God is the brave mans hope,
and not the towards excuse.
-Plutarch.
Man Is by nature a civic ami
mal.-Aristotley
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

Are You Going "stir- Simpler"
Men "in stir" (the peniten-
tiary) have coined a brief but
terrible phrase-"STIR SIM
The Washington times., 1933-06-14

how to get through it, how to
make the best of it!
You'd fancy, from all these
lugubrious warnings, that
marriage were the electric
chair-or at the least, the
throne of England. It's enough
to paralyze any timid young
lover and drive him to eternal
misogyny! And almost enough
to make a girl want to take
the veil, in preference to the
wedding VOWS.
Funny-but a man can go to
Congress and help make the
laws affecting thousands of
people without the. slightest
equipment for his job, except
a dinner coat and hair trim.
But a trip to the altar is more
serious and hazardous. Boob!
AS a matter fact. the prob
lem of marriage is just the
problem of knowing how to live
with another HUMAN BEING.
and there is no special course"
which can prepare you for it.
All you need IS a knowledge OF
human psychology.
All that is required to live
happily with ANY human be-
ing, whether of your own sex
or the opposite sex. is honest
mutual regard, frank and COM
plete understanding and a lot
of common or garden fairness
and consideration. It's as SIM
ple-and as complicated-as
THAT!
When you marry you are
not elected anybody's keeper;
and you have no more right to
invade a husbands or a wife's
privacy than you have that Of
a roommate or business part
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
New York's Strange Weather
Other Things More or Less Strange
New York City and suburbs discover that

strange weather is not confined to particular place
Thunder extraordinary violence have disturbed
biggest city, while temperature of SO in the shade in parks
and 110 the sidewalk give fairly good imitation
tburning desert"
Saturday morning shortly before daylight New York was
swept by such wind storm would have been dangerous
city built of stone brick and steel The wind found
Itself fighting solid block of masonry that would
or be blown away.
The number of registered motor vehicles in
The United States diminished by 16960O5 units in 1892
million hundred and thrysx thousand eight
hundred and motor vehicles registered
this country January l. 1933-not enough bad We
have great deal than all the rest of the world TO-
gether enough carry all 123OOOOOO people in the
United States at the tme although have less than
one-tenth of the worlds population.
The figures show that rush for new cars will
bur nice money begins to circulate and times improve
+ Europe appears to have accomplished some-
ching definite with the -Four Power Pact binding France
England Germany and Italy not to start within ten
years
Pope Plus calls "a precious to the whole world
bf decade of peace
Bolshevist like peace pact we'll It
suspects the four great capitaist nations of planning
gether later to attack good vruous proetaran
Russia.
The four powers will do nothing of the kind they are
wise and they probably will be wise for few until
Ehe last Ight is nearly forgotten
Nobody refrains from because of the Hundred
Hears War the Thirty Years War;" the Seven
Years Wal"
But -Four War; discouraged war for
some time to come young men in English universities de-
car1ng by an oVerWhemg vote thaC tney WILL NOT 1gh
FOR King and Country"
4 Cyrus n. K. Curtis created and built up his
important publicaons-The Ladies Home Journal Saturday
Evening Post, Country Gentleman They the work of
his genius and many millions of stock in those publications
have been sold to the public
Those that do not realize the value of pubca
tons welbult and welseasoned, might suppose that the
stock values would be hurt the death of their creator On
he contrary in the few days since Mr. Curtis DEATH his
stock Curtis Publishing has increased value the Stock
Exchange greatly that his family and business associates
they have not been buying, any way seeking nfl
ence the stock its quotations.
Nothing is harder to build nothing sody valuable
than successful publication widely read.
The new 81 beer helps the States with
taxes and helps the Government with its deficit
sylvania taxed at the rate of half cent bottle for
poymen beer has already provided $685. help those out
of and should yield $100OO0O the years
Even important the fact that beer dcourages boot
leg whiskey And amusing is the that the Government
which 80 is not intoxicating, also says legally
be sold on Indian reservations.
Why not, if it intoxicating? Will Rogers suggests
that the Government doesn't change the Indians from
bootleg whYkey to beer too suddenly.
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

ner. Nor to censor each others
diet, habits and preferences,
unless they make you person.
ally awfully uncomfortable.
Nor to open his mail or pry
into his secret thoughts.
If a mans habits or a
woman's ways get on your
nerves before marriage, you are
double crossing yourself and the
other party to marry him
or her. Marriage is no reform
school. And you would not
DREAM of sharing an apart
ment with a chum whose ways
bored or annoyed you, just in
order to reform him.
Marriage is a partnership into
which you enter in order to
POOL your interests, your in
come Cor incomes), your work,
aims, ambitions, hopes and
most of your pastimes. If you
don't like to do the same
things, have not the same aims
and interests, and don't enjoy
life in the same way, you are
foolhardy to rush into a life
contract, merely on the
strength of a wild infatuation.
You are just going to sea in a
canoe.
Perhaps the marriage-service
should be changed to read
simply: II love this man Cor
woman), promise to be abso-
lutely on the level with him
Cor herr and to be REASON
ABLE in all things" Just a
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square proposition. The trouble
with tho xroG 5iYon E1Ouc now is
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
Why Paralyze Bridegroom

WHY H"A"IJH0 A1IU0eH VOAIl'
All the bookshops have sud-
denly broken out into a violent
rash of volumes on marriage.
Evening star., 1933-05-15

Lady may be present Il her manifold
odacial engagements permit. the Wash:
ington Choral Society has completed
the plans for the event, which viii take
place at Central High School Audito-
rum st $50 o'clock,
Recent additions to the List Of spon.
sors include Mrs. Charles y. Acker, Dr..
Edith Seville Coale, Mrs. Carl A.
Oroop, Miss Persis Myers, Mrs. James
Pasmeleo and Senator Efedsric @. WAL
cott, Ill Of whom are expected to be
present "a Tuesday eventng. whsn the
Choral Society, conducted BY ~; Louis
A. Potter Of Warrington, Will be as
sisted By . group Of players OF the
National symphony Orchestra. tnclud-
Ing the Warrington String Quartet
and BY Nj. and Mrs. Walter NASH
pianists Of the Capital City.
Members Of the Friends Of Music
the Friday Morning Music Club and
other outstanding musical org1niSe-
tions VIII attend the event. which Il
the annual festival concert By this In
portant civic chorus, organised foui
years ago by group o6 leading music
lovers q the city, Of whom Mr.. Myrou
W. whitney Is now president.
Serving aS ushers tomorrow night
for the concert will be members Of the
Junior League, among them Miss MarJ
Louise johnson. Miss Barbara Wright
Miss RoGalind Wright and Mrs. Robert
Sherman Barr. Miss Alice Graeme
who Is chairman Of the Arts and In.
teyests COMMITTEES Of the Junior League
Is chairman also Of tho UsherS' Com