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The Washington times., 1933-07-12
Give The Kids A New Deal
Let Them Swim Free

The children of Washington deserve deal on
hot summer DAYS.
In simple justice they should permitted without
charge in the swimming pools which have been constructed
with the tax money Of their parents.
series OF articles now appearing in The Washington
Times points out the in which the pools operated
and the charges which made for children and adults
The which operated by the District Playground
Department make charge for either adults children
But of the largest pools in the city operated by
the Community Center Department and the Welfare and
Recreaona Association and at these adults charged
cents and children 10 cents.
These charges ridiculous and drive both the children
and the adults away from the comparatively safe and sanitary
pools into the treacherous and filthy Potomac River
The people of Washington built all Of these pools both
those that operated free and those which make charge
The people of Washington therefore should be allowed
to them.
To the people to build the pools and then them
again for using them is absurd
is all very we'll back and say 10 cents only
nominal charge make for child using Of the pools
But in fact it is not nominal charge
Children, in these days any days. for that matter
not have dimes spend for swimming privileges
Many children do not have dime month and when they
do get it should 60 buy milk and other nourishng
foodstuffs.
Hundreds of Washington children went to school hungry
last winter until private charity supplied them with MONDAY
lunches
they haven't enough money to buy food they certainly
haven't enough money to pay for swimming in public pools
Swimming is healthful and delightful sport
On hot day is of the few effective methods
Of combating high temperatures.
Whatever do to place swimming facilities within
the reach of children and adults should do That the
philosophy behind the expenditure of hundreds of thousands
Of dollars to construct the pools
Adults are, presumably, better able to pay the 25cent
fee than the children to pay the dime But the
adults having hard time financially these days
does not right that they should be forced pay
10 the facilities which they have created
All the pools should be open without charge.
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
Human Side of the News
A Puff of Smoke Against Mighty Religion-Art
Treasures of the Vatican-Michelangelo
Glory and Tragedy
.By EdUin C.. Hill

God is not impressed by a
puff of smoke and a little
noise. Nor startled by the
explosion of a bomb even
in the gateway of His House.
Reading about the recent
attempt made to injure the
great cathedral of St. Peters
in Rome and the neighbor-
ing Vatican by bomb ex-
plosions, one is inclined to
marvel at the strange con-
ceit of the human being who
built the bombs and set
them off.
What did he hope to ac-
complish outside Of the
wrecking Of a doorway or
a walli Could his puny
gesture, his little puff of
smoke, his little explosion
change the face of religious
thought, deflect the current
of history or alter the plans
Of the Almighty
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Puny Wrecker

The most and the worst
he could have accomplished
was to injure or wreck the
architectural work which
stands as one Of the great
est creations Of the great
est artist who ever lived,
Michelangelo-the Basilica
Of St. Peters; or perhaps
ruin the most famous paint
ings Of the world, those
which are perhaps the
grandest in perception and
execution, the frescoes Of
the ceiling Of the Sistine
Chapel Of the Vatican, the
master work of that same
incredible genius Michel
angelo.
I doubt if anyone can gaze
up to them and not stand
breathless with admiration
for the tremendous sweep of
Imagination which conceived
them and the perfect beauty
of their design.
They are one Of the treas
ures of the world, not merely
Of the Roman Cath Ollie
Church which so freely re-
veals them to any visitor to
the Vatican. Reproductions
of these frescoes have been
scattered all over the world
and published in a thousand
books.
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

is behind them, as well as
Wall Street.
What can the unwashed mil
lions do about that? What an
Swer can they give to prove
their common humanity, their
common anguish?
Long ago great writer wrote
that answer and put it into the
outcry of a broken-hearted Jew.
But the passionate protest was
not for Jews alone. It was for
all the poor, the forgotten, the
despised for all those who
sweat and weep while the
powerful and privileged loll and
laugh. In tortured Shylock's
cry, all those despised ones find
their voice at last:
II AM A JEW. HATH NOT
A JEW EYES? HATH NOT A
JEW HANDS, ORGANS, d.
MENSIONS, SENSES, AFFEC-
TIONS, PASSIONS? FED WITH
THE SAME FOOD, HURT
WITH THE SAME WEAPONS,
UBJECT TO THE SAME
DISEASES, HEALED BY THE
SAME MEANS, WARMED AND
COOLED BY THE SAME WIN
TER AND SUMMER AS A
CHRISTIAN IS? IF YOU
PRICK US, DO WE NOT
BLEED? IF YOU TICKLE US,
DO WE NOT LAUGH? IF YOU
POISON US, DO WE NOT
DIE?"
"HAVE THEY NOT EYES,
those desperate ones who wait,
denied their chance? Eyes that
weep tears as salty as yours or
mine; eyes that flame with
visions, burn with injustice, melt
with love and pity?
And if, through lack Of de-
cent opportunity, their eyes re-
main dull or become brutal,
whose fault is it; whose shame?
HAVE THEY NOT HANDS"
hands that reach as hungrily
as ours, that clench as furi-
ously, touch as tenderly, fold as
frantically in prayer?
do THEY NOT BLEED?"
Can their hearts not break as
ours break? Watch a poor
mother, huddled over the grave
of her crippled child?
Can their pride not be shat
tered? Face a bread line, If
you dare!
mot of a piece with aus!"
Let the God who made us in
His image from the same lump
of clay, and breathed into us all
the same breath of His life,
judge Of that. And He will!
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ton and superior judgment,
and who is constantly offering
her unsolicited information and
advice, with the idea that he
is dazzling the simple little
thing-when he is merely bor-
ing her to tears.
Whereas, another man who
frankly confesses his weak
nesses, admits his follies and
begs her to be his guiding
star" or to help him reform"
or to get hold of himself, ap-
peals to the mother instinct in
her and soon finds himself be-
ing rewarded with tender re-
assurances. Women always pre-
fer a frank sinner to a SELF
assured saint.
The "caveman" is fading out
of the picture; but there is still
the Big He-Man, who imagines
that nothing inspires the women
with so much admiration as
brute masterfulness and mas
culine domination. He has the
old-fashioned notion that every
woman likes to be conquered"
and, figuratively speaking,
dragged about by the hair.
And a few women still DO.
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Woman's Head

Some Of the paintings are
badly faded and barely dis
tinguishable. But among
the numerous smaller paint
ings between the crown Of
the vault and the walls,
among the figures of pro-
phets and sibyls, is the head
of a lovely woman, a head
and charming face, whose
colors seem as fresh and
bright today as when An
gelo finished his task more
than four centuries ago
the head of one Of the
women Of the Colonna. fami-
ly, with whom the great
artist was madly in love.
A woman with red-gold hair
and blue, blue eyes, and the
carriage of the Princess that
she was-the daughter Of
a great house-of a family
whose name is one of the
proudest in Rome to this
very day.
She was Victoria Colonna.
For years, until her death,
her friendship was the one
solace of the life Of an en-
bittered and unhappy man,
Upon her in all loyalty and
reverence he poured the
treasures Of his mind and
all the imprisoned powers
Of his tenderness and devo-
tion. She inspired his
poetry. For her he COM
pleted a task no other man
had been able to finish, the
great Dome of st. Peter s.
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Painted On Back

To create them, the great
master spent four years lying
upon his back at the top of a
lofty scaffolding painstak-
ingly executing figure after
figure, working in a wretched
light, and with imperfect eye
sight, until the whole ceiling
was decorated, in nine COM
partments, with the allegori-
cal characters which portray
the story Of man and of the
world from the Creation to
the Flood.
Michelangelo began to
paint those mighty frescoes
in the year 1903. For 425
years they have been the ad-
miration of the world and the
despair Of artists.
Since 1912, countless mil
lions have gazed upward at
the ceiling of the private
chapel of the Popes. Artists
have made reverent pilgrim
ages to the shrine. And there
they have caught a majestic
reflection Of the overwhelm-
ing genius and power which
could imagine and faultlessly
achieve such a pictorial rec
ord of the great hand Of God
moulding the universe.
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stars, the creation of Adam
and Eve, the temptation Of
the serpent and the expul-
sion from the garden and
the deluge which wiped
out a world displeasing to
its Maker. Every one of
the creations rising into
mighty significance from
roots deep in daily human
nature.
The nine great compart-
ments of the ceiling deal
with these nine subjects: the
dividing Of the light from
darkness, the creation of
the heavenly bodies, the Gre
alton Of the waters upon
the earth, the creation Of
man, the creation of woman,
the temptation and expul-
sion, the sacrifice of Noah,
the deluge and the drunk
enness of Noah.
Attitudes and combina-
tions Of unmatched variety
and grandeur, the profound.
est knowledge and the most
searching realism, with the
noblest elements Of grace
and tenderness, and the
whole the sublimest work
ever done by the hand Of
man.
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
Food Profiteering Must Stop
Every Case Reported Should Be Investigated

Prices up they have going up time they
will go higher.
This is inevitable under the New Deal.'
In fact it is of the main features of the New Deal
It is SURPRISE has been widely advertised
expected it.
We probably could not have recovery without it.
There criticism Of FAIR price rise is essential
TO an increase in employment and in business.
there sinister signs that the profteer is coming
back to reap harvest from this rising market.
Unless he held check by the Federal Government
primarily and by State and local far they
have the power the cost Of living will reach prohibtive
levels
The increase in prices since April has been gradual but
It has been serious matter to all who getting the
pay then.
Staple groceries in New York State for example,
gone up average of from 20 to 80 per cent
Flour meat butter and eggs among them.
Potatoes selling for nearly twice what they
Flour used to be SO for "a pound sack Now it is
about IS, and in places 95.
= Bread probably will go up one or two cents pound
When you remember that wheat few months ago was
selling at bushel and around ST. you
hardly expect anything else.
There also the processing tax on flour which adds
its cost to the housewife or baker.
Meats of course, considerably expensive-ron
up cents round steak 5, lamb chops g. poultry 8.
Tub butter is 2 to 20 cents against 81 print butter
20 to 80 against a. eggs 80 to 35 cents dozen
against a.
Even vegetables despite the greater supply of them at
this season, are higher the average.
It would take staff Of accountants and library of
figures say much this general legitimate
and how much is not
But the New Department Of Public Markets vouches
for the that there has been considerable proeering
some lines, and that undoubtedly there will be
As one official is quoted:
"Thev just SCI to get money on
everything that is going up, and they grab it,"
On the fringe of every legitimate business whether
foodsufss not there is minority of unscrupuous dealers
whose motto is all the traffic will BEAR and then some
At this time particularly when wages still tagging far
behind prices it is every governmental agency pre-
vent this class from exploiting the public.
Most of that will have to be done from Washington Local
city governments however win the gratitude house
wives by investigating every reported of proteering
bringing to the attention Of the Federal authorities
action
The Washington times., 1933-07-12

the radio. Whereas, a man
who can be eloquently silent,
piques her curiosity. A woman
likes an audience" as much
as a man does.
You'd fancy that a mans
achievements and success
WOULD arouse a woman's ad-
miration. And they DO. But
she will fall twice as quickly
for the man who tells her
of his failures and heartaches,
and appeals to her sympathy.
All Of which is just the
perversity Of the female Of the
species. Which accounts for
that fact that so many
fine, worth while women marry
worthless weaklings or pallid,
Intellectual men; while so many
of the strong, worth while 60
getting men fall to the lot Of
the molluscs and dumb-bellS
and lazy gold-diggers.
Copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-07-12


most of those creatures are lit
tie better than animals. They
don't want work. They are
making a racket of their idle
ness. And writer's such as you
are encouraging them.
"Of course you don't mean it.
Actually, you have no more
sympathy with them than the
rest of us. But it pays you to
play to the gallery. You don't
care what harm you do, as long
as you get your money. It's
people like you who start reVo-
lutions."
Is that q real letter? It is.
It is also an important letter.
It is important because it gives
the sincere opinion of several
million fat, comfortable. we'll
protected Americans about many
more millions of Americans,
who are not so fat or so COM
Portable. and who are not pro-
tected at all.
It matters little what this
lady thinks of me. But it mat
terS greatly what she and the
rest of the Better People"
think Of those other millions
and that letter states ex-
actly what most Of them do
think.
They think (and maybe
you're one of them) that the
human race is divinely di-
vided into classes and masses.
They believe that the masses
differ in every respect from
the classes-that the masses
lack all the deeper emotions
and finer feelings peculiar to
Better People" - that they
wouldn't appreciate or use an
opportunity if they had it. In
short, however charitable their
outward acts may be, the
classes , secretly regard the
masses exactly as they regard
the monkeys in the zoo-aS
something utterly alien to
their own nature.
Not only do these privileged
Americans believe these no
tions, but, because they hold
the bulk Of wealth, they have
been running the country &C
cording to these notions. And
they honestly feel that heaven
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
Still Lives

For her he made cold
marble breathe with fire
and beauty. It was her
death in 1547 which broke
his heart and severed the
strand which connected this
solitary, weary man with all
humanity. But he lived on
for further mighty tasks, to
add to achievements, such,
I think, as no artist has
ever been able to match-in
painting, in poetry, in sculp-
ture, in architecture.
Italy today is rich with
the creations Of this mighty
lntellecC. he is IdI- mOLo
alive than millions who
tread the streets, this heroic
old man whose last remains
of strength gave way while
he was planning still further
vast schemes, and who
closed his eyes finally, on
the eighteenth day of Febru-
ary in the year 1864, on the
threshold Of his ninetieth
year.
Copyright, 1898, King Features
Syndicate Ino.A
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m e n t aliZing
over all these
ignorant, il
literate, u n
employed peo-
pie.
"It is dis
guSting to say
that they and
the b e t t e r
people are all
OF g. p e c e..
There may be
a few decent
p e r S o n S
among them,
but everyone
no wS that.
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
Roots In Nature

They have gazed upward
at Michelangelo's sibyls
and prophets and slaves, and
the whole vast panorama
from the creation of the
sun and the moon and the
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
WORDS FROM WISE MEN

ForeWarned, forearmed; to be
prepared is half the victory
Cervantee
Four hostile newspapers are
more to be feared than a thou
sand bayonets.-Napoleon.
Despair has often gained bat
GeS.-Voltaire.
The Washington times., 1933-07-12

Where there is sorrow, there
Is holy ground.-OScar Wilde.
Go to the ant, thou slug
gard, consider her ways, and
be wise.
A lie which iS half a truth ID
ever the blacklist of lieS.-Tenr
nySon,
The Washington times., 1933-07-12

"Do They Not Bleed?"
'They should put a stop to
your writing" snipes she. "You
are doing terrible harm by Senti-
The Washington times., 1933-07-12
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

But there is nothing like a
little secret shyness and boy
ishness in a man, to touch
the average woman's heart,
and awaken all her maternal
yearnings. Modesty in any
man is always SUCH a sweet
surprise! And tenderness and
reserve always appeal to a
woma ans imagination, and
make her see a lot of wonder
full qualities in a man that
never really were THERE.
A very young man loves to
pose as a Don Juan or Casa
nova and to impress every girl
with his prowess as a woman
tanner. He fancies that the
background of a purple past
spotted with broken hearts
lends him luster in her eyes.
But every girl, modern or
old-fashioned, has dreamed all
her life of an ideal lover with
all the steadfastness of q
Cyrano de Bergerac and all
the one-woman devotion of a
Romeo. And she has no pas
Sionate desire to join the large
throng in an overcroWded
heart.
There is always the man who
likes to pore as a wit or to
shine as a cynic. But the "life
of the party" gets on a normal
Woman's nerve like static on
The Washington times., 1933-07-12

What Makes Men LOvable?
What makes a man attrac-
tive to women?
Much as he may be surprised
and shocked to learn 1t, it is
seldom the qualities on which
he prides himself and which
he tries to feature, that appeal
to the opposite sex. 1t is usu-
ally the little characteristics
which he has tried all his life
to conquer or to hide.
For instance, there is the
type of man who is always
trying to impress a girl with
his worldly wisdom, sophistica-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-28

party leaders at Sea Girt Gov. Moore who is not eligible for another term in his present position on account of State law, is easily the most popular man in public life in his State today. His nomina- tion probably would be equivalent to election. He doesn't want to go to the Senate just now. He has yearning to return to private life and the practice of law. He has made a splendid Governor and would add to his reputation in the United States Senate.
 In addition to a Senator New Jersey will elect Governor next year. William L. Dill, Motor Vehicle Commissioner of the State for 13 years is considered the most likely timber. He defeated in 1928 by MT Larsen, but he lost by less than half of the vote that AT Smith, popular he is there lost to Hoover. In public esteem he is second only to Gov. Moore and a ticket combining both names would be strong the Democrats could possibly select.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-28
A National Police.
Cincinnati Enuuirer.)


 The hearings racketeerng by a Senate sub committee producing great volume of senti- ment among crime experts for the creation of national police authorized and equipped to deal with racketeering and other crimes which reach beyond State boundaries. This development of expert opin- ion around Federal agency to deal with crime is worthy of serious consideration. Almost every other country in the world has such a police force, and in most cases those forces have become the main reliance of the country for keeping order and pre- venting crime.
 It is ironical fact that the States have fallen hopeessly behind in the combating of crime Most of them still trust to the Sheriff and Constable system of Queen Annes tme while great cities have moved forward within their limits, by build ing efficient police forces with modern equipment In only few States there modern police systems that cover the whole State and tie together the work Of municipal and county forces. Had the States been the job might not have the problem now existing Efficient State troopers could have done much to prevent the growth of racketeering and long distance crime. Without State police the burden falls the Fed Ieral Government to provide unifying agency Per lhapS such nationwide system would be needed, even though every State organized on modern lines to combat crime At any rate, one of the major questions that will be faced by the new tCongress in January will be that creating Federal machinery to cope with crime when it transcends the limits of cities and States
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-28
CASHENS ARRIVE FROM SITKA TO SEE FATHER

MT. and Mrs. Lawrence CaShen, of Sitka, arrived on the North land yesterday, having come to see MT. Cashen's father, Jerry Cash en, who is recovering from the effects of a heart attack at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Miles Godkin. MT. Cashen was strick- en while watching baseball game last Thursday, but according to latest reports, he is now in much improved condition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-28
Masters of the Deep.
(New York World Telegraph


 That stroke of luck yesterday-the RexS new record in Atlantic crossings. It triumph of unknown men, justification of all their dsap- pointments and successes in the century they have given to the perfection of the oceangoing steam ship
 The first one to cross-the Savannah, American owned with auxiliary steam equipment, in 1919 took twenty days
 Twenty years later the Sirius, English owned, cut the figure to seventeen, and the day the Great Western, also English, brought it down to thirteen.
 Then the long struggle, not to discover over night the secret of making wholly type of craft but to perfect the steam engine modify it, augment it, was on.
 The iron screw replaced the wooden paddle in the sos; the eos brought the compound engine; in the sos steel in many ways replaced iron and the twin in the great masts went, and at the turn of the century the turbine engine came.
 host of men up and down the earth worked on phases of the problem materials de- veloped; liquid fuel came into usage the queens of the deep evolved.
 The steps ahead have been many, long ones and short ones No one man may claim the credit. It belongs to a host too long to name, but living today in the Rex's brave feat-4 days, 13 hours 48 minutes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-28
By WADE WERNER

VIENNA, Aug. 28. - Chancellor Englehart Dolfuss' determination to drive Hitlerism out of Austria is not the only spectacular ob- jective he has announced for his regime.
 There is a positive side to
 the DOllfuss program ,toO. It
 constitutes a new deal"-the
 reforging of Austria into
 German Catholic State with
 new constitution, a new Eur
 opean outlook and new ad-
 justment of the problems of
 labor and capital.
 At a time like this" he told Austrians in a manifesto published through the land, when German civilization is passing through a great crisis this German folk in the Alpine and Danube country must remain an island of Chris tian-G German culture in its old and unadulterated form"
 Gives Austria New Mission
 For a long time, he reminded his public, it was Austrias mission to be the organizer and admins .trator of many nationalities liv- ing and developing within the old empire.
 But that mission is ended" he said. Austria now should be- come a refuge of Christian-Ger- man civilization and a mediator between the German nationality in general and the other nations of the world"
 Sees Inspiration in Past
 But Austria also must be built anew within it's own borders and