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ENTER THE VILLAIN

ENTER THE VILLAIN
New York, Jan. 6.-You can count
the mustaches on the Broadway the
alter boards and still have enough
fingers left for a Bach concerto.
The days Of the villain who stroked
his precariously glued fringe and
Missed: "Ah-ha, me fair lady," have
not only vanished, but a good old
fashioned villain is almost as rare as
a tenant who pays rent on the first
of the month.
Within the. month have heard in
Vulnerable signs for the return of
villain who would cause real shud-
ders. Only Hollywood supplies them
and mostly in westerns. There Is,
for instance, a murder-mystery play
in which the slayer turns out to be,
as usual, the last fellow one would
suspect. But he is psychopathic
case and causes sympathy even at a
moment when shoulders accompany
understanding of his plight.
Again, in Dangerous Corner"
there is fellow who causes no end
Of trouble; yet, he Is suave and Of
the would, and easily explained to a
modern audience.
All of which defeats the basic pur-
poses of villainy. Only in an adapta-
ton of Shakespeare'S "Lucrece" does
one find return to sort of unfor-
givable fiendishness which once was
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Let Speaker Garner remember All
work and no play makes Jack = dull
boy."-Mrs. Nellie TAyloe Ross, d.
rector, women's activities Of the DEM
ocratic party.
\ y y
Grammar is not the science Of what
IS right or wrong in language, but
simply the science of language - Il
is.-Professor Robert G. rooley Of the
University OF Wisconsin.
Times will never be better until IN
eight-hour working week-that -, two
hours day and four days . week
Is adopted universally.-Jack McBeth,
Chicago, president Of the Hobo Col.
lege.
i = 4
China is trying to emulate the best
teachings Of America
DR.. Tehyi Hsieh. director, Chinese
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:BarbS

The old gray mare had her dis
advantages, of course, but she didn't
freeze up when you went to the medi-
cine show.
X * X
Maybe fifty million Frenchmen
can't be wrong-but they can man.
age to look like it to one hundred
million Americans.
X X Y
In picking "cellar-door" as a BEAU
tiful word, Dorothy Parker points out
she makes her choice merely for
Notwithstanding the word from
its meaning. This becomes increas-
ingly difficult for those who remem-
Der when cellar doors sloped off the
house and were full of splinterS.
Y = X
A mans temper can be told from
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The Truth Serum.
''Have you ever heard Of eco
2" asked Thatcher Colt.

"Have you ever heard OF SEQ.
palamin?" asked Thatcher Colt.
eyes. Enormously called the
truth serum in the newspapers.
The doctor folded his hands and
studied Thatcher Colt keenly.
"Why should ! subject myself
to . charlatau's drug when ] don't
have tot" he snapped. "As ! un-
derstand it, you have no legal
right to use the machine or the
drug on me? ! think ] have been
too acquiescent-now ! am about
fed up"
Thatcher Colt nodded.
Correct" he admitted. ~You
are not compelled to do what ]
ask. Neither the lie detector nor
the truth drug have ever been
officially adopted by the Police
Department Of New York, NJ
though other cities, including Los
Angeles have officially adopted
them"
"The truth drug?" The doc.
tors voice was incredulous. full OF
scorn of the orthodox man Of
medicine. "A drug to make .
man tell the truth-against In
terest, as the lawyers say. It must
be Z most remarkable connection.
Did you invent it,"
"Scopalamin," replied Thatcher
Colt, twas first presented TO the
police BY . physician and criminol-
ogist, Doctor r. E. House. Of Fer
Doctor Maskell now wore the
expression Of . skeptical medical
man facing m empire; TOR the
moment he forgot that he was :
prisoner.
"What Is the theory Of this drug
e which a b, you want me to sntrusf
"The principle IL very simple, y
returned Thatcher Colt. "You are
aware that the most active and the
most powerful Of the five senses
p the sense Of hearing. Thia
sense Of hearing-with It, super
sensitivity and super-activity-ia
the last sense to be annihilated IN
der the influence Of IN anesthetic.
Also Il IL the first sense 70 be r.
avakened when the effect Of the
snesthetic wears off. Long after
- cannot see or feel, taste o.
smell anything on the operating
table, W can still hear-and W
can still talk" :.
ssTrue.r nodded Doctor Maskell.
sIf You have ever tainted. You
NAV recall that before you opened
your eyes you heard sounds, voices
a. people around you, or other dis.
turbances. There is aNperiod Of
ime IN which you hear. but ar
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"DoctoF, did you I'M Gefaldine
Foster7"
II did not"
ibid you attack her with IN
axe?"
! did not"
ibid you hate Geraldine Fes.
teri"
mo"
ri. ri. you love hsr!"
ibid you have any reason TO
kin Geraldine Fostor7"
Eyes"
We al leaned forward toward
the PROSTATE doctor - he made
that confession. The silence M
intense, until Thatcher Colts brit
tie voice broke the silence.
"What reason did you have %
kill herr"
Because she threatened some.
one I love-"
ITO whom did she threaten %
betray you?"
ITO another woman"
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CHAPTER xxXIl.
TyHATCHER COLT gravely
shoo1e HE head. Ont Of a vail.

VIA SAAIAs ~ - 6A0vCSy
shook his head. Out Of a wall
closet he brought q small black
bag. like that Of a medical man.
This bag he placed on the table
where the lie detector machine had
rested. then, by the buzzer in his
chair. he recalled the two police
men who presently led into US
again the still firm-jawed but con-
siderably paler Doctor Humphrey
Maskell.
Thatcher Colt rose suddenly
from his chair and held out his
hand.
"Doctor Maskell," he exclaimed,
''if you are a murderer, you are
q wonder. You have shown colos-
sal nerve to submit to this exam
nation"
The doctor smiled. Astute as
he was, he did not, realize the trick
that was being played upon him.
Criminals and honest men. too, like
to be told they are bold and clever.
Vanity is one Of the greatest weak
nesses Of crook and saint alike.
els your nerve still good?" asked
Thatcher Colt, with q trace Of
skepticism in his low voice.
"What is it now?" asked the doc
tor, the contempt again coming
into his tone. "The trial BY fire
and water, like the ancient saw
ages? Or divination by birds? Or
what?"
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"Who II this other woman?"
my wifew

my WUeC
We looked ct each other in com.
plete astonishment. suppose that
ID. too, am . sentimentalist. But in
the face Of this amazing confess
sion, felt some kind Of compass
sion for the helplessness Of this
strong man, this giant who posses
ed over himself such vast self.con.
troll, but who now lay like q few.
cred child, telling on himself. But
If Thatcher Colt shared my feeling,
he did not show any indications Of
II. Boldly he shot the next ques-
ton.
"Your wife! How long have
you been married."
fourteen years"
when did you separatc?"
'Ten years ago."
"You were not divorced?"
''Now
The voice Of the doctor had be.
come very weary.
"Shc will not give me . divorce.
That was Why ] went away. To
Reno. But came back when"
'sWhen what?"
'When l saw that Geraldine was
really missing and that it looked
funny about me-"
"What did Geraldine threaten?"
sTo expose . beautiful love-
drag It through the courts-and
blacken the name of one ] love-"
"Who Is that one?"
w-won't-answer-that."
Glow did Geraldine Foster know
about your wife?"
II don't know"
"Didn't you ask her."
"No."
"Why?"
~ had no opportunity"
Then Thatcher Colt came back
to that old sensitive spot in the
doctors mind.
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Taxes in the Farm Problem
(KancaS Citv Gtar)

The way in which heavy taxes are
contributing to the severity and con-
tinuance of the depression is indi-
Gated in the figures on the farm sit
uation. Before the war, farm taxes,
according to the information COL
lected by the department of agricul-
ture, absorbed about 4 per cent OF
the gross farm income. Last year
they absorbed II per cent.
This last figure, it may be noted
is about the percentage Of farm in
come required to meet interest
charges on farm indebtedness. So
these two fixed charges, taxes and
interest. are absorbing more than
one-fifth OF the gross income from
the farms. Before the war they alb
sorbed less than one.twelfth of the
farm income.
Evidently when the farmer is able
to make the grade with these charges
he has almost nothing left to spend
for the things he ordinarily would
buy. So factories are closed or run
ming part time, and men are out OF
work, who under normal conditions
would be busy making the things the
farmer needs.
What is required to help the situa-
ton Is, first. higher prices for farm
products: second. q lowering OF farm
fixed charges. Plans are being con-
sidered in washington to produce the
first result: 1t Isl hoped something
workable can come out Of them. As
to the lowering OF fixed charges, the
question Of tax reduction is now up
to congress. to Legislatures and to To-
cal taxing bodies. The public Is
bringing tremendous pressure to get
reductions, and farm influence ought
TO be strongly felt here.
The question Of farm Indebtedness
Is exceedingly difficult. sBut adjust
ments are constantly being made
where they are imperative. with
these and further adjustments. with
reduced taxes, and higher income. the
farmer and the country will come
out Of the morass.
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can in the gallon Of water, is good
deodorant wash.

can in the gallon Of water, is good
deodorant wash.
Benedicts Solution
Kindly give directions for testing
the urine with Benedict's solution.-
III. M
Answer quote from "A Book for
Us Diabetes" by DIR. Don H. Duffie,
Central Lake, Mich.-a little book
which every diabetes patient should
have, a most economical twelve shill-
ing investment:
Put 20 drops of Benedict,s solution
in a 4-inch test tube. add one drop
of urine, shake, and set tube in cup
of hot water, where it should boil
five minutes, then be set to cool. If
the fluid in the tube remains clear
blue, it means no sugar. If 1t be-
comes green, that means a trace of
sugar. If it turns yellow, red or
brown and such a deposit settles to
the bottom, that means considerable
sugar"
Copyright, John F. Ollie co..
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why are you so stubborn about
where you spent the time when
Checkles and Doris were eating
their ice-cream?"
''Because I will not drag her into
"Who."
-won't-answer-that."
"Her name7"
Again say, l will not tell it."
Thatcher Colt gave Dougherty =
swift glance, and the two men bent
low over the powerful man Who
Vas now grumbling like q man in
fever.
why were you with her."
Il was not with her. l was wait.
ing for her"
"Whyr
Because It looked like an 1t.
tempt ::|rs' -. d! been !: made to trap u.s."
"Mrs. Westock said that l m,
yanted 1t the house on Peddlsrs
Eyes. Well?"
IL seemed strange to me. Be.
cause ! knew the lady in the ease.
whom ] very deeply adore and -.
spect-do you understand thai? {"
His voice had become auerulous.
more than ever like the tones 81 :
lowered patient DO you3 I
wont talk Il you don't"
O1 course We understand that
Doctor. old boy" said Doueherty.
n sne scft tones Of = deceiver.
= didn't mean you" ansvereA
the doctor sleepily. lyon dorst
matter 70 me. What does Mr. Colf
AZ Dougherty retreated. .ee,:.
m Thatcher Colt said, IN : voice
1u!l q eagerness and eonvietion.
= fully understand that. Doefor
Please proceed"
We'll. I first went 70 The ts,..
phone and called mp tho ladv. All
had suspected, She Was Is Nom.
Fortunately, she MAS alone. -.
planned what had happened. Sha
saad she would come and meet 10
and told me Of . note IA IA
.som !, Geraldine. demanding black
SIs D csatiassj Teusrr,v.,
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&THE MYSTERY GERALDINE
j by ANTHONY ABBOT


/, still not really conseieus-a period
when your GO has not Jet asssEt-
ed ITSELF"
EYES,"
"Well, there 10 where scepolanain
comes in. I. lulls al The other
senses to sleep except hearing. Il
is the theory Of the inventor-and
] may add, Of myself-$hat during
that period when you can hear, but
cannot exercise your other seses,
it is impossible, even for . clever
man like yourself, to tell q ie."
"Humph" said Doctor Maskell,
enigmatically, with . strange look
at Thatcher Colt. .'This Is . real
challenge. You maintain that un-
der the influence Of this drug !
could not exercise my will power
TO withhold the answer to any ques-
tons, il ! 20 wished?"
Exactly"
"And do these super-scientists
who equip the police with these
marvellous police devices have no
fear that the instinct for self-pres-
deviation may not interfere with
your pretty little medieine?"
"A large number Of cases show
that It does not" replied Thatcher
Colt. II could cit here and cite
cases to you, but there isn't time.
The suffering young man Of 4eri-
Idian, Texas, was one example.
There was also the case OF O'LeaIy,
known q the walking dead man.
Doctor Aaskell smiled with .
trace Of malice.
do you think that District At
torney Dougherty would b con-
{vinced Il ! maintained my limo.
|cence under the influence Of the
Idrug?" he asked mockingly.
Thatcher Colt calmly relighted
his pipe.
1.-THE District Attorney wants
the truth - much - you Or i"
he argued.
I'll try anything once" de-
cleared Dougherty, his head 20 one
side, - he closed one eye and
Hooked At Maskell skeptically.
Strange that both these men, each
distrusting the other, equally dis
trusted the drug Of truth. Sud.
denly Doctor Aaskell came to .
resolution. He stood up, took off
his cost, rolled up his sleeve, and
barred his large, heavily muscled
arm, bristling with long, black
hairs.
LETS Co." was al he said.
i All the notes Of what was said
and done there, after the needle
was plunged into the doctors arm
and he was stretched out on .
couch IN Thatcher Colts library,
now lie before me. They are the
most unusual ! have ever taken
IN any criminal case, for they show
Doctor Aaskell speaking without
any reserve whatever. Stretched
out there. he Was utterly relaxed.
His eyes were closed. His breath
ing was deep and regular. His voice
was first heavy and decisive and
almost orotund IN its Importance,
but gradually Il sank into . mono-
tone, like the muSmuY of . sicl
person talking in . 1svsrsd deep.
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commonplace In the most trivial
show-boat performance.
4 \ \
SOME HEROES BASE
In fact, interviews with 4 dozen
major playwrights result in the con-
clusion that the modern weaver Of
stage dreams has been to his Freud,
Jung and Brill and seeks to UNDER
stand baser motives. 80 that today a
hero is quite as capable Of wrong
doing as the lowliest member Of the
cast.
Thus, in Dinner at Eight" an ex-
movie star seduces a charming girl
but Stays himself through defeated
vanity-and the audience weeps.
In Another Language" a $3.50
marriage appears to be intruded up
on, but wise folk figure 1t all out
and there is q Quasi-happy ending to
the most successful legitimate at
traction Of the year.
\ \ \
GOOD OLD DAYS
I am told that we will have a Sc
ries of romantic and realistic dramas
which is hard to believe when every
third would-be playwright you meet
is cropping fer ideas which will be
topical or new.
Yet one of the shrewdest producers
in the business was quoted the other
day as saying that a modern "Pris-
oner of Zenda" would be worth q
million.
LIGHTS AND CADETS
The job Of lighting New York Is
one which always has fascinated me.
Watching the huge spires begin to
sparkle like so many giant Christmas
trees Is one of the many spectacles
for the New Yorker who takes his
thrills more thoughtfully.
But to the power folk responsible,
it is mechanical business of watch
ing certain gadgets. Whereas there
once was Waterman perched upon
high roof watching the approach
Of clouds, today couple of fellows
look at a gadget which tells of the
approach of early darkness and pre-.
diets a storm within few hours of
its arrival.
For, as elsewhere, power must be
Speeded up whenever heavy fogs,
clouds or other intrusions on the sun
appear. Oftimes it is essential for
Manhattan to have lights at three
or four o'clock in the afternoon, and
there must be preparedness to avoid
waste.
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his hands, palmists declare. But it's
the other way round at the bridge
table.
X X X
A common cold may turn an honest
man into desperate criminal, says
a Detroit physician. Any man with a
cold is menace to society.
X * *
Congress may not revive beer, but
it's aroused new interest IN frac-
tions.
copyright, 1882, NEA Service, Inc.)
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II Nav Promote War

\
the first move toward making thu
Philippines an independent nation.
In 10 years, If President Hoover
signs the bill and all goes we'll, the
| American flag will be hauled dowr
at Manila and elsewhere in the
islands and new flag will be added
to the galaxy Of nations. We shall
have gotten out of the Philippines.
There should be no misunderstood
ing of the reasons for passing this
bill. They are inescapably bound up
with the agricultural surplus ques-
ton. The demand for Philippine
freedom. in this country, comes from
the farm. The dairy farmer wants
no competition from the "cocoanut
cow; the sugar producer sees a
menace in imports from the islands;
the tobacco raiser feels he is getting
the worst of the competition with
Filipino tobacco, and SO on through
long list.
From this standpoint there is no
question but We would be better off
If the Filipinos were freed and left
to sell their products on the world
market. Their production costs are
immeasurably cheaper than our own
and items brought here from the
islands do hurt the native producer.
But there is another. if not quite
so apparent, angle to be considered.
That is the possibility of war with
Japan.
We feel that ours is a peace loving
nation, yet history shows that we
have engaged in at least one major
war during every generation since
We became nation. It is now lit
tie more than IA years since the close
Of the World war. II history repeats
itself We shall see, within the next
20 years, another generation of
American boys marching off to vic
tory-or to slaughter.
If the Philippines are left to their
own devices they will be at the mercy
of strong world power lying within
a short distance. From a japanese
point Of view, the Philippines would
be a much more desirable acquisition
than Manchuria or other parts Of
the Asiatic mainland. Many Japa-
nese already live there and the num-
Der is increasing. Complications be-
tween a new and weak nation and
Japan would be easily possible;
might be inevitable. There could be
only one result, especially after the
Japanese have absorbed" Manchuria
with its huge industrial possibilities.
Possession by the United States Of
naval bases in the Philippines would
AlAOuA AAOIAAAAl6s ANO NOIllENtNAlV AllllA-
tary or naval man believes we could
defend the Philippines against ia
pan even now. Japan is too close
and we are too far away.
If the proposition seems fantastic,
it is not as much SO as would have
been the thought, in 1907, that we
should send two million soldiers to
Europe in 1917 and 1918.
It may be well enough to get out
OF the Philippines, but If We do we
should get completely out. And We
should be prepared to say and do
nothing If Japan decides that the
islands would make a splendid col
ony for her.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Wind Instrument

Would playing clarinet tend to
aggravate q goiter?-(Mrs. r. D. W.
Answer-No, it has no effect on
goiter.
DeOd0rant
Is there anything in powder form
that you can sprinkle about to dispel
odor from a room, or any lquid?-
(MrS. g. =. NJ
Answer know Of nothing that
would serve the purpose, in . room
occupied. An ordinary soap and wa
ter cleaning and good drying and
summing is the best way to eradicate
odor. Possibly renovation is required.
Clorinated lime cchlorid OF lime")
in the strength of tablespoonful Of
the pure stuff from a freshly opened
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters health hygiene to disease
diagnosis will be answered by Dr. Brady stamped
Letters should be brief written
made queries not conforming to strc
TONS William Of this newspaper
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Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the
trend OF thought by other editors.
They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree
with The Tribune's policies.
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Germany has IS different weekly
publications devoted to radio.
The Washington times., 1933-05-13
What's Doing, Here and There

Meeting ng-Mount Pleasant Citi-
zens Association, 8 p. m, Mount
Pleasant branch of the Public
Library.
Conference-On the economic
status of the American Negro,
sponsored by the Julius Rosenwald
Foundation of Chicago, all day,
Department of the Inerior.
Joint Conference M a r yland
State Conference of Social Wei
fare and the washington Council
of Social Agencies, all day,
Chamber Of Commerce.
Recital-DauberS Club of How
ard University, 8:15 p. m, Rankin
Memorial Chapel.
May Day Fete-Wilson Teachers
College, 2:3O p. M, Sylvan Thea
ter, grounds of the Washington
Monument.
Annual Children'S Festival
Sponsored by the Community Gen.
The Washington times., 1933-05-13

Freshman Prom-National Uni
Versity Law School, 10 p. M, Will
lard Hotel.
Tea Dance-Holy Cross Acad-
emy, 4 p. m, Shoreham Hotel.
Dance-Junior Prom, George
Washington University, 10 p. m,
Shoreham Hotel.
Banquet and Dance-Sigma
Theta Sorority, Z p. M, May
flower Hotel.
Supper Meeting-Alpha Iota
Sorority, z p. m, Mayflower
Hotel.
Banquet-Washington H / g h
School, 7 p. M, Hamilton Hotel.
Dance-Alpha Chi Sigma, 9
p. m, Hamilton Hotel.
Annual Facgradalum Dance
Roosevelt High Schol Alumni AS
sociation, 9 p. M, Roosevelt High
School Armory,
The Washington times., 1933-05-13

For the District of Columbia-Show-
era and thunderstorms tonight and
possibly Sunday morning; warmer to-
night, cooler Sunday night; moderate
south, shifting to northwest winds.
For Maryland-Showers and thun-
derstOrms tonight and possibly Sun
day morning; warmer in east portion
tonight: cooler Sunday in west portion.
For Virginia-Showers and thunder
storms tonight and Sunday; warmer
in northeast and cooler in extreme
west portion tonight, cooler in west
and central portions Sunday.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yesterday Today
D. m..... SO s a. m........ SO
Midnight .... SO Noon .......... II
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January l, 1888, 459.
Deficiency of temperature since May
Accumulated excess of precipitation
since January /, 1888, 1876.
Excess Of precipitation since May /,
1888, 1877.
THE TIDE TABLE
Today-High tides. 10:43 a. m. and
11:2O p. m. Low tides, ASS a. M. and
5:I p. M
The Washington times., 1933-05-13
SILVER SPRING
/ CLUB ELECTS

Mrs. H. H. Hewlett has been
named delegate from the Wom-
ans Improvement Club of Silver
Spring to the convention in Alex
andria of the National Federation
Of Women'S Clubs.
-Four members, Mrs. John Kelle'
Mrs. Esther Sleschell, Mrs. Tai
madge Miller and Mrs. Lloyd Y.
Beers will represent the club at
the Montgomery county meeting
OF women'S clubs.
DR.. j. w. Bird, head Of the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital, will speak at the next meet
ing of the club at the home Of
Mrs. Carrie Matter in Sligo Park
Hills, May 25.