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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
Slim Barrier

Nudists might be interested
in what DR.. Charles G. Abbott,
of the Smithsonian Institution,
has to say about that tiny star
we call the sun. We think of the
sun as a great, overwhelming
mass, and yet, counted among
the other stars, it is only a
dwarf. Now DR.. Abbott tells us
that this ball of electric radia.
ton is an evil dwarf, constantly
leveling death rays at us. short
wave, ultraviolet beams which
would destroy all human, animal
and vegetable life and dry up
the oceans if they could get to
us.
But man happens to have one
last, thin line of defense, a
Chinese wall, just 40 miles about
his head. 1t is barrier only
one-eighth of an inch thick, a
band of ozone gas in the outer
reaches of the stratosphere. It
sidetracks the short wave ultra.
violet rays, permitted only ultra.
violet rays of longer length to
pass through.
And DR.. James Ewing warns
against the abandonment Of
clothing as a short cut to health.
Strange is it not, that only a
wall thinner than a woman'S
hand, keeps this old earth tenn
ing with life, keeps it surging
and glowing with life; in a uni
verse of dead stars and planets,
burned to cinders by the relent-
less sun.
Copyright. 1898. King Features,
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
Public Schools Existence
Hanging in the Balance
BY James T. Williams, Jr.

can cities has already shortened
its school term and tbs rural
schools will close between now
and Christmas.
School terms in nearly every
great city are today one or two
months shorter than they were
10 or 100 years ago.
And the prospects for the COM
ing school year, as reported to
the Federal office of education.
are even darker. For example,
80 per cent Of the schools Of
Michigan will shorten hours.
In Missouri. 100 high schools
and $500 rural schools will be
compelled to close well in advance
of the regular school term. Fiji
teen per cent of the schools OF
Nebraska will be compelled %
cut at least one month from the
school term. Most of the
schools in New Mexico have
been put on notice that their
terms will have to be shortened.
''MOst people have q vague
idea," says Commissioner ZOOk.
'that teachers salaries are low.
Few know how low they are.
For example: An unskilled fac
tory worker labOring for year
at the minimum blanket code
rate. would receive S72S, which
is little enough. One Of every
four American teachers is row
teaching at a rate less than
$3.50 per year.
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go Jump in the bay.
WOULD YOU DO IT?
why, of course I Wouldn't"
you cry Indignantly. What an
absurd question! No sensible
person would give up a job Tor
which they'd worked like that
and no fair person would de-
mand such an outrageous sacri-
fice!"
Yes, your answer certainly
seems reasonable. And yet
EVERY DAY WORKERS
ARE BEING ASKED TO DO
JUST THAT-AND NO ONE
THINKS THE SACRIFICE IS
EVEN QUEER, MUCH LESS
OUTRAGEOUS"
How come? Simply this. The
worker" is a woman and a
wife. The one who demands
the sacrifice of pride, ambition,
tireless toll and honest sacrifice
is man-AND HER HUS-
BAND.
And though this is 1888, with
Equality" presumably firmly
established, when it comes to
the Missis' job she has actually
about as many rights as the
well-known bunny in Hades.
For example-here, today, a
couple of letters. They were
chosen at random out Of hun
dreds which come daily to this
desk. They are the actual
stories of two women's lives.
But they also represent a prob
lem which is raising Cain in' or
affecting, every working home
in America. The first is:
The Story of Mrs. Young
Mrs. Young is pretty, poppy,
"a. She married Fred Young
just before the depression
started. Both had pretty good
jobs at that time. Two months
later Fred lost his position in
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idle most of the last three years,
only able to pick up an occa-
sional chore now and then.
So Dolly carried on, willingly
enough-although, Of course,
there were the usual depression
Spats.
Now last week luck came
Fred's way again. The old firm
has opened up: asked him to
come back. Fred'S going-on
high! But here's the hitch:
HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN
WIVES WORKING IF THEIR
HUSBANDS HAVE A JOB" He
declares it has always gotten
his goat to see his wife work.
The other elbows have no use
for a man who lets his wife
work." So, to save his face and
suit his notionA Dolly musa
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Alarming Facts

Information reaching the
Federal office of Education di-
rectly from school officials all
over the United States reveals
the following alarming facts:
When the school term opened
this autumn, 100000 additional
children were denied the oppor.
tunity which only public educa-
ton can give them.
In normal years, 1858, 900
children between 6 and 10 years
Of age are out Of school.
In normal years, 521,700 chill
dren between IA and Is years Of
age are reduced to the same
plight.
This means a total of $780,
600 American children of school
age who, according to most
compulsory education laws,
should be in school, are out of
school either because they are
made to work or because there
is no school for them to attend.
But the situation is much
worse now because this is not a
normal year. Nearly 1000 rural
schools in "a States failed to
open last September. Many pri-
vate and parochial schools are
closing down for lack of funds.
Sixteen institutions Of higher
education have been discontin'
ued since last year, $500 COM
mercial schools and colleges
have already closed and others
may have to close within the
next few months.
In some communities, free
public schools are no longer
available even for the poorest
family. The school authorities
are admitting as pupils only
those children whose parents
can pay the rate required.
Because Of lack Of available
funds, one Of every four Amert
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LISTEN WORLD

quit her office-go back to the
kitchen.
BUT DOLLY SAYS SHE
DOESN'T WANT TO GO.
Whats there for me to do
in a three-room apartment"
she walls. I'VE can't afford
to have baby yet; :; wouldn't
be fair, until things are more
settled. That leaves me idle,
unless I fill my time playing
bridge, window-shopping or 60
ing to matinees, the way other
women do. And I'd go crazy!
81 just won't be a bum like
that! nd it isn't fair for Fred
to ask me He has no right to
have such funny, old-faShioned
notions. If his pride is so fussy,
he should do something about
it, instead of demanding that
wreck my life!"
So on, and on, with each Of
them sure they're right - and
the bitterness building itself
into a bleak barrier between
them. What do YOU think Of
it?
IS FRED A NORMAL YOUNG
H U S B ND, MAKING A
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Flaming Furnace

Shortly afterward candidates
for suicide discovered the little
volcanic island Of Oshima, IN
the Pacific, just off Yokohama.
Poets began to sing the praises
of Oshima's beautiful maidens,
and its fire breathing Mount
Mihara, eternally crowned with
fire and smoke. In ever
greater numbers people flocked
to the island, to plunge into
the crater abyss and be Gre
mated in incandescant lava.
The Jump Of about LOO feet
implied a painless death, with
the flesh, dissolved in the
flames, rising to heaven with
the immortal soul.
The first butterfly to wing her
way to the red glare of the vol
cano's crater, was Miss Kikoko,
a lovely society girl of Tokyo.
With a friend she climbed to the
edge of the crater, wrote a
farewell to life, and took the
fatal plunge. Almost daily ter
rible scenes took place at the
crater. A woman leaped with
her baby in her arms. A man OF
80 had himself carried to the
brink in order that he could end
his earthly career with his last
strength. Young girls concluded
death pacts with young stu
dents, and the couples hurled
themselves together into the
flaming furnace.
Tourists flocking to Oshima
Island, climbing the slopes COW
cred with azalea groves and then
with lava and ashes, would see
a young man or a young girl
run to the brink, wave a hand
and leap from sight.
The craze assumed such pro-
portions that the government
again had to intervene and deny
access to the volcano. No less
than two hundred persons had
sought and found death. since
the beginning of the year, in the
raging heart of Mount Mihara.
After many years Of patient
search, the antiquarians found,
about ten miles from Naples,
the cave where, as tradition
says and the poets have sung,
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Many a girl is steering for
spinisterhood, because she inno-
Gently believes all those glowing,
feminist articles she reads, adj
>vocating woman's right" to do
the counting.
A mans weakest moment IS
when he is feeling convivial and
pleased with himself: a woman's
weakest moment is when she
is feeling lonely and sorry for
herself.
The only difference between
two women. in the average
mans opinion, is the difference
in the brand Of appleSauce
they pass out,
Some bridegrooms manage to
look cheerful II sheepish; but
most of them have the
trapped" expression of Towser
being led to his weekly bath
or Of Junior going to the den
lists.
# q woman'S heels are too
high, she runs a chance Of a
bad fall-but if her hat Is too
high, the fall Is a tragic Ger.
tainty.
The modern woman is be-
coming so sophisticated that
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Every American father and
mother under the Flag should
"read, mark, learn and inward
ly digest" the alarming facts
developed by a recent survey Of
public education in the United
States which has just been COM
pleted by George F. Zook. Presi-
dent Roosevelt'S Commissioner
of Education, with the assistance
of his efficient staff in the Fed
eral Office of Education.
This survey shows that the
very existence Of public schools
in hundreds of communities all
over the country is hanging in
the balance. I'VE find our
Selves" declares the Commits
sioner, Gin the grip Of a social
difficulty from which we shall
extricate ourselves only with
great effort and pain"
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By Elsie Robinson
AND A GROWING PRIDE IN
HER OWN ACHIEVEMENT.

HER OWN ACHIEVEMENT.
Gradually that which was
only heroic drudgery has be-
come an intriguing challenge
then a fascinating career. To-
day, Edna is one of the most
successful real estate agents in
a city of 100000. And she's
just getting her stride.
But now suddenly, as with
Dolly and Fred, Fate steps in.
Luck has changed, too, for
Ernest Old. He's in the build
ing trade. His old firm has
won the contract for a huge
new development in a distant
State. It will mean a couple
of years work-a new reputa-
tion-plenty of cash. But
1T WILL ALSO MEAN THAT
HE MUST GO AWAY, MAKE
A NEW HOME. HIGH
DOESN'T BOTHER ERNEST
FOR A MOMENT. BUT HOW
ABOUT EDNA? TO HIS
ABATEMENT AND MOUNT
ING WRATH, HE FINDS THAT
1T BOTHERS HER VERY
MUCH INDEED.
But why should it?" he de-
mandS furiously. Nov that
I'm working, why shouldn't you
settle down and take it easy?"
did YOU want to settle
down. and take things easy when
you were out of a job?" asks
Edna, with a fighting edge to
her quiet voice. did you en-
joy feeling that you were out
Of things-watching your old
friends forge ahead?"
why, no: of course I didn't"
Ernest admits impatiently. But
that's different. That isn't the
same thing at all. I'm a man."
What difference does that
make? Can't a woman have
ambition as much as a man?
Doesn't she, too, take pride in
making a fine record? I stood
by you-willingly, lovingly. I
didn't complain at the hard
work and sacrifices.
Nov, at last, 1 can make
good on all I've done, and really
enjoy myself a little. What
right have you to ask me to
give it up? You'll have other
chances. But if I leave here.
all the work Of the years is
lost. It isn't fair. You've no
right to expect it,"
So on, and on they also go.
And YOU-what's YOUR an.
swer to it all? No use quoting
"the good old days." No use
telling how Grandma and
Grandpa used to feel about such
things. This is a brand-new
world, with conditions and
problems in it of which Grandpa
and Grandma never dreamed.
What position do YOU think
wives should have in this new
world. where they're trained to
work as men, and usually ex.
pected to work as men by their
own husbands-until the pic.
ture changes?
BUT IF A WOMAN IS
BRIGHT ENOUGH TO DO
THE WORK OF A MAN, AND
STRONG ENOUGH TO CARRY
THE LOAD OF A MAN, ISN'T
SHE ALSO ENTITLED TO
SHARE THE REWARDS OF
A MAN-EVEN IF SAID RE.
WARDS DO Int r F E r z
WITH HER HUSBANDS PR1-
VATE PLANS?
Suppose YOU tell us. The
worlds listening.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01

Curious news from Japan.
A new shrine for suicides is
being sought. In the japanese
conception, suicide is regarded
as a noble gesture. sanctioned
by the national code Of honor.
For a long time Keeon
cataract, an almost vertical
waterfall 26O high, was the
shrine of the unhappy and
self-doomed. When the au-
thorities decided that the cat
aract had claimed enough
victims, they closed all accesses
with barbed wire.
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superstition or merely a pre-
monition that the worst is
about to happen?
Theoretically, every woman
started her Christmas shopping,
weeks ago; but to man Christ
mas is like his wedding day
he refuses even to THINK ABOUT
it, until the day before.
Every woman envies a man
that sublime optimism, with
which he breezes in on the
maids day off. trailing a couple
of unexpected guests for inner
with only four lamb chops in
the ice-box.
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long years
A job which
at last prom
Used a profit
able future
And, just as
the sun was
coming over
the m o u n
tains," some
o n e c a m e
a ! on g a n d
asked you to
give up that
job, pass up
the fu tur e
and tell your
on0hifi0n to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01

on the produc-
ton Of better
and better air
planes.
A n d tn e
goUernne nts
tn e m Sc lUes
take interest
and S u pply
money for air
plane expert
ments. T h ey
do not rely
exclusively on
private enter
prise, W h i C h
n a t rrall y
seeks primar-
lily to make a
profit.
The picture
at he tor
s h o W s a
1t h or o u G h
bred" looking
French plane
of high speed
that has re-
Gently broken
records. It is
used by the
m a n a g n G
d ire tor Of
the Con1pag-
n / e A / r
France.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01

F or tunately
private enter
prise in the
United States
b as don e a
great deal to
offse GU r
lack of gov
er n m ent en-
ergy and in
terest in the
a i r p l a n e ,
which is an
American i n
vention.
Many of the
b est engines
and planes in
the world have
b en- created
ere in the
United States.
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WISE WORDS

It is the instinct Of under.
standing to contradict reason.
jacob.
A bechelor is a man who
shirks responsibilities and duties.
C. B. Shaw.
AS often as a man loses his
own relatives so often he does.
-Publilius Syrus.
Time, which is the author
at 0uthorS.-Bacon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
GERMANY'S GIANT PLANE
"VON HINDENBURG"

Second from the top picture is giant German monopane
christened General Field Marshal Hndenburg carry
ing 46 passengers The Versailles Treaty orbds Germany
to make fighting planes but Germans build these great
mercal arshps and they could drop explosive bombs and
poison gas very nicely in should suddenly
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
AN AIRSHIP OF THE BRITISH
IMPERIAL ANYWAYS

We do not hold the speed record and have chance
holding that record unless should become in
terested.
That record held by Italy is expensive luxury
qurng government cooperation which flying gets grudgngly
in the United States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
The United States Will Do 1t Some Day.
It May Need To

These pictures published remind Americans and the
Government of the United States should be at all
interested that the nations of Europe continue hard work
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01

The bottom
picture of a
British plane,
just ready to
start with pas
sengerS a n d
mail for South
Africa gives
a good idea Of
I d e hugeness
of these air
machines. See
how small the
men look COM
pared with the
giant multiple
engines.
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The Story Of Mrs. Old
Edna isn't really very old;
only SO. But 10 of those SO
years have been filled with
driving drudgery and unselfish
service-first her sickly Wild
owed mother and little brother;
next the husband whom she
has carried through four years
of near madness.
Gray hair and wrinkles, and
many an hour of despair; those
years have brought. But there
have been compensations-the
knowledge that she was doing
a splendid thing; the real love
of and for those she served,
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HEALTHY. FAIR DEMAND?
OR is HE A NARROW
MINDED, ANTICIPATED EGO
list, VAINLY TRYING TO
BUCK THE MARCH OF
PROGRESS - DEMANDING A
CRUEL SACRIFICE FROM A
WIFE WHOSE COURAGE,
LOYALTY AND GENEROSITY
MERIT LOVING REWARD M
STEAD OF PETTY PERSECU-
TON? Then there's
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

Daughters of Eve
Brides are now being married
in black velvet instead of white
satin. But Is this a defiance of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-01
Have Wives a Right to Ambition?

Suppose you were a worker
A worker with a job for
which you'd struggled through
Evening star., 1933-06-06
E WAsHINuIuN, C.

and that only because she felt that she.
Margaret, was a pawn to be removed
from the chess board Of FL Isa Beth ei
Aims own game.
AS often as she could she visited El
Isa Beth ell Aims room and remained
there as long as possible. There she
was safe. and there she could discuss
possibilities and plans for her escape.
Sometimes her husbands mother
would be keen and interested and al
most enthusiastic; at other times, apa-
thetic, bored and unhelpful.
OF course, it could be done by
strong. determined and plucky girl. She
had made the journey from Tangier
and she could make the journey back
again. Hassan ell Miskeen could glnoe
her, and doubtless she could get Ma
hommond Ali ell Amin to lend two or
three good fighting men as escort.
He'd be quite willing to facilitate the
departure of an outsider. He feared
them and their innovating ways, the
infidel dogs, and hated to see them IN
the country even Pedro and Jules.
Evening star., 1933-06-06

friends and helpers as they were. He
didn't trust them; he trusted no Chris
tians.
And Abu Talib Zerhoun ell Munshi,
the scribe, the Kaid's confidential sec
retary: Sara could get at him and he
could do some very useful writings-and
put the Kaid's seal on them-writings
to be produced by Hassan ell Miskeen
when passing through the countries or
towns of certain governors, Kaids and
tribal chieftains who would at once be-
come helpful.
Oh. yes, 1t was feasible enough-easy
almost. Margaret could travel either as
humble Moorish woman, her face
stained with walnut oil. or even as a
youth, the son of Hassan el Miskeen.
No, better as girl. since she could not
speak Arabic and need only veil her face
in modest silence If addressed by a
stranger
On other days she was the helpless,
hopeless pessimist and prophet Of woe.
What would Raisul do to her II he
found out? What would he do to every
Evening star., 1933-06-06

last night and 5 am. today. The thief
obtained approximately SIS from him
and took his wife's pocketbook contain
ing between $50 and $50.
Several hold-ups. pocketbook
snatching and other forms Of thefts also
were reported to police in the past "A
hours.
John Garth, 1927 Sixth street, re-
ported he was robbed Of $3.50 by four
colored men who dragged him into an
alley in the 100 block Of l. street.
George D. Williams, proprietor OF a
cigar store in the 1000 block Of Seventh
street. reported two colored men robbed
the cash register in the store Of SIS
yesterday.
pocketbook. containing $50 in cash
and other articles, was snatched from
Miss Hattie McGraw, 1709 Seventeenth
street, by one OF two colored men while
she was in the 1900 block Of r street
She was accompanied at the time by
Mrs. Eva Clark Of the Seventeenth
street address.
Some s46o worth Of non-negotiable
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HOTEL GUEST ROBBED
WHILE HE SLEEPS
Thief Climbs Through Ventilator
Shaft and Loots Fourth
Floor Room.

Police today were seeking to appre-
hend a thief who last night burglarized
the fourth-floor room of Eugene c.
Leach, claim agent of the Norfolk
Southern Railroad. in the Harrington
Hotel by climbing in through ventila-
tor shaft.
Mr.. Leach said today the room was
entered while he and Mrs. Leach were
asleep, sometime between IL O'Clock
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a. VALIANT !, ALL! s.I,'..I., D. DUsI

serving her husbands interests any
where, she might, at least, be content,
If not thankful, that she could comfort,
solace and delight him.
Indeed her ther-in-law's attitude
was scarcely distinguishable from that
of her husband. and such annoyance as
he felt appeared to be caused rather by
her own conduct than by that OF Ralsul
Definitely fearing, by now, the kald
and the Lady Zainub only less than
she feared Raisul himself. definitely
distrusting her husband and her father
in-law, as we'll as the girl Sara who
treated her with a family contemptu-
Gus and thinly veiled hostility. Mar
garet's one hope was in her husbands
mother. the Lady Ell lisa Beth el Ain,
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postal savings checks were reported
stolen from Robert B. Stadler, 640l
Third street, by some one who entered
his home with duplicate key.
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MRS. BURGESS BURIED
Services for Widow of General Held

Services for Widow Of General Held
at Arlington.
Funeral services for Mrs. Harry Bur-
CESS, widow Of Brig. Gen. Burgess, who
died Saturday in Georgia, were held
yesterday in Arlington National Gene
terry. She was buried beside her hus-
band, who died March l8.
The following officers were honorary
pail bearers: Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown.
Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles and Coils.
John P. Wade, Arthur M. Whaley and
Henry C. Jewett. Rev. George Farm
ham offlciated at the service.
Evening star., 1933-06-06

body who was concerned In the escape
or whom he chose to suspect Of being
concerned in it? Would age or sex or
anything else save them from dreadful
death?
And the Kaid and the Lady Zainub?
What about them? What would hap
pen to her, Ell lisa Beth el Ain, II she
were such fool as to put q real weapon
into Zainubs hands?
No. it was unthinkable; 1t couldn't
be done.
But Margaret was determined that It
should be done or at least attempted.
note.
Margaret wonders whether she dares
accent her anlv helm fnnn0rrnW
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Herrings Nutritious.
Two herrings a day will provide q
man with all the protein he needs, say
English scientists.
Evening star., 1933-06-06

Margaret wonders whether she dare.
accept her only help, tomorrow.