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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
War Ships Without Men
Not Very Useful in War Time

overhadowd though it has been by other developments
bne of the activities of the Roosevelt Administration which
appeals every American the determination which
mas by the President build the United States
Navy.
The Navy in the last Administration allowed to slip
far behind our needs adequate defense alarm all
thinking citizens in the country.
Instead of being parity with Great Britain had
actually fallen behind Japan in effective naval strength
We now in cold fact 101 ships below the quota which
we permitted under the London Treaty.
President Roosevelt has sponsored naval building pro-
gram which will make the balance unfavorab and for
this he deserves the heartfelt thanks of his counrymeneven
though it still falls short Of the safety point
Judging by the record since March Mr. Roosevelt will
seek enlarge the fleet rapidly possible beyond the
present program and give the nation genuine first line Of
defense place of which cannot perform the task
signed to it.
Meanwhile however it is essential to that the force
which we now have is properly manned.
Today without single vessel added to quota have
only per of the required operate ships
effectively.
Crews cannot be trained overnight and should war break
should be able to muster only about four
ffths Of the naval strength which, paper
supposed to have.
Secretary Swanson has asked immediate addition of
$500 the ranks of the Navy-a number which would
merely bring the enlisted personnel to the figures Of 1880
Mr. Swanson has succeeded in getting authorization from
the Budget Director onehaf the necessary increase
men, but why not for all? The required is small
seems nconcevabe that so-called economy
applied to the Navy while hundreds of millions dollars
being spent elsewhere by the Federal Government.
The necessary appropriation would only furnish direct
employment $500 young Americans but would also be in
the nature of additional e insurance for the nation
A prudent does neglect his life insurance
matter what the demands may be his
The nation cannot afford be less prudent than the ind
vidual.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
Three-Minute Journeys
BY Temple Manning

erfolk and harbor workers live
their life apart from the sum-
mer visitors and stay in their
coy little cottages.
A few miles away from the
various towns, there are VII
lagos and places so beautiful
that they seem utterly remote
from this old world of ours. No
wonder that artists come from
everywhere to set down with
brush and pencil the lovely
Manx scenery. It does more to
attract worthwhile visitors than
anything else.
Half q Million Visitors
It is said that half a million
visitors come to Man every year
and when one sees the crowds
at Peel, Douglas and Ramsey,
it seems quite possible. Steamer
after steamer comes in crowded
with visitors, and there are
plenty of folk who would call
the year lost without their an
nual two weeks at one of the
Manx resorts. The bathing is
splendid and when that pals
there are plenty Of trips to
beauty spots all over the island
which is served by an efficient
little electric railroad. There
are plenty Of good automobile
roads and the annual motor
cycle and automobile races over
extremely difficult courses with
steep gradients and through
wild country attract big crowds.
Needless to say, the old Manx
fishermen remain aloof from all
these goings-on.
A range of hills runs right
through Man. and everywhere
there are winding glens studded
with thick trees. In some parts
the scenery has a remote gran
deur which bellies the size Of
the tiny island.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
Heroic Deeds

There was Mocker, an old
fellow with one eye. He lost
the other one on September the
twelfth, 1918, in the region OF
Beaumont. Carrying an i'm
portant message from headquar-
tiers to the front lines, a piece
of shrapnel caught him in the
tiny head, but on he flew, and
from the scrap of tissue paper
he carried, as he winged straight
through a rain of death, the
American staff learned of the
location of heavy enemy batter
les which were moving down
American infantry. In 20 min
utes those batteries were 81
fenced by the American guns.
Then there is the stuffed
figure Of another carrier pigeon
they called President Wilson,
because he had an air of such
dignity and intelligence. This
bird lost leg in the Meuse-
Argonne on November S, 1918,
but lived long enough to get
home with a message which
meant the lives of men.
It is one of the mysteries Of
the world, this almost I'm"
conquerable instinct of the hon.
ing pigeon to find its way to
it's cote. Nothing but death
stops them. Some say it is
sheer instinct, others that it is
q sense of smell. There is an
other theory that they follow
the air waves, like radio.
There was a time in this
country when the skies were
black with tremendous flights of
passenger pigeons. The last
great flight was reported in
1873, from Petoskey, Michigan.
A mighty army of pigeons, forty
miles long and three to ten
miles wide, plotted out the
Michigan skies. But man was
then their enemy and slaught-
cred them by the million, and
they came no more.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
Mexico Urges That u. S.
Recognize Ell Salvador
By James T. Williams, Jr.

vador's Central American neigh
bors. The chief reason the lat
ter have withheld recognition Is
believed to be due to their re-
luctance to go against the
wishes Of the United States.
The Hoover administration
refused to recognize General
Martinez as president on the
ground that because he was vice
president and secretary Of war
at the time of the coup d'etat
he was ineligible for promotion
to the presidency under article
2 of the Central American
Treaty of 1923, which the
United States did not sign.
On this technicality, the
Roosevelt administration has
thus far upheld the position
taken by the Hoover administra.
ton. The government OF Ell
Salvador asks for recognition on
the ground that it specifically
refused to be bound by article
1 and made a reservation to
that effect a part of its ratify-
ing resolution.
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Cite Precedents

Able American authorities on
international law insist that Ell
Salvador'S contention is well
founded and that the United
States should reverse the HOO
yer policy ard resume normal
relations with FL Salvador with
out further delay.
The fact that Mexico is urg-
ing such a course the further
fact that under the leadership
of Great Britain practically the
whole world has recognized the
present government at San
Salvador makes it easy to I'M
derstand why the failure Of
the United States to do like
wise is not regarded in Kin
America as the policy of a good
neighbor.
Recently. the Roosevelt adj
ministration reversed the Hoo
yer policy toward Russia by
recognizing the Russian gov
eminent.
FL Salvador is a small coun-
try without much to offer in
the way Of markets for Ameri-
can products, such as the great
and powerful Russian empire
had to offer.
But FL Salvador Is a near
neighbor Of the United States
and justice il ne Nsspecter Of
size or wealth.
Copyright. 1898. TIP Washington
Times)
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Jack Miner

Nor was it long before the
provincial government recog-
nized Miner and his work, and
with its assistance thousands OF
evergreens were planted, gar
dens, groves and ponds laid out.
But today a winged serpent
has come into this Paradise to
bring discord, death and desc
lation. The intruder is the
British startling, and Jack Miner
has taken down his gun, liter
ally and figuratively, to deal
with which, coming in countless
battalions, has destroyed thou
sands of trees in his sanctuary.
The ground is overrun with
weeds sprung up from seeds
carried in by the startling, and
some of the finest song-oird
species are seen no more.
Mr.. Miner has just reported
his findings on the startling.
which arrived in Ontario in
force in 1928. He tells how, in
1881, more than 100000 star
lings were trapped and smoth-
cred, and how in June and
July of this year he caught and
buried over $4,000 more.
In calling for help in the ex-
termination of the startling.
Jack Miner says that the bird
is the worst weed-seed distribu-
tor America has ever known.
that it carries deadly chicken
diseases and that it is destruc-
tive to fruit and vegetables
and death to trees in which it
roosts.
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
Military Coup

The circumstances under
which diplomatic relations be-
tween the United States and Ell
Salvador were broken off are
not as well understood in this
country as they are in Mexico
and the republics to the south.
On the first Of March, 1881,
Arturo Araujo was inau-
gurated President of Ell Salvador
and Gen. Maximiliano Herman
DEE Martinez, vice president.
They had been elected in &C
cordance with the electoral
laws of their country.
On December 2, 1881, junior
officers of the military garrison
in the capital city of San Saliva
dor planned a coup d'etat in
their barracks. The rest of the
army soon joined in the move
ment and placed Vice President
Martinez, who was also secre-
tary of war, under arrest.
Two days later, President
Avaujo, having lost the support
of the Army, crossed the
frontier and interned himself in
Guatemala. Before leaving the
country, he gave notice that he
was relinquishing his office to
one of the "designates"-Dr. J.
M. Olano.
AS soon as President Graujo
was out of the country, Vice
President Martinez was released
from arrest and established in
the presidency by the army upon
the grounds that under the Con-
stitution he was next in line Of
succession. Later, General Mar
timez was confirmed as presi~
dent by a National Legislative
Assembly.
Practically all the world has
recognized the government OF
General Martinez except Santa
Domingo and Haiti and FL Sal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
Isle Of Man

AS VA ~'ASA@
One of the favorite resorts
with people of England and
Scotland is the Isle of Man, the
ancient Mona" This island,
80 miles long and only IL miles
wide at its broadest part, is in
the Irish Sea, but, although ad-
jacent to the British Isles, it
hasn't any characteristics of
either England, Scotland or Ire
land. It is unique, and that is
perhaps why it draws so many
visitors, some of them just cay
trippers, others who come to
spend long, happy weeks in this
delightful spot where hydran-
geas and other subtropical flow
ers flourish in the open. And
when it comes to spring flow
ers old Mona puts on a show
that is uneXcelled.
The Isle of Man is exempt
from most of the laws passed in
the British Parliament unless
especially named in any legisla-
ton. It has it's own legislature,
the house of keys, made famous
by many of the novels of the
late Hall Game, who was the
Isle of Mans unofficial histo-
rian. Wherever one wanders-
Peel Harbor, Ramsey, Douglas
town, Port Erin, Peel, Castle
town-there are places that one
recognizes from their descrip-
lions in Hall Gaines stories of
the island and the sturdy Manx-
men.
When the steamers come over
from Liverpool, Belfast or Dub
lin, they generally make tracks
for Ramsey, Peel and Douglas
town. These are the favorite
spots, with all the advantages
and drawbacks of the popular
tourist resort. The sturdy fish
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29

A carrier pigeon hobs UP in
California bearing tag marked
Siberia, 1881" Fanciers be-
lieve that the bird has been
wandering for two years, across
the Behring Sea, Alaska, Canada
and the Northwest, to arrive
finally in the town of Viscalia,
central California. While this
sounds incredible, one cannot
be too sure about these stout
hearted little feathered heroes.
Only a few weeks ago seven Of
them flew for 900 miles, di-
rectly through an electric storm,
from Marion, N. c., to STRAIT
ford, Conn.,, at the rate Of more
than 80 miles an hour. Over at
Fort Monmouth, N. j., a post
of the United States Army Sig
nal Service, I have seen some
of the birds who have won their
wound stripes in France, carry
ing messages which saved hum
dreds of lives and relieved des-
perate situations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29

just criticism in a kind and
helpful way that i'll make
for proficiency.
Most parents have biased
opinions in regard to their
own children.
They seem to believe, actu-
ally, that their children are
brighter and finer and more
talented than any other chill
dren.
They have an exaggerated
opinion Of their children's &C
complishments.
It is easier to change a child
than a grown person and, in
the formative years, children
should be guided upwards.
criticized and admonished &C.
casionally; not spoiled by too
much praise.
Copyright, 1889. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
Do Your Part!
The Chest Drive

The tagging Of the drive to obtain funds necessary
operation of social and welfare organizations banded
Community Chest is for real concern.
n great humanitarian effort should not be allowed to
PAIL yet this last day the formal drive contributions
and pledges far short of the goal
That goal originally proclaimed not extravagant
provided only the most necessary appropriations for the
scores Of organizations in the Chest.
Without the budgeted for the various services it is
difficult to how the organizations be maintained in
Sunctionng condition during the coming year.
These services which maintained by the funds now being
raised are not uxure in the ct life which dropped
They necessities which must be maintained unless thou
sands Of fellow citizens to suffer greater hard
ships than they enduring.
Do your part
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29

AS the next-door neighbor
and close friend of the United
States, Mexico is striving to
hasten the resumption Of
normal diplomatic relations be-
tween Ell Salvador and the
United States.
The Mexican government is
we'll aware that repairing the
break in the diplomatic rela-
tons between her next-door
neighbor on the north and her
near neighbor on the south will
reinforce peace throughout
Central America and make for
better feeling between the three
Americas.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
ONCE OVERS

Over-Praise Hurts Child
Perhaps you praise your chill
dren too much.
To encourage them you COM
mend them out of all proper
ton to their attachments.
It is not a kindness to be
enthusiastic over what is done
when you know it might have
been done much better.
Naturally If a child receives
only compliments from you it
will begin to believe that its
performances are nearly per-
feet.
The result will be less ef-
fort to improve and a more
pulled up ego.
You shout. not complain
about everything a child does,
certainly.
But you should give credit
for good points together with,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29

dresser, a "heavy date" and dis
carded personality" in favor Of
"It." Also, temptress and siren
became "vamp," and a woman
charmer became "sheik." And
almost everything became a
Zine"
Just at that psychological
moment, Walter Winchell start
ed in to make Webster's face
red and to startle Roget's
ghost out of it's dreams, by in
venting new words faster than
we could say them. I strug-
gled hard to resist the new in
fluence, but finally fell. The
purist have gone the way of
the Puritans-and now, who
cares?
Somehow, it seems SO much
less indicate to say that "the
Joneses are "bassinetting" than
to whisper that they are Eek
pecting." And "a new heart"
is so much more comprehen-
sive and indefinite than a
fiancee or a flame" or a.
"Sweetie."
The big war gave US lots Of
new words and expressions,
such as "camouflage" and
buddy" and that priceless re-
tort, "Sez YOU!" Also the
flapper, the racketeer. the boot
logger, the debutante and the
collegiate" wits each added
another string of popular slang,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
WISE WORDS

Give me a look, give me face,
that makes simplicity a grace.
Ben johnson.
Doubtless the pleasure is as
great of being cheated as to
cheat.-Butler.
The childhood shows the man
as morning shows the day.-Mil-
ton.
The whole world is my native
land.-Seneca.
A disorderly Chinaman Is
rare, and a lazy one does not
exist.-Mark Twain.
Patience, the beggar's virtue.
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Speaking Americanese

Speaking Americanese
I am learning to speak the
English language, all over again.
I HAD to-in order to make my
32lf understood. For English
today is as different from pre-
war English as today's corset is
from the "old ironsides" of 1910.
Take that word "swell," for
instance. which I was taught
never, NEVER to use as a COM
pli.lentary adjective. Yet, now,
when I want to express enthu-
siasm or gratitude or admira-
ton, there just isn't any other
word in all the dictionary,
which seems to fit my feelings
like SWELL"
Nearly a decade ago I stopped
saying that I had an "engage-
ment" and started calling any
old thing, from a party to an
appointment with the hair
g. 6: g.; !, :,
SMJI2G ~ Nesese11y'
GCE 8YTNt
~ 6ls!!A
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29

I still speak the English Ian
guage-oh yeah? But it isn't
the same language I spoke ten
or fifteen years ago. It's much
less ladylike-and so much
more colorful!
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland :

to what we fondly call our
English vocabulary"
The flapper worked hard to
revolutionize the whole diction-
airy, but did not succeed in max
ing much of an impression.
Laugh that off" and mad
money" seem to have been her
two most notable achievements.
And, when the racketeer has
passed into oblivion, his slang
will pass with him.
That's the sad part of getting
fond of a popular slang ex-
preston. By the time you have
"come to know it well-and
LOVE it, it is sure to die" And
you DO miss it SO!
Nothing will ever console me
for the passing of the word
"sheik." NOTHING will ever
take it's place as the perfect de-
scription of a certain type Of
handsome -but-dumb Don Juan.
And when that priceless and
unparalleled expression Of skep-
ticism, irony and scorn-"OH
YEAH?-becomes only a mem"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-29

They are not fond of walking,
And want to board the truck
That swiftly is approaching
Let's hope they're out of luck.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10

Watch this one.
A ny dy c a n
bend this steel
tube. But-com-
bine it with
wood, as they do
in CheVroIet's
Fisher bodies,
and it's solid as
a rock"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
BANKS DEFENSE
SET FOR FIGHT

EUGENE, Ore, May 10 Q.N.S0
L. A. Banks and his attorneys to-
day moved their forces into line
for an assault on the case built
up during the last 10 days by
the State, which charges Banks
and his wife. Edith, with the muir
der of Constable George j. Pres
colt at Medford on March Is.
The trial, being held in circuit
court here. was adjourned yester-
day unt' tomorrow on agreement
of both defense and prosecution
so that Judge George Skipworth
could attend the funeral of a rela-
tive.
With no court session today,
the defense whipped its case into
order in conferences so that it
will be ready to take the spot
light when the State finishes,
probably late tomorrow.
Prosecution attorneys said they
had few more witnesses to pre-
sent in confederation Of other
witnesses who have testified that
Banks, former millionaire Califor-
mia orchardist and civic leader,
shot Prescott when the officer
tried to serve a ballot theft war
rant on him during a terrific feud
in which Banks led good gov
eminent" faction with a news
paper he was editing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
Workers in Jewish
DriUe Hold Rally

The special assignment cam
paign of the United Jewish Cam.
paign, a flying squadron" OF
workers who will concentrate on
large contributors, will meet this
noon at the Jew, III Community
Center to map out a course OF
action. Edmund I. Kaufman
chairman of the $4,000 drive for
Eastern European relief and Pal
estine reconstruction, will address
the gathering.
The first meeting of men work
ers in the drive will be held to-
morrow night at + Jewish Com.
munity Center. Judge Nathan
Cayton, head of the mems division,
has sent out invitations to 500
prospective workers to attend.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
District Acquires
Improvement Strip

At the request Of the Dlstrlct
Commissioners, the office of Pub
lie Buildings and Parks has
transferred to the District a 5000
square foot strip of land on the
south side of C Street Southwest,
between Seventh and Ninth
Streets. The area was needed for
street widening purposes.
Three adjacent lots totallng
4,42l square feet at Ninth and c
Streets Southwest were also
turned over to the District by the
parks office.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
Rdiney and Group
Take FLYing Jdunt

Breakfast in Washington, lunch
con in New York, dinner in CO.
lumbus, Ohio. That will be the
program today Of Henry T.
Rainey, Speaker of the House, and
a group of eight Representatives.
They will fly from Washington
to Newark airport to be the guests
Of the National Tanners Associa-
ton. They they will fly westward,
reaching Columbus in time for
dinner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
Mills FOresees Gold
Boom, BUS Railroad

RENO, New, May 10 0N.S0.
Ogden Mills, former Secretary of
the Treasury. has purchased a
controlling interest in a railroad.
anticipating a Nevada mining
boom, it was reported here today.
Mills acquired control of the Vir-
GINA and Truckee Railroad, a
historic short line, which brought
millions in gold and silver to Reno
in the bonanza days of the Com
stock lode. Mills and former
President Herbert Hoover recently
inspected the railroad.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
TIUO Held Up, Thugs
Get Sc and 10 Gents

Two men reported today that
they had been held up and robbed
last night.
William M. Poe, of 900 block
T st. N. w., was going into his
house when he was held up by
two colored men, who robbed him
of Sc.
William R. Floam, of the 200
block G st. N. W., was likewise
held up by two colored men at
Second and T Streets Northwest,
but they only got 40 cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
C.. u. Women to Hear
SDeech on MARRIAGE

Woman members of the fresh
man class of Catholic University
will hear a discussion of Mar
riage and Careers" at their regu-
lar weekly assembly meeting to-
day. Mrs. Clara Mortenson Boyer,
director of the industrial division
of the United States Children's
Bureau, will be the principal
speaker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-10
YOUNG MEN 10 MEET

A meeting of the Young Mems
Democratic Club of Prime e
Georges County will be held at
5 p. m. tomorrow in Odd Eel.
lows Hall, Hyattsville.
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