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The Washington times., 1933-11-02
WHO'S AFRAID?

This picture made all the evening newspapers by
T. T. Powers good cartoon has been printed long
time possesses the important caroonquay of telness
Everybody talks of the 'bg bad wol Powers applies it
to the makes good picture Newspaper genius
cartoons included consists largely in doing the right thing just
q little ahead of the other
This picture appeals you because Of its complete simplicity
and good nature and also because Of its Be-
hind Uncle Sam you few of the things he wants to SELL
Mr. Powers has left out the thin pigs and farrow sows but
you imagine them.
The O. US that Russia bringing have proved good in
the past Great American industries testify that Russia
has paid her bills under Stain.
Rudyard Kipng tells you put faith in the bear that
walks like man. But long he pays like doesn't
matter very much how he walks.
There is complaint because Russia doesn't take sound
American Christian view of God and religion That is dis
tresing but good for refusing to do business with
Russia?
We do business with Turkey which denies the existence Of
God, preferrng Allah and Mohammed his prophet We
do business with all people believing all sorts Of gods
and denying the reality Of our God.
Is it to believe in NO god at all than not to
believe in the real one?
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
A Five Cent Drunk
High Moon"

The revelation that in Washington become in
oxcaed for the of five cents should carry hint to those
who at work the preparation of local liquor law to
follow repeal Of the Eighteenth Amendment.
During months there has been tremendous increase
in the number of drunks hailed into Police Court and the
thinking would attribute this increase the consumption
beer
But officials Of the court in deng the bottom of things
have revealed that high NOON is responsible
High NOON is the picturesque given alcohol that is
made day and sold the next One drink of it, which costs
five cents, is enough to make the average drunk
That of the things with which the local liquor law
will have to cope
The law be drawn to encourage this high
moon business and it will be drawn the dry fanatics have
their finger in the legislative pie.
On the other hand the law by placing within
able reach less potent liquors kill the high NOON enter
prise.
We will have to struggle along with such things "hgh
moon for month two after nationwide repeal becomes
effective but at the earliest possible this city will
to work out plan for eliminating this other poisonous
connections from the cty's menu
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
The Human Side of the News
Historic Louvre Palace-U. S. Paris Embassy
Blu Eduvi1 C.. Hill

Once again carpenters and
masons are at work in the
Palace of the Louvre in Paris,
the largest and most magnifi-
cent palace in the world. For
800 years the Louvre has been
the home of emperorS and kings
and it now shelters the greatest
art collection in existence. Mil"
lions of tourists from all parts
of the world have wandered
through it's maze of galleries in
awe-stricken silence at the mar.
vels assembled there.
But that silence IS now
broken by the clatter of ham,
mer and saw, for scaffolding Is
being erected around the main
stairway and the renowned
Victory of Samothrace, the
finest extant piece of early
Greek sculpture. 1t was exc
cuted in memory of a naval VIC
tory more than 1900 years ago.
The statue, which stands at
the head of the stairway, repre-.
sents the goddess on the prov
of vessel, sounding the signal
for battle on her trumpet. And,
although much mutilated, the
dignity Of conception of the
work causes visitors to stand
as I have stood-in mute adj.
miration for an hour at a time.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02

A 10-line item in the news
announces the removal of the
United States Embassy in Paris
to it's new home at the north
west corner of the Place de Ia
Concorde. The site cost over
one million dollars, and the new
building cost many thousands
more.
And the Place de la Concorde.
upon which it stands, is one OF
the worlds most historic, beau
tiful and extensive squares.
From the landscape terrace laid
out in front of the building,
American visitors to Paris will
be able to look out upon the
execution ground of the French
revolution, where the guillotine
did it's terrible work during the
period of Terror, when the
tumbrils brought every day their
load of men and women con-
demned to die.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
Menace to Future

Parents, teachers and pupils
best know how heavily "the
sword of retrenchment" has
fallen in thousands of commu-
mites upon expenditures for edu-
cation. And the parents and the
teachers best know what a men
ace to the future of America
lies in this kind of penny wise
pound foolish" economy.
Here are some significant
facts with which thoughtful citi-
zens should familiarize them
selves in preparation for the
intelligent observance of Amer
lean Education Week:
Each year 100000 more chill
dren enroll in the public schools
than the year hefOre-an in
crease of about l per cent per
year.
High school enrolment is in
Creasing at the rate of Is per
cent per year.
There are 100000 boys and
girls attending high school in
1888, where there were only
3,75O,OOO in 1926.
There were $4,000 public
school teachers in this country
in 1882. This number was re-
duced this year to 882,O18. This
means that in 1880, when enroll
ments were smaller by thou
sands of pupils, they were
served by as many teachers as
are now required to teach
much larger number of pupils.
In 1926 the cost of the public
schools per pupil enrolled was
$3.50 for the whole country.
This cost has been cut this year
to $73.96.
In 1926 the American people
expended for new school build
ings more than S4OO,OOO,OOO. In
the school year 1928 they
have spent less than $155,OOO,-
600 for new school buildings.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
Raids on School Funds
Rob American Children
BY James T. Williams, Jr.

approximately 100000 chill.
dren have been reduced to part
time schooling because of the
shortage of school rooms. And
10000 children during the past
year have been going to school
in temporary or portable Shacks.
In 1928 the nations total
bill for education was less than
the amount spent in 1926.
In nearly all the rural schools
and in from 80 to 80 per cent
of all city school systems,
teachers salaries during the
last IL months have been dras-
tically reduced.
In 100 cities of the country
the school term has been short
ened by 20 days or more in
1888, and $500 rural schools
by 30 or more days.
In 40 cities kindergartens
have been eliminated or cur
tailed. Art instruction has
either been removed or cut from
the school course in 100 cities,
and i'll more than 100 cities mu-
sic, health education, the teach
ing of home economics or the
manual arts have suffered
heavy retrenchments.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
Greedy spoilsmen

These facts have been COM
piled and given national distri-
button by the three major or
CARNATIONS that will sponsor
this year the observance Of
American Education Week-the
National Education Association,
the American Legion, and the
United States Office of Educa-
ton.
This is not the first economic
depression from which this
country has suffered, but it is
the first one in which the
spoilsmen of politics have been
allowed to make drastic reduce
tions in public expenditures for
education.
Every American citizen, and
especially every father and
mother, who is willing to help
in hating this raid of blind and
greedy politicians upon the
schools of this country, should
welcome the opportunity to
participate in the coming OBJ
Servance Of American Education
Week.
With nearly 5000 American
schools closed, 10000 teachers
idle, and hundreds of thousands
Of Americans of school age de-
MED the chance to attend a
good school, it would seem to
be high time to quicken the
conscience of the American peo-
pie concerning the emergency
in American education.
Copyright. 1888, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-11-02

U44dU 4OA d44
or, at any rate, most Ameri'
cans before this depression. But
it wasn't. And it's time that
we realized the plain, unpleasant
truth. Which is?
WHICH IS SIMPLY THIS
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
NEVER HAD ANY GOOD
OLD DAYS"
We've boosted so long that
this is the Land of the Free, the
place where every man has a.
square DEAL" that we've come
to think it's so. But it isn't so.
It never has been so.
GENERATION AFTER GEN
GRAFTON OF PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN BORN, HAVE LABORED,
HAVE DIED IN THIS BEAU
TIFUL, POWERFUL, RICH
COUNTRY, WITHOUT EVER
KNOWING THE MON
DECENCIES OF LIFE, MUCH
LESS COMFORT OR LUXURY.
Times are tough for you
now, yet you have proud mem.
cries to console you, bright
hopes to stimulate you. But
they have neither memories
nor hopes. Neither they nor
their children, nor their fathers
before them, have ever known
what it Was to enjoy our
much advertised came erica n
standard of living"
They never lived in their own
homes. They never had bank
accounts. They never had good
food. or enough foods. They
never slept in comfortable beds
with enough blankets. They
never had decent clothes, warm
new overcoats, well-fitted shoes.
They have never been able to
afford proper dental or lNedi-
cal services.
They have always chung,
barely existing, to the ragged
margin of life, without time
or opportunity to rest or play,
The Washington times., 1933-11-02

For the last 10 years the
American people have united in
celebrating the week which in
cludes Armistice Day as Amer
lean Education Week.
This national observance Is
the response to a popular de-
mand that one week be set aside
each year in which "all the peo-
pie may consider anew the
ideals, purposes, and achieve
ments of universal education"
During this years observance
of Education Week, which starts
next Monday, the effort will be
made by the fathers and the
mothers, the teachers and their
pupils, throughout the United
States to inform and quicken
sentiment concerning the emer-
gency in education which the
economic crisis has created in
every State of the Union.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
Art Treasures

But the palace itself is used
to reconstruction ever since the
day, in the twelfth century,
when Philip Augustus erected
his first castle there. Of that
first medieval construction,
however, there IS nothing left
today but a white line, traced
through the main court and in
dicating where it once stood.
The great colonnale, consist
ing of % Corinthian columns
in pairs. was conceived by art
lists in the pay of Louis the
Fourteenth. But it remained
for the great Napoleon to order
a complete restoration OF the
Louvre, a work which was in
terrupted only by his fall from
power. AS it stands today, it
is three times the size of the
Vatican in Rome, including ST.
Peters.
And all Of these monarchs
added, by conquest or by pur--
chase, to the marvellous art
treasures which are there today.
Napoleon, of course, was one OF
the chief contributors, when
his victorious armies returned
to Paris from the scenes of their
victories, laden with treasures.
Many were restored to their
original owners, but so many
fine statues and paintings re-
manned that the Louvre can
still boast of the greatest Of all
collections of art.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson =

} grieve or rejoice, hope or
dream, question or rebel.
Why was this?
SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY
COULDN'T BUCK THE SYS-
TEN.
They couldn't buck the Or
ganized selfishness and stupidity,
indifference and injustice of a
country which calls itself a
democracy but which is, in
reality, a closed corporation for
the benefit of the powerful
and privileged.
This isn't agitator talk
Socialistic ranting, communistic
propaganda. It is the simple,
SAL truth about America as it
is. We have ducked and de-
MED these facts. We have
known that such conditions
existed in all other countries
but we wouldn't admit-most
of us haven't dreamed-that
they existed in America.
And we pish-tushed, snubbed,
prosecuted and imprisoned any"
one who dared produce proof
that they did! But we dare
not any longer doubt or deny
FOR NOW THE PROOF IS
HURLING ITSELF UPON US
LIKE A TIDAL WAVE.
Why are we in the mess we
are in today? Not because the
market crashed four years ago.
Not because we had a war IS
years ago.
WE ARE IN THIS MESS
BECAUSE INCREASING MIL
LIONS OF OUR PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN LIVING IN ABB
JECT MISERY FOR THE LAST
HUNDRED YEARS-BECAUSE
INJUSTICE HAS MOUNTED
AND Cypress SION HAS
SPREAD UNTIL THE VERY
FOUNDATIONS OF OUR Ma
TIONAL LIFE ARE SHAKING.
Today strikes spread like a
pestilence throughout the land.
Why are these strikers so
frantic, sometimes so unreason-
able? Their wages aren't any
worse than they've always been.
Sometimes they are even better.
But these men aren't striking
merely because they haven't the
breaks now. THEY'RE STRIK-
ING BECAUSE THEY'VE
NEVER HAD THE BREAKS.
GENERATION OF HOPE
LESS DRUDGERY, BITTER
DEGRADATION LIE BEHIND
THEIR REVOLT. WHY
SHOULD THEY FEAR BLOOD
SHED? ANYTHING IS BET.
TER THAN THE HOPELESS
DREARINESS OF THE LIFE
WHICH LIES BEHIND THEM.
The Golden Rule isn't a Sum-
day School text-a Pollyanna
slogan. 1t Is a grim, working
law which may not be broken.
If we DON'T do unto the other
fellow as we'd have him do
unto us, We'll all go to smash
together in the same basket.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, Inc,)
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
Bloody Scenes

Nearly 5000 persons persisted
there. Louis the Sixteenth was
executed in the Place, and
Marie Antoinette, Charlotte
Corday and the Duke Of Or
leans, Danton and his follow
ers, Camille Desmoulins and
his wife, the atheists Chau-
mette and Cloots, Madame
Elizabeth, sister of Louis the
Sixteenth, the poet Andre
Chenier, and the blood-stained
monster, Robespierre. The &C.
ton Of the terrible death-deal'
ing machine, the guillotine,
was so mechanically perfect
that often so persons were ex'
ecuted in as many minutes.
The aspect of the square has,
of course, greatly changed since
the revolutionary period, but
the facades Of the original build
ings fronting on it still remain.
The obelisk which rises in its
center came from the great
Temple of Luxor, in Upper
Egypt, where it was erected by
Rameses the Second thousands
of years ago. Fountains con.
structed around it, which now
are the center Of a magnificent
electrical display at night, were
dedicated to the seas and the
rivers of France. And around
the Place rise eight lofty stat
ues representing the principal
cities of the modern republic.
The Place today is the CEN
ter of fashionable Paris and the
starting point of the worlds
most beautiful avenue, the
Champs ElySees. A fascinating
spot, not only for its thrilling
history, but for magnificent
beauty.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
syndicate, lnc,)
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
ONCE OVERS

Most fathers delight in favor
ing daughters IN every way
possible.
They do this in the spirit
they displayed toward their wives
before the arrival of the
daughters.
But too often husbands rele-
gate Mother too far into the
background in their efforts to
to win the favor Of daughters
and provide for their comfort
and opportunities.
Mother does not want to feel
she is shunted too far to the
rear in favor of daughters.
Mother is pal to her husband
and helps over all the hard
spots. She continues to do so
after daughters are married, re-
member that.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
Paternal Ties-and Purse-strings .

PaternaI Ties-and Purse-strings
Too often daughters show
preference for their fathers, not
because of greater love for them
but because it is the dads not
the mothers, who provide the
money.
Most girls would stoutly OBJ
ject to such a statement.
But if they are honest when
they analyze their reactions
toward their parents, they may
have to admit that financial
considerations play large part
in regulating their actions
toward their fathers when they
show that preference.
Mothers who feel that they
occupy a secondary place with
daughters should make allow
ance for the girls natural
tendency to favor dads because
of their checkbook power.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02

Like it was
back in the
gra n d old
1920's. Lotsa
p a r t i e S .
Classy clothes.
K e en- cars.
E v e r.y body
going places
and d OF n G
things again."
Nice pic
ture. And we
really believe
il, We really
believe that
life was like
that for all
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
The Lock in WedlOck
A wife's jealousy of the girl
who is flirting with her inn
questionable husband Is always

The old-fashioned woman was
content to be just ONE wife
to a man: but nowadays a
woman wants to be a mans
whole harem - his playmate,
soul-mate and yoke-mate -
which Is too big a job for any
woman.
Most summer love affairs die
of infantile paralysis-few of
them last long enough, these
days, to die of old age.
Only married men are safe.
A bachelor, like a car with
nobody at the wheel, is apt to
careen into anything, from a
breach-of-promise suit to an
accidental marriage.
When q man marr1es his prl-
vate secretary, she merely stops
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
They Never Had "Any Good
Old Days"

All Of us signing over "the
good old days"-rejoicing over
the prospect of them coming
back.
Then how swell everything
will be-" we say to each other.
The Washington times., 1933-11-02
He knocks at the door
With a hungry grin,
And if we're wise,
We won't let him in!
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

inventing his alibis for him
and begins listening to them.
Some of these titled hus-
bands are like guest towels
not a bit of use in the world
except to show off to other
women.
The great sex-problem, to-
day, is the problem Of how to
induce novelists and play
wrights to stop WRITING so
much about it. Sex, like food,
is a vital part Of life-but
you don't care to read a
cookbook every evening.
Love is a telescope through
which a girl sees all a mans
charms and virtues highly glori-
fled. Marriage is a microscope
through which she sees all his
flaws and shortcomings highly
magnified.
You can safely let a man feel
that he is admired, that he is
appreciated, and sometimes that
Evening star., 1933-09-26
WORLD PERP[EXED
BY MONEY TANGLE
New York Financiers Believe
More Nations Certain
to Quit Gold.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. September 26.-One
feature Of political problems that ap-
pears with monotonous insistence in
virtually all countries today is that of
money. a subject which in past ages
usually was related to academicians.
Currency questions in the past usual
ly were settled by governments not yet
dependent on popular votes. Frequently,
as one Wall Street philosopher today
conceded, in the selfish interests Of
ruling class. The gold standard, which
democracy inherited but did not create
or even welcome. was regarded as one
Of the facts of Nature prior to 1914.
The average citizen took the gold
standard for granted much the same as
the weather. The man in the street did
not realize the conditions under which
the gold standard worked or how the
world to large extent was indebted TO
the smooth working Of the gold standard
for the maintenance and increase Of
its commerce.
Twice In Generation.
Twice the gold standard has broken
down in this generation-in 1914 at the
outbreak of the European War and in
1881 with the departure Of the United
Kingdom from that standard. Three
South American countries, Uruguay,
Argentine and Brazil went of gold In
1929. Australia, New Zealand and
Venezuela followed the next year. Mex
leo quit gold In August, 1891, and was
followed by Great Britain In Sep
tember.
Fourteen nations followed Great
Britain in September and october Of
1891. They were, in order: Canada, In
dia, Sweden. Denmark, Norway, Egypt,
Irish Free State, British Malaga, Pales-
tine, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Bolivia
and Salvador. in December Of that
year Japan went OF. The following
year saw Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica. Greece, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Siam
and Jugoslavia abandon gold. This
year the Union of South Africa, HON.
duras and the United States quit the
yellow metal standard.
Wall Street expects the next month
will see some or most Of the remaining
Evening star., 1933-09-26
STOCKS DECLINE !,
AFTER EARLY RISE
Metals and Motors Weakest.
Trading Is Professional
Throughout.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 26.-Stocks
reacted in the second half of todays
session after an earlier display Of
strength.
There was not much difference in
volume between the morning, when
prices were rising, and the afternoon,
when they were declining, and the
trading was professional throughout.
Metals and motors were the weakest
groups in the last hour McKeesport
Tin Plate and U. S. Smelling dropped
to points each. American Telephone
was also freely offered. The selling to-
day. however. was not pressed as it was
In the reactionary sessions last week.
Wheat Closes Lower.
Wheat in Chicago closed more than
2'cents a bushel lower. There was no
important movement in the exchanges.
American Can declared the regular divi-
dent on the common just before the
close
The two chief features of the early
trading were the strength in the local
fractions and the buying in the rail-
way equipment issues. For the first
the reason given was the possibility of
a 7-cent fare to be accepted by the
city government as way out of its
financial difficulties. 1t was taken for
granted that the obnoxious taxes would
not be imposed on stock transfers or
on income of security dealers and
that the plan to move the exchange
to Newark would be dropped. That
being the case, the next best thing for
the city to do would be to raise fares.
So there was active speculation for the
rise in Brooklyn Manhattan Transit
and the other local transportation
issues.
Federal Aid Expected.
The higher prices for the railway
equipments were based on the expec-
tation Of large Government grants 10
the carriers for the purpose of buying
locomotives, cars and rails. Lima Lo-
connective, American Locomotive. Bald
win and Pullman were all up, the
first named over points.
Although traders were becoming
reconciled to the idea that no actual
debasement Of the currency was in
prospect, they were more willing to be-
lieve that this was a favorable and
not an unfavorable situation and that
the buying side Of the market was the
more attractive one. The demand
therefore broadened out to include rail-
road stocks as well as commodity issues
although the latter were also strong.
Good-sized gains we're recorded by
Allied Chemical, J. l. Case, Eastman
Kodak, McKeesport Tin Plate and
Texas Gulf Sulphur. United States
Steel common was up nearly points
taking along with it the stocks of the
Independents.
Seaboard Oil was again the feature
OF that group, bid up to a record high
All the wet stocks were strong, with
National Distulers the leader In the
metals Cerro de Pasco, Howe Sound
and United States Smelling were the
favoriteS.
The utilities had one piece Of bad
news to digest. Directors of Peoples Gas
voted to omit the dividend due October
II and the stock broke points to q
new low.
(Copyright 1933)