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The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Imposing Figure

He is a delightful talker in
private, with a sane and witty
outlook on life and a zest for
literature and music. He's So
now, an imposing figure in
finance and industry and in per-
sonal appearance. He's one OF
the most strikingly handsome
men among our business cap
tains.
Myron C. Taylor's house on
Long Island is built on the
original $50 acres which Capt
John Underhill, his ancestor,
bought from the Indians in
1910. A graduate Of Cornell,
he forsook law for business,
got control of a chain Of cot
ton mills in New England and
extended his guiding hand to
railroads, insurance and bank
ing.
A man of impregnable dig
nifty and reserve, he stands out
as an anchor man of our whole
industrial system. And he is
definitely leading the irresisti-
BILE march back to solid pros
perity.
King Harry is himself again.
That's the word from the oil
fields as the spectacular Sin
clair backs the President and
the NRA in striving to stabilize
the oil industry and get rid OF
"wild-catters" and "hot oil"
His stable is dispersed, but he's
back with his first love-black
gold-up to his neck in oil
airplaning around the country
building a new oil empire.
Harry Sinclair was born in
Wheeling and reared in Inde-
pendence, Kansas. After he
had made a poor job of rum
ming his late fathers drug store,
he drifted over into Oklahoma.
He went out rabbit-shooting and
shot himself in the foot, and
that's how he got his start
along the golden road. He put
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

THE FACE ELSIE ROBINSON
OF OUR NATIONAL EMER-
GENCY, IS A DOWNRIGHT
DISGRACE.
Now get me right. I believe
in sports. I think football is a
swell thing. I wouldn't give
shuckS for high school
youngster who didn't go around
in a pig-skin daze from Septem-
ber l to January l.
BUT THE ANNUAL SIGHT
OF MILLIONS OF MATURE
AMERICAN MEN AND WON
EN- GOING GA-GA OVER
FOOTBALL, TO THE EXCLU-
SION OF EVERY OTHER IN
TEREST, MAKES ME WISH
I'D BEEN BORN A ZULU.
Particularly, when I. have
daily tons of evidence that most
of those men and women know
practically nothing about what
is happening in their world
and care less.
Gam I getting anywhere with
this line of talk? No dearie, I
am not. This, as I we'll know,
is a one-gal fight against a
world gone rah-rah. But what
of that? It's a swell war, even
if I am the only one in it. So
just try and stop med
Here we are, with the heavens
falling about our ears, and
every last one of us needing to
get wiSed up and get busy.
Where will we be sleeping this
time next year? What will we
be eating? Will there still be a
place called America on the
map?
Search us! We don't know.
And we don't care!
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Defense Endangered

More than once foreign pow
ers have endeavored to obtain
from Panama rights that would
endanger American defense OF
the Canal Zone in one way or
another. Panama has no power
to grant any such concessions,
and the United States Senate
is not likely to ratify any treaty
that will repeal or weaken any
of the main provisions of the
treaty of 1908.
One of the most hostile critics
of the United States in it's ef-
fort to maintain all of it's rights
under this treaty has been the
present president of Panama,
DR.. Harmodio AriaS. AS mem
ber of the legislative branch Of
the Panamanian government,
he led the fight which resulted
in the rejection of the treaty of
1926, which was designed to
take the place of the treaty Of
1908.
President Arias is on his way
home after a visit to President
Roosevelt. The conversations
between the two Presidents have
paved the way for the negotia-
ton of a new treaty. This
treaty, however, is doomed to
defeat by the United States
Senate unless it reinforces the
treaty of 1903 and gives the
same protection to all the
rights of the United States un-
der that engagement.
Having built the Panama
Canal. defended it, and sue
ceSfully operated it all these
years, it is unlikely that the
people of the United States
would permit any adminiStra-
ton at Washington, Demo.
cratic or Republican, to weaken
American control at the 18TH
mus as a goodwill gesture either
to Latin America or to the
world.
Copyright. 1888. The Washington TimeS'
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
A Fighter

Daniel Webster Hoan, unique
figure in American politics, is
being challenged by a young
Ster who came into this world
about the time that Hoan was
forcing through the Wisconsin
legislature the first workmen's
compensation law ever enacted
in this country. Hoan, the So
cialist, has been mayor of Mil
waukee for II years now and
his opponent, Fortney Stark, a
25-year-old realty operator,
thinks this has been long
enough.
met the tall, sharp-faced.
mustached Hoan in New York
a few years ago, when he was
campaigning for Norman
Thomas for President. I lis
tened to him as he puffed his
corncob pipe while he painted
a picture of New York as a
socialized Paradise, with no
slums, no graft and no more
choking itself to death by the
borrowing habit.
Milwaukee has been known
as a model city under the ad-
ministration of Mayor Hoan,
who, born So years ago in Wau-
kesha, Wis, jumped into poll.
tics from law school as one Of
the lieutenants of the elder La
Toilette and advisor to Victor
Berger. The opposition now
claims that Hoan's four-year
plan, with a six-hour day for
city workers and no salary cuts,
has proved a failure.
But Dan Hoan has friends
and is a fighter. That Mil
waukee battle will be worth
watching.
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, 1nC.)
Edwin c. Hill appears in person at
Loew's Fox Theater this week.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
U. S. Must Keep Rights
In New Panama Treaty
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.'

tween the two oceans on which
Panama faces.
Panama and Colon are pledged
by this treaty to comply for
ever with whatever sanitary
regulations the United States
may require, and the United
States has the right to enforce
these regulations when Panama
can not or will not enforce
them.
The United States also has
the right to restore order IN
Panama whenever in its judg-
ment such action is necessary.
Panama also agreed by this
treaty to permit the United
States to acquire any property
it may need for canal purposes
in the cities Of Panama and
Colon.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

, FOR WE'RE OFF TO FOOT
BALL!
GOOD GooDY,GooD! WE'VE
GOT A TICKET TO THE
GAME!
Just a Big Bunch Of Cut-Ups,
that's what we are. And what
a silly old Fussbudget you are
to crab about it.
So, naturally, we're all in SYM
pathy with the KampuS Riddles.
All, that is, except me. I insist
on holding out. And with yells
I demand to know
WHY SHOULD OUR YOUNG
STERS GO ON BEING KID
DIES AFTER THEY GET ON
THE CAMPUS? WHY, WITH
MONEY AS TIGHT AS IT IS.
SHOULD YOU AND I GO
ON SPENDING BILLIONS so
THAT BOBBIE CAN MAKE A
MARVELLOUS TOUCHDOWN,
AND BESSIE LOOK PER-
FECTLY RAVISHING IN THE
ROOFING SECTION?
Would I deprive our children
of their innocent fun? You can
just bet I would! This, let me
state, ladies and gents-in case
you haven't heard the news al
ready-is no time for innocent
Fun. This is a time for little
boys and girls to dry off be-
hind the ears and Learn What
It's All About-the way the
youngsters do across the water.
Ask any English undergrad
about the Status Quo and he'll
come back with conversation
that would make the average
Representatives orations sound
like a Mother Goose rhyme.
Moreover, he will be excited
about the facts he gives you.
He will have taken sides. He
will have pet theories. Although
not yet Of age, he will be as in
terested in what is happening
to his country as Ramsey Mac
Donald himself. Yet English
youngsters like, and have, sports.
But they also manage to grow
up, between kick-offs.
Now try to engage the average
American college youngster in
a serious conversation any time
during the next three months.
Get him-juSt TRY to get him
to discuss Collective Bargain
ing with you. Or the pros and
cons of debating or initiating
the American dollar. He go
ing to school on the American
dollar.
He's eating on it, dressing on
it, depending for his future
upon it-and you and I are dig
ging it up. But what does all
that mean to him? ''''
1T MEANS JUST ONE
THIRD THE PRICE OF A
TICKET TO "TFIE GAME!
And what a dumb cluck you
are to expect it to mean any,
thing else!
Now, amt that somethin' for
a Great, Big, Wise, Wonderful.
Modern Nation to be proud Of?
Or is it,. What's YOUR vote?
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
The Human Side of the News
Steel and Taylor-Sinclair Back-Mayor Hoan
-Bu EdUUin C.. HHL--
By EdWin C.. Hill

his $4,000 of insurance money
into an oil lease, touched off a
gusher, took over a bank and
was the prime mover in the
development of a mid-continent.
field.
He organized the $70,000,000
Sinclair Oil Corporation and
wall Street gasped. Then came
the Tea Pot Dome, and Harry
Sinclair'S luck dwindled as an
oil we'll runs dry. Fall was
disgraced, and Harry Sinclair
was sent to prison for contempt
of court.
He was unhappy, for mis-
takes CRATE on him, and he hid
himself behind the curtain of
big business. But he's in the
spotlight again as his shrewd
mind darts hither and yon,
detecting the weak spots in the
kingdom of oil.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Control in Senate

Under the Constitution, the
final control of foreign policy
rests with the Senate, and no
treaty becomes effective until
the Senate, by two-thirds vote,
gives it's advice and consent to
ratification.
The initiative in negotiation
is given by the Constitution to
the President. The first Presl-
dent Roosevelt took the initia-
tive when he negotiated with
Panama the treaty of 1908. 1T
was signed in washington on
November IS of that year and
was ratified by Panama on De-
cember 2 of the same year.
This treaty is still in force.
At the time it was negotiated,
the people Of Panama were "a
unit for the canal" Since then
the canal has been built and
fortified by the United States.
Under this treaty, Panama,
in return for the building of the
canal, which has made possible
the Panama Republic and is
responsible for the liberty and
happiness which the people OF
Panama enjoy in that republic,
gave to the United States most
unusual rights
These rights were essential to
the building of the canal, to its
successful operation and to its
effective defense. .
BY the treaty Panama granted
in perpetuity to the United
States exclusive canal rights
throughout its entire territory.
Only the United States has the
right to build a railroad or other
means of communication be-
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

pected to be. The debutante
wore white organdie and a blue
sash: the matron wore black
velvet, point lace and diamonds.
And grondmother wore bomba-
zine and tied a bonnet under
her chin.
But no woman is dated by
- her clothes, nowadays. All
women, from 16 to so, dress
pretty much alike; and school
girls sometimes look more "old"
maidish" and Victorian than
their grandmothers.
Neither is a woman dated
by her favorite songs. All the
latest hits come over the radio
and it is nothing to hear 4-year-
old Betty and her grand
mother both intoning who's
Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"
But there are lots of ways
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

Why Not Try Salesmanship?
81 couldn't sell gold dollars
for As cents"
Perhaps you have used this
quotation when asked why you
don't apply for work as a sales
man.
You think you can't sell, and
this conviction has prevented
you from trying to get that sort
of a job.
The person who can sell can
make a job for himself.
But some of the most success
full sales people in the country
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

Business perks up nightly at
the news that the great United
States Steel Corporation is 60
ing to spend millions for i'm
provements and provide employ
ment for thousands. The man
to whom business looks for
leadership is Myron Charles
Taylor, the czar of steel.
Back in 1927, when he became
chairman of the board of Steel,
Mr.. Taylor was "the man no
body knows" He's still public
ity-Shy and close-mouthed. Mr..
Taylor's aversion to publicity is
a passion. Unlike many noted
men, he loathes the gong-beat-
ing that is dear to the ear of
the average potentate.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
ONCE OVERS

have found out their ability in
saleSmanship, not from choice
but from necessity.
They had to have work and
SO they tried as statesmen, and
succeeded.
First you must know all about
the article you propose to sell
and be able to tell an interest
ing story about it.
And if you have the spirit Of
"swap" you will manage to get
your money in one way or an
other, and will sell goods and
like it. Why don't you try it?
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

In short, do
or say what
ou da n
please.
B U r I
S TILL IN
SIST THAT
OUR ANNU-
AL EXCITE
MENT OVER
FO TBALL
IS ABB S O.
LUTELY IDI-
OTTO; AND
THAT COL
LEGE FOOT
B ALL, IN
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Wise Words

Love all, trust a few, do
wrong to none.-Shakespeare.
Travel makes a wise man
better, but a fool worse.
Time is not tied to a post
like a horse to a manger.
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

Is Our Excitement Over Foot
ball IdiOtic?
All right-go ahead and say
I'm crazy!
Accuse me Of packing a
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
Don't Date Yourself

The first thing I noticed
about the eternally young Fanny
Ward when I met her was that
she was not DATED. AS far as,
age went, she was as nom
committal as a magazine re-
lection slip!
The worst faux pas that a
woman can make is to DATE
herself! Especially in these
days, when four out of five
women are in business, a job,
or a profession.
There was a time when every
woman was dated" and ex-
The Washington times., 1933-10-23
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

in which a girl can-and does
date herself, quite unconscl-
ously. You date yourself when
you pull your long skirts up
too conspicuously. 1t puts you
right in the postwar decade
and the middle thirtieS.
You date yourself when you
paint your cheeks like head
lights, and when you wriggle
on the dance floor, and when
you use flapper slang.
But, most obviously of all, a
girl dates herself by her MAN
NERS. It is as paSsee now to
be raucous and rowdy as it is
to be prim and prudish. 1t
Identifies you with the jazz
decade-and anybody can count
up from there.
Manners are simple, un-
affected and comfortable these
days but still they ARE
I'm anners." Good breeding
seems to be coming back with
repeal and recovery.
The old hard and fast rules,
called etiquette" are as. funny
now as the weeping willow
mustache. But unless you have
Savoir faire, aplomb, tact and a
knowledge of the civil and gra-
cious thing to say or do, you
<~s go
FST teNN IS
>1zS le.;...1 ~ As
Ngl2N :: :@S'71:"s SS"
0z%f%'ss1
The Washington times., 1933-10-23

It is fatal for a woman to let
herself be DATED by the
modes and manners Of yester-
day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
See Little Need
to Fear Ice Age
Weather "Sharps" Say It
Is Still Far Away.

That next Ice age-(if one is com
ing) when glaciers may come gsiad-
ing down from the North again to
Overwhelm Americas still a long
way off if Uncle Sans weather
charts are any indication.
On the charts, red line has been
steadily rising since 1908, tracing the
course of the longest warm spell
America has enjoyed since the War
of Revolution. Weather bureau ex-
perts are cycling the red line closely,
wondering whether it will keep Oh
going up, or whether it has passed
the peak and will now bead down
hill.
The winter of 1882 was the
warmest in more than 100 years in
that part of the country east of the
Rocky mountains. Last winter was
not quite so warm. That may indi-
gate that we are turning back toward
colder weather, or it may represent
just a temporary lapse that will not
affect the warm SPELLS longtime
course.
The red temperature line on the
longtime weather charts. going back
$50 years, rises three times above
the straight line that represents the
longtime normal, and dips below ii
twice. The first warm spell came at
the beginning of the Nineteenth cen
fury, about the time of the War of
1872. The second was about Is years
later. We still are basking in the
heat of the third.
The long warm and cold periods of
course are broken by minor fluctua
lions in the opposite direction.
Trends for the winter season are the
most irregular, with more cold spells
to interrupt the general tendency to-
ward "green Christmases' and small.
er fuel bills. Summers grew colder
from about 1875 to 1912, but then be-
gan growing warmer again.
For fall, winter and spring, how.
ever, the average temperatures for
the past twenty years are from two
and one-half to nearly four degrees
higher than similar averages up to
60 or 20 years ago. The same trends
have been found in some other coun-
tries of the northern hemisphere
Canada. England, the Scandinavian
nations, Germany, Poland and Rus
STA.
The reason for the warm and cold
spells is still unknown. They may
be just minor ripples in the greater
age-long temperature swings that
have brought on several Ice ages in
the past. interspersed with periods of
warmer weather. After the red line
on the weather bureaus charts has
risen and fallen for several centuries
the answer may be clearer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Filling Station Saves
Time for Apple Growers

A filling station for the apple or
chard is time saving development
] introduced recently by few Massa-l
chusetts apple growers. Spraying the
fruit trees to control pests Is the most
important summer time job of the
fruit grower and, according to pomol-
ogists Of the Massachusetts, State col
lege, most growers must spend more
than half of their time driving to and
from the water supply. BY building a
large concrete supply tank in the or
chard, several growers have been able
to eliminate much Of the extra driving
and lost time, and have been able to
cover their orchards with protective
sprays in about half the time required
before. Massachusetts, State college
men are advocating the use of these
''flling stations" as means Of cutting
the cost Of growing fruit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Wisconsin Leads in Silos

Wisconsin uses over twice as much
corn for silage as any other state.
about half of the states production
being used for this purpose annually.
Last year Wisconsin used 1,054,000
acres Of corn for silage and produced
an estimated total of 100000 tons.
The next ranking state in silage pro-
duction was New York with 3,55S,00O
tons, followed by Minnesota with
3,16S,000 tons. According TO the crop
reporting service Of the Wisconsin and
United States Departments of Agricul-
ture, Wisconsin has an estimated num-
Der Of $4,000 silos, which is far more
than are found in any other state.
This large number Of silos constitutes
basic equipment for the huge dairy in
dustry in Wisconsin and makes posi-
BILE the growing of corn in counties
where the growing season ordinarily is
too short to ripen it for grain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Makes His Living
on Ten-Acre Farm
Profits Greater Than From
- Tenants on 65-Acre
Adjoining.

by Tom Broom. County Agent, Union Coun-
ty, North Carolina.-WNU Service.
r. v. Lockhart, Monroe, Route 1,
Union county, North Carolina, owns a
medium-sized farm of which he culti-
Yates ten acres himself and has two
tenants who cultivate an additional 65
acres.
On the ten acres which Mr.. Lock
hart farms himself, he grows corn,
hay, wheat, and oats. One acre is In
a garden and orchard. He keeps five
Jersey cows and 400 White Leghorn
hens. All the forage for the cows and
all the grain for the cows and the
chickens, except the laying mash, is
produced on this ten acres. The two
tenants grow about 80 bales of cotton
annually, but are required to produce
the food and feed needed They grow
their own bacon; have their own poul-
try and eggs and keep cows to produce
milk and butter. However, Mr.. Lock-
hart says the profits from his ten acres
exceed his share of the profits from
the two tenants.
Three years ago when the banks In
Union county closed. Mr.. Lockhart
lost his ready cash and had to borrow
some money to finance himself that
year. BY August, he had over 500 In
another bank and all his debts paid.
He made money all the time during
the depression. He sells the products
from his cows as sweet milk, butter
milk and butter. His 400 hens pro-
duce about 200 crates of eggs annual
". and he is enriching his soil with
lespedeza and vetch.
There is running water in his home,
electrical refrigeration, lights and 9TH
er conveniences. All Of these were in
stalled since the depression started
and the bank account continues to
grow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Look Over Herd Now

There is no use in evading the fact
that there are thousands of poor pro-
ducers in the dairy herds Of the coun-
try. II all such cows were removed
in one great campaign. the markets
would feel the effects and prices would
advance. But first there is needed
campaign of COW testing to discover
just which are profitable and which
are not. 1t is poor business to have
cows in herd that are not capable
Of meeting all cash costs, paying the
farm for farm grown feed and some
thing over for labor and other charges.
Get rid of these just as matter of
common sense.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
"Sheets" for Roadhed

New ideas are constantly being ap
piled to the construction of roads
with the idea of making them more
durable or more economical to main
tain. The latest is the u.s., of sheets
of linen which are imbedded in the
composition of the roadhed. The
value of this addition is when the
road is in need of some repairs a
small portion of the road may be
taken up and the repair made quick
ly. Under ordinary conditions much
more of the surface would have to
be disturbed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
FOLLOWING "COPY"

The amateur band practice was be-
ing held, but something had gone
wrong in the piece which had just
been tried. Somebody had spoiled
the effect.
The conductor of the band glared
at the cornet player. why on EARTH"
he yelled, ibid you leave off playing
just as we got to the chorus?"
"Well," said the cornet player Ga
raw recruit), ION my music it said,
'Refrain'--so | did"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Larger Pigs Stronger

Pigs weighing two and one-half
pounds at birth have far better
chance to survive than those weighing
less, says ]. E. Nordby, associate ami
NAL husbandman with the University
of Idaho agricultural experiment sta
ton. Experiments have shown that
the largest pigs at birth are generally
the strongest. Birth weight depends
on two important factors: good in
heritance, and proper feeding Of the
SOW.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Potatoes Are Trucked

One type of farming is moving In
closer to the urban centers. Econo-
mists of the Department of Agricul-
ture have noted a tendency in the last
few years for potato growers to con-
centrate their efforts in areas within
trucking distance Of the ultimate con-
sumer. The time-honored system Of
shipping potatoes by carload lot from
areas far back in the agricultural cen
tiers Of Maine and other potato-grow-
ing states has given way to the mod
ern method of shipping by auto truck.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
CRANDPA's STATIC

Grandpa was having his after
noon sleep in the armchair and emit
ting sounds that might easily have
come from a cross-cut saw. AS fa.
Their entered the room he saw little
Jackie twisting one of grandpa's
waisteoat buttons.
"What are you doing?" he whis-
pered. you mustn't disturb grandpa"
I'm not, daddy" said Jackie, Il
was just trying to tune him in OH
something different"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
Not to Be Used

Little Jane had been asked to show
the weekend guest to her room.
Pausing on the way. she pointed out
the bathroom, and touching one of
the pretty embroidered towels. said:
"Of course you know that these are
not to be used "-Indianapolis News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-14
New Models

Dicks father is an automobile sales
man. Recently his sister came home
displaying pennies she had earned
The lad looked them over and said:
aid sure like to have them, they
are the new models"