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The Washington times., 1933-07-29

In the Wesley Heights home
development of w. c. and A. N.
Miller, everything was built with
an eye not only for beauty but
for convenience as well, accord
ing to c. L. McCrea of the Ma
tional Electric C.
For this reason, McCrea says,
much time was spent planning
the kitchens of Wesley Heights
homes with the result that Gen.
eral Electric all-electric kitchens
were installed.
With these practical units to
work with, McCrea continued,
Wesley Heights women have
found they do not have to stay
in the kitchen all day.
The Washington times., 1933-07-29
1000 B. e o. Clerks
To Go on Full Time

BALTIMORE, July 20 (U.SD.
More than a thousand clerical
workers, many of whom have
been on part time since February
/, will return to full time work
Tuesday at the offices of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, it
was announced today.
The Washington times., 1933-07-29
JAILED 80 DAYS

Charged with disorderly con-
duct, Will Diggs, colored, was SEN
fenced to serve 80 days in Jail, by
Judge Donald A. DeLashmutt yes
terday in Rockville Police Court.
The Washington times., 1933-07-29
A "LoIapaIoosa''

Dear Mark" writes Sol
Bernard Elman, IT don't know
how old it is, but it struck me
as being very funny. Perhaps
you'll agree.
"A fur salesman struck a
The Washington times., 1933-07-29
LaSt-M mute
News Flashes

...on valuable items and
pets Lost and Found and
advertised in the Want
Ad Section Of this news.
paper are also broadcast
every day at noon over
VOL. Be sure to tune
in and keep informed on
these items. Phone Miss
Dorothy Gray at District
$3.50 for any additional
information you may
want on this E x T r A
service.
The Washington times., 1933-07-29


Jordan, one of the lads COW
ering Queens Police Headquar-
ters. He's been covering sta
ton houses so long that he
believes he's a cop.
FRANKIE packs a gun. Some
day he'll probably shoot him
self, but he carries it anyway.
guess he thinks it makes him
plenty tough
Has Quiet Beat
"The other night, our hero
dropped into one of the local
dining emporiums to get some
grub. It was in the small
hours of the morning, and mat
tiers were pretty quiet all
around.
Suddenly the calm Jamaica
ozone was ruffled by the sound
of running men. Someone
started to shout, Help! Help!
BurglarS!'
FRANKIE dashed out, leaving
behind him a perfectly good
bowl of pot cheese soup. Here,
he thought, was a chance to
show his fellow Scribes that he
really knew his business.
can excited little man darted
into an alley and frankie
promptly gave chase. Catching
up with the chap, the reporter
lunged, grabbed the fugitive by
the collar, and tossed him
against avail.
"'Well, you little rat!' yipped
frankie. 'Stick-up mug eh?
Honest citizens can't rest in
peace with guys like you
'Wham! He socked the bird
directly under the nose and
then proceedd to frisk his pris-
oner. A couple of cops, awak-
ened by the commotion, roamed
around in time to find frankie
tugging his catch to the station
house.
"The reporter-cop dragged the
captive into the precinct and
dumped him into a chair. Mod
estly he turned to the desk
lieutenant. He explained the
entire matter in detail.
"Then he turned to the pris-
oner. He leered at the little
man who cringed in the chair.
Well he beloved, 'what've
va got to say for y'self, hah?
What've va got to say?'
"The little man turned to the
lieutenant.
Please, officer he begged.
'Please-'Z
"'None a that stuff yipped
frankie. Tell yer story
"'Well,' replied the little
man, 7 will, if you give me a
chance. I just happen to be
the man who was held up!'"
The Washington times., 1933-07-29

Want to buy q business Of your own?
Follow the many unusual Business OPP
pOrtunities advertised daily in the
WANT AID SECTION Of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-07-29
Planning Personnel
Assured Mem .IOhS

Faced with loss of its clerical
force and disbursing office by
merger of the Office of Public
Buildings and Parks with the
National Parks Service August
10, the National Capital Park and
and Planning Commission today
was treasured by Secretary of
Interior Ickes.
In a letter to the commission,
read at its meeting, Secretary
1ckes said the Interior Depart
ment will take over with the local
parks office those services per-
formed by it in the past for the
planning body.
The Washington times., 1933-07-29

"HOw will / get there?" "Where will
we go over the week-end?" These are
questions hundreds of people are asking
every day :. they can be answered,
and economically. too, by the purchase
of one of the good used cars advertised
today in the WANT AID SECTION Of
this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
The Federal Share
An Issue to Be Settled

The District budget for the coming fiscal prepared
by the District Commissioners pedcated upon appropra
zion of $500000 the Federal Governments share in the
expenses Of the National Capital
Under existing regulations the District Commissioners
unable to change this which the amount carried in
the appropriation bill for the current year.
The inclusion of this item in the budget gives embance
Of continuity which should not exist.
The amount is utterly unfair both the citizens of the
District the citizens the United States who take
pride in having at Washington city representative Of their
national aspirations and accomplishments
This item of $57OoOOO which was inserted in current
appropriation bill not equitable in that bill and it will
not be equitable in the bill in preparation
There defense of the item when it the floor
of the Congress in the last session the standpoint of
equity and fair-dealng
simply arbitrary figure arrived at by computa
dons based false premise The figure supposed
represent cut in the Federal share proporionate cut
IN the total of appropriations
The Federal share which thus cut not adequate
originally and the total Of appropriations far from ade
quate to provide for the maintenance and growth of the
Capital
It is time that Congress took up matter Of the Federal
obligation toward the Nations Capital in broad and
seeing way
For than decade the appropriated for
s purpose has shifting and uncertain It has not been
based upon any definite premise since the proportionate
method Of contribution abandoned in defiance
tory law.
This situation unfair to the District and to the Nation
1t IS impossible to fair and representative budget
Tor the city while the of the Federal contribution
remains in doubt until after all of the other items in the
appropriation bills settled
In addition to the difficulties of budgetinp which ara tins
encountered the District whenever an appropriation bill
under consideration is placed in exceedingly awkward
Our local officials and public spirited citizens are con-
1nuay placed in the position of mendcants and beggars
They must kneel before Congress though asking for
gift.
AS matter Of fact they asking only for Justice and
for reasonable consideration of important and
local matter. '
Definite efforts should be made now to obtain an honest
Ind fair settlement of this issue at the coming session of
Congress-
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Times Change
But Stories Don't

Americas first clubhouse built 700 years before Christopher
Columbus discovered has just dug up near Santa F
New Mexico.
The club used by the Pueblo Indians where the men
the tribe gathered to gamble and swap stories.
consisted of circular pit in the ground rooted over with
poles
Ladies not admitted
Some idea of the antiquity Of this institution NAV be gained
from the fact that when built the Mohammedans were
conquering Spain and Harouna Raschd of the Arabian
Nights the Calph of Bagdad.
But in those remote days. the problems of men the
world to have been much the as hev are to-
day They needed place where they could escape from
their womenfo talk the baseball or whatever
then the equivalent of baseball have quiet drink and
possibly play pinoche
No bar rail has been discovered in the Pueblo club but
undoubtedly there one
And undoubtedly that where Indian told the
story about Pat and Mike the farmers daughter the
travelling salesman-and got the raspberry from his
audience happens in Manhattan peakeases today
Times change but the habits Of the male in 1885,
A. D., were probably different from those in 1888
= And the stories no newer. 4
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
New Hope for Drug Addicts
A "Painless" Cure Is Reported

New hope for narcotic addcs is held by treatment
devised by three New York physicians and described recently
at the annual convention of American and Canadian
lists in Chicago
The treatment consists Of blocking of the patient
by means OF alcohol injections effective days or even
weeks thus relieving him of fever nausea neuralgia and
other symptoms associated with the oppage of the narcotic
most OF the persons on whom the experiments been
made were involuntary addc e. they had contracted the
drug habit while relieving intense pain during sickness or
injury. '"" "
The greatest attained with this type of case
In which the patient wished to free himself Of the habit
results were less promising when the subject took mar
cotcs from desire and interested in reforming himself
Dr. B. M. Greene, Dr. Herbert Person and Dr. Perry M
Lchtensteln he last crmnologst aneshets for the
district attorney Of New York; explained and demonstrated
the process to the Chicago convention.
The treatment if it accompshes what claimed for it,
should prove to be important step combating the
cotic evil, at least in one of its aspects.
Heretofore the involuntary addict has had method
freeing himself from the habit except by long and painful
struggle He is promised short and easy cure if he
honestly desires to break the habit and to normal life
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Wander Fever

Born and brought up in Syra-
cuse, N. Y, there was wander
fever in his blood before he had
lost his boyish soprano. In his
mind were pictures of strange
places and strange peoples.
He was a cub reporter on the
Syracuse Journal when fate set
his restless feet upon trails to
far places. For 80 years adven-
lures came to him as naturally
as the hours of the day and the
days of the week. He tells it
all in a book with title like
a bugle call: "Yonder Lies Ad-
venture!"
A lovely, colorful picture Col
onel Powell paints of Paris in
the early years of this cen.
tury - the Sunday morning
promenade in the Bois de Bou-
logne, with it's tranquil charm,
as yet unspoiled and unmarried
by the honking of motor cars
and the fumes of gasoline.
There was James Gordon
Bennett, then proprietor of the
New York Herald, in a long tan
coat and a high white hat, on
the box of the yellow road coach
that he fooled regularly between
Paris and notwithstanding
Rejane, in a carriage drawn by
four Spanish mules caparisoned
in scarlet-the dapper and di-
minutive Count Boni de Castel-
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

We want to run the world as
we run our homes. We want to
deal out judgments as we deal
out SpankingS to our naughty
children. And 1T CAN'T BE
DONE.
Vice is not as easy to classify
and Segregate as all that; and
Virtue is even harder and more
questionable. There is no Pure
White, no Dead Black in the
human character.
Justice is not simple matter
of separating the Goats from
the Sheep. It is a question OF
devising the best method to get
along with mottled mongrels.
In short, it is an everlasting
compromise between the good
you'd like to do, and the good
you're able to do.
BUT WOMEN HAVEN'T YET
LEARNED HOW TO CON-
PROMISE-WON'T EVEN AD-
NIT IT'S NECESSARY. AND
WHEN THEY COME IN CON-
TACT WITH OUR. LEGAL
MACHINERY WHICH HAS,
OF NECESSITY, BEEN BASED
ON THAT LAW OF COMPRO-
MISE, THEY RAISE CAIN.
The boy who wrote that hell
hath no fury like a woman
scorned" was wrong. There's
one worse fury-and that's
militant female who thinks
she's Got Something on a Police
Judge.
Kipling wrote a poem about
that. You know its refrain
THE FEMALE OF THE SPE-
CIES is MORE DEADLY
THAN THE MALE!" And the
reason she's more deadly, said
R. K, is because she won't
compromise-won't take those
halfway measures which make
a little progress poSSible-insists
on a whole loaf and, if she
can't get it, pulls the house
down about her ears.
Female Vigilantes? Just start
'em, and within a month we'll
have a national hair-pulling
fracas that will make the re-
cent World War look like a
kindergarten picnic.
So there, Mary R., is what
one humble admirer thinks of
your cute scheme. And it's my
bet, lady, that if they were
ever started, you'd be one of
the first to grab your portable
and light out for parts I'M
known.
But maybe I'm wrong. And
you-and YOU and you-are
hereby invited to tell me if I
am.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Adult Probation

Only in this way is it possible
to determine who should be re-
leased and when, and upon
whom society for it's own pro-
lection must impose permanent
segregation"
Failure on the part Of many
States to set up effective sys-
TENS of probation and parole is
making it increasingly difficult
to obtain the support of public
sentiment for an intelligent ap-
plication of these methods as a
protection to society.
The National Commission on
Law Observance and Enforce
ment, appointed by the Hoover
administration, made a thor
ough study Of probation and
parole in the several States.
This study developed the fact
that IA States still have no
adult probation law. And even
in most of the States possessing
such law, it was found that
many courts make no use Of it,
that probation officers in gen.
eral "have been underpaid, un-
trained and chosen with little
eye to their fitness"
This led the commission to
the conclusion that "it is un-
fair to say that probation, as a
method, is not useful or that it
has failed, for the simple rea-
son that probation has never
been fully tried or adequately
applied in the United States"
Massachusetts was the first
State to pass a probation law.
This was in 1878, but the method
was not applied except in the
city of Boston until the early
COS. Suc.l growth as the pro-
baton method has shown has
taken place within the last Is
years.
RrohaAion Is designed p 40.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

give nickel HLoAH hODANSON
for that Female Vigilante no.
ton of hers.
Vigilantes, Of course, are no
innovation. They went into
action in the bad old days of
the wild and woolly West"
I remember some of those days.
What the Vigilantes did was
plenty! Some of it doesn't
make pretty history. Some of
it had best be forgotten. But,
in the main, I suspect the Wig
ilantes of that pioneer period
did a useful and necessary job.
But those were MALE Wig
ilantes-operating in a MALE
world, from a MALE view
point. FEMALE Vigilantes?
That's something else!
They, too, have been tried,
in various cities. Fine women
were enrolled-clever, intelli-
gent women, devoted wives,
noble mothers. Doubtless the
personnel of such organiza-
tions represented a far higher
average of personal decency
than one could have found in
similar organizations of men.
But they didn't represent an
equal amount of experience,
Sophistication and plain hoss
sense. AS a consequence, what
happened?
IN PRACTICALLY EVERY
CASE. SUCH ORGANIzA-
TTONS MADE DAG ONED
NUS ANCES OF THEM
SELVES.
With the best of motives they
committed an appalling amount
of mischievouS meddling, and
gummed up all the civic works,
with their unwarranted snoop-
ing and petty tattling. In the
end, they accomplished far more
evil than good by their we'll
meant but misguided tantrums.
So I'm strongly of the opinion
that Female Vigilantes are NO
GO. And, here's the reason.
We women are not yet able to
handle world affairs with that
large, impersonal tolerance and
understanding which is essential
to justice. We're too personal,
too Stubbornly convinced that
our way Is the SplX eight VsA -.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
The Human Side of the News
.BY EdUin C.. HILL

Probably no living American
has had so many fantastic ex-
periences and extraordinary ad-
ventures as Col. E. Alexander
Powell. He was a consular Off
Ger of the United States in
Asiatic Turkey during the reign
of the Red Sultan, Abdul the
Damned. He has been waylaid
by brigands in the Apennines
and captured by Bedouin tribes
men in Arabia. He has crossed
the Himalayas by elephant.
Western Asia by caravan, and
the Saraha by six-wheeled mo-
tor car.
He travelled through the Cau-
casuS with a slave dealer who
was buying Circassian beauties
for the Turkish harems. He
has been a guest at the court
Of the emperor of Ethiopia,
shot big game with Indian ma
harajahs, played pool with the
sultan Of Zanzibar and taken
tea with the last of the canni-
bal kings. He has marched
with many armies and fought
as an officer of the A. E. F.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Penal Systems of States
Need MOderniZin6
BY James T. Williams, J..

In the judgment of Judge
Joseph N. Ulman, of Baltimore,
presiding justice of the Mary
land Supreme Court, the time
has come in this country "to
advocate the absolute inde-
terminate sentence. Not all pc
nologists will agree with this
declaration.
Addressing the congress of the
American Prison Association at
Atlantic City a few days ago,
this distinguished jurist said:
"The aim and object of all
penal processes should be the
recognition of the general prin-
ciple of dividing all offenders
into two categOries:
81. Those who ought never to
enter a Jail, and
"2. Those who ought never to
be allowed to leave it,"
Effective application of these
two sound principles, however,
depends upon the establishment
by the several States of a sys-
tenn under which thorough in
vestigation and classification
can be made before sentence is
imposed.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

lane, whose pink marble pal.
ace in, the Avenue du Bois de
Boulogne was the new wonder
of the town-Sarah Bernhardt,
nodding and smiling to the
braves of her countless ad-
mirerS.
There, too, one could see
Baron Eduoard De Rothschild,
burly, big-beaked and bearded,
driving a pair of spanking
bays to a red-wheeled phaeton;
Lima Cavalieri, the reigning
beauty of Paris, with her
blue-black hair and scarlet
mouth and dead-white face;
Don Carlos, exiled pretender to
the Spanish throne, accom-
panied by the two Great Danes
which were his constant COM
panions-the great and the
near-great, the noted and the
notorious, parading past in
glittering display of wealth and
beauty.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Lax Enforcement

In many States no attention
IS given to a scientific selec-
ton of prisoners for release on
parole, and too little attention
is given to their supervision
after they are paroled.
These are among the reasons
why the lax method under
which many States are extend
ing probation and parole have
rightly come in for widespread
and severe condemnation.
Oklahoma offered a recent
example of the menace to so
ciety which the abuse of sound
principles of penology involves.
The whole country was
shocked on June II last when
gangsters attacked Federal and
State officials at Kansas City
who had in their custody an
habitual criminal by the name
Of Frank Nash.
Not only was their prisoner
killed, but two Kansas City
police officers and a special
agent Of the Department of
Justice were also killed by the
gangsters who made this attack.
Frank Nash, the prisoner
killed, was the type of habitual
criminal who ought to have
been kept in prison. His Grim
inal record showed that on
September 13, 1918, he was re-
ceiVed at the State penitentiary
at McAllister, OKLA, to serve
a life sentence for the crime
of murder. Less than five
years later, he was granted
a full pardon. On December
18, 1919, he was convicted and
sentenced to serve Is years in
the Oklahoma State peniten-
tiary for burglary by explosives.
A little over three years
later, he was discharged from
this penitentiary.
At the time of his death,
Nash was a fugitive from JUS
tice, having escaped from Leav'
enworth penitentiary.
But Oklahoma is only one Of
many States that ought to
modernize their penal systems
so that they will protect society
from making criminals of those
who can be saved from a life
Of crime, and from habitual
criminals whom it is unsafe to
release through pardon or pa
role.
,GopSeisht. lasa. EIis MasNmEtOh IImnall
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Abdul the Damned

A remarkable picture, too,
that Colonel Powell paints of
the late Abdul Hamid, Sultan
of Turkey-the Red Sultan
they called him-Abdul the
Damned. Twenty thousand
troops lined the streets when
the Red Sultan drove once a
week to pray at the mosque.
Everywhere troops - sturdy
Anatolian infantrymen in bluG
and scarlet; foot soldiers from
the Yemen, in red and yellow;
Bosnians with bright greerl
facings; Tripolitans with tuI'
bans striped like barber-poles
Turkish cavalry of the line, in
caps of astrakhan; hussars in
blue jackets frogged with vel
low; lancers with fluttering pen
nantS.
Promptly at midday the guns
of a battery of horse-artillery be-
gan barking out of the imperial
salute. The glided gates of the
palace were flung open. The
brazen clang of cavalry
trumpets scared above the roll
of drums.
Then, amidst the gleam ct
steel and the Haunting colors,
Powell caught a glimpse of the
man with the ashen complexion,
the furtive eyes and the thin,
cold smile, Emperor of the Otto
mans, Commander of the Faith
full, Successor to the Prophet,
Shadow of God-The Red Sui
tan, Abdul the Damned.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, Inc
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

or a ribbon across the chest.
If the title-market ever crashes,
it will be either because Amer.
ican millions have evaporated,
or because the titled boys have
decided that it's more fun to
60 to work than to take Fido
for a walk.
American girls will never
cease to fall for polished for
eigners, who seem to know so
much more about women and
the subtleties of love-making
than the bluff "he-man" type
of American, who regards it as
"sissified" to kiss a woman's
hand, but not to kiss her lips.
Oh yes, those foreign dukes
and princes who are cluttering
up these shores may sometimes
make expensive husbands, but
they DO make alluring and
thrilling lovers. And that's
SOMETHING!
It isn't really the title which
wrecks the international Alli-
ance" and so often turns it into
a front-page tragedy or scan
dal. It's the MONEY involved!
It's the millions-not the cor
onet.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

ply only to those whom it is
not necessary to imprison in
order to protect society.
Parole, on the other hand. iS
the method by which a prisonAa
is -eleased who has been coRe
mitted to prison but has served
only a part of his term.
1t was found by this same in
vestigating committee that only
ii States have yet created
agencies to deal specifically
with parole. And six of these
still rely on incompetent boards
for this purpose.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

start nation
wide organi-
z a t i on S of
volu n t a ry
women work
ers to ferret
out cri m e
and re po rt
criminals.
Now, I have
the greatest
respect for
Mrs. Rine-
h a r t as q
writer, bu t,
personally, I
W o ul d n t
miHrn O nainlZnl
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
Words of Wise Men

The desire of power in excess
caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess
caused man to fall; but in char
ity there is no excess, neither
can angel or man come in dan
ger hz 4-RaGon
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

God could not be everywhere,
therefore he made Mothers
Lew Wallace.
We triumph without glory
when we conquer without dan
gaE-0oaNeillA.