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The Washington times., 1933-03-23
A New Spirit Needed
Tax Study Should Be Impartial

The people Of the District do not fear thorough and i'm
partial study Of their tax problems such that which
understood Senator King contempates in his revival Of the
Mapes bills.
They would however, have just for if the
chairman of the Senate District Committee to
bark upon such study in the spirit that which ami
mated Representative Mapes and his colleagues producing
the bills originally.
The Mapes investigation not conceived study Of
the local problem not carried in the spirit
Of fair play.
That investigation investigation in only.
simply the elimination Of effort to increase the bur-
den Of the local and to decrease the Federal Gov
ernments share in the cost of the National Capital
The increased which the Mapes bills would pro-
vide would not be expended for the good Of the city, would
be used to reduce certain unjust items in the tax
scheme
The proceeds Of those would have been reflected
only in the reduction of the Federal share
Senator King, however, that in reviving the
Mapes bills he will authorize thorough study Of the sua
ton and new levied will seek to reduce the bur
den of the hard pressed realty owner
long Senator proceeds the assumption that
there evils in the present tax scheme which should be
remeded long he avoids the contention Of the
Mapes group that District residents simply tax dodgers
he can expect interested cooperation Of Washngtonans
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

for submitting the ust OF
hoarders to the Government.
As is usually the case, the
average man, boarding small
amounts, has responded gen.
orally to the orders to re-
turn the gold. We learn
that some huge amounts
have been returned. We
know that others, hoarders
of enormous amounts, have
thus far ignored the orders.
These have defied organized
society and subordinated
their country to their greed.
1t is to be assumed that
at the expiration Of the new
time limit the names Of
these more sinister hoarders
will be in possession of the
Government. The names
may be published, that the
public may know who the
public enemies are; or the
names may be turned over
to the Department of JUS
tice for action.
The average business man
and individual who last
week broke his back in car
rying his inicome tax obli-
cation is made none the
happier by the discovery
that through the tricks of
privilege some were able to
evade the payment Of a
penny on as much as $2,O00,-
900; and the small hoarder,
for whom something may be
said in extenuation, will be
made no more cheerful by
having the hoarder of hun
dreds of thousands pro-
tected from exposure.
Equal rights for all;
special privileges for none"
That is the fundamental
Jeffersonian principle that
is at stake.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Banks Have Been
Made Safer

On Sunday a New York
audience listened to an in
teresting debate between
Senator Robinson of Ar
kansas, and Morris Hillquit
on whether the proceedings
under the leadership Of the
Administration thus far
mean any substantial benefit
to the American people.
Banks have been made
safer by common consent,
and a reorganization of the
banking system to follow
will keep them safer-and
that is Of substantial bene-
fit to the American people.
An economy program that
promises to save the people
hundreds of millions in the
cost Of government will be
substantial benefit.
Mr.. Hillquit, who does not
care for our form of COVER
ment, enumerates the things
that must be done for the
substantial benefit of the
people, and he mentions
scarcely one thing that can
not be done under our pres
ent institutional plan; nor
does he mention any that
does not figure in the ulti-
mate program Of the new
regime. Nothing, however,
will satisfy Mr.. Hillquit
short of the government
ownership and operation of
all industries.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

bringing up ELSIE ROBINSON
your family with the dear,
familiar friends-would that
have been better?
Or if you HADN'T stayed in
that little town
If, instead, you'd gone out
into the Big World
Broken all the old ties; adjust
ed yourself to entirely new
faces-what then?
If you'd gone on with the
job where you started-turned
your back on ambition; con-
trolled your restlessness; been
content with slow but safe ad-
vancement-
Or, perhaps, done just the
other thing-forced yourself out
of the rut; shamed your own
timidity; disregarded neighborly
warnings; taken a chance
Which would have been
wiser?
Or there was that mistake
you made
Those gobs and gobs Of mis-"
takes you made
The times you've lied; gotten
yourself talked about; acted
Smarty-
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
ONCE OVERS

, wearying to insist upon music
lessons well learned each time
might as well not pay for les
sons.
Fathers and mothers should
be interested enough in the ad-
vancement of their offspring to
be willing to sit in the room
with them while they practice.
Few children like to practice.
OF course, they don't want to
work.
They prefer playing with their
friends.
Too many parents permit the
children to have. their own way
in the matter.
It takes character to keep a
child at the keyboard. Have you
got it?
Or are you wasting your
money on lessons which will be
of comparatively little value to
your children?
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate, 1ne.)
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Blood From a Turnip
Hard to Get.

The United States collected 500 LESS
in during the first months Of the 1888
fiscal year than did the corresponding months Of
the 1882 fiscal year.
This despite that there additional levies in
1888, not imposed in 1882.
It has said that you can't get blood out of turnp;
with equal truth it might be pointed out that you can't tax
incomes unless there incomes.
This apparently did Congress when rejected
the manufacturer sales tax which could have been col
ected and increased the tax incomes that drying up
rapidly or had dried up completely.
The you think about the income tax the you
wonder if it not devised by inmate of unatc asylum
It yields abundantly in good times when the Government
has money and yields little nothing in bad times when the
Government lacks money.
body out Of Agyumor out Of Cougresto understand
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
LISTEN, WORLD!
How Different Would Life Have The
Been If? you've
BY Elsie Robinson

The walls OF resentment
you've let rise between your
self and people you once
loved
Would life have been better,
happier, if you hadn't done
those things?
After you're IS, you begin to
ask questions like that-begin
an endless see.sawing of Won
der and regret. Thinking it all
overland you do very little
else - sometimes you're sad;
sometimes you're glad; some
times you're mad.
But always you're puzzled.
HOW DIFFERENT WOULD
LIFE HAVE BEEN, IF
Probably very little different
in the long run, partner. For
our fate isn't determined by
the places we go, or the people
we know, or the things we do.
It is determined by our per-
sonal reaction to these things
to all things. And your reac-
tion, in all probability, would
have been pretty much the
same wherever you'd gone,
whatever you'd done.
Life might have been much
more exciting, or much less
exacting, if you'd lived some
where else. People might have
been more friendly, or un-
friendly. Your health might
have been improved, or handi-
capped. But, deep inside you,
you'd have felt about the same;
developed the same amount OF
courage, or kindness, or hon
esty. or ingenuity, or pride-or
the reverse cussedness. And
that's what counts!
WHAT YOU FEEL ABOUT
THINGS-HOW YOU, YOUR
SELF, MEET THINGS-THAT'
is WHAT COUNTS. THAT IS
ALL THAT REALLY COUNTS.
FOR THOSE INNER FEEL
INGS AND SECRET REAC-
TIONS MAKE YOUR REAL
LIFE, YOUR REAL WORLD.
You don't live in little peace
full ole Greenfield, or big, busy,
blatant N'yaWk. You live in
YOU!
And the only things that
@eally happen TO you, happen
IN you. Banks may fall jobs
may cease; homes may break
up; loved ones may die-and
YOU think it makes a lot of
difference But it doesn't. The
only thing that makes any diff
ference is how you, yourself,
take tn eSe happenings, IN
YOURSELF
LIFE is AS YOU TAKE TT.
LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE
IT.
And since this is so, you
needn't worry about Yesterday
the things you did and the
things you didn't do. YOU CAN
START RIGHT NOW AND
MAKE LIFE WHAT YOU
WANT IT-TODAY.
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
WISE WORDS

It is not in the storm. not in
the strife
We feel benumb'd and wish to
be no more;
But in the after silence on the
shore,
When all is lost, except a little
life, Byron.
Despite not any man, and do
not Spurn anything; for there
is no man that has not his
hour, nor Is there anything
that has not its place.
Ben Azai.
AS adversity leads us to think
properly of our state, it is most
beneficial to us. johnson.
In this sullen apathy, neither
true wisdom nor true happiness
can be found. Hume.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Burying the GermanRe Republic
The German republic is dead, the German
It Will Come Back to Life

The German republic is dead, the German
army or what left of it sautes the Grown Prince sgn
perhaps Of what is coming
German monarchists may see interesting miracle in the
fact that the former Kaser's hadozen all emerged
safe sound from in which the Of many other
Germans less fortunate
For the official buryng German republic Hitler
chose appropriately spot beside the Of Frederick the
Great in the Posdam Garrison Church Frederick who liked
to talk and write in French and wrote to George Washing
ton that be King his Frederick) meter profes
sion would have reoed to the German republic buried
near him. The republic will back to le however and
Frederick will not.
million in uniform paraded in different parts Of
Germany yesterday to celebrate the nations confession that
Germans unable govern themselves wish to be ruled by
small dictator with a smaller moustache.
The former Kaiser in the days of his glory had big
oustache that pointed upward Hitler the present dictator
has tiny moustache pointing downward That is diff
ference between them Another probably will be that Hitler
will not last as long.
How long the Hitler farce Of blood and fustan will last
dsgracefu Germany and filled with deadly danger for
thousands of innocent people, say But surely
will not last long.
No nation on earth is more intelligent than the German
nation nation less inclined be governed by an ego
tstical maniac followed by mob half grown in years and
in mind
Hitler informs the Rechstag that he ready to destroy
all those seeking damage people," This sounds
thing like promise commit suicide although that prob
ably was not in Hitler's mind.
Beer has come back, but prohibition has
gone You still living under the Eighteenth Amend
ment It would have been hard perhaps impossible to repeal
the Eighteenth Amendment That calls for thirty
six States But that amendment permits Congress what
drinks Intoxicating and Congress decides that beer and
wine with a2 per cent alcohol not Intoxicating 1t is
still crime SELL manufacture transport stronger alco
hoc drink The booegger and speakeasy need not
despair.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Music Lessons

You may be paying for voice
or instrumental lessons for your
child.
You blame the teacher be-
cause there is not faster ad-
vancement.
The blame is really yours that
you do not supervise the prac-
tice.
You should know whether the
prescribed hours are faithfully
used for serious study and prac-
tice or whether your child Is
dawdling.
Your children might take les
sons until they are old men and
women and never become pro-
ficient if the time they give to
music is only that spent with
a teacher, once or twice a week.
The teacher criticizes and as
signs work, but can't practice for
them.
The parents who find 1t too
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
One Purpose Of
The New Regime

That is point Of view he
and others hold, and have
a right to hold, and, under
our concept Of government,
to urge. But the program
of social justice he suggests
has in large measure been
urged by progressives in
public life like Senator
Wagner.
One of the purposes of the
new regime is "to free the
farmer from the strangle
hold of the money lender, y
to end the vicious anti
social practices of the banks
and. stop the extortionate
exactions of public utilities
and monopolies." All this
can be done without scrap
ping American institutions.
The institutions have been
all right; the tragedy has
been in the misuse of them.
You can put the devil in
charge of heaven and he
would soon convert it into
a hell
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

If you'd
married tn e
other m an,
or the other
woman.
Or n o t
m a r r ! e d
at all.
If you d
stayed in the
little t W n
W he re you
were Dor n;
gone on liv-
ing in t h e
dear, familiar
S t re e t S /;
hNiIar;~~ s,~
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
MAYBE I'M WRONG!
BY John P. Medbur

NEW YORK, March 23.-The
telephone company took mans
telephone out the other day.
Central said the receiver hap
pened to be off the hook while
he was hunting for his collar
button.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

THE returning conf
l. dence Of the people was
manifest last week in an
upward turn in business. Re-
ports from all parts of the
country show increased re-
tail buying, and the buying
Of a better grade Of goods.
Not a few manufacturing
plants, including steel, have
recalled men to their jobs
because of increased orders.
All of which is due to the
better feeling among the
people, generally, as to the
future. Thousands of men
already have been recalled
to the factories in the motor
car industry. All Of which
gives satisfaction to all but
a few who are hostile to our
form Of government and
rather resent any improve
ment in conditions.
Senator Robinson Of Ar
kansas is right in saying
that never in our history
has government done so
much or acted with such
celerity in meeting a crisis
of any kind as in the two
weeks following the induc-
tion of the new regime. In
everything done thus far
the President has had the
public behind him. We are
Informed that the agrlcul-
tural relief bill is being
critically examined. All
measures for the relief Of
agriculture have been sub
jected to even hair-splitting
criticism. From the view
point Of precedent and ira
dition, had the Reconstruct
tion Finance Corporation
and its methods been SUBJ
jected to any such criticism
it would have encountered
quite as much opposition.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

To Whom 1t May Concern
If there's such a thing as
reincarnation, millions of pedes-
trians will come back to earth
as kangarooS.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Wonders of Nature

Wonders of Nature
According to a Celestial news
paper, a baby is born every
minute in China. This must
get very monotonous for the
baby.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Fashion Note

Fashion Note
The trouble with the modern
girl is that she has too many
evening gowns in her wardrobe
and not enough aprons.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Farm Relief
Emergency Measure

Emergency Measure
The farm relief measure is
submitted frankly as an ex-
pertinent, and it probably
will undergo amendment in
Congress. It has the merit
of having behind it the best
agricultural expert sanction
yet given to any bill to
serve the purpose for which
this is designed. It is
openly an emergency meas
ure. If it can be strength
ened in Congress, no one
can object.
But the critical attitude
in financial circles is not
impressive. It has been the
attitude in financial circles
toward agriculture that has
done so much to reduce the
farmers to their low estate.
It has been the strange in
capacity in certain financial
and industrial Big Business
quarters to understand that
the ruin of agriculture
means the ruin Of business
generally that has post
poned any attempt to save
the farm. B. C. Forbes tells
us in the New York Amer
lean that:
"The financial world
gravely doubts their (the
principles of the billy sound
ness, their practicability."
But the American people
have learned from bitter ex-
perience to gravely doubt
the soundness Of the princi-
Piles of the financial world.
1t is largely because of the
unsoundness Of these prin-
ciples that the financial
structure of the nation was
on the verge of complete
collapse when the President
took the banks in hand.
If, however, financial cir
cles! have any constructive
suggestions as to how to
frame a sound and practical
measure to save agriculture
from utter ruin, the spon-
sors of the pending meas
ure unquestionably would
be pleased to have them.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
The Upturn: HOarderS:
Distressed Cities
,Bu Claude G.. BOWerS

Party Battles Of the jackson Period STTsss
Democracy in Jefferson and Hamilton,
Tragic Era" "Beveridge and the Progressive Era
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
The Wages of Sin

With confession magazines
paying such good rates, a girls
past will now take care of her
future.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

After you're As you begin
thinking about how different
life would have been IF
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Most Hoarders
Return Gold

Most Hoarders
Return Gold
With $327,OOO,OOO in
boarded gold turned in up
to March Is, the Federal
Reserve Board has extended
the time a week for the re-
turn of boarded gold still
out. The explanation is
offered that the banks have
asked an extension Of time
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Take It or Leave It

Many a department store
owners daughter has notions
of her own.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Social Errors

The absent-minded profes-
sor's wife who forgot to shoot
her husband.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

ding until she can find a
groom.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

We've found pair that help us leap
Across the forest dark and deep
And over rivers swift and wide
To safety on the other side.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

Matrimonial Martyrs
A spinster is an old maid
who has to postpone her we'd
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

The Good Old Craze
The well-dressed inmate Of
the insane asylum who sends
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Null and Void

The wealthy chess player
who's so lazy that he hires a
man to make his moves for
him
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-07
THE DRUNKEN DRIVER

The drunken driver of an automobile is poten-
tial murderer
That is the plain. unvarnished truth.
Il may be harsh and disagreeable to the man
who wants the privilege of mixing gin with his
gasoline and then taking his car out on the high
way.
But it is a truth which cannot get around
It has been proved too many times to admit of
any doubt
We know what we ought to do with murdererS,
The potential murderer, the man who is willing
to subject his fellows to the menace of a lunatc
driving great engine of death up and down the
highway, calls for no less summary and drastic
treatment
He knows the danger to himself and to others
in even trying to drive automobile when he IS
in that condition, and deserves no consideration or
mercy even for the first offense.
He should be sent to jail and given the oppor-
tunty to contemplate the enormity of his offense.
And he should be prevented from driving an au-
tomobile any more.
In some states the law stipulates his operator
license must be suspended forthwith. There must
be no failure to apply this law.
The man who jeopardizes the lives OF other peo-
pie by driving a car when drunk is just as much
of a menace as lunatic running at large with a
gun.
He should not be allowed to use an automobile
anv more than we would allow the lunatic oppor-
tunity to get his hands gun.-The Rock Hill
IS c. Herald
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-07
SAD CASE OF GENE TUNNEY

The name of Gene Tunney longer appears
on the list of New Yorks social elite. When ne
was married to Miss Polly Lauder, member OF
wealthy and noted New England family Gene
crashed the gates of society and became regis
terite.
This wear he has been dropped. No notice Is
oiven fellow when the social set opens the exit
doors. They Just open them and out he goes. lie
doesn't even have chance to say so long OF
.spa Won AGAIN." or Eau revoir." He's just out AMI
that's all there is to it.
The compliers of the Social Register don't care
hang if Gene is a we'll known student of Shake
speare and reader of other classical writer's, that
he is good political speaker, that scandal and
gossip have been merciful toward him. He was
prizafghter and the heavyweight champion OF the
world. That's all they want to know.
Il IS related that when Mr. Tunney was asked
whether if hurt to be dropped suddenly and so
hard he merely smiled as though it were a pleas
ipo ioks He still has his Shakespeare and his
other classics and probably will get along as well
without his name in the Social Register as he did
before il vert in. and Gene did getting along
hatwean the time that he enlisted in the United
States Marin Corps and tn day he was married 70
Miss Polly Lauder Quite probably he cannot see
that having his name in the Social Register has
helped hi min the last to get along He may be be-
ter off without his name in New York's book OF
books. Who knows?
Now that they have dropped Gene from the book
what will they do about EMO Fiermonte, the young
Italian leather singer who was married to Mrs.
Madeline Force Dick kidow of John Jacob Aston,
who died when the Titanic went down at sea? VIII
the compilers of the Social Register carry Fler-
monte's name for year and then send him out
into a cold cold world as they have Mr. Tunney!
Fiormonte should worry He may not read Snake
spolre but he has the Aston and Force millions Il
calling distanee-Spartanbur Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-07

drink is still disnegratng force in leisure. 1t is
not without significance that with the increase in
repeal sentiment, public conscience against gam
bling has dimmed
DryS should not suk. They should be up and
doing. Let us be on the alert We have not enlist
ed for battle alone, but until ultimate victory
establishes sober world. The past fourteen years
have shown many weaknesses in the dry armor.
Before prohibition drys tended to overemphaSze
their promises of prohibition. Now the shoe Is on
the other foot. Vets in their eXuberance have COM
mitted the same mistake in their promises of the
wonders that beer and liquor would work and SO
have given drys ample material for counterattack
Christian Science Monitor
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-07
AMERICAN AUDIENCES NEED A
VOICE
(BY BRUCE CATION

Ii there is anything this country needs
it is a person who will be brave enough to
lead the American audience out of its state
of placidity and forbearance
For if there is any group of individuals
that has suffered from the strain of all sorts
of public speakers, it is the American pub
lie.
The other day came the climax, the final
singing blow, to this great tolerant tribe
Eva LIE GaIhenne and Ethel Barrymore,
leading actresses in their own right, rose
before a meeting of Philadelphia women
and hurled bolt of temperamental rebuke
at them.
1t. was unexpected. 1t was devastating
It left the audience cOwed and dazed
AL the comment that could be heard
from the women, as they left the audito-
rum. was a, vague 'impudent' and "inso-
lent,'' to ease their feelings.
No one got up at her seat to berate
either of the speakers. They simply took
it, as nearly every other audience has
taken it from year to year, without protest.
Of course, this is an extreme case. But
in its extremity it is an excellent example
of the lengths to which speakers will go in
haranguing their listeners without incu"-
ring their open displeasure.
1t shows how dOcile, how unprepared,
how tractable the American audience is.
Yet it should not be so. No speaker is
infallible. No public character-nOt even
the great BarrymOre-is perfect.
Yet they do not hesitate to tell their au-
diences from the rOstrum things they might
think twice to utter on the same level.
They do so, safe in the knowledge that
not one of that placid mass before them
will have the courage to get up and chal-
lenge their remarks.
Some day a liberatOr will arise. Some
day someone will lead the American audi
ence out of it's lassitude, toward type OF
expression so sorely needed to protect IL
self against the declarations of self-ap-
pointed authorities.