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Evening star., 1933-05-07
Mrs. Roosevelt Accepts
Invitation to Ball

Mrs. Roosevelt has accepted the In
vitation of Mrs. william Randolph
Hearst to attend the ball in the Armory
Of the 7th Regiment In New York
City Monday evening, May 20. The ball
Is sponsored by Mrs. Hearst and the
proceeds will go to the two canteens
and rest rooms, which Mrs. Roosevelt
opened in January for the use Of un-
employed girls. Mrs. Roosevelt has de-
voted the proceeds from her radio talks
to these necessary havens, where girls
may go for rest and to receive refresh
ment.
Evening star., 1933-05-07
Studio Tea to Benefit
National SYMPHONY

A silver tea for the benefit of the
National Symphony Orchestra ASsocia-
ton will be given at the Francis Cute.
Illus Studios, 1903 New Hampshire ave-
nue., today from to S o'clock.
A short program Of music by Brahms
will be given by Wilhelmina Spanhoofo
Walter and Francis Gutelius and 9
sketch Of his life by Anita Schade.
Every one who Is interested in the
welfare of the National Symphony will
be welcomed
Evening star., 1933-05-07
Arts Club Program
Includes Musicale

Mr.. Norman Frauenheim, a Wash
ington pianist well known both on the
concert stage and through his radio
programs, will give a recital at the
Arts Club Tuesday evening when Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Allen will be the
clubs hosts.
A dinner dance will be the attrac-
ton on Thursday evening, with the
Auxiliary Committee of which Mrs.
Richard D. La Garde, chairman, as
hosts
Evening star., 1933-05-07

Lucketts. The wedding viii take place
In the early Summer.
Miss Gum has been teaching in Md
dleburg for several years. Mr.. Titus Il
In business in Leesburg.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01

Japan is apparently getting
ready to deliver to the United
States an ultimatum the mean
ing of which is we'll understood
in the foreign office of every
first-class European power.
This ultimatum will take the
form of a threat to denounce
the Washington Naval Treaty
and the London Naval Treaty,
which expire in 1885, unless the
United States surrenders to the
demand Japan intends to make
for a new naval ratio to take
the place of the one applied in
1921 at Washington and modi-
fled in Japan's favor in 1880 at
London.
The cause and the effect OF
the demand Japan is preparing
to make will be to take her
nearer her goal, which is Jap
anese supremacy in the Pacific
and dictatorship on the CONT
nent of Asia.
Toward this great goal Of all
japanese foreign policy, japan
took the first step in 1894 when
she defeated China and elim1'
mated the Chinese navy as a
serious factor in the balance OF
sea power.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
More Beer, Less Trouble
Say the Drys

New York State has had legal beer long enough now
determine whether the claims made for by its advocates
were exaggerated
The answer thrtynne countless is that they were
NOT.
The counties reporting all outside the city of York
They say that beer has brought about:
IA substantial reduction in speakeasies.
"A similar reduction in the sale of gin and whiskey
SFewer arrests especially arrests for driving while in
toxicated
One might add to these the which that State is
getting from beer and which the beer of yore
NOT getting.
One also might add the increase in many lines of business
associated with brewing and the jobs which have been
created thereby.
the ys used call any argument for legal beer
rect comes from former drys themselves.
Many Of these have informed the New York State Control
Board that they qu pleased with the results that have
bccued to their communities since the beer law passed
When dry admits that wet right-that settles it.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Deserved Promotion
Colonel Peaks Record

In the selection of Lieut. Col William L. Peak be super
ntendent of the Lorton Reformatory the District Commis
soners and the Board of Public Welfare have acted wisely
Colonel Peak has been superintendent Of the District Jail
since 1919 and before taking that post had had considerable
experience in prison work.
AS superintendent of the Jail Colonel Peak became familiar
with the criminal element of Washington He knows the
peaters and knows why they repeat.
That knowledge will be invaluable him in his work at
Gorton.
The institution which he will have control is of
course, vastly different than the city jail
Lorton Reformatory is experiment in the style Of
treatment of prisoners The recent uprising at the instu
zion somewhat of blow to the ideal Of penalogsts
1t demonstrated that something than kindness is
necessary in the treatment Of long term prisoners.
There is likely however to be good result from the
trouble will undoubtedly prevent the authorities from
sending the vicious type of convict to the prison without
walls.
Colonel Peak by his administration of the affairs the
Jail has demonstrated his ability to handle his job Dur
ing his long service at the institution there has been
any serious trouble within its walls.
Colonel Peak takes to Lorton enviabe record which
he will jealousy preserve.
The appointment of particular interest to those who
eve in keeping Washington jobs for Washingtonans It
also gratifying to those who believe in promoting those
in public service who have their worth and ability
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Step by Step

Ten years later Japan took
the next step when she de.
feated Russia and eliminated
the Russian navy as a factor in
the Pacific.
Japan attempted to take the
third step when, at the outbreak
of the Great War, she seized the
German colonies in the Pacific.
She expected that at the end
of the war those island colonies
living north of the equator would
be ceded by Germany to Japan.
But in the meantime the
United States had also entered
the Great War on the side OF
the Allies. And when the set
tlement was made at the END
of the war Germany ceded her
overseas possessions, including
her colonies in the Pacific, to
the principal Allied and assocl-
ated powers, of which the su:
preme council was the accred-
tied representative.
In consequence Of this settle
nent, sovereignty over these for
mer German colonies is shared
today by Great Britain, France,
Italy, Japan and the United
States.
Administration of these COZ
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
A Congregation of One
In England, of Course

England is the home of many odditieshuman and other
Mse-bu Of the oldest is church in the village
FaxtOn Northamponhe where services regularly held
for congregation of one.
Paxton has population Of seventeen persons but only
Mrs. L. Humphreys, is Churchgoer She is also church
warden, choir usher and bellringer
"T st in a front peO," Mrs. Humphreys says, "0nd
the rector breaches to exactly If lOere a full
congregation. Sometimes cannot attend, but the
serOice Is still held"
Mrs Humphreys also passes the collection plate to herself
and drops her offering into it.
Two rectOrs preach at the Church-One in Summer and
one in Winter.
They will perhaps be envied by most Of the male population
Of the globe.
They the only two have heard Of at least
who talk fifteen twenty minutes to without
the latterk answering back.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
"The Scarlet Army"
100000 Strong and Growing Stronger

Secretary Of War Dern in charge of the American Army
there another in the United States than
times large the regular forces and growing larger
mr. Dern is speaking of the army Of crme-the 400 900
men and women who make their living by preyng the
rest of
The casualties inflicted by this army every year
Murders, $4,000.
Kidnapngs 5000.
Robberies $4,000.
Assaults 100000.
The cost of this armys operation for which it does
pay-but for which you dds thirteen billion dollars year.
MIR. Dern calls the crime troops THE Scarlet Army"
Describing its activities he says:
'N is constantly violating the snncy of American
homes sn0tching babies from their cradles children
from their nurseries, fathers and mothers from the
dOOrW0ys. R0cketeers leUying tribute form
or another business and industry that adds
to the cost of the necessities of life in every family
the land. Gangsters and gunren, in their machine
gun warfare, haOe killed Law-abiding and in
/ nOcent WOr1en WhO peacefully Walkng along
the streets, and hdUe murdered children UUho
playing in front of their homes They do not hesi-
tate to dOUn IUith machine guns officers of the
LaGO in the performance of their duty"
invading army four hundred thousand strong landed
In America butchered peaceful citizens and attempted levy
tribute Of billions Of dollars you know what would happen
There would shortly be no invading army.
The here NOW however bucherng peaceful citizens
and levying its tribute
When the people of the United States wake up that
1t viii be interesting to what happens Interesting to all
unpleasant for the 100000.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Peaceful Nights

And then the tranquil eve
ming, padding upstream with
never a Swirl or swish Of the
surface water, as silent as a
ghost in a ghostly canoe. E.
And the deer that are surprised
at the level bars along the
stream bends, as they come
down to drink in the evening,
leaving their little spotted fawns
hidden in the alders, while the
big bucks watch from the near
by ridge. The graceful, shy
does, with their great ears
twitching away the flies, brown
eyes staring intently at the
silently moving canoe, poised
on springs of terror, ready at
a flash or a splash to go leap
ing away in curving loops back
into the alders and the forest,
flying their white flags be-
hind them.
And the great heron that lifts
like a seaplane as she scars
from the top branch of an old
lightning blasted pine and
sweeps upward and away with
a vast spread of wings. And
the shelldrake ducks, mother
and father and a dozen half
grown youngsters, stretched
clear across the stream in a
level line, and suddenly startled
by a glimpse of the oncoming
canoe and scattering from
water to wing with a sudden,
terrific energy that sends the
foam behind them in wide,
tormented wake.
And almost at the last, as
dark falls, old Mother Black
Bear, roofing and grunting
among the wild red raspberry
bushes with her two funily deli"
cious cubs, little blobs of bii,ck,
little clowns of the woodland.
And her sudden "Woof!" Of
alarm and warning as she
wheels away through the brush,
her CuOS fOll1ng ana CuInOI111g
after her, thrilling with the
terror and adventure of a new
experience.
And then the canoe-landing,
and taking down the fly-rods,
and taking up the pack, and
the long, hard hike back over
the mountain trail, over and
down the mountain to the glow
of lantern light in log cabin
windows, and the pleasant mur.
muir of voices, and the aroma Of
good food cooking for a hungry
man.
Maine in the month Of
August!
copyright, 1898, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

THE FORMULATION OF THE
NRA PROGRAM; BUT I
HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED
IN EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL
WORK FOR MEN AND WON
EN-, AND I HOPE THAT
EVENTUALLY IT WILL BE
WORKED OUT SATISFACTO-
RILY."
But then comes the joker.
MRS. ROOSEVELT HER
SELF ADMITS THAT IT MAY
NOT BE POSSIBLE TO GIVE
EQUAL WAGES JUST YET
SINCE TO DO so MIGHT RE
SUIT IN MILLIONS OF THEM
BEING THROWN OUT OF
JOBS. AND MEN EMPLOYED
IN THEIR PLACES.
Whereupon, maybe you'll say
"goody-goody." But don't say it
too quickly. For, again. Cold
facts will shoot holes in all
your indignant arguments
against women workers.
Survey after survey has
shown that over 80 per cent Of
women workers do NOT work
"just to get prettier clothes
"just to get out Of doing house
work''-but DO work because
helpless dependents will be
thrown on charity if they don't.
Then, what should women
workers do?
DEMAND EQUAL WAGES?
But if they do, they may i'm
mediately lose the jobs which
mean life or death to little chill
dren, old parents, invalid hus-
bands.
ACCEPT UNEQUAL PAY?
But if they do that, the old
Injustice will continue indef1-
nitely..
INJUSTICE? ARE THERE
REALLY GOOD REASONS
WHY WOMEN SHOULD NOT
RECEIVE THE SAME WAGE
AS MEN FOR THE SAME
WORK?
What do YOU think? Let's
hear. Suppose YOU were shap-
ing that MIRA code in Washing
ton today-what would YOUR
ruling be?
The Washington times., 1933-09-01

was SCeao-
ier"-more intelligent and de-
pendable. Wouldn't work with
one eye on his job and the other
on his next date, or spend half
his time poWdering his nose; and
wouldn't marry and quit his job
just as you got him nicely
broken in.
All these "good reasons" you'd
advance for paying a man more
than a woman for the same
work.
BUT ARE THEY REALLY
GOOD REASONS?
Are women actually less de-
pendable workers than men?.
Or are they, to the contrary,
actually harder, more response
BILE workers-willing to stand
more punishment?
And are you really paying
women less because you "can
get by with it, and not be-
cause they give inferior ser.
vice?
You don't like to answer that
last question, do you? But
you'll probably have to answer
it, brother, whether you like
it or not. For right now, in
Washington, that and even
more embarrassing questions
are being framed for you to
answer. And that question
naire is certainly going to force
a showdown on a lot of long
established business bunkum.
AS this goes to press, the
National Industrial Recovery
Administration is shaping up
our new wage codes-and Mrs.
Franklin Delhno Roosevelt is
saying, "HOW GOMEZ"
For many of those codes
still suggest that women re-
ceive lower wages than men
! for the same labor. With the
usual excuses. But cold, Off
cial statistics make those hoary
arguments look like last years
birds nests. So, what?
$50, LET'S TALK TT OVER"
says Mrs. President to Madame
Secretary Of Labor and Gen.
Hugh s. Johnson. II HAVE,
IT is TRUE. Nc PART IN
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
To Drive Wedge

Now Japan is, presumably, get
ting ready to claim sovereignty
over these inundated islands. In
order to prepare the japanese
people to support their govern
ment in this claim, Japan's min
istry of the navy issued an Off
cial pamphlet last May setting
forth the contention that with
drawal of Japan from the League
would not in any way affect
her mandate over what were
formerly the German islands in
the north Pacific.
These islands n clu d e the
Caroline, Marshall, Pelew and
Mariana and Ladrone group.
They lie between Hawaii and
the Philippines.
If Japan can keep these is
lands she will drive a wedge be-
tween Hawaii and the Philip.
pines against the day when
Japan gets ready to add Hawaii
and the Philippines to her pos
sessions.
If Japan can force the United
States to surrender to the de.
mand Japan intends to make
for a larger naval ratio, she
will be in a stronger position to
fasten her sovereignty perma-
nently upon the inundated
islands intrusted to her tenn
porarily to administer.
BY preparing Japanese public
opinion to support both de-
mands, the Japanese Govern
ments maneuvering itself into
an advantageous position to do
some sharp trading at the next
naval conference.
It is the Oriental method Of
claiming everything as the SaSt
chance of getting something
and Japan always gets some
thing to which she is not en-
titled at every conference she
enters.
ICopyright. 1899 nv The Washington
TiU1oaI
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
The Human Side of the News
Maine Woods the Vacationer's Paradise
by EdUUin C.. Hill

Back to this workaday world
and the clicking typewriter from
one Of the most wonderful 81
all American Fairgrounds, the
State of Maine. Remote, tran
uuil, rockbound, forested Maine,
where one wins peace for the
soul as we'll as rest for the body.
Where one goes banging into a
woodland paradise over buck
board roads so incredibly bad
that the startled mind, turn
ing from the battered body,
looks back over stretches Of
gaunt rock and broken cordu-
roy and exclaims IN a kind OF
passion: "No team Of horses
ever foaled or wagon ever built
could pass this way!"
But they do and they come
in time to the camp-the
simple, primitive camp Of log
cabins, weathered by the years,
friendly and comfortable, look
ing out over one Of the lowell
est lakes Of azure crystal ever
fashioned by the hands Of the
Almighty among the seren e
and changeleSs mountains.
And then the blessed dark,
with its healing silences, broken
only by the weird call Of a
bear mother up the mountain,
or by the sharp, impudent bark
of a red fox, or the scuffling
of Brother Porcupine out in the
brush.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Inviting Days

And then deep, dreamless
sleep, and an awakening to the
first faint blush of rose down
behind the distant eastern
ridge; and then the spreading
glory Of the triumphant sun,
all red and gold; and then the
full, bright morning, with the
wind fluttering from the West
and the trout and landlocked
salmon nosing to the surface
and taking their own Bertillon
measurements in the size of
the circles that spread over the
unrippled surface.
And then a plunge into the
cold waters of the lake, and a
few quick strokes, and back to
cabin for a brisk rub down and
into wood clotheS-and at the
breakfast table, with an appe-
tite that challenges all the
hens in Maine.
And then, in flannel shirt
and khaki and moccasinS, with
pack over back, and down the
long trail to Spencer Stream
and the canoe, around birch
covered bands which are never
the same in their lovely, mys-
terious immobliity, where the
slender silver birches curtSey
and bow like graceful ladies
before the caperings of the
west wind.
And the deep pools, where
the wise trout lie through the
hot August days, deep down in
cold depths fed by eternal
springs. And the graceful play
and flicking lure of silken flies
cast ever so lightly out over
the pools and under the lean
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Mental House-Cleaning

Mental House Cleaning
House cleaning has been go
ing on in the majority OF
homes.
But most folk leave out a
mental house cleaning.
Muddled ideas, opinions
formed, which in the light OF
personal experience should be
discarded.
You don't want to be thought
of as vacillating, but even that
is better than to cling to a ship
that is lost, refusing rescue by
other means.
, You may have studied upon
certain economic problems till
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Japanese Plan Includes
Hawaii and Philippines
BY James T. Williams, Jr.

onies, with the consent Of these
powers in favor of which Ger
many renounced all her rights
and title to this territory, was
entrusted to several powers, one
of which was japan.
Although the United States
accepted no mandate 1t retained
unimpaired all its rights and
titles to a share of the SOW
ereignty over this territory-in-
cluding the islands in the Pacific
north of the equator inundated
to Japan.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
ONCE OVERS

you are completely mixed up.
You can't find a logical,
common-senSe solution.
But why clutter up your mind
with these difficult problems
when they are not personal
matters?
It does not get you anywhere
in your life to be working so
hard to solve other peoples
affairs, in which you are not
concerned, really.
Think straight and realize
that you must get on your way
to solve your own adjustments
in a way to put you better off.
Better off does not neceS-
Sarily mean more money.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Unseen Husbands
The cruellest thing that a
famous woman can do to q nice,

regular he-man, is to marry him
and put him all out Of focus.
The only sort of a man who
can be happy with a celebrated
wife is one who is so big, so
successful and so prominent,
that he doesn't need any lime
light or so inordinately modest
that he is glad to keep out of it.
A superman!
Some day, it may come to
pass that John Jones and Jane
Doe may be able to stand side
by-side and enjoy the limelight
and the plaudits together.
But, just at this moment the
world is featuring its WOMEN
celebrities-and the men who
have the temerity to marry them
are getting an awfully raw deal.
Nothing bores the public so
much as to see a husband tax
ing up one beam or ray Of it's
Darling'S calcium. That's why
so many husbands of women in
the public eye fade quietly out
of the picture and become 1.-THE
Unseen Husband" Almost any
man would rather be completely
forgotten than be known just as
"Jane Jones' Husband.
Even a man who can stand on
his own achievements and can
put up the money for the big
Show" his wife is making,
quivers and shrivels up, at the
idea of being known as "Mr.
Jane Jones'" And the less a
The Washington times., 1933-09-01

ing alders-silken flies whose
very names are alluring; Par.
macheene Belle, and Montreal,
and Silver Doctor, and Royal
Coachman. And the thrill that
almost stops the heart when
a big trout shoots upward from
the dark depths Of the pee.
strikes with savage intensity,
curving clear over the delicate
leader, and is hooked to his
doom.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01

hundred and
fifty?
What e v e r
you're paying,
you'd have to
pay a man
more for the
same service,
wouldn't you?
A n d, o +
course, you'd
give reasons
which seemed
perfectly rea-
S o n a b le to
you.
You'd S a y
that g. man
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
WISE WORDS

Lucky is the man whose ser.
want speaks we'll Of him.-Thack-
cray.
The first step to self-knowl-
edge is self -diStrust.
Delay is the best remedy for
anger-Seneca.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

man has achieved on his own,
the Sorer and more indignant
it makes him to see his wife get
ting all the laurelS and taking
all the bows and plaudits. It
fills him with an inferiority
complex, and makes him feel a
failure" or an "also-ran," even
though he may be fairly on his
way to success. It just takes
all the heart out of him!
The same man, married to an
obscure little housewife who
would brag about him to her
friends, make big fuss over
him before company, and regard
him as the last word in oracles,
might become a successful citi-
zen and an important figure in
his own community. She might
be duller than a poor sermon
and palmer than a back fence;
but she'd be an inspiration to
him-not an extinguiSher
Yet, every third woman you
meet these days is a celebrity"
of some sort. And, somehow,
plain, everyday, nice, unpreten-
tious men are attracted by a ia
nous woman as the moth by the
flame. They are dazzled by the
glitter of her limelight, thrilled
by her achievements and fasci-
mated by the glamour of her per-
Sonality.
No man ever realizes, until
the wedding bells have stopped
ringing and he has shaken all
the rice out of his grips, how it
will sting his masculine ego, to
be "just one Of the audience"
wherever his famous and popu.
lar wife may go.
A woman can absorb and bury
herself in a MANS career and
be happy. But, as yet, I have
never met an average man who
could live a Woman'S life and
not be utterly miserable. Only
a few Supermen have succeeded
The Washington times., 1933-09-01

Should Women Receive The
Same Wages AS Men For the
Same Work?
What are you paying your
Stenographer, Mr.. Jones? Ninety
per month? One hundred? One