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The Washington times., 1933-02-20

m u n ications ELSIE ROblNsON
from fine fellows who are try
ing to weather through-and
having the heck of a time.
It's all about this job situa-
ton. Working wives and idle
husbands. Men depending on
women for their daily bread
and choking over the bread.
And the wives eXasperated to
the point where they hardly
care whether they choke or
not!
"Wives shouldn't hold jobs!"
Maybe they shouldn't, or
maybe they should. No space
to argue that here. The point
is, millions of wives ARE hold
ing jobs, and millions of hus-
bands AREN'T-and it's caus-
ing an entirely new kind OF
domestic rumpus.
Even if you could take all
the women out of jobs and
put all the men back into
them, it wouldn't solve this
new dilemma. For when wo111-
en- stepped into industry,
something happened to hus-
bands which had never hap
pened before in the history of
the race.
THEIR SNUG SENSE OF
SEX SUPERIORITY WAS
KNOCKED INTO A Cooked
HAT.
AND THE HUSBANDS CAN'T
TAKE IT!
That's not surprising. Since
times immemorial women have
been considered the weaker sex
and the man has been boss.
It was unthinkable that he
should be anything but boss.
Wasn't he the stronger. the
smarter? Didn't he know more
about the world? How could
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

MO sane man has ever
~ attempted to assassinate
a President Of the United
States, and yet no man has
made an attempt who has
not been sane enough to
know precisely what he was
attempting. In the case Of
the dastardly attempt on
Mr.. Roosevelt it was a
clear case of premeditation.
One interesting phase Of the
story is that when this man
with a warped brain decided
to assassinate, it was as easy
for him to possess himself
of a gun as of a loaf of
bread. Attempts have been
made in America to make it
more difficult fol people to
get guns but they have
never worked. There is
profit in the selling Of guns,
and we must not interfere
with profit. So, with a Presi-
dent-elect about to arrive in
Miami, this nan with
crooked brain was able to
walk into a pawnbroker's
and buy a gun.
This man admits he had
no grievance against Mr..
Roosevelt; he even insists
that personally he likes the
man soon to be President;
but that he hates the presi-
dency. In his crooked think
ing he was unable to see
that the presidency, from
his viewpoint, may be good
or bad, according to the
character Of the man with
the power. He thought the
character Of Roosevelt good
and so he tried to shoot
him.
However he defines HIM
self, the assassin is an anar-
chist.. Moscow had nothing
to do with it.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
When Dad Comes Home

When Dad Comes Home
"You will have to punish this
child, I can't do anything with
him"
Many fathers are greeted
with these words, usually in a
tone of command, when they
return from work.
Not many fathers feel like
chastising a child for some
thing they know nothing about
and which happened in their
absence.
They are glad to see the
little folk and want to play
with them and make them
happy, so it makes it diff
cult for Dad to administer a
whipping.
Mothers should try to settle
their own difficulties before
Dad comes home.
It should be a happy occa-
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Lesson of Miami
Incident
Cermak Displayed
Fine Courage

And what is the lesson to
be learned from the incident
at Miami? This:
We are passing through
one of the most critical
times in human history. Vast
numbers of people are suf-
fering through no fault Of
their own. Destitution often
works like madness in the
brain. The country is over
run with men and women
who are desperate, and
great numbers who actually
are insane, though not Or
dinarily violent, are walk
ing the streets, crowding
into public assemblies. It
is sheer madness to gamble
Oh possibilities under these
conditions. In these days,
especially, the nation has no
right to subject the head Of
the nation to needless
dangers. It does not matter
how fearless he is, how loath
he may be to surround him
self with protection-the
national interest must be
considered. Had the as
sassin's bullet found it's in
tended mark the other day
the country would have
been thrown into confusion
and the effect would have
been felt in every branch
of business. Prospective
policies would have been
overturned and, on the
verge of a change in ad-
ministration, we would have
found ourselves in a chaotic
condition with nothing def
mite thought out or thought
upon.
Outdoor public meetings
open to everyone, the vi
cious and the virtuous, the
sane and the insane, the
armed and the unarmed,
able to mingle with the
crowd-these are not meet
ings henceforth for the head
of the State.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
A Welcome ''DepreSSiOn"
In Automobile Deaths

One depression which the whole country welcomes the
sharp drop in automobile fatalities.
These last reached the lowest point since the pros
pey year of 1928 being only 2500 throughout the United
States compared with 3S740 for 1881.
That reduction of than 400 about IL per cent
The most encouraging feature of it moreover that
due only in part to lighter traffic.
The decrease in auto registrations and sale of gasoline
only about six cent under that of the year before
Thus fully half Of the lower death rate be attributed
directly to improved safety measures.
The educational campaigns conducted by the schools the
press the police and the automobile and insurance companies
aEe bearing fKuit.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Germany's "POcket
RattleShin"
The Boat We Need, Fast, Powerful Economical

You can conquer COUNTRY, but you cant in the long
run conquer INTELLIGENCE The Germans have intelligence
The Treaty of Versailles told them they must not do this
and do that They must not have for instance any fight
ing apanes However they have of the biggest finest
most powerful fleets in the world And nasmuch any
kind of plane can drop explosives and poison gas
mans wipe any city in Europe Paris included with
great ease tomorrow, if they wanted to.
The Treaty of Versailles told the Germans they must
not have fighting ships above certain ze bateshps
more power for them, fighting ship of than
10000 tons.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

should read
m y m a l!
P a r ticularly
if you're a
W f e y ou
should read
those letters,
for you're the
W h y a n d
wherefore of
them, lady.
"Cry baby
letters
Not a bit
of it! U p
standing, two
fisted COM
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
It's Up to Each
Individual

And there is another les
son to be learned perhaps
from the comments Of this
man with a crooked brain:
II like Roosevelt person
ally, but I don't like Presi-
dents -. I'd kill every Pres
ident; I'd kill all the Off
GERS"
We commented the other
day on the growing disposi-
tion to jeer, not only at men
in office but at the offices.
1t is much too easy to get
a laugh with a joke at our
American institutions. If
Moscow had the disposition
it could we'll afford to pay for
this sort of propaganda,
which has become over
whelming.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
The Jackson
Episode

The jackson episode throws
upon the character Of that
old fighter the least admir-
able light in his career.
Partisan feelings were at
fever heat. Busybodies
convinced jackson that Sem
ator Poindexter, of Missis-
sippi, a political opponent,
had instigated and planned
an assassination with poor
crazy Lawrence as a tool.
Had not the assassin been
seen leaving Poindexter's s
lodgings more than once
within a week of the at
tempt? Affidavits were put
into Jackscn's hands to
that effect. Poindexter
wrote Jackson of his re-
ported charges and asked
for a denial. Failure to
reply, he said, would be ac-
cepted as a confirmation.
And Jackson did not reply!
At that time Harriet
Marteneau, visiting in Wash
ington and calling at the
White House, found Jack
son obsessed with the sus-
picion. Poindexter de-
manded a senatorial investi-
cation, which reluctantly
was granted, and the COM
mittee unanimously ex-
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

Onerated tn elr colleague
from all suspicion. Webster
demanded the yeas and nays
on the report and every
Senator voted an exonera-
ton.
Cermak Displayed
Fine Courage
The nation rejoices in the
almost miraculous escape of
Governor Roosevelt; it Ia
ments the fate of Anton
Cermak, the mayor of Chi
cago. well, I got Ger
max" " gloated the murderer,
who knew him only as a
public official. In the val
ley of the shadow this man
who earned his way from
poverty to high preference
was superb. Anxious hands
were lifting his stricken
body to the automobile
when he learned that a
woman had been wounded.
"Take her first" he said.
At the hospital, 7hither he
was accompanied by Roose-
welt, he turned to the in
tended victim who escaped:
II am glad it was me in
stead of you. I wish you
would be very careful. The
country needs you"
That is Anton Cermak.
That is the reason he rose
from poverty to preference.
With fine courage and ca
pacity he has been facing
the serious problems of the
great city he represents and
has won the confidence Of
the people.
He is needed, too.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
WISE WORDS

Nothing deters a good man
from what is right.-Seneca.
Anger is a transient hatred:
or, at least, very like it.-South.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

According to Marie Dressler,
obesity is contagious, and one
sure way to keep from catching
it is to stay out of dining
rooms.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

rich uncle in the East was max
ing out his will, telegraphed the
old gent a huge bunch of for
get-me-nots.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
On Protecting Our
Presidents
Bv Claude G.. BOIUerS

Author he Party Battles the Jackson Period The Struggle
America" Jefferson and Hamilton THE
Era" and "Beveridge and the Progressive Era"
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Five Attempts on
Presidents Lives

~ 1NC P1C 1OuS q LCNAA lJIo Auu
been made on the lives of
Presidents-one out Of office.
Two Of these, as in this case,
claimed no personal griev-
ance. The others thought
they had. Lawrence, who
shot at Jackson, was insane
but convinced that his per-
sonal misfortunes were due
to Pres i d e n t a | policies.
Booth thought Lincoln re-
sponsible for the misfortunes
of the Southland he was in
sane. The assassin of Gar
field wanted an office and
was refused. The murderer
of Mckinley and the assail-
ant of Theodore Roosevelt in
1912 were maniacs. In all
the previous attacks the only
one who missed was Law
renee, who tried to kill Jack
son in the Capitol. The gun
missed fire and jackson, then
old and feeble, rushed upon
his assailant with his cane,
but the crowd intervened.
jackson was as fearless as
Roosevelt this week but not
so cool. Jackson, if not pre-
vented, would have grappled
with his enemy.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Husbands Are Having A
Hard Time

Husbands are having a hard
time.
You don't believe it? You
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

Ten.secOnd TalkieS
Brown: So the depression has
hit you, too?
Smith: Yes; things are so
bad that the children have gone
back to playing the piano by
hand,
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

Its feathers have been so we'll pIucked
That very few remain,
And if the goose would save what's left,
1t won't go back again.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

Ace of CadS
The motorist who said his
car made SO much noise he
couldn't hear his wife drive.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

The goose has been in conference"
With that old fox before.
Experience may teach it that
It should confer no more.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20

MOmentO-:S Moments
When a vegetarian meets a
road hog.
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
MAYBE I'M WRONG!
Meandering Through MOvieIand
BY John P. Medbury.'

Meandering Through MOvieland
Some movie stars may show
their age, but very few of them
ever tell it.
Jimmy Durante smokes a
pipe exclusively. He says it
isn't sanitary to let everybody
smoke it.
June Collyer and Stuart Erwin
think that their baby is going
to be a night watchman be.
cau5e he goes to sleep as soon
as it gets dark.
Jimmy Finlayson, HollyWood'S
most economical actor, is now
talking through his nose to
The Washington times., 1933-02-20
Pitiful Cases

PitifuI Cases
The absent-minded klepto-
maniac who walked into a
friends house and took his
smallpox.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
FOG ON THE PACIFIC

A SEATTLE Legionnaire and a labor leader.
I in statements opposing the proposed
Oriental immigration quota act, warn against
reopening the gates Of America to Asiatic Ia
Dor and thereby reveal complete misunder-
standing Of the modification proposal.
Substitution of the oriental quota for ex-
clusion viii not reopen the Golden Gate to
food Of cheap labor from the far east. It will
admit los Chinese and 1875 japanese a year,
none of whom will be laborers or immigrants
liable to become public charges
These are fractions of the numbers of each
race who now enter Illegally Changing the
law would change nothing fundamental in our
immigration policies. 1t simply would amend
our manners.
Two plumbers caused the japanese exclu-
sion clause TO be written into the 1924 immi-
grafton act. letter written by the Japanese
diplomat, Hanihara warning of grave con-
sequences" If japanese were excluded as I'M
desirables, was read in congress.
That was not so serious a blunder as the
one congress committed when it took the let
ter as a challenge, abrogated the gentlemens
agreement, and enacted the exclusion amend
ment over the protests of Secretary of State
Hughes and President Coolidge.
A decade has not softened the hurt of that
affront. Congress, now, by a simple and
harmless act, can remove the affront entirely.
Far from being damaged, the Pacific coast
will benefit. A serious irritant to the Orient
will be removed trade will be improved, peace
in the Pacific will be strengthened. Wise
leaders on the coast in increasing numbers
are understanding these facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
BANDIT VS.. HOUSEWIFE

LIE was an armed bandit fleeing from the
police She vas a frail housewife, play
ing croquet, with her baby nearby.
He tried to steal her husbands auto. She
thought he might run over her baby. So she
grabbed croquet mallet and went into action
1t was contest between man battling
for freedom and a woman fighting to protect
her child. And the woman won. After a few
hard blows he sank to the ground and pleaded
for mercy
Then the police came and took him away
And they identified him as Henry MassengiI
former Texas convict, and noted desperate
in his own right
And his captor She was Mrs. Arson
Hornng of Meade, Kan. And she wasn't at
all unnerved about battling such a desperate
gunman She was excited, however, about
the safety Of her child.
And when she thought that precious baby
was in danger she cast aside fears for per-
soral safety and boldly attacked the bandit
Today, the police and her neighbors &C
claim her as a heroine. But she scorns the
honor She was just a mother, she says,
fighting for her child.
If officers of the law went after criminals
with the same zeal and incentive there would
be fewer bandits running loose today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
SAFETY FOR SAVINGS

MEMBERS of the American Bankers As
A'A ISOLATION seem to be just about unani
nous in their opposition to the federal law
guaranteeing bank deposits. Their conven-
ton demanded postponement of the opera
ton of that law, and a determined effort ap-
parently will be made to get congress to re-
consider.
The ordinary citizen probably does not
have the technical information to judge
whether this law is workable; and it is hard
for him, therefore, to form definite judg-
ment as to merits of this argument.
But he very easily can remember that
thousands of banks went blooey in the last
few years. and that millions upon millions of
dollars, saved by people to whom savings were
extremely important, vanished into thin air.
If a federal guarantee of deposits won't
work, he wants something just as good He
wants his savings to be safe, and he isn't
likely to stop growing until that safety is
assured pretty definitely
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
PREPARING FOR LIQUOR

IT is encouraging to notice that number of
Il states are beginning to study the kind of
liquor control laws that will be open for adop-
ton if and when the federal prohibition law
is finally repealed.
A number of commissions have been ap-
pointed to collect evidence. Some of them
have sent delegations to the Canadian prov
inces to see how the different varieties of
liquor control work out north of the border.
At the same time, dispatches from Wash
ington indicate that the federal government is
about to collect information on the matter
1t is not bit too early to start this work.
Unless all signs fail the prohibition law has
only short time to live
The whole problem then will be turned
back to the states and it is essential that the
states have the information which will enable
them to make an intelligent choice of their
course thereafter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
He Will Haze Allies

1T is not an easy fight, and I OBJ
l. serve from letters to the various
editors that the position of the
Marquis of Model T is likely to re-
ceive a large amount of popular
support Henry, except on particu-
larly bleak days, has been good to
tenantry.
A few were killed during the
tough winter of 1882, but they we're
those who had, under the pressure
of starvation, forgotten to be thank
full for the state of society to which
it had pleased Ford to call them.
1t will be pointed out in letters
from Red Blooded American"
Spirit of rs" and Elmer Smith"
that Mr.. Ford is our last strength
and refuge against the onrush of
Sovietism in the United States AS
far as I'm concerned, it would not
make the slightest difference
whether Henry Ford paid 500 day
to every worker or $1,000.
I would still feel that his rebel
lion carries greater threat to the
life and security of every American
than the most violent demonstration
in Havana.
If there is to be the most feeble
beginning Of cooperation and
planned production, then Ford must
be swept into line or eliminated. The
whole force Of his curious and So
cially antagonistic talent has been
thrown into the scale against any
departure from the old and estab-
lished order.
1 do not know whether the abo-
litionists recognized the fact that
their most bitter foe was not Simon
Legree, but the Shareholder who
remarked with some justification in
truth, Il treat my darkies right"
To any oppressed group, and 1
think that American labor authenti-
cally falls under this head, two pun
ishing things can be done. The
Legrees Of industry may torture the
downtrodden with the sting Of scor-
pions.
And even so, they are less evil
in the final analysis than those who
pat serfs on the heads and with
broad, expansive smile murmur.
There, there"
If American labor has the spunk
which it ought to have, it will take
Henry's five, ten or twenty and
throw it back in his face with the
proud cry, ITO hell with tips, to
hell with favors. We will not ac-
cept benevolence as a substitute
for justice. And when we ask for
bread, we don't want stones. And
the same thing goes for cake"
Copyright 1893. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12

Glow many Chinese and ia
panese are there in the United
States?
A-There are 74,95a Chinese
and 138,834 Japanese.
Q-Why is Korea called
Chosen?
A-Chosen is the Chinese name
and means morning freshness"
Q-What are the pillars of
Hercules?
A-Two hills on opposite sides
of the straits of Gibraltar; said in
Greek mythology to have been
torn apart by Hercules.
Q-Where is Simplon tunnel?
Al is a railroad tunnel
through the Alps, between Brigue,
Switzerland, and Iselle, Italy, 1913
miles long.
Q-Who won the decathlon in
the 1912 Olympic games?
Aim Thorpe. He was later
disqualified after it was proved
that he once had played profess
siOnal baseball.
(Which President was the
first to be inaugurated in Wash
ington, D. c.?
A-Thomas Jefferson.
Q-What church did former
President Taft attend?
A-Unitarian.
Q-How do the United States
and Canada compare in length
and breadth?
A-From the most southern
point in Texas due north to the
forty-ninth parallel, is 1888 miles.
From West Quoddy Head west
along the parallel to the Pacific
Ocean is 2,807 miles. The con-
tinental portion of Canada is
about 2,70O miles from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, and about 1000
miles from north to south.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT

ONES thoughts today with a sincere ten
~ derness follow the small gray-haired,
Panama hated figure of Edward Albright of
Gallatin, Tenn, now crossing the ocean for
the first time, the new United States minister
to Finland
Every Thursday for years and years Mr.
Albright has put out the Sumner County
News, writing good, sound Democratic ar
ticles and also paying close attention to
the ads.
Sumner county is agricultural, It's indus
try consisting of plough handle factory and
creamery at CIallatin. Finland also is an agri-
cultural country.
There's no one we'd rather trust than
Tennessee county seat editor to show for
eigners the decency, charm and integrity
which America can produce. We believe no
one in HeIsingfors will have purer intentions
than the United States minister.
But Finland is more than 5000 miles from
home and its winter nights are long. We
think Secretary of State HUH in assigning mis-
diplomats should have had the kindness to
select a SUMMER cline for the friend from his
old congressional district.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12

IT'S small world after all. And the best
proof of that is story that appeared in
news wires recently.
1t told about locust plague in far-away
Argentina-a plague that threatens that ma
tons great wheat crop. Ordinarily, such
plaques, whether they be in Argentina or
Egypt, attract little attention here.
But this one is different 1t is providing
extra work for thousands of steel mill en-
ployes
How? To combat the locusts, Argentina is
erecting breastworks of galvanized sheets,
which stop the insects progress and enable
farmers to destroy them.
And these galvanized sheets--4G,000 tons OF
them-are being made today by the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company.
Truly, it's a small world