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The Washington times., 1933-12-18

time-a life partnership, a life
job or a life sentence-accord-
ing to how you view it.
You can junk Victorianism,
you can junk all the old con-
ventions-but you can't junk
anything so humanely instlnc-
tive as marriage!
Copyright, 1898. King TeatIreH
syndicate, Inc.)
WISE WORDS
No one can boast of having
never been despised,-VauVenar-
CUES.
The shame is in the crime
not in the punishment.-Vol-
taire.
No one ever became thor
oughly bad all at once.-Juve-
nal.
There is luxury in self
diSpraise. Wordsworth.
1t is certain because it is i'm
possible. Tertullian.
DistruSt that man that tells
you to distrust.
The Washington times., 1933-12-18
Public Apathy
And Determined Politicians

Only public apathy in strange alliance with determined
politicians could the wastefu and Inefficient county
governments which muctng the citizens OF virginia OF
millions of dollars every year.
It is time that good neghbors the Potomac shook
off that apathy and broke up the alliance.
The useless expenditure Of these millions OF dollars to sup
port institution designed for the ox Cart not
new thing. Vrginians have known of it for years.
They have told of it by of their leaders and
by impartial outside observers
But public indifference the Vaccinations of politicians
both has prevented successful attempt to throw OF
the taxpayers burden.
Back in 1881 the enlightened leaders of the community
came realize that too many millions being sunk
annually in the well OF county governments The general
seinbly appointed commission which conducted rather
detailed investigation.
In its report that commission declared:
"COunty government nOW constituted in Virginia
Is con1pcated oUerel0bOrate, unduly expensive and
largely renoved from popular CONTROL"
Again the report summing the findings OF the commls
sion states:
"n brief them county sOOernnaent in Virginia is in
efficient because of cumbersome and decentrdLlzed
administrative mechanism; it is Uasteful because of
overlapping, obsolete and useless offices and agencies
and it is irresponsible and undeOcratc because the
people haUe direct representative body vh suf-
ficient pouUer to plan and direct the policies of the
county for them and Whon1 they justly hold
spOnsiblc for the failure of administrative
officers OhoSe Uaried activities they unable fol-
lou Directly"
That report resulted in the enactment by the assembly of
an enable the counties to improve the structure
their government.
few isolated and progressive communities such Airing
ton took advantage of this small chance and changed
more modern form of county government
But after the indictment of the county
by the commission the penalties nightly slight
The county rings" sufficiently strong of
counties prevent any change which might deprive them
their jobs and their power.
Despite report of the assembs commission and the
previous report-along the ines-of the New York
Bureau of Municipal Research there still 100 county
with thousands of useless office holders and
employees in Virginia
Even the functional consultations recommended by the
commission have not been effected.
It is impossible to believe that the people of Virginia WANT
to waste the money which they paying into the counties
It impossible to believe that they WANT to preserve
chac and outworn governmental symbol at the cost of
about $33000,000 annually.
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

It is easy to understand why
a MAN should want to Junk"
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

generosity we're an amazing,
unnatural phenomenon which
only the Lords Elect could at
tain. Which is simply cock-eyed
nonsense.
Generosity isn't rare. Actual
ly, it is one of the commoneSt
and most popular of virtues. I
have yet to meet the human be-
ing, good or bad, dumb or bril-
liant, who doesn't like to give
something to somebody.
Frequently, the most cuSSed
and conceited creatures are the
most generous. And this is be-
cause nothing comforts our
cussedness or coddles our con-
ceit more than playing God to
some dumb-cluck who has mani
testify made much worse mess
of things than we have.
So there's really nothing SEN
sational about being generous.
We'd all be, if we could. It's life's
surest, sweetest thrill.
And nobody knows this better
than the poor defeated devil
who is receiving the generosity.
You're giving him your last
winters overcoat. That's nice
of you-and lucky for him. And
he'll do his darndeSt to show
his appreciation.
BUT DON'T FORGET THAT
1T ISN'T HALF AS MUCH OF
A TREAT FOR HIM AS 1T is
FOR YOU.
He's glad to get that over
coat. But he'd be a lot gladder
if he were in the position to
give it to YOU, instead of you
giving it to him.
So, by all means, go in for
Charity. Give all you can. And
get all the fun out of it that
you can.
BUT, AS YOU GIVE, RE-
MEMBER THAT IT'S YOU
WHO ARE GETTING THE
MOST FUN.
AND SO, IF ANYONE
SHOULD BE HUMBLE AND
GRATEFUL, 1T SHOULD BE
YOU-NOT THE FELLOW
WHO'S TAKING YOUR HAND"
OUT.
copyright. 1919, King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

This young lady of Japan working japanese ypewr
Ing machine that would give the average American lady
'typist" severe headache. o. ,
Our young ladies and gentlemen find it sufficiently difficult
to master machine that has 26 different letters with few
additional keys for punctuation dollar mark, etc.
What would they think Of machine adapted to the jap
anese language with keys printing 5000 "deographs
besides 1.-TWO sets of kama symbols?
And even the complicated machine that you in the pic
ure can supply only very limited Japanese vocabulary
Many thousands other Japanese figures would be necessary
if were desired the Japanese language with any
freedom.
Probably would be impossible to make machine big
and complicated would be necessary and infinitely diff
cult to learn to operate it.
In the interest simpler business the Japanese dis
cussng the abolition of their ideograph and kama Symbols
replacing them with the smpfied Western style of writing
It is easy change anything to which nation is
accustomed We that because haven't yet succeeded
in adapting the metric system to foolish ouofdae sys
tenn of weights and measures.
We ought the metric system in all measurements as
we do in measure of money
Very probably the Japanese will get rid of their antquaed
cumbersome system of writing before adopt the metric
system, should do.
Everybody knows how much convenience education time
saving and knowledge the Western wordwich includes
the Phoencians Semitic people at the far eastern
of the Mediterranean supposed to have originated the
alphabet that and that call the Roman alphabet
The Washington times., 1933-12-18
Focus Attention on Needs
OF Public Education
Bu James T. Williams, T.

winter work for destitute un'
employed which the Civil Works
Administration has adopted. II
originated with Charles E.
Peterson, chief of the eastern
division of landscape and archl-
tectural planning of the FED"
eral Office of National Parks,
Buildings and Reservations.
Mr.. Peterson has proposed
that a general canvass be made
of the structures erected be-
tween the earliest times and the
beginning of the Civil War. This
would include the best examples
of the succeeding style of archi-
lecture followed on the Atlantic
seaboard and the adjoining
States. It would also include
the remains of Spanish colonial
culture that extend from Florida
to southern California.
System In Danger
BY restoring to useful public
service the Alexandria Academy,
which George Washington
helped to endoW that the chill
dren of his comrades who fell
in the Revolution might get the
schooling which is the birth
right of every American child,
the Federal Government would
focus the mind of the Ameri-
can people on the imperative
necessity of going to the sup
port of public education in every
State in the Union.
The most effective aid which
the Federal Government can
give in this crisis to the Ameri-
can system of public education
is to prevent the use of public
funds to perpetuate an obsolete
system of county and local gov
ernment that is starving the
schools to feed at the public
trough a horde of useless, ex-
pensive and tyrannEal politi-
clans.
These politicians ore sacrific-
ing pubic educatlon and other
vital governmental services in
many States in order to pay
their own salaries and expenses.
They are eating up taxes, wrung
from the people, to maintain a
system of county and local gov
ernment which President Roose-
velt has we'll said was built up
in the days of the OK cart"
If the Roosevelt administra-
ton will refuse future grants
and allotments to States in
which the ox-cart system of gov
ernment is still maintained, the
people of those States will be
able to throw off the yoke of
"ox-cart" government and there
by save the American system of
public education for the mission
which George Washington fore
saw when he went to the sup.
port Of the Alexandria Academy
and other agencies that blazed
the way for free schools.
Copyright. 1893, The Washlngto0
Tlmes.I
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

ERS WOULD Elsie K0olnson
THAT IT'S ALSO
A LOT MORE FUN!
It's only human to want to
pin medals on yourself if you're
a generous saint
personally, I'm always the
most enthusiastic admirer of
my own good deedS)-
But why overlook the fact
that there's a swell kick to
generosity, but
IT'S PLAIN HE'LL TO BE
ON THE RECEIVING END OF
THE LINE?
Mel. know. I've been there.
Eating handouts. Making over
hand-me-downs. Tough going
while it lasted. But I'm not
sorry now. For I certainly
learned about Charity from
that!
Not that people weren't Sweet
and Dear and Kind. They were.
But they always expected you
to be so surprised because they
we're!
It wasn't enough for you to
be grateful for their generosity.
You had to be excited about it.
You we're supposed to act as II
The Washington times., 1933-12-18
The Human Side of the News
Lady Astor Paradox-Madeleine Slade

She has high social position,
jewels, culture, admirers. Her
father was a British naval
officer of high rank. The world
had been good to her and life
was kind. Yet she threw it
all away and renounced it for
homeSpun, prayer and self
denial. Shrimati Mira Bal, or
Miss Madeleine Slade, as she
was known only a few years
ago, is a humble disciple Of
the Mahatma Gandhi. She is
80 and her father was the late
Rear Admiral Sir Esmond
Slade, commanding the British
fleet in East Indian waters.
A tall, black-eyed, Well-poised
ariStocrat, Madeleine Slade
danced and delighted in her
Paris clothes in London and
Bombay society. Then India
obsessed her, entrapped her.
Over her came a sense of the
futility of life. She craved
spiritual satisfaction and could
Mt find it. Then she met
Romaine ROLAND, the French
writer and philosopher, and he
advised her to go to Gandhi.
Gandhi Convert
So she went to that strange
little man in the loincloth and
barred her soul. He told her
to practice self-denial and
humility for a year, and then
return to him. She went to
Switzerland. lived with peas
ants, learned to spin and
weave, and cad all that
Gandhi wrote. Without a
wrench, she converted her Jew
els and pretty clothes into
cash and gave it to Gandhi's
cause.
She took the Gandhi vow
which enjoins chastity, dedicates
life to serving the poor and re-
nounces all worldly pleasures.
She lived in a miserable hut,
rose at four in the morning,
cut off her fine, black hair,
tolled at a spinning wheel. And
her father disinherited her.
When Gandhi went to Lon
don two years ago, she went
with him as personal attendant,
and showed herself before the
bitterly resentful English people
as the personal attendant Of
the Mahatma. She waited on
him, laid his meals of fruit and
goats milk before him. and
washed his clothes. England
had become a foreign country
to this one-time lady of May
fair.
Subsequently she was SEN
fenced to three months impriSr
onment for refusing to obey the
government order to leave Bonn
bay. Dressed in a spotleSsly
white sari-the long robe worn
by Hindu women-She Serenely
accepted her fate.
(Copyright, 1888, King Features
syndicate, lnC.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

In the diary Of George Wash
ington, under date of Mt.
Vernon, December II, 1785, ap-
pears this entry:
"Went to Alexandria to meet
the Trustees of the Academy
in that place, and offered to
vest in the hands of the said
Trustees, when they are per-
n1anently established by Char
ter, the Sum of One thousand
pounds, the Interest of which
only to be applied toOords the
Establishment Of a charity
school for the education of
Orphan and other Poor chill
dren, which offer W0s 0c-
cepted."
Because his own formal
schooling ended when he was
Is, washington, from his youth
up, was intensely interested in
the cause of education. He
continued to educate himself
after he was no longer able
to attend school.
Washington Helped
Washington's aid to the
Academy at Alexandria was
only one of a great many con-
tributions he made to the edu-
cation of others. At that time
no free system of public
schools had been established
in Virginia of the sort Wash
ington so ardently favored. AS
a result, many children, whose
fathers had given their lives
for their country in the Revo-
luton, were not able to obtain
the education they deserved.
It was to assist these chill
dren and others similarly Sit
uated that Washington went
to the support of the Alexan-
dria Academy and in his will
conferred on it a block OF his
stock in the bank at Alexandra.
Through Washington'S gener-
GUS gift, the Alexandria Acad-
envy was enabled to become one
of the first schools in Virginia
to provide free instruction. And
the building which housed the
academy still stands on ground
that now belongs to the public
schools of Alexandria.
This building can be seen
from the Mt. Vernon Memorial
Boulevard, which was con-
structed by the United States
as part of the national COM
memoration of the two hun
dredth anniversary of the birth
of washington.
The Roosevelt AdminlStra-
ton faces an opportunity to
reinforce George Washington's
passionate devotion to public
education by including tn e
Alexandria Academy, which he
befriended, in the list Of early
American buildings of historic
interest to be repaired and con-
served.
This ix one Of the plans for
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

the ties that bind. He has
been told that heaven is a
place where there is no marry
ing or giving in marriage; and
he sees before him a glamor-
ous vision of eternal bachelor
hood, eternal freedom and
eternal romantic adventure.
All the privileges and joys
of domesticity and companion
ship-and none of its RESPONSE
bilities, ties or duties! Just
one long sweet dream of love,
with a change of heart, every
few years or monthS-or posi-
bly,, weeks!
But, when a WOMAN advo-
Gates junking matrimony, as
has happened more than once,
I feel like calling in a psyche
analyst and finding out what
complex inspires her to ask
her sex to throw away it's last
card and cut it's own throat.
There is one consoling thought,
however-and that is that so
long as men are men and
women are women, you can't
JUNK MARRIAGE. The hu-
man instinct to want and to
seek a lifemate is as strong
and indestructible as the human
instinct to want and to seek a
deity.
Why should anybody wish to
abolish marriage, anyhow? Mar
riage, today, is not the old cast
iron slavery" that it was in
grandmother'S time. 1t is free
and flexible, and comes in so
many assorted varieties and
flavors that everybody can
choose his or her own brand. 1t
isn't poured into any one con-
ventional mold.
You don't have to model your
married life, these days, to
please the Ladies Aid Society.
You can please YOURSELF.
You can take your marriage
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

Most Englishmen, I am quite
convinced, are a little doubtful
about the sanity of Americans.
Johnny Bull thinks we're a bit
cracked, part lunatic, part Red
Indian. Lady Astor hasn't done
a thing to correct that Brittanic
slant Some of her perform
ances, as she stirs up the House
of Commons like wild animal
trainer infuriating his lions
with the lash, simply confirm
him in his view. For this lively
lady is both paradox and a
delight to the English. They
can't reconcile her advanced
liberal ideas to her clamor over
prohibition, or understand how
the hostess of the Prince Of
Wales can go hobnobbing with
the wild-eyed proletariat OF
Whitechapel.
Nancy, Viscountess Astor, is
one of the four Langhorne sis
ters of Virginia, celebrated for
their wit and beauty. She was
first married to Robert Gould
Shaw, I'd, of Boston, but di-
vorced him. In 1906 she mar
ried Waldorf Astor whose daddy
took his millions across the At
lantic, went completely British
and wangled a title out of King
Edward.
Strange Mixture
She's a strange mixture of
isms and ologies. Vivacious,
spontaneous and ultra-modern,
she wouldn't bob her hair or
use cosmetics. She clingS to the
traditions of old Virginia about
light ladies, but it was in her
house that the Mahatma Gandhi
lowered his eyes in shame at
the sight Of so many bare
backed countesses and duch-
esses. Possibly it didn't occur
to the Mahatma that the ladies
might feel inclined to lower
their eyes when they looked at
him.
Nancy Astor was elected to
the House of Commons from
Plymouth 13 years ago, and six
times since then she has
charmed and bullied the British
voter into sending her back.
Her pet opponent is big Jack
James, the Laborite. Straight
out, one day. he called her a
liar, and when the shocked
house made him apologize, he
told the speaker that he meant
only to say that Lady Astor was
guilty of chronological inexacti-
tude.
But do. they worry Nancy
Astor? Not a tuppence. Sell
dom is she at a loss for a
tart rejoinder. But when she
is for a moment stumped, she
throws a good old American
verbal brick: Shut up!"
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

Setbacks you have received
may be of great and lasting
benefit to you.
It is possible that you have
an exalted and exaggerated
opinion of yourself and your
ability.
For several years it was easy
to make money, and you set it
down to your personal business
acumen that your fortunes
were improving.
You not only expanded your
business but your head began
to swell.
You became important and
probably arrogant in keeping
The Washington times., 1933-12-18
ONCE OVERS

with your success, as you looked
at it.
The fellow with a small in
come you considered mighty
mediocre.
You cannot account for the
change in your affairs, consid-
ering your past success and
your plans for the future.
You are just an ordinary sort
of fellow who played in luck
for a while.
Takes the starch out of you,
doesn't it? And that is I'M
provement.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicat0s Inch
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

more needed
than in this
particular era
of h u m a n
h e a r ia C he.
And I agree
e n t h usiaSti-
cally with the
sacred S a y
ing, 1T IS
MORE BLES-
S ED TO
GIVE THAN
T o r E.
CE1VE."
BUT I DO
WISH THAT
T H E CIV
The Washington times., 1933-12-18

You Can't Delete Marriage
Every now and then, some
body gets up on the platform
and suggests the abolition of
the ancient institution of mar
riage.
The Washington times., 1933-12-18
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

straight and old-fashioned
and domestic, with children
and domesticity and servant
problems-or you can take it
modern, with separate jobs and
separate studio apartments and
separate amusements.
But the point is that mar
riage can't be junked or
abolished-because what every
human being needs more than
anything else in the world is
life companion of the opposite
sex.
Every normal woman is at
heart a one-man woman-and
she wnts to be MARRIED to
that man, not just parked in his
affections for a limited time.
And no mans life is complete
without a mate.
Men may change, women may
change, the world may change
and even the marriage laws may
change. But human beings will
go right on mating. And mar
riage, itself, will always remain
intrinsically what it is now and
has been from the beginning of
The Washington times., 1933-12-18
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson
It Is More Blessed to Give Than

1t Is More Blessed to Give Than
To Receive-and also a
Lot More Fun
Every time the Blessed Christ
mas Season comes around, I'm
moved to hand a few remarks
to our Bigger and Better
BleSserS.
Now mind you, I'm all for
charity-pluS. Never was it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
This Is Your Opportunity to Take Part
In The Indianapolis Community Fund


oft
oft hehr that OF
that the slight is not Intentionally that and
tin
aid
bat through
lied
already made
igre
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30

FILL OUT AND NAIL FORM YOU
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-03
BROKERS FIGHT
REGULATION !.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3. U.NS1.
With Federal regulation of the
New York Stock Exchange and
other security markets through
out the country deemed newt
able, a movement was launched
today to form a national organ
ization of brokers in an effort
to guide the legislation that will
come up before the next session
of Congress and combat laws
considered destructive"
Leaders of the Chicago Stock
Exchange came to New York to-
day to confer with Frank r.
Hope, president and other ottic-
ials of the Association of New
York Stock Exchange firms, IN
an effort to form a nationwide
organization.
While the purposes have not
been defined, political action
would fit into the organization
picture. Those favoring the plan
emphasized the pending legisla-
ton in Washington as an OBJ
jective though insisting that any
political action would be non
partisan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-03
Demand Fair For
LiUerDOOL Spots

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3 UN.SD.
There was a fair demand for
spot cotton at the opening today
with prices easier. Receipts
totaled 10000 bale, including
5000 American bales.
At midday middling fair was
quoted at 6.53d, strict good
middling 6.0Sd, good middling
6.78d, strict middling 5.58d,
midling 5.43d, strict low middling
5.2Sd, low middling 5.03d, strict
good middling 4.83d, and good
primary 4.53.
Futures opened steady with
January at 5.23d, March sad,
May 5.26d, and July said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-03
LEADING
RETAIL GAINS

Although irregularity prevailed
in retail sales volumes in recent
weeks in most of the country,
there have been fairly uniform re-
ports of steady gains in consumer
buying throughout the Southern
States, the Standard Statistics
Company reports.
The largest increases are re-
ported from farm areas which
were materially benefited by the
Governments 10-cent guarantee
for cotton, bountieS for reduced
acreage and higher returns for
other crops.
Gains were especially wide in
July and August in both depart
ment and chain store fields, and
one of the leading general chain
organizations reported increases
as high as 10 per cent over a year
earlier. Mail order houses re-
ported increases in volumes over
the 1882 figures in southern dis
tricts than they had been ex-
periencing in other parts Of the
country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-03
Obsolescence Charges
Are Found Too Low

1ndustry's charges for obso-
lescence are too low, it is declared
editorially in Industrial and En-
cheering Chemistry" journal of
the American Chemical Society.
Obsolescence, it is asserted, en-
braces a wider range than is gen.
orally recognized. improvements
in processes, old equipment, and
personnel are factors which re-
quire the writing off of large
sums, it is pointed out.
The item Of obsoleScence is to
be found in all modern accounting
and is regarded as inevitable, quite
as much as are taxes, the journal
says. In most instances, however,
the term is applied exclusively to
buildings and improved real es-
tate, although it is accepted for
some types of equipment, partic-
ularly where experience has shown
that severe use may lead to short
life.
Instances are cited to show that
the customary allowance per an
mum for obSoleScence Of this sort