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The Washington times., 1933-05-30
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

obscene affairs, Haunting them
selves from corner newsstands.
How could you bring boy or
girl up with decent ideals, with
such temptations before them?
Down the list they vent
those pie SAINT, comfortable
waxing more indig-
nant with each new topic; tell
ing of rebellious children who
tired of home almost before
they we're in their teens.
And, as they talked on and
on, one caught the undertone
of other grievances-tragedies
and enemies which had no
place in a PIT. A. meeting,
yet which each mother there
longed to discuss.
Bored husbands as well as
rebellious children-and beWild-
cred women who were unable
to keep either of them at home.
And, somewhere, smarter"
more sophisticated women ready
to clutch what the wives had
failed to hold!
Mothers enemies? How many
thousands Of mothers had told
me of their enemies, I thought
to myself; told me, with chok-
ing sobs of self-pity and angry
raspS of rage, of the Secret In
fluence that was breaking up
their homes. And they honestly
believed, as they told the tale,
that it was All Somebody Else's
Fault. But was it?
Not three women out of that
73 could have talked COM
petently or even intelligently
about our child labor condi-
tionS our maternity NOR
tality rate, the new five-day
3O-hour working week, the in
flation or deflation of the
dollar-or any other current
topic which concerned their
family lives infinitely more than
the neighborhood gossip in
which they wasted hours daily
over the phone and back fence.
AND THEN THEY WON
DERED WHY THEIR AMBI-
TIOUS, MODERN HUSBANDS
AND EAGER, MODERN chill
DREN GREW TIRED OF
MOTHER AND HOME!
THE MODERN MOTHERS
WORST ENEMY-WHAT IS
IT?
Is it this fast, reckless, vulgar,
modern age with its manifold
temptations, its alluring distrac-
tions, which makes the home
seem so uninteresting to her
eager youngster?
Is it the smartly dressed,
dangerously alert Young Work
ing Woman whom her husband
meets in the office or lunches
with at noon?
OR rs 1T THE MOTHERS
OWN MENTAL LAZINESS-
HER COMPLACENT STUPID
ITY-HER STUBBORN RE
FUSAL TO FACE LIFE AS TT
IS-HER FUTILE, TRAGIC
CLUTCH AT LIFE AS SHE'D
A1KE IT no BEaa
The Washington times., 1933-05-30
Iron Cages

Racketeering, hydra-headed
monster of blackmail and eX-
tortion, has been scotched in
this country but not killed.
Industry and business still con-
tribute hundreds of millions a
year at the threat of gun and
bomb. apparently it requires
all the might and power OF a
dictatorship to wipe out black
mail, eXtortion and kldnap-
ing.
In 1924 Mussolini struck and
never ceased to strike until the
Malta was utterly crushed.
His right hand was a man OF
iron, Cesare Mori, Prefect OF
Palermo, in Sicily, the strong
hold of the society. During
the first year Mori seized seven
hundred Mafiosi and put them
in iron cages. That broke the
spell. Informers and traitors
hastened to give evidence
Hundreds were thrown INTO
prison for life or for long
terms.
Today Italy is freer from law
lessness, probably, than any
country in the world because
a man of courage AMI deter
mination made a natlona4
cleanup of criminals. A SHIN
ing lesson for this country.
Copyright 1898. King Features
Syndicate Inca
The Washington times., 1933-05-30

by pressing down his eyeds and squeezing the capsules
against his eyebas This will produce blindness eventually
Another miserable beggar to show how holy he is wan
ders about with iron ring weighing 225 pounds fastened
around his neck waist wrists and ankles so that they can
be removed.
Another has gnawed away the points of his fingers
to show that he is holy He explains to the charitable that
he does this ito subdue his earth-bound Instincts
In some Christian countries including this you may see
beggars occasionally exhibiting horrible or deforme
TO arouse sympathy although fortunately this is diminishing
In early Christian days thousands of holy and
women herm ascetcs of various kinds tortured them
selves with fageaon, starvation taking baths allow
ing themselves to become horribly filthy torturng their
bodies in many ways. They believed that mercul God
would be pleased with the ufferngs of His creatures
Eha*, also has ceased to be fashionable.
The Washington times., 1933-05-30
Lust for Entanglements

Suppose Great Britain and
France and the other powers
with which the Department Of
State is now negotiating at
Geneva should consent to re-
duce ornaments in return for
the rash promises" which the
departments agent has been
making to them without the
consent of the Senate.
Suppose Mr.. Davis brings
back from Geneva a new treaty
for the limitation and reduction
of ornaments which also in
cludes the rash promises" by
which the consent of the League
powers to negotiate such a
treaty has been obtained.
Under these circumstances,
the United States Senate might
find itself under that unconsti-
tutional compulsion so wildly
described in the Wilsonian
prophecy Of SO years ago.
For those Americans whose
lust for European entanglementS
exceeds their loyalty to Ameri-
can institutions and American
principles will doubtless urge
the Senate to approve the Hull
Davis treaty.
Their argument will be that
the Senate should hesitate to
bring about the appearance of
dishonor which would follow it's
refusal to ratify the rash
promises" which the Department
of State now seems to be max
ing at Geneva.
This is the danger that threat
ems the United States at Geneva
today.
This is the challenge that may
be hurled at the United States
Senate tomorrow.
Copyright. 1898, The washinRton
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-05-30

When Woodrow Wilson was
a young man, just out OF COL
lege. he wrote a book about
American politics to which he
gave the title "CongreSS1oIlaA
Government"
For every thoughtful Amer-
can this book holds a special
interest today because 1t con-
tains a prophecy Of a danger
that now threatens the UnlCeo
States at Geneva.
This prophecy, made by Mr.
Wilson SO years ago, appears
in his discussion of the Sen
ate's right to "a ruling voice
in the ratification Of treaties
with foreign powers"
After explaining that the
Constitution gives to the Ex-
ecutive branch of the Govern
ment no specific authority TO
compel the Senate to ratlfy
treaties, Mr.. Wilson explains
the artifice by which the Sen
ate may be compelled" to give
it's advice and consent to rati-
fication.
The way in which this can
be done, according to Mr.. Will
son, is through the exercise OF
the initiative power in negotia-
ton which the Constitution
gives to the Executive branch.
The Executive initiates the ne
gotiation of a treaty, just as
our Department of State is
now attempting to negotiate at
Geneva a treaty for the limi-
tation and reduction Of arma-
ments.
The Washington times., 1933-05-30
Are You City-Snobbish?

Are You City-SnObblSh?
The things which your coun-
try cousins may enthuse over
in their sections may be COM
monplace in the city where
you live.
But why not be a good sport,
and at least assume an atti-
tude of interest?
If you would try to become
familiar with their point OF
view, you might learn some
very interesting facts that would
enlighten you, though city bred.
One of the drawbacks OF
entertaining city cousins is
their bored manner of accepting
what is provided for their en-
tertainment.
Their air of superiority over
the "little-town folk" at parties
hurts.
ghera Do no remark Ehas
The Washington times., 1933-05-30
Life In Kuching

The Sultan gave it to Sir
James Brooke, and with it royal
rank, creating him r "a j h
Brooke. He was succeeded by
his nephew, Sir Charles, who
passed the little kingdom and
the title along to the present
Rajah, Sir Charles Vyner
Brooke, who was born in 1874
and educated at Cambridge.
The Rance, or Queen, of Sara
wax, was Miss Sylvia Brett,
daughter of Viscount Vesher
and a granddaughter of a New
England matron.
The Rajah of Sarawak IS on
the same footing in the British
Empire as the princess Of 4 In
The Washington times., 1933-05-30

There were
73 m 9th ers
present. Pleas
a n t, W IL
dressed Wom-
en- r a n ging
from self-con-
fident young
m q m as of
k i n d e rgart-
ners to COM
f o r t a. b e,
white = haired
d o W a G RS.
Th ev w re
wives, nearly
all, of sue
~1~ae1S1 NAS.1S
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but we've observed that when
a stag group go on a fishing
trip, "the best cook in camp"
is the man who leaves the most
cans around.
A girls indignation at a mans
impertinent attempts at love-
making, when he has a few
drinks aboard, is exceeded only
by her disappointment at his
failure to remember all the ar
dent things he said, when he
Sobers up.
A man can get so used to a
suspicious woman ms nagging
that, if she suddenly stops, he
will begin to worry for fear she
has found out the real truth.
Nowadays, you can take dane
ing lessons by mail, get a musi-
cal education over the radio
and travel by the Motion Pic
The Washington times., 1933-05-30
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

ture IIimited-but there is no
way on earth Of learning any,
thing about love, except by
first-hand experience.
"It is no triumph to marry
another woman's ex-husband,"
says Reno Ruth. "A man who
has just been through the fire
and slaughter of one marriage
has no resistance left in him.
If you want a feat to brag
about, try your skill on a bach
lor after he has jelled."
Somehow, there is nothing
that makes a city man feel so
"virile" as puttering around a
radish patch and getting his
hands and face dirty.
Most of us marvel at the
financial genius" which en-
ables some people who can't
pay the grocer, to keep ex-
pensive cars, belong to the
The Washington times., 1933-05-30

The Modern Mothers Worst
Enemy
I went to a P. T. A. meeting
the other day. Fine school.
Good neighborhood.
The Washington times., 1933-05-30

And like an ancient mummy rolled,
And tightly wrapped in fold on fold;
Come, Uncle Sam, your common sense,
Should keep you from entanglements.
The Washington times., 1933-05-30
Human ParadOXeS

1GWI1NN I Oh egV4VANS
Women may be foolish, weak
minded creatures-but you never
heard of q gay old gal raving
over the third boy from the
end in a male chorus.
The Washington times., 1933-05-30

Men are always complaining
about the delicatessen wife;
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
BEER OKAY, MAN
LACKED PERMIT 7

The first case in the District in
volving sale of legal beer without
a license will be heard in Police
Court next Tuesday when the pro-
prietor of an establishment in
the 200 block Pennsylvania Ave. S.
E., and an employe will be ar
raigned before Judge Gus A.
Schuldt.
Meyer D. Rosenb1oth, 43, and
Andrew T. Buckley, 10, are
charged with sale of beer without
a license. illegal sale, possession
and transportation of liquor.
They were arrested yesterday
after police had made purchase
of half case of beer and half
gallon of liquor.
Policeman E. B. Howlin, of the
Ninth precinct, negotiated with
Rosenbloth. The latter subse-
quently directed Buckley to de-
liver the liquor and beer to an
address in the 1900 block D st.
S. E.
Upon his arrival there Police
men B. F. Day and w. D. Perry,
of the Fourth precinct, we're wait
ing and arrested the youth.
Police said Rosenbloth's permit
| to sell beer was recently revoked.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
DRIVING
JA|LS YOUTH

John ]. Gleason, 25, of the
400 block H ST., N. w., was SEN
fenced to serve 80 days in Jail
by Judge Isaac R. Hit in Police
Court today on a charge of
driving while drunk after his taxi
collided with a headquarters
police car.
Charles Benson, a passenger in
the taxicab, also was arrested
and charged with intoxication.
Judge John P. Mcmahon
sentenced him to pay $40 or serve
10 days in Jail.
The accident occurred while
Policeman H. H. Carper and De-
tective Sergt. w. S. Beck were
riding in the police car early to-
day on D Street, near Police
Court. The taxicab, said to be-
long to a Traffic Bureau police
man, suddenly veered across the
street and struck the police ma
chine. No one was hurt.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
Judge Crosby Finds
Few Familiar Faces
On Capitol Hill

Judge John c. Crosby, of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court,
who served as a Representative
in the Fifty-second Congress,
from 1891 to 1893, returned to-
day to discover that no one with
whom he served is now in either
house.
Judge Crosby also found that
only two or three House en-
ployes whom he knew in his
Congressional days we're still on
Capitol Hill.
Judge Crosby was introduced
to Democratic and Republican
leaders of the House by Repre-
sentative Allen T. Treadway
(R,) of Massachusetts. o.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
DANCE TEACHER
ROBBED z HELD.

Two men were arrested early
today in connection with an at
tack and robbery in which Mrs.
Mae Dawson, 81, dancing teacher,
of the 1900 block M st. N. w.,
was the victim.
Mrs. Daviscn said she left her
dance studio after the nights
business was over and was return
ing after a short walk when she
was accosted on the street as she
was about to 60 up the front
steps.
She said one man struck her in
the face.
Her purse containing between
$50 and $50 was stolen. She
screamed as the robbers ran.
Policeman J. A. Hunt and j. T.
McCary, in a Second precinct
scout car, arrested two men who
gave their names as Elliott Fer.
riel, 35, New York city, and James
johnson, "a, of the Ambassador
Hotel.
The policeman said the purse
and money was found under an
automobile parked in the block
where the robbery occurred.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
DEATH WARNING
SENT WIDOW

I'M. H.: Have the money to-
morrow night or else. Either
have it here or at the Termi-
nal at ROSslyn, Va, at 8 p. m.
Your life is in danger. Do
this or you will die"
! Police today were guarding
closely the home of Mrs. Mar
garet Hatton, pretty 21-year-old
widow of the 5000 block M st.
N. W., after this note, written in
pencil on both sides of a sheet
of cheap stationery, was found
yesterday pushed under the door
of her second floor apartment.
Mrs. Hatton returned from down
town shortly after 4 p. m. and
found it. It was unsigned and
she said she had no idea who had
written it.
The edges of the note were
scorched. This is said to be an
underworld tradition meaning a
threat of death.
Mrs. Hatton took the note to the
Seventh precinct police station.
Mrs. Hatton is the widow of
Walter Hatton, who was killed
last February when struck by a
motorcycle in nearby Virginia.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05

by far the more important element, and vote of i'm
portance would be in which every exsodler OF the
This is paradoxica enough, for these exsolders will
be the of action and the students are Just
will soon be safe from service will tell of what the
world today really thinks OF war
Next Time
In the army in 1918 men used to say They fight the
next one without me- using 4 @e oten
in camps in America than in the streets of Paris where
were having lordly time and the rancor against
"Shavetais" had died away
I should make guess that if war threatened now,
even part of the Bonus Army would but not ALL
The heaviest blow to propaganda was delivered when pre-
payment of the bonus refused and the pensions to
veterans were cut down. Yet way has yet been
discovered of keeping men out OF war
We know now that war does not pay the vctors; it
has paid the victims Except Austria which used
thrive on defeat and it does not pay the soldiers But
thousand circumstances still conspre to make more
attractive to men than any civilian occupation .
Pacfsts who rail against the drilling and RECOMMENDATION
of soldiers and say that mtarism kills the individual
never recognize the tremendous elaon the irrespons
bty and the freedom of army life. 1t was not only
joke that men enjoyed the army because they were away
have not been so comforting and gay.
For Services Rendered.
play about the effects of has just closed in New
Yor-to the disgrace of critics and public alike. The
critics. seeing the merits of "For Services Rendered.
the public which went in spite of the critics, and was
deeply moved failed to spread the news effectively Dis
aSter piled on disaster IN Cne play ana some OF IL cou
not be directly traced to the that the argument
seemed forced, Yet Somerset Maugham, the author,
precisely proved his point by making the who is
to die of (a"natural" DEATH not casualty
face her death with herom and decency while the Others
the suicide the faithess husbands the girl driven mad,
are all horrible.
sat listening to this play deeply concerned with its
characters (and profoundly admrng the work of Miss
Fay Banter as the girl whose lover was killed in the
thing might have happened to family touched by
war at all And skfuly the author brought the lesson
home, tying up business failure and loose morals and
calamity to the way men and women had lived between
1914 and 1913. Still resisting little thought that
this family must be the excepon but when one out of
every ten families suffered death and four out of ten
received back wounded man, you cannot talk lightly of
exceptions recognized the simple fact that did not
want to face the actuates of the and the moment
knew that it definite pleasure to face them.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
WORK SWAMPS
BEER PERMIT
BOARD
Commissioners Refuse to Use
25,000 Fund to Rush
Permanent Licenses

With nearly 1000 applications
filed and more than 1000 tenn
porary permits granted for sale OF
beer in the District since legaliza-
ton of the beverage April 7, not
a single permanent license has
yet been granted, it was learned
today.
The delay is blamed largely
upon the refusal of the District
Commissioners to accept the
$25,OOO appropriation offered
them by Congress to cover the
cost of administering the beer
laws here.
Patronage Question
The reason for this refusal was
that they felt the present person
mel of the District could handle
the work, but privately it was
said that they wished to avoid
the rush for patronage jobs
which would result from forma'
ton of a new beer department..
Members of the Beverage Per-
NIT Board today were impatient
at the overload which they have
been carrying and pointed to the
work piling up in their offices
with no one to attend to it. All
members of the board have other
duties in addition to the board
work.
Helpers Are Due
Major Daniel j. Donovan, Dis
trict personnel officer, is study
ing conditions in the various Of
fices with a view to picking help
for the board.
Meantime, holders of tempo
rary permits are storming the Of
fices of the beer board demand
ing to know when they may ex-
pect permanent licenses.
The Commissioners at their
meeting today discussed various
plans for speeding up the work.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
Rover to Rule
On TckHsh
Beer Quirk

The right of persons to buy
beer at an off sale store and
drink it in a restaurant which
has no beer license will be de-
cided by the District attorney, it
appeared likely today.
The Dis trict Commissioners
were asked by Mrs. Alice Rhine,
owner of a restaurant in the 400
block Indiana Ave. N. w., if her
patrons could bring beer to her
place and drink it with their
lunches. Mrs. Rhine does not
have a beer permit.
Corporation Counsel William w.
Bride expressed the opinion that
there is nothing in the law to
prohibit this practice but recon-
mended that the matter go to the
District attorney for final deci-
sion.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
PEYSER ASSIGNS
NJ LEAN FEE

Julius I. Peyser. member of
counsel for Edward B. Mclean,
former publisher of the Washing
ton Post, today assigned to George
B. Fraser $4,000 of a $4,000
judgment he holds against Nc.
Leans interest in the estate of
Mrs. Mildred Mclean Dewey,
widow of Admiral George Dewey,
the Spanish-American war hero.
The assignment filed in District
Supreme Court stated it was
made in consideration of 81 and
services which Fraser has
rendered as associate counsel in
litigation involving Mclean. The
judgment was obtained by Peyser
for counsel fees and was given
priority over general creditors.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
MAN, 20, TAKES
LIFE BY GAS

Francis E. Wood, %, unem-
ployed, was found dead from gas
today in the half of double
house which was vacant, in the
5000 block Fourteenth st. N. E.
Wood. who lived in the other
half of the house with his mother
and sister, late yesterday went to
the vacant half to clean it out
after tenants had departed.
He was missed today and his
mother, Mrs. Mamie Wood, found
his body after breaking into a
kitchen.
The body lay on the floor,
covered with coat and overcoat
which the man pulled over him
after turning on four jets of the
stove and lying down to die.
All cracks of doors and win
dows were stuffed with paper
Wood had been out of work some
time but had not appeared de-
spondent, police were told. He
left no suicide note.
The Washington times., 1933-05-05
FARMERS
SEND 5000
TOCAP|TAL
Agriculture, Labor Congress
Meets Here Tomorrow; Plan
Strike, Food Hoarding

The National Farmers Holiday
Association having voted to strike
May 13, the country today turned
its eyes upon the Capital where
5000 delegates to the Continental
Congress of Workers and Farmers
for Economic Reconstruction are
to meet tomorrow. The congress
will meet in the washington Au-
ditorium.
The Holiday Association has
the largest membership in the
congress and will be represented
by majority of delegates. Nearly
1000 delegates have Signified they
will attend, according to Clarence
0. Senior, of Chicago, who pre-
dicted the number would reach
5000.
Membership Two Million
Besides the move by producers
to hoard food in an attempt to
increase prices, the congress here
will consider unemployment, taxa
ton, money and banking, interna-
tional relations, and "a new dec
laration of independence"
The delegates, Senior said, will
represent more than 100000
workers.
The Holiday Association has a
membership of a million; the
Farmers Union, 100000; the Ma
tional Federation of Unemployed
Workers Leagues, 250,0O0; Co.
operative League of America, 45,-
600; Wisconsin Federation of
Labor, 125,000; Socialist Party Of
America, $4,000, and the Work.
mems Circle, 10000.
A. F. L. in Opposition
Opposition to the congress has
been voted by the American
Federation of Labor, but Senior
said this act had caused the can
collation. Of only two credentials.
Among the leaders here are
John Simpson, president of the
Farmers Union and Washington
representative of the Holiday AS
ISOLATION; Prof. Paul H. Douglas,
of Chicago, League for Indepen-
dent Political Action; Julius Ger.
ber, Socialist Party; Daniel Hoan.
perennial Socialist mayor of Mil
waukee; Henry ]. Oil, president
of the Wisconsin Federation Of
Labor; Emil Rieve, president of
the Hosiery Workers Union, and
Norman Thomas, New York So
cialist.
Senator Lynn Frazier of North
Dakota will address the delegates
tomorrow.