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The Washington times., 1933-11-08
Pagan God

Old Man River himself gets
repentant of his miSdeeds and
his graceless life now and then
and tries to behave, but uSu-
ally, when he is getting over
a spree, one or another of his
bad boys and girls cuts up all
over the place, pouring deViltry
into his vast stream.
And there are other times
when he loses his temper, and
whips himself with storms,
and bulges his mighty chest.
and strides swiftly southwark
with the debris of high water
riding on his chest.
But always he repents when
he has let his anger master
him, and then. in the rosy
dawn or the soft twilight, you
can gaze far down his current
to the misty, tremulous pic
lures he has to offer. He is
thinking of the golden days
U11dU d1C SOA1C-U II Z q II "
steamboats,, the Like of which
we see no more; the Robert E.
Lee and the Natchez, the rae
ing packets, storming along,
breathing fire and smoke in a
mad race to s.. Louis the
elegant river gamblers Twill
ing their ebony canes, and the
show boats rouSing the echoes
with the weird ululation of the
calliopes.
He is dreaming, then, Old Man
River, thinking his thoughts,
scheming his schemes. brooding
over his realm like the pagan
god that he is; sure of his
power and his influence over
the people that live along his
banks and know him best.
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
Congress to Join

They would have the States
add to their penal codes that
provision of the Federal code
which makes it crime for a
citizen to withhold information
in connection with a felony.
They also favor Federal laws
preventing the importation of
weapons by private individuals.
the interstate shipment of re-
volvers, pistols, machine guns
or offensive gas, or their trans
portation by an individual from
one State to another.
The findings of the Copeland
committee will be printed by the
time Congress convenes. These,
with the studies which the De-
partment of Justice will SUBJ
nit, will leave neither the
President nor the Congress with
any reasonable excuse for de-
laying longer the most effective
warfare the Federal Govern
ment can wage to aid the States
in Kidding this country of the
curse that organized crime has
put upon it.
<Copyright. 1898. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-11-08

ALONE, Elsie Robinson
Have you ever watched a
baby learning to walk? How
timidly the little feet take
those first stumbling steps!
How closely the tiny fingers
cling to any support - the
mothers hand, the table edge!
And even after the feet have
learned their trick, the small
hands continue to cling, not
daring to trust their own
strength.
Babyhood is swiftly passed.
But baby ways are not as
easily cured long after we
have learned to walk and run.
our minds still reach for help;
still cling to some beloved OBJ
ject for comfort and support.
All our lives we cling to some
thing. We die clinging.
We cling to THINGS. We
are so sure that if we can
only catch the THINGS we
desire. life will be free and
strong and happy. If we can
own a nice home, a good car,
the right clothes, a tidy sum
in the bank-then everything
will be jake. Frantically we
scramble to achieve this dream.
Then at last we have what
we want. But are we salts
fled? No. After the first flush
of success. back comes the old
restlessness and uncertainty;
the old discomfort. Maybe if
we had something more
something better. So we stumble
on, reaching, clutching, drop
ping one thing to grab at the
other-wondering why we are
never satisfied.
We cling to PEOPLE. too.
Surely that can't be wrong! No
it isn't wrong to love. But it's
wrong to lean on love to ex-
pect love to sustain us. when we
should sustain ourselves. But
we won't see this. We pour
out our hearts in alteration.
Surely if we love hard enough
this precious comfort will stay
with us always!
Then the inevitable happens.
Those we love Insist on leading
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Wants His Own

Always he has been a per-
sonality, this Old Man River.
He was more than a river to
the Indians. To the Negroes he
is as much of a person, far
more so indeed, than any
creature who walks on two
legs.
Down in Natchez, Miss, the
old river threatens a cemetery.
With a strange persistency it
keeps gnawing away at the
bluff upon which the cemetery
rests. If you ask the Negroes
why Old Man River is steadily
and sullenly taking that GENE
terry to himself, the Negroes will
tell you people are buried there
who lost their lives in the
Mississippi, who were drowned
in its yellow flood over long
years. And they will tell you
that what Old Man River wants
as he gnaWs at the old GENE
terry is to get what belongs to
it.
The skeptical and the en-
lightened smile at such super
stitious talk, but their smiles
are uneasy, for they know that
the old river has whimsicality
all it's own, a mordant humor,
and that it often does exactly
what a practical joker would do
if he were a river.
Neither bikes nor levees can
stop him for long. He must
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Firearms Code

Under a comprehensive code
for dealers in firearms, which
the President will soon approve,
they will bind themselves to
abide by legislation which Con-
gress will be urged to enact at
the coming session, placing the
sale of revolvers under the most
rigid restriction.
The initial steps toward the
breaking up of racketeering and
other classes of organized crime
were recommended to the Presi-
dent by the subcommittee of the
Senate Committee on Commerce.
Under the Craftsmanship of
Senator Copeland of New York,
this subcommittee is inveStigat-
ing racketeering and other
crimes in the principal cities Of
the country.
Hearings held by the Cope
land Committee in New York,
Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City
and other large cities developed
ample evidence upon which
the executive and legislative
branches of the government
will be warranted in resorting
to drastic measures to rid this
country of kidnapers, racketeers,
blackmailers and other major
criminals.
Supplementing the efforts of
the Copeland committee are
those of the Department of
Justice, which is making a spe-
cial study of racketeering and
other forms of organized crime.
The Presidents recommends
tions to Congress. reinforced
by the recommendations of the
Copeland Committee will pro
vide a plan Of campaign against
major criminals which the
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have his way. his whimsical,
testing way, playing strange
tricks with the best laid plans
of the angry engineers, chuck
ling and laughing at them as
he loafs along down through
the country, draining IS States
on his majestic way.
And he has a brood of sons
and daughters as wilful and
capricious as their Scapegrace
old father-the hot-tempered
Missouri, which joins him just
above St. Louis; the sensitive
Ohio, which takes his arm at
Cairo and goes vagabonding and
rollicking with him all the way
down through the land of cot
ton and the land of sugar to
the weird Delta and the great
blue Gulf; the sinuous Tennes-
see, with all the arts and graces
of a flirtatious lady, and the
deceitful Arkansas and the
romping Red and all the rest
of his pranksome, Temperament
tai children.
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Three BattleShipS Sunk
By Twenty-Four Bombs

The question of whether arplane beat battleshp
seems have been settled in Engand-and in the affirmative
The Evening Journals London correspondent sends the fol
lowing account of recent battle between vessels of the
royal navy and planes of the royal air force:
"The defenders task rendered difficult
by the fact that the of operation extended
100 square miles, although good disability favored
Them Within an hour of the alarm signal that an
enemy fleet under way, howeUer, the scouts
spotted the first ship
"Flying at 5000 feet and taking advantage of sun
and cloud combinations the air squadron sUooped
doWn the three battleshps before their presence
suspected, and rained dOWn eight bombs EACH
the fleet swerUed to meet the air attack"
The eventually but only after its apane carriers
had released superior of aircraft which overwhelmed
the defending And went home three battleshps
short.
The lesson plain enough for anybody to understand
I Even an admiral
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President Roosevelt is paving
the way for drastic measures by
the organized, forces of govern
ment to rid this country OF
habitual criminals and organized
crime.
New legislation will be re-
quested when Congress recon-
venes to strengthen the arm of
the Federal Government in deal
ing with major crimes punish
able by Federal law and in aid
ing State and local authorities
in dealing with major crimes
punishable under their own
laws.
Without waiting for Congress
to reconvene, the President has
entered into an agreement with
machine gun manufacturers to
limit the sale of machine guns
to Federal, State and municipal
authorities and to the holders of
special purchase permits to be
issued only by the Department
of Justice.
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their own lives, as they should.
We clutch at them desperately.
We tell them how terribly we
need them. They listen i'm
patiently, tenderly, but we see
how bitterly we see!-that their
minds are elsewhere. They are
thinking of their own work,
their own needs, their own am
billions or love affairs.
Or sometimes Death swoops
down and breaks the clutch of
our desperate, adoring fingers.
So THINGS fail us. And
PEOPLE fail us. And at least
WE MUST STAND ALONE.
But even then we will not
admit that it is right and nee
essary for us to stand alone.
Instead, we set up a great vail
ing. We cry that life isn't
worth while if we haven't the
things We want; if we haven't
the people we love. We moan
that our lives are ruined.
And we grow bitter and an
CRY. We punish the people who
won't let us use their lives as
leaning posts. We cry out
against a system which won't
permit us all to be millionaireS,
We blame everyone but our own
selves for our loneliness, our
gnawing restlessness, our fear
and heartbreak.
But we're wrong. They're not
to blame. Our suffering has
come because we ourselves have
broken the first, the most i'm
portant law of life-that law
that we MUST STAND ALONE.
Does that mean that we
shouldn't love others, work with
others, struggle and acquire and
achieve? Not at all. It's right
to work and love. It's natural
to rejoice in love and achieve
ment. But it's wrong to ex-
pect people and possessions to
do for us those things which we
should do for ourselves,
IT'S WRONG FOR US TO
EXPECT SOME LOVED ONE.
SOME CHERISHED POSSES
SION. TO GIVE US THAT
PLEASURE AND POWER AND
PEACE WHICH WE SHOULD
ACHIEVE FOR OURSELVES,
WITHIN OUR OWN CHARAC-
TIERS.
Do these words seem strange?
Think them over. Think about
your own life-your struggles,
your successes, your secret dis
content, the grief and resent
ment you always carry with
you Think how much time
and effort you've wasted trying
to make THINGS and PEOPLE
do for you that which you
you should have done for your
self.
And what did your struggle
accomplish after all? Wouldn't
life have been infinitely freer
and finer today if you had
learned to stand alone, years
ago?
ISN'T IT TIM YOU
LEARNED TO STAND ALONE
NOW?
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.]
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
ONCE OVERS

Having spent more time than
usual at your home of late,
you have learned to be more
contented at your own fireside.
Until financial difficulties
arose, you had never thought
much about the home atmoS-
phere which you now enjoy.
You can easily recall the time
when many dinners we're taken
in town, and you were anxious
to go somewhere soon after
every meal taken at home.
You wanted something doing
every minute, and you sought
recreation and amusement out
side your home.
You wanted the bright lights
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and the merriest of company,
and there was nothing around
home that would satisfy your
craving for excitement.
Now you wonder at the change
that has come over you.
You think you must be "get-
ting DID," losing your pep and
interest in things in general.
You needed an awakening to
the emptiness of the life you
led when you had the money to
buy whatever you thought of
regardless Of intrinsic value
when you could pay your way
where the compank was the
brightest and most extraVagant.
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and some of
t h e excuses
will S e e m
beautiful and
noble. B u t
you'll DON
find that, no
matter h o W
CT e er the
excuse. h o W
beautiful or
n o BILE, life
won't accept
it.
YOU MUST
LEARN TO
S T A N D
ALONE
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carrying equality" farther than
even the early feminiSts could
SEE.
Business and sports have been
coeducational for so long, now,
that most of us can't remember
the time when banks and bust
ness officers were exclusively
masculine, and when no girl had
won an endurance record or a
loving cup. But it is only in the
last decade or so, that crime has
gone coed.
Now, when a man decides to
go out on a wild spree" or a
whoopee party, he doesn't
sneak off with the boys" he
takes his best girl along, to
share the cocktails and the
high-jinks in the beginning
and the fight or the automobile
smash-up at the finish. And
when he plans to stage a hold
up, there is his faithful little
gun moll at his side.
Once, men had many re-
treats, where they could get
away from the petticoat sex,
and be THEMSELVES. There
were mems clubs, where no
woman ever entered and bill
lard parlors and pool rooms,
whence the female of the
species could not follow them.
There were also the barber
shop, the tobacco shop and the
smoking car. And there was
the saloon, whose sacred saw
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come, when a gal will demand
that the man whose wedding
ring she wears, shall have at
least a cream colored reputa-
ton, and an ecru past"
When a few more women find
themselves paying alimony, they
will be more careful to select
the right sort of husband; and
the virtues, too, may become
coeducational. Then, there will
be real EQUALITY" between
the sexes!
Copyright, 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson
You Must Stand Alone

You Must Stand Alone
No matter who you are or
what you are, there is one
great lesson you must learn in
life
YOU MUST LEARN TO
STAND ALONE.
1t won't be easy for you to
learn that lesson. You'll find
endless excuses for evading it
The Washington times., 1933-11-08

dust no Woman's foot mad ever
trod!
The saloon may never come
back. Or if it does, it will
probably be all dolled up with
flowers and cut-glaSS and
feminine touches; and there
will be as many satin slippers
as there are leather boots on
the brass rail. The barber
shop may be going masculine
again, now that the boyish bob
is out; but, if a man wants a
window seat in the smoking
car, he has to rush, to beat
the girls to it.
All yes, all the vices have
gone coed. Everything in the
world has gone co-ed-except
virtue!
The only fright" for which
women never seem to have put
up a fight is the right to de-
mand that the men they are
going to marry shall be morally
as clean and above reproach as
men expect woman to be. But
I see signs in the sky that
this will be the issue of the
next big battle. The day will
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
This COeducatiOnal World
Everything is coeducational,
these dayS-even alimony!

When several disgrunted wives
are ordered to contribute to the
support of their weaker-halves,
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as has been the case, that is
carrying equality" farther than
even the early feminiSts could
SEE.
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

dust no woman's foot had eve1
trod!
Evening star., 1933-08-14
THIEVES GET CLOTHES,
GROCERIES AND CASH
Burglars Take Goods Worth SIS
at Sanitary Store-Snatcher
Takes $12.

A quantity Of groceries and clothing
and at least s100 in cash fell into the
hands of burglars and sneak thieves
over the week end
Butter, eggs and tobacco valued at
$73 were looted from a Sanitary gro
cery at 3l19 M street by burglar who
chiseled hole through the store wall
some time after the closing hour Sat-
urday night.
Another burglar obtained clothing
worth $50 from the store of Leon Gold
man, 1900 block of Seventh street,
gaining entry by smashing a show win
dow.
A sneak thief in the home of Mrs.
Louise A. Dellwig, 1900 block of Thirty
seventh street. yesterday took SIS from
the top of refrigerator, where the
money was left shortly before. Mrs.
George Leaman, 600 block of street,
told police that two unidentified colored
men snatched s12 from his hand yes
terday as he stood at Fourth street and
G place
How pickpocket obtained $l3 from
his pockets while in Fourteenth street
lunch room was related to police yes
terday by Theodore Sullivan, 1900 block
of Thirteenth street
Evening star., 1933-08-14
GAY SOCIAL THRONG|
DISPERSED IN RAID
State Troopers Entering Casa
Madrid Smash Bar and
Gambling Devices.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YARMOUTH. Mass, August IA
gay throng OF $50, including many per-
sons prominent in the social, civic and
political life Of the State, was rudely
disbanded early yesterday as Assistant
Attorney General George B. Lourie led
IS State troopers in a raid on the
Casa Madrid, resort operated by the
Yarmouth Beach Club.
Raiding officers made "a arrests of
employees and seized, they said, gam
bli & equipment and furnishings valued
at $4,000 and large quantity of as
sorted liquors. Three bars, one rs feet
long. were among the furnishings con-
tiScateC
Those arrested included eight special
officers of the town of Yarmouth, all
in full uniform.
The guests, all in evening clothes,
were permitted to leave after they had
signed waivers.
The Casa Madrid, built at a cost of
S125 900, was opened two months ago.
Among the listed incorporators of the
beach club are Paul M. Swift. associate
Justice and son of the presiding justice,
Frederick w. Swift of the Barnstable
District Court, before which the "a
arrested will be arraigned tomorrow.
Other listed incorporators include
Clinton R. Dean, clerk of the court,
and Edward T. Chase, Yarmouth Sc
1ectman.
LOurie said complaints to the attor-
ney generals department and to the
Department of Public Safety were re-
sponsible for the raid.
The seizure included nearly $4,000
In cash, which raiding officers said they
found on gaming tables
Among those who will be arraigned
tomorrow charged with violating the
liquor or gaming laws, are Alexander
Finn and Oscar Skinner, alleged oper-
ators Of the establishment.
Evening star., 1933-08-14

elimination against women as to hours
and wages be eliminated from all in
dustrial codes approved by the National
Recovery Administration.
Following .. meeting here, the council
sent the following telegram to President
Roosevelt and to Gen. Hugh johnson,
recovery administrator:
Indiana Federation Of Business and
Professional Women, in State Council
assembled. respectfully urge the elimi-
nation of discrimination against women
in matter of hours and wages from all
Women, as breadwinners and support
Evening star., 1933-08-14
MILLIONAIRE WIDOW
WEDS OLD PLAYMATE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SEATTLE. August l4.-The marriage
OF Mrs. Thelma Wyatt, Clark widow of
William A. Clark. Sd, grandson of Mon
tana's copper king, to Fred Lanstrum,
a Seattle insurance man, was disclosed
yesterday by the couple at their home
here
In ceremony they purposely kept
quiet-but It wasn't really an elope-
ment," they said-they were married
July 26 at Yuma. Ariz.
I've known Fred for years" the bride
said Il knew him in Montana when
We were growing up there long before
! met my first husband"
The millionaire Clarke was killed
May Is, 1882. in an Arizona plane crash
in which the pilot, Jack Lynch, also
lost his life
Evening star., 1933-08-14

Newhall Saturday, Jene Annette, 20, of
East Liverpool. Ohio, fell nearly 100 feet
while attempting TO scale the canyon
wall and was burned to death.
Annette and his companions, Ellis
Ryan and Raymond Bochant, were
among 200 members of the Civilian Con-
servation Corps battling nine fires
started by electrical storms in the An
gelus National Forest.
A sudden spread of the flames forced
them to seek escape up the canyon wall.
Ryan and Bochant attempted to rescue
their companion when he fell, but were
driven back by the spreading flames.
Evening star., 1933-08-14
Crushed Under Truck.

VALPARAISO, Ind., August IA R).-
Clyde Roberts, 80, Detroit, Mich, was
crushed to death near here yesterday
when his truck struck a bridge abut-
ment over q ditch. He is believed to
have fallen asleep while driving.
Evening star., 1933-08-14
Three Killed in Freight Mishap.

THE DALLES, Ore, August IA Lp.-
Meager reports received here late yes
terday said three men had been killed
and eight others injured when IS cars
attached to S. P. & S. freight train
plunged over an embankment. five miles
east of this city on the Washington side
Of the Columbia River.
Evening star., 1933-08-14

Arnette's body will be sent home. He
was the first forest fire casualty in this
area this year. The fires were brought
under control.
Evening star., 1933-08-14

ers Of families and dependents, are de-
serving Of equal consideration. We
urge adoption Of a ruling that the job
and hours and not sex be considered In
formulation Of all codes"
Evening star., 1933-08-14
HURT IN AUTO RACE
Orville Smith, Dayton Driver, In.
iured in Track Crash.

HUNTINGTON, Ind. August IA (P
-Orville Smith of Dayton. Ohio, was
seriously injured in the second event of
stock car race held here yesterday
afternoon.
Smiths car crashed into the rear of
a racer driven by Bud" Bardy Of Gary
Ind.
Evening star., 1933-08-14
PROTEST DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WOMEN IN CODE
Business and Professional Councils
Ask "Unfair" Wage and Hour
Elimination.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 14-The In
diana Council Of Business and Profess
sional Women Yesterday urged that dis
Evening star., 1933-08-14
Half Pay Schedule
In Court Reverses
Position of Eagle
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, August II.
An N. r. A. Eagle was found
pasted upside down on wall OF
the jackson County Court office
Saturday. Inscribed upon the
poster was Died from Shock"
The court this week ordered the
pay Of all employees cut so per
cent between September / and
January /, as an economy
measure.
Evening star., 1933-08-14
FALL INTO FIERY CANYON
FATAL TOC.C. c. WORKER
Youth, Trapped in Forest Blaze,
Attempts to Scale Steep Wall,
Falls 100 Feet to Pit.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 14-Trapped
with two companions in steep-banked
canyon while fighting forest fire near
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BARKER HEIGHTS

BARKER HEIGHTS, MAJ %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Morrison mo-
toned to Asheville Monday on a
shopping trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. 10y Garren and
little son were weekend guests Of
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
}. b. Orr, Of ASheville.
Miss Ruby Pittillo is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Roy Gowan.
A}'. and Mrs. Randolph HOl-
iingSworth have had visiting them
the latter'S nephew. Clyde Eol-
lin sworth. Of Texas. lie is Sal
walton Army captain. now enjoy
mo his annual vacation in Hender-
sOnville.
Little Bobbie, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. ID. Cornwell, is Ill
with measles.
Mrs. p. f. Thibodeau and chill
dren of HenderSonviIle were din
ner guest Sunday Of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. Z. Justice.
Miss Elizabeth Whitaker of
Hillgirt called on Misses Monte
Aiken and Margarete Ruff Satur-
day. ,
Mrs. l.. P. Fain. accompanied
by McSdamcS Fred Edncy and
Johnnie Wyatt, motored to Spar
tanburg Monday to visit friends.
Mr.. W. c. Pace will take
charge Of the filling station on
Spartanburg highway Just outside
Of Barker Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Drayton JuStuS
attended 4 funeral Of the latter'S
friend in GastOnia Monday.
Eugene Case Of Marshall was q
supper guest Tuesday Of Mrs.
Mamie Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. n. Fain Of
Spartanburg, accompanied by 4
party Of friends who were motor
ing to Ashcville for a picnic. stop
ped off in Barker Heights for a
brief visit with their sons, Ora
and l.. p. Fain.
Misses Lois Pace, Helen Kuy-
kendall and Mamie Jackson Of
/ this place, went on picnic Mon
day to pisgah Mountain.