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The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Open the Door
Business is picking up"
The Key Is In Your Pocket

Business is picking up
Quotations such this from merchants and business
Of Washington indicate that Buy September
ment is bringing results
must bring results the effort to lift the country out
Of the Of economic conditions are with
the success which everyone is wishing for them.
The great cooperative to put the country back
its feet must have the active support Of every individual
in the nation
It cannot meet its full fition without the whole hearted
support of the buyer Of goods
And it should have that support speedily
BY the buyer of goods only the wholesale pur
chaser but the of average circumstances who
90 to their retail merchant purchase their needs
They the and who hold the key which will
admit the American people through the door leading to
newed prosperity
they keep the key their pocket the will remain
closed.
IT MUST BE OPENED.
housewives Of Washington preparing their
children for the opening of school next week
The children's wardrobes need replenishing.
Now is the time fit them out with their winter needs
That is only of the groups which should
be making extraordinary purchases
passed.
There probably will any further in price for
long time
In fact, everything indicates steady rise.
It is foohardy uneconomica wait longer to do your
necessary buying.
will get for your dollar by spending it than
you will if you wait week or month.
Anyone who needs anything from package of pins to an
automobile should go and buy it and he should buy
the products of American workmen
SPEND DOLLAR AND MAKE JOB!
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
A Debt of History
To a Brave People

Yesterday the 2oh anniversary one of the greatest
events in hoyhe defeat of the Turk and hordes
invading Europe by Jan sobiesk and small army Poles
and Germans
Every and child Of Polish German descent
may well thrill with pride at this heroic achievement
For had sobesd lost the battle Europe would become
Oriental land and the United States know it, would
not have into existence.
The Mohammedan invaders, 100000 strong had surged
northward, seized Hungary and besieged Vienna
Only bulwark remained between them and the rest Of
Europe-Poland.
sobe could muster but 10000 of his fellow counymen to
oppose them
German reinforcements Joined him the march to relieve
The beleaguered capital swelling his force S0000 little
more than fourth the number Of the enemy.
On September H. 16S3-250 years agohe was decided
and the Mohammedans broke and fled before the charge of
sobieslds
Poles in this city and throughout the world celebrated the
anniversary and many Germans joined in observing it,
No matter what our ancestry, may all unite with them
m gratitude to the brave people and the gallant general
wrote world history at the gates of Vienna defended West
rn civilization from the gathering tide Of Oriental conquest
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Tragedy's Shrine

The body in the tomb is
actually that of Charlotte STAN
ley, an unfortunate English girl,
who was betrayed and cast aside
by a dashing officer-lover, and
who came to an unhappy end in
1777. She was buried under her
own name, but, about 1850, her
own name was removed from
the tomb and upon it, mys-
teriously and unaccountably,
was carved the name of Char
lotte Temple, heroine of the
novel over which millions of
Women-and men, too-have
shed tears. For the story of
Charlotte Temple was the story
of Charlotte Stanley.
Charlotte Stanley was an in
nocent young girl of noble birth.
While she was in a fashionable
boarding school in England a
young officer named Montra-
vile, passing one day with his
crony, Belcour, fell madly in
love with her. Through the
connivance of her governess he
met her and persuaded her to
elope to America, and without
the formality of marriage. Her
father disowned her.
Here in New York, in that
long ago, Colonel Montraville
listened to the lies told him by
Belcour-that Charlotte was un-
faithful. In jealous rage he
turned her into the street, into
the snow. She had no money,
no friends. But she found
refuge in the humble home of
an old servant of her family.
Colonel Montraville, repent
ing, sent her a letter and a sum
Of money, but the faithleSs and
heartless Belcour, who hated
Charlotte because she had re-
pulsed him, kept the money and
destroyed the letter. The old
servant sent word to Charlotte's
father. He arrived from En-
gland as his daughter was dying.
AS he forgave her and accepted
the care of her baby daughter,
Montraville himself, wild with
grief and regret, burst into the
room.
That was 154 years ago-yet,
not a day has passed in all that
time without someone laying
upon the tomb an offering Of
fresh flowers. Do not believe
anyone who tells you that ro-
nance has fled from this old
earth!
(Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate, lnc)
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Roosevelt and Roosevelt
u Years Apart
By James T. Williams, Jr.

COON could get to Havana from
Panama where he was serving
as United States Minister to
Panama.
To support the new govern
ment, President Roosevelt dis
patched an expeditionary force
of the Regular Army to take
over the protection of life and
property which in the preceding
weeks had been the task of the
Navy.
In q letter to Senator Lodge,
September q, 1906, the Presi-
dent fully explained the course
he took in Cuba. This letter,
which appears in Mr.. Bishops
entertaining book. Theodore
Roosevelt and His Time" reads
in part:
II have, I need hardly say, a
horror of putting what Is in eff.
feet a premium upon insurrec-
ton by letting the insurrectiOn.
lists receive benefit from their
action; but Palma's utter weak
ness-or, to speak with literal
exactness, his impOtence-tO do
anything effective toward quell-
ing the revolt made it ab-
sOluteIy imperative that should
take some step unless I wished
to see chaos come in the island.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Dreadful Picture

"Of course if I had an
nOunced, as Mr.. Bryan advised,
that under no circumstances
would 1 use armed force; or if,
as Foraker desires, 1 had stated
1 could take no action until Con-
gress decided what to dO-just
imagine my following the
Buchanan-like course of sum.
mOning Congress for a six
weeks debate by Bacon, John
Sharp Williams and TiIIman as
to whether I ought to land Ma.
rines to protect American life
and property - the fighting
would have gone on without a
break, the whole island would
now be a welter of blood.
81 hope that we shall not have
to intervene in any permanent
form at present, and that we
can simply make temporary ar.
rangementS to keep order until
an election can be held and a
new government or modified
government started"
A Roosevelt in the White
House 81 years ago this month
met the challenge of Cuba in
much the same way that the
Roosevelt in the White House
today appears to be meeting it.
let the criticisms fall where
they may.
1893. The Washington TimeSa
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Strange Exiles

And now it is four years since
DR.. Karl Ritter and Frau Koer-
win landed from a sailboat on
Charles Island, and there they
remain today, content, appar-
emily, and sufficient unto them
selves; the masters of all they
survey. This German physician
was operating a chemical labo-
ratory, practicing among the
poor and advocating uncooked
food as the best diet. And then
he grew weary of cities and
civilization and abandoned it
all, with one of his patients,
Frau KoerWin.
No South Sea Islands for him,
with their traders, their ukelele-
playing natI7<. their tourists,
and their musical-comedy at
mosphere. To barren Charles
Island, of the Galapagos, they
went, and there they live in
hut made out of blocks of lava,
living on turtles, fish, and ba-
nanas, and working little farm
of dates, sugar cane, and COCO
nuts.
Vincent Astor visited the Ger
man exiles first in 1880, and left
with them seeds for growing cof-
fee, cabbages, and other vege-
tables. But a Crusoe's life is
not always a happy one, even
when the man Friday is a
woman. Anyone who might be
all set to hop off for the Gala
pagos might pause to read what
DR.. Ritter wrote last year to his
nephew in Germany:
'It'S plain fOOliShneSs for any,
one to come out here. We have
only a small oasis for ourselves.
All the rest is barren desert"
Strange and tragical are the
vagaries of the phenomena of
love. Just the other day 1 found
in New York, on the very edge of
roaring Broadway, down among
skyscrapers that shoot sixty
stories toward the drifting
clouds, a shrine of disappointed
and despairing lovers.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
The Human Side of the News
Strange and Tragical Vagaries of Love
D., E~J,-S-. H:II
By EdWin C.. Hill.

Odd rumors come from the
far Galapagos Islands about
those two strange exiles from
Germany who have settled upon
the barren Galapagos to spend
together the rest of their lives,
DR.. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore
Koerwin, Of Berlin.
The Galapagos Islands lie di-
rectly on the Equator, off the
coast of Ecuador. The best guess
as to how they got there is that
an undersea eruption lifted
them as volcanic peaks from the
bottom of the ocean.
Charles Darwin went to the
Galapagos nearly century ago
to study the giant turtles that
live there, turtles as big as a
washtub and 400 years old, the
oldest of all living things except
the great trees of California.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

Twenty-seven years ago this
month Theodore Roosevelt
faced as President much the
same challenge to American
authority and American re-
Sponsibility in Cuba that Frank
lin D. Roosevelt faces as Pres
ident today.
Then the criticism Of the
Presidents efforts to uphold
American authority and dis
charge American responsibility
with fidelity and courage en-
countered the captious criti-
cism of mealy-mouthed paci-
fists and misunderstanding par
tisans on the Democratic side
of the political fence.
Now the Presidents energetic
efforts in the same direction
encounter the same sort of criti-
cisms from the same groups on
the Republican side of the po-
litical fence.
Theodore Roosevelt had been
President nearly five years
when an insurrection broke out
in Cuba which the Cuban gov.
ernment, headed by President
Palma, was unable to put down.
How promptly he met the chal-
lenge is set forth in these
words from his annual message
in Congress in December fol
lowing:
Thanks to the preparedness
of our Navy, 1 was able i'm
mediately to send enough SHIPS
to Cuba to prevent the situa-
ton from becoming hopeless.
A few weeks later Mr.. Roose-
velt sent to Cuba as high com.
missioners his Secretary OF
war, Mr.. Taft, and his Acting
Secretary of State, Mr.. Bacon.
His Secretary Of State Mr..
Root, was then on his way up
the west coast of South Amer
lea, returning from the Pan,
American Conference, Wnlcn
held it's third session at RIO oe
Janeiro that year.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

@ASVNN AFCNos 4Ou 4CAAACAANCA
your grandparents, that sturdy
couple who built their cabin
in the wilderness so miles from
the nearest neighbor. You
think Of their meager furni-
ture, their scant comfort, their
patience and fortitude in the
face of it all, and you're sure
you could do the same.
But you couldn't. Neither
could I. We're just kidding
ourselves with Americas ia
vorite fairy tale. The plain
truth is
MOST OF US HAVE HAD
1T so SOFT AND SLOPPY
FOR THE LAST TWO CEN
TURIES THAT WE'D YELL
LIKE COMANCHES IF WE
HAD TO LIVE HARD AND
SIMPLE.
And that doesn't refer to the
Idle Rich. It means everyone
who has lived within "the
American standard of living"
It's fine to have modern con-
veniences- s-elevators, automo-
biles, telephones, radios, electric
lights, running water - the
countless contrivances and serv-
ices which make modern living
so swift and pleasant. These
things are all delightful. They
mean comfort for the individual
and profit for the merchant;
which is quite as it should be,
provided we don't have to pay
too heavily for that comfort
or those profits.
BUT WE HAVE PAID TOO
HEAVILY.
We have paid too heavily in
things much more precious than
money-in courage, endurance,
initiative, patience, good old
'hoSS" sense. And this is in
evitable. Why should men be
courageous if life is padded
against all danger? Why should
they develop initiative if they
are surrounded by conveniences
created by other mems brains?
The answer is-they don't.
1t is also inevitsble that, in
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

full. Or in the fear that they
may not come up to the sar-
torial standards. But that is
not a sign of vanity.
When women reach the stage
where they cease to try to i'm
prove their looks, throw away
their vanity cases and wear the
same style clothes for five or
10 years in succession, then we
may call them VAIN. If Wo-
man had just a soupcon OF
mans nonchalance and perfect
self-confidence, she'd have a
far easier time of it in this
world. But that will never
come to pass, until woman re-
covers from her inferiority com
plex and decided that she's
good enough looking, as is.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson =

a world too crammed with eX-
elements and contrivances,
mems minds become maudlin
and messy, and their lives be-
come either a dreary squirrel
cage routine or a feverish
fumbling after sensation.
So then, what? We still
boast, we still believe, that we
are Of hardy, independent old
Yankee breed. But the shame
full truth is that we're not one
tenth the human beings which
our fathers were. Our young
men and women drive fast cars
and planes, break swimming
and tennis records, engage in
dance marathons. But one
week Of the monotony, loneli-
ness and hardship which their
grandparents faced would set
most of them jittering. Yet
these conditions-not speed rec
ordS-are the real tests of cour-
age, strength and ingenuity.
We pirate much of our mod
ern freedom and force. But
actually few of us are either
free or forceful. We live syn
thetic, parasitic lives, SO per
cent Of us depending on the
other per cent to do their
thinking and provide their max
ings. Esau sold his heritage for
a mess of pottage. We've sold
ours for a mess of comfort. And
unless America is to go COM
pletely to the dogs
WE'VE GOT TO GET SIMPLE
AGAIN.
We must learn once more
how to think for ourselves; how
to do things for ourselves. We
must learn to do without-to
clear up our clutter-to stand
on our own hind legs-to re-
discover our backbones.
Does that, then, mean that
we should go back to pioneer
ways and pioneer days? OF
course it doesn't. We couldn't
if we would. But we can, and
we must, go back to the es-
sentials of pioneer spirit.
Let's have our modern world,
by all means. Let's have it.
swift and strong, magnificently
ingenious, gloriously reckless.
But let's also have a little of
that SWiftness and strength.
that ingenuity and courage IN
OURSELVES, and no just in
the machines contrived for us
by those rare l per cent brains,
FOR AS THINGS NOW
STAND, LIFE HAS JUST
ABOUT CALLED OUR BLUFF.
WE MAY STILL KID OUR
SELVES INTO THINKING
WE'RE TOUGH GUYS, BUT
WE CAN'T KID HISTORY
NOT FOR LONG. UNLESS
WE MEND OUR WAYS
PRONTO 1T WILL WRITE
US DOWN FOR WHAT WE
REALLY ARE A WEAK
KNEED SW ELL HEADED
GEN Err RAT1ON OF PIP
SQUEAKING PUPPETS.
Copyright. 1898. King Feature
Syndicate. 1nc)
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Firm Action

When these commissioners
found themselves unable to me-
diate the differences between
Cuban government and the
leaders of the revolution, Presl-
dent Palma resigned and con-
stitutional government in Cuba
collapsed.
President Roosevelt, having
exhausted every effort to avert
Intervention, did not hesitate to
intervene when the necessity
arose. Acting under the Platt
Amendment, he proclaimed a
provisional government, ap-
pointed Mr.. Taft to act as pro-
YiSional governor until Mr. Ma
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

run around to beauty parlors
and patronize plastic surgeons
because they want to be in
STYLE. They are simply seek
ing "this seasons style in form
and facial furnishing"
AS a matter Of fact, it is
neither vanity nor love of style,
which gives the average woman
the courage to go on a starva.
ton diet and have her nose
chiseled or her double chin re-
moved. It's her Inferiority
Complex! Her LACK of vanity,
self confidence and self-esteem.
A woman will struggle, suffer
and deny herself all her life to
IMPROVE her appearance. She
always has the uncomfortable,
Self-conscious feeling that her
cheeks might be pinker, her
nose might be shorter or her
hair might be waiver and gloss
ier. But a man doesn't bother
with such self-improvements;
because he suspects that he's
attractive enough Just as the
Lord turned him out.
A woman knows when her
nose is too prominent or is out
of drawing, and has it re-
vamped nearer to her hearts
desire and more attractive to
the masculine eye. But if a
man is born with prominent
nose he calls it "characterful"
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

WE'VE GOT
T o G. ET
S I M P L E
AGAIN. $50.
Simplioi t y
that's some
thing t h a t
America has
forg o t t e n.
Perhaps that
st a t e m e n t
StartleS you.
Y ou'v al
ways thought
of Americans
as hardy in
dividual i S t S
living t W o.
fictAH 1ivaS
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

For $50 years fresh roses have
regularly been placed upon the
tomb in Trinity churchyard Of
a woman who never lived
Charlotte Temple. For Char.
lotte Temple was the name of a
character in a book, a sorrow
tul novel of betrayed love and
blighted romance.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
ONCE OVERS

Men starting in business
learn this sad lesson in nine
cases out of ten.
They go into the new venture
with the idea that their large
number of friends will afford
the nucleus of a fair trade.
What an awakening they
have.
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Popularity

Popularity
Don't build too much on your
popularity.
1t is a tickle thing and has
way of warning when most
needed.
In fact, popularity is more
often accorded to those who do
not need it.
Popularity goes with success.
Failure seems to wipe it out,
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

For instance, men have al
ways attributed woman's love
of dress and her ceaseless efforts
to beautify herself to VANITY.
Now Mr.. Gelett Burgess ad-
vances the theory that women
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
We've Got to Get Simple Again

Before health can ever come
back to America, you and I
must tackle one tough job.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

1t is a hunters paradise
For limit there is none.
Now let us see some shooting with
That double-barreled gun.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

Why Plastic Surgeons Get Rich
The most interesting study of
mankind is woman's quaint
reasoning. He is never weary Of
figuring out why-a-woman-does-
things.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

Some Of the greatest actors
who ever graced the stage have
been men with positively plain
faces. No woman with the
same sort of face would have
dreamed of facing the foot
lights, even if she knew that
she had all the genius of Ellen
Terry and Bernhardt combined.
She would have had her face
completely remodeled before
daring to go to see a theatrical
agent.
When a woman sits for a
photograph she implores the
photographer to take out all
the lines" retouch it a lot and
"make it beautiful" But a
man wants his photograph to
RESEMBLE him. All he asks
of a portrait is that it will look
as attractive as the original.
OF course women do waste
a lot of time and energy pur-
suing the changing styles
chiefly in the hope that every
new style will make them look
more alluring or more beauti-
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

or "artistrocratic"- c"-and lets it
go at that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07

THREATS TO impose q code Of fair conlpe-
l. tition upon the aluminium industry will
not amount to much unless the code imposed
is to contain fair trade practices as well as
wage and hour provisions.
So far reports coming from NRA have
mentioned only the second half Of this prob
lem. Yet where aluminium is concerned pub
lie interest lies almost wholly in prevention Of
nonopolistic control That is why the Alum
mum Company Of America has refused to sub
nit or subscribe 10 a code containing fair
trade practices. That is why code emitting
such provisions will be a victory for the
mighty Mellon concern.
This is the situation:
The Aluminium Company Of America con-
trolls the virgin supply Of aluminium on this
continent. 1t also owns fabricating plants.
Independent fabricating plants are in opera
ton also, but they have to buy their raw ma
terials from the Melons. Independents say
they can not operate in competition unless
they are assured that fabricating plants of the
big corporation viii get raw materials on the
same price basis they Go. Unless they can
compete monopolistic prices will prevail.
Aluminium is becoming Of more Importance
in our national life. The navy soon will buy
millions Of dollars worth for use in new
cruisers and destroyers. The Tennessee Valley
Authority recently bought large order for
use in connection with its power development
Aluminium is going into public buildings. It
is part Of every households equipment.
Monopoly charges are serious and there is
plenty Of evidence to sustain them. Though
recent administrations refused to recognize
this evidence the federal trade commission
went into the courts years ago with charge
of monopoly against the Aluminium Company
and secured a consent decree forbidding GER
tain practices. Since then the only changes
which have taken place apparently have been
in the direction of circumventing the decree.
The industrial recovery act contains plain
prohibitions against monopoly which can
hardly be ignored by MIRA. 1t also gives the
President power to impose code wherever
abuses inimical to the public interest and
contrary to the policy herein declared are
prevalent in any trade or industry"
There should be no doubt on the part of
NRA as to what it should do under the cir
cumstances. If it is going to code the
aluminium industry at all 1t should see to it
that the code prevents monopoly