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The Washington times., 1933-07-29
Unemployment
An Encouraging Report

The report of the Civil Service Commission showing an
creasing of the unemployment register encouraging
shows that at least of faith being kept with
the employees who dismissed from positions
which they had reason to believe secure.
According the recent report Of the Commission 220
and reempoyed during the last week. appre-
cabe increase the 100 whO reempoyd in the
Ceding week.
This increased use of the unemployment principle can
attributed largely the intervention Of President Roosevelt
Shortly after his return from his vacation trip to the New
England coast he let it be known that dismissed employees
with civil service status should be given every consideration in
the matter of filling the jobs created by organization Of
Government agencies.
The position of the President indicated at that time has
stimulated his subordnas take Of the victims Of the
economy
Apparently however, this expressed attitude Of President
Roosevelt has not entirely camed down those who insist upon
attacking the Civil Service.
The proof of this in the renewed and partially
full efforts to unbanket large numbers Of Government
workers whose jobs covered n during previous ad
ministrations
More than 200 such jobs removed from Civil Service
status by recent order and efforts being continued to
extend similar order to other hundreds.
TO the extent that the appointments to these jobs under
previous Presidents made political rewards with
political purpose there might be justification examining
the circumstances with view to removing the purely political
appontees
But where the appointments were made with the object Of
obtaining the best qualified for the jobs they should
tany be allowed to retain their positions and their Civil serv
ice status.
The unbanketing order did not take these things
into consideration In effect simply sad Here jobs
let's get them"
President Roosevelt still prevent his subordinates from
botng his by insisting that of those
moved from Civil Service status shall be dismissed until in
vestigation clearly shows their unfitness
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Group disqualification
A Worthy Plan

Plans under consideration by hospital authorities and others
for providing group disqualification for Washngonians in
moderate circumstances hold almost unlimited prospects
good
AS recently announced the plan would provide that
poyed would subscribe small month which
would ente them to three weeks any the various
hospitals that cooperate under the proposal.
is to be hoped that the suggestion will receive the most
serious consideration and that will found possible to
put into effect at early date.
One of the great problems of the average or
is the unexpected illness which requires extensive and
pensive hospital treatment.
Few of those working for weekly monthly wage or
salary are able to lay by enough to meet this need
when it upon them.
Hospitals expensive institutions operate and charges
for hospital service high though the hospitals do
not operate for profit and generally unable meet ex
penses.
The average the proponents Of the proposal now
under consideration say the price although the
rich afford and the poor receive treatment
O charity basis.
the proposed plan be made effective it will meet
serious want.
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False Witness

His name is Lieut.. Col. AL
fred Dreyfus. The very
name, the world over, stands
as a synonym for injustice.
Thirty years ago the Dreyfus
case almost tore France
apart, almost destroyed the
republic, and shook the world
with it's reverberations.
Alfred Dreyfus was a
young captain back in 1894
when he was falsely accused
Of selling military secrets to
Germany. He was tried,
found guilty on perjured
testimony and sent to that
prison for desperate crimi-
nails, Devils Island, in French
Guiana. Later on, eminent
men who could not sleep at
nights because Of their con-
viction that horrible injus-
tice had been done to an inno-
cent man, took up his case.
Clemenceau, the old Tiger,
was one. Emile Zola, the
great novelist, was another.
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Three-Minute Journeys
BY Temple Manning.
italy Has a Gem in BergamO

italy Has q Gem in BergamO
Bergamo, only 81 miles from
Milan, and thus naturally over
shadowed by that great metrop-
oils Of northern Italy, is over
looked by far too many Of the
visitors to Milan and the Italian
lakes; yet when they overlook
Bergamo, they are sighting one
of the most beautiful Of Italy's
many beautiful cities. In the
center of a chaplet Of Verdant
hills, Bergamo is served by six
railroad lines and plenty of mo-
tor bus routes from almost every
nearby town. It is linked up
also with the great Turin
Milan-Venice automobile high
way, so that there is no excuse
not to visit it.
Bergamo combines extreme
anquity with bustling modern
1ty, and one day is sufficient to
thoroughly see the town. It is
best to start at the piazza OPP
posite the depot and follow the
Viale Roma to the center of the
city. Adjoining the nearby
Piazza Cavour are typical Ital-
ian gardens adorned with orna-
mental ponds and Statuary,
framed in O setting Of hills.
Monument to Garibaldi
Beyond the piazza is another
square where q magnificent
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Cleared by Death

They fought so tena-
ciously that in 1899 a new
trial was granted to the
exiled Captain Dreyfus.
But again he was found
guilty, although with ex-
tenuating circumstances this
time, and shortly afterward
a French President rescued
him from Devils Island
with a pardon. Still later,
the real criminal and spy
committed suicide. The
truth was revealed to the
world and the honor Of Al
fred Dreyfus was clear.
He fought in the Great
War and won his present
rank and the cross of the
Legion, and now France
honors him with a monu-
ment which is to be erected
on the very spot where he
landed when he came back
from exile and prison after
five years Of horror.
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theater, dedicated to Signora
Duse, was built in 1927, and
nearby is the ornate monument
to Garibaldi. Right here Is the
lower station of the funicular
that unites the upper and
lower sections of Bergamo.
With their genius for combin-
ing the beautiful with the uu1l"
tartan, the people of Bergamo
show themselves typically 1tal-
ian.
Two Of Bergamo's many
museums are housed in the
Rocca, built in 1880, on the
site Of some Roman ruins by
John of Luxembourg, King of
Bohemia. After serving as a
fortress it was used as a prison.
It has been restored in more
recent times and now houses
the museums. Within the area
are some wonderful gardens
dedicated to soldiers who fell
in the World War and strolling
along the summit of the ram
parts one gets fine views over
the Plain of Lombardy.
Bergamo's town hall is one
Of the oldest town halls in
Italy, which is saying some
thing in this land of old pal
aces and civic buildings. The
greater part of this Palazzo
della Regione was rebuilt at the
beginning of the sixteenth CEN
tury.
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First sos

Phillips and Bride looked
at each other and grinned.
Send a call for help from the
TitanicY From the unsink-
able ship? What a joke!
But 10 minutes later Cap
tain Smith was back, face set
like stone. "Send the CALI"
he ordered. Phillips asked:
"What call shall I send, Cap
tain?" The master replied:
"The regulation call. - So
Phillips tapped out: "This
is M G Y (the Titanic's sig
nal). Come at once. We
have struck a berg. It's a
COD"
Young Bride said to Opera
tor Phillips: "Send SOS.
It's a new call and this may
be your last chance to send
it."
So Phillips spanked SOS
time after time. AS he
radioed, the ship settled
fast. From everywhere in
that awful dark came the
terrible clamor of the
doomed.
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born an eternal woman.
charmer instead of a husband
and provider-and every woman
appears to fancy that she was
born a siren instead Of a wife
and housekeeper.
The dangerous moment in a
married mans life is when he
grows restless and starts look
ing around: the dangerous
moment in a bachelors life is
when he stops looking around
and begins concentrating-on
one woman.
Many a man who has re-
fused his second or third
offer Of marriage, this sum-
mer, wonders why God gave
women so much heart and so
little common sense.
In the Gay Nineties q man
used to get a slap in the face
and a bad reputation as a Don
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Famous Sailor

Capt. Sir Arthur Rostron
has written the vivid story
of his forty-six years at
sea. When he retired a
few years ago, Sir Arthur
was commodore Of the Cum
ard fleet, and probably the
most famous sailor on the
seven seas.
His greatest adventure in
all those eventful years was
the rescue Of the survivors
of the greatest ship that
ever sailed the seas. She
was the White Star liner,
Titanic, which ripped her
bottom out upon an iceberg
800 miles off the Grand
Banks of Newfoundland.
Down she dived to the sea
bottom, two miles down,
taking fifteen hundred and
The Washington times., 1933-07-29
By EdWin C.. Hill

Sitting these summer eve
nings on the terrace Of his
favorite cafe in the Boule-
ward des Italiens, in Paris, is
a white-haired, slightly built
old man whose soldierly bear
ing dignifies his 73 years.
His white mustache has the
trim, military cut, and hun
dreds who drift by the cafe
in the warm summer eve
nings recognize the man with
the red ribbon Of the Legion
of Honor in his button hole.
They know him for the mar
tyr who tasted tragedy down
to the last bitter dregs-who
endured such agony as sell
dom falls to the lot of human
beings.
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Race With Death

Well, as Rostron told the
tale, his own operator on
the Carpathia was just
about to cut off the power
and go to bed when he de-
cided to listen just a few
seconds longer. He was
STOPPING down to unite his
shoelaces when the old
fashioned amateurish wire
less set of the Carpathia
caught the Titanic's frantic
appeal.
Instantly the race with
death began. Sir Arthur
drove his ship through the
waters with every ounce Of
power he had in his great
Scotch engines, and at 4
o'clock in the morning came
up to the spot where the
Titanic had gone down an
hour and a half before-to
a sea strewn with the dead
and the despairing. AS it
was, he saved a third of the
ships company.
A fine fellow and great
commander, Sir Arthur Ros-
tron.
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seventeen human beings to
bear her company.
Titanic Tragedy

The terrible story of that
tragedy was told to this
writer by Sir Arthur him
self in his quarters the night
he brought to New York,
aboard his ship, the Car
pathia, the 7O6 fortunate
souls he was able to rescue
from the ice-choked waters.
What a story that was! 1t
was the first time that the
so S call, which silences all
radio nowadays, was ever
used. Up to then G Cd was
the distress signal.
That awful night, as Sir
Arthur told me, the two
wireless operators of the Tt
tanic, Jack Phillips and Har-
old Bride, were laughing and
joking in the radio room.
There came a sudden jolt
not very hard-and then all
lights went out. All over the
ship total darkness. Startling
and frightening.
Captain Smith of the Tt
tanic put his head in the
doorway. "We've struck an
iceberg, - he said, quietly.
"I'm having an inspection
made to see what it did to
us. Get ready to send a call
for assistance"
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the inevitable
aftermath of our swift and in
tense enthusiasm.
So, when will we start working
on F. D. R.?
When will we begin to say
he was just a Flash in the
PAM"
When will we begin to sneer
at his business methods, and to
hint darkly that "that fellows
too radical-hasn't got enough
regard for the good old Consti-
tution-you never can trust
people like that-probably he's
in league with them Russians?
WE WILL START DOING
THIS AS SOON AS MR..
ROOSEVELT'S NEW DEAL
COMMENCES TO MAKE US
INDIVIDUALLY UNCOMFORT-
ABLE.
Which will it be pronto and
plenty!
Never was a New Deal for
America so necessary, so newt
able. Never has an Old Deal
wrought such misery on the
average citizen. All of which
we eagerly admit, enumerating
those miseries-pointing, bit
terly, to our own particular
scars.
Ready for a New Deal? OF
course we are! God bless the
good, brave, kind, wise man who
has promised us one! Hip-hip-
hooray for our swell President!
But how long will those hips
and hoorays last? I repeat
ONLY AS LONG AS EVERY
THING LOOKS ROSY FOR US,
INDIVIDUALLY.
But that can't possibly be
long. For the worse a New
Deal is needed, the more Cain
is it going to raise when it
comes, and it isn't merely going
to raise Cain with the privileged
and powerful. It's going to raise
Cain with ALL of us-with the
most personal departments Of
our lives, as well as the public
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

functions Of our Government.
And the reasons plain.
THE OLD DEAL AFFECTED
EVERYBODY, EVERYTHING.
IF THE NEW DEAL IS TO
CLEAN UP THE OLD DEAL,
1T, TOO, MUST TOUCH
EVERYBODY, EVERYTHING.
And that isn't so funny, is it?
It's all right for the Government
to reach out and grab the Rich
Fellow by the neck, but when
it comes to grabbing the Poor
Fellow WHEN TT MEANS
MEDDLING IN YOUR AND MY
PRIVATE AFFAIRS-that's diff"
ferent! Then we squeal!
And with that squeal we ex-
pose our true position. For, in
spitS of our cheers, we really
don't want a 100 per cent New
Deal for America. We're all for
a plan that makes the other fell
low loosen up on his ancient
greed and graft. BUT WE
DON'T WANT ANYTHING
THAT WILL DISTURB OUR
OWN GREED, OR SPOIL OUR
CHANCES OF GETTING A
GOOD GRAFT FOR OUR
SELVES SOME DAY.
Yet that is exactly what is
going to happen, if and when
the New Deal goes into effect.
It's going to dig into ALL greed,
and go after ALL graft. It is
going to land on the selfishnesS
and Stiffness, the ignorance and
stubborness of Big Men and
Little Men alike. It's going to
make ALL Of us "our brothers
keepers" whether We like it or
not. And it's a cinch we won't.
For what tidy housewife
wants to share her guest room
with a tattered tramp she's
never seen? Or what ambitious
worker wants to share his job
with some drifter whose name
he's never heard? Yet things
like these, and even more start
ling, are going to come to pass
in America when the New Deal
starts dealing.
And then what?
Then, If we run true to form,
WE'LL TURN ON THE MAN
WHO HAD THE VISION AND
COURAGE TO START IT ALL
AND BLAME HIM FOR OUR
BAD LUCK"-AND WHINE
FOR "THE GOOD OLD DAYS"
AND RAISE CAIN GEN.
ERAILY!
That's what is going to hap
pen If we Americans run true
to form. But-will we? It's
only a 1000, ,0O0to-1 shot that
we won't. But miracles HAVE
happened! Is it possible that
one can happen now?
When things start crashing
this next winter and fal1-when
we see the old Snug Notions and
Pet Hypocrisies going out on
the big winds it possible that
we will stand by our guns, and
cheer our New Dealer as we're
cheering him today? I wonder.
Here's a hunch. Clip out this
article-ke ep it for eight
months-and then see what's
happening.
FOR BY THEN THE WHOLE
WORLD SHOULD KNOW
WHETHER WE'RE REALLY
GAME SPORTS WHO MEAN
WHAT WE V o T E, OR
WHETHER WE'RE JUST A
BUNCH OF BIG CRY-BABIES,
WHO CAN DISH IT OUT BUT
CAN'T TAKE IT!
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ONCE OVERS

when a child fails to come up
to expectations of the parents
when the child is known to be
capable of the best.
But nothing is to be gained
by scolding a nervous child.
He becomes more and more
nervous each time he is sub
1ected to the test he breads.
Often parents try to push
their children beyond their ca
pacity.
Such methods prove detri-
mental to the extremely nerv-
Gus youngster.
Calm, careful, gentle help
with encouraging words are
more likely to quiet the nerves
and make thought possible and
success more sure.
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Helping Nervous Children
In vour family is there one

Helping Nervous Children
In your family is there one
of very nervous temperament?
Nervous and impulsive peo-
pie often do foolish things with
consequent damage to them
selves and to others.
To censure such a person
harshly does not help the mat
ter, rather aggravates the con-
dition.
This is especially true with
children.
Parents try to force the
high-strung child to such an
extent that he or she is un-
able to make progress which
might be possible if handled
more thoughtfully and carefully.
1t Is aggraVating at times
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him? I am
his staunch
and loyal sup
porter, a n d
intend to re-
main so, re-
gardless. But
I have no
such expecta-
tionS concern
ing most Of
my fellow citi-
ZenS. For we
A m e r ! c ans
ALW A Y s
cruelty o u r
heroes. It's
Al
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

Juan if he tried to kiss a girl;
nowadays, he gets q cold shoul-
der and a bad reputation as a
fase-alarm if he doesn't.
Once a woman starts going
in any direction, she never
heeds a STOP signal. The girls
of today are becoming so
feminine" and fluffy that a
bell Of the Gay Nineties would
look almost hardboiled and
mannish beside them.
Our fashions in love-making,
like most Of our fashions in
hats and perfumes, are being
imported. Lots Of girls have
the graceful and delicate ex-
ample of the subtle Leslie How
ard to thank for a thrilling
courtship, in place Of a maui
ing match.
A "night-club," says Reno
Ruth, ''is a place where the
walters are always over-tipped
and the bottles are always
tipped over"
kissing doesn't really short
en- life, as the doctors assert
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WISE WORDS

From the sublime there Is a
descent little by little to the
Observation-Disclosures.
A quiet conscience makes one
so serene!-Byron.j
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When viii We Start Blaming
President Roosevelt?

Well, now that we've clapped
and shouted and hung a lot Of
wreathS, when are we going on
to the next business in hand?
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO
START BLAMING PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT?
What! Don't I like our PreSi-
dent? I most certainly do like
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Fashions in Love-Making

Fashions in Love Making
Funny-but a woman can
go on fooling men for years
after she has become an open
book to her fellow-women.
The chief trouble with matri-
mony, today, is that every
man seems to think he was
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Epochal Stories of Injustice and Heroism Re-
called; Dreyfus, Victim of Perjury, Honored;
Rescue of Titanic Survivors
The Washington times., 1933-08-25

of right hand directly in front
Of center chest. First: Resist
or hold back with right arm
while gradually pushing it to
right with left hand. Push
until hands are directly in
front of right shoulder. Sec
ond: Reverse fists and push to
left, keeping arms level with
shoulders and resisting through
out exercise.
Repeat slowly six times in
each direction, eventually work.
ing up to 18 times. The value
Of this exercise depends upon
the force with which one arm
resists the pushing Of the
other arm.
Get Outdoors
When you can get outdoors
to exercise, here are a few
pointers. Swimming is one
Of the best exercises. It gives
perfect exercise to the whole
body and is known for its
bautifying effect upon the fig
ure.
Next to swimming, it is said,
comes skating. There was
quite a vogue for that here
last spring when groups Of
young people had skating par
ties around HainS Point. Skat-
ing gives poise and body con-
troll. Tennis gives a chance
for activity in all the muscles
but should not be overdone.
Then Of course there is horse
back riding-fine exercise
and walking, which will always
remain the exercise in special
favor because it is so cheap
and easy and available to any,
body at any time.
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Lima Bean Combinations
By the Merry Cook

salad greens cannot help but
arouse and appease the sum-
mer appetite.
Meat Substitute
When served as meat sub
stitute or main dish in a meal,
a lima bean preparation should
be supplemented by something
acid-tomatoeS being a good
example, or by a succulent
green vegetable or uncooked
salad.
The following are two main
dish preparations which are in
expensive, nourishing and in
sure palate satisfaction.
Lima Bean Loaf
8 c. lima bean pulp (mashed
beans)
1 egg and 1 egg yolk
1 1-3 dry bread or cracker
crumbs
tsp salt
"a tsp. pepper.
u tsp sage or poultry season.
ing (optionaD.
Combine the bean pulp with
the eggs, crumbs and seasoning.
Press into a well-greased bread
pan and bake in a hot oven
(375 deg. F. for 30 minutes.
Unmold and serve with hot to-
mato sauce, or any desired hot
sauce.
Lima Beans Creole
8 tsp. chopped onion
2 tsp. chopped sweet green
peppers
11a tbsp. fat
112 tbsp. flour
/ C. strained tomato
"a tsp salt
2 C. cooked lima beans
Cook pepper and onion in
salt pork or bacon fat until soft
and yellow. Add flour, stir until
smooth. Then add tomato, salt,
stirring constantly until thick
ened and well cooked. Drain the
beans and stir into the hot
sauce and serve. Makes four
portions.
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Correct
Manners
BY MRS. CORNELIUS
BEECKMAN
After the Ceremony

After the Ceremony
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
Immediately after the we'd
ding ceremony is it proper to
stand at the rear of the church
to receive congratulations?
Is 1t customary for the bride
to present each Of the wedding
attendants with a wedding pic
ture Of the entire wedding
party, or does each attendant
pay for his or her own?
In some communities it is the
custom to stand at the rear of
the church and receive congrat-
ulationS, if there is to be no re-
ception at the home of the
bride or elsewhere. But more
generally if there is to be no
reception after the ceremony,
the couple depart at once.
If the bride wishes her at
tendants to have photographs
of the wedding party, she should,
to be gracious, plan to present
them to the attendants. Either
this, or make no mention of
their having photographs. It
would, am sure you will agree,
seem rather ungraciouS and un.
generous for her to suggest that
they pay for the photographs.
If she can't afford to have
especially expensive ones taken
to give to the attendants, she
may plan to have inexpensive
ones, to meet her budget.
Shower Plans
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
My SiSter-in-law has just an
nounced her engagement, but
no date has been set for the
wedding, although it will take
place the early part of this
winter.
Would it be proper for me
to give her a shower? If so,
do you think September would
be too early?
It isn't supposed to be very
good form for a close relative
of the bride-to-be to give her
a shower, but this is a mat
ter that each one must decide
for herself. The planning-to-
give-a-shower can have a very
obvious" appearance, and this
is a thing to be realized, even
if We decide to disregard it.
September might be bit too
early for a shower when the
marriage is to take place in
the early part of the winter.
October would be better, I
think.
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