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The Washington times., 1933-09-25

Lahore
Whoever has visited Lahore
in northern India has invariably
gone on record to testify that
the journey, no matter how
long or difficult, was well worth
while. To see Wazir Khan's
Mosque, the Hall of Mirrors, the
Naulakha and the Shalimar is
to be projected back into the
days of the great morguls with
all their pageantry and mag
nificence, those morguls from
Akbar to Shah Jahan who lived
in a splendor that has become
almost legendary, so rich and
rare it was.
Today Lahore is busy, thriv-
ing town, proud of it's former
greatness but determined not to
dwell thereon. One has only to
walk or drive down the mall
with it's handsome buildings
and shops, with wide gardens
between the driveways, to know
that Lahore is still a mighty
city. The administrative offices
are all fine buildings, especially
High Court with it's high,
pointed minaretS and flat
domes of polished stone and
gold leaf.
The Native District
From the modern mall one
steps swiftly into the crowded
native shopping district Of
Anarkali, a district that Is quite
as eastern as any visitor could
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Strange Policies

One of the strangest policies
of all was taken out by a British
peer, who paid a premium Of
$4,000 for a $4,000 policy insur.
ing him against his niece clipping
within year. The young lady
did not elope and the peer lost
his $4,000, but possibly prevent
ed an undesirable marriage.
The odds were seven to one
against Gertrude Ederle swim
ming the English Channel, and
precisely the same against the
stability Of the Spanish throne
in 1911.
It is hard to conceive of a
risk against which Lloyds will
not insure. When King Ed
ward was dying in 1902 Lloyds
offered policies on his life for
six days at 80 per cent, and
for IA days at SO per cent.
At the time of the corona.
ton of Edward, Lloyds wrote
policies for merchants and
shopkeepers who realized that
they would face large losses if,
by some untoWard CirCum-
stance, the coronation festivi-
ties should be cancelled. Lloyds
gave liberal odds, figuring that
nothing less than a hurricane
would halt the coronation, but
the club lost heavily because
the illness of the king caused
a postponement of the pro-
gram. Sometimes the losses
are enormous. In one year,
1923, Lloyds was in the red for
$23,OO0,OOO.
One celebrated and amusing
instance of Lloyds refusing to
take a chance was in 1908,
when a firm of New York
dressmakers requested a policy
safeguarding it against loss on
a shipment of Directoire gowns
from Paris. But Lloyds said no.
1t was willing to take chances
with acts of Providence. 1t
was willing to gamble with
earthquakes. fire, flood and
storm, or any perversity of ma
ture. But it would have moth.
ing to do with a woman'S
whims or eccentricities in fash
ion. There, said Lloyd of Lon.
don, was something quite be-
yond the realm of reason or
mathematics.
Copyright. 1893, King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Projects Held Up

In many parts Of the coun-
try, the Federal Governments
efforts to loan Federal funds
for the construction Of urgently
needed public works have been
retarded by this obsolete system
of local government.
Many counties, cities, and
towns need new water works,
new sewerage systems. new
schools, new bridges, v1aoucts.
public buildings, and roads.
Toward these projects the Fed
eral Government is offering a
grant of 80 per cent and a loan
of the balance of 10 per cent at
per cent interest.
But bad local government ap-
pears to have brought many
counties. cities, and towns to the
limits of their bonding powers.
Here and there "tax strikes"
have been declared. In some
places teachers and other mu-
nicipal employees have not been
paid for many months, either
because Of the reduction in the
value of taxable property or the
refusal or inability Of taxpayers
to meet their obligations.
This serious condition was
the subject Of an address by
President Roosevelt's Secretary
of the Interior and Admins
traitor for Public Works, Harold
L. Ickes, before the Conference
Of Mayors recently held at Chi
cago's Century Of Progress Ex-
position. i
Speaking with Preside&t
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Three-Minute Journeys
BY Temple Manning

hone for, All the pageantry'
noise and color, associated with
a typical eastern bazaar i to be
folind at Anarkali which
stretches from the mall to the
I,ohari Gate, one of the twelve
gates to the ancient walled city;
outside the city IS Circular roao
and between the road and the
citv proper is fertile belt OF
land. once the moat which en-
tirely surrounded the city, a
first line of defense.
The old fort is we'll worth a
visit. At the further end OF
the tiled courtyard is the Nau-
lawha, a glorious marble pawn.
ion, enriched with inlays OF
gems and of semi-preclouS
stones that glitter in the sun"
light and dazzle even beneath
gray skies.
wonderful is the visit to the
Tombs at Shadara, those lovely
old mogul gardens which for
sheer beauty cannot be ap-
preached the world over.
Through the 1irst enclosure
one comes to great clustered
courtyards then through mo-
sale inlaid gatew ways to Dill
kusha Bagh, the hearts de-
light, gay with flower beds,
lawns and amazing trees. The
mausoleum of re d sandstone
with marble arabesqueS, 'gleam-
ing white, stands on a high
red sandstone terrace.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
LISTEN WORLD = By Elsie Robinson
Prohibition Usand What We Must Do After Repeal

gether, have done this thing
by our common bigotry, our
common defiance.
THE BOOTLEGGER DID
NOT SET UP HIS HANGOUT
IN THE BACK ALLEY UNTIL
THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
SET UP ITS LOBBY IN WASH
INGTON - AND UNTIL YOU
AND I SET UP A BAR IN
OUR DECENT" AMERICAN
HOMES.
Who turned drunkenness, muir
der, theft, white slavery, kidnap-
ing, into profitable rackets?
YOU AND l..
Who made a mockery Of our
country's power and pride;
taught thieves and thugs to
thumb their noses at Uncle
Sam?
YOU AND WET OR DRY.
WE DID THESE THINGS.
But now-something must be
done to stop this horror. Yet
can anything be done?
Something can be done. We
can stop sowing thistles. We
can eliminate the root of the
trouble. We can remove those
lawless tendencies in ourselves
which gave rise to outlaWry.
And that means-What?
THAT MEANS REMOVING
A LAW WHICH VIOLATED
HUMAN RIGHT, AND CEAS-
ING A REVOLT WHICH V1O-
LATED HUMAN DECENCY.
Something is being done.
Twenty-nine States have al
ready voted to do it. Seven
more state votes are needed
and the Eighteenth Amendment
will be a thing of the past.
Then it will be up to us. Then
we will be "put on our honor"
But what will happen if we
are put on our honor?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE
PAST?
BY the grim rocks Of Ply
mouth. in the bloody SHOWS Of
Valley Forge. .on he blister
ing sands of the Argonaut'S
trail. Americans wrote the
record of what they could do
ION their honor"
We did not need force to
mold us into a brave, a wise,
a rich, a glorious people. 1t was
our very pride in our 1ndepend-
ence which made us what we
are. Only when we met force
with fury, intolerance with in
temperance-did we fall!
AMERICANS ARE ESSEN
TALLY DECENT. AMERI-
CANS ARE ESSENTIALLY
LAW-ABIDING. HE WHO
DOUBTS TT IS A TRAITOR.
HE WHO THINKS THAT
ERICANS MUST BE
SHACKLED BEFORE THEY
CAN BE SAVED IS A FOOL!
Once we proved we were fit
for freedom. What we did in
our glorious past, we can do
again.
so, STRIKE OFF THOSE
SHACKLES! DISCARD THOSE
PREF UDICES FORGET
WHETHER YOU ARE WET
OR DRY! REMEMBER ONLY
THIS-YOU ARE AMERICAN!
THEN, SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER.
ONWARD TO DECENCY.
LET'S GO!
Copyright. 1888. KinH Features -
syndicats. 1ns'L
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
President Backs War on
Bad Local Government
-By James T. Williams, T.-

Roosevelt's authority and ap-
proval, Secretary Ickes said:
"T know that people Woutd
be more willing to pay their
taxes If they were assured Of
equitable assessments. l knoW
that they would, Without grun'-
bling, pay on eUen an inequit-
able assessment if they felt
their taxes were being Wtsely
and economically expended.
"There haUe been wdste and
inefficiency. Bond issues cheer
fully Uoted for permanent i'm
proponents h0Ue been drdWn
upon heavily for political Pur-
poses.
"PubEc works haze been so
skimped that, in many in
stances, they have not been
able to last for the period oVeT
which they have been amor
tized.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

BREAK THE 18th AMEND
MENT AS 1T WAS TO DUMP
THE TEA IN BOSTON HAIR
BOR!"
For fifteen years most Of us
have been reasoning that way
and acting on that reasoning.
Behind any camouflage of
righteousness there is usually
hell-to-pay. There was hell-to-
pay when we reasoned ourselves
into making drunkenness smart
into m king lawbreaking
patriotic.
"But we didn't all defy Pro
hibition!" Indignantly protest
the Drys. "We didn't all think
it was smart to get drunk.
Millions of us stayed sober
and did our best to force our
neighbors to stay sober"
Yes; but by doing their best
to force their neighbors to stay
sober, the Drys broke the law
DIS Su1CAy 40 GAAC AAO0AA6 "SOo'
They didn't break the Prohibi-
ton law, but a deeper one
one which is guaranteed by
our CONSTITUTIONS
THE RIGHT OF EVERY
MAN TO CONTROL HIS OWN
CONSCIENCE, PROVIDED HE
DOES NOT MAKE A PUBLIC
NUISANCE OF HIMSELF.
IT'S AS VICIOUS TO TRY
TO FORCE YOUR BELIEFS
DOWN THE OTHER FELL
LOWS THROAT AS YOUR
BOOZE; AS LAWLESS TO
SET YOUR CREED UP
AGAINST THE ESTABLISHED
ORDER AS TO SET UP YOUR
STILL,
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

YOU AND ELSIE ROBINSON
land rROHIBITION-ARE
WHY.
For fifteen years you and
have been sowing thistles.
We didn't call it sowing
thistles." We didn't consider
ourselves outlaws, though we
frankly admitted that we were
breaking the law. But we felt
that. under certain conditions,
people are justified in breaking
laws.
Wasn't civilization built on
broken laws?" we reasoned.
"On the breaking of bad laws,
and the substitution of good
laws?
Hasn't our own progress
come from law breaking?
Didn't we break the law when
We dumped the tea in Boston
Bay; when we refused to ac-
cept the unjust commands of
tyrannical England? Weren't
all our Revolutionary fathers
and m o hers law-breakers?
Sure they were! And don't we
honor them for it? We cer-
tainly do!
We'll, here's another tyran.
nical law which violates our
deepest human right-the right
to regulate and control our per-
sonal consciences. Our national
life was based on that right.
Our fathers came to this coun-
try because the old nations
wouldn't respect that right. It's
our most sacred privilege. It's
the thing that makes us
A merican. And this 18th
Amendment violates that right.
But people should be sober?
Sure they should. But they
should choose sobriety for them
selves-decide for themselves
whether they'll drink or not
drink.
"If a man makes a pest of
himself by drinking, lock him
up. If a saloon becomes a
menace, lock it up. Use COM
pulsion in all nuisances; BUT
DON'T USE TT ON FREE MEN!
DON'T TRY TO SUBSTI-
TUTE CONSTITUTIONAL CO.
ERCION FOR CONSCIENCE,
FORCE FOR FREEDOM--NOT
IN AMERICA! England tried
it. See what happened to her!
Now the DryS are trying it.
Watch what happens to them!
Bad laws - unjust laws -
should never be made. 1t isn't
lawleSS to break a bad law
that is harming ones country.
It's actually patriotic.
IT'S AS PATRIOTIC TO
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Plain Speaking

"Municipalities in common
with other political entities
haze been in some cases re-
Iuctunt to face the situation
inn os-d by this period of eco
nonic distress.
"Padded payrolls, excessive
salaries and port-time Work for
full pay hoUe not been "n,
known in some sections OF
America"
Reinforcing what President
Roosevelt recently said to his
neighbors of Duchess county
New York, about the necessity
of moderning local government,
Secretary Ickes, who halls from
Illinois, added:
'T doubt whether NeW York
or any other State has a more
inadequate, cumbersome system
of counties, townships and
municipal governments than
Illinois can boast.
ne tFOuOlS IS tH0I y 1"
short-sighted politicians resist
any change in local govern
mental institutions. The more
complicated and more obscure
the system, the more befogged
is the citizen when he goes to
the polls and the greater profit
there is in the number of job"
and the emoluments that go
With these jobs"
1t is apparently the firm pur-
pose of the Roosevelt Admins
tration to carry the war for the
overthrow Of "the outworn sys-
tenn" of local governments into
the enemy's country.
The opening gun was Presl-
dent Roosevelt's address to his
neighbors of Duchess county.
This has been followed by the
significant speech of Secretary
Ickes at Chicago.
oston, Philadelphia. Kansas
City and other metropolitan
centers may soon expect to hear
some Of the same sort Of plain
talk" from other high officials
of the Roosevelt Administration.
Copyright, 1898, The Washington Timed
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
No. 1-Regarding Organized Vice

} And if Saints can break laws,
why can't Sinners?
If Bigots, Wet or Dry, can
violate human rights, why can't
Bootleggers? The answer is
THEY CAN-THEY WILL
THEY HAVE!
Why have gangsters, kid
napers, racketeers, thugs, or
ganized? Why has Crime be-
come Big Business in the
United States?
CAUSE THE EIGHT
EENTH AMENDMENT OPENED
THE DOOR TO CRIME. BE-
CAUSE BOTH THOSE WHO
MADE THAT LAW AND
THOSE WHO BROKE 1T
MADE LAWLESSNESS POS
SIBLE. POPULAR AND PROF
TABLE.
What caused the Crime
Wave? We've heard scores of
reasons. But there's the real
reason.
WE SOWED THISTLES-
AND THE CRIMINALS ARE
CASHING IN ON THE CROP.
But there were criminals be-
fore the Eighteenth Amend
ment? There were. But never
before was crime organized.
Never before in human history
was a great, powerful nation at
the mercy of the underworld.
We have, within the last Is
years, become the most laWless
of all great peoples; our country
a byword for banditry. There is
not an honest citizen amongst
us who does not know this fact,
who is not sickened, shamed and
infuriated by it. And yet we,
ourselves, vets and drys to-
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

Flu L N E S S.
WHY HAVE
WE A CRIME
w A V e I N
THIS COUN-
TRY?
w HY IS
THIS POW
ERFUL, ES-
S E NTIALLY
DECENT MA
TION IN
THE G r Up
OF ORGAN
lied VICE?
T H A rs
WHv
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
The Human Side of the News
LIoyds-Most Romantic Insurance Organization
Ru Ed1piu Hill
EdWin C. HILL

lected $4,000 from Lloyds when
the then youthful John Barry
more took unto himself a wife
in the midst of the theatrical
year.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

YOU CAN'T SOW THIS
TIES AND REAP VIOLETS
YOU CAN'T SOW LAW
LESSNESS AND REAP LAW
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

"Oh, my Beloved, fill the Cup
that clears
Today Of past Regrets and Future
Fears;
TOmOrrOw!-Why, Tomorrow ]
may be
Myself with Yesterdays Sewn
thousand Years.
All, make the most of what we yet
may spend,
Before we too into the Dust
descend;
! Dust unto Dust, and under Dust
to lie,
SAM Wine, sans Song, sans
Singer, and-Sana End.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

All, with the Grape my fading
Life provide,
And wash my Body whence the
Life has died,
And lay me, shrOuded in the
living Leaf,
By some not unfrequented Gar.
den-side
YOn rising Moon that looks for
us again
How oft hereafter will she wax
and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look
for US
Through this same Garden-and
for oue In vain"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Navy Band this
evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Navy
Yard band stand, Charles Benter,
leader; Alex Morris. assistant leader.
Theme song. Anchors Aweigh."
March. Light Cruisers. ....... Benter
Overture. II Guarany".. Gomez
Two Creole dances
"Marche de Mutt. .Gottschalk
lie Bananilo." chanson negre.
Gottschalk
valse, "KaufmanIs Casino Tame"
Gungl
xylophone solo, Mack and Mack"
Afford
Louis Goucher, soloist
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the
Capitol. Taylor Branson, leader; Ar
thur 8. Witcomb, second leader.
Parade March. -. Richard Strauss
Clarinet solo, Polka Brilliante."
Lugaresi Terzo. soloist.
Excerpts from wild Violets". .Stolz
Euphonium solo, Beautiful Colorado"
De Luca
Donald Kimball, soloist.
Waltz. wedding of the Winds" Hall
Intermezzo. Loves Offering" from
the opera "Madelaine" SCHUYLER
Suite de ballet, THE Shoe. .Ansell
The Sabot''
THE Ballet Shoe"
THE Court Shoe"
THE Brogue"
THE Lords Last Supper" e. Wagner
Marines Hymn, The Halls of Monte
yuma"
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02

ne ArliSS character studies, ShreWd,
Ugh. It does not, however, briStle
gunShot to make it more than
has an anti-climax and a climax
emotional as they should be.
Hollywood Thursday to start work on
The Cat and the Fiddle" Last night
he attended Music in the Air. in New
York-which, mayhap. he has his eye
on, too.
TONIGHT is the night which marks
the debut Of Mr.. Hardie Meakin' S
Keith's. We have had a bit of dis
the public likes the pretzel in the
title" Says we-"the title Is 1909
nonsence." Says Mr.. Meakin. that's
what the public wants" Says we,
that's what the public doesn't want"
Well" says Mr.. Meakin, lat least it
will do business" Says we, 1T would
do business without the pretzel-and
by the way Is there a pretzel In it?"
Il don't know" says Mr.. Meakin.
Neither do we," says we.
x* ~
"OUTDOOR amusements" are on the
up and up these days. What
with the Miss Personality contest
going on at Glen Echo Park with the
hint of movie contract in the offing
for the winner) and the De Rizkie
aerial circus performers doing their
stuff at Seaside Park, and Clyde Beatty
and his lions coming to town today,
and the Four Dots dancing their feet
away at the Spanish ball room at the
Aforementioned Glen Echo. there is
al Nv 10 O,,H tv, -;r Yv1,sr
doesn't mean, however, that the local
theaters are suffering. Not one bit
they aren't. The Fox did more bust
ness on its opening day with George
Burns and Oracle Allen than they did
when Eddie Cantor was here, and did
you try to get into the Earle the OPEN
ing day of Miss Barrymores engage
ment? Further than that, The
| Strangers Return" has done nicely at
the Palace-which We are glad for
since the picture Is honest and plain
spoken fare. And the usual army Of
flappers are trotting in to see Buddy
Rogers in that gentle little film at the
Columbia. All of which proves that
public is spending its cash these days.
CORY to head Walter Won Herbulis'
~ suddenly removed appendix. Hope
all is well with him at Emergency
Hospital.
Don't forget, incidentally, to say hello
to Charlie Wright in the empire room
of the Palmer House If you are going
to Chicago for the Worlds Fair.
Dennis Cornell has already fistfull
of plays which have been sent to him
for possible production by the Drama
Guild in the Fall
Some nice soul has sent us q small
fund for the much needed piano which
they should have for these Sylvan
Theater festivals. Tonight is The
Mikado." Go to see it-and be cool.
Stoddard Taylor is still in town.
Mae Vests She Done Him Wrong"
has played 5000 return dates in picture
houses throughout the country. 1t re-
turns, you know, to the Metropolitan
Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-'Msry Stevens, M. D., at 1l:l5
am. 1:55. 430. ITO and $50 pm.
Stage shows at l :05, 3:45, 6:25 and pm.
Palace-"The Strangers Return" at
1920, 2:40, 5, tbs and s:35 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Her Bodyguard." IL
am. 1:35. 4:25, ITO and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows at 12:45, $3.50, $40 and
9:l0 pm.
Columbia - Best of Enemies" at
11:l5 am, l, PAS, 4:30, 6:l5, sos and
$50 pm.
"Samarang." at lao
am, 1:20. sos. 4:45, 6:25, sos and
$50 pm.
R-K-O Keiths-"Dont Bet on Love-"
at 1915, 2:15, AIS, 6:15, 8:15 and
10:15 pm.
Central Secrets" from II am. to
II pm.
Tivot-"Jennie Gerhardt," at 2:20,
4:lo. SIS. TAO and $50 pm.
Ambassador-"Bed of Roses" at 6 80,
8:15 and $50 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
OPERA, 1.-THE MIKAD0,"
AT SYLVAN THEATER
Estei ientworth Group to Fea-
ture Many Local

Tonight at BIS o'clock, Gilbert and
sullivan's THE Mikado" will be offered
at the National Sylvan Theater by the
Once of Public Buildings and Public
Parks and the Community Center De-
partment. Fifty members of the
Estelle Wentworth opera group will
take part in the performance. Special
costumes and lighting effects have been
arranged. Miss Wentworth Will con-
duct the opera.
The principals and members of the
chorus include Alma Harris, Betty GAL
braith, Ella Neuland, Helen Mark.
Mary Bruton, Lucy Chaconas. Peggy
Fear, Margarine Drissel. Edith Ham
acher. Margaret Horn. Germaine john
son, Eleanor Neuland, Margaret Phillips,
Mildred Sherman. Margaret Vogt,
Kathryn Waltz, Laura williams, Mary
Martha Galbraith, Anne Wilson, j..
Raymond Baine. Harry Crow, Ira
Meyer. Elliott Button, Harry Yeide,
George Hayes, James Bussey, Carl
Horn, Edwin Ludwig, James Peat,
Clyde Phillips. Vincent Piscictta,
Saverio Pisciotta. Harry Stafford,
Joseph Stapleton, Thomas Zepp, John
Dulin, Richard Smith. Robert Gardner,
Ralph Shoemaker and others.
In case Of Indictment weather tonight,
the performance will take place Thurs
day night at Sis. Chair tickets OBJ
tanned for tonight will be good for the
postponed presentation.
On Friday night at 8 o'clock, the
Summer festival concert by the United
States Navy Band, conducted by Lieut..
Charles Benter, with Clara Moran
Bernheimer, Washington soprano, as
guest soloist, will be given in the Sylvan
Theater, under the auspices of the
Community Center Department and the
Office of Public Buildings and Public
Parks. Tickets obtained for last weeks
festival concert by the Navy Band,
which had to be postponed because Of
the weather, will be good on Friday
night.
The public is invited to attend both
programs. Those desiring to obtain
chairs may do so at the Sylvan Theater
at o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
$4,000 IS ALLOTTED
FOR TWO DRAWBRIDGES
One to Span Canal in Dismal
Swamp In Virginia, Other
in North Carolina.
By the Associated Press.

BY the associated Press.
The War Department yesterday al
lotted $l15.000 for the construction of
new drawbridges across the Dismal
Swamp Canal at Deep Greek, Va, and
South Mills, N. c.
They will replace wooden drawbridges
localities. The Dismal Swamp Canal.
forming an arm of the intracoastal
waterway from Norfolk, Va, to Beau
fort Inlet. N. c., was purchased by the
United States from the Lake Drum
mond Canal and Water Co. four years
ago and the bridges across it, which are
on Federal Highway No. II, became the
property of the Government
They were held unsafe for present.
day highway traffic and their recon-
Struction ordered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02

Although Alice Brady
wood as the center Of the motion picture producing business fans always
Eastern studios Pearl White famous serial of silent Paris
When Alexander
American Although Ben pictures
This he IS now filming
ARM to
Lionel
father by Admiral Peary after Arctic exploration
is henna- colored knit and her