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The Washington times., 1933-12-22
Liquor Taxes
Keep Them Down

The question of how to tax liquor and wine in the new
Huuor control law the District is Of great decacy
and one which will far reaching effect the effort
TO substitute temperate of legal beverages for the
temperate use of illegal beverages
By imposing heavy local tax in addition to the already
heavy tax the price Of liquor be raised high
that legal beverages will be beyond tho reach Of many
tential consumers
Such condition would provide fertile field for the boot
logger and the speakeasy.
The who have purveyed liquor icitly under prohbi
sion hoping that just such mistake will be made
They the prices liquor high and they want the taxes
on liquor high.
That would enable them to stay in business.
Not only that excessive upon liquor will reduce
che revenue yield.
The District badly needs the which expected
from legazaton Of the sale Of liquor Estimates have been
made that revenue will about million dollars
annually.
II the tax rate is too high, however, will be
fronted with large Of avoidance which would
greatly decrease tho total yield.
I'm fixing the rate liquor District officials should
bear in mind that the primary purpose Of repeal not
although that will be hepfu-but the Of
ths prohibition liquor barons.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
The Human Side of the News
Future tratoplanes-World's Greatest FLYER
BY EdWin C.. Hill

the lure of swarms of spies who
risk death every hour IN
their attempt to steal thes.
secrets which may hold the
fate of great cities like Paris,
London or Berlin.
Few men can stand for many
years the terrific nervous strain
Of driving a modern, high-speed
plane over vast distances.
The worlds greatest flyer
at least he is so recognized by
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh-has
decided, at the age of SO, that
he is getting too old for flying.
Scarcely arrived at the front
steps Of middle age, Sir Charles
Kingsford-Smith says he is
through and done with long
distance flying. It has made
him a bundle of nerves, he tells
us, and no more can he con.
template those long ordeals of
flying over wide stretches of
sea, over an entire ocean, all
alone, with only one motor be.
tween him and the sharks.
Kingsford-Smith
Sir Charles only the other
day flew from England to Aus
tralia in seven days, beating
the former record by a day,
The last leg of his Journey
pinned him at the stick for 40
continuous hours. driving his
tiny, single engined monoplane.
During those 40 hours he had
under him only the Indian
Ocean, straight from Java to
the land down under.
Th1S flying man, who is hailed
oy our own Lindbergh as the
greatest of the great, enlisted
with the Anzacs when he was
IL, went over to France with
those tall, breezy lads from the
land of the kangaroo and then
transferred from the infantry
into the air service, deciding
that he would rather die in the
air than on the ground. But he
came out fairly intact, a major,
with ono game leg.
He came out a short, sandy
haired, blue-eyed, long-faced.
courteous-spoken ex-soldier of
the king, and with not a dollar
to his name. So he went to
California and tried to make
living as a barn -storming pilot,
taking up passengers at SIS
head. And then, all at once.
he leaped to fame with his great
flight over the Pacific Ocean
in his plane. Southern Cross.
And when he roared on around
the world, to leap the Atlantic
from east to west, he was a
made man.
When he took off in the
Southern Cross he was just
another ocean hopper who owed
$4,000, taking a big gamble.
betting his life against fame
and fortune, with the odds at
least 10 to l against him. But
he came back knight and one
Of the princes of the air.
Copyright. 19S7, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

beyond and above the warm
comfort of the old kitchen. the
hum Of the kettle, the smell Of
the onions and sage.
Feeling-what?
Was it Life?
Was that why loved Turkey
Hash night so much-why the
memory Of it had carried so
strongly through the years?
Was it because Turkey Hash
nights Were-Life?
The old kitchen had van
ished. Again I was in the
elevator with the office girls
kidding around me. But the
Holiday Blues had gone. In a
flash-at a word-the Holiday
Blues had gone. For in that
flash I had seen the truth.
Such a simple, homely truth
yet, like all truth, it had the
power to take the sting out Of
any hurt, and put the meaning
back into any muddle.
LIFE WAS TURKEY HASH!
Life wasn't-was never meant
to be-a grand, continuous
feast. There were feasts in life
holiday feasts Of love and
adventure-but most Of life was
Turkey Hash.
Warmed over scraps mixed
with plain bits of common ex-
perience. Memories, sad or glad
A little fun. A little success.
Friendliness. The spice of
dreams. Some goodnes. Some
badness. Mostly, just ordinary
plugging without any particular
form of flavor. Simple stuff
that required no great skill to
make, that demanded no great
talent to enjoy.
That, after all, was life. That
was Life for all of u.s. Rich or
poor, young or old, Life was only
Turkey Hash for all Of us.
Then why was I whining?
Wanting to quit because Life
wasn't always Thanksgiving
Day, when all around me the
same old warm kitchen went
on-with the kettle a-bubbling
and kind faces bending over a
common bowl.
Not go home?
Why, WAS home! Every
place was home. Every face
was a family face-when you
took life like Turkey Hash!
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate Incl
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
Former President Gives
Party Sound Advice
By James T. Williams, T.

, To adops this procedure
means that the minority leaders
in both houses must insist that
Woodrow Wilson was right
when he said in a book on
congressional government, wit
ten long before he entered
public life, that the investiga-
tive responsibility of Congress
was at times more important
than its legislative RESPONSE
bility.
The indications are that the
coming session of Congress will
be a time when the most
thorough scrutiny of the way
which the more important laws
enacted at the last session are
being administered will con-
tribute to better administra'
tion and therefore to the ma
tional welfare.
VictOrs and SpOils
Every President, during the
first year of his term, is under
tremendous pressure for patron
age of all sorts. Mr.. Roosevelt
is no exception to the rule IN
spite Of the fact that he was
elected by a tremendous ma
jority. Although his party was
swept into power on a tidal
wave of dissatisfaction with
the Hoover administration, the
Republican party, many Demo-
cratic politicians still insist
that to them as "the victorS
all sorts of patronage in the
form of "Spoils" belong.
At many points President
Roosevelt has been able to re-
sist this pressure. At other
points the greedy politicians
have prevailed.
If at the coming session OF
Congress the minority party in
both houses can turn the search
light of thorough investigation
upon those Federal agencies
that have been disrupted or de-
moralized, harassed or weakened
by the meddlesome interference
of Democratic spoilsmen it will
strengthen the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration in its efforts to
combat the spoilsmen within its
own political household, and the
minority party will not lose in
public respect by such a cause.
It is doubtful, however, that
the Republican leaders will fol"
low this course consistently.
They know that Mr.. Hoover will
not again be candidate for the
Presidency. And the more they
reflect upon that fact the less
they will be disposed to look to
him for guidance.
Copyright. 1898, The Washington TinAS1
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

cred wreaths? ELSIE ROBINSON
Holiday Blues how they
wiring you! And how yellow the
bravest of us become, under the
hurt of it. yellow, that's what
I was on the night after
Thanksgiving. Taking the count.
Deliberately taking it. Wallow-
ing in it!
And then, across the gloom,
came the sound of the office
girls voices, kidding each other.
Going home to turkey
hash?"
"sure an I ami" grinned
little red-headed Nora. "An' be-
lieve me, darlin', it's the best
part of the bird!"
Turkey hash-Suddenly the
girls had vanished. The eleva-
tor was gone. I was back in
the old kitchen again-sniffing,
pestering-watching mother fix
the Turkey Hash.
Oh, this was good! This
was better even than Thanks
giving. Thanksgiving was Won
derful! Everything different.
Company manners. Strange
faces. Yes, Thanksgiving was
wonderful. But, somehow, it
was all too much. You loved
THANKSGIVING. You counted the
days until 1t came. But it
would have been terrible to
have Thanksgiving every day.
But Turkey Hash night
that was perfect. For though
there were still the special
holiday smells - cranberries,
mince pie, sage and sausage
dressing-it wasn't so queer
like. You felt at home. Every
day faces. Everyday clothes.
Everyday patched red cloth on
the table. Maybe even the ole
turkey felt more at home
cut into plain pieces, with
common potatoes and onions.
Shifting. wondering, I hung
around mother-watching the
chopping knife go up and down
in the big wooden bowl-grop-
ing, as children grope, toward
the meaning Of it all-feeling,
as children feel. something
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

runs to subdued effects and
nonshrieking haberdashery.
Don't embarrass the current
boy Friend" with a gift which
Is too personal, too significant
or too costly. If he is NOT IN
love with you, it will only
arouse his suspicion (object,
matrimony). And if he is in
love with you, it will probably
dampen his infatuation. A he
man doesn't like expensive gifts
from a woman-it goes against
the grain. Spend the money
for an overcoat for some shiver-
ing youngster or some jobless
man.
Don't hang the mistletoe too
conspicuously. The invitation
to the kiss is superfluous, these
days. Men don't need any en-
couragement. Nothing would
give the average attractive man
a bigger thrill than to meet a
girl, that he didn't HAVE to
kiss. It would be such a
novelty!
Don't keep the holly and the
Christmas tree up, until they
wither and begin to fall. Many
an innocent man has cursed
fate (and his wife), when he
stepped on holly leaf with his
bare foot. And nothing-except
dead love-is deader than a de-
funct pine tree.
Don't get conscientious COM
plex and tell little Junior that
there isn't any Santa Claus.
The great trouble with the
younger generation, today, is
that it has no dreams, no illu-
sions, no visions. It's MAGMA
TON has been stunted. Keep
the fairy tales of youth bright
and glowing as long as you can.
OOu 1OIScC, IL yOu arc HAIL.
that Christmas is not "just an
other holiday" to a woman. It
is something beautiful and
sacred to her-the day when
she feels Gas did the Wise Men
of old) that something wonder
full is about to happen. And a
check tucked under the break
fast plate will not take the
place of box Of flowers and a
tender caress. Women are child
iSh that way.
Don't forget that Christmas
is ChriSt's Mass-and that there
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

Good advice is reported to
have been given the Republican
leaders in both houses of Con-
gresS by Mr.. Hoover. He will
be the titular leader of his
party until the next Presi-
Dental election, nder the party
rule that this is the nominal
role, at least, of the party'S
last presidential nominee.
This advice has been re-
peated at frequent intervals
since last summer to Repub-
lican leaders who have written
or visited Mr.. Hoover. 1t is to
the following effect:
Aid Recovery
That the Republicans in Con-
greSs should not oppose in its
entirety the National Recovery
Program of President Roosevelt
because that is the policy of
the party in poWer-declared
by the President and endorsed
by the Congress at the last
session.
That the Republican leaders
in Congress should strive to
aid the success of the recovery
program by cooperating and
carrying out as much of it as
they believe to be sound and by
offering amendments to those
parts Of it, which, in the light
of actual operation of the ex'
pertinent, appear to the Re
publican ledaers to be unsound.
ThiG advice and counsel from
Mr.. Hoover as to general policy
which changes with administra-
tions has been supplemented by
suggestions regarding. the appli-
cation of principles that do
not change with administra-
tionS.
For example, the principle
involved in maintaining and
extending the merit system in
the Federal service is one that
NIL 11OOVCL 10 ooAO w 4AoNC DCSAA
strongly of the opinion that
the Republican leaders in Con-
gress should uphold.
The principle of economical
administration is also COM
mended to the Republican
leaders by the former President
as one that should be de-
Tended at every point during
the coming session of Congress.
If the Republican leaders
follow this advice and accept
the suggestions in this regard
which they have been receiv-
ing from Mr.. Hoover in re-
Sponse to requests for recon-
mendations regarding future
Republican procedure, they will
have their hands full when
Congress meets.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

to emulate Santa Claus and
to give until it Enthusiastically,
until it hurts the helpless re-
cipient.
This year, Of all years, there
should be no clamp on the
pocketbook, and the dollars
and pennies Of all who are
solvent should flow like Niagara
Falls. Yet, discretion is the
better part of generosity; and
here are a few christmas
Don't" to guide the thought
less giver.
Don't be a tightwad with
your tips and charities, in
order to make a Big Show
with somebody who has plenty
of this worlds goods, and who
will simply be bored at the
thought of having to write a
thank you" note.
Don't send that handsome
basket Of sweets to a woman
who is on a diet. It will only
prove a cruel temptation. And
with the same money you can
buy candy and things for a
dozen hungry kiddies, who are
NOT trying to reduce"
Don't give any man cravats
or cigars or cigarette cases,
until you are SURE of his
taste in such things. Nothing
makes a man feel so foolish as
to be forced to wear an aurora
borealiS necktie, when his taste
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

New York to Paris in five
hours! Breakfast in New York
and luncheon in San Francisco
or Los Angeles! Spec ding
throug the stratosphere,
breathing canned air, in sealed
rocket cars, shooting at can
nonball speed Is miles above
the surface of the earth. That
will be travel in 1899.
Such at least is the positive
prediction of the little man
from Belgium, Professor Pic
card, who hunts the cosmic
ray<along trails that wind just
under the stars. The strato-
sphere will be the highway Of
the future, Professor Picard
believes, and for these reasons:
Safety Element
Twelve thousand feet above
the earth's surface is a per-
petual fair-weather route-no
erratic winds, or hurricanes, or
fog, or sleet, or snow; no mois-
ture, so there can't even be
rain. When we start for Paris
in our stratoplanes, shooting
up from New York at two in
the afternoon to keep an en-
gagement with a friend for
dinner at the Ritz in Paris, we
will fly high above our own
atmosphere; high above all
those things which make air
travel difficult and dangerous;
high above all gales, squalls,
thunderstorms, fog blankets
and air pockets. Our rocket
plane will move with silken
smoothness, blazing its way
through space at 900 miles an
hour, over a roadbed without a
bump or a dip.
The stratoplanes, already un-
der construction in France,
Germany, Italy and Switzer-
land, almost ready to go, are
multi-motored, all-metal ships,
constructed Of aluminium for
lightness, and absolutely air.
tight. Man is only beginning
to learn to fly.
All these experiments make
one think of the first days of
the airplane, only a short quar-
ter of a century ago. The
Wrights had just taken wing
from Kittyhawk. Only a few
intrepid souls were venturing
forth to fly-the Moissants, the
Hoxeys, the Johnstons-to fly
only a little while, and then
to die. Few indeed Of the early
fliers lived to see the great
planes of today singing their
deep song over land and sea,
coming and going among the
airports with almost the i'm
pressiveness of an ocean liner.
Who knows what the future
holds for flying, once the ele-
ment of safety, the one thing
that today retards public in
terest, is secured?
It is already certain that the
airplane will be a frightful
weapon of terror and destruc-
tion in the next war. Every
European nation has its avia-
ton secrets, religiously guarded,
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
Merry Christmas
To the Lindberghs

The Lndberghs home again. and all America wishes
khsm and their a Merry Christmas
Much could be written about their latest and-in many
tespects-their greatest flight.
Five months away spanning two oceans, touching four
continents landing in countless countries in the Arctic
and in the tropcheif voyage almost unique the
history Of the air.
But is not this primarily which brings them welcome
soday from 100 millions Of their fellow countrymen
II is rather think because both have remained natural
and unspoed in the spotlight Of world publicity
cesded in living their lives in their way
umphsd tragedy which would have wrecked any
courageous than they have proved themselves be.
America feels that apart from their achievements they
represent the finest qualities of young manhood and
womanhOod and set example that all parents would wish
their boys and girls to follow.
Amid much that cheap and shOddy they are e real
ching"
T. We glad that they safely back.
Our country would bs the poorer without them.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
ONCE OVERS

hobby is that it is apt to be-
come an obSession which takes
UP every bit Of your spare time.
It becomes no longer a hobby
but hard work.
If you feel that you must ex-
press yourself and your enthu-
Siasm upon this certain subject,
seek out those who are as inter
ested in it as you are.
Don't force your opinions on,
friends and acquaintance till
they call you q pest, in their
hearts, Il not to your face.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

When Hobbies Make BOres
Why pursue the same sub
ject so often?
Your hobby, yes, and you
probably know more about it
than those around you. but you
need not wear it-threadbare.
Most people have heard you
talk the same subject so often
that they have an idea that
yours in a one-track mind.
Why ride any subject to
death?
one Of thS drawbacks 10 Q
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

We've waited long and hopefully
This absent one to greet,
But having finally returned
He's difficult to meet.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

ing the face
that used to
make every
day a holi-
day. Feeling
that the Big
Jobs are all
done, the Big
A d v e n lures
all over
Aw, what's
the use of 60
ing on at all,
with the days
holding moth
ing but lonely
tables, with
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
LISTEN, WORLD
Turkey Hash
BY Elsie Robinson

Turkey Hash
The night after Thanksgiv-
ing. Going down in the elevator
after a tough days work.
Blue
Holiday Blues-how they get
you, as the years go on! Miss
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
Christmas Don't

Christmas Don't .
This is the magic time Of
year, when the heart goes soft
and spills over like ice-cream
on the Fourth Of July.
Somehow, under the mystic
influence Of the Winter Sols-
tice, all Of us feel that impulse
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
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1928 Ford Sport Coupe-Clean inside
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The Washington times., 1933-04-06

1881 Ford Roadster-6 wire wheels,
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1880 Ford Sport Coupe - Recondi-
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The Washington times., 1933-04-06
Automobiles
Automobiles for Sale

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1929 Whippet Coach - Sand brown
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1880 Ford Fordor-Beautiful inside,
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1881 Chevrolet COupe-Driven 0O0E
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1929 Pontiac Coupe-Come and see it.
then you will understand this SO17
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The Washington times., 1933-04-06
Drive Your Car Here for Startling Appraisal

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The Washington times., 1933-04-06

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Automobiles
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Automobiles

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1929 Chrysler CTS" Sedan-Just drive
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because while you are going
home or going to the bank some
one will snap this car up at
this price-the car is right-the
price is right-and when you see
it you will buy it on the spot
at this almost impossible price.