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The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-05

A Flower show will be held at
the Woman's Club meetingnext
Thursday. Bring your flowers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-05
COOL WEATHER BEM-
!. FICIAL TO LETTUCE CROP

Cool weather during the week
was beneficial to the Arizona
ettuce crop. The weather was
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-05-05

Equal in quality To sian,isr1 o,a"-!. nr>i
line tbes. Deep cut, iltich. wi'.c ;.shd -.
rugged dcpcndaliliiy snd rtr..si' Z: a!,f-.~-
ance. Value uae9Iacd al pric.s q. .e e
real Sar;nss.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Charity Begins at Home
Employment Seems to Begin Abroad

Skilled workers in stained glass in New York city pro-
testing against the award by prominent Fifth
church of 10S0o0 contract for stained glass windows to
firm in London.
The windows be imported duty Free The explanation
offered for letting the contract abroad the price will
be somewhat cheaper It is not maintained that the work
Will be better done which not surprising, since stained
glass for the Cathedral of st. John the Divine Riverside
Baptist ockefeler Church. the Washington Cathedral the
Princeton Chapel the Temple Emanuel other notable
edifices has been made here
The stained glass industry in this country is relatively
small but has traditions Of fine craftsmanship It, too has
suffered exceedingly during the depression. Certainly it
would seem that wealthy church such the referred
would give workers in the industry substantial relief by
awarding the contract to them instead of sending it
seas.
Charity, all will agree, should begin at home One might
add that employment should begin at home patriotism
also.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Fairyland

Yet I would brave arrest
to walk again through the
flower scented groves and
the fields of olive, where
the whole gracious island
lies under the southern sun
like an imprisoned rainbow
and glows like a mOonstone
under the incredible stars.
And to sit at early morn
ing coffee under the heaven
ly purple of the bougain-
villea and gaze out over the
blue sea at the dancing sails
of the fisher-folk and be
summoned back to earth
and material needs by the
soft and gentle voice OF
plump Maria: "Buenos Dias,
senior. Behold! The good
God smiles with us this
morning."
copyright. 1898, King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Government VS.. Industry
Personnel Policies

The Administration is making commendabe progress in
efforts to improve the lot of the working increase pur-
chasing and the lag in business
Under the leadership of Administration various private
agencies complying with the Industrial Recovery Acts
provisions requiring the setting up codes and establishing
fair and shorter working hours within the industry
Commodity prices up and many industries complying
with the wish Of President Roosevelt wages to
meet the increase in the cost of living.
But the counys biggest single employer labor is still
going backward in its personnel policy
That employer is the United States Government
That exertng every power its command
powers which before uzed-to improve the lot of
the working
That government is pouring billions of dollars into the
marts of trade in effort prime industrial pump
And it is accomplishing things
Already many and women back at work for the
first time in The backward industries looking
ward and preparing to give their employees fair deal
But in its house these efforts the Government have
become mockery.
Fear born of insecurity and downright want as result of
dsmissa and cuts the lot of the thousands
and women who work for their governmen-the and
women who work for the agency which giving
man DEAL
While private employers urged and commanded by the
government are announcing scales and the employ
ing Of additional each day brings
Of discharges from some governmental agency
Each day brings threat of additional furlough he
polite designation for pay cut).
Each day brings assault upon the Civil Service
new threat to substitute political preference for loyalty and
efficiency.
It is wengh nconcevabe that President Roosevelt per-
sonay acquainted with the which his subordinates
are creating in the government service
scarcely within the bounds of possibility that the
leader who conceived the plan of Immediately saving
sands by placing them in forestry camps told indus
try that must clean house. who the Congress which he
completely dominated protect by law the jobs railway
employees should realize the travail who work for him
and not take action to alleviate their plight.
The question is not of extravaganza It
is not one of grinding the taxpayer.
The question is shall the Government cast aside the ele
ments Of humanitarian personnel policy in its offices
while holding alo torch to light private industry along the
path Of decency and fair treatment
The Washington times., 1933-06-21

b4I T..
But why should we want a
defense against life?
Because life is increasingly
complicated and dangerous and
uncomfortable.
And we humans are still
weak and timid, lazy and fuzzy
minded.
So then, what?
So then, unless we're un-
usually wise and brave. we look
around for something that will
protect our wobbly spines and
yet, at the same time, save our
faces.
But where will We find it?
Obviously, there's no such
contraption in the stores. We're
forced to make it for ourselves,
in the secret places of our
minds and hearts. And each
man makes his own defense
mechanism according to his
own need and nature.
There's Mrs. Brown. What's
her great fear; her most urgent
need, Her great fear is that
she'll lose her Indifferent hus-
band. Her urgent need is for
something that will keep that
husband by her side.
Other wives have this same
fear and need and meet it
quite differently. They hustle
about and provide such allur-
ing homes and delightful COM
panionship that the most re-
luctant male STAYS put" vol
unfairly. Or if they happen to
be of such spunky nature that
they don't want reluctant males
at any price, they check them
off the list and get going on
their own.
Mrs. Brown is too lazy and
too timid to adopt either of
these expedients. But she con-
trives something actually effec.
tive,
SICK HEADACHES.
Now there are sick headaches
AND sick headaches. Some are
actual illnesses needing medical
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Whist and Weather

Four officials of the British
government in India met, as
customary, for a weekend in
the bungalow Of one of their
number and played whist in
1O1 degrees of heat. Ex-
hausted and nerve-strained,
they played their cards and
quarreled in uncomfortable
irritation at mere existence.
Their host, Hummil, grew in
tolerably insulting. But the
doctor, Spurstow, with his
eyes on Hummil's white,
pinched face and his un-
naturally large eyes, kicked
his friends under the table.
No man resented the savage
personalities that drlpped
from the lips of the nerve
tortured host. And after two
of the four had ridden away,
Hummil confessed to the doc
tor that he couldn t sleep. A
blind face, that cried and
could not wipe it's eyes, lay
in wait for him in the dark.
He dared not give way to
sleep, in the dreadful fear
that the blind and faceless
thing would seize him. He
made it a habit to rest on an
elbow, with a spur in the bed
under him to sting him if he
fell back. DR.. Spurstow in
iected morphine and the next
day departed for his own
station.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

treatment. But a great per-
centage of them are WISH
FULFTLLMENTS - and highly
practical ones.
For, as a Defense Mechanism
against the restleSSnesS of phil
andering papas and rebellious
sons and daughters, Sick Head
aches can't be beat! Forthwith.
the LATEST and most cussed
Mama become A Maryland
what happens if you desert or
neglect a Martyr? Try and
do it!
But that's only one example
Of Defense Mechanism. There
are scores of others.
There's the man who can't
meet the cruel competition of
modern business, and achieves
rheumatism, or nervous indi-
gestion, as a way out; or starts
inventing something; or con-
trives to be always picked on"
and fired by brutal bosses.
And, in every family, there's
at least one example of the
Wonderful Young Genius who
is so sensitive and talented that
she, or he, can't possibly be
expected to wash the dishes
or clean out the garage.
For Defense Mechanisms are
legion. and if you want one bad
enough, almost anything comes
in handy. Even those expert
ences which should most en-
rich the soul-GRIEF, ADVER-
SITY; REMORSE; RELIGION
even these can become rack
cts.
In simple slang, that's what
Defense Mechanism iS-a
racket. Just another way of
putting your own selfish
schemes across. And each one
of us has at least one. Me?
I have a dozen!
What's YOURS?
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, Ino.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-21

Ask a hundred persons at
random to what land they
would journey if it were pos
sible for them to sojourn for
a while at any spot on earth
they might choose. and you
probably will be surprised at
the large number of those who
answer India"
But it is not difficult, after
all, to understand the fascina-
ton that is India's. It's scenic
beauties are the setting for a
world of mysteries, strange
rites, strange customs and
strange superstitions. Its very
air is full of mysticism. All
these things give India a hold
on the Imagination not equalled
by any other country, drawing
people from the utte most ends
of the earth. Visit India, and
the odds are that on the train
or ship on which you make the
journey there will be represen-
tatives of every race and
nearly every country ir the
world; all bent on realizing
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
ONCE OVERS

temptation, for the rewards
you will gain by dishonesty
are never commensurate with
the consequent law of punish
ment.
Think long before you bring
the stain of dishonesty upon
your children.
The sorrow that it might
bring to your whole family is
not to be atoned for by any
thing material that you can do
for them as result of a dis
honest act.
Throughout their entire lives
they may never be free from
the taunts of those who have
evil in their hearts and enjoy
seeing them suffer.
They may live exemplary
lives but there will always be
that cloud hanging over them
suggesting that dishonesty
might be expected from them.
Copyright 1888. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
.Bu EdUiIr C.. Hill

It's a curious fact Of life
that the most fantastic and
incredible inventions of fic-
tion have a way Of turning
up as sober fact, on page
one of our newspapers.
Jules Verne wrote "Twenty
Thousand League Under the
Sea. Years passed, and
the submarine Out-marveled
his marvellous fancy. Mister
Kipling imagined the trans
atlantic flight of a dirigibIe
in his "With the Night
Mail" Thirty years later
DIR. Hugo Eckener drove
the Graf Zeppelin over the
Atlantic almost precisely as
Kipling foretold it would
be done.
These startling coinci-
dences of fancy and fact
turn up, even in that mys-
terious borderline between
life and death. A short
time ago there was a muir
der in Columbus county,
N. G. There was no clue,
no trace of the murderer.
But Sheriff HargrOve re-
called a fiction story in
which the photographed
eyes of a dead man re-
vealed, in images fixed upon
the retina. a terrible secret.
The sheriff took a picture
of the eyes of the murdered
man. That photograph re-
vealed to him, he positively
asserts, the face of the muir
derer. He arrested the man
and a confession followed.
The fiction story which gave
him the idea was Rudyard
Kipling's cat the End of
the Passage.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
SHORT JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

their desire to see India for
themselves.
A drive through Amritsar is
a series of delights revealing
lovely gardens like jewels scat
tered through the city. One of
them, the Ram Bagh, was laid
out by Ranjit Singh and
adorned with a picturesque
summer place with marble
swimming pools and glorious
terraces and courts.
Of course the highlight OF
Amritsar is the Golden Temple.
There is really no formality to
be observed for admission to
the temple, save that visitors
must enter barefooted or with
feet covered with new socks,
which can be purchased nearby.
The sacred precincts are about
one mile south of the railroad
depot and one drives through
picturesque streets, thronged
with busy crowds, for Amritsar
Is not only the headquarters OF
a religious sect comprising mil
lions of followers, but thriV-
ing trade center.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Pleasant Trip, Mr.. President
You've Earned It

anybody earned vacation that man is Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Since March the President has had greater burdens on
his shoulders and has achieved farreachng results
than any of his peace-time predecessors in office
The extraordinary courage ability with which he has
met his crushing responsibilities have stirred the wonder
the entire nation-one may say the entire world
Never before in history have such tremendous changes
been accomplished with friction and in so short time
Mr.. Roosevelt is taking brief period of rest
He owes it not only to himself but to the country
His yachting trip up the coast be conducted with as
much privacy possible But he will be travelling in
solitude
He carries with him the Amberjack cargo of heartfelt
wishes from 12000O Americans for smooth seas fair winds
and snnshiny weather.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Price of Dishonesty

Price of Dishonesty
Conditions the past few years
have tested your honesty, as
never before.
When money was easy you
were not tempted to be dis
honest.
The situation is different with
you now.
However, no matter what
changes have come about in
your life, you will regret it if
you Succumb to the suggestion
that you abandon your princi-
pies for the sake of gaining
something that you want.
Your great need may seem a
little excuse for considering a
scheme that is not strictly hon
est.
BY hook or by crook. you feel.
is the only method that will
gain what you are after.
But don't give in to that
The Washington times., 1933-06-21

poor opinion, this, that was
my master, has descended
into the Dark Places, and
there has been caught be-
cause he was not able to
escape with ufficient
speed" And later, when
those things were done that
had to be done, DR.. Spurstow
said, absently: " 'Tisn't in
medical science. "What -
"Things in a dead man S
eye. :" "For goodness sake,
leave that horror alone! !"
said LOwndes. GIVE seen a
native die of pure fright
when a tiger chivvied him. l
know what killed Hummil. "
"The deuce you do! I'm
going to try to see. F" And
the doctor retreated into the
bathroom with a Kodak
camera. After a. few minutes
there was the sound Of some
thing being hamm cred to
pieces, and he emerged, very
white, indeed. "Have you
got a picture?" said Mot
tram. "What does the thing
look like?' "It was i'm
possible, of course. You
needn't look, Mottram. I've
torn up the films. There was
nothing there. 1t was i'm
possible. - "That, said
Lowndes, very distinctly,
watching the shaking hand
striving to relight the pipe,
is a damned lie"
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Earthly Paradise

If you take the little
steamer at Marseilles, it will
cost about $40 of your
money and IS hours Of your
time to get to Majorca,
largest of the Balearic
Islands, and one of the few
paradises left on this earth.
That was how I found it,
but it seems, today, that
too many Americans are
settling in this Mediterran-
can fairyland where one can
live like a king on a dollar
a day.
The police of Palma, a
city of $4,000, arrested and
fined a quartet Of our citi-
zens on the technical charge
of not registering their
passports. This is strange
news, for the Majorcans are
a happy, most obliging
people. Apparently their
dreamy existence was dis
turbed by too many rest
less Yankees, and one can
scarcely blame them for de-
clining to become a vanish
ing race. like the Indians,
before a horde of advancing
Americans.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21

the altar than it was in the
good old Gay Nineties; but at
least you know what you're
getting. when you DO marry.
The perfect frankness and
comradeship between the sexes,
from their kindergarten days
up and on through their col
lege days or office days TO-
gether give them a revealing
north light on each other,
which may kill a lot of ro-
mantle illusions, but ought to
save them a lot of joltS and
disappointments.
In the old days, when there
were only two kinds of men
marrying men and dangerous"
men, kiss meant either a
wedding or a scandal. But the
time has passed when a mans
mind was supposed to leap right
to the altar the moment he felt
himself weakening for a girl.
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

Usually, he leaps the other
way!
And, in the meantime, the
girl with a half dozen or more
men friends has a golden op-
portunity to make comparisons
among the various specimens OF
the obvious sex. If she makes
a fool-headed choice it is not
for lack of traffic lights.
It is sometimes a. great re-
lief to a girl to be able to pal
about with man who has no
"intentions," either matrimonial
or otherwise, and whom she can
trust not to make love to her
nor to suspect her Of deep dark
designs on HIM.
In these days, a man doesn't
hear wedding-bells and feel
rice slipping down his collar
every time he takes a special
fancy to a girl. He may en-
joy playing around with her
just because he finds her anus
ing or witty or because they en-
joy seeing the same shows or
dancing at the same places.
It may thrill his vanity to
be seen with her because she
is an eyeful and always "looks
like a million dollars" Or he
may invite her to dinner or
prom, just because the other
two girls he invited were al
ready dated.
He may, of course, be a
Don Juan looking for another
conquest-or he may be just
bored or lonesome and looking
for companionship.
But, the girl who has half
dozen men pals, whom she can
call on at any moment to make
a fourth at bridge, fill in at a
party or share a pair of passes
The Washington times., 1933-06-21

with her, enjoys a luxury that
no girl ever enjoyed. in the
romantic old days of bushes
and chaperons.
She gets a perspective on the
opposite sex and a previeW of
matrimony, which should save
her from starting out on the
long journey with the wrong
partner and from skidding and
smash-ups, after the wedding.
It's better than a prep school!
Just why Reno should go on
doing such a thriving business,
in these days, when girls and
men know so we'll what they
are getting and why they are
taking it. him or her, is an
unfathomable mystery!
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Dead In Bed

A week later, when the
three returned to Hummil' s
bungalow, they found their
friend dead in bed, and in
the staring eyes terror be-
yond the expression of any
pen. They questioned Hum
mills servant, who said to
them: "Heavenborn, in my
The Washington times., 1933-06-21

more a b o u t
yourself a n d
fellow m a n
than a dozen
h e a w VOL
umes on pSy-
chology.
What does
it mean? just
W h a t i t
says. Defense
mechanism Is
a mechanism
for defense.
What kind
Of defense?
D E F. ENSE
A G AIN S T
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
What's Your Defense Mechanism? ? .

Every now and then the
scientists invent a term that says
a fistful. For example, that
phrase DEFENSE MECHAN-
ISM"
That phrase, IF YOU HAVE
THE COURAGE TO FOLLOW
1T THROUGH, will tell you
The Washington times., 1933-06-21
Human Side of the News

Strange Coincidence of Truth and Fiction
Revealed in Mysterious South Carolina
Murder Case
Evening star., 1933-08-20

ROME, Italy-Fornal inaugurations
of new bridges, roads and public build
ings are the latest object of Fascist
scorn for the old ways of doing things
in Italy. $1,000, -,
bons and pairs of scissors must now be
considered outdated," according to Party
Secretary Achille Starace. I'VE must
adopt something new along the lines
of our distinctive ways of doing things
Duce Calls Banquets Silly.
The Duce himself was the last promi-
nent Black Shirt to denounce one OF
the outstanding bores and nulsances
of life in all countries-he sent tele-
gram to Naples denouncing public BAN
Duets as silly and entirely out OF keep
ing with the new spirit of Fascism,
which aims at being direct and spartan.
Conuuiste, the magazine of the Fas-
cist university students organization,
applauds Starace's attack on formal in
aiIrurations and Mussolini's criticism OF
banuuets, but suggests in its latest issue
that the reforms need not stop with
scissors, ribbons and after dirner
speeches.
Hits Photographs.
-fc. same objections exist" says a
writer who signs himself the Fanatic" ="
ito certain photographs which for some
time have been beautifying the pages
of the newspapers. ThS loving fathers
who feel 'tc need TO imn1ortalize the
resemblance of their precocious off
spring; the party officials who wish to
present themselves to the public in the
exercise Of their functions, always with
the insignia on their sleeves on iui! ~
view: the authors Of tndeScrlbabie
daubs Of paint In search Of any pre-
Evening star., 1933-08-20
French Are Concerned
Over Bad Check Use

PARASITIC recent trial of Maud
Lofty. popular light comedy actress, for
paying her income tax with a bad
check brought out the fact that there
are in France, according to official esti-
mates, about 100000 persons who make
practice of drawing checks without
having sufficient funds on deposit. 1t
is stated that there are now on file in
Paris alone more than 10000 protests
of unpaid checks.
Until 1926 bad checks were not so
numerous, because most merchants
would not accept checks at all. Any
customer who pulled check book to
pay for his purchases was regarded
with suspicion. But during the cur
rency crisis of 1926 the government
did everything possible to encourage
the use of checks in order not to be
obliged to print too many bank notes.
One thing that appealed to the thrifty
stamps would no longer be required on
receipted bills when the bill was paid
by check.
But as soon as merchants began to
accept checks in order to escape stamp
taxes they made the discovery that not
all checks are good and that when you
got a bad one you had to pay for
stamped paper before you could protest
it. This brought howl so tho SAw
was amended to provide that the i-ro-
test fee should be paid by the dfcTer
of the check. if he could be caugA and
not by the unfortunate drawee.
Immediately the number Of prntests
began to assume colossal proportions
the legal machinery became clogged
and willy check kiters found that they
could escape just retribution for E.enths
or years. So the business of passing
bad checks has grown tremendously.
It is now proposed to go back to the
old rule of making the drawee pay the
protest fee That means that small
checks will no longer be protested, and
thus a burden will be lifted off the
courts. And probably merchants will
become more cautious as to whose
checks they accept.
Copyright, 1889