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Ideal for Year Round Wear!

It's our Month End Clearance! We've taken
odd lots and broken assortments from our
higher-priced lines and reduced them to insure
immediate clearance! Included are lots of the
new sports models! Also more conservative
styles! COlOrs in greatest demand this season
for immediate and year round wear! Prac-
ticaly all sizes in the lot, but not in every style!
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ing that liquor stores close at 8
p. m; that bars in hotels and res
taurants be hidden from the view
Of the drinker; no licenses TO chain
stores or restaurants; no sales by
drink or bottle on Sunday; and no
sales within 200 feet of any
church.
TN less than two months, review
L the developments.
The closing hour for retail stores
has been changed to 10 .. m.
Regulations are being changed to
permit the bar to be visible in
fact require that it be visible-but
protected by a plate glass cage.
The idea is, Mr.. Drinker should
be able to see the conditions I'M
der which his drink is mixed, and
what goes into it. Regulations
also are to be changed to permit
sales in chain stores. (Anything
to bring down the prices.) Also
the ban is coming of Sunday
drinking.
Finally, the churches have
grown so tired of protesting
against the establishment of sa-
Ions and drink-selling restaurants
within 200 feet Of their property,
that they've about given up the
ghost.
Why go to Reno, Monte Carlo,
Aqua Caliente, or Havana these
days? Washington is to be the
really gay town.
Copyright 1894. BY United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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late to you they have been as
strong and as good as ever
warmed the human heart-and 1
do feel that it is mean and con-
temptible of me to keep by me
one gift of yours or to preserve
one single line or word of re-
membrance or affection from you.
1 therefore return them, and I
can only wish that I could as
easily forget that I ever received
them.
I have but one more word to
say and 1 say it in my own vindi-
cation. The result of past ac-
uuaintance is indeed a melancholy
one to me. I have felt too long
ever to lose the feeling of utter
desolation and wretchednesS which
has succeeded our former CORE
spondence. Thank God I can
claim for myself and feel that I
deserve the merit of having ever
throughout our intercourse acted
fairly, intelligently and honorably.
Under kindness and encourage
ment one day and a total change
of conduct the next I have ever
been the same. I have acted
without reserve. I have never
held out encouragement which I
knew I never meant; I have never
indirectly sanctioned hopes which
I well knew I did not intend to
fulfill. I have never made a
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ucts fall violently in price and
others do not, the exchange can
not take place. If men have been
buying So shoes with 15-cent cot
ton, they can not buy as many
shoes with scent cotton. Either
the shoes have to como down to
the cotton or the cotton has to
rise to the shoes.
That is why the monetary policy,
and not NRA, has been the really
effective instrument of recovery.
The monetary policy has raised
those very prices which had fallen
most completely out of line and it
has not raised much those prices
which had remained firm. There
have been particular commodities
in which the situation is peculiar,
and which the policy has had lit
tie effect.
. But taking the mass of COM
modities it is fair to say that raw
materials which were most de-
pressed in prices have had the
greatest rise, emi-manufactured
articles which had been moderate
ly depressed in price have risen
moderately, and that finished
goods and monopolistically con-
trolled products which never cut
prices must have raised prices
very little.
downright. 1891
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mock confidante to whom to en-
trust a garbled story for my own
purposes, and I think I never
should Though God knows I am
not likely to have the opportun-
ity) encourage one dangler as
useless shield for-an excellent set
off againSt-others more fortu-
nate and doubtless more deServ-
ing. I have done nothing that I
could say would be very likely to
hurt you. If q can hardly be-
lieve it possible) I nave said any,
thing which can have that effect
can only ask you to place your
self for a moment in my situa-
ton, and you will find a much
better excuse than I can possibly
devise.
A wish for your happiness al
though it comes from me may
not be the worse for being sin
cere and heartfelt. Accept it as
it is meant and believe that moth
ing will ever afford me more real
delight than to hear that you, the
object of my first and my last
love are happy. If you are as
happy as I hope you may be,
you will indeed possess every
blessing that this world can af-
ford. G.. D.
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the painful struggle it has cost
me to make up mind to adopt the
course which I now take-a course
than which nothing can be so di-
rectly opposed to my wishes and
feelings; but the necessity of
which becomes daily more appar-
ent to me-, Our meetings OF late
have been little more than so
many displays of heartless indif-
ference on the one hand, while
on the other they have never
failed to prove a fertile source of
wretchednesS and misery; and
seeing, as I can not fail to do,
that I have engaged in a pursuit
which has long since been worse
than hopeless and a further per-
severance in which can only ex-
pose me to deserved ridicule, I
have made up my mind to return
the little present received from
you some time since (Which I
CtAWcJO 1A4H do DULL w.
far beyond anything I ever pos
sessed), and the other enclosed
mementos of our past correspond
ence which I am sure it must be
gratifying to you to receive, as
after our recent relative situations
they are certainly better adapted
for your custody than mine.
Need I say that I have not the
most remote idea of hurting your
feelings by the few lines which I
think it necessary to write with
the accompanying little parcel?
L must be the last person in the
world who could entertain such
an intention, but I feel that this
is neither matter nor time for
cold, deliberate, calculating tri-
fling. My feelings upon any sub
Ject, more especially upon this,
must be to you a matter of very
little moment; still I have feel
lngS in common with other peo-
ple-perhapS as far as they re-
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Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

IF you're old enough and will admit it, you will
member the fad of Fletchersm which, in earlier
years had everybody chewing his food to fluid
sistency before swallowing it. The belief that
this was the important item in healthful life.
Now however, our chief need seems to be relaxa-
ton from the high strain Of modern living AS a re-
suit, many physicians writing books sleep and
relaxation with a view to cutting down the tension
under which We live.
Coupled with the drive Of modern industry and
the attempt to speed up human beings so they may
keep pace with the machines come the financial
worries that have been associated with the economic
depression.
THERE all sorts Of panaceas for avoiding
Il overstrain. The who worries usually is told
to forget it. The advice however, seldom helps, be-
cause worry constitutes vicious circle.
You worry first about what is going to happen and
you worry later about disseminating worrying
There have been suggestions III the past for
changing the attention to outside object In
Coues system you told to count knots on a
string while fixing your mind on relief from worry
and tension
The newest development is that by Dr. Edmund
jacobson who has devised system for relaxing ac-
cording to definite program. He says:
1T is physically impossible to be nervous in any
part OF your body, if in that part you completely
relaxed"
Hence he suggests daily practice to those who
want to relieve themselves from strain. In his
system you lie down on a couch a bed and relax
group of muscles a. time until you have learned
gradually to relax all Of them.
DR JACOBSON suggests beginning by first lying
~ quietly with your eyes closed for ten minutes,
then relaxing the forearm To learn how to relax
the arm first make it tense by contracting the biceps
muscle, then reverse the process which will COM
pletely relax the
The next step is to relax the leg muscles And so
you proceed until you have finally relaxed all the
muscles in your body in which you feel any degree
Of tens-on, ending with the muscles Of the face.
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q It's TOO not up here" Chaplin
said. Better stay away"
So johnson is not pouring oil on
Detroit'S troubled waters tomor.
row. The speech, still in his sys-
tenn, will be given elsewhere.
DART of the new public works
l. money Roosevelt is asking
from congress will go to build the
greatest Pan-American engineer
ing project since the digging Of
the Panama canal. 1t is motor
highway from Texas through Cen
trail America to the canal.
Labor, materials, road building
machinery all are to come from
the United States. The Presi-
dent estimates the road will be
an important factor in relieving
unemployment here, knit Central
America closer to the United
States, culturally, economically,
politically
The motor vacation of the fu-
ture will be to Panama and back.
q
4 FTER decades during which
Washington was used as the
experimental guinea-pig for try
out all the legislative brain storms
of reformer-congreSsmen, the new
deal congress is swinging the
pendulum to the other extreme.
1t is making the District of Co.
lumbia into the Aqua Caliente of
the United States of America.
Already passed by the house is
provision permitting horse
racing in the national capital. The
President has signed the profess
sional boxing bill. The D. G. COM
mitteeS of both houses are favor
ably considering the idea of legal
izing gambling.
And the model liquor law"
which was to have made Wash
ington the perfect city so far as
drinking is concerned, is fast be-
ing toned down to something like
the ,good-old-days.
This law started out by provid-
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hides should rise and the price of
shoes should stand still till hides
caught up with them.
NOW, look at what happened
~ in the following twelve
months. The price of hides rose
from Sc per cent of 1926 to Is per
cent, which is more than double.
The price of the shoes did not rise
at all. This meant that the hide,
leather, and shoe industry was
really recovering; the different
prices were coming into balance,
and the producer Of hides could
therefore buy from the producer
of shoes.
There is no other way that re-
covery can take place. Trade is an
exchange of goods. If some prod
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Make Him q Better Man

N prison would assign Dillinger to attractive
apartment and congenial tasks in the belief that
the best that is in him not be appealed to if he
is to be Gagged up like wild beast, the saying
goes, and compelled to drudge the years away at
duties in which he has interest. And 7 always
would be alert to receive and consider any sugges-
tons which he might offer to the improvement
of the service. Petty irritatons make a person
very nervous
The object is not to punish Dillnger, but to make
him better man. His appeals to the higher court
should be conducted in the fine legal spirit which
attacks the validity of the grand jury, the tipping of
the Indictment the constitutionalty of the law the
conduct of the trial and the mental attitude of the
judge.
Later there should be evidence and as last
resort, doubt the defendants sanity. All this
is Dingers sacred right under the law and society
can not afford to accept unjust advantage. If
society fouts the law then who can blame the
criminal?
He is likely to receive fairer trial in the enlight
ened northern state of Indiana than he could expect
in the benghted states of the south.
In the southern states they have strong prejudice
against persons who commit the crime called armed
robbery. Robbery with a gun is taken proof of
bad character and parties so convicted dressed
In striped suits, quartered in rude accommodations
and kept hard at work year after year until they
extremely sorry or just give up and die.
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oAAtl4444oOl dLlOIl DIS WnOlP
Yet, as Mr.. Green points out.
the theory had not been pressed
nome as it would nave been had
the President and his advisers
really believed that it expressed
the truth of the matter and
could be made to work.
In practice they have not gone
much farther than to establish
minimum standards to stop the
downward movement of wages and
to spread work somewhat by re-
ducing hours.
The trouble with the theory is
that it rests upon the fallacy of
supposing that industrial wage
earnerS comprise the bulk of the
consumers. The idea is that if
they had more money to spend
they would buy enough goods to
employ everybody. But. as a mat
ter OF fact, the industrial wage
earners are only a fraction of the
whole population Out of the
persons listed as "gainful work.
erS, in the census of 1890 manv
less than half were in industrial
occupations. The rest were farm
ers, in trade, in the professions, in
personal service and public serv-
Ice ana IN clerical jobs. The low
purchasing power of the indus
trial workers who have Jobs and
the lack of purchasing power of
the industrial unemployed is. of
course, an element in the general
lack OF purchasing power. But it
is not the only or even the chief
cause of the present inadequate
demand for goods.
A matter of fact. if it were
L n possible to raise the earnings
OF industrial labor to the 1925
level, this new purchasing power
would not break the depression.
For, OF course, industrial prices
would have to rise to cover the
new costs. and with farm prices
and other incomes way below the
1926 level. it would be inordinatelv
difficult to sell what the wage
earners produced.
II 1t is not possible to sell what
they produce it is not possible to
employ them to produce it.
To illustrate what is the real
process of recovery and re-emplov-
ment. We may take some figures
comparing prices in February
1888, with those a year later. FIT
teen months ago cowhide in Chi
cago was selling at IS per cent of
Its 1926 price. But a pair of mems
shoes was selling at 90 per cent of
1926. This meant that the pro-
ducer of hides had an income of
one-third with which to buy shoes
that were almost as expensive as
they were before the depression.
Obviously he could not buy as
many shoes. Moreover, to raise the
wages of shoe workers, if that in
volved raising the price of shoes,
would not only not help, but
would make matters worse. What
was needed was that the price of
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She seems to have been so we'll
guarded during her absence that
no communications passed be-
tween them. While she was away
he set madly to work to make
himself worthy of her. He toiled
and studied necessarily, spending
all his spare hours in the British
museum reading rooms pouring
over books, and giving himself
very superior book education for
one of his years.
Il II
JUST how long she was away we
- have no means of knowing,
but when she returned, the course
of true love" began to assume it's
customary lopsided form, and the
parental ban became even more
rigid than before.
The complexities of the situa-
ton intensified by feminine in
difference, brought about the usual
lovers quarrels, which in this case
could not be made up in the home
drawing room.
Maria was now so sure of him
that she trifled a bit-encouraged
him one day, disheartened him
the next. She half followed her
parents advice, yet she couldn't
quite make up her mind to give
him up.
But eventually, his pride hav-
ing mastered his tender emotions
he decided to write her a farewell
letter, and with all the elab-
crate phrasing of which his en-
bryonic genius was capable he told
OF the desolation and heartaches
that only blighted first love can
know.
The Farewell Letter.:
Is Bentwick Street
March 18th (1833)
Dear Miss Beadnell:
Your own feelings will enable
you to imagine far better than
any attempt of mine to describe
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A Career AUaitS

T IFE is precious thing which an impetuous Off
II Ger can not give back once he has taken it. And
the human character is mysterious and beautiful
that for all anybody knows, Dillinger confined in
good, wholesome prison where there is band and
an interesting change Of menu. might learn to raise
fancy naSturtiums develop a breed of speed
turtles and fit himself for useful and respectable
career in free society.
do not insist that Dillnger is innocent of any
crime for that would be wrong the prevalent
presumption that he is guilty and very bad man.
I just think he ought to be captured with the least
possible violence and that if he then should be
victed of sin, society ought to appeal to the best
that is in him.
First, think, society ought to make a serious
effort to find out from Diinger what he is
about 1t does not seem likely that an ordinary
farm boy would go about the country taking funds
belonging to other persons and stealing from
policemen, contrary to law if he not irritated
about something.
1t then would be my policy to teach him that the
way to remedy grievances is not to steal shoot but
to work hard and vote for the honest candidates in
the elections If he does not feel we'll doctors ought
to look at his tongue and have him say "ah" and
psychologists should ask him about his dreams.
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he never has been tried. much
less convicted. and the state of
mind toward him betrays an APP
palling contempt for the law
and its sacred guarantees. I am
not sure but that Dillinger
could have the public punished
for contempt of court in express
ing itself so freely with regard
to a case which still is pending.
This IS a form of lynching and
lynching is form of lawleSsneSs
as evil as any of which Dillinger
stands accused. Moreover. lynch
ing hurts the lynchers more
than the lynchee, so it would be
public service to compel the
public to think only gentle.
generous thoughts of Dillinger.
-
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HIeemC Me
&
Haywood BROUN

THE Roosevelt regime may not be revolution.
i but, nevertheless, the deal has known a
number Of casualties I think, for instance, that
Walter Lippmann is entitled to a wound stripe. Al
Smith deserves one, and Henry Mencken has just
been carried of the battlefield, with his prestige all
but shot away.
To be sure, Mr.. Menckens prestige is not what
it used to be. one of the things which make me
feel very ancient is that can remember all the way
back to the days when Henry considered dan
gerous and iconoclastic There a time when
every undergraduate patterned his style after the
u1annerisns Of the Sage of Baltimore.
Mencken was plain poison to Baptist evangelists
Rotary Club lecturers, patent medicine promoters and
faith healers. Like Lord Godfrey Amherst in the
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BIZ DreW Pearson and Robert S. Allen

w bile automobile manufacturers has been realized
both the NRA than they hate
each other disclosed only this week.
revealing scheduled
by General Johnson Detroit today
Young Frank Couzens of the motor metropolis and Of
the
thought johnson could hold big public meeting the workers
better mood
The Automobile
industry
getting
Johnson the troubeman.
readily the
when he got a phone call from Mayor Couzens
1.-The situation General
feel it you
Johnson hit the ceiling refused
father friendly
administrator Immediately suspected that the senator had something
do with withdrawing the invitation
I've
told young
D OY CHAPLIN president Hudson
N Mayor johnson
consult the mogul
johnson did
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Fair Enough
WESTBROOK PEG[ER

MOST of the comment on the mischievous
4VA Dnlinger boy bespeaks narrowness of mind
and lack of charity of which an enlightened public
ought to be ashamed I hope and trust that if this
restless fun-lovIng country youth ever should be
housed up securely, some society will conduct
nter-propaganda to help him obtain square
deal.
The public has jumped to a conclusion that
D1linger is guilty of a number of crimes for which
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Back to the HeadIeSS HOrSenen

TN other words Mr.. Mencken has done complete
i right about-face and seems to be suggest
ing that intelligence is a commodity to be feared
bv patriotic American citizens and that we should
90 back to our old habit of leaving economic and
social problems to the mercy of such practical men
as Jim Watson and Reed Smoot and other headleSs
horsemen.
Surely the English analogy is not the happest
accuracy as a reporter The government OF the
British empire is far more departmentallzed than
our own and has been much more hoSpitable to the
expert The British voter takes the existence OF
brain trust as a matter of course. Indeed, the
bright Young professors of Great Britain often are
found in those posts which held by the lncum-
bent regardless of change in the administrator
IT is not regarded as crime if official can speak
obscene native dialects and I have not heard any
outcrv against the diplomatic services OF Lawrence
of Arabia on the ground that he was an mteHec-
tual and wrote book.
Professors teachers and highbroWs nave on
numerous occasions served as CABINET MINISTER'S
Roth Balfour and Asquith-to pick two names at
random-were bitterly opposed on many OF theH
noIicies but do not recOllect that they were as
sailed because of their ability as classical ScholarS
II seems to me that this new-fangled raoo
1,ookun Mencken is not the same man who went 10
Davton Tenn and laughed at Bryans emotional
fitting against book learning Henry then was wv
Strongest sort of partisan for evolution But appaI
ept1v he feels that it should be banned from pocs
ord economies lust as vigorously as Bryan Waheo IL
Lent o,.t of the high schools and colleges
Copyright The Times
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that Henry is suffering from severe case OF Mer-
curry poisoning In the days Of his editorship he
took great pride collecting under the title AmeT-
icana" snatches from sermons, the remarks OF W. G:
T. u or D. A. R. ladies, stray newspaper items and
other bits of evidence to prove that the average
American (boobus Americanus) was an unadulter-
ated hick But hicks home to rOoSt.
The ironic tragedy in the rise and fall of H. l..
Mencken is that after years of hooking the folk of
the "hinterland" he began unconscously to initiate
not only their point of view but their very phrase
ology cite his injunction lover a national radio
hookup) to the members Of the brain trust He said
Go back to your old job while the going is good
Go back to teaching sophomores to be ashamed of
their fathers" And earlier in his boob jumping adj
dress he made the declaration that Engands re-
covery had been accomplished without their put
ting single bright young professor on their pay roll
or laying out cent for economic madStoneS and bile
beans"
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Not for Cup Distances

IVES, I'm afraid that Henry
Il L. Mencken will have to go
into the records as a six-furlong
rebel. He has demonstrated his
inability to go route. Yet even
now my eyes grow a little misty
when I find the strong boy Of
the Mercury-and, of course, l
mean the old Mercury-talking
very much like DR.. Willie Writ.
I,,deed NV diapnnsis would be