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The Washington times., 1934-01-10
Country Watches New York
Effort to MOderniZe Rule
By James T. Williams, Jr.

) every other State of the Union
an obsolete system of county
and local government built up
in the days of the OK cart"
This is true of New York City
as was proved by the result at
the decent election of Mayor La
Guardia. 1t is true in Okla
homa where protests have been
telegraphed to President Roose-
velt against the grabbing of re-
lief work by county and local
politicians. It is strue in Mich
igan where there is a revolt on
against OK cart government. 1t
is true in a whole bloc of South
ern and Western States where
public education is threatened
with destruction ana thousands
upon thousands are facing tore
closure upon everything they
own.
Useless Units
Com are the days, as DR..
Thomas H. Reed, professor OF
political science in the Uni
versity of Michigan, truly says,
when the county, the township
and the little red SchoolhouSe
were economical units.
"Threatened W;ith the loss of
his home because of the un-
endurable pressure of property
taxation" says this distir-
guished student of the prob
lem, "the taxpayer is prepared
to sacrifice everything that is
not fundamental in govern
ment. The legislator WiH neUer
find better time to put
through this Obvious and much
needed economy. The Uoter
Uon't eVen listen to the pittfut
pleas of office holders about
to be displaced: he'll say, it
is cheaper to feed them on
the dole than at the public
trough
"What Mr.. and Mrs. Voter
U0Ht 10 cCOHO"JI N"A t"Sl
want it quick. They want to
see government purged at once
of its unnecessary accessories,
its useless units, its senseless
overhead"
The Governor or the legis-
lator, the Mayor or other local
official, whetheS he functions
in Albany, in New York city,
in Maine, California. Michigan
or Georgia. who tries to OBJ
struct the determination of the
people to send OK cart govern
ment to the slaughter-house,
is riding for a fall.
If the Governors. the legis-
latures, the mayors now in
power will not unite upon
program to lift the yoke Of OK
cart government from the
necks of the taxpayers North,
East, South and West. the peo-
pie will drive them from power
at the next election and re-
place thine with public servants
who can be relied upon to
keep their campaign pledges.
Copyright. 1884. The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
ONCE OVERS

Even with all the hard-labor-
saving modern equipment, these
unaccustomed to work-with-the-
hands persons, complain about
how hard it is to keep house.
Men filling industrial Jobs,
clerical jobs, all sorts of jobs
are very often unduly careful
about eXerting themselves, and
so get soft.
In schools and colleges there
is a tendency to reduce hours of
intensive study.
Anyone who does not feel at
all fatigued at the end of {.
days work has not put much ef-
fort into his or her work!
To become tired is to be ex-
pected by the person who is hon
est in efforts.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

Are You Afraid of OVERRIDING?
Aren't you too much afraid
that you will "overdo"?
AS soon as you are a bit tired,
you quit.
This condition has been given
undue consideration, in the re-
cent past.
It is not confined to those
filling workaday jobs
In homes there are many
women who think they are over
worked, who are not doing one
half as much as their mothers
did in a given time, or at any
time.
It must be admitted that
women who were not brought
up in childhood to work reg
ularly and consistently are most
frequent complainers.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

NEIGHBORHOoD OF THIRTY MILLION DOL
LARS A YEAR.
If those millions of dollars were buying the people of
Virginia modern, effective and responsive govern
ment, their expenditure might be defended.
But of the total expenses of the counties large pro-
portion is pure waste It is going to preserve archaic
forms of government It is going to maintain out
moded systems which landed with the colonsts at James
town.
1T IS GOING TO PRESERVE COUNTY OFFICES
FOR GREEDY AND SELF SEEKING POLITI
CLANS WHO ARE IN PUBLIC LIFE ONLY FOR
WHAT THEY CAN GET OUT OF THE PUBLIC,
NOT FOR WHAT. SERVICE THEY CAN RENDER
THE PUBLIC
The General Assembly is made up, by and large, of
publicspirited citizens and women who are
pariotcay serving their communities and their State
Will they, DARE they permit the present system Of
waste and extravaganza to continue?
They hold in their hands the financial fate of tax
ridden people,
They hold in their hands the power, clearly given in
the State constitution to sound the death kne OF bur-
densome county extravagances.
THEY MUST ACT COURAGEOUSLY.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
The Love-DepresSiOn

Nothing depreSSeS an attrac-
tive man so much as to dis
cover that he has reached the
age when all the girls under Is
are beginning to regard him
as a confidante and to use him
as a spare"
The best thing about most
foolish marraiges-and most Of
the present-day foolish styles
is the beautiful thought that
they won't last long.
Every new bridegroom has to
master the domestic sign man
ual during the first year of
marriage; otherwise he may
drive his wife to firSt-degree
murder by his "What-have-I
done-now?" look every time she.
kicks him under the table.
Emotional appeal is some
thing that every woman tar1cles
she possesses, until she tries to
use it to persuade her hus-
band to stay away from a
prize-fight and take her to a
bridge party.
When we say, Hes human"
we mean either that man has
done something splendid and
generous-or that he has done
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

Political racketeerS the coun-
try over are anXiously watch
ing the efforts of the people
OF the city of New York to
throw off the yoke of oX-cart
GOV e r nm ent by aboliShing
county government and mod
ernizing local COVER e n t
throughout that metropolitan
area.
If this can be done in the
largest city in the land, the
political racketeers who depend
upon ox-cart government for
power and profits know we'll
enough that it can and proba-
bly, will be done North, East,
South and West.
For this reason the exchanges
between Governor Lehman at
Albany and Mayor LaGuardia
at New York hold for the
American people national in
tereSt. They are played up in
the headlines in State after
State throughout the union.
Honest Differences
What the political racketeers
fear is that the Governor and
the Mayor will accommodate
their honest differences con-
cerning procedure and unite
upon a program that will start
oX-cart government in the
metropolitan area on its way
to the slaughter-house.
And the fear of the political
racketeers is the hope of the
people in State after State re-
gardless of their political af-
filiations ON national questions.
This is we'll known to President
Roosevelt, to Secretary Ickes,
to Secretary Perkins, and to
those other high officials of
the Administration who hope
to see oX-cart government get
a Knockout blow in New York
city and elsewhere before 1874
goes out.
Whatever the Roosevelt ad-
administration can do to facil-
itate agreement between the
Governor of Albany and the
Mayor at New York will be
Cheerfully done. And the same
holds true for other States
where county government is eat
ing up the taxes of the people
which ought to be going for
the support of public education
and other vital governmental
services and where horde of
political parasites have brought
local government into popular
contempt.
While times were prosperous,
the people gave all too little at
tention to the high cost and
poor quality of that government
which is closest to them-local
and county government. But
the depression is opening the
eyes of the people to the costly
folly of maintaining in New
York City, in New York State
and in other communities in
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
The Human Side of the News
Greatest of Modern Killers-Riddle of Life
Bv EdWin C.. Hill

} best they can, but they are not
magicians. The human heart
is a marvellous little motor. 1t
is not indestructible, and the
time comes when it needs ease
ment and rest.
Somehow, with all this, one is
reminded of the lines of Words
worth: "The fretful stir unprof-
liable, and the fever OF the
world have hung upon the beat
ings of my heart"
What is life? The riddle eter-
nal-the query which has baf-
fled the greatest mindS-the
despair of the ages. And yet to-
day, by strange coincidence. we
get the testimony of five ia
nous scientists that the missing
pieces are being fitted into the
puzzle. Only a few remain to
be found before the puzzle is
complete.
DR.. George w. Grille. eminent
surgeon, Grille of Cleveland, tells
us that the bio-chemist has con-
structed many of the COM
pounds of which the body is
made. Science will reveal the
nature of life and the physical
nature of mind and personality.
DR.. Frank Guttmacher, OF
Johns Hopkins University writes
a book called. Life in the Max
ing" and makes this arresting
assertion: unless life must be
initiated by some ineffable spir-
it. it's eventual creation in the
laboratory seems not only pos
sible but likely"
Tissues Fail
Prof. Albert Soiland, of Cal
ifornia Tech reports to his fel-
low scientists that life is light.
Call is light" says Soiland.
travelling in waves of different
intensity. We will know some
day how to shoot electrons into
the human body. In five years
life may be explained in chem
ical terms"
DR.. C. B. Davenport, of the
Carnegie Institution, discuss
ing that infinitesimal part Of
the living cell which is called
the gene, makes this further
contribution: When we under
stand the structure of the gene,
we shall know the essential
difference between living and
nonliving matter"
They say lot OF disparaging
things about this materialiStic.
machine age of ours-many Of
them fully deserved. But his
tory may look back on this ugly
age and call it the golden age
of science and invention. Wells
and Huxley in THE Science Of
Life" tell us that living matter
is potentially immortal, and
that our cells do not die. We
know this from the weird ex-
pertinent DR.. Carrel has made
at the Rockefeller Institute
with the heart of a chicken.
For years DR.. Carrel has kept
alive a slice of the heart, and
at regular intervals it must be
pared down and sliced away or
it would grow so enormously
that it's tissue would cover the
earth and the seven seas.
It is the tissues, not the cells,
that fail us. Some one tissue
lets the others down, a vital
organ collapses, and then-the
sleep that knows no waking.
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

AVV"AAAOOA6
And the loneliness of those with
out chains.
Let me not be trapped by sue
cess
Nor by failure, nor pleasure. nor
grief.
Nor by malice, nor praise, nor
remorse!
GIvI ME THE COURAGE TO
GO ON!
Facing all that waits on the
trail
Going eagerly, joyously on
And paying my way as I go.
Without anger or fear or re-
gret-
Taking whatever life gives
Spending myself to the full
Head high, spirit winged, like
god
On on-till the shadows
draw close
Then, even when darkness shuts
down.
And go out alone, as I came
Naked and blind as came
Even then, Unknown God, hear
my prayer:
GIVE ME THE COURAGE TO
LIVE!
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. InC.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

Medical men in their recent
conventions have brought out
some amazing facts about hu-
man life and the great killers
that lie in wait to destroy.
Medicine has learned so much
in the past Is years-as much
probably as it knew for 500
years preceding-that the one
time terrible epidemics have
virtually been eliminated. Vel
low fever no longer sweeps
helpless thousands into the
hereafter. Bubonic plague is
now halted at the ocean gate
ways. Even the white plague,
consumption, has been beaten
back by devoted effort.
But as medicine learns new
things and takes new strides
forward, new problems arise to
challenge it's skill. The rapid
ity of the times, the terrific
nervous hurly-burly in which
we live, have given new energy
to old killers. AS Frederick H.
Ecker, president of the great
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, remarked the other
day, heart disease is now the
most destructive, relentless en-
emy of Americans. That is
largely true because few peo-
pie resort in time to medical
advisers.
Danger Signals
The human heart is the most
marvellous machine that imagi-
nation could conceive of. When
it is turning over smoothly one
isn't aware that he has a heart
in his breast. Only when it
develops a knock does concern
arise. Your heart has been
beating 70-odd times a minute,
4,3O0 times an hour, 100000
times a day, all the years Of
your life. Every hour of the
day, for it never sleeps, it
pumps SO gallons of blood
through a marvellous system of
pipes and through the tireleSs
little engine. The only rest the
heart ever gets is between beats.
That is why set periods of rest
for men and women are so
essential to it's well-being.
Heart disease is the greatest
of modern killers, but it doesn't
kill suddenly, even though death
may come with apparent sud.
denness. The medical men tell
us that there is always plenty OF
warning for those who will
pause and listen. There may
come a sense of fatigue or short
ness of breath, or some palpita-
ton. Those are the little dan
ger signals, the warnings given
by the wonderful little engine
that it needs rest, tranquility.
And yet even these little warn
ings may have fatal significance.
The point is that only a trained
medical mind can tell what is
dangerous and what is mislead-
ing.
Procrastination-the fear OF
learning the truth-kills more
people than anything else. Sew
enty per cent of patients suffer-
ing from cancer do not present
themselves for examination un-
til the disease has reached
fatal stage. Seventy-two per
cent could have been cured If
they had been examined in the
first stages.
Much the same thing is true
of heart disease. Doctors do the
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

Commend fool for his wit,
or a knave for his honesty, and
they will receive you into their
bosom.-Fielding.
The torture of a bad con-
science is the hell Of a living
soul.-Calvin.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

A Prayer
GIVE ME THE COURAGE TO
LIVE!
Really live-not merely exist.
Live DANGEROUSLY
Scorning the risk!
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
WORDS OF WISE MEN

Wickedness is it's own punish.
ment.-Quarles.
Trust him not that hath once
broken faith.-Shakespeare.
A man of integrity will never
listen to any reason against con-
science.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

Elsie Robins"" AS though
'twere the travail of birth.
GIVE ME- THE COURAGE TO
I'VE
Give me the strength to be
FREE
And endure the burdens Of free
dom,
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

L / v e HON.
ESTLY-
Daring t h e
truth
P a r ticularly
the truth of
myself!
Live RESILI-
ENTITY
Ever chang
ing, e v e r
ro W in G,
ever adapt
ing.
Enduring the
p a / n Of
change.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Ronald COlman in Good
Mystery Film at Palace
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back" Has Con-
siderable Comedy, Too, and Is Helped
Along With Fine Supporting Cast

Whenever YOU are looking to the
Aims for a good laugh on these sultry
nights. select the best detective yarn
in town and HE yourself thereto--a
rule which this week will bring YOU
directly before the screen Of LoewS
Palace. where Ronald Colman and
Charlie Butterworth are waxing
merry with a story called Bulldog
Drummond Strikes Back"
Recently Hollywood has taught us
that our wary sleuths are really the
most charming and gallant fellows on
the boulevards. and Capt. Hugh
Drummond of the cinema now in
question does nothing to break the
new tradition Of a detective in flickerS
He is both witty and brave. cracking
wise as often as he cracks heads. and
devoted always 10 justice, the destruc-
ton OF villains and the welfare of
heroines he intends eventually to
marry. In playing once more the role
OF this rollicking blade, Ronald Col
man suggests he may soon assume the
mantle of Fairbanks. sr.. attaining
that fortress of popularity none may
dare to stone or sting with the arrows
of criticism. Mr.. Colman makes Bull
dog DrlmmOnd more perSonahle.
persistent and daring young man
than you viii meet today or tomorrow.
and in the making earns for himself
ripe laurelS as an actor.
To scatter credit where the credit
Is due, however it must be said that
Charlie Butterworth's drolleries in the
role of Algy provide the really high
spots Of the film Mr.. Butterworth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
GLEN ECHO WILL NOT
HAVE OUTDOOR THEATER

After 10 days devoted to prelimin-
airy efforts leading to the announced
open-sir performance Of AS You Like
1t" scheduled for production at Glen
Echo Park during the second week
in August, Leonard B. Schloss of
Glen Echo Park. sponsor of the pro-
duction, has been obliged to call off
all negotiations and postpone the con-
templsted production and arrange
ment for the Glen Echo open air
theater for this season at least.
UnSurmountable difficulties have
been encountered by the vice presi-
dent and general manager OF the
park, the foremost being the report
submitted by Joseph N Starkey. sur
veyor and civil engineer. of Rockville,
Nd, who had been engaged to work
out plans and specifications for trans
forming the Sylvan Glen into an
orchard and Forest of Arden. The
report made by this former surveyor
for Montgomery County is to the
effect that to lay out properly the
plan as conceived by the park on
cisls. would entail an expense of more
than SIS. 600 exclusive of production.
and that in the general layout many
of the magnificent sycamores and oak
trees on the property would have TO
be removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

has not always been so well treated
since he left Broadway 10 work before
the camera. but in this picture he
comes into his own--his being about
20 per cent funnier than the own
Of ANYBODY else. One hiccough from
Algy Is worth trip to the Palace. n
you understand us, and his philosophic
reflections as beleaguered BRIDE
groom doubtless will be more quoted
than A. I. a. T. in the next few months.
AS in its brother OF the spirit. The
Thin Man. there Is a swift and cum
ningly designed plot concealed be-
meath the quips Of bulldog Drum
mond. The narrative concerns a
code cablegrsm. an evil Oriental who
wants to bring in an enormously
valuable shipment Of furs of a ship
that should be Guaranteed for
cholera and its cargo destroyed,
the efforts of Capt. Drummond to
stop all this and start a lot OF other
things.
In the supporting cast appear C.
Aubrey Smith, who does splendid
job with the part OF a gruh Britisher:
Loretta Young a beautiful II colorleSs
heroine Una Merkle. playing the per-
feet foil for Butterworth. and Warner
GLAND. a much more sinister villain
when he Stalked the silent screen.
A program of short subjects and a
nevereel complete the Palace bill.
r. B. p. Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

Morrison stooges in a mild way for
Hope. Hope gets laughs for Morrison s
act and leads up to the stunts. They
are both very businesS-like about it.
Then the minute they get in the
wings they begin to prattle about golf.
Now what you need" says Morrison
before the applause has died down out
front, lis to loosen up that swing"
II know" says Hope. "All bound up. -
IN get newspaper photographer
to take some snaps of your swing.
Then we can show you the faults. We
will get some OF the Bobby Jones pic
lures and compare them"
Compare them with Jones?"
With Jones"
This goes on indefinitely and at
every possible opportunity. In any
spare time away from the theater
Morrison takes out Hope. Louise
Troxell twho also helps the acU, Do
lores Reid. singer in Hopes special
troupe, and they do what? They play
golf.
AS for Alex Morrison, he started his
act back in 1920. II was the first of
its kind. He began with using real
golf balls. One night an orchestra
leader in some city sat up for hours
arranging the Morrison musical score.
The next day ball the golfer Socked
into the wings hit something iron.
bounced back. caught the baton waver
on the chin and cooled him. After
that Morrison used sponge balls
painted white. They still come off
hard enough TO hurt if they hit you.
The stage hands Jump around try
ing to catch the pills as they whiz
into their areas. Then they stand
around bouncing them until the act
Is over. when they turn them in like
boys who have borrowed marbles TO
play
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
$500, 900 TO BE SPENT
FOR SAFER FLYING
Commerce Department Seeks to
Provide Better Equipment for
Private Pilots.

Recognizing the need of safer flying
equipment for the use of private
pilots. the Bureau of Air Commerce,
Department of Commerce, will spend
100000 allocated to it by President
Roosevelt from an appropriation made
by the last Congress.
In order to supervise this expendi-
ture for the benefit of the general
public, Eugene l.. Vidal. bureau di-
rector, has announced creation of a
development section under the direc-
ton of John H Geisse of Madison.
Wis. now chief OF the manufacturing
inspection service.
For commercial use" Vidal said.
"airplanes safe in the hands of an
expert pilot are entirely satisfactory.
but for the private owner it is essen
tial that safe operation in the hands
OF novice pilot be attained"
The director said little experimental
work will be necessary in developing
a safer, moderately priced plane.
Principles have already been estab-
lished. he said. and now the chief
problem is to apply these principles
at reasonable cost.
The Bureau of Air Commerce sew
eral weeks ago ordered Is inexpensive
planes for use of its inspectors. Geisse
has already been assigned the super
vision of their purchase and bids will
be opened August 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Bulldog Drummond Strikes
Back" at HIS am. 1920, 3:25, $50.
735 and $40 pm
Fox-"Kiss and Make Up" at IL :05
am, las, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows at 1880, 335, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Columbia-"Wild Gold" at l1:45
am, las, 3:45, 5;45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Metropolitan - Here Comes the
Groom" at l2:l5, 2:4O, sos, 7:30
and $50 pm
R-K-O Keith's-"Of Human Bond
age" at 1924 am, I'LL, asa, 4:39,
$40, 1907 and s:54 pm.
Earle-"The Key" at 11:l5 am.
l:55. 440, 7:20 and 10 pm. Stage
shows at /. 3:45, 6:25 and COS pm.
Hollywood Party" at 2:O5.
AIS. 6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
AmbassadOr-"As the Earth Turns"
at ?, 4, 6. so and GAS pm.