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The Washington times., 1934-12-03
Be Glad You're Not Rich
Competition Is Good for You

Mussoni was once stumped by American interviewer
who asked him what would have happened to him he had
been forceds forces all young peopeto surrender
personal initiative ambition the state There are ex
cepons he muttered and quickly changed the subject
The American system is built on these exceptions on
the greatness of who in early life were forced
not to surrender their initiative but to and develop it.
That's why Roosevelt is right in saying that children OF
moderate circumstances have the best chance to succeed IN
life.
The ideal home for child sayshe Presidents wife,
in which necessities be obtained and yet where care
has to be practiced where chd assistance is of real
value as soon as it is able to give it.
All fe-regardess of the social political systems
Ing its always struggle and the best able to COM
pete usually come top. system which removes the
element of competition is bound in the long to produce
inferior men and women.
History eloquenty shows that civilizations have collapsed
not through poverty but through riches which produced soft
and weak In America the certainty of the failure of
Communism and Facsm rests the fact the First Lady
points out that Moderate circumstances the more preVa
lent and by far the best for the growing child"
We all make beds and the sooner we learn
to tuck the edges for ourselves the better off shall
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The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

adornment on the upper lip
of the recently defeated Sena-
tor Hamilton F. Keane of New
Jersey.
Dropping at both ends 1t
gave the gruff Senator Keane
the appearance of that old sea
animal walFus.
When business is not too ur.
gent, Senator Charles L. Nc.
Nary, of Oregon, Minority Floor
Leader, spends much of his
time in the Senate barber
shop, paying it a visit at least
once a day.
He is one of the shops best
customers. He usually takes
the BARRIERS chair shortly be-
fore the daily session begins
and while under the shears or
razor discusses with colleagues
the program for the day.
Of members of Congress OF
recent years who followed the
styles set by their predecessor
of generations gone by, former
Senator Thomas Heflin, of Ala
bama, was one who closely
aped the old fashion.
Wearing his locks long, he
shook them violently to add to
his outstanding appearance
when in the throes of oratory.
Among the WOmen in Con.
greSS, cOittureS are Udried. Rep
reSentdtiUe Mary T. Norton OF
NeU jersey uses the utmost
caution to keep her sleek black
hair in place.
Mrs. Isabella Greenway, of
Arizona, intimate friend Of
Mrs. Roosevelt, is slightly
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You may believe it, but the above picture shows school,
the wealthy National Capital of the United States
Probably you have read great deal about making Wash
ingtons school system a model for the country
undoubtedly told that we've been spending too
money schools and that the time has arrived to
"economize
next anybody tells you anything like that just reco
lect this picture.
The shown would be disgrace in crossroads build
ing of the little red schoohouse type"
We believe that is the type that should be utilized
in the National Capital any city which pretends to give
its children fair chance at an education
When you look at the picture note the heating plant and
recall that this is going to be hard winter
certainly will be hard for the youngsters who try to study
in this class room eve call it class out of courtesy
and not because it is worthy of the name)
you think that the children in this class will pay more
their teacher hard winter day than they will
to getting position the where they warm?
Don't get the idea that this picture shows isolated
dition
There shack of the type pictured above in in the
local school system Five hundred children being taught
in them. -
Some time ago we relieved of few of the portables
when THEY FELL DOWN OF THEIR OWN WEIGHT or were
blown down by wind storms
We can get rid remain the parents of the city
will get together demand that Congress allow to spend
enough of our money to meet the NEEDS OF OUK
CHILDREN.
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Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

ticle and received the replies
stated.
Anonymous? Far from 1t.
They came on paper bearing
well-knoWn names. They were
well-informed people-many OF
them wealthy and famous.
Some have been fan friends for
16 years. I had seen them
through dark hours-helped
them to the best of my ability.
A few I had fortunately been
able to save from public dis
grace.
But now, BECAUSE THEY
DISAGREED WITH ONE PO-
LITICAL ARTICLE, they
turned upon me with wolfish
savagery-calling me the vilest
names at their command-de-
manding that I be discharged
from my position.
Was l angry? Of course not.
Surprised? Not at all. You
can't write for People for Is
years and not learn something
about your own as we'll as the
Other Fellows human re-
actions.
There are certain subjects
which are infallible tests of our
degree of civilization. One is
religion. Another is politics.
A human being may be toler-
ant on every other subject on
earth, but if you disagree with
him on religion or politics he'll
become a foaming savage, nine
times out of ten.
Why? Why will you permit
me to challenge your taste in
food, clothing, books, amuse-
ments, and come back with a
good-natured and logical reply
yet fly into unreasonable fury If
I disagree with your party or
church?
THIN VENEER
The answers plain enough
Food and clothes are simple
Understandable things which
any child can debate with fair
reason. Religion and politics
are large, abstract matters.
They go deep into life. They
involve much thought.
And thought is a new and
strange adventure. None Of us
knows how to think well. Few
of us can put deep thoughts
into words. We're afraid to
debate-afraid we'll make our
selves ridiculous. So when dis
agreement arises, up leaps the
old. jungle fear and we GO
GORILLA trying to make up
in noise and violence what we
lack in logic.
Not so surprising when you
consider how recently we left
the jungle-and how thin our
new veneer of civilization is.
Indeed, isn't it amazing that
we're even as decent as we areP
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mails and defunct pictures and
interesting SkylineS and eXpen-
Sive restaurants, where one may
eat amusing dinners.
Whereas no town has ever
produced anything to compare
with two classes of human be-
ings that are the most typical
product of modern New York
our taxi-drivers and our red-caps.
I know, there are taxi-drivers
in Paris who far surpasS our
own in their knowledge of the
more subtle details of bias
phemy. And the porters of Lon
don are men to whom I would
cheerfully confide the cares of
the British Empire, for I have
never met with another group
of people at once so intelligent,
so humorous and so obliging.
But the red-capS of New York
and the fellows who guide us
through the maZes of New York'S
complicated traffic are a race by
and in and for themselves, like
the seaweed of Tristan da Cunha
or the double-barrelled coconuts
of the Seychelle Islands.
SECRET BELIEF
I have a secret belief that both
of them are products of the de-
preston. Or perhaps they ex-
listed long before the days of the
great Hoover flop and we have
merely discovered them now, be-
cause we have a little leisure in
which to study our fellow-men.
I shall not try and settle that
point.
I shall merely state that dur
ing a long and exciting career
as a sort of human botaniSt, col
lecting and classifying specimens
of Homo Sapiens, have never
come across variety that was
both so essentially human and
at the same time so very essen
TALLY Sapient.
One reason for their being
such a very distinct class apart
may have to do with their i'm
mediate antecedentS.
Both the taxi-drivers and the
red-caps are social eXileS. The
necessity of the hour drove
them into their present occu-
pations.
The taxi-drivers are recruited
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for having me punished 'pronto
and plenty by methods varying
from rat poison to being shot
at-SunriSe.
Joking? Indeed not. These
are actual charges recently re-
ceived in my pan mail" What
had l done to deserve them?
Had 1 robbed the dying? Taken
bread from a starving child?
Or committed any other out
rageous act tabooed by all de-
cent people! No, I had done
none of these things. I HAD
SIMPLY WRITTEN A POLITI-
CAL ARTICLE WITH WHICH
THEY DID NOT AGREE.
It was not a drastic article.
It was simply a quiet, friendly
statement of my personal opin-
ion. No one asked me to do 1t.
No one paid me for doing 1t.
I did it because my interests
are, and always have been, de-
voted to the suffering millions
whose champion this particular
candidate claimed to be, and
1 feared that his method, in
stead of helping them. would
destroy their last hope for re-
habilitation.
GREATER TRAGEDY
The candidate under discus
sion is an honest gentleman of
irreproachable record. He is
genuinely concerned with the
plight of the unfortunate. He
honestly believes that his ex-
tremely drastic plan would
work. I admitted all this but
disagreed with his conclusion.
I am not a politician-not
even interested in politics.
But the need before us was
so tragic that 1 felt it to be
the duty of every public
minded American to do his best
to prevent greater catas-
trophe. Feeling that the pro-
posed plan would precipitate
that tragedy, I wrote the ar
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spinnet, covered over with a set
of bead-curtainS, which had
been brought to me from a bor-
dello in Marseilles.
The friendly mood in which
the game started, changed grad
ually to one of persecution. The
idea became to embaraSS me and
to make it impossible for me to
move about. On several occasions
it became a matter for the police
and once the Missing Persons
Bureau took a hand in it and
searched my room for a run
away college girl. They found
nothing, however, but three
Chinese laborers who had been
smuggled into the country and
delivered to my place in a
caterers wagon.
So perhaps I have a right to
be worried about those out-of.
date PullmanS. I have had
stranger things foisted on
me. 1 think that this time l
will put my foot down. At the
first sign of a Pullman being
brought up the stairs, will bolt
the door. leaving my friends to
their own devices with it. I
don't want any more truck in
this room, much less a full
blown Pullman, and. ungracious
as it may seem. 1 don't intend
to have it.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. lnc.D
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday. WedneS-
" day and Thursday.
The Washington times., 1934-12-03
Social Mysteries
Perhaps You Can Solve Them

Puzzle out what these persons have in common:
Dr. Conant who is president of Harvard President Roose
velts son. Elliott Mrs Dick who married Italian prize
fighter Mrs Potter who married American apdancer
Mrs Homsen whose sacks and bare feet shocked Reno.
If you know the answer you know why these men and
other who have the stage have been
left out of this years Social Register.
And if you know the you might try your hand at
equally subtle mystery of the strange of aristoracy
why Queen Mary of England always carries umbrella?
The prize for the best photograph Of Swiss
battleship.
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> e n I
Hattie T. Car Mrs. Greenway
away, of Arkansas, the quiet
woman who has barely spoken
since she took her place in the
Senate, knots the graying
strands at the back of her neck
like the well-known school-mar'm.
Active always, Mrs. Florence
Kahn of California who sits on
the Republican side of the aisle,
talking herself or applauding
the OratiOns of her Republican
colleagues, pays little attention
to which way the strands fall.
She prefers to take more Of
an interest in politics than in
the latest cOiffure.
COnyrirht 1894 The WASHINGTON Tim }
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advocate of Senator BOrah
long strands for many years.
Over on the House side, Repre-
sentative Edgar Howard of Ne
braska, recently defeated for re-
election. had the most conspicu-
GUS hair cut.
He wore his silvered locks at
such a length that they fell al
most to his shoulders in what
milady would term a straight
bob"
Representative William P.
Connery, Jr., OF Massachusetts,
whose most outstanding crd-
MUM feature is his lack of ton
S0ridl Gdornment, is unable to
make an ardent speech unless
he runs his fingers oUer the
spot Uhere his hair should haze
been.
Senator Arthur R. Robinson,
of Indiana, also among the de-
feated, had such long locks that
they dangled in his eyes when
he grated, making him look like
the wild man that some folks
considered him.
Senator Elmer Thomas, of
Oklahoma, one of the Senate'S
most dignified looking members,
has a Silvery crop that can only
be competed with by the white
locks of. Senator L. ]. Dickinson,
of Iowa, Republican wheel-hOrse.
Louisiana's "Kingfish," the
Rt. Honorable Huey P. Long,
possesses a head growth of curls
that would make any permanent
wave artist jealous.
One stray strand curls upward
in such a manner as to make
the "Kingfish" resemble that
which he is most unlike-a
"Kewpie" doll.
Senator Warren Barbour of
New jersey, the Senate giant,
as far as stature is concerned,
has one OF those crinkly
growthS for scalp Gdornment.
And one of the strangest
growths to adorn the face OF
any Senator is that rampant
The Washington times., 1934-12-03

"A DIRTY
LIAR" Four
hundred and
S tx t y three
(463) Shrieked
that I was
"A FILTHY
HIRELING. :"
More than a
thousand in
70 m ed me
that I was
a R o T
TEN HYPO-
CRTTE. " And
all (6,782 of
them, to be
eXact) were
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to the Metro
politan Mu-
scum of Art
and the Mu-
scum of Ma
tural History
a n d M r.
R o ckefeller's
/ n cr e d i b lie
lunch-club on
GOp Oh I II t
world.
But other
cities too are
possessed of
marvellous COL
! e c t ions of
stuffed ami
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from every walk of life, from
former professors of philosophy
to statesmen of Kosher SauSages.
And the red-caps are the vic"
tins of a system which insists
that anybody with a black or
chocolate skin should be rigor-
ously excluded from all of the
higher professions.
Regardless of the prevailing
notions in the southern parts of
our republic about the limited
The Washington times., 1934-12-03
Taxi
DrUersA re

mental capacities Of the born
Blackamoor (to borrow an ex-
preston from Brother Menck-
ems picturesque vocabulary,
the Negro, as any unbiased edu.
Gator will tell you. has just as
good a brain as his white neigh.
Dor, being surpassed only by the
intelligence of the average son
of China.
But this world being what it
is. he finds all doors closed to
The Washington times., 1934-12-03

of a small two-headed calf in a
moderate state of preservation.
From then on the slogan be-
came "Send it to Benchley"
Wrecking concerns were pressed
into service, and Clipped cor
nices from the old Post Office,
detached flights of stairs, hitch
ing posts and railingS began
pouring in. Every day was like
Christmas in Pompeii. The over
flow went ITO the bedroom and
I started sleeping under an old
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tn Senate.
The lengthy
lOc ks have
been Topped.
OF those on
the Hill who
W e ar their
h e a d fill a.
ments at un-
usual length,
Senator Will
liam E. Borah
of Idaho is
the most con.
SiStent, hav.
ing been an
oHU00oto Of
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Senator M. M. Logan of Ken.
lucky arrived back in town re-
Gently having had clipped the
leonine name which adorned
him when he first arrived in
The Washington times., 1934-12-03
By Nelson Harding

him the moment he tries to
function in one of the more
agreeable and honorable en-
ployments that are supposed to
be the birthright of the race
with the bleached faces.
And as he has got to live, he
dons the well-known gray garh
of the hewers of wood and draw"
ers of fire water, and carries the
baggage of his more fortunate
fellow-citizens, whom the acci-
dent of birth has set free from
that particular burden.
But trains do not arrive or
depart every minute of the day.
Neither do prospective custom
ers hail taxis as literally as
they used to do in the good old
days when all of us dined at
the Ritz and when Childs was
merely our last place of refuge
after the other eating places
had closed their doors for the
night.
Both the taxi-fellows and the
red-caps must therefore be pos
sessed of a great deal of leisure
time, and it is my guess that
they while away their idle hours
reading a better sort of litera-
ture than the people whom they
serve.
For have found them alert
and well-informed upon a very
wide number of subjects, and I
have discovered that practically
all of them have very definite
and on the whole a very intel
ligent idea about the events
that are now shaping our des-
TIMES with such startling rapid
ity.
COURTLINESS
And because they seem to
understand the world in which
they live so much better than
the people upon and for whom
they wait, they have come to
appreciate the Importance of
courtliness (that higher and on
the whole much more SatiSfac-
tory form of politeness) and the
even greater value of a good
naured sense of irony, and out
of this, by some strange al
chemy of the soul, they have
developed a social give-and-take
which makes a visit to New
York one of the rare pleasures
of travelling.
The rest of the world may con-
tinue to go to the Tai Mahal
and to climb Fuji and to descend
into the bowels of Vesuvius or
climb Kebnekaise to see the sun
rise over Lapland: But for one
shall stay right here.
For the wise man, as Con.
fucius said Cor if he did not
actually say it, he could very
easily have made this remark. .
goes forth into distant places
merely to enlarge his knowledge
about his fellowmen.
And why should I proceed to
the ends of the world when I
can have my red-caps and my
taxi-drivers for the mere trouble
of taking a train from Riverside
to the Grand Central Station OF
New York.
copyright. 1894. BY King Features
syndicate, InC.)
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t 70 u b led at
times by WispS
that flick at
her forehead.
Mrs. Edith
Nourse Rogers
of MaSSachu-
settS prefers
a quiet style
of head-dresS
in k e e pin g
with her usual
dignified at
tire.
The Washington times., 1934-12-03
How Deep Is Your
Civilization?

One hundred and twenty
seven CPD of them called me
a RAT" SOP branded me
The Washington times., 1934-12-03

Red-CapS and Taxi-Drivers
When strangers come to New
York We are apt to show them
the high houses and take them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
.JOblessness
Rises inOhiO.
Reports Shows
1920 Are bic 81
in Cleveland; Ohio
Steel Mills Shut

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. IA
Employment in Ohio dropped two
per cent in the one month period
from August to September, official
government figures released yester-
day show. In Cleveland alone, the
number Of jobless on Oct. l was put
at 10000, an increase of 5000 in
one month, and 5000 more than
last May.
A comparison of the figure for
total unemployed (Which, it must
be remembered, are government in
Spired, and err only on the side of
understatemenD and F. E. r. A.
statistics for relief show the num-
Der who are denied aid. Thus, gov
eminent figures show about 81, coo
unemployed in Cleveland during the
month of May. The monthly report
of the Federal Emergency Relief
administration for the same month
shows that only 53,422 families re-
ceived relief during May.
Steel mills throughout the Ohio
area s-e either closed or operating
under a stagger system Of one or
two days work a month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Catholic Priest, Fascist
Supporter, Is Made City
Assessor of Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. IA
Mayor William McNair has seated
this city's most outstanding uphold
er Of Fascism, Father James Cox, as
one Of the administrations trough
feeders-a city assessor at salary
of $500 year.
Cox is noted for his endorsement
of HitleT's purge of the sto. m troops
in June, has lauded the German
butcher, on several occasions, and
once declared that what the U. S
needs is fascism under Roosevelt.
For while he considered heading
an American Fascist party, but re-
linquished that ambition for the
assessor job under McNair.
The reverend" bears the distinc-
ton of being the first organizer of
q really fascist organization in
Pittsburgh. A few years ago he
deluded many Of the youth, mostly
religious, Of the district into joining
the Blue Shirts" an organization
which devoted most of it's time TO
trying to terrorize and break up
meetings Of the Communist Party
and other working class organiza-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
600 JobIess
Demonstrate
In MassiIIOn
Steel Workers Place
Relief ID EN- ands
Before City

MASSILLON, Ohio. Oct. IA
Smashing through Mayor Bush's
repeated refusal to meet with 4
committee from the Unemployment
Council, six hundred steel workers
unemployed and part-time work
ers in the Central Republic Steel
Company here, massed at the City
Hall, Wednesday, and forced the
mayor to meet with the workers
elected representatives.
Practically every mill in this steel
section is closed down, hundreds OF
workers have been thrown out OF
the mills since they closed down on
July first. Others are working only
one or two days a month.
In the past two weeks two hum
dred steel workers have swelled the
fighting ranks of the Councils in the
fight against evictions, for cash pay
ment of rents, increased relief with
out discrimination and issuance OF
Winter clothing.
Displaying their pay checks OF
s2.65 for two weeks waes. the steel
workers assembled at the City Hal
and presented their demands. I'm.
mediately after the demonstration
meeting was held on the Court
House steps where Leah Fay out
lined the program of the Unemploy-
ment Councils. Eighty-six unem-
ployed and part-time workers joined
the Council after the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Pittsburgh City Council
Evades Open Meeting
With Jobless Workers

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 14.-The
Pittsburgh City Council has again
lodged a hearing of complaints of
the Unemployment Councils at
which relief representatives were to
attend to hear charges of neglect
in admins ration OF state help in
the city.
At a meeting rf the Council last
week the hearing was agreed to by
all parties, and the date was to
have been set for this week, but
Councilmen are still lodging the
meeting.
The unemployed workers, how
ever, refuse to be tricked by this
maneuver and are preparing to take
a mass delegation down to the next
meeting to force action on their de-
mands. for the stopping Of evictions
and the use of city police to carry
them. through, and for provision of
clothing for needy families without
discrimination against Negro work
ers and their children.
Promised orders of shoes for
children now kept out of school be-
cause of their need have failed to
appear, and the workers are deter
mined to force Director George
Mills to act quickly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Phadelb hia Jobess Speed Mass Meeting for Saturda
5000 Cine Rousing O0atiOn
To Herndon in Philadelphia;
Vow to Fight Lynch Rulers
Richard B. Moore Speaks-Meeting Creets Six
Anti-Fascists, On Bail Pending Appeal

tary of the l. L. D., opened the
meeting and introduced the chair
man, M. Stern, representing the Ma
tional office. Other speakers were
A. w. Mills, District Organizer of
the Communist Party; M. Epstein,
of the Jewish Bureau; Wickman,
representing the Marine Workers
Industrial Union; James Wilson, of
the Young Communist League, and
the six local anti-Fascist fighters,
four women and two men, SEN
fenced by the pro-Nazi jurist, Judge
Heiligman, to a total of four years
in Jail for leading Free Thael-
mann" demonstration before the
local German Consulate.
The speakers all called for the
widest support Of all workers and
sympathizers 10 the marine strike.
A banquet in honor Of Herndon
and the six anti-Fascists, held after
the mass meeting was we'll at
tended.