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The Washington times., 1934-02-22

Among a grove OF trees the
StraighteSt plant"
The poets line we'll describes
the tree planted at the begin
ming of this week by the public
school children of Atlanta as "a
living tribute to William Ran
dolph Hearst for his unceaSing
loyalty to Americas public
schools"
This tribute of young America
to patriotic leadership in a
great American cause came at
a most appropriate time. 1t
came on the eve Of the anniver-
Sary of George Washington's
birth. Washington was not only
"the Father of his Country" He
was also the father of Public
Education in this country.
Washington's Tribute
Any American father or
mother who wishes to go to the
record to corroborate this asSer-
ton, any young American who
wishes to be protected in his
right to a public school educa-
ton, should write to the Federal
Office of Education at Washing
ton for the following Federal
pamphlet.
It was compiled in the Office
of Education and is based on
the letters, diaries and addresses
Of Washington. It was issued
during the Bicentennial Year of
1932-the year in which the
whole wide world, under the
leadership of the Government
and people of the United States
commemorated the two hun
dredth anniversary of Washing
tons birth.
Many Americans are familiar
with the tribute to public edu-
cation which Washington offers
in Re Farewell Address, where
he says:
"Promote, then, as an object
of importance, institutions for
the general diffusion of knowl-
edge. In proportion as the
structure of a government gives
force to public opinion, it is
essential that public opinion
should be enlightened"
Not so many Americans, in
fact, only a small minority.
were aware of the avalanche Of
evidence in his letters, diaries
and addresses of Washington's
devotion to the cause of public
education until the Bicentennial
Commission had compiled and
distributed the Federal pam
phlet setting forth in detail
"the educational views of George
Washington"
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

And as a sales talk, it has no
peer.
What do 1 mean, sales talk?"
I mean a patter whereby the
broadcaster promotes, excuses
and puts over that very laziness
and cowardice he so Scientifi-
cally denies. For-and this is
the most vicious part of the
racket-there is truth in his
patter. Unhappy, humiliating,
frightening experiences can
plant a secret poison within
us which will slow up action.
BUT-and this is a point
which the Inferiority Complexer
invariably disregards-AS SOON
AS WE KNOW WHAT IT'S
ALL ABOUT, WE CAN EL1MI-
NATE THIS MENTAL POISON
FROM OUR SYSTEMS.
WE CAN'T HELP GETTING
INFERIORITY COMPLETES;
BUT IF WE ONCE UNDER
STAND WHAT AILS US, WE
CAN FREE OURSELVES FROM
TT AS WE WOULD FREE
OURSELVES FROM ANY
OTHER MENTAL NUISANCE.
In short, you don't have to
feel inferior an hour longer
than you wish. Mama may
have been mean to you-siSter
may have laughed at you-
and your ego may have been
denied as a consequence. But
as soon as you realize the rea-
son for your sensitiveness or
timidity, you can begin elm
mating it.
Nor will you have any harder
time making the grade than
the fellow who didn't have an
inferiority complex. Courage
and initiative are never spon-
taneous; must always be
achieved by struggle and dis
cipline. And even if Mama
hadn't laughed at you, you'd
have had a tough time making
yourself into a regular human
being!
''Then if it's so easy to re-
cover from an inferiority COM
pick, why don't we all do it?"
Because it isn't 80 easy"
It's possible-but not easy.
Real living is never easy. It's
much easier to hang back and
pass the buck to the other fell
low than it is to tackle the job
on our own responsibility.
Why is the world filled with
Big Cry-Babies whining about
their Completes and Inhibi-
tionS?
That's why. Since science
has invented such grand alibi
for Spinelessness, why shouldn't
they use it.
Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

ing. Somebody, or something
else, hung it on you.
Maybe your mother was mean
to you
Or your father didn't under
stand YOU
Or your teacher jumped on
you
Or your best girl laughed at
you.
Whatever it was, something
once upon a time happened to
you that put a crimp in your
style. And ever since, you've not
been like other people. Maybe
you look like other people; talk.
walk, laugh, play, eat, sleep like
other people-but you're really
not like 'em. No! Way down
deep inside, something's wrong
with you. Something's crippled.
So you can't go ahead and
take chances
Can't stand hard knocks, like
you oughtta-
Dasn't trust yourself to tackle
bad breaks
And the cruel thing is, people
can't understand. They think
you're lazy! Or cowardly! And
it just breaks your heart to be
misunderstood like that. For
you're not lazy or coWardly.
Why, there isn't a lazy or
cowardly nerve in your whole
body!
You'd give anything to be
like other people-able to face
thingS-able to go ahead. But
you just can't. And it's all be-
cause you have an Inferiority
Complex-an Inferiority Com
pick that you couldn't help; that
somebody hung on you when
you didn't even know it was
being done.
That, in short, is the creed
of the Inferiority Complexer.
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
A King Among Men
And a Man Among Kings

And a Man Among Kings
King Albert Of the Belgans King among men, royal
in character and conduct a well by birth
His death Is loss all mankind loss particularly grave
at troubled moment of history when true and brave
at a great premium.
Albert not King of Belgium but of the Belgians His
dynasty rules not by the traditional divine right but by the
choice Of the people.
Were there monarchs of his stamp kngship would
not be in decline Were there friends of freedom and
democracy with his and ability there would be fewer
national surrenders to dictatorial tyranny.
His death like his fe something lofty and grandose
He walked alone unafrad unattended dangerous
tain crag he had stood alone unafrad unyeldng in the
face of overwhelming conquering horde.
The greatness of king has nothing to do with the geo.
graphical size of country he rules Albert great king
because he fusize man. he was king because he
natural leader
None among the nations which participated in great
holocaust of 19191S has assuredy splendid place in
history than brave little Belgium" No who played
part in the great tragedy Of the World War has
tainly unsuied niche in manknds Hall Of Pane than
Albert I.
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
The Human Side of the News
Earth Still Has Unknown Frontiers
Blu Edwin C.. Hill

The 200-foot steel yacht,
Southwind. is all ready to sail
and I'm sure that there's not
one of us with a spark Of ad-
venture or wanderlust in his
heart who would not want to
be one of her company when
she takes the bone in her teeth.
That is, all except the ladies.
They might wish to go along,
but go they cannot, for it's a
stag affair.
The only requirements for
the adventure we're health, good
character, a year of leisure and
three thousand dollars. Fifteen
were found who met the re-
quirements and they make up
the ships company, along with
Commander G. M. Dyott, that
adventurer and wanderer eX-
traordinary.
Commander Dyott
They are off for the Dutch
East Indies by way of the South
ern seas, and they expect to be
back in a years time, bringing
with them dragon lizards of
the Island of Damodo-those
prehistoric reptiles which grow
to a length of % feet. They
will shoot motion pictures Of
the Polynesians, a dying race
of mankind. They will stop
at Cocos Island and have a
go, it may be, for the famous
treasure of the Cathedral of
Lima, which has baked so
many hard-bitten adventures
in search of its fifty million
dollars worth of gold bars, gold
vessels, and jewels.
They will put in at Pitcairn
and Norfolk Islands, where
dwell the descendants of the
Bounty mutineers-people who
see a ship and strange faces
perhaps once a year-and they
will give these lonely people the
latest gossip of the world.
This man Dyott will find ad-
venture for them, for he seems
never to miss. He is one Of
those rare fellows who roam
up and down the by-paths OF
the world, seeking out the
strange and the mysterious.
Middle-aged and very English
looking, Dyott came to America
when he was IT, drifted about
in the mining country and got
enough gold to take him back
to England and through uni.
versity. He returned to build
an airplane and to be caught
with it during the Huerta reVo-
luton in Mexico. He won his
title of commander with the
Royal Navy Air Force in the
World War.
He has been all through
South America-the last time
seeking the lost Colonel Faw.
cett, who disappeared in the
Brazilian jungle six years ago
while hunting for a race Of
white Indians. He has suf-
fered snow blindness in the
Arctic and baked in the heat
of the desert.
A wall of Ice on the edge of
the South Pole gives way.
topples with q crash, and
wrecks the dreams and ambi-
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
Accuracy VS.. Speed

Accuracy vs.. Speed
Are you tense in your work.
aday efforts?
Do you force yourself with
speed towards your main OBJ
jective?
Just plain thoughtless, heed
less speed, full of errors and
expended physical effort.
You keep your mind ahead
Of the action in which you
engage and have to trust to
mechanical accuracy to per
form your work correctly.
Your mind is in a speed
whirl and at times you are
chagrined at the number Of
mistakes that creep into your
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

ton Of one OF the WorlQ
great adventures. 1t was a
tragic misfortune that befell
Lincoln Ellsworth in the Ant
arctic when the airplane in
which. with Bernt Balchen and
Sir Hubert Wilkins, he hoped
to explore an unknown region,
was wrecked by an irremediable
mischance.
Perhaps two years must go
by before Ellsworth can try
again. In the meantime, Ad-
miral Byrd and his stout fell
lows are setting up housekeep-
ing again in the Antarctic in
their Little America, their ice
bound village of huts they
occupied three years ago. But
they, too, came nearly to grief
when an iceberg burst apart
and crashed into the sea al
most at the forefoot Of their
trembling ship.
The last great abode Of mys-
terry, Lincoln Ellsworth calls
the Antarctic, hiding no man
knows what secret Of the
human race. For once there
were great trees in the Ant
arctic and a climate favorable
to beasts and men, and per-
haps land bridge that led to
Australia.
Strange Nooks
But the Antarctic is not the
last frontier, not the last great
adventure left for man. There
are still strange hooks and
crannieS for man to poke his
way MISUNDERSTANDING jungles,
deserts and Businesses that
have barred his way since the
beginning of time.
Airplane and Zeppelin have
given men the mastery of the
air, and permitted them, like
Lindbergh, not only to look
down upon vanished civiliza-
lions choked in the jungle, but
actually to land at the foot
Of ancient temples.
Half the Arctic as we'll as
the Antarctic is still unmapped,
still clinging to ice-locked Sc
crets. In Alaska are mountain
chains and smoking valleys
studded with active volcanoes.
The heart of the Sahara, with
its buried cities, still lures.
In Southern Asia, in Burma,
there are mysterious, unknown
tracts of jungles, with lost cities
and buried empires. And there
remains the Amazon Valley,
with its unknown tribes of men.
Central Borneo is unknown
except to native hunters, and
of all the lands of the earth
New Guinea is the most remote
and inaccessible. The Congo is
but half-exp1ored, and the mid.
die Of Australia is a dark mys-
terry.
In Rhodesia and Bechuana.
land in Africa there are regions
with lost mines, lost cities
waiting for the coming Of those
bold spirits who hear the red
gods call and go out to capture
the kingdoms Of wonder.
Copyright. 1884. King Features
syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

Is Truth stranger than Fic-
ton? This is a question which
has half the world at logger
heads and the other half at
skies and sevenS.
Of course, in order to settle
it, one must know just how
strange Fiction is. Then, work
ing backward from that. we
can see how strange Truth is,
and come to some orderly de-
cision satisfactory to both sides.
The thing to avoid is hard
feeling.
Here are a few happenings in
real life which certainly are
strange. If you can match them
with happenings in fiction. I
shall be dumbfounded.
Take, for example, the case
of the man in Bermuda who
was walking along the street
one day recently 1756) when
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
STRANGERTHANTRUTH
By Robert Benchley

been killed and cut open, sure
enough, there inside were two
very small men arguing about
a woman. The men were re-
leased on bail and the milk"
man went home, still puzzling.
Perhaps the strangest of all
happenings in real life is the
series of events which led a
criminal to arrest himself and
then escape from himself, after
giving himself an ugly cut over
the eye. James Gargey, Of
Ultimate, Pa, surprised himself
in the act Of tearing off steps
from a house that he had just
robbed.
His idea, according to a con-
fidante of his, was to cover up
his tracks and make it look
like an inside job. In addi-
ton to being a clever thief,
Gargey was chief of police OF
Ultimate, and, in his official
capacity. was forced to arrest
himself, ct was Gargey who
gave w. S. Gilbert the idea
for 1.-THE Mikado," for which
he never got nickel0
Confronted by the necessity
for both making an arrest and
escaping, he went to a neigh
boring saloon Zone Of the Sa'
looms which did come back, in
spite of the slogan 1.-THE Sa-
loon Must Not Come BackD
and treated himself to a series
of connections invented by the
bartender in an off moment
when he was working on new
drink for the Miss Pennsyl-
vania" prize. Following these,
our hero swung on himself,
landing a neat left to the eye,
and then, wrenching himself
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

plexes" have
been accumu-
lating, until
now they're
one Of our
pestiest rack
cts.
An Inferior
ity Complex,
as any moron
knows, is an
inner feeling
that you can't
m a Ike the
grade. But of
course you're
not to blame
for that feel
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

work when quantity output is
sought.
Your mind has been active
but your nerves are on edge.
and that main thought Of
quantity production ruins
everything.
Jobs are not easy to pro-
cure and you want to make
good for the one who employs
you, Of course.
You have a reputation for
faithful energy and interest in
whatsoever you undertake.
You are given full credit for
'hese virtues where you are
employed but your inaccuracies
are working against YOU.
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
You Don't Have to Keep Your
InferiOritY Complex

Ever since some scientist with
more brains than sense invented
the term, "inferiority COM
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

out of his grasp, ran pell-mell
down the street and hid in a
Chinese laundry until the at.
fair had blown over. A rookie
policeman brought food to his
superior while he was in hiding.
These little incidents in real
life are, I think you will agree,
as strange as anything in fic-
ton, or. in case you think Of
them as fiction, as strange as
anything in real life. The point
is that they are pretty darned
strange.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

WASHINGTON TINES p1bished week day the " " "
George warhd,
/
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
Wise Words

Washing pig will not take
from him the love of mud.
The opportunity Of a life
time is seldom so labeled.
A good name is rather to be
chosen than great riches.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28

Frederick MacMonnies, b. 1868, sculp-
tor-Civic Virtue, etc IS. Hayley
Lever, b. 1876, British-American art
ist Elmer Reizenstein, b. 1892,
lawyer-dramatist-S Street Scene, Coun-
sellor-at-Law -. Marshall Field III,
b. 1893, inheritor of wealth -. Max
Schmeling, b. 1905, one-time heavy
weight champion prize-fighter -.
Gerardo Machado Morales, b. 1877,
recent butcher. president of Cuba
William S.. Paley, b. 1901, presi-
dent of Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn -. Leonard Mason, b. 1895, move
list >. William Montgomery McGow-
ern, b. 1897, anthropologist and. ex-
plorer -. Ex-Queen Amelie, b. 1865,
the Tragedy Queen" of Portugal.
Her father was an exile when she was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
TODAY,S BIRTHDAYS

Homer Saint-Gaudens. Director of
Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, born in Boston, 54 years
ago.
DR.. William D. Haggard of Nash
Vile, Tenn, president of the College
of American Surgeons, born in Nash
vile, 81 years ago
Frederick MacMonnies of New YORK
famed sculptor. born there II years
ago.
Leonard Mason, novelist, born at
Bonneville, Mass, 39 years ago.
Elmer Rice of New York, drama
tist, born there, ~ years ago.
Maj. Gen. George v. H. Moseley.
Il. S A, born at Evanston. ILL.,, so
years ago.
DR. Carl B. Mckinley of George
Washington Universitys College of
Medicine, dean and bacterologist. born
at Emporia, Kans., 40 years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
Today is the Day
With 4AyDy-DAY Story OF THE WORLD WAR 20 Year. Az,
Nv el ARK KlNNAIpn Copyright
Cne Press NAModaNm
See "TOd0y Is the Day"
BY CLARK KINNAIRD

had been put into the defenses. All
the courage of brave men fighting
with their backs to the wall was in the
belgian hearts. But here the superior
ity of the gun over the fort, of the
mechanic over the engineer, was to be
demonstrated.
The big guns with which the Ger
mans destroyed the Notifications of
Leige and Namur were turned now
upon Antwerp. Many of these guns
were of the 42-centimeter type, mean
ing in the inches that is caliber (the
diameter of it's muzzle), was 16 1-2
inches. For a long time Allied offic-
ers could not credit that a mobile
gun of such power could really exist!
The Allies had nothing comparable
with them.
This 42-centimeter weapon was like
a hOwitzer that is, it did not fire it's
projectile with fairly flat trajectory
as the rifled cannon do, but discharg-
ed it by so-called high-angled fire., it
was pointed toward the sky and thus
A comparatively small charge was
sent it's shell flying in a great arc.
needed, just enough to propel
huge shell through the air 1t was
not the speed of the shel which did
the damage, but the high explosive
in the shell itself
Transportation of howitzers of this
size was so difficult that they could
be used for seige purposes only, and
the original German sweep through
Belgium was slowed up because of
the necessity of bringing up the how
itzers with horses. Steam wagons"
new kind of automobile, were tried
llnSncCeSSfnllv
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28

of Puritan tancestory, destined TO be-
come the foremost reformer of her
times. She organized the Worlds s
Women Christian Temperance Union,
made the national w. c. T, U. the
largest society ever organized, officer
ed and controlled exclusively by .wo-
men.
But whine she was, with other .wo-
men, elected to the general confer
ence of the Methodist church, she was
excluded!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28

On the 28th the bombardment of
Antwerp was begun
The same day the German TX army
began moving out of it's concentra7
tiOn area in upper Silesia to effect a
junction with the Austro-Hungariap
l army for an offensive against the
Russians alon gthe whole front in
Poland.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
TODAY
TODAY's ANNIVERSARIES

1903--Prosper Merimee, French nov
elist, born. Died Sept. 13, 1870.
1SO7-Arnold H. Guyot, noted Anne
rican geographer of his day, born in
Switzerland. Died at Princeton, N. }.
Feb. 8, 1884
1S39-.Frances E. Willard, temper
ance advocate, college president,
founder president of the World w. c.
T. u, lecturer and editor, born at
Churchville, N. Y. Died in New York
City, Feb. IS, 1898.
1840--George w. Peck, newspaper
publisher, Wisconsin governor, auth
or of 'Peck's Bad Boy" born at Hen
derson, N. Y. Died in Milwaukee,
April Is, 1916.
1S62-Franklin F'aine Mall, noted
Johns Hopkins professor of anatomy,
born at Belle Plaine. Iowa. Died Nov.
II, 1917
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
TODAY IN HISTORY

1542-juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Port
uguese-born explorer discovered San
Diego Bay-naming it San Miguel.
1795-Historic Triple Alliance form
ed by Britain, Russia and Austria.
1S33-British Parliament Act abol-
ished slavery throughout its homin=
ions.
185O-F'logging abolished in u. S.
Navy and all vessels of commerce.
1S95-Died- Louis Pasteur, famed
French medical scientist, aged Y.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
TODAY'S HOROSCOPE

A high intelligence with lofty as-
pirations comes from this degree; but
IN spite of the loving, ardent dispos;-
tion. there is tendency to force the
way rather than to gain it by persua-
sion. Guard against this as much as
possible for there is danger of getting
hurt by the desire running away with
the control of the temper.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
YOU'RE WRONG IF YOU
RELIEVE

That catgut is made from the in
testines of cats.
That the primary colors are red, yel-
low and blue.
That sea-water never freezes.
That an oyster isn't fit to eat in
May, June, J,ly and August
month without an r.
That a cat has nine lives
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
I-qR,sJ FOR A. ..ALL FOR CHRIST
NIflfi51z,z.'.6 6f@0d
7ass No ls ~ ~. ~ ne oss ~ astA-Rala llA. .

PICTURE OF PEACE: The wolf al
so shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the KID;
and the calf and the young lion and
the failing together and little
child shall lead them.-Isiah IL: E.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28

Sixes $3.50 and &b. Eisbss 4s05 4Hd st.
list prices &t Lansing, subject to ebGSys
witbOSt noties. StNye Sjrs witk Jock,
metal tire eO0sr. bsmters front ~n(
Te~r. &Nd re&r spring eOOsrs bSib m @H
cars ~f sxsr~ cost. E6S1 G.M.A.C asyNss.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28

born. Her brother was exiled from
France. Her daughter died in infancy
Her husband and elder son were as
sassinated before her eyes, Her
youngest son was banished from
Portugal after 3-year reign.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
NOTABLE NATIVITIES

George Clemenceau, b. 1s41, radical
lawyer and editor who became the
wartime premier of France -. Kate
Douglas Wiggin, b. 1857, novelist :
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, etc i.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Bnck Page

1. Society of Patrons of Husbandrv
2. Jerusalem.
8. Louisa May Allcott
4. Danbury.
5. The Flatte.
6. American Journalist.
2. GeorgeR A. Sloan.
o. OeoA- SSd-s...-.-e4 -..~.--
3. Point Pleasant, Clermc=t County,
Ohio.
10 Famous violin maker.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-28
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year. 9Th day of Autumn. Morning
stars: Venus, Mars. Evening stars:
Mercury, Jupiter Saturn. Moon: last
quarter Sunday. Saint Wenceslaus'
Day in Czechoslovakia.
THE WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
Sept. % 1914-German strategy now
had three purposes: to take Antwerp
and capture the Belgium army, thus
preventing a junction of the Belgians
with their Allies, and ending attacks
on the German rear; to move south
through a gap between Lille and the
English Channel, taking the Channel
ports; and finally to offset the ad-
vantages gained by the Allies in the
Battle of the Marne by a real victory
north of Amiens.
Antwerp was a thorn in the Ger
man side that had to be removed: In
the days when every German soldier
was needed in France, a corps had
to be kept in Belgium to protect the
German lines of communication from
being out by the Belgian field army
in Antwerp. At the moment of the
Battle of Charleroi, Belgians made
a sortie and almost reached Louvain.
Again, while the battle of the Marne
was raging, a second Belgian army
had held up German bound for and
needed in the south until the critical
days of the retreat to the Aisne were
passed.
The Germans had to have Antwerp.
Before it's forts, in trenches long
prepared, stood the whole Belgium
field army. All the mabic engineers
could perform under the conditions