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The Washington times., 1934-01-17

L1oWeNeF, VI
raft.
Killing a Play
And you shift to those occasions which have not yet
been by the rraff what do you discover? Say,
the opening night play The curtain has been 10
minutes the plot has begun to unravel good dramatic
entrance has been arranged the star is arriving and it
important that she shall say something significant the
moment she At that point the audience breaks
into prolonged cheers holding the play spelling
Illusion, and acting generally if the star ought step
out of her part and make small speech.
The first night of The Lake. which brought Katharine
Hepburn back to New York like an opera than
plays people began to applaud every exit we'll every
entrance and I really sorry for excellent butler
because he conspcuousy the only who did not
get hand To be sure the tradition in opera is that
hired gang appaud but the people at the opening The
Lake" weren't paid they had in fact paid for their
pleasure and they going to get they spoiled
the pleasure Of others.
At the Ballet
few nights ago the enchanting Monte Carlo Ballet
produced Of the masterpieces of tme Petrouchka
In this you have music dancing and pantomime I
myself sensitive about in the theater that dis
like much whisper at silent movie but
admit that with effort you watch pantomme while
lot of people applaudng The thing you cannot
do in the midst Of this offensive clappng listen music
And half dozen times at least the audience broke into
violent applause at the end of figurewhie Stravinskys
music went the orchestra. Sometimes the applause
before dance finished just to prove that the
clappers knew what was good
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cannot be returned I thought that part Of the ga
and that the cheers for the art of the winning
However, cheers at the wrong time amark of the
raft
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cannot be returned.
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
Deaths

ley Of the Kings in old Egypt,
Arab workmen, toiling under
the watchful eye of English
overseerS, broke into the hith-
erto unviolated tomb of a king
who reigned in Egypt more
than 5000 years ago.
Thrilled and dszzled by the
marvel Of their find, the white
men who directed the expedi-
ton which had found and
opened the tomb of Tut-Ankh-
Amen observed with only pass
ing interest the legend writ
ten on the wall of the cham
ber where lay the king of an
cient days:
Death shall come on swift
wings to him who toucheth the
tomb of Pharoah." The treas
ures of art and science held
their interest. A little later the
British nobleman, George Ed
ward Stanshope Molyneux Her
bert, Earl of Carnarvon, who
organized and financed the ex-
pedition, died suddenly at Cairo
from an insect bite, so the
world was told. And presently
Howard Carter, noted Egyptolo-
gist, Lord Carnarvon's aide in
the expedition, was stricken
with some mysterious malady,
the victim of some unnamed
poison. He recovered after q
long illness.
Ancient Belief
And then began a series Of
inexplicable fatalities. The Hon.
Reginald L. Wendell, secretary
of Lord Carnarvon and his
wife's own brother, died sud.
denly.
The death list grew and
grew, until, just the other day,
the twentieth man of those
who had part in breaking open
the tomb which was sealed by
a warning and a curse, passed
from life at the age of So
Arthur Edward WeigalI, dis
tinguished author of "Cleo-
patra," Marc Antony" "Sap-
pho of Lesbos" and alexander
the Great"
Although Howard Carter, one
of the three surviving mem.
bers of the expedition sur
wives, any suggestion that King
Tut-ankh-Amen or his priests
could have invested the tomb
with a curse which could kill
after 5000 years, or that there
was any possibility of death
dealing germs having been
placed in the tomb when it
was sealed 80 centuries ago,
the uneasy feeling remains
that there is something about
the opening of the tomb, it's
violation, stripping it of it's
treasures, which is just beyond
the horizon Of human reason,
just outside the drawn circle
Of the rational.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
School Clubs Open
An Auspicious Start


The opening of the first boys clubs the local schools
advocated by The Washington Times should symbolic
the of which eventually will embrace every
section of the city.
which the community will gain better citizens.
They hold immense potentiaies for good not only for
the youngsters who through them will enter activities
but for the entire city.
There filter place in the city establishing such
clubs both for boys and girls than in the school houses
In instances the school buildings already proper
and ample equipment for the clubs They have gymnasum
Guditoriums workshops libraries and other facilities
UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS THESE FACILITIES
FOR THE MOST PART ARE IDLE FOR LARGE PART
OF THE DAY. DURING JUST THE TIME THAT THEY
FAILING TO EARN ANY RETURN.
doubtedly face few difficulties in their work.
They should bear in mind that the clubs primarily for
children and that the widest latitude possible should be given
the children to select their own activities.
TOO MUCH SUPERVISION AND CONTROL. IS APT TO
DRIVE THE YoUNGsTER AWAY FROM THE CLUBS AND
SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
In connection with the opening the first clubs here
interesting to read recent statement by Senator Copeland
Of New York, chairman of special Senate committee in
vegtgating crime. He writes:
"I tremendously interested in the movement to
establish clubs in schools. There is nothing ef
fecOe to combat criminal tendencies When real
ICES that the criminal is % old and that
other large groups those of 19 and 13 Of
q is time to look after these yOunssters."
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the aeronauticS branch, an in.
vestigating committee will then
be prepared to sift the qualifica-
tions of Mr.. M tchel1 to perform
the duties for which Secretary
Roper selected him last summer.
Press Agent Busy
There has been tremendous
activity in the aeronautics
branch OF the Department Of
Commerce ever since the office
created by Congress was abol-
ished long enough to eliminate
Mr.. 7-4itchell's predecessor and
change his title from Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for
AeronauticS to that Of Assistant
Secretary of Commerce.
None of the high-powered pub
licity offices maintained in all
the executive departments Of
the Government except the
State, War and Navy Depart
ments have turned out more
press releases on more different
aspects Of aeronauticS, both
civil and military, than the
press bureau as operated since
Secretary Roper and Assistant
Secretary Mitchell united to
make America first in the air"
Many of these activities have
developed ramifications leading
into the Departments charged
with the national defense. An
investigating committee owes it
to the honor of the Congress, as
we'll as to the integrity Of the
national defense, to compare the
recommendations in relation to
aeronautics Of Secretary Roper
and his political assistant from
Missouri with the expert opin-
ion of the ablest constructors
and engineers the armed forces
can place at the disposal of the
investigating branch of the
Government.
What vitality concerns the
AIIleIlCdu people III regard W
The maladministration of the
Aeronautics Branch by the po-
litical wrecking crew that has
disrupted it during recent
months is the ultimate effect of
this catastrophe upon the ma
tional defense.
BY calling among the first
witnesses such distinguished de-
tenders with the colors as those
specified an investigating COM
mittee will lay firm the founda-
ton for an inquiry that will
ultimately establish justice"
and provide for the common
defense" in the AeronauticS
Branch There lesser purposes
appear to have been uppermoSt
in the minds of the politicians
with whom Secretary Roper and
Assistant Secretary Mitchell
have surrounded themselves.
Copyright. 1884. by The
Washington Timesl
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The Human Side of the News
Sea Serpent of Loeb Ness-Mysterious Deaths
Ru E11Diy, n Hill
By EdIUin C.. Hill

News picture cameramen,
hastily sent to Scotland by the
old Thunderer Of Fleet Street,
the London Times, prowl for
days along the shores of Loeb
Ness, one of the series Of lakes
which connect the North Sea
with the Atlantic Coast. Their
assignment is a strange one,
even for newspaper cameramen,
for they are under orders to
find and photograph a creature
which should have been extinct
millions of years ago, one of the
family of dragons which once
were lords of the earth.
Day after day they lug their
heavy camera equipment along
the % miles of Loeb Ness
length, peering over it's steely
waters, and with no result.
And then, just as they are
about to abandon the curious
adventure, they detect, far out
in the lake, something dark
and moving, something enor-
nous, something they cannot
put a name to.
Tourists Drawn
And they get a picture, Sk
long range, of some sort Of
creature which is listed in the
natural history books, and be-
longs in the domain of legend.
They get a picture of the ia
nous sea serpent of Loeb Ness.
So into the news he comes
again, this survival of the old
dragons. That he exists, what
ever he is, there can no longer
be much doubt.
His huge bulk is taken for
granted, and gentlemen arise in
the sedate House of Commons
and question the ministry about
him.
Hundreds unite in testimony
that they have seen hirn-min-
listers, naval officials, fisher
men, farmers, Sportsmen, news
papermen.
This extraordinary incident
might suggest that even sincere
scientists are often too hasty
in assuming the impossible on
this old earth, or in the seas
which lave it.
The great dinosaurs have
passed. TyrannoSeurus Rex,
the king tyrant lizard, the most
destructive life engine ever
evolved, is imbedded in the
strata of millions of years ago.
Gone also is brontosaurus, the
thunder lizard, which was a
hundred feet in length, weighed
40 tons, and was the largest
beast that ever walked the
earth. But the sea serpent of
Loeb Ness is of their blood and
kin, and one imagines that
doors are locked tight and
prayers are said very prayer
fully along the shores of that
link of the lovely Scottish lakes.
Twelve years ago, in the Val
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nuuticS Branch of the Depart
nlent of Commerce.
When Ewing Y. Mitchell of
Missouri faces the congressional
investigation of the aeronautics
branch of the Department Of
Commerce which an outraged
public sentiment should soon
force, he will have an oppor-
tunity to hear what the pilots
who fly the colors over land
and the mails and the passen-
gers up and down the Federal
airways think of his qualifica-
tions for the office be now
holds.
It ought not to be difficult
for a committee of either
House or for a joint commit
tee of the two Houses to find
witnesses North, East, South
and West who are capable of
giving expert testimony as to
why Mrs. Mitchell is where he
is and what he has been doing
since he got there.
The coming Congressional in
vestigation, if honestly organ
lied, fearlesSly pressed and kept
entirely free from the bunkum
of political partisans and the
propaganda OF special privilege
should clear up many mysteries.
Good Beginning
A good beginning might be
made by calling to the witness
stand Capt. Lewis R. Mcbride,
Construction Corps, United
States Navy, now head of a de-
partment in the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He was the officer assigned by
the Navy Department to the
Board by the late Dwight w.
Morrow, which President Cool
idge appointed ON September
IL, 1925, to make a study of the
best means of developing and
applying aircraft in national
defense.
Captain Mcbride is eminently
qualified to tell an honestly or
ganized bipartisan investigating
committee of the legislative
branch Of the Federal Govern
ment the reasons for the recon-
mendationS of the Morrow
Board, one of which the Con-
gress adopted when it created
an Assistant Secretaryship of
Commerce for Aeronautics under
the Department of Commerce
and made the Secretary of Com
merce responsible under the law
for the regulation of civil aero
nautics.
In the light of the testimony
which Captain Mcbride is so
well qualified to give in regard
to the fundamental functions Of
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Let's Get More Excited

Until We Do, Kidnapping Won't Be Stopped
The Bremen kidnapping in st. Paul reminds you that
this crueles of crimes" has not yet been dealt with
fectively by the American people,
It is timely reminder.
We Americans have knack Of getting steamed up over
peculiarly outstanding abuseand of forgetting
about it.
No greater of horror swept the country than
that which followed the kidnapping of the Lndbergh child
Kdnapers thereafter got short sh from the courts
from the mobs-for while.
But since then the excitement has died down. and the
subject had almost vanished from conversation until this new
outrage focused attention it again.
Far be it from to hope that dnapings will
The brutality of the crime not only the immediate
victim but toward his family and friends be exag
gerated.
YET apparently public apathy is so great that only re-
peated deeds Of this nature shock into action
That is high price to pay for legislation and organization
which will safeguard the lives and security decent citizens
Let trust that the price will have been paid van
and that out Of these attacks innocent individuals and
innocent homes system will be devised which will stamp
out the crime of kidnapping completely.
We shall not be "cvzed nation until that has been
DONE
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the opera Elsie Robinson
tions in the big hole-the blast
ing, the removal of stone out Of
the pit, and finally the actual
cutting Of the stone. After a
time, the poet engaged the
workmen in conversation. He
asked three men the same
question, What are you doing?'
The first said, Earning $5 a
day. The second replied, Cut
ting stone.' However, the third
paused before he answered, and
then, with a sparkle in his eye,
proudly stated that he was
building a cathedral"
WHAT AM I BUILDING?
WHAT'S 1T ALL ABOUT?
WHERE IS ALL THIS WORK
AND WORRY GETTING ME?"
Each day you ask these
questions with increasing be-
wilderment; sometimes, wit h
sick anger and despair. And
you're not alone. Everywhere
other people are wondering the
same thing about their lives.
Walk down the street. Look
into the eyes you pass. Deep
in those eyes, under the laugh
ter or the excitement, back OF
the curiosity or sadness, lies
the shadow of that bewilder-
ment.
Life's so short! A few years,
and then we're over. And we
want, so desperately. to make
our mark before it is too late.
Each one of us wanting to
make his or her mark. But
what chance? Life's so crowded;
so hurried! How much can
any one man or woman, or the
work of any one man or wo-
man, matter?
WHAT AM I BUILDING?
AM I BUILDING ANYTHING?
DO I AMOUNT TO ANY
THING? IS ANYTHING I DO
WORTH WHILE?"
Standing over your dishpan
bending over your filing cab
inet-plodding down, through
the mud and mist, to the
south pasture-fighting your
way, through the subway
crowd, to your shabby niche
in some office building, those
questions pick and poster like
malicious ghosts.
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On the SidelineS
Watching the Parade

The Senate appropriations subcommittee handling the nde
pendent offices appropriation bill will meet tomorrow to take
what will probably be decisive action the subject Of
restoration of Government salaries to their normal standards
ALL PRINCIPLES OF REASON, LOGIC, AND COMMON
SENSE DEMAND THAT THE SUBCOMMITTEE RECON-
MEND THE IMMEDIATE ABANDONMENT OF THE
SALARY sLASHING PROGRAM UPON WHICH THE GOV
ERNMENT UNWISELY EMBARKED IN THE EARLY
DAYS OF ECONOMIC DISTRESS.
The salary sasher anacronsm in these days Of AD
vANCING PRICES AND ADVANCING SALARIES IN
PRIVATE INDUSTRY.
The Federal Government instead of setting example for
the backward and grudgng employer should take the lead
for the forward looking and patriotic employer who
though at temporary loss, is increasing wages
INCREASE PURCHASING POWER AND YOU PROMOTE
RECOVERY!
That is what the Government has said the private
ployer.
The Government has pointed out to him that dollars spent
for wages will back hundred-fold in the form
increased sales and increased production And the Govern
men honest in pointing that out to the business
BUT NOW THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE RE-
MINDED THAT 1T TOO CAN MAKE CONTRIBUTION
TO THE FIGHT TO STEM THE DESCENDING SPIRAL OF
PRICES AND WAGES.
It needs to be reminded it employees about one million
men and It needs to be reminded that they
the employees in private industry have part in our
national economic life.
THAT PART RIGHT NOW Is THE PART OF VICTIM.
1T MUST NOT REMAIN so.
It to the Senate to change the status of this million
Of citizens.
INSTEAD OF BEING DRAG UPON THE PROSPERITY
MACHINE, AS THEY NOW ARE THESE MEN AND
WOMEN SHOULD BE GIVEN CHANCE TO PARTICI
PATE PROGRESSIVELY IN THE RECOVERY PARADE
They should not be left the side-lines
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let her imagination run riot
and wish for a husband pos
sessing every desirable quality
she can think of, from wavy
hair to a poetic soul, or a mil
lion dollars.
This is not a fair test-be-
cause you will seldom meet a
normal human being of either
sex who possesses more than
three or four of the qualities
you most admire.
No doubt, if the average girl
were asked to name, off-hand,
the three vital requisites Of the
ideal husband, she would an
swer brains, good looks and
money. Yet, Reno is filled with
sad-eyed women, who have dis
covered that this combination
doesn't always make for happi-
ness.
Personally, I regard three
other characteristics as far more
essential to any nice mans
makeup. Character (Which in
cludes capability) is the pri-
mary requisite of a husband,
as well as the first element of
charm. Loyalty is as necessary
to happiness as breath is to life.
And to be lovable is far more
important, in the vicissitudes
of marriage, than to be rich or
brainy or handsome.
Any girl who has found a
life-mate who is capable, loyal
and lovable, just hasn't any
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And where's the answer? You
look for it in vain in sink or
card file, hay rack or ledger.
Yet there, in those monotonouS
chores, lies the record Of your
life.
That's all I amount tot" you
say drearily to yourself. after
all my fine dreams, this is where
I've landed. Wasting my life
over jobs that don't mean a
thing to me or anyone else"
That's what you're saying and
thinking, isn't it? And each
time you say it you feel a little
duller, a little more discouraged,
and something in you cries out
more bitterly at the humiliation
and futility Of it all. Just as
something in those stone-cutters
cried out against the senseleSs-
ness of spending precious life
hacking at stone.
But one man saw the truth.
His back ached, as theirs ached.
He, too, was blinded by CRIME
and sweat. He, too, must have
longed to throw down his tire
some tools and be off to those
great, free adventures he had
dreamed of as a boy. Yet, in
spite of all that, he saw-beyond
the dreariness, drudgery and
disbursement; above the dark
ness of a quarry pit-through
to the towering glory which
HIS work was making possible.
HE WAS NOT JUST CUT
TING STONE. HE WAS BUILD
ING A CATHEDRAL! HE WAS
NOT MERELY WING
ROCK OUT OF A MOUNTAIN
SIDE. HE WAS RELEASING
BEAUTY AND WONDER AND
ECSTASY IN THE HEARTS
OF MEN! HE WAS CLEAR
ING A WAY FOR GOD!
And because he saw that
truth, "the Truth had set him
free"-as it always does. It
had set him free from re-
sentiment and bewilderment,
drudgery and encouragement,
and had filled him with pride
and contentment and a grow
ing sense of power.
His job was as monotonouS
as the job of the other work
ers-BUT LIFE HAD MEAN
ING, BECAUSE HE HAD HAD
THE COURAGE TO STAND
UP AND LOOK, THROUGH
ALL THE MURK, FOR THAT
MEANING.
You, too, can either "cut
stone" or "build a cathedral"
You, too, can waste your life
in resentment and humiliation
over dishpans, shovels. ledgerS,
filing cabinets.
OR YOU CAN BE A 1884
PIONEER, TAKING YOUR
PLACE IN THE NEW ARGO-
NAUTS' TRAIL, HELPING TO
BUILD RIG A-CLEAR-
ING THE WAY FOR GOD!
It's up to you. You can look
at your job with the eye of a
slug, or an eagle. AND YOU'LL
SEE JUST WHAT YOU'RE
LOOKING FOR!
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mails. r a n
a cr oSS this
story, and it
yanked m e
out Of tail
spin! Maybe
it will do the
same for you.
"A poe t,
on ce stroll
ing near the
outskirts OF 8
ge city,
came upon q
stone quarry.
For q time
he watched
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WORDS. OF WISE MEN

Who makes quick use Of the
moment, is a genius Of pru-
dence. -LaVater.
It Is not the disease but
neglect of the remedy which
s !nerally destroys life.
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There is no substitute for
thoroughgoing, ardent and sin
cere earneStness. Dickens.
It is but poor eloqence which
only shows that the orator can
talk, Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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help us feel sorry for ourselves
or proud Of ourselves or to help
us love ourselves.
And these, alas, are the weak
moments in which most men
and women make impulSive
marriages.!
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-24

In the old-fashioned fairy
story, the princess was given
only THREE wishes. But in the
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thing more in this world to
WISH for or to ask Santa Claus
for. All the rest is up to HER!
Every woman will admit this
yet, alas, there are so many
weak and foolish moments in
her life, when she simply shuts
her eyes and reaches for the
most interesting, the most COM
Portable or the most attainable
man at hand and marrieS him
"just because"
There are weak moments,
when a girl feels that she could
dispense with all the masculine
virtues, just in order to have
a nice, sympathetic shoulder to
cry on. Or some Understand
ing" man to whom to confide
her trouble. Or to meet a man
with a sense of humor.
There are lonely moments,
when she feels that a mans
character and honor wouldn't
matter a penny, if only he
would take her in his arms
and tell her how wonderful or
how beautiful she is.
There are weary moments,
when all her theories go
smash, and all she yearns for
is somebody to take her job
and her worries off her tired
shoulders.
These are our dangerous mo-
ments, when anything of the
opposite sex looks just like the
answer to prayer, because he
happens to respond to our
mood. The poignant moments
when we NEED somebody to
,s;s5;es''.%1<5SS9A y
9s0
- e Z
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Marrying Moments

The trouble with these queS-
tionnaires among college stu
dents is that they give too
much leeway to the imagina-
ton.
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TINES published the
=.
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

What Are you Building?
Got up blue. was wondering
what the heck. Began looking
through some old trade jour-
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AerOnauticS Bureau Victim
Of Wrecking Grew
By James T. Williams, Jr.

This is the eighth of a series
of articles By Mr.. Williams on
the reorganization OF the Aero
11auticS Branch of the Depart
nle7lt of Commerce.
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

thing more in this world to
WISH for or to ask Santa Claus
for. All the rest is up to HER!