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Evening star., 1934-05-23
CLARKSBURK FUSION
LEADERS ARE NAMED

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 23.-Pro-
gressive Democrats Of ClarkSburg dis
trict met at the home of Charles E.
King, Clarksburg, and selected Ray
mond King, Edwin D. Burdette and r.
Kenneth Waters as the Clarksburg
Democratic members Of the County
Committee of the Fusion party re-
Gently formed to place a full county
ticket In the field next Fall. Mrs
James B. Maughlin, William H.
Thompson and Mrs. Erwin H. Mateny
were named alternates.
King and Mrs. Maughlin were men,
bers of the Advisory Committee of the
Democratic organization Of the county
Evening star., 1934-05-23

bert siko, st. Louis policeman, shot
the night Of April 20 as he pursued q
hold-up man. Louis De More, former
Chicago taxicab driver, was convicted
of the murder after pleading guilty.
De More has repudiated his confess
sion and said it was made because OF
fear of hanging If he stood trial. Sew
eral witnesses who identified him have
since looked at Couch and said they
are in doubt Of the original identifi-
cation.
De More's attorneys have applied
that his sentence be set aside on
ground he was denied benefit OF
counsel.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
SQUIRREL BITES TWO

KANSAS CITY, May % PA
squirrel leaped from q tree yesterday
and bit q woman and her grand
daughter.
Mrs. l.. Nora johnson. so. suffered
bites on both arms and her grand
daughter, Wade White, % months,
was bitten on the right arm. They
were given precautionary treatment
for rabies.
Police shot the squirrel.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
MODERNIST DISPUTE
LOOMS IN SESSION
Flare-up Due Tomorrow at Pres.
byterian Meeting at Cleve-
land.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, May 23.-The first
fiare-up Of the Observation-Disclosures
ernist controversy in this years Gen.
eral Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of
America threatens to develop tomor-
row only a few hours after the OPEN
ing session Is called to order.
The touch-on will come, numerous
leaders of the assembly believe, in
the election of a new moderator to
succeed Rev. John Mcdowell of New
Evening star., 1934-05-23

vIoLErTE is modest man: ne
+ talks very little about his supervising pa's
MILLIONS Of dollars worth OF Panama
instruction. But ask him about cars
CUP in the States, you test cars IN man man
made sand pits, he told us. In the ,,sa oanaa
Zone, our everyday driving soon pr1seo I've
how how well a car takes punishment We
found that of all the low-prlced cars
plymouth stands up best.
And Mr.. violette isn't surprised tnat
Plymouth proved to be the strongest. AS
an engineer, he knows that steel sa nen ~
forced m with steel is the safest form 0'
construction you can have.
rrve given my Plymouth some some. tesI,nG S4asI
beat;nes" he says. "But its oafety-oteel
Rodv is still Just as quiet and tight as 'he
day it left the factory -,
Some people who read this story story ,Sha wa,,
ston ripht here. They are the people ~nT NJ
tb;pk that safety-Steel Body Ism az al
necessary for ordinary driving
Evening star., 1934-05-23

York City, one Of the first acts Of the
initial meeting.
Fundamentalists and liberals con-
Quoted the final campaigning for
their respective candidates today, but
made no predictions Of the outcome.
The two outstanding candidates are
DR.. w. G. Covert of Philadelphia, rep
resenting the liberal group, and Rev.
James G. Mcconnell Of Upper Darby.
Pa, a favorite Of the fundamentalists.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
BOYS BAND WILL PLAY
Holy Comforter Group to Head
Parade in Baltimore.

The Holy Comforter Boys Band will
lead the entire Sodality Union in a
parade in Baltimore on Memorial day
which will precede a solemn pontifical
mass celebrating Maryland's tercen-
tenary.
A section made up vf about 5000
members Of the Washington sodalities,
representing 40 parishes in this city
and vicinity, will be in the parade.
Evening star., 1934-05-23

Eve bunish cars dozen here. But let me tell you -
ho,, NV Plymouth takes it in this fo1s" sp0'

It isn't . all Of the time; But no1oas
~ asn e., forever trust the "other fellows drlv-
ian ;n1. That's why Plymouth engineers bullt 9p
EXTRA safety into Plymouth - wny 'nsy y
e1 also equipped it with the safest KIND em o1
I hrakes the Hydraulic Brakes you Ii
find on trucks and taxis.
Ittakes Plymouth to give you complete
nrotection in every driving emergency.
And it takes Plymouth, too to give you
complete con, comfort under all possible ofiV-
ing conditions.
Even at the highest speeds, ITS pasen1eu p1u
Floating Power engine mountings s.;eat deaaea
motor Vibration. Even on the ra1eies.
,no noads. it's Individual Wheel Sprlngins
carries YOU forward smoothly.
Or GALL THREE" low-priced cars tiym as
outb alone has all Of these plus .S Iea'ui.S'
>%rv T%,n the others. Then ride in Plymouth.
ANY ANY Dodge. De Soto or chryslsr afnrs. ,;me.
viii will gladly arrange it for you ANY ''ms'
Evening star., 1934-05-23
MAN HELD IN KILLING
Admittedly ANOTHER
Second, Eerving Life Sentence,
Says He Pleaded Guilty to
Escape Hanging.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. May 23.-George Couch
27-year-old ex-convict, was indicted
yesterday for q murder for which an
other man is serving life sentence.
Couch Is charged with staying Al
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

Luck threats come true because
we BELIEVE they will. Belief
isn't a vague quirk Of the
imagination-it is the most
positive and powerful force in
life.
You might as well put a
time bomb under yourself and
wait for it to explode, as to
permit yourself to BELIEVE
something discouraging or de"
moralizing; for that BELIEF
will proceed to raise Cain as
deliberately and inevitably as
INT.
Why? Because the moment
you decide to BELIEVE some"
thing, that moment you be-
gin to focus all your attention
and energy and expectation
on that thing, to the exclusion
of all other issues.
Remember the old game we
used to play called Beaver
when we'd go along the streets
looking for old gentlemen with
boards? Immediately we saw
boards, and nothing else but.
Countless exciting and divert
ing objects might present them
selves, but we were blind to
them. We had eyes only Tor
boards.
There's nothing CLANCY about
it. Bad luck is a game OF
beaver. You get what you're
expecting. You find what you're
focusing on. Also, THROUGH
THE POWER OF YOUR BE-
LIEF, you give yourself more Of
the same dose.
ALWAYS WORKS
Bad luck breeds bad luck.
This is partly because if you're
expecting bad luck you'll pass
up the chances for better breaks.
Also, bad luck has inevitable
consequences which produce
more cussedness.
BUT, THANK HEAVEN,
GOOD LUCK WORKS THE
SAME WAY-AND 1T CAN
AND WILL START WORKING
WHENEVER YOU DECIDE TO
SWITCH BELIEFS AND START
EXPECTING A SWELL DEAL
INSTEAD OF A SOUR ONE.
Endless Chain" al
ways have them, for they al
ways work. We're all running
an Endless Chain of WHAT
HAVE-YOU.
Into that chain we put what
we believe, what we expect.
Out of it comes-our destiny.
So now, just to give the theory
a. break, suppose you copy THIS
four times and pass it on
copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate. Incl.
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

and may be- Fl. w. Van Loon
come a decent place Of abode
for men and women Of good
will toward each other.
I have not anything special
to do. I am allowed to sit up
for ten minutes at a time.
realize that a great many ser.
mons shall have been delivered
ere the Demon Nurse comes
in to warn me that Time is
up!" Why shouldn't I follow
the good example and 90 a
little preaching on my own?
OLD-FASHIONED
I am beginning to feel old.
Not physically, for the warning
the Good Lord sent me as a
Christmas present has really
done me infinitely more good
than harm, and it may have
added 20 years to my potential
three-score and ten. But I am
told that I am completely be"
hind the times, and that my
ideas are as old-fashioned as
those of my grandmother who,
together with all other good
Dutch housewives, was con.
vinced that no lady should
leave her own house oftener
than once a week.
And of all my old-fashioned
ideas, none is more thoroughly
ridiculous than the notion that
man is not completely an eco
nomic animal, and that in all
he says and thinks and does he
may be guided by a few mo-
tives that have nothing to do
with the insistent desire OF his
stomach to be filled at more or
less regular hours.
Now let me say one thing in
self defense. I may not always
have been surprisingly bright in
everything I myself have
thought and done. But I am
no Hindoo. The GhandieSque
disregard for the dictates Of the
tummy are entirely foreign to
my nature.
I have seen hunger. And to
be entirely honest, I have Tin
very mild way) experienced that
very uncomfortable feeling that
is the result of a rather indif-
ferent system of feeding. and
that is usually caused by a lack
of the necessary money with
which to buy a couple OF
wienerS.
But I also know that in q
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
EUery individual Is Influenced
By o. Duality of Motives

I do not want to become too
obscure in what I have to say
or covering the meaning Of my
words with too thick a layer
of metaphysical speculation.
(There are two nice words for
you to try on the baby)
In the simplest possible
terms, what I mean is this:
That man is not only an eco"
nomic animal but also an
imaginative creature. And
while it is true that he can
not possibly live without bread,
it is equally true that he can
not possibly hope to survive
without his fairy story.
7 use the word in its widest
possible meaning. You can
translate it into the terms that
are nearest to your own heart
religion, or ideals, or science,
or one or the other forms of the
arts-but something that lies
entirely outside and beyond the
immediate needs of the body
and that merely goes to satisfy
the spirit.
These fairy stories have as
sumed all sorts of forms and
shapes since the first of our
ancestors broke through the
delicate shell that separated his
conscious from his unconscious
self and thereby set man in
finitely apart from the rest OF
the animal kingdom.
FAIRY STORY
These fairy stories have been
sometimes bordering upon the
sublime, and sometimes they
have descended to the lowest
pits of Hades. They have been
alternately gay and sad. They
have allowed men and women
to ascend to the loftiest heights
of altruism, and occasionally
they have degraded them to a
state of selfishness of which a
hyena would have felt thor
oughly ashamed. But they have
been ever present to influence
man in all his deeds and
thoughts.
Quite often the economic life
and the fairy story life have
overlapped, and have become SO
hopelessly interviewer that it
was impossible for the historian
to keep the two apart: to say
with any degree of definiteness.
Here the one begins and the
other ends"
But those of us who are not
hopelesly biased by some eco
nomic or religious prejudice
know that there is a quality OF
motives in every individual, and
that no one was ever born who
did not at one time or another
substitute the question Of What
can I believer" for that oi
when do we eat?"
The Moscow papers will
hardly care to copy this. But if
they want to do so they can go
ahead, and I will even draw
them an extra set of pictures
especially suited to the needs Of
the greatest fairy story race Of
all ages, the Russians.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Waterloo
Bu Frank SuLLiuan

A woman in Boston seized a
man she did not know, kissed
him heartily and fled. We
thought something like this
was about due to happen, but
looked for it in some other
city, such as New Orleans or
Los Angeles. Well. it marks
the beginning of the final as
sault on mans long-since preg-
nable position.
Every other solace by which
man has for centuries deluded
himself into thinking he had
the upper hand has been
snatched from him one by one,
but taking the initiative in
grabbing kisses from strangers
of the opposite sex has up to
now remained mans undis'
puted privilege.
It has come to be accepted
that ladies could wear breeches,
and vote, and smoke. but no
man ever dreamed the day
could come when a lady would
kiss a strange man unless he
kissed her first.
Now that the returns from
Faneuil Hall, the Cradle of Lib
erty, are in, the men can get an
idea of what they are in for.
AS a matter of fact, the girls
have been ready for some time
to grasp the initiative in flirting
but they have not attempted to
rush the situation because they
were not yet prepared to take
the next step in the war be-
tween the sexes, j. e., taking
over the custom of tipping the
hat. This has been solely on
account of the hats the women
wore, which have been untippa-
BILE.
This fall women started wear
ing hats that they could tip, or
do practically anything else
with, so the signal was given to
proceed. The next development
will occur shortly. A woman in.
let us say, Cleveland, will pass a
gentleman friend on Euclid
Avenue and before he gets the
chance she will doff her toque
to him, leaving him nonplussed.
With women nonplussing men
in Boston by giving them unex-
pected kisses and women nom
plussing men in Cleveland,
panic among men will spread
rapidly to other cities and men
will rapidly become more and
more nonplussed until they get
to a point where they will
scream if a woman looks
crooked at them.
Il
The women are crazed with
success, but let them remem-
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

this RAYMOND Raymond " Sinclair
v. Sinclair, who died because of
speed he fought so long.
Had they known this man
their blasphemy might nave
changed to blessing, their ours
ing to commendation.
For those who really knew
Sinclair knew him as a mana
fair man. He hated his work be-
cause in it he made enemies.
They said he never tore up a
ticket he issued. That waS
wrong. He often tore up his
own tickets and persuaded tet-
lou officers to tear them up
1Uhen he believed the arrested
person WGS in need.
He once arrested a speeder,
gave him a lecture and was
about to release him. The mo-
torist said:
"Thanks, officer! I'm glad
you stopped me and not that
So-and-So Sinclair"
Ray asked if the motorist
knew Sinclair, and was told that
he did not know him.
Ray swung on his motorcycle
and, in parting, said:
"Well, tell your friends that
you Just met him and the So
and.So gave you a square deal!"
And he gave them all square
deal, this man who died yester-
day in an accidental crash.
So when he reaches the Land
Where They Haze No Accidents
mag he be permitted to driUe a
golden chGriat across the sky
where traffic regulations are
NrknoWn.
Industry warns the Govern
ment to curb spending and GER
tain persons cannot reconcile
that attitude with reports that
Christmas business, resulting
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Preparedness for Peace
The Pope Gives Wise Counsel

Pope Plus X in his moving plea for international peace
mot only voices the sentiments of all of good will but
points out that the best Of maintaining may
PREPAREDNESS.
H is often said" the Popes message declares, "that
he WhO wants must prepare for We accept
this saying If preparedness means a guaranty of
peace"
As far America concerned history has always shown
that either have been DUE to unpreparednes
The awful losses in blood and which they have
entaled could have been mnimized utterly averted by
policy Of national readiness for the when threatened
Like everything else, safety has its price.
Those who unwilling pay that price by adequate
araons for defense condemn their country to constant danger
and to sacrifices thousandod greater they
been if the facts had been faced in time.
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

largely from Federal expendi-
lures, went to a peak cOmpa-
rable with 1929.
Throughout the Nation re-
ports Uere circulated that mer-
chants and consequently indus
try witnessed a gain in Christ
mas business this year that
could be based, to q large de-
gree, on the Government cir.
cul1tion OF funds.
Yet industry and the mer.
chants demand a curb on ex-
penditures.
Fear of taxation, growing in
oppressiveness, is the reason for
the protest and the warning.
With the Government emer-
gency budget swelling instead of
declining, industry fears the
eventual taxes that will be
necessitated will force it to
shoulder a burden that it cannot
bear.
Industry fears that what gains
were derived in gross business
in the holiday season or at other
times will be eaten up by taxa
tion.
1t believes that it will be nee
essary for the Government to
invoke capital and other taxes
to gay for the spending orgy.
It also believes that the pro-
hibitive taxation will force GER
tain industries from business
eventually.
Consequently, industry does
not believe it is taking an un-
fair stand.
DR.. William Mather Lewis,
president of Lafayette and
former president of George
Washington University, at
recent family gathering" Of
the Washington KiwaniS Club
was guest speaker.
Discussing the advancement
of Communism, DR.. Lewis sug-
gested:
Gas look around and see
that at this meeting the family
is placed in the foreground Of
American life, I am convinced
that as long as that condition
exists it will be a definite
barrier to Communism.
"Tn Soviet Russia, the
family has been relegated to
the background and when that
condition exists Communism
survives.
"It is necessary that in Amer
lea family must maintain a
paramount position"
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

ber one thing: II tney WanI
to take over all these hereto
fore strictly male privileges
they can, but they should be
warned that they can't nave
their cake and eat it. They'll
have to take over the burdens
the male has carried, too, CHIEF
among which is the chore OF
lighting cigarettes for the op-
posite sex.
One reason women have met
with only feeble opposition
from the men is that the men
have been too tired to hight
back, and the main reason they
are so tired is because they
have to expend all their
energy finding a match every
time a woman reaches for a
smoke. Maybe it is part OF
the general female plan OF
strategy to exhaust the male
by hiding the matches. Ger
tainly it is a fact that When
a woman needs a light no
matches are ever to be found,
and the search for one often
makes Jason's quest for the
Golden Fleece look like a trip
to the corner grocery for
pound of coffee.
So from now let the girls find
their own matches. And if they
can kiss strange men in Boston
they can not only light their
own cigarettes but the mems
also, and thus give us a needed
rest.
And from now on they can
rise when a man enters the
room and give their seats to us
in the subway and on street
cars and buses, and they can
walk on the outside when &C.
companying gentleman.
X X
For years, out of compliment
to pretty girls, young men have
deserted their work and their
studies to stand by the hour out
side poolrooms and cigar stores
in the bittereSt kinds of weather
in order to comment approving
ly on the pretty girls passing by.
Let these poor lads have their
day now. Let the girls stand in
front of the beauty parlors and
ogle the boys for a change.
And I venture to make guess
that the day is not quite as far
distant as we men fondly believe
when a distracted wife, pacing a
hospital corridor, will be ap-
preached by a nurse who will
say to her, Congratulations,
Mrs. Smork. You are the mother
of a fine boy weighing eight
pounds"
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, lnc)
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Hendrix Willem van Loon

takes the physical part of his
existence for granted, and he
then devotes the surplus of his
efforts to what he considers
the real purpose Of life and
the real business of life Gf we
are entirely honest with our
selves) begins and ends within
the realm of the imagination.
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

get you if you don't send it
along pronto.
Trash - Tripe Tommyrot?
Sure-but it's a safe bet that
seven out of every 10 people
who receive that cock-eyed non
sense will hand it on, firmly be-
lieving that they'll have all the
promised bad breaks if they
don't. AND THEY'LL BE
RIGHT!
POSITIVE FORCE
Why are educated, Twentieth
Century human beings still as
superstitious as their heather
grandpas? That's why. NO
use telling them it's nonsense
that things like that don't
happen. They know they DO.
They can point out proof.
They can't explain it. but
there it is.
And you'd be plain crazy II
you think you can laugh them
into opening umbrellas in the
house or throwing Endless
Chain letters into the waste
basket.
Superstition does work, and
the reasons obvious. Bad
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Too Many Cards in the Pack
New Dealers, Better Count 'Em

The NRA has produced 1o,269 laws, output of 200
AAA has produced 300 Other alphabetical agencies
have been equally prolific.
The New Deals deck of legal cards to have fixed
size.
Critics can't complain that the deal from the bottom of
the pack.
There ism t any bottom.
It's grand and glorious shuttle with the New Dealers
picking hands for themselves quickly that
tell if he is winning losing
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

we have for
gotten tn e
ballyhoo of
Salesnanship,
and that divi-
d e n d S o n
earth m u S t
precede t h e
treasures W e
hope to lay
up in Heaven
and we say a
silent prayer
t h a t thi S
W orld may
cease to be a
d o g kennel
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

normal world (and the world is
not always in the throes OF
such a far-reaching economic
revolution as is taking place at
the present time) the average
person is fairly well assured of
at least an average amount of
the immediate necessities of life.
Under these circumstances he
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Superstition Does Work

Superstition Does Work
Well, well, here it is again
just in time to fix things pretty
for the New Year-the same ole
Flanders ENDLESS CHAIN OF
GOOD LUCK. Remember how
it runs?
"This letter of good luck 1UGS
sent to me. Copy this and
send it to four of your friends
auithin "a hours to whom you
aDish Good Luck. This chain
1Das started By an American Of
ticer in Flanders. 1t should go
three times around the World.
Do not stop it or you 1D'll haze
Bad Luck"
And so on and on. Some OF
'em tell about how Mary
Smiths harm burned down be-
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

J
They con.
denned him
for setting up
q record Of
traffic arrests
and CT I Sed
him for his
tickets. They,
even the Y
who did not
know him
b a sphemed
him.
They bias
phemed be-
cause tn e y
did not know
The Washington times., 1934-12-29

The foolish and vulgar are
always accustomed to value
equally the good and bad.
There is not a fiercer hell
than the failure in a great OBJ
iective.-Keats.
The glory dies not. and the
grief is past.-BrydgeS.
The Washington times., 1934-12-29
Words of Wise Men

Most of our misfortuneS are
more supportable than the COM
ments of our friends upon them.
Cotton.
It is the instinct Of under
standing to contradict reason
jacob.
Common sense is not so COM
mon.-Voltaire.