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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28

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you.
You actually believe that eVl.
dence-just as I believe most OF
my excuses and alibis.
But if you have the courage
and honesty to face the facts
AND A REAL DESIRE TO
FACE THEM FOR YOUR
GOOD, you'll be forced to ad-
NIT that what I say is true.
YOU'RE DOING WHAT YOU
WANT TO DO.
There are, of course, certain
acts of Providence over which
YOU have no control. You may
be crippled, or acquire a terri
BILE injury. Wen discount such
observation-disclosures many a
man has risen above them.
Well assume that your LIE
has meEely the normal handl-
caps. In that case you may be
sure Of this
YOUR LIFE, WHATEVER IT
IS. HAS NOT BEEN SHAPED
BY THE SHENANN1GANS
OF FATE NOR THE MALI
CIOUS HANDWRITING OF
HUMANITY.
TT HAS BEEN. SHAPED BY
DECISIONS. YOUR DECI-
SIONS OR EMISSIONS.
You wanted to do splendid
things in life. You wanted to
be strong, adventurous, cou-
rageous, original, in short, q
Superman. A
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

You felt the seeds of all such
grand achievement lay within
you. And, as a matter Of fact,
they did.
YOU COULD HAVE BEEN
THE THING YOU WANTED
TO BE IF YOU WE'RE WILL
ING TO PAY THE PRICE.
But there was the rub
When it came right down to
brass tacks, you didn't want to
pay the price.
You had never thought much
about the price one has to pay
for rich, full living-the price
of pain, loneliness, labor and
loss, risk and ridicule,. misery
and monotony.
You knew that such condi-
tions existed but somehow you
thought that YOU could skin
by them.
So when opportunity pre-
sented itself, and flashed a
C. o. D. on you before it
would deliver, you began to
haggle and hedge.
It wasn't the right job. Or
the boss wasn't fair. Or the
family didn't understand you.
Or you were still crippled by
some old grief or remorse. Or
you got mad.
Or you were afraid you'd lose
money, or people would laugh
at you. Or you were too lonely.
There were a thousand rea-
sons for evading that particular
opportunity-for evading the
price one must pay for any real
opportunity.
You thought of those reasons
and you passed the opportunity,
and waited for the next one.
And gradually the months
and years slipped away and you
found yourself living life you
hadn't planned to live.
A dull, futile sort Of life,
quite different from your rosy
dreams.
And now you try to blame
everyone else for making you
live that sort of a life. But
you alone are to blame.
YOU ARE LIVING THAT
SORT OF A LIFE BECAUSE
YOU WOULDN'T PAY THE
PRICE FOR A BIGGER ONE.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Interpreting Dreams
By Robert BenchIey

Two or three fishermen have
written in asking this depart
ment if it believes that dreams
go by opposites. I am still
trying to tie up their question
in some way with fishing, but
I can't. quite figure it out. I
don't even know that they were
fishermen.
However, I think that it is
safe to say that dreams do go
by opposites; otherwise, how do
you explain the steamboat?
have a record of a dream
in my files which ought to put
an end to any doubt on the
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WulGC 11OuoC
was the QUESTIONABLE of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
The spokesman of this or
ganization asked six questions
regarding the future policies Of
government.
The query wanted to know
when and how the budget was
to be balanced, whether it was
intended to further reduce the
dollar value, if unnecessary
public works would be con-
tinued, whether the United
States would cOlIabOrate with
other nations to secure inter
national sterilization of ex-
change, what policy would be
pursued in regard to agricul-
ture and whether the Govern
ment planned more or less
interference in private enter
prise,
In response the President
points out that there are hun
dreds of organizations similar
to the Chamber and that to be-
gin answering all queries would
be a tortuous task.
On the surface this response
sounds plausible, some OBSERVERS
admit. But they WGnt to k11o1O
Just ho1D far it will go.
Various organizations are
springing up. The American
Liberty League is one of the
newest and most important
ones. Hundreds of old organi-
cations exist.
From time to time all of them
will wish to learn of future Gov
eminent policies.
Old timers admit that it is
easy to calmly announce that it
is practically an impossibility to
answer all interrogationS and
therefore refuse replies.
They sag 1t Is an "eGSy out"
1Dhen the Administration might
be embarrassed by answering
some questions.
But they want to know just
how far it will go and whether
by this means the President and
his miniOnS will escape answer
ing profound interrOgatOrieS
directed by a logical but per-
picked citiZenry
Out in the San Diego District
of California, a progressive
Democrat is running for Con-
greSS and if he 1Dins he 1Dill be
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matter. It was dream report
ed to our Dream Clinic by
man who has since settled
down and become the father of
a family, and, therefore, does
not want his name used. CHe
isn't ashamed of the dream,
but the family didn't pan out
very weld.
According to this man (and
there is no reason to doubt his
world, he had been worried
about business matters for sew
eral days preceding the dream,
and had decided just to get in
to bed and pull the covers up
around his head. This was
around noon.
He had no intention of going
to sleep, but, what with one
thing and another. he doZed off,
and, before he could stop him.
self, was dreaming at a great
rate. In his dream he was in a
large, brilliantly lighted public
dining-room with all his clothes
on. This, in, itself, marks the
dream as unusual. He not only
had all his clothes on but ne
was not running for a train.
This, he thought, was funny,
but paid little attention to it
at the time. :...
It seemed to him that he sat-,
fully-clothed, in this public din
ing-room, not running for q
train-in fact not doing any.
thing at all, for quite a long
time, although probably it was
for the fraction Of a second.
really. Then he woke up in a
cold sweat. He was so I'm.
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The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By lohn Snure, lr.

one of the real World War
heroes in Congress.
He is Lieut.. EdOuard Victor
Michel Lac, U. S. N, retired.
A recipient of the Medal of
Honor, War Cross and Diploma
of the Italian Government, his
record reveals that he deserved
his awards.
On May 81, 1918, when the
U. S. S. President Lincoln was
torpedoed by the German sub
marine U-90, Lieutenant lac
was captured and held aboard
the submarine until it reached
Germany.
He had received such valua-
BILE knowledge that he deter
mined to escape and give his
information to the United
States.
He jumped from a S1Uitt train
in the face OF fire from armed
German guards. He 1OdS recap
tured and confined to prison at
ViIlinger, Baden, Germany. On
October 6, 1918, he cut his Ddy
through barbed 1Oire, made his
UGy through the mountains of
southwestern Germany, hGUing
only raw vegetables for food.
At last he reached the Rhine,
swan it at night in the imme-
diate vicinity of German SEN
tries.
He was taken by Swiss guards,
obtained a passport and con-
tinued on to London where he
delivered his information.
The last days of his services
were spent at the Washington
Navy Yard.
With primaries over in many
States, scores of members of
Congress, particularly from
Southern States, are returning
to town.
Forced to go among their
constituents to wage cam
paigns, they were asked many
an embarrassing question.
Consequently, they were ex-
tremely anxious to get away
and head for comparative
solitude in Washington. "a
Under the noses of all police
chiefs assembled in to1Un in con.
vention, a lot OF shooting 1Oe',t
on here the other day.
Treasury Department guards
defeated guards of the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving on
the pistol range.
Either the Treasury GUARDS
haze improved or the Engraving
bunch DIRE poor shots.
Until the Coast Guard begaH
to teach the Treasury crowd
how to shoot recently they
couldn't have hit the White
House across the street. z.
Attention might be called,
while on the subject of shoot.
ing, that there is a certain
news correspondent around
town who is supposed to keep
his reportorial stethoscope on
the heart of the Treasury.
Instead, he spends his time
shooting paper wads at spar
rows that alight on bushes out
side the Treasury Department
press room.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington Times
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28

nerved by this dream that ne
took off all his clothes, went
to a public dining room and
ran for train, which was just
at that moment leaving the
cloak-room. He missed it.
Now, here was dream which
worked out in exactly the OPP
posite fashion in his waking ex-
perience. This, we will call
Case A. The mans name will
be furnished on request. 1t was
George A. Lomasney.
Case B. is almost as strange,
and equally impressive in prov
ing that dreams go by op-
posites. A woman was the
dreamer in this case Though
aren't we all?) and she is very
anxious to give her name, and
to waltz with someone, If pos
sible.
In her dream she was in a
greenhouse full of exotic plants,
which was on a sort of funicu-
lar, running up and down the
side of a mountain. The noun
tain was just a shade narrower
than the greenhouse. so that
the ends of the greenhouse
jutted out on either side, max
ing it difficult for automobile
traffic, which was very heavy
at this point, to pass.
In the greenhouse with the
woman was a deaf elk which
had got in somehow through a
hole in the screen. The elk
couldn't hear a word that the
woman was saying. so she just
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went on with her tapestry-weav-
ing, as she had to have the JOB
finished before the greenhouse
got to the top of the noun
tain on its II o'clock trip.
(That is, IL o'clock from the
foot of East Fourteenth Street,
where 1t started.
Now. the amazing thing about
all this was that exactly the
opposite thing happened to the
woman the very next day. She
was not in a funicular green:
house: she did not see a dear
elk, and she knew n thing
about tapestry-weaving.
Laugh that off, Mr.. Scientist.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
T human Side of the News - By Edwin c. T I'LL
By T. E. Powers

circle the mileage is 1927
but flying restrictions add the
other thousand miles. Hun
gary, Bulgaria, and Turkey do
not permit the passage of alien
planes. The northwest frontier
of India is closed also, the
British government having so
directed because it does not
want the responsibility of at
tempting to Succor the plane or
planes which might be forced
down in hostile territory. AS a
result, the filters must take the
southern route after leaving
Bagdad and follow the Persian
Gulf.
A bit of an international in
cident was caused by the regu-
lation first laid down by the
Royal Aero Club of London
which is the governing board
for the race. Americans espe-
cially protested the ruling which
required from each entry a GER
tificate of airworthiness meet
ing European requirements.
The English stand was that the
race was for legitimate air.
planes and not for flying gas
tanks"
The Americans countered
with the argument that as ap-
piled to them the regulations
would bar such planes as
Colonel Lindbergh's Spirit Of
st. Louis, Wiley Posts Winnie
Mae and Frank Hawks speed
record makers. There was
quite some acrimony in the
exchange. of cables and opin"
ions, but the matter was
Strengthened out and the cream
of the flying world will toe
the mark. KingSford-Sm1th,
knighted by the King for his
exploits, and rated the greatest
of long distance fliers, is the
likely favorite.
James and Amy Mollison are
to fly one of the three mys-
terry ships which the British
De Haviland Company is build
and which are guaranteed by
the makers to make not less
than 200 miles an hour. The
American contingent includes
Col. Roscoe Turner, who only
recently bettered $50 miles an
hour in completing the $500
mile trip from Los Angeles to
New York in 10 hours 2 min
utes and 81 seconds. Ruth
Nichols and Jacqueline Coch-
rams are among the women
entered. Wiley Post is to be
there, as we'll as the Irish
transatlantic airman, Colonel
Fitzmaurice.
The odds against the aviatorS
are figured in terms of the in
surance premiums announced
by English and American UNI
derwriters. A participant will
be insured against death only
at 8 per cent, which gives him
a 12-to-1 change of survival.
The premiums on the aircraft
range from 10 to 20 per cent,
according to the value of the
plane. The underwriters figure
that more than a quarter of a
million dollars will be paid in
premiums. The way is long
and the odds are long. But it
is q gallant band which would
make the try. To each we say:
Happy LandingS!"
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
syndicate. Inc.lt
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On the early morning of O.
tober 20, 81 air pilots, repre-
senting Is nations, will set
forth on the most interesting
air adventure ever undertaken.
For they will be straininG every
nerve to win the most Spectacu-
lar air race ever posted on the
boards of time, the grand
derby from London to Mel
bourne.
For the well-known pilot VIC
tory will mean hard cash and
enhanced fame. But to the
unknown pilot it offers an OPP
portunity for an instant leap
to worldwide celebrity.
Over sea and mountain and
desert the 81 pilots must wing
their perilous way as they fol-
low the Great Circle around
the curve Of the earth. the ed
dies of the Taurus Mountains,
the sudden storms of the Bay
of Bengal, the torrential down
pours of the Borneo forests,
the tremendous stretches of
ocean from which death rides
every wave.
For many hundreds Of miles
along the route to be taken by
these adventures there will be
no trace of water, no human
life, no possibility of food or
of refueling. A crackup will
mean, almost certainly, the end
of the game. The pick of the
worlds pilots have enlisted for
the rich prizes and FOR the
celebrity which will crown the
brow of the victor. Many Of
them, such as James and Amy
Mollison and Kingsford-Smith,
are familiar to Americans, and
some, indeed, are among our
best American 1llerS.
On Capt. James Mollison's
first flight to Australia he fin
ished in just under nine days.
Ulm, using British machine,
reduced the record to six days
and eighteen hours. It is pre-
dicted that the winner of the
London to Melbourne Derby
must fly the course in five days
or under. The favorites, accord
ing to LloydS of London, are the
Mollisons, who will fly as a
team; Wiley Post, the famous
American round-the-world flyer,
and KingSford-Smith, of Aus
tralia. Yet a dark horse may
flash out of the blue to defeat
them all.
A cold, hard fact that every
flier knows who has entered
his name in the thrilling contest
is that some may never finish.
The start is from London and
the finish is Melbourne. In
between these 12,458 miles are
oceans and deserts, mountains
and forests. Sixty-four air.
planes, % from the United
States, are listed to take off in
this great race with world &C.
claim and prize of $4,000 to
the winner.
To get home first, and the
odds are IL to / against any
man Or woman surviving, the
winner is expected to make
Melbourne in a little more than
three days, averaging about
1000 miles of flying in each "a
hours.
Will Rogers, as much an avia-
ton enthusiast as he is a hui
moriSt, halls the 'Eace as the
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You don't
believe that.
You deny it
with aggriev-
ed yelps. You
re Ell fort h
yards of evil
d e n ce to
We that
you're N o T
doing W II a I
you want to
do TN a t
you're t h e
victim of cir
cunstanceS-
that Fate has
gypped y o u
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third. The handicap division
for standard type airplaneS
will pay $4,000 to the first to
reach Melbourne and $4,000 to
the runner-up.
Three continents and fifteen
countries will be flown with
"a checking and fueling sta
lions along the route. Roughly
it runs by way Of Athens,
Aleppo, Bagdad, Allahabad,
Calcutta. Singapore, Darwin
and Melbourne. BY the grand
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sporting thrill of the century
and it is not difficult to agree
with him. The occasion for the
contest is the centenary celebra-
ton of the Australian state Of
Victoria.
Sir Macpherson Robertson
conceived the idea and posted
prizes of $4,000. Two divisions
share in the prize money. The
speed section is a free-for-al
with $4,000 to the winner.
$500 for second and $4,000 for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
RuSsia'S Noble Experiment
Some Russians Don't Seem to Like It

Some Russians Don Seem TO Like IL
The rainbow hued pictures of Russia painted by Soviet
propagandsts and American crackpots may have made
YOU wish that you lived in that proletarian paradise,
so-called instead of in depression-ridden America.
But now and then even from Soviet officials them
selves you get hints that there still few improve
ments possible in the conditions obtaining there
At Moscow the other day, for example, Commssar
Ordoikdze made optimistic speech about Soviet in
dustry, BUT
He also said
"One reason for the general slOlUing up of pro.
ductiOn is that in some plants skilled workers.
such as machine oilers, receive only the pay
as ianitOrs and IUatchmen, thus discOurGging
them and causing them to quit
"Many industries have been so slOlv in paying
their workers that thousands haze quit, causing
a labor turnover disastrous to efficiency.
"Better living conditions are required to keep
lUOrkers from shifting from place to place."
Etc, ETC., etc.
America is not perfect country, but at least skilled
labor here is paid than unskilled, payrolls are
usually met and living conditions remain higher than
anywhere else in the world.
Nor does population go barefoot, most of the
population of Russia-despe the noble experiment of
Communism-still does.
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BeSieged by
q u e s on =
naireS from
v gu S or
G a n izationS,
the Chief Elk
ecutive indi-
Gates that he
h a S neither
the time mol
inclination to
a n S W e r all
queries.
One of the
most recent
inquiries to
arrive st the
White House
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A Vicious System
The Quota" On Taxes

2 Everyone knows that the Government needs money.
Everyone knows that the steady in which funds
are flowing from the Federal Treasury will be dried up
unless the Government keeps other streams Of money
running into the Federal Treasury
We know that and in general the taxpayer ready and
willing to do his share
BUT THE TAX CATERERS OF THE TREASURY
DEPARTMENT HAVE RECENTLY INSTITUTED
SYSTEM WHICH, UNLESS 1T IS CURTA1LED OR
SoFTENED, WILL BRING ABOUT TAX REVOLT
WHICH IS LIKELY TO DRY UP THE TW0-WAY
MONEY STREAMS OF THE TREASURY
This is the vicious quota system for the COLLECTION
of back income taxes
Legitimate efforts must and should be made to bring
the reluctant taxpayer to the teers window Inc TAX
evader the avoder and the fraud must be made TO carry
their share of the governmental expense
Under THE QUOTA SYSTEM, - HOWEVER, HON
rsT CITIZENS. READY AND WILLING TO MEET
THEIR TAX BILLS; MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE
NEVER AVOIDED OR EVADED THEIR TAX OBL1-
CATIONS OR WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN sUs-
pECTED OF FRAUD IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH
THE GOVERNMENT, ARE BEING HARAssED BY A
HORDE OF COLLECTORS
Business men and private citizens being subjected
to unnecessary and annoying prylng.
Citizens and business men whose regulations above
reproach are being held up to contempt
All this because purely arbitrary manner Treasury
officials have decreed that two hundred million dollars
in back taxes must be collected in the current fiscal year
Without rhvme or reason these officials have pro-
nounced that American citizens have cheated their Gov
enment of two hundred millions of dollars their in
come taxes.
And that amount the tax agents directed to get for
the Government.
THE TREASURY DOES NOT ASK: IFS THIS
MONEY DUE?"
IT SAYS IT IS DUE AND FORTHWITH GOES OUT
TO COLLECT 1T.
Agents are given quotas and told they must attain
them They must bring in the money without regard to
circumstances or even without question to its being
due.
Hard pressed by their superors it is not unnatural that
The agents should 90 heroic lengths to reach these
quotas
The result is that they delvng into matters which
long have been forgotten because they susp
cious in the first place.
Old tax returns dug up, regulations pre-
scrbed and added penalties imposed in order that
the arbitrary ''quota" may be met.
Taxpayers big and little being told that they must
respond to demands, must answer new interroga-
tories must abase themselves before hordes of agents
in order that hundred million dollars may be raised
SUCH A SYSTEM CAN BE PRACTICED ONLY IN
DEFIANCE OF THE AMERICAN CONCEPT OF GOV
ERNMENT. IT CAN BE FOLLOWED ONLY BY A
VICIOUS AND IN MOST CASES AN UNWARRANTED
ATTACK UPON THE STANDING AND INTEGRITY
OF THE CITIZENS AFFECTED.
RuSSia's Noble Experiment
Some Russians Don't Seem to Like 1t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28

President Roosevelt again ex-
hibits himself as an adrOit poll
tician, observers say.
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You Can Do What You Want
To Do
What are you doing in life?
YOU'RE DOING WHAT YOU
VIZ NIT mn M
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WASHINGTON TINES published
u ID. c.
c.
j. FtEDaMlck managing editor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28

Out in the San Diego District
of California, a progressive
Democrat is running for Con-
qreSS and if he DinS he will be