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bally lambasts President Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt for his ad-
vocacy of dams for water power
irrigation, and flood control.
Condemning the Presidents
"dam policy" Hastings attempt
ed to score recently by saying
that the East would have to pay
for the power project dams Of
the West, called it a futile pro-
gram and said that it was a
costly scheme.
Back before the days When
little Dan" took up his cudgeI
so actively agCinSt the Demo-
cratic policies, there 1DGS a
StGunch progressive Republican
President named Theodore
RooSeUelt. Surely Mr.. Hastings
Mould not denounce the policies
OF the great "Teddy."
In his first annual message,
dated December 8, 1901, the late
Teddy" Roosevelt, progressive
Republican, said:
"Great storage works are
necessary to equalize the flow
of streams and to save the
flood waters. Their cOnstruc.
ton has been cOnclusively
shown to be an undertaking too
vast for private effort.
"Nor can it be accomplished
by the individual States acting
alone. Far-reaching, inter-
state problems are involved;
and the resources of single
States would often be made
Quate.
ct is properly national
function, at least in some of its
features.
"The storing of the floods in
reservoirs at the headwaters of
our rivers is but an enlarge
ment of our present policy of
river control, under which levees
are built ON the lower reaches
of the same streams.
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tie dangerous. something Ut!dU
will keep life perpetually at the
bubbling point-somethlng tnaT
will make her senses tingle ana
her eyes shine at 40 as they 90
at 20. ,d
she not want love to be IKE
this? Why should she be con-
tent with the drab existence
her mother endured?
Would a man be content to
run his business or farm as
his grandfather did? Would
he accept grandpa's humdrum
social program? Of course ne
wouldn't! A modern man in
sists on living up-to-tne-
minute.
Then why should a 1884 girl
he condemned to compress her
lively needs and nature into an
1884 rut? Isn't she as bright
as a man-as reckless and re-
sourceful? She certainly is!
So what, she wonders, is love,
"for a girl like that" Not that
"old victorian stuff'-but love
a Ia mode?
What is love? The answers
simple enough. though it takes
most of us years to find 1t
and, even, then, we don't want
to admit it.
Love is life. Whether 1884
love or 1884 love-it makes no
difference. Love is always just
one expression of life, and 1t
runs by the same old rules.
Love always an adventure
always thrilling. challenging,
tingly, winey!" A grand idea,
but it can't be done. And
that isn't because there's some
thing wrong with love or the
lover. The difficulty lies in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-17
School Shortages
A Problem for Parents

AS the fall term of school opens Washington finds
itself with public school system which cannot be re-
rarded as ADEQUATE to the needs of the community
WE ARE FAR BEHIND IN OUR SCHOOL BUILD
ING AND ANNUALLY ARE ACCUMULAT1NG DE-
F1CIENCY OF CLASSROOM SPACE.
WE ARE STILL USING SCHOOL BUILDINGS
WHICH WERE RECOMMENDED FOR ABANDON
MENT TWENTY YEARS AGO.
WE ARE SERIOUSLY SHORT OF PLAY AND REC
REATION SPACES IN THE VICINITY OF OUR
SCHOOLS. ,
OUR SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE HAMPERED BY
ovERcRowDED CLAssRooMs AND BY CLASSES
WHICH ARE TOO LARGE 10 PERMIT VI AOG-
oUATE INSTRUCTION.
School officials who are in touch with the situation
have frequently warned against the difficulties which we
are ping up for ourselves because OF the
nocv which made the school system suffer such heavy
sacrifices during the depression years.
It would be well for the city if the parents well as
the children were to go to school today and on other days
during the fall term.
While the children are studying their books the parents
might study the facilities which are available Tor the
children
more thorough knowledge of the faults and lacks of
the school system by the parents would result
sure in rapid improvement in conditions.
Certainly study of the school systems needs by the
citizens of our community would result in overwhe
inc nubc demand that the recommendation of the Board
of Education for increases in the appropriations for
schools for the coming fiscal year be written into the ap
preparation act.
The boards recommendations contemplate construction
activity which would keep pace with the regular increase
in pupil enrolment.
That is not asking too much If anything the boards
recommendations err on the side of modesty.
THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE THE LEAST
THAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD DEMAND ON BEHALF
OF ITS CHILDREN
q
j. " ' ~ " ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-17
Constitution Day
Still Fundamental

In manv minds the celebration today of the annlver-
aarv Of the signing of the Constitution of the United
States takes on the significance of weeping for the dead
There are many factions in the country which loudly
nroclam that the country has outved its charter OF
Ihertv that the fundamental law which has made Amer
ica GREAT has ouved its usefulness that it is outmoded
and decaved and that within its sanctuary the nation can
no longer find the security and comfort which for decades
it provided.
These people would have us cast onto the junkheap
The Constitution and with it the guarantees and rights
which that instrument preserved for the people,.
Others refer to the Constitution only with sheer.
Still others give lip SERVICE say it is fine docu
ent and should be preserved in the Library Of Congress
hut that as living breathing instrument of liberty and
law it has no place today in the life of the nation
Thase detractors of the Constitution whether overt or
covert show no regard for the tradition Of the nation and
little knowledge of its history
Thew seem to believe that America in the last few years
has been brought face to face with crisis more acute
and more dangerous than has ever faced in the past
Thew would seek out new instruments with which to
meet this crisis protesting that only and as yet un
tested theories can meet the changed conditions of the
past year.
To them is recommended study of the Constitution
and of the history of that instrument in other crises of
our national life.
America in the past has met many crises.
From them it has emerged triumphant Those trumphs
have not been won by ettisonng the fundamental char
sers of our national being
Thew have been won because we have adhered Loyalty
% those charters because stuck to the proven and
tested instruments of American liberty.
So shall it be in this instance
AMERICA WILL RISE ABOVE IT'S DIFFICULTIES,
WILL sURMOUNT THE OBSTACLES WHICH NOW
LOOM so LARGE UPON THE HORIZON. IT WILL
RISE ABOVE THESE THINGS BECAUSE THE
GREAT BODY OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IN AND
WILL FOLLOW THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
OF GOVERNMENT CONCEIVED, AND LAID DOWN
nv THOSE WHO WROTE THE CONSTITUTION ON
THIS DAY IN 1887.
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Human Side of theNews - By Edwin c. Hill

1.-THE Man With the Hoe"
There was, as now, Rous-
seauesque stir and ferment in
California. Edwin Markham
was lifted to Olympus; Henry
George, too. had come from
San Francisco,
And now. Upton Sinclair, the
literary gad-fly, is keeping the
stolid burghers awake nights, as
he sweeps the Democratic pri-
mary with his Utopian END
Poverty in California" CAM
paign. Concurrently, another
such incubus to conservative
citizens is the strange secret
sect, the Utopians, which is
seeping out around the country
from California. California,
too, has an elaborate and dras-
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that something was expected Of
him, crashed through with
'For he's a jolly good fellow!"
The same thing happened only
recently to the Bishop of Lon
don. ION rising to reply" says
a newspaper account, "he was
received with loud cheers and
the singing of For he's a jolly
good fellow"
The same thing happens in the
United States every time a
group of men (and, Heaven help
us, sometimes women. tool feel
like paying especial tribute to
some poor guy who wishes he
were dead at that very moment.
In the first place, no words
could be less appropriate, and
everybody feels this fact as he
finds himself singing them.
That is why everybody is so en-
barrasSed, and so glad when the
whole horrid affair is over. Even
the incorrigible song-leader who
has struck it up must wish, by
the time he has reached the
third For he's a jolly. good fell
low" that he had not got quite
so hearty.
I don't know in which case
the words Jolly good fellow
are more embarrassing, in the
case of Dante and the Bishop Of
London, or in the case Of some
tough mug who is being feted
for having won the heavyweight
championship of the Navy. I
think that probably the latter
bushes more. Anyone calling
him q "jouy good fellow to his
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construct and maintain these
reservoirs as it does other pub
lie works"
Could it be true that the fact
that one advocate 1Uas Republic.
an and the other Democrat
dGmpens Little Dams" enthuS-
iGSnl?
Senator william Gibbs Nc
AdoO is heading back to Cali
fOrnia.
The former Secretary Of the
Treasury has a serious problem
on his hands.
It will be his work to assist
in the revision of the E. P. I. c.
platform of Upton Sinclair so
as to make it conform to the
wishes of California Democrats.
AS Sinclair ran on an indie
pendent ticket and now ex-
poets the support of the Demo-
q cratic Administration, Old-line
Democrats are hoping to recon-
cile the two programs.
California Democrats will vote
on their platform in convention
on September 20.
1t is expected that the old
DOnkeyiteS and Mr.. Sinclair
will get together and agree on a
platform that will tend to radi-
cdlise Democratic party policies
and make more conservative
the Sinclair plan.
Unless they get together it is
almost certain that there will
be more political upheaval in
California.
Both sides are hopeful, how.
ever, that the agreement will be
reached.
When the National Capital
aDGs inundated in certain Sec
tions By heavy rains the other
day, one of the places to become
exceedingly damp UGs the Trea-
surg press room.
Shortly thereafter, Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgen-
THAI, jr., was having his usual
press conference.
Attending the conference was
veteran news-hawk who, at
certain times, has been Sus-
pected of looking on the wine
that is red.
In the midst of the session,
this same reporter announced
to Mr.. Morgenthau:
"Mr. Secretary, one Of the
places that was flooded was
the Treasury press rOOm."
The genial Mr.. Morgenthau
gazed at him Understandings,
and asked quiZzically:
with water?"
Copyright, 1884 The Washington
Times.)
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up of democracy, which be-
levers in the status quo might
have found much more dis
turbing had it not been for
the inept, if not fantastic
leadership of Howard Scott.
Technocracy was Matched here.
"Sockless Jerry" Simpson
flourished in Kansas, and the
Ku Klux Khan first grew in
the troubled reconstruction
days in the South. There is no
sectional locale for Utopias.
But California seems more in
tent than any other lotus land
in peering through the mists
toward the enchanted City Of
Camelot. It was in 1898 that
Edwin Markham published, in
the San Francisco Examiner,
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By Robert BenchIey

face would have to take the con-
sequences.
For a nation of people who
are so crazy mad about giving
each other testimonial dinners,
we have a remarkable paucity
of virile, up-to-date song tributes.
They all seem to have been COM
posed in 1870, when people made
puns in Latin and Greek and 1t
was considered pretty devilish
to lead a COW up in the chapel
bell tower. Even the music dates
back to Sir Arthur Sullivan and
the days when Marlborough was
taking himself off to war.
Take, as another example, the
drinking song beginning: Here's
to Blevitch, he's true blue! True
blue! What kind of talk is that
for a bunch of 1884 DRINKS?
And the last line: when he
wants to get to Heaven, he WILL
90 the other way!" Do you sup"
pose that they mean ZIP"
Hail, hail, the gangs all
here!" does manage to keep in
the vernacular pretty well for
an old number, but, even in that.
all but the most emancipateo
singers say what the heck do
we care?" And Hail, hail" is
not a paean of praise to any one
person, anyway. It is every man
for himself as the hero.
The point is that we have
outgrown the old formal group
toast-to-music, and don't know
IL That is urhw nnhndx writes
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the national economy, pro-
viding for the retirement OF
all workers at the age Of IS.
It is moving eastward rapidly,
claiming 5000 converts a day.
It's semi-invalid, mystical
leader, Eugene J. Reed, is all
but canonized by his follow
ers. The society is incorpo-
rated. in Los Angeles as, ,"Uto-
plan Society, western Division
It's support is believed to have
aided greatly In the nomina-
ton of Upton Sinclair.
Back of all these schemes
there is, first of all, a promise
of security, and provision for
old age. Public men have rea'
lized that this urgent human de-
mand can and does motivate
some times cratic ponUAcal
action, and, during the years of
depression, the cause OF old,age
pensions has been sharply adj
vanced. Twenty-eight States
now have such Laws. Senator
Clarence C. Dill is pressing hard
for Federal legislation. Various
associations for social security
are organizing and campaign
ing.
Out of all the bewildering
weller of our confused econ
omy, out of all the conflicts Of
interests and opinions, there is
emerging, in the. minds of the
masses, the determination that
somehow, by any kind of a des-
perate expedient, some measure
of security must be attained.
Utopias- the Timaeus OF
Plato, down on through Thomas
More's Ideal State, Bacon's New
Atlantis, Samuel Buffers Ere
whom and William Morris
News from Nowhere-usually
are made by old men; old mems
visions, rather than young
mems dreams. Naturally they
seek security. Young men are
less afraid of risks and conten'
ton, always hoping to parlay a
long shot into something or
other.
DR.. John Dewey muses. be-
nignly over his Utopia, in which
it seems all men are scholars.
The eugenists build millenla
where all are pole vaulters.
G.. B. s. Haldane, the British
scientist-and here is our secret
preference-thinks perhaps we
have messed up life whole
lot with our febrile muddling
and meddling, and that, in his
Utopia, there will be regard
for Natures inSistence upon
variation, and that every man
will have a chance to be him.
self. He thinks some kind OF
salvation may mysteriously
emerge from the life stream,
but that it can't be put into 1t
by laws and systems.
Just in case you are inclined 10
regard too lightly these Grant
mass movements which come
in times of stress, think back
to a group of fanatics known
as the German RacialiSts,"
who were first out in front in
1924. Their Nordic fallacy was
laughed down by everybody who
knew anything-but here they
are right up in the wheel box
in Germany today, with the
great Rosenberg state phil
oSophy built on their fantasy.
copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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age pension movement, but
lightly touched on in the news
papers, is sweeping eastward
from California, and now claims
100000 adherents. It would
require the Federal Government
to pay every person sixty years
old a monthly pension of 5000,
to the end Of his life, with the
provision that he spends the en-
tire amount within the month.
According to the official pros
pectus of the movement, there
would be 10000 600 persons thus
taken out of the competition
for jobs, as a second condition
would be that the recipient Of
the pension must sacrifice any
employment he might have.
Funds would be provided by a
national sales tax.
Proponents of the plan insist
that the dual achievement of
removing more than 100000
persons from jobs, and turning
24,000,000,000 each year into
the channels of trade and man.
ufactures, would end unemploy-
ment and depression. They
also stress the vast gains in the
abolition of poor farms and re-
lief agencies for the. care of the
aged poor. The plan is put
forward by DR.. F. E. Townsend,
for several years in charge of
the care of the INDECENT sick of
Long Beach, California.
Whatever fantastic aspects
the scheme may assume in the
mind Of a detached and ration
al observer, the fact is that it is
a strongly financed, rapidly
growing movement, attracting
huge audiences, put forward
with an active and skillful Or
ganization, and quite certain to
cross the Threshold of the next
Congress. A petition for presen-
tation to Congress already has
more than 100000 signatures.
The national headquarters are
in Los Angeles, where it is in
corporated as Old Age Revolv-
ing Pensions, Inc.
National organizers are at
work throughout the country,
and the organization now has
branches IN 81 States. Organi-
zation is now beginning in New
Jersey and New York. Funds
are obtained by subscriptions
and from the sale of booklets
and pamphlets describing the
plan.
Politically, it apparently is
following the methods of the
Anti-Saloon League, by which
a compact balance of power
used to swing candidates for
elections. Leaders Of the move.
ment are frank in saying that
candidates for Congress will be
given a showing Of the power
and numbers of the organiza-
ton.
Out of the long depression of
the seventies came Henry George
and the single tax. The obscure
printer came within a few thou
sand votes of being elected
mayor of New York as his sin
gle tax movement, hooteo and
ridiculed at first, gained ground.
Earlier depressions had pro-
duced greenbeckers and know
nothingS.'
Multitudes of people, suffer
ing long years of want and in.
security, look eagerly for q
messiah or a messianic plan.
One saw this in the quick flare
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C h ir m a n
Of the Re-
publican Ma
tiOnal S e n a.
tOrial G a m
paign G o M
Inittee, appar-
emily pays n
trifling bit of
attention to
history.
C h i p ping
with his G. o.
P. hammer at
the l)emocra-
tic gu n da-
ton, Senator
Hocfin0c YER
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randmother
n 0 usekeep-
ing, having
hi ldren, a
narrow, mo-
notonous job
in which a
woman aged
and dulled be-
fore her time.
No, above
ev cry t hing
e | S e, S h e
wants love to
hn on o6Vnn-
ture. Always
thrilling, chal-
Longing, q lit
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At a dinner of the Dante So
ciety in London several years
ago the Poet Laureate of Eng
land had proposed the toast and
the POSTMASTER had given his
all to the announcement:
Ladies and Conference.-The
toast is Dante!"
There was a slight pause,
and then the pianist, feeling
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-17

What Is Love-A La Mode
She wonders-as every woman
since Eve has done-"What is
love?" Only there's a certain
new hardness in her specula-
ton. She wants love to be and
do certain things-or she'll not
include it in her budget.
She doesn't want love to mean
what it did to her mother and
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any new ones. That is why it Is
so embarrassing to sing the old
ones.
If we have to sing at testi-
monial dinners, let it be Down
by the Old Mill Stream" with
NO names mentioned.
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

For a man who is expected to
be an astute politician, Senator
Daniel 0. Little Dan" Hastings,
Evening star., 1934-05-02
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALL
MENTS.


MENTS.
Pierre Reynal dies suddenly leaving his
wife Corinne and two daughter only 500,
600. Mrs. Reynsl tells Valerie, II. and
Sandra, two years younger, that their
fathers wealthy bachelor brother Raoul
must see that they are able to take their
rightful place in New York society. When
Sandra is Is Corrine takes Summer cot
tage at fashionable Sandharbor Gilbert
Akin. Of the wealthy Virginia Akins, has
been on the point of proposing to Sandra
and does ask her to go with him to the
clambake. the seasons finale. When Mrs.
ReyLAl hears this she insists that Sandra
stop interfering with Valeries prospects
she SAYS Akin is IN love with Val and that
she will win him if SandTa keeps hands
of. Sandra is dumfounded. although she
has been thinking much about the tall.
young. blue-eyed newspaper man she mas
seen on the beach several times When
the ttadespeople refuse to serve Mrs. Rey-
nal further. she tells Sandra she must go
to her Uncle Raoul Sandra finally agrees.
but declares it will be the last time she
will appear for money to the Owl, as she
called him since childhood. He pleads
with her to come to live with him and
she promises to do so II her mother does
not mend her spendthrift ways. Corinne
declares he is a niggard when Sandra
comes home with a check for $4,000:
Sandra tries in vain to avoid Akin but
when she returns in the early morning
from a nights "barging' with Baron Rene
LIE Fargo, she finds Gil on the veranda
with Val When Gil leaves Val says he
has asked her tn the clambake.
Evening star., 1934-05-02
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