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The Washington times., 1934-10-13

} inclination was to pop him in
the nose, and maybe you did.
But a little later on, with re.
sponsibilities, ambition and a
thought of the future you
stopped to remember that this
trouble-maker was wired in with
the boss and maybe he could
ease you out of your job. You fig
ured you would sink him when
the time came, but you never
did.
"As you began to get little
stake, you kept on pulling your
punches and waiting for an
opening. Psychologically, you
find here the explanation of the
happy mania of a prizefight
mob. Humanity and vicarious-
ly they are swinging all those
hay-makers which they have al
ways had to hold back. You
get more and more people
geared into a big city job, with
a mortgaged suburban home
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

like that. No matter how good
a picker you are-no matter
how pretty your personal pro-
gram-at least 80 per cent of the
performance won't be to your
taste.
And you'll spend most of
your days fretting, rebelling,
crying with self-pity, snorting
with resentment or yawning
with boredom.
Why does life fiZzle out so
soon for most of us? That's
why. Lies there before us, but
We can't use it.
Somebody, we're sure, has
cheated us-but we never guess
who!
There is, however, another
way of taking life, and that is
to accept it all.
Don't go around seeking your
particular experience or crouch
ing because it doesn't turn up.
Decide that all experience is
YOUR exper ce- that
EVERYTHING in life is of in
terest to you, of profit to you.
String along with Life. Face
everything it has to offer. Some
of it you won't understand.
Some you won't like.
But make up your mind that
YOU will turn everything to
your advantage. sorrow as
we'll as joy, ugliness as we'll as
beauty, danger as well as
safety.
Take life as Ulysses took it.
He was, you'll remember, the
worlds record tramp. There
was boy who was a hound for
punishment
He was always in some mess,
up to his ears, and if he'd taken
things personally, life would
have been one long Fit of Pouts
for Ulysses.
But he had better idea. If
he couldn't get what he wanted,
he'd want what he got. And
he'd make what he got pay.
That was Ulysses plan-and
it worked. At the end, though
he had lost much, he had made
a profit on every loss. From
everything that had come his
way. he had wrenched treasure
and built it into his soul.
II am" he cried triumphantly,
"a PART OF ALL THAT I
HAVE NET"
Those colorful, compelling
creatures whom you so admire
thatQs their secret.
They, too, are part of all that
they have met.
They have dared to open
themselves to life. And life, in
return. has filled them with it's
wonder ! and warmth-so that
cold, tinAid spirits reach toward
them as a freezing man reaches
toward fire.
You wish you could be like
WELL, WHAT'S HOLDING
YOU?
(Copyrirht, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate 1nc.l
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

house and firmly believes that
cocktails are made of birthstone
and that Sunday golf is moral
suicide?
Why is it that an intellectual
man, who signs for inspiration
and needs mental companion
ship above all things, always
drags to the altar some sweet,
little dumbbell with plenty Of
curls and curves, but only one
working brain-cell-and THAT
concentrated either on a gas
range or a vanity case?
Why is it that when man
wants to be looked up to and
admired as the Head of the
Family, he always picks out a
wife who is either so indepen-
dent or so efficient that she not
only refuses to be his RIB" but
insists on being at least three
quarters of his backbone?
In brief, with a hundred and
fifty-seven varieties of women to
choose from, why does the aver
age man always steer as
straight for the woman who
will make him most Cncom-
Portable or most miserable as a
tipsy driver steers for a tele-
graph pole?
Oh, well, it's this perversity Of
human nature (both masculine
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tual mortgage plan.
Administrator James Moffett
and his cohorts have anticipated
that the worst is yet to come.
The trouble expected has been
prepared for, however.
Persons now engaged in the
mortgage business who expect
to throw wrench into the
Government mutual mortgage
plan may find that it will be-
come a boomerang.
Officials of housing have gone
to large corporations dealing in
home equipment and secured
pledges for money.
Hundreds of millions of dol.
lars have been assured the
Housing Administration.
At the first indication that
sabotage is effectively interfer-
ing with the Governments mu-
tual mortgage plan for retinanc-
ing homes the UGSt sum of
money is to be used to set up
agencies throughout the country
that Will handle the Gdn1inis-
StrGtion mortgages.
Persons now engaged in home
financing will be forced to COM
pete with the Government.
And the Housing Administra-
tion believes that with the funds
already pledged it can set up
mutual mortgage associations
that will be far more attractive
to the home owner than any
present system of financing.
The large companies that
have pledged their money expect
their reward.
They have approved the
mutual mortgage plan and are
convinced that benefit to them
will be derived from the sale of
equipment and furnishings to
the host of people they believe
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But of course I can't" you
sigh to yourself. i've so little
money and such a monotonous,
uninteresting life; I never go
places or see things. What
chance have I to make any,
thing of myself?"
Plenty of chances, if you'd
take them!
There's many circumstance
which you can't control but no
matter how dull or obscure your
position may be, your person
ality may be colorful and COM
pelling.
The most vivid sni"its aren't
the rich or WE'LL
The greatest arviovS came out
of cutters and atticS, the
trongest leaders out of
ploughed fields and bread lines.
They didn't have the breaks
or the cash, but they had
something infinitely more po-
tent-a certain way of look
ing at life
There are two ways of tax
ing life.
Ones the personal way
measuring all experience by
your own private plan; picking
out the good bits that please
you; rejecting all the rest.
Life's bound to be both
petty and pesty if you go at it
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and plenty of inStalment pay
ments and you've got populace
sicklied DER with the pale cast
of thought ana, of course, that
goes for bankers even more so.
wait till I tell you about
my operation! A few years ago,
you newspaper people were rid
ing the bankers for being too
human-'Have a bond issue on
me, Joe'-and all that. And
now, I suppose you are warming
up the charges that they aren't
human enough. With reserva-
tions, you're right in both cases.
"The president of the D----k in
my home town was perhaps a
bit too human, playing cribbage
with Bill Jones, the hardware
man, at the club, and discount
ing his note in a casual and
friendly manner. When you
consider that perhaps 95 per
cent of all business involves
credit transactions, and that
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Chester DaviS' Agricultural
Adjustment administration tS
certainly having trouble explain
ing its plans to some OF these
tillerS of the soil.
Not so long ago a letter ar
rived at the AAA from a
worried farmer. 1t had been
his practice to raise hogs un-
til the Wauaces and the Tug
wells said that pigs were bad
for a depressed country.
So he signed a contract not
to raise any more baby pigs.
His letter, clearly expressing
his worry, stated:
Months ago I signed one
of those contracts which said
/ wasn't to raise no more pigs.
But my pig Don Juan got
in the pen with Sarah Nellie
some time ago.
'NOw I want to know can
be sued for fraud?"
Every once in awhile the
District fathers make it plain
that they do not approve of
the fact that residents of Wash
ingon are unable to vote.
Commissioner Melvin c. Ha-
zen, speaking to a group of citi-
zens the other evening, discussed
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
T E1uman Side of the News - ByEdwin c. Hill

this great volume of debt comes
from many such little human
springs as the above. you will
see that there is a fine chance
of the banker being altogether
too human.
Bill Jones' note is redls-
counted by the Federal Reserve
Bank, and Swins out into the
great stream of credit-and
there isn't one chance in a mil"
lion that any imposing Wash"
ington or New York committee
of bankers and Senators can
have the slightest knowledge or
concern about Bill Jones and
his hardware store-his sound
ness or fallibility-his sick wife
or secret poker game.
IT have an idea that one could
write a fat book on the elusive
human factors in depersonalize6
finance. But here's something
more to the point. Certain big
city bankers, particularly in and
around Wall Street, have con-
cluded that they know too little
about the remote origins of
credit. and the human factors
involved, and they are trying to
find out. They are trying to dis
cover new human equations IN
their business.
IT know one big investment
banking house which is sending
two or three shrewd and tactful
men through the Middle West,
learning just what kind of men
the small town bankers are
and their clients, too. Their
findings are being integrated by
the personnel director. formerly
a sociologist at an Eastern uni
versity, and there is being built
a study of the human fabric in
finance absolutely unique in busi-
ness annals.
THAT would indicate, wouldn't
it, that the big bankers have
been getting a little less human.
but are now trying to get more
so? But don't forget that every
body is human when the grass
is short. Under pressure, the
bankers try to get theirs. just
like everybody else. But I do be-
lieve that the complexities of
our modern exchange economy
and the circumstances of urban
lie tend to intermediary events
which isolate an individual from
the consequences of his acts.
Individually, banker may
be a fine, human, generous
chap. He may have to make a
decision which will wreck a
nice little family out in Arkan-
saS and turn them into the
street. He never heard of this
family and doesn't lose any
sleep over it. But if he should
happen to see this evicted fam.
lily, with hungry children, he
probably would be digging down
in his pocket and getting it food
and shelter.
Take a trip over to Newark
sometime and ask Federal Judge
Clark about that research of his
into the human factors of credit,
which he made with Yale Uni
versity. He had the cooperation
of Washington at first, but the
Department of Commerce final
ly killed the survey. The bank
ing house I spoke of is on the
same trail. I think they will
turn up something interesting"
Copyright. 1884 by King Features
Syndicate. 1nC.)
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trict confines and over which
the Commissioners can exercise
no prerogative.
He cited several cases where
District money is spent on prof.
ects under Government control.
Among them was the National
Geological Park.
Said Commissioner Hazen:
"We even have to appropriate
money for the food and shelter
of the animals.
But we can't say what they
are to eat or where they are to
sleep!"
copyright, 1894, The Washington
TimeS)
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

I fell in with some friends the
other night who were talking
about bankers. They contrasted
the quite human small-town
banker with the necessarily in
Sulated and possibly mechanical
big-town banker, with this gen.
eral conclusion: Money Is a
great human concern, yet all the
forces of our times tend to de-
humanize it."
I thought OF a genial and hui
man banker, whom I knew in
my youth, and another I know
now, who lives and talks like an
adding machine, and was in
clined to agree with the major
ity verdict. But-and you are
probably a jump of me here
there was also the small town
Shylock, with his pepper-and-
salt suit. his sideburns and his
gimlet eyes~-the Dion Boucci-
cault portrait.
And there were big, rollicking
and thoroughly human big-toWn
bankers, even in the days of
crinoline and musk. Nothing
in it," thought, and then along
came Henri La Rue, French
psychiatrlst, showing that a
"split personality" is a sort Of
occupational disease of urban
life.
A man of affairs has as many
personalities as he has suits OF
clothes, and changes them as
readily, and, with all this, his
authentic inner, self is dried up
and his basic human impulses
are starved and atrophied. One
would deduce from M. La Rue's
thesis that bankers and indus
trialists are more and more lSo-
lated from "the human side of
the news"
Pondering these matters, a
vagrant fancy brought me the
picture Of an imposing banker
shooting craps. And then I re-
membered that I had seen such
a banker-most imposing, in
deed he is-doing just that, and
not so long ago. He is a wise,
tolerant man, in his early six
ties, and he has come all the
way through, from a. country
bank to a high place in Wall
Street.
I went over to his place in
Locust Valley, Long Island, to
ask him about all this. Particu"
larly, I wanted to know whether
the depression years h ve
changed the attitude of bankers
toward their customers. Are
they trying to get in closer
, touch?
Nobody is as human as he
used to be-" he replied. Little
white collar men as well as
great financierS have mortgaged
themselves to the future. We all
have commitments n g ing
from instalments on the car to
bond issues which won't be paid
for 20 years. The more you live
today, the more human you are;
the more in the future, the less
so.
Bankers, with their respon.
sibilities and commitments, must
look far into the future-they
must relate themselves to long
range, impersonal forces. No
banker can ever be as human
as a gypsy. When you were
young and foot-loose, and the
chap at the next desk was doing
you dirt. your decidedly human
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Wise Words

He that can please nobody is
not so much to be pitied as he
whom nobody can please
Cotton.
Sleep is sweet to the laboring
man.-Bunyan.
What is not in a man cannot
come out of him, surely
Goethe.
It is often more necessary to
conceal contempt than resent
ment; the former is never for
gotten, but the latter is some
times forgot.-Chesterfield
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

t ur S W h o
seem always
at their ease;
who take the
u p S a n d
downs of life
with an easy
S h ru g and
S m lie, and
S e e m pcs
Sessed of in
e X h a ustible
resources of
wit and phi
! o S o p h y
how you wish
you could be
like thati
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Once Monday Was Wash-Day

Now It's Tax Day
These remarks by Percy H. Johnston, New York
banker, should interest you:
"Tares today are taking OUer 21 per cent of our
national income, as against only II per cent in
1922. In other uOords, directly indirectly, the
average American UOrkirg full five-day week
DOrks ALL OF MONDAY AND PART OF
TUESDAY TO PAY HIS TAXES.
"That is not the lUOrst of it, because our gov-
ernntentaL expenditures are at the rate of about
III per cent of our national income. This means
that in year or tWO taxes WiU probably have
been increased to the point lUhere it uDN be Tues
day noon before your average American can be-
ain to york for himself"
Monday used to be washday, now it's tax day. and
Americans wonder whether at this rate of progress every
dav in the week will not presently be tax day also.
The New DEAL like prohibition, is experiment,
!"nobe in motive
After year of it, however, the taxpayer feels that
perhaps better for it would be The New steal
the 1871
H. J.
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of the entire
plan.
w h ! | e
b a n k e r S
t hr u ghout
the country
have reSorted
to S t r a n G e
t a c tics for
p e opl e who
wish to make
t h e housing
program sue
cesSful, worse
subversion is
expected in
con n e ction
with the nou.
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problems of
taxation over
which Wash
in g t o n ians
have no con-
troll.
He pointed
out that resi-
dents h av e
no v ce or
y IA " 1 " = AOLl
corning t h e
W ay tn ir
m o n e y is
spent, partic-
ularly on Fed
eral projects
Ny i + in Hic
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

Sabotage of the Federal
housing program has forced Of
ficials of the administration to
resort to unusual methods to
force a successful elimination
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Those Colorful, Compelling
PeOple-How Do They
Get That Way?

You're always envying COL
orful, compelling people. Those
fascinating, Sophisticated crea.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Marvy-G -Go-R0nnd
By Helen Rowland

Men Are Like That!
Isn't nature wonderful? HU.
MAN nature, I mean!
Why is it
That, when a man is born
with the temperament of an
Othello and insists on being the
only Big Moment in a woman's
life, he invariably marries the
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

and feminine) which helps busl-
ness recovery a m mong the
divorce lawyers and all the rail-
roads that run to Reno.
But there never yet lived a
man who didn't believe that he
could marry ANY woman who
happened to catch his fancy
and then remold her to his
hearts desire.
Copyright. 1884, by King Festures
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
The Greatest ShOW
On Earth
By Iohn Snure, Ir.

the administration financing
program will help.
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the ct 8
N Street rth
o. j.. FisDsriCk managing editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
DROUGHT IN ARKANSAS NEARING
INTENSITY OF DRY SPELL IN 1880

State Relief Director W. r. DyesS
has recommended to the United
States Department OF Agriculture
that IA Western and Northwestern
Arkansas counties be placed on the
emergency relief schedule immedi-
ately.
The State agricultural extension
service has received reports that crops
in almost all sections of the State
were damaged seriously and that in
IS of the States IS counties the
drought was severe
In 1880 Arkansas last disastrous
drought, South Dakota residents pro-
vided aid TO relieve conditions in the
State. Several weeks ago Arkansas
farmers and city jewellers pooled re-
sources to provide feed for drought
stricken South Dakota cattle.
Now. in Logan County, a State
representative said he talked with
many residents who didn't know
where their next bread was coming
from"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Misquoted, Says
Enroy, Rebuked
By Swedish Paper
SteinhGrdt Denies He
Reflected on Nations
SpOrtSmdnShip.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, July 19.-Lawrence
Steinhardt, United States Minister to
Sweden, today said he had been quoted
incorrectly by the newspaper IdrottS-
bladet If it had him casting any aSper-
sions on Swedish craftsmanship.
The newspaper quoted him as saying
at dinner last night for the visiting
United States track team: BE on your
watch. The Swedes are jealous ma
ton and do not like to see foreign
SpOrtSmen triumph"
Steinhardt, located cruising in the
vicinity Of ViSby. explained his re-
marks, as follows:
In my speech I pointed out my
high regard for Swedish sports and
praised the punctuality. accuracy and
knowledge of the rules possessed by
Swedish officials, advising our athletes
to strictly comply with the rules and
program. emphasized that they
would be sure of fair treatment.
My remarks as to Married. Vinson
and Matheson were purely misunder-
stood. Their names were mentioned
as the last representatives Of Amer
lean sports to have visited Sweden.
My opinion personally is that Miss
Vinson probably deserved better
placing than she got in the world
figure skating championship last
Winter, but threw no doubt on the
importantly of the Swedish Judge,
whose vote was not deciding factor.
"Idrottsbladet's reporter completely
misunderstood my utterances. To
show my valuation of Swedish sport
and spirit I have given silver cup
for the games starting July "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Army Flyers Hop for Alaska
To Demonstrate dir Defense
Hundreds Gather at Boiling Field to
See Ten Huge Bombers Start
Long Expedition.

Taking of at intervals OF almost
exactly 6 seconds the 10 huge Martin
bombers. comprising the special Alaska
Flight Squadron. left Boiling Field
promptly at 10 q m. today, on the flrst
leg Of the training and test flight To
Americas northwest territory. They
landed al Dayton. Ohio. at II 81, re-
fueIed. and we're to leave Immediately
for Minneapolis. the next stop, &C
cording to the Associated Press.
There was little formal ceremony
preceding the departure. although
many high officers OF the Army were
present TO bid the flyers bon voyage
A few minutes before the planes
left, Lieut. Col Henry II Arnold, in
command Of the flight. and Mai Gen
Benjamin d. Foulois. chief of the
Army Air Corps. broadcast a brief ac-
count OF the plans Of the squadron and
sent greetings to Alaska.
Let us show our people in Alaska"
Gen. Foulois said. that while thou
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
GRE|F EMPLOYEES
PLEAD WITHIN. RIA.
Ask to Be Let Alone After
Clothing Firm Wins "MoraI
Victory" in Court.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 19-Employes
Of three plants of l.. Greif 81 Bro,
Inc, pleaded with Government Off
Gals today not to cause their factories
to be closed after the clothing firm
claimed a moral victory in re-
straining the N R. A from taking
away its Blue Eagle.
Protests against any action which
would force their plants to shut down
were sent to Washington by employees
OF the Middleburg Manufacturing Co.
at Hanover, Pa: the Stewartstown
Manufacturing Co. at York, Pa, and
the Staunton. Va, Manufacturing Co.,
all Grief affiliates.
The Grief concern, second largest
clothing manufacturer in the country,
yesterday was granted temporary in
junction by United States District
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut here, en-
joining N. r. A. and code officials
from forcing the company to pay
wages above the clothing code mini
mum.
Admitting the court order was not
binding on Government officials who
did not come into the State to accept
service as defendants in the case, the
Grief counsel expressed the hope that
the moral" effect of the order would
forestall any action against the COM
pany.
The Greif concern had been threat
ened by N. r. A with withdrawal of
its Blue Eagle If a concession is not
obtained from code authorities con-
corning wages. 1t is charged the firm
has not paid some 100000 in wages
to employees receiving more than the
minimum, required in the clothing
code.
The company attacked the consti-
nationality of the recovery act and
commended Hugh 8 johnson. N. r. A.
administrator, has uniawfully and IL
legally organized. fostered and en-
couraged and attempted boycott by
means Of public threats. melted an
tagonism and publicly denouncing all
those who dispute the legality of any
part of the recovery act and the au-
thority which has been assumed there
under"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
PRESIDENT STUDIES
HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
Roosevelt Also Attending to Cur
rent Topics by Wireless
to Capital.
BY the Associated Press.


ABOARD CRUISER NEW Or
LEANS, ACCOMPANYING PRESI-
DENT ROOSEVELT, July 19.-Free
from telephone rings and official call
erS, President Roosevelt is making
real progress in a study of Hawaiian
affairs as the cruiser Houston cuts
steadily for the far distant American
outpost of Honolulu.
A trunk full of documents and
data on the islands is getting good
share of the Presidents attention.
Mr. Roosevelt also is attending to
current affairs through wireless COM
munication with the Capital, but off,
cial business has been held to mini
mum.
The Houston, travelling in the great
circle course. is scheduled to arrive
of Hawaii early Tuesday.
Tactical maneuvers in squally seas
engaged the Houston and its convoy
the New Orleans, yesterday.