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The Washington times., 1934-05-21
''Peace" Propaganda Refuted
By Experts and History
By James T. Williams, T.

cept, without mental reservation,
the judgment of others.
81 am not here expressing
thoughts first suggested by re-
cent events. In a volume pub
lished more than 20 years ago, I
ventured to affirm that the con-
nectiOn between armamentS and
military cOnqueStS had been
miscOnceived and greatly ex.
aggerated, and that questions Of
war and peace depended, and
will continue to depend, mot so
much upon the size Of the mil
itary establishments as upon
the cultivation of the spirit and
habit of justice, of self control,
of reciprocal recognition of
rights and of forbearance'; and
that, If these things were not
practiced, all plans for the pres.
ervatiOn of peace would prove
to be So much waste paper
Unpreparedness an Evil
"The truth Of these state.
mentS is demonstrated by the
history of civil wars, as well as
that of international wars. No
one could attribute either our
own Civil War or our participa-
tiOn in various wars, including
the last one, to our excessive
armamentS. Neither the pos
session Of great armaments by
others nor the lack of them by
ourselves sufficed to deter US
from going in.''
President Roosevelt, in. CALI
ing upon the American Con-
gress to build up the Navy to
treaty strength, put his Admin.
1stration on record as believing
that George Washington knew
what he was talking about and
that John Bassett Moore has
read Alright the lesson Of his.
tory. The Presidents recent
message to Congress, had it fol-
lowed the writings of Washing
ton and the other Trainers Of
the Constitution and of John
Bassett Moore and other sound
interpreters of international
law and the history of diplo.
macy, would be a much
stronger state paper.
The message, however, seems
to have been based upon Ge.
neva propaganda that wars are
caused by armament rather
than by racial hatreds, over
population and national am
bitions for economic and terri
torial expansion.
The fact that the United
States has allowed its Navy to
sink to third place and it's
Army to seventeenth place is
not a guarantee of peace, as the
President would be the first to
admit. On the contrary, it is a
grave menace to our national
security, European and Asiatic
propaganda to the contrary not
withstanding.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
By Edwin c.. Hill
By T. E. Powers

made a sensation of Sir Thomas
outbursts at the opening Of the
opera season in cold Covent
Garden. The historic old house
was packed with the most bril-.
liant audience it has seen since
the war. The royal box was
occupied by the Kings cousin,
Helene Victoria, and her guests
were the King and Queen of
Siam. The opera was Beetho-
ven's Fidelio with Lotte Lehman
in the title role.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Out went the house lights and
up stepped the small, Square-set
Sir Thomas to the conductors
stand. He raised his baton and
the orchestra swung into the
overture. The late comerS Shut-
fled in, whispering apologies
and greetings, when suddenly
above the whispers and above
the music came the command:
Shut up!" Again in the last
act when, as opera audiences
do the world over, some of the
spectators applauded in the
wrong moment, Sir Thomas
swung around and shouted a
rebuke. The next night he gave
his audience a minute and a
half to stop coughing and get
set. The time limit expiring,
Sir Thomas felt compelled to re-
peat, "Shut up!"
The 55-year-old baronet has
been a spectacular figure in mu-
sic for 30-odd years. His father
made a great fortune in Beech
ans Pills, but young Thomas
stepped from oxford to the con-
cert hall, hiring his own orches-
ira and establishing himself as
a conductor without asking
leave of anyone. He has since
been England's grand patron of
music, and while once one Of
her richest sons, he was re-
ported in 1881 as owing $7O0,-
900.
He was high ranking as a
conductor and is like Toscanini
in that he does not use a score,
and in inspiring an orchestra to
its very best.
... Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Human Side of the News

of chivalry from the world
"chivalry, one of the noblest of
human qualities. He thinks it
has been pushed out of litera-
ture by too much sophiStication
and he likes to go back to pagan
literature (there isn't so much
chivalry in Christian literature)
to refresh his soul. He likes to
think of Cuhulain, the old Gaelic
conqueror who, when he had his
enemies soundly thrashed and
was on the very point of wiping
them out, would draw back to
give them a chance to revive
and make a better fight of It.
He doubts that the Irish have
a real sense of humor. The
English have, he says. but not
the Irish. The Irish have wit
a ready flashing, surprising wit
but they have not the humor
to take a joke on themselves
any too we'll, and they often
lack a sense of fun.
His pet avocation is the dis.
coVery and encouragement of
poets in Ireland. They are rails.
ing quite crop of poets in the
Emerald Isle since the revival of
the old language, and George
Russell hops about induStriously
and tags this one and that one,
and the first thing you know all
Ireland is talking about the
fellow.
Sir Thomas Beecham is as
well known for his sharp tongue
as for his gyrations on the con-
ductor'S podium, but even Lon
don, used to him as it is, has
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

One hears with special in
terest that the Sage of Ireland
is contemplating another visit
to this land. The Sage of Ire
land is George w. Russell, the
World-famous "A. E." poet, eS-
sayist, agriculturalist - almost
anything you like-and a gentle
man of singular charm.
It has been the good fortune
of this writer to meet him in
agreeable chat on several oc-
CaSionS, and fragments and
Silhouettes rise in the mind. An
engaging personality, this burly
Irishman from Dublin, who
edits the Irish Statesman and
stands for all that is best in
culture; who paints good pic
lures, writes good poetry, knows
how to design a beautiful dress,
is verSed in the intricacies of
finance and economy, and who
even tells the Irish farmers how
to get better crops from their
stony fields.
Distinct Personality
There is nothing of the allid
dilettante about him-nothing
whatever. He's a beef-fed gentle
man, weighing 200 pounds in
his wooden socks. and he even
supports a paunch with grace
and dignity. A great massive
head, with a shock of brown
hair, usually in disorder; Me
phiStophelian eyebrows, which
give an amusingly sinister twist
to his benevolent countenance;
full cheeks and a Sanguine, al
most florid complexion, heavy
muStache and full beard that
were brown once, but that are
rapidly graying and are so
stained with cigar juice that the
gray is noticeable only around
the fringes; big brown eyes
the eyes Of a poet, but with a
Shrewd twinkle in them; clothes
worn anyhow-blue four-in-hand
tied in a sloppy twist. and coat,
waiStcoat and trousers rather in
need of the tailor's pressing
iron; a musical voice, with no
brogue and barely a touch Of
the thing we call the English
accent"-in fact, his accent is
more like that Of Harvard than
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

fall off, says an authority; but
the thrifty Scotch girls may not
mind. Half a husband is better
than none!
OF course, every girl is look
ing for husband with the right
ideals and habits; but she is so
apt to get myopic when a man
with a good profile. WeisSmuller
shoulders and Vallee hair gets
in her way.
Never judge by appearances.
It often happens that the man
who looks like something the
bride had won at a rattle, turns
out to be the Big Matrimonial
Prize of the season.
Sometimes man doesn't
seem to care who trotS his wife
around to dances and gives her
all those little attentions she re-
quires, so long as he isn't ex-
pected to sacrifice his golf in
order to do it himself.
Spring is the magic that turns
every possible" man into a
possible lover.
Copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

it resembles the accent of a
British university. All of these
things mark and picture Russell.
Probably the only English
language writer and English Ian
guage story that will be read
four hundred years from now
are Kipling and his Jungle
Book" This is the opinion, any.
way, of George w. Russell. The
rest of the modern ScribblerS
that people make such a fuss
about nowadays will be forgot
ten, Mr.. Russell rather thinks,
even though some of them have
written better" things than the
tales of Mowgli and old Kaa and
Bagheera, the black panther,
and the wise old Baloo.
For it isn't splendid writing
that makes a piece of work live,
says Russell. It's hitting some
note that strikes down to the
very roots of human imagina-
tion. It's crying a call that
touches the heart of all chill
dren. And "The Jungle Book"
like 'The Arabian Nights"
strikes such a note and cries
such call.
He likes George Bernard
Shaw and thinks he is a miSun-
derStood man. "Shaw likes to
have a brass band playing
around him." says Russell, "and
all that, but he's really very shy,
very kind-hearted. Many of his
raucous tricks are played to con-
ceal this very shyness. Lots of
people are like that"
He laments the disappearance
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Tired OF being conspicuous IN
her blue coupe, Mrs. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt bought a new
machine in which to dash about
the town and country.
There is such a thing as be-
ing too inconspicuous, however.
In one of the local hospitals
was a young girl afflicted. so
the report goes, with infantile
paralysis.
Mrs. Roosevelt went to the
hospital to call on the child and
as usual went unheralded.
The superintendent of nurses
was at her desk engrossed in
work when Mrs. Roosevelt ap-
peared at her desk. The super
intendent did not look up.
It was shortly after noon.
The First Lady announced
that she wished to see the small
patient.
The superintendent advised:
"SOrry, you cannot see her
now. You may come back in
visiting hours.
"They are having lunch up
stairs and you must wait"
Mrs. Roosevelt started to
walk away. She said:
"Well, please tell her that
Mrs. Roosevelt called to see
her."
When the superintendent
could scramble to her feet the
First Lady had departed.
Into the offices of one of the
nations most prominent men
went a man to make a busi-
ness call recently.
At the conclusion of the
business interview the very i'm
portant official asked the man
to stay for lunch.
The man agreed but said:
81 would like to see Mrs.
Official
The official announced that
that could be easily arranged
and said to his secretary:
"Ask Mrs. Official if she
will join us at lunch"
The secretary looked alarmed,
leaned over the shoulder of the
official and whispered:
"But, sir, Mrs. Official has
been out of town for four days"
Controversy has been consid-
erable relative to that now
famous mural which was called
"The Ladies in Cheesecloth"
and which adornS the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Campus cut-up Rexford G.
Tugwell doesn't like it.
Be that as it may there is
one thing about it.
Artist Gilbert White, who did
the $4,000 mural, was prac-
tical.
The mural was installed in
the main building of the de-
partment across from the office
of Secretary Wallace.
1t decorates the wall of a
semi-circular stairway and is
so placed that the left side is
within reach of the public and
may be touched by an inquisi-
tive person.
Artist White, planning where
it should go, arranged the
faces of the Greek gods and
goddeSses who are on the mu-
raj in a practical way.
He painted the mural so
that faces would be out of
reach of vandals who might
wish to decorate their visages
with flowing muStacheS or
other adornments.
The discussion of what to
do with the Philippine Islands
has been debated at Capitol
Hill and elsewhere for many
a day.
A new solution to the prob
lem was offered the other day
by a statesman who appar-
emily doesn't think much of
the size of our policemen.
He suggested:
"Why not arrange with
Great Britain to trade the
Philippines for Ireland 80 that
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Agitation has been revived
recently on both sides of the
Atlantic about the interna-
Gonal traffic in arms and
munitions of war about their
private manufacture.
The spread Of all such propa-
ganda at this time appears to
have the following objectives:
First. To divert popular at
tention from the breakup of the
so-called Disarmament Confer
ence at Geneva-an .interna-
tional farce that seems to be
nearing the end.
Second. To popularize through
out the United States an Euro
pean scheme for the produc-
ton of arms and munitions of
war that would give the Euro
pean nations and Japan a ire
mendouS advantage over the
United States in the event of
trouble either in the Atlantic
or Pacific.
Third, To continue the Old
World propaganda that swept
over this country like a tidal
wave during the Great War and
still deceiVeS so many Ameri-
cans by Subjecting them to the
hallucination that armamentS
are the great cause of war.
George Washington was well
aware that such was not the
case when he said: lone of the
most effectual means of pre-
serving peace is to be prepared
for war;
The utter folly of the obses-
sion that the wars of the world
have been caused by ornaments
was exposed in a recent article
contributed to the Literary
Digest by no less an eminent
authority on law, diplomacy and
the history of nations than
John Bassett Moore.
Falseness Exposed
This eminent authority points
out that Article VIII of the Gov
enant of the League Of Nations
illustrates "the propensity of the
human mind to seek, in glib
phrases, a refuge from its dis
inclination and failure to grapple
the stern realities"
This article of the League
Covenant thus begins:
"The members of the League
recognize that the maintenance
Of peace requires the reduction
Of national. ornaments to the
lowest point consistent with ma
tiOnal safety by common action
Of International obligations"
The two false implications in
this provision of the League Gov
enant are thus set forth by DR..
Moore:
"The first is that national
ornaments have been a prime,
If not the chief, cause of war;
the second, that nations, as re-
CARDS the lowest point in arma-
mentS consistent with national
safety, can be brought to ac-
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Words From Wise Men

Nothing can lead into greater
hazards than promises hastily
and uncautiously made.
It is never so difficult to speak
as when we are ashamed of our
Silence.-La Rochefoucauld.
There is no going to heaven
in a sedan.
See what q ready tongue sus.
pici0n hath!-ShakeSpeare.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

pOllCemen?
A gigantic postal deficit in
Postmaster General Jim Farley'S
Post Office Department is to
be reduced, Mr.. Farley says.
1t will take some effort to
cut it down, however. if they
give mail service that is as slow
as was charged at the annual
convention of the Episcopal Do
cese of Washington.
In executive session, the rec
tor of one of Washington's most
prominent churches, which some
very important people attend,
charged that the postal service
was terrible.
His experience with the serv-
ice recently occasioned the
charge.
The rector was planning a
very important service for a
certain Sunday. He wanted
his entire congregation to be
present.
The Thursday before the serv-
ice he mailed cards requesting
that the members of the con-
gregation be in their pews on
Sunday morning.
The cards, which he mailed
personally. were delivered the
following Monday.
Representative Ross Collins
of Mississippi will enter the pri-
mary fight in the hope that he
may be named as Democratic
candidate for the Senate.
No other group is as anxious
to get Ross in the race as
the Army crowd. For Mr.. Col
lins is chairman of the Appro.
priations subcommittee which
drafts the War Department
bill.
Ross is enthusiastic over the
Army. A major part of his
time is spent in trying to de-
eide ways to destroy the ma
tional defense act. He believes
that antiquated systems in the
Army should be modernized.
BY modernization he apparently
believes reduction in forces.
The Army has tried to make
a friend of Ross. Certain Of.
ficials even went so far as to
offer to let his daughter ride
an Army horse. Ross rejected
the offer.
If by any miracle Ross should
secure the senatorial nomina.
ton he would be out of the
House and out of the chairman
ship which permits him to cur
tail Army expenditures. The
tears of the Army would be
audible.
There is a strange mixture
of political timber seeking the
nomination, in Mississippi.
One young member of the
State legislature who is enter.
ing the senatorial race, has
among the planks in his plat.
form two that are statesman
like.
One would provide for the
issuance of enough money to
give everyone a job at $40 a
day.
Another would make it a
crime to initiate the currency OF
the Nation.
Representative Jennings Ran
dolph, of West Virginia, tells
one about an old mountaineer
in his State.
The old mountaineer climbed
over the hill trails to his shack
where his wife had been work
ing all day.
He dropped down on a bench
beside his table and began his
evening meal.
Turning to his wife hs
drawled:
81 wanta SIice O. bread"
His wife answered:
1--WE amt got no bread cause
we amt got no flour"
Her husband scowled, demand.
ed:
"Then why didn't you make
biscuits
Copyright, 1894, The Washington TimAS
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

There is no refuge from con.
feSSion but suicide, and suicide
is confeSSion.-Daniel webster.
Strengthen me by Sympathiz-
ing with my strength not my
weakness.
Silence is more eloquent than
words.
A nightingale dies Of shame II
another bird sings better. :
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Spring Symptoms

Spring Symptoms
At this time of year, you can
tell just by the infection in a
Woman'S voice over the tele-
phone whether she has found a
new heart-interest or not.
Judging from most Of the
heart-balm cases, the bigger the
man, the more there is OF him
for the wrong woman to make
fool Of.
Marrying a man to reform
him may once have been a girls
favorite method Of wrecking her
life; but the bitterest expert
ence, after all, is to waste your
life reforming men for other
women to marry.
The great cause of most of our
troubles and heartaches in this
world is the human instinct to
believe that the next man" or
the next woman" will be differ
ent' from all the rest.
''Sone form of polygamy"
may be necessary in Scotland
II the birth rate continues to
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

ct
Wahng d. C.
O.
= J. Fitzpatrick managing editor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-12
pirnres ny tscorxc s.."rh" H

Goldy. He was worked with all his might"
 The hunter said. That's fair enough. You all have seen. him do his stuff.'' In just about a moment, the striped beast was out of sight.
 Then Windy shouted, "Of all things! Look up into the trees. What brings those monkeys here :? Are they your pets ?n "Of course" the hunter said.
 'They are the c1everest of all. guess they must have heard us call the zebra, so they came here, too. They're hoping to be fed"
 Then to the monkeys he cried out, Come, do some stunts, and swing about. If you will enter tain us, you'll get tasty food ga-
 q have some peanuts in my hut. I'll give you every single nut" The monks then pulled some antics that made all the Tin ies roar. Copyright 1894 NEA Service Incl GA kangaroo shows the Tinies in the next stOry.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-12

GA kangaroo shows the Tinies in the next story.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-12

Gee" Scouty said, Your zebra should be In circus. He'd be good. I've never seen one kick a rubber ball in sir before. '.He times his kicks just per- fectly. At first feared that he'd kick me, but he's been trained so well there is no such bad luck in store."
 "Of course not" said the hunt CT. "You can do whate'er you want to do, and that beast will not harm a hair upon your little head.
 "As long as youtreat such beasts right, there never will be cause for fright" Then Duncy butted in. Hey. let me toss the ball." he said.
 This time the ball sailed t'ward there, if you please. It's caught up in some branches. Now, I guess our fun will stop"
 The hunter. though, called a giraffe, who promptly made the Tinies laugh, eby poking at the rubber ball, until he made it drop.
 The hall was then kicked all about until the zebra grew tired out. "Aw. let him rest" said
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panied by the Hospitality 0rches-
ira.
During the evening q semi-clas-
steal program was played by the
orchestra and several Of the num-
bers were so well executed as to
call forth applause from the din
ers. The last number on the mu-
steal program was a composition
of Professor Alfredo Barroso. d.
rector of the orchestra, the Hos
pitality Paso Doble.
Between numbers of the orches-
ira the FERA Rumba Band en-
tertained with vocal and instru-
mental selections.
Proceed To Dance
After the banquet many of
those attending went to the Coun-
try Club TO round out the program
with a dance which was arranged
by the committee of the Hospital
ity League.
Among those who attended the
affair were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius F. Stone,
Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome d. Con-
nor, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jay,
Miss Jessie Lee Ware. guests of
honor; Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. r. Por-
ter. Lieutenant S. w. Douglas, u.
S. NJ. c., retired, and Mrs Doug
las. Mayor and Mrs. w. H. Ma
lone, Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Pierce,
DR. and Mrs. William R. Warren.
Mr.. and sIrs. B. C Moreno, DR..
and Mrs. H. C. Galley, Mr. and
Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, DIR. and
Mrs. A. Cobo, Rev. and Mrs. James
S. Day, Miss Mollie Parker, Miss
Ileen Williams, Miss ALICE Curry,
Dir. and Mrs. c. G. Hicks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Melvin E. Russell. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Bryant Kirke, Mr..
and Mrs. V. A. Johnson. Senator
and Mrs. Arthur Gomez, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Ballou, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. C. Dewitt, Mr.. and Mrs. N. F..
Gilfond, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Owen.
Ora L. Jones and daughter. Miss
Alice Jones, E. E. Stokes and Miss
Ryder, Hugh Christie and Miss
Reese, Joe Lopez and Miss Nell
Rose Knight. Donald Corley AMI
Miss Betty Maloney, Avery John
son and Miss Annie Lois Hicks,
H. E. Causey and Miss Eunice
Whyte. DR.. n. c. Pintado, Nor
berg Thompson, K. o. Thompson
and Ross c. Sawyer.
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Dutch ship sent from Holland by
Mr.. Van Cress' mother.
A Florida lobster course dinner
was served after which a beauti-
full birthday cake was presented
and later cut by Mr.. Van Cress.
Those enjoying the dinner were
Louie Van Cress, Mr.. and Mrs.
Braxton B. Warren, Miss Cornelia
E. Warren, William Arnold, Mr..
and Mrs. Leo H. Warren. Miss
Ruby Jerman, Joseph E. Warren
and Leo B. Warren.
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There viii be a meeting of the
American Legion Auxiliary held
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock,
according 70 announcement made
by Mrs. ]. G. Piodela, president
Of the organization.
The president states that mas
much as this will be the last meet
ing before the National Convention
70 be held in Miami this month,
that al members should be in at
tendance rs matters pertaining to
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Leo B. Warren GiUes Dinner
In Honor OF Louie Van Cress

Leo B. Warren entertained at
the home Of his parents, City
Councilman and Mrs. Leo H. War
rem. Saturday evening with a Gin
ner party h0noring Louie Van
cress of The Hague, Holland and
New York City. on his twenty
fifth birthday.
A lovely center piece of Dutch
figures added much to the table
decorations. In the center of a
long glass Lake was q beautiful
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SPACE LIMITED AT
STATES HOSPITAL

County judges of Florida coun-
ties are again being told by the
governor to be conservative in
their commitments of persons TO
the hospital for the insane at Chat
tahoochee.
Only those patients who are
shown to be violent are to be sent
to the state institution, it is adj
vised, as the hospital is already
overcrOwded.