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The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Gamers Money Program
Gets Support at Last
By James T. Williams, T.

business and give employment
to labor? Somebody ought to
answer that.
II yield for an answer. 1
have not yet found a man
who can answer that question.
1t can not be answered. That
is the size of it exactly. You
propose to increase the capital
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation from $2,OOO,OOO,OOO
to S3,5OO,OOO,OOO.
''NOw, in doing so, 1 plead
with you to let all the people
have some drippingS from this
wonderful banking institution.
Do not keep it just for few.
Let the whole people have a
little bit of consideration with
respect to their own money"
When President Hoover urged
Speaker Garner to withdraw his
proposal, Mr.. Garner respect
fully declined to do so, and ad-
dressing the President directly
said with earneStneSS:
Won't Surrender
''Not l, Mr.. President. There
is a principle involved in this
that 1 will not surrender. 1 will
not surrender the principle that
we ought to legiSlate for all the
people rather than for a pref.
erential class"
In his whole 30 years in Con-
gress, Mr.. Garner never took a
position that brought him more
scathing criticism from the Re-
publicans in both Houses of
Congress and from the Repub-
ican press throughout the coun-
try. Finally, President Hoover
said in public condemnation of
the Garner proposal:
"Such an undertaking by the
United States Government
would make the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation the most
gigantic banking and pawn
broking business in all history"
Mr.. Hoover's disapproval Of
Mr.. Gamers practical plan for
breaking the credit jam by Fed
eral aid to industry resulted in
the defeat of that plan by the
Senate two years ago. Now,
both Houses of Congress, on the
recommendation of a Demo-
cratic President, have come
around to Mr.. Garner's way Of
thinking.
And the best part about the
vindication of Vice President
Gamers common sense, as re-
vealed in his championship of
this idea, is the benefits that
will accrue to industry, which
has been choked all too long
by lack of adequate credit
facilities.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington
Times
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America justly those founders of the Republic
who stamped their mperishably upon history's
scroll by afxing them to the declaration which pro-
claimed the independence of the United States
They pledged their honor and their fortunes that that
independence might become fact.
There is being written the desk of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives similar declaration,
proclaimng the independence of the House from the
political domination of small clique
These men and women honored by their fellow citi-
zens with public office have affixed their to that
declaration-the Mcleod bill pettion-where all the
nation may behold and from which all time shall not
efface them.
ARIZ0NA-Isabella Grnway (D).
Golden o. Harry Engbrght (Rl John HOeppel o. John
(D) William Traeg (R) Samuel
Collins ) William Evans R) Charles Kramer (D), John
Burke (D)
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

married in an airplane and
parachuting down, getting ar
rested for speeding or clipping
with the chauffeur are all just
old stuff! Ho-hum! How tame!
It is hard to believe there
was a time when an actress got
pages and pages of publicity.
merely by taking a milk bath.
And when a society leader
startled the world by staging
that famous monkey dinner"
to which all her friends brought
their simian pets.
Nowadays, such dull conserva.
tive items could never compete
as news" with the romances
and divorces of the movie col
ony, the engagements and dis
engagements of our Broadway
favorites, or the latest out
breaks of the NudiSts.
A gal would have to do some
thing positively startling to be
able to crowd the picturesque
Peggy Joyce, and the irrepres-
sible Mia Cram Cook off the
news pages. And if she sue
ceeded, there would still be the
loves of the Millens and the
Dillingers to compete with.
Copyright, 1894. King Features
syndicate, Incl
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hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, it is not at all settled that
Rainbow will be the sloop to
race against the Endeavour. The
new defender must first prove
herself and win the right to
represent America against two
other sloopS, the Yankee and
the Weetamoe, which were built
in 1880 to race against the last
of the ShamrockS.
Aside from the yachtsmen, we
do not get unduly excited these
days over the international cup
races. For the public in general,
the edge has worn off. But the
time was when it appeared that
the fate Of two nations, the
United States and England, was
at stake, while two trim yachts
raced IS miles off Sandy Hook.
Why, in 1895, feeling ran so
high that some people thought
there would be war. That was
the year Lord Dunraven charged
that the Yankees were up to all
kinds of chicanery, causing him
to withdraw his Valkyrie III,
after she had been defeated
three times by the yacht De-
fender.
1t took that grand old
sportsman, Sir Thomas Upton,
to restore an era of good feel
ing, coming along as he did,
these three years later with his
first Shamrock and returning
four times, the last in 1880, in
five futile and gallant attempts
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Human Side of the News

to lift the cup. This year.
England sends Thomas Octave
Murdoch Sopwith. a forty-five
year old manufacturer of air.
planes, as the owner and skip
per of the Endeavour. He is
an old hand at adventure, one
of the pioneer fliers, and an
early counterpart of our own
Lindbergh, which distinction
he won at the age Of twenty
one, when he flew across the
English Channel and one hun
dred and fifty miles into
France.
And with him on the
Endeavour, as a member of the
crew, when she races this fall
off Brenton Reef Lightship,
will be Mrs. Sopwith, the first
woman to ship aboard an
Americas Cup yacht. Some
have been guests, but Mrs.
SopWith will be at her hus.
bands side holding the watch
as timekeeper. And this is a
most important job especially
at the start while the boats
are jockeying for an advan-
tage.
Furthermore, Mrs. Sopwith'S
participation will add a touch
of color to the races, giving
them that human touch which
might have passed on with Sir
Thomas Upton. Yes, old Tom
has gone. Young Tom comes
in his place and if he is Of the
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No Myth!

A squat and ugly old bowl,
made of 1874 ounces of silver,
q inches high, SO inches around
in the middle and "a inches
around at the base-Such is the
Americas Cup. Melted down it
might bring as much as $50
from a junkman. Yet, over
stretch of 80 years, men have
paid out $12,0O0,000 to vie for
it, and that fact alone would
make the old mugg, as Tom Lip
ton called it, the most priced
trophy in the history of sport.
Once more it is in competi-
tion. England tries again for the
fifteenth time to recover the cup
which the old schooner America
picked up on August %, 1851,
when she outSailed the pride of
Britain's yachting fleet in a
race around the Isle of Wight.
A bottle of champagne is broken
over a blue steel hull, the blocks
are removed and down the ways
she slides to hit the water at
Gosport. She is the Endeavour,
the new challenger.
New Defender
Up in New England, the new
defender, Rainbow, is nearing
completion, built by Harold
Vanderbilt and syndicate. It
was no easy task, even for Mr..
Vanderbilt and his associates to
organize the pool for the build
ing Of the Rainbow, and even
after the expense Of several
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The Linelight

Il
Success" has been described
as the point at which a woman
stops worrying for fear she'll
be talked about, and begins
worrying for fear she WON'T
be talked about.
A popular society girl"
these days, is one who has
managed to get her picture in
the rotogravure sections of the
newspapers almost as often as
q gun-moll. This requires dar-
ing, originality and a good
press-agent; but the modern
slogan is The LIMELIGHT,
at any price!"
It is not easy for a Perfect
Lady to get talked about" as
it was in Mothers day, when
a girl could get reams of free
publicity merely by smoking a
cigarette on the promenade
deck of an ocean liner. Or
when society woman had
only to divorce ONE husband
in order to be a nine-day.
scandal.
In these days. a girl has to
do something awfully silly or
awfully shocking, in order to
make the Front Page. There is
so much competition! Being
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By Edwin c. Hill
By Nelson Harding

same stuff as the old baroner,
perhaps this fall he will sail
home with the 1874 ounces of
silver.
Standing Offer
The rope trick of India is
with us again. Off and on for
the past 500 years, it has been
the greatest believe 1t or Not"
story in history. An Arab trav-
eler started it on its rounds
down the centuries and today
an English group, concerned
with a study of the occult, posts
a reward of $4,000 for a genu-
inc demonstration of the feat.
The money is waiting for. any
one who can take a piece OF
clothes line, ships hawser or
any kind of rope, toss it into
the air where it is to remain
rigid and vertical while a boy
climbs to it's top. That's all
there is to it.
You say it can't be done?
Well, then, 50,000,000 Hindus
must be wrong. In the length
and breadth of that vast and
mysterious empire of the East,
there isn't a hamlet that has
not it's believers in the rope
trick. A few have convinced
themselves that they actually
have seen it done, while the mul'
titude is content to aver that its
knowledge has come by hearsay.
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
By John Snure, Jr.

The hours of the CWA (Civil
Works Administration are num-
bered and before long it will
be one of President Roosevelt's
alphabetical creations that has
been ended.
Since its creation it has been
the object of praise, condemna-
ton, ridicule and contempt. Its
benefits are innumerable. It's
evils are many.
A gigantic fund was apprO-
priated for the CWA and its
monies have been expended in
a multiplicity of ways.
Had Congress fOreSeen what
channels were to be flooded
with the dollars it probably
would have debated the Great
ing act more thoroughly.
One use of the money has
been the organization of orches-
tras. The most recent one was
in Charlotte. N. c., a symphony
orchestra.
In New York city money has
been spent for two musical
aggregations. There is one in
Buffalo, another in Tampa.
Fla; a third in Omaha, and
one in Kansas City.
Formation Of these orches-
tras with taxpayers money was
in the discretion of State direc~
tors. They decided how the
allotted funds should be ex-
pended in States. The Wash
ington office had nothing to
do with that phase Of the
work.
Harry Hopkins, Federal ad-
ministrator, however, thinks it
was a grand scheme.
Musicians. like all other
classes of people, were out Of
work and the orchestras en-
ployed them in their own Vo-
cations. Besides, he says, their
music was culturally beneficial
to others.
His view of the matter is that
the orchestras should play for
the benefit of the people in
the communities where they
are located.
He goes so far as to say that
he approves heartily of their
playing in beer gardens.
Now that is a scheme.
One Government official,
Secretary A of the Treasury
Morgenthau,. talks about get
ting in the revenue from the
sale of beer. The more beer
consumed the more taxes will
be collected by the Bureau OF
Internal Revenue.
More music, more beer, more
revenue!
Clarence Darrow and Gen.
Hugh S. johnson argue about
the NRA.
The eminent attorney charges
that the NRA is squeezing out
the little fellow" The doughty
general AYERS that it is the
savior of industrial America.
Be that as it may, there is one
practical effect of the codes.
Violations of their provisions
are crowding the court dockets
in certain cities, particularly the
greater business communities.
The charges, in most cases
are peaty. Some trivial features
of the code are violated and
charges are filed.
Prosecutors hesitate to try the
cases, judges are petulant when
forced to review the evidence.
juries are heSitant to convict.
The cases pile up. Criminal
trials are delayed.
Dockets look like they did IN
prohibition days when every
The Washington times., 1934-05-23

Charles Dickens once said
that IAN idea, like a ghost, must
be spoken to a little before it
will explain ITSELF"
After talking two years to the
ghost of an idea which Mr.. Gar
ner urged two years ago while
he was Speaker of the House,
Congress is about to senG this
idea to the President in the
form of a legislative enactment.
Thanks to this Garner pro-
poSal, now a Roosevelt policy,
sound industry will be permitted
to borrow money from the Re
construction Finance Corpora
ton and from the Federal Re
serve for constructive projects
that will put men to work. In
this way it is hoped that the
industrial credit jam from
which this country has been suf-
fering ever since the depression
will be finally broken.
The industrial loan bill as it
passed the Senate would author
ize the RFC to lend two hun
dred and fifty million dollars
and the Reserve Board one hun
dred and forty million dollars to
small industries. The Senate
bill limited individual loans to
one million dollars. The House
Committe on Banking reduced
the total amount of industrial
loans to four hundred and forty
million and individual loans to
one hundred thousand. A COM
promise will doubtless be agreed
upon in conference midway Of
the Senate and House limita-
tionS.
Garner Idea
The argument for this form
of Federal aid to industry was
no more convincingly set forth
than Mr.. Garner put it to the
House nearly two years ago.
Leaving the Speakers chair on
July S, 1882, Mr.. Garner took
the floor to report upon a
White House conference just
held between the leaders of
the House and President Hoo
yer. At that conference Mr..
Hoover had served notice that
he would not approve any
measure containing the Garner
proposal authorizing the RFC
to make loans to private cor
porations even when they Of
fered adequate security.
In one of the few speeches
he made to the House while
Speaker, Mr.. Garner said:
"Why should you not loan
to a private corporation if it
has adequate security? Why
should you not loan to that
corporation to carry on its
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pint toter apprehended was
hailed into court.
Impressive ceremonies re.
Gently marked the presentation
to the United States of the
statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee
which had stood in the Capitol
for more than a score of years
before official acceptance.
When the presentation was
made by officials of Virginia,
Judge Don P. Halsey was one
of the orators.
Judge Halsey was a good man
for the occasion.
In 1917 when the statue was
cast in bronze, it's moulders
were anxious to get a life-like
designs to the feet.
An old pair of General Lees
boots were resurrected.
While the statue was cast,
Judge HaIsey wore the boots so
that the artists might get the
proper touch.
Congressme have been
known to evade work if labor
appears on the horizon, but
there are two House members
who apparently have no fear of
i'll effects, ,..
They are the two "early
birds" of the House Office build
i11gS. Representative George
Dondero, of Michigan, who has
been actively engaged recently
in supporting the Mcleod bank
deposit pay-off bill, arrives at
the old House Office Building
at o'clock in the morning.
His complaint is that at that
hour his mail is not delivered.
Each morning, Representative
Robert Doughton, of North
Carolina, arrives at the new Of.
flee building shortly before 7
o'clock.
He objects because at that
hour the elevators are not run.
ming.
When the President, Con
gress, Supreme Court members,
and other dignitaries gathered
at the Capitol recently at cere-
monies in honor of the Mar
uuis de Lafayette, House Door
keeper Joseph Sinnott was ex'
pecting several governors to ar
rive for the occasion. AS has
been related Gov. Dave Scholz,
of Florida, was the only COVER
nor to arrive.
He was announced by Mr..
Sinnott and ushered in with
great ceremony.
AS Representative Bert Smith.
of Washington, said:
Imagine that! A governor IA
lower in rank than a member
of the House. Yet he gets an
ovation"
At those ceremonies the great
baritone Lawrence Tibbett
thrilled the audience. His lis
teners were awed by his mag
nificent voice.
Once again Joe Sinnott came
into the scene.
He was standing near Tlbbett
and when the singer concluded
his recital, Joe said:
"Mister Tibbett you probably
will never again have an audi
ence like you did today.
81 think you were fine. L
may say to you that I've been
around this Capitol long time.
"You are the first man
have ever seen that has made
the members of the Supreme
Court sit up and take nOtice!"
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes had been sitting with
his eyes staring and his mouth
opened wide.
(Convri0ht 1874 The WashinRton Tim0AA
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10 in the
II SteetNOr D. c.
O.
Fitzpatrick editor.
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pint toter apprehended was
hailed into court.
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Times
Adventure
Club

Our friend 81" Montreu, 12l
Thirteenth st. N. E., wrote
very amusing little story in the
rip Van Wrinkle" contest
which, we know, all of you will
enjoy.
81 would expect to find many
strange things if slept for 20
years because that is a very
long time.
81 would be 81 years old and
would probably have long
beard 1--WE hope he doesn't
think he would have a white
beard at that age). would.
1 am afraid, think l was crazy.
1 don't see how l would know
who l was and that would be
very confusing.
"My own mother would be a
stranger to me unless she told
me who she was. She would
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Quiet Wedding

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
I am to be married in a month
and owing to the recent death
(four months ago. of my fiance'S
father, I would like to know if
it is proper for me to have more
than one attendant?
I am thinking of having my
three sisters and a niece at
tending, but I have heard from
several people that having more
than one sister attending is bad
luck. Is this true?
Under this circumstance, you
should plan to have your we'd
ding most simple, with no at
tendant or only one attendant
and only the members Of the
family and perhaps a very few
close friends invited. There
should be no attempt to have a
formal wedding.
I have never heard of this
idea of bad luck" What luck
would have to do with this is
a mystery. But having three
sisters and a niece as attendants
would not be in good form,
since your flAnce'S family Is IN
such recent mourning.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
HORIZONTAL

HORIZONTAL
Made an martculate sound, as
hesitant speaking
1Exploits
@Bird Of the cuckoo family
1O-PoSsessive pronoun
1l-Sound made by the COW
12-Bravery
1-Airplane
1G-What American statesman was
eo-author with Owen D. Young
m 1919 of . plan of rspAra-
lions?
0-Short for Edward
19-Imbecile
G-From side to side
32-What Norwegian explorer sue
eeeded, in 1895, in reaching
che farthest latitude then at.
tanned in polar discovery?
A-Space
96-Implement for washing floors
T-Note in Guido's scale
9o-Rugged crestS Of mountain
ranges
32-WhAt American jurist conduct
ed 4 sweeping legislative COM
naittee investigation of the N.
7. City government: -
Seabury?
94-What English naval hero was
mortally wounded at the ia
nous battle of Trafalgar?
8-Beast of burden
S9-Bar by ones own act
%0-What contemporary American
poet wrote the epic, "John
Browns Body?
21ourneys
A4-Sooner than
G6-Make . mistake.
6-Track worn by wheels
T-Appraised
@-Religious ceremonies
VERTICAL
+Devastation
ROf each an equal quantity
1WhNt English dramatist wrote
"Th0 Importance of Being
Earnest?
@What English naturalist wrote
the "Origin of Species"?
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Gifts for Graduates

Gifts for Graduates
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
Is it proper for a graduate
to take a present to a sister
graduate? What if there are
two girls giving the one party?
Is it also proper for a boy
graduate to take a present to
the party? j.
II. in your community, it is
the custom to take gifts to a
graduates party, and if you
wish to take a gift, then you do
1t. whether you are a girl or a
boy. This question of when we
give gifts and when we don't
is, naturally, such a personal
one, that no definite rule covers
all occasions. If two girls are
giving the party and you plan
to give a gift, you should take
Q gift to each hostess.
A boy graduate would prob
ably like best to send flowers,
either a corsage or a box Of
flowers, to arrive on the after
noon Of the party. Flowers are
more appropriate for a boy to
send than any other kind Of
gift.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

| Sin what country, besides Spain,
did the Bourbon family pro-
vide many kings?
6-Chemical compound
7-Also
8-Melodies
10-Owns
13-Cereal grass
15-Who wrote 10000 Leagues
Under the Sea-?
1T-Hard and glossy coating
20-Covering for the floor
21-Poplars
23-Negative
l25-Hesitate
28-Past
30-Desisted from labor
31-Breed Of hunting dog
32-Temperate
33-What French artist wss the
originator of the smpressi0nise
movement?
35-Game at cards
36-Make a sudden and extreme ef-
fort
37-CoZy retreats
39-Sense organ
41-Historical period
43-Regret
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CONGRATULATIONS

Members celebrating their
birthday anniversaries today
are Betty ScheIl, 2149 Thir-
tieth st. N. E.; Edgar H. See
ley and Roger Hall, both Of
Seat Pleasant, Md; Eddie FOs-
ter, $3.50 FuIter st. N. w.; Mar
tin Shelton, Eleventh and N
SITS. N. W.; Melvin Slayman,
1905 Fifteenth st. N. W.; Glenn
MintOn, Takoma Park, Md;
BethaIene sullivan. Indian
Head, Md, and Philip Hunt,
Capitol Heights, Md.
Many happy returns Of the
day,
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

Herewith is the solution to yes
terday's Puzzle.
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Promotion?
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:

Dear MRS. Beeckman:
Will you kindly advise me
about giving a shower? You see,
I am an aunt by marriage to the
boy. but I would like to give the
bride-to-be a shower. I don't
know many of her friends. but
could get the addresses. What
I want to know is, whether il II
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

be so old and changed I doubt
if 1 would remember her and
SO would my sister. 1 would
feel like a different person en-
tirely.
81 imagine Washington would
be all different. There would
be a new President and a new
Congress. Everybody probably
would have airplanes. Then
there might have been great
war destroying everything and
would be like the man the
Bible speaks of when it says
there will be a day when men
will be so scarce that a little
girl will call her mother to the
door to see one go BY"
We hope the last part Of "J's"
story doesn't come true in our
day. We would hate to think
of all the boys in our club
being wiped out and only 81"
remaining. Brrrr-the idea gives
us a chill.
Betty Oshinsky's story is a
bit more cheerful:
eff 1 were to sleep for 20
years / know 1 would find lots
of changes when l awakened.
I would find people riding
around all the time and not
doing any work (what an ideal.
Robots would be doing every
thing. Even dogs would live
a life Of ease. Mechanical dogs
would be watch dogs. Houses
would be made of metal. Our
good President Roosevelt would
still be President, because he
had done so many wonderful
things. Prohibition would be
here again and prosperity would
be everywhere. Our country
would be friendly with all coun-
tries and everything would be
all right"
Virgie Posey, Ironside, Md:
81 am 1S years old and my
birthday is July 26. / am in
the seventh grade. My teachers
name is Miss Emory. / like her
very much. 1 read your column
every day and I am beginning
to read it to my nieces and
nephews. Some day they would
like to join too. We all go to
the Nanjemoy High School at
Cross Roads, Md"
Marie Hayes, 81 West Kirke
ST.. Chevy Chase, Md:
81 have always wanted to Join
your club, but forget to write.
1 am IL years old. My birthday
was January 6. My sister,
Nancy, would like to join, too.
She is 9 years old, but will
be 10 March H."
Clara Siegel, 529 Lamont st.
N. W.:
II want to thank you for the
greetings you published In the
paper for my birthday. 1 think
it was very nice Of you.
81 am very proud to be a
member of the Adventure Club,
and would advise all my
friends to join also"