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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20
Human Side Of the News - By Edwin c. Hill

the Mahatma Gandhi? What
has become of the Indian re-
public he was so ardent to
create? Has British diplomacy,
so subtle in playing faction
against faction, been too much,
after all, for the astounding
little prophet?
This amazing political and
religious teacher, who COM
mands more followers today
than any prophet that has
arisen since Mahomet spread
Islam with fire and sword, was
not always a skinny, toothless,
shaven little skeleton in a loin
cloth.
He's IS now, but in his early
days he studied law in London,
wore top hats and frock coats,
studied dancing, French and
the violin. When he practiced
law in South Africa, he sported
a big mustache, an impeccable
morning coat, starched linen
and beautifully knotted cravats.
His crusading started in
South Africa, yet he stood with
England against the Beers and
later in the World War. organic
ing ambulance corps for service
in the field.
It was in 1919 that he re-
nounced the king, demanded
complete independence for
India and devoted himself to
poverty and self-denial.
The British imprisoned him
many times, but the problem
was worse with Gandhi in Jail
than out of it. In his prison at
Poona he occupied two plain
rooms. He slept under the stars,
rising at four in the morning.
He prayed and walked about.
His right hand troubled him
and he learned to write with
his left.
Most of his day he spun yarn,
turning out from 100 to 500
yards a day. His bitterest war
fare is against the machine and
the machine age. He breaches
that humanity must go back to
the soil and the simple life to
survive. He reads enormously.
He knows the Bible through and
through, and the Mohammedan
Koran. When Mrs. Gandhi
visited him in prison, he had
lost so much of his meager flesh
that she cried out:
"Why, I can see your bOnes!"
He replied:
'But / am feeling very we'll"
What few teeth he had left
troubled him sorely, and I think
it iSa curious thing that at the
very time he announced his de-
termination to Starve himself to
death he sent for a dentist and
was fitted to q set Of false teeth.
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate. IRc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

Men must work and women
must weep" But women laugh,
too, nowadays. Here's a big
gayly-decked book, Laughing
Their Way" by Martha Bensley
Bruere and Mary Ritter Beard
"a fine anthology of feminine
humor in America.
While Mrs. Bruere's husband,
was working-taking the brunt
of the preliminary negotiations
trying to fend off the textile
strike-Mrs. Bruere and Mrs.
Beard were rounding up a book
which is unique in its showing
of the rise and range of women's
humor, and incidentally in it's
revelation of humor, as a reflex
Of the new cultural freedom Of
women.
Both authors are deep in such
matters. but they have let their
story tell itself-a clear por.
trayal of widening horizons.
Sitting on the terrace of Mrs.
Bruere's charming home at
Sneden's Landing, overlooking
the Hudson, I heard the anus
ing story of how the book came
about.
1--WE were dining at the
Boards" she said. "Our hus-
bands agreed that women, on
occasion, were humorous in their
conversation. and even witty, at
times, but that when they tried
to write humOr they could never
get it over. This started a warm
argument i'm which Mrs. Beard
and I warmly opposed that idea.
1t was a serial argument and,
finally, as an ultimatum, we
told our husbands we would
write a book and prove it. So
we did"
Mrs. Beard, is the wife Of
Charles Beard, the historian.
Both she and Mrs. Bruere are
the authors of many books and
magazine articles, and Mrs.
Bruere is also an accomplished
artist.
The book is a startling re-
minder of the changes that
have come about in the world
Of women-although, again, the
authors do not labor this point.
Certainly, even in our own
brief time, it is a far cry from
Aunt Samantha at the Worlds
Fair, to Dorothy Parker. They
go away back to Francis Berry
Whitcher and her widow
Bedott," and, here indeed, the
book is a peep show revealing
other days.
This earlier humor was
"cabined, coffined and con-
fined" in the narrower feminine
limits Of the home and the
church Of those days. as were
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

w h n George E. Allen
Commissioner Allen, who is
from Mississippi, was to get his
commission as a lieutenant in
the World War, Bilbo, who was
governor at the time, said:
"Sure I will sign his commits
sion. He probably will go to
France and may get shot"
At one time a member of
the Mississippi Aliens declared
that if Theodore Bilbo was ever
made governor he would leave
the State, bag and baggage,
and never sign the name Of
Mississippi behind his name
again. And Bilbo became gov
ernor.
Senator Hubert D. Stephens,
1Oho lost to Bilbo, was one of the
most complGcent men in the
Senate. Though he seldom par
ticipGted in debate, he WaS an
GctiUe man.
Senator Henry Fountain
AShurst, who Sneaked through
the Arizona primaries by the
skin of his teeth, is back in
town.
Splendidly bronzed from the
Arizona sun, he is confident
that he will slide through the
November elections. His op-
ponent is equally confident
that he won't.
The t1Do Senators from Ten.
nesSee, Kenneth Mcclellan and
Nathan L. Bdchman, both of
who came through strenuous
elections, 1DeGr small black boD
ties necessarily.
Bachman, however, wears one
of those a-half-gallon
can Texas toppers. Mcclellan
adopts a hat with round
crown that, strange to say,
gives him a ministerial air.
Back from London comes
James D. CJim'D Preston, Sen
ate Librarian. Jim has been
studying ancient and modern
ways of preserving old docu-
ments. His trip made him
true "Limey."
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the women themselves in their
stays and martingales.
But how they did break loose
as the decades rolled by! It
was Bergson-wasn't it?-who
set up the theory that humor
doesn't flow from a high to a
low potential, but that it is a
flash between equals; that this
flash never occurs between
master and man.
They're still bordering this,
and the returns aren't all in
yet, but reading this fascinat"
ing anthology, it seems to me
that women began to do more
sparkling and wise-cracking as
they got to a point where they
could call their souls their own.
The suffrage movement, as the
writer's show, opened up some
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

rich veins of feminine humor.
One might make quite a
plausible case for the view that
the new humor of women is
a variant or a marker of their
changed human status. The
authors have diligently sur
rounded their subject, and they
marshal a gallant parade Of
brilliant women in support of
the argument with their hus-
bands. The jury finds for Mes
danes Bruere and Beard.
A curious silence surrounds
that feeble little man whose
resolute purpose has caused
more trouble to the British gov"
eminent than anything since
the American colonies decided
to go it alone.
What, indeed, has become Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20
LISTEN, WORLD
Bv Elsie Robinson

their acts sprang from the same
roots. They were both BRAVE.
RECKLESS, REBELL1OUS and
PROUD. They both defied the
Status Quo. And they both
stood out above the other men
because of the intensity of these
qualities. THEIR ONLY DIFF.
FERENCE LAY IN HOW THEY
USED THESE QUALITIES.
Dollfus used his courage
nobly. Dillinger used his villain
ously. The same trait which
made one a GOOD man made
the other a BAD man.
How could I have done it,"
That's what Redhead cries.
That's what we all cry with
shame and dismay when we've
made mess of things. And we
wonder where this mysterious
evil spirit came from, which has
ousted all our dece1cy and
blackened our fine records. But
there is actually no mysterious
evil spirit" There is only that
same strength which has hither.
to backed our finest acts, which
has now run amuck.
And the marvel is not that
we SOMETIMES make fools of
ourselves, but that we don't do
it all the time! For it is such
a little while since all human
beings were Dillingers-living in
jungleS, following jungle de-
sireS. And now we're "civ-
ilized," trying to use the same
impulse which once made can
nibals of us-to build cathe-
drals!
So don't be hopeless if you've
come a cropper. Don't say to
yourself, There's a jinx in me
that can't understand which
may rise any time and wreck
my life, no matter how hard
try to make good" Say in
stead
There's a FORCE in me
which I can use, either for good
or evil, AS I, MYSELF, CHOOSE.
AND I CHOOSE TO USE IT
FOR GOOD!"
And while you're saying that
about yourself, it might also be
we'll to remember it about the
other fellow. He, too, is Won
dering how he could have done
it," and thinking of himself as
a hideaway for some devil. But
he isn't. He's just a muddled
human being who has used his
strength in the wrong way.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

State of Washington.
w. Asbury Rorer, the De-
partment of Justice agent, who
was largely responsible for the
capture of Machine Gun"
Kelly, has been called into
town for a bit of mild work.
esident Roosevelt was
pleased by the yacht races off
Newport, R. I. He extended his
trip to see the yachts compete.
One wisecracker says:
"If the Donkey and the Ele.
plant race is as close in the
November elections as the Rain.
bow and EndeavOr, our big
Chief Executive won't be so
pleased"
They are interested in our
college boy, Rexford G.. Tug
well, in England.
They wonder if he isn't a
direct descendant from the
spider which wOve its web in
the prison of Scottish hero
Robert Bruce.
They hear he has the Amer.
lean farmer SO entangled.
,Copyright, 1884, The Washington Timesl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

me. ana gOOo
training. I really care for the
best things in life. Then how
could I have made such COM
mon fool of myself?
"Where was my decency, my
will power, my refinement
even my sense of humor? How
could they all be. swept away
leaving a person I've never
known before?
"Oh, I'm sorry now. No one
no earth knows how sorry 1
am-unless they've been
through it themselves. And
the worst of it isl don't know
how to start over again, for I've
lost my faith in myself. II a
thing like this can happen to
me once, WHAT'S TO KEEP 1T
FROM HAPPENING AGAIN?"
What's to prevent it happen
ing again? The very thing that
CAUSED you to run amock will
PREVENT it from happening
again, Redhead.
No, that isn't a riddle-it's
life's deepest truth. The good
ness and the badness in us &C.
tually spring from one common
source. We aren't-as most OF
us believe-two different people
inhabiting one hide, with en-
tirely different qualities. We're
just one person with one set
of qualities. And our acts de-
pend simply on how we use
those qualities.
Dollfus, the GOOD man who
has just been martyred in Aus
tria, and Dillinger. the BAD
man who has just been slaugh-
tered in Chicago, were exactly
alike in certain particulars. and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

there's some
thing else in
her ! e t t e r
that goes for
all of US,
without dis
tinction as to
color. CT a S S,
age or creed.
How" she
walls, could
I have done
it? I'm sup
posed to be
i n t e IL igent.
I've fine peo-
pie b e h i n d
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

ii b o, b y
the way, is a
g r eat enemy
of c o m m i S.
sioner George
E. Allen. T h e
Bilbo a n d
All e n ia m
lilies h a v e
been feudistS
" e r b IL "
S in ce t h e
d a Y S o f
Private Allen
of the Civil
War.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

Outside Of
Alaska, f e W
men were as
u n h a p p y
a b o u t t h g
b u r n ing Of
Nome as Sen.
a t or Homer
T. Bone.
One Of the
b e S t young
men in the
S e n a t e, he
n a S a oV e
for A | a S k a
t h a t is sec.
ond only to
his n a tive
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

Theodore G. BilbO, self-pro-
claimed ballyhOo artist who
promises to Out-hOOey Huey
Long, apparently is coming to
the Senate where his acquain-
tances say he will be fairly
miId-the bOisterOus stuff being
campaign talk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

"HOw Could Do IT."
She signs herself "Redhead."
And-you guessed tits a
typical redhead ruckus. But
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20
Human NatureD Doesn't Change
Witness This

Professional gentlemen in Washington who have so
much faith in New Deals in politics and in human nature
should give ear the tale brought from fraway Mace
donia by Johns Hopkins University professor.
twenty-five centuries ago the citizens of the Grecan
city of Oynhus boarded all sorts of currency despite the
efforts of their rulers to put stop to the practice Their
painted their faces despite the dsapprov of their
moraists Their officials accepted the promises Of friend
ship of foreign ruler who proceeded few years later
to destroy their city.
New Deals come and go, but and women are al.
ways the in their greed their vanity their foolish
ness well in their better qualities Wise rulers &C.
cept the facts Of human nature don't shut their eyes to
them and pursue fancies
TIE 9 year 1917
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

Why Women Turn Gray
At a party, an unmarried girl
may have to sit around all eve
ming waiting for some man to
devote himself to her. After
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20

enough to give her conscientious
grounds for divorce.
X \
Practically all men are alike,
before breakfast and after mar
riage. But under a harvest
moon, there is always ONE man
who seems different from all
the others.
Copyright, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-20
MARRYGO-ROUIND
By Helen Rowland

thing rash-and then actually
DOES it.
A man can always tell you
what the Administration at
Washington ought to do with
its millions-even when he can't
tell you what he did with the
last ten dollars his wife let him
have out of his own pay en-
velope.
When love dies, nothing con.
Soles a woman so much as lay
ing it away in a beautiful cas-
ket with flowers and last rites;
but a man doesn't care whether
his dead loves are buried in
Potter's Field or thrown on the
ash-heap, so that they STAY
dead.
The kind of husband who gets
shot is one who has enough
nerve-wracking little faults to
keep a woman on the verge of
murder, but no ONE sin big
:: ~ :: -
e" AN8AAI
&E#HffE##&
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White Teeth turned
dull by film

CCIENCE has made significant
- discovery. The cause of dull,
discolored teeth is found to be the
chief cause of serious tooth and
gum disorders. That cause is a
film that forms on teeth.
You can feel film with your
tongue - slippery coating. 1t
clings to teeth, absorbs stains from
food and smoking, and turns white
teeth off color" Germs by the
millions breed in it, and they, plus
tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea.
To remove film, use the special
film-removing dentifrice called,
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Pepsodent. 1t acts to curdle film
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Start today.
Pepsodent contains no pumice,
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it for cleaning the soft teeth of
children.
accept PepsOdent Test
To prove results, send coupon for
Today free test or buy a tube-for
sale everywhere. Do this now for
your own sake.
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Evening star., 1934-01-02
Blindness Results
In Election of Ne,U
Mayor at Alliance
Merchant, Forced to Out
Hobbies, Takes Up
Political Career.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIANCE, Ohio, January 2.-The
man who became Alliances new mayor
yesterday, Guy E. Allott, says he
has an idea that all bad luck" car
ries some good with it.
More than a year and a half ago
Allott, hardware merchant, fell down
a flight of stairs at his home and
his optic nerves were damaged so he
can merely tell the difference between
daylight and darkness
That meant he had to give up his
gardening, his extensive botanical u
rugs, one of the most nearly complete
collections in the country.
But Allott, declaring he would take
as his example the careers OF Thomas
P. Gore of Oklahoma and Thomas D.
Schal of Minnesota, both blind, as his
guide. began to take an active interest
in public affairs.
AS often as she could, his wife read
to him from newspapers, magazines and
books. Many people had known him
as president Of the Oratory Club and
alumni manager of athletics for Mount
Union College. Entering the mayoral
race, he conducted an active campaign
as a Democrat.
He received the largest majority in
recent years over his opponent, Charles
S. Westover, veteran political leader.
Now he's ready to tackle the city's
problems.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
2.531 HYATTSVILLE
C. W. A. JOBS FILLED
Manager Camfeld Of Re-employ.
ment Service Says Total on
Rolls Is $50. -.
.r rr-oondorto ~ rhs Star

By a STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
HYATTSVHLE, Md, January 2.-Of
3,51o persons put to work through the
local office of the National Re-employ-
met Service, 1881 have been placed on
the rolls of the c. w. A. it was dis
closed in a New Year day announce
ment bv T. j. Camfield, manager.
The Public Works Administration mas
afforded work for 729 unemployed per,
sons who registered with MIR. Camf1eld
while $50 were placed with private en-
ployers. - . ~.
smallest number Of persons, private EN- !.
blowers have hired more women tnan
the C. w A. and the P. w. A Forty
eight of the 4o8 women registered here
have been placed with private en-
pIovers. IA with the c. w. A. ana TWO
with the P. w. A. - 90
Since the office opened, August 2o'
registrations and re-registratlons haoe ave
totalled SAP while there are now l,9o2
unemployed in the files.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
PLAN TO HOLD UP STORE
IN YORK TOLD POLICE
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOWSON, Md, January 2-Declin-
ing to name his two companions when
he was arraigned before a magistrate,
Robert LeSsiter, 81, of Augusta, Ga, was
held here today while authorities in
vestigated his story of a planned hold
up in York, Pa.
Lessiter, arrested Sunday night on
the York road near here on the com.
plant of a taxicab driver told Magis-
trate William P. Butler his two COM
panions had planned to hold up a store
in York, but if it was closed when they
arrived there Sunday they planned to
break into the place
Robert Keehner, the taxicab driver.
informed the magistrate he had been
hired by Lessiter and two other men in
Baltimore to drive here and then at
the point of gun to continue to York.
The other two men left the cab in York,
he said, and when they did not return,
Lessiter had him start back to Balti-
more.
Lessiter was arrested shortly after
he got out Of the cab near here. He was
charged with assaulting Keehner.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
AVIATRIX AT MIAMI BEACH

MIAMI BEACH. Fla, January 2 P,.
ANY Johnson Mollison. the British
Transatlantic aviatrix, paused here yes
terday for a plunge in the surf.
Arriving from Jacksonville, Fla, by
automobile this morning, Mrs. Molll-
SON returned northward to Palm Beach
later in the day. She said she plans TO
spend a month at Palm Beach.
She had mo plans" for future fights
Mrs. Mollison has been recuperatlng
from injuries received when the plane
in which she and her husband, Capt
James Mollison.' crossed the Atlantic,
crashed at Bridgeport, Conn, last Sum-
mer
Evening star., 1934-01-02
VIRGINIA CORN COB
+ PIPE CLUB GROWS.
Chamber Music Concerts on
N. B. C. Program-Rubi-
noff Is Flattered.
CORN COB PIPE CLUB of
Virginia is growing so fast that
The old Cross Roads Meeting

Virginia is growing so fast that
the old Cross Roads Meeting
Il House, traditional gathering
place of its members in Rich
mond, Va, is getting too small to hold
visiting out-of-toWn members.
Originally a local organization, the
club now has more than 100000 MEM
in the Union and several foreign coun-
tries. So many members have volun-
tairly formed local branch clubs that
the sponsors Of the popular club OF
the air, now are issuing special local
charters.
Each applications for a local charter
Is investigated and must be approved
before the charter Is issued. There are
local chapters established in every sec.
tion of the country and more than 1oo
applications on file for investigation.
Among the States, New York leads III
total membership with 26.77l, and
PENNSYLVANIA follows with 1908. Cali
fornia and Illinois are next IN order.
A SERIES of chamber music con-
n certs presenting the worlds finest
string piano and woodwind en-
sembles, will be broadcast by N. B. G.
beginning January 8.
The series, arranged by the Library
of Congress, under the provisions of
the Elizabeth Sprague Foundation, will
include 18 concerts. The first concerts
will be by the famous Roth String
Quartet.
A SIGNAL honor has come to Rubi-
n noff, maestro of the coffee hour,
starring Eddie Cantor. In the
Literary Digest radio poll, both Ruoi-
noff and President Roosevelt received
votes of 26 "dislikes" each. This made
Rubinoff just as unpopular as the
President-a fact which made Rubinoff
very, very proud.
THE Landt Trio and Whire recently
l. eliminated their usual wednesday
morning hymn. At once they were
deluged by letters asking them to re-
instate the religious music.
Such a demand is not to be denied,
and so the Landt Trio and White have
resumed their custom Of including a
hymn on their Wednesday programs
on N. B. C.
DOTH networks have completed ar
- rangementS TO broadcast the open
ing session of the House tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED
NUMBER 2,224,O79
Figure Shows Decline of Nearly
Half Million Since De-
cember, 1882.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 2.-The ministry
of labor announced last night that the
number of unemployed persons regis
tered at employment exchanges in
Great Britain on December 18 totaled
2,224079.
This figure was 55,938 less than on
November 20 and 9,208 less than the
same date in 1882.
1t was estimated that 10,007 900 in
sured persons between the ages Of 16
and 64 were employed on December ID.
This is $1,000 more than the month
before and $1,000 more than the same
date of the previous year
Evening star., 1934-01-02

education program on WMAL at tbs.
New Sources of Local Revenue" will be
the topic of discussion.
Phil Lord, on his world cruise aboard
the schooner Seth Parker, has reached
New York, the point of origin Of the
broadcas on WRC at 10.
Harold Arlen. composer of Stormy
Weather" and many other song hits, will