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The Washington times., 1934-01-02
LISTEN, WORLD
BY Elsie Robinson

hand to deserve. Praise and
sympathy and encouragement,
till the words blurred before my
grateful and unworthy eyes.
But the thing that mattered
: most-the thing that I've been
trying so vainly to thank you
for all these months-was some
thing greater than love and
deeper than sympathy.
YOU GAVE ME- YOUR
FAITH.
You said you believed in me.
You admitted you didn't always
agree with me. You pointed out
my faults. You got pretty mad
over some of them-though not
nearly as mad as you had a right,
to be! But at the end you took
my hand, and you said
YOU TRUSTED ME!
My dear, how can I tell you
what that meant to me? Per-
haps you know already. Per
haps life has had you down, too.
Perhaps you, too, have lost some
thing, sometime, that meant
more than life to you-and then
gone on plugging as best you
could, but feeling. steadily, that
it wasn't any use; that you
were licked, were wiped up,
THROUGH! Then, out of the
darkness, did somebody reach a
hand and say:
IT BELIEVE IN YOU! DON'T
GIVE UP. DON'T THINK YOU
DON'T MATTER. YOU DO
MATTER-A LOT! I NEED
YOU. I'M COUNTING ON
YOU. I'M TRUSTING YOU
TO COME ACROSS!"
st BELIEVE IN YOU, TOO,
MY DEAR. I DON'T KNOW
WHAT YOUR RECORD HAS
BEEN, AND I DON'T CARE. I
DON'T KNOW WHETHER
YOU'RE WEAK OR STRONG,
YOUNG OR OLD, WISE OR
STUPID, FAMOUS OR A FAIL
URE. THOSE THINGS ARE
ALL OUTSIDE THINGS, ANY
WAY. JUST FOR THIS MO-
MENT? WE ARE ONLY TWO
STRUGGLING WANDERERS,
FUMBLING OUR WAY ALONG
AN UNKNOWN TRAIL. LONE
LY, BEWILDER ED AND
WEAK.
BUT, AS YOU HAVE
NEEDED ME so I NEEDED
YOU. AS YOU HAVE LOVED
ME. so I LOVE YOU. AND
IF IT HELPS TO KNOW THAT
SOMEWHERE THERE IS A
FRIEND WHO HAS FAITH IN
YOU-WHO KNOWS THAT AT
HEART YOU WANT TO BE
BRAVE AND FTNE-WHO'S
CERTAIN THAT YOU'RE
TRYING TO DO YOUR BEST,
AND WHO'S BETTING ON
YOU TO MAKE GOOD-THEN
YOU CAN KNOW 1T, FOR
KEEPS, PARTNER. FOR I'M
THAT FRIEND!
And so, here's my hand
and here's my heart-and God
bless you, dear!
Yours for whatever!
ELSIE.
Copyright 1894 by King Features
H., Syndicats.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-02
New Year Offers Chance
To Remove Spoils System
By James T. Williams, T.

the spoils system and contrary
to the merit system.
AS the Council Of the Ma
tional Civic Service League has
said:
"UntH the adUice of political
factions generally as TO pro.
posed appointments to public
office be treated Uith indiffer.
ence by the Chief Executive
and tie department heads, 0d.
ninis.ration of governmental
affairs solely in the interest Of
the public is tOelI nigh imPos-
sible."
Nowhere in the Federal serv-
ice is there greater need for
the immediate extension Of the
merit system in the making OF
Federal appointments than in
the Department of Justice.
Probably few Americans realize
that practically all the positions
under the Federal courts
numbering over 4,000-are still
outside the jurisdiction OF the
Civil Service Commission. These
positions are still filled upon
the recommendations of politl-
clans, and the most of them
are filled upon the recommen-
dations of county and local
politicians who dictate how the
spoils shall be distributed.
Appointments under the Fed
eral courts to these subordinate
administrative places are made
by the judges. No competitive
tests to. determine qualifica-
tions or fitness are required.
This puts the Federal judges in
the improper and doubtless
frequently embarrassing posi-
ton of being distributors Of
political patronage.
New Deal Opening
Attorney General Cummings
has made a hard fight to pro-
tect the Division of Investiga-
ton and Division of Prisons
in his department from raids
by spoilsmen. But he has no
control over appointments by
Federal judges.
Few of the offices created by
the Roosevelt administration
have been filled by the merit
system. The bulk of these
positions have been filled on
political recommendations.
Less than one-fourth of the
States have yet enacted effec-
tive civil service laws, and out
of $50 cities with a population
over 10000, the spoils system
still operates in all except
about $50.
If the New Deal" in gov
ernment is to mean better ad-
ministration at a fair cost the
merit system must supplant the
spoils systei in the filling of
Federal. State, and local Of
ficeS. No President ever had a
greater opportunity to lead the
nation toward this goal than
fronts "the Man in the White
House" today.
1894 The Washington TimeSJ
The Washington times., 1934-01-02
The Human Side of the News
Raphael Schermann "Sees" Secrets of Men
BY EdUin C.. Hill

The man with the sixth sense
has just solved, in Poland, a
murder which utterly confused
and baffled tbs police. The man
with the sixth sense, with that
mysterious faculty Of intuition
which all the human race will,
perhaps, have some day, Is
Raphael Schermann, of Cracow,
in Poland.
For years there has never
been a sensational, puZzling
crime in Central Europe without
Raphael Schermann being called
upon for a clue. The police OF
Chicago and of New York have
sought his services.
Mysterious Force
This plain, modest, even timid
little man, is possessed, undoubt-
edly, of a mysterious force. He
"sees" any individual through
the handwriting Of that indi-
vidual. From handwriting he
gets a picture, startlingly ac-
curate, of the physical as we'll as
the mental and moral charac-
teristics of any person.
Two years before the death OF
Stresemann, late foreign minis
ter of Germany, a specimen OF
Stresemann's handwriting was
submitted to the man who is so
strangely the instrument of a
hidden force. From that hand
writing Schermann read that
Stresemann was suffering from
heart trouble, though the Ger
man statesman seemed to be in
perfectly good health. Shortly
afterward he examined a note
written by Stresemann and pre-
dicted that the statesman would
die in about six months. Death
came in seven months.
In 1888 Schermann was eX-
amined by commission OF
New York physicians, among
whom were such distinguished
gentlemen as Charles Lewis
Dana and DR.. C. Ward Cramp-
ton. It was DR.. Champion who
came as close as any human
being could come, probably. to
explaining the my Gus
powers of the little man OF Cra-
COW. Champion asserted that
Schermann, biologically, was a
"leap" ahead of the rest Of the
human race-a long leap ahead
in the slow evolution Of the
species and its mentality; a
promise, perhaps, Of the gifts
that all or most human beings
may possess at some distant
day.
One might wish that Raphael
Schermann had been a grown
man and available just % years
ago, in this city of New York.
Before him would have been
spread one of the great mys-
teries of the century.
The Washington times., 1934-01-02

Y ou'Ve no Elsie Robinson
right to use space, take time,
unless you give life something
worth the having in return.
Was I doing that? I won
dered. Wondered with a sort
of nagging worry. For I've
been seeing a lot of life these
days, going up and down; see
ing, perhaps, too much of life's
terror and pain-YOUR terror
and pain.
Words, just words, can't help
a need like that. You can
earn money with words, but
what does your money matter
to the other fellow? Even
sympathy can't help. You can
shed tears from sympathy.
But what do your tears matter
to a woman whose baby has
just died from lack of food
or a man who's about to blow
out his brain because he has
lost all meaning to himself or
his world?
What would help? Could any
thing I said possibly help?
Night and day I was wondering
until the wonder was grow
ing into a fear of myself, a hate
of my own uSelessness.
So at last asked you. Queer
thing to put in a paper? But,
after all, what is a paper but
a daily record of lie? And why
should any question that's hon
est and brave be queer in life?
I asked you, and you answered
by thousands. Never mipd how
many thousands. This isn't a
publicity ad. And numbers
don't count anyway. IT wasn't
how much you said that
counted: it was what you said!
I'm fifty now. I don't know
how many years I have to go,
or how much I'll be able to take
with me when the time comes
to strike camp. But of this I'm
sure If I go anywhere after I
leave here-if I take anything
with me-I'll carry the memory
of those answers in my heart
till my last job is finished and
the stars go cold.
YOU TOLD NE YOU BE-
LIEVED IN ME!
Love-you gave that, too.
Such love as I'd. give my right
The Washington times., 1934-01-02

went out of his way to assem-
BILE, we find the following:
"To beat up."-To call on a
person unexpectedly.
"Beezer. The head.
"Cuties." ."-American form Of
the English "cooties" or lice.
(Not a bad definition, at that.)
"Daddy."-A Cadillac motor
car.
"Zowie. Meaning "and so
on" from the German SO vie.
"NIum." - Chrysanthemum.
(No other definition given.O
"You mustn't squeal," BE
brave!
These are just a few. but they
will give you an idea of how
authentic some of Mr.. Part
ridges sources were. Possibly,
one of his informants was a
very nice lady-friend of mine
who, when making whoopee"
was first current, insisted on
De1ng COllOqula1 10 C1le eACe44U VI
saying that she wanted to go
out and make hooey."
One of the chief troubles with
academic slangsters is that they
are too preoccupied with tramps.
A legend has sprung up among
professors of the vulgate that
tramps, just because they have
a lingo all their own, are val
liable sources of American slang.
AS matter of fact, most tramp
talk is incomprehensible to
everyone except tramps, and
when we do take over a tramp
word like punk" meaning "a
young boy" we don't use it in
the strictly tramp sense. Com
pared with newspaper comic
strip artists, tramps have con-
tributed practically nothing to
the general slang fund.
I would not be so academic
as to quibble with Mr.. Part
ridge, or anyone else, over slang
which I have never heard. 7
The Washington times., 1934-01-02

If public office is a public
trust" as Grover Cleveland SAID
it was, the New Year offers a
golden opportunity for Congress
and the President to drive from
the temple of government the
spoilsmen of politics.
President Roosevelt is already
under promise to give to the
postal service better protection
against the spoilsmen than now
exists. This can be done by
executive order. Candidates for
postmaster can be examined
lust as are other applicants for
the classified Civil Service.
Executive Order
But. exclusive of postmaster
ships, there are also more than
5000 Federal offices which can
be covered into the competitive
service by executive order Of
the President. Most of the Fed
eral offices now excepted from
competitive examinations have
been excepted by special acts OF
Congress. To place these posi-
tions in the competitive service
will require legislation.
Action by the President, how.
ever, to protect those Federal
positions which need only an
order from him to be taken
from the political pie counter
and added to the merit system
would arouse public sentiment
to the necessity of Congress
sional action to the same end:
And Federal leadership toward
the goal of better government
at less cost would encourage the
people in the several States to
renew warfare against the
spoils system.
In his annual message to the
Congress on December 3, 1929,
President Hoover recognized
the opportunities for extending
the competitive system under
the Civil Service law In the
Federal system, but he offered
little leadership in this direc-
ton. He urged the competitive
selection of postmasterS of the
third class, but did not seem
to realize, as the Council of
the National Service Reform
League pointed out, that this
would be "but an inconSlder-
able contribution to the cause
of good government"
Out of a total Of almost six
hundred thousand Federal Of
fices for which the American
people were paying when
President Roosevelt was in
augurated, over seventy-flve
thousand are still filled by the
spoilsmen of politics and with
out the fair test for which the
competitive system provides.
However much a President
and his Cabinet may prefer to
appoint to office those best
qualified to serve the Federal
Government efficiently. they
are under the most harassing
pressure from politicians and
other special interests to fill
Federal offices in accord with
The Washington times., 1934-01-02

Two girls met in front Of
Brentano's bookshop, in New
York's Fifth Avenue. 1t was O
freezing December afternoon
and they could not stop long
for their chat. Gladys King
said: "Oh, Dorothy, was just
going to mail this letter, but
you might as we'll take it with
you." Dorothy laughed and took
the note, which concerned her
younger sisters coming out
party.
Harriet Camille Dorothy Ar
mold, IS years old. a Bryn
Mawr girl, daughter of a promi-
nent and wealthy family, left
her home in East Seventy
ninth Street at 11:15 in the
morning to purchase a new
dress. At 1915 she lunched
at Park g. Tilford's at Fifth
Avenue and Fifty-Seventh Street.
An hour and a half later she
met Gladys King a mile and
a half down the Avenue. After
that no record, nothing
nothing but a blank page.
Her absence at the Arnold
dinner table caused some sur
prise but little worry. AS the
night wore on there came ap-
prehension and the beginning
of the worldwide search.
Into Thin Air
For many months the search
was directed with the keenest
possible intelligence and the
most indefatigable energy by
Francis P. Garvan. who was
later to become Alien Property
Custodian of the United States
and Assistant Attorney General.
In a letter which came to
light months after she vanished
she had written these words:
"Well, it has come back. Fail
ure stares me in the face. All
I can see ahead is long road
with no turning. Mother will
always think that an accident
has happened"
Yet the police never accepted
the idea that Dorothy Arnold
destroyed herself. The chances
are ten thousand to one that in
a city like New York, where
eyes are always watching by
night as well as by day, a grown
person, and especially a young
and attractive woman, could
dispose of her own body with
out leaving some clue, some
trace, however slight. Yet no
clue, no trace was ever found,
and the answer accepted in the
wills left by both her mother
and her father was this: Il ain
satisfied that she is not living"
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndcate.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-02
''N-SQuare"
Or Arithmetic for Congressman

japanese naval officer in recent article reminds his
fsow counrymen that secondbest navy navy Every
one knows that, if he stops to think of it.
But the japanese writer illustrates graphically by what he
calls ''the law of Nsquare."
For example:
Suppose Japanese fleet contains twenty ships Ame
fleet and that the ships of both fleets of similar
type and efficiency ofhand you would say that their rea
tive strength 20 TO- But you would be wrong Their
relative strengths the square of their numbers 400
for the Japanese to 100 for the American In word fleet
that is twice the size Of its opponent actually four times
strong-other things being equal
That this is theory but welestablshed principle
naval history bears witness And it simple that
Congressman understand it.
hope will be called the attention of all congressman
when they vote for the navy BILL
It seems pertinent
The Washington times., 1934-01-02

wv h a t d o
you think Of
t h / S col
unn?" a n d
you sent your
answers.
A S / m p / e
enough ques-
ton. A SIM
pie e n o u g h
r e a on be-
hind it. Space
is scant these
days; time is
precious; life
i S h a r d.
p r e S S e d.
The Washington times., 1934-01-02

don't hear all the slang and I
certainly would't go so far as
to say that, just because a
phrase is new to me. it isn't
current. But somehow I have
a feeling that the word cara.
chtevankterous," meaning "ex-
cessively lacking in self-control,"
is not slang in any section of
the United States and never
was. Maybe the pupils of the
Madison High School use it,
but I doubt it. I think that
Mr.. Partridge got that one from
some other dictionary-compiler.
(Copyright ''"t King Features
Syndicate. Inc.l
The Washington times., 1934-01-02
ACADEMIC SLANG
By Robert BenchleY

It would be a pretty safe
bet that anyone who sets out
to write a treatise on Slang
does not use slang himself.
Like people who write books
on The Sense of Humor, there
seems to be a fascination in
the very foreigness of their
subject to their own mental
processes. If they were really
slangy, they wouldn't think
about it.
There is a new book out
called Slang Yesterday and
Today" written by Mr.. Eric
Partridge. Mr.. Partridge is an
Englishman and so cannot be
entirely blamed for getting
some of his American slang
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29
MEMORIAL day talk
HEARD AT KIWAN|S
11.Ysar Old Sterling Girl Plays
Two Piano Solos at
Luncheon Meeting

A short address by Judge A. q.
Burr: talks by Junior Birdsell and
Emerson Logee, students Of the city
high school: and two piano numbers
BY Velma Dyrstad Of Sterling made
up the luncheon program Of the XII
wants club Tuesday noon.
Speaking on the history and sig
nificance Of Memorial Day, judge
Burr brought out the fact that dur
ing the Civil War, one Of the blood
est conflicts of the nation, some Of
the finest literature Of the country
was written. He went on TO cite ex-
amples Of writings that have been
dedicated to war heroes.
Velma Dyrstad, 1l-year.old music.
ian from Sterling, played two piano
selections, "9cherco'' BY Mendlessohn
and "Whims" by Schumann. Fol-
lowing the piano numbers, Junior
BirdzeI, . member Of the state
championship high school debate
team, gave . short talk on the debate
setup In the state and explained the
question Of the debate league relative
to the government ownership ana
control Of radio broadcasting.
Emerson Ioeee, state winner Of the
extemporaneous speaking contest held
at jamestown. reviewed the method
Of conducting the event.
Guests Of the club were Miss Pearl
Bryant Of the high school, Mrs. Anne
Peterson, and r. 4. Cobb, superin.
tendent OF the state school Of f0re9.
try at Bottineau and United States
forest representative for North Da-
k0ta.
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29
Parents Blamed for
Spindly Offspring

Fargo, N. D., May 29.-R-Chil-
dren suffering from malnutrition,
complaining Of pains in the abdomen.
may be the victims Of their own par
ents' overzealous efforts to see that
they are properly nourished, DR.. E. F.
Robb, specialist In children's diseases
from Minneapolis, told the North
Dakota Medical association Tuesday.
DR.. Robb and DR.. Ray Morton Ball
yeat Of Oklahoma City also discussed
allergy In connection with children's 5
diseases, allergy being that supersen-
Sittveness which some individuals
have to proteins or others substances
which they take internally or which
come In contact with their skin.
In looking for the cause Of the
supersensitiveness which leads to
eczema, first suspicion should be cast
upon eggs, the speakers said. Eggs
In tho diet Of some children cause q
rash, but some are sensitive to other
things. milk Or other forms Of protein
and study Of the effects Of diet
must be made to discover II 1t is
something in their food which IS
causing the condition.
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29

Fuel company.
A member Of Masonic bodies, bryant
served as Master Mason Of West
Lodge at Minot and later Transferred
to Minnewaukan chapter Of this city,
He served . commander Of the Cyrene
Commandery Of Knights Templar.
during 1882 and 1893, and . member
Of Doric chapter, Royal Arch AasonA,
Scottish rite bodies, and KEN Temple
knights Of the Mystic Shrine a&
Grand Forks.
Bryant was . past noble grand I.
o. o. F. lodge here and was active -
q member Of the local Eks lodge.
Born at Rosedale. Ind, Bryant came
to North Dakota to homestead near
Ryder when q young man. He later
worked for the Mcclure Coal COM
pany at Minot and In 1911 came 70
Devils Lake to be employed by the
Stevens Grain and Fuel company.
He leaves his daughter, Mrs. p. J.
Cornell Of Terre Haute, Ind, two
brothers. three sisters aud several
nieceS and nephewS.
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29
Daughter Of George T. Will to
Make European Tour This Sum-
msr After June 1e Exercises

Miss Margaret VIII, daughter o1
George F. VIII, 323 Third Street
viii receive her bachelor OF arts de-
gree from Smith college, Northamp-
ton, Mass, Monday morning, June
1s, according to word received from
the college.
Attending the commencement exer-
cises will be Miss Wills father and
her aunt, Mrs. r. w. Lumry, 3l1
Third st.
Following her graduation, Miss VIII
Is to visit friends In the East until
the latter part Of June when she saila
for an European tour in company
with several Smith students, who viii
be escorted by faculty members. She
will not be In Bismarck until the lat.
ter part Of August or early September
Miss Will prepared for Smith at
Bismarck high school and while IN
college majored In English. Hell
scholastic rating was very high and
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29
Transients Ordered
To Leave Bismarck

Albert Richards was ordered out OF
town Tuesday following Z suspension
Of . 80 day sentence imposed BY City
Magistrate Edward q. Allen after
Richards has been arrested and ar
raigned on . vasrancy charge.
The hearing for Eugene Remen-
schin, arrested May 20 on q vasrancy
and intoxication charge, viii b held
Wednesday morning. william Won
Fuller, brought In on . similar count,
was released Saturday after spending
IL Of 30-day sentence In Jail, and
also was ordered out Of town.
According to the records Of the
United States bureau Of criminal
Identification Ill of these men, plus
Charles Mant3 and Fred H. Kennedy,
who were arrested here for vagrancy,
have served time In penal institu-
tions.
Despite the fact that there are
more transients In Bismarck this year
than normally. Chief Of Police Chris
Martineson said Tuesday that the
number Of vagrancy arrests necessary
has been no larger than usual.
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29
Friendship Quilt
To Be Sold Saturday

A '.friendship" quilt, which has q
total Of 1000 names embroidered on
its 20 blocks. viii be one Of the fea-
tured items ct the sale Of 1ancywork
ana foods planned tor Saturday BY
the Salvation Army Home League,
composed Of the Ladies' Aid and the
Band Of Love groups.
The sale Will begin at the Salvation
Army hall on Main avenue at ]
O'Clock and viii continue throughout
the Afternoon and evening, according
to Mrs. w. g. johnson. o04 Avenue
G, west. Ladies' Aid secretary. A
large variety Of handwork viii be
offered for sale.
Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. ]. L. Kelley,
treasurer, are directing the Ladies'
Aid In preparations for the sale. The
Band Of Love, composed Of grade
school children, has Mrs. Robert Grey
for its leader. Members Of this group
have made bird houses and other ar.
ticles for sale during their regular
meetings.
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-05-29
Zap Civic Club Gives
Banquet for Seniors

Junior and senior students and the
faculty OF the Zap high school were
guests at the annual banquet honor
ing the graduates given by the Zap
Civic CLUB 1T the Carl Skadewalt
home.
Table appointments in blue and
silver. the senior class colors, signi-
fled the motto, "Out Of the Harbor,
Into Deep Channels" which also was
the inspiration for the toast program.
Miniature ships announced the menu
and entertainment.
Principal G. D. Mulhair was toast
master for the following: "Class His
tory" Fanny Kamins: Captain"
Brown o. Lokken: Sailor" Gladys
Johnson: SAIL" Miss Ethel Vie:
Glass Prophecy" Erna Miller: "Rud-