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The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Them W|eve the Days
By Frank Sullivan

mer. Either there or to the
Two Thousand Island
"You mean the Thousand
Islands, Aunt Sarah
There were two thousand
then. We used to go to Mag
ara to bathe and shoot the
Falls. Afterward we'd try and
bag a salmon for supper"
"Why, come, Aunt Sarah. A
salmon wouldn't stand chance
in the Niagara whirlpool.
What are you trying to give
me?"
"The kind of salmon you get
today wouldn't, of course, no
more'n a whippersnapper like
you could go over Niagara
without a barrel. These SAL
mon I'm speaking of were
Eighteenth Century American
salmon. Real salmon. They
used to think nothing of jump
ing the falls to get up the river
to spawn. I landed one once
weighed two and a hall ton.
"How did you get it home?"
Didn't get it home. Didn't
want to. I just wanted it for
the roe. We used to dry the roe
and use 'em for croquet balls.
During the Revolution we used
to use the salmon roe for am"
munition. They made nice can
non balls. Properly dried, they
was much more effective than
iron cannon balls, as well the
Redcoats knew. Heaven alone
knows how many British were
moved down by salmon roe
from our 10-pounders. For a
long time the British were fran
tic trying to find out what mys-
terious stuff we vas a-makin'
our cannon balls of, and finally,
when they did find out, they
sent a regiment to Niagara right
away to catch enough salmon to
supply roe for the British can
non."
80 that equalled things up.
I suppose"
mot at all. Not a Redcoat
came back from Niagara"
What happened to them?"
"The salmon ate them. Guess
they were fascinated by the red
color of the British uniforms.
For years after the Revolution
when I'd go to Niagara to catch
me a salmon like as not I'd find
a button or two from a British
uniform inside hi-.l. Sometimes
you'd find a whole British
soldier, still alive. .."
"Oh come, Aunt Sarah!"
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

does immeasurable harm to
homes and family hfe.
Every life is enriched BY Sertl.
ment,, but endangered bg sentt.
mentality. Sentlmenta;ity under.
mines any characteristics away
sound sense, good numor, cour
age, self f-confidence. Sentimer.
tality is Sen ii m ent turned
cancerous.
Why do people become Senti
mental? Because it's easy. safe
and popular-and provides a
perfect alibi for stupidity and
cowardice.
Most human beings are lazy
minded-hate conflict and criti-
cism-love power and approval.
It's hard work to think. And
because it's hard, it's unpopu-
lar. People who think are apt
to disturb the comfort, con-
Venience and conceit Of people
who won't. So the majority Of
people dislike thought. d1strust
thinkerS-and by the same
token are extremely grateful to
those who provide them with d
good excuse for not thinking.
Which the SentimentaliSt does.
Take again the examples
quoted-Home, Mother and Ma
tive Land. 1t is obvious to any
honest person that none of
these institutions is all It
should be, and they all need
some constructive investigation
and reconstruction. But sup.
pose we admit this-where
would it stop? And imagine
the rumpus it would raise!
So with practically unani-
nous vote we decide that
There's No Place Like Home. ..
America Is Gods Country.
And A Mother Is Girls Best
Friend. That's our story, and
we intend to stick to it. And
God help the honest, brave
idiot who dares to challenge
our SNUG security!
All of which seems a swell
system, but of course it isn't.
You can fool almost everybody,
including yourself, but you
can't fool life. Life can always
spot a coWard-no matter how
big the crowd at the box Of
flee. or how big the balance
at the bank. And she gives her
great adventures and rewards
only to those who have the
courage to risk them. She
leaves the lazy, lying Senti-
mentalist at home. playing his
patty-cake.
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Earth'S JigSaW Puzzle
Little by Little It Is Fitted Together

Little by Little 1t Is Fitted Together
The prophets of gloom have ample material to work
with-what with death and destruction and rumors of
in Europe and Asia
But those who have faith in manknds ability to go
ahead despite all obstacles also have plenty Of material
The age Of progress Of discovery of adventure is by
no means ended.
Major Kepner, Captain Stevens and Captain Ander
son. who pierced the mysterious sratosphere only to be
thrown for loss will try again and others will try
Eventually they will learn secrets of nature which will
help the ordinary lives of human beings.
Gugelmo Marconi father of wireless has learned how
ships be guided bndy through dense fogs by radio
In time countless human lives will be spared by this
process.
Father Hubbard the "glacier priest has found new
Inactive volcanic crater the tip of Alaska. Prof
Chinnery an Australian government anthropologst has
discovered hitherto unknown and unsuspeced tribe of
100000 persons in the wds of New Guinea in the South
Seas
Bit by bit such discoveries provide missing pieces in
the jgsaw puzzle of knowledge of the EARTH the
living things which nhabit it or once inhabited it.
Bit by bit we go ahead In the blackest moment of
despair the seeds of hope for the future are always
terminating.
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k own to James A FarIey
make as much as $1,5OO on one
issue. Such prices are helpful
in turbulent times.
Numerous candidates for the
Senate and House apparently
fail to study Federal law.
Letters from aSpirants arrive
at the Capitol daily asking in
formation regarding the neces-
Sity of filing accounts of primary
campaign expenditures.
The Federal Law does not re.
quire a record of primary ex-
penSeS. General election expense
listing is required.
Recommendations have been
made from time to time, that,
if carried out, would force all
candidates to file an itemized
account of expenditures in pri-
maries.
In many instances, particu-
lGrly in Southern States Dhere
the nomination is tGntdmount
to election, the expenses in the
primary are higher than in gen.
eral elections.
And in such cases candidates
may spend a small fortune with
out fear of being forced to re-
cord the cost.
Until the law is changed, how
ever, itemiZed accounts of pri.
mary expenses need not be filed.
One for the book is the hot
WeGther story OF one of our ne10
Federal agencies.
A guard, strolling through the
corridors on a round of inspec-
ton, stopped at the room where
the telephone switchboard was
located. He looked in to make
sure that everything was alright.
1t was.
The operator, disturbed by the
heat, had taken off the majority
of things in which operators
usually are attired.
Renovation of the Nations
principal building has afforded
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If the NRA used up all the
alphabetS in the world, including
the Sanskrit, it could not regi-
ment a three-letter word mean
ing balance of nature" The
word is bug. If the above def
milton is stretched a bit, it is, at
any rate, figuratively apt, for
these spawning legions of insect
life, swiftly adaptive in their
myriad generations. do, indeed,
form a determinant of life
forces of the deepest import to
that more complex but less
adaptive organism known as
man.
Man precariously holds his lit
tie thrones, powers and domin-
ions. In the wake of war, eco
nomic breakdown and drought,
Hfe's underworld presses for
ward menacingly. It is always
there, always ready to strike.
Even in mans happy ascend
ancy in the recent years of the
big foolishness, insects in the
United States were destroying
annually the work Of 100000
men.
Several years ago, DR.. L. o.
Howard, head of the Bureau
of Entomology of the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture, published a startling book,
in which he concluded it was
Just about a toss-up as to
whether insects would some day
conquer man and rule the
world.
But since the days when
primitive man fought and van
quished huge jungle beasts, his
ascendancy has been forever
assailed, always by a smaller
and smaller challenger. The
mammoths Succumbed to
smaller and more agile breeds
speed, adaptiveness nd re-
producing capacity have had
survival values still unmatched
by the mammoth man, with his
brain, his tools and his chem
iStry.
Julian Huxley, grandson of
the great English scientist who
so brilliantly supplemental and
advanced Darwin"s evolutionary
thesis, has revealed mans i'm
passe, as he disturbs the bal
ance of nature. The great
fields of corn and beets and
grain provide banquets for bugs
undreamed of by the most
visionary utopian bug.
Nature, according to Mr.. Hux-
ley, plays all living creatures
clear across the board and they
would come through if man
doesn't interfere with her plan.
Taking the earth and the full
ness thereof, just as it is, there
is a sort of bio-dynamics-a re-
sultant of forces which makes
an equilibrium. There is, in
all creatures, mobility and
oadaptiveness, as well as recup-
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some homes are kind. Some
are cussed. Some homes in
struct children in generosity,
GOOD sense, craftsmanship,
courage, brotherly love. Others
are breeding places for incred-
ible selfishness, stupidity and
coWardice.
It is a fine sentiment to cher
ish the memory of a GOOD
HOME. 1t is dangerous senti-
mentality to honor-and teach
children to honor-ALL homes,
regardless of their quality.
The same distinction applies
to a great many other subjects.
It applies to Patriotism. 1t is
noble sentiment to love and
honor your country when your
country is in the right. 1t is
vicious sentimentality to insist
that your country should be
honored, right or wrong-that
it should never be criticized
that the one who dares crltl-
cize it is a traitor.
1t applies to Mothers. There
is no service more sacred than
that of a mother. But it is alb
surd and demoralizlng to rever-
ence any woman merely because
she is a mother. A mother MAY
be loving, unselfish, wise and
loyal. Or she may be-and fire.
uuently is-a sour-hearted, shall
low-pated fool. SENTIMENT en-
shrines good motherhood. SEN
TIMENTALITY gushes over all
mothers, regardless of their in
diVidual merit - and thereby
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Aunt Sarah Gallup, the
Grand Old Lady of the Adiron-
dacks, put down her news
paper with a snort.
Il knew no good would come
of it," she declared.
"Of what, Aunt Sarah?"
"Of letting all those people
go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel. No falls can stand that.
I knew it would happen, and it
did. They chipped a big piece
off'n the Falls"
But if people go over
Niagara Falls, Aunt Sarah,
they've got to protect them
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The Burnt Child
Mr.. Ickes


The statement of Public Works Administrator 1ckes
that he had been burnt in his relations with the Dis
trict of Columbia is mystfying, to say the least
The administrator apparently refers to previous grants
made to thu District under the Public Works Act He
seems to think that the District officials treated him
OBVIOUSLY in connection with those grants
THE SLIGHTEST STUDY OF THE SITUATION
SHOULD CLEAR UP ANY DOUBT AS TO THE
FoRTHRIGHTNESs OF THE DISTRICT IN THOSE
DEALINGS.
When the Public Works Act became effective Mr..
Ike wanted to get the money under his control to work
ing He asked for the submission of projects upon which
it could be expended.
The District Commissioners submitted such list as did
the heads of other political divisions It pointed out
to the Administrator however, that the District Com
missoners could not borrow any money from the Public
Works Administrations that such transaction for
bdden by law and that if the Commissioners attempted
to borrow money for the city they would probably be
personally liable for its repayment
Despite these warnings Administrator Ickes advanced
considerable money to the District 1t was accepted as
free grant It could not have been accepted under any
other conditions.
Congress- however, thought that the District should
not be treated equality with other political di
visions in the matter of Public Works funds It insisted
that the money be repaid. It has been repaid.
THERE WAS NOTHING IN THAT TRANSACTION
TO BURN THE PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATORS.
Subsequently, Congress passed act authorizing the
District to borrow from the Public Works Adminstra
ton money with which to construct sewage disposal
plant tuberculosis hospital, and other projects.
The administrator has allotted to the District funds
for the sewage plant and the hospital.
But he will turn the funds until he gets clear
In his own mind how the money is to be repaid and If
it is to be repaid
If the Administrator is sincerely desirous Of advanc-
ing the money which he has allotted to the District he
should be able to clear up any doubt to the repay
ment without difficulty Congress specifically provided
means of repayment and ordered that certain part OF
the ctys tax funds be earmarked for that particular
purpose.
HERE IS A CITY THAT DOES NOT OWE A
PENNY, WHICH HAS THE MOST PERFECT CREDIT
STANDING OF THE CITIES OF THE UNITED
STATES 1T MUST UNDER THE LAW PAY BACK
THE PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION AT THE
RATE OF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
YET THE ADMINISTRATOR FEARS HE MIGHT
BE "BURNT' AGAIN.
PROBABLY HE WILL BUT NOT BY WASH
NGT0N
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I 1uman Side Of the News - ByEdwin c. I'LL
By Nelson Harding

dacious gate crashers. And
that is when he spoils the
whole plan of Nature, for
when she makes a Dillinger
of the insect world, she also
gets up a Purvis to get on his
trail, but the bug policeman,
as we'll as all sorts of innocent
and possibly useful by-standers
get knocked over in the chem
ical warfare which is mans
counter attack, and, all in all.
it's like prying into the wheel
of a watch with a cold chisel.
The Bureau of Entomology.
Splendidly equipped in brains
and resources, carries on its
chemical warfare. A decade or
two ago, there was a great
promise in this-and it is still
mans best weapon against in
sects-but the proportion of
insect life under chemical con-
troll is still small and any gain
is apt to be offset by a loss.
For instance, it looked as if
the aeroplane. busting poison
on the fields, might settle this
bug business once for all, but
the fact is that the aeroplane
and the automobile have vastly
increased the mobility and
fighting range of the insects.
When the Mediterranean fly
landed in Florida from the Ba-
hamas several years ago, there
was pretty good evidence that
it had been carried on the
straw used to wrap bootleggers'
bottles of liquor, transported
by aeroplane. Automobiles, of
course, are a boon to the bugs
in helping them break home
ties.
Plant a delphinium in your
garden and you are apt to find
a weed you never saw before,
disguised like a delphinium and
snuggled up close to it, as if
it had the conscious hope that
you would pull up the dolphin
ium and let the weed stay
which you are quite apt to do.
Thus, in the outlaw world of
both weeds and insects there
are clever adaptations, protec-
tive colorings, endless artifice
and fiendiSh resource.
Just now the Bureau of Ento-.
mology has some samples of
bug from India, which has a
little nozzle on it's forehead
with which it squirts acid on
it's enemies-real acid which
eats iron. It is commonplace
knowledge that several species
of insects have established
property rights, set the metes
and bounds of ownership and
developed social systems-par-
ticularly the hypmenoptera, or
ants, bees and waspS.
William Blake, contemplating
the murderous tiger, wondered
what hand or eye could frame
thy fearful symmetry" Is it a
malign force which fashions an
acid-throwing insect? Or is it
merely the fact that anything
goes when survival is at stake?
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most delicate
sentiment and
the most dis
gusting senti-
m e n t ality-
H o M E. In
stantly y ou
think of the
p h r a S E.
III o M E,
,SW E EFT
H o M E !"
But it doesn't
n e c e S sarily
follow.
S o m e
h o m e S are
sweet. Multi
A,1loc ornn'f
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A9H CENTURY AMERICAN

selves some way. Personally, I
fail to see why anybody should
want to go over Niagara Falls
at ALL"
"You don't? Well, let me tell
you, young man, there's no
rarer sport in the world than
going over Niagara Falls"
Aunt Sarah, you don't mean
to tell me you've been over the
Falls in barrel?"
mot in any barrel, certainly
not. In my day people would
have laughed at anybody who
used a barrel going over Mia
CARA"
"How did you go over?"
"Just as is. Just stepped in
and went over, that's ALL"
Got a good victim. Oh, it
was fine. Your cold showers
aren't a patch on it, to cool off
on a hot day. We used to do it
all the time. Put on some dry
clothes afterward and feel like
a million dollars. And in those
days, remember, a million dol
lars was equal to about five
million today"
IT didn't know you knew
Niagara Falls so we'll, Aunt
Sarah"
"Suttinly. In the 1750s we
used to go there for the sum-
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celVlng par
ticular bene-
I i t. T h e y
usually have
t he stamps
before t h e y
are circulated
through the
nation. Know
ing that this
situation ex-
lists, the COL
lectors place
their orders
here.
d e alerS
h a We b e e n
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erative and defensive powers
and, under Queensbury rules,
with no holds barred, man with
his brain, his capacity for
storing wealth and a widely
decentraIzed agriculture, ought
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Sentimentality Is An Escape
Sentiment is the sweetest
thing on earth.
Sentimentality is the slimiest.
For example-consider that
word around which clusters the
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Buffalo Bill OutmOded

The Filler Takes His Place
The flying ace has taken the place of the Wild West
hero in the affections of the American boy.
So says Col Roscoe Turner of the best of our sky
pilots and we agree with him. And moreover welcome
the change.
Aviation brings out the sort of virtues that life
the open range used to-strength courage Skill dar
ing, loyalty and vigorous self reliance.
It's good thing boys idoze fliers because they
really have chance to be iers while few of the boys
of generation two ago had any chance to be cow
punchers or Buffalo Bills.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04

Long before
he left Wash
in g t on to
C a m p a i g n,
Stephens de-
cided 10 make
no personal
C a m p a i g n
against Col.
Inns. Bilbo,
however, said
some caustic
things about
Ross.
In view of
the fact that
he refrained
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to get the decision-up to a
certain point.
It is when he takes Mis-
sissippi Valley and sets out a
1O-course dinner that he draws
the winged, fanged and pre-
The Washington times., 1934-09-04

criticism of Collins, Stephens
hopes that a favorable percen-
tage of the Collins votes will be
turned to him.
If he gets that vote he prob
ably will be returned to Wash
ingtOn; otherwise Mr.. Bilbo is
very apt to arrive in the Senate
early in January.
Copyright. 1884 The Washington Tlmes)
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

Big Jim Farley, Postmaster
General, indirectly is providing
a way for a certain small group
throughout the country to make
money.
So numerous haze the un-
usual issues been that stamp
collectors haze large orders in
Dith the dealers.
washington dealers are re-
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those persons Uho seek some
historic stone or piece OF tUood
for their collection q mecca.
So insistent were these per.
sons that White House officials
and the contractor decided upon
a scheme to satisfy the me-
mento seekers.
They piled a few hundred
brick where the souvenir hunters
might reach and take them.
Thus is a national problem
solved.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04

In the imposing board room
the United States Chamber of
Commerce Building, q group
of Selt-dppointed critics of goU-
ernment met one hot afternoon
not so long ago.
These men, members Of the
Chamber, consider only the Sc
rious and grave problems that
confront business and business
men of the nation. They are an
important bunch.
In their wisdom they made
one serious plan. They decided
that it was necessary to install
a cooling system in the room
in which they met in order to
have cool heads for calculating
work.
They settled this grave prob
lem by ordering the cooling syS-
tenn installed.
They meet only twice a year,
once in winter, once in summer,
in the now air-coOled board
room.
Senator Hubert D. Stephens
is relying on his political acu-
men to pull him through the
run-off election in which he will
be pitted against former Cover
nor Bilbo.
The race will be a close one
and the outcome largely de-
pends on what becomes Of the
votes that went to Representa-
tive Ross Collins, who was elm
mated in the recent primary.
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n ID. G.
q.
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Washington dealers ar
Evening star., 1934-10-01

| also give to American labor more relief
per dollar spent than any national re-
covery project, as 90 per cent OF the
cost Of shipbuilding goes to labor"
Evening star., 1934-10-01
d. c. DELEGATES ARRIVE.
Two Washington Men Mentioned for
High Posts in Order.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOUISVILLE, KY, October 1.-THE
Washington delegation was warmly
welcomed to the national veterans of
Foreign Wars Encampment here yes
terday.
Department Comdr. Nathan D.
Golden arrived Saturday afternoon.
Delegates from the Is posts of the
District of Columbia arrived yesterday.
Yesterday forenoon Past Depart
ment Comdr. Daniel E. Campbell
headed the company of Comdrs.
Harry Coope. Howard w. Woerner,
Frank R. Heise, Preston C. Wheeler,
Edward K Inman, Harry E. Shilling
and Ernest Wickstrand of the Military
Order of the Cootie.
OF significance to the membership
of the District of Columbia depart
ment was the report that Past De-
partment Comdr. Daniel E. Campbell
would be indorsed for national judge
advocate.
Endorsement Of Victor C. CUTLER
main for junior vice commander OF
the Military Order of the Cootie also
was reported.
The arrival Of the Overseas Military
Band. Drum and Bugle Corps of the
District Of Columbia department was
awaited today
The District of Columbia depart
ment will work for the adoption of a
resolution for the enfranchisement of
the citizens of the District of Co.
lumbia.
Evening star., 1934-10-01
C. j. ANNOUNCES
Z NEW SCHOOLS
Bishop Ryan Describes Pro-
gram at Opening Rites
of 46th Year.

Opening the forty-sixth academic
year of the Catholic University.
Bishop James H. Ryan, rector of the
university, announced yesterday the
reorganization of two important fields
of work into the School of Socialistic
Philosophy and the School of Social
Work.
Speaking at solemn high mass of
the Holy Ghost in the crypt of the
National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception on the campus, Bishop
Ryan explained that the primary pur-
pose of the first new school was ito
give a full well-rounded training in
the principles of scholastic phi
losophy."
Referring to the newly organized
School of Social Work, the speaker
said: Even the slightest acquaint-
ance with the social and economic
grounds Of particularly the last few
years in our country will make clear
the need of trained social workers"
Referring to the intellectual atmo-
sphere and academic traditions of the
school, Bishop Ryan emphasized the
serious demands on students for high
scholarship and individual endeavor
in the acquisition of knowledge.
The solemn high mass was offered
by Right Rev. Msgr Patrick j. Nc
| Cormick, professor of education. The
mass was preceded by formal pro-
ceSsion of the faculties and students
Of the university and attended by the
entire student body Music was
provided by the Catholic University
Choir under the direction of Dr.. Leo
Behrendt.