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The Washington times., 1934-03-05

I live on the main floor Of a
building, and often the door
man and elevator boys are near
our door. When coming home
at night do I say good night to
my escort in front of my door,
in view of the above, in the
lobby, or where?
Up to what time is it per.
8miSSible to invite ones friend
in, and for how long. and if
no one is at home? am 20
years Of age. v.
The proper thing is for your
escort to accompany you to the
door Of your apartment, and
say goodnight there.
Unless the family is at home,
and they have made arrange
m ent with the 20-year-old
daughter that she may invite
her escort in after they have
come home from the theater
or a dance, it is best for her
not to "invite him in" If. for
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
Birthday Girl

We have enjoyed your stories
in the rip Van Wrinkle" con,
test greatly.
We THOUGHT that was .
good idea and your response
proved it. We were simply
showed in by the stories. There
are still dozens we haven't
read but we hope to be
through by this evening.
It was interesting to note
how many Of you, boys and
girls in different sections of the
town, had the same ideas.
Practically all agreed that auto
mobiles, 20 years hence, will
have disappeared. AirplaneS
will be the usual mode Of
travel. Rocket ships will be
common and trips to Mars and
Venus quite the thing.
A number Of the girls
thought we would have .
woman President. We noted
Cha, ha to youO that not one
boy had that idea. Many
thought President Roosevelt
would still be in office, be-
loved and admired by the world
at large.
Buildings, you all agreed,
would be tall and narrow.
something like the Empire
State Building in New York.
Houses would be heated as well
as lighted by electricity. Ro-
bots would be doing most Of
the unpleasant work OF the
world.
Wars would be things Of the
past. Only one story spoke OF
a war and that was over and
peace established for all time.
We were especially interested
in that point since the tickets
to see rip Van Wrinkle" were
given us by the Women's In
ternational League for Peace
and Freedom, an organization
working for peace.
Evelyn billiard, 239 Twelfth
st. S. E.
"HeIIo Club Friends: My little
sister, brother and l received
our membership cards. We are
very happy to be members Of
the Adventure Club.
81 am going to send you .
picture of all Of us sometime
soon.
"My favorite funnies are Pop
eye and Little Annie Rooney.
"My mother reads the column
to me every day."
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
By T. E. Powers

ment and to give his reasons
for so doing.
But simultaneously fact.
in his letter of declination-he
offered to hold himself in read
mess to appear before that
board as a witness and give
testimony if it was believed
this would be helpful to the
inquiry.
Upon further consideration,
the Secretary of War wisely
decided to broaden the inquiry
and to appoint new board to
be headed by the most eminent
civilian competent to preside
over its sessions that he could
find. 1t was also decided to
appoint a majority of civilians
as members of the board.
Mr.. Baker was then selected
and prevailed upon to accept
the Craftsmanship of this new
Roosevelt board. Colonel Lind
bergh was never invited to serve
on this board and neither the
President nor the Secretary of
War would arrogate to himself
the right to say what Colonel
Lindberg's answer to an invita-
ton to serve on a board with
majority of civilian members
would have been.
No Truth in Story
Another falsehood broadcast
to the country in this whisper
ing campaign against Colonel
Lindbergh, misrepreSented him
as treating the Invitation o.
Chairman Baker with contempt
uous silence and of waiting I'M
til he was begged in order TO
appear before the board as q
witness.
There is not a word of truth
in this slanderous story. AS
soon as Colonel Lindbergh, who
was in the West when The first
invitations arrived at his office
along with the thousands of let
tiers that burden his mail found
out that the board really desired
his presence. he promp.y, cheer
fully and with characteristic
courtesy came to Washington at
his own expense and made one
of the best witnesses that has
yet given testimony in this most
useful inquiry.
For so appearing and for the
assistance he rendered by the
testimony he gave, Chairman
Baker, on behalf of the board,
expressed the deep appreciation
of himself and its every member.
In view of these facts, which
are taken from the record, the
sooner the shipping of Colonel
Lindbergh stops, the better it
will be for the prestige Of the
Administration. It is not only
poor craftsmanship but it is the
worst of bad politics.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
TimeS)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Indifference to Duty
Congress and the District


Congress exercising its constitutional duty of legslang
for the National Capital has done weird things the past
but is doubtful any of them approach the oddity which
accomplished by acceptance of the report the confrees
on the District appropriation bill
BY acceptance the report its stands Congress
pe the District back to the Federal Government money
WHICH IT NEVER BORROWED.
It is charged informally that the District Commissioners
violated the law and their oahs of office by borrowing
money for the city, thing which they expressly forbidden
to do.
The Senator's who ordinarily looked to protect
National Capital from the onaughts of the House. have
tan failed to exercise their protective the conference
Shortly after the Public Works Administration estab
hed and when its officials anxious find projects
which the Federal Government could start once made
OUTRIGHT the District of almost
construction
It pointed out at the time that unless the money
gift could accepted by the District Having that know
edge the PWA made the gift with the object of putting
to work and stimulating recovery.
The House. when consider the District Appropra
ton bill got into its usual parliamentary wrangle and before it
had passed the bill the lone legislature for the District of
Columbia had introduced into the brand theory that
must pay back money which is voluntarily and freely given
Apparently the arbter of the Districts fate Capitol Hill
able the conference committee into accepting this
doctrine for it perpetuated the conference
report.
is impossible believe that members of the Senate and
House would have accepted this doctrine if they realized its
true significance
THE FACT THAT IT IS WRITTEN INTO THE FINAL
LAW CAN BE TAKEN AS AN INDICATION OF THE IN
DIFFERENCE OF THE SENATORS AND REPRESENTA-
TIvEs TO THEIR SWORN DUTY.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Bill of Rights
For the House

For the House
THE COMPLETION OF THE PETITION DESIGNED TO
FORCE VOTE ON THE MCLEOD BANK PAY OFF BILL
Is TRIUMPH NOT ONLY FOR THE ADVOCATES OF JUS
T1CE FOR THE DEPosIToRs IN CLOSED BANKS BUT
ALSO FOR ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE FUNC-
TON OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS TO
REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
the devious parliamentary tactics employed by the
leaders prevent vote the Mcleod bill that had
become symbol
The fight obtain a the became than
fight for bill became struggle for the independence
of the House domineering dation small clique
which sought tell 435 members what they could
consider.
The petition discharge the Rules Committee from consider
alton of Mcleod bill simply vehicle by of which
members the House sought to traverse the road of npeh
dence.
Every effort made by the domneerng clique to
prevent 145 members from signing the petition.
limitations of reward for not signing were given
Covert threats punishment for those who did sign
heard frequently in the Hobbies of the House.
DESPITE THESE THREATS AND INVITATIONS THE
NECESSARY NUMBER OF MEMBERS WAS FOUND TO
MAKE THE PETITION EFFECTIVE.
THOSE MEMBERS WHO SIGNED THE PETITION FOL-
LOWED THE COURSE WHICH OBVIOUSLY WAS DE-
MANDED BY AN OVERWHELMING PROPORTION OF OUR
CITIZENS.
Of the House sitting cowed beneath the whip of half DOZEN
matter who that half dozen may be-
Those citizens do relish idea of rules the
being distorted and used prevent the ascertanmen Of the
wishes of the majority.
Yet that exactly the situation which obtained before the
145 members signed.
By completing the petition these 45 members of the House
have accomplished three things
First They have established the independence of the House
Second They have assured the members of the House
opportunity upon Representative McLeods great
covery program.
Third They have showed the conerees the compromise
bank relief bill that the House will not permit any tamperng
with the closed bank provisions of that bill
TRULY, THOSE WHO SIGNED THE PETITION De
SERVE TO BE REMEMBERED BY THE PUBLIC AS
STEADFAsT FRIENDS AND LOYAL PUBLIC SERVANTS
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Shipping at Col. Lindbergh
Labeled Bad Politics
Blu James T. Williams, T.

When President Roosevelt
gets around to it, he will doubt
less put a stop to the menda-
cious Misrepresentation of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, which
some of the unofficial press"
agents of the Administration are
believed to have inspired in re-
cent weeks.
This sniping of Americas
greatest living hero of the air
is so foreign to the gallant spirit
of the American hero in the
White House as to be obviously
unworthy of an administration
that glories in the name of
Roosevelt.
This sniping seems to come
from stupid understrappers who
are striving to make the public
forget the colossal blunder that
wrecked the Federal air mail,
crippled American air transport
and sent IL of the bravest pilots
who ever flew the colorS of a
mighty nation to an utterly un-
necessary death.
The latest falsehoods put in
circulation concerning Colonel
Lindbergh have to do with his
recent appearance as a witness
before the Roosevelt board,
headed by President Wilson's
Secretary of War-Hon. Newton
D. Baker-which is making the
most thorough and impartial
investigation of military avia-
ton that has been made since
the Morrow board, appointed
by President Coolidge.
Allegation False
The allegation that Colonel
Lindbergh ever declined to
serve on the board of which
Mr.. Baker is the able chair
man is wholly false. He was
never even invited to serve on
this board. The board upon
which he was offered an ap-
pointment was headed by a
major general of the United
States Army and a majority of
its members are Army officers.
AS originally organized, this
board appeared to have as one
of it's major missions an in
quiry into the ACCESSIBILITY of
turning over the transporta-
ton of the Federal air mail to
the Army Air Corps, and of
the readiness of that corps for
such mission.
In view of the fact that Col
onel Lindbergh was opposed to
turning over the Federal air
mail to military control. but
believed in the wisdom of the
Morrow boards unanimous rec
ommendation that commercial
aviation and its development
be kept separate from military
and naval aviation, he was
honorable enough to decline
the offer of such an appoint
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
WOmankind-and Unkind

never seems to look twice when
she chooses a husband.
The man, whom the world
calls a master mind" may he
only a spoiled, hard-headed, ir-
repressible, somewhat lovable
"mooncalf" to his wife.
When a man is through with
a love affair, he deScardS it as
promptly and completely as he
would an old razor blade; but
a woman can keep as many
old loves tucked away in her
subconsciousnesS as she has old
dresses packed away in the at
tic. She never knows when
one of them may come In
handy.
We don't know much about
what should be done with pub
lie utilities, but every married
woman is strong for the pri-
vate ownership of husbands.
Somehow, you can't take the
same vital interest in keeping
up the Improvements" on one
of these community husbands,
who is constantly changing
hands.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

JOl1lSOA Sdlu.
Read him and no man need
doubt what his views are-nebu.
lOuS, perhaps, and now and then
in the circumambient atmOS-
phere escaping us as he fits by,
but, nevertheless, he is always
readable, always interesting,
and he always arOuses our re-
spect and our regard. But he
reminds me sometimes, as l
read his views, and as i try to
understand them, of the topical
song which we hear and have
heard so much Of late
"'He floats through the air,
with the greatest of ease,
This daring young man on
the flying trapeze!'
Secretary Wallace probably
objects to such criticism. But
the worst is yet to come.
When Congress adjourns and
the members go home, they will
hear more of the workings Of
his plan to aid the farmers.
And in January when they re-
turn Mr.. Wallace will hear more
Of it, too.
When voters of the country
began to send women to the
House in the last few terms. the
gentlemen who had held the
seats for years believed that it
would be possible to keep the
feminine members in the back
ground.
They have changed their
minds.
The six women members are
growing more and more active.
Sometimes right, sometimes
wrong, they enter debates and
speak their speeches.
Mrs. Florence Kahn, of Cali
fornia; Mrs. Edith Nourse Rog-
ers, of Massachusetts,; Mrs. 1sa-
bella Greenway, of Arizona;
Mrs. Mary T. Norton, of New
Jersey; Mrs. Virginia Jenckes.
of Indiana, and Mrs. Kathryn
O'Loughlin Mccarthy, of Kan
sas, all take an interest in af-
fairs. The women are quiet no
longer.
In the Senate, however, the
only woman member, Mrs. Hat
tie Caraway, of Arkansas, re-
fuses to break the silence that
she maintained since her APP
pointment to the Senate in
1881.
Her quiet attitude is ex-
tremely unlike the manner OF
her husband, the late Thaddeus
Caraway, whose seat she took
when he died.
He was one of the most iron
ical, sarcastic speakers of the
Senate. But he had habit
which provoked his colleagues.
When ready to make par
ticularly bitter comment he
would move to one of the doors
leading off the floor.
After lOOSing a torrent Of
sarcasm he would step out OF
the door before the Senator at
whom the words were directed
could answer.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington
| TimeS.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
BIZ John Snure, Jr.

While Administration hackers
decline to make severe criticism
of the delay in the expenditure
OF the $3,3OO,OOO,O0O that was
allotted for public works, there
are definite indications of dis
satisfaction at the Capitol.
Thus far, more than a year
after the appropriation was
made in the hope that a gigantic
scheme of public works would
hasten recovery only S914,128,741
has actually been spent
Allotments to cover the entire
SO, 100000, 900 have been made
but red tape in Public Works
Administration and in States
and municipalities has delayed
actual work.
When the public works legis-
lation was proposed, passed, and
enacted it was pointed out that to
secure satisfactory results from
the money, it would be necessary
for work to progress rapidly.
It was hoped that the money
would be allotted swiftly, con-
tracts for work secured, the
money spent and men put back
to work. Progress, however,
has not been rapid.
Public Works Administrator
Harold Ickes wants more money
for the program, although he
has not decided on a definite
amount which he believes neces-
sary for works.
Certain men at the Capitol
are hopeful that the money will
be given, but that it will be
expended with much more haste
than the original appropria-
ton.
1t is also believed by some
members of the Senate that
one reason for the delay is that
Ickes has been carefully guard
ing against dishonesty in the
administration of the fund.
Others say, however, in cloak
room gossip that the Admins
traitor has favored Republicans
both in approving projects and
in giving them hearings at
which they could appeal for
works in certain communities.
Senator Robert F.. Wagner, of
New York, one of the most earn
est advocates of public works,
thinks that Ickes has been an
iron man" in the administra-
ton of the public works money.
Wagner, although he hest,
tates to criticise the method
of handling the $3,3O0,000,0 900,
admits, however. that he is
somewhat disappointed at the
delay in the actual expenditure
of the money.
Few men in the Senate have
the caustic tongue that is pos
sessed by Senator Hiram John
son of California, who fire
quently turns it against those
proposals and persons that hi
believes to be absurd.
Score tary of Agriculture
Henry A.. Wallace is probably
convinced that Senator johnson
can be exceedingly sarcastic
after reading his recent speech
about the Secretary.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
A New Use, for Planes
Killing Locusts

Killing Locusts
War has been declared in tropical Africa in
which giant arplanes will rain death the form of clouds of
finely powdered poison dust.
The enemy is the locust whose swarms annually destroy
nearly ten million dollars worth of crops
It is pleasant know that in least machines
created to deal death to used to destroy nhuman
enemies of all mankind.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
The Human Side of the News
Science Probes for Hidden Secrets Of Life
BY EdWin C.. Hill

The great Rockefeller 1nsti-
tute in New York holds mon
ster in captivity. It's prison is
a glass jar. It is fed and
tended and watched with mi
mute care. It has just passed
the twenty-third year of its
monstrous life. In the Uni
versity of California, at Berke-
ley. a noted biologist gazes
through a powerful microscope
at living creatures he found in
the iron-hard heart of a mete-
orite-a falling star which came
plunging to earth through mil
lions of miles from some far
corner of space.
Two seemingly unrelated in
cidents. Yet each may be a
clue to the tremendous secrets
which mankind has striVen to
penetrate for two thousand
years. What would be the two
greatest news stories that would
thrill the world as it had never
been thrilled before?
One would be some definite
proof of life after death: the
certainty that man is something
more than the dust of which he
is made. The other would be
some definite proof that there
is life upon other worlds than
ours, human life, and that we
are not rolling on alone through
time and space.
Mysterious Force
The monster in the glass jar
in the Rockefeller Institute
supplies more than a hint that
man carries within the cells of
his brain a vital and mysterious
force-call it what you will
that is far apart and beyond all
physical and biological laws.
Twenty-three years ago, one OF
the most distinguished surgeons
and biologists in the whole world
brought the Rockefeller 1nsti-
tute monster into being. DR..
Alexis Carrel isolated a frag-
ment of tissues from the heart OF
an embryonic chicken.
He placed the tiny fragment
in a solution containing the
juice of chicken plasma and
chicken embryo extract. The
fragment lived and continued to
live. Its heart pulsated with
the steady beat Of life. And it
grew constantly. enormously,
so that the flesh over-ran all
else. And every eight hours in re-
cent years, the Rockefeller InSti-
tute people have had to divide
and subdivide the mass. If they
had allowed it to grow, as the
life within it was forcing it to
grow. it would in time have
covered the entire earth. So far
as anyone can tell. it is i'm
mortal.
From this experiment. DR..
Carrel has drawn the conclusion
that the secret of eternal life is
in the keeping of every cell e.
and there are billions of these
structural units in a human
body supplied with the nour-
iShment that promotes growth.
And so there exists the posi-
bility that flesh-soulless flesh
can be made immortal on
this earth or kept alive for
countless generations.
But for man. this cannot be.
The flesh might be made i'm
mortal, but the brain could not
be made so. Even if a serum OF
eternal life could be found and
injected into The billions OF
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Words From Wise Men

Price is equal in all men;
the only difference is the means
and manner of displaying it
La Rochefoucauld.
We should never remember
the benefits we have conferred,
nor forget the favors received
Chilo.
Reason is the test of ridicule
not ridicule the test of truth.
-Warburton.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

cells, the dlSordered growth.
such as has produced the
chicken-heart monster in the
Rockefeller Institute, would
make a short end of the deli
cately adjusted brain. And the
last state of man would be
worse than the first. For DR..
Carrel there is no terror in the
theory that the flesh may be
immortal and is doomed to
perish only by reason OF the
brain it houses.
There is evidence that there IS
something in the brain, beyond
all the magic and tricks OF
science. that is too fine for long
endurance in this world. Some
thing beyond physical laws; a
temporary prisoner of the flesh:
something that departs from
the brain and the flesh when
the time comes for to seek re-
lease. And Dr.. Carrel has said:
death, as a price, is not ex-
cessive, because the mysterious
energy is created by the brain
cells or expresses itself through
them, is, after all, the greatest
marvel of the universe"
The coarse fiber and tissue OF
the chicken-heart monster might
go on growing and growing until
it was vaster than a continent,
until it covered the whole earth
and spread out into space, but
it would have no meaning. The
only thing that seems to have
meaning is that mysterious
force within the brain which
the men of science cannot make
smaller or larger, or in any way
control, and which drives the
material body only as long as
some power quite beyond the
knowledge or wisdom of man re-
quires it to do.
Out in California a discovery
has been made, which, if con-
firmed by indisputable tests.
will have startling signifi-
canoe. And that would be that
the germs of material life wan
der through space. set in mo-
ton God only knows how,
eternally seeking new worlds
upon which to fall and to go
on through evolution to thou
sands of forms of life, including
human life itself.
From Space?
If the discovery made by
Prof. Charles B. Lipman, of the
University of California, is veri'
fled, science will have to con"
clude that when the earth was
young and bare and lifeless, life
came showering down to it from
other worlds where life existed.
The great Lord Kelvin believed
the first germs of life mig hit
have been brought to the
earth by meteorites, fragments
of some exploding planet.
An eminent French scientist
explained it in this way:
"The earth is but very
small part of creation. Its vege
tatiOn is but a very small part
of the vegetation of the uni
verse. Showers of meteOrites
could bring sealed within them,
to release when they burst, the
necessary seeds of life. Once
the earth was seeded all life
would have developed from the
primitive germs"
(Copyright. 1884. King Features,
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

He who lives after nature,
shall never be poor; after opin-
ion shall never be rich.
Never morning wore to eve
ming but some heart did break.
-TennySon.
Imitation is the sincerest
flattery. Cotton.
Show me a liar, and I will
show thee a thief.-Herbert.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

In the love game. Womans
biggest assets are cool head
and an amiable disposition.
Men may rave of warm ba-
bies"-but most men like 'em
sweet but slightly frosted.
A man wants to LIVE, first,
then to love-and last of all, to
be loved. But a woman wants
to BE loved, first, last and all
the time.
The more often a woman has
experimental with matrimony
and failed at it, somehow, the
easier it is for her to find an
other man eager to offer him
self as a specimen for her next
experiment.
Just about now, the great
vital problem of a sweet vo'lr1-
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The Washington times., 1934-06-01

Funny, but most of the things
which contribute toward a girls
chances of getting a husband
have nothing to do with the
qualities which would make her
prize wife.
Copyright 1894. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01


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