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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15
Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

walked around on the bottom OF
his fathers swimming pool. In
1919, August Siebe, a German,
made the first diving bell. The
development of rubber and
metal diving suits followed. But,
with this material, the difficulty
Of terrific pressure at great
depths remains unsolved. Be-
fore going down, a diver must
remain in q compression cham.
Der while pressure is gradually
increased until it approximateS
the pressure at his intended
depth.
When he returns, he must
submit to q gradually decreas.
ing pressure. That dreadful
disease, 1.-The bends" is the
penalty for those who dis
regard this caution. 1t crippleS
a man for life. OF course,
a rubber suit would be out
of the question in DR.. Beebe's
depths. An Italian FIR m
set a precedent in a steel
shell suit, monstrous robot
thing, to allow men to tumble
with iron fingers for gold on the
sunken steamship Egypt.
DEEP MYSTERY
DR.. Beebe and his associate,
DR.. Otis Barton, worked out
the idea of their four-foot steel
ball weighing nine tons. Capt.
John H. H. Butler, a young
British aviator, worked out the
structural details. Windows
seemed an all-but-hopeless prob
lem. They solved it by using
sheets of fuzed quartz, with
powerful lights behind the aper.
lures, piercing the surrounding
deeps with their rays.
The peeping Toms had only
a narrow space in which to
huddle. It seemed fiendishly
cold, although the thermom'
eter registered in the sixties.
Some one, who is good at
spherical geometry. may figure
how many tons pressure there
would be on a steel ball four
feet in diameter, at a pressure
Of one ton per square inch.
DR.. Beebe had admitted that
this weight of the sea upon
him made him feel uncom-
Portable and he doesn't plan to
use his steel ball for pleasure
trips. He has plenty of other
apparatus for work in shall
lower depths.
For IS years, DR.. Beebe, the
curator Of the New York Zoo
logical Society, has been explor-
ing not only the depths Of the
sea, but the peaks Of the Hima-
layaS, the jungles of Ceylon and
the wastes of Thibet. He writes
many books and special studies.
but always he defers to the
deep mystery Of life-deeper
than his SargasSo Sea-hoping
that some time in the future
man may read the hieroglyphs
Of his work-a-day world.
A lot Of those fishes remind
one Of Bret Harte's little poem:
"The lightning bug Is brilliant,
But he hasn't any mind;
"He plumbers through existence
With his headlight on
behind!"
Is a man one Of those tail
light fishes? Or isn't he?
copyright. 1894. by ling FeatSsOs
Syndicate, Anc,l
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drab citizen gets worried about
what to wear to an Old Eng
lish tavern when all the EN-.
ployeS are breathing hard in
pink coats, tally-ho hats, and
boots. You can't just walk up
in that old blue serge and cry:
"Ho-landlord! A flagon of
stout and q haunch of elk"
Then there's the singing
that has to be done when one
goes Old English. Beating on
the table with tankards and
waving long clay pipes, we
shall all have to go in for:
Admitting we will go!
Admitting we will go!
Right around the corner from
Sixty-fifth Street,
Admitting we will go!
Here's a toast to mine host
Parks Commissioner Moses!
And a round to jolly Fforello
LaGuardia, our Mayor!
And don't forget to pass bowl
For Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred H.
LepiduS, Of 311 West 161st
Street.
Who are coming across with the
$3.50 q head on this particu-
lar occasion!
N. Y. GIN. Y. C.!-Yoicks!
General laughter and shout
ing and falling OF stays heads
from the tDGllSO
If the Tavern on the Green"
proves Q success, there is no
telling to what lengths the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

At this you probably go right
through the ceiling.
What the heck do they mean?
Whereupon they stare in genu-
inc surprise.
What's the matter with you,
blowing up like that! Everyone
knows that writer's NEVER
write what they mean. They
wouldn't dare!-the Boss'd fire
'em.
But they aren't really blaming
you. Then why should you be
so mad-acting just as If they'd
insulted you?
Because they HAVE inSulted
you. They have no more right
to assume that you are a liar
merely because you are q jour-
nalist than you would have to
assume the same thing Of them.
A writer sells his words as
honestly as any other man sells
his flour, flannel, lumber, stocks
or bonds.
No sane person would dream
of libelling the honor Of a fine
wife or mother without grave
evidence to support such q claim.
Yet, let that same wife and
mother BE A NEWSPAPER
WRITER and it is taken for
granted that her standards are
for sale to the highest bidder!
TOPSY-TURVY
The simple fact is no i'm.
portant writer could be induced
for any sum to write q word he
did not really mean. And no
smart Boss would dream Of try
ing to make him.
A writer's power depends on
his SPONTANE1TY and SIN
CERITY.
Lacking these qualities, the
most imposing words are empty
sound, and it would be a waste
of valuable space to print them.
Yet, try and make Bill Brown
believe that!
And so we have an amazing
and deplorable situation. Never
has human existence been so
topsy-turvy, nor the republic so
greatly in need Of wise inter.
prefers. And never were there
more honest, intelligent men
and women laboring at that job.
Yet, nine-tenths Of their
labors are wasted simply be-
cause the world assumes, with
out the slightest proof, that they
are HIRED CHEATS WHO'D
DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY.
You don't believe it? All
right, I'm waiting to be shown
and I'll be tickled pink II you
can prove I'm wrong.
(CopyriEht 1894 by King Features
Syndicate, 1ne.D
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Prof. Picard is scarcely down
from the shakespeare when DR..
William Beebe is up from the
bottom of the sea. Marco Polo
sought treasure. Divers, cropping
amid wrecked ships at the bot.
tom Of the Spanish Main, also
sought treasure. DR.. Beebe and
Prof. Picard seek knowledge,
and this quest has impelled man
into stranger adventures than
the hunt for gold.
"Am having a good time.
Wish you were here" Nobody
gets a postal card like that from
DR.. Beebe, but he does have a
grand time. sightseeing at the
bottom of the sea-Neptune'S
most famous boulevardier. He's
Just back in New York from his
twentieth exploring trip for the
National Geographic Society and
the New York Geological So
ciety.
This time, he went down in
his hollow steel ball, 3,028 feet.
TWO hundred feet is a good
depth for a commercial diver.
So science does make men dive
deeper than money. Besides,
DR.. Beebe's luminous fish deep
down in the sea won't go off the
gold standard.
STRANGE CREATURES
He has seen creatures which
carry a luminous eye on their
wrist; fishes with light bulbs in
their tummies; fishes with peri
scopes; a traffic cop fish with a
medal around its neck; a round,
nine-foot, green sea alga with
handles on each side like a soup
tureen; great green and yellow
octopi; a butterfly fish; a trig-
ger fish; an umbrella fish; a
fish that Changes for dinner
brilliant yellow by day and dark
gray, with luminous stripes by
night; transparent fish: fishes
with tail lights; fishes with lu-
minous port holes, like an ocean
liner, and fishes that throw out
q smoke screen, like q fighting
airplane Of today.
He IS a likable and affable
person, one who likes to throw
a party on the slightest provo
cation, but he never lets these
human attributes get out in
front when he goes down to the
sea in shipS-or to the bottom
Of it in a steel ball. He is a
cautious scientist. and he thinks
many decades may pass before
man knows much about the
why and the wherefore of these
weird creatures of the deep.
Back in 1925. down in the
SargaSso Sea, there was some
excitment in the scientific world
when he dredged up the
amphioxuS. It vas an unim-
pressive little creature. with a
cartilage spine instead of a
backbone - nothing to cheer
about. But it was big news to
the scientists. for it's something
like sixty million. years old, 60
ing clear back to the days when
mind was mud" The Scien-
lists say the giant intellectS of
today started DOWN there, at
the bottom Of the sea,
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He can't bring 'em back
alive" like Frank Buck. There's
a pressure of about one ton per
square inch down there. as
against the 14.7 pounds of air
pressure on land. Some Of his
fishes just explode when they
are brought up. But DR.. Beebe,
even if they die, gets something
with which to piece out the
mystifying story Of life on the
planet. His great collections
grow year by year.
Aristotle and Pliny worked
out diving suits with air tubes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15
Embarrassing a Cop
Don't Do It

How good YOU at embarrassing policeman
That is question would be well for all Of m to ask our
selves result Of the recent revelation by District Attorney
Leslie Garrett Of his brushes with traffic officers.
The District Attorney august representative Of the might Of
the Government prosecutor and terror Of local criminals
tells committee which is struggling to suppress crime that
he has been stopped three times lately by policemen who found
him travelling at an excessive rate Of speed
Yet the District Attorney taken precinct station
he wasn't even given ticket.
Why?
The District Attorney explains that nothing Of any
the incidents because "NEITHER THE OFFICER NOR I
KNEW WHICH WOULD BE MOST EMBARRASSED"
We wonder revelation Of this mutual desire to avoid
embarrassment caused any embarrassment to the members Of
the public order committee of the Washington Board Of Trade
before whom it made
No one wants the District Attorney Of great and fair
city to be embarrassed
No policemen to have their races nged w1tn
the dainty pink of the blush.
But all of those who are interested in why the District Of
Columbia has such appalling traffic accident rate might
ponder whether the absence the blush has any
with the deplorable number Of accidents
One thing the District Attorney that must be admired
is his frankness extraordinarily frank man to
stand up and say that the only reason he wasn't asked to put
up collateral speeding charge was the possibility OF
mutual embarrassment to the policeman and to himself
The District Attorney in his experience only tne oe
STABILITY of eliminating the speed limits.
Many others will in the experience the desrably
of some other changes in local conditions
Actually however the District Attorney has advanced
serious thought deserves earnest consideration wnen ne
the substitution of reckless driving law Tor the
present speed limits. - ,
Too often policemen set out and chase Car which, wnAe
Technically travelling over speed limit not endangeng
anyone (Ths might be said happens only In cases wnen
the District Attorney is not driving)
On the other hand automobiles travelling at rate OF speed
lower than the limit allowed frequently being handled In
and reckless yet the police do not ana
probably cannot make arrest.
The proposal of tho District Attorney TOR reckless dTvng
law would change these conditions ovsr VINO
in his defense the that there was no tafc with winch
he could interfere and the rate at which he was travelling
was not reckless dangerous
Pm 70 opv7ors THAT UDER OUR PRESENT LAWS WE
ARE NOT DIsCOURAGING THE RECKLESS DRIVER we
may be embarrassing (and even fnng) some OF our ordinarily
law abiding citizens. '...
But we aren't cutting the automobile fatality rate
There is possibility might do better under reck
1assd driving law.
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course, never believing Woro
of it.
For-according to this quaint
theory-no journalist ever has
q Snitch Of use for his readers;
secretly he classifies them all
as silly sheep or stupid swine.
But we writers must eat,
says this theory, so we flatter
and pretend, play upon mob
emotion regardless Of the
vicious consequences.
Or perhaps it isn't the Public
but the Boss we want to please.
In that case we write what
ever we're told, even though it's
against every personal ideal.
What's honor to us. compared
to a fat pay check? Nothing at
all-if you believe that theory
true. ,...-
Nor are these merely the no
tons Of illiterate loafers or ma
licious morons. Experienced,
educated people-even ones
dearest friends-share the idea.
Did they-you ask-read that
article you wrote about the COM
ing election2 Or your last
weeks editorial on motherhood?
INCREDIBLE
Yes-they reply with q tol'
Grant smile-they have read
these articles. But, Of course
they smile knowingly-they
didn't take them seriously. For
they know you didn't mean q
word you said. You just say
things like that because you
have to. Your boss makes you.
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Their Contemporaries warned
them that one might meet
dragons down in the sea. DR..
Beebe has limited that he would
not be surprised to find a
dragon, so fantastic and un-
believable is the strange flux Of
life down in those silent green
caverns-still, even with q hur-
ricane raging above.
From Aristotle down, every
age has had q try at diving de-
viseS, including a small boy out
in California who rugged a hel-
met out of an oil can and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15
Municipal Dining
BIZ Robert BenchLey

In a laudable attempt to get
a little color and imagination
into the daily life of the cit
izenry, the New, York authori-
ties have rugged up an Old
English hunting lodge in Gen.
trail Park and called it 1.-THE
Tavern on the Green" And
it's "tantiv y-tantivy-tantivy"
for a 75-cent breakfast and
"yoicks" for a $3.50 dinner!
The only flaw in such a
scheme is that your average
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

comes forth
with . re-
quest for
$40 0 90 0 0
for modern
izatiOn of
equipment.
The Budget
Bureau, ex-
pected t o
approve the
r ecomnenda-
ton and re-
ported to be
pnn Si daring
plans for con-
struction Of
AAA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

stream of caustic flow that
would scar his younger adveT.
SarieS.
In four Of the Nebraska dis
trictS they elected Democrats.
But in the third they defeated
one of the grandeSt men Of all
when he was sick, growing old
and nearing the end Of all cam.
paigns.
DOWNRIGHT. 1874. The WASHINGTON Timesl
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Are Journalists Honest
Citizens-Or Hired
Cheats?

First I was surprised. Then
shocked. Then hurt. THEN
MADDER'N BLAZES!
About what? About the Gen.
eral Notion concerning us news
paper writer's. This idea that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

W h o h a d
W ork e d up
from a print
er'S de viii"
and a news
paperman in
a small town
to a national
figure. H e
W a S liberal
and progress
Sive.
Witty, sar-
castle, it was
his custom to
let fall from
his lips, when
hn cnnlZn q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

W e n e v e r
m e a n q n y
thing we say,
but are "juSt
pl a vi n G to
the gallery"
$ a Y i n &
whatever W e
thin k tn e
public wants
to hear, nasty
m u c k o r
maudlin non
S e n e., any
tn n 6 "a S
long as 1t
sells papers,"
B IL t. O I
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

With former Representative
Ross Collins scarcely buried In
. political grave, the Army
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

Parks Commission may not 60
in introducing foreign atmos-
phere into our municipal eating
places.
There is, for example, a good
spot left in Central Park right
by the west entrance at Seven.
ty-second Street for an Oriental
caravansarie called THE Mosque
on the Excavation"
Here, amid exotic hangings
and old Turks, the citizen, after
leaving his shoes at the door.
could recline on a cushion, with
a hooka at his elbow mote to
printer: Be careful about that
word "hooka"D and be served
with a regular sixty-cent lunch
of Irish stew, apple pie and COT
fee, all for a dollar. But here
again-what to wear?
Lets 60 up to the Tai Maha1
in Central Park" the wife might
say some night. They say they
have a good dollar and a quar-
ter dinner there"
What do you wear to a Tai
Mahal?" the husband would
ask, lingering his bow:tie.
"Oh, just some old Indian
thing, I guess"
you mean an Indian suit,
like a little boy'S?"
"No, no! An East Indian rig
-turban and pointed shoes"
my turban isn't clean, Is
it?"
"Oh, yes it is! It just got
back from the laundry"
II guess I'll wear just what
I've got on!"
"You can do as you like
about that! I'm dreSsing!"
And so the citizen goes just
as he is, and wishes he had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-15

worn his turban. It may get so
that a man will have to have
his meals sent up to him on
a tray after he has gone to
bed.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear eGeA Monday, Wednes-
day and Thursday,
Evening star., 1934-10-04

District is making loans under the
Federal housing act, 1t was pointed
out today. Francis G. Addison, jr.,
liason ofIicer between the District
Bankers Association and the r. H. A.,
said approximately 200 loans have
been made for home modernization in
the city under the program. This
record was pointed to by Mofiett At
his press conference yesterday.
Ward M. Canaday, director Of ad-
vertising and promotion for the
F. H. A.. told the Washington Rotary
Club yesterday every business man in
Washington should support the Wash
ington campaign for home improve
ment. to open Monday night at the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Auditorium with a mass meeting, at
which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
prominent Government officials will
speak.
A vast potential sales field Is being
opened throughout the country by the
better housing program Of the F. H. A..
Canaday said, warning that business
men who lag behind will be dragged
into the tail end of the recovery parade
instead of being in leading position.
Another F. H. A. official to make a
public appearance yesterday was Miles
L. Colean, director of the technical
department, who spoke before q meet
Evening star., 1934-10-04
OFFER Of H|TLER'S
.. AIDE IS REJECTED
Harvard Declines to Accept
Scholarship of Dr..
HaufstaengI.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. October A.
DR.. Ernst F. Sedwick Hanfstaengls
close association with the leadership"
of the Hitler party has caused the Har-
ward corporation to decline his offer
to Harvard College of German travel
ing scholarship.
James Bryant Conant, president OF
Harvard, said in a letter to Hanf-
staengl, Chancellor Adolpf Hitler's
confidential aide:
I'VE are unwilling to accept a gift
from one who has been so closely as
Sociated with the leadership Of a
political party which has inflicted
damage on the universities of Germany
through measures which have struck
at principles we believe to be funda-
mental to universities throughout the
world"
The Harvard corporation announced
last night it had refused the offer at
its Fall meeting on September "a.
Hanfstaengl's offer. the corporation
stated, was appreciated"
The towering, piano-playing aide
of Hitler proposed a 81 900 scholar
ship to enable an outstanding Har-
ward student to study in Germany
for one year.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
.MOFFETT PRAISES
CAPITAL BANKERS
Housing Cooperation Here
Example for Rest of
Country, He Says.

The cooperation Of Washington
bankers in the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration's modernization program
was cited yesterday by Housing Ad-
Illustrator James A. Moffett rs an ex-
ample for the rest Of the country.
Mr.. Moffett said. however. that
bankers over the entire Nation were
getting behind the housing drive, and
that more are expected as the leading
institutions understand the plan
better.
Every approved institution in the
Evening star., 1934-10-04
QUEEN IS CROWNED

6T. LOUIS, October 4 R).-In an
elaborate and brilliant ball maintain
ing the traditions of more than halt
q century, the ''veiled prophet" held
court last night and crowned q new
queen of love and beauty" to reign
for the coming year.
The new queen is Miss Jane Wells,
20, whose grandfather, Rolla Wells,
was the Worlds Fair mayor of St.
IOilix
Evening star., 1934-10-04

ing Of the Washington Society Of En-
gineers, at the Cosmos Club.
Colean discussed efforts Of the
agency to establish reliable indices OF
construction costs, its attitudes to-
ward new methods of construction
(under the mortgage guarantee phase
Of the housing act. to be put into op-
Grafton November ID and pointed out:
The F. H. A. has two purposes-the
stabilizing of long-term investment in
housing and the fostering of better
housing and Of lower priced housing. >
Evening star., 1934-10-04
SUSPECT IS RELEASED
Boston Extortion Note Studied.
J. NJ. Curley's Son Menaced.

j. M. CurIeys Son Menaced.
BOSTON, October 4 R.-Philip J.
Erlihy, IS, Of Boston, detained by
police for questioning about an at
tempt to extort 5000 from James
M. Curley, Democratic nominee for
Governor Of Massachusetts,, was re-
leased yesterday after police decided
that the handwriting In the letter was
not his.
The money was demanded in q let
ter to the former mayor of Boston.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

The writer threatened to harm Fran
els Curley, youngest son Of Curley. II
the money was not handed over.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

Exports to U. S. Doubled.
Uruguay's exports to the United
States have doubled in the last year.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

POLICEMAN CLARK w. COLEMAN
Who suffered a possible fracture Of
the skull Tuesday night when
hurled from his motor cycle in q
collision with an automobile at
Sixteenth street and Columbia
road, was believed recovering at
Emergency Hospital today. His con-
dition was described as "satisfac.
tory"
Evening star., 1934-10-04

Rice Acreage Increased.
Colombia's "raise-more-rice" cam
paign has been so successful that the
country will not have to buy any
raised elsewhere
Evening star., 1934-10-04
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-05

The four years, 1926 to 1929 in
elusive, show an average of HOG sui
cides year, his report admits, with
the year 1929 the highest, and the
four years, 1880 to 1888 inclusive,
show an average Of 1855 suicides a
year, according to DR.. Wynne's fig
ureS.
In speaking of infant mortality, DR..
Wynne's report continues: For some
reason not clear, there has been an
increase in infant mortality through
out the country. In New York City
the rate is higher than 1t was in
1892. It is likely that the increase
represents one of the effects of the
economic depression. for with cur
tailed budgets there is likely to have
been an increase in mothers gainfully
employed, and a diminished budget
for milk, orange juice, cod liver oil
and other essentials for child health"