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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-05-16
Senator Norris Still Optimist
Despite Years of Service
R,, Tn,,o0o n Williams ~
By James T. Williams, Jr.

committee, who is also chair.
man of the New York State
committee of his party, is still
in the Cabinet as Postmaster
General.
For many months, the execu-
tive departments and multi
tudinouS relief agencies in the
Federal City have been overrun
by Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress seeking APP
pointments and loans and other
favors for their political sup
porters, kinsfolk and other
favorites.
In spite of the efforts of the
President to keep relief work on
a nonpartisan basis, the Sena-
tors and Representatives who
do not share his ideals persist
in bringing pressure to bear
upon the Presidents appointees
to yield to congressional influ-
ence and to play politics with
Federal patronage and Federal
money.
In condemning congressional
interference in administrative
matters, Senator Norris said
some things to the Senate which
it must have been unpleasant
for more than one Senator to
listen to.
No Member of the House, In
the judgment of Senator Nor
ris, and no Member of the Sen
ate Ought to devote all his
time looking after those who
want to get an office or those
who want to get contracts from
the Government"
Exposes Situation
The Senator exposed the fact
that some Senators are now ap-
pearing before Federal agencies
and arguing their constituents
claims. In other words, they
are bringing to bear on the
executive branch of the Gov
eminent the kind Of influence,
in behalf of their constituents,
that political lobbyists for spe-
cial interests are hired to do.
Senator Norris has the vision
of another and a better day
when public sentiment will drive
from public life political Spoils-
men who thus abuse the power
of the Congress.
IT believe that some day."
Senator Norris said, there will
90 into the White House a man
who will say, referring to the
Post Office Department, that
from top to bottom that depart
ment is going to be operated as
a business institution; man
who will say: We are going to
run it as business PROPOSE
ton. We are trustees of the
peoples money which we ap-
propriate to run it, and we
ought to be more careful about
the way those funds are ex-
pended than if it were our own
money"
(Copyright, 1894, The Washington Times
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27 Representatives ofthe Peopl

POLITICAL PROMISES AND WHO WILL STAND
BY THE EXPRESSED WISHES OF THE PEOPLE
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT.
Continued delay on the part of the House Banking
and Currency Committee in dealing with this type of
legislation clearly shows that only by travelling the Pc
tition route will the House have an opportunity to
"stand up and be counted"
It is apparent that something is holding within that
committee the compromise bill prepared by Chairman
Henry B. Steagall.
That BILL even though it is modification of the Nc
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The Human Side of the News
rms-Nudism and Finery
Blu EdWin C.. Hill

have never had much use for
Gandhi, not even the Hindu
princes.
The Mohammedan rajahs de-
test him and all his works. And
practically all of them are strong
for the continuance Of British
rule in India. Nowhere in the
world do monarchS enjoy such
power, such luxury and splen-
dor as in these native states of
India. The largest and richest
of all these states is Hyderabad.
It's picturesque ruler, the Nizam,
might have stepped out Of the
Old Testament.
Through his roads, the lum-
bering elephant still carries the
yelled and sheltered Mohamme-
dan lady, swathed to her brood
ing eyes in draperies of silk or
fine cotton. The supercilious
camel plodS along, sneering at
all mankind, as is his way, as
he sneered at Abraham and
Isaac, the Queen of Sheba, MO
manned and Napoleon.
And here in his capital of
Hyderabad, the Nizam, the
richest man in the world, so
rich, indeed, that he could buy
and sell Andrew Mellon or
Henry Ford, maintains his
gorgeous court. Through his
marble halls passes a strange
and glittering pageant of life.
Magistrates, rich merchants,
mobiles, black-bearded soldiers.
In this palace of marble
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year. Maybe so. But there are
certain reasons why one doubts
it. The woman doesn't live and
breathe who doesn't like to wear
pretty clothes, and even if they
are not pretty, there is some
strange and kindly magic of the
gods which transmutes her
vision and makes them. to her
at least. seem pretty. Will the
ladies give up their fine fixings
-Jamais, as we say in that dear
Paris.
Two other reasons are frost
and sun. The human hide is
not suited to complete and con-
tinual exposure to American
winters and American summers.
And there is an innate ShyneSS
in most people which, in the
end, will BATTLE all this nudist
faddiSm.
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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You Can't Beat the Game

AVW NSSA ON&V VAAO NNAAIO
After few years of daily
scrapping, a man doesn't care
WHAT a woman thinks about
him, so long as she can't prove
it before a judge.
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Leod full ayoff program, will the light of
legislative day unless the Mcleod supporters able
to complete their petition within day or two.
If the petition is filled the Democratic Headers" will
undoubtedly choose to report the Steaga bill repre-
senting the least that will satisfy those who insist upon
doing something for the millions of citizens who
were victmized by the Governments cooperation with
unsound banks.
Without the completed petition those who believe in
justice for the bank depositors will find themselves
disarmed in the closing days of the current session.
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floors, gold inlaid walls and
jewel-studded couches, the Nj
Fam watches his graceful dane
ing girls, slim as golden lilies.
In a great red and gold room,
he attends to the business of his
state and dictates his will to
100000 people. When he
dimes, he eats from plates Of
solid gold and he drinks his
wine from golden goblets.
One looks, indeed, for Sche-
herazade when one glimpses
through the latticed windows
of the women's quarters, the
questing dark eyes that follow
with intense curiosity the move
ments of the Nizam's visitors.
In these women'S quarters, the
wives and favorites of his royal
highness browse away the hours
in silken and brocaded luxury,
inhaling the scent of mimosa
and jasmine, smoking perfumed
tobacco in waterpipes, drinking
perfumed coffee, their whole
existence an exotic perfume, un-
real, artificial, scarcely human.
Huge women guards, Amazons,
are the palace jailers of these
women, and their principal duty
is to prevent any word or piece
of writing from being surrep-
titiously given to a visitor.
Fad Spreads
There will be nudistS abroad
in no less than 10 States this
summer, so we find in the news.
Certainly, one excellent reason
for congratulating the other 80.
For the objection to the nudist
cult is not on the score Of i'm
morality, but squal ely on the
ground of good taste.
The matter is aesthetic, rather
than ethical. The fact Of the
matter is there is rarely any,
thing beautiful about the human
body-the average, run of the
mill human body. There are
too many protuberant Stom-
achs, too many bowed or ban.
died legs, too many knotting
and bony knees, far too many
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Nothing in the news is more
astonishing than the mobbing of
Mahatma Gandhi by Hindus
who had been among his follow
erS. At Buxar, in India, he mar
rowly escaped a bad beating and
serious injury which might. for
one of his frail physique, have
resulted in death. The mob was
venting it's hostility to Gandhi's
pet project of freeing the un-
touchables, the lowest of all
castles in that land of castles,
India.
Hurt and Inundated, the Ma
hatma told his intimates that if
the Hindus generally were
against his reforms he would
drop them. And so he seems to
be fading out of the picture, this
extraordinary little man who,
only a year or so ago, was moth
ing less than IS pounds of dyna-
mite ready to blow up the whole
British Empire in the Far East.
Main Opposition
Why has he failed, or seems
to have failed, in overcoming
the tradition of thousands Of
years that have bound his people
to the caste system? One cause
is the subtle resistance Of the
priesthood of the Brahmin faith.
The other is the powerful influ-
ence against him of the kings
and princes of the native states.
These gentlemen, ruling in the
last stronghold of deSpotism,
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In spite of his long years in
the service of the people, Sena-
tor Norris, of Nebraska, is still
an optimist. The Nebraska
statesman has the faith to be-
lieve that the day will come
when Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress will no longer
Stoop to the level of political
errand-boys but will confine
themselves to their constitutional
duties as national legislators.
When Senator Black, of Ala
bama, proposed an amendment
to a pending measure to prohibit
public officials and political
committeeman from seeking
loans for their constituents from
the Reconstruction Finance Cor.
poration, Senator Norris made
an inspiring argument in sup
port of the proposal.
Contending that the principle
involved in the Black amend
ment was sound and that, if ap-
piled, would go a long way to-
ward saving the Government
and the Democratic party from
ruin, the fearless progressive
from Nebraska said:
IF we are going to take the
taxpayers money by the hun
dreds of millions and loan it out
on political influence, then we
ought not to stand as nation.
Such a proposal is unScientific,
unbusinesslike, unfair. I think
it is a dishonest use Of the tax
payers money"
Senator Norris declared him.
self in favor Of applying the
same principle to every depart
ment of the Federal Govern
ment, in order that the whole
Federal service might be safe
guarded from the debauching
influence of greedy politicians.
'"The same principle he said,
fought to pervade the Post Office
Department from the Post
master General himself to the
janitors who scrub out the post
offices in the various cities and
towns of the United States"
Hits System
It was Senator Norris who as
long ago as last December called
the attention of the Congress
and the country to the indie
feasible improperly of permit
ting the chairman of the
national committee of the party
in power, who is also the chair
man of the State committee of
his party, to exercise, at the
same time, the tremendous
authority and responsibility of
Postmaster General in the
Cabinet of the President.
It was Senator Norris who did
his best to convince the Senate
and the House of the wisdom
of protecting the Home Owners
Loan Corporation from the de-
mandS of pork-barrel politicians.
This amendment was rejected
by the Congress-, and the chair
man of the Democratic national
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-05-16

Twenty seven members of the House of Representa-
tves have in their power to the domination
of that body by small group and insure vote at the
present session bank deposors relief legislation
Only that many signatures necessary to make ef
fective the petition which would call up the Mcleod
bill for vote on May g.
CERTAINLY THERE SHOULD BE IN THE
HOUSE THAT MANY MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT
TO BE INTIMIDATED, WHO ARE NOT TO BE DC
TATED TO, WHO ARE NOT TO BE LURED BY
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his emotions seem to have gone
into a coma.
No-the old-fashioned girl did
NOT run after a man. She
just sneaked up on him, along
about this time of year-and
there he WAS, signing on the
dotted line, automatically!
Sometimes, the most glamor-
Gus part of love, marriage or a
trip abroad is the thrill Of look
ing forward to it-or the pleas
ure Of remembering 1t.
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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MARRY-GO-ROUND

headed would save the hair from
falling out are already begin
ming to ask the barber to use a
little hair-tonic on that thin
spot" at the crown.
A woman's ability to work up
a fine case of jealousy over a
man, whom she has often Sc
cretly longed to get rid of, is one
of those strange feminine emo
tional quirks that no man will
ever be able to understand.
After all, Adam didn't make
such poor bargain when he
traded a superfluous rib for
something to amuse him, flat
ter him, alibi him, and take all
the petty routine office-work off
his hands.
Middle-age is the point at
which a woman ceases to long
for thrills or Big Moments be-
cause they spoil her beauty
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-05-16
By Helen Rowland
By Nelson Harding

sleep, and are so apt to leave
her with pain in the vanity
and a few new croWSfeet.
Three-quarters of a mans
reason for marrying a girl is
to prevent any other man from
getting her; but no sophisti-
Gated gal would kid herself into
believing that, just by putting
a man on legal leash, she is
preventing any other woman
from getting him.
No bride really understands
the man she has married un-
till she has learned enough
about his moods and digestion
to discover that his love is not
necessarily dead just because
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is in
II SteetNor D. C.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05

a matter of fact some sticks of dyna-
mite found under suspicious circum-
stances-wrapped in brown paper
and tied with a string. What would
you think if, after handing this
package to a laboratory worker. he
reported:
my microscope tells me this pack
age was tied up on farm through
which runs a swift stream of water.
and on which there are pine trees,
several kinds of shrubs. black and
white rabbits, a bay horse, light
cream COW, and Rhode Island red
chickens"
Yet that is what happened. The
sale of the dynamite was traced by
the numbers on the sticks and the
farm discovered to be as reported.
The microscope was the microscope
Of the late DR.. Albert Schneider of
Berkeley. Cal, the whole story being
in that interesting magazine con-
Quoted by the medical profession,
Hygefa. for 1882. written by Colonel
Calvin Goddard.
The entire deduction was made
from the microscopic examination. of
the string around the package. 1t
wSs soaked in distilled water. the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05

when they had come into the ce-
mented basement. the air was cool
and still.
Small grated windows set high in
the walls let in faint streams of light,
enough to show them dark shadows
of boxes and bundles
Tim took a fashlight from his
! pocket and pressed it's catch. The
strong, glaring beam played over the
ceiling until 1he reporter found not
far ahead of them large. unshaced
electric bulb hanging from the CELL
ing by a single cord.
Guided by his torch, Tim reached
the electric light and pulled it on.
Together he and Lee looked about
| them. In one corner of the base
ment farthest from the door stood
an old furnace. long unused, it's pipes
unattached and lying behind tt.
Near it. against the back wall. was
a pile of packing boxes and several
large bale-like bundles of scrap
paper carefully roped
Against the right wall under the
windows stood two large wooden
boxes. their liGs secured with leather
hinges so that they opened like
trunks. Tim lifted the lids and
peered INSIDE. One held trash and
the other unbaled scraps of paper.
He shook his head and moved on.
A rough workable stood near the
boxes with a small toolbox at one
end.
Tim moved by with scarcely q
glance. the inspector following Curl
ously. Passing the cellar entrance,
Tim stopped before two large cup
boards built against the left wall.
The carpenter work was rough and
probably Dams own but both were
sturdy, their serviceable doors pad
locked shut
I'VE haven't any keys" said Lee
in lowered voice. almost as If he
feared someone might hear them.
Tim. walking back to the work
table. opened the tool box and
searched hastily through its odds and
ends until he found a screw driver.
With that he returned to the cupS
boards
He set the tool firmly against a
screw of the hasp on the lock- of the
first cupboard door. The screw be-
gan to turn slowly. making a slight
biting sound as it moved in the
wood. No other sound came to their
ears except Jackson shuff1ing his
feet as he changed his position on
the back porch.
ITO BE CONTINUED
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05
Nt9>1tsttt 9St tosM3 $2't2fses1sssss GesesseSs
READ THIS FIRST:

Donald ReeueS. young instructor.
Is Tound shot to death ia his Office
on the campus Of Center CRY uni-
TerS;tV. Inspector Lee, Gc0Tk1n0 on
the case lGifh his trend. Timothy
Blade, newspaper reporter and ire
Qaent -1Corksr. discovers that the
gan that Icds beside the body. foH7id
fv the 5dnitor. has disappeared. The
police find an attic room that shoes
SiO1S OF inhdbitdnce on the third
floor OF the English House. scene of
the crime. After interviewing Mrs.
FseCcS, the dead mans lCidOlC icho
insists her husband committed sal
eide, Lee eIdmides other members OF
thc Fn0HSh stat including DR.. wa
son. department head: Or. Hender-
son, Walker, Jameson. Miss Turner
sad Miss EdiCdrdS. Lee and Blade go
Stv7 fhe case at a nearby restaurant.
At police headquarters Mrs.
BTec Cer. nei0hbOr Of Mrs. Reeves,
TplaEteerS the Information that the
Instructors lDife Icds not at home
ire previous erenin0 as she had in
formed police. The fHoerprint eI-
pert reports that none Of the prints
1evnd Ia rhe strange attic room
match any of those belonging to
members OF the faculty.
<N0T 90 ON WITH THE STORY
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05
CHAPTER 1h

| TIN AND LEE took the elevator
Scwp TO the garage in the basement
and with Tim at the wheel swung
the street.
On the way Tim asked. What
about Mrs. Reeves prints?"
"Thc only ones we've got are the
sample we took on the notebook. No.
a far as prints are concerned. she
Erunted the Inspector.
After that they were silent again
Until Tim pulled the car up before
ne House.
University Row was still, lying
under a blanket of heat. The sun
was sending diagonal rays through
the trees and the sidewalk at their
feet was splotched with orange light
and grotesque shadows. The few
students who passed were walking
swiftly and spoke almost in whis-
pers.
AS they went up to the porch, they
heard from an open window above
them the brisk tap-tap-tap of a type
writer, probably Ruth Turner's. Ser
geant Brown, who had been lounging
against pillar of the porch, came
briskly to attention.
Anything new. sergeant?" asked
Lee.
The sergeant grinned. Nothing
much. inspector. The kids have
been shopping around most of the
afternoon but 1 guess we've scared
'em away now. Two of 'em tried to
sneak into the cellar when Jackson,
On the back door, wasn't looking. He
yelled and / went back to help him.
Aeve like we thought they were the
murderers and said we were going
TO arrest 'em. They were out to
play some joke on the dumb cops but
we fixed 'em. After we finally let
'em go, they must of spread the
word around because none of 'em
have been hanging around since"
Tim had started a little at the
mention of the basement You're
sure they were students, sergeant ?"
Yeah, they live in that fraternity
house UP on the corner"
The screen door behind them
slanmed shut and Miss Edwards
walked out on the porch near them.
Bhe acknowledged the inspectors
greeting absently and hurried in an
engrossed manner towards the steps.
Abruptly she stopped and turned
About as If she had just then real
ized to whom she spoke "Inspec-
tor" She called peremptorily.
Lee looked st her in surprise.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05

olson ExteF894lnatOr,
horse owner Of Binghamton, n. Y,
rs an unknown quality, Extermi~
nator was sent to the post in the
Kentucky Derby of 1913 to replace
Kilmer's sick entry EXterminator
won the race, and then set up
record that has been eQualled by
few runners. In the 100 races in
which he participated, he won SO,
placed second in IT and third in
IT.. For four years he was a lead
ing money winner, netting in his
entire career a sum of $252.596.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05

Inspector" she hurried on, when
are these policemen leaving?"
II should, think you'd be glad to
have them here as protection. Miss
Edwards" answered Lee quietly,
watching her as he spoke.
Protection? From what? Oh. of
course. You mean the murderer.
But / don't believe the rest of us are
in any danger. inspector and they
make me nervous. They make me
feel conspicuous and-and watched"
II am sorry if they've annoyed you,
Miss Edwards. We must keep them
on today but I'll talk to DR.. Wilson
and maybe we can remove them. to-
morrow"
"Oh. they haven't annoyed me. in
spector," the uneasy spinster said
hastily. 'They just-just make me
nervous" she finished lamely.
Then as if she wished she had not
spoken, She nodded at them all and
set off down the steps.
'Now what have you done to her?"
questioned Lee of the sergeant when
she was out of hearing distance.
fault" The sergeant spoke with con-
viction. II never even saw her be-
fore except when she came back
from lunch with that dark Iookin'
fella." That would be Walker.
thought Tim.
Lee shrugged. "It doesn't matter.
Tim and 1 are going inside. and well
be busy so don't bother to tell any
one we're here Where first. Tim?"
he added to the newspaperman.
Lets walk around back"
At the back door they found Jack
son who told with more details and
the same amusement the story of the
students and the basement.
Anybody else down there?" asked
Tim. ~,. c
Just Dan. that caretaker," replied
Jackson. Hes been down a couple
of times, once for a lawnmower and
afterwards for a rake"
"Hmmrnm. wonder. Suppose
we go down too." the reporter sug-
gested to Lee. Togther they walked
toward the basement door.
The cellar entrance. like the rest
of the house. was ld-fashioned-a
double hatchway built over an out
side flight of stairs. Tim bent and
tugged heavily at the rough boards
throwing one door open. A breath
OF musty air swept past them as
they started down the cracked ce-
ment steps which Dan kept clean.
There was the smell of cold, damp
earth in the passageway and even
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-05
Microscope s Best Friend
of Modern Detectives

water then filtered, the filtrate ex-
amined chemically, the residue under
the microscope.
A piece of string around your
home will soon take on telltale evi.
dence of most Of it's surroundings.
When a number of fibers, or hairs.
are found on the premises, or per-
son, of a suspect in crime, it
becomes necessary to determine
whether they are cotton fibers, wool
hbers, human or animal hair and
as much else about them as pos
sible.
If there are enough of them a
simple test to determine vegetable
from animal hairs is to burn q few.
The vegetable tibers burn completely
with no disagreeable odor. Animal
hairs seldom burn completely down
and burn with a disagreeable odor-
as of burnt feathers.
In a certain English case glove
was found in room where strug.
gle, Fomicidal in intent, had oc-
Cured. On the palm and fingers of
the glove were number of hairs
were IIGy uuIudu anu UdU Ju6y
been torn from a human head during
the struggle? The microscope gave
definite answer. The root ends of
the hair showed that they had not
been torn out. The appearance of
hair jerked from it's roots is entirely
different than that of a hair which
has fallen out from age. The root
sheath is ruptul ed in the first case
In the instance mentioned it was
shown that the hairs were those OF
dog and had not been forcibly
jerked out more probably come
| away while the animal was being
stroked.
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