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LISTEN, WORLD
Bv Elsie Robinson

the plumbers of men, but stil.
life went on-in spite of hunger,
pestilence, wholesale massacres.
On and on life went, refining
the body, quickening the mind,
stirring the sleeping spirit.
Study how legs happened.
Then study how ideas happened.
The process is the same. Always
they started from the restless
itch, that dumb urge for a big
ger, better deal.
And now you're doubling If
justice will ever happen! And
growing sour and discouraged
because things aren't much
after four bad years! It's a
joke! Look at your leg. Pinch
your nose. If they could hap
pen, anything can happen. But
you've got to give Life time.
Justice? It's a cinch! Moth
ing can prevent it. just as moth
ing could prevent legs, once the
demand for them got started.
THAT which a man can mag
inc he will achieve" The very
fact that we can imagine JUS
tice, that we can hope for 1t,
fight for it, mourn over it's lack,
is proof that justice is coming.
But it can't come in a day,
any more than legs could. Nor
can any man or any crowd Of
men achieve it for us. Even If
Congress could pass a perfect
plan for justice this next Jan
uary it wouldn't do us a bit Of
good. For justice will only come
when we're ready for it-as legs
could only come when we were
ready for them.
Justice can't come from out
side, any more thai legs could.
Justice must come from inside
through our own desires, our
own struggles. through the
struggles and decisions of each
individual, no matter how OBJ
Scure.
JUSTICE IS COMING-AND
NOTHING CAN STOP IT! Hang
on to that fact. It's the most
glorious fact on earth-the one
fact that makes life worth en-
during when your petty personal
problems get you down.
No matter how badly you fail
in your personal plan, there Is
one program in which you are
Of supreme Importance, ana
that is the evolution Of justice.
You, by your struggles once
achieved legs. JU S T1CE Is
COMING. AND EVERY DE-
CENT THING YOU DO OR De
SIRE BRINGS IT NEARER!
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Syndicate, Inc.)
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quarters, this film was stored IN
a sixth.floor vault, just below
the cafeteria. There was more
than a ton of film.
The films were highly explO'
Sive and inflammabie, as they
have the same composition as
dynamite and gunpOwder and,
when ignited, emit deadly gas.
Film of this type caused the
Cleveland Clinic fire in which
scores lost their lives.
Recently the film began to
deteriorate from age. Nitrous
oxide odors became apparent
and the door to the vault was
opened to permit the fumes to
escape. They escaped into a
corridor which hundreds OF
clerks used.
Had a match been struck or
a cigarette thrown, there Mould
haze been an explosion that
probably Mould haze wrecEed
the building and cost many
LiUeS.
An employee noticed the haz-
ard and commented to his SUI
perior. Nothing was done. The
employe then wrote a memoran-
dunn to Ebert K. Burlew, eXecu-
tive officer of the department
and right-hand man Of Secre-
tary Harold L. Ickes.
Burlew ordered something
DONE"
First, the employe was repri-
manded severely for going over
the head of his direct superior.
He received three memOran-
dums advising him that he
should follow that procedure.
He resigned in disgust.
Secondly, large quantities Of
the film were hauled out and
destroyed.
Much of the lost material can
never be regained.
It was invaluable and in
cluded the film of Theodore
Roosevelt watching the snake
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MoHllzing Tothood
By Frank Sullivan

order of Mussolini directing that
all little Italian boys of 8 shall
be given military training. This
is ominous and will have what
are known as repercusSions.
One thing is certain: Hitler will
never let II Duce get away with
anything like that. Not to be
outdone by II Duce, Der Fuehrer
probably will issue an order
shortly requiring all Nazi babies
from to 3 to be wheeled to the
drill fields daily in their prams,
to practice hurting milk bottles
at enemy babies. And any Nazi
infant who reaches the age of
Is months without being able to
give the salute and pronounce
Hell Hitler!" distinctly will be
considered non-N ordic and
thrown into an internment
camp.
While Mussolini is mobilizing
Italian tothood, what are we
doing? Sitting around Cabling
about football scores - that's
what. Worse still. what are our
American 8-year-olds doing while
MuSsolini's youngsters are learn
ing to shoulder a musket? Frit-
tering away their time playing
cops and robbers, suppose.
X X X
To arms, American tots! The
next war will be fought in the
nursery. Rise in defense of
your kiddie cars. Polish Perish
ing's sword and buckle it on
Baby Leroy. Drape the mantle
of Mata Hari around the ca
pable shoulders of Shirley Tenn
pie. But don't let Jackie Coo
gan enlist. He is all of Is
years old and, according to
Mussolini's standards, far be-
yond the age limit. No use en-
numbering the army with the
aged and infirm.
Our strategy is clear. If
American youngsters play CnelT
cards right the war will be over
in two weeks. We hold the
whiphand. We have Mickey
Mouse. All the American kids
have to do is to declare a
blockade on European movie
houses and forbid the showing
of Mickey Mouse there. That
will bring the bambini and
the kinder to their knees.
After that it will be easy.
The American youngsters can
dictate their own terms and I
am willing to bet Jackie
Cooper's salary for one week
that they will make a better
job of it than the boys who
drew up the Versailles pact.
Provided, of course, that no
body over 8 years of age is
allowed to have a hand i'll
the negotiations.
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
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The situation in Europe at
the moment is more tense than
it has been at any time since
the last time it was more tense
than it is at the moment, and
things are not getting any bet
ter.
There is so much monkey bust
ness and skulldugger going on
in Europe that if you tried to
understand all of it you would
be in a BOBBY hatch within
three weeks, and I am talking
only about understanding, mind
you.
If, in addition to understand
ing, you tried to worry about
all the preparations for war
that are taking place on the
Continent today you would soon
get so far behind in your worry
ing that you would land in the
BOBBY hatch in less than half
the time you would land there
if you tried to understand the
situation without attempting to
do any actual worrying about it.
The only thing for a man to
do who wants to keep his bal
ance these days is to stuff cot
ton in his ears, put on pair
of dark glasses, and go to the
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human Side of the News - ByEdwin c. Hill

favorite for whom he once gave
up his throne.
The last of our three men
of the Balkans is the blond
haired, well-dressed man of 40,
Ahmed Bey Zogu, better known
as King Zog of Albania. This
willy fellow has been playing
so fast and loose with Musso-
lini that II Duce has had to
crack down where it hurt most,
namely on Zog's pocketbook.
It happens that Albania is a
sore spot on the map of Europe,
with the Italians and the Jugo-
slavs battling to be the power
behind its throne.
Geographically Albania is a
narrow strip of unproductive
country skirting the Adriatic
across from Italy and running
up to the border of Jugoslavia.
For all of it's 100000 inhabi-
tants, it is one of the least.
known countries of the world.
It has it's own language and its
customs are those of feudal
days.
The present King was just an
other poor boy of the mountains
until the revolution in 1920
against the JugoslavS and the
Italians who were parceling out
the country.
With 5000 mountaineers in
their fezzes and baggy white
homespun trousers. he took over
the government and had him.
self-made President. When Arch.
bishop Fan Noli, educated at
Harvard, threw him out in 1924,
he went to Jugoslavia, raised an
army and came back to make
himself King in 1928.
He built gibbets almost as
quickly as he smoked cigarettes
and his quota for these is 100 a
day. He bought himself a golden
Saber, golden spurs and the
most gorgeous uniform in exist
ence.
He sent a machine gun on a
grand tour of his kingdom just
to show the malcontentS how
much more deadly it was than
their rifles. Then he settled
down to get some money.
Italy rushed in to offer a loan
of $20,000,C00 over period OF
10 years, whereupon Zog turned
his back on the JugoslavS who
had put him back into power.
After a while the domination OF
his army by italian officers, the
teaching of Italian in the
schools and MusSolini's demand
for a settlement of 10000
Italians in the country kind OF
annoyed His Majesty Zog.
A month or two ago he
soundly, if only automatically.
slapped II Duce's face by order
ing the withdrawal of Italian
naval vessels from Durazzo.
In other days this would nave
meant war, but Mussolini had
an ace up his sleeve. He stopped
payment of the 100000 a
year. Fog capitulated.
Now the Italians may send
their settlers and run his army,
and Fog in turn can continue to
buy Bond Street suits by the
gross.
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Syndicate, Incl
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movies. After he gets to the
movies he can make up his
mind whether or not he wants
to remove the glasses and the
cotton.
BY taking these precautions
the citizen will retain at least
a semblance of mental balance
until such time as the next war
starts and the enemy begins
dropping the new kinds of gas
on him.
Then, when the gas hits him,
he will at least have the com.
fort of realizing that it is the
new tangled gas that is choking
him, whereas the poor unfortu-
mates who have previously wor.
ried themselves into a state of
dementia trying to understand
the next war, won't even know
what hit them and won't care.
Maybe, on second thought. we
had better worry ourselves into
an early grave before the next
war starts, and save ourselves O
lot Of bother.
Very significant is the recent
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Our Merchant Navv
Last in War Last in Peace

Last IN War, Last In Peace
Startling charges of the unfitness of American mer
chant ships for use auxiaries to the Navy in time
Of made by Secretary Swanson.
Only So of the 298 merchant vessels now receiving sub
sides can be converted into auxiliary war craft the
Secretary reveals.
The remaining 240 too old, too slow, to be en-
ployed for this purpose
Coming after the Moro Castle disaster these dsclo
sures point to grave deficiencies in the American Mer
chant Marine.
Inefficient outmoded ships, manned with poorly
trained and pancky crews may not be the rule but a
parenty they seem to be by no the exception.
Such condition is danger to the United States,
both in and in peace
It seems evident that American merchant vessels con-
sucted in future should be laid down for service as
auxiliaries as well as liners or cargo-carriers.
Britain's Queen Mary" Frances new "Nor-
mandie the crack German and Italian liners are de-
signed important aids to the fighting fleets of their
respective countries.
Most foreign liners also are manned by large pro-
portion of naval resersts and their conversion to aux
1iaries can be made swiftly and effectively.
Not so in our case Rather the contrary.
It selfevdent therefore, that this defect should
be corrected at once.
American merchant should be in large part naval
reservss trained by the navy supervised by navy men,
If they cannot meet naval Standards let them stay
ashore.
And if special legislation is needed to impose these
standards let Congress get busy and impose them at it's
next session.
The Moro Castle disaster is still fresh in mind
The next war will be considerably fresher in mind-f
and when come-and the Moro Castle affair will look
like picnic by comparison
TEE WASHINGTON
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Three men of the Balkans, two
of them crowned kings and the
third uncrowned, carry out the
tradition of their sector as the
one spot in this realistic world
where men do the things which
go to make up the plots of ro-
mantle novels and heroic oper-
ettaS.
Ivan Mihailoff is the I'M
crowned king. It may not be
incorrect to say he was, for
today we find him driven from
his figurative throne in the
mountains of Macedonia.
A young man, and a bit
scholarly, he is down on the
books as responsible for $500
assassinationS in the last twelve
years. Little wonder he fears
for his safety and for that Of
his wife.
The real wonder is that the
two were able to make their
escape through the mountains
to sanctuary of the Turkish
Republic.
Ivan is a product of the
peace treaty of Versailles. He
and his party wanted an indie
pendent Macedonia for it's an
neXation to Bulgaria, and when
it was divided among the Bull
CARS, the Greeks and the Jugo-
Slavs he took to the mountains
and carried on a terrible guer-
rilla warfare.
To his followers and adher-
entS he remains a Robin Hood;
to his enemies he is brigand
and a cut-throat, and to the
JugoSlavS he is a continual
pain-in-the- neck.
His terrorists rarely let a day
go by in the past decade without
a killing and they lived and
armed themselves on the taxes
levied against the peasants.
Time and again he brought
Jugoslavia and Bulgaria to the
breaking point, but the powers
that be at Sofia would do moth
ing, either because they were in
sympathy with him, or because
they feared his threat that ANY
government official who signs a
decree against me signs his own
death warrant"
He was perhaps the chief rea-
son for the overthrow of consti-
tutional government in Bulgaria
The military clique had his
determination as one of its chief
aims and while he managed to
get away alive, he seems doomed
to the existence of a fugitive
with the ever-preSent dread of
dying as he lived-by aSsassina-
ton.
The Carol-Lupescu affair has
reached another crisis in Ru-
; mania. The King continues to
protect the red-haired and volup-
tuous daughter Of the junkman
of Bucharest even in the face
of a threat by Juliu Manu- to
reverse the coup of six years ago
by which he and his peasants
brought back Carol to the
throne.
Just like ivan Mihailoff's
"1MRO," Rumania has its own
secret organization Of terrorists
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high. There was discomfort. =.
a constant, restless itching for
a wider, more powerful life.
Where did that itch come
from? Why should it have eX-
listed in a lump of fat, water
and mineral salts? Nobody
knows. But there it was-grop-
ing, graphing, forcing the
stupid body up and on, through
difficulty and discomfort and
danger, until gradually some
thing happened.
So life came up out of the
void, into the light. ...out of a
formless hunger, into ideas and
decisions. But it didn't happen
in a day. There were thou
sands, millions of years, the sci
entists say, between that vague
itch and the first weak, Wob-
bly, leg.
But all the time life was on
it's way. And with each strug-
gle, each rebellion, each reach
ing out toward a larger power,
life went further and faster.
Those individual struggles are
forgotten now, but the results
stand. The result is your leg.
And without each of those in
dividual struggles that leg never
could have come.
So life went on and on. Moth
ing could stop it. Earthquakes,
avalanches, tidal waves, icecaps,
fires that swept whole conti-
nents-nothing could stop it..
Later on there were men and
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nent t, vic" Simeon D. Tess
Donahey. From all reports,
Fess may be exerting his vocal
apparatus in a futile cause, but,
nevertheless, he is making a
strenuous campaign.
His efforts Mould tire q much
younger man, but he goes on IN
ceGSingly.
His ability to campaign de-
spite his years is attributed by
him to his gardening. Flowers
and vegetables are his products.
And, regardless of how the
WallaceS, the TugwellS, and the
Chester Davis extOll the virtues
of crop reduction, Simeon re-
fuses to curtaiI the production
of his soil.
Copyright, 1884 The Washington
TimeS)
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The Greatest ShO0O
On Earth
BY Iohn Snure, lr.

dance" of the Hopi Indians, the
only time that ceremony was
filmed. Other records of North
American Indians, equally i'm
portant, were destroyed.
Had Secretary IckeS or Mr..
Burlew inquired into the matter
they might have learned that
there are film vaults, built espe-
cially for such purposes, in the
new Archives Building.
When the Navy football team
trounced Virginia the other day
there was a record attendance
of national notables.
Some Dere in a quGndGry
similar to that OF Mrs. Span.
son, ,Oite of the Many Secretary,
1Oho sat on the Many side and
cheered for Virginia.
Col. Edwin A. Halsey, Senate
Secretary, also a devout Vir.
ginian, was in the Navy stands.
The band played a tune that
sounded strangely like Mary
land, My Maryland"
Many persons in the crowd
stood.
senator GoldsbOrOugh re-
tanned his seat.
Out in Yellow Springs, Ohio,
there is one 73-year-old agri-
culturist who does not subscribe
to any policy of crop reduction.
He is Senator Simeon D.
Tess, arch Republican, whose
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Life was a
formlesS COB
of slime, en-
b e d d e d in
mud. There
was neither
thought nor
emotion in
t h a t throb-
bling S Ii m e,
nor even con-
S c i o u S.
n e SIS. B u t
t h re W as
som q hin q
else W h C n
was to carry
it far and
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chief task in
w a S hington
is to rattle
the bones in
t h e D e m o.
cratic closet.
He is the
oldest m e m
Der Of the
Senate wag"
ing an &C
tive campaign
for reelection
this year and,
day after day,
t a Ike IS t h e
stump to talk
for himself
a n d against
his . e m O.
cratic oppo-
FEas@s 80
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known as the Iron Guard. These
bomb-throwers, who are anti
Semitic, have made it known
that Lupescu is marked for
assassination.
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Give Us Time!

Give Us Time!
Do you," he asks sourly,
really believe" we'll ever see JUS
tice?"
surely do! I believe that
some day we'll be honorable and
fair with each other, just as I
believe that we now have legs
and noses-and for exactly the
same reason.
Once upon a time legs and
noses seemed as impossible in
the scheme of things as justice.
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employe his
job.
Since 1909,
when the de-
p a r t m e n t
first took mo-
ton pictures
of v a r i o u S
r e clamation,
G olo 6 ical,
and e d u C a.
tional prot
ects, as well
as views of
Indian reSer-
va tt on S, it
has saved the
film.
When t h e
d e p a rtment
moved in t o
| 7 G nrncnnt
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Strong Champions
For Federal Workers

The declaration by Senator Pat McCarran that he in
tends to begin the fight for restoration Of Government
salaries their basic rate Congress convene
in January nothing less than to be expected from
the Nevadan.
It was Senator McCarrans able and vigorous leader
ship which contributed so heavily to the action of the
last Congress restoring 10 per cent of the salaries
NOW WITH THIS EVIDENCE OF HIS CON
TINUED DETERMINATION TO FIGHT FOR A
SQUARE DEAL FOR THE GOVERNMENT WORKER,
IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE CAUSE WILL HAVE
SOUND CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE NEW SESSION.
Senator McCarrans statement of his position the
salary question follows by only few days the announce
ment that Senator M. M Logan (D), of Kentucky, will
also be on the firing line for the Government workers.
The avowed intention of these Senators indicates that
the Government employees retaining all of their old
friends while constantly adding onesto their ranks
IT WOULD NOT HAVE REQUIRED MANY MORE
VOTES TO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED FULL RESTO-
RATION IN THE LAST SESSION. THESE ADD
TIONAL VOTES, ACCORDING TO ALL INDICA
TONS, ARE BEING ROUNDED UP NOW AND THE
FULL RESTORATIONISTS SHOULD CERTAINLY
BE NUMERICALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO ACCOM-
PLISH THEIR PURPOSE WHEN THE NEW CON-
GREsS MEETS
The rapid rise IN the cost OF living IN the last few
months should make it possible for President Roosevelt
to restore the last per cent January l. However, it
is possible that the figures which will be assembled and
upon which he must base his action may be such as
to warrant this action
Regardless of what action the President may take it
will be essential that successful fight be made in the
Congress for the elimination of the allacious costof
living" theory.
This theory another of those delightful experiments
with which the Government now abounds.
. IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT IT IS I'M
PRACTICAL. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN THAT 1T CAN
WORK ONLY TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF THE
WORKER.
It must go.
And it will go the pledges of support which are being
freely and voluntarily made Senators and Representa-
tives any indication of public sentiment.
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A disaster comparable to the
Cleveland Hospital Clinic fire
Of q few years ago seems to
have been averted at the In
terror Department.
But. apparently, it cost an
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But in. spite of the political
strength of Manu- and the des-
peradoes of the Iron Guard,
who only recently killed a pre-
mier, the King stands by the
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Americans are the most inventive people earth.
They also among the most careless people
EARTH
Carelessness may be excused in peace. It cannot be
excused in war; in preparing for
AS Mr. Powers shows, many American inventions for
war not safeguarded. They become the property
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of other nations Thus their benefit to this country is
lost and they become dangers instead.
We trust our Washington authorities see this car,
toon and clamp the lid down on military and naval
secrets in future America is defenseess enough it
is It cannot afford to be MORE defenseless through
the laxity of it's government.
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D.. @,
j. j. FfEDatick.
Evening star., 1934-03-04

will be dinner hosts In their home in
Aurora Hills, Va, this evening In COM
pliment to Mr. Harry ]. Lamb to cele-
brate his birthday anniversary Addi-
tional guests will include Mr.. Harry j.
Lamb, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse F. Greg
ory.
Mrs. r. Lyman Sexton will be
hostess at luncheon and bridge at
the Shoreham Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarke Allison of Wash
ington entertained a large company
last night in celebration Of the birth
day anniversary Of Mrs. Allison. More
than 80 guests attended the affair,
which was held at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. C. j. Clements, Silver Spring,
Nd.
Mrs. NJ e. Joynt and Mrs. Joseph B.
Stanley were joint hostesses at q
luncheon yesterday at the Shoreham.
The guests included Mrs. Edward C.
Ardeesey, Mrs. Thomas P. Brown, Mrs.
Joseph c. Garry, Miss Agnes Cum
mings, Mrs. e. A. Deeds, Mrs. William
j. Donovan Mrs. Harry j. Gerrity,
Mrs. William ]. Howard, Mrs. James A.
Toomey, Mrs. Joseph Madigan and
Mrs. D. D. Mulcahey.