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The Washington times., 1934-09-27

I met a young thing the
other day. greatly excited as
she was to be taken to London
for the little season." which
gets under way soon. All her
friends were excited, too, with
matrons and dowagers also in
quite a palpitant state, so I
was moved to make inquiries.
The announcement of the en-
gagement of Prince George,
youngest son of Their Britannia
MajeSties, to Princess Marina of
Greece has London's West End
in a happy ferment, for very
definite reason, and Americans
who know their way about in
those circles are Fastening to
declare themselves in. The
reason goes back So years. It
was in 1882 that the Duke of
Albany, fourth son of Queen
Victoria, was wed, and not since
then has the younger son of
the sovereign married a foreign
princess. The English have long
memories, a great sense of his
torical continuity and live
again the stately grandeur of
that Victorian wedding.
Thes empire still lives. AS
long as history keeps on repeat
ing itself, all is we'll. The
Stuffy and Sedate old West End
is buzzing with eager new life
and excitement. The wedding,
it is understood, will take place
in Westminster Abbey. Pres.
ent will be the former King
and Queen of Spain, the for
mer King and Queen of Greece,
the King and Queen of Norway
and the King of Denmark
quite a high proportion of
formers" left in the ruck of
those So tumultuouS years.
But there will be plenty of
royalty-emeritus, if not &C.
tlve-and a grand excuse for
pomp and pageantry, which
seem to excite my democratic
young American friends quite
as much as it does the English.
Much of the excitement CEN
tiers around that regal and i'm
posing Hotel Claridge, expanded
and modernized two years ago.
kilograms are pouring in, en-
gaging suites for the royal we'd
ding week, which-it is ex-
pected-will be before January /.
It was at this hotel that the
buckled, buttoned and braided
flunkeyS almost touched off an
international cause celebre, at
the economic conference last
year. The naughty function
aries high-hatted such person
ages as mere United States
Senators, and Senator CouzenS
got pretty mad about it. Things
began to look quite serious and
some of the American delega-
ton failed to dress for dinner
and it was made clear to the
gauche Yankee that one just
doesn't do a thing like that.
There were boom years when
the old West End was kicking
up its heels a bit with Zulu
dances and such at the big
parties but that is all over now.
1t Is said that cocktails are all
but out now, and they are
drinking sherry. There also
has been noted in the haut
monde a return to the manners
Of the nineties, and Queen Mary
has quite explicitly expressed
her pleasure with this new
decorum.
DR.. Stewart Patton, in a
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He'll pay your way to Reno or
Paris. if he can afford it, ar
range things with your lawyers,

order your Pullman and even
strap and check your trunks,
kiss you goodbye at the station
and tip the porter to look after
you. A GENTLEMAN (Ameri.
can make) to the last!
Or, if you prefer a Mexican
divorce (Which isn't much good
in most of our States, but is less
expenSive). you can get it with
out the least effort or publicity
and therell be no comeback.
Not from gentleman.
Apparently. Mexican divorce
is a divorce only when you can
trust your ex-mate to take it in
the right spirit and not make a
fuss about it. It holds good
only as long as both of you are
Complacent and neither minds
when, whom or if the other mar.
rieS again.
Naturally, some husbands,
even gentlemen, DO object to
taking care of the spaniels or
the PekeS and keeping the
house plants trimmed and wa
tered, while their wives are in
Nevada waiting to accuse them
Of Cruelty" and divuIge their
"brutalitieS" to a sympathetic
Judge. It isn't fair to ask a
busy man to come home every
night and walk a lap-dog
around the block. while you are
playing roulette and making
pleasant new acquaintance,
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Mrs. June Fickel, assistant
director of the women's d.
vision of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, back in town
after a strenuous speaking tour
of the Middle West, is as active
as ever despite the fact that
she made AZ speeches in 80
days while away.
Brien Mcmahon, assistant to
the assistant attorney general,
William Stanley, is the subject
of severe quips at his office
these days, inasmuch as his
name compares with that Of
Bryant Mcmahon, local gam
bier, recently shot.
Jim Preston, Senate Hbrdr-
ian, returned from England, tells
of seeing letters writter By the
British consul at Nel0 York in
the days of the first Congress
prescribed By the Constitution.
The English consul WGS telling
the folks back home that our
Congress 1DaS hdUing a difficult
time getting q quorum.
Senate Sergeant at Arms
Chesley w. Jurney, accepting
Preston'S report, says it con-
vinces him that times do not
change.
Copyright, 1894, by The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-09-27
By T. E. Powers

is bulwark against both
Fascism and Communism.
For the moment, there is avail
able at this workbench only the
over-worked cultural pattern"
which the heavy hitters in this
lineup already have pounded all
over the lot. However, it gets
over the idea of certain stable
behavior, rooted in each indi-
vidual, which has nothing to do
with whether he cleans up in
the market, gets rise IN pay
or gets fired, and when nation
has it, it can stand whole lot
of wear and tear.
Japan has it, in the tradition
of the Samurai. One of the
greatest industrialists of Japan
gets up every morning at 4:3O
and stands rigidly for an hour
in accord with a Samurai tradi-
ton of self-discipline and self
abnegation, which insists that
there must be rubric OF be-
havior entirely set apart from
daily expediency.
Such doingS, along with Eng
lands pother over her royalty,
look pretty silly to us up-and-at-
'em Americans, but the fact is
that the old world can give the
new world a lot to think about.
The English find in their now
safely hamstrung royalty-safe
so far as overt interference in
government is concerned-a sub
limation in the modern world of
all that chivalry meant in feudal
days. Certainly. pomp and
pageantry are away over on the
human side of the news. Just
watch Oscar Virgins. proprietor
of the Bee Hive Store in Osce-
olo, Neb., marching in the
ShrinerS' parade in Omaha!
And how zealously those pink
pants and plumes are guarded
in the closet at home. When
you we're a kid did you ever
raid the closet where dad kept
his lodge outfit? Juveniles are
warned here against any such
defamation. We fought a war to
make the world safe for democ-
racy. Do we really believe in
It? One can recall our genu-
Elections to Prince Henry and
King Albert and Queen Marie
and make dubious answer.
But that's only part of the
story.
Over here. we desperately want
something to believe in. But
belief seems to be rooted in
symbols. Nationality is built on
a flag; religion on a cross or a
crescent.
England finds in a person
able young man of royal blood
a human symbol of it's national
aspirations in character, dis
cipline. taste and seemly be-
havior. and, above all, of some
thing stable and enduring
through the ages. 1t is all so
human that my ultra-American
young friend can't sleep nights,
thinking of the flounces of her
gown when she mixes in this
big West End run-together.
Perhaps some day we will
somehow colorfully and hu.
manly symbolic our democracy,
detach it from the percentage
hold-outs which now bedevil it,
and discover that a civilized
state is the measure Of the dis
ciplined imagination and stable
behavior of the people who
make It.
Copyright 1894, by King Features
Syndicate 4pc)
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

Wroe Anderson, $50'a-day
trouble-shooter for the NRA,
who is called in when problems
are presented, says:
"NRA sounds like a good idea.
I wonder why they didn't try it,"
Back to town comes former
Representative Ross Collins.
eliminated from Congress by
Mississippi voters when he as
pired to the Senate. Friends say
Ross will take a job if one is
offered.
Senator Hubert d. Stephens,
defeated for reelection in MisSiS-
sippi by Theodore BiIbO, is al
so reported as expecting some
good position following defeat,
as he was an administration sup
porter to the extent of standing
by the President on his veto of
the independent offices supply
bill.
Thomas H. Macdonald chief
of the Bureau of Public Roads,
has returned to his desk after
attending a road builders con.
ference elsewhere.
Outside of Macdonald, him.
self, one of the Understanding
men in the Roads Bureau is L.
E. Boykin, chief of the Division
of Contracts and Laws, who
neOer takes a vacation.
Senator Royal S. Copeland
of New York is one of the most
interested persons who attended
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Regulated Advertising
And a Free Press

Out of wealth Of experience and intimate contact
with advertising and the press, Mr. Albert D. Lasker
chairman of the board of Lord and Thomas has found
that there necessarily exists delicate bond between the
two
In recent address before the Boston Conference on
Retail Distribution he warns that this delicate bond would
be severed and that the freedom of the press essential
to free people would be imperiled if the college boys
who are running Washington were able to accomplish
their objective of regmenting advertising.
Mr. Lasker in his address very authoritatvey denied
the oftrepeated assertion that advertising and does
govern the and editorial content of newspaper
BY regimenting advertising, it has been proposed
to do in the Tugwel BILL Mr. Lasker pointed out the
newspaper and the newspaper reader likewise become
regimented
Such course obviously would the stimulus
necessary to production and would simply accentuate the
conditions which the brain boys profess to be seeking
eliminate.
MR.. LASKER HAS PERFORMED A PUBLIC SER
VICE IN CALLING GENERAL ATTENTION TO THE
REAL INTENT OF THE MOVE BEHIND PROPOSAL
FOR GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION ON ADVER-
Using.
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The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
BY John Snure, Jr.

W. ByrnS, of Tennessee, has re.
turned to Washing ton after q
speaking tour in Western Penn
SylUGniG tDhere he reports,
publicly at least, that things
look favorable for Joe Guttey,
Democratic nominee for the
Senate.
Friends of debOnair Dave
Reed, of Pennsylvania, still say
that the incumbent Republican
will take Mr.. Guffey into camp,
not only in western Pennsyl.
vania but in almost all other
sections Of the Keystone State.
Representative Adolph ].
SABBATH, of Illinois, considered
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

Federal HouS- Senator Copeland
ing Administrator James A.
Moffett has a serious problem
on his hands other than
housing.
His problem is trying to beat
Senator Pat Harrison at he
latter's old game of golf.
Marvin H. Mcintyre, White
House secretary, often goes
along with them on the fair
ways.
House Majority Leader Joseph
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but it will un-
d o u b t e d ly
h a n d large
jolts to all
the husbands
who read it.
II have been
married eight
months" she
writes. "You
know how a
young wife OF
"a is supposed
to feel about
her husband.
And, in a way,
I do feel all
The Washington times., 1934-09-27
Marry-Go-R Round
By Helen Rowland

miles and miles away. You
should take Toto and Ming Su
with you. There are limits even
to a gentleman's patience when
it comes to playing nursemaid
to an ex-wife's lap-dog.
At the present time, our Amer.
lean divorce laws are the fun
niest and most confusing in the
world. In no other country on
earth, can you be married, di-
vorced and a bigamist all at
the same time, just by crossing
a couple of State lines.
That makes it all the more
important that a woman should
make sure that she is divorcing
a gentleman-one who really
has her happiness at neart-
before she goes in for any of
these "near-divorces."
The average man takes his
divorce much more seriously
than he takes. his wedding or
his marriage VOWS. He will
cheerfully go to the altar and
promise to pay a woman'S bill
for life-and then fight like a
storm-trooper in court against
paying alimony.
Nothing is so maddening as
paying the Observation-Disclosures on
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the Grim e
] a b oratories
here.
He learned
so much OF
crime when
his S p e CT |
Senate sub
committee in
V e S I ! g aCeQ
gangdonn last
year that he
is especially
interested in
ways to COM
bat it's forces.
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Worh of Wise Men

Beauty without sense is a
violin without strings.
Lips, however rosy. must be
fed.
The man who hates women
must have a poor wife.
A fool attempting to be witty
is an object Of profoundest pity.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

a car or a marriage that mas
been wrecked, or on a wife who
has junked you.
But a gentleman will usually
pony up without making any
fuss. You merely talk it over
quietly together and decide on
the amount that he considers it
worth to be rid of you. And
that's that!
Still, if he's a GENTLEMAN,
why divorce him? One perfect
gentleman in lifetime is
usually the average woman's
quota.
copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

by some per-
sons to be a
factor in the
coming House
S p e akership
fight, is in
town.
There are
t h o S e who
wonder if the
doughty for
mer CZecho-
Slovakian is
making an eS-
innate of the
S p e akerShip
situation.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

Better dry bread at home
than roast meat abroad.
From a bad debtor take even
a bag full of straw.
A peasant between two law.
yerS is a fish between two cats.
To forget a wrong is the best
revenge.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27
Party Primaries
In the District

III Cne DlSCrlcC
ALI Washingtonans who are interested in the welfare
II their city have an important stake in the conference
which Corporation Counsel J. Barrett Prettyman pro
poses call to consider the preparation of bill designed
TO govern party primaries in the District
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE INTER-
ESTED PARTICULARLY IN POLITICS FROM THE
PARTY ANGLE YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE
METHODS BY WHICH THOSE WHO PURP0RT TO
REPRESENT WASHINGTON IN NATIONAL CON-
MENTIONS ARE CHOSEN.
At present the method of choosing these delegates is
reproach to the entire city and is scarcely compliment
to local politicians to the national heads Of the
political parties which permit the condition to continue
Every four years the District sends delegations the
party conventions. These delegations usually carry
few votes for presidential candidates in the convention
and also bear the party gathering the somewhat dust
laden petition for Endorsement of the right of
citizens to vote.
The votes for the nominee usually cast. The petit
ton for form of suffrage gets out of committee
room.
Usually there is bitter fght between contestng dele
cations each claiming to have the right to say how the
members of the respective parties feel about presidential
aspirants.
UNFORTUNATELY 1T OFTEN HAPPENS THAT
NEITHER OF THE DELEGATIONS FIGHTING TO BE
SEATED HAS ANY PROPER OR JUST CLAIM TO
PRESENT TO THE CONVENTION THE WISHES
AND DESIRES OF WASHINGTON REPUBLICANS
OR DEMOCRATS.
The result is that the conventions either laugh at
simply tolerate the pickering between Washngtons rep
resentatives who don't represent Washington.
BY NO STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION CAN
THIS BE DEEMED TO BE CONDITION HELPFUL
TO THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. IT ENHANCES
NEITHER THE DIGNITY OF THE CITY NOR THE
LIKELIHOOD OF OUR EVER BEING RECEIVED
INTO THE BROTHERHOOD OF AMERICAN CITI-
ZENs.
An effort was made to remedy this condition during
the last session of Congress when bill introduced
to set up machinery for holding proper primaries in the
city.
But the hack politicians who like to control
delegations from Washington combined with the press
national legislation to prevent consideration of the BILL
Now Mr. Prettyman proposes conference to work out
bill which will be satisfactory to all parties
cerned and which be introduced and pushed to en-
actrnent at the coming session.
Unfortunately it that Mr.. Prettyman is confin-
ing his invitations to the conference the bill to the
city's politicians" These the gentlemen who have
given countenance to the disgracefu prmares of the
past.
They have pretty clearly demonstrated that while they
hold nominal titles within political parties they are not
representative of the rank and file of the parties in the
city.
MR.. PRETTYMAN WOULD BE LIKELY TO GET A
MORE SATISFACTORY BILL IF HE WOULD CON-
FER WITH SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE SIMPLY
REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS AND LET THE
WAY
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

Love Can't Be Blind
Here's an amazing letter from
a wife.
It won't surprise other wives
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You don't have to worry about
the evidence. He'll gracefully
hand it to you on a silver plat
ter, if you ask for it in a nice
way and don't act piggiSh or de-
mand TOO much alimony.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

DivOrcing a Gentleman
Divorcing a gentleman Is
really no trouble at all. Not in
America,
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SABBATH. of Illinois, considered
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Evening star., 1934-03-16
Canada High Court
Orders Extradition
Of Martin insult
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO, March l6.-Martin J.
Insult, former Chicago utilities opera
tor and brother of Samuel insult, to-
day was ordered extradited to the
United States.
The gray-haired insult, who was
present for the court hearing, was i'm
mediately held in custody to await
the arrival of American authorities
to return him to the United States.
The order was passed by Chief
Justice Sir William Muiock on Insults
appeal from an extradition order
previously issued.
1t was regarded as ending Insults
fight against a return to Chicago to
face a trial on charges of embezzle-
ment and grand larceny.
17-Month Fight.
Martin insult started his legal bat
tie against extradition nearly IT
months ago. shortly after his arrest
in Orillia, Ontario. where ne was
found following the collapse of the
Insult Utilities
Sitting as an extradition commits
sioner. Justice A. C. livingstone found
the charges facing him in Illinois
constituted theft charges in Canada
and that he must go back to Cook
County where he stood indicted.
A motion was Immediately made
before Justice Charles Garrow for a
discharge from custody which would
have freed insult and left no legal
recourse for the United States au-
thorities. Justice Garrow refused to
grant the motion. however. insult
appealed. Pending the appeal Insults
bail. which had stood at $4,000. was
raised to $4,000 after Cook County
counsel had objected to the renewing
of the bonds.
Pending a decision in the last ap-
peal, Cook County made a new and
surprising move to have insult extra
dited on a fourth count. Damon C..
Woods, attached to the United States
consulate here, appeared before Jus
tice H. T. Kelly seeking a provisional
warrant for the arrest of insult to
answer an application for his extra
dition on charge of having COM
mitted an offense under the United
States bankruptcy act. 1t was refused
because the consulate was not repre-
sented by Ontario counsel.
Sir Williams judgment was short
and merely confirmed the extradition
order previously granted.
Back to Jail.
insult was taken to a back room of
the historic Osgoode Hall to await
transfer to the Jail from which his
transfer to Chicago is to be made.
In his Judgment, Chief Justice
Mulock said:
Our opinion is that a prima facie
case is established in regard to the
alleged theft of $344,720 and $50. 900"
Sir william asked If Martin insult
was on bail.
He is, my lord" answered j. G..
McRuer. insults counsel.
rs he in court?"
'Yes, my lord"
Then I presume he will surrender"
Sir William said.
"Yes. my lord"
insult was then remUved in custody.
Evening star., 1934-03-16
C. W. A. TRUCE FAILS;
STRIKES SPREADING
MANY in New York Communities
Join Protest on Pay
and Hours.
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, March l6 R).-
Truce efforts failing, Syracuse's c. w.
A. strike, begun yesterday, spread to
nearly all of the 30 outdoor projects
today, embracing more than 5000 Of
the 4,500 laborers on those jobs.
ROME, N. Y, March 16 N1.-C.
". A. workers began striking here
this morning in protest against what
they called starvation pay" The
city c. w. A. rolls carry 861 men.
The strikers, whose number was not
Immediately determined, showed di-
vision in opinion as to what they
would demand. Some wanted so cents
an hour and a 24-hour week. while
others were prepared to ask 40 cents
and a 30-hour week.
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 16stR.-
Two thousand c. w. A. workers
struck here today because their "a
hour week was ordered spread over
five days instead Of the three they
have been working
The men, employed in a stone
quarry, said the change would add to
their car fare and other expenses. A.
Hart Hopkins, c. W. A. director here,
said the shorter work day was ordered
to permit working double shifts, and
would make room for TOO more men.
Evening star., 1934-03-16
Capt. Cogs'ceu to Keep Post
As Register of Wills IN d. e..
President Decides Not
to Place JOB Under
Patronage Head.

President Roosevelt today decided
to retain Capt. Theodore Cogswell as
District register of wills instead of
giving the post to Mrs. Meta Fay of
Rochester. N. Y, an active Demo-
cratic worker In the Empire State
Mrs. Fay had been virtually decided
upon for this post. but when the
President was advised of the nature
Of the work Of the register Of wills,
who serves also as clerk of the Probate
Court of this city. and that the judges
Of the court had not been consulted,
he would not agree to a change in
this position by turning it into
political plum.
1t was said at the White House
that after studying the matter Presi-
dent Roosevelt had disapproved the
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Evening star., 1934-03-16
ANTI.FASCIST TRIO
ON TRIAL IN ROME
Accused of Plotting to Kill Mus
solini and to Bomb
Cathedral.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, March 16.-Three alleged
anti-Fascist terrorists, accused of
plotting to kill Mussolini with lethai
gas and of bombing St. Peters Cathe-
dral. went on trial today before the
special tribunal for the defense OF
the state.
If the prosecution sees fit. 1t may
demand the death sentence for them.
Execution by shooting in the back is
provided in such cases.
A fourth defendant is charged
merely with conspiracy. Formal ac-
cusations of organizing and financing
the attempts have been issued against
three others, but they are outside the
Jurisdiction Of the Italian authorities.
One Of these is the well-known
anti-Fascist writer, Gaetano Salve-
mini, who resided for several years
in America.
The group is alleged to have
planned to release against Mussolini
a gas so deadly that it would have
killed him Immediately had he
breathed it.
The prisoners are all Italians. They
are Leonardo Bucciglione, a former
employe of the Ministry of Public
Works: Renato Cianca and the latter's
son. Claudio. Pasquale Capasso, who
Is alleged to have furpished the gas
formula. is to be tried with them