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The Washington times., 1934-09-03

We have mentioned this fact
a number of times. We are
still receiving letters, some not
even mentioning the names Of
their sister or brother-Some
not giving the addresses, etc.
Please remember this in the fu-
ture.
We have a little note OF en-.
rollment here from Pete Blaine,
of 1868 Rosedale st. N. e. He
says:
please enroll me as a mem.
Der of your club. I am 8 years
DID," eve do not know his
birthday date, and he put his
address on the envelope. We
wish you would put the address
on your letters).
Barbara Chasen, Of 1925 U st.
S. E., wrote us for enrolment.
She sent us her girl friends ad-
dress instead Of her own, finally
she called up for enrolment.
We wish Barbara would tell us
her sisters name, too. She meE-
toned the fact that her sister
wanted to enroll. (May we hear
from you again, BarbaraD
Little Evelyn Gicker, of 1877
Eighth st. N. W., enrolled in the
club recently. She is 10 years
old, birthday October 26.
Evelyn says her sister, age 2
years, birthday April 18, and her
brother, age 5, birthday August
%. wishes to enroll, too. eve
are sorry to say that we cannot
send them membership cards
until we know their names. Eve.
lyn, get busy and send us the
full details.)
The other day we received
word that Joseph Hutchinson,
of 1913 Thirty-fifth st. N. W., is
very interested in The Times
Adventure Club, and please
make him a member. We re-
ceived q very attractive photo
Of Joseph which we are unable
to use-too blurred, taken with
his birthday cake.
He must have had a wonder.
full birthday celebration from
the looks of the cake-it was
beautiful, and was he laughing?
BIRTHDAYS TODAY
Five little members Of the
club celebrate their birthday
anniversaries today. They in
clude Irene Boswell, 1910 N st.
N. w.; Richard Towner, Cherry
dale, Va; Robert Moore, Upper
Marlboro, Md: Robert Andrew
Kraft, Seat Pleasant, Md, and
william Batch, 332 Seaton Place
N. E.
Best Wishes to you today.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
She Ruled the King

BARBARA DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND, WHO BOSsED KING
= CHARLES SECOND
The Los Saque, "Salc Law" forbade any
ascend the Throne in the days of the French Monarchy
When French King asked why ungalant law was
passed he replied MOST gaanty: eft would be unwise
alOUO any to rule in France because, uOith
uUO0n the throne might rule her and thus
rule France. With the throne, you may be
that uOU alUUays rule France, a good
thing for any country"
This lady, Barbara Duchess Of Cleveland sketch by
she famous artist Sir Peter Lely exhibited the British
Museum with other pictures will interest all and
men This Duchess Of Cleveland he sign the British
Museum puts bdly) the friend of King Charles
Second and the influence his Court from 1860
to 1874
Charles ruled England, having back after Cromwell
had chopped off the head of his father Charles the First and
then gone to his reward Duchess Barbara whom you
sbove ruled Charles The patriotic British drank to their
King and sang songs to him. not disturbed by the fact that
this unusual and quite pretty face their real king
Charles only the dummy.
This situation has been repeated in history many times
was repeated quite often in the of Charles the Second
with lady named Castlemane and Others much the dis
ess Of Charles beautiful young wife, daughter of the King
Of Portugal
That the custom then The Portuguese Ambassador to
London seeing the Queen weeping because her husband
Charles had taken his ladies into his chariot exclaimed
els that Uhy Your Majesty is sOeeping? Before God
8aGdans haze your father the King, take four
9sdSea into hie charsot ae one time"
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
Aspiration VS.. Ability

It may be that the reason you
have not met with more success
is that you aimed too high.
Probably you have over-em-
phasized the old adage, ''hitch
your wagon to a STAR; in other
words, set the highest possible
goal yourself.
Perhaps you have not given
the required consideration to
your own ability.
You can't reach a far-away
mark with a short-range gun.
And your ability may be of a
decidedly short range.
It is silly for you to believe
that you can do anything an
other person can achieve.
If you would realize how
limited are your capabilities, and
set your goal accordingly, you
would get more satisfaction out
OF life.
Your education and environ
ment, as well as your work-a-
day position in the wheel Of life,
have much to do with the at
tanning of your goal.
Aiming beyond what one can
do, and not being pleased with
anything else-perhaps refusal
to recognize another degree Of
Success-have ruined the lives
of many persons.
You might be a mighty, active
frog in a small puddle, and that
IS probably where you belong
like the majority Of us.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

lieve that all mothers are fine
mothers
Nor that even most mothers
are fine mothers.
To the contrary, I believe
that the profession of mother
hood is beset with as much
ignorance, carelessness, lazi-
ness, crookedness and down.
right graft as any other pro-
feSSion on earth.
And I am increasingly con-
v1nced that, under suffrage,
American motherhood. AS rs,
is a menace to this country.
Strong words! Yes - and
they'll cost me many an ad-
miring reader. For you can
criticize anything else On earth,
but you mustn't say a word
against the Modernw Mama.
But they are tfle words,
which should be said. And
just because motherhood to me
seems the highest of all callings
I'm going to say them. For
the sort Of motherhood we too
commonly see is a blot on the
profession.
No craft on earth calls for
more technical knowledge and
careful training than that of a
mother. But what actually
happens? The average mother
knows less about her job than
a Supreme Court judge knows
about toe-dancing.
BY some miraculous hocus-
pocus, a mother is supposed to
become automatically endowed
at the first birth pang with all
requisite wisdom and skill. .as
well as a Sanctified Character.
Henceforth, she is on a pedestal
for life. And there is no
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

mendous drama Of the present
situation. For it appears that
the eminent nine are divided as
sharply as their number can be
divided. It appears that five Of
their number are willing to go
along with the President as long
as the present emergency exists,
and no longer, while four of the
nine lack sympathy for the
Presidents revolutionary poll
cies and would halt them-or
some of them-if they had the
power.
On two occasions, up to the
present time, interests in oppo-
sition to the New Deal have
taken their case to the Supreme
Court. The first was the Min.
neSota moratorium case, when
the court voted five to four to
uphold the State law which had
suspended the payment OF prin-
cipal and interest on home
mortgages.
The second case the court,
again by a vote of five to four,
decided that the State Of New
York has a right to fix the
price Of milk, and that produc-
ers Of milk must sell at the
price fixed by the State in the
interests Of the common well
fare.
Two victories for the New
Deal and probably an indica-
ton Of how the Supreme Court
will act in the future, when
other tests arise.
In the Minnesota mortgage
case Chief Justice Hughes, with
Associate Justices Stone, Bran
deiS, Cardozo and Roberts took
the liberal view. Justices Suth-
erland, McReynolds, Van Devan'
ter and Butler dissented. In the
New York Milk Case, the lineup
was exactly the same.
We have, therefore, in the
first two test cases under the
New Deal, a division of the
court into two groups, of what
might be referred to as five lib
erals and four conservatives
five judges willing to go along
with the President and back
him by the terrific force of
their favorable Interpretation
Of the Constitution as long as
an emergency exists-and even
the five liberals have made that
very plain and four judges
who seem to look askance at all
these revolutionary moves and
who make no bones about call
ing them unreasonable, who
even use such hard words as
anarchy" and "despotism."
Whatever the court in its
wisdom may decide, that dec1-
sion will have the force of law
and will be obeyed, for the
court and the Constitution it in
terprets, remains. after las
years the granite foundation OF
the nation.
feopyright 1894. King Features
syndicate, Inca
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
Local Government Problems
Have Been Neglected
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Had the people tackled this
vital problem of county and local
government in the years follow
ing the great war, they could
have forced their legislature to
take the lead before the de.
preston came in undermining
these units of government within
the several States.
Had the women voters cele-.
brated their enfranchisement by
concentrating their efforts upon
the undermining of county gov.
ernment, they could have been
the decisive factor in the solu-
ton of this problem years ago.
But alien propagandists and
their domestic dupes have di.
verted the attention of millions
of Americans in the years since
the great war to old world poll
tics.
President Warns
A a result, the neighborhood
problem of county and local
government have been neglect
ed in State after State, while
organizations were being form
ed for the purpose of tempting
the American people to NEEDLE
in the political quarrels of other
nations.
With the coming of the de.
preston, however, there has
come also a new concentration
on the political problems of our
own country.
The necessity Of finding
money to pay increasing taxes
is opening the eyes of the peo-
pie in State after State to the
opportunity and the challenge
which Mr.. Roosevelt vividly out
lined soon after his election to
the presidency, in these words:
"We have system of county
government vhose general form
and structure is no more fit for
its purpose than an OK cart
sOould Be for the task Of sup
plying modern transportation
between New York and Chi
cGgo."
Mr.. Roosevelt was speaking
at the time Of county govern
ment in the State of New York
but he added this admonition,
regarding the same problem in
other States:
"Other States are hompered
and harrassed in the conduct
of their affairs of government
by the same or similar archaic,
espensiOe and GUasteful forms
of local government"
And the more the people are
hampered and harrassed by
this obsolete system the more
emphatic will grow their de-
mand that the yoke of OK cart
government be lifted from their
necks.
Copyright, 1894, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
ONCE OVERS

Virtue Is Its Own Reward
Often you feel that you are
not appreciated as you should
be.
You think that you have
not received the recognition to
which you are entitled, for
public or charitable work you
have done.
Members of your churches
and lodges do not give you the
credit that is warranted by
your efforts.
You are displeased because
you are not complimented at
your place Of business.
If your activities in the lines
mentioned are the result of
desire for praise, you don't
deserve commendation.
Too many persons are char
liable only because they want
a certain amount Of appreciar
ton for their efforts.
Perhaps it's just as well that
they have some incentive to be
generous or they might be in
active along such lines.
You are losing much if the
only satisfaction you have for
your work, in charitable, civic
and church work, is praise.
No good work is really un-
noticed; you should get your
comfort out Of your personal
Selfsatisfaction.
That is ample reward
-kCopyright, 1884. King Features
syndicate. Inca
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
County government is the dark
continent of American politics
Professor Monro

&TOgCSSV MOITO
All over this country today
the people are being fleeced by
their politicians to pay for the
upkeep Of an out-of-date system
OF county government.
That the people are getting
weary Of this burden seems to
be clear from a recent survey.
This survey shows that the de-
mand for the undermining of our
system of county government,
by abolishing the county unit in
metropolitan areas and by con-
solidating counties in other
areas, is growing in State after
State.
Its growth is due to a number
Of factors. The depression has
made the people tax-conscious.
Many counties have lost popu-
lation to the cities and towns.
Inability to pay taxes has in
creased the tax burden in rural
sections.
And the more the people are
compelled by circumstances be-
yond their control to study the
problem, the more clearly they
see the need for bringing the
whole system of county govern
ment up-to-datH.
Obsolete System
The reasons why so many
counties are no longer necessary
have seen clearly given by Prof.
Thomas H. Reed, of the Univer-
sity of Michigan. This authority
in an article widely circulated
by a magazine devoted to prob
lens Of State government says:
Modern means of tr0nspor-
t0tiOn have made obsolete the
traditional areas of local gov-
ernnent. City, county, town-
ship, school district-Qu once
UeTe areas practically adapted
to the needs of government.
"The size of the school dis
trict Wds determined by the
ability of small children to
wade through mud and snow-
banks. The totOn or township
represented a convenient area
for adult neighborhood yelG-
tionships.
"The county-the unit through
which the State provides for
elections, highways, justice and
for the assessment and col
lection of t0ees-W0s so laid
out that farmer could driUe
in q buggy or blackboard from,
farm to courthouse and return
between morning and eVening
chores.
eth: city w0s a compact
bui.:-up area in Which the serU-
ices required by an urban pop
ulation could be readily sup
Piled"
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

crime on earth mora sordid
than lack of reverence for a
Mother.
THIS rs PIFFLE-AND
NOTHING BUT! Mothers must
achieve sense and stamina by
exactly the same slow, plugging
methods which other humans
use. Birth pangs have no more
power to endow a female with
wisdom than have bunions,
hives, varicose veins or fallen
arches. Nor do they leave the
slightest dent on the character.
If you're a Feevish Pinhead
before the little darling is born,
you're a Peevish Pinhead after.
And no more entitled to medals
than any other Peevish Pin
head.
Yet, though these facts are
obvious to the simplest intelli-
gence, society, en- masse, rejects
them with scorn. Probably be-
cause society, en- masse, was
raised by Mama. And all too
often, Mama makes a racket of
her job. Beginning with this
business Of birth pangs "a
most disagreeable business, to
be sure, but not, in the long
run, any more painful, dreary
or even dangerous than the
arduous job Of supporting the
baby after it comes.
I have borne a child, sup
ported children, and shall al
ways maintain
THE HAND THAT ROCKS
THE CRADLE HAS NOTHING
ON THE FIST THAT BRINGS
HOME THE BACON.
1t requires just as much cour.
age and conservation to be a
good father as it does to be a
good mother. And-feminine
propaganda to the contrary
it's as tough on the nerves.
Only y Mother takes hers in con.
centrated doses, over a few
years. While Dad is still try
ing to pay off the second mort.
gage when he dies.
These facts, however, are pish.
tushed, If not entirely denied, by
most mothers. Mothers, for
some strange reasons, think that
baby belongs to THEM. BUT
ANY FATHER WHO SUP.
PORTS A CHILD HAS AS
GREAT AN EQUITY IN TT AS
THE MOTHER WHO BEARS
TT.
This discussion would seem to
be a matter for Nom and Dad
to Wrangle out between them.
But unfortunately, it has far
graver implications. The i'm.
portance Of a GOOD mother
has always been beyond reckon.
ing, but of recent years, since
they got the vogue, ALL moth.
ers-some Of them heels of the
worst order-have acquired in
credible power. Editors are in
awe u G4Ae11ls Judges tremble
before them.
When it comes to- potential
deadl1nes, Mama'S Tears make
INT look like sweet butter. AS
consequence, poor old Dad
hasn't Chinaman's chance, in
most courts, before an outraged
Mother.
All of which makes most of
us deluded females think we're
sitting pretty. But I'm telling
you, S1sters-WELL REGRET
TT SOME DAY! We can't get
by on our sob record forever.
Sooner or later they'll make us
observe a code!
Ncopyright 1s54, King Features
syndicstes Inca
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
The Human Side of the News
U. S. Supreme Court Holds New Deal Fate
By Edvir1 C.. Hill

For one year the attention Of
the people of the United States
has been riveted upon one per-
sonality, the President, to the
exclusion, almost literally, Of
any other personality or group
Of personalities. The reasons
for this intense concentration
of the popular mind on the
Chief Executive are too obvious
and well understood to need
much explanation or analysis.
For he took hold at a time
when the country was we'll
nigh in the depths of despond.
Almost instantly, by the force
Of his courage, daring, re-
sourcefulness and undismayed
cheerfulness, he brought about
a change in the public psychol"
ogy which was nothing less
than miraculous.
And, throughout the year,
with one bold stroke after an
other, he has endeavored, in a
course of experiments which
brushed aside or overturned
many of the established Gus
SONS and principles of our
financial structure, of our in
dustrial and social order, to re-
pair the wreck of 1929 and to
restore a stable basis of pros
perity.
There can be no question
whatever, that he has made
progress in his bold and dar-
ing experiments. Unemploy-
ment has certainly been re-
duced by as many persons, we
are told, as four millions.
Gains Made
It is much too soon to deter
mine whether the Roosevelt
New Deal, originated and car.
ried on at a cost already Of
some 10 billions of dollars, is in
deed a permanently successful
social and economic revolution.
But gains have been made, and
that, in itself, is enough to set
the President on a lofty pedes-
tai of public regard-a man
apart.
His popularity and eminence
are such that we are apt to
overlook the fact that the real
rulers Of the United States are
nine elderly gentlemen who sit
in a stuffy courtroom in the
City of Washington, five days a
week, from noon until 4::30
p. M, with half an hours recess
for luncheon.
The President has created the
machine and put it in motion.
But only the Chief Justice Of
the Supreme Court and his eight
Associate Justices can save the
machine from being dismantled,
piece by piece. For they alone
are the interpreters Of the Fed
eral Constitution and the law.
That. exactly, creates the tre-
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

It's real, genuine, authentic
love, if the man loves the wom-
an in spite of the fact that she
has extra-size feet or hips, and
the woman loves him in spite
of the fact that he has only a
half-size earning capacity.
If the colleges really CAN
teach courses in love, marriage
and humor especially HUMOR
then there is nothing left
that they can't claim to teach
except how to be born a poet
or an It-girl.
Somehow, a man doesn't
kick at paying the wages Of his
youthful sins. But the heavy
price he has to pay for his
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
WISEWORDS

Men have died from time to
time, and worms have eaten
them, but not for love.-Shake-
Speare.
Our care should not be so
much to live long, as to live
well.-Seneca
Life, like a dome of many col.
ored glass, stains the white radi-
ance Of eternity.-Shelley.
Novelty is the great parent of
pleasure.-South.
Set all things in their own
peculiar place, and know that
order is the greatest grace
Dryden.
A cracked bell can never sound
well
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

the most ma
t ural and
should be the
most beauti-
full and prof
liable career
for women.
I also be-
lieve that a
fine mother
W i e ! dS a
power SeCOOQ
to none on
earth. Hers is
truly a holy
life.
BUT
r 6Nn't ha.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

Motherhood Is Becoming q
Racket
I am a mother.
I believe in motherhood.
I believe that motherhood is
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
Wives-And Ex-Wives

times like these: but falling in
love is Mother Natures favorite
spring tonic and rejuvenator
for the Soul with "that tired
feeling"
A woman could bear with
her husbands little failingS so
much better if he would only
pretend to worry about them,
instead of appearing to be
secretly sort of set up about
them.
1.-TWO wrongs never made a
right"-but lots of modern
girls seem to think that it
takes at least a couple Of
ex.husbands Cor two wrong
matrimonial guesses) to give
any woman the glamour of a
successful marrying woman"
When a woman finds herself
"free," at last, from an un-
happy marriage, instead Of
feeling happy, she usually feels
so lost and aimless that she
starts looking around for an
other husband to help her be-
gin suffering" all over again.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
Major Operation Needed
Mcleod Bill Would Perform It

s.. Mcleod Bill Would Perform It
Nothing less than major operation contemplated in the
Mcleod bill will wipe out the unhealthy growth Of frozen bank
deposits-a growth which pepuay eating away national
economic recovery.
This country in the last year has attempted many minor
operations designed to alleviate the condition.
Not one of them has been effective large enough
meet the situation.
We have many bites the cherry but the cherry is
sil there.
THIS MATTER OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LYING IDLE
IN CLOSED BANKING INSTITUTIONS CANNOT BE
HANDLED WITH D1B HERE AND DAB THERE
:, IT MUST BE GONE INTO COMPLETELY THOROUGHLY
AND PROMPTLY, FOR THE GOOD NOT ONLY OF THE MIS-
GUIDED MEN AND WOMEN WHO LEFT THEIR MONEY
EN- THE BANKS, BUT FOR THE WELFARE OF THE EN-
TIRE COUNTRY.
The bill Of Representative Clarence Mcleod Of Michigan
envages just the wholesale treatment of the subject which is
essential to success
At fell swoop that bill would wipe out the present cond
on lift deadening weight off all the markets Of the country
and restore to the ranks Of the purchasing army about ten mil
lions Of our citizens.
The Mcleod bill is simplicity ITSELF It would replace the
present ineffective gestures with practicable workable plan
Under the Government would buy the assets of the closed
banks pay off the depostors and then period of years
qudate the assets thus recoupng the original expenditure
THE MCLEOD PLAN WOULD ELIMINATE THE EXPEN-
sIvK AND DANGEROUS RECEIvERsH1Ps.
IT WOULD WIPE OUT THE TERROR OF THE MAssED
ASSETS.
IT WOULD PROMOTE RECOVERY AS NO OTHER MEAS
uRE CAN.
THE BILL SHOULD AND MUST BE PROMPTLY EN-
ACTED INTO LAW.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

A spinster's sorrows may be
as great as a wife's-but they
are the kind that she can for
get at the movies, without hav-
ing to hustle home before the
end of the reel, to see that
they get hot dinner.
Copyright, 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

TH WASHINGTON the
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-08-07
NO THREE
A JOINT RES(1f.fJTION


A Joint Resolution PROPOSING the
Amendment of Article XIX of the
Constitution Of Florida, Relating
to Prohibition.
Be Ia Resolved by the Legislature
tbf the state of Ff0rista,
THAT Article NIX Of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Florida he, and
the same is hereby amended SO as
10 read as follows:
ARTICLE XIX
Section I Is The Board Of County
commissioners Of each County In
the State, not oftener than once in
every two years. upon the applica-
tion of one-fourth of the Registered
voters of any County, shall call
and provide for an election in the
County in which application is
made, to decide whether the sale of
Intoxicating liquors, wines or beer
shall be prohibited therein. the
question to be determined by a ma
iority of those voting at the cleo
ton called under this section,
which election shall he conducted
I'm the manner prescribed by law for
holding general elections. Elections
under this Section shall he held
within sixty days, from the time Of
presenting said application, but If
any such election should thereby
take place within sixty days OF any
state or National ei&Eticn, or pri-