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The Washington times., 1934-04-20
By Elsie Robinson

here's medicine for what ails
you. Go to your nearest book
store. Get that little book.
Read things like this:
"Get over the idea that sue
cess is due to a mysterious
quality that some men have and
others have not. SUCCESS IS
MADE UP OF SIMPLE THINGS
the simple things that most
men don't do"
"There is little difference be-
tween the men who make more
money and the men who make
less. In thousands of cases, this
difference can be overcome and
the maker of less can become
the maker of more-and not
work any harder than he did
before. Sometimes not so hard.
Men are rather like auto
mobiles. Take two cars off the
assembly line at any factory.
and one can be made to run
much better than the other by
a few simple adjustments. These
adjustments ara KNOWN to
everybody; almost anybody can
make them. BUT MAKING
THEM IS WHAT COUNTS.
Even though everyone KNOWS
about them, no good is done
unless the adjustments are
MADE"
"rr ISN'T WHAT YOU
KNOW BUT WHAT YOU DO
THAT COUNTS"
MOST MEN ARE A LOT
BETTER MEN THAN THEY
THINK THEY ARE. Once they
get under way, they are sur
prised to find how good they
really are. LUCK IS NOT A
FACTOR. Sometimes it seems
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to be, but it isn't. over long
haul, bad luck will balance good
luck. The law of averages al
ways wins. The man who
grabbed a tumble and made a
touchdown may have seemed
lucky, BUT HE HAD TO BE
THERE, AND BEING THERE
WAS NO ACCIDENT"
Why aren't we always there
when there's a ball to be
grabbed? Ray Sherman gives
some of the reasons. And should
YOUR face be red!
HERE IS ONE OF THE
MOST APPALLING FACTS
CONCERNING THE AMERI-
CAN PEOPLE: After they quit
school, most Of them don't do a
single thing that constitutes
real mental exercise! They de-
test anything that is study.
MENTALLY THEY WON'T
WORK.
"And a further lamentable
1acC is CnaC many OF CneSe peO"
pie who have NOT done any.
thing as hard and disciplining
as they did in school, THINK
they have. IF YOU ACCUSED
THEM OF BEING MENTAL
SLUGGARDS, THEY WOULD
BE OFFENDED"
Why aren't YOU getting
ahead with yourself, getting
ahead in life? Is it because
"the -ystem'S rotten"-because
you've never had the breaks?
Or does the answer, maybe, lie
in your own lazineSS, your own
cowardice, Stiffness and conceit?
Read that book. Then take
vote on yourself.
Copyright. 1884 King Features
GyndicaGA Ina
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think that is an admirable
goal, it's a cinch you'll never
arrive there by following the
usual Success Directions. They
are not only ga-ga, but they
are also daggoned lies.
Which is all the more appal-
ling in view Of the fact that
most Of us are Feeling Sunk,
and would give our eye teeth to
find mething. somewhere,
which would put a little bustl-
ing hope back into our empty
hearts, and some practical
punch into our listleSS fists.
AND, BIGOLLY, I'VE FOUND
IT!
In . slim little book called
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LISTEN WORLD

"IF YOU WANT TO GET
AHEAD" by Ray w. Sherman:
Little, Brown g. Co., publishers.
Here, at last, is a success
book that isn't a philosophy
for swine-typographical lard.
It's a book about getting
ahead-but NOT getting ahead
to two tuxedoS and a private
yacht. It's a book about GET
TING AHEAD WITH YOUR
SELF. Do that, stranger, and
you won't have to worry about
dividends!
And thank heavens, it's as
plain as a bowl Of mush. No
big business tricks. No mumbo
jumbo psychological technique.
Common talk to common people
about the things that mean life
AND MAY MEAN HEALTH
AND HAPPINESS-for us all.
Simple sense, which the slowest
soul can use.
BUT IT'S THE SORT OF
SIMPLE SENSE ON WHICH
AMERICA WAS FOUNDED.
IT'S THE SORT OF SIMPLE
SENSE THAT CREATED
AMERICAN STANDARDS OF
DECENCY AND FAIR PLAY.
IT'S THE SORT OF SIMPLE
SENSE THAT MAY YET SAVE
A WORLD GONE MAD WITH
GREED-A NATION THAT,
FOR THE LAST THIRTY
YEARS, HAS LIVED IN A
PIPE DREAM, FOLLOWING
THE WILLO'-THE-WISP OF
SUCCESS OVER THE NIGHT
MARE MARSHES OF DIS
ILLUSION.
And so, If you're muddled and
miserable. feeling you're . flon
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of Closed Bank Assets Merely Pallatiu

FICULTY AND SHOULD IN NO WISE BE CON-
sTRUED AS OBvIATING THE NECESSITY OF
DEALING WITH THE CLOSED BANK PROBLEM
IN THE MANNER PROPOSED BY REPRESENTA-
TIVE CLARENCE j, MCLEOD OF MICHIGAN.
This reappraisal, with possible liberalization of
loan policies is recognition by the Government of the
fact that has not done it's duty by the ten million
and women who thought that the Government knew
what it talking about when it urged them to leave
their savings in the banks.
In ordering this reappraisal the administrative Of
cers of the Government have given supporters of the
Mcleod bill the clinchng argument which should put
that measure through Congress.
The order admits the truth of the contention which
the Mcleod bill supporters have made right along that
existing agencies and existing legislation have not met
the desperate situation Of the deposors adequately
But this order proposes merely another bite at the
cherry.
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The Government has been biting at the cherry long
enough
It is time that it was swallowed completely.
That is what Representative Mcleod proposes in his
100 per cent pay-off bill.
THE BILL PROPOSES THAT THE AFFAIRS OF
THESE DEFUNCT BANKING INSTITUTIONS
WHICH WERE KEPT ALIVE TOO LONG BY GOV
ERNMENTAL CONNIVANCE-SHALL BE WOUND
UP IN ONE COMPREHENSIVE ACTION.
IT PROPOSES THE ELIMINATION OF THE
COSTLY RECEIVERSHIPs THE REMOVAL FROM
THE MARKETS OF AMERICA OF THE SPECTER
OF ASSET DUMPING, THE IMMEDIATE ADDI-
TION TO THE PURCHASING POWER OF THE
MASSES OF MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND MIL
LION DOLLARS.
By one stroke it proposes to say the incubus which
is retarding recovery.
That is much better than piddling around while the
remaining assets of the closed banks dissipated
through forced sales and the expenses of recevershps
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Human Side of the News
Edgar B. Davis Makes Fortunes-Superstitions
By EdWin C.. Hill

The greatest football player
that Brockton, Massachusetts,
ever saw, and the most patient
angel that ever backed a show
on Broadway, has struck oil
again. Dispatches from Texas
tell us Of new millions for six
foot. two hundred and forty
pound, good-natured and deter
mined Edgar B. Davis.
He's q rare personality, this
big man from Brockton, where
he peddled papers and lemon
ade as a boy. He worked so
hard in the show business that
he had to go to sea for his
health.
In far-off Sumatra came the
simple idea that made him a
millionaire. Sumatra grows rub
ber trees. But they grow too
thickly for good production.
Edgar Davis sold to the U. S.
Rubber Company the big idea
of thinning out the trees.
In five years he was in the
Texas oil fields with a fortune
Of two million dollars. The
geologistS told him he was fool
ish to try for oil in a certain
field. He waved them aside.
To him there was a Power
wiser than all the wise men
of the rocks. Providence had
moved him to bore for oil in
the Luling Field.
Act of Providence
He bored and bored. His
two million melted away. The
banks were ready to foreclose.
He was almost ready to give
up. He started to the field to
call off his men. On the way.
a tire Of his car blew out. And
while he was fixing the tire his
men at the field brought in a
1O,000-barrel guSher. what
else was that" asked Davis,
''but an act Of Providence?"
This expansive, jovial six
footer was a rather narrow
sectarian in his younger days,
but travel and the experience
of life broadened him. He de-
lights in doing things for his
friends and giving people a
good time. When he sold his
Luling fields to Magnolia Pc
troleum for twelve million dol
lars, he distributed two million
among $50 employees and gave
a barbecue for 10000 people
the biggest party ever thrown.
To park the cars Of his guests
he had to buy the corn crop
from a hundred-acre field.
Six years ago, he astounded
New York by continuing to
back a show to which critics
and the public had manifested
utter indifference. It was a
desire to help out a boyhood
friend who had written the
play, that prompted him to
stand by it month after month,
filling the theater with passes,
until he had sunk $1,300,O00 in
the hopeless piece called THE
Ladder"
It was love for his old home
town which prompted him, last
winter, to pledge his fortune to
uphold a bank in which he had
no financial interest. That's
the kind Of man he is, this
kindly bachelor who spreads
good cheer, plays the piano
quite well, takes keen delight
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} IN such little KlndneSSeS as
bringing the old neighborhood
newsstand dealer to New York
with him to see the World
Series, and who believes that
the Lord will provide.
Daniel Frohman, dean of
American theatrical producers
and older brother of Charles
F'rohman, who went down with
the Lusitania, has just turned
80. But he is as spry and as
carefully dressed and as spruce
as a young fellow. You ought
to see "Uncle Dan" dance the
rumba to the tuba down in
Cuba! Nobody has a greater
lore of the stage than Daniel
Frohman, or a more wonderful
collection of its photographs
and souvenirs. He was telling
me the other day about the
strange superstitions of the the
ater-oddities of his personal
experience with actors and
actresses.
Theater Oddities
Fridays and Saturdays are
considered the bad luck days
Of the week. That is why most
openings take place on Mon
days or Tuesdays. To laugh
outright at rehearsals is the
worst kind of luck.
Humming or singing is all
right in a dressing room or back
stage, but whistling-neVer! It's
certain bad luck to put a shoe
on a dressing table, and if a cat
jumps upon the table, good
night! No sane actor or actress
will wear overshoes into his or
her dressing room. They must
be taken off at the stage door.
If an actor dies, notice must
go on the bulletin board at once,
saying that the show is closing,
even if all hands know that an
underStudy will play the part,
and that the run is to continue.
If the notice isn't posted, the
understudy will die sure. A pea
cock dress, or a peacock fan, is
the blackeSt kind Of luck. No
real lady trouper would ever
wear one.
Florenz Ziegfeld, Follies king
carried a jade elephant for good
luck and covered the desk with
good luck elephants in ivory,
silver, jade and bronze. George
M. Cohan wouldn't dream Of
writing a play unless he used
yellow pencil upon yellow paper.
The Marx Brothers sign all con-
tracts in green because green is
their good-luck color.
Eugene O'Neill, whose Mourn.
ing Becomes Electra" has been
one of the few hits of a slow
season, believes it is bad luck to
attend the opening night Of one
Of his plays.
Robert Emmett Sherwood,
when one of his new plays
opens, goes to the movies.
Fannie Brice won't dress in the
mornings until the bed is made.
And John Barrymore carries
rabbits foot given to him years
ago by his late uncle. John
Drew. asked Uncle Dan Froh-
man what he thought was the
best kind of luck. Money in
the bank" said Uncle Dan
quickly.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-04-20

Well, what OF
It? Is that,
I ask you,
an ad m ir
able goal for
g u y S W h o
once fought
Indians and
dug a nation
out Of a will
d e r ness on
t h e ir own
pit q n d
sweat?
And in the
second place,
even if you
b a D pc IN to
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ONCE OVERS

Try a little social work and
you will find that those who
have scarcely enough to eat
and wear are often the most
generous souls in the world.
If the spirit they display
might be shared with those
who are better off, there would
be less suffering.
The money you spend fool
ishly and needlessly would
bring happiness and comfort
to some pennileSs families.
You, with a steady income,
complaining because you are
requested to buy tickets for
charitable purposes. Shame on
you!
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-04-20

He who will fight the devil
with his own weapons, must not
wonder If he finds him an
overmatch.-South.
Happy Is the man who is
skilled in tracing effects up to
their causes.
Put not your trust in money,
but put your money in trust.
Holmes.
A wise man should have money
in his head, but not in his heart.
Swift
The Washington times., 1934-04-20

AS Vice President Of the
United States Mr.. Garner is
charged by the Federal Consti-
tuition with the duty of presiding
over the sessions Of the Senate.
As President of the Senate he
has no vote excepting a casting
vote when there is a tie vote
on a pending proposal. Even
then it is the Vice Presidents
privilege either to break the tie
by voting in the affirmative or
Of withholding his vote, in
which case the motion is lost.
But the Vice President showed
no hesitancy about exercising
his rare privilege of voting when
q motion Of Senator Borah of
Idaho to take up his bill to
prohibit Senators and Repre-
Sentatives in Congress from act
ing as attorneys where the
United States has an interest in
the case. The vote on this
motion was a tie. Mr.. Garner's
vote broke the tie and brought
up the bill. But as this occurred
in the morning hour" the bill
was laid aside when two o'clock
came and the regular business
before the Senate replaced the
Borah bill.
Courage Rewarded
Sooner or later the Borah bill
will become a law and the
courage shown by Vice Presi-
dent Garner in bringing it be-
fore the Senate will be rewarded.
The Borah bill was recently re-
ported favorably to the Senate
from the Committee on the
Judiciary Of which Senator
Norris Of Nebraska is chairman.
It provides:
That no Senator or Repre-
sentative or Delegate in Con-
gress shall receive any compen-
Sation whatever, directly or in
directly, for any services rem.
dered to any person, corporation
or association, either by him.
self or another in relation to
any proceeding, contract, claim,
controversy, charge, accusation,
arrest or other matter or thing
in which the United States as a
party is directly or indirectly in
terested before any court what
ever.
During the administration Of
the first President Roosevelt a
United States Senator from a
Middle Western State was sent
to jail for practicing before one
Of the executive departments
while a Senator in Congress.
The theory of the statute under
which he was punished is the
theory upon which Vice Presi-
dent Garner. and the Committee
on the Judiciary favor the ex-
tension of the rule to all gov
ernmental agencies, as provided
for in the Borah bill.
The theory is that mo man
can serve two masters" Con-
sequently, no Senator can serve
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"It Is More Blessed to Give"

"Tt Is More Blessed to Give"
You object to the number
Of times you are requested to
buy tickets for charitable af-
fairs.
Nearly every day someone
offers you a ticket of some
kind.
If you are employed at this
time, you should make it a
part Of your rule to assist in
relieving the distress Of those
less fortunate.
Those who are in most mod.
crate circumstances are usually
most generous to those worse
off than themselves.
II you have more than most
people you should get rid Of
your niggardly ways.
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WORDS OF WISE MEN

When i'll news comes too late
to be serviceable to your neigh
Dor, keep it to yourSelf.-zim-
norman.
A fool, in spite Of natures
bent, may shine for once-oy
accident.-Yriarte.
Any man may make mis-.
take; but none but a fool Will
stick to it.-Cicero.
Narrow minds think nothing
right that is above their own
capacity-La RochetoucauId.
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''If YOu Want to

''If You Want to Get Ahead"
The usual Success Book gives
me a severe pain in the neck.
In the first place. the brand
Of Success it advocates is all
eye-wash. A lot of money. Two
tuxedos. Maybe a steam yacht.
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sails March on Big Firms

4 RDINARILY the little compa-
u nics do not speak out on i'm
re- ont problems such as the wage
qUc5tiCn. In past years they had
been in the habit of taking their
cues in such matters from the rec
Cgnized leaders. In the present in
stance. according to the dope, -
April l had been selected as the eff
fective date for an increase, but
apparently the wires became crossed
or something, and the Cleveland
concern stepped out in advance of
the parade. Under the new deal it
may not be an easy matter to slap
it down for having done so, assum-
ing. Of course. that the big COM
Panies have anything of that sort in
mind.
Such consideration as the steel
CO panies are giving to the wages
C their workers at this time un-
CT )tedly is predicated on a desire
II keep reasonable control over
their men Most of the steel plants
are operated on an open-shop basis
and it is more or less open seer ct
that no love is lost between the big
companies and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. The men are per-
mitted to accept overtureS of the big
union under the national recovery
act, but it may be argued that they
might not be so likely to fall under
its spell if a voluntary wage in
crease is forthcoming
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On Commission Row
81
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FRUITS
ApplesmNew York Baldy in fancy; 81 60
orangss-california sunkist. ss.25@4:
Plogridasna s3sgS.25. Lemons-sunkist. $3.50;
Grapefruit.. Arizona seedless sOs. s2.75@
awberries-F1orida, pint. 1sc; Sept.
MeionsEArgentina Honeydews s2.75.
Calavos. $3.50 per box.
Bananas-Per pound 5 cents.
Cabbage-New Texas. sl.25 per half
i FSa Esa s saso@ PsT hamper crate
mammoth bunch 75c: medium bunch, 45c:
hearts, dozen bunch. Sl.35.
0nions-Indiana yellow. 5o-lb. bag. s1.S5;
Potatoes-Northern round white. 1oo-lb.
bag. 50: Red River Ohios, $500: Maine
Green Mountain S2.50: Colorado McClures.
S ,gGE. ldah0 Russets S22s Wyoming Tri-
umphs. SAILS.
Sweet Potatoes-Indiana JERSEYS. per
bushel 50; Porto Ricans. sle0.
california select. crate. 50 IS
Beans Round. stringless. s30s.75:
Bsets~New Texas. dozen crate. 50;
Carrots-California dozen crate. s2.7s:
bulk new. 81 40: bulk old. s175.
CauNflower-California S26225.
cueumberS-Hot house per dozen, sl.2
Peas-3s-ib. hamper s2.25.
dozen; long white; soc per dozen.
Tomatoes-Repacked. 10 10 carton.
si25: selected, cefoDhane wrapped $50:
original Florida. Id. lug. s2.so.
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latter are finding it difficult to keep
their heads above water even though
the are working at fair rate Of
ca city. United States Steel lost
a--It S43,O0000O last year, and
/ l'ehem took it on the chin for
e 1T f6.0'0O00. A 10 per cent wage
i'C 7ase, it is estimated would add
e -,y &1.30 a ton to the average cost
G. oiCcng finishc steel.
nat serious consideration is be-
ing given by the big companies to
thu Wage-increase question is indi-
ca 1 by the fact that after the
United States Steel Corporation'S
d. ctOrs' meeting earlier this week,
j. ~. Morgan and his righthand
man, Thomas w. Lamont, remained
c.oseted with Myron c. Taylor for
half hour after other direc-
tors had left. On their way out Mr..
Lamont was asked whether any &C
ton had been taken regarding
va~cS. He referred the questioner
to r. Ta~l0r who beat a haSty re-
t-c- back into his offices.
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than to take back into its own
hands and then clarity the basic
policies of the act.
There is a third category in the
recent legislation which is radically
different from the other two. 1t
is best represented by the securities
act, in some degree by the bank
ing BILL and the Stock Exchange
bill, at least in its earlier form.
But because it was passed by the
same majorities which passed the
other laws, and in the some political
atmosphere, it seems at first sight
as if it were of the same type. But.
in fact, the essential principle of
these laws is that they are more or
less infleXible statutes in which con-
gress attempts by specific rules to
outlaw all manner of financial abuse.
The only way in which they really
resemble the other emergency laws
is that they also we're enacted in
hurry. But they are meant to be
permanent. They deal with a very
complicated business. They are
highly infexible.
One can justify the delegation of
vast powers for an emergency. One
can justify the delegation of con-
siderable powers for a permanent
reform. But hurried legislation for
a complex matter. which is perma-
nent and inf1exible, is hard to JUS
tify and is bound to be trouble
some. 1t is doubtful whether con-
gress could regulate by statute the
whole investment machinery of the
United States if it took plenty of
time to work out the statute.
1t is certain that it can not regu-
late it by hurried legislation which
fixes permanent and infexibIe rules.
That is why this group of laws
ought to be amended until. it is
clear that enough power has been
delegated to reliable and independ-
ent authorities to make them work.
able in practice
COPYRIGHT 1924
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Produce Markets

Delivered in Indianapolis Prices-Hens,
lie. Leghorn hens. Sc Leghorn spring
er-StasS, &C; large springer-stags &C:
cocks. SC: Leghorn cocks &c: ducks full
feathered and fat. Az lbs and over &c
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BY United Press
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lss420c. Plymouth Rock broilers, 2ic;
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81 So burlap sacks, $40. New stock-No
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