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TALLEYRAND AND TAXATION

Talleyrand thought, of the power, Of taxation as
being more than brutal process of government
by which it bound and gagged its subjects and
riAed their pockets for its luxurious upkeep.
He thought it was an, art-an art, he said "of
plucking the goose that makes the least ouack."
He should be living at this hour to see how far
beyond his conception of art this business of tax
ing people has been carried.
He would, discover at once that no matter how
delicate the operation may be handled now how
ingenious the surgeons of state are in this field,
there is no such thing left as quackless proce-
dure.
/ The old goose has been suffering so long and in
so many spots from the rugged and vicious pluck.
ing of its feathers that it quaeks now if it no more
than hears that taxing board is soon to meet
Julian s. Miller in Charlotte Observer.
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OLD AGE PENSION
By WlCKES WAMBOLDT.

become decidedly bad form even
to mention such a notion. The
most popular class Of persons in
the United States would be those
Of sixty or more.
Men who are now dyeing their
hair to make them Loo: young,
snuffing ginger up their nostrils
to make them prance to hold their
Jobs and whose ages as recorded
on application blanks, indicate
they ere somewhere around fifty
five, could draw great Gighs of re-
lie, and admit gratefully that
they had been stalling about ten
years worth as regards their
ages.
All the fear and the worry
about what is to become Of one at
sixty and after would vanish like
the fog Of the night before the
rays Of the rising sun. Instead OF
dreading old age, its approach
would be greeted with gratitude.
For be it said, most persons are
pretty well tired by the time they
reach sixty.
Think Of the great number of
valuable persons who would be
turned loose for philanthropic and
public betterment work. No one
with a spark Of ambition in his
soul wants to be idle. His spirit
calls for some kind of activity.
And it is the persons over sixty
who perhaps more than others,
are attracted to work that is for
the betterment of mankind.
And think of the new jobs that
would be created, and Of the new
flow of money, and Of the spirit
of cheer and optimism!
The first time | heard of the
Townsend old age pension plan,
thought it was crazy, absolutely
crazy. But the more l think about
it the more ] am compelled to ad-
nit that it may not be so crazy
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to five per cent.
The ramifications Of such a
plan as the aforementioned could
become very interesting:
Neglected old men would sud
denly find their hands sought IN
marriage by charming young Wo-
men. Old women without a soul
in the world to care anything
about them, would Immediately
find young husbands a plenty.
Aged parents who are now be-
ing kicked about from pillar to
post. and whose children would
like to do everything in the world
for them. but they haven't enough
to feed their own families would
welcome with cordial open arms,
the old folks pulling down two
hundred dollars q month apiece.
Houses which at the present time,
are too small to take in Auntie
or Uncle or Grandpa or Grandma,
would straightway be large
enough, with the best rooms avail
able.
All this talk about chloroform-
ing persons over sixty would not
only cease at once, but it would
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BEHIND TIE SCENES m
WASHINGTON

/ they can be legally manufactured,
you'll probably be hearing mora
about this.
/ OTIS of election smiles whicr
Ia still persist, And some new
ones. jim Farley's grin is con-
slant except when you ask him
about Senator Cuttings New Mex.
leo victory or Sinclair's big Cali
fornia vote.
Bob LaFollette has been
around, still hoarse from cam
paign speaking, but youthfully
eXuberant. And stocky little
Mayor LaGuardia OF New York,
who will be right on hand if a
national progressive political
movement starts, here for the
Security conference and 100 per
cent happier than after his 1882
congressional defeat, when he
wanted to retire from the picture
to be governor of Puerto Rico.
And Senator George Norris,
back from Nebraska with his SON.
in-law and secretary, Jack Robert
son, chuckling gleefully over VIC
tories of progressives, New Deal
ers, and his, own one-house refer
endum proposal back home.
II (.
Senator Morris Sheppard of
Texas, father of the 18th amend.
ment, who announces a new cam.
paign for prohibition, lunching at
a tiny waterfront seafood restau-
rant, where everyone but he and
his woman companion drank beer.
(The waiter says he's a good GUS
tomer.)
Haywood Broun, Americas
most famous poker player, play
ing 1O-cent limit dealers choice
with Jerome Frank of AAA, Steve
Raushenbush of the Munitions
Committee, Griffin Barry, Peggy
Bennett, Mary Taylor and others
and losing!
Copyright. 1884. NEA Service. Incl
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EXPERTS LOOKING
| FORWARD TO BETTER
WEATHER FORECASTS
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. CUP.
The fellows who decide what the
weather is going to be announced
today they were going to reform
and that in about three years
they would be so good that when
thew said fair and warmer" YOU
could pack the picnic lunch and
leave your raincoats at home.
You can't do that now, because
the weather double-crosses the
weather men at least once or
twice a week. The United States
weather bureau figures that if it
can call the turn right 80 per
cent of the time, it is doing swell.
The other Is per cent represents
the times lou get caught in 2
flood without your rubbers.
Today the weather bureau
carr" through with an explanation
Of the new technique which it
will adopt. Il was filled with
phrases like "discontinUityi line"
"polar 'front.' and wind shift"
but kindly gentleman out there
agreed to translate the whole
business into English.
1t dew oped that what the
weather bureau meant was that
it was going to make an intensive
study Of air and spend three
years training men to be air eX-
perts. For this purpose they
have divided air into two classes
hot and cold. 1t seems that
for years hot and cold air have
been meeting up in the clouds
but they don't speak. Instead
they collide and then nobody can
tell what will happen. That is
why a weather man who predicts
far and warmer looks out the
window every now and then and
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{. ROOSEVELT
Off REGISTER
Sage Debuts, Marriages
Outside the Pale" Re-
duce Registerites
By JOHN NJ. MARTIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov .2G.-jUP).
Stage debutS of socialites, mar
riages outside the charmed circle
and decline in the number Of
club listings cut IL pages from
the 1885 edition Of the New York
social register, but the most
prominent omission was the line
Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott
|, ruth J. Googins).
Elliott is the second son Of
President Roosevelt.
The rest of the Roosevelt fam
lily retain their position on page
GIL, the only change in their list
ing being omission of the pIesi-
dents New York address, which
has been suppianted by "White
House."
With distribution Of the fam
Gus little black book last night it
also became known that Mrs.
Madeline Force .Astor Dick, who
married the Italian boxer EMO
Fiermonte, no lnoger was on
page p.
The editors, or compilers of the
directors of New York's 10000
decided too that the new edition
would not carry the names of
RosamOnd Pinchot, niece of the
governor of Pennsylvania in
HOLLYWOOD at work on a picture ;
Whitney Bourne, who left social
activities to become a successful
actress and model, and Jane
Wyatt, another who gave up the
social swirl for footlights.
Mrs. Mildred Tilton Holmsen,
who scandalized a Reno, New,
restaurant manager by appearing
in shorts was dropped. The mar
riage Of Charles Cary Rumsey,
son of Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey. to Mary Maloney, was noted
among the seasons marriages but
their names do not appear.
1t will be another year before
decision will be made in the case
of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Wander
bilt and Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, who engaged in a prolonged
court case over custody of the
formers 10-year-old daughter,
Gloria.
The new copy is identical in
form to previous issues and the
policies which govern it's con-
tents virtually the same as they
were when the first edition was
printed in 1887. It's Typography
is the same and the binding con-
tinues to be offs hiny black with
red letters. 1t still is the final
cOnsultant of New York standing.
Girls from II to II and boys
FROM IA to 20 years are listed as
Juniors" In the back of the
volume is the famous list of
married maidens" from which it
is possible to obtain the present
names and addresses of former
debutantes.
An announcement from the So
cial register association pointed
out that the thinner edition was
not due to a loss in the ranks of
the elect but to noted dropping
off Of clublistings after names.
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GOVERNMENT WET-NURSING

Some folks have mighty, high notion about
what their central government ought to do in the
way of economically wet-nursng them
They would have it guarantee babyhood de-
luxe for every infant that happens not to be born
in lordy luxury, provide old-age pensions of 5000
per month for all who live to be more than CO.
and a resplendantly paying job for everybody in
between.
All of this delights the heart to contemplate
but Utopias happen to exist only in the magma
ton.
Besides, it would be just as well to reserve q
few benefactions in the way of human improve
ment for heaven to furnsh.-Julian S. Miller In
Charlotte Observer.
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BY RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Stan Correspondence

NEA SSrNice SUM Correspondent.
WASHINGTON - Pressure fol
w jobs here is still nothing
short of t"emendous-and yet
some good ones go begging.
Roosevelt mas had trouble fill
ing several important posts where
a mere political appointee won't
do.
For instance, chairmacship OF
the. National Labor Relations
Board. Lloyd Garrison was asked
to continue there, but refused,
The job was later offered to
Judge Walter P. Stacy of the
steel and textile labor boards,
President Robert NJ. Hutchins oil
the University of Chicago, and
Miss Josephine Roche of Colo
RADIO, WHO has just been made an
assistant secretary of the treas
ury.
All refused. Finally, Francis
Biddle of Philadelphia was per-
suaded to take it.
AT least three newspapermen
have turned down the chance to
be public relations director for
NRA-an important position, be-
cause it involves selling a reor-
ganized MIRA to a skeptical
public.
? Other jobs for which Roosevelt
seems to have trouble getting the
men he wants include seats on
the REC and Federal Trade Com
{ mission.
ipROHIBITION repeal in Florida
meant more than the oppor-
tunity for Floridans to buy legal
drinks.
Down there they've been devel-
oping wines and liqueurs from
grapefruit, tangerines, oranges,
and even, lemons. The Department
! Of, Agriculture laboratory experts
are rather enthusiastic about
these beverages and, now that
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Speaking to business men in Boston last
week, Donald R. Richberg said he believes
that the countrys business is ready to
take the load off the government. 1t
will be noticed that Mr., Rsshr j ap-hrdunn
will be noticed that Mr.. Richberg did not
say anything about removing the incubus
of government from business.
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more than sixty
years old who
will agree to
give up all mon
ey-earning work
and will further
agree to spend
in full, his two
hundred dollars
every month. 1t
is purposed to
finance this pen
sion system by a
sales tax Of from
three per cent
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FiLMLAND MARRIAGE

YUMA, Ariz.; Nov. 26,-(UP).
Margaret Sullivan, film and stage
star, was married secretl-- here
early Sunday to William Wyler,
movie director, after an airplane
elopement from HOLLYWOOD. wv
Ter, who directed Miss Sullivan in
her recent picture, "The Good
Fairy" is Belgian born and work
ed his way from property boy to
director. He is 81.
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The big dipper, says Cleveland scien-
fist, is breaking up and we won't recog-
nize it in $4,000 years. Better hurry and
find new way to tell the North Star.
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PRODUCTION VERSUS CONSUMPTION

s"The National Survey of Potential Ffo-
duct Capacitv," made by federal govern
ment commission, one of hundreds investl-
eating everything under the sun IN TINS
country, shows that the United States IS
amply able to supply the needs OF all us
Deople. The farms of the country have
the capacity for ample food supplies; the
s..~ industries of the country can manufacture
all that the entire population can possibly
use. In fact, there is no line of production
in which the capacity of already existing
plants and equipment is not adequate to
take care of greatly increased demands OF
the total population.
If the demands of the people were mu!-
tipled several times over present con-
sumption. the sources of production would
still not be taxed to capacity. In other
words the trouble with the country is not
lack of capacity to produce, but lack OF
the power to buy and use. This condition
is due to failure of buying power-in SIM
pie words, to the scarcity of cash in the
pocketbooks of millions of people-whicn
just about proves the case of the people
. who contend that our country's afflictiOn
j. is not over-production but under-consump-
ton.
IL "a. The governments surveyors of product
capacity have presented report which
shows that the country can produce all its
=, people need, and more; and if the people
600" could double their buying all the idle in
dustries would begin operating and run az
capacity and there would be active MAJ
700 kets in all lines, including agricultural
products.
Now comes the monumental difficulty
discovered by the commission. 1t is that
r. in order to bring about the general cOndi-
tions mentioned, the buying power of all
1"9' the families in the country would have to
be not less than $4,000 year We sup
pose the commission is referring to aver
age income; in which case the income of
some would be, as it is today, much high
49, er. That is the rock on which the commits
r. sion report founders when it comes to do
! IA ing something practical to change condi-
tons
J. In order to bring the country's income
to the suggested figures it would be neces-
sary to raise it around fifty per cent. above
the highest point ever reached, which is
said to have been in 1928-29. Income is
estimated at present to be down to about
one-half of the peak figures. To get back
to the income of the boom years and go
fifty per cent ahead of that would GER
tainly be going. This achievement may be
possible; but one thing is certain, many
years will pass before the country sees it
as fact
The only significant achievement of the
'cca commission for ''The National Survey of
-. Potential Product Capacity" therefore
appears to be the gaining of assurance
- that the United States can produce much
more than its population is at present able
to buy. The big problem, the big job
=, ahead of the country, is without question
that of putting the unemployed to work
and building up the income and buying
power of the eountrys population.
Only % business days until Christmas
;ncludinU today not counting time ont fo
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Considerable tt mt j IN. 1t
seems. is being attracted by the
Townsend Old Age Pension plan
which would provide two hundred
dollars a month for every citizen
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Only 25 business days until Christmas,
including today, not counting time out for
Thanksgiving Day. In other words, just
four business weeks to get the Christmas
business done.
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as l thought it was. We are ant
to consider a thing absurd that
We do not comprehend.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
THE STRATEGIC POINT

Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast sh"'
tbv door, PRAY" Matt. 6:6). ... .a. .,ls. F..
Other responsibilities are divided, some to this
one. some to that; but ALL are expected to get
under the burden of prayer Every great battle
has its strategic point. Gettysburg had its bloody
arole - Waterloo had its ''sunkep road" The
strategic point today is the PRAYER CLOSET If
= GREAT revival comes, it will not be by ''resolu-
tion' but by PRAYER. .
"Tba sfectuaI feryent prayer availeth- -
James SIG. > . i"i's'
The Washington times., 1934-12-21
Secretary Hull
Eetes Envoy

The Secretary Of State ana
Mrs. Cordell Hull entertained
at dinner last evening in their
apartment at the Carlton in
honor of the United States Am
bassador to Argentina and Mrs.
Alexander Weddell, who are in
this country on leave.
The Ambassador and Mrs.
Weddell left this morning for
their home in Richmond, Va,
where they will spend Christ
mas.
Miss Helen Potts and Miss
Ann Potts, debutante daughters
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Potts,
of Frederick, Nd, will be the
guests of honor at dinner
dance to be given on Wednesday
evening, December 26, in the
MayfloWer lounge, by Miss Arian
O'Brien and Miss Grace O'Brien,
daughters of Mr.. Robert Lee
O'Brien, of Washington.
X X
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Jones left
Washington w esday for
Houston, Tex. They will return
to their apartment at the May
flower early in January.
For the correct time telephone
the office of THE WASHING.
TON TIMES, District 1000, at
any hour of the "a.
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Junior Tea-Dance

The Christmas activities for
the boys and girls home from
school and college for the holi.
day season will begin with a
tea-dance at the Sulgrave Club,
tomorrow afternoon, from 4 to
s o'clock; and a Christmas
dance for the same set will be
held Friday evening. December
28, at 8 o'clock, at the Sulgrave
Club. The Junior Christmas
dance will be held Wednesday
evening, December 26, at 8
o'clock, at the Sulgrave Club.
These dances are given under
the direction of Miss Hawke,
and cards of admission will be
necessary.
The patronesses for the first
two dances are: Mrs. F. W.
Bunker, Mrs. r. w. Boiling,
Mrs. Hayne Ellis, Mrs. Robert
v. Fleming, Mrs. John S. Elan.
merry, Mrs. John Phillip Hill,
Mrs. r. M. Kauffmann,, Mrs.
Edward B. Meigs, Mrs. Charles
L. Marlatt, Mrs. William
Payne Meredith, Mrs. David
Porter, Mrs. Walter r. Tucker.
man, Mrs. Wayne Chatfield.
Taylor, Mrs. Effingham Towns
end and Mrs. Normand Under.
wood.
The Junior Christmas dance
will be sponsored by:
Mrs. w. l.. Beale, Mrs. Joseph
C. H. Colquitt, Mrs. John G.
Carter, Mrs. Edward R. Fin
kenstaedt, Mrs. william j.
Flather, jr., Mrs. Frederick C.
Hicks, Mrs. Samuel H. Kauff-
mann, Mrs. Donald H. Nc.
Knew, Mrs. Frederick G. Rich
ards, Mrs. william Calhoun
Stirling, Mrs. Wayne Chatfield
Taylor and Mrs. Walter r.
Tuckerman.
4 X II
Miss Florence Crowley, who
has been visiting her brother,
Mr.. Leo T. Crowley, of the Fed.
eral Deposit Insurance Corpora
ton, at the Mayflower, has
left for her home in Madison,
Wis, for the holidays.
The Washington times., 1934-12-21
French Envoy
Entertains

The Ambassador of Poland,
Mr.. Stanislaw Patek, was the
ranking guest at the dinner
given last evening by the Am
bassador of France and Nine. de
Laboulaye, at the Embassy in
Sixteenth Street.
The other guests were the Am
bassador of Spain and Sonora
de Calderon, the Undersecretary
of the Treasury and Mrs. Thomas
jefferson Coolidge, the Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs.
Sumner Welles, the Charge
d'Affaires of the Belgian En-
bassy and Princess de Ligne,
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Caspar
Miller, Lieut.. Col. Edwin M.
Watson. Military Aide to the
President. and Mrs. Watson;
Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali, daugh-
ter of the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt; Mrs. George Cabot
Lodge, Sir Willmott and Lady
Lewis, the First Secretary Of the
British Embassy and Mrs. A. F.
H. Wiggin, the Secretary of the
Polish Embassy and Nine.
Moscicka, the Third Secretary Of
the French Embassy, and Coun'
tess de Leusse, and the Attache
of the Embassy and Nine.
Saint.
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Dinner Hosts
Last Niqht

DR.. and Mrs. George Barnett
Tribe gave a dinner at the
Shoreham last evening.
The guests included the
Charge d'AffaireS of the Mic
araguan Legation and Sonora
de DeBayle; the Charge DAT.
faires of the Lithuanian Lega-
ton, DR.. Mikas Bagdonas; Rear
Admiral George c. Day; Capt.
Robert L. Ghormley, U. S. N,
and Mrs. Ghormley; Capt. Ed
ward r. Wilson, U. S. N, and
Mrs. Wilson; Col. Thomas Hol.
comb, U. S. M. c., and Mrs.
Holcomb; Col. Harold c. Refs.
niger, U. S. M. c.; Lieut..
Comdr. William j. C. Agnew,
U. S. NJ; DR.. and Mrs. Tomas
Cajigas, Mr.. and Mrs. w. c.
Armstrong. Judge Annabel
Matthews, Mrs. Donna Harter,
Mrs. L. D. Gilbert. Miss Ann
Pendleton, Miss Mary Lackey,
DR.. Rorbet Ransdell, and Mr..
Carter Field.
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Guest

Mrs. s. M. Breckenridge
Long, wife Of the United States
Ambassador to Italy, was guest
of honor at a luncheon given
today by Mrs. D. Lawrence
Groner at the Sulgrave Club.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Moi.
felt, who will spend Christmas
in Miami, Fla, will return to
their apartment at the May
flower the latter part of next
week. They will be accom-
panied on the trip by Mr.. Moi
fett's daughters, Miss Adelaide
M. Moffett and Miss Ruth Moi
felt, and his sons, Mr.. Jack
son Moffett and Mr.. Robert
Moffett,
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Wed Yesterday

The marriage of Miss Mary
Elizabeth Hearn, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred Hearn,
of Friendship Heights, Nd, to
Mr.. William Tyler Page, jr.,
took place yesterday afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock. Mr.. Page is
the son of Mr.. William Tyler
Page, minority clerk Of the
House.
The ceremony was performed
In st. Johns Church, George.
town, with only members of
the two families and a few
close friends present. The Rev.
William Shearer, of Cations
vile, Md, assisted by Rev. F.
Bland Tucker, officiated.
There was no reception and
Mr.. Page and his bride left
Immediately after the cere-
mony for a wedding trip to
Atlantic City. They will return
in time for Christmas and will
be at home at 220 Wooten
Ave-, Friendship Heights.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her father and wore
q gown of hunters green crepe
end felt hat to match. Her
bouquet was of gardenias and
Lilies of the valley.
Mrs. Sterling Ruffin Maddox
was matron of honor and the
brides only attendant. She
wore a maroon crepe gown
trimmed with brown fur and
a small hat to match. She
carried an arm bouquet of
Talisman roses.
Mr.. John C. Page was best
man for his brother.
The Washington times., 1934-12-21
Going to Panama

Col. John A. McAlister has
sailed from New York for
Panama to spend the Christmas
holidays with his son-in-law and
daughter, Lieut.. and Mrs. j. T.
Hardin. He plans to return
about January 10.
The Washington times., 1934-12-21

Mr.. William c. Bullitt, United
States ambassador to the
Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics, is stopping at the Bilt-
more in New York.
X
Governorelect James v. All.
red and Mrs. Alfred Of Texas
have come from their home in
Austin and are at the Shore.
ham. They expect to remain
through this week.
The Washington times., 1934-12-21
Capital Visitors

Senor Don Luiz de Faro, the
Brazilian Consul General in
New York has come to Wash.
ington for few days stay at
Wardman Park Hotel.
Mrs. E. A. Allen. jr., Of
Lumberton, N. c., is at the
Dodge for a brief stay.