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The Washington times., 1935-10-15
Needlessly Complex

Admittedly the District Unemployment Compensation
Commission faces a difficult task in administering the
social welfare legislation by which it created
It is going to be cumbersome job to keep track of all
workers and all employers in the city in order to insure
proper expenditure of funds and to prevent waste.
BUT THE SUGGESTION THAT THE COMMISSION
BASE ITS IDENTIFICATION UPON FINGERPRINTs
OF ALL THE WORKERS WOULD, IF ADOPTED,
MAKE EVEN MORE COMPLICATED THE ALREADY
COMPLEX JOB
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman very easily
reduces the suggestion of fngerprintng to absurdy
when he proposes that instead of taking the prints of
each employe we assign each number and tattoo it
the employees index finger.
It would probably be good thing if everybody in the
country fingerprnted good for the individual as
well the country
But to try to tie up system of fingerprinting
of almost entire city with the administration OF
a single LalU such as the unemployment insurance
IauU UOuId merely bog dOwn the administration of
that LGIU.
The recording filing and checking of about 100000
sets of ngerprnts would add tremendously to the cost
of law which is going to be expensive enough without
any unnecessary frills.
Just as big enterprises the administration OF this
law are being carried without such complicated
system.
Both employers and employees WILL without doubt, CO.
operate with the Compensation Commission in any plans
that it works out for administration Of the law.
THE MERE FACT THAT THAT COOPERATION
WILL BE FORTHCOMING, HOWEVER, SHOULD
CAUSE THE COMMISSION TO BE PARTICULARLY
CAREFUL TO MAKE THE PLANS AS SIMPLE AS
POSSIBLE.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
The Entering Wedge
By James T. Williams, Jr.

the system Of training with the
Colors which started under Abra-
ham Lincoln and is continued
today by the Reserve Officers
Training Corps and the Citi
zens Military Training Camps.
Armistice Day, if these sap
pers have their way, is to be-
come a day on which the schools
and colleges are to be turned
into "cellS" for the dissemina-
ton of a doctrine Of national
degeneracy.
This is the doctrine that I'M
der the American system Of gov
ernment no able-bodied citizen
is obligated to discharge his
Constitutional duty either to de-
fend the country in war or to
train for its defense in peace.
The destruction of the Re-
serve Officers Training Corps is
to be agitated on ArmiStice Day
by these disloyal sapperS under
the false pretenSe that this
training should be made OPP
tional instead of being required
by certain schools and colleges
in which it is given.
The proof that this pretense
Is false has been going through
the mails for months. 1t is con-
tanned in a pamphlet distributed
by the sappers who are organiz-
ing to deSecrate Armistice Day.
These sappers are secretly
passing the word that the de-
mand for the abolition of train
ing with the Colors as a re-
quired course is only the enter
ing wedge for a demand that no
training for the Common De-
fenSe shall be permitted in any
school or college under the Flag.
HIRED PEDDLERS
Under the American system
of government the support and
control of public education is
reserved to the several States.
Under the alien system of gov
ernment, which the sapping eX-
pedition against Armistice Day
is attempting to set up, Ameri-
can schools and colleges would
pass under the control of dis
loyal intriguers who have estab-
hShed their main headquarters
on the banks of the Potomac.
It will be interesting to see
how many of the governors of
the several States will be su-
pine enough to submit on Ar
mistice Day to the invasion Of
the schools and colleges which
their governments are sworn to
protect.
Perhaps the American Legion
and other organizations of vet
Grams will poll the governors
before the next Armistice Day
is turned over to the hired
peddlers of treason and Sedi-
tion who are plotting to make
it "Disloyalty Day" in every
State in the Union.
! Copyright, 1885. The Washington Time
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
The Human. Side of the News

extant fashions which would at
tract q crowd on BrOadwaS."
Aren't they a bit in-grOwing,
Intellectually and culturally,
with all this splendid iSOlatiOn?"
/ asked.
"That is the astonishing thing
about it," he replied. "It seems
to me that they have developed
the only real, indigenous culture
in America, barring California
or Charleston, in a certain as
pect. In other communities Of
particularly rich and assured
people, / have abServed that a
man who indulgeS in any serious
intellectual conversation is de
trOp. Not so at Newport.
81 have known perSOnable,
educated, perhaps indifferently
dressed and, incidentally, penni-
less men, who happened to have
some personality and ideas, to
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
SchOOlmasters for Sale

School teachers may lead hard controlling class OF
thirty forty youngsters and endeavorng to pound some
rudmen of knowledge into their heads is job to tax the
good nature of an arhangbut in moments of depression
they can reflect that their lot has improved from that Of
century two ago.
Witness these items from ancient New York papers:
In one when the city still New Amsterdam printed
the contract entered into by certain Johannes Eckna
to teach school in Flatbush
Mr. van Eckeenats duties in addition to mpartng book
learning were chaperOn the children to church and
keep the church cean the be lead the singing, pro-
Ude for baptism and ine for the holy SUPPER gl0e
funeral OratiOns, dig graUes and toll the belL"
A full life!
And 17 the year of the Declaration of Independence
New York paper carried this ad:
"There uDiH be for sale al the uOharf commodities
from Europe, including potatoes ham, bacon and
schooLnaSterS."
Let modern pedagogues take heart Theirs not ideal
existence knows but at least the papers don't list
them in the market reports.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15


America needs a GalSworthy
to write a ForSythe saga of old
Newport-300 years old in 1899.
Or perhaps an Anton Chekhov
to write its Cherry Orchard"
They hate and fear change. In
those old mansions not a facet
crystal chandelier, a line Of
fresco, or a fluting of Carrara
or Parian marble has been OBJ
liberated in all these years OF
change and upheaval.
The other day I had lunch
con with an extremely intel
Igent young man of a famous
clan, who lives at Newport in
the summer and Palm Beach
in the winter. His discourSe-1
was a fascinated listener-was
to be the first revelation of the
deep inner concerns and be-
havior of this ancient citadel
of the American Mayfair. He
said Newport loathed publicity,
but on my promise to report
his observations accurately. he
consented to allow me to quote
him as follows:
SOCIAL ASSURANCE
"Read two recent bOOks-if
you haven't read them-ThOmas
WoIfe's "LOOk HOmeward, An
GEL" and Vincent Sheehan's
Personal History The theme
of each is the failure Of Amer
lea to achieve the sense of con-
tinuity observable in older cOun-
tries. In any city where great
families have flOuriShed, you
see their Victorian mansions
turned into boarding houses or
sanitariums, and the families
scattered or forgotten.
"All over the country you see
jerry-buiIt houses and you know
that they will never nurture old
family clans, building and pro-
liferating down through the
generations. Ours is cursed by
a hit-and-run civilization. Neither
the property nor the name car
rieS far.
Newport, as isolated and self
sustaining as if it were on an
island in midOcean, is Amer
ica's valiant hOld0ut against
this continuous disintegratiOn.
1t not only looks well to its sol
vency, but the OldtimerS, having
the money, can and do impose
standards of behavior on their
descendants which has made
Newport uniquely resistant to
the much deplOred disintegra-
ton of morals and taste Of our
times.
81 am 81 years old, If I know
that another man is So, / am
very careful to say sir in ad-
dressing him; and if he happens
to be 80, he says sir to me.
There is a Difference to age in
Newport which / think exists
nowhere in the world outside OF
China. And there is q conform
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tainly started something! Idol
of the opera-vividly young and
handsome - wealthy, famous,
charming-A Fairy Prince in
person and looking for his Fairy
Princess. Moreover, he adver-
tises the fact-in an interview
with Rose Heyl-but in the Oc-
tober issue of GOOD HOUSE
KEEPING"-as astonishing as
his spectacular self.
ct WANT TO FALL IN
LOVE-" says senor Martini in
the largest letters at his COM
mand. But not with Just Any
one! Oh-my, dearie-NO!
Never has a gentleman been
more explicit in his romantic re-
uuirements-and what wouldn't
I give to be a fly on the wall
when the girls read it. For,
despite flowery phrases, Nino
Martini makes it plain that he
does NOT regard our famous
Clarified Gals as a domestic
treat. Yes, they're pretty to
look at-fun to play with. But
as wives they're a pain-in-the-
neck and nothing else but!
FIRST DUTY
Why this uncomplimentary
conclusion? Because, says he,
the American girl regards mar
riage too flippantly. 1t is merely
a detail in her personal career.
She has been taught, and
firmly believes, that the de-
velopment of her own individu-
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Don't Get Hurt
"Don't Get Hurt. :"

"Don't Get Hurt"
Big red footsteps painted sidewalks will carry this
message to Washington school children according to plans
of the Kwanis Club.
The warning is certainly necessary and will hope,
suit cutting number of traffic accidents in which
children are involved.
We should be able to expect that adults would be capable
Of protecting themselves against the traffic hazards although
actually many of the older people don't to be.
But with children the situation is different.
1mpusive and FAST the youngsters to disregard
tely the fact that they endangrng their lives when
they dart the streets dash out into highway while
playing.
IF THE KIWANIs FOOTSTEPS CAN BRING EVEN ONE
OF THESE YOUNGSTERS TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF
THE DANGER HE IS FACING THE CLUB WILL HAVE
DONE A WORTHWHILE JOB.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

From Maine to California the
governors of the several States
face a new challenge from the
Radicals who are attempting
"to undermine what cannot be
directly overthrown" in the
American system of government.
This challenge comes from a
group of political Reds, PinkS
and Yellows engaged in an in
sidious intrigue against Amer-
can schools and colleges.
The foul purpose of this in
trigue is to incite American
youth to desert the Government
of their allegiance by refusing
to train for its defense in peace
or to defend it in war.
For many months, within
sight of the White House, the
Washington Monument, the
Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier in Ar
lington, Radicals masquerading
as workers for peace have been
raising funds and organizing
"cellS" and using the United
States mails to spread propa-
ganda for the launching of an
assault on Armistice Day.
SEEK SUPPORT
If these sappers have their
way the observance of Armis-
tice Day is to be taken out of
the hands of our Defenders
with the Colors in peace and
war and given over to the con-
troll of a group of Radicals en-
gagged in a sapping expedition
to destroy the Common De-
fense by inciting American youth
to rebel against it.
Instead of publicly sponsoring
this plot, the sappers who
Matched it are seeking public
support by saddling its sponsor
ship on the Y. M. C. A. and the
Y. w. C. A. and a coalition of
subsidiary units organized for
this purpose by the Radicals
whose main headquarters are
maintained in the Federal City.
Next Armistice Day, if these
Radicals are able to wreSt the
control of its observance from
the American Legion, the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, the Mill
tary Order of the World War
and other organizations of vet
erans and patriotic societies, the
propaganda of sedition and trea-
son will be peddled up and down
the country.
American youth in school and
college will be urged "to refuse
to support the Government OF
the United States in any war it
may undertake"
And to the end that there maJ
be no more defenders with the
Colors the next time this coun.
try is attacked, these sappers
will attempt on Armistice Day
to stage demonstrations against
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
Listen World!
By Elsie Robinson

ality is her FIRST DUTY and
takes precedence over wifehood
and motherhood. The woman
who loses herself in her huS-
band and home is looked at
with contempt. BE YOUR
SELF" is the slogan Of mod
ern womanhood. And if a pee
wish, poSsessive husband gets in
your way that's HIS bad luck!
But this, according to the
Nino notion, is the exact re-
verse of the Proper Order of
things. The wife, says he, ex-
lists for the home, and they
both exist for the joy, con-
venience and domestic pride Of
the husband-Who, at all times,
has a right to be as jealous
and posseSsive as he pleases.
Which statement will be
greeted with contemptuous
Snorts and derisive boots from
several million maidenS. Yet I
wonder if the idea hasn't points.
They've been promised such
large pride and pleasure, these
modern. emancipated girls,
with all their new privileges.
They've been told how much
better life will be for them than
it was for their "Shackled"
mothers-how much sweeter
their companionShip with their
husbands. But have the prom
iSeS come true?
WHAT SORT
Is the modern bride really so
much happier than her mother
was? Is her life really richer
her companionShip with her
husband really deeper and more
lasting? I wonder!
Yet, on the other hand, just
how would an 1886 wife fit into
a 1896 scene? That's the sort
of wife Nino Martini wants.
And many a young American
male will agree with him in
theory. But would thai young
American enjoy A Clinging Vine
in practice? How useful would
she be to him in his hurried.
worried days? How efficient a
mother to up-and-coming Amer
lean children.
What's YOUR vote? If you
were choosing a wife-or a hus-
band-Would you follow the
Martini specifications? Or
vote for a modern model? Send
in your answer and I'll forward
it to Nino. He asked for it!
Copyright 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
The Greatest Show On Earth
Bu John Snure, Jr.

Roosevelt influences only a
small portion of the party.
In one of the counties ada
cent to the National Capital,
several men were recently taken
off relief rolls to work on the
road.
County officials were Of the
opinion that the work would
aid the men in providing for
their families.
1t became the practice OF the
men to secure money from a
clerk at the end of the week.
The loans Uere repaid When
the county paid the t1GgeS.
On a recent day, the men
approached the clerk. They
wanted their money. He ad-
vised them that he could only
give them a portion of their
wages and that it actually was
coming out of his pocket as a
loan.
One of the men, one with a
wife and five children, refused
to accept the loan Of 81. He
wanted all of his money or none,
he announced.
When the clerk pointed out
that he was merely extending
the money so that the worker
could have funds to buy provi-
sionS for his wife and five chill
dren, the man announced:
81 don't want that. I'm go
ing to the races and / can't do
anything with ST."
The travels abroad of Secre-
tary of Treasury Henry Nor
genthau, jr., increase the ru-
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ity in behavior which is GER
tainly unique in America.
'Debutantes don't get drunk.
There is q restraint in speech
and there is a decorum. The
Victorian age has been carried
over en- bloc in the Newport Of
today. There are no exceSSeS
in dress and there is no feverish
concentration on clothes. 1t is,
according to my observation, the
only community in America
which has, without the slightest
self consciousness, achieved what
mellow old English communities
have in the way of Clothes
regard for quality, also SIM
plicity, but no competitive dress
ing. The case of social asSur-
ance which puts clothes in their
place.
"And, Of course, among the
oldest of the lot, there are still
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q o u II u
washington are convinced gen.
orally that the G. o. P. can
make more profit from an at
tack on expenditure than they
can on the demand to disrupt
monopolies at this time.
They contend that the spend
ing of the Roosevelt regime
has reached so far into the
pocket of the average man that
an issue made at that polnt
will be considerably more e1-
fective than almost anything
they could mention.
Furthermore, they point out
the Roosevelt regime has made
its attack. on holding cOmpa-
nies and that an attempt by the
Republicans to raise the cry
for destruction of mOnopOlies
would seem a mere echo OF the
Democratic challenge.
Numerous Republicans 'Oere
1Dounded by the Democratac
holding company legislation
then sag. Consequently. they
do not believe it 10iSe to use
trust busting" as a MAJOR
issue.
AS a Progressive, Borah has
always been a trust buster"
while Teddy Roosevelt, unlike
his father, has not been ex-
ceedingly active in drives TO
curtail monopolies. His alliance
has been with the conservative
rather than the Borah crowd:
His disagreement with Borah,
however. is not likely to hinder
the chances of the Idaho Sena-
tor in an attempt to win the
Republican nomination, Observ-
ers say.
They point out that young
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
By T. E. Powers
By Edwin C. Hill

be received as casually at New
port as If they had been there
all their lives. / could sit here
all day telling you of such in
stances. But 1 could also tell
you of rich bOunderS who have
tried for years to blast their way
into Newport without success
Gas 1 have said, they hate
nOtOriety and they hate change
"a sound, instructive fear, per-
haps. The young are indOc-
trinated with this aversion.
You remember that yacht which
belonged to Jack AstOr III, the
one which blew up a month or
so ago? WeIl,I happen to know
that when he was shopping for
a boat he made definite con-
ditiOn of his purchase that the
boat must have been built be-
fore 1900 and that it must be
powered by steam.
"They tried to persuade him
to let them put in Diesel en-
gines, which would have made
it a much safer and more effec-
tive boat, but he wouldn't listen
to it. don't suppose Jack AS
tor knew just why he had to
have an Old-fashiOned boat.
Down to the third and fourth
generation, NewpOrters have
been immuniZed against the dis
turbing and disrupting forces
of change.
GREAT DYNASTIES
"There is a uniquely rational
explanation of this. Many
time some Old-timer has rubbed
it into mel remember particu-
larly one old Peter ArnO char
acter who elaborated the idea
that the hope for survival of
the capitalistic system lies in
building not only financial
carry-OverS from one generation
to the other, but a human carry
over. Descendants conditioned
to a dogmatic belief in the
SOdbuS 4uOs
"Take my word for it, they
see clearly that problem of con-
tinuity and they are trying to
root their system of life N
human behavior as carefully
controlled as business or invest
ments. OF course, they are a
fine lot of stuffy old TOries-Or
whatever you have a mind to
call them. But l changed my
ideas about them as 1 grew
older.
Taking America as it is, it
seems to me that rich and
powerful people who should
supply leadership are falling
down on their job, and if there
is a crack-up in America, it will
be a human, rather than an
economic or social disaster.
Here, at any rate, at Newport
is an insistence upon character,
taste and discipline. 1t is the
only community where l know
that OIdsters set up these re-
quirementS and seem to get
away with it.
"Of course, money is the bed
rock of it all, and there is
where you get that Off-stage
whiff of Cherry Orchard" "
Those are great dynasties at
Newport. They are threatened.
In this only do you get a hint
of doom. In all else, there is
an assurance, a cOmplacency, a
continuity of life which makes
it seem like something on an
other planet, after you have
been down to Palm Beach or
Coronado.
I'm the fields around Newport
you see oxen pulling plOughs.
1t seems as natural as the leaf
ing of the trees. Surely trac-
tor or a gaudy beetle-shaped
automobile would spread hys-
terra and despair in Newport" p"
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate Inc,l
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when he ad-
vised Senator
William E.
B Orah, of
Idaho, that
trust bust
ing" should
not be the
main issue of
the next cam
p paign, a c.
cor din G to
the Capital
view.
What r E.
D u b ic a rs
t h ere are
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SAAUAANSS J@r
mors that he
soon m a y
leave his Cabi-
net post to
head an Amer
lean embassy
in Europe.
Alth Ough
last year he
sought refuge
IN the west
so as to get
a W ay from
the cOntrOver-
sizes of Gov
ernment, he is
now king
the European
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should t h e
freedom and
privileges of
er maiden
days cease the
instant S h e
answers II
DO!"?
Ac cording
to Mr.. Nino
Martini, she
most decided
ly SHOULD
NOT and they
most decided
ly SHOULD.
That Nino
he has GER
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Wrongs do not leave off there
where they begin, but still beget
new mischiefs in their course.
Samuel Daniel.
Genius begins great works;
labor alone finishes them.-Jou-
bert.
1t is almost a definition of a
gentleman to say he is one who
never inflicts pain. - Cardinal
Newman.
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Words of Wise Men

BY bearing old wrongs you
provoke new one s.-PubIluS
SyruS.
A fool and his words are soon
parted.-William Shenstone.
Enthusiasm without imaglna-
ton tends to make a man a
crank.-Benjamin C. Leemlng.
I can hardly think there was
ever any scared into heaven
Sir Thomas Browne.
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port. There
are KIN e E.
length bath
ing suits and
horses and
buggies, and
women wear
ing baSqueS
and high-but-
toned shoes,
and one OF
them our
e mis- S aries
h a We def
nitely eStab-
liShed this
fact W ho
wears q hair.
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travel, which has convinced
some spectators that he is paw
ing the way for a foreign ap-
pOintment.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
Conservative Newport

There are many 1912 auto
mobiles with gas lights on
them still in service in New
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

A Wife Wanted! But
SHOULD A WIFE BE A PER
SON OR A STAGE PROP?
Should she have a private
program of her own-interests
apart from her husband and
children? Pleasures her huS-
band does not share-of which
he may not even approve. Or
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

Young Teddy Roosevelt spoke
the sentiment of many mem
bers of the Republican party
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

Roosevelt influences only a
small portion of the party.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

The travels abroad Of Secre-
tary of Treasury Henry Nor
genthau. ir.. increase the ru-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-12

Fair Goldy shouted, "Look at that! The swan has on a funny hat. I s'pose he wants to keep his head warm while he flies along. "It's really very cold up here. To Toyland, now, we must be near. The swan has made good time. l guess he must be pretty strong" Once more big snowfakes filled the air and Coppy shouted, "This is rare. Imagine being on sled ride, high above the ground"
 Another happy Tiny said, we must be on magic sled. It's sim ply resting on the air, yet l feel safe and sound"
 They travelled for an hour or so and then somebody shouted, "Oh, I think see cloud ahead, or may be it is land.
 Were heading that way very fast. Perhaps, though, we will go right past. I'll bet that I could see the place much better, if I'd stand"
 "For goodness sakes, lad, keep your seat. You think of things quite indiscreet," snapped Windy.