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The Washington times., 1935-11-18
Leave Bills Again

The minor differences which, combined with the short
age of time prevented final action during the last ses
sion of Congress on the Government empoye leave bills
should be completely oned out before Congress comes
back for the new session in January.
If these bills, designed to accomplish humane
and wOrthy purpose, are to be enacted there must
be no more of the petty pickering Wich contributed
to failure in the spring.
The bills it will be recalled were jockeyed into
favorable position in the Senate because small group
of Government workers thought that its interests were
not properly protected.
In an effort to prevent what they felt was an injustice
to them, these employees were in large measure RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR CREATING CONDITION WHICH
ENABLED ONE MEMBER OF THE SENATE TO
BLOCK ACTION.
There is some reason to believe that the difficulties
are already being Strengthened out
BUT THERE MUST BE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
WHEN CONGRESS RECONVENES.
Leaders of the various organizations of Government
employees will be inviting prolonged and bitter fight
over the bills unless they are able to go to Congress
with definite assurances that the bills satisfactory
to all elements.
Even with that, and with the business of the pro-
visions of the bills there is likely to be delay in
getting action
Representative Ramspeck of Georgia, who sponsored
the bills last session and put them through the House.
has indicated that he is ready to do his utmost to obtain
Senate approval in the new session
These bills, providing for 30 days OF annual
IenUe and Is days of sick LeaUe, NnQuestIOndbLy
hare the support of an overwhelming nHm6er OF
Government employees. ---
OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF CON-
GREsS.
This support should not be prevented from accomplish
inc its purpose because of the dsgruntement OF few
employes or one or two members Of Congress-
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Three-Minute Journeys

lof the Savoy, fourteenth century
Durham House, occupied for a
time by Sir Walter Raleigh, were
among the wonderful edltices
in that part of London.
But we are most interested in
Adelphi terrace, not only because
of its view and its beauty, but
because of it's tremendous literary
and artistic associations. David
Garrick. the actor, died at No. S,
and right next door lived Thomas
Hardy when he was studying
architecture.
Charles Dickens also lived at
Adelphi terrace, as did Tom
Hood. But most tourists today
are drawn to Adelphi terrace be-
cause Sir James Barrie has his
home there, while right opposite
him is another grand man OF
letters, George Bernard Shaw.
Two of the loveliest houses are
occupied by a famous London
club, the haunt of the bon
vivant, the actor and the writer.
the famous Savage club. The
whole street is so quiet, so peace
full, so replete with the past that
it is difficult to believe that 1t
is but a step from the roar ana
| hustle of the Strand.
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LONDON


One of the greatest charms of
London is that one can wander
through her maze of streets and
always come upon some spot of
rare beauty, or of great historic
or sentimental appeal.
One Strolls along the Strand,
from say. Fleet Street, in the di.
rection of Trafalgar Square. Just
before coming to Charing Cross
railroad station, we turn down a
side street in the direction OF
Thames embankrnent and so
come upon lovely Adelphi terrace.
Once this was part of an area
known as the Adelphi, two and
one-haf acres, bordering on Char
ing Cross. It was laid out by the
famous Adam brothers, those
four great architects of the
eighteenth century who have had
such a profound influence on arts
and decoration.
Long before the Adam brothers
created the Adelphi, this section
of London had had a rich history.
The palaces of the nobility and OF
the dignitaries of the church
overlooked the Thames which
then reached almost to the
Strand. The imposing palaces OF
the Earls Of Leicester the Palace
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Not Too Proud to Fight

Five hundred and fifty cadet teams from T. O. l. UNITS
in the colleges and high schools of America expected to
compete this year in the annual rifle matches for the William
Randolph Hearst trophies
This number promises to shatter the record OF last year.
when 514 teams entered.
The keen interest these matches by many fine
young Americans should encourage that large part OF tne
nub which is disguised and alarmed at the nroads made by
Communsc antdefense propaganda in some so-caled IN
stitutons of learning"
few crackpot instructors empty headed and
umouthed students can give the most patriotic school
or college bad and undeserved name.
Fortunately the great majority Of young Americans take
their country seriously and not too proudor to be
accurate too cowardyto fight in its defense need be-
They are NOT miaristic, but they are not the Reds
Pns and Yeows that handful of academic agtaors would
like to have you think
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More About Marriage

new survey of matrimonial unhappness today
has made its way into the records
It found that financial security was only minor issue IN
marriage but that living with inaw the most certain
cause of marital woes.
Of course the weakness this finding lies in the fact that
nevweds live with relatives only because they have
nomic security otherwise
Existence with inlaws taxes the patience Of all
Minds clash.
Hot words are spoken another marriage to the dogs
AS with surveys sd questions are askedquestlons
covering many marital angles. .
The hidden for two young peoples getting along
be discovered by the questions that seek 10
close why two others can't "
Too neither pair tell exactly why its marriage is as IS
Like luck you either have it, you haven't
However more than marriage that goes the rocks Of
separation might have successful the fighting pair had
remembered the Golden Rule. And had applied it.
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Philippine Islands
By James T. Williams, F.

Reimbursement of the Philip
pine people for all the money
their politicians look from them
to foot the bills Of the congress
sional delegation now in Manila
will be proposed when Congress
reconvenes next January.
The proposal will not be with
out merit. Nor will its discus
sion in both Houses be without
advantage to the American people.
In support of the proposed
repayment by the Congress to
the Philippine people Of all the
money the congressional expedi-
ton across the Pacific and back
has cost the Philippine people,
it will be argued on this wise:
This congressional delegation
has been officially received by
the Philippine Officials of the
InSular Government at Manila
and throughout the Islands as
representing the legislative branch
of the American Government.
This congressional delegation
was headed by the Vice President
of the United States. 1t con-
sisted, in addition, of Senators
and Representatives in Congress,
who are members Of the Senate
and House committees on terri
tories and inSular possessions.
AMERICAN TERRITORY
The Philippine Islands have
been since they were acquired
from Spain an inSular possession
of the United States.
They are as much American ter
ritory as is the territory of Alaska
They will remain American ter
ritory for at least ten years more
and maybe for a much longer
period.
Being American territory, Amer
ican sovereignty is today, and will
continue to be, supreme through
out the Archipelago until that
sovereignty is withdrawn and the
Philippine Islands are completely
divorced from the United States
and enter upon an independent
existence.
Like all other American terri
tories and insular possessions, the
Philippine Islands are the wards
of Congress.
1t was from Congress that the
Philippines received the original
organic act under which civil
government was set up in the
Islands.
It was from Congress that
the Philippines received What
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} amounted to almost complete au-
tonomy under the Jones Act
which became a law in 1915.
1t was from Congress-albeit a
Congress dominated by a greedy
coalition of special interests-that
the Philippines received the new
organic act under which complies
autonomy is to be given them for
at least another 10 years.
HEAVY OBLIGATION
If it was desirable for a Con-
gressional delegation to visit the
Islands at this time and witness
the beginning of the operation Of
the new organic law under which
this American insular possession
is to be governed for the next
10 years, it would seem not un-
reasonable that Congress should
appropriate the money to pay the
expenses of its own representatives
on their leisurely journey across
the Pacific via Honolulu, Japan
and China
This is what Congress has re-
peatedly done in the past when it
was thought desirable to send rep
reSentativeS to investigate and re-
port upon conditions not only in
the Philippines but in other out
lying territories and insular pos
sessions.
Unless Congress reimburses the
Philippine people for every dollar
they have been taxed by their
politicians to pay for this expen-
Sive eXpedition-not to say junket
many a Filipino boy and girl
will be deprived in the years just
ahead of a public school educa.
| ton, because the Philippine
, treasury cannot stand the strain
of this additional expense with
out heavy cuts in its public school
budget.
Discussion Of this proposed re-
endorsement of the Philippine
people will help to inform the
American people of just what has
happened in Manila in recent
days.
It will rid the public Of the
mistaken notion that we have
given the Philippine people their
independence.
It will knock into a cocked-hat
the fantastic theory that we have
kept any promises made by either
political party to the Philippine
people in Subjecting them and
ourselves to ten years of respon.
sibility five thousand miles away
without authority commensurate
with that tremendous obligation.
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Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

filled with Self-pity and resent
ment.
She won't, of course, admit that
this is her fault. People are too
thin,skinned," she cries. Take Of.
fense too easily. I don't mean
anything by those foolish things
say
But she does mean something
something wretched and corrosive.
She WANTS to hurt. She wants
to hurt because once, long ago.
she herself was hurt. She was a
homely, clumsy. backward child
showed into the background by
brighter and prettier sister. Her
busy parents did not attach much
Importance to her brooding.
Laughingly, they said "her nose
is out of joint" But from that
childish misery has come a malice
that has deepened with the years
and which taints every thought,
word and deed.
YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT
TO DO.
ALWAYS A REASON
And you never do anything ur1-
less you do want to do it.
No one can make you do things
you don't want to do. If you do
something which is seemingly
against your nature-take a job
you don't like, marry man you
don't like, live in a place you
don't like-you are, nevertheless,
doing that because you want to
do it,. BECAUSE SOME HID
DEN FEAR OR DESIRE MAKE
1T EASIER TO DO THAT THAN
REFUSE TO DO 1T.
Every act Of your life has its
root in your own nature-in your
lazineSs or Self-indulgence, your
malice, fear or conceit.
You NEVER do anything, how.
ever insignificant, without reason.
The words or acts may seam sense
less to any outsider, but they al
ways have a meaning to you. >.
they are always a qualification
or JUSTIFICATION, an excuse or q
boast. revolt or a reaching out.
YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT
TO DO. AND THERE'S AL
WAYS A REASON!
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AROJJT FACE!

ABOUT FACE!
Out of the multiplicity of sug-
gestions for remedial legislation,
comes new plan to replace the
AAA.
It is submitted by Wheeler Nc
Millen, magazine editor, for dis
cussion by 100000 farmers, ac-
cording to the estimates of the
author of the plan.
According to McMillen he
would substitute for the AAA an
organization which would func-
ton as follows:
Instead of paying farmers for
not growing particular COM
modities, the Government would
pay farmers for producing COM
modities which the United States
now imports. It would also pay
farmers for growing Soil-building
crops such as legumeS.
y would pay farmers for efforts
devoted to the prevention of ero'
sion and loss of irreplaceable fer
tility. It would pay farmers for
producing non-food crops for in
dustrial uses, in place of the acres
now devoted to surplus crops"
Where Mr.. McMillen might find
trouble is that he would ask the
farmers to work.
The AAA pays them not to
labor.
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The Human Side of the News

Iaway with common sense. He
knows that under sufficient stress
starvation, terror, warlike pas
sion-the modern man will do the
most terrible deeds and the mod
ern woman will back him up. He
wonders whether the material
progress of the past century has
really bettered the condition OF
civilized man. With all his ma
chimes and gadgets. which make
for comfort, luxury and amuSe-
ment, man is still a world away
from the answer to the only two
questions really important in hu-
man existence: Why are we here?
Whittier are we going? He asks
now whether material progress,
as wonderful and magical as it
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lgrowing to manhood are inspired
by the fiercest sentiments, and the
soul of Germany shoulders with
dreams of a war with liberation
and revenge.
"Only the exhaustion of Ger
many has stayed war and when
that exhaustion passes, as it must
pass, war will flame forth again
It must flame forth again, unless
the world heeds the signs and
mankind pauses on the brink of
his own suicide. For, if war
comes again it will destroy whole
populations with agencies of de.
struction wholesale, unlimited
and perhaps uncomfortable"
Mr.. Churchill tells us that man.
kind has permitted science to run
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YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT
TO DO

TO DO
You admit this gladly when you
do a right or clever thing. But
it is equally true when you do a
wrong or stupid thing. If you
make a mistake, you do it be-
cause you want to do it. Nothing
is accidental-nothing is the re-
suit of chance. You willed it all.
1t is all your own choice.
You don't believe that. eft
isn't So" you cry. I'm always
doing things I don't mean to do
things that don't express the
real me. don't know why I do
them. I get confused, or bewil-
dered, and then it happens. But
it doesn't happen because I want
it to happen"
Yes, it does. Nothing can hap
pen in your real life. your pri-
vate, personal life. unless You
want it to happen.
Things may happen around you
or to you, which are against your
desire. Alien, unhappy things
over which you seem to have nc
control. But nothing can happen
IN you, nothing can come OUT
of you, which is not your own
choice.
DEEP ROOTS
You do what you want to do
But the WANTING and the DO
ING may be years apart. The de
sire and decision which caused
you to do something at 20, or so
may have started at 5. Our acts
are never instantaneous. There is
no such thing as "a sudden i'm
pulse" All our actS-even the
most trivial-have roots which &C
back and back to the very begin
ming of our lives.
I know a woman whose every
act is tainted with bitterness. She
is handsome and brilliant. Charm
ing, too, and quickly attracts. But
she alienates as swiftly as she at
tracts. There is a secret poison in
everything she says or does which
drives people from her. AS a con
sequence, she's tragically lonely
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The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, T.

IBorah was informed of the death
of idaho" the horse which car
ried him over the bride paths
each morning for years. Idaho"
had been stabbed in nearby
Maryland since Borah's illness Of
several months ago.
According to the Republican
presidential possibility he expects
to buy another horse 20 take the
place of the dead Idaho" and
resume his morning rides.
Unlike the fastener, Borah
uses the typical Western saddle
when he goes for jaunt on
horseback.
PROGRESS?
The Public Works Administra-
ton issues to the public its
record of accomplishments.
In a voluminous document OF
IS pages it lists the achievements
since the gigantic works program
was inaugurated.
Among the items listed are
schools, bridges. public buildings
of various kinds, and other i'm
provementS. .
There is also listed an abat
toir, a horse barn, a laundry and
a creamery.
Apparently the PWA is not con
vinced that prosperity Is just
around the corner"
It granted money for construc
ton of several poorhouseS.
FENCE BUILDING
Friends of Senate Majority
Leader Joseph T. Robinson have
avowed that the Democratic wheel
horse was not in danger in
Arkansas and that his reelection
was definitely assured.
President Roosevelt's announce
ment that he will visit RobinSon'S
State is considered as a certain
indication that there is some
question about the majority lead
er's power and that the Chief Elk
ecutive wants to take no chances
on the return of his Senate
standby.
Roosevelt knows that in many
instances, men who have riser
to national prominence have al
lowed their political fences al
home to become somewhat weak
In the last session of Congress
Robinson made a strenuous fight
for the Administration program
that necessarily detracted from
the time he might otherwise
have spent on his constituents
Despite that loss Of time. how
ever, he secured many favorE
fer ansa5 that others prob
ably could not have won.
It is only fair, however, that
the President should make Ger
tain of Robinson's reelection BY
going to Arkansas, observers say
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CHURCHILL'S PROPHECY

| CHURCHILL , FhOFhECI
The bad boy of British politics
has hurled another stone through
the plate glass window of No. 10
Downing Street. Mr.. Winston
Churchill, who never fears to
speak his mind and whose tongue
has a very rough edge, indeed,
calls Adolph Hitler a killer and
menace to civilization. He
warns the British people that
Germany. not Italy, is their main
menace.
He warns them that across the
North Seas the whole OF the
mighty German nation is arming
day and night; that the German
munitions factories are working
in three shifts: that the whole
population is being trained and
prepared for war, and that Ger
many is spending four billion
dollars a year getting ready for
war Of revenge.
It won't do to relegate the
Rt. Hon. winston Spencer Church
i'll to the ranks Of shrieking
alarmists. The events of history
have demonstrated his gifts OF
provision, the clarity Of his for
ward looking. In the momentary
paralysis preceding Great Brit
aims declaration of war against
Germany in 1914. it was Church
i'll who realized the inevitability
of war. who acted while his col
leagues were hesiCating.
It was his decisive stroke which
sent the British fleet to Scapa
Flow to take upon the Channel
of the North Sea the firm grip
which was never relaxed and
which in the end produced victory
for the allies. 1t is scarcely too
much to say that this swift de-
cisive stroke by Churchill was the
very cornerstone of the eventual
allied victory.
Had he not so instantly sum-
moned the fleet from its scattered
stations to concentration in home
waters, it Is conceivable that the
German navy could have seized
and held French Channel ports
which would have been, as we now
know. wellnigh fatal to the allied
cause.
ANOTHER WAR
Like Theodore Roosevelt-whom
curiouSly enough he disliked-
Churchill has the faculty Of look
ing facts in the face and of con-
templating them frankly, no mat
ten how ugly their visage may be.
Only a little while ago, he asked
the blunt question: Shall we all
commit suicide?" And he added:
"It is on record in the secret
archives of every great nation
that the war ended at the very
moment when science had deliv.
cred into mans hands methods
to exterminate whole commune
ties, like whole cities. Man has
finally got into his hands tools
by which he can unfailingly ac-
complish his own determination.
That is the point in human
destiny to which all the glorieS
of men have led them.
Death stands at attention. obe'
dent, expectant, ready if called
upon to destroy without hope Of re-
pair what is left of civilization
Death awaits only the word OF
command. He awaits it from
frail bewildered being, long his
victim, now for one occasion his
master.
Russia, brooding over lost prov
inces, bides her time. From one
end of Germany to the other an
intense hatred of France unites
! the whole population. Youths
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The day the
President W a S
appealing to the
banks to reduce
t h cir interest
ra t es, Repre-
sentative Clar-
ence j. Mcleod,
Republican OF
Mich i gan, re-
ceived a letter
from j e S S e
j o n e S, chair.
man of the Re
C O n S t ruction
Finance. Corpo-
r a t i o n, IN
answer to a mis-.
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NEW MOUNT

Before the passage of many
weeks, Senator William E. Borah,
Republican Of Idaho. expects to
return to his custom of riding
the trails of Rock Greek Park
each morning.
On his return to Washington
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By Edwin C. Hill

bias been, can bring comfort to
mans soul.
The trouble with the world, as
Mr.. Churchill sees it, is that
man has little or no vision be-
yond material things. Surveying
the American people whose own
blood runs in himself, since he
himself is half American through
his mother, Jennie Jerome, he
wonders quite frankly what will
be the outcome of the New Deal,
which is even now causing
American cousins some pretty
sober thought.
He perceives two inherent
thoughts in the New Deal pro-
gram. One is the effort to exalt
American trade unioniSm by sud-
den tremendous strokes. He won
ders if the one-time modest
structure of American trade
unionism is capable Of bearing
the gigantic responsibility now
thrust upon it. He sees danger
in lifting American trade union
ism to industrial sovereignty by
sweeping governmental DEGREES
and he thinks there is decided
peril to the New Deal program
in the tendency of the New
Dealers to hunt down rich men
as if they were wild beasts.
He doesn't doubt that some
plutocratS are the better for be-
ing chased into the open, but
when the sport is not selective
and is extended to the entire
tribe of Midas, he sees public
confidence undermined.
He sees great projects crum-
bling to the ground. He sees con-
fidence shaken and enterprise
chilled. He sees the growth OF
the dole and the consequent par
alyzation of the spirit and lnlt1a'
tive. He sees constantly mount
ing taxation with its intolerable
burden to the poor and to those OF
modest means.
WORLD PEACE
Very interesting to this writer
is Mr.. Churchill's dream that
some day the two great English
speaking nations of the world will
forget their tradition jealousies
and their outworn enmities and
bravely stand shoulder to shoulder
to maintain the peace of the
world. Last time he was in this
country I put this question to
him: "You think, then, that with
teamwork between the peoples who
speak the language you and
are speaking, it would be an
actual guarantee OF real Worlo
peace?"
He replied: eyes! 1t is the fair
est hope for the whole world. Al
the top of human affairs there
must be some organized force.
do not mean the League OF Ma
tions. I do mean a world leader
ship strong enough to lead the
nations and the peoples OF the
world out of their present contu
sion back to prosperity and peace
What other force is there or
earth that can compare in power
and in harmony, in our way o1
looking at things, eye to eye
with a power of the two great
world creditor nations which reac
and write, hear and understand
the same Language, and which art
so largely derived Of the same
stock.
If you agree with us and we
with you, there is hardly any quar-
rel which could break out amonl
men which we too. could MOI
prevent, or at least, limit. Tc
those who say, Think Of the dif
ficulties! I answer, Think OF The
reward"
copyright, 1895. King Features
| syndicate, 1nc.D
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CONSISTENCY

It all depends on whose OK is
being gored in these days of politi-
cal palaver.
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sive he had sent.
In his letter Jones announced
that the RFC would refuse to cut
interest rates on loans secured by
the collateral of closed banks.