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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-11-28

dying father. She's got warm, quick
blood in her veins, not New England
spring-water She falls for fella as
she never expected to-a fella in just
your position. She wants to find some
way out for both of them, and she
wants to keep him out of harm. But
she isn't any more super-human than
she should be; she's made Of flesh and
feeling, weakness and desire-not bill
liard-ball composition and missionary
tracts.
81 s'pose she should've told you it
was Crack she was tied to, right at
the beginning. That would have made
everything simple, wouldn't it? You
could've wrung his neck in Iowa some
where and gone to Jail with the happy
knowledge that you'd made everything
perfect for both of YOU"
Il couldn't've bought him, could To-
said Hal, his hot tone just off trem-
bling. "Wringing his neck would've
been the only thing in the world to
do"
"Sure you could have bought him."
said Kerrigan. "And he'd have stayed
bought, too-never bothered either of
you again. You could have bought him,
and a dead mans dread of shame and
a last promise and fifteen or twenty
years of love and care and teaching.
And with all that bought and paid for,
she wouldn't feel that somebody's
shoveled dirt all over her in a thing
she wanted kept decent"
"She certainly kept it nice and clean
this way" said Hal, with half laugh
that somehow turned it's faint back on
himself.
"Of course it's she that's done every
thing Kerrigan agreed. ITO her this
thing was all like the plot of book
she'd just finished; she knew " hat
10 C.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-11-28
Porters Who Shoulder
Burden of Half a Ton

To become a porter in the Central
Markets of Paris one must pass dras-
tic weight-carrying tests. One such
is to walk the whole length of the
market carrying at least 400 pounds
on the back. Would-be porters must
show also that they are capable of
carrying, for shorter distance, half
an OK, weighing about 500 pounds.
The knack of balancing various
kinds Of burdens has to be painstak-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-11-28
BUSY THEN AS NOW

Each photograph in the senior al
bum for Harvard's class OF l9O4 IL
accompanied by sketch of the SUBJ
ject's undergraduate activities. I'M
der one picture, however there Is
only the subjects name. The name
Is Franklin ID. Roosevelt. 1t was
explained that the sketches CUSTOM
arlly are supplied by students them
selves, and that the man who is
now President of the United States
apparently was too busy to write his.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-11-28

ingly acquired. Several Of the star
porters can carry GOO pounds-more
than a quarter Of ton. Standing
still, some of them can hold across
their shoulders a burden of half
ton.-Pearson's Weekly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-11-28
Root of All Pleasure

The best part of all fortitude Is
patience, which, says RuslIin, "lies at
the root of all pleasures as we'll as
all powers. Hope herself ceases to
be happiness when impatience ac-
companies her."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02
Tax Shopping Ruled Out

Repeal of the pink slip" feature Of the income tax law
which would have made the Taxpayers business everybody
business has been voted by the Senate well the House,
and will doubtless be approved by the President.
This action is substantial victory for law and order and
for protection Of large class Of citizens from stupid
ernment meddling.
newspapers urged repeal Of the pink slip
Auremen and congratulate the Senate correcting the
bunder it originally made in adopting it, Similar congratula
lions are due to the House,
The great danger in making income tax information public
index of prospective victims
The dnape the gangser the rackeeer could have looked
up financial condition of any income taxpayer in the COM
munity and made plans accordingly.
And addition to that the elementary right Of citizen to
privacy personal and business affairs would be invaded
for good reason whatever.
Hence it is gratifying these days Of rabd regmentaon
TO see one small gain for indivdualsm
If it much at least shows healthy spirit of revolt
against the bureaucratic and autocratc tendencies which have
followed in the wake of the New Deal and which the
verse Of AMERICAN.
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More Police Needed

Travellers relate that the prize traffic of the world
in the city of Washington.
They used to speak ironically of Washington he city
magnificent distances It won't be long before they give
the National Capital black eye for its ndescrbabe tange
during the morning and evening rush hours.
Added to home grown traffic troubles Washington
takes added ntricacs of hundred thousand
visitors Cherry Blossom time is tangled in inextricable
confusion when large national conventions meet here their
members provided with motor vehicles
The sight of struggling putting, hoong motor by the
or around circles give the ordinary visitor
the impression that have not learned the rudments
of city management.
Of course is that could put enough police
men at important traffic intersections could reduce the
jams and produce easier, steady flow of traffic.
WASHINGTON HAS NEVER HAD ENOUGH POLICE
MEN Congress has always been penurous about protecting
lives property here Police details have always had to be
made the expense of part of the cys interest
The Congressional Crime Committees inquiry has proved
beyond any doubt that the most beautiful capital in the
world is underpolced.
There substantial for any such Insane misery
policy has continued for years the result of the po
clans desire show the folks back home that they
ing the peoples money.
Actually they have been deprvng the people Of the nation
of safely poced capital and subecng them to the bar
barou inconvenience Of of these nationally famous traffic
jams.
Out of the eight billion dollars that Congress will spend
next year, there ought to be few thousand dollars for
enough police to MAKE THE CAPITAL s STREETS SAFE
AND COMFORTABLE.
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Marry-GO-ROund
Blu Helen ROWLand

that he's in love with some girl,
Some day, G great genius will
come along and discover a way
to reduce the number Of places
in which a man CAT leave his
hat, lose the tickets and hide
things from himself.
Men are not hard to persuade.
Any woman can make a man
feel sorry for himself - even
when he doesn't know why. Be-
cause feeling ABUSED" is a mans
favorite luxury. And as for per-
suading a man that she is in
love with him-that is merely
confirming his secret conviction!
A woman can win an argu-
ment with a man, if she tries;
but, by the time that she has
convinced him that he's wrong,
she has usually convinced him
that she's a terrible bore.
If the average man would put
as much technique and enthu-
siaSm into his love-making as
he does into his golf, he would
be a more brilliant success as a
Romeo.
Copyright, 1888. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Thanks, Senator Thomas

The District of Columbia owes vote of thanks to Senator
Elmer Thomas (D) of Oklahoma for his sympathetic and
acting as chairman expressed for the past several weeks while
acting as chairman Of the District Subcommittee Of the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
Morning after morning from 1890 until his work the
Senate floor caused him to leave the committee
this son of vigorous and generous State has listened
the pleas demands and caong Of official Washington and
its citizen groups.
The work has heavy The demands have been backed
with the vehemence Of people fighting for principles and
Ideals close to their hearts.
Not through the time this almost endless stream Of
District residents filed in and of the committee did
the committee chairman the members lose their kindly
understanding Of the problems presented for their condera
tion
To the chairman and every member Of his committee
Ehank you!
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The Human Side of the News
Blu EdUin C.. Hill

10 with a capital Of SIS. Some
one told him he looked like an
actor, whereupon he became
one, carrying a spear in the
Shakespeare company Of Walker
Whiteside and writing cheap
scenarios on the side.
BY accident he got a movie
directors job making the &C.
cepted 800-feet films which ran
for 10 minutes. His employers
wouldn't stand for anything
else. It was only by the subter-
fuge of making what were sup
posed to be five different stories
that Griffith was able to put
across the first serial.
JUST A COG
A friend in the Biograph Com
pany, knowing Griffith's family
history, suggested to him that
he read Thomas DiXon'S novel,
1.-THE Klansman." It seemed to
him that there was a picture in
it. Griffith tells the story him.
self:
81 agreed with him. When we
started to produce this film we
had no intention Of making a
full evenings entertainment but
as it progressed we hated to
cut it. My best argument for
preserving all of it was drawn
from seeing a quite inferior play
getting the people into a Broad
way theater at $3.50 a head. 1
said if people would give up
money for that show, they would
certainly pay So to see ours.
"And SO the great experiment
was made. The Birth of a Ma
ton made a tremendous for
tune for the men who invested
in it. 1t paid me only my sal
airy, and eventually it was the
cause of me losing my job.
81 thought as the piece
had been such a great success
that in future outputs 1 ought
to have, in addition to my sal
airy, a small percentage of the
profits. They laughed at me,
saying: You are only a cog in
a great machine So the cog,
that's me, got out"
"The Birth of a Nation" cost
probably one hundred thousand
dollars to produce. It has
earned around fifteen million
dollars, the absolute record of
all time.
Copyright. 1875. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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Finance Committee may have a
new chairman after 1887.
Governor Mike Conner, the
man who put the sales tax
across in "Ole Miss" and helped
thai State back on its finan-
cial feet is casting covetous
glarces at Harrison's place.
Conner, however, would have
a difficult time getting the vote
unless he secured the aid Of
some other persons.
Former Representative Ross
Collins is out of the running.
Observers says that he hasn't a
chance.
If Harrison continues his po-
Sition of national prominence,
hoWeUer, Mr.. Conner may come
to the Senate.
Harrison's colleague, Senator
Theodore G.. Bilbo, has no love
for his senior. Although at
times ne appears friendly to
Harrison, Bilbo is given to max
ing some rather nasty re-
marks about him, or so tits
said:
If Harrison were defeated
BilbO would be the senior sena-
tOr-a position he would like.
And Bilbo has said that he
would oppose Harrison, accord
ing to reports.
Senator Huey P. Long also
threatens to be a factor in the
fight. He says that he is go
ing oUer into Mississippi and
oppose Pat.
So altogether. it appears that
the senior senator from Mis-
sisSippi is going to be placed
in a hot race.
Down in the new Department
Of Justice Building they are be-
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Build Good Citizens
By James T. Williams, Jr.

With the expansion Of the
Civilian Conservation Camps
for which the work-relief bill
will provide President Roosevelt
will be able to carry out the
high hopes he expressed soon
after his Inauguration.
In his message to the Con-
gresS on March 81, 1888, the
President made the following
statement regarding these
camps:
"More important, however,
than the material gains will be
the moral and spiritual value
of such work. The Overwhelm-
ing ma ority of unemployed
Americans, who are now walk
ing the streets and receiving
private or public relief would
infinitely prefer to work.
eve can take a vast army Of
these unemployed out into
heathful surroundings. We can
eliminate, to some extent at
least, the threat that enforced
idlenesS brings to spiritual and
moral stability. 1t is not a
panacea for all the unempIoy-
ment, but it Is an essential step
In this emergency. I ask its
adoption"
One Of the great problems
which the nation and the Ad-
ministration dare not dodge to-
day is the public education Of
American youth. 1t is not
enough that the young men in
the conservation camps be given
honest and useful work. They
must be given also the oppor-
tunity to fit themselves while in
camp for the future.
THEIR BIRTHRIGHT
Deprived by the depression, as
many of these men are, of the
measure of public education
which is the birthright of every
American, they ought to be
given a chance to make up some
of that loss by the educational
training they get in the camps.
It was for this reason that
the President more than a year
ago directed the Federal Office
of Education to place at the dis
posal Of the conservation camp
commanders educational advis-
ers who would organize school
courses for each camp.
This experiment has worked
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A man had had an idea.
Whereupon it became my duty,
at the command of city editor,
to look into his idea and within
the sphere Of our newspaper to
tell the world what I thought OF
it.
With some miSgivings and
with a couple of kindred spir-
its, I made my way to the Lib
erty Theater in New York city
sometime around the first Of
March, 1915. We didn't like the
March air outside and we were
quite sure that we wouldn't
like what we were to see inside.
The moving picture wasn't for
the intelligenSia and, of course,
budding young journalists were
in that class. The cinema then
was a crude copy of the legiti-
mate stage, a never-ending series
of unintelligible melodrama and
pie-throwing comedies. made on
a shoe-String with a lot Of un"
known performers named Pick
ford, Gish and the like.
We, who went to scott, re-
manned to cheer. We were
thrilled and entranced; none ap'
plauded more vigorously than our
hard-boiled group, when at the
finish, a. man in a light gray
business suit came before the
curtain to acknowledge the ap-
probation of his work. Only 20
years ago, David Wark Griffith.
his Birth of a Nation" and,
the birth of the modern motion
picture!
AN EXPERIMENT
It's difficult to believe as one
looks upon a motion picture
theater on every street corner,
in every town and hamlet of the
entire civilized world and on
the plays with their realism.
with the actors talking-"David
Copperfield," THE Lives of a
Bengal Lancer" and lone Night
of Love-"
It all happened because the
boy from the hills of Kentucky
had the idea. He could bring
the movies to the level of the
spoken stage. He could take
them out of the nickelodeons.
Griffith was 35 years old at
the time. The son of "Old
Thunder Jake" Griffith" a Con-
federate cavalry leader, he had
come to New York when he was
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well. 1t has worked so we'll that
the time has come when the
education courses in the camps
can be expanded with advantage
to the household of the nation.
If the conservation camps are
to contribute to this end the
Federal Office Of Education in
cooperation with the camp COM
manders will be authorized to do
these things:
l. Recognize the place and
value of educational work in the
CCC as it has been recognized
in the Tennessee Valley Author
ity by shortening the hours on
work projects and increasing
the hours for education.
2. Provide at each camp a
well-lighted school room and
reading rooms.
3. Make provision in the camp
budget for a carefully formu-
lated educational program
which will be regarded as of
equal Importance with the work
project assigned each camp.
4. Provide text books and
school supplies required to sup
ply the demand for public edu-
cation in each camp.
5. Enlarge the teaching and
supervisory education staff At
the disposal Of each camp COM
mander.
MAJOR EMPHASIS
Unless the major emphasis
in the conservation camps is
to be placed on building Ameri-
can citizens instead of merely
doing a days work on some
forestry project the Nation will
be denied its fair share Of the
benefits of these camps.
The War Department and
the Federal office Of Educa-
ton are ready to cooperate to
this end.
And no other departments
Of the Government ought to be
permitted to frittter away the
opportunity to advance the
cause of public education
which the conservation camps
face if only the President will
suit executive action to the
eloquent words of his message
to Congress two years ago.
(ConYright. 1898. The Washington Timenl
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maintained at much less ex-
pense than regulars.
They insist, however. that the
training given the men be more
than a smattering knowledge Of
war and tactics.
There is also evidence that
the men eligible for enlistment
in the Reserve Corps are taking
more Of an interest in the sub
ject.
Applications are increasing as
the men prepare themselves for
an emergency.
Copyright, 1895. The Washington Tines
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OLD FAVORITES
ONE, Sweet Home! BY John H. Paine

Home, Sweet Home! BY John H. Payne
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it humble there s place like home;
"A charm from the sky seems to hallow there
Which, seek through the world er met with elsewhere
Home Home sweet sweet Home
There's place like Home! there's place like Home!
How sweet tits to sit meath fond fathers SMILE
And the of mother to soothe and begule!
Let others delight mid pleasures to roam,
But give me- oh, give me, the pleasures of homel
Home! Home! sweet sweet Home!
There's place like Home! there's place like Home
I TO thee I'll return, overburdened with care;
The hearts dearest solace will smile o there;
No more from that cottage again will 1 roam;
Be it so humble, there's place like home.
: Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home!
There's place like Home! there's place like Home
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tions of old fcvores among the poems for reprnting IN
| this spacel
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STILL LIKE EN- DUMB.
There never yet
Was any man
Of any age
Who didn't say
Gimme a gal
With brains;
A sensible gal
Who doesn't demand
A lot'uv
Expensive service,
Like orchids, n taxis,
N first night seats,
N swell cabarets,
N ritzy eats.
Gimme a gal
Who's game;
A gal who'll let you
Treat her
Just the same
AS another fellow
Who'll dig right in
And be a pal
If you're broke
A gal who doesn't
Give a darn
Whether she's wearing
A Paris model
Or oVerallS.
Never mind
If she isn't pretty,
Or hasn't
A good shape,
Or a slick
Line of chatter.
Such things
Don't matter.
A good brain
And a kind heart
They're what count
In a woman
They're what I want
In a GAL"
There never yet
Was any man
OF any age,
Who didn't say
Exactly that
When you asked him
What knid Of a gal
He wanted.
And having said it,
Then what?
Did he go out
And pick himself
Such gal?
No, dearie,
He did NOT!
And you know
AS well as ].
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02

"
Congress this
year has indi-
Gated a will
ingness to re-
store or at
least partial
ly build up
the Reserve
Corps.
Some mem
bers Of Con.
gress believe
that properly
ira ined re-
serves are of
u t m oSt i'm
portance but
CO Nld b e
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ton matters
Of national
m p o rtance,
his political
f e n C es a t
home are col
lapsing.
There are
many indica-
lions that I'M
less Mr.. Har-
ri S on lays
aside the Adj
m i nistration
C u d G Ell and
gets to work
in Mississippi
the Senate
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Id = = By Elsie Robinson

Like he says he wants?
There certainly are,
Thousands of 'eml
He meets them
Every day,
And has
Their phone numbers
And what's more,
He knows
They're sitting waiting
For him to call
But does our hero
Give them a Jingle?
Don't be silly!
OF course he doesn't.
Never mind what
He SAYS he wants
The way he REALLY
Likes 'en Is
DUMB.
And the reasons
Plain
The dumber they are.
The smarter HE looks.
A swell gal
Is really no treat
To the average male
SHE'S TOO HARD
TO LIVE UP TO.
And a bright gal
Is apt to make him
Look like
Thirty cents
Which is something
No vain liz boy
Can stand.
But a dumb gal makes
Even a moron seem
A Bernard Shaw
BY comparison,
And a helpless gal
Makes a bantamweight
Feel like a
Camera,
Which, after all,
Isn't such
An awful lot
To expect in return
For providing a jane
With board m lodging
m free millinery
For life.
So maybe there's
A lesson in this
For you, Sally;
And then, again,
Maybe there isn't.
But whether
You take it or don't,
You can bet
Your last nickle
On this
MALES STILL
LIKE EN- DUMB!
And, everything considered,
Maybe that isn't
Such a bad break,
After all,
For US, Sisters.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02
Wise Words

It is not so easy as people
suppose to hate continuously
Talleyrand.
Example is the school Of man.
kind, and they will learn at no
other.-Burka
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02

A b o u t wo-
men;
Always ay.
ing
H ow tn e y
like
Their women
bright,
Brave,
S t ong and
useful;
But when you
get
Right down
To b r a S S
tackS
You'll in d
that men
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ginning to experience the cool
ing system problem.
The Post Office Department
and others know the story we'll
but Justice is merely becoming
acquainted.
Since the new structure was
first occupied, employees nave
found the cooling system fairly
satisfactory.
On one Of the first recent
warm days, however, trouble
started.
The building was hotter than
it had been all winter despite
the cooler.
The Army and Navy, for the
first time in years, are witness
ing the working of a Congress
that apparently believes in the
National Defense Act to some
extent.
While little has been said
about it, both Secretary of War
George H. Dern and Secretary
IF Navy Claude A. Swanson are
extremely anxious that the re-
serve strength of both services
be developed.
Economies in recent years
have crippled the reserve forces
of both ARMY and Navy, but
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02
Lukewarm Love


Many a girl spends hundreds
Of dollars for the sake OF her
vanity that she would not dream
of squandering on mere COM
fort.
Once, the women at a we'd
ding used to look at the inno-
cent bride and weep. Now
they merely glance graphically at
the trusting bridegroom-and
smile.
When a man marries for
money, these days, it Is prob
ably because he figures that it
is Just as easy to quarrel with a
girl who can pay her own law
yers and her fare to Reno, as
with one who would hold out
for alimony.
Strange how time flies when
a man is kissing a girl, and
how painfully it hobbies along
when he knows she is expecting
him to come to a showdown
and talk matrimony.
This is the glamorous time Of
year, when every man imagines
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Pouty, whiny,
Helpless, extravagant
Lii CRATER
Who'll shake him down
For his last nickel
And then sue him
For breach of pocketbook
Because he hasn't got
A million more
And why is this?
Aren't there any
Good, sensible gals
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02
Greatest Show On Earth
By John SnUre, T.

While Senator Pat Harrison,
Democrat of Mississippi, spends
his time handling administra-
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The very minute
He gets through yelling
For a nice,
Sensible,
Brave,
Kind-hearted,
Modest,
Woodworking gal
With simple tastes,
He goes right out
And does his darndest
To find himself
Some mean, lazy,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02
Listen, World

Men Still Like Them Dumb
Funny thing
About men
They're always talking
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-02

This is the glamorous time Of
year, when every man imagineS