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The Washington times., 1935-01-12
DISTRICT SURE
Of SAME PLAN
AS STATES
National Measures Drawn
at White House Farley
With Congress Chiefs

Old age pensions, unemploy-
ment insurance and other social
legislation for the District Of
Columbia probably will be en-.
acted during the current session
of Congress to conform with ma.
tional legislation of that type
which is scheduled to be passed.
This became apparent today
after it was learned that prepara-
tions for Congressional conSidera-
ton of national measures of this
type were made at a conference
yesterday between Presid lent
Roosevelt and members of the
Senate and House who have
taken the lead in sponsoring this
type of legislation.
Federal Aid to States
It was announced by Senator
Frederick Van Nuys, CD, of In
diana, who participated in the
White House conference, that the
national legislation will be drawn
so as to provide for by the Fed.
eral Government to those States
which pass the social legislation
laws which conform to the Speci-
fications set out in the general
law.
Senator Van Nuys said details OF
the legislation were not discussed
at the White House, but that such
details will be worked out by Con-
gressional committees.
After it was pointed out that
Senators Royal S. Copeland DO.
of New York, and Arthur Capper
(RO, of Kansas, both members OF
the Senate District Committee,
have introduced a special District
old age pension measure, Senator
Van Nuys said he would confer
with those Senators with view
to aiding them in seeing that the
District measure conforms to the
national law.
Job Insurance
AS to unemployment insurance,
it was pointed out that while
the national legislation probably
will not be concerned with those
whose salary is more than $500
annually, there are many in
Washington whose salaries are
less than that. Therefore, it was
suggested, there probably will be
a special unemployment insur.
ance measure for the District en-
acted.
Senator Copeland, in discussing
his District old age pension pro-
posal, said he anticipated some
national legislation on the sub
ject, and, therefore, did not intend
to press for action on his bill un-
til the national legislation was
written. The District measure
can be altered so as to conform
to the requirements of the ma
tional legislation. and with bill
already before the Senate, the
local legislation could be whipped
into shape quickly.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
Ken Murray
Says:

1t looks like everything hap
pens to Washington. First, Con-
gress opens with a lot of high
pressure talk. and now, those
SaleSmen at the Auto Show. ...
What a spot for a gas-mask
salesman.
Nevertheless, the new cars are
really beautiful. and as usual,
they're designed to sweep the
pedestrians off their feet.
Honestly, they have so many
new safety devices, it looks like
the only way you can possibly
lose cOtnrol of one of these 1885
models. is to miss a payment
on it.
While lots of orders are being
taken at the show, the theme
song of those waiting until
spring, seems to be, "Stay AS
Cheap AS You Are"
BUT REMEMBER:
In spite of all the mechanical
improvements on modern cars
they still lack something to
control baCk-Seat drivers.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
DIR. CARROLL HERE

DR.. j. J. Carroll, New York
psychic lecturer, will conduct spe-
cial services at the Psychic
Science Church of Christ, 1879
irving st. N. W., Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday evenings at
o'clock. DR.. G.. Klinefelter, pastor,
will preside. Reservations may
be made by communicating with
DR.. Klinefelter at the church
offices.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
BICYCL|ST, "A,
BADLY HURT

A 14-year-old bicyclist, Glenn S.
Skemp, of the $500 block Seven
tenth st. N. E., is near death in
Sibley Hospital today, the latest
Washington traffic victim of 1885.
He was struck by a truck while
riding in the 100 block Lawrence
st. N. E. late yesterday.
Joseph D. Barnhart, "a, Of the
first block R st. N. W., driver of
the truck, was not held.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
Radio Evangelist
Here for 2 Talks

H. M. S. Richards, Southern
California radio Evangelist, has
been engaged for a series of talks
here by the Seventh Day Ad.
ventist Church, of Takoma Park
and the Washington Missionary
College. Tonight at 8:15 he will
speak at the Takoma Park church
on "The Man God Forgot" At
10:45 a. m. tomorrow he will lee.
ture at the missionary college on
"Cleaning Out the Wells"
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
LICENSED TO WE'D

ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. IL.
Marriage licenses have been is
sued at the Montgomery county
courthouse to James Tyrus Dur
rett, %, and Margaret May
Fones, 10, both of Alexandria, Va;
George Guy Farrar, %, Alton, Va,
and Mary Ellen Young, 81, Green
wood, Va; and Eldridge Lee
Cheatham, %, and Edith Estelle
Wood, 10, both of Snowden, Va.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
Stop Light Asked
For Child Safety

A petition for installation Of
traffic lights on Columbia Road
at Seventeenth Street and On
tario Road has been sent to the
District Commissioners by the
members of the H. D. Cooke
Parent Teacher Association. The
lights are sought to protect chill
dren of the area attending school
The Washington times., 1935-01-12

Plants and human beings evi-
IDENTIFY have the same COM
plants. The bulletin of Mr..
H. F. Balm, Of the Bureau of
Plant Industry, makes me think
so. Says Mr.. Balm:
"Once a plant gets False
Blossom it is doomed. No cure
has been found. False Blossom
Is caused by Leaf Hoppers,
which spring from flower to
flower"
The Washington times., 1935-05-07
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

This is sterilization of the Cosmopolitan produc-
ton soon to be released by Warner BrotherS)
Stephen Chase youthful and ambitious, is field man
in Manchuria for the American Oil Company. When he
had devoted three gears the cork he arranged for his
fwlough during chjch he planned to marry Lucy, his
American Sweetheart.
But echen the time Lucy refused to go through
Nth the MARRIAGE the grounds that Stephen noW
a veritabIe stranger.
Beacdered Stephen marres the first girl he encount
ers in Yokohama Oho proves to be Hester Wentworth,
rChose father had Just died trip to China and aOho IS
nov alone the 1Uorld The couple start housekeeping
in company hut in Manchuria but Stephen spends most
of his time travelling in the cast Manchurian eCastes
and sell cheap amps to coolies thus Increasing the oil
output tremendously But during his travels he aOonders
if he had done right By bringing Hester to this terrible
country here she forced to be alone great part
of the time.
The Washington times., 1935-05-07
''Oil for the Lamps Of China
Western Life, Love Clash With
Ancient Ways Of the
ar East

This is sterilization of the Cosmopolitan production
soon to be Shovn at Warner Brothers Earle Theater
The Washington times., 1935-05-07

was IlSuIlN HCIS IIdu UCCh
BY noon, from that inexhaus-
ible supply of China'S millions,
she had selected a cook. He
said that he would get a house
boy for her. She felt proud of
her initiative. But after a
tiffin of sodden bread and a
custard made from bad eggs,
and the cooks disappearance
Immediately afterward with the
advance money for marketing,
Hester had to acknowledge that
she could not read Chinese
character, and so could not
choose her servants.
A note came from Stephen.
Could she manage to entertain
the director and his wife? They
were coming in late that after
noon. Hester looked at the
clock. Four hours before the
train was due. They'd have to
have Stephens and her room.
And there was dinner to get for
five of them, including the
boss.
Well, she had the coolie from
the office, and he had a friend
who would cook dinner. She
could get the boss boy to
serve tonight. She mustn't let
Stephen down.
The New Boss
At five alclock the house was
clean and fresh as soap and
water could make it. But
Hester's brows drew together
in concern when she thought
of the dinner. The cook did
not promise too we'll. She,
herself, had made the mayor
naise for the salad. She was a
little fearful that it had
curdled. 1t was all right so
long as she stirred it, but when
she left it-Still, she had
charged the cook to beat it
the very last minute.
She was ready now to join
the others at the office. They
were all going to the station
to meet the directors train.
Darkness had settled over
the station, the wind going
with the daylight. At last the
toot of the engine, the train
grinding to a stop, the boss 60
ing forward with that charac-
teristic shake of his shoulders,
the coolies lanterns thrust for
ward and up. For a moment
Hester envisioned New York,
city of the successful, as she
glimpSed a perfectly attired
masculine figure, absorbed in
helping a woman alight from
the train. And such woman!
Hester, at Sephen's side, gave
a gasp, almost a sob.
I'm a trump beside her"
The moment of appraisal be-
fore the two groups mingled
was over. Toward Stephen and
Hester Jim led a short Stocky
man with a large paunch, over
which a watch chain cleaned.
HE looks surly, like a bully"
thought Hester.
Mr.. Cobb, this is Stephen
Chase and his wife"
$50 you're Chase and you're
married?" he was saying to
Stephen.
Eyes, sir" answered Stephen,
looking him straight in the
eye.
81 suppose it's congratula-
tons"
Eyes, SIR said Stephen
again.
"Well, you got 'em!" pro-
nounced the Shanghai mana
ger and turned on his heel,
leaving them oddly discon-
Certed.
Then Director Swaley pushed
past Cobb's heavy figure, ignor-
ing the boss and Jim, and
came toward them, shaking
Stephens hand, giving Hester's
gloved one a pat.
Again the brown road, the
line of rickShaS, longer now,
the lanterns hanging from the
shafts, the pullers' legs twink
ling in the light. Just ahead
of Hester. the directors wife
nestled cozily in her fur coat
and two rugs. Hester drew
her feet under her for warmth,
valnly trying to faSten her mind
on her duties as hostess.
The alley, the path, the rick.
The Washington times., 1935-05-07
NOW READ ON

When her front door shut out the shadow of the trek
Hester moved about her house in mood of fierce pleasure
Hers she felt, for the first time Free, finally of
thing Kin had brought to it. She knew Stephen hadn't
wanted him to CO. but she didn't Something that
rightly hers had been given back to ber
The Washington times., 1935-05-07

4 regret exceedingly the accident that caused the
burning Of your sloop, Captain De Cana" he said.
But now that circumstances place you aboard my
ship, am happy to have all of you with me. If you
care to join my company"
The Washington times., 1935-05-07

He surveyed the little group from the Good Hope.
scud skorry first spoke up II can't fairly stand
about idle, suh an eff Cap'n De Cana lets me, sub,
I'll try to earn my keep while we's with you"
The Washington times., 1935-05-07

AS the pirate ship Royal James sailed slowly west
ward, towing the adjourned hulk of the soop
Good Hope Captain Stede Bonnet, the gentleman
pirate, called his prisoner-gues into conference
ALI but Pedro who had joined the pirates.
The Washington times., 1935-05-07

De Cana bowed to his host. 1--WE are your pris-
onerS, Sir, captured against our WILL while fighting
I cannot be party to piracy, but since have lost
my ship, free all members of my from obliga-
ions to me-"
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Evening star., 1935-05-12

Not that he could. with a girl like
this, of course. She would not fit in
there. They were Of different worlds.
She would be wrong, look wrong, wear
the wrong clothes, say the wrong
things. make the wrong friends; and
those things mattered. If you were a
man like he was. that was to say. with
duties and responsibilities towards a
name and a place. II was pity, but
there it was. He felt lonely suddenly.
because she was such dear. 'If only
] were myself and not a peer" he
thought.
Have kept you waiting very
long?" a voice was saying.
He blinked with charmed surprise
Evening star., 1935-05-12

He made pilgrimage to the shrine.
He had always felt that Americans
had as good right to Shakespeare as
the British, because the first American
colonists had not left England till
after Shakespeare's death. One Of the
villagers. bearing him speak this
heresy said: e
There's two of your countrymen
in town "a young American noble
man and his tutor"
"A young American nobleman?''
Payne exploded. why. there's no
such thing as II he's a fraud. I'll
expose the scoundrel. Where is hep
There he goes now - him and his
tutor. just crossing Clopton's Bridge"
Payne. in a rage. hurried after the
brace of swindlers. the traducers of
country marred by no ignoble nobility.
They turned. One of them rushed at
Payne. Payne rushed at him. They
embraced - there on the ancient
fourreen-arched bridge of the time of
Henry VII. Payne cried: Irving.
Washington Irving! Well. I'll be -
Payne! Howard Payne! So will I!
This is Jack Renwick."
''But some fool said you were calling
yourself an American nobleman.
travelling with his tutor"
''And so l am. European BARRIERS
and Wallets are always travelling in
America as French marquises and
Italian counts. I'm only returning the
compliment. In Paris ! called myself a
young Mameluke prince with his
tutor. 1t works wonders. Try itr'
always up to something! Re-
member how. when you were a young
brat in New York ="
A wave of homesickness swept over
Payne as they talked. and he vowed
once more to follow Shakespeare's
august example. put off the actors
masks and settle down no more to
roam. For hours he and Irving tossed
"reminiscences at each other and lived
over old scenes.
They adjourned to the tavern and
Evening star., 1935-05-12
Magazine Section

house tapping his cane against the
patent leather of his evening shoes.
He was looking forward to the evening
that lay ahead. 1t was a relief to be
incognito for once; not to be pigeon
holed because one was peer. 1t was
disheartening never to be disasso-
ciated from ones title. never to know
whether you were asked to places be-
cause you we're liked or because you
were a peer. 1t was fun to be going out
this evening with someone who knew
ncthing of one. who just thought one
was amusing. young and handsome.
She was a nice person to be thought
nice by. too. So fresh and gay and
independent. A jolly companion.
loyal friend. 1t would be nice to be
married to somebody like that. 1t was
time he married. There was his place
in Lincolnshire. He would like to be
settled with a young wife in that grey
house in that green country.
Evening star., 1935-05-12

Look at that girl! She has survived
storms of abuse that would topple
oaks over. but she's like the flower that
bends till the gale is past. then lifts a
lovelier face than ever. What a play
Mary Goodwin would maker
Shed be laughed of the stage"
THAT girl laughed off? Why she's
gone through more than Medea or
Electra. Lucrece. Lady Macbeth -
anybody"
That's just what l mean. When
tragedy or bravery is piled on too
thick. it turns to farce. That's what
saves the bulk Of US from the insane
asylum. Just before we begin to claw
our eyes out like Oedipus. we begin to
laugh. That Goodwin girl loves the
craziest Of poets. Look at him! They
run away to France. come back penni-
less. have a brace of babies without
benefit Of clergy.
Her step-sister Glare goes after
that fiend Lord Byron and has a baby
by him. and Byron has to skip out of
England to escape being stoned in the
streets: for there are limits even to
London's patience. Mary's half-sister
Fanny takes laudanum and dies -
the gossips say because she also loved
Shelley. The man is poisonous. And
the other day his wife Harriet browns
herself. leaving two children. Shelley
asks for them, and the court says he is
unfit to have his own children. He'll
have to leave the country. ! hope he
has the decency to marry Mary now"
MARY Mary Goodwin? Shelley"
"What else can he do? And you
think she's a fit character for play!
The audience wouldn't believe her for
a moment. But she's a nice girl at
that. Come and meet her."
Payne shook his head. He was
afraid to meet her now.
Kenney misunderstood: Turning
respectable?"
Payne shook his head. She was so
much more than respectable. To him
Mary was the heroine Of heroines -
Evening star., 1935-05-12
Man Without a Home
Continued from page four

SOVtWbDeO JTOU pOxe JOhW
drank and swapped anecdotes till they
fell asleep over their mugs. The next
day Irving went north to his business
Office and Payne back to his shop. the
theatre. They promised to meet again
in America soon. But neither went
back for score Of years, and it was in
Paris they met and formed curious
partnership.
Back in London Payne found it
harder and harder to get engagements
as an actor. but he spent his enforced
leisure in making adaptations of the
French plays.
1t was at Charles Lambs that he
saw Mary Codwin again and had his
first chance to speak to her. Lamb was
coming up in the literary world and
his beloved sister Mary was out on
one of her vacations from the mad.
house. but still mad enough to receive
in her home Mary Goodwin and Shelley
though the doors of nearly all other
homes were closed against them.
Payne kept aloof to study Mary.
She was only nineteen and UNANIMOUSLY
notorious, yet. in the all-tolerant eyes
of the actor playwright. strangely
pure. though she had had one baby
little girl that lived just long enough
to die. and had another child in her
arms now, and the brevity of his life.
too. was written in his pallor and the
anguished love in the face Of the
young mother still unwed.
The theatre gave Payne most OF his
moral code and he could not forget
that the young Norval. his favorite
stage hero. whose fate brought so
many tears to the eyes Of the multi
tudes. was also a child of shame - or.
in the prettier phrase. a love child. To
Payne's mind, characters and situa-
tons that won tears and applause in
the theatre should receive at least
mercy in outside life. He found Mary
Shelley far more beautiful now than
ever, and he said to James Kenney.
with whom he had elaborated on a
play.
Evening star., 1935-05-12

romance; as one dreamed Of it, and
never found it. He looked at her, and
his eyes were fond.
I'm going back to England in
three days. he said. Don't you think
it would be fun if you were to come
with me?'
Il think it would"
Wouldn't it make things easier if
we we're to be married first?"
Maybe"
"Yet you don't know thing about
me-"
"One doesn't need to. with a man
like YOU"
A month later in a large bedroom
Evening star., 1935-05-12
May IL, 1885

that looked over green lawns and park
land. she stood arranging dresses in
wardrobe. There were many dresses
there. but it was the pink satin even
ing frock that her hand caressed.
Il shouldn't be here at all but for
you." she thought. II owe everything
to YOU"
But it was to an incident far further
back that she owed her happiness.
Her presence as peeress in a
country house was due, as was the
return of an American sailor to an
empty house. as was the promotion Of
drunken French official, the funeral
feast of a young aide-de-camp. the
resolve of black girl to know romance
before she was too old. to bright
plumaged bird that had flown on a
sunny afternoon screechingly above
the green jungles OF an island in the
West Pacific.
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THIS WEEK
Consequences
Continued from preceding p0ee

at an exquisitely lovely creature in a
pink satin gown.
This isn't true" he thought. This
can't be the girl bathed with on the
beach,"
This can't be true, he repeated. as
the dinner ran its course; as they drove
afterwards to dance on a roof garden.
She was the same fresh companion
that he had known and dived with. yet
she had something added to her; a dig
nifty, a sense of power, that befitted
the hour and the place. She's right
in this atmosphere" he thought,
Just as she was right in the sea. She
would fit anywhere"
1t soas worth risking. Here was
Evening star., 1935-05-12

but always in the theatrical sense. for
to him. heroines, like heroes, we're
people who went through tremendous
tragedies tremendously. He saw Mary
Goodwin as little tragedienne march,
ing beautifully to some grand doom.
He was afraid to meet her lest she de-
stroy the illusion by some simple word.
Soon he learned that Mary and
Shelley were married and gone to
Italy. Suddenly the bookstalls of
England were loaded with book
written by Mary's own pen, a work of
immortal horror, "Frankenstein'
When Payne read it, it made his flesh
crawl. He was dazed to find so gentle
and beautiful a creature as that nine
teen-year-old girl writing the story of
a man who. longing to lift humanity
above itself, took parts Of loathsome
corpses. made Of them a monster and
gave it life. only to find that, instead
Of helping mankind upward. it de-
stroyed everything its creator loved,
and became a demon of evil because of
its vast and bitter lonesomeness.
Payne wondered it this were not
Mary's own somhre comment on the
life of her poet Shelley. who tried to
uplift his race with song and brought
only ruin to himself and those dearest
to him.
Payne had no such soaring ambi-
tiOns, yet misfortune crushed even
his humblest efforts. though nothing
could crush his endless industry. He
was struggling forever to get himself
on firm ground; and he won a real
success with his patchwork tragedy
"Brutus". but the managers took all
the money.
He became an actor-manager. He
took the old Sadler's Wells theatre and
refurbished it at great cost, with bor-
rowed money. Then everything hap
pened. Old George III died and
mourning was declared. The new king
quarreled with the queen, and the
mobs sided with her and began to turn
carriages over in the street. to the
great encouragement of theatre going
Desperately Payne wrote plays and
played in them. But he was not 50
new now nor 50 beautiful: his boyish
figure was little managerial.
Then one day the sheriff closed up
his bright theatre. A bailiff laid a hand
on his shoulder. One of his creditors
had ordered his person seized as &C.
curity. He could not furnish bail. The
sheriff turned him over to the warden
of Old Fleet prison. who turned him
over to keeper. who led him through
swarms of human and other vermin.
women of the street smoking and eurs-
ing and fighting. leprous beggars.
shiny pickpockets, drooling maniacs,
murderers. He passed men who had
grown old and would die in these grim
corridors for no other crime than
Payne's - bankruptcy.
The turnkey thrust him into a cell
no bigger than his dressing-room at
Drury Lane on the night OF his first
triumph. Those great eyes OF his that
had made the ladies quiver saw moth
ing now but grimy, crawling walls. a
little filthy fireplace. with leaky
kettle and rusty pot and pan or two.
where he could cook his own cruel
when he could get it. Very starvation
faced him. He had said he hated
vagabondage. Well, his strolling days
were over. He had not found that
home he had dreamed of. but here
he was at journeys end. He paced
his narrow stage. beating his brow in
vain for some scheme of escape.
ITO Be Continued Nest Week)