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The Washington times., 1935-09-23
Double Anniversary
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

September has indeed been
"a glorious month" in Amer.
ican history.
Having just observed Sep
tember II as a double anniver-
Sary-the birthday Of the Con-
Stitution of the United States
and of the Farewell Address
the household Of the nation
may well remember with graft
tude this week another double
anniversary-September "a, the
birthday of John Marshall, the
fourth Chief Justice of the
United States, and the greatest
in that illustrious line, and
the birthday of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Born at Germantown (now
Midland), in what four years
later became Fauquier county,
Virginia, on September "a,
1755, Marshall died in Phila-
delphia on July 6, 1885,
where he had gone for medical
attendance. His body was
taken to Richmond and lies in
Shockhoe Hill Cemetery. His
grave is marked by a marble
slab which bears simple in.
scription written by himself,
SUPREME TEST
It was the supreme task Of
this patriot to expound the
Constitution at what historians
agree was the most critical
period of its history.
AS Chief Justice the Opin-
ions Of Marshall "did more
than the utterances of any one
man to determine the way in
which the Constitution Of the
United States has been con-
Strued or understood for the
past hundred years."
In the greatest opinions asso-
ciated with his name and fame
1T was that Prince of Jurists,"
as the American historian John
Fiske says, "who, as Chief JUS
tice of the United States for
one-third of a century, thus fin
ished the glorious work" begun
by George Washington. James
Madison, Alexander Hamilton
and Thomas jefferson.
Marshall's opinions so estab-
lished the Constitution that the
National Government gained
the powers necessary to it's life
and protected the rights re-
tained by the States.
In these times when the radi-
Gals who are attacking the
American system of government
all along the line, denouncing
the Constitution as "outmoded,"
the Supreme Court as reaction
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Listen World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

is a term which will remain for
the most part foreign to the fe-
minnie point of view. Teams
often go places, play in delight
full surroundings and not infre-
quently have success, but the
real pleasure the woman derives
from the experience is her per-
sonal success. She wins only in
cidentally as member Of the
team"
Why do men find women so
difficult to understand? Why
do women raise such a hubbub
over things which seem petty
to men?
There's the answer.
To a woman, everything con-
nected with her personal life
is of supreme Importance be-
cause her whole interest is
centered on herself and her
particular scheme of things.
PRIVILEGED?
A man, on the other hand, is
forced to scatter his interest.
He may be no brighter than
the woman but his team life
has made him realize his rela-
tive insignificance.
And nothing short Of the
public eXecutioner can make
the average woman feel insig'
ificant.
All of which, according to
Helen Wills, is quite as it
should be with the mothers of
the race. And we'll have to
continue to take them AS Is.
But does that necessarily fol-
low?
Must women continue to be
bad sports in public, and un-
reasonable pests In private,
simply because they were in
bygone cave days? The finer
members of the sex don't think
so.
The modern business and
professional woman maintains
as high an ideal of team work
as any man. Yet, generally
speaking, the world continues
to regard the Dear Little Lady
as a pretty, privileged, pain
in-the-neck.
Is it because she can't be
anything else?
OR is It POSSIBLY Be
CAUSE MEN WOULD RATH-
Err STAND ANY SORT OF
IMPOSITION FROM FEMALE
INTERIORS THAN HAVE TO
COPE WITH THE EXACTING
DEMANDS OF FEMALE
EQUALS?
YOU tell us, Bill!
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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beer and setting up their politi-
cal dominions thereby. And
now it's tea!
Big Tim would have broken
his arm if he had tried to Jug
gle a teacup. It is the conten-
ton for the leadership of the
Fifteenth Assembly district be-
tween Supreme Court Justice
jeremiah T. Mahoney and John
E. Sheehy which is accoutred
and embellished with teacups.
AS might have been expected, it
is the women of the district, un-
der the leadership of Mrs.
Beatrice F. MindeS, who are
putting on the tea-party cam
paign.
Unreconstructed Tammany-
ties say women, having the
vote, are bringing about an
era of dude politics, and they
want to get back to brass-rail
fundamentals. But they are in
a minority. The old striped
tiger amt what he used to be.
Leading Tammany politicians
are now both gregarious and
grammatical - an impossible
Tammany combination in the
old days.
TRADITION
I think they're wrong about
the women being altogether re-
sponsible. The ancient Ameri-
can political tradition was that
a. man must pretend to be
either a roughneck or a yokel
if he expected to get anywhere
in politics. The present Senator
j. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois,
whose political gonfalon is a
set of pink whiskers, blew up
that venerable myth quite a
few decades before women got
the vote.
When he was a young man
in Seattle, he was to make one
of his first political speeches
to a convention of longshore-
men. Following a Shrewd
hunch, he rugged himself in the
doggiest clothes ever seen in
those parts - morning coat,
striped trousers, multicolored
vest, Ascot tie with a diamond
stickpin, and a gold-headed
cane. Then he diShed the
1ongShoremen a most erud1te
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ary" and John Marshall as "a
dictator" his birthday may we'll
remind the American people of
this tribute to the great Chief
Justice from the English states
man and philosopher, Viscount
Haldane, written in apprecia-
ton, to the author of Beveridge's
Life Of Marshall" He said:
NATIONAL OBSERVANCE
at is not only the light YOU
have thrown for me on the legal
aspects of the Constitution Of
your country that has appealed
to me. 1t is the picture which iS
embodied in your narrative of a
great statesman. a man, who, as
a Judge, did a piece of work un-
exampled in the history of the
world in putting flesh onto the
bone of a written Constitution
his was genius of a type as
extraordinary as it was fresh"
Thirty-four years after the
last of the five founders Of the
American Union was born the
Great Tribunal over which he
was to preside and so long be
practically the sole mouth
piece" came into existence with
the passage by the Congress on
September "a, 1889, of the First
Judiciary Act. It provided for
a Supreme Court of a Chief JUS
tice and five Associate Justices,
enumerated the inferior courts,
defined their jurisdiction and
made provision for appeals from
the State courts where Federal
questions we're involved.
The first seven chief justices
of the United States including
Marshall bore the title of "Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court Of
the United States" The title
was then changed to read "Chief
Justice of the United States"
Virginia led the nation this
year in observing the one-hun-
dredth anniversary of the death
of Marshall. Next year the one
hundredth anniversary of the
death of Madison, "the Father
of the Constitution" on June
%, 1885, will not go unobserved.
Two years hence Congress has
provided for a national observ-
ance of the one-hundred and
and fiftieth anniversary Of the
adoption of the Constitution of
the United States.
It will doubtless also provide
in due time for the ne-hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the
birth of the Supreme Court,
which is still four years away,
provided the Radicals fail in
their attempt "to undermine
what cannot be directly over
thrown"
Copyright. 1885. The Washington Times>
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
The Human Side of the News

At any rate, Mr.. Cram has
exactly the same idea and the
800 Tammany teas are, after all
these years, the golden brew of
his devising. It was the elegant
and grammatical Mr.. Cram,
never caught without his morn
ing coat and his Harvard &C
cent, who tutored the late
Charles F.. Murphy-the one
time saloon keeper, who became
a powerful Tammany chieftain
in social and sartorial matters.
Mr.. Murphy was an apt pupil.
Mr.. Grams tutelage came to in
clude other Tammany leaders.
They became as adept in hand
ling a salad fork as they had
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speech, full of two-dollar words.
They loved it!
Senator Lewis said many
years afterward that he had
known that the longshoremen
would be complimented when
they saw that he considered
them worthy of "seemly dress
and speech" Thereupon Mr..
Lewis became the fanciest
dresser and one. of the most
successful vote-getters in the
entire history of American
craftsmanship. I do not know
whether the late j. Sergeant
Cram knew Mr.. Lewis. 1t is
quite likely, for almost every
body else does.
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The Greatest Show On Earth
BY John Snure, jr.

sion was holding a competitive
examination for postmasters.
There were three candidates
for the particular job.
It was necessary for them to
write letters to Senator Lewis
B. Schwellenbach, giving their
qualifications.
One of them in his misSive,
which was intended to show his
ability, made two mistakes.
He incorrectly spelled the
names of both Senator Schwel-
lenbach and President Roose-
velt.
Although most of the present
occupants of the House and
Senate have taken to their heels
and left town, a few of the old
timers are wandering around
the National Capital.
Recently seen on Capital
streets were Senator David A.
Reed, former Republican pOten-
tate of Pennsylvania, and Sena-
tor Clarence C. Dill, diligent
Democrat from Washington.
Reed was burdened with thu
weight of politics.
Dill had Just come from Sc
attic Where he had earnestly ar
gued the details of the 1OeU-
EnoWn radio newspaper fight.
In connection with the sale
of the Governments "baby
bonds" one of the most active
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
By MOntier
By Edwin C.. Hill

been with a bungstarter. It was
the first time the old tiger had
ever been curried below the
knees. Some of the boys in the
back room were deeply disgusted
at first, but the grooming went
on, and now there are Tammany
leaders who would no more split
an infinitive than they would a
ticket.
There are, of course, zones
and strata in which Tammany
politics is pretty much as it
was. But it used to be that
one of those schooners Of beer
was so big that a shot-putter
couldn't have heaved it across
the bar, and it cost only a
nickel with a grand big free
lunch thrown in. Tea wouldn't
have had a. chance against
that kind of competition, but
things are different in these
days of small 10-cent glasses.
Then again, the flow of i'm"
migrants which THE McManuS
used to divert to Tammany,
with picnics and milk for the
babies, has come to an end.
New techniques are required.
The general result is that
Tammany has turned to an
intensive cultivation of its own
acres.
WOMAN'S PLACE
Enfranchised women have, Of
course, had much to do with
the above trend, regardless Of
historic origins and induce
ments. It is interesting to note
that, gaining citizenship, they
turn toward tea and decorum,
rather than to "battalions Of
DEATH" as are the Ethiopian
women, who are just now get"
ting up spear brigades for the
war with italy. Women can
fight as well as pour tea.
The Russian battalion OF
death" of 1917 and 1918 is the
most notable modern instance OF
women in war. There were about
5000 of them-nobility, bour-
geois, housewives, peasants, edu-
Gated and illiterate. During the
rise of Kerensky, they went into
action, about 80 miles from Riga,
endured a sustained fire for days
and repelled a German attack
with their rusty old guns.
They bobbed their hair, wore
anything they could lay their
hands on for a uniform, and
ratified around in the No. 18 bro
ganS Of the army.
LEGEND GREW
Quite a few of them were
killed, and a vast amount OF
legend grew up around them.
Later accounts reduced the ad-
venture to little military or his
toric significance, but revealed
the battalion as both grotesque
and heroic. There was indis-
putable evidence that women
could and would withstand gun
fire; that they fought with bay
onets and killed their men.
A tribute to Women'S courage,
of course, but an unhappy
thought as women, conservators
of life on the planet, organize IN
Ethiopia for killing purposes.
copyright, 1885, by King Features
syndicsAa. Iuc.)
The Washington times., 1935-09-23

them on your wife or sweet
heart, Bill! However, here's a
chance for you, and all the other
long-suffering males, to read
the things you've longed to say,
but dasn't. In the october issue
of Cosmopolitan Mrs. Helen
Wills Moody says things about
her sisters which are certainly
TINT if true-and calculated to
turn any tea party into mass
murder.
FOR THE TEAM
Without mincing one teensy-
weensy word, Helen comes right
out bang and declares that the
average woman isn't as yet a
good sport nor a public treat.
The reason being
SHE'S AN INDIVIDUALIST.
To be a good sport you must
be team-minded. Always include
the Other Fellow in the picture.
Instinctively weigh his rights as
you do your own. AS men have
learned to do. This isn't because
men have larger visions or
warmer hearts than women. Or
aren't as keen on serving Elk"
hibit A.
But men, through pressure OF
circumstances, have always lived
with and for The Team. Worked
collectively. Been trained to rec
ognize Team rules. But Woman
has played a lone hand.
Women" says Helen Wills,
"are complete individualists.
Each one feels herself to be the
center of the universe. Because
women are so individualistic,
they take no special pleasure in
playing on a team. Team work
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
Words of Wise Men

cannot praise fugitive and clustered virtue unexerced and
unbreathed sae out and her adversary but
sinks where that immortal garland to be
for not without dust and heat.-Mlton
A fool and a knave are plants of every sol.-BunS.
The medicine for disaster is equanimity-Syrus.
The Affections to which we are disturb
Claudianius.
Wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought-YounS
Very serious the wrath of upright man.-syrus.
Smooth runs the watd where the brook is deep-Hen1y
The Washington times., 1935-09-23

Sociation with
Q t h er citi-
ZenS?
And how do
YOU person
ally feel about
dealing with
women? Do
YOU like to
do b u siness
w ! Y IL U11CAI /.
Or duck when
you see them
coming?
Dang erous
questions! I'd
a d v is e you
NOT tn trY
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stirred from
their rest by
the news of
800 Tammany
t e a parties.
Beowulf and
h is ga n g,
C ru n c h i ng
bones and bel
lowing W a r
S o n gS, were
just a lot of
S i S sizes COM
pared to that
old-time Tam
many crowd,
heaving big
y
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men in the
Tre asury is
j a m e S
w. Br y a n,
one Of the
S p e C / a l
assistants t o
S e C ret ary
Henry M or
genthau, jr.
So it W a S
that a letter
on the sub
ject of "baby
bonds" W a S
ref err ed to
Mr.. Bry a n
- South.
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he naturally
went to see
on e of the
high moguls
about a job.
The mogul,
a n a t i o nal
ON m ittee-
man, was eX-
tremely curt
and failed to
receive Blom-
q u S t with
tn e ope n
arms of an
astute poll
tician.
Now this
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national committeeman was
later representing a power ana
light concern.
1t became necessary for him
to 60 to Mr.. BlOmquist. His at
titule was somewhat different
than it had been when Blom-
quist called on him.
They say that BlomQuiSt was
extremely busy at the time and
the gentleman had to cool his
heels for some three hours.
When Department of Justice
agents go out on a case they
are said to get their man.
That was true of w. A. Rorer,
who captured the notorious
Machine Cum Kelly.
Although supposed to be a
bad actor, Mr.. Kelly was taken
without a struggle.
The fact that Machine Gun"
failed to put up a fight seemed
to impress Mr.. Rorer, who also
has been known as "hard to
get" ........
Consequently, Mr.. Rorer, Uith-
out a struggle, has given up to
Miss Genie DGUiS Black. %.
yeGr-old niece of the late Eu-
gene Black, goUernor OF the
Federal ReServe Board.
He was captured without a
fight and is now on the way to
Yellowstone National Park,
manacled for life.
In one Of the larger Western
cities the Civil Service Commits
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"Dude Politics.

Unhappy ghosts stalk the
streets of New York these days.
They are the shades of THE
McManus and the Big and Lit
tie Tim Sullivans and the like,
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
They Won't Stretch

School buildings aren't made of elastic
If they could be stretched local officials wouldn't be
having such hard time this week squeezing an over
size school population into undersize school plant
THE PLAIN FACT IS THAT WAsHINGToN's
SCHOOL, SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN ADEQUATE TO
MEET THE CITY's NEEDS FOR YEARS AND
YEARS
And it isn't adequate today When the schools
open for the Fall session.
The school population of the city has been increasing
at the rate of three or four thousand annually for
eral years
Before this extra large enrolment started the city
already under -schooled.
SINCE THE LARGE ENROLMENT STARTED WE
HAVEN'T BUILT ENOUGH SCHOOLS TO MEET
THAT INCREASE, LET ALONE TO TAKE CARE
OF THE ACCUMULATED DEFICIT OF CLASS
ROOMS IN PREVIOUS YEARS
Our local officials both in school administration head
quarters and in the District Building have long realized
the need for vast expansion of the schools not only
to meet the present acute need but to provide for the
future
But these officials utterly powerless to put over
the programs which they have prepared and which they
can demonstrate with mathematical exactness to be
necessary.
EUeru effort TO act enough schools so that our
children can be given eUen reasonable GcCOnnOdG-
ton is blocked either at the Federal Bureau of the
BNdget or IN congress.
Back in 1908 comprehensive survey of the city
school buildings was made by official commission
That commission found many things wrong
One of its recommendations urged that several schools
be abandoned as unfit for use
Today some of those schools which were found unfit
for use twenty years ago will be opened-stl
part of an educational plant in a modern National
Capital
At other schools we will be opening flimsy shacks
which are accepted under the name PORTABLE.
In other schools the children will be put part time
basis.
In others the children will be put in overcrowded class
rooms.
TEACHERS IN VIRTUALLY ALL THE SCHOOLS
WILL BE TRYING TO HANDLE MORE CHILDREN
THAN WISE EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES BE-
LIEvE THEY CAN PROPERLY INSTRUCT.
This is true picture of conditions prevailing i"
Washington, the city that the national politicians
O rule the local citizenry say they Uant to serUe
as the "1nodel city, of great NatiOn
The Washington times., 1935-09-23

Back in the days when H. A.
Blomquist, ace investigator for
the Black committee Investigate
ing utility lobbies, came to town
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
Are Women Good Sports? I

How do women stack up as
Regular Citizens?
How game are they? How
fair? How broadminded? How
honest and reliable in their as
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by a South secretary " ''''''
ern postmaster. r
The letter, sent by a South
ern woman, read:
81 have been told about the
babv bonds I have had my
baby and now 1 want the
bOnd!" r,....
cOpyrisht1sss. The Washington Times
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OLD FAVORITES
A FUreWeU
Charles Kingsley

A FareweU Charles Kingsley
My fairest child have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;
Yet, if you will, one quiet hint I'll leave you
For every day.
I'll tell you how to sing clearer carol
Than lark who halls the dawn on breezy down;
To earn yourself purer poets laurel
Than Shakespeare's crown.
Be good sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things not dream them all day long:
And so make Life Death, and that Forever
One grand sweet song.
Teuders are nvited to send to the editor their sugges
tons of old fuvortes among the poems for TeprSnt'"g IN
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Evening star., 1935-12-08
by JACK DEMPSEY
Acme Photos

before the gong take more out of fighter
than lot of punches. It's strain to keep
still when you're all ready to tear loose
know that when was keyed up and anxious
to get going couldn't keep still just watched
my man and wondered how soon they'd let
me at him.
But Baer wasn't IN any hurry to begin. He
stood there perfectly still. looking out over
the crowd, with his back to the opposite
corner, where Louis was waiting with his
handlers, and stayed perfectly still, looking
out over the heads of the crowd.
Loosen up, Max" told him. Jump
around and let goa few punches Warm up"
He didn't say word, but took few steps
and shot out his fists two or three times, not
very hard; then stood there, trying to draw
deep breath, almost gasping, and there was
heavy frown on his forehead
Twas little worried at the way Max was
making such an effort to get full breath.
That meant he was worrying.
go get him the minute the gong rings" |
told him. 'Pile into him and throw lefts and
rights as fast as you can. Cut out all the
clowning and concentrate on outing him
quick Don't give him chance to get set -
just let him have everything you've got"
Max nodded and said, II will"
The gong. Louis came out slowly sup
pose he had read that Max was going to jump
in and smash him right off the reel, and he
was waiting to stop him.
But Louis didn't have to do any stopping.
Max went in slowly, still with that deep
Evening star., 1935-12-08

punches at Louis Baer was petriied. That
comes from the state of mind any fellow may
get into before battle He'd be better off
with broken hand than with that doubtful
feeling, that wondering what the other fellow
is going to do to him. A champion thinks of
what he is going to do to the other fellow
That's what keeps him steady, even when he
is getting stung.
When the two weighed in before the fight,
Max asked, How am l, Doc?"
First Glass; the doctor said You're
one hundred per cent you're better than you
were last time"
"Oh," says Max that's good thought
l was going to get killed"
Of course, he was only kidding You know
how he's always making funny cracks and
keeping people guessing But up at the
Stadium that night he stretched himself on
the rundown couch in the dressing room and
lay there for half an hour, not moving and
not saying word-very different from his
fooling and joshing before his other fights.
thought at the time that he felt so sure of
himself that he was resting easy.
belOIe IlnS CIHle Reminded MIN IldI ne
was to shadow box a while so he would be
warmed up and ready for business. He got off
the couch and moved around pretty well, but
somehow there was none of the zip and tear
you like to see boiling up in a fellow before he
goes in there to win.
When we got into the ring, all ready to go,
we had to wait several minutes while they
introduced few fighters. Those last minutes