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flashlights and covered their
faces with their caps.
The Java Ape Man who was
the first one to be interviewed
by our correspondent was both
amused and incredulous at the
report.
"WhO did you say it was""
he asked. smiling so that the
back of his head fell off.
"He calls himself the China
Fossil Man." was the reply.
"WOuld a China Fossil Man
be anything like the japanese
Sand Man? Or does it mean
that he calls around at back
doors for old fossils, like a
garbage man or an old clothes
man."
1t was explained that the
China Fossil Man actually claims
to be a fossil himself and says
that he lived 100000 years ago.
"He must have some other
name than just China Fossil
Man." said the Java Ape Man.
He can't go about just calling
himself China Fossil Man,
China Fossil Man. My real
name. for example, is pithecan-
thropus erectus."
81 believe" said the inter
viewer, chat there is some talk
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hours to get all the remain
ing matter out of the way if
they did not have the simple
expedient of pigeon-holing most
of the proposed legislation.
Action thus far this session
does not compare very favor
ably with the work done in the
first two months of the pre-
ceding session.
In that time the boys had
whipped through to the Presi-
dent and sent to the State De.
partment Is public laws, two
public resolutions and nine pri'
vate laws.
They are going to be forced
to start some fast work If they
want to get out of the Capitol
by July.
On q recent busy day q
Treasury official WGnted one OF
the numerous messengers tDho
zoiter about the Department.
He rang the buzzer, received
no response. rang again and
finally called on the phone.
The voice of a colored mes
senger responded:
I'VE can't come in just now.
We are in conference"
The official demanded to
know what they were confer
ring about.
The voice replied:
1--WE are in conference on to.
days numbers!"
Although Representative Rob
ert L. Doughton OF North Caro-
lima is advancing in years The
doesn't list his Gge), he is one
of the most active men in the
House.
AS chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee he is being
called on this session to handle
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THEY'RE AFTER SALT.
That grass, for all its
scorched dryness. is Succulent.
Those hills, in spite Of their
grim immensely, afford friendly
bedding. And the winds are
kind and the trickle of water in
the creek is enough for the most
exacting COW.
But, however soft the bed or
green the grass or sweet the
water, cows need salt.
So, somewhere in the hills
their owner dumps a great salt
chunk, and when need drives
the herd they come sagging
over the mesas and the plains
to lay their tongues against its
saving bitterness.
Men are like that, too. The
bodies of men need salt.
Men have given hope and
honor to get salt for their bodies.
Men have traded jewels and
fought wars because Of that
tingling madness in their flesh.
They might have had other
foods in abundance. Sweet. soft
food, juicy meat, spicy savories.
but without salt all that food
lost it's SAVIOR.
MEMS SPIRITS NEED
SALT. TOO.
A ROUGH CHUNK OF Elk
PERIENCE TO WHICH THEY
MUST RETURN FROM TIME
TO TIME.
Something primitive, COM
polling, that would cut through
the taste of soft, fat, spicy
living.
A SALT LICK
Sorrow is a salt lick
Hardship is salt lick
Humiliation is a salt lick
Competition and criticism are
salt licks-
So do not try to eliminate
these things from your life. Do
not try to avoid them.
If you have not tasted sorrow,
go out and help bear the sorrow
of others.
If you have no hardship, &C.
cumulate some.
If you have never been hum1n-
ated, take a good look at your
self and get that way.
If you have no competition or
criticism, court them.
LIFE WITHOUT SALT
LOSES IT'S SAVIOR.
BEWARE OF A LIFE THAT
HASN'T A SALT LICK CA.
CHEF SOMWHERE IN ITS
HILLS. THAT LIFE IS
DOOMED. TT WILL DIE OF
ITS OWN SOFTNESS AND
SWEETNESS.
Copyright. 1898, by King Features
Syndicate, inc.)
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ing power with that Of parole.
BY parole Is meant the re-
lease OF prisoners after careful
examination into their i1di'
vidual cases by an intelligent.
fearless. honest, fun-time parole
board. This is the board which
for some time has functioned in
the Department of Justice Of
the Federal Government.
thus far President Roosevelt
has resisted the efforts Of his
unwise political advisors to sub
ject this board to political ma
nipulaiton.
Writing recently on this sub
ject Clair Wilcox said:
parole must be distinguished
from pardon. Pardon involves
forgiveness. Parole does not.
Pardon is a remission of pun
iShment. Parole is an extension
Of punishment. PariOned pris-
OnerS are free. Paroles may be
arrested and reimpriSOned with
out a trial. Pardon is an act
Of executive grace: parole Is an
administrative expedient."
In the Federal courts and in
the few States which have fol.
lowed the example of the Fed
eral Government by providing
for a carefully supervised sys-
tenn of parole, the judges can
adjust their sentences to pre-
scribe the proper amount of SER
vice in prison because they can
rely upon the utilization OF
parole to reinforce the effect
of the imprisonment.
Wise judges tell you that a
sentence of eight years with the
reasonable assurance that the
last four years will be under
supervised parole is a much
better protection to society
than a four-year sentence every
day of which must be served
behind the bars.
GOOD RECORD
Over SO. per cent of all the
men released by the Federal
Governments parole board have
completed their full period OF
time without any fault or
breach of the rules.
This record is the answer to
all those who from ignorance or
with evil intent question the
value of honest parole in the
prevention of crime. They do not
know the difference between
pardon and parole, or between a
crooked lawyer and his political
stoolpigeon, and the honest law
yer who recognizes his response
bility as an officer of the court.
Copyright. 1895. The Washington Time
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political exploitation of the
parole system of which many
States are guilty today. +
Speaking before the New Jer-
sey Crime Conference, called by
Governor Hoffman of that
State recently to unity the war
against crime on the part of
New Jersey and the neighbor-
ing States, Sanford Bates, Presi'
dent Roosevelt's director of Fed
eral prisons, said:
FLAGRANT ABUSES
"The public should be aroused
to the fragrant abuse of the
parole system in some of our
States, as we'll as to other
abuses which hinder our efforts
at crime reduction, but it is
equally important that the sig
nificant progress made towards
a safer method of release from
prison should be retained"
If all States adopted the
system of parole established by
the Federal Government, the
parole system in every State
would aid in preventing crime.
But the abuse of parole by
many States simply means
that these States are permit
ting crooked politicians and
crooked lawyers to utilize the
parole system for their own
Sordid ends.
When this is done parole be-
comes a public menace instead
of a public safeguard.
Some of the worst offenders
in the exercise of executive
clemency have been the COVER
nors of certain States which
have become notorious for the
abuse of the pardoning power
This abuse has caused many
people to confuse the pardon
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Those Good Old Days

Things aren't what they used to be, oldmers complain
The winters aren't cold the summers as hot; life as
amusing, and and forth.
Maybe they're not, but we're glad we're living where we
1885 instead of in Wyoming 14O0OO0O0 years ago
Dr. Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural
History who's patching up lot Of bones found in the Wyo
ing hills there gigantic salamanders sea epents
and onstrous animals that would have made Primo Carnera
look like an understood peanut
Well take things the way they
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le1G. he mas
never made the journey before
in his life. He cannot read the
road signs; he does not know
the names of the towns, and he
has no knowledge of geography
or the lay of the land. On the
second day he is back home,
travel worn. tired, and hungry.
Which of his five senses did he
use in finding his way home?
A cat is placed in a basket
and carried II miles and left
in a new home. 1t has never
been half a mile from the
house in which it was born.
In "a hours it is back home.
How did it find its home?
ONLY CONTACTS
AS winter approaches, migra-
tory birds leave the North, and
in moving southwark, fly over
long stretches Of water out of
sight of land. How do they
keep their sense of direction?
The bee wanders in the
woods in search of nectar, gets
two miles from his hive. loads
up, circles once or twice. and
strikes a ''bee line" for his
home hive. How does he deter
mine direction so unerringly.
and how does he differentiate
other beehives to the north.
east, south and west?
To our knowledge, none of
these creatures possesses an or
gan devoted to direction-find-
ing. Their sense organs appear
to correspond to our own, yet
we cannot approach them in
determining direction. Our only
contact with the world is
through one or more of five
senses - sight, hearing, touch,
smell and taste. A person born
without any of them could
never know he was not the
only being in existence.
If the dumb creatures too are
limited to five senses, which
ones are used in determining
direction? Not the sense of
sight, for they do not see their
distant homes beyond noun
tains, forests, buildings, and
even the horizon itself. Not
the sense of hearing, for home
makes no sound that reaches
out several miles to be caught
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"What?" repeated the gaffer.
"Never mind" said the re-
porter, walking out on him.
"YOu win"
That's where the story stands
now. and 1 guess that's where
it will stand for some time.
Copyright, 1885. by King Featurss
Syndicate, 1nc.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
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Once-Overs

acknowledge your mistakes.
You are constantly making
big mistakes.
Some Of your decisions have
been foolhardy, or, at least.
impractical.
But rather than be thought
vacillating you maintain a po
sition that is lacking in judg'
ment.
They would respect you so
much more if you would ad-
NIT it.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Old Mems Contest
Blu Robert Benchley

about his being called "Sinan.
thrOpus."
"SinanthrOpuS SinanthrO-
pus," repeated the J. A. M.
"Never heard it. Does he remem-
Der any blizzards?"
"He hasn't been quoted on
billiards. yet"
Does he remember Sulli.
vans Aunt Sarah Gallup"
"He said he'd rather not talk
about her. 1t seems there was
some scandal there"
II get it," said the old
gentleman. "He kisses and
tells. Well, all that l can say
Is that I'll meet him, any time
and any place, and swap remi-
niscences. If mes 100000 years
old he ought to remember
sO~- ething."
It looks now, however, as if
the Java Ape Man weren't 60
ing to have his challenge &C
cepted. When the interviewer
found the China Fossil Man he
was looking at a spot about
three feet in front of him.
"My paper has a report that
you claim to be older than the
Java Ape Man" said the re-
porter. Then, making use Of a
well-known repOrtOriaI ruSe to
induce talking, he added: "The
Java Ape Man has just given out
an interview saying that you
were three classes below him in
school. and dumb at that"
"What?" asked the China
Fossil Man lethargically.
81 say-the Java Ape Man
claims to be older than you
are. and wants to meet you in
public debate on the subject"
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

Acknowledgment Of Mistakes
Pays Dividends
Hasn't your stubborn spirit
caused you most of your un'
happiness?
Hasn't it broken friendships
you would give anything to
recall?
That same stubborn spirit
has lost you a great deal OF
money.
You have had power and
prestige and might still enjoy
the same, but your stubborn
spirit will not permit you to
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
In the World of Science
By Hiram Percy Maxim


even by the most sensitive ears.
Obviously, it is not the sense Of
touch.
If feeling be included under
the touch sense, however. there
is a possibility that something
in the way of an emanation, or
radiation, may traverse space
and be detected by a suitable
receiver. Can there be a kind
of animal radio system?
This may not be as wild a
conjecture as it sounds. The
FREELY, the glow worm, and
many marine creatures have
light radiating apparatus, and
light is radio of ultra high
frequency.
Passing on the other senses,
direction cannot be determined
by smell, for a faint odor could
never travel several miles. The
disturbances in the intervening
air would diffuse it beyond de-
lection. Taste seems equally
out of the question. Thus, the
only one of the five senses that
apparently ties in with direction
finding is touch or feel" The
only alternative would be a
sixth sense of which we have no
knowledge.
SIXTH SENSE
1t is possible that humans
once possessed a sense that
told them direction. However,
as we acquired intelligence. we
ceased depending on this sense.
And because of non-use it
finally disappeared.
The person, now and again
encountered. who has a sense
of direction" could be throw
back" such as is often met In
biology.
Thus, apparently, the only
explanation of this singular di-
rection-finding ability in the
dumb creatures is that an
electromagnetic detector exists
which is sensitive to electro
magnetic radiations sent out
from the objective which is
sought.
The animal must receive"
something that m a kes him
"feel" conspicuous beacon in
the distance, reckoning him
home. The pigeons, freed at
Salisbury, N. c., must have
"seen" or "felt" this eight
house" reckoning them toward
Hartford. Conn.,. notWithStand-
ing a distance of 900 miles and
the fact that Hartford lay be-
low the horizon.
Would that the mechanism
which guides our aeroplanes in
thick weather were as accurate
and sure. Man, having once
been a dumb animal. no doubt
possessed this sixth sense"
What a pity it has been lost
to him, and what possibilities
would follow its redevelopment.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject of the
next will be Measuring History
With Paner"
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over the
hills h e y
come, sagging
a ! o n 6 j n
single fill e,
moving slow
ly b e n e a t h
t h a t v a S t,
S u n-bleached
sky, over the
S p a r S e,
S c &c h e d
g "a S S, b u t
never for g.
moment + or.
getting t h e
thing they're
R1
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the majority
of important
legisl a t i o n
and problems
b e fore the
House.
He arrives
at his office
early in the
morning and
works late.
Yet W h e n
he m o v e S
aroun d the
C apt oil he
runs up the
steps two at
a, time.
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the national
scandal and
disgrace in
volved in the
abuse of the
parole sy s.
tenn.
Now is also
the time, how
ever, to warn
the pu b | / C
against con-
f u S ing a n
honest a n d
in t diligently
a administered
parole S y s.
tam NTH q
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

At the pres
ent time 6,285
bills h a "
b e e n intro
duced in the
House as COM
p a r e d to
6,13O in the
frs t two
m o n t h s of
last session.
1t W oul d
take Speaker
j o S e phi W.
Byrns a n d
his W a r d S
on siderable
J. !
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

out the Sec
ond morning
at Salisbury,
N. c., and set
free, circled a
few tt m e S,
q n d t h e n
headed back
toward Hart
ford. How did
t h e y deter
mine their d.
rection?
A dog is
carried in an
automobile 20
m il e S a n d
IL IL
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

Half a dozen homing pigeons,
placed in a shipping crate in
Hartford. Conn, loaded into an
express cart, railroaded all one
day and the next night, taken
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

a time. do" D""s "'""
Extremely busy, he has an et-
fective way of dismissing con-
versationalists.
When he feels he has talked
enough he announces:
"WelI. I'm certainly glad to
have seen YOU"
Copyright 1883 me Washington
Tlmes)
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Words of Wise Men

The nobest character by the addition of PRIDE
Claudius
There is lettering Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
evil know in the field Of this world up To-.
gether almost Disqualification.
The little known art of being happy.-votare
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

One of the news stories in
which 1 am only mildly inter-
ested this morning is that which
says that the Java Ape Man.
long considered the original
missing link" is apparently a
mere child compared to the re-
Gently discovered China Fossil
Man. Let the ''--oy5 fight it out
between them is my way OF
looking at the brawl.
However, being always on the
alert for news, our special Old
Man editor has taken the trou-
BILE to interview both partici-
pants and has turned in a
batch of notes which I submit
for what they are worth. The
accompanying photographs are
hardly worth reproducing as
both old gentlemen resented the
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Card Index for Kidnape1.s

Mr. Powers cartoon this page today and the protest
Slip reproduced in this column tell you better than
how foolish and dangerous is make income tax
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
OLD FAVORITES
Skipper IresOn'S Ride

DpeF lTeSOn mae -V HLLLLe
Of all the rides since the birth Of time
Told in story sung in rhyme
On Apuleiuss Golden Ass,
Or one-eyed Calender horse Of brass,
Witch astride of human back,
Islams prophet Al-Borak-
The strangest ride that sped
Was Ireson's, out from Marbehead!
Old Floyd 1reson, for his hard heart
Tarred and feathered and carried in cart
By the women of Marblehead!
Small pity for him he sailed away
From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay
Sailed away from a sinking wreck
With his own towns-people on her deck!
clay by; lay by!' they called to him.
Back he answered ''Sink swim
Drag of your catch of fish again''
And off he sailed through the fog and rain!
Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart,
Talfed and feahered and carried in cart
By the women Of MarbleheadI
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Keep Parole Systems
Free of Politics
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Now is the time and more
than two-thirds of the States of
the Union are the place to end
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
LEST YOU FORGET

Paste this on Official Pink
Slip to be filed yith your
March 18th tax return.
TEAR OFF HERE
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Listen.
World
Blu Elsie Robinson
Find a Salt Lick

If you know cow country
you've seen the cattle coming
down to the salt lick.
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
GreatestShOW
On Earth
BIZ John Snure, Jr.

In session for two months
Congress has passed ii public
laws and five resolutions,
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
| PROTEST
against this
outrageous invasion
of my right Of
Privacy.
JOIN THE PINK SLIP
STRIKE!

Protest form, circulated By
"Sentinels of the Republic"
against income tar publicity.
Cut it out-paste it on your
pink slip.
And more important than
such as they are-from the
aced if not completely destr
Just when the kidnapping
instance, seems to have been d
dict and the numerous convi
ment of Justice, the income
along to start a new wave
country.
THE "PINK SLIP" La
CRIME.
Congress must repeal it NO'
of Americans at the mercy Of
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

public.
Every big-time crook, kid
naper and gangster in the land
will have a card-index of pros
pective victims, prepared for
him by the United States
Government.
Every racketeer, large or
small, will have a dun and
Bradstreet" report by which
he can levy tribute.
Every man or woman who
makes enough to pay income
tax will be fair game not only
for criminals but for panhan-
oilers, phony stock statesmen,
promoters of fake charities,
or mere, ordinary shoppers.
A citizens elementary right
to privacy in his own affairs is
knocked into a cooked hat by
this provision.
that his safety and security
underworld are seriously men
Eyed.
menace, to take but a single
,alt with by the Hauptmann YER
;tions obtained by the Depart
publicity requirement comes
of snatchings throughout the
v IS AN INCITEMENT TO
V unless it wants to put millions
criminals.
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject of the
next will be measuring History
With Paper"
La gaceta., 1935-11-20
Gil Robes mformo que en- Asturias hay
muchas armas que no han sido recogidas

Madrid, Nov. 20.-El conse.
jo de ministries celebr6 aver Sc
sion, como 10 habia acordado
anteriormente. Gil Robes, ell mi
niStro de la guerra, do cuenta
de que en- AsturiaS hay eScon-
didas muchas armaS y que ell go
bierno no ha podido encontrar-
las, no obStante los eSfuerzos he
chos. Acord6 ell conSejo dar pre-
mics a los que entreguen o di-
gan donde Sc italian esas armas.
Sc aprobo un plan quincenal de
obras publicas, acordandoSe pre-
sentar ell jueves a la Camara ell
proyecto de ordenacion ferro-
viaria. A propuesta del minis
tro de la gobernaci6n Sc decide
limitar los actos politicos a los
locales de los partidos que los
La gaceta., 1935-11-20

organizer Y a los teatros, prohi-
biendo Sc verifi4uen en- campos
abiertos,
Qued6 aprobado Ell nombra-
miento de don lgnacio Nillalon-
ga, diprtado de la Ceda, para
ell delicado puesto de l-Coerna
dor general de Catalina. No Sc
ma fijado todavia la fecha en- q.
omara possession. Sc nombr0 a
don Adolfo Posada para la pre-
sidencia del Institute de Pro-
vision Nacional.
Hasta ell 30 de diciembre ell
goblerno Sc propone aprobar en-
las CorteS los ~proyectos de mo-
vilizaci6n militar, Iprotecci6n a
Ia nacional y ley de Prensa.
La gaceta., 1935-11-20
PALPTACIONES INTERNAClONALES
CONDYLIS DERRIBO LA MONARQUIA
Condylis devuelve ell Trono a Jorge ii

la Unconditional devotion que
s9bia demostrado al gran Gre
tense, cuando ell general Pan
galos-otro bravuc6n de su ra-
lea-le gan6 por la mano e i'm
plant6 su dictadura personal.
Pero aparte este breve ostracis-
mo, Condylis no ha cesado de
manipular con Sus maloS mo-
dos y su torpe intelecto a la des-
dichada Republica helena. Ell
derribo a Panglos, organize a
viva fuerza un llamado Gobier-
no ecumenieo-que do entrada
en- ell Estado republican, a los
politicos monan4uicos7, y Sc
reconcile con Venizelos, GUAM
do este volvio a Grecia, tras de
una resonante victoria electo-
raj.
Y de la mano de este perso-
maize recobrara ell trono Jorge
de Glutzburgo. mo lie sera leve
nj grata la ferula! Por de prom
to, Condylis va Sc ha proclama-
do regente de la Monarquia, res
.taurada por un cuartelazo, que
nj siquiera ha tenido gallardia.
De momento, Jorge de Glutz
La gaceta., 1935-11-20

Ha dejado de existir la Repd-
olica griega. Ha perecido como
laci6: lpor la mano airada del
nismo soldadote, culpable de
'laber apremiado su fundaci6n,
para marcarla con la huella de
III sable, en- vez de aguardar a
Iue ell pueblo la proclamara por
a~brumadora mayoria, como la
;onsagro, va tardiamente, Guam
10 ell regimen era presa de unas
oandas de pretorianos.
Jamas sc ha dado en- la His
toria case de igual cinismo. Ell
general Condylis, que fue quien
Impulse violentamente ell destro-
namiento y la expulsion de Jor-
ge II-como antes habfa deere
ladO sab iratC' et fuSilamientO
de los ministries de CONSTANT
no, es quien frente a la volun
tad popular, e incluso contra la
opinion de una Asamblea elegi-
da con la obstenci6n de los par
tidos republicanos, ha decidido
por I'm golpe de fuerza la restau
raci6n del monarch que el en-
puj6 al destierro,
De todas las torpezas cometi-
das por la Repdblica griega, a
lie incumbe la respon-
sabilidad principal. Mientras
gobernaron los Venizelistas,
Condylis reSpald6 todos sus
yerros con su prestigio de valen
ton. Fue ell primer ministro de
la Guerra del primer Gabinete
republican,. Dej6 de ser veni-
zelista, trocando en- odio mortal