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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-18
Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

PRESENT. My work is part of
that vast, complicated web Of
service upon which human life
rests. My service may seem
small. and any service, no
matter how sensational, must
seem small in comparison with
that tremendous whole.
But it is not actually small.
My smooth board, my nourish.
ing bread, my clean line of type,
are as vitality necessary as the
most sensational feat. Upon
my tired shoulders, within my
work-scarred hands, rests the
destiny of the human race.
And I work for the FUTURE.
I bridge, with my work, that
gap between those who are gone
and those who will come. My
work make it possible for them
to come. If I Stop-if all the
obscure workers like myself
Stop-there can be no future.
The world will go back to the
wilderness from which it came!
7 am not working just for
myself, my own profit and pride.
I am working for the PAST.
the PRESENT, the FUTURE
for all MANKIND-and for one
other
AM WORKING FOR GOD!
PART OF PLAN
I do not know who or what
God is. I only know that be-
fore there was earth or sea or
stars, He was-moving upon the
face of the deep-bringing light
out of darkness and order out
of chaos-and that still His
plan runs on and on, through
the veining of a leaf, the heart
beat of a gnat, or mans night
est dream.
And my job, too, is part of
that plan-part of that light
which is slowly but surely COM
ing out of savage darkness,
part of that order which is
emerging from brutal chaos. I
shabby and stupid and OBJ
scure though I may beam a
partner of God!
So I will NOT give up! I
will NOT feel that my work
is not worth while! I will walk
proudly, as one should who car.
ries a great trust eagerly,
as one should who is upon a
great adventure.
When you're lonely, discour-
aged and ready to quit, lay
hold of those words, hang on to
them, AND THEY WILL SEE
YOU THROUGH. For they are
the Truth.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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Primitive SupersititiOns
In u. S.

A well-known neurologist of
my acquaintance tells me that
down in the Brazilian jungles
there is a very serious expedi-
ton Of British scientists study
ing primitive superstitionS and
lamentations. While the scien.
fists all cry down superstition,
they are beginning to believe
that there are certain psycholog-
ical techniques in jungle magic
which the modern world doesn't
understand and that some of
them possibly would be useful
in mental therapy.
Not that they believe the
savageS have any supernatural
art, but that, by trial and error,
they have found certain meth
DDS of allaying pain or diSpell-
ing fear or imaginary ailments.
There's nothing so human as
superstition, and you don't
have to go to Brazil to find it.
That's a pretty long boat ride.
Just take a 15-minute subway
ride to DeKalb Avenue, Brook
Ign, instead, and walk over to
Jungle Town near the Navy
Yard.
Here you will find, under the
shadow Of the Manhattan sky.
scrapers, a world Of primitive
beliefs and practices as un-
changed by the centuries as the
deepest savannahS of the Matte
Grasso region, where the Brit
iSh scientists are exploring
mans ancient arts and strata
gems against evil.
Here you will find the Negroes
who, in the flood tide of war
immigration, came from the
VETS Indies to build ships. There
are Cubans, Haitians, Jamai-
cans, Martiniques, Barbadians
and San Luciens, Kit Islanders,
Virgin Islanders and quaint,
dreaming folk from the Island
of Trinidad. They have brought
with them their complete kit Of
sorcery-charms, amulets, spells,
lamentations to fend off demons,
to insure love success and sue
cess in physical combat, to cure
disease and safeguard health,
to protect against a long itany
of mischance and evil.
JUNGLE RUBRIC
Here is the whole jungle
rubric of Voodoo-barring hu-
man sacrifice - right here in
this incandescent metropolis. If
you have been fixing to swing
on somebody you don't like, you
can step in any one Of dozens
Of backrooms and get yourself
a shot Of chicken blood from a
fighting bantam rooster. That
gives you a lot more courage
and steam, in case the other fell
low should be bigger than you
are.
You can also buy any selec.
ton you want from a long
pharmacopoeia of ground-up ami
NAL bones, including tiger bone
dust, pinch Of which is guar
anteed to turn a meek person
into a Jack Dempsey. Or, if
your taste doesn't run that way.
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Wall, Columbia

Columbia University supported largely by the gifts of
alumni has only itself to thank for the decision
weather. make further contributions instu
ton which has tolerated the spreading of Communc and
sedOus doctrines not only by noisy minority of students
but by members of its own faculty.
At Morningside in many other universities and colleges
academic liberty has too often degnerated into academic
license
The freedom to study various systems of economics and
does not include the " teach preach
overthrow Of the American system of economics or
preaching that and closely identified with Moscow
with few whskers they would pass for
u.s. therefore surprising that the great body Column
ba graduates who happen be loyal citizens WELL should
decline to support alma mater which rapidly acquiring
the reputation of being of the chief hotbeds of radcam
in the country.
They might well endow Rock Greek Park
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words. Take hold of them as
you'd take hold of a life pre-
server in a stormy sea-or a
steady hand in some cruel crisis.
Grip them. hang on to them
Until their sense begins to
creep through to you, warming
your chilled heart, lighting your
darkened and Inundated mind.
Say to yourself:
! am not working alone
am not shut off from the
powerful, beautiful world of &C.
ton and adventure, doing silly,
trivial things that don't mat
ter
The things that am doing do
matter. And I matter. am part
of a many7sided partnership.
And my work is being done for
that partnership. No matter how
simple my job may seem or how
obscure my position, I am
working for all these others
A PARTNERSHIP
I am working for the PAST.
I am carrying on for those who
have gone on; I am holding the
torch for those who have laid it
down.
Even though I only plane a
board well, or make a good loaf
of bread, or set type in a clean,
straight line, I am KEEPING
FAITH WITH THOSE WHO
HAVE GONE BEFORE. Il am
maintaining that tradition of
honest, proud work manship
upon which the civilized world
is founded. And because I do
this, I am part of all fine work
ers and share in their glorious
achievement.
And I am working for the
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

the Obi man. Sometimes they
really find one, but, of course
running streams are scarce in
New York, so the Obi man
makes a little artificial river
with a wooden trough running
from the faucet to the kitchen
sink.
After a whole lot of fearsome
pow-Wowing, the black Panjan'
drum produces a blackbird, and
by this time the customer is,
Of course, quite pop-eyed and
thoroughly credulous. The Obi
man then plucks all the feath"
erS out of the live bird and, with
a complicated ritual, puts them
in the running water. They all
float downstream except one.
This happily perverse feather
floats persiStently upstream, and
with a grand rhetorical blow.off
the Obi man delivers it-and
collects.
You then seek out the naughty
dame who has been high-hatting
you. You slip up behind her,
caress her with the feather and
then smack her couple of times
on the ear. That fetcheS her
and she is yours forever after,
say the Negroes who sink the
equivalent of a whole lot of ship
building into their deals with
the Obi man.
Through endless rivuletS and
tributaries of black magic, these
island importationS trace back
to dreams, fears, invocationS,
and entertainments of peoples Of
remote continents and centuries.
Oddly enough, you will find in
this Brooklyn conjuring many
of the old cast of characters
which have survived through
the centuries in China, Japan
and Thibet.
OLD TULIA
Any day, taking that 15-min"
ute subway ride, you can 1lnd
a Negro who will tell you all
about the "Tulia Vieja," the old
Tulia-a tale which anthropol-
ogists find in the heart of Asia
and trace back to the dawn Of
time. Obi men are getting good
money over in jungle Town to-
day for breaking the spell of
the old Tulia.
This dreadful creature MUIR
dered her child some millenia
ago, and for this reason the
gods turned her feet backward
and made her body blood red.
There is a curse on any man
crossing her trail, and women
so afflicted are made barren.
Naturally, if you see her re"
verSed footprints, you must run
in their direction.
Several years ago Supersti-
tiouS workmen quit a sky
scraper construction job in Har-
lem because they thought they
saw the footprints of the Old
Tulia in some wet concrete. She
has a low, menacing cry and
there is nothing to do but rush
to the Obi men when you hear
it-as many denizens Of jungle
Town do. Thus do the tendrils
of ancient jungle growths weave
into our concrete and steel.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. 1ncS
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Wages, Six Cents a Day

AS garing example of the way in which certain goods
manufactured in foreign countries ousting American
goods from the home markeand American labor from jobs
consider the 'book matches given away with cigarettes
These matches invented in America
The paper board from which they manufactured made
by secret American process.
This paper board now apparently, being imported by
Japan from the United States and made into matches and
these matches then shipped to America and sold to the
trade here at HALF the cost of the article in
spite of 40 PER CENT ad valorem duty on them.
How the japanese do this and still make money!" you
ask
The to that that workers in the Japanese match
factories paid SIX CENTS DAY.
And Mr. Secretary of State Hull would have the United
States lower its tariff walls still further perhaps tear them
down altogether ''in order to restore prosperity"
That's for the American working well as the
American manufacturer to think
If the American worker wants to live six day
ought be heartily in favor Of Dr. Hs prosperity pre-
scripton.
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you can get yourself a little bou-
quet of tiger whiskers.
A famous cop-fighter and
handy all-around brawler around
jungle Town is believed to
carry in an amulet the whiskers
of the biggest and most savage
jaguar ever killed in Colombia.
He was ganged and beaten up
by big crowd one day, and the
story was that they had been
looking for his cat whiskers.
They didn't get them, and later
he took his aSSailantS one by
one or two by two and pasted
them half out of their senses.
The Obi men are the dealers
in all sorts of charms and the
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hep' Oohn Mcs"aln The meas
ure has passed the Senate.
OF late, McSwain's colleagues
have demanded to know when
the bill is to be reported.
He is told:
81 almost lost out in the last
election because / had promised
boy I would send him to West
Point and then had to turn him
down. Why don't you report
out that billy"
McSWain invariably answers:
"There are about 20 bills in
the committee waiting for &C
ton.
"That measure to add to the
total Of appOintees is Number
TO-
"After you help pass the other
10 bills, then we will report out
that bill"
Although the District of Co
lumbia government is often
termed a model, there is no
court reporter in the Supreme
Court Of the District.
Anyone not having enough
money to retain a StenogrGpher
to take dotD1l proceedings in a
trial may be convicted and
haze no record on Which to
appeal.
The only way that an appeal
may be made is for the defense,
the court, and the District At
tOrney to agree on a bill Of ex.
CeptiOnS so that the case may
90 to Q higher court.
The court blames it on the
economy act, although others
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-18
Words of Wise Men

Most knowledge ITSELF but for the superiority
which knowledge confers-Smith
Belief accepting the affrmations Of the SOUL
lief, in denying them.-Emerson.
The thing is first its aims next manner
observation-disclosures.
agreement small things grow; by great things
peces.-SaluSt.
mind is slow in unlearnng what it has long in
learning-Seneca.
small knowledge In comparison of
Baxter.
Howard <
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arrangers of special ceremonies
and ritual-some of them pretty
ghoulish. If your best girl
starts ritzing you, he has a nice
little number for that. First,
there is a session in the dark
ened back room of the Obi
mans smelly and cavernouS
flat, with elaborate mumbo-
jumbo as the wind-up for the
main event.
He will then sell you, at a
pretty stiff figure, an enchanted
feather, as a love charm, but if
you want some really tailor.
made magic, which, of course,
comes high, there must be a
trip to a running stream with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-18

of a fireman, the skin of rhi.
noceroS, the Iuick wit of a
magician - and, at the same
time, the cheerfulness and pla-
cidity Of a French doll.
Being a model wife has never
been a sinecure; but, if you
WORK at it, the job is probably
twice as strenuous and exacting
in these days of "Woman'S free.
dom" as it was in the easy-going
days of her economic Slavery
Copyright 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Affairs COM1.
nnittee, h a s
his colleagues
worried.
BaSking in
the Military
Committee is
a bill to in.
crease from
three to four
t he number
of young men
t h a t men,
berS of Con.
greSS may ap-
point to West
Point.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-18

...when lone
illness and Bit
err discour-
q g e m e n t
sweep We r
yol, in a gray
tide, drown
ing your Gag
erneSs a n d
e n t huSiaSm,
JOuI y 1 1 " {
and curiosity
"a n d you
t e Ell t h a t
n O t h | n g. S
worth while
Take hold
80 %hAcn
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Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

say there hasn't been an Off
cial reporter in the District SUI
preme Court, regularly retained,
for years.
Lawyers say it is one Of the
worst conditions that could
exist in any court that tries
men for all crimes.
When the District rent hear
ings were progress and they
were discussing adequate re-
turns on real estate that prop
erty owners should receive, Rep
resentative Reuben T. Wood,
Democrat, of Missouri, de-
manded of Rufus Lusk, repre-.
senting real estate operators:
would property owners be
willing to let the Government
take all over an 8 per cent re-
turn that operators receiver"
Lusk replied sarcastically:
"They would kiss you If you
did,"
Wood responded:
"WelI, of course, I don't care
anything about that"
LuSk advised:
II meant nothing personal"
The illness of Representative
Adolph SABBATH, Democrat, OF
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Nep' IA SaDHtH IS SCNGUUIeu
to expire before many more
months unless additional au-
thority is granted.
Although Sabath'S office says
that he is recovering rapidly, he
is unable to see any visitors or
receive any calls.
Mrs. SABBATH arrived at his
bedside the other day.
Copyright. 1876, The Washington TimesI
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Once upon a time, to be an
ideal wife required only the

patience of an angel. the tact
of a politician, the readiness Of
a valet and the ability to
manipulate a kitchen range
and make good apple pie.
Now, a thoroughly modern
man would not only be bored
to tears by that Victorian
model, but would probably con-
slider that he had been short
changed in the matrimonial
deal, when he found out what
he had drawn.
To meet all the needs and
requirements of the 1885 matri-
monial situation, a woman
must be something more than
a darner-of-sox and a soother.
of-headaches.
She must have the ability
to run a house uptown, and,
if necessary, to run an office,
a job or a business downtown.
Because now there is often an
acute need for two pay-en-
velopes, where there used to
be only one.
She may not have to be her
husbands alarm clock, cheer
leader and valet, or go around
picking up his clothes, hunting
his hat or cleaning up the rub
bish he has left. But she must
be up before the crack of dawn
to run him to the station in
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tinuation of
the hearings
on bondhold'
erS' reorgani-
cations which
his special
c o m m i t.
tee was inves-
tigating.
This i'm
portant in
quiry, which
has been pro-
ceeding more
or less for
the last sew
eral months,
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Marry-GO-ROund
Blu Helen ROWLAND

the flivver, and right on the
job to meet him on the Sis.
She may not have the sweet
temper of an angel; but she
must have the figure of a sylph,
the style of a Fifth Avenue
manikin and the good groom
ing of a pet circus horse, no
matter at what bitter sacrifices
she attains these things. For
the modern husband does not
take his last look at his wife
or at other Women-at the
altar. And he doesn't wear
binders.
She may not be able to make
an apple pie, but she must be
able to change a tire, and must
know almost as much as an
electrician, to manipulate all
the gadgets in a modern
kitchen.
She may not know how to mix
batter cakes; but she must
know how to mix a good drink
(soft or harO, to balance a
budget and to rustic up a
snappy supper at a few mo-
ments' notice.
She may not have all the
cute tricks and flattering sweet
ness Of the old-faShioned "cling-
ing vine," but there are times
when she must have the agility
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Representative John McSwain,
Democrat, Of South Carolina,
chairman Of the House Military
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OLD FAVORITES
Star BY Robert BrOvninq
Ny Star

All that know
Of certain star
Is, it throw
(Lke the angled spar)
Now dart of red,
Now dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fan see, too,
Ny star that dartes the red and the blue!
Then it stops like bird; like flower, hangs furled
They must olace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a worldY
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore love it.
Readers ined send to the editor their suaqes-
tons OF old faVortes among the poems for reprnting in
this sgGce,)
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Your Job Does Matter

When you go stale on your
-
when everything you do
seems meaningless, unimportant
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Model Wife-1935

How our ideals do change!
Almost as rapidly as the
fashions on the Rue de Rivoli
or the popular Zines" of motor
cars.
Nothing is standardized any
more-not even lovers, hus-
bands or wives.
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The illness of Representative
Adolph SABBATH. Democrat, OF
Illinois, is going to delay con"
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the flivver, and right on tn
job to meet him on the Sis.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-11-11
NAB Z IN CASE
OF LOST BRIDE
Maryland Police See Clew
in Paper Fingerprinted
in Crimson.
By UHitcd Press

81 tHHcd Press
MT. RAINIER, Md. Nov. 11.-..A
scrap of crumpled paper went under
police microscopes today as a tam
talizing clew in "the case of the
missing bride" a story of mystery,
murder and jealousy within sight of
the national Capitol dome.
Fingerprints were smudged in
crimson on the paper, pressed there
at night and in the black shadow
of tree along country lane.
They may tell how and why
bright-eyed Corinna Loring died in
agony with cord twisting deep into
her throat as she Sprawled in the
lane few hours before her wedding
day.
Jealousy was the motive, police
believe. They held red-eyed, hag-
gard Richard Tear, who was to have
married Corinna, and Aubrey Hamp-
ton, a government clerk, and former
suitor of Corinra for questioning
Clews aplenty were spread out on
the desk of Police Chief Eugene
Plummer. Among them were few
strands of hair, gray glove with
one finger less worn than others, a
peculiar knot in the cord taken from
Corinnas throat, toothmarks on her
hand and-how could a mystery be
complete without it?-her wrist
watch, broken and stopped at 9:O5.
Last Monday, Corinna happily
went shopping for furniture. Mon
day night at p. m. her mother
went out, leaving Corinna alone in
the house, awaiting the arrival of
Tear
Police believe there may have
been a telephone call to the house
about BIS p. m. At $40 p. M, ac-
cording to Tears story, he arrived
at the Loring home and rang the
doorbell. Nobody answered
Tear said he waited on the door,
step until 9:15 p. m. Then he wrote
note: Sweet, it's 9:15, so I'll have
to get to work. I'll see you after work
tomorrow. Love, DICK"
At almost the hour and minute
scraweld in Tears note-9: :15-Co-
rinna Loring was battling for her
life, and losing. AS the hands of
her wrist watch touched 9:O5, the
watch was smashed by a powerful
blow.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-11-11
British Planes
Sent in Jake
of Lost Fliers

By United Press
SINGAPORE, Straits Settle
ments, Nov. 11.-Royal Air Force
bombing planes received new or
ders today to make a last thor
ough search of the Andaman Sea
and the Bay of Bengal for Sir
Charles Kingsford-S Smith and j.
T. Pethybridge, his co-pilot, miss
ing since Friday on a flight from
England to Australia.
The planes will fly low over all
islands, hoping KingSford- Smiths
Lady Southern Cross may have
drifted ashore.
c. j. Melrose. who saw Kings
ford-Smith fighting to keep his
plane aloft over the bay, sug-
gested he might have been able to
gain height and reach an un-
Inhabited island.
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JOIN
WAR HEROES
March Side by Side With
Local Veterans in Parade
on Armistice Day.
(Other Armistice Day Stories on
Pages 3 and ~

1
Marching in a gray mist remi-
niscent of marches to the front lines
soldiers of 1917-1918 of Marion
County today celebrated The sew
enteenth anniversary of the signing
Of the ArmiStice.
While governmental Offices in the
city closed for the day and employees
of business firms honored the day
with silence periods, aged uniforms
fresh from moth balls swung Shoul-
der to shoulder in squad right" for
nations as the parade began at
10:15.
The olive -drab met the German
gray in the parade as veterans who
left the Fatherland after the world
conflict marched as one of the di-
visions of the parade.
1t was the cityS first Armistice
parade that let down the bars to
foes of other years.
The German veterans, four of
them, were in the affable and good
natured custody of Otto Ferger, SER
geant-at-arms of the Order of Pur-
pie Heart.
Riding in an auto instead of
marching, they shouted good
naturedly that next year they'd
walk "75 strong and really make a
parade showing"
The veterans, who were the cyno-
clIro of the pvec Of rrouded eide
walks, were:
Richard koetteretz. 226 Hen
Turn to Page Three
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5 OF 6 RECAPTURED
AFTER FARM BREAK
State Prisoners Seized on
Road Near GreenCastIe.
BIZ Tnifcd Press

ny JHttCu FfCSS
GREENCASTLE. Ind. Nov. IL
Five prisoners who escaped from the
state penal farm last night were
recaptured walking along a road
south of here today and returned
to the institution.
A sixth, Alfred Blevins. Fayette
County, serving a 30-day term on a
liquor charge, remained at large.
The men escaped through a man.
hole in the dairy. Those recaptured
we're:
Robert Dearing, Marion County
serving year for burglary; Herbert
Coss, Marion County. serving six
months Tor burglary; Cecil Scott,
Marion County, serving year for
robbery: Frank Johnson, Wander
burgh County, serving a year for
burglary; and Sam Cosby. Wander
burgh County. serving six months
for contributing to delinquency of a
minor.