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The Secretary of the Treasury says that ta.s country is ready to participate in aa international con ference 10 stabilize currency, but points out that f anything ts wrong with the money situation, the Un- ted S.ates .s not to blame and is operating w.1h a currency that an- swers its requirements pretty we'll: all of which seems true, especially tae part that has reference to the adequacy of our medium of cXchan- ge. The good old dollar appears on pay day as a welcome guest His stay generally is short, but while he tarries taere is no Investigation as to Y. st#.e of his health. Old folks remember Hhan the merchant fa1 q o#.a called thc Bank Detccl- aa and taambea Its pages before de aId.aa whether piece of paper money should % into thc till or be showed back across inc counter. The depression has not reduced our cur reney to any such stage as that. To the person who simply takes in his wage and pave if out it looks as though tac dollar were fairly stable
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already. Anyhow. there seems to be no troube in finding someone will ins to accept t.
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By the death of Senator Cutting of New Mexico, through an airplane accident short tIme ago. the upper legislative branch and thc country at large lost a gaad man and a wise counselor h addition 10 his labors in Congress, MT Cutting saw ser vice in the late war, and had man aged two newspapers as Instruments toward the overthrow of local con dtioas in h.s party which seemed 10 him 10 med correction. Although uom.nal'g Republican. he did not shue ghs old Guard view and was to a considerable degree an indepen- dent thinker politically. He left a record which even tbose who diff cred with han d.d not hesitate to respect.
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(Gont5au9l fHam Page Onc) things that could not be done law fully Even W.la plenty of lawyers to egde t ia framing legislation, Congress makes a mistake now and then.
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The Washington times., 1935-01-31
Straining Our Luck
DANGEROUS Schools

How long will washngtons luck hold out in regard to its
ancient school buildings?
The charm being broken the other day when the
Faulty of the old Adams School started alarm
fire. Fortunately there children in the building it
being used to School Administration Headquarters
But the thing is just liable to happen today in any
bne of other schools that using similarly aged and
decrepit heating plants.
We've had group Of mothers promote student strike
because in the school attended by their children
was dischargng smoke and fumes into the classrooms
We've had nnumerabe complaints about conditions in other
schools.
But we still using school buildings that RECON-
MENDED FOR ABANDONMENT almost thirty years ago.
And still using portable fireraps for classrooms
More than twenty school buildings USED BY CHILDREN
equipped with furnaces stoves that ACTUALLY
DANGEROUS.
sounds school authorities report that any
these school buildings be emptied four minutes That
may be true during FIRE DRILLS.
We'd hate have test it out under actual fire conditions
Some of these days. unless Congress be convinced of the
necessity Of letting spend Of OUR OWN MONEY to
improve the school situation Washington is going to be the
scene of an APPALLING DISASTER.
Our luck can't hold out forever We sraining right
now
The Washington times., 1935-01-31

But, no matter what she
drew in the matrimonial lot
terry, a bride is supposed to
look RADIANT-and always
does.
What society reporter ever
mentioned the radiant bride.
groom? Snapshot the pair
emerging from the church
after the wedding, and the
bride always looks like the
"after using" picture in a
toothpaSte advertisement, while
the bridegroom resembles the
before taking" picture in a
liver-pill advertisement.
A woman may 60 all through
life smiling off a backache or
laughing off a heartache. But
when a man is i'll or in pain or
uncomfortable, he loudly and
bitterly broadcasts the fact. He
doesn't smile off a headache
or a hangover-he GROWLS it
off or groans it off-or goes out
and Sulks it off.
Sometimes, when a girl checks
over the chances she has had to
marry or the men she has met
Or the unexciting love affairs
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Grandma Settled All Accounts
At Least Once n Week

the darkest days before the
dawn of mankind, I never in
CURED a debt which I could not
pay within a reasonable space
of time, and 1 have lost hun
dredS of dollars by the bad
habit of settling an acc, unit be-
fore I had received the goods
and had been able to convince
myself that they were up to
specifications.
That is why so carefully re-
frain from writing on economic
subjects. If were President of
the United States these days, or
Secretary of the Treasury, I
would never sleep a wink. For
I would know that, come Sat-
urday, I would not be able to
settle my just debts, and I just
would not be able to live that
way.
TOO COMPLICATED
Here we are with total ma.
tional income that in 1888 has
dropped from 40 billion dollars
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Once-Overs
Don't Be Afraid to Offend
the Scandal-MOnger

The so-called friend who
prizes into your affairs doesn't
do so because of a desire to
offer you the sympathy or ad'
vice you may need.
No; it is done in order to
pass the story along-to have
something to tell.
The real friend who wishes
to be helpful has no desire to
know things that are not vol
unteered in conversation.
The real friend is careful
about asking personal queS'
tionS.
You are justified in using
any means you may require to
thwart the efforts of one who
sets out to quiz you about per-
SOna1 matters.
That such a one may be Of
Tended should not give you
concern.
You will sustain little loss If
deprived of that type of friend.
The popularity Of gossips is
that they seldom circulate
stories favorable to those in.
volved.
Only the unsavory story in
terests the scandal-monger.
The circulator of scandal
needs very little basis of truth
to put a big story in motion.
The greater the harm done
the more active the Spreader
of gossip.
Such people need only a sug-
gestion upon which to base such
statements derogatory to those
mentioned.
Copyright, 1888. by King Features
y Syndicate. 1ne.l
The Washington times., 1935-01-31
Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

ernism, we still believe in fairy
tales. Particularly concerning
marriage. We still are sure that
marriage should make "tWo
hearts beat as one"
Does this belief arise from our
reverence for love? Anything
but. It arises from our natural
laziness and cowardice. If we
could, by some miracle, find
someone who would be our Per-
feet Echo, life would be inf.
nitely Simplified. There would
be no opposition, no misunder-
standings, no unpleasant sur
prises. This, we are certain.
would be perfect bliss! And
this, we are assured, should
happen in an Ideal Marriage.
Which charming theory we
still swallow, hook, bait and
sinker. And so. when opposi.
ton does arise-When Bessie in
sists that she DOESN'T like
picked pigs feet in spite of the
fact that she knows they are
Bills favorite dish-Bill nat
urally feels that he's been two
timed. And why on earth didn't
he marry that nice little Jones
girl instead of this contrary
creature!
SACRED RIGHT
All of which is, of course,
utter nonsense. No marriage
ever can, or should, make two
people one" to the extent of
merging their every thought,
unless one of them happens to
be a Spineless worm. And it is
insiStence upon this deadly con-
formity that, more than any
thing else, is Wrecking Ameri.
can marriage.
Once married, we Americans
feel that we have a sacred
right, even a duty, to wreck in.
dividuality, violate privacy.
Nothing, not even the most
trivial opinion. is safe from
meddlesome intrusion.
Presently every shred of CLAM.
our is destroyed. So, inevita-
bly,, we hate and flee from each
other, not because we are bru-
tai. but because we are bored.
Actually, the most inspiring
thing about marriage is the op-
portunity it gives us to live with
a different and differing spirit.
Nothing so serves to broaden
the imagination and keep the
disposition flexible as good.
natured disagreement. And, in.
stead of flying into a Fit of
Pouts when there's an argu.
ment, we should welcome it, be
gaily grateful for it.
But just try and make the
NewlywedS believe that!
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-31

~SNOA.S @AAAS'
Tons of propaganda have
been franked to all parts of the
nation.
Several weeks ago it WGS eSti-
mated that more than ten tons
of material had been mailed
out by the corps of press agents
Uho pound their typeDriterS
continuously for the FILA.
If it continues. it appears
that Uncle Sam may have to
take over few cars and loco
motives to haul publicity.
With the Department of JUS
tice concentrating on clearing
up the KarpiS- Barker gang, kid
naperS of Edward G. Bremen, an
important case of two months
ago is almost forgotten.
The killing of Baby Face"
Nelson by Federal agents who
lost their lives in the gun fight
is a mark in Justice Department
annals. But Federal Agent Sam
uel P. Cowley, who was killed
in the Chicago fracaS, will al.
ways be recalled as an intrepid
pursuer of criminals.
Long after his death it be-
comes known that Cowley had
an unusual record with the de.
partment.
1t was COwley who actually
killed John Dillinger, Baby
Face" Nelson and that other
arch criminal, Pretty Boy"
Floyd.
He is credited with the deaths
Of three of the worst criminals
this country has ever known.
Although the Department of
Justice, headed By Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings,
does not make public the names
OF the actual killers of criml-
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years al ter H. w. van Loon
she departed this life, she re-
fuses to stay put.
Well, it was this way. We
used to live in a small village to
which by grandfather had re-
tired after his practice had
brought him in enough to de-
vote the rest of his life to those
agricultural pursuits (the noble
art of raising noble pears)
which had always been his
hobby.
DUTCH CUSTOM
Now the economic technique
of Dutch life differs somewhat
from that in America. In
America the customer goes to
the store, but in Holland the
store comes to the customer.
Everything is brought to the
front door in a cart drawn by a
horse or a couple of dogs.
The baker, the vegetable
man, the milkman, the flower
man, the fish.monger-they all
come to the front door, and
the lady of the house tells the
maid what to get, and the
maid brings different articles
into the house for her mis-
tress' inspection (unless you
are so absolutely certain of
your social position in the
community that you can afford
to go to the cart YOURSELF,
and the articles bought are
then noted down in a little
book (and how well I remem-
ber those greasy brown coversD
and once a week the maid gets
a handful of guilderS and
spends an evening paying
everybody.
I loved to accompany the
servant girl upon those expe-
ditions, for there was always
a little rake-off for the young
gentleman. The baker might
give me a cooky and the vege-
table man might favor me
with a nice, juicy red carrot.
And besides, it was quite an
adventure to walk through the
little town when all of the six
street lamps were lighted Gn
case of full moon, the town
saved on gas and left the illu-
mination of it's thoroughfares
to the good Lord).
On cloudy nights we were
out of luck. The city fathers
went by the almanac and not
by the weather reports, and
when strange sounds trickled
out through the front doors
of the beer shops.
And so 1 used to ask: Grand
ma, can I go, please?" And as a
rule Grandma used to say yes.
but not until she had delivered
a little lecture on frugality and
the need of paying ones bills
as they came due.
I will say this much for the
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old lady: she knew how to
make her point. When I had
reached the age of 10, I felt
firmly convinced that, if one
failed to settle ones accounts at
least once week. or if one
lived beyond ones financial
powers, one was just a plain,
ordinary criminal.
And during one whole week,
when Grandma had gone to the
city to visit my uncles and the
little books had not been
settled, I momentarily expected
a visit from the village consta-
BILE, come to ask what sort of
scoundrels happened to live in
our house and to pack us all
off to the local Jail, which was
said to be inhabited by enor-
nous rats and to be haunted by
a tramp who was said to have
hanged himself from one of the
rafters.
This lesson in thrift has al.
ways stuck to me like my love
for Dutch beefsteak. Even in
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under dispute may be, usually
is, utterly trivial. Bessie may
believe that Mrs. Roosevelt goes
around too much. Bill may
protest What of it?" And
neither statement would matter
a hoot if it we're made by a
mere acquaintance. But coming
from ones mate, it instantly be-
comes the basis for braWl.
Nor is this ordinary anger.
There is a poisonous feeling of
personal insult-of actual be.
trayal. But why?
Why should two intelligent
human beings act so outrageous
ly simply because their view
points differ? For two reasons
and neither of them so hot!
INJURED VANITY
Primarily, we expect our
Other Half to agree with us be.
cause the rest of the world
doesn't. Constantly we are
forced to endure the exaspera-
ton of public criticism and con-
tradiction-Surely we've a right
to expect agreement at home!
What's the use of being mar
ried-"going through all that
struggle and sacrifice your
husband or wife won't even Ad-
mire Your Ideas or Admit
You're Right? And why
shouldn't you regard it as a
Dirty Deal if your Nearest and
Dearest takes sides against you?
But that's spoiled child's at.
titude toward marriage? 1t is,
indeed-yet that is exactly now
most husbands and wives feel
about the matter. Nine-tenths
of our domestic squabbles arise
from injured vanity.
There also is a deeper and
even more unreasonable motive.
Despite our loud claims of mod.
The Washington times., 1935-01-31
By T. E. Powers

to As billion. And statisticians,
who know about such things,
predict national debt of over
so billion dollars in 1896.
My simple-minded brain de-
ducts $4,000. 100000 from 5O,OOO,.
100000 Chat is easy, for you
need not bother about the zeros)
and then I come to the con.
clusion that within another cou-
pie of years we will owe about
four billion dollars more than
the total amount Of our ma.
tional income.
It is too much for me. But
then I learned to do my sums
in guilders, and they were not
really money, for they were only
worth 40 cents. And the fool
country in which I was born still
sticks to the gold basis, so that
now they are worth So cents.
It is all very mysterious. And
now I lay me down to sleep and
pray the Lord our accounts to
keep. Amen.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-31
Anti-Crime "West Point
America Needs One

At last America have its equivalent of Brtain famous
Scotland Yard and Frances almost equally famous Surete
Attorney General Cummings formation of
anee to establish West Point" for the training of law
enforcement officers.
We need West Point methods because the struggle against
organized crime has taken the proportions of real
which be conducted efficiently and scientifically.
Crme-the enemy from wthin-must be treated would
breat foreign enemy.
By all means let's have an anti crime "West Point"
And let's along lines which have made the original
West Point the finest military school in the world.
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which is carefully cultivated in
every woman, from babyhood
to the grave, and which every
man heartily encourages in her
but does not pretend to cult.
vate, himself.
A little girl is severely ad-
monished not to cry, when she
bumps her head or breaks her
favorite doll, because it will
make her look ugly.
But no small boys yells of
protest were ever hushed by
the threat that if he didn't
have his face washed and eat
his spinach, he wouldn't have
curly hair and pink cheeks when
he grew up. Haw!
No matter what Fate hands
her, a woman is expected to
accept it with a smile of de.
light-whether it is a Christ.
mas present, a wedding gift,
a telephone call from the
wrong manor a husband.
The bridegroom is never sup
posed to sit down and write a
gushing note of thanks to Aunt
Minnie and Uncle Elmer, bub-
bling over with joy and graft
tude for the gorgeous pickle
fork" or the forty-seventh
bridge lamp,
He doesn't even try to look
pleasant at his OWN WE'D
DING He's scared and be-
wildered and uncomfortable
and he lets the whole world
know IT.
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opinion. They
will be toler-
a n t toward
a n y strang-
er's notions,
listening ami
ably to the
most amazing
theories. But
if either nus
band or wife
advances an
idea of which
the other does
not approve,
there is open
warfare.
The matter
The Washington times., 1935-01-31
Politicians and Police
Beware the Spoils System!

Representative William T. Schultz of Indiana, member
of the House subcommittee investigating crime conditions
has taken occasion during the hearings crcise the ap
pcaton Of the Civil Service system to appointments and
promotions in the local police department.
He has followed this up by announcing that he will intro
duce bill to revise the method appointment and pro-
motion.
Representative Schultz hasn't said just what system he
would substitute for the Civil Service but hope that if he
goes through with his plan will be nothing less than
perlative.
Because although Representative Schultz may realize
It, he is opening up DANGEROUS SITUATION when he
eliminates the Civil Service from the police department.
It be- the Representative charges that there
faults in the application Of the Civil Service rules
on appointments and promotions.
But Representative Schultz should give serious thought
to what would happen the Civil restrictions
removed.
Unless he has strong and effective substitute he would
be opening up the police department VICIOUS SYSTEM
OF APPOINTMENT and promotion which would utterly
demoraze the force and simply intensity the conditions of
which he complains
With politicians who little regard the city
who not accountable in any way to the local citizens
dominating affairs how the elimination the
Civil Service would turn the police department completely
over to the SPOILS SYSTEM
In fact, have already UNWHOLESOME INTER-
FERENCE in the conduct of the police department by certain
Congressman who after dismissed from the
force for have insisted upon their reinstatement
going the of inducing the Senate and to
pass legislation to that effect.
Everyone Washington is hoping expecting that good
I'm the city.
But good will not come from THROWING THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT INTO POLITICAL GRAB-BAG by tossing
out the Civil Service requirements
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she has had, she wonders how
she ever managed to go on
looking pleasant"
But, the smile is automatic
with her, and her facial muscles
just naturally spring into the
gladstone expression at the re-
quired moment. THAT is Wo-
mans Great Stunt!
Even when she lies in her cof-
fin, the embalmer will manage
to twist up the corners of her
mouth into a smile of sweet
contentment. She's a WOMAN
and she's GOTTA "look pleas
ant" dead or alive.
Copyright, 1888. King Features ..
1 Syndicate. 1nC.l -
The Washington times., 1935-01-31

the organiza-
tion except
the elevator
boys sending
out publicity,
the mails are
overloaded.
Long a go
James A. Moi
t e t t's FILA
ceased S e n d.
ing out bulle-
tins. explana-
t / o n S, a n d
press releases
in terms of
sacks of mail
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writing t h i S
c o | u m n I
S W o r e a
solemn oath
that I would
keep the fam
lily ou t of
these discus
SionS. And so
far I h a v e
lived up that
promise fair
ly well. But
G r a n d ma
was a Wilful
old lady and
even now, 20
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prOprla I l o n
bills for few
men k n o W
the inS and
outs OF sup
ply measures
as perfectly
as does white
haired Ken
nedy Rea.
He received
MS e X p e r l.
ence from a
stern teacher.
Years ago
he arrived at
t he Capitol
with tho OPiu
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The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

Talk Of Government owner.
ship of railroads might of ne
ceSsity be fulfilled If the Fed
eral Housing Administration
continues to send out its prOpa-
ganda.
With practically evervone in
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with the orig NVHHFNy F. Rea
inal watchdog of the Treas
ury," Representative William
Steele Holman of Indiana, and
has been associated with apprO-
priatiOnS committees almost ever
since.
(Coryright 1895, The washington Times
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Words of Wise Men

To err is human to persist in devh-st Augustine
Not but fate, has vanquished me-Scott.
He most is hated when he most is praised.-Dryden
of future ills more useful thing than knowledge
Cicero.
The best may err-Addson,
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Wives and Husbands
Shouldn't Agree

How rude and unreasonable
married people are with each
other if there's a difference of
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Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLGnd

''LOOk Pleasant, Pleased"
Sometimes, I wonder if any
photographer ever had the
temerity to request a man to
Look pleasant, pleased"
Because a man absolutely re-
fuses to look pleasant unless
he FEELS pleasant. So there!
Looking pleasant" Is a fem.
inine virtue, like patience,
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leagues guessing.
They are wondering tDhy Mr..
LudloW, recently Dent out Of
his tOdy to praise Postmaster
General James A. Farley in
tlolUery terms in a recent
speech.
According to Mr.. Ludlow, he
has not clicked with Mr.. Far
ley on patronage matters"
Mr.. Ludlow stated:
At the beginning of this Ad-
ministratiOn 1 submitted q pre-
ferred list of appointments, and
1t was given preferred place
in a pigeOnhOle where 1t still
maintains its preferential
status"
Ludlow, however, extolled the
virtue of Mr.. Farley whom he
denied was "Old Man Politics
incarnate."
His colleagues are wondering
what Mr.. Ludlow sees in the
future.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee is working under q
severe handicap.
Its clerk, Kennedy F. Rea, has
been ill since the first of the
year.
His illness seriously inter
tereS with Senate action on ap-
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Hendrix Willem van Loon

Here is Grandma again. I
am sorry, for when I started
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indlS, it is acknowledged in the
inner circles that CotDley ,Drote
the names of the public enen-
les on his gun.
He gave his life in the war on
crime, but gangland paid three
fold.