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The Washington times., 1935-11-13
NO PARTIALITY


Not so long ago there retired
from the Navy an officer who ol E.
vented six fellow officers from Sc
curing the Navy cross.
AS commander of a destroyer
squadron on hazardous convoy
service in the World War, the Of
ficer was believed by the Navy to
have definite views on the ability
Of his men.
He was ordered to designate six
officers, in addition to himself.
who should receive the coveted
cross.
He refused. His contention was
that all of his officers had per-
formed splendid service and he
would not single out six men.
Despite inSistence from the
Navy, he declined to designate the
men and almost involved himself
in courtmartial.
AS a result, the cross was not
bestowed and with the recent re-
tirement of the officer who would
show no partiality, their chances
Of receiving the coveted award is
gone.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13

It was a Gold Star Mother who
opened the eyes of the American
people to the true significance OF
ArmiStice Day when she said: The
bugle call for Armistice Day is
reveille, not taps"
Reveille is the bugle call that
announces to all who hear it the
beginning of a new day. Taps
proclaimS the ending Of the
earthly pilgrimage of one Of our
defenders with the Colors on land
and sea and in the air.
Never was there greater need
than now for the reminder of this
Gold Star Mother, the late Mrs
Clarence r. Edwards. the beloved
wife of the commander of the
Yankee Division in the Great War
to be broadcast up and down the
country.
Thanks to the leadership OF
the American Legion, the veterans
of the Great War have this year
prevented ArmiStice Day from be
ing changed by the political Reds
Pinks, and Yellows, into Disloyalty
Day.
But the country must also look
to the leadership of the Legion
to prevent future observances Of
this anniversary from being
changed from a celebration of g
great American victory, and &
triumphant peace, into a feeble
imitation of Decoration Day.
MEMORIAL DAY
On Decoration Day the house
hold of the nation unites in pay
ing tribute to the memory Of tht
heroic dead in all our wars, anC
to our defenders with the Color
in peace and war.
Ours is the only country in tn
world that has such day in it
patriotic calendar.
In would be an indefensibl'
sacrifice for the United States tt
abandon the national obServanc
of Decoration Day, simply becaus
European nations choose to max
Of their observance of Armistic,
Day an imitation of America
Decoration Day.
There will always be a place IL
the national calendar of Amer
can patriotism for the general OF
Servance of Decoration Day. TIL,
nation that forgets it's defender
with the Colors is foredoomed II
ultimate disappearance from tn
family of nations.
There is also a place in the ma
tional calendar of American pa
triotism for the observance O
Armistice Day.
It is the anniversary tina
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Marry-Go-ROund
By Helen ROWLGI1d


like a Soulcompanion. And no
man really marries in order to
acquire a human vacuum cleaner.
A wife who never knows how
the muffins are going to turn
out or never remembers where she
put the clothes brush may have
such a jolly disposition and such
an understanding, sympathetic
nature that her husband won't
know whether he's eating part
ridges or hamburgerS. While the
best of housekeeperS may be the
sort who quarrels with the Serv.
ants, antagonizes the tradeSmen,
and keeps the house going like
a munitions factory six days q
week.
Naturally, every girl who ex-
poets to marry should know how
to run a house, how to order a
meal and how to cook it. But this
is not all there is to being a mod
ern mans helpmate. And many
a man, who has married this kind
of domestic expert, wishes that
he had picked a wife for her
ability to make him happy and
keep him interested, instead of
for her ability to make apple pie
and put up grape jelly.
A talent for cooking is an asset
in any wife; but unless her "good
cooking" is combined with a good
disposition, good craftsmanship,
tenderness, understanding an d
congeniality, the man who marries
her will some day wonder why he
didn't marry a good pal and hire
a cook.
Copyright, 1875. by King Features
Syndicate, Ins.)
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
The Human Side of the News
By EdUin C.. Hill

well dressed, one outfit which
works New York's Upper East Side
being quite snappy in appearance.
By way of a depression. I saw
something last spring which
thought might some day be peril
nent to current public psychology,
and it seems to fit in here.
Two players, a man and a wom-
an, apparently in their early
thirties, were working violin and
a guitar. They might have
dropped their instruments and
faded into the afternoon crowd Of
fashionably dressed boulevardiers.
They were well-tailored clothes,
and they were as fit and person
able as anybody on the Avenue.
Here's the curious thing about it:
Citizens. with startled look.
would stare at them a moment
and hastily dig for a coin.
THE FRONT"
One well-dressed burgher
dropped a quarter in their box. I
saw plainly written on his face his
unspoken thought. There but for
the grace of God goes John WeS-
ley" It all seemed clear. A frowSy
bum, sunk far below the levels Of
any possible competition with
those who see him, touches off the
association, institutional care
unemployable something for or
ganized relief" and there is a
quick half-hitch on the pocket
book.
But when you see someone who
looks as if he might belong in
your country club set. fiddling for
pennies. on the street, there is q
disquieting reminder that the
blight of depression searches into
sheltered domains-maybe your
own corner. You reach for a
coin. Imagining how the other
chap feels was the start of civili-
Zation, say anthropologiSts.
Such vicariousneSS works better
when the other man looks like
you and seems to belong to your
world. 1t is easier for sympa-
thetic imagination to take the
barrier.
Freddie Gerson, who knows his
Broadway, tells me that street
merchants and musicians have
found this out. The first thing
is to get a front" at any cost;
to make person and clothes flash
the idea of one temporarily driven
to desperate expedients. Mr..
GerSon cites one down-and-out
vaudeville violinist as making a
nice living as the result of this
discovery. and it happens that he
heads one of those new street
bands.
"He had been kept alive by
the Actors Supper Club for two
or three years." said Mr.. GerSon.
"He and three other profession
ais in the same fix got up their
little band, but didn't get any
where with it until they quit
trying to look forlorn and be-
gan dressing up. That's prob.
ably the outfit you saw on the
Upper East Side. They tell me
their take has been increasing
every week. They play good.
modern music and make full re-
turn for all they get"
! Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Svndinafa TncN
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Museum Pieces

use has at last been found for of the antique
school buildings to which Washingtonians sending
their children.
The discovery should be credited to the National Mu
scum which is seeking the ancient system of clocks which
adorns the walls but doesn't tell the time at the Jeffer
son Junior High School,
The clock system the school is a piece and
should be taken of the school and turned to the
The Board of Education hasn't acted on the request
as yet but suggest that when it does it give the
Museum the clocks-PRov1DED THE MUSEUM ALSO
TAKES THE SCHOOL HOUSE.
This particular school house has been nuisance to
the school system for many, many years.
BACK IN 1908 A SPECIAL COMMISSION WHICH
STUDIED OUR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, RECON-
MENDED THAT JEFFERSON BE ABANDONED AT
ONCE.
That was twenty-seve years ago.
We are still sending hundreds of children to the school,
the only change from 1903 being that whereas the build
ing was then used as an elementary school it is
Junior high school.
Now that the National Museum has interested itself
in the relics of school system suggest that it send
its psychologists digging expedition in some Of the
other schools
IT CAN FIND SOME HIGHLY VALUABLE-VAL-
UABLE AS ANTIQUES STOVES IN SEVERAL OF
THE SCHOOLS.
These date back long way and are used one to a
classroom.
So far as can be determined their purpose is to fry
the children on side while freezing them the other
The learned scholars of the National Museum find
many other interesting devices in of old school
buildings for the Jefferson School is not the only one
that was unfit for twenty years ago but is still
receiving students today
BUT IF THE MUSEUM GATHERS UP ALL THE
RELICS OF AN oUTWoRN SCHOOL SYSTEM IT
WILL FIND THAT IT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR
IT TO BUILD A NEW BUILDING TO HOUSE THEM.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13

"GROUNDS" FOR MATRIMONY
1t takes a man at least two years
to find out whether or not he has
married a good cook-and the rest
of his life to figure out why he
didn't choose a wife for something
else more important than her culi-
nary skill.
Good cooking is a fine art and
an accomplishment, as well as a
natural talent. It is far more neces-
sary to a marrying-girl than good
dancing or a good complexion. For,
while it takes lot of love and
faith for a woman to give her
heart into a mans keeping: 1t
takes real bravery for a man to
give delicate thing like his Stom-
ach into a woman'S keeping.
But a girls ability to WELD a
waffle-iron or broil a steak is not
enough ground" for matrimony
No more in fact than her ability
to WELD a golf stick or to play a
good hand at bridge. Because
some of the best cooks and finest
housekeepers that ever lived have
been such naggers, chatterers or
termagants, that their husbands
died of nervous indigestion.
OF course it's a great consola-
tion to a man to know that he
will go home every night to a
clean, charming, well-ordered
house. But the over-efficient
housewife, to whom her rugs and
curtains are more sacred than her
husbands comfort, and who trots
around him picking up things and
busting out ash trays, is more like
q keeper" or "bodyguard" than
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, T.

ton illustrate the benefits of the
plan to aid that great industry.
In Winder, Ca, home of
United States Senator Richard
B. Russell, jr., bales of cotton
are piled high along the highway.
A sign hanging on the upper
most bale sarcastically announces:
Justice and the New Deal"
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
STREET BANDS

The other day I heard a few
strains of top Hat" floating up
from a street band in the alley
below. Fragments of the tune kept
running through my mind while
I was working-not because the
tune was so obsesSive, but because
it seemed strangely out of place.
Not the kind of a tune that be-
longs in dead-end alleys. The next
day I heard it again. I was
stirred to action and began an In
vestigation.
The old "mud-gutter" bands are
gone. They have oeen replaced oy
small bands of both strings and
brass, usually quartettes. They
play up-to-date music, and play
| it we'll. They do rot blast the
neighborhood with noise and dis
sonance.
Mothers, summing sleeping babies
in their carriages, no longer fear
the street players. They run a
great deal to dulcet music. Occa'
sionally, they play something from
the classics, or a lively madrigal
which sets the children dancing.
one feels sorry for the sweat
ing. rotund little old Germans
with their funny caps, and won
ders what has become OF them
but maybe it is just as well. That
furnishing oom-pah of the bass
horn and that sour skirl of an off
key cornet was painful business
racking frazzled nerves perhaps
making statesmen lose contracts
Just as the customer was ready
to sign-and there is one authen
tic case in which a bass horn
blast in an open window made a
nursemaid drop a baby.
SPECIALTIES
As I remember it. the little Ger
man bands used to work hard
est of all at Elm Feste Berg.
They could make the windows
rattle with that. Other special
ties were 'The Broken Ring" and
"The Lorelei." Back in the pre-
war days, an efficient government
had made Berlin the quieteSt city
in the world, succeeding in what
New York is now trying to do In
its antinoise campaign. One see'
now how they did it.
They exiled the street bands
That certainly put Berlin a few
thousand decibels up on New York
But the plump little bandsmer
seemed to rather lot of pennies
and nickelS. I have seen then
pick up a fiStful of small coinI
tossed from apartment windows
after some quite sour and horren
dous footing, One couldn't helI
liking them. That smile of graft
tude, the low obeiSance md the
Swoop of that Weber and Field!
cap made the whole world seen
somehow safe and gemuetlich.
Mostly young chaps man the
now bands. Instruments usually
are a violin, a saxophone, a guital
and a cornet, with sometimes q
flute, a clarinet. tenor guitar OF
banjo. "Top Hat" is one of theil
favorites, and they also play songs
like when I Grow Too Old Tc
Dream" Speak To Me of Love
and You're MY Lucky Star"
Usually the players are talrl!
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
TROPICAL CITY

Injecting itself into new fields,
the Government apparently has
taken up the task Of preSS-agent-
ing towns and cities.
The Works Progress Administra-
ton is concerned in the rehabili-
tation of Key West, Fla.
On the letter head of 'The Key
West Administration" of which
M. E. Gilfond is administrator, B.
c. Dewitt, director of Publicity Of
that organization is sending out
propaganda for the Florida city.
1t is in connection with the
work of Florida WPA District 5.
In his propaganda, Dewitt
stresses the fact that although
the hurricane Of September 2
caused considerable damage, key
West is the only tropical city in
the United States"
The Washington times., 1935-11-13

breath, Skeptics
predicted that
continuing regu-
lation or talk Of
r e g / mentation
" o uld prevent
industry fro m
regaining conf.
dence.
Coordinator of
Industry George
L. Berry, seek
ing to have a
on ference of
business m e n
here December
9, extended an
- -
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
DARE TO BE YOURSELF

DARE TO BE YOURSELF
Dare to be yourself!
Dare to discover yourself!
Dare to make experiments
With yourself!
When you were young
You felt you were different
You thought you had
Some strange, peculiar power
That set you apart
From other people
And you had!
But people laughed at you,
And laughter hurt
So you were afraid.
You were young and lonely
And sensitive
Laughter hurt
Jeering hurt
So you stopped thinking
You were different;
You stopped trying
To discover what
You really were
Or really thought;
You stopped trying
To be yourself
And spent all your time
Trying to be
Like other people!
And what
Has it brought you?
Nothing but misery,
Loneliness and futility-
Nothing but secret shame,
And the feeling that
You have cheated yourself
Which you have!
You have cheated yourself
BY all this dodging
And pretending
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
MORE RIIMORS

With a definite Shakeup rum
ored scheduled for the official
family, Atlantans are wondering
what the effect will be on Lawr-
ence Wood Chip" Robert, jr.,
native son of the Southern city.
They are of the opinion that
the Assistant Secretary of Treas
ury will retire before the passing
Of many months and return to
private life.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
NEW NRA?

Continuing talk of revival Of
the NRA is causing business to
scott at the talk Of "a breathing
spell for industry"
When the President first made
his announcement that business
would be given q chance to get its
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Words From Wise Men

If the sky were to fall, the man
that is tall would be hit first.
The smallest insect can cause
death by its bite.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
SIGNS OF CHANGE

Effects Of the ADMINISTRATION
cotton program are plainly visible
In the South.
Vast acreages Of unpicked cot.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13

He that banquets every day
reliShes his meal.
When a fox breaches, beware
Of your geese.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
By T. E. Powers


Ali this trying
To be somebody else
But your own self
Your own sacred,
Different self.
Stop it!
Stop it now!
Stop cringing and crawling.
And copying
AND DARE TO BE
YOURSELF!
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to think
What you want to think.
Dare to say
What you want to say.
Dare to do
What you want to do!
Be honest, of course.
Don't go around
Being different,
Making different noises,
Making different gestures
Just in order
To show off.
Don't argue and debate,
Disagree and dispute
Just to grab
The spotlight.
Remember, always,
The Other Fellow
Has as much right
To his opinion
AS you have to yours
And if you want him
To consider you,
You must consider him.
Remember all that
But remember, also,
That your first job,
Your first duty,
Your only excuse
For living,
Is TO BE YOURSELF.
Dare to be yourself!
Will you be laughed at?
Jeered at? Punished?
OF course you will!
For all men are towards,
And all men
Are banded together
To make life easy
For CowardS-
And Being Yourself
Doesn't make life easy
Being Yourself
Makes life difficult
AS hell!
So, naturally,
People will. jeer at you,
Hate you and punish you.
If you start being
Honest and brave and diffe
ent.
But what of it?
Suppose they do?
For years you have done
AS they wished
Have they made you happy?
Are you proud?
Are you satisfied?
OF course you aren't!
Then we go on caring
How They feel,
Or what They do?
BE YOURSELF!
Dare at last
To be yourself.
Dare to think
Your own thoughts
Make your own experiments
Go on your own adventures.
Dare-before you die
To find out
What you really are!
Dare-before you disappear
To face yourself,
For once.
(copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, 1ne.)
The Washington times., 1935-11-13

IN THE daily mail receiUed by newspaper editors
is found inpressiUe evidence that millions of people
feel that the uUay TO GET SOMETHING DONE is to
enlist the influence of newspapers
To the public, the newspaper is guide-an adUO-
cGte-0 friend. The newspaper is often the only
institutiOn lVhich can help ndiUduaIs or comnuni-
ties, out of their difficulties.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
Gov. Hoffman to Aid
Hauptnlann Fight

Parker intimated the governor
shared his opinion about the evi,
dence in Hauptmann's trial.
Hes no damn fool" Parker
said.
Parker was deluged with hun,
dreds of letters from all parts OF
the country today. He said most
Of them lauded his activities in
the case though some suggested
Il ought to have my damned head
knocked off"
Plans Own Plea
In the meantime, Hauptmann
was planning to voice his own
final plea for life.
He was not surprised nor
greatly disappointed when the
United States Supreme Court re,
fused to review his conviction
for the murder of Baby Lind
bergh.
He is preparing to act as his
own lawyer before the Court of
PardonS in what promises to be
one Of the strangest scenes ever
enacted in a criminal case in
this State.
The thrice-doomed carpenter
will, according to the most reli-
able information, address the
august Court of Pardons in a
room of the State prison. where
he now awaits death in the elec-
trio chair, if present plans carry
through.
Eight Members of Board
Members Of the Court of Par
dons are Governor Hoffman
State Chancellor Luther A
Campbell and six judges of the
State Court of Errors and Ap-
peal. They WELD the power of
pardon, parole or communication.
Never before in the history of
the State has court of pardonS
gone into the State prison to hear
the plea of a condemned man.
But neither had a governor ever
gone into the State prison to inter.
view a doomed inmate until Gov.
ernor Hoffman paid his secret
visit to Hauptmann in the death
house on the night of last october
II.
And 1t was Hoffman who sale
that every member of the court
Of pardons should personally hear
Hauptmann's story. The youthful
governor late yesterday admitted
to reporters that the court of par
donS may hear Hauptmann's
story in the prison rather than in
the State House.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
ASKS
SINGLE UNION

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 G.N.SJ.
City. State and Federal employees
unions would be united in a single
group under the American FEEDER,
alton of Labor in plans announced
today by E. Claude Babcock, Wash,
ington lawyer and president of
the American Federation of Gov.
ernment Employees. The federation
is holding its national convention
here.
Babcock made his plans for
uniting the unions while patient
at a hospital, following an attack
made on him Sunday night after
a tavern visit. He was recovering
from his injuries and planned to
attend the convention sessions to-
day,
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
Athlete Tells
OF fHOeppeI
sOffere

"a contribution to the cam
paign fund" was one Of several
methods suggested to James W.
Ives, stalwart Baltimore athlete,
for payment of a $1,000 fee for
his appointment to West Point,
he testified in District Supreme
Court today.
The 23-year-old youth said the
suggestion was made to him by
Charles Alexander" whom he
has identified as the son of Re-
preventative John H. Hoeppel
Cd of California. The $1,000,
he testified, was to be paid to
Representative Hoeppel himself.
Young Ives, who occupied the
witness chair during most of
yesterdays session, was called
back today for fresh questioning
in connection with the trial of
the Congressman and his son,
Charles Hoeppel, charged with
conspiracy to solicit a bribe in
connection with appointment of
Ives to the Military Academy.
Warned on Address
Only two questions were asked
him on direct examination. To
one Of these, he replied:
When I was talking to Charles
Alexander in the Willard Hotel
in Washington, June S, 1884, he
said there were several ways I
could pay the $1,000. One was
to turn the money over to Re
preventative Hoeppels campaign
fund.
Il was also warned then to
be sure and use a California
address,"
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
COURT QUERIES
HINT SPLIT
ON AAA
Justices Apparently
Differ In Attitude
Toward Act
By WILLIAM S. NEAL
international News Service

The Supreme Court today con.
tinued to hear arguments on con.
stitutionality Of the AAA process
ing tax.
Solicitor General Stanley Reed
defended the law in a legalistic
argument devoid of emotion.
After two hours of argument in
the Hoosac Mills case yesterday,
Supreme Court observers saw
little to- indicate the attitude Of
the court on the broad constitu-
tional questions involved.
Questions asked by justices,
together with observations,
caused some spectators to hold
that Justices McReynoldS and
Butler felt that Congress i'm
properly delegated taxing power
to Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace.
The same observers saw some
intimation in questions Of Justices
BrandeiS and Stone that they
felt that Secretary wallace had
done just what Congress told
him to do in a legal way"
George Wharton Pepper, who
opened argument for the Hoosac
Mills, placed his assault on con.
stitutionality of the AAA process
ing tax on the broad ground
that it is merely a part of a
scheme of Congress to control
production of agriculture. which
the States alone can control.
The nine black-robed justices,
who listened intently to argu-
ments of both Reed and Pepper,
gave no intimation Of their at.
titude on this broad question.
During yesterdays argument,
justices and Reed discussed a
point for 80 minutes which, it fl
nally was found, was not in the
case. 1t revolved around the meth.
cd chosen by Secretary Of Agri.
culture Wallace of determining
parity price for agriculture.