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Fear MOngers

great camor going up that for the Government to pay
its debt the soldiers who preserved it, provided in the
Patman BILL would weaken the Nations credit and would de-
preciate the value of all United States money.
Opponents Of the Patman plan to pay off the adjusted
service certificates having smoked out of their first claim
that the money isn't DUE relying the specr Of in
f1aion to Congress out of doing its duty.
These fears that expressed groundss and are rapidly
being to be the financial experts who are direct
ing the affairs Of the Government
President Roosevelt in his inaugural address reused the
country he declared the only thing have to fear is
fear He might well repeat the message now and sign the
Patman bill
Men upon whom the President has steadfastly relied in
handling the counys finances have asserted that the two
thousand million dollars required to pay the soldiers debt
and it is debt not bonuswould have no noticeable effect
on the financial stability of the country.
these authoritative statements statements from
such Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Fl
Corporation and Mariner s. Eccs governor Of the
Federal Board why should opponents Of the Paman
bill persist in their fear campaign?
they their dire forebodng want to create the very
fear which they now profess horres them?
This gospel been used in the past preachment
against every effort which has been made to lift the country
out of the depression.
When it was proposed to spend few thousand million
dollars public works in order to give jobs to the une-
poyed the country told that when the Government went
borrow that money would be wreckng the bond
market The money borrowed and had virtually no effect
the bond market
The Paman bill provides for meeting the soldier debt with
out floating bonds It proposes to pay with new money
backed by the United States Government and by the faith Of
the people in that government Nevertheless the calamity
hoers out in force against this proposal just as few
years ago they out against borrowing money
Congress and the public generally should not allow these
fear monge further delay the Government in doing justice
to the deserving veterans.
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United Jewish Appeal

In address Speaker Of the House Byrns called atten
on to the phanthropic spirit of the American Jews
"The solictude Of the JeWish people in caring for
their aged, the sick and the orphan is tradonat he
said "Ths solcitude has called into being institutions
in every part of the World ich provide against the in"
frnrities to Which mankind is heir"
Further evidence Of this spirit among Washington Jews is
in their generous support of the National United Jewish
Appeal campaign to raise funds for the relief Of destitute
European and the rehabilitation of Palestine Early
ports of the campaigns progress indicate that contributions
this year in many instances double and treble what they
were year ago.
There question about the worthness of the United Jew
h Appeal Col Norman Bentwich Of the League Commission
for Refugees says that Polish Jews in the bread
lines and the other millions Giving below the level Of
decency.'
For the first time in history the wandering Jew has
haven his historic homeland When he was driven from Spain
centuries ago he found refuge in other European countries
And when persecution made his life inoerable in Russia and
Poland fled the United States But today the doors Of
other lands closed to him. In the past two years nearly
100000 immigrants absorbed into the Jewish homeland
remarkable achievement when considers that only $4,000
Jews inhabited the country a few decades ago.
The Jewish homeland movement depends largely on the
port American and English Jews To keep the doors Of
Palestine open is the purpose of the United Appeal
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in their intolerance, but danger
Gus and often ruthlessly cruel.
There is, Of course, a reason
for this attitude as old as the
race itself. Women are the real
protectors of the family and Of
society. Men provide food and
shelter and crude, fighting en-
ergy. But women are supposed
to protect against things more
subtle and dangerous than wild
beasts or hostile tribes. They
hold the human fortification
against the invisible powers Of
darkness. the lure of the
jungle -. the disintegrating
forces which prey upon the
family and the clan. So it is
no accident that women are
narrow-minded and lacking in
imagination-but part Of a de-
liberate training.
FIXED SETTING
A "nice" woman grows up in
a certain fixed setting. She learns
to think of things and people
in certain fixed ways. She is
taught that certain acts and
situations are good" and GER
tain others bad" and that bad"
ness and goodness are as far
apart as the poles.
A mice" woman can no more
realize badness and goodness
existing together, or being in
Interchangeable, than she can real
ize day and night existing to"
gether. They are utterly and
everlastingly separated in her
mind-as sharply defined as
black and whichever to be
confused.
It therefore follows if people
are bad they are bad all through
and all over. No one can be
honest and a liar at the same
time, unselfish yet piggishly
greedy.
A months contact with real
life would, of course, disabuse
any intelligent woman's mind
of such notions. She would
speedily discover that human
beings are all things at the same
time. .cowardly and brave, hon
est and false, kind and cruel.
She would soon realize that some
Of the most laWleSs people are
the most noble and generous. .
and some of the purest, the
nastiest and most misery.
And she would learn, through
painful experience, that the most
dangerous person to trust is not
the low-browed thug Of gutter
experience but the high-browed
respectable citizen Who had had
no experience at all.
Yes-a months contact with
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Latin Cities

Now that air travel has opened
new and swift routes to South
America, many more tourists will
avail themselves of these facin-
ties to visit our Latin neighbors.
OF course, if there's enough
time, the trip by steamer is de"
lightful, down one coast, across
the Andes, then home again via
another route. The travel
agencies tell us that many of
their clients who used to visit
Europe are booking for such de-
lightful cities as Rio de Janeiro,
Lima, Santiago de Chile and, of
course. beautiful Buenos Aires.
There is so much to see and to
do in South America that you
will be wise to allow yourself as
much time as possible.
"PARIS OF NEW WORLD"
Buenos Aires has been dubbed
the Paris Of the New World"
but it. is ever so much more than
that. The fashionable tree.
bordered Avenida Alvear with it's
several lines Of fine autos and
the resplendent Avenida de Mayo
equal any street in the Old
World.
Many will want to take the
trip to Lujan, the Lourdes Of
the Argentine q magnificent
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endured it.
President Roosevelt had &C
claimed him as had the Nation.
The time came, however,
when the reclamation was
ended, the reception over, and
the explorer departed from the
White House.
Did he go to other receptions?
Not Byrd!
He took his vite, his boys
the boys that perhaps some
day will be great explorers
and Dent to the 200.
After looking over the ami"
mails. this man who had seen
the animals of all continents,
and his family had dinner in
the small cafe at the Geological
Park.
As well known as he is to
most folks, Speaker Joseph w.
Byrns apparently hasn't taught
his Democratic pupils in the
House how to spell his name.
Recently Representative Theo-
dore A. Peyser, Democrat OF
New York, wrote to the Speaker
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Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

real life would teach a nice
woman all these things. But
the average nice woman doesn't
have an hours, much less a
months experience with real life
in all her days. She passes from
one protected environment to
another, meeting always the
same denatured problems, ming
ling with the same selected
people.
This did not matter greatly
in the Good Old Days when the
world, both within and without
the home, drifted along in the
same old easy measure, and a
mothers service revolved be-
tween kitchen, crib and church.
But it matters tremendously
now when the world is turning
flipflops- changing more in a
month than it once changed in
a century-and when women
have, almost overnight, been
given the liberty and RESPONSE
bility of men.
UNDEVELOPED
For though the average smart
young woman's body is working
and playing in and speaking
the language of 1885, her mind
and spirit are wearing the hob
bles and whalebone of 1885.
Yet, to this undeveloped mind
and spirit are entrusted the
most important problems of our
twentieth century life. They
train the children-they decide
civic problems-and they I'm.
hesitatingly use the power of
their votes to sway judicial de-
cisions. And as a consequence
there's hell to pay!
The greatest menace in our
world today is not the weakling
or the criminal, the political
crook or business profi5eer, but
the tragically inexperienced,
complacently ignorant, ruth.
lessly intolerable Nice Woman.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Tnc.)
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as we Dul1Q
here in America. It leads one
to wonder what would happen
If this concentration of weight
were to cause the earth's crust
to yield.
Not satisfied with going up
in the air, we hollow out the
ground, and develop space
below. Every city, when it at
tains a certain size, starts dig
ging subways, tunnels, and UNI
foreground passages for water,
sewer, gas and electric services.
The heavy buildings have
foundations which go below all
this honeycombing of the
ground, yet when the tunnels
are used for rapid transit pur-
poses, and heavier and heavier
trains are sent laundering
through these tunnels at higher
and higher speeds, we may we'll
think about the effect of the
dangerous combination of enor-
nous concentration of weight,
widespread honeycombing and
constant vibration.
THIN SPOTS
In Yellowstone Park the
earth's crust is so thin that
surface water is able to reach
the molten interior, and bursts
forth as hot springs and gey.
sers. In such a locality it would
be highly dangerous to concen-
trate much weight.
In other localities, the crust,
while thick, Is badly broken UP
by cracks. Geology terms these
cracks faults" They mark
places where there have been
great Subsidences or upheav-
ais, and where the earth's
crust finally yielded.
Usually the sinking and up.
heavals are not uniform. A
spot settles or rises more in
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Three-Minute Journeys
By Temple Manning

ride in itself with the famed
cathedral as the objective. Pill"
grims have gone there to wor"
ship and to intercede for re-
covery for over three centuries.
RIO IS ATTRACTIVE
The beauty of the harbor OF
Rio de Janeiro gives the traveller
a fair idea of the attractiveness
of the city, spread at the base
of Sugar Loaf" and "Hunch.
back" The city is backed by
the Organ Mountains and then
there are the fabulous beaches,
with Copacabana and its mag
nificent casino and the lesser
known but just as beautiful
Flamenco and Opanema.
You will enjoy Valparaiso.
with it's gorgeous harbor and
terraced city. There is Vlna
del Mar, one of the most glori"
GUS suburbs that the writer has
ever seen. It is really a resort
with a grand casino, which is
not only the headquarters OF the
goddess of chance but also con-
tains a good theater, miniature
golf course, restaurants and
beautiful gardens in which to
stroll by the sea.
From Valparaiso we ride to
Santiago. a three-hour trip full
Of beautiful scenery.
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Contrasting Careers

Clarence Darrow is IS and
Edwin Markham is SO. In life,
by different paths, they have
sought a common goal: the
betterment of the masses; the
furtherance of the brotherhood
of man.
Darrow's has been the spec
tacular fight, with the spotlight
beating on him for 40 years as
he stood on those most glamor'
Gus Of stages-politics and law.
Radicalism in all its forms,
from Big Bill Haywood down to
Stain, has had him as an apollo
gist, a friend at court. His line
of attack has been the destruc-
ton of the old order.
Markham, a child Of the GOV.
cred wagon era, raised in the
wilderness Of oregon, was
teaching school in Oakland,
Calf, a tall bearded man, when
in 1899 he read a poem at a
meeting.
AS much by chance as by de-
sign. it appeared in the San
Francisco Examiner. The title
and the opening lines ran:
CARRIED APPEAL
'The Man with the Hoe"
Written after seeing Millet's
world-famOuS painting.
"Bowed By the weight of cen.
turtles he leans
Upon his hoe and gGseS on the
ground.
The emptiness of ages in his
face
And on his back the burden OF
the World."
The fact and the fancy of his
lines carried an appeal that
could not be found in a thou.
sand speeches filled with the
cold logic of a Darrow.
Few poems in history had the
immediate and tremendous rec.
ignition afforded to this one.
Darrow stood by the young
murderers, Leopold and Loeb,
and saved them from the elec-
trio chair. He stood against
Bryan and for young Thomas
Scopes, who wanted to teach
evolution against the law of the
State of Tennessee.
Markham kept on writing
poetry, and the other day at
Columbia University they gave
a prize to Helen Carson Jansen
for expressing best the effect
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By Monitor

asking that official notice be
taken of his illness.
He addressed his missive to
"Hon. Joseph w. Burns,
Speaker" $3.50.
+ Down from Michigan comes
Representative Clare B. Holt.
man, a Republican, to take to
task the tGlkGtiUe TEXAN, Rep
reSentGtiUe Thomas L. Bl1nton
3D. of TEXAS.
In one of his first speeches on
the floor of the House the first-
termer from Michigan aroused
the admiration of both Repub-
licans and Democrats, as was
shown by the. applause he re.
ceived. From both sides of the
aisle the sound of clapping
could be heard.
1t has been said that some
men fear the caustic tongue Of
the Texan. Not Hoffman, sppar.
emily.
BlGnto7l has made UdriouS at.
tGckS on newspapers and netOS-
per men.
Seldom has he been con.
demned for those attacks on
the floor.
But up steps Hoffman and
says:
Hardly q day passes that
the gentleman from Texas does
not here rise and take the news.
papers to task and lambaste
them up one side and down the
other because Of some political
comment printed therein.
whether he does it so they
will again criticize him the next
day or whether he still has
hopes of converting them, I
know not.
ct must be one or the other
and if it be the latter it is q
fOrlOrn hope"
Senator Carter Glass, the
diminutive Virginian, receives 4
medal from the National 1nSti.
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The Human Side of the News
BIZ Edwi1s C.. Hill

} that Markham's writings have
on his readers. And she wrote:
"His words march like a hun.
dred marching men
Full-0rmed 1Uith courage and
d1untleSS hope
And 1Dith the magic OF his
poets pen
He brings 11ew strength to N.Y.
riGdS 1Dh0 grope
Along the mislGid 1UGyS.
Years shall not dim the Splen.
dor of his songs
Their love OF truth, their hate
of human lDrongS."
The picture has been given
to us of Mr.. Darrow waiting
death in his rocking chair in
Chicago without fear or enthu-
siasm." BY every rule Of reason
and logic which he knows, death
is the end Of all, and he tells
us:
"All my life have been seek.
ing some definite proof of God
something / could put my
fingers on, and say: This is
fact But my doubts are at rest
now. I know that such fact
does not exist.
"When / die-aS I shall soon
my body will decay. My mind
will decay and INV intellect will
be gone. My soul? There is
no such thing"
Thus the lawyer, like Thorn
as, believes only that which
he sees. Edwin Markham, on
reaching the fifth milestone
beyond Clarence Darrow, also
thought his birthday a fitting
occasion for a discourse on
what, if anything, was beyond
the grave. And he said:
"There are many who think
that the grave is the end Of
existence. But according to
my view, it's the beginning OF
q new existence.
Death is another birth. We
must consider the problem of
the spirit. What is spirit?
The spiritual world is right
here surrounding us. 1t is the
fundamental substance Of the
universe. Right back Of this
mist Of matter is the spiritual
world, the soul Of this world.
CONTINUAL CIRCLE
Behind everything there is
q spirit. There is q soul in
man and q soul in the globe
where we live. At death the
spiritual body of man rises
out Of its physical form just
as q butterfly rises out of its
chrysalis. That is the reSur.
rectiOn we have heard q great
deal about.
Resurrection takes place
Immediately at death. There
is Divine power to bring us
back into young life again SO
we are in q continual circle
of youth to age and age to
youth"
Says Markham, the poet:
81 feel within me that there
is q future life."
Says Darrow, the self.styled
materialist:
81 cannot see, I cannot
touch, / do not believe"
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
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The World of Science
BIZ Hiram Percy Maxim

one place than in another,
causing a tipping. The result
is large areas in which the
layers are not out of level.
Manhattan Island, upon which
the greatest city in the world,
New York, is built, is particu.
larly fortunate. owing to its
splendid deep water harbor. its
river facilities, anc sassy access
to the sea, it was inevitable
that one day q great city
should come to be built upon
it, especially since it had
foundation of solid rock.
However, there is a geologic
fault, or crack, which runs up
the coast from the south and
swings east through Long Island
Sound. The presence of this
fault is evidence that a sub
sidence occurred here sometime
in the past. If it happened
once, one is led to wonder If
it could happen again.
When Earth's crust yields, the
results are cataclysmic. The
forces involved are so titanic,
as contrasted with the might
est human efforts, that build
ings, no matter how built, are
no more than little ant hills.
It would be nothing new for
a city to slip into the sea. In
Northeastern China, a legend
prevails that a city named San
yang disappeared in a great
flood. At low water in Lake Ia,
fishermen report looking below
the surface and seeing what
appears to be the walls Of this
lost city.
SUNKEN CITIES
Oft the coast of Breton,
France, is Sein Island, where,
legend says, the city of Us sank
beneath the sea. Natives point
to stone structures below the
surface, which they claim are
parts of the old buildings.
On the bottom of the Baltic,
off the German coast, is said to
lie the city of Vineta, which
sank into the sea. Off ancient
Carthage, in the Gulf Of
Tunis, it is said that part Of a
city wall can be seen in 800
feet of water.
Possibly the last considerable
change in Earth's surface &C.
Cured on the coast Of Alaska
in 1899. A large area raised up
Al feet.
Were downtown Manhattan
to rise, or drop, so short a dis
lance, we should have the worst
disaster in the history Of civil
cation.
Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. The subject Of the
next one will be "All Things Are
Built of the Same Stuff"
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When the
great explorer
r e t urne d
from his trip
to the south
ernmost parts
Of the world
and was re-
ceived at the
White House
with m u c h
pomp it ma
turally made
some impress
sion.
H e h a d
gone to the
end of tn e
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covers tn t
fact early in
life, but it is
the hardest
t h in G for
W o m e II t o
learn. Partic-
ularly, shell
tered women
who've never
hit q lone
trail through
life.
Women are
the uncoIn-
promising sex.
And they are
AA4 Aaalna aAAn&HR
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OLD FAVORITES
Auld Lang Syne

Aud Lang Syne BY Robert Burns
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o. lang syne?
For aud lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tax cup o. kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We twa haze rim about the braes,
And pud the gowans fine;
But we've wandered monte weary fit
Sin aud lang syne.
And here's hand my frusty fiere,
And ge's hand o. thine
And We'll tax right guild wille-waught
For auld lang syne
And surely yell be your pintstowp
And surely I'll be mine,
And we II tax cup O. kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
Reoders nVted to send to the editor their suooes-
tons of old favorttes among the poems for reprntino in
this space)
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gives them to persons.
Rarer still, is the fact that
one of the Senate laudS his col
league for receiving a testi.
monial of his achievements.
Other medals given by the
Institute were received by
Woodrow Wilson, Chief Justice
Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge,
Madame Curie and others.
Copyright, 1895, The Washington Times
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You Can't Spare the Dime

Washington always glad to be swinded is asked to
put its dimes into the chain letter racket which guees
Westerner invented and which is giving the Postoce De-
partent headache. The bait is $780, which you won
get
you stood Highway Bridge and threw dimes into the
Potomac River you would be in by the police nut
If you throw dimes into this chain letter scheme you ought
to be.
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b u in g S.
When these
are filled, we
t e ar tn e m
d o W n and
erect 60story
bu il d i n 6 S.
The concen-
tr t on of
W e ig h t be-
comes ire.
mendouS.
N ev er, in
all history,
h We there
b e n S NC h
heavy cities
&C 1v,n 1N11;1N
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tute Of Social
Sciences and
his colleague,
S e n a t o r
James Ham
ilton Lewis,
Democrat, Of
Illinois, lauds
him in the
Senate.
Medals are
n o t uncom.
mon but it is
only on rare
&C a S / on s
that the In
stitute of So
nsaH GniAAnan
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Words of Wise Men

should guest in his home and guest in his
own thought.-EmerSon.
comfortable great Of happiness 1t ranks
Immediately after health and good conscience-Smth
The know the they deceive themselves The
only way to avoid Is ignorance Rousseau.
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Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.
ceremony

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn
Byrd is not overly impressed by
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She's a Menace!

Nobody's a good person" 80.
nobody's a "bad person"
Even the stupidest male dis.
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Great Cities Strain Earth's
Crust

Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
We build our cities larger
and larger, and as more and
more of us seek to crowd into
them, we tear down 10-Story
and in their place erect 2O-story
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Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. The subject Of the
next one will be "All Things Are
Built of the Same Stuff"