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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-31
A Good Traffic Law

Washington takes new step this week toward cutting
down automobile accidents and relieving the financial dis
tress that so often results from this type of mshap
The new automobile financial responsibility law goes into
effect Friday and everyone driving owning an automobile
would do well study its provisions and be prepared to meet
the requirements which it establishes.
This law does NOT penalze the decent careful and
siderate driver.
But it does hit and hit hard the automobile driver and
owner who perssteny fagranty violates two Of the
more important traffic rules cannot meet the nan
cial obligations of his acts
The new requires the posting of proof Of ability to
meet damages when driver has been convicted of driving
while intoxicated Of leaving the of accident in
which personal injury has occurred without making known
his identity.
Also and this particular Importance requires the
posting of proof when final judgment for damages result
ing from automobile accident has not been met within
thirty days
And until the proof posted the operators permit and
registration certificates WILL BE SUSPENDED.
Now thousands and thousands of drivers in Wash
ington who will be forced to meet the requirements
of this law.
There are, however many who will under its pro-
visions within few days of its becoming effective.
No one needs to waste sympathy them
They the chronic traffic regulation Breakers they
the people who pling terrible toll Of dead and in
jured
Many of them will driven from the under this
law
At least that is the ferven hope of all DECENT drivers
Every time of these drunken drivers
of these financial irresponsbes from the streets Of
the city making life and property
Respectable drivers haze objection to this LdU
The others haze forfeited their right to object
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Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

dent or outrageous injustice
which merits honest sympathy.
But presently the Carmichael
makes a pleasant discovery.
The sob story. if sufficiently
tragic, serves two purposes
it's a perfect alibi for coward
ice, laziness and general Gus
sedness. and it's a swell
method of grabbing the spot
light and gratifying ones ego
tiSm.
For you can't of course, ex-
pect a Broken Heart to act
regular, or give him the bawl-
ing out he deserves when he
doesn't act regular. Nor can
you deny him the audience he
demands. So, any way you look
at it, the Carmichaeps sitting
pretty and you are on the spot.
COULD STOP 1T
And nine times out of ten we
deserve to be on that spot! We
are responsible for it, says
Frank Swinnerton, BECAUSE
WE CANNOT SAY NO."
Is it because we're really soft
hearted, patient and filled with
brotherly love? 1t is NOT! It's
because we're spineless and con-
ceited. Bored though we are,
still it flatters our vanity to
have the Carmichael appeal to
US. Also, we cringe from the
thought of what he'll say about
us if we refuse to listen.
So the racket goes merrily
on! AMI we continue to main
tain a public nuisance" which
we could abate in sixty seconds
if we had the spunk of a wood
tick!
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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A COmmunistic Boast
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

Moscow program to undermine
the Government of the Consti-
tuition than the passage or de-
feat Of some of the legislation
now pending before the Con-
greSS, in which the Reds, PinkS
and Fellows have interested
themselves.
Let the Congress pass the
Nye force bill to destroy defense
training with the Colors in
nearly 200 loyal schools, colleges
and universities of this country
and the Communists will have
another American victory to re-
port to Moscow.
NEAR AT HAND
Let the House of Representa-
tiveS refuse to pass the Senate
bill to protect the armed forces
of the United States from the
aggressive activities of Moscow's
agents to incite reb elton
throughout their ranks and the
Communist Party will doubtless
reward the efforts of Congress
man Maverick to defeat this
bill by setting up one of their
regional headquarters at San
Antonio.
San Antonio is one of the
largest Army centers in the
United States. 1t is the home
OF the West Point of the Air"
The more Communist agents
concentrated in that area the
more damage these invaders of
American soil can threaten to
American defense machines and
to American morale.
BY opposing the legislation
to punish with severity these
alien rascals and their domestic
dupeS, Congressman Maverick
of Texas and Congressman Mar
cantonio of New York are doing
as much to aid the Moscow
anti-American movement as is
Senator Nye of North Dakota
with his Force bill to wipe out
Defense Training for American
youth.
The time would seem to be
near at hand when the cry will
go up in this country:
put none but Americans on
Guard. and begin by sending
them to Congress-"
Copyright, 1885. The Washington
TimeSO
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a person as one comes across
in a month of Sundays. The
rest of the modern Scribblers
that people make such a fuss
about nowadays will be forgot
ten, Mr.. Russell thought, even
though some of them have writ
ten better" things than the
tales of Mowgli and old Kaa
and Bagheera, the black pan
Their, and the wise old Baloo.
For it isn't splendid writing
that makes a piece of work live.
said the sage. It's hitting some
note that strikes down to the
very roots of the human imagl-
nation. It's crying call that
touches the hearts of all chill
dren. And 1.-THE jungle Book"
like 1.-The Arabian Nights"
strikes such a note and cries
such a. call.
VERSATILE
An engaging personality, this
burly Irishman from Dublin
who edited the Irish States.
man" and stood for all that is
best in culture, who painted
good pictures, wrote good
poetry, knew how to design a
beautiful dress, was versed in
the intricacies of finance and
economy and who even told the
Irish farmers how to get better
crops from their stony fields.
There was nothing OF the pallld
dilettante about him-nothlng
whatever. He was a beef-ted
gentleman, weighing 200 pounds
in his wooden socks, and he even
supported paunch with grace
and dignity.
A great massive head with
shock of brown hair, usually IN
disorder; Mephistophelian eye
brows which gave an amuSlngIy
sinister twist to his benevolent
countenance; full cheeks and a
sanguine almost florid COM
plexion: heavy muStache and
full beard that we're brown once
turned gray and so stained with
tobacco juice that the gray was
noticeable only around the
fringes; big brown eyes, the eyes
of a poet with a shrewd twinkle
in them; clothes worn anyhow
blue four-in-hand tied with a
stopping twist, and coat, waist
coat and trousers rather in need
of the tailor's pressing iron-a
musical voice with no brogue
and barely a touch of the thing
we call the English accent-in
fact, his accent was more like
that of a Harvard than it re-
sembled the accent of British
university-all of these things
marked Russell.
Many visitors from the other
side, who come over here &C
claimed as great men and
geniuses, turn out only too often
to be great bores, but that accu-
sation was never leveled at
George Russell, for a more de-
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BY way OF Moscow comes new
evidence that many of 1.-The foes
of our own household" are get.
ting alien assistance in their
attempts to overthrow the Gov
eminent of the Constitution by
boring from within"
Reporting to the congress Of
the Communist International,
the general secretary of it's
organization in the United
States boasts of the success on
American soil of the Sapping
expeditions which the alien
Reds have helped to organize.
This Communist organizer of
the Reds, Pinks and Fellows on
American soil tells the Moscow
congress that the membership
of the Communist party in this
country has increased 40 per
cent in the last few years. He
tells of the circulation of mil
lions of copies of an unemploy-
ment insurance bill which has
the support of a radical group
of Representatives in the pres
ent Congress.
This Communist also reports
to the Moscow Congress how
active has been the Communist
campaign to organize schools,
colleges and universities, sup
ported by the American peoples
money, to overthrow the Amer
lean peoples Government.
GUIDING FORCE
According to the press dis
patches from Moscow this Com
munist organizer declared that
the Communist party is "seri-
ously working to extend its in
fluence to the non-proletarian
strata of the population such as
farmers, students, white collar
workers, liberal professions, and
the intelligentsia."
Continuing his report to his
Moscow bosses this Communist
organizer of American sappers
boosted that the Communist
party had actively led the
youth movement" in the United
States; that it had launched a
movement against war and was
"the guiding force in the great
revolutionary cultural move
ment."
Nothing will more quickly aid
and abet the carrying of the
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Greatest Show On Earth
By Nelson Harding
By John Snure, Jr,

ballyhoo was one method of
gaining support.
Mr.. Long, OF course, is not IN
position to demand enactment
of a national tax scheme that
would carry out the plot.
Mr.. Roosevelt is in a position
to do it and has done it.
What Mr.. Fletcher will do
now to revive his year-Old spoken
view none knows.
One of the most important
jobs around the White House
is held by H. F. Nesbit, steward
at the Executive Mansion.
One of his principal tasks is
to supervise the making of cof-
fee, and to Nesbit that is an
art.
Given credit for bringing the
"trick-oIatOr" process to the
East, Nesbit is said to have Sc
cured the idea in the West,
where he observed someone al
lowing the coffee to drip through
a piece of paper.
He traces nearly every bit of
coffee he uses back to its FAM
lily tree and buys all the White
House coffee from a New York
firm that has been in business
for 108 years-before the adop-
ton of the Constitution.
NeSbit contends that there Is
only one recipe for real coffee.
He says one tablespoonful OF
coffee must be used for eDery
cup and that an additional
spoonful should be added.
The real secret for a fine
beverage, however, is that a
pinch of salt should be added
to the ground coffee before the
beverage is made.
Various plans of alleged pan
aceas for the nation have be-
come so numerous that it is
almost impossible to keep count
of them.
So says Representative Ran
dolph Carpenter, of Kansas.
So bad has it become that
Nor,onVofors caHyc.
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These Charming Men

These Charming Men
There are more ways of sur
prising a man than by marrying
him, but none surer or more ef-
fective.
The charms of the helpless
"clinging vine" are as ineffective
in this age of efficiency as the
destinations of the blond-mus-
tached hero with a broken
heart. What a man is looking
for, nowadays, is not a burden
but a lifebuoy.
All the nerve in America is
cornered by the bachelors; but
once you get one of them to the
altar, it oozes right out of him
and he becomes nice, tame yes
husband.
A mans notion of an ideal
wife is one who can get more
fun out of shopping in the
kitchenware department of the
five7and-ten than out of spend
ing twice the time and money
sitting in a beauty parlor or at
q cocktail bar.
One reason why the modern
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to give erro- Henry r. FAetc"er
neous impressions to the voters.
That speech was believed to be
an effort to secure the conf
dence of those voters who were
very critical of the wealthy
crowd.
This year President Roosevelt
has beaten MIR. Fletcher to the
draw.
His "Soak the sGvi11g" plan IS
not only considered by the ADJ
miniStrGtio1 as q reOenue pro-
ducing scheme, but it is thought
that it wilI be a 1OiSe political
moUe, observers sag.
Leaders know that among a
certain class of voters, the
share the wealth" plan of Sen
ator Huey P. Long lent enchant-
ment to his name and that his
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gift Of being pathetic, thereby
making us feel remorSeful, hard
and selfish.
Children who cannot play by
themselves are Carmichaels.
Older people who show wounded
feelings after our short non
letter-writing absence; all par
entS whose children dare not
marry for fear of the gap left
at home are Carmichaels. De-
Stroying our peace of mind, the
tyranny of the Carmichael is
inceSsant."
You could add scores to that
list out of your own circle of
acquaintance, couldn't you?
And with what gusto!
There's the Peevish Mama
who always gets her own way
by reminding her children of all
she's Sacrificed for Them
or telling her husband how she's
given him "the best years of her
youth 80.
VARIETIES APLENTY
Or the Pouty Papa who makes
a big hit with sympathetic
sweetieS by telling how misun-
derstood he is at home. IF I'd
only met someone like you -"
Or the Domestic Martyr who
"WearS her fingers to the bone"
for everyone, without receiving
"a particle Of consideration in
return"
Or the Sensitive Soul, male,
female or what-have-you, whose
life is one long, agonizing series
of snubs, Sights, sinister plots
and brutal attacks
Or the General Nuisance who
boreS us all to tears with his end
less recitalS, but whom we dare
not duck lest we be considered
Heartless Monsters.
And we haven't even started.
There are at least 5,937 other
varieties of Chronic Sufferers
who waste our time, Squander
our emotions and wreck our
morals with their pity appeals,
over everything from an ingrow-
ing toenail to a race riot.
Often, indeed, there was
genuine heartbreak in the be-
ginning of their story. The
death Of some loved one. Be-
trayal by someone they trusted.
Sickness. Some hideouS accl-
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G. H A ELS"
M e a n i n G
what? Mean
ing t h o S e
Gu S Sed crea-
lures, m a ! e
a n d female,
y o u n g and
o l d, W h o
make a bust
ness of prey
ing on o u r
sympathy.
"T h cir eS-
6 mt ial fea.
ture," S a y S
Mr.. Swimmer
ton, sis the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-31

was an i'm
proper view.
AS a matter
of fact, he
S a i d, w IL
Street was a
m i ! | S t o n e
a r o u n d the
party's neck,
not h a v in g
c o n t r j b
uted any size.
a b lie. c a m
paign f u n d
or y e a r S,
but m err e ! y
e n o u 6 h
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1t was only about q year
ago that Republican Chairman
Henry p. Fletcher made several
assertions about Wall Street and
the mOneyed crowd.
At that time Mr.. Fletcher con-
tended that the theory that Wall
Street was the Republican ally
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lightful conversationalist never
sat down for a chat with
strangers.
He wore a rosary of the pearls
of the literature of 20 languages,
including the ancient Gaelic,
and he played with that rosary,
so to speak, as he talked, so that
his conversation was thing of
form and color and design.
There was much of a child in
the big, burly creature, and a
mighty likable child-no pre-
cocity but sweetness and wisdom
from soil and stars. Somebody
once asked him what American,
if any, had most interested him.
Hamilton" he said instantly.
"There was a man of intelli-
gence and imagination; a great
personality. / shall mover forget
the story of the time that Wash
ingtOn had word of the pOSsibil-
ity of capturing the British COM
mander in New York. 1t would
have been an easy strOke-a few
men down the river in a boat
and they would have the British
cOmmander-in-chief fast in their
net.
"The expedition was about to
set forth, with WaShingtOn's ap.
proval, when Hamilton heard of
it and dashed in to protest.
Don't do that he protested to
Washington. Suppose you cap
ture the general. What then?
We know the present one is a
fool and very likely they would
put somebody in his place who
wasn't a fool"
He lamented the disappear
ance of chivalry from the world
one of the noblest of human
qualities. He thought it had
been pushed too much out Of
literature by sophistication and
he liked to go back to pagan
literature (there isn't too much
chivalry in Christian literature)
to refresh his soul.
He liked to think of Cuhulain,
the old Gaelic conqueror, who,
when he had his enemies
soundly thrashed and was on
the very point of Wiping them
out, would draw back to give
them a chance to revive and
make a better fight Of it.
PET AVOCATION
He doubted that the Irish
have a real sense of humor. The
English have, he believed, but
not the Irish. The Irish AVE
vita ready, flashing, surpris-
ing Wit-but they have not the
humor to take a joke on them
selves any too we'll and they
lack often a sense of fun.
His pet avocation was the dis
covery and encouragement OF
poets in Ireland. They were
raising quite a crop of poets in
the Emerald Isle since the re-
vival of the old language, and
George Russell used to prowl
about, tagging this one and that
one, and the first thing you
know all Ireland was falling
about the fellow. He was well
enough content with the Free
State-something better lacking
1--WE poets are never content
with anything" he once told
this writer, "but for the present
until we can get something bet
ter, the government we have il
satisfactory"
"Will there be more viOlence?
perhaps not for a long time,
came the reply. at seems to
be inevitable about every ST
years. 1 once had the idea thai
Ireland could be unified, being
a north of Ireland man, but
have given up such notions
They didn't take"
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate Incl
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have q Spe- Rep. Carpenter
cial cabinet labeled Crazy IDEAS
where I file them ALL"
After discussing the develop
ment of other plans, Carpen-
ter then introduced one of his
own.
He wants to decentraliZe
government and his colleagues
say that probably will 80 into
his own cabinet.
(Copyrlght. 1885. The Washington Timesl
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va $SAAONA S~J
"ThiS is the
day and age
of plans. Ev-
eryOne is busy
writing plans
to take us
out of the de-
preston and
we all like to
see our ideas
in print. They
come to my
office in all
m a n n e r,
s h a p e, and
form.
"In fact 1
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OLD FAVORITES
The Old Mans Comforts Robert SOutheu

The Old Mans Comforts Robert SOuthey
''You are old, Father William" the young cried;
''The few locks which are left you gray;
You hale, Father Wiiam-a hearty old man:
Now tell me the reason, pray
''In the days of my youth" Father William replied
81 remembered that youth would fly FAST
And abused not my health and my vigor at first
That never might need them at LAST
"In the days of my youth" Father William replied,
81 remembered that youth could not last
thought of the future, whatever did,
That never might greve for the past"
II am cheerful young man." Father William replied;
"Let the thy attention engage;
In the days of my youth, remembered my God
And He hath not forgotten my age"
(Reuders nved to send to the editor their sNggeS
tons of old favortes among the poems for reprntng in
this SpGce.l '...-
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400 We ar S
from now are
Kipling and
h is jungle
Book" This
was the opin-
ion, anyway,
of the de-
parted S a g e
of Irel a n d,
G. e or g e w.
Russell, who
has Just gone
to a better
| a n d eV e n
than Ireland
and who was
orin fnraStinO
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Have You or Are You a
"CarmiChaeP'?

Frank SWinnerton has a name
for them. They are, says he in
Tokefield Papers, "CARMI-
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The Human Side of the News
Blu EdWin C.. Hill

George w. Russell
Probably the only English
language writer and English
language story that will be read
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"WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1885


In Northwest washington, D.
Ar Newny Publish ].
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-17

Two Of the oldest millstones in
the history of Waterbury, used in
the first major industry in the
city. will be used shortly to form
q special exhibit of the Scovill
Manufacturing company on the
parlxlet on Mill street. The ex-
hibit will be the Scovill COM
pany's tribute to the local tercen-
tenary program. The millstones,,
dating back to beyond 1850, vii
be offered for the public view on
the parklet in question and Will
depict the start of early industry
in this locality.
The nillstones are those used by
the old Hopkins grist mill. The
west yard, on which the present
Scovili company's offices stand,
was used prior to 1880, by the
Hopkins grist mill for its activities.
A search of the historical records
of Waterbury shows that the SEQ
viii company obtained charter to
set up its present plant from the
state legislature.
Mill Intact
However, in the charter granted
to the Scovill Manufacturing COM
pany, It was specifically stipulated
that the mill of the Hopkins COM
pany should be kept intact and
ready to act at any special notice.
At that time grist mills were con-
sidered the principal modes OF
manufacturing in any one local.
ity. -,
AS a result, the grist mill ma
chinery was kept intact for many
years. The right-of-way now oc-
cupied by the railroad passing
through the Scovill company was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-17
INTEREST REVIVED
in IRISH DANCING
Local Group to Give Free
Instructions in Old Time
Reels and Jigs

Following upon the success of
the Irish dancing witnessed at
Settlers Village, plans have been
made in this city to popularize the
famous jigs and reels in an effort
to have more people participate
in the pastime which presently is
enjoyed by only small number
of the Irish descendants in this
city. Irish socials in the past have
not been up to the expected STAN
dard because it seems that every
one has his own method of doing
the steps and local masters
group have taken 1t upon them
selves to teach the gneral popula-
ton the grace and beauty of real
Irish dancing on order that more
couples can be secured to partic-
ipate in them at socials.
The movement will get under
way in this city at Eagles Hall on
next Tuesday night at which time
real Gaelic orchestra will pro-
vide the musical numbers. The To-
cal teachers will demonstrate the
steps and those present are ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-17
CORONER PROBING
FAMILY QUARREL
Wife Sustains Internal In.
juries- Husband Held
Under $4,000 Bonds

Mrs. Valerie vitkaukas of 80
Bradley avenue will be removed to
the Waterbury hospital today for
observation while her husband re-
mains coroner's prisoner at po-
lice headquarters under $4,000
bonds for having beaten her during
a fight at their home last Satur-
day night. The accused, Charles
Vitkaukas, A, is charged by the
coroner with having kicked her,
causing serious internal injuries.
Vitkaukas was arrested last
night on warrant issued by Dep
uty Coroner Walter w. Smyth who
was notified of the woman's condi-
ton by DR.. John s. Staneslow,
She was brought to the hospital
last Saturday night after she was
found lying in front of her home
and bleeding internally. Hospital
attaches thought she was not SER
iously hurt and she was returned
to her home.
DR.. Staneslow notified police OF
the change in the woman's condi-