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flash of pho speaker Joe byrns
tographers' lamps and the blaze
of Kleig lights he raped his
gavel for order.
He did his job well and ap-
peared to know it thoroughly.
He should have known.
He had practiced the act for
80 minutes.
Before the formal opening
of the session, photographers
had asked Mr.. ByrnS to pose at
the Speakers desk. He obliged.
For half an hour Joe raped
his gavel, and posed for the
photo men While the galleries
were still untitled. Then he
left.
Later, he returned amid the
plaudits of the multitude and
took his place-a practiced
veteran.
Diversified discussions of ma
tionaI problems were whispered
privately through Capitol cor
ridorS and cloak rooms when
Congress opened its doors.
Among the subjects debated
was the bonus.
Ina short conference Senator
James J. "Puddler Jim" DGUiS,
the former steel 1UorEer from
Pennsylvania, WaS explaining
that he did not believe the Ad-
miniStration 1Dould find Con-
greSS tied up 1Uith the bonus.
Said Davis:
"The members should not
talk for it. They should just
vote for it,"
Referring to the late Pennsyl-
vania political boss, Boies Pen
rose, Davis explained:
"PenrOse once told me never
to make long speeches. He said,
Jim, you can always explain a
vote, but it's tough to explain a
speech"
Mrs. Mary T. Norton, of New
Jersey, seemed to have a kiss
ing bug in her bonnet on the
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while - COulQ Elsie hOOinsOn
you start over? What's the use
of starting, when it isn't FOR
anything?"
But it IS for something.
Everything lost? Perhaps I, too,
know how that feels. But I'm
telling YOU !,
No matter whom or what
you've lost, as long as you your
self live you have a reason to
hope, a reason to fight, reason
to GO ON!
Once before you were as bank
rupt as you are today. Once be-
fore you had no one, nothing TO
live for. Nothing but your weak
and naked self. Yet. even so. you
leapt at life eagerly, joyfully.
ABUNDANTLY
You have forgotten that time,
though it spread over many
years. It happened when you
were a baby.
For all those first years OF
your life, you did not live for
any person, for any thing. You
had no goal, no plan. Yet, you
lived abundantly, wholesomely,
intensely.
You actually lived more in one
hour then than you live in a
week or a month now. You did
more thinking, more experiment.
ing, made more progress.
But time doesn't count" you
cry. II was only a child"
You were a child, but you were
also a person. You thought.
You desired. You took risks.
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

You made a place for yourself.
At seven you built life, as surely
as though you had been a
philosopher of seventy.
How can you go ahead today?
AS YOU WENT AHEAD
THEN!
Life held its tragedies then,
but you survived them. You can
survive them now.
You had your losses then, but
you went ahead. You can go
ahead now.
You learned to love then. You
learned to hope, to struggle, to
stand up against defeat.
YOU CAN LEARN ALL
THAT AGAIN, NOW.
Life is not one beginning
and one ending. Life is many
beginnings, many endings. But
always the spirit goes on.
What have you to live for?
YOURSELF. . THAT GYPSY
SPIRIT.
A CHANCE
Give that spirit a chance!
Now it is numb, broken, at a
dead halt. It feels nothing.
Desires nothing. But it has
been like that before many,
many times. It was like that
at birth. 1t was like that, Pc
riodically, at many ebb tides
in your life.
But give it a chance. Go
forward as you went forward
when you were a child-try-
ing the next thing-turning
the next corner. Never mind
if you lack feeling. sor desire
-GO AHEAD ANYWAY.
And once more the miracle
will happen which has hap
pened so many times before.
Walk with 1ife-and life will
walk with you.
LiVe-and you will be given
reason to live.
ASK, and it shall be given
you; seek and We shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened
unto you-"
How did you live in those
first days when. as now, you
had nothing? That was how.
BY asking, by seeking, by
knocking-BLINDLY.
DO IT AGAIN! Everything
HASN'T "been swept away"
The spirit that was in you
then is in you now. GIVE 1T
A CHANCE.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Nobody will hear poor Mr.. Baba.
BY this time thoroughly
alarmed, and som ew h a t
daunted, Mr.. Baba will try
again. But trucks will roar by.
Traffic cops will blow their
whistles. East, west, north and
south bound surface cars will
clang and bump. Mr.. Baba will
have to try it again and again.
He will make so attempts to
break his seven-year silence in
Times Square. They will be
frustrated by so separate but
equally effective city noises. At
the conclusion of the fiftieth
try Mr.. Baba will give a
scream of anguish, but it will
be heard by nobody because at
that moment the movie theater
doorman with the voice that
could make the Bull Of Bashan
sound as if he were mooing.
will be announcing to patrons
in the remoter sections OF
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You recently reproduced in this column picture of
German children learning how to wear masks chat might
their lives in of aerial gas bombardment.
Similar lessons have been given to children and adults in
Italy France Russia and other countre ct here of course
just sit and wonder like the penguin.
Above you lesson in the of gas masks in Japan
Professors and students of the japanese college take turns in
wearing the Masks learn apply them practice breathing
through protective that keeps deadly gases
the lungs while the mask protects the eyes from tear gas and
other burning cases.
This picture ought to make Americans THOUGHTFUL They
might reasonably ask themselves:
eff all the UOrLd is practicng the of gas
masks, and the lUOrlds chemists concentrating
the production of deadly torturing cases.
WHY IS THE UNITED STATES INDIFFERENT to
1OFat is inevitably con,ing?"
Do suppose that other countries to the expense Of
building thousands of arhps developing deadly gases and
high explosives training children and adults gas masks
merely for amusement? These other countries know what is
coming in the next
Is not time for this country to think about protecting itself
about gas masks must to that for children and
adults about fighting airshps and submarines the biggest
fleets with the greatest speed and range protect the couny
Above ALL this country should possess power of attack that
would enable to every other nation on earth:
To attack the United States would destruction for you
Come here and we shall prove it to you
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Scientists Seek Our Delivery
From AUOiddbLe Bondage
By Nelson Harding

Now the papers write about 1t
if another case occurs in Java.
Any doctor, or for that mat"
ter, almost any layman, can con-
tinue the list for another ten
pages. And preventive medicine
has made such vast strides that
surgery is gradually being re-
duced to its proper sphere and
is now beginning to be regarded
as the ultima ratio" or "the
last word" of the physician,
when everything else has abso-
lutely failed.
But perhaps in no field Of
the medical sciences has their
been such vast Improvement as
within the realm of the apothe-
cary. The apothecaries of our
childhood days are gone, and
small loss. The incredible RENE
dies of the pre-scientific age
have been almost completely dis
carded, except in a few remote
parts of the hinterland.
The pharmacopoeia of the
Middle Ages has become a grue-
some historical curiosity, like the
torture chambers of the 1nqui"
sition. We no longer swallow
drugs by the bottleful Il can
still remember that time) in the
vague hope that some of it may
stick and may do some good.
When we now take a drug or
submit to an injection of some
carefully prepared ingredient,
we know with almost 100 per
cent degree of accuracy just ex-
actly what effect it will have
upon us, and upon the ailment
1t is called upon to combat and
defeat.
OBSCURE GRAVES
How many can tell offhand
who stamped out malaria and
yellow fever? How many, who
know the Babes batting aver
age, also know the batting aver
age Of the serum against hydro
phobia? I could continue this
list almost ad infinitum and fill
the whole of this newspaper
with names and achievements.
The battle has by no means
been won. But the struggle con.
tinueS uninterruptedly. Day and
night in our chemical labora-
tories men and women stand and
watch and experiment. They are
the missionaries of a new age.
Like many of those who pene-
trated into the wilderness of an
cient Europe to bring a new
message of hope, they sink into
obscure graves.
A few fall exhausted by the
wayside. But others carry on
where they leave off, until the
final day Of victory carries us
one step further towards the
great day Of our complete de-
livery from an avoidable bond.
age, that bondage that is the re.
suit Of our ignorance.
I grant you that these are
very unhappy times for those
who take the short view of hu-
man existence. But those who
take the long view may well
say, What a joy to be alive in
an age like this!"
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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der mine own eyes! When I
was young, there were at least
a dozen ailments that meant a
gamble with death. With what
dread did we youngsters pass
by the house that bore the warn
ing word "diphtheria!" Today
it is a matter of an injection.
I passed through two cholera
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Hendrix Willem van Loon

epidemics. Today a single case
in one of our big cities is a
matter of serious newspaper
comment. Every old Dutch city
still has its ancient leproSy hos
pital. Most modern doctors have
never seen a case. The plague
in the tropics was endemic and
killed it's victims by the million.
The Washington times., 1935-01-05
Drivers Without Brains
Thev Never Learn


We thought that the that automobile drivers killed
record number Of people last year would have SOLDERING effect
their operations.
It seems we were wrong. RIDING IN AN AUTOMOBILE
NOW, OR TRYING TO CROSS STREET, IS AN EVEN
MORE TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE THAN IT WAS LAST
YEAR
Drivers who apparently have regard for their safety
the rights Of others pushing their machines along with
courage and abandon worthy of a better
With the situation getting daily about the only
ons that made for improvement the adoption of this
that regulation or law.
While dom pretend to know the the problem
we convinced that the solution doesn't lie in additional
rules The situation created by disregard existing rules
THE NEW RULES WOULD BE DISREGARDED BY THE
FOOLISH JUST AS ARE THE OLD ONES
The police are making few arrests, but their activities
haven't so far cut the accident rate With police
now available for the ob it is doubtful they will be able
make enough arrests to have any appreciable effect
The police might make their drive effective all those now
detailed to handing out tickets automobiles are stopped
and parked were transferred to the job Of handling moving
traffic. with special emphasis the driving on arteria
The Washington times., 1935-01-05
Words of Wise Men

How vain is learning unless
intelligence go with it.-Sto-
baeus.
For men may come and men
may go, but go on forever
Tennyson.
He who knows much has
many cares.-Lessing.
The living need charity more
than the dead.-Arnold.
The Washington times., 1935-01-05

Error is a hardy plant; it
flourisheth in every Soil.-Tup-
per.
All things which are done &C.
cording to nature are to be &C
counted for good.-Cicero.
A good name is to be chosen
rather than great riches.-Pope.
The Almighty has His own
purposeS.-Lincoln.
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accuracy. If
y ou W a n t
further proof,
re a d ou r
papers.
For tn e
Ch r i S t m as
holidays a r e
t h e tim e
W h e n ou r
4CdI lieu SUI"
ieties hol d
their annual
meetings and
e v cry year
S o m e b o d y,
S o m e where,
c0m q 6 for.
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she is today.
F a c n g the
N e W Y e a r
with empty,
b i t t e r eyes.
Crying, as she
cries
"Start over?
But what for.
Suppose you'd
1OSL everyone
ou Low d,
e v e r y t hing
you lived for,
e v cry t hing
that m a k e S
lif e W wort h
while could
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man to hold
that coveted
p o it ion in
many a year,
in the opinion
Of the old
timers.
When Byrns
was formally
elected by the
H o us e t h e
other day, he
was escorted
to the Speak
er'S roStrum
and amid the
flash of Dhn-
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Senate and
t h e House
message wait
i n g. H e
Shooed them
off in a tone
a n d W tn
words h a t
would have
S t a r t ed a
balky Arkan-
S a S m ul e
about it's bus
mess.
Vice Presi-
dent John N.
Garner, ob-
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opening day Of the Seventy
fourth Congress.
Not only did she swoop dotDn
on Speaker Joe ByrnS after his
election and plant a kiss on his
turroUed cheek, but she later
rushed to the Senate and
slipped one over on the dtmint.
the Senator Hattie T. C1rdD1ps
The friend of the farmer, the
companion of the overalled
class, Honest Vic" Donahey, of
Ohio, appeared in the Senate in
striped trousers and a cutaway.
1t was his first day in the Sen.
ate, and he tried to look the
part.
A colleague remarked:
"Vic and his cutaway Obvi-
OuSly have never reached very
intimate relations and from all
appearances it will be q long
time before they are on friendly
terms"
A precedent UaS set in the
Senate on opening day.
A recess had been taken to
1Udtt the message that the
House had organized.
Newspaper men flocked on
the floor and surrounded Ma
jority Leader Joseph T. Robin
son to secure his views on
the 2O-point recovery program
drafted by House Minority
Leader Bertrand H. Smell.
Robinson, somewhat teSty,
was in the midst of his views
when it was announced that
the House messengers were at
the doors of the Senate with
the message.
Robinson said:
LET 'em wait"
He continued his discourse.
Two Senate employees warned
Robinson he was keeping the
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situation, stepped to his desk
and raped the Senate to or
der. The newspaper men
rushed off the floor as Robin
son muttered:
"Hell, / knew he'd do that"
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Start Again-FOr What?
Sitting alone in a darkened
room. Home, loved ones, place
in life all swept away. Hope
less and broken-hearted.
How many are sitting just as
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The Greatest Show
On Earth
BIZ John Snure, J.

JOvial Joe Byrns, Of Tennes.
see, newly elected Speaker of
the House, is the most tractable
The Washington times., 1935-01-05

Slowly the mills Of the Gods
continue to grind. Slowly but
with divine ruthIessnesS and
The Washington times., 1935-01-05
OLD FAVORITES
Song TO Celia

song 10 CeLIG Ben JOnSOn
Drink to only with thine eyes,
And will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And III not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask drink divine;
But might I of Joves nectar sup
would not change for thine
sent thee late rosy wreath
Not so much honoring thee
AS giving it hope that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself but thee
IRedders are inVted to send to the editor their suo-
gesoMs of old fdvortes among the poems for reprinting
IN this SpGcel
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thirds of this sum, the counties one
third. 1t is planned to shift a third
from the State to the national Gov
eminent
New York has had an old-age pen
sion for five or six years, and the
Legislature enacted an unemployment
insurance law at the last session.
New Jerseys law may have to be
revised and liberaliZed to conform tC
Federal requirements, but no action
can be taken until the national Law
goes into effect.
-Four Southern States - Virginia
North and South Carolina and Ten
nessee-reported no existing old-age
pension statues and no immediate
plans for their enactment. Virginia
is studying the situation and plans to
make recommendations to the 1896
Legislature.
Gov. Eugene Talmadge Of Georgia
an. administration foe, vetoed a law
passed by the last Legislature which
would have permitted the State to
participate in Federal old-age pension
aid, If and when money Is made
available.
An enabling amendment to the Ken
lucky constitution will be voted on
in November which may permit the
Legislature to set up social security
administrations. Kentucky now has
an old-age pension law, enacted in
1926.
Profits Of the wholesale liquor COM
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Pensions
Continued From First Page.)

sion laws now are effective, but have
been inadequate, and most of them
were depending on the anticipated
congressional grant to bring pensions
up to the permitted maximum.
Thousands of elderly persons in
eligible to receive pensions under State
laws would have been aided during
the Fall months, but now must wait
until Congress meets again.
A special Assembly in Utah last jan
uary sought to anticipate the admin
istration social security measure. Leg
islatures of Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Missouri, Illinois, California, Connecti-
cut, Texas, New Hampshire. Rhode Is
land, oregon. Montana and Washing
ton were among those either enacting
new statutes or revising existing ones
to make it easy to blend State and
Federal efforts to aid the aged.
The Texas act was followed by a
referendum August "a, which resulted
in adoption of an amendment to the
constitution of the Lone Star State.
California's new law, expected to
add $4,000 Immediately to the State
pension rolls and $4,000 more when
the national law becomes operative,
goes into effect September Is. AbSut
28,700 now are being aided.
Maryland has been most liberal Of
the States already paying old-age PEN
sions. with $50 month the maximum
per person. The State pays two
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warning in the event of danger OF
Italian invasion.
The legations were believed to have
acted in an effort to prevent their
nationals, particularly business men,
from leaving precipitately.
The French authorities added that
Italy would not begin war without
notification to Great Britain and
France.
The Germans are constructing
bomb-proof dugout on the river near
the legation capable of accommo-
dating $50 persons, emergency food
stuffs, medicine, beds and other sup
plies.
The Germans have $50 nationals
here and 100 proteges. The French
have only 20 citizens. The British
have Is in addition to 1000 Hindus,
Egyptians and other colonials.
The French minister has asked the
Quai dOrsay to permit Armenians,
Rumanians, Czechoslovakians and
Swiss, who are under the protection
of France, to live in Djibouti in the
event Of war.
Ras Emerou, cousin of Emperor
Halle Selassie, has been selected for
the command of Adds Ababa in the
event that the Emperor leaves for the
front.
LAVAL CONSIDERS ACTION.
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at the Typographical Union, g street
between Fourth and Fifth streets, and
is open to all Government employees
and the public. =
The blocking Of the leave bills IN
the Senate is blamed largely on the
equipment shop employees, numbering
about 300. Final passage was blocked
by an amendment providing annual
and sick leave for the comparatively
small postal group. Under an agree
ment reached by Chairman Ramspeck
Of the House Civil Service Committee
and Chairman Mead of the House
Post Once Committee, all postal
workers were TO get a 30-hour week
and all other Government employees
we're to have 3o-day annual leave.
instead Of the present 15-day leave.
The amendment was opposed on the
grounds this group of employees would
thus get double benefits.
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STOCK GIFTS RISE
TO ESCAPE TAXES
$40,0O0,000 Recorded by
Commission Since New
Bill.

BY the Associated Press.
Gifts of some $40 900 900 in securi-
ties by corporation directors and large
stockholders, most of which were made
when the program for new and high
gift taxes was announced. were dis
closed today by reports to the Securi-
ties Commission.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., with dona-
lions Of $28,0o0,000 in two months.
was the biggest giver, the bulk of the
other large ones ranging in the hum
dreds Of thousands, with a few over a
million.
Total gift taxes to be paid under
existing legislation-on rough, though
official, estimates, assuming market
values to be accurate appraisals and
that gifts were made to Individuals
would approximate $4,000, 900 against
$14,500,0 900 under the new bill, which
Is effective January /, 1886.
Gifts Are Divided.
These figures are probably high, Of
ficials said, because many of the gifts
are broken up. Rockefeller. for ex-
ample, reported $27 100000 in June 20
individuals and charitable organiza-
lions. Figured as one gift, the pres
ent tax would be $1,000, 900, against
2,346,000 under the new bill, but
since there actually were several gifts
the tax would be lower. The high
rates start on the larger gifts.
Gifts in July were more than S.
100000 on the basis of early reports
received by the commission, but this
total probably will be augmented later.
The total for June, aside from the
Rockefeller gift, was about $4,000. 900,
and for the previous three months
about S5,000,000.
Other large July gifts included
$1,380,000 by Andrew w. Mellon, for
mer Secretary of the Treasury: ST.
100000 by Kate Hanna Harvey of
Cleveland; 100000 by Henry j.
Fisher, New York; 100000 by
Charles S. Woolworth, Scranton, Pa,
and s727,000 by Edward Cornell,
New York.
Other Gifts Not Included.
These figures do not disclose all the
gifts. They include gifts of securi-
ties by officers and directors of cor
porations and individuals holding 10
per cent or more of corporations
stock.
Special attention has been paid to
gifts recently in view of the tax
program, but the purpose of the COM
mission reports is to show changes
In stock ownership, particularly sales
and purchases, for the information
OF investors.
The securities exchange act pro-
vded for such reports on the ground
they would furnish check of Specu-
1ations by insiders" such as the cor
poration's officers, and also show up
manipulation. Profits made by Off
GERS are recoverable by suit of stock
holders.
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to strategic stations near the Suez
Canal.
The assembly at Portland, scheduled
to be completed tomorrow, Is one week
earlier than originally planned.
Without stating the reason the ad-
miralty ordered the aircraft carrier
Courageous, which was scheduled to
dock for a refitting. to join the
maneuvers.
The Courageous already is taking on
planes at Portsmouth in readiness to
join the feet.
Unless there is some other change
in the program. the home feet will
leave for q cruise Of Scotch waters in
September, remaining there until mid
November.
When the cruise ends, the battle
cruiser Hood and some Of the battle
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ITALIANS USE REAL SHELLS.
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P.W.A. OFFICES ORDERED
OPEN ON LABOR DAY
Applications Will Be Received as
Drive for Speed on Pro-
gram Gets Under Way.

BY the Associated Press.
Labor day will mean just that for
State P. w. A. directors.
Secretary Ickes. driving for speed
In the work relief program, has Or
dered all State P. w. A. Offices open
Sunday and Labor day to take appli-
cations.
Although President Roosevelt set
September II as the deadline for ap-
plications under the S4,800,0 100000
works fund, Ickes has advanced this
to September on P. w. A. projects.
He explained P. w. A. leaders here
need O few days to examine projects.
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MEETING TONIGHT
ON LEAVE BILLS
Position Of Employees of Mail
Equipment Shop to Be
Clarified.

J. A. Brown, president Of lodge
No. los. American Federation Of
Government Employees, announced
today his organization will hold a
special meeting tonight to clarity the
position Of employees Of the mail equip
ment shop with respect to the annual
ana sick leave bills left pending in
the Senate after receiving House
approval.
The meeting will be held at 8 O'Clock