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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
An American Classic

Few among the million who have hummed 1.-THE Sidewalks
of New York" knew who wrote the words the music.
Charles B. Lawor vaudeville actor, the composer He
died. sightess and obscure in 1926 And New York is
reminded again of the of fame the passing Of
James w. Blake the author Of the lyric penness at 73.
Mr. Baes old age, it is true lghtened somewhat by
the charity friends But grim jest that he and his
colleague paid only $4,000 for of the greatest hits
the history popular music He would have starved had he
received aid in his later years.
Let us hope however, that before death claimed the both
Blake awor found compensation in the knowledge that
they had written cassc-one that will live for generations
and will delight millions yet unborn.
It is the real thing.
It breathe spirit of the worlds greatest city other
song DONE and genuine expression Of phase Of
Americanism as "Dixie' or my Old Kentucky Home"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

will break its way through pain
and poverty and fear and de-
preston for G man.
ASK AND TT SHALL BE
GIVEN YOU. SEEK AND YOU
SHALL FIND" said Jesus at
Nazareth.
That's true. The grass with
all the fury of the springtime
sap asked for room to grow,
sought for room to grow, and
found it.
And a man with all the fury
Of faith may ask for happiness
and health and power and also
find them.
BUT HE MUST ASK AS THE
GRASS ASKED-WITH ALL
THE FORCE OF HIS LIVING
SPIRIT BACKING THE DE-
MANDS AND, WHILE HE
ASKS, HE MUST HURL HIM
SELF AGAINST THE THING
THAT BINDS HIM.
THAT isn't true" you say,
1--WE often prayed for things
and they didn't come true. I
prayed to be a writer and it
didn't come true. I prayed for
my brother to live and it didn't
come true"
OBSERVE LAW
Well, I guess there are reason
able and unreasonable prayers,
my friend.
It seems to me that faith
works as long as it is a reason
able faith-as long as it de-
mands something which really
belongs to us-which doesn't
tie up with some other right.
That grass could will to get
through the cement. It had a
right to get through the cement.
And it got through the cement.
But it couldn't will to change
itself into a turnip. Just as you
can't will to be a writer, if you
were designed to be a carpenter.
Nor could it will to save the
life of the pine tree above it..
The life and death Of that pine
tree were the pine trees bust
ness-not the grass.
There's a law for faith as
there is a law for everything
else and we must keep within
that law. But don't worry about
that. For one thing which you
CAN'T do through faith there
are a MILLION THINGS YOU
CAN DO.
Let yourself go-let yourself
believe-let faith shoot its dy.
Mantle through your body and
spirit. Then watch the cement
break before you!
Copyright. 1898. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31

wound around an iron core.
Another thin diaphragm was
fixed close to the end Of this
iron core. When the electric
current traversed this coil 1t
made the iron core a magnet,
the pull Of which wavered
exactly as the incoming current
wavered.
This vibrated the diaphragm,
and made it duplicate the sound
vibrations to which the original
diaphragm was subjected. In
short, it transmitted speech, and
therefore intelligence, across dis
lance.
Bell called the arrangement a
Telephone" Today it enables
human speech to bridge the
continents and the oceans.
Men used to look into the sky
at night and wonder what the
surface of the moon might be
like. There was no way to get
to the moon, never would be,
and so no one would ever know.
And yet Calico put a couple
Of glass lenses in a tube, and
when, through this arrange
ment, he looked at the moon,
he saw the details of its sur
face. Calico called the device
a telescope" With the mod
em instrument, men today view
the surface of the moon almost
as though from an airplane.
AMPLIFY LIGHT
AS for the planets, they are
too far for us to see anything
but the most conspicuous mark
ings on those which are near
est.
In the case of the fixed stars,
they are as far beyond us as
the moons surface was beyond
men before the time of Calico.
All we can see Of them in the
most powerful telescope is
mere point of light.
But this must not daunt us.
We have not reached the limit
of human possibilities. There
are the best Of reasons for be-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
Fire Alarms and Handouts

sedae old London has been troubled with false fire alarms
and British inventive genius has devised means Of reducing
them.
Whenever fire alarm turned in pair of nppers reaches
from the box and holds the alarmst firmly handcuffed
until fireman arrives with key to release him.
Washington's fire department may be interested
It answers false alarms by the thousands each year. with
expense the city, loss of fire protection to while
the wagons out, and danger to traffic.
Anyone who in bonafide alarm should hardly object
to being thus detained at the box for few minutes
Anyone who turns in fake alarm WOULD.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
he Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

pair of sustaining wings under
him.
Medicine offers a parallel,
in showing how big ideas bob
up like four-leaf clovers-always
variants from the normal.
Stack up Banting's discovery
of insulin for diabetes, Whipple
and Minot's liver cure for
anaemia and a half dozen
others which might be men
toned, and they will more than
offset all the discoveries Of the
great foundations.
That might seem to refute
the suggestion of Government
support. but the main point is
that genius is a gate-crasher
who may appear anywhere. any
time, like One-Eye Connolly, and
Uncle Sam ought to make it
easier for a flier with nerve
and ideas.
Getting back to the present
brood of aviators, the brilliant
Roscoe Turner, who made that
remarkable flight from England
to Australia, manages to get
into the air once in a while by
grace of an enterprising pickle
company. Laura ingalls,, daring
girl flier, has some funds which
she got in a small family estate,
and picks up occasional COM
mercial backing. Wiley Post is
internationally bankrolled by an
oil company. Amelia Earhart,
on her recent Hawaiian flight,
was backed by island CONNER
cial and resort interests.
Aircraft and engine manu-
facturers, and oil and gasoline
companies are the main financ-
ial stimulus to air exploration
and experiment.
AIR SCHOLARSHIP
One of my friends, a writer
and authority on aviation,
agrees that some sort of "air
scholarship" should be provided
for superior fliers as an en-
couragement for furthering eff
fort and a cushion against
need, but he says there should
be sharp lines drawn to keep
out the rattle-heads and "crack
potts."
That ought to be easy.
France has done it, over q
period of nearly 100 years, in its
national encouragement of ma
tive genius for clothes design.
France made a magnificent
build-up of Paris as the style
capital of the world, and gath
cred countless millions of francs
from all nations in doing so.
The French penchant for de-
sign was no more sharply in
digenouS or definitely marked
than our Yankee genius for
mechanics, but France, with
$500 years of brains in it's pub
lie life, knew it had something,
nurtured it and caShed in on it.
So did the Scandinavian
countries with their ceramics,
Holland with its tulips, Ger
many with its instruments Of
precision. And 1t just happens
that prominence in the air,
just now, may be more import
ant than all the above put to-
gether.
Copyright. 1898, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
Filters Play Lone Hands

FuerS RAY Lone f1dnQS
At a luncheon at New York
club the other day, I heard
Amelia Earhart make a simple
but eloquent appeal for some
governmental cooperation with
the aviators who risk their lives
and jeopardize their business Ca
reers in furtherance of Amer
lean aviation. Said Miss Ear
hart:
mo one can estimate the value
to the country of such ex-
perimental work as that Of
Wiley Post. And yet" she con-
tinued, che has no assurance of
earning power, no financial
safety or promising outlook.
"The government will profit,
and has in the past prOfited
tremendously, from such indi-
vidual daring and enterprise.
Why shouldn't it. do its share?
Why shouldn't q young flyer
with new ideas, and willing to
try them out, have the backing
Of the government as the re-
turns of stunning and Snowman
ship? Somebody ought to start
q movement of this kind
This department concurs.
While the Government is al
ready up to its neck in more
varied enterprises than any gov
eminent ever tackled before,
there's no reason why it
shouldn't shade the boon-dog.
Cling a little here and there and
get behind its young eagles who
are just starting to bust into
the shakespeare.
A ROUGH RIDE
Since the first Wright flight,
eager, clever, adventurous Am
erican youth has turned in
pretty nearly the sum total Of
flying technique-for the uses
of both war and peace-and for
this sum Of technique many Of
them have paid with their lives,
and are still doing so. Most Of
the survivors get little out of it,
barring few of the stars.
Wiley Post got mostly a rough
ride out of his two 'round-the-
world flightS-and little else.
Many of the boys have 1eveled
off as mail pilots at none-too-
exciting salaries. There is
steady work for journeymen
fliers at about the wage of a
first-clasS mechanic. But, for
the pioneering air tests, which
involve new principles and per-
hapS new dangers, the expert
mentee must go 1t alone, with
the uncertain returns depending
on commercial backing.
There was gallant Jimmy Col
Inns, killed a few weeks ago, after
turning in a string of air featS
invaluable to aviation. His life
gives a transcript of the casual,
devil-take- the-hindmost attitude
of both big business and Gov
eminent toward the highly quail
fled individual flier.
He was one of the best fliers,
and yet he rounded into the last
year with earnings so meager
that he faced a drastic financial
problem. Brilliant and resource
ful, he turned to writing maya
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
''Staggered" Traffic

Some time ago the traffic authorities in order to facilitate
the of automobiles during the peak hours made
certain streets "oneway" during those hours
This designation of arterial highways has been helpful
But in the interest Of safety and expedition the authorities
might consider the effect which the staggered hour
plan upon the of traffic those highways
The Times has received suggestions that the
way hour be advanced from o'clock until 7SO in the
ing with corresponding frightening of the afternoon hour
This suggestion would meet the needs of those who coming
into the downtown section at earlier hours than formerly be-
cause of the staggered-hour program.
The suggestion reasonable and deserves attention
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31

That is the greatest lesson in
the power of faith I have ever
had.
I do not mean that the grass
THOUGHT it's way through that
piece of cement or broke the
cement by it's spiritual BELIEF.
But THERE WAS AN URGE
WHICH WOULD NOT BE DE-
MED in those delic a tie
sheathS-
There was an urge which was
stronger than dynamite
Which literally blasted away
the obstacles which lay before
it
THE URGE OF LIFE
THE WILL TO BE.
We think of faith as an atti-
tude of mind
A vague, visionary, dreary
wishfulness-
FAITH IS REAL
That's a sick, wishy-waShy
way to think about faith.
That's why more people don't
believe in faith and release its
power in their lives.
Faith isn't a dreamy wishful-
ness-it's as real as bone and
blood and breath
AS gripping as the tingling Of
our nerves and the flexing Of
our muscles
AS powerful as dynamite to
blast away the obstacles which
lie before it.
Grass is grass and men are
men but the same mystery
moves through both the grass
and men-THE MYSTERY OF
LIFE
THE WILL TO BE.
The thing that broke its way
through cement for the grass
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Sn1re, Jr.

A Washington taxicab driver
was much amused the other
day concerning the Shrine con-
clave to be held in the National
Capital ere long.
It seems that he had driven
an elderly spinster to some des-
tination and on the way she
became more or less laxative.
According to the driver the
woman was at least IS years
of age.
She was talking about the
Shriners.
Said she:
II don't know what we girls
will do when these ShrinerS are
here. I just won't go out after
dark"
Since Representative Robert
RGmSpecE 3D. of Georgia be-
came chairman of the House
Ctvil Service Committee the
zethargy of that group has
passed.
In recent years a few meet
ingS a session would be the
extent Of the committee activity.
Bob, however, has taken it
from the doldrumS and made it
an active committee to the gen.
eral benefit Of Government
workers.
Although generally quiet, he
is an active worker.
When E. Claude Babcock,
president Of the American Fed
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OCO 4A4NO0V46SC
ing bond holders reorganiza-
tons.
Delving into all phases of the
reorganizations, Sabath'S COM
mittee has stepped on some
tender toes.
And if allowed to proceed the
committee might go far enough
to cause considerable COnSterna-
ton in certain agencies.
Numerous are the problems
that confront Speaker Joseph
w. Byrns.
A multiplicity Of requests di.
rected at him daily makes the
life more hectic. But he is be.
coming accustomed to strange
requests.
Just the other day, however,
there was a new plea.
A man 1Dent to Byr1rS' office
to request that q committee on
religion be appointed for the
House.
He waited around Byrns' Of
flee for some time-obviouSly a
bit intoxicated.
When the Supreme Court
handed down its NRA decision
it was expected that the Federal
Alcohol Control Administration
would be vitality affected.
1t seems that many, of the
MIRA employees Grrived at that
conclusion GnyhoD.
Worried about their jobs,
many Of them called the nearest
dispenser Of good cheer.
Before long there was q very
cOnvivial atmosphere around the
National Recovery AdminiStra-
ton.
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Navy carry on vast research in
aviation and they take care of
their men and provide mainte-
nance and insurance. But the
Government is overlooking
fertile field of creative genius
and courage when it disregards
the young flier with an inspired
"hunch" and the urge to try
it out.
There's no need to work the
lad into a new bureaucracy Of
a new alphabetical arrangement,
but there's no reason why Uncle
Sam should not rig an extra
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zine and newspaper articles and
was winning hand over fist
when he was struck down. He
left his family something, but
it was not increment from his
own calling.
There have been in Washing
ton many powerful and con-
vincing claimants for govern
mental subsidies for airplane
lines, direct or indirect, but
there has been no one down
there pulling for the boys who
made the passenger and freight
lines possible. The Army and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31

s e 10 u s ILL.,
ness.
The chunky
a n d Spunky
r e p r esenta-
tive from the
Midwest had
a close call
but pull e d
t hr o ugh to
the worry of
some persons
who do not
like his &C.
witty a S
chairman Of
the commit
too invacfiUof.
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piece of &C.
n1ent. The &C.
ment was a
stubborn half
inch in thick
ness tn e
grass was a
gre e n whis-
per. The grass
W a S incon-
ceivably frail.
But today the
C e m e n t is
broken in two
and through
the crack the
ra SIS drifts
sturdy green
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
The World of Science
By Hiram Percy Maxim

lieving that in the not distant
future we shall find a way to
amplify the light received from
a distant star, as we amplify
the invisible light which is radio.
AS soon as we are able to do
this we may enlarge the tele-
scopic image Of a distant body
a thousandfold, and still have
enough light to see details.
This will be something entirely
new. It may be described as
telescope long distance tele-
vision"
We have the ground work for
such a possibility in our radio
amplification, television, light
sensitive electric cells, photo
graphic emulsions which make
pictures by invisible light, and
many other wonderful arrange.
mentS.
Success will mean that we
shall have aStrono zeal
cameras which will produce
photographs which will bring
the planet Mars close enough to
show objects the size Of a small
house.
With the 10O-inA telescope at
Mount Wilson We can today
measure the temperature to
within a few degrees Of any
heavenly body. On the Marian
equator, at noon, we find it as
warm as so degrees Fahrenheit.
At a pole, in winter, we find the
temperature to be $50 degrees
below zero.
In the sunshine on the moon,
We find the temperature is 200
degrees. An hour after sunset it
is $50 degrees below zero. Tenn
perature changes quickly on the
moon, because there Is no at
mosphere.
CONQUER OBSTACLES
The instrument we use to
measure the radiationS Of light
and heat of a distant star is
called a "radiometer." It is SO
sensitive that it could measure
the heat received from a candle
1000 miles away.
With a glass prism, or a
ruled grating, we can tell down
to the three-hundred- millionth
part of an ounce what the ma
terials are in any object whose
light can be photographed. And
we can photograph objects as
far away as a million light
years.
The instrument which per.
forms this modern miracle is
the "spectroscope."
Thus is man creeping along,
overcoming the obstacles, one
after another, in his efforts at
conquering time and space.
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject Of the
next one will be "Sky'S Distance
in RI di0O
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a d e v &c e
W hich sent
hr u h a
wire waves Of
electric c ur-
rem t which
exactly CORE
Spon d e d to
the sou n d
waves Of his
voice.
At the dis
tant end Of
the wire he
pa s S e d the
electric cur
rent through
a coil of wire
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31

e ra tion Of
G ov eminent
E m ploye S,
was teStifying
before the
r a m S p eek
committee he
said that the
m a r r l e d
worker clause
W a S forcing
Federal work
erS to live to-
gether with
out benefit Of
clergy.
H e t oil d
- - - g ~o0
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Words of Wise Men

that wrestles with strengthens shapens
skill. Our antagonist is our helper--Burke
must indeed be hero to appear the eyes
his Valet-Catinat
Books without the knowledge of life useless should
books teach but the art Of iving?-Johnson.
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that he knew of nine such cases.
RamSpeck responded:
81 think the Government en-
pIoyes must be q fine class Of
peOple-Only nine cases out Of
some 1000 workers"
Copyright 1895. The Washington Timss1
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Representative AdOIph Sa-
bath, Democrat, Of Illinois, has
returned to the House after q
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The Will to Be

I have been watching some
grass grow in my backyard.
It started to grow under a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-31
Telescope TelevisiOn

Alexander Graham Bell placed
some carbon granules against a
thin diaphragm, and produced
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Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject Of the
next one will be "Sky'S Distance
in Radio"
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FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1885


n Washington, D. c.
Arthur publisher FttzpaicE managing editor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-22
YOUNG PEOPLE TO BE HONORED WITH
 BREAKFAST SUNDAY

Young people, many of whom plan to attend college in the States this fall, will be honored at breakfast Sunday morning in the parlors of the Northern Liz h t Presbyterian Church. The breakfast hour has been set for 10 o'clock by the Rev. John A. Glasse, pastor, who issued mailed invitations this week
 Whether departure from Juneau to attend school is contemplated, young people and their friends, have been invited to attend the break fast. Mrs R. E. Robertson is in charge.
 Following the breakfast, the entire group will be honored guests at the regular Il o'clock Sunday morning service. The pastor explained that you may sit where you please and you will not be singled out for spe- cial participation
 The Rev. Glasse has requested reservations to be phoned to him at the zynda Hotel, where he is making his temporary headquarters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-22
STONE
 GOING SOUTH
A Actor Champions Alaska Comments on Death
 of Will Rogers

Lewis Stone. famous stage and screen star, left Ketchikan Mon day morning on his yacht Serena, bound for Hollywood after a two- weeks cruise of southeastern Alaska which brought him north as far as Sitka. He was accompanied on the cruise by Mrs. Stone and party of intimate friends.
 Alaska is even as good as it's most enthusiastic champions said it was" he stated, announcing his intention to return next summer. He said the only flaw on the trip was the untimely death of his close friend Will Rogers.
 His death was really tragedy, 7 MT. Stone told Ketchikan reporters. He was the one man who could not be replaced in our national and civic life. The loss that his death caused to the motion picture indus try is only a minor part of what it means to the nation as a whole, although the industry has lost a lot. Men like Will Rogers come only once in century Mark Twain was his predecessor"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-22
TWO ROCK PROJECTS
 WAIT FRONT OPENING

Because Lower Front Street, half of wnich is setting" from a recent csne etc pouring, will not be open for traffic until Monday, at least two projects requiring rock fills are being delayed until then.
 One E the Douglas Island fill of the JsreauDouglas bridge; the other is the sidewalk paving con- tract recently awarded the Foss Construction Company by the city. Thi' contract involves various side- yak projects throughout the City and is financed by a Public Works Administration loan.
 Meanwhile, the Gastineau Con structicn Company continued paw ing work in the uptown area, hav- .ng completed pouring on Lower ircat Street yesterday afternoon. Gs,.cduled for opening tomorrow, wisa new concrete surface, Is Second Street. between Franklin and Seward.
 SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-22

SOliblAlQCu i1O.ai dttt Nttit Hoover has asked anyone to vote for him, or set in motion any or ganized effort to pledge delegates. Tn the symbolical capacity, how ever, the evidence of his activity is ample.
 There can be no question he wants the convention to "vindicate' him, adopt a platform squaring with his official acts as President, and nominate candidate who will not apologize for the Hoover adminis- tration.
 If he himself should be that can didate, no one doubts he would ac- cept; but at the moment 1t is party control, rather than a renomination, which appears to interest him most
 His political opponents within the party have held many quiet confer ences, seeking to defeat that eff fort.
 Many of them would like to see Senator Borah go into the primaries as candidate with the purpose of solidifying the anti Hoover senti- ment in the party, and pledging del- egates who would vote against a Hoover "vindication" But MT. Bor- ah thus far has declined to run.