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The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

know, themselves; would reful
to admit that anyone does. Blu
any mind doctor knows thei
secret.
It started long ago, when they
were broody youngsters looking
enviously at their elders, think
ing how wonderful life would
be when they were grown up,
too, and could do just what they
pleased.
Remember that time in your
own life-your timid, sensitive,
self-conscious 'teens-and the
dizzy dreams you had Of the
days when you'd be entirely free
and independent; glorious days
when life would hold no more
puzzling problems or hateful OBJ
legations? Duties-how you
loathed them! But some day!
But the years passed, and bit
by bit you discovered that
grown-up life wasn't like your
dreams at all. To the contrary
it was drearier, far, than youth
far more filled with restric-
tions and responsibilities. And
at first you were bitter and
frightened and filled with self
pity at this discovery. But
gradually your childish terrors
pasSed-you learned to adapt
yourself-learned to bear your
maturity proudly.
SEEK REFUGE
But those others-they
wouldn't give up their infantile
dreams as you gave up yours.
Outwardly, they seemed to fall
in line. Inwardly, they clung
to their adolescent fantasies
their youthful sentimentality,
idealism and peeviShneSs.
Somewhere, some time they'd
find the perfect world Of which
they'd dreamed, the perfect
job, the perfect mate, the per
feet program. Then, at last,
they'd be Conquering Heroes,
Fairy PrincesseS!
So they wait-these grown-up
babies-wait for baby dreams to
come true. Flying in the mean
time from reality ... seeking
refuge in tantrums, fantasies or
play games.
Like Peter Pan-remember?
Weird, wistful little Peter Pan,
who fitted about forever in his
nightie and never lost his baby
teeth! These men and women
who look like grown-ups but
aren't-thousands and thou
sands of them-they, too, have
never lost their baby teeth!
Copyright, 1895, King Features Syn
dicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

to have put in Col. Amos WOOdcOck
his appearance this year only on
registration day. He then went
to New Orleans to direct the
prosecution in the Shushan
case.
AS the Federal tax case
against A. L. Shushan, Of the
New Orleans Parish Levee Board
and ally of the late Senator
Huey p. Long, is about to end,
it is expected that WOOdc0ck
will soon return to his duties at
the Annapolis College. Mean
while, the reports indicate that
there is a general dislike of his
absence.
Political tDheelS of fortune IN
IoWG indicate that the tall corn
State may haze a Doman gov-
ernor tolloUing the nert elec-
tion.
Reports are that Mrs. Alex
Miller, now secretary of State,
may seek to overcome the oppo-
sition to women in high political
offices.
Following In the footsteps of
her husband, who was active in
politics, Mrs. Miller took a de-
Cided interest in State affairs,
and in 1882 was elected secre-
tary of State, and reelected in
1884.
She is said to have one of the
best political records in the
State in which many political
leaders of the opposite sex are
now under a cloud because OF
disclosure of petty corruption.
1t Is said that the male con-
ttnqent OF the Democratic
party "a hopeful that Mrs.
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KY. And there is surprising
unanimity about their predic-
tions. One and all maintain
that We are in for a stiff win
ter period.
The gentleman from Rabbit
Hash assures this writer that
a severe winter can be expected
because rabbit fur down along
the Ohio River is thicker than
he has ever known it for
years. His prognostication is
entitled to respect because he
is a legitimate inheritor of a
unique rabbit tradition. Many,
many years ago, before Gen.
eral Dearborn flatboated down
the Ohio to settle the hash
of the hostile Shawnees at
the Battle of Loughery Greek,
Rabbit Hash according to
legend, at least) was an up
and-coming little settlement.
But there fell upon those
hardy pioneers a mighty hard
winter. BY Thanksgiving Day,
famine had gripped them. Do
meStic fowls had frozen to
death. The wild turkey had
departed for haunts unknown,
and game Of all kinds, even in
that day of luXuriant wild life,
had retroacted before the saw
age cold had set in.
But the good folk of the tiny
settlement, undismayed by the
dreary prospect, determined to
keep Thanksgiving Day as usual.
And so, in Shrewd ways known
to them, they secured an ample
supply of rabbit meat. Rabbit
was served baked, broile d,
SteWed and also haShed. And
from the unique day derives
the name of the settlement.
A STIFF WINTER
Along the Jersey coast, fisher
men supplement inland prophe-
cies with their own peculiar
lore. Soft7shelled crabs are dig
ging in very much earlier than
usual, and the silver-back eels
have already started their curl.
GUS migration to warmer waters.
Goldfish are arriving away
ahead of time off the middle
Atlantic Coast, and this fact is
taken by veteran fishermen as
a sure indication of a hard win
ter. So much for the amateurs.
The professionally Uncle
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footloose, at odds with every
one. They never can hold a
Job more than a few weeks
and, to hear them tell it, it's
never their fault. Someone's
always picking on them-mak-
ing them the goat.
Then there are the Master
Minds who can't bother to per-
form the commonplace chores
because they're always expect
ing Something To Turn Up. The
fellows with the Great Inven-
ton that will revolutionize the
world-if someone will only
capitalize it. Or the epoch
making scheme for Govern
ment.
A NIGHTMARE
Plenty of women like that,
too. Restless, unhappy women
with hungry eyes. Strange they
can't be contented! They've
comfortable homes, good hus-
bands, nice children. Butt
isn't enough. They want Some
thing Else.
So on and on they go-join-
ing new Movements-taking
up New Cults experimenting
with new Fads. Or, perhaps,
having Affairs.
Or, there's that tiresome tribe
the Collegiate Kids of S5 and
40, who are never happy unless
they're Cutting Up-organizing
Parties - making WisecrackS.
Serious talk bores these mellow
babies to tears. One nightmare
haunts them all-the thought OF
growing old.
What ails them-these queer
people who can't click with a
grown-up world? They don't
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
An UnsavOry Episode
By James T. Williams, T.

instead of pleading mot guilty"
pleaded the statute Of limita-
tions. The statutory period hay
ing expired on these counts, the
court dismissed them and pro-
ceeded to try Carter on the re-
naming 20 counts.
Carter was convicted on six
teen counts of fraud and ac-
quilted on the remaining four.
He was sentenced to five
years imprisonment, dismissal
from the Army, five thousand
dollars fine and the Court
ordered the publication Of his
offenSe in his home town news
papers for one year.
This court martial took place
in 1898 and the findings we're
approved in September, 1899.
Civil suit to recover the money
lost through Carter's fraud was
then brought against him by
the United States. The Govern
ment sought to recover over
five hundred thousand dollars,
but was able to seize only about
three hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars in securities.
This money, as the Govern
ment found, represented Car
ter's "cut" from Greene and
Harmon on the fraudulent con-
ctr1Iotioy, claims
Carter alleged Constitutional
irregularities in his court mar
tial. He carried his allegations
to the United States Circuit
Court Of Appeals which found
no merit in his contentious.
APPEAL DISMISSED
Carter then appealed to the
Supreme Court Of the United
States for a review Of his case,
but the Supreme Court found
no cause for a review and dis
missed his appeal.
Carter's father-in-law was a
wealthy and socially prominent
New Yorker-Robert F. West
colt. At the time Of Carter's
court martial, Westcott was in
Italy. When the Court sought
him as a witness he declined to
come home and testify. His ex-
cuSe was the illness of member
of his family.
After Carter's conviction of
fraud against the Government,
WeStcott returned to the United
States and went to work on his
son-in-law'S case. He did not 60
to the Court, however. He went
to the Mckinley administration
and obtained an interview with
the then Attorney General of
the United StateS-Mr. Griggs,
Of New Jersey.
Then began those delays in
the administration Of Justice
with which the American people
are all too familiar. But addl-
tional details of this unsavory
episode must be reserved for an.
other day.
Copyright. 1885. The Washington Time
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

After 81 years the Senate Of
the United States, for reasons
still unknown, has ordered the
reopening Of one Of the most no
torious cases of fraud Of which
the Federal Government was
ever the victim.
This is the case of Oberlin M.
Carter, the only officer of the
Corps Of Engineers of the United
States Army ever to bring dis
grace upon the uniform of his
country.
When the Senate ordered it's
Committee on Military Affairs
to reopen this case, no new evi-
dence was submitted to the Sen
ate to justify the order. Nor did
the committee make any pre-
tense of examining the $4,000
pages Of evidence still preserved
in the files of the War Depart
ment and Department of Justice,
which tell in detail the truth
about this disgraceful episode.
SOME SALIENT FACTS
If the Secretary of War or the
Attorney General were consulted
by the committee, their recon-
mendations have been sup
pressed.
No new facts were given in the
brief report from the committee
recommending that this investi-
cation be made. And unless the
American people protest the
Squandering of any more of their
money on useless inquiries of
this sort, the Senate at the next
session may throw away fifty or
a hundred thousand dollars to
play politics with this case at
the expense Of justice.
Here are some salient facts
about the Carter case which the
Senate apparently did not take
the trouble to look up:
While he was engineer officer
on duty at Savannah, Ga, Car
ter, then captain in the Corps
of Engineers, let certain con-
tracts to the Atlanta Contract
ing Company. represented by
Benjamin F. Greene and James
F. Harmon, before and during
1897, for improving Savannah
harbor and Cumberland Sound.
Later in the same year, Car
ter was ordered to London as
American Military Attache. He
was succeeded on engineering
duty at Savannah by Capt. Cas-
SiuS E. Gillette, U. S. A.
Captain Gillette soon found
what be believed to be serious
irregularities in the accounts
left by his predecessor and, pur-
Suant to his duty, officially re-
ported the discovery to Wash
ington.
Carter was recalled from Lon
don and tried by court martial.
He was charged with 81 counts
of fraud.
On II Of these counts Carter,
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
he Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

cases. Quite often, in criminal
cases, the state of the weather
at the time the crime was COM
mitted is tremendously impor-
tant. When Abraham Lincoln
was a young lawyer out in nli-
noiS, the life of a man turned
on the veracity of a witness who
gave testimony that he saw the
defendant kill a man by the
light of the moon. Lawyer Lin
coin had the forethought and
the wit to procure an almanac
and demonstrate to judge and
jury that there was no moon
on that particular night, and,
therefore, it would have been
impossible for the witness to see
that which he had testified to.
SKILL OR INSTINCT
In the same way, DR.. Scarr
has gone modestly into court and
saved men from death and
others from prison. Also his ex-
pert testimony has helped to
pin crimes upon men who were
trying to cheat the law. The
most celebrated piece of testi-
mony DR.. Scarr ever gave con-
tains the meat of a good detec-
tive story.
A man was on trial for muir
der. His lawyer had set up
what seemed to be a Stone-wall
alibi. The lawyer offered in
evidence a photograph of the
accused man, which had pre-
Sumably been taken at the same
hour the murder was COM
mitted, but hundreds of miles
distant from the spot. DR.. Scarr
was called to testify for the
State.
By charts and records he
showed clearly and conclusively
that a hard rain was falling
when and where the defendant
attempted to establish his alibi,
and that the alibi picture had
been photographed in clear sun
light. Furthermore, he was able
to demonstrate that the Shad-
ows in the photograph proved
absolutely that it had been
taken hours after the killing.
I remember when I was a
small boy, in southeastern
Indiana, there was a very old
woman with this unique and
striking gift. Farmers for miles
around used to come into town
to consult her, and business
men, whose affairs depended
upon fairly accurate knowledge
of what conditions would be
some weeks ahead, were fire.
quent callers at her humble cot
tage. She would never take a
fee for the service, always say
ing that if she accepted money,
the good Lord would deprive her
Of her faculty of prediction.
All in all, 1 think the amateur
prophets are not to be Sneered
at. They are reporting from all
sides we are going to have a
hard three months. I think we
had better pay a little atten-
ton.
Copyright, 1895, by King Features
Syndicate, Inca
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

lik e grown
ups and talk
Ii k e grown
ups, b u t
S o m e h o W
never q u i t e
fit into the
G r o W n-u p
world.
T h e m e n
W no should
b e hanging
up records in
business and
D OCCASIONAL
life but are,
instead, loaf
inp arnNnd.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Sans experts, shifting weather
signs from their tall towers, are
not in agreement, as usual, but
even they are the first to admit
that longrange weather fore
casting is largely guess work.
My favorite seer, DR.. James
H. Scarr, chief Of New York
Weather Bureau, thinks that
about the best he can do is to
take a peek into Alaska waters,
where most of our weather is
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

the E a S t.,
comes word
that the boys
and the facul-
ty miss their
president.
He is Col.
Amos w. w.
w 90 d c o ok,
+ or m e r ma
tion al pro-
hibition di-
rector.
Selected to
h e a d S t.
Johns, Wood
cock is said
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

The conduct of a wise poll
tician is ever suited to the pres
ent posture of affairs. Often
by foregoing a part he saves the
whole, and by yielding in a
small matter secures a greater.
-Plutarch.
In politics experiments mean
reVolution.-Benjamtn DtSraen.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

cooked up, and take a guess 48
hours in advance. DR.. Scarr is
68, a one-time Michigan and
Kansas farm boy who earned a
law degree and then turned his
broad back on Blackstone to go
go into the weather business in
a big way.
A curious Sidelight on DR..
Scarr'S job is that he is called
into the courts frequently to
testify in civil and criminal
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

She cared Gen. BallingtOn Booth
for their families, considering
them the innocent victims Of
crime.
She won the respect Of
prisoners and prison officials
alike.
Tiny, gray-haired, past the
mark of three-sc0re years, she
has become known as "the little
mother Of the prisons"
Copyright, 1885 The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

consider them
"p o o r un-
fortunate VIC
Tins Of Soci-
ety."
She dealt
with them as
m e n q n d
women pay
ing a neceS-
Sary penalty
but with the
view t h a t
they could at
tain decency
f ollo W in G
release,
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Words of Wise Men

The study of nature is inter.
course with the highest mind
Jean Louis AgaSSiz.
One may go wrong in many
different ways, but right only in
one.-AriStotle.
You may drive out nature
with a pitchfork, yet she will al
ways hasten back.-Horace.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, I.

Reports Of discomfort ema-
nate from the time.hOnored st.
Johns College Of Annapolis.
From the small school. which
is one of the Oldest colleges in
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

each in his
own locality,
boldly prog
n os t icaEting
the kind OF
W in t er we
are ia ling.
Bulletins flow
in from Har-
riSburg, Pa,
from S e a.
bright, N. j.,
from W in
stead, Conn,
from Goose
r u n, Ark,
a nd from
Rahhif Hash
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
OLD FAVORITES
The Muses.
Edith NJ. Thomas

The Muses. Edith ". Thomas
Of old the Muses. sat high,
And heard and judged the songs of men;
On one they smiled, who loitered by;
Of toing ten they sighted ten
''They lightly serve who us best,
Nor know they how the task was done;
We Muses. love a soul at rest
But violence and toll we shun."
If say true, the Muses. now
Have changed their ancient habitude,
And would be served with knitted brow,
And stress and toll each day renewed
And yet methinks hear the hest
Come murmuring down from Helicon:
"They lightly who BEST
Nor know they how the task was done!'
(Reaers inVited send to the editor their suooes
os of old favortes among the poems for reprinting in
| this SpGce)
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Miller tDiI not aspire to the
0ubernGtorial post as they are
OF the opinion that she could
run a strong race against in
cumbent Gov. Clyde v. Herring
in the event he campaigns
again and could defeat almost
any other candidate.
Election of Mrs. Miller to the
governors chair would be an
unprecedented event in the fem1.
nine annals Of Iowa.
Into Washington recently
came an elderly couple whose
work with unfortunates has won
them renown throughout the
United States.
They were Gen. and Mrs. Bal
lingtOn Booth, founders of the
Volunteers Of America, who for
more than 40 years have en-
gagged in welfare activities.
The general concentrated his
attention on the religious and
economic ailments of the persons
with whom he worked.
Mrs. Booth turned to the
prisons.
Her tUort 1UuS not the Sentt-
mental humbuggery of the So
called prison reformer.
Instead, she adopted q
method of dealing with prison.
ers that left no doubt in their
minds that she did not
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Amateur FOrecasters

The amateur weather proph-
cts are in conference. They
assemble in no one place, but
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
They've Never Lost Their
Baby Teeth

You've wondered about them
haven't you-those puzzling.
exasperating people who look
, 1935-06-16
LOVELOCK IN
EASY VICTORY
Australian Beats Bonthron
And Cunningham In
Mile Run

PALMER STADIUM. PRINCE
TON, N. j., June l5.@Py-The slim,
curly-haired boy from far-off New
Zealand. John Edward CJack) Love-
lock, handed everyone but old Pop
Time a handsome beating Saturday
as the shadows crept over the sun
baked home stretch Of the Tiger
track and upward of $4,000 shirt
sleeved spectators reared tremen-
dous acclaim.
Re-aSserting his supremacy over
the worlds greatest milers, after a
two-year interval, Lovelock captur-
ed the widely-heralded mile Of the
century" under wraps. He failed to
come v e close to record time. but
he sprinted down the stretch 10
break the tape ten yards in front
Of Princeton's Bill Bonthron. two
yards ahead Of the great Glenn
Cunningham. holder Of all world
records for the classic distance.
Lovelock's time was 4 minutes, li2
seconds. far short OF the mark
which 1t had expected would be
produced by a gathering Of the
worlds fastest milers. On the same
track two years ago the New Zeal
ander had scored an epic triumph
over Bonthron in the record time of
4:07.6. Last year and in the same
place Cunningham raced to a new
mark Of 4:06. This still stands.
, 1935-06-16
Many Offers
Being Made To
New Champion

NEW YORK. June rs. F1-Stln
a bit delirious over their good for
tune. Jimmy Braddock. new worlds
heavyweight champion, and Joe
Gould. his peppery manager. bus
tied about Saturday and tried 70 dis
cover what the future holds In the
way OF good hard dollars.
Just 10 prove ne IA a BIZ time fight
manager al last. Gould who swears
he hasn't closed his eyes since Brad
dock wen Max Baer's title, turned
down a $1,000 900 offer 10 meet Max
Schmeling IN Germany as cody Is II
he were picking up a 50 cent lunch
con check.
Later nc announced he IA arranR-
ing 20 take Jimmy 70 England and
Ireland in August for a series Of X
hibitions.
All day long the offers poured IN.
They want BraddOck's endorsement
for this and that They want him on
the stage. on the radio for fights. ex-
hbitions. for personal appearances
and for a thousand one ether things.
I'm still in a daZe." said Gould.
"and Jimmy can't believe ID vet. II.
looks like n $4,000 year for him
even " he doesn't fight"
The Schmeling offer came from
Fed Kirsch. who authorized Jimmy
Bronson. hts American representa-
tive 70 offer BraddOck N fight with
the German champion IN the Olym-
pic STADIUM in Berlin In Septem-
, 1935-06-16
LEADER POSTS
SCORE OF l44
L~ongworth, Cooper, Nelson
And Schwartz Among
Top Players

SOUTH BEND. Ind, June Is. Up
AS hot with his putter as the broil-
ing sun that wilted the field with its
relentless rays. Johnny Revolta, the
young golfer who is making Milwau-
kee famous. shot into the hallway
lead In the western open champion
ship struggle Saturday with a s.
hole tally Of IA strokes, n under
the score Of his closest pursuer, DICK
Metz OF Chicago.
Five blows behind the leader Fri
day with a "a, Johnny came march
ing home Saturday, his putter afire
with a 20, the second par-Smashine
score OF the tournament, TO replace
Metz as the leader. One shot behind
Metz, came Ted Longworth, the belt
ing blond from Portland, Ore. who
took a "a Saturday for a collection
Of l46 shots.
Only three shots away from Re-
volta. with l47s. were Lighthouse
Harry Cooper OF Chicago. defending
titleholder, who coldnt putt worth
O lick. and young Byron Nielsen. for
mer Texarkana. Ark. boy wonder
and now a professional al Ridge
wood, N. j.
Francis Schwartz. the St. Louis
darkhorse who led the par-search-
ing pack Friday with a SO, took ar
81 Saturday 70 fall down the list
alongside Of Tommy Armour Of Chi
cago with a Isl.
Revolta. one Of the heavy cham
pionship threats from the start, be-
cause OF his winter scoring average
Of 70 strokes for as competitive
rounds. turned the trick Saturday
by shooting a 80 on the front nine.
Johnny had his troubles coming
back, taking a 81. two over par. Wal
ter Hagen OF Detroit. five times win
ner OF the title. posted totals OF 7e-
"a and stifl had a chance In the
firz3l 36-hole drive Sunday.
, 1935-06-16
Delta Foods to Play
Benavides Sunday
tSpeciL % The Heraldl

BENAVIDES. June 1.-two vet
Grams Of Valley diamond wars
Faustino Pumarejo and Lupe Rod
riguez-will hook up in a mound duel
here Sunday when the Delta Foods
o. San Benito collide with the Bena-
vides Braves In a tw1n-bill.
These two hurlers. among the best
the Valley yer produced. are Stat
ed TO work against each other In the
opening tilt. Rodriguez. who at one
time hurled for the Cinci Reds. was
In fine form in his last start. blank
Ing the Kingsville nine 10 In an
excellent game at Harrington.
The San Benitans. who get new
uniforms next week. have bolstered
their club considerably Of late. Their
hurting staff includes Zip" Lee. left
handler who formerly hurled for
Cleveland. z. j. Waitman who for
merly hurled for San Antonio. Bill
Kachtik and Lefty Garden OF Rio
Hondo. Donaho and J. Rodriguez are
the backstops.
, 1935-06-16

HOUSTON. Tex, June IS. Up
Jim Londos. the graphing Greek.
Saturday was still champion Of the
wrestling world. after winning n
two out OF three fall match from
Ed CStranglerl Lewis. his perennial
foe, Friday night.
A crowd Of 5000 fans paid ap-
proximately $4,000 to see the two
heavies clash. LondoS won the
first fall on a Short-arm blow TO the
Jaw. Lewis took the second with a
deadlock. and the third came when
Londos applied a stranglehold while
Lewis still had a leg over the ropes
after being thrown from the ring.
State Labor Commissioner Fred
Nichols charged the hold was Il
legal. and threatened to hold UP
tie purse. but gave In when Londos
agreed to a return match In Texas
within sixty days.