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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-21

Nothing can upset household at
Christmas as much as receiving a
greeting card from somebody it had
crossed off the list. The kind of a
card which causes the master to
grunt "Humph!"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
A Raw Deal Dream

President Roosevelt making his first inspection Of re-
settlement project comparatively small down Georgia.
takes occasion throw few bouquets at the Admnsa-
ton The project is "a dream come true he told the ~
resetted families and called upon countless counties to
carry the work.
He didn't 60 into gures-but will It cost the Gov
ernmen-ta is to say the taxpayer$5O00O0 thus far for
the project That amounts to more than $1,000 per
family which something Of high per family relief
Eventually it hoped to settle additional 200 families
there There will course be additional cost for them
Something like $650O00.
1t is announced that the of the project wiu be
charged against the settlers long term notes.
Does the Government actually expect that these re-
thirteen acres and Unite cottage in the Georgia pines?
With good every section of the country available
at half that?
The President did say rkngly thing in his talk
He said there probably 100000 families which need
similar help, and added:
THE Government can't do this for all of them BECAUSE
THERE ISN'T ENOUGH MONEY IN THE TREASURY"
There's absolutely nothing dreamlike about that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLand

To a hardboiled bachelor,
women are like Christmas neck
ties. They look awfully attractive
en- masse or when on display; but
he chokes at the mere thought
of having one of them around
his neck.
To go into marriage with the
idea that it is just an experiment
and may not last, is to take your
divorce decree with you to the
altar. You are merely renting"
yourselves to each other-and one
of you is sure to break the lease.
An idealiSt is man who al
ways fondly hopes that the next
woman" will be his Dream Girl
and is shocked when he wakes
up to discover that she is just
another Human Being.
Every married man is prob
ably wondering, at this moment,
what lovely surprise" his wife
has hidden in the closet as his
Christmas gift to her.
When a business girl gives up
her job in order to marry, she
soon discovers that making q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18

home broken husband out Of a
care-free bachelor is a task, be-
sides which a 9-to5 job was mere
child's play.
Very few men are born great
lovers But, nowadays, almost
every average man seems to think
that he can win the amateur
championship.
Every man has a different no
ton of what a woman should be
like. And just as a girl feels that
she has succeeded in modelling
herself to meet one mans "ideal,"
along comes another man and
wants to reform" her.
The difference between good
breeding and snobbishness is the
difference between POLISH and
VARNISH. Try both on your ma
hogany table.
There is no pocket in a
shroud'-which is why many
long-suffering husbands almost
wish they we're shrouded, when
they think Of the holiday bills!
(copyriEht, 1888. by King Features
SyndieAtS. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

If you wanna get your man, be
pretty, sister,"
The wages of sin area pent.
house! That's the lesson Irene
learned as a toddler. Learned to
her bitter humiliation, even in
her class rooms, watching with
enyious eyes the girl in the chif-
fon stockings and Swank sports
model dress. And beside her. Bill
was learning the same Sordid text,
studying the bankers sons new
cutdoWn Tux.
NATURAL RESULT
If, even in their school classes,
the race goes to the girl with the
prettier dress on her back, to the
boy with the bigger wad in his
pocket. what do you expect to
happen when school days are
over?
Every day and every way,
smartness eulogized - power and
speed. But how many classes are
there on Courage, on Decency, on
Honesty. on Pride that is based
on character rather than on cash?
We believe. because we live in
America, that these things are
taught our children today, as they
were taught to us in our youth.
BUT THEY AREN'T. We have
endless classes in academic cul-
ture, mechanical technique.
BUT IN ACTUAL CHARACTER
BUILDIN THE AVERAGE
YOUNG AMERICAN RECEIVES
LITTLE MORE, IF ANY, TRAIN
ING THAN A YOUNG WOLF.
And it isn't the teachers fault
it's yours and mine. A teacher
may teach only that which her
public permits; she has no choice
of subjects.
We are raising young wolves in
our schools today, because you
and I, in our secret hearts, admire
wolf tactics ourselves!
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
Let the Senate Vote

Senator Kenneth Mcclellan of Tennessee, who in the
last session of Congress defeated the obvious desires of
a majority of his colleagues and postponed action on
the bills sandardizng leave in the Government service
is back in town demanding that the Senate Civil Service
Committee hold new hearings on the measures
SUCH A PROCEDURE IS ABSOLUTELY UN-
NECESSARY AND ITS ONLY PURPOSE WOULD
SEEM TO BE FURTHER TO DELAY ACTION ON
THE MEASURES WITH THE ULTIMATE oBJEC-
TIVE OF AGAIN CATCHING THEM IN A LAST
MINUTE LEGISLATION JAM.
All facts pertinent to the consideration of these bills
have been assembled and available to Senator Nc
Kelar anyone else.
Exhaustive hearings were held by the House Com
mttee before the bills reported by that group and
approved by the House.
The Senate Civil Service Committee, under Chairman
Buow, gave similar consideration to the bills and then
renored them to the Senate with the recommendation
that they be passed
The measures were placed on the Senate calendar but
Senator Mcclellan because of the press of other business
was able prevent their consideration by the Senate
Now the Tennessee Senator wants to send the bills
back to the Civil Service Committee for further hearings
PrODOnents of these measures hare nothing to
fear from additional hearings so far as bringing
out the facts are concerned.
THEY HAVE HOWEVER, EVERYTHING TO
FEAR FROM THE DILATORY TACTICS WHICH
SENATOR M'KELLAR WANTS TO PRACTICE.
If these bills are sent back to the Committee and
additional Though Unnecessary hearings held it
is safe to assume that they will not again come before
the Senate until late in the approaching session
Again their consideration by that body would be sub
iect to the objection of one member.
And, in view of Senator McKellar's record on the
leave bills and other measures designed to improve
personnel conditions in the Government SERVICE there
isn't much doubt that that objection would be forth
coming.
If Senator Mcclellan has any facts Which warrant
his OppOsitiOn to these bills he has every OppOr-
tuntv to place those facts before the Senate When
the measures are under consideration.
IF HE DOES NOT HAVE THESE FACTS HE
SHOULD NOT RESORT TO sUBTERFUGE TO
DELAY THEIR CONSIDERATION.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
Patriotic Cooperation
By James T. Williams, Jr.

,lems that far less emphasis has
been placed on the beginnings Of
the American system Of govern
ment.
These young people just now
coming of age will be among
those who will provide the leaders
in all honorable walks Of life 20
years hence.
In increasing numbers they are
going to the Federal city to see
for themselves the headquarters
of the executive, legislative and
judicial branches of that Govern.
ment.
They see. as they should see,
the memorials that attest the
gratitude of the nation to Wash.
ington, The Father Of His Coun.
try"
They learn that Congress has
already authorized an appropriate
memorial to Thomas jefferson,
the author of the Declaration Of
independence.
They may we'll wonder why
Madison has not yet been &C.
corded the outward and visible
sign of his peoples appreciation.
of what he did for them in max
ing toward the framing Of the
Federal Constitution the major
contribution.
POLITICAL GENIUS
Although Senator Byrd and
Congressman Warren are mem
berS of the D ocra tic party,
they were not acting from parti.
san motives in calling upon Con-
gEess at the last session to author
ize the appointment of the James
Madison Memorial Commission.
Theirs was a patriotic purpose,
and is entitled to the patriotic CO.
operation of other Senators and
Representatives of both political
parties who believe to be true
what one of Madison's recent
eulogistS has said:
"It was prominently the DO.
litical genius of Madison which
has given us opportunity, and
we shall profit in our use of 1t
to the extent that we emulats
his example in making reason.
and not emotion, our god"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18

There is no partisanship in the
Legislative proposal which Congress
will consider when it reconvenes
next month to honor the memory
Of James Madison, THE Father OF
the Constitution.
This proposal is embodied in
the joint resolution introduced at
the last session by Senator Byrd
of Virginia in the Senate, and by
Congressman Lindsay Warren OF
North Carolina in the House.
It provides for the appointment
Of a committee by the President,
Vice President and Speaker of the
House to investigate the report
upon plans for the erection in the
Federal City of an appropriate
monument or other memorial to
attest the gratitude of the Ameri-
can people for the life and work
Of the Father of the Constitu-
ton"
An almanac of large circulation
in the great agricultural common
wealths through which the Missis-
sippi River flows reports that ap-
proximately so per cent Of the
population of the United States
has no personal knowledge of
The American Society Based on
Peace and the faith in individual
effort and progress that existed
prior to 1914"
ABNORMAL TIMES
Young Americans just now com.
ing of age were born at the outset
Of the great war. Their whole
lives have been spent in abnormal
times. They have had little op-
portunity to compare the Ameri-
can system of government in nor
NAL times with alien systems of
government.
What knowledge they have
gained Of the fundamental prin-
ciples on which the Government
OF the Constitution is based, they
owe to the time they spend in
secondary schools, unless they
were among the privileged few
to enjoy a college education.
Meantime. the new and strange
times through which they have
grown to citizenship age have
been so crowded with new prob
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
RUMBLINGS

There is a quiet movement on
foot to move employees from the
rolls of certain Federal agencies.
Persons on emergency lists
such as the Emergency Relief
Administration are being stricken
from the rolls by State officers.
The condemnation. voiced by
the discharged workers conse-
quently falls on the Stats
officials rather than on head
quarters at Washington.
With the money reaching tbs
exhaustion point, officials con-
slider it necessary to make the
curtailment.
In some places as many as 500
people have been stricken from
the rolls in one move.
Headquarters at WASHINGTON,
however. attempt to minimize
the discharges and when quesr
tional about the matter say that
the curtailment is slight
Attempts are being made to
check the sentiment which
naturally arises in communities
when such action occurs.
Members of Congress, however,
are receiving appeals for aid that
indicate the agencies are making
reductions of a wholesale nature.
And gestures designed to keep
the matter quiet are becoming
more and more Intellectual.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
Words of Wise Men

Life is like a library owned by
an author. In it are a few books
which he wrote himself. but most
of them were written for him
Henry Emerson Fosdick.
Sickness is felt. but health not
at all.-ThomaS Fuller.
Physical ills are the taxes laid
upon this wretched life; some are
taxed higher. and some lower, but
all pay Something.-Lord Chester.
field.
Ignorance is the curse OF God,
knowledge the wing WhereWith
we fly to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Well-timed silence has more
eloquence than Speech.-Tupper.
The volume of nature is the
book of Observation-Disclosures,
He that falls today may be up
again ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
THE TOWNSEND PLAN

THE TOWNSEND PLAN
Townsendism is rising up again
to plague both old parties. A
year ago the Old-Age Pension
Plan, conceived by the elderly
California physician. DR.. F.. E.
Townsend, appeared to be on the
Wane.
But the most recent political
news indicates a recurrence of the
scheme, and leaders in both the
Republican and Democratic camps
are frankly worried as to what
the effect will be in the 1886 presi-
Dental campaign.
The Townsend Old-Age Pension
Project is now revealed as display
ing a special strength in Michigan,
Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Cali
fornia and various other States
whose electoral votes count heaV-
lily in the final returns.
DR.. Townsend and his lieuten-
ants claim a following of fifteen
million, and there is even talk OF
a Townsend national party.
The agitation has swept across
the Mississippi River into Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan, cutting
across party lines. There is evi,
dence that the movement is grow.
ing stronger not only in the West
but in the so-called conservative
States.
The heart of the Townsend old
age plan is the demand that the
Federal Government pay to every
person of so or more a monthly
pension of 5000 to the end of his
life. with the provision that the
monthly payment be spent within
the month.
SUPPORTERS CLAIM
The recipient of pension
would be required to sacrifice any
employment he might have. The
money required to pay the pension
would be provided by national
sales tax.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
The Human Side of the News
By EdWin C.. Hill

The advocates of the plan con.
tend that it would remove 10000.
900 elderly people from jobs
which could be taken over by
younger persons out of employ
ment; that it would turn a golden
stream of $24.000,000,000 each
year into the channels Of trade,
and that unemployment and hard
times would automatically be re-
moved.
The Townsendites argue also
that great gains would be achieved
through the abolition of poor
farms and relief agencies for the
care of the aged poor.
However fantastic the scheme
may appear to be in the eyes Of
the economists, there is no gain
saying the fact that it a well
financed. rapidly-growing move
ment, attracting huge audiences,
of swift powerful appeal to many
millions of people in these deS-
perate and uncertain times.
The national headquarters of
the Townsend Old-Age Pension
Movement are in Los Angeles,
but national organizers are hard
at work throughout the country.
There are branches of the or
ganization in Al States. Funds
are raised by subscriptions and
from the sale of booklets and
pamphlets descriptive of the
plan.
A year ago the plan had rela-
lively few advocates, mostly con-
fined to the West Coast. Today
however, DR.. Townsend maintains
that he has enlisted more fol
lowers than voAed for Mr.. Hoover
in 1882. The movement has won
supporters who are stirred by one
aim only, and are not held by
any party allegiance.
Very active in the movement
are old-time dry leaders who
worked under Wayne B. Wheeler
to put over the Volstead act and
the prohibition amendment.
Something of the same methods
of organization and propaganda
ing which were employed by the
astute Wheeler and his coterie
of drys are now being used by
the Townsend leaders.
The next few months will de-
termine whether or no there will
be a Townsend third party to
contest the national election with
the Democrats and the Republic.
ans at the national convention of
the organization held in Chicago
DEMAND SECURITY
DR.. Townsend and his council
were authorized to place ma
tional party in the field in 1886
or to take any political action
next year that seemed Of ad.
vantage. The present political
drive of TownsendiSm is directed
toward the attainment Of repre-
SentativeS in Congress.
Precisely as the dry leaders
threw their strength to Republican
or Democrat in the old days OF
prohibition agitation, so the
Townsendites today are offering
their strength to either Republic
an or Democrat who will pledge
himself to support the Old-Age
Pension Plan.
(copyr4Eht, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, 1ne.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18

1t is dainty to be sick. If you
have leisure and convenience for
it.-EmerSon.
Who falls from all he knows Of
bliss, cares little into what abyss.
Byron.
Honesty is the best policy, but
he who acts on that principle Is
not an honest man.-Whately.
Let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall.
New Testament.
The only reward of virtue is
virtue: the only way to have =
friend is to be one.-Emerson.
The nobleman is he whose
noble mind is filled with Unborn
worth. unborrowed from his kind.
Dryden.
1t is not reason makes faith
hard. but life.-Jean Ingelo~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

In the December 7 issue of LIB.
ERTY there's an artiCle-"CRIME
CRAZY" by Will Irwin. There
are facts in that article as ugly,
as imperative and as undodgeable
as pointed pistol.
The theme, unfortunately. isn't
new. We've been discussing youth
full criminals ever since the War.
But, outside few indignant
clucks, how many of us feel any
real concern-haVe any real COM
prehension of the situation?
Do YOU, for example, know
that THE PEAK AGE FOR AU-
TOMOBILE THEFT IS SIXTEEN
YEARS.? Or that MORE MEN
ARE NOW ARRESTED FOR
B U GLARY AT EIGHTEEN
THAN AT ANY OTHER PERIOD
OF LIFE?
Or have you realized that the
average convict who shambleS to
the electric chair is no longer a
mature man, sodden with crime,
but some pasty-faced youngSter
scarcely rid of his baby teeth?
Granted-aS thank heaven we
can!-99 out of 100 youngsters
are sane and clean, that doesn't
remove the menace of the Tooth
warped one, who may be, and fire.
quently is, some 12-year-old lad in
oVerallS from your own neighbor-
hood. For city slums are no
longer the chief breeding source
of crime. Quite as many and
fully as expert young outlaws are
bred on quiet village streets or
the supposedly wholesome wide
open spaces"
FAIR ANSWER
But why? Will Irwin gives the
conventional answer. Law def
ance popularized by prohibition.
Wanton spending in the boom
years. Then the idleness of the
depreSSion-the hopeless outlook
for even the college trained.
A fair answer, but I doubt if it
goes deep enough. We've had
hard times before in this country
and good times. We've had idle
youngsters - discouraged, 6iscon-
tented youngsters. But never be-
fore have we had such a frightful
number of ruthless. cold-blooded
young beasts of prey. who will stop
at nothing to gain the car or cash
or thrill they desire.
YET WHAT CAN WE EXPECT
WHEN, DAY AFTER DAY, WE
ADVOCATE RUTHLESS SELF
ISHNESS TO PLASTIC MINDS
UNDER THE GLITTERING AS
PECT OF MATERIAL SUCCESS?
Meaning what? Meaning-What
do you expect a youngster to
crave who knows, and sees demon
strated, no higher ideals than fine
clothes, fast cars, flash spending,
constant excitement?
Here's Irene-Street walker at
10. Why not? From the day she
could toddle, Irene has heard one
lesson and one lesson only
preached from every movie
screen, every advertisement, every
cheap fiction page, every passing
crowd: "a girls gotta be pretty.
Gotta have pretty clothes. Gotta
have manicures. permanents, ia
Gals. OR SHE'S A WASHOUT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18

believe, that the former Senator
had lost his one-time power.
He has been considered close to
former President Hoover. But in
the argument over the convention
he was forced to stand alone and
his demands were refused.
1t is said that Guffey is of the
opinion that if he can swing the
Democratic convention for Phila-
delphia it will be definite ind.
cation to the voters of Pennsyl.
vania that he yields power that
his Republican opponent, Reed.
cannot enjoy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
SAME PUZZLE?

SAME PUZZLE?
When controversy arises over
the proposal to increase the Naval
Reserve to 10000 men, it causes
some amusement in Army circles.
On June 80, the Army had 4,323
enlisted reservists.
There we're no funds allotted to
care for their maintenance.
Each year when the War De-
partment appropriation bill is con-
sidered in the House, it is a Gus
tomary proposition for several
members to condemn any plan to
allot money to the Reserve Corps.
And no money was allotted this
year to care for enlisted reservists.
The men who enlist in the Or.
ganized Reserves pay for their
own uniforms and the majority
OF their equipment.
If they are commissioned and
are placed on active duty in the
summer they are paid. but under
the present curtailed fund for Of
ficers of the Reserve Corps they
consider themselves fortunate if
they see active duty once in sew
eral years.
Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews
recently made the statement that
the proposed increase to 100000
Of the Naval Reserve would not
cost much"
He said that the expense would
be negligible and Secretary of the
Navy Claude A. Swanson has also
attempted to dispel the fears of
certain individuals by predicting
that the cost would not be large.
The Army can well appreciate
Admiral Andrews suggestion that
the cost will not be great in the
event that the proposed increased
Naval Reserve is accorded the
same magnanimous treatment
given the Army'S Organized Re
serves
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18

publican CON
vention, is said
to have pleased
Mr.. G u f I e y
nightly.
w h e n Reed
sought to have
the Republican
convention fol-
low the Demo.
cratic conclave
and his fellow
members of the
J. o. P. refused
20 accede to his
requests, it was
an indication,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
PRICED COVER

House Sergeantat-Arms Ken
meth L. Romney has a grievance
against Postmaster General James
A. Farley.
1t pertains to the first flight of
the China Clipper.
Romney's son was in the Philip
pines and sent his father a letter
by way of the new air service.
When it arrived here after the
careful guidance of Mr.. Farley's
mail carriers, the stamp had been
stolen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
SIGNS AND PORTENTs

Senator Joseph F. Guffey,
Democrat of Pennsylvania, is all
the more anxious now to have the
Democratic convention in Phila-
delphia.
The setback suffered by former
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
OLD FAVORITES
Modern Beauty

I am the torch, she saith, and what to
If the moth die of me? I am the flame
Of Beauty and burn that all may
Beauty, and have neither JOY nor shame,
But live with that clear light of perfect fire
Which is to men the death of their desire.
I am Yseut and Helen, have
Troy burn and the most loving knight lies dead.
The world has been my mirror time has been
My breath upon the glass; and men have said,
Age after age, in rapture and despair,
Loves poor few words, before my image there
live, and immortal; in my eyes
The sorrow Of the world and my lips
The JOY of life, mingle to make WISE
Yet now the day is darkened with eclipse:
Who is there lives for beauty? Still am I
The TORCH but where's the moth that still dares diei
eaders vited to send to the editor their suqqes
tionS of old faVortes among the poems for reprnting
this spGce)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-18
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

%Senator David A. Reed, Republi-
can, in connection with the Re.