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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16

1t was a silly story, but
somehow the tale of Sieg-
fried's "Tarnkoppe" has held
on stubbornly, Economically
encysted in the modern Ger.
man mind, and the yarn in
spired owlish scientific articles
as to how an invisible cloak
might possibly be made by a
saturation of infra-red rays,
and also speculation as to the
best means of safeguarding
treasure if the burglars should
get such a cloak.
A Hamburg professor OF
physics concluded that the only
possible defense would be an
invisible ray which, intercepted
by a human body, would com.
plete an electric circuit and
ring an alarm. That Specula.
ton, in that day, seemed quite
as fantastic as the invisible
cloak which it was to Cir
cumvent. But here is the in.
visible ray, quite as magical,
it seems, as anything in Sieg-
REDS or Wotan's repertoire.
PHOTO-ELECTRIC CELL
At the convention Of the In
ternational Association Of
Police Chiefs, in Atlantic City,
there was shown a new bank
vault alarm which, with a bur-
glar passing through any one of
a number of invisible rays stab
bling the darkness, will tele-
phone police headquarters, re-
port the name and location of
the bank in a loud and distinct
voice, and tell just where, in the
bank, the intruder is located.
There is also shown a ray
which will flash lights, ring
bells and kick up a tremendous
fuss if anybody steps into the
bank with a revolver hidden in
his pocket. Neither employs
the invisible rays for the first
time in bank protection. They
are a part Of the elaborate pro-
cesses Of galvanizing banks and
other repositories of money and
valuables processes developed
simultaneously in several coun.
tries.
Earthly treasure, "Where
moth and rust do corrupt and
thieves break through and
steal" Is protected by ganglia
Of wires and the unseen search
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No Peasants in Stock

The Comrades in Moscow having good time with them
Selves explaining how they will turn America into Soviet
Comrades William z Foster and Gil Green Of the American
Communist party that they have million young
Americans lined up already under the Red flag.
They also point with pride to strikes they have engineered
in the United States and let understood that Red
third party is be organized here which will work
sayhe Socialist pnks and the unpreparedness yeows to
advance the
Comrade Dmitroff is specific
He plans ruthless drive against all banks and trust COM
pans and points out that the creation of party Of
workers and peasants necessary under present American
ditons."
Well it's all very interesting, if hardly new.
But admirable the programmes Of Comrades Foster
and Green that of Comrade Dmrof have slight
flaw in it.
Where is he going to get the peasants?
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Ue"" MacAr'huF Tn largest
yet witnessed in the United
States in other than war days.
One of the most important
features of the maneuvers is
to illustrate the mechanization
Of our Army and its mobility.
The ability to move troops
promptly to their destinations
has always been an advantage
all leaders sought.
Yet, il. this sweat demOnstra-
ton, MacArthul:'S report will
show, it was necessary to hire
all types Of rotor vehicles to
move the tyOOpS.
The Army did not haze SUI
ticient equipment to transfer
the 5000 men t0ho tDtH take
part in the nIGneuUerS. TGrtS
and trucks Dere employed BY
National GuGrdSmen and regH-
lars.
It had been intended to move
the Sixteenth Field Artillery,
stationed at Fort Myer. to New
York, but the recent order re-
fusing permission for transfer
of troops North halted that arm
Of the Army.
It probably would have been
necessary to secure trucks out
side the Army to move the Six
teenth Artillery, and it so hap
pened that insufficient funds
would have materially intertered
with the movement.
Consequently General NC
Arthur's report will show that
the mobility Of the Army is not
what experts would like to have
it in an emergency.
It seems that the tar bill is
not the only one that members
of Congress consider t0ould
"Sodk the poor" soak the sue
ceSStul," and everything else.
Representative Joseph w.
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No Effective Law

Revelations marhuana is being smoked extensively in
the District find the city totally unable to cope properly with
this narcotic.
There is no Federal law under which drastic action against
purveyors Of the weed can be taken
There District law which specifically mentions mari
precbes adequate punhments for its sale pos
session. 49,
Under the circumstances those engaged in this demorazng
punished only under minor provisions OF the
cityIs pharmacy code
THE EVILS OF MARIHUANA ARE WIDELY REcoG-
MED
More than States have enacted drastic laws to
curb the drug since its introduction into this country
q comparatively few years ago. .
Only about month ago Maryands new statute dealing
vigorously with the subject became law.
And since Maryland has taken action against the
peddcrs of the Oeed the National Capital seems to haOe
become the haven of the distributors Dh consequent
increase in the number of 0ddicts here.
of raids made in Washington this week by local
police aided by agents Of the Federal Bureau OF Narcotics
is sufficient demonstration of the fact that the traffic IN the
weed is reaching extensive proportions.
Not only quantities of marhuana cigarettes seized in
the raids also taken several blooming plants
Evidently with this new weed you can GROW YOUR MAX
COTICS IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD.
uUing with Which naTihuana be groIOr
and used becomes urgently necessary that proper laUs
to govern its control be enacted.
Unfortunately is probably too late in the present session
70 obtain congressional enactment dealing with the subject
There remains therefore, only the present inadequate phar
macy law to meet the situation.
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES THE ONLY COURSE
WHICH THE AUTHORITIES CAN PURSUE IS ONE OF
HARAssMENT OF ALL INDIVIDUALS POSSESSING THE
WEED
That is difficult and unsatisfactory method but when it
is the only weapon available it will have to be used.
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Listen, World
Blu Elsie Robinson

somehow prayer Ideally GA
ways failed me. No matter how
utterly I threw myself into a
prayer, it never seemed to get
anywhere Nothing came back.
NV words went out and out into
a darkness, as this great tree
went, and that was the end OF
them.
BUT WAS IT? Was that
really the end of a prayer? Sud-
denly, touching that tree, saw
prayer in a new light. There
was the great tree, going up and
up. I could not see where 1t
went-but knew that it did go:
And even my limited glimpse OF
its strong, striving trunk did
something to me. released me
from the clutter and clutches OF
trifles. put me in contact with
the serene starlight, the great
clean winds, the Surging sun
light and clean immensely OF
the sky.
And wasn't that exactly what
a prayer did, if I had the sense
to see it? A prayer was a mys'
terry as a tree was a mystery
as all life was a mystery. I
could not understand that mys'
terry. I could not see where 1t
began nor where it went. I
could only catch a glimpse OF its
eager striving. AS I could only
catch a glimpse Of the great
tree
So I had thought that my
prayers went nowhere" But
that was merely because I didn't
have the wisdom to follow them,
nor the courage nor strength to
free myself from the things that
held me down.
UPLIFTED
But no prayer was really losG
no sincere prayer failed. Every
plea went on and did some
thing for the one who made H.
Lifted him
One rarely received the thing
for which one asked. But even
in the asking one was lifted up.
Each brave gesture, each tall
wish even though it was as
brief as the glimpse Of that
shadowy trunk-put one in con-
tact with a greater, wider plan
Lifted the soul above the
clutch and clutter carried 1t a
little nearer to the stars.
Copyright 1895. King Feature
Syndicate Inc.)
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ing fingers Of the infra-red
rays.
Theodore Case, in Auburn,
and Lee DeForest, in New York,
were just beginning to tumble
with the idea of the photo
electric cell-at the bottom of
all this-when the Germans
started worrying about the in"
visible cloak of the burglars
and what to do about it.
It would be far-fetched, Of
course, to write down the above
as the stimulus Of the German
research, but, as usual, science
and myth move along together
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mon Defense on land and sea
and in the air.
They have opposed the Presi.
dents every effort to build up
the Army and Navy and their
Air Forces. They have taken
advantage Of every opportunity
to prejudice the American peo-
pie against West Point and An.
napoliS, against the commits
stoned officers of the armed
forces, and against the uniform
Of the United States.
They are even now opposing
the protection of the armed
forces against the attempts of
alien enemies and their agents
and dupes on American soil to
incite the armed forces to re-
bellion.
Under the circumstances 1t
Is not surprising that a cowardly
draft dodger like Bergdoll has
the effrontery to broadcast from
Germany to the American Gov.
eminent the terms on which he
will consent to be arrested and
serve a short term in prison.
Bergdoll evidently thinks that
the Government of the Constitu-
ton is tottering and that the
Sappers of 1935-the Reds,
Pinks and Yellows-are getting
ready to take over the control of
Congress and the country.
Under the circumstances, it
is not surprising that from Mos
cow comes advice to Commu-
nists to aid and abet all Amer
lean Sapping expeditions on
American soil to undermine the
Government of the Constitution
as a first step toward Russian
izing the American system.
When the American people
in the several States unite next
month to observe the anniver.
sary of the adoption of the Con-
Stitution, they may we'll de-
mand an accounting from those
Senators and Representatives in
Congress who are making COM
mon cause with the Sappers of
1895.
Constitution Day will be an
appropriate time for the people
to demand that every Senator
and Representative in Congress
declare himself for or against
the American system of govern.
ment, and for or against the
common defense. Then the PEG.
pie will know whom to renom.
mate and reflect and whom to
retire to private life.
APPROPRIATE TIME
Abraham Lincoln spoke, and
still speaks, for an overwhelm.
ing majority of the American
people, when he said:
Gas the patriots of Seventy.
six died to support the Declare.
ton of independence, so to sup.
port the Constitution and laws
let every American pledge his
life, his property and his sacred
honour.
Every true American will
gladly renew this pledge to
meet the challenge of the Sap
pers of 1885 and Constitution
Day-the seventeenth of next
September-will be a good time
to review it, North, East, South
and West.
(Copyright. 1885, The Washington
Timea)
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The Sappers of 1885
Blu JAMES T. WILLIAMS, Jr.


What Is conservatism? Is 1t
not adherence to the old and
tried against the neD and I'm
tried? If we Mould SupplGnt
the opinions of our fathers in
any case, tDe should do so upon
evidence so conclusive, and ar
oument so clear, that eUen their
great authority, fairly conSid-
cred and Weighed, cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln.
It is a far cry from the wise
counsel of Abraham Lincoln to
the frenzied appeals which the
Sappers of 1885 are making to
the American people to over
throw the Government of the
Constitution, h m string the
Supreme Court of the United
States and supplant the Ameri-
can system of Government with
a European system.
These Sappers are seeking to
undermine the confidence of the
American people in the Constitu'
ton and the Supreme Court.
Having done that they hope to
Europeanize the whole Ameri-
can system of which the Con-
stitution is the cornerstone.
STIR UP UNREST
But the Sappers are not yet
ready for the test. What they
seek is more time in which to
stir up unrest, organize it and
bend it to their sinister ends.
On this account they have
thus far refused to put into writ
ing the drastic amendments by
which they wish to make over
the Constitution. One group
demands the calling of Consti-
tutional convention to rewrlte
the Constitution.
Another group demands that
the Supreme Court be deprived
by amendment of its conStitu-
tional power to safeguard the
humblest American citizen
whenever the Congress by leg
iSlation violates his constitu-
tional rights.
A third group insists that the
terms of the members of the
Supreme Court and other mem
bers of the Federal Judiciary
shall be limited to four years
that those judges who show
their independence and obey
their honest convictions may
be removed from the bench
every four years.
A fourth group calls for an
amendment requiring a two
thirds vote Of the court in
order to protect a private citi-
zen against a congressional
violation of his constitutional
rights.
Some of the Sappers prefer
the British system of govern
ment to the American system.
Others prefer the German or
Italian system to the American
system. And there is a grow
ing number of radicals who
openly advocate the Russian
system as a substitute for the
American system.
Working with these groups
some with one group, some with
another-are certain members
of the present Congress who are
attempting to weaken the Com
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in them =. so much weakness
and waste and pain. And the
memory Of it all seems to have
seeped into the very wood. No,
you'd better get away from
houses when you're in a jam
with life
So I went out to the trees,
to the foot Of an old pine that
has been my friend for years.
It Is very tall and powerful
that old pine. Standing there
at its base, its crest was lost in
the darkness and I could only
see a section of its rugged
trunk. But even that section
was comforting.
TRIUMPHANT
It was so straight and filled
with purpose, that tree so
much surer than I, with my
bewildered thoughts, my con-
flicting desires. It was getting
somewhere. There was some
thing triumphant about the
way it rose out Of the litter at
it's feet and went soaring up
into the shadow, to- some wide,
free place, far above. I put
my hand on it and, beneath
the rugged bark, I could feel
the eager, lifting life. Almost
it seemed to be lifting me with
it.
And I thought how often I
had prayed. Furious, frantic
prayers for release - pleading,
Sobbing prayers for comfort.
For I believed in prayer. And
yet
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16
Human Side of the News - =: By Edwin C. Hill

in a long interaction through
the centuries by which one
stimulates the other.
The alchemists, trying to turn
base metals into gold, were put
down in history as either sim.
pletons or tricksters, but physi-
cists can now do just that, and
would be doing it regularly if
there were any incentive. 1t
isn't profitable. The aStrologers,
zoo, look pretty foolish, in the
long backward view, with their
hocus pocus about the stars con-
trolling the destiny of man.
But today we have the com.
bined financial and astronom.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16
The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John Snure, T.

Martin, jr., Republican Of
Massachusetts,. said recently
that the potato bill to curtail
production of that commodity,
was worse than the tax bill.
He said:
eff there was ever legislation
that might be termed soaking
the poor it is this legislation.
There are few rich folks who
eat potatoes, with the possible
exception of Mae West; they
are looking out for their figures
and eat potatoes Sparingly."
Called up by Representative
Marvin Jones, Democrat OF
Texas, the potato control bill
caused considerable commotion
in the House on the eve Of the
AAA announcement that the
increase in food prices forced it
to reverse it's own crop produc'
ton program and allow 5000.
900 acres to go back in wheat
production.
Senator Henry Fountain Ash
hurst, Democrat of Arizona, tall
statesman possessed of the rare
attribute of oratorical ability,
made an astonishing discovery.
He relates to the Senate and
the country the details Of the
amazing revelation.
He said, in a letter to the
Chief Executive:
"Mr. President, some time ago
I made the astonishing and for
a while, to myself, the distress
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16

ical faculties OF harvard O1lA'
versity devoting three years to
the correlation Of sun spots and
the market, and turning in an
amazing finding that the ups
and downs of stocks are paced
by an unseen baton out on yon'
der incandescent star which we
call the sun.
Roger Beacon, that strange
old thirteenth century monk,
whose astounding prophecies re-
Gently have been brought to
light by Prof. Newcomb, reveals
perhaps more than any other
one man of profane history the
light of prophecy searching the
mists that lie ahead. Long be-
fore Loewenhoeck had made the
first microscope. he drew accu-
rate details of the structure Of
organic matter which later gen.
erations discovered by magnifi'
cation.
IN SATURATION
He observed and drew the
cellular structure of protoplasm
and traced cellular changes in
the growth of the human en-
bryo. Clearly he foresaw the
modern steamship, the automo-
bile and the airplane in the fol-
lowing single paragraph, writ
ten around the year 1910:
Machines for navigating are
possible without rOwerS so that
great ships, suited to either
river or ocean, guided by one
man, may be borne at greater
speed than if they were full
of men. Likewise cars may be
made so that without draught
animal they may be moved with
inestimable speed, as we deem
the scythed chariOtS to have
been, from which antiquity
fought. And flying machines
are possible, so that q man
sit in the middle in the man.
ner of . flying bird"
How did he achieve this long
vision? He, himself, gives the
answer to one who might, mis-
takenly, find support here for
the myStagogs. Old Roger Ba-
con said:
Experiment! Expert m e n t!
Cease to be ruled by dogmas
and authorities. LOOK AT
THE WORLD!"
First the blade and then the
ear" is the scriptural metaphor
of the fruition of mans know
ledge. There is an organic pat
tern in that miracle of growth,
and one might conclude from
mans strange foreknowledge of
events to come that somewhere
lit is written"
All knowledge seems to be
In saturation-in dreams Of
myths, perhaps before it is
precipitated into the actualitieS
Of power, speed, triumphant
artifice and understanding.
But not always beneficent are
these conquests, either in legend
or fact. Long, long centuries
before the Wright brothers
made their first feeble crow.
hop came the tale Of ,DaedaluS
and his flying machine with
the wax wings. It plunged his
son Icarus into the sea. And
so will our flying machines
plunge our sons to destruction
If they serve only Mars.
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all the twist
ed thoughts,
which GU
c a n manage
in the day,
move in and
take posses.
sion.
The house
wasn't right.
Houses, when
ou' re too
tired or Wor-
ried, aren't
good for Vol,
They're faint
ed. So much
has gone on
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discovery AZ
first the fact appears incredible.
It seems as il the stars above
his head had faded and the
earth had slipped beneath his
feet.
But, as time rolls on, such a
discovery proves to be a real
antidOte to meglOmania; and
the further flight Of time brings
to the diScOverer a serenity and
humility to be envied by the
worlds greatest philosophers"
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port on the
& r e q t e s t
p e a C e time
man e u v e r s
ever held by
the q m e d
forces of this
country b e
fore long.
With troops
concentrating
in Pine Camp,
near Water.
town, N. Y,
it is known
that the dis
play will be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16

t u r n e d
burglar and
m a d e him
self an in
visible cloak
or rather
a cloak which
would make
t h e wearer
i n 81 b ! e.
6dukCES anu
b u rg h e RS
Shuddered to
think what
a thief could
d o W i t h
e q u | p m ent
like that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16

ing discovery
that the per.
petuity Of the
A m g rio a n
) over ment
did not absO-
lutely depend
upon the re-
eIe c tiOn Of
on e H e n r y
Fountain Ash
hurst to the
Senate Of the
United States.
" w h e n q
8 e n a t o r
makes such q
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Modern Magic

A few years ago there was
alarm in Germany over a
story that a great scientist had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16
Like a Prayer

It was midnight. I couldn't
sleep. One of those troubled
nights-you know them-when
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16

Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
Chief of Staff Of the United
States Army, will receive the re.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-16
OLD FAVORITES

The indifferent BY Francis Beaumont
Never will protest
To love a woman but in jests
For as they cannot be true
So to give each man his due,
When the wooing fit is past,
Their affection cannot last.
Therefore if chance to meet
With a mistress fair and sweet,
She my service shall obtain,
Loving her for love againI
Thus much liberty crave
Not to be constant slave.
But when we have tried each other,
If she better like another
Let her quickly change for me;
Then to change am I as free.
He or she that loves too long
Sell their freedom for song.
Reuders nved to send to the editor their suggeS
os of old favortes among the poems for reprinng in
this SpGcel
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On the upward trail shall not be
Allowed to proceed in peaceful
Journey toward the goal they're seeking
With his club and dog he halts them.
, 1935-01-20
HITLER EYES
new COLONY

BERLIN. Jan. o. Up German
nais. victorious I'm Sundays Saar
p~leblscite. Saturday turned specula-
tive eyes toward Memel. another bit
or pre-war Germany lost 70 her in
the peace treaties.
"A sensational report published
with singular uniformity BY all
Berlin's nazi-controlIed newspapers
to the effect that Lithuanian troops
were massing at Taurow. near the
German frontier. was accompanied
~ expressions or the view that
Mcneil Cor Klaipeda). now nomin-
ally an autonomous city. should be-
restored TO the fatherlnrd.
The press. assailing Lithuania for
numerous asserted breaches OF trust
IN connection with Memel, said
Lithuanian reserves had been cali
eel to the colors for three months.
doubling the peace strength OF the
Memel garrison.
This alleged "sabre-rattling" indi-
Gated bad conscience, the news
papers asserted. declaring Lithua-
MAS excuse for bringing troops 70
the borders was the report that
Prussian storm troops intended to
cross the border and capture the
inundated city. This excuse, II was
said, Is odd, but more the less ludi-
crous."