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The Washington times., 1935-01-19

the White Queen, who believed
six impossible things every day
before breakfast.
If a man doesn't believe
anything he is never disillu-
stoned, it is true. If he be-
lieves everything he is diSillu-
stoned good deal, but he has
more fun.
Your correspon dent has
reached a point where he can
successfully believe anything
without any visible aftereffects
except a slight stiffness in the
credulity muscles of the brain.
It is really nothing. Any
skeptic can do the same thing,
with the application OF a little
elbow grease.
When we started believing
we had twice been pronounced
a hopeless unbeliever by several
experts. We were advised
never to try to believe any
thing, even our own eyes.
We refused to accept the die
tum Of the experts and made
plans to learn to believe.
It was a long haul upward,
but it was worth it. We didn't
tackle too much at first, devot-
ing the initial weeks of train
ing to practicing one easy
exercise. The novice at believ-
ing can pick any simple exer-
else that appeals to him. We
chose the ThiS-Will-Not-Sh Shrink
test.
Every day, except Sundays,
we went to a haberdashery and
bought a pair of wool socks.
will these socks shrink?" we
always asked the clerk.
Certainly not, SIR" was his
inevitable reply. 'They are pre-"
Shrunk."
AS soon as he said preShrunk
we would pull ourselves together
and try to believe him. OF
course the preShrunk shocks
no, the preShunk Shrocks-the
prehunk shonkS-the hose
would always shrink.
Perseverance is essential, so
we would always go back the
next day, buy another pair Of
socks, and believe the clerk
again.
We bought approximately $50
pairs Of preshrunk socks before
we mastered that first simple ex.
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prevent such activities.
Secretary Ickes, however. Is
giving encouragement to such
work by expending Public Works
and other funds to subsidiZe
motion picture productions for
a 100 per cent owned subsidiary
of the A. T. and T.
Consequently, Mr.. IckeS may
find that the shoe is on the
other foot and that the Com
n1unicationS Commission DtlI
Investigate his "tUireS."
The BIuge Eagle that Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson mOurns as
dead is not the only national
bird whose wings are clipped.
Representative Jennings Ran
dolf, Democrat, of West Vlr'
ginia, after careful study OF the
situation has arrived at the con-
clusion that the American eagle
is rapidly becoming extinct.
Says Randolph:
1--WE find the American eagle
on our money and yet the bald
eagle, the American bird, is rap
idly becoming extinct"
Consequently, Mr.. Randolph
feels it is of extreme national
importance to rush through
legislation providing for the
preservation of the bald eagle.
According to Randolph the
eagle must fly high
Movie camera and sound
picture men are advocating in
StructiOn for public men in the
art Of acting.
Forced to secure pictures Of
officials talking on important
subjects they find them as tenn
peramental as prima donnas.
Some men, skilled in or1tory
in House and Senate, StGn1n,er
and Stutter 1Dhen taken before
the moUie cameras.
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Exterminating Gangsters
No Other WAY IDEAL With Them

Federal agents kill and (hs mother), said
to be involved in the kidnapping year ago Of Edward G.
Bremen, st. Paul banker
The battleed Florida long way from Minnesota
Crime knows State lines.
Neither does the Federal Government when hunts kid
napers.
It is we'll for law and order that it does not.
sentmentass will say that is TERRIBLE this killing Of
suspects without a trial.
They will be shocked the thought that
the slain a woman
Sane persons sentimental will regret death
mother.
They will remember however, that she the brains of the
kidnapping ring and that she criminal well her
Another victory against crme is the sentiment of the
people the United States toward this coup of the Federal
The only way deal with gangsters to extrmnate them
and slowly but surely this IS BEING DONE.
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stars that were huge county
fair watermelonS. We believed
these things until we ran out
Of watermelonS.
Today we believe anything
that suits our fancy, and with
no trouble at all. If we are
in a mood Tuesday for believ'
ing space is finite, then space
is finite. Tomorrow we may
believe it to be infinite.
We are the despair Of Roo
ert Ripley, and we are not
going to give up one of our
few remaining pleasures just be-
cause Robert A. Millikan, whom
we do not even know socially,
wants us to.
Copyright. 1885. King Features
Syndicate. IncA
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ercise in credulity. Today it Is
no effort at all for us to believe
a haberdasher when he tells us
that wool socks won't shrink.
They always do, Of course. but
that has nothing to do with be-
lieving the clerk. That is the
important thing.
The sock victory gave us con-
fidence and we next tackled
a more difficult exercise. We
devoted four months to believing
everything politicians said. This
did not run into money, as the
sock experiment did, but it was
harder.
After much effort success
again crowned our efforts, as
will be seen by the fact that to-
day we believe every single pre-
diction Henry P. Fletcher, chair
man of the Republican National
Committee, makes about the Re"
publican party sweeping the
country in 1886.
We next progressed to bellev-
ing movie ushers who told us
there were plenty Of good seats
available inside, and won out
there. From then on progress
was rapid and much easier.
Our first scientific belief was
that fish is brain food. Then
we tackled light years and as
Economical distances between
the various spiral nebulae, and
in no time at all could believe
distances up to forty-eignt and
a half trillion trillion quadrillion
millions of light years. We be-
lieve now that the sun is pin
head-and a very small pinhead
compared with some stars the
size, relativity, of Watermelons.
This is a blow to our civic pride
but a tribute to our skill at be-
lief, and we got some solace
later by believing that the
watermelon stars were them
selves pinheadS in comparison
with other, vaSter stars, which
in turn were watermelons-and
sometimes mere cantaloupes-
in comparison with incredible
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you WANT - WITHIN
REASON.
cts a good answer
"And I know it's true,
Sometimes.
"I've seen it tried
"And it worked
But there's one thing
you're overlooking"
There's one catch
I'm that scheme,
zone fact that's apt
ITO put the whole racket
"Haywire-
"And that's this
"You CAN be what you want
But suppose
"You DON'T WANT
Suppose you hit
zone of those dead-calm times
"When, for the life of you,
"You can't WANT anything.
"Then what?"
"It's one thing" says you,
ITO like or envy
Noble, hardworking eggs
"And wish, vaguely,
"You were like EN-
But it's quite another
ITO get so steamed up
with red-hot desire
"And go-get-'em ambition
THAT you leap
Unto action yourself
"And make things
"Come your way.
$50 what, if anything, 4
Can be done about THAT?"
That's what YOU
Say to me
And now
Here's what I
Say to you.
The trouble with you,
Partner,
Is that you think
You've gotta be
Red hot
To do anything.
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
Without Reservations
BY Frank Sullivan

DR.. Robert A. Millikan, the
famous scientist, protests that
people believe everything they
read in the papers today about
science and he thinks it's harm
full. His advice is, Believe
nothing"
Thank you, doctor, but we
prefer to go on being a sucker
for the atom. Or the electron.
We are going to stick with
The Washington times., 1935-01-19

In the Senate, Senators Jo-
seph T. Robinson and Key
Pittman are the best actors.
Huey Long and Senator Pat
McCarran are learning.
Senator George Norris is aS
nervous as a kitten.
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull rambles on in his talks
like an elderly professor Of
metaphysics.
Senator Charles L. McNary
and Senator Carter Glass abso-
lutely refuse to pose and talk.
They are camera shy.
Unlike his predecessor, PreSi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt
writes his lines, studies them,
and rehearSeS perfectly from
memory.
Former President Herbert
Hoover had another system.
Before posing for sound pic
lures he would send for huge
b1 11ckb bodrdS and haze his
speech Dritten on them. The
blackbodrdS Would be arranged
behind the sound cameras so
that HooDer'S eyes might roam
around and giUe the public the
impression he lDds speaking
eTtempor1neouSly.
AS a matter of fact he
couldn't memorize his lines.
Warden James B. HolOhan, Of
San Quentin prison, recently
wounded in the penitentiary
outbreak, is one of the most
COlOrful men on the West
Coast.
Shortly after the World War
he was United States Marshal
for the northern district of Cal.
ifornia and as such sat in on
the trial of the so-called Hindu
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
Japanese MerriLy Beat Us At
Game We Taught Them
By T. E. Powers

pay for the sins OF their
iathers.
Just a few words about GER
tain events in the past, and
you will know what I mean.
Western man discovered ia
pan in the year 1542 when a
Portuguese ship bound for
Macao in China was blown out
of its way and reached the
coast of Japan. In 1549 the
first Christian missio nary
landed. He was received with
polite hospitality, and during
the next forty years there was
a steady influx of Jesuit fathers
who settled down in different
parts of the empire.
In 1898 the Spanish Fran
ciscans, coming from the Philip
pines, joined the Portuguese
Jesuits. Their rivalry caused
so much friction that after
about sixty years of disorder
and uninterrupted annoyances,
the Japanese finally threw all
of them out, lock, stock and
barrel, and closed their from
tiers against the outside world.
At the same time the Mikado
forbade his subjects to go
abroad, as a result Of which
Japan for about two centuries
lived far removed from the rest
of the world, an efficient en-
pire, sufficient unto itself, and
getting no inkling of what
was happening abroad except
through the news and the
books that came filtering in
through the island of Deshima.
the trading post of the Dutch
East India Company.
But the rest of the world, for
reasons of it's own, resented this
isolation of so rich a nation,
and in 1853 the guns Of Com
modore Perry forced the Sho-
gun (whom Perry mistook for
the real emperor and whom he
addressed as the Tycoon"
which was really the emperor'S
title) to sign the famous treaty
Of March 81, 1854, by which ia
pan, much against her will, was
put under the necessity of wes-
ternizing her entire mode Of liv-
ing and also her methods of
making a living.
It was an evil day for Europe
and America.
For the pupil was not only a
apt pupil, bright. intelligent and
eager for knowledge. But the
pupil also said to himself, IF
that be the way to get ahead
in this world, 1 will see to it
that I get ahead as well as the
best Of them"
JOKE ON US
That happened ninety years
ago, and ever since we have
loudly complained because the
pupil is beating us most merrily
at our own game.
But, who, my friends, has
taught him?
Well, we did. We did our.
selves. Do you wonder then that
the Japanese sometimes smile
politely when they read in our
history books of the great
things that happened in 1858?
If were in their position, I
would roar with laughter.
For there is a joke somewhere
in that story, and the joke is on
US!
Copyright. 1888. by King Features
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
True Love Story
She Waited Is Years

quarter Of century ago Mcheangelo Gentlcore
America to make life for himself. His dream to
earn enough bring from Italy the sweetheart of his
childhood.
friend stole the money he had saved There quarrel
The friend killed Gencore went to JAIL For than
twenty years his sweetheart wrote to him twice month
The other day Gentcore went back home to claim his
bride the girl who has waited 25 years.
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cons p ira c y
case, a trial
conc e r nj n g
sabotage and
es p on a g e
during tn e
conflict.
One of the
defen d a n t S
W no h a d
t u r n e d
States e v j.
dence was on
the witness
stand.
Far in the
rear of the
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

Harold L. Ickes, Secretary Of
the overlapping Interior De-
partment, may have his own
wires" crossed, recent reports
indicate.
In the first place the new
Communications Commission is
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/ INVESTIGATING
the activities
of the Ameri-
C a n Tele-
phone a n d
T e | e G raph
Company and
other CO m
m u n i cation
utilities in the
highly specu-
lative field of
motion pic
ture produc-
ton and con-
Sidering the
necessity Of
legislation to
The Washington times., 1935-01-19

courtroom a Warden HOlOhan
man drew a gun and opened
fire on the "Squealer."
HOlOhan jerked an old from.
tier "44" pistol from a shoulder
holster, fired one shot and the
gunman fell dead with q single
bullet hole in his forehead.
He had been killed by cone
Shot Jim" HolOhan.
Copyright, 1885, The WASHINGTON TIm0so
The Washington times., 1935-01-19

parently pre-
pairing for a
W ar W i t h
A b y S S i n Ia.
This is the
We ar 1885.
Y ou cannot
just go ahead
and attack a
S u p p o sedly
pa + o q + o u S
neighbor by
tellin g the
orld that
you are do
ing it for the
sake of civili-
-4s
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
OLD FAVORITES

Landing of The Pilgrim FdtherS-Henlans
The breaking waves dashed high
On stern and rock-bound coast
And the woods, against stormy sky,
Their giant branches tossed
And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters oer
When band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.
What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-
They sought faiths pure shrine!
Ave. call it holy ground
The soil where first they trod
They have left unstained what there they found
Freedom to worship God!
IReaders nvited to send to the editor their sug-
geStions of old favortes among the poems for reprnng
i" this space) -~-~- -.
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ITO be a Big
Shot
"Or even near
The head of
the line
"B u t W h a t
c h a n c e
have II"
"Y e s." says
you,
"I know the
answer
you're going
to say
"Y OU A N
BE ANY
THING
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L AAc1U 4AOAAONAAOC-
Cockeyed nonsense!
That's the way
Monkeys feel
About doing things
Or babies.
Babies and monkeys
Won't work unless
They're excited.
The minute
Things go dull
They lose interest
And stop hustling.
There's the difference
BetWeen q man
And a monkey
Can you keep going
When you're not
Steamed up,
Or can't you?
You CAN
Be what you want
Even if you've
Stopped wanting!
Even if
YOU re 700 ClTeQ,
Too sick and discouraged,
Too sore and disguised
To feel anything
Or desire anything,
You can still
Be what you want
IF YOU'LL GO AHEAD
AND MAKE THE GESTURESI
Flat times,
Flop times,
Blah times,
Black times
They come to everybody.
No use
Trying to escape them
No use
Waiting for them
To pass
Either you take them,
Or you TAKE THE COUNT.
But how can you take them?
BY JUST GOING on
PARKING YOUR HEART
AND LETTING
YOUR BRAIN RUN The JOB.
That's the difference
Between a man
And a monkey.
A monkey quits
When his blood
Stops boiling,
But man keeps on
With his brain on the job.
So there's the dope
The dope on success
The dope on LIFE
The dope on YOU.
If you want
To BE something
If you want
To DO something
You can do it,
You can be it
IF YOU'LL KEEP UP
YOUR WALLOP
THROUGH HOT TIMES OR
COLD.
Copyright 1885. by King Features =
Syndicate, Inc.) :
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
Hendrix Willem van Loon

, or otherwise, have a fatal habit
Of coming home to roost. And
furthermore, as the Good Book
The Washington times., 1935-01-19

There is a fantastic story
going the rounds about the
reason why Italy is now ap-
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

You Can Be What You Want
But Suppose You Don't
Wanna?
I'D like" you say,
ITO make a record.
1T sure must be swell
The Washington times., 1935-01-19

has told us for the last two
thousand years, that the sons
will always be called upon to
The Washington times., 1935-12-27
KNOX PREDICTS
STIFF FIGHT
F0RG.0.P.

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. q Il.
N.SO.-Amerlca must be reused
to its peril" Col. Frank Knox, Chi
cago publisher, a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomina-
ton, warned today as he arrived
in Ohio to address the Ohio Re-
publican Editorial Association here
tonight. He said:
"The American people must
destroy this revenue.devOuring,
tax-eating monster of bureau
cracy before it destroys them"
He received newsmen at a con-
ference in his hotel suite today,
but cautiously refrained from deal
ing in personalities within his own
party.
Knox admitted that the Repub-
lican forces face one of the stiff
fest fights in years in the 1886
Presidential campaign.
SIT may be the stiffest fight
since 1896-the Administration
has billions of public funds
available as campaign expendi-
lures.
"The Republican party has a
definite obligation: First, to
arouse the country to its peril,
and, second, to build a ground.
work for a party platform that
will be sound and constructive
what happens to individuals is
of minor Importance"
Knox appearance here tonight
will be the first of three addresses
which he will make in Ohio dur.
ing the next few weeks.
The Washington times., 1935-12-27
Burglar Gives Warning

YOUNGSTOV N, Ohio, Dec. q
GNS0.-"Beware! Don't try to
open this safe. It's full of soup"
That was the contents of a note
left on an oil company's safe by
a considerate burglar after an un-
successful attempt to break it
open. Soup" is the underworld's s
word for nitroglycerin.
The Washington times., 1935-12-27
Reds Organize United
Front, Students Lead

COLUMBUS, Dec. q U.SO.
A united front" of young stu
dents affiliated with revolutionary
movements in the United States
was being organized here today by
q nucleus of Communist and So
cialist leaders.
Camouflaging the subversive in
tent of it's hackers, the directorate
was to organize high school and
college students throughout the
country into a so-called American
Student Union" It is controlled
by the CommuniSt-supported ma
tional Student League" and the
socialistic Student League for In
dustrial Democracy" First meet
ings will open tomorrow.
800 Young Delegates
More than 800 student delegates
Of extremist and other campus or
ganizations from high schools and
colleges were trekking into Colum-
bus to form the new student
union" They were answering a
call stating the joint program COM
mittee feels the union should at
tempt to bring students to an
awareness of large social forces
and that while remaining de-
pendent of any political party, it
should find definite orientation
toward the idea Of basic social
change"
Behind the union" is the plan
to "liquidate all existing student
groups" enlist unsuspecting or
ganizationS to help form a cloak
for it's carefully concealed pro-
gram, and weld members into a
single movement"
Moscow recently recommended
to its munist followers
throughout the world formation
Of "unitei front" with Socialists
to work together for joint revolu.
tionary aims.
Lead In Strikes
Following this international pol
icy, the National Student League,
college organ Of the Communist
Party. and the Student League
for Industrial Democracy have
jointly acted with other extremist
groups in arranging and leading
student strikes" and peace
demonstrations" and il. support
ing regional labor strikes.
The call for an American
Student Union" is signed by the
"joint program committee" with.
out mention of the following
groups behind the move:
The Young Peoples Socialist
League, the National Student
League, the Student League for
Industrial Democracy, the Young
Communist League, the League
Against War and Fascism and the
American Youth Congress.
Denied use of Ohio State Uni
versity buildings in a last minute
cancellation by university authori.
ties, the meeting creating the new
union found sanctuary in the Co.
Iumbus Y. W. C. A.
On University Campus
Miss Jean Cavers, business sec.
retary of the Y. w. C. A., when
asked if she did not know the
organizations were known as radi-
cal groups, said:
1--WE have gone into that. We
asked the advice of many prOmi-
nent people in Columbus before
giving our permission. The Y.
w. C. A. is not sponsoring the
meetings or participating in any
way"
But the organizations we're not
barred completely from OHIO
States campus. Delegates regis
tered az headquarters m the stud
ent center of the Indianola Meth.
odist Episcopal Church where the
Ohio State League for Industrial
Democracy has its office. A re-
Ception was held there tonight.
Half of Westminster Hall, a
dormitcry of the university stud
entS, was turned over to the dele
gates for sleeping accommoda-
The Washington times., 1935-12-27

AUCKLAND, N. z. 0.N.SJ.-A
harmless" shell, which during
ten, years had been used for ham
mering garden stakes and other
odd jobs, and submerged for a
long period under water, suddenly
exploded and killed 8-year-old
The Washington times., 1935-12-27
NorWegians Plan Party

The annual Christmas party Of
the Norwegian Society of Wash
ington will be held Saturday eve
ming in the ballroom of the Wash
ington Club, Seventeenth and K
Streets Northwest. All Norwe-
gians are invited,
The Washington times., 1935-12-27
BOY is KILLED BY DUD'

John Boswell, who, it is thought.
had merely dropped 1t. The boys
father, who had served in the
army, thought it had once been
fired as a practice shot and was
harmless.
The Washington times., 1935-12-27

DANVILLE, Va, Dec. 27.-Whtt
Golden, of Danville, is seeking to
learn what particular virtue his
7.year-old automobile possesses.
after thieves stole it twice within
a week.
The machine was first stolen
The Washington times., 1935-12-27
AUTO STOLEN TWICE

and found abandoned on a side
road near the city. After he had
installed a new battery, paid the
finder a $40 reward and paid
$12.5O to have it towed in, it was
stolen again.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-04-25
Notice

In consequence of the liquidation of
the Bank and in accordance with rule
(f) OF the Regulations for the Savings
Department of the Bank. notice is
hereby given to all parties having saw
ings deposits with the Bank. that the
Bank desires to repay the amounts des
posted to the depositors, and hereby
gives the required II weeks notice TO
that effect; and informs ali depositors
that no interest Will be given on any
savings deposit after the expiration of
IL weeks (tWelve weeks) from date.
No iAterest on Checking Accounts
will be given after the present date.
St. Thomas the l. day of March 1885.
The National Bank of The Danish West
Indies
AXEL HOIST THAGE
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-04-25
Notice

Notice is hereby given that at stock
holders meeting held in Copenhagen
January Is. 1885. it was decided that
the Noyional Bark of the DANISH West
Indies goes into liquidation from the
said date; that the liquidation comnIt-
tee consists Of tn former board mem
Ders and that the Officers of us .BaI k
are authorized 10 sign and act for the
Bank in liquidation 10 the same manner
as heretofore.
St. Thomas. the 18TH day of Jam
ualy. 1880.
The National Bank of the Danish
W est Itdies
AXEL Hoist l.. CHRISTENSEN