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The Washington times., 1935-12-10
Human Side of News
By Edwin C. Hill

} ambitious scientist, Icarus, rather
than resign ourselves without an
effort to the fate that has be-
fallen the ants and the bees?"
AS to war, science, he found,
was pulling up the roots by "en.
abling ever larger populations to
live in comfort on the same limit
ed area of land. Thus we hope
to restrain the pressure Of popu.
lation and the urge for expansion,
which. to my mind, are far more
likely to drive the people Of ma
ton to war than the knowledge
that they-and also the enemies
they will have to fight-are armed
with the deadlieSt weapons that
science can devise"
Science must go on and on, no
one can control the direction.
If all science were throttled
down the community would be-
come crystallized in its present
state. with nothing to do but
watch the population increase
and shiver as it waited for the
famine, pestilence or war which
must inevitably come to restore
the balance between food and
mouths, land and population.
In appearance, Jeans is all
British, down to the briar pipe
which never seems to be out of
his mouth save during his appear
ance on the lecture platform.
There is something Of Chester.
tons boyishness about him, also
the same absence of ostentation.
His parents were Scotch although
he, himself, was born IN Lancan-
shire. So years ago.
CONTROLLING POWER
S. J. Woolf, the illustrator and
writer, interviewed Jeans on his
last visit to America. They got
around to the Jeans theory that
the Great Architect of the uni
verse is, or was pure mathema-
tlcian, a controlling power with
out emotion, morality or esthetic
appreciation. Woolf asked him
how such a conception affected
his feelings concerning the uni
verse. Jeans smiled and quoted
Walt Whitman:
when I heard the learn'd as
tronomer;
When the proofs, the figures
were ranged in columns before
me;
When I was shown the charts
and the diagrams, to add, dl
vide and measure them;
When I. sitting, heard the as
tronomer where he lectured
with much applause in the lee
ture room,
How soon unaccountaoly,
/ become tired and sick:
Till rising and gliding out,
wandered off by myself
In the mystical, moist night
air,
And from time to time,
Lookd up in perfect silence at
the stars"
Copyright, 1885 by King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
HEALTH WARNING

DR.. George D. Calver, Capitol
physician, is striving to get his
flock back in shape by January 8.
When the health of members OF
House and Senate is involved, DR..
Calver does not hesitate to issue
ultimatums that force many OF his
wards to take a rest.
Although the last session was
one of the worst so far as the
health of members was concerned,
most of them have recovered and
are ready to start the session
January 3.
A few of them, however, will be
unable to answer the first roll
calls.
Not the least of the physicians
tack is getting a few members
through the Christmas holidays.
Not so long ago he was heard to
warn one member of the House
who had been i'll in the closing
DAYS of last session:
"Stop uSing that fire-water. You
have to be On hand early in
January, you know"
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POOR PROSPECTS

Young Representative William
M. Citron, of Connecticut, a first
termer, is ready to return from
Russia with some firsthand in
formation concerning the outlook
for United States trade with that
county.
Reports are that Citron fails to
see any prospect for a material
improvement in trade in the near
future.
Although a first-termer and
only 80 years old. Citron has had
an extended public career and
in the brief time he has served in
the House, has sponsored legisla'
tion of Importance not only to his
State but to the country.
Since he first came to Wash.
ington he has been interested in
the activities of the progressive
men of the House but has always
had some doubts concerning the
advisability of Russian trade and
this summer he went to the
U. S. S. R. to determine the situa,
ton for himself.
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Listen, World!
WE LIKE TO duplicated many
Bu Elsie Robinson

H6dTu duplicated IldIly a IlI11c ia
your own experience.
were you ever cowardly,
sneaky and ashamed-jittery all
the time? If you were and have
come out of it, surely you can help
me. But how typical it is OF me
to ask it, I am always pushing
myself in-trying to find h e ! p
without thankfulness or humility
II know my trouble-supreme
selfishneSs. I haven't any friends,
because. try to use them all the
time. I'm such a weakling that I
am only friendly with people to
whom I can be a condeScending or
who may be of use to me. I'm
lazy and shiftleSs besides. L have
an exalted idea of my own impor-
tance until my pretenSe is dlscov-
cred - than I am SnlVelllng,
cringing fool.
Il haven't the courage to make
a decision and stick to it. run
around, trying to find out what
everyone else thinks before 1 make
up my mind. 1 guess I'm still at
the 'teething age mentally. love
praise and blossom under it like
a child. Don't tell me to pray
I've tried, but it's no USE"
And so on, and on, and on.
Eight long pages of confession,
lamentation. despair and reproach.
And does she mean it? Is she
really sorry - honestly seeking
help. I doubt it. Anyone mtelli-
gent enough to make such an an
alySis of her failingS is smart
enough to cure them. Moreover.
as a trained nurse she has plenty
of opportunity to get busy and
snap out of them. But here's bet
ting dollars to doughnuts that she
doesn't want to, and is just PICK
ING A SCAB.
Human egotism is an amazing
contrivance. 1t MUST find its
place in the Sun-and if it can't
find it by fair means, it will do
so by foul.
EXHIBITIONISM
IF WE CAN'T EXHIBIT A
MEDAL, WE'LL BOAST ABOUT
A SCAB.
Usually it isn't much of scab,
at that. Just a little casual cuss-
edness we could easily lick-noth-
inp in the least sensational But
that's Just the point - we want
something sensational: We deSpise
our own mediocrity; we're deter
mined to stand out from the
crowd! Just as determined as we
were at 6, when we showed little
Mary Brown our bruised knee!
Even our prayers are so often
exhibitionism. The nerve of us
nagging God to do petty chores
we could manage in a jiffy for
ourselves, if we had the Spunk OF
a sand flea. But Gods the only
audience we have left, after ex'
hausting our long-suffering friends
and kin.
What idiots we are! If we'd
spend one-tenth the time trying
for real achievement that we
waste in boasting or blubbering
about imaginary weaknesses or
woes, what vows we'd be!
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, 1ne)
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
Three-Minute Journeys

lalways draws it's crowd of visit
orS. Down the main highway
come donkeys with panniers filled
with fruits and vegetables bound
for market.
The natives all carry baskets
of produce. Fish, shark steak, pep
pers, sweets, poultry are for sale.
The transactions are noisy, but
all the haggling is in good ma
ture for the natives are essenti-
ally happy. Street merchants
carry great loads of brushes,
brooms and baskets on the ends
of a long pole balanced over one
shoulder. Goats, donkeys and
dogs are everywhere.
The old governors palace is
as romantic and beautiful as one
would wish a palace to be.
Beyond the palace looms the
great cathedral burial place OF
Ponce de Leon. Nearby is Casa
Blanca, built by his children,
which is said to be the Oldest
continuously inhabited house in
North America. Gardens in love
ly terraces extend to the sea and
there are lily-filled pools. Every
where is that sense of detached
enchantment and eerie beauty
that persists in spite Of all ut,
| tenlptS at modernity.
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WHY MEN ARE ALIBI-ARTISTS


What can a man do that won't
make a woman suspiciouS?"
plaintively inquiries a puzzled
husband"
Nothing, son! Arousing a
woman's suspicious is about the
easiest thing that a man can do,
next to missing a putt. This has
been true ever since Eve found
out about Lilith, after Adam had
vowed that she was the only
woman in the world"
That is why men are so eau
tious. After a few years of mar.
riage, a peace-loving man won't
even let the barber put lilac-water
on his hair or dust his neck with
scented talcum. He knows better!
Many a man never dares to
have a manicure, because the
wife will want to know WHY he
has to have his pinkieS all shined
up like that. Or if he has crush
on some manicurist.
If a man, who has always
suppressed his desire for riotous
colors and stuck to the plain
dark blue or black cravatS, sud
denly weakens and bursts out
into modest pin-stripes or a
touch of orange, it's a signal
for the little woman to start
wondering" and to drop ir
casually at his office to give
the stenographers the o. o.
When a man passes a florists
shop, and actually happens to
feel a sentimental impulse to
drop in and buy a box of her
favorite roses for his wife. she
may faint into his arms with
The Washington times., 1935-12-10


national affair" at Elkton' Mo-
which ended in the discharge OF
two police officers who hand
cuffed Ghaffar Khan Djalal, en-
voy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of Iran, after his
arrest growing out of the halt
ing of an assertedly speeding car;
Blease never was overly proud
of the law which granted I'M
munity to foreign diplomats IN
the United States. On more
than one occasion he condemned
the statute of 1890 when speak
ing of the representatives OF Tor
eign lands.
In the Senate. he used Ian
ellage which caused the State
Department to become "jittery
when he uttered his views on
diplomats.
The discharge of two police Of
ficers who sought to arrest an
envoy they believed to be speed
ing would have given him an
other opportunity to air MS
views from the Senate floor.
The report is, however, that de-
spite the fact Blease is not in the
Senate, he is clearly expressing his
opinion of the matter in way
that leaves no doubt in the minds
of his listeners what he thinks OF
an envoy who would allow police
officers to be relieved of their jobs
because they sought to halt a
foreign speeder in day when the
entire United States is seeking to
rid the nation of motorists who
endanger the lives of others by
driving too fast.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
SIR JAMES JEANS

Gin JfAWGO
Sir James Jeans latest lesson
to his worldwide class in popular
astronomy is that the moon is
falling toward the earth and even
tually will be destroyed. 1t will
break up, he says, into two parts;
then four, and finally into count.
less particles.
When this happens, the world
will have continuous moonlight
from the reflection of the par.
ticles.
When Jeans speaks, the laymar
understands. He feeds sciencs
to us by picture and example, just
as the kindergarten teacher feeds
knowledge to the infants.
We have imagined the sun to
be the center of the system up
above us. Sir James sets us righG.
1t isn't the center-it is only a
spot on the hub of a wheel.
THE whole system" he says.
us rotating around a center as
a cartWheel around a hub. In this
case, the hub it so far away that
we cannot even see its brightest
stars with the naked eye. We d.
not know the diameter of the
wheel with any accuracy, but it is
about 100000 light years, and the
sun is about half way out along
one of its spokeS.
The turning wheel whirls the
sun through space at the rate
of 200 miles a second. yet the
wheel is so vast in size that it
takes the sun about 200,000,00O
years to make one revolution
around the hub.
The sun would fly off the
whirling wheel into space if the
gravitational pull of stars did not
restrain it,"
LACK OF BALANCE
The Smithsonian Institution
asked Sir James lately if he
thought that science was q
Frankenstein working for the de
struction of the race by creating
instruments of war and by its
labor-saving devices which cause
unemployment. Sir James said no
He admitted that there hao
been a lack of balance in mech
anizing industry, and he sale
that the thing to do now was tc
discover labor-saving industries
Let us remember" he said
"Faraday'S electromagnetic in
duction, MaXwell's Hertzia r
waves and the Otto cycle-eact
of which has provided employ
ment for millions of men.
Let us remember that the eco
nomic value of the work of one
scientist alone, Edison, has beer
estimated at 5000 million pounds
rs it not better to press on ir
our efforts to secure more wealth
and leisure and dignity of life
for our own and future genera
tions even though we risk a glori
ous failure. than to accept in
glorious failure by perpetuatine
our present conditions? Shall
we not risk the fate of the ever
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and gracious and dances with all
her women friends, she suspects
that he is flirting.
When he is half an hour later
for dinner, it is pretty hard for
her to believe that he has been
held up at the last minute by
an important deal or a traffic
jam: she can visualize only two
things. His death in a motor
smash-or another woman.
This is why men have so many
stock alibis which they spring on
women. They know that no
woman would believe the simple
truth! Because the simple truth
is the last thing which a man
ever tells a woman!
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-12-10

new words to
t he English
language. He
is also said to
be m a k i n G
choice use of
a few of the
old ones.
His name is
Cole Blease,
former United
States S e n a.
tor.
T he reason
for Coles eX-
postulation is
said to be the
ask.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROWLGnd

wonders of whom he is thinking.
But, if he comes home all lit up
and full of gladness and gayety,
she wonders where he's been and
with whom-and where he got it..
If they go to party and he
acts dull. glum and interested
she suspects that he is longing to
be somewhere lese. But if he
makes himself awfully pleasant
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
ILLNESS DELAYS

Illness of Representative Samuel
B. Hill, Democrat of Washington,
is delaying action on proposed
legislation to revive the NRA.
One of the most active men in
the House, Hills labors forced him
to spend tedious hours in the con-
troversies of the last session par
The Washington times., 1935-12-10

The language Of the street is
always strong. What can describe
the folly and emptiness Of scold'
ing like the word jawing?-Emer-
son.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10

IAlS COMPANY NAAA'
Recent efforts to have a meet
ing of a subcommittee of the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee in order that the group might
consider the adviSability Of legis-
lation to revive the NRA were
frustrated because of Hills illness.
Reports are, however, that he
will be ready to resume his work
before long and that with his re-
turn the subcommittee will i'm
mediately take steps to consider
new NRA legislation.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
SPEAKS MIND

Down in South Carolina there
is a white-haired gentleman who,
it is reported, is adding some
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
Words of Wise Men

A woeful hostess brooks not
merry guests.-ShakeSpeare.
Speech is the picture Of the
mind.-John Ray.
The Washington times., 1935-12-10

Remember the big gashes you
used to get on your knees when
you were a little tad, playing
tag" and prisoners base" on the
gravelly school yard? And the
gorgeous resultant Scab? With
what thrills you explored that
heroic eXcreScence, comparing it
with inferior specimens! Or. if it
happened to be on a more secluded
portion of your anatomy. offering
to give a look" for the swap of
an apple or gum. Happy days,
when a scab could secure the CoV-
eted spotlight!
Jimmy WallaceI" mother used
to Shrill, stop picking that place
this minute! You heard me!
But you didn't stop picking that
scab, did you? And some of us,
suspect. never will. These doleful
creatures who spend hours retail
ing their spiritual rasslings. tell
ing us what works they are. vow.
ing that they're so diSgusted with
their own cusSedness that they're
Just about ready to end it all"
The fellow with the Perfectly
Awful Temper the girl with that
Frightful Streak of Jealousy that's
always getting her into jams.
How ruthlessly they spill the
dirt on themselves. how violently
they flay themselves for their own
shortcomings
But, I wonder
The Washington times., 1935-12-10
OLD FAVORITES

human FTUUCY -V HCEU" OOUPoI
Weak and irresolue is man;
The purpose of today,
Woven with pains into his plan,
Tomorrow rends away.
The bow we'll bent, and smart the spring
Vice already sain
But Passion rudely snaps the string,
And it revives again.
Some foe to his upright intent
Finds out his weaker part;
Virtue engages his assent
But Pleasure wins his heart
Bound a voyage of awful length
And dangers little known,
stranger to superior strength,
Man vainly trusts his
But alone neer prevail
To reach the distant coast;
The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,
Or all the toll is lost
(ReGders ivted to send to the editor their sugges
tons Of old fGVortes among the poems for repntig in
this spCee.)
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EXAMPLES

Are they honestly penitent. . or
JUST PICKING A SCAB!
Here, for example. are some eX-
tracts from such a writer. Actual
quotes, which you've probably
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The Greatest Show On Earth
Bu John Snure, T.

%ticularly in come
I:1J
Evening star., 1935-05-28
U. S. FINGERPRINT FILES
NOW TOTAL 100000
Bureau Of Investigation Lists
Miami Arrest-Service Il
Worldwide.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
ton today tucked fingerprint card No.
5000, 900 away in its enormous flles.
Director j. Edgar Hoover said the
5000 ,000th card was received from
police at Miami, Fla, after they ar
rested w. r. Churchill, who was iden-
titled here as a fugitive from the North
Carolina State Prison at Raleigh and
q suspect wanted for an express COM
pany robbery in New York City.
The fingerprint files, which occupy
two upper floors in the Justice Build
ing, started with 10000 records July
/, 1894. Hoover said the files now are
the largest collection Of current value
in the world"
Police departments in every city
and State in the United States and
many foreign countries are asked to
send fingerprints of all criminals. If
the prisoners are found to be wanted
elsewhere this information is relayed
by telegraph and telephone. The
service is without cost to cooperating
agencies.
Evening star., 1935-05-28
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.

and blend them into what you might
call 'comitalism, continued the
driver as he piloted the cab leisurely
around q wagon. 1T can't be done
I tell YOU. Now you newspaper fel-
lows"
For the love Of Mike-can 1t. Let,
get going"
ITS up to you to let the people
know what hybrid political expert
ment we're making"-etc, etc.
Well, they finally got to the FIRE
1t was out by then. The firemer
were winding up the hose and glarine
belligerently at the smoking shell Of
q former warehouse
1T would" commented the photog.
rapher, have made good picture q
couple Of hours ago"
NO SUCKER HERE.
CEvERAL years ago a farmer came
y in from the hinterlands with
$500 In his sock and the desire
to place 1t in Capital financial
institution. He deposited 1t, but, q
little suspicious Of the carryings-on Of
city folk. shadowed the bank for sew
eral days just to see what'they would
do with all the money.
BY coincidence 1t happened that on
the third day the bank president
bought q new car that set him back
just about $500.
The farmer spotted the shiny new
automobile and. very mad, rushed
into the bank and in a loud voice
informed the employees and all the
people within the block that they
were not putting a thing over on
me-"
POLITICAL WHIPPOORWILLS.
A SCRIBE who recently took to the
~ country for the summer testified
to this one
Out where he lives the whippoor-
wills call all night long AS he tosses
on his bed he hears their appealing
Evening star., 1935-05-28
,,r 7ur NEW WONDER BREAD COSTS YOU
''' No MORE Than ORDINARY loA'Es

-. for vour children IS: noun
ron from II The very heart Of the wheat
ssfi, sed energy. And even this special al
aour is tested three separate times
before we use it.
Then slo-baking-ourn nssa own
.,hod-makes Wonder Bread
even better for children; IA Actual o,al
,ahoratorv Io tests prove that slo-
naSsd wonder Bread is easier tor
G.I ,;s,1e stomachs to digest than fast
naked bread. Thus your children ch1a,
Ds@> ost all the good from Wonder
Bread, quickly and easily. -.
lust do this, please: serve ,'n' 'ns
new Wonder Bread for 80 days.
Itcosts M you nothing extra. See 10.
yourself what real 5eas 6enea,,s aroe.r r.
hr;oes your children. Your sroeel
p.s p,,"s Wonder Bread in the new ne,
.;r.,;ebt wrapper with the familia'
red, yellow and blue balloons
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Evening star., 1935-05-28
cry, repeated over and over again.
what Is e he hears them say?
"Quit re-liefi Quit relief! Quit
relief"
A RECORD.

A RECORD.
MO SENATOR of the United States,
nor any Representative, for that
matter, can likely claim as large
. jury verdict as that secured one
time by Senator Warren r. Austin,
Republican, of Vermont. A jury Of IL
good men and true from the Green
Mountain State gave this eloquent
barrister q verdict for $465, 900, just
short of half a million.
The case, in which Senator Austin
represented the plaintiff, the pretty
daughter of soap salesman, in an
alienation of affections suit, was
against her parents-in-law, wealthy
Vermont bankers.
Senator Austin was attorney for the
negotiators in China of loans to the
Chinese government for the construc-
ton of national railways and for re-
constructing the Grand Canal and
other projects. This was In 1861,
but his famous verdict for $465 900
was obtained from the Burlington
jury after the World War, about 1923.
Evening star., 1935-05-28
5000 TO GET BONUS
Standard Oil Of New jersey Rec
ognizes Living Cost Increase.

ELIZABETH, N. j., May 28 R.-
J. r. Carringer Of Elizabeth. assistant
general manager. announced yester-
day that q s per cent bonus will be
paid to 5000 employees in three refin-
cries of the Standard OIL Co. Of New
Jersey.
Carringer said the increased cost Of
living was the reason for the move.
The bonus will be paid June 3, and
will apply to all employees earning less
than $1,000 . year in the Bayonne,
Jersey City and Bayway refineries Of
the company.
Evening star., 1935-05-28

-rw FOODS are as vital to your
children as good bread: Ihisis
why we make the new @Un'io s',1sr in
Bread higher in energy i1l1e! ~
food value, and easier to oises'
than ordinary bread.
ri, best for your children be-
Cause il $ Baked for them! we say
taS' th;. without hesitation, as the re.
.m1. sn1, sveyears' painstaking work:
1Iss formulas were tested, then
57s, ,7s, mother. were consulted. a
new. new high st.ndard-e1clu.ive,,y
new n,,r ova-was set for every single
;"erediens Eur used in Wonder Bread:
x;,L !. essential in children's
nsa,. % for its muscle-giving pro-
..;n. and BODYBUILDING minerals
p.cnn,e we make this new Won. !.
~ Bread for your children II
os. -, coot.ins this extra goodness s:
% ~ f.r ereater quantity than ordi
nary breads. ea.,. fc
%. 80 choose from. We use onl
the one that makes Wonder bfea
Evening star., 1935-05-28
90 Nationalities Present.

Twenty rationslities were repre-
sented at q recent business and pro-
fessional women's banquet in Shang.
hal, China.
Evening star., 1935-05-28
Woman Mayor Is 80.

Dame Sarah Ann Lees, first woman
mayor Of Oldham. England. cele-
brated her ninety y-Second birthday by
giving 90 pairs Of clogs to poor chill
dren.
Evening star., 1935-05-28
CHARGED DOOR HANDLES.

~ ONT be overly surprised If.
some rainy morning, you get
shock when you open the
- door Of your new car.
49,: We learned about these
new-fangled car bodies the other day.
when We got energetic and tried to
open cab doors instead Of waiting for
the customary service. As our hand
touched the door handle. . tingling