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The Washington times., 1935-02-06

of the efficiency Of the naval
air force we now have, no con.
scientious Senator or Repre-.
sentative in Congress will pre-
tend again that building up
such a force is subsidizing in.
efficiency.
The time has come when Sen.
ators and Representatives in
Congress who are opposed to
building up the Navy to treaty
strength and the Army to the
strength authorized by the ma.
tional defense act should have
the honesty and the courage to
confess their position in this
regard, instead of trying to
shirk this responsibility by men.
daciously branding our naval
authorities who recommend
policy and the naval officers
and men who carry it out as
inefficient.
Upon the Congress devolves
the duty under the Constitu.
ton to provide for the national
defense. 4
Our national defense policy
has been established by the
Congress. Whether that policy
is to be carried out and the
national defense provided for
depends upon the Congress.
The Federal Aviation Com.
mission is the twentieth Fed.
eral agency which has investi.
gated aviation in the last IS
years.
The report of this commits.
sion and the report of the
Baker committee which pre-.
ceded it combine to bring up
to date the findings and rec.
concentrations made to Con.
gress in 1925 by the Morrow
Board, of which the late
Dwight w. Morrow was the
able examiner.
WORK COMPLETED
The recommendations of the
Morrow Board we're unanimous.
So are the findings and con.
clusions of the Federal Avia-
ton Commission, of which
Clark Howell, of Georgia, was
the able chairman.
Surely an intelligent Con-
gress, with all these facts,
findings and recommendations
before it must admit that the
work of investigation is COM
pleted and that the time for
legislative action is at hand.
Any Senator or Representa-.
tive in Congress who pretendS
now that the truth about
American aviation is yet to be
revealed is either unable to
recognize the truth when he
meets it or is merely indulg.
ing in a false pretense which
he thinks will fool the people.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington
TimesO
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Ny Trouble
BY Robert BenchIey

What is it, do you suppose,
when you throat closes up and
you stop breathing? Am I a
victim of an inferiority complex?
am a boy of IS, partly white,
and stand in my stocking feet.
I haven't had drink since Re-
peal, as I believe in the Constitu-
ton. Il did have something
made from potatoes. a white
liquid which my old Russian
nurse called vodka" but it
didn't seem to have any effect.
A-ha-ha-ha-ha-heeD
Now it turns out that, when
I lie down to go to sleep, my
throat closes up and I stop
breathing. This idiosyncrasy
brings me, like a flash, out Of
bed and onto my feet in the
middle Of the floor looking for
the electric light. (We have had
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; electric lights ever since they
were invented, although we are
thinking of going back to gas0
When I first noticed that I
wasn't breathing I paid no at
tention to it, thinking that it
was a Pigment of my imaginar
ton.
"Of course you're breathing"
I said to myself, gasping for
breath, "lOOk at your clothes
over the chair there! Those
aren't the clothes of a man who
isn't breathing"
This reassured me for a
while. I even got up and put on
my clothes and walked, very
fast, to the city line, taking
the trolley back. Then T began
to think:
"Who are you to say that you
are breathing when you're
nOt?"
I had no answer to this. I
had evidently got in over my
depth. When you can't answer
your own questions 1t is time to
stop. I took my case to the
psychoanalyst.
81 stop breathing when I lie
down." said, smiling. "What
is that?"
at is a form Of jumpiness,"
he said. "YOu stop breathing
when you lie down."
81 know that" / said. Il was
the one who told yOu."
"That's right, 1 guess you
were," said the psychOanalyst.
"All I want to know iS-what
is it," ] insisted. II am an
insisting cuss.)
"You have a phObia," he
said. "You are afraid Of stop
ping breathing when you lie
down."
"Well, I'll be a sOn-Of-a-gun."
I said. "YOu certainly have hit
the nail on the head. Just
watch mel"
So I lay down and stopped
breathing.
"see-what did I tell you?"
he said.
This sobered me for a min
ute. The psychoanalyst took
it in his stride.
"All that you need to dO,"
he said. is to breathe when
you lie down."
"You mean inhale and ex-
hale?" I asked.
"That's one way of putting
it," he said, smiling tOIerantly.
"I guess you're right at
that" I said. Gust inhale and
exhaIe."
"When you are lying down."
he added.
"Ah-there's the CATCH" I
replied, catching.
"You are just making things
more difficult for yourself" he
said. go home, and come
back tomorrow"
II not only won't come back
to you tomorrow" / said, "but
1 won't go home"
Articles by Robert BenchIey
appear each Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday.
, (eopyrieft, 1853 bV King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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left burning worked all right.
How did the gas companies
provide for this condition? Why
not adapt the same idea to sup.
plying electricity?
The small boy listened intent
ly, his eyes travelling from his
fathers face to that Of the older
man, as he followed every word.
Sure that electricity did not be-
have like gas in a pipe, he eager
ly looked to his father to solve
the problem.
The younger man sought to
explain the difference between
supplying electricity and supply
ing gas. The city gas mains, he
declared, were so large that they
constituted reservoirs of gas.
Turning off a few lights did not
make enough difference to be
noticeable.
The great gas receivers at the
gas works were additional reser-
voirs, and, moreover, they were
built to maintain a constant
pressure, no matter how much
or how little gas was used.
However, he went on, there
was no way to store electricity
in a reservoir, as gas was stored.
The "dynamo-electric" machine
must generate the exact demand
from moment to moment.
The need, therefore, was for
regulation He paused. His
dark eyes, unseeing, fastened
themselves upon those Of the
small boy.
GREAT IDEA
Then, humping the table,
and, with a new light flashing
across his face, he exclaimed:
"By jOve! I've got it! I
see how to build an automatic
regulator that will do the job"
A great idea had been born
eventually to make possible
the distribution of electric
ugnC ana power. 4C was an iii"
portant advance in civilization
that took place at that dinner
table in Brooklyn.
The older man was the late
Spencer D. Schuyler, after
ward president of the United
States Electric Lighting Com
pany.
The younger was the late Sir
Hiram Stevens Maxim, who be-
came chief engineer of the COM
pany. The awed and excited
small boy was the writer.
Articles by Hiram Percy
Maxim appear each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The
subject of the next one will
be Baseball Players Skill
Traced to Warfare"
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
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Listen, World
Bu Elsie Robinson

proof that Righteousness is a
bad bet. It's merely a mean
commentary on our way Of
taking it.
WORTH WHILE
There is actually no braver
or brighter adventure for any
enterprising person that good
ness.
Even if we have no other
life than this-even if there
be no future reward"-there's
pride enough in being honest,
there's warmth enough in be-
ing kind, there's thrill enough
in being brave. there's joy
enough in being clean, to make
goodness worth while for any.
one without a bonus.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-02-06
Airport Bill Hearings
They Go On and On

Another round of congressional hearings the local
port problem is about to start.
The hearings have been going on before committee
another for many years and out of them bales of
recommendations But of the recommendations has
translated into airport with the needs of the
National Capital
Maybe we'll have better luck this year because the country
is becoming and conscious of the necessity of de-
veloping aviation.
is not impossible that what the country realizes will
eventually reach the consciousness of Congress- And this
be the year.
The first congressional committee session airport will
be held to consider the Smith bill which would provide
construction Of airport at GraveIy Point
Several other bills dealing with the airport have been
trOduced and pending before different committees
who want ACTION the airport gather up all Of the
bills and make them part of the first hearing
Otherwise apt to have the District Committee
recommending airport bill while other committees urge
different measures. That would be fine program if we
DON want an airport but it won't help if want one
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over and the
lull is appar-
ent.
While clear
ing up some
re m a / n / n 6
corn and hog
C a S e s. t h e
AAA is devOt-
ing most of
its tim e to
the growers
of s u & a r
beetS.
The b e e t
growers, Incl
dentally, a r e
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w on d e r full
B re a k for
W h i c h I
should be &C
cor d1 n g y
gr a t e f u !.
Good People,
I was assured,
were the Salt
of the Earth.
M a y b e !!
But I couldn't
for the life
of me work
11r a Snitch
of admiration
for 'em. To
the contrary.
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mated by the supporters Of
that proposal.
When the election returns
came in assuring McGro1rty he
had been chosen to represent
his district By a large majority
he tUdS clearly surprised.
Already he has taken a verbal
drubbing on the Townsend
plan.
The question that now arises
Is whether he will change his
mind after a longer term in
Congress.
Activity at the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration has
almost ceased.
With the elections far in the
background the organization
headed By Chester C. Davis has
settled doWn to Dhat Gpprori.
mates inertia.
The rush to send thousands
of checks to voting farmers is
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N444s
Now, however, vinson has in
troduced his own bill which
differs from the Patman mea-
sure in that it presumably
would provide bonus payment
by bond issues rather than by
the Patman plan Of initiation.
VinsOn'S bill has the support
of the American Legion.
In Clevel1nd recently, tDhen
PntmGn Uoiced opposition to
the VinSon bill on the ground
that it UdS blocking the 1DGy
OF legislation providing for full
payment, VinSon retorted that
the allegation was ridiculous.
It was the first definite break
between the two men who pre-
viously stood together on the
bonus.
Representative John s. Nc
GrOarty, Democratic poet laure-
ate of California, has had his
fill Of Congress.
With his service in the House
scarcely exceeding month he
says:
81 don't want to come back
and won't come back"
He contends that he was
elected solely because he
favored the Townsend plan of
social security and was nom.
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Beds the Only Place
When You Catch the Flu

Do you ache, sneeze wheeze?
Feel if somebody had hit you in the back with an ak?
Temperature up? Energy down?
Afraid, like Mark Twain, you're going to die then
afraid you're not?
If climb into bed and call doctor. It's grippe or flu
There's lot Of it in circulation these days. and it's danger
gus to fool with.
It may that pneumonia is just around the corner
Rest is the Take it. Business wait
Or if you among the lucky who have escaped
up to now watch your diet wear your gaoshe and
cheat yourself out of plenty of Sleep
You don't HAVE to get it. You don't have to let it GET
YOU.
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not OVerJOyeu
at the attention being paid
them by the Agricultural Ad-
ministration, contending that
under quota restrictions they
have been forced to curtail &C
tivity to a greater extent than
they desire.
With the exception Of work
ing on the beet growers, how
ever, the AAA has become an
almost dormant organization.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-02-06

d sc u S sing
electric light
in 6. Th e
y ou n ger Of
the two men
declared that
the incandes-
cent lamp in
his laboratory
was practical
and satisfac-
tory. The diff
ficulty was in
getting tn e
electricity to
supply it.
T he older
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tive Wright
Patman (D.)
of Texas and
r e pr eSenta-
tive Fred M.
VinSOn (D.)
Of Kentucky.
Appro OK j.
mately tw o
y e a RS ago
Vinson filed
a m in or ity
report from
the Ways and
Means Com.
mittee favor.
ing the Pat
M On hnn11S
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Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Varied views on the bonus
appear to be breaking up the
old alliance between Representa-
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In the World of Science
'SElectrlcity Will Light Homes''
By Hiram Perch Maxim

In Brooklyn, 81 years ago,
two men and a small boy re-
mained around the dining table
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Why Be Good?

AS a child I was completely
surrounded by Good People.
This fact was supposed to be
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Articles by Hiram Percy
Maxim appear each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The
subject Of the next one will
be Baseball Players Skill
Traced to Warfare"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28
UNREST SWEEPS AUSTRIA, WARS DISASTROUS LOSER
 2l YEARS AFTER SERAJEVO

lotic Front" dangerous frlctions exist.
 Peace Seems Fragile
 Nor Is international peace es- tablished on a lasting basis in southwestern Europe.
 The Little Entente countries are suspiciously watching develop ments toward monarchist restor- ation in Austria, because they be- lieve a Hapsburg monarch in Vi- enna or Budapest would prove a specialization point for centrlfugal tendencies in their own countries.
 Hungary Is at loggerheads with It's neighbors. The symbolic Mem, Mem, soha!"-"No, No, Never!"-- meaning the Hungarians will never accept the boundaries stipulated by the Trianon treaty, is still seen in every Hungarian street car and train.
 Little Entente WatchfuI
 Hungary's three Little Entente neighbors are keeping ready to de- fend their war booty, at a mo- ments' notice.
 Similarly, Bulgaria has not yet become reconciled to the loss of the Mediterranean coastline and is, therefore, kept under close watch by Turkey and Greece.
 For such reasons 1t is still long way to real paciflcation in this part of the world, Premier Mussolini's Danubian pact, if 1t materializes, may mark stage on the road to true peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28
GREAT VALUE OF
 HIGHWAY LIGHTS
C0nnor's Advocacy of Road Lighting Shows
 Darkness Is Menace

Value of highway illumination us q means of cutting motor vehicle accidents, recently advocated by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Nil. chael A. Connor, Is strikingiy borne out in every survey taken to show the relation between darkness and accidents.
 Ono survey of this nature was taken by The Travellers, Insurance Company in ,46 American cities with. q total population of moro than 26,000,000. Figures were talk on for accidents during the hours from $500 to s:00 D. m. in four summer months and again in four fall and winter months. At those hours in the summer period there was daylight; in the winter period. darkness. There were 9,Ss2 sum. nter accidents and 2i,43S winter crashes, an increase of more than 10e percent. The thought occerred that this might bo duo to winter weather, but, contrary to popular opinion, only ten percent of win. tor accidents are duo to wet or Icy pavements. It is also pertinent that there are four cars on the road in tho summer to three in the winter.
 These facts were further proved by q. survey by tho New York State Motor Vehicle Bureau for full year, concerning pedestrian acci- dents on rural highways, which indicated three conditions caused accidents: traffic, weather and darknos. Darkness was found to have moro effect than either traf- fic or weather. Based direct on the New York State gasoline con- sumption, it was found that traffic Is 30 per cent less during the three winter months than during the three summer months. Noverthe. less, there were moro than twice as many fatal accidents Ut night during tho winter months. Tho day fatalities during the, winter showed' exactly the opposite trend. proving conclusiyely that the Night.time increase in deaths was Suo Sto inadequate highway Hum inatlon. It has been found that these figures hold for other states, including Connecticut.
 To none of all the nations in- volved has the war proved 50 dis- astrous as to Austria whose gov. ernment sent out the first fatal war declaration.
 In 1914 Francis Joscph's realm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28

comprised 2s1,2o5 square miles with population of about 51 mll. Hons.
 By the treaty of St. Germain after the war only 32,Sse square miles and. slightly more than 6,5o0,O00 population were left to the young Austrian republic.
 Hungary, at present kingdom without a king, lost 6s per cent, of her territory and 50 per cent of her population.
 Bulgaria Lost Coastlinc
 Bulgaria had to cede Thrace to Greeceand thereby lost its coast : line on the Mediterranean, while Serbia obtained part of Bull garia's northwestern territory.
 Tho new state of Czechoslovakia, with an area of 54,306 square miles and population of 15,000, O0O, was created from former Austro- Hungarian territory.
 Poland obtained 3O,s41 square miles from Austria.
 Of the provinces which formed the Austro. Hungarian monarchy, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Herze. govinia and large part of south ern Hungary joined Serbia, who subsequently took the name of Yugoslavia.
 Rumania's Area Doubled
 Rumania's territory was more than doubled, mostly at the ex. penso of Hungary. Present Ru. mania has 113,ss6 against 53,s44 square miles before the war.
 Econopnic problems, created by the dismem mberment of Austro. Hungary have not yet been solved
 These difficulties are particularly acute in Austria and Hungary, al. though both countries repeatedly received financial aid through the intermediary of the League of Nations.
 Political unrest continues to pre- vail largely because of unfavorable economic developments.
 Hungary underwent a short Communist regime to be followed by u period of "Whlte" terrorism. Attempts of tho ili.fated Emperor Charles to recover his Hungarian throne were frustrated.
 Crisis One Year Ago
 Austria suffered a number of bloody upheavals. The most seri. ous were the revolt of the Social. ists in February, 1884, and the Nazi putsch, tho following July, in which Chancellor Engelbert Doll. fuss lost his life.
 Although public order has been maintained since then, political conditions are still far from satis. factory. Despite drastic suppress sivo measures Of the government, subvcrsive activities still are being carried on by Rcd and Brown con. spirators. Even among the govern. mont's own supporters, the "Patri.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28

Austrian -ultimatum of July 24, Francis Joseph declared war against King Peter of Serbia on July s2s, 1914.
 Within the next few days Ger. many joined its Austrian ally. while Russia, France and Great Britain took sides with Serbia.
 The World war had started. into It's making subsequently moro than half of the worlds popula. ton was precipitated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28
Subversive Activities Add More Trou- bles in fe-Torn Country, First To Plunge Into Greatest Conflict
Ry Ia. C. M. HAHN
fUnIted press sum CorrcsDondeY

Vienna, June 2S-(UP) )--Twenty-one years ago tomor- the heir presumptve to the throne Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Princess Sofia HOhenberg were assassinated in Seraevo Bosnia then part of the dual, monarchy.
 The fatal shots fired by Serbian revolutonst Gavro Pcp naugurated the greatest tragedy of modern times
 AS Serbia held responsible by the Vennese government for Pcips dee did not accept all of the demands of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28

NWhen the firing ceased in the Washington war over President Tsoosevelt's dismissal of Ewing Y. Mitchell as assistant secretary of commerce, q South Carolina en. ginccr and American Legion leader emerged to preside over Mltchell's vacant office. Here is the new sec- rotary, John Monroe Johnson, snapped at his job just after hc had been sworn in as Mitchell's successor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-01
Big Promising Market

While congressman, lobbyists and inno- cent bystanders continue to wrangle over the way in which Congress was or was not persuaded to knock out the "death sentence" in the utility holding compan- ies bill, the rest of us are apt to overlook the fact that whether we use private or public capital we are going to have to build some new power generating plants in the near future Harold Ward outlines the potential power shortage in an article in a recent issue of the New Republic.
 He reports that federal power survey showed the following facts: Any re- sumption of normal economic activity would find our existing generating plant 100000 kilowatts short of adequate ca pacity |. . we would lack the power equiv alent to 50 large generating stations, each of which would require from two to seven years to put into operation. .. Further more, 6S per cent of existing plants are from 10 to 30 years old; an appalling de- gree of absolescence. The report estl- mates that 1887 power consumption will increase by about 20 per cent compared to 1929."
 It makes an odd picture, somehow - industry and government wrangling over the financial set-up of the power combine, while all the while an enormous untouched power market is awaiting exploitation. And it is more or less typical of the attl- tude we have adopted in regard to many other phases of our economic life. To hear the talk that has been going the rounds during the last two or three years one would suppose that the entire produc- tive machinery of the United States would have to be put on a leash for the next gen. eration. Cut farm production, slow down the mills, restrain the markets, don't let anyone produce any more than tomorrow's orders will take care of = that seems to be the sentiment
 And yet all the while the greatest mar ket in the worlds history lies all about us, fairly begging to be supplied! It Is, ot course, a great deal easier to talk about the existence of this market than it is to equip it with the necessary purchasing power. And yet there is nothing more certain than that full buying power will eventually return - and when 1t does, all of these restrictive devices we have been talking about will look like the left-overs of some bad dream. Our mental attitude right now is important. If we stop look ing back at the restricted markets of the last few years and look ahead to the oppor- tunities which await us, that "loss of con- fidence" about which people talk so much will disappear overnight.