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The Greatest Show On Earth
Ru John Snure, J.

of one are duplicated by the
other.
One definition of the Elec-
trio Home and Farm Author.
ity is that it wiH not make
direct loans. II, hoWeUer, pri-
Udte contract is made for the
purchase of equipment from
some contractor, the Govern
ment through the Electric
Home and Farm Authority, iDilI
buy the contract.
The Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration is authorized to
make direct loans for electrifi-
cation. These loans are usually
made to communities which
agree that Is per cent of the
fund will be used for labor.
In both instances the bor-
rover is responsible to the Gov
ernment.
Both agencies are part Of
the Administration attempt to
provide the country with elec-
tricity at reasonable costs.
In a recent speech, a New
York alderman said that in the
future Republican speakers
throughout the country would
be instructed to call the United
States a republic" rather than
a democracy"
In suggesting that political
mudIslinging was taking a new
turn, he advised that the new
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" VAC POo4VAoAAs
It contains an article by Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair entitled,
"The Valedictory of the Ad-
visory Board" which is said to
be a discussion of problems
Mrs. Blair and her colleagues
encountered in trying to make
this consumers unit a power
In NRA code-making."
In q discussion by Hamilton
termed "On the Judicial Front"
it giues aUhGt purportS to be
"the facts as to hot0 attorneys
90 about having a lGtD declared
unconstitutional, together Dtth
comment on the Shechter case
Dhich still Ie1veS the people IN
the dark as to hotD far Congress
can 90 in regulating industry"
OF the poultry case which
brought death to the NRA it is
said in this last article:
at looks utterly ridiculous
that the ultimate decision upon
the NRA should depend upon
what was said by a bench of
nine judges in a lawsuit over
some dead chickens"
And that is an official of the
supposedly dead NRA discussing
its warrant of death.
Two Raw Deal" agencies
having to do with identification
are the Rural Decentralization
Administration and the Electric
Home and Farm Authority.
Officials deny the functions
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Listen, World!

mate a mans sincerity, you
place yourself in his power.
remember the argument
that invariably arose when I
said I knew Huey Long.
What was he like?" my com.
panion would ask eagerly. II
mean really like, under all that
clowning."
But he wasn't clowning," I'd
answer. Hes perfectly sin
cere."
Sincere? Why, he can't be!
Lookit the things he's done
riding roughshod over the laws
grabbing the government for
himself"
What has that to do with
his sincerity?" I'd protest.
Whether you approve or not,
HE believes in what he is doing
and honestly means what he
says"
But this they would not ad-
NIT. He COULDN'T mean what
he said and did if it didn't
coincide with their conception
of morality. He was up to
something, that fellow. He had
his tongue in his cheek.
Which is, of course, the most
cockeyed reasoning. The simple
truth is-WE'RE ALL SIN
CERE. Save on rare occasions.
WE BELIEVE IN THE THING
WE'RE DOING AND ARE
HONESTLY SOLD ON OUR
OWN OPINION OR DEED.
1t may not be a wise opinion
nor a righteous deed. But the
one who holds that opinion or
commits that deed believes in
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By Elsie Robinson

it believes he has a right to
think or act that way.
And this is as true Of the
pickpocket as of the preacher
or philosopher. The foulest
murderer can be perfectly sim
cere, even while he's pounding
his victims skull to a jelly.
The most conscienceless little
parasite can be sincere, even
while she drives a man to des-
peration by her demands.
NEW POWER
Most of our human misery
and MISUNDERSTANDING are due
to our failure to recognize this
fact. Nothing angers and alien
ates a human being more than
refusal to admit his sincerity
:. and nothing wins his conf
dence and cooperation more
quickly than a belief in that
sincerity. Every great leader
has known that secret. No one
can get very far into the human
heart without realizing that
and acting accordingly.
Want to try an interesting
experiment? Then for just one
day try to believe in the other
fellow as you want him to be-
ieve in you. You need not ap.
prove of what he's doing
merely admit that he's sincere
in doing it-that he means
what he says, however IRA
tional it may seem to you.
You'll be amazed at the new
relationship it establishes for
you-the new power it gives
you.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Ine.l
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Machinery has ended human slavery.
It will lift labor out of the slavery of
poverty, long hours, low wages!

A small modern automobile runs on its rubber
shod wheels, 600 and even 1000 miles in day.
While the Ethiopian runs oyer thorns and
sharp stones in his bare feet a pitiful thirty
miles, the man in his machine sits behind his
wheel talks, laughs, admires the scenery, travels
his 600 to 1000 miles in day, at ease.
For modern men, demanding NEWS and
KNOWLEDGE upon which action is based, the
000-mie-per-day automobile is far too slow.
While the Ethiopian Emperor waits for his
weary messengers to come running at thirty
miles day, Mussolini sits in Rome with radio
telephone at his ear, talking to those in COM
mand of Italy's forces in Ethiopia, thousands
of miles away
The telephone deprives some hundreds of
messengers of their work, running with notes,
through the rain climbing stairs. For few
foot-messengers abolished by the machinery"
of telephone and telegraph 100000 are now
employed at lighter work, with shorter hours,
BETTER pay by the telephone company alone.
Cloths Of all kinds, calico for dresses cot
ton cloth, linen, were slowly spun, woven by
hand expensive When the spinning and cloth
making machines came in there arose loud
outcry from those that made cloth by hand
II was necessary to fortify the buildings in
which the new machinery installed; the
first machines were destroyed, their makers and
inventors denounced as enemies of the human
race.
Now, thanks to that machinery, the number of
textile workers is multiplied by ten, and more
with better pay, all cloth costs less. Machinery
did it.
So it has always been; sculptors and painters
of hieroglyphics, the picture writing, probably
despised and denounced the more simple methods
of writing based clay tablets.
The alphabet we use invented by Phoenicians,
of the Semitic race at the eastern end of the
Mediterranean, was probably considered destruc-
tive of all literary merit.
When the printed books came to replace books
written and illuminated laboriously by hand,
that was considered a calamity for fine book pro-
duction We know that it meant books and read
ing for everybody willing to read.
The late brilliant American William Dean
Howells, who had spent nearly half century
writing slowly with pen, was amazed, after
younger writer had advised him to use the type
writer to find that he could compose and write
more easily by machine than by hand. He had
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thought that the process of dipping his pen in
ink'' was necessary to thought.


INK was necessary to thought.
Improved machinery, calling for less human
labor per unit of production, means MORE EN-
PLOYMENT, because improved machinery means
lower cost and lOtOer cost means more buy1ng,
more production, more employment
Every year the automobile industry has in
creased the use Of machinery, diminishing man
power per unit of production. But every year
the number of workers actually employed making
automobiles has INCREASED.
Lack Of employment, and depression, come
from lack of people to BUY. 1t is not the ef-
ficiency of machinery, not the genius Of the
human mind that deprives men of work.
THE MACHINE is MANS GREATEST
EARTHLY BLESSING.
In years to come it will mean, for ALL leisure
and prosperity that be imagined only with
difficulty Henry Ford, who, thanks to ma
chinery, has been able to pay out of his own
pockets in wages SIX HUNDRED MILLION
DOLLARS MORE THAN WAS NECESSARY,
declares, 1--WE have seen no really good wages
yet, they are still to come"
Il has been said: "Ye shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free"
The truth is that the machine is destined to
set men free from the slavery of hard labor,
long hours, poverty and ignorance
One well-knOWn American eltlzen, JOnn u
Rockefeller, jr, visiting China observed in
certain city that the prosperous class lived in
hot weather on high, cool hill. railroad ran
up the hill and passengers moved swiftly up the
steep incline He saw Chinese men and Women
toiling on foot up the steep slope, carrying on
their back and on heads heavy loads of mortar,
cement bricks, all building materials, and mer-
chandise of all kinds.
When a British company obtained permission
to build railroad up the steep incline, the fran
chise was given condition that no freight
should be carried on that road.
Chinese workers, who did not want to be
deprived of employment, insisted that they must
enjoy their ancient privilege of carrying mortar
and bricks on their heads and backs up the steep
hill on foot And they doing it today.
We do not want that situation in the United
States. He who objects to improved machinery,
to any laborsaving device, is on a par with
those Chinese that demand the proud privilege
of carrying bricks uphill.
Labor saving machinery is and always will be
the great blessing of the human race and particu-
larly Of LABOR.
The problem is to appreciate it, understand it,
be grateful for it, and worthy Of it.
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Journeys

One European capital that
manages to get along very well
and attracts many visitors
without beating the civic drum
and indulging in expensive pub
licity campaigns is Brussels.
The Fourteenth century town
rampartS, contrasted with the
opulent boulevards Of today,
the lower city which includes
the business and shopping dis
trict and climbs up to the
high city which is extremely
smart and fashionable, create
q city that is both unique and
charming.
There is scarcely an archi-
tect in the world who hasn't
studied the magnificent guild
houses in the Grande Place,
which is one of the finest
medieval squares in Europe.
The guild houses, which date
from the Seventeenth century,
are among the most elaborately
decorated houses, in the world.
The exteriors are covered with
elaborate adornments, sculp-
lures, scrolls, symbols and
statues, and gliding is every
where on the facades.
The house of the boatman's
guild has a ship-like gable with
the stern, taff-rail and all. The
archer's house has a marvellous
bas-relief of Romulus and Re
mus and on the second story
are four exquisite statues,
while the house is surmounted
by a gilded phoenix. This
adornment was created by some
Of the worlds greatest artists.
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mean what we're doing. Maybe
its unwiSe, but we're honest
about it. Such tolerance. how
ever, is rarely extended to our
neighbor.
"He knows perfectly well
that he's wrong and we're right
He doesn't for a minute mean
what he's saying. He's Just
trying to slip something over
trying to fool people," Not for
an instant will we grant that
any act or opinion is sincere
which does not suit our own no
tions of what's right"
INTOLERANCE
This, of course, Is the lowest
form of stupidity and intoler.
snce. And we pay for it heav-
lily. For when you underesti.
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Marry-Go-
Round
By Helen ROUUland
Sneaking of Men

No man can see why he should
resist a temptation when he
knows that, like taxicabs, there
will always be another one along
in a few minutes.
It's love at high tide when you
can look into each others eyes
and feel that nothing which has
happened before seems worth
while and that nothing that
follows will matter much.
The first sign that a man is
growing middle-aged is when he
finds himself signing with relief
instead of with regret when a
girl breaks a date and gives him
chance to catch up on his
reading and his beauty sleep.
Why do people look so sur
prised when a rich man in his
fifties marries a girl half his
age? Isn't he getting just about
the best little wife that money
can buy?
Menelaus lost his temper
when Paris eloped with Helen;
when he went after her he lost
a lot Of time and sleep, and
when he got her back he prob
ably lost his interest. Which is
the history of most love-tri-
angles.
The man who lies to a woman
is an angel of mercy compared
to the one who insists on telling
her the honest truth about her
self when she has just come
back from the beauty parlor.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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TN these days ignorance denounces labor
l. saving machinery and the genius that creates
it. In more enlightened days to come intelligence
will thank Providence for machines destined
to give to the human race leisure abundant and
HAPPINESS
Ignorance has always denounced the latest
machine, the new device to free human beings
from slavery. Consider some facts in the his
tory of machinery and mankind.
In ancient Greece one of the greatest philOso-
pliers said, and it was the TRUTH at that time,
that slaves were absolutely necessary for with
out them there would be no leisure, no oppor-
tunity for men of intelligence to develop knowl-
edge.
1t was necessary to have slaves in order that
others should have freedom for the intellectual
work needed by the human
Human slavery WAS necessary, because it
made possible the thinking and the discoveries
of the few really great men, and therefore,
originally, it blessing.
WHEN MACHINES CAME, SLAVERY
GRADUALLY FADED AWAY. You find traces
of it still in certain barbarous countries, in
Ethiopia and other savage regions, and even
there it is attacked by more civilized neighbors.
Slaves were necessary because POWER was
necessary, and power came from tired muscles,
aching backs of laboring men. 1t could not
then be imagined that power would one day be
found in the expansive force of steam, and in
the force of electricity.
With aching muscles the slaves of Egypt
pulled and lifted into place huge stones of
which the monuments were made. Today
mechanic sits at his ease, moving light levers
or pushing buttons, lifts the greatest weight
with long arms of steel, digs bitches and canals
with steel buckets trimmed with steel teeth.
The flying needle of the electric sewing
chine does the work of the ancient, slow needle
and thread.
When the locomotive came, there was loud
complaint because hundreds of stage coach
drivers would be put out of work" Some
put out of work temporarily, but hundreds of
thousands of railroad workers, numerous,
better paid than stage-coach workers ever were
paid, took the place of few coach drivers.
Dispatches from Ethiopia tell you that power
full runners, bringing news to the Ethiopian
Emperor, from the front, are able to run in
their bare feet much as thirty miles In day.
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Wise Words

Man is the only animal that
laughs and weeps; for he is the
only animal that is struck with
the difference between what
things are. and what they ought
to be.-William Hazlitt.
For one word a man Is often
deemed to be wise. and for one
word he is often deemed to be
foolish. We should be careful
indeed what we say.-Confu-
cius.
Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be lived
forwards.-Soren Kierkegaard.
Most men employ the earlier
part of life to make the other
part miSerable.-La Bruyere.
We live, not as we wish, but
as we can.-Menander.
The public is an old woman.
Let her maunder and humble.
Thomas Carlyle.
We are not satisfied to be
right, unless we can prove others
to be wrong.-William HazlttS.
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as a democracy" because "the
latter reference caused submer-
gence of the Republican party"
Chairman Fletcher denies
knowledge of any such plan.
He thinks the New York
alderman was confused.
He said:
HE must have confused my
thought that the United States
should be a republic and not
a monarchy"
Copyright. 1885. The Washington Times)
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plan had the
f a or of
H e n r Y P.
Fletcher, Re
publican ma
tional CO M
mittee chair
man.
F ur t h er,
the alderman
S al d, tn e
plan was to
h a v e speak
erS refer to
the U n j t e d
States as a
"r e p u b Ii CO
roHha~ than
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Feathers of the Blue Eagle
may have been clipped but
apparently the Consumers Di-
vision of the NRA is doubtful
about the fact.
Although the NRA is sup
posed to be dead, the Consum-
ers' Division has begun publica-
tion of a document entitled,
''The Consumer" Number one
of volume one has just been
distributed
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thing wit h
W h ich W e
don't agree.
s t r aightway
we conclude
that he's not
only a fool
a n d rascal
but a hypo-
critic as well.
If we, our.
selves, hap
pen to hold a
contrary opin-
on, that's
d iff re MT!
For we're sin
- % ~
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Issued by
the ConSum-
ers' Division,
the magazine
is paid for
with un d S
from what is
considered a
d e t u n C t
agency.
1t lis t S
w al on H.
Hamilton, di-
rector of the
ConSu m e s.
Division, in
the response
IL AnsAsnn
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Believe in His Sincerity!

How viciously unfair we NOR.
tails are to the Other Fellow
when he does or says some
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The public is an old woman.
Let her maunder and humble.
Thomas CARLYLE.
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We live, not as we wish, but
as we can.-Menander.
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Most men employ the earlier
part of life to make the other
part miSerable.-La Bruyere.
The Washington times., 1935-08-27
BeIasco Opens
Saturday

On Saturday Of this week, when
the BelaSco takes its place again
as one Of Washington's leading
showshops, its first program will
feature Give Brook, distinguished
actor, and Madeleine Carroll, beau
tiful English actress, in a his
torical romance Of iron hands and
human hearts, "The Loves of a
Dictator"
The story seems rather timely
in this stage in history's game
with dictators stalking behind
every newspaper column. The
film story concerns the rapid rise
to power of one Hamburg phySi-
clan, and then the beautiful
queen enters the picture to COM
plicate matters, and that with a
headlong and impetuouS dash.
Denmark Of the Seventeenth cen
tury is the mise en- scene
Supporting Give Brook and
Madeleine Carroll in the stellar
roles are Emlyn Williams, Helen
Haye, and Alfred Drayton. Loves
of q Dictator" is the first British
production on the new fall sched-
ule of the Belasco. 1t will go on
the screen of the modernized
Belasco Saturday at 1880 a. m.
and will be shown in continuous
performance thereafter.
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Savoy Theater Is
Beind Redecorated

Warner Bros. Savoy Theater,
5000 Fourteenth st. N. w., Is
now undergoing extensive redec'
Grating. The lobby is being dec
Grated with walnut and spruce.
the entire interior painted and
covered with damask and mod
ernistic lighting is being installed
in the lobby and auditorium.
A new carpet in the lobby and
a new stage curtain are other
parts of the improvement. When
the painting and redecorating
are completed. they will include
a series of improvements which
began with the installation OF
new seats and new sound and
projection equipment.
Manager James Root expects
the completion of these plans to
afford his patrons added pleas
ure and comfort.
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NJ OWE
A'ACLOCK -

EARLE-Sir Guy Standing,
Rosalind Keith, in Annapolis
Farewell" 11:00 a. m, 1880,
AIS, 7:O5, GAS p. m.
Stage-12:45. $50, $40, 800
p. m.
FOX-Maureen O'Sullivan, Joel
McCrea, in woman Wanted"
11:00 a. M, 1885. AIS, 7:1O,
stageI12:25, $40, sos. $50
p. m.
PALACE-Clark Gable. Jean
Harlow, wallace Beery in
China Seas" II a. M, los,
3:15, 5:25. 7:35. GAS p. m.
METROPOLITAN-1da Lupina,
Kent Taylor in Smart Cir" "
IL a. M. 12:45, 2:25, 4:2O,
6:10, 8, 9:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA-James Dunn, Ar
line Judge in welcome
Home" 1910, 2:05. 4. 5:55,
7:5O, GAS p. m.
HOWARD-Warren Williams in
Don't Bet On Blondes, "
1890, 2:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10 p.
m. Stage-Louis Armstrong
and his orchestra, lao, $50,
$50, 9 p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S-Katharine Hep
burn. Fred MacMurray in
"Alice Adams" II a. M, 1:O7.
3:14, 5:21, 1928, 9:35 p. m.
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Bill Hoyle's journey back stage
produce these nuggets:
That aggregation of Southern
Methodist University men making
melody at the Earle this week
under the name of "The Mus
tangs," have never appeared here
before. However, they came close
to town four years ago when they
marched around the Annapolis
gridiron, lending moral support to
their eleven, who had journeyed
from the Dallas campus to tackle
the MILDLY pigskin toters.
All of the band are S. M. U.
lads and, with the exception of
the 10 spring graduates, will be
back this fall for the opening class
bell, and, incidentally, are booked
solid until that time.
The only exception to the uni
versity roll call in this act is Kay
Picture, the tap-dancing miss, who
appeared here seven months ago
with George Jessel, and for the
past four months has had a fea-
tured spot at Ben Marden's Rivi-
era Club. She was called Thurs
day night in New York to open
with this act Friday and, by a
strange coincidence, is from Dal-
las, the home town of the uni
verSity.
Some of the highlights on "The
Mustangs: Bob Goodrich is now
a graduate of several years, but
has been leader since a freshman
IA Washington boy. ROLAND
Storey, is the comic trumpet. e.
The three goods are Just that and
have never appeared profession
ally until this summer. Tom Min
nard, the clever magi, who pro.
duces eggs wholesale, has made
his way through three years of
college by doing local entertaining
around Dallas Buster Rayborn.
vocal soloiSt. in the university's S
star center and one Of the best
pigSkin twirlerS in the Southwees.
He leaves after next weeks run in
Baltimore for fall practice.
A spotlight turned on the Major
Bowes amateur hour at the Fox:
The Stauffer Twins, singing and
dancing sisters, spent a childhood
under the big top. Their father
and mother were boomerang toss
ers with Barnum and Bailey. {.
Sol StrauSer, polish CaruSo. began
studying voice at three and at the
age of seven was composing Z.
The Gold Medal sax trio met when
the three were all taking lessons
from the famous Saxophonist,
Clyde Doerr, and first won &C.
claim when they grabbed the
prize at q musical festival given
by the N. Y. Journal at the Polo
Grounds, with 400 sax tooterS com
peting Albert Hall, the human
piccolo, was born in England.
later became a Canadian cowboy,
and finally trumpet player with
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the Army and Navy Band. The
original one-man band never di-
vulges his identity and goes so far
as to sign the hotel register as
Major Bowes' Original One-Man
Band" This much is known, how
ever, that as a boy he delivered
shoes from his dads shop to IA
nous stage stars of couple dec
AIDES ago. Joe Becker, the boiler
maker lark, has railroad passes to
almost any section to prove that
truly this was his former trade
Marjorie Dare, Songstress.
studied dancing and looked for
this as a career more than her
voice. Paul Regan, CCC camp
lad, decided to become a mimic
when he did a takeoff on Edward
G. Robinson in Little Caesar
and his friends liked it. . And
Major Bowes himself started in
the business world hand lettering,
in a fine and careful Spencerian
style, calling cards.