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The Washington times., 1935-03-27
Ken Murray
Says:

"Them's harsh words that
Herbert Hoover sent the Califor.
mia Republicans when he called
on the G.. o. p. to save the ma
tiOn. Funny, and we thought
Roosevelt was elected to save
the nation from the G. o. p.
When Herbert was elected In
1928, he was predicting "twO
chickens for every pOt"... BY
the time his term was over, we
didn't even have a pot.
For a while, it looked like the
Republicans were through with
Hoover, but apparently they
couldn't forget his war record
:. You know, right now, those
Republicans are a lot more hun
CRY than the BeIgians ever were.
so REMEMBER
If the public'S response to Mr..
Hoover is anything like it was in
1892, the answer will be, 'NO!
No! A million times, MOI"
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eOfFishernanHard
But Grand One

Down on the wharves today
fishing boats loaded with deli.
cacies for the Lenten season slip
ped lazily into their moorings.
Warm sunshine tempered the
chilly winds, and hardy river cap
tainS doffed their coats while un.
loading bushels of oysters and
clans.
Colored helpers in dirty white
aprons and smelling of fish trans.
ported heavy barrels of shad to
the wholesale markets.
Spring Is In Air
Husky fishermen, their weather.
beaten faces scanned from the sun
and wind, puffed on their pipes
and discussed the fishing indus.
try. Spring was in the air and
nobody was in a hurry to get to
work.
Capt. Frank Lewis, whose boat
the MARY Ann" moved gently up
and down with the tide, said he
had been selling oysters on the
waterfront for 40 years. Some
times, he admitted, it was a hard
life. "but I git along"
Yesterday, the captain said, he
sold $1.50 worth of shucked oys-
ters. And he paid Uncle Sam So
wharfage" charge, for the first
three days a boat stays on the
waterfront it costs 81 a day, after
that it is So.
Most of the fish and oysters are
caught 80 miles down the Po-
-tomac below Maryland point. A
tax of cents is levied on each
bushel taken out of the State. A
fisherman's license costs SIS a year.
The upkeep of a boat, even if you
do the work yourself, amounts to
about $50, so, unless the season is
The Washington times., 1935-03-27
BILL ASKS CURB
ON D. c. SMOKE
NUISANCE
Commissioners Propose New
Board to Supervise
Furnace Installations

Smoke nuisance created by pri
vate residences and railroads
would be brought under the juris'
diction of the District government
under a smoke regulation bill sub
mitted to Congress by. the Com
missioners today.
Under present regulations, ad
ministered by the District health
office, the local government has
no power to curb emission OF
dense smoke from homes and
from railroad engines.
New Board Proposed
The new bill would create a
division of smoke regulation and
boiler inspection in the District
Engineer Department. It asks
an adequate staff, headed by a
boiler and smoke Inspector.
An advisory board consisting
of five members appointed by the
Commissioners for a three-year
term would aid the inspector.
Installation of furnaces in
homes would be supervised by
the inspectors office and Ger
tificate of use would be required
before the furnaces could be
operated.
Appeals Provided
In the event that a certificate
is denied, the bill provides that
an appeal can be made to the
advisory board on deposit Of a
$25 guarantee to cover the fees
of the board. If the appeal is
upheld the money is to be re
turned.
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CURLEY CLUB PARTY

A card party for the benefit Of
the scholarship fund of the Cur
ley Club will be held in the base
ment of the Church of the Sacred
Heart, Park Rd. and Sixteenth ST..
N. w., Monday evening. Five door
prizes and many other valuable
gifts will be awarded,
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unusually good, a fisherman's life
is a hard one.
The spring season has just be-
gun and shad are at their best, one
bronzed old fisherman stated. In
two weeks the nets will be out in
the Chesapeake, CLAIMS will be
plentiful and oysters will be about
through.
May is the grabbing season and
business picks up, with weekend
parties helping to swell the family
Golfers. 1t has it's ups and downs,
the fishing industry, but, as one
old salt remarked:
"'TiS a grand life for man."
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G. W. u. Is Razing
Ancient Buildings

Demolition of two 100-year-old
buildings preparatory to erection
of a new one for the biology de-
partment has begun at George
Washington University. Taking
the place of 20z5-27 G Street,
the new building, to be built
shortly, is expected to cost about
100000. Razing operatio ms
should take about ten days,
estimated Charles Merry, assist
ant to the comptroller.
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SELF HELP MEETING

An entertainment by the Self
Help Cooperative Group Of South
east will be held tonight at 1880
o'clock in the Hine Junior High
School, Seventh and c Streets
Southeast. The public is invited
A free will silver offering will be
accepted.
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GIBSON PUSHES
OWN BILL IN
SENATE
House D. C. Committee Votes
To Hold Further Hearings
On Field Location

Investigation of the interests
back of the fight over the selec-
ton of site for an airport for
Washington was promised today
by Senator Gibson (R) of Yer
mont, as the House District Com
mittee received a report from its
subcommittee further delaying
the nine-year-old project.
Senator Gibson has before the
Senate District Committee a COM
panion bill to the one introduced
in the House by Representative
Smith of Virginia picking
Gravelly Point as the site. Asked
as to what his action would be in
view of the squabble started on
the other side of the Capitol, he
said:
"I'm going to push my bill
and I'm going to ask for an
investigation into the private
interests behind all this talk. I
have pretty good idea of who
is behind the drive for these diff.
ferent sites but 1 don't want to
make that public just now.
TO ACT NEXT WEEK
'WashingtOn needs a national
airport, the best airport in the
country. am going to see
that the city gets it. I don't
care where they put it just 50
they put in the best place.
81 am going to confer with
Senator Byrd (D), Virginia,
about arranging for hearings
on my bill, and I'm going to
see Senator King today about
the investigation into this
matter"
AS an afterthought the Sena.
tor paused and then said:
"I'M go and confer with Sena-
tor King right now"
He went on the Senate floor
and returned shortly, saying:
81 talked with Senator King
chairman of the Senate Dis
trict Com m i tee) and he
thought we ought to wait until
] come back from my trip home.
/ haven't been home since No.
vember. I will be back the lat
ter part of next week and then
will take the matter up."
Hearings Continued
Protests made by Representa-
tive Howard w. Smith OD of
Virginia, today to the House Dis
trict Committee that the report
of the Airport site subcommittee
virtually eliminated the Gravelly
Point location from consideration
caused the committee to vote
further hearings on the question.
The committee agreed to have
the record of the hearings before
the subcommittee printed and
voted that after that is done a
date will be set for a FULL COM
mittee hearing at which time
all who desired may be heard.
Holds Report Unfair
Representative Smith argued
that since the hearing record had
not been printed, it was impos"
sible for those not members Of
the subcommittee to determine
whether the conclusions of fact
in the report are justifiable.
He explained that he takes
grave issue with the conclusions
of fact" adding that the report is
unfair" to Gravelly Point. He
contended:
"This controversy over an
airport site has been going on
for some 10 years and during
that time two sites have been
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Maryland Passes
Relief Fund Bill

ANNAPOLIS, March q (Spe-
ciaD A bill setting up a vet
erans' relief fund of $4,000 a
year for Maryland veterans has
been passed by the State senate.
Provision has already been made
in the biennial budget for the
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FOR WRITERS

Writers will be given the
chance to learn how they write,
and maybe why, by means of a
chart that will illustrate lecture
in Esperanto on literary style at
the Thompson School by Hugh
Shatford, former editor of the
American Esperantist Bulletin at
I8 D, m. tomorrow.
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PLAN CREDIT UNION

Employees of the Adjutant Gen
erals office who are organized as
Lodge No. 2, American Federation
of Government Employees, will
meet tonight in the Hamilton
Hotel to discuss organization of
a credit union.
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CLUB TO ENTERTAIN

A ''ladies' night" banquet and
entertainment will be held in
Barker Hall of the Y. W. C. A.
this evening by the Five Points
Club of the Interstate Commerce
Commission,
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Has Gone Forever

We still haven't answered that
question. But Of one thing we
may be Sure-the old.fashioned
home has passed forever. We can
no more bring it back than we can
bring back the stagecoach era.
Neither threats nor sermons nor
fearful pleas will restore 1t. And
we'd yell our heads off If they
could.
For the good old days" were
never so good or so clean or kind
or fair as they were cracked up
to be. am so, living in a chaotic
world that is infinitely more COM
plicated and dangerous than the
one in which I was born. But I'd
rather have one modern day, with
its risks and challenges, than a
lifetime Of that sentimental stag
nation to which women were
doomed in 1903. And when I hear
my gray haired contemporaries
bleating about the dear dead
past and telling the youngsters
what q paradise 1t was, I have
but one answer: "Aw, phooey!"
Moreover, the brides Of 1903 Sus'
pected that that was the answer
even then. Often read scholarly
treatiseS on the Dawn Of the
Modern Era" and grin to myself
To hear the wise boys tell it, you'd
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There Were Many
Prohibitions

Nor did these prohibitions cease
with the Sabbath. Dancing, every
where, was considered CLANCY, If
not openly tabooed. Theaters?
Border line. Movies, when they
first came flickering in, might
not be actually wicked but they
were certainly doubtful.
God was no Play Boy, then,
anywhere in America. But in
most places you could manage to
enjoy life in spite Of that. In New
England, however, there were no
let-ups. God was everywhere. And
everything was a sin.
should have known! I myself
was, and am, q church member
"a Protestant. Moreover, I had
already endured a preliminary
bout with this dour New England
deity at Evangelist Dwight L..
Moody's Spiritual Seminary for
Young Women in Northfield, Mas
sachuSetts. But that, I thought,
was something they put over on
you because you were young.
crown people surely didn't
believe in such an old Boogie
Man, much less devote their lives
to Him.
So had reasoned, surveyed the
sick nightmare Of Puritianism
with amazed western eyes. But I
had reasoned wrong. Here was o
grownup world and it most en-
phatically worshiped that bully
ing old blighter.
But why should twentieth-cen-
tury Yankees have wished to re-
tain such an ogre? The reason
Is plain enough. The PuritaniSm
into which married was a re-
ligion Of weaklings. New England,
in the nineteenth century, had
been drained Of its strong, gay,
courageous spirits by the call OF
the frontier. The timid and the
conservative were left, consumed
with inner humiliation. BY some
means that humiliation must be
balanced; they must assert them
selves. And they found q way.
Those who had not the courage
to risk Joy Of adventure could
nevertheless achieve q sense Of
power by condemning others who
did take that risk-or cruelty
furnishing them when they did.
And they could put up an impreg.
nable defense against all criticism
by taking God into their racket.
] What can you do against Q
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Marriage Was a
Bewildering Affair

Marriage in Puritan New Eng
land in 1903-What did it mean?
Better consider, first, what mar"
riage meant anywhere in the
United States in 1903. First Of
all, it meant confusion. American
marriage at the turn Of the CEN
tury was, everywhere, a bewilder'
ing affair. Those Gibson Girls
were not merely an intriguing
mode, they were the symbol Of
changing world. And that
world, in it's changing, gave
women a cruel beating.
Antediluvian as the Gibson Girl
seems today, she was a breath
taking phenomenon in her time.
Hers was the first generation Of
American women who had expe-
rienced coeducation, who had
dareo to think of going to
work." or, even more outrageous,
of remaining bachelor girls:
who had used slang, played bas-
ketball in boomers, ridden a
bicycle built for two. Her man.
nish collar, her uptilted nose, the
very length of her stride were
tinged with the virus Of that
new woman" movement which
was turning decent society topSy'
turvy.
Fashion was still lacing the
Gibson Girl into corSets, covering
every available inch Of her flesh
with flounceS and bows, but her
spirit was coming uncovered and
no power on earth could keep
her inside the old seams.
So there we were, we brides
of the turning century, all
dressed up, but where did we go
from there?
CHAPTER VII
A tiny cottage at No. 13 Myrtle
st. was where I went. It had 9
peaked roof with wooden icicleS
hanging from the edge. There
were seven diminutive rooms,
with a small brick fireplace in
one Of them. The woodwork
was old, held together with layer
upon layer Of paint.
Nothing was new. Nothing
went with anything else. had
married into q wealthy family
but that made no difference
Young Married Folks started aS
Young Married Folks had always
started with hand me downs
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H00 LOST 4 nG1p
Place in the Sun

And at first it was all fun, be.
ing new. But presently every stab
of the needle, every whirl Of the
mixing spoon, Shrieked the ques.
ton: whats the use? why spend
ones youth like this, doing things
that can be done so much better
by machine?"
And since couldn't answer the
question, I did the next best thing.
Hurled the hemming out Of the
window; kicked the damn mixing
bowl across the floor.
Marriage in Brattleboro, VT, In
1903-that was how it went. And
in varying degrees that was how
marriage was going everywhere
For something had gone out Of
marriage. Something had been
taken away from women-theiI
place in the sun.
It matters little how you attain
your place in the sun-whetheI
you reach it with an X-ray diScov
cry or with an unbeatable record
for homemade bread-so long as
you reach 1t. But when the cor.
ner bakery makes your breadmak'
ing seem gaga, and custom still
chains you to the mixing bowl,
what then? Then something hap.
pens!
It happens with the greater We.
hemence If you realize that some
where, everywhere. the world has
showed along and left you and
your bread board to molder with
the dodo. For even the dullest
and most isolated Of housewives
were forced to realize, in those
racing years, that the world was
indeed showing along. She might
still be only "MiSsis" Brown to her
husband and the rest Of the com.
munity-but just across the hori'
zon women were becoming people
So what?
Old.FGsIiOned Home
Has Gone ForeUep
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All your relations brought some
old thing they didn't want them
selves. You were supposed to be
grateful and invite them regu-
larly to Sunday dinners there
after.
I wasn't grateful. I didn't in
vite them to Sunday dinner. I
thought they had their nerve,
and told them so. Then I kicked
most of their junk out the back
door and went off and had a
good cry. After which I had q
swell idea.
I went into a basement and
found some ancient wallpaper.
It was thick as felt, oyster. white
with small punches of gold cher
ries, real golf leaf applied by
hand. There were only scraps.
I papered the front room where
the fireplace was with those
scraps, hung unbleached muslin
at the windows, painted some of
the Oldest chairs black, filled a
blue mixing bowl with marigoldS,
lighted the fire, spread rag rug
before it-and then sat down
and wondered what in the devil
I was going to do next!
What Was There
For a Young Bride?
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For a Young Bride?

For what could we do next, we
first brides Of the Twentieth
Century? Keep house as our
mothers had done, and be con-
tent with that? It wasn't pos
sible. Life had already spoiled
us for that. Life had put ideas
into our heads, questions on our
tongues, q most unladylike wal
lop in our fists. We were quite
willing to be housekeepers, wives
and mothers-but then what?
Society? One only read about
it in the Sunday supplements.
Careers? We didn't even know
what they were. We had no
place in the industries or profeS.
sionS. Politics? Few Of us real
lied what 1t was all about. Some
where certain women were
making a great fuss about suf-
frage. But most of didn't care
hoot whether we ever voted or
not.
Yet we had to have something
something with meaning in it;
something that would give our
lives the sense Of Importance
which our mothers and grand
mothers lives had had, but
which ours lacked.
For there was the crux OF it all
"a fact which is often overlooked
by male sociologiStS. We pioneer
wives Of the "emancipated" Twen.
tieth Centrury weren't merely
restless creatures trying to escape
"woman'S sphere" The truth was,
woman'S sphere had been knocked
into q cooked hat-and not by
women!
Mans greedineSs, for more than
woman's reStleSSneSs, put the Skids
under the Old-faShioned Home.
Men had discovered machines,
and the profit in machines. Forth.
with, they had but one desire: to
turn all possible handwork into
machine work. Since time imme.
mortal women had spent their
lives doing handwork. Their per.
Sonal pride and zest arose from it;
their place in society was assured
by 1t; the home was based upon
it.
Women weren't just housewives
in 1903. They were creators, ar
lists, captains Of induStry-with
society depending on their output.
But in 1908, with machines begin,
ming to do practically all the
houSework, just how did a wife
rate? What, then, did q woman's
work mean to herself or to her
world?
My mother, coming as o pioneer
to q frontier town that had nc
stores, made her own soap; felt
that Soap-making, under such con
ditionS, was no mean achievement
But now in Brattleboro, though
there were stores and tons Of
available soap, I Still made mine
because New England wiveS-anc
most American wiveS-werO still
doing things like that.
ArduouSly, rebeIliously, task BY
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An Amazing Chapter
In Human History

But we were to have no mar.
ried moments alone. Nor were
we ever to know marriage in any
true sense, though we became
husband and wife and had a child.
And the story of why our marriage
failed is not only his story and
mine but an amazing chapter in
human history. But I didn't see
that I was living history, then.
I saw only that which every
youngster Of nineteen sees-My-
self and what was happening to
me.
Marriage was happening. Or
was it? Was this marriage? I
honestly didn't know. OF the
sort Of relationship that might
exist beneath the mask of con-
ventional behavior, the possible
ecStacies which might compen-
safe for the boredom of house
keeping, I had no idea. Nice
Girls didn't-in 1908. And their
world did little to enlighten them.
One saw Married People smiling,
calling each other Mister and
"MiSsis." But there was always
a mystery about the whole af.
fair. They never took each other
careleSsly, casually, before others.
Did they when people weren't
there. Did they ever, really, be-
come one? Or were they al
ways Mister and MissiS Brown?
I didn't know! I didn't know
whether those reluctant touches,
those guarded remarks, the long
Silences, the longer abAences,
were marriage, or a crouch, or
just Vermont. Maybe if I asked
him-but I didn't know what to
ask. Maybe If I did something,
for perhaps ! seemed as strange
to him as he did to me.
Now, with a laugh that has
never quite rid itself of tears,
I know, did! OF what a real
relationship between a man and
woman might be, he was as
ignorant as I. He had been mar.
ried before. But Death had
stood with them at the altar, and
the beautiful girl who bore his
name became q memory before
she was ever a wife. Four years
Of loneliness had followed. Then
Life had heaved him into matri.
mony. But-the heaving hadn't
taken!
However. perhaps things would
improve after we were better &C
quainted. In the meantime,
was q Married Woman. And
had settled down to houSekeep'
ing in q trim little house on a
prim little street with a grim
little man who didn't seem strong
for kissing but was keen on Sav.
ing My Soul. Concerning which
We'll have plenty later. But be
fore we get to that, consider
Brattleboro.
She Stayed There
Ten Paralyzing Years
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gray slate roofs and white col
onial doors dimmed by the
shadows of the arching elms
which tunneled the still streets.
Shining windows, behind which
the immaculate curtains never
stirred. Swept walks, along which
no one ever seemed to pass. In"
violate lawns, with never a va
grant weed. Over it all, the de-
corous drone of lawn mowers,
the smell of moth balls, picking
spice and fresh paint, each
according to it's Season-and,
twice a week, the seemly clamor
of the bells.
This-after Benicia! Oh, dear
lost gypsy tangles of my Western
home! Brattleboro - tight and
tidy tomb-how you got my goat,
and how I got yours! Yet I for
give you everything when I re-
member the loveliness Of your
fields and woods.
Your sweet, small meadows
afoam with Queen Anne'S lace, "
threaded with the lilt of hidden
waters, spangled with butterflies,
or, in the hot, dark fabric of the
night, apulse with fireflies. And
your dark woods-so still--the
last light falling in russet shafts
between tall trunks Of pine, and
somewhere, far off, a vesper
thrush sounding its twilight
chime.
How the tears sting-even yet!
All, we'll, it's over now. Would
I act differently If ! had it to
do over again? How can I tell?
How can anyone tell? Do we,
in ourselves, ever do anything
Or does life do things through
us? Who knows? Whatever the
answer-there I was. And there
I stayed for 10 passionate para
ly7ed years. And I learned about
living from that!
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Healthy Impulse
Need Outlet

The wickedneSs and waste Of 1t!
I wanted loving. Life and I
wanted loving. Not the more ges-
lures Of sex, but all that loving
implies. Gay dreams, gypsy hours
together, brave adventuringS, the
dear delight Of making q home,
the pride and wonder and fun Of
creating a family.
Home and family life these
things are not properly built on
fear Of God. They are built on
love Of life. And the man or
woman who does not love Life
cannot possibly make O good
father or mother. Nor can the
house which Is not filled with the
joy Of life make good home.
So Life and I wanted loving.
But neither Of us got 1t. And as
q consequence, we blew out a
cylinder head.
For you cannot cheat life and
get by with it. You cannot dam
up the healthy impulses Of flesh
and spirit and escape the newt
able penalty. Particularly when
your program offers no substitute
for the urge denied, nor any
escape from the spectacle Of your
own Illustration.
Continued Next Saturday.
Copyright by Elsie Robinson
Distributed BY King Features Syn
dicStO, Inc.
The Washington times., 1935-03-30

task, I learned to live life as it
had been lived a hundred years
before. To "buy ready.made was
slack" And so made soap, and
tried out lard, concocted cough
medicine, baked endless noun
tains of bread, rolls and pastries,
crammed hundreds Of jars with
preserves, conserves, jams, jellies,
marmalades, pickles and fruit
juices.
I have never sewed. And ina
chine stitching" was still ana
thema in a well-kept Vermont
home. Even the lowlieSt diShrag
was hemmed by hand. All my hus-
bands shirts I made; every gar.
nent OF my own, even my suits
and coats.
Had Lost Their
Place in the Sun