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The Washington times., 1935-05-07
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill
By Monitor

the roads could have done their
job, could have met the ever-in-
creasing and widening demands
for service as the country filled
up, had they not mortgaged
their future and pressed con-
stantly into new fields.
With America still expanding,
still building, with new lands
under cultivation, new industries
rising, new wants demanding
satisfaction. there would be no
problem in observance, no lag in
a swift acceptance of the best
science could offer. But they
are paying for dead horses, and
the railroads are not the only
industry in this position. They
had banked on endless, unln-
terrupted expansion and growth.
It didn't keep on.
NOT ALONE
New industries, without ancl"
ent equipment or ancient COM
mitments, had no such problem.
You will drive in your 1885 car
to your suburban station. The
engine which takes you into
New York was built in 1900, and
it has gained nothing from the
era of the greatest chronological
advance in history. Your car is
powered, streamlined, sensitized,
beautified, with all the amazing
technical resource, organization
and ingenuity of today.
The railroads will make this
transition, of course. The sharp
tools of science will cleave
through those imponderables
of debt and reimbursement.
And the roads will not be alone
in the struggle.
The great Sir Frederick Soddy
of England and our own DR..
Conant of Harvard have given
us a startling picture of the
CULVER of Science chained by
the Liliputians of archaic fl
nance and economics.
Chemists have opened magi-
cal sycles which could trans
form the world overnight. This
release of enlightened living and
working techniques will come.
It must come, for never in his
tory has man ever abandoned a
more effective tool once he has
made use of it. If this adjust
ment doesn't come to a nation
by sensible adaptation, it will
come through ruthless competi-
tors enforcing it.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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efficiency in the management
of the roads, but these archaic
engines are traversing a No
Mans land between the epochS.
It is the ghostly hand of the
intangibles of debt and corpor-
ate structure that throws a
switch on the modern, efficient
locomotive and high-balls to the
main line the heaving and snort
ing fuel hogs of a day that is
past. Bond set-ups require these
old timers to work out their life
span, and lot of them have a
long way to go.
In the days when the frontier
was still being pushed westward,
when new territories were being
opened and Railroads were piled
high with goods, a much shorter
span of obsolesence for equip
ment could be carried on the
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River improvements

Somewhere the of money which is being poured
of Washington there should be $2OOoooO M
the Improvement of the Washington waterfront and the
Georgetown Anacosta channels of the Potomac River
Failure of the in the past to keep the Potomac
in the vicinity Of Washington in good cond1on mas
in harm to the city and has initiated
against the use of the river recreatonal facility
The House Representatives has seen the desraoly OF
the contemplated Improvement in the Potomac In the on
bus harbos bill which recently passed it author
expenditures for the dredging Of the channels ana
for the rehabilitation of the dilapdated waterfront
The carrying execution Of the projects would be OF
immense benefit the city and to the hundreds of thousands
of visitors who here annually
It would provide an additional attraction to the National
CAPITAL and would at the same time stimulate business
through utilization of this natural carrier Of commerce.
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"WeSt Point-A school that
has produced man to meet
every national emergency that
has eUer confronted the coun-
try."-Chiet Justice White.
President Roosevelt was re-
Gently the victim of an indie
feasible Misrepresentation by
the Chairman of the House
Committee on Military Affairs,
Representative NC vain Of
South Carolina, whom the Presi-
dent was compelled to rebuke
publicly for revealing to the
world the most confidential in
formation regarding the ma
tional defense plans Of the
Army. This information was
given on his own demand as
chairman and under the pledge
of absolute secrecy.
An impartial investigation by
the Congress will disclose that
this confidential information
was not only sent to the Public
Printer by the specific order Of
Mr.. McSwain, but that it was
sent after his attention had
been called to the fact, that it
had been given under pledge of
secrecy, and that to print 1t
would violate that pledge and
be contrary to every precedent
in either House of Congress.
The Misrepresentation of the
President occurred after a visit
to the White House, made by
Mr.. McSwain in a futile at
tempt to dissuade the President
from pressing upon Congress
legislation opening the doors of
West Point to TOO more patri.
otto young Americans than are
now training in that splendid
school of character that glorjes
in the motto-"Honor, Duty,
Country"
PRESIDENTS ATTITUDE
"In a letter of April II to the
Secretary Of War, who had in"
formed him that "The PreSi-
dent is very DESTROYS that this
bill (the West Point bill prOvid-
ing for 700 additional appoint
mentS) be enacted into law in
sufficient time to allow Senators
and Congressman to take ad-
vantage of appointments for the
coming academic year." Mr..
McSWain replied:
81 am opposed to this bill.
You tell me what the President
desires. I have talked with the
President but feel that should
not disclose what he said. How
ever, must say that either you
or 1 have misunderstood the
President"
Mr.. McSwain was apparently
entirely willing to disclose con-
fidential information regarding
the national defense which
might enable an enemy to win
war against the United
States but he hesitated to dis
close what the President said
and contented himself with
misrepresenting the Presidents
attitude toward the West Point
bill.
But the President has lost no
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books, and engines could be
scrapped when better ones came
along. But just as the age Of
technology came to it's full
flower, two adverse events came
to pass: that shifting frontier
was pushed right into the Pa
cific Ocean, and the black pail
of the depression settled down
over the country.
Generally speaking, the flat
statement is virtually true. The
railroads never paid any debts.
They always met bond obliga-
tions by refunding. That, over
a period of a hundred years,
made a debt structure which
reaches well into the next cen
fury.
It is easy to cite a personal
devil in a situation like this.
but it is highly improbable that
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affect us. There must be
Something Doing Inside or we
have the filters.
But that's bucking nature.
Nature never intended that we
should have continuous emotion.
Human bodies have their ebb as
we'll as their flood tides OF
feeling. There are times when
we are, naturally, no more emo
tional than turnipS.
These times are not signs OF
mental weakness. physical sick
ness, spiritual degeneration.
They are not a proof that we
are living in the wrong place or
with the wrong person, doing
the wrong work, following the
wrong progam. They are part
of the natural rhythm of our
life.
WISE POLICY
We are still largely beef-on-
the-hoof. Feeling and thinking
are new habits to us. And.
like other healthy brutes, there
are long periods when we
merely ruminate chew our
cuds-go methodically through
the gestures of living without
feeling anything in particular
without being happy or sad,
curious or mad. And the wisest
and healthiest people are those
who follow this inclination for
there are heavy penalties for
those who don't.
It's as dangerous to feel all
the time as it would be to
dance or drink all the time,
and it demoralizes us as surely.
People who boast of being
"high strung" -who go from
one emotional orgy into an
other-are not richly endowed,
as they fondly imagine they
are. They are sick, badly bal
anced people.
. For our emotions are largely
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Abuse of Confidence
Blu James T. Williams, J.

) time in clearing up Mr.. Nc.
SWANS mind and in exposing
his Misrepresentation on this
score.
AS soon as this extraordinary
declaration on the part of the
chairman of the House Commit.
tee of Military Affairs was
brought to the attention of the
President he authorized the
Secretary of War to set forth
again the Presidents real atti.
tude toward the West Point bill.
Acting with the Presidents
authority, the Secretary of War
sent a representative of his de-
partment to the subcommittee
on Military Affairs having un-
der consideration the West
Point bill. to make the follow.
ing statement:
due to the doubt that was
expressed before your commit.
tee as to whether the President
was in favor of the increase in
the number of cadets at West
Point, as proposed in S-21O5,
which is now under cOnSidera
ton, the Secretary of War, Mr..
Dern, took this matter up with
President Roosevelt at Cabinet
meeting on Tuesday, April %.
The President was informed at
that time that doubt had been
expressed as to whether he
favored the proposed increase.
ON RECORD
"The President reiterated to
the Secretary of War his pre-.
viOuS statement; that he was
heartily in favor of the enact
ment of this legislation; that
he favored the proposed in
crease in the strength of the
corps of cadets at West Point:
and further, that he had no
objection whatever to his views
being made public"
But Representative McSwain
did not stop at revealing con-
fidential information regarding
the national defense, which,
had he been a private citizen
would have subjected him to
punishment by Imprisonment
for 20 years or for much more
drastic punishment in time of
war. He did not stop at trick
ing the House of Representa-.
tives into slipping into the
Congressional Record under
Extension of Remarks" an in
defensibly mendacious attack
upon the graduates of West
Point-the living and the dead.
He did not stop at misrepre-
senting the attitude of the
President regarding the West
Point bill.
He misrepresented the young
officers of the air corps by
actually testifying before the
subcommittee of the Military
Affairs Committee that their
West Point training was a
handicap rather than a help
in qualifying them to fly the
Colors over land and sea.
The REPUTATION of this false
accusation is now before the
Military Affairs Committee.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington Times,
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Wise Words

No laws, however stringent,
can make the idle industrious,
the thriftless provident, or the
drunken sober.-SmileS.
Hasty and dventurous
schemes are at first view flat
tering, in execution difficult, and
in the issue disastroUs.-Livy.
IT'S a thing impossible to
frame conceptions equal to the
souls desires. Wordsworth.
Man is created Of haste
Koran.
Labor makes us insensible to
sorrow-Cicero.
Humanity is the porcelain
clay Of Observation-Disclosures.
A sound mind in a sound body
Is a thing to pray or-JuVenal.
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Listen, World
Bv Elsie Robinson


the result of glandular reac-
ton. We do not feel with our
souls; we feel with our
glands-adrenal, pituitary, thy
roid, and all the others. We
literally "feel with our insides. "
And overworked glands wear
out as surely as any other deli
cate machinery. Then there's a
general SmaSh-up.
In our ignorance, we don't
realize this. We believe that
emotional intensity is the sign
of a rare nature and we judge
ourselves and others by the eX
tent of our emotional displays,
So we're dismayed when emo
ton falters-when indifference,
particularly in love, seems to
have set in. Something, we're
sure, has gone dreadfully
aStray.
A REACTION
Didn't we, after all, care as
much as we thought we did?
Are we-or are those we loved
tickle, shallow, incapable or
undeserving of deep affection?
Would love still burn at fever
heat if we had cared for the
right person?
Frantically we wonder-then
try to lash ourselves, or nag
others, into greater displays OF
feelings. For no one, we're de
termined, must ever guess thai
we don't love, or aren't loved
in return, as much as we'd eX,
pected. Or, worse yet, we tear
our lives to bits in a desperate
effort to revive the desire we
fear we've lost.
What tragic nonsen
There's nothing wrong with
such periods of indifference, or
with the people who are pass,
ing through them.
You can be utterly devoted,
yet bored to tears, at times,
with mother or father, husband
or wife, sweetheart or child.
It's merely a chemical reaction
and nothing else but.
So don't be panic stricken II
you find yourself viewing your
hero or hearts desire with
complete indifference or catch
them returning the compliment
Don't be alarmed if you feel
fed up with life-if you've gone
stale on every task and IN
terest. Go on-be a turnlp,
and thank heaven that you
cant
You'll be infinitely more
popular with your friends, and
your own enjoyment Of life WILL
be immeasureably increased, II
you'll take life on low now and
then.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.l
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Before Strearnlining

When was the first amnute mark set by American
railroad train?
Thirty years ago? Forty?
Wrong
In 1913 the Boston and Maine Railroad engine and
car over twentysix miles of track in wentyx minutes The
car full of newspapermen They allowed that they were
going some and the country agreed And this only
few years after science had proved concusve that no loco
motive could twenty miles hour because Of wind re-
sstance.
This fragment of transportation history is not important
perhaps But in these sreamned days. when railway speed OF
100 miles hour gets wide publicity we wonder we are as
up-to-date thought we were
AS other examples:
The French army before Napoleon had balloon corps.
Yankee built submarine during the Revolution.
An ancient Egyptian invented the steam engine.
Evidently all knowledge and achievement does not begin
with US.
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Debts Handicap Railroads

The A meri car Locomotive
Company delivers to the Chi
cago, Milwaukee, st. Paul &
Pacific Railroad a streamlined
steam locomotive capable of a
sustained speed of 100 miles an
hour. This sets new record
for steam. Electric and oil en-
gines can reach this speed pull
ing lighter loads, but the build
ers of this new streamlined be-
hemoth are out for power as
we'll as speed, and their crea-
ton will open an interesting
test of the three types Of trac-
ton.
The test is overdue, and.
furthermore, it is hoped that
the next decade will cut loose
some of the corporate and
credit drags which slow down
the iron greyhounds and make
it impossible for operators and
the public to cash in on the
wizardry of science, ready for
use but still held back.
Apropos of the startling
achievements in werin G,
streamlining, fueling and speed
ing up locomotives within the
last two years, this writer has
obtained some official figures
bearing on the degree to which
our great transportation indus
try has been able to take ad-
vantage of what the techni-
clans have to offer. Here are
a few highlights. or headlights,
on railroad obsolescence:
Working locomotives over Is
years old: Delaware & Hudson,
70 per cent; New York, New
Haven and Hartford, 40 per
cent; Illinois Central, 81 per
cent; Southern Pacific, So per
cent; Illinois & Quincy. At per
cent. On the Pennsylvania, So
per cent of the locomotives are
from is to Is years old. These
are no invidiouS comparisons.
Right down through the list OF
all the railroads of the country,
the figures are about the same.
Inventors, shops. laboratories.
scientists technicians have
stepped up energies. economies.
speed, control, safety, pay-load
until they have brought to hand
the very millennium OF swift
luxurious transportation.
DE LUKE TRAINS
There is completely developed
a vast technical establishment
for turning out these de luxe
trains like hot dogs at a road
side stand. The country has 81
most unlimited fuels and metals,
and it has multitudeS of jour-
neymen, men and masters, to
deal shiny new streamlined loco
motives and cars as fast as they
may be needed.
And New York commuters.
looking sharp as they pull
through the yards, may any day
see engines still in service that
look just like something out OF
"Gody's Lady Book" each with
a hustle and bonnet, as out
NODDED as a moustache cup at
the Lotus Club.
More than half of the goods
and passengers of the entire
country are being moved by en-
gines more than Is years old!
A basic and vital industry de-
prived of technical gains which,
in other fields, are making over
the world. The railroad mogulS
know all this.
There are plenty Of brains and
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h e a l t h y,
S t r o n G nat
ure f e e ! S
d e e ply and
constantly, is
always vibrat-
ing with emo
ton. Happy
emotions, pre-
ferably, b u t
e v e n anger
and suspicion
and grief are
better t h a n
n o t h i n G..
Empty moods
affect us as
empty miles
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much higher arbitrary figure?"
He replied:
1.-THE American producer is
entitled to the higher price,"
He was asked:
"Why?"
Morgenthau explained:
Because"
That was as much as he
would say.
While the Democrats are
accused of being "Split," it
seems that the Republicans
can't get together either.
In San Francisco the other
eve, Former President Herbert
C. Hoover was scoring the New
Deal.
One of his statements was:
Il would indeed suggest
that we also need an institution
for guiding foolish persons who
are loose on the landscape with
only part of the facts and i'm
bued with a great emotion"
Some persons point out, Incl
dentally, that one Of the points
about Mr.. Hoover that people
used to discuss was that he
lacked emotion entirely and
they wonder if he had only
part of the facts" when he
talked about prosperity is just
around the corner"
While Mr.. Hoover was max
ing his speech in which he con-
demned the New Deal, former
Vice President Charles G. Dawes
was talking in Chicago.
Dawes said that he was con-
WINGED that in June or July the
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of W h e t h err
h is pl y
means a n y
thing or not. .
Not so long
ago he was
discussing sill
yer purchases.
T h e ques-
t ion W a S
asked:
"Why does
not the Gov
eminent buy
silver at the
world market
price instead
of fixing q
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ANU tAAdC WOUAU NC LA UAAO ANS"
Deal era.
Years ago, a House commit
tee Investigated the practices OF
fortune tellerS, Sooth-SayerS and
SeerS.
The great Houdini came to
town to tell the boys about the
fakes.
Houdini, however, would have
had hard time convincing
Representative Charles Kramer,
of California, that "there is
nothing to it," But Charlie
wasn't in the House then.
Not so long ago Kramer con-
suited a fortune teller.
The seer predicted that on
MAY 1 Kramer Mould rece1Ue
bad ne1DS.
He did.
On that day he received a
telegram saying that the safe in
his Los Angeles law office had
been dynamited by burglars and
$67 taken.
Former United States Senator
from Pennsylvania, David A.
Reed, Republican, has returned
from Egypt.
One of his first engagements
after getting back to Washing
ton was a luncheon at the
NEatroroo1iton Ch1h
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Maybe a Warming

Earthquakes! Disastrous in Formosa and Persia
mild in New England.
Maybe Mother Earth is telling all of usAsastics Euro
pean Amercansto quit squabbling to stop lining up for
war and to get down to peaceful prosperous work
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MeCTOpOA1Cdu
While Reed
W a S eating,
along ca m e
Admiral Cary
T. GraySon,
arch Demo
era t, a n d
some of his
friends.
They halted
at R6cQ 5 I'd
BILE, began to
t TX a n d
even t u a ly
worked their
way around
to the sub
iect of politics
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In this discussion Reed an
nounced:
II think President Roosevelt
can be beaten. There is queS-
ton, however, about the Re-
publicanS defeating $4,SSO, OOO,'
OOO." ..
CCopyriEhSS1e35. The Washington TmesN
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Greatest Show On Earth
Ru John SNnre. .Er.

Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau. jr., always has an
answer for questions regardless
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we OdKE always NNA
We can't always feel keenly
about life-Shouldn't even try.
We've a stupid notion that a
Evening star., 1935-06-30
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. June 30 UP.-The hog mar
ket was nominaly steady today although
there was not enough Of an open run to
inspire trader to activity out Of the days
receipts OF 1000. the large packers re-
Yesterdays close found the hog market
unsettled with light kinds selling 10 cents
higher than the day before and heavy
classes of as much as 10 cents. Hogs
weighing 10000 pounds today were nom :
inally quoted at S.S5a9.1O and 2OO-25O-
pound hogs at 9.35a910.
There was not much doing in the cattle
luns today as there were but 400 head
OF cattle and 100 calves received. The
cattle market closed the week with fec
steers and yearlings 25 cents higher than
last week end
Sellers sought persistently to gain higher
cattle prices and succeeded in esta ablishins
strictly choice steers was 1915. but few
:o4a12.00.. Cows were scarce all week
but demand was slight.
Bulls closed the week weak and calves
lost 50-15 cents on q 33 per cent in
crease in offerings.
Activity was lacking today in the sheer
runs. Trade here has been IRREGULAR this
week. with Spring lambs closing the week
strong to % cents higher and yearlings
around 25 cents lower. Sheep were firm
1bA weeks top in native Spring lambs
was 9.35. and the closing top was 900.
Unoffcial estimated live stock receipt,
fol-. Monday: Hogs. $4,000: cattle, II O6O;
sheep, 11.O00. Hogs for all next week
Evening star., 1935-06-30
CORPORATE BONDS
REMAIN NARROW
Rails Continue to Drift
loWer-Federat Issues
et ..,.
Are Irregular.
b. the Associated Press.

BY tns hSSOClAted fTeSS.
NEW YORK, June 29.-The corpo-
gate bond market settled down in a
narrow range today with fractional
movements either way broken oc-
casionally by wider swings in special
issues. u. S. Governments were
mixed.
Railroad issues continued to drift
lower but declines were small in all
cases except that of the Chicago,
Milwaukee. st. Paul e. Pacific, which
filed reorganization proceedings under
bankruptcy laws just before the close
Seven different bonds of this road
already pressed to extremely low
levels, were all over the tape in the
final few minutes of trading Losses
ranged from Is to full point among
four of the issues. while two were a
shade higher and one held unchanged
Bonds of the Chicago & Northwest
ern, which preceded the st. Paul into
the courts yesterday, were relatively
steady and quiet.
Other Carriers Ease.
Other rails selling slightly lower in
eluded Illinois Central refunding As
at 77i2. New Haven collateral 6S at
~ and Pere Marquette SIS at 49,
Great Northern Alas and Katy SIS
were a trifle higher.
Both industrials and utilities were
able to hold about even or improve
slightly. Columbia Gas IS were a
higher at CO.'S, Tennessee Electric
Power IS were q better at "a and
International Paper SIS advanced 80 to
T4i2. Small losses were shown by
Laclede Gas Sis and Illinois Steel
AIS.
The Associated Press averages for
utilities, industrials and low-yield
bonds were / of point higher while
20 rails declined L of a point and
10 foreign bonds gained 2 of a point.
Government Bonds Quiet.
, q. S. Government bonds were quiet
and final prices ranged between 2-32
advance to 2-32 decline. Treasury
IS Of l946-48, to which issue the Gov
eminent yesterday added $1,000
GOO at an auction sale, gained 1872
at 1925, or 1892 above the average
price at which the additional bonds
were sold.
Additional gains by numerous South
and Central American bonds was the
outstanding feature of the foreign
division.
Transfers aggregated s4,723,OOO par
value, compared with S6,1OO,0OO last
Saturday. Sales for the month totaled
s266,2O3,00O, against $2S4,l55 900 in
May.