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The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Stabilize the Police

The periodic Investigations and shakeups of the Metropo
tan Police Department. of which is in progress aren
calculated to improve greatly the morale and efficiency of the
knen making up the department
For that is to be hoped that the inquiry being
conducted by the Randolph committee will be speeded its
made and whatever action necessary taken
It has be the fashion to have great expose of the
Police Department every year two The honest police
trembe and worry One two instances Of misconduct
developed and two men dropped from the force
While the investigation the decent the force
suffer Just the few who dishonest inefficient
And the citizens of the District suffer than both the
honest and dishonest policemen While sensations and rumor
flying thick and fast the District doesn't get the kind Of
policing that it is paying for and that it needs.
The House committee has stirred up nasty
during its investigation These things should be brought to
light.
But it would be well after they brought light to act
on them
It be inevitable that result of the disclosures
made by the committee heads will fall If that the
case they should fall NOW
action is be taken will likely have to be taken
by the District Commissioners The committee itself do
little than frame recommendations
Several high officials of the department involved in the
"deal which Representative Banton sponsored the in
Bpectorshp It is result Of this involvement that most of
the batch of arise The committee has
cuded its investigation into that phase of the situation
IF the conduct of these officials in this matter is repre-
kenbe and there to be shakeup Of the department
result would be healthier to have the shakeup and
get with If the conduct of the officials approved
then somebody ought say and quiet the
get the Police Department keel and keep
1t there
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Help the Symphony

The results of the drive raise 100000 to support the
National Symphony Orchestra far have not been
aging.
essential that the fund be raised if the who
pose the orchestra be paid decety for the entertain
ment which they furnish the city.
The money asked order give the orchestra uxu
res It will do nothing than meet the necessary
penses of the organization
years the the orchestra have asked make
sacrifices order build the organization They will
ng and gladly done this Some of them have been forced
to drive taxicabs and take other jobs in order to make both
ends meet.
That isn't fair to the musicians and it certainly isn't
ducve to the development of the type of orchestra which
should represent the National Capital
The orchestra is doing great service for Washington.
Washington should perform some service in exchange
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
By Elsie Robinson
By T. E. Powers

Because the boss may think
That you don't care
About your looks
Why, then, it isn't easy
To pretend
You're mad
II some rich guy
Should say
He'd like to lend
You something
Toward new spring hat,
Or maybe hint
About a furnished flat
In some nice street,
Or ask you-"Baby,
When do we two eat?"
Believe me, God,
1t certainly is tough
For girls to go on
Being good
When things are rough
Like that!
And so I'm asking
Help me hang on hard
To my kid dreams
Help me stay clean
And pure,
The Way my mother stayed,
Until I find my man
And then, dear God,
Please fix it so I can
Quit work
And just do nothing
All the time
But love my man
And make his home
And have his babies, God!
That's what I pray
And now I've got
To quit
The boss is yelling
But you'll not
Forget the thing
I've asked for.
Will you, God?
Just staying decent
Till she finds her man,
That's all the breaks
That any girl
Would ask.
Amen.
Copyright. 1888. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

ernment in taxes levied upon
the people is totally wasted
every IL months.
Surveys made by experts re-
veal that reforms in county
and local government in the
several States would eliminate
most of this wastage.
This elimination would make
it possible to reduce the gen.
eral property tax to it's 1912
level and still leave millions of
dollars available to be spent by
the States upon public educa-
ton and other useful and es.
sential public services.
The property tax per dollar of
assessed valuation has increased
in this country Is per cent IN
the last 20 years.
OBSOLETE
This increase will continue
and the tax burden of the
people will grow in size unless
the people themselves drive
from power most of the politi-
clans now in the legislatures of
the several States and replace
them with public servants who
will go there pledged to lift the
yoke of ox-cart government
from the necks of the people.
This can only be done by
undermining the whole system
of State, county. and local gov
ernment, North, South. East
and West.
President Roosevelt, while he
was Governor of New York,
vigorously denounced this obso-
lete system of government. He
declared it to be an inheritance
from the days of the oX-cart
and therefore utterly unsuited
to the need of the automobile
and airplane age.
Since that time the State of
Nebraska. under the leadership
of Senator Norris, has insti-
tuted a real reform in its gov
ernment.
The constitution of that State
was amended at the last elec'
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Abolish the Fee System
By James T. Williams, Jr.

tion so as to provide for State
legislature of only one house.
This experiment will be watched
with interest throughout the
country.
It is not necessary, however,
to wait until all State legisla.
lures have thus been reduced in
order to reorganize and purge
the present obsolete system of
county and local governments.
In most States the legislatures
have the power to consolidate
county and other local govern
ment units. In all States they
have the power to abolish the
1niquitous fee system which still
survives in many States.
These fees often represent the
entire compensation received by
county and local officials.
Theoretically, these fees rep.
resent a fair reward for the SER
vice rendered. In practice this
Is rarely the case.
Generally, compensation COL
lected in fees often is grossly out
of proportion to salaries paid to
more important officials.
POLITICAL PARASITES
A fragrant example of the fee
system was exposed a few years
ago in a report made to the Vir.
ginia General Assembly. This
report showed that many petty
officials paid on a fee basis
were making more than the
Governor of Virginia or a Judge
OF the Supreme Court of Ap-
peals of the State, and in some
cases these fee collectors were
taking out of the peoples treas
ury each year twice as much as
the people paid the governor.
There are many States in
which the fee system is respon-
sible for robbing hundreds of
thousands of young Americans
of that public education which
is their birthright.
Instead of spen ding the
money collected in taxes on pub
lie education the State legisla-
lures are permitting county and
local officials under the fee
system to line their own pockets
by picking the pockets of the
taxpayers.
Senator Norris, of Nebraska.
is the only Senator or Repre-"
sentative in Congress who has
had the courage to help his
people lift the yoke of ox-cart
government from their necks.
Many other Senators and
Representatives in Congress are
silent on the subject because
they owe their seats in the Sen
ate and House largely to the
Vaccinations of political para
sites on the payrolls of county
and local government.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington Tlmes)
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

necessary. Might just as we'll
go back through the Congress
siOnal Record and tear out the
pages on bonus.
"What they will say in the
10 hours will be that same old
stuff"
One of the most unobtrusive
men in the Senate is Senator
Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota,
the only Farmer-Labor member.
A student of all matters that
arise he has little to say on
the floor, although once in
a while he breaks out with a
speech.
In committee meetings he
asks few questions, preferring
to sit back and listen.
He has one preference, how
ever.
He smokes cigars that are
black, about the thickness of a
pencil and twice as long.
Representative John H. Hoep-
pei DO of California. now
under indictment by the Grand
Jury for the alleged selling of a
West Point appointment, is not
going to let that stand in his
way when he wants to act in
the House.
He has made that announce
ment and, in keeping with the
statement, the Congressional
Record contains a long speech
by him on the payment of adj
justed service certificates.
In that speech he says:
"In my opinion, the players in
the legislative game here, living
in an atmosphere of apparent
plenty, fail to look over the
fence of the arena into the
crowd Of spectators beyond, and
so are more or less unaware Of
the details of their situation"
That well-know brain truster,
Rexford G.. Tugwell, has sent
to Congress an amendment for
the AAA legislation.
He contends it is q "modity-
ing amendment"
Last session he sent up an
amendment Which he called q
"cldritying amendment"
Senator Harry Flood Byrd,
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
The First Roundup

Best last weekend Uncle Sans roundup of
than two thousand crooks and criminals from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and from Mexico to Canada.
you count in the Coast Guard which helped at places
there nearly twelve thousand Federal employed
this sensational coup
Dope pedders counerfeter racketer undesirable aliens
and other rfraf scooped into the net Several million
dollars worth of loot also, confiscated.
How many big time criminals taken if any, remains
to be Most of the catch appear have been rather small
fry But think the Federal drive will have healthy effect
on the ladies and gentlemen of the
that the United States be Unhealthy for when the
Government itself steps in and cleans up
We hope this only the first series of smashing surprise
blows against crime And why the Govern
ment should not the regular army to cooperate with its
other forces if it needs
There than million criminals in this country.
will take than twelve thousand Federal agents to get
results with them
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Charles M. SchWab stops OFT
in Monte Carlo to take what
he calls 1.-The casino cure" His
doctors tell the old steelmaster
that a whirl or two at the tables
is a tonic, perhaps not unlike
the waters of Vichy or Carls-
bad. Back home here, however,
Drs. Farley and LaGuardia find
little that is curative in the
gentle art of gambling.
On the contrary, the Post
master General believes that
foreign lottery tickets have a
very sickening effect upon
American pocektbooks, while
the Mayor of New York with
his police commissioner, the
grand jury and the district at
torney are performing an opera
ton upon what they call a $50
cial cancer which goes under
the name of the policy racket"
CUT IN HALF
The Post Office Departments
guns are trained on the sweep
stakes operated in connection
with horse races in England
and Canada. About $5,000,0O0
of American money went into
the purchase of shares in these
sweeps last year. And, according
to official reckoning, $3,000.000
of this was real sucker" money
paid out for counterfeit tickets.
Most of the other $2,000,000
found it's way to Ireland, where
the sweeps are legalized and
operated for the benefit of hos
pitalS.
Hereafter it is going to be a
tough job distributing the tickets
in the United States because Mr..
Farley's minions are watching
the borders. he ports of entry
and the mails. In the past few
months they shave picked up
$25O,OOO of the tickets and they
expect that this year they will
cut that $4,000 total at least
in half.
New York's policy game is a
penny ante affair and particu-
larly vicious because its pennies
come from the poorest of homes
and because it is operated by the
gangster elements. 1t S prev
alent mostly in the foreign sec
tions and in the Negro's Harlem.
Hundreds of collectors make
the rounds of homes and offices
handing out little slips with
numbers on them in return for
the coppers. The winner is the
one who draws the number
which matches a stock exchange
figure for the day or Treasury
Department report.
Coincident with Mr.. SchWab's
visit and with the war on gam
bling in this country comes a
book, The Wizard of Monte
Carlo" written by Count Corti
and published by buttons. In
1t Count Corti traces from the
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Marry-GO-ROund
Bv Helen ROWIand

she has said farewell to youth,
until she can remember moth
ing but the first names of all
the men she was once in love
with.
A man could once surmise
what a girl would look like at
forty, by glancirg at her
mother; but, nowadays, it's
pretty hard for any lover to
believe that a girl will ever
look as young as her mother
does.
Before marriage, a man has
a suspicion that every girl who
is nice to him is trying to lure
him into matrimony: after
marriage, he seems to think
that every girl who is pleasant
to him is trying to lure him
OUT of it.
uldu Lldy AOG NC do WOA@
derful as his wife thinks he is
but that doesn't matter, so
long as neither of them ever
finds it out.
Thank Heaven for rouge
the four-flush Of YOUTH
Copyright 1898, by King Features
Syndicate, 1ne.)
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
The Human Side of the News
Bv Edwin C.. Hill

beginning the history OF this
most famous house of chance
that the world has known.
An obscure French gambler,
Edmond Blanc, was the wizard
of Monte Carlo. Casting about
for a place where the rich
might gamble in luxurious sur
roundings, he first hit upon
Homburg, bankrupt town
whose Landgrave was seeking
any means of making money.
He made it and Blanc made it
because Homburg became the
magnet which drew the gamblers
of the world, especially the
Russians. with their endless
millions of francs sweated out
of endless millions of people.
The ascendancy of Prussia
spelled the end of Homburg and
it was closed in 1869. But the
willy Blanc had been preparing
against such a day and when
the blow fell he was set up
already in Monaco, ready for
business on the grandest scale.
Monte Carlo isn't what it used
to be. The war and the topping
of monarchies has had lot to
do with the change. The pal
ace-like casino no longer is the
rendezvous of dukes. duchesses.
princess and plotters. 1t is
filled usually with ordinary
tourists. who crowd about the
tables and bet their dimes and
dollars on the numbers l to SO
il. red and black.
The flowers, the chandeliers
and the croupiers in their din
ner Jackets remain. but no more
do we hear of spectacular play
such as the little swindler
Charles Welles put on in 1891
when in one day he broke the
bank IL times to become The
Man Who Broke the Bank at
Monte Carlo"
DREAD OF SUICIDES
Even in the more exclusive
Sporting Club, the stakes don't
even approach comparison with
the play 1 have seen at Brad
ley's in our own Palm Beach.
The cemetery still remains at
Monte Carlo, and the casino
people still have terrific
dread Of suicides. but these are
few and far between.
Gambling is as old as the
world, and today the Greeks
have the reputation of being
the biggest and boldest plung-
ers in New York, Monte Carlo
or anywhere else.
OF the sexes, am told that
women are more prone to
gambling than men, whether on
the policy slips of Harlem, the
sweepstakes of Dublin or the
roulette table of Monte Carlo.
This may have been the rea-
son why the Romans and Eng
lish of the Middle Ages looked
upon gambling as a vice which
made men effeminate and ur1-
manly. on which grounds they
forbade it.
Copyright, 1888, by k!nS Features
syndieatO, Ins)
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Those Charming Men
Some men don't mind kissing
a girl, if she insists, but they
want no romantic nonsense
about it. Love-maklng, in their
opinion, is just a foolish little
formality, like hat-tipping and
finger-boWls.
Love is on the wane when q
man begins to find the brand
of a woman's perfume monoto-
nous.
It would be just about as diff
ficult for a born Lothario to
concentrate all his love on one
woman as it would be for him
to select a pet $40 bill.
A mans little weaknesses
make his wife sorry for him; a
woman's little weaknesses make
a man sorry for himself.
Most men are emotionally
near-Sighted; distance lends
enchantment" to the woman
who happens to be near, when
the Girl Friend is distant.
A woman need not feel that
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
The Swallows Win

The swallows again victorious in their annual
against the w for the possession of the nests in the walls
Of San Juan Capistrano Mission in California.
They arrived they always do St. Josephs Day. Not
storm at delayed them
They fought and
Casualties Five dead each side
they do they have for 6S years. they will leave San
Juans Day, October %.
Why?
No knows.
Or maybe the Radicals who they alter human
nature and the senmena who certain they outlaw
tell
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

pie is being
wasted every
year by .po-
litical p a a.
sites on the
pay rolls of
State, county
a n d oc a |
6 ov ernment
t h 70 ughout
the u n i t ed
States.
Experts es-
innate t h a t
Is per cent
of all t h e
m o n ey COL
lected by gov
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

fro m tn e
past.
At least so
thinks Speak
er Joseph w.
Byrns.
K n o W ing
t h a t t h e
bonus legis.
| a t on was
to be brought
up for 10
hours general
debate, t h e
Sneaker said.
II d o n t
see why all
that time is
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Elsie Robinson date)-
And yet it seems
AS if we girls
Need praying more
In such a place
Than in a church
That's still-and safe
And so I'm praying, God,
And if You've got
The answers
I sure wish
You'd shoot 'em straight!
They say girls work
Because they like it, God
Because they're keen
On money or careers;
Well, maybe So
But, as for me,
What I want most
Is not
Those things at all
What I want most
Is just Your help
TO stay
A woman
In this world
OF working men
The kind of woman
That my mother was,
So sweet and gentle
That you never guessed
How brave and strong
She was
Beneath her quiet ways.
Help me be soft,
Like she was
Soft, in spite
OF all the brawls
A working girl must face
And square,
Like she was
Square, in spite
Of all the tricks
A working girl might use
To hold her place
And honest,
Though I know
It may not pay
And cheerful,
Though the job
Goes wrong all day.
Help me to stay
A woman,
And to keep
The dreams I used to have
At seventeen
Kid dreams of kneeling
In the fairy sheen
OF wedding satin
Trailing white
And sweet,
Half-frightened dreams
Of my own husband
Coming home at night
To me
And our new babyl
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

In the Navy
m a n W h o
really is the
wheel horse"
is A d m i ra |
w i'll lam H.
S t a n d ! e y,
Chief of Op"
erations.
At pre- S S
on f erences
Standley is
constantly at
S W a n S o n S
elbow advis-
ing him on
m a t t e r S Of
t h e Depart
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Department the

ment and IN Secretary sWanson
so doing saves the Secretary
from giving out information or
statements that might not
sound so we'll in print.
The Admiral is an efficient
Navy man, knows the value OF
news and sees to it that the
stories that come out of the De"
partment are not detrimental to
our fleet.
1QS5 The Washingtnn TimeRl
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Democrat of Virginia, who
doesn't think much of AAA
legislation anyhow, says they
are the same amendments.
And he adds:
"a rose by any other name
is just as sweet"
Secretary of the Navy Claude
A. Swanson knows what it
means to have a right hand"
man.
tn tho Now neNo ri yooY7& the
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Half enough
To keep yourself alive
Say, maybe, fifteen bucks
And sleeping
Where you can,
In some cheap dump,
And wearing rags,
That make you
Look a trump,
And all the time afraid
You'll get the air
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Listen, World

Oh, please help me Keep
Those dreams
In spite of all
The work and worry
And the times
When things seem
Too horribly hard
For any girl to take!
For, homes, God,
It certainly is tough,
When you are only getting
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Prayer From a Working Girl
Dear God:
I wonder if you've time
To listen
To this thing
I'd like to ask.
Perhaps a prayer
Seems kinda funny
In a place like this,
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

When the boys on Capitol
Hill discuss the bonus these
days it sounds like q page
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Approximately 1000 million
d ollars of the hard-earned
money of the American peo-
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

4naCS roar.
ing
w ith m a.
chimes,
And jammed
with desks,
And file d
with men
All yelling Or
derS
% r j u s t
h a n g
ing round
To try and
get
Some girl to
m a k e a
dat,e)
Evening star., 1935-11-26

A SHRED OF high suspicion has
~ developed here lately that
n Britain, France and Italy may
II get together eventually by
carving up Ethiopia in comparatively
equal parts.
It may sound strange now, but more
than one top official senses this as the
possible outcome of the very noble
diplomatic conflict now raging. Bri-
tain could use a slice of the dark
meat around Lake Tana and the Nile
headwaters. Mussolini already has
his hands on the white meat. A
couple of drunsticks of territory ad.
joining what France now holds would
undoubtedly make her statesmen ap-
preciate the practical side of brotherly
love among nations.
The realization of this on high here
may have a barely noticeable inf1u-
ence on Mr.. Hull's semi-weekly eco
nomic threats against nations now in
volved In the so-called war.
Diplomatic novices can see what
Mr.. Hull is up to. He wants to give
moral force to Britain's League sane.
tions without actually stepping over
the line. That is why he issues state
mentS every few days threatening this
or that step if cotton exports increase
or what not.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
Sc. c. BEGINS SUIT
TO GAIN REGISTRY
Electric Bond & Share
Named in Complaint
to U. S. Court.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresE.
NEW YORK, November 2s-Tbe
Securities and Exchange Commission
today filed a complaint In equity in
Federal Court against Electric Bond
& Share Co. and five of its interme.
diate holding concerns, asking the
court to direct them to register in
compliance with the public utilities
act of 1885.
Shortly after the suit was filed 1t
was announced that neither the Elec-
trio Bond e. Share Co. nor any of its
afflliates would register under the
public utilities act of 1885.
The S. E. c. also asked the court
to issue subpoenas directing Electric
Bond & Share and the holding cor
porations specified to answer the
complaint in court and "for such
other relief as the court may deem
fit"
In addition to Electric Bond &
Share, the defendants in the case are
the American Gas & Electric Co., the
American Power g. Light Co., the
Electric Power & Light Corp, Ma
tional Power g. Light Corp. and the
United Gas Corp.
The complaint was filed by John J.
Burns, general counsel to the COM
mission, and Robert H. Jackson, also
an attorney for the S. E. c.
In citing cause for the action, the
complaint alleges:
THAT the defendants are engaged
and are about to engage in acts and
practices which constitute, or will con-
stitute, violations of the public utilities
act of 1885,"
Today's action, the first specific step
taken in court to compel public utility
holding companies to comply with
the law, was regarded by corporation
lawyers and others who have been fol-
lowing utility affairs, as a test suit de-
signed to secure early adjudication Of
the holding company issue. 1t followed
closely the suits begun by the United
Gas Improvement Co. of Philadelphia
and the Commonwealth e. Southern
Corp. to test the constitutionality of
the holding company act.