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The Washington times., 1935-02-20

every &C ii on, is POSITIVE.
Anything you do, or refuse to
do, puts you on record. Makes
or mars your life. Marks you
as brave or cowardly, kind or
cruel, honest or dishonest.
That's going to sound like
Bad News to lot Of people.
They won't believe it's true. Ever
since they were babies they've
been playing safe-trying to
make life pleasant, profitable,
and peaceful by ducking, dodg-
ing and side-stepping action.
And they are sure that this
course has been successful. They
are equally sure that people who
take risks are extremely foolish
even dangerous and unreli'
able.
NO ESCAPE 70
'Look at the messes such
people get into" they say con-
temptuously. Thank heaven, we
keep out of trouble like that"
But they are NOT keeping out
Of trouble. They are simply
getting into another kind Of
trouble, taking a much more
dangerous and shameful risk
with far heavier penalties. They
may not be risking their legal
freedom-or their pocketbooks.
But they are risking their char
acters, their Self-reSpect, their
standing with other people.
There is no such thing as
playing safe" You involve
yourself as much when you run
away as when you go forward.
You pile up as many conse-
quences for yourself, commit
yourself to as many obligations,
let yourself in for as much
punishment.
And this Is not only true Of
your outward life. It is equally
true of that inner life Of
thoughts and emotions which,
you believe, the world never
sees. You build your life by
your thoughts as surely as by
your acts.
"As a man thinketh in his
heart, so Is he."
The deadliest deeds of your
life are those which never find
their way into physical action.
The excuses you make to your
self the fibS you tell your
self the compliments you
hand yourself the bargains
you break with yourself. you
believe these unseen transac-
tions do not count. But they
count as dreadfully as though
you yelled them from housetops,
announced them in electric
signs, broadcast them in ma
tional hookups.
The things you THINK put
you on recordSas surely as the
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Clean Sport
By Robert BenchLey

Well, Cooking at watch), the
International Canary Show at
the Crystal Palace in London
ought to be just about over by
now. I wonder how the Amer.
lean contingent came out.
If pluck and determination
had anything to do with the re-
suit, they won by a comfortable
margin, for a gamer bunch Of
canaries never saw than were
assembled here in New York
last month preparatory to sail
ing for London. They were in
the pink at that time, and the
only danger was that, by the
time they got abroad, they
might possibly be overturned.
An overtrained canary is worse
than no canary at all.
The occasion on which I saw
them working out was the
Eighth Grand National of the
Empire Cage Bird Association,
and what a time that was!
Bird seed all over the place! 1t
was 4::3O in the morning when
I got home, and even then I
couldn't sleep.
At that time a member of the
show committee was quoted as
saying Gas we'll as he could
above the dim:
american birds have i'm
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o II c e n 'r""" HeFcS ~"A'l"
above the level of the sea. We
are told that the White Noun
tains in New Hampshire, the
Green Mountains in Vermont,
the Berkshires in Massachusetts,,
the Catskills and the Adiron-
dackS in New York, and the
AlleghenieS in Pennsylvania,
were once as high as the Alps.
Ice exerted an important in
fluence in these early riSings
and sinkings. Areas at great
elevation collected enormous
quantities of ice and snow. The
great ice cap on Greenland is
a modern example This load
can become too heavy for the
thin crust of the earth to bear.
Then the loaded area settles
into the molten and soft mate
rial underlying the thin crust
of the earth.
SLOW CHANGES
In bygone days, as areas set
tied, other areas pushed up
where the load was lighter
and the crust weak. Thus,
mountainous areas were low
cred and sea bottoms raised.
When we realize that the
earth's crust averages only 20
miles in thickness, and that
the earth's diameter is 5000
miles, these subsidences seem
reasonable, for the thickness
of the crust is only a quarter
of one per cent of the diameter.
If an orange of four inches
in diameter had proportion
ate skin, the latter would be
about twice the thickness OF the
paper on which this type is
printed. 1t is entirely compre-
hensible that a crust as thin
as this, proportionately, and
supported upon fluid interior
should yield under great weight.
To aggravate the situation,
another thing happens. Upon
highly elevated land, both ice
and snow accumulate. The
area becomes white in color.
White is a reflector of light
and heat, AS much as 90 per
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Listen, World
Bu Elsie Robinson

things you DO. A cowardly
wish is as real, as damning as
the most public betrayal by the
yellowest traitor.
Those wise old ancients who
devised the symbol of the ALI
Seeing Eye of God hit upon the
most indisputable and uncom-
Portable truth in life.
POPULAC SIDE
So if .ou're wise you'll stop
trying to kiss life away or pass
it up. For it can't be done.
You're in for it, partner,
whether you like it or not.
Your vote is being taken,
whether you approve or not.
There's no scheme in heaven
or -ell by which you can escape
being involved.
So why not make the best
of bad business by JUMPING
IN AND TAKING YOUR
CHANCES?
You may blunder. You may
get laughed at and have to
take a beating. But these
things will also happen If you
just stick on the side lines.
And since that is so, WHY
NOT BE ON THE POPULAR
SIDE AND PLAY BALL WITH
THE GANG?
Copyright. 1888, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc
The Washington times., 1935-02-20


by one Ellis Belts. Belts is
somewhat sensitive about Ger.
tain things including politics.
Fuller asked:
'Betts, are you a Democrat"
Belts replied:
81 contributed eight dollars
to the Democratic camapign
fund. Considering our proper
tiOnate wealth 1 suspect that
is more than you did,"
The razzing given Mr.. Fuller
was long and loud.
The Coast Guard will have
four new ice breakers if Sena-
tor Augustine Lonergan of Con-
necticut has his way.
He wants the Government to
appropriate $1,2OO,OOO for con.
structiOn of new ships to be
used particularly around the
port of New York.
Ice this winter has seriously
interfered with navigation in
the greatest harbor of the
East.
Should the money be appro-
priated at this time there is
a bare possibility that the ships
might be constructed in time
to break up ice next winter.
Senator Joseph F. Guttey Of
Pennsylvania is beginning to
hear serious repercuSSions from
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

the first bill he introduced in
the Senate.
It is seldom that the first bill
a newcomer proposes arouSes
such caustic comment.
Guffey's bill provides for q
Governmental regulation of the
bituminous coal industry and
proposes to make it a public util-
ity.
Competitive coal interests
charge that the Guffey bill
would establish a monopoly and
would raise prices to such an ex-
tent that users would turn to
other fuels.
The bill sets up a $3OO,O0O,-
900 Federal fund for the pur-
pose of hdUing the Government
take over marginal coal mines,
such mines to be withdrawn By
the Government from competi-
tion.
A Federal tax on coal would
be levied and would be borne by
consumers to pay interest and
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

For the second consecutive
year the Citizens Military Train
ing Camps throughout the coun-
try are threatened with a dras-
tic reduction in the compare.
lively small sum required to
keep open the splendid schools
of training with the colors for
national citizenship.
Apparently this integral part
of "the common defense" is to
be scuttled because admission to
these camps is on the merit SyS-
tenn, because the camps are in
no sense political and in every
sense patriotic. Nobody is paid
anything for attending the Citi-
zens Military Training Camps
and no pork barrel politician
can collect a political fee in the
form of a vote or other reward
for getting anybody into these
camps.
When the Citizens Military
Training Camps were inaugu-
rated in 1921 they were an ex-
pertinent. Approximately 10000
young men were given basic
military training in the camps
during the summer of that
year, and these camps were &C.
claimed a tremendous success
in North, East, South and West.
This number annually increased
until the camps reached the
peak years of 1927-1932, when
an average of $4,000 young men
between the ages of II and %
were given instruction during
one month in the summer over
a four-year course. This course
led either to Reserve noncom.
missioned status in the Army
or to Reserve commissioned
rank after certain additional
study.
APPLICATIONS BOOM
Year after year the applica-
tions for admission to these
camps increased until the num-
ber of those who sought en-
trance approximated 100 900 per
year. For years thousands of
these young Americans were
carefully examined, and those
best qualified physically, men,
tally and morally were selected
for training.
This training was designed to
prepare each graduate from
these camps for useful citizen
ship. These camps appealed es.
pecially to these young Ameri-
cans who had come to realize as
a result of what they learned in
school that under the American
system of government for every
right there is a responsibility,
for every opportunity offered by
American citizenship a CORE.
spending obligation.
AS the usefulness of these
camps more and more impressed
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
In the World of Science
Earth's Crust Is ''Shaken Down.
By Hiram Perez Maxim,

cent Of the heat of the suns
radiatiors are reflected from
SnoW-covered surface and radl-
ated away into outer space.
Thus an elevation automatically
brings snow and ice and the
snow and ice bring more of the
same. The load goes on accu-
mulating until, after a few
hundred centuries, it becomes
too great for the thin crust to
bear.
According to the geologists
holding this theory, when a
land area settles to a lower
elevation, the ice starts to
melt. This melting uncoVers
dark colored rocks which ab'
sorb the heat of the suns
radiations and become rela-
lively warm. The melting. once
started, automatically brings
more melting, and conditions
swing to the other extreme.
These changes occur slowly.
Probably hundreds of centuries
pass during the settling and
elevating periods. Animal lie
has plenty of time to move, for
the cold comes gradually. AS
the great shifts occurred, and
the serious readjustmentS in
Earth's crust went on, earth
quakes and earth rumb)ings,
with their accompanying grind
ings and meanings, must have
been frequent and Of titanic
magnitude.
LAST ADJUSTMENTS
Biologists also attempt to &C
count for the recurring ice ages
of the past by pointing out that
an oscillating system probably
prevailed. When one area be.
came loaded with ice and SET
tied, an equal area raised up in
another place. This new area
then started collecting it's load
of snow and ice, and when 1t
had accumulated load too
great for the crust to sustain, it
settled and pushed up the next
weak spot. 1t is claimed that
this process went on repeating
itself, bringing about the various
ice ages, subsidences and eleva-
tions which geologic research
discloses.
AS the time went on. each sub,
sidence and elevation became Of
lesser magnitude. The earth's
crust gradually became adjusted
If this theory be a true picture
Of what actually happened IN
the long ago, and if the earthS
crust actually has become
shaken down." we may expect
a more calm and peaceful Worlo
in the future. Such earthquakes
as now occur are probably the
last few adjustments IN Ine
crust of Mother Earth.
Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday ana
Friday. The subject Of the next
will be "When Paint Stores were
Filling Stations"
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

a theory, in which I can find
no supporters, that canaries and
other song birds are always sore,
and that what we call a song"
is really swearing in bird Ian
guage. The louder they Sing"
the sorer they are, and the fact
that nobody ever does anything
about it only infuriateS them
the more.
What right have we got to
take it for granted, simply be-
cause bird is making a Shrill
series of sounds, that it is
happy? 1t is a typically blind,
pollyanna human trait in us,
this ascribing emotions to dumb
animals about which We know
nothing. Some day I'll bet that
some canary will finally burst
into speech in the middle of a
particularly frantic song and
say: For the love of Mike,
don't stand around there smirk-
ing like that: I feel awful"
But this is not winning our
canarieS' battles in London.
Whatever the outcome of the
show is, the least that we can
do is meet them at the boat
when they come home and let
them know that we have been
thinking about them.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
Articles bv Robert Benchlev
appear each Monday, WedneS.
day and Friday
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

nittee of the
House prob
ably will be
S o m e w h a t
more careful
of his investi-
cations of de-
serving Demo-
Gratis in the
future.
Not lon g
ago Full er
and some of
his colleagues
S t e p p e d
a b o ar d a
Capitol eleva-
tor pilot e d
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

surely as if
you h a d
agreed to do
something.
The thing
ou DON'T
DO h a S as
m u C h effect
on your char
acter and life
as the thing
you DO.
There is no
such a thing
as a Mega
TIVE a t t j.
tude. Every
q t t itud e.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

surface. Y e t
such changes
were ordinary
events in the
past. Off the
New England
coast, seven
thousand feet
below the sur
face of the
Atlantic, lie
t h e channels
of a n c j e n t
rivers which
f | O W e d
through lands
that W e e
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
More Brain Trusters?
Let's Hope Not

Harvard is developing plan train men for Government
service.
The idea is natural consequence of the present invasion
washington by schooboys. It noble experiment.
whether it succeeds not Statesmen from mmemora
have needed the lessons of life rather than of textbooks but
sound education won't hurt them.
And anyway political professors of the Harvard intends
to train couldn't make than the
professional politicians tnkerng with our Ship of State
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

a m ortization
C h a r geS on
t he invest
nent.
Opponents
claim that
the measure
would cripple
the industry
a n d force
AA"AJ AAAAAAND
to shut down,
with a result
in 6 increase
in unemplOy-
ment.
Guffey, of
course, thinks
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
A "NO" Is A "Yes''

A mo" is as important as
a YES"
A mo" actually is a "YES."
If you refuse to do some
thing, YOU take stand as
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

OU14C4 W 4OCs
He contends that the regula-
tion would build up the industry
and in the long run give addi-
tional benefits to operators and
labor.
Before he can secure enact
ment, however, he is going to
hear plenty about his first legiS-
lative measure.
(Copyright.ts35, The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
We Need More Police
To Curb Traffic Toll

Twelve killed traffic accidents here already this year!
We thought that when Washington established alltme
record for killing it's citizens in street accidents last year. the
public consciousness would be shocked and there would be
return to careful and considerate driving.
According to the figures wrong and the wanton
per vehicle operators still at the job Of moving
down innocent victims
you realize that YOU may be the next victim of driver
who willing to take your life in order to gain second
two?
And you do realize that what you doing about it?
Arrest and immediate and drastic punishment of the careless
and incompetent driver the only things that will make the
streets of the National Capital SAFE
But you can't make arrests without policemen and WE
HAVEN'T ENOUGH POLICEMEN.
Our Detectives testified before House committee
the day and expressed the opinion that increase the
police wouldn't necessarily curta the high number Of
occurring in the District That probably true to
murders, but doesn't apply to traffic fatalities
And YOU killed by automobile driver are just
as dead you would be you shot through the heart
An adequate police force would stop this street slaughter
AND NOTHING ELSE WILL.
We've tried persuasion We've tried education. We've
tried lectures And the toll has mounted.
Punishment swift sure for violation of the rules of safe
driving remains the only of cutting down that
toll. In order to punish first have to arrest.
Congress should give the policemen necessary to MAKE
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

Representative Claude A. Full
Ter, of Arkansas, chairman of
the Democratic patronage COM
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Earth's Flexible Crust
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Incl

From seven thousand feet be.
low sea level to sixteen thousand
feet above, seems to us today a
profound change in the Earth's
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

proved 100 per cent a year for
the past five years. Our object
is to produce birds here better
than those produced in Europe,
and, while I don't say we'll win,
we can equal anything they can
show"
That is the spirit which turns
out good canaries, and don't for.
get it. I wish that there had
been someone like that to put
the old pep into canaries when
was a. boy. In my day, cana.
ries thought they were doing all
right if they kept upright on
the perch without slipping off
every few minutes with one foot.
I didn't ask the member of
the committee Che was not a
canary himself-at least, don't
think he was) just what events
our American birds were spc-
cializing in for the London
meet, but suppose they had to
be proficient in such old stand
bys as hopping up and down,
tWittering and tweeting, seed
spilling and trapeze work.
I often thought that it would
be a dirty trick, and therefore
seriously considered trying it, to
build a stationary swing in a
canary's cage, one which would
move neither forward nor back
ward but which looked like a
regular swing.
Just how would a canary show
that he was trying to hunch it
back and forth and not succeed
ing? Would his eyes bulge?
Would he perspire? Would he
be sore?
OF course. I have ALWAYS had
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Find a Hobby
1t Will Help You Through Life

Dr. Nkola Tesla of the greatest living scientists finds
time from his important work have hobby nurses all
ing pigeons back to health
In the lives of all of there should be little breathing
space from the hard hurry and hustle to be given to something
warm and simple and humane
The Fort Peck press., 1935-06-27

New Light Plant

w . lNCW LISlt ldlll
The Wheeler Electric and Power
Co. have received the information
they have needed to start their power
plant and work is going ahead rap
idly so that service can be supplied
to Wheeler at the earliest possible
date. The equipment has been ship
ped from the factory and should
arrive any day. Service will prob
ably be supplied by June q.
Business houses wanting power
rates for equipment falling in that
class should provide a separate SER
vice so that it can be metered indie
pendent of light circuits. Business
houses should give the company
8 days notice for service so that
the company can obtain proper
metering equipment to handle their
demand. No service can be supplied
without s days notice until the
new distribution system is erected.
The following rates have been
established.
RESIDENTIAL RATES
Minimum rates, $500 per month
First so XVIII Ice
Next 100 lac
Excess of $50 .12c
COMMERCIAL RATES
Minimum rate $500 per month
First 100 XVIII Ice
Next 200 .l4c
Next 200 .12c
Excess of 500 .10c
POWER RATES
Minimum rate $500 per month
includes one horsepower allowance
of one b. p. is ST. per month
for each h.p. over one.
200 XVIII .10c
Next 300 .O8c
Excess of 500 .O6c
We will attempt to maintain the
oest continuous service possible &
nave bufchased equipment that
will give the best assurance of
meeting This promise.
H. C. McNULTY, i
Manager
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
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The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Maj. Gen. Adolphus w. Greely,
who died at Walter Reed Hospital
yesterday, will be buried with full
military honorS at 3:15 p. m. to-
morrow in Arlington National
Cemetery. it was announced today
by the War Department.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted in AL Souls Unitarian
Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
Streets Northwest, at ais p. m. by
the Rev. DR.. U. G. B. Pierce,
pastor. DR.. Pierce also will Off
ciate at the services at the grave.
The following honorary pail
bearers were announced today:
Maj. Gen. Leon B. Kroner, Mai.
Gen. James B. Allison, Maj. Gen.
Charles NICK. Saltzman, retired;
Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs, re-
tired; Maj. Gen. Irving j. Carr,
retired; Brig. Gen. David L.
Brainard, retired; former Brig.
Gen. William Mitchell: Col.
Charles DEF. Chandler, retired; I;
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, and r. M.
Kaufman.
General Greely died at the age
of 81. only a few months after
the Government had recognized
his work and presented him with
the highest decoration of the land,
the Congressional Medal of Honor,
more than half a century after his
| deeds of heroism
Fine Civil War Record
Born in Newburyport, Mass,
March 81, 1914, he graduated
from high school in 1860, and
the following year enlisted in the
Union Army, rising to the rank
of brevet major of volunteers
and was three times wounded in
action.
Following the Civil War he
was appointed second lieuten-
ant in the Regular Army, rising
until he was named major gen.
eral in 1906.
One of the first men in the
country to experiment with the
telegraph, he was detailed in
1876 to install telegraph lines in
the far West.
His greatest fame came, how
ever. in 1881 when he was named
to head an exploration party
into the Arctic. Under his lead
ership the party discovered new
lands and crossed Grinnell Land
to the Polar Sea.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Failure Of supply vessels to
break through the ice brought
disaster to the party, and all but
six died of starvation. General
Greely often told how the party
lived for nine months on pro
visions designed for six weeks.
After the failure of supply ships
to arrive, General Greely led his
men on a long march through
the ice and snow to Cape Sabine,
off Greenland, to await rescue.
After three years, in June, 1884,
the rescue party headed by Com
mander-later Admiral w. S.
Schley, of Spanish-American War
fame, finally arrived.
Pioneer in Wireless
In the SpaniSh-American War,
General Greely was placed in
charge of construction of tele.
graph lines in Cuba, Puerto Rico
and the Philippines. Later he did
similar work in China during the
Boxer Rebellion. He again went
to the Arctic in 1900 to install
telegraph lines for the Govern.
ment in Alaska.
He was one Of the first men
to experiment with wireless teleg.
raphy, and was also named to