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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24
Increased Gas Tax

The District Commissioners directed their legal advisors
prepare bill increasing the gasoline tax from cents to
cents thereby they have added another mystery to the
functioning of the local government
There doesn't be any sound for increasing this
tax The for and road Improvement and repair
which maintained the gasoline tax at present ample to
the needs of the city and than ample to care
for the expenditures which Congress will permit to make
The authoritative estimates the condition OF the
gas that the end of the next fiscal there
will surplus of approximately quarter OF million dol
lars Actually surplus will probably be greater than this
because the expenditures will probably not be as great as con-
tempated the estimates and the income due to increased
population will probably be greater than estimated
There are elements that for years have been trying
to soak Washington motorists with increased gasoline tax
Thew have paraed ocad reasons for the projected
increase.
But when all the argument had been boiled down. was
found that the REAL was desire to oene ne gaso
line dealers in adjoining States
Heretofore this effort benefit nearby dealers at the cost
of all the local motorists has been largely confined to the
representatives of those States
Now however, it that the District Commissioners,
who if thew have interest any people should have it in
those they have selected to govern joining the cam
paign.
This city not need increased gasoline tax It can
meet its expenses without it. The proposed fifty per cent
advanced by the Commissioners or anyone
else is utterly unustifiable
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casting their findings.
They may be pests to every
one else, but they certainly
enjoy themselves.
If you can get stuck on your
self like that you're playing in
luck, but such is not my for"
tunate habit.
When I get stuck on myself
it's on the reverse.
I spend all my time thinking
about myself, to be sure, but
instead of thinking what a
humdinger I am I think what
a flop I've turned out to be,
and how God and the whole
human race are picking on
me.
SELF PITY
Instead of being glad about
myself spend hours and hours
being sorry for myself.
And it doesn't need any
great personal tragedy to start
me going.
When I decide to throw a liz
spell of melancholia any old
gloom will do. The darndest
trifles,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

held together by a matrix Of re-
Igion-pagan or Christian.
A whopping big population
shift was the return of the Mon
gols from Russia in the seven
tenth century. They had taken
their gods with them on their
Russian invasion, and they
brought them back with them.
Their religion and their ancient
culture were intact. The great
temple Of Jehol was built to
celebrate their return.
Just now the strange Cana
dian Dukhobors are starting
their mass migration to the will
derness of the Paraguayan
Chaco. These fantastic Spirit
Wrestlers," as they were called,
were driven out of Russia in
1885. Ragged and all but des-
titute, they built up their Cana
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don and Birmingham IN no
time.
Brigham Young made a go Of
it in spite of, rather than on &C.
count of, the Government. On
the whole, the attitude of the
Government toward the Nor
mons was rather stupid, and
they were opposed by both men
and the elements. But there
was a religious amalgam there,
and they won through and made
their staunch little empire.
It seems necessary in these
migrations that the people carry
their religious landscape with
them, no matter what new or
far horizons they may raise-as
did the children of Israel in
their 40-year trek out of the land
of bondage. The only colonies
which ever stuck were the ones
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Made In Japan

Makers of sewing machine parts tell you thing or two
about Japanese competition.
They will show you 'transmitter Of Japanese make,
in appearance with those made here and sold to
Americans at ONETHIRD of the price Of the made
article.
The japanese transmter has the word Japan in raised
letters on one part the machine but this word be
and frequently sfed off after the machine reaches the
States.
Or the part with Japan be removed and an
unmarked part substituted giving the American buyer the
idea that he getting genuine American product at very
low cost.
Neat Ell?
And showing why various American factories firing
their employees and closing their doors since American tariff
walls too low to keep these foreign goods OUT.
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John J. NOOnan School

The Board of Education has opportunity to pay fit
ting tribute to citizen of Washington who earned the un
diving gratitude and affection of school children and their
parents-the late John j. Noonan.
The board if it complies with the wishes Of the public
generally will speedily name school after this phanthropic
citizen who throughout his life devoted much OF his time
and fortune to the welfare of the cty's children.
Mr. Noonan was the moving spirit behind the effort which
brought about the reduced street fare for school children
BY his activity this alone he earned the esteem
in which he was universally held.
During Mr. Noonans life it proposed that some means
be found him honor Because of his modesy however
the plan was abandoned.
The board would be honorng itself by placing his name
on school building.
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Red Logic

Some of simple citizens have trouble in graspn the logic
of the American Communists who to have for main
plank in their platform the immediate disarmament OF the
United States.
Anything looks like adequate preparedness anathema
to them
they will even go out and fight the police and then in
the interest of perpetual peace
But their dear Russia the fount Of everything that de-
srabe has the biggest standing army the world and of
the biggest forcef the biggest It condemns
millions its peasants to starvation in order to sell wheat
abroad and put the into the Soviet military machine
of who paraded there the of Marx and Len
There slight inconsistency in the Red preaching here
and the Red practice there Apparently for the Soviet
gande the right condment to serve with the American
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24
Planned Shifts of Population,

Planned Shifts of Population
Red Indians aren't supposed
to have much of a sense of
humor, but there's a deep ironic
chuckle in the news for them
these days if they're reading
the papers.
It was a little over a hundred
years ago that the Uaited States
Government herded the five
civilized tribes from east Ten
nessee into the Western plains
and mountains-oneo of the most
brutal episodes in our history.
A century rolls around. Oil
gushes up in Oklahoma. Indians
ride around in big automobiles
and the United States Govern
ment herds 4,5O0 INDECENT whites
over the mountains from the
Missouri Ozarks into eastern
Tennessee and Kentucky.
It was in Andrew JackSon's
day when the five tribes were
sent to Indian Territory, which
was to become the State of
Oklahoma. The Indians took
it pretty hard, as do the white
hill people of the Tennessee
valley today, with steam ShovelS
roofing up both their meager
homesteads and their ancient
way of life.
In that historic trek of the
.eighteen-thirties, the red men
were driven like cattle. That
was planned economy" of
course, but there were none of
the rationalizations and intel
lectual build-upS which now en-
bellish our adventures in this
field. No particular sanctions
were invoked. They just rooted
out the Indians and let it go at
that. The tribes were the
Chickasaws, Cherokees, Greeks,
Choctaws and Seminoles, the
last from Florida.
RELIGIOUS AMALGAM
Most great human migra-
lions have been brought about
by one crowd running out the
other. The transplanting of
Middle Western farmers to
Alaska and this mass shift of
of the Ozark mountaineers are
among the few instances in re-
corded history where large num-
bers of people have been moved
en- maSse in accord with de-
liberate and beneficently in
spired governmental plans.
England shipped her con-
victs to Laborador, Canada,
America and Australia, but
principally because she wanted
to get rid Of them. They
stayed because they had to.
later she sent groups of her
little flat-cheSted, burnt-out in
dustrial workers to Canada to
reclaim virgin land. She fl
nanced. equipped and educated
them in agriculture, but they
were back in the slumS Of Lon
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men and hiram FeFcy "AA'"
women on earth were each to
lift off the earth, and hold in
their arms, weight OF so
pounds. If there we're 1000
million persons who did this,
altogether they would be hold
ing in their arms Is million
tons. Would any change occur
in the weight Of the earth?
Obviously not. However, stat
ing the matter in this way fast
ems the principle in the mind,
and prepares the way for the
next hypothetical question.
Suppose a pound of coal is
pulverized until it is as fine as
flour, and then placed in large
air-tight and fire-proof box.
There is plenty of air in the
box to permit burning all the
coal, and there is also a slow
burning fuse.
When the fire from the fuse
reaches the powdered coal it
will set fire to it, and the coal
will burn like punk until it is
consumed.
CHA.JGE FORM
Suppose we weigh this box
before any of the coal starts
burning. Then we weigh the
box again, after the coal is all
burned, and there is nothing
but ash and smoke SCOT visible
in the box. We will find the
weight unchanged.
This can be accounted for
only by the coal and air having
changed their form, but not
their weight. This is exactly
what has happened.
Were we to analyze the con-
tents of the box, we should find
ash where coal had existed, and
carbon dioxide gas and water
vapor in place of the air.
The carbon dioxide gas came
from the union of the carbon
in the coal and the oxygen in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

They were endeavorlng TO
compile a list of "sexy" books
to read.
The Presidents tireside chats
continue to SweH the stream OF
letters to Government agencies
viu the White House.
Not so long ago letter read:
"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: wish
Won would read this letter to
the President while you are
alone together. If you don't
no attention will be paid to 1t.
eff you have any leftover
dresses, 1 wish you would send
them to me. 1 have two chill
dren. 1 wear a size 40"
Extra precautions we're taken
the other day 1Dhen President
Roosevelt delivered his message
to CONGRESS so as to prevent
anu person from Uenting his
1Drath concerning the bonus
Ueto.
An unusual number of guards,
detectives and Secret Service
men was on hand-a much
larger group than customary.
After the Chief Executive had
concluded his message and was
leaving the Capitol, a corps OF
"still' photographers gathered
at the entrance to take pictures.
They were denied the privilege
although the movie men made
their "Shots."
"StilP' pictures would have
forced the President to halt.
Secret Service men wanted
him whisked away without de-
lay.
Wee Willie Collins, super
intendent of the Senate ScribeS,
has a new plan of protection
for those who journey down the
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

dian farm colony to a present
value of more than 10 million
dollars. But the religious fanati-
cism, which disciplined them
and enabled them to conquer
the wilderness, also made trou-
BILE and is the cause of their
new migration. Nudism is de-
creed by their religious obserV-
ances.
Annually, perhaps in zero
weather, the bearded farmers
and their families parade with
out clothes. That annoys the
conveniently minded Canadian
farmers even more than the
Communist parades annoy the
Fifth Avenue merchants.
Again the Dukhobars, like
the Arcadians, like the Chill
dren of Israel, like the Mongols,
like the toiling cavalcade OF
"Grass" and like the Five Civil
lized Tribes, are on their way.
For human kind, Already always
seems to be somewhere else
just over the mountain, just
beyond some dim horizon.
CHERISHED SOIL
Taking a look at the Federal
human and soil conservation
program, particularly as it is
outlined in the Tennessee and
Mississippi valleys, it involves
some pretty drastic inroads on
the old homesteads- picking up
an ancient community by the
scruff of the neck and dropping
it somewhere else. The South
ern hill people don't take to 1t
very kindly. :,
Our blatant world has passed
them by and they oppose adver'
sity with little more than
squirrel gun, a pair of blue duck
ms and a couple Of shoatS. But
still they say, Let us alone"
They are sad, as steam shovels
disturb the bones Of their an
cestors. There is no little human
dignity there, and nobility OF
character.
Perhaps in the Government
they could find some little in
conspicuous alphabetical open
ing for a Department of Human
ism. Perhaps they could find
Government investigators who
could carry a wallop of old Mis-
souri, twist chewing tobacco IN
their hip pockets and sit on a
fence rail with the mountaineers
and sing THE Birmingham JAIL
or Comm Round the Noun.
tain" with the hill-billieS and OF
course, talk things over.
There is a distressing lot the
governments don't knoW-about
people, about the little human
tendrils of old loves and assocl-
ations even in bleak mountains
or impoverished soil. There are
cherished dramas in the Blue
Ridge and the Big Smokes and
the Ozarks, but, of course, the
Government has no department
covering that.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

I get sorry because ought
to 60 to the dentist and haven't
just as if I had the only tooth
on earth!
I get sorry because my bu-
reau drawers aren't tidy, as
if the devil invented bureau
drawers just for me!
I burst out into big, wet
tears because someone did me
dirt when I was going on
eight.
And when I can't cry any
more over that I get to think
ing how lonely and miserable
I'm going to be when I'm 80
and all my false friends have
deserted me.
In short I get sore at every
thing under the blue heaven
and with each second I sink
deeper into the mire.
But I thought you were talk
ing about being stuck on your.
self" you say. That's self pity
that isn't being stuck on your
self"
SWIFT KICK
Yes it is, dearie!
Self pity is the most cusSed
and complete form Of being
stuck on yourself.
It doesn't matter whether
you're making whoopee over
yourself
Or weeping over yourself
In either case you're concen'
trating on your SELF and let
ting the rest Of the world go
hang.
And perhaps if that fact were
more generally understood lot
of these self-pity artists would
be eliminated.
For what self.pity-ers need is
not sympathy or comfort or as"
SiStance.
What they need is a good
swift kick.
know.
For that's what I need right
now.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate 1nc.)
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Words of Wise Men

You owe little you what are,
discriminating to which alone your e
emption mseres-Boyle.
greatest artist who has embodied in the sum OF MS
works. greatest number Of the greatest dealsFuSkn
guests where hope doth hold the east-aScogne
sloth that shamed siren, to be shunned.-Horace.
To all mortaS conscience is God-Menander
History dstillation rumor.-Carlyle.
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sage, the ire
m e n d o u s
t h r o n 6
around the
Capitol W a s
en- S e with
excitement.
T W o news
paper report
ers fore ng
t h ir W a y
through t h e
Gro W d were
m e W h a t
Surpri S ed,
therefore, to
hear two men
discussing an
ether subject.
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The World of Science
Blu Hiram Perez Maxim

the air. The water vapor came
from the hydrogen in the coal
and the oxygen in the air.
If we wanted to, we could
change the carbon dioxide back
into carbon and into oxygen.
We should then have coal and
air again, but we should have
to supply heat to make good the
heat which we threw away when
we burned the coal.
Incidentally, the heat and
light which we threw away in
radiation did cause some loss of
weight; but the amount of this
destruction was infiniteSimal,
and no ordinary scales could
weigh it.
This destruction has only
lately been realized. 1t is the
same as goes on in the sun and
stars. They radiate light and
heat, and this is done at the ex-
pense of their weight.
The sun destroys $50 million
tons of itself every minute in it's
job of keeping up the enormous
radiation Of heat and light
which it dispenses.
NO CAUSE TO WORRY
But the Sun is so huge that
it can spare this loss for mil
lions of years without substan.
tial decrease in percentage of
weight.
Thus it is plain that Earth
does not lose enough weight by
the digging up of millions of
tons of coal, the pumping up of
millions of barrels of oil, and
burning them, to amount to any
thing.
The products of combustion
of this enormous quantity Of
coal and oil weigh almost ex-
actly the same as the original
unburned fuel.
We say that all but the ash
passes off in gas. 1t does; but
gas has weight, and when it is
added to the atmosphere, the
latter weighs that much more.
The atmosphere is as much a
part of the Earth, and its weight,
as the coal and oil.
Til id souls have no cause to
worry about the burning up of
enormous weights of coal and
oil, at least as far as changing
the weight of Earth is con-
cerned.
AS a matter of fact, there is
no practical way for us to make
and change in Earth'S weight.
Copyright 1895, King Features
Syndicate. InC.)
Articles by MIR. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject of the
next one will be Thirty Thous-
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tons Of coal,
and millions
OF barrels OF
Oil, will not
re du &c the
weight OF the
earth TO such
an extent as
to bring on
some gre a t
disaster.
Let us look
at a similar
but 81 m p Ter
q II e s ton.
Suppose t h e
m I'LL ons Of
~ an a ~ n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

He emerged
f r o m h / S
b u i | d j n 6
W lille h e
c a m e r a S
clicked.
Three times
he dire cted
his chauffeur
to the White
House. TIL e
ar didn't
m o v e o n
either order.
U S u a lily,
H o p k i n S
CHI a if e ur
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

up with Elsie.
Now, there
a r e people
who can get
a lot Of kick
out of being
S t u ok on
t h e m selves.
They think
W h a t three
6 re at guys
they are and
what wonder
full thin G S
they h a v e
d on e, a nd
t h e y. G o
around broad
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

Harry L. Hopkins stands beside
the car and opens the door for
the Administrator.
On this occasion, however, to
make the situation appear more
democratic, Hopkins opened the
door himself while the chauf-
feur sat at the wheel.
After numerous tries, the pic
ture was taken.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington
TimASl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

river Saturday for the baseball
game between the press gal
leries and members of the
House.
He announces that he has
secured the loan of half dozen
pairs of handouts from District
police to prevent anyone who
becomes too enthusiastic from
falling overheard.
While on the subject of this
ball game it might be well to re-
call that House Sergeant-at-
Arms, Kenneth Romney, who
has made some rather deflama-
tory remarks about using a soft
ball" has realized the effect of
the hard ball.
The other day Ken strobe
into the House gymnasium
1Dhere the House team, WGS
hurting a fen balls back and
forth.
One of the hard pills vent
Dild, struck the top of Mr..
Romney'S new StrGW SKIM
ner and crushed it.
The Sergeant-at-Arms removed
the headpiece and gravely
bowed.
Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministratOr Harry L. Hopkins is
one of the most photographed
men in the New Deal.
When he is asked to appear
before the movie cameras, how
ever, he requires considerable
rehearsing.
Not so long ago Hopkins was
to have his picture taken.
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Is the Earth Losing Weight :

l have been asked to discuss
in this column whether the
yearly burning of millions Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24
OLD FAVORITES
Canadian Boat Song BY Thomas Moore

Family as tolls the evening chime
Our voices keep tune and oars keep time.
Soon as the woods shore look dim,
Well sing at st. AIMS parting hymn
Row, brothers, row, the stream fast,
The rapids are and the daylight's past.
Why should yet sail unfurl?
There is not breath the blue to curl
But, when the wind blows off the shore,
Oh, sweetly we IL rest weary
Blow, breezes, blow, the stream fast,
The rapids and the daylight's past
Utawas' tide! this trembling
Shall float thy surges
Saint of this green isle! hear prayers,
On, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs.
Blow, breezes, blow, the stream fast,
The rapids and the daylights past
Re1derS iVted to send to the editor their Sugges-
ttons of old tavorites among the poems for reprting in
this spGce)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

When the Nation paused
in its labor the other day to
hear the Presidents veto mes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-24

When I Get Stuck on Myself
Every now and then I get
stuck on myself.
Not that I ever exactly hate
myself, but there are periods
when I am particularly gummed
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Articles by MIR. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject of the
next one will be Thirty Thous-
and Other Habitable Worlds"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-12
VITAL STATISTICS
Marriage Licenses

Silas Corbin, as Covington. Ky. mer-
chant, and Rose Taught, A. of 1888 N
Dearborn-st, bookkeeper.
Al ALVIN pye e. Shoals ssio 1nd farmer, and
Edgar Allison Clay. 20. of 2O1O Barth-
av, barber, and Clarice Lucille Buck, 49,
of 1929 S. Easiest. factory worker.
Floyd, King p; Dayton. o.. baker and
Mary Weiser, 10, OF 1886 Boulevard-pl.
josh K. Smith. %. Sphinx Hotel bus
driver, and Evelyn NJ. Bauer. IS, r. r. 10
Box AL c. housekeeper
Charles E. Blackstone. %. Ravenswood
of 824 E. Sixty-third-st, telephone operator.
Charles J. Lehr Jr., q, of 927 N. Gray
st, architect. and Thelma May, 20. of 310l
Nowland-av, stenographer
Nit Garard. 49, of 437 N Alabama st
machinist, and Alice NJ. Jones. 20, of 263
Willard Barrett 25, Of 935 Bellefontaine-
st. druggist, and Tabitha J. Paterson, 81,
of 3015 E. Westinghouse, housekeeper.
Verl Endicott "a of Shebyville, Ind.
musician and Opal Lisk, g. of 38 N
Edgar Lydick, 54 Of 1926 Carroltou-av.
ice dealer, and Mary May Campbell, 81. of
1921 Guilford-av. housekeeper
Dale L Craig. IS. of 1912 Pleasant Run
blvd. soda dispenser, and Maude G. Wing
William Lower. 80, of 1852 w. Twenty
ninth-st, landscape architect. and Mary
housekeeper.
George McClain. %. of 419 w. Twenty
ffth-st, porter and Dorothy c. Lytle. 20,
Of 1874 Roach-st. housekeeper.
Lester F. Johnson, % Of 2545 College
Livingston. q, of 1114 Brunswick-st.
waitress.