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whole thing off, and begin again,
doesn't it? They haven't got
very much left to work with,
as it stands.
Let us look into the thing
more closely. If you had been
in Persia on New Year Day,
you would really have been in
Iran on March 22nd. Or will
be. Or will have been. Or
Persia. (I'm not even holding
my own in this argument.)
I don't even know why I
bother. have still got to figure
out where I really was my
self on New Year Day, and
I'm pretty sure that it wasn't
Pers1a-or Iran. I had laid my
plans to be right here in New
York, and I usually stick pretty
closely to my plans-at least,
I don't end up on another con.
tinent. Oh, well, France maybe,
but not as far west as Persia.
This all sounds as if I were
a rather flibbertigibbet sort of
person, a will-o'-the-wiSp. Moth
ing could be farther from the
truth. The present mystery of
my whereabouts on New Year
Day is a very definite problem
in metaphysics. AS a matter of
fact, I didn't step out at all on
New Year Eve, but sat talking
on Melancholy in Keats
Poetry" with an English in
Structor from Harvard.
On New Year Day I rose
bright and early and did my
sweeping and baking. Then,
after a light lunch. I went to .
holiday matinee, asking for my
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLand

That the average man never
TELLS a woman anything
and when it comes to explaining
anything, mummy is chatty
beside him.
That a man may change his
politics, give up his work or fight
with his family; but nothing but
feebleness or death can separate
him from his pet folly or his
fayorite weakness-whether it's
horSe-racing, golf, liquor, food,
women or just gaudy neckties.
That a girl slips into the role
of wife as easily as she slips
into a bungalow apron; but max
ing a husband out of a bachelor
is a labor of skill, love, art,
science and time.
That lots of men may never
have had adenoidS, falling
arches or appendicitis, but there
probably never lived a man who
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
Another New Year
BY Robert BenchLev

seats at the box office and no.
ticing particularly how excel
lent they were. Il had ordered
them in advance from an
agency. I enjoyed the perform
ance from the fourth row cen
ter and, at it's conclusion, Saun-
tered out into the warm, debili-
tating air of New Year. Moth
ing could have been more con-
ventional or Sedate.
Three days later I got a let
ter from the producer of the
show I had attended, saying
that he was very sorry about
the mix-up in my seats, that it
was the fault of the box office,
and asking if I wouldn't try
again. This, you will admit, was
confusing.
I telephoned him and learned
that the seats I had ordered had
been lost in the holiday rush,
that someone had called Cor
them and had been told OF the
mistake, and that there was no
record of my ever having been
seated at all.
Even when I assured him that
I had seen and enjoyed the show
from D-105, he very gently told
me that he understood that I
was just trying to be nice, and
asked me when could really
come and see the show as his
guest. Nothing could shake him,
and the conversation ended
with my bursting into tears and
digging my nails into my scalp.
The clipping about New Year
Day in Persia being March 22nd
in Iran has done nothing to
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nave put NUMBER OF men W
work.
Capers of a Capitol cat came
close to being cut recently.
Back in the corner of the Sen
ate side of the building is an
elevator marked Private" It
is for Senators Fastening to and
from their work.
Recently a cat, arriving from
some unknown location, took up
its stand in a niche on the top
floor within an inch of the
elevator channel.
For two days and nights the
feline repoSed in its niche. Eff.
forts to call it out we're unsuc.
ceSSful.
Finally the elevator was
halted. it's door taken down,
and while service was suspended
Mrs. Thomas T. Gait was ex.
tracted.
President Franklin D. ROOSe-
welt, exponent of the New Deal,
should pay more attention to
Representative Fritz G. Lanham
3D. of Texas.
If there is any man on Capt.
tol Hill who knows the ms and
outs of shuffling it is Fritz G.
Lanham.
Coming from a State where
men were once known by the
cards they cut he has learned
the tricks of the trade.
He is an artist with the
cards and can accomplish tricks
that would make any New
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
Scientist Traces Source of Static Hiss to
Center of Milky WAY Galaxy

the fixed stars, it's relative po-
sition in the armament does
not change.
The exact direction from
which these curious waves
came, in astronomical terms,
is right ascension 18 hours, dec
lination south 20 degrees.
FUTURE VALUE
DR.. Harlow Shapley, of Har.
ward University, has estimated
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the location of the center Of
our Milky Way Galaxy, which
is the star system to which
our sun belongs.
The Holmdel scientist took
this location and found that
it conceded with the direction
from which his sound came.
Our scientist in Holmdel can
point to nothing of immediate
and concrete value as a result
of three years observation.
Yet the one fact that the hiss
appeared to come from the place
which Shapley says is the center
of the Milky Way Galaxy may
ultimately prove to be one of the
great discoveries of the century.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Articles by Hiram Percy
Maxim appear each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The
subject of the next one is
"Science Finds Life in the Dead
Sea-"
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A confusing neWs-note has
come to hand. It is from
Teheran, Persia, and it says:
Persia, after New Year Day,
ceased to be Persia any longer;
it became Iran.
"And in PerSia-that is, Iran
New Year Day was not Janu-
ary 1st; it was March 22nd."
1t seems as if it would have
been almost better to call the
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
Could You Stand It?
Hauptmann's Trial

Bruno Richard Hauptmann trial for his fe interrupted
the proceedings the other day to shout You lie at
witness The day his wife screamed the same words
another witness.
The court and all in the shocked at the out
bursts
But day for weeks Hauptmann has in that court
room and listened the State forged closer the
links in the chain binding him to the most revolving crime
Of the generation.
Witness after witness has added the testimony which
may send this to the electric chair.
Think how long you could remain calm under those
ditons.
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Dealer j e a l.
Gus.
When COM
m i t t e e SeS-
SionS become
dull Lanham
can entertain
the boys if
t h re is a
deck of cards
in the house.
The la t e
HOudini, who
once appear
ed before a
III o u S e COM
nnittee to ex-
-I-s
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In a flash it came over him
that this corresponded in a
year, to one complete rotation,
which is the same as the fixed
stars.
It now was evident that the
strange sound was coming from
a point in space outside our
solar system, and therefore from
somewhere very far away, in
deed.
So far must it be, that, like
The Washington times., 1935-01-21

ago, and set
about analyz-
ing those irri-
tating mani
fe S t a t i ons
W h i ch radio
| i S t e n ers
k n o W as
"static. His
firS t efforts
were directed
at m a k i n G
h S antenna
e S p e ci a lily
sensitive and
directive.
He sought
not only all
The Washington times., 1935-01-21

did not have an occasional
crouch, and go into the silence
without warning.
That the man you married
was already welded to business,
golf, fishing or his lodge-and
you are only the correspondent.
That the only way to find
happiness in love, is to mix it
with philosophy and tsSe it, like
religion, with blind faith.
Copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-21

Before her
sit two men.
One is the
man she loves
so deeply, his
youth marred,
as was hers,
by a hideous
blow.
The other
is the man
W h m S h e
must loathe
with all the
energy of her
intense ma
ture tn e
man who the
The Washington times., 1935-01-21

the Father
Of the COun-
try have been
impressed on
most Ameri-
cans, should
take note of
the fact that
his efforts to
m a Ike tn e
p e o p l e
washington
c o n 6 c iOuS"
n a v e n o t
been alone.
l n t h e
Marble Room
Of the Senate
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world believes dealt that blow.
And in her trembling hands lies
all that is left of the baby who
was her hearts delight.
Love and loathing and rack
ing grief, how they must war
within her slender body, snarl
and sob in her sensitive mind!
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plain various Fritz G. Lanham
tricks of magicians, might have
a difficult time explaining tho
Sleight-Of-hand artistry of Mr..
Lanham as he deals them from
the top, the bottom and the
middle of the deck.
Copyright, 1885. The WASHINGTON Timeu,
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Consistent Mr.. Mapes
Still After YOUR Money

representative O1 ConslsCeAL
nothing else.
He started out few years ago to take money out
Of the pockets of Washgtonans in the form of He
is still trying.
Without attempting to show any need for raising
tax money Mr. Mapes has introduced four bills to either raise
existing rates forms of taxation.
The bills would provide for local income tax would
establish local inheritance would tax vehicles by weight
instead of value, and would double the gasoline tax
That's a pretty comprehensive program It would hit
EVERYBODY in the city and would hit every business just
the time when all trying to Jump lot Of other
financial hurdles.
We can't quite figure Representative Mapes Ordinarily
he isn't bitter against the District of his colleagues
He is generally pretty in his legislative views
But when he aims YOUR pocketbook knows neither
restraint caution
There only for and that to meet the
expenses Of government After you meet those is unfair
and just little bit silly to raise tax money.
If the District weren't meeting its expenses, if were
running into the red ink, if it weren't paying its bills then
Mr.. Mapes' bills might have for existence
But the District meeting its expenses It in the black
Ink It is paying its bills.
What then would Mapes do with the additional money
which his tax bills would take of your pocket and put
in the Treasury?
We don't know Of course but suspect that he would
this additional money raised in many ways
National Capital which being by the Federal Gov
ernment
Fortunately for you the introduction of these bills
the District Committee.
And don't want to millions of dollars in addi-
honal and UNNECESSARY we suggest you let the
House District Committee know how you feel
The Washington times., 1935-01-21

AS I write this, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh sits in the court at
Pennington, New Jersey, suffer
ing the most cruel ordeal any
mother can know.
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Representative Sol &c. Wash.
ingtOn" Bloom Of New York,
whose revelations concerning
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
Hiram Percy Maxim

An inquisitive scientist of
Holmdel, N. j., erected a Spe-
cial radio antenna, three years
The Washington times., 1935-01-21

help. Maybe my seats were for
March 22nd, and I haven't been
to the show yet. Maybe New
York was Omsk on January 1St.
and I was somebody else. Maybe
where are those bromideS?
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
(ArticleS By Robert BenChley
appear each Monday, WedneS.
day and Frid1y.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
OLD FAVORITES
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Robert BrOlUnin0

Grow old along with mel
The best is yet to be-
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times in his hand
Who saith "A whole planned,
Youth shows but half trust God: ALL nor be afraid
So take and thy work:
Amend what flaws may urk,
What strain O. the stuff what warpings past the aim
My times be in thy hand!
Perfect the cup planned!
Let approve of YOUTH and death complete the same
(Readers inviteG to send to the editor their sug
geStions of old tavores among the for reprnting
IN this spoce.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-21
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

kObL7lSOn
Yet, to a pitying, watching
world, there comes but one
word describing her.
GENTLE.
Gentle-in the most dreadful
test of her life. No one would
blame her if she were otherwise.
If she should rise and shoot
Bruno Hauptmann dead no one
would be at a loss to under
stand it.
COURAGE
There is, indeed, no violence
which would not be forgiven her,
understood, even applauded.
Yet she is GENTLE-and in all
our history, never has there
been a finer sight than this!
We are not a very subtle
people, we Americans, nor in
some ways very wise.
We still mistake bluSter for
strength and pay secret homage
to that bullying brutality which
expresses its courage" with
machine gun.
All very we'll to purse our lips
piously at mention of such gen.
try-but watch us flock to the
films, or snatch at the extras
which describe their reverberat-
ing roWdiness.
Bad eggs? Sure! Nevertheless
we continue to gaze upon them
with the adoring awe with which
little Johnny surveys the corner
cop.
And the reason is, at root,
healthy one. They have come
to be our symbol of STRENGTH.
Gone are the Paul Reveres,
the ragged defenders of Valley
Forge, the valiant regiments Of
Gettysburg, who symbolized
strength for our fathers. Gone
. the Kit Carsons, the Pony Elk.
press, the StalWart spirits Of the
Covered Wagons.
To the youngsters of today,
these are only vague legends up
on printed page.
In their place - BANG!
BANG!-stalk Dillinger, Baby
Face Nelson and their Gun
Molls! Vicious vermin, yet Youth
admires them.
FOR YOUTH MUST HAVE
ITS ADVENT URES, IT'S
HEROES. AND WHERE SHALL
1T FIND THEM IN OUR SYN
THETIC CIVILIZATION?
REAL STRENGTH
Now, as if in answer to that
need, she comes-this frail Anne
Lindbergh, with that gentlenesS
which is the strength-that
quiet valor which requires no
noisy ballyhoo for it's support.
There she sits, mortally hurt
and yet triumphant, holding in
leash both the horror without
and the heartbreak within.
Here is the greatest exhibition
of spiritual fortitude which Am
erica has seen in decades.
This is not only very gallant
lady-but a shining reminder
of all that is finest in our dream
of life.
God go with you, little Anne
Lindbergh. You have done a
great thing for your country.
Copyright. 1898. by King FsGtures
syndicate, fne.S
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The motley crew that never knew
Machinery still try
To salvage it when they should quit
And let the truck get by.
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have put a number Of men to
work.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-16
WILL NOT DEFEND II

The late Senator Huey P. Long was paid, for
legal services, $35O,OOO by the state tax commits
sion and the public service commission of Louis-
ana in the six months preceding his death. This
money came from the taxpayers and consumers of
Louisiana At the same time he was paid the salary
of United States senator.
The admirers and defenders of the late senator
will never satisfactorily explain this conduct Those
who undertake to do so will have upon themselves
the burden of proving that a man may accept Il
post of the highest honor and responsibility at a
salary held to be commensurate with it's duties and
at the time take for other work for COM
monwealth fortune from its agencies.
No man could defend Senator Smith or Senator
Byrnes if one of them should accept fees of So,
900 in year from the state of South Carolina OF
one of its agencies and hope to have a future in
South Cardinals politics. No one in the South will
have the temerity to commend the conduct of the
late senator of Louisiana reported by the Asso
ciated Press in yesterdays dispatches Charleston
News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-16
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By IKE WALTON

came home from the river
wet as drowned rat and found
Sally as mad as a wet hen. Sally
doesn't talk much when she's ok,
she only .pours forth when she's
vcXcd. She took the coffce-pot off
the stove and poured me cup
al right as usual; an then she
said:
Isaac, you've got to write dig
nificd end elegant, like Walter
Lippmann and Arthur Brisbane,
or you've got to quit. Why, that
foolishncss you've been writing
about me has started a regular
procession of sympathetic cats to
this house. They say they are so
sorry feel bad because | can't
write poetry and they tell me
about my fine children and my
lovely quilts and my beautiful
beaten-biscuits, and then they
bring out the poems they have
written and tell me they'd rather
have my gifts as 4 hcuse-keeper
than their poems; and it's all just
pure hypocrisy, and | know it,
and their old poems would make
Mrs. Dargan throw duck-fit and
Edgar Guest break his typewriter,
but Of course I've got to be polite
and tell lot of fibs, and then
they go away and brag about how
the wife of the great literary
writer has praised their poetry,
and l tell you, Isaac Walton,
you'd just better keep me out of
your old stuff, or-or-well, I'll
Just take to writing myself, and
I'll sign my name Sally Walton
to it. and then maybe you'll stop"
Dear Sally" l said, ego to it.
I've been hoping you would start
for a long time. Have you forgot
ten the poem you sent me nearly
forty years ago? I haven't"
Sally began to turn red: but
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-16
THE 24-CARAT MESS

The state textbook rental system will prove to
be a 24-carat mess Dr.. Ralph w. Mcdonald told
the Charlotte News this week This is statement
which seems to coincide with the facts
The most serious defect in the plan as worked
out late this summer lies in the fact that pupils
are to rent the basal texts they will use constantly
throughout the term but will be required to buy
supplemental texts which they will use only small
part of the time. The logical order if pupils must
buy part and rent part of the texts would appear
to be in reverse with the pupil renting the supple
mentary texts and buying the books ne or she must
use throughout the term.
Under the old system every pupil had his books
to buy he salvaged a part of the expense in
Cured by reselling the texts after he had cOmpet
ed the grade As DR.. Mcdonald points out, it is
much more difficult to resell supplementary texas
because they are used only part of the year and
some pupils ''get by by borrowing books for linz
tied use, or doing without. Again, supplementary
texts used this year are not always in use next
year
1t occurs that if the state is to operate rental
system it should Ego the whole hog" and rent all
textbooks But if it can't do this for financial or
other reasons why put the cart before the horse?
1t stands to reason that the plan worked out for
this year is going to breed confusion and dssatis-
faction all up and down the line, but this confu-
sion and dissatisfaction may lead to happy result
in the eventual Inauguration of free textbook
system If this doesn't develop, at least the rental
system should be made complete.-Wnston-Sa Salem
Journal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-16
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
COUNTRY OR PARTY?

| Sometimes it seems to me that the question no"
is not so much whether shall have this or Shat
party in power in this country as 1t Is question
of whether we are going to have country IN winch
parties can be in power.
That's stating it, of course, rather dolefully but
takino a very unexcted view about It, the ISSUES
which are before the citizens of America To-Day
ovaitnp their political decisions are equivalent 50
Co.. os tho destiny of this republic is concerned,
NTH the decisions that mad to be reached IN the
do,,s immediately succeeding the Revolution
At that time somebody had to determine whether
there would be a republic of America, or some
thing else.
Al this time the question to be determined Is
strangely similar to that.
Dr Glenn Frank states the case succnctiy:
"Had our forefathers answered these questions
wronpfullv then, the Republic would never have
been born. If we answer these queSCioHS "ions
fully now, the republic will de-
If this is an intelligent and not an oVerdfa"h
view, can't we see how much more vital II Is io'
ms to exercise the supreme loyates rather than TO
froth at the mouth and have various xmas VI i's
over mere party loyalties and labels!
1t were vastly wiser and better that the Arieri-
can electors become for this gigantic moment Ct
decision Americans rather than Democrats OF ne
publicans or hybridized species OF PartlSahs.
Slogans and shibboleths will whistle through inc
air within these next months to begulIe and Sc
duce u.s. but the citizen of sound convictions VINO
has even so much as faint comprehension OF the
decisiveness of this hour in national history VIII
stop his ears to what false music they may convey
and settle himself in fundamental political conVlc
tionS.
That is, if we have enough Of wise and intelli-
gent electors left in this republic to act wisely and
intclligently in the republics crisis hour-Jullan
S. Miller in Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-16
OUR VALUABLE WORLD
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

ing that fact by the way we be-
have ourselves.
This world gives us an oppor-
tunity to learn how to live with
others. Any one Of us would be
safer in a wilderness a million
miles from a human being than in
the midst Of civilization. The lives
of our pioneer forefatheI& illus
trate that fact. But life in isolG-
ton does not teach us how to
work wholesomcly and construc-
lively with our fellows.
IN the higher realms, l think,
unsc!fish cooperation is the rule.
It must be the rule in order to
have a higher realm.
This world gives Us the oppor-
tnnity to practice unselfsh coop
Grafton. It gives us a chance TO
develop our better selves. 1t Of
fers us ways and means Of prac-
ticing at improving our souls. At
ter a person has spent lifetime
here, he is usually a better human
being than when he came here.
1t should be the objective Of
each generation to improve stand
ards Of character, and to try to
live up to those standards; and to
train youth to do so-that each
generation may be an improve
ment on the Immediately preced-
ing generation.
There is no distress that befallS
us in this world which has rot in
it the value Of a lesson. We should
always look for the lesson; for the
more we can learn about charac-
ter betterment while we are in
this world, the more we shall get
out Of this world and take with US
when we go.
Yes, we should appreciate this
world, and the opportunities it Of
fers us for higher, finer soul I'M
DrOVement,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-16
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASF5INGTOM
RY RODNEY BUTCHER.

United DrydGcKs co. to give some
Of it's sheet metal work TO New
York man. A company Official
sent an inter-office memorandum
suggesting. compliance with the
request, "as, of course, member
of the House naval affairs COM
mittee may be very useful in fu-
ture dealings with the navy"
About 10000 lawyers and
agents (most OF them not Wash
ingtonians) are licensed to prac-
tice before the Treasury. More
than 200 have been disbarred,
suspended or reprimanded in the
past few years by Treasury COM
mittee appointed to enforce eth
ical standards. The cream of this
business is in tax refunds for COR
porations and rebates for huge
estates.
A FEW newspapermen have de.
IA serted their trade to take VI
lobbying. Jim West, who left his
job covering Hoover for a press
association to become press agent
for the Republican National Com.
mittee for while, received $S40O
from shipbuilding companies dur.
ing the Senate munitions hearings
and $500 from DUPONT, Remirg.
ton, and Curtiss-Wright.
Very rarely a correspondent is
discovered to be On the secret
payroll Of an organization en-.
gagged in lobbying or propaganda.
whereupon he is fired from the
Senate press gallery if he hasn't
formally disclosed the connection.
A political writer representing
a Boston newspaper used to brand
such progressiyes as Norris and
Wheeler regularly as "bolsheviks"
until it was discovered he was
working on the side for the New
England Power Association, which
then hired him as one of its Off.
cials. l observed him dining with
Senator Walsh Of Massachusetts
at the Carlton not long ago
Idrnnvrieht. 1915 NEA Service. Incl