The Washington times., 1936-04-02
NOW
Cherry Blossom
Orgy Again
NAZI SALUTE
By HELEN ESSARY

ADOut 10 DSSH' AAS O"P"AANS
Ambassador will YEARLY but po
litely be photographed under the
trees by a hundred clicking cam
eras and then the world and
ourselves will know that the
springtime has at last come to
Washington.
It may be that 1000 years
from now, when the Townsend
plan is no more and the housing
situation in this vicinity is less
acute, that archaeologists digging
amid the ruins of the city will
find that its chief significance
lay in the fact that annually
Japanese cherry blossoms and
tourists bloomed along the Pc
tomac.
One of my unreconStructed
Southern friends visited Wash
ington during the days Of the
floods. Her eyes lighted with
fiendish delight when she saw
photographs of Hartford, Conn,
deep under flood waters. She
said:
I'm glad to see the Yankees
drowned out at last. We've
been flooded out by the MiSsiS-
sippi for a hundred years and
nobody made a fuss about it.
Now that a few hundred Re
publicanS get their feet wet
the whole country is upset. l
hope they have to wear hip
boots to dinner the rest Of the
spring"
Who says that the Civil War
q over?
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Law
son, president of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, is
telling about her remark upon a
recent trip to Germany She
said to a group of high Nazi
officials that the swastika and
the Hitler salute were familiar
symbols in her childhood among
the American Indians in Okla
bona. In Indian tradition they
were commonplace.
AS Mrs. Lawson, who is the
grand daughter of the Reverend
Charles Journeycake, last tribal
chief of the Delawares, gives the
salute of the Red Mans Great
Father, it's resemblance to the
salute of Hell Hitler" is re
markable.
Mr.. Hugh Clegg, assistant di
rector of the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation, told the Twentieth
Century Club that the ladies
God Bless Them" can be helc
up to the admiration of the
country because they commit
only six per cent of the crime
of our land"
But when they do wrong they
do it in big way that cannot
be equalled by any man criminal
Such first-rate crimes as murder
narcotic infringement and assault
with intent to kill are ladies
Epecialities.
Speaking of prisons, Mary B
Harris. who is the remarkable
superintendent of the Women!
Prison at Anderson. w. Va, tt
which return cases" are ineligi
ble-has just written an extraordi
narily interesting book, II Saw
Them In Prison" Her book will
surely have an important influ
0nce in prison reform.
A Danish gentleman told MI
Q Danish story the other nigh
which has about it the strang,
unworldly quality of tale o
Chekhov. 1t seems that an oh
Scure clerk lived in Copenhagen
and, like many another of us
yearned in vain for the lime
light. He saw his chance during
the World War.
Denmark was neutral, but h
enlisted in the German army
He thought that if he survived
he would be welcomed as grea
hero when he came home, tn
newspapers would carry lon
stories about him, and the star
of the opera would entertain
him with champagne supper;
If he was killed? What did
matter?
At the end of the war he cam
home. His train arrived early il
the morning. The station was d.
serted save for charwomen scrub
bling the floors. There we're n
bands, no delegations, no neWsps
per men to welcome the hero. Gu
soldier went home to bed, certain
that later in the day all Copper
hagen would turn out to gree
him. For ten days no one came.
On the tenth day he receive
an invitation to address the dea
and dumb institute about his e.
periences on the western front!
The new American dream!
Paying So for an Irish SWEEP
stakes ticket and winning TO
tune. From rags to riches; gettin
something for nothing; going t
bed poor and waking up ricl
Here is the stock theme of min
out Of ten of the short stories {
innumerable movies and books.