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institutions. Located on its tiny
island, Alcatraz has "escape-proof"
features that additional prisons
probably would not have.
They would be, however, &C
cording to the plans of the de-
partment, as invulnerable from
attack both from without and
within as that penitentiary in
the Golden Gate.
According to the present plan,
the new prisons would be located
in Northern Florida, Kentucky,
Eastern Oklahoma, Minnesota,
and Southern California.
These locations would elimi-
nate the necessity of transferring
dangerous criminals the entire
distance across the country.
While the department was re-
questing additional prisons, j.
Edgar Hoover, chief of the Blu.
reau of Investigation. was plan
ming to ask for money to hire
ia additional agents and 174
fingerprint experts and clerks
If Mr.. Hoover is given his add.
tional force, Mr.. Bates will pAob,
ably have to have his additional
prisons to care for the criminals
tracked down by the 1922 agents
who would then be under the
Jurisdiction of the Bureau.
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
Science Has a Heart

Dr. Leroy L. Hartman of the Columbia School of Dental
and Oral Surgery has announced to his colleagues his formula
for taking the pain out of dental work
There a fortune in it.
quarter of million dollars offered for it outright.
But Dr. Hartman, scientist, gave away his brain child
And he said:
cit is absolutely dirt cheap.
eff patient is charged big price for it should
like to knOW about it. I do not Want people to be
taken advantage off,"
Sounds almost like fairy tale-somethng that's boon
going for almost nothing to the people.
But real scientists like that
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Shakespeare Library in Washing,
ton.
Enshrined here in poignant
beauty is the noblest ascendancy
of the human spirit, an arcanum
of scholarship to which a man
from Stratford-on-Avon must jour.
ney if he would know all there Is
to be known about Shakespeare
too little known, forgotten in the
swirl of transitory passions around
the National Capitol.
A youth and a girl, holding
hands, gaze at the crumbling, vel
lowing pages of Christopher Nor.
ley's song book. The lad, who
might be a clerk or bus driver.
has a faded blue serge suit. The
girl is one of a thousand pretty
young things one sees around
Washington. Their eyes rest on a
line of Shakespeare in Christie.
pher Morley's book: 1T was a
lover and his lass" They exchange
rapt smiles.
Under the nearby dome Of the
Capitol, there is heat and con-
tention over the bonus, and the
printing presses will, before this
session is over, spew volumes which
will outweigh, but not outlive, all
that Shakespeare wrote. But other
lovers will read and understand
when even these Handicapped
towers" are gone.
INVALUABLE
This Shakespeare memorial,
built late in the Hoover admins
tration under bequest of the late
Henry Clay Folger, some day will
be recognized as one Of the most
magnificent American assets. OF
the 200 first folios of 1923, 70 are
here. There is the priceless gem
of the first complete edition of
Titus Andronicus" of 1894, i'm.
maculately preserved. Housed in
fireproof vaults are $4,000 volumes,
treasures beyond all estimate of
value.
There are pamphlets, docu,
mentS, manuscripts, relics, curioSi.
ties, Oil paintings, statues, tapes
try, furniture, play bills and
prompt books, stage properties
and costumes of the respondent
Elizabethan era.
Startlingly, Shakespeare and his
times are reembodied. There are
portraits of the Bard, of the period
from 1910 to 1865, when there
were still available both memories
and dates to give authenticity
There are musical instruments Of
the period; little posy rings with
their quaint inscription; tavern
tokens, like our street car tokens
possibly of Greenfield's, of which
Falstaff dreamed.
There are tablet books-"Write
me in the tablets of thy heart,
wrote Shapkespeare-horn books
like a hand glass in which ar
Elizabethan schoolboy held his
paper, slipped in or out.
No serious study of Shakespeare
involving research, can be made
by any person anywhere in the
world without a journey to Wash
ington. The library is admirably
designed for this purpose. There
are recesses for scholars. The
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
SAME SITE

The offices in the Senate Office
Building where the late Senator
Huey P. Long once had control
continue to be the scene of great
activity.
A subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Commerce is hard
at work investigating the entire
subject of aviation.
The offices are alive with clerks.
There is as much activity as there
was in Huey's day but the work OF
the present time has the sanction
of the Senate.
One difficulty noticed by the
clerks in the offices now is that
they are besieged by visitors who
refuse to accept the belief that
the share the wealth" program
and other propositions advocated
by Long are not being carried on.
They hesitate to believe that
his much-talked of policies could
be dropped so hastily after his
death.
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Dance for a Good Cause

Thursday night the time and almost any ballroom in Wash
ngton is the place for the alienation of suffering
The program this year for the Presidents birthday ball is
more elaborate than before and preliminary demand
for tickets any criterion the National Capital will do its
full share in the battle against nfantile paralysis
SEVENTY PER CENT OF THE FUNDS COLLECTED
THIS YEAR WILL GO TO OUR OWN CHILDREN'S
HOSPITAL AND THE OTHER THIRTY PER CENT WILL
LARGELY BE DEVOTED TO RESEARCH WORK
Don't let else carry your share of this fight
Get ready go out Thursday night and have good
time.
Make it better time Nth the realization that
of those Uho make it possible for some
person uUhO might otherwise be crippled for life to
up With a sound body.
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plans to have
the additional
penal institu-
tionS modelled
after Al,atraz.
So Satisfac-
tory has been
the grim and
I m pre- g nable
penitentiary on
the West Coast,
as far as law
e n I OrCenlenG
agencies ar e
concerned, that
Justice officials
are anxious to
eao,,rA cipoiIor
The Washington times., 1936-01-28

And what men like in women is
NOVELTY. Something differ
ent"!
A man who has been sur
rounded all his life by suave, over
groomed, bored-looking women,
with carefully "manicured"
smiles, finds any girl with diff
ferent lingo, a spontaneous man
ner and a new line of repartee, a
refreshing change. A girl who is
vitality alive and doesn't mind ex-
pressing her emotions and opin-
ions, startles him out of his leth-
argy and wakes him up like an
alarm clock.
And if she happens to be a
temperamental1St who can blaze
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
Fake DELEGATIONS

Party convention time is coming around again
Within few months the Democrats will meet at Phila
delpha and the Republicans at Cleveland.
There will be groups of men and women at both con-
ventions bearing standards marked District of Co.
lumbia."
Presumably the standards IUW mean that those
carrying them IUiU represent the members of their
respective parties living in Washington.
ACTUALLY THEY WILL MEAN NO SUCH THING
Unless Congress gives speedy and favorable consdera
ton to the bill introduced by Representative Mary Norton
establishing legal primaries in the District this commun
ity will again be instead of represented
at the conventions
THE sCANDALoUs CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE
HERETOFORE PREVAILED IN THE SELECTION
OF THOSE CARRYING THE DISTRICT BANNER TO
THE PARTY CONVENTIONS WILL CONTINUE TO
PREVAIL THIS YEAR UNLESS SOMETHING IS
DONE ABOUT 1T.
We will see the National Capital sending delegations to
the conventions that have submitted themselves
to the vote of the local party members
There LUiU be delegations that in Uay represent
the feelings of the local community either as to can
didGtes or as to PLATFORM
We will very likely included in the delegations per-
sons who do not have semblance of claim to
District residence
With some thought of preserving cloak of decency
around the selection of these delegations has been the
custom in the past to hold primaries which obviously
fakes.
so-called ballot box has been established here or
there in the city and nfntesma notices of the eec
ton" have been given.
NOTHING EVER WENT INTO THE BOXES AND
ONLY SHAME AND IGNOMINY FOR THE MA
TIONAL CAPITAL HAVE COME OUT.
The people Of this community are sincere in their desire
to have control over their local government.
They cannot hope to win that control as long the
few men who control party affairs here persist in their
dsgraceful methods of selection Of delegations to the
national conventions.
1t is at those conventions that the best possible
work on behalf of local seIf-ruLe could be done.
1t will not be done until send to the cOnUen-
lions delegations that truly representative of
the cOnlnlunity
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ITO spend the peoples money
extravagantly and crush them
beneath a burden Of taxation is
bad enough. But to spend and
borrow, so that unborn genera
tiOns must foot the bill, Is worse.
at is like buying your little
boy a Christmas present and
telling the shop to send him the
bill plus the accumulated inter
est when he is Fl. Only 1t is
really worse than that, because
in this case the little boy never
gets the present. His parents
keep it."
The Washington times., 1936-01-28

If the gilded sons of the leisure
classes keep on marrying night
club dancers, chorus cuties and
hat-check girls, or clipping with
their stenographers or their
trained nurses, nobody need worry
about the unequal distribution of
wealth.
In these upside-down days,
Maize, the beautiful manicurist,
or Tasha. the lovely telephone
girl, has more chance of annex
ing the catch-of-the-season than
has the most glamorous debu-
tante.
There is no mystery about it.
The reason is as obvious as a
loose front tooth and as patent
as a glass eye. Now that the
old traditions are crumbling, men
are going for what they LIKE.
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boxes, trying TO
p a in t S m e
place cards -
an d spelling
them, ia S t e r
t h a n I could
paint. with big,
messy tears.
Silly business!
A grow n u p
woman of 90,
bawling like a
baby! But it
was 1912-in a
very different
world than this.
A world which
Rod npithe or
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ped them and demanded TO know
who they were.
Dunn replied: ..
Dunn and Douglas. We just
wanted to go in for a little
WHILE" ..
The girl demanded:
"Where are you from? Do you
live here in Washington"
Dunn, who is a familiar figure
around the Capitol, seemed some
what aStounded and answered:
Eyes. We just wanted to go
in for a little while. Will it be
all right"
The girl considered the matter
a moment and replied:
"Well, / suppose So"
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
Listen, World!
By Monitor
BIZ Elsie Robinson

ways, Wherever ne went, Chefe
was some gay, quaint trifle in his
pocket "a string of beads, a
carved matchbox, a japanese
print. And always those tender,
understanding eyes were search
ing for someone who needed just
such comfort.
No, he didn't know me. But
he'd heard about me. Saw me
crying. That was enough.
All his life that has been
enough for Albert Bender. 1t was
not always easy in those younger
years to provide these comforting
trifles. Many a time he lived on
a lean margin himself. There
were handicaps, and like that
other, older Friend, he was "ac-
quainted with grief"
But of this he said nothing.
For all the strangers knew, here
was a care.free Peter Pan, rid
ing on a rainbow! Nor did it
ever occur to you to consider the
cost of the gift. He gave himself
and, with that gift such heal
ing and heartening as money
could never buy.
For there was no sermon with
that gift. No patronizing philos-
ophy-to show you how much
smarter he was than you, you
mutt! Only his friendlinesS, and
the makings of a smile. and his
perfect faith that, given that
smile, you could make the grade
yourself. And I've yet to see the
man who, given faith like that,
wouldn't try to scramble to his
feet.
UNCHANGED
TWenty-four years ago-a long
time. Plenty Of things can hap
pen to a man in that time. Plenty
of things have happened to Al
bert Bender. I saw him last night.
He doesn't have to count the
pennies now. He's a power in the
city, where once he was I'M
known.
But he is still Peter Pan-hiS
eyes as gentle with understand
ing, his smile as merry, his soul
as unaware of it's own great fine
ness. And I'll bet you anything
that if some lonely, desperate soul
reached into Albert Bender'S poe
ket, he'd find-a little, red cat!
Snivelling again? Sure I am
and proud of it! Shedding CRATE
full tears to that wise Provider who
put such as Albert Bender into
this heartsick world. For there
is, thank God, at least one of him
in every corner of the earth. Some
big, bluff fellow with machine
shop stains on his overallS, or Of
flee pallor on his tired face, who
arrives miraculouSly in your hour
of need and quietly puts things to
rights.
Some simple, smiling little
woman who comes bustling in
through the back door, when the
baby's teething and you've all got
the flu, with a chocolate cake, or
an extra blanket, or an offer to
"set a SPELL"
You can have your Master
Minds, male or female. your
geniuSes and wizards of industry.
But know what I'd choose if I
were up against it hard. I'D
ASK FOR ALBERT BENDER
AND ANOTHER LITTLE, RED
CAT!
copyright, 1898, King Features
Syndicate. tIne.)
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welt as the
speaker, a young
girl was seated
at a desk at the
entrance regis
tering guests.
Along c a m e
R e preventative
M a t t h e W A.
D un n, Demo
crat of Pennsyl-
vania.
Dunn, VINO is
blind, was &C
companied by a
young man.
The girl at
the door stop
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
Human Side of News
Blu EdUin C. Hill

} library, distinguished from the
museum, is not open to the public.
One steps out Of the Wash.
ington of 1885 into Elizabethan
DAYS with a startling transition.
The stained glass window at one
end of the library is an exact
reproduction of the apse windows
of Trinity Church, Stratford,
where Shakespeare probably was
chriStened.
The huge immortal library has
a high, trussed roof, faithfully
reproducing the architecture Of
the period.
The theater, where amateur
groups give Shakespearian plays,
is Shakespeare's Blackfriars the.
alter reconstructed. The pit, how.
ever, has been changed to allow
modern seating arrangements, so
that the audience no longer sur.
rounds the players, as in Eliza.
bethan days. The white marble
building was designed by Paul
Philippe Graf.
Outwardly, with its bas-relief
pillars, it conforms to the class
ical Washington tradition. 1t
stands on a simple platform Of
marble, low bas-relief scenes from
Shakespeare's plays and quota.
tons providing the only exterior
ornamentation.
Inwardly, the story has been
told. 1t conforms to a golden age
"a day of the noblest outreach
of the human creative imagina-
ton.
HISTORIC TREASURES
l have pride in remembering
that a newspaper for which l
once worked was an agency of
destiny in bringing to pass this
noble achievement. In December,
1904, the New York Sun printed
an obscure story about a Swedish
peasant finding a Shakespeare
folio in his home. The story was
read by Henry Clay Folger. not
long out of Amherst, where he
had been fired with an eager in.
terest in Shakespeare.
Mr.. Folger> put down the paper
and sent a cablegram to a friend
in Sweden. He asked him to offer
the peasant $4,000 for the folio.
1t was bought that day.
Within q fayry bOY1rc Y,oo~,, 4;..aa.
that price had been offered for it.
It was that incompatible Titus
AndronicuS," the most priced
treasure of the Folger Museum
today.
Mr.. Folger was not money"
collector. Inspired by his first
success, he spent decades in gath
erlng memorabilia of Shakespeare
and the Elizabethan age. His taste,
sincerity and scholarship dis
armed Europeans who feared
American raiders" of their his
toric treasures.
Emerson's beautiful tribute to
Shakespeare had first stirred his
passionate interest in the Bard of
Avon. AS he pursued, this interest
through the years, his resources
were more than adequate to
crafty his ambition to make the
greatest contribution to Shake.
spearian research in history; and
this he did.
Over in the Capitol, they're
wrangling about money and
values. Beyond estimate are the
cold, hard money values of these
following pages from lost
century. OF addresses by presi-
dents one can quote only perhaps
a few lines from the Gettysburg
address.
But tomorrow and tomorrow"
these lines enShrined here will be
remembered and spoken by mil
lions. One Strolls over to the
congressional squabble with a line
of Shakespeare running through
his mind:
"A plague on both your
houses"
Copyright. 1886, by King Features
!
The Washington times., 1936-01-28

others will re-
main. The en-
pire lives on.
Tfmeless, death
less are h e
words of an
other son of
empire, another
emperor. Eng
land gave mind
its emperor" are
the words sculp-
tured over the
great stone fire.
place in the IL
hrarV 0f tho nY.
quisitely beauti.
full Fo lg er
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NO ESCAPE

If Congress appropriates the
money to carry out the program
of the Department of Justice for
five new Federal prisons, San
ford Bates, director of prisons,
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
FOLGER LIBRARY

Kipling and the King depart.
Some of their words and deeds
will be blown down the wind;
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
ALITTLE RED CAT

I was snivelling. Sitting in a
dingy attic over a store, in cor
ner I'd walled off with packing
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
IMPRESSIVE

Speaking before the Republican
Women'S Luncheon Club of Phila-
delphia, James p. Warburg had
The Washington times., 1936-01-28

IReCders are vted to send to the editor their sugges-
tiows of old favorteS among the poems for reprntng
this spGcsO
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
PASSES TEST

When the American Youth
Congress met in Methodist Build
ing recently and had Mrs. 2oose-
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
OLD FAVORITES
A GLee For Winter

Hence rude Winter grabbed old fellow,
Never merry; never mellow!
Well-a-day! in rain and
What will keep ones heart aglowR
Groups of kinsmen, old and young,
Oldest they old friends among;
Groups of friends so old and true
That they seem our kinsmen, too
These all merry all together
Charm away chill Winter weather.
What will kill this dull old fellow
Ale that's bright, and wine that's mellow!
Dear old songs for ever new;
Some true love, and laughter, too;
Pleasant wit, and harmless fun,
And dance when day is done
Music friends so true and tried,
Whispered love by warm fireside,
Mirth at all times all together,
Make sweet May of Winter weather.
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

%this to say of the spending Of the
present Administration:
The Washington times., 1936-01-28
MARRY-GO-ROUND
ny HeLen ROLDL0N0
THEY MARRY FOR A CHANGE

;ilded sons Of the leisure out into an occasiona
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-26
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEED
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN. 7

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That
the To the North West Quarter
(NWA) of Section Twenty Seven
(27); North East Quarter (NEA) OF
Section Twenty Eight (2S); Township
Thirty Four (34), Range Fifty Six
(56) in the County of Sheridan, State
of Montana, was, on the 18th day OF
July, 1929, sold for delinquent taxes;
hat the whole Of said property was
sold On the said date for the sum OF
One Hundred Seventeen and 35-1O
Dollars ($ll7 .35); that said property
was stricken off to Sheridan County as
the Purchaser at said delinquent tax
sale; that taxes have been levied and
assessed against the said property sub
sequent to the said delinquent tax sale
for the year 1929 A in the sum OF
$231.92; 1890 A in the sum of $218 SO,
1881 LIST in the sum of $121.89; 1881 End
in the sum of $118.41; 1882 LIST in the
sum of $102.57; 1892 End in the sum OF
S99.47; 1888 1st in the sum of $84.42;
in the sum of S71.46; 1894 End
in the sum of $68.94; 1895 LIST in the
sum of $64.08; and hat there is now
u and owing upon the SAID property
the sum of Thirteen Hundred Eighty
and 84-1W Dollars ($138C.84), together
with legal rate of interest from the 1st
day of May, 1886; that said sum is due
and owing to Sheridan County, and
that more than five (5) years have ell
apsed since the date of said sale, and
the said property has not been re-
deemed therefrom as provided by law.
NOTICE is THEN FURTHER CIV
EN- That Sheridan County, State Of
Montana, in accordance with an order
duly made by the Board of County
Commissioners of said County-unless
the property described shall in the
meantime be properly redeemed-will,
on the 23rd day of May, 1886, apply to
the Treasurer of Sheridan County for
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-26
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEED

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
the Lots Five (5) Six Co and Seven
T), South East Quarter of the North
West Quarter (SEANWA), East Hall
Of the South West Quarter (ElzSWM),
West Half of the South East Quarter
(WRSEH) of Section Six 60, Town
ship Thirty Three 1881 Range Fifty
Four (54). in the County of Sheridan
State of Montana, was, on the Iih day
of July, 1926, sold for delinquent lax
es; that the whole of said property was
sold on the said date for the sum OF
Eighty Eight and 23-100 Dollars $685.
23); that said property was stricken off
to Sheridan County as the Purchaser
at said delinquent tax sale; that taxes
have been levied and assessed against
the said property subsequent TO the
said delinquent tax sale for The year
1926 A in the sum of S164.77; 1927 A in
the sum of $162.01; 1928 A in the sum
of $152 80; 1929 A in the sum of $780,
81; 1880 A in the sum of $87.01; 1881
list in the sum of SAT IA; 1881 End in
the sum of $46.38; 1882 1st in the sum
of SAP. 70; 1882 End in the sum of Sal
49,; 1888 LIST in the sum of $32.44; 1888
End in the sum of $31.37; 1884 LIST in
the sum of $26 95; 1884 End in the sum
of $500; 1885 1st in the sum of $23.76;
and that there is now due and owing
upon the said property the sum Of One
Thousand One Hundred Twenty Three
and 87-10O Dollars ($1123.87), together
with legal rate of interest from the LIST
day of March, 1886; that said sum is
due and owing to Sheridan County,
and that more than five 50 years have
elapsed since the date of said sale, and
the said property has not been re-
deemed therefrom as provided by law.
NOTICE is THEN FURTHER CIV
EN- That Sheridan County, State Of
Montana, in accordance with an order
duly made by the Board of County
Commissioners of said County-unless
the property described shall in the
meantime be properly redeemed-will,
on the 23rd day of May, 1896, apply to
the Treasurer of Sheridan County for
a tax deed of said above described
property.
DATED this 14th day of March,
1886, at Plentywood, Montana.
NIEIS MADSEN,
Clerk & Recorder in and for
Sheridan County, Montana.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-26
PROCLAMATION AND NOTICE OF
ELECTION

The Mayor of the City of Plenty
wood, County of Sheridan, State of
Montana, to the electors of the City of
Plentywood, State of Montana.
Be 1t known that an election will be
held in the City of Plentywood, in the
County Of Sheridan, State Of Montana,
and in each precinct and ward of said
City on Monday, the sixth day of APP
ril, 1886.
The said election being the Munich
pal Election for the said City of Plen-
tywood, for the year Nineteen Humid
red Thirty Six, held under and pur-
suant to Chapter 60 of the oath Session
Laws of the State of Montana, at
which said election the qualified elect
ors of said City will elect officers of
the City of Plentywood as follows, to-
wit:
One Alderman, from Ward No. / of
said City, which said Alderman will be
elected by the qualified electors OF
Ward No. l Of said City and the term
of which said Alderman shall be one
year from and after the first Monday
in May, 1886.
One Alderman from Ward No. 2 of
said City, which said Alderman will b
elected by the qualified electors of
Ward No. 2 of said City and the term
of which said Alderman shall be one
year from and after the first Monday
in May, 1886.
Given under my hand this 4th day
of March, 1886.
P. G. NEVILLE,
Attest: Mayor.
Arthur c. Erickson,
City Clerk. 29-3t