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The Washington times., 1936-12-19
At Risk of Life

A POLICEMAN'S life isn't all traffic tickets and
"A handling the more complacent type of drunk.
Witness the citations Of three police officers for the
meritorious awards Of the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment for the last fiscal year.
Precinct Detective Earl L. Baker, Of the First Pre-
cnct and Privates Robert T. Talbert and William P.
Doran are given gold silver and bronze medals respec
lively.
AND EACH ONE OF THEM WINS HIS AWARD
BY DINT OF EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE AND
GOODNESS IN MAKING DANGEROUS ARRESTS
OF ARMED AND SHOOTING MEN.
Washington is and has right to be proud of these
men and their expoits each has proven himself to be
a law enforcement official of the highest type.
The medals with which they will soon be presented
are merely material symbols of the admiration and
esteem which the entire city feels for them.
In these days when so many otherwise perfectly
spectacle citizens find themselves in conflict with the
police because of traffic conditions it has become the
fashion to criticise and run down the department.
Nobody likes to get ticket or to be stopped when he
has violated minor regulation, he takes it out in
cussing the policeman that stops him.
Such general cussing out doesn't do the morale of
the department any good and it is surprising that the
spirit of the men should remain as high as it is.
THE WORK OF DETECTIVE BAKER AND PRI-
YATES TALBERT AND DORIAN is SUFFICIENT
PROOF THAT WHEN COURAGE BRAINS AND
ABILITY ARE NEEDED THE METROPOLITAN
POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS THEM.
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of what was going on in the world
pretty nearly explained the reason
for the gathering of the clan in
Washington. That is, the political
clan who suddenly appear to have
all arrived in the city.
First off, the speaker posed for
the photographers, insisting that
he be told when they were going
to shoot because he didn't want
to "be caught" with his mouth
open and because he wanted the
newsmen who posed with him to
look at the birdie.
"The jay bird" he added.
Secondly he asked:
"What'S the news? I'm just
a plain country boy from down
in the hills of Alabama and I'd
like to know what's going on"
InSteadSof telling, the neWSmen,
as is their habit, began asking
In the passage back and forth, it
was clearly brought out that al.
though, as he expressed Tits
pretty hard to tell anything at
this stage of the game" the Demo
Gratis are working hard to organize
their overwhelming majority SO
they won't go to bat January 5
without their lead off man and
batting line all Strengthened out
81 am a candidate for the
Speakership," Mr.. Bankhead an
nOunced. Gas for the majority
leadership I am going to remain
neutral"
Observers who half way expect
ed the Speaker would announce
his preference for Representative
Sam Rayburn, a southerner, and
the choice of the Vice-President
saw in this statement perhaps a
break for Representative John
O'Connor, but the Speaker would
not bulge from his neutral stand
and put any such suggestion In
the realm of pure speculation.
At any rate he wants harmony
in the next session and he hopes
against hope there will be no blocs
organized to hinder the smooth
running of the legislative machine
And there I think you have the
answer of the gathering Of the
clan"
The fight to select a majority
leader is fraught with the danger
of splitting the party wide open
in the House and leaving things
in a fine mess so, everyone is get.
ting in on the ground floor in
order to iron out this touchy mat.
ter before the party meets in eau
Gus Monday, January 4.
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If I stay in this place another
week." she walls.
But why????" writes her be-
wildered and exasperated husband.
''I've given her everything within
reason. She has all the spending
money and leisure she desires
entertainS when and whom she
pleases-goes anywhere, does any,
thing she wants. And our friends
all say we have one grand little
home.
my mother would have been
the happieSt woman in the world
with such a deal. Yet here's my
wife wanting to gooback to the Of
flee. I say she's crazy! Before
we were married, she counted the
hours until her time was up. And
now, you'd think she was in
priSon!"
STAGNATION
She IS in prison, brother. A
very special and agonizing prison,
which would send any male
screwy within a week. q. It h e
prison of Stagnation.
You wrote your mother. Your
mothers life and home have no
more relation to your wife'S situa-
ton than your own office has to
the cave mans den. Marriage
was your mothers only interest,
practically the only profession
open to her. 1t was sufficient
and interesting profession for any
proud and intelligent woman be-
cause the home in those days was
an industrial center. Big Busi.
ness had not yet robbed the home
Of its crafts. A wife was still an
Important Executive.
But homes, today, are parking
stations. If they contain children,
they may be cheerful, busy park
ing stations. But without children,
a modern apartment is about as
diverting-for a brainy, buStling
gal-as an empty peanut shell.
Ever heard of the SargaSSo Sea,
lad? Once upon a time, things
happened in the Sargasso Sea.
Now, with the closing of it's out
let's and inlets, it's the ultimate in
donothing. Which likewise goes
and for the same reasonS-for the
modern home. 1t, too, has lost
it's old, vital ties with busy
world. It, too, shrinkS steadily
through Stagnation.
The old-fashioned home has
gone. 1t has gone for keeps. The
Machine Age-With its automo,
biles and movies-haS destroyed
it. Nothing can ever bring it back.
That doesn't imply that The
Home, itself, is doomed. It isn't
We will always have some sort of
home. But we will have to devise
a home which is in tune with the
times-just as we have had to
alter our other institutions to
meet altered conditions. And until
we do so, we will continue to
have Unhappy Reactions. OF
which your wife IS Exhibit A.
STIMULATION
Before marriage, your wife
was trained to conform with the
tempo and technique of our mod,
ern days. She moved swiftly
through days crammed with new
interests and demands. She was
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What lifted man, from the Oxcart
and the earth, into the airplane and
the clouds?

Thought harnessed, inside an engine, the ex-
pansive power of steam, and the railroad re-
placed the stage coach.
Thought took from heavy oil gas, and, used
the electric spark, borrowed from the lightning,
to explode the gas inside a cylinder; thence
came the automobile, later the airplane.
Men were ruled by the tribes most power
full, brutal individual with the heaviest club {;
weaker men thought and harnessed that indi-
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Marry-Go-
Round
Nv HELEN ROWLAND

Most golfing husbands, says the
wife of one, seem to be fresh every
morning-and sour every evening.
When a man runs away from
temptation in his 2O's, it is pretty
safe to predict that, in his late
40'S, he'll be hanging back waiting
for temptation to catch up with
him.
It's funny, says Reno Ruth, but
the oftener a woman has been
married and the more husbands
who have disappointed her, the
less bitter she seems to be about
men.
It is not when his arteries begin
to harden that a man shows the
first sign of getting older, but
when his sales resistance to women
begins to soften.
A man can never be absolutely
happy in this world. AS soon as
he begins to be tempted by for
hidden women or forbidden kisses
he begins to be tempted by for.
hidden foods and drinks.
What we all need in marriage
is somebody to keep our inferiority
complex down to zero and oul
self-confidenCe up to par. Most
people who break their marriage
ties are merely starving for a little
applause.
The honeymoon is over wher
she can't pick a scrap with him
before Christmas, and get a dia
mond-clip or a new set of SableS
as a reward for "forgiving" him
A man doesn't have to have 9
good reason for SuSpecting that q
girl wants to marry him-all he
needs is little imagination.
To be able to say the right thing
at the right moment is not so hard
for the average woman-but tt
be able to refrain from saying the
BRIGHT thing at the wrong time
is sheer genius.
Copyright, 1885, BY King Features
!. syndicate. Ino.)
The Washington times., 1936-12-19
Votes for Washington

National representation IN Congress and the right to
vote for President be secured for Washington only
through the action of the people of the varios States and
their congressional representatives FOLLOWING feoO
Of the editorials printed By newspapers throughout the
of constitutional amendment granting the District of
Columbia representation IN Congress and IN the Electoral
College, They printed IN response to letter from
The Washington Times outlining the Districts Voteess
status
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battlements of Edwin G. Mill
Troy, he had the old men sing:
"What men can blame the
Greeks and TrOjans to endure
for so admired a dame so many
miserieS and SO long? In her
sweet cOuntenance ShOne looks
of the gOddesSes."
Other much admired danes-I
believe the characterization is ap-
proximately Chapman's transla-
tion-have kept the excitement go
ing pretty steadily down through
history, sometimes making wars
ard trouble and sometimes just
merriment, as when Lily Langtry,
the Jersey lily" slipped the ice
down Prince Edwards neck.
It's an old, old story, the love
life of Kings and its political
kickback. It has toppled thrones
and set them up, but with the
disturbance usually localized. This
is the first time it has gotten out
into the world blood stream with
the British empire what it is in
the international power equation.
And, just in passing, Helen OF
Troy and many of the others have
been redheads. Mrs. Simpson
used to have "taWny" hair, but
it is now dark.
HISTORIC ROMANCES
It seems a pity colored moving
pictures hadn't been invented
when Cleopatra sailed up the
Cyndrus to meet Mark Anthony.
What a film that would have
made! Cleopatra had a golden
ship with purple sails; with gowns,
music and pageantry to match.
Plutarch's description of the meet
ing sounds if the show had been
readied by ziegfeld.
Cleopatra, daughter of Ptolemy
ascending the throne at II, was
stirred by tales of Julius Caesar
Access to his headquarters were
difficult, and she was carried in
a meal sack. He was her slave
thereafter, as was Anthony later
on. Sombre hues of tragedy
darken this glamorous episode
Nothing but trouble came out OF
all around.
There were the more or less
contemporary Roman sensations
of Theodore and the scheming
Messalina, both redheadS and
both inextricably mixed up in
politics, statecraft and conspiracy
To say nothing Of Theodore and
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| the ballot, irrespective Of their
presence in the Capital.
It is the thousands of people in
the National Capital, holding posi-
tions and jobs in the various walks
of life-just citizens-Who are be
ing Disseminated against and to
whom the nation is denying rights,
because, through error or other
wise, the Constitution gives the
right of ballot to every other
citizen of the nation except in
the District of Columbia.
This is wrong which should be
righted, and without additional de
lay on the part of the Congress.
We commend the Washington stu,
alton to our representatives in the
hope they will support the amend,
ment and work for its passage,
thereby giving to the people of
the Capital the same voice in
their government enjoyed by mil
lions of other liberty-loving Amer
| leans,
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Give Washington a
Voice
(Ledger, Columbus, Ca,
Mop. %, 1856

Citizens of washington, D. c.,
by some strange quirk in draft
ing of the constitution, are denied
the right Of the ballot, unless, per
chance, they maintain official resi-
dence in one of the States. =.
Denial Of this right is in effect
discrimination, which the great
body of intelligent and far7Sighted
men who drafted the Constitution,
did not intend at the time the
great national document was pre-
pared and enacted.
An amendment presented in
the last Congress and which will
be reSubmitted in the coming SeS-
sion, will right that wrong and
give to the citizens Of washington
the right of the ballot, if enacted.
It should be adopted. The peo-
pie Of Washington are entitled to
a voice in the government the
same as those in communities in
the most remote sections OF this
great nation.
Yet, today, Washington, one OF
the largest and most progressive
cities in the nation, the seat of
our government, has no voice in
electing representatives and must
abide by what others think.
They are entitled to the ballot
They are citizens of the United
States and pay taxes to the Gov,
ernment for its support. In fact.
they perform all of the duties OF
citizenship, except exercising OF
their will through the medium OF
the ballot.
washington is made up OF
population of $4,000 loyal, highly
literate and largely native-born
Americans. The Districts popu-
lation exceeds that of eight States,
and the voting-age population is
estimated at $4,000, exceeding
the voting-age population Of 10
States.
During the last fiscal year the
District of Columbia paid in ma
tional taxes $17,322,929 more
than half the sum paid in such
taxes by 25 of the States individ-
ually; more than was paid by nine
States combined. In the levying
of these taxes, and in their ex'
penditures, the citizens of Wash
ington had no voice.
During the World War the Dis
trict sent more men to the colors
than any one of II States, al
though unrepresented in the body
which declared war, and prose
cuted it.
There is no logical argument
against extending the right of the
ballot to the people Of Washing.
ton and in giving them a voice
and representation in the govern
ment they help support. The popL'
lation is made up largely of per-
sons engaged in the same pursuits
as those in other sections.
Washington would not be a
focal point for deciding national
elections. Political leaders who
make the city their headquarters
during the reign of the party with
which they are affiliated, main
tain their residence in other
states and exercise their right Of
The Washington times., 1936-12-19

vidual with laws primitive pagan priests fright
ened him with ghosts and demons; he fights
now in the prize ring instead of ruling in the
tribe.
All progress is thought; it has conquered
the enemies of the human race, one at a time,
including slavery, cannibalism, and, worst of
all, cruel, hideous superstition that used to
torture miserable human beings in the name Of
God and religion.
Thought will solve all problems Of mankind,
including the most difficult which is the con-
quest of self and selfishness.
Thought will solve our problems, but we must
THINK
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week to start
the ball q roll
ing in the House
of Representa-
tiveS.
He is Speaker
VILLA am B.
B ank h e q d.
Long, lean and
in the best of
health he took
his seat behind
the large desk
in his palatial
Capitol offices
and deSpite the
fact that he pro-
RonnnIin,nnronnn
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THAT CLAUSE AGAIN

Recently we mentioned the re-
mark of a member of Congress
about the English Civil Service.
He said, if you remember, that
they had a far-reaching system
in England land a King who
couldn't get married"
A victim of the marriage clause
in the economy act took this para.
graph as a handle on which to
hang another crack at a provision
in the law which has caused un.
told worry and hardship in the
city. This is what the victim
wrote:
Dear Sir:
eyes, the English civil service
system is far flung. 1t extends
to very high positions, but look,
they have q King that can't get
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exhilirated by that activity, fed
by those interests. Then abruptly
she stepped into-what? A tide.
less, timeless Sargasso Sea. And
she literally dropped out of life.
Suppose it had happened to
YOU? Suppose YOU had suddenly
been deprived of human contacts,
mental stimulus? Would YOU like
it-or would you battle, with all
you have, against such stagna-
tion?
All right! That's how your wife
feels, too.
Then what's the answer? I don't
know. Well have to work out this
answer as we have all the others
by slow, small and often painful
steps. But work it we will, and
must. For the woman who is suf-
ficiently smart and energetic to
make good in an office will not
willingly dry-rot in the home.
Copyright. 1898, by King Features
Syndicate. foc.)
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ern journalism,
of 6 t tin g
quotes by i'm
portant people
W h e n ever he
could, and he
hung a lot of
his S tuff on
some imposing
graybeardS who
would be found
in our Union
League Club to-
d y. w h e n
H e lie n started
her big raZZle'
dazzle on the
The Washington times., 1936-12-19

THE answer to the questions above is one
word: thought.
Human thought and nothing else, has changed
man from a plodding creature, glued to the
earth by his own weight, into flier conquering
the ocean.
Our primitive ancestors killed animals and
their own kind, ate them raw. Hunger was
enough to accomplish that, no thought needed.
From then on, everything was done by thought.
Thought tanned the buffalo, and put the cart
with its marvellous turning wheels in place Of
the heavy sledge. Thought made bronze of
tin and copper, sharp enough to cut; thought
extracted iron from the ore, supplying first
sharp swords then ploughs~
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Soured. She'S as
completely de-
voted to h e I
h u S b a. n d a S
ever-aS proud
to be his wife
as hopeful OF
becoming tn e
mother Of his
children. Also,
she has every
requisite for
her comfort in
a beautiful and
c nv n | e mt
q part m e n t,
Yet
"I'll 90 CraZV
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SOUVENIRS
Some day Admiral Cary T. Gray
son might have a request to make
of King George vi. And If he
does, everything is lined up for
him to make it in a most per-
sonal matter.
Scarcely more than q week or
so ago, before the Duke Of York
became King George vi, he at
tended a Red Cross luncheon in
London.
Sitting next to him was none
other than Admiral Grayson. The
speakers were intoning facts and
figures that called for a little note
taking on the part of those who
were interested. And the Duke OF
York and Admiral Grayson were
interested aplenty. Out came
their pencils and they set to work.
During a lull they looked at
each others pencils. For some
reason the Duke of York admired
the one Admiral Grayson had and
they exchanged them. The Duke
said he would keep the one he got
from the Admiral as a memento
and vice versa.
Now, if the Admiral writes to
George vi he can use that pencil
and he'll probably get what he
wants.
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Wise Words

What loneliness is more lonely
than distrust?-George Eliot.
Truth is as impossible to be
Soiled by any outward touch as
the sunbeam. Milton.
The man who fears nothing
is not less powerful than he who
is feared by every one.-Schiller.
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The Greatest Show On Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

married. If you are married in
the United States you are fired.
1t happened to me on q job that
paid SIPS per month. I think
the King got the best break"
"READER."
And so do I when you take into
consideration the stories in the
morning papers that his brother,
now King, is arranging to bestow
$125, 900 a year on him for life.
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Listen,
World!
By Elsie Robinson,

Married only three months, and
already she's bored-wants her
old job back! No; love hasn't
The Washington times., 1936-12-19
SEEK HARMONY

Just "a plain country boy" who's
been summering in Western Ala
barna returned to washington this
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The Human Side of the News
Bv EdUin C.. Hill

Homer was the ace reporterftl
covering the Helen of Troy story. 2
He had a way, surviving in mod p
Evening star., 1936-10-02

Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1936-10-02
OFFICER CONFIRMS
DREAM OF SPEEDING
But Citizen Still Wonders
Whether He Actually Drove
Too Fast.

Was Maurice F. Adamson dreaming,
or did he really get arrested for speed
ing on Georgia avenue yesterday?
The question was left open In Trafic
Court today until October Is pending
an investigation Of the strange story
Adamson told on the witness stand.
Officer H. E. Moore Of No. 6 precinct
told Judge Edward M. Curran he had
no doubt about the matter. He said
he locked up Adamson yesterday after
he caught him driving at an excessive
rate on Georgia avenue.
Asked how he wished to plead.
Adamson said he didn't know. He then
took the stand and told the Judge
that on Wednesday night he dreamed
that an officer resembling Moore ar
rested him on Georgia avenue.
The defendant explained that yes
terday he went to the precinct to
learn If the dream were true and was
locked up on q speeding charge. He
could not recall having been taken
to the precinct by Moore.
Puzzled, the judge ordered a con-
tinuance until an investigation can be
made. Adamson gave his address a.
1543 Thirty-third street.
Evening star., 1936-10-02
ALFRED c. CHAPLIN
DIES IN MONTREAL
Former Representative Of
New York at SO Victim
of Heart Disease.

Former Representative Alfred Clark
Chaplin of New York. father of Mrs.
Hamilton Fish, jr., wife Of Representa-
tive Fish, died today Of heart disease
In Montreal, according to word re-
eeived here. He was SO years old.
At the time of his death he was re-
turning with Mrs. Chaplin to his home
in New York City from Murray Bay,
where they had spent the. Summer.
He had been ailing since being strick-
en- with q heart attack on Septem-
ber 8.
Mr.. Chapin was born in South Had
ley, Mass, on March 8, lS4S. and was
graduated from williams College in
1859 and Harvard University Law
School in 1871. He was admitted to
the bar the following year and began
the practice Of law In New York City.
He was a member Of the New York
State Assembly, 1882-83, and was
State controller Of New York, 1884
81. From 1888 to 1891 ne was Mayor
of Brooklyn. He was elected as q
Democrat to the Fifty-second Con-
greSs to fill the vacancy caused by tho
resignation of David A. Body and
served from November 3, 1891 to No.
vember Is, 1892, when he resigned.
Mr.. Chaplin was railroad commits
sioner of New York State from 1892
to 1897. He continued to practice law
in New York until 1923, when he re-
tired. -
Besides his wife. Mrs. Charlotte
Storrs Chaplin, and daughter, he leaves
four grandchildren, children of Mrs.
Fish. They are Alfred Chaplin Rogers,
Miss Susan Rogers, both children by a
former marriage; Elizabeth Fish and
Hamilton Fish, Sd.
The funeral will be in New York
City. The time and other details were
to be announced later.
Evening star., 1936-10-02
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow; not much change In
temperature; gentle northeast winds.
Maryland-Fair, light frost in west
portion tonight; tomorrow generally
fair, warmer In west portion.
virginia-Generally fair tonight and
tomorrow; not much change in tenn
perature.
West Virginia-Fair with light frost
tonight; tomorrow fair, slightly
warmer.
River Report.
Potomac clear, Shenandoah very
muddy today.
Evening star., 1936-10-02
THREE men INJURED
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Arlington Resident Hurt a. Car
coliides With Bus ip South ],


west Section.
Clarence M. Smith, 80. Of Nineteenth
street and Glebe road, Arlington, Vs.,
was in Emergency Hospital today Is
the result Of q collision between his
car and an Alexandria, Bancroft q
Washington bus at Fourteenth and
Water streets southwest. He suffered
cuts and bruises and head injury,
and his condition was undetermined.
Charles Mckinney, So, Of 247 Della
ware avenue southwest, was recovering
in Washington Sanitarium, Takoma
Park, Md, from cuts and bruises and
skull injuries after he was struck by
q car at Piney Branch road and But
ternut street last night. The driver
was Charles Clark, 905 Carroll avenue,
Takoma Park.
Knocked down by car on . parking
lot at Fourth street and Pennsylvania
avenue yesterday, william Ray, 20, was
taken to Gallinger Hospital, suffering
from bruises and internal injuries.
Evening star., 1936-10-02

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest, II. at 1918 pm. yesterday.
Year ago, -63.
Lowest, IS. at $50 am. today. Year
ago, 45.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. los. on July 10.
Lowest. o, on January 23.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Highest. "a per cent, at z am. today.
Lowest. Al per cent. at noon today.
Evening star., 1936-10-02

The Sun and Moo