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The Washington times., 1936-09-21
Three Minute Journeys

are roadside shrines with people
on bent knee before them; and
opposite Chicoutimi where one
takes the train back to Montreal
or Quebec, there is a giant cross
illuminated at night by electricity
that is visible for miles.
It is well worth while to devote
some time to visiting the villages
and settlements that line the banks
Of the Saguenay. Thus you will be
carried back to the days OF New
France. The people seem to nave
changed not at all, and to have
preserved to an amazing degree
the habits, customs and the speech
of Seventeenth Century France.
| Even if you speak a taultleSs
modern French, you will have dl11l'
Guilty in understanding the speech
of the simple folk around you
DISTINGUISHED French visitors as
sert that nowhere in France IS
such perfect, undefiled french
spoken as in the Saguenay villages
TADOUSAC
Two lovely places between Mon
treal and Quebec and the end OF
the saguenay are Murray Bay and
Tadousac. At the latter spot Is a
de luxe hotel that although archl-
tecturally part of the countryside
vet manages to seem very remote
from it, so simple is lovely Tadou-
sac.
It's winding streets wander TO-
ward the crescent-shaped bay DOT
dered with a beach of white sano'
and back of the town are lovely
forests of balsam and pine, their
scent mingling with the salty tang
| of the sea.
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anu pOWcL-IA4Sy 4LdNC
been our undoing. BUT WE
WANT-HOW TERRIBLY WE
WANT!-WARM MEN! MEN
WHO FLAME WITH FAITH AND
FURY AND WHO CAN PASS ON
THAT FIRE TO OUR SILVER
ING SOULS!
TO BELIEVE that is as
necessary to human life as food,
air, sleep. Without faith, life
falls to pieces a man means
nothing to himself or anyone else.
TO FLAME WITH FAITH
there is the supreme ecstasy, the
one sure escape from life'S misery.
Watch the duSky devoteeS OF
some revival meeting in the deep
South. Ragged, penniless, without
chance of place or power in this
life, yet there they sway. caught
UP in a rapture of faith. The
words to which they are listening
may be ludicrouSly distorted {.
their leader as ignorant and hum
BILE as themselves. But he has
fire-and that fire in him is con-
tagious. 1t heals and releases
them. it gives them that surety
which their poor lives otherwise
lack.
WORKS WONDERS
A far cry, you may be think
ing, from a deep South revival
meeting to your personal prob
lem! What has an illiterate col
ored mans religious frenzy to
do with your need of job?
Plenty! For the thing that opens
the door for the black man,
opens it as surely for the white
And that thing iS-FATTH.
Faith in what? In anything
everything. In yourself, primar'
lily. In your job. In the Other
Fellow. In your hour. In your
world. ENTHUSIASM for what
ever lies next at hand.
The ability to flame-to believe
in something until you burn with
it and pass on the flame to
others-that ability has always
been the worker-w h Their it
blazed in a John the Baptist
or a Huey Long. a Joan Of Arc
or an Upton Sinclair, an Abra'
ham Lincoln or a Father Devine
1t will work wonders for YOU as
surely, if it flames in you.
The world isn't looking fol
strengthened it's pretty well fed
I'D on talent-but it can and
will grab ENTHUSIASM when
ever and wherever it finds it.
So stop being sorry for your
self-and blaming Life for your
bum breaks. Stop reading sue
cess rules-and having psychia
trio analyses. And START GET
TING HOT!
Dare to BELIEVE. dare to
BURN. and the door will open
to you!
Copyright 1885. by King Features
Syndicate Ino.)
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100000
and strength. Talent, of course,
was to be preferred above all else.
But lacking talent, one might de-
velop strength.
Looking back now, I laugh at
my cockeyed convictions. How
wrong I was! Yet still see them
Observation-Disclosures eople
placing all their bets on the same
notion-cracking up tragically be-
cause they never hit upon the
truth.
Talent? Power? The world
doesn't want these most, no mat
ter how spectacular. In these
days of mass education. talent-of
a sort-has become a drug on the
market. And power, per Sc, has
almost as little value. The woods
are filled with joblesS geniuSes
and Supermen.
But let any human being burn
Nth sincere fire and tGith-Gnd
millions tDiU tollotD him NuQueS.
tiouingly.
Mind you, his faith may be mis-
placed, his fire fantastic. His
creed may seem mumbo-jumbo to
you and me. But if, to him, it
is real, he will be welcomed as a
Miracle Man by those who speak
his language.
FAITH
FAITH. .. ENTHUSIASM 90.
CONFIDENCE ... human fire in
any of its endless forms -. this
is the thing which the world wants
most today. Let a man BURN,
and he can promptly command a
kingdom for himself, material or
spiritual.
Never have there been such OPP
portunities for sincere zealots-of
such fat pickings for Self-made
MeSsiahs-as in these discouraged
days. For we are lost children,
cold and frightened-mCst Of us
The Machine Age has spoiled our
fairy tales -. taken our Santa
Clauses all away. In what can we
believe? To whom can we cling?
We do not want bright men
nor strong men. We are sick OF
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Public School Needs

Washington public schools which have been under
going financial starvation during the economy years.
open today with the prospect of record breaking
rollment.
The increase in the number of pupils is natural re-
suit of the recent increase in the cty population al
though the school population to be increasing at
faster rate than the total population of the community
TO TAKE CARE OF THE INCREASES OVER THE
LAST FEW YEARS THERE HAS BEEN BUT LIT
TIE INCREASE IN THE SIZE OF THE SCHOOL
PLANT.
To take care of this years increase in the number Of
students there is still but little increase either in the size
Of the plant or the number of teachers available
We have been and using dangerous portable shacks
to house some of the students.
WE ARE STILL USING SCHOOL BUILDINGS
THAT WERE RULED UNFIT FOR SERVICE MANY
YEARS AGO.
We will undoubtedly find this year as we have for
many years past that of the buildings in
not be heated during the cold winter.
ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE BAD NOW BUT
THE RESULTS WHICH WILL COME FROM THEM
IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS ARE WORSE.
School authorities appalled, at the present drift of the
schools recently prepared five years program of
struction and land purchase.
We shall have to start work on such program soon
or the school plant will day find itself disastrously
overcrowded with many children unable to obtain proper
accommodations.
Alongside of the urgent and impelling needs of the
school system have to consider the fact that the Dis
tricts expenditures already running behind the cy
revenues.
We are spending more annualy-beginning this year
than is coming into the local treasury and WE ARE
STILL NOT MEETING THE CRYING NEED FOR
PURCHASE OF LAND FOR SCHOOLS OF THE FLU
TURE AND THE LIKEWISE CRYING NEED FOR
REPLACEMENT OF SOME OF THE OBSOLETE
STRUCTURES NOW HOUSING SCHOOLS.
These conditions and the ultimate effect the school
system deserve the most serious consideration of the
Commissioners in preparation Of the local budget for the
next fiscal year.
They deserve likewise sympathetic hearing on the
part of officials of the Bureau of the Budget who will
prepare the budget for submission to Congress.
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INCIDENTALLY

Thoughts on scanning the recent
primary returns:
The House loses one Of its rich
est members with the retirement
of Representative Parker Corning,
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By Edwin c. Hill

handful Of gold pieces at the
chandeliers, just to have some
fun.
"When you went broke, you
told your neighbOr you and your
friends had suffered some mis-
fortune, and required an advance
to finish an evening Of craps,
roulette, twenty.One and q half
in fact, everything you ever
heard of. The answer was always
a handful Of gold coin. And the
astonishing thing about 1t was
that it was always paid back.
Book law was pretty sketchy
there, but 1 noticed one queer
thing. There was more effective
unwritten law in this and other
mining camps than anywhere
else in the world. There were
certain sporting standards which
worked better than written
codes.
1--WE tossed up in the desert a
jerry-buiIt auditOrium-a terrible
fire-trap it must have been
which we called "The Hippo
drOme," and there we used to put
on some of the toughest Of rough
and tumble prize fights ever
staged anywhere = but always
under the rules.
zone night q heavyweight
deliberately fOuIed his OppO-
nent, in full view Of the audi
ence. There was a riot which
blew off like a keg Of gun
powder. The fight mob boiled
up on the platform; there were
q half dozen shots. Quickly a
ring Of men with drawn guns
formed around the fighter. This
and this alone saved his life.
'That was typical mining
stuff for youths emotional
feeling for fair play and in
difference to statute Iaws-and
if Richard Harding Davis had
described what happened that
night you would have said it
was bunk.
STRANGE YARNS
Down in South America I
was prospecting with two or
three other men, and that way
1 think you have q better
chance to get in closer with
the people and the country
than if you are a mining engi.
neer. Lots Of times in Guaya-
quill, or CaIIaO, or Cartagena,
you'll hear somebody mutter
perros (dOgs) when you pass by,
particularly if you're dressed up.
"They are always afraid of
anybody seeking q monopoly or
a concession, but when they
find that you're on your own,
and out for nothing more than a
few ounces Of dust from q noun
tain stream, you become their
amigo. They are friendly, kindly
and courteous people - the best
in the world, once they figure
you are not there to exploit
them.
'DOwn at CaIIaO, we used to
meet at La Casa de Los Tres
EstrelIitas. There you would hear
yarns such as neither Rich.
ard Harding Davis nor John
Baragwanath has ever told. It's
a strange thing! Down in the
Kenya colony, 1 found that If
you lived there long enough you
got to believing in the witch
doctors.
Gust bat around Out-Of-the-
way places 30 or 40 years and
you'll begin to think anything
can happen. Conrad got that
way. I am sure that Mr.,
Baragwanath'S story Of the ghost
throwing rocks is nothing to
what he could tell If he wanted
to-"
Copyright, 1895. BY King Features
The Washington times., 1936-09-21
Factual Tales of Out-of- the-Way Places Are
Quite as Exciting as Fiction

pan, but just try to find out where
it is. Certainly, with due allow
ance for tall tales, there is i'm
periShable mystery and adventure
in the sagas of the gold-Seekers,
from the "HaSsayampa" proSpec-
tor to the mining engineer. Bill
got to EARNING about Goldfield:
"Baragwanath could have shot
q dozen articles on that berg"
he said. There was never any
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coin stopped off Rep. Glare Hoffman
at Albany to see the family on the
way to his first Inauguration.
Representative Corning'S brother
has served as lieutenant governor
Of the State.
Rumors have crept into the
Capitol that Mr.. Corning owns MS
own airplane, a yacht and other
encumbrances of the rich.
Success of Representative Clare
Hoffman in the Michigan prlma:.
ries recalls the earlier success OF
]. Jasper Bell, of Missouri.
Representative Bell was the bit
'terest opponent in Congress that
the Townsend plan had. The
TownsenditeS lost out in trying 10
beat him and they lost out In Try
ing to beat Representative Hot1-
man.
Representative Hoffman was on
the Bell committee which led the
Investigation and was counted
only as second to Representative
Bell in opposing DR.. Townsend.
HERE'S THE REASON
An amusing anecdote about
Representative Hoffman sur
rounds the fact that he never has
any pockets in his coats. When ne
was graduated from the Nortn
western University Law School
and started out on his career as
a lawyer, he appeared in a case
against an older attorney that he
didn't care so much for.
He studied this older man Il
see Just how he got along in pre-
senting his case. He noticed thai
the older man kept putting nj
hands in his coat pockets Wher
he addressed the jury. =.
Representative Hoffman salc
he took a dislike to this gesture
and decided to avoid it at al
costs. So he has never had
pocket put in a coat of his since
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co. 5 l II & 0 T
S W i nj" S o
then, what? I
+ ou n d myself
asking the ques-
t / o n Y o u'r e
probably asking
today. How, if
anywhere, did I
eat? What did
this stra n G e
a n d terrifying
W orld W a n t
m oS in eX-
C h a n G for
food?
I thought I
knnur folant
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thing like it in America before.
and 1 guess there never will be
again. His estimate of $4,000
people there was pretty low.
There must have been at least
$4,000 in 1905 and 1906. Any
thing less than a $40 gold piece
was small change.
"At the Palm Cafe, or Louvre,
or Tex Richards Northern, you
used to see chaps heaving q
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New York Dem
ocrat.
Repres e n t a.
tive Corning
was known as
Jack" to his
frie n ds. His
family d a t e S
away back and
have plen t y.
They have been
well known in
politics as far
back as Lin
coins time.
There is a
story that Lin.
The Washington times., 1936-09-21
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
WHAT DOES THE WORLD WANT MOST?

I was IS, uneducated, unframed,
before I entered business life.
Then, overnight, it waS-"In you
The Washington times., 1936-09-21
The Human Side of the News =

At a New York club the other
day, this writer got into an argu-
ment about Richard Harding
The Washington times., 1936-09-21
THEY COME BACK

Some of the Senators are show
ing up at the Capitol now quite
frequently.
Senator Harry Flood Byrd OF
Virginia came to his office as
soon as he got out Of the hos
pital.
Senator Augustine Lonergan Of
Connecticut, chairman Of the Sen.
ate committee investigating cam
paign expenditures, dropped in
after a visit to his State.
} Senator Lonergan, who believes
the old settler who said: New
England amt ripe till after Labor
Day." reports that all nature has
turned out to make his State one
of the most beautiful in the
Union at this time of the year.
With the Spic and span homes
cleaning through the trees the
charm of it just about kept him
from returning to the Capitol.
young BOB" LEADS
Democrats are looking at the
defeat of Senator James CouzenS,
another very rich man, in a new
light now.
He was the ranking Republican
member on the Senate Finance
Committee. Next on the list was
Senator Henry w. Reyes. Senator
Keyes has retired from public
life.
That leaves Senator Robert M
La toilette, jr., of Wisconsin, the
progressive of the progressives' to
take the lead.
Evening star., 1936-05-10

NEW CAMERA COURAGE; TT the Garho sda,c
ing % Indulgence with which Grsta 1st5rn GaeDo fro@
gresvedd; sned;sh VACATION almost stunned them them;
They made the most of it as de GEesa WarlS %ss
the deck.
The Washington times., 1936-06-19

Misses Sizes II to 20
Women's Sizes SO to A
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9th, 8th and E

If we conbed the market, we couldn't give you
better values than these! Every single dress was
chosen and bought to sell for dollars and dollars
more than Il TO! Come take them while they're
fresh as summer day-and put the money you
save into extra fun on your vacation Dark sheers
for travelling, merry coIors to make splash at
the resorts, icy pastes to make you feel prettier
Come on in-WELL show you!
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Larger Sizes A to 81
Half Sizes 2o1z to 26Kz
Evening star., 1936-04-25
DIVORCE Of NIXON,
REWED, RULED OUT
Officer Seeks to Determine
Status of Third Wife
Following Ruling.

Capt Thomas Hay Nixon, Army
Ordnance Department. today was seek
ing to learn the status of his third
marriage, following a ruling by q
Gettysburg. Pa, court yesterday that
his divorce from wife No. was invalid
A few days after he obtained the
Gettysburg divorce on August 26, 1885
Capt. Nixon married Miss Anne Cooke
Of Chevy Chase. Md. who recently be-
came the mother of twins
Mrs. Annette Pauline Nixon, his Sec
ond wife, attacked the Pennsylvania
decree on the ground Capt Nixon was
not an actual resident of Pennsylvania
when it was granted. and the divorce
was set aside yesterday by Judge w. c.
Sheely on this ground.
After learning of the Gettysburg
proceeding. the second Mrs. Nixon, a
former Scandals" beauty, filed a
divorce suit of her own in District
Supreme Court. naming the present
Mrs. Nixon as correspondent.
Nixons present wife is one of two
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
De Walden Cooke. The other daugh-
ter, Mrs. Jane Cooke Scarlet. was
granted limited divorce in District
Supreme Court yesterday from George
S. Scarlet. 3d. She eloped with
Scarlet when he was employed as
chauffeur by her parents, the pres
ent Mrs. Nixon accompanying them
on their honeymoon. Mrs. Scarlett
was granted the limited divorce after
the court had refused to annul the
marriage
Evening star., 1936-04-25
.PUB[|SHERSE[ECT
0FF|CERSFOR YEAR
Jerome D. Barnum Again
Chosen President-Radio
Bureau to Continue.
BY the Associated Press.

ov tHC AoouCiutCu EicSo.
NEW YORK, April 25.-The Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton closed its four-day annual con-
vention yesterday with the election
Of officers and the adoption o. q
resolution to continue the Press-Radio
Bureau for another year.
Jerome D. Barnum, publisher of
the Syracuse, N. Y, PoSt-Standard,
was reelected for a second term as
president. and these other officers were
reelected:
James G. Stahlman, Nashville Ban
ner. vice president; E. H. Harris, Rich
mond, Ind, Palladium Item, secre-
tary, and Walter M. Dear, Jersey City
Journal, treasurer.
John S. McCarrens OF the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, was elected to the
Board of Directors to fill a vacancy
caused by the retirement of Charles
Webb of Asheville, N. c., Citizen
Times. The following directors were
reelected:
E. H. Butler, Buffalo, N. Y, Eve
ming News; w. G. Chandler, Scripps-
Howard Newspapers, New York: John
S. Parks, Fort Smith. Ark, Times
Record, and S. R. Winch. Portland.
Ore. Journal.
The resolution to continue the
Press-Ra Bureau, which furnishes
news bulletins without commercial
tie-ups, suggested efforts be made to
extend the service to all radio sta
tions desiring the bulletins.
The final reports presented at the
convention came from committees on
newsprint headed by Chandler and
Stahlman. Stahlman's group said
the manufacture of southern news
print opened an avenue of escape
from IAN intolerable newsprint situa-
ton"
Recent events, said Chandler's COM
mittee. lead to the inevitable con-
clusion that the time is near when
United States publishers who may
purchase Canadian newsprint will not
have to deal alone with the manu-
facturer of their choice, but with a
coalition of the Canadian Govern
ment and of the Canadian manu-
facturers."
Evening star., 1936-04-25
HARBORS LEADERS
CONSIDER PROJECTS
Committee of National Congress
May Continue Sessions
Monday.

Sessions of the Projects Committee
of the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, which were scheduled to
close this afternoon in the Mayflower
Hotel, probably will be continued until
Monday to permit hearing on the
more than 100 proposals under con-
sideration.
The committee passes on all projects
before they are taken up in the ses-
sionS of the main congress, which
opens Monday for two-day meeting.
Less than 20 per cent of the pro-
posals submitted were explained by
their sponsors at the opening session
Of the Projects Committee yesterday.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and
House and Senate leaders are on the
opening program Monday. at which
the various projects approved by the
committee will be fitted into a national
flood control and water conservation
plan.
Representatives of projects from the
Great Lakes to Carrabelle, Fla, and
from Salisbury, Md, to Palo Alto,
Calf, were heard at the opening
meeting yesterday, at which Repre-
sentative Driver of Arkansas presided.
Evening star., 1936-04-25
TR|UMV|RATE HOLD.
ON 0. A. RIP. Barred.
Clements Reveals Three Men
Are Dictators of
All Assets.
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

A three-way closed corporation still
holds ownership of the valuable prop
erty rights and assets of the Townsend
old-age pension movement, it was
disclosed yesterday as the Bell In
vestigating Committee recessed until
May 5 to await appearance of the
central figure of what has been called
a Nationwide "hysteria DIR. Fran
els E. Townsend.
The trio, it was brought out during
questioning of Robert E. Clements,
retired co-leader of the movement,
includes DR.. Townsend his brother,
Walter Townsend, and Gilmour
Young.
Development of this fact came as
Representative HolliSter, Republican,
of Ohio pressed Clements about
articles of incorporation and records
of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd.
1t was developed that the two Town.
sends and Clements were sole in
corporators and members of the or
ganization. Later the trio named
themselves directors Then. accord
ing to records of June, 1885, Walter
resigned as director.
He did not, however, resign as a
member and. by similar tactics, SUBJ
sequent appointments to directorships
of the organization did not carry with
them the privileges of memberships.
This policy left the TownSends and
Clements continuing as sole owners of
the corporation assets.
On April l of this year, however,
Clements resigned as director and off,
Ger of the o. A R. P and at the
same time transferred his member
ship to Gilmour Young of San Fran
cisco, thus perpetuating the three
man ownership. At the same time DR..
Townsend announced appointment of
six others to serve with himself and
Young on the Board of Directors but
did not confer upon them member
ship.
Evening star., 1936-04-25

Of crime the Federal Government had
to approach the matter through tax
alton! These weapons must now be
registered for taxation. purposes, in
order that their gangster possessors
may be prosecuted for tax evasion.
Apparently there was no other way.
inside the Constitution, of reaching
them.
The fact of the 48 States with sep
arate police systems is. no doubt, par
TALLY responsible for low police stand
ards. We are way behind the con-
tinent of Europe in the sheer science
of crime detection. The fearful bum
CLING in the first hours Of the Lind
bergh case Is an illustration.
The alliance between politics and
crime, between industry and crime,
and between labor and crime, must
be counted. Elsewhere in this column
I have written about the labor spy
and the hired strikebreaker. But
check against the trades unions the
hired thug, the hired intimidator.
Count in the crooked judiciary. and
the whole system Of the election of
judges, which makes the State and
municipal courts responsible to ward
politicians. In Greater New York to-
day public prosecutor is working on
serious kidnapping case, who only the
other day was removed from the
prosecution of murder case because
Of charged filed with the Governor.
Nevertheless, he was reelected, and
while he represents New York justice
one of his staff is under indictment.
Low Standards Among Lawyers.
The business has many facades. Add
the low standards of some of the legal
profession. And there are two sides to
this story, too. There Is, In our coun-
try, polite crime, and impolite crime
A banker accused of embezzlement, an
insult, or Doheny, can command the
ablest and most respectable legal
talent in the country. A bank wrecker
can get the support of an eminent
member of the bar A bank breaker
cannot. murderer cannot. The re-
suit is that most criminal cases are
handed over to the dregs of the bar,
to the "fixers," the 'low-lives." Yet
somebody has got to defend them. If
decent lawyers will not, then there is
a premium for men of no honor. A
girl who shoots her lover in hysteria
is usually defended by a lawyer of
questionable reputation because only
such q man will defend her. But a
man who has ruined widows and
orphans may be defended by leading
citizen.
Add public sentimentality toward
the criminal, resulting in such shock
ing things as the ideali7ation of
Hauptmann and his widow, and in the