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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-30
DUDE RANCHES

Those vacation seekers who are
suffering from the annual argu.
ment about where to go, what to
do and what to see, should give
more than passing thought to a
holiday on a Western ranch. #
one is taken, we can guarantee
that there never will be any more
such arguments or attacks of in.
decision, for there is no holiday
so delightful, so different and so
health-giving as that spent on a
dude ranch.
It is no wonder that during the
past few years hundreds of new
ranches have had to be built to &C
commodate those Fasteners anx
iouS Ito get away from it ALL and
be a cowboy or a cowgirl.
Whoever goes once invariably
becomes a confirmed dude ranch
addict, for where else or under
what other conditions could one
have so much that is worth while?
All the romance and lure of the
old west can be lived over again.
The vastnesS of the plain, the
beauty of forest and mountain
lands, the silence. the mystery, the
good fellowship and the utter diff
ference from ones usual existence
are only some of the charms. 1t
is the simple living that really
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For Purer Air

After one false start the Public Utilities Commission
has issued order designed to solve the problem of
tation of buses before cold weather brings with it
general closing of windows Of the vehicles
Everybody who rides on the buses will be grateful if
the order is made effective and if the Capital Transit
Company, by complying with its provisions, can bring
about an improvement of the air in the vehicles.
Undoubtedly the Transit Company is just anxious
to provide pure air in its buses is the Commission.
The Transit Company has nothing to gain by 'puri-
caton campaign and it has great deal to lose if the
buses are not made comfortable for the riders.
That being obvious it is to be assumed that the Com
pany will comply in spirit well letter with the Com
missions order.
There is another phase of this matter which deserves
consideration by District auhoritie-that is the prob
lem of gases and impure air discharged from the
hausts of the buses not only of the Transit Company
but of other companies operating buses through in
the city.
These discharges are irritating and disgusting.
Some agency should to it that they either
tailed or eliminated.
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these troubled insular peoples is
a problem more and more trouble,
some.
1--WE bring you the blessings
Of civilization" said Gen. Mel
son A. Miles, the old Indian
fighter, to the Puerto Ricans.
In their present mood, the
islanders would trade the above
for a couple of game cocks and a
dish of yams. We jerked them out
of feudalism and set them in the
stream of the modern complex
world economy.
They assess against us the ruin
which is part of a world sequence.
They are angry and confused,
They like their motor cars, but
they yearn for their bull-cartS,
their fieStaS and their cock fights.
Here's miniature world, either
In transition into new era or in
retrogreSSion into an old one.
Whatever it is and whatever hap
pens, they blame Uncle Sam. Like
most enlightened altruiStS, as we
considered ourselves when we
yearned to save and civilize the
islanders, our net return is a head
ache and, in the present almost
psychopathic state of the island,
angry hostility.
PARADOXICAL
All these ranging antecedents Of
civilizations and destinies focus for
the moment in dingy courtroom
in San Juan, where the rabid and
inflammatory Albizu Campos is
being tried for treason. Oddly
enough, the Tydings bill provides
just what Senior Campos is aiming
at, the liberation of the islands.
But the Tydings plebiscite is one
thing and the Campos revolution
is something else, and it is all in,
volved in Grant and paradoxical
issues which call for a quality of
craftsmanship, insular and federal,
which has not yet appeared.
One of the first and most OBJ
Wous BLESSINGS of civilization"
which General Miles acclaimed
for the island is, of course, educa-
ton. So, fittingly. a clever, frey,
jealous Puerto Rican lad went to
Harvard and made a brilliant REQ
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of dishonoring themSelves-abas-
ing and cheapening themselves
and their lives.
But why should any human be-
ing wish to dishonor himself or
cheaper his life?
BECAUSE IT'S ONE WAY OF
OBTAINING A PLACE IN THE
SUM-"
We all need expression and rec
ignition. This is not conceit. It
is a fundamental need, as natural
and inevitable as hunger or thirst
Healthy humans achieve expires
sion and recognition in healthy
ways. BY honest work-open battle
and frank friendlineSs.
HUMILITY RACKET
But unhealthy humans-in whose
ranks the Meachers have first
place-are too lazy, too cowardly
or ornery to use such fortnight
methods. So they-meach. Make
a racket of humility-or timidity-
or helplessness or grief. And so
manage to grab the spotlight.
They do not, it is true, receive
applause, but they receive AT
TENTION, either in the form of
pity or abuse. Either is grist to
the Meacher's mill. He'd just as
Soon-maybe Sooner-be a Martyr
as an Object of Compassion. To
Meacher, the Nuisance Value OF
kick is fully as great as a dozen
rounds of applause or any number
of sweet, wet tears.
So the Meacher Tribe flouriSheS.
And there will always be certain
people who, though offered every
inducement to lead healthy, happy,
Self-honoring lives, will deliberately
choose to be worms.
And should be treated as such.
If a human being refuses to
honor his own life, if he prefers
pity to honest reward, and abuse
to comradeship, he should be
treated exactly as any other con-
temptible traitor, for he has
double his god. There may
be some hope for a thief or MUIR
derer. But the man who will sell
his own Self-respect for a mess of
pity is the lowest form of run-out.
And should be given The Works.
copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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4the Atlantic and the Caribbean,
bullcartS served for tranSporta-
ton; they enjoyed their cock
fights, their aguardiente. their
singing and their fieStas; yams,
plantains, rice and bananas were
adequate for food.
The Spanish allowed them free
dom in tariff laws, which afforded
them trade opportunities common
surate with their output and their
needs. The church maintained a
subordinate, benign theocracy and
they enjoyed a Pastoral civiliza-
ton, on good terms with Mother
Earth.
The population was just about
half what it is today. With the
influx of the "YanquiS" came
absentee ownership, mechanization
of the cane lands, factories, regi-
mentation, shoes, tractors and the
end of the bull-cart. By a sudden
wrench, a people, culturally OF the
Seventeenth Century, were slam
med into the lock-Step of the ma
chine age.
There was a high rise in the
standard of living; public schools
everywhere and a sharp drop in
illiteracy; efficient policing, roads,
diversified diet, and sanitation.
QUESTION
Was the enforced transition too
swift? Did we, in imposing our
own brand of civilization, perhaps
overlook details of their civiliza-
ton which should have been nur-
tured and safeguarded? We
achieved much in humane and
enlightened colonial administra-
ton. What went wrong? Is the
present impaSse in the island at
tributable to the breakdown Of
world economy to which we had
geared Puerto Rico?
One can only pile up question
marks. The people of Puerto Rico
are of pure Spanish antecedents.
Using a bookiSh phrase, for want
of a better, they have a cultural
ariStocratic pattern" among the
upper class and there is definite
class distinction. Latin peoples,
impelled reluctantly into the COM
plexities of an exchange economy,
always are looking backward, like
Lots wife. Puerto Rico suffered
poverty and misery under Spain,
and vet she finds many of the
blessings of civilization" Dead Sea
fruit.
Statesmen like Will Rogers or
David Harum might have under.
stood these simple people better
than our current politicians. In my
occasional travels in Latin coun-
tries, I have found a regard for
the amenities, for chivalry and for
tolerance even among the hum
blest folk. Perhaps our troubles, rs
administrators, is partly due to our
lack of due regard for this.
One thing I observed. In these
countries how you do a thing may
be more important than what you
are doing? Our aims have been
high in Puerto Rico, and compared
to European and Asiatic colonizerS
we have been angels of light. BIT
perhaps we must learn more of
the how and less of the why and
what.
Copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
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D6IOTe II To- N"0s
cal gendarmerie grabbed him and
put him in the hospital again.
It seemed that when Mr.. Rom
ney had Smoothed out most of
the rough bumps so the bicycle
riding Congressman could go
home, it was found he didn't
have any clothes. That is, he
had several linen suits but no
shirts, ties, socks, etc.
Mr.. Romney sent an assistant
out to make some purchases. He
returned with everything but a
hat.
Mr.. Romney had on a brand
new skim er. Representative
Zioncheck tried it on. It fitted
perfectly.
Cali right" said Mr.. ROmney,
when we go by my office I'll
get you a hat. I've got one in
there exactly like this one"
Mr.. Romney made the last re-
mark pleasantly but firmly, as
he retrieved the new bonnet and
placed it back securely on his
own head. It was a futile ges-
ture.
Over to Mr.. Romney's office
they went. Out came the other
hat. Same make as the new one
but a year old. 1t was in good
shape but a little brown. The
Washington State Representative
tried it on.
"Say," he protested. "This
doesn't fit as well. 1 want the
other one"
Cheerfully but reluctantly, Mr.
Romney handed over his new one
Zioncheck sent it back this
week. It has a cigar burn on the
top and looks a far cry from the
Splendor in which it went away
but back it came anyway with a
note Of thanks.
It seems the Puget Sound leg
iSlator is up in the mountains Of
his State on an extended vacation
guaranteed to put enough vim anC
vigor into him so that he can whir
his opponents and come back ir
January.
In connection with his recent de
parture from Nations Capital, Mr.
Romney tells Of how desperately
they tried to alleviate the situa
ton of joking with him.
The Representative had written
out in longhand mis- last officia,
utterance to the local newspaper
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We Jerked Them Out of Feudalism and Set
Them in Complex Economic System

ord. Lean. whippy. eloquent and
personable, he became a leader Of
his people.
But, in the contagion Of the
modern world, his intellectual zeal
and his scholastic equipment were
sluiced into an inflamed national
ism, and so, like Lear, Uncle Sam
finds sharper than a serpant's
tooth the hatred of a thankleSs
child-the Albizu Campos who,
twenty-five years ago, appealed to
Puerto Ricans, with tears in his
eyes, to accept the boon of Ameri-
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can democracy. He is implacable
as he is arraigned for treason.
Puerto Rico is about the size
of Connecticut, with a population
of 100000. For 400 years the
Spanish looted, gouged, rocked
and scuttled it. But, so far as the
masses of the people are con-
cerned, it was more prosperous
forty years ago than it is today.
It was distinctly feudal in its
governmental and social organiZa-
ton. IN this beautiful noun
famous. isolated country between
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generally manage to see that they
get it, if not in one form, then in
another.
Not Christian attitude?
Why not?
Jesus Christ was never a
Meacher. Nor was any other in
spired leader. Christ believed that
human life was a holy and glori-
Gus gift. Believed as did that old
pagan philosopher, EpictetuS that
each man carries a god within
him" a god to be honored
and defended.
FIRST LAW OF NATURE
SELFRESPECT-that is tn e
very basis of all fine philosophy
of all true religion. Self-respect is
the first law of nature.
Respect yourself, not for what
you have done, but for what you
SHOULD and NIGHT do. Re
Spect yourself because you are
part god and should live as a god.
Respect that god and make others
respect it.
RESPECT YOURSELF. Christ
believed in that law, taught it,
fought for it-and died for it. AS
does every great soul. But Meach-
ers defy and disregard that law
and break it hourly for their own
contemplate profit and convent
ence.
Meachers do not honor them
SelveS-nor the god within them
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years ago, when
we took over
Puerto Rico and
the Philippines
in our fir st
colo NAL out
reach, it was all
pre- determined
and indubitable,
as America took
her place as a
world pow er.
Now we're try
ing to back out.
How to do it
W i thout recre-
ancy to our OBJ
liga tt ons to
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ton at Eagles
Mere to fin d
that his h a t
had come back.
Mr.. Romney
hadn't lost the
hat but he had
kissed it good
by early one
morning sever
al weeks ago,
when he W a S
struggling to
g e t RepreSen-
tative Marion
A. ri ncheck
out of ow n
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The kind who
always owe r
on the fringe Of
things
Or era W !
around under
foot, cringing
and ducking-
Always SEEM
ing to apologize
t o r t h e M
selves
Acting as If
they expected a
kick
Which I'm all
+ or g v i n G
them! And I
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MEANING WHAT

One of the quick-eyed gentlemen
who visited Postmaster General
On Leave Farley noticed that the
modern lights in his big office are
low in the fashion of the EN-.
blem OF the Fascist. He also re.
membered that the building was
designed under the previous adj
miniStration.
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A PUZZLER


A lady appeared at the District
Committee room in the Office
Building last week and asked for
some help. She said she wanted
someone to figure out the answer
to this one.
She is on relief and she got a
check for STOP with memoran-
dunn attached asking her to use
every effort to make it last for the
next two weeks as she probably
wouldn't get any more until
August l.
She was, she explained, sup
posed to buy groceries for the two
weeks on the STOP and she just
wondered how she was going to
do it as she owed most of it al
ready for previous grocery bill.
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human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

Manifest destiny doesn't neces- =
sarily stay manifest after a work
out Of a few decades. Thirty-eight
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AMT 1T FUN

AMT 1T FUN
KNOCK Knock"
It's back again. And it has
turned political. The latest offer
ing goes:
KNOCK, knock"
"WhO'S there?"
Rose"
Rose who?
"ROse-felt like heck after
Land-On her head"
Yes sir. They are Just as bad az
that and sometimes worse, if pos
Sible.
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RETURNS HAT

Kenneth Romney, sergeant-at
arms Of the House of. RepreSen
tatives, returned from his vaca
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REAT RETREAT


The West isn't the only place
that has a right to holler about
dust storms.
Last week there was one right
in the Capitol, and it was so bad
that a number of secretaries took
vacations to escape it.
The clouds we're composed of q
nice mixture of bricks and plaster
dust, stirred up by the drilling for
the air-conditioning.
It swept like smoke down the
corridors in the old House Office
Buildings and covered reports and
books.
Those who didn't go away just
shut up shop and made those
visits to the various Government
departments they had been put
ting off.
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Greatest Show on Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

'men. Mr.. Romney looked 1t over,
and had his secretary trarlscribe
it. When he returned it to Zion
check he said:
'Mr. ZlOncheck, the situation
is very grave. You are facing
disaster and you don't want to
make it worse by splitting an In
finitive, do yOU?"
Zioncheck answered:
Heavens, no! Did II"
eyes," said ROmney, you
split four or five"
Gosh; fix them will y0u?"
ZiOncheck pleaded.
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By Elsie Robinson
ILOATHE "MEACHERS"

I IOaCIlE MtdCIIEIS!
You know the breed. Chronic
Meekies-professional SquirmerS.
Secret GrieverS and Ear Drag,
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OLD FAVORITES
Faith

Faith -FrGnces Anne Kenble
Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceivng
Than doubt heart that, if believed,
Had blessed ones heart with true believing.
Oh, in this hooking world, too fast
The doubling fiend o'ertakes youth;
Better be cheated to the last
Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
(ReuderS invted to send to the editor their sugges
tons of the avores among the poems for r6prntng in
this spGce)
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I refer to the oft-noted fact that the nose
Is quicker, by far, than the eye!'
Don't ask any questions regarding the feat,
Or cape when the eel doesn't fall.
is purely illusion, the eyesights deceit
The thing isn't balanced at all!''
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you amaze me, Professor, I'd hardly suppose
I'd such phenomena, ever
Yet you balance an eel on the end of your nose!
What makes you awfully clever?"
cts trick" said the Prof, "and it again show
What coniurers seldom deny.
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Listen, World!

I loathe "Meachers!"
Evening star., 1936-11-22

NURSE EXPERIENCED. WILL. BOARD
1W surroundinEs. Shepherd f462.
Evening star., 1936-11-22

GIRL. coiored. for general housework; must
stay nigfts and answer telephone intelli-
gently. 430 Crittenden St. NV. Adams
Evening star., 1936-11-22
BEAUTY PARLoRS.

EXCESSIVE WEIGHT SAFELY REDUCED
wonderful French Method used DR.. DeLa
Ledendecker 3025 o st. NV. west lI2o.
ESTABLISHED BEAUTY PARLOR will be
vacant December l. Call at 1921 1th ST..
Evening star., 1936-11-22
HELP WOMEN.

WOMAN, white or light colored. unencum-
bered, under 40. as housekeeper ana COOK
b'Usns Best wages pG to right party W Address Box
155.T Star office.
WOMEN. 3. willing workers. in direct ad-
yertising dept; $3.50 sal to start start Apn,s sinre
917 New York ave. NV.
WOMEN 30 wears or over, with person.
ality and poise, for position as cosmetic
aemonstratoIs;t t,o, no csnvsSSihs SaHs Iocal 1ao
WOMEN to sell booklets as Christmas gifts
to friends. acauaintances. church members
etc. Full or spare time; good pay. a.
YOUNG LADY. experienced waitress. APP
ply California Restaurant 21O6 18th
YOUNG LADY-Rcceptionis and inter,
sales people. Preferably with hosiery and
lineerie experience Salary. SIS, Apply
Mr., Dodge, District 5174. .
PERMANENT position will be given q few
women who want to work at nome com :
piling mailing list for manufacturer. Apply
for interview in own handwritmg' giving
age. education and phone number. Ad-
dress Box l35-T, Star ONCE. ----
REPRESENTATIVE for Washington and vi
n1ey aood knit wear dresses. Suits ' coats. etc
Made to measure; good earnings for right
but desirable. Address Box 14S-T, Star
once.
BoOKKEEPER R-STENOGRAPHER
State age. experience, married or single.
salary expected. Calculating machine ex;
perience desirable. Answer own hand
writing Address Box 11l-V. Star Office
WOMEN,
Chance to earn $50 up weekly; will fur
nish you with complete samples hosiery,
lingerie. etc. Opportunity to own your
own small shop. Liberal commission. Miss
Mcconnell, Room 4O3, 1898 F ST. NV.
SALESWOMAN.
The local Charts Corset Shop. 1875 G
St. NV. desires the service of a woman to
be taught corseting Must be over IS and
neat appearing. Call early Monday morn
ine.
YOUNG LADY, experienced,
in charting and blocking
knitted garments; must have
a pleasing personality. Apply
Personnel Office, End floor.
GOLDENBERG'S, 7th & K.
Evening star., 1936-11-22

OLD HATS MADE NEW. HAVE YOUR
last seasons hat cleaned, blocked and
fashioned to the head; 81 90 to S. %.
New hats made to order. MISS HOPKINS
Sherman Apt. 500. fifth floor. 18th and L
), u5o1
Evening star., 1936-11-22

WOMAN, white or light colored. unencum-
bered, under 40 as housekeeper and cook;
thoroushly experienced; good home ana
best wages to right party. Address BOX
155.T Star office
Evening star., 1936-11-22
SITUATIONS DOMESTIC.

CHILD's NURSE. refined. settled. white
experienced; good references; will do up
stairs work: stay nights. North 5000.
COLLEGE STUDENT. colored. wishes work
after 3 p.m. maid plain cook: home
NIGHTS. ref Adams 51S1
Evening star., 1936-11-22

PRACTICAL undersraduate nurse, with 10
Metropolitan 4041.
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and J. p. Nix were horseback rid
ing through this section Sunday.
Miss Beatrice Grant has accept
ed a position at Hendersonville.
Mr.. Frank Beddingfield called
at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Ben Green, Saturday. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Lely Stepp and
son, X. G. Stepp, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Lanning of
Balfour Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Whitaker,
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Dodson and
children and Mr.. Wayne Whitaker
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sumner last Sunday. p.
Friends of Mr.. Mark Pryor will
be sorry to hear that his arm was
recently broken.
Mr.. Curtis Hyder and friends
of Glendale, S. c., were guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Hy-
der.
Mrs. Mike Richey is ill.
Mr.. Tom Pittillo and son, Wood
row, called at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Merritt Pittillo of Pts
gah Forest last Sunday.
Miss Rena Pittillo was the guest
of Miss Fern Pittillo Sunday.
Mrs. Wick Justice and Mrs.
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HOLLY SPRINGS

HOLLY SPRING, Feb. 25.-
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Drake and
children were overnight guests of
the formers mother, Mrs. Drake,
of Hendersonville, Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Gilreath of
Marietta, S. c., visited the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Orr,
Sunday.
Mrs. Nance Hamilton killed a
fine hog Wednesday.
Homer Orr is on the sick list.
Randall Scott has lost several
days work on account of a severe
cold.
Mrs. Ben Peaseff is very i'll.
Mr.. Geo. Pridmore was an over
night guest of his daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Garren, and Mr.. Garren,
of Hendersonville, Friday night.
Ollie Kuykendall and Colonel
Plidmore of Gastonia visited MIR.
Pridmore's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G.-L. Pridmore, one day last week
and Melvin .Pridmore. returned
home with them to spend two
weeks with his grandmother, Mrs.
Laura Kuykendall. .,
Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess Hoxie
have moved in the house with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hoxie.
Miss bessie Patterson and Mrs.
Preston Brown, who are employ