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The Washington times., 1936-12-05

work when the plague ended his life in his ninety
ninth year.
The French have saying that the rest of the
world accepts and repeats too readily: 81 jeunesse
savait, 81 vieillesse pouvait-'f youth KNEW,
only age COULD"
Youth, it is true, is often enthusiastic, ardent,
energetic, but lacking in knowledge; and old age,
too often lacks the energy and courage to use the
knowledge that it has accumulated.
But youth can know, if it will study and think;
and age can accomplish important work if it will
refuse to be frightened by gray hairs and years
gone by.
Youth did not keep Alexander the Great from
conquering the world, in his early twenties; old
age did not keep Clemenceau and Lloyd George
from bringing victory to the Allies, doing, in spite
of years, the work that younger men could not do.
But generalities about youth and old age, the
cradle and the grave, are less important than
these questions for each of us: WHAT CAN
DO WITH THIS SPAN OF LIFE? HOW CAN
l MAKE EVERY DAY AND HOUR COUNT?
HOW CAN l. WITH ENERGY AND HARD
WORK, ATONE FOR MY SHORTCOMINGS?
HOW CAN MAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE USE
OF WHAT TALENT AND POWER POSSESS?"
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BIGGER AND BETTER

Following out the policy Of pro-
viding all the modern improve
ments for Congress, Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate
Mark Trice has just finished the
job of supervising the installation
of new telephone booths in the
Senate cloakroom.
Before contracting for the big
ger and better booths, Mr.. Trice
visited the United States Supreme
Court and looked at the ones in the
building, He found that they
were almost as big as some Of the
committee rooms in the Capitol,
and decided that no matter how
long a Senator wanted to talk he
didn't need that much space.
AS a result the new booths are
slightly smaller than the court
ones. But they are big enough to
allow for a swivel chair and a
French phone, and they are re-
ported to have cost $3.50 each to
build. The new booths have taken
up so much room. However. that
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End the DELAYS

NE EXITING next week to select the site for the pro-
IXl posed municipal airport, the District Airport Com
mission has opportunity to render highly valuable
service to the National Capital.
If it is able to accomplish it's object will have
ceeded where many other bodies have failed.
And the failures in the past have not been because of
any lack of ability the part of the Investigators
THE DIFFICULTIES WHICH HAVE PREVENTED
WASHINGTON FROM HAVING THE KIND OF AN
AIRPORT WHICH 1T SHOULD HAVE AS THE Ma
TIONAL CAPITAL HAVE CENTERED LARGELY
AROUND ATTEMPTS TO FURTHER THE FINAN-
CIAL INTERESTS OF SPONSORS OF THE VARIOUS
PROPOSED SITES.
It is in effort to this situation that the
present commission has kept its deliberations secret and
proposes to keep the selected site unknown until Con-
gress convenes.
The Commission is known to have studied all of the
available sites it should have done order insure
the proper development of adequate air terminal
THE ADEQUACY OF THE PROJECTED AIRPORT
CANNOT BE JUDGED ON THE PRESENT STAND
ARDS.
It essential that any site which is selected will lend
itself to growth along with the growing needs Of the
next few years.
Washington as a city has failed to keep pace with the
demand for proper air terminal facilities.
It has brought itself criticism from nearly every
pilot who has tried to bring arpane into any of the
existing terminals
SENATOR WILLIAM H. KING, OF UTAH, CHAIR
MAN OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION, AND HIS
COLLEAGUES CAN PUT A STOP TO THIS CRITI-
CISM AND CAN LINE UP THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
WITH THE GREAT AIR-MINDED CITIES OF THE
COUNTRY BY DEALING COURAGEOUSLY AND
POSITIVELY WITH THE SUBJECT THEY ARE IN
VESTIGATING.
Any attempt to sidesep the responsibility resting on
the commission will nulfy its work and pile further de-
lay matter that has already been delayed too long.
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INAUGURAL CARDS

The way things are turning out
the members of the Senate will oe
the only persons attending the in
augural ceremonies on the Capitol
steps who won't have to have tick
cts. And, suppose that none of
the uSherS will refuse to let Presi-
dent Roosevelt on the stand to
take his oath if he's not issued a
ducat.
The members of the House Of
Representatives, however, will all
have to show cards of identified
ton. The reason Of this it seems
is that there are so many members
Of the House that no one person is
expected to know each one OF
them.
In the past this has worked tt
a great advantage for gate crash
erS. These gate craShers usually
include a number of ex-congress
men who want to stay over fol
the fireworks. When they conf
IDENTIFY approached the stands anc
said I'm Congressman Whiffin
poof," the guards usually lei
them in, not knowing exactly
whether it was okay or not. This
year it'll be different. they hope
AS for the matter of tickets, il
is expected that the number is
sued last year will be followed
again. Each Senator gets two
tickets to the gallery for the meet
ing inside that day and 10 addi
tioral tickets for the stands out
side. The holders of the two gal
lery seats, of course, will be ush
cred out of the gallery when the
ceremony starts and will be given
two good seats outside.
The members of the House will
each be allowed only one ticket
for inside and seven additional
tickets for outside.
Because Of the fact that the
House members will be allowed to
sit down this year, there will be
strict orders issued for heavy
guards around the stands. A gate
craSher will have to be pretty
darn good to make the grade this
year.
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Wise Words

There ought to be q system Of
manners in every nation which a
well-formed mind would be dis
posed to relish. To make us love
our country, our country ought
to be lovely.-Burke.
True eloquence consists in say.
ing all that is necessary, and
nothing but what is necessary
La Rochefoucauld.
OF course everybody likes and
respects self men. It Is a
great deal better to be made in
that way than not to be made at
aIl.-Holmes.
Go to your bosom; knock there,
and ask your heart what it doth
know.
To see what is right and not to
do it is want of courage.-Confu'
ciuS.
Tell me thy company and ]
will tell thee what thou art
Cervantes.
Inconsistency is the only thing
in which men are consistent
Horatio Smith.
Who covets more is evermore
a slave.-Herrick.
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Fair Representation
(PreSS, Citizen, Iowo City, 1o,DG
NoU. 21, 1856

(PreSS- Citizen, IotDd City, IowG,
Nov. 21, 1856
Just previous to election day,
the Iowa City Press-Citizen called
attention to the fact that the local
ity the most concerned by close
contact With the Federal Govern
ment. the seat of that Government
in fact, is denied the right to help
choose the President and Vice
President or have a voice in af-
fairs of the United States. We re-
fer to the fact that residents of
the District Of Columbia may not
vote in national elections.
It is surprising that the citizens
OF that unique community have
not revolted long ago against the
ruling Of the nations founders
that those who live in the shadow
OF this country's Capitol may not
cast their ballots in national elec-
tions. However, t ere is move
ment under way in the District of
Columbia to win back the right
that Americans hold most dear
representation in their national
Government.
In all fairness, no one can wish
anything but success to the efforts
Of the 619, 900 loyal, highly literate
and largely native-born Americans
who feel that there has been dis
elimination against them.
Figures Of the 1880 census show
that the Districts population ex,
ceeds that of eight States, and the
voting-age population is estimated
at 433,000, exceeding the voting
age population Of ten States.
During the last fiscal year the
District Of Columbia paid in ma,
tional taxes $17,322.929, which is
more thHn the sum paid in such
taxes by Is States individually,
and more than was paid by nine
States combined. But. in the levy
ing of these taxes. and in their ex-
penditure, the citizens of the Dis
trlct had no voice.
At the time of the World War the
District sent more men to the col,
ors than any one II States, al
though unrepresented in the body
which declared war and prose.
cuted it.
A constitutional amendment
which would right the wrong 1t is
believed ConStitution-makers unin
tentionally did will be introduced
at the next Congress. This is the
second time such an amendment
has been introduced and it shoulc
be passed without any further dis
Sension. It is against all the prin
ciples Of democracy that all the
people should not be represented
in their Government.
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skin cap is as extinct as the flap.
per. It's time we stopped our
Puritanical shouting about the
glorieS of hardship, and gave sin
full pleasure a break"
Lucille rather grudgingly admits
that maybe little labor is neces-
sary. But we don't need to preach
about it just let Nature take
it's course. ANY person who isn't
a complete idiot will swing rhyth-
mically between work end play of
his own accord. Our human age
demands it. 1t wants attention
and power, and it will put you to
work in spite of yourself"
That ought to be great news for
the boys at Washington, sister
as we'll as several million worried
parents. Think of all the cash
and energy we've been using, to
connect our idle citizens with jobs.
Whereas. all that was needed was
to let 'em alone and they'd "Swing
rhythmically of their own accord"
PLEASING THEORY
You're nothing if not optimistic,
lady-but I'm afraid the facts
won't uphold your pleasing the
ory. Most folks (including ye
scribe) still prefer loafing to labor
any day of the week. And if we
have any rhythmic swing" it's
toward bigger and better picnics-
with the Other Fellow paying the
bills!
even so-why not?" says Lu-
cile. whats wrong with fun?"
Nothing wrong with fun, and no
reason why you shouldn't devote
your whole time to it-if you
don't mind being a bum or beggar.
And many of us don't. But if you
happen to have any pride, and
want to rate as a self-respecting,
self-Starting human being-you've
simply got to cut out the ga-ga
and go in for the grind
admit, I don't admire the ar
rangement. I'd much prefer an
easier way of accumulating
character and acquiring rating.
But the simple fact is-it can't
be done. The 'frontiersman with
his coonSkin cap" may have pass
his coonSkin cap" may have
passed from the picture, but the
tests which made him a Regular
Guy haven't.
It costs just as much to acquire
courage and Shrewdness, poise
and power, in 1895 as it did in
1396-and one goes about it in
just the same way Which does
NOT mean burning up the high.
way while Dad pays for the gas.
"The Europeans laugh at our
American worship Of work." says
Lucille.
| They do. indeed. Or rather
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Senate gets in action January
and Mr.. Murphy takes his pen
in hand to jot down the notes
that later will be transcribed and
printed in the Congressional Rec
ord as true journal of what is
happening in that legislative body,
he will have served longer than
any member of the Senate in the
chamber.
In the Senate when Mr.. Murphy
first started were such diStin-
guished statesmen as Senator Will
liam B. Allison of Iowa, Senator
Jacob H. Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire, and Senator Eugene Hale of
Maine. Senator Eugene Hale was
the father of the present Senator
Frederick Hale, who represents
the same State his father did be-
fore him. Senator Gallinger, a
noted physician, was intensely in.
terested in the health of the Ma.
tion's Capital, and our municipal
hospital was named after him.
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YNHIS is life's short span, with infancy and
i feebeness at one end, old age and the grave
at the other: short story of six chapters; in
fancy, boyhood, youth manhood maturity men,
ories.
In childhood, time moves slowly, every minute
exciting, every hour life in itself. Every bed
time and getting-up time is important, each with
it's different reluctance: MUST 60 to bed
MUST I get up?" As with the child put to bed
against its will and aroused against its will, so
it is with the whole of life. Man comes into the
world with suffering weeping and leaves with re-
gret What Must I go alreadyF'
AS we travel the short span, time and the years
fly by, more and more swiftly-like train start
ing from the station, slowly at first, everything
along the track distinct, visible, important. The
train moves more and more rapidly, trees, houses,
telegraph poles fly past the window-so with
human life. The old man at the far end of the
span remembers clearly the years, months, even
the days of boyhood, and he has only an indis
tinct memory of last week.
Life is like moving picture, one event follow
ing another, swiftly, but unlike the moving pic
ture there is no keeping your seat to see second
performance
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they did-as long as they could
hire workers for so cents per week.
Or ship their INDECENT over to
America to feed. It's easy to
sneer at labor-when the other
fellow is doing the work for you.
DOESN'T WORK
But we don't think much Of
kidding ourselves that way in this
country And that sort of kidding
hasn't worked so well, even in
Europe. Observe Russia. And
tune in on Spain. The wise boys
laughed ,at labor in those coun-
tries, too. Look at 'em now!
Far be it from me to preach
misery for misery's sake. I've no
use whatever for unnecessary sac
rifices or avoidable hardShips. And
self-made martyrs are my Pet Pest.
But If we can only learn life by
living it-bring on your sweat n
tears. L can take it!
One last volley. Quotes Lucille
oscar Wilde says no man should
be wounded or worried, for it
wastes his strength in friction"
Yes, indeedy! And I've no doubt
that thousands of our citizens, of
every age. will agree with the no
tion. But just where did his can't
be-bothered program land Oscar?
In Jail. Which is exactly where
most of these Workless Wonders
usually end. And should.
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc
The Washington times., 1936-12-05

Journey
BAYREUTH

The tremendous success of the
Wagner portion Of last years
Metropolitan opera season has TO
cused the attention of travellers
and music lovers in Bayreuth
home of the great composer.
On a pilgrimage to Bayreuth
the traveller wanders along lovely
Macmillan StraSse, through the
Luitpold platz. into MargraveS
opera house and finally into the
street on which the villa of Rich
ard Wagner'S family is situated
The graves of Richard and hiS
wife, CoSima, are in the park be
hind the house. Another route
takes the lover of music along the
Erlanger StraSse to the Municipa
cemetery, where Jean Paul, Franz
Liszt, Siegfried Wagner and Doc
tor Hans Richter are buried.
The performances in the FeSti
val Theater at Bayreuth draw de
voted throngS, for here the operas
are produced according to the di
rections emphasized by Wagner
himself, who was a composer, a
librettist and producer and stage
director. The exquisite Richard
Wagner park in front of the the
ater is like stage setting, delicate
and ALTOGETHER lovely.
One can well imagine how Wag
ner must have enjoyed his walks
along Maximilian Street, for il
really is a beautiful thoroughfare
The street is flanked by beautiful
old buildings and ornamented
with old, decorative fountains
There is the old palace, with its
massive gateway dividing the
outer and inner courtyards, or
one side Of which Is the lovely
palace church.
The Ludwig Strasse is another
of those thoroughfares where
every step brings new beauty
There is the new palace with its
state picture gallery and the Wag
ner Memorial -AuSeum. The Fried
erich Strasse, another favorite
walk Of Wagner's, also is linec
with lovely, old buildings. In fact
there isn't a street in the town
that isn't rich in beauty, as vel
as in artistic and historic aSSo
Citations.
One of the incest excursions Out
of Bayreuth is to Nuremberg, the
home of the MeiSterSingerS. Tht
old town, surrounded by moatec
battlementS more than three miles
long, has a tabled past. There
one finds the former homes o1
Albrecht Durer and Hans Sachs
and st. GATHERINGS Church, where
the Meistersingers met. Tht
whole town looks like a set from
an opera, and one can readily fee
how the imagination of Wagner
was fired b. the legend and the
place. It is one of the most 70
! mantle spots in the world.
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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 varous States and
their congressional representatives Following feO
of the editorials printed By newspapers throughout the
country pledgng support to the movement for adoption
of constitutional amendment granting the District of
Columbia representation in Congress and in the Electoral
College, They printed IN response to letter from
nf1J
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ing mood these
days. Mr.. Muir
ply is celebrat-
ing 40 years Of
S erv ice as a
take-down@ Of
t he S e n a t e
speeches.
Mr.. Murphy
began his ca
reer in 1896 fol-
lowing right in
the footsteps of
his father, who
spent a 6 r e a t
deal of his life
in a similar job.
YEY han Z q
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District of Columbia
Speaks
DAILY Enterprise. BdrtleSUale.
Okla, NoU. Fl, 1856

VOUHy 6ItCI ~ GoCS D~I IGSoNNNNSs
Okla, NoU. Fl, 1866
In a letter to the Daily Enter
prise, A. G. Newmyer, publisher
of The Washington ID. c. Times
asks for newspaper support Of a
bill to be re-introduced in Con
gress in January which if passed
would permit citizens of the Dis
trict of Columbia the right to
vote. We have never understood
why the right of franchise was
not accorded citizens OF the Dis
trict and believe such a measure
should be passed.
The Districts population ex.
ceeds that of eight States in the
Union, proponents of the measure
say. and the voting age popula,
ton is estimated at 433,000, ex'
ceeding the voting-age population
of 10 States. During the last
fiscal year the District of Colum'
bit paid in national taxes SIT ,322,'
929-more than the sum paid in
taxes by IS of the States indi.
vidually; more than was paid
by nine States combined. In the
levying of these taxes, and their
expenditure, citizens of the Dis,
trict of Columbia have no voice.
"Other figures bearing on the
Districts contributions to the ma
ton are available" writes Mr..
Newmyer, "but they pale into
insignificance beside the basic
principle of democracy that all
people shall be represented in
their government. A reading of
the debates of the Constitutional
Congress indicates that there was
no intent by the trainers Of our
constitution to deny application
Of this principle to those who
chanced to live in the National
Capital.
1.-THE Constitution makers unin,
tentionally failed to give Congress
the power (analagous to that
which is possessed with regard
to the admission of territories to
statehooO of granting representa-,
ton in Congress, and in the cleo
toral college, to the population
Of the District when it becomes
fit"
Thus the District Of Columbia
gpeaks-and rightfully so-when
the matter of franchise is consid
cred. It was an oversight, &C
cording to the Washington editor
and should be corrected. Surely
the right to vote should not be
denied any group Of American
citizens regardless Of where they
reside.
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eral, and col
umniStS named
Elsie in particu
lar, lay toe
much stress on
WORK.
Sweat, sacri'
flee and suffer.
ing never made
q better guy
Of anyone, &C
cording to Lu.
cile. 1--WE CAM
see even yet
that the old
ideal of t h G
frontie RS m a n
u,ikh hio ,,Nn-
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BEST MAN

Representative Jennings Ran
dolph has received a request to act
as best man at the wedding Of
one of his friends from Webster
county, w. Va.
Mr.. Prentiss Wysong, commit
teeman from that neck of the
woods and now an attorney in the
Department Of Justice, will walk
to the altar at st. Adams, Janu-
ary 20, and he wants the Congress
man to stand up with him.
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whats Want
ed" In it are
listed as many
as 500 / d e a S
and suggestions
for things to be
made by man
for the conven-
ience or better
ment of his eX-
istence and for
the enrichment
OF I n e person
who turns the
idea into a prac-
tical object.
Br oW S i n g
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LONG TERM

Mr.. James w. Murphy, mem
ber of the staff of the official
Senate Recorders, is in a reminisc-
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The Greatest Show On Earth
RU Frank Miller Smith

ethere are only six now instead of
the eight that graced the walls be-
fore.
They will be quite comfortable
also in case the Republicans decide
to hold caucus.
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The Human
Side of the
News
Bu Edwin C.. Hill

The inventors Of England issue
each year an unique and interest.
ing pamphlet under the title
The Washington times., 1936-12-05

Lucille EvanS-up n coming
member of the Younger Genera.
tion-SayS that Americans in gen.
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Keep This Pledge

Resolved: That 1t be the sense of this contention
that committee should be appointed By the Congress
of the United States to make study of and to report
on the granting to the residents of the District Of
Columbia the right Of suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention Philadelphia,
June 26, 1886.
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Because it IS short, man must work
harder.

For the young this picture means little; they
hardly believe that life will ever end or that
some day the sun will sink never to rise again,
for them, on this earth.
As to the old, youth quite naturally considers
them not important. The old represent an audi
ence leaving the theater, some moving slowly
some rapidly, all of little consequence. They
have had their day, they have "seen the show"
That judgment, in the main, is just. Men
yield to the power of the years too soon.
Millions of mature minds with good judgment,
are wasted for lack of suitable employment. His
tory's most admirable work is associated largely
with the names of those past middle life. Blake,
the great English admiral who never went to sea
on fighting ship until past fifty, conquered the
Dutch for England Goethe finished the second
part of his Faust" at 70 years of age. Voltaire
dominated Paris, France and all Europe when
past eighty. Michelangelo, the great Italian,
created admirable works of genius when past
eighty; and Titan, another Italian, was still at
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Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

IS WORK JUST ANOTHER NUTTY NOTION?