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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
ADVANCE MAN REPORTS:


That there isn't any place in
the Library Of Congress for a lady
to smoke. And, oh how some of
them would appreciate a drag
while they are browsing over the
many volumes.
That New York musicians refer
to "yokelS" as "IckieS."
That if you happen to see one
of the ushers standing in statuary
hall talking to himself don't be
alarmed. He isn't doing Zion
check. He is whispering to the
group across the hall that he is
showing around the building.
There's a swell Set-up there, but
you have to know just where to
stand. It doesn't make any differ
ence what you say.
That you can start a good ar
gument by asking someone in the
Big Dome to show you where the
cornerstone of the original build
ing was laid. The one the British
burned over.
L1dG Oc11dUOC EGuo1l 14OAG hCCPo
police dog in his office, and it
eats bones right on the carpet.
That when Indians come to the
Big Show from their reservations
in Oklahoma and adjacent points
the main thing they want to see
is Senator Elmer Thomas of Ok
lahoma, chairman of the Indian
Affairs Committee.
That Representative w. D. Nc
Farlane of Texas is one Of the
better anglers and when he goes
out and gets 'em he brings EN-
back, and has them prepared right
in the House cook tent for his
friends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05

take them in
t h cir stride
without a fall
ter.
Take, for in
stance, the i'm
70 m p t u ad-
dress Of h e
C u S t m e r in
the G ! e ry
M o n d a y eve
ming.
T h a t grand
v e t e r a n
trouper Senator
ROYAL S. Cope
| q n d W a S
I 4nrhin n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
NEXT TIME

Representative Burdick and
Representative William Lemke
are the only two members in the
House from North Dakota. Asked
about the primaries he said:
ooh Lemke and / will come
out all right this year. We've
been Endorsed by both organ
iZationS. I guess we'll get beat
next time though; we won't be
able to take sides now"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
AN ALLY

Never say that the members Of
the House company don't know
how to makeup for their parts.
Representative Leo Kocialko-
Wski Il wonder how to pronounce
it myself of Illinois, chairman Of
the Insular Affairs Committee,
has been busying himself lately
with Puerto Rico. Mainly a bill to
provide the people with independ-
ence.
Each morning for the past sew
eral weeks Mr.. Kocialkowski has
spent the warm morning hours on
the veranda directly off the House
cloakroom.
He sits in the sun and reads the
newspapers. Result-he has &C
quired a sun tan that defies even
the residents Of Puerto Rico to
beat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
LONG LIST

Twenty-one pages of the Con
gressional Record were taken up
in printing the bill providing pen
sionS and increases of pensions
for helpless and dependent chill
dren of soldiers in the Civil War.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
NO RANCOR

Speeches are the meat Of the
boys in the Senate Ring. Long
speeches; short speeches; they
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05

RIGHT AT HOME
A unique honor has befallen
Jack Hays, of Oklahoma. His
mother, resting in the offices OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
Listen, World!
Blu Elsie Robinson

She's facing that period of
heartsick, res entf III loneliness
which comes to so many mothers
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
The Human Side of the News
Bu Edvin C.. Hill

The one-time King of Kings is
an exile in England. Very literally
he has no crown left to his name;
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05

How do we maintain a ma
tiOnaI and a Federal Govern
ment?
Our government is partly ma
tional in that all the people belong
to one nation; and partly federal
in that 1t is a union of separate
States.
As q national Government with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

, Senator Elmer Thomas, Of that
State, announces that when her
boy graduates from Annapolis this
week he will go on a cruise as an
ensign on the battleship Okla
homa as his first job in the Navy.
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MAYBE

He was tall. He was slim. He
had an air about him. He walked
along the sidewalk leading to the
Capitol as if he knew where he was
going and why. He had little
difficulty getting around a group
of six or seven tourists. He was
just out of earshot when one of
the ladies in the party said:
ooh, let's go inside the Capt..
tOl and maybe we can see a
Senator"
The man who had just passed
them was Senator William Gibbs
McAdoo, of California.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05

should be making new lives for
themselves, deserves all the breaks
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05
By Nelson Harding

Of Kings is@and her graces, did she
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
Times Books

COMEIHING in the way of honest, melodramatic
~ romance and adventure is relished by the best of
men, at times; and if that's your dish you'll find an
excellent example in "The House of the Spaniard" by
Arthur Behrend
Here we have all the old familiar trimmings-the
lonely house in the deserted marsh; the beautiful
and appallngly helpless girl whose father is so
clearly up to no good; the ardent young who
could keep out OF all trouble by exercising just once
an ounce OF common sense, but who steadfasty re-
trains from doing the mysterious boat that takes
On namelesS cargo at lonely inlet-we have, in
other words, all that is needed to make romantic
melodrama of the old school
Mr.. Behrend stirs and cooks these ingredients
skillfuly, and shows dark Spanish plot being
Matched on the civilized shores of England with
valiant young Englishman alternately trying to foil
1t and taking a hand in it himself for love of the
beautiful girl aforementioned.
AS I say, this story like most of its kind depends
for its plot on singular brainlessness the part
of the hao
If the leading man in one of these books should
start acting like an intelligent adult, the whole sruc
ture would fall apart, and the author would doubtless
lose his union card. But that happens and if
you like quick action with minimum of demand
on your intelligence, this book will do very well.
Published by Doubleday. Doran g. Co., it sells
for 81. tBy Bruce Catlon)
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Gen. johnson Says

BOSTON, Feb. 1-Our recent recovery bases
~ largely on the automobile BOOM But that is
threatened seriously and already has begun to fater
There is only in the hole-the bonus
large part of the last bonus went for used cars May
be this will repeat
Wherever I go automobile dealers come to NE to
beWall the loss of their NA retail code It's prnci-
pal provision method of appraising the trade
in value of all makes, models and vintages of used
cars 1t was an unfair code practice to allow any
greater value in the sale of a new car.
The retail price of new car is fixed by the man
ufacturer, and the dealer doesn't dare chsel on it.
but in what the dealers call 'the years c." (before
codes), the chseling done by allowing fantastic
prices for used cars traded in. Under the code for
the first time in many years. dealers made money
The code blew up and the old cutthroat business
began. In the recent automobile boom the manufac-
turers hammered dealers for orders and they took in
Their working capital flowed into high inventories of
used cars, for which there has been little demand
This situation is general all over the country
Now this is very serious matter and if the bonus
Will help the situation it will have profound effect
on recovery But in order to push its favorable ef-
Iect on business close to election as possible the
bonus was timed for June and the Administra-
tlon says: The vast mechanical tasks of payment
will postpone it till July"
That may not be so clever as it sounds If this
automobile slow-up becomes a halt it might be wise
to discover that the mechanics of payment are SIM
pier than was at first supposed and to speed tp at
least one-han billion of that shot-in- -the-arm
Quick Henry the needle!
Copyright 1885 by United Feature
Syndicate Incl
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Senate Regulars

OFF1cIAL Senate reporters say
~ that of the 96 Senators there
are Is who never talk, another Is
who talk rarely, and 80 who talk
occasionally. The remaining Is or
Is are the regulars. -. d.. Senator
Norris confesses that it amuses
him sometimes to come across his
name in the new use it now has
in Tennessee. Here is an item
appearing in a. Tennessee Valley
paper: Mrs. Walter Banks and
children of South Carolina have
recently joined Mr.. Banks in Nor
ris and have taken house on
Oak-rd." Largest elevators in
the Capital are the barn-like lifts
of the new Archives Building;
capacity-46 persons. United
States Forest Rangers report that
since the drought Western stock
men have become champions of
the beaver because he dams
streams and makes watering ponds
for livestock. New workers are
cluttered in a corridor of the De-
partment of Justice Building COM
putting figures on parole violations
from United States prison records,
1t is a WPA project. Grape
wine, masquerading as "black-
berry wine" has been seized in
Washington by food and drug in
spectors. Senator Vanden-
berg's handwriting is print
hand which he writes as fast as
the ordinary person writes script.
Copyright, 1896. by United Feature
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
House Cleaning


A L SMITHS declaration of war
n has made Administrationites
more determined than ever to
house-clean the present hostile
Tammany leadership in order to
forestall rebellious delegates to the
Philadelphia Democratic conven-
ton. Inside word is that Jim Far
ley has given the signal to go after
the scalp of Jimmy Dooling, Tam
many ruler, so that he can be re-
placed with a chief more friendly
to Roosevelt. Representative
Robert F. Rich, Pennsylvania's
leather -lunged New Deal foe, was
sharply dressed down by Repub-
lican Floor Leader Bertrand Smell
in private cloak-room conversa-
ton. You're congenital objec-
tor" snapped Smell. stop yelling
SO much. You make us look fool
ish." :. Reason why Mississippi's
ex-senator Hubert Stephens
turned down reappointment to
the RFC was that he did not want
to subject himself to asking Sena-
tor Theodore Bilbo, a lifelong
political foe, to vote for his con-
firmation. Postcard sent out
by the Women's National Press
Club to its members: Owing to
the death of His Majesty King
George v the regular weekly
luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. %, has
been Cancelled"
First bill introduced by Sena-
tor Elmer Benson, recently ap-
pointed to succeed Tom Schall as
Senator from Minnesota, was
The American Youth Act" Of
fered simultaneously in the House
by Wisconsin's Representative
Thomas Amlie, the measure would
pay needy college students SIS a
week. Under the National Youth
Administration program they now
receive SIS month. s.. Profess
sional baseball is scouting" the
CCC camps for likely material.
Julius st. Clair, an enrollee in a
Virginia camp, recently was signed
by minor league club. Z. Sens,-
tor Lewis Schwellenbach has re-
ceived hundreds of requests from
all parts of the country for copies
of his speech assailing the Ameri-
can Liberty League. -. On Feb.
10, philatelists will have new
stamp to add to their collections.
On that day the Postoffice De-
partment is to issue new Is
cent red and blue airmail stamp.
1t replaces the present blue stamp,
which was confused too easily
with the regular Scent stamp. +. :.
The railroads shortly will request
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to extend for another year
the freight rate surcharges which
expire June 80. The carriers es-
innate that the extension will
add s100,oO0O00 to their income.
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Legion Memento

DETERMINED to have a me-
II mento of the bonus victory
that will remain after the money
is spent, American Legion Off
cials requested the American flag
that flew over the Capitol during
the bonus debates. They got it.
To clear the Capitols east
plaza of the parked cars that clut-
ter it daily, Architect David Lynn
has plans to build a subterranean
garage under the plaza, with
capacity of 1000 cars. The
Capitol's Japanese cherry trees
have brought not only pink bios
SONS and spirit of goodwill but
also the Oriental fruit worm.
which plant quarantine officials
say has now spread from Georgia
to Canada. A tardy Christ
mas request has come from La
Flatte, Mo-. addressed to the Presi-
dent: Il am Is years old. I have
just found out that there is no
Santa Claus, and, since you are
the next best person to him, I
thought I would write to you. I
want a bright green silk rough
crepe dress for Christmas"
When a Senator complained that
he could not hear the debate on
the floor recently, red-faced Jack
Garner pounded the gavel and
complained in turn, 1T is very diff
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

the world and its strange peo-
pie than almost any one I had
ever talked to.
We both liked horses and cat
tie and rolling hills and we'd both
banged around the world and seen
a few queer things-and we both
liked cold ham and cheese and
beer.
There was no kow-towing in the
slightest. / would address him
exactly as I would, we'll say, an
army brigadier. Thanks, sir, I
will have another slice of ham"
1t was all free and easy-and
honest. He'd have resented any
of that Your Royal Highness'
stuff, and by the same token any
undue familiarity. CHis own staff
called him H. r. H" 1t is about
as familiar as any of his asso-
ciates would care to get)
IND you ever see the Prince
- over there?" I once asked
a. British ex-soldier, named
John Gowland, who had written
a remarkable book called War
Is Like That
Twice" he answered. Funny
about the first time" he chuckled.
I'D heard there was beer in a
canteen back of the lines near
Ypres and I'd got a petrol tin and
was hiking back hoping could
get can for the lads. I saw three
or four brass hats watching an
artillery duel between the Jer-
ries and ourselves. I saluted and
a young fellow returned the sa-
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
SHORTR|DGE DEBATE
TEAMS IN TOURNEY
Louisville and Cincinnati
Teams Are Foes.

Shortridge High School debating
teams under direction of G. C.. Shoe
maker are preparing for the tri-
state debate meet to be held March
20 in Cincinnati, Louisville and
indianapolis.
The Louisville Male High School
and the Walnut Hills High School,
Cincinnati, will be opponents of the
Shortridge negative and affirmative
squads, respectively.
The affirmative team of Harvey
Wilmeth, Richard Moorish and
James Brock is headed by Carter
Elzroth and Arthur Northrup, Ell
mer Warren and Capt. Emil Rass-
man comprise the negative squad.
Preliminary debates will be held
Feb. 81 with the Earlham College
freshmen team, and on Feb. 25 with
the De Pauw University freshmen.
The Technical High School team
will be opponents after the tri-state
meet.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLIE

VXIASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-At a
w private gathering of Lib
erty League notables after Al
Smiths banquet, the prediction
was made that third party cam
didate would be put into the field
against Roosevelt. Possible NOM
inees mentioned we're AL Smith;
ex-Gov. Ritchie of Maryland; eX-
Budget Director Douglas, and the
one time Gov. Joseph T. Ely of
Massachusetts,. A conflden7
tial relief survey made by the
United States Conference of
Mayors contains the statement
that "there are at least 100000
employable cases. involving close
to 100000 persons, who have
not yet been and will not be abb
sorbed by the present WPA, PWA,
CCC and other Federal activities"
A letter received at the
Washington postof1ce, addressed
Madam Queen" was sent to the
Labor Department. There it was
found the communication was in
tended for Secretary Frances Per-
kins. Rep. Henry E. Stubbs,
California Democrat, insists that
the latest bill he has introduced
* a very serious natter. The
measure would boost the tariff on
mustard seeds from the present
to 10 cents a pound. Gov
ernment statistical experts consid-
er the consumption of postcards
one of the best barometerS of do
mestic economic conditions. Last
year the Government Printing
Office produced 177,000,000 of the
cards as compared to 127,000,000
in 1884.
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EIZnough
BY
WESIbR0Ok PEGLER

T ONDON, Feb. 1.-The new King has moved into
- mis- job with show of confidence and poise at
a time when London is the most prosperous capital
in the world 1t is hard job involving long hours
and tremendous program of baby kissing in all
its guises, but the pay and other compenSations
proportionate to the duties.
The only real menace which confronts King Ed
ward VIII and which now will become more threat
ening day by day is the awful terror cf matrimony
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

nicture is that it wasn't that at ALL Roosevelt had
been posing for birthday pictures before battery
of news cameramen. For some minutes light bulbs
had been flashing in his face until he became almost
blinded When he removed his glasses to rub his
eyes, alert photographer snapped his shutter
and discovered he had one of the most remarkable
pictures taken of Roosevelt, one which you
probably will see many times long after you have
forgotten the accidental circumstances under which
it was taken.
DOIITICAL parade: Instead of announcing his
L presidential candidacy directly, Gov. Landon of
Kansas said that hereafter he would use his chris
tened name of Alfred instead of the familiar Af
which he adopted for his otfcla signature aIter ne
got into state politics.
Although Smith was known Al for many years,
some newspapers, during the 1928 campaign, insisted
upon using Alfred, feeling that the less dignfed
nickname might be open to objection when applied
to a presidential candidate
In answer to those who call Roosevelt Com
munst some Administration friends are pointing to
the recent critical book by Mauritz Hallgreen called
The Gay Reformer" the burden of which is that
Roosevelt is nothing but pleasant capitalist who is
trying to the old order. and if the old order is
too dumb to see 1t the revoutonlSts ought not let
him fool them.
Gov Landon's keynote speech has been widely
praised and his radio delivery widely criticised.
Broadcasters tried months ago to give him coach
to improve his microphone style, but Landon
wouldn't consent He preferred to go on the air
is and let the squeaks fall where they may.
Senator L. j. Dickinson of Iowa is supposed to be
slated for the next general tyout in the Republican
trial heats The publicity buid-up already has be-
gun. He's married into the powerful Gardner
Cowles family in Des Moines and is cousin by mar
riage of Thomas Lamont of j. p Morgan & Co. But
in Iowa they call him 'hell-raisng Dick"
NEUTRALITY legislation is encountering more
trouble just from Italian Americans >
than from munition makers. Voters of Italian
blood putting the heat their Senators and
Representatives to have Italy and Ethiopia exempted
from neutrality embargoes Rome is timing in per-
fectly with this drive throwing out hints about how
anxious italian business to revive trade
with the United States. They're talking about
sending q trade mission" over here. All of this
technique somehow has familiar hollow ring.
You how fast Roosevelt is running the
country from what happened to the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co last year. The amount of in
surance 1t has in force reached an all-tlme high.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

plcture snapped JUSC dIUeI dIl
assassin's bullet hit Mayor Gay
nor of New York, or that of the
late William j. Bryan, caught in
his broken despair after he was
hooted by the Al Smith gall
lery at the Democratic National
Convention in Madison Square
Garden Il years ago. This
Roosevelt picture seemed to por-
tray heart-breaking discourag-
ment. 1t had a quality which
undoubtedly evoked the SYM
pathy of most per-ons who saw
it.
But the funny thing about the
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

a smoke, Tommy?" Or to worry
about spare tire. But in tiny
gestures like these lies the full
measure of the man.
TT was a high-strung, bewil-
l. dered and aimless Prince who
came out of the war.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

lutte. :. He was just helping him
self to a cigaret when I passed
and he stuck out the case and
said, Have a smoke, Tommy?' :. :.
I took one and after I'd gone
about so feet I figured out who
the lad was. 1t was the Prince"
It's a little thing to say-"Have
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
Alert Cameraman
Snaps F. D.. R. Gem
ny RAYMOND CLAPPER

TASHINGTON, Feb. l. Some newspapers
wv printed striking birthday snapshot of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, taken at his desk. His head ap-
reared to droop as if in utter WEAKNESS. One hand
was over his face, the fingers rubbing his closed
eyes, The other hand, holding document, had
dropped Imply to the desk.
1t was an arresting Photographic study, one of
those rare shots which seem to freeze for all time
dramatic biographical moment, like the famous
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

belongs 70 the D. A. r. and that
some Of the miners move rather
diffidently through door in
scribed Powder Room" And yet
the word pink" hardly seems
entirely appropriate for Mr.. Lewis.
Delegates booed the name of
Al when John L. swung into the
attack and put the long pause on
the Liberty Leagues white hope.
To be sure, Lewis didn't call him
"Ai" Lewis likes to linger over
drive, and the former Democratic
leader was invariably Alfred E.
Smith"
The sentence from the banquet
.. Ac..
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
II Seems nM
BY
Haywood BR0UN

NTASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-One Of the more recent
w newspaper columnists, Alice Roosevelt Long
worth started piece in the paper by declaring that
the denouncers of Al Smith "parlor pinks, pro-
fessional liberals. socialists communists. admnistra
tive politicians and job holders" But in the very
edition in which her comment appeared first page
headline announced Smith Assaied by John Lewis. :"
1t is true that Constitution Hail. where the United
Mine Workers of America meeting in convention,
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

Brothers.
X ING EDWARD VIII and | neighbors up in the
foothill country of Western Canada My ranch is the
first that lies to the west of his E. P. Ranch.
AS the flies houses miles apart,
by horse is eight nine miles, and by motor 25
miles. But in every way neighbors-or neigh
bors until his ascension to the throne of England made it
improbable that he will visit America again.
1t was the fall of 1919 that he bought this property
and named it E. P-Edward Prince-Ranch
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

part of the mine leaders fire was Il am supremely
happy and comfortable" John L. rolled it out from
under his tongue and came to dead stop. He stared
straight ahead of him. He seemed to be peering at
object long way off. 1t might have been
group of men coming up from pit mouth of the
scraggly street of company town Each listener
could paint his own picture during that long mo-
ment Of silence.
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elor for more than 40 years. The
man we used to know as the
Prince of Wales has been for 20
years the quarry of all the de-
signing mammaS and foreign
Offices of the Old World and of
countless scheming, ambitious
families in the new.
He has looked over an incal-
culable number of young and
willing females who were led past
him on nose-rings. so to speak,
like livestock standing inspection
at a state fair.
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single, independent and defiant. On his trips to
Canada the United States, Australia and to con-
tinental countries, wherever the King went he
constantly under pressure The old girls trotted
out their daughters harnessed up for show-rng pur
poses and showed them forward to catch dances
with him, if possible, at every whistling post