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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-17
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY IT, 1885
AIDE AT BUREAU
F0R27Y YEARS

When the question of service
rendered comes up. few employees
of the Government service can
high hat" Miss Mary Smith, of
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. For more than a quar-
ter If a century-27 years, to be
exact-She has toiled for the
United States, and all of them
have been spent with the unit
that turns out Uncle Sans
greenbackS.
Miss Smith is a trimmer, which
means she trims the edges of
various types of liquor stamps and
money of all denominations r
it has been printed in sheets, a
type of work that requires perfect
accuracy. She is a Washington.
ian and a graduate of Notre Dame
Academy.
The veteran employees foremost
interests are the related subjects
of housekeeping and interior deco
ration. She keeps house" for
her brother, Battalion Chief
George w. Smith of the District
Fire Department, and is particu-
larly partial to the modern style
of furniture, with it's graceful
simplicity and lack of old-faSh-
Toned gew-gaws.
Miss Smith is member of
Lodge 20, American Federation of
Government Employees. and for
while held the office of sergeant
alarms in the unit, which is COM
posed entirely of women.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-17
QUIZ CAPTAIN
!. ON SHIP FIRE

NEW YORK, Jan. II G.N.S).
Henry E. Cabaud, executive vice
president of the New York and
Cuba Mail Steamship Company,
operators of the Ward liner MORO
Castle which burned at sea with a
great loss of life, was to testify
today in his own behalf in the
criminal negligence trial now en-
tering its third month in which
he and two officers Of the ship
are defendants.
Cabaud was preceded on the
witness stand by William F..
Warns, acting captain of the ship
on the night it burned and 1874
persons died. Warns said he was
not informed about the blaze I'M
til it was beyond control.
In croSS-eXamination Special
Prosecutor Francis w. H. Adams
kept calling attention to changes
in his testimony from the story
he told the steamboat inspection
service inquiry directly after the
tragedy. Warns lost his temper
and shouted from the stand.
Warns testified at the inquiry
that George Alagna, assistant "a
dio operator, had come to the
bridge and suggested that he send
O CO (stand by order.
Asked by Adams if this was not
the fact, Warns shouted:
"NO! rang for him because
I wanted him near by so that
/ could send out q CO."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-17
State Dance

state Dance
New York state Society's first
meeting and dance will be held
tomorrow at $50 p. m. at the
Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
The New Party.

The constituent elements of the new
third party, the Union party, are hap
PLY pictured in Father Coughlin's
choice rhetoric as:
Lemke and Yale, agriculture and Re-
publican! OBrien and Harvard, labor
and Democrat! East and West! Prot
estant and Catholic, possessing one pro-
gram of driving the money changers out
of the temple, of permitting the wealth
of America to flow freely into every
home
But where does Princeton come in, or
Senator La Toilette? Until these ques-
tions are answered the country will well
come the new aggregation on the po-
litical scene. but withhold judgment as
to its significance. The elements for
mally united under the Lemke banner
have been informally joined together
by their own economic predictions be-
fore this. They included the radical
fringe of agriculture, the money the
orists, the followers of the late Huey p.
Long and of DR.. Townsend, all now
gathered to the broad bosom of the
beaming Father Coughlin as members Of
one happy family. AS class they rep
resent those ardent believers in Santa
Claus whom depression and other eco
nomic maladies of mankind make articu-
late. The deeper the depression and the
longer it lasts the more vocative become
their expressions of discomfort with
things as they are and the louder their
expressions of hope in the coming OF
things as they ought to be.
The birth of the party is bid for
the support of one element that was
marching happily along with the Demo-
Gratis four years ago under the banner
of Roosevelt. The bid for this support
is phrased not only in promises, plat
form and otherwise. but in vengeful re-
pudiation of the Democratic party and
of the President. Therein lies its obvi-
Gus significance politically. The uncer-
tain quantity is whether the Union party
will attain enough strength, by the
additions of such men as Senator La
Follette-whom it is rather difficult to
place in this group-actually to WELD
anything like the balance of power in
some of the States.
Many will doubtless see in the new
party a gesture too long delayed to be
effective. Four years ago this move
ment might have benefited by the eco
nomic situation and its hope of saliva
ton. Just as the Democratic party itself
benefited. Today other and stronger
currents are at work. The third party
is four years too late.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
REDEMPTION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E FREEMAN D, d, L,
BISHOP WASHINGTON.

1.-THE Son of man is come to seek and
to save that which was lost" The pur-
pose Of the ministry of Jesus is compre-
hensively stated in these few words.
From first to last He affirmed that the
purpose of His coming was to redeem
man from forces that sought to destroy
and defeat him.
The central word in the gospel story
is redemption" We are made familiar
with the significance of what this word
implies in all the experiences of life.
From childhood to manhood, and on to
old age, the processes OF redemption go
on. We are redeemed from ignorance
to intelligence, from an obscure concep-
ton of the meaning and purpose of life
to a clearer understanding Of its design;
from ways and habits that are vicious,
body and soul-destroying, to what has
been termed triumphant living" The
range of Christs redemptive power COW
ers the whole area Of life. He did not
come simply to freshly affirm the ulti-
mate triumph of man over death and 10
assure him of Immortality; He came to
invest him with power that would
render him capable of resisting and over
coming within himself propensities and
tendencies that would inevitably issue
in the impairment of his body and de-
feat him in the attainment of his reason
able desires. Even to physical life itself
and the accomplishment OF its larger
ends He gave assurance. On one occa-
sion He declared: II have made1a man
every whit whole" the implication OF this
being that life in its entirety, the man
physical ss well as the man spiritual,
was remade through faith in Him and
His power.
Repeatedly we have witnessed this In
men and women. We have seen them
made strong and vigorous through con-
sistent and unfailing faith that refused
to recognize physical impairment and
weakness. We have witnessed it in cases
where men and women were seemingly
doomed by some body destroying malady
who, in their unfailing confidence, have
withstood the ravages Of disease and
Evening star., 1936-06-21

have come to their end in the sure con-
fidence that His strength was made per-
feet in weakness.
In all His ministry to men Jesus re-
peatedly gave demonstration of q saving
power. He addressed His ministry more
to the weak than to the strong, more
to the sinner than the saint, more to
the forgotten man than to the one who
knew the companionship Of his fellows.
Here in this nineteenth chapter Of st.
Luke is an example of His search for
one who was despised and rejected Of
His fellows. To those who sternly crit
icized His friendly approach to this
man, He said: This day is salvation
come to this house" Even the despised
publican and tax gatherer was made the
object of His search. and to him He
gave the assurance of His saving power.
In our reverence for Christ and His
ministry we too often fail to recognize
Him as our Savior. We worship Him,
profess our faith in Him. call Him the
"mightiest among the mighty" but we
do not relate Him to those things that
concern vitality our physical, moral and
spiritual weu-being. We do not think
Of Him as the health bringer, the re-
storer of men, as the one who redeems
them from care and sin and weakness.
who invests them with power not Of
themselves that enables them to over
come forces within and without. Christ
is not personality far removed. to be
merely worshiped; He is living pres
ence, the inspiration Of our hope and
the guarantor of our ultimate triumph.
Into this troubled, distracted and care
worn world He comes again today. He
offers Himself as the solver Of our
riddles, the interpreter Of our problems
and difficulties the redeemer Of men
from their sins and weaknesses, the re-
storer of the worlds order and peace.
He would draw us away from our trust
in material things, from our petty con-
ceits and unsatisfied ambitions. He
would ease our burdens and dissipate
our fears; in fine, He would give to us
fresh courage, renewed strength and the
assurance Of ultimate triumph.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

at Cork and Waterford, the government
has been placing prominent members of
the Republican forces on trial before
military tribunals. AS the army repre-
sents the die-hard element opposed to
any sort Of Irish union with Great Brit
ain, President de Valera had hoped that
the removal of the oath Of allegiance
to the King and other measures would
persuade the militant group to accept the
existing situation and surrender its arms.
These tactics having failed, the Free
State administration has been forced to
take the drastic step of declaring the
army lawless organization. The ban
now placed on its existence should pro-
mote the De Valera policy Of friendliness
with Britain.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

three little children. These deaths
were tragic reminders of other deaths
to come this Summer, inevitable when
thousands of children are forced to play
in the streets because there is no other
place for them to play.
The appropriation for maintenance OF
school Fairgrounds is, as usual. made
quate. That means two things. 1t means
that some school Fairgrounds will re-
main closed, with children playing in
the streets outside the locked doors Of
what should be their refuge. 1t means
that instead of opening the sixty school
able, on the day after school closes
which common sense and human under
standing should dictate as a matter Of
course-these Fairgrounds cannot be
opened until July /, leaving an interval
of two full weeks when they, also, will
be locked to the children, forcing them
to the streets. Playground appropria-
tions, never generous, have fallen be-
hind as the city's population has grown.
Little improvement is seen for next
year.
Washington is blessed with spacious
and beautiful parks and these are avail
able-to those who can reach them. But
there are many hundreds of young chill
dren to whom they mean nothing. No
park system, no recreation system for
the District is meeting its obligation until
a place to play, out of the crowded
streets, is found for every city child.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

rectly or indirectly, with w. P. A work.
ers who may be grateful for their jobs
and whose relatives may be grateful that
they have w. P. A. jobs, and with w. P. A..
workers in the same position, and with
farmers who may be grateful for what
the Government has done for them, the
magnitude of the Republican job is
even more apparent.
~ *k
Farley is reputed to be a past master
at the art of keeping his vast organiza-
ton in working order.
He insists that he has not the access
to big money for political purposes that
is available to his Republican opponents.
But his non-civil service horde, paid by
the Government, can take the place OF
many a worker paid out of party funds.
Under the circumstances. the chief
hope that Chairman Hamilton has for
directing his party machine to victory
lies in convincing the public that Candi-
date Landon offers the country better
deal than Candidate Roosevelt.
This involves something more than
name-calling or appeals to prejudice and
fear.
big jim" Farley and Charlie Michel
son started the fight on the old-time
bases of name-calling and got hurt doing
1t. Now both sides can get down to
telling what they really have in mind.
tCopyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Fair Question.

A Fair Question.
Shall we not be merry, friend,
Even though no strains ascend
As in ancient days Of cheer,
When the troubadours drew near?
Even though no bard is led
Where baronial feasts are spread,
Love endures, and so does wit,
For the choicer spirits At.
There are still adventures bold
Worthy to be finely told.
AS times stream flows on its way,
Still the sunlit ripples play
And the blossoms fragrance yield,
In our thoughts as in the field.
Though expression lack the grace
OF remembered time and place.
Shall a world that smiles so fair
Only bring regrets and care?
Grief, like JOY. must have an end.
Shall we not be merry, friend?
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Ireland and Britain.

These are days in which the British
government and people, plagued by do
mestic political vicissitudes and grave
international complications, are thankful
for small favors. Nothing more hearten-
ing has come to Downing Streets notice
for some time than late developments
in the Irish Free State. Speaking in
the Dali Eireann last Friday, President
de Valera held out an olive branch de-
signed to improve and strengthen long
strained relations between Dublin and
London, The occasion was British re-
nunciation of sanctions against Italy.
Acclaiming that action, Mr.. de Valera
warmly defended Foreign Secretary
Eden against the charge that he had
brought British prestige and foreign
policy into contempt. The Free State
executive pointed out that it was not
solely Britain's fault that League meas
ures to curb Fascist aggression had
failed. He suggested that it was French
reluctance to risk another European war
that restrained the Geneva powers from
resorting to action that might have pre-
cipitated such a conflict.
Thereupon President de Valera advo-
Gated the desirability of friendship be-
tween John Bull and his other island
on the basis of their mutual interests.
He affrmed the desire of the Irish peo-
pie to bury the hatchet" and asserted
there is vast spring of goodwill in the
Free State which would be Immediately
released if Britain manifested an. in
clination to alter certain tactics of the
past. The evident hope in Dublin is
that Mr.. de Valera's speech will evoke
responsive echo in London.
Rivaling in importance the Presidents S
bid for an entente with Erins ancient
foe is his action in outlawing the Irish
Republican Army. Apropos its demon
stration scheduled for today in Kildare,
the government issued proclamation
under the public safety act, branding the
army's activities and methods as illegal
and pillorying It for organizing crimes
of violence. Ever since recent murders
Evening star., 1936-06-21
No Place to PLAY.

To many graying members of another
generation the last day of school brings
back fresh memories of fields and for
ests and streams, blue sky overhead and
nothing to do all day but roam and run
and swim and play.
The last day Of school this year saw
the deaths, in crowded city streets, Of
Evening star., 1936-06-21

A manner of confidence on the part of
Postmaster General Farley indicates
hope Of convincing the LandonKnox
forces that they have a white elephant
on their hands by frightening the ele-
phant until he turns pale.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Philadelphia, as the scene of q Demo-
cratic convention, has many Inhabitants
who are sure that II Matt Quay or Boise
Penrose had lived such thing could not
have happened.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

So many underworld characters have
suffered at the hands of J. Edgar Hoover
that leading gangsters might welcome a
Government reorganization which re-
duces his position in esteem from that
Of Oman number l."
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Salaries paid by radio and motion pic
lures would leave no doubt as to i'm
proved economic conditions If they set
a general standard Of compensation
for either toll or talent.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

The Joe Louis fight cost the public at
least a million dollars, counting tickets,
reporters and telegraph costs. Money
that buys only emotions is hardest to
reckon with in budget balancing in the
affairs of the Nation or Of the home.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Oriental factories can easily make
things so cheap that they can undersell
the American market. So long as this
state of affairs continues only the
friendliest assurances should be expected
from Japanese diplomacy.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Mussolini is regarded as favoring the
restoration of the Hapsburgs in Austria.
Having disposed of the Ethiopian prob
lem, II Duce is evidently looking for
something really difficult.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

European craftsmanship, while labor
ing for the improvement of mankind,
is devoting an enormous amount of in
tellectual energy to the study of ancient
grudges.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Representation in Congress for the
taxpayers of Washington is temporarily
forgotten in the enthusiasm of glorifying
the Nations Capital as political parade
ground.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

The idea of aristocracy is so strong
In many parts of the world that class
consciousness will be impressed even If
artillery has to be employed.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Mutation.

Mutation.
When the storm is goin' strong,
Darkenin' the day,
Streak O. sunshine comes along
An chases it away.
When the sun is blazin' high,
Maxim heat severe,
Rain cloud sails across the sky
An cools the atmosphere.
No occasion for dismay,
Whatever be your fate;
It's sure to go the other way,
If you will only wait.
"He who has only empty words to
offer in sympathy with need" said HI
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, is poorer
than Poverty herself
An Objection.
"why do you object to women In
politics?"
Because" replied the statesman, II
put my faith in the plain people, and
no woman will consent to be placed In
that category"
Forgotten Lore.
Why is 1t, as we're going
Through pages neatly set.
The things marked Things Worth
Knowing"
Are things we first forgetP
"If nobody would talk wifout KNOWN
exackly what he's talkin' bout" said
Uncle Eben, conversation wouldn't git
near so overcrowded."
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Unswerying Attitude.

Have you consulted your constitu-
ents to ascertain what kind of taxes
they PREFER"
Frequently" said Senator Sorghum,
"and the response is always the same.
They don't like any kind"
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Platform Too Dry.

From the Charleston wv. Va.) Mail.
The Republican platform is a dissap-
pointment to us. 1t hasn't a plank In it
coming out strongly for rain.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
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Evening star., 1936-06-21

Jud Tunkins says with so much fire.
works going on promiscuously through
the world, he's afraid he is going to
lose his taste for the ordinary Fourth of
July celebration.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
POSTPONED.

Prom the Roanoke Cva) Times.
The stop Landon movement has beer
POSTPONED until November.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
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Theodore Roosevelt, the advocate OF
the strenuous life, must be regarded as
setting aside the old convention eti-
uuette. He was not content to sit at
home and be surprised at convention ac-
ton. He wanted something and de-
termined not to depend on heutenants
and supporters. He wanted to be gen.
eral in the field, handling his own can
didacy.
. Since that time it has been the rule
for candidates not only to be present, but
to be conspicuous at national conven-
tons They show themselves to the
delegates, they address the delegates.
they electioneer among the delegates.
They have parades with their own
bands and their hotel headquarters are
scenes Of the most furious activity.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Democrats nave the OrganlZatlon.
John Hamilton, as new chairman of
the Republican National Committee, is
having to build from scratch. In all of
the country there are relatively few Re-
publican Office holders to serve as the
nucleus for an effective party machine.
The party is without Federal machine.
1t controls the governments of only eight
out of the forty eight States, and those
eight are not especially important
States. 1t never did have many strong
city organizations in the population CEN
ters of the country.
Mr.. Hamilton is confronted with an
antiquated and somewhat moribund ma
tional headquarters office, which he is
having to rebuild. His task out in the
country appears staggering.
X
Contrast that situation with the one
| facing Chairman Farley.
First of all, he has about 100000 in the
non-civil service jobs of regular Gov
ernment departments. These are party
| workers almost to man and owe their
| jobs and their futures to the party
Next Mr.. Farley has from 250,000 to
100000 employees in the various agencies
| added since the New Deal took office
| The bulk of these are faithful party
| workers.
Then the Democrats have most of the
| members of the Senate and House tc
| serve as an oratorical battalion and tc
| direct the work of the patronage ma
| chine.
| After that come the governments oi
| forty States, with their jobholders in.
terested in keeping jobs and power. Fur.
thermore, there are the big city organi'
cations In Illinois, New York, Missouri
and Ohio.
When this army Is tied In, whether d.
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after the ghost walked, he was
usually broke and he made a
pathetic figure as he approachc !
you and with great dignity re-
quested a slight loan. Meticu-
lousy he would jot down the
amount in a little dog-eared memo
book, but he never repaid the
loans-and nobody cared particu-
larly. Finally, he was assigned
to cover Ellis Island and his
stories began to attract attention.
One night, to celebrate raise in
pay, he stumbled ouS of a speak
on West 18th, plump into a gut
ter. .fracturing his ankle. e
was laid up for two months and
when he returned to his office,
found his job gone. All this in
the years that were.
No one saw him in New York
after that, but about a year and
a half ago, 10 and behold! His
name appeared over a series of
absorbing articles on immigra-
ton in a national mag, and
thereafter the boys read article
after article and occasionally a
short story by the ne'er-dO-weII
reporter. Before you could slut.
ter tintinnabulating tenuOuS
tinkleS, he had become a literary
figure. At so he had made good.
The past few months have seen
him in Manhattan occasionally.
Searching out the pals who
helped him in the sOrrier days.
One by one he's chalking off
the little amounts which were
loaned him as he repayS the
debts. In half a dozen cases
the original benefactOr has since
passed away, and he gives or
sends the money to the widows
or heirs. All by way of prelude
to the report that nothing brings
the frOth to his mouth quicker
than his eldest sons plea to be
allowed to become a newspaper
man.
They had Peggy Hopkins Joyce
on the pan the other night. One
reporter wouldn't join in. He
knows too many unrevealed chap
tiers in the life of the orchida
ceous lady to have aught but the
highest respect for her. He re
members the case of the young
Army officer who killed himself
one evening in a local hotel 10
perhaps IL years ago-he can't re
call exactly.
1t was a pathetic case. Ac-
cOrding to the newspapers. The
man had shot himself through
the brain because of unrequited
love. And Peggy Hopkins Joyce,
the bejeweIed dollhouse rhOdO-
dendrOn, was the lady named.
OF course, she denied it. But
the world knew better. Peggy