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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-25
How About the Money?

The Corrections Committee Of the Council Of Social
Agencies has appealed to the District Commissioners to
do something about the City's outmoded and almost
antique jail
There isn't anything new in that
For years other organizations and individuals have
been trying to improve conditions at the institution
either by the erection Of structure or by complete
remodelng Of the present building
Col. William L. Peak, who was for years superin-
tendent Of the JAIL and who probably knows much
about the ciys penal institutions anyone campagned
for years for a better jail
Unquestionably conditions there are bad.
BUT-and this is big ''BUT"- Interested organize
tons and cvicminded individuals should remember that
right the District is spending at the rate Of four
million dollars more than its income
There are a lot of things the city needs.
Some of them are more important and more urgently
needed than new jail.
Within the next few months the Commissioners will
receive requests for all Of these things to be included
In the next budget.
Groups will insist that the particular project in which
they are interested must Of necessity have more Of the
citys money just as the corrections committee thinks
that it must have new jail.
For these groups and individuals to lay down
barrage of requests for big appropriations will be futile
THE CITY JUST HASN'T THE MONEY.
And it won't have the money unless and until the Fed
Oral share of local expenses is adjusted equtaby or
UNLESS AND UNTIL. THE RESIDENTS OF THE
CITY ARE CALLED UPON TO BEAR A HEAVIER
BURDEN OF TAXATION.
Most Of the projects that will be supported by Organi
xations and individuals with view to getting appro
priatons in the new budget will have some merit
But the right of the individual citizen to haze his
taxes held to a minimum in these trying years has
some merit too
ALI organizations should bear this in mind when they
are requesting and demanding improvements.
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Men conquer bulls, elephants, rhi-
nOceroses, and rule the earth,
because they THINK.

then kill him at his leisure. That, also, was
thought.
The bull fighter enters the ring, the "great"
bull fighter whose business it is to thrust sharp
sword into the animals heart, just beneath the
shoulder. The powerful beast, already maddened
by cruel torture, charges; the man carries his
sword in a bright red cloak, which cloak the
artist has labeled Intelligence" 1t is not really
that the bull hates red color-hatred Of red is
mere imagination. The bull cannot keep his
mind on one thing, and is distracted by anything
moving A small barking puppy will take his
attention from the enemy that threatens his life.
That cloak in the hands Of the bull killer, waving
before his eyes, distracts him, prevents keeping
his feeble brain fixed on the man. The latter, on
tip toe, eyes, muscles, nerves and BRAIN concen-
trated on the approaching bull, waits, holds the
cloak to one side, waving it, while he stands i'm
movable. The bull distracted by the bright wav-
ing CLOTH swerves from his course, slightly,
toward the cloak and away from the man. grazing
the bull fighters body with his shaggy hide as he
passes to his death.
That swerve is enough for the skilled swords
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Listen, World! = BY Elsie Robinson

tect those homes. Hence
MATRIMONY.
Marriage answers 3 woman's
deepest necessity but it violates q
mans most cherished deSire-the
desire for FREEDOM.
Give up our girlhood? We do
indeedI And most Of US work over
time trying to do it. If that be
sacrifice, then we certainly leap at
it, sisters.
Marriage involves real sacrifice
for men, not sentimental theory.
II you doubt it, try to support a
family.
Theoretically. It's the Mrs. who
wears the heavy burden Of the fam
lily. According to her. Pas contri.
button to that job is q mere baga'
telle.
''Lookit him." says she, "what
does he do anyway? Works Just
eight hours in q nice tidy office.
Then he can come home, wash UP,
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been worshlpped as a water
god We have outgrown
that. s.
The picture on the right
shows the albino porcupine,
pure white with blue eyes,
caught in Canada and sent
to New York's Geological
Park.
Shortly after her arrival,
the white porcupine lady
gave birth to a jet black
porcupine baby. Such things
happen higher up in the ami
NAL scale-you must not in
quire too closely into them.
The purpose of this edi-
torial is to remind you that
the albino porcupine mother
was intensely surprised when
nature and heredity handed
her a jet black baby, the
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eiaer.
A few weeks ago in the House Of
Commons the activities Of the Ges-
tapo, which is short for the Ger
man words for State Secret Police,
were debated.
One Of Goering's agents, con-
victed in Switzerland Of kidnapping
an anti-Nazi across the border into
Germany, testified that he had
operated in England and has used
the diplomatic mailbag to send
home his reports.
Meanwhile every nation is arm
ing to the teeth. The japanese
army came through the other day
with a demand for 1882 ,000, 900 for
the next six years.
That is a terrific sum in Japan,
where it will go about five times
as far as it would in the United
States.
ENGLAND'S PROGRAM
To get back to England, John
Bull has adopted the Napoleonic
principle of trusting in God but
keeping the powder dry" While
striving desperately to bring about
an understanding Of the powers,
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beat his uSpper, then SIT down ana
read his paper in peace. But my
work is NEVER done!"
With that she grabs herself .
martyrs crown and puts it on
amidst the sympathetic sniffleS
Of her fellow sufferers. Piffle! This
theory that "women's work Is
never done" is just another piece
Of our feminine hokum.
It is true that, with little chill
dren in the family. q mothers Ia
bors are spread over q greater
period Of time than q fathers,
often over the whole twenty -four
hours. But even then she Is able
to adjust her day somewhat to
meet her physical need.
And infancy, ct its worst, lasts
but q comparatively short period.
For only o few years Of her life
does q mothers slavery to her
babies persist. After that, the
average American mother Of q
small family has an amazing
amount Of leisure.
But the mans drag continues.
usually for the length Of his
days. How much time does Mama
actually need to devote to the
children when they are In Eli" OF
College? But consider papa, hus'
ting to foot the bills.
"Think Of Birth" culver the
mothers. ''Think what pain we
endure to give our children life
and our husbands, sons and
daughterS!"
All right. I'll think about
Birth. I can. am Q mother
myself. And what I know about
Birth is plenty. I'll not only think
about Birth but I'll also think
about every other twinge and ache
we women endure In our careers
as wives and mothers. AND I'm
FORCED TO STATE THAT
THINK Us GIRLS OVERRATE
OUR TUNMYACHES.
I'm strong for you, sisters, and
I'll gladly back UP most Of your
acts. But when 1t comes to grab
bing off the laurelS for sacrifice
ALL MY BIG WET TEARS GO
TO PAPAi
copyright. 1874. By King Features
syndicate. Ino.)
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Journeys
VACATION SPOTS

The scenic Northwest, wonderful
as it is, does not possess q mon
opoly Of vacation parks filled with
many marvels. The East, eSpe-
cially New York state, boasts won
derful Fairgrounds Of its own,
Fairgrounds that are lovely
enough to lure discriminating va
cationists from many points.
The New York conservation de-
partment has divided the State
into IL natural park areas, rang
ing in size from little GARDENERS
Point, Il acres Of picnic land set
In the sea off the northern part
Of Long Island, to the Adirondack
preserve, which Is larger than
Delaware or Rhode Island.
To the west are the GeneSSee'
the Allegheny and the Niagara
frontier, while in the north the
lovely Thousand Islands region and
the Adirondack forests give Joy to
the vacationist. Near New York
city we have the Palisades Park
and the parks at Westminster. and
farther upstate the Finger Lakes
region. The Taconic and the Cat
skills, which reach to the lower
Adirondack parks, constitute an
other lovely region. Each and
every district is rich in variety Of
scenery as well as in historic and
literary association.
Those vacationists who find
themselves In New York city this
holiday would do well to explore
the delights Of the natural parks,
set within such easy reach Of the
great metropolis. Along the west
shore Of the beautiful Hudson val
ley, between New York and New
Jersey, they will find the Palisades
an ideal pleaSureland.
Farther along is the Bear
Mountain-Harriman Park region,
which has every facility for sport
and recreation. We like especially
well the lovely swimming pool, set
in q natural ravine.
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baby perhaps being as much
surprised by the sight Of
its white mother.
But if this albino porcu-
pine mother is surprised to
see what kind of a baby
she has, how do you sup
pose some of the good old
Americans that worked
hard piling up great for
tunes in railroads, packing
houses, banking, ETC., would
feel if they could return
from the mouldy grave and
see what their descendants
look like, and what they are
doing with their inherited
money!
IF some of those old Amer
leans could drop in on their
children, grandchildren, or
great grandchildren, in Euro
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Us girls have Q lot Of fool no.
tons
AMONGST THEM BEING THE
THEORY THAT WIVES sACRI.
FTCE MORE THAN HUSBANDS.
Taint so!
To begin, with. the very princi.
pie Of marriage implies sacrifice
for males. Marriage Is the WON.
ans institution, not q mans. Con-
slider the derivation Of the word
matrimony. MATER-MONY.
MOTFIER-MONY. Does papa
take the lead in that combination?
He does not. It's MAMMALS
mony and for Q very good reason.
Marriage was instituted to protect
mothers and babies. Fathers
didn't need protection-nor want
It. They prefer the light heel and
a wide ran?e-the wider the bet
ter. But mothers and babies
needed homes and males to pro
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WYOUNG people looking at this picture,
eagerly, will perhaps be disappointed when
they discover that they are not to read
about bull fight.
They may, if they will, read about something
more important to them, and that is brief ex-
PLANTATION Of the difference between bull and man
which makes man the conqueror Of beast ten
times as heavy, twenty times as powerful as any
man.
When the Lord, as you read in the Book Of
Genesis, gave to man dominion over the earth,
he was able to promise man that he should rule
because, to man alone, he had given thinking
brain.
When man found himself facing the animal
creation, in his primitive state, you would have
said, "That little two-legged thing will be the
first animal killed off"
The mammoth could crush him with one foot
and knock down his miserable little hut But
man used his brain, dug pit, put sharp stake
at the bottom, covered the pit with branches and
leaves. The mammoth fell in and man ate him.
That was done with THOUGHT. The rhinoceros
could rip and trample his way through 1000 men.
But one man could steal up behind him, ham,
string the rhinoceros cause him to fall helpless,
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looking like q mans face,
is shown in nearly. every
mountain range on earth
eggs are laid, or calves are
born with markings that
look like George Washing
ton.
The curious creature here
is a ''sun-fish," which grows
to a great size in certain
tropical regions. The re-
semblance to a brainless
member Of British nobility
is obvious.
Once caught, the sun-fish
was cut up into bait for
catching crabs - thus its
career was more useful than
that Of the average human
who looks like this.
In more primitive days
this queer fish might have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-25

man. His eyes never moving, his sword flashes
forward, goes through hide and flesh, between
the bones, guided by extraordinary skill, pierces
the heart and that bull fight is over.
The man, while thousands yell and scream APP
plause, throwing money and jewelry into the
ring, turns naughty glance on the dead bull,
glance just as naughty at the yelling audience,
as, bowling, he accepts their homage.
The bull dies the man triumphs because man
can think and keep his mind on one thing, and
an animal CAN NOT.
bull killer Of the highest rank earns much
as 100000 year and more, and is hero to
millions.
He cuts an ear from the bull to present to
some fair lady or distinguished parsonage, as the
"brush" is cut from the fox, for the lady, Sin at
the death"
From all of this young gentlemen, and old, you
learn that it pays to THINK, to keep in good
physical condition and CONCENTRATE on the
job in hand.
Just 100 per cent Of all the energy he possesses
is needed by the bull fighter to make great
career and exactly 100 per cent of all the ability
to think and to concentrate that we possess is
needed in our careers.
The wise young man will learn lesson from
this picture.
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Daily COnstitutionals
BIZ Max Berns

kings old not convene the SCACeS
general until 1889, and that
brought on the French revolution.
Charles I ruled England for II
years without converting parlia-
ment. When it finally met, he
dismissed it in three weeks. In
order to control them, colonial
governors convened and adjourned
legislatures at will. The Declare
ton Of Independence states that
the king, after diSsolving legiS-
lative bodies, refused for q long
time to cause others to be elected. !"
To insure ourselves @ voice In
the government. I'VE the people"
do not leave the matter to chance
or give the power Of converting
Congress to the whilm Of an execu-
tive, but to ourselves by providing
in our Constitution that "Con-
greSS shall assemble at least once
in every year."
Copyright, 1885, King Features
syndicate, Incl
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GOT HIM IN

When it comes to knowing q
few things about political conven-
tons, Mr.. Urey Woodson, Alien
Property Custodian, pretty near
tops the list. Mr.. Woodson has
attended every Democratic con-
vention since 1880. .,
Tucked away in his memory
are stories galore. He remembers
In 1896 in Chicago that william
Jennings Bryan called him over
to sit beside him. ~.
The convention hall was filling
up and Bryan asked him If he
could get him some tickets. He
told Mr.. WoodSon that the gold"
crowd from Nebraska had the
delegation credentials and his
group was contesting them.
He said he wanted them for
some delegates and that he
wouldn't have been able to get in
II he hadn't met friend on the
street and got a couple for Mrs.
Bryan and himself.
Bryan asked Mr.. Woodson
whom the Kentucky delegation
was going to vote for and when
Mr.. Woodson asked Mr.. Bryan
whom he thought was going to
get the nomination, Mr.. Bryan
gave him his first big shock by
saying calmly:
81 expect to be nominated my.
self for President"
The Bryan delegation wa s
seated. Bryan made his famous
silver speech and was nominated.
Mr.. Woodson told him later that
If he had known how true his
statement was ct the time he
would have gotten him 400 tickets
to the convention instead Of the
few he did hand over.
MONEY LEFT
Mr.. Woodson also remembered
another thing about that conven.
ton. Mr.. Bryan was staying at q
small hotel. Efforts were made
to get him to move to more pre-
tentiouS quarters so he could hold
his pow.wows In grand style. He
refused. When he was leaving he
said to Mr.. Woodson:
Il venture I got this nOmina-
ton for President cheaper than
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The Greatest Show On Earth
Ru Frank Miller Smith

anyone else lever got such .
nomination"
He went on to say that when
he left Lincoln, Neb.,. he bought
two round-trip tickets for Mrs.
Bryan and himself. He brought
800 with him. He stayed In Chi
cago six days and when he got on
the train to go back home he
showed Mr.. WoodSon $40 that he
had left,
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That Looks Like MAN; Baby Porcupine NOT Like Its M

pean gambling houses, or
riotous A m er i,c a n night
g.. clubs, they might be more
surprised than this porcu-
pine mother with her black
baby.
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fight he had
ever seen and
the first in IS
years.
He was &C.
companied by
com missioner
Melvin C. Ha-
zen.
At the ring
side Senator
King renewed
his friendship
wit h j q c X
Dempsey. Sen
0tor King has
KIN o W n tn e
ex-chaunp for 20
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-25

Queer fish and animals
always fascinate humans.
Men are especially interest
ed in objects that look like
something else.' A Sec
ton Of the mountainside
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IN DEMAND

Dorthea Lang photographed q
mother and her two children
stranded by the drought. It ran In
the newspapers. Now the ReSettle-
ment Administration has been
Swamped with requests for the orr
ginal and the name Of the mother.
A painter wants to use the face
as the subject for Q migrant
madonna. A Community Chest
organization wants to use the pic
ture for an appeal poster and
others sought the name Of the
mother to send her money.
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"Sure, I know JacI- Dempsey.
Why, he's one Of the boys from
Salt Lake City-my home. No,
Jack isn't one Of my cOnstitu-
ents. He's located in New York
now but his mother still lives
out in my country"
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England has launched q three
year program to make her tight
little isle a fortress that will defy
attack by air. or sea.
Some idea Of how well-informed
Englishmen are thinking may be
gathered from the remarks OF
J. L. Garvin, the far-seeing pub
licist, who has made a name for
himself by his uncanny foresight
into the political future.
Garvin wants England to make
q settlement Immediately Of its
war debt to the United States. He
tells his countrymen:
1--WE have one asset which is
unrivalled on this side Of the At
lantic. 1t is our financial power.
We would use it to the full. We
are convinced q reasonable ar
rangement could be made in
Washington"
Lord Lothian, in a speech to the
Anglo German fellowship in Lon
don, said:
"The real danger today is that
the world will gradually become
locked in an alignment like that
of 1914, from which statesmen
will be unable to break out and
which will proceed from crisis
to crisis until it finally explOdes
in q world war.
81 believe there is an over
wheIming desire in the public
opinion Of this country that q
serious effort should be made to
arrive at q final settlement with
Germany"
The turn to the left in France
is not at all pleasing to England
and in the end it may be the one
thing that would keep England
out of a European war should such
q catastrophe come within short
space Of time.
The lineup over there today is
Fascism against Communism, and
England isn't blinking at that fact.
Germany and Italy have dicta-
torshipS Of the Right, Russia has a
dictatorship Of the Left, and it
will take everything that France
has to prevent a civil war which
shall decide which way her form
shall go. At present it Is LeftiSt.
No statesmen or group Of states
men can reconcile the Left and
the Right. They just won't jell.
CHRONIC
Russia believes that Germany,
through its alliance with Austria
and q reputed understanding with
Italy, is Solidifying her front for
whatever comes.
Today it is Germany and Italy
against Russia and France. Eng
land is between, trying to act the
umpire and hoping to keep out Of
war If it should come.
AS Lord Lothian said, crisis after
crisis Is coming up, practically one
a month-Ethiopia, the Rhine,
Austria, Danzig and what not.
England win have 1000 more
fighting airplaneS by next March.
Nine hundred industrial plants
have been made ready to begin the
manufacture Of munitions at q
moments notice and food supplies
are being stored up In the cities.
England fears war coming while
she hopes and works to prevent it.
Let us take q lesson from Eng
land and be prepared not only to
keep out of it, but above all to
thwart any and all efforts which
would bring us into 1t. --.
copyright. 1895. by King Feature"
av1dloaAa InaN
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and q former
officer being ar
rested on a SINH
Lar charge. Eng
land rears up to
question the
passage Of the
dirigible Hin
denburg Owe r
some Of its de-
tense areas, in
timating the
Germans were
spying on her
fortificat on S,
W h j c h is
promptly denied
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Representative Jack Nichols
Cd, Oklahoma, on q flying trip
to Washington to attend the meet.
ing Of the District Airport Com
mission. says it's so hot in his
country that everyone Is about to
burn up.
While in Washington he ap-
pealed to the Federal Government
for some drought relief aid and
then flew back to see what he
could do to help take care Of his
folks. He just won the Demo
cratic nomination for q second
term in Congress. He served his
first in the last Congress.
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"a BC11E1Gk1bAU 10 O11S WIN Cebk1 3OCC
his temper without losing his man
ners-and can be insulting with
out being ill-bred.
When q man returns from q po-
litical convention, with q sore
throat and q four-day headache.
and finds his wife waiting with
sympathy and an icebag, he is
more than ever convinced that
"woman's place is in the home"
There are some men to whom
getting married is like taking the
mule trail down Grand Canyon.
They may be glad that they did
it once, but they could never be
tempted to try it again.
A woman may forgive another
woman for trying to steal her job.
her laurels or even her cook; but
she will never forgive her for try.
ing to steal her Man-no matter
how pleased she would be to get
rid Of him.
A self-effacing wife, like the sol.
der who dies in action, may even
tually receive q lot Of tributes; but
she is never there to hear the
cheers and enjoy the flowers.
When a woman sees her husband
laughing heartily she can never
be sure whether he has just heard
q funny story-or just told one.
The average bridegroom goes
into matrimony Is he came into
tho world; just Q helpless, Devil
dered creature with q lot Of habits
which have TO be broken.
A man never can understand
why q woman who Is an angel
about forgiving, is such an ELE'
PLANT about never forgetting.
copyright. 1896. by King Features
Syndicate, Ine.)
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Human Side
Of the
News
By EdUin G. Hill

This old world is getting jumpy.
We have two spy cases here, an
enlisted man in the Navy being
convicted Of selling secrets to Japan
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OLD FRIENDS

Senator William II. King at
tended the prize fight last
Wednesday. It was the second
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CIRCUS PLAN

It Is reported that up in New
York State the Republicans are
considering an offer to turn their
vote-getting caravan, that Is to
tour upstate, into q circus.
Uncle Bob" Sherwood, one Of
Barnum's clowns, Is reported to
have offered to help In the organi.
zation and to provide an elephant
and five donkeys. The elephant
will be used to give good Republi.
cans q ride and the donkeys-well
he thinks they ought to be named
Tuggie for Tugwell, Icky for
Ickes, Hoppy for Hopkins, Lord
Jim for Farley and Wally for Wal.
lace.