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Political Pap

The introduction of the OMahoney La Toilette bill to
extend the Civil Service at too late date to
move from the Roosevelt administration the stigma of
wrecker of the merit system in government employment
The Administration has earned the dubious honor Of
converting Government positions into political pap and
it will have to carry that record into the coming
paign.
It will do Mr. Farley and Mr. Roosevelt little good in
that campaign to point to the 0Mahoney- La Toilette
as an of their intention to return to the
merit system should Mr. Roosevelt be returned to office
This BILL regardless of the merits of its provisions
introduced at time when known to everyone that
action on could possibly be obtained at the present
session.
Possibly it was introduced with that very knowledge
in mind-W1TH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT 1T WOULD
NOT DISTURB THE HOLDERS OF THE SPOILS
OFFICES WHILE AT THE SAME TIME 1T MIGHT
CURB SOME OF THE CRITICISM OF THE SPOILs-
MEN.
For years Washington has been hearing about what the
Roosevelt administration going to do to preserve the
integrity Of the merit system.
Mr. Roosevelt proclaimed himself friend Of the Civil
Service
And wEile these protestatiOns and prOcEamatiOns
1Dere being made the Civil Service UGs being flag
rGntLy SGbOtGged.
Those who are familiar with the Federal personnel
situation know better than to place any credence in
this lastminute effort back up the earlier fair words
They realize that this is designed only for its
political effect during the coming campaign.
AS long the Federal Government positions are to be
Tammanyized it does good for those in high places
to pirate Of their belief that public office public trust
If the principles embodied in the O'MGhOney-LG
Toilette bill are eUer to become LGU, they UH be
lvritten on the statute books BY administration
that is 1Uilling to back up its pleasant-sOunding
words Nth practical action.
THEY WILL NOT BE WRITTEN ON THE STAT
UTE BOOKS BY AN ADMINISTRATION THAT
breaches ONE THING WHILE PRACT1C1NG
ANOTHER.
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Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
BEWARE THE DREAM OF THINGS THAT WERE!

with sentimental recollections or
boasts of past deeds.
Today demands that we do our
stuff-NOW! We hate that. We
want to do things if and when we
get around to them-not NOW.
We despite the risk and dis
cipline and labor Of immediate &C.
ton. And SO we look for an eS-
cape, as the ancient Athenians
looked for an escape-and find
amazing ones.
We escape into Yesterday-into
the pride and the pleasure, the 70.
nance and adventure, the comfort
and safety and laZineSS of Yes
terday.
Our bodies still stay in Today,
but our minds are off and away
gone glimmering" to avoid the
Presents harsh and pressing chal-
lenge.
Sometimes we find still stranger
escapes. We turn from the pres.
ent to dwell on old fears, old
feuds, old hurts, old failures. We
pretend to hate these bitter mem.
cries, but in reality we don't hate
them at all. We cherish them
fiercely.
We refuse to be talked out of
them, for they are our ESCAPE
FROM REALITY. When pressed
for action, we can always take
refuge in that old grief or grudge
or terror.
Andre Tridon, the famous
French psychologist, once told of
a peculiar practice in which Ger.
tain types of insane people in.
dulge. These people will sit
hunched up, heads bent down,
knees drawn up to their chins,
arms folded closely about their
ShinS.
Often they encase themselves in
bags made of sheets. Their sick
minds have gone glimmering''
very, very far in a frantic effort
to escape reality. They have gone
so far that their bodies are trying
to reproduce the positions they
assumed in their mothers wombs.
THEY ARE TRYING TO FIND
THE SAFETY AND IMMUNITY
FROM RESPONSIBILITY WHICH
WAS THEIRS THEN.
Pitiful and horrible, isn't it?
But no more pitiful than our own
evasions and escapes. Every time
you duck the pressure of the pres
ent, think of that insane man
cropping back to prenatal comfort
and irreSponsibility-for that in.
sane man Is you!
copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
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where is the man who would have
the courage and temerity to
spray Bouquet d'Amour" on his
hair or to soak his handkerchief
in Christmas Night" or Black
Narcissus?
Then, there is his hair. No
woman would suffer the torments
and embarraSSmentS through
which a man goes when he sees
his top-hair gradually departing.
No woman would endure the
physical and spiritual diScomforts
of a bald head if she had to pawn
her Wedding-ring to buy a wig.
But the average man will brave
headcolds in winter and a sum
burned scalp in summer and a de-
pressed vanity all the year round.
rather than resort to toupee.
And he won't wear a wig until
the doctor drives him to it!
Oh yes, women are slaves to
their own vanity, We admit. But
when it comes to SlaviShneSS to
public opinion, women are the
"Reds" and men are the Tim
orous Sex. They are afraid OF .
LAUGH!
copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
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Marry-GO-ROund
Blu Helen ROWLGnd

all day long in 1t, from lunch
con party to a garden party and
thence to dine-and-dance. But
man who found himself at a
dinner party in his morning coat
or at a formal dance without his
tailcoat would want to sink right
through the floor and not come
out until he reaches China. "Slav'
ish," that's what!
Now and then some bold pio-
neer may burst out of his black
cocoon into a white dinner-coat
or a maroon evening suit; but in
the true herd-spirit all the rest
of his kind will cling doggedly
to the funeral black of their
fathers and grandfathers. And
he will find himself the butt of
their good-natured joshing.
And there is the matter of per-
fume. Most men secretly delight
in a delicate and enchanting
fragrance. If they did not, women
would not spend from $40 to $40
a bottle for imported scent. But
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is at the daring thought of wear
ing a straw hat on May IA, just
one day before the conventional
hour of the great transition from
the grip of winter to the lap of
spring! And when a spirited and
dauntleSs soul dares to break this
convention, it becomes Front Page
News.
Such slaves" are men to Gus
tom and convention that you don't
need a clock or a calendar, if you
have a man around the house. You
can almost guess the season by
his habits, and tell the time of
day by his clothes.
Give a woman one pretty
frock, and she will train around
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IdydS, COu1u NC sure VI ally OA1C
thing-a deep fog of intrigue and
uncertainty.
DYNASTIC SHIFTS
The Panchen-Lama Of North
Tibet, a plump little man with a
dropping mustache, resembling an
amiable American cross roads
grocer, got somewhat the worst Of
it in his continuous battling with
the Dalai-Lama, with desperate en-
counters on the high wind7swept
slopes of the HimalayaS, and was
finally eXiled to China.
In 1881, the Chinese were pay
ing him $586,000 a year to con.
solidate the Tibetan border states,
to fan up pro-Chinese sentiment
among the BuddhiStS of the world,
and, above all, to exercise the
Japan invasion by ancient and
potent lamentations.
They provided him with a beau
tiful yellow train and yellow
Rolls-Royce, both upholstered in
yellow plush. With his huge and
expensive encourage, he put on his
axe dance, lasting for weeks, with
more than 1000 men whirling big
battle axes like pinwheels. This
devil dance, with wild contortions
and exorciSmS, was supposed to
blast the Japanese right out of
China, but something went wrong.
The Japanese kept right on Dor.
ing in, and the Chinese lifted the
Panchen-Lama off the national
payroll.
But he still travels in state, and
he still can talk business with
trock-coated agents of the powers.
who are mindful of the fact that
there are 500,000,000 Buddhists in
the world and that, with some of
the underpinningS Of empire slip
ping, all Asia is in flux and the
rotund little Panchen-Lama is a
symbol of solidarity and fealty to
many millions.
The Panchen-Lama hates both
Soviet Russia and Japan. He is
busy and resourceful in intrigue
and it is believed that he will have
some backing and be back in Tibet
within a year or so.
In the meantime, the baby in
the hut by the mountain lake is
tried out with sacred relics. From
those un-bleSsed, he picks the
sacred ones, thus assuring his di-
vinity, and possibly a powerful
role in the great dynaStic shifts Of
Asia in the years to come-provid-
ing the last shift of all doesn't
come before he grows up.
Copyright, 1886, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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mentS of empire.
Russia, Great Britain, Japan
and China have financed and
boiStered up his Lama or that,
to build a buffer State in Tibet,
further or to hinder devious PAN
Asiatic schemes, to gain access
to raw materials or mineral
wealth, to shore up empire or
tear it down.
In Japan, "a per cent Of the
people are Buddhists. Japan
invites IS lamaS to Toxic and en-
tertains them with impressive
ceremonies, while China engages
the Panchen-Lama to stage devil
dances to drive GU the japanese.
So perhaps the knuckle-rapS OF
the wise men on the door of a
peasant hut are the drum beats
of destiny. The seers call to tell
the peasant woman that her in
FAINT son has been found to be the
living Buddha," the Glorious
King" who is to succeed the
Dalai-Lama, ruler Of South Tibet
who died December II, 1888.
THE NEW BUDDHA
Since then the search for the
divine infant has been carried on
by priests, sages, monks and phil
osophers, through lamentations
and mystic clues. 1t was an image
on the surface of the sacred
Chugykhorgyae Lake near Lhasa,
the Tibetan capital, which guided
them to the hut, where, the
OWNERS had told them, they would
find a child, a reincarnation of
the Dalai-Lama. They learned the
child had been born at the hour of
the Dalai-Lama'S death. They
proclaimed him the new Buddha.
When the great Kanachu,
founder of yellow lamaism, died,
he left North Tibet to the Pan
chen-Lamas and South Tibet to
the Dalai-Lamas. The last Dalai
Lama was the thirteenth of his
line, living to the rare old age of
81. All his predecessors had died
before they were 20.
Twenty-Five years ago, Great
Britain sent Colonel Younghus-
band to penetrate the Forbidden
City, on which the gaze of white
men never had rested. With his
first glimpse of British bayonets,
the Dalai-Lama fled to China, with
a vast and regal encourage. He
had 400 servants, 200 ponies and
500 camels. China claimed the
overlordShip of Tibet and ex-
tended him generous hospitality.
It cost China $4,000 a day. He
Travelled a great deal with his en-
tire following. The Dalai-Lama's
religion forbade him or any of his
train to pass under an arch. All
over China, they were busy tearing
down and building up the arched
gateways Of old cities. They be-
gan calling the Dalai-Lama "the
human locust"
In 1908 the DalaiLarna was
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This cheerful picture But is that every driver
Of should study and remember.
It picture of Mr. and Mrs John Mazur Chicago newly
weds They had gone for ride and the husband violated
the traffic laws
He arrested and brought into court The Judge gave
him sixty days. And here his wife kissing him goodby
goes to his sentence They had hoped for jolly outing
It ended in heartbreak.
Traffic laws easily observed easily broken Per-
hap after ALL this bridegroom getting off lightly His viola
ton Of the law might have resulted far seriously
&c. when you step into your promise yourself that you
will:
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tactfuIly persuaded to return home,
The British Lieut.. Col. Sir Freder-
lex O'Connor, visiting him at
Lhasa, after he had become recon
ciled to the presence Of the British,
described him as a man of great
sagacity and with decided ad-
ministrative ability. He was a
small man with a pock-marked
face, a scraggly mustache and q
bullet head.
Signing a treaty of trade and
commerce, with the British, a
treaty which virtually gave them
Tibetan rule, he was officially des-
ignated as Dalai-Lama Ngag-Wang
LobSany Thibden Gya-Tsho. His
shorthand, in signing his name,
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RELIEVING TENSION

The Big Tax Act was reaching
it's finale in the Senate Ring. Sen
ator William H. King cracked the
whip and Senators popped up
here and there to put in last min.
ute amendments.
Clerks and pages were rushing
prints of the bill and amendments
all around the Ring.
It was a tense moment. The
atmosphere was charged with a
hurry and furry unusual to the
dignified order. Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg arose and asked
solemnly:
"Mr. President, a parliamen-
tary inquiry"
The President pro tempore an.
Swered:
"The Senator will state it."
us this the greatest delibera-
tive body in the world?"
Senator King nailed him with:
cit is when the Senator is
present"
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Great Powers Interested in Development of
North and South Tibet

was to put a dot at the right Of a
paper if he agreed and at left if
he disagreed. The British got their
paper. The mountain passes to
India traverse a height of from
$4,000 to 10000 feet, and if they
can make the grade the British
are free to carry on their commerce
with Tibey.
After the Russian revolution the
Dalai-LamA was supposed to be
pretty thick with the Soviets and
was believed to be in close touch
with Borodin when he almost So
vietized China in 1928. But, what
ever his activities, he was cautious
about it. and all the powers, Shout
dering their way up the Hima-
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Greatest Show on Earth
Ru Frank Miller Smith

Hes ready to provide some pep
and ginger.
Louis Rich, leader of the 30
piece band at the convention,
struck a little difficulty when he
began to arrange the music for
the roll call of the States. He
was all prepared to play several
bars from a popular song when
each State was called.
He felt "Stars Fell on Ala.
bama" would be a good lead oft
but he was stumped for some.
thing to play for Connecticut,
Idaho, Delaware, Rhode Island
and North and South Dakota.
He also felt a little dubious
about picking "the Sidewalks of
New York" but he had it on the
list.
Press arrangements in the con.
vention hall include enough tele-
phones to accommodate town Of
10000 persons.
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Daily COnstitutiOnals
BIZ Max Berns

ing short, two-year terms. The
Senate has So members 1.-TWO
from each State) and they serve
Six-year terms.
Because there are fewer Of
them and because they hold of.
flee for a longer period, Senators
have greater opportunity for de-
bate, get to know their colleagues
better, become better acquainted
with the business of The whole
body and are more likely to feel
personally responsible than in a
large assembly.
Under our Constitution 1--WE the
people," provide for safety in
numbers with a large House
of Representatives requently
elected, and balance this with
a Senate small enough and hold.
ing office long enough to en-
courage personal responsibility.
TOMORROW. STAGGERED TERMs")
copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Buy American

While the American people struggling to REGAIN
prosperity the American Government bent RETARD
ING prosperity Free trade pacts being made with many
countries the provisions of which then automatically
applied to other most favored nations"
American dollars going abroad to enrich these countries
against the cooe laborers of which the American working
cannot compete Not he is to maintain the American
standard Of living.
The way to provide work for Americas labor and
markets for Americas manufacturers for Americans
BUY AMERICAN.
There but few things which America does produce
manufacture
the American people do not buy American products
American manufacturers will inevitably be driven of
business.
Then what happens to the American workman?
He Is without work, money hope
Remember that when next you buy anythng-from box
Of tacks to automobile-and BUY AMERICAN.
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6AOAAS4AGSs
Then gradually, grown too
proud. Athens began to rest on
her laurelS and boast about the
Things That Had Been. No longer
did her people face the Present.
They lived in the past-in that
dream of things that were"
That dream was the ruin of
Athens. It is the ruin of any city,
of any life that is abandoned to
it.. And it is fearfully easy to
abandon ones life to that drug
ging dream.
SEEK ESCAPE
There is no glamour in Today.
Today is harsh, grim, uncompro-
missing. It looks us straight in the
eye. It will stand for no pretenSe
of evasion. It can't be kissed off
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y z IL q " . VI
Representatives speech and rush
to the reporters room, where he
will dictate into a mouthpiece
and his words will be recorded
on a cylindrical record much like
the old photograph.
Another man will take the rec
ord, attach it to another machine
and take the dictation on type
writer while the first man re-
turns to the Ring to get the next
"take."
These men run into the same
difficulty that newspaper report
ers do when they dictate over the
telephone. They must be care
full Of the letters T and P; F and
s, etc. In order to avoid mis-
takes they usually say ct as in
Tom; P, as in Paul" 2
Even this system slowed them
up. 1t popped up so frequently
when they wanted to distinguish
between Senator Duffey and Sen
ator Guffey that they invented a
language of their own. They de-
cided to call Senator Guffey
Senator Cooley.
All went we'll until Senator
Guffey made a speech in which
he got leave to include some
printed matter. At the end of
his remarks the official reporter
went over to the Senator's desk
on the floor. His tongue slipped.
He said:
Senator Cooley, will you
please give me those recOrds?"
Both the reporter and Senator
were considerably surprised.
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uNEXPECTED THRILL

The Big Show offered Harry
McGill the thrill of his life. Harry
is assistant to the Clerk of the
House. When it came time to car.
ry over to the Senate the notifi.
cation of the death of Speaker
Byrns, Harry did the job. 1t was
requested that he read the resolu.
ton to the Senate. Harry had
never done that before. His knees
shook, and he was short of wind
but he got through in great style.
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AN OVERSIGHT?

Now that the Big Show has de.
cided not to quit all in hurry
but to think it over for a while,
some attention might be given to
the fact that January 3, the date
for the 18th Congress to convene,
will fall on Sunday.
If the Senators and Representa-.
tives want to go to church or play
an early game of golf they had bet.
ter pass a resolution to meet on
the 4th.
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COuGC11GkOA VI
N orth an d
s outh Tibet,
and in the for
eign intrigue in
W h ich they
were involved,
t h re av e
been battles in
he clou d S,
the razing Of
Mongolia, wars
too remote and
involved to get
clearly into the
ken of today's
news, but OF
ire m e n douS,
possibly critical
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SIDELIGHTS

Advance Reports from the
Road Show at Cleveland:
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Washing
ton, vice chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee con.
tinues to guide her feminine con-
tingent. She presided over a big
dinner at the Hotel Cleveland
as soon as she arrived.
Roscoe Conklin Simmons, of
the Chicago Loop District, who
seconded Herbert Hoover four
years ago is promising to do
some swell seconding this time.
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S no W - and
they must be
fast.
In order to
facilitate tran
scription Of the
utterances in
the Senate and
He Sc Rings,
+ h e reporters
u S e die t a.
phones. A re-
porter will sit
at a small ia
BILE in tn e
Ring, dash off
a take" of a
= q I nSc az
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THE "SLAVIsH" SEX

Women have always been re
garded as Slaves to fashion,
slaves to the milliner, the modiste
and the hairdresSer. Afraid to
wear a last seasons hat or to
appear in any article of clothing
that is 20 minutes late on the
style calendar.
Yet, no woman is half as panic
stricken at the notion of wearing
a straw hat in January, as a man
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grand in soul"
faced the chal-
longing reality
of e ach day.
They did not
look back to
the things their
+ a t hers had
d o n e they
were too busy
d DING things
t h e m S e Nv eS.
E a CHI hour
brought n e W
problems, new
t r i'll u p his to
A u 6 u s t
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Beneath a beautiful painting
on the wall Of the Congressional
Library in Washington run these
words:
"Ancient Of Days-August
Athena,
Where are thy men of might
Thy grand in soul?
Gone gIimmering through
The dream of things that
Were!"
Once Athens, lowlieSt city of
the world, was proud and power
full. Her men of might" her
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Wise Words

The accent of ones country
dwells in the mind and in the
heart as much as in the language.
La Rochefoucauld.
Think not that thy word and
thine alone must be right
Sophocles.
What do you suppose will sat
isfy the soul except to walk free
and own no superior 2-Walt
Whitman.
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The Human Side of the News =

About one-third Of the human
race Is Buddhist in religion.
Within the last few years. in the
contention of the IAmaS of
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TRADE SECRETS SLIP

speed, speed and more speed.
They must be accurate-these
official reporters Of the Big
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By Edwin G. Hill
By T. E. Powers

layaS, could be sure Of any one
thing-a deep fog of intrigue and
uncertainty.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
DEATH CALLS
7. v. BENNETT
Brother of Foster Bennett
Passes in Florida at
Age of 70

A message was received yester-
dav by Foster Bennett that his
brother. T. W. Bennett, had pass
ed away i'm Jacksonville, Fla. He
had been in i'll health for some
time. He was in his 10th year and
will be remembered in Hender-
sonville as one of the early own
crs of the HendersonVille Lum-
Der Co. He was associated in bus
mess at that time with his broth
ers and at another time with the
late F. A. Bly,. He lived for a
number of years on the Shaws
Creek Road opposite the Ewb&nk
home. He is survived by his wife,
with whom he lived for some 90
years: three brothers, f. f. Ben
nett, who spent the winter IN
Hendersonville; Howard Bennett
and Foster Bennett, both of Hen
Jacksonville; one sister, Mrs. j. B..
LYDIA of High Point, N. c.; two
sons, Harvey +. Bennett of Jack
sonville; Walter Bennett of Sum
ter, S. c., and one daughter Mr..
A. B. Cannaday of Jacksonville,
Fla, and Il large number OF
grandchildren. Funeral services
will be in Jacksonville tomorrow.
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pins through his throat for the
entertainment of friends
Thomas admitted he was inyes-
tigating the possibility that TIM
norman had himself nailed to the
cross. There was no apparent mo-,
tive for such an act. however and
there was no question as to the
realism of the brutal wounds on
Timmerman's body. .1.'
Asked directly if he had "fram-
ed the crucifixion, Zimmerman
became indignant. .
Whoever says that is full o.
cocOanut OIL" he said.
He was anxious to know, now
ever. "if the newspapers nave
much about it," He apparently
was in little pain. although ne
said my feet feel numb
Given full power for a sweep
ing investigation, Florida Attor-
ney General Cary. ID. Lands con
ferred several hours Thomas,
and Assistant District attorney ),
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