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IdA1I1S Cd1C VA
4, 100000 fingerprints. Digit rec
''ords come in at the rate of 1000
"a day to be recorded, compared
and checked. Not a thing to do,
Ell, Gerald?
The F. B. I.-of course, Omen
TO you-has 900 agents in the field,
working directly on orders from
j. Edgar Hoover and his staff Of
assistants in Washington.
= =. . Who, might we ask, is handling
the biggest real estate mortgage
business in the world? Go to the
- foot of the class, Gerald, it is not
someone in New York or Chicago,
or even San Francisco. It is the
Home owners Loan Corporation
- right down on Pennsylvania Ave,
nue.. Having lent out $4,000, 000,.
900 to a million families the or
ganization today, right now, this
minute, is up to it's neck in servic
ing the loans. Collecting, taking
up notes, taking back property
YorecloSing, extending. All rou
tine. But heck Of lot of rou
tine. That is real work.
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The Legion and Baseball

Attention will be called today to the encouragement
which the American Legion giving healthy american sport
when Buddy Lewis Day" is held at Griffith Stadium
For many years the Legion has conducted Junior Baseball
League which has stimulated the interest Of the youth Of the
country in the American game
AS result of his playing in this Junior League Buddy
Lewis brought up the major leagues and although still
youngster has been and playing great baseball at third
base for the Washington Club
The LcgOns league has made other contributions to
professional baseball but more Importantly it has
giUen hundreds of youngsters opportunity to enjoy
. sporting competition in the American way.
The local department of the Legion congratulations
in carrying plans to honor Lewis and through him the
many other youngsters who have proven themselves be
successful sportsmen.
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WHOSE MONEY?

Handling money of course is a
mighty nice job if it belongs to
you, Gerald, but it might be called
hard work If it belongs to the Gov.
eminent, and so we take a look at
the Treasury Department.
The procurement division shows
a record of between 1870 and 140
millions of dollars tied up in con-
struction jobs underway. All
directed from the home office.
Then there is that little matter
of collecting taxes for Uncle Sam
which has increased in the past
three years as the depression has
lifted. Just routine, Ronald, I
mean Gerald.
There's the Coast Guard getting
a half-doZen new cutters made for
them by the Navy Department.
Six nice boats that weren't made
for play.
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The cripple dropped his crutches, the hunch-
back his deformity, the old man his fear of
death, the young woman her jealousy and each
took, instead, the trouble of some other human
being.
Soon they came back, one after another, to
say, II made mistake. What l took is worse
than what I had. Give me back my old trouble.
shall complain no more.'
Envyng others discourages our effort
without producing any result; envy devours
the envious heart
The young man in the picture should say:
81 shall work for what I want and need for
the moment I shall enjoy this game, and my
YOUTH
The old man should say: ~ have had my
youth and my strength. Now l have what [
thought I wanted, and I shall endevor to make
the best of that and above all, to make it use
full
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This is picture of life s two extremes: Age
that has devoted youth, energy and years to
accommodating money; and youth with the price
less possessions of strength and time, longing for
what it does not need.
The cheerful boy in this picture, wishing that
he had big car with so many cylinders, says:
"Would open that one up! Oh, Boy!'
There is in that young mind no element Of
viciousness. His thought is not meanness; it is
not coveting your neighbours goods, or violating
any of the Commandments. 1t is simply thought
less desire based on lack of reflection.
The old man thinks he would give all his
money for the young mans health and youth
But he had that health and youth once, and
exchanged both for what he has now-an old
age of affluence, and power-such power as
money can give.
The young man thinks he would like the
car and the fortune that the old man possesses.
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A radiant beam, rising trl-
umphantly through the night,
piercing the murk of storm and
Misunderstanding the flier to
his haven. A master achieve
ment of the Machine Agel
POWERFUL INFLUENCE
Yet, long before the Machine
Age was ushered in, human life
knew and followed a beam that
pierced a darkness blacker than
any night that triumphed
over storms fiercer than airmen
ever faced. And following that
beam, found safety.
Before ever men knew the
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The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

Nthe headquarters of the ReSettle'
ment Administration directing the
care of 100000 families and the
spending of 100000 for emer-
gency needs.
Plans are also underway for
feed loans and seed loans that will
have to be taken care of in the
near future.
Heads of sections down there
are working IA hours a day, and
every employe available is doing
full time, with the bosses trying
to keep the overtime from creep
ing into the ranks. Last week
ReXford Tugwell flew out of town
Friday. He went to Georgia and
Alabama on an inspection tour.
Returned Sunday. Left Tuesday
and went to Bismarck, N. D. To
the drought area and not on a
vacation, as you may well enough
realize by now, Gerald.
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By Elsie Robinson

} the laundering years, you have
lost your way.
Winging as wildly through the
darkness as the Sun Racer, you
too are nearing the rocks.
DON'T!
Steady yourself! Pierce the fog!
FIND AND FOLLOW THE BEAM!
Turn from the false lights and
the foolish voices, and trust your
own spirit once more-your own
impulse toward kindness and hon
eSty and decency.
These things have never left
you. Through all your mistakes
these desires have still burned in
you.
They are the everlasting IRA.
diant rays of Truth"-and they
alone will lead you home.
copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate Incl
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meaning of electricity when
they creaked their way labori-
ously in OK carts not dreaming
of airplanes when they
covered over the sooty flame Of
a cave fire before history had
even started the human race
followed a beam. A beam that
had no substance-that could not
be seen by mortal eye-yet was
the most powerful influence in
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mans life-the beam Of the
spirit.
And some called it conscience"
And some called it "the voice of
God" And some had no name
for it. But always it has been
there since the first dim dawning
of our consciousness. And al
ways that radiant ray" has
pierced through our cruelty and
greed, has triumphed over our
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Daily COnstitutiOnals
BIZ Max Berns
LESSONS OF HISTORY
What about our Constitution
during emergencies?

THE trainers of our ConStitu-
tion," said Chief Justice Chase in
1866, "foresaw that troublous
times would arise, when rulers and
people would become FESTIVE under
restraint, and seek by sharp and
decisive measures to accomplish
ends deemed just and proper; and
that the principles of constitu-
tional liberty would be in peril,
unless established by irrepealable
law. The history of the world
had taught them that what was
done in the past might be at
tempted in the future.
1.-THE Constitution of the United
States is a law for rulers and
people, equally in war and in
peace, and covers with the shield
of its protection all classes of nen,
at all times and under all circum-
stances. No doctrine. involving
more pernicious consequences. was
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COOL-AND-HOT DIPLOMATS

Think you the State Depart
ment is as calm, cool, and col
1ected as the sedate diplomats
look? All, no.
Europe is kicking up so much
fuss that the business Of keeping
a long-range eye trained on this
and that upset and shooting star
is a strain and a delusion.
But maybe If Europe were the
only headache things wouldn't be
so bad. But there's that threat.
ened war in China. the rumpus
over the movies that aroused the
Dominican Republic and a general
view of the world political situa.
ton which should be accepted
even by you, Gerald, as the strang
est that has been faced by any
country for long exciting time.
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feet long, four and one-half
feet high. Paul Gauguin, to
express it's meaning, wrote
on the picture, in French,
"Whence do we Gomez What
are wei Whittier are we
going"
This strange picture, con-
veying the questioning
thoughts of a great artist,
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Youth longs for what wealth and old
age have brought. Old age longs for
that which youth alone can give.

He would not like those things if they meant
giving in exchange what he possesses.
1t is the nature of man to want what he has
not, and desire to be where he is not. That
craving produces progress inspires effort, and
is useful feature of mans complicated make
up. The worst thing for young or old, is con-
tentment while we ardently desire, we progress.
Plenty of time for quiet contentment, in the
grave.
You know the old story of the human beings
that complained of their troubles, deformities,
grinding poverty, sickness. They were told,
"You think you are worse off than other human
beings. Come to this spot, drop here the trouble
of which you complain most bitterly, only you
must take somebody ese's trouble away with
you'
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Gauguin, a very famous
painter, dissatisfied with
life, because he could not
understand it or control it,
tried to kill himself in
Tahiti, made a failure even
of suicide, and worked day
and night for whole month
in an incredible fever. - as
he said, to get his picture
painted before he died.
The painting is twelve
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Wise Words

A circle may be small, yet it may
be as fundamentally beautiful
and perfect as a large one.-Isaac
D'Israeli.
Good-nature and goo d-Sense
must ever join; to err is human,
to forgive, divine.-Pope.
They are slaves who fear to
speak for the fallen and the weak.
Lowell.
Good company in a journey
makes the way to seem the shorter
LEAK Walton.
The more we study, we the more
discover our ignorance.-Shelley.
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with a discouraged soul, will
interest you.
On the extreme left an old
woman with her head in her
hands has given up question
ing, resigned, while strange
white bird at her feet holds
a lizard in it's claws, sup
posed to represent the fu-
tility of words.
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The whole world shuddered.
Broken and bloodstained, there
it lay on the fanged slopes of
Chestnut Ridge-the giant air
liner Sun Racer. Flying blindly
through Uncomfortable fog, it's
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No use for the lizard to
argue, held bX the claws;
no use for us to argue, held
by destiny.
As a picture, we do not
recommend this to you par
ticularly, being a Pharisee
in art, to whom there is
nothing much worse than a
Gauguin, unless it be a
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PicaSso, who also paints
queer things, possibly be-
cause he does not know how
to paint the other kind.
We would trade a million
things like this for beauti-
full picture of St. Anne in
the Grotto, or even for a
good smooth Greuze. 1t is
the artists three questions
that make this picture in
teresting.
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QISS o e I W Z T II
I.425 a nd 430
million acres of
land. It passes
on the title of
each acre in the
C gu ntry and
each parcel in
the cities.
ere ar e
now pen d ing
,-11,629 of these
leases.
-, Right in the
'sa m e depart
rment the finger
print bureau is
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Inhuman Hours

For many years some agencies of the District gov
eminent have been working their employees for inordi
.nately long hours.
In these agencies seven-day weeks are the rule and
employees are on duty in many instances for eighty
more hours every week.
The departments in Dhich these inhUn1Gn hours
: of labor apply are strangely enough departments
in UDtich it UUOuLd seem that common LUOHLG
dictate that hours should be held to a minimum.
They are departments in which the employees work
under heavy physical and mental strain and in which
the workers required to be the alert all the time
they duty
The employees principally affected are fremen nurses
in the municipal hospitals and guards at the District
penal institutions.
of employees deserve the utmost consideration in the
fixing of their hours, not only for their own welfare
but for the good of the city.
TIRED FIREMEN WORKING OVERRIDING HOURS.
NURSES WORN WITH FATIGUE, AND PRISON
AND JAIL GUARDS MENTALLY BLUNTED BY
sTOo-LONG HOURS OBVIOUSLY CANNOT PER
FORM WITH A MAXIMUM OF EFFICIENCY THEIR
HIGHLY SPECIALIZED JOBS.
It is encouraging therefore, that in the requests for
estimates from department heads consideration is
being given to the fixing of standard hours for these
employees.
Unoficialy it estimated that standardizng their
hours would cost about million dollars year.
That's lot of money to city which this year will
spend four million dollars than its revenue but IT
WOULD BE MONEY WELL AND WISELY SPENT.
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brave pilot
t h r GU 6 h no
fault of his
own missed
t h e b e q m
which W o. | d
have led him
to a safe land
ing. And so,
crashed to his
death.
An amazing
a c h ievement,
t h a t ray of
light W h 1 C h
guides the air
man to hi S
| a n ding field !
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ever invented. than that any OF
its provisions can be suspended
during any Of the great exigencies
of government. Such a doctrine
leads directly to anarchy or des-
potism."
NfONDAY: "FEDERAL
APPOINTMENTS'D
Copyright 1895 by King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
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N a v ajo chiefs,
m a k n g rain.
AL t h o ugh, in
a d dition to
ston1ping a n d
g yra t i ng, he
had to keep up
a steady chant,
his leathery old
face was calm
and untroubled.
AS an old hand
at this kind of
con ] uring, he
knew it would
W york. T h e
others were en-
NnjDr cod onl
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DROUGHT AID

: And how about the drought
situation. It's out in the West, to
be sure; but right here, must we
repeat, in washington, D. c., is
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LANDOWNER
Oh yeah and says you!

OF course, if you want to bring
up the Justice Department, you
do it on your own account, because
the Public Land Division, under
Harry w. Blair, makes Uncle Sam
the largest owner of land in the
United States. hat division han
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town is dead, EN-?

~, So this town is dead, Ell?
President on vacation. Congress
quit. Cabinet flying around the
country. Government employees on
vacation, getting ready to go on
vacation, or just returning from
vacation, too enervated to work.
:, Nothing doing at all.
49,. Oh yeah and saws YouI
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Human Side
Of the
News
By Edwin C.. Hill

Wizened old Bonnie the Winker,
nearly 80 years old, hoofed it dog
gedly for two days, with other
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SATURDAY, July l8, 1886

American Newspapers Inc
n Northwest Washington
Managing
The Washington times., 1936-06-25
if bought singIy 2.7' each

The sheer cottons were outstanding sue
cesses in our Thrift Shop Sale last week.
Back into the market we went and made
great new purchase! Dotted swisses!
Printed chiffon voiles! Eyelet batistes!
Printed dimities! Tailored and dressy one
and two piece styles in blue, aqua, pink,
white, navy, brown and yellow. Sizes for
everybody-4 to 20 and 80 to "a. And
remember when you save in the Thrift
Shop, you shop in air-cooled comfort.
Third Floor-The Hecht Co.
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BENEFITS FOR ALL

But FrancSwill not be the only
beneficiary, by any means. Ameri-
can business houses importing from
France can now buy more francs
with an American dollar and conse-
quently will be able to supply such
commodities as only France can sci
us at a lower price in dollars than
heretofore. England gains the same
advantage, with the pound sterling
stabilized at between $500 and IS.
And in the competitive markets Of
the rest of the world, where France,
the United States and Great Britain
are constantly striving for trade
advantages, the competition be-
comes much more nearly equal.
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THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
CONTINUED from page y

CONTINUED from page y
which thinks it would like to do a
little fighting.
There is nothing in the new
agreement which impairs the gold
standard as the international basis
of money value. While gold as
money is not any longer actually in
circulation in the United States and
England and probably will not be
in France, yet it remains the STAN
dard by which all of these curren-
cies are compared to each othsr.
Nothing has yet taken the place Of
gold as the one medium of exchange
accepted by every nation in the
world.
Under the new arrangement the
value of the franc expressed in our
money will be slightly under five
cents, or at just about the proper
ton which it had prior to our de-
valuation of the dollar. This is 60
ing to be beneficial to France
which has been suffering a consider
able loss of tourist business because
the franc cost so much more i,
terms of dollars than it did prior
to 1888.
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himself. A young RADIO engineer
who was present said the old cap
tain knew as much about radio as
he did.
l know scores of men who keep
themse1ves young and abreast of
the times by trying to learn more
about things of which they admit
their Ignorance.
SATISFACTION master
Nobody, l believe, is really salts
fled with life as he faces it until
and unless he has made himself
master of his own part in the gen.
eral scheme of things. The I'm.
happy people l have known are
chiefly those who have never taken
pains to master their own jobs.
Art is long and life is Short
is a tue old provesb: 1t takes a
lifetime to rnastet a sp'sfr or crafx:
The late Daniel caskster FrencV
one of the worlds greatest sculp-
tors, began work at 80 on a statue
of which he had dreamed for years.
IT have never felt until now that
l had learned enough about sculp-
ture to express my dream in stone
just as l dreamed it," he said to
me one day in his studio. "Perhaps
this statue will make my reputa-
ton"
The sculptor of the great Lin
coin Memorial in Washington had
the modesty which all great crafts
men have. He knew there was SO
much yet to learn, even at 80.
PLAY essential
There is such a thing as too
much devotion to learning. An ex-
tremely ambitious young man of
serious mind told me not long
ago hat he spent all of his spare
time in studying. Life was too
short, he said, to waste any of it
in play.
The other day his father told me
the boy had a nervous breakdown
from over-study.
If I were to lay down a formula
for a successful and happy life it
would, l think, run something like
this:
Master your work, but don't
let your work master you. Learn
your craft as we'll as you can, but
at the same time learn to play at
least one. game as we'll as you can:
and drop your work, mentally a.
we'll as physically, In your play
time"
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Cleveland, RI. z, News

A revival meeting is being held
this week at the Cool Spring Meth
odist church by the pastor, Rev.
Winkler.
Mrs. J. R. Guffy visited her
mother Sunday afternoon at Oak
Forest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Steward,
of Statesville, spent Sunday with
relatives here.
Mrs. Jennie Campbell spent Sat-
urday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Campbell. .
Our community was saddened
by the death of one of its former
residents, Mrs. Madge Niblock Viii
son, of Washington, D. c., daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. T. c. Niblock
and Mrs. Victoria Niblock. The
funeral was held at Third Creek
Presbyterian church near Cleve-
land at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday by
the pastor, Rev. E. D. Brown D.
D. Mrs. Wilson is survived by her
husband and two daughters, Mrs.
Marice Winkler of California, and
Miss Madge Wilson of Washing
ton, D. c., her mother, W sisters,
Miss Jamie Niblock Of Duke Hos
pital, Durham, Mrs. Pearl Cald-
we'll of Cleveland Route 2, and
two brothers, Mr.. Robert Niblock
of Washington, D. c., and MI. G.
L. Niblock of Cleveland Route 2.
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theory that production for use
superior goods. Whether
they will understand the lesson is
another question.
THAT E N WAR DEBT
another ques

Now that the French Govern
ment has come off its high horse
in the matter of the maintenance
of its currency at a standard out
of line with the major c%urrencies
of the world, and has succeeded in
bringing the United Estates and
Great Britain into an agreement
upon international exchanges, per-
haps the Frenchmen will take the
next logical step and begin to pay
this country some of the money
they owe us for military supplies
and other goods which they pur-
chased from the United States after
thee lose of the war.
We have heard a great deal about
the war debts of Europe 10
America, but we don't hear SO
much about the fact the United
States generously Cancelled, in 1920,
all the debts which the French
government owed this government
for munitions furnished and money
lent for war purposes. We agreed
at that time that we would call
the debt square if France would
pay us for the railroad tracks and
the horses and mules
and feed and other supplies which
we left behind in France when our
armies came back. France agreed
to pay for these things, including
the port improvements at St. Naz-|
aire and Borueaux, at what a.
mounted to junk-yard prices.
That is the debt of France to
which has moi been paid
and on which, in the past few
years, not even the interest has been
paid. frances protest is hat they
had expected to collect from Ger
many the money with which to pay
the United States. To which our
answer has been that we have never
had any interest whatever in Ger
many's payments to the allies und-
er the treaty Of Versailles, and our
loans and sales r. commodities to
the allied nations were not condi-
tional an any way upon whatever
the allies might succeed in recover
ing from Germany.
The present Prime Minister of
France, M. Leon Blum, suggested
before the recent election that it
was time France did something
about its debt to American. Now
that the two countries seem to be
getting closer together we think
most Americans will agree with M.
Blum.