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REALLY BRIEF

Issue IA of Volume 80 Of the
Congressional Record was proba-
bly, one of the shortest documents
of it's type in the history Of its
publication.
It was the day that news Of the
death of King George V Of Eng
land reached the Congress.
The Senate was not in session.
The House, as usual, met at
noon and, after a prayer by its
chaplain, the Rev. James Shera
Montgomery, and six short an
nouncements, Representative Sam
D. McReynolds CD of Tennes.
see, chairman of the Foreign Al
fairs Committee, introduced the
resolution which officially called
attention of the House to the
death of the King.
With immediate adoption Of
the resolution the House ad,
journed.
Government Printing Office EN-.
ployes were forced to list the
Washington addresses of all Sena.
tors, those of the Justices of the
Supreme Court, the Court Of
Claims and the names of justices
assigned to United States judicial
circuits in order to complete a
three-page document.
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THOSE that succeed, customarily give long
i interviews on HOW they succeed; those
that fall have little to say, but they usually have
what they consider excellent excuses
There is nothing complicated about it all.
Success means WORKING.
Failure means NOT WORKING.
This does not mean that the failures have
always been unwilling to work. or that they are
lazy, self-indulgent.
When you say "work" you mean work in the
right way, work to produce results"
Some that fail deserve only pity. The majority
deserve exactly what they get which is
FAILURE. Men are put here to work, and
work hard, steadily. Their business is to make
their lives worth while.
Men were not put here to shrk or "get by"
And what is more, we cannot cheat or deceive
time and its reckoning. Let young and old men
take for model Benjamin Franklin, whose
words, at the top of this page, inspired the car
toonist's picture.
Benjamin Franklin, who lived eighty-four
years, and worked throughout his life, certainly
one of the four greatest Americans is the one
for ambitious youth, especially, to take as a
model.
When Franklin was boy of sixteen he gave
I'D eating meat that he might save the money
to buy books.
He worked to raise himself in the world that
he might be more useful, working on a higher
plane He worked, above all, for his country,
impressing with his earnestness dignity and
ability, the greatest minds in Europe when he
was sent abroad to represent the United States.
1t was truly said by the brilliant French
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

They have exciting laws aboutN
women in the new Russia. For
years I followed the making of
those laws with increasing en-
thusiaSm
Here, at last" said I to my
self, lis a real break for women.
Here is real equality"
I not only said this to myself.
I said it to you. told you where
to find out about those entranc-
ing possibilities.
I didn't, it is true, advise you
girls to no to Russia. But I did
make a lot of invidiouS COM
parsons.
I still think that conditions in
America could stand a lot of i'm
proving, and am prepared to
give places, dates, first names
and birthmarkS.
But as a flag-waver for the
KomSomol. Kids-you can count
me OUT. And Tatiana Tcherna-
WINS new book, I'VE SOVIET
WOMEN" just published b. E.
P. Dutton and Company, is one
reason why.
Tatiana Tchernavin is a Rus
sian. Not a Czarist aristocrat--a
personal---very. neck trampler.
To the contrary, Tatiana Tcher-
navin was reared in the Socialist
faith. And should really be sit
ting under the new regime If
there were a smitch of sense or
justice in Soviet Shenanigans.
Which, of course, there isn't.
A Refugee
So, instead, Madame is now a
refugee from the U. S. s. R.,
after serving it first in various
capacities and then languishing
in its lousier prisons.
Well-as I was saying-I am
no longer an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of CommuniStic Laws for
Ladies.
But since I once was, and en-
deavored to influence you accord
ingly, I just wish you'd read that
book. Right away. And if the
kids get to fussing, tell Henry to
mind 'em himself. For this is
Urgent Business.
Tatiana Tchernavin doesn't
weep about what happens to
women in Soviet Russia. Nor does
she rave. Nor 60 Hollywood.
Have you seen a woman so ex
hausted-so emptied-by the paw
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Listen, World = = ByElsie Robinson
o BE "A FREE WOMAN" IN SOVIET RUSSIA?

the men who were their
husbands yesterday-cringing be-
fore those husbands and their
new wives.
Old peasant mothers with their
sobbing children clinging to them,
turned out to starve because mar
riage is free in Russia today!
You see young girls-sweet,
gentle, intelligent young girls seek
ing positions-their eyes starry
with hope and pride.
And you see them spat upon,
jeered at, driven out to Starve
because their fathers were priests
or killing themselves in an
agony of shame, having brought
their position at last at too great
price.
You see women yoked like cat
tle-women heavy with child,
pulling plows driven by men. And
women
But read it yourself. You've
felt, as I have, that women weren't
getting a fair deal in some parts
of America today.
You've wondered about Russia.
They seem to do things so much
better there. Don't wonder any
more. READ THAT BOOK.
Copyright. 1886, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO

ing and pressure Of life, that
there is no force or feeling left
in her?
Tatiana Tchernavin is like that.
Her eyes are dry. Her hands
are still. She does not raise her
voice. She just sits there. and
the words come out of her. dull
tonelesS wordS-going on and on
until suddenly, with a grea t
horror, you realize that this
woman is dead. Her voice goes
on. Her body moves. You can
touch her-listen to her story. But
Tatiana Tchernavin is dead. They
have killed her.
And that is what the book is all
about.
SOVIET WOMEN
Not just what happened to
Tatiana Tchernavin, but what is
happening to all those other SEN
sitive, intelligent Russian women
who are being "liquidated" by the
Soviet.
And you see just what these
new laws mean-just what this
new equality buys for wives and
mothers.
You see old peasant women,
divorced without their knowledge,
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No Reason For Delay

Members of the Senate who believe in fair play for
their more humble associates Uncle Sans payroll
(and believe that that includes virtually all OF them
should INSIST UPON CONSIDERATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT LEAVE BILLS AS EARLY AS POS
SIBLE.
These bills were ready for consideration during the last
session. they having been passed by the House and hav
ing received thoughtful attention by both Senate and
House committees
However consideration of the measures and their pass
age by the Senate was blocked in the closing and crowded
hours of the last session.
Indifference and the vague thought that "there is
plenty of tme must not be permitted again to jockey
the measures into position in which they can be killed
by the voice of single Senator.
THAT WILL HAPPEN UNLESS THE MANY SEN
ATORs WHO HAVE PROCLAIMED THEMSELVES
TO BE IN FAVOR OF THE BILLS EXERCISE THEIR
RIGHT TO CONSIDER DEBATE AND PASS UPON
THE MEASURES
One member of the Senate who has blocked action to
date is said to have declared that he does not wish to
kill the bills but simply wants to bring about amend
mens which he believes would iron out what he states
are inequalities.
IF THAT IS A SINCERE EXPRESSION OF HIS
POSITION THERE IS NO REASON FOR FURTHER
DELAY.
The Senator has had months and months to make
up. his mind as to Uhere the inequalities are and
lUhat LUordage is necessary to eliminate them.
IN ALL FAIRNESS HE SHOULD PERMIT THE
AMENDMENTS EXPLAIN THEIR JUSTIFICATION,
IF ANY, AND LET HIS COLLEAGUES DECIDE.
Every day that he delays taking that course further
endangers the bills and increases the likelihood that
humble Government workers will have to continue to
suffer for want of decent proper and standard leave
policy on the part of the Government.
One of these bills would STANDARDIZE AND IN
CREASE ANNUAL LEAVE while the other would
STANDARDIZE AND DECREASE SICK LEAVE.
Enacted together they would balance each other In the
matter of expense to the Government.
There can be little argument made against their pass
age and there can be NO FAIR ARGUMENT MADE
AGAINST THEIR CONSIDERATION.
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Marry-Go.
Round
By HELEN ROWLAND

Alimony-An annuity from a
Love Insurance policy. The week
~ instalmentS when. two people
make a mistake, and one OF them
has to continue paying for 1t.
Somebody's potential
husband. The raw material, on
which no woman has yet put the
finishing touches.
Suitor .(modern version)-A
man who calls you up whenever
it happens to suit him.
Love-The recruiting poster,
which tempts a man into signing
on the dotted line. The false
alarm which rings you into matrl-
mony.
Bridegroom-Just one Of the
wedding-gifts- inconspicuous, but
useful.
Best Mantle man who feels
worst at a wedding. An acces-
ry-before-the-fact.
Husband-A go-getter who Is
frequently sorry he gotter.
Wife-Sometimes the propeller
on the airplane of a mans success
and sometimes the excess bal
last, which causes him to crash.
Honeymoon-The period during
which a pair of lovers exchange
their rose-colored glasses for a NIL
croScope.
Union (maritaD - The govern
ment of man by woman, for bet
| ter-or worse.
Ex-Wife-The angel you took to
Niagara Falls-and the devil you
put on the train for Reno. One
who has been tried and found
Wanting-a good lawyer.
Kiss-That which lover begs
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Journeys
WIENERWALD

This year, everything in winter
sports is strongly influenced by
the Austrian Tyrol. For the nonce,
so far as the fashionable world
and the sports enthusiasts are
concerned, Kitzbuhel and st.
Anton are the thing.
The charming fashions worn by
the Tyrolean peasants h ave
proved the inspiration for snow
clothes that are different because
they are so free from bulkiness
and so colorful. But the people
of Vienna do not have to journey
to the Tyrol to enjoy their share
of skiing, skating and bobSledding.
For, outside the city, forming a
lovely green wall, as it were, is
the WienerWald, or Vienna forest,
an ideal winter playground, just
as in summer it is the perfect
spot in which to linger and enjoy
the sunshine.
It's hills are the foothills of the
Alps. and it's forests of black and
green fir trees, gray beech, white
birch and oak, are dense and
beautiful, even if they aren't ex-
actly primeval.
Beyond the forest that rings the
city and bands it against the Dan
ube is the Tyrol, then Switzerland.
But this doesn't really concern the
light-hearted VienneSe.
All he knows is that his city en-
joys such a superb attraction that
enables him to picnic under the
trees or visit waySide inns IN
spring and summer, and enables
him to enjoy winter sports when
snow blankets the city and its
lovely environS.
So we climb aboard a trolley,
pay a fare that approximates
seven cents and in IS minutes
from the heart of the city we are
transported to a wonderful sports
ground. On a Sunday afternoon,
there are usually over a quarter Of
a million of Vienna'S inhabitants
skiing, skating, sleighing or just
tramping in the brisk winter air.
Just now, skiing is the most popu-
lar sport and every hill is studded
with SkierS. plodding up, and then
streaking down into the snow. OF
course, many skierS wear smart
costumes, but others are content
to wear ordinary winter things, so
long as they have the proper skis,
sticks and shoes.
Guards and police wear bright
blue uniforms that look most at
tractive against the snowy scene.
Now and again files of soldiers in
drab gray-green uniforms march
by, often bound for practice work.
Austria's army manual includes
perfection in skiing as we'll as in
shooting and other war-like duties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
"SuRE THINGS"

Those eminent scribes who "cov-
err the proceedings of Congress
usually consider themselves world
" wise.
But they are convinced they
were taken" the other day. :.
A former jockey who had
broken his leg and was unable to
ride had been employed as a
messenger around the Senate Press
gallery. For weeks he gave "the
build-up" by telling the boys that
he was to receive a tip from
another jockey riding at a South
ern track.
And he said that when the tip
came it would be an opportune
moment for the scribes to put up
their money.
The tip finally arrived.
The newsmen dug deep into
their pockets and drew forth their
cash. They gave it to the former
jockey to play on the "sure thing"
Jockey and money went South.
And the "sure thing" ran fourth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

his mind for success, there are also four main
processes: thinking, reading, planning, and
DOING. Books are the plOughs with which the
industrious turns over and keeps fertile his
mental "sol" Our thoughts sow the seed, our
work and WilL produce the crop.
To get his work done, the farmer must go to
the field and work ALONE. He cannot sit around
the barn, chewing Straws, talking, and work at
the same time. Every man who would succeed
must spend time alone in the field of thought
and study. The libraries are there books are
available without charge, there are night schools
art galleries, museums-innumerable sources OF
free education.
Each of us is single unit of the human race
dropped into life on certain day, due to leave
and disappear on another day. We may drift
through life like chips on the surface of stream,
or 60 through it like steamship leaving a wide
trail behind and a record of useful work. 1t all
depends on our use of time, our appreciation OF
opportunity, and constant supplies of mental
nourishment, to be found in books, serious con-
versation and earnest, solitary thinking.
Leaving out the unfortunate unemployable ex-
ceptions, much to be pitied, the average man, if
he WILL, can succeed-not perhaps with the
success of Napoleon, Franklin or Edison, but to
an extent great enough to justify his existence
by useful effort.
Benjamin Franklin said:
"They that can give up essential liberty to
obtain a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety"
You may paraphrase that:
"They that can giVe up success in life to
obtain little temporary pleasure, deserve
neither success nor pleasure"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
THROUGH STREET

Proceedings in the Senate Dis
trict Committee recently turned to
a discussion of the Mall develop
ment in the National Capital.
Thomas S. Settle, secretary of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, was out
lining the progress that had
been made and pointed out that
when the development was COM
pleted there would be four great
drives named after the first four
Presidents of the United States.
The hearings were taking place
shortly after the highest court
in the land had handed down
its momentous AAA decision.
Senator Thomas P. Gore (D)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Wise Words

Happy is he the palace of whose
affection is founded upon virtue,
walled with riches, glazed with
beauty and ROOTED with honor
Francis QuarieS.
Anger is an expensive luxury
in which only men of a certain
income can indulge.-George Will
liam Curtis.
Few people know how to be old.
La Rochefoucauld.
A plowman on his legs is higher
than a gentleman on his knees.
Benjamin Franklin.
It is the first of all problems
for a man to find out what kind
of work he is to do in this uni
verse.-Carlyle.
Tenderness is the repoSe OF
paSSion.-Joubert.
Sweets grown common lose
their dear delight.-Shakespeare.
Beware the fury of a patient
man.-Dryden.
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a group of
members of the
larger branch
Of the leglsla-
ture were dis
cuSsing tn e
vote.
Representa-
tive Henry B.
SteagaIl Cd
o f Alabama
and chairman
of the House
Banking an d
Currency Com
u1ittee, explain
ed his vote on
the measure.
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RESTRAINT

RESTRAINT
A group of members Of the
House were about to step on the
Capitol elevator which fell at the
opening Of Congress.
One of the members was Rep
resentative Ushel L. Burdick, the
portly Republican from North
Dakota. A colleague warned:
Better watch your step. This
elevator might fall with a man
your size"
Burdick responded:
I'm too big for a man and
too small for a horse"
Mrs. Florence Kahn, Republican
from the Fourth California
district, interposed:
81 might make a nasty re-
mark. But 1 won't"
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or demands-and a husband per
mitS.
Old Flame-A man who tells
you how much he once loved you,
years after you are both safely
married-to somebody else.
Good Pal (see Platonic Friend)-
A man who uses your living room
divan as a rest-cure, your dining
room as a free-lunch, and regards
you as a motherconfeSSor for all
his interesting amours. SUCH
Copyright, 1885, King Features
syndicate, Ino.)
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OLD FAVORITES
O My LOUe John Godfrey Sake
To MY LOUe

Kiss me softly and speak to me low;
Malice has a vigant ear;
What if Malice lurking near2
Kiss me dear!
Kiss softly and speak to low.
Kiss me softly and speak to me low;
Envy, too has watchful ear;
What if Envy should chance to hear?
Kiss me dear!
Kiss me softly and speak to low.
Kiss me softly and speak to me low;
Trust me- darling, the time is
When lovers may love with fear;
Kiss me dear!
Kiss softly and speak to me low
(Recders are ivited to send to the editor their Sgges
tons of old tcvorites among the poems for repring in
this spGcs)
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There is nothing mysterious about
success. The simple recipe is: Work
and keep on UOrking

statesman Turgot that Franklin whose interests
reached from earth to Heaven, had "snatched the
lightning from Heaven and the scepter from
tyrants" referring to Franklin's experiments in
bringing down electricity with kite, and help
ing to overthrow the power of the English king
in America.
"Dost thou LOUe life? Then do not squander
time, for that is the stuff life is made off,"
Franklin.
Success or failure, leaving ont unfortunate in
competents clasSed as "unemployables," is
a matter of USING time or WASTING it.
Mr. Packers picture illustrates Franklin's
words, plough deep while sluggards sleep"
wire fence separates success from failure, work
from idleness, good farmer from worthless
farmer.
1t is picture duplicated through life. A few
inches may separate, physically, two men at the
same desk, whereas a gulf Unreasonable, sepa-
rates them mentally-one really works, the other
goes through the motions.
For one man, young or old, who looks forward
eagerly to the hour when work BEGINS, fifty
look forward, with eagerness, to the hour when
work shall END. If you decide in which
class you belong you may tell your own fortune
with considerable accuracy, without cards or
palmistry
In the work of the successful farmer, there
are four main processes: PIoWghtng, narrowing,
sOaOing, fTeGptng.
In the work of the man who must depend on
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He has voted on several bonus
bills.
He said:
81 don't see how can get into
trouble in my district because
Of my stand on the bonus.
81 have voted both ways"
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SHIRT. TOO2

One Of the officials in an
older Federal agency is one Of
the towns most ardent shooters
of craps. But he met his match
the other day.
On a. party he engaged in the
game with a well-known young
lawyer. The official lost his
money. Then they began to
shoot for their wearing apparel.
When it ended the official sent
his wife home to get him a much
needed pair of shoes.
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BOTH WAYS

When the House had registered
its overwhelming approval of the
Senate's baby bond" bonus bill,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
The Greatest Show On Earth
Blu John Snure, Jr.

,of Oklahoma, after listening to
Settles predictions concerning
the four great drives, demanded:
what about having q Su-
preme Court alley?"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-28

u S e r S S a y
"None Better"
at any price!
Now in 4th mill
lionl
The Washington times., 1936-02-12
Studio Arts Actors
In PirandeIIo PIay

"Six Characters in Search of
an Author" one of the best known
dramas Of the distinguished Ital-
ian playwright. Luigi Pirandello.
has been selected by the Studio
Of Theater Arts as the second
production Of it's subscription sea-
son. The play will be presented
at Wardman Park Theater on
Tuesday and Wednesday, Febru-
ary Is and 26.
This is believed to be the first
local production of the play,
which was a Theater Guild sue
cess several seasons ago. A ten
tative cast has been selected from
among the members of the Studio,
and rehearsalS are going forward
under the personal direction Of
Constance Connor Brown, who is
also director Of the school.
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Holmes Talks
On Troubled
Ethiopia

When Halle Selassie, Conquer
ing Lion of Judah, was crowned
King Of Kings a few years ago,
Ethiopia was just another place
on the map, so far as the average
American was concerned, and
very possibly he might not even
have recognized it by that name,
for most Of the maps styled it
Abyssinia. But as the world goes
round and round, all manner OF
upsets occur, and today Ethiopia
is one of the planets foremost
news centers.
Burton Holmes visited Adds
Ababa for the corona of the
Negus. and brought back some alb
sorbingly interesting scenes Of
that epochal event-epochal for
the reason that it brought to the
rulership Of Ethiopia, in the es-
timation of many observers, the
one man who could have managed
internal and external affairs so
deftly as to give the powerful
Italian war machine some real
competition. Yesterday, in the
final lecture of his series for the
current season at the National
Theater, Mr.. Holmes brought that
prewar Ethiopia again to the eyes
and ears of his patrons, revealing
the lights and shadows Of Halle
Selassie's colorful realm in a man.
ner which afforded a highly in
teresting sidelight upon the cur.
rent hostilities in Eastern Africa.
The pictorial record Mr..
Holmes presented is more than a
commentary on pre-war Ethiopia
and the present struggle, for it
seems inevitable that however the
fates may decide the arbitra-
ment Of arms, Ethiopia will ulti-
mately, through its contacts with
outside civilization, take on the
same sort of Standardization that
has made so many other once
exotic lands more or less replicas
U1 0AO6NWaJ Va oA0 SOAAVO4S .
Iowa.
The Holmes pictures show the
Ethiopia Of the time Of the coro-
nation. Adds Ababa's cathedral,
the palace, the tomb Of Menelik
and the other sights of the cap
ital are familiar. But the bar
baric pomp and ceremony Of the
coronation is preserved only in
this record. In the pictures ap-
pear many chieftains now at the
front-among them Ras Gugsa,
who went over to the italian side.
Then, only q few years ago,
Ethiopia was at peace, and its
ruler had begun to weld it into
an empire. Today it is at war,
and its fate still lies in the bal
ance.