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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

Hblather, Of venal and stupid men
in power, of waste and WaStrelS,
and of behavior which once was
in Ill repute. This encompasses
in a rough way our general COM
placency. Have we at last OBJ
served something we really care
about?
Our Omen fight chimeraS.
FormleSS, pervaSive and poison
GUS are the enemies Of national
integrity and sanity which drive
the LindberghS from our shores.
Read Martin MONEYS Crime,
Incorporated" and observe the
penumbra of crime in which crude
villainies shade into safe and
Sanctified larceny. Or, delving
even deeper, read that great
book, Man the Unknown" by
DR.. Alexis Carrel. There are sew
eral pages in this book which I
regard as Signally important in
their bearing on all this.
He cites a profound and zorro
Sive vulgarity in our national life
"a distortion of moral values, a
weave Of Shoddy which makes a
SleaZy fabric; cyniciSm and greed
and. most important Of all, a
slothful indifference to all which
does not appear as an immediate
personal menace.
A NATIONAL TRAGEDY
High dramaturgy was written
in the skies when Charles Lind
bergh flew the Atlantic. He is
the symbol and embodiment Of
latent but almost forgotten as
pirations Of our national life. But
we could not keep him. There
is a national tragedy and defeat
in the wake of his ship.
There's no good in merely get
ting angry. You ARE angry?
What are you going to day? Per
haps this piece is altogether too
hortatory as it Is, but I am going
to take a chance. First Of all, ask
yourself a few questions.
Who is the political leader in
your precinct? Who is your ward
leader? What are the numbers
Of your assembly and senatorial
legislative districts, and who are
your representatives in the legis-
lature? What are your national
congressional districts, and who
are your Representatives and Sen
atorS?
What do you know about the
character and capacities Of each
Of these men as they bear on law
enforcement? Their records? Their
attitudes? Their freedom from du-
biouS political connections?
Were you surprised to find the
answers vague? Does the Lind
bergh flight from America move
you to learn something about the
men you elect to make and en-
force laws? Does it move you to
organize America into a land
where a child may play safely in
its front yard? Or, does it?
Copyright 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. 1ne.1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
WELL HEELED'

Word comes to Washington that
some of the great circuSes are
greeting this New Year Day from
under clouds caused by finances.
Such a condition doesn't seem
to be troubling the personnel Of
our own Greatest Show on
Earth"
The boys and girls who are
flocking into Washington for the
annual winter presentation are, If
a nything, over-burdened with
money.
The trouble they are going to
encounter during the next few
months will be confined to deter
mining how to spend it.
Next year will be time enough
to worry about how to raise 1t.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01

} I, too, am one of the Old
Ones. And I've seen pretty much
of all that there was to be seen
paid the price and taken the
punishment. And some Of 1t
was tough. But I'm telling you--
IT WAS WORTH IT ALL!
IT'S A GREAT OLD LIFE,
AND IT'S GETTING BETTER
EVERY DAY!
FIRE AND FAITH
Don't you believe these bleats
about the Good Old Times. Yes.
there was happiness then; friend
illness and fine dealing. But
there was misery, too. Tragic
misery that could have been pre-.
vented if they'd had just a little
of your modern knowledge.
There was cruelty too - and
crookedneSS and downright nastl'
ness that wouldn't be possible
under your modern frankneSs.
I'm So. I saw it all. The days
when women were C1nging
Vines, and the days when they
started to be Regular Guys. And
I'm telling you, youngster-LHE
GOOD OLD DAYS CANT
TOUCH THE GOOD NEW ONES!
These are the best times yet!
There's confusion, yeS-rebelllon
and disorder. But it's the dis
order of a GROWING world, not
of a dying one. It's the rebel.
lion of EAGER spirits, not OF
stagnatinS ones. It's the chaos
of a new world in the making!
Go ahead and be part Of that
making, youngster! And glory
that you can be a part. Ask ques-
tions, Rebel. Refuse to accept
any Truth until you've made II
YOUR own. But don't let a bunch
of lazy, timid, conceited old tat
heads scare you out Of the two
most precious things in life
FIRE AND FAITH.
BELIEVE AND FIGHT! Fight
to make it a better world than
we know how to make it-and
believe in that world and In your
self with all you have.
THESE ARE THE DAYS. AND
YOU ARE THE GENERATION
THAT'S GOING TO PUT THEM
ON THE MAP!
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
A Happy New Year

Washington today goes into the new year confident
that 1886 will maintain the pace by 1885 and that the
end of this year will find people and city in even
better condition than they when the old year died
last night.
THIS CONFIDENCE IS BASED ON MORE THAN
BLIND OPTIMISM.
is rooted in the definite knowledge that this city is
adOanageOusy situated to benefit by the returning
prosperity of the ersre country.
National elecSion years have always been intensely
active years in the National Capital and this year
will bring with it presidential election
There doesn't seem to be any doubt that the Federal
Government will continue through the year the great
activity which has marked it during the last few years
and regardless Of how may feel about the wisdom
of that activity question that it has brought
a revival of business here.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO READ THE REVIEW OF
THE LAST YEAR PRINTED IN THE WASHINGTON
TIMES YESTERDAY WITHOUT COMING TO THE
CONCLUSION THAT THE PROSPERITY WHICH
RETURNED LAST YEAR WILL CONTINUE PRO
GRESSIVELY THROUGH THE YEAR WHICH
STARTS TODAY.
Figures contained in that review show inescapably
that our prosperity is on firm foundation.
Building activity particularly in the matter Of dwell
ngs has been marked and increased heavily during the
last few months of the year and still the demand is
greater than the supply.
Bank clearing figures alone warrant the utmost optl
mism for the new year.
Month after month they improved during the last year
and the next IL months should and probably will show
proportionate gains.
Other accepted creria Of business activity show SINH
lary healthy gains not fashy and fmsy but firm and
sound
So when our folks say HAPPY NEW YEAR" to
each other today they doing more than voicng
trite expression.
THEY ARE voICING THEIR CONFIDENCE IN
THE POSSIBILITIES WHICH THE NEW YEAR
HOLDS FOR ALL OF US.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01

So it's another New Year,
youngster. And you're greeting
it, aren't you, with your tongue
in your cheek and d dirty look in
your eye?
No bright young hopes" for
you. No rosy dreams, such as
Dad or Mother INDUCED in at
your age. For you're wise! You're
on to this Human Race and the
Dirty Deal it has handed YOU
yes? And you're sure, already,
that you're licked before you start.
Well, don't blame you. Even
if you still cherished secret illu-
sionS, you'd go down before the
barrage Of gloom we oldsterS
spread.
Take marriage, for example.
What loneliness can possibly cling
to marriage in the face of our
whines and snarlS, our fouling sus-
picion, our nasty cheating and ma
neuvering, our cruel torturing Of
each other?
TAINTED ADVICE
Or careers. His first job was a
glorious crusade to your Dad. But
for you-it's dog eat dog" isn't
it? He believed in justice, in
honor, in clean and open combat.
But you-what do you, what
can you believe in? Bit by bit
we've stripped your ideals, mud.
died your dreams, robbed your
youth Of its rightful heritage OF
wonder and ecstasy.
And now, whichever way you
turn, what do you meet? Sneers,
scowls, Smutty wiSecracks. Be
cause Of your own fear we, your
elders, would turn you into
towards. Because Of our own
hypocrisy. we would have you be
lieve that every man has his
price," that there's nothing last
ingly strong, or true and kind in
life.
DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!
DON'T FOLLOW OUR TAR
NISHED PRECEDENT, YOUNG
STER-OR TAKE OUR TAINTED
ADVICE!
The world isn't going to the
dogs! The human race isn't a
flop! There's as much beauty
and nobility in the world as there
ever waS-and morel
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at the White House when he
comes here to address the Amer
lean Liberty League on January
Is, is only one of a series OF sim:
liar bids which the Presidents old
political chum has turned down.
There are many men in public
life who would give their eye teeth
for the invitations which Smith
is said casually to have declined.
But nobody would like to come
to Washington on job of attack
ing the Raw Deal and be a house
guest of the man whose policies
were going to be the subject OF
your best shots.
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SUB-CAPITALS

The proposal Of the National
Resources Committee that sub
capitals of the United States Gov
eminent be established in a dozen
or so cities is giving returning
Senators and Representatives
something to think about and talk
about.
If the suggestion ever gets any
serious consideration every men,
Der Of Congress will Immediately
face the necessity Of seeing that
one of the little capitals goes to
his district.
It will be q lot of fun to watch
the log-rolling that will take place
when and If Congress gets around
to considering bill establishing
the branches of WaShington's
biggest industry.
What a row there will be!
Any congressman who can't
tuck one Of these branch offices
of Uncle Sam at his crossroads
may as well give up the ghost.
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NEGLECTED FENCES

Senator James F. Byrnes, of
South Carolina, who bears the
reputation of being the Presidents
right bower in the Senate, is run
ming into difficulty in his home
State, although his sway in Sena.
torial quarters seems to be un-
diminished.
At least two candidates have al
ready announced for the Demo-
cratic primary in the State hoping
to succeed the Presidents friend.
AS soon as Senator Byrnes is
able to get away from Washing.
ton he will be dashing back to
South Carolina to rebuild the
political fences that have been
slightly shattered by the idea that
Mr.. Byrnes was deserving the
States rights doctrine.
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'and action when men of diverse
views can become angry about
the same INDEPENDENTLY with
an Indictment like this one. Sud-
denly there is emotional en-
phaSis on something we have
in common, rather than on the
things which divide US. And,
above all, we hold In common
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01

peal for for
mer Gov. Al
fred E. Smith.
Of New York,
than some o.
the more mod
ern tn o ries
W hich have
come to abound
in Washington
since Mr.. RooSe-
welt entered the
White House.
It now is
stated, and de,
MED, that the
in vi tation tc
spend the night
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01

the will to make our homes safe
for all who may dwell in them.
Santayana says, not at all
cynically, that we are tolerant
only in things we don't care a
great deal about. We certainly
have been tolerant in America
tolerant of crime, Of gangsterS,
Of grafterS, Of bunk, bilge and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01

Against the sapping expedition
which a sinister coalition will
launch at the next session against
"the Common Defense" every loyal
and patriotic Senator and Repre-
sentative in Congress ought to go
on guard and stay on guard.
These sappers are attempting
"to undermine what cannot be d.
rectly overthrown" in the Ameri-
can system of national defense.
They seek first to seduce Amer.
lean youths by spreading through
the schools, colleges and universe
ties a propaganda Of sedition in
peace and treason in war.
This propaganda calls for the
abolition of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps in every institu-
ton of learning. This excellent
system Of training with the Colors
was inaugurated by Congress on
the recommendation of President
Lincoln. 1t is a thoroughly Amer
lean system and it's sole objective
is to train the citizens of the fu-
ture so that they will be able to
discharge effectively the highest
obligation Of their citizenship.
Having failed to obtain legisla-
ton for the abolition of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps these sap
perS will seek at the coming session
so to reduce the Army that it will
no longer be able to provide either
officers or men to train the units
that make up the Reserve Officers
Training Corps.
NSIDIOUS METHODS
Some Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress will support this
Subversive movement openly and
directly. Others will support it
secretly and indirectly.
1t is the latter group and the
insidiouS methods it will employ
to curry favor with these sappers
which most threatens the defense
program at the coming session.
For example, this latter group
will oppose the maintenance of
the Army or the Navy at the mini
mum strength essential to an eff
fective defense. The specious pre-
text upon which this opposition
will base its attack on the defense
program will be that the United
States no longer needs any Army
or Navy for defense except its
aviation units.
For the unwary this SpeciouS
pretext will provide dangerous
pitfall.
It is true that the Army is
sorely in need of additional air
craft Of the most modern type.
It is true that the air force Of
the Navy ought to be maintained
at i present effective strength,
a strength superior to any naval
air force in the world.
1t is true that we need combat
airplaneS for defense and also for
observation, and necessary recon-
mendations will be submitted to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
PERPETUAL Motion

The Townsend perpetual notion plan Of restoring pros
per by paying 5000 month to old folks recalls the story Of
the inventor of perpetual motion machine who
his discovery to Edison
81" looks fne said Edison, "but uOhat you going to
do about graOity?"
"T' hell wit gravity" replied the inUentor. "Pu lubr
cate that"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
OLD FAVORITES

Dirge for the Year Percy Bysshe Shelley
Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep;
Merry hours smile instead,
For the year is but asleep
See, it smiles as it is sleeping,
Mockng your untimey weeping.
As the wild air stirs and sways
The tree-swung cradle of a child,
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the year-be calm and mild,
Trembling hours; she will arise
With new love within her eyes.
January gray is here
Like a sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier;
March with grief doth howl and rave,
And April weeps-but o, ye hours,
Follow with Mays farest flowers.
(eoders ivited to send to the editor their sugges-
Mons of old taVores among the for reprinting in
this space.)
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ONE OF SEVERAL?

Apparently the old theory that
a White House invitation is a COM
mand doesn't have any more ap-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John Saure, Jr.

%House Office buildings on behalf
of the plan.
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The Washington Times Wishes You a Happy New Year.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY |, 1886
1917 Northwest Washington O.
O..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-01
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

A NEW YEARS LETTER TO YOUNG PEOPLE
Evening star., 1936-07-19
B T { R

MOOD BEER goes with good times
~ like crackers 60 with cheese.
This can brings you the true de-
licious flavor of draught beer, and is
so wonderfully convenient as we'll
No special opener required; drink
right from the clean protected top;
a whole carton full case is light and
takes up little space; no deposits, no
bother about returning empties Re-
member, for full enjoyment of beer
outdoors or anywhere - insist on
beer in Cap Sealed Cans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-03

d saving Of ! penny per head per
day amounts to 70,ooo.o00 pounds
Approximately s35o,ooo,o oo) year,
it is evident that scientifically di-
rected experimental inquiry into the
cooking of foodstuffs is of consid-
cradle economic Importance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-03
SLOW COOKING
BRINGS SAVING,
HUSBAND FINDS
Author Recommends Low
Temperature Applied
for Is Hours.
N Science 6crrice

Nv DbftffSf i3Nf NV
LONDON, Jan. 3. - What the
author calls new technique in cook
cry with a potential saving OF
s3oo,000,0o0 a year to British house
wives is described in report TO the
science journal, Nature, published
here.
The discovery, according to A. F..
Dufton, is the use of low tempera-
lures over long periods of time for
cooking large cheap cuts OF meats,
such as beef or mutton.
Whereas the recommended tenn
perature for roasting meat is from
300 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, saws
Mr.. Dufton, the discovery is to cook
the meat for some Is hours at a
temperature Of only 212 degrees.
Using a mutton roast as a starter
over the protestations of his wife,
Mr.. Dufton obtained a roast de
licious beyond all expectation"
A cheap boiling fowl, he reports,
after Is hours Of the same treat
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fnent, was found to Be vass Z = J.
as chicken and as full favored as
turkey"
The cooking of fish and other
comestibles now is being studied" he
adds.
The saving, says the author, re-
suits IN minimum of a penny a
day per person in his family.
He adds, when it is realized that
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-14
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NOTICE OF sALE'osL LAND

Under and by virtue Of the all
thority conferred by Deed of
Trust executed by Ann Il. Spear
and husband, Max, Spear. dated
the 18th day Of November, 1927,
and recorded in Book l20,> page
G2i. it, ths office Of the Register
of Deeds for Henderson County.
V. 5. Bryant, Substituted Trustee,
will at twelve o'clock Noon. on
MONDAY. MARCH both, 1886
ut the Courthouse door OF Hen
dcrson County, in llendersonv!!le,
North Can Dina, sell at public auc-
ton for cash to the highest bidder
the following land, to-vit:
Situated, in the Town of Hen
dcrSonvillc, North Carolina: al
BEGINNING ut Il stake ut the
intersection of the property lines
OF the western margin Of North
Main Street, and the northeast
margin of Lyman Avenue. and
running thence with the northeast
margin OF Lyman Avenue North
ID degrees West 1898 feet to
stake; theacc North "a degrees
10 minutes East "a feet TO u stake
in the West margin of said North
Main Street; thence with the West
margin of North Main Street
South Il7.2 feet to the point of
, BEGINNING. '
BEING the same land conveyed
to Ann X. Spear by A. J. Huvard
and wife, Rebccca e. Huvard, by
deed dated the l4th day of De-
tober, 1928, and recorded in Book
80, page 2G2, of the Records of
Deeds for Henderson County,
North Carolina.
This sale is made on account
| OF default ia payment of the in
dcbtcdncSs secured by said Deed
Of Trust, and is subject to all
taxes and assessments against said
property whether now due or TO
become due.
\ FIVE CD per cent cash dep0s-
lit will be required of the highest
| bidder at the sale.
This the Dist day Of February,
1896. &C.,. ........-.-.
V. S. BRYANT.
Substituted Trustee.
Loan No. 63l. 2-29-Sat-itr
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to : woman wearing a leopard
coat thaI she hoIicea inc Young
man Ih NO ioOy$ eyes
raised; men she lowered them
quickly IL was the same young
manIGo DOUBT ABOUT 1t. The one
she AaG pumped INTO on her way
TO WofN the DAY before. tie was
STANDING less than a dozen feet
away.
TOBY sand without looking up.
Its fe&ii% the incest compact Wr
have. Inc m"HatIlon Is real
jade
Inc woman IN IN" leopard coat
interrupted; yes. lt,S very at
tfactiVe; Gu Sa,H the p'lce Is
$50. didh you!
nat ) r'Eht' f""r ninety
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Nni i 10y ' az, 'IoPt''". VIZ DIV,
EXCHANGED Il IofEottcn' ! meant
TO cash d rh'cK inns morning.,
nhG stared at Iony' went on hol .
pay 'of Inc compact 'HulH you
nave u wrapped ana h"Id 1t ZOE
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that. A customer had paused at
the other end Of the counter and
sho hurried toward her. When
she looked back little later the
Young man was gone.
Toby thought CT the $500 in
her sales book. 1t certainly wasn't
every day that you E:ade sales
I like that in the costume jcwclrE.
Maybe she'd get Il bcnGs this
week. If she did, shc could buy
/ the shoes sha needed md %d!oSn-
eS.
/ He really was nice-loohing
Young man. There vas something:
! about him that was ratner--rath.
er exciting. Gh, well. she'd never
see him again That was .!IG emo
OF that.
I But the day thai had II, run in
such al ordinary fashion Rad
. more in store for Toby Ryan $780,
much more.
The Od,I"5r thing about il was
that it all happened so naturally.
1t was frr minute, past ; when
Miss Burrows, the iewclry buyer,
approached Toby. "Thc artists
have finished with those Watches
we sent up to have skrtchrd for
the Saturday advertisement she
said. "Will you go up and hling
them down? Ask fo.' Mr.. Keller.
He'll get them for yor.'
Toby said, Eyes, Miss Bur
rows"
She knew exactly what to do
she had gone on such errands be-
fore. Toby stepped into the ele-
vator and said, "Ninth floor" She
liked going to the advertising Of
fee. 1t was so different from the
rows and rows of counters on the
first floor. Cluttercd and rather
disOrdcrIy, with the artists, in
tink-spattcrcd smGchS, working
near the windows and three or
four young men and women ut
desks in the foreground. Bill
Brandt worked in an advertising
office, too. Toby felt that know
ling what Brrgnlan's advertising
department was like mad" her an
dclstand more clearly when Bill
talked about his work.
She entered the big room, hes
itatcd, and then went up 10 tn"
nearest desk. ais Mr.. Keller
hcre?" Toby asked.
The door Of a private office
opened Just then and Il man step
ped out. 1t was Mr.. Keller, thc
art director, and Toby recognized
him.
She hurried forward. Miss
Burrows sent me for the watches
that were sketchcd," she said.
ooh, yes" The art director
crossed to desk, picked up Four
tiny watches attached to brace
lets. Three of them were yellow
gold discs. The fourth was the
handsome "debutante special,
white cold with tiny diamonds
cleaning on either side of TIE
oblong face. "Here they arc" ne
said, and put them in Toby's
! hand.
| She looked down at the watch
es. The glistening handful, sh"
knew, was worth something like
$3.50.
A minute later Toby stood in
the hallway, waiting for the Gle
vator to take her to the first
fIoor.-(To be continued