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The Washington times., 1936-11-09

QrlnK1ng naDlLS Edwin G. Hill
and hints that the quicker we get
back to the status quo ante-pro-
hibition, the better for all con-
cerned.
Officially, bartenders and res
taurant men are worried about
the lady bar-fly. Last month it
was recorded that 95 per cent OF
the members of the New York
Society of Restaurateurs, Inc, of
which the veteran Paul Henkel is
president, are vehemently opposed
to coed bars.
The bartenders' unions Of st.
Louis, Omaha and several other
cities have voiced their oppoSi-
ton in resolutions and appeals
to the public to discourage the
high heel on the brass rail. They
don't seem to go together, say the
worried bartenders.
Recently there was a report OF
a survey Of feminine drinking
customs by the Juvenile Protec'
tive Association of Chicago.
The survey was called "Chi'
cago's Popular Recreation, the
Tavern. It found that 40 per
cent of the stand-up elbow bend
ers were girls.
The Federation of Liquor Deal
ers of New York, Inc, is nostalgia
about the mellow old beery, bas-
soony days, undisturbed by the
rustic of skirts, and indicates that
it is alarmed about what's hap
pening to American womanhood.
PROFESS CONCERN
The above organizations profess
concern about decorum, decency,
good form and sound social GUS
toms. An old-time bartender puts
it more bluntly and, possibly,
realistically:
"We're headed hell-bent back
to prohibition" he said, unless
they chase all these danes out
of the saloons. Nice girls they
are, most of them, and they
have no business hanging over
a bar and tapping up booze.
"It's bound to make trouble.
1 see it warming up all over the
country. We were suckers to let
the old saloon get to be the kind
of a dump it was, and now
we're sticking our necks out all
over again.
"But tough as we used to be,
we'd of turned in a riot call If
we seen one of them flufS come
in and ask for a Horses Neck.
"And, speaking of that, re-
minds me that they haven't
even got good bar manners.
with people six deep at the
bar, they'd make a One-armed
bartender stop everything and
fix up a Horses Neck-and you
know what that means-Or a
POuSSe Cafe.
"They wolf free lunch like a
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

It was No
v e m ber, not
] a n u ary 20,
and yet no in
augural parade
has been more
enthusiastically
greeted. Th e
temper of the
crowd was so
distinctly diff
ferent that the
occupants OF
the automobile
W e r e oV e r.
whelmed wi t h
the feeling that
here were 3OO,-
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
By Frank NJ. Smith
By MOntier

>into his seat in the election follow
ing the withdrawal Of Senator
Rose Mcconnell Long, who was
appointed and elected to fulfill her
husbands unexpired term.
Mrs. Long left the Senate after
her short service with the avowed
intention of giving politics the
go-bye and returning to her home
to see to the education of her chill
dren.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

Bengal Lancer,
tours the coun-
try here a n d
likes it, but is
C o n S iderably
distressed a t
the spectacle Of
women drink
ing at public
bars. He thinks
W o m e n look
m u c h nj C e r
when they drink
at tables. He
thinks prohibi-
ton got us into
some unSeen1ly
cIninolEinn hohitc
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
OLD FAVORITES
Shadows Richard MOncktOn MINES
ShddOWs

They seemed to those who saw them meet,
The casual friends of every day;
Her smile undsturbed and sweet,
His courtesy free and gay.
But yet if one the others
In unguarded moment heard
The heart you thought calm and tame
Would struggle like captured bird:
And letters of mere formal phrase
Were blstered with repeated tears
And this not the work of days,
But had gone for years and years.
Alas that love was not too strong
For maiden shame and manly prde
Alas that they delayed so long
The goal of mutual bliss beside
Yet what no chance could then reveal,
And neither would be first to own,
Let fate and courage conceal
When truth could bring remOrse alone
(Reuders are invited to send to the editor their Sug
gestions of old fGvotes among the poems for Teprntng
in this spuce.)
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

this way and
that-acting ju-
dicial.
Suppose we
take that new
job ... Suppose
we m We to
that new house
Suppose we
study French
in our spare
time, or take a
course in jour
nalism, milli-
merry, stenogra-
ply or book
keeping.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

Riding up the avenue in the Of
ficial Senate automobile at Presi-
dent Roosevelt's homecoming Fri
day morning, it looked as if Wash
ington had its dates mixed.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
Senator Longs Successor

Senator Longs Successor
New faces in the Senate:
Allen Ellender, floor leader for
the late Senator Huey P. Long in
the Louisiana house of represen-
tatives, will fill his chiefs shoes
in the United States Senate come
January S.
Senator Ellender of Houma,
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
MEASURE OF FAILURE

While their activities have been
confined mainly to the field of
legalism, they also have been
champions of the full equality,
freedom and independence Of
women in social customs.
While they follow their own
logic and defend the inalienable
right of women to indulge in un.
trammeled, public, upright and
fortnight elbow-bending, you
never can draw a sharp line be-
tween politics and the social
"mores."
When the suffrage battle was
being fought, issues were all
mixed up. as they are in any i'm
! portant public issues.
Talking to some of the mid
town maitres d'hotels about all
this, find that women at public
bars is primarily an urban issue
if such it is.
Women from smaller cities and
towns of the South and West are
extremely cagey about any kind
of drinking public, and it is not
usual for one Of them, in public
dining room, to ask that her cock
tail be served in a teacup. Back
in the Gay Nineties that was quite
customary. The girls would have
been seated away from the bar in
a hurry if they had dared center
near it.
Edward P. Mulrooney, the hon.
est and old-fashioned cop who be-
came New York's liquor commits
sioner, did a lot to jerk liquor
clear out of political and police
entanglements. But, under the
law, he could make no decree ex-
cluding women from public bars.
For the present, until and un-
less the bluenoseS get going
again, it seems to be a question Of
how much self-imposed and col
lective restraint and good sense
the women may disclose. There's
a thought there.
The world plague of laws and
State intrusion on once free men
would fade if collectively we man.
aged good behaviour. The multi
plicity of laws is the measure Of
| our own failure.
Here's a sentiment to the
ladies: Bishop Cannon will get
you if you don't watch out-and
here's hoping he won't find it
necessary.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

wants to call a halt on something,
the Democrats could absent them
selves from the floor and the body
would be at a Sta~dStill.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
Absurdity Doubled

In SECRET sessions at the Bureau of the Budget the
District Commissioners this week are defending their
SECRET estimates of the expenses of the city for the
coming fiscal year.
THIS OF COURSE IS A DISADVANTAGE OF
THE TAXPAYERS OF THE CITY WHO WILL HAVE
TO FOOT THE BILL WHICH THE FEDERAL BU-
REAU IS PREPARING TO ADD UP FOR THEM
The taxpayers can't find out what the Commissioners
are asking therefore they can't say whether they ap
prove the course which these officials are taking or
whether they disapprove it.
This isn't the fault of the Commissioners
Even they wanted they couldn't inform the people
who foot the bill what they propose to spend their
money for.
1T IS THE FAULT OF AN ABSURD SYSTEM OF
DEALING WITH THE FINANCES OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA
The system assumes that the Districts expenditures
have relation to the Federal Treasury.
They have such relationship except the fact
that the funds paid into the Federal Treasury and
then paid out to meet the city's expenses.
THESE FUNDS CAN'T BALANCE OR 'UNBAL-
ANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET: so FAR AS THAT
BUDGET IS CONCERNED THE LOCAL FUNDS ARE
NoN-EXISTENT AND so ARE THE LOCAL Elk
PENDITURES
The only item in the local budget with which the Fed
eral Bureau Of the Budget has any is the ap
preparation which the Federal Government makes
nualy it's share of maintaining the National Capital
Naturally that item under Federal expenses
and matter for study by the Bureau Of the Budget
But the Bureau of the Budget has consistently taken
the attitude that cannot have anything do with that
item.
It maintains that it cannot raise lower or change
in any way the amount Of the item from the amount
which carried in the previous local appropriation bill
This item it is held can be varied only by the Con-
gress and recommendation it can be made by the
Bureau.
SINCE THIS SINGLE FEDERAL ITEM IS EX-
CLUDED FROM THE STUDY OF THE LOCAL
BUDGET BY THE BUREAU WHY SHOULD EACH
LOCAL ITEM, HOWEVER TINY, BE SUBJECT TO
COMPLETE CONTROL BY THE BUREAU?
This year the study of the local budget by the Bureau
is even absurd than usual.
It is being made concurrently with study by an in
dependent committee Of the entire matter of fiscal re-
lations between the local and Federal governments
Not eUen the Bureau, regarded by some as ON
niscient in the matter of the finances, knOUU in
1Uhat the Congress UDU decide is the proper Federal
appropriation.
THEREFORE, THE BUREAU THIS YEAR IS TRY
ING TO PREPARE A LIST OF EXPENDITURES
WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT WILL BE THE IN
COME OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DURING
THE COMING YEAR.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
Human Side of the News
Women Drinking at Public Bars Primarily an
Urban Issue-If Such It Is
By EdWin C.. Hill

Major T. w. Kirkwood, Irish
polo player, riding companion Of
King Edward VIII and veteran
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

Pretending" is not always a
child's game. Most of us go all
through life dramatizing our
selves-as sirens, as Don Juans,
as cynics or martyrs, just as
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

Many of us spend 80 per cent
of our adult lives asking ourselves
that question. Turning it over,
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

1
pirates.
Now that the summer moon
light evenings are over, many
young man is trying to decide
whether he is still crazy to spend
his life with the girl-or just
"crazy" ever to have thought Of 1t.
Ouarreling with a good-natured
man is, like tackling a football
dummy, only lot Of wasted en-
ergy and no real SPORT. But
some women do it, just to keep in
practice.
In all the world there is no sad
der sight than that Of q hen
pecked husband unless it is that
of a rooster pecked wife. Many .
good husband" who seems like
the backbone of virtue, is more
like a bread-crumb down the neck.
Before marriage a "rendezVouS"
is a place where you go eagerly
to meet a man who is waiting for
you: after marriage, it is place
where you stand around on one
foot and then on the other wait
ing for the same man.
A mans first intimation that
he is beginning to get along in
years is his discovery that any
woman over 80 looks like just a
blot on the landscape.
There are just two times in his
life when a man fully values a
woman's love; before he is sure
of it-and after he has lost It.
Love is what makes it possible
for a woman to be surrounded by
devoted and attractive men. and
still be "the loneliest little girl in
the world"
Copyright. 1888. by King Features
Syndicate. Ins.)
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
Mixed Grill

Mixed Grill
A small boy is awfully bored by
the women who gush over him;
but after he grows up they appear
to be the only sort in whom he
takes any real interest.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09


IL you haven't got what they
want"
Mother, dear mother, como
with me now!" It's that way al.
ready If one believes all he hears
about the old-line prohibitionists
stirring again; about the new
"Femhattan" cocktail; about dow
ayers with dog collars, debs, goods,
housewives and the like, all going
in for late hours and nose paint,
draped over a bar.
One wonders what Alice Paul
and the other leaders of the
Women's Party think Of that.
They probably would say it's none
of their business, but it seems to
me that it's right on their target.
Their line is to knock over any
discrimination between men and
women. They fight the eight
hour law for women on the
ground that woman is thereby set
aside as the weaker and inferior
sex
The Washington times., 1936-11-09
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROWlGnd

youngsters play cowboys or
pirates.
The Washington times., 1936-11-09

eight or nine of 'em. Weigh
teSt-conSider and compare.
Co,,ndc iotal1ioaot Soacp,f ito
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

Scenes of horror in the worst flood
in the nations hiStory-the famous
Johnstown flood-are brought to the
mind of one Butte resident by news &C
counts of the recent disaster in that
area.
He is Alex Day, a miner, and he mar
roWly escaped death along with other
members of his family when a dam IA
miles above JohnstoWn, Pa, gave way
one fine afternoon in May, 1889, and
loosed a devastating wall of water upon
the town. Although no exact count ever
was obtained, the loss of life was said
to have been around 1900 persons.
"Those people in Johnstown, Pitts
burgh and the other flood cities GER
tainly have my sympathey," Mr.. Day
remarked the other day. 81 never want
The JohnStoWn people can be glad this
time, though, that it's not a dam break,
but is only an overflow flood"
Mr.. Day was born in J~ohnstoWn, and
was a boy in knee pants at the time
of the flood. He recalled the narrowing
experience of many years ago:
1--WE lived on Railroad street, Just a
few blocks from the business district"
he said. MY parents had just gone
four younger children. I sent the three
older kids, those old enough to walk,
out to play with a schoolmate of mine
on the hill about a block from the
house, and was home alone with the
five-month-old baby when a man came
tearing past or a big bay horse. L vas
standing in the doorway.
"tGet the bell out of here; the dams
busted he yelled.
Il ran back and grabbed the baby,
and started up the street toward the
hill. Luckily at the corner I met my
parents, running toward home. I told
them the children were on the hill, so
all hurried there. We just barely made
the hill,
"When the dam broke, the narrow
canyon kept the water in one powerful
stream, and it struck the town with full
force. The hill we were on was black
with people. Below us WE saw houses
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09
Flood Disaster Recalls to
Butte Man Flood Terror of
'89; JOhnstOWn Destroyed

smashed and tossed around, and dozens
OF people struggling in the water.
1--WE couldn't find the children, and
for a long time we were afraid they
had stopped to play along the streets,
and had been caught in the flood. A
mile away we found them-a lady had
taken them in and fed them.
I'VE stayed that night with a friend
of fathers. Several other families also
crowded into the house. I slept in the
same bed with a man who had been
caught in the flood with his wife and
two sons. Two boys were swept away,
one by one, and the wife was missing.
Later she was found to have escaped on
the opposite side of the flood stream.
THE next day, boylike, I went polk
ing about the ruins. All that remained
of our home was the foundation. Ev-
erything was buried in several feet of
mud and debris, and for many days they
still dug bodies out of the mess. It
was horrible-there were bodies every
where.
But we didn't move away. After a
while my father built a home in the
suburb of MoXom, and we lived there
for many years. 1T took a long time
to remove the scars of the flood, and
fortunately there have been no other
bad ones since, until those of the last
few days"
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09
Hunter Falls Into
Bears Den; Three
Shots, Three Dead

Charles MCGEE, Missoula hunter, was
o the trail of a mountain lion along
Belmont creek in the Blackfoot country
a few days ago. With him he had his
lions with him throughout the north
west. One dog ran ahead nose to the
ground, the other, Duke by name, was
on a leash.
Mr.. MCGEE and Duke started across
a log bridging a ravine when all 1T
once the log turned and both Duke and
and brush That wasn't 50 had and
neither was hurt, but as they struggled
about in the waist deep snow a loud
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

and annoyed roar smote the hitherto
quiet air.
Hasty examination disclosed it to be
one-no tWo-no three bears, q 250-
pound mother bear and her two little
ones still in the midst Of a late spring
nap. And all three were vexed-the
mother to the point where she declared
wal on the spot and lunged toward
the lion hunter, her head a glistening
mass of fangS bent on tearing him
asunder.
Duke, veteran of many battles, lunged
for her throat and chung like a leech.
MCGEE struggled about in the waist
deep snow trying to get his rifle from
the sling over his shoulder. The bear
advanced, slapping at Duke, whose jaws
were a miniature wise at her throat.
1t was a bad minute or two trying
to dispose of the enraged female bear
who was set on ripping both Duke and
Mr.. MCGEE asunder. Finally, a shot
rang and she lay prone. Two more
quickly followed and the cubs had
Joined their ancestors.
Neither Mr.. MCGEE nor Duke suf-
fered any great i'll effects from the
narrowing experience.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

to drive me NADINE that has been
livin' on beans and bacon for three
months paSt-With stories about eatin'
goose. Man I'd commit highway robbery
just for a chicken"
mo chicken cackleS nearer this place
than Salt Lake." Jim replied.
so there will be no chicken. The
Americans set a lot of store by turkey
for their holiday meals. They say that
turkeys are wild in America. If we were
good hunters, now, and knew about
off out here in the mountains-We
might have some relief from beans and
bacon at Christmas"
Dick had been helping himself liber-
ally to the bottle. Jim decided to have
his share and picked up his tin cup
and poured himself a generous drink.
AS he was helping himself to a second
drink a shadow fell across the door,
way. A blanketed Indian stood there
before him, tall and dignified but with
a covetous look in his glistening eyes
as he gazed at the bottle.
Finnigan and Flanagan had met
Indians around Bannack. They were
no novelty. Likewise they knew of their
weaknesses. Jim'S eyes rested on the
buck in a careless I'M and then
he noticed the Indian had a pair of
rabbits suspended over his shoulder.
Here's the lad that can tell us, maybe,
where to get a turkey. he exclaimed.
Chief, do you happen to know where
we could get a bird for Christmas?"
Huh" said the Indian, smiling at
being spoken to. A chance for a drink
Of whisky was coming nearer.
What does huh mean?" Finnigan.
inquired. "It's pig Latin for yes" re-
piled Flanagan making a pretenSe of
knowledge wholly outside his ken.
"All the same he means yes" Flan-
nagan said doggedly. HE doesn't know
what you mean by. turkey" Finnigan
look like?"
Huh" the Indian replied,
Finnigan was getting excited. "See
here" he said, eff you can bring us
a turkey I'll give you the rest in this
bottle. What do you say?"
The Indian was plainly excited also
but b%efuddled. Flanagan had been
guage is said to be the Oldest and cas-
lest learned in the world. Flanagan
decided to try sign language. He took
a partially burned bramble from the
and proceeded to draw a picture of
what he thought a turkey looked like
On the ground in front of the door.
Then he pointed to the picture, to the
to themselves and to the bottle.
Finally the Indian understood and
was eager to be gone. Finnigan and
Flanagan went to bed each nursing
The hope that the red man would be
successful in his hunt for turkey.
The next day before Finnigan and
were out of bed there was
4 knock at the door. They opened it
20 find the Indian holding in his hand
4 big black bird. Dick and Jim had
been sampling the whisky during the
night and the level was low in the
they corrected this by add
ng some water and passed the bottle
over to the Indian in return for the
bird.
Finnigan and Flanagan were de-
They were bubbling over with
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09
National Always
Decreases Flying
Time On All Trips

In order to allow for the increased
speed of its newly converted mono
planes, National Parks Always on
April l shortened the flying time on
all its schedules. Trip two, the morn
ing northbound, will leave Salt Lake
City at 6:15 a. M, arriving at Ogden
at 6:25, Pocatello at tbs, Idaho Falls
at TAO, Butte at 8:55, Helena at $50,
and Great Falls at 1000 a. m. Trip
-Four, the evening northbound which
operates daily except Sundays and holi-
days, will leave Salt Lake City at GAS
p. m. and will arrive in Pocatello at
7:40, Idaho Falls at 8:05, Butte at 900,
and Helena at 9:55.
Flying time on Southbound schedules
has likewise been decreased. Trip n
will leave Great Falls at 500 y. M,
an hour later than previous, and will
arrive in Helena at 5:25, Butte $50,
Idaho Falls tbs, Pocatello 7:40, and
Salt Lake City at 8:45. The morning
southbound service, operating daily ex-
cept Sundays and holidays, will leave
Helena at TOO a. m, an hour earlier
than previous, and will arrive in Butte
at 1920, Idaho Falls 8:45, Pocatello 9:10,
Ogden 1000, and Salt Lake City at
1918.
The addition of extra flights, also eff
fective April l, by the transcontinental
airlines provide improved connections
with National Parks Anyways planes for
air passenger, mail and express service
to the major American cities.
A thorough rebuilding, which includ-
decorating of the cabins as well as the
installation of more powerful motors,
was responsible for the increase in the
speed of the National Parks Anyways
planes to their present 100 miles an
hour.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09
Here's Item for
Ripley's Believe
1t Or Not Data

Although it is not unusual for two
persons to have identical names, rarely
does it happen that the addresses of
such persons are almost identical. Yet
this is the experience of Great Falls
two Warren TooleS.
City Attorney Warren Toole divulged
the oddity the other day after he had
received mail intended for another
Warren Toole. The city attorney re-
sides at 512 Fourth avenue north, and
the other Warren Toole resides at 512
Fourth venue south.
City Attorney Toole on several oc-
caslons has received mail intended for
the other Toole and has addressed it to
the proper address. Mail carriers, how
ever, have on a few occasions appar-
emily decided that the address was err
roneous and returned the mail to the
city attorney.
The city attorney is now attempting
to find means whereby the confusion
may be eliminated
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

happiness. Turkey for Christmas! That
was something to write home about
They hung the bird from n of the
protruding rafters outside the door
while they dressed.
Finnlgan ao was pulling on dr ms snq pes
fowl when the voice of a Yankee pros
pector, who had a claim up in what is
now Chicken Flat. passed the door. His
eyes took in the fowl.
"Hey, fellers," he exclaimed, in
amazement. What are you goin' to do
with a buzzard?"
Whats a buzzard and where is it?"
Finnigan mumbled.
"a buzzard is a bird that lives on
offal and when you get one in the
house he stinks like h" the Yankee
said. did you ask where he is? Why,
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

he's hanging right there from YOU
rafter."
Flanagan and Finnigan exchanged
looks of sadness and despair. They
would have neither whisky nor turkey
for Christmas, but they were deter
"Oh, we got him just for a curiosity -
Finnigan answered. ST have an uncle
in St. Louis that takes an interest in
such things"
The Yankee went on his way. Finni-
gan and Flanagan retired to their
cabin. what was that you said about
knowledge bein' a curse last night?"
Finnigan said, glaring at Flanagan.
u noodles we would have known a
buzzard when we saw it-and we would
still have our bottle of whisky"
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

mute, which is attached to the bridge
of a violin to change its tone, was in
vented. One of the earliest printed
scores to call for its use is that of
ILllV'S "Armi6e"
The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-09

Are You a Careful Driver?
Evening star., 1936-11-05
Returns From Trip

Mrs. william I. Denning has re-
turned to her home in Chevy Chase
after Q trip to Egypt and the Mediter-
fanean countries.