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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04
NO JUNKETS

The nations taxpayers may
we'll realize that there is one eX-
penditure that will not be taken
from their pockets this summer.
That is the customary expendf
ture of Federal funds for junkets.
Members of Congress have not
been insistent that various inves-
legations be ordered this summer
so that they might take trips
around the United States, or even
to foreign lands, spending the dol
lars as they went.
Reason-campaign year will oc-
cupy members to such an extent
that they will not find time to
take these trips around the globe.
Last year, as the session drew
to a close, the average question
members asked each other as they
chatted in the corridors was:
''Where are you going this
summer"
The customary Interrogation this
year is:
"HOw much strength have
your OppOnents?"
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WORLD!

mitted to respond, with all the
pros and cons, regardless Of public
policy.
Now las you may easily have
guesSed-am no professor. But I
have, I submit, at least the sense
God gave a gooSeberry. Also. I
have raised children. And I know
AS does any adult with a spoon
full Of intelligence-and If you per.
NIT any child to discuss anything
he wants. anywhere, at any time.
you're going to bite off more than
you can chew-and wish you
hadn't.
There are subjects which you
may wisely discuss in detail with
an immature and inexperienced
mind, and there are subjects
which you can't. And no one but
a coddled campus theorist would
ever ignore this fundamental fact.
I am no advocate of commun
ism, but I believe that every ma
ture American should know ex-
actly what communism means and
what peril it implies to our Amer.
lean theory of government. And
I have as healthy contempt for
an adult American who won't
bother to learn about communism
as I would have for one who
wouldn't wash his neck.
But 1 do NOT think that chill.
dren of IL or IA are as yet iii
to discuss Communism or be in.
structed in its program. Nor do
/ think that American school
teachers should be permitted ia
explain its principles ad lib.
MORE PERTLOUS
What would you think of q
parent who left poison or a
loaded shotgun lying within the
reach of his child, on the theory
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run away from Edwin' u HiA
their homes to the areas, usually
in the mountains or at sea, where
they have come to believe that
there is surcease from sneezing
Medicine and science believe
there are cures. And they do not
mean the cure which oliver Wen
dell Holmes prescribed to Henry
Ward Beecher back in the SOS
The Rev. Beecher wrote to his
friend up in Boston begging for a
medicine which would relieve him,
and the reply of DR.. Holmes was:
"Gravel is an effectual
remedy. 1t should be taken 8
feet deep"
THEY'RE ALLERGIC"
The latest word on hay fever is
from DIR. A. E. Osterberg, head of
the department of clinical bio
chemistry at the Mayo Clinic. Dr.
Osterberg classes the 2,5OO,O0O hay
fever victims among the 10000. 600
Americans who are allergic, which
means the 1O,OO0,0OO whose senses
are such that they cannot eat,
smell or touch certain things. Says
DR.. Osterberg:
"SuffererS from hay fever,
asthma, nose colds and the like
are allergic to pOllens just as
other people are allergic to the
touch Of velvet, the smell Of to-
baccO or the taste Of spinach.
No matter how far from the
country the hay fever victims
stay, they breathe il. enough
pollen from the atmosphere to
become affected.
doctors have found that by
injecting solutions containing
pollen into the sufferers arm,
they can gradually build up an
immunizatiOn against the par
ticular kind to which the pa
tient is allergiC.
1.-THE same method Is used In
curing parsons SlleTgiO 70 Ger
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By Elsie Robinson


that does not mean that it is .
free-for-all circus. We are, at
least theoretically, born free and
equal-but that doesn't prevent
the traffic cop from giving us a
ticket and a bawling-out If we
ignore the lights.
Being told where to-head-in Is
as much a part of our public pol
icy as the pursuit Of happiness
or the payment of poll tax. You
are told where to head in. I am
told where to head in. Everybody
is told where to head in.
There are definite and decent
limits set to all individual express
sion. Then why should teacher be
exempt from such limitations?
WHY SHOULD THE LITTLE
RED SCHOOL HOUSE BE AL
LOWED TO RUN AMUCK, YET
EVERY OTHER AMERICAN IN
STITUTTON BE BOUND BY
LAW AND PRECEDENT?
Two objections may be raised
at this point. The first is, why
discriminate against Commun-
ism? We do not forbid nor ever
have forbidden the discussion of
other forms of government"
The answer to that is as obvious
as the freckleS on little Juniors
face. We have never forbidden
the discussion of other forms of
government because hitherto the
issue has never arisen, and the
issue has never arisen because
neither Junior nor the average
American teacher was ever vitality
interested in forms Of government
as such.
THE REASON
Then why this sudden interest
in Communism? Does this not
prove that Junior and Teacher
want to do something about the
Soviet?
1t does NOT. 1t simply proves
that Moscow wants to do some
thing about America-and is rails
ing a record shindy to do 1t. Be
hind this battle for the freedom of
the Little Red School House in
America lies, not curious Ameri-
can youth, but RED RUSSIAN
PROPAGANDA.
Again it will be said that if little
Junior doesn't hear about Com
munism in school, he will outside.
So why not tell him? For the
same reason that you do not issue
textbooks on 1898 other quaint
and diverting topics which little
Junior hears about elsewhere, but
which most emphatically are not
fit for discussion in the school
room.
I submit that it is as dangerous
and cockeyed to discuss Com.
munism in our grammar and high
school grade as it would be to dis
cuss Free Love. Or Perfect Muir
ders. These, too, are glamorous
subjects. These, too, have an allure
for the curious. adolescent mind
and the restless and rebellious
adolescent spirit. But is that any
reason why their discussion should
be included in our curricula?
It is not, and If Professors
Counts and Beard had common
sense instead of campus theories
they would know 1t.
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.>
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IN THE RECORD

When former Representative
Ross Collins CD Of Mississippi
sought to step beyond the
portals of the House to enter the
Senate and was decisively defeat
ed, most person. believed they had
heard the last of him for a time,
and that his privileges in the
House were ended.
The other day, however, Mr..
Collins again expressed himself in
the Congressional Record.
Representative Clarence Can
non CD of Missouri, asked
unanimous permission to have in
serted in the Record a speech made
by Collins. The House. paying
little attention, agreed to the re-
quest.
The result was that the next
day the Record contained speech
made by Collins before the Demo
cratic League of the District.
It was a blast against the Re-
publican party, the American Lib
erty League and, generally speak
ing, against all persons whose
views are contrary to those of the
present Administration leaders.
Although Collins is not a mem.
Der of the House, having been
badly beaten by the voters Of his
State, that speech from the Record
may be franked all over the United
States under special privilege.
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The Human Side of the News
By EduUin C. Hill
Victims Of Hay Fever Seek Relief From Their
Annual Afflicition
Bu EdUiHs C.. Hill
.av Fever Seek Relief T
Annual Afflicition

, tain kinds of foods or materials
used in clothes. When the aller-
gen is q substance which may
easily be avoided, the simplest
course is to avoid it."
Pollen innoculations as a cure.
or at least as a relief, date
back rs years to Charles Harri-
son Blackley, an English doctor,
who, being afflicted with hay
fever, set about to study it, to
seek its source and, if possible,
to find a remedy. In his day,
it was believed that the malady
was caused by the hay of the
harvest season.
One summer DR.. Blackley noted
that when the hay and grass
were cut his hay fever left him.
Going to another part of the
country where the grass was still
standing, he took to Sneezing
again. Then he hit upon the
idea that pollen from trees and
shrubs was the cause of hay
fever.
The New York State Health De-
partment holds that so per cent
of the hay fever in this country
is due to ragweed pollen, and
it advocates eradication of rag
weed, saying that the economic
gain in the reduction of sinus
disease and asthma would make
such a movement worth while.
The treatment of hay fever by
the injection of pollen is success.
full, it says, in about 80 per cent
of the cases, many of which are
eventually cured.
Other treatments, the New York
board finds, such as diets, violet
and cosmic rays. electricity and
vapor inhalations have still 20
prove their value.
IN DISTRESS
A hay fever victim will so to
great extremes and far places to
get away from the i'll winds which
bring the pollen to his nose. DR..
E. E. Free, a New York chemist.
decided last year that if he spent
month on a liner running be-
tween New York and Bermuda, ne
might escape a month of distress.
So. in August. he got on the
boat as a star boarder. All went
well for a week or so, until hur-
ricane swept up from the West
Indies through Florida and then
out to sea. It picked up the rag
weed pollen and bore it 800 miles
across the ocean and onto the ship
where DR.. Free was having the
ease of lifetime. That was the
end of a perfect fall. DIR. Free
came back to Sneeze in New York.
He said then that this year he'd
try Alaska.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
('OuI 's1soIpuHS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

ba1AG. H' vs. "
Representative Walter j. Lam
beth CD of North Carolina tells
this story on himself:
Lambeth was lunching at a
downtown hotel when his office
called and informed him there
was an important vote being
taken.
He rushed to the Capitol in or
der not to miss a chance to be
recorded. When he arrived, he
discovered that the important
vote" was on the question whether
the House should resolve itself into
a committee of the whole House
on the state of the Union to con-
slider certain legislation.
The vote had been forced by a
peeved member.
But Representative Lambeth
missed his lunch.
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warmth Of my
heart and its
deepest grat l.
tude and re-
Spect.
/ am for the
lit tie r e d
School a mil
lion. I can
never be CRATE
full enough for
the service it
gave me, for the
sacrifices made
by the fine men
a nd W o m e n
that 7, an igno-
~o~A o~l ,,,a
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Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ John Snure, H.

signed by anyone except its spon'
Sor.
There is the utmost secrecy
about these petitions, according
to rules. No employe is expected
to talk about them with outsiders.
They are as important. gem
orally, as legislation pending in
committees. But leaders do not
like to have them discussed pub
licly.
The number on file indicates
what the membership thinks OF
the activity Of committees that
have refused to report out the
mentioned bills.
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them in their
dis trio is to
show their at
tentiveness as
far as House
proceedings are
concerned.
Some of them,
however, when
they are warned
by bell signal of
q quorum call
or vote, check
with clerks to
learn whether
or not the mat
ter is impor-
&a~k
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

Un1NQ oCdL6S.
are that many
victims of the
disease in this
country. 1t is a
distressing NAL
ady and it clings
for years, and
often for life.
Men joke about
it and form
clubs a m o n G
fellow sufferers.
In the early fall
h u n d r e d S of
t h O u S ands of
Americans drop
their work and
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I am a product Of the Little Red
School House.
To a shabby building on q far
western hill owe all the education
/ have ever received, also the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

Probably one Of the most confus-
ing tasks of members Of the House
Is that Of keeping tab on the roll
calls.
When members are listed in the
Record for their presence, or on
some vote, thew believe il aids
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

To speak about hay fever Is to-
speak on a subject which directly
affects 100000 persons in the
United States. Doctors say there
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04
Who Will Paw?

sity of floating bond issue of increasing taxes,
both if Congress were authorize the fveyear building
program which has been submitted by local school
thorities.
Unquestonably if to spend millions Of dollars
to modernize our school plant the money will have to
come from some place.
Whether it should come out of the pockets of Dis
trct residents IUhO are nOU and WO hare for many
years been paying more for the upkeep of the Fed
ernL city than is properly their share is the problem
WITH CONGRESS ANNUALLY REDUCING THE
FEDERAL SHARE OF THE COST OF MAINTAINING
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL IT WILL STRIKE WASH
INGTONIANS AS THE HEIGHT OF INGRATITUDE
TO ASK THEM TO 90 FURTHER INTO THEIR
POCKETS TO MAKE UP FOR THE Sinking OF
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
There isn't any doubt that the schools contemplated
in the building program needed and will be even
more greatly needed within the next few years.
AND LIKEWISE THERE ISN'T ANY DOUBT THAT
WASHINGTON COULD PAY FOR THE BUILDING
OF THESE SCHOOLS OUT OF ITS CURRENT REVE-
NUES AND WITHOUT TAX INCREASE IF so
MUCH OF THE LOCAL TAX MONEY WERE NOT
BEING EXPENDED TO PAY FOR FEDERAL ACTIvI-
TIES IN THE CITY.
The local taxpayers should not be expected to pay for
these Federal activities and then be subjected tax
increase in order to obtain necessary local improvements
Equitable settlement of the Federal share problem
would make it possible to carry out the school program
without further burdenng citizens.
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OLD FAVORITES
Home
Dora GreenUeIL

Home Dora GreenlUeW
Two birds within one nest;
Two hearts within one breast;
Two spirits in one fair,
Firm league Of love and prayer,
Together bound for aye, together blest.
An that waits to catch
hand upon the latch
step that hastens it's sweet rest to win;
world of without
world Of strife shut out
world of love shut in.
ReGders ved to send to the editor their Sugges-
tions of the fcVorites among the poems for reprntig in
this spGce) >. ..'-
Evening star., 1936-05-07
After Da ark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places.
BY the Spectator.
Trade Mark Registered. q. O Patent once

if you're not in on the opening Of
the roof, don't say you weren't warned
The party Matt tossed to open
his Volga Boatman last Fall still is
the talk of every one who was there
"a. The roof is being done over into
an outdoor version of the club down.
stairs is to have new wood
dance floor and. if it rains you
can always run down flight of stairs
and continue your party =.
." The weeks unique dinner
party took place at the Madrillon .
where DR.. and Mrs. Lewis honored
famed orthopedic surgeon, DR.. Albee
. . with the guest list including
Senor Najera, the Mexican Ambassa-
dor and Sonora Najera, Charge
d'Affairs and Sonora Fombona- Pa
chano of Venezuela, DR.. and Mrs.
Cajigas and when coffee time
came the men left heard DR..
Albee lecture. saw him perform an
actual operation demonstrating the
Albee technique for treating joint all
ments returned to the dinner
table and the Madrillon festivities
There's no doubt about it
this time . Summer really is here
The authority is Josephine, Mary
land Club Gardens pet chimp
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. rook e

BROOKE
Johns Old Barn opened Tuesday
night dancing until 2 E.
And next week therell be the new
Cocoanut Grove at Fifth and K
streets air-cooled, decorated in
the tropical garden manner, featur-
ing 14-piece orchestra and dinner
and supper shows The new
handsome brunette who greets you
and grabs your hat at the Hi-Hat
is Ethel Lee, who halls from the
State of Washington and who danced
in Joe Cooks Rain or Shine" q.
Ha-Cha Gardner is back in Frederick
preparing to open his famed
Ha-Cha Club come May IA . Jerry,
the English bulldog who barks time
occasionally for Dave McWilliams'
Glen Echo Orchestra. is on the in
disposed list still unrecovered
from a trip to a dog dentist, who
plucked two of his molars but
without novocaine, which made Jerry
no end unhappy . Mil Christopher
is teaching the DiGitanos how to
pull red thimbles out of nowhere. so
they can use the trick in new dance
routine ...
Evening star., 1936-05-07

Harris Orchestra supplies the dance
music and there are floor revues every
night. Before long you can sit out
on the terrace by a cool, green SWIM
ming pool.
Wardman Park H0tel--Jimmy SAINT
meyer and his orchestra are present
In the dragon room every night to
supply suave dance rhythms.
LOtus-The new revue has the La
Fons, held over to do their clever
adagio, Don and Jean, doing bright
musical comedy and tap routines;
Judy Ellington, singing about "The
Touch Of Your Hand" and other
things; Grace Orlando, in acrobatic
dances, and Lenore Thall In a toe
fantasy. AL Norton is the master
Of ceremonies of course, and Bill
Strickland's Capitolians make the
music.
La Fayette Hotel-The. Checker
Twins entertain every afternoon and
evening in the checkerboard room
and one Of the features of the spot
is entertaining yourself by playing
checkers. It's not only approved BY
the management, but encouraged.
+ 4 X
Club Carlton-Music by a Johr
Slaughter ensemble, an enjoyable anc
intimate atmosphere and the trickiest
bar hereabouts contribute to youl
pleasure here.
4 II n II
Hamilton H0teI-Moe Baer and hi
Orchestra, with Russ Cullen singing
and Sammy Marks making the piano
behave, now provide the dance music
in the air-cooled and pleasant rain.
bow room.
Brooke Johns Old Barn-There 1
dancing every night until 2 am, with
Brooke Johns himself acting as master
of ceremonies and general overseel
of the fun. The fame of last year.
fried chicken still fingers.
f X
Griffith Farms-Music by Raymond
Evening star., 1936-05-07

and his Hawaiians provides the back
ground for enjoyment OF the COM
petent chefs masterpieces. ~
+
La Paree-The new revue Is head
lined by Elmer Days Dancing Deb
utantes and the stars are Maria and
Hall, dancing . repeat engagement;
Martinelli and his magic, and Hughie
O'Donnell, master of ceremonies.
Marie Fowler Is the featured singer
with Emory Daugherty's Orchestra.
\
Log Cabin Inn-The Log Cabin Inn
Orchestra plays every night for
dancing at this pleasant suburban
spot out Georgia avenue (extended)
n n y
Lord Calvert Inn-This Is new,
located just a quarter of q mile this
side of Maryland University. There's
dancing every night from 10 pm.
until am.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
numerologist, entertains in the coe
tail lounge.

numerologist, entertains In the cock
tail lounge.
Club Habana-Maurice and Susan
do tap and acrobatic dances and Toma
Genero does extraordinary gypsy rou-
tines to provide the nightly entertain
ments. Guy Scott himself leads the
orchestra and there are songs by Gin
ger Lee.
Club Troika-Karavaeh dances and
acts as master of ceremonies, Marusia
Sava sings and Claudia Kapilova does
acrobatic dances as the features Of the
two gypsy floor revues every night.
Music is by Sasha Bartnovsky's Or
chestra and the atmosphere is gay
and Russian.
X Il Il n
Mayfiower Hotel-The cooling sys-
TENS been turned on so Summer now
has been officially recognized. Music
for dancing-afternoons until z and
evenings after 10-is by Sidney's Or
chestra, with songs by Sid Cowen and
Buddy Harmon.
II
Raleigh Hotel-This intimate rem
devious, opened just few weeks ago
on the site of the famous old Raleigh
Bar, has gained immense popularity
as a meeting place with Government
officials, newspaper folk and sundry
nthore uyhn httciaoxc falYae than
down the avenue. The atmosphere is
pleasant and informal.
Club V0lga Boatman-A gala Rus
sian revue is presented twice nightly
as Matt Windsor's popular spot nears
the end of its season and prepares
to flee to the cool roof. Dunia and
Kola, international dancers; Lapuchin
and Kunouffskawa. comedy team;
Anna Sablukova, Vladimir Diloff and
Matt himself are the leading per-
formers.
Hi-Hat Lounge-Popular Kitty
Simons, the singing cigarette girl"
steps up to the mike" every half
hour or SO to sing, and there's en-
tertainment all through the evening
by the Paradise Islanders, who can
answer any request. II you want to
sing yourself, it's condoned here.
MadriIIOn-Leon Brusiloff'S OrcheS-
ira plays for nightly dancing and there
are floor shows at $50 pm. and
midnight. Drummer Jimmy Bumps"
Bright sings all sorts of songs to
add to the entertainment. Arsenic
Evening star., 1936-05-07
DRAMA PROGRAM OPENS
Center Department Begins Series
Tonight.

The Community Center Department
will open its series Of neighborhood
dance and drama programs at 8 o'clock
tonight in Hine Junior High School
Auditorium, when group Of boys and
girls under direction of Mrs. Thelma
Graft presents Dickson Goes to the
Fair" which won the Drama Leagues
play contest several years ago.
Sponsoring the juvenile actors are
the Southeast Center and the Wallach
Parent Teacher Association.
Tomorrow the Bella Chotin Com
munity Dance Group will present three
dances in the Buchanan Auditorium
as part of an entertainment program
arranged for 7:30 pm. by the Bu-
chanau Parent t-Teacher Association.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
GREEK ROMANCE TOPIC

Discussions of Greek romance fea-
tured the meeting of the Columbia
Delphian Society at Woodward &
Lothrops store yesterday.
Mrs. George M. Norris, president
delivered the Introductory comment
Mrs. William r. Nairn acted as leader
and reported on Greek Romances."
Others on the program were Mrs.
M. K. Campbell. Mrs. A. r. Horn,
Mrs. Maude E. Thatcher, Mrs. H. B.
Linton, Mrs. Knute Bjorka and Mrs.
Roy G. Miller,
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u u tlic " d Z n
stairs curly
haired, smiling,
dinner -jacketed,
tiptoed to the
table next Sena-
tor Capper's &.
F or e " arm e d
Sasha Bartnov-
sky tossed the
band into the
di d oes of a
b r / 6 hit dance
tune b u t
failed to distract
a t t e n t | o n
a lass at the
ringside had seen
Evening star., 1936-05-07

who, after refus-
ing to believe
Winter was over
until S h e had
watched five days
while luncheon
guests basked in
the sun. finally
roared her warm
weather-r
dashed out into
the open .
Evening star., 1936-05-07

Ralon and his concert ensemble play
for luncheon and early dinner.
y
Observation-Disclosures Christopher
youngest member Of the magicians'
society, mystifies the cash customers
with card tricks and other bits OF
legerdemain and if you think of the
day you were born he can tell you
what it is. Other diversion is by
Singer Roy Kiser and Pianist Jack
Campbell.
Evening star., 1936-05-07

~LUB TROIKA discovered, the
Il other night, just what fame
is 1t was the dinner
~ ~ hour &. Diplomats, solons
: and a local judge were sprinkled
about the room, Senator Capper sat
at the ringside entertaining two sisters
from Chicago, nearby a handsome
young Roosevelt quietly and decor
ously feted an unidentified brunette,
all was calm, not one neck was craned
that the owner r1ight get glimpse
of name" But then fame crept
Evening star., 1936-05-07

and Robert Sheehan, baritone. are
featured in the nightly floor shows.
Music is by Barnee and the Maxim
Lowe orchestra. Margaret Arrow,
Evening star., 1936-05-07
Films Go Down Under"

Educational motion picture films
may be introduced into all schools Of
New Zealand.