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Parking Lot Licenses

The licensing system for automobile parking lots pro-
posed to the District Commissioners by the District
License Committee is clearly in the interest of automobile
operators.
It is step which should have been taken when this
venence to motorists first made its appearance but which
certainly should be taken without further delay for the
benefit of both the and operators Of the lots
The utter lack of regulation of the lots up to has
resulted in harm to those who have srven to conduct
their business in honest and conscientious manner and
has worked the benefit of those who have engaged in
the industry in chiseling and "flyby ght' manner
The license committee headed by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Edward W. Thomas the problem clearly and
in its recommendations suggests solution of the most
important phases.
The committee would charge license fees which seem
almost nominal considering the value of the property
placed in the custody of the lots each day.
1t obviously believes that the lots are serving a
useful public purpose in affOrding Offstreet park
ing for large numbers of automobiles and it does
license fees Which might force an increase in park
ina charges.
Imposition of the license requirement. however would
the very desirable purpose of bringing the lots under
a measure of control and regulation.
It would be possible danger of the operators losing
his License to require him to treat the entrusted
him with proper and to meet judgments which might
be returned against him for damages resulting from lack
of such
LIKEWISE REGULATIONS WOULD PROVIDE
THAT CARS PARKED ON THE LOT MUST BE KEPT
ON THE LOT AND NOT SHUNTED INTO THE
STREETS TO COMPLICATE FURTHER THE PROB
LEM WHICH THE LOTS ARE DESIGNED TO SIM
Pity.
The proposed license system deserves the speedy
sderaon of the Commissioners and enactment with what
amendments may be necessary. N
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TOday's BOOndOggle

In return for all that the Federal government mas zone m
+b tho animals and birds at Puebos City Park sup
posed of to spend the daylight hours amusing and
entertaining the idle public with their antics but the VIA Is
ednlonsv careful of it's animals of it's laborers
Neither must be overworked
Therefore it appeared essential to provide some other form
of entertainment the popuace during those Sar hours
when animals must have their beauty sleep and to this end
the WPA is spending $75O to remodel the dance pavilion
in the park ~ -. ], o 1d
As part of this project the PWA will also 90 some lanu
oonn and General Identification work of unknown extent
and finally will indulge in modcum of erosion peventon
presumably the theory that would be rreparaoe loss
o humanity should the wind and the rain in the course OF
time DESTROY this mion-oar monument to which the
thoughtful taxpayer may repair in future years and conte
plate tho governmental folles Of the age.
lev
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tive about it, but they probably
have an old map and a peg-leg
sailor to guide them to the spot.
Somehow, if Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer had worked up a
corporation to get the gold out
from under Injun Joe'S cave, 1t
would have spoiled the story. One
thinks of treasure hunting as a
highly personalized business, but
the fact is that during the rise
of corporate business, there have
been hundreds of companies
formed and financed to hunt for
treasure in Sunken ships or tropl-
cal islands.
Some of them have started on
clues which sound like something
by Robert Louis Stevenson or
Edgar Allan Poe, and tight-tlsteo,
cautious financierS have backed
them as boldly as any routine bus
mess enterprise.
Simon Lake, pioneer in the de-
velopment of the submarine, mad
no trouble in injecting Wall Street
with the excitement Of his under
sea treasure hunts. Mr.. Lake
delved into ancient records until
he knew as much or more about
Davy Jones locker than any other
living man. His submarines Tor
scouting deep-sea treasure were
marvels of effectiveness. Here
was a game more exciting than
yachting or polo at which only
rich men could play. They backed
Mr., Lake and the treasure hunts
have proceeded.
SEARCH WIDENS
So far, no pieces of eight have
been brought up, but the search
widens to the vast stores OF go4o
sunk in the World War, and year
by year some merchantmen goes
down with a gold or silver hoard,
again to stimulate Huck Finn ana
Tom Sawyer, Inc.
Some of these Incorporated
treasure hunters do succeed, In
1928, they got $2,OOO,0OO from the
Belgian steamship ElizabethVllle'
sunk by a submarine off Belle
Isle, off the coast of France IN
1917. In 1923, they brought up
$40 ,OOO,O 900 from the Laurentic.
Sometimes, in this search Tor
sunken or buried treasure, there
is a startling contact Of the old
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Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLGnd
AMONG THOSE PRESENT.

Tstart battling, the wisest thing for
the Innocent or not7so-lnnocent
Bystander to do Is to sprint for
the great open spaces. Because,
when the battle reaches the court
room, there are going to be a lot
of stray shots; and neither Of the
chief belligerents is going to care
WHO gets hit, just so the case Is
won.
Gangster warfare is almost gen.
tie and humane beside a legal
battle between a determined man
and an incensed woman, who
once vowed to love, honor and
cherish each other.
Married RomeoS and married
Juliets who are suffering from dis
appointment and establishment
may appeal to the sympathy Of
women and the protective instinct
of men. Besides, while they are
in that mood, they are usually i'm
questionable and very easy pick
ing. But they are about the poor.
est speculations in the loVe-game
and the biggest hazards.
A love affair with a disgruntled
wife or a disappointed husband
may seem intriguing and glamor-
Gus because it is adventurous. But
there are enough hazards, long
shots and Sandtraps in a simple,
legitimate romance, without pur-
posely driving out of bounds.
In the average courtroom bat
/ tie, some people Sympathize with
the wife and some with the huS-
band. But the real sufferer, who
needs sympathy, is the Innocent
Bystander, who finds himself
among those present" when the
cross-questioning begins.
If you MUST have adventure
and danger, go to Spain, where
they are saying it with bullets
not with SubpoenaS!
Copyright. 1896, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

man and that nasty little boy
both riding on that poor little
burrO.' So when they got out
of that village they got off and
led the burro.
"In the next village the PEG
pie said: Look at those two fools
walking along there and leading
that burro.' So, when they got
out of that village they picked
up the burrO and started to
carry it.
"And the people in the last
village said: OF all things, look
at those double. dashed fools
carrying that burrO.'
"And that's just what 1 mean
about politics today. You can't
please everyone"
Having thus revealed just what
kind of stories he is going to tell
in his campaign speeches down in
his home State next month, the
Senator turned to more personal
things and gave glowing descrip-
ton of his holdup in Mexico.
TOOK HIS MONEY
at was a very interesting ex.
perience," he said. ut might
have happened anywhere in the
world. The bandits were the
most cOmplacent looking indi.
vidualS / have ever seen. Their
leader was a very nice looking,
pleasant person, but he had a
very vicious pair of brown eyes.
"They stopped about 10 cars
by building a barricade on the
road with bOuIders. Everyone
of them had rifles and re-
vOlvers. 1t would have been
foolish for me, even if / had
had a gun to offer resistance.
They marched up the line of
cars and while one of them held
a rifle pointed at the car, an
other held out his hands and
made a motion for us to shell
out. They couldn't speak Eng
liSh, but we knew what they
meant.
ut wasn't very distressing.
Why, if that had happened in
Chicago, they would have shot
us all dead as we'll as robbed us,
don't you know. They took my
watch, my daughters diamond
ring and $27O.
"The governor Of the state
and the foreign minister apollo
gized very prOfusely because
they want to get as much Of
that five million dollars that
American tourists are spending
each year as they can. And
they will get it,"
ATTRACTS TOURISTS
Later Senator Reynolds ex.
planned that he did not mean that
the Mexicans would get it the
way the bandits got his $270 but
that the country just south Of
ours offers a tourist as much to
see in a week as he would see If
he travelled in Europe for five
years.
So, why should his nice, quiet
office hold any terrorS for him,
humidity or no humidity.
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l1CCle TO COnCrOl us tangled OppOT'
tunitieS very little to protect
yourself against its stupidity and
brutality. But you can do very
much with your inner, personal
life; with your own thoughts and
emotions. Over that life, you
have boundleSS control.
In spite Of your best efforts,
your machine age life may turn
out to be a shabby affair. And
even if you "Succeed"-even if you
accumulate wealth and influence
it will still seem unreal, dream
like. But you can go as far as you
wish, live as abundantly as you
wish, in your personal life, which
always has and always will seem
more near and real to you than
any other existence.
Gas a man thinketh in his
heart, SO is he" Keep thy
heart with all diligence, for out
of it are the issues of life"
These are not religious texts
they are eternal truths. AS you
think in your heart" so are you
shabby or rich, dignified or ridicu
lous, hateful or beloved. LICKED
OR TRIUMPHANT!
THE ONLY PEACE
You are what you make yourself
in your inner life. You are not
made" by bank books or social
registers. You are made by your
own thoughts and emotions -
your own fear or faith, love Of
hate, determination or sluggish
ness, pride or surrender.
That inner life is your own
and it is the only thing which is
your own. You do not really own
anything on earth, but your own
thoughts and feelings. AnC
nothing else really owns you!
Other people or conditions may
help or betray you, but the only
thing can really MAKE or BREAK
you is YOUR OWN MIND.
You have felt frustrated by the
chaos outside you, embittered anc
bewildered. You have said. otter
justly, whats the use Of trying?
The breaks are all against you!
But all the while you have been
living another life where the
breaks weren't against you
where you might walk in beauty
clothe yourself in dignity, carry
power as a sword.
Stop worrying about the injus
tees and stupidity of a mad anC
muddled machineage world over
which you have no control. Begir
to concentrate on that inner
REAL life which you oWn-whict
owns you.
Begin looking for success in the
only place where you may be sure
of it, where it really counts-IN
THE LIFE OF YOUR OWN
SPIRIT.
(COpvriSht, a0aG. By King Features
Syndicate TNs.S
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It must be something of a
shock to the correspondents named
in a big divorce case to discover
that they are only "one of a
crowd"
It is bad enough to be front
page news in somebody's divorce
suit; but to be listed only as
among those present" must be
positively face-reddening.
There is just one thing that
few men ond NO women can
Standard that is the humiliat-
ing discovery that, instead of be-
ing the bright particular star OF
somebody's romantic affections,
he or she was merely one Of the
footlightS.
And yet, it is hard to under
stand why they are always so
surprised to find themselves
classified as only a part Of the
"evidence"-Exhibit A, B or c, as
the case may be. When a woman
lets herself in for a hectic
romance or even for only a little
filtration with a married Romeo,
she should realize that she is
betting on an awfully long shot
that, with him, making love to
an attractive woman is probably
automatic; and that he is merely
looking for distraction and fill
ing in his spare time, while he
fights it out with the Little
Woman at home.
And a man who lets himself
fall head over heels for another
mans legal mate should have the
common sense to perceive that
while he MAY be her One Big
Romance, the testimony may
show that he was merely one OF
the consolation prizes or a tenn,
porary balm to her wounded
vanity.
When a husband and wife
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time holds no SEM hoDt' heShoios
terrors for him. Other members
of Congress might think Wash
ington is no place to be once the
Vice President and the Speaker
have slapped their gavelS at the
end of a session but says the
blonde orator:
I'm here because the climate
is so pleasant and l have some
work to do for my constituents.
Washington may be hot but
it is lot more comfortable here
than it is where 1 was a while
back. For instance, in Hot
Springs, Ark, or Mexico"
Having thus with one short
phrase slain the bugaboo of hui
Nudity and temperature, the world
traveller discoursed at length, as
is his wont, on politics, work, and
traVel-mostly politics.
VERY PECULIAR
To Senator Reynolds there is
no doubt that President Roose,
welt will be elected, although he
admitted with smile that poll
tics today are very peculiar.
"OId AesOp had the right
idea" the Senator declared.
you can't please everyone.
You know the old story about
the burro, the old man and the
boy.
"In Latin countries everyone
goes to the market one day a
week. One time an old man and
a boy started out to market
with their burrO. AS they went
through the first village, the old
man was riding the burrO.
"PeOpIe in the village said,
Look at that mean old man
riding that burrO with that lit
tie boy walking behind So just
as soon as they got out of the
village the man got off the
burro and let the boy ride.
"When they passed through
the next village the people said:
Look at that nasty little boy
riding that burrO and letting
that poor old man walk behind
When they got out of that vii
lage both of them got on the
burrO.
"PeOple in the next village
said: Look at that mean old
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A FOOLS Paradise

Government, Like Individual
Cannot Live Beyond Income
"The Government has no money except the
money it gets from US.
"The Government, like the rest of US, should not
get the habit of spending more than it receives.
"The present Administration seems to hare en-
tireLy dlSregarded this principle.
at is paying half OF the oils NTH borrowed
money. Tine ruth is are living in a fools
ParaGiSe-far beyond our income
eve all knOIU this cannot continue indefinitely,
because haze knOUn persons COhO haze tried it.
I'VE hare seen them go along for UhiLe with
apparent ease, buying first one thing and then
another Which they could not Afford
"And then LUe hare them lUInd up on the
rocks
"Whenever a government continues to live be-
yOnd It's income, Ut will suffer the same fate.
"FOr IUfiLe there will seem to be no end to the
money Which the Government can spend.
"But in due time the day of reckoning must
come.
"Someone, some time, will haze to pay the biH."
From Governor Alfred W. LandonS speech at Buffalo,
August 26, 1886
Governor Landon has never professed to know much
about oratory. But anybody who listens to him soon
learns that he knows PLENTY about arithmetic.
He knows, for example, that if you make twenty dol
lars week and spend forty dollars week, you go
broke.
He knows also that if government "makes" five
thousand million dollars year and spends ten thousand
million dollars year, 1T goes broke
Individuals can borrow for time, but they cannot
borrow forever.
Governments can borrow for time, but they cannot
borrow forever.
Some time, somehow, somebody must pay the bill.
And the Governments BILL Governor Landon points
out, is YOUR bill.
The only money the Government has is YOUR money
The only money the Government borrow is YOUR
money.
The national income is YOUR income.
The national debt is YOUR debt
You, therefore, have direct interest in seeing that
your money is not WASTED by the Government that
your debt is not INCREASED by the Government, that
your credit is not SHATTERED by the Government.
All quite simple Governor Landon said nothing very
in his speech at Buffalo He merely repeated what
all intelligent persons KNOW.
speech of that sort will never get the speaker
tract as a radio crooner. It lacks appeal.
But it the useful purpose Of reminding the
ton that minus do NOT make T. in spite of the Raw
Deals theory that they DO.
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it would do you no good. For life
is in such swiftly changing con
fusion that the rules which work
today will not work tomorrow
That is why there is so much dis
couragement and despair.
No one really understands this
world which we have made for
ourselves. No one can make any
rules which will stick.
I cannot tell you how to live
this muddled life. No one can
tell you. But I can tell you one
thing which is sure-one fact to
which you can tie-one truth
which will solve all the other
puzzles for you, if you will accept
it. And that is this
YOU HAVE ANOTHER LIFE.
I do not mean by that life after
DEATH" Nor do I mean some
mystic realm of spiritual expert
ence into which you may watt
yourself by following certain
rituals. Rituals do not appeal tc
me and, as waiter, I'm sure I'd
be a complete flop. So I mean
simply and practically just what
imply when I say
YOU HAVE ANOTHER LIFE.
NOT THE WHOLE
You are dismayed and dis
couraged at present because you
think of only one existence when
YOU say "life." You think of that
obvious round Of activities which
the world sees-the dreary rou
tine between work-place and home
which seems to be giving you sc
little. But that is not the whole
of your life. 1t is only the stage
drop.
Actually you are living TWO
lives. One is this muddled outer
existence, an existence that always
seems to you like vague. dis
orderly dream. And is! The other
is the purely private existence
which goes on within your oWr
consciousness life composed Of
your own thoughts and emotions
That is your REAL life. That il
the life that counts-for you anc
everyone else.
You can do very little about th'
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S a l v a g e and
Engi n e eri n g
Corporation, II
Battery Pl., New
York, pipes all
hands to man
the old wind.
a m m er, the
Constellat i o n,
to search fol-
$1,000 in sill.
yer, supposedly
lost with the
sinking Of a
British trans.
port, in the Rev.
dictionary War,
THEY'RE SeCre-
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill

ltions of the gilded new world. For
years they had been building up
secret cache, which they intended
some day to deliver to the crown.
Barely escaping with their lives,
they put on record the story OF
their gold horde, but with no
specific details as to it's location.
Long after the death of all the
monks, there we're found docu-
ments more definitely placing the
treasure. Down into modern
times, one expedition after an
other, some of them organized and
financed by the government, ira
yersed the forbidding mountain
and jungle region, only to meet
tragic misfortune and disaster.
Some of the leading archaeolo-
gists of Bolivia certified the
genuineness of the ancient docu-
ments, as did the British Museum.
In 1920, an official expedition was
organized, including biologists
and other scientists. Experiencing
terrible hardShips, they penetrated
to the site of the old monastery.
They opened a huge tunnel OF
masonry walls. as their frag-
mentary clues had indicated. They
followed it through winding,
cavernous depths to a stark,
blank, forbidding wall OF huge
stones. In the flare of their
torches, they saw what appeared
to be an undecipherable lnScrlp-
ton. They cleared away the en-
crusted dirt and read:
"a dOlOrOuS death in this
world awaits the one who dares
to enter this place and in the
world where he goes eternal
damnation."
Workmen dropped their picks
and shrank back as the words were
read aloud by the leader OF the ex-
petition. Every man backed out
of the tunnel. None could be in
duced to Renter. Several OF the
scientists were willing to brave the
warning.
There was every reason to be-
lieve that $60,000,000 lay on the
other side of those stones. But
they alone could not move them.
Their workmen already were in
retreat.
FLINDERS KEEPERS"
When the expedition returned,
the story had flared out in fan
tastic tales of a ghostly hand re-
polling the invaders, Of a deep,
solemn voice of warning coming
from the cavern, all fables but
creating fear which somehow
seemed to infect the scientists
and government officials, How
ever, another expedition was
forming a few months ago. 1t
will be interesting to see what
comes of it. ,
Probably the only authenticated
story of the finding of buried
treasure through a dream has to
do with some of Captain Kids
gold doubloons dug up on JEWELS
Island, in Casco Bay, Maine, IN
1908.
Some boys, camping on the
island, owned by Farmer Hackett,
were told by one of their number
he had dreamed of the buried
gold. The dream was vivid and the
treasure was definitely located.
They found it where he said it
would be.
The farmer contested their
right to the gold and the case
gained celebrity in the law courts
Weeks VS.. Hackett-and is one
of the legal bulwarks Of the
| thousands of treasure hunters
incorporated and unincorporated,
who assert the flinders keepers"
principle Of law. The boys got
the gold.
Copyright, 1884. hy King Features
SyndtcaSa InS.D
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you live this life
happily, success
fully?
I don't know
how to live it
myself. I have
been successful
in spots. Hap
py-in SnatcheS.
Butt have never
known how to
make that lie
perm ane n t ! y
pleasantor prof
table.
And even if I
collld tell Vol.
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and new worlds, notably in a long
continued search for buried treas
ure in Bolivia. The Bolivian gov
eminent and half-dozen corpora
lions have sought this lost $50, 000,-
900 each time to be stayed by a
spectral hand from lost century.
Here is one tale of treasure trove
which has been accredited by
archaeologists, historians and gov
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him on matters
of State-most-
ly to ask for a
10 b Senator
Robert R. Rey-
holds, CD Of
North Carolina,
sat behind his
d e S k in t h e
Senate Office
B uild ing APP
parently u n a
ware that he
was breaking a
precedent.
The Capitol
in the summer
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Money Is Forthcoming To Back Numerous
Treasure-Hunting Expeditions

officials, and it is doubt
less today the most alluring gold
cache in the world, for those in
clined to such ventures. The search
has been going on since 1778.
In 1885, the monks of the Jesuit
monastery of Plazuela were hard
pressed by the Indians, who had
been placering and mining gold
for them in one of the richest sec
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Wise Words

Hard and hard do not make a
wall ii. e., there must be COM
bining soft substance such as
mortar) Medieval proTerb.
Thought once awakened does
not again slumber.-Carlyle.
Friendship requires actions
Richter.
The myrtle that grows among
tlaorns b q myrtle still.-TalmUd
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
YOU HAVE ANOTHER LIFE

How can you live life-thiS
strange, complicated, fiercely de-
handing modern life? How can
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HAS SEEN WORSE

With fifteen men, women and
boys outside in his reception
room waiting a chance to see
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Corporations may have noe
souls, but they have romantic
Imagination The Empire Marine