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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-16
Page Sentence
FIabbergaStS
Sen. Bailey
international News Service

Government attorneys who use
long and involved sentences in
drawing up bills to be presented
to Congress were given a verbal
spanking yesterday by Senator
Bailey CD of North Carolina, an
attorney himself.
Bailey, a member of a subCom-
mittee of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, holding hearings on a pro-
posed bill tightening up liquor tax
alton, was reading the bill in the
committee when he came to a 300
word sentence. He stopped alb
ruptly and turning to Senator
King Cd of Utah, chairman,
said:
why don't the fellows who
write these bills write EN- so
people can understand 'em?
Here's one sentence over a page
long and, reading it over, l can't
understand it and don't know
whether its language would
hang on me or not"
C. M. Hester of the FAA, agreed
to break the long sentence up into
little ones.
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u. ). Sanctions Stand
Lduded by Il DuCe

ROME. Jan. 16 G.N.SO Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini's own news
paper, the Popolo d'Italia of
Milan, yesterday published an
article praising the American
people for their refusal to partici-
pate in Geneva intrigue"
The paper said the American
people realized the policy Of sane
tions is correlated" to European
imperialism, and that by taking
part in League of Nations would
be drawn into this imperialism Ito
their own damage"
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AVOID LEVEL
OF FARLEY,
COP. TOLD

An admonition to Republican
campaigners against sinking to
the level" of Postmaster General
Farley in "invective," was issued
jointly yesterday by Representa-
tives Bolton of Ohio and Bacon
of New York, chairman and vice
chairman of the Republican ma
tional congressional committee.
They raped the anti-New Deal
cartoon posters issued by the Ma
tional Council of New York, de-
claring there il no connection be-
tween that organization and
theirs. The statement said no
reputable" Republican organiza-
ton would countenance the use Of
the stamps and added:
"There is no need for any
Republican anywhere, individual
or organization, to have re-
course to this manner Of cam
paigning. There is no call for
any Republican to even attempt
to sink to the level Of present
ing issues to an intelligent
electorate as that where James
A. Farley, Democratic national
committee chairman, now Is
found.
Republicans will not resort
to the invective of Mr.. Farley.
They will not lend aid to Mr..
Farley in what he has prOpheSied
will be the 'dirtiest' possible
campaign.
"Facts, devastatingly con-
vincing of the utter failure of
the Roosevelt New Deal are
Republican weapons.
They are the only weapons
needed to insure Republican sue
cess, the statement said.
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Confers With Roosevelt

William C. Bullitt. ambassador
to Soviet Russia, discussed foreign
affairs with President Roosevelt
yesterday. He said he would leave
to return to his Moscow post
January %.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-16

In the tobacco buying season
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
buyers will be found at IS mar
kets where the Bright type of
tobacco is sold, and 46 markets
where Burley and other types of
tobacco are sold.
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Daily COnstitutiOnals
BIZ Max Berns

courts (Which then included Su-
preme Court iustices) objected
and the Circuit Court of Penn
sylvania wrote to Washington
saying:
I'VE have been unanimously of
opinion. that under this act, the
(federaD Circuit Court. could
not proceed. because the bust
ness directed by this act is not
of a judicial nature. It forms
no part of the power vested by
the Constitution in the courts. =.
The Circuit Court must conse-
quently have proceeded without
constitutional authority"
Washington and various mem
berS of that Congress had been
delegates to the convention which
drafted our Constitution. They
know the power our Constitution
gives to our courts to declare an
act unconstitutional. Congress
accepted the courts opinion and
changed the law.
TOMORROW: WHEN TWO LAWS
CLASSIFY
Copyright. 1896. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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ing or adventurous opening.
The trip of the Hindenburg, Co
1nciding with the third Interna-
tional Philatelic Exposition, stirred
the stamp collectors to new pitch
of eager interest, as does any new
transport whereby stamps might
be carried. Already these devoteeS
of little pink-and-blue-paper SYM
bolS are looking ahead to the day
when the first mail-carrying rocket
kicks its way through the strato-
sphere to Paris, in an hour or two.
A happy landing will cascade for
tunes for the stamp owners.
Stamp collecting has been swift
ly on the upgrade during the last
year or two. Harold L. IckeS, Sec
rotary of the Interior, has lauded
postage stamps as promoting
"civilization, peace, harmony and
conversation Of mental and spirit
ual resources"
Every once in a while some
eminent educator dwells on the
educational value of stamp collect
ing and says when lad takes to
it in early years, it is a sure sign
Of superior intelligence.
Two years ago James Waldo
Fawcett, addressing the American
Philatelic Society, put it into
winged words:
"In stamps, the dead who
cannot die, have immortality
great kings and mighty cap
tainS, martyred saints and Sages,
poets and philosophers, teachers,
leaders, mentors and guides pass
in long review in a pageant of
homage, paid by millions
through the glObe-encircling
past"
Symbols, particularly colored
pictorial symbols, always are bet
ter human attention-getters than
a syllogism or precept.
VALUABLE STAMPS
Although postage stamps have
been in existence less than 100
years, they have engaged the in
tent interest of millions of persons,
from those regal personageS Of the
above apoStrophe down to dream
ing boys, spending hay-loft hours
working over their treasured col
lections. The late King George
was an Unsuitable stamp collector,
having one of the best collections
of the world. His interest in
creased as he grew older.
1 His couriers ransacked the
Empire for two or three missing
specimens. He would have liked
to get those two Mauretius
stamps owned by Arthur Hind
of Utica, N. Y. Mr.. Kinds col
lection is considered possibly the
most valuable in the world. For
the two Mauretius stamps, a
one-cent and a two-cent, Mr..
Hind paid $55,O0O.
In the early 1840's, the wife
of the governor of the tiny
British-owned island in the
Indian ocean was giving a party.
Postage stamps were just then
coming into use. Mauretius had
none. The governors wife had
an engraver make some for the
invitations to her soiree, to give
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loathe and deSpise, it's The
Meek.
Why anyone with an ounce OF
red blood in his viens, or a kilo-
watt of Wallop in his fists, should
be meek, is something passing my
comprehension.
I admit my record is far from be-
ing studded with pretty gold stars.
But just the fact that I was born
human has filled me with enough
fire and pride to keep my nose high
all my days. So meekneSS has al
ways seemed to me not only down.
right yellow but a sellout on the
One who made us all and told US
to strut His stuff.
1.-THE meek shall inherit the
earth" Well, maybe; but person
ally I never get anything by being
meek except a kick on my shinS
and a cut in my sa1ary-and a
Bronx cheer. Nor have ever seen
any other meek inherit" anything
except a sock in the jaw. Which
I usually wish I had delivered my
self.
This being so, that particular
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Pr Frank Miller Smith
~ Frank Miller Smith

ans. The U. S. Army had been
sent to protect them.
In this report of Major James
Seagram to the Governor of Geor-
gia, May Is, 1894, and a subsequent
report by DR.. Frederick Dalcho,
surgeons mate. the whole story is
told and it's better than any West
erner.
DR.. Dalcho reported a talk with
a militia major:
THAT I was told that he was
one of the party who are now
here and that he was determined
not to return until the whole of
them were killed. That he would
advance to the mouth of the can
non and take him from the fort,
if he was able to do it,"
And in conclusion:
"JuSt before left them Major
Adams swOre he would have hair
before tomorrow night"
The Washington times., 1936-05-26
LIMITING CHAIR"

You may have noticed that every
once in a while in the Big Show
when they try to issue orders on
how to run the concessions in the
48 States that the ruckus begins.
Ralph c. Faulkner, busy in the
cellar under the Senate midway
restoring the old documents, ran
across an example of how they
did it in the old days.
It seemed that the Wild West
shows weren't as peaceful in those
days as they are now. They didn't
shoot blanks. And, according to
this aged document in script, the
U. S. Army often found the State
Militia as sore at them as they
were at the Indians.
According to two reports now
being bound for preservation in
the Archives, a band of Indians
had turned over to the U. S. Army
a wounded Indian suspected of
being a member of a tribe that
had killed a militiaman. The
militia set out to kill all the Indi-
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ACKNOWLEDGED

INSTRUMENTATION b ct we e n
the company members appearing
in the Senate and House rings
sometimes smacks of just a. tinge
of shall we say vitriol?
One member sent the other a
long letter about bill now in
conference between the two
Houses. Among other things he
suggested he might go down in
the other members State and
tell on him.
The member to whom the let
ter was addressed turned it over
to his secretary, who wrote a
one-sentence reply, which she
signed. It went something like
this:
Dear Sir: Your letter re-
ceived in the morning mail and
it has been placed on the Sena-
tors desk for his attention"
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By Nelson Harding


it was right-then I wasn't. For
here was I, believing in pride and
a good punching technique-and
what had these red-hot attributes
to do with meekness? Exactly
nothing. Weakness, as I saw it,
was the technique of fishworm.
Which let me out.
DISCARD MEEKNESS
What's more. if you had to be
meek to rate on the preferred list,
either here or hereafter, then
was content to join the discard.
No heaven for me if I had to enter
it crawling on my tummy! Or play
around with other Meekies.
So, though I went my rambunc-
tious way snorting fire, and preach
ing it, I always wondered just
where I'd get off on the Big
Check-up. And had a lot of sink
ing doubts. Then the other day,
as I said before, I read something
that has bucked me up no end.
1t was a discussion of that par
ticular passage. But, according to
the writer, the translation was all
wrong. Christ didn't really say
that the meek should inherit the
earth" Instead, He used a word
for which we have no literal du-
plicate, but which corresponds
roughly to our "debonair"!
The debonair shall inherit the
earth!
The brave, the gay-the light
of heart-the lads and laSsieS who
love life as their Maker intended
they should and rejoice in the
bright flame He set within their
blood-they, at last, shall triumph
over the peevish and dreary, the
coWardly and cruel.
Whoops, my dearies, whatta
thought!
WORTHY CREED
The lads and laSSies who
whistle in the dark and refuse
to let the gripes get them down
the valiant souls who wear a
feather on their caps though
their ankles be Shackled and
their hearts shattered-they, not
the Glum Ones, shall inherit the
earth and march proudly, laugh
ing and singing, into the King
dom of God.
I'm for that a million! For
here, as I see it, is a creed
worthy Of a regular human.
Here's a beatitude worthy of
the stuff of which we're made.
Moreover, it measures up to the
Brave One who voiced it. Meek?
Not He! Never did a warmer,
happier soul roam the salty beach
and sunny fields, upsetting prec-
edent and starting ructions as
He went. Never did a prouder
soul die on a cross-rather than
stoop to meek submission.
"The debonair shall inherit the
earth!"
Go on being meek if you
wanna! But me-I'm going to
whistle through my teeth!
copyright. 1898. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
The Washington times., 1936-05-26
NO EXCEPTION

Senator Carter Glass is a strict
believer in stag party being for
men only.
During the conference on the
District bill a call came in for one
of the Senators on a phone in the
outer office. The lady clerk went
into the inner room to deliver the
message. Senator Glass told her
politely and firmly:
"Get out of here and stay out
of here. I've already started
cuSSing."
A member of the House group
added:
eyes, he's starting to talk my
language now"
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ZeSC IN lie.
R e m e m b er
that particular
ly puzzling say
ing of Christ
1T he m e e k
shall inherit the
earth? Now
snarties a n d
sneererS n o t.
withStanding -
I happen to be-
lieve the say
ings of Christ.
But that verse
always h a d
me stopped. For
if there's any
thipo IN earth
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Human Side of News
Stamp Collecting, An Old Hobby, Gains New
Followers, Grows in Volume
BIZ EdWin C.. Hill

them distinction, rather than to
assure their delivery, as there
were only a few of them and an
official order would have SUI.
feed.
They were rather handsome,
bearing the queens head in pro-
file, and afforded a touch Of
swank and civic pride in the
island. Her ladyShip probably
would have been aStounded if
she could have learned OF their
value nearly a hundred years
later. Mr.. Hind got some of his
most valuable stamps in 1922 at
the Paris auction of the late
Philippe la Renotiere Won Fer.
rari.
Ferrari died in Lausanne in
1917, and the French govern.
ment Sequestered the collection.
That was a stamp collectors
field day, with the collection
bringing in a total of about
100000. A one-cent British
Guiana stamp of 1856 brought
$4,000 and a two-cent Hawaiian
Island stamp $4,000.
Whatever we do in our little
ephemeral western world seems
to be old stuff to the Chinese.
They had their post organized
5000 years, with systematic mark
ings for merchandise and com.
munications, but they had to fol-
low us in the use of adhesive
stamps. That was in 1865, when
the treaty ports were opened.
The Chinese, however, took to
stamps with grand flourish,
touching up vari-colored issues
with dragons and monsters and
providing fascinating detail Of
ancient design.
ADHESIVE STAMPS
The first adhesive British
stamps appeared May IL, 1910.
They were steel engravings of
the queens head. AS far back
as 1860, one Henry Bishop had
made a small circular design for
the London postoffice with which
to stencil letter covers and the
like, and this system had con-
tinued through colonial days, un-
der our own Benjamin Franklin,
who was Deputy Postmaster Gen.
eral under the Crown.
France started using the ad-
heSive stump at about the same
time as England. The first use
of stamps in this country was
in 1847, with the head Of Frank.
lin on the five-cent stamp and
Washington on the 10-cent. Their
use was not made compulsory
until 1855.
But scarcely were the first
stamps embossed or
Observation-Disclosures the stmap
collectors were busy, with the
same eager, relentless obseSSion
which they now display.
Early in the 'fifties, large col
lectionS were formed and catalogs
listed about 1900 stamps whereas
U44Cy 41OW A1OO GVVSVVVs "a ~
Kline'S STAMP Collectors Man
ual'' was established in 1862 to be
followed soon by the Monthly In
tellinger," devoted to stamp col
lecting.
There are hundreds of societies
of stamp collectors throughout the
world. Lives have been sunk in
the business, and profitably, too,
and there are vast libraries Of
stamp lore.
Just now the Post Office De.
partment is working up a number
of special issues for 1887, honoring
art, science and literature. have
found stamp collectors Singularly
informed and intent on technical
and historical details of their
stamps, but is it possible that they
are Subconsciously aware Of the
appropriate symbolism of our
civilization which the stamps az
ford?
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Mist HAVE AUTHORITY

What did President Wash
ingOn and Congress do when
the courts found a law uncOn-
StitutiOnaI?
In 1892, Congress passed and
Washington approved a law pro,
viding that Federal circuit courts
examine pension claims OF
soldiers. Several circuit
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

vario us Yep
pelin flights.
DR.. Eckener has
said that his
r o u n d = t h e :
world flight in
1929 would not
have been pos
S i b e without
the funds sup
plied by the
p h ! a t e Ii SITS
obeying h a t
deeply human
urge to head-in
first W h e n
there's any kind
of an interest
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taste of canned
d og food is
now trying to
S ell h i S nui-
Sance value to
the Democrats.
On the way
over to the Big
Dome from his
office, on t h e
S u b W ay rail
road which is
by no means to
be con f u S e d
with the "Old
Mill" at Glen
Echo, this be-
ino q cOntran.
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ton on which Republicans and
Democrats ride together and not
lovers, he spoke about another
speech he was going to make and
said:
at seems to me you Demo
Gratis should contribute to my
campaign SO l wouldn't stick
around here and keep on
bOthering yOu."
The Washington times., 1936-05-26
How Long, How Long?

The untenable position into which Representative
Thomas Blanton has led the House in connection with
the District appropriation bill is becoming obvious to
House leaders just as has been obvious for time
to other impartial observers.
AS an indication of the evaporation of the leaders
with the tactics of the Texan which have deadocked the
bill in conference Speaker Byns has suggested publicly
that the seldom invoked House rule providing for taking
bill away from conferee may be brought to bear in
order to save the local supply measure.
President Roosevelt even has let it be known that Mr.
Blanton has forced the House into position with which
he disagrees particularly to the amount the Federal
Government should pay for the maintenance of the Ma
tional Capital
FURTHER, THE PRESIDENT HAS SHOWN THAT
HE DOES NOT INTEND THAT REGARDLESS OF
THE ANTICS OF THE GENTLEMAN FROM ABB
LENE THE CONGRESS SHALL LEAVE WASHING
TON WITHOUT MAKING ADEQUATE PROVISION
FOR FINANCING THE CITY DURING THE COMING
FISCAL YEAR.
It seems petty that the President should have to be-
come involved in the job Of running this city.
It seems absurd that House leaders should have to
look for unused rules in order back track
set by the spite and prejudice of one member.
All this could have been avoided this year and the pos
sby of its in future years could be easily
precluded
In order to stop this fOOlishness-and that is luhat
it is-COngress has only to set up impartial CON-
mission to study the problem of fiscal relations be-
tween the local and the national governments and
to fOIIOw the recommendations DEich such CON-
mission WOuEd Make
Pending the outcome of the deliberations of such
commission Congress could readily dissolve the difficulty
by obeyng the permanent law which it has written on
the statute books and under which the Federal Govern
ment is required pay 40 per cent Of the amount annu
ally appropriated to run the Capital.
If Congress unwilling to obey its laws, it could
reach temporary basis for determining the Federal
share by paying amount equal to the regular taxes
on the assessed value of the real property which it has
withdrawn from the tax list
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND CONGRESS
PARTICULARLY, INVITES RIDICULE BY THE
CONTINUANCE OF THE PRESENT sQUABBLE.
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As this picture shows England is transforming her factories
into ammunition plants In addition London cables
that the English Government buying up manuac-
turing plants to increase production of fighting arpanes
within year the Government has enrolled 1900 pilots
for fighting planes.
It is expected that FOUR HUNDRED FACTORIES will
start work the manufacture of British preparations
for war"
Wise England knows that you can't sit tight" be sure
of keeping your seat unless you prepared to fight
ever along And England today BEFORE
preparing for the fight that decorated with swasa
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

Stamp collectors have Spent\
more than 100000 sending en-
velopes on DR.. Hugo Eckener'S
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Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROWLaE1d
THESE MODERN LOVERS %"safe-and7san

"Sa1e-and-Sane" romance. Love is
always a gloriously dangerous ad.
venture, unless you have a shatter.
proof heart, a rainproof magma
ton and a Shock-proof ego.
The Big Problem now bothering
most women is whether to let
their evening gowns stay an inch
or two longer and benefit the tex.
tile industries, or to wear them q
month or two longer and benefit
their husbands eXchequers.
When man is too lazy to, en-.
dure the high-preSSure emotions Of
real love or to face the burdens Of
marriage, he merely plays around
with a lot of little imitation loves
and calls it living his own life."
The girl who used to raise q
'chue and cry" when a man kissed
her, now has a daughter who car
ries the hue" ready-made, in her
vanity case and saves the cry"
until he FORGETS to kiss her.
A man never lies to any
woman from choice, but does so
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lust A THEORY

Although he would vehemently
deny it, there is a report that
David Lynn, Capitol Architect, is
holding up an air-conditioning the
Capitol so that the hot weather
will run Congress home.
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AN OFFER

Senator L. J. Dickinson (R0,
Iowa, who started the discus
sion in the Senate Ring over the
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

1HEOE NIODENN AOVN1V0
In these days of cigarettes, cock
tails and scented lipstickS, a
quaint, old-fashioned man is one
who can recall the delight of a
kiss-flavored with nothing but
GIRL.
There is a becoming length"
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Wise Words

He only is great man who
can neglect the applause of the
multitude, and enjoy himself in
dependent of its favor.-Steele.
The Washington times., 1936-05-26
Listen, World!
Blu Elsie Robinson
THE DEBONAIR SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH"

read something the other day =
which has certainly increased my
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

My sorrows are overwhelming,
but my virtue is left to me-
Ducts (Hamlet).
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

It is getting SO that a newly
graduated college boy regards a
job as having mo future" if the
Boss daughter is already married
Or If she is painfully plain.
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

for everything-bobbed hair, sport
skirts and even spring love affairs
and womans intuition should
tell her just where to cut them
off, before they make her look
ridiculous.
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

It is not the oath that makes
us believe the man, but the man
the oath.-Aeschylus.
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

A man never lies to any
woman from choice, but does so
The Washington times., 1936-05-26

There is no such thing as a