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The Washington times., 1936-12-12
Marry-Go-
Round
By HELEN ROWLAND

Now that the big gold rush"
is over out in Hollywood and most
of our screen beauties are going
Titan or Auburn, men are begin
ming to "see red," instead of plati-
mum.
In the matter of woman'S crown
ing glory, men have always seen
red" even when they married
brunetteS or blondes.
The devil was mo Sissy" when
he chose red for his favorite color.
He was merely appealing to the
average man in his weakest and
most devilish moments.
The power behind almost every
throne, from Cleopatra down
past Guinevere and the Lorelei, has
been just a few hanks of red hair.
Ask King Carol!
To be born with red hair is to
be born with a gold spoon in your
mouth, the wand of Circe in one
hand and the box of Pandora in
the other. That is probably why
so many famous beauties manage
to die red-headed, no matter how
innocently they may have lived.
A quarter of an inch on the
end of Cleopatra's nose might
not have changed the worlds
history; but a quarter of bottle
of walnut juice on her flaming
locks might have saved it from
several bad blots.
A brunette may vamp a man,
a blonde may charm him; but a
red-haired girl just filings off her
hat and lets him. catch a glimpse
of her crowning glory, and he
follows right along with the crowd
When the devil wants a little
vacation he merely scatters a
few red-haired women around,
where they will do the most
harm-and takes long rest in
the cheerful assurance that his
work will go right on without
any need Of his presence.
There are probably more red
haired divorces than those Of
all the other shades Of hair put
together.
This is partly due to the red,
headed woman's independent tenn
perament-but far more often due
to the dark-haired woman's deter,
mination to be red-headed. Nearly
every siren has been red-headed at
least once in her life!
Funny how a man who would
be far too wise to try to start a
fire by throwing kerosene on 1t.
will nonchalantly start a little ro-
nance with an authenticated girl
and little filtration with a straw
berry blonde at the same time.
And then, what a holocaust!
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All at once we have developed
a yen to get somewhere under our
own steam. We haven't been
spoiled and enervated by the power
age or by RECOMMENDATION. Herbert
Spencer, in a long stretch of up
hill prose, attributed an exhilara-
ting sense of mastery and power
to the attainment of maximum re-
suits with a minimum of effort. A
high-geared bike on a good road,
with, maybe, a down-hill grade,
certainly fills that bill of goods.
You get it, too, by the leap of
an automobile to a light touch on
the accelerator. But the bicycle
is perhaps better nourishment for
the hungry ego. A kid on a long
downslope is Ghengis Khan, At
tia, and Tom Mix, all rolled into
one. Eager, exultant youth is
swarming the highways again. and
life goes on, regardless of what
happens to the Shrunken or ex
panded dollar.
CYCLING FASHIONS
Girls wear culottes. or maybe
just bathing suits, in the summer
time. Boomers, dropping almost
to the ankles, caused a lot OF
eyebrow-lifting in the nineties.
Men who wore knickerbockers
were "sissies," and frequently
engaged in impromptu milling at
roadside tavernS, to refute this
SANDER.
when the automobile came
along, the bicycle was licked. Be-
fore the century was ended the
national bicycle output dropped
to 100000 a year. For years, only
messengers and school children
used bicycles.
No definite explanation of the
revival of interest in bicycling
within the last two or three years
is at hand, unless the depression
be accepted as an explanation.
This seems plausible. It is natural
for an enterprising lad to get a
bicycle when he can't afford an
automobile. But that does not
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Oughfare all the way around the
world and everyone living in 1t
could enjoy the benefits of both
a city and country life.
"It would take a catacylSm to
bring this about. There was a
chance for such a change after
the Galveston flood but nothing
was done. There was an OppOr-
tunity for it in San Francisco
after the fire, but they just built
taller buildings on the same
sites. Russia, too, has had a
chance, but so far it has not
taken advantage of it."
In explaining his theory of
building city along one street
stretching around the world,
Senator Thomas drew a small
map, showing that all the resi-.
dences and industrial centerS
would face on one street. Be
hind these residences would be
parks and country. All traffic
would move in either one or the
other directions along this street.
When and if this was attempted
and the street became too con.
geSted there could be several
levels built, Senator Thomas ex
planned.
CIRCLES AND SQUARES
Washington, like Paris, is built
on circles. Salt Lake City, Utah
is built on squares. Turning from
the theory of "Longtown," the
Utahian warns that to prevent
congestion and keep Washington
from "just growing up" as il
has since the war, careful con
sideration must be given to each
project and most particularly tc
the construction Of landmarks
such as the Jefferson Memorial
1t is his view that if Washing
ton is stretched out along its
grand axis from the Potomac
River to the Anacostia River with
principles of democracy and the
American nation typified in cen
ters such as the Lincoln Me
mortal, Washington Monument
Capitol, Lincoln Square and the
jefferson Memorial. this country
will have nothing to fear from
bolshevism. communism "or any
Of those crazy ideas"
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appear TO De Cne., sole reason.
Regardless of the depression,
there has been a reaction against
the sitting congestion of urban
living in the last few years. This is
shown by population increases in
suburban areas and decreases in
the cities.
Family minded people with two
or more children are getting into
the open-into the suburbs or into
the real country, if committing
problems are not too eXigent.
There are regions within an hours
distance of New York city where
the deer nibble the box hedge in
the winter-time, and you are apt
to flush a fox in your meadow.
America is still a bicycler's para
disc.
Autoists. naturally, revile the
cyclists. A boy or girl on a wabbly
bicycle, wavering back and forth
across the road, is a menace to all
concerned. But that is being
attended to.
The bicycle manufacturing bust
ness, with its strong, new momen-
tum, is stirring up highway COM
missions and park commissions to
provide bike paths along the road
ways and especially prepared areas
in the cities for cyclists.
New York and Washington, par
ticularly, are advancing rapidly
with these plans for the safety
and convenience of wheelmen.
In Rouge River Park, Detroit,
four-mile cycling course has been
built, grounded below frost depth
and surfaced as smooth and
hard as a skating rink, with no
speed limit and no policing-a
Cyclists paradise.
BICYCLE TRAINS"
Hollywood has gone quite hay
wire over bicycles as the movie
queens sport chromium-and-
enamel models which would make
the gaudy chariot of Heliogabalus
look like an ash cart. Miami
Beach, Palm Beach and Palm
Springs, Cal, also are overrun
with the more de luxe brands of
bicycles.
There is a new "knee action"
bike with delicately adjuste d
springs which provide a gentle
rockabye ride, with no liver shak-
ing such as we used to get in the
old days. Balloon tires now meas
ure two and one-half inches
against the one and one-eighth
tires of the old days.
A year or so ago, the New Haven
started putting on its bicycle
trains" the first of which carried
222 cyclists and their wheels far
out into the open for a days sport
and then back at night. This stunt
is spreading.
A few Boston silk stocking girls
have done the same thing with
airplanes.
Automobiles knocked out bicy-
cles, but bicycles, coming back,
helped boom the automobile trade
that one-million-car yearly pro-
duction is a big industry, which
provides much new employment
for people who buy Co.'S as we'll
as bikes.
Such are the complexities and
interaction of our economy, with
nothing certain except that youth
will have its fling-on two wheels,
if it can't get four.
Copyright, 1888, by King Features
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Votes for Washington

National representation in Congress and the right to
vote for President be secured for Washington only
through the action of people of the va,ous States and
their congressional representatives. Following fen
of the editorials printed By newspapers throughout the
country pledgng support to the movement for adoption
of constitutional amendment granting the District of
Columbia representation Congress and IN the Electoral
College, They printed IN response to letter from
The Washington Times outlining the Districts voteless
status
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he has lived in
all the capitals
of Europe and
most of those
in Asia, believes
that the prof.
e c d monu-
ment to t h e
great statesman
will be located
either on the
AnacoStia River
or at a point
h a If W ay be.
tween and di.
rectly in line
with the Wash
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around 1,OOO,-
900. The top
most prod u c.
ton peak of the
old days was l,
10000. Factor
les can't keep
up with their
orders. This,
after the bike
had been for
ev er counted
out, along with
the hairy NOM
moth, the Ne
anderthal man
and Primo Car
nnra
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CRYPTIC

It mus be some kind Of a
game, maybe, run, Sheep, Run"
or maybe it's a new way for tour.
lists to find their way about the
Capitol.
Anyway, on the wall of the
subway entrance to the Capitol
at the terminus of the subway
railroad is Scrawled in big let.
terS:
"I went through here-P. S."
And all along the doors leading
into the subway on the House
sire are other cryptic messages,
some designating what is kept
behind the doors, but now and
then in chalk the mysterious let.
terS, "P. S."
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| 'KeeplnS lAlC
dangerous -
deny security ~ ~ -
to our help Elsie Robinson
less old people and infants?
Surely you don't think that
feeble, penniIeSs old woman of
70 is the better for not know
ing where her next meal is
coming from?"
Nutty Notion No. 6,927, stran.
ger! Of course, I don't-aS you'll
know if you have followed this
column.
I'm for giving all possible pro-
lection to those who need it-and
no civilized nation will neglect to
do so. But I do NOT think that
said protection should extend to
normal, fit people who should be
able to take it. To the contrary,
1 think it makes buns Of them.
And our universal yelp for
safer, softer living certainly pins
no medals on us.
AFRAID OF LIFE
The plain truth is, we're a
frightened race, we moderns. De-
spite our speed, efficiency and
wisecracking Sophistication, we're
afraid. Afraid of life,
We thought, because we had
invented Machines, that we had
life licked. Dad might have had
to endure danger, monotony and
inconvenience-but not WE. We
have machines to amuse, serve
and protect us. No horse 'n'-buggy
gloomS for uS
But gradually we have come to
see our colossal mistake. Ma
chimes, instead of making life
more secure, have complicated it,
made it infinitely more hazardous.
Life'S even more a game of
blind mans buff" than it was in
dads day. Round we go, in a
dizzy circle, trying to catch up
with ourselves-trying to get away
from ourselves-hopelesSly lost
loneliness, bewilderment and dis
may gnawing beneath our gay
chatter and smart clothes.
There is no security in life
and we're only fOOling ourselves
and paving the way for tragic
catastrophe if we demand security
of it.
David Grayson, writing his mel
low "Countryman'S Year" each
month in the COSMOPOLITAN,
says:
"One of the greatest-and
most neutrality-suspicious. row
sweeping the world is the passion
for security-safety. Nations like
France demand it as though it
were an inalienabIe right.
millions of men sacrifice to
: insure their lives and their prop
erty; demand Old-age pensions,
security against unemployment,
= ease during illness.
INNER FORTITUDE
/. "All of these devices and
mechaniSms are well enough, If
O a man does not really put his
trust in them; for there is, after
: all, no such thing as security
! in this world. No safety!
2 'The only resource for the soul
of man is the cheerful acceptance
: of insecurity: Steeling the spirit
: to bear whatever may happen.
: Nothing will take the place of
} inner fOrtitude."
: INNER FORTITUDE. there's
S the only social security" the
strong and fit can depend upon
: the only social security" they
should be willing to take if they
have a spark of pride.
: Pensions for the old-provision
for the sick-protection for the
helpless little ones-yes. But for
! those in the front line trenches
THEIR OWN SPUNK!
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MINIATURES

One of the largest collections
of miniatures at the Capitol is
housed in the reception room Of
Senator Thomas office suite.
Dozens of small horses and
dogs are arranged on a corner
group of shelves with few In.
dians thrown in.
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T e a c h e r
Tenure plan
"a n d don't
seem to think
m u C h of it.
What-I won
der-dO Y o u
think of our
new national
Social Secur.
ity program?
4" w o u | d
yOu-in your
campaign for
keeping life
dangerous -
deny security
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ship rights were not provided for
through lack of foresight and
later neglect to correct the situa-
ton.
Certainly, the Americans in the
District of Columbia should be
Americanized by the most direct
means possible
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Keep This Pledge

Resolved: That 1t be the sense of this contention
that committee should be appointed By the Congress
of the United States to make study of and to report
on the granting to the residents Of the District of
Columbia the right of suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia,
June &C. 1886.
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The Human Side of the News
By Edwin C.. Hill

The sudden, dazzling comeback
of the bicycle is as startling as if
the passenger pigeons and bisons
were rowing the country again.
This years production will be
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Listen
WOrld!
By Elsie Robinson

"Y see," says he, "that you
are discussing security in your
column in connection with the
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The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith
CITY PLANNING

A member of the Thomas Jef-'
ferson Memorial Commission who
claims to be an amateur, although
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER IL, 1886
D.
j
c. c.
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(ThiS column welcon1es and re.
quests comments. Letters pre-.
Senttng personal problems may
also be sent. All letters ,UiH be
handled contidentially and an.
SDered promptly if stamped, nd-
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Syndicate, Inc
Evening star., 1936-05-15
SILAS v. HOPPING
DIES IN GARFIELD
Chief Electrician of Engraving
Bureau Was Native Of
West Virginia.

silas v. Hopping, SO, Of 32l7
Warder street, chief electrician of the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing,
died in Garfield Hospital Wednesday
after O short illness.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow in Chambers fu-
neral home, 1400 Chaplin street.
Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Masonic rites will be held by the
Washington Centennial Lodge. F. A.
A. NJ, of which he was a member.
A native of Mountain Cove, W. Va,
Mr.. Hopping was descendant OF early
American settlers. His parents were
the late Capt. Francis A. Hopping,
U. S. A, and the late Mrs. Ellen M.
Hopping. He came to this city with
his parents when only 4 years old. He
attended the public schools here and
the Bliss Electrical School in Ia
koma Park, Md.
Mr.. Hopping first was employed at
the bureau as electrician in July, 1898.
and was promoted to chief electrician
in 1924.
Surviving him are his widow. Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Hopping; son, Jo-
seph Halsted Hopping. and three
daughters, Miss Marie Louise Hopping,
Miss Frances Ruth Hopping and Miss
Catherine Elinor Hopping. all of this
city. and brother, Halsted H. Hop
ping of Wilmington, Del.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
u s. Tobacco Popular.

Smokers Of the United Kingdom are
consuming more American tobacco
than a year ago.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
FINAL OHIO RESULTS.
Roosevelt Vote, 5o6,524, to SASH for
Breckinridge.

Roosevelt Vote. 5o6,524, to SASH for
Breckinridge.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May IS R.-
Complete unoficial returns from Ohio's
8,579 precincts in Tuesdays primary
today were:
Democrats President Roosevelt,
soc, ,524; Henry Breckenridge, 32,871.
Republicans-Stephen A. Day, 1885,
l24.
Republican presidential delegate:
Slate representing Robert A. TAFT
Clarence J. Brown. 292. 2.6s1; Myers Y.
Cooper, 280, 0,688; Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, 77,509; Walter F. Brown, 253,-
204; Carmi A. Thompson. 238,030;
Leroy N. Bundy, 2s,982; Frank M.
Ransbottom, $4,000: Gertrude Jobes,
2l2,271.
Slate representing Senator William
z. Borah-Daniel z. Morgan, l66, ,0S2;
Roscoe c. McCulloch, Isl 1854; John S.
Knight, 145,3oS; Charles McIntire,
13s.389: Leland S. Dougan, 138,o83;
Elsie Bennett Wilson, l37,27s; Russell
c. Heddleston, 133,05o.
Congress at large (two highest each
party win nominations)
Democratic-John McSweeney, 1885,
Evening star., 1936-05-15

Howard Barry, chief African and
Asiatic scout for Ringing, effected
their debut in the circus. 1t took
him two years to persuade natives to
sell the queer little animals into cap
tivity for the benefit Of circus-goers.
Bary's safari had to march the
elephants on foot for 20 days to get
them to the trails where bearers could
carry them on pole slings. Weeks
were passed on native boats. Nile
River steamers and Egyptian railroads
before they reached Alexandria.
Public Likes Them.
The elephants then were shipped to
New York and the opening of the
circus in Madison Square Garden
where they received an enthusiastic
public reception.
Their appearance in Washington
and throughout the United States will
be challenge to the public affection
long enjoyed in the circus arena by
the giant elephants, who first were
made famous by that great Snowman,
Phineas r. Barnum. who brought
the mammoth Jumbo" to the canvas
tent,
Evening star., 1936-05-15
ROGERS ELEVATED
TO SCHOOL HEAD
Succeeds T. w. SidWeII as
Director of Friends In
stitution Here.

Albert E. Rogers, associate principal
of the Sidwell Friends School, has
been elected headmaster to succeed
Thomas w. Sidwell founder, who died
q few weeks ago.
Rogers came to the Sidwell School
In April, 1885, as an assistant to the
headmaster and eventually became as
sociate principal. His elevation was
announced by j. Austin Stone, presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees.
A graduate of Haverford College and
the University of Pennsylvania, Rogers
came here after teaching experience
in the William Penn Charter School,
Philadelphia, and the Friends School,
Moorestown, N. j.
At Haverford from 1921 to 1928 he
served as assistant to the president,
alumni secretary and graduate man
ager Of athletics.
He is the author of several articles
on exploratory courses In the junior
high school. He also is a member OF
the Quaker Headmasters' Association,
the Philadelphia Classical Society and
the Federal Schoolmen's Club.
Sidwell School, which was founded
here in 1883 by Mr.. Sidwell, main
tains two institutions. The downtown
school is located at 1S09-l9 I street
and the suburban school is at 1901
Wisconsin avenue.
Faculty changes under the new ad-
ministration are expected to be made
before the opening Of the next term
of the school in the Fall, it was an.
nounced at the school today.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
SH0TT WINS LEAD
IN WEST VIRGINIA
Nesbitt Trails by 1912
Votes in Race for G. o. P.
Place in Senate Race.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON. w. Va. May is
Hugh Ike Shott, Bluefield publisher,
held q lead of 1912 votes over Frank
w. Nesbitt Of Wheeling today in the
State primary contest for the Repub-
lican senatorial nomination.
With returns from only ~ Of the
States 2,349 precincts missing. the
vote stood:
shott, s7.023; Nesbitt. 65.lll.
Seventeen Of the missing precincts
are In the Kanawha County and nine
in Cabell. Both these counties gave
pluralities to Shot.
The winner will oppose Senator M.
M. Nicely, Democrat, ON the ballot
IN November.
In the see-saw Republican guber-
material race, Judge Summers H.
Sharp held . lead Of 2,570 votes over
Judge Lewis H. Miller. Returns from
2,270 precincts gave:
Sharp, 5000; Miller, 66,529.
The Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor is Attorney General Homer A.
Holt, a distant relative of Senator
Rush D. Holt.
Gov. ALI Landon was not on the
presidential preference ballot which
gave a big vote to Senator William E.
Borah. The preference vote is not
binding on delegates. however, and
National Committeeman Walter S.
Hallanan said Is of the leading dele
gate candidates are Landon supporters.
President Roosevelt was assured OF
the Democratic convention votes with
all delegates pledged to him.
rvNav Quiz pCSVuTS
Evening star., 1936-05-15

n NEWCOMERS to the circus
M world-three pygmy elephants
standing little higher than a
4 collie dog-will make their
debut in Washington when the Ring
ling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey
combined circus exhibits Monday and
Tuesday at Fifth and Florida avenues
northeast.
Back of the three tiny tuskers-
Nuba, Bull and Loka-lies a story of
three years Of effort and penetration
into almost inaccessible fastnesses of
the Belgian Congo to bring miniature
elephants to the circus arena.
The Ringing pygmies are middle
aged and long since full grown. They
are gentle and were trained to per-
form light tasks by the natives of a
remote mud and grass hamlet in the
Congo. On religious feast days, how
ever, they were treated as sacred by
the natives.
Children Served as Drivers.
Children Of the village Of Javoou
rode the pygmies as they carried water
and performed other domestic tasks.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

the Kiwanis Club yesterday at the
Mayhower Hotel.
Speaking on Psychology and Busi-
ness" the psychologist said the con-
duct of the mentally incompetent Is
entirely out Of harmony with the re-
lation Of good and bad qualities.
TN the past few years." he said
IAN enormous amount has been
learned about people who are COM
mitted to asyluns. The Importance
and significance Of mental diseases
is that by directing a study Of those
diseases, we learn about ourselves and
our fellow beings"
Evening star., 1936-05-15

9O6; Harold G. Mosier, 1855; Fran
els w. Durbin, 9o,20l; John w. Patti
son, 8l.128; Milton S. Cox, 63.636;
Joseph j. DEWEY, 59,872; Jesse j. Gill
bert, 81, ,767; William c. Graves. 81 $50;
Kent A. Buchanan, 1884; Joseph w.
FIGHTER, $4,000.
Republicans - George H. Bender.
150,848; L. L. Marshall. 1l4,445; Ray
mond j. Jeffreys, l0l ,226; M. Herbert
Hoover, 1886; L. T. Palmer. 82,S97:
Benjamin F. Reading, 62,698; Charles
Dick, 55,184; ]. Eugene Roberts, 50.-
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Cat in Mattress Nine DAYS.

After nine days Imprisonment in
mattress. cat belonging to A. Foster
Of South Shields, England. has been
found alive. When the family moved
the dog was ready to 60, but the tabby
could not be found. Nine days later
the mattress was unrolled, and kitty,
almost exhausted, crawled out. It
revived after q drink of warm milk.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

1873; Alexander H. Martin, 47,356; Joe
Thomas, 39,957; S. A. Ringer, 1868.
Congress at large (unexpired term):
Democrat-Daniel S. Earhart, 1885,
ATT (unopposed).
Republican-Benson Ogler, 305,Sl7
(unopposed),
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Enemy Guns Located.

To locate the position Of enemy
guns in warfare Is an art calculated
either from observation on the sound
Of the shell as it passes, or on the
sound Of the firing of the gun itself.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
DR.. WILLIAM A. WHITE
TALKS TO KIWANIS CLUB
Study Of Mentally Deficient Held
Aid in Conclusions About
Normal Persons.

Much is learned about normal per-
sons by studying the mentally de-
f1cient, DR.. William A. White, superin-
tendent Of st. Elizabeth's Hospital
told the weekly luncheon meeting of