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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

pie got that funny feeling While
others didn't"
Lowell Ralph grinned. Lowell's
one of those air-minded moderns
who were born shouting Con
tact!" and have been Taking OFT
ever since. A five-thousand foot
clouds his favorite parking place
What did we mean by that funny
feeling?
"Pooh!" snorted Red Head
"You wouldn't know it, of course,
You've been flying so long you
can't feel fear"
1T isn't" Lowell answered,
still grinning. "a question of feel
ing fear but of THINKING it.
Want a proof? Take an 18-inch
plank and suspend it a foot
above the ground. Anyone, no
matter how timid, would walk
that, wouldn't they? Wouldn't
dream of being frightened. But
put that plank out of a sixth
story window and not one In a
hundred would step on 1t. same
plank-just as wide and safe
but we've been trained to THINK
danger under certain conditions
so we're in a panic. I tell you,
kid-it's all upstairs"
"Tt's all upstairs" There's
medicine for what ais all of us
if we dared to take it.
BASDLESS FEARS
Our lives are .riddled with fear.
Fear underlies the smallest acts
colors the noblest plans
How much of it is necessary?
How much of it is natural. whole,
some caution? How much of it
is honestly, spontaneously felt?
Not a tenth! TITS all upstairs. u
It comes because we have been
trained to THINK FEAR under
certain circumstances to aSso
ciate fear with certain conditions
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
Budget Hearings

Washingtonians this week are being given an oppor-
tunity to tell the District Commissioners how to make
forty million dollars of estimated for the
ing fiscal year meet estimated governmental needs for
the same period of fifty-eight million dollars.
EVEN IN THESE DAYS OF HIGH FLYING GOV
EMINENT FINANCE IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT
YOU CAN'T PAY FIFTY EIGHT MILLION DOL
LAR BILL WITH FORTY MILLION DOLLARS.
Either the bill will have to be cut the revenues
will have to be increased.
It is up to the citizens to tell the Commissioners
which course they want followed.
Virtually every organization which will send repre-
sentatves before the Commissioners in the budget hear
ings has some particular project which it anxious to
have included in the estimates which later will be sent
to the Bureau of the Budget
Most if not all of these projects are desirable from
the standpoint of local communities in the Capital and
thew are probably desirable from the standpoint of the
Capital as a whole.
BUT MERE DEsIRABILITY CANNOT BE AC-
CEPTED AS THE CRITERION OF INCLUSION IN
THE NEW BUDGET.
Absolute need will have to be prOUen or the
projects WiH have to be left out.
Even with budget reduced to the basis of absolute
need there is serious danger that there may have to
be an increase in taxes.
Residents appearing before the Commissioners on
behalf of their favorite projects should bear in mind
that during the current year the city is expected to
spend four million dollars than it will receive in
revenue the deficit being made up by surplus carried
from last year.
If the estimates of department heads the basis of
this weeks hearings, should be approved they stand
the city would be expected to spend fifteen million dol
larH more next year than it is spending this year.
So citizens WhO sponsor special projects at the
hearings should remember that they also speak as
residents and taxpayers and that every project in
cluded IN the next budget is at once threat of a
neIO or at least an increased tax.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

If they will refrain from intro
during every human headache
they can corral, with the gush-
ing whisper "a BACHELOR, my
dear!" If they will just let you
continue to be a lone woman
(widow or spinster) and do your
OWN hunting and fishing. But
they WON'T!
That is the curse of every
"eXtra Woman'S" eXiStence-the
concern, solicitude and espionage
of her overvigilant friends. Many
a widow with a comfortable in
come has been goaded into an
impulsive marriage by the subtle
wiles and compassionate urgingS
of her matchmaking married
friends.
And this is the strange thing
about it. If the unattached Wo'
man started out to pursue a man,
herself, she would probably get
nothing but the exercise. But the
busy little Matchmaker always
gets her man-for the other wo-
man. She can tangle up more
lives. and put more men and
women on the spot with her
helpful Solicitude" than a gang
Ster with machine gun.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
Greatest Show on Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

ally to the Senators he has carted
back and forth day in and day
out during Congressional sessions,
is given credit as the designer Of
the monoran cars now running.
When Joe came to work the
subway cars were akin to electric
automobiles. They ran on bat
teries and did not have any tracks.
A half-hearted attempt had been
made, his friends say, to put in a
track and the idea was abandoned.
Joe designed the cars to run on
the one rail.
Besides figuring out the way in
which electricity could be trans
ferred to the cars it was also
necessary to provide balancing
runner to hold the car on the
track.
On the cars now in use the
whole apparatus is worked from
a rail overhead. The car itself
is balanced on a single track
underneath.
THEY'RE BUSY
Well sir, is looks like the New
Deal is so darn efficient that
Congress is going to have a kick
coming in that direction when
it gets back.
When the crew under Gus"
Cook, in charge of the ground
work for the installation of air
conditioning units, got his work
underway he found scarcity Of
sheet metal workers. BY diligent
searching he got some of them
and the work is going right
ahead but what any of the work
ers could have told Gus" was
that the majority in that trade
are all out in Tugwell Town in
Maryland putting up that low
cost housing project.
BATTLE is ON
Taking the lead in the battle
of pamphlets being broadcast
over the country today are:
Promise and Performance -
The Administration of Franklin
D. Roosevelt Reveals ITSELF" put
out by the Republicans, and Dem
ocratic Platform Pledges and Their
Fulfillment," put out by the Demo,
Gratis.
The Republican document is
nicely done, with one page con-
tanning statements from PreSi-
dent Roosevelt and the platform
and the opposite page showing
some very damaging statistics on
just how far the performance has
been carried out.
The Democratic offering is two
years old. 1t was put out in "a
and is just as full of statistics to
show that the pledges were full
filled.
The Republicans book is more
up to date, but the Democrats
claim the idea was stolen from
them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
TOday's BOOndOggle

The WPA appears be deeply concerned to
enough to the golf and
it is building at Pueblo.
Early in the game have already reported President
Roosevelt approved recreaona program calling for the
pendure of $4,000 of Federal funds promote sports
recreaona activities in the city, but that before any
these facilities contemplated
Some three months later however, the President approved
another $4,000 recreaona program which puzzled
the WPA press bureau deeply Sensing something ams the
press bureau announced this project follows
Improve community centers. Federal funds $250OO"
Both projects active-oh, very!
COpyhgh The New Ork SUM
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initiation.
One can carry $4,000 or $751;
900 worth of it in a money belt,
at present prices. without dis
comfort, and with the ban of
gold boarding that might appeal
to certain investors who want to
keep their wealth mobile and
footlooSe.
While platinum has been I'M
stable in price. the trend of re-
cent years, with it's widening use,
not only for jewelry but in the
chemical and mechanical arts,
has steadied and boosted its
market value. In 1882, world
consumption was $4,000 ounces,
and in 1885, $4,000 ounces. The
price has risen from $18 an
ounce in that year to the cur
rent $40.
Informed persons do not find
in the increased uses a satisfying
answer for the swift rise in
price.
They note that speculation has
been sharply curbed in the silver
and gold markets, and observe
that the three-ounce bricks of
platinum which the spectators
carry in their pockets is a splen-
did attention-getter for one work
ing on a build-up. A flash of $210
in such small compass is an easy
dramatization of value twice that
of gold.
GROWING DEMAND
But there are ample reasons for
a widening demand for platinum.
Chemists long have known its
value as a catalyzer-the friendly
element which likes to introduce
strangers in a chemical equation,
but never gets mixed up in the
one-step or Virginia reel which fol
lows. Modern chemistry needs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
Buy American

The Rhode Island Textile Association in appeal directed
to organized labor and the country well because of the
steady importation of low priced Japanese goods
FACE THE FACTS BEFORE IT BECOMES TOO LATE"
These the facts:
bleached cotton fabric, duty paid in NeW York.
be sold by its Japanese manufacturers orOer figure
than the American goods to make and market.
proof the Textile Association claims, of the dieter
mined efforts being made by Japanese textile manufacturers
to capture the American market"
Suppose YOU buy this lower-prced Japanese fabric It
the profit goes Japanese industry to employ still
japanese laborers at their low living standard.
American industry and labor lose your patronage
and the tendency multiplied jobs here forfeit
No sensible American believes it is worth the price
Buy American national necessity to offset foreign
dumping and protect American industry and labor.
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catalyzers the way a night club
needs a master of ceremonies.
They got platinum to work max
ing platinum black, used in the
manufacture Of sulphuric and nj
trio acid.
Now platinum is being extern
sively used in the manufacture of
rayon, for the spinneretS which re-
quire a substance resistant to high
temperatures - and platinum is
that, melting at 1850 degrees cen
tigrade.
Catalysis is revolutionizing mod
ern chemistry and, to a degree. in
dustry.
Platinum inevitably will play a
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u dAAA44S WIN P4OSNB
have never stopped to analyze our
own feelings, or doubt its sin
cerity. But the brand is upon us
and unquestionably we obey.
This isn't true of fear alone.
It is to some degree true of all
our emotions. We seldom feel
what we feel we feel, instead,
what we think we should feel.
what we have been taught to feel,
what we have seen others feel.
If we followed our natural
bent, we'd meet with complete
indifference an amazing number
of occasions which now excite us.
Man isn't, naturally, a very
feeling" animal. Normally he
has long periods of unconcern
when he is as unresponsive as
any turnip or COW. And what a
relief!
But our artificial code will not
permit us the luxury of Being
Natural. We have been led to
believe that intelligence is &C
companied by emotion. Lots of
emotion.
Smart people are supposed to be
"high strung" always full Of
feeling. always sad or glad,
ecstatic or mad, frightened or
burning with courage. So we
keep up the tradition.
BEING NATURAL
Rarely, if ever, do we sit down
and say to ourSelves-"How do I
feel?. Do I feel anything at all?
Am I in the least excited by this
situation-this person? I know
I'm expected to be-but why
should I act a lie, why should I
pretend to feel something don't,
just because people expect me to?
I won't! If I don't really feel, I
shan't pose or pretend. I'm not
going to have childish behavior
code hung on me, just because l
haven't the Spunk to reject it,"
How often do you say that to
yourself? There are people who
do say that to themselves. There
are people who realize that many
of our emotionS-particularly our
unhappy fear and grief and anger
emotions-"are all upstairs" and
have been put upstairs" by our
silly social thinking.
It is a fine experience to meet
a person who is honest and brave
enough to defy such Stiffness
who has the courage to act as
he feels They are reStful, those
people. They give life a stability
and dignity. They usually make
me feel like 80 cents!
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Platinum, Erstwhile Frog Gold," Is Winning
New Place in Commercial World

Hmore important role in this, pro,
vided it isn't too expensive.
Canada has been the leading
producer since the World War.
Before that Russia had almost a
monopoly of the element. with its
deposits in the Ural Mountains.
Also, since the war, Colombia has
been working large deposits, and
there have been important diScov-
cries and some production in
South Africa.
In 1925 proSpectors located, $40
miles from the Rand, platinum
bearing reef 200 miles long and 60
miles wide.
Alaska is beginning to turn up
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

The Red Head
was saying she'd
love to fly but
didn't d a S t !"
Whereupon the
Gray Head be-
gan to discuss
height fright
t h a t peculiar
terror W hic h
grips even the
bravest at great
elevations. Tall
b u i ! d i n g S ,
trestles, scenic
r a i | w a Y S
wasn't it queer
how some peO-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

The Raw Deals tax burden has become unbearabe to the
family because of the hidden taxes which slipped
YOU without your knowing it.
To inform the public fully of this form of taxation the tax
payers division the Republican National Committee has made
important investigation which shows the average family
2,7o0 hidden taxes.
Say the researchers:
"When a man reaches for his underwear in the
ing he should knoW that rs per cent of their cost
taken by taxes he dons pair of oUerds there
~ different collectors meet him. Sixtythree
taxes took 1888 of his SIS suit"
And those are just examples. Here more:
Fifty collectors take from lOcent loaf of
bread
Fortythree take % per cent of the cost of sugar.
Thirtyeigh boost the price of bit of meat from rs
to IS cents a pound
You think YOU dont pay for the Raw Deal? GUESS AGAIN
YOU'RE PAYING FOR ALL OF IT!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

to get, but they
couldn't S e e m
to do m u C h
with it. Last
week it sold for
$40 an ounce,
just twice the
price of gold.
Wall Street is
trying to solve
some fast and
furtive op e ra-
tons, which in
die a tie that
spectators are
S h o Wins the
metal, on the
un d that
here is a safe
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

unes wri t t e n
by men in pub
lie life that has
been extended
lately way past
the fiv eff 90 t
stretch.
In the fore
you will find a
group of Sena.
tors with one
or more books
to their credit
and some are
in the throeS
of manuscript
preparation at
the present mo-
-, 4
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

) about 100000 worth a year, and
California, Oregon and Nevada
are placering small amounts.
The metallurgical world, as well
| as Wall Street, is keeping an eagle
eye on the once-deSpised frog
gold" Here's another curious
thing.
It was just last year that ETH
opia exported 1856 ounces Of
platinum, this happening to be the
year that Ethiopia was grabbed by
Italy. A French survey of a few
years before had reported traces
of platinum deposits. British
mineralogists had been studying
the outcroppings. In 1888, some
! German scientists looked them
over. Whatever they are and
however promising, II Duce has
them.
The main use for platinum has
been for settings for jeWelry. In
the late nineteen twenties, there
was flare of popular interest and
in the haute monde you just didn't
register unless you had something
done up in platinum.
In the Grant trend of anything
having to do with human foibleS,
the setback was due to the fact
not that platinum was too expen-
sive, but that it was too cheap.
The jewelry demand waned, but
now it is waxing as the price rises
and if you are platinum-trimmed,
you enjoy a distinction not COM
mon to the herd.
AS it stands now, jewelry takes
about 46 per cent of the platinum;
dentistry, Is per cent; chemistry,
ID per cent; electrical uses, 9 per
cent, and miscellaneous, 6 per cent.
Dentists, of course, as we'll as
metallurgistS, are concerned about
the rising price, and it is believed
that return of gold for filling
teeth will be necessary if this price
holds.
NEW PROCESSES
For the last two years, Russia
has been considering establishing
platinum coinage, an idea which
has been advanced by DR.. George
F. Kunz, gem and precious metal
expert of New York.
The years when Russia had a
virtual monopoly of platinum came
before the booming scientific
renaissance of the last two dec
AIDES, and Soviet Russia has at last
become alert to the mounting
world demand only in the last two
years. It's scientists are now scout
ing the shores of the Caspian Sea
and the Ural Mountains for more
deposits, and laboratory studies OF
new refining processes are being
made.
The first report of platinum in
this hemisphere came from Bal
boa's expedition into the Darien
region in Central America in the
Sixteenth Century. In letters to
Spain, there were a few casual
references to such discoveries, but
with little interest expressed and
apparently no efforts to mine it.
Platinum first reached Europe
in the middle of the Eighteenth
Century. It's rarity was impressive,
but it was always an humble ele-
ment.
A hundred years ago, a Russian
car executed a man for making
counterfeit money out Of platinum
alloy. And now it's worth twice
as much as gold!
If anybody tries to sell you one
of those little three-ounce bricks,
don't be impulsive. ANY jeweler
will tell you that it is impossible
to distinguish between platinum
and nickel by a visual examina-
ton. Only a chemical test will
suffice.
Copyright. 1898. by King Features
] Syndicate, IRc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
Wise Words

Who hath not saved some trltl1ng
thing
More priced than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A treSs of golden hair?
-Howarth.
A wise man struggling with adj
versity is said by some heather
writer's to be spectacle on which
the gods look down with pleasure.
Sydney Smith.
In seasons of tumult and discord
bad men have most power; mental
and moral excellence require peace
and quietnesS.-TacituS.
The world awards the appear
ance of merit oftener than merit
itself.-La Rochefoucauld.
It is fitting that liar should
be a man Of good memory
Quintilian.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
MONORAIL INVENTOR

Joe Smith, operator of the mon
orail between the Capitol and the
Senate Office Building, was re
tired last week after 81 years OF
service.
Joe, as he was known person
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
GROWING LIST

Former Senator Jim Watson's
memoirs, "As 1 Knew Them" will
find it's place on q shelf of vol
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROWIayud


You can Live Alone and Like
It." as Marjorie Hills advocates
in her gay and delightful little
book bearing that title.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

That is. you can live alone If
your matchmaking friends will
LET you. And you can learn to
like it, after a while, if they will
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

Platinum used to be known as
frog gold" People were inter
ested in it because it was hard
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

stop "poor-dearing" you and de-
sist from trying to marry you off
to every stray man that catches
their eye.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

Living alone isn't a natural or
complete life; because living"
consists in building a life WITH
somebody and FOR somebody.
But the little book by Miss Hills
is filled with wonderful and prac-
teal data and specifications for
building life alone, which should
b. highly Illuminating to many
lone-llfers and career-girls. She
covers every angle of her subject
from the care and feeding of men
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
cts ALL UPSTAIRS!"

heard an analysis of fear the'
other day which out7SmartS Q
dozen YoSvchiatric traatiSeS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

No woman actually wants to
Give alone" and I doubt that any
woman ever actually learns to like
it. She only THINKS she does.
But no woman likes to be showed
or hustled into marriage like
passengers into a subway train.
Especially a woman who has been
married before and knows all the
locks in wedlock, and how the
"ties" can BIND if they are the
wrong ties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

But she has overlooked just one
vital point-how to build up your
saleS-resiStance against your
"poor-d e caring" m n-baiting,
matchmaking women, frien DIS
who won't LET you live alone!
The modern version of shot
gun wedding" is one in which the
bride plays the villain" and her
girl-friends carry the gun.
Copyright. 1885. King Features
Syndicate, Inco
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-10

Yet, many a career-girl has
wearied of constantly explaining
and defending her "single-blessed-
ness" and been shanghaied into
marriage when she never meant
to be.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
BetrOthalS
OF Interest
Announced

"A \ RS. HERBERT B. CROSBY,
Nu widow of Maj. Gen. Crosby,
W. former chief of Cavalry and
u one-time Commissioner of
the District of Columbia, announces
the engagement of her daughter Jane
to Mr.. James A. Orr, son of Mrs.
James A. Orr and the late Judge Orr
Of Colorado Springs. The wedding
will take place in February at Ross,
Calf, where Mrs. Crosby and her
daughter are now residing. Miss
Crosby made her debut in Washington
In 1929.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

Cuba Plans Tourist Week.
Cuba will hold q tourist week."
featuring athletic events in Havana.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Miss Virginia Speiden
Enga,yed to Mr.. Carper.

MRS. AUSTIN OGILvIE WELDON
Of Manassas, Va, announces the
engagement Of her niece, Virginia
Nelson Speiden, daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Speiden, to Mr..
Lewis johnson Carper. Mr.. Carper is
the son Of Mrs. Alfred e. Carper and
the late Mr.. Carper Of Raceland, KY.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.