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on July %, is traceable to the fact
that the clever Chicago clouter won
the unanimous approval of his race
when he trimmed Jimmy McLarnin,
who previously had scored with ease
over the best Jewish fighters in the
147-pound division.
Barney is the one Jewish puncher
to defeat McLarnin, who previously
had trounced such outstanding He
brew fighters as Al Singer, Louis kid
Kaplan, Jackie Fields, Ray Miller,
Ruby Goldstein and Sid Ferris.
McLarnin dropped his title to Ross
in May, 1894, regained it the same
year. but dropped his crown to Barney
again last July.
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Delng gooQ StroRer OF tne
ball. also is an accomplished cartoon
ist. And not the kind of guy to lam
poon the weaknesses Of his fellow
golfers except where they may tread
on the time -honored traditions Of the
game Roland MacKenzie's ranch
house out in the Montgomery County
hills has flock of Chesneys cartoons
festooning the walls, crowding the
mammoth silver bowls which Roland
won as an amateur.
Earls latest venture into the car
tooning field (and he is strictly' an
amateur who does it for the fun of
the thing is hung on the walls of
the grill room, hard by the wooden
clubs which Bob Jones used in grab
bing his initial championship back
in 1924. Earle has taken some Oft
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tional rounds over his home course
August 25.
That Columbia layout. by the way,
is stiff enough for any sectional test,
or even for the big championship. 1t
won't be touched for the sectional
rounds and will, on August %, be the
same layout that is played from day
to day by the members, except that
all play will be from the blue, or
back tees. It's plenty long, too, from
those or any other set of tees. AL
ready the predictions are that 154
may qualify but. of course, this de-
pends on the number of places to be
open to the championship hopefuls,
ENTRIES for the East Potomac Park
Midsummer tourney will close
with Harry Graham at the down-river
park Saturday night. The tourney
probably will draw 100 or more pub
lie links golfers. Many of them will
gather at the field house in East Po-
tomac Park tonight to honor Claude
Rippy and the rest of the boys who
qualified for the national champion
ship to be held next week.
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YOT many people know that Earl
\ | Chesney, popular Congress
" sienai golfer, in addition to
hainp qnnd strnker of the
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ROSS SSTANDS HIGH
AMONG OWN RACE
Avenges Defeat of Fellow
Jewish SCrappers by
Beating McLarnin.

n A UGH of the popularity of Bar
mn ney Ross, world welterweight
Vl boxing champion, who fights
4 Il Ehil EIrr at Griffith Stadium
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AMATEUR TRYOUT
NEXT BIG AFFAIR
This and D. C. Title Event
End SIate-Need Seen
to Spread Journeys.
BY w, r.. McCALLUM.

w YASHINGTONS male golfers
M won't have much competi-
Wv tion from now on. The Sec
tinnal MIA lificafinrn rounds
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Thousands upon thousands of
motorists find our plan simple
and easy. You, too, regardless
of any unfavorable experiences
elsewhere, are assured fast
courteous service with immedi.
ate installation of purchase.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
School Estimates

Estimates submitted to the Commissioners by the
Board of Education to support the public school system
for the fiscal year 1888 show the ravages which have
been made in this essential department of government
during the depression years
1t is plainly in an effort to overcome of the
handicaps to Uhich the system has been subjected
in those years that the school board asks for an in
crease of approximately fiUe million dollars OUer the
amount available for the current year.
For the current fiscal year. running to July of next
year. the schools will spend approximately twelve and
a half million.
The board feels that the minimum requirements of
the fiscal year which starts next July cannot be met
with less than seventeen and half millions
Judging from the letter which Superintendent of
Schools Frank W. Balou sent to accompany the esti
mates the board is fully cognzant of the depleted state
of the Districts finances and is not of the diff
cultie which will be encountered in obtaining approval
of its estimates.
Despite its recognition of these difficulties however
the board very properly feels that it its duty to place
the full situation of the school system before the Com
missioners.
For this step the board deserves commentator and
because of the Importance of maintaining the school
plant and keeping the educational facilities of the city
in pace with the growing school population the estimates
will receive hearty support community threatened
with increased taxes can give them.
THERE WILL, OF COURSE, HAVE TO BE GEN
ERAL PRUNING OF THE ESTIMATES SUBMITTED
BY ALL DEPARTMENTS OF THE LOCAL GOVERN
MENT FOR THE COMING FISCAL YEAR.
In doing the pruning the Commissioners face diff
cult and thankless task.
The people insist upon economies and the Commits
soners will without doubt try to meet that insistence
YET THE COMMISSIONERS CAN FEEL ASSURED
THAT LIBERAL TREATMENT OF THE SCHOOLS
IN THE FACE OF THEIR VERY OBVIOUS NECEssI-
TIES WILL. NOT MEET WITH ANY CRITICISM ON
THE PART OF TAXPAYERS
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
TOday's BOOndOggle

In special article which he wrote for the book of the Demo-
cratic national convention Administrator Harry Hopkins
defends the manner which WPA projects have been
proved Declares The plans for projects examined
with great care by experts.
Indicative of the expert care with which the national a9
mnstraton studied projects before approving them
instance in Pueblo Col, where the WPA is spending
$2782 of Federal funds the demolition and erection of
employees cottages general repairs and improvements of build
ngs and grounds"
After searching their records for more than week. WPA
officials here have been unable to ascertain for the benefit of
this department what buildings and whose grounds being
improved and who employs the employees whose cottages
being demolished rebuilt.
All that any in Washington knows about this project
apparently, is that the WPA is paying for it.
Copyright SUM-
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
Three Minute JOURNEYS
PERSIA

'and here and there the traveller
may see abandoned caravanseries.
Persia doesn't rely on this type Of
trade any more. Not with oil
gushing out and revenue pouring
into the country'S Golfers.
ISpahan, the old capital, is the
most interesting and fascinating
city in Persia. It's golden-domed
mosques, marble palaces and
glorious gardens give romantic
picture of it's past. Ispahan is
still the center of the silver mar
ket in Persia.
Go through it's arcaded bazaars
and you will find that you will
buy silver and gold articles by
weight, no matter how simple
% magnificent they may be.
There is filagree work that is
simply priceless, and the rugs
and wrought copper, embroidery
and jewels make the bazaars Of
ISpahan a shoppers paradise.
Life flows on placidly in Ispa-
han much as it did in the days
Of yore when caravans took the
Golden Road to Samarkaand.
TEHERAN NEW CAPITAL
The new capital of Persia rs
Teheran. a city which takes it.
self very seriously.
In Teheran, the palace of the
former Shah still stands, a beau
tiful monument to the former
glory of Persia's rulers. Quite
near the home of the former Shah
is smart night club, and there
are numerous cabarets not far
from mosques.
Teheran intends to be modern
If it can and is quite proud OF
beautiful Shemlan, a magnificent
suburb, recently built for the
wealthy of Teheran. The villas,
the cafes and other attractions
of the smart resort are the last
word.
Towering over old Teheran and
the new developments, the snow
capped cone of Mount Demarvend
rises more than 10000 feet, an
ever watchful sentinel. Beyond
the mountains and the Caspian
Sea Is the jungle Of Mazanderan.
wherein prowl Velvet-tooted tigers.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

With grain futures the highest level since 1929 and other
prices soaring accordingly the Raw Dealers allow European
nations to flood this country to dump their surplus products
here at a huge profit
That profit helps FOREIGN INDUSTRY, FOREIGN
LABOR.
That profit GOES OUT OF THIS COUNTRY while our
100000 unemployed wait patiently for help that will
come from the Raw Dealers any appreciate scale.
When you buy foreign products you encouraging this
wrong headed foolish Raw Deal policy. You sighting
Americas unemployed.
There is good way to help American industry and
thereby give labor army chance of JOBS NOT RELIEF
That is-"Buy American"
ONLY THROUGH BUY AMERICAN WILL FOREIGN
DUMPING BE STOPPED AND AMERICAS UNEMPLOY-
MENT PROBLEM BE SOLVED.
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, JOBS ana JOBS gave women
excitement and once having
known excitement, it's almost i'm
possible for the modern girl to
stay put in the monotonouS round
of matrimony.
WOMEN CRAVE CHANGE.
LOVE RISK. ARE, NATURAL
LY, THE EXCITEMENT SEX.
These facts the average man
will Indignantly reject and deny,
fondly imagining that the Dear
Little Woman is timid and Simply
Dotes on hugging the fireside.
Would HE, himself, like such a
program. be contented with such
loneliness and monotony? Silly
questioned course he wouldn't!
But HES different =. HE'S a
man. men weren't made to stick
in a house"
BEGINS TO FRET
Neither were women, Brother
Far be it from me to defend nit
wit females who make life miSer-
able for themselves and everyone
else by their mad search for Some
thing New. Still-the Truth is
the Truth, and a little dose of it
is badly needed for what ais you.
So. 1 repeat, you'd better face the
fact that women weren't meant to
stick in the house" any more
than men, and they don't appreci-
ate the situation any better.
Primitive woman didn't "stick
in the house." She bore babies
and tended camp fires, but she
did both while she and the other
squaws were on the hoof and sur
rounded with plenty of compan
ionship and diversity. Both OF
which she desired - and raised
ructions if she didn't get.
But how about Grandma?
Grandma stayed put"
Grandma had no alternative
The Machine Age. with its femi,
nine jobs and suffrage, had not
arrived. Grandma stayed put be,
causes she couldn't do anything
else. YED PUT - OR
STARVED. But she never
claimed to like it.
No female, from Mother. Eve on,
has ever relished Staying Put.
Least of all the Modern Girl
whom we expect to exchange the
thrills, freedom and fine feathers
of business life for the lonely,
simple life of a furnished room
and kitchenette. For a few fevered
weeks the bright delirium lasts.
Then she begins to wonder-be,
gins to fret.
You know the rest of the story.
What's the answer? Suppose
YOU tel.
Copyright, 1896 by King Features
Syndicate, Inc,
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

Dad flat. Mother didn't have a
new dress for four years. SQUAD
BILE? OF course they did. Who
doesn't? But divorce-it never
entered their minds. Dad can't
imagine life without Hattie wait
ing for him when he comes home
at night.
And they did their best to
bring the youngsters up the same
way. Yet look at them now!
Even little Alice-Sweet a girl as
you'd want to see. Smart, too
made wonderful record in
school and the two years she
worked in an office. Then she
fell head over heels in love with
Harry. Nice boy, Harry. Good
job and crazy about her-yet,
for some reason, it didn't work.
CRAVE A CHANGE
Hurts Dad to admit it-but he
can't help thinking it's mostly
the fault of the girls. Take
Alice-and the boys wives were
the same-hadn't been married
six months before she was rest
less, wanted to go back to the
office. Crazy notion-they all
laughed her out of that. But it
didn't help any. She kept get
ting more disconnected. Couldn't
seem to settle down. Began hav-
ing crying fits. getting mad at
the least little thing. packing
up and coming home.
So now it's ended. Harry's
heartbroken and Dads Devil
dered. What on earth ails these
modern youngsters-particularly
the girls? Why can't they set
tie down and be contented, the
way his Hattie did? Maybe times
have changed, but isn't marriage
the same?
No, it isn't, dad. Marriage has
been harder hit, deeper denied by
the coming Of the Machine Age
than any other institution. For
the Machine Age gave women
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
HOPEFUL

They have grand hopes at the
White House that the installation
of the air conditioning unit will be
big help in cutting down the
mosquito menace in the Executive
Mansion.
They are those who remember
in the Hoover regime that the
ferocious pests were so bad at
night that when they held a
formal dinner, little electric lamps
were put on the floor under the
table so the mosquitoes would hang
around the lamps and not bite the
legs of the guests.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

For the traveller seeking
country in which modern civiliza-
ton is etched against the curtain
of the past, there is no better
place than Persia.
True, other countries show in
teresting evidence of Storied
past, such as Greece and Egypt,
but in none of these lands is
there such modernity.
For consider, if you will, what
it is that is putting ancient Persia
on the map. 1t is nothing less
than oil which is providing a ire
mendous source of national reve-
nue. for the Persian government
from the rich fields now bein2
worked.
RELICS OF THE PAST
Near the fields, the traveller
passes trains of camelS and mules,
relics of the days when the main
route took the traveller and mer-
chandiSe caravans through Persia
to the East more than two cen
turtles ago.
The new Persia is fast discard
ing this method of travel though,
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ing power Edwin C. Hill
among masses of people. That
means luxuries. The widespread
use of luxuries is, in the economic,
if not the intellectual or spiritual,
sense the measure of a civilization.
Hence a small headline in the
newspaper becomes pertinent:
Music and Tobacco Help End
Depression.
The National Piano Manufac-
turers' Association reports bust
ness in the first half of 1886
greater than that of any similar
period in the last Is years. Gov
eminent statistics show 1885
cigarette production at 1885,
100000 compared with 112,724,-
100000 in the previous year, a
gain of % per cent.
With all the depressions, not
only in America but in the world,
where there was long continuity
of government and no collapse Of
a civilization, there have been two
curves which, in the long pull,
have gone steadily upward. These
have been the curves of wages and
of the standard of living.
The basic force of modern
technology accentuates this his,
toric trend, regardless of the wide
open question of its displacement
of human labor, and the tragic
consequences thereof. The deeper
we get into a machine civilization
the more do we find that the
centuries have ordained wisdom ir
Let them eat cake.''
"SICK DEVIL"
We can't use laboratory methods
in studying social trends. but once
in a while we find overlapping or
dove-tailing civilizations which
give us the long view, revealing
sequences of cause and effect
otherwise not observable. Here's
an instance, again out of news
paper: The International Labor
office of the League of Nations
reports, at Geneva, that moving
pictures, sports motoring and the
general enrichment of life due to
contact with the modern world
virtually have ended narcotic ad
diction in the islands.
That looks like clean-cut vic
tory for "luxuries," as, a few
years ago, at any rate, all the
above would have been so CLASH
fled.
when the devil was sick, the
devil monk would be-" In the
depth of depression years we in
woke the stern Puritan virtues
We acclaim the Founding Fathers
and their courage in conquering
a wilderness, and we eXtol aus
terity and Self-denial.
1t would seem that a frank &C
ceptance of the fact that more
and more luxuries must be pro
vided and used is at odds with
our traditional morality of thrift
and solvency. If we accept the
word luxury" in it's loose como
tation of vulgar indulgence, that
no doubt, would be true.
But, without straining, one
may read a quite different mean
ing into the word. Early-day
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

ordered. The
ranch is about 80 miles from any
population center.
Booted and spurred, this man
who had won a host of friends IN
Washington during his three ana
one-half years here, rode the
range. He has lost 40 POUNDS
quite a tuck-in for a person OF his
rotund appearance.
A. recent visitor to Nevada says
that he is really a changed man
physically and mentally. The old
fight is still there, but he prom
ises to take the petty annoyances
of politics a little more phlloSopnl-
cally.
While he was resting he gave
I'D entirely anything stronger
than water and has foregone to-
bacco. Never a hard drinker, he
says he doesn't mind that so
much but, oh, for a good cigar.
Even with the temptation and
longing he refuses to take one
puff.
A good deal of Importance in
his comebak has been placed on
the letters which have been de-
luging his office. One was re-
ceived on a piece of wrapping
paper from a sourdough in Alaska
expressing hopes for a speedy re-
covery.
Letters of this character have
been sent to him. Business mat
tiers have been kept pretty well
out of his reach to date, but now
he is getting back in the harness.
In the past few weeks he has
made several tours on behalf of
his party in the State. He is
expected back to the Capitol the
first of next month.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

Just about now the Presl-
dents committee investigating the
drought area are as travel worn
and SCARED as any tourist could
get
When the committee left ANA
rillo, they went in a motorcade of
Army trucks, which have no pull
man reservations. Their itinerary
leads along back roads and into
the stricken country where they
will get plenty of dust, heat and
humidity.
There is probably not a white
collar in the bunch. And. think
how the immaculate Mr.. Tugwell
must feel.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
RETURNS SOON

Representative Mary T. Norton
CD New Jersey, is about ready
to come home and get into her
fight for reelection. Mrs. Norton
made a trip this summer to
Northern Europe.
She wrote to a friend in the
Capitol that she had never seen
so much water in all her life and
she would be glad to get her
feet back on land again. She is
expected to arrive August 20, but
will go to New Jersey and is not
expected in Washington until
Just before Congress convenes.
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again. A l I e I
S u f f erin G a
b r e a k d o W n
near the close
of the last Ses-
sion, the fight
i n g Irishman
r e t ire d to a
ranch ow n e d
by his brother
in-law in h / S
home S t a t e.
There was no
d GU b t about
him getting the
complete re S t
thu dnntOr
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

have been mar
ried. and each
marriage h a S
ended in d.
Vorce. Why?
He and Moth
er h We stuck
t O G e t h er 80
y e arS now
ever since he
was % and she
ID. Seen some
tough times
poverty, heart
break two of
the babies died
It he b ank
f016 O n ToFt
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ries with all the old implications
of the word.
POWER OF LUXURY
In vast areas of America and
among multitudes of people, they
are now necessities, if the word
means anything at all. There
are many thousands of laborerS,
farmers and business men, away
down in the lower economic
stratum, who couldn't carry on
for a day without this luxury
of yesterday.
And if there is any che line Of
manufacturing which is helping
carry us through the depression it
is the automobile industry. The
story of the bold, continuous out
put, with technical Improvements
every year, and a showing of bril-.
liant management and financing,
affords indiSputable proof that
modern technology may be recon-
ciled with sound economics. The
tale of how the automobile makers
avoided debt, which is associated
with the word luxury" in the old
sense, is unique and interesting.
But that is another story. The
main point is that here we have
the luxury of a few years ago
helping to pull us out of the worst
hole we ever got into.
In war days, lot Of us were
considerably burned up by work
ingmen wearing silk shirts. That
all came out in the wash, but the
fact was that it was increasing
public demand for better housing,
automobiles, plumbing, travel and
what-not that ended the postwar
depression and started lis on the
decade of the greatest technology
cal advance in our history.
1t is true that all Of that blew
I'D with a bang, but, again, that
curve of the standard of living.
no matter how disastrous the
breakdown, always goes up in
the long run. If we crawl three
feet out of the pit, we slip back
only two.
EAT CAKE!
One of my friends tells me OF
the sensation in Providence R. l.,
when his grandfather, or possibly
great-grandfather, installed the
first complete plumbing system
in his house there. Neighbors
came to view the miracle. There
were hints that the whole bust
ness was a rather wild fling
extravaganza and oStentatious-
and the old gentleman's banker
began taking a sharp look at his
accounts.
Today plumbing in house is
as essential as a roof. No one
would ever think of considering
it luxury.
One could go on forever enun-
Grating luxuries that have be-
come necessities. Two or three
decades ago, an orthodentist
served mostly the rich. Today
Strengthening children's teeth is
routine even among persons of
small means. AS our capital
goods establishment is brought to
completion, consumers goods and
services spread in spite of our
selves and in spite of the lag
of our economic controls behind
our miraculous technical gains.
The first 10 successful looms in
England were destroyed by mobs
because they displaced working
men. Like Lots wife, we have
looked back time and again as we
have gained command of new ener-
gies and furthered our conquest
Of Nature. But, inexorably, we are
impelled, in Dryden's line, ito take
the goods the gods provide you"
Man does not live by bread
alone. Let him eat cake.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
The Greatest Show on Earth = By

A visitor to Johnstown, Pa, de-
clares that the anti-administration
fever is at its height and Governor
Landon is going to corral plenty
of votes in that section.
You can't beat optimism like
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

really said 1t or
not. But truth
has many ia
Gets. One could
take that cal
louS remark, a
century and a
half later, and
make it a plau-
sible slogan for
the pull out of
the depression.
The only way
GU t lies in a
wider diffusion
of wealth and
greater spend
ing DO W er
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

care drifting back that Governor
ALI Landon has a mighty strong
edge. Voters in the drought areas
do not seem to be evincing any en-
thusiasm about the Administra-
tons program.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
A LESSER ROLE

Washington is being sighted.
More and more people want to
know what has become of the
campaign. It's getting pretty
hard to take for some Of them.
Used to sitting on the lid when
Congress is in session, the role of
a deserted village with the nubs
moved to New York and Chicago
is a bit wearing.
Latest reports from New York
are that the Democratic headquar-
tiers have taken over three whole
floors in the Biltmore and every
one is working hard and as opti-
mistic as all get out.
From the Northwest, assurances
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
Human Side of theNeWs
By EdWin G.. Hill

Anonette has %automob expensive erratio
eat rendering only dubious work.
she aday service certainly ux.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
THEY WANT EXCITEMENT

This time it's Dad. Fifty-four
and badly worried. All three child
81: Ed, 26; Alice, 25-
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
COMES BACK

1IIEy 10 COIIl6 DdCK.
Senator Pat McCarran, Nevada
Democrat, is on the firing line
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
By Frank NJ. Smith
STRENUOUS LIFE

. this except of course with a vote.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

Jobs and jobs gave women
excitement =. and once having
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-12-25

sola.ls lo tae AaJI9ual OIee News bureau survey and -aye Deeu Is sung steady Uarrase Ol alre oal-s-ss to the traae mat pro4IOI- glon Is sure t0 return II present eOldIuous prevail