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The Washington times., 1936-10-17
TOday's BOOndOggle

The New Dealers having somewhat tired of blowing
under cotton corn wheat and pigs to be looking for
worlds conquer and thanks to the boundess
activity the WPA, is only question of time until they
will have start a fish production control program.
In virtually every State the WPA has earnestly undertaken
the task of building fish hatcheres and improving old
one but in Oklahoma the New Dealers have oudone them
selves.
the WPA is engaged statewide program calling
the construction of fish hatcheres for the propagation
and culture of fish, and for their distribution to lakes and
streams throughout the State.
For this purpose the President has aocaed 100000 to
Carter county alone and 100000 to each of 3 other counties
That makes cool million and half.
Few New Workers, in all probability will enjoy the
thrill of whipping these avshy stocked streams For them,
the Dealers have reserved the doubtful pleasure Of
ing substantial part of the bill-poor fish!
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NO ESCAPE

And now you know why a sena.
tor gets paid a good salary. Most
OF 1t goes as compensation for
listening to the speeches made by
his colleagues.
II you're not in the Senate you
don't have to listen to them.
Take, for instance, the crowd
that booed at Senator Rush Holt
IN West Virginia. He couldn't get
a word in edgewayS.
But in the Senate during the
closing hours of the last session
he talked so much he ran out of
words and started reading the
dignified members of the great
est deliberative body in the
world" excerpts from Aesop's
Fables. Huey Long used to give
them cooking recipes, Tom Heflin
Southern dialect jokes and a lot
Of them give laborious readings
from manuscripts prepared by
somebody else.
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THE CLINCHER

Kirk Miller stepped right up and
showed a few politicians recently
that he knew something about
their game as we'll as other COM
petitive sports that he writes about
in this paper. q,
Kirk went out to get his mail
at the Lanham, Md, post office
after returning from covering the
World Series. He found a letter
from the election board informing
him that his registration had been
contested and that if he didn't ap-
pear and present defense he
couldn't vote in Maryland this
election.
Duly impressed with the impor-
tance of keeping ones vote regard
less of what you do with it after
you get it, Kirk hied himself to
the election board on the ap-
pointed day.
He just wanted to get the rec
ord straight, so he asked the
board who had made the charge
against him. The board answered
rather haughtily that they
couldn't tell Mr.. Miller that at
all. Then Kirk asked them if he
had been contested by a Demo
crat or a Republican. Again the
board refused to divulge any in
formation.
SO, Kirk decided to hurry things
up bit and he presented the let
ter from the board and opined
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
HEAVY VOTE

You might just as we'll make
up your mind that it's going to be
a long night November and a
much longer day November 4 be-
fore you will find out who is to
be the next President.
Indications are that this year
will call out one of the heaviest
votes in the history of the coun-
try. There's no tagging interest
when it comes to the vote.
In some sections of the country
they aren't talking about the elec-
ton as much as the politicians
would like to have them but they
are preparing to put it on the line.
The multiplicity of candidates
also is going to make the returns
slow. In Pennsylvania there are
too many candidates to put them
all on the voting machines so the
oldtime ballots will have to be
reSorted to.
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Listen, World - By Elsie Robinson
WOMANLY WOMEN. 1886 MODEL

ImessineSS. stood the epitome of
all I. Y. G'@little Miss Kilgallen.
meek, mum, Minnie MousiSh.
chewing the worlds record wad
of gum and coolly making cork
ing copy of each bloody shred.
Shocking situation for Innocent
Youth? So thought from a
viewpoint still well smeared with
Victorian sentimentality.
But after mushing many an
equally messy trail with Dorothy
and her kind, I'm eating my
words. Shocking? Piffle! A per-
fectly natural situation for any
normal woman and one with
which the Female of the Species
has been coolly familiar since
Eve grabbed that first apple and
proceeded to raise Cain.
For there is nothing on the
books to indicate that ladies were
ever supposed to be the traditional
Swooning, Simmering SiSSies.
To the contrary, unless forcibly
suppressed, they have always
tackled the toughest jobs and
faced the bloodiest risks.
And these Modern Maids, in
stead of departing from the code
of Womanly Women, are simply
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Journey
RAIL TRAFFIC

Those of us who are veteran
travellers have a soft spot in our
hearts for the railroads, no mat
ter how much we patronize air
lines.
For, to most of us, the railroad
still typifieS travel and transpor-
tation, and we grieved when the
younger generation insisted that
the iron horse" was doomed, and
that we would soon have to go to
a museum to see a locomotive.
But with some of the figures
of this summers travel before us,
we can laugh at those prophets
of gloom, for the railroads have
come back" Some of the major
lines were so crowded this sum-
mer that travellers had to make
their reservations long in advance.
REDUCED RATES
The recent reduction in rates
has boosted railroad traffic ire
mendously, and various improve
mentS, designed to increase COM
fort and speed, have attracted
many travellers.
Two of the most important i'm
provementS have been air condi-
tioning and streamlined Diesel
powered trains, uniformly sleek
and smooth. The pioneer in air
conditioning put the first air-con-
ditioned coach, dining car, into
service in 1890.
IMPROVEMENTS
Today there are approximately
1000 air-conditioned pieces of rail
road rolling stock. Thus the prin-
cipal drawback that kept travellers
out of the railroads during the
summer vacation period has been
removed.
Another important step has been
recognition of the necessity of sup
plying plenty of comforts for the
traveller. The coaches Of the new
trains rival, in elegance and COM
fort, the Pullman accommodations
of only a few years ago.
The latest in reclining chairs
and lounges, lovely lounge COM
partments, buffet service and fine
meals at low prices are offered
on most lines. Some railroads even
have radios in their coaches.
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proudly, but with no vulgar dis
play of superiority. 'It's new.
I certainly wish you could come
down and see it," the last a bit
sadly.
'T'd like to see where Huey
Long sat- really would. You
know I'm not a Huey Long
voter, but you have to hand it to
him, he had brains.
"He built our capitol and he
did a good job. Its much nicer
than this one. You really ought
to come down and see it. So
that's where he Sat-dOwn
there-eh?
"Well, 1 guess this is the big
geSt place in the country. Here's
where all our laws are made.
Some we like and some we don't,
but you certainly ought to come
down and see our capitol. Huey
Long built it. It's clean and new
and has nice drapeS and the
most up-tO-date furniture. It's
nicer than this one; I'd like to
have you come down and see it,"
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

California, with good rea-
son, is proud of her big
trees. Mexico also has big
trees to be proud of-this
picture shows that there is
a reason for it.
Cortes, the Spanish con-
queror Of Mexico, is said
to have camped under this
tree with his troops on his
way from Mexico City to
Honduras. Scientists eSti-
mate that the wood in the
tree, said to be between
five and ten thousand years
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

O4A OAAN
dirigible Hindenburg in an effort
to make a record-breaking round
the-world news-gathering trip, US
ing only the established CONNER
cial modes of transportation.
Dorothy, feature writer on the
New York Journal, represents IN
ternational News Service. The
other two sky skimmers are H. R.
Ekins, of the New York World
Telegram, and Leo Herman, of
the New York Times.
Embarked on the same dirigible,
they will each choose the route
which seems swiftest and try to
scoop" each other on stories.
All of which sounds sweet n
simple, doesn't it2 Two gallant
gentlemen, one gentle lady -
surely placid program. Not If
they happen to be journalists,
stranger! History records no
more blood-thirsty conflict than
that of three newshounds bent on
getting anything, anywhere, any
how. Beside which, ye ancient
Roman sport of pitting bear
against-tiger was just a game Of
pattycake. Particularly when one
of said writer's happens to be q
little Dorothy Kilgallen, size IA,
age April.
The writer met Dorothy some
four years since at a murder. An
extremely messy murder which
left indiscreet scraps of evidence
littering a vacant lot in the cold
gray dawn. Not at all the sort
of Exhibits A an Innocent Young
Girl is supposed to see.
Yet there in the midst Of the
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moon knows its
S tuff, it will
hand that kid
the keys to the
city a n d free
passes to every
thing in sight,
without further
d e b a t e. For
she'll get 'en
anyway.
D o r o t h y,
as you doubtless
k n W, is the
third of that
trio of journal
lists who took
~occo0o IN tho
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

who was max
ing the rounds
of the Capitol
alone before she
Joined a sight
seeing party to
do the whole
town came from
Baton Rouge.
And she was
disapp OF n t e d
with the Capt.
tol Building:
"We have q
much nicer
capitol at
HON e." she
aid a hit
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

old, weighs one million and
a quarter pounds.
If this giant tree could
talk it could tell strange
things in the past history
of this continent. Perhaps
it is as we'll that it cannot
talk. There are plenty of
us talking as it is.
This tree has lived long,
probably longer than any
other living thing on earth.
But it has never moved
from this spot, it has done
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

nON QUIXOTE'S faith
~ full servant Sanch o
Panza said it, SAKE put it
into his poem, "On Early
Rising: God bless the man
who first invented Sleep"
The Importance of sleep,
long, undisturbed, cannot
be exaggerated, especially
for the young, which means
up to % to 80 years of age,
depending on the individual.
Sleep is to the human body
what the electric current is
to a battery. Sleep charges
mans nervous battery; if he
lacks it, he runs on half
power; and deprived of it,
he will die.
One ancient Chinese tor
ture consisted in waking the
victim every few minutes un-
til death ensued. Men have
even been known to sleep
under torture, so overpOwer-
ing is the necessity for sleep.
You might fill this and a
hundred more newspapers
with praise of sleep. The
Bible says, "He giveth His
beloved sleep"
1t was well said, by Miss
Olcott: Heaven trims our
lamps while we Sleep" Sleep
has been called Natures
sweet restorer"; 'the sweet
nurse of nature; the most
gentle of the deities."
No man need regret Gloss
of time" spent in necessary
sleep. "Sleep is a generous
thief; he gives to vigor what
he takes from time"
Shakespeare praises sleep
completely thus: "Sleep, that
knits up the raveled sleave
of care, the death of each
days life, sore labor's bath,
balm of hurt minds, great
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

the Hollywood
school of super
specials h a v e
made him out
to be?
This question
comes to mind
because of an
obscure, routine
note of a Fed
aral bureau, tell
ing Of the pur-
chase of a small
cargo of arms
by the Pitcairn
Islanders, d e =
scendants of the
m utin eerS o t
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

that has been done ade-
quately. The idea is to re-
mind ambitious youth that
everything can be overdone.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Natures second course, chief
nourisher in Life's feast"
But this picture is not
planned to PRAISE sleep,
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Four things are important
to success:
To live regularly.
To eat regularly.
To work regularly.
To sleep regularly.
Youth should remember
that without regular SLEEP,
the other Irregularities" are
difficult, or impossible.
You might safely write on
the tombstones of three
quarters of life's failures:
''He did not SLEEP regu-
larly, therefore he could not
live, work, or eat regularly,
therefore HERE LIES A
FAILURE"
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
EVEN SLEEPCAN BE OVERCOME

Food is good, gluttony is
bad; pleasure in season is
wise, a life devoted to
pleasure is dull stupidity.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Equality between the sexes will
be just an imaginary thing until
nature endows woman, as well as
man, with a cast-iron, fool-proof
stomach, and an invincible digeS-
ton.
When a woman spends the whole
afternoon at beauty parlor and
is especially fusSy about what she
is going to wear, it is not always
a sign that she expects to meet
one of her old flames. More likely
she has a SubconSciouS feeling
that she is going to meet one of
her husbands old flames.
The meek may inherit the
earth" but if she's that meek, the
first handsome fortune hunter will
soon take it away from her. A fool
and her money are soon courted.
Every girl who expects to marry
should be a good cook; but that
is not sufficient grounds" for
marriage. Some of the finest
cooks in the world have been such
naggerS that their husbands have
died of nervous indigestion.
The secret of social popularity
consists merely in keeping your
doors always wide open and your
mouth always shut tight.
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
Human Side
Of the
News
By EdUin C.. Hill

Was William Bligh, to Use the
English slang, the "blighter" that
the romantic school of writer's and
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

AS I write. little Dorothy Kill
gallen is flying somewhere between
here and the moon. And if the
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
Marry-Go-
Round
BY HELEN ROWLAND

When a man has a glib line, it
is pretty hard for a girl to distin-
guish between his refreshing
franknesS" and plain freshness.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

getting back again into the old
female stride.
We may wiring our hands over
these youngsters-deplore their
"restlesSneSs," "callousness," "lack
of modesty," VOW that the race
will come to a tragic end if it de-
pends on their breed for mother
ing,
But the joyous truth is that the
home will get better deal from
these cool, competent, square
shooting young women than it
ever did from their frilled and
fluttering precedessors.
They know the answers-they've
seen the works, they have what it
takes. And a badly bewildered
world should be everlastingly
grateful for the fact!
This column 1Delcon1eS and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters tDilI be
handled contidentiGlIy and an
swered promptly it stamped, Gd-
dressed envelopes are included.
Copyright. 1886, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc }
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
nothing more useful than
provide shade.

If this tree could think
and feel, it would probably
envy the many smaller
trees that have died under
mans saw and axe, but in
dying, have fulfilled some
useful purpose, as a ships
mast, or as a railroad tie.
Such a useful death" is
worth more than 10000
years of living the life Of
Gel Tule"
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
is RESTn

Huey Long is still a name to
conjecture with.
The middle-aged, kindly lady
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Marriage is no longer a monop-
oily; and pretty soon it will be so
that a woman who refuses to take
a broad, communistic view and
share her husband with the de-
butantes will be picketed as "Un-
fair to the Matrimonially Unem-
ployed."
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Manners make the man; and if
they are beautiful and polished
enough, they can always make the
woman. Almost any woman.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
USES STREET CAR

1t was the early part of the
morning. He was riding to work
IN the street car. There wouldn't
nave been any reason to mention
1t II he hadn't been Owen j. Rob
ertS, Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court
ana ne was going to his job lust
ike hundreds of Government
clerks.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

The most valuable, restful
sleep, as has often been said,
is 'the sleep before mid
night" doubly true because
he who sleeps an hour or two
hours, before midnight, will
probably sleep the necessary
five or six hours after mid
night. No temporary vigor
from a cold shower, or
worse, from an early cock
tail, can take the place of
sleep, even temporarily.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17
The Greatest Show On Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

OAAoO oA4NC VAC 4COGCk A1eO DCC41 dO-
dressed to him at the Lanham
post office and that he had col
lected it there it was pretty good
evidence that he was a resident.
The board seemed to be some
what impressed, but Kirk thought
he'd better just clinch the argu-
ment. So, he showed them the
post mark on the letter addressed
to him by the board. 1t had been
mailed in Washington, D. C.
Just how come. asked Kirk,
that when my vote is questioned
in Lanham and 1 get the letter
delivered to my post office in
Lanham that the protest came
from the District? The board
admitted he had them there and
krk'S name remains on the vot-
ing list.
Now who do you think is going
to get his vote?
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Sound, perfect sleep is as
necessary to health as good
food and fresh air. The slug
gishness that puts the alarm
clock under the pillow, over
ruling the good resolution of
the night before, represents
slothful self-indulgence that
helps to explain many of
life's failures.
The Washington times., 1936-10-17

Ten thousand young men
that would groan, moan, and
say, "I don't want to kill my
SELF" if compelled to work
an hour or two overtime,
will "for pleasure" stay up
until five in the morning or
later, 60 to their work unfit
for it, and 'kill" their chance
of success, then blame others
for their failure.
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Fire Extinguished
Near Munitions

Only a few hundred yards from
the Navy magazines at Bellevue,
adjoining the Navy Yard, ts..~s
broke out on a rubbish dump last
night. Firemen, who had the
blaze under control at 7 p. m,
said q building 200 yards away
contained thousands of tons Of
munitions. II
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-21
DRIVING DEVICE is SHOWN

The American Automobile Asso-
citation, at it's banquet at the Will
lard Hotel last night, launched q
nationwide highway safety pro
gram with the christening Of a
new "Safe-driver" testing appara-
tus that will be exhibited in
principal cities of the country dur
ing the ensuing year.
Earl Allgaier, noted safety en-
gineer, Is in charge of the demon
stration Of the apparatus. which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-21
WEATHER DETAILS

Low tide tomorrow at 6 a. m.
and at $3.50 p. m.
The Sun and Moon
The sun rises today at 5:27 a. m.
and sets at 6:55 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at 5:28
a. m. and sets at $3.50 p. m.
The moon rises today at $50
a. m. and sets at 8:42 p. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at
10:48 a. m. and sets at 9:12 p. m
TEMPERATURES
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includes several new devices to be
used in applying safe-driver tests.
The occasion Of the banquet,
however, was to pay honor to J.
H. Hunter, Washington's repre-
sentative in the national safety
driver contest. Principal speak
ers were Senator Robert r. Reyn-
olds Of North Carolina, Thomas
P. Henry, president Of the associa-
ton, and Thomas Mcdonald, of
the Bureau Of Public Roads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-21

Departures From Normal
Accumulated excess of tempera-
ture since January l, 1885, 1877.
Excess of temperature since
August /, 1885, At.
Accumulated deficiency of pre-
cipitation since January /, 1885, l..
Deficiency of precipitation since
August l, 1886, 2.35.
Tide Table
High tide today at 10:39 a. m.
and at 11:11 p. m.
Low tide today at sis a. m. and
at 5:21 p. m.
High tide tomorrow at 1920
a. m. and at 11:51 p. m.
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MYSTERY SHIP
LOST IN STORM

LOS ANGELES HARBOR, Aug.
81 0N.SO Three speedy naval
destroyers and two freighterS were
searching the raging Pacific off
Baja California today for "mys-
terry ship" crew fighting for life
in tiny life boats.
In final desperate S. o. S. last
night, shore officials learned the
crew was abandoning ship in the
hurricane-lashed seas. First word
from the unidentified vessel in.
Dictated she had lost her rudder.
It was first believed the ship
was the tuna clipper San Joaquin,
but that boat was found safely in
harbor here. The abandoned ship
is thought to be either another
tuna clipper, of San Diego, Cal,
or a small tramp freighter plying
between Honolulu and the main
land.
The position given, TOO miles
south of here, is directly in the
trade route to the islands where a
furious tropical storm has ragged
for several days.
Admiral Arthur j. Hepburn,
commander-in-chief of the United
States Fleet, ordered the ships to
aid the search.
-VoTE AMERICAN
Drought Is Broken
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 81 UN.S0
For the first time in IL weeks, rain
fell yesterday in the Twin
Cities and over a wide spread area
of the drought-stricken Northwest
Minnesota and the DakotaS re-
ported nearly an inch of rain.
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District of Columbia-Mostly
cloudy tonight and Saturday; not
much change in temperature; gen.
tie variable winds.
Maryland and Virginia-MoStly
cloudy tonight and Saturday; not
much change in temperature.
Temperatures
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-08

Continued from rage Oneo
ed until daylight and then after a
short rest and breakfast, worked all
day Friday" Payne said. LAS result,
last night was the first night many
of these men had any sleep for two
days. They deserve a lot of credit
for the way they worked all night in
that sleet and snow"
The heaviest snow fell in the Pied
mont section, with an average OF
about - and 13 inches, Payne said.
In the far western mountain section,
the snow average about seven inches
and from five to six inches here in the
coastal plain section. There was no
snow in the section bound by New
Bern, Wilmington and Elizabethtown,
in the southeastern corner of the state
About 200 of the motor-driven push
err type motor graders, which can be
operated by one man and about 500 OF
the pull type graders, which are pull
ed by tractors or heavy trucks, were
used in removing the snow from the
roads.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-08
Sentiment Grows
For u. S. Lottery
OCyntirued from rage One.)

It's advocates estimate that one would
weld $780, 100000 annually in this
country. From what have seen of
government lotteries in much smaller
REPUBLICS, I would say that this was
conservative guessing.
Second, lottery is popular.
A tax levy is hateful. Even an in
direct tax, increasing the cost of liv.-
ing. presently is recognized as a bur
den. 1t may come to be recognized
AZ an intolerable one.
But lottery ticket? That isn't a
tax. That's a chance to make a big
cleanup. It's bounty. Not an inn
post.
POPULAR ELSEWHERE
It's amazing how generally the pub
lie takes this view of the lottery load.
/ don't speak as to the United States
for here government lotteries have
been outlawed during many years.
But I've watched them in operation
under several foreign governments.
Their folk like them. Undoubtedly
hey would like them here. too, with
little competent publicity.
The foreign lottery with which
am most familiar is Argentina's.