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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17

They write and ask if books,
desk-Sets, fountain.pen and pencil
sets, kodaks or brief cases are
handsome enough reminders OF
the great occasion on which they
finished their education.
All of this makes one wonder
if their social education has really
even begun, because it is not good
form for girls to receive very ex-
pensive gifts from boys, unless
they happen to be engaged to
them.
UNCONSCIOUS FAULT
I'm sure these girls are not con-
scious gold-diggers, and the beau
tiful sentiments they think they
cherish for the boy friend are
something more than a lively in
tereSt in future benefits.
But the excitement of being girl
graduates has gone to their heads,
until their point of view is not
unlike that of small children root
ing through the tissue paper and
ribbons on Christmas morning,
and asking if there isn't some
thing more"
A gentle reminder to girls who
wonder if graduation gifts are
good enough is the cold fact that
boys whose ages match their own
have not, as a rule, much money
to spend.
They are still on a parental al.
lowance, or have Just begun to
earn a little on their own, and
cannot be expected 20 make ex-
oensive presents, even if such were
not in bad taste.
NOT ALWAYS TRUE
This is not true of all girls, I
know. Indeed, it's often the other
way around, when girls spend
money on boy friends which they
should spend on themselves, or
tuck away in Postal Savings &C
count.
Time and time again, girls en-
terrain boys at their houses and
never get the smallest attention
in return, not even a cheap movie.
And a girl who gives constantly,
but never expects or gets any
treats" in return, is not very
far removed from the doormat
sisterhood.
But there is no denying that
another type of girl exists-the
gold-digger-whose little hand has
a greedy capacity to close over
anything valuable, and then reach
for more.
She has always been with us,
this greedy type of woman. In
the Bible, she's spoken of as the
daughter of a horse leech, crying,
Give, Give"
BREAKS ENGAGEMENT
The grade "a" golddigger Of
my experience wrote me, not long
ago, that she was breaking her
engagement with a young man
because he won a cheap glass
cake-plate at a church bazaar,
and gave it to his mother.
He had given this girl all sorts
of expensive presents, including a
diamond engagement ring, a
watch, a chain and pendant and
various handsome presents for
their future home.
But she was breaking with him
IN account of the principle OF
he thing" AS if such a little
sold-digger had even a bowling
acquaintance with principle!
She confided that the dish was
aot worth more than so cents any
now, but she couldn't understand
Why her fiance gave it to his
mother instead of to her. Yet she
didn't like the idea of returning
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17
Soft Green-YeIIow

A newcomer to the color card
for summer is a soft green-yellow
that is nice with almost anything.
For dressing up a dark dress we
like a wide crush belt and bag Of
cspeskin in this shade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17
Believes Some Girls Are Unconscious "GOld-Diggers'
Beauty
How to Erase
Wrinkles
BY HELEN FOLLETT

Despite the popularity Of bangs,
the majority Of coiffures reveal
the forehead. When hair glistens
it looks heavenly when swept
away from the face.
Yet, this adorable arrangement
is not for all of us. The forehead
must be free Of lines. II you find
some tiny railroad tracks" streak
ing from side to side, fare forth
to cosmetic marts and buy q jar
Of massage cream.
After the facial Tubing at night
with soap and water, do your
wrinkle fighting. Place the four
finger tips Of one hand face to
face with the four fingers Of the
other hand. When one group
goes up, the other slaps down.
both groups travel from one side
Of the forehead to the other. Fin.
ish with a croSswise smoothing.
Rotary movements are helpful,
too. Use the first finger and send
it in small circles. After the treat
ment, 60 to the refrigerator, get
an ice cube and rub it over the
facial area. You'll feel fresh and
rosy in the morning. The lines
will not be so noticeable.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Goes to Their Heads
And Chances View
Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority on Problems of Lone and Marriage
The number of letters which have to this column
corning graduation presents make wonder if some girls
gold diggers and don't know it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17
Set a Colorfu1 Table to
Enhance July Menus
By JEAN GREEN

When possibilities exhausted then try
tack Instead of concocng food combinations to tempt
appetites concentrate cool table settings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17
FaVOrite

Our favorite for today comes
from Margaret Daily, 1445 Park
Rd. N. w. It is one Of six win
ners in last weeks FavOrite Recipe
Contest.
SHRIMP SURPRISE
" pound Of spaghetti
4 tablespoons Of butter
4 tablespoons Of flour
w cups Of milk
" teaspoon Of salt
III teaspoons of curry powder
"a pound of cooked shrimp
teaspoon Of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of chopped parsley
Paprika
Cook the spaghetti until tender,
then drain and blanch. Make a
sauce Of the butter, flour, and
milk. Add salt, curry powder, and
shrimp and cook until the shrimp
is very hot, then add the lemon
juice and parsley.
Place the shrimp in the center
of the platter and surround it
with spaghetti. Sprinkle with
paprika and garnish with parsley
and strips of green pepper.
Our netD contest inuites rec.
ipeS for watermelon and can
tGloupe. Any neU style of SerD-
ing them may 1DiH tor you a
cash prize OF 81.
Melons are popular serUed
chilled, NTH no further add
ton. They are also good COM
bined Nth other fruits. Gin
ger ale, mint or citrus fruit
sauce can be used to add zeSt
to their tIGDor.
Watermelon Is delicious in
frozen Sherbet. Your tGUorite
recipe may lDfp one OF the cash
prizes for you.
Mail your recipe to Miss Jean
Green, FGvorite Recipe Contest
Editor, The Washington Times.
before July II to enter it IN
our current contest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17

HAVE YOU any beauty prob
lens? Let the Beauty Box Editor
help you solve them. Address all
in quirieS regarding beauty to the
Editor Of the Beauty Box, care Of
The Washington Times. Be sure
to enclose an addressed, stamped
three cents) envelope for reply.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-17
By MRS. CORNELIUS BEECKMAN

in. But it is the way of courtesy
and hospitality for you to invite
him to come to your home to see
you soon" or sometimes"
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18
BLUEPRINT FOB
FASCISM

The War Department has made it
known that it will present to Con-
gress a measure which, if passed,
would bring into operation here a
military-industrial dictatorship, to
become active at the outbreak Of
war and until "the President chooses
to declare an end to the emergency"
The Industrial Mobilization Plan,
according to its opponents, is de-
signed to avoid the economic evils
of the last war. But at the very
opening of the plan, in the Fore
word to the 1888 revision, stands the
following statement;
The objective of any warning ma
ton is victory, immediate and com
plete. 1t is conceivable that a war
might be conducted with such great
regard for Individual justice and adj
ministrative efficiency as to make
impossible those evils whose exist
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18
Federal Licenses for
Corporations Receive
Full Support Of Green
A. F. of L. President Says Sena-
tor O'Mah0ney's Bill Will Give
Statutory Effect to Funda-
mental Rights of Working
Man and Women.
BY A. f. of l.. News Service.

WASHINGTON, D. C. = Strong
commentator of the provisions of
the bill introduced in the Senate by
Senator Joseph c. O'Mahoney of
Wyoming to provide a federal sys-
tenn of charters and licenses for cor
porations was voiced by William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, at the hearing
held on the bill by the subcommittee
of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
81 am glad to have the privilege
to testify before your Committee on
the bill introduced by Senator O'Ma-
honey and now under your consid-
Grafton" Mr.. Green said. TN the
eyes of organized Labor in the
United States this proposal is one of
the most fundamental in purpose and
far-reaehing in Importance ever con-
sidered by Congress.
at is important because it is based
upon a correct diagnosis of our eco
nomic ailment; because it ~prescribes
a treatment which is sound, which
does not threaten our economic
growth, our democratic institutions,
and which does not c%ontravene or
contradict a single requirement of
orr Constitution.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18
The BUCKEYE

The New Economy now
places a modern stream
lined six cubic foot refrig-
orator we'll within the
means of large families OPP
Grating on very modest bud
gets. Electric Refrigeration
has advanced far beyond
being a luxury and is now
a necessity for health and
economical storage of food
supplies. The Economy has
the capacity every family
needs, yet fits into the plans
of those who desire electric
refrigeration at low cost.
The latest refinements in
design, construction and
materials have enabled
Economy engineers to pro-
duce a unit and cabinet
which are surprisingly low
in cost of operation, as well
as a Refrigerator which will
give maximum efficiency
and trouble-free service
over a period of years.
at
RS
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18

ence in past wars is well known. It
is also conceivable that the outcome
of a war so conducted might be de-
feat. In all plans for preparedness
and policies to be pursued in event
of war it must never be overlooked
that while efficiency in war is de-
sirable, effectiveness is mandatory.
Upon analysis it is seen that the
plan will not put a curb on war
profiteering, which is treated by the
Nye Committee as a leading eco
nomic evil of war. The plan is found
to be an implement for the Fastening
of war; for the establishment of a
dictatorship that is Objectionable to
democratic peoples and dangerous to
democratic government; for the es-
Enlistment of a universal draft upon
the man-woman-and-c of
the nation, involving the principle of
work or fight or starve," which con
stitutes a labor draft; for the opera
ton of a military control that will
reach out into every home and affect
every person in the land; for the
scrapping of all social legislation
governing the labor of men, women
and children; for the creation Of laws
and regulations under which en-
ployes would suffer unequally as
against owners and management;
and for an effective press and radio
control even more systematic than
that imposed during the last war.
It is significant shat the War De-
partment expects to secure such CO.
operation (from labor) by laws and
rules" while in the last analysis it
intends to depend for enforcement
upon the popular morale and collec-
tive patriotism of industry. The
American people also will be inter
ested in the fact that the plan calls
for a personnel drawn from the high
councils of industry, with only an
advisory function for the representa-
tive of labor.
Because of adverse criticism that
has begun to appear in the press,
and allegedly on the advice of GER
tain unnamed Senate leaders, the
labor draft and press gag sections of
the plan will be omitted from the
draft which will be introduced in
Congress in the near future, but it is
quoted on the authority of a govern
ment official who was associated
with the Nye investigation that these
sections will be rushed through Con-
gress when war is declared. The
Secretary of War, Harry T. Wood
ring, also has declared in press inter-
views that 'the War Department will
propose a labor draft"
1t is reported in the press that the
bills embodying the Industrial Mo
bilization Plan will be coupled with
the new neutrality legislation, and
both will be introduced early in this
session of Congress. Apparently a
log-rolling trade is being worked out
to put the plan over. The procure
ment division of the War Depart
ment has already surveyed the plants
which will be given contracts under
the plan, and dummy contracts bear
ing everything but the date and the
price have been distributed.
1t is obvious that the Industrial
Mobilization Plan looks to inevitable
war, and is designed for a situation
similar to the last war-even to the
expectation of Americans to fight on
foreign soil.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18
GIANT CORPORATIONS
MENACE MASSES

To-day this proposal takes on add
ed significance because of its timeli-
ness. Our country has barely begun
its emergence from the tragic col
lapse of recent years when it already
finds itself faced with the self-same
forces of destruction which brought
about the depression. These are the
forces of economic unbalance and
inequality, of unbridled and ire
sponsible economic power of giant
corporate aggregates welded by few
who are accountable to non They
are the forces of speculation of mo-
mentary p%rofiteering in which the
masses of our people r periodically
deprived of their earning power or
defrauded of their hard-earned saw
ings.
1--WE must find a way, and find it
promptly, to deal with these destruc-
tive forces and to wipe them out
from the industrial and financial
scene. I believe the O'Mahoney bill
offers such a Way.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18

States embodied in the National La
Dor Relations Act and in other
statutes.
Every thinking person agrees
that these rights must be exercised
by the workers and must be respect
ed by the employers if we are to
avoid industrial strife and thus pre-
serve the free flow Of interstate
commerce. Today the worker can
not bargain alone. He can either
accept the terms offered or join the
ranks of the unemployed. But
through collective effort workers
can effectively protect their interests
and secure an equitable share in
productive returns"
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18
FUNDAMENTAL LABOR
PROVISIONS

1.-THE requirements of the bill with
regard to Labor provide fundament-
al standards, the desirability of
which cannot be questioned. They
will abolish for all time the question
of discrimination against women in
the matter of rates of pay. They will
do away with the employment of
children under sixteen and establish
the minimum age of eighteen for
hazardous occupations. Minimum
wages for the lowest paid classes of
unskilled labor may be recommend
ed by the Commission, but only
when it finds that abuses in the form
of wage scales, contrary to the public
interest, exist, and that such abuses
have not been eliminated through
collective bargaining.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
PROTECTED
"The bill further provides that as
a condition of securing a federal
charter or license corporations will
agree to respect the right of workers
to organize and bargain collectively
through representatives of their own
choosing. The bill requires the COM
pliance with all the provisions of the
National Labor Relations Act and in
determining such compliance binds
the Commission by the findings of
fact and conclusions of law of the
National Labor Relations Board.
'It is hardly necessary for me at
this time to plead before this Com
mittee the workers need for pro-
lection of their rights of self-organ-
ization and the designation of their
representatives for collective bar
gaining. These rights have become
the declared policy of the United
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18

The American Iron & Steel Insti-
tute reports that times have changed
and Tulip, Daisy, Jonquil and Hya-
cinth, as trade names for steel prod
ucts, "are now only memories of a
more romantic era"
The steel trust will find the union
is no Pansy, either.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-18
SAFEGUARDS INDUSTRIAL
ELF-GOVERNME

ut is important that the public
thoroughly understands that this bill
does not propose to vest the govern
ment with power to stipulate the
manner in which all business is to
be conducted. The bill does not
propose to interfere with industrial
self -government. 1t merely estab-
fishes a set of principles, of equit-
able national rules, to which bust
ness must adhere before engaging in
commerce. These rules are neither
arbitrary nor restrictive to the con-
duct Of any corporate business which
is conducted fairly, honestly and re-
sponsibly. They do clearly estab-
lish, however, lines which corpora
tons must not overstep, minimum
standards below which they must
not go. These lines are drawn be-
cause adherence to them is essential
to protect public interest and to pro-
mote and safeguard the welfare of
investors, consumers, and of Labor.
1.-THE administration of this law
does not require the establishment
of new governmental agencies. The
law will operate with utmost econ
omy. 1t will be administered by
the Federal Trade Commission with
certain changes and adjustments
which would seem to be desirable
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-28
WITHIN

the appointed time, this happens unless some
thing changes your plan. Premonitions are the
same set of probabilities carried step further"
In the remarkable there is nothing remarkable
except our lack of understanding. To Celt an
obscure problem is akin to the page of a book
set in big type.
Seeing into the future is based, evidently, upon
a larger knowledge of conditions already exist
ing-waiting for you to come along.
friend walks down the street on a windy
day, comes to a cross street where hurricane
whirls around the corner. You watching, think
Hell lose his hat!' And he does, when he
comes into contact with the waiting wind. He
was for the sake of discussion, thinking deeply
about his own affairs and ignoring the weather.
Your own recognition of conditions was larger
you foresaw.
Some people can plan to call on friend pause
a moment to decide If the friend is then at home
and know definitely If call would be wasted.
If, as many observers believe the human mind
is roughly divided into conscious and sub-con-
scious, the latter may often be aware of events
which the conscious has no method of knowing.
Before one of the recent winter aviation
crashes, friend had what he called mental
warning not to take plane leaving early the
morning of his departure. He couldn't say what
1t was, or why he shouldn't take that particular
ship Call 1t hunch IL you like he said, as he
changed his ticket for later plane, "but that
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-28

''is like heap of ashes, upon deserted hearth
with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and
the light extinguished. 1t is like a winter land
scape-with the sun hidden, the flowers frozen,
and the wind whispering through the withered
leaves. God knows we need all the unselfsh
love that can come to U.S. For love is seldom
unselfsh. There is usually the motive and the
price. Do you remember William Morris, and
how his life was lived; his fortune spent, his
hands busied-in the service of others? He was
the father of the settlement movement of CO.
operative homes for working people, and of the
arts and crafts revival, in our day. He was a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-28
BY WHIT WELLMAN

early flight isn't meant for me-" He caught the
next one out, cheerfully and with confidence The
first plane ran into a storm and crashed. It's
hard to believe that the ship was fated to fall,
but one of its scheduled passengers felt strongly
enough about not boarding it to save his life
- ESEARCH societies in America and England
X have collected innumerable examples of
similar warnings" prophecies and premonitions
some expainable on rational grounds, such
as those regarding the future health of an indi-
viduai. Here, the persons sub-conscious may be
aware Of hidden changes in physical structure
not apparent to the waking mind; and this SUBJ
conscious then sends its message to the more
practical, everyday mind.
Weather bureaus can with good lucky pre-
dict tomorrows sunshine rain only because
they are in touch with ships thousand miles
at sea :. discovering what weather Is on the
way The world, turning, and winds, slipping
over the surface are already In existence,
rushing toward each other, joining in an nevita-
BILE event which we call the future.
Yet there are cases, writes Hereward Car
rington (which cannot be explained in this
simple way and which we cannot account for in
the present state of science and of our limited
knowledge" There lies the trouble Premonitions
are all too much like meteors: unpredictable.
Unlike a family radio you cannot tune in at all
hours Of the day and night
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-28
Sixty Seconds From Life

Quaint frail houses of bamboo,
A duotone of gray and blue,
Roofs whose lyric corners curl,
Picture gardens where the purl
OF lotus ponds distill sweet dreams,
Plum blossoms hang like pale moonbeams,
While Ger the crenelated walls
weird and mystic music calls
Beckons one to strange desires,
Ignites adventures smodering fires
Flutes of priests and scent of musk
Cherry blossoms in the dusk
Falling softly all around
Like pnken snowfiakes to the ground.
Hear the crunch Of rickshaw wheels!
And there lacquered Buddha kneels.
Kimonos tinged with every hue
Flash and blend in front of YOU
Silkworms, shrines, beggarman.
Incense, tori gate-Japan.
Terraces of rice and tea
Stretched along the Inland Sea,
Fishermen in tiny boats
Chrysanthemums and haori coats.
Pink upholstered motor cars
Pagodas that sweep up toward the stars,
Satsuma, cloisonne and bronze,
Bridges arched DER lily ponds.
Bicycles go whirring by
Somewhere near-a baby's cry.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-28

His wife agreed to this much to my horror.
|r she is a writer. They spent quite some time
kying to convice me that anything worth hav-
hg can be bought with money" and this included
happiness, love, luxuries, and-well lin their
bpinion) Everything"
How could j tell them that the years must
inevitably bring to them only empty lives if
they persisted in this path? What argument
could I bring to bear-EXCEPT THE ARGU-
MENT OF LIFE ITSELF.
Daniel Webster once said that the best argu-
ment he knew of for religion was an old aunt
who lived in the hills. I felt like that at this
moment The best argument can offer for not
making god of money is the people who have
lived for the finer things as compared to those
who have lived selfshly for material gain.
/ could see this young wife growing more
and more restless and impatient, going from
shop to shop seeking material things to make
her body more beautiful and to impress the
world while her soul died gradually, and the
light of inspiration faded from her eyes, and
her lips grew harder and harder. could see
this man. swank, cold, Indifferent, seeking sur
cease from business at race tracks, in gambling
at night clubs, roulette-and other women.
You may say that there is no reason for their
money to do this to them but you see it isn't
the money that ruins things-it's the lack of
ideals,
THE OTHER day read Emlen Knight Davies
Prayer" and wanted to tell it to them-but
somehow couldn't. Here it is: