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The Washington times., 1937-03-08
By MOntier
REAL LOVE, not the Hollywood
Lro~I
BLUE McCLENDON,

REAL LOVE, not the HOLLYWOOD
brand.
BLUE McCLENDON,
"21 years, Santa Cruz, Calf"
And here's one much older gal
who hopes you find it, little sister
is proud of you for writing
one two-fisted COB of GOOD
SENSE.
Then, just in case all this gloom
is getting you down, here comes
MARTHA MANN to assure us that
GOODS IN HIS HEAVEN, AND
ALL'S WELL IN HIS WORLD"
And to Martha goes today's $5
prize.
HOPEFUL
"Never BEFORE" says Martha,
"has American Youth had such
an opportunity as it has today!
Gods arms, I'm sure, are
stretched above us. We live in
the richest, most civilized ma
tiOn-a nation that thinks for
its Youth and has given it the
best free education ever offered.
The log hutS are far behind us.
Never has living been so COM
Portable and still free!
"There are good and bad
among American Youth, but
most of us, 1 truly believe, want
to be good. We believe in our
God. We love and respect our
flag. We cherish our land and
the comfort of CIR beloved
homes. Love, to Young America,
is still the lOveliest thing in life
we hold it sacred in our hearts.
"And deep in all of us is an
ambition to do great and noble
thingS-tO be worthy of all these
advantages. We would lift our
generation to new heights
move civilization up another
rung.
81 offer my challenge to
Youth
"TO be something; not just
"FleSh and bOnes-nOt just
Human beings
"But great characters,
"Made of stern stuff.
81 offer a chal'erge to Youth
"TO be up with the sun,
"TO do great things
Things the world
"WilI not forget!
"NARTHA MANN,
"25 Years,
"ROck Hill, S. c."
Write to Elsie Robinson on
any of the problems of Amert-
can Youth. By discussing them,
you may help Solve them. Read
the rules of the young Amer
icd Says" contest. Make
your thoughts knoDn. You may
tDin prize.
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

All sorts and conditions of true
Americans will welcome the oppor-
tunity to take part in the celebra-
ton. of the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the adop.
ton of the Constitution of the
United States.
For many Americans this will be
new experience-new because
they were not alive when the
household of the nation celebrated
the one hundredth birthday Of the
Constitution so years ago. Then
in 1887-the States of the Uznon
numbered 38. Then we were a
nation of less than 60,000,000
people.
The union was completed from
coast to coast with the admission
of Arizona as the forty-eighth
State on February IA, 1911, and
the last census, taken in 1880,
showed that we had grown to be
a nation of more than $4,000, 900
and that was seven years ago.
The centennial anniversary of
the adoption of the Constitution
was for the most part local rather
than national and the schools are
not recorded as having taken the
prominent part in that birthday
party that will be theirs in the one
that starts next September and
will continue from the 18th
of that month until April 80, 1889,
the anniversary of Washington's
first Inauguration in 1889. This
historic event took place in New
York city at Federal Hall, build
ing which stood at the corner OF
Wall and Nassau Streets.
His second inauguration was at
Philadelphia, and the inaugura-
ton of all of his successors has
taken place in the United States
Capitol, The cornerstone of which
was laid Wy "the Father of His
Country" Nn September IS, 1893.
EXCELLENT EXAMPLE
The mofw Americans who take
part in the coming SeSquicenten'
nial celebration the greater will be
the benefit of that historic OBJ
servance to the whole nation.
The schools of the country will
set an excellent example in this
matter for the fathers and mothers
and brothers and sisters who have
finished school.
On September II next every
school under the Flag-public pri'
vate and denominational-is ex
pected to plant a Constitution
tree. These 250,000 trees which
are to be planted on the same day
by all schools which fly the Amer
ican Flag here and overseas are
intended to be living memorials
to the Constitution and the
Founders and Fathers" who won
American independence and took
part in establishing the govern
ment of the Constitution.
But for the fathers and mothers
there will also be ample oppor
tunity to make their contribution
toward the greater success of this
birthday party. For example, there
are thousands of American women
who have not yet taken advantage
of an opportunity that might be
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
WARPED IDEALS

Bottle houses, rag shops,
dope fiendS, filthy streets clut-
tered with filthier infants. ..
every third dwelling a 'maison
de jOie' with Slatterns leaning
from its windows. every corner
. hangOut where agents offered
endless forms of vilenesS and
brutality, or smoke shop with
rateyed gigOlOs or gangsters,
whose fine clothes and swagger-
ing technique were the envy of
us youngsters.
''IS it any wonder we grew up
with warped ideals? What did
honesty and hard work buy our
decent fathers-oId before their
time? We IOnged so to be like
these Iaw-breakers! Our main
ambition was to possess "a brand
new Lincoln, a diamond ring n
a girl.
HuStling sheets, skipping
school, were the only vices up to
13. Then, a bath towel was
missing from my favOrite swim
ming house. They found it
round my waist. My mothers
tears got me off that time. But,
from then on, life became one
ride after another in the Black
Maria. Presently I was shoot
ing craps and then, very soon,
windows. Open windows are ir-
reSiStible to the young prowler.
$50 began a career that caused
the greater part Of my years to
be spent behind prison walls and
in chain gangs. Why? Was /
naturally bad? Was there some
deviIiSh twist in my nature that
made me different from other
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

GdDtSe eDery man or tUonI1Tl, 6oy
or girl ouer High School age, to
read Courtney Riley Cooper'S neW
book, "HERE'S TO CRIDfEi" Just
published By Little BrotOn & Co.
There is the most daring, hideouS
and SicEeningly true GrrGignment
of crime eUer 1Dritten.
But slums are not the only
breeders of lawlesSness, says
BLUE" McCLENDON, winner
also Of a $40 prize. She holds
that MOVING PICTURES ARE
DOING PLENTY TOWARD CIV
ING YOUNG AMERICA A COCK
EYED VIEWPOINT!
DISTORTED IDEAS
Dear Miss Robinson:
what are Moving Pictures
doing to the younger genera
ton? They're making fools Of
us-giving us distorted ideas of
life. Romantic girls grow up
expecting their, heroes to arrive
in Packards, looking like Robert
Taylor, sending continuous love
lOrn messages and romantic
gifts. Then when poor John,
Dick or Harry arrives in a model
T Ford and offers to take them
to a 25c show, they feel insulted.
How crazy!
"It's the same with the CLAM
our thrown over crime, with
both boys and girls. The wages
of sin, today, is a high-pOwered
car and a penthouse. Then
everyone is surprised because
Our Heroine didn't prefer a Hoo
yer Apron and an Old-fashiOned
tin wash tub to sables and star
sapphires! Well, here's one
girl who is still waiting for
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

A woman has not reached the
pinnacle of fame until she has
been able to set a new style in
hairdressing.
Everywhere you glance, these
days, you can see one or more
carbon copies of Mrs. Wallis Sinp-
son - dark haired ''madonnas"
with their locks parted in the
middle and drawn down demurely
over their ears, working valiantly
to acquire that cryptic, inscruta-
BILE expression.
It is the most severe and trying
hair-Style that women have ever
wished on themselves; and, in all
my life, have known only three
women to whom it was becoming.
Any others who tried it simply
vanished under its severity. Yet,
as far back as the Gay Nineties,
the same style was set by Edna
May, the blonde star of THE
Belle of New York.; and women
all over the world disfigured them
selves in the attempt to be dupI-
cate Edna Mays.
Women who have set hair
styles which took" and lasted
have always been women of origi-
nality, character and individuali-
ty. When woman has the cour-
age to defy the rule Of custom
and the fashion of the moment
and wear her hair to suit her own
type of beauty, it means thai she
has PERSONALITY. And any
style she chooses will be a WOW
with other women, regardless Of
how It suits their own type. If
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
REPRESENTATIVE

Notes on the Democratic Victory
Dinner:
Secretary Of State Cordell Hun
was given an unusual ovation when
he was called upon to take a bow
the second time this has hap
pened. The first was at the PreSi-
Dental Electors Dinner where tho
same thing happened. Where Is
he going?
For once at a dinner with q
distinctly District flavor, the Dis
trict of Columbia really was repre-
Sented. The head table held such
bona fide District residents as
Commissioners Melvin Hazen and
George E. Allen; Malcolm MO
Conihe, Joe Tumulty, Frank
Walker, Col. Edwin A. Halsey,
along with the purely national
luminaries as the President, his
Cabinet, Senator Joe Robinson and
Representative Sam Rayburn.
One innovation appeared on the
official program. This embossed
and carefully engraved piece Of
parchment contained, besides the
menu and order of business, a list
of the guests and the national
Democratic officials.
In between the pages was lit
tie card announcing regret that
through an error the name of
Charles Michaelson was omitted.
And to think Charlie as chief
publicity mogul of the party
spends all his time seeing that the
names of the great in his party
gets out in front at every chance
and his was the only name that
didn't make the official list.
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

weigh against
the lure of dark
alleys and their
leering prowl-
erS?
IN OF AT
A LII" cri e S
j A M E S A.
SPENCER, who
learned the an.
swer under the
cruel lash of
personal expert
ence. From that
bleakest Of liv-
ing hellS, a
State Peniten.
tiary. comes this
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

there is a war
going on. In
fact he ex-
pressed his very
emphatic opin-
ion on the mat
ter during the
debate on the
neutrality bill
in | an g u a g e
which made his
colleagues and
galleries sit up
and take no
tice. One time
he said:
NWhY spend
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
AS USUAL

And speaking of soldiers, Col.
John T. Ryan, Civil War veteran,
celebrated his ninetieth b"thday
March 2 by arriving at the Capitol
to carry on his job as doorkeeper
at the gallery in the House of Rep
resentativeS.
With a fine disregard for the
value Of publicity he casually got
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
ELSEWHEEE

1t was not at all surprising.
however, that there weren't so
many Senators al the dinner be.
cause they had been scattered far
and wide to speak at the dinners
in other parts ot the country.
A partial list showing where
they were included: Senator
Homer T. Bone, Atlanta; Sherman
Minton, Indian. polls; Hugo Black.
Des Moines; Kenneth McKellar.
Providence; Eloert D.. Thomas,
Detroit; BanneGt Champ Clark,
Albany: William II Dieterich. But.
falo; James H. Lewis, Chicago:
Pat McCarran. Boston; Dennis
Chavez, Stauntnn, and Millard
Tydings. in North Carolina, and
so on down the list.
It didn't cost as much as 500
at those dinners, however, show.
ing that his party still thinks the
Chief is a l0-to-1 shot to win.
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

youngsters Of my own age? l
don't think so.
"It was the common fate Of
all 'uS slum kids. / cannot re-
call one boy or girl of my crowd
who did not become a shame and
disgrace to his people. Most
have either been in prison or are
now going. Many, of course, are
dead; shot in police raids or
gangsterS brawlS. As for the
women, you know what such
girls inevitably become.
1--WE were all the product Of
DetrOit's East Side, and it was
as if a cancer had eaten its way
into our bodies while we were
still babies-a cancer bred of
the vileneSs in which we lived.
"YOu City ParentS-dO you
ever stop to think what may
happen to YOUR children be-
cause Of the SluInS you permit?
1 am a prisoner. I have served
almost IL years Of my short life.
The malignant influence of my
childhood environment was the
direct cause of my demOraliza-
tiOn. AS LONG AS YOU PER
NIT SLUMS YOU WILL HAVE
ORGANIZED VICE.
JAMES A. SPENCER,
"NO. 34772,
jackson, Mich"
Some will wonder why a convic
should be given a $40 prize. Be
cause this particular convict ha!
been able to see through to the corr
of the blight which menaces ever!
young life in America and gives u
a ruthleSsly frank picture, NOR
powerful than many sermons.
And tDith this letter / Shoult
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
CONTEST RULES

1.-The writer of a letter in COM
petition for one Of the three
weekly priZes-twO of $40 each
and one of $5-must be under 80
years of age.
2-The letter must he upon some
subject of importance to Ameri'
can youth.
3-The letter must not exceed 500
words in length.
4-The writer must give his or her
age and full name and address,
and the name of each writer
awarded a prize will be pub.
lished.
$50 be eligible for the prize
awarded each Monday. a letter
must bear pOstmark not later
than noon Of the preceding Sat
urday.
6-NIiss Elsie Robinson is to he sole
Judge of the merits Of letters
submitted in the contest.
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
The Greatest Show on Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

-up and decided to 60 home just
before a photographer and several
reporters arrived to interview him.
His colleague on the door next
to him, w. H. Young, will cele-
brate his 95th birthday on April II.
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
Unfair Taxation

A LTHOUGH the District anticipates deficit of ten
IA million dollars at the end of the next fiscal year
the Congress approves the budget substantially sub
mtted without fair readustment of the Federal share,
this deficit will NOT be created by shortages in the gaso
line tax fund.
Nevertheless there is determined effort on foot to
load onto the hapess owners and operators Of automo
bles major part of the burden of supplying the addi
tional revenues which the city is expected to require
Despite the fact that the gasoline tax fund.- according
to estimates of receipts will be fully adequate to meet
the charges which the budget estimates against it for
1888 it is seriously proposed to raise the gas tax by
fifty per cent.
In addition to that there is fixed resolution in
quarters further to burden the automobile by
substituting tax by weight for the present charge
made for registration.
These proposed taxes would add millions of dollars
to the cost of operating automobiles the streets of
the National Capital.
If motorists at present shrkng their obligations
there might be some excuse for their imposition.
There are two reasons given for the movement to soak
the motorst and NEITHER IS BASED ON ANY DE-
GREE OF EQUITY.
One of the reasons for wanting to increase the mo-
torss' taxes is that taxes on automobiles and gasoline
are easily colectible.
taxes in nearby States higher and that the motorists
of the District therefore suffer less than neghbor
in Maryland and Virginia.
These are the two REAL reasons for wanting to hike
the taxes paid by everyone who operates automobile
here.
Naturally they will be kept in the background by
proponents Of the higher taxes when the debate be-
earnest, for neither Of them constitutes
legitimate for either of the tax increases
proposed.
On the basis of the best available estimates of receipts
the gasoline tax fund will be solvent at the end of the
fiscal year 1888 though Congress appropriaes the
full amount which the Bureau of the Budget estimated
against that fund.
For that reason and surface justification for in
creasing the tax it will undoubtedly be proposed that
the fund be diverted to items other than those
now placed under it by statute
It is possible that some items now paid out of the
general fund could be charged against gas tax
If these items can be demonstrated beyond doubt to
be legitimate charge against the motorists of the city
then it may be that eventually increase in the gaso-
line tax might be justified
BUT UNDER THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES
AND WITH THE BUDGET AS IT IS THERE CAN
BE NO LEGITIMATE OR EQUITABLE REASON
FOR INCREASING EITHER THE GAS TAX OR
THE REGISTRATION FEE.
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
OLD FAVORITES

Do You Remember Thomas Haynes BayLy
Do you remember when you heard
Ny lips breathe loves first fatering word
You do sweet-don't you?
When, having wandered all the day,
Linked in arm dared to say
'You'l love me-won't you?"
And when you bushed and could not speak
fondy kissed your glowing cheek,
Did that affront you?
Oh, surely not-your eye expressed
No wrath-but said, perhaps in jest
you'll love me-won't you?"
I'm my eyes replied, II will
And you believe that promise STILL
You do sweet-dont you?
Yes, yes when age has made eyes
Unfit for questions replies,
You'll love me-wont youH
ReGderS nvted send to the editor their sugges
toms of the fGvores among the poems for reprting in
this epGes)
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
EMPHATIC

Senator Homer T. Bone OF
doesn't think interna-
tional law holds much water when
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
Listen, World = = By Elsie Robinson
Y0lNC AMERICA Asks-"t4AT CHANGE HAS A sLLM cHLD?"

OldSters may preach and plead. =
warn, threaten and punish, but |
how much does their influence |
The Washington times., 1937-03-08

pre ciOus Sen. Homer T. Bone
hours splitting hairs like a lot OF
sophists of the Middle Ages over
things that have no existence
except in the imagination OF
some law shark? Every one
knows that international law
did not amount to damn IN
the last war.
"Why talk of it? Why invoke
it? 1t is as dead as TOphet. Het'
to hear some men talk about IT,
one would think they were talk
ing about a sacred revelation
from the Delphic Oracle. But IN
ternatiOnal law has proved to be
a veritable DeIphic Oracle OF
DOOledum."
A little later in the debate IL
remarked:
'If there shall be another war
in Europe, does anybody honest
ly think that any nation over
there will care what interna-
tionaI law is or what its rules
are?
"Belligerent nations are inter
ested in international law just
like a hog is interested in trif-
OnOrl 2try."
The Washington times., 1937-03-08
ILLUSTRATIVE

Senator Bones speech also re-
calls a ouip in the address made
the same day on the same subjet t
by Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma.
The youthful orator drove homo
his point against spending the
blood of our soldiers to guarantee
property rights with this couplet-
found on the headstone of a grave:
"Here lies old man Jay
Who died maintaining his right
Of way"
Evening star., 1937-07-18
THIS WEEK
All Blood Is Red
Continued from pops
Continued from pogs seven

after curious glance at her pale face
Major Bynne was retained" said
Tracy in a clear voice. ito organize
the greatest engineering corps ever
devised for an army"
With what objective?"
First the Strengthening of the
northern defenses of the three crucial
provinces - Shantung. Honan and
Shansi. Ultimately =" She paused.
Her eyes swept the circle of earnest
faces. dwelling gravely for an instant
on Reds look of astonishment. then
returned-to meet Wong penetrating
gaze.
"Yes. Miss Lloyd?" he urged
ultimately" she continued in a
low voice, ''the construction of stra-
tegical Notifications northward, a sort
of spearhead driven into the triangle
where Japan. China and Russia are
bound to crash into war the moment
Russia feels she can fight on two fronts
at once - south and west"
Really tremendous and crucial
undertaking, murmured Wong. Who
else knew of Major Bynne's mission?"
Mrs. Bynne.''
This gentleman" asked Wong, in
dicating Red.
mo. MIR. Long didn't know. Nat
urally he was puzzled by certain
events. but he knew nothing"
This matter is beyond a personal
tragedy" said Captain Wong slowly.
Evening star., 1937-07-18

1T is so grave in its international
implications have detained the doc
tor who made the examination and
have secured the cooperation Of the
American Embassy in preserving alb
solute secrecy" Aldyreff glanced
guilty at the manager but before
either could speak Wong suddenly
kicked sideways at DID. upsetting
him. There remains this coolie. What
did he know"
Nothing" declared Tracy hotly.
How could he? He was Chinese
boy. stranded in Keijo and crazy to
get home. When Major Bynne found
he could talk little English as we'll as
his native Mandarin he was only too
glad to employ him."
49," said Wong. Nov tell me.
Miss Lloyd - were you in love with
Major Bynne?"
You're insolent." Tracy said in
hoarse whisper. "insolent and ill.,
hammered. What business is that of
yours?"
II make no apologies. Miss Lloyd"
said Wong unperturbed. 1T is indeed
my business. Everything you know.
think or feel is my business, especially
those things you don't wish to tell"
There's nothing can't TELL"
blazed Tracy. In the way you mean,
didn't love Major Bynne. But con-
sidered him one of the greatest men
alive. Lovable. Yes, lovable." She
Evening star., 1937-07-18
or Snopshooters

ture was in the making, and had his
camera all ready to shoot. Then. when
action and interest we're most intense,
he quickly snapped the shutter. The
snapshot was made with lens OPEN
ing OF S 6 and shutter speed of l $50
of second.
Start "snoop"- shooting today for
'of- guard" shots. You'll enjoy it.
Qvessjoas From Snopskootsss
QUESTION: Ho,c can one take pic
tu,e Of the nsoon9 (B. v. L.
Answer: We presume you refer to
photographing the moon without a
telescope. If this is the case, an ex-
posure of about one second at f.8 will
probably be sufficient to record the
moon. If the exposure were longer
than a minute OF 50. the moon would
appear somewhat elliptical. due to the
rotation of the earth.
Do not attempt tc record the moon
and the landscape at the same time.
as you will probably have to give an
exposure of IS minutes or so for the
landscape and during that time the
moon would photograph as short
curved streak. If you must include
the moon in a moonlight picture of
landscape. then give an exposure of a
second or 50 for the moon, and then
leave the camera in position with the
shutter closed until the moon is out
of the picture. Then give the ex-
posure for the landscape proper.
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questions os possible. Othsrs will b
answered BY nojI.
Evening star., 1937-07-18

For excitement. candid phOtOH-
raphy is first cousin to big-game
hunting or deep-sea fishing. but you
need not 60 to the wilds of the Congo
nor off the coast of Florida to stalk
your quarry. You will find plenty of
material to shoot right at home -
on the way to the Office. at work. at
play and parties. picnics. trips to the
ZOO, and on city streets.
Candid photography is nothing
more than taking pictures of people
when they are unaware that they are
about to be shot" As a result you
catch them in natural. imposed posi-
tions with natural expressions.
The essence of candid photography
IS action. Get pictures of people doing
things Such pictures should be taken
as close to the subject as possible so
that the person or persons photo
graphed will dominate the scene.
When we speak of swapping people
in ''action" or doing something"
it does not necessarily mean that the
person should be actually on the
move. An unusual picture of a person
asleep in a position indicating that he
is dead to the world" makes great
candid camera picture. The subject is
doing something in the candid
camera sense.
"Of-guard' photography doesn't
mean that you 60 around just shooting
in hit-or- miss fashion. Any six-year-
old child can do that. If you want to
enjoy the thrills that come with candid
photography you will want to give it
considerable thought.
The candid camera picture repro
duced above wasn't just an accident.
The photographer sensed that pic