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The Washington times., 1937-04-21
AT ANY RATE

l. was a toss up whether the
Senate Appropriations Committee
was more afraid Of Senator
Charles L. McNary, minority
leader, or the fact that some Of the
members might miss the opening
ball game.
The committee was in executive
session on the State, Justice, Com
merce and Labor bill. Reporters
waited patiently outside the COM
mittee room to get the details Of
the report. Upstairs the Senate
was engaged in consideration of
the calendar.
Suddenly another group Of re-
porters who had been watching the
action on the floor came to the
committee room. They announced
that the bill had been reported on
the floor.
But, said the astonished news.
men outside the committees closed
doors, the committee is still work
ing on the bill. And it was.
The obvious explanation for re-
porting the measure before all the
details were finished was that Sen
ator McNary in keeping the Sen
ate strictly to its rules refuses to
allow consideration Of a measure
after it's report from a committee
until the next day.
The Senate's program was to
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

E~@~--~N-------OJ
dollar on every boss in dis heah
field"-then hollering Come on,
Sunpin!"
COME ON sUMP1N!"-you
can't lose, you can't be licked,
when you've made your play as
wide as that.
COME ON SUMPIN" Maybe
I can't have the job I like best
maybe I've lost the job that was
easiest but there are thou
sands Of other jobs to be liked,
to be had. I'll like them all
I'll reach for them all I'll get
myself ready for as much as I
can with whatever have
then something's bound to turn up.
ANOTHER CHANCE
COME ON sUMPIN" Maybe
death has taken the one loved
most. the one to whom gave
my life, my heart, and all my
hope. maybe death has mar
rowed the trail to one small, silent
mound. But love isn't over-not
while there are those who need
love. And everywhere they reach
to me, those others. stretching
their pleading hands. .motherleSS
babes, childleSs mothers, broken
hearted men. They need me
and I need them! And so, I'll
love again-no matter what the
risk. I will not let death block
loves glorious trail!
COME ON SUMPIN!". Come
on, Life! Come on, Love! Come
on, Grief and HardShips, Failure
and Despair! Come on, Birth
and Death. and Man. "a n d
God! Come on, Everything-I'm
betting on you gil! I've lost,
maybe once, maybe twice-maybe
a hundred times. But here I am
again. hoping again. 4. betting
again. .plunging again, but this
time on the whole field!
so COME ON, SUMPIN-1
CAN'T BE LICKED!
This column welcomes and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senttng personal problems may
also be sent. All letters Dill be
handled corfdenttGlIy and
GnSWered promptly If stamped,
addressed envelopes are in
cluded.)
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Hail to the d. A. r.
BIZ J. T. Williams, Jr.

Nthe D. A. r. is rendering the house.
hold of the Nation.
No less logical is the penalty
which the D. A. r. pays for stand
ing firm in fair and stormy
weather against the insidious eff.
forts of those minorities which
seek to undermine what cannot
be directly overthrown In the
American system of government.
When the tide Is running
strongly against the American
system the membership of the D.
A. r. declines. When the tide is
running in favor Of the American
system, the membership Of the
D. A. r. reflects this heartening
fact.
! One of the encouraging signs
of the times is to be found in the
reports from every part Of the
country that the National Society
Of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution is gaining many new
and enthusiastic members, eager
to take their part In the work Of
this great protector Of all that
Americans hold dear.
The rules Of eligibility for
membership in the Society are
simple and comprehensive. Any
woman Is eligible to apply for
membership who is eighteen years
Of age and over and who is de-
Scended from a man or woman
who, with unfailing loyalty to the
cause of American Independence.
served as a sailor or as q soldier
or civil officer in one Of the several
Colonies or States"
HIGH DETECTIVES
And the stronger the support
given in any community to the
D. A. r. Chapter, the stronger is
the support given to other patri-
otto societies, including the organ
izations Of veterans of all our
wars and Of their auxiliary socie'
ties.
Experience proves that the ex.
ample set by the Daughters in
keeping alive "the memory and
spirit of the men and women who
achieved American independence"
encourages their fellow citizens to
keep alive a grateful recollection
Of the men and women who have
done their utmost to maintain
American Independence and up.
hold American institutions
throughout our national history.
Whenever and wherever national
unity is threatened, by unhappy
divisions among the people, al.
ways and there the leadership Of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution is on the side of a
more perfect union.
There is neither partisanship
nor sectionalism in their ranks.
And toward the taking of high OBJ
jectives the Daughters Of the
American Revolution set a daily
example of unselfiSh devotion.
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est for new Edwin c. Hill
funds, manages to scrape up $780,
100000 to loan to Poland. There
Is a string to the loan because, In
return for the use of the money,
Poland guarantees assistance to
CzechoSlovakia in the event that
that country is made the victim
of an unprovoked attack. Eduard
Benes, energetic president OF
Czechoslovakia, packs an over.
night bag hurriedly and PUSHES of
to Belgrade to ask for the lowdown
from Yugoslavia on the alliance
she has just made with Italy.
It would appear from these hap
penings that Czechoslovakia is
very much in the news, if not on
the spot. To most Americans, it
was not on the map when they
were studying geography, and
they know it largely today as
some vague place in Europe
whence come carpet slippers and
the beaded bags which the Sem
incle Indians sell to tourists In
Florida as specimen Of Everglades
craftsmanship.
ACUTE
On the other hand, in the chan
cellortes and parliaments Of Eu-
rope today there is no more i'm
portant country, in a political or
strategic sense, than this 20-year-
old republic of the CzechS. An ex-
pert on foreign affairs describes
the situation to me like this:
eff you will imagine that Eu-
rope is suffering from acute APP
pendicitiS. and that CZechOsIO-
vakia Is the appendix, you will
have the picture simply and
accurately"
A glance at the map helps the
imagery because it shows Czecho-
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Three Minute Journeys
RIVIERA

The Riviera is waking up again.
Once more de luxe hotels are filled
with smart crowds and yachts ride
at anchor at Cannes and Vile
franche; and once more the CAST
nos are filled with players and
with stories Of miraculous win
ningS.
All this should delight the
hearts Of all who love the azure
coast Of France, golden land Of
adventure, romance and beauty.
For many years hotel owners
and other business men could not
overcome the growing disparity be-
tween the high cost Of living in
France and the more sensible lev
els enjoyed by other countries.
even though they reduced their
charges far below profitable levels.
Social disturbances in France
and the threat Of war in the Med
iterranean countries had a dis
quieting effect on business.
But, last September, when the
franc was deValued, the Riviera
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this: Rep. Maverick
II am from the South and 1
never knew that a Republican
was white until 1 was FL years
old. When / think Of Republi-
cans I can always remember such
words as Black Republicans
that learned as a child. All
Of my people were COnfeder-
ates. The men in my family
ranked from privateS, cOrpOralS
and sergeants up to generals in
the COnfedera Army"
Frankness therefore being the
keynote of this little speech he
averred later:
"But, as 1 have said, insofar as
/ am concerned, / am a South
erner and live in a Southern dis.
trict. In my district the cOlOred
people do not vote, and II they
did they would probably vote
against me. / am therefore not
for the Iynching bill to get col
Ored votes. l am doing it because
think it Is right, and because
it will take a stigma from the
escutcheOn of the United States
of America"
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

April in the Federal City is al
ways notable because 1t Is the
month in which the National SO
ciety of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution hold their annua,
congress. This is the 46th veal
in which this distinguished gather
ing Of representative women from
every State in the Union has met
in the National Capital to re-affirm
the devotion Of its members to the
patriotic detectives of the D. A. r
These detectives are:
/. To perpetuate the memory
and spirit of the men and women
who achieved American indie
pendence.
2. To follow the advice and to
be guided by the cOunsels given
by "The Father Of His Country"
In the Farewell Address.
3. To cherish, maintain and
extend the institutions Of Ameri-
can freedom "tO foster true
patriotism and love Of country,
and TO aid in securing for man.
kind all the blessings Of Lib
erty."
Toward the attainment Of the
first of these detectives, the
Daughters have taken the lead in
every State in the Union.
LEAD THE WAY
Through the Chapters of their
Society their organized efforts are
arousing the people to the duty OF
providing for the care Of the graves
Of the Patriots who under the
leadership Of washington fought
and won the War for American
Independence. The Daughters
have also taken the lead in aiding
hundreds Of communities to &C
quire and protect historical places.
Under their leadership and
largely through their efforts monu-
ments have been built and markers
placed to bear witness to the graft
tude Of succeeding generations for
the toll and sacrifice of those who
labored in the early days to lay
firm the foundations of the Union.
Furthermore, by the preserva-
ton Of documents and relics, by
the compiling of records Of the in
dividual services of the soldiers Of
the Revolution, and by the promo.
ton Of celebrations of patriotic
anniversaries, the Daughters in the
forty.eight States have done more
than any other national society
Of men or women to foster that
national recollection" which is
"the foundation Of national char
acter" and a never failing well
spring of patriotism.
All Of the admonitions and
counsels of the Farewell Address
make up the maxims Of the
D. A. r.
It is therefore to be expected
that all those who sheer at the
Farewell Address fail to appreciate
the indispensable service which
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Important Articles

OF DIRECT interest to EVERY resident of the Dis
" trict is series of articles by Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle the needs of the public school system which
starts in The Washington Times today.
Mrs. Doyle, president of the Board of Education,
KNOWS what is necessary to bring the local educa-
tona system up to standard adequate to the demands
of the National Capital
And in her series in The Times she states those needs
definitely and clearly.
Every parent of every child attending the schools
will want to read the articles in order to ascertain the
things of which his child is being deprived.
Every taxpayer of the community will want to read
them in order to know what his money is being spent
for and what it should be spent for.
Every business man will want to read the articles in
order that he may know the merits and dement's of the
educational SYSTEM for every business knows that
the community cannot grow and prosper unless it offers
to the children opportunity to obtain the best in the
way of education.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

Folks at the race track-lot OF
excitement. Everybody betting,
of course-plunging as far as
they dared on some favor1te.
Then the race tore loose with
the usual wild screams-this time
largely for a certain horse.
Suddenly one excited spectator
noticed that a small colored boy
beside him, instead of shouting
for the favorite, was screaming !:
Come on, come on, Sumpln!
COME ON SUMPIN!"
Surprised, the white man
studied his card, then asked the
youngster: What you yelling like
that for Come on, sumpin!
sumpin?' There's no horse with
that name in this race"
Sure there amt Mistah,"
grinned the little chap. II knows
it. But it's thisSa way. Yuh see,
aim takin' no chances. So Use
got a dollar bet on every boss in
dis yeah field. Thatta way, I can't
fail nohow. That's why I hollers,
Come on, Sumpin.'
DREAMS AND HOPES
Use got dollar bet on every
boss in dis yeah field-that's why
I hollers Come on, Sumpin."
There, fellow gamblers, is as game
a design for living" as you'd find
in q dozen PHILOSOPHERS. I suppose
one might dig up a score of elias,
steal quotations which would put
it more POLITICALLY, but none OF
them could go deeper to the core
of our human misery and foolish
ness.
How frantically we, too, surge
to the race track Of Life with oul
dreams and hopes, ideals and am
billions. How ardently we pick oul
favorite-Some job upon which we
pin all our pride, some loved one
to whom we give all our devotion
wagering recklesSly, lavishly-
plunging everything we have!
AND then-we lose. Not thu
first time, perhaps. Nor the sec
| OI1us Dun OOOA1CL Va 4oOCAB A4CNAS
ably, we lose. And, whether thu
thing on which we'd wagered oul
all was noble-a beautiful love
a great task-or whether it wa
petty and mean, in either case
our world crashes. We've lost
We've given all we had to Civ
and yet-we've lost!
It isn't fair! What's the us'
of trying, if life's like this
What's the use of believing, strug
Cling, sacrificing, If a trick o
Fate can sweep everything ava!
at one blow? IT'S ALL WRONG
So we cry-Striking out fran
tically against unanswering silenc
poisoning ourselves with OH
own bitterness and self-pity! s.
blinded by anger and grief tina
we cannot see, we've brought tn
tragedy on ourselves by nmitin
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
HOW TO DO TT

The second letter from "Sage
Brush" the self-styled "Constitu-
ent-at-Large," has arrived at the
congressional offices.
He is the person who has de-
cided to write a letter a week to
all members of Congress in order
to get it all off his chest. In the
preface to this weeks letter he
philosophically opines:
'Tt is well known to US all
that ours is far from q perfect
society. Most Of us believe that
things could be very much better
for the vast majority of us. If
they are ever to become so, the
faults and defects must be adj
mitted, faced and vanquished.
There is no need, however, for
being lOng.faced or piOus about
this. You can't cry a new world
into being, and you can look a
fact in the eye, or clean up on
an enemy much more effectively
with a grin, or even q guffaw,
than with heaving chest and
mOiStened eye."
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
KNIGHT AND DAY

Speaking of appropriations, there
is a story on Capitol Hill now in
volving one of the Coast Guard
stations nearby.
At an annual inspection not so
long ago it developed that a mule
was kept at the station. The in.
speeding officer was somewhat mys-
titled and said that he had never
seen any request for money to
feed the animal and he wanted
to know where the maintenance
funds came from.
The man to whom he directed
the question passed it off by say
ing they got along.
To show that this is possible he
explained that for about Is years
this station had two mules. In
order, so the story goes, that they
would have enough money to feed
them, they were carried on the
rolls a.. CoXswain Knight and Day.
It was all right, he said, until
they got orders for the transfer
Of the coXswainS to other stations
and they had to give that up.
Well, a sailor did tell the story,
anyway,
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

,began to function again. Streets
that had become dusty and lit
tered were cleaned and decked
with flowers. Buildings that had
been closed for seasons were re-
decorated and rebuilt.
Hotels, restaurants and casinos
caught the fever of optimism and
dug until they found the money
with which to bring themselves
smartly up-to-date. Monte Carlo,
Nice, and Cannes, of course, had
managed to keep up some pretense
and were not so neglected.
One of the greatest improve
ments being effected is in the
roads. For years the road be-
tween Nice and Cannes, to men.
ton only one main highway, has
been a torture trail" to motor
lists.
Now this road, as well as others.
has been widened and straight.
ened out; hairpin curves and
other dangerous points have been
eliminated.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

aren't you?
Then here's a
yarn W hi c h
should be good
for what ails
you-you and q
lot of other
s ore Heads.
Heard it over
j a ok Oakie'S
radio hour re-
Gently, and I've
been chuckling
ever since. /
didn't ca t C h
the beginning
but it ran, I
t hink k, some
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
BY T. E.. POWers

eSI0Vak1a as a long, narrow SCf1p
right on the body of the Continent.
The country is 594 miles long, but
in depth it gets as narrow as As
miles and at the most is ITS miles
deep.
Germany lies to the north, west
and south. On the north, also, is
Poland. Austria, Hungary and
Rumania border on the south.
Hemmed in as it is, CzechoSlovakia
is described generally by sympa-
thetic writer's as IAN island of
democracy in a sea of dictator
ships"
The Czechs make good use of
this, especially in their efforts to
keep the sympathy of France and
England.
Their President, Benes, has the
reputation of being the best states
man in Europe, and though the
weight OF that honor may be ques-
tionable, one cannot take it away
from BeneS that he usually knows
what he is after and how to get it.
Had it not been for Masaryk and
BeneS there would be no Czecho-
Slovakia today. They and their
countrymen had been the hewerS
of wood and the drawers of water
for the Austro-H ungarians up un-
til the World War. That conflict
gave the Czech patriots their op-
portunity and they used it to help
bring about the downfall of Franz
JoSef'S empire.
Masaryk and Benes, working in
Switzerland, England and Russia,
organized the CzechS on the side
Of the Allies.
Regiments were equipped for
France, while. in Siberia, an army
of CzechS, made up largely OF
priSoners-of-war taken by the Car
list armies, fought the BolsheviSts
and prevented supplies from get
ting through to the Germans.
This help and the doctrine OF
self determination, promulgated by
Wilson and accepted by the Allies,
led to recognition Of the Czecho-
Slovakian Republic.
Looking back, it seems strange
how this principle of self-deter'
mination of peoples applied only
to those in the domains of the
conquered. It did not free the
Irish, the people Of India or OF
Frances Morocco. It did include
100000 Germans in the new
country Of the Czechs, almost one
fourth of the entire population.
Hitler is working on these Ger
mans today and at least one-third
of them are NaziS. agitating FOL
union with Germany.
SOONER OR LATER
The Czechs, with their munition
plants, manufactures ana their
agriculture, are prosperous and
should grow more so-unless that
war comes along. They are ex
pecting it, though not immediate
ly, and Benes is working fran
tically to avert it.
/ But, in Europe, many who
should know believe that unless
CzechoSlovakia puts herself com
mercially under German domino
ton the blow will fall, sooner OF
later. Today she stands astride
the highway Of the 'Berlin-to-Bag
dad commercial empire which Ger
many has built up since the war
She is blocking the road and she
has France and Russia at heI
back.
CzechoSlovakia, itself, is not SC
important to these allies. They
are more concerned in keeping
Germany in check, both CONNER
cially and in a military sense. The
Germans insist that they won't be
kept in check. OF such stuff are
our wars made.
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate, Ino.)
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

laugh and then
always among
friends. B u t,
Representa- v e
M a ury Nav
erick is not
q person to
S ay ANYTHING
unless he says
it right out.
And so when
h e m a d e q
speech about
the ssnti-lynch-
ing law in the
House he start
ed il out llKa
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

S4GCWys
cat this mo-
m g n G er-
many is ready
to spring at
CT echOslova-
kia, and such
q move must
mean war"
The French
government, de
spite the sorry
condition of Its
own finances
and the neces
sity Of paying
very high inter
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Wise Words

No receipt openeth the heart
but a true friend, to whom you
may impart griefs, joys, fears,
hopes, suspicious, counsels and
whatsoever heth upon the heart
to Cypress it, in kind Of civil
shrift or confeSsion.-Lord Bacon
Hope thinks nothing difficult:
despair tells us that difficulty is
insurmountable-Dr. I. Watts.
The greatest step Is that out
Of doors.-German proverb.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
The Greatest Show On Earth
Bu Frank MILLER Smith

>take up the four department bills
the next day. If the committee
had kept on with its discussion
and the Senate had quit early to
go to the. ball game without a
report from the committee it could
not have been taken up until a
day later. So the report was made
and written UP later.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
GONE ON, SUMPIN!"

Lost out again? Had another
hard knock? And you're just
about ready to take the count
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Small Claims Court

xxTHTTE opponents of the proposal to set up small
w claims and cancellation branch of the Municipal
Court have shown that it might be wise to amend the
pending court bill to certain Details they have been
unable to deract from the fundamental purposes of
the measure.
Those who favor the bill have shown commendable
disposition to accept amendments suggestions for
changes which have been advanced with the sincere aim
of improving the machinery which the bill would set up
Senator William Il. King, chairman of the Senate Dis
trict Committee and sponsor Of the BILL has held two
hearings at which both sides given ample oppor-
tunity to present their views.
It is unfortunate that some of the witnesses should
have lowered the value of their testimony by devotlng
their time to attacks on individuals and groups rather
than to dispassionate discussion of the bill and its
purposes.
Briefly the purpose Of the small claims branch as
proposed in the King bill Is to make justice cheaper and
simpler for the poor engaged either as plaintiff
or defendant in litigation involving relatively small
amounts-one hundred dollars in the original proposal
and fifty dollars under suggested amendment.
It is difficult to believe that anyone could quarrel
with that purpose and it is probable that those who
are opposng the measure are not doing because of
any lack of sympathy with the poorer tgant unhappiy
engaged in prosecuting or defending small claim.
Their objections probably stem from the form which
the branch would take and from the detailed procedure
as outlined in the bill
The compromises which the proponents have an
nounced themselves willing to accept should 60 long
way toward meeting these technical objections and
should bring the bill out of the District committee in
time for passage at the present session Of Congress
Judge Nathan Cayton, of the Municipal Court, the
father of the pending proposal advanced his plan for
small claims branch only after exhaustive study OF
conditions here and of the operation of such branches
in other jurisdictions.
AS forward looking student Of the law Judge Cay
ton believes that the operation Of his plan will do much
to eliminate some of the current dissatisfaction with
the operation of the lower courts and will enhance the
respect of the poor for the operation Of the law
With these sentiments Senator King apparently
agreed when he introduced the Cayton plan in the
form of bill
And with those sentiments thousands of Washing
tonians have announced their agreement through their
civic organizations.
Opposition to minor details should not be allowed to
stand in the way Of bringing about this desirable and
desired reform.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
IN THE OPEN

It's an old one but because Of
It's implications it is usually re-
erred to with a nervous little
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
The Human Side of the News
BIZ EdlUin C.. Hill

The Duchess Of Athlone rises Inc
the House Of Commons to say ex-
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

the Federal City ~the D. A. is rendering the
ways notable because Is the hold of the Nation.
month in which the National So No less logical the penal