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safer rule seems to be that any
thing can happen, and probably
will.
The mould Of prophecy may be
cracked by undreamed forces. Two
weeks ago, the betting was all on
Franco in Spain. Then he COM
mitted the faux pas of grabbing
the Rio Tinto copper mines. That
has put different face on world
affairs-on the world crisis.
The accident Of Disraeli's suave
influence with Victoria Regina
may have had r2ore to do with
empire building than gunpowder.
1t was an accident that gave
Surgeon General Wood news Of
the approach of British ships and
enabled us to get our flag UP in
California just jump ahead of
them.
This new chemical agriculture
may, or may not, be one Of these
incalculable things which bob up
like the double o on the roulette
wheel when you have everything
else covered and think you can't
lose.
It has been coming to a head
for the last three years, not only
in this country but in Denmark,
Germany and England.
In a rig not much bigger than a
refrigerator, they have stirred up
their chemicals, supplied uniform
artificial light and heat, and
grown perfectly edible tomatoes,
beans, cabbages and other vege-
tables.
Around IS tons to the acre is q
fair yield of tomatoes. With no
acreage to speak of and no soil at
all, DR.. Gericke has produced 200
tons of the highest quality Of to-
matoes, which scientists analyZe
and find lacking in no vitamins or
nouriShing element.
NATURES BALANCE
AS far back as Paracelsus, In
the Fifteenth century, scientists
have been worrying about modern
agriculture upsetting the balance
of nature. Huxley, of England, has
been losing sleep over it. We set
out banquets for bugs in our green
fields and gardens and enable
creatures to survive which. in the
general free-for-all, would have
been eliminated by their more
ferociouS enemies.
DIR. L. o. Howard, former head
of the Bureau Of Entomology OF
the Department of Agriculture, has
been intoning for years the quite
probable conquest of man by the
insects. How much would his pre-
dictionS amount to, and he was
certainly qualified prophet, II the
kitchen conjurers bring through
their synthetic, Soilless, sunless
vegetables, as they promised to do?
And what about Stuart Chase
and other irrefutable prophets who
foreshadow our doom because We
have looted the soil? We may not
need any soil, is the answer TO
that.
Copyright 1917, by King Features
Syndicate. Ine.)
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Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

the stamina and discrimination to
keep only those thoughts which
make life finer and rid themselves
of all the silly, cumbersome clut-
ter.
An orderly mind-what lovely
thing it is! Like some Of those
charming rooms you visited dur
ing the holidays. Quiet, dis
tinguished rooms, that radiated
rest and inspiration through their
deliberate simplicity. So different
from the dismal dumps other peo-
pie inhabited.
Clutter-materia litter, mental
trash. And there's human clut-
ter, too. Those meaningless, triV-
ial people who accumulate in ones
life. People without any purpose
in themselves, who destroy all
your own plans and peace. Shall
low chatterers- worthless drifters
hanging on the telephone all
day-always trying to organize
a party"
Think back over the year. How
much good time, money and en-
ergy have you wasted on such hu-
man clutter? How often have
you been able to preserve one
peaceful evening for yourself, free
from their riot and rumpus?
Yes, you get steamed up about
them. Yell that they're a pest.
Vow you'll never let them spoil
another hour. Then you get sorry
for them-ashamed of yourself.
After all, Bills a great guy T..
and dear old Mabel has a heart
of gold.
All right-kid yourself if you
wish. But the simple truth is that
Bill and Mabel and all their crowd
are a bunch Of barnacleS and
you're a fool for letting them
wreck what might be an upStand-
ing career. They're exactly on a
par with the tinsel rubbish you've
crammed into the garbage pail
and the mental trash which
should follow it.
Clutter-all kinds of clutter.
Material, mental and human.
You'll never get anywhere with
your life-you'll never make any
thing Of yourself-until you clear
out the clutter!
FIRST GESTURE
ORDER that's the foundation
Of Civilization. The jungle had no
order. savage existence had no
order. And, because it had no
order, it knew no security or peace.
A hunger for Order rose from a
revolt against the jungle's disor'
der-the jungle'S insecurity.
Order was Mans first gesture
toward a safe and systematized
God a God Man could bank on
work with not the chancey
blood-thirsty monsters of the
jungle.
Order is still the sign of civil
lied man - civilized lives; the
source Of profit, progress ano
peace. Without order, you are q
savage lost in a tangled jungle
CLEAR OUT THE CLUTTER
REFUSE TO BE BURIED BY
THE JUNGLE WITHIN OR
WITHOUT YOU!
(This column tUelcon1eS and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters t0tll be
died confdentidIly and
GnSWered promptly il stamped,
addressed envelopes ore in
cluded)
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate, Ine.)
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what one pays,
q new house al
ways costs at
least 40 p e r
cent more than
the origi n a l
estimate. After
lays of this, the
wife bobbed up
with q bright
idea.
81 dom t
know what's
the matter"
said s h e,
"There'S . n
easy way TO
ret Ou n d
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ravelled tinsel.
T h e n, besides,
all that stuff
you era m med
into the spare
bureau drawers
and under the
d a v e n port, to
make room for
Uncle AL, Aunt
Kate and Jun
ior. Stuff you
vowed you'd get
rid of months
ago. Usel e S S
knick -knacks.
Dire S Sc S Y o u
S h ould g v {
nurov hllnAleS
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as he attempt
ed to cross the
rotunda.
He had gotten
through t h e
double line of
detectives, Ma
rines, s e cr e t
service m e n
and uniformed
police to get
into the Capt.
tol and was on
his way to a
vantage point
out of the rain.
The Marine
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Set the Example

TrNHE movement for improving conditions OF govern
ment employees particularly by bringing their pay
scale up to reasonable base comcnds the support OF
all those Capitol Hill who are sympathetic to the
needs and aspirations of workers generally.
The effort improve the standard of workers IN the
Federal service is not osered by desire simply to ad
vance the welfare of particular group.
THE ULTIMATE OBJECT is THAT THROUGH
BETTERMENT OF THE TREATMENT ACCORDED
THIS PARTICULAR GROUP A CoRRESPO ONDING
IMPROVEMENT CAN BE WON FOR ALL WORKING
MEN AND WOMEN.
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sergeant stop FRANK NJ. SMITH
ned him and demanded his pass.
He showed it to him and was told
that he had no business coming
into the Capitol on that pass and
he would have to get a proper
pass to get OUT. The unidentl-
fled stranger turned suddenly
then and went in another dlrec-
tion and was soon lost in the mill
ing crowds.
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Cleaning up after Christmas
migosh, what a nuisance!
That mountain of crumpled
tissue paper, torn tags and cards,
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TRAPPED

Perhaps one of the most as
tonished visitors to the Capitol on
Inauguration Day was the man
who was stopped by the Marines
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REASSURING
It sounded alike anyway.

It sounded alike anyway.
A lady who was downtown buy
ing a new dress to wear for the
inaugural tells this one. The sales
lady was trying her best to get
the young customer to wear a
dress two sizes smaller than she
usually wears.
It would have pleased the Gus
toner no end if she had dared to,
but she thought they looked TOO
tight on her. She said:
I'D wear this dress, only
feel so self conscious when my
clothes are tight"
To which the saleslady replied:
"I'n press this dress for you
and then you won't feel con-
scientiOuS at all"
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NATIONS TRAGEDY

Representative John M. Coffee
of Washington is personal
friend of DR.. w. w. Mattson
whose son was kidnapped and
killed.
In the appendix of the Congress
sional Record he raises the ques-
ton of whether the economic con-
ditions in the country are not re-
sponsible for such things as this
kidnapping. He says:
"Mr. Speaker, have we been
guilty of some reprehenSible
commissions In our economic
structure? Do the injuSticeS
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Keep This Pledge

Resolved: That it be the Of this convention
that committee &hould be appointed by the Congress
Of the United States to make study Of and to report
on the oraning to the residents Of the District Of
Columbia the right of suffrage Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia
June 26, 1886.
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The Human Side of the News
BY EdWin C. Hill

A young married couple knew
were planning a house. The man
was moaning because. no matter
The Washington times., 1937-01-22

The Government realizes that through its own efforts
the problem of the great army of unemployed cannot be
solved.
In order to put these people back to work and thus
curta the heavy relief burden is necessary that Gov
ernmcn he given the whoohcartod cooperation Of pri
vate employers.
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From it would come words of warning,
Telling where blame will be resting,
If an accident should happen
Despite safety devices.
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That cooperation, as has been often pointed out by
high Government officials best be given by reduc-
ing the hours of labor of those who employed,
thus increasing the number Of jobs, and by raising the
pay Of those who are employed thus stimulating pur-
chasing power and the demand for more goods which in
turn will create more Jobs.
Government cannot hope to convince all private en-
oyers that this of cooperation is warranted and
essential if it refuses to follow the course itself
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The time has now come for the Government to set an
other example to private industry
1T MUST SHOW INDUSTRY THAT ONCE AGAIN
THE GOVERNMENT IS READY TO LEAD THE WAY
TOWARD THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH 1T TELLS
INDUSTRY IT MUST BRING ABOUT.
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If the modern automobile
Could but talk to those who drive it,
1t would speak that truthful sentence
That is printed in the picture.
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1t cannot expect to induce private employers to take
this action if it procIams that the reasoning applies to
private employers but is nappcabe to the greatest en-
pover of aIl-the United States Government
One of the greatest imulans to economic recovery in
this country the restoration of the pay cuts which
had been inflicted Government employees at time
when the Government urging private employers to
maintain salary schedules.
That restoration told the private employers that the
Government itself was dropping the defeatst attitude
which it had adopted when it cut pay
And private industry dropped defcast attitude, too
through the force Of the Governments example.
The Washington times., 1937-01-22

History may repeat Itself, but .
safer rule seems to be that any
thing can happen, and probably
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20

or to figure out the right answers.
And one of the most charming
voices I ever heard belonged to a
Louisiana girl whose soft southern
accents were fascinatingly inter-
rupted at intervals by a sudden
stammer-like unexpected rippleS
in a gently flowing brook.
How to Relax.
% EFORE I started out here, feel
- ing somewhat jumpy after
wrestling radio program for six
months, Jimmy Swinnerton, the art
ist, who's one of the most devoted
friends these high mesas ever had,
advised me to try stretching out on
the desert sands as measure for
health and complete relaxation and
general toning up.
"Just lie down perfectly fat" he
said. Then he took another look at
my figure. Anyway. lie down. :"
he said.
So today I tried it. Another friend,
John Kirk. the famous Indian trad
er. helped me pick out suitable
spot on the Navajo reservation that
was forty miles from the nearest
habitation.
But the site I chose was already
pre-empted by a scorpion with a
fretful singer and an irritable dis
position that seemed to resent be-
ing crowded. So I got right up
again. In fact, I got up so swiftly
that Kirk said it was impossible to
follow the movement with the hu-
man eye. 1t was like magic, he
said.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
Unsuitable Flattery

Mr.. Eatwell, who was dining out.
had done lavish justice to the good
things before him. By way Of a
graceful apology he remarked with
a beaming smile directed towards
his hostess: 1--WE always heard,
ma'am, that the highest compi-
ment one can pay to the housekeep-
er is to eat heartily. You will OBJ
serve that I have been exceedingly
polite!"
'"Thank you, Mr.. Eatwell," smiled
back the hostess. Indeed, / think
that you have carried politeness to
the point of fattery!"-Montreal
Star.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20

inches; in cotton, they are 61s
inches. Join together, for tea or
dinner cloth, spread or scarf.
Pattern 1410 contains directions
and charts for making the squares
shown; illustrations of them and
of all stitches used; material re-
quirements.
Send Is cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept, 80 Eighth Ave, New York,
N. Y.
Write your name, address and
pattern number plainly.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
SecretiVe Fellow

II want to know" said the grim
faced woman, ''how much money
my husband drew out of the bank
last week"
81 cannot give you that informa-
ton, madam" said the man in the
cage.
You're the paying teller. aren't
you?"
Eyes, but l am not the telling
payer"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
Mirror Of Happiness

Happiness is reflective like the
light of Heaven; and every coun-
tenance bright with smiles, and
glowing with innocent enjoyment,
is mirror transmitting to others
the rays of supreme and ever
shining benevolence.-Irving.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20

most OF tnem can
swear fuently, thus
providing superior
emotional outlets in
two directions. One
of the smartest
criminal lawyers I
k now deliberately
cultivated a natural
impediment in his
speech. In court
room debates it
gave him more time
to think up either
A. .-Ik ~@-&.~
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Civilizations Predicament.

T FEEL it my duty to call atten-
L tion to the following warning, re-
Gently published:
THE earth is degenerating in
these latter days. bribery and
corruption abound. the children
no longer obey their parents. it
is evident that the end of the world
is approaching!"
However, it should be added that
this prediction is not, as might be
assumed from it's familiar ring,
the utterance of some inspired OBJ
server of the present moment. It
is a translation from an Assyrian
tablet, dated $500 B. c.
So, if the fulfillment of the doleful
prophecy has been delayed for a.
737 years it seems reasonable to
assume that it may be some months
yet before civilization flies all to
pieces.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
Dinner Cloth Of
CrOCheted Lace

Dress up your table, when COM
pany's expected, with this stun
ming lace cloth. Crochet either
identical squares, or companion
squares-they're easy fun, and
either way makes a handsome de-
sign as shown. Crochet them of
string and they'll measure 10
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
what (|Lh
-hWIS|t thinks
= about:
Curing Suffering.

CHIN LEE, ARIZ.-Away
~ up here in the Indian
country comes a newspaper,
saying some expert at cor
recting human utterance has
turned up with a cure for
suffering.
But why? BY his own admission.
nearly all Sufferers can sing and
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
Speed Crazed Drivers.

w see you almost daily. You're
roaring through populous streets or
skidding on hairpin turns or whirl-
ing at sixty perilous miles an hour
around the kinked and snaky twists
Of mountain roads like some de-
moniac bug racing along the spine
of coiled rattler.
If am one to say, you probably
have primed yourself for this sense
less speeding on that most danger
Gus of all mixed tipples-the fear
some combination of alcohol and
gasoline. Or perhaps, like the blind
mule of the folklore tale, you just
naturally don't care dern. One
thing is plain: Despite the high per-
centage of mortality your breed is
OIL the increase.
So, again. echoing the question
which the coroner must frequently
ask at the inquest, why the hurry,
Sonny Boy?
1t can't be that anybody wants
you back at the place where you've
been or that anybody else will be
glad to see you at the place where
you're going.
Really now, Sonny Boy. what is
all the hurry about?
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20

G)-WNU Service,
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-05-20
Waning States Rights.

a S watch commonwealth after
"A commonwealth below the Ma
son and Dixon line tumbling over
one another to embrace centralized
authority in exchange for federal
funds for local projects, I'm re-
minded of trip which a friend of
mine out here just made.
He's a descendant of the Lees and
he decided to pay a pious pilgrim
age to the last remaining strong
hold of the late Southern Confed-
eracy. So he went to the only two
states that voted last fall for states
rights, making his headquarters in
the ghost city of Passamaquoddy
He reports that, in both Maine
and Vermont, the secession senti-
ment is getting stronger all the time
and that there's a growing tendency
to name boys for Jeff Davis rather
than Ethan Allen or Neal B. Dow.
IRWIN S. COBB.
@-WNU Service.
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place at Chatham, Mass, as is
his usual custom.
Justice Harlan r. Stone plans
a trip to Mexico City as soon, as
the court receSSeS, and later he
will repair to his summer place in
Maine to stay until the new term
approaches in october.
Justice Butler has a place at
Blue Ridge Summit, Pa, where he
spends the summer, and Justice
owen j. Roberts has q farm near
Philadelphia, where he raises pure
blooded cattle.
Justice BENJAMIN N. Cardozo
will retire to his home at Rye,
N. Y, for the summer.
Hughes i'm No Hurry
Chief Justice Hughes has In
formed inquirers he has no def
mite plans for the recess. He prob
ably will follow his usual custom
of remaining in the Capital on
court work until hot weather, and
then motor through the Berk-
shires and the White and Green
Mountains. as he has done for sew
eral years past.
Justice McReynoldS, q bachelor,
and the ssdie.haTdestg member Of
the bench against the New Deal,
has no plans for the summer. Nor
are there any rUmorS about his
retirement, even though he is rs.
He recently wrote friend that
under the circumstances" he had
no choice but to stay on the bench.
1.-THE circumstances" was inter-
preted to mean that he would not
retire so long as Franklin D.
Roosevelt occupied the White
House.
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Marine Orders

Marie Corps orders currently effective
included:
Major General
Louis M. Little, Diet. Washington, May
Z; to duty as c. G., +. NJ. F., NJ. c. B.,
San Diego, Calf. and add. duty a. c.
c.. N. o. B., delay to June ~.
Lieuntenant Colonies
June i; to staff N. C. s., N. B., ouantico.
Frank whitehead, same, July 1; to y.
n. r.. N. C. B., San Diego. Aug. /.
Majors
Roy d. Lowell, orders March :, det.
Paris Island, May /, to home to retire on
June 80, revoked.
Portsmouth, Va, June /; to N. B., N.
T. g., Great Lakes, Ill.
william C. Hall, detail az A. P. N. r.
voked, Elective as Of April 2S.
Captains
J. W. Cunningham, orders to Norfolk
"a, Portsmouth, revoked; San Fran
cisco. May / to home to retire July 1.
Henry r. Paige, Quantico, May Is; to
NJ. B., N. s., Guam, sail from Norfolk
David K. Claude, Diet Philadelphia
July /; to Inf. Sch, TT. Benning. Ca.
Robert e. HOganboOm, orders April Z
modified; on arrival at Shanghai China.
assg. Attn Mar.
Kark K. LOuther, orders March 20 mOdi.
field; same.
Raymond p. coffman, Diet. May i. San
Diego: to M. B., Yd., Cavite, p. l., sail
from Los Angeles June /.
Clarence H. Yost, det. May II. Shang'
hal; to Dept of Pacific, sail from
Shanghai May 20.
Francis NJ. McAlister, det. ouantico,
May 20, to H. O., Washington, June l.
John Walter, orders March 30 re-
voked; Diet. San Diego, June l; to NJ. B..
N. T. D., Mare Island, Calf.
First Lieutenants
Deano C. Roberts, Diet. Pensacola May
Is; to VO So. s-M, Charlotte Amalie
st. Thomas, v. I. sail from New Or
Peter A. Mcdonald, .det. ouantico May
Is; to duty as Q. in c., Rcrtg. Dist. Of
Cincinnati.
Quantico revoked; Diet. San Diego May
Is; to duty a. Q. in c., Rcrtg. Dist Of
Bankson T. HoIcomb. jr., det. Peiping,
July /; to M B. Quantico, arrive in
United States by Aug. l.
Second ieutenants
Bernard E. Dunkie, det. Pensacola; e
n. b. Yard, Pearl Harbor, T. H., sail
from Los Angeles June l.
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; SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN A
GUEST HOUSE:
We have new design for living
to offer those who are without
their own homes or apartment and
feel somewhat impermanent in
Washington guest house
with an environment purely per
Sonal but interested management.
Your health and contentment is
the keynote of their interest. To
give you an idea of the type Of
service that is offered to you, let
me tell you a little Of the back
ground Of the lady in charge. She
is an experienced person having
years Of experience in meeting the
public and has a unique insight
into the average persons problems
and desires. An added attraction
is the roof where you will be able
to get the benefit of "Old SOP in
all his glory. The theory Of this
establishment is that ones morale
responds to regular meals, to the
art of a good chef and a cheerful
atmosphere.
FURN. APT. (KenyOn st. N. W.:
Just around the corner from
Fourteenth Street on Kenyon
Street is a two-bedroom, living
room, kitchen and bath furnished
apartment that is available i'm
mediately. This is in one of those
quiet, well-kept buildings that is
noted for its reserved tenants, and
its upkeep. While this is not an
elaborate apartment, the furnish.
ingS are well selected and comfort
able. Rental, $75 q month.
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GUEST hOUSE, 10TH 81. N. W.:
Do you like everything bright
and clean? In this guest house on
upper Thirteenth Street, the en-
tire house has been redecorated;
the floors have been done over and
the management has furnished
each room with new furniture.
The rooms are spacious, well ven
tilated and have deep roomy
closets. On each floor there is
q bath, which will relieve conges-
ton. Be sure to investigate this
guest house if you are in the mood
for changing your living quarters.
GUEST HOUSE (Ashmead PI):
AShmead Place, located just off
Connecticut Avenue, is noted for
its lovely homes and surroundings.
One Of these houses has Just been
turned into q guest house with va
cancies Of single and double rooms.
This house is q particularly
friendly one with every aid to the
guests comfort. If you are the
quiet, discriminating type, this
should interest you.
FURN. ROOM 70 st. N. W.:
Que Street is not only q conven-
lent street to live on but also a
very exclusive one. You will recog-
nize the atmosphere, dignity and
culture Immediately on entering
this house and one could not help
but be happy in such pleasant sur
roundings. The room is on the
third floor front, and is Of ade-
quate size to take care Of two
comfortably. The rental is quite
moderate. >..