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John D. Rockefeller

T Ohm D. ROCKEFELLER, SR., one of the greatest
- this country any other country has ever pro-
duced, died at the age of g.
Mr.. Rockefeller not only an American citizen
He was world citizen. Every corner of the earth
has felt the benefits of his farseeing and farflung
philanthropy. Millions of Chinese are alive today for
the sole that he gave large portion of his
wealth to their welfare
Plague spots in darkest Africa have been stamped
out by Rockefeller's scientists.
The scourges of malaria and hookworm in the South
States of own land have been virtually elim-
mated because he had the vision the determination and
resources to combat them.
There is hardly community in the United States or
territory abroad which has not been shaped for the
better by his enlightened for humanity.
Born poor American boy July 10, 1885, Mr..
Rockefeller's spanned almost century. By
intelligence and hard work he reached heights of
wealth which made Midas look like beggar, but the
unique distinction of his long and useful life was the
wide disposal of the gigantic which the march of
civilization and his genius combined to accumulate
Personal ability and public responsibility are not
always combined in the same individual. In Mr. Rookie
Teller they were, to degree seldom equalled before in
history His death is not merely the passing of great
American, but of great world figure We shall not
look upon his like again.
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

smashing her way through the ice
fields to reach the survivors, and
Capt. Einar Lundberg, a Swedish
flier, landed his small plane on
the ice and took off General
Mobile. Several of his men car
ried away on the balloon part Of
the ship were never found.
The loss of the British R-101
on October S, 1890, when it struck
a hill while passing over France.
was the most terrifying OF all
the crashes. There were So per-
sons aboard the ship and only
five lived to tell the tale. Forty
six men were killed, probably in
simultaneously.
The R-101 was the biggest air
ship in existence on the day that
she set out from her home port
in Bedfordshire to fly to India.
Five minutes after two in the
morning, the catastrophe occurred
at Allonne, near Beauva1s. IN
France.
BRITAIN'S R-1O1
The night was wild. There were
heavy transforms and terrific gusts
of wind. Loaded down by the
rain which beat upon her vast
bulk, the ship bore lower and
lower until she rammed one Of the
low hills which surround the
town of Allonne. She was hurt
and well-nigh helpless under the
battering of the storm. Nosing off
from the hill she first rammed.
she blundered along through the
night and downpour, her nose
dipping violently, and finally
struck hard against another hill.
There was terrific explosion.
The whole ship burst into flames.
The countryside was bright for
many miles around from this ter
rible illumination of disaster and
death. And then the flaming
ship blew up with a vast report,
frightful roar which shook the
stone houses of the French peas
ants far and near.
The blast brought frightened
men and women running into the
fields, fearing that judgment day
was at hand. When the first of
the terrified people neared the
spot where the R-101 had crashed
in flames, the heat was so intense
they could not approach within
many yards. The bodies that
were recovered revealed what a
desperate effort the doomed men
had made to escape. Clenched
hands and limbs drawn back In
agoniZed postures showed how
they had fought to make their
way out of the flaming wreckage
And while the bonfire roared
consuming the fragments of the
ship and it's dead. the French
peasants sank upon their knees
in the overwhelming and dreadful
light Of the leaping flames, ano
: prayed, a great circle of simple
terrified men and women.
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. 1no.)
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into the office of Col. Edwin A..
Halsey, Secretary of the Senate,
and shown around the floor OF the
Senate.
While in with Colonel Halsey
newspaperman asked him If he
were to interpret Congress in
music what piece would he use?
Under the approving smiles OF his
wife, Margaret Livingston, whom
everyone remembers for her act
ing on the screen, Mr.. Whiteman
baked.
"Now, you've got me on a hot
spot" he said. II couldn't an.
swer that question without some
serious thought. You see, I'm a
colonel on the staff of the gov
ernOr of Texas and I have to be
careful what I say. I'm also
colonel on the StaffS of a
couple Of other governors and
I'd have to think that question
over"
Just like a Senator.
Anyway, it was decided that the
Rhapsody in Blue" was out, but,
considering the heavy expenditures
Of this Congress, it might be
worked into a Rhapsody in the
Red" Not that Mr.. Whiteman
thought of that. No, sir. He's
too good politician.
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Three Minute Journeys

and check off each item as 1t IS
slowed away. Also make another
list of what has gone into each
piece Of baggage. Try and keep
a small case or duffle bag for the
overflow that always manages to
materialize.
BAGGAGE LISTS
When you go aboard ship see
that all baggage and packages for
the cabin used are placed therein.
Get aboard as many hours as pos
sible in advance of sailing time,
for there is much to do if one
would have nice trip.
See the various stewards for
deck chair and dining seat 1oca-
lions. If one books through a
tourist agency, then these details
are invariably taken care of by the
agent. But during the busy season
there are often Slip-ups. Anyhow,
if the seats have been secured in
advance, check with the stewards
as soon as possible. And locate
your personal room steward and
get in touch with him as soon as
possible.
After the din of departure, there
is unpacking to do. Then it is
nice to familiarize oneself with the
ship, finding out the quickest way
to the various public rooms and.
of course, the location of the life.
boat to which the passenger has
been assigned, the number of
which will be found conspicuously
posted in each cabin.
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invested Ill GIlc 1luSC SAo4V WSAS
thrown away.
Our own Shenandoah was
caught in a seventy-mile gale, near
Caldwell, Ohio, on the night OF
September 3, 1925, and the ship
broke into three pieces. Lieut.:
Comdr. Zachary LansdoWne ana
thirteen of his crew were dashed
to death; two were gravely IN
jured and twenty-Seven escaped.
The ship struck a line-squau,
the variety of storm most feared
by airmen, early in the morning as
she was flying at a height of 5000
feet. The winds were beyond the
strength of the ship. She broke
into pieces like a child,s toy pal
loon. The surviving officer was
Lieutenant Commander Rosen.
dahl, who later became the first
commander of the Akron.
OTHER DISASTERS
Among the other great dirigible
disasters are the loss OF the Brit
ish zR-2, the Italian-built Toma,
the French Dixmude, the Italian
ship Italia, and the great British
R-1O1. The loss of the British
ZR.2 was especially shocking to
America, because many American
officers were aboard when it was
destroyed over the Humber River
in England, in August, 1921.
The ship had been taken from
the German fleet at the close OF
the war. The ZR-2 was flying over
Hull when it burst into flames,
buckled, broke into pieces and
plunged downward into the Hum
Der River after two terrifying ex-
plosions. Forty-four of the 40 per-
sons aboard went to their deaths.
Commander Wann, with the
great airship cracking in two and
the flames creeping ever nearer
the IA great bags filled with highly
explosive hydrogen, opened wide
the throttleS of the six powerful
engines and hurled the dying
monster into the shadows of the
river, thus saving the town of Hull
from an unimaginable horror.
The next disaster was the de
struction of the U. S. Army air
ship, the Roma, on February 81,
1922, in Virginia. Thirty-four mer
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MODERN CHIYALRY

Because of the chivalry Of a
gentleman who works at the CAPT.
toll, Mrs. Roosevelt was able to get
her hair fixed without any incon.
venience this week.
Mrs. Roosevelt is in the habit
of having her hair done at the
White House. But yesterday it
wasn't convenient, so she sent
word to her usual beauty parlor
on Seventeenth Street, that she
would like to come to the shop
and named the operator she
wanted.
It so happened that the time
and the operator mentioned con-
flicted with a steady customer who
is taking six treatments to keep
his curly locks from disappearing
faster than nature DEGREES.
The manager Of the parlor was
in a other and had the gentle.
man called on the telephone to see
if he would give up his time to
the First Lady. He withdrew very
graciously and refuses to divulge
his name because his wife Is kid
ding him enough about it.
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prised. diSmayed refusing to
accept the situation. Stubbornly
you twirl page after page through
the machine. cover them With
a mass of incoherent tappings.
yank them out again. ~
The hours pass. The clutter
overflows the waStebasket. You're
trembling. A whole day gone ana
nothing done! Blankly you stare
into the hooking twilight. your
hands hang idle. your head 1alls
forward with a sob. There's no
use! You know it now! You're
WRITTEN OUT! oh, yes; per-
haps you'll get another job: But.
as writer, you're fms h d
THROUGH!
Desolation! Then presently an.
other day, another week-as amaz-
ingly as it went, the power re-
turns! A word sticks. E. "a SEN
tence makes sense, "a paragraph
flows, filled with the old fire! It's
back! You've made contact
broken the jinx. you're writing
again! 1nanK GOQ-On' Cnank
God!
COMMON TO ALL
A "brain storm? No. Just zone
of those times" that every writer
knows. And not only writer's.
Every mortal, humble or great,
who dares to dream and battle,
toll and love. King on his throne,
farmer at his plough, weary
mother drudging for her babies. :.
sooner or later this feeling of utter
failure comes.
! Even to q young God. dying on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-27
SEA VOYAGES

No matter how many times one
has made a transoceanic trip, the
thrill is always there-the antici-
patton, the excitement of sailing
day, the discovery of old friends
and the making of new acquaint-
ances from the roster of ones
fellow travellers. Those who have
made the trip many times are
travel-wise and attend to every
possible detail we'll in advance Of
time. Thus they assure themselves
of a smooth embarkation and
smooth sailing, at least so far as
details are concerned. And he
who is making his first trip can
appear like seasoned traveller If
he takes leaf out of the vet.
eran's travel book.
PASSPORTS
AS soon as the itinerary Is
checked and the steamship tickets
arranged for, it is well to make
application for the passport. It is
good to allow about three weeks
to provide for any possible delay.
Then comes the visa for the
country where the traveller will
disembark. Letters of credit and
other documents that may be
necessary should be handled well
in advance of the week before
sailing. The subject of baggage is
an important one and should be
studied in advance.
Many travellers limit their bag
gage to suitcaSeS, rather than
have the bother of checking a
wardrobe trunk and paying excess
through Europe. OF course, if the
traveller is going to stay in one
country during his visit. then a
wardrobe trunk will be in order.
This can be left at headquarters
and hand baggage taken on ex'
cursion trips.
Before packing make out lists
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were killed and eight gravely in
jured when the ship plunged from
height of a thousand feet to the
grounds of the Hampton Roads
naval base. She plunged directly
into the high double wires of a
high-poWer electric line. The ship
struck and rolled over, crashing
as she fell. A tremendous explo-
sion took place and flames ran
over the hull. The officers and
men were so badly burned that
they could not be identified.
The Dixmude, made in Germany
and operated by the French Navy,
was lost under mysterious circum-
stances in 1923. She vanished
while in flight over the Mediter-
ranean and the cause of her de-
struction has never been eStab-
lished-one of the mysteries of the
air. The body of her commander
was found floating in the sea by
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Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

store maker will supply you
any time (day or night with
tickets for the Irish, French,
German, Italian, the Belmont
Futurity. They simply get
tickets ready for you, but you
never win anything, because it's
not honest"
After explaining in its simple
way the benefits to be derived
from a protected government lot
terry, the letter ends with this
plea:
"Please remind Hon. PreSi-
dent Roosevelt he was proud
and accepted the mandate the
voters gave to him to live In
the White House for another
term. He should thank us and
give his mandate to Congress to
pass the lottery bill and thus
save us from gangSter's prey"
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"a Sicilian fisherman, and her half
burned flag was also picked up
from the waves.
It was once reported that
tribesmen in the Sahara Desert
had seen the great ship flying out
of control, but this was discounted
as a mirage. The DiXmude must
have caught fire in a great storm
and gone down to her doom in
the Mediterranean.
The loss of the Italia on May Is,
1923, took place somewhere in the
Arctic wastes where she had been
driven by Gen. Umberto Mobile
and the members of his North
Pole expedition. The Italia
crashed in the ice fields on its re-
turn from a flight to the Pole,
and the lives of eight members
of the expedition and of nine res.
cuers were lost in the disaster.
The Russian ice-breaker, Kras
sin, performed a heroic feat in
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WANTS LOTTERY

There is still some sporadic in
terest in getting the Government
to sponsor a lottery to meet the
budget deficit. One of the mem.
bers of the House received a little
letter pleading for this experiment,
which started like this:
every many men bear the
title of unemployed, but the
truth about them is: They are
too much employed, in fact,
they simply got no time to rest.
They work like busy bees.
"GuesS what they do? Sell
ing policy numbers and lottery
tickets. It's a flOurishing bust
ness in our neighbOrhOOd. The
butcher, the baker, the candy
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e d y. Probably
it will remain a
mystery. On six
p r e v gu S &C.
casions in the
dramatic h i S.
tory of these
r i G i d, lighter
than-air levia-
t h a MS t h e
world has been
S h o C Ike d by
great disasters
in which scores
Of officers and
m e n persisted
and many mil
lions of dollars
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leader, is a poll
tician, too.
Mr.. w h / + e.
man visited the
C pitol this
week with the
same avid curt
osity to see just
what Congress
does when it S
in S e S S i o n as
any one of the
t h o u S ands OF
tourists who are
daily examining
the corridors of
the riding. He
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his Cross. .1e6l1I1S G1ldO aC
somehow wasted His great chance.
What was it He cried when God,
Himself, seemed gone?
"ELoI! ELO1! LAMA sA-
BACHTHANI!" my GOD!
MY GOD! WHY HAST THOU
FORSAKEN ME?"
Forsaken finished! Written
out worked out! Hands
clumsy, brain gone empty, heart
gone colo wretched story all
told!
But it isn't! You aren't finished.
Life isn't through with you. This
time of blank sterility is as nat
ural as the busy. fruitful. trium-
plant hours.
Life is like that. Always-beyond
mans consciousness or control
LIES mysterious currents ebb and
flow, come and go.
And inevitably, at mid-tide,
comes some hour when the reaches
Of the spirit lie empty and barrel
Life is like that for everyone
whatever the task. of body, spirit
or brain. Always and always the
great tides rise and fall and
always, between flooding and ebb-
ing, there's an hour Of fear for
us all.
HAVE FAITH
Don't fear! Watch Life instead!
Mark how it has its set and certain
seasons for all things. Times
when ones power floods like sing
ing surf. times when it GIBBS to
silent emptiness. Yet each time
has its potent place in growth!
So when your own black hour
comes, be not afraid. Say to your
self:
THE TIDE IS OUT. ToMoR-
ROW OR TOMORROW - IT
WILL FLOOD AGAIN. BUT FOR
THE PRESENT, I MUST WATCH
AND WAIT. I MUST BE STILL
60 THROUGH THE MO-
TONS. AND HAVE FAITH IN
GOD. FOR HE WHO MADE ME
WILL NOT FAIL ME NOWl"
(This column tDelcomeS ard
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters tDtu be
handled ContidentiGIly and an.
SUered promptly If stamped, dd-
dressed envelopes are ircIudedJ
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nO.)
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eager to get to
the job. But
you can't make
it. the words
W MT click.
Something in
you has stopped
. shortcir-
cuited!
What Is it.?
gu d o MT
know. Nothing
like this has
ever happened
to you before.
For the mo-
nnent vn11 ran
nn1v stare. sir.
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TODAY's VERSION

According to Representative
John R. Murdoch, Diogenes was
an original Missourian. He says
that one time in Athens when
the philosopher observed children
running around naked in bad
weather and the prize live stock
carefully blanketed, he remarked:
"In Megara it is better to be
a mans ram than his son."
BY the same token, Representa-
tive Murdoch says that if Diogenes
looked over some Of the appro-
priation bills he would be led to
declare:
SIN America, it is better to be
q mans prize ram than his
neglected flesh-and-blOOd son"
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Piling on the Load

THE District Commissioners know we'll that the
i proposed increase in the tax burden of Wash
ngtonians is going to be no light load.
Whether new and additional taxes may be imposed
as result of present Congressional deberaton will
not be carried lightly by community which already
pays higher taxes per capita than any comparable city,
For these reasons it is impossible to understand why
the Commissioners should recommend taxes which
not necessary to meet the prospective deficit.
Common sense would indicate that not more taxes
should be recommended enacted than will be needed
to carry the city over the financial difficulties to be
countered in the fiscal year.
Yet the Commissioners, in all of their various tax
programs land they have been many have persisted
in recommending an increase of cent in the gaso
line tax.
This increase would take approximately one million
dollars from the pockets of District motorists.
THE MILLION DOLLARS THUS RAISED WOULD
NOT AND COULD NOT BE SPENT TO MEET THE
DEFICIT WHICH WILL BE CREATED NEXT
YEAR AND WHICH 1T IS ESTIMATED WILL BE
ANYWHERE FROM SIX TO EIGHT MILLION
DOLLARS.
The million dollars of gas tax revenue will be pad
locked in special fund.
It won't be spent
It will simply create surplus of million dollars
in the gas tax fund.
Congress has no intention of appropriating that
money for expenditure in the next fiscal year.
It should be noted that automobile of the city
will have to pay large part of the proposed new and
additional taxes which will be levied to raise the money
to meet the deficit to be created in the general fund.-
Is there any justice in asking them at the same time
to pay an extra million dollars which is not needed and
which cannot be spent?
There may be some merit in the contention that
eventually this city will have to spend larger amount
on highway improvements than it contemplates spend
ing next year and that therefore it is desirable to build
up the gasoline tax fund.
But conceding the force of this argument, there still
seems to be sound basis for ping the load at this
particular time.
ALL PROPOSALS FOR NEW AND ADDITIONAL
TAXES TO BE IMPOSED IN THE COMING YEAR
SHOULD BE ABANDONED UNLESS AND UNTIL
1T CAN BE SHOWN THAT THEY WILL AID IN
MEETING THE SHORTAGE WHICH IT IS SUP
POSED WILL BE CREATED IN THE GENERAL
TAX FUND BY THE APPROPRIATION BILL FOR
THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
Of these proposals the gasoline tax increase is out
standing.
It should be the first to be eliminated from con-
sideration.
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Keep This Pledge

RESOLVED: That 1t be the of this convention
that committee should be appointed by the Congress
of the United States to make study of and to report
on the granting to the residents of the District of
Columbia the right OF suffrage Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia,
June &c, 1886.
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Wise Words

Young men soon give, and soon
forget affronts; old age is slow in
both.-Addison.
Love one human being purely
and warmly, and you will love all.
Richter.
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The Department of Commerce.
is attempting to penetrate the
mystery of the Hindenhurg trag.
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DIPLOMATIC

Quite accidentally it turns out
that Paul Whiteman, the band
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Washington Needs

National Representation IN Congress
Local Government Elected By and Responsible to the
People of Washington
Rapid Transit Street Railway System With SubwGys
More and Better Schools
An Airport Necessary to and Worthy OF the Nations
Capital
Rebuilt Waterfront With Proper Channel
Modern Sewage Disposal System
National Guard Armory, Auditorium. and Stadium
Adequate Automobile Parking Facilities
Sufficient Public Buildings to House the Government
An Increase in Public Library Facilities
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
"ELOT ELOI LAMA SABACHTHANI?"

. Then suddenly you lind that
you can't write!
Everything else is ready-type'
writer, notes, ideas. And you're
Evening star., 1937-04-04
Magazine Section

damned ballasts are whacky. We're stuck down
here. 1t was the collision - must have been
fishing barge lying on the bottom. We're
stuck"
TRY again." Richard said evenly. Try.
Tryr'
But he had already nodded at the radio man
sitting in the glass enclosed compartment oppo-
site him. The click of the call came above the
ominous silence in the control room. The click
click-click:
SOS. sos. SOS. =.
"Try." Richard kept saying.
Hours had passed. How many hours, Richard
didn't know. But there were surface craft
above: barges from San Diego; ships from San
Pedro. Divers had cleared the wreckage from
the bow 80 the men could be put through the
torpedo tubes. And only one other thing seemed
certain: the RIB. because of its position, could
not be brought up in time to save the last man
- who must send the next to last one through
the tubes.
Even then you could not be sure of living.
There was the bends" Something might 60
wrong with the tube mechanism. But the tor
pedo room did not seem at all as though Death
lived in it. Not from the surface of things. The
phonograph played ragtime on screechy
record.
One by one the men stepped up to Richard,
shook his hand, said goodby.
I'VE won't forget you, skipper" That and:
SO long, Mr.. Peterson. You're the best damned
pigboat captain in the navy"
More words - warm words, as sailor after
sailor in dungaree trousers and undershirts
made affecting farewells and cawled, half bawl-
ing, into the gaping torpedo tube to have the