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pal to an unattached mani" asks
a sceptic. Of course she can
right up to the day she marries
him.
Alas, most platonic friendships
are like yesterday-they never
we're! Or like tomorrow-they
never will be! To most young
women, platonic friendship is just
a bridge over which a girl expects
to back a man into matrimony-
and over which man expects to
back out o. 1t. 1t has been cynically
defined as the interval between
the introduction and the first kiss.
But, in spite of all this airy
satire, there have been many
beautiful "sexless companion.
ships between the sexes, and
there will be more and more Of
these as men and women continue
to have more interests in common.
Friendship must be based on love.
And if you are not in love with
each other. you must be mutually
in love with something else
books. sports, horses, music, gar,
dening, writing-almost anything
When Ebert Hubbard said: II love
you because you love the things
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The Human Side of the News = B,
By Edwin G.. Hill

>few years, with a big family to
support, is on his feet again and
running up a tidy little bank &C
count.
A generation has grown up
which has become estranged from
the river. Their fathers were ex-
perts in handling boat; they
were adept fishermen, strong
swimmers, agile skaters and lovers
of the old river. The youngsters
have been warned against swim
ming in it; the fish have died; the
river has become something which
commuters have to cross. But
how quickly the oldsters snapped
into their routine when the fish
came back!
The elemental lore of fishing
or of the good earth sinks deeper
than the superimposed techniques
and adaptations of city living.
Just a few decades have we been
scalping eighths or clipping cou-
pons. For countless ages we have
been drawing sustenance from the
river and the sea.
It is a curious but sound tradi-
ton which seems to make it neceS-
sary for every American Presi-
dent to go fishing, now and then,
to maintain his touch with the
common man. Even the austere
Calvin Coolidge had to bow to
this mandate.
TOPS THEM ALL
We ought to have more pride
in this magnificent river of ours
and give it better care. This
writer has seen the Rhine, the
Danube, the Thames, the Elbe,
the Seine, and a dozen other
tabled rivers of old romance, and
I am no lingo when I say the
Hudson tops them all. Stand on
Lookout Point on the Palisades,
or better still, climb Maxwell An
derson's High Tor and see if you
don't agree. There's a noble
sweep of water! And never did a
river have so beautiful chaplet
of wooded hills and green mead
ows!
If you are romantic, you can
look down toward Tarrytown and
think of Washington Irving and
Rip Van Wrinkle; or. if you look
toward President Roosevelt's Hyde
Park, you may think of the more
abundant life" and make a low
bow to or Man River for providing
just as much of it as we will let
him. One of the grandest poems
Kipling ever wrote was 1.-THE
River" It is the tale of the Thames
and the noble pageantry of Eng
land, paced by its placid flow.
Get a friend who can find few
chords on the piano and improviSe
chanted recitative to the beauti.
full lines. Then you will agree with
me that one of the Binet boys or
Robert Frost or Charles Erskine,
Scott Wood, or some such major
league poet ought to do the same
for our river; and they must be
sure to put in Old Man Blauvelt
a river sprite at So, and Joe Nero
and Pete Dobie and the other bold
lads who know what to do when
old Dame Nature looks their way
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Ine.)
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
To HOspitable Graves

NEARBY half million men, women and children
~ have been killed wounded in the Spanish civil
war.
The figures given to H. R. Knickerbocker, ace
correspondent of International News Service by Gen.
Francisco Franco, leader of the insurgent forces
He should know.
Americans were among the killed and wounded.
Why was that?
1t was because they were foolhardy enough to put
into action what other supposed Americans merely
preach-that this country should meddle with the in
ternal affairs of Europe
That they should have been killed is regrettable
They were brave, if foolish, men, Had they STAYED
home they would be alive.
Their deaths point the old lesson which the rest of
cannot learn too we'll.
That is that Americans, individually and collectively
should STAY OUT OF EUROPE'S WARS OR Be
WELCOMED WITH BLOODY HANDS TO HOS
PITABLE GRAVES.''
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Oil SluiceS Edwin c. Hill
have been diverted or plugged, and
the river is clean again. The shad
are running in huge shoals, along
with a dozen other fine market
able species of fish, and springtime
is harvest time along the lower
Hudson. If the fishing holds up
now, it will be difficult to get
any work done in Westminster and
Rockland counties, around the
Tappan Zee, a famous old fishing
ground which has turned up more
wealth than lots of gold mines.
Laborers, and even highly skilled
workmen, can earn much more by
fishing than by working at their
trade, and have a lot more fun
doing it. To be specific, here's
Joe Nero, one of the best masons
who ever worked around Sneden's
Landing. With rising wages, it is
easy for Mr.. Nero to earn $12 a
day. Nobody can get him for the
least Smatter of travelling. He
grew up on the river edge, learned
all about fish, and was one Of the
first to see the waters clearing
and the old fishing grounds re-
stored. He is busy night and day
with his nets.
DEPENDABLE BOUNTY
Stores in the river towns are
stocked with fish as they haven't
been for many years. Prices are
reasonable, everybody is eating
more fish, many men suddenly
have found work and incomes. 1t
is a sudden, pointed reminder Of
the ever dependable bounty of old
Mother Earth, If we just give her
half a chance.
Before the cities began fouling
the river, it was an inexhaustible
source of food supply. Shad was
almost currency in the days OF
New Amsterdam. Still operative Is
the treaty between Dobb's Ferry
and Sneden's Landing, allowing
the west bank hamlet a landing at
IDobb's Ferry. One shad q year is
the stipulated payment for this
privilege.
Up and down the river were
thriving villages. prospecting fol
decades on fishing and the rich
hay meadows inland. Simultane
ously, the automobiles put the hay
fields out of business and the
refuse Of a great city killed the
fish. When a dye factory was
established a few years ago, drain
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SOLUTION

Recently there came to the at
tention of Representative Francis
Case a group of Indians from a
reservation near his home IN
South Dakota. The same Indians
were turned over to the gentle
ministrations of a lady who runs
a rooming house, and then the
public learned about them because
Of their habit Of staying up so
late.
The lady who ran the boarding
house complained that the In
dams stayed up late and got up
early. Now that matters have
been Strengthened out little it
can be happily reported that all
ended we'll.
It seems that the Indians, with
a fine regard for the advantages
of civilization, decided that they
were not going to be imposed
upon by any city slickers," and
so, they kept one of their number
on guard all through the night.
Changing of the guard at regular
4IlUSI Vdt1S WdO lA4C OdOoS 4O4 O4AO
upset in the quiet of the rooming
house routine.
The lady in charge Of the
rooming house complained to
Representative Case. Represent
alive Case interviewed the In
dams and found out what was
the trouble. Someone in Mr..
Cases office suggested a rather
subtle way out of the difficulty
He suggested to the lady that
while the Indians, in full regalia,
were testifying before a House
subcommittee that she procure a
copy Of "The Vanishing Arneri
can" and perhaps she would get
a hint as how to handle the
situation. She did.
The next day she called the
Representatives. office and de
clared that she had finished that
book, that she now had a diff
ferent outlook on the situation
and that because one of the In
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do another lining never nave w
speak to another person.
You tell yourself it's absurd to
feel like this. You say you ought
to be ashamed things might be
a thousand times worse :. look at
the troubles some people have.
You count your blessings. But u
doesn't do any good. You're still
wretched. Why? You don't know
why. That's the worst OF it. II
only you could know why such
moods happen, you might protect
yourself against them or endure
them better.
ALL LIFE MYSTERIOUS
You can know why they happen,
THEY HAPPEN BECAUSE YOU
ARE A HUMAN BEING AND NOT
A COW OR A CATFISH.
Have you ever thought what 1t
means to be Human Being
what it has cost to produce Human
Life? Probably not. Most OF us take
our condition for granted. We as
sumo we "just happened" We
didn't. Human Life is the result OF
the longest, hardest, costliest ex-
pertinent that Creation has ever
made.
All life is mysterious enough.
Even life of a tree, a worm, a gnat.
is infinitely complicated. Countless
generations of living cells had to
grope and tumble and battle and
breed and die before one gnat grew
wings.
THEN CONSIDER THE MIL
LIONS OF LOWER ORGANISMS
WHICH HAD TO PAS S
THROUGH LIFE BEFORE A
MAN COULD THINK AND FEEL,
PAYING FOR MOODS
Why do you have moods?
That's why. You have moods be
cause you are more than brute
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ing into the river, there were Tor
weeks thousands of dead fish for
miles below the spot where the
poisonous purple ooze entered the
stream.
Lovers of the river and fisher
men who earned their living on
it could do nothing. Conservation,
then as now, was fighting an uphill
fight. The in-wash of the tide, up
and down the river for many miles,
helped a lot. but not enough to
save the fish. The city, of course,
provided compromising opportuni-
ties and there was plenty of work
of another kind for the fishermen.
The depression made the fisher
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House of Representatives, as
others in the past, recognize his
super showmanship. 1t is re-
counted that the trademark OF
a famous talking machine with the
legend His masters voice" orig
mated with the New Yorker.
At an exhibition one time, the
Representative put a smart-look-
ing fox terrier in front of the horn
to attract attention as only a dog
can. The idea took with the COM
pany Immediately and hence the
trademark.
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Imen again watchfu1, catching a
few crabs, and now and then a
few shad. But their catch always
was meager and not until this
spring, by the happy combination
of a somewhat cleanSed stream
and good spawning conditions up
state, did they find again their
old largess in the river.
Up near Haverstraw, Uncle
Billy Blauvelt, 86 years old, is out
again with his boats and his nets,
singing and happy and swearing
he'll live to be $50 if the fish
keep on running. At Tarrytown,
Pete Dobie, a tinsmith, who has
been having hard times the last
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Marry Co. Round
IN Helen ROlULQIld

Many a beautiful platonic friend
ship, which lasted all fall and win.
ter, cracks up about this time Of
year and becomes a casualty.
Either the man grows sentimental
and expects a kiSS-or the girl
grows serious and expects pro-
poSal. Or somebody else comes
along and interrupts them.
Can an unmarried girl be a
EMO OF pLAroNI FRIENDSHIP
AniNnaE e. I'VE
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MAsTER SNOWMAN

On good authority, it is stated
that Representative Sol Bloom,
director Of the George Washing
ton Bi-Centennlal Commission and
director general of the Constitu-
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haven't seen old
Dan Spinney on
the yer for
nearly 20 years.
His a C t / v tiles
are bigger news
on the lower
H u d S on than
the S p a n i S h
war, tn e Lon.
don sugar con
ferences, the sit.
d o W n strikes,
the S upr e m e
Court a n d the
Di on e gums
all put together
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1 love-" lie gave the perfect defini-
ton of platonic friendship.
There are just two big reasons
why a platonic friendship is so
short-lived. One is the woman;
the other is the man. A girl may
not want to marry every man she
enjoys pal-ing around with; but
being figuratively slapped on the
back and called "a good old scout"
does not appeal to her vanity. Be-
sides, a personable man is always
a POSSIBLE romance-and her
marrying years are short.
On the other hand, there are
plenty of pal-girls who would be
heartily grateful to meet a man
who would play around with
them, without regarding an eve
ming at a theater or night club as
receipt for a petting party. But
man seldom looks for a sensible
non-marrying girl whose "heart"
is in her career, when he seeks a
pal. He picks out something jolly
and frivolous and kiSsable; and
in less than a month he has
Plato all mixed up with Romeo.
Most platonic friendships end
in the spring, when the mating
season comes around; for by then,
if man does not fall in love with
his platonic friend, he falls in love
with somebody else-and quite
suddenly his good little pal'
does not see him any more.
Strange as it may seem. most
INTERESTS IN COMMON ENDED
!
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ton Sesquicen-
tennial COM
m sion, was
confronted with
this one:
u pom being
introduced to
Mr.. Bloom ano
his titles, a Wis
itor exclaimed:
Eyes, I know
Mr.. Bloom,
but who was
George Wash
ingtOn?"
Despite these
inevitable wise
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dead inSide-as
though all sen,
S a tion had
stopped forever.
or b ! u e
choked W / t h
some mysteri-
Gus sorro W
which you can't
de elm e. o r
vaguely irri-
tated-at odds
with everyone.
You hate life.
You wish you
could crawl off
into a corner go.
never have to
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Listen. World!
By Elsie Robinson
WHY DO YOU HAVE MOODS?
things aren't Aflesh mora

rlleSn more than an arrange
ment of bone and meat which
eats and sleeps and reproduces its
kind and dies. You have a think.
ing brain a telling emotional
system. But you have these
things AT A PRICE. If you are
intelligent enough to think, you
are bound to think of irritating
as well as inspiring things.
If you are sensitive enough to
feel, you are bound to feel dis.
tressing as we'll as delightful
things. And you are also bound
to have stagnant movements
when your weary receiving ap-
paratus will seem to have gone
dead" That is the penalty Of
having receiving apparatus.
MOODS ARE THE PRICE
YOU PAY FOR HAVING A HUI
MAN BRAIN AND HEART.
It's a great gift to have Human
Life. BUT IT'S ALSO A
GREAT CHALLENGE. Billions
Of lives came and went before
one form of life arrived which
was fit to house the brain and
heart of Man WHICH WAS
FIT TO STAND THE STRAIN
OF THOUGHT AND FEELING.
And many who now wear hui
man form are not standing that
strain. They may speak human
language, use human gestures,
but when it comes to thinking
and feeling they have little on
any COW.
WE ALL REBEL
And, indeed, we all rebel at
times against the heavy job Of
Being Human. That is what hap
pens when you get sick of every.
thing" and wish you could run
away" YOU WOULD LIKE TO
T.JN AWAY FROM BEING A
MAN You would like to shake
off the responsibilities and go
back to the comfortable irrespon-
sibility of the brute. Something
in you dinly remembers that
brute stat and longs for it's ease
and comfort.
Human Life is the greatest gift
on earth, but it is also the great
est challenge. Can you accept
that challenge? Have you gump-
ton enough to stand the strain Of
moods?
This column welcomes ana
requests comments. Letters
| presenting 11pTSOnnl T1f0ble1nS
may also be sent. All letters
tDll be handled confdenttduy
and GnSDered romptly IL
stamped addressed envelopes are
tncluded.)
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
| avndfeAtA NAL
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Lazy Mans Course

NENATOR PAT AlcCARRAN, OF Nevada, performs
y public service of national import when he calls at
tenon to the dangers inherent in the proposal to effect
necessary economies in Government expenses by flat
cut of ten per cent in all appropriation bills for the
ing fiscal year.
The suggestion that costs be reduced by this unscen
tifc method comes from seemingly responsible leaders
in both the Senate and House.
It is the lazy mans way out of difficult situation
and is likely if it should be put into effect to bring
about serious dsocation of many Government services
while failing to effecuate curtailments and savings in
bureaus which could well stand limitation
If Congress and the Administration sincerely
DESTROYS of cutting costs let Congress buckle down
rously to its job reopen the appropriation bills it has
passed and determine where and how money be
saved wisely.
Senator McCarran, in his communications to labor
leaders, announces himself being primarily concerned
with the effect Government employees of the proposed
general slash of ten per cent.
This concern of the Nevada Senator arises not only
because of his interest in Government employees but
because of his interest in working men and women
generally.
The Senator realizes as should all who are familiar
with precedents that when Government employees are
made to suffer result of backward personnel policies
there Is an adverse effect on workers generally.
There can be doubt that much of the ten per cent
saving contemplated in the proposal under discussion
would come out of Government personnel
This could be done in either of two ways: By
furloughing dismissing workers by reducing
salaries.
For the Government to follow either of these courses
would be for it to set for private industry example
directly contrary to the urgngs preachings de-
mands which it has been making private industry.
From President Roosevelt on down, Government Off
cials have been telling private business that it must
employ more men and women if the relief rolls are to
be cut.
In the face of that can the Government afford now
to indulge in wholesale dismissals or furoughs?
The Government is lending its every influence to
bring about better pay for workers in private business
now may not be in financial position to pay better
salaries and wages
In the face of that can the Government afford now
to cut the salaries of Government employees salaries
which are not at present on high standard?
FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DO EITHER OF
THESE THINGS IS TO FORCE THE WORKING
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TO TAKE A
BACKWARD STEP, TO START ONCE AGAIN THE
VICIOUS CIRCLE WHICH ONLY RECENTLY HAS
BEEN INTERRUPTED.
Senator McCarran tells labor leaders that the time
to throttle this movement is now
And the Senator, who has closely studied Govern
ment personnel policies and their effect on those pr
vately employed knows whereof he speaks
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Up near Nyack, N. Y, a gnarled
and knobby OLD fisherman is set
ting his nets. Folks up that way
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of our best and happiest mar
riages begin in a platonic friend
ship-or end in a platonic friend.
ship. For, as someone has said,
"Platonic friendship is possible
but only between husband and
WIFE,"
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"DINGLE DOCS"

In one of his lighter moods
Representative Maury Maverick
suggested that Americans cast
aside horS d'oeuvres as the name
for their appetizers and call
them "dingle' doos."
Since then he has been be-
deviled by news stories and per.
sons who think just an assertion
on is worthy Of comment. Repre-
sentative Maverick who is made Of
Sterner stuff than a mere phrase
maker is somewhat annoyed. He
wishes the world would forget it.
Therefore, it is with rather an
air of mixed emotions that his Sec
rotary opened a telegram recently
from George Rector, prominent
restaurateur of New York city. 1t
seemed that at a dinner of cpl
cures this momentous question
of hors d'oeuvres arose and much
to the delight of some, Represent
alive Mavericks suggestion was
again discussed. The upShot Of
it was that Mr.. Rector sent the
telegram in which he suggested
the name be changed to "Maver.
icks."
Considering the avidness and
the difficulties arising in the life
of a thoroughbred hors-d' oeuvre
consumer, Mr.. Rector thought the
name complete. The accepted
definition of maverick is an I'm.
branded horse or steer that be.
comes the property of anyone
who catches it and brands it.
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Chey?
You'll be feeling fine Then,
for no good reason,
will 90 blah. You feel
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Washington Needs

National Representation IN Congress
Local Government Elected By and Responsible to the
People of Washington
Rapid Transit Street RaiICny System With Subwoys
More and Better Schools
An Airport Necessary to and Worthy of the Nations
Capital
RcbuH Waterfront With Proper Channel
Modern SC1cdge 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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"HEARTS OF MEN"


Into the discussion of where,
when and how the Thomas Jeffer.
son Memorial is to be built, Repre-
sentative John Rankin has intro.
duced a little verse. He thinks the
name of Jefferson is indelibly writ
ten in Americas consciousness and
a memorial is not needed. To put
over the idea he recites this verse:
II wrote my name upon the
sand
And trusted 1t would stand
for aye;
But soon, alas, the refluent
sea
Had washed my feeble lines
away.
I carved my name upon the
wood
And after years, returned
again;
I missed the shadow Of the
tree
That stretched Of old upon
the plain.
To solid marble, next, my
name
gave as perpetual trust;
An earthquake rent 1t to its
base
And now it lies, o'erlaid with
dust.
All these had failed; In wiser
mood
turned and asked myself,
what then?'
If / would have my name en-
dure
I'd write it on the hearts Of
men,"
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Greatest Show on Earth
Bu Frank Miller Smith

dams had told her that one Of
the characters in the book with
a similar name was his father
she was going to lower their
rent and do everything to make
their visit in the Nations Capt..
tai a happy one.
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For the Government to follow either of these
would be for it to set for private industry example
directly contrary to the urgings preachngs de-
mands which it has been making on private industry
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There can be no doubt that much of the ten per cent
saving contemplated in the proposal under discussion
would come out of Government personnel.
This could be done in either of two ways: By
furloughing or dsmssing workers or by reducing
salaries.
Evening star., 1937-01-16
eport. "Of all the professional groups,
lone was harder hit than the archi-

report. "Of all the professional groups,
pone was harder hit than the archi-
tects
"The jobs found for the unemployed
men centered upon made work. that
Is, projects Of a non-competitive nature
devised and financed by the commit
tee, tasks in public agencies, and in
private assignments. Some of the
more ambitious made-work projects
have been the making of models o.
historic buildings involving exhaus.
tive research work. Five Of these
models are now on exhibition at the
Museum Of the City of New York, two
in the Newark Museum and one in
the Avery Library OF Columbia Uni
versity.
Numerous real estate and social
surveys have been made, and many
OF them are now being carried for
ward by public agencies. Architec-
tural competitions, for which cash
prizes were awarded, were another
source Of assistance.
THE committee compiled the book
Great Georgian Houses Of Ameri-
ca for which the drawings were made
by unemployed architectural draughts-
men. A second volume Is now in the
course of preparation. The sale Of
this book and Of the historic models
yielded revenue with which distress
was relieved.
Through the efforts OF the women's
division OF this committee, and from
Evening star., 1937-01-16

to which it is attached when the tenn
perature rises and falls.