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The Washington times., 1937-08-23
Marry-GO-
Round
nv HELEN ROWLAND

"Why Not Get Married." is
the intriguing title Of q little
book which has run into several
printings since April. And no
wonder! For, from April Fools
Day to the Fourth Of July, every
unattached person is asking him.
self or herself that question.
You just can't junk marriage!
You can do away with all the
old conventions and customs,
you can abolish Victorian1Sm
and cast off all the old re-
straints; but you simply can't
junk anything so humanity in
stinctive as MARRIAGE!
For the great majority OF
women" declares the author Of
this book, Harvey A. Kalish,
marriage is a vital necessity
and for a number Of important
reasons"
Absolutely! A woman always
has a vital reason for marrying,
even if it's only because she is
tired of living alone and can't
learn to LIKE it," But the
modern man, who has found
that bachelor apartments are
perfectly comfortable, that most
girls can be kissed, and that
most romance dies sooner or
later, still goes right on marry
ing-for the same old "reasons!"
Strange as it may sound, the
world is still full of men who
marry for the quaint reason
that they are IN LOVE, and
feel that they cannot live with
out the exclusive rights to some
particular woman.
Y u y
And other men marry as a
"rest cure" from bachelorhood,
just in order to escape from the
monotony of variety, by tying
themselves to ONE woman who
will protect them from all the
others and keep them out of
foolish entanglements. While
still others marry because they
have been brought up to look
forward to marriage as an old
family custom, just as they have
been brought up to look forward
to going to college and shaving
their chins.
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
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Voice of the People

lily. None Of the restrictive meas
ures. the traffic regulations or
experiments which. we are ap-
plying seem to have any effect.
Well, then, it seems that we
should now recognize the fact
that there are persons who are
simply unfit to be allowed to
drive cars on our streets and
highways.
I don't think that we should
discard any of the tests and re.
Strictiong that we now have, but
I do think that there should be
some way Of wedding out the
temperamentally and otherwise
unfit or unbalanced drivers.
L. o. K.
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Helping the Worker

WHEN Representative Joseph D. 0ndnlon VI
w Missouri arose on the House floor the other
day and directed the attention of members to the fact
that walters in the House restaurant paid thirty
five dollars a month, he might have pointed out that
this is only one of the groups of Government employees
who underpaid
Unfortunately he confined himself to outlining the
conditions in the House restaurant and failed to men
ton the rest of the Governments personnel.
It true that the House walters get less for working
in the restaurant than do persons
o"'" 100 DO"e' who are on relief and unqueston
Imam He"e' ably they deserve consideration.
But other Government employees likewise deserve
consideration to wages to working hours and as
to promotions
If these walters worked in privately operated res
tauran members of the House would probably be tear
ing their hair trying to write law to give them decent
salaries and decent working conditions.
If the other Government employees who similarly
mstreated in private employ they too, could hope
for legislation for their benefit
But, being Government employees, they are left out
as for instance in the writing of the security laws
when three hundred thousand were
- '~ left without any of the benefits given
OfSecurity n +boso ,r;17a+or onon1ovod
Much progress has been made lately in improving
the lot of the worker largely through the social pro-
gram of the Roosevelt New Deal.
It is regrettabe that the New Deal hasn't been
nsistent upon improving the lot of Government
poyes it has been upon lettering conditions Of the
worker in private employ.
When this session of Congress convened much
heard Of pledges to do something to improve Govern
ment's treatment of its own workers.
They all to be brought under
the retirement plan cared for
"" Wv" der the social security laws; salaries
to be readjused both from the top and the bot
tom promotions and to be assured through
establishment of real Civil Service merit system.
Whatever else this Congress has done it hasn't car
red out any of those pledges.
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Fire Department Record

T T ISN'T any wonder that District Commissioner
Melvin G. Hazen should be talking about a reduc-
ton in fire insurance rates when the local Fire Depart
men sets up record such that established last year.
Fire damage was held to $4,000 during the year
which ended July l. reduction of $1920 900 under the
figure for the previous year.
Do,,ouo poyo,, According to the annual report of
"Very LOu' ~. H.. oo 1Il:D1
of that established by fire control authorities as every
low"
With such record that, and with every reason
to believe that efficient department will maintain
its standards in the future there sound reason for
hoping that insurance companies will reduce the local
rate.
Regardless Of whether that is done or not however
Chief Schrom and his officers and men can take bow
for the excellent service they rendering the people
of Washington.
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Gwen if the
wife were an
extremely Ca
pable person,
1 b elieve
some one else
should have
the position.
1t is q selfish
m o tive no
matter which
way you look
at 1t, because
the governor
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may be appointing his wife as
the only person who could
carry out and support his State
policies through the U. S. Sen
ate."
Mrs. Dorothy Pendergast, Of
PIT Fourteenth Pl. N. E., a beau
tician:
why shouldn't a governor ap-
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II dis a p
prove Of the
governor of
any State ap-
pointing his
wife or any
one in his
in1med lat e
f a m lily to
such an of.
fetal p S l.
ton. No two
persons from
t h e S a m e
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point his own
wife to the
honored posi-.
ton of a U. S.
Senator since
he has the
constitutional
right to ap-
point whoever
he wishes? Be-
sides, who else
better than q
W life knows
what her huS-
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DOuDn With Neutrality

At last the folly Of the neu-
trality act as passed by Congress
last session is becoming more
and more evident.
We refuse to invoke the act
in the present crisis existing in
the Far East, mainly because our
sympathies lie with China. Plac.
ing an embargo on raw material
exports to China, as well as to
Japan, would result in freezing
China out of vital necessities
with which to carry on a Swar.
Thus the discretionary ele.
ment of the neutrality act seems
to show up the measure in a
more ridiculous light. A few
days ago, President Roosevelt
ordered 1900 more Marines to
China. after most Of our citizens
residing in the Shanghai danger
zone had been evacuated from
the city.
The effect of this move. it
seems, serves to further our sup.
port Of the Chinese against the
Japanese.
Whatever personal interests
and sympathies might be In
volved in this country, surely our
official sanction through an act
Of state should not be made to
serve as a camouf1age for our
real thoughts in the matter.
1t is too late. now, for Con.
gress to do anything about its
neutrality act. However, it is
not too late to arouse public
opinion against the measure so
that 1t can be repealed when
Congress convenes again.
ANTI.NEUTRALITY.
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times in
viteS you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION:

Do you think the governor
Of a State should appoint his
own wife to fill a vacancy in
the Senate?
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Associate yourself with men
of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation; for It's
better to be alone than in bad
company.-George Washington.
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Purge Unsafe Drivers

Watching that traffic toll"
clock on your editorial page in
recent days has about convinced
me that the time cannot be far
off when persons wishing to Sc
cure licenses to operate automo-
biles will have to pass sanity
tests.
The figures for the dead and
the injured are climbing stead
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governor on behalf of his State.
The governor should appoint
the person that he thinks would
best carry out proper legislation
for his State and not his wife"
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Vt
II thin k
such an ap-
pointment by
a governor is
u n + a ir be-
cause some
o n e e | S e
should h a v e
the h on or,
e err if an
other person
W oul d n o t
work so close
" W i t h the
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family should hold such a high
salaried job. I claim such an
act is unfair and should be I'M
constitutional"
Mrs. Mary Kurillo, housewife,
of 3317 E st. S. E.:
aH think O nnunn.,nnn. mn las
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There is nothing more requl-
site in business than dispatch.
Addison.
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BOake Carter
Roosevelt Condemnation
Can't Brook Opposition
What Is a Majority?

WnaC Is q NdJoElLy!
EOR sheer rabble rousing,
L Franklin Roosevelt's Roa-
noke Island Lord Macaulay"
speech probably ranks pretty
near tops among famous dema-
gogic dissertations.
For a gratuitous slap in tire
face of a great mass Of Ameri.
can citizens and an unwarranted
aspersion on their Americanism
it also rates a new low.
Boiled down to a few SEN
fences, Mr.. Roosevelt's speech
was, in essence, this: II am right.
The majority of the people voted
for me, and those who don't
agree with me are against de-
mocracy and therefore un-Ameri-
can. I am the one who inter
prets democracy, and everyone
who doesn't interpret it my way
is a Macaulay. I and I alone
am the Voice of the American
people"
THERE are plenty of American
l. citizens who hate concentra-
ton of economic and social pow.
er in the hands of a small group
of super-rich people just as much
as Mr.. Roosevelt does-or says
he does. But why these citizens
should be pilloried and labeled
as un-American because they
may disagree with some OF his
policies and methods of govern
ing is something that only Mr..
Roosevelt can explain.
object to his insinuation that
everyone in the country must
agree with everything he does, or
else be Sneered at.
There was little doubt that
the majority of the people were
against the methods proposed
by Mr.. Roosevelt to pack the
Supreme Court, and were
shocked by the patent intel
lectual dishonesty in the man
ner in which he tried to slip his
deal across. Poll after poll re-
ported majorities against the
scheme. That being the case, it
is this majority that Mr.. RooSe-
welt slaps in the face in his
hour of bitterness at his defeat.
The entire theme of the speech
was one of setting class against
class. 1t was composed of
catchy phrases, fantastic gen.
ordinations; not one specific in
stance of naming names or nam.
ing instances, not one concrete
fact to support any of the bit
ter statements. It was a most
amazing condemnation of every
single American who disagreed
with him.
MR.. ROOSEVELT declared
AVA that democracy and more
democracy" was his answer to
the American Macaulays."
Why, then, was he so reluctant
to put that vital issue OF the
court before the people Of Amer.
lea so that the majority he de-
clares he represents could vote
upon it? Why does he so Bit
terly denounce American citi-
zens who disagree with some Of
the things he may do, when one
Of the basic pillars of democracy
and more democracy-is free
dom of speech and freedom Of
thought and freedom to express
a viewpoint?
Had he valued the opinion OF
the majority, which he says he
represents, he would have given
the people the opportunity to
vote and would have known ex-
actly where he stood.
Instead, he preferred to go on
the assumption that, because he
once received a popular vote,
the sky was the limit on any.
thing he proposed to do.
X X X
WHAT many American citi-
" zens resent-and they in.
clude thousands who voted not
once but twice for him-is the
fact that they are damned en-
masse if they happen to dis
agree with Franklin Roosevelt's
opinions.
The thing that shocks this
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handle and don't think women
are very good politicians any
way"
Miss Helen Lannen of 1924
Minnesota Avenue S. E., a tele-
nhnne nnerator.
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Traffic Toll

The mounting list Of traffic
victims in the District Of Co
lumbia since January /. 1887.
is graphically shown by the
death watch"
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We read on the forehead Of
those who are surrounded by .
foolish luxury, that fortune sells
what she is thought to give
La Fontaine.
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st think a governor makes

L Lnulk a
enough money
without his
wife lso
dra W in G a
ig h salary
from taxpay-
ers' money.
Some one out
SlQe OF In6
family should
have the posi-
ton, even if
the wife has
made a mark
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Listen
World!
By Elsie Robinson


pus life that warps a girls atti-
tude. No sooner is she in a
sorority, and dated q month In
advance, than she ceases to be
the sweet, unaSsuming girl she
was when she received her high
school diploma.
SHE BECOMES A KIND OF
YOUNG WOMAN WHICH
AMERICAN MOTHERS GER
TAINLY WOULDN'T WANT
THEIR SONS TO MARRY.
You can go into a campus
coke n smoke any day and see
these pseudo sophisticates smok-
ing their Gigs, chain fashion,
with nothing on their heads but
dates, men and proms. I'm not
Mid.Victorian-I don't object to
smoking or drinking.
Fake Posing
To Attract Men
WHAT GETS ME IS ALL
THIS FAKEY POSING
THIS PRETENsE OF BEING
TOUGH, JUST TO ATTRACT
MEN.
IF that's all that college can
teach you about love or life,
you'd better stay down on the
farm or in some third-rate office.
Then maybe you would have
been content to BE REAL, in.
stead Of putting on this false
front.
GET THIS, BABIES! THE
WORTH:W HILE FELLOWS
>. FOOTBALL CAPTAINS,
BIG SHOT FRAT ERNITY
MEN AND CAMPUS POLITT.
CLANS. TIL ESE FELLOWS
DON'T SELECT YOUR TYPE
TO SHARE THEIR NAMES
OR BEAR THEIR BABIES.
THEY CHOOSE REAL WOMEN
FOR THAT JOB, NOT SHOW.
OFFS.
I'm not belittling college
courses for girls. Women need
higher education as much as
men. But it should be real edu-
cation-not just a lot Of hooey
ideas that spoil them for de-
cent living.
Sounds like a sermon, but I
had toAget 1t off my chest-and
you can bet a lot of other fellows
feel the same way"
JOHN REA Gage 30,
"Urbana, Illinois"
Go prize winner)
Sound Tip
For Campus
That's a sound tip, Jack and
it goes for more than the Cam
pus crowd. It's the REAL ONES
who win the first prizes every
wherein any job-not the
PHONEY INVITATIONS
Next-another bulls eye!
"IF THE YOUTH OF OUR
COUNTRY GOES TO THE
DOGS, THEY WILL FIND
THEIR ELDERS WAITING
FOR THEM"
ALYCE BLEDSOE speaking
in as lively a blast on the Parent
Problem as this battle-Scarred
old desk has ever seen.
I'm 49," she continues, Il
have been teaching school for a
year and have already dis.
covered that most children want
to be good and fine.
II want to help them. BUT
HOW CAN 1 TEACH CHILL
DREN WHAT'S RIGHT OR
WRONG WHEN THEIR OWN
PARENTS STAY OUT AT
ROAD HOUSES, COMING IN
DRUNK AT 3:OO-PERHAPS
NOT COMING IN AT ALL?
Girl Boosts
Her Parents
Dear Miss Robinson:
II am just II years old-the
age when young folks think that
their mothers and dads are q
bunch of wet blankets
IT have heard many young
people talk about their parents.
They consider them as old
fashioned fogies who want to
know the why and wherefore of
everything they do.
But they might feel different
If they would only stop and real
ize how much these wet
blankets have done for them.
IT believe that the only reason
parents like to know where we
60 and what boys and girls we
go with is for our own personal
benefit.
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II hi n X
the governor
should fin d
SO m e other
person in his
State to fill
such a posi-
ton. B elm g
the W life Of
a governor, I
t h i n X, is
enough work
+ o r o n e
W o n an to
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Wise Words

Literature exists to please
to tighten the burden of mems
lives; to make them for a short
while forget their sorrows and
their sins, their silen ced
hearthS. their disappointed
hopes, their grim futures-and
those men Of letters are best
loved who have best performed
literature's truest office.-Augus-
tus Birrell.
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THE ANSWERS

]. L. Jones, of 3212 Military
Rd. N. W., manager of the Co
lonial Wall Paper Co.:
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Injustice often arises through
chicanery. that is, through an
oversubtle and even fraudulent
construction of the law. This
it is that gave rise to the now
familiar saw, 1.-THE more law,
the less justice. Cicero.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-04
|.nn LOST Ez; Ts KINGDOM kTgz 2 2
 k.. LOREN ARNOLD copy'J4 NEA sUs. he

But - Bob was her employer, as well as the man she wanted; she virtually worshipped him. He had emphatically told her to keep the secret of the new cliff cave. She meant to do so.
 Hell, didn't they say whereP" Hades was losing patience.
 "They just say tell you both make thee better camp, thee bet ter corral for thee mules and horses" Honey Bee spoke slowly, stalling. Then she had an idea. "Mester Bawb, he say must go. Maybe all day, maybe longer. They take food, canteen, go that way" . She pointed = not toward the cliff dwelling, but in the opposite direction. The men grumbled about 1t at length. but after all the note Bob had left also told them to go ahead with their own work, and forget about him and Lissa' Suspicious thus were not aroused, at the time.
 An hour later, though, Hades went for a last night check-up on the horses and mules - his regular job.
 "Shucksw he suddenly eX- claimed. Their horses is both herel"
 Bob and Mary Melissa wouldn't have started to go far on foot. The old man turned to stare back at the camp, suspicious, confused. He didn't trust that Indian girl. Nor Hoffman.
 (TO Be COntinued)
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Tedays Answers to
 cRANIUM CRACKERS $

1. The source of the St. Lawrence river is in Minnesota.
 2. The highest peak in North America is Mt. Mckinley, in Alaska, which has an altitude of 20,300 feet. Mt. Whitney, in California, l4,4S5 feet. is the highest point in United States.
 3. The lowest point in United States is Inyo, Calif., in Death Val ley. 276 feet below sea level.
 {. The abbreviation of. means compare; cwt., Lundredweight; c. g., for example: i. e., that is: stet, let 1t stand: viz. namely; and vs. versus or against.
 5. Edward VIII, now Duke Of gindsor. succeeded to the throne of England uybn the death of his fath- sr. George V. but abdicated before formal coronation ceremonies took ulana
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outdoors - for anyone within hear ing to answer or come. Hades never thought but what Bob Barry would know 1t, and answer if he heard.
 "They ain't up there" the old man muttered presently, and came back to the dining tent.
 'Holliman," he began, his eyes flashing, T come dang nigh killin' you a while ago. You alnt old enough to know better yet in some ways, and 1t may cost you. we ain't known to each other plumb good yit. Now I don't want no trouble, but you don't be so free and careless with yore tongue, young feller. This Barry is our boss. You can quit any time; we c'n git more help, If I have to ride in after 1t. But by god, Holliman, I'll kill you deader'n a petrified snake of you git too freshl You savvy2"
 He leaned forward just little, hands ready to draw. He was a trifle comical, because of his wrin- kles and his stoop. But there was no mistaking his earnestness. He meant precisely what he said.
 Hoffman frightened. He had started to grin at an old man, but he didn't. The keen old eyes spoke q silent warning more po- tent than the words. Hoffman moved very slowly -- hands away from his hips.
 "All right, Jones. Forget it., You're old. I aint goin' to fight no oldtimer,"
 It was @ wise decision. But the situation was still shaky.
 You been eyein' Miss Lissa yoreself Hoffman. I seen you, 1 know tn signs. Wal, that ain't no insult, as such. Any young man'd be a fool not to set up to her. Elf she want you it's her business: but you be dang shore she does. Now I wanta know do you know where they're at now Why amt they herel It's well after dark"
 k1OilALlhh Lldu peell oWpElseu ui~ deed to hear that old Hades knew of his "settin' up' to Mary Melissa The old fool must have eyes every wherel But this was no time to argue. Besides, his own curiosity about the missing pair was mount ing.
 1T swear I don't know, Hades And quit bein' warlike. 1 told you I ain't flghtin'." .s
 Hades grunted.
 Woman" he called to Honey Bee, "come out here, What about the two bosses2 Where they at?"
 "They are not here" said Honey Bee stupidly,
 Hades bridled again. Contempt almost suffused him. But Holli- man spoke first.
 Well where are they?" The younger man was equally inter- ested. ...
 "They have gone, for maybe a long time" Honey Bee declared.
 The India girl had expected thus to be questioned. She was not at all happy in her own mind. She didn't want Bob Barry to be alone anywhere with the white girl, much less in a dark cave,
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Cn ANluM CRACKERS

1. Where is the source of the St Lawrence river? 2. What is the highest peak in North America? Tn the United States. 3. What Is the lowest point in United States?
 4. What are the meanings oi these common abbreviations?
 cf., cwt., e. g., 1. e., stet, viz.
 and vS.
 5. Was Edward VIII (now Duke of Windsor crowned King Of Eng land?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-04

ASMG k144NN was hAiOWA O4 uAS V Alaskan coast as early as 1879. Old maps roughly indicated it. It was not until 17ll, however, that definite information of the Boring Sea and of the land beyond it was available. In that year Popof, a Cossack who visited Siberia, brought back the news to Russia.
 Exploration continued apace in the succeeding decades. The first white settlement was made on Kodiak Island in l78S. Later the British came from the east; the Spanish and the French moved in also. By l7s8, however, the Rus- sian fur.trading interests had consolidated and soon thereafter won a monopoly on the entire country.
 Russia did little except trade in flrs as the years went on, and even this trade declined. So in 1867, by a treaty negotiated by William II. Seward, secretary of state, Russian America was ceded to the United States for $7,200, 900 in gold. Seward named 1t Alaska, a corruption of the Aleut word "alakshak," or "alayeksa," mean. ing "a great country or continent" Nevertheless America reacted se- verely, labelling the purchase Stewards Folly"
 But today Alaska has long since vindicated MT Seward, proving an immensely valuable possession. The new territorial postage stamp commemorating the roth year of United States possession shows Mt. Mckinley, highest peak in North America, and an Alaskan rural scene.
 Copyright. los7. NEA Service. Incl
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'CAsT OF CWARACTERs

Y CAST OF CHAkACIEhS < ROBERT BARRY = hero, ex- plorer.
 MELISSA LANE - heroine, BAEsy's partner.
 HONEY BEE GIRL - Indian; member of Barry's party. RADES JONEs-plOneer; mem- Der Barry's party.
 
 Yesterday: Lost together in the darkness Of the mysterious cav. ern, Bob and Melissa find . deep dependence on each other. To. gether they struggle back to find their packs. Is this the end?
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-02-12
Earhart
 To Fly Around
 World in March
(Bv The Associated cress)

fBy The Associated ?ress)
 NEW YORK, Feb. 12, - Amel ia Earhart Putnam, number one woman aviator of the United Stat es, is to leave next month on a twenty seven thousand mile west ward flight around the world to determine human reactions on a trip of this sort.
 She will leave Oakland, Calif- ornia, flying to Honolulu, thence to Rowland Island, New Guinea, Darwin Australia and northwest ward on to the England-Austral- ia air route across Africa to the Atlantic, thence to Natal, Brazil and back to Oakland.