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The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Reasonable Budgeting

TNHE attitude which the District subcommittee of the
i House Committee on Appropriations is taking in
preparing the local supply bill for the coming fiscal
year is refreshing change from the manner in which
that committee has approached the task in years
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ARE GOING
ABOUT THE JOB AS REASONABLE MEN, AP-
PARENTLY ACTIVATED BY DESIRE TO DEAL
1NTELLIGENTLY AND FAIRLY WITH THE VOTE
LESS NATIONAL CAPITAL.
This is probably due to the fact that while all of the
members Of the committee serving on that group
for the first time they experienced in public affairs
Take for instance Representative John P. Higgins,
of Massachusetts,.
Serving his second term in Congress and his first on
the District subcommittee Mr.. Higgins is thoroughly
acquainted with the complicated problems of municipal
finance through his earlier experience in the Massachu
setts House of Representatives.
In the State Legislature Mr. Higgins was for six
years the Committee of Municipal Finance which
supervises the budgets of the cities throughout the
State.
It is the quality of such men as Mr. Higgins, serving
under Representative Ross Collins of Mississippi chair
man. that is bringing to the budget problems of the
National Capital intelligent understanding.
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c Hill
By. MOntier

save my man, but he got a hand
some pasting at that.
"DiSgusted, 1 sold GaIfund for
$1,5OO. Then / gave the kid SIS
instead of five. l was Jim Brad.
docks manager from that day.
When, ten years later, the Box.
ing Commission made us sign
an agreement, they asked Jim
how long he wanted to sign for.
Make it twenty-five years or
life,' he said.
For years they used to drag
Jim in to take q beating and
help get some fighter q record
of performance, and Jim al.
ways spoiled it by stepping in
and dumping the other guy.
BROKE HIS HAND
'In 1926 he knocked out Leo
DObsOn, Walter 7''estman, Carl
Deshneri and quite a string of
others. He kept on tipping
them over, but when the de-
preston hit, the grass was
might short for both of us.
Tim was a ianitOr in the house
where he lived. We kept ON
splitting anything we had. Jim
was quiet and moody in those
days, but never talked Of run
ming out, and once in q while,
when I'd get him q fight, he'd
step in on a days notice.
TN 1888, fighting Abe Field.
man at White Plains, he broke
his hand. The referee thought
he was Stalling and stopped the
fight. 1t was then that Jim
rigged the old stevedore's hook
on his arm and went back to
the docks, with his hand
broken"
Mrs. Braddock was Mary Fox
a telephone operator. The,
have two boys, six and five year
old, aid girl three, and one-half
There's nothing gaudy abou
Joe or Jim or Mrs. Jim. They're
on high ground as the floot
W. rs Subside, and Jim is leaving
it to an old friend, skilled il
finance, to see that they sta.
there. And Jim plans many fin
ish bouts with that newspape
subscription library after he at
tends to that business in Chicago
next June.
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Ine.)
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WashingtOn's Birthday
By J. T. Williams, Jr.

There was q time when the
anniversary of the birth of the
Father of His Country was Oh
served, as it should be, in every
State in the Union, in every county
in every State. and in every com
munity in every county.
Why has this general observance
Of Washington's Birthday declined
during the last decade?
WaShington's Birthday has been
set aside by Government as
legal holiday in all the States
Territories and possessions of the
United States. This is an honor
that has been rightly reserved fol
Washington, because he was the
Father of His Country in very
truth.
LEGAL HOLIDAY
Study his life and you will see
in Washington as did his most
eminent biographer:
"A great soldier who fought
. trying war to successful end
impossible without him;
"A great statesman who did
more than all other men to lay
the foundations of a Republic
which has endured until now"
Search the life of Washington
and you will find in him as have
his true biographers:
"A marvellous judgment which
was never at fault, a penetrating
vision which beheld the future
Of America when it was dim to
!. other eyes, a great intellectual
force, a will of iron, an unyield-
ing grasp of facts and an un-
equaled strength of patriotic
purpose"
Contemplate the majestic figure
of Washington and you will see
in it as did his most discerning
biographer:
"A pure and high-minded gen.
tleman of dauntless courage and
stainless honor, simple and
stately appearance, kind and
generous of heart"
1t is because George Washing,
ton was all this and more that
he who was First in War, First
in Peace" remains and will re-
main First in the Hearts of His
Countrymen.
Why, then, has the national
observance of WaShington's Birth
day-a legal holiday wherever the
flag flies-fallen into neglect in
most of the States of the Union
in most of the counties of the
States and in most of the com
munitieS?
Why do the Southern States
today follow the rule of business
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Jim and Joe Edwin c. Hill
on the Up and Up"-there's a sue.
cess story which Jumps out and
barks at you every time you turn
a midtown corner these days. Pop
eyed crowds at the movies or the
anemic pulp magazine addicts,
vicariously red-blooded for the mo-
ment, never will get better yarn
that this real life Story-and some
day it will be in the movies and
the pulps. That's a certainty.
Jim broke his hand in a pork
and-beans" fight four or five years
ago. Working part time on the
docks, he wore bale hook on one
hand. His sound left hand and
arm did most of the heaving. That
was the way he worked up his pile
driving left. 1t was murderous
when Joe Could got him a 500
fight on a days notice. He flat
tened his opponent.
81 fought on a plate of hash"
said Jim as they went to the
dressing room. "I'm afraid if
/ ever get a T.bone steak I'll
kill some of these muggs."
SUCCESS STORY
When he licked Max Baer and
became the worlds heavyweight
champion, the first thing he did
was to pay back to the Govern
ment a total of $365 in relief
money he had drawn, trying des-
perately to maintain his family
and keep his home. His home is
safe now. He plays hearts Tor
a penny a point, clips newspaper
subscription coupons for books. He
wears a passable suit and mis-
earnings have gone to paying
debts and establishing annuities
for his children.
Voluhle little Joe Gould and
Jim, the big, Slogging methodical
plugger of the prize ring, never
had a contract until the State box
ing commission compelled them
to draw an agreement for the
Baer fight, after they had been
together 10 years. They used to
split $3.50, even the hams and
roll at the old German restaurant
at Forty-eighth Street and Eighth
Avenue-pooling a few nickels,
tightening their belts and scout
ing some fighter at whom Jim
could take a lucrative crack or
two. Joe told me the story the
other day:
"I'm a COB in the Navy" said
Joe, "at Newport, in 1915. Back
in POughkeepSie, / used to run
errands for ham fighters ana
1 had the fighting bug. There
was a petty officer named Bob
BOwdoin. On and off / per-
suaded him to work up some
Navy boxing matches in the sail
loft. They went big. / began
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as usual" on Washington's Birth
day, while the New England
States, for the most part, still
observe the day as the foremost
anniversary in the calendar of
American patriotism?
Why does Virginia, the native
State of Washington, allow Mas.
sachusettS a preeminence in this
matter.
Why have the people in State
after State fallen into the habit
of permitting. Washington's
birthday to be for the most part
only banking holiday?
1t is because although "the
spirit of the people can do much,
it cannot do everything" It can
not take the place of a leader
ship in community. a county,
State or throughout the Union
which is quickened by the spirit
of the people. Someone has SAID
that leadership, in the best sense
of the word, is the most deS-
perate need of the people here
and elsewhere throughout the
world.
FOREMOST ANNIVERSARY
1t is within the power Of our
chosen leaders throughout the
Union-our spiritual and politi.
cal leaders, our leaders in edu.
cation and in the world of busi-
neSS-to restore the observance
of Washington.s birthday to that
foremost place in our national
life which the foremost anniYer-
sary in the calendar of Amer.
can patriotism deserves to hold.
A sounding of public senti-
ment will prove the primacy of
WaShington'S place in the hearts
Of his countrymen.
A leadership in every State in
the Union to restore the obser.
vance of Washington's Birthday
as the day of national commem-
grafton for which Government pro.
ylded when it was made legal hol.
lday In our every State, Territory
and possession will be supported
by public sentiment. Such a lead
ership will reflect public sentiment.
Such a leadership will vindicate
Lincoln's faith in the power of
public sentiment when he said:
Public sentiment is every.
thing. With public sentiment
nothing can fail; without it
nothing can succeed"
Who will raise up such a lead
ership here, there and everywhere
throughout the Union which
Washington founded and Lincoln
saved?
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FASHIONS IN ART

Art lovers who are interested
in the various statues and busts
that abound in Washington will
be more than pleased with the
recent publication of Fashions
in Art" by Huger Elliott, Direc.
tor of Education at the Metro
politan Museum.
In it Mr.. Elliott tells the in
teresting story of the statue Of
George Washington in the Smith
Sonian Institution. It portrays
him as a Roman Senator and
was done by Horatio Greenough
in 1882. He finished it in Italy
and when it was put aboard a
ship eight years later to be
brought to this country, the ship
sank. A warShip was sent to
bring it here and it was unveiled
in Capitol Hill in 1841.
In 1908 it was ordered removed
because the fashions in art had
changed and it was no longer con.
Sidered the height in artistic
achievement. It is reported that
because it shows the Father Of
the Country" naked to the waist,
some visitors scribble wisecracks
on it and it has to be washed each
year. The book is published by
D. Appleton Century.
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booking the boys in nearby
towns. Out of the Navy 1 got
into the business.
"In 1925 / had a fighter
named Harry Galfund, a welter-
weight. He was a jumpy sort of
guy and never knew what he
was up to. One day he told me
some people over in HobOken
wanted to buy my contract with
him. 1 saw them and asked them
$4,000. They said they wanted
to see my man work. We went
over to Joe Jeannette's gym in
West HObOken. had Jim do
some s h a d o w.b o xi ng; they
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y
asked:
"How many men did you
have in the plant?"
cone"
did he sit down with the
Strikers?"
eyes"
"HOw long did he stay in
the plant?"
"NOt very long, . couple Of
days."
With visions of what the strik
ers would have done to him II
they had found out who he was
flashing through their minds the
audience guffawed.
But the witness with a smile
on his face decided to take the
kick out of the situation and
added:
"He was a married man and
they let him 60 home"
"And boy. was he glad!"
whispered a man in the front
row.
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what she's facing. So won't I
please tell her what's worst about
a writer's life? Is it a mean Boss?
Or going into dangerous places?
Or having to be ready to travel
any time, anywhere Or-what?
Familiar queStions-you've asked
them yourself, probably. Won
dered, just as Sue" is wondering,
about the hazards of a writer's
life, so different from your own
deadly dull existence. Wished, en-
viously, that you could live dan.
gerouSly" under the peril and pres
sure of an adventurous career. So
you, too, may be waiting for my
answer.
All right, here it comes but.
I warn you, you won't like it. For
the worst thing about writing"
is none Of these hardshipS which
you anticipate. Nor Ornery Edi-
tors. Nor gun-totin' criminals. Nor
the frantic scramble to make a
scoop" or beat the dead line"
Nor any other of these hair-raising,
blood-chilling hazards which are
supposed to beset the Tribe of Pen
PuShers.
TOUGHEST TEST
No, the toughest test which the
writer must pass is the same test
which every civilized human being
must meet and make-or take the
count. And that is?
JUST STICKING!
Just sticking just standing
ready when you want to be on the
60 remaining rooted in one
place to one job whether you like
it or not. There is the ultimate
test of a human beings character.
There is the thing which proves
and the only thing which does
prove-whether he's worth his salt.
For remember, civilization has
been achieved by and still depends
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wanted to see then how he
stacked up in a slugging match.
There was a gangling, skinny
kid, leaning against the wall.
asked him if he wanted to earn
five d0llars-gOing in with my
fighter for a round or two. He
said o. X. He surprised Galfuno
with a stiff left to the face. /
was timekeeper. My man wasn't
getting any the best of it and /
let 'em 60 four minutes in that
round. Before they got through
the kid was whaling the day.
light out of Galfund, and I kept
shortening the rounds, trying to
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Helpful Cooperation

1.-TWO SCORE years ago today there was founded in
i Washington the National Congress of Parents and
Teachers an organization which has been tremendous
and vital influence in the development of our educa-
tonal system
Throughout its history the organization, not only
locally but nationally as we'll has contributed impor
tanty to the improvement of school conditions and to
the betterment of the and education of children
By bringing into closer cooperation the two forces
which most directly influence children their parents
and their teachers the organization has been able to
foster program of enlightened assistance to the chill
dren to the parents and to the teachers
1t cannot be contended that child during the time
it spends in school is divorced from his home
Neither can it be maintained that child in his home
is divorced from his class ROOM
In the well-rounded life these two aimportant fac
tors in child's existence are inertwined
It is in bringing about the maximum of cooperation
between the two forces-home and schoo-that the
Parent Teacher Association has made its most valuable
contribution to modern life.
Through it. mothers and fathers enabled to gain
some insight into the problems which the school teacher
must handle when for five hours of the day she becomes
the foster parent of some 40 or so children.
Because of its activities the teachers given
definite idea of the problems which the parents face
and are enabled to deal sympathecay with those
problems.
Here in Washington where the association was
founded 40 years ago under joint sponsorship of Mrs
Theodore W. Birney and Mrs Phoebe Apperson Hearst
the Congress of Parents and Teachers has been partcu
lary active and has been able to render much valuable
service in addition to its Cooperative activities.
It has been in the forefront of the movement to mod
ernie and extend the public school system and has been
instrumental in fostering the movement to obtain for
the public school sufficient appropriations to meet the
needs.
Through its affiliated associations with more than
$4,000 members the Congress has been able to give di
rect material aid many children whose families during
the recent trying years have been in distress.
This aid has been rendered in intelligent and un-
obtusve way and because of many children have been
enabled to remain in school who otherwise would have
been forced to curtail their education.
AN ORGANIZATION GIVING TO THE COM
MUNITY THE UNSELFISH AND VALUABLE
SERVICE OF THE CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND
TEACHERS DESERVES BOTH THE GRATITUDE
AND RESPECT OF THE CITY.
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ANOTHER DELUGE

Members Of Congress are about
getting used to the deluge Of mail
that hits their desks every time a
big issue is raised. Some grur1-
BILE and others are glad that there
are enough citizens interested in
their government to take the time
to tell their representatives what
they want.
One Senator received a letter
practically ordering him "to raise
his voice often and loud" in op-
position to reorganization Of the
judiciary system.
Over on the House side the
pamphlets flow in. Two caused
some surprise. One printed on
green paper brands money as
Mans Enemy Number One" and
wants everything to be Govern.
ment owned. Another, entitled
Hands Off the Constitution and
the Supreme Court of the United
States" lapses into verse, not very
good.
1t certainly fills up the waste
baskets.
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to have change
and excitement!
So she has de-
cided to be a
writer.
Writers, she's
heard, have the
Most Thrilling
lives. Someone
has told her
that writing is
a hard job. She
doesn't min d
that, s'long as
there's plenty
of action. But,
of course, she'd
like TO know
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the La Toilette
S u b c ommittee
got a chuckle
out of the teSti-
mony about the
/" u n d e r C over
man" who sat
down" with the
S trik ers a t
Flint, Mich.
Senator Bob
La Toilette was
conducting the
examination Of
a p erS o nnel
man with the
P / n ke r t o n
II -
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stacking up a
100000 p urs e
for the Brad
dock-Louis fight
in June, if they
d o m e e t. I t
looks as if big,
g 90 d natured
j i'm Braddock
n e er would
have to go back
to dock wallop-
ing, no matter
who's on the re-
ceiving end of
the Chic a g o
walloping.
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very well IN Gnelr Time ana place.
We've all admired them and
wished we could be in their shoes.
But life isn't composed of Bril-
liant lunches or Daring Deeds.
Generally speaking, life is an
extremely dull and draggy affair.
It has to be; otherwise we humans
would crack under the strain.
So what we need is not Speed
Burners but Stay-Putters re.
liable citizens who can be de-
pended upon to stay on the job
and keep things going, though
every nerve cell is shrieking to
be off n away on Rambunctious
RuctionS.
But surely people like column
lists don't abide by such rules!
Columnists must have adventure,
distraction. glamour! Yeah? May
be! But try and make the boss
believe it. The horrid truth is
that columniStS, more than any
other workers, are valued for their
ability to stay put and do their
stint, regardless Of mood or dis
traction.
ONE ESSENTIAL
Talent and technique, position
and personality-these have GER
tain value in the man who must
fill certain space day after day,
year after year, without fail.
But the one absolutely essential
requisite is an ability to keep the
neither end Of your spinal column
connected with a chair seat.
though all hell be busting loose
outside your door. If you can't
do that, kid, you'll be selling sink
brushes come next pay day,
though you have the genius of SO
EinSteins.
So, if you aim to rate anywhere
in this modern world, take that
tip from one who has seen many
a Bullying Brain get the gong.
Forget the Smart Line and the
Dashing Front. Cut out your
dreams of making a Front Page
"extry." And learn, first and for
ever, that what this world wants
and rewards above everything else
is that greatest of all talents -
JUST STICKING!
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PARABLE?

In case you are a farmer or
ever lived on a farm and are
puzzled as to what this reorgan'
ization Of the judiciary means
look to the words Of Represent
ative Hatton w. Summers, chair
man Of the House Judiciary Com
mittee. Said he:
eff I may use q hOmely Illus
tratiOn-and about all I ever
learned was on the farm
when / was a boy when my
father had a horse that he had
to feed all of its life anyway,
and that horse got too old to
do the work of a regular horse
cultivating the crop, he would
not keep him in the field merely
because he had to feed him to
the hurt of the crop and the
waste of good hands time.
What he would do, as a man
of practical common sense,
would be to take that horse
which he had to feed anyhow
and work him a little around the
garden and use him to draw .
little wood and put a good
husky horse out there in the
field with somebody to work
it. That is all that we are
asking you to do, and if you
have as much sense as q good
OId.fashiOned farmer has, yoa
will do it," -
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Sports writer's, since the PASTOR
run-around, are giving Jim Brad
dock more than fair chance
against Joe Louis. Chicago is
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PINCH HITTER

It looked like old times in the
House Of Representatives on Mon
day.
william Tyler Page, author OF
the American Greed and clerk Of
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PUBLISHED HERE

Aside to G. W. T. and any
others who might be interested.
known But to God" is published
by the National Republic Publish
ing Company, Of Washington,
D. C.
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THANKS

Thank you, Mr.. j. D. S. I've
passed on your information on
Falernum to the official who gave
me the recipe in the first place.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

the House for years while the
Republicans were in power, was
called upon to read bill during
its consideration. In his well
trained voice, and employing all
Of his courtly manners, Mr.. Page
thrilled the galleries with his re.
turn to the bat"
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RELIEVED

Interested spectators at the
hearings in the labor spy" in
vestigation being conducted by
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This column tDelconteS and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters t0tlI be
handled contidentiGlIy and an
SUered promptly IT stamped,
addressed envelopes are in
cludedJ.
(copyriEht, 1897. by King Features
SyHdicates Inc.)
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
THE TOUGHEST TEST

She hates her fets monoH Hupon sTICKERs Gypes
colorless-and geniuse gogeers are
adventure
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BY ignorance is pride increased;
They most assume, who know the
least. Gay.
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This world certainly is wide
enough to hold both thee and me.
g.
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Wise Words

The superiority Of some men is
merely local. They are great be-
cause their associates are little
Johnson.
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No company is far preferable to
bad, because we are more apt to
catch the vices of others than vir.
tues, as disease is far more con-
tagtous than health.-Colton.
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The most agreeable of all COM
panionS is a simple. frank man,
without any high pretensions to
an oppressive greatness; one who
loves life, and understands the use
of it; obliging; alike at all hours;
above all, of a golden temper, and
steadfaSt as an anchor. For such
an one We gladly exchange the
greatest genius, the most brilliant
wit, the profoundest thinker
aSSipU