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The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Bu Elsie Robinson

mess, let me set you right on one
point. Statistics DON'T prove
that most working wives are just
playing around or providing pref
ties for themselves. The Federal
Government has taken a keen in
terest in this subject, and its very
careful and widespread surveys
prove exactly the opposite i. e.,
the Working Wife takes her job
through serious necessity. How
ever, if you want a scrap, don't
let a little thing like Uncle Sam
stop you, sister.
Thousands of grand letters, all
meriting prizes. and not room
enough to print even one in full.
But here's the gist of another
Storm Maker-from Mrs. Ella
Nixon, aged 25, of MI. Holly, N. G
NEW SUBJECT
Mistress Ella has started One
Woman Crusade against what in
her opinion is Public Disgrace
Number One - THE WOMAN
SMOKER. Because she presents
that which we seek even more
than literary technique-A NEW
SUBJECT-We're sending her the
SIS prize.
How" she cries, "can any
decent woman smoke, particu-
IarIy in public? Could there be
anything more horrible than the
sight of a young mother SmOk-
ing before her child? It's GER
tainIy neither smart nor re-
fined, and our best physicians
declare cigarette smoking to be
q deadly menace to the health
of all women and the children
they may bear"
Strong language, lady! Do YOU
endorse them Young America?
DO YOU CONSIDER A SMOK-
ING WOMAN "A HORRIBLE
SIGHT? DO YOU AGREE
THAT NICOTTNE'S A MENACE
TO MOTHERS AND BABIES?
Or do you believe that smoking is
no more vicious than tea drinking
or sausage eating, unless done in
exceSS-that it has, in short,
NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO
WITH MORALS? Let's hear
and soon-with both barrels!
Who'll be the next to propose a
NEW SUBJECT for discussion in
this every-Monday column young
America Says? Read the
rules of the contest, then write on
any topic relating to American
Youth-its character, its needs,
its morals, it's economic outlook
or whatever Young America re-
CARDS as one of the problems pecu-
liar and important to itself.
Copyright 1897, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLGnd
LFE.GUARDS

, "It takes three generations 10
make a gentleman"-and about
twice that long before he learns
to distinguish a bus-boy from a
waiter in the average restaurant.
AS long as a husband is the only
member of the family who is able
to help the children with their
arithmetic he will still be regarded
as "the head of the family"
Love never stands still these
days. BY the time it ceases to
have growing pains it is beginning
to get hardening of the arteries.
The best thing for a girl to put
in her hope chest is lot Of love.
When a little love has to last Tor
a lifetimes, it spreads out aWtully
thin.
Love is just the sweet hallucina-
ton that the n-of-the-l1loment
is the man of your life.
Copyright, 1887, King Features
Syndicate, 1ne'D
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

Divorce, like morals. is becom-
ing largely a matter of geography.
You can be divorced in Mexico,
a widow in Florida, a bigamist in
Carolina and you don't know what
in New York-all at the same
time.
The handsome life-guards at
the Florida beaches have been
kept so busy applying artificial
respiration this winter that some
of them are anxiouSly wondering
if there is no antidote for artificial
drowning.
No wife will ever again believe
that her husband is a convincing
talker," once she has heard him
in a little tete.a-tete with a traffic
officer.
1t may sound paradoxical-but
nothing chills a mans love so
quickly as woman's attempt to
keep it at a permanently high
temperature.
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Listen, World!


thoroughly in 'woman'S rights
Immediately resents it--and the
fireworks start.
zone thing leads to another.
Mary begins thinking how much
happier she would have been If
she'd taken Paul instead of
John -. gets a bad case Of self
pity 80. flares up %. Swears
she'll go home to mama-and
goes. If mama had a mite of
sense she'd send her back, but
usually she hasn't and doesn't.
So we have another divorce and
for a little while Mary feels free
as a bird from a cage
"Then the thrill of the new
freedom fades. She looks around
-. sees her friends still happily
married to their husbands, with
tiny tykes trOtting at their heels
and pretty homes being built.
Once again self-pity sets in!
How lonely she is-hOw abused!
"T, too, could have had all
that she sOhs, If John hadn't
been so mean to me-cOm-
planned so about the bills
But she's wrong! Their di-
vOrce wasn't Johns fault 1t
was her own. SHE JUST
COULDN'T TAKE 1T
DIDN'T EVEN TRY!
Putting aside the religious
angle, there may be many cases
where separation is justified,
but 1 honestly think that most
of them are due to the young
married wOman'S SelfiShnesS
and reStIeSsnesS-her refusal to
be as good sport in marriage
as she would have to be in buSi-
ness. Also, divorces are too
easy to get. Make them harder
to get and we won't fly off at
the least little tantrum.
$50 - take it from someone
who knows to her own SOrrOw-
THIS IVORCE BUSINESS
DOESN'T PAY. Think it over
and over, girls, and even then
don't do it unless you're actually
being physically abused, left
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

lIupOI GdQJ OIlG. Edwin T.. Hill
European powers, particularly
autocratic states, are becoming
more and more touchy about any
lack of reverence on the part OF
outlying and non-totalitarian citi-
Zens. Just a raffiSh crack in a
newspaper might start a war. 1t is
interesting to note that the bitter
outcrieS, when cartoonists or writ
erS got playful within the last few
years, came from the hob-nailed
commonwealthS.
There was Japan, just about
ready to shoot from the hip when
cartoonist kidded the Emperor.
There was II Duce, of Italy, loom
ing like a thundercloud over our
General Smedley Butler, and this
was serious enough to start a
court-martial of the general.
These recall to mind that rollick-
ing old American sea-dog, Rear
Admiral James B. Coughlin, and
the whoop-te-doo he kicked up with
his ME und Gott" poem, soon
after the SpaniSh-American War,
The Kaiser's reaction was er-
roneously reported at the time.
We all understood that he was
boiling with rage, but Theodore
Roosevelt later related that the
Kaiser showed him the poem, read
it with delight, and laughed
heartily, saying he was not in the
least offended.
AN INSTANCE
There's something to think
about-contrasting the old hoch-
ing, heiling, goose-stepping and
supposedly humorless Germany
with the Germany of today. Ad-
miral Coughlin was fiery and
mischievous Kentuckian with a
dash of Irish in his makeup, and a
handsome old gentleman, as I re-
member him, a parsonage of great
charm and distinction.
Commanding the U. S. S. Raleigh,
he mixed in Importantly at the Bat
tie of Manila. His ship fired the
first and last shots of the engage
ment. On the homeWard trip, rum
r1aging through lot of papers in
his cabin, the old admiral found a
clipping from an Australian news
paper, reprinted from the Mont
real Herald, early in 1897. 1t was
the Me und Gott" poem. The ad-
miral packed the poem around in
his pocket, showing it to friends
and chuckling over it, but could
never be induced to read it in
public until he attended a dinner
in his honor at the Union League
Club. There were 16 verses, the
first of which was as follows:
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Among February's Great

THEBRUARY has been generous month to the Nation
l. as the birthday month of those who have rendered
great service to their country.
Mention of February Immediately brings to mind the
fact that during the month celebrate the annver
sares of the birth of Washington and Lincoln.
Today is another significant birthday adorning Feb
ruarys caendar-it is the hundred and seventeenth
anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony abored many years ago to win for
her sister rights which today regard COM
monplace.
In fact they are accepted so much matter of
course in modern America that the younger generation
would find it difficult to conceive of the conditions under
which Miss Anthony launched and carried on her cam
paign to win them.
From the standpoint of the service which Miss An
thony rendered the Nation it is proper that her statue
now should be in the Capitol and it is fitting that this
anniversary womens organizations should take the lead
in paying tribute at that memorial.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

penniIesS or betrayed for some
other woman.
MISS JIMMYE MELCHOR,
Decatur, Ga"
Straight talking, Jimmy e!
Here's hoping it averts many a
heartache and saves many a tot
tering home.
Comes now another blast at
The Missis. This time it's the
Working Wife who's under fire.
Another of those selfish men
peeving?" Not at all. Miss Doris
Mosebach, age II. is the red-eyed
accuser-and winner of the sec
ond $40 prize.
SHE MEANS 1T
Doris, facing graduation in few
months, is naturally interested in
getting a job. What are her
chances? Practically nil, says Miss
Mosebach, "S'long as these work
ing wives continue to grab all op'
portunities."
when . woman marrieS,"
snOrtS she, "her place is in the
home, NOT IN AN OFFICE. No
woman can run both a home and
an office job successfully. There
are some cases where, due to ILL
ness or death, a wife must be-
come the breadwinner. But sta
tiSticS show that such emergen-
cies are rare in comparison with
the cases where wives work to
get more IuxurieS or kill time.
"It's time drastic action was
taken to combat this increasing
custom of wives working out
side their homes. For every
married woman worker, whose
sacred duty lies in her home,
there is some ambitious single
girl who needs and should be
given the job which the wife is
filling.
"WORKING WIVES SHOULD
RE FORCED TO RELINQUISH
THEIR POSITIONS AND STEP
ASIDE FOR AMERICAN
YOUTH!
DORIS F. MOSEBACH,
"Queens Village, L. l."
That should start plenty Of
action, youngster! Only, in fair
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Der Kaiser auf der Vaterland
Und GOtt on high all dinss COM
mand.
We two!
Ach, don't you Onnerstand?
MeinSeIf-und GOtt!
The following verses, touching
on France and Queen Victoria,
are typical:
Dere'S France, she SwaggerS all
arOundt. She's ausgespielt.
Too much, me thinks, she don't
amOundt.
MeinSelf-und GOtt!
Dere'S Grandma-6inks she iSS
NIGHT small bOer,
Nit Beers und such she interfere.
She'll learn none owns dis
hemisphere
But me-un GOtt!
This possibly harmless merri.
ment leaked out and got into the
papers. The German Embassy at
Washington did a couple of back
flipS and came up foaming at the
mouth. German newspapers bel
lowed with rage. We were feeling
pretty cocky over the Spanish
puSh-over and our newspapers
turned loose some rowdy and rau-
couS kidding which was just like
a currycomb on the German boil.
The general public Interpretation
of the incident seemed to be that we
could lick Germany with one hand
tied behind our back.
Our State Department was con-
siderably upset and the wheels
began to turn to summon Admiral
Coughlin to court-martial. There
was roar from the country which
ended that. He died in 1908, end
ing a career of high honor and
great distinction.
THE ORIGIN
1t was not until years later that
the story of the POEMS origin be-
came generally known. In 1897,
the city editor of the Montreal
Herald read what seemed to him
a rather pompouS statement by
the Kaiser and decided on a bit of
ribbing. He called to his desk a
reporter, one Alexander MacGre-
gor, master of both sly and overt
humor who could always uncork
something amusing.
"Give me some hurry-up verse
on the Kaiser and don't pull
your punch. You have three
mia rfnrS of an koTp IN ,raoIzA fhA
edition." he said.
Just ahead of the deadline, Mac.
Gregor turned in his poem. He
died in 1898, his poem already for
gotten, never dreaming, of course.
that via Australia, the cruiser
Raleigh, the Union League Club
and old Admiral Coughlin, it would
get into the annals of world di-
plomacy.
Mark Twain had quite a lot to
say about the irreverence of Amer.
leans. He saw it as an attribute
OF democracy and of the preServa.
ton of democracy. Certainly, it
accounts for much that is salty
and wholesome in our makeup.
Some of our rowelling of poll
ticians in hot campaigns is pretty
rough, but have an idea that it
will be a sorry day for this coun-
try when a Gapayoo agent hangs
over every drawing board and type
writer.
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
No Short Cuts For Amelia

A MEIIA EARHART announces that she will attempt
IA to fly around the world.
She has made the only solo flight from Hawaii to
California and has flown the Atlantic twice.
II am tired of flying the Atlantic says this amazing
aviatrix
On her new adventure she will stick close pos
sibe to the Equaor-a real round the world flight
man has accomplished.
Amelia is just like woman-if she is going to do
thing she's going to do it right. No halfway measures
for her.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
The Place to Start

~ ONERNNIENT officials have been at great pains
VI to point out the ''nhuman" conditions which they
have charged prevail in privately owned indus
tries.
They have directed attention time and time again to
the long hours which many men and women in highly
competitive industries have been and even
being forced to work.
This they have maintained due to the bitter
competition within industries and to the fact that the
upright members of an industry who wanted to treat
their employees fairly and dcccntly in the matter of
hours forced to keep up the overlong hours be-
cause otherwise they would be destroyed by the labor
chiselers with whom they were competing
Toward the elimination of this cliseling competition
much of the Administrations effort has been directed
This of the primary objectves of the National
Recovery Administration stated often by its officials
and supporters
Many times the country told the sweatshop hours
were due entirely to the competitive system under
capitalism.
Well, the United States Government is without
petition government in this country
Yet, it has been revealed by the report of its own
agency, being OF the most flagrant chseers in
the Nation in so far working its employees overtime
is concerned.
FOURTEEN MILLION HOURS OF WORK IN SIX
MONTHS FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT PAID
NOT PENNY IS PROBABLY THE HIGH MARK
AMONG INDUSTRIES AS AN EXAMPLE OF
BLACKJACKING EMPLOYEES.
The revelation that this condition exists does much
to strip the hypocrtca holierthan-thou' mask from
those in high office who find it pleasant to tell pr
vate employers how to treat their workers.
When the Government corrects this situation-and
it is not newly created one-then its preachngs and
warnings to private industry will carry some weight
Undoubtedly the Government really wants to improve
the working conditions of the American people.
The way for it to do this is clear.
1t stop preaching and act
Act first with regard to its loyal and underpad
and overworked employees.
If it does this it will not have to worry much about
the conditions in private employment-they will be
cured by force of example.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

authority sta
tbs tics were
made public
today that
the m or a
wife ca t s
C a n d Y t h e
more certain
it is that she
will get a di-
vOrce."
Statistics fur.
niShed this de.
partment in the
above manner
show h a t in
Reno, Nevada
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

understood that
the trial and
punishment fol-
lowed an angry,
off-Stage squak
by Der Fuehrer
and his runners
up. England has
the makingS of
plenty of real
arguments with
Germany and,
S e n S / b ly, it
W ou ! d S e e m.
gave the Nazis
f ull satisfac.
ton in this un-
is,nAn..knAA
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
CONTEST RULES

1.-The writer Of a letter in COM
petition for one of the three
weekly prizes-twO Of SO each
and one of $5-must be under 80
years of age.
2-The letter must be upon some
subject of Importance to Ameri-
can youth.
3-The letter must not exceed 800
words In length.
4-The writer must give his or her
age and full name and address,
and the name Of each writer
awarded a prize will be pub.
lished.
S-TO be eligible for the prize
awarded each Monday, q letter
must hear pOstmark not later
than noon Of the preceding Sat
urday.
6-Miss Elsie Robinson Is to be sole
judge Of the merits Of letters
submitted in the contest.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

M ost youth
problems" were
as pressing in
1887 as they
are today, b u t
not this one.
Economics, as
we'll as religion
and social opin-
ion, held Gram
ma and Grampa
together until
death did them
part" Grandpa
m a Y h a v e
S e e m e d any
thing but a bar
gain lot to
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

hllOWu 1dI 6tIlu NAs HA-N--
wide as a divorce center, the per
capita consumption of candy is
the highest in the United States.
With reverse English in the State
of South Carolina where there are
no divorce laws, the consumption
of candy is the lowest in the
United States.
Add further statistics furnished
in a like manner:
In the cities where Mae West
pictures go over the heaviest the
sale of lingerie increases during
the period of the pictures run and
extends a short time afterwards.
If the above sounds too crazy
to you even for a Washington dis
patch remember that many a
true word is spoken in jest"
A MURDER PLOT
A fine suggestion for a murder
plot was interjected into the dis
cussion of the extension of the
East Front of the Capitol recently
before the Senate Public Build
ings and Grounds Committee.
Lorimer Rich, a prominent
architect from New York City,
was testifying in opposition to the
proposal. Among other things he
inSinuated that the reason the
late Thomas U. Walter, who de-
signed the House and Senate
wings and present dome, later
recommended that the central
portion be extended was that archl-
tects are notoriously prone to
want to keep on working on a job
year after year in an effort TO
reach absolute perfection.
He said there was a saying
among architects that it takes
two men to complete a master
piece-one to do the work and the
other to kill him when he has
gone far enough.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

President Roosevelt's suggestion to
reorganize the judiciary is a seri-
Gus one, and any attempt at hu-
NOR has no place in the discus
sion.
At a recent press conference
with the leader. it is reported, a
reporter interjected a remark that
another Senator had said he
wasn't for the 70-year-old-
retirement plan because he wasn't
as old as Senator Robinson. The
leader was just concluding a very
serious dissertation on the prob
lem and as the facetious remark
fell on the air he burst forth in
dignantly:
Get out. Get out of here"
The reporters got-and got
quickly.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Greatest Show on Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

BURLESQUE DEPARTMENT
Beware if your wife eats a lot Of
candy.
From the usual unreliable
source close to an impeachable
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

An English judge imposes severeS
fines on vaudeville comedians who
were spoofing Adolf Hitler. 1t is
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

There's a question which many
young moderns face all too soon
after the wedding bells have rung.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
SERIOUS TOPIC

To Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
majority leader in the Senate.
this business Of following out
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
CONSIDERATE

NOESOADEnAIE
Positive proof that being a
Senator has not worn away the
consideration he has for the rights
Of hoi polloi came recently
from Senator William j. BuIow
of South Dakota. During an in.
terview with a member of the
press, the Senator started over to
the Capitol from the Senate
Office Building and asked the re.
porter to come along with him.
The reporter said he would be
glad to because the subway cars
ran much faster when a Senator
was aboard.
AS they approached the elevator
leading to the subway, Senato4
Bulow remarked that although he
knew he was privileged to push
the call button three times and
get instant service, he never did it
because he thought the people
who entered the building should
have a right to get off wherever
they wanted to instead of being
carried up and down at the order
of a Senator.
To carry out his assertion he
pushed the bell only once and
when the operator asked:
"Where do you want to 20,
SenatOr?"
He replied:
"I'm going to the subway but
you let these other people on the
car off where they want to CO."
CORRECTION
From Senator Tom Connally
who interrupted the hearing OH
the Capitol extension bill to re.
mark:
There is a popular and dense
opinion throughout the country
that the Members of Congress
don't pay taxes on their salaries.
"The salaries are income and
as such have to be reported and
taxes have to be paid on them.
If you pay more taxes than do
it's because you make more
money than i do"
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Human Side of News
BIZ EdUin C. Hill

Der Kaiser auf der Vaterland
Und GOtt on high all dinss com
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

lily, and no matter what a
pets ancestors may have
been, it is given the same
expert attention.
No disagreeable antisep-
tic odors pervade the at
mosphere, for in most in
stances cages are metal and
fireproof, sterilized daily by
means of a blow torch in
stead of chemicals.
To-day veterinarians are
graduated from recognized
universities, explained Jean
Henno, "and there are ten
or more of these special
veterin arian instruction
schools in America besides
Cornell, Pennsylvania State,
Washington and Ohio State
Universities. The field open
to these graduates includes
towns and cities-anywhere
that pets need attention.
mot so many years ago
the veterinarian was looked
upon as a horse doctor,
but now their reception
rooms might be easily taken
for that of an expensive
specialist in a medical build
building. The veterinarian
appears in a white starched
coat. Floors may have rub.
Der tiles, deadening the
sound of visitors; bowls of
flowers make pet clinics a
cheerful, pleasant place.
Many animal hospitals now
have complete pharmacies
shelves covered with doz-
ems of labeled bottles. The
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Science And Surgical Skill
Build Hospitals To Save 4
Lives Of Pets -

@AREENING wildly at a speed of sixty miles
- hour, automobile down the
highway there is a screech of brakes the
agonized scream of a tortured animal
And on the pavement lies a dog-vctim of
another hit-and-run driver.
Other cars whiz by unheeding. That big car
that struck him, crushing one front leg and
three ribs, is many miles away The driver
didn't see him in time; the car swerved too late
and the front wheel caught the right shoulder.
pulling the animal under The dog rolled over
once and lay still. The sped away.
dozen cars pass, paying attention. The
dog has crawled to the edge of the road. He
rests while, then summons the last desperate
remnants of a fading strength He gasps and
crawls few inches further.
Another driver, more observant and less
callous, jams on brakes and swerves off the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

amined by this modern miracle; it locates dis
eased bones, abscessed teeth tumors and intes-
tinal disorders before surgery is attempted.
If the injury to small hit-and-run victim is
severe it is given a local complete anesthetic.
Broken bones and ribs are set quickly. A plaster
cast is often used in bad cases, but usually only
an expertly applied yard or of white cotton
tape is sufficient to hold the bones in place until
they heal
Modern pet hospitals boast of operating rooms
which would be the envy of many medical for
eign missionaries whose equipment is often
meager and primitive. "A hundred years ago."
Jean Henno says, mot even kings could obtain
the services which these operating rooms make
possible for American pets"
An enamel or steel-top table, penetrating
lights jars of shiny instruments a microscope
and countless other pieces of special equipment
are ready for instant To this room-typ.
cal Of similar operating rooms for pets-occa-
sionally famous surgeon is called for consul
tation over pedigreed show dog. He pulls on
A Siberian Husky (Left) Convalescing In Or
(Center) The Pharmacy In Modern Pet Hos
In Some OF the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Husky ef Conyasong OF Modern OF
Luxunou Hospitals