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The Washington times., 1937-02-26
The Human Side of the News
By Edwin C.. Hill

'Manourg, an ageing gentleman in
a Homburg hat, with a stomach
and with a white beard.
These are the elders Of the
exiled royalties of Europe. For
the juniors there is still the ghost
of a chance.
In a fourth-floor suite of a
hotel at Fontainebleau, near Paris,
dWells another man without a
country, Alfonso of Spain. Much
of his time he spends in travelling
to appease his restless nature,
using the title of Duke of Toledo.
Easily recognized wherever he
goes, he never fails to respond to
applause by lifting his green soft
hat or waving his walking stick.
He waits without bitterness for
whatever roll the wheel of politics
may take, down in Spain.
AWAITS THE HOUR
The Romanoff who calls himself
Car of all the RuSsias, the Grand
Duke Cyril, spends most of his
time on his wife'S estate in Ger
many, while issuing pompouS
manifestos to Russian royalistS.
OF all the surviving Roman
offs, cyril is the highest in sue
cession, however thin his chances
are of ever mounting the throne
of Ivan the Terrible and Cathe-
rine the Great.
Most interesting Of all, the
Prince Charles of modern times.
is the handsome young Archduke
Otto of Austria, head of the un'
happy House of HapSburg and
heir to the throne of Austria
Hungary.
Advised and encouraged by his
remarkably ambitious and strong
minded mother, Otto, who has
just passed his twenty-fourth
birthday, confidently awaits the
hour when he will be called tc
rule the one-time twin mon
arches. To his mother, the EN-
press Zita, that ambition is the
breath of her life. She will &C
down in history as one Of the
most striking figures Of the
times.
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Merit Versus SpOils
ByJ. T. WILLIAMS, JR.

eservice of every State from the
pollution of the Spoils system.
Such an extension would soon
lead to the purging of the public
service of every town, city and
county in the country of the in.
SidiouS poison for which the spoilS
mongers of politics are to blame.
Such an extension would inevi.
tably lead ultimately to driving the
spoilS mongers from the entire Fed
eral service.
BY the power of their own
example, the several States can
force this reform which the late
Charles w. Eliot as president Of
Harvard University once said "is
so fundamental that all other re-
lorms must rest upon it,"
There is mistaken notion, to
yhich many people have fallen vic.
tins, that the spoils system is es.
sential to effective party organi.
zation. This is far from being the
truth.
Instead of being helpful, the
SpOils system, as Elihu Root said
many years ago, "tends to pre-
vent effective party organize
ton" by keeping out Of the Or
ganizatiOn "the men whose serv.
ices would be most effective"
The eleven States which now
protect their public service, in
whole or in part, by a civil service
law have found by experience that
the merit system is by far the best
method yet devised for selecting
public servants. They have found
that the SpoilS system always
creates a favored office holding
class, and is therefore wholly un-
democratic. They Rave found that
the cost of operating an honest
and well established merit system
lis more than made up by the saw
ings which result"
RECENT EXAMPLES
Two recent examples of these
savings will suffice to show that
the political racket into which the
spoilS system has degenerated
wastes the peoples money and
that it is saved by the operation
Of the merit system.
Several years ago California
found that its division of person.
mel, protected by civil service law,
saved the State more than $780,
900 in personnel expenditures over
a tWo-year period.
Last year a Michigan Commis-
sion reported to the governor its
finding that the political spoils
system in the government of that
State was costing the people ST.
100000 a year and that a person.
mel agency operating under the
merit system could be maintained
for one tenth that amount.
If the Sesquicentennial Celebra-
ton Of the adoption of the Con.
Stitution should result in the sup
planting Of the spoils system with
the merit system in every State in
the Union the fruits of that vic.
tory would be distributed down the
years to generations yet unborn.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

/ am, If possible, more than
ever conuinced OF the incdlcul-
able benefits conferred By the
CtUA SerUice LGD, not only in
its effects upon the public SerO-
ice but also, tDhdt is eUen more
important, in its effect in eIe-
vGting the tone of political lite
generally.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Upon the benefits to the whole
people of the merit system of max.
ing appointments to their public
service, Grover Cleveland - a
great Democrat-and Theodore
Roosevelt great Republican,
were in whole hearted accord.
BY word and deed each proved,
as citizen, as Governor and as
President, the sincerity of his be-
lief both in the efficacy of that pro-
lection to an honest and efficient
administration of the public busi-
ness which a civil service law pro-
vides and in the elevating effect of
such a law upon the tone Of po-
Sitical life.
ENDURING VALUE
Theodore Roosevelt, who first
saw service in the Federal City as
a United States Civil Service Com
missioner, put the case for the
merit system in these words:
"The merit system Of making
appointments is in its essence as
democratic and American as the
common school system itself.
It simply means that in clerical
and other positions, where the
duties are entirely nOn-political,
the applicant should have a fair
field and no favor"
These sentiments have been
shared by many other American
statesmen including the Chief Jus.
tice Of the United States, Mr..
Hughes, who as Governor Of the
State of New York championed
the merit system in these words:
"We have nothing more i'm
pOrtant in relation to the Ad.
ministratiOn of government than
q system-the best that has yet
been deviSed-Of securing men
of the needed capacity by COM
petitive examinations, whenever
such examinations are practic-
able. I believe in that. I thor
Oughly indOrse it. And I hope
to see. it extended throughout
the States Of the Union"
OF what distinction and endur-
ing value to the household of the
nation it would be if, as a part
Of their contribution toward the
national observance Of the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Of the adoption Of the Constitu-
ton of the United States, the
several States would unite in ex-
tending the merit system through
out their union.
Such an extension would mean
the emancipation of the public
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

NO1G4I4E5 4O4 44Ao vi A1SAC A~OOh"OV"
crime of Which-it's a million to
one odds-you have never heard.
Even nine out of ten law enforce
ment agents are unacquainted
with these denominations. Indeed
it is pitiful that a knowledge Of
them need enter the mind of any
decent man or sensitive woman.
But that knowledge has at last
become unavoidable. For these
crimes are no longer secret de-
baucheries, lurking in widely sep
arate hide-aways. They have come
out in the open, become organized
and extended, until even the
simplest village, humblest home or
most obscure auto camp is not
free from their taint.
CRIME TODAY IS AMERICAS
BIGGEST BUSINESS A BUSI
NESS WHICH NETS MILLIONS
DAILY FOR THE MALE AND
FEMALE RATS, BUzzARDS
WEASELS AND SKUNKS WHO
CONTROL 1T.
INDICTMENT
knowing this, Courtney Ryley
Cooper-whom j. Edgar Hoover
chief of the G-men, credits with
knowing more about crime anc
criminals than any other writing
man in America" has compiled
| this book, HERES TO CRIME!
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Three Minute Journeys

short ride brings one to Macuto.
the Cannes Of Venezuela. The
long, palm-lined boardwalk, the
beautiful beach of dazzling white
sand, the villas with their gar
dens, the exotic tropical trees and
flowers and the terraces, all help
to make it a fascinating spot.
That the place is being discov-
cred is attested by the fact that
during the winter season one IS
likely to find important people
from various parts of the world.
Wealthy Venezuelan plantation
owners have beautiful villas at
Macuto, and entertain lavishly'
The terrace of the Miramar is al
ways filled with a gay, cosmopoll'
tan crowd.
The ride from La Guaira to Ca
racas, the capital, is an entranc'
ing one, and exciting, too. The
road clings to the mountainslde'
and creeps along precipices, from
which one looks down into IA
thomless canyons.
| The horseshoe bends are SC
sharp and the road in some places
so narrow that one wonders II II
would not have been better to &C
by the little railroad.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

ter of the most formidable legions
in Europe. He is William OF
Hohenzollern, in exile.
None knows better than he how
little he has to hope from any
political convulsion in Germany.
His day is done, his race is run.
Age is against him, and the un-
forgettable fact that he fled from
the field in his country's bitterest
hour.
Nowadays he spends much Of
his time in his study, at the top
of a tower, writing his memoirs
and contemplating the portrait OF
a young man in a field marShals S
uniform, blazing with jewels-a
young man with a sword at his
side and fiercely upturned mus
taches.
There he sits in his study every
afternoon, aStride the saddle from
which he used to survey his long
cleaning regiments Of goose-step'
ping soldiers, and reads the latest
news from his homeland. Instead
of a chair the old man climbs
into the saddle in front of his
desk and dreams he is on parade
in front of the army.
MEMORIES
On the walls, of the study are
hung pictures and mementoS
which recall the great days Of
German imperialism, when every
man was expected to give his life
to keep Deutschland Uber Allies, Of
Germany Over AL"
For years the Kaiser had plumec
himself as the great war-lord Of
Europe, and his vanity is flatterec
by the photos in his study which
show him in every possible mill
tary dress-as field marshal, ad
miral, general, captain and ever
as a lieutenant in the infantry
guard. On his breast are the
jeweled diplomatic orders with
which sovereignS everywhere deco
rated him in the days when ma
tions were afraid Of him. William
of Hohenzollern as he was before
the fatal year of 1914!
In a sad, silent villa at Coburg
lives another whose day is done
and whose race is run, Ferdinand
of Bulgaria. He was only half
pay lieutenant in the white tuniC
and gold-laced cap Of an Austrian
hussar regiment when he wal
elected king of the most troubled
state in the Balkans.
He lived as a grand monarcf
until he made the one mistake
which kings must not make. HI
bet on the wrong horse. He pickeC
the Germans to win instead OF tn
Allies. Now, all but forgotten, n
carries on as the Count d.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Breakfast in Bed

FTVHE School to Teach Bachelors How to Cook which
= opened in New York recently, strongly advises its
pupils not to breakfast in bed to their future
wives.
The School to Teach Bachelors How to Cook would
do we'll to stick to it's cooking.
All the schools in all the world, all the wisdom of
the ages are as nothing to bridegroom.
There just isn't any reason sense in him.
He'll serve his wife with breakfast in bed and stand
on his head if she tells him.
. Only time will cure it.
Give him five ten years and HE will demand break
fast in bed. And get it.
Right7
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

made over the radio and other
places. Hardly any effort is made
to hold the copy down as it is an
unwritten law that a Senator can
do no wrong while he's in the
Senate. OF course the case Of
Senator Rush Holt who stepped
out Of line from his party Is the
exception that proves the rule.
On the House side, however,
there are several members who
jealously guard the pages Of this
estimable little pamphlet and great
care is taken to see that a tight
lid is clamped down. This irks
more than one. Representative
John ]. Boylan of New York raised
the point the other day and said:
eff we are going to be the
small boys of the Congress rest
ing under the lash of the big
brothers on the other end,
naturally that is o matter for
us to consider"
It was Representative Robert F.
Rich, Republican of Pennsylvania,
who usually throws the House into
an uproar by shouting as each
expenditure is passed: Where are
you going to get the money!" who
suggested the murder.
He asked Mr.. BoyIan if he ever
was prevented from putting any.
thing in the Record. Mr.. Boylan
answered with an emphatic "yes. ?"
Then replied Mr.. Rich:
'"The man who denied the gen.
tleman that privilege ought to
be shot"
Tch, tch Mr.. Rich.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

And he turned and walked right
into the Senate Chamber.
Only a very few of the members
are attempting to answer their
mail these days. Most Of the
writer's don't seem to want an
answer. They just want it made
plain how they stand and how
they want their Senators and
Representatives to vote.
One secretary to a Senator says
it takes the office force about four
hours each day to open and read
the letters.
OF all the wisecracks so far this
seems to take the cake. It is re-
ported that a workman busily en-
gagged in saving down a tree near
the Supreme Court was asked why
the old standby was being dis
pensed with. He replied that ne
didn't know unless it was over
seventy years of age.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

plan has been
receiving heavy
mail in opposi-
ton to it. It
hasn't changed
his mind very
much because
he remarked:
81 dom
tn NIX t h e
writ ell RS of
these letters
KIN o W v e ry
IN u h about
it. / think /
can ay the
same for the
ones in here. "
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

it isn't the sort
Of thing one
lie yes lying
around the liv,
ing room not
at all a volume
"for children
morons or sen
Sation seekers
Y e t tn i S
CHASTITY treatise
un d ou b t edly
heads the list OF
current MUST
Reading.
It is about
crime. About re.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
HER PURPOSE

There is one art lover in Wash
ington who makes a pilgrimage to
the Senate press gallery each day
the Senate is in session to look at
the two huge oil paintings that
hang there.
Just inside the first room, which
has recently been added to the gal
lery, there hangs "The Grand
Canyon of Yellowstone" and "The
Chasm of Colorado" by Thomas
Moran.
When the Senate meets, lady
who has never given her name but
who makes a habit of appearance,
comes to the door when the Sen
ate adjourns and asks permission
to step inside a moment. She is
given the privilege and stands re-
spectfully for a few moments be
fore each painting before she
quietly thanks the doorman and
goes away.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

farmer gaze S
across the Ger
man border with
a close and anX-
ious eye on Herr
Hitler. Even in
buc olic garb
there is some
thing very regal
about the white
haired, white
bearded septua-
genarian. And
for good reason.
Only 20 years
a00 he WAS nne
Of the great of
earth, the mas
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
SHOT, Ell!

The annual fight over the
grand old Congressional Record
has bobbed up in the House again
with one member suggesting mur-
der as a way out.
In the Senate it is the regular
habit of Senators to extend d
courtesy to their colleagues by
introducing for the appendix OF
the Record numerous speeches
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Wise Words

The greatest punishment for
having done an injury is the fact
of having done it.-Seneca.
Obedience is the mother OF sue
cess, the wife of safety.-Aeschy-
luS.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

A very handsome old gentleman
in the baggy trousers and leather
leeginps of a Dutch gentleman
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

able StaClSClcS. IhlS is no SenSa'
tional thriller" It is the most
sickening yet honest report ever
presented of a nations shame. :.
the most scathing Indictment Of
your and my individual response
1ility for that shame.
Girls bought and sold like cattle
driven, literally at the point
of bloody lash, from one dance
hall to another. Boys lured by
"shillabers" into the offices Of
medical charlatanS, deliberately
infected with the ghastliest Of all
diseases. Young people lashing
their limp bodies into unprintable
orgies by the use of 'reefers. "
School children secretly taught
the use of narcotics, within the
shadow of the schoolhouse door.
Unspeakable vileness spread n 6
within our jails.
The big shots-the gamblers,
racketeerS, quacks, Shyster law
yers, crooked politicians, gang
sterS and gun molls-they are not
responsible for these horrors. YOU
AND I ARE RESPONSIBLE .
YOU AND I, WHO ALLOW SUCH
CONDITIONS TO FLOURISH
UNDER OUR VERY NOSES Be
CAUSE SECRETLY, WE EITHER
ADMIRE OR IGNORE I'll E
CRIMINAL AND HIS WOMAN.
Within the last 10 years we
have had crime books by the
hundreds, but never before has
a book so ruthlessly torn the veil
from vice-and our own attitude
toward it.
RUTHLESS RECORD
We are tragically infantile, we
Americans, either smugly content
with out ignorant, fairy tale con
ception of life or secretly in
revolt, weary Of our colorless
careers, furtively longing to be
Diamond Dicks or Cyanide Sallys
In either case, we remain unaware
or Indifferent to the ugly reality
And never has author treated civic
indifferences with such Scathine
contempt as does Mr.. Cooper!
| AMERICA RIOTS! IT RIOTS
OPENLY, WITH BANDS PLAY
ING, HUSTLERS RECKONING
NEON SIGNS ADVERTISING
WHERE, WHEN AND HOW
AND HIGHLY PAID EXPERTS
DIRECTING EVERY DETAIL
OF ITS FAR-FLUNG FOULNESS
Very we'll, If America is to rot
If you and I, who hold the con
troll, are to permit America tx
rot-the least we can do is tx
'look at the record"
Here it is-the most RUTHLESS
record of a once great, clean ma
tion's decentralization. Do no
dare to call yourself a conscien
tious parent, politician, educator
civic leader, minister or prizes
until you have read that recorC
and faced the thing you hav'
done!
} CThtS column aUelconteS and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems mag
: also be sent. All letters 1Diu be
handled contidentiGlly and an
StDered promptly if stamped.
; addressed envelopes are in
cLuded.i
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Federal Liability

IA appropriation bill for the District it becomes in
creasingly apparent that the so-caed Jacobs commit
tee instead of solving the problem of fiscal relations
between the local and the Federal governments, has
merely tossed back into the lap of Congress problem
which that body alone solve.
Likewise it becomes increasingly apparent that no
section of the report of the Jacobs committee can be
given approval in time to incorporate any of the find
ings of that group in the bill upon which House sub
committee is now working.
The House subcommittee under Representative Ross
Collins is faced with serious condition before which
the nespun theories Of the Jacobs group dissolve into
thin air.
What Mr.. Collins and his colleagues must ascertain
is how fit the pending District budget to the District
financial cloth.
In view of the fact that the estimates of expenditure
run to about ten million dollars than the estimated
for the coming fiscal year that is small task
It is highly doubtful that the proposed expenditures
can be cut to make up that ten million dollars,
large part of it, without doing serious damage to the
services which the District government is rendering
its citizens.
Likewise it is highly doubtful it, in fairness and JUS
tice the Districts citizens should be asked to pay in
creased or added taxes which would be necessary to
meet Lne expenses.
wise combination of these two methods however,
might be worked out to avoid the acute situation which
would otherwise be created.
BUT, BEFORE DISTRICT RESIDENTS ARE
ASKED TO BEAR ANY GREAT INCREASE IN
THEIR PRESENT TAX BURDEN, CONGRESS AND
IT'S COMMITTEES SHOULD CONSIDER THE LA
BILITY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN
THE MATTER OF THE PROSPECTIVE TEN mil
LIoN-DoLLAR DEFICIT IN THE DISTRICTS AC-
COUNTS
For many years the Congress has been curtailing,
year after year, the share which the Federal Govern
ment pays toward the support of its National Capital
During each Of these years the proportion which the
local citizens have been paying has been increasing that
paid by the Federal Government has been decreasing.
If the Federal Government had been maintaining
anything like the rate of payment which under
peaed law it bound to pay-forty per cent-there
would be prospect of deficit, prospect of in
creased local taxes and prospect of curtament Of
essential Government services.
There is, therefore, a large back payment due the
District from the Federal Government under the pro-
visions of existing law.
It is, of course, hopeless for the Districts citizens to
try to make the Federal Government make this pay
ment if the Federal Government chooses to shirk its
voluntarily assumed contract with the city.
Nevertheless the moral obligation does exist and
should be considered by Representative Collins sub
1888.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
MOUNTING MAIL

Notes on the Supreme Court
fight!
One Senator who favors the
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Washington Needs

National Representation in Congress
Local Government Elected By and Responsible
To the People of Washington
Rapid Transit Street RaiIoOay System With Sube0ays
More and Better Schools
An Airport Necessary to and Worthy
Of the Nations Capital
Rebuilt Waterfront With Proper Channel
Modern Sewage Disposal System
National Guard Armory, Auditorium and Stadium
Adequate Automobile Parking Facilities
Sufficient Public Buildings to House the Government
An Increase in Public Library Facilities
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson
AMERICAS BIGGEST BUSINESS

mine written 1T published by Little Brown &
completely horrible book Co. its statements backed by
Being honorable intelligent unmpeachabe ndput
he
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CThiS column aUelconteS and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Serting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters 1Diu be
handled contidentiGlly and an
StDered promptly if stamped,
addressed envelopes are in
cluded./
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Ino.)
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

For many years the Congress has been curtaing,
year after year, the share which the Federal Govern
ment pays toward the support of its National Capital.
During each Of these years the proportion which the
local citizens have been paying has been increasing that
paid by the Federal Government has been decreasing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-06-12

The bill referred TO is that
which was SPOKEN oe yesterday BY
Representative B. c.. Papy in an
interview with The Citizen in
which he said that the original
bin had by him been shown to
Attorney c. B. Freadway. who
represents the county o. Monroe
at Washington and in Talla-
hassee.
Mr.. Papy said that Mr.. Tread
way had suggested that another
bin be framed and this was at
tended to BY Mr.. Papy. and upon
it being thoroughly approved BY
Mr.. Treadway it was afterward
submitted to the attorney gem
eral and ne had said essentially
the same words OF approval.
This amended bin was passed
b. both houses o. the legislature,
and provides that only bona fide
residents Of Monroe county are
eligible to serve on the commits
sion and each member must file
a bond Of $4,000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-06-12
CONCERT TONIGHT
IN COLONIAL PARK
EXCELLENT PROGRAMS TO BE
RENDERED BY HoSPI-
TALLY BAND

Hospitality Band, unit of the
Federal Music Project, under the
state supervision OF Dr.. Clarence
Carter Nice, vii present another
cenaext IN Colonial Park tonighs
Al 8 O'Clock
TIE Cuban Marimba Band vii
also play several selections on tEa
program tonight This band Is
1nother unit OF the Fedora Music
Project.
Alfredo Barroso win conduct
the Hospitality Band in the play
ing of the following numbers.
I. March. n. ca BigeIow
2. Waltz. June Twilight King
3. IdyH, The Forge in the For
est Michaelis
4. Selection, Babes in Toyiand
Herbert
5. Popular, Say ST ST, Lecuona
Cuban Marimba Band
6. Popular, Boo Hoo Heyman
7. Popular. Little Old Lady
Carmichael and Adams
s.. March. On Parade Egner
9. National Anthem. Star
Spangled Banner Key