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stage III a pay u
early Colonial days
and made a big hit.
A regular parade of
automobiles made
the long trip from
New York to see
her, and when she.
came out on the
stage the rafters
rung with applause
from her Broadway
friends. They were
saluting her courage
in winning a two
wear battle with CO
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jacket your clothes get
Well sir, it began to look to John if had
mistake DO you know what's the he matter with me he asked
what's all this fuss about John wanted know oh We do
John was ready to agree with the nurse Here was big luxurious
but finger Do things right that hospa You're doggone
toon they did John undresed and into bed By that time
three o'clock and the boss would be wondering where he When
the he asked her he'd be there
NIGHT" As~
They Wouldn't Listen to John
ernt In few minutes in came doctor with third The
John tried tell had 7
know and 9a shut up alter oc s h d Th s
paid attention all She thrust another needle into his and
sleep but BY that time he pretty something
drug duled BRAIN fought
coming him. Two in with orderly who
him off operating John himself from the the
But voice weak John and they paid attention
laid the tables The orderly wheeled table
Then n knew something ws wrong They we're going to
form some sort Of BIG OPERATION ssAS
And Did the Doctor Laugh Then!
Il looked for the doctors There three them talking together
corner That was where made my last desperate s effort WAS
managed the doctors
That doctor was the only one who would listen to me- and
ether another would have been unconscious
Are You sure you got right
Anyway? All I've got Is injected finger.
thrown John and
good he laugh But wasn't
He had almost through operation he
didn't need
John did find what they him. Maybe
only Then, the other
might have been something really But
that his him into that There
doggon John Smiths the world John Smith had
himself of another John Smiths aiment
When laughing they told the
Then bed They told him he'd
have there all night because of the drug they'd shot into his
his clothes
beat it out of the hospital
There John Smiths world take chances
might bring another and then they liable
John the sharpening the knives
breaking out the ether
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tlous cold, due TO
the ''cold. . flu, or
other organisms get
ting into the system,
you really had an
allergic'' cold in
the h e a d due to
some substance you
breathed in from the
air, or some sub
stance you had eat
en-.
The usual or COM
mon cold in t h e
head 10 dire tn ovpr-
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ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
"What's In a Name ?".
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

VOU know boys and girls old Shakespeare asked
Whats manner" he didn't think that names
very much difference But guess Bill find plenty peo
pie to give him argument that subject One
John T. Smith of Ozone Park, N. Y.
John Smith isn't such unusual when think Of
Nor John such fellow AT
around April s35he working plumbers
that kept its medical
One day. while threading a pipe, finger
those things
ament that got into
John attention
it had swell bit at
him he'd better report it to the company
The doctor pretty busy He looked
him his and told him get the from his boss
report at the hospital I'll notify the hospital
John Be there eleven o'clock"
Sent to Hospital for Small Operation.
John the necessary papers up
hospital the dot of He
knew pretty well what done about it. finger
with lance bandaged
John that this hospital took lot trouble
took Johns 'Oh yes expecting you"
She told him take waiting
hour Then the back upstairs
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real comedy role. She plays for
eign actress with a heavy accent
and has a glorious time sWooping
through scenes in the grand manner.
She says that Jimmy is just tops to
work with, which makes the verdict
practically unanimous.
The greatest picture of the year,
perhaps Of many years, has re-
ccived a chorus OF critical acclaim
such as has never been heard be-
fore. 1t is '.The Life Of Emile lola"
with Paul NUM-. As crusader for
the oppressed, as the most elo-
quent and f0rceful man of his time,
Paul MUM gives an inspired per-
formance. Don't let the praise of
this picture drive you away from it
with faint suspicion that it may be
educational, but dull. II offers the
most exciting and thrilling evening
you could spend in a theater.
With radios summer lull over
soon dozens of big programs will be
angling for your attention. Irene
Wicker, the greatly beloved singing
lady, moves to the Mutual network
early in October offering a series Of
original sketches with music. Jack
Benny returns to the air at the same
time.
Margaret Tallichet, who aban-
doned a newspaper job in Texas to
break into the movies, has found
that even after a career is we'll
started, it still has as many downs
as UPS. You may recall that she
appealed to Carole Lombard for
help and through her got small
contract with Selznick- Internation-
MI. Well, Miss Tallichet played
small roles in "A Star Is Born and
then the studio decided to gamble
on her to the extent OF sending her
east to dramatic school for further
training. She appeared at the Mt.
Kisco theater opposite no less a per-
sonage than Henry Fonda and
proved conclusively that she needs
LOT more training before she can
play big roles.
Up in Dennis, Massachusetts,
Gertrude Michael appeared on the
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Up in Dennis, Massachusetts,,
Gertrude Michael appeared on the
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Mona Barrie is the latest screen
belle to seek a change from Holly
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Academy Appointments

THE request Of Washngtonians that the District of
/ Columbia be given a fair number of appointments
to the United States Military and Naval academies de-
serves the favorable consideration of the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee to which it was recently di
rected.
This city asks no more than that appointments from
the District be proporronate to those allowed to States
on the basis of population.
At present at least eight States with populations
smaller than the District permitted to send larger
numbers of their youths to the academies.
In some instances States with smaller populations
allowed more than twice many such appointments.
This discrimination constitutes a penalty imposed
upon the patriotic young of the National Capital
and their parents
Our people here carry their full share of Federal
we'll as local taxes
They pay Federal taxes than the people of many
of the States which permitted to send much larger
delegations to the academies.
When and if comes Washington will send as
great proportion of its men to the Army and Navy
and Marine Corps any of the Sates just it has in
the past.
Common justice requires that people be permitted
to send their sons to the Military and Naval academies
on the same basis as the States.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Marry-GO-ROund
BH Helen ROIULG7ld
MANS SYNTHETIC TRUTHS

his way nome 1eeIlng per1ecGIy Ee'
laxed and happy.
And then there's the "sick
friend" story. Now, every once in
a while man does have a lick
friend. But do you think that
he'd telephone his wife that he'll
not be home till late because a
chap at the office was sick and
he was going to sit up with him?
Not if he's in his right senses! It
would be too old! So he tells
her that he has to stay down town
with a customer from Detroit.
Which leaves his wife wondering
about the color Of the customers"
hair.
Hundreds of men go to sleep in
trains. subways and street cars
and ride right by their stations.
And when they get home, two
hours late for dinner, the wise
ones don't deliberately insult the
intelligence of their wives by tell
ing them that Oldest OF old
ones''-even if it is the truth. So
they tell them something that
they will believe. 49,
OF course. here and there you'll
find men who lie to women dello-
erately to cover up some side
steps,; but most of them dig deep
into their imagination when the
simple truth would Just be too
simple to be believed. The trou'
BILE is that so many women have
gotten the idea that a man never
does anything harmless or inno'
cent when he has a chance to do
anything wrong.
And men, knowing this, prob
ably will continue to invent syn
thetic truths when they get a tlat
tire, visit a sick friend. or are de-
layed in a stalled subway, a traf'
fic jam, or work late at the Of
flee. You'd think the poor dears
would run out of alibis some day,
wouldn't you?
Copyright, 1897. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
tt Is OUR Job

-OURTEEN persons having been killed on the streets
Of Washington in traffic accidents during February
the effort of the Commissioners to make March month
without killing seems to be hopeless.
Regardless of the seeming futty however, it is an
effort in which both pedestrians and motorists should
cooperate and one which, while it may not be fully
realized still may keep someone alive at the END OF tne
month who without it would be dead
Americans have become calous of traffic deaths.
We accept and pay without question terrible bill
for the use of our automobiles.
We do not seem to make any appreciably successful
efforts as pedestrians or drivers of automobiles to cut
down the bill.
We leave that task to police and other officials who
in the final analysis helpless to accomplish the oe
sired result without our full and wholehearted coopera
tion.
Last wear Washington fortunate in curtallng the
traffic toll below the previous year.
But so far this year those killed in traffic on our
streets number almost twice many were killed IN
the same period last year.
Are we going to keep up that ratio throughout the
year?
There is relatively little that the authorities do
to prevent IL.
The police can 60 out and make wholesale arrests
Traffic bureau officials stick up lot more signs
or paint lot more lines the streets.
There ism any real that any Of these things
would save even one life
Automobile manufacturers have gone almost to the
limit in installing safety designs into their products
Isn't there anything that can be donef
Undoubtedly there is.
We don It believe that an intelligent and humane COM
munty such as Washington must continue this whole
sale slaughter.
We don't believe that the motorist wants to kill
another motorst pedestrian.
We don't believe that pedestrian wants to step IN
front of an automobile and be killed.
But they will continue to do just that unless and until
each one of u.s. whether driver walker realizes that
he may himself be the next killer or the next killed.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

burner stove, or the open fireplace.
Engineers can continuously IN
crease the safety factor by better
technique, by fool-proof devices
and this they are doing. Some
thing which they cannot affect is
errant, fumbling, faltering, way
ward and needless human fraility.
They can put no puSh.button,
switch, circuit or fuse in the human
brain. Possibly educators can.
Several years ago, the Metropoli-
tan Life made some interesting re.
searches into daily life hazards OF
the pre-Christian era. Their find
ing was that, with all the COM
plexities of our modern civilization,
with all our utilization Of power,
with our speed and our mechani-
cal devices, our chances Of dying
from natural causes are much
greater than those Of the old
timers.
COMPARISONS
Taking Greece, in the third cen.
tury B. c., they checked on the
deaths of, a large number Of his
toric characters. OF these, 49.5
per cent suffered violent deaths.
Among statesmen and soldiers, the
proportions was 81 per cent, and
among artists and philosophers %
per cent.
In the World War, the highest
percentage of fatalities was en-
countered by the Germans, who
lost 42.4 per cent of their men in
a single battle. In other words,
our greatest modern organized kill.
ing effort fell short Of the normal
run of deaths Of ancient Greece.
Geneticists report that all the
killings Of the World WARM fact,
of all modern wars-are negligible
in their bearing on world popula'
ton growth or decrease. For the
most part, they discount entirely
the biological aspects of war. as
they are weighed in the scales Of
race survival. Similarly, the
shocking statistics of home, trans
portation and occupational haz
ards of life today have but little
significance in the vital balance Of
life and death as it registers ir
the larger life accounting ON the
planet.
Life goes on, in spite Of our in
dividual and collective stupidity
and, with all our accidental
deaths, our tables show less in
fant mortality and greater longev
ity. InSensitiveness to killing, &C
cidental or intended, is an TN
pleasant aspect Of modern life
But we are not callouS when it Il
near at hand. A death in thu
house down the road still shocks
us. It is well that hazards cloSt
at hand are dramatiZed and head
lined.
That sensitiveness, enlarged Il
national or world consciousness
would end war. Certainly, If vi
do not achieve q sane and hu
name regard for life, our adven
ture on the planet may as vel
end-and probably will.
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. 1ne.)
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

N4SS
wave of July and August. Falls
and burns, always heavy scorers
in the death tourney, accounted
for most Of the others. These sta
tistics are supplied by Public
Safety, a magazine issued by the
National Safety Council.
There is also noted a rise in
occupational deaths, from $4,000
to 10000, as industry resumes
and unemployment lessons. Fire
arms, gas and poisoning showed
gains. Much progress has been
made in national safety cam
paigns to reduce automobile ac-
cidentS, and the increase in
fatalities is less than the proper
tionate increase in mileage.
DANGER SPOTS
Home may be where TIE heart
is, but it is also a good place
to watch your step. For many
years past, about two-thirds Of
home accidents have been falls
-tumbles on stairs, most OF
them, or a skid on a grease spot
in the kitchen. Slippery floors,
protuberanceS on stairs or bulgeS
in the carpet take more lives
than the gunman. Bathtub &C
cidents are commonly supposed
to cause many fatalities. sta.
tistics diSprove this. They con.
stitute only a small portion OF
the falls.
Burns and scalds, particularly
among young children, come
next to the falls. The Fourth
of July hazard has been pretty
we'll tanned by public education
and agitation during the last
80 years, but homo sapiens keeps
on finding new ways to set him
self banged up, crippled OF
killed. Last Christmas there
were nearly 500 deaths in the
country. in drowning, falls, IRE
train and airplane accidents. fire
works and bad booze accidents
Plain foolishness accounts for
much Of the year-to-year increase
in home accidents. In industry
where safety is studied, organized
and maintained, the figures are
held down. Only five per cent o.
fatal accidents are occupational
America still has the highest acc
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

roads have made splendid progress
in safety in the last few years,
about so per cent Of the deaths
have been travel fatalities, in
trains, automobiles or planes.
While recent air accidents have
been shocking, their proportion to
the number of miles flown has not
been sufficient greatly to affect
the total figures.
AL in all, the figures disprove
the common and easy assumption
that modern technology is leopard
izing life; that the galvanized
home of today is any less sage
than that of the tallow dip and the
spinning wheel. A house soundly
and properly wired for lighting is
a slight hazard compared to the
home lit with oil lamps. An auto
matte oil heater is the apex OF
safety as against the old base
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

dental death rate Of any nation In
the world.
More people are killed by acci-
dents in Illinois in a single year
than the deaths in any single
battle Of the Civil War. The
Federal Bureau Of Statistics car.
ries on a continuous campaign OF
safety education, sending out lists
Of causes of household accidents
with urgent warnings to see that
drugs are labelled, that electrical
appliances are in proper condition;
that stairs ana Railways are clear
of obStructionS. Following the
lead of Bergen county, New Jersey,
high schools throughout the coun-
try are including training in auto
mobile driving in their courses.
But we go on killing ourselves,
each in his own way. While rail
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

About one-half the time when a.
man tells his wife that he's going
to his club, he's telling only a half
truth-which makes his story
about 25 per cent honest-because
the other half of the time he
doesn't tell her anything at all.
Not that he wants to be deceit
full to the woman he loves. No
married man really desires to re-
sort to pretext and equiVocation
in order to get out of the house,
evenings. He would much rather
tell the little woman that he was
lust going down to Gus place and
have a few beers with the boys
which would be the whole truth.
But telling the WHOLE truth
would involve explanations; and
the average man detests having to
explain, And even if he did ex-
plain, how could the most eloquent
and convincing "explainer" make
her believe that he would de-
liberately pass up his elegant and
comfortable club in favor Of hard
seat at a table in the far corner
of a smoky saloon, where his pals
will probably represent a cross
section Of humanity ranging from
a banker to a bar-fly?
She just wouldn't believe 1t. 1t
would sound too fishy! So he
tells her a synthetic truth-some.
thing inst aS 0O0d
Subterfuge and evasion are for
eign to the normal mans nature.
He really prefers to be open and
above board. His motto is peace
and perfect liberty-at any price.
But how could he ever make her
understand that he really prefers,
every now and then, the easy in.
formality Of q barroom to the
stuffed-shirted atmosphere Of his
respectable club? Down at Gus
place he can really ''let his hair
down." listen to tall tales, talk
politics, recount school-day esca'
pades, make a few wise cracks
and after two or three hours wend
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

Manuel QueEOn PAST.
The shock was so great that the
second president to speak stretched
his five minutes to forty. His
former enemy bea m e d an d
beamed. The diners were so I'M
pressed they listened in respect1ul
silence to the very end although
long speeches have been always
taboo at this particular festivity.
There were no casualties during
or after the speech because the
two presidents are fast trlends
now.
The men in question are
Manuel Quezon, President OF the
Philippines, and Brig. Gen. Frank
T. Hines, president of the Cara
bao Club.
In 1898 during the Philippine
insurrection, General Hines was a
second lieutenant with a Utah
battery that spent its time chas-
ing insurgents. President Quezon
related in his speech that he was
one of the insurgents that the
then Lieutenant Hines was trying
to kill or capture.
Evidently all has been forgiven,
however, because President Que
IONS speech was a detailed his
tory of the growth of his country
in which be paid glowing tribute
to the United States military
forces, General Hines included.
AS an aftermath to this burst OF
oratory one of the distinguished
members of the United States
Senate noted for his quick retorts
arose. AS the Senator began, one
Of the guests shouted:
"HOw long are you going to
Speak?"
"AbOut an hour and a half"
the Senator shot back.
That's all 1 wanted to
know" said the diner as he left
the room.
RESPONSE
Representative Harold Knutson
(R0, Minnesota, has some very
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

certain odiouS way, l enjoy her
letters just as, imagine, a drunk
ard enjoys going on a jag, or a
marihuana addict enjoys his
doped "reefer." Which is why I
regard her communications with
such lively horror. For I know,
all too well, exactly what will hap
pen if I read them
Within 10 seconds, I will be
bawling my eyes out WalloW.
ing in self-pity, remorse, grief and
ancient grudges =. in short, nav
ing a thoroughly enjoyable. female
orgy of emotion which will make
a complete Wash Out Of me. and
render me entirely useless to my
self and everyone else for hours
to come.
IN THE PAST
All because? All because my
friend, like 9 out Of 10 women over
As, likes to Live In The Past. In
fact, she has practically ceased to
live anywhere else. Friends come
and 60 through her home, current
newspapers and magazines cover
her table, radios broadcast news
flashes several times a day.
She herself is intelligent, col
lege educated. But, her children
being grown, her life has narrowed
down to Gossip, Memories and Day
Dreams. In spite Of this being
1887, with all that implies in the
way Of broadened feminine prog
ress, power and privilege, my
friend and mos Of her con
temporaries spend their lives ex
actly as Gramma did-rocking the
years away in a mental rocking
chair.
And I'll be daggoned if I Joined
the Rocking Chair Brigade!
The reason for such brigade
is obvious. It is infinitely easier
to live in Yesterday than in To-day
to drift in dreams than buck
reality. There are no challenges
in memory-no problems or pres
sures-no humiliating criticism Of
failure. We can be whatever W.
want to be in our "reminiscences
hog the spot light cover
ourselves with medals.
But what does it buy US? Elk
actly. nothing. 1t is simply COW
ardiy Fade-out . a slow form o!
suicide.
Consider grief, for instance. t.
which most women over 45 devote
such gobS Of fearful Time. Pro
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

from automo-
bile accidents.
Both increased
over the pre-.
viouS year. Mo-
tor vehicle ia
talities were 37,-
900 in 1885, and
$500 in 1886.
Deaths in the
home were 81.
500 in 1885, and
$4,000 in 1886.
About $500 of
this startling
increase of $500
W as attribut-
ah1a fo tho hoot
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

writing gives me
a full fledged
ca Sc Of t h {
S c r e a m i n G
MeamieS. Forth
with I put hel
missiVe aside
postpone read
ing it as long as
possible.
Yet I Low {
this friend. The
m o S t precious
personal e&pe
riences of my
life have beer
S h ed with
har Aud in c