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The Washington times., 1937-08-31
War on the White Race

T APAN is gambling everything it has on success of
- twin undertaking; to root the white man out of
China and to bring all China under its control.
? Japan may lose. The Chinese may be able to put
up long enough fight to bankrupt Japan. Or the
British the Russians ourselves all three may come
to feel that war on Japan would be better than Far
East of which Japan III sole control
If Japan wins, the Japanese military caste will be
the most powerful aggregation of bold and ambitious
:. 1 men seen in the world since Genghis Khan
0"P' conquered China in the Twelfth Century.
Japan will still have its island empire and
its 100000 people of tough and tenacious breed But
It will also have control of China larger in land
than the United States with population estimated
at 370OOOOOO, and rich in most Of the materials
needed by an industrial nation that likes to fight
If Japan wins this gamble, we can't believe that Japan
will be content to stop there. 1t will probably pause for
a time to sodify its gains in Asia and root out the
~, last vestges of the white mans commercial
V'"' and religious footholds in China. But after
4"e"' that, WHAT Well, the British have some
attractive holdings in the Malay States and the East
Indies and whole continent though the smallest one
in Australia. We have the Philippines Though
hope we won't have them them; but more than that
we have west Coast whose climate and resources
appeal greatly to Japanese people, and large rich
country rolling back from that West Coast until
reaches the Atlantic.
Contemplating these possibilities think the slogan
1.-TWO ships for one," is growing tmeier by the
minute
The only thing for US to do is to maintain pres
ent Navy at top fighting trim and keep it in Pacific
waters, and to press naval building program with
all possible speed.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
Reply to scar RIDER

"Car Riders" letter overlooks
the fact that women have long
since taken the place Of men in
every walk Of life, so why not on
the handstrap in a street car?
Men have not lost their respect
and dignity. But rather 1t is
the woman who has discarded
hers.
In the days when men gave
ladies their seat in a street car
women stayed home and at
tended to household duties. But
they were not satisfied with
that, so they went out to take
mans place, and have done so
in every occupation, only at
from one-third to one-half the
mans salary. So, it takes the
whole family now to do the
things that Dad used to do.
Women no longer demand the
respect and protection of men
but rather challenge them to
the fact that they are quite
capable Of taking care of them
selves. So, why not on the street
car? You mentioned discom-
fort. A mans discomfort is a
lady's least concern, for fash
ion has decreed that a man
must swelter while a lady goes
half naked and comfortable.
Dear lady, stop and think this
thing over, and If you are not
satisfied with the situation as it
is, then go back to Atlanta.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
Marry-GO-
Round
BY HELEN ROWLAND

He can expound the whole
philosophy of getting service"
out of the cook and the trades
men, while. he holds up the work
down at his office. He can come
in, two hours late for dinner, and
deliver a beautiful homily on
how to control the nerves and
how to keep the food hot.
X ~
He can deliver a lecture on
system while you are hunting
for his hat and his briefcase in
the morning-and a thesis on
orderlinesS and method while
you are trying to find the screw
driver he left in the medicine
closet, or sweeping up the Gig
arctic stubs he threw out on the
porch.
He is never so brilliant in his
diatribes on how to economic
on tomato catsup and dried april
cots as on the morning after he
has lost the mortgage money in
a game of poker.
He marries a woman because
he thinks he has found the One
Plu-Perfect Being in all the
world-and then spends the rest
Of his life in trying to improve"
her.
A woman will take a lot Of
things from the man she loves
from his money to his brow-beat-
ing-but the one thing she HAS
to take, if she wants the man, is
his ADVICE!
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate, Incl .....
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
Advice Conservatives

WE thought that perhaps you might be wondering
w whatever became of the Rev. Gerald L. K Smith.
He of the late Huey P. Longs best trumpeers
Those who saw him holding Louisiana audiences spell
bound say he really something to behold He could
take their emotions up and down with the facility of
the man on the flying trapeze.
After Huey's death the Rev. Gerald had considerable
difficulty in finding market for his talents. He threat
ened to take over Huey's following,
~ ~ 'OPp'" W." but for some reason he didn't make
~ 0'S"' good. He made living of sort dur
ing the campaign last year by trying to arouse the
people against the impending Roosevelt dictatorship
But, by degrees he has dropped out of our sight.
We picked up his trail the other day. He was up in
New York State at swanky country club haranguing
crowd Of Conservatives, Tories, Economic Royalists
and whatnot about evil days that lay ahead. And we
are told that at time in Louisiana did he find a
attentive audience.
The episode made Dorothy Thompson Indignant. For
these people to pay any attention to the Rev. Gerald
A., she said, proved the anti-New Deal
stupid than she
But we don't know much about that. We have
always thought that for this great fight between the
Conservatives and the Liberals to be more even not to
be so onesided that the Conservatives needed rabble
like the Rev. Gerald former Senator Arthur
Robinson of Indiana The trouble with the Conserva-
ves is that they conservative not only in political
philosophy but in manner and speech. They have a
lot Of good thoughts government and things, but
they can't express them catchily as the Liberals
Whereas, John L. Lewis with laughter in his heart
shout "Stop Mailman Girdler!' the Conservatives
onoh+ IN have sorooono i,,c+ nc mn
Wv" O1""' vincing to say "Stop Mailman Lewis!'
"A"o ~" Certainly it would be much more fun
in the propaganda barrage if it accomplished
nothing
So we hope the Conservatives take the Rev. Gerald
up Put him out in 'front.' make him leader in their
It's the stuff-shirts who holding the Con-
servatives down.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
Voice of the People

Marry some nice old bachelor
near your own age and am
sure he will furnish you with q
nice comfortable seat and all
the protection and considera-
ton your heart Graves.
A READER.
&AA
Neutrality L0uO
I have been directed to thank
you for the editorial comment
which appeared in your paper
July 80, 1887.
It Is gratifying to learn that
most Of the press Of the United
States Of America regard the
present neutrality law as unfair
to China and that there is Q
clash between this and the true
feelings of the American people.
Very truly yours, -
Y. F.LIEU,
Secretary of Chinese Embassy.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

vital, the ma
tons very
blood stream,
and it should
be protected
by ar m e d
force if neces-
Sary. To pre-
serve this i'm
portant part
of our ma
tional assets,
we S h gu l d
u S e a n y
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

us as a nation
to risk again
becoming in
volved in a
W a r t h a t
W Guild find
A m e r i C a
again bearing
the brunt of
o t h e r n a.
tons gu a r.
rels. The life
of one men,
Der of our
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

resort, an d
that the saw
ing Of our
CO m m e re e
would be poor
compensation
for the loss of
our soldiers
a n d sailors
lives. Besides,
the monetary
loss in the
event of war
W GU Id be
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

soldiers and
sailors are
more impor-
tant than any
m m e r ce.
Let our ships
stay out of
the Orie n t
until peace is
restored. AS a
nation we are
ind e p endent
and S h o u Id
not have to
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

armed forces is more valuable,
in my opinion, than foreign
trade"
Mrs. Lora T. Key, SIS Frank
lin st. N. E., bookkeeper and
stenographer:
II think that armed forces
should be used only as last
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

for any rea-
son at all in
o t h er coun-
tries. I do not
b Ii We in
W ar, unless
t h e United
States itself
W e r e a t.
lacked. Fight
ing, with its
loss of lives
and he a w
CO is. Ger.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
THE QUESTION

THE QUESTION
Do you think the United
States should resort to armed
intervention to maintain our
commerce with China and other
Asiatic countries?
THE ANSWERS
Miss Mary Grace Marine, 1878
Phelps Pl. N. W., college stu.
dent:
II think the United States
should because commerce is
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

means that become necessary"
M. C. Webster, 1921 Tenth
st. N. W., paper hanging and
painting contractor:
mo. Our Oriental trade is
not nearly valuable enough to
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

greater than the loss Of trade"
Mrs. Lucille Brown, 906 Tenth
st, N. W., secretary:
mo. The commerce we have
in Asia is not sufficient to
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

CO m p ensate
for a war
which might
follow armed
int e r vention
by the United
S t a t e S. I
think there is
no reason for
us to inter-
fere in the
quar- Is Of
other nations,
even to pro
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
By Elsie Robinson


ACTUALLY, THERE IS AN
AGGREGATE DAILY AVER
AGE OF FROM TWO TO NINE
SUCH OUTRAGES IN ALL
OUR LARGE CITIES, AND THE
NUMBER IS MOUNTING WITH
TERRIFYING RAPIDITY.
EVEN AS YOU READ THIS,
PERHAPS, SOME LITTLE
GIRL IS BEING STRUCK
DOWN. TORTURED, MUTT
LATED, KILLED-OR BRAND
ED WITH MEMORIES WHICH
WILL HAUNT HER FOR LIFE.
SEX CRIMES HAVE IN
CREASED TO SUCH AN Elk.
TENT THAT NO AMERICAN
CITY IS SAFE FOR AMERI.
CAN CHILDREN.
Who's to blame?
Common Citizens
Are at Fault
Teachers, police, detectives,
judges? No, each of these
serves to the full extent Of his
power. But there are those
who do not.
YOU AND I, THE COMMON
CITIZENS OF AMERICA-WE
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
AP FALLING CONDITION.
EVERY FIEND OUTRAGE IS
THE FOUL FRUIT OF OUR
OWN IGNORANCE, INDIF-
FERENCE AND VICIOUS SEN.
TIMENTALITY.
Sex crimes against children
are not pitiful accidents. They
are PREVENTABLE HOR-
RORS. They do. not spring
from chance impulse. THEY
ARE THE INEVITABLE OUT.
COME OF LONG EsTAB-
LISHED IDIOCY AND PER
VERSITY.
And they happen because we
are too lazy or squeamish to
study diseased or perverSe
minds and make laws which
will protect society against
their attacks.
No Idiot
Is Harmless
Sex criminals display Symp-
toms of their condition long be-
fore they are caught in actual
crime.
They are claSsed as harm.
less idiots" whose devoted par
ents cannot bear to put them
away" Society praises such
devotion-refusing to face the
fact that no idiot Is ever harm
less.
Or they may seem merely
naughty boys" who like to tor
ture small animals, draw dirty
pictures, expose themselves
BUT THE NAUGHTY BOY
BECOMES A QUEER" MAN
AND SOME DAY ANOTHER
BABY GIRL IS MISSING!
Had the symptoms been rec.
ognized in time, that baby
would not be missing. But pub
lie opinion is solidly set against
instruction in such subjects.
Not one man in a hundred has
sound information concerning
perversity.
Not one woman in a thousand
knows the awful menace of de-
generacy. And, as conse-
quence, we have no adequate
laws for handling Of such mon
Sters.
More honor, then, to the man
who dares take full advantage OF
the power the law has placed in
his hands, as Judge Peter j.
Brancato, Of Brooklyn, has re.
Gently done.
Honest Jurists
often Thwarted
Before him stood one Ray
mon Rodriguez, confessed as
saulter of two 10.year-old girls.
What to doP Sentimental prece-
dent usually let off such as
Rodriguez with light sentences,
on the superstition that they
might be insane, therefore, ir-
responsible.
Time and again honest juristS
had attempted to act, only to be
thwarted by such loopholes in
the law.
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

tainly is unjustifiable just to
protect our citizens investments
in foreign countries"
Grade Clark, 1872 F st. S. W.,
lather:
1T think the lives of our
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
Wise Words

The mind, unmastered by pas
sions, is a very citadel, for Q
man has no fortress more i'm.
pregnable wherein to find refuge
and be untaken forever.-Mar.
Gus Aurelius.
When you know a thing, to
hold that you know it: and
when you do not know a thing,
to allow that you do not know
it; this is knowledge.-Con,
fucius.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

w. T. Foster, 910 Ninth st.
N. E., general contractor:
It do not think the United
States should use armed forces
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
The Inquiring
Photographer

The Washington Times in.
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
BY Richard w. Emery

- WINNERS have pitched the bathing suit de-
y signers into pretty kettle of fish. Demand
ing skimpier suits year by year, the swimmers
have finally brought the designers into the en-
barrassing position where the designers must
admit they can no longer continue skimping.
There is practically nothing left to skimp.
What are the facts? Wasn't the od-fashioned
bathing costume good enough? Whence has the
modern bathing suit come, and whittier next!
Bathing suits used to be - well, ample. A person
could be bather and still be dignihed as
deacon. because in those days all bathers on pub
lie beaches wore bathing suits which neguaros
called suicide pajamas.''
Those suits were intended to cover everything
except hands, feet and face; and once they
soaked full of sea-water, they sank the hapless
bather, willy-nilly.
So the lifeguards called the suits suicide pa
jamas" and hoped for a more sensible era
The darling daughters who this year go out
to swim will have no hickory limb on wnich 10
hang their clothes They may toss their trans
parent wind-proof and sun-defying cape over the
stays of beach umbrella, and stand out before
the world almost : but not quite = bare
If there are those who would criticize the
present-day beach attire of the swimming gen.
Grafton let them first view the grim facts OF
the past.
The streamlined, non-sinker suit OF present
mode evolved just as logically as did the present
streamlined non-shattering automobile. Tragedy
paved the way. Lfeguards who have been on the
beach for so many years that their faces are all
wrinkled from squirting at the breaker-hne =
those seasoned guards know the story well. All
too clearly they remember hauling from the turf
sogg-y victims of those suicide pajamas" which
fashion provided.
How could thew swim with all that junk
hanging on 'em?" one veteran of the beach ex-
claimed in airing his views on the bathing suit
question.
DO you know that an old-fashoned bathing
suit = one of those costumes with everything
from knee-pants to a collar and corset-weighed
tioenty pounds when it was wet? A modern SUIT
wouldn't weigh twenty ounces
IF the blame must be placed on anyone for bar
ing most of the modern swimmer then blame
the poor wretches who wrestled in deep water
with a bathing suit that acted like an anchor!
Protests from bathers began to be heard IN the
speeding-up era in which the automobile has
held central position. 1t was fun to go fast; ana
40 one could swim fast in a bathing suit designed
like circus tent.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24

designers said, then by goly, give EN- SUI.
made by the best swimmers the world ever saw
A Tahitian, the designers said is regular ns. y
The shelves were packed with new-style suits
more revealing than anything wnlch sop.i
Americans ever had worn in public before. Bath
ers romped to the beach. laughing at each othe'
because of the big new bare spots untanneo.
They carried bottles of tanning oil They swan
faster and farther than ever before.
That Tahitian suit idea hit the country when
it was already weakened from the late depres-
sion and the nation stumbled to it's knees too
dazzed to do anything but squawk. UP IN the
hills the nudists moaned The beaches were steai-
ing their stuff
Last years bathing suit buyers had to learn
how to suppress the natural blush at appearing
for the first time publicly in garment wiioiy
colored, but about big enough to dress JACK
rabbit They capered in gay parade with otner
bathers in wool suits cotton suits silk suits and
rubber suits Fifty of the suits together wouldn't
be as big as one of those Santa Claus costumes
worn in the surf back in 1910 In those old-fasn,
ioned times girl wearing 1897 bathing sun
would have been jailed; her parents shot.
Designers sat back after creating their Tahi-
tian furry. They were unable to believe tneir
ears when they heard swimmers and sun-patners
chorusing for still more exposure. The designers
looked at each other alarmed They hesitated IN
reaching for scissors.
GOOD heavens, Lney WHiSpeIeu
They laid 1886 suit carefully on the top of
small typewriter table. They scratched their
heads Each time one of those scissor experts
would suggest place that might be trimmed,
the others said, aghast:
my stars! You can't cut there!"
They compromised by trimming off the sub
terfuge trappings and harness work with which
last years wearers nearly hanged themselves.
After ALL" murmured the designers. the
straps were just there for looks"
S an afterthought they placed 1936-model
n mans bathing suit" on the table am
bnked at it. Four or five years ago, 1t had been@
real bathing suit, but the top was gone. The
legs were gone. The designers n1uttered and
shipped The result of the shipping is what
American men will wear when they go swim
ming this year
Now uppermost in the mind of every right
thinking American athlete is the logical ques-
ton:
What about next year,"
And beyond next year. what then?
The designers may hurl their challenge to the
nudists by giving just another snip. Or, in sudden
revolt at the barring of their skins, American
swimmers may cry out for stop. They may de-
mand more coverage. Certainly, however, they
will never be SO foolish as to demand return
to the suicide pajamas' of yesteryear
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24

The problem of initiating new areas OF SKIN 10
sunshine was solved by the use OF sunburn-pre-
venting oils and tanning drugs.
nATHING suit designers evidently had given
b UP hope of any popular swing back to the
all-concealing SUITS two three years ago,
when they introduced new type of beach cos
tune.
The designers sharpened their scissors and
went to the far island of Tahiti to see the natives
swim There they learned that many years ago,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
Designers Are In Dither For Way
To Make Bathing Suits Skimpier

Bolder swimmers who got thrill from mas
tering the breakers and taking long swlms, leo
the drive for sliimpier suits. Each year they
shopped for the skimpiest bathing suit on the
store shelves. Obligingly, manufacturers pro-
vided what swimmers asked for. Gradually the
more burdensome of frills began to be cut away
ON all suits Collars were left off. Arms and legs
were made shorter. The designers took scissors
in hand and trimmed an inch or two from every
part of their old designs.
FATHERS found that they could swim. Public
81 beaches began to sprout swimming instruc-
tors Swimming enjoyed BOOM Ihe ancient
breast-stroke, good enough for frogs, was too
slow for these new padders. They learned over
hand strokes and the mysterious hutter KICK
which propelled them amazingly fast
Lifeguards whooped for joy. The new strokes
made bathers safer More bathers tried to swim,
and hence more lifeguards had to be employed.
Scandalized oldsters went into tantrum of
indignation every time designers shipped an
other inch from patterns. They wept:
rs modesty dead?"
In deep sea-water bathers kicked heels joy
ously and cared not whether modesty had per-
ished They could now swim with greater ease
and safety than ever before When they spashed
shoreward they wondered if they could find
anywhere a bathing suit still skimpier. They
were just following the famous line OF least
resistance They demanded a bathing suit that
could be swum in and the manufacturers
obliged.
The Unveiling of the Epidermis astounded
beach communities everywhere. Many bathing
resort had maintained laws governing the
minimum coverage of the human exterior by
bathing costume. 1t disconnected the law-en-
forcement agencies to discover that stores were
unable to purchase bathing suits which would
meet requirements. Conservative factions in
sisted on having policemen patrol the bathing
strands carrying tape measures and color
charts. If pretty girls bathing suit failed to
reach one-half way to her knee-for example
the girl was shooed home If her bathing suit
exposed patches of natural pink above the
tanned surface policeman wrapped her in
decent overcoat and escorted her away.
Only four years ago. one of the biggest beach
cities on the Pacific Coast was jailing every
man bather who dared to bare his chest to the
sun The law which made the arrests possible
was still on the statute books when all depart
ment stores and beach-wear stores were stocked
with mems bathing suits which had no uppers
at all, Last season, not an upper was to be seen
anywhere on the thousands of men swimmers
packing that same city's beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24

the Tahtians wore beautiful beach suit Civili-
zation, however had forced the water-oving
Tahitians to wear clumsy but modest garments
Designers returned home with patterns of the
original Tahiti suits. They ordered bright new
cloth and merrily they whacked and shipped!
We'll give 'em suit that'll wake 'em up!
They shipped where angels would have feared
to snip They cut low-back suit to no back
suit. They made inches half-inches. They mar
rowed the strips. They pleated and tucked If
athletic youngsters really wanted to s,oima, the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
A MANS IDEA OF HEAVEN
2<N~Qee.aGaG G4a.
EACH ONE DIFFERENT!

= Wbife Top Cboeolafeer:
As easily made as gingerbread. with
not.too-s sweet favor.
y Mint Chocolate Log:
Less than II minutes to put this roll
into the oven.
X 4 Egg Yolk Gaze:
An appesizing answer. to that old
problem of leftover yolks.
y Chocolate Prime Cake:
Spiced fruit layers put together with
cIeam cheese frosting
y BropBie Cake:
A uoss between Devils Food and
fudge.type cake.
y OlA-Fasbioned Chocolate Layer:
Grandmothers white layer cake With
cooked chocolate icing.
41~pD Recipes for these 6 New
l. ~ Chocolate Cakes, and 80
other recipes, packed free inside every
sack Of Drifted Snow Flour!
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-25
SpOlT't
Stunts

johnny Fischer. the slim son Of 4
Cincinnati letter carrier. Is not like
ly to give up, the U. s. Amateur
crown without a struggle on the
| field now assembled at Portland.
Ore, for the national tournament.
Fischer typifies the smuggling young
generation Of American golfers. He
is one Of the longest .drivers ~
amateur ranks, and for all his dis
lance. is remarkably accurate. Hen
a fighter. too. sss
! Like many of the youngsters who
will be shooting for the title he
holds. Fischer learned the game 10
caddy He simply learned golf7-
ne wasn't taught,
!. He Is q gambler on the Pathways.
He doesn't know whst,it is to play
safe. He Isl ever ready to take
chances. without the element Of
risk the game would lose its thrill
for him. y Il, III
], Johnny stepped into the sposlisht
In 1882, when, after winning Big
Ten, and national collegiate titiest
he took the, Qualifying medal In thq
! u. s. Amateur at Five Farms, Bat~.
tisnofe, with.a 69-7s. He was eiiin3
mated BY Francis ouimet in tfss
match play but, not before he had
showed something. He came back
I the next year ana set a new quail.
flying mark Of 14l in the national
test. Of Kenwood, Cincinnati. ~
/. Last year at Garden City N. vi
he came into his own After der
'feating Chick Evans and Johnny
Goodman on the way to the final
round he evened an old score with
Jock Mclean by taking the titib
in thrilling 37-hole contest. Me-
Lean had put Fischer out Of the
1894 British Amateur @
i Three down with eight holes 10
play against Mclean at Garden
CITY. Fischer staged great rally
TO tie on the seth. The break came
on the oath green when johnny
laid Mclean the much discussed
stymie. Fischer ended the match
with brides on the last three holes,
sinking 20-foot putt for a thrcp
on the 37th.