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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-12
A Five-Day Week

TT HAS been the country's boast that the Federal
Government is model employer It has been the
desire of Congress and of successive Presidents of the
United States to keep it
That being true, the time has clearly when the
national Government in good conscience adopt the
fiveday week for all its employees.
It demands of its employees a higher standard of
character, education and intelligence probably, than
is to be found in any private business.
It is the country's largest employer.
It does the biggest business. Through Presidential
policies and congressional enactments backed by public
Sets Standard opinion, it has set the standard
for enlightened treatment of all
FOR Industry workers.
It cannot lag then in coming to the social order
by which more and more Americans are being given a
second day each week for the pursuit of happiness in
their way.
President Roosevelt already has asked the Civil Serv-
ice Commission to survey the work of the Federal de-
partments and independent agencies and report on the
added cost of the five-day week.
The survey fixes the increased cost of the five-day
week at somewhere between $50O0000O and $1OOOOO-
600 year This drop the bucket as compared with
the billions poured out for other purposes. Everyone
wants to the budget balanced It must be balanced
If are to avoid disaster. But there are plenty of
other places to trim sail without putting the burden on
the shoulders of those who do the Governments work
For every shirker in Government offices there are
thousands of officials and subordinaes who work long
Federal Workors hours without thought of overtime
pay or compensatory time off. In
U'Oe Tue" DeS' the emergency of 1885, and for
many months afterward lights burned late in hundreds
of Government offices six days week. Year in and
year out the average Government worker gives his best
to his job.
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Three-Minute
Journeys
Rx TEMPLE MANNING


TAKING time off from
u thoughts Of war, Europe is
splurging on her various fall
fairs more than usual this year.
Fall months are fair months,
and "old home week" is staged
by almost every country as it's
jolliest, most typical festivals
get under way. During these
fetes the merrymaking is more
truly national in character than
any that can be observed at
other seasons, and so many Of
those who like to go to Europe
in the autumn generally time
their stay so as to take in a fair
or two.
Among the most attractive
and unique events the traveller
lists are Hiring fairs of Eng
land, the Lapp markets Of Nor
way, the Ottobratte in Rome,
the Oktoberfest in Munich and
the Foire Gastronomique in
Dion.
Many Of these events can be
traced back to the Middle Ages,
when these great commercial
displays gave people their only
chance ever to see the exotic
spices and merchandise Of the
East. That is why these fairs
are more interesting and vital
than the grandest of exposi-
lions, especially for the traveller
who likes to visit and see things
that are different.
In Italy the fall season of
rejoicing with harvest celebra-
lions has come down through
the long corridor of time. Every
little town stages its fair and
celebration. If you are in Rome,
you'll do as the Romans do and
make short excursions from the
city to the Castelli Romani to
enjoy good food and wine. mu-
sic and dances.
A highlight Of the festivities
in Europe is the Foire Castro
nomique in Dion, set for the
first two weeks Of November.
Cooking is the supreme art of
that city and its province.
Burgundy.
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Creana-Puff Men

Every once in a while 7 read
about some pedagogical fuss
budget ascribing all our ills to
the terrific tempo Of modern
times" What tempo?
This is the LATEST age since
Adam fell asleep and woke up
to find q rib missing. Every
body rushes about to disguise
the fact they're not busy. Back
on the farm we worked Is hours
a day and nobody ever heard
about a terrific tempo" al
though swinging a hoe-handle
is about as close to a terrific
tempo as anybody will ever get
on this earth.
Today a man gets into an
automobile, drives IS miles an
hour and thinks he's living at
a fearful pace. Actually, he's
just sitting down. It's the
machine that's going fast.
The only way you can test
your tempo" is by the amount
Of tissue and energy you burn
up. It's the metabolic rate that
tells the story.
This is an age Of steel buggies
and cream-puff men. T. B.
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Training Youth for Sea

From the Maritime Commits
sion has come a proposal, sub
mitted to the White House for
consideration, that if ultimately
enacted into law may be far
reaching in enhancing the pres
tige of the American merchant
marine on the high seas.
The proposal embodies plans
for the establishment Of a mer-
chant marine school, on Swim
burne Island, off New York city,
which has for it's purpose the
training of some 500 American
youths each year to serve as
crew personnel on Government
subsidized vessels that are now
in the process Of construction.
The plan further proposes
that these tyro able bodied sea-
men shall be trained in the ways
of the sea by that hardy and
capable band of the nations
coastal frontiersmen, the United
States Coast Guard.
That group of Americans who
revel in the delight of seeing
the national prestige Of this
nation lifted to its utmost pro-
portions feel that this sugges-
ton of the Maritime Commits
sion may be the means of mark
ing of a new era in the annals
of American shipping.
Placing the American flag
widespread over the seven seas
has long been one Of Mr.. Roose-
velt's prize ambitions, and
the enactment of the Copeland
measure, during the last Con-
gress, added much momentum
and concrete form to the Ad-
ministration'S hope Of having q
merchant marine second to
none within a few short years.
Manning our vessels with
ambitious American youths,
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QouDC OF IL. ana YET
They have one weakness
which, nine times out of ten,
nullifies all their virtues and
ticks them in the end. And
that Is?
THEY CAN'T BE BOTHERED
WITH DETAILS.
Here's an example. I've al
ways worked with mobs Of
youngsters. Last winter I start
ed a newspaper department for
them-a space where Young
America, up to thirty, might say
its say on the questions of the
day.
Newspaper space is precious
jealousy guarded. Could mil
lions Of young people say any
thing that justified such an out
lay? I vowed they could-won
my point-and Young America
got its column, with roof-lifting
results. Never had editors seen
such letters-so shrewd, so
sound, so vigorously expressed.
Not a doubt of it-YOUNG
AMERICA HAD SCORED A
BULL'S-EYE!
But wait! One little thing
or was it so little?-was wrong
with these phenomenal letters.
Their ideas were brilliant, their
reactions swift, supple and sym.
pathetic. But, when it came to
presenting their material
THEY COULDN'T BE BOTH
Erred WITH DETAILS.
There are certain rules to be
followed in writing for this
Young America department.. in
competing for its prizes. Very
simple, easy rules with
sound reasons behind them. For
eXample-they are asked to
count their words confine
their letters to $50, 300 or $50
words. as the case may be. The
reason for this is obvious.
When 1000 or more letters are
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received daily, communications
must perforce be short.
Again, they are required to
write plainly-give name, age
and address. Good taste also
indicates the use of clean paper
and ink, although these are not
obligatory.
, Simple, sensible rules, easily
followed. Tests which Young
America must pass if it hopes
to obtain even the simplest job
the elementary essentials
of success within the grasp
of the poorest and most igno-
rant.
BUT WE'RE THESE RULES
OBSERVED? THEY WE'RE
NOT! HERE WAS AN EAG-
ERLY AWAITED CHANCE
FOR PUBLIC EXPRESSION
A MOST WELCOME OF
FER OF CASH PRIZES.
THEIR ENTHUSIASM SUR
PASSED ALL EXPECTATION
OVERNIGHT THEY Es-
TABLISHED A FEATURE
UNIQUE IN NEWSPAPER HIS
TORY. BUT THEY couldn't
BE BOTHERED" TO OBEY
THE SIMPLE RULES ON
WHICH THEIR OWN SUCCESS
WAS BASED.
Go anywhere in the business
world of today and you'll find
the same condition. A surplus of
eager, brilliant, young people
clamoring for jobs facile
efficiency by the ton. But the
Boss invariably tearing his hair
because, in all that smart mob,
he can't find one youngster who
can be trusted to attend to
small, tiresome, seemingly unim-
portant trifles.
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Iu0.)
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at first.
Truth is, there is consider
able confusion on the inside.
What seems to be a not idea
one day is generally douSed by
opposing economists the next.
For example, Spender Hop
kins told the President one day
how his WPA economist. Leon
Henderson, had figured the sit
uation out. Next day the Presi-
dent had Henderson Hopkins
and a Federal Reserve economist,
Lauchlin Currie, come in to ex-
plain it.
Henderson's idea was simply
this: The trouble is in durable
goods industries-Steel. heavy
equipment, building. The Gov
eminent must do something to
help these lines. But helping
building seems to be an i'm
possible task. Every Government
plan to start building has
Topped. Two other lines which
might be helped more easily are
public utilities and railroads. be-
cause they are large consumers
of durables when expanding.
Thus Henderson arrived at
the conclusion that the Govern.
ment should encourage public
utility expansion and railroad
improvements.
That is what the President
was talking about in his vague
references to aiding the utili-
ties if they revise their valu-
atoms.
There he found the only con.
Structive suggestion was a rec
ommendation from his housing
crowd to lend 80 instead of 80
per cent on home construction,
but they did not know how
much good this would do.
Thus the un-merry chase went
on-in circles.
DEPUBLICANS have been in.
~ directly sounding out James
Bryant Conant, president Of
Harvard University, to see if he
will take the Craftsmanship of
this new committee to formulate
a declaration of principles. If
he does not. the national COM
mittee will get some other col
lege president.
x Il
Joe KENNEDY hid little
y joker in his Maritime Commits
sion report and it passed gen.
orally unnoticed. In the labor
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Voice of the People

stepped in the love and tradi-
lions of this country, instead Of
the personnel as demonstrated
in the Algic case, some Of whom
have shown an allegiance that
is hyphenated, would again
place this nation in the top
bracket it once enjoyed before
its period Of lethargy.
Let US hope the President
gives this Maritime Commission
suggestion the consideration it
merits. It may well prove a
definite step in providing an
other outlet in the rehabilitation
of the youth Of our land.
c. j, W.
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section he recommended crea-
ton of a mediation board, add
ing almost parenthetically that
it's Jurisdiction should naturally
extend to longshoremen.
This, of course, was a little
trap to snare Harry Bridges,
the West Coast labor trouble
maker. If Mr.. Bridges long
shoremen can be brought under
jurisdiction of a labor media
ton board, Mr.. Bridges will
have to be a good boy.
ToDAY's 1910 Republican
l. prospect-Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia, of New York, age So,
former Ellis Island interpreter,
lawyer, member of Congress for
16 years; aviation major during
war; capable, forceful expert in
politics and government; he is a
partyless progressive, a Repub-
lican in name only, once elected
to Congress on the Socialist
ticket.
His chance of getting the Re
publican nomination is virtually
nonexistent. Current discussion
of him as a candidate is merely
political hooey. What he Sc
cretly is planning for himself is
a campaign against Senator
Copeland for the Senate in 1910.
X ISSING babies is an old
"A political stunt, but q Ger.
tain Southern Congressman has
developed a new wrinkle in the
game. He has his secretary clip
the birth notices in the local
papers, and then send the new
born babes of his district a let
ter reading something like this:
Dear Young Citizen: It has
been my good fortune in Wash
ington to make several import
ant friendships. AS a result, I
am happy to inform you I have
been able to obtain for you the
enclosed admission card to the
gallery of the House of Repre-
sentatives :"
Any Congressman can have
such cards printed Cat Govern
ment expenSe) by the thousands.
They afford no privilege what
soever. unless there is vacant.
seat. But the stunt goes over
big in the canebrakes, especially
as none of the babies has ever
come up and tried to get in on
a crowded day.
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Music Won't Cure Syphilis!

TTNHE National Broadcasting Company in an unusual
i moment of fragrant stupidity, banned Gen. Hugh
S. johnson from the air because he planned to discuss
in plain words the ravages of syphilis and gonorrhea-
Public Enemies No. l and No. 2.
With tender solicitude the N. B. C. decided it would
be better for it's patrons to listen minutes of sweet
music.
For the great disservice to the of public health
in America the National Broadcasting Company is
titled to tin medal as Public Prude No. l.
Feeble indeed is the alib offered by the N B C. for
unr oreu. its namby-pamby stand in
A''D " W O '"' statement which said:
A''"' w H"P'0''"''0" "The n B. C. is in entire
sympathy with the war on social diseases but has not
yet found way for radio to contribute to this
paign without seriously embarrassing the family
group"
Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the United States
Public Health Service pointed the way for radio to aid
in the war without embarrassing anyone few years
ago when he refused to deliver a scheduled address
when the words syphilis and gonorrhea censored
So overwhelming was the public denunciation Of
this misguided censorship that General Parran
recalled short time later and permitted to discuss
syphilis and gonorrhea in terms the average citizen
could comprehend
The Washington Herald, year and half ago, opened
its columns to Ray H. Everett fellow of the American
Public Health Association, for series Of 20 articles
frankly discussing syphilis and gonorrhea in all their
vicious aspects
The Herald is family newspaper and it is significant
that not SINGLE ADVERSE criticism of that series
Prudery of Past Not was Di1U'
AIIOge'"e' UO"e It is ronical that General
johnson in his broadcast had intended to discuss the
prudery which forbade open discussion of venereal
disease in past years and says:
fortunately, that is all changed now. Polls of pub
lie opinion about this ostrichike complacency have
condemned it overwhelmingly by expressions by people
Of all classes"
The National Broadcasting Company must realize
that sweet music is of aid whatsoever in combating
the spread of syphilis and gonorrhea.
Frank and open discussion of the subject is the most
powerful weapon that be utilized in the against
venereal diseases.
It is high time the n B. c. realized this and pulled
its head out of the ether.
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Perhaps it is
b e C a use my
husband is an
expert at pre-
pairing h i s
d / S h a n d
m a k e S it so
delicious that
no one could
resist it. After
b roilin G it
W it h butter,
he Serv e S
it with h o t
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"Well, since
I am a 'Geor.
gia Cracker
n a t u r ally I
am a b j 6
eater, and so
it is hard to
pick any one
food. Those
good Georgia
meals are still
a bright spot
in my mem
DRY, especial
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any sort, but
my choice is
S t e a k with
m u S hroonns.
If the price
of steak ever
comes d o W n
to a reason
able level I
am going to
have a re !
treat. In the
m e a n time I
shall enjoy a
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my favor
lite food is a
salad compos-
ed of cottage
cheese with
stewed figs on
lettuce, and
Russian dress
ing. I like it
because of it's
delicious fla
vor and also
because it is
S a tiSf y ing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-12

P OPP e We, my
+ a v orr tie is
spinach. Be-
ii We it or
not! I like it
cooked nice
and greer n,
and not over
done, as you
so often find
it, and then
served with
plenty Of but
ter. AS a mat
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melted butter. And it certainly
is far better than any chicken
I ever have tasted"
X \ X
Miss Grace Pyles, 2032 Bel
mont Rd. N. w., secretary:
Il like good food of almost
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without being fattening. I think
that it is important for one to
preserve his or her figure, and
believe that a more general use
of salads would help accomplish
this end"
X X
Miss Jenny Lee Wilkes, 1924
Massa chuSe Ave. N. W.,
model:
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ly the biscuits, which you can't
get here. If I could choose a
meal right now I would take
chicken, potato salad and but
tered beets."
X X +
o. D. Philpot, of Fairfax, Va,
laundry salesman:
L like 'em all. But, Just like
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-12
Listen, World!
By ELSIE ROBINSON
THEY CAN'T BE BOTHERED

YOUNG America-Tm for It million.
Maybe it's the upn -attem air they breathe may
be it's the Machine Age thaserves their every step but
whatever the reason they're the vees smartes crop Of
this old has produced Andcarpng critics
the conaryI believe they have the soundes notions Of
fair play and general decency Born to be leadersno
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-12
The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times In.
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION
What is your favorite food?
THE ANSWERS

Mrs. Hilda Ridden, 220 Hamil-
ton st. N. W., housewife:
MY favorite is broiled lobster.
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breakfast a lot, too, and for that
my choice and old standby is
grapefruit, bacon and eggs, with
toast and coffee"
X \ +
Mrs. Helen A. Levine, 200
Massachusetts, Ave. N. W.. house
wife.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-12

Roast beef,
either rare or
medium, with
a couple Of
good We g e.
tables on the
side, is my IA
vorite for a
big meal. OF
course I like
dessert after
ward, prefer
ably a pud-
ding. I like
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ter of fact, I really can't think
of any food that I don't like If
it Is properly cooked"
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Traffic Toll

The mounting list Of traffic
victims in the District Of Co
lumbia since January /, 1887.
is graphically shown by the
death watch:
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lot of other palatable dishes, and
I like a variety of things to eat"
X 4 \
Corp. Harry T. Smith, 909
Thirteenth st. N. w., of the
Army Recruiting Station:
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News Behind the News
Economists Unable to Agree on Solution
OF Business RiddIe-Go Around in Circles
By Paul MdLLOn
Reproduction Whole
MR. ROOSEVELT'S search for to the business
4V1 riddle is not turning be simple it looked
Evening star., 1937-07-26

during the Spanish War,
in Constantinople when Abdul Hamid
modified his troops in 1904, he
watched the Cars army massing to
fight the japanese, he saw something
OF the Balkan War in 1912 and was
in Hamburg when the World War
broke out.
He never missed q world faix,
wherever it might happea to be- And
the Mardi 0rss In New Orleans drew
him every year. His visits to WASH
ington were timed to allow him time
to visit here-his son, Frank Brittle
bank, lives at 1928 Hiatt place-before
he made his annual visit to New York
for the opera season.
While 1t was his habit to leave
Charleston In June and take a ship
for the Orient every year on the start
of his world jaunts, Mr.. Brittlebank
never planned beyond that. He never
had set itinerary. He went where
he chose, stopping as long rs he
wished, but sometime in the Fall he
would md himself heading back to
the United States.
About that time" he would say.
the money started giving out, and
l never went much over my travel
allotment" The travel allotment of
recent years has been $4,000, and
when that was used up, he usually
found himself pretty close to home.
He made travelling . f,ne art. He
carried little luggage. A man of
simple tastes. he needed very little
lmpedimenta. As . result, he never
lost piece OF baggage on any of his
trips and he never suffered an injury
on 4 trip.
And, strangest of all, he never
learned foreign language. He Al
ways said only two languages were
necessary for a world traveler-Ene-
lish and profane.
Looked Up Newsmen.
He always made it a point to find
a newspaper man and make a friend
OF him In every city where he stopped
Tor any length Of time. The news
paper man usually found enough of
a story in him to Ill = column or 50
and thenceforward Mr.. Brittlebank's
peripatetics were like an open book
70 his Newspaper friend. Cards, clip
plnes' short notes from the far cor
ners OF the earth told these friends
OF Mr.. Brittlebank's wanderings. The
Star reporter who usually wrote the