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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

o " " ~ EoW" W. NH .
dozens Of others, flashed by Life
Insurance Week, just observed.
A few months ago, this writer
noted in q piece on insurance.
that every mans effort to thus
provide for his future and his
dependents provided a skeletal
structure of social security ADAPT
able to q competitive, individual
istic economy. Life insurance
companies are old, established
firms in the social security bust
ness, with, obviously, collective
well-being and security the sum
Of all its parts.
There Is nothing more human
than life insurance, both In It's
urgent practical significance and
its derivation. And nothing more
calculated to make a man want
to Jump out Of a window when
somebody starts dealing him actu-
arial figures about how much SO
much would amount to in so many
years, months ana days, allowing
for the supplementary dividend
clause, minus the collateral incre-
ment, as explained in table SO,
which doesn't apply on policy
368907.2869 because Of the reVer
sion clause-and the like Of that,
away on past train time.
DETAIL NEEDED
The trouble with the smart
young men who sell life insur.
ance is that they know too much
Each lad ought to take along with
MIN a human step-do On trans
former, a sort Of Will Rogers
philosopher to filter o1t the hui
man essence of such vast and
elaborate complexities, Merely
wise, and not necessarily erudite,
men have inspired and helped
start all sorts Of magnificent hui
man enterprise, and then the de-
tail technicians came along and
made it workable.
When it is working, we take 1t
too much for granted. We know
that our automatic oil burner re-
spends to the touch Of a tiny lever
on the thermostat, and that is
just about all we do know about
it. If we started exploring the
scientific technique of metallurgy
and physics which make this pos
sible, we could spend a lifetime,
and then not master the story. So
with life insurance.
II the washington philosophers
Of today will look over the story
Of the eighteenth century encyclo'
pediSts, they will find tremend.
GUS intellectual fervor and Juror
clearing the ground for life in
surance and establishing it's prin'
ciples. Wise old Ben Franklin was
in touch with them, tranSlatfng
their hi-falutin discourse into hui
man security and well being.
A loyal friend Of the American
Revolution and q friend Of Ben
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
"WE, THE PEOPLE"

White-haired, ruddy-faced How
ard Chandler ChriSty visited the
Capitol this week to superintend
the hanging of one of his latest
paintings.
It commentaries the adoption
of the Constitution and is entitled
I'VE, The People," For several
days it has been hanging in a cor.
ridor on the House side. Now it
has been moved to the lobby of
the Vice Presidents office right
off the Senate Chamber where
the Senators may examine it at
leisure before it is moved to New
York for reproduction.
Washington, Franklin and q
score of other men famous in the
country's history are portrayed. It
is a large canvas and was painted
at the request of Representative
Sol Bloom, Director General Of
the United States Constitution Ses.
quicentennial Commission, and its
reproductions will be used in illus
trationS for the Sesquicentennial
celebration.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
The World Cannot Spare Him

A Catholic churches throughout the world prepare
"A to observe the eightieth birthday of Pope Plus XI
on May 81, reports that he is again seriously ill come
from Rome.
Only few months ago the Pope's physicians de-
SPARED of his life He from what was believed
would be his deathbed, insisting that he must go on
with his work Those activities have brought him to
the point of another collapse -.
Not only those to whom he is the Supreme Poniff but
all democratic peoples will hope that when his birth.
day he will be again recovered Even at his great
age his voice and work must go on - -
Calmly, but persistently and firmly, his voice has
risen to the world of the dangers of Communism,
Of its to the faith and morals of every religion
and how it saps the moral fiber of those with none
Such voice cannot be spared by world of free men,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
Three Minute Journeys

hotel in Europe offering a pano-
rama that Is unsurpassed. The
hotel stands at well over 1000
feet above sea level, with views of
the italian Alps, the Black Forest,
the Jura and the VoSges Noun
tainS.
BRILLIANT COLORS
Whether one chooses to visit
north or south or central Switzer-
land, the scenery is always en-
chanting. The mixer will rejoice
as he strides through the fragrant
valleys or climbs the mountain
slopes. Narcissus, lilies, anem-
ones, heather all take their
turns at painting the landscape
with brilliant colorS.
The towns Of Switzerland are
all delightful, and no matter how
cosmopolitan, always retain an air
of essential simplicity. Geneva,
Montreux, Lausanne, Lucerne,
Basic, Zurich and Locarno have
this characteristic.
And it is interesting to note
that the towns Of French iSwitzer.
land bear no resemblance to the
towns Of German Switzerland.
Anyone who is familiar with
Eerne, Zurich or Basic will agree
that these towns have little in
common in setting, scenery, habits
people and conditions with Gen.
eva or Locarno. Yet, all are Swiss
and extremely proud Of 1t.
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LONG.WINDED


An all-time record for close
scrutiny of appropriations was
reached by the House of Repre-
sentatives on the Interior bill.
Usually appropriation bills, the
longest bills considered, take
about two or two and q half hours
to be read and passed in the
House.
In this bill there were just two
lines which took the whole Of
two hours to pass. They included
items for irrigation projects ard
brought down storms Of discus
sion in the wake Of the present
economy wave which is expected
now to be one Of the greatest
factors that will keep Congress
in Washington during the sum.
mer despite the fact that an early
adjournment is now being talked
up on the basis that the court
fight is about to collapse and that
the President hasn't got chance
to get his reorganization plan
through.
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to the towns which sprung UP
over night at the opening of a
silver or gold mine, only to be
deserted almost as quickly when
the vein petered out. .-
During the discussion Of city
planning and causes for population
trends. a witness smiled at Sen
ator McCarran and said he guessed
the Senator ought to know about
such things because there were
examples of towns being deserted
in his State. Senator McCarran
replied:
GIN that connection I want
to say that the towns in Nevada
closed because the industry was
worked out but work on the
United States Treasury never IS
played out"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

know so well. A nickel here-a
dime there-even a couple Of pen
MES. But finally they'd built wall
between themselves and the wolf
Or so they thought.
Then, overnight, it went. At a
CULVER in the market, which a
rich man would never have no.
ticed-the work of years was I'M
done. Nearing forty-with uncer-
tain health-they woke to find
themselves, and the crippled little
lad, bankrupt. JobleSs.
A brief, pitiful struggle. The car
sold, the home mortgaged. but
all in vain. Desperate and
stunned, even their faint means
were drowned by the screaming
anguish Of a frantic world. So
they passed from the scene, with
millions Of others, in the avalanch.
ing horror Of 1880.
SHINING COURAGE
Yesterday, I stumbled on them
again. Actually stumbled. A
blowout stopped my car at the
turn Of a narrow, city alley.
Shadows tangled over Shiny cob
bles. NANCY cats skunk out of the
darkness. .oozed into it again.
Shabby houses, with blinds askew
and doorSill sagging, jostled each
other drunkenly. Wedged in be-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
Wise Words

No true and permanent fame
can be found except in laborS
which promote the happiness Of
nnankind.-Charles Sumner,
Laws are like cobwebs, which
may catch small flies, but let
wasps and hornets break through.
Swift.
The first and worst Of all frauds
Is to cheat ones self.-Bailey.
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nant be cause
their scant COM
fort had meant
so m UGH to
them.
It had taken
years to achieve
that h u m b lie
house. and tiny
garden . that
little car 4.
the few dollars
in the b q nix.
Years Of pain
full struggle and
sacrifice. Those
n1eager expedi-
entS the DOOR
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

from a mai
who ought to
know.
Senator Pat
McCarran nails
from Nevada,
where Their e
have been a few
gold rushes in
the old days. In
fact, the" ghost"
cities of that
State have been
made famous in
picture. song
and story.
Ghost" cities,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22


Richard Price, who lived from
1913 to 1871. Elizur Wright Is
known as 'the father Of life in.
surance," but 1t was Richard
Price, philosopher and mathema.
tician, who inspired Wright and
who sunk the first deep caissons
on which all modern life insur-
ance theory are based. -.
He solved the mortality and ex.
perience tables, originated the old
age pension plan in its first prac-
teal actuarial form, and was the
author Of the level premium. He
was also a friend Of Thomas JEFF
ferson and Tom Paine, and the
Boston tea party is said to have
been his idea. AL Of which rates
a bit Of patriotic high stepping
during insurance week and a low
bow to the almost forgtten DR..
Price, disclosed by modern re-
search as one Of the most remark
able men Of his age.
He was a metaphysician and the.
ologian, but, like Franklin, keenly
interested and widely informed in
the physical sciences, an intimate
friend Of Joseph Priestly, the great
English chemist. His pamphlets
on the American War first brought
him fame in England. He preached
to tremendous congregations and
vas offered the post Of private Sec
rotary to the premier, when Lord
Shelburne acceded to power. His
wife died in 1885, and the re-
nainder of his life was clouded
by solitude and detection. The
French Revolution alone cheered
him. ,-s
Was there perhaps greater intel
lectual vitality in that century
than there Is today? Buckle writes
much Of the sudden i1explicable
rise and diffusion Of intelligence
at certain times, as in the Floren-
tine renaissance and the great
Elizabethan cultural surge In Eng
land. s., . r
SPECIALIZATION
Price was in correspondence
with men Of affairs in America,
like Franklin and Jefferson, and
yet their concerns covered . vast
range Of abstract theory. The slow.
going packets carried back and
forth long dissertations on the l1u.
man soul, free will, the population
of England, the permutations and
combinations Of the calculus as
touching on health and longevity,
civil liberty, "materialiSm and nee
eSsity" and even infant damnation.
Just suppose that MesSrs. Farley,
Morgenthau and Ickes, taking
names at random, were in q cor
reSpondence battle with Stanley
Baldwin, Sir Walter Runciman and
Neville Chamberlain on Marcel
Proust, determinisrn, indirect cell
division and the transmission Of
acquired characteristics, and that
each Of them sat up half the night
by a wood fire writing with q quill
pen. That would not be a strained
comparison.
But we know, Of course, that
modern specialization puts each Of
us in his own little corner, and 1t
would be impossible for the wiSeSt
and most learned of us to sur
round the cosmos as did these
famous letter.writers and philoso-
pliers Of an earlier century. There
would be q thousand challenges
and qualifications to the above
comparison. But this much we can
sluice out Of it ala whale Of
lot Of good brains have gone into
building the great structure Of life
insurance.
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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BIZ T.. E.. P.OUers


were little shops. Somewhere
somebody yelled. something
squalled.
Disguised, impatient, waited
for the emergency car. Heard an
excited muttering the jangling
Of an old-fasnioned door bell. And
there they stood before me, smil-
ing, stammering their greeting in
excited haste-welcoming me to
their home.
At first I could hardly place
them. These bowed, gray-haired
creatures? Then, abruptly, memory
clicked filled in the shrunken
outlines, the faded colors. Pity
caught my throat-blinded me in
a gush of singing tears.
But, once past their door, pity
became an affront, so plain was
their happiness and pride. A tiny
place-not more than IL by 12-
but spotless. Ruffled curtains
across dollhouse windows. I'M
maculate shelves covered with gay,
lowered oil cloth stocked with
scores of aeroplane models, jars OF
candy.
Behind the shop, two other
rooms, equally small-bedroom and
living room. Shining! Gay! A
picture card come to life! Kettle
bubbling on the polished scrap OF
a stove geranium in the win
dow rag rug before muchly
mended armchair in which the
boy sat perched. But everywhere
smiles!
The proud, wise, challenging
smiles of those who had weathered
through!
Poor? That, they had discov-
cred, was up to them. They could
be poor-or they could be rich
as they, themselves, chose. Once,
with dollars in the bank, q. car
and q home, they had often felt
painfully poor. Now, with a few
toys, some makeShift bits Of furni-
ture, they were rich as kings.
For they had that within them
which all the gold of Midas could
not buy-they had VICTORY.
Life had done its worst to them
mauled them stripped
them yet they had come
through triumphant. They had
conquered even that worst horror
Of all-their own fear. Now, at
last, they were safe, even from
themselves indicated {.
undefeatable! There could be no
greater pride or wealth than that
for any man.
CERTAIN TRTUMPHS
So, in that low, dim room they
stood smiling up at me. And sud
denly a Presence filled the place!
AS plain as when It first was lifted
from the soil Of Samothrace, I saw
that statue called 1.-The Winged
victory"
"A DOuy . NdGOC4Cu cGuAAP .
head gone, and arms =. even the
foot q mutilated stump. Yet
there's such beauty as was never
carved before. or since. For, from
that trunk-above those broken
arms-there rise the wonder OF
great, fighting wings! All else
was SCARED, or lost along the trail.
Only the onruSA Of a valiant knee
. only the uplift Of those con.
quering wings remains. But
that's enough,
For in them lies the glory OF
the battling soul. Its certain
triumph over any mauling fate!
Copyright 1887. By King Features
| syudieatA Inat4
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
The Greatest Show on Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

Representative Doughton declared
that If Ponce de Leon, who died
disappointed because he couldn't
find the fountain Of youth, had
looked for the fountain of youth
in North Carolina, he would have
lived to be a centenarian.
In the same breath he issued
this invitation: So .zs
"COme down through Dixie
over this beautiful mountain
drive, down through the States
Of North Carolina and Virginia,
where the old grow young and
the young grow great-dOwn in
Virginia and the old North
State"
Just a poet and he didn't know
II
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FRANKLY SPEAKING

Representative Maury Maverick
is a little nervous about his party
He said the other day:
1--WE Democrats are getting a
little bit confused. Some of us
are sort Of beginning to act like
Republicans and reactiOnary
ones at that"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
AN INVITATION

It certainly is about time that
Senator Robert r. Reynolds makes
another speech about the Great
Smoky Mountain National Park in
North Carolina. Representative
Robert L. Doughton, Of the same
State, is stealing his thunder.
In discussing an appropriation
for a parkway through the park,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

in force total
S 1910 0 90 0 o.
600. One out
Of very two
persons in the
country Is q
.oolicy der.
Seven per cent
of the worlds
population lives
n America, yet
Americans own
20 per cent of
the worlds life
! n S ura nc e.
These are facts
Of in t re S t,
along wit h
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

Lots Of times, platonic friends
end by falling in love and marry
ing, just on the strength Of their
mutual enthusiasm for personal
independence.
An old.faShioned husband is one
who doesn't have to have q string
tied on his finger to remind him
that he's married. Even in spring,
he thinks Of himself as "some-
body'S husband" and keeps his
mind on the job.
During courtShip o man loves
to analyze his emotions for you;
but after marriage you are sup
posed to use clairvoyance to find
out what he really thinks Of you.
Some husbands will expect their
wives to sit down and sew q but
ton on their wings, and then. rush
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

When a woman finds life grow
ing monotonous, she can work UP
q little fresh enthusiasm by buy
ing a new hat or moving to new
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
A DIFFERENCE

The United States Treasury is
a gold mine which never plays out.
I have it on good authority
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
WINGED VICTORY

One of those depression stories.'
Not an upper bracket" melo-
drama, vet all the more poig-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

Life Insurance companies Of
pay out a quarter Of e
million dollars per hour. Policies
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

A misunderstood husband can
always be understood" by a girl
If her eyes are beautiful, her fig
TIRE is slender and his wife has
gone abroad.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

AS long as you can make a man
sufficiently mad to spoil his ap-
petite for dinner, there is a
chance that he still loves you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

It IS one thing to find the way
to q mans heart, and quite an
other thing to make him let you
in after you've found it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

A bachelor reaches the state
where he is almost womanproof,
somewhere around IS. After that
there Is Q gradual Softening Of
the heart, the emotions and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
Marry Go Round
By Helen ROULGVsd
HUSBANDS-BEFORE AND AFTER

. grow ~vanity-usually in the same ratio
orIr ,,n as the hardening Of his arteries.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Pattern $3.50.

also be effective as a door panel.
The stunning panel running length
wise of the bolster may also serve
as a scarf. Crochet this beautiful
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or in finer cotton for smaller pam
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detailed instructions and charts
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lustrations of the panel and of
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Please write your name, ad-
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 4
! STA r ;
! DUST ;
: Movie . Radio !
XXX BY VIRGINIA VALE*+s

4 LWAYS a dauntless trail
L n blazer, Sam GoldWyn
has just announced that in
future all of his productions
will be filmed in Technicolor.
Where Sam leads, others feel that
they must follow. and the chief
drawback is that it is going to be
very expensive. because Technicol-
or film costs considerably more than
black and white. First of the Gold
wyn Technicolor films will be Fol
lies" with Helen Jepson, the Ritz
Brothers, Zorina, the great Russian
ballerina, Virginia Verrill, beloved
Of radio fans, to swing those blues
and vast array of comics.
Robert Young got wonderful
break when M-G-M loaned him to
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Endearment

Have you endeared yourself to
the people?"
''In one sense Of the word" an
swered Senator Sorghum. I'm
afraid I have. Some folks out
home are saying that legislation
have helped to put through is 60
ing to cost more than it's worth. -
Washington Star.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
l157':33';T~ETT7
B::I.II3LCL

Needed at Times
A little bit of dynamite is an
elevating thing.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17

play opposite Claud-
cite Colbert in ''T
Met Him in Paris"
His own studio off
cials who lately had
been treating Bob
rather like a COM
Portable old shoe,
went to the previeW
and came out raw
ing about him as if
he were a new dis
covery. Right away
they went out and
L
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Playground

''In heavens name," asked the
prospector, why did you come out
into the middle of this dried-up,
barren, God-forsaken territory to
build home? There isn't a tree
within 100 miles Of you?"
What else could do? The wife
was dead set on learning to drive the
car!"-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
A Moral Success

The highest needs must have
most care, and the lower needs
the least care, and we must so
train ourselves that hunger for
the ideal things shall chasten and
subdue very worldly hunger, full
fiji the true ideal of men and wom-
en-, and maxi life a moral sue
cess and not a moral failure
John Hunter.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Before Her Time

Grandma" exclaimed very
modern young lacy, who was en-
gagged to a man with oldfashioned
ideas, "can you tell me what this
is Bert has given me?"
"Why, bless my SOUL" said grand
ma. ITS thimble!"-Stray Sto-
ries Magazine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17

rights to grand story called wit
ness to Murder" and presented
the star role to Bob.
There is a pretty thrilling story
of grit and courage connected with
the Hal Roach picture "Pick a
STAR" A blonde beauty named Ro-
sina Lawrence who sings and
dances light heartedly in that and
in "NOb0dy's Baby" was paralyzed
as child as the result of a back
injury. After months of cOnsulta-
tions, her mother located a doctor
who thought he might improve her
condition by giving her exercises.
Now she is strong and healthy and
agile-much more so than other
girls who did not have to fight for
chance to walk and dance.
There isn't buster girl in all
Hollywood than Dofcsly Lamour,
which is a break for film fans, but
bad news to the many radio fans
who have been wishing she would
find time to sing regularly on a
radio program again. She has just
finished roles in High, Wide, and
Handsome" and "The Last Train
From Madrid" and will start any
day now on Her Jungle Love-"
Her first big success, you will re-
call, came when she played 1.-THE
Jungle PrinceNs' and Paramount
has been looking for a sequel to it
ever since.
Connie Boswell is the latest radio
singer to- Succumb to the pleas OF
motion-picture producers. She will
warble in Paramount's Artists and
Models" But the most exciting
news on the Paramount lot is that
Mary Livingstone, the giddy comic
of Jack Benny's program and in
private life, his wife, is such an in
spired screen comic in her first pic
ture that all her supporting play
ers are sulking. The picture. called
This Way Please" was supposed
to star Shirley Ross and Buddy
Rogers, but Mary is just romping
off with all the scenes.
1t looks as if Kenny Baker of the
air waves will be strong rival of