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The Washington times., 1937-12-13
Marry-Go-
Round
BY HELEN ROWLAND

~ AAASAA4N -S~ w A@A4AN~
WTHEN one of the young
w sophisticates assures you
that love is a racket and mar
riage is out Of date. just ask
him to name 10 famous woman.
haters who have helped to make
history.
To marry in haste, may be
gambling with your happiness;
but it is far safer than waiting
until your Prince Charming's
pockets are well-lined and the
lining Of his stomach is worn
out. ,~--
When a masterful man mar
ries a managing woman, the
angels weep-and stuff cotton
in their ears.
Hot-towel-packS may iron out
all the wrinkles in the face; but
the wrinkles in a bad disposition
will show right through the
smoothest epidermis.
&#*
Flattering a man is much like
making q chocolate layer cake
for a small boy. In either case.
you Just can't spread the goo
on too thick.
No matter how highly
polished a mans manners be-
fore marriage, somehow they
gradually acquire the usual dull
finish" after q few years Of
domesticity-in which he is no
longer inspired to shine.
Occasionally, a man actually
enjoys eating the things that
are good for him; but they have
not half the tempting flavor
they would have if the doctor
had listed them as forbidden"
Ak
Many a husband is merely
the Christmas Supplement" to
the household, which reminds
the family that another year
has gone around.
Copyright. 1881. by King Features
Syndicate. Ine.)
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City, who is having his labor
troubles at home.
Despite an well-inspired pre-
dictions to the contrary, the
Treasury has been planning to
continue the existing silver pur.
chase program. That is def.
nite-unless Mr.. M. changes his
mind at the last minute.
A N alliance between the Lam
IA don and Borah forces has
always been impossible. Now it
is worse than that.
The ex-Presidential candidate
Of the Republicans wanted very
much to have a few words with
the Idaho Lion during the last
week end. The Kansan asked
his good friend. Senator Carper,
to beard Mr.. Borah for an ap-
pointment.
Borah's reply sounded some
thing like a reference to a gift
Of California nuts sent to Mr..
r. that same day-with an ex-
clamation point behind them.
At any rate it was firmly mega.
tive.
Later the three, Landon.
Borah and Cappers met in an
elevator. shook hands briefly,
went their respective ways.
NOTE-The words of Landon's
remuneration were not cod on
the paper before Democratic
politicos were wisecracking: "He
is retiring, so he can really get
out and work for the nomina-
ton" 1t only goes to show the
most convincing remuneration of
presidential aspirations will not
convince everyone. incidentally
you first read that Landon
would renounce, in this spot,
November g.
Il II
WHAT these Frank and
" Haynes appointments to
the Securities Exchange Com
mission mean is that the last
Of the Kennedy-Landis modera-
ton crowd is out; a new Douglas
crowd is completely in. The orig
inal moderates who organized
this Wall Street detective agency
lave gradually been suppIanted
by more active leftish thinkers.
For instance, Mr.. Frank was
too radical for the old three AS
and was purged by Mr.. Wallace.
Haynes is a Wall Street New
Dealer, but he will find himself
surrounded by Douglas men in
key SEC positions.
This does not necessarily por-
tent another SEC breakdown on
Wall Street. Frank, for in
stance. has been telling his
friends this is no time ito hit
them on the head
The plan seems to call for a
little occasional kick in the shins
for them at present. the skull
humping to be held in reserve.
TCC may not grant the whole
= Is per cent rate increase re-
quested, but will certainly give
10 to 12 per cent. This is
generally accepted expert guess
based upon studied analysis of
ICC cogitations.
Mr.. RS sound lecture on rail-
roads was generally interpreted
as a move to pave the way in
that direction.
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balance?
DORIS F. MosEBACH, of
QUEENS VILLAGE, L. L,
doesn't believe they are or have.
IN. B.-Doris's red hot phrases
are all her own. For once we're
not responsibility. RI
Dear Elsie:
jumping Jellyfish! What
next! We have women gov.
ernors, women Senators, a
woman Secretary of Labor
(Which is certainly a mans job
and now, in Ohio, they've taken
the first step toward an all
woman jury by allowing II
women and one man to try
a murder suspect. WHAT
CHANCE HAS THAT ONE
POOR MAN AGAINST II
HECKLING HENS? Next they'll
try to appoint an all-woman
Supreme Court or elect a woman
Presidentl Heaven help usI
Don't get me wrong, Elsie.
I'll admit women may profit
by public service, but they GER
tainly should not be given au-
thority yet, unless it is equally
divided with men.
Woman is wonderful In the
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home, she's proven herself pretty
helpful in the business world,
she's covered herself with glory
in the literary world, and all in
all she's making a darn good
job Of her equality But when
it comes to all,women juries-
let's not go completely haywire!
If the cause Of justice is to be
preserved. let's stick to bal.
anced juries. Why?
BECAUSE WOMEN ARE
TOO H1GH-sTRUNG, OVER
EMOTIONAL, GIVEN TO SEN.
TnGENT . AND PREJUDICE;
MORE APT TO REACT TO
CROCODILE TEARS AND
DRAMATIC PAINTINGS.
Doris F. MoSebach, age II,
Queens Village, L. l."
($10 prize winner)
That's q large mouthful,
Doris, and it will certainly place
you in the national spotlight.
But, prepare for brickbats-if I
know my human nature!
(copyright. 1897. BY King Features
Syndicate. InO.)
The Washington times., 1937-12-13

Twenty wise males on the
House Labor Committee now
know otherwise. They went into
the House debate on the wage
and hour bill today in the hum
BILE position of having been out
maneuvered by their respected
chairwoman, matronly Mary
Norton.
This is the story:
Mrs. Norton has long been
working to put wage and hour
Jurisdiction in the Labor Depart
ment. She does not like auto
cratic symptoms displayed by
these Federal boards, particu-
larly the National Labor Rels-
tions Board. Unfortunately her
committeeman had different
ideas. They took the ball away
from her last session, when the
late Bill Connery was chairman.
They reported their own board
bill.
When Mrs. Norton became
active chairwoman this session,
her first official act was to cali
the committee. She explained
to her 20 men it would be much
easier to get 218 signatures for
the then pending wage-hour pc
tition if they would agree to let
her announce that she would
offer the Labor Department
amendment on the floor.
1t sounded fair enough. The
20 men were skeptical. but they
wanted the petition signed. They
finally agreed Gin principle"
A FEW days ago Mrs. Norton
n again called her 20 men. To
their surprise she had a com.
plete amendment prepared, in.
volving rewriting Of the whole
bill. No subcommittee had been
appointed to confer on drafting.
There was a suspicion that
the Frances Perkins department
must have had something to do
with it. but Mrs. Norton denied
this.
The slowly awakening males
also found the Norton changes
affected their own pet amend
ments adopted last summer.
They baked. Mrs. Norton led
her ace. She announced she had
given her word to signers Of
the petition on authority Of the
committee.
Twenty m ales squirmed,
argued she had only been au.
thorized to say that she-not
the committee-would present
the amendment. They soon lost
that argument, ultimately they
gave in. AS one Of the now wiser
20 staggered out the door, he
remarked:
1--WE were just outmaneuvered,
that's all. We went twice as
far as we intended"
NOTE-Why Mrs. Norton is
so strong for her substitute bill
is another story, perhaps several
other stories. Hers is merely
that she talked to lot Of people
who are tired Of labor boards.
Others say one per-on she must
have talked to is her friend,
Mayor Hague, boss Of her Jersey
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the deep snow. We passed
through drifts as high as a
house, but we arrived as warm
and snug as we left. We were
wrapped in bear skins and had
heated soap stone for our feet"
\ y X
Miss Mary Roletto. 1749 P st.
N. w., stenographer:
my home is in Butte, Mont,
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one time in
1918 when I
was living in
OtSego coun-
t y, N e W
York State. I
W as obliged
to take a IL
m lie sleigh
ride to get to
work, for it
was the only
way we could
g e t through
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and one win
ter day sew
eral We RS
ago when the
t e mperature
was between
40 and so de-
grees b ! ow
zero, I started
for work at z
O'Clock in the
morning. Be-
cause Of the
h e avy snow.
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The win
ter be fore
la st I was
= a C h ing
ool in
A lie xandria,
I o W a. The
t o W n W as
C ON p letely
showed in. A
little girl had
an acute at
tack of ap
p e n ic tits
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the time Of
the Knicker-
booker disas-
ter. That was
he ors t
W e a t h er I
ev er expert
enced. There
W a S m ore
snow at that
time than I
h q v e e er
seen. Traffic
couldn't ge t
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and the nearest hospital was II
miles from the town. There
was so much snow that the men
had to push a sled for six miles
until an ambulance reached
them"
X
Frank D. Tippett, 2122 Thir-
ty-seventh st. N. w.. investi.
gator:
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ct DaS over
so years ago
at the unveil-
ing Of t b e
w a S hington
Monument. I
W as in the
N a t ions al
G. ard and
we n a d to
m arch up
the a We n ue
I r o m the
Peace Cross.
It was the {
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storm it took me five hours to
60 the two miles to my office.
Fl 4
w. w. Kimmel, Plaza Apart
mentS, gardener in, the U. S.
Botanic Gardens:
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Suggests Debate

I read DR.. Dickstein's M. c.
(Minsky Comedy outburst on
dictatorship in The Times.
The place to argue and battle
with foreigners is on foreign soil.
Let's keep America for real
Americans, by following George
Washington'S advice, i. e., keep
out Of foreign entanglementS.
How about a debate between
DR.. Dickstein and DR.. Dickman
on Communism, Fascism, Juda-
ism and Naziism? There is only
one real ism, /. e., AmericaniSm.
LIBRA"
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"In 1920 I
W a S n e a r
Butte. Mont.
hunting for
m CONSUMERS.
I became lost
from t h e
o tn er rev.
e n u e agents
and soon my
feet, legs and
tn ighs be.
came numb.
I W a n dered
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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 the worst weather
you have ever experienced.
THE ANSWERS

Mrs. Melissa Tinkey, 937 G
Pl. N. w., clerk:
NY memory goes back to
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around in the snow in the dark
for several hours and finally
found the car which was nearly
buried in the snow"
\
Miss Esther Elizabeth Dodd.
1888 Oak st. N. W., clerk:
1t was 80 degrees below zero
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Miss Emily Berg, 1861 Fair
mont st. N. W., telephone
operator:
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News Behind the News
Mary Norton Outnnaneuvers 20 Males in Han.
ding Of Wage-hour Legislation
ID.
By Paul MnLLOn

twOrd
GONE folks say do not know their way around in
~ politics; if it for male leadership they would
get lost their place is in the home-with the door shut
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Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

A RE WOMEN FIT TO SERVE ON JURIES3
Have they sufficient mpersonal experience emotons
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By
T. E. Powers

ing Yuletide is a fit time for chasing
Glooms away.
Buying Christmas Seals helps many un-
fortunates.
And-on the national scene-Govern-
ment can help Industry to play Santa
Claus to the country by giving Industry
non-partisan support and encouragement.
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This is the season when folks need
to be reminded that the first Christmas
duty is to Shop Early and Ship Early"
Early shoppers have full counters to
choose from at the stores.
Early shippers tighten the mailman's
weary load.
Also, Mr. Powers shows, the approach
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Voice of the People

pledge allegience to it we are
not merely expressing our own,
views but those which should be
for the benefit Of all.
DORTHEA LAWRENCE.
Pedestrians to Celebrate
I have been forced back ct
safety zones and sideswiped at
the curb by turning cars escap.
ing the red light, but today was
the first time for me to be
chased along the sidewalk by q
truck.
But of course, at this late date,
extreme measures by drivers
may be necessary to obtain one
hundred fatalities as a score for
the calendar year.
This sort Of one-Sided war
fare could be met by proclaim
ing a national pedestrian day
let us say January 1.-when
pedestrians still alive and able
could celebrate an old.time
Fourth of July by dropping fire.
crackers in upon the seats along
side the drivers Of motor cars
which come ncomfortably close
to them. FLO JUSTICE.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
Mss'rufsd BY
Wolsss IA. Bovmhofos

were glazing; the breath ratified in his lungs.
The girl knelt, dipped her cupped hands in the
water and dribbled it across the swollen tongue.
Carefully she touched him, who had never felt
human hand before, tipped his muzzle and
let the precious liquid trickle down his throat.
When the riders reached her she was sitting
fat in the sand. crying as if her heart would
break. rubbing the stiffened throat that had
swallowed twice. She looked up with blazing
eyes at the circle of her fathers men who were
,>her friends.
''You beasts!" she choked. you unspeak-
able wolves! Get out of here! You hear me?
Leave him alone with me or III never look at
one of you again.
Tired. dusty. lean with their five days labor
to get this horse they sat and looked down at
her. Bert spoke briefly. his narrow eyes cold.
Pick her up, Sam, and take her in"
"You touch me, Sam Hollis, if you dare" she
blazed.
Jim Balmer. the foreman, drew a deep
breath.
Maybe she's right, Bert, " he said apologetic-
ally. ''at any rate you can't lose him now.
think. myself, he's done for. Let her give him
water if she cam"
who told you to butt in, Jim?" asked Bert.
You pick her up Sam, or I'll get you canned"
Hollis moved his horse a step, but Balmer
put out brown hand in its leather cuff.
No" he said. let her be. Come on, boys,
let's 60. We've done our job and if the boss
don't like it, let it ride"
Evening star., 1937-01-03

make cattle man despair. the overhead VA
heavy. Boss Bill spent many late night hour
at his battered old desk in the living room,
figuring.
''Weu gather beef early. jim. !" he'd tel hi
foreman wouiedly. ':as early - We possibly can
this year,
ok. Boss" Balmer would answer, hut
you know the gras i pretty short."
Can't help it, got to-"
ok"
In the week Of Bezt's absence Black Wind
regained the life that had al but escaped his
flesh. HisRreat wild head came up high. higher
than the top rail Of the conal. his duh eyes
bulged with fierce excitement, shone Ike fox
fire in the night. He Wa like tiger trapped.
and charged the sturdy fenoe until his hCeast
bled with his bruising. He refused to eat tie
bright hay. Or drink tie cool water IN the trough
but screamed and ran until hh black hide
dripped with sweat that washed the dust away
and showed his sleek beauty. The men let him
alone according to Bert's impaiou ordes. but
Millie stood by the saplings and talked to him
for hours On end.
She called him her runner Of the sage. her
darling of the dust, and always she called to
him with a soft clear whistle that made bic short
ears twitch in the vast cloud Of his foretop. She
put a little pile of oats On the earth inside the
pen, and on the morning after it was gone. She
laughed aloud that day and brought some more.
put salt beside them.
Three times before Bert returned she had
thrilled to the fact that the stallion had TUNED
at her whistle and looked at her. He was the
most glorious creature the Bar L had ever seen,
the biggest, the widest, the most beautiful.
He was still gaunt from his monstrous running
in the capture and from his ceaseless circiing
of the corral, but neither dust nor sweat nor
weariness could dim the fire Of his spirit. hide
the length of his slim legs, the great lift Of his
withers. And he waited for Bert to return from
town and break him to his win.
Bert came home on Monday night, his good
clothes soiled, his eyes hollow. His hands dhook
90 he could hardly light hin evapresent ciearek:;
he was narling and suiy ~ always in the sobz-
ing process.
He slept the clock round and Mile spent
half the night at Black Winds pen whispering
Csstisssd - Psgs 10
Evening star., 1937-01-03

stiff legs in unresisting obedience to the glid-
ing tug of halter on his once free head. With.
out its steadying help he would have fallen
now and again.
So Black Wind came to the Bar L ranch and
into the warmth of love 50 great it was to
change the tenor of the life about.
Mile Sands dark eyes were deep with inner
light, her lips set tight above the little chin.
Jim. " she said grimly. here's where balk.
IfDad lets Bert use his beastly methods on this
horse, I'm through. Through taking my dead
mothers place. Through working like slave
for the Bar L outfit, even though Dad il %
good to me; through being doormat for his old
friends son."
Loyal friendship is all right. but blood
should be thicker than water"
Il don't know why, but I've loved Black
Wind all this year just from hearing about him.
It's Bert and against each other this time for
sure"
Jim Balmer laid hand softly ON her arm.
Heaven knows don't want to see trouble
between you and the Old Man. kid" he said,
but I'm glad something has stirred you to re-
volt. It's made my blood boil for two long years
to see you work 50 hard and take every thing
the boy has handed you. Hats off to the stallion.
He's better argument than all of mine"
All that day the wild horse stood with droop-
ing head in the first corral that ever held him.
He did not seem to see the men who stopped
from time to time to look at him. nor hear their
voices. When Mile, reaching through the near
est bars, held a pan of water to his muzzle, he
swallowed gratefully. his dull eyes frightened.
"You keep away from him, Miss" Bert
warned. when come back from town II take
him in hand and don't want him ooddled."
Bathed, shaved, clad in his best, the scion of
the Bar L backed the car from the, shed and
shot away across the sand.
He was gone for week. The outfit seemed
quieter. more efficient, lacking his presence.
Not man on the brand who wouldn't have
worked his head off for Boss Bill Sands, but his
foster son was another matter.
Suspicious, ove1bearing, the boy found fault
habitually and carried his findings to Sands.
The Old Man was just. but years were bearing
heavily upon him. and things had not gone well
of Late The price of beef was something to
Evening star., 1937-01-03

One by one the riders moved. shuffied away
toward the home ranch. All but Bert, who sat
watching her with furious eyes.
You'll pay for this, young lady, or don't
know the Old Man." he said. :.
'Or your power over him" Mile answered
bitterly. IF he knew what Others know about
you in town it would kill him. He's been q
father to you, - to his cost and to mine"
you watch your tongue" the boy said
sharply and whiried his horse away.
While the twilight spread its rose and purple
mantle over the desert country Millie Sands
sat on the warm earth, patient with her trick
ling water. She saw the death that lowered near
the stricken creature, felt its presence. 1t was
in the dull and sightless eyes. in the jerking
breaths, in the still big body prone and helpless
She cried and called Black Wind hundred
loving names.
The warm day died and the shadows fell, the
stars came out on velvet sky, and still che
crouched above the great black head. Her
precious water was all but gone, but it had done
its work well.
Nine times she had felt the dry throat swal-
low The swollen tongue was not 80 thick. The
cold of the desert night began to creep across
the world. and there was a soft step between
the sage and the cactus plants.
'Millie." said Jim Balmer
Quietly the cowboy came and squatted BE-
side her on his heels. He set down another pail
of water. 'How's it going?" he asked
Hes still alive - no thanks to YOU"
The boss's orders" he said, 81 didn't like
the job too well, but wasn't the boss
Bert, suppose?"
YES"
II know. This whole ranch is run by Bert's
whims Give me that pail!''
Quiet. speaking in whispers, these two sat
together under the stars while the early night
drew on. Black Wind lay like the dead, but
when the Milky Way was high in the heavens
he sighed and stirred, his mouth closed, one ear
twitched in the tangled name.
Hes coming round" the COW man said.
wed better get this on him, and reached for
the halter he had dropped beside bush.
When the first pale light of day came over
the eastern rim of the world strange process
sion crept toward the home oorrals, "a tall
man. shiveging girl and a gamt horse dragging
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-30
No Bond Allowed
In Staying Case

SHAW, Miss, June 80. (UP)-
Magistrate jewell Howard at a
preliminary hearing yesterday or
dered Claude Vance, AZ, charged
with the Staying of Night Marshall
f.. G. Harrington, held without
bond to await grand jury action
in November.
Attorneys for the prosperous
Shaw druggist said they would
seek habeus corpus at Cleveland.
Chief Defense witness was Miss
Grace Vance, l9-year-old Louis
lana State University beauty
queen, who say the fight last June
8 and was shot in the back by u
stray bullet. She said her father
fired in self defense.
Prosecuting Attorney f. IL.
Green, Cleveland, maintained that
Vance provoked the argument
with Harrington when the latter
attempted to arrest negro por-
ter at Vance's drug store. lie
charged Vance was running Il
dive in open violation of the
law" and "acted q cad in the pre-
sence of his cultured daughter.
Defense Attorney J. T. Smith,
Cleveland, argued that Vance,
"had a perfect right to shoot Har-
rington. Harrington was beating
him down with 45-calibre gun.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-30
SOVIET FIRING
SQUADS TOLL
TOTAL NOW l}l.
Men Charged With Wreck
ing l6 Ships in Port
of Leningrad

MOSCOW, June 30. (UP)--
Thirty-seven additional persons
convicted of participation in an
alleged "Trotskyist-Japane plot
To wreck RuSSia'S far eastern rail
road have been executed by FIR
ing squads, bringing the total To
1871. it was revealed last night.
The new executions were de-
Scribed i'm the June 20 issue Of
the Pacific Ocean Star published
in KhabarOvSk.
Most Of the trials were held in
KhabarovSk before Il secret mil
itary tribunal of the Soviet SUI
preme court.
The Pacific Ocean Stars ac-
count of the trials. carried on the
back page, ended laconically with
the statement, All sentences
were carried ou.."
The newspaper Water Transit
charged that V. |. Bronstein, for
mer head of the port of Lenin-
grad, and n. V. Trofimov, former
pore captain, wrecked l6 ships in
the spring of 1885 by admitting
them to the harbor before ice con-
ditions warranted.
This action, the newspaper
said, revealed the two men as
"TrotSkyiSt bandits" and they
were found to have acted under
orders of the Lcningrad consulate
of a Certain foreign govern.
ment."
Bronstein, it was said, boosted
of being relative of the eXiled
Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's parents
were named Bronstein.
Capt. Lonov of the Soviet ship
Kosarev was revealed to have
been discharged for fraternizine
with Spanish Fascists while his
ship was detained at the rebe
port Of Ceuta.