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The Washington times., 1937-03-24
Story of the Constitution

THESE are days when a general knowledge and a
i sympathetic understanding of the United States
Constitution the part of all the people contribute
greatly to the general welfare in the interest of which
the Constitution was ordained and established
It is for that that attractive book, 'The
Story of the Constitution, published by the United
States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission,
should prove of high value and of great Importance
Planned and edited by Representative Sol Bloom, of
New York, director general of the Sesqucentennia it
contains nothing of controversial nature but is replee
with carefully checked facts which give complete pic
ture of the formation of the Constitution the various
amendments which have been adopted the who
signed the document and many of those who have
tributed materially in carrying out its provisions.
As Representative Bloom says in the books intro
duction:
''It tries to reach the millions who not judges
or lawyers professors or historians otherwise
trained in knowledge of the Constitution which
governs the daily lives of all of It is book for
the people"
Available at nominal price, this is the kind of book
the Constitution that every American should have.
More importantly, it is the kind of book on the
Constitution that every American should READ AND
STUDY.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

don-remember Vice Pres. Garner
him-said that the one-time can
didate for President carried out
this advice by borrowing clga-
rettes. He said that Mr.. Landon
made it cigarettes because it
wasn't necessary to return them.
OF course, this is all by the way
of introduction and can't be actu-
ally tagged onto the little idlosyn-
Grassy of Vice President John Nance
Garner-but it has it's points.
Friends of the v. P. know that
when he really feels that he is a
friend of yours in good standing
he has a habit of taking a cigar
from you if you happen to have
one showing in your pocket. For
instance, it has happened that
when he stops and talks to a
Senator whom he knows very well
he is liable to reach out, select
cigar from the Senator's pocket
and light up.
Senator Tom Connally, VINO
likes joke as well as the next
fellow, was reminded of this little
practice in a tobacco shop. He
looked around and found some
stogies, priced three for a nickel.
After he had bought his own brand
he: told the shop-keeper that the
stogies looked pretty cheap, he'd
take three Of those.
"Oh, I've got some that sell
five for Nickel" the man said.
So Senator COnnally up and
bought those.
He came to the Capitol with
the stogies prominently displayed
in his vest pocket and walked, past
Mr.. Garner with his lapel drawn
back to show them. Yes, sir, the
v. P. fell for it, took one, lighted
up and to all intents and purposes
enjoyed it immensely.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
Women Fight Cancer

A NEW ARNIY-a women's army of health-is tax
IA ing the field.
Women have played important part in the long
campaign of public education which helped cut the toll
of tuberculosis.
Now they hope to cut deaths in half-to
$4,000 American lives yearly fighting this disease
"and its allies fear and ignorance By teaching people
not to neglect early and proper treatment.
Under the auspices Of the American Society for the
Control Of Cancer directed by leading scientists, they
have organized Women Field Army, marching under
the banner:
"Early cancer is curable Fight it with knowledge
Their interest is natural Medical science offers no
greater hope than in two types of which occur
only in Cures said to be possible in 80 to 90
per cent of these cases. if treated in time.
enlistment week" is this week. ALL week.
When the call comes-DON'T BE A Stacker.
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ton of his country. His last re-
corded appearance was at an as
semblage of the youth OF Germany
where he uttered this advice to
his audience:
Get ready for the next war!
I do not know when 1t will come,
but 1 expect that it will be with
Russia"
Maxine Weygand looks only SO
of his 10 years. He has the trim
appearance of a prosperous buSi-
ness man, now that, in his retire
ment, he has put aside the garb OF
general-in-chief of the armies Of
France. He is still looked upon as
one of the foremost strategists OF
the world. Pointing to a map and
indicating the Mediterranean, he
says to a group of military men:
'Tt is here that we have a
danger spot to the maintenance
of peace in Europe"
A newspaper in Japan speaks
bluntly:
"Our future lies in the ex.
plOitation of North China and
Manchuria, and because of this
we will have war with Russia"
HISTORY REPEATS
It is accepted that great war
is inevitable. The disagreement
is only as to when and where 1t will
break out. Such fatalism is de-
pressing, and to many Americans
is not understandable.
Yet, if we would visualize our
own country as 10 different ma
tions instead of one, each sepa-
rated from the other by barriers
of race and language, each dis
trustful and afraid of the other,
We would readily see the root OF
the European evil.
Our own history shows us, IN
the examples of the war with
Mexico, the war with Spain over
Cuba, and again the trouble
! with Mexico in 1914. that it is
not a simple matter for two
races to get along together when
living next door to each otner
I was talking the other night
to an able historian who has just
returned from a prolonged stay
in Europe. He would not venture
a guess as to the time of the next
war or as to how the powers
would line up If and when II
came.
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steady ourselves or comfort each
other. We are in a time of the
most cruel confusion the race has
ever known. We are, each one
of us, fumbling through disheart-
ening darkness and disorder.
OutWardly, We may seem very
smart and sure of ourselves. We
may use the sophisticated patter-
quote the latest wisecracks. But
inwardly we are bewildered, embit-
tered and desperately lonely.
So this week I want, as I have
never done before, to come close
to you :. to say something which
will hearten you to give you
the finest friendlineSs I have in me.
SIGNIFICANCE
If it means nothing else to you,
this week must remind you that
it was brave, fine souls time of
deepest torture and turmoil. Dur
ing this week He said things which
we are all echoing today. He had
believed in men at a time when
human beings rated little higher
than goats and swine.
He had given his brief life for
them-out of His pity for their
helplesSness and suffering. And
now, it all seemed to have been
wasted effort. Out of His loneli
ness, heartbreak and despair He
cried those words which, at some
time, rise in every brave and con
secrated heart
"My God! MY God! Why hast
thou fOrSaken me?"
Everywhere, today, men are go
ing through the same Geth
semanes and Golgothas Of confu
sion. The old order has failec
them, and no new order has come
They have given their best, but
their best does not seem enough
Despite their noblest dreams anc
efforts, their world seems crumb
ling about them. Desperately
they cry:
"My God! My God! Why hast
thou fOrSaken me?"
Sitting in this newspaper office
! reading hundreds Of letters a day
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History" he said, us re-
peating itself all over again.
spent much time, in Europe
during the years 1913-1914, and
it is this same year that Eu-
rope is living once more.
Even in relatively unim-
pOrtant matters and incidents
one finds the deadly parallel.
A week ago there was a debate
in the House of Commons on
the reprisaIs exacted upon the
EthiOpians for the bOmb-thrOw-
ing which resulted in the
wOunding of Marshal GraZi-
ami in Adds Ababa. In reply
to questions by Labor members,
the government indicated that
the punishment had been q
trifIe harsh. To the direct
question of a remOnStrance on
the part of England, there was
no answer.
"Of course, Stanley Baldwin
has had no idea Of expressing
his diSpleaSure to SignOr MuSSO-
lini. Mr.. Baldwin is old enough
to remember thirty years back.
His knowledge of geography is
wide enough to let him know
that the Nile Delta is not far
from Adds Ababa. And he can
recall quite readily the hanging
of a few Egyptian natives in
1906 because they beat the Brit
ish officers who were shooting
their pigeons for sport.
STILL HOPE
"The German-JapaneSe ALL
ance, another case in point, is
nothing more than the Anglo
japanese alliance of that same
pre-war period.
cat the turn Of this century
France and England were en-.
emies and Russia and England
were bitter enemies and looking
forward to war with each other.
England was anxious for an al
lance with Germany, Queen Vic
tOria, by the way, being the
grandmother of william III, the
German Kaiser.
"The thick.headed German
diplomats thought the English
bids were signs Of weakness
and demanded too much. There
upon, isolated England lined
up with Japan. So today isO-
lated Germany, joins up with
Japan, which in turn again
needs a. backer to keep the
arena cleared in case of a
war with Russia. I could go
on all night proving my case"
"What about the coming
war;" 1 asked.
ut can be averted," was the
reply, "if they'll all put their
cards on the table with the
strong fellows giving up a bit
of what they got. And 1t
won't hurt them to give up.
With that should come the
end of the mad ornaments race.
"a great statesman might
arise to work it out. A change
in one or two governments
might affect it. There's still
hope"
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
syndicate. 1ne.l
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
INTERRUPTED

There is one man on Capitol
Hill who really knows something
about the school that was so diSas.
trously blown UP in New London,
Texas.
He is C. M. Elwell, now secre.
tary to Representative William r.
Poage. In recent years he had been
assistant State superintendent of
Texas schools in charge of equali.
zation.
He said that four years ago
when the school was built he in.
pected it, not the building, but for
the manner in which its curriclum
was to be conducted. He also made
a speech during the dedicatory
exercises. During his address an
oil well came in nearby and he
had to shout to make himself
heard.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
The Greatest Show on Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

'jacent to the hearings on Lh6
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
In 1910 he became the third
man in the Senate Press Gallery
and in 1918 he succeeded Col. Ed"
win A. Halsey as assistant super.
intendent. Colonel Halsey, by the
way, is now the secretary of the
Senate.
NOT IN CODE
All was not seriousness during
the Senate consideration of the
$5O0,000,000 naval appropriation
bill.
Last week the Senate agreed to
all the committee amendments
and thereby tacitly approved the
entire bill. So, when the meas.
ure came up for general debate
Monday, Vice President Garner
snappily surprised the body by i'm
mediately calling for vote. The
ayes were overwhelming. AS he
called for the hayes, the bill was
as good as passed, just like that.
Senator Lynn Frazier, however,
leaped to his feet and stopped the
vote with stormy speech against
it and so several hours later it
passed on a record vote.
In the midst of the debate Sena-
tor Gerald P. Nye called attention
to an item in the bill that had
him puzzled. He wanted to know
what this meant:
Rent of rendezvous and ex-
penSeS for maintaining the
same"
"What is the. meaning. Of
this?" said he. els 1t as myster.
iOus as it SeemS?"
Senator Jim Brynes, who was in
charge of the bill, told him he must
be kidding: that this was the
language always included in the
bill, and it meant a recruiting
station.
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Seeking More "POrk''
BU 7. T. Williams, J.

menC It has been carried out
by an agency highly sensible Of
its responsibilities and duties
and carried out with economy
and efficiency"
Hearings presently will be held
by the appropriate committees Of
the two Houses on this drastic
proposal to throw the river and
harbor improvement work of ths
Federal Government on the DO.
litical pie counter of the spoilsmen.
Ample opportunity will be given
for a complete exploration of the
propaganda campaign that has
long been conducted to grease this
scheme into public favor.
One Of the questions that will
be asked, in all probability, will
have to do with the amount that
has been expended by one Of the
existing executive departments to
miSlead the public in regard to
flood control.
For weeks and months printed
matter costing the taxpayers
thousands upon thousands of dol
lars has been flooding the mails
from the Federal City which does
not mention the work Of the
Army Engineers in the matter OF
flood control.
When the congressional inveSti.
CATION of this matter really gets
going it will be difficult to prevent
the Congress from digging into
the files and getting the facts
the files of the Department of
Justice as we'll as those Of the
Interior, War and other depart
mentS.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
AN EASTER LETTER TO YOU

u hear that cry as perhaps you
cannot hear it and feel the
agony behind it as perhaps you
cannot feel it. And so, though I
have little wisdom Or Righteousness
wherewith to answer, I do want to
give you something which may be
more helpful than programs,
schedules and codes something
which may warm your tired hearts
and steady your tangled brains.
I want to tell you that I trust
you.
have written for you for nearly
20 years. 1 have heard the most
intimate chapters of your lives
seen you at your best and worst,
your bravest and most craven. And
1 want to repeat
I BELIEVE IN YOU.
have not seen most of YOU
nor ever will. But I have seen
you facing every possible challenge
and trial. And of this am as
sured, beyond all doubting-YOU
ARE FINE. YOU ARE FUNDA-
MENTALLY HONEST, KIND,
FAIR AND COURAGEOUS.
ASK FAIR CHANCE
You are bewildered by sudden,
enormous changes in industry and
our social system. But you want
individually and collectively
whether you wear denim Or broad.
cloth-to make America clean,
fair, forward-looking place where
every man has a fair chance and
a decent deal.
IN short, you carry that dream
1Dtthin you which once sent youI
brGUe toretGtherS on a search TO,
justice to lDild and SGUGge land
and Dhtc1, a thousand years
before, gaze another Young Mar
the courage to face torture, be
trayal and Ggonising death upon
q cross.
For all of these things I believe
in you. For all of these things
I am proud to be one of you, crate
full for the chance to work with
and for you. And because of them
on this Easter week of new be
ginnings, come to you with my
hands outstretched, asking tha
you will help me, by your belief il
me, to run good race and keer
the faith" and do better job il
this service to which I am ap
pointed.
God bless us all and help u
keep. His Easter!
love you-
ETSTT pNpYNSONT
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

I a r, perhaps,
o u t S i d e t h e
boundaries of
u S u al n e W S.
paper commun-
ication. Y e t,
for that very
reason, I feel
the need Of it
more strongly.
Our world has
so changed! All
the old hand
g ps h a v e
failed us, and
there are no
new devices by
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

person in mind.
He sugg e S t e d
that by putting
yourself in the
debt Of your ac-
quaintance you
created an at
N o S p h ere Of
goodwill t h a t
never wore off.
That is, unless
you forgot to re-
turn what you
borrowed.
One Of the
biographers Of
Alfred M. Ian
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

topped by a hat
of fur on which
is the emblem
of the Deaths
Head Hussars,
a skull and
cffossbones. We
see his picture
frequently in
America in the
neWSreels and
the newspapers
because 1t is
rarely that he is
not in the front
rank at any I'M
or t ant ma
t,ional celebra-
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Wise Words

Those who wish to appear wise
among fools, among the wise seem
fooliSh.-Quintilian.
Whatever brawls disturb the
street, there should be peace 40
home.-Isaac Watts.
Ares (the God of War hates
those who hesitate.-Euripides.
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
A VETERAN

Monday morning Bill Collins,
superintendent of the Senate
Press Gallery, came to work just
as if it was nothing at all. The
gallery looked a little bigger to
him than it did % years ago and
there were more correspondents
about, but he rather enjoys the
rush and hustle, and so it was
o. K. with him.
Later in the day he did admit
that on March %, 1909, he first
came to work on the Hill. He was
put in charge Of a press room in
the Senate Office Building ad-
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
Where Is Our Counsel?

WhorG is Our counsel.
II ARLY next month the Public Utilities Commission
~ will start hearings matter which will mean
hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to the people
of Washingon-the valuation of the properties of the
Capital Transit Company.
Because of an unforgvabe delay in the appointment
of Peoples Counsel the residents of this city will be
deprived of their proper legal representation before tho
Commission in that highly important matter.
Upon the outcome CT the hearings will depend the
fixing of fares the street and buses of the city
for many years.
Naturally the Capital Transit Company will seek to
obtain decision from the Commission fixing the valua
tion as high as possible
In subsequently determining fares the Commission
will have to consider the valuation and allow the
panv suitable rate of return it.
The higher the valuation the money upon which
the company will be allowed the rate and the the
transit users of the community will pay
Many months ago, when Mr. William A. Roberts
resigned as Peoples Counsel, it known that the
valuation hearing impending.
Had successor been appointed promptly he would
have had opportunity to study the case to famarze
himself with the claims of the company to valuation
and to have prepared the case of the public.
If a successor to Mr. Roberts we're appointed now he
probably could not do complete job of preparation
before the hearing is scheduled to start.
Even if he could not, however, the public would still
have the benefit of his appearance before the Commits
sion in the case and would undoubtedly profit to
tain extent
1T IS MOST UNFAIR FOR PRESIDENT RoosE-
VELT-WHo HAS THE POWER OF APPOINTING
THE PEOPLES COUNSEL-TO DEPRIVE THE
PUBLIC OF WASHINGTON OF REPRESENTATION
IN THIS CASE AND IN THE MANY OTHER PUB
Lie UTILITY CASES WHICH ARE CONSTANTLY
ARISING.
Congress wanted the people Of the city to have this
representation.
1t provided for the office and appropriated money to
pay the officer.
Neither President Roosevelt nor anyone else should
place himself in the position Of taking away from the
people legal counsel to which they properly entitled
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
ELSIE ROBINSON.

(ThiS column Uelcomes and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems mag
also be sent. All letters lUiH be
handled Contidentidlly and
GnSwered promptly if stamped,
addressed enDelopeS are in.
Cluded.)
Copyright, 1887, by KING Features
Syndicate. Ine,)
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
The Human Side of the News
By EdUin C.. Hill

Won Mackensen, Germans old
field marshal, seems to spend all
his waking hours in his uniform,
The Washington times., 1937-03-24
FRIENDLY GESTURES

Benjamin Franklin once said
that if you wanted to cement a
friendship the thing to do was
to borrow something from the
The Washington times., 1937-03-24

My dear
don't know how to express
what I'm about to say; it lies SO
deeply in my heart. and is SO
Evening star., 1937-01-18

Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1937-01-18
Social Activity the Capital and Nearby Territory
By the Way-
Beth Blaine

transported past
grand the Bernard Saturday
YorEs
Among the out-otopners uere Mr. and Mrs. William Emmet
before her marriage Lilly Cushing sister Of Howad
most looking know
tsat she "s' MIS- Barnes oe a"oy from here
ns % hon eas 'op @ na o sS aS n % ef m 1 S @
with
xsco The Barnes family wos further BY the former Sister
knowtng family
in long days aIs Waiter aydd Jack
mrs Parkinson before her marriage Betty Bliss niece Of Mrs.
u and could not MAKE it, ill., 5sg e. p Bobby Bishop the os
Saturday night discovered for the first time that their
e T o have one G ne % ai s ] e 1 n
send for him Mrs Harrison tall and attractive looking well
lovely SOFT curly brown hair
Belgian and he
ENJOYING themselves not to mention the Italian Ambassador and
sgnoa de Surich and some late arpa ~ho added much to the
Ionssorth Ferry
anss Hss D. A"'"' "'o came o" from another gay party at Grass
Washington form of Jasper
mead, william Brerster Matthews Dick Dard
7u0ee jefferson Coolidge
dinner; George Harrison and
1t indeed pleasant
Grace hendc @ once more our midst though sad but true all plan
IT IS too bad there are not rooms in the world lighted BY This
lovely drawing
Yesterday
ho1s ha 90 s coming @
climbed Frenhfrnished
beautiful
radiated
popular that deary day.
There familiar and
enDtdble little uhich nothing
black uevet scu bunch redis fowrs balancing
forehead black
Utich
NJ.
Ia
Chaplin
after Washington.
Somewhere
Evening star., 1937-01-18
Tennessee Society
Reception Tomorrow

The Tennessee Society Of Washing
ton vii Honor the States new chief
executive with an informal reception
tomorrow afternoon at the Raleigh
Hotel.
Gov. and Mrs. Gordon Browning,
together with the Governors staff. will
come to Washington for the inaugu-
ration ceremonies. The reception will
be held in the Queen Elizabeth room
from to o'clock. The Secretary of
State and Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mr.. JUS
tice James Clark McReynolds, Senator
Kenneth McKellar and Senator
Nathan L. Bachman and members of
the Tennessee delegation in Congress,
together with the civil service commits
sioner. Mrs. Lucille Benton McMillin,
honorary president. and other men,
bers of the Tennessee Society will form
reception committee. Every Tennes-
seean in Washington is extended a
cordial invitation to attend.
Evening star., 1937-01-18
Senator Josh Lee
Will Be Honored

The Oklahoma Young Democrats
will give dinner tonight at the May
flower Hotel in honor Of Senator Josh
Lee. The dinner will be served in the
Italian garden and Senator Elmer
Thomas will be the toastmaster. The
Reception Committee includes Mrs.
Emmaline Samuel, chairman; Sem
ator and Mrs Elmer Thomas, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Will Rogers, Rep
resentative and Mrs. w. E. Disney,
Representative and Mrs. Jack Mich
OILS. Representative and Mrs. w. Cart
wright. Representative and Mrs. Lyle
Boren. Representative and Mrs. r. P.
Hill, Representative and Mrs. Jed
Johnson. Representative and Mrs.
Sam Massingale, Representative and
Mrs. Phil Ferguson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tully Nettleton and Mr. and Mrs Paul
Walker. Mr.. William B. Cafky Is
chairman of the Banquet Committee
and is assisted by Mrs. Claude Webb,
Miss Grayce Spellman, Mr.. Fred M.
Huddleston. Mr. j. Harold Land, Mr..
Elmer Wallace and Mr. David Golden.
The hostesses include Mrs. William
r. Kavanaugh, chairman; Mrs. George
McElroy, Mrs Claude Webb, Mrs.
Earl Boyd Pierce. Mrs. William B.
Cafky, Mrs. j. Harold Land, Miss M.
E. Poole. Mrs. Howard Payne, Miss
Grayce Spellman. Mrs. w. T. Crozier.
Mrs Delbert Huff. Mrs. Martin Cum
ningham. Mrs. Leonard Carson, Miss
Gertrude Phillips. Miss Elizabeth Sea-
brook, Mrs Joe Morris. Mrs. Robert
Reece, Mrs. Helen Shaw and Miss
Edna G. Sloan.
Evening star., 1937-01-18
Nevada Residents
Inau6ural Ball

Nevada residents of Washington
will hold Nevada inaugural ball at
the old Venezuelan Embassy, 1898
Sixteenth street northwest, Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock.
Plans for the ball are under the
direction of the Washington Alumni
Association of the University of Ne
vada The association sponsors a
number Of annual social events. and
although informal in organization.
performs functions similar to those of
State societies represented in the
Capital.
A temporary committee in charge
of the ball includes Mr.. Frank War
ren, alumni president; Mr.. Francis
Armbruster, secretary; Mr.. AL Borrghi
and Mr.. Nick Basta.