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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-19
By eEUie' Robert

him. (Not soon enough for ME, opined she
charitably0 All this and she now looks about
Is years old, wears the craziest hats without
looking crazy in them, dresses in the most ex-
quisite TASTE has lovely furs, but, above ALL she's
a good reliable friend and loyal to the last ditch
SO, Anne Ewes Apple" goes out to your house
today-your decoration for being a swell person.
People have written me some pretty nasty
letters about my would.be column (but I've had
few that more than make UP for the nasty ones).
Every time make crack at someone, get a
TRADE, and when act nicely get TRADE
Readers apparently are out for blood. Have
Just little patience, patient reader and wait for
Congress to convene, we'll spice it up" plenty
THEN, of course, I'll likely go to jail (Which is
where most writer's belong anyway, in my
opinion.
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Voice of New York By Louis SobOl

that no newspaper woman ever remained at
tractive long. I am sorry wrote that, because
everywhere about me are evidences that 1t was
fallacious statement, for the young women have
met from this and other newspapers are enticing
refutations 1 mean they are much too pretty
COlOrful Theatrical Agents
MOST colorful Of the theatrical agents are four
IVA divergent personalities Lyons MARX
Hanna, Louis Shurr and Harry Bestry. Lyons
is a natural dialectician noted for his quick VIII
and also land perhaps purposely) maIaptop
uhilosophies Hanna is vigorously VoIuole WILL
a richness of verbal phrasing .shurr, snreWo
neeotiator, has achieved columnar fame because
he is usually accompanied by the most oeautnul
women of the day. And Bestry. slightly naro OF
hearing, is a genial eccentric whose hobby is tne
collection Of rare jewels.
OF BESTRY. I think this most recent story may
" he told. A Broadwayite had performed an
unusual service for him, and he was grateful.
With excitement in his voice, he telephoned'
pleaded that the fellow come to his office lmmeol-
ately. When he arrived, BeStry offered clga'
rette from q jeweled case. Then he rose, placed
both hands upon the benefactor's shoulders ana
spoke something like this: "You have done
something for me which I shall never forget.
Bestry paused and the Broadwayite, feverishly
expectant, awaited. The agent spoke slowly:
Now" he said, 1T am going to do something 1or
you, something have done for nobody else on
Broadway" He paused again, and this time
there was the suspicion of moistneSs in his eyes:
IT am giving you-my private home telephone
number!"
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Wallace Invites

Someone should tell Score
tary Wallace these things. Here
he prepared an excellent farmer
labor speech of twelve mime
ographed pages to deliver to
the Fifth National Conference
Of Labor Legislation. He quoted
not only from the A. F. Of L.
bulletin but literally in con-
clusion from John L. Lewis to
the effect that organized labor
may be said to be constructively
striving for a planned economy
under auspices Of the Federal
Government" Ensuing applause
was not UP to expectations. It
appears the State labor repre-
sentatives at the conference
were practically all A. F. Of L.
men who do not - to put 1t
mildly-share the Lewis opinion.
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NN.NEMMAN

T HAVEN'T sent an apple for ages, and why I
= haven't sent one before to the only beauty
that consider beauty in the brunette world
is beyond me. She is Mrs Anne Kremer Young
Robinson Sounds stupendous for one so petite
as she, doesn't it? She's Mr.. Bruce Kremer's
fathers brain. A legitimate widow once, when
very young (no pun meant) she remarked
Teller called Robinson and is now divorced from
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They mind their own business
because it is characteristic Of
them.
The farms of the Danes are
intensely clean. They operate
with sufficient efficiency to
produce themselves a reason
able living from even a little
forty-acre farm.
Industrially, the Scandina-
VANS are likewise immaculate.
Walk into any pump house or
power house among the iron
ore mines where NorSemen
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main thinking. Everyone is interested in what
happens here in Washington and this Parade"
Of his looks like bowling success If we can be-
leve reports from New York, where it had its
first showing just couple of days ago. Next
month the Parade" deals largely with the activ-
ities of the press" (preserve us). You'll see
us at places that will interest you and the whole
business is so well done you'll be charmed with it.
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ington. It's called The Wash
ington Parade, and it is worked
out by perhaps one Of the
smartest men we have with us
today. His name is Harry New
man, and bis job is editing and
publishing Judge magazine.
He uses in this film no stage
sets, no old cuts, no old canned
news of last year. Mr.. New
man himself goes to where
the pictures are taken, because
it's he who does the narration
and the direction, and the
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On1igawsh!

Dear Mr.. MoSer: think and
have thought for a long time that
you rate having your picture in
your column. each day. ALI the
other colurnnists have them. Your
contributions are equally as i'm
portant and interesting as are any
Of the others-so there you are!
Can anything be done towards
bringing about the desired re-
quest?"-M. G.
Dear M. G.: Our Times cam
eraS are too valuable to risk;
besides, some pettibOss might
crack us on the conk If they got
to recognize us too easily.
Thank. anyhow.
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have charge and the machinery Is spotlesS; the
brass fairly shines and the floors are without
q speck.
New World Children-NOt HyphenGtes
WHAT LIKE about them is that their attitude
w toward America is so vastly different to
many of the other nationalities that go to COM
pose the American melting pot. Their pride OF
race is obvious. But when they leave the Old
World and settle here, they forget the Old
Country completely and fling their entire ener-
gies toward serving the country of their adoption.
They come from the Old World to be not hyphen-
ates-but New World children.
Too many citizens permit their emotions for the
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(world Copyright, 1888. BY King Fea.
lures Syndicate, Inc. All Rights Re-
served. Reproduction in Full or in Part
Strictly Prohibited.)
MUCH GROOMING for 1910
V1 is going on now, but the
phantom grooms are getting
horses in the wrong stalls and
even putting a few stable boys
in where the horses ought to be.
It Is getting to be a paddock
problem.
This daily.double tip Of Hop
kins and Jackson for Commerce
and Justice starting gates in
the Cabinet, for instance, was
something less than a sure-fire
triple K special from the trainer
himself.
The mere suggestion of WPA
Administrator Hopkins carry.
ing the colors Of business in the
Administration has caused a
general round Of breakdownS
among business railbirds here.
He always runs the wrong way
for their money, they say. But
the repeated suggestion Of the
move in the race of denials from
Commerce Secretary Roper that
he will give up that stall indi-
Gates someone Is putting sugar
in the feedbox.
JOckeying for Position
1T LOOKS like the Seabiscuit-
4War Admiral situation all
over again, with a political
twist. The War Admiral crowd
of Hopkins, Corcoran, ct al. may
have lost the last election race
but are certainly trying to in
fluence the odds against Cen
eral Farley's Seabiscuit crew for
the next one.
Stories of clashes between
them since election are wide
spread inside. Few can be guar
anteed with sworn affidavitS.
For instance, there Is the one
that Farley told the President
he would resume his old active
political leadership if Hopkins
would hereafter confine his re-
marks to WPA problems, If Ben
and Tom would 60 back to their
knitting in RFC and PWA, and
let Farley handle politics with
out their assistance. The story
suppoSes the Presidents answer
was negative, and that the con-
flict will continue.
Whether it Is factual or apoc-
ryphal may be immaterial, as
the basis for it is too obvious to
be concealed. Certainly the ru-
mors about who is going to get
in, out, or up, can be traced di-
rectly to this active campaign
ing for preferments.
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men. Perhaps Miss Anterior would nave
gnubbed me anyway. Brilliant executive Her
bert Mayes and sportswriter Bill Corum nave
spoiled this departments twoyear record OF
never having lost football wager. Well al
most never To Crusader Dorothy Thompson
for her newest gesture bravo-and bravo, again!
IL fret somewhat about the home life OF
Gotham's head walters Are they stiffishly aloof
to their ever-loving wives? Do they insist that
their precocious offspring sit at certain seats at
the breakfast table because the preferable seats
Sre reserved?
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WARNER BROTHERS
film schedule today. EARLE
and AMBASSADOR-ErrOl
Flynn and Bette Davis in
"The Sisters" plus CLANCY
and Fox on the Earle stage.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Rat" with Wayne Morris
and Priscilla Lane! UPTOWN
Ritz Brothers and Ethel Mer-
man in straight, Place and
Show" CALVERT-"Garden
Of the M o o H." with Pat
O'BRIEN, John Payne and
Margaret Lindsay. PENN and
TIVOLI-JOel McCrea and
Andrea Leeds in youth
Takes q Fling"
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yellow badges he would stir
O plot whereby every Ameri-
can would wear a similar yel-
low badge as a symbol Of pro-
test. Novelist Gertrude Ather-
ton is enriching the literary
atmosphere of the Algonquin
and I was tempted to converse
with her on cabbages and
kings and also kings horses
until I recalled my resentment
at her inexcusably narrow
views expressed in certain chap
ters of Can Women be Gentle
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Sweets for Three

One-pOund boxes of de-
licious ORIGINAL VELATI
chocolates or caramels are
preSe n ted to: THOMAS
BRESNAHAN, Census; E. r.
PIERCE, Fire Department;
MRS. EVELYN WOODS,
PWA. Candy will be presented
at either store, Ninth and G.
SITS. N. w., or 600 Fourteenth
St. N. w.
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To Succeed Cummings?

ODDS AGAINST Jackson have
Obeen far shorter than those on
Hopkins. The young Solicitor
General holds a position in the
Justice Department emitting
him to prime consideration.
Nevertheless a number Of his
own friends are quietly suggest
ing that the President might
very well choose lame duck Gov.
Frank Murphy, Of Michigan,
for the law and order post.
Murphy had some narrowing
experiences with law and order
during the CIO strikes and
while his name has not been
mentioned publicly, the insiders
seem to think he would do. The
Senate may think otherwise.
Jackson, however, might have
even more difficulty getting
confirmed. Interested Senators
already are looking up the rec
ord Of his testimony last Janu-
airy IS before the House Judi
ciary Committee. He then ad-
vocated the Government employ
its criminal prosecution powers
as a club to get concessions from
business in civil suits involving
the antitrust law. The policy
has been put into effect by the
Justice Department in some in
stances, because, as jackson
then said, businessmen pay no
attention to civil suits" Some
Congressman protested such a
strong-arm method at the time.
What they will say since the
election is hardly likely to be
encouraging
X \
AT ANY RATE, you may take
"A a tip from consensus that
not all these horses now being
groomed will be at the starting
gate 10 months hence. Some
are just as likely to be in the
glue bottle.
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To Be Permanent?

Dear Mr.. MoSer Most of the
employees of the PWA and the
WPA can sit back now and heave
a sigh Of relief, because there can
be no doubt but that these two
agencies, long considered a tenn
porary means to an end, will be-
come a permanent part of t h e
Government. Why? ecause
under able leadership each Of
them has carved a place in full
fillment Of the nations needs
would leave too big a void if they
were terminated. The PWA has
filled the need for the skilled and
unskilled laborers during times of
unemployment while at the same
time adding to our national wealth
by the utilizing Of their labor to
build schools, roads, bridges and
tunnels, all necessary, but most
of them beyond the reach of the
States and municipalities without
Federal assistance. In travelling
throughout the country, one will
note that there are no PWA prof.
ects which were built merely to
help the unemployed. Ali of them
were needed by their particular
communities. The WPA, on the
other hand, has made it possible
for workers who because Of some
Metaphysical, mental, training,
etc.-cannot find their place in
the scheme Of things and cannot
compete with their fellows. Still
capable Of doing efficient, pro
ductive work, the WPA offers
them an opportunity to EARN
their living rather than sit back
and exist on a dole. National
wealth Is the product of work,
and these two agencies, in max
ing it possible for millions of
workers to return to productive
work, are adding to, rather than
subtracting from, the wealth OF
the United States.-W. P. A."
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HIGH ICE CREAM: F. C.

HIGH ICE CREAM: F. c.
Bassen, Farm Credit, has a
slip waiting at this desk for
q quart of ice cream at any
High Store, one of whic h
operates at 1923 PennsyI'
vania Ave. s. +.
LITTLE THEATER: We're
sure too few WashingtOnians
realize the entertainment
value of Generals without
Buttons" the French film
now here b 8 re d on a Con
court prize novel Drop
around and see!
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Attractive Newspaper Women

AtfrdcfIOe Newspaper W 0WeH
TOHN ANDERSONs new book, 'The American
q Theater," rests to the left of me- nand-
some volume impressively illustrated with pungent
text in the Anderson manner. Some years ago.
in an open letter to Natalie, urged her to dis
card any ideas of being a newspaper woman
stressing the harshnesS of the life and the fact
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E|But''-
DULUTH, MINI.

DULUTH, MINI.
TNHE type of American who lives in this part OF
L the country is type you don't hear much
about-unfortunately.
Mostly they are Scandinavians and Germans
of the second generation. They work because
they love to work and take pride in achievement
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CASUAL FRAGMENTS: Sinclair Lewis insisted
~ the other evening that If the Nazis carried
through their plan of making non-AryanS wear
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THE CUMMINGS resignation
l. is a side phase of it. The
Attorney General has been
under inside leftwing pressure
from the beginning. He wanted
to pick a time to retire when the
Southpaws were not crowding
him upon a particular issue. He
asked to be relieved last July,
was persuaded by the President
to stay on until after election,
is now to leave January /.
But what was most significant
was that the HopkinS-for-R Roper
suggestion was tackled on to ad-
vance news Of the Cummings re-
tirement as a wishful thought,
by those who would like to see it
also come to pass.
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Ewes Rib

NEXT week you must go to the TransLux and
AN see new sort of movie, not unlike the March
of Time, except it deals exclusively with Wash
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Security Board. Does this mol
alone prove the falsity of charges
that there is any laxity in Ssh
Harry G. Ritner, editor, Wash
ington Federal Bulletin"
Dear Mr.. Ritner: At least two
unions constantly are trying
your suggested campaign.
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Urge to Action

Dear Mr.. Moser: Not since the
campaign to belittle the Federal
employe by the mouthpiece OF
the Chamber Of Commerce In
1882 has there been witnessed SC
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Speaking Of Government
Workers
Bv J. Earle MOser

ADVICE
Outlines to me Nom has said,
In potce that iDdS not funny:
"TGke heed, my lad,
Take heart, my boy,
But take q girl NTH money!"
NAT LEWIS.
Flash: Orders have been
issued that all National Parks
guards carry guns hencefOrth
when on duty between 4 p. m.
and 8 q. m. comprising first and
third shifts . An inspection
will be made to see they do so. >.
Further, in making arrests
guards are not to call Metro
pOlitan police but phone In
terror, which will speed over q
car with a relief guard, where
upon the arreSting officer will
take his prisoner to the nearest
Metropolitan precinct and next
morning appear in court to
testify The orders are said to
be not because of fear of "spy
INVASION" but rather a step to-
ward forming guards into q real
U. S. police force.
DEN O. THE PUBLIC :. E. -.
L Dear Mr.. Moser: During the
past year or two many railway
post offices have been discon
tinued, causing mail to be sorted
and distributed in city post offices
and delivered by star route (auto)
carriers who usually, from lack Of
experience bid the jobs in al
starvation rates. This enables Far
ley to cut costs Of delivering mails
but delays the mail and puts many
Government contract drivers ir
financial chaos, bellies the Govern
ment's preachings of lifting the
lower third of the population to
high social standard, and Is IN
curing the tenacious enmity Of
10000 or more postal clerks
against the Post office Depart
ment as selfish, debating a policy
of high wages to industrialist'
while practicing the opposite
r. M"
Dear r. M: Congress, and a
strong union representation
there, seems the best answer.
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Object Lesson in Patriotism
THESE PEOPLE brought to America all that
L is best in their kind Their deeprooted, quiet
devotion to this land which accepted them and
provided them opportunity. provides an object
lesson in honest patriotism that should shame
many millions among our numbers whose affec.
ton for the nation is measured by the extent
Of emotional stability.
The more deeply one probes into life in the
interior of America, the more obvious it becomes
that the East is about as unrepreSentative Of the
true United States as any part Of the country.
Yet we find the industrial heart Of America
concentrated from Chicago East We find the
Federal Government concentrated In a city on
the East Coast or relatively Whereabouts. We find
a great proportion Of the emotionalism which
drives this great nation into mass actions, which
If left to the judgment Of people in the middle
section of the nation would seldom occur.
Copyright Ledger syndicate
(The opinions expressed By BoGke Carter are
his otO, and not necessarily those OF the Wash
tnptoH TinIesJ
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Says Boake Carter

fate of the land whence they originated to drive
them into betraying the land of their adoption.
Too many Americanized Englishmen's affec-
ton for America is dollar deep. Too many 1tal-
ians remain emotionally attached to Italy even
after they have become American citizens. Too
many Czechs would have liked to have pushed
America into war to save their own country at
Munich, instead Of leaning over backward to think
first what effect such war would have had on
the United States.
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News Behind
The News
Pr Dn1S1 MnIInn-

(world Copyright, 1898. BY King Fea'
lures syndicate, Inc. All Rights Re-
served. Reproduction in Full or in Part
Strictly Prohibited.)
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Radio Features TOdav

HInS. ssss die 70 tine
The Washington times., 1938-06-14
TUESDAY, JUNE II
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

doubling this year this did seem to me little
too much to punish persons trying to rent a few
rooms or a home so they can pay the other taxes
they owe the Government.
have always said I thought our present Ad-
ministration was doing the best it could. I still
think it is doing what 1T thinks is right. But,
after all, there is limit to everything. Re
member, if you make people pay money to get a
license before they can get work, if you make
them pay for trying to save their real estate in
renting it, instead of letting it go to ruin, there
isn't much incentive either to work or keep your
homes going any longer.
The Washington times., 1938-06-14
l3 D. G.. Students
To Get Pa. Degrees

Thirteen District students will
receive degrees at commencement
exercises of the University of
Pennsylvania in Phila delphia
Thursday. They are:
Rufus Reed, Irving M. RoGh-
stein, John J. O'Connor, Richard
G. Buckingham, Irving G. CaShell,
Raymond B. Gochenour, Mary
Deli. Allen, John D. Battle, jr.,
harrington D. Parker, Merillat
Moses, Duval T. McCutcheon,
James H. Covington Sd and Harry
w. Little, jr.
The Washington times., 1938-06-14

succumb to this charm is Emil Ludwig the emf
nent biographer of some of the greatest men of
our times.
In his biography. Roosevelt" it is plain to
see that Ludwig has been so delighted by the
personality of the man about whom he has writ
ten and has been so impressed by the Roosevelt
philosophy that his sentiment has run away with
his sense of values So strong upon Ludwig has
been the Roosevelt spell that Ludwig, the biogra-
pher, has ceased to be Ludwig, the objective
reporter.
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Says Boake Carter

welt and not the everyday, practical Roosevelt,
the politician that the White House correspond
ents know so well, having lived with him from
day to day since 1888.
What Ludwig has done is to build most
charming person into almost a superman.
Ludwig says nothing about a spending pro-
gram more deadly in its effects to perpetuate
political power in office than dozen Govern
ment reorganization bills.
Ludwig, in leaving Washington, failed to walk
through the lower end of New York-to find
that "the captains of finance" are still where
they were in 1888.
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World of Finance
By Legvis Haney

buying may clear up and become more attractive.
Last week advances occurred in grains, lard,
cottonseed oil, cotton, wool tops raw sugar, rub
ber, tin, and scrap copper. Although some hides
and silk were lower and steel scrap remained
weak, this is fairly broad move insofar as basic
raw materials are concerned.
But, even when it finally becomes clear that
commodity prices have hit bottom, we can hardly
expect an immediate rightaboutface in business
1t is not surprising, therefore, to find steel pro-
duction hanging around 25 per cent of capacity
with prospects of some further Sackening.
In the automobile industry, for example, the
1888 season may fairly be pronounced dead. Aside
from irregularities due to holidays strikes, etc.,
motor production probably will drift lower and
may end in virtual summer holiday Attention
here centers on '39 prospects, with two schools of
thought in evidence. One points to the slight ev
dence of any preparation being made for new
models and is bearish. The other school asserts
that high officials say that fairly sweeping
model changes will be made; that the season will
open early, and the fall sales will at least be
good"
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girls fears, I would feel as
though I had accomplished some
good. But what could possibly
say to her?
She seemed to be so thorough
ly unsophisticated. Fortunately
I had been born and brought
up in the small town of Shenan-
doah, Pennsylvania, so 1 under