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The Washington times., 1938-11-02
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BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

Score 10 for each question
and 20 for the puzzle.
l. What is the difference be-
tween an (a) epithet and an
CD epitaph?
2. If "a is added to five times
a certain number, the result
equals the square of the num-
ber. What is the number?
3. At what age may the av-
erage person expect his wisdom
teeth to erupt?
4. The largest Jewish popula-
ton is in (a) Russia; (b) Po-
land; (c) U. S. A.
5. Check correct spelling: Ia
Scandinavia; (b) Scandenavia:
(c) Scandinavia.
6. Mrs. Jones is paying for
her radio on the installment
plan, SO the first week, $8.O4
the next and adding four cents
to the previous amount each
week. What will be the twelfth
payment be?
Z. To coarctate means (a)
taken apart Cb) compressed (c)
frozen.
8. What is the name Of the
well-known perennial Alpine
plant with white flowers?
9. Puzzle: Mrs. Smith has a
remnant of cloth which she
would like to make into a
square scarf, without wasting
any of the cloth, and to have
the four designs arranged SYM
metrically in the square. The
piece of cloth is the shape as
given in the diagram and the
designs (Which must not be cut
through are as placed in the
illustration.
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ships of her great-great-grand-
mother, that does not mean that
she couldn't if she had to. Bet
ter educated, modern wives bet
ter. understand the care and
training of children. Each gen.
Grafton has increased women's
rights and abilities"
X \
Miss Dorothy Thompson, 1901
Fifteenth st. N. W., business
college student:
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millions Of dollars worth Of fine
machinery. When the sheriff
sought to enforce the court
order, he found his force inSuf-
ficient. He called upon Governor
Murphy for aid. and it was de-
MED.
The apologists for Governor
Murphy seek to excuse his sur
render to forces of lawlessnesS
and violence by pointing out
that by continuing negotiations
he avoided possible bloodshed.
The point is that there should
never be any compromise with
lawleSsneSS.
It is idle for this country to
warn" Japan or any other ma
ton about anything, because If
we became involved in war we
would be in more danger from
within than from without. And
all because we have permitted
a doctrine to spread that any
excess against law, order and
general decency is justifiable If
done in the name Of labor" :"
Well, we all labor.
Those of us who are I'M
organized are getting rather
tired of having our country's
welfare jeopardized and our own
affairs kept in constant turmoil
by lawleSs radicals. More power
to the Dies committee. 1t is
doing an important and useful
work. COMMON SENSE.
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FaUOrs Third Term

I have rather reluctantly
come to the. conclusion that
this purge Of conservative Dem
ocrats is necessary. I am favor
ing President Roosevelt for n
third term. He is the only Pres
ident in my 80 years of farming
in Fairfax, Va, whom I have.
w. B. DOAK,
Clifton. Va.
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ROllin' Along
By W. A. S. Douglas

|NHARLIE HIT, who built hippocketquartera drink
~ swaowitn he-aey liquor business of prohibition days
into of the largest and profitable night clubs the
country to town yesterday two OF the
finer points concerning his income tax He paid call
talked the old gaudy days of gangser warfare Chi
cago, and told me he quitting the saloon business.
What else could you go into?' asked him. "Al you
know is the liquor trade authorized unauthorized
I'm so dumb" he replied give bought hole in the
ground"
Going to build apartment house7" sneered There's
gut of those things in Chicago You'll lose your shirt and
won't have prohibition again in your lifetime"
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For Dies Committee

One of the slogans Of the Com
muniStS is "audacity and still
more audacity." They are Ger.
tainly living up to their slogan
in their vilification of the Dies
committee. Whatever one may
think Of the committees meth
ods Of procedure, the bald facts
remain that in the Michigan sit
down auto strikes, one group
seized and held the properties Of
another group, in direct defiance
of a court order, and under
threats Of irreparably damaging
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For Tolerance

"Non-Papist" evidently has
been misled or he is ignorant as
to the aims of the Roman Cath
olic Church.
If he is not too dumb and
narrow minded, he will try to
back up his statement with fact,
which I know he can't. I am q
Catholic and congratulate
the Herald Times for their toll
erance and fair play. A policy
Of tolerance tends to increase
a circulation, not hinder it.
BERNARD VAUGHAN.
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into strange and uncivilized
lands because of their religion
and principles. Very few women
of today would give UP COM
forts to face life in the raw.
Modern women have been
spoiled by a too easy life made
for them"
X X
Miss Norma Holmes, $50 K
st. N. E., Stenographer:
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1t seems to that Weles by this performance,
showed that he has lot the ball for of %. He
has given indications of talent before now what with his
hit productions of Julius Caesar and "Shoemakers
Holiday" his grsy chatter the radios shivery
SHADOW" and so on.
When it time to put hour-long horror yarn
the air. Wees scared thousands of people out from
under their hair-which the job he hired for.
He up against deadly competition too in the
shape of Charley Mccarthy the air at the time.
Nor blame the thousands of people who rushed
out of homes and theaters into churches who made
ready to commit suicide before the Martans could get
to them That just goes to show the ttery state of mind
induced in large numbers of people by the recent Euro
pean and the nerverackng radio broadcasts
and newspaper stories that it produced.
The only parties to the excitement that we're mad at
the Federal Communications Commission, for max
ing such fuss about it, and Senator Clyde L. Herring
(Dem Iowa., who has seized the incident pretext
for renewing his drive for Government radio censorship
We wish the FEC would relax and go back to Sleep
We hope the next Congress, and many Congresses
thereafter necessary will smack flat all radio
ship bills with the avalanche of NOS they deserve in
freespeech, free-press free-region, freeassembage
country.
This war-scare talk leads into the news that
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and horses" I told him. Some
motor trucks, and hire a lot Of
Mike Corrozzo's gorillas. Looks
much tougher than the night
club to me. But maybe I'm
wrong"
LAS usual" he answered, you
are wrong. All I do after I've
got my hole is sit back and take
it easy. A couple Of holes ought
to bring me in a million dol:
lars"
Must be valuable property"
I remarked.
TT isn't" he said.
And then he enlightened me
as regards the easiest fashion
of making money that has ever
come across my recollection.
The recipe is simple and all that
is necessary is to be "in," sS the
politicians so succinctly put it.
Mr.. Hit is "in," he will have
his hole in a few weeks-and he
will die rich.
In the majority Of properly
run cities there are ordinances
which, in the interests of health,
preclude the dumping of refuse
within the city limits. The con-
tractors who do the removing
submit their bids on the basis of
long hauls to places where the
aromas-and other things-will
annoy as few persons as pos
sible. Thus public health is pro
tected as much as possible.
DUT those of us who have had
~ occasion to visit squalor sec
tions of a good many cities have
noticed dumps-or "holes" as
Mr.. Hit terms them-dead in
the center OF slums. This is
plain flouting of the ordinances
and is brought about through
political skulduggery of a
pretty low sort. The racket"
can be made clearer by stating,
for example, that a contractor
figures the cost Of hauling a
load at 81. If he has a hun
dred wagons or trucks working
and he can dump on a much
shorter haul, splitting that cost
again by two hauls in the time
it took for one, it is easy to
see that he will gladly pay so
cents for the privilege Of using
Mr.. Hits "hole."
My visitor took out a pencil
and figured on a piece of paper.
"They can dump on my spot
for three years." he explained.
IF we build a hill with hard
refuse I can be there for five
years. I can handle 500 dumps
a day at so cents a dump.
Working six days a week that
brings in $4,000 a year."
you'll have to do a little pay.
ing off here and there" I said.
Eyes. That's figured out,
$4,000 a year will cover every.
thing. That leaves me sitting
pretty"
Copyright, 1888, by the Washington
Herald-Times)
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modern women. She accepted
hardships uncom a iningly.
They had to be physically supe-
rior. She had to apply her own
initiative in operating her house
hold. She couldn't initiate and
she didn't try to initiate men,"
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W1nts Them Arrested

The Times of october Is had
an article on jaywslkers being
presented with tickets. Well
how about men and some women
splitting on sidewalks? It sure is
one disgraceful eye-sore.
Why not arrest them and
have them fined also?
MISS BESSIE ELLIS,
Riverdale, Md.
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a struggle to earn a livelihood
from business. The pioneer
woman probably had greater
courage to face life in it's COM
plete realneSs. Now life is
greatly artificial, but believe
modern women have gained
rather than lost"
X X 4
James G. Burke, 1875 New
Hampshire Ave. N. W., lawyer:
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concerned Sunday evenings nationwide
Invasion from Mars radio scare.
Practically all our correspondents were
in a rage when they wrote. About half
of them were mad at the people who were
hoaxed into taking the broadcast seri-
ously; the other half were mad at Orson
Welles, who put on the "War of the
Worlds radio rendition of H. G. Wells
novel of the same title, for having done
the job so vividly and convincingly.
We can't work up mad against either
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Wonderful!

That dumb cluck who signed
his name "Heil Hitler" thinks
Hitler is such a wonderful man.
Why not go to Germany and
live as you must think? Split
blood and starvation is also won
derful, "ALL AMERICAN"
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II am in favor
of the m d ern
woman. I think the
character of the
average woman Of
today is just as
good and she is as
honest in facing
conditions as were
the pioneers. The
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ground?" I asked.
*x
G6DEFUSE." he replied. 'The
~ sweetest racket in any
city"
"A racket, yes," I said, but
as to being sweet"
It mean the racket, not the
refuse" replied Mr.. Hit with
dignity.
You'll have to buy wagons
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1T is difficult to
c. o mpare, because
the pioneer women
lived u Ter COM
pie t e ly different
condi i tions. The
pioneer women had
to struggle desper-
ately for actual ex.
istence. Today it is
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with your po
litical pull"
There's 60
ing to be moth
ing there but
the hole. I
m a y ig it
d e epe- but
that's all I'll
do"
How can
you make a
living out Of
a hole in The
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"The p1on e e r
woman was supe-
rior. Today the
women know moth
ing of S acrif ficeS
and hardships and
physical e n d r
ance. They h a d
the courage to fol-
low their husbands
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

Absolutely not.
Physically, mental
ly and in almost
every other re-
spect, the woman
of today is Supe-
rior. Although the
m o dern woman
does not have to
endure the hard
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

modern woman has to live by
the code which meets present
day requirements. Economic ex-
istence now is as difficult to
handle as was building a home
from nothing in early days"
X 4 X
Harry Smith, 410 Sixth st.
N. w., hardwood floor finisher:
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1.-THE m o d e rn
woman is superior.
She is equal. in
c aliber to the
women of Colonial
t i m e S. T o d a y
W ON en- exercise
greater in d epend-
ence. M o d e r n
W ON EN- are not
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Wise Words

Men are the sport of circum.
stances, when the circumstances
seem the sport of men.-Byron.
Success is full of promise till
men get it; then it is a last
years nest, from which the bird
has flown. H. w. Beecher.
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weaklings, despite the fact that
living conditions are more pleas
ant. We have modern pioneers.
Think of Amelia Earhart, Mrs.
Ann Lindbergh, Mrs. Frank
Buck and many others. These
women have proven that they
can cope with real obstacles
when they have to-"
X X
Robert Cross, of Silver Spring,
Md, insurance clerk:
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Radio Riot

THE first Voice of the People mail delivery yesterday
l. morning brought in 191 letters fair-size haul for
any Voice mail delivery and the bulk of these letters
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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

Do you believe the pioneer
woman was superior to the
modern woman?
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January 1, 1898, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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II would say the
pioneer woman was
more superior. In
those days a woman
had no easy job Of
running her home,
and yet she made
a better home and
took more interest
in it than most
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HITLER AND DALADIER


talking about possible 1Oyear peace pact between
Germany and France gentlemens agreement so-caed,
not to leap at each others throat for decade maybe
for quarter-century
IO-HeNr There will be critics who will say that
Try.co3 Hitler is no gentleman and therefore cannot
enter into gentlemens agreement any
thing These will be the critics who fe before the
Czechoslovak pecarvng began that the honorable thing
would be to send three four million young to their
deaths in glorious for the Czechsin which, incl
denaly, matter how the ended the Czechs would
be the first to be Squashed.
Maybe neither Hitler Daladier is gentleman.
Even so don't think at this time at any time
in the foreseeabe future would be nice thing we think
postponed war is better than an imme-
PeGce diate
PrOfOrrod Of course Hitler, with his extreme gen.
erosty toward himself and Germany,
may demand an exorbtant price for this 1Oyear truce
He may want all of AlsaceLorraine back, plus large
place in Frances African sum- plus agreement COM
mitting France to nferiority to Germany in the air.
These would be rather harsh terms, and should ex
pect France to resist them.
But if Hitler is halfway reasonable in his terms, and
shows signs of acting in good faith then should think
France would be we'll advised to talk truce Either TO-
year truce or, preferably, 25-year one.
There to to be feeling spread widely through
out the world that instrument of national policy
no good The of mankind to hate and fear
the thought of war; for any whatever Those por
tions of mankind caught in the fiery net of
obviously sick of all and want out if the politicians and
biologists and lords would only let them out Both
Daladier and Hitler think could please their own
people by patching up sort of reasonably honorable
truce between themselves for ten preferably twenty
five years.
Front the York; News
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THE ANSWERS

Miss Gertrude Howard, 1922
Rhode Island Ave. N. W., secre-
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Letters the Editor
writers will e omitted
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"a parking lot? Well, maybe,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
DiScord
Splits
Britain
Chamb erlain
Demands Vote
OfConfidence

LONDON, Oct. A. (UP)-
The labor party told Prime
Minister Neville Chamber
lain in the House of Com
mons today that Great Brit
aims position was more danger
ousp than ever as result OF the
Munich peace agreement, on which
the government demanded vote
of confidence.
Herbert Morrison, laborite, said
that Britain was likely in the fu-
ture to face either submission to
Adolf Hitler or straight fight
in which Britain and France
without allies-would oppose Ger
many and Italy.
The parliamentary labor party
earlier had decided to introduce an
amendment to the government mo-
ton for a vote of confidence, as
serting its belief that war had
been averted ''for the time being
but opposing approval OF a policy
that led to the sacrifice of Czech
oslovakia under the threat of armed
force and to the humiliation of our
country and it's exposure to grave
danger"
Political observers did not regard
the labor amendment to the vote
of confidence as motion of CEN
sure of the government, but 1T was
designed as a mild gesture in
regard to the partitioning of Czech
oslovakia.
In addition, the amendment put
emphasis on the need for collective
security and urged the government
Immediately to take action toward
summoning world conference
which would consider how to re-
move economic and political
grievances which imperil peace
This request was considered more
important politically, as it might
persuade more members of COM
mons to support the amendment
and vote against the government
strengthening the possibility of an
early general election.
After Morrison concluded, Ed
ward Leslie Burgin, liberal nation
alist, defended Chamberlain peace
negotiations.
IF Hitler had determined to take
up the challenge (of war;, our war
would not have been in defense of
democracy but in attack on the
Continued on Page 2; Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
Science Promises
Wealth for Old

BOSTON, Oct. 4. (UP)-Science
is pointing the way to a golden age
in which every person can be made
many thousands of times as wealthy
as he is today" according to Pres
ident Karl T. Compton of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
only the scientist, impelled by
disinterested curiosity, can find the
way he told 5000 educators and
undergraduates at a special north
eastern university convocation.
This golden age" he said, will
be founded on cheap mechanical
energy rather than on cheap slave
energy Far more important than
mans material advancement. how
ever, he believed, was the potential
progress in ethics and philosophy.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
DaIadier foresees
General Peace as
Munich Outcome
French Premier Hints
At End of Civil War
Among Spanish

PARIS, Oct. A. (UP)-The
four power Munich agree
ment settling the Sudeten
crisis may lead to a general
settlement in Europe and
perhaps mediation in Spanish war,
Premier Edouard Daladier intimat-
ed today in declaration to parlia-
ment.
Daladier called on the Chamber
to grant him power by decree to
avert a financial crisis over the
past deficit and huge expenditures
incurred by mobilization during the
Czech crisis.
He faced parliament with the
Continued on Page .; Cci. D
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
Negro Jailed as
Relief ChiseIer

Herschel Younger, %, Negro
transient from Oklahoma, is in
the county Jail on a charge Of
bilking the SRA out of S40.23 by
giving false statements as to his
eligibility for relief.
The Negro is single, State Re-
lief administration officials said,
but he persuaded woman and
her daughter to pose as his wife
and child SO he would be eligible.
Three relief checks were issued
to him, one for Sab and two
for SITS.
When Younger and the woman
fought over division of the relief
money, the ale I'D false state
ments were called to the atten-
tiOn of A. II. Boss, paymaster.
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j
Outline
Spe eaker Tells Plan
To Train Youth in
Military Colleges

CALEXICO, Oct. A. - A
proposal for greater nation
al preparedness in the Unit
ed States by offering high
school graduates a three
year college course in exchange for
military enlistment was advanced
before the Calexico Rotary club
today by John Bacon, former San
Diego mayor.
During their three years of COL
lege training, financed by the Unit
ed States government, the high
school graduates would be members
of the regular army and SO subject
to regular army training and dis
cipline, Bacon said.
In this manner the graduates
would receive regular army pay, be
in a position to help their own
families financially and be trained
for army use in case of war. At
expiration of three years, the army
trained men could return to private
life, the Republican nominee for
congress declared.
Peaceful nations are also the
nations best prepared for war" he
pointed out, citing Switzerland as
a little known example of prepared
ness. Most Swiss are trained SOL
diers, even though in civilian life,
and ready for instant .mobiliza-
ton"
Stressing the dollar and cents
cost of war Bacon said the expense
of the last world conflict was great
enough to buy for every family in
Russia, Germany England, Ireland,
France, Canada and the United
States a $2500 home and five acres,
$1,000 worth of furniture and equip
ment, with enough left over for
$15,000,000 for every city in the
United States of over 100000 with
which to buy hospitals, universi-
ties and Libraries.
Bacon was scheduled to attend
a dinner at the Barbara Worth
hotel Tuesday evening at $50 and
to speak at o'clock at the court
house.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
Fascist Consu|s Spy on Americans
Of italian Parentaqe, is Charqe

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. UP)-
Girolamo Valenti, New York, today
told the house committee investi-
eating n-American activities that
italian consuls "spy on and threat
en-" American citizens of italian
extraction unsympathetic to Mus
solini and have threatened some
with deportation.
Valenti was identified as chair
man of the Italian anti-Fascist
committee.
Valenti introduced an affidavit
by Mrs. Leonore Pellani, Nettleton,
Pa, who said her husband Gavino
Pellani had been threatened with
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
Czechs Renounce
Ties with France

PRAGUE, Oct. 4. (UP)-Presi-
dent Eduard Benes and Premier
Gen. Jan Syrovy virtually complet-
ed plans for reorganizing the gov
eminent tonight as authoritative
circles indicated that Czechoslova-
kia's future foreign policy would be
linked to Germany.
"Good-by France" said an edi-
torial in the liberal newspaper
Lidove Noviny, which generally is
regarded as the mouthpiece for au-
thoritative political circles.
The editorial emphasized the
strength of Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini and limited that Czecho-
slovakias ties with France we're
gone as a result of the Munich
conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-04
Bombs of Bread
Rain on Madrid:
Loyaiists Irate
LOaves Dropped on City
By Frances BOmbers
TO Win Converts

BARCELONA, Oct. A..
(UP) A "bread lombard
ment" of Madrid by Nation
alist airplanes was denounc-
ed today throughout Loyal
ist Spain.
Nationalist headquarters at Bur-
gos reported that 80 bombing planes
had dropped At tons of white bread,
consisting of 178,000 small loaves,
in parachutes and sacks, during
a series of flights yesterday between
noon and pm. The occasion was
the celebration of Franco day" and
also, officials said, "to aid our
brethren captives in Soviet Madrid
Continued on Page 2; Col. .
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|. A. Court Orders
Sally Rand Arrest

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 4. CUP)-A
bench warrant for the arrest OF
Sally Rand, bubble and ostrich fan
dancer, was issued today when she
failed to appear in court for trial
on a battery charge. Judge Harold
Landreth set bond at $2500.
Miss Rand was released on her
own recognizance six weeks ago on
the plea of Attorney Milton Golden
that she would suffer heavy finan-
cial loss unless permitted to leave
the Jurisdiction of the court and
keep theatrical engagement in the
east.
Miss Rand is charged by c. R.
Stanford and Hazel Drain with
beating and scratching them after
they had photographed her during
one of her dances on the stage
of the Paramount theater here.