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The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Lin,itIess Opportunity


THERE are no limits to what our children can
l. reach if they will study hard, play the game
straight (and I mean by this any game, from
craps to poker), and be loyal to their near ones
Mussolini may be a great man and he may
know what he is doing, but, to me, he is overlook
ing the simple fundamental principles OF lite'
without which there is no true living.
think it is pretty farfetched to say that the
announcement that the American Navy's new
maneuvers of transferring the Pacific fleet to the
Atlantic coast were warning to dictatorS and
that we should protect our own before we try TO
threaten other countries. What the great naV1es
have to do in connection with protecting the chill
dren shows a curious slant in MuSSol1nts mind.
We have always changed our Navy around from
Pacific to Atlantic It is imperative to keep 1t In
action: but why this sudden lecture on the care
of our children in their homes In connectlon Win
the movement Of the fleet?
No. if these socalled great men OF Europe really
want the next generation and the generations to
follow to be self-respecting great men, they GER
tanlv would not turn them into automatic ma
chimes which compare a great deal to the great
enterprise that Ford uses to grind out his millions
of cars year.
Faith. love, and encouragement are what the
little children need today, regardless of whether
the Navy is in the Pacific or the Atlantic or
whether the children live in Italy or in America
We at least, are trying to give our children this;
bit remember, the minute dictator lets any
one, from children up, think for themselves and
act for themselves, he is a dictator no longer.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Watch for Rabies
Kept by District Agencies

he held the dog out to Melvin
Shumaker, DR.. McClure's assist
ant.
Can we get him fixed up so
he won't be a mad dog?"
"You sit down. DR.. Mcclure
will be here pretty soon and we'll
see."
Howard Brown, another assist
ant, came out carrying limp
and beautiful police dog in his
arms. There was a fleck of blood
at the dogs mouth. The boys
gulped hard and didn't feel any
too comfortable.
Mr.. Shumaker said:
Struck by an auto. Too bad"
sPOTTY SURPRISES
Three little girls came into the
hospital.
"How's 'spotty'? Is he all
right?"
"He" certainly was. "He" had
just had four very cute little fox
terriers-or somebody was badly
mixed up!
DR.. Mcclure came in.
Hello, Janet. Well, is Spotty
glad to see you?"
Spotty was, and proud, too, but
DR.. Mcclure said she'd-he'd-
better wait day or so before be-
ing inoculated against rabies.
Little Janet Steinour, who will
graduate next week from Univer-
sity Park School, listened wide
eyed while DR.. Mcclure told me
about rabies. She Rugged Spotty
very close and Scampered off with
him-or maybe it was her after
ALTO 200 Jackson Ave.
Meanwhile, we may know that
the ambulances Of the Animal
Rescue League are covering the
highways and byways of the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia in re-
sponse to calls for stray and suf-
fering Misunderstanding by every
dog in distress the peril of the
spread of the rarest and least
known canine and human disease
rabies.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Dear
Washington
by HELEN ESSARY

A FORMER postmistress may
"A come to Congress this win
ter. Mrs. Ruth Fall HollingS-
head, who watches over the
maiT in the town Of Abba, Iowa,
was nominated on the Demo
cratic tickets for CongresSwoman
in the Iowa primaries last week.
She ran well ahead Of her two
men competitors, one the mayor
of OScelusa. The other pub
fishes a paper in Corydon.
Mrs. Hollingshead's section of
Iowa is tinted with Republi-
canism. But of course you never
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
By Evalyn Walsh Mclean

there is very little chance for great men to develop
and great leaders to carry on.
Take our little children in this country. I ad
NIT there are great many of them that haven't
enough to eat, that have unhappy homes; but, at
least their spirits are free, their teachers do not
constantly appear with a dozen hioeouS gas masks
and make them study in them all morning. They
are not drilled until they become automatons and
cannot even think for themselves. The poorest
child in this country, If he has any reaching out
in his soul, can go to the beautiful parks in any
city. lie down on the green grass and think his
own thoughts, build his own little dream world,
and plan his own future
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
World of Finance By LecuiS Haney

Francisco, and he is director Of an organization
called the Middle Class League Of America.
do not know anything about him or his organ1za'
ton; but can say the leaflet containing his
purpose and program has the earmarks OF IN
telligence and honesty. 1t is worthy OF examlna'
ton.
The message is addressed to professional men,
small business men, farmers, white collar" en-
ployes and home owners not affiliated with any
labor union. Il would suggest that perhaps, only
radical unions should be excluded. Home owner
ship and educational tests would be consider
able safeguard against selfish class interestO
It states that we are being ground between
organized plutocracy and an organized proletar-
iat" We are being ground, all right; but do
not know of any organized plutocracy" at the
moment Talk about plutocracy sounds bit wild
to me, and would suggest being more specific
on this point
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

ports is that they only record the kind of story
the political party in power wants recorded. Too
often the latter wants reports that will reflect
its economic and social theories.
Concentration of control of product in the
hands of eight companies may not be healthy in
many respects. 1t srnacks of monopoly at time
when the trend is decentralization.
On the other hand, the FTc's report does not
record the benefits received under this concentrar
ton. Disregarding the inconsistency Of attitude
in demanding cessation Of fixed prices for
farmers products, what about the engineering
benefits the farmers may have obtained?
The ETC says price-fixing was obtained by
Standardization of design. Henry Ford was the
first American genius for standardization, with
the result that you could buy part Of your old
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Taxation and Spending

Taxation and Spending
THE main proposal made concerns taxation
and Government spending which certainly
is the crux of the matter
After pointing out that 20 per cent of our
income is taken as taxes, it adds that even that
was not enough so the Government runs up an
enormous debt Then it spends our money. not
for us, but for others.
The program includes: Tax simplfication:
license tax on net receipts of all persons and
corporations, for Federal revenue: license taxes.
sales taxes and poll taxes for State and local
revenue: other taxes to be repealed.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
A Poor Way To Build

VX1HERE are the children's happy, caretree
W youthful days in countries like this? Why.
they don't know what real youth and happiness
mean, and anyone that tells me you can keep
building generation after generation on these
principles alone and still build great country Is
absolutely unbalanced, to my mind. After ALL the
love, the joyousness Of childhood, the firm beller
In a God, and the striving to be kind and con-
siderate to ones little playmates are the real
foundations to build on. And these poor little
souls, with their minds firmly stamped with what
their ultimate duty will be, are not the answer
and solution to a great and everlasting country.
OF course the state will take wonderful care OF
their bodies: but don't forget it is the mind ana
the soul that really count in the end and when
YOU dwarf and deform these in childhood days.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

know what g.
smart woman
can do to the
enemy when
she gets into
her prop e r
stride.
Mrs. H oil.
lin 6 Slead's
phi o tograph
shows her to
be an attrac.
tive, intelli.
gent woman
Of about As.
She has two
C hill r e n,
sons. w h e n
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CONTINUED from Page 81

tNU0GANUC0 41UA4 \ Csc ~
that a dog suffering from rabies
will tear around seeking some
body to bite. AS a matter OF fact.
rabies. which used to be called
hydrophobia, is something that
even dog owners need to know
more about. It isn't a fear OF
water" at all. That's what they
used to think, before veterinary
science reached the knowledge IL
has today. They thought because
the poor dog went round an )
round his water pan and took
pitiful laps at it, spilling 1t out OF
his mouth, and whimpering, ne
had gone mad" and feared
the water.
TONGUE is PARALYZED
Now they know that it is a pa
ralysis of the tongue that makes
it impossible for him to swallow
that causes his frantic efforts and
heartrending failures to drink. I:
is in this nervous tension that he
sometimes snaps at other dogs
or children, and excess salvation
carrying the germs goes into the
bite with terrible results.
In the District, the Animal Res
cue League, at II o St., knows ex-
actly what to do in case ike
that. It's number is North $3.50,
or you can call Republic 1884, The
Washington Times, and the Her.
ald-Times animal ambulance Will
answer the call promptly.
incubation, as easy and simple
as can be, was demonstrated at
DR.. McClure'S.
Little Gilbert Dudrow, II. OF IL
Franklin ST.; Walter Wood, 10, OF
8 Sheridan Ave, and Marvin
Wood, 10, of the same address
trudged along the sidewalk carry
ing a small dog. The dog hao
ancestry all right. His trouble
was that he had too much of it!
He couldn't win a ribbon-but you
should have seen Gilbert's eyes as
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

Certainly, it is the backbone
of the nation, not only eco
nomically but in most other
ways. But when it comes to
political action, some organ
lied minority or small "pres-
sure group" gets its way. The
result is that most Of lis who
get medium incomes have to
pay disproportionate taxes,
and our earnings are reduced
by the demands Of organized
labor, while our living costs
are increased by price main
tenance schemes.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

United StaSeS farmers.
The eight companies have
absorbed smaller companies
and now control the prices Of
all farm implements by stan
dardizing design of the ma
chinery sold by all eight con-
Germs. This, the FrC de-
nounces and implies that the
American farmer is, therefore,
automatically receiving tn g
"short end of the stick"
Half the trouble with so
~ PSo~,a,.Sn~aaS aUaTNNv "a.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

message from
the w h / t e
H US e. The
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h e ! d i n
G o d , S
r o o m
so named by
the Sc n q t e
pages because
none but the
chosen fe W
ev er e n t e r
t he roo m,
no m in a ! ly
listed in the
Congressional
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The Washington times., 1938-06-11
y
Strictly Hands OFF

ORDINARILY that would have
~ cleared up the humid inner
atmosphere in Goods room"
Mr.. Farley seemed to mean
there would be no more such
monkey business as went on IN
Iowa when National Chairman
Corcoran of the comm1ttee-to-
get everyone who voted against
the-court got into Democratic
party politics; when son James
wrote a letter about ''my friend
Otha," and the President was
maintaining he was taking no
part in the fight.
But then Farley went on TO
say that from now on, If there
was any outside interference in
local primaries, it would not be
the fault either of himself or
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Still further, he explained ne
could not keep some Of the boys
downtown from electioneering,
but that, if they did, they would
be strictly on their own. They
would not be either representa-
tives of the President or Of the
Democratic National Committee.
The explanation left the
purgees encouraged, but not ex-
actly certain what kind OF
monkey business they might eX-
pect next.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Replies Indicate Interest

KGBWGB EFU1G1GS BBS%SE% %W6
A NUMBER of replies have come to me- from
"A Georgia. Pennsylvania and California IN
dicating considerable interest.
One man in Pittsburgh asks if we can ar
range at once great informal meeting, out OF
which we may hear our best mnds?" An Atlanta
reader saws: st think the time has come when
neonle in the middle class must organize. Since
1892, the truly forgotten man has been the one
who making a clerks salary, has barely been
able to feed and clothe himself and family. The
neonle whom YOU classify as the middle class
are at the mercy of our price-fixing Government"
He wants to know If there is any organization
he can join.
Well, the next letter was from man IN san
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
My Say

SEE that Mussolini's newspaper, in reply to
Secretary Hull's speech on June 8, gave us
lecture saying that the United States, before try
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Q. Answers
Questions on Page 81

Questions on Page 81
From a resinous substance
which exudes from any Of sew
eral coniferous trees (pine, etc. &.
2-Rumania silver coin. (Wor l
about 19 and 1-3 cents.) 3-Su-
perior, Huron, Michigan, Erie.
ontario. 4-Kazoo. 5-28. g.
The husk of the nutmeg. 7
Northern California. 8-No; 46.
9-12 or any multiple Of IL.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Says Boake Carter

Model T in almost any hamlet in the nation at
price within reach of any pocketbook.
The FTC has made no mention Of the greater
reliance and operating efficiency of modern farm
implements, as compared to those of five and
ten years ago.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

IL IS IEue he Is L4OI CUOUI4AB Mrs. Mclean
their heads off or doing away with their poor
little bodies, but he is certainly training them
from the minute they can walk to be nothing hut
cannon fodder, and his sole aim and desire seems
to be to prepare the youth of his country SO
that instead of a very few being taken, they will
be ready and willing to be wiped out by the
million when the time comes.
If anyone thinks this is a high ideal to implant
into a growing child's mind, certainly don't
agree with him. The terrible drilling those little
things go through; the practice with the gas
masks, and the everlasting preaching that when
the time comes it is an honor and privilege to
give their lives for their country are awful to
consider.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

the office of Col. Edwin A. Hal
sey, secretary of the Senate.
Not even the guest list ever
got out, possibly because it was
the significant point OF the
luncheon.
Reading from left to right,
the lunchers discovered them
selves to be mostly those Demo
cratic Senators who voted their
own conscience instead OF Mr..
Roosevelt'S on the court issue
and some other things. Included
in the group was Pat Harrison,
who took the President to task
on taxes; court opponents
Burke of Nebraska, O'Mahoney
and Senator George of Georgia
Che dropped in after he filled a
previous luncheon engagement;
loyalist leader Barkley.
Mr.. Farley spoke these exact
words:
There will be no more
monkey business"
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
NO MORE MONKEY
BUSINESS '-FARLN
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
BY PAUL MALLON


n Strictly
T ARGE JAMES FARLEY, the harassed Democratic
- paign director slipped up Capitol Hill the day after
he had fought the Iowa consequences with the boss Mr.
Roosevelt His visit supposed to be unusually conf
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Einstein Speaks

DROF. EINSTE1N, the scientist, spoke as 1ol-
lows at an Eastern college commencement:
I'm various European nations, intelligence and
human kindness, which are the products OF
civilization, are subjected to primitive animal
instincts This process, if persisted in, will de-
stroy civilization, religion, and morality.
1.-THE barbarity practiced in some countries Is
made all the more terrible because Of the use
of technical instruments, especially in warfare
which are the products of the very civilization
which the warfare will inevitably destroy"
Those are potent words, for they are indeed
truth. When a nation places physical develop
ment of its people before all other qualities, that
nation produces destructive force.
The force is, as Einstein says, purely animal.
Spiritual and intellectual qualities disappear.
Physical perfection means elimination of all
those physically unfit. Automatically this force
decays the cultural background Of any people so
imbued. Physical people may be controlled only
by greater physical force. Only monsters re-
main These, to survive. must fight.
Copyright Ledger Syndicate)
(BoGke CGrterS opinions are his otOn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtnGesJ
The Washington times., 1938-06-11


asked about her ultimate goal
in politics, she said:
Il live in the hope that my
two sons will carry on the ira.
dition of the Democratic party"
A nice sentiment, this. It com.
bines motherhood, politics and
high ideals. All the character.
istics that anybody could ask Of
a public.minded woman. I SuS-
pect from her early training at
Ward Belmont Seminary at
Nashville that Mrs. Holline
head acquired a dash of South
ern guile, always useful in the
association with men that poll"
tics requires.
X X y
B.A. at IOGOd u.
MRS. HOLLINGsHEAD later
IVA took a B.A. at the Univer.
sity of Iowa in history and the
science of government. Spent a
year during the World War in
France as canteen worker, has
been on the school board and
library committee of her home
town for years. Got herself
made q member of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee
as soon as the gentlemen mem"
bers allowed a woman INSIDE
the door. At the Democratic con-
yention in Chicago she was there
as a delegate cheering for Mr..
Roosevelt 'and has been cheer'
ing for him ever since.
The five women already IN
Congress and who are likely to
be with us another session are
as assorted in temperament as
the districts they represent.
They have one characteristic,
which they share. They are hard
working. It's a rare day when
they are not on the floor OF the
House, trim and bright eyed
and ready to answer the roll
call. =.
regret to say that three OF
the Congresswomen possess that
certain feminine whimsy OF
emitting to state their birth"
days in their biographies in the
Congressional Directory. T h e
three forgetful lady lawmakers
are Mrs. Virginia Jenckes who
was born in Terre Haute, 1ndl-
ana, at no particular time;
Mary Teresa Norton, of New
Jersey, who also seems to have
come out of the nowhere to
Jersey city and lived there ever
since. Caroline O'Day, OF New
York. came into the world like
Topsy without a birthday and
I "iust grew" in Houston County.
Georgia. Mrs. Honeyman OF
Oregon and Mrs. Rogers OF
Massachusetts both saw the
light of day in the year 1881
and don't care who knows it.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

NEW YORK.-Not long since wrote about the
~ need of some organization to represent the
socalled middle class Of American citizens.
Probably the majority of us are in this class.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

ing to humanize warfare in Eu-
rope, should learn to protect its
own children.
Well, this sounds like some
thing MusSolini would give out
to his papers. While these out
rageous crimes in this country
are horrible things and we are
all sick over them, when you
think what MusSolini is doing
to every single child in his
realm, you wonder what he is
complaining about.
IT iS trlIe he is not cutting
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
KINDLER NAMES
CONCERT SERIES
GUEST ARTISTS
Conductors to Appear
At Watergate Here
By WILLIAM NEWMAN

LIT. mans h1nQler, conductor
of the National Symphony, an
nounces some Of the guest con-
ductorS who will share his laborS
at the Watergate concerts this
summer.
He has asked Willem van
Hoogstraten, energetic Dutch
man who conducted the Port
land, Ore, symphony orchestra
until it suspended activities, last
spring, and who returns this
summer for his seventeenth con-
secutive engagement as con-
ductor of the New York Phil
harmonic Symphony in the
LewiSohn Stadium.
He has invited R eginald
Stewart, of Toronto, conductor
of that city's promenade con-
certS, events that have been
heard over the air each summer
for some years past. He has
asked Rudolph CAM to return.
Mr.. CAM appeared here last
March.
FAMED AS PIANIST
Mr.. Stewart is said to be famed
as a pianist as well as conductor.
A native of Scotland, a pupil of
the great Lisztian, Arthur Fried
helm, of Isador Phillip, Mark
Hamburg and Nadia Boulanger,
he has played widely in the
British Isles and Canada, con-
Quoted both symphony and opera
and directed Hart House, the
music department of Toronto
University.
Mr.. CAM IS identified with
the musical life of Chicago as
teacher and pianist. AS con-
ductor he was long at the head
of the st. Louis Symphony and
more recently substituted for
Ernest Schelling. as conductor
of the children's concerts of the
New York Philharmonic Sym
rhony. He is president of the
Chicago Musical College, one
Of that city's larger schools. In
the forthcoming series DR..
Kinder reserves for himself
the concerts of opening week,
July 10 and 13, and the final
concert August II.
RENEWALS NUMEROUS
C. C. Cappel, manager of the
National Symphony, reminds
subscribers that they must con-
tract for next seasons seats in
Constitution Hall not later than
June Is if they desire to re-
serve the seats occupied last
season. The option of season
ticket holders expires next
Wednesday and all season
tickets not renewed at that
time will be released for general
public sale.
Renewals have been numer.
Gus. So have applications for
new ALLEGATIONS. Mr.. Cappel
urges subscribers who have
failed to avail themselves of
their options to act promptly.
As heretofore the National
Symphony will offer two series
eight Wednesday night con-
certs and IL Sunday afternoon
concerts, all in Constitution
Hall.
DR.. L. S. Rowe, director gen.
eral, and DR.. Pedro de Albe, as
sistant director of the Pan Amer
ican Union, announce the in
auguration of a series Of summer
concerts in the beautiful Aztec
Garden Of the Union Tuesday
oyyoninu -"
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
1'But-

nHE Federal Trade Commission informs Con-
= gress that eight farm machinery corporations
control the bulk of the sales of implements to
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Just Soft-Pedaling

INTERPRETATIONS are prob
i ably not worth writing. They
are conflicting and uncertain.
But the general inside interpre-
tation around the Hill later was
that the President is not going
to undo anything that has al
ready been indirectly done for
instance in Maryland, Georgia
and South Carolina), but will do
no more Gin Missouri, Connectl-
cut).
Some authorities in a position
to know best, really believe 1t
constitutes a change Of policy as
a result of the Iowa rout OF
National Chairman Corcoran. It
looks more like a soft-pedallng
of policy without any important
alterations.
What Farley thought about
Iowa he made clear to Senators
after the lunch. He called 1t
"a shame" He thought the
worst of it was that loyal Demo
cratic leaders he men
toned at least two in Iowa
had gone out for Corcoran's
candidate and are now bounc-
ing upon their broken tree limb
in disgrace with the State Or
ganization. 1t will hurt them
permanently at home.
Il 4
Bulk Housing
THE man who made the
/ United States halitosis-con-
scious has been quietly employed
in FHA to make it bulk-houSing
conscious. He is Gerald B.
Lambert, who formerly owned
a drug manufacturing concern.
Lambert has millions and is en-
ployed as a special assistant to
FHA Administrator Stewart
Macdonald.
He will try to get Industrial
lists interested in mass produc-
ton of houses, say 5000 of
them in a block. which might
permit them to be SOLD for as
little as $4,000 to $4,000 each.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

House Rules Chairman John
O'Connor is supposed to have
yearnings for Floor Leader Ray
burns job again. Some House
members think they see evi-
dences of his campaign start
ing already, in preparation for
next January. His chances are
figured at zero or slightly less.
News-men were keeping long
watch outside the congressional
room where the wage-hour con-
ferees were pickering. To pass
the time, they started a black
jack game, and one of the news
men lost rapidly. Senator Bark
ley, on his way to see how the
conferees were doing, stopped
silent behind the loser, who ex-
claimed loudly:
Il wish I had some of that
Barkley WPA money!"
The Senator said nothing,
and went on into the con-
ference.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

Half a dozen Senators and Vice
President Garner were invited to
lunch with the man with