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may feel like grinning ninny.
But if you'll keep it up. If
yor'Il deliberately think and say
and do the cheerful instead Of
the dreary thing-youu find
yourself rapidly responding.
YOU CAN'T TALK LOVE
WITHOUT SOON FEELING 1T.
YOU CAN'T THINK HAPPI-
NESS WITHOUT SOON BEING
1T.
YOU CAN'T ACT GOOD
LUCK WITHOUT SOON HAV-
ING 1T.
This isn't Pollyanna blah-blah
E. it's sound psychology.
You ARE what you say. You
BECOME what you think. And
the thing that happens to you is
either good luck or bad, accord
ing to the way you take it.
No man can write his own
ticket, so far as outward cir
cumstances go. Accidents and
shocks, losses, diSappointments
and double-crossings are bound
to happen.
You can let the star go out and
the song stop on December 90
if you wish. Or you can keep
them going all the year
Christmas over? New Years
done?
NOT ON YOUR LIFE!
CAN THAT GLOOM
QUIT THAT CROUCH {.
CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR
GRAIN AND BE YOUR OWN,
ALLY ROUND SANTA
CLAUS!
copyright 1888. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
"JaywaIker" Protests

While walking to work this
morning I had two narrow eS-
capes from wild motorists max
ing right-hand turns. When I
think of similar incidents in the
past, I conclude that I possess
either charmed life or an u1-
canny ability to revert to side
stepping tactics learned on a
school gridiron.
This current talk about pc
destrian control and the jay.
walking menace incenses me no
little, because I am both a mo-
torist and a pedestrian and I
know what both are up against,
and it is my firm conviction
that any corrective and restric-
tive measures should be aimed
not at the pedestrian but
squarely at the motorist. I am
perfectly willing to cross an in.
tersection with the green signal
if I can do so with safety, but
how can this be possible when
vehicular traffic uses the same
signal to make right and left
turns, oftentimes NARROWING the
pedestrian in the middle of the
street as the lights changer
This has occurred to me so
many times until I find many
intersections can be crossed
moe expeditiously and with
greater safety on the red light.
An example is Pennsylvania Ave
nue. a. Thirteenth Street North
west. Given the green signal,
one does not dare venture out
on the street unless he wants to
take issue with the steady
stream of cars -'ounding the cor
ner-the outcome of which is
easily predictable.
On the red light, however,
one can usually cross without
difficulty. If this makes one a
jaywalker. it is all right with
me, because I would rather be
a live jaywalker and cross on
the red than a dead pedestrian
who waited for the green.
H. C. WILLIAMS.
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diers over there and blow Japan
off the map" or words to that
effect.
It is true that Japan's inva-
sion of China is uncalled for.
Japan's ruthless killing of the
civilian population and nationals
has shocked the world; but has
this not happened in every war?
The "Panay incident" has every
indication of being a premedi-
tated attack on a friendly ma
ton, and I believe Japan should
make reparations. Whatever
reparations she may make will
be insufficient, because she
could never restores the lives
lost.
If anything is disgusting to a
real American, one who would
and has borne arms for his
country, it is to read articles
written by some "Nit-wit" who
wants to start a war. A war
that would cost millions in lives
and dollars, and one that we
could never profit by. We need
no more territory or colonies;
so how would we profit in war
with Japan? These patriots CD
who advocate a war and spread
all this propaganda about how
yellow we are to let Japan insult
us and take our property-have
any of them been insulted, or
had property confiscated? No!
Big business has been the loser.
Anyone who goes into business
on a foreign soil is making big
profits, therefore they have to
take big chances. Should we,
who are not getting any profit
from their investments, give our
lives to protect their property?
Now if these utterly stupid
ignoramuses, who lack the fore
sight to see how a war would af.
feet us, are patriots and not yel-
low ours. why do they not show
their patriotism by enlisting in
the Army, Marine Corps or
Navy2 Surely some Of them
! would be physically, if not men
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Enlist, He Says

Practically every newspaper
we pick up now, since the out
break of the war in China, has
been filled with letters and
articles clamoring for the United
States Government to protect
the American nationals in China
and the native Chinese popula-
ton from the Japanese invasion.
First, the people who write these
letters and articles left it to the
Government to settle it by diplo-
matte means. Now we have
men and women saying, eff 1
were President, I'd send our SOL
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"Let Japan Alone"


In answer to the anti-Japa-
nese article written by E. P, I
think the American people are
taking entirely too much on
their shoulders in interfering
in Japan's undeclared war.
Why should the American
people take so much pity on
China? Is it because they want
to meddle into everything? And
if U. S. doesn't put her own
nose into it she is dragged into
mess by England.
And don't forget, readers,
that if U. S. gets into this war
she will have three countries to
fight-Japan, Italy and Ger
many.
saw the pictures of the
Panay and if the United States
had cleared out Of the China
waters this would have never
happened. But we try to be
daring and then expect the
Government to go to war over
the sinking of one cigar crate.
Let Japan and China alone.
Let them fight alone.
SENSIBLE.
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Sales Tax Needed Here

writing the new tax bill for the District of Co.
i lumbia we believe general sales tax (exemptng
food low priced clothing and medical Suppes) should
be substituted for the business privilege tax (Which
has failed and the temporary increase in the real
estate tax which is unfair and excessive.
We believe sales of this sort would be fairer,
have more general application to all of those who
c-,- r ,U.,, live in Washington or spend
money here in excess Of the
D0 -" amounts required for subsistence,
than any other form Of taxation.
We believe it would yield more than an income
tax
We do not have to prove its practicability 1t has
been proved often elsewhere that the effectiveness
Of sales taxes in yield cannot be questioned.
Assuming that the same amount is to be raised
either by sales tax an income tax there is final
and conclusive for adopting a sales tax for
Washington alternative to an income tax:
An income tax would not apply to persons living here
who pay income taxes in the States, to many others
who do not pay such taxes, but maintain legal resi-
dences elsewhere, to the 100000 persons who
pour into Washington annually on business or
pleasure.
They spend days, weeks months enjoying the
facilities and beauties paid for out of the low average
earnings of Washington residents.
A general sales tax, on the other hand would be
hardship on no one if it embodied the ordinary ex-
u.JoL: emptions of food, clothing and medl-
a. ~ cine. It would be borne in part by those
VIZ ''0 0'' who visit or live among us as legal resi-
dents Of other parts of the country. contributing
nothing to the running expenses of the most widely
visited city in the United States with the possible ex
cepton Of New York-which, by the way has both
a sales and an income tax.
There should be larger Federal contribution to the
expenses of the District government.
We all know that Congress knows it.
But let's forget that for the moment What we
want now is sales tax, the farest tax of a because
it is based on spending He who spends most paws
most. What could be fairer than that
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kinder human-yes?
And now? Well, now a busted
fishworm has nothing on you
has it? Wallop all gone.
smiles all blotto. don't care
whether school keeps or not.
And as for doing that job on
yourself, making yourself over
to heck with it! You're no
good and you know it, make a
mess of things all your life.
su why kid yourself that you
ever can be different?
The after-New Years Blues
they've got you in their grip
yes? But don't you let them
keep you there!
That Christmas Day glory,
that New Years hope. they
needn't be carted out with the
holiday trash. They can stay
with you all through the year
if you will.
YOU CAN KEEP THAT STAR
SHINING
YOU CAN KEEP THAT SONG
SINGING
IT'S UP TO YOU!
Enthusiasm isn't something
you can't control. One of those
come-again-gone-again things.
IT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN
MAKE AND KEEP ON TAP
FOREVER!
Fundamentally, enthusiasm is
a matter of mechanics. You
actually, literally, manufacture
your own cheerfulness by Strik-
ing a pose and keeping it. Yes.
l know-there may not be
much warmth in it at first. You
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respect for the girl who out
shines him at repartee, who Is
always there with a singing
"comeback"-but he has glow
ing appreciation for the one
who listens wide-eyed and
breathless while HE does the
shining and never interrupts
until it is time to applaud.
He may feel sorry for the en-
bittered woman who has "seen
life" and knows all its hollow
ness"-but he feels a glow
around his heart when he
meets a sweet young thing who
looks upon it as a wonderful
shining thing, full of beautiful
promises and glittering sur
prises.
Charm is just distilled sweet
ness, and sweet woman, like
a perfume, leaves a fragrance
on everything she touches.
Theoretically, a man may ad'
mire a bright snappy girl who
can't be fooled and refuses to
take him seriously-but he takes
far more heart interest in the
girl who looks trustfully into his
eyes and pretends to believe
him.
The girl who analyzes a man
may interest him, but 1t is the
girl who idealizes him that
GETS him!
Modernism has its points, but
in love, the eternal verities will
always persist. Times may
change, manners may change,
the world may change-but the
last thing in the world to change
will be a mans ideal Of women.
Vinegar catches no flies!
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Alas, they ARE! Most men
are as old-fashioned as a hitch.
ing post or an iron deer on the
front lawn. They still fall in
love with the same qualities in
women that their fathers and
grandfathers fell in love with.
Soft. sweet things! That's
what boy likes to eat-and a
grown man likes to marry!
Orchids and diamonds and
pep and modernism may dazzle
a man-but a soft voice,
tender eye, and the fragrance
of violets enchant him.
He may mentally agree with
the disillusioned gal who has
discovered that "all men are
alike"-half savage and half
child-but he has a warm SEN
timent for the starry-eyed little
thing who still believes in heroes
and who thinks HE is a COM
bination of Solomon, Prince
Charming, and Richard Coeur-
de-Lion.
He may stand for the frank
and cynical girl who laughs
off" his line of flattery and sees
through him-but it is the girl
who swallows the line-hook-and-
sinker, that he FALLS for!
He may be afraid to trifle
with the woman who has his
number-but he is NOT afraid
to marry the woman who thinks
HE is Number One"
He may be a pal to the girl
who likes him in spite of his
faults and weaknesses, but he
thrills to the girl who adores
him for all his imaginary vir.
tues and his strength Of char
acter."
He may have a wholesome
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
Just an "Old Tub"

I agree that we should keep
.our shirts on regarding the
Panay sinking. She was only a
wooden gunboat with a forward
cannon and several machine
guns. The planes put the can
non out of commission with their
first bomb, and then kept well
out of range of the machine
guns. It would have been an
entirely different story had the
attack been made on the cruiser
Augusta. J. q.
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Your |. O.
By SHIRLEY SPENCER

By Sh1hLEY SFENCEH
Here is a Mother Goose quiz
for the children (and grown
ups)!
/. What was it Little Jack
Horner ate in the corner?
2. Who was quite tempera.
lnentalP
8. What did Jack Spratt's wife
like to eat?
4 Who pulled the pussy-cat
cut of the well?
S. Who was found fast asleep
under the haycock?
s. What was Curlylocks' favor
ite dish?
Z. Who used vinegar and
brown paper as a first-aid rem
edy?
8. Who witnessed the death Of
Cock Robin?
9. What time was it when the
mouse ran up the clock?
10. When Simple Simon asked
the pieman for a pie, what did
the pieman say to him?
ANSWERS on Page 15)
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IN OF ye t.
But it d o e S
seem as if I
haven't a n y
will po W er.
b e C a u S e in
o t h er years
when l have
m a de resolu-
tionS l soon
found myself
b r e a kin 6
them. But I
really " a n t
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ing a n d so
far I haven't
had a cigar.
cite. I also
decided to cut
down on the
good times so
that I could
spend m ore
time at home,
and so far
I've b e e n
pretty moder-
a t e in my
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a cigarette for year, but sew
eral hours later I found myself
weakening and soon I was
smoking again. The other reso-
luton which I broke is a secret"
X X X
Gene Hoover, 1923 Thirty-fifth
st. N. W., advertising art direc-
tor:
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Supreme Court O. KS
Public Power Loans

TN HE Supreme Court in two unanimous liberal deci-
i sions Monday knocked out the hopes of three
Southern power companies to block PWA loans and
grants to communities wishing to build public power
plants to compete with privately owned plants. The
T,.o 17,,u,,;,,o,,o companies Alabama Power,
"0 0''''''" Duke Power and Southern Public
Liberal Rulings Utilities.
These seem common decisions to us. The court
takes the position that monopolie through time and
eternity were not granted private power companies
over the rivers from which they make power; that
when the voters want to make power of their own
they have right to do so, and the Government has
a right to help Them
That seems only logical; and re glad to be able
TO note that the entire court took the liberal view on
this important point thereby releasing about $11O,-
100000 for sixtv-one projects which have been held
up in twenty-three States for three years.
How were the private companies able to block the
Government for those three years the desires of
voters for public power plants to gauge proper power
prices in their various communities? Well
SENATOR GEORGE w. NORRIS
Republican of Nebraska, "father of IVA" has de-
manded that the Federal Trade Commission nvesti-
gate all phases of IVA with special reference to the
T,;u,ct;on efforts of private power companies to
cripple IVA.
Racket We think such an investigation is
badly needed, and hope it goes the limit.
Without an investigations Congress can put
kibosh on the injunction racket rampant in the
field of electric power.
Congress has power to regulate the lower Federal
courts What is needed to discourage the injunction
racket is law requiring that when private power
company goes to some minor Federal judge for an
injunction to halt public power project it shall post
a bond to pay damages in it loses the suit and
the pendency of the suit be shown to have caused
damage.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes says the lawyers
who brought these suits accomplished only
vast amount clients the dissipation
perhaps millions dollars of stockholders for their
illegal delay in the execution of the
registered will of the citizens of communities,
pressed through their local governments
Private power companies that want to fight prog
ress every inch of the way should pay for their part
of the fight just the taxpayers have to pay for
theirs.
From Daily News
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mo, and I
won't. I re-
solved not to
go to a bur
lesque S h o W
u n ! e S Ann
C or 10 comes
back. So far
I haven't been
t e m p t ed to
t h e perform
ances by any
one else. I did
not make any
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LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

KEEP THAT STAR SHINING -.
TT OLIDAYS over Now the old reactions setting in
II isn't it?
Plenty easy, ten days ago, to feel like making new
start Chock full of brotherly love and new resolu-
tions weren't you? Fizzing with spunk and good
nature you were going to be bigger, better
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to be determined and carry out
my resolutions this year and if
I break any of them, I will
make new resolutions and try
again"
Walter JorSs, 5414 Cathedral
Ave. N. W., elevator operator:
mo. I resolved to stop smok-
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II made a
resolution not
to ak too
much and I
am br eaking
it already. I
also made a
resolution not
to pur chase
j a p a n e Sc,
G erm a n or
italian goods,
a n d SO far,
I'm d O n g
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tally, qualified to enlist. I un-
derstand the recruiting offices
for all three branches of the
service are open six co days
each week. DISGUSTED
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Traffic Toll

The list of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January /, 1887, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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A4S6A O(AANA
mo, because
I did n o t
m a ke a n y.
M oS t people
make a lot Of
fine resolu-
t 10 n S and
then immedi-
ately b re a K
t h c m. It
seems to me
t h a t it is
m uc h better
Just to do the
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pretty well in this little personal
boycott. I'm even wearing cot
ton stockings. rather than to
purchase imported silk ones"
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Yes, I made
two r e SO ! u
tions and I've
broken b o t h
of them. One
I broke on
N e W Y e a r
D a. y. I par.
t i C u ! a r ! y
W a n t ed to
stop smoking,
so I made a
re S o ! u t ion
not to touch
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other resolutions because I
knew I would break them. Ann
Corio is my stage favorite."
X X X
Miss Mary Phifer, 1914 Co
Iumbia Rd. N. W., radio script
writer:
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Marry-GO-R O-ROund
Bv Helen ROWland

Syndicate 1nc)
s. RE men old-fashioned in their ideas of love-
n marriage and women?" asks "a Modern Girl
in most interesting letter.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Of
the writers will be omitted
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THE ANSWERS

Miss Jeanne Loveless, 40 Graf
ton ST., Chevy Chase, Md, fash.
ion artist:
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pleasures. also made a resolu-
ton to save some money each
payday"
n X
Miss Clarissa Mitchell, 1886
Bellevue Terrace N. W., ste
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best you can from DAY 70 DAY.
& y
Miss Louise Cowie, 1921 War
rem st. N. W., business college
student:
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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

Have you broken any of your
New Year resolutions yet?
The Washington times., 1938-01-05

n HE Supreme Court in two unanimous LIBERAL decl-
i sions Monday knocked out the hopes of three
Southern power companies to block PWA loans and
grants to communities wishing to build public power
plants to compete with privately owned plants. The
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
TANKER ON BAR
OFF ALEXANDRIA

The mournful vail Of a fog horn
led to discovery of a "shipwecked"
Standard Oil Company tanker on
. mist shrouded sand bar five
miles south OF Alexandria early
this morning.
Laden with 5000 barrels of oil,
the tanker. en- route to Washing
ton from Baltimore, went aground
IN the heavy fog at 4:3o a. m.
AS the tankers whistles and
bells shattered the early morning
stiffness, scores of residents along
the Virginia shore were awakened.
washington and Alexandria DO
lice were notified Of "a ship in
distress"
An empty barge was towed
alongside the stranded tanker and
the craft was floated off the bar
on the high tide.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11

-Sharkskins - Stripes - Herringbones
and Pin Point effects. In each of these
favored groups are the model and style
to suit YOUR individuality. Single
breasted in either two or three-button;
the popular double-breasted and new
drape models.
"A complete range of sizes - regulars,
shorts, stouts, longs, long stouts and
short stouts.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
NURSE HONOREID, EI,
Staff LGMds Service
Of Janet Fish

Miss Janet Fish, superintendent
Of nurses at the Emergency Hospi-
tai, was last night honored on her
sixteenth anniversary as superin-
tendent, at a dance held in the
nurses home.
A sister of Representative Fish,
Of New York, Miss Fish joined the
Emergency staff here following
service in New York City and New.
port, r. I. Before that also did
volunteer work with the French
Red Cross during the World War.
Miss FiSh'S record was praised
by B. B. Sandidge, superintendent
Of the hospital, last night. He
declared Miss Fish could have won
q prominent place in any pro-
1eSSion.
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Ger weighing sugar, you must
WEIGH your words. Someday you
MAY be calling for help and folks
will think you are selling fish.
WORDS PRECIOUS
There is no eraser for thought
less speech. You weigh gold and
silver to determine its value so why
not weigh your WORDS for the
same reason? There is an old say
ing that runs something like this
Every word you speak is worth
its weight in gold. The scales Of
life always balance in time and
the words you speak will deter.
mine your wealth in respect.
"The thing you say may be
truth itself and the words be
wise and clever but the WAY
you speak may ruin it all and
Q friend be lost forever for it
isn't so much the THING you say
=. as the WAY in which you say
1t. though little word may
mean so mush If you'll only
SCOp TO WGlJd II.
CLUB MEETlNG
Right now we are going to weigh
our own words in making an an
nouncement about the next branch
club meetins So many requests
have been received from the
Branch No. members at Beth
esda, Md, that the "Old Skipper"
will be with them on Friday night
at 8 O'Clock at the Sidney Lust
Boro Theate1
We are anxious to meet all the
gang" from there and with US
will be many Of the jolly crew
heard regularly on the Sunday
Washington Herald Times broad
casts over WJSV. Until tomorrow
then Sh:pAhoy. .,.a
THE OLD SKIPPER.
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with Q message
that sounded a
bit like this.
"Thisisamumbe
rourclubanIwan
naudition." All
we could an
Swer was
"Well well
that's fine"
and we still
would like to
know what the
message was all
about.
Like q butch
er W eig h ing
nonok nn q mnn
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TIME VALUE, WENT UP-the price
came down! This big, new 1889
Plymouth is the years smartest buyl
Youget marvellous new ride-new
safety, new comfort, new economy!
Easy to own.. your present car will
probablyrepresent large proportion
of Plymouth's low delivered price,.
balance in low monthly instalments.
PLYMOUTH DIVISION OF CHRYsLER
CORPORATION, Detroit, Michigan.
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!. Q. Answers
Questions on Page 14.)

Questions on Page A.
!. Denver, Col. 2. Santa Fe, N.
Mex. 3. Pittsburgh, Pa. 4. New
port News, Va. 5. Leadville, Col.
6. Akron, Ohio. 7. Athens, Ga.
8. GAINESVILLE, Ohio. 9. a-Chi-
cago; b-Cleveland; Clos An
geles; d-Miarni, Fla; e-Phila-
delphia, Pa; f-BoSton, Mass:
g-Boston; h-Chicago; New
York; j-San Antonio, Texas.
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NOaU Here's Tale
Of Heifen''S Tale

WATERBURY, Conn, Oct.
ii U.N.S.).-The tail Of this
story Is worth SIS.
The board Of aldermen had
before 1t today q letter from
Deputy Commissioner Of Do
mestic Animals George e.
COrwin in regard to q claim
from G. A. .1lunsOn, Of Der.
by, for damages to q heifer's
tail torn off by stray dogs.
The heifer was being past
ured on a farm in this city.
COrwin said SIS was the price
Of Q good heifer's tail.
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WEIGH " 0 R D S.
WELL, IS ADVICE.
OF OLD SKIPPER
ThoughtIess Speech
Can't Be Erased
BY DON HIX

Heigh-Ho Shipmates! The "Old
Skipper" answered the teleghone
after q broadcast and was greeted
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Brilliant New Styling g-New Comfort and New Per-
fOrmance. On Every Count, PlymOuth's Got It!
WashInEton Times staff Photos

1. Greater Size-114-in. WheeIbase.
z. New High -TOrque Engine Per-
Torrance with New Economy.
3. Perfected Remote Control Shift
ing makes driving a pleasure.
4. New AutO-M Mesh Transmission.
S. New AmOla Steel Coil Springs.
6. New True Steady Steering gives
wonderful new handling-ease.
z. New Safety Signal SpeedOmeter
helps you drive more safely.