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The Washington times., 1938-05-05
Signs
For BrOadCasts

DETROIT, May 5 Q.N.S).-The
Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin
today announced the signing of a
two-year contract to broadcast 60
half-hour talks over a nationwide
network of more than go stations.
The radio priest will begin his
1938-39 season November 6 and
continue 80 weeks. The 1939-4O
season will be run on a similar
schedule. The broadcasts will be
relayed to the network through
Station WJR, Detroit.
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House Group Backs
Senate SEC Bill

QN.SD. The House Interstate
Commerce Committee today or
dered a favorable report on Sen
ate bill, providing for regulation
of over-the-counter trading in Sc
curitieS by the Securities Ex-
change Commission. The commit
tee amended the Senate bill by
providing exemption for dealers
in municipal securities,
The Washington times., 1938-05-05
Adele Astaire's
Father-in-LaW Ill

LONDON, May 5 Q.N.SO.-The
Duke of Devonshire, father-in-law
of the former Adele Astaire, was
seriously i'll at his Chatsworth
home today. Miss Astaire, the
noted dancer and sister of Fred
Astaire, married the Dukes
younger son, Lord Charles Caven.
dish, several years ago.
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Chamberlain Admits
Concessions TO ireland

LONDON, May 5 QN.S).-Ad-
mission that Great Britain made
large concessions to achieve an
agreement with Fire was made by
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain today in urging parliamentary
approval of the Anglo-Eire agree
ment.
Speaking of the British advan-
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CHINA'S GREAT.
GHOST ARMY
NEARS NANKING
japanese Periled
By Swift Drive

SHANGHAI, May S Q.N.S0.
China's "ghost army" of the cen
trail front, showing an uncanny
power to strike through Japanese
lines at unsupported points, today
drove to within striking distance
Of Marking.
A communique issued at Han
kow said the amazingly swift Chi
nese army reached Chiangrin-
cheng, a village only seven miles
southwest of Marking.
Although Chinese columns have
been operating farther up the
Yangtze River, near Wuhu, and
southwest OF Shanghai, in the
Hangchow sector, this is their
closest approach to Marking since
It was sacked by the Nipponese.
NEAR TANCHENG
Momentum of the Chinese ad-
vance in South Shantung Province
meanwhile carried the great
armies of Chang Kai-Shek to
within a few miles Of Tancheng.
import city on the east wing OF
the Lunghai Railway front.
In retaliation for Chinese vic
tories in shangtung Province, jap
anese forces launched new cam
paign in Annwsi Province today
and Nipponese officials here
claimed a quick victory already
had been won.
CLAIM VICTORY o.
Several thousand Chinese
already have been defeated in the
new assault, the Japanese claimed.
Meanwhile, British authorities
made representations to the Japa-
nese regarding detention OF the
British steamer Tungwo at TSung-
ming Island last week.
Warfare on China'S farflung
fronts spread swiftly today as
Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, seeking to
capitalize on his victories in Shan
tung, where the Japanese often
sive has virtually stalled and some
$4,000 Nipponese troops are
gravely threatened, widened his
military operations.
LAUNCH FOUR DRIVES
Major drives were officially
launched simultaneously on the
Shantung, Homan, Shansi, Suiyan
and Anhwei fronts and, according
to Hankow reports, Immediately
resulted in further defeats for the
hard-pressed Japanese.
In Shantung, it was stated, the
Chinese had driven the japanese
into a 15-mile retreat.
TOKYO, May 5 UN.S0-Jap-
anese reports from Tsinan claimed
today that Nipponese aircraft at
tackled Chinese troop concentra-
lions between Tancheng and SIN
anchen on the Shantung front,
dealing the armies of General
Chang Kai-Shek a crushing
h1ow"
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tages sought in the agreement,
Chamberlain told the House of
Commons of the Intangible, i'm
ponderable but nevertheless in
valuable fruits with which various
concessions in the past have re-
warded liberal and unSelfiSh acts
of generosity by a great and
powerful country towards a state
weaker and poorer than itself"
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u. 5. CHAMBER.
UNITY.
WITH WORKERS
Pleads for Alliance
to End Slump
BY EDWARD B. LOCKETr

Q.N.S.) The fate that brought
meetings representative of both
capital and labor to Washington
simultaneously this spring, today
effected one Of the first formal
friendly exchanges between big
business and the working man of
the past three labor.troubled
years.
Following closely on the heels
Of American Federation Of Labor
action in declaring publicly for
cooperation between capital and
labor to promote employment, a
friendly response was issued from
the twenty-sixth annual meeting
of the U. S. Chamber Of Com
merce, in session here.
NATURAL ALLIES"
Lewis E. Pierson, a member Of
the chambers senior council and
chairman of the board of the Irv-
ing Trust Company, issued the
following statement:
II believe that the time has
now come when management
and labor SHOULD work together
on those things Of common in
terest which fairly protect their
respective interests, promote in
dustrial peace and stimulate
employment on which the en-
during prosperity of the nation
depends.
Management and labor are
natural allies, not enemies, and
the well-being Of one depends
upon the well-being Of the other.
Private industry thrives and
creates more jobs only when
capital and labor work together
tremendously for the production
of goods and services for the
advancement of the American
standard of living.
NEED FOR PEACE
1.-THE need for industrial
peace was never greater than
in this time of economic dis
tress, when it is recognized on
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
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Early Action Due
On Canal Park

Early action on taking over the
old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
from Georgetown to Cumberland,
Md, to be used as a national park,
was indicated today by Secretary
of Interior Ickes.
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MURPHY HITS CRITICS

KALAMAZOO, Mich, May
u.N.sO.-Governor Murphy at
tacks Republican budget bal
ancers" thus:
you've got to help people or
you won't have a budget to bal
ance."
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DIR. Hyde Becomes
President of Fire

DUBLIN, May 5 GN.SD.-Dr.
Douglas Hyde accepts office as
first president of Fire (South Ire
land):
Il accept the honor and will
ingly and humbly I shall do my
best to fulfill the duties of my
high Office
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TREASURY CONDITION

Treasury balance as of May g.:
50, 852 SIS. 444.91: internal revenue.
SO. 493 ,014.66; customs receipts, ST.
$40, 436.80; receipts, S., ISL ,528,322;
expenditures, $6,422,791 ,586.
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Is Beauties Chosen
In WinChel Contest
Six More To Be Named Tonight; Judges
Laud u. s. Department LOUeLieS

If Walter Winche had present at the Capitol Theater
last night when more than SO of the Governments oveies
girl workers appeared show him up in the Walter Winche
his face have been red!
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LOST

BHLFoLD-BroWn, ostrich skin. contain.
ing drivers license and SIS; reward.
Notify D. H. hewitt. SHep. 1S62-W.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS; either 400 block
of 34th st. or 31OO block of P St.: re-
ward. Call WEST 0376.
DoBERMAN PINSCHER = Lost: black
and tan: vicinity Calvert st. Bridge; re-
ward. Call Tom Griffin, REP. 1894; eve
ming AID. 6495.
RING LosT-Yellow gold, two diamonds
and sapphire. Reward. NO. S437.
wIRE-HAIRED TERRIER-Lost Saturday
vicinity Chevy Chase: male, black and
little tan marks on body; eczema on tail
Hmps little; wearing collar with address
on; answers name of jock; reward.
Ma. 7243.
Other Lost and Found Ads on
Page 80, Col. ~
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

Showers tonight; fair and cooler to-
morrow; moderate winds. "Details on
Page So.)
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
Mr.. Ickes: Here's Health!

THERE was a time-before Adolf Hitler began to
Nazi-ize Middle Europe-when such health and
curative resorts as Bad Nauhem, Carlsbad, Maren-
bad Vichv and scores Of others were the meccas of
ailing Americans with cash enough to afford what
was called the cure
And cured they were-if cure possible The
rigid discipline imposed by the doctors-the majority
of them Jews-plus the air, plus the waters, plus the
diet all these have given many lease to Amerl-
can men and women-able we have already OBJ
served, to afford it.
Now we have in these United States many locations
as ideally suited to such methods of cure as are now
Nazi-ized resorts. We have sulphurs muds, pines,
warm geysers Their accessibility puts their ultimate
NY, ny A., benefits within the reach of thou
""' sands who could never afford
Is Discipline Cor,ahod
What we need to make our natural spas as
sernv recuperave as were those of the old Germany
and the old Austria is the rigid discipline imposed
bv those learned therapeutics who being harred
and oppressed by Der Fuehrer because he objects to
their fashion of worship.
We offer therefore suggestion to Secretary of the
Interior Ickes Let there be established by the Gov
eminent number of spas where can be brought
about for those who need them whether they can al
ford to pay or not If they cam we'll and good If they
can't we'll, they will get the anyhow.
And let the Nazi government be Informed that
there is sanctuary here for these scientists That we
need them and that have the conditions which will
bring out their curative talents.
LET GERMANY'S LOSS BE OUR GAIN.
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Your |. O..

This is a play on words.
Score 10 for each correct sol.
luton.
!. Drop a letter from a river
not far from New York City in
N. Y. State and leave what the
public likes Rudy Vallee to do.
2. What word meaning a
furtive look is spelled the same
backward and forward?
8. Drop the first letter Of a
word meaning united and leave
avarice.
4. Change more to less in
four moves.
S. Add a pronoun to obese
and make a parent.
8. With four letters express
a sentence Of four words con-
tanning fourteen letters.
7. Drop the first letter of a
place for a fire and leave the
place we live on.
8. Reverse a kitchen utensil
and you will have a toy.
ANSWERS on Page 19)
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They have had to get out into
the world and earn their bread
and butter. Women today are
not the mollycoddles of yeSter-
cay.
The Presidents chair is a
big one. The modern gi-l has
the brains to fill the She
has, besides brains, ever.
Wars would pc u. II Of
things, for she woulu be q
woman and perhaps a mother.
She would know how to regu-
late the budget, for hasn't she
been keeping the family budget
for years? For prosperity I say,
let's have a woman president!
Margaret Classic years.
Chicago, ILL.,"
$40 Prize.
\
I admit the modern woman
has brains, my dear. But I
doubt if she has enough BAL
ANCE. in facing impersonal sit
uations and handling far-flung
issues, to make a good president.
She's still too personal. and
too poor q sport when she's hurt
or mad. But that's just my
opinion. How about YOURS
:. and YOURS?
And speaking of sports, good
or bad, here comes ISABEL Nc
DONALD, of LOS ANGELES,
CAL, with a letter that deserves
a round of cheers.
I'm TIRED" says Isabel,
OF BEING CALLED A WET
BLANKET or "A POOR SPORT
AT PARTIES, SIMPLY Be
CAUSE I WON'T DRINK,
SMOKE OR NECK LIKE THE
REST.
mo, I'm not a reformer. The
other fellows conduct never
bothers me. I don't lecture or
sheer at his being so bored with
life that he has to take to drink
for thrills. laugh with them
all and hold up my share of the
fun. But just because won't
indulge in what seems to me stu
pid and stereotyped conduct,
I'm called a poor sport
WHO'S THE POOR SPORT
THE ONE WHO GOOD
NATUREDLY INSISTS ON GO
ING HER OWN WAY. . OR
THE ONE WHO POUTs BE.
CAUSE HE CAN'T HAVE HIS?
Isabel McDonald-27 years
LOS Angeles. Cal"
IS Prize.
Whoops for you, girl! It takes
high grade courage to be true
to yourself in this mass-move-
ment age.
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along with the rest Of the tax
structure as proposed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt several years
ago. I drew attention to the fact
that sudden forced realization
of holdings, on the present basis
of the tax, is competitive with
the market for new issues Of Sc
curities of productive enter
priseS.
At this late date, it is of little
consequence whether the false
impression in the editorial is
publicly corrected. I wanted to
write you just to set the record
straight in your own mi1zd. I
know you would not deliberately
misrepresent the facts, as set
forth in the record.
Very truly yours,
BERNARD M. BARUCH.
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Police "Taking Rap

Once again the Washington
police are taking the rap for the
Government groundhogs. The
unfortunate killing Of a World
War veteran by a Metropolitan
policeman and the responsibility
for same should be placed di-
rectly at the door Of the U. s.
Veterans Bunco Building.
The reason this war veteran
was not in a hospital was evil
IDENTIFY due to the fact that the
parasitical practitioners were
saving the Government money,
in an effort to balance the budg-
ct, a plan started by the double
dealers back in March, 1888.
I call upon all our comrades
who are members Of the Wash
ington police force to demand a
law from Congress which will
force all Government ground
hogs to do their own inyestigat-
ing and their own dirty work.
B. J. LAWLOR.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Letters the Editor should be limited
the writers will be omitted
BQruch VieuUs on Taxes

Baruch VieuOs on Taxes
The editorial in your issue of
March 2, which you reprinted
from the New York Daily News,
has just come to my attention.
Belatedly, I would like to COM
ment on it along the same lines
Of the answer made to the
Daily News.
The editorial states: "He be-
lieves the high-bracket incomes
are too high and that the in
come tax base is not broad
enough" made no such state
ment at any time in my appear
ance before the Byrnes commit
tee and the record does not dis
close even any inference to such
effect.
SPREAD THE BURDEN
It further stated that / "sug-
gested only one substitute for
one Of these 'unsound' taxes
a general sales tax" made no
such a suggestion. AS regards
the social security taxes on pay
rolls, I said that tax is a pow
erful incentive to employers to
replace men with machines
wherever ingenuity can devise
a way and modern ingenuity is
particularly good at that"
suggested this levy be re-ex-
amined, and spoke OF the posi-
bility of a tax on the machine
which displaces man or, If that
is not feasible in certain in
stances, levy on the gross sales
of a corporation. So
At the present time, the work
ers pay it all. The burden upon
their shoulders should be spread.
A tax on the machine instead
Of on the man would help to
spread that burden. At no time
did I suggest a general sales-tax.
in the generally-accepted sense
of the term as used today.
INHERITANCE TAXES
AS you know, my principal
discussion, on the subject of
taxation, concerned the undiS-
tributed profits and capital
gains taxes. These other mat
tiers came in incidentally. in re-
gard to the reference to inherit
ance taxes, it is quite right that
we have had these for 20 or 80
years-but we have not had
them to the extent we do now.
However, I said very clearly
was not in favor Of their repeal.
My suggestion-as you would
have known had you read the
record of my appearance-was
that they should be re-studied
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Would Help Us

Congratulations on your edi-
torial about welcoming the Ger
man-Jewish refugees here. I have
long believed that such a move
would go far toward solving not
only world Jewish problems but
also the American depression. I
am convinced that our economic
troubles are the direct result Of
the Tightening of our immlgra-
ton laws. T. K.
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t e Ike t h e
d e sire to
gamble out of
h u m a n
n a t ur t
would re bet
ter to make
1t legal and
thus brin g
t h e profits
into the city
go Vernment.
once in a
while when a
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as it is with
out legal en-
c engagement.
If the num-
b RS g a m e
W ere legal,
many persons
who do not
engage in it
now would be
te m p ted to
try. LIE v e
we'll enough
alone. If the
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said, rs per cent of the 500 top
positions.
With well organized Gentle
and Zionist charities for a decent
start, they would be sure to get
along.
This country having absorbed
some 100000 immigrants in
the course OF some $50 years
can surely house a few more.
In this connection it is cheer
ing TO read of well-fed pros
porous RusSia's concern for op-
preston of all kinds in the other
ism-ruled countries.
The great democracies will
have a new great ally: an ally
to prevent such rapid national
changes "for the worse" as in
italy and Germany. Why in
Germany, employers must en-
ploy a certain percentage of dis
abled war veterans! K. J.
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Yes. There
are thousands
of people who
W i'll gamble
whether it is
! e g a ! o r
Ill e g al So,
why not give
them the ben
eft of protec-
ton by the
law from the
r a c k e I e erS
who are con-
trolling the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
You Win-YOu Lose

If the Irish sweepstakes are il
legal in this country, now III the
name of st. Peter can the gov
eminent compel winners to
cough up income taxes on this
illegal dough? Is there a sec ton,
paragraph. subsection Of sub-d1-
vision in the income tax author
izing these cockeyed collections?
WILLIE FOREST.
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person makes a hit, especially
the big hits, he doesn't get paid
off. If it were legal, at least
a winner would always oe Ger.
tain of getting paid off"
\ X X
Miss Louise Knight, GIT Var
mum st. N. w., hat check girl:
Definitely, yes. If 1t were
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No Money for War

1t seems to me that the q. s.
holds >the key to world peace.
We've got the money bags, and
if the European nations can't
borrow money from us until
current war debts are paid, they
cannot start a big war. ]. A.
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gambling would mean revenue
to the Government and a con-
Sequent reduction in taxes,
while the present system pays
nothing to the Government"
X
D. H. Silver, 1701 Park Road
N. W., window display man:
mo. Gambling is bad enough
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playing num-
bers, it would
b e a 90 d
idea to give
these persons
prot e C t ion
from the un-
Scru p u lous
persons who
n 0 W control
b e t t ng on
n u m b e RS.
A er all,
] e G a Ii e d
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Welcomes Immigrants

No doubt this country would
be fine for the German and
Austrian Jews, a better refuge
than Palestine, where the popu-
lation IS not sufficiently mixed
to bring out their outstanding
leadership.
A leadership, which in Russia
alone has brought them. 1t is
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Mothers, ready to start the
Everyone knows that there
is no earthly love so pure, so
deep and selfless as a mOtrer's, /"
says ETHEL LILLIAN VANCE,
of PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA.
The agony of birth gives a
mother far greater compassion
and understanding than any
father can ever know. A mother
gives her time, her youth, her
health, uncomplainingly.
Fathers desert their children,
turn them into the street-but
mothers, never! In the animal
kingdom the father often de-
YOURS his child! Fathers may
love, but only in secondary
way. It is their nature to be-
get and forget. Mother love is
greater because God made it so.
ETHEL LILLIAN VANCE,
"a years,
"Ponca City, Okla.
$40 PRIZE
That's a sweet and sincere
letter, my dear, but as an hon.
est woman-and q mother-I
am bound to tell you that your
theory is PURE PIFFTE. A
mothers association with her
child is naturally closer, BUT
WHEN TT COMES TO LOVE,
SERVICE AND SACRIFICE,
MOTHERS AND FATHERS
ARE ON A PAR.
The act of having a child Is
no more difficult or noble than
the responsibility and anxiety
of supporting that child for 81
years thereafter. The service Of
a mother in a home is no more
holy than that Of a father in
an office. And a father sacri-
fees his time, health and
youth" as surely as any mother.
AS for the widespread belief
that woman somehow auto
matically acquires superior
understanding and tenderness
by the mere act Of giving birth
no more miSchievous notion
was ever broadcast. It has
alibied endless 'Flfishness,
stupidity, lazineSs and general
cussedness. 81,
Birth pangs never added an
ounce to a woman's brains nor
an inch to her soul. Mothers
become good and wise, brave
and kind, exactly as fathers do
by hard work, study and diSci-
pine. And each individual
mothers love is only as great
as the woman herself. While
as for "devouring" offspring, no
jungle beast ever consumed its
young more viciouSly than
many a selfish, sentimental
mother.
Yet despite their mortal
trGilty, both Mothers and
Fathers rise to godlike heights
of pure devotion. And that hu.
man is wretched, indeed, IUho
does not worship at the shrine
of some good Mothers or
Fathers loOe!
NOW comes more mpopu-
larity for Elsie. Sixteen-year.
old MARGARET GLASS, of
CHICAGO, ILL, believes that
A WOMAN WOULD MAKE A
GOOD PRESIDENT FOR
THESE UNITED STATES. And
I don't!
~
Dear Miss Robinson:
lone of the problems we have
debated in school recently is:
Would a woman make good
president? Would she be strong
and courageous enough to
carry out her convictions?
"I think she would. The
women of today. are fighters.
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People
F. Romer

DUKE MAZARlN
THIS favorite of Louis
XIV sought to force
extraction Of the front
teeth Of pretty village
maidens so the lads would
not be distracted. He fl
naIIy decided he was a
tulip, and arranged to be
sprinkIed and put in the
sun daily by garden at
tendantsl
Copyright. 1888. By r. RomsrD
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Miss Mildred Paxton, 1908
University Pl. N. w., manicur-
list:
With so many people illegally
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lie g allied, I
believe many
persons would
cease to gam
BILE on the
numbers. 1t
would prob
a ly op re n
their eyes to
+ h e r e a /
fulfill ty Of
gambling. OF
course, If it
tempted peo-
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1T should
not be lega-
lized. r h e
police should
wipe it out.
Why, I know
OF people who
can't S p al e
t h e money,
yet they bet
C o Imperative
ly ! ar g e
amounts on
the numbers"
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police got right down to fighting
the racket, we could eventually
get rid Of this menace"
Miss Evelyn Blackwell, 329
Thirteenth st. S. E., beauty
culture student:
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LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson
YOUNG AMERICA ASKS

IVO4NN <A1l1IE1OzA
is MOTHER LOVE GREATER THAN FATHER LOVE?
Copyright 1898, Features syndicate
S MOTHER love greater than father love?
Wonder how many domestic massacres THAT Tear
Bomb has caused! But here comes one of Tomorrow's
Mothers, ready to start the rumpus all over again.