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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-06
Jeff Lives in Comfort

Jeffries, who won the champion
ship by beating the great Bob Fitz-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-06

terlands the new crop of native ora
tors is a bountiful one; and the typ
ical silver tongues of the great
open spaces-I'm speaking of their
neighborhoods although I might in
clude their mouths-are still con-
vinced that the sweetest music on
earth is the sound of ones own voice
uplifted in eloquence.
An English preacher had the best
formula: Stand up to be seen, speak
up to be heard, shutup to be appre-
ciated. If he'd left out all but the
last part, 'twould have been a per-
feet recipe.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Opposition to BurleW
Tribute to His Honesty

VX1HEN President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the
w name of Ebert X. Burlew as First Assistant Sec
retary of the Interior he recognizing not only
man of remarkable ability, but the capabity of Gov
ernment employees in general to rise from the bottom
to the top.
For, beginning lowly clerk 27 years ago, Bur-
lew has risen high higher than any Civil Service
employe in many years. Through Republican and
Democratic administrations alike he has served with
equal fathfuness and efficiency.
And the fact that there is opposition to his appoint
nent is tribute to his honesty 1t is particularly
tribute that those most vigorously opposing him are
the lumber interests who have done their best to
wangle leases from Burlew and the big mining COM
panes who have been itching to get their fingers on
certain parts of the national domain.
What Burlew has done in his long years of efficient
work, other Government workers do, and his ap-
pointment should be encouraging tribute to the
entire service. We urge his speedy confirmation
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Budget Bureau Gives Us
a Few Crumbs

THE District budget presented most depressing
picture at first glimpse it was whisked from
the star chambers of the Federal Bureau of the Budget
to the star chambers of the Congressional appropra
tions subcommittee
! Prolonged study makes us still red the in
justices perpetrated the dsenfranchised citizens
of Washington but through the haze can be detected
a faint silver lining.
It's not much, but can be thankful the Budget
Bureaucrats authorized beginning of construction of
the municipal CENTER purchase of site for National
r--.,. ~ d. Guard armory, construction of
~ an underpass at Dupont Cir
" cle and new Pennsylvania
Avenue bridge the Anacostia River.
We can also be thankful pressure Gallinger Hos
pital will be relieved somewhat by the proposed esab
lshment of the old tuberculosis Hospital unit
for convalescent patients.
These projects as we'll as many others which we're
blue-penciled by the Budget Bureau, urgently
needed now and have been for years.
For the next several weeks we console ourselves
with the thought that at least will get something
useful for the Congress intends to inflict
upon US. Meanwhile, the House
m'O ,'', Appropriations Committee, behind
V"0' We"U locked doors, will be hacking and
patching the Budget Bureaus figures What we will
get in the end not even the esteemed committeeman
know
When the local supply bill is sprung suddenly
the day it is introduced the floor, there WILL
doubt be gasps of surprise and anguish the work
of the subcommittee.
Each year go through the same period of watch
full apprehensive waiting and then resign ourselves to
accept the crumbs Congress throws and start rails
ing money to pay for our merry ground ride.
And each year we know going for ride and
will keep on going for until we get busy and get
voice in Congress and full supervision the prep
aration of our budget.
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his hours Of sleep or wakeful-
ness. He is just another case
His friends send him mes
sages Of sympathy and cheer
and point to similar cases
being dismissed every day.
They assure him he will be all
right in a little while, and
urge him just to have
PATIENCE until he can return
to normalcy-and his club"
However, it has been our
observation that a man is al
ways a lot better for having
been married-just as he is al
ways a lot better after a sue
cessful operation.
And while an unsuccessful
operation may lead to all sorts
Of complications, the worst
that an unsuccessful marriage
can lead to is divorce-and
ANOTHER MARRIAGE!
So, why be so cynical-and
so clinical?
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terfuge was necessary. Sincere,
patriotic American citizens do
not resort to such procedure in
obtaining visas.
It Is observed at least that
the "Robinsons" injected q new
quirk by the fraudulent manner
in which they obtained their
travel documents, that Of tax
ing their names from tomb
stones. Ingenious politicos in
certain rural sections of our ma
ton have been accused of pack
ing the ballot boxes in primary
and State elections by this
method, but it Is the first time
to our knowledge that the ire
QUEEN rock" was thus employed
to evade the scrutiny Of alert
U. s. officials.
No doubt this visa bomb
shell" has struck with a resound-
ing thud throughout the car
peted corridors of State Depart
ment and its repercussions have
reached beyond the adjoining
street into the Sanctorium where
the political destinies of the ma
tion are Matched and nurtured.
No doubt in that office also was
heard the plan Of strategy to be
employed to forestall any inter.
national complications that
might result therefrom.
What far-reaching develop
ments are likely to be encom-
passed in sitting to the bottom
all the facts pertinent to the
case is something only time can
reveal. CWAR.
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Marriage has become a
major operation,' to which a
man submits only when he
knows he HAS to-against
which he struggles as long as
he is CONSCIOUS, and for
which he prepares as he does
for any other chance with
fatal possibilities!
"He makes his will, puts
his affairs and his clothes in
order, gathers his frien d S
around him and harkens
to their messages of coincidence
and courage. Then he gives up
his bankrou to the officiating
minister and prepares for the
WORST.
"He enters the church as he
would the hospital, full of
doubts and misgivings, and lets
himself be led down the aisle
in the same seIni-somnambu-
listic state under which he lets
the orderly roll him into the
operating room.
1.-THE last words he hears are
those Of the clergyman pro-
nouncing him ready and re-
assuring him with a smile.
And his last conscious thought
is to open his mouth and
PROTEST, only to find himself
POWERLESS and at the mercy
of the people around him.
"Then he takes the count
while his freedom is removed
and his nerve extracted under
the anesthetic Of blind love.
when he comes to, he
doesn't know WHERE he is,
WHAT has happened, or WHY
He has a faint feeling in the
pit Of his stomach as he rec
ollects that he has been re.
lieved of his independence. He
finds himself strangely weak
and helpless and subject to a
lot of rules and orders which
mark him a patient
"a daily chart is kept of his
fluctuations in temper and tenn
perature, his nourishment and
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A ShreWd Bargain

THE Maritime Commission, headed by Joseph P.
l. Kennedy, is alert to national defense needs and
is also quick to a bargain.
It has urged a Senate committee to authorize the
Government to share 26 per cent of the cost of fleet
of twenty oil tankers to be built by private interests
This is not a gift or subsidy to the Standard Oil
Company, which will build the tankers, but actual
acourement of great fleet of naval auxiliaries at
expense to the Government of about quarter of their
cost
It will assure the building of ankers designed espe
cially for naval service, complete with gun founda
tions magazines and the essential equipment of armed
vessels and fast enough to keep up with the fleet
It will accomplish this at saving to tax
pavers because the Governments obvious choice is be-
tween paying fourth of the cost of converting COM
mercia tankers suitable for Defense of paying the
whole cost of naval tankers built exclusively for naval
purposes and entirely at public expense.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

horizon; and we can now look
forward to having some forward
looking men sitting on the
bench.
Perhaps the new blood will
help to do what our last regular
legislature neglected to do and
place restrictions on the court
that will remove it from the
legislative field.
NEW DEALER.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Your [. Q.
By SHIRLEY SPENCER

This is another Of a series Of
special personality inventories.
Check over the list below, put
ting down if you think you
have been guilty in the past
year of these traits. Grade from
5 down to according to how
you feel you rate on each par
ticular item. If you think you
have not been guilty Of some Of
these traits, put down o.
In the past year have you been
-grouchy, -touchy, gloomy,
lazy, moody, worried.
-stingy, unfair, reckless,
impatient, -quarrelsome,
-procrastinating, -egotistical,
-opinionated, -extravagant,
-intolerant, -vindictive, crit
ical, -nonsocial?
mo anSWeERl
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
The Robinson Case

With the State Department
gradually emerging from the
fog shrouding the No. l inter-
national spy case, concerning
the disappearance of the phan-
tom-like 'cMr. and Mrs. Donald
L. Robinson or the equally elu-
sive Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Ru-
bens," brings to mind the
thought that Congress should
take immediate steps to prevent
the recurrence of similar irregu-
larities concerning the granting
of viSas.
In the case of these "spooky"
individuals, our Government is
faced with a problem that has
necesSitated many sleepless
nights for officialdom Of the
State Department.
Hints have been advanced
that the "RobinsonS" are mem
bers Of an international espion-
age ring, based primarily on the
fact that unsavory methods
were employed in obtaining their
passports. True, it has later de-
veloped that the MRS. Robin
son" or "Rubens" is a bona-fide
American citizen, but the ques-
ton that irks the staid State
Department ID why such sub
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the gaunt faces lighting with
JOY and the hungry flesh
quivering with hope?
NOBODY STARV E"-a
blessed promise! But I'm begin
ming to wonder, now, If there
aren't things worse than thirst
and more shameful than hun.
ger.
A nation of helpless hands
Empty stomachs because
"the missis can't cook"
bare backs because "the missus
can't sew" rooflesS Shacks
because dad usta be a clerk
but now he's on relief" A MA.
TION ON RELIEF! Is or isn't
that worse than starvation?
For five years now, I've sewed
like that. Going up and down
the mountains-out over the
desert. Going into mining camps
Of % families, the new gypsy
American breed, where not one
wife has ever had a sewing ma
chine or could make a shirt on
bet. More families like that
this year than there were the
year before. More such families
the year before than the year be-
fore that.
My God, where's it going to
end?
Nations are built on different
things different standards
and ideals. Old World nations
were built on educated classes,
sweating masses. A good enough
system for those who like it.
But our forefathers didn't like
it. They didn't believe in non
sweaters, educated or otherwise.
They built on DEMOCRACY
and INDEPENDENCE and
SEIF-RESPECT. Everyone do
ing his share. Every man able
and proud to build his own
chicken house, plough his own
field. Every woman able and
proud to sew her own skirt and
cook her own stew. And now?
Fill in the blanks yourself.
Government? I don't know a
thing about it. I'd make q mess
of it If I tried. But you can bet
your last nickle on this-F I
WE'RE HANDING OUT RE-
LIEF, NO WOMAN WOULD
GET A CENT UNTIL SHE'D
ENROLLED IN A COOKING
AND SEWING COURSE NO
MAN SHOULD HAVE A DIME
UNTIL HE'D SQUARED OFF
WITH HAMMER AND SAW.
No starving Americans?
That's just dandy. BUT HOW
ABOUT A NATION OF BUMs2
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

Perhaps it's because I'm so
tired. For the last two weeks
I've spent every hour l could
spare from my work, sewing.
Pounding the treadle of an old.
fashioned sewing m hine-
turning out endless bundles of
flannelette nightgowns, under.
slips, house dresses. Why didn't
I buy the things ready made?
For one thing, I've been too far
away from store counters-in
the backwoods. For another,
it's beyond my purse. Figure as
you may, ready madeS" aren't
as cheap as home madeS-not if
you buy by the bolt.
So I've been sewing. And won
dering. There was one family
in particular. Six youngsters
the oldest II, the youngest a
baby of 9 months-and a mother
and father. Not pair of shoes
nor a stitch of underwear in
the house. Three little girls
going to school through noun
tain snow-barefoot. Yes, the
town folk had sent out some
hand-me-downs. But the mother
can't sew.
''The Missis can't sew
says it's cheaper to buy store
stuff" Take any trail through
the mountains or plains or little
valley towns. and you'll hear
that same refrain. Everywhere,
heaps of left-overs But nav
can't sew doesn't know how
to cut 'em over"
And the men are getting to
be about as bad. These new
trailer campS-Clutters Of Dust
Bowl refugees m a k hift
shackS OF Government workers
the new generation that's
growing up on relief . the boys
are as bad as the girls. All of
them able to tinker with auto
mobiles-but that let's them out.
Can't build a chicken house or
roof {, cabin :. hang a door or
shape a window frame.
Once-not so long ago-you'd
ride the better part Of a week
before you'd find an American,
male or female, who wasn't
handy with his fingers. Now
they answer such a question
with a snicker or yawn. Sew?
Why should they-when there's
always ready-mades? Build?
What's the idea-when there's
always relief?
mo ONE SHALL STARVE
IN ANIERICA!"
Remember how heartening
that promise sounded, when we
first heard it back in 80? And
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Smell and Wage Bill

AS I understand it, Republican
Leader Bert Smell opposes the
wage-and-hour bill in the House
because It's enactment would, as
lie sees it. ruin the Gouthern
system Of industrial injustice to-
ward poor whites and colored
people. Preserve a barrel Of
apples by keeping the rotten
ones right in it, eh, Bertt?? No
wonder the G.. o. P. is down at
the heel. M. A.
NeuD Blood for Court
All praise to senility that is
aware Of itself.
Little more need be said in
commenting on Justice Suther.
lands retirement from the Su-
preme Court bench. However,
since it has been a common oc-
currence for two other barnacled
members of the bench to concur
with him on most matters,
might add that, if merely for
the sake of consistency in their
own ranks, Butler and McReyn.
olds should join him in this,
the finest and most welcome de-
ciSion their colleague has handed
down since his acquisition Of a
high tribunal seat.
That epoch Of American po.
litical history, the Rule of the
Nine Old Men, has reached its
twilight zone with certain mem
bers not yet aware, or not admit
ting, that the sun is below the
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

matter wheth-
er they are
blondes or bru-
nettS. I can't
u n d e rstand
these shrink
ing souls who
are frighten-
ed and shy at
t n e thought
of m e e tt ng
strangers. It's
S O m e t h ing
I've a W a US
enjoyed doing.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

I W a S in
school and
before I start
ed W or king.
B u t working
a n d meeting
all types and
classes of peo-
pie has driven
all S II y u GSS
from me and
now I h a v e
complete con-
fidence when
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

have a slight
hesitancy and
a bit of in
feriority COM
plex W h e n
ever I've the
occ a sion to
m e e t impor
tant S tran.
G e RS or per
sons that I
want to i'm
press. I think
complete con.
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mo. When
I was a child
I was rather
tim i d, but
after 1 start
ed high school
1 gra d ually
lost my shy
ness. Now it
doesn't both
er me in the
least when I
meet a Stran-
ger, whether
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

thing l look
forw a r d to
with pleas
ure. I've nev-
er been tin1id
about it as I
C a n remem-
b er, particu-
larly a b o u t
meeting new
girls. I think
it is 70 oil iSh
for people to
be shy and it
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

fidence and poise is one of
greatest assets a person can
have"
x X X
Mrs. Mary Dibble, 1440 Co
lunbia Rd. N. W., office clerk:
"No. I was quite tinid when
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

meeting Stran-
gers. No mat
ter how hard
I try I can't
keep back a
f e e lin g of
self-conscious-
ness. B u t I
am no t so
timid that it
really makes
very m uch
d i f f e r ence
and once I
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

get acquainted I am completely
at ease. I really enjoy meeting
people and studying personali-
ties"
X \
Frank Gall, 1896 Colorado
Ave. N. W., Government clerk:
"Not one bit, and it doesn't
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

the person is important or not,
and I always feel perfectly COM
Portable whenever I GO to new
or strange places"
X X X
Miss Lucy Randolph, 1924 w
st. N. W., Government typist:
Eyes, I am very timid about
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
By Helen ROlUlGNd


q ONE bachelors have quaint ideas about marriage.
y Here is what of them writes me:
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January /, 1887, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

seems to me that too great
tinidity shows q certain weak
ness Of character"
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
THE ANSWERS

THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Katherine Cliff, 1901
Thirteenth st. S. E., clerk.
typist:
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ever I meet a stranger, no mat
ter who the person Is or what
the person wants"
X 4
George Winnick, 6408 Georgia
Ave. N. W., Government clerk:
Meeting new people is some
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

m HINGS happening in this America which puzzle
i which make me feel angry and frightened.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
The Inquirine
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Are you timid about meeting
strangers?
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

should be limited
the writer's will be omitted
Evening star., 1938-05-04
RHODE ISLAND
DINNER is HELD
Anniversary Of Freedom From
British Rule Is Celebrated
Here.

The l62d anniversary of the freeing
of Rhode Island from British rule In
1776 was observed by the Rhode
Island State Society at a dinner at
tended by more than l75 persons at
the Shoreham Hotel last night.
Joseph B. keenan,, assistant to the
Attorney General. the principal
speaker. warned against subversive
forces that threaten democracy. Other
speakers included Senator Green and
Representatives Forand and O'Con-
nell OF Rhode Island, and Mrs. John
M. O'Connell. A State flag was pre-
sented to the society on behalf Of Gov.
Robert E. Quinn.
Senator Green announced his inten-
tion 10 introduce bill to rename as
Rhode Island avenue that portion of
M street NV. which continues west
OF Connecticut avenue to the Potomac
River.
Exercises continuing the celebra ton
OF the State Independence day were
to be held at 3 80 pm. today in Stat
uary Hall at the Capitol. when a
wreath will be placed at the foot of
the statue of Roger Williams by the
youngest Rhode Islander in Wash
ington. 18-month-old Marie Ann
Dunphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Dunphy. L. Metcalfe Walline,
chief OF the Division of Public Con-
tracts in the Department OF Labor
and former director of labor In Rhode
Island, will speak
Evening star., 1938-05-04

Bv the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May Carl Won Ossietzky,
German paclflst who was awarded the
Nobel peace prize for 1886 died today
Of meningitis in a Berlin sanitarium
He was 48 years old
OssietZky was confined to a Ger
man concentration camp in 1894,
shortly after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
regime came to power He became ill.,
and was released November II, 1886,
some months after he had been NOM
mated for the Nobel prize.
The actual award Of the 1885 peace
prize to Ossietzky was announced No.
vember "a. 1886 He was in the hos
pltal when the announcement was
made. and friends said he was suf-
ferins from tuberculosis.
Several months ago the Nazi secret
police obtained conviction of a Ger
man attorney on charges of cmbez-
z,ing most OF Carl Won Ossietzkys
Nobel prize money. which amounted
to about $4,000 The attorney had
helped him obtain transfer OF the
money from Norway
Evening star., 1938-05-04

The extensive western disturbance is
moving slowly eastward and it now eX-
tends from Manitoba and extreme Western
Ontario southwark TO the west Gulf coast.
wichita, Kans.. % 30 inches; Minneapolis.
Mimi. %, inches: Sioux Lookout, On
tario. 1886 inches. and Churchill, Mani
toba. 2962 inches. The disturbance that
was southeast of Nova Scotia Tuesday
morning is central this morning about 400
idly northeastward. S. S. Scanmail, 1900
inches. and broad trough extends thence
west-southwestward to the Virginia coast.
Norfolk 2a.SS inches. Pessure remains
relatively from southern and central Alas
ka southeastward to Alberta. Dutch Har-
Dor. Alaska. 29.5S inches. and Edmon-
ton. Alberta. 2972 inches. Pressure is
high over the Pacific States and from
extreme Northern Alaska east-southeast-
ward to Hu6son Strait and Eastern Hud-
son Bav. and thence southwark to North
from Florida eastward over the ocean:
inches: Eureka Calf. 1890 inches, and
occurred in the Rocky Mountain region;
extreme upper Mississippi Valleys. the
North Pacific States. and in portions OF
the Lake region and the Middle Allan
tic States. The rainfall was heavy in
portions of Oklahoma. Kansas. Iowa. and
Eastern Texas. Topeka. Kans.. reporting
.smperatpre has fallen in the Plains
the Missouri Valley but unseasonably
warm weather stin prevails east Of the
New England.
Evening star., 1938-05-04
D. c. POWER RATE
IS SDECLAREDL0W
Only One City Sells rs
KiIoWatt Hours for Less,
ParIey Told.
BY the Associated Press,


Riley E. Elgen. chairman OF the
Public Utilities Commission Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, said yesterday "Only
one city in the country sells rs
kilowatt hours of power at less than
the District since adoption Of the
Washington plan"
Speaking at College Park, Md, be-
fore 200 delegates to the University
of Maryland conference on power
rates, Mr. Elgen said that formerly Is
of the most densely populated munich
palities in the United States had
lower rates. In addition, he said,
whereas all but one of the Is largest
cities sold 100 kilowatt hours cheaper
than the District before adoption of
the plan, now only two have lower
rates"
Under the plan, residents of the
District and the adjacent area served
by the Potomac Electric Power Co.
receive reductions in rates year by
year. Mr.. Elgen said. however, a
floor in reductions" would undoubt-
edly be reached some time
Although Maryland residents are
not affected by the District rates, they
benefit from reductions, Mr. Elgen
said. The Potomac Electric Co. divides
its power into urban, suburban and
rural, and all receive benefits Of the
Washington plan, he stated.
He attributed an increase in the
amount of power sold to the lower
rates. He said that an l8 per cent
increase occurred the year following
the adoption Of the Washington plan.
The lowest increase was announced as
4 per cent in 1888 with local average
OF about IS per cent per year. In con-
trast Mr.. Elgen stated that the ma
tional increase was only per cent
from 1925 to 1929 He said that the
national rise was II per cent over
1926, whereas that of Washington was
200 per cent
Following the lecture, a discussion
was held by delegates. Henry Hol-
zapfel. vice president of the Potomac
Edison Co.. HagerstoWn. and a mem
Der of the University Of MARYLAND
Board Of Regents. was the presiding
officer.