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The Washington times., 1938-07-30

dinner and they also give the
President an almost daily head
ache. From little worms great
big oak trees grow.
BILL" about IL years ago, re-
ceived an extended write up in
the late Literary Digest. 1t ap-
pears, his edition (Star) one
day sent him to the White
House to rummage for news.
Stalling around in the hallway
near the Presidents office he
grabbed the visitors as they
came out.
After a while this job got to
be hard on the feet. Shopping
around, he secured an old table
and two kitchen chairs. Also
an express wagon, a colored
man and a mule. After this
royal progress reached the
palace, he and the driver un-
loaded the stuff and placed 1t
in a hallway at a point where
the Presidential door was al
ways in sight.
Those were homespun days!
FRED VETTER.
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EurOpe's Kilkenny Cats

T F we're not mistaken about the legend of the Kill
kenny cats, the end of the story that they all
ate another up.
We were reminded of these cats by remark made at
the Evian (France) conference of 80 nations what
to do about taking in refugees from HitlerS Greater
Germany (greater in territory. The delegate who
made the remark Jesu Maria Yepes, from the South
American republic of Coombia and what he said was:
The way things are going Europe today
longer facing Jewish refugees, but Catholics
PTotestan FaSciStS anttFascSS liberals con-
Servatves, Communists antiCommunistS, Spanish Re
publicans or NatonaiSts. and who knows whom else
Europe certainly is putting preview of such
show at this time. The Russian Bosheviks put into
bloody practice Karl Marx theory of the inescapabe
class war; by liquidang all classes except the working
class-farm and ndustrial-in Russia. The middle
and wealthy classes in Italy and Germany, seeing the
perence what the Reds intended declined to be lqui
dated even if Marx did say they had to be- That,
think must be of the underlying for Eu-
ropean Fascism, if not the only
Anyway, it becomes increasingly the thing in most
European countries for factions in power to boycott,
freeze out or otherwise trample down minority fac
tions Europe in general is coming to a Kilkenny cat
frame of mind.
That is a sad enough spectacle But what worries
US still more is the next paragraph in the Colombian
statesmans speech at the Evan conference:
it is that the bad example Of the Old World
spread other continents and make the planet unin
habtable.
In other words
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denoted, had a very fine
chance of colonels eagles and
maybe generals stars. These
have been lost because
he knocked a mans hat
off and because he invaded a
party to which he had not been
invited.
I am sorry for the lieutenant
colonel because, under the cir.
cumstances, he couldn't admit
that he had taken liquor when
he knocked the mans hat off
and horned into the party. If
he had done so he would have
forfeited his pension of around
$4,000. When you're nearing so
and know no other business but
soldering $4,000 a year for the
rest of your life is something to
think about. So the colonel took
the rap and admitted that,
though he had reached field
rank, he remained at heart a
frisky boy subaltern.
THE colonies who sat in judg-
L ment upon him were well
aware of the condition, a COM
mon one in a peacetime army Of
long standing. I am Of the opin-
ion that soldiers who get no
chance at actual warfare should
be periodically bled to keep
them normal. Otherwise they
become playful, if bullying, hoys
at heart anG push bystande1s'
hats off and crash parties. And
the older they get the more
childish they get-if there are
no wars to steady them.
I know a lady and her huS-
band who entertained two Ma.
rine captains over the week end.
The host and hostess were
called away for several hours
and asked the warriors to take
care of themselves. They re-
turned to find both men, with
rifles from the hosts collection,
stalking squirrels in their under.
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RecolIectionS

Reading Earl Goodwin in The
Times and hearing him over the
radio, recalls to me the good
old days" of the Times years
ago.
I remember him as the con-
ductor of the Heard and Seen"
column which appeared in the
paper for a number Of years.
Amateur writers with a humor-
Gus or "nutty" kink, Strutting
their stuff. Some names come
to mind: Paul White, Thomas
Schwab, O'Sullivan, "Joe" Ros-
doe, Con King, "Kelly." The
only professional writer as far
as I can recall, developed by
the column, is "Joe" Holman,
the sports expert. The rest Of
us stuck to peddling brooms.
After Mr.. Goodwin dropped
out, the late Bill" Price man
aged that circus for quite o
while. It was finally taken off
the row-discontinued.
Price, by the way. was the
original White House CORE
spondent. Beginning In Nc
Kinley's time, and in the service
of another Washington news
paper, he was a fixture near the
Executive offices for about 20
years. He was a whale Of a
man and needed plenty Of
elbow room. Such was the one
man beginning of the potent
White House Correspondents
Association, They give Q yearly
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Wants to KnOw

~. H. c." in letter Of July 26
in the "Voice," says the differ.
ence between legitimate criti-
cism and Misrepresentation
ought to be understood. (He
says that we should observe a
sense of justice when speaking
Of the President, and scores the
injustice Of attacks on the Presi-
dent.)
I wonder if ~. H. G." knows
that difference between snooz-
ing in a swivel chair in a bomb
proof office in Washington and
living in the filth and vermin
of a trench in Europe in 1917
and 1918?
I wonder why the average
double-dealing dictator and pro-
fessional patriot thinks that his
viewpoint is final and should be
accepted without reservationH
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I wonder why Presidents Wild
ows are receiving pensions Of
$4,000 a year and the widows Of
World War veterans cannot
even get $24 a month.
I wonder if this is class legis-
lation and also what, if any
thing, our New Deal President
has accomplished which would
class him with great men, such
as Washington, Lincoln, Jeffer-
son, U. S. Grant and Theodore
Roosevelt. B. J. LAWLOR.
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Finds No Jobs

I am a WPA worker with
clerical experience, and I have
tried time and again to secure q
job in private industry, both big
and small. Plenty of these peo-
pie claim to be behind the Presi"
dent, but I have ceased to be-
lieve it. My only prayer is that
shall not die on the WPA.
Phooey to you, private industry,
WPA CLERK.
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are quite capable of holding the
places they have made for them
selves and the majority of men
do not resent this, in my opinion.
However, the single standard is
responsible for the loss Of many
of the courtesies formerly ex-
tended to women by men,"
X X X
Miss Margie Byram, 3511
Davenport st. N, w.:
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F. D. RS FinGnces

If Roosevelt is such a wonder
ful President, as you claim, how
come he left a 500. .00O, 900 def
cit in the New York State treas
ury when he left the governor
ship: a deficit which Governor
Lehman has only now succeeded
in cleaning up? E. A. j.
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and am in accord with their
going forward. The one thing
I do object to is both husband
and wife working and I think
men should have the preference,
because where the wife is work
ing, she might possibly be keep
ing some married man out Of a
position"
Mrs. ]. T. Fem, GIT Carroll
Ave, Takoma Park, Md. book
keeper:
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Your |. O.
By SHIRLEY SPENCER

300~~@0~
This is a spelling quiz. Score 4
for each word. Check quickly
right or wrong.
Supercede, secede, nonpariel,
bankruptcy, anniversary, coa-
lesce, collegiate, BENEFICIARY, ca
PRECIOUS, contemplate, service
able, demurrer, arrangement,
changeable, comparable, econom-
ical, cumulative, corespon-
dence, apothacary, concience.
Is it "ei" or "ie"? Efficient,
foreign, inveigle, lenient, incon.
cievable.
ANSWERS on Page y
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ROllin' Along
By ". A. S. Douglas

soldier who chased out of army for getting
drunk my sympathie should all be with Lieut.. COL
Stewart s. Gfn of the United States Coast Artillery who
despite varied civilian interpretations of his fate found
guilty of wrongfuly taking off another mans hat and
"trespassng" in home which he had not been invited
The lieutenant colonel retains his rank and next March,
completion of 80 years srvcewhich includes his four
years West Point cade-he plans retire This inten
ton apparently taken into account by the members OF
the courtmartia when he denoted 100 files the
promotion list. He could, all other military matters being
okay-such health efficiency etc-sodier for another
16 years
But according to the and going pop" at the
officers poor animals with their
nlirnh md
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toward full
colonelc / e S
and the va
rious grades
of ge n era l.
ships before
he gets his
chance. AS a
lieuten a n t.
colonel at At,
Giffln, if he
were not re-
firing a n d
had not been
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better helpmate than she ever
was in former generations. Once
upon a time a woman was just
a female. who could rise no
further than her husband al
lowed her, but now her knowl-
edge of the world and her abili-
ties may be equal to those of
men. The modern woman, be-
lieving in the single standard,
is as good a mother as the world
has ever had"
X 4 4
Mrs. Martha Burton, 313 D st.
AT VIZ
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wear and going pop" at the
poor little animals with their
mouths every now and then,
just like 6-year.old children. The
rifles were 'lnloaded.
Peacetilne soldering is the
LATEST and most useless life
there is to he lived. It is also
the most monotonous. Outside
of the artillery there is nothing
to it that cannot be picked up
by an intelligent man in a few
months. Ana outside of flying
there is no thrill of any kind
to it-when the guns are not
firing in an honest-to-God battle.
It's no wonder senior officers go
around knocking peoples hats
off and playing at squirrel hunts.
THE great war proved that on
l. the average the intelligent
civilian makes an infinitely bet
ter soldier than does the profes-
sional. At one swoop the former
does away with red tape and
ritual. Ask former Vice Presi-
dent Dawes. The days of stout
hearts and bayonets have gone
forever to be supplanted by an
intelligence of the sort that
would refuse to waste time in
parades, inspections, mess gossip
and public horseplay.
In the opinion of those who
should know the most brilliant
strategist, the most able tacti-
clan of the last war was Sir John
Monash, the Jewish real estate
developer and bridge builder
who commanded the Australian
and New Zealand army corps.
The mud was the toughest thing
to conquer and maybe that was
why a real estate man topped
the thinkers and doers.
Looking oack over the years
I am glad that the monotony
Of peacetime service made me
kick over the traces. Unlike
Colonel Giffin I broke through
when I was very young and I
didn't have to claim a sort of
second childhood in order to
hang on to a pension. I was
stationed at Cairo, Egypt, Just
out of West Africa, where things
had been, well, interesting. I
got drunk regularly because
barTack life bored me. And one
night, to please an acquaint-
ance-also drunk-I turned out
the brigade guard which was an
homage due only a command
ing officer.
I admitted I was drunk,
which was unnecessary because
they had it on me. was given
my choice of court-martial or
resignation. I took the latter
course and am glad I did.
Because, otherwise, I, an aging
man in uniform, might be run
ming around poking innocent
peoples hats off their heads
or stalking squirrels with an
empty gun. What else would
there be to do?7
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Home, Boys

It is about time somebody told
Fritz Kuhn to go back to Ger.
many and Earl Browder to go
to Russia. We have enough
trouble of our own, without their
trying to stir up any more.
BERNIE M.
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Wise Words

The wise prove, and the fool
ish confess, by their conduct,
that a life of employment is the
only life worth leading.-Paley.
The indiScriminate defense of
right and wrong contracts the
understanding, while it hardens
the heart.-JuniuS.
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wv o m e n have
gained in educa-
ito nal advantages
a n d independence,
but they have lost
the chivalry due
them from men.
Men are altogether
different to W ar d
women. Mems lack
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N. W., waitress:

1T may appear
that women have
gained because they
can go out and earn
their own living,
and because they
can be independent
of men, but I be-
lieve the women are
really the losers.
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in general courtesy is noticeable
everywhere. For instance, I
shall soon get on a bus to go
home, and although I happen to
be loaded down with packages,
no man will be gracious enough
to offer his seat"
y X X
Charles E. Grace, 925 Fiji
teenth st. N. W., claims attor-
new.
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Rainier, Md, attorney:

Il feel women
have gained more
than they have lost.
They have the same
right as men in the
prof e sSions, busi-
ness, arts and sci
enceS. And why
shouldn't they? Ap-
parently the women
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With woman's freedom, there
has come a letdown in morals.
They have lost the respect and
the high plane that women once
occupied in the eyes of men, and
women have robbed themseles
of their rightful places as the
governing heads of family life"
X \ 4
Charles L. Becker, of Mt.
PoiYiar Md affOrnev.
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wv o m e n have
gained as evidenced
by the fact that so
many are employed
by the Government
and gradually re-
placing men in key
positions. It is a
good idea for
women to progress
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Women who are forced to earn
their livings today are equipped
for 1t and the male sentiment
is not against it. But in some
ways women have lost"
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THE ANSWERS
Miss Wilda Taylor, 1882 Fiji
teenth St. N. W., secretary:

II think women
have gained much
more, because they
are now as indie
pendent as m e n.
They have gained
for themselves as
well as for the op-
posite sex, because
a woman is now a
The Washington times., 1938-07-30

II think women
have gained, be-
cause today the av.
erage woman Is
much better off
than she used to
be. The way girls
were held down in
past generations
was a CT / m e.
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TheInquiring.
Photographer.
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used In this column.
THE QUESTION

Do you think women have
gained or lost more by advocat-
ing a single standard for both
sexes?
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Cut Out the Noise

ITO THE residents of Shanghai the bursting of shells
l. and the crack of rifles is familiar music.
And to those residents of Washington who live along
the routes of bus lines that nerveshatterng noise
not unfamiliar For many of the busses are in need of
repairs.
The vehicles to STOP then start up and there is
sharp backfire sometimes, which sounds unpleasantly
like the explosion of a shell. And
AHeH AHeTe it is particularly aggravating to
10 ~ RucL.firo have that noise outside ones win
dow just after dropping off to sleep
In the interests of courtesy nothing else the Capital
Transit Company should repair these busses and give the
jaded nerves of residents rest
New York has excellent antnoise ordinance and such
0 thing might we'll be adopted here.
And incidentally great many motorists would be do
ing kindness by driving with common sense and
less with their horns There enough noise in city with
out unnecessary backring of motors and blowing of horns
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
and addresses Of

Editor should 200
writers will Q
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But, according to the SEN
tence, 100 officers Junior to him
must climb over his shoulders
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ANSWERS on Page u
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-11-18
Wells To Establish
 Fur Farm Highway

Henry A. Wells is making such good progress with the home he is building on Wrangell Highway that he expects to be able to have his family move out from town shortly after the first of December.
 Following the season of poor fish, ing and facing a winter with all trapping closed, MT. Wells decided 10 change occupations so he took ad- vantage of free land near Wrangell and filed for a fur farm on which he will raise mink. At first he had planned to take an acreage at the beginning of the new highway ex- tension but upon finding that the gravel beach was to be destroyed for road surfacing he went a half mile further on where there is another creek with a fine gravel beach frontage.
 Lumber for his home was obtain ed from George NJ. Bidwell in ex- change for assessment work done on the Olympia Mining Go. property on Woewodski, MT. Wells tore down the house which was one time the residence of Supt. Harvey. The lum- Der is fir and cedar and in excellent condition.
 MT. Wells is building four rooms and a bath and next year will add two more rooms. He first construct ed a gridiron up the mouth of the creek and is living aboard his boat, the Helen w, while building the home. The house commands a beau tiful view of the harbor and he will have a valuable piece of property before long.
 After getting the home in order MT. Wells will turn his attention to preparing housing for the mink with which he will stock early in the spring after blasting operations on the highway extension have been completed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-11-18
NORTH STAR SOUTH FROM BARROW
 HELD WRANGELL BY ONSHORE WIND

and hues. Some were black, some were blond, some were in informed fate shades, but all were luxuriant and well kept. The reason for the eamouflage it was explained. was not as one would expect. for the pur- pose of facing the icy Arctic blasts while on watch. but that the first one who shaved before reaching Se- attle was stuck for the slaves of the others, cigars all around, and a case of beer in which the others might fleck their whiskers in foam.
 Included among the 26 passen- gers bound south are Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ogston. Mir. Ogston is a For est Ranger in Mckinley National Park and southbound for vacation. Y. Lantz of the Circle Mining Co.,, Candle to Seattle. Mrs. J. HalYor- son. Seward to Seattle, and D. L.. Woods. Alaska Railroad Employee for Seattle. Robert Hall Alaska Railroad Wireless, for Seattle. Mir. and Mrs. Shepherd and daughter for Seattle. MT. Shepherd is Chief of the Alaska Road Commission; Dor othy Green of the Office of Indian Affairs, Ebba Erickson from the Governors Office and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sebern are all from Juneau. MT. Sebern is connected with the Forestry Department.
 Mr. E. L. von Gohren of the en- gineering personnel for the Bureau of Public Roads. Wrangell Highway extension, and Mrs. Yon Gohren are enroute to Seattle from Wrangell.
 Viola Loftus of Wrangell is passenger for Ketehikan. John Cam eron, 12 years old Is enroute to the Tacoma Hospital and Joe Frost of Kodiak to the Swedish Hospital in Seattle for treatment.
 Genevieye Sheridan, formerly Government Nurse at Cordova, is now a member of the ships staff.
 Other passengers include several natives that the Office of Indian Af- fairs is taking outside for various welfare purposes, mainly medical.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-11-18
[. SHELDON STARTS NEW
 SHRIMP co.

Clyde Sheldon is expected back from Ketehikan next week to put into operation his new Wrangell Shrimp Packing Co.,. The plant which he purchased is on floats and is the one in which Dr, H. c. Tur- her was financially interested with Harry Coulter and Bob Hurley who used it to carry on their crab pack ing operations in Ketehikan last winter.
 4 dozen piekers is all the c1nnery will accommodate at present but it is expected that it will be enlarged to make room for few more; pos sibly sixteen. Only union piekers will be hired. Walter Johnson has already been engaged as cook.
 With a location on the flats be- tween the ARB crab cannery 4nd Shakes Island. Sheldon and his part ner, Harry Haaek, Of Ketchikan, hope to be in operation within three weeks or a month.
 Leonard Talbeck and Sheldon will do the fishing on the diesel seiner Collette owned by Sheldon.
 Arrangements for the marketing of his product were made by MT. Sheldon while on a trip. in which he was accompanied by Mrs. Shei don, to Seattle last month.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-11-18
HUNTERS
 BRING IN
 FULL BAGS

The deer, duck and goose hunting season ended last Wednesday with a bang! bangl
 Contrary to the belief in other sections that wolf depredalons had depleted the deer in the Wrangell District, the bags of game were ex- eeptionally good.
 The WrangeIl Cold Storage re- ports an approximate 12.000 pounds of game meat in storage. This rep fesents possibly half of the game taken as much is canned and home cured.
 Postmaster B. |. Grant reports a sale of 152 duck stamps as compared To the g4 sold last year Charles Benjamin issued 375 hunting licen- ses this season as compared to last years 152. But last year he issued 244 trapping licenses which permit hunting also The prohibition Of trapping this season possibly ac- counts for the greater number of hunting licenses sold as many would have taken out licenses for both hunting and trapping had the latter been permitted.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-11-18
New Route Would Cut
 Seward Off Railroad

A survey is being made for a new route for the Alaska Railroad south of Anchorage, reports the Anchor age Daily Times. Construction would cost approximately s1o.O00,0o0 and would bring Anchorage within two hours of the coast.
 Such a change in the route would leave Seward without @ railroad connection.
 Arguments in favor of the new route are to the effect that It would enable the railroad to abandon the most costly portion of the entire right of way from Seward to Fair banks. and would replace it with a short haul without appreeiabIe grade, cutting the operating costs sufficiently to warrant a general slash in freight rates.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-11-18
SalY. Army Officers
 Coming For Congress

Commissioner and Mrs. George L. Carpenter of Toronto will be aboard the Alaska next Monday enroute to Juneau where they will lead the Salvation Army Congress in session from November 22 to November 26. They will be joined at Wrangell by Mrs. Carruthers and Captain Mar garet Norris. Brigadier Carruthers left for Juneau last week.
 Commissioner Carpenter a yea. and half ago succeeded Commission CT MeMillan, when the latter was promoted to chief of staff, a position which makes him second in con- mand to General EYsngeline Booth of the Salvation Army of the world and necessitated residence in Eng land.
 Australians by birth Commission CT and Mrs. Carpenter had served the Army in Australia, New Zeal and, England and South America be- fore coming to Canada. Both are literary and Mrs Carpenters books have been translated into the lan- guage of most countries where the Salvation Army is active.
 On his return south the Commis- sioner will hold a meeting in Wran- gell if steamship schedules permit.