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Unemployment Peril

One of the most discussed
questions today is unemploy-
ment. The solution of which lies
in the hands of some men, who
have had no experience, are en-.
gagged in some business enter
prise, or have steady positions.
When the American workman
writes or speaks on it-espe-
cially one from the building
trades-his expressions come
from actual experience taken
from life, from years Of ex.
perience of unemployment, espe-
cially in the winter months.
And if the U. S. doesn't want
to see a revolution, fascism or
communism, we had all better
work together in harmony,
unity and cooperation, to solve
the problem of unemployment.
Give the American workingman
employment at decent wages.
He doesn't want charity or re.
lief, but employment at a liv.
ing wage.
We must bear in mind that
there are 10 million Of our
countrymen without any re.
ligious affiliation.
Many of them being in the
vast army of the unemployed,
it is a fertile field in which to
plant the seeds Of revolution,
fasciSm and communism.
I am against permitting this
menace to democracy and So
ciety to remain at large, this
reptile Unemployment: it
should be placed in solitary con-
finement before it becomes too
powerful to handle. Warning
from an ex.service American. I
have worked on some of the
largest building projects in the
U. S. and have had years Of
experience among American
workmen and know whereof I
write. GEO. P. RATE.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
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good-looking girls the District
may contain. It admits into
competition only Government
girls. In effect, a beauty con-
test sans beauty. What a laugh!
Can't you see yourself, Mr..
Editor, a couple Of weeks hence,
introducing to Walter Winchell
the pride of the Procurement Di-
vision, Miss Sylvia Slurp?
"Mr. Winchell, I want you to
meet sylvia, one Of the ten finai-
lists. You may be showing her
around the Big Town before it's
over. Sylvia. meet Mr.. Wip-
chell."
Can't you see a perspiring Mr..
Winchell, Mr.. Editor, as he stam-
merS:
But III th-tho-thought there
was to have been a contest. an
elimination contest. "a sort of
wedding out, Mr.. Editor"
Well, maybe you can't, Mr..
Editor, but can. It'll be pretty
funny. I'll be in New York, too,
Mr.. Editor to watch Walter lead
the pride of the Something-or-
other division of the Department
of Commerce around the hot
spots. I wouldn't miss 1t for
worlds, Mr.. Editor.
PEEKABOO.
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ditorium can be used for city
wide religious, political and rec
reational events is also inpor.
tant.
I earnestly hope that men,
bers of the Senate and House
from the State of New York, Of
which I am a native and in
which 7 vote during my resi-
dence here, will support the
bill. Measures like these that
are not entirely political, nor
economic, deserve the support
of all lawmakers, regardless Of
their party affiliation.
FREDERIC G. FROST,
1901 Massachusetts, Ave.
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Four Long Years

Economic circumstances have
forced me to spend the past four
years as a resident Of the Dis
trict of Columbia and the star
ting lack of feminine pulchri-
tude within the ranks of the
Federal employees here has made
each year seem like two.
I pick up my Times and find
that it is sponsoring a beauty
contest new and bizarre type
Of beauty contest, the rules Of
which make ineligible the few
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Urges Auditorium, o. K.

Urges AuOGGOEGOHS "" A1S
The announcement that Sen
ator Connolly and Representa-
tive Lanham of Texas will intro
duce bill in Congress recon-
mending construction of a SUI
per-auditorium in the District is
very heartening.
washington needs such a
building to accommodate the
many thousands of people from
other States who visit here once
or twice a year to attend con-
ventions and once every four
years to attend the Inaugural
ton Of the presidents.
1t also needs an adequate
public meeting place for civic as
sociations of the District who
have found present accommo-
dations not quite large enough.
The fact that q large public au-
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What Has 1942DOnefOr Us?

CHAIRMAN JAMES F. BYRNES (Dem., S. c., of
" the special Senate committee unemployment
and relief has brought in long and complex set of
No,u recommendations which will be debated copi-
ously. The recommendation that rings the big
ray bell with US is the urging that old age pen
sion payments under the Social Security Act post
poned until 1912, be moved back to 1888.
That is only common sense. People now over IS are
old, and the needy needy, will be those who
reach 65 in 1912 after Why save up for 1912? What
has 1912 done for US? Why not begin paying now?
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ROllin' Along
By W. A. s. Douglas

FTER listening the other night program of medici-
"A nal music played Johns Hopkins University medical
school, take leave to doubt that the board be
persuaded substitute Tchakovsky Brahms List for the
keen knives and keener of such nonsymphonc
surgeon as for example, Hugh H. Young
The items, presented by the of apoplexy he
quartet gathered mentally summoned TO his aid
Europe by Sgerist all WAS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-22

II don't I'M
d e r S t a n d
enough of the
situation. On
der the Cali
fornia law all
money a child
earns b e fore
he is 81 years
old belongs to
his parents.
But, in all
+ a i rness, he
should get a
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Printing the Pump

First may I offer my sincere
appreciation to Mrs. Patterson
for her recent letter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. I feel certain
that were more newspapers
prompted by courage and pa
triotism the United States would
make rapid strides toward at
tanning the goal Of triumphant
democracy.
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HE should
get all the
money t h a t
he h a S, in
spite of the
! a W H S
m o t h err is
married and
er present
h u S b a n d
should t a k e
care of her.
After Jackie
e e t S t h e
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Jackie should receive rs pei

cent Of all
the money he
e a I'm ed and
his m o t h err
should h a We
the rest for
the cost of
keeping him.
His mother is
selfish if she
fe els tn a t
nothing t h e
boy e I'm ed
should be his.
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THE ANSWERS

C o o g a n
should n o W
have most of
what is left
of his earn
ings, despite
he Califor-
MIA law. He
e a IN d the
m o n e y, not
h is parents.
1t Ger tainly
is not a ir
for j a ckie
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lerVeS OIL SUCH a nOuSy mpnOnlC
H. Young.
on the verge of apoplexy, he
mentally summoned to his aid
Northumberland all was well.
If he can effect self-cures ke
that, just in his mind, think
of what a string orchestra could
accomplish out at Walter Reed
Hospital.
Seriously, however, believe
a tremendous lot of intelligent
people agree with DR.. Sigerist
that music has not been IS
thoroughly considered as it
should be in the matter Of
nervous and mental Affections.
1t is far from silly to picture a
man almost at the end of his
rope, and therefore sick, drop
ping into chair at a symphony
concert. He is soothed-Allegro;
he responds to the gentle caress
-Andante; his cares are sliding
from him-Scherzo; and, presto,
he is himself again-Finale. 1t
has happened, time and again.
Medicinal music, of course,
must be properly prescribed to
be of any curative USE. The
torch song, usually ordered in
the night clubs by Tilted men
or women, comes from amateur
diagnosis and can only make
the patient feel worse than ever.
Pasteur would never have SUI.
gested the presence of a secor =
mad dog to cure the effects of
the first hounds nip. A song
about the existence of as GO
fish in the sea as ever came
out of it is an antidote-though
the sufferer may not like the
taste of it. And the table-wailing
at five bucks a wail-of I'll
Never Forget I Love You" only
augments the fever.
SIMILARLY - and here one
~ can understand the common
sense which applied Big Apple
music to poison victims in
medieval days-the thunder of
martial tunes is a blood stifrer
and is therefore of great i'm
portance in dealing with NAL
aides which bring lethargy and
otherwise dull the senses. Dur
ing the great war a giant High
lander was appointed to COM
mand a freshly recruited bat
talon of small-statured English
men from one Of the midland
manufacturing cities. When he
first looked them oveI he is said
to have quoted Wellington's
famous remark when a batch
of recruits paraded before him
during the Peninsular war:
II don't know what will be
your effect upon the enemy, but
you certainly terrify me-"
The Scotsman found on fur
ther study that his men were
lazy and cowardly. So he
scrapped the band of brasses
and flutes and the drum corps
assigned to him and replaced
them with six bagpipers from
his own original regiment, the
Cameron Highlanders. The lit
tie city-bred soldiers had never
heard that sort of music before
and it worked wonders with
them. Even before they left for
the front they had won the nick
name of THE Bull Terriers" be-
cause of their aggresSiveness
and tenacity in street fights and
bar-room brawls. In France,
with the strains of THE Came
romans" ringing in their ears,
they led the penetration of the
enemy lines by Rawlinson's
army-and Rawlinson himself
went so fast and so far that he
lost contact with the other
armies.
I feel sure there is something
to this medicinal music.
rSonv.inht 1oas wasbip1toD Times
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If that is the law, then the law
is stupid. If Jackie'S father had
lived, I'm sure that Jackie would
now be provided for"
X \ X
Miss Elizabeth Sherier, Alex
andria, Va, Government libra
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Coogan to be broke now, while
his mother and stepfather are
living in luxury.
X
Miss Sally La Soda, 212 Car
roll Ave-, Takoma Park, Md,
clnrk.
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Wise Words

Self-love Is not so vile q
sin as self-neglecting Shake
speare.
There is no cheerfulness like
the resolution of a brave mind.
that has fortune under its feet.
Seneca.
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money that is rightfully his,
having earned it, it should be
up to his own feeling as to
whether he should give any of
it to his mother"
Lloyd H. Elliott, 1872 Six
tenth st. N. E., florist:
Jackie should receive IS per
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
nd addresses Of

Editor
the writer be INIT upon
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-22
People
BY E Romsr

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER
FROM childhood, Land
seer's genius for
painting was remarkable.
More than equally skiIlful
in drawing with either
hand, he was able to as
found his friends by draw
ing. at the same time,
with both hands! Thus,
he'd do a stays head with
one pencil, a horses head
with the other-each a
finely executed sketch
simultaneously produced.
Copyright 1888 By =. Romsr
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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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% ing a
law student,
I dislike CIV
ing an opin-
ion without
knowing more
a b o u t the
facts of the
case as well
as the Cali
fornia S t a t.
uteS. I do be-
We tn a t
officially par
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Definiti ons-Propaganda:
That mysterious power which,
when injected into the incoming
mail of a Congressman, gives
him the courage to defy a Presi-
dent elected by the largest ma
jority in American history.
Politics: A game derived I'm
doubtedly from the old barter
system.
Officeholder: A man elected
to public office by popular vote
and who is seldom popular
afterWard.
Relieve a man today and he
will be back tomorrow; continue
to offer him relief and you're
in the business.
We don't have to travel far to
find out how 1t feels to be die
tated to. Look at the District
of Columbia and you'll under
stand that newspaper phrase,
Under the shadow of the Cap
itol."
The District of Columbia will
not receive from Congress the
right to vote because it has no
vote.
My grandfather was a pro-
gressive farmer. He had the
first water-pump in the district.
There was a tin cup always
hanging on a rusted nail beside
the pump and I recall, as a
child, asking what that cup was
for. Grandpa said: Printing"
That word meant nothing until
I understood the mechanism of
the pump. However, it was not
until years later, when the Gov
eminent had become official
primer" to the nation, did I re-
member how necessary it was
for there has to be someone
with confidence enough in the
darn thing to work the handle.
JAMES A. VAUGHAN,
304 F st. N. w.
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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

Should Jackie Coogan be en-
titled to all the money he
earned as a child star, or should
it be given entirely or in part
to his mother?
THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Shirley Perry, 1922
Kearney st. N. E., housewife:
1T seems to me that Jackie
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HE should
get h alf of
the money he
earned before
he was 81.
He owes much
to his p ar
ents for their
ruidance. His
father was an
o ! d. It i m e
v a u d e v lille
a C t o r, and
without his
nninht naNaH.
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ents whose child is earning an
income. should put good part
of it in trust for his future"
~ X X
Arson Bis'gs, 6225 Thirty-sec-
ond Pl. N. W., Wilson High
School student.
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training, Jackie might never
have been a star. Now that his
father is dead, Jackie should
split half of his earnings with
his mother"
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CHAMBERLAIN
RAPED anew
Continued from Page II
scholarly, university-bred member
from Durham.

NOOHtlHutu 1EUHl axe ~
scholarly, university-bred member
from Durham.
"Britain in Peril"
"This," he said. lis a motion
of nonconfidence against the
premier personally, since he has
taken a predominant part in
his majesty's governments for
eign policy"
The case of Labor, Dalton said
is that as a direct result Of Cham
berlain'S policies, Britain "haS'
been placed in its most dire peri
since the World War;"
Munich" he declared, "un-
settled all of Europe"
In the course Of his speech, Dial
ton urged closer Anglo-American
cooperation, particularly with re
gard to the Far East. Referring to
the $25, 900, 900 American loan to
China, he said:
II hope the premier will tell
us that Britain is prepared to go
at least as far as the United
States in assisting China"
Before Dalton presented the
motion of censure, PINE Minister
Chamberlain denied reports that
Great Britain is planning to cede
colonial territory to Italy.
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LIMA FARLEY
NEAR PACT ON
UNITED FRONT
Landon Hands Off Talk
Boon to Solidarity

LIMA, Peru. Dec. 10 N.N.S.).
The eighth Pan-American con-
ference today rejected a Cuban
proposal that the American ma
lions accept the task of mediat-
ing in the Spanish civil war If
requests for such mediation are
made by both sides. The vote
was Is to 3.
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Aid Refugees, Plea
To France andU. S,
CONTINUED from Page II

Continued from Page II
bearing more directly on financial
measures, the Chamber unani
mously adopted the foreign az
fairs budget.
The proposed resolution de
clared that "the French parlia
ment views with deep emotion
the awful treatment of certain
racial, religious and political mi
norities in Europe" and recon-
mended French initiative for in
ternational action in view ''of the
increasing gravity VI the problem
Of refugees" -;
The French attitude toward the
refugee problem was significantly
emphasized by the fact that the
chamber session was presided over
by Gratien Candace, Negro deputy
from the Island Of Guadeloupe
instead of by Edouard Heriot, pres
ident of the parliamentary body.
Candace, a large, dignified man
with a curly beard, sat impaS-
sively, dressed in a tailcoat and
white tie, in the presidents chair,
living symbol Of Frances multi
racial empire.
Foreign Minister Georges Bon
net vigorously renewed his warn
ing to Italy that France will not
consider the surrender Of an inch
of her colonial or home territories.
inGimating again In an address to
the Chamber that war would not
be too great a price to pay for
preservation Of territorial in.
tegrity. -.
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MARINES
-Four Capital Youths
Get Commissions

Four young Washington officers
are attending the Marine Corps
Basic School in Philadelphia.
They received commissions as
second leutenantS recently and
are preparing for duty on either
sea or land.
Washington officers among the
30 students are Ralph Carter
Berkeley, jr., son Of Brig. Gen. r.
c. Berkeley: Ralph A. Collins, jr.,
5000 Forty-first ST. N. W.: Daniel
C. Pollock. 1916 Delafield Pl.
N. W.. and James Care Magee,
jr., son of Col. ]. C. Magee, Walter
Reed Hospital.
Lieutenant Berkeley graduated
from Annapolis last June. Lieu.
tenant Collins is a graduate OF
the University Of Maryland, and
Lieutenant Pollock t t e n d e d
George Washington University.
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S.-British RefuQee;
Plans in Deadlock

LONDON, Dec. 10 U.N.S.).
Plans for German Jews to
sojOurn in Britain until they
may &c admitted to The
United States under immi.
grafton quotas remain In the
consultative stage, the home
office said today. z
Conversations between Brit
iSh and American diplomats
have advanced no farther
since Sir Samuel HOare, home
secretary, announced in the
House of Commons Thurs
day that under certain cir.
cumStanCes" Jews might find
q temporary haven in Eng
land until they could 60 to
the United States.
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Home Broken Up
ByDiUOrce When
Girl Was 5

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 10,
One Of the most unusual reunions
occurred here when a 20-year-old
girl met her mother for the first
time in Is years.
Not since she was five had
Louise Harris, Of ClarkSburg, w.
Va, seen the mother from whom
she was taken when her father,
Tom Harris. q World War veteran,
|pbtained q divorce.
Mrs. Stella McQuain, tn e
mother, who has resumed her
maiden name, wept with her
daughter when they were reunited
here.
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TOKYO SILENT
ON POSSIBILITY
OF SOVIET War
Open Door, 9-Power
Pact to Be Revised

TOKYO. Dec. 10 Il. N. s.).-
Possibility Of an eventual conflict
between Japan an Soviet Russia
was sidestepped adroitly by Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita today as
he reiterated the necessity for for.
eign economic adjustment" in
China.
After Arita had stated bluntly
that economic activities Of 'coun-
tries which lie outside the con-
fines Of East Asia will have to be
regulated" q correspondent asked
whether he considered war with
the Soviets inevitable.
ITO that question" Arita said.
Il am not at liberty to reply"
OPEN DOOR CHANGED
The "open door" policy which
for decades was observed by China
"can no longer be applied uncon-
ditionally to the new situation in
East ASIA" the Cabinet minister
said.
Some provisions Of the nine
power pact also are inapplicable
owing to the change in the sit
uation."
Arita said Japan plans to do
everything in its power to adjust
the tangled question Of Japanese.
Soviet fishery rights.
Speaking to SO foreign news.
paper men, Arita called the $685..
600, 900 American loan to China
'inopportune," but he said that
China would remain open to Oc-
+ cidental trade.
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By THOMAS A. LOAYZA

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 10 U.N.S)
Told by Alfred M. Landon that
no political changes in the United
States will alter Americas tradi'
tional policy against foreign en-
croachments on this hemisphere,
the Pan-American Congress forged
ahead To-Day towards 2lnation
declaration of solidarity"
Save Argentina, all conference
delegations are agreed that
Europe and the Orient must be
told that the New World stands
together against alien encroach-
ment, either by armed force or
theological penetration.
AIMED AT ARGENTINA
The speech by Landon, Repub-
ncan candidate for President Of
the United States in 1885, was di-
rected largely at Argentina. Ian
don made it clear to that South
American nation, stumbling block
In the way Of the Pan-American
solidarity" declaration, that the
policy embodied in the Monroe
Doctrine lis not going to be
changed, no matter what party
Is in power at washington.
The delegation from Argentina,
which has close economic connec,
tons with Europe, raised the ques-
ton of a possible change in Presi-
dent RooSevelt'S good neighbor"
policy should a Republican ad-
ministration move into Washing
ton in the next election.
LANDON ANSWERS
The titular head of the Republi-
can party gave an unequivocal
"No." Still Argentina opposes any
illusions to "non-Americans" or
any specific European powers, and
today the other score of nations
awaits a reply from Buenos Aires
which might permit formulation
Of a unanimous declaration.
The former Governor Of Kansas
stood firmly back Of the efforts of
Cordell Hull, American Secretary
Of State, head of the United States
delegation and Democrat, to
gain q solidarity" affirmation.
PROMISES UNITY
Nationalism as well as political
partiSanShip was thrust aside
when Landon said nations Of the
New World have had and may
continue to have family dis
puteS," but:
Let me say that anyone
would be making q great blum
der to mistake differences for
disunity, for, in the end, we will
always unite against any outside
0ggreSSor."
The Washington times., 1938-12-19
Paul Carey Wins
. Emblem Contes'

Paul Carey, 1900 block Connect
1cut Ave-, designed the emblem
which won the contest sponsored
by the Cleveland Park Business
Mems Association. Honorable men.
ton was given to Margaret K.
Wheeler, 5000 block Connecticut
Ave. and Ed Carlton, $500 block
VeaZey st..
The Washington times., 1938-12-19
Treasury Condition

Q.N.S0 Treasury balance, De
cember 16, $s.1l3, 1sS, 1854; in.
ternal revenue, $5,s4O. 659.61: Gus.
toms receipts, 4,922,27S.57; re.
ceipts, $685. 15, 1903; expendi.
lures, $4,l69,645.912.
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Mrs. John Hoff, II,
Dies in Lausanne

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, De.
cember 10. - Mrs. John Jacob
Hoff. "a, the former Grace Whit
ney who was well known in New
York society, died here after
a long illness. Mrs. Hotf and heI
husband, formerly Of Detroit who
had retired from business, made
their home in Lausanne and Paris