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The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Mr.. Dewey; Mr.. Lehman

A S FOR the for the governorship of New York
"A we've made up minds to this papers position.
Mr. Dewey is fine and fearless prosecutor ideal dis
trct attorney for New York countyfor all Greater New
York if the constitutional convention had had the courage
to merge the five county district attorneys jobs But
far as make out he is liberal than the
more intelligent of his Republican backers who not
very liberal.
Well do little viewing with alarm of own at this
point We view with alarm the possibility of having
gervatve Republicans returned to national power in 1910
We believe President Roosevelt
Roosevelt HHLLed has been the savior of the Amer
H. c:o ican captalist-democratic sys-
40 O"0'O TEN; and that Republican
servatism given chance, will bring about that systems
destruction in trying to preserve it.
So we view with alarm the possibility that Mr.. Dewey
may be elected of New York in 1938 because that
would breed the possibility if not probability that he would
be elected president in 1910.
Governor Lehman, except for that dash off the New
Deal reservation in the Supreme Court fight has been
loyal the New Deal conception of how best to break
excessive wealth concentration in this country and how
best to give the handicapped chance to live in decent
comfort.
This newspaper advises its readers to vote for Lehman
for governor and for Wagner and Mead for the United
States Senate.
(Fromh New York NewS
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
addresses
the writers will be omitted request

ditions but they cannot see risk
ing a $4,000 fine for violating .
law they do not exactly under
stand. It is not hard to see the
logic Of their reasoning there.
Then Administrator Andrews
Immediately sees a "plot"
against the Administration, and
his reactions read much like the
sabre-rattling Of General John
son, who was going to see NRA
accepted and practiced-or else.
It must occur to the little man
that in taking these gigantic
strides in his behalf the Admins
tration might take a little more
time about its welfare work.
Because in the end, if the plan
fails, the thing backfires invari-
ably on the little man himself.
T, c.. l..
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Your I. O..
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

BY SHIRLEY SPENCER
Score 8 for Nos. /, 4, 6, 7, 8,
and 5 for each part Of Nos. 2, 3,
5. Of United States history
questions, and 20 for the brain
teaser.
l. The Mexican war was the
cause Of United States gaining
(a) oil rights in Mexico (b)
Texas (c) change Of border
line Of California.
2. The wives to two Of the
United States Presidents were
named Todd. What were their
first names and to whom were
they married?
8. Which of the United States
Presidents were Of Dutch de-
scent? Name three.
4. Which President was a
Quaker?
S. Three Of the Presidents
used their second names for
their first. Who were they and
what were their first names?
6. Lawrence Washington was
George Washington's half.
brother. True False.
z. The Know Nothings" were
a (a) religious group (b) politi-
cal party (c) educational group.
8. The plan of the selective
draft of United States soldiers
in 1917 was originated by (a)
John E. Pershing (b) Hugh s.
johnson (c) Woodrow Wilson.
9. Maize, the stenographer,
who is a clock-watcher, asked
the office boy how many min
utes it was before 6 o'clock. The
smart office boys reply kept her
busy trying to figure out the
time until way past closing
time. He said, Fifty minutes
ago it was four times as many
minutes past 3 o'clock as it is
now minutes to six" What time
was it?
ANSWERS on Page 13)
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the same roast between two
pieces of bread a day or so later.
The top eating spot, Of course,
has a de luxe trade-check your
coat and hat and dress-up-at-
night sort Of place. The sand
wichery opens right onto the
street and few of its patrons
have the nerve to pass through
the inner doors and so into the
ornate hotel lobby.
II y
"You work it right down to
the bone" I said, of the
roast.
"Oh, further than that" he
replied. I'VE use the bone. Pot.
au-feu, you know"
It was from this man that I
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Cops and Good Judgment

~ NCE again forced to witness the unfortunate
" spectacle of Washington policeman failing to
good judgment.
The Capital gained extremely unfavorable publicity
throughout the country during the recent convention of
rural mail carriers when certain policemen, who lacked
good judgment towed away delegates for very minor
violation of the cys complicated traffic regulations
Now we witness policeman arresting legless
on very minor technical violation of the law. So minor
the violation that understanding judge dismissed
the case when it was called in court.
This unfortunate man, who is doing his best to exc out
living rather than become public charge arrested
once before.
That time Judge Robert E. Mattngly the bench,
and he told off the arresting officers in uncertain
terms suggesting they arrest criminals rather than
cripples.
Such advice was timely, and still is timely. Let the
police do real work. rather than waste their time
and the taxpayers money making stupid arrests
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promise and possibilities, at
times, of becoming q decent
journalistic issue.
In New York there is a large,
basement-brained group quite
in the majority, with a mental
I. @. Of a 12-year-old or less, that
finds the News exceedingly easy
to decipher. Their only some
what decent feature, the edi-
torials, probably fill more trash
cans than heads.
In Washington, out of all JUS
tice to the transient politicians
and Government workers that
form most Of our population,
they have learned to read. and
some of them even to reason.
In other words, in Washing
ton we are a bit more up the
ladder, Intellectually speaking,
than the average human in New
York. And if that isn't true,
without doubt it can be said
that New York has a massive
group that couldn't understand
any paper but the Daily News.
In Washington that group is
nonprofitably small.
A picture paper has no place
in Washington.
L. I. BERAL.
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"TouRh" on Times

When is the Times going to
undelude itself from its proto-
type status as a secondhand
issue of that Intellectually
pasteurized, picturized nudes
paper Of New York, the Daily
News?
If the reason for all the sorry,
stupid stuff that jams the
Times is because you have been
struck aghast by the circula-
ton figures of the Daily News,
and hope to duplicate it IN
Washington. I wish to make a
few observations, just for the
sake Of . paper that shows
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
ROllin' Along
BV ". A. S. Douglas

T WAS stopping in hotel time ago and came to
know that the chef old solder-friend of mine
He cook to tank battalion during the war and used
fix up delicious meals for himself and for after every
body else had cleared out of the hut The command
ing officer caught but instead of making trouble ne
moved in. From then until sent somewhere else
the cook private, myself sergeantmajo and the COM
mandng officer colonel together behind closed doors
Of in order to halt avalanche of stormy letters
the stationery of the Army and Navy Club make haste
TO explain that we all three of were of the national
armies-emergency soldiers without of etiquette
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PropaRanda Ban

I believe a law should be
passed forbidding anyone to
disseminate propaganda against
freedom of speech, press, religion
or assembly.
Dissemination of the principles
of communism. naziism or fas-
cism is such propaganda-and
if we don't wake up we'll be
enmeshed in a class and religious
war that will shake our founda-
tions. j. D. M.
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W h ere h e
works has five
re S taurants,
running the
gamut in price
from $1.5O for
a cut W ith
gravy au ma
ture, potatoes
a n d a vege-
table, all the
way down to
ten cents for
q slice from
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out Of the question. All we
could expect was a high school
education. My mother would
have done herself a great injus-
tice to have attempted to do
more. It seems to me that the
children should work and take
care of their widowed mother,
instead of expecting assistance
from her"
Charles Bolton, 1924 K st. N.
w., restaurant work:
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without calling on his parents
for help. He should have enough
ability to put himself through
college. He is as able to work as
she is. If a person works his
way through college he will get
a lot more benefit out of it than
If he is supplied his every need"
R&A
Mrs Doris Schwartzman, 1452
Clifton st. N. W.:
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Like That Blue Eagle

Forty-eight hours before the
new wage-hour law is to be put
into effect, it becomes apparent
the legislation is off on the same
Intellectual wing as was the
blue eagle" Of the old NRA.
The mill owners who are first
and most directly affected by
the new law are already showing
signs of fight. They say they
a-e willing to go along with the
Government in improving con-
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

learned about the business Of
secondhand food" High-claSS
eating establishments, handling
only the best and without this
particular hotels varied-priced
restaurants, frequently dispose
Of their foods to places catering
to persons with simmer purses.
There is really nothing wrong
with this because in the great
majority of cities there is care
full supervision over food all the
way along the line.
I found, for instance, that in
Chicago many of the cheap eat.
ing houses along West Madison
Street bought their supplies
from the kitchens Of first-claSS
hotels-getting in this fashion
wholesome food Of good quality
which would otherwise have to
be thrown away. I for one, If !
were reduced to eating in the
flophouse belt Of any great city,
would prefer the StewS and meat.
loaveS of q restaurant which
bought the surplus of the Ritz
Hotel to taking a chance with
q place buying cheap and very
possibly tainted meat in the raw.
A IL of which reminds me Of
"A the time Orville Dwyer, ia.
nous Chicago newspaper re-
porter, lost his signet ring.
Doc" as he is known to about
everybody in the Loop, is q
connoisseur Of whiskey but q
rank amateur in the matter Of
eatables. He will only drink the
best in liquor but he will shove
into his mouth about anything
that will balance on a fork-or
O knife. Doc got an assign
ment one night to interview a
famous Governor Of Maryland
who, unhappily for the country,
has passed away. The governor,
q gracious person, invited Doc
to partake Of q tureen Of ter
rapin which was being placed
before him a. the reporter en-.
tered.
It should be mentioned that
Doc, a rotund, genial little man,
had been dieting in an effort to
cut down the stomach curve
and had shrunk q little all over.
The governor was called to the
phone as Doc was emptying his
first plate Of terrapin.
"Help yourself to some more"
said the governor as he held
the receiver to his ear.
Doc plunged the ladle into
the tureen and filled his plate.
He did not notice he had lost
his signet ring until he returned
to the office and concluded
rightly that it had fallen into
the tureen off his thinning fin
ger. In a couple Of days came
Friday and Doc ducked out for
his weekly bowl Of fiSh-goulash,
a sort Of degenerate and distant
cousin Of bouillabaisse-Served
hot on West Madison Street
for twenty cents a big bowl.
You guessed it already. He
found his ring in the goulash.
(CopyriEht, 1898 by The Washington
Herald-TimeS)
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he could support himself while
attending. If the young man
cannot himself aid his mother,
he at least should be able to
take care of his own needs by
getting a job and studying on
the side. There is no guaranty
that he will find a job and be
able to support his mother after
he leaves college if she does
send him"
\
C. L. BOrah, 1909 Pennsyl-
vania Ave. N. w., salesman:
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MY opinion is
that a young man
who has received a
high school educa-
ton should be in O
position to secure
a job that will re-
lieve his widowed
mother Of any class
of work. I do not
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Scents Censorship

The wide publicity gwen to
alleged prosecutions Of Catholics
in Germany is in strange con-
trast to the scarcity OF such
news concerning similar perse-
cutions Of Catholics in Mexico,
Loyalist Spain and Russia. Who
censors the news, anyhow?
INTERESTED READER.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Our Biggest
DrGWing Card

sby better food than New York But it hasn't got the
Yanks; and the Yanks by winning their third straight
World Sere have shown themselves to be the greatest
ball team yet developed in the world Dc hear any
objections? Overrued.
We suggest that the New York Worlds Fair manage
ent capitalize this fact to the utmost San Francscos
competition should not be underestirated. The San
Francisco fair management has had tie good sense to
adopt its theme song "Put among the girls-the
girls with the curly curs in planning Cor its customers
pleasure Up to now fair management has planned
lot of hghtoned art and science with amusement and
entertainment features soft-pedaled.
Art and science won't draw customers in record break
ing numbers. Neither, believe will that big ball and
obelisk symbolic of something There has to be some
fun, too Sally Rand did to pull the Chicago Fair
out of the red than any other item.
The should be spread widely around that the
New York Yanks will be playing frequently next sum-
mer on home ground and the exact dates of all the
Yanks' home games should be heavily pubiczed Here
is Worlds Fair attraction which came as gift from
the gods to the New York Worlds Fair management and
we hope the management has the get-up-and-get to
make full use of it.
For one thng-now that the King of England is talk
ing about visiting the United States how about formal
invitation to him to to the fair AND to Yankee
ball game?
All this is predicted on the hope that the Munich
peace, much bemoaned by our homegrown human-
tarians will last through next year a. least WE'LL it
looks if it may Mussoni is getting ready to take
lot of out of Spain; Hitler is demobizng his re-
ServiSts and 0snding them home We're becoming con-
fdent that the New York and San Francisco fairs NAV
both be run off under the wing OF peace rather than be
hlacked out by the clangor of war;
Fom News
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Resurrection

Resurrection
Weep not! Because on this brief
day,
A summers sun has gone away,
To lend it's warmth, to some far
shore,
Fear not, that it will come no
more.
Nor pause to grieve, when falls
white frost
Has turned green leaves-count
them not lost,
See their bright glory, ere they
From flaming red, to dull dead
brown.
Weep not! Because Of winters
hours,
For yet again, earth's fragrant
flowers
Shall lift their heads through
these dead leaves,
It is but q weak soul that
grieveS,
Earth holds no death, and some
fair morn
OF dull brown leaves, shall
spring be born.
HELEN HOLTON SNOW,
= = 4
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Definitely no. I
don't believe a son
should expect such
q sacrifice from his
widowed m o t her.
Today colleges Of
fer facilities for
working people to
study at night. A
Young man should
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Takes Exception

That Voicer is all wrong when
he says America didn't aid Eng
land during the World War.
England had her back to the
wall, while France was a sham
bleS.
It was good old Yankee man.
power plus the American dollar
that averted disaster for Eng
land. B. w.
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mo. A un g
man should never
IONS t to his
m o t h e r. S strug-
Cling to get money
together for his
C o llege education.
He should not even
contemplate a col
lege career unless
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

has to struggle at q difficult job
that pays poorly. he should GER
tainly not allow her to pay his
college expenses. He should get
himself q job and forget about
college or else study at night"
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

IT don't think
so. My mother is
a widow and I
know how hard it
was for her to get
along. It was diff.
ficult for her to
put her four chill
dren throu g h
school. College was
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

mo. It's not fair
to the mother. If
he is old enough to
go to college he
S h ould be old
enough to work
his way through.
There is many a
boy who has gone
through college
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

be able to take advantage Of
this method of getting college
training. Since it is more diff
cult for a girl to work her way
through college, a mother is
more justified in working to
send a daughter to a higher
educational institution"
X 4 X
Walter S. Ward, 1912 Spring
Rd. N w. salesman.
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Different Then

It wasn't so long ago-1919-21.
in fact-when the Irish were
battling Great Britain for Irish
freedom. In that bloody time,
where were the liberals who
have been yelling about Czecho-
slovakia, and where were the
governments which have been
wringing their hands over the
plight of CzechoSlovakia?
SO.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

believe that a college education
is necessary for a man to Sue
ceed in the business world. If
he wishes to study he should do
so in addition to working"
X \ X
Mrs. Doris Giampa, 1914
Fourteenth st. N. w.:
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mot under ordi-
nary circu M
stances. If the
mother has a good
position and makes
enough money. he
might then accept
it as a loan to re-
pay when he is en-
ployed, but if she
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
None BuIIdOzed

I know hundreds of Italians in
all walks Of life, and none Of
them, to my knowledge, was ever
bulldozed into joining any Fas-
cist organization, as testified
by Mr.. Girolamo Valenti before
the Dies Committee. Isn't this
Mr.. Valenti, by the way, editor
Of La Stampa Liberia, q Com
munist-inspired italian news
paper published in New York
City? s. B. v.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Wise Words

It is q kind of happiness to
know to what extent we may be
unhappy.-La Rochefoucauld.
A man must make his oppor.
tunity, as oft as find it.-FrSncis
Bacon,
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Should a young man allow
his widowed mother to work to
put him through college?
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Stain "Finger Man,

L don't know who VER1TAS
may be-but it sounds like one
of those long-haired men or
short-haired women that haunt
the cheap restaurants and are
always barging in on their
friends with reports on "the rev.
olution." What's stupid about
saying that Stain inspired the
attacks on Lindbergh. It is as
plain as the nose on anybody'S
face that Stain did. He may not
be a party member-but who is
so dumb they don't recognize
that gag these days.
Dieckhoff is not a member Of
the Nazi party either-but that
is only a fiction maintained in
order for him to make an oath
to that effect If it becomes nee
eSSary. Stain not only is mem"
ber of the Soviet government
he IS the Soviet government-as
VERITAS would find out If he
or she went to the land Of the
purges. And as for VER1TAS'
knowledge of what goes on IN
Czechoslovakia - well-"WaS he
there?" LUX.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January /, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

The hotel chef, as he had
come to be, took me on q tour
with a roast of beef. The place
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
The Yanks at Worlds Fair

San Francisco says whas a arn has New York
"The Yank baseball team"
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THE ANSWERS
Miss Marion TrainOr, 800 EN-
erson st. N. w., stenographer:
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Rd. N. w., salesman:
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W., restaurant work:
Evening star., 1938-11-05
Washington Woman
Buys GrassIands
Epecial Dispa tch to The Star.

Epecial Dispatch to The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, November S.
Miss Ida A. Bengtson, Washington,
associated with the National Insti-
tute of Health, has purchased from
Bruce Mcintosh. Leesburg, the
Grassland orchard farm, with build
ings and improvements, situated in
both Warren and Fauquier Coun-
ties, near Linden Fauquier) and
containing 354h acres.
The transaction was closed in
Warrenton last Saturday, with Law
renee r. Bartenstein, attorney, han
ding it.
Grasslands was originally part Of
the Northern Neck, which extended
from the Potomac to the Rappahan-
mock Rivers, and was q grant to
Lord Fairfax by the crown. The
property passed from Lord Fairfax IS
heirs to John and James M. Mar
shall, as part Of a tract of about
10000 acres known as Leeds
Manor and which was conveyed by
James M. Marshall's heirs to James
D. Hall in 1853.
Mr.. Hall sold the property In 1858
to Richard H. Dulany.
The fertile mountain land was sold
by Mr.. Dulany to Robert Carter in
1879. and left in his will in 1898
to James D. Hall. jr.
From Mr.. Hall, well known in this
community, where he made his
home at one time. the property
passed in 1915 to Truman s. Vance.
Warrenton, and E. p. Mertz of
Washington, D. c.. who saw the pos
sibilities of a handsome apple or
chard and for 20 years developed
1T along these lines. In 1885 the
Evening star., 1938-11-05

tense of debtors and creditors "that
semi-permanent investments will be
paid off in few days and months" +"
1t points out further that buildings,
equipment, etc, are subject to de-
probation and obsolescence, and
that even a strong business can
not safely count on having perpetual
earning power.
Most debts, therefore. should pro-
vide for systematic reduction of
principal over the term of the debt
which should be strictly limited to
the life of the underlying asset.
The example of the Federal mort
lending agencies on this point
has been excellent. All their mort
cages are fully amortized'; that is,
they provide systematic plan for
retirement of the debt by INSTALL
ment payments. This example is
being widely followed by other mort
gage lenders, and deserves a still
wider application in the mortgage
and other fields"
hPpl dlSdIS oNCT- OCHcTOuS.
In its appraisal recommendation
the committee report asserts that
"appraisals of property accepted as
security for debts have often been
generous" either through bias
because of financial interests on the
part of the appraisers (such as
mortgage companies) or through
over-optimiSm.
The committee urges that ap-
praisal practices and their history
be studied intensively. In an uncer-
tain world there can be no hope of
finding an ideally correct appraisal
formula. But study of experience
with different types of appraisal
could at least locate some of the pit
falls to be avoided.
Even in advance of such a de-
tailed study enough is known to JUS
tify warning both debtors and cred
ltors against appraisals which are
made by casual comparisons with
the supposed values of surrounding
property. A reasonable forecast of
the rental value of the property must
always underlie sound appraisal.
Appraisers must thus be able to
gauge not only house construction
and current fashions in housing, but
also trends of neighborhoods and
wider geographic areas, with due re-
gard to probable movements of in
dustry and population"
Evening star., 1938-11-05

appointed by the crown to develop
that part of Maryland. but his
manorial estates were in Calvert
County. The house, of English brick,
is imposing in appearance. and is
located on a hill overlooking the
Patuxent River and Battle Greek,
commanding a fine view OF each.
1t was built in 1852.
Mr.. Bond is a direct descendant
of Robert Brooke. Until now the
estate has always been owned by
some member or descendant of the
family. The original land grant was
given by Mr.. Bond to the Maryland
Historical Society.
Building construction in Melbourne,
Australia. is far ahead Of year ago.