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The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Your I. O..
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

Score 10 for each question,
and 5 for each part Of No. Z.
l. Who wrote:
Ring out the old, ring in the
new,
Ring. happy bells. across the
Snow!"?
2. The ringing of bells on New
Year Eve is in reality the death
toll of the Old Year. True.
False.
3. From whom is the watch
night" service custom bor-
rowed?
4. In what country was it the
custom to clean out the chin
neys on New Year Day SO luck
could descend?
S. In what country was it the
custom to give little cakes and
gifts to the Senators on the
New Year?
6. A U. S. President made a
famous proclamation on Jan
uary /. Who was 1t and what
was it?
7. Fill in the blanks with the
same four letters to make a lit
tie sense to this nonsense:
Do not turn -, my dear,
AS the bells out at twelve,
For this is not a - year.
The marriage -, I Shelve!
8. Write 1889 in Roman nu-
meralS.
9. What New England poet
wrote: Again the shadow
moveth o'er the dial-plate of
time"
ANSWERS on Page 16)
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San's Rules of War

I suggest the following rules
for all future wars: All Con-
gressmen and Senators voting
for war to be given their choice
between serving in the shock
troops and being shot on the
Capitol steps. Each battleshlp'
cruiser, destroyer and Subma'
rine carry as excess baggage one
or more stockholders in ship"
building concerns. Manufac"
turers of war supplies to be
hanged when their profits reach
the million-dollar mark. All holy
men who announce to their
congregations that God is
fighting with u.s." to be dis
patched to interview God per-
Sonally on the subject and find
out. Admirals and generals
Presidents. kings, emperorS. dc
tators, Cabinet officers and poll
ticians who promote war for
profits and glory to be placed
in the front line trenches to
start the fighting.
SAM C.
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He Wants to KnouD:

We all know that President
Roosevelt has been spending q
large amount of money. In
the West he is building dams
with WPA money to irrigate
arid lands. When these dams
are completed there will be
more land for crops, so more
crops will be raised.
In the South, East and Mid
die West he is paying the farm"
ers to plow under crops be-
cause there is a surplus.
Why spend good money in
one section of the country so
the farmer can raise more while
in other sections money is paid
to raise smaller crops? II
there is already a surplus why
spend money to make the sur
plus larger and at the same time
spend money to do away with
the surplus?
GEORGE JONES.
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obvious-and admitted-state
has to start with something
strong. first Of all, dog soap,
then graduate to mechanics
soap and then, by easy stages
as the layers are removed,
through a mild disinfectant
soap right up to the stuff you
use and I use.
Then, and not till then, will
Boog. the groom-to-be, be ready
for show purposes. And l
would counsel any Washing
ton 22-year-old girl not to make
the trip to San Antonio as a
promised bride until she has
a picture of Mr.. Boog, clean
and in his right mind, along
with a certificate from both a
doctor and a veterinarian.
There's a danger, as he pro-
crosses along the road to clean
illness, that some of those tickle
pernickerty San Antonio gals,
peering at what had been hid
from them before by layers Of
dirt, might snap up Mr.. Boog
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"Who Cares?"

This Lover of Hitler" has put
many ignorant articles in the
paper and no one was interested
enough to reply. In this coun-
try one can do nearly as one
cares to. You should not ques-
ton the Presidents actions, any
more than I have the right to
question yours.
If our leader wants to glorify
Cantor, what business is that Of
yours? You glorify Hitler, who
cares?
If you are a citizen Of the
United States you certainly are
a fine one. You do not sign
your name, not because you
would be harmed physically. but
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ROllin' Along
By ". A. s. Douglas

AM BEING sadly dslusioned regarding the lovely city
of San Antonio by Blanche Connolly, who holidayng
down there What always liked about the southern Texas
city was the tremendous supply of pretty grs-young mid
deaged and DID, they all of them nice look when
hung around there
Their ovelness and charm such byword in the oil
fields that when digger struck rich he used to MENTION
his newfound wealth. that he would go to San and
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because you would lose all your
friends and your job, too, I i'm
agine.
You are hiding behind Miss
Liberty's skirt to say. your piece.
You could not say what you
have said in this paper if you
were in your Germany. You
would probably have been exc
cuted. Let us assume, of course,
that in such piece you spoke of
Hitler as you spoke of our Presi-
dent. JAMES R. BREEDEN.
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Resents VieUs

To Lover of Hitler: Who are
you to dare to talk about our
President? If you're such a lover
of Hitler why don't you go to
Germany? We don't want you or
your kind here. Nor did we ask
you here.
AS for Eddie Cantor, who
waxed rich, as you say-he
earned it, didn't he?
It's a wonder to me the editor
even printed one piece Of trash
you sent in. Here's hoping he
never finds space for more Of
your insignificant views.
LOVER OF ROOSEVELT.
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Satisfying BenitO

Those English college students
who paraded with placards de-
manding Britain'S American
colonies back, as a joke on II
Duce'S colonial demands, had
better brush up on their history.
Many years ago there lived one
Julius Caesar, who conquered
Britain and the rest of Europe
for his own home town of Rome.
So give back Europe to Italy,
and make Benito dictator, with
Chamberlain as his butler and
Hitler as his cook. and Europe
will be one big happy family.
NICK r.
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The course of empire moved
in ancient days from Assyria
and Persia into Egypt and
Greece. The Greeks more or
less Hellenized Egypt, and
then were eclipsed in turn by
the Romans. Empires course
next moved west and north
to Spain. to France. to Ger
many, to England.
England extended it's empire
across the Atlantic in the six
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do. She doesn't take a night
off, but could if she wanted to.
After all, happy marriage is
built on a certain amount of
mutual independence and trust
fulness."
Mrs. Jay Harris, Marlyn
Apartments, housewife:
None at all. OF course
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band and wife should be able to
pursue their own interests to a
certain extent, but don't be-
lieve it's necessary to make
agreements for weekly nights off
just for the sake of being away
from home"
X X
Mrs. Annetta Keckler, 200
block Tenth st. N. E., graduate
nurse:
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get me a girl"
That was the way he put it
but his intentions were
strictly honorable. If he was
already hooked by some run.
of-the mine lady from Missouri
or Oklahoma or Louisiana or
New Mexico. he planned to
buy her off, cut the marriage
shackles. fly to San Antoine,
leisurely inspect the crop-and
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Deb Party Editorial

Apologize if you must, for the
antics of our uppercrust social
ties, but for heavens sake don't
hand us that banana oil that
whenever they run a shindig
the money that is spent goes
into circulation and we poor
slobs ought to feel grateful
about the whole thing. To the
man who wasn't able to pur-
chase his wife a Christmas
present, this brand of night
school economics StinkS.
B, WEBER,
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before my Washington entrant
gets there.
Anyhow, that is the chance
you all have to take. Mr.. Boog's
address is 43O Sandmeyer ST.,
San Antonio. SO go to it, girls.
Copyright, 1899. by Washington
Herald-TfmeS
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Angeles Plea

The peoples of the world are
imbedded in deep hatred. The
Germans and Jews are hating
one another, as are the French
and Italians, the Chinese and
japanese, and others.
Let us Americans stand unit
ed for one thing-Americanism
Let us not become entangled in
any foreign affairs. Let us
not have foreign propaganda
draw us into another conflict
such as in 1917.
If the people of America be
Americans, be they Jews, italian,
French, German, English, or
any other nationality, love their
country, let the hatred stay on
the other side of the ocean.
There are many Of us who
SympathlZe With thoSe Whom
are being done wrong, but we
must not let our sympathy lead
US into something we may all
regret.
May I, an American citizen Of
Italian parentage, say but three
things. God love my country,
God help my country, and, God
save my country, from those
who are trying to undo us.
I am a young man who is see
ing this country being slowly
torn asunder by this racial, and
foreign nationalism hatred.
These people should think of the
country they live in, not the
country they have left.
ANGELO BOVELLO.
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strings, nor is it necessary for
him to account for every move
he makes. I've observed among
the couples I've known that
those who do not try to rule each
others lives get along better. If
there is understanding and
trustfulness, the husband will
confide all his activities to his
wife"
4 X
w. C. Clements, 800 block l.
st. N. W., sign painter:
"One night. My firm belief is
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None. The wife
should accompany
the husband on all
social events. She
should know where
he is going at all
times and she has
the right to ask
him where he has
been. Both a hus-
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night off e a c h
week. I've applied
this idea since I
was married two
years ago. and it
works splendidly. 1
play poker or do
whatever else I
want to do. She
never asks what I
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teenth and seventeenth centuries In 1861 we took
big chunk of that empire away from England and
got to work building up commercial and territorial
empire OF our own. We've done pretty we'll with it,
and to we've had let go of piece of it.
But is this far west as the course of empire is
going to go? Bishop Berkeley seems to have thought
so back in the first part of the eighteenth century,
=, judging from the last three lines
DHI IS LHe of his stanza above quoted.
Cbo,r D,,or9 We wish we could be as conf
dent that the American act is the
last act in the historic empire drama We're prepared
to that this country is time's nobest offspring
But is it times last offspring in the empire class?
1t won't be if Japan has anything say about it. And
Japan nation which aggressively insists on saying
something about anything that to its rulers minds
Japan would like to lead the of empire to make
another westward jump, and the longest jump has
takenacross the Pacific Ocean to certain of rocky
little hardben and hardboled islands just off the main
land of Asia
Most Americans just to feel that the Chinese
taking of any the Japanese may be to
for years to The prevang-or at least the
1 loudest-American opinion appears
""P"''ooo to be that the European relationships
Tn1nori0Iie1o the nations we have to worry most
about and against
We think this is delusion. We've been called mono
manacs on this subject, but still think Japan is the
real threat to the United States, and that we'd better
ceaseessy watch Japan if value our independence
and do less worrying about effete and jaded Europe
If the Japanese subjugate China and organize the
Chinese into huge auxiliary to Japan we shall face
about 47OOOO,OOO hungry people, yellow in skin only
the Pacific
Or suppose China gets up enough unity and fighting
rage and modern equipment to lick the Japs That
will leave the Chinese hungry, proud of themselves and
most likely ambitious to try out their newfound prowess
on somebody else. That's history.
Whatever happens in Asia, it to u.s. we have got
to count eventual clash with one or more of the
peoples of Asia.
We're taking the long view of course-a view Of say
20 to 100 years We don't expect the Jap the Chinese
or both to be waving carving knives our choicest terri
tories in the next two years 10 years. But
we think that day the of empre-he center
OF empire gravity to speak-is going to make mighty
attempt to repeat its historic trick of moving toward
the setting
Americans in those days may or may not be able to
keep their empire intact But the best way to insure our
losing it to keep eyes and fears focused on poor
old Europe and our backs turned to huge fermentng
and hungry Asia.
Two Ships for One
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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

How many nights should huS-
bands be given off from home
each week?
Mrs. Jeanne Taylor, 100
block New Hampshire Ave.
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pick the best.
B ! a n C h e
sends me a
picture of a
good looking
young m a n,
Francis Jo-
seph Boog by
n a m e, who
live an d
works where
she is holi-
daying a n d
W ho h a S
hung an
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might be a bit in
fluenced, being a
bride of less than a
month. But if the
husband does, so
should the wife. A
couple should have
equal rights. OF
course, if a man
W a n t S to attend
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good to get away from home
occasionally. This works the
other way around, too, and I
think woman should get out
with her lady friends once a
week."
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The number of
nights off would
depend on t h e
man. A husband
should have eve
nings to himself if
he wants them. He
should not feel that
he is tied to his
wife's a p r o n
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- " - -
Il don't think
there should be a
S e t arrangement
about days off
e a c h week. 1t
would depend on
the type of huS-
band and his in
terestS. If he is a
member of mems
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purely masculine activities, the
wife shouldn't object. He should
want to spend most of his eve
nings with his wife"
4
w. w. OutIand, 100 block
West Virginia Ave. N. E., thea
ter employe:
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January l, 1899, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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t h a t a husband
should have one
evening a week to
spend wit h the
boys. He should
tell his wife where
he is going. No
matter how much
men love t h e i r
wives, it does them
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doesn't Japan buy some Of
China instead of trying to take
it by war at cost Of $780,
100000 up to now? Why don't
We sell the Philippines for. say,
00,000,000 to the first bidder?
WALTER B.
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clubs or goes in for athletics,
naturally he must take certain
evenings off for these affairs. l
believe a wife should know where
her husband is going. It's her
right to know, just as it is his to
know about her activities"
X \
J. B. Elledge, 1900 block Ingle-
side Terrace N. W., salesman:
MY system is to take Friday
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Names and

LIMITED
O Writers Upon Request
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n U n g n ". A. 8. Douglas
eight-by-four-foot sign in front
Of mis- bungalow which reads:
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Our Real Danger

Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first already past,
A fifth shall close the with day:
Times noblest offspring is the last.
Bishop Berkeley: "On Prospect
Planting Arts Learning
Anericd"-c.
As you glance back through recorded history there
turns out be much truth as poetry in the first
line of the above quoted stanza from Bishop Berkeley
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Progressive Pharmacists

SSSOSU@ SSSS USS@SSOSO
Speaking of 'The Metric SyS-
tem," we were taught in the col
lege of pharmacy that I at
tended that this system was an
American invention, and that
Thomas Jefferson tried to per-
suade Congress to adopt it in
1889, but that English habits
were then too strong in the COL
onies. The French adopted the
metric system the following
year, or so I am told. For the
last 80 years, the United States
pharmacy formula book has
given all working formulas In
the metric system. In fact, in
pharmacy the metric is the Of
ficial system. j. I. LR.
Some Real Estate Deals
We expanded in our earlier
days by buying a great deal of
land. What has happened to that
good old custom now? Why
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(From the New York Daily News
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13
Leadership Required

Ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross at " isn't convinced that holding legislative ses- sion every year is the answer to the prob lem that faces us right now - how are we going to get the legislators out of Hart ford by June? When Governor Raymond E. Baldwin greeted the General Assembly back in January he was so flushed with his victory of last November that he and other leaders were predicting one of the shortest and most successful legislative sessions ever. But we're back right where we have been every two years and it's almost mid-April.
 Ex-Governor Cross thinks the solution of successful legislative term may lie in the legislative council. During his regime this body came into existence and its first real work was to be tested during 1889. Well, it has been tested and although we wouldn't say it has been found wanting, we would say that so far as the legislative council is concerned it might just as well not have handed in any report at all. We can't see that it's recommendations, many of them splendid ones, have made an awful lot of difference with the legislators. They have gone on with their own methods.
 Technically this preparation of slate of legislation prior to the opening of the Legislature should speed up and make
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13

Connecticut's unique school for lob sters down at picturesque old Noank is about ready to function once more. There was considerable interest in this fishery a few years ago when it was opened and it was found that young Holsters had to be taught to dive so that they might escape their natural enemies at an age when so many young Holsters become choice tid- bits for monsters of the deep. Last years hurricane raised havoc with the hatchery, but funds have since made possible it's restoration and school is about ready to begin for the lobster fry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13
Current Comment

Those who have to do the fight ing, make the supreme sacrifice, and in the end pay the staggering cost of war, are entitled to make the vii tai decision for peace or war. Senator Bob La Toilette, in de-
 bate on the proposed Ludlow
 Amendment.
 It is not going to do us any good to prime the pump, or revive business, unless we find out what caused the last collapse. Senator O'Mahoney, before the Temporary National Economic Committee.
 Some type of weighted or selective suffrage system will be required, whereby the vote of an able and well-educated person will count for considerably more than that of an illiterate moron.
 Harry Elmer Barnes. historian,
 before the American Educational
 Research Association.
 Let the Rising Sun be unfurled over the South Pole!
 -Kojiro Hiyoshi, Japanese pro-
 ponent of Antarctic expansion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13

more efficient the work of the legislators. But unfortunately we haven't seemej to regard the findings of this semi-official board as binding. Many proposals have been accepted; others rejected. And legislators have been, apparently, more concerned with legislation of their own making than that drawn up and recom- mended by group, supposedly well acquainted with the situation and the needs of the state.
 We're almost inclined to believe that the General Assembly is faltering today ard may continue to falter through lack of leadership It does seem as if pro- gram of legislation, helpful and needed, could be put through if there was real leadership accompanying it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13
3 guess. supporting evidence

a guess, supporting evidence is needed.
 In previous similar quotations MT. Rankin has assigned $17,000,000 as the part of this sum by which the people of Connecticut are over- charged.
 That amounts to more than the aggregate sum which the utilities companies of the state pay in inter- est on money borrowed, in dividends to their stockholders and set aside for surplus.
 For 1886, the last year for which figures are available, the electric companies of Connecticut enjoyed a met revenue-amount realized above operating costs-of $14,400 900 or an amount nearly $3,000,0O0 less than congressman Rankin,s estimate of the overcharge against Connecticut consumers.
 In order to meet his figure the companies would have to forego all revenue above operating costs and also find some way to reduce those costs by nearly $3,000,000 more. Be- fore too much reliance is placed on such, figures there should be some serious effort to make them stand up under test.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13
Book .A.Day
Pack Up, Mates, For Far Lands!

It is no mean task keeping up with the deluge of travel and adventure" books. You go to Ber- muda for a two-week vacation and you come back to write the story. Or you fly over Africa and take 300 pages to report what you saw. That is how much of the current crop is being written.
 Not so, however, for two books just off the presses. They are neither startling nor are they naively made quate. They are Van Mes Aliens T Found Africa" (Bobbs-Merrill: $3) and "The Saga of 'Cimba'" by Rich ard Maury (Harcourt, Brace: $2.50 You will go far to match either.
 The first, Aliens story, is the simple account of a lad who, al- ways wanting to go to Africa, final ly picked up one day and vent So he found himself at length in Li- beria. There he encountered all kinds of adventure, pursuing big game for 20 hours at a stretch, lodging elephants, side-stepping misunderstanding natives. It all happened just about like that and young Allen tells it in the same tone. You like it, therefore, for its sheer sincerity.
 The same thing is true of Richard Maury's book, the story of a voy- age in a tiny schooner half way around the world, from Nova Scotia to wreck at last on the reefs of Fiji. Here is the typical sailing ship adventure yarn, but Maury some how has made it different. There is no boasting, no melodrama. If the wind isn't blowing why it isn't that's all.
 What you remember about Maury most of all, however, is the beauty of his style. There are passages in the Saga of 'Cimba' that remind you forcibiy of Anne Lindberg's Listen, the Wind" And certainly that is not idle writing-P. G. F.