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fered coppers for the cause, and
out of pity for the little fellow
1 gave him a half dollar.
"Son, put this in your pocket,
and give the pennies to the
school," said.
"Oh, no, sir" was the reply.
There's kids down there that
amt got enough to eat, but I've
et."
Whoever this young american
may be, and wherever he may
go, that spirit will insure his
success and happiness.
Kinda makes you stop and
think Of something besides re-
armament and war scares and
taxes, huh?
A RE-BELIEVER-NOW.
P. S.-Maybe if you print this
thought it will restore faith in
a great many quarters where it
is sorely needed.
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devote to her children. She can
be a better helpmate to her huS-
band because she is better edu-
Gated on the whole than the
women of grandmother's day.
There isn't a modern mother
who would exchange with the
mother of so years ago."
* X
P. F. Beckham, $500 block
Fourteenth st. N. W., drafts
man:
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nation to be good wives and
mothers. Women can get more
out of life today. They are not
overburdened with work as the
women once were, making their
own bread and such. At the
same time there are too many
pleasures for the women, and
the men, also. They don't con-
centrate on their homes"
X X
Mrs. Evelyn Rittue, 1900 block
Harvard St. N. w.. telephone
operator:
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man

household, and she has better
education. She has the oppor-
tunity to give her children
greater advantages if she will
do it. The trouble today lies
in the fact that mothers do in
dulge their children and spoil
them"
X X X
Mrs. Anna Mallgrave, 700
block Shepherd st. N. w., tele-
graph operator:
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BulIish Fashions

Girls who wear these turkey.
feathered hats look like walk
ing radio stations with aerials
sticking out of their domes.
Their mouths, of course, are tir%
loudspeakers. 1 am also amused
by these women who wear bells
On their shoes, tsk, tSk. The
gals, in ract, are getting to look
more like Ferdinand the Bull
every day. Personally, I think
they are merits. ACE HIGH.
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thrust fingers of stone.
Giant cacti fringe the road
and always, in the distance, as
you begin your descent, are more
miles of tableflats with their
stunted desert shrubs. And
when the sun starts to sink out
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It below onto menacing. up
cause, as this is being written,
there is the suspicion of frost
in the air-enough to be the
chief subject of conversation.
Phoenix is not a city which well
comes frost-prefers to ignore
it, in fact.
W1E DROVE OVER to Guada-
w lupe Village. where the
Yaqui Indians dwell in their
adobe huts. The boy at our
hotel sighed that we had reached
town at this time instead of
Easter week, when. it seems,
there is a paganish series of
ceremonies in the village. the
like of which. he Solemnly as
sured us, we had never seen in
all our lives.
We saw nothing but Indians,
hoWever-nor was the village
any too clean, but I suppose you
can't have everything in this
life. After all, they are the first
Americans!
VOU would think the folk who
live and labor in Phoenix
should be contented citizens.
The climate is healthful, the
incest people from other parts
of the United States and from
overseas make it a point to stop
here-Some for weeks upon
time. 1t is Sizable and lively
city in itself and only a few
hundred miles from Los Angeles.
Yet those with whom I spoke
did not seem too happy-and
not one of the half dozen or
more was willing to admit that
he would spend the rest of his
days in this colorful Arizona
capital. They were rather vague
in explaining why.
I gathered there was a little
too much attention devoted to
the wealthy tourists and not
enough to the year-around
steady working citizens. am
sure the alert Phoenix Chamber
Of Commerce is unaware of this
feeling of discontent-and I am
not at all certain that it will
thank me for calling attention
to it-or even believe it. It may
be I spoke to the wrong people
perhaps the only half dozen in
all the town to whom should
not have spoken.
X X \
A ND NOW, when I finish this
"A piece and send it off, we'll
get on our way again-to Cali
fornia. Thus far the car has
been halted twice in Arizona
by inspectors who wanted to
make sure we were not import
ing bugs or lizards or a rattle
snake or two from REV Mexico
or Texas or fruit of any kind.
We will be stopped again-at
Blythe, lust across the State
line-thiS time by California Of
ficials who will duplicate the
inspection made in Arizona.
California wants none Of Arl-
zona's cotton boil weevils, fruit
moths, etc.-and there is nothing
like that shivery feeling when
one of these fellows picks up
the radiator hood - and there
finds those two bananas you
smuggled in from an Arizona
fruit market.
I am not at all certain that
the State of California would
not much prefer to have you
admit frankly you committed
a murder back East and had the
body under the seat.
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Afraid of Redheads?

Can you tell me why some
employers are afraid to hire red
headed fellows? We can't help
it if we have red hair. Some Of
us may look like crumbs, but
have look at some other fellows
who have blonde or black hair
and are worse looking than us
redheads!
REDHEADED GEORGE.
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of view, a red
and purplish
cover of color
d r a pes S the
rock forma-
ton. ira n S.
forming them
i n t o ro-
t e S q u es so
that they can
be anything
y ou W a n t.
ro m giant
bus-b Us to
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1T is harder TO-
day. Life is more
complicated n ow
There are many
more problems to
cope with than in
grandmother's day,
when life was sim
pier. The economic
sit ia alton h as
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TWO COMMITTED;
Three Executed

The governor explained that the two commuted
convicted on the testimony Of accompices Neverthe-
less, they convicted the others. Nor do
know why the governor last week commuted the
death sentence of Simon Elmorc 58-yearold fiend
twice convicted OF the rape-murder of fouryear-old
Joan Kuleba
In the EImore case, subhuman who is good to
himself society is allowed to go on living at the
taxpayers expense In the of the five young par
Elephants in single murder-Philip Chaleff Arthur
Friedman, Dominick Guariglia, Joseph OLoughin
and Isidore Zimmerman-the jury verdict, unani-
mousy upheld by the Court of Appeals is overturned
to two and upheld to three
The only thing feel convinced of in The whole
puzzng matter of Governor Lehmans and some of his
predecessors commutes is that the pardoning and COM
mutation burden ought to be taken off the governors
shoulders and entrusted to Board of Pardons or
such group. 1t is too heart-rending and Judg-
ment-warping a load for
News)
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IT'S much easier
today. Modern ap-
plianceS have made
housework e a S ier.
If a woman today
is not a good wife
or mother she has
only h erself to
blame. She has
greater leisure to
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

Its a bigger job
today. The women
have more time on
their hands today,
but they don't use
this time to ad-
vantage. But there's
nothing in h e r
way. All the girls
need is the incli-
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I'D say it's easier
today. She has
ore responsible
ity. but this makes
her more alert and
efficient. Today'S
wife and mother
an handle the
financial m a t ters
connected with the
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changed. 1t seems necessary for
both parents to work now in
order to make enough money to
provide all the necessities and
to give the children the right
education.
X y
T. F. Betteridge, 1400 block V
St. N. W., machinist:
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Its a harder job
to be a good mother,
b e c a u Sc children
are harder to raise
today. Living in
small a p artments,
heavy traffic and
the more expenses
attached to general
1;-,;Sa ralyA ~ n
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Traffic Toll

The list of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January /, 1899, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

as it would lay off their rela-
tives, and that just mustn't be
done. THEY and THEIRS must
be kept on the pay roll while the
poor, for whom the WPA was
put into existence, get the can.
And the poor voted those fel-
lows into the jobs they have!!!
A NONVOTFR.
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REDHEADED GEORGE.

Mooney For Labor Gear
If the working people had any
brains, they would give William
Green and John L. Lewis per-
manent vacations and elect Tom
Mooney as the only leader Of
labor. j. REYES.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Anti-En1EGrgo Agitation

In the name of democracy I
demand that Congress investi-
gate those forces which are try
ing to compel the United States
to take sides in the Spanish
war. Such an investigation, I
believe, would reveal a tieup
between various A e r lean
groups and international forces
pledged to support leftist Spain.
MILITANT.
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The Inquirine.
Photographer
The Washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Is it a bigger job for a woman
of today to be a successful wife
and mother than it was in
grandmother's day?
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that the mother is greatly as
sisted in caring for the physical
necessities Of children"
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

and
Of he Be Omit Request
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COrnmuteS

WE SUPPOSE thousands of people yesterday morn
w ing discussing the governors act in the five
young killers case asked the question: "If he was
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Challenge to a League

The American League for
Peace and Democracy formerly
the League Against War and
Fascism has been repeatedly
charged with being controlled
by Communists. If this organ
ization desires wholeheartedly to
prove its non-C Communist char
acter, let it denounce the &C
tions of all totalitarian govern
ments, including that Of Russia,
and all concentration camps, in
cluding those in Russia.
Let it protest the action Of
Russia in refusing to permit
even one German Jewish refugee
to cross its borders. Let it at
tack the nefarious trading agree
ments between Russia and the
-Ascist powers. In short, Russia
should be included in any list
o. powers which are hostile to
peace and democracy. AL.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
The War on Syphilis

TT WAS short three years ago that the United States
i began to get really conscious of the menace of
syphilis and gonorrhea to its general health, and to
~ mobilize and money and publicity
OOCIW for to repair American lives
D;oooeoeu eroded by other of these diseases.
The first thing that had to be done was
to blast away the Nice Nellie prudshness which up to
that time in this country had forced newspapers and
public speakers to refrain from calling these diseases
by their names Social diseases" the customary
polite term.
The News and the Chicago Tribune and the Washing
ton Herald the first metropolitan newspapers to
give the social disease taboo the heaveho and begin
talking at the subject instead of around it. We have
never had cause to regret that decision.
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THE ANSWERS

Mrs. Pearl Pierce, 1900 block
Vermont Ave. N. w., housewife:
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THREE YEARS LATER

tremendous progress has been made. The venereal
diseases yet in retreat in this country, by any
but the is and lot of strategic positions
have been taken by the United
Moh;I-rt;on its allies.
Tomorrow has been designated
Social Hygiene Sunday; and tomorrow clergy
who would not have dared to do such thing
will preach factually venerea disease from their
pulpts.
Next Wednesday, February L. is National Social
Hygiene Day. and that day fully 5000 organiza-
tions-womens clubs, pareneacher associations etc.,
etc-are expected to discuss plans for fighting the
venereal
The fight has not been all talk and action Already
there results to show and there should be
many before long.
New York has two highly important
ITOP|tyIuNLS laws in effect-the Breitbart-Des-
IonieInfion mond pre-martal syphilis test law,
and the Twomey-N Newell law requiring
syphilis tests for all expecant mothers. Other States
falling into line on these two preventive measures.
We need other laws.
The most important of these hopedfor laws have
to do with prophylactcs particularly rubber sheaths
and caorne ointment tubes
News survey in New York city indicated that high
percentages of both of these types sold hereabout
defective and hence will not prevent Infection In
the of the rubber goods the defect percentage
found to be about fifty of the caome tubes about thirty
three later official Oregon survey substantiated these
figures.
We need it obvious to laws for standardizng
these products and regulating their SALE We should
think New York State senator or assembyman
could win reputation for fearless liberalism at this
session by introducing appropriate bills and putting up
a real fight for them.
the New York; News)
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e------N
authorized by Congress a crack
pot committee. He did this in
a telegram to President RooSe
velt about the Dies committee.
j. M.
"HunQn to Disagree"
All this clamor about the
Spanish situation is uncalled
for, is creating needless excite
ment and is turning American
thoughts toward dangerous
channels.
Undoubtedly the situation
is bad. Any war is bad. How
ever, there will always be wars;
there will always be differences
of opinion. Individuals will al
ways disagree. Masses of people
will always disagree with masses
of people and though it is de-
plorable nothing can be done
about it. That's a part of hu-
man nature.
Let us continue to privately
condemn the guilty parties, to
contribute to whichever side we
favor but take neither side as
country. This is, and always
will be, the best war insurance
for a peace-loving country.
NEAL BOYKIN.
y y X
"Unpreferred" Lose
In a recent paper you headed
an article dealing with the
double employment of one fam
lily by the Government, while
others are suffering from lack
of employment. as Working
Wives Again" That AGAIN"
sounds as though you were
bored by the mere mention of
this overrun chiSeling on the
part of those whose relatives get
them safely set in the WPA and
other Government jobs. In
stead of being bored you should,
as a paper whose motto seems
to be righteousness" try to get
to the bottom of this mess and
wipe it out for ali times.
The WPA, in getting ready
for the big cut, is starting to
lay off those Of the UNpreferred
list Of employees whose salary
amounts to $72.96 per month,
which leaves not cent for saw
ings. What are they going to
do now?
Instead of laying off those
whose salary is $120 per month
and up and whose husband and
whole family, be it one or a
dozen, are working. The Sen
ate could not let that be done.
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problem hard to handle. Chill
dren must be given required edu.
cations that are more costly to-
day than it was in our grand
mothers time. The men in those
days were more willing to CO.
operate with the wives than
they are now"
X X
E. L. WOhIfOrd, 1900 block
East West Highway, Silver
Spring, Md, manager dental
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1T is easier as a
general rule, be-
cause of the mod.
eIn cow eniences
and because women
have greater intel
ligence about rails
ing children. The
medical profession
has a d v a n C ed SO
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Thought for Today

A thought for al Of uS-and
worthy of a minute attention:
While in the mems room OF
one of the larger downtown de-
partment stores this noon l was
approached by a thin, ragged
young boy OF about 10, who held
in his small, dirty hand a folder
from st. Dominic's School tell
ing of their campaign for a cop
per mile" and having slots for
the insertion of pennies.
Several other men also prof.
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AdUice for Bridges

1 think Harry Bridges should
become an American citizen be
fore he calls a committee
authorized by Congress a crack
pot committee. He did this in
a telegram to President RooSe
welt about the Dies committee.
j. M.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

going to commute two, why not
commute them all? Or why
not let all five go to the chair?
Why discriminate
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

cause, as this is being written,
there is the suspicion of frost
in the air-enough to be the
chief subject of conversation.
Phoenix is not city which well
comes frost-prefers to ignore
it. in fact.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16
Caroline Chatfield
Idle Mind Culture Tube for Boredom, Depression and
 Dissatisfaction in General.
Sqys To-day
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DEAR MISS CHATF1ELD:

Dissatisfaction in General DEAR MISS CHATFTE1D:
 Tn bringing you my problem small but very problem old and want to nave run DuS can find lonely in crowd and lonely when alone wa laugh lace freezes had that eens c were At home get home I'm still unhappy
 wish could gain make friends and keep them % M that to get the whole sky and admit that have terrible hap f many of my own tha need correcting maybe this Is why see others fau's 50 pS Anyhow I'm tired o being unhappy alone lonely ANSWER:
 Well Ethel what interests outside yourself oe that VIII s for thought few good friends This isn't the question must train yourself to take hold of these things will continue to eude you
 Te hardest lob we have making minds hehaye growing home where he IS never requNeo to do anything forbidden to do anything becomes u himself and eveybOdy around HIS undisciplned mnd embarrassment to the person that lives with It. learned doomed De lonely nhsppy because empty culture tube for depression bore don with life general unappezng osnes wtn WHICH to bait people.
 acquanance into friends when when them merciess or cism consider worthwhile unless we make them feel consider them worthwhile
 How to them compliments instead of criticism kindly We needn he learned to enien You ur on it, nothing builds self that we've made the grade wt th9 people around us -- l To CONTINUED -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16
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Fascinating to Watch A Dish Garden Grow

What beauty and interest in c handicapped dish garden like thisi
 You can make 1t easily in any water-tight container. First put in a layer of cinders or other drainage material, fill with gar- den loam and you're ready for landscaping and planting.
 Have a tiny sandy path leading to little pebble-edged "lake"-- really a little glass dish filled with water.
 For height, plant a small ever- green at one end of your dish and then give balance at the other with Japanese rubber plants. Gus. ters of then and chicks" may nestle charmingly anywhere-and moss makes e velvety carpet.
 Tn terrariun1s, too, you can cre- ate adorable landscapes almos: any glass container will do.
 Thrilling to watch arbutus and trillium burst into bloom amid clumps of woody ferns. And just as thrilling to grow Q single, per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16
E
PRIM YOUNG DRESS IS SLIM WASTED

Doesn't she look like a Gibson girl in her new old-fashioned hair do and her puffy-sleeved, slim wasted little dress? It's as young and prim as a pinafore, Claire Til- den's Pattern s41. Make 1t in plaid or gay-c6lored wool and wear 1t blithely to work or school. Even when this cherrio frock shows its back, its charming, with neat bow and a saucy, neck-to-waist button- ing. From the front angle there's @ small, trim collar that may be in fresh contrast, and @ wide, point ed girdle that makes your waist line seem to dwindle to fragile proportions. The bloused bodice gathered softly above the waist and darted at the shoulders, em- phasizes that little middle" look and so does the young swing of the two-piece shirt. Use your fabric effectively on the bias for the skirt the front waistband and the trim sleeve bands. And why not sew novelty buttons down the front fol @ final pert effect?
 Pattern 94l is cut in junior mis- sizes Il, 13, IS, 17 and 19. Size l; requires 2% yards 54 inch fabric.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) il coins for this pattern. WRITl CLEARLY SIZE, NAME, ADDRES. AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to Waterbury Demo crat Pattern Department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16

once she is older, such things won't matter to other people. But that wouldn't be quite true. Older people may not be as snobbish arld intoler- ant as the young, but they are snob. Dish enough to make the timid and unsure miserable.
 You might even say, "All those people who don't like you aren't worth bothering about. Just wait, and some day you will find friends who will understand and appreciate you"
 But that wouldn't be honest, either. Just soft soap.
 SHE HAS TO
 FACE FACTS So you have to tell the girl a few hard facts. You have to tell her that if nobody likes her, there is probably no reason why anyone should.
 If nobody likes her, the thing for her to do is not to depend on yessing and flattering others But to interest other people.
 Maybe she is the poorest dressed girl in high school. That can't keer her from working harder than any one else on writing, dramatics oi debating so - that she is first 1T some one thing.
 Until a girl learns that she hal to amount to enough to respect ant like herself before she can hop' for other people to like her, all hel worrying over how to be popular | SO much time wasted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16

feet orchid or some other favorite flower.
 Our 32-page booklet gives full instructions for making all kinds of enchanting dish gardens ter. rariums. Tells how to grow orchids, gardenias under glass, as well as simpler plants. Includes directions for kitchen herb gardens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16

neeos mercy an on should teach primarily that when so much money gone Limitation the best for money little ahead things the goal of the allowance CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT BUDGET
 Many fathers through the and mothers knowing in the least what all about They awake gets wear shoulder anoher dread responsibilities and fear Of mistakes that can take the his m speak, alone think the work takes provide They do comprehend good of their mothers
 little they cannot help having more spect dime and the dollar.
 Altogether families about the budget
 sensitive about telling what they or limiting their fames explaining that when the last five dollar bill spent there won't Children need the money they really should know something interest helping to
 private matter for all parents to work out But believe the responsible for extravaganza spots have today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-16
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 A Blooming Menace


 I have good reason to feel grate. full to you--22 pounds of 1t, in fact I was Q veritable spectre a year ago. weighing 98 pounds, height i've feet six inches q will be 24 years old this months). The suggestion ' found in your column was that in- sulin treatment helps skinnies to put on needed flesh. It is wonderful to meet friends you haven't seen for some time and hear them exclaim that you have changed from a holy fright to a positive menace to the community. My doctor gave me about forty shots of insulin the first month, three a week after that, and put on twenty-two pounds weight in three months. I expect to be right up to normal in another months. (Miss M. B) \
 Answer-Tor holy frights who can't have insulin treatment would suggest at least an optimal daily ration of vitamin B complex as Q supplement to any diet they follow. Vitamin B has an effect on car. bohydrate assimilation similar to that of insulin. I have monograph on Gaining Weight" which any reader may have on request-inclose g stamped envelope bearing your address.
 Save Your Teeth
 Have you any literature on care of the teeth? (Miss H. W.)
 Answer-send twenty : five cents coin and s e. c. for booklet "Save Your Teeth"
 Protected by John F. Dille Col