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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD WHAT DOES MARRIAGE MEAN TO MODERN GIRLS? Curiosa Americana1 By Elmo 5&52SlkH Ur, i rr; 4 v f TST"- It has been exceedWashington. ingly interesting to watch the progress of the cratic ar.d Repub-Issue- s lican campaign c o m m i ttees in their efforts to shape and join the Issues upon which the electorate will choose the next occupant of the White House. There has been a tremendous amount of hauling and filling, each side coming forth with trial balloons in an effort to find out what it is that will attract the most interest among the voters and to determine what particular matters afford the best vehicle on which they can ride into office. From the beginning of this year, President Roosevelt has been trying to shape his issue on the basis of a single question whether the American people in dollars and cents are better off then they were when he took office. I think admittedly that if Mr. Roosevelt could force that question into the center of the stage and make it the real issue, he would have very little campaigning to do. But the trouble is Mr. Roosevelt has been unable to accomplish his purpose and no little credit for his threat to force a joinder of issues on this point is due to the Republican leadership. The Republican managers simply will not be led into that trap. Thus, we must look elsewhere to see what the real issues are, or are likely to be in this campaign decision. It has nearly always been true that the issues prominent early in the campaign have proved not to be the issues at all near the end of a political battle. This year promises to be no exception. Political leaders attempt to figure out the proposition upon which their opponents are most vulnerable and obviously this figuring takes place In advance. It has to happen that way in order that methods of attack can be arranged in advance. The New Dealers thought they could smoke out the Republicans by shouting far and wide that the people as a whole are bettex off than they were when Mr. Roosevelt took office. But, again, it was a case where political strategy did not work. Even though many hundred thousands of people are better off, the fact remains that there are some twenty million persons receiving relief in one form or another and the further fact remains that there are somewhere between nine million and ten million workers Mr. without jobs. Consequently, Roosevelt's question whether people were better off in dollars and cents Demo-Campai- did not quite click. In the meantime, the Republicans have found what they beueve to be a very vulnerable spot in the New Deal armor and they are shooting at it with machine-gurapidity. This question, this spot, centers around taxation. The Republicans apparently thought at the start of the fight that Democratic waste of federal money and the vast debt that was piled up would force i revulsion of feeling against New Deal policies. So they started out on that campaign horse. But they found that the question of taxation the other, even though the taxation about which the Republicans are talking has been an offspring of the alleged waste of the party in power. n d , I doubt that the taxation issue would have been as important as it is provuig to be , Err in had not the New made a Strategy Dealers mistake in political strategy. This mistake, it may be said in passing, illustrates how very minor things influence the ultimate result in politics to a greater extent perhaps than in any other activity of American national life. The mistake which 1 refer to was made by Attorney General Cummings. The story of the circumstance chronologically is something like this: The Republicans from their headquarters in Chicago began calling attention to increased tax burdens In connection with their exposure of the increase of more than thirteen billion dollars in the countrys debt. They pointed out how, if the Roosevelt administration had not wasted money, preparations would not have to be made for raising the taxes and how, if this waste had not occurred, tax increases which we already have had would not have taken place. As a part of the demonstration of Increased taxation the Republicans issued campaign literature itemizing the amount of taxes each and every one of us pays on the common every-danecessities of life. They showed how each loaf of bread, each pair of shoes, each poik-choamong other tilings, bears so much tax which all of us pay in buying those necessities of l.fe. Probably the distribution of this campaign literature by the Republicans would not have stirred up so much fuss in and of Itself had it not be. n fur the action of Attorney Uncle Sam Vs. Kaiser Bill ( $$ nmmmmammrnmmknmmmmm General Cummings. The Attorney General made some public threats that he would seek to indict those who were responsible for distribution of Uiis information, claiming that a federal law had been violated. Being attorney general of the United States, any statement from him got wide distribution. But the Republicans, recognizing the potentialities of this situation, Issued a challenge to Mr. Cummings to proceed with his threat of indictments. Their publicity statement on the point was just as virulent as that of any American boy who says to hi3 playmate, "I dare you to! Well, the rejoinder of the Republicans rather put Mr. Cummings on d the spot. I presume probably the threat and the resulting challenge still would have amounted to nothing except that the method employed by the Republicans capitalized on that threat by accusing the attorney general of seeking to prevent free speech and to prohibit discussion of campaign issues. If there is one tiling that the American people resent, it is any attempt by a governmental agency of whatever character it may be that seeks to stifle discussion. They look upon it as a sign of dictatorship. Somewhere in their veins still courses the virus that overthrew King George in the birth of this nation. President Roosevelt announced the other day that he is preparing to start reorgani-To- o Many zation of the eral administrative agencies. He said he had arrived at the conclusion that such a course was necessary because there has been overlapping in function and jurisdiction among the many agencies created by the New Deal. It is the second time that the President has proposed reorganization of the governmental units and his new announcement promises to attract as much attention as did his original announcement which was made when he was a candidate during the 1932 presidential campaign. For a long time, it has been plainly evident to observers in Washington that New Deal agencies were literally falling over one another and that many of them were constantly in conflict with others because the laws or executive orders, chiefly the executive orders, by which these agencies were created, did not clarify their jurisdiction or their function. A good deal of this trouble obviously had its origin in the haste that characterized the early efforts of the Roosevelt administration to establish machinery by which problems of the depression could be solved or alleviated. It always happens that when governmental agencies are created in such haste, ridiculous situations result. It was the case during the World war and it has been the case during the New Deals efforts to solve depression problems under the emergency powers granted by congress. The truth seems to be that there is more overlapping, more conflict, now than there was during the World war. I have known of numerous instances where one agency, under authority gtven it Much by the President, Confusion has promulgated rules and regulations having the force of law that did not conform to rules and regulations dealing with the same matters but coming from another unit of government. In addition, I have seen different interpretations placed on the same statute or the same regulation by two different agencies. In consequence, the citizen whose business practices or personal affairs were touched by government edict found himself prohibited from doing a particular thing on the one hand and ordered to do it on the other. Thus, it would seem that it is high time for something to be done about It would seem equally to be high time for elimination of some of the extra red tape of government which has been wound about the private lives of American citizens by the New Deal Goodness knows, there was plenty of red tape before the New Deal; it certainly is worse now than it was before. The tiling that seemed to interest most of the writing fraternity in Washington, however, was not so much the alleviation of the conditions wliic.li I have mentioned, but the political aspects of the presi- dential announcement that new reorganization plans were under consideration. Some of these writers who are critical of the New Deal went back to Uio 1932 campaign recotds and dragged out to public view Mr. Roosevelt's promises re spooling governmental complex! ties. w,vyi SlU N r Til per Union. i Men follow the line of least resistance; if a jumble of genial voices suggests all going to the Rough House, it seems a good thing to do at the moment, and off the whole swarm goes. By KATHLEEN NORRIS EN are afraid to get married nowadays, doctor a middle-age- d said at a dinner party recently. Women are so darned independent, and they can do so much on their own that there isnt much a man can offer them! It used to be, he went on resentfully, that a girl wanted to get married to be independent. Marriage meant freedom, it meant that she was more Important than her sisters, who sat around waiting for beaus to show up. She had her new name and her new house and a lot of new clothes, and she was just in Heaven. But today they have their new homes without bothering to get married. When a girl feels like it she says to the old folks that she wants to live by herself, and off she goes. Thousands of young women have broken away from the home nest, just as the boys used to do, and theyre making their own money, too, just like the boys. They can stay out nights, entertain their friends, go to what shows or what parties they like, and they think things over pretty seriously before they decide to settle down with just one man, and confine their amusements to what amuses him, and their expenditures to what he can afford. I'm looking," he concluded mournfully, for one of those shy little retiring women who raise big grateful blue eyes to the man whos going to rescue them from parental tyranny, and who w'ant to run for slippers and babble about the baby and adore the man of the family for the next fifty years! Beth in Little Women, someone suggested. Exactly!" the first speaker said Why dont women emphatically. get onto the fact that men like em loving and quiet and cuddly! Nobody was cruel enough to answer him as he should have been answered, but perhaps a good many of us were thinking the same thing. Perhaps we were all longing to remind him that twenty years no ago, when he was twenty-five- , girl could be giddy or extravagant or artificial or shallow enough for him. He followed every in petticoal3 that came his way, and finally settled his affections upon a certain pretty saucy little married woman who hadn't sense enough to control her own random affections, much less rebuff his. The affair of the handsome doctor and the little married woman entertained their less charitable friends for several years; it was just one of those pleasant Intimacies between a handsome man and an idle woman in which everyone knows that there is not the least HARM, but which manages to make a good husband feel cheap and cheated, and which takes Mother away from a small boy in the late afternoons, at tea time. When the husband finally got up his courage to ask for a divorce and took the little boy away with him, the pretty little wife was les3 pretty and less pert, and the big doctor drifted Instantly and quietly out of the picture in the way the beaus of married women always seem to know Instinctively. Now, a few years after all this, the doctor could perfectly well marry his sweetheart, shes still free, but instead he rails at the independence of the modern girl and longs for a cuddlesome little wife like Beth March! The truth is that young men dont want domestic, honest, affectionate wives, or theyd find them. Up to the age of thirty-fiv- e some men wont look at a sensible woman, they are all for the girls who drink and jazz and pet, who obtain money somehow, by hook or crook, from Dad or a brother or in any other possible way, who waste it all on red finger nails and matinee seats, wno work a man for champagne and orchids and then triumphantly tell the other girls how easy he is. The more completely imbecile a girl Is the better she succeeds in the circles of night clubs and cocktail parties; Indeed a good many girls assume a baby lisp and an ioiot stare for those occasions. Waiting to hear Lucienne le Boyer I was sitting near one of these one-tim- e Mng-lashe- over-rouge- Western half-nud- tle anomalies one night, and of four ships In resulted In war between the United States and Germany. The sinking of six ships In March, 1SS9, averted a war between the United States and Germany. Forty-seve- n years ago America and Germany were involved in a dispute over the question of sovereignty of the Samoan islands. When the diplomatic quarrel reached an acute stage, both nations rushed warships to the South seas. All of these ships left their home ports with definite Instructions to fight if necessary and with officers and men expecting a battle. Then the god of storms stole the show" from the god of war. March 15 and 16, 1SS9, were the dates of the great Samoan hurricane. When It struck, there were In the harbor of Apia, besides the three American and German battleCalships, the British liope, six large merchant ships and 25 coasting vessels of various sizes. Ship after ship was destroyed. The Calliope alone escaped. The sea power of the two nations, which were about to go to war, was wiped out of existence and both would-bbelligerents decided to arbitrate their difficulties. For the next 30 years they exercised joint control over Samoa. Then In March, 1917, Germanys warfare submarine unrestricted against the Allies Included In its toll four American ships crossing the Atlantic and the next month Uncle Sam declared war against Kaiser Bill sinking THE - iwiiiin Scott Watson lit- Over- - hearing she didnt mind! what she said. She said yare, says and oh, lissen, approxiyew mately a thousand times, and very little else. She varied the accent and intonation on the words cleverly, as jungle savages do their bunh; and she was a great social success, with young men stumbling, tumbling and tottering about her all evening long. Right in the same Biggest City there were a lot of other girls tucked up and sound asleep at that hour, but with young blood in their veins, young desire, young longing to be popular and do things and go places. There were girls who know that somewhere in the world are men who like honest planning and talking, like books and plays and gardens and politics and history and social questions along with the girls ready to become splendid wives, and the mothers of fine little girls and boys. Tnese girls have their opinions too, like the doctor with whose embittered remarks I started this article. It seems a shame, one of them wrote to me a few weeks ago, that when you feel the way I feel you cant admit it. I live at home because I love my home and my own people, but a widowed sister with three babies also lives there, and two brothers still in school, and anyone who calls on me calls on seven other persons as well. My mother is dead, and my father loves us to be home playing cards with him, or reading, or talking, and consequently I dont have much of a chance to meet men socially. For the rest. Im a kindergarten teacher and that means, a lot more work than it used to mean. The children begin to gather at half-pas- t eight, and I have to be there, and what with organized games and rehearsals and late calls from mothers, and reports and putting up exhibitions, and distributing prizes, Im rarely home until after five, and tired then. I'd just like some lonely man to know that Im on the market, she ended. Nobody has to ask me to marry him unless he wants to. But friendship and companionship are among the beautiful things in the world, and Im twenty-eighand I dont want all the miracles to pass me by." This girl lives In a Missouri city. In that same city, on the quiet evening when she wrote this letter, night clubs were going full blast, and men without much money to spend were ordering quarts of champagne, and were leaning over girls who were scented with drink and tobacco, whose shoulders and backs were completely bare, und whose conversation was confined to the aforesaid yare, lissen, and says yew. Some of these men would much rather have been walking d along some fresh quiet street under trees, with an intelligent woman companion, discussing theatre, or a little supper somewhere after the walk. Most men even when young, like reality rather than sham; they like to get SOME value for the money they 1917, man-of-wa- r, e Fairy Crosses love-makin- g, t, star-lighte- spend. But we all do things we dont really want to do, In this queer world. We all see the persons who bore us, and miss the ones we really love; we all go to parties we despise rather than having the courage to say no;" we all waste money on the letter, and let the spirit of living escape through our clumsy hands. Men follow the line of the least resistance; if a jumble of genial voices suggests all going to the Rough House, it seems a good thing to do at the moment, and off the whole swarm goes. That the cover charge at the Rough House is $5, that the air Is thick with unwholesome smells of perspiration and dust and cheap food and cheap drink and cheap perfume, that the crlored men who sing in the dim light are not musicians, and the men who toil in the kitchen are not cooks means nothing until someone has to pay the bill. If decent men. In search of decent wives, would do a little advertising, would let It be known, the girls wouldn't have to worry. There would be whole groups of men, In every social circle, ready to convince fine girls that they are not obliged to change their ideals to find their rightful places and their rightful mates. Dell S Oil. cate. -- WNU Service most 'TpHE curious mineral found In the United States is Staurolite, otherwise known as a fairy stone. Staurolite Is an Iron aluminum silicate found only In the and crystals occurring In crosses. So says a report of the United State- - geological survey. But If you visit a certain valley among the rugged foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains In Patrick county, Virginia, the natives will tell this: Two thousand years ago, so they say, this valley was the home of a band of fairies. One day as they were dancing around a clear spring In this sunlit valley, an elfin messenger arrived from an eastern land far, far away. lie brought the news of the crucifixion of Christ, and when the fairies heard the sad news, they wept. Their tears fell to the ground and crystallized Into little pebbles. On each tear-roca beautiful cross appeared. The fairies have long since left that valley but yon can still find their crystallized tears there. They range In size from a fourth of an Inch to an Inch and a half and form some shape of a cross St. Andrews, Roman or Maltese. Virginia is the only place In the world where they can he found and from the Old Dominion they have been carried to all parts of the world as Virginia, brownish-blac- Hackman Turns Detective Dftn By FLOYD GIBBONS, PHE other night, befys arid girls, I got myself ir argument with a bird who said there wasnt any any more. Or, to be more accurate about it, this there wasnt any more adventure in peace time. i yries loots fe He said that civilization had so caught up with the exploring trip was nothing but a busing a bunch of natives to carry your baggage and then ip walk in the woods. He said that big game hunting had degenerated into of game of with a tame elephant on a prjt. fenced in reservation. Qe seemed to think I had a moiiop, all the adventures because I was a war correspondent i around to the spots where fighting was going on. Well, sir, Ive been to a couple of wars where I didnt have more exciting happen to me than having a family of cooties the vacant flat on my top floor. And on the other hand, I the toughest times in my life in peace-tim- e taking a tap j Sahara desert J '(HO, la1 jSe juris tecl hide-and-se- Tg tO 3,an jjned Co ity '.a? is -- Taxi Drivers Life Is an Adventurous p , i JL test sc sral ar.ufa( One, osfhoru That trip was just like the exploring jaunts that bird , jtwtoi about. A camel carried my baggage. A camel carried that! riently whenever I wasnt too doggone weak from heat and thirst jerciali the doggone brute. Id rather go through six wars than HU S' trip across the Sahara again. Is beside the point. What I want to talk ih element But all that exploring, and big game hunting and taxi driving. Ion I when that bird was through with his spiel I said to him: cares about the explorers and the big game hunters? Tt Irperi not such big potatoes in the adventuring business. ffliji ices nc York taxi driver runs into more adventure in the course of ib'e d than an explorer does In ten. lied 1 And maybe its and maybe its fate. But iccann I fend later I reach into a : ile of your letters on my desk and out of Y. from taxi driver i tne p Brooklyn, N. Andy Muscarella, yarn -- a c Andy Suspicious Looking Fare Hires Andy for tells us about an adventure that happened oclock in the morning 111 P to Lx Ijlesir on March 26, 1934. In front of Madison Square Garden jsly, jvi Jaunt Andy had his when a young fellow irt am c;. k: exper j pds reddish-brow- k well-define- d k good luck pieces. Atonement in Advance Come On, the Fellow Said, and told him to drive him to an address in Thirtieth street Ninth and Tenth avenues. of the best in Andy had had a good day that day-- one He had nineteen dollars and sixty-fiv- e cents on the clod bucks, i enough tips to make it all come to about twenty-tw- o tut made m. much ing that money in his pocket at four a. of careful. And besides, he didnt like the looks of this us he was being handed. In the first place, he didnt like the fellows appearance the second place he knew that Thirtieth, between Ninth t was no residential neighborhood. But a cab driver can't t everybody who looks suspicious. He could lose half his fares So Andy took a chance. Guy. Passenger Turns Out to Be a Stick-u- p Sure enough, as the cab neared its destination, Andy It thrust against the back of his neck. A gruff voice ordered hp and get out of the cab. As Andy stepped to the sidewalk, the Come on, the fellow said, hand thrust into his stomach. dough. Go ahead and take it, said Andy, ne figured if to went through his pockets he might leave an opening and him a chance to swing a haymaker. But the fellow ' smart for that, Do I look like a sap? he said. "Hand It o' dollars. H Reluctantly, Andy passed over the twenty-twshoved him into a hallway and ordered him not to come oi Andy minutes. Through the crack-lik- e opening out the door get in the cab and drive away. Then he came out, ran back avenue and called the police. TT HAPPENED In Arizona. A barnstorming theatrical troupe had just boarded a train to go on to the next town. A lounging cowboy strolled over to where an actor was sitting on the observation platform of the train. Aint you the brother of that fellow who killed Abe Lincoln? he Sleuthing Cabbie Gets His Man! asked. The bandit had made a clean getaway. The police Yes, my friend, replied Edwin went back to the office and told his story. The comp Booth. Im the brother of that unsatac fortunate boy." At tills reply the charge him for the lost money, but still he wasnt who ft same night he told his wife he was going to get the bird abashed cowboy started to leave. if It took him all of the rest his life. Wait," commanded Booth, I have a story to tell you." And this The next day was a Monday. Andy was back t liito Is the story he told: with another cab, but he was paying less attention to P3S?fi Several years before, while he driving than he was to the faces of the people who was waiting at a station In IlliAll day Monday and al: day Tuesday he watched nois, be saw a small boy toddle on success. He did the name thing most of Wednesday nil j the track just as the train was no luck either. But along about three In the morning he pulling In. Instantly, he made a sort of feeling that he was going to see his man. Sure e slr dive for the child, grabbed him off while he was cruising on Eighth avenue near Fifty-firthe track. Then he got up, dusted spotted him crossing the 6treet. himself off and boarded the train. It was raining hard, but that didnt stop Andy. He eft Some time later he received a the man till he saw a policeman. Andy told his story after letter thanking him for his act. The and the ! of them went the bandit. They boys name was Robert Todd Lin- Forty-nint- h pairstreet, took him after and to to house, station the coln and the letter was signed minute grilling he admitted the hold-up- . Gratefully, A. Lincoln." Hoi He proved to be an on six years probe "And so, my friend, said Edwin it P I Andy. I felt pretty good about catching him. guess Booth, I made some little atoneto show that there isnt such a lot of difference between ment In advance for the misdeed of live and a backman. my brother. rmaj tom? - tods Itr.olu ;;e e to Js C) Western Newspaper Union. Naming Seven Seat The original Seven Sens got their nnmes from the ancients nnd are said to be mentioned In both Hindu and Chinese legends, says a writer In the Detroit News. The first was the "Sea of Salt Water, whleh surrounded India; the Sen of Sugar Cane, surrounding Burma; the "Sen of Wind In the region of the Malay peninsula; a Sea of Clarified Butter extended around the Sunda urehlpelago; the "Sea of Milk surrounding Siam and Cambodia; tlie "Sea of Curds and Whey" washing (lie shores of southern China, ami the seventh sea was the Sea of Fresh Water along the shores of northern Chinn and WNU The Milky Way The milky wa; is a hazy, somewhat irregular banu of light, about twenty degrees wide, which completely encircles the heavens. It can be seen on clear, moonless, summer evenings, stretching entirely across the northern sky. The unaided eye gets the impression that the milky way is made up of fault ktars. The telescope confirms tills impression by showing that the light of the milky way is caused by millions of stars. In reality these stars are great suns and they appear faint only because of their immense distances. Most of them are so remote that several thousand years are required for their light to come to us. 8erlc, h teres Riewir fee. the tobut A Am EP sepoi per t sl ( b"th o didnl-And- y pi feits lyeai ttceiv j hj mot sarth to yea kear kiV. & iVea i'awn tog t 'given leathi Wat tfJu I i Dece: to mm 1st fet pu tot s! to is t to), V F me TE Js d & th ry 3ldo Ser Schubert Whatever his inspfa bert wrote the Serena' the words of a PerD, Rellstab. A number a poems were original'? author to Beethoven. to do anything with to of the state of his hea. recommended that toi over to Schubert. Tfe after Beethoven's dca Schubert wrote a nun s songs, which were n the death under Serenade Songs," the Swan Songs, lc others written to Rtf"' Schubert was born ju and died Nov. 13, lS bro1'-hi- ' !d tc Ai fin q is dar M i toihei IPS feen t) Dot ' e 5 hay t one i.ec |