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Show iByEdwnsaff. -- Scenes and Persons in Ihe Current .News R1CEE V0OIC4 tv 0.0.HS IdtTVKiV NEW YORK. To the ladies! Its past time to swirl a gallant tor their good sportsmanship during ihe de-- 4 pressure. Most long cape men spend I know their time talking about the yachts, stocks and bonds they used to own. Whtls the ladies are out in the kitchen, si e e v e Tolled up, laughing it off. No opiate Is so deadening as memory, togging reality with useless dreams. Women have shaken off the jitters long ago, plunged la to buck up their men, still the whimpering. The history of this economic upset will show It has not been mastered by codes and cabals but by feminine courage In a word, the ladies have been magnificent When the back trek began from grilled mansions and penthouses the men could he found In brooding over the club hlgh-bal- l the despair of anxious thought. The world waa finished. Everything was sixes and sevens. Nothing could be 1 Premier Goerlng of Prussia entertaining Queen Uambal Barnl of Slam at a banquet In Berlin Just after the bloody purge of the Nasi party. 2 Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian ambassador to the United States, on visit to A Century of Progress in Chicago. 8 Scene in Jacksonville, HI after a destructive tornado had bit that city. Where Grand Coulee Dam Will Be Built done! All the while the women were some walk up hat Into a cozying np suburban aread i a, starting the men off mornings with encouraging pats and receiving the discouraging moans In the evening with uplifting cheer. They refused to resign themselves to mutual passtveness. Not all credit goes to the happily married. Single .ladles and forlorn widows have displayed amaxlng pluck. A young widow 1 know has gone sliding down the social scale from a Fifth avenue duplex to a Second avenue hall room. She la cashier now tn a milk depot $12 a week, gives a dollar a week to charity and has never chucked her smile. That sort of courage takes Spartan spunk. V In W Theres a telephone lady, too, A widow with three, youngsters, one an Infantile paralysis victim. She V I v makes $95 n month, mostly ntght '"to r work. How she has, head-up- , kept , her little brood together during ifc ILjt IluI 1l1 .nJlJTi.Ji. iLil U. .1 lif.ii wHnwai ?. Ii.4 ,iL4l tautness of the world's most desperate strain is an achievement wrench General view of the Columbia river basin near Almira, Wash showing the site of the projected Grand lng the heart For live years ago sh dam. Th plana call for a dam 251 feet high and a power plant with eight generating units and an Coulee rode the crest a beach home at Installed capacity of 700,000 horsepower. The PWA has allotted about $00,000,000 for the project Rye, att apartment In town, a trust fund, now worthless, that furntRhed ON AIR COMMISSION 12,500 a year. , 4 "A h k-- 1 ii an unusual view of the construction work on Boulder dam In Nevada, showing the a dam. The top forms are at an elevation of 040 feet German Pocket Battleship More down-strea- m Memorial to the Negro War Dead MISS PRANCE, 1934 W 5 rt 1 In the linen room of a smart Park avenue hotel is a white haired lady of enormous serenity and charm Seven years ago her daughter mads her debut In the hotels big dining room. The lady herself has occupied a six room sutte there. The crash, a husband in a sanitarium, an Indifferent daughter and there she Is beached on the tragic shoals. She works eight hours a day checking linen and three nights a week is hostess at a slum mission. v ryWafc ichowf rfWBB. bafr dStlM - There ts an eld philosophy, that deep sorrows are dumb. Yet the most exquisite and articulate comof millions ment about the crack-uof hopes has come from women who suddenly through no fault of their own suffered the bitterest and most continuous defeats. Not from them are hurled the destructive threats of the soap boxes Or the calamitous prophecies of idlers taking advan tage of a situation to collect without effort Every lady I know, frosted In the blight. Is hopeful of the future. They are taking It on the chin. perhaps. Bat not In the his-of any living person has hu- tory manlty so needed the Pollyana mood. After all the world was not brought to desolation by the Polly-ana- s and the Babbitts but by the who often merciless blusterers laughed and sneered at them. p . ll ", 1 Mile. Simone Barlllier, seventeen years old, who was chosen to repre- sent France at the International beauty contest MOVIE CENSOR MAnMuMaMaae , f has three of the pocket battleships" that she devised "d the naval limitations Imposed by the Versailles treaty. The :,aed Admiral Graf Spee, Is here seen sliding down the ways at now Platen. t Air SdC Photograph of Mount Fuji Edward P. Warner, a ho has been appointed by President Roosevelt new presidential commission on air policy, la editor of the McGraw-Hill publication Aviation, the oldest American aeronautical maga-zlnMr. Warner became the first appointee to a "baby cabinet position especially concerned with aeronautics when be waa first appointThe triumphs of feminine for- ed assistant secrotary of the navy bearance thread every highlight of for aviation by President Coolldge In 1920. He was later appointed a history, floating member of the national advisory for an instant In committee for aeronautics by presi- the public eye Jnwt xlwv riAftaa.r v v6ui ring and sifting Pol-lyan- apart Soon n. In the blackest hours of life, you and I and every man turn e. r J S Joseph L Breen, who has been made director of the production code for motion picture producers and distributors, is relied upon to keep the pictures decent Strength of the Firefly Certain fireflies emit a light that, of a candle-powe- r, although only ia so penetrating that It passes through paper, flesh and J. T. FInbay, wood, write Kan, in Corners Weekly. fiTt,Ure tacen from a plane flying near Mount Fuji, Japan, In fact y photograph of these ,DBer Pan outlined against the heavy clouds hovering near beer made by tie have substances of the one seen Nippons venerated peak. Below may be 1511 Illumination, Insect es which abonnd in the region. Em-port- X-ra- , J , 0 fj r vn Instinctive- ( 0 0000 00-0000- 0 Members of the Daughters of War Veterans unveiling in Falrmount of the park, Philadelphia, the beautiful monument erected In memory war. In World the died who American negroes Uncle Sam Gets a New Destroyer !? y;VX. Cecil Rhodes once declared every great scheme of empire building had its genesis In the encourage- ment and supreme optimism of some modest woman whom the world never heard or saw. And so It will be when the horror of these past four years have - vanished beyond Times horizon. Tirewomen who sustained man, brushed him off, adjusted his tie when he fell and conditioned him to win the battle will never be known. They will he entirely too busyjnywaf"getting ready for the hex t crop of grumbling bunglers. , e Itu, McSntkf SfUtcafi . V TO CLEAN ST. PAUL ly to woman wife, mother, sister or sweetheart And find solace and sound po.ao.o.o.oAoAP-O.Q-QA- MfJI ) M ,iy Alexander G. Jamie, former bead agency, of Chicago crime-lightinthe "secret six," who has been appointed chief of police of St, Paul, Minn, with orders to give the city a thorough cleaning, g yard Looking down from the highest rafters of the Philadelphia navy The new see launched. was It before Just Aylwln tha destroyer upon d daughter of th fighter was christened by Betty Farley, eleven-year-ol- postmaster general. - |