Here's m bit^from Washington, D.C. p=»k±cte^==ten»glrit giiiiu .-.'i: A story in the Philadelphia Public Ledger says thatf Washington is like the scene of a gold rush. The largest and most ravenous horde of political job seekers ever seen in the history of the country has begun to Invade the capital. ru2,— To elected Democratic senators and represents.- A KX-OvJ lives life^is one long nightmare. Even the stampede of the sinecure hunters in 1912 was tame in comparison. One senator ..^ays^he's positively afraid to go to . rfe Pec.oQ-thci.n—Lkgoo- thaus-and of rno po'gjle A .. 'ZCrn, 'Se Ad) 'Z&OjOTn? ^ _ .a. 1 _ _ _J if* u. 1—. Jf ii-. —^ .^w l—i a f** -I' TA i . •? 'Wm jeai ca_: -■> . / his office from patriots willing to serve th eir country for about five times more than they could possibly earn in private employ. In rpert"^hcis so terrific that many si' sorry their party won the elecaion. add jobs Clinton Gilbert points out that there never was a time when so many cushy jobs were in the gift of a political party. For instance there1s the Reconstruction Finance Just imagine a body with thirty-eight jobs paying salaries of ten thousand or more a year ABKBcT A couple of ladies in Camden^ New Jersey7 showed gftlwJr-fsa^s^agiTt. Christmas. At any rate about their A A Husbands1 Christmas presents. Their husbands are brothers, and twins. Each fond spouse had the same Mrtrifi iiliTlft providing her /*■ -A soxiss mate with a good time for the holiday. They had ’em pinched and thrown in the^e©^** But in each case the law let cTVtTVV the prisoners out on their. recogninances so they could have A their celebration just the same. As a result of which, says a story in the Courier- Post of Camden, there are two ladies whose idea of the law is too scornful for publication. Here's somethin ' -hich I am afraid beer drinkers will not consider a welcome Christmas gift. One of the close friends of President Hoover approached him and put a question to him bluntly. The question was: "till you sign a beer bill when It is passed?” To which Mr. Hoover replied emphatically: "no.” And he added that the Senate and the House might as well know It. 3rn-',fc-T'TTKB. Tnis report ha; been current several months. But this confirmation seems definite and authorat<cfe^e, fr-fcagta—— Pr c si’*]- u 111, II v * u <i' i"igvliTAi ■ to faaiir m - ■ o n iv^-err-^TTEggs. .Biedc IhlS OjhttJ''<rtdK-l!;" J:uS'L lof Ui ’da^Sggte'jj L fUr hi .S,,,. C.Li,.i,-I • ■ • ■ ' ' ^ Even the most optimistic of the wet leaders have no hopes of mustering enough votes to over-ride the presidential veto. lilNE lews from tL t mine disaster in Illinois does not, I am sorry to say, become any mgi1 p-1 .^rip. There seems to be A no hope that any of the fifty-four men trapped by that underground explosion can possibly be alive. A to the Philadelphia Enquirer reported that A it twelve bodies were recovered. But, the dispatch, as the first of those bodies were brought to the surface, a groan escaped the waiting wives and relatives of the miners. They knew only too well that the explosion in all probability was fatal to every man caught underground. FOLLOVv MIME U 3>}<f) ;he entire town feeling of of Mo we a qua. Though Saturday v/as pay day at the mine, not a cent was paid. All miners who had not themselves been trapped underground were frantically busy at rescue work, and all thoughts of wages were forgotten tragedies were interpolated into the bigger one of the disaster itself. In the throngs around the two brides. One of was married ten days mine entrance come back from her hstmasusuaH honeymoon— ago, the other had only just And they have been for over the day before the disaster forty-eight hours waiting in vain for news of their bridegrooms. ■m. TROMBQME The other evening I happened to mention the *3S^£3C5^ skill of New York’s mayor, Joe McKee, at r-ri tini; improvise*^ verse*. ^In the current issue of the Literary Digest there's a story of a Lieutenant Governor who can play the trombone the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of VKn, the State of Washington,^Victor Myers, .and why shouldn’t he -- ^ olay the trombone? He's a professional musician, the leader A of a jazz band in Seattle. According to the story In the Digest, the election of Lieutenant Governor Myers came about as the r suit of a h joke. The Seattle Times was poking fun at the calibre of the people running for municipal office*. In order to reduce the whole thing to absurdity they nominated Vic Myers^s-a q \ or mayor. He lost that election, in fact he only got a handiul -th ~£r *4 of votes. Bu t^'i U i iif ^ Gw -■lilt —--—^ U-«M* political bug, couldn't keep Seattle's wsx&ef jaz \ A. ^ out of politics. This year he filed his name for Lieutenant Governoi^ and won a comfortable plurality in the Democratic Primaries. THOMSONE - 2 In the national election most Democrats in hashing ebon voted a straight Democratic ticket. So for the coming year Washington will have a crack musician, -n n iaa^un?.,tiA.-nce en-lv-to tho Executive of thadbstate. I read an article today which answers a question that a lot of us have been asking. The article is one of *^J^ series by Emil Ludwig, v/hic^fhas been running in the New York frttjlS) fv-f-CS\4- /^c?v*c » American. The subject is Mussolini. The top^ discussed is that familiar old auestion^.vho will succeed Mussolini? And the answer is "nobody11. Ludwig biograoher of Napolean and Bismarck / tells how he asked II Duce who would be his successor as the Black Shirt Dictator of Italy and Mussolini replied: »I don1! • believe fc-i r rnrr-j-j: iSjtQ. ata. If he should^e^vv*-^ Italy would not him Than he went on to explain that the same situation does not occur twice in succession. The crisis that raised him to Twm absolute control of Italy will not happen avain. Mussolini* idea is that he was the product of a peculiar time of wild excitement, but that things ouiet down and become more prosy and matter of “act when that happens, he rnjr.r.e-11"-^ any intelligent man of character is able to represent and govern Nation, .UijXW-i- ... £ \ •tie goes on to say that the Fascist movement has f already developed a group of able men to carry on and among these men he mentioned Dino Grandi, who made such a good im- C^Uo pression in Washington a year or ~~ •---n^ m- tnr Aviation Minister Balbo, who will lead that mass airplane flight to the Chicago World*s Fair next summer. And talking about Mussolini, I have a disoatch here which tells that in Rome public opinion ii getting more and raore excited about the recent squabble between Italy and Jugo cable from Rome, which says that in Italian political circles fingers of accusation are being pointed ai directly towards France. The dispute began when mobs in Jugo Slavia assualted local Italians and broke up Italian associations. They also smashed a few monuments and that caused more lj" hard a mob demolished a great sculptured group of the Lions of St, the day when Venice controlled the eastern coast o . l the Adriatic Sea and wh galley***** swept the y ' ■ t - i.p |Mediterranean and carried the banner oi St.Jiark to many a victory on the sea. Slavia, dew York1 s Italian newspaper^, II Progress'o, has a feelings. It all takes us back to a distinetrromant1c k k page in history. For exam-ole, in the city of Trau in Dalmatia. Well those Lions of St. MarkjKtaki Mark of Venice There is a close political alliance between Jugo Slavia and France and that is why the Italians claim the French are ; ehind such matters as the attack upon the Lions of St. Mark. Anothep curious phase is- the close commercial relations between Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia. You would think that the Black Shirt Dictator at Rome and the Red Dictator at Moscow would be poles apart, but they seem to be able to do business together. II Progresso today reports a considerable increase in commerce between Russia and Italy in 13S£. Russia kicks in with wheat and lumber principally^ while Italy pays the bill with machinery, airplanes. cotton goods and automobiles. LIGHTNING 7 IHrora Syracuse, New York, comes the story of a dog that has bewildering gifts, a talent that I for one have never before heard of as being found in a dog. The dog's name is Lightning. His is the breed that is called German Police dog in this country, but is actually ^-German shepherd. They uaimjia Lightning some days ago and put him in the pound of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals in Syracuse. Lightning was roaming the streets wituput any tag. So they pinched him and put him In a with a dozen others of his kind, in cell #1. X If my friend, J. Henry Cassidy, Managing Director of the S. P. C. a . in Syracuse, had known of Lightning's peculiar talents, he would not have put him in cell #1. Lightning's talent was this, in the middle of the night he decided he'd had enough of that cell, so he placed his front paws on the doorknob, twistsd It arouno, pushed open the door and stepped out. Naturally his twelve cell mates whooped with delight and followed him. Lightning was not content with this. He went to every other cell block, and one by one he LIGHTNING - £ opened all six doors, ihe upshot of it was that Lightning set no less than forty dogs free. It was the first and only wholesale .jail delivery in the history of the Syracuse S.p.C.A &-&Z. But that wasn’t all. Lightning got into the larder. V end had just A of fresh venison. And did those dogs enjoy that venisonl Some •»»ivnjaab friend had just sent over a present of sixty pounds A Lightning showed himself a bit of an alias Jimmy Valentine when he opened that larder door. In order to to this he had not only to lift the bolt but to turn the knob at the same time. You can imagine -esp friend-5—Cassidy1 s^feelings when he got down to the animal pen next morning and found forty dogs running xs riot, the e s b.'tbl is I aiiir'rrtoi Two of the prisoners,, 33 5 n +■ —r r r -ia j .■ gn l away and were not rounded up until some time later. bhen Lightning’s owner came along to claim his dog *s UL and pay his fine, he remarked mildly: "Lightningfca-pretty good at picking locks and opening doors." To which Mr, iahniEi Cassidy replied: "Pretty good? 1 1II 7 **=^ mjp — '5e4s I RJjl hi 1: qu0 1 0 1 m 1 a o o cy-ing- |f| - - V 1 - Y „ ' /7 d? ----- ^I 1 Iff 0 '^a- "'P 5 11 i DECATUR Prominent among the remarkable towns in the U,S*A. is Decatur, Georgia. At a time when the iabulously rich Fath r Knickerbocker^defaulte^ on a Supreme Court ,judgment^ when other large and luxurious cities such as Philadelphia, are scratching the bottom of the till tO' find enough to pay their employees, Decatur, Georgia, has a.nn-h-h /V 1/ story to A dispatch to the New Yokk Times relates that^for instanceall of Decatur’s bills are paid in full. Not a single employee of the city has either had a cut in salary or a suspension of salary. All the city's bonds are paid up to date. But there's still more to come. The city fathers of Decatur have made a uniform reduction ®, j . xifteen per cent in the tax rate and have also carried out a program of relief work that has brought food and fuel to every jobless person in town. DEMPSEY ftji McGeehan in the lew York Herald Tribune today has some iun in connection with that meeting at the Waldorf- j A A ~to ■for that fight between Max Schiseling and Max Baer^ next June, xabi tri^wuidj The curious A. ■ Ur thing about ti'iat--mo^b^aaa^. says McGeehan, was that not /V even a spoon was missing afterwards. Evidently the detective service at the Waldorf is exceedingly efficient. McGeehan points out that when Jack Kearns gave a party at another hotel, at which Mickey Walker signed fight articles, oractically the entire hotel had to be refurnished. One of the guests must have been a magician, because the carpet m ■ of the dining room disappeared. And even the Welcome mat in the lobby vanished. And the peculiar thing, adds^ is that many of the guests at that party were also present at the more recent meeting at the Waldorf. ti 1 I 1 loung men seem to have a much easier time of it ----- today than they had twenty years ago^ when it comes to taking 7~o^ the gals ou - g for an evening. ^Seattle, Washington, is -n-^hrr favorable place for young men who like the ladies/ Young University undergraduates, at any rate. A story in the a New York World Telegram indicates that survey was taken of the fair co-eds at the University of Washington. The purpose of the survey was to discover their attitude towards the young men. Thirty of the girls were cuestioned on the subject of the expenses Incidental to dates. Out of those thirty, twenty-one were willing to pay a full half of the expenses incurred on an evening*s fun. One of tnem went so iar as to be willing to furnish a car, the gas and cigaret money. Another Vtashington damsel was even more generous thrfn this. She bought her own engagement ring. , 2 > *, I It is amusing to observe how real estate scattered all over the lace ol? the globe is being wished on Uncle Sam. For example? there is a group in Chile who want to sell faster Island to the U. S. A. Easter Island, standing alone in the South Pacific, is the scene of one of the world1s most fascinating mysteries. So n J <Sca$&) bulletin of the National Geographic Society. One of curious features are those gigantic statues. They are anywhere from four to thirty-seven feet in height, all in one piece. And nofiody knows how those giant Esnaiiis monoliths got there or what sort of a race it was who created the extraordinary carving on them. They can ben seen from way out at sea on the mountain slopes of Easter Island. Observed irom the deck of an approaching ship they look like giant sentinels. Though this has puzzled scholars for centuries, they I I seem no nearer today to solving the mystery. Did you know that Amm United States time is the most accurate in the world? in case there are any Canadians or other Britishers listening in, I should perhaps add that this statement comes from an American. from Captain Hellweg, Superintendent of the United States Maval Observatory at Arlington. Ami ££=easglfft Lm L>un,.H“0- LhL -tjO -H I*thih^PAt r«ilt—t?uundi11.^ hi;. -^asoas Dr. £. E. Free in the current issue of "The Week s Science" relates that a comparison was carried out recently by radio signals of time services all over the world. According to this international comparison the Kxx&x signals sent out from Uncle Barn's radio station at Arlington were found to be accurate to seventy-eight ten-thousandths ol a second. Dr. Free quotes Captain Hellweg as to the effect that the precision clocks of the Naval Observatory are kept in a small underground room. This room is inside another room. Both rooms are sealed, waterproofed and insulated against heat i or cold. Nobody is allowed to enter them, because the amount of heat radiated by a human body mi^ht alter thejfcecision with which TIME - 2 'Tv tlis clocivs beat out the seconds* O 'A CS --•-2^^ vv 4 , ~s^pk "^t" c^w^a. ~t£*Jr 77 “'Np -f^ T^_e ^ 'iJk ■t ~to -^-^y u*