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A Famous American Painting
Hang It Where Americans Can SEE It
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“WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE.”
This is one of the two most famous historical paintings in
the United States. The other is “The Spirit of ’76,” which
now hangs in Philadelphia.
Since 1897, the picture of “Washington Crossing the Dela
ware”, has been the property of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York.
To make room for the H. 0. Havemeyer collection, the Met
ropolitan authorities have recently removed it to a storeroom.
A storeroom is no place for this famous canvas. It should
he hung in some conspicuous location, either in New York
citer or in Washington, where the public can see it.
It is true that the painting is not an outstanding work of
art. It is not even completely accurate in historical details.
Nevertheless, it is surrounded by such a wealth of sentiment
that -the American people will not tolerate the inglorious fate
to which it seems to have been consigned.
Generations of children have seen reproductions of it in
their school histories and readers. Hundreds of thousands of
adults have made pilgrimages to the Metropolitan to view the
original. It is as familiar to our people as the Stuart or Peale
portraits of Washington himself.
In this year of 1932—the two hundredth anniversary of
Washington’s birth—it is fitting that a permanent disposition
be. made of the canvas.
The city of New York might well find a place for it in its
new museum, which opens this week. Or the Washington
Bicentennial Commission might take steps to have it placed in
Independence Hall, or in the Capitol.
Such a location would be more appropriate than the Metro
politan. It would certainly be more appropriate than a store
room. That is a sorry place indeed in which to house this
famous pictorial tribute to the Father of His Country. No
wonder patriotic Americans are protesting.
• Julius Rosenwald
A Great Man, and a Modest One
The United States loses a great citizen with the death of
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears Roebuck.
The Jewish race loses a great representative.
The poor, everywhere, lose a great friend.
Mr. Rosenwald will be remembered long after his business
triumphs are forgotten, not because of what he made, but of
what he gave. The total of his philanthropies in his lifetime
was more than $20,000,000. Education for those to whom it
was denied was his deepest interest. Among his countless
benefactions were 5,000 schools for negroes in the South.
Those schools, perhaps, will be his greatest monument.
Mr. Rosenwald .was also modest. His fortune, he main
tained, was 95 per cent luck.
"I never could understand the popular belief that because a
man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains,” he said once.
“There are men in America today, walking the streets, who have
mere brains and more ability than I ever will have.”
There may have been some, not many. And there are still
fewer, rich or poor, with less conceit and pretense than he.
That is another reason why his country will miss him.
Sunday Closing Laws
The District Doesn’t Want Them
The District Commissioners “know of no objection to pas
sage” of the bill closing barber shops on Sunday.
The city heads may not know it but there is plenty of
objection of . enactment of such a measure, and the objection
is well-founded.
To pass such a bill will open the way to enactment of other
measures which in turn would close other and more neces
sary businesses.
The eventual result might be to close up the District tighter
than those communities which are now fighting to get out
from under “blue law Sundays.”
This barber shop closing bill is sponsored by a group of
barbers who want to close their shops.
Why don’t they close them?
Because they are afraid that if they close some other
barber will keep his place open and attract their trade.
The barbers are, of course, entitled to one day of rest a
week. They should take it.
But there is no sound basis for making the closing of shops
mandatory under a general law.
Let the barbers close their shops on Sunday voluntarily if
they wish, but let us not have a law which tells a man how
he may work or how he may worship.
One Bom Every Minute
“TTiere’a one born every minutt.”
P. T. Barnum may be dead these many years, but the truth
of this saying, attributed to him, goes marching on.
We still have people with us who will “match pennies” with
strangers.
And now the Better Business Bureau has to call attention to
the fact that many Washingtonians are falling for the “hot
fur game.”
Shrewd manipulators, equipped with a cheap fur piece and a
truck with foreign tags, are reaping a harvest from the gul
lible who are really paying double for what they think is a
bargain.
EDITORIAL PAGE
OF THE
Still Buying “Hot” Furs
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Consider how the Japanese
Dispose of “incidents” like these:
A diplomat punched in the nose
They simply send regrets and close
LISTEN, WORLD!
What Is Love?
It’s What You Make It!
Beginning to be a bit soured
on life? Find yourself doubt
ing everything at times? Doubt
ing even love? And saying to
yourself:
“Wonder if there is such a
thing as romantic love, like
the books tell about? Can
people really
care for each
other that
way? Os
course, I
thought they
could, once,
when I was
a kid. I’ve
believed I was
in love a lot
of times, but
it always
fizzled out.
Maybe I’ve
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ELSIE ROBINSON
never met the right person.”
Is that what you’re saying
to yourself? And as you say
it, do you think of love as a
definite phenomenon, which
happens or doesn’t happen in
one’s life, like an earthquake
or a thunder storm or a rain
bow? And since it hasn’t hap
pened to you like that, do you
suspect that you’ve “never been
in love”? Then you’re wrong.
Love isn’t a particular phe
nomenon with definite symp
toms, like measles or mumps.
It isn’t a unique experience,
set apart from all the other
experiences in life and exempt
from all the regular rules; nor
does it depend upon meeting
the right person.
LOVE IS SOMETHING
WHICH YOU CAUSE TO HAP
PEN INSIDE YOURSELF; NOT
SOMETHING OUTSIDE YOUR
SELF WHICH HAPPENS TO
YOU.
Love is what you make it.
Love is what-have-you.
Have you warmth in you and
loyalty; good nature and gen
erosity; tolerance, tenderness,
patience and self-control?
Have you developed these
qualities in .your character?
Do you exercise them in the
ordinary relations of your life?
THEN YOU WILL FIND
THEM IN LOVE.
On the other hand — .
Are you selfish, wilful, lazy,
cowardly, impatient of restraint
and monotony—so impatient
By Elsie Robinson
that you tired easily of any
task or interest?
Are you jealous, envious,
given to self-pity, impractical,
conceited, unreasonable?
THEN LOVE WILL BE
MARRED OR WRECKED BY
ALL THESE FAULTS.
For you will bring to love
only what you bring to every
other situation in life; and
you will get out of love only
what you put into it.
If you put beauty and
strength into love, you will get
beauty and strength out of it.
If you put weakness and
pettiness into love, you will
get weakness and pettiness out
of it- . ■
As for “meeting the right
person”—YOU CAN SPOIL
LOVE WITH “THE RIGHT
PERSON” QUITE AS EASILY
AS WITH THE WRONG PER
SON IF YOU, YOURSELF,
ARE NOT FIT FOR LOVE
“But suppose it’s the other
person who isn’t fit?” you cry.
“Suppose the other person fails
you and cheats you after you've
done your best?”
Then that’s tough. But it’s
tougher on the other person
than it is on you. stranger. For
if you love greatly and gener
ously, your life will be the
richer for that loving, even
though the one you love may
fail you.
Do not doubt love. Do not
be afraid of love. Love is al
ways worth while if you, your
self, are worth while. Love
will never fail you, if you don’t
fail love.
(Copyright. 1932. Kinr Feature*
Syndicate. Inc.)
Advance Planning
The gift-giving season has
passed and, as usual- Dad had
to get his greatest joy out of
what he was able to present to
others.
Dads do not figure exten
sively in remembrances.
Os course Dad says that he
does not care, but he would be
pleased nevertheless if a little
more thought were given to
him and the selection of the
gifts presented to him.
Frequently Dad is to blame
for the fact that he receives
few presents.
He is the one who earns the
money and hands it out to
other members of the family
who are not in the earning
class.
Often he gives money to his
ONCE-OVERS
That incident. And close the book
Describing how and why they took
Manchuria. And placed on file,
The League’s objections rest awhile
MARRY-GO-ROUND
Etiquette for Ex-Wives
The Court of St. James is
not the only one, in which
rules of “court etiquette” should
be punctiliously observed. There
are courts right here at home,
where the Best People should
show their Emily Post training.
Here are a few rules for the
guidance of the would-be Ex-
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wife; when detaching her hus
band.
Always divorce your husband
gently but firmly. If you do
not know what it is about
him that aggravates you, con
sult an attorney and he will
find a nice, polite grievance for
you.
Leave your red hat. your
cheerful expression and the
Pekingese at home. The cor
rect costume for an afternoon
divorce is a black tailored suit,
relieved by a touch of lavendar
or white—indicating the begin
ning of hope.
Be prompt. At a wedding,
undue haste may show too
wife and children, but he does
this on Christmas Day when it
is too late for them to buy
anything for him.
He says this the reason he
does not give it to them in
advance. He does not want
them to spend money on him.
And he is in earnest in this
position, but just the same he
would be better pleased if he
received something out of <he
line that he gets year after
year.
How he figures the family
can surprise him with the
small amount they have to
spend for gifts is hard to under
stand.
Perhaps it might be done if
there were a little advance
planning.
(Copyrisht. 1532. by tmerrational
Feature Service, Inc.)
By Nelson Harding
By Helen Rowland
♦ much anxiety; but a divorce
trial, it is quite de rigeur.
Never greet, your husband
cordially in the court room.
Wait until you have secured
your decree, before congratu
lating him on his cheerful ap
»pearance.
Your maid should accompany
you. to hold your decree and
your vanity cases. But, avoid
using your lipstick and your
powder puff too often, or the
judge may become suspicious.
If your husband has sent you
orchids for the occasion, do not
wear them. Mink coats, orchids
and diamonds are entirely out
of place in a court room—par
ticularly when asking for
alimony.
Never throw away your old
wedding rings. These may, in
time, make a very interesting
collection, to be handed down in
the family as a memento of
“dear Grandmama’s girlish
triumphs.”
Do not put your decree in the
safety vault. Tastefully framed,
it will make a charming spot of
color on the living room wall
and lend the house an atmos
phere of ready money. Decrees
KM
framed in silver and black are
very swank, this season, and
appear to have completely re
placed those old-fashioned sam
pler-mottoes, such as “God Bless
Our Home” and “The Ties That
Bind.”
Above all things, avoid any
sign of nervousness. Remember
that “The’Great Divorce Prob
lem” is how to pay your law
yer. Nothing else should
bother you.
A rowdy divorce-court fight
is the last word in vulgarity.
The ultimate sign of a “lady”
is to divorce her husband
graciously and politely.
Black wedding rings are the
very latest vogue among smart
ex-wives. Perhaps your ex
husband will give you one as a
souvenir de guerre.
(Copyright. 19.12. King Feature*
Syndicate. Inc.)
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WASHINGTON, D. C„
JANUARY 11,1932
Roosevelt on Banks
And Leadership
By Claude G. Bowers
IN the first part of his
message, Governor Roose
velt surveys the economic
conditions of the country as
a whole and makes numerous
observations that are inter
esting and to the point. No
where in his comments can
he be accused of intolerance
toward those who have in
large measure been respon
sible for bringing about the
American contribution to the
debacle.
Indeed, he says that it
would be “ungracious” to
accuse groups or indi
viduals. And yet the tariff
act which has closed the for
eign markets in our faces was
due not to the people as a
whole, for these protested;
not to business as a whole,
for a large part opposed it;
certainly not to the finan
ciers, for they were dead
against it, and the econo
mists w’ere almost unani
mously hostile to it. There
was a group, and a compara
tively small group, that
forced that destructive act
upon the statutes, repre
sented by Mr. Grundy; and
he explained that among
this group of his he had
raised $1,000,000 for the
campaign fund in 19'28.
It is equally true that the
collapse of the market was
brought, about by the mad
dog policy of supremely
selfish and greedy men; and
we are not so sure it would
be ungracious to fix upon
them the responsibility.
We do not criticize the
governor’s comment; merely
point to it as evidence that
he is not in the least illiberal
in dealing with the situation.
Following
“False Gods”
He says that among the
leaders in the business world
who mismanaged the busi
ness of the nation there has
been a realization that they
have been following “false
gods” and that they are
“heartily sorry for their sins
of omission and commis
sion.” There was a time
when we believed this to be
true, and said so.
Seven or eight months
ago. not a few of them were
saying publicly that some
radical reforms in business
standards and methods would
he necessary to save our
present system. Rut we hear
less of this today. There is
reason to suspect that the old
Bourbons, who never learn
from experience, have been
after the reformers in their
midst and have stiffened
them to stand for the old
order. And that is just too
bad.
The governor comments
sharply on the fact that the
new business leadership re
quired by the times has not
developed or appeared:
“Nevertheless, more than
two years have gone by and
these leaders have as yet
shown us few plans for the
reconstruction of a better
ordered civilization in which
the economic freedom of the
individual will be restored.”
That is true; and the
further truth is that we are
afraid few of these old-line
leaders are remotely inter
ested in restoring the “eco
nomic freedom of the indi
vidual.” Their policies for
10 years, and more, have
tended knowingly to the de
struction of the economic
freedom of the individual. Is
it “radical” to say m print
what thoughtful men whisper
in their homes, that lhe
whole trend has been to
ward the creation of an in
dustrial feudalism! For
that is the truth.
Thumbs Have Been
Turned Down
Our own optimism on what
these industrial leaders will
do to better conditions and
prevent a more deadly re
currence of the present situ
ation has oozed out. We see
no evidence of it anywhere.
On the contrary, the pres-
ent idea is to preach that
working men and the middle
classes, so-called, have had
standards of living that are
too high. That they must
reduce their standard ot liv
ing—but nothing is being
said about the others being
content with more reasonable
profits and reducing their
standards of luxury.
Unemployment insurance
—thumbs have been turned
down on that.
Reduction of working days
and hours to meet the men
ace of machinery — thumbs
have been turned down on
that.
But we do have from these
groups the demand that
there shall be less govern
mental interference with
monopolistic enterprises; an.'
that is not going forward in
the interest of the economic
freedom of the individual,
but going back.
No Warning From
Washington
All Governor Roosevelt
says, and says well, as to the
tragedy in the lack of leader
ship in the national govern
ment, reflects the general
view. In so far as a State
can act on evils that are na
tional. he sets forth a gen
eral program that should
meet, general approval.
Something can. and must, be
done to protect the public
against the sale of unsound
securities. He says:
“The time has come to dif
ferentiate between pros
pects and true values or at
least to tell an unskilled pub
lic the whole truth about the
contents of what in the past
has been a package sold too
often only because of the
bright colors on the wrap
per. ’ ’
Millions of gullible Ameri
cans were ruined or badly
crippled on tne market dur
ing the floating of the G. O.
P. bubble because they not
only were not warned from
Washington, but because
from Washington came peri
odic assurances that all was
as it seemed to the uniniti
ated on the surface.
The Unbanker-like
Banking
We like particularly what
he says about banks and
banking. Everyone now
knows that not least among
the causes of our present
troubles have been the un
banker-like banking. The
governor says:
“Unsound practices of
the past must be eliminated
by law from now on. The
ethics of banking need re
statement; savings must be
managed as savings and
not confused with com
mercial or checking de
posits.”
Some of the big banks
opposed this “interference ”
with “their business” when
something of the sort was
proposed during the last
session. The present ses
sion will be expected by the
people to act. for their bet
ter protection.
Who Could Oppose
These Recommendations?
For labor, he reiterates
recommendations that a Re
publican legislature has re
fused to act upon before.
We quote them from the
message because hostility tn
them throws such a curious
light oi the Republican leg
islative mind:
“Extension of the work
man’s compensation law to
cover all occupational dis
eases.
“The State regulation of
fee c h arging employment
agencies.
“The declaration by law
that the labor of human
beings is not a commodity.
“The establishment for
women and children of an
advisory, minimum fair
wage board. ’ ’
It seems incredible that
any legislator with any con
cept of the relation of hu
manity to government could
oppose at least, the first,
third and fourth of these.