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The Washington times., 1930-12-03
BUILDINGS fund
S60,000,000 !
~

The first Congressional step to
expand Federal activities to pro-
vide employment was taken to.
day when the House Appropria-
tions Committee recommended a
boost from $4,000, 900 to $780,
O0O, 900 in the annual public build
ing appropriation.
The recommendation was made
in reporting the annual Treasury
Postoffice supply bill to the
House.
n1ittee explained, together with
an existing balance of $72, ,379,
will make available $132,558, 1873
for public buildings in a Commute
period ending June 80, 1882.
More money may be asked later
in the session.
To enable the Treasury to
speed the public buildings pro-
gram the committee allowed
$725 900 additional to employ out
side architects.
In. reporting the first of the
big supply bills the committee
slashed deeply in the allotments
of both departments in an effort
to keep the Government "out of
the red"
The combined Treasury-Po
flee appropriations recommended
a total Of $1,O83, ,553 ,943. The
budget was cut $50, 900, ,095 under
last years figures, while the COM
mittee slashed the budget $780,
72R.41n.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Tickets Being Sold
For &. W. u. ShOLD

Tickets for Goodness Gracious,
Godfrey" the annual Troubadour
show Of George Washington Uni
verSity to be presented December
II, IL and 13 in the Mckinley
High School Auditorium, are now
on sale, It was announced today.
The tickets may be purchased
On the campus, at T. Arthur
Smiths Bureau. 1880 G st. N.
W., and at the Edith Reed Son
Shop, 606 Thirteenth st. N. w.
Fifty men and women are now
in daily rehearsal under direction
Of Denis Connell, manager of the
show.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
5 HELD IN DEATH
At PARTY

GARY, Ind, Dec. 3 GNSO.
While the five youths who were
bound over to the grand jury on
charges of attacking and murder
ing 18-year-old Arlene braves
were being held at Crown Point
today, police were obtaining
statements from others who at
tended the drinking party which
resulted in the girls death.
Gary police announced today
that an unnamed girl witness
who attended the wine party"
revealed all details.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

The final chapter in the color
full history of MoGher Jones,
labor's Joan of Arc, was opened
today in st. Gabriel's Church.
Grant Circle and Varnum st.
Northwest, where the Rev. Will
liam Sweeney, assistant pastor,
celebrated high mass Of requeim
for the repoSe Of her soul.
The chapter will be closed Mon
day morning in Mt. Olive, Ill,
where her body will be placed in
plot of ground adjoining the
Mt. Olive cemetery.
Labor leaders from all parts of
the country paid tribute to the
little Irish woman who led hun
dreds of battles to better working
conditions, wages and homes for
laboring people.
Stand in Church
So did hundreds of other men
and women of this city. The
church was crowded and many,
unable to find seats, stood.
A delegation from the Depart
ment Of Labor was headed by
William N. Doak, the new Secre-
tary Of Labor. They occupied
pews near the altar.
AS the body, in a heavy steel
caSket, was carried into and from
the church many tears were shed.
At the close of the mass
Father Sweeney, who gave Mother
Jones extreme JUNCTION at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E.
Burgess, Riggs Road, ChIlloln,
Md, where she died Sunday night,
briefly eulogized her, saying:
IT,. Work To Go On
"She has just gone home.
She has reached her journeys
end. The angels have received
her and the martyrs who loved
and worked for the poor have
placed her in the arms of
Christ because of the work she
did for the children and work
ingmen and women Of Amer
ica."
The Rev. DR.. John w. Mcguire,
president of st. Viator'S College,
Kankakee, Ill, who has taken up
the work Mother Jones was forced
to abandon when her advanced
years forced her to bed, occupied
a seat in the sanctuary during
the mass. He will accompany the
body to Mt. Olive, with several
labor leaders and Mr.. and Mrs.
Burgess and will celebrate a
requiem high mass for her there.
Body Lies in State
After the service the body was
placed in state at Sergeon's un-
dertaking establishment, 1O11
Seventh st. N. W., from 1880
to 8 p. M.
At 8 o'clock tonight it will be
taken to Mt. Olive. Ill.
The active pallbearers were:
Fred walker, Typographical
Union; Howard Colvin, president,
Central Labor Union; Frank
Coleman, secretary, Central Labor
Union; Andrew J. Fallon, presi'
dent, Plate Printers Local No. 2;
Newton A. James, Firemen and
Oilers Union No. 63; Frank Lee,
Machinists Local No. 174; John
Bolts, SteamfitterS Local No. 602;
william H. Howlin, Stenograph.
ers, Bookkeepers and Assistants
Union No. 117T3.
According to Edward N. Mock
els, secretary Of the Chicago
Federation Of Labor, Mother Jones
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
WARSH|P RACES
TORESCUE a

SHANGHAI, Dec. 3 GN.SD.
The British warship Stormcloud
was racing through heavy seas
today toward Pratas Island, south
east. of Hongkong, to rescue IL
men aboard the grounded Swea-
ish auxiliary schooner Hedvig.
The Swedish boat, according to
available information, struck the
reefs with such force that it was
considered a total loss.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Eat as Instinct Dictates,
Latest Diet Dictun1

BALTIMORE, Dec. g. Eat
what your normal human instinct
guides you to.
That was the advice given last
night by DR.. Llewellys F. Barker,
professor emeritus of medicine at
Johns Hopkins Medical School at
a meeting of the Baltimore
Dietetic Association.
DR.. Barker declared that food
fads Of virtually all kinds are
harmful to health and pocket
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Tillergranls
of the
Times
....-.- p.
Times staff Photos
BY Theodore Tiller-

Representative Carl e. Mapes,
of Michigan, chairman Of the
special House committee that
today began an inquiry into
the fiscal relations of the Fed
eral and District governments,
is mild-mannered. but he's go.
ing to do a complete job Of in.
veStigating. The fact is, Mr..
Mapes, along with others, rather
loses his taste for any subject
that is discussed for 18 to more
years. And that's about as
long as this controversy has
been going on in the Senate
and House, and particularly
the House.
The big agitation over fiscal
relations started when the then
Representative Ben Johnson, Of
Bardstown, KY, was chairman
of the House District Commit.
tee in the days of the Champ
Clark Speakership and Demo
cratic control of the House.
The so-called half and half
plan was anathema to Ben
Johnson. He could see no
reason why the Federal Treas
ury should pay half the annual
expenses of the District.
Johnson's views were shared
by others, including members
of the Appropriations Com
mittee, and one day Washing.
tonians woke up and found that
the $3.50 plan had been abolished
and a 60-40 relationship
established. That, however,
didn't end the talk on Capitol
Hill. Each year the controversy
was renewed. There is no eSti-
mating how many million words
on District finances have been
uttered on the House floor and
in committees during the past
20 years.
Representative MapeS has
been here through most Of it
and is sorter fed up on the
subject. Unless his committee
finds a solution of the contro-
versy, the prospects are that
debate will go on for 20 years
more. Whether the Federal
allowance per year is so per
cent, 40 per cent or $4,000. 900
lump sum, which latter has pre-
vailed now for seven years, with
a slight boost in the past ses-
sion, the wrangle continues just
the same. Mr.. Mapes thinks
it's about time to stop all the
discussion and evolve a perma-
nent policy.
The latest secretary to q
Congressman who has been
elected to succeed his old chief
is Edmund F. Erik, of the Pitts
burgh (Pa.) district. For a
long time Mr.. Erik was Secre-
tary to the late Representative
Stephen G. Porter and clerk Of
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee of which Mr.. Porter was
chairman.
Mr.. Porter died during the
past summer and Mr.. Erik, who
has a home in Pittsburgh as
well as Washington, decided
he'd run for the unexpired
term.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03

book.
He also declared that the idea
that extreme mastication is
necessary is absurd, pointing out
that the body does the necessary
regulating.
Food fads do make people feel
better for time, the doctor said,
but he declared this is do to
autosuggestion.
The best guide in the case OF
a healthy person is the appetite,
he said.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Aimee and Secretary
On Mystery Mission

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 0N.SJ. L.
Mrs. Aimee Semple Mcpherson,
noted evangelist, was sequestered
today. The evangelist and her
secretary left for an unannounced
destination. Mrs. Mcpherson is
recovering from an illness and
will be unable to appear in the
Angelus Temple pulpit for some
time, it was said.
The Washington times., 1930-12-03
Many Weep at Rites Here
For 'Mother" Jones

left an estate of $500. Under
the terms of her will the money
was left to Mr.. Nockels and John
Fitzpatrick, president Of the Chi
cago Federation Of Labor. They
also were named executors in the
will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
WINTERTIME
BY d. C. PEATTR.

When out of the West gray-black
clouds come boiling, and the wind
lifts its wings and sends the flakes like
petrels flying past the window, we
mourn for the dwindling coal pile, OF
we are up all night with burst water
pipes, or persons break their hips fall
ing on the ice. These are penalties OF
Winter, and bitterly we complain Of
them. But our houses are, in effect,
special climates, made for our protec-
ton. Even a city is a special climate,
with its chimneyS belching warm
smoke. The surrounding countryside is
always colder and Snowier, both in
DOORS and out.
never cease to marvel at the jaunti-
ness of birds when cold snaps come.
In real blizzard, junco and longspur
and chicadee, all wear an air detected,
indeed. In the lee of some limb they
crouch, looking very miserable in wet
feathers. And. worse, food is usually
scarce for many days. Then is the time
to scatter bread for them, and not
bread only, but suet should be hung
out, for many birds eat only meats.
Five cents worth of suet will last sew
eral months.
Leaving aside blizZardS, which weight
the poor birds to earth with snow and
ice, these fat little fellows keep a jolly
season of it. A bending, silvered weed
stem, black cap on it, with his
feathers blown by the wind. and the
sharp glitter of a January day-thats
Winter. It ought, in times of doubt,
when worries are heavy on you and
the season seems endless, to cheer each
one of us bit upon the rutted roads
of life, just to hear the little Winter
birds chirp out their tiny morsel Of I'M
troubled heartsomeness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Straight Talks to Women About Money
By MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

permit the child to do this or that, lei
it be understood from the outset. Nc
boy or girl at school is the worse of for
having an abbreviated allowance. MOI
is it a sign of poverty. At many lead
ing institutions the children Of wealthy
parents are conspicuous often by their
lack of means.
OF course a parent may decide sim
ply to pay the bills, and actually give
the child little if any cash to handle
It is an easy solution but not ordi-
narily a wise one. Where child will
strive to save for an occasion or trip or
greatly desired article of apparel or
book, she will not feel so inclined when
it profits her nothing to do so. Some
times in life, and soon after school, re-
sponsibility in money matters will be
essential. Early training, including its
few mistakes, will help greatly.
After everything has been taken care
of, it may be found that the needed
amount is more than the parent can
afford. The child should then be re-
quested to pare the budget down to a
sum within the limit of the parent tc
give. Nothing is more important in ar
ranging the school allowance than in
ducing the child to give serious thought
and judgement to its spending. The
mere thought induced is the very germ
of thrift. This is the opportunity OF
every parent with a child to send to
school, 1t should be grasped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
sAAme
Everyday Psychology
City and Country Types.
By DIR. JESSE w. sPRowLs.

City folks have always been a puzzle
to country folks. A real ruralite be-
comes very reticent when the town
Teller" comes around. Even those who
live in the smaller towns are not free
from the same feeling whenever they
go to Broadway or the Loop.
You may or may not have some time
or other experienced the feelings re-
fer to here. These feelings, of course,
are nameless, for the savants who know
or think they know-all about every
thing have not as yet got around to a
scientific study Of the psychology of
these types. Rural and urban person.
atty as a science is still in its infancy
In the absence of any very reliable
literature on the subject. may be per-
mitted to guess at the psychology of
these types of personality.
My guess, then, Is this: Urban en-
vironments tend to make introverts out
of people; rural environments tend to
make eXtravertS out of them. 70 put
1t all somewhat more harShly, the city
dweller becomes egocentric or selfish in
his attitudes; the country dweller be-
comes altruistic or social in his atti-
tudes.
In city environment a person is al
most continually surrounded by people.
He is never more than a few feet from
some one else. Perhaps a mere apart
ment partition is all that separates his
body and mind from that of some one
else who is also trying to ignore his
human surroundings. The result is that
your urbanite builds up fictitious indie
pendence to compensate for something
he actually does not enjoy He crawls
into a self-constructed psychological
she'll
On the other hand, the ruralite has
human companionship is often very
small. He does lot of imagining how
it would feel to have more company
He develops psychological arms that
reach out and beckon others to his cir
Gle. He becomes an extravert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Dressing for Aviation and Sports
BY MARY MARSHALL.

the modern young woman does not bun
die herself up as If she were going on
an Arctic exploration.
For rink skating very warm clothes
are decidedly uncomfortable, and even
for outdoor skating there Is as much
chance for discomfort from clothes that
are too heavy as from those that are
too light. The experienced skater
avoids every unnecessary ounce Of CLOTH
ing, and frequently discards her coat in
favor of trim leather jacket or sweat
er when she Is on the ice.
The sketch shows French skating
ensemble designed for the woman who
wants to be suitably dressed for the
sport and not unsuitably dressed for
the social engagements afterward.
This weeks Help for the Home
Dressmaker" gives our diagram for a
baby's outdoor sleeping wrap. Several
readers have asked for this, and now
that doctors insist on letting babies
take their maps outdoors on pleasant
days every mother of a young baby
should include some garment of this
sort in the layette. If you have baby,
or a friend who has a baby, you may
want a copy, so send your stamped,
self-addressed envelope to Mary Mar
shall, care of this paper, and it will be
forwarded to you, with sketch of the
original and directions for making.
tCopyright, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
A Sermon for Today
By REV. JOHN z. GUM.
Beginning the New Year.

Forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those
things which are before. Phil. ILLS.
A new year brings new duties, new
conflicts, new trials and new oppor-
tunities.
Whatever the past year may have
meant to you-whatever its joys and
victories, whatever its sorrows and fall
ures-stay not too long to shout and
mourn.
Forgetting those things which are
behind, look to those things which are
before. Let the past year be as dead
history. But let the new year be hv-
ing issue.
Are there stains upon last years rec
ord? Let the slate be washed clean
with the clear water OF Gods mercy
and forgiveness.
Make the new year year of free
dom from sin, year of conservation
and service, year of trust in God and
good will to your fellowmen.
Enter the year with kind thought
Cor every one. Whatever may have
heen the quarrels or arrangements be-
tween friends and relatives, let all be
forgotten and forgiven.
If this is to be happy year, we must
make it year of kindness and he'0ful-
ness to all those around us, year in
which we shall live to make this earth
better and brighter.
Are you fearful of what the year may
contain for you? Commit yourself unto
God and let Him direct your pathway
Make God your companion, let Him
lead you through every valley of trial
and UP every hill Of difficulty, and you
will have nothing to fear. 1t may be
the hardest year you have ever known
but it will be the happiest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
A Sermon for Today
By REV. JOHN r. GUM.
Man at Wits End

'They reel to and fro, and stagger
like a drunken man, and are at their
wits end."-Ps., cvii27.
The man at his wits end-you know
him. You saw him on the street today.
Or maybe you saw him in the mirror
this morning. Perhaps you are the man
himself.
A sad plight you are in. "They reel
to and fro, and stagger like drunken
man." How aptly these words describe
you. Not that you have been having
dealings with the bootlegger. But you
are all mixed up. You can't see
everything is in confusion. And you
go Keeling about, catching at one
thing and another, like drowning
man catch ng at straws. You don't
know which way to turn or what to do.
You are simply at your wits end.
How did you get that way? David
speaks of certain ones that go down
to the sea in ships, that do business in
great waters" Perhaps you got into
stock market, for instance. Perhaps 1t
was what Thomas Lawson called "fren-
zied finance" Perhaps it was bad
management. Or maybe you have had
a run of unavoidable misfortune. But
whatever has happened, the thing has
well nigh knocked you senseless.
You think your situation is hopeless,
that every chance is gone. But mans
extremity is Gods opportunity. Then
they-these people at their wits end
cry unto the Lord, and He bringeth
them out of their distresses." You may
be in a pretty deep hole. but with Gods
help you can get out. Your last
chance is not gone as long as His help
is available. And His help is available
always to the man at his wits end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Admiral Keith Stewart shuddered
when George Robert Fitzgerald sug-
gested that he be proposed for member
ship at Brookes'. Fitzgerald had been
barred from every club in London that
amounted to anything. 1t wasn't that
he hadn't birth or breeding-he be-
longed to one of the first families OF
Ireland. But the fellow was hot-headed
and had a veritable passion for dueling
1t wasn't exactly known how many men
he had killed.
Brookes' would be certain to reject
him, like all the others. But the noto-
rious duelist had plans of his own.
The sequel to his application was to
give London clubdom laugh that
lasted out the rest of the eighteenth
century.
On the night of the ballot he accom-
panied Admiral Stewart to the club and
waited in the room below while the
vote was taken.
Upstairs every ball deposited in the
ballot box was black one. But no
member was brave enough to notify
Fitzgerald. Most of his duels had
meant death to his opponents.
It was decided to send down walter
to tell the duelist that there had been
Just one black ball against him. Fftz-
gerald meantime kept ringing the bell
to inquire 1.-The state of the poll. !"
Brookes, the proprietor, interpoSed, took
the message from the waiter and went
to the candidate.
"Oh, SIR" he said, begging your par
don, sir, I was just coming to tell you
there was one black ball in the box.
BY the rules, there will have to be a
new election-one month hence"
Fitzgerald disregarded this statement
my dear Brookes," he replied, I'm
chose. There has been some mistake.
Go upstairs and tell the gentlemen that
as there was a mistake Of one black
ball they can waive all ceremony on my
account and proceed to reelection"
The poor members were in guam
Diary. But they decided to send down
a report that second ballot had
brought two black balls.
Then" Fitzgerald told Brookes
there are now two mistakes instead OF
one. Tell the gentlemen to try again
And this time let there be no more
, mistakes"
Upstairs the outraged members were
compelled to make q show of courage
They sent Brookes down again with
| instructions to tell the duelist that he
had been unanimously voted down.
He had no sooner heard this than he
discarded all etiquette and dashed ur
| to the voting room.
'I'll have to put this thing to rights
myself" he said.
While the company glowered indig-
nantly he made its rounds. He asked
each member, did you blackball me?'
Admiral Stewart, the Duke Of Devon
shire and all the others gave an inva.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
WINTERTIME
BY ID. C. PEATTIE.

John Burroughs said that the real
wildness of wild life comes out in Win
ter. And I always feel that trees
somehow escape their green prisons and
emerge as their true selves when the
leaves lie at their feet.
1t is comparatively simple matter to
know trees by their leaves. Even peo-
pie who claim that they do not know
one kind of tree from another, ac-
tually are better foresters than they
think, when you place such unmistak-
able shapes as oak and willow, poplar
and locust, maple and linden, before
them.
How good a woodsman you really are
| is tested by what you know of a tree
when no friendly earmark of leafy
| sort remains to the poor, bare thing.
| Suddenly the naked woods upon the
| hill present a Secretive, almost hos
| tile front; all is intricate, silver tracery
! outlined against the approaching snow
! clouds. In that infinitude of twigs
where can any one find distinguishing
marks? So battling indeed it seems,
| that one can really only learn by
learning the names of trees in the
neighborhood of home during the
Summer months. A familiar specimen
Of a tree, on your walks, becomes a
personal acquaintance, remembered by
the spot where it lives If in no other
way. The following Winter stop and
observe the same tree minutely. Note
! its bark, and whether its branches as
cend sharply. or at right angles, or
droop sharply or In an arching fash
ion. Are its twigs thick and stiff, or
slender and 1.-THE, few or many, straight
or gnarled?
Quickly one learns the lacy outline
of a beech tree with its smooth, thick
trunk and the elephantine twigs of an
ash. Willow twigs always retain some
thing reddish or yellowish about them
and the banks of many trees are un-
mistakable, like that of the birch. OF
the sycamore which sheds its bark In
thin plates, leaving many-coloret
s,)lotches. This is not as unnatural a:
it sounds; indeed 1t strikes me as very
beautiful but I overheard some ladies
at Rosslyn sorrowing over that dread
full disease" that was attacking the
trees near Key Bridge!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
BY HERBERT PLUMMER

counter him and his Secret Service
guard strolling casually along the
streets of Washington's business dis
trict stopping now and then to inspect
shop windows.
A shoe display on F street attracted
his attention one day during such
tour. After inspection of the window
he went inside to make purchase. He
found what he wanted, then asked for
a check with which to make payment.
The clerk was unaware of his Gus
toner's identity until he was, HANDED
the check for $26 and a few cents BEAR
ing the signature Calvin CoolidEeR
So elated was the owner of NGeNtore
at having the President of theknnited
States for customer that kANlever
had the check cashed InSteAM 1t
was framed. and even now hangs, Hom
the wall above the desk wl1efe% eus-
toners write checks. MN