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The Washington times., 1930-03-03
Realty Brokers' License Bill Is Lrdorsed in House
RUSH
To AID SCENIC
PARK BILL

Nationwide demand that Con-
gress enact the Cramton bill en-
bodying a $23,00O,O0O park and
playground development for Wash.
ington and the vicinity is being
made upon the Senate District
Committee.
The committee will hold a pub
lie hearing on the legislation on
the night of March II, and it
Is expected that interested citi.
Zens from Washington, nearby
States, and from distant sections
Will appear to urge action.
Has Many Friends
Scores of letters and kilograms
from II sections of the country
urging that the committee ap-
prove the bill promptly and speed
its passage through the Senate
has been received at the commit
tee rooms during the last few
days.
The letters show the influence
which is being brought to bear by
numerous national organizations
which are supporting the measure.
Most Of them laud the bill, because
OF the provisions which would pro-
tect the scenic beauty of the upper
reaches Of the Potomac.
In addition to the letters sent to
the District committee, many,
members of the Senate not on the
committee are being asked in let
ters from back home" to lend
their support to the bill.
Increase Pending.
Representative Cramton is ex-
pected back in the city by March
10, and will probably appear be-
fore the Senate committee at it's
hearing to explain various phases
Of the measure and to suggest sew
eral amendments which have de.
veloped recently in conferences
which he has held with represen-
tatives Of Maryland and Virginia.
There is already pending an
amendment to the bill which
would authorize an appropriation
Of $500, 900 for the erection of a
free bridge across the Potomac in
the vicinity of Great Falls.
The other amendments which
will be suggested have to do with
the financial matters, in regard TO
the acquiring of park sites in
Montgomery and Prince Gearges
counties of Maryland.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03

course, is not suited to those seek
ing labor.
1t was also said that. where a
man does not come up to specifi.
cations Of the employer, it would
be a waste of time for both EN-
ployer and seeker after employ
ment to send him Dat when 1t is
apparent that he viii not fill the
bill. ..,
It is also understood that SINH
lar complaints have been voiced
by young women seeking positions
as clerks and StenographerS. The
same explanation of their appar-
emily being passed by in favor of
others was also made at the EN-
ployment bureau.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
10 ON ELEVATOR
GET SCARE

Nine persons were shaken up
and one woman tainted when an
elevator in the Evans Building, in
the 1400 block New York Ave,
failed to obey the stop control
and slipped from the third floor
to the basement.
The car was working smoothly,
according to its operator, until
extra passengers were taken on
at the third floor on it's down
ward trip. After it started down
ward, under power, its failure to
respond to the controls alarmed
him and he shut off the power.
The car continued downward at
a moderate rate and bumped the
bottom of the shaft.
In the excitement. one woman
passenger Slumped to her knees
and lost consciousness. She re-
rovered promptly. however.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
SCHOOL BUILDING FAILURE LAID TO BOARD
CHANGE SOUGHT
IN ME- ETHOD OF
SELECTION

Failure Of the five-year pro-
gram for the schools Of the Dis
trict today was laid to the
Board of Education by o. II.
Brinkman, former clerk to the
Senate District Committee but
now practicing attorney and
the corresponding secretary Of
the joint committee for the elec-
ton of the Board of Education
by popular vote, at a hearing on
the elective school board bill be-
fore the Education Subcommittee
Of the House District Committee.
Brinkman told the subconnlt-
tee that the present Board Of
Education was the subject of
more complaints to Congress than
any other agency of the munich
pal government during the tenure
Of his office with the Senate
committee. He said that the
board is now trying to shift the
responsibility for it's own short
ccmings to the shoulders Of
others.
Expenditures Attacked
Brink m a n specifically men,
toned the building of what he
termed unnecessary high and
Junior high school buildings when
they should have built elementary
school buildings which were much
more badly needed. &
Gen. Amos A. Fries, who gained
fame as the chief of the chemical
warfare service during the World
War, gave the committee an in
teresting half-hour.
He said he represented the
Fries family with four children in
the public schools.
1T has been said that the
Judges of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia" General
Fries declared, who have the sole
power Of appointing out school
board, would not appoint anyone
to it who has child in school
or who is out Of sympathy with
the superintendent Of schools"
General Fries advocated the
.1engthening Of the school day and
the elimination of home work at
night. He said that the number
Of school children with defective
eyesight increased from 10 to 40
per cent during the first five
years Of their school lives, because
Of eyestrain under artificial light.
Superintendent Criticized
Congreswoman Mary T. Norton,
Of New Jersey, asked the witness
If he did not think some of this
eyeStrain was caused by poorly
lighted schools.
"If the schools aren't properly
lighted there is something wrong
with the school board and the
school superintendent" General
Fries answered. .e<..- !. u.
In reply to questions by mem
bers Of the committee General
Fries said that he does not be-
lieve the present superintendent
OF schools is paying enough at
tention to instructions and is Civ
ing too much time to other mat
terS. !
He expressed the belief that if
the school board were responsible
to the people Of the District Of
Columbia they would give better
service to those who pay the
taxes to run the schools.
Fred r. Walker, secretary of
Columbia Typographical Union,
representing the Park View Citi-
zens Association, said that it is
difficult for taxpayers and parents
of the city to have anything but
the most remote contact with the
school system.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
Colonel L. ]. Van Schaik
Ordered to PHILIPPINES

Col. Louis J. Van Schaik, U. s.
A., has been relieved from duty
in the office of the inspector
general. War Department, and
ordered to the Philippines for
duty as liaison officer between
the governor general, at Manila
and headquarters of the Military
Department Of the Philippines.
Colonel Schaik holds the Con.
gresSional Medal Of Honor, for
personal valor in the Philippine
1nSurrection Of 1901.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
RADIOS FOR "SHUT.INS"

A drive for funds with which
to purchase radio sets for col
ored "shut-inS' was inaugurated
yesterday by an interdenonina-
tional Eroup of young colored
men and women. The organi-
cations represented are the Stod-
dard Baptist Home, the Vermont
Avenue Baptist Home, st. Anne's
Episcopal Home and the Eighth
Street Home.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
HOLY NAME CARD PARTY

A card party will be given by
the Sodality Of Holy Name Church
tonight at $50 in Holy Name Hal,
9l0 Eleventh. st. n. E.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
PHILIP CHIEF SPEAKER

John w. Philip, fourth assistant
Postmaster General, will be the
principal speaker at the Inde.
pendence Day celebration and
dance Of the Texas Club at the
City Club tonight at $3.50 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
y. S: Attorney Collins
Presented With Heir

Assistant United States Attor-
ney William H. Collins, homicide
prosecutor, has another worry
added to his list of perplexitieS.
Saturday morning at Columbia
Hospital a lO-pound baby boy an
nounced itself to the prosecutor
and his wife, Mrs. Loretta Collins.
Baby and mother are doing well,
but Collins is at a loss for suit
able name for his firSt-born.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
Sardine Packers Plan
To Hold Trade Parleys

Sardine packers have agreed
to a trade practice conference
in the near future, the Federal
Trade Commission announced
yesterday.
Practically every subject relat
ing to the industry will be dis
cusSed,, except how to get one
more sardine into each can.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
Ruth st. Denis Appears
In Mckinley Auditorium

Ruth st. Denis and the Den.
ishawn dancers viii appear in q
program arranged by the Com
munity Institute in the Mckinley
School Auditorium, Second and
T Streets Northwest, on the even
ing Of March IL, it was an.
nounced today.
The Mckinley Auditorium was
chosen for this event of the
institutes series because of the
necessity for superior lighting
effects. The schools stage equip
ment has been praised by notable
writer's on school and Littls
Theater affairs. -.
The Washington times., 1930-03-03
SLANT TSON
CAPITAL
PEOPLE
Horatio Alger, whose books
of boys who rose from obscurity
to fame have been read by boys
Times Staff Photo

the W orld
over, might
have pattern
ed one of his
stories on the
life Of JAMES
j. D A v l S,
Secretary of
Labor!
Davis rose
from the OBJ.
scurity of a
nnillnl a n to
the position
Of a member
of the PreSi-
dents Ca b
met. thr0Il0h
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
A Queer Thing About Persecution

NoulutAl x4C dlQD
Along with the reports of religious persecution in Rus
STA come reports of a religious revival there.
Though that may seem astonishing, it shouldn't be.
It is the natural sequence of cause and effect. Not only
is it impossible to kill the religious instinct in men, but
the most violent efforts to destroy it only serve to slim
ulatc it.
For there never was a truer saying than that of Ter
tulian which has been paraphrased into these words:
"The blood o. the martyrs is the seed Of the church"
The curse Of the church in Russia was its prosperity
as an adjunct Of the czarship, a position which won It
the hate OF the revolutionists. Indeed, there are few
churches that cannot look back on their early periods Of
hardship and adversely to see there greater evidences Of
spiritual power than they showed in later days Of popu-
lartv and prosperity.
Lenin was craftier than his Successors. He said that
while Marxism lis absolutely atheistic and definitely
hostile to all religion" Communists who flaunt that fact
prematurely were foolish. He thought they were foolish
because their attitude stirs up religious issues which con-
fuse and conceal the economic issues that Marxism
would emphasize. Really they were foolish because their
attitude, given power as it has now In Russia, produces
the martyrdom that. through all history. has proved
very stimulating TO real religion.
It would not be at all surprising If the Bolshevik effort
to suppress religion in Russia would give religion there
a real new birth that will prove very fatal to such utterly
materialistic causes as Communism.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
Quotations

"The world Of today wants fewer
dreams and more facts, less art anc
more health, fewer problems and more
happincss."-Emil Ludwig, biographer
X \: *
I'VE are prosperous because we ride
in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS p. Chrysler
automobile manufacturer.
81
Jazz IS quite unsatisfactory to the
intelligent person." = Walter Dam
rosch. orchestra conductor.
X y *
sour country is now the light of the
earth by virtue of its moral and eco
nomic supremacy, for which prohibit
ton Is largely responsible."-Se.s.tor
Sheppard, Of Texas.
+
"A specialist is a man who knows
more and more about less and less
DR.. William J. Mayo, surgeon.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
Get Behind the c. M. T.. c..

The Bismarck service clubs again are coming to the
fore in support of the summer citizens military training
camp at Fort Lincoln. This is as it should be. They can
reach out through their affiliated clubs in the state and
in South Dakota and do much good work in behalf of the
camp. At least that is how their assistance operated last
year when the camp seemed on the point of tagging and
becoming a part failure.
AS the camp will open earlier this year-in June-so
as to avoid conflicting with the harvest. when some of
the boys prefer jobs to earn some of their college money,
it is we'll to begin SO early in working up interest in ap-
plications to enter the training establishment.
Fort Lincoln is well located for this sort of a vaca-
ton. 1t is a charming site for the camp and with Bis
marck near at hand. as it is, the social side of the out
ing is we'll provided fer. Bismarck will be pleased again
as last year to be host to the boys and to the splendid
reserve officers drawn here by the annual training.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
Wild Rose FavOrite Flower

The national poll by which the American Nature as.
societion sought to learn what flower should be chosen as
the country's national bloom has just ended, with the
wild rose far in the lead. The wild rose got upwards of
&c, LOCO out of the 1,067,672 votes cast; and the columbine,
100000 votes behind, came in second.
1t is rather interesting to note that such popular
favorites as the violet, the dogwood, the mountain laurel
and the golderrod Jagged far in the rear, receiving only
a fractional percentage of the total.
Whether we really need a national flower, and wheth-
er one can be chosen cut of hand by popular vote, are
other questions. For the moment, at least the wild rose
seems to have first call. And if this national poll will
induce a few Americans, this spring, to go hiking
through the meadows and woods instead of motoring
along hard-surfaced reads, it will have justified itself
amply.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
Rockefeller and a Poem
(St. Paul DISPATCH

(SC. Paul DlSpatchD
John d. Rockefeller. ST.. who has given many shiny
new dimes to visitors, has replaced these donations,
temporarily at least, by gifts of a poem written by an
English servant girl, who finds religious satisfaction in
concentrating herself to her tasks among the pots and
pans, lin getting meals and washing up the plates Mr..
Rockefeller sees in the spirit of the poem a devotion
profit.
Contentment with ones lot does not necessarily imply
lack of energy or worthy ambition. Happiness, a synonym
of co~ntentment, often eludes those who wish to be some
thing they are not. They imagine they would be hap
pier in doing almost anything except what they are do
ing. They dream OF the pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow until fate disillusions them. And they forget
that the rewards and satisfaction of service well per-
formed, whatever 1t may be, are within their grasp and
well worth striving for. C~ontentment with ones lot
means realizing his possibilities to the full and then
resting satisfied with the result.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
DON'T GET EXCITED!

It is an evidence of the highest cul-
| ture when one can live in this rapidly
changing, hurry-up age with a gooo
control over all of the emotions. ThoSe
| who have not attained such control
| find themselves torn by the passions
| of love, hatred, jealousy, etc. They are
| storm-tossed by overemotion-going
from the depths to the heights-from
pleasure to pain-becoming alternately
too depressed or too exalted.
Besides the ordinary emotions which
we recognize as existent, there is
doubtless another common n which
few have recognized. This IS the SIM
pie emotion of excitement. Many get
a nerve-stimulating thrill every time
they hear the fire engine dashing by,
or when they read of a great disaster.
Their excitement is not truly caused
by either fear or sorrow, or any other
of the emotions ordinarily understood.
One who has the proper poise and
calmness of mind does not allow him
self to be too often excited by any
emotion. But 1t is nevertheless true
that there are many nerve-racked
I people who allow their minds to be
storm tossed by every unusual story
or news about happenings which can
in no way Immediately concern them.
Such excitement only depletes the
nerve forces and brings on ~enervation.
The man of power Is always one
who has a steady control over all
emotions, and who use his mental and
physical energy where it will do the
most good. The fault seems to be that
many do not understand upon what
events and emotions they should place
the proper emphasis.
Women, as a rule, may be said to
be the more nervous, and seem to
waste more energy upon trifles. The
business o professional man would
not go very far in accomplishing any
successful work If he could not learn
to concentrate upon the important
things of the day, but spent most Of
his time wasting his nerve force by
continually being either too sad or
too glad.
The unsuccessful man is often the
one who is effeminate enough to
have the nature of an extrovert, which
means one who is dominated by things
outside of himself.
It might be well for everyone to
take an emotional inventory at the
end of each day. Take a piece of
paper and write down a list of these
emotions: Love, hatred, envy, jealousy,
fear, malice. Then. on another line,
put these down: Work, sleep, recrea-
ton. Check off on every one of these
items, trying to remember back
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
Today Is the
Anniversary Of
THE CYCLOPS

On March 4, 1918, the U. s. collier
Cyclops, whose disappearance with 800
human lives aboard has remained a
mystery to the naval department, left
the West Indies on its Inflated voy-
age to this country.
One of the most battling features
connected with the mystery is that
the ship, equipped though it was with
a superior wireless, should have failed
to send out n signal of distress. An
other bewildering fact is that no bot
tied messages or driftwood were ever
found.
A theory was advanced that q Ger
man submarine had either sunk the
vessel or towed it across the Atlantic
to a German port where officers, crew
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04

timcnts have gone to waste as the deliberations arc pro-
lcnged. There was Andre Tardieu's declaration that the
nations saw here a beginning for a greater work of peace
than mere limitation, that this was the pledge of future
steps for the peace of the world. Then, too, Ramsay
Macdonald stirred the world with his own hopes, so set
upon accomplishing the objects of the conference that
ne could say that people everywhere must be prepared
ito take risks for peace" None OF the nations represent
ed at the conference appears III a mood to risk anything.
Failure of the naval conference would be a dismal
ending to a great work that had a brilliant beginning.
But unless something is done pretty promptly, failure
is just what we will get. .
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
Brutality Versus Brains

8 Fiaschetti used to be in charge of the Italian
cxpepuad of the New York City police force. Now he is at
wy. he head OF a private detective bureau; and he believes
comnlat any American city can quickly clean up its under
Enorld problem if it will only let its police use the stool
sspcrs geon and the third degree in unlimited quantities.
srs sST The stool pigeon. as you know, is an underworld in
s reforMmer; a member of the criminal class who secretly
the fasses out information to the police.
Tn And the third degree, of course, is the business OF tax
4 era. ig a prisoner and hammering the living daylghts out OF
4 hiohim until he confesses.
: lions Fiaschetti defends both of these systems. He has found
y trane says, that they work; and he can't see any esnse in
\ to landing gangsters with kid gloves.
4 locat Several years ago, he says, a little boy was kidnapped
{ 3treend murdered in New York. The police for a long time
m Dot nowhere in their investigation. Finally Fiaschetti
: oti,esot a stool pigeon, who told him who the murderers were.
aardhere were five of them. Fiaschetti arrested them. but
N. Fe didn't have enough evidence to take them to court.
liz hey refused to talk.
eject "Then," says Fiaschetti, II went to work. 1 put the
streeve men in a room and walked in several minutes later
repormed with a sawed-off baseball bat. When 1 came out
sixtaere was blood spattered on the walls and ceiling
ibe nd I had five signed confessions. All the men went to
he electric chair"
- The end is usually justified by the means, and the
hoa, lurderers of a small boy hardly deserve much SYM
cpinathy, no matter what happens to them. But just sup
matose that in some similar case the stool pigeon might
mmasslake a mistake, or lodge a false accusation to work off
rres personal grudge. SO that the police should become con-
soninced that five utterly innocent men were guilty.
. : Is there anything very agreeable about the thought OF
~ burly cop wading in, with a sawed-off baseball bat
littlsing it until there was blood spattered on the walls
Crend c~eilings"-when all of his victims were innocent?
lc.s That's the sort Of thing that can and does happen
c.',7hen third degree methods are used. Men have con-
ineessed to crimes they never dreamed Of committing, just
enc escape from being beaten to death.
t-@ Besides, if we are going to make human torture a part
# our police methods, why use baseball bats and fists?
coIhe police Of the middle ages had better ideas. Why not
Of % back to them? If we must torture prisoners to get
Confessions why not install the rack and the thumb
fe,crews and the other devices of the inquisition?
an The third degree, after all, is only a substitute for
~tnarains. The police of London do not have to use it-yet
hey manage to convict a far higher percentage Of GRIM
ranas than our American police do. They are able to get
fecher evidence in legal ways. Arc We too dumb to do
cr1ikewise?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
A Good Line to Build

of The North Dakota railroad commission has taken a
severy proper step in Endorsement of the proposed new
co:ailway from Craig, Colorado, to Miles City, Montana
aasgThis is the old North and South railway project revamp-
sled. It means connection of the Milwaukee, Northwest
rn and Union Pacific systems by a transverse line from
north to south through their territories, which they COW
" in east-west lineage.
Nor the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon
lana, Wyoming and Colorado. both in giving outlet con-
Tdnections north and south and in tapping regions rich
din natural and agricultural resources which now have no
arail outlets. It means cheaper rates for this state on
ttSome products brought in by the Milwaukee, because the
sdnew line would reduce the distance of transportation.
ri The North and South line was projected about 1925
nland much of the grading was done, especially that Sec
ttion south out Of Miles City. The chief city of eastern
Montana sunk about 100000 in the venture. back of
(which were Milwaukee financial interests. When that
sssystem became financially embarrassed by its bonded
indebtedness and was unable longer to meet the inter-
est charges on this, the North and South construction
COLLAPSED and the road went into receivership.
tmean much to southeastern Montana, but it also will
be of benefit to this state, more so after built, as it is
likely to mean the subsequent extension of branch lines.
Conceivably it might lead to the extension of branches
IN the western part Of this state-north and south lines
TO link up sections of the Slope which to all intents are
tnot actual parts of the state within whose bounds they
slie-for lack Of railroad connection.