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The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Headlong Rush of Big Buses
Menace to Public Safety
Speed of These Huge Machines Should Be Reduced.

In the early hours of yesterday morning huge freight
truck big passenger coach sideswped each other
bridge Virginia road Three people killed. several
injured and there much property damage with blocking
of traffic.
All the facts have not been brought out but there is
no doubt that huge vehicles getting be greater
menace to public safety than due to the terrific speed
at which most of them travel This applies in the District
Maryland Virginia and other places that have not set limits
ct which they shall travel
Interstate have schedules that compete with the
steam railroads They under such control railroads
Thev do not have oadbeds operate They
must operate public highways which thousands Of
other vehicles must also operate To make schedules they
must 60 fast and they do So
ecsuse of their tremendous bulk these large machines
practically control highways all smaller machines having to
give way or Going at rapid speed
they throw fear into Others =. :,
There is lust remedy greater ease Of mind
and safety to other machines and That
is to reduce speed limits of buses.
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
WISE MEN

Gaming is the child Of
avarice, the brother of i1iquity,
and the father of mischief.
Washington.
Inwardness, mi d ness and
self-renouncement do make for
mans happiness. Arnold.
Writers, especially when they
act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence
on the public mind. Burke.
There is no character which
a low-minded man so much
mistrusts as that OF, a gentle
man. -Thackeray.
There can never be a deep
peace between two spirits, never
mutual respect, until, in their
dialogue, each stands for the
whole world. Emerson.
What's the earth, with all it's
art, verse, music, worth, COM
pared with love, found, gained
and kept? Browning.
True love is like the appari-
ton of spirits-everyone speaks
of it, but few have seen it.
La Rochefoucauld.
The mere apprehension of a
coming evil has put many into
a situation of the utmost dan
ger. -Lucan.
A picture is a poem without
words. Horace.
Self-defense is natures oldest
law. Dryden.
No one ever became thor
oughly bad all at once.
Tuvenal. ,
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
The Marry-GO-ROund
-Bv Helen Rowland

she is no worse than her
mother was at her age.
The type of man who will
tenderly wipe away a Woman'S
tears, when she is peeling
onions, can keep her peeling
onions for him, all the days
of her life.
No matter how poor an as
sortment of consolation prizes"
a woman may have drawn in
the marriage lottery, she al
ways prayS that her daughter
won't draw a blank.
"The fool who rocks the
boat" after the honeymoon, is
the one who tells the first lie,
starts the first philandering or
displays the first jealous sus-
picion.
At this time of year, home
is just the place, where a man
stops in, now and then, to get
his golf clubs.
Copyright. 1881, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson


Jim is spending all his time
being afraid. He's thinking OF
what will happen if he loses
his job. HoW's he going to
pay the rent and the doctors
bill and the installment on the
machine?
What will the wife say? What
will her folks say? Where'n
he get another job? Probably
he won't get another. Prob
ably he'll go broke and lose
the machine and the baby will
get sick.
Wasting His Strength
He can't sleep at night be-
cause he is so afraid. He
wakes up with a headache and
drags through his work all day,
jumping every time the boss
looks at him.
Instead of saving and using
his strength, he is wasting 1t
every second.
Yet, nothing has really hap
pened. He is simply afraid Of
Fear. And in his terror he is
bringing the thing to pass
which he breads.
There's an example of what
we do when the fog of fear falls
on us. We don't wait for trou-
BILE to really happen. We don't
wait until Bobby really comes
down with the mumps, or Ella
really falls in love with the
lounge lizard or some other ca
lamity actually comes off. No,
the minute fear fogs the pic
ture, we go to pieces. We stop
fighting and begin to run in
circles. WE MAKE FEAR
REAL AND GIVE 1T POWER
OVER US.
Copyright 1881, by King Features,
Syndicate. IncD
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Money Breeds Money
$2.115 Becomes AZ Trillion

G. J. starkey a mathematicaly minded gentleman out in
Ashtabua Ohio has figured that Queen Isabella made mis-
take by pedgng jewels help Columbus discover America
should have put the money in the bankor whatever cor
had her estate would be worth four and onehaf TR
LION dollars.
That is eleven and half times the value of the United
States and foreign possessions says Mr. Starkey The
interest alone would be 112 billions and it would due every
six months
Mr. sarkey takes $2115 the value of the queens jewels
It seems modest grow in few centuries to four and
half triions, but money breeds money.
Experts by the way have disposed of the myth that the
Dutch cheated the Indians when they bought Manhattan Island
from them twenty dollars and barrel of The
dollars alone at interest would have until it Tar
greater than value of Manhattan and all its skyscrapers
And the there not enough figures in mathe
matics to indicate what it would be worth
The Washington times., 1931-03-21

Fear is a fog. It comes be-
tween us and the light. 1t
rolls up out of the depths of
our being and sets us shivering
and fumbling.
This wouldn't be so bad II
we'd treat fear as we treat
fog.
How do we treat fog? What
happens if we are going over a
strange and dangerous trail
and a fog sets in?
Do we become panic-stricken
at the touch of the clammy
darkness? Do we feel that we
ar lost simply because we
can't, for a time, see ahead?
No, of course we don't.
We say-"It'S foggy so I'll
have to go slow. It's a nuis-
ance, but I feel my way care
fully I'll be safe enough. I don't
HAVE to fall off a cliff Just be-
cause a mist has set in"
That's what we do when the
fog covers our trail. But that
isn't what we do when the fog
of fear falls on us. We forget
that it is only a fog.
Horrors Are Imagined
We forget that nothing really
dangerous has happened as yet,
And we give ourselves up to
the horrors of darkness and
despair.
For example, there's Jim who
is afraid of losing his job.
No one has told him he will
lose his job, but he knows that
he hasn't been hanging up a
very good record and that the
boss is dissatisfied. The sensi-
BILE and necessary thing for
jim rv do is to pitch in and
make good as fast as possible.
But that isn't what Jim is
doing.
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Long Working Hours
For Employees

Editor, Times:
I read with much interest
letters to you concerning long
hours in industry. It is un-
believable some employers so
utterly disregard the little bit
of happiness their employees are
entitled to.
I syrnpathize with Garage
Man." and especially with gar
age mechanics, who work from
10 to 18 hours per day z days
per week, and the weekly wage
is just about enough to keep
himself "in suspense" Then
they ask why married women
go out to work.
But the one thing I would
like to call to the attention of
the citizens of Washington is
the grocery and meat clerks.
Why on earth do we have to
do our shopping after 6 o'clock
on Saturday night, keeping
these poor tired boys from 7:3O
a. m. until 10 p. m? do they
feel like getting up to go to
church or anywhere else on
Sunday? I should say not!
They just have time to take
a short breath and start work
again Monday morning. How
inhuman! Let me hear from
someone. Can we do anything
for these boys? I leave work at
IL on Saturday, get my gro
ceries in and spend Saturday
evening resting or whatever I
enjoy.
THINK OF THE OTHER
FELLOW,
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
ONCE-OVERS
Do You Cheat at Cards?

Are you so anxious to win in
a friendly card game that you
arrange signals with your ac-
cepted partner?
Then you are a pretty poor
sport, and in a way dishonest.
It would be unWise to trust
you in matters by which greater
dishonesty might bring you nlore
important rewards.
There are players who try to
get sight of their opponents
cards.
In fact, they will resort to al
most any despicable little trick
to turn the tide their way if
they can avoid being detected.
There is no real pleasure de-
rived from play with dishonest
person.
There is bound to be the
thought that such a man or
woman will bear watching in
any deal.
It is a shock to discover such
a trait in one who has been
liked and respected previously
to the little card game.
There is something wrong
with the one who wishes to win
dishonesty.
Real men, worthy of the trust
and conference.-the friendship
of their fellows-have a finer
sense of sportsmanship than to
cheat at cards.
Think it over.
If you are dishonest in little
game, you know that you nave
been tempted to be dishonest IN
other ways.
copyright. 1881. International
EAtures Service, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Rescue Flight to
Viking Survivors
Editor, Times:

EuILOT, EHtcS'
Reading reports from New
foundland, saying that govern
ment rescue ships had reached
Horse Island with supplies and
medical aid for the marooned
survivors of the ship Viking,
and experienced seaman were
securing the ice fields for those
missing, it was surprising when
an American air pilot, "startleS
the world" by saying that he
"is flying to Newfoundland with
supplies for the starving sur
vivors."
I understand that already
most of the starving survivors"
have been taken on board gov
ernment ships. This expert
enced pilot of the air will not
find it so easy to fly to New
foundland."
The extreme high winds,
dense fog and sometimes blind
ing snowstorms, he will en-
counter, which an airplane can
not withstand as well as an
ice-breaking sealing ship, like
the old Viking, that have for
centuries, before airplanes were
heard of, weathered the storms
and ice on that coast, rarely
with disaster.
The government Of Newfound-
land is doing all in its power
to find these missing men, with
ships and experienced seamen,
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Forty-Three Million Profit
Advertising Did 1t.

Big business and little business interested in
the financial of the American Tobacco Company for
193O-"the year of depression" L."
The company s net income was $4554537O'
In 1929 it was thirty millions.
Gain for 1880, about 30 per cent over 1929
President George Washington Hill Of the company explains
that the has been made possible by the Of news
paper advertising. ,
American Tobacco spent advertising last year than
ever before
This year it will spend far than last.
Watch its net income NEXT year.
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

the residents have been living
on "dried beans all winter.
Through all the privations
and unemployment in the
United States, the little coun-
try of Newfoundland has re-
manned prosperous.
The old ship Viking had
weathered the storms and ice
for so years, but it took three
Americans to bring her to dis
aster.
A FORMER RESIDENT OF
THE FROZEN NORTH.
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
We MOderns

We MOdernS
When modern pair prom
ise to take each other for bet
ter or for worse they mean
only half of what they say
the better" half,
It sometimes seems, to an
attractive man, that the world
is full of nothing but yes
women" these days!
- Now that men are recover
ing from the leg-fiXation, which
made facial beauty almost
superfluous, they are gradually
beginning to get a thrill out
of looking into Woman'S
eyes, again.
- Lots of women can't seem to
enjoy a lively conversation,
until somebody turns on the
radio.
- Somebody is always taking
the Joy out of life for a mod
ern girl, by assuring her that
The Washington times., 1931-03-21

Match correctly:
/. gander
elevate
2. encomium
a male goose
8. uplift
exercising Ncarious au-
thority
4. craven
eulogy
5. regent
cowardly
Do you know:
6. Who is CHIEF OF stair,
U. S. A.?
7. In what book is Caleb
Plummer a character?
8. What we're the dates of Nc
Kinley's administration?
The Washington times., 1931-03-21

and do not need the assistance
of any other country, doctors
and nurses having already ar
rived on the scene two days
ago. The Newfoundland gov
ernment has airplanes, operated
by men experienced with the
weather and the coast, and if
this was the better way, they
would use them. With all due
Difference to this American air
pilot, he had better take food
supplies to Arkansas and other
western American States, where
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
Hearst Papers Advocate

Honest friendship NTH all nations. entdn0lno alliances
NTH none"-Georoe Washington.
Proportional representation the United States Senate
State to Senator's Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional reGpportionment in the House OF
Representatives.
Separate departments the Army OF the Many and OF the
united under Secretary OF national De1enSe
Federal action to the limit OF Federal pou0ers abolish
iLtteTGcy under Secretary of Education
the President the first of January too
ing the November election
immigration admit only those suited for Aert
citizenship and American needs.
undesirable aliens and extension OF citizen
Sttp period to 10
Complete publicity for areS to prevent big tar
dodgers from escaping TAXATION
Modification the VoeGd act to permit light D1neS ana
beers under Federal regulation.
The Washington times., 1931-03-21
TIMES KNOWLEDGE TEST

9. What does carbolic acid
come from?
10. For what product is Pater-
son, N. j., famous?
IL. Theodore Dresser wrote
"An Tragedy"
II. A siesta is a taken
during the warm hours
of the day.
f5. Germany began her inVa-
sion of Belgium and
France in the year--
IA. Thomas is Solicitor
General of the United
States.
IS. John WHY'S is Ambassa-
dor to--
(AnswerS on Magazine Page>
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10

REPORTS
TRENDS AND PROSPECTS OF
LEADING ORGANIZATIONS

NEW YORK, April 10.-The following
is q summary OF important corporation
news prepared by the Standard Stats
tics Co., Inc, New York, for the ASso-
ciated Press:
News Trend.
Although q relatively favorable sta
tistical report Of crude oil production
for the week ended April was released
wednesday, price cutting in that indus
try is continuing. Reduction in Eastern
territory by Standard Of New Jersey was
announced yesterday. which is expected
TO be followed by others. Standard Of
Indiana Is making q severe cut, rs Is
also Texas Corporation IN the Chicago
area. Following temporary Injunction
against the enforcement Of oil proration
orders in East Texas, which removes re-
straint from production there until q
final settlement Is reached, new low
prices are being offered for Texas crude
OF 20 cents q barrel.
Department store sales for March are
reported by the Federal Reserve Board
TO have shown q little less than the
normal seasonal increase over February.
The boards adjusted index, based on
preliminary figures, shows sales for this
March was 81, against 90 for February
and 81 for January. The index was
about per cent under March, 1880.
Brokers loans showed q decline for
the week Of eS3.000. 900 70 o total Of
$lSe22, o0O. 0oOs rejecting slackentng 4n-
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regular grade, cents below premium
grades; also cuts present retail prices
on regular and premium grades by /
cent q gallon.
Texas Corporation reduces gasoline
price in Chicago and vicinity.
Auburn Automobile February quarter
common share earnings $l.06, against
Sc cents.
British Aluminium Co. 1890 common
share earnings 81 cents. against 80
cents.
Cream of Wheat Corporation March
quarter common share earnings 81 cents,
against SO cents.
Lehigh Valley Coal oficials get rep
resentation on board Of Burns Bros.
Nash Motors February quarter COM
mon share earnings Al cents, against
IS cents.
Underwood Elliott Fisher March quar-
ter common share earnings "a cents,
against $l.89.
United Light a. Power gross earnings,
including subsidiaries, IL months ended
February 2S, 1881, OF 81 per cent; net
on 40 per cent.
Acetoi Products 1890 deficit $44, so2
against net income $25,361; equal to a.
cents class A share in 1929.
Baldwin Locomotive Works March
bookings 81, 230, 900, against $3.50, 900:
three months $780, 900, against s12,-
200, 900; March shipments $3.50. 900,
against $4,320,000; three months S.
$40, 900, against $l2,S10,00o.
Blum's, Inc, deficit year ended Janu-
airy 81 S53,2le; net income year ended
January rs, 1880, $214.4l7; equal tc
81 .43 common share in 1890.
Cleveland Automatic Machine 1890
preferred share earnings II cents
against $1.3e.
Community Telephone 1880 partici-
pating stock share earnings SAL
against $50. n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10
GREAT CARE URGED
IN CREDIT FIELD
Rare Judgment Needed Under
Present Condition, D. C. Man
Declares at Conference.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, April 10.-In the
present economic situation the credit
man will have to exercise rare judg-
ment in handling credits in order not
to further aggravate present conditions
as well as to aid many stable industries
that are now In low financial condition
to recover their standing, 30 declared
William Gordon Buchanan, certified
public accountant, Of washington, D. c.,
in an address yesterday before the an
nual Fifth District Credit Conference
at the jefferson Hotel BY extending
many worthy overdue accounts, as his
party in the anticipated business re-
covery, the credit man will render valu-
able service, he said.
Mr.. Buchanan added that from his
observation and experience in checking
accounts Of many important concerns
he was sure that the peak of the de-
preston has passed and that business
Is now on Is way to recovery, although
1t may be year or more before It viii
be back to normal. Although capital
of many industries is depleted, they are
really In good shape and with the aid
Of long-term credit should have no
trouble In getting back on q sound
basis, in his opinion.
The subject Of his address was 'NThe
relative merits of a strict or liberal
credit and collection policy"
The conference opened with upward
OF 100 credit men on hand, represent
ing Virginia, North Carolina, District
Of Columbia and Maryland associations
afnliated with the National Association
Of Credit Men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10
Grain Market

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 10-Responsive to
the bearish showing. Of the United
States Government crop report, wheat
prices here went lower early today.
Comparative flrmness Of Liverpool
wheat quotations, however, helped to
steady the market at fractional declines,
although the official forecast of United
States 1881 Winter wheat production
was much larger than the majority Of
traders had expected.
Opening u cent OF to " up, wheat
later held near to the initial range.
Corn started "a cent lower to u higher,
and subsequently hardened.
Rallies from early setbacks in wheat
prices were associated with curtailment
of shipments from Australia and with
predictions that Australian acreage
would be reduced IS per cent. Lessened
pressure OF Argentine wheat offerings
abroad were also noted. Bears, how
ever, continued to stress various unex-
pected aspects Of the United States
Government crop report.
One Of the leading houses on the bull
side urged that the Government report
was based on q movable or flexible par
for crop condition figures, and that IL
the Official forecast of production had
been calculated by the same standard
as q year ago the estimate would be
only 5000. 900 bushels above last year,
instead of 1000. 900 higher. 1t was as
serted in this connection that the Gov
eminent was working on an April par
value materially above that heretofore
relied upon. Last year the par at this
stage was 1873 bushels per seeded acre,
but this season the par was advanced to
17.2. or practically a bushel per acre
higher. Corn and oats prices followed
wheat changes. -
Provisions were steady, keeping IN
line with hog values.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10
CURB ISSUES MOVE
IN NARROW RANGE
Public Utilities Again Feature
Trading-volume Is
Light.
BY JOHN A. CRONE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 10.-Mixed price
trends prevailed in trading on the Curb
Exchange today. Volume again was
rather narrow. most of the activity be-
ing of a professional character
Vague reports about some sort of un-
favorable development in the public
utility industry caused power and light
issues to move slightly lower. Electric
Bond & Share most of the time was
down a shade, which was true also of
most of the New York State utilities.
Cities Service also inclined to heavi-
ness,
Electric Bond g. Share recently expe-
rienced considerable liquidation for the
account Of an estate and has been sold
in some quarters because Of the belief
that Its 1891 net will be cut by the pre-
ferred dividend action taken by Ameri-
can g. Foreign Power.
As holder Of 2,156,236 shares Of
American & Foreign Power preferred A,
Electric Bond g. Share received about
$iS,000,00O dividends in 1880, or roughly
81 q share on its common stock. Ameri-
can g. Foreign Powers recent decision
to pay nothing on the Accommodations of
us ScCOilu pTcleITeu StOSk 0IctClNIC LIdG-
urally will put a dent in Electric Bond
& Shares earnings this year.
Great Atlantic g. Pacific tea opened
OF 3 points as a result of March sales,
which In dollar volume were down IL
per cent, but showed a tonnage gain of
IL per cent. The decrease in dollar
volume to large extent may be ex-
planned by lowered retail prices, but
since most chain stores base their
operations on q profit percentage basis
q decline In gross business does not
necessarily mean q proportionate drop
In net profits.
The retail price advance of many
cigars and cigarettes, effective in most
sections of the country today. brought
fractional gains into shares Of tobacco
companies and allied lines.
Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of
Boston, which appears infrequently on
the tape, came out In 10-share lot at
24e. OF 81s points. Nevada California
Electric hit new low and other higher
priced utilities, such as Duke Power,
softened during this movement.
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EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, April 10 R.-Nash
Motors Co. for the quarter ended Feb
ruary % reported net income Of 81 ,O99,-
1913, equal to about ii cents share,
compared with $1,7e2,512, or IS cents
q share. in the like period ended Feb
ruary 20, 1890.
O. w. Nash, president, pointed out
that December, January and February,
constituting the first quarter Of the
company's fiscal year, always are con-
sidered q difficult period In which to
show profit. He added that business
shqnld now improve month by month,
as mas been the case during past
months, and that stocks Of cars in the
hands Of dealers throughout the United
States are at the lowest level In many
years for this season of the year.
Transue & williams Steel Forgings
Corporation reported for the quarter
ended March 81, net loss Of S36,249,
against net profit Of $29, 3l8 before Fed
eral taxes in the like quarter of 1880.
Davenport Hosiery Mills In the first
quarter had net income Of $98,O16,
against $75,s91 in the first quarter last
year.
Collins & fAikman Corporation for
the year ended February 28 reported
net prof1t Of 1925, 1852, against 81, S29, 406
In the previous year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10
MAY II IS FINAL DATE
FOR BROKERAGE CLAIMS

Washington creditors have received
word from New York that Federal Judge
j. G. Knox fixed May IL as the final
date for filing of claims against Prince
g. Whitley, brokerage firm which went
into receivership on October o, 1890,
with estimated assets Of SIS, 900 900 and
liabilities approximating $50 0o0, 900. The
order fixing the date provides for the
Ming Of conversion actions by certain
actions being pending.
The hearing on the proposed COM
position, which provides for q cash pay
ment TO creditors Of IS per cent and
IS per cent OF their claims In securities
Of liquidating company will be held
in New York tomorrow before Federal
Judge Alfred Coke.