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The Washington times., 1931-12-01
EASTERN VETS.
|NSTATEOF
CHAGR|N
Announcement of Charley Is
Doom Tor Hopes Against
100 Per Cent Aridity

1t will be Hoover and Cur
tbs in 1882, against two Demo-
Gratis whose Identities have not
yet emerged from the fog Of
Democratic conflict.
Barring unforeseen developments,
all doubt about the makeup Of
the Republican presidential ticket
next yea has been dispelled by
Curtis announcement that he is
a candidate for denomination as
Vice President.
There likely will be no other
names presented to the Republi.
can national convention next
June, for the other secret aSpi.
rants for the vice presidential
nomination had virtuously an.
nounced themselves for Charley
at a time when it looked as
though he would prefer to take
his chances next year on running
for the Senate from Kansas.
And having committed them
selves there is now little they can
do about it.
Dry Imprint Deep
While not of tremendous i'm.
portance, the Curtis decision
nevertheless will have a signifi.
cant bearing upon the 1882 con-
test.
For one thing, it puts the dry
imprint deeply upon the Republi.
can ticket, and serves to throw
into holder relief the almost GER
tain wetness of the Democratic
ticket in 1882.
Mr.. Hoover, of course, is dry.
But it was no secret that wet
Republicans in the East were
hoping it would be found posi-.
BILE next year to leaven Mr..
Hoover's dryness by the nomina-
ton of running mate who
would have more appeal to the
discordant wet elements of the
East than the dry Kansan.
40 Years a Dry
For nearly 40 years in public
eye-from county prosecutor to
Vice President-Charley Curtis
has carried the dry banner. In
almost four decades of public
service he has never cast a vote
that got him anything but praise
from the Anti-Saloon League, the
w. c. T. U. and kindred organi'
cations.
Thus tn the disappointnen
of a considerable group of Re
publican vets, their national
ticket next year now can be de.
scribed as 100 per cent arid.
The contrast that is inevitable
between the Republican ticket
and the Democratic ticket next
year-whether it is Roosevelt,
Richie or Baker-thus becomes
all the greater.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
Readers Suggest Old
Toys for Children
Of the Needy

suggestion that old toys in
Capital nurseries be collected
and repaired for less fortunate
children.
The author of the idea says:
"Old toys will brighten little
lives in families too poor this
Christmas to buy the baby, little
girl or brother, the doll, cart or
toy their heart desires"
The writer suggests that such
toys be turned over to the
churches or welfare societies to
be mended and distributed.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
" IF {. ATTENDS
RIVAL s BABY;
. LOVEISHOPE
Spouse in Prison, Woman Sees
Chance, to Win Him Back;
"Ski Girl" In Hospital,

NEW YORK, Dec. l Q.N.S.).
May G1edhill,, Canadian beauty
renowned as the "Girl with
the Skis" still battledt for
life today in Nassau County
Hospital.
In the Long Island cottage she
shared with Mrs. Inez Connor,
wife of the man who tathered
the Canadian girls baby, Mrs.
Connor added a dramatic heart
throb to the story of a curious
love tangle by taking care Of the
infant.
1t was because she had made a
determined fight to win back the
wholehearted love of her GRANT
husband that she came to live
with Miss Gledhill and the lat
ter's two-old boy, Sonny
Mrs. Connor's husband, once a
wealthy engineer, is serving a
prison sentence in Vermont tor
forgery. He writes regularly to
both her and May.
Letters to Two Women
Mrs. Conner showed two recent
letters, both received in the same
envelope.
The one to May read:
"My Darling May. am
counting the days when 1 will
be with you again. Separation
from you is maddening. 1 love
you with all my heart and soul
and I know you love me. Be
brave, patient, and soon we will
he together again with our,
love-"
To his wife Conner wrote:
II am looking forward to the
time when you and 1 may start
life anew. / have caused you
much grief, but you know 1
regret it all. 1 know you will
find it in your big fOrgiving
heart to forgive me-"
Mrs. Conner spoke freely of
May, who was seized suddenly
with a mysterious malady, at
first believed to be from poison
ing when she thought herself
threatened with deportation with
out her baby on grounds of
moral turpitude."
Old-FashiOned Wife
She described the girl, reported
relative of Sir Robert Peel, hus-
band of Beatrice Lille, as
Sportswoman, French scholar and
musician.
OF herself, she said:
81 am an Old-faShiOned
wife, and in the beginning /
tried to keep my husband
straight. But after he met
Miss GlendhilI, he started 60
ing dOwnhill, though I think
now he's IS per cent to blame
for everything"
Mrs. Conner interrupted her
story to bend down and straighten
out a toy for the fair-haired boy
whom she calls MY baby" She
herself has a son, 20,
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
Grimes Quits u. S..
Job to Practice LaUU

Warren w. Grimes, an attor-
ney in the general counsel's office
of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
has resigned to enter private prac-
tice of law in Washington.
Mr.. Grimes is connected with
various Masonic organizations
here and has been active in choral
work at st. Adams Cathedral.
He entered the Government serv-
ice IS years ago as a messenger
boy,
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
z MILLION SET
FOR HIGHWAYS

CUMBERLAND, Md. Dec. l,
The plans for highway improve
ment in Cumberland and imme-
diate vicinity call for an esti-
mated expenditure of 100000
by the end of 1882. This will
have all been spent within two
years. The burden will be borne
by the State road commission,
although in several of the prof.
ects, the city of Cumberland and
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company share in the cost.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
Fake Shooting Call
BrinqS Police Cars

"There has been a shooting at
1415 Girard St. N. w."
This call transmitted by the
police radio station sent police
cars to the apartment house.
There a young man, who gave
the name of Will A. Hartsfield,
and his address as the Conrad
Apartments, was discovered in a
vacant apartment at the Girard
Street address.
He told police he had been wait
ing for his mother.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
COLL TRIAL SET DEC. 9

NEW YORK, Dec. I U.S0.
Trial of Vincent Coll, gangster.
and his gunbearer, Frank Gior-
dano. on murder indictment
charging them with the machine
gun massacre in Harlem last
July, has been set for December 9.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
Car Jumps Track;
Service Is DELAYED

street car traffic was delayed
about As minutes last night when
two wheels of street car jumped
the rails at the north end of the
new Klingle Bridge. About a
dozen street cars of the Capital
Traction Company were delayed.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
CAR HURTS GIRL

Marie Franklin, ii, of 1923 T
st. S. E., is at Casualty Hospital
with injuries received when
knocked down by an automobile
at Good Hope Road and Four
tenth Street Southeast late yes
terday. Her condition is not
serious
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
WILSON SAILS TODAY

NEW YORK, Dec. l G.N.S).
Hugh R. Wilson. American min
lister to Switzerland, was to sail
for Berne today to resume his
post. He was called for a confer.
ence with President Hoover.
The Washington times., 1931-12-01
TO DISCUSS POETS

The Round Table of the Jewish
Community Center will meet to-
night at 8:45 to discuss poems
and poets. with Major Charles H.
Moore as the principal speaker.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
Utility Progress and Plunder

One Of the basic principles of the regulation Of
public utilities under the Indiana law is that there is
always the right for cities purchase utility plants
This right was written into the law 1t provide
that whenever a company accepts an indeterminate
permit it valves all protest against public ownership
whenever cities choose to exercise this right.
This the final safeguard of public rights The
only for inserting this provision the fear
Of just what has happened-a commission so con-
trolled by the utilities that the public would be at
the mercy Of organized greed
That fear has been realized Contributions to
campaign funds the exercise of political power the
rewarding of legislators who betrayed the people to
the utilities by jobs on the commission the power to
punish in the hands of merged utility interests, has
created a condition where the public is taxed to the
limit of its power to pay and obtains no redress
when it protests.
Now it is proposed to take away from the people
the weapon provided in the law, not through action
by the legislature but through decision of the COM
mission created by the law.
1t is proposed that rates no longer be fixed for
each community but that the charges for electricity
telephones and utility services be based upon arbi
trary districts set up by the commission.
The argument for the change is that utilities no
longer serve single communities and Cities but vast
districts. Power from great plants The
cities no longer have their own little plants Ihey
have ceased to exist as utility units.
In many of the cities which have been taken over
in mergers or rather by the unregulated holding
companies the plants have been dismanted and this
will shortly be true Of all small cities.
If this decision is made, and it seems probable
that it will be rendered, then hope Of public own
ership goes unless the people erect small plants to
compete with the large systems. This of course,
will be uneconomc. All the progress Of science and
invention will be capitalized by the utility overlords
for the benefit of their holding companies
If we are to have regulations by districts we
should have the opportunity for public ownership by
districts.
Many of the cities fighting this pro-
posal They see the servitude to utility gov
ernment that the who threw the Boston tea
party saw in the tea tax. They do not any
relief.
Perhaps there is until political party
or candidate within party has the courage to
declare his independence Of utility influence and
pledges new deal and square deal
The big job in Indiana in 1882 is to drive the
utilities from the statehouse.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
When Hatred Cools

A twelve-year-od story has been told once more
within the last few days 1t has sounded very diff
ferent this time.
It is the story Of six members of the Z w. W.
feared once as Communists are now and sentenced to
the best part Of their lives in the pententiary
after The arnistce day tragedy at Centralia Wash.
five Of the still in prison. sixth is on parole
for a few months, one is dead, one is free.
These men were convicted and sentenced during
a time of general prejudice and intolerance, by ap
peals on the part of prosecuting officers to these
qualities and by unprecedented severity the part
of judges.
So pronounced was this state Of affairs that Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes, addressing Harvard
law alumni in 1880 said: 1--WE well may wonder, in
view of the precedents now established whether
stiutional government, heretofore maintained in
this republic could survive another great war even
VIGOROUSLY waged."
Twelve years ago many of us were not able to
take the sane wise view Of things that Chief Justice
Hughes took. Blinded by fear and hate, we ignored
the danger to cherished rights and liberties which can
exist only when they exist for all.
Now, twelve years later, two-thirds of the Cen
traa jurors regret their verdict and have asked that
the Centrala prisoners be released. A committee of
that "the crime was not premeditated and was
mited under decidedly extenuating circumstances in
the light of which the sentences seem very severe"
Twelve years later most of us agree probably that
the treatment accorded these fell short Of justice
and that it is time to bring their punishment to
an end
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25

fore, and sit down out Of doors un-
til you feel better.
do not hurry around unneces-
asrily at your work. The more exer-
else you take. the more carbon
monoxide gas will get into your
blood.
"If one Of your comrades faints,
get him out into the fresh air at
once. Put blankets under and over
him, and surround him with hot
water bottles or hot bricks.
Keep him warm at all costs or he
may develop pneumonia. Persons
who become asphyxiated with car
bon monoxide gas are peculiarly
susceptible to pneumonia.
Call up the gas company and am
bulance at once. You always must
call both Of these, because ambu-
lances are not equipped with resus-
citation apparatus. In the mean
time, the patient should be given
artificial respiration, by what is
known as the Manual or 'Schaefer'
method.
Everyone working in industries
where there is a possibility of ex-
posure to carbon monoxide gas
should be familiar with this meth
cd of resuscitation. 1t is very easi-
ly carried out.
Anyone can learn how to do 1t.
He thus may, by his knowledge, save
someone's life"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
ReDotition

DILLY SUNDAY has quips which
1D are a regular part of the roper
toire, and he has saved many souls
with twice-told tales.
Even in the universities where
notoriously high ethics prevail, it
is not unknown for professor
to keep a favorite joke on hand
year after year and spring it for
each succeeding class of freshmen.
But let a journalist grow auto
agiaristic and he will find himself
assailed by that noxiouS alliance of
folk with long memories and others
who save clippings. Is there any
justice in this? There is not.
In other arts there is no barrier
against returning to familiar pas
lures. Musicians hit keys which they
have known before and recreate old
rapture among idolators. Certain
painters Of undoubted fame have
toyed with the same theme many
times.
And surely no one would complain
if Rudyard Kipling were to return
to his earlier manner. But we-pity
us-we must strike out each day or
week upon some trail where white
men have not set foot before.
1t seems to me that journalism
suffers from a lack of repetitious-
ness. No manscan espouse more
than a limited number Of good
causes, and these never are won.
Surely no man should be con-
demned if he made it a practice to
plead for free speech on alternate
Thursdays throughout the year,
even if he had to polish up few
well-thumbed points in order to
make his case.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
Exhaust Gas From Auto Is Dangerous

oxide gas is in the air by the smell
of the room or by the cloudiness
Of the air. These are produced by
burning Oil and gasoline.
4. If you suffer from headaches,
report this fact at once, so that the
conditions OF the air may be in
vestigated, and proper ventilation
established.
5. If you do not feel we'll, see a
doctor at once. You may be par
ticularly sensitive to carbon mon
oxide gas, more so than the others.
In that case you would better
change you occupation. 1t is not
safe for you to be exposed to even
very small amounts of the gas.
The labor department. bulletin
recommended these first aid mea-
sures:
IF you get a headache, or feel
faint, nervous or irritable, go out
into the fresh air at once and stay
there until you feel better. When
you go out, go out slowly and when
you get out sit down quietly.
Do not go for walk. You may
not have enough oxygen in your
blood to permit you to take any ad-
ditional exercise, or exert yourself
in any way.
''Any added exertion at such
time is dangerous and may be sufl-
cient to cause you to become un-
conscious. Wrap up warmly, there
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
Frances Blunder

France has blundered BY attaching destruc-
tive reservation to the Hoover debt holiday plan she
will jeopardize the proposal and isolate herself.
Americans are sympathetic with France and
derstand her difficulties Especially it is understood
that the Paris government to keep its seat, must
play often to the gallery of extreme natonasts inside
and outside parliament. Considering the American
senates record in obstructing international co-opera
ton and killing treaties we, of all people should
hesitate before taking holier- than-thou attitude
But however sympathetic and the world may
be with Frances task. that not alter the facc
that she has blundered here.
She has resorted to trading and diplomatic
neuvers in violation of the spirit in which the Hoover
proposal was made and in which has been accepted
Py the other powers Unless France trying to
trade she would not resort to the ancient ruse of
accepting in principle" while insisting on a destruc-
I've rider.
lspired her military satellites of the little entente
-Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Czecho- -Slovakia-to
aise obstacles in Washington.
France insists that Germany pay to her the
allied Unconditional portion Of reparation an
uities amounting to sllso0ooO0, with the agreement
aat France will leave the money in the bank OF
ternational settlements If necessary collateral for
German loan. She further insists on continuance
Df the Young plan.
OF course there is good theoretc justification for
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25

Tdrdtion Can Fail; 1t Is No
Stronger Than the Senti-
ment Behind 1t.
SAYS:

ATEW YORK, June Ex-senator
IN Davis of Pennsylvania thinks
the federal government should un-
dertake the job Of educating us on
the cost Of speed.
In his opinion, the American pub
lie would not tolerate 10000 deaths
a year by automobiles, if it really
knew what was going on.
Much as one would like to agree
with him, the New York Sun prob
ably is right in doubling this.
BY no stretch Of the imagination
can ignorance be regarded as re-
sponsible.
\ If the American public doesn't
know what is going on, there is no
way Of telling it.
Newspapers not only have re-
ported accidents and fatalities as
they occur. but have published the
ugly record on every possible occa-
sion.
Added to this, states and cities
have resorted to all sorts of devices
for visualizing it.
Ohio has put up crosses by the
roadside wherever people were killed,
and Pittsburgh has painted crosses
on the streets, only to mention two
examples.
1t is not lack of information that
makes us Indifferent to the blood
sacrifice, but craze for speed.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25

y OBBERS entered the home of s. Stanwood Men
AN ken of New York City ard took 100000 worth
of jewery.
This is the sort of thing that just naturally
breaks your heart when you read about it.
The papers Of the state continue to carry the pro-
tests OF people who outraged by the small sentence
given kirkland who should have been sent to the
electric chair
The parole board should see to it that this bird
is not shown any clemency that he serves the last
hour OF his sentence.
In his hot reply to the Vatican, Mussolini declares
that the youth of Italy belongs to him
This is the same line of lingo handed out in Berlin
by the fellow whose mustache was upside down and
who now is an exile in Holland
GPEAKING of Berlin, Germany might have a few
- more dollars with which to pay her war debts
if she had been willing to confscate the kaisers hold
lngs but she loved him dearly she let him keep it
even after he ran away.
If the federal government had gone after Capone
and other big voiators of the Volstead law nine or
ten years ago, instead OF waiting until now the dry
cause would be in much more powerful shape.
1he trouble has been to find honest officials.
President Hoover has just sent message Of con-
graduation to the king of Sweden on his birthday
but as felictator he is not in it with Coolidge
Every morning when he entered the White House
OOO0sO
today?"
XXTE are glad to see that the leaders of Indian
w apolis have taken kindly to the suggestion we
made at Anderson several weeks ago that the next
national convention of the Republican party should
be held at Indianapolis
And now We would elaborate the original sugges-
ton and propose that both the Republicans and
Democrats hold their big conventions in our capital
city.
indianapolis is nearer the center of population
than any other city of size and it has all of the
accommodations necessary to handle the multitudes
that visit the big political rodso
Strange to say. Indianapolis never has had such
a national convention.
1t Is interesting to note that the prosecutor con-
templates placing Kirkland on trial again. and If
there's any chance Of throwing the hooks into him.
everybody should be for it. but if there's another
trial the people would demand anothey courthouse.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
Motion Pictures

THE Stevens camp, will open
i Aug. Is. According to President
Harvey N. Davis of the institution,
its purpose is to discover brilliant
students and to weed out misits.
Leaders in science, engineering,
architecture and education, includ-
ing DR.. w. R. Whitney, director of
research Of the General Electric
Company: Dean Dexter S. Kimball
of Cornell, John Mills of the Bell
Telephone Laboratory, and Profess
Sor A. G. Christie of Johns Hopkins
will be on the camp faculty.
"These men and others Of promi-
nence in engineering fields" Presi-
dent Davis says, will define as
graphically and completely as posi-
bic what it means to be an engi-
neer dealing with aeronautics,
power, communication, railways,
building construction, work along
the water front on docks, yards and
harborS.
"They will give the boys insight
into research, machine design, and
other possible lines Of engineering
work.
To supplement these lectures
there will be motion pictures show
ing actual engineering work in
process. A film, for instance, will
show the construction of the Empire
State building, and others will illus
trate bridge construction, mining
operations road building and so
forth"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HEE%qqD EEg2f9

a S age creeps on and on, I have
IN begun to worry about the fact
that journalists are seldom loved.
I mean by those who read their
efforts.
There is something Of endearment
in such terms as veteran actor, p"
venerable clergynlen," "aged bard, -
but the phrase old newspapermen'
has in it a tinge Of contempt.
The whole implication is Of a
certain slackness and seediness. The
adjective "tireson1e" seems to lurz
not further away than just around
the corner.
The requirements for journalists
should be somewhat mitigated. No
body ever held it against Booth that
he played Hamlet many times. and
when a preacher plucks a sermon
out from the barrel in his study the
congregation listens with the same
attention as to brand-new dis
course.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-25
taxation Can Fail

T IKE other forms of law, taxa
IL ton is no stronger than the
sentiment behind it.
We have seen prohibition fail for
the simple reason that enough peo-
pie wouldn't do what was expected
of them.
Taxation could fail the same way.
AS a matter of fact, taxation has
failed many times.
Some of the worst revolutions in
history were brought about by tax
payers.
We must not get it into our
heads that oppression in the form
OF taxes is any different, or leads to
any different results, than other
kinds
People are willing to pay taxes
as long as they believe the system
is fair and the cash honestly used.
But let them get it into their
heads that one class is being i'm
posed on to help another, or that
graft plays too big a part in the
show, and there will be another
story.