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The Washington times., 1931-05-14
PETER J. ESPEY

Funeral services for Peter j.
Espey, so, a clerk in the Treas
ury Department, who died yester.
Gay following an illness of one
year, will be held Saturday at
$3.50 a. m. from the residence
OF his sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma
zoe. S401 Seventh st. N. w.
Mass will be said at 9 a. m. at
the Church of the Nativity, with
burial. in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
surviving him are his widow,
Mrs. Josephine Yoe Espey; two
children by a former marriage.
calvert and Lillian Espey, of New
york; a brother. Ferdinand Es-
pey and a sister, Ella Es2ey
both of this city.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

ORNDORFF. VERNON-Passed away on
Thursday morning. May II, 1881, at his
late residence 32O6 Seventeenth Street
Northeast. VERNON ORNDORFF. Re-
mains resting at the W. W. Chambers co.
funeral home Fourteenth and Chaplin
Streets Northwest
Notice of funeral services and interment
herra fter.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

MARTELINO. FELIX-Passed away on
Friday. May 8. 1851. FELIX MAR
TELLNO Remains resting at the W. W.
Chambers funeral home. Fourteenth and
Chaplin Streets Northwest.
Funeral services will be conducted on
Saturday afternoon. May Is. 1881. at 2
O'Clock. from the W. W Chambers Co.
funeral home. Fourteenth and Chaplin
Streets Northwest. Interment will follow
in Mount OliVet Cemetery
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JOHNSON. ELLA-Departed this life on
son, the devoted wife of Nathaniel John
SON Besides her mother, she leaves TO
mourn her departure two children-one
son. Nathaniel Johnson. ir., and one
daughter Juanita Johnson
Funeral services will he conducted on
Monday afternoon. MAY lS. 1881. Al J
church. 1892 You Street Northwest. Rels
tives and friends are invited to attend
Tnterment will follow in Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery
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MRS. EMMA b. ANKENY

Funeral services for Mrs.
Emma B. Ankeny, 81, a resident
Of Washington for the last I2
years, who died yesterday at her
nome, 220 Rittenhouse St. N. w..
VIII be held late today at the
.. H. Hines undertaking estab-
MSnment. 1901 Fourteenth St.
q. w, with burial Saturday in
Besides her husband, she is
survived by two sons. LLOYD
AnKeny, OF this city, and Earl
Ankeny, of Baltimore, Md.
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BIRTHS

Din kMS
Jacob w and Kathleen N Ru,sar
SWIM boy and girl sei
Joseph H. and Pauline C. johnson
Swln boy and girl
Cbsrin. CGsrnm B and Grace Coatney. boy
Boy. "'o \" h"'ler'
William A. and Marion c. Bristol.
soJ;ptan Julian T. and Dorothy G. crosop
Harry e, and Lillian f. Bovd, how
9dniei and Lillian ERIN. boy
LOUIS and Sophia Kolodin. boy.
hebert r. and Frances l.. Carter
William c. and Villa b. Sherwood
PAU e. and Maris schmid. hoy.
arthur j. and Alice Y. DonneIly
James r. and Mildred NJ. johnson.
Harold W, and Harriet L. Denfson.
Luther C. and Madeline Herpdop.
Archie and Henrietta Rosenhatt.
Robert v and Helen NJ. speiden,
Carleton z. and Hazel e. Petit.
James e, and Mildred F. Martin
Hayward ], and Louise A. Murrell.
boy.I
Everett G. and Alice ". Germain
Elias $. and. Anna shipley, boy.
Lester C. and Elizabeth F. Gosney.
Elvis H. and Helen L. Young. boy.
Earnest G. and Lille l.. Mawyer.
Dwight L. spd Alma Byrd. girl.
Louis j. and Sally A. Rose. girl
Theodore NJ. and Evelyn V. Osborne.
Lewrenes W, and Mildred D. craw-
Joseph S. and Evelyn C. johnson.
girl.
Joseph F. and Dollie woodsn girl
Oscar K. and Gladys Byerly girl.
George r, and Winfred Pruett, girl
Alexander B. and Caroline Hagner
girl.
John L. and winifred H. Nair, girl
Robert and Lilly Martin, boy.
Johnnie and Agnes NJ. Offered, boy
Fisher and Lily Saunders, boy.
Leon and Naomi c. Davis. girl.
James s. and Lille B. Scott, girl.
Robert and Henrietta Robinson, girl.
James H.. and Mary F. White. girl
Allen and Margaret Robinson, boy.
Earl r. and Katherine PannelI. boy
Elbert c. and Lille l.. Beard, girl.
Charles and Elsie Ross, girl.
Robert and Henrietta Robinson. girl.
Leroy and Ollie BrookAr girl.
Amber r. and Edna Milton, girl.
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MORRIS. CAROLINE-Departed this Hfo

MUKKIS. CAKULINNE NNE-DJepaTtee1 lnas HIe ne
residence of her daughter. 1904 Eighth
Street Northwest CAROLINE MORRIS.
the beloved mother of Mrs. Anna Ham
mon Mrs. Carrie Thornton and Mrs. Addie
Miles. Besides her daughters. she als"
leaves tn mourn their loss one grandchIld,
one great -grandChild. seven cousins and
host of friends Remains resting at the
W. Ernest Jarvis funeral church. 1882
Yor Street Northwest
Notice of funeral services and interment
here after
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CANT, MATHILDA-Entered into eternal
rest on Tuesday May II. 1881, at john
son Hill Va MATHILDA CANT. She
leaves to mourn her departure three chill
dren-two daughters. Miss Amelia Cant
and Cora Mitchell and one son, Nathaniel
Cant Remains resting at the W. Ernest
Jarvis funeral church. 1882 You Street
Northwest.
Notice of funeral services and interment
!
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GASKINS. HESTER-Departcd this life
on Wednesday. May IS. 1881. at her
late residence. 1923 Cissell Court North
west. HESTER GASKINS, the devoted
mother of willard Gaskins.
Funeral services will be conducted from
the W. Ernest Jarvis West End parlOrE,
Twenty-eighth and DumbartOn Avenue
Northwest. on Saturday afternoon. May
16 1881 at l'clOck
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ANKENY. EMMA B.-Passed away on
ave mednes1ay; esq i May ID lS5d 81 ner res, res,
EMMA 3. ANKENY. the beloved wife of
willis W. Ankeny
Funeral services will he conducted from
the s. II Hines Co. funeral home. Four
teenth and Harvard Streets Northwest On
Thursday evening. May IA 1881. at
o'clock. Internent will follow at SOmer-
set, Pa
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CARTER. ELIZABETH-Entered into eter-
nal rest on Wednesday morning. May
49, 1881. at Z 30 O'Clock. at her late rest
dence 4I6 Eighth Street Southwest.
ELIZABETH CARTER She leaves to
mourn her departure three daughters
Martha Ingram Mary Ann Carter and Lula
fifteen grandchildren. five great-grandchII.
dren and host of other relatives and
friends Remains resting at the W. Ernest
Jarvis funeral church, 1892 You street
Northwest
Notice of funeral services and interment
hereafter.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

BUTLER. ADELAIDE-Departed this life
on Wednesday, May 13. 1881. at Freed
mems Hospital. ADELAIDE BUTLER. the
devoted wife of Ronald C. Butler. Besides
her husband she leaves to mourn her de,
parture two brothers-John Scott and
stephen Scott
Funeral services will he conducted on
Sunday afternoon MAY II. 1881, at l 30
o'clock. from the ". Ernest Jarvis funeral
church 1433 You Street Northwest IN.
terment will follow in Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
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The Washington times., 1931-05-14

ENGLISH. AGNES L-Passed away on
Tuesday. May 12. 1881. AGNES /.
ENGLISH the beloved wife of John W.
English Remains were shipped from the
w. W. Chambers Co funeral home Four
teenth and Chaplin Streets Northwest, on
Thursday morning May IA 1881.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
GREEN. HATTIE s.-Departed this Ii

Funeral services will he conducted on
Thursday afternoon. May II. 1881. at 1
o'clock from the Pentecostal Church.
ur-and-o -oue-halt Street and Virginia Ave
nue. Southwest. Irterment will follow in
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
"IhiS Is the TeSf''

Weighed down as we are with our domestic
worries, it is struggle to turn our eyes abroad
Geneva and Japan seem far, far away
Yet what is happening over there is in the long
view even more important to this nation than what
is happening in our present bemuddled economic
state great crisis in manknd's long struggle for
permanent peace is impending
Since 1913 the hope of the world has been to find
a method by which another great war can be pre-
vented That the horrors of the western front would
be nothing as compared with those of the next war
is sensed by all who live today.
That virtual suicide of civilization would be the
result and dark be the lot of humanity is the
settled conviction in every war college of the world
Stripped of its technicalities, the league Man
churian crisis means this:
Either peace will be restored through the agency
of other nations or the worlds only machinery for
peace will be shown up as futile. And that futility
once revealed, would mean an armament race such
as the world never has seen. That in turn would
bring the great nations back to where they we're be-
fore Sarajevo And when war came, as it would
there would with it chaos and the downfall of
civilization
What is happening in Geneva and Japan today
therefore is bigger than Manchuria. 1t is the test
of the worlds and only agency for peace. The
entire effort against war; accumulated over the CEN
turtles, is at stake.
Let the negotiations win, let the world be con-
vinced that the League of Nations or the BRAND
kellogg peace machinery will work. and the greatest
forward step of all time will have been taken.
Let them fail-hut they must not!
Geneva and Japan are not remote points They
local stories today, with very real interest to
every capable of bearing arms and of very real
interest to every mother wife or sweetheart of
such man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
The I. C.. C. Decision

A way has been found to save the railroads from
financial disaster without dragging down the rest OF
the country the interstate commerce commission
believes That is the significance Of its decision
iecting the plea of the railroads for fiat Is per cent
freight increase.
BY allowing the railroads to make specified rate
increases on certain commodities, such OIL coal,
ores and lumber-but prohibiting increases on most
farm products-the commission thinks all the rail-
roads can create profit pool upward of $685. 900
to rescue temporarily the losing railroads.
We do not presume to pass upon the practcability
of this plan evolved by the governments technical
experts the fact that it is the L c. c. plan makes it
deserving of trial.
II it does not work quickly enough, then other
emergency method than rate increases be found
to save the roads financial credit, which involves the
larger credit structure of the nation Indeed, Pres-
dent Hoover understood to be working with banking
experts now to approach the problem from that other
direction.
To us the L C. C. argument-that fiat Is per cent
rate increase would depresS general business cond-
tons further and actually inje the railroads them
selves in their competitive fight with busses trucks
and ppelnes-sounds very convincing
1t seems especially clear that such increase on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
SMnne Is Frank

With the sort of franknesS that is lacking con-
spcuously when administration leaders discuss
unemployment insurance, Gerald Swope illuminated
the whole subject at his appearance before the senate
committee He stated facts worth bearing in mind
during the coming winter.
The difference between company insurance plans
and plans in which the government participates,
Swope pointed out, is just this
If a company and its employees alone contribute to
an insurance fund, the cost will fall upon the con-
sumers of the companys products If the government
contributes the taxpayer will bear part of the burden
In other words, the average consumer, including
the man who hardly can make ends meet, the man
who is out of work. but still must eat and be clothed,
will bear the burden Of insurance the cost of it is
passed along in the cost of merchandise. If the
government becomes a contributor part, at least of
the cost will come out of concentrated wealth For
federal revenues come in large measure from income,
inheritance, and corporation taxes
Mr. swope favors company rather than government
insurance though he says he fears I'VE never will get
universal insurance without government action" But
he is strongly in favor of of kind and
for an excellent and very practical reason.
If you have unemployment insurance, he says, you
have the best brains of the country constantly at work
trying to stabilize industry, prevent unemployment
and thus reduce operating costs and increase dvi-
dends
You gain by having men cared for in time of crisis
but you gain even more by having that crisis pre-
vented wherever possible, for good old-fashioned
selfish reasons
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
HEALTH SERVICE.
HEALTH SERVICE
Food Sensitivity May Cause Ailments

he is likely to pay a great deal Of
attention to the record of the pa
tent, because frequently the patient
remembers that he gets his attacks
only when he eats certain foods.
1t is likely also that other persons
in the patients family will have
similar disturbances.
1t has become possible to develop
skin tests whereby small scratches
are made on the skin and small
amounts of the suspected substance
placed on the scratch, the reaction
indicating whether or not the per-
son is sensitive to the particular
food that is suspected.
Whether the skin tests are posi-
tive or negative, the present technic
involves a careful study of the diet.
The patient is asked to keep a food
diary.
He carefully records everything
that he eats, regardless of the
amount or the time at which it is
eaten, and keeps record of the
symptoms and the time when they
appear.
He also is asked to keep very
careful record on the back of his
food diary of the general trend of
events during each day.
A case is cited in which a patient
was a railroad man whose run
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

most food products not only would add widespread
hunger in the cities this winter but would be almost
the last straw to millions of broken farmers Certainly
the country can not regain prosperity by taking it out
Of the hides of the farmers whose poverty already is
a chief continuing cause of the depression
In its effort to protect the railroads from them
selves the commission states facts which the railroad
witnesses appearing before the commission never
attempted to answer. 1t says:
However sympathetic one may be with the plight
OF the railroads and their need for additional revenue
such sympathy not with benefit to any one be
carried to the point of refusal to recognize and
face facts The facts set forth show beyond
question that there elements of plain peril to the
railroads in such increase in freight rates as thew
propose at the present time
The chief dangers are: ID That at time when
transportation costs of vital consequence to every
industry it will stimulate new competitive forces
already rapidly developing CD That it will ALLEVIATE
or impair the friendly feeling toward the railroads on
the part OF the people of the country which is
ual to adequate legislation for their protection and
proper regulation of all forms Of TRANSFORMATION in the
PUBIC interest, and CD That it will disturb business
conditions and an already shen-shocked industry
and accelerate the tendency toward a ocalizatior f
production"
II the l. c. c. had been blind to the railroads very
real emergency the railroads would suffer and the
country would suffer. But by allowing wide rate
increases on many commodities under pool man for
tne special benefit of the weaker carriers the COM
mission apparently has gone as far as possible with
safety for the railroads and the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
And We Believe II

GONE Of us have professed to be
~ greatly worried lest the German
republic break down and the kaiser
be recalled or Communism estab-
lished.
Well, here is something to think
about in that connection. Germany
with less than one-half as manv
people, polls almost as big a vote as
we do right straight along.
We have become so used to hear
ing patrioteers say that we are the
most democratic people on earth
that we really believe it-believe il
to such extent that we see no neces-
sity Of doing anything to prove it.
We have grown so apathetic that
We are not conscious of laying down
on the job, though every election
shows it, especially if the election
happens to turn on issues rather
than personalities.
We think we were terribly "het
up" in 1928, but just compare the
vote to the adult population and
you will see how many millions were
so uninterested that they. wouldn't
even bother to mark a cross on a
piece Of paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
DastardIy and Infamous

Before any citizen rejoices in the re-
ductlon Of the tax rates for the schools and
the city government he should analyze the
results that are inevitable from such a de-
cision.
AS far as the school tax is concerned the
board declared a moratorium on debts. 1t
said that the city shall not meet its obliga-
tons but shall borrow more money from the
banks, and just now the banks are charging
higher rates of interest for school money
than ever before. The board also hampers
the school system in annoying ways.
When it comes to the cut in the city funds,
the action can be construed only as des-
perate effort to protect the electric and
water monopolies from legal effort to OBJ
tain justice.
The state board says that Mayor Sullivan
may not have an emergency fund of $25, 900
which he had secured from the council to
fight against the extortion practiced upon
this city by these two companies.
The city pays approximately one million
dollars year to these two companies The
mayor had announced that he would appeal
to the public service commission for a new
deal.
Here was where the hired lobbyists for the
corporations began their successful fight to
hamper such fight and to keep the city
enslaved.
The son of one member of the tax board
has been and may still be on the pay roll of
the professional tax fighters who represent
the corporations
The board members have long been under
suspicion of being dominated by the corpora
tions and proceeded to justify that suspicion
by their actions
This board is attempting to send the city
administration into its fight with the rich
and plundering electric and water COM
panies, shackled and embarrassed with no
ammunition or supplies for it's war.
The tax reduction means that the people
of this city have been robbed of their right
to rule themselves and are under condition
of slavish servitude to the public utilities.
The tax board completes the job where the
public service commission leaves off.
The action is dastardly and infamous. 1t
should be resented by every citizen. The
utilities should not be permitted to get away
with such high handed proceeding.
One form of resentment might be very &C
tive crusade to abolish this board or change
its membership so that it will represent pub
lie interest and not the plunderbund
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

would carry him at intervals to
certain large city.
1t developed from the study Of
the attacks that they invariably &C.
Cured either on the day of his visit
to the city or on the following day.
1t then appeared that he was fond
of a certain brand of cheese which
he invariably bought when he went
to the city in question.
This cheese was the substance to
which he was sensitive and which
brought on his attacks. Other
brands of cheese did not arouse
sensitivity.
The next step is to put the pa
tient on certain trial diets which
are limited in character, gradually
adding one meat or one cereal at a
time until the patient develops an
attack.
The response then is checked by
eliminating this substance and lead
ing up to it again, and not in
frequently such a system results in
revealing the specific substance
which produces sensitivity.
Unquestionably modern knowl-
edge of sensitization to proteins is
one of the greatest advances that
has been made in medical science.
1t has opened the way to under
standing of numerous conditions
which formerly we're not understood
at all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Just Every Day Sense
YOUNG woman who has worked for ten
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A YOUNG woman who has worked for ten years
"A in a large department store in city shall
not name, after having received her third drastic
wage cut, says she faces pay day with a sick
fear at her heart.
She is bewildered by the turn of events. She sees
tried and trusted employees turned away while cheap
inexperienced help fills thir place She SEES also,
the head of the business living luxurouSly than
usual
why" she asks me- "can such things be? We
have long had fondnesS for our employers. They
have been kind to in the past but how Mr.. B..
when he sees us so frightened and suffering buy
larger automobile and move into expensive
home?
"Is it not the duty of the leaders of business to
set their workers an example of sacrifice? What do
you think?"
FRANKLY, I have a sick fear at my heart also
Il when such sentiments are voiced. I have the
feeling that a good many of our so-called big men
are making a tragic mistake and that day their
grasping hands may hold only empty air.
The head of this store undoubtedly is concerned
over business conditions 1t may be true that salary
cuts must come but should they not come from the
large as well as from the small salaries? Should
not dividends be sacrificed rather than wages?
This man has lost something very precious. He
has lost the trust and confidence of woman who
has given ten years of her life building up his bust
He has lost her loyalty and incurred her
suspicion.
Few things he may gain in the future can COM
penSate for this, and it can tear him down when
prosperity comes again.
Capital, too, owes fealty to its workers. And its
debt is doubly great in times of uncertainty and
distress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

b1 LA N1D JlEIZ-'
If You Can Pass This Test on
Nea0 Views of Science, You
Are Ready for the Fan
Book Ba7Tdge.
HERE is an "Ask-me-anotherp
IL game you can try to 'test your
self" upon the latest trends Of sci-
ence.
If you can give brief description
or definition of each CT the follow
ing terms, you have kept abreast of
the newest theories about the ma
ture and fate of the universe: YOU
are ready for the barrage of books
which the publishers will fire at YOU
between now and Christmas. The
list:
l. Second law Of thermodynamics.
2. CoSmic rays.
3. Wave mechanics.
4. Space-time.
5. Expanding universe.
6. Gestalt psychology.
z. Holistic philosophy.
Try your hand at the list. Then
check your answers with the follow
ing:
l. The second law of thermodv-
namicS states that all the energy
in the universe is tending to run
from concentrated useful forms into
scattered useless forms. Jeans and
Eddington take this law to mean
that the universe gradually. but
surely is running down and that
some day it will stop like a run
down clock.