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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
CURB CONTRACT Is LET
ON FALLS CHURCH STREET
Concrete Instead of Macadam Sur
face Will Be Laid on Main
Thoroughfare.
Special Dispatch 10 The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. May 1.-The
Falls Church Town Council last night
accepted bid by Contractors CorSon &
Gruman, who are building the new Lee
Highway from Halls Hill through Falls
Church, " put In the curbing on either
side OF Washington street at rs cents a
lineal foot. The exact footage is not
determined. but the total cost will not
exceed SO 500.
The mayor and Water Committee
were authorized to install the water
mains along Washington street and the
crossovers from the mains to the side
streets and houses before the concrete Is
poured. The council was informed that
the State has altered its plans and will
lay q concrete instead Of q macadam
road through the town.
The council authorized the Water
Committee to advertise for bids for the
1925, 900 bonds, in accordance with an
order received from the Circuit Court
certifying the results of the bond issue
elections
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01

The funeral Of Stephen Duncan
Bradley, ST.; lawyer, who died yester-
day ut his home, 1892 Ontario road,
will be conducted from Christ Church,
Georgetown, at 2 o'clock tomorrow aft
ernoon. Burial will be in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Mr. Bradley for the past several
years had been member of the
legal department OF the Internal Rev
enue Bureau. He formerly engaged in
private practice here tor many years and
was lifelong resident u this city.
He WAS 50 years old.
Death followed tive-month illness,
which came after all attack Of
bronchial pneumonia.
A native of Georgetown, Mr.. Bradley
was educated in local schools and at
the old Columbian College, now George
Washington University. He was a
member of the District bar, the Law
yers' Club, the University Club and
Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Blake Bradley; two sons, Stephen
Duncan Bradley, il, and James Blake
Bradley and two sisters, Mrs. James
McCulloch of Orange. N. j., and Miss
Lucy Bradley Of this city.
Harris Ewing Photo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
WOOD TAKES BORAH
TO TASK ON VOTING
Costly Bureaucracy Charge
by Senator Draws Reply
Defending Executive.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative VIII r. Wood, Repub-
lican, OF Indiana, has come to the
defense of tie executive branch Of the
Government IN arguments over respon-
sibility for increasing Federal eXpendi-
lures.
The chairman Of the last House
Appropriations Committee lays the
blame to Congress and to the demands
Of special groups. He presented this
view yesterday III answer to state
ment by Senator Borah that All ex-
pcnslVe bureaucracy was being eStaD-
lished in the Government.
The Idaho Senator had held large
part of the censure for creation OF an
"eXtravagant" form OF Government
should be attributed to the executive
branch. Wood replied that the largest
part OF the increase lies at the door
OF new legislation passed by Congress
authorizing or compelling such eXpendi-
ture. in considerable degree III opposi-
ton ~ the Executive"
Cites BOrahs Voting on Bills.
If Senator Borah will examine au-
thori2ation bills passed by Congress
over the opposite VI the Executive, p"
Wood asserted, he VIII f1nd that Con-
gress has an Infinitely larger reSpon-
AiDllity for increased expenditures than
lie now believes"
After the bills are passed authorizing
Government expenditure" the Indiana
Representative added, the Executive
can DO nothing but estimate the add
tional expenditures involved and budget
the expenditures called for ny authorize
ton bills. And the vice VI this new
legislation and Increased authorization
bills lies In the electorate and special
groups in the country III their demands
upon Congress"
Wood scanned Borah's record to cite
Illustrations which he said would show
the Senator had supported the Presi-
dent against legislation TO increase ex-
penSeS. The Idahoan's vote TO sustain
President HooVer'S veto OF the new
veterans loan law, Wood said, was all
example.
Blames War and Congress.
Then he added:
IF We are TO search for responsibility
for increases in Government eXpendi-
ture we must not neglect the war, which
Is responsible for fully 40 per cent Of
the increase, and Oh the other hand
We must not deny the responsibility Of
Congress IN yielding 10 the clamor OF
groups throughout the country for spe-
cial legislation. III a large part OF which
Congress has always exceeded the
recommendations VI the Executive.
Everybody knows that every dollar
Of Federal money expended must first
he authorized by Congress"
While noting that Borah supported
Mr.. Hoover's veto OF the veterans loan
bill, Wood took the Idaho Senator 10
task for advocating other legislation III
opposition to the President, which. he
commended would have meant additional
Government expenditures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
Regular Delivery

Over 100000 families read The
Star ever day. The great ma
1ority have the paper delivered
regularly every evening and Sun
day morning at q cost OF IL
cents daily and cents Sunday.
II you are not taking sdvap-
tage Of this regular service q:
this low rate. telephone National
5000 now and service will start
tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
COMPENSATION DENIED
TO PRISONERS WIDOW
Commissioners Refuse Aid After
Man Is Stabbed at
Work House.

The District Commissioners today
turned down an application for COM
pensation for her husbands death
filed by the widow of a colored man
stabbed to death by another inmate
while at the District Work House at
Occoquan.
Lloyd Baxter and William Henry
Cook, the inmates in question, had a
tight in the recreation hall at the
work house last December %, and dur
ing the fight Cook stabbed Baxter to
death. A guard present in the room at
the time was unable to stop the fight
until after the Stabbing. The victim
died en- route to Gallinger Municipal
Hospital.
Mrs Annie Baxter, widow of the dead
man, then put in her claim for COM
pensation, but the Commissioners ruled
there was no liability on the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
MARYLAND TO OPEN
HOMES NEXT WEEK
Beautiful and Historic Gar
dens Will Be Visited on
Benefit Tour.

Many fine homes and gardens. some
rich In historic significance. some so
new they have scarcely achieved their
full development, but all beautiful with
the freshness OF Spring, will be opened
TO the public for the first time next
week when the second annual Pilgrim
age of the Federated Garden Clubs OF
Maryland starts with q visit TO Hartford
County.
A large number Of the splendid estates
visited last year will also be opened 10
public inspection again. In addition,
many small suburban gardens in the
vicinity of Baltimore are on the list OF
places to be visited.
Double Objective.
This years pilgrimage viii have q
double objective-permitting the public
to enjoy the finest that the State has to
offer in the way of garden beauty, and
meeting part of the cost of beautifying
the highway approaches to the National
Capital in time for the George Wash
ington Bicentennial next year.
The Federated Clubs hope To raise
SIS 900 for this purpose through tE5
pilgrimage. The roads to be benef1tE
by planting and other Identification
methods are the Bladensburg road,
Rhode Island avenue, Piney Branch
road. Georgia avenue and wisconsin
avenue.
In arranging the details of the pill
grimage it was decided to devote one
day To each county.
Hartford County First.
Hartford County will be visited Mon
day, May 4; Baltimore County and Bal
timore City on the next day, Frederick
County, with a few homes in Howard
County, on Wednesday: st. Marys Coun-
ty on Thursday and Anne Arundel
County on Friday.
To the regret of every one. the own
ers of gardens on the Eastern Shore,
where so many of Marylands most in
teresting places are found, did not wish
to open them to the public on account
Of the damage done by last years
drought. It was therefore decided that
Saturday certain Baltimore gardens
would be opened again to give a second
chance to those who had not been able
to make the rounds Tuesday.
An elaborate and illustrated deScrip-
tive guide for the pilgrimage has been
issued by the Federated Garden Clubs
and may be obtained by writing the
headquarters, Federated Garden Clubs
OF Maryland, Baltimore Museum Of Art,
Charles and Thirty-first streets. Balti-
more, Md. A charge Of so cents is
made for the guide, with 10 cents adj
ditional for postage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01

Canada's income tax returns for the
fiscal year ending in March We're more
than $2.0O0.0eO above those Of the pre-
ceding fiscal year,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01

q request by Walter q. Varney, repre-
senting the Arlington-Fairfax Counties
Firemens Association, that the electric
bills Of the Arlington County companies
be paid by the county. Until recently
this current has been furnished free
by the Virginia Public Service Corpora
ton.
Another plea for provision for the
proper care of women and juvenile
prisoners was made by Mrs. Bertha
Kelly of the Organized Woman Voters.
She declared that the board had prom
Used to build a new jail this year. Men,
bers informed her that there were not
sufficient funds for this work but that
q new Jail could probably be built next
year by the new commission when there
Is no further segregation of funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
GREEN VISITS HOOVER

President Hoover held o luncheon
conference today with Secretary oi
Labor Doak and William Green. presi-
dent Of the American Federation vi
Labor. The unemployment problem and
the Labor Departments plan " meet
the situation were discussed.
The presence Of Mr.. Green at thi:
White House conference may be taken
" indicate closing Of the breach be-
tween the President and the labor
leader brought about by the selection OF
Mr.. Doak as head Of the Labor Depart
ment, political experts believe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01

It is said that the sky is absolutely
cloudless in Denver on 500 days Of the
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01

sented previously earned awards. Unique
among these was the intercollegiate
Gallery Match Cup of the Army's Sd
Corps Area, which the Washington High
School Cadet team won recently in
competition with other 55-C schools of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
the District of Columbia The cup was
received by Lieut.. Col. John c. Ludlum
on behalf of the team.
Judges in the regimental drill were
Capt. Alexander r. Boiling, U. S. A.,
and Lieuts. Thomas H. Allen and James
G. White.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-01
WOMAN SUFFRAGE LOST
Bermuda Assembly Defeats Vote
Measure FL to II.

HAMILTON, Bermuda. May ] C40.--
A measure 70 confer the franchise on
women Was defeated IN the Assembly
yesterday by vote OF 81 10 ii after
lengthy discussion by Its sponsors.
The opposition gave no reason for its
rejection. Proponents lowered the As
Nmhly nag to half-mast
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
BUSINESS AND THE F7VE-DAY WEEK

In an article entitled Business Looks at Unemployment in the August
Of the Atlantic Monthly julius president the Chamber
of
leaders, dreary present
confronting
labordplacng machn
happens
the worker is not in he right place"
When industrial machinery of
ing s falacious.
persons United
Working
six-day machinery and
aborng that around
commodities
population of 1oO,Oooooo able buy.
the of the
100000 surplus workers. and them into the live best
they
In automobile the textile
industry every industry
will hire consolation for
boermak be told that they would themselves
would jobs galore for
them.
that there plenty work be done and that the
unemployed because they
where the work is This is
who
operate 4ooooOOo workers
the goods that be sold usual
the 100000 workers known
the unemployed
considering unemployment relies the
application the entire which
exceptional adopted with fair
degree plan limited in its application
He eignore the
labor continually that
reduce the
where the 100000
obess will be work.
that the unemployment in
the proporonately
labor under machinery and methods
o produce the goods require
working abrs the unemployment
problem
jobless.
would of the unemployed
length of the working week should be
further reduced.
Cooking" unemployment and its
settdthe fveday
Business holds establishments
unemployed workers enter
Business the the unemployed
The fve-da week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07

which to be proud. Let there be no
fooling about that.
When prohibition, as it is facet
iously called, came along there were
those who said this union would pass
out.
But see what happened.
Instead of passing out it grew i'm
mensely stronger and staged the big
best fight of the year just passed.
Let honor be done these union men
and women of Cleveland-the cooks
and walters, and with them the mu-
sicians and engineers who went out
and stayed out for principal.
The spectacle is one to cheer all
workers and to show employers there
is willingness to fight for justice
and principles-THERE is MILL
FANCY!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
Through =
WOman,s Eyes
~ Jssn NssUeen
GROWING PAINS
~ Jsss NssVseS

UyXIILL you please tell, me" writes
w a reader, .why SO many peo-
pie pretend to be worse than they
are?
I'VE can readily understand why
people should pretend to be better
than they are. 1t brings them the
admiration and respect paid to re-
spectability and virtue. And II they
can get away with their hypocrisy,
they can eat their cake and have it,
too; they can get credit for quail
ties which they do not practice or
possess.
But what is in 1t for the person
who pretends to be worse than he is?
say he because you find men more
than women degrading themselves in
this way. What do they get out of
1t? What fun can it be to be blamed
and looked down on for faults and
vices OF which they are not guilty,
and so cannot even enjoy?"
do not agree with the idea that
men more than women are guilty of
the Juvenile foolishness of putting
on" vices and weaknesses which are
not really theirs. And 1t is not a
new form of Stiffness, but one mani
tested by adolescent youth as an ac-
compartment for growing pains.
So-children have always done 1t.
But on the part Of adults who don't
have to profess grown-up vices to
demonstrate that they are of age, It's
something else again. With them it is
also an accompaniment to growing
pains, though not their own They are
the growing pains of this modern age.
The passion to be modern-that's
the secret. And It is one by no means
lacking in female support
Witness the women who up to a
short time ago wore their skirts hard
ly to their knees in cases where the
revelation was by no means hattering
and the exposure outraged all their
taste. They were afraid to cast doubt
upon their modernism, to be consid-
cred back numbers"
And otf-color stories-women to
whom these are no more welcome
than having to poke their noses into
garbage cans will laugh at them un-
til the tears come to their eyes. Why?
1t is modern not to be shocked. Alb
horrence of such things may have been
1the thing" in our mothers day-and
that LIS just about how 1t would label
US now. Above all, we must be mod
srn
So in pretending, dear reader, not
only TO have but to like to have all
the petty vices and weaknesses, in pro-
Tossing passion for commonness and
yulgarlty and even a wink at i'm
morality, these people are merely try
ing to be modern-in the only way
they know how. They are, of course,
simply displaying their childishness
and manifesting the growing pains of
their modern age.
CO by the Bell Syndicate. Ine)
(WkU Ssrvice.)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
CUT WORK WEEK
DEMAND OF
STEREOTYPERS
Annual Convention Declares
For Fewer Hours of La
Dor -''Preserve the Bal
ance," Woll Urges in Ad-
dress in Toronto.

Toronto (ILNS)-"Shorter hours
and shorter weeks of work" was the
keynote of the session of the Interna-
tional Stereotypers and Electrotyp-
ers' Union of North America, here in
session for their thirtieth annual con-
vention. This slogan was echoed by
many speakers, among them w. r..
Lucas, president of the Toronto Typo
graphical Union, and Matthew Woll,
vice president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and president of the
Union Labor Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. Woll, touching further on the
present conditions of labor, said:
Labor must share in the profits of
the firms they work for, and, in order
that we may not fall prey to the con-
stant industrial depression, we must
constantly preserve the purchasing
power of cur masters. Instead of in
vesting capital in foreign countries,
instead of sending wealth abroad
there must be some balancing of the
scale through which the workers of
North America will receive fair,
balanced wage"
The principle was embodied in a
resolution for the amendment of the
general laws, introduced by the San
Francisco delegates, which was flex-
ible in character and left the matter
largely to the discretion of the local
union.
W. A. Peachey, business manager
of the Toronto Mail and Express,
joined in the sentiments expressed by
j. E. Atkinson, of the Daily Star, to
the effect that the best guarantee for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
Endorsed BY the Trades and Lsbsr
Council sf Hamilton. 0hie
Endorsed By the Middlstswn Trades
and Labsr Council Of Mildletown. ..
FRIDAY, AUGUST z, 1881
LAMONT STANDS REBUKED

Secretary of Commerce Lamont
can consider himself rebuked by Pres
ident Hoover, but what sort of diplo-
mat was he-or what sort of secre-
tary, for that matter-to get himself
into a jam by writing that manufac-
turers who are without reserves may
find themselves faced with the alter
native of closing their plants or cut
ting wages?
What Lamont's letter would have
done, had not Hoover jumped all over
it, would have been to justify letting
down the bars to wage cutters.
What does Secretary Lamont have
to say of the millions of wage earn
ers who ''have no reserves" and
whose alternatives are to get a job
somewhere out of thin air or crash
their way into Jail? The United
States is a human institution as we'll
as cold governmental structure.
The wage cutters and the plenty
per cent bankers back of them will
make desperate matters worse if they
can get away with it. The one and
only salvation is to HOLD ON AND
CLIMB OUT, not to let go and sink
deeper.
Credit the worst blunder of the
time to Secretary Lamont. Credit
some of his fellow cabinet members
with chivalrous and heroic effort to
conceal that blunder and pull La
mont out of the hole. But any man
whose brain lets him say that sort
of thing in these times deserves no
chivalrous help and no courageous
camoufage Rebuke is better than
palliation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
THE HARM OF WAGE CUTS

Pointing out the harm to come from
a general cut in wages, R. B. Craig.
labor commissioner for the state of
Texas, contributes the following
article:
There are two vital factors involv-
ed in solution of the present depres-
sion. One of these calls for full-time
employment of workers. The other,
of equal Importance, demands good
wages for full-time work.
The problem of overproduction, or,
more properly, underconsumption,
will continue in an increasing
volume with employment curtailment
and wage reductions. The wage earn
er's dollar returns to the business
world. 1t logically follows that the
so-called overproduction is due to
underconsumption, both resulting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
LAW BREAK ERS

The prevailing rate of wage bill
passed by congress was intended to
set up standards. 1t represented an
advance on old methods in the realm
of human practices of government
Under its provisions, the federal gov
ernment is required to doff the role
of sweat-shopper, and assume the
role of standard bearer in the field
of living standards, just as it as
sumes a role of standard bearer in
the field of materials, or weights and
measures.
The ink was hardly dry upon the
bill, when Charles L. Kohler, director
of the budget, New York city, little
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07

future industrial peace consists IN
safeguards which were provided Tor N
international arbitration agreements.
Passing of the age of secrets OF
the trade was marked by the strik-
ING out of the general laws of the pro-
vision for a $50 fine for the revealing
of any secrets of mixing paste, met
ais, wax, or the solution Of COM
pounds.
Priority was a subject which came
in for a hot discussion, and was
handed over to the laws committee for
further discussion and complete
report
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
END OF CLEVELAND HOTELS
LOCKOUT AND STRIKE

If ever there was a gallant fight
for trade union principles it was the
fight of the cooks and walters, just
ended in Cleveland.
For a year and eight days these
trade unionists fought the fight of
all organized labor.
A year and eight days is, if anyone
cares to know, some stretch Of picket
duty-through the cold of winter and
the internal heat of summer. Cleve-
land can and does get both hot and
cold.
The strike didn't end in complete
victory-but whatever the terms of
settlement say, it was a victory just
the same.
To hold the lines through more than
a year of the worst depression we
have known is an achievement of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07

man in an important place, made what
he called his own survey of wage
rates in that district. He came back
from his excursion among the sweat
shoppers with new scale of wages,
on an average 33 per cent below the
union scale. He solemnly declared
that this new scale represented the
prevailing rate of pay. Who set this
standard, what employers he inter
viewed is not clear. His little game,
however, is clear. If it succeeds, it
will be just another side-stepping of
law by public officials, destined to
bring opprobium and contempt upon
law and government.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07

from fewer jobs and decreasing
wages.
The United States government esti-
mates show that there are now 6,000,-
600 idle men in our country. Say that
each man was earning total wage
amounting to $1,000 per year; this
would afford purchasing power of
$4,000, 100000 per annum, all of which
would be returned to business chan
nels.
1t is said that our machine age
has displaced millions of workers.
This is true as a material fact, but
should not prevail as an economic
truth. Anything tending to limit or
destroy the purchasing power of the
great mass of consumers reacts pro-
portionately to reduce the output and
profit of business and industry. To
meet this situation there should be
just as many good paying jobs as
before with more reasonable prevail
ing working hours to meet the de-
mands. This is the only sane solu-
tion of the movement to stabilize
business conditions. 1t is certainly
not economy nor conductive to pros
perity to kill the goose that lays the
golden egg.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-07
400 STRIKES AGAINST
WAGE CUTS REPORTED

Washington.-Th U. S. Labor De-
partments division of conciliation is
seeking to adjust sc labor disputes in
18 states, involving 67,387 workers,
of whom SOAPS are affected directly.
Within a few months over 400
strikes and controversies have been
reported to the department and prac-
tically all of them against wage re-
ductions.
During the entire year 1880 the de-
partment listed 653 disputes involving
158,114 workers, while during the
first six months of 1881 there have
been 447 disputes affecting 1928
workers.