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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

Friday. The second day has been set
aside for the children OF Washington
orphanages, who will be guests Of the
club
The club gymnasium has been ar
ranged to resemble q circus tent, with
several rings, sawdust and the usual
equipment Of the big top" There will
be side shows in addition to the main
performance.
The Elks' Boys Band OF 10 pieces will
lead the parade and provide concert
music preceding the main ring events.
There are to be acrobatS strong men,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

daredevils, acrobatlc dancers, magicians.
cowboys, clowns and more or less wild
animals. The refreshment stands will
dispense red lemonade, peanuts, pop
corn, hot dogs and other standard cir
Gus fare.
Boys Of the club have been rehears-
ing for the circus for the past two
months. The circus last year was wit
messed by more than 500, and It is an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

be fiown until the Judges give the sig
nal.
1.-THE contest viii close at o'clock
and no kite win be judged after that
hour"
The committee in charge includes
Miss Gertrude M. Driscoll. chairman,
the D. G. Model Aircraft League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
FOUR KILLED IN CRASH
Driver Believed Blinded by Storm
as Car Hits Train.

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 2 U0. - -Four
persons met death In . binding snow
storm late yesterday when their au-
tomobile was wrecked by New York
Central passenger train at Lime City,
10 miles south Of here.
The dead are: Thomas B. Parrish,
48: his wife, Bessie, IS, and Mr.. and
Mrs David Davenport, parents Of Mrs.
Parrish, all Of Perrysburg.
Parrish, who was driving, Is believed
to have missed the flasher warning sig
nal in the SnowstorT1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

Pencil manufacturers Of the East are
buying up old railroad ties from the
Western States. These logs are mostly
Of red cedar in which the hearts are
still sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
BOYS CLUB TO PRESENT
THIRD ANNUAL CIRCUS

Gymnasium Arranged to Resemble
"Big Top''-orphanage Chill
dren to Be Guests April 10.
The Boys Club Of washington will
hold It's third annual circus ct the club
house, 23O Q street, next Thursday and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

about 300. August Z. Mascara, assistant
superintendent Of the club, is in charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

NisIey's Ne,U COIOrs Skipper Blue
Indies Brown Almora Brown
. Closed Watersnake Dull
Blacks and all the Beiges from
palest Parchment to deep rich Maple!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

And you sGUe enough on your shoes
TO buy a whole box of dull sheer
Nisley Hosiery -3 pair for S2.75,
81 the pair. See our slenderizing new
shadowy.shades.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-16
KANSAS STOCK BAN
HEARING NEARS END
Demurrer Filed to Evidence of
Cities Service Company-Hear-
ing Last Night.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., July 16.-Hearing
on a suit by the Cities Service Co. to
enjoin the State BANKING Department
from executing an order suspending all
the utilitys sticks except the first pre-
ferred from the Kansas mf.ket was
speeded up today.
District Judge George H. Whitcomb
urged attorneys to bring the hearing to
an early close. Cities Service repre-
sentatives said they would conclude
their case today with the presentation
of affidavits. Roland Boynton, attor-
ney general, said introduction Of the
States testimony probably would re-
quire a day.
The two-judge court was expected to
rule upon a demurrer brought by At
torney General Boynton to the plain
tiff's evidence. A hearing upon the mo-
ton was held last night.
In an argument on the demurrer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-16
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

CoIrmbia-"A Free Soul second
week., at IL am, /, 3:l5, $40, 1920
and $50 pm.
Palace-"Just Gigolo," at II $50
am, 2:1O. 4:45. 1880 and 10 pm. Stage
shows at 1:35. 4:05, $50 and 9:25 pm.
FOx-"Hush Money" at 1908. 2:2l.
4:34, 7:45 and 9:57 pm. Stage shows
at 1:42, 3:55. 7:06 and 918 pm,
R-K-O Keith's-"A Woman of Elk
perience." at 11:08 am; lis, 3:22,
5:29, 1886 and 9:43 pm.
Earle-"Never the Twain Shall Meet"
at 1850 am, 2:13, 4:36. 1880 and 9:53
pm. Stage shows at 100, 3:43, 6;37
and pm.
ropoIitan-"Children of Dreams"
at IL am, :2:47, 2;34, 4;2l, 6:08, 1855
and 900 pm.
Tivoli-"White Shoulders" at 2, $50,
$40, 7:35 and $50 pm.
CentraI-"Si x-Cylinder Love-" at IL
am to IL pm.
mbaSsador-"Daddy Long Legs" at
els. 8 and $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-16

Robert o. Mason, assistant attorney
general, asserted that portion Of the
law exempting from provisions Of the
securities act all stock listed on the
New York. Chicago and Boston and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-16

other approved exchanges, also was
invalid.
Attorneys for the plaintiff replied
that the Legislature merely had CLASH
fed exempt and non-exempt securities.
The Washington times., 1931-07-09
LINCOLN

LINCOLN-7-pass sedan, $3.50: real bar
gain; car in splendid condition; will take
small car in trade. col. 454S.
The Washington times., 1931-07-09
Automobiles
AUBURN

AUBURN 1929 6.cyl Sedan. S175 down,
S32 per mo. Run only 10000 miles,
like new every way Guaranteed. Warning
ton Motor Co.. 2035 18th N. W. PO. g044.
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gh Room Home Near Rhode andAnd Florida Agenues 70f
Automobiles
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

GOOD USED CARS
NOLAN MOTOR co Ill 18th 81. n, W
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Automobiles
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

CHERNER's AUTO CLUB-S2S down buys
Model A Ford. 1881 q St. n. W.
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Rentals
ROOMS AND BOARD

r ST, n. W. s09-Room G board for two
X ST. ". W. 1733-Ideal location, lovely
single and double rooms, refined home
good meals, also table board. MEt. 1921.
THE ROSE INN. 1909 17th st. n. W.
Nicely furnished single and double rms.
excelient meals reaeonable rates.
The Washington times., 1931-07-09

MARMON 9-cyl Sport Phaeton. $50 down.
500. "a per mo. Refinished Al condi-
ton Guaranteed. Warrington Motor Co.,
2O35 18th N. W. Potomac 0044.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
What About Safety?

Six hundred fifty pilots are flying $4,000 miles
day on Americas scheduled air mail and passenger
lines They the best Of the country's $4,000 IL
censed pilots On them directly depends the safety
Of hundreds Of passengers and tons OF mail every
day and night
Yet, like children they should be seen and not
heard At least that is the way their employers the
airline operators appear to feel about It, The oper-
aors just have vetoed proposed conference between
these pilots and the department of commerce.
The government had expected to reap valuable
suggestions for the regulation and maintenance of
the airline out Of these pilots knowledge-the knowl
edge of experience, gained only by riding at the con-
trolls day after day and night after night over the
Always.
The commerce department asked the operators
If they would send pilot representatives to the con-
ference. few agreed. Others said they would not.
The majority didn't bother to answer the depart
ments letter. The meeting has been Cancelled.
AT this stage Of flying, the combined wisdom of
everybody in the business is none too much. The
plot-the human clements admitted to be still
the most important factor in aviation For the oper-
ators to close their to his suggestions to
us a rather stupid form of bigotry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
The Real Need

Speaking in New York, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of
Sing Sing prison showed that vision and that COM
mand Of the crime problem which have placed him in
the vanguard of intelligent prison administrators
In New York and elsewhere the public is pledged
to vast expenditures to build greater and better prs
to house convicts. Lawes, however, emphasized
that what need to do is to be excited about getting
more out of prison.
Certain types of convicts need long incarceration
in conventional prisons perhaps for life. But about
half of them would be better o-and society," as well
If they were not behind walls at all. What they
need is probation or parole. AS Warden Lawes well
says
THE liberal use of parole and broad and effec-
tive probation for criminals not yet sentenced will do
more toward solving the prison problem than the
s10O0OoooO we expect to spend on new prisons and
refornatories"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
More Light on the World War

A flood of material continues to appear, throwing
light on various aspects of the World war. General
Pershings memoirs just have been published. Now
the Saturday Evening Post and Liberty are running
articles.
In Liberty, Sidney Sutherland describes the ex-
PLOTS of German spies during the war with special
emphasis on their activity in the United States This
is an important field of history but in the opinion
of Sutherands articles unfortunately are written in
the spirit of wartime propaganda.
Moreover, nothing is said of what Great Britain
and France were doing in this country between 1914
and 1917 It is to be hoped that Liberty will allow
some authoritative writer to present the other side
of the picture
In the Saturday Evening Post the late Mr.. Lansing
makes most important contribution American
neutrality during the The wartime secretary
of state declares that had much more trouble with
Britain than with Germany that Mr.. Page did his
best to block our protests to Britain and that Ger
many had not resumed submarine warfare prob
ably would have drifted into war with the English
German stupidity the submarine issue, he points
out revolutionized the destiny of world affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
A Promising Ghost

President Hoover has appointed George A. Hast
ings OF New York City ghost writer" and research
assistant This choice will have to be ranked with
our chief executives better selections, such the
late Joseph P. Cotton undersecretary of state and
Sanford Bates, director of federal prisons
Hastings is pollyanna pubcist, no dispenser Of
political syrup, and no mere yeS-man. He is WELL
informed student Of social and political problems,
man of long experience in responsible executive posi-
tons in social work. and person Of enlightened out
look.
If one may judge from the past, Hastings will dig
up some eye-openers for the President and will state
them in language which the people of the United
States can understand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-Well, we'll! Are the
dear people just waking up to the
fact that the public utilities have
been gouging them Systematically?
That has been going on for several
years and will not stop unless pub
lie opinion is aroused and deter
mined effort made to corral these
rampant public Cd servants.
An editorial in the Indianapolis
Star some time ago gave the illu-
minating information that Our phil
anthropic light company had
cleaned up a cool "a per cent on an
investment of ten million. Accord
ing to our state laws, 7 per cent
return is considered very fair, I be-
lieve. So how in the world did they
hook the other 81 per cent, unless
they are overcharging the consumer
to that extent?
Recently we had the wonderful
spectacle of a million dollar coming
out going up, or some such party
given by the head of one of the
largest public utilities in the coun-
try. 1t evidently took plenty Of
fast" meters to make up this mil
lion.
The whole trouble is the state of
apathy which seizeS the consumer
unless the situation becomes so I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS

Only One Reason for the De-
preston VIII Stand the
Scrutiny of Future Gen
erdtiOnS and That Is Lack
Of Leadership.
TIVE national executive commit
Il tee of the American Legion
recommends that President Hoover
call a non-political conference to
seek a solution for unemployment
and depression crises.
This recommendation was en-
bodied in report of the special
unemployment committee, which
declared that continued inaction
might lead to dire results.
The report also said that a survey
of 10000 Legion posts indicated
that more than 100000 persons
we're out of work and that ap-
proximately 10000 ex-seryice men
were among them.
There are supposed to be about
100000 workers in this country. If
the LegionS estimate is correct,
general unemployment would
amount to about Is per cent, while
unemployment among ex-service
men, Of whom there are about
100000, would amount to more
than 10 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
Edison and MarConi

CHILDREN, growing up in this
" electrical press the button"
age, probably never stop to realize
that there was day when there
were no Switch-buttons to press.
Indeed, most Of us forget how very.
very young the Age of Electricity is.
1t is only within the lifetime Of
the older generation that man has
learned to put electricity to work.
The pioneers for the most part are
still with us. Edison and Narconi
are two Of them.
Of course these masters of applied
electricity based their work upon
the experimenters of an earlier day.
These, in turn, built upon founda-
lions dug by still earlier experiment
erS. Let us trace the story briefly
from the beginning.
The first manifestation of cleo
trical force was noted by the Greeks,
perhaps as early as 600 B. G. Some
authorities credit Thales of NIiletus.
who lived at about that time. with
having first called attention to it.
The Greeks noted that when
amber was rubbed, it was in some
way endowed with the ability to
attract light objects to itself.
Any one who possesses an amber
ctgaret holder, pipe-stem, or other
object Of amber can try the expert
ment for himself.
Rub the amber briskly. It then
will pick up little bits of paper,
straw, or similar light objects.
The Greeks called amber "elek-
iron" Our word electricity comes
from it and today we call the small
est unity of electricity "the cleo
tron"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
High or Low Wages

It took almost year after the onset Of the cur
rent business depression before the advocates Of de-
flation found their voices. The country had been
pretty we'll sold on the desrabiity of high wages and
short working hours 1t is only recently that men Of
prominence begun to assert that the depression
will not end until wages are slashed and hours of
labor are heightened.
However, if it took long time for this claim to
be made manifest, there plenty of signs that
are going to hear good deal of it from now on One
by one the deflatonists are getting vocal Further
in one factory after another, they are making
their influence felt materially.
One of the SaneSt criticism of this attitude was
provided recently by Glenn Frank president of the
University of Wisconsin. Writing in the May issue of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
mems Magazine. Mr. Frank remarks:
Following the war, some Of the more far-Sighted
leaders OF American business and industry adopted
a credo that said stable and widely distributed
prosperity and healthy industrial development
quired high wages short hours and low prices This
contrary to the naive business thinking of earlier
generations that said low wages long hours and high
prices made for maximum profit.
But outstanding industries throughout the United
States proved by their balance sheets that high wages
short hours, and low prices good not only for
the masses, bat also good for the manufacturers And
we are IN the grip OF depression now not because we
followed this new credo Of business but because we
did not follow generally enough or apply it far
enough"
Then. turning directly to the lower wages crowd
he adds:
The inflationists Of yesterday brought the stock
market to collapse. The deflationsts of today will
bring our entire business system to collapse fl they
succeed In serucing the majority Of American busi-
ness bankers and ndustral,sts to their pont of
view
10 speak with brutal frankness-and the times
call for that sort Of speaknT-the defIatontsts are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
The Pope Leads

ct therefore is absolutely necessary to recon-
struct the whole economic system by bringing it back
to the requirements of social justice so far as to insure
a more equitable distribution Of the united proceeds
Of capital and labor"
In these memorable words Pope Plus XI in his
radio address Friday added the unique power OF the
Roman Catholic church to the world movement for
fairer division of wealth for labor
Coming from the head of what has been described
as the most conservative well the largest organ
zation on EARTH the popes indictment Of the present
social system is revolutionary in the highest sense
of that term
In the past there has been beyond question, an
excessive and unjust dsproportion of the commodi-
ties of life between capital and labor for on the one
hand immense riches are accumulated in the hands
of the few while on the other the proetariat, who
forn1 multitude beyond all counting have nothing
of their own save their hands and the sweat Of their
brow"
He struck at one of the most vicious premises OF
the capitalist system by declaring:
Work is not any kind Of sala5le commodity, but
one in which the human dignity Of the working man
always must he respected"
Parts of the declaration of papal policy-for in
stance that differences in social conditions are de-
creed diyinely and must not be abolished-are OF
nature that many can not accept. But those parts
are secondary to his main contention that:
Free and often unbrdled competition has been
succeeded by the exaggerated concentration in the
hands Of few Of the whole economic power, not only
of single nations but of the entire world, and this
concentration and this power degenerate into tyr
annical despotsm."
Against such tyranny of the rich and the mighty,
the Christian religion founded. Jesus, the car
penter spoke to and for the workers Too often the
If tna hovo
Now Plus XII like Leo XIII forty years ago, speaks
in the tradition of the great Jewish and Christian
prophets for the oppressed masses.
If the conflict between capital and labor is to
find just and peaceful settlement, the churches must
help. To their credit the religious leaders OF Amer
ica-Protestant, Jewish and Cathoic-are working
increasingly for that social justice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
South-Pointing Cart

IRON 600 B. G. to 1000 A. D..
l. there is practically nothing to
say concerning the development Of
knowledge of electricity.
Men were aware of the power Of
amber to attract light objects whom
rubbed. They also knew about the
lodestone, or natural magnet, and
about the magnetic needle. But no
one connected electricity and mag
netism.
The story of the compass is in
itself an interesting one. Appar~
emily the Chinese were the first to
understand about the compass.
A legend ascribes the first COM
pass to the Emperor Ho-ang-ti, who
lived about 1884 B. G. He is credited
with having possessed a South
pointed cart"
1t was a two-wheeled cart upon
which was mounted piYoted figure
Of man with outstretched arm.
Apparently piece of lodestone or
natural magnet was attached to the
arm, the arm thus acting as a COM
pass needle.
Most authorities think that 1884
B. G. is a little early. Ho-ang-ti
was a legendary figure to whom it
was common to credit all sorts of
wonders.
Authorities, however, do think
that the Chinese understood the
properties of the lodestone as early
as 100 B. G.
There seems to be- reason to be-
lieve that many centuries elapsed
before the nations of Europe heard
of the compass.
The compass came into general
use as an aid to navigation among
European nations in the twelfth
century, A. D.
The early navigators had little
understanding of the true nature Of
the compass. That did not come
until 1900, when DR.. William Gil
bert Of London published his nlonu-
mental book, Ode Magnetic.
Gilbert introduced a new day in
the understanding of electricity
and magnetism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
%%ZZE1-xNSSSm
b1TE9eI
ANNIVERSARY
H11EH
AISNE OFFENSIVE
May Is

ON May IS, 1917, the Germans, in
~ a determined effort to secure
the initiative, launched a powerful
attack on front of two and half
miles northeast of scissors.
They attempted to break through
the French lines north and north
west of Laffaux Mill, where the
French seriously threatened the
whole German position as far north
as La Fere.
So huge were the masses Of troops
thrown by the Germans against the
French lines that at several points
the French were driven back by
sheer force of numbers, but coun-
ter-attacks Immediately organized
enabled them to regain lost ground.
The following day the Germans
hammered away at the counter
attacks, especially on the Chemin
DIES Danes. AS one correspondent
describes the situation:
THE French advance was des-
perately opposed from the first, and
it has been possible to extend it
only slightly, but the chief end has
been fully attained.
1.-The tide Of the German assault
swells up, splashes over a piece Of
trench here and there, is broken,
and in its ebb leaves terrible hui
man wreckage to mark one more
failure"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Widely Varied Diet Is Found Best

stances is associated definitely with
certain conditions Of growth, devel-
opment, and resistance to disease.
The choosing of proper diet is not
matter Of chance.
In laboratories of research, at
tenpts are being made through the
feeding of animals to determine the
relationships of the important in
gradients to each other, but all the
experiments then must be carried
over to actual feeding of children
and of adults to determine just how
these factors are concerned in the
human being.
The human being does not make
his diet out of mixture of eIemen-
tary substances; instead, he eats
foods grown by nature and which
have been found through hundreds
Of years of experience to be suitable
as part of the diet.
Were it not for the fact that ma
ture builds these food substances
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16

successfully, there would be far more
disturbance than there now is from
diet deficiencies.
For this reason, the safest advice
for any one at the present time is to
eat a widely varied diet, including
both raw and cooked quantities of
all of the common food substances.
The mineral substances are es-
sential not only for building of bone
and for replacement of degenerating
tissues, but also for stimulation of
the formed elements of the blood,
for aid in the metabolism, supplying
proper combinations leading toward
the excretiOns of undesirable sub
stances, and finally for acting to
promote nutrition generally.
Only a beginning of the necessary
knowledge concerning the actions of
minerals in the body has been Sc
cured, and with intensive research
on this subject, much more should
be learned in the coming years.