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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
100000 SHIP LAUNCHED
Matson Liner Christened at Massa-
chusetts Yards.

QUINCY. Mass. October 10 (P).-The
S. S. Mon,Sruy. second of three vessels
being built at cost of $8.000,000 each
fer The Mason Navigation Co. at the
Corporation, was launched today. Mrs.
E, Faxon Bishop Of Honolulu, wife of
director OF the SteS mship company,
christened the 63e-focs ship as 1t slid
down the ways. The Monterey draws
% feet Of water, displaces $4,000 tons,
Is an ell burner. will make bstter than
% knots and carry Tao passengers.
Her sister Snip. the Mariposa, which
Vas launched last July, viii IN into
mission in January. The Montere.;
Will not be ready for service until the
Sp:irg.
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lor Coler1dge, Sarah Siddons, George
Washington, John Adams and Abraham
Lincoln.
William A. Slade, for many years at
the head of the photographic depart
been appointed Librarian of the F'olger
Foundation. and Prof. Joseph Quincy
Adams of Cornell University Will be di-
rector of research.
1t is expected that the new institu-
ton will play an important part in the
cultural evolution of Washington as we'll
as in that of the country at large. That
Shakespeare is far from being "a wan
ing classic" is made strikingly apparent
by the fact that scores Of people every
Gay endeavor to secure admittance to
the Folger Building. The exact date of
opening has not yet. been decided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
DEBT CANCELLATION
SEEN IN HOOVER PLAN
Alabama Representative Says
Europe Does Not Intend
to Pay Obligation.

BY the Associated Press.
An assertion that President Hoover
had in reality Cancelled the war debts
by proposing the one-year moratorium
was made yesterday by Representative
Huddleston of Alabama.
The Democratic labor supporter said
the American people as whole opposed
the moratorium, which ''in reality
means cancellation of the debt" Of
about $11 600, 100000
Huddleston said it did not make any
difference whether Congress ratified the
one-year moratorium since the Euro
pean countries did not intend to pay
the money due December Is anyway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
PLAN $500, 600 FILMS.
Warner Announce Extension Pro.
ject for Future.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, October 10
CP.-J. l.. Warner, vice president in
charge of production for the Warner
Brothers-First National studios, tonight
announced immediate launching of q
production program which will put IA
companies to work in the next two
.ronths at an outlay of approximately
$2,500,0 900.
The schedule calls for from 400 L.
900 extras daily. with Approximately
140 players under contract. Seventy
pictures are to be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
The resulting effect in Great Britain
he declared, was disastrous.
cites Orienf'S Sifnafinn

Cites Orient's Situation.
Senator King also referred to the
serious effects upon international trade
with China of the gold standard pol
icy. and pointed out that if silver &C.
cupied its proper place in the monetary
systems of the world. the Orient would
purchase from the United States and
other nations, commodities of the value
OF billions Of dollars year, and that
the standard Of living OF the orientals
would be materially improved.
In view of the serious consequences
Of the present situation and the eco
nomic condition Of the world" Senator
King declared, 1T Is eminently deslr-
able that conference should be called
during this year at which all interested
bodies may be heard for the purpose
of seeking solution TO the silver prob
lem.
Eleven States hare asked the PreSi-
dent to call such a conference. Tho
American Federation of Labor and va
rious. other organizations Throughout
the United States have adopted resolu-
tons favocing an international confer
ence for. the purpose Of devising q
proper policy In relation to silver. ]
can conceive Of no valid reasons why
such a conference has not been called
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v. P. |. CANCELS CADETS
PLANNED TRIP TO GAME
Economic Conditions Given as
Reason by President, Address
ing Classmen.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLACKSBURG. Va. October 10
DR.. Julian A. Burruss, president of
V. P. l., today explained to the upper
clasSmen that present economic con-
ditions caused the board Of visitors of
the institute to refuse authorization Of
the proposed cadet corps trip to the
Tech-William and Mary game in Rich
mond next Saturday.
DR. BurruSS said that while the board
advised against students going on the
trip it did not forbid q reasonable num-
Der of individual leaves being granted
in the discretion of the administrative
council.
Leaves may be granted to memb = S
of the senior, junior and sophomore
classes upon written request from
parents, provided the students have
records OF satisfactory class work. The
classes will be conducted as usual, Dr.
Burruss said, and students granted
leaves will be held responsible for the
work missed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
Buenos Aires Warns Mobs.

BuENOS AIRES. October 10 ga
warning to the public that tear gas
may be used to dispsrse any disorderly
street gatherings was issuk1 by police
today
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Shakespeare Library Nears Completion

LGER SHRINE AVON AMONG WORLDS FINEST srRU
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
D. C.. Committee Head
Nav Be Woman

Democratic leaders of the House have decided that in the
their party controls the organization of the body Mrs
Mary Norton Representative of New Jersey will be ap
pointed chairman of the Committee the District Of Columbia
Thus the first Democrat elected to Congress would
become the first chairman of important committee
As head of the District Committee Mrs Norton would be
virtually in complete control of legislation by the House
affecting the National Capital.
Norton had valuable and effective training In the
affairs of the District Elected the House in 1924 she has
served faithfully and we'll the local committee for several
years She has famarzed herself with LOGAN conditions and
with the needs of the city.
Through regular attendance the meetings of the
tee in the past Norton knows the background Of many
which will be advanced in the coming session. She
knows and known to thousands of local residents.
The approaching session will be important one for the
District Much legislation which failed because OF the short
ness of the meeting certain to for action In
addition new conditions have arisen here during the recess
which will require Congressional consideration
District needs saunch friends with sympathetic views
on its committees House and Senate Mrs Norton has
proven that the welfare of the National Capital at
heart. ,
Service on the District Commte does little to enhance the
prestige of Congressman among his constituents but 1t does
afford an opportunity valuable and unseh service to the
Capital and the Nation,
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
Powers of Grand Jury

Legal gymnastics centerng around the District erana Jury
recently demonstrate the desiraby OF clarcanon Oh 'n
duties and functions Of that body - .:.,
Two reports of the Grand Jury excorlatng puoc
have stricken from the court records one two years
it had been made and other few weeks after It's
Both of these reports unquestionaby tended to damage
regulations of certain officials Without the sanction gwen
them seeming court records they would nave oen
matter which could not have been published except under pain
of damages .4 =. 4Ao
But the reports were officially returned and accepted oy n
courts Their contents published and circulated
Legally the reports longer exist The damage however
has been done It was done within few minutes after the
documents were submitted to the courts
Presumably the reports were legal That being so
they should been received by the court ana
even for time the records Erasure OF the ooC
en can not wipe out the harshps which they have caused
The law and inerpretave rulings seemingly leave the Grand
Jury with no other powers than to ndict or ignore
body apparently cannot in this jurisdiction on
matters coming to its attention This being true the people
are deprived Of powerful weapon which heretofore has
welded against faithess public servants and wncn IN a
administration of the government
The Washington times., 1931-11-03

The report and recommenda-
tions of the Presidents Unen1-
ployment Relief Committee is
not encouraging or intelligently
constructive, as we think, in
solving the problem of the six
to seven million breadwinners
out of work. It is commonly
observed that one of the reasons
that men with jobs are not
spending normally is that they
are in the shadow of a great
fear that their jobs or present
wages are insecure.
The proposal of the Presi-
dents committee that men now
having jobs shall be given only
part-time work to make way
for others who are on the
streets can only intensity that
fear and persuade them all the
more to economize in their ex-
penditures against the possible
day when their earnings will be
cut in two.
The fact that this plan for
depriving men in jobs of half
their time and half their wages
comes from the committee of
the President of the United
States will seem to them all the
more alarming.
This plan does not contem-
plate the addition of one cent
in wages to the workers of
America; and, therefore, does
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
A New Racket

The counterfeit countereer has made his appearance
Things have to such pass that
feiter no longer ply his trade without the interference Of
a fake.
The racket developed in Chicago The
feiter goes into store makes small purchase hands
$50 bill and walks out with the change
He followed by who shows faxed Secret Service
credentials demands the bill from the tradesman explains
that the first is a counterfeiter.
It is brandnew type of swnde and is playing havoc with
the merchants of the Windy City,
Not only the merchants suffering Even the men, who
for have made living by passing spurious bills
having hard time The honest counterfeter however
a ray Of hope in the new racket
With the swindle in full swing the time may whey
tradesmen will refuse obviously counter
feited bill Secret Service agent the ground that he
Just another fake.
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
President Can Cut
The Red Tape

President Can Cut
The Red Tape
The Presidents committee
complains that much public
work has been authorized and
appropriations made to meet it,
but that red tape and legalities
are holding it up. The cutting
of the red tape can be done by
the President, and if it is not
cut. his is the responsibility.
II congressional action is re-
quired, that is another reason
the President should have
called Congress in extra session
to the end that all this work ap-
propriated for could be under
way now that winter has come.
But for the petty partisan op-
position Of this and the preced-
ing Administration to the Wag-
ner planning bill, held up by Ad-
m1n1stration opposition for
AAAOAO OAAOA4 VWO yCd4SS we WOu4U
be past the red tape now.
But all the work authorized
now by the Federal Government
is absurdly insufficient. If the
Administration thinks it reason
able to take over billions of dol
lars in the debts of other ma
tionS, it should find nothing un-
reasonable in using a few bill
lions of American money ON
public works to furnish work
and wages for Americans.
But the multiplying evidence
leaves no further doubt as to
the plans made in the Hoover
Laval conversations. The state
ment issued on just what was
planned and done was not en-
tirely frank. On top of the ar
ticle by Mr.. Lamont, we now
have stories, inspired by, the
Administration circles, which
tell the tale. We are informed
that the Administration will not
take the initiative" in the mat
ter of the scaling down or can
collation. of the foreign debts;
that if other nations make the
proposition the President win
pass it on to Congress.
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson,

again in their chilly blood and
spunk in their hurt hearts.
ONE GOOD SMOKER, TO
ANY TROUBLED PERSON, IS
WORTH A TON OF NOBLE
THINKING
Wonder where we got the
notion that it was a virtue to
go around thinking and acting
like a mustard poultice? From
those old blights, the Puritans,
I suppose who fitted men
for heaven by making a hell of
life. Yet all the while, the
very earth they trod upon, gave
them the ha-ha!
God could have made that
earth all gray and drab and
soggy with Serious Purpose.
But He didn't. He supplied
plenty of Serious Purpose, to be
sure, but He masked it in a
carnival of color and light and
song.
Swell way to get a job done!
I wish I could have done my
job that way. How much hap
pier I could have made my
home when we were poor. How
much sweetier I could have
made life for my gallant, suf-
fering lad. IF I HAD ONLY
LAUGHED A LITTLE MORE. E.
JUST KIDDED LIFE
Strange, how seldom mothers
think of the duty of laughter.
They'll tackle every other duty
suffer agonies - make the
most heroic sacrifices yet
forget the greatest duty of all
FORGET TO LAUGH. Yet
there's nothing on earth that
a home needs as much as a
laugh.
The Gay Giggler
If I could do it all over
again
I'd swap all the much-adver-
tised virtues of courage and
patience and resignation and
unselfishness for THE TALENT
OF GAIETY. Yes, bigolly, I'd
even swap the prayers. And I
bet, at that, I'd get better re-
suits with my smokers than with
a million sermons
For you can't tell me that
God hasn't more use for a gal
lant giggle than for a prim
prayer else why did ne make
the bobolinks and butterflies?
Copyright, 1881, King Features
syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
Traffic Toll Mounts

The twins Carelessness and Speed toll of eleven
lives in automobile accidents Washington streets in octo
ber, high mark for this year.
Despite all of the efforts of safety organizations and the
authorities traffic sacrifices continue to mount.
We paying heavily perhaps too heavily for the time
which the automobile Each day rules and
regulations piled in effort to curb the growing list
of fatalities.
But all of the rules and all Of the regulations will not drive
out of the mind that overwhelming clip
minute off the time required get from place
place Nor will these rules drive from the pedestrians mind
the careesness which Of the principal of
accidents
the traffic death is to be eliminated from the vital
statistics Of the city it will be eliminated only through
realization by both motorists and pedestrians Of horrible
results Of carelessness and speed.
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
Real Sacrifice Demanded

The District Commissioners spreading their appropria
on for per diem workers pretty thin effort to keen
larger number than usual on the pay roll during the winter
Even if they have spread thin that instead of perform
ing the good service which they believe they are rendering
they will in the end have promoted suffering question
Under their program the Commissioners be able to give
parme employment to 1000 instead of the usual 800
But under the pan the earnings working
will be between $40 and SIS weekly. Without the new
wage
Instead of furoughng 400 of the 1900 now working on the
per diem basis the Commissioners will be able hire an
additional AGO.
While 800 who would otherwise be out Of employment will
have chance to small wage another 800 will have
sacrifice half Of their earnings
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
A Welcome Visitor

That imposing and mighty bird of peace, the u 3 D.
Akron has visited Washington and has inspired in residents
Of the city dire thoughts of the consequences wcn
The world largest dgble floated azy over the city
while those aboard held genial conversation by RADIO Win
officials the ground . 49,.
Blunt of nose and big of body the huge ship Of the skies
represents the work in ghter-thanar engineering EN-
These advancements devoted to the pursuits OF
peace But in few brief moments that ship could be con-
verted into the most deadly weapon in the world
which on lust such cruise Washington could
wipe out the Capital and scatter government.
It is well that this Akron built by and for America
and there is comfort the thought that should it become
bird its only purpose would be to defend the United
States against aggressors
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
TIMES TEST

Fill each blank:
/. A hand of cards all of the
same suit is called
2. An inch is the same length
as -- Centimeters.
3. A mine is a
cavity or passage.
4. The soldiers were trained
at Valley Forge by
5. was the chief
American song of the Revo-
luton.
6. A group of set
tiers founded the City Of Cleve-
land.
z. "The fruit falls
first" Shakespeare.
8. 1.-THE Pit and the Pendu-
lum" was written by
9. Juliet in Romeo and
Juliet" killed herself with -.
10. The best known work Of
--- is THE Ancient
Mariner"
Match correctly:
II. For many are called but
few are chosen
Beaumont and Fletcher
IL. Our echoes roll from soul
to soul
And grow forever and forever
Bible
13. The paths of glory lead
but to the grave
Shakespeare
ID. The glass of fashion and
the mold of form
Tennyson
Is. What's one mans poison,
signor, is another's meat or
drink
Gray
GAnswers ON Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
Relief Must Begin at Home! = By Claude G. Bower

that the jobless workers, re-
duced to beggary by the stupid,
uneconomic, and selfish poll
cies of Government, shall be
cared for-by their fellow
victims.
The Administration has said
that the trouble with the
farmer is over-production; that
he should produce less that he
may get more; and, now, it is
proposed that he shall increase
his production by increasing the
man power on his farm.
It certainly is not suggested
that the farmers take over the
housing and feeding of the in
dustrial workers out of jobs as
a matter of charity. There are
enough agricultural laborers
out of jobs without showing the
industrial workers on the farmer.
If we are not to come ulti-
mately to a dole, industry must
find a way, through unemploy-
ment insurance, to take care of
the unemployed industrial
workers; or Government will
have to do it.
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
"COnSciientiOuS JObleSS"

Owen D. Young author of the Young pan who chairman
President Hoovers unemployment commission discussing
conditions that confront and of the type he de-
scribes conscientious idle emphasizes the difficulty OF
afforing relief this class which his Investigations reveal to
be in the greatest need and also the most deserving
solely because Of economic
conditions remarks Mr. Young represent the most deserving
element in wOrk because they are highly employ
their distress to circumstances which they
exercise control whatever Here Is group OF Americans
plight They the who
quire especial
will IN breadInes i'm kitchens
they driven extremity by
them suffering in silence
poverty Such they have to be sought
out and given succOr"
There remains the consoing reflection that when business
does recover the highly empoyabe division will be first to
benefit Pride weathering the crisis under their power
ia greater asset to most of than relief from temporary
distress As to the Others discrimination is impossible The
hungry and homeless must be fed and housed
The Washington times., 1931-11-03

If a miracle could happen,
and l could have any talent
I wished, I'd ask to be made
gay. For I've come to think
that gaiety is perhaps the
wisest and finest and most
useful habit that a human
being can possess.
I have never been gay. And
that isn't simply because 7
have had a hard life. Often
those with the very hardest
lives are the gayest. There
was Stevenson, dying of tuber-
culosis, cut off from that
lovely, laughing world which
he held so dear-yet, propped
on pillows, writing gay nur-
sery jingles. gorgeous pirate
tales - writing even Jolly
friendly prayers to God.
More Than Brave
Brave-so brave! But more
than that. He had the knack
of seeing life with wisely merry
eyes, of touching its problems
with a light and buoyant
heart. He had the talent of
gaiety. I wish I might have
had it. But I've taken life
very seriously. Worse yet
I've prided myself on taking
it seriously and have been &C.
tually snooty to gay people,
simply because they refused to
drag their ears when I was
dragging mine! But what a
silly thing to pride oneself
upon! AS if the serious things
in life weren't hard enough to
hear, without our being serious
while bearing them!
What good have I ever done
by being serious?
Not a particle, as far as I
can see.
The troubled people I have
wanted to help they al
ready knew they were in
trouble they didn't need
my long face to inform them
of the fact. And they were
standing enough already with
out my adding my suffering
soul to the general gloom.
What they needed was some
thing light and lively :.
somebody sassy enough to
thumb her nose at fate and
dare the old meanie to do her
darndest. Gaiety that was
what they needed, to put fire
The Washington times., 1931-11-03

jobless from the breadlines of
the cities to the farms to work
for bed and board is unwork-
able, and, in principle, unthink-
able.
Who are the people on whom
the Presidents committee would
billet these workers, dispossessed
of jobs? They are the farmers
who are bankrupt!
Organized society, acting
through Government, has ruined
the farmers by special privilege
legislation operating against
them; and, now, it is proposed
The Washington times., 1931-11-03
Europe Drinks
We Pay

Eurone wants us to cancel the war debts Wall Street wants
us to cancel the debts and apparently the White House
wants us REDUCE the debts which means the
thing.
The latest Washington anyway is the strong hint that
the debts must be cut down again the point Europe
can pay"
We have already debts down six billion dollars.
Let's have the balance sheet therefore before
are ampeded into cutting them down wpng them out
altogether.
The debts eleven billion dollars payable
within go years. at interest rates low fraction
Iof per cent
Mr. W. W. Cumberland for several years the economic ad
wiser Department has figured out just how much
of burden these debts the individual European
Basing his conclusions debt payments already made he
says:
"Paynents by Great Britain thus far amount to ONE
CENT PER PERSON PER DAY.
"Payments BY Germany equal TWO CENTS PER
at is not unreasonable to ask each German
rifice the equivalent of ONE BEER PER DAY in order
to fulfill Gern10nys obligations for Englishn,an
to deprive himself Of A TRIP no THE MOVIES ONCE
MONTH in order to n.aintain the integrity of British
fragments made to the States in 1s29-3O amounted
to only 2h per cent of the budgets Of the debtor
"They .Verc only 0NE-EIGHTH of vhat the debtors
spending for ornaments.
"The United States therefore, does not need to
make any apology for collecting its War debts"
This statement of fact hardly clic with the sad stories
of Europe pedded here by visiting propagands abroad
Ior internationally minded bankers at home.
And here is another statement of fact by another dsn
guished economist Mr. Garet Garrett that also fails to ccA
with the propaganda from Europe and Wall Street
In the Saturday Evening Post date Mr. Garrett
writes:
"Anyone whO kneW Europe before the and
knows her uUH not hesitate say that in all the
principal countries people BETTER CLOTHED,
BETTER HOUSED, BETTER FED than eUer before.
"American loans to Germany haUe enabled her pay
reparatiOns
"Out of reparations from Germany the Others haze
made their annual debt payments the
Government
"ANYTHLNG WE GOT BACK FROM EUROPE
WAS OUR OWN MONEY, THE WORSE FOR WEAR,
AND VERY LITTLE OF THAT"
Facts don't bear out the cancellation propaganda.
Facts show that Europe pay those eleven billion dollars
in the next 60 years without hardship
Facts PROVE Short that the American taxpayer merely
being asked to pay again for Europe's party.
Maybe the taxpayer is willing. already bought the
drinks for Europe to speak, cost of billion dollars
Ito himself.
he wants buy eleven billion dollars worth more for his
debtors, that is his business.
However, doubt he will continue to call for the check
much longer.
With prohibition beer 25 cents glass here he not likely
Not even though be bought pint in
unhappy countries the Atlantic.