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The Washington times., 1931-04-28
By FRANK F. LOOMS

It is only in recent years that
life insurance companies have
found it greatly to their advan'
tage to thoroughly train sales
men, giving them complete knowl'
edge Of every form Of life inSur.
ance contract written. This
thorough understanding is essen
tial today to the successful life
underwater.
Seldom are two mems circum'
stances alike, and, after inter
viewing a client, the trained life
insurance salesman is capable OF
giving expert advice and outlin
ing an insurance program to
meet the particular needs and
circumstances.
Gov. Franklin Roosevelt Of New
York, addressing recently the life
underwriters of New York city,
predicted the time will come
when the public will insist that
persons have no more right to
enter the insurance business than
to practice medicine, law or other
professions without proper train.
ing and qualifications.
Careful Study Needed
It is only the insurance man
who has studied his work who
makes the success to which he
aspires, and who is qualified and
competent to render the service
to his policyholders that they
are entitled to.
The business Of life insurance
is one of the few that does not
languish in dull times. No bust
ness in the United States today
offers the future the life insur.
ance business does, and the best
time to enter the field is when
you are young.
Nearly all the large life COM
panies conduct training schools
for beginners, and with this
training, followed by experience
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
Phone QUARTER
INCOME GAINS

Operating revenues Of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company in March were
$766,951, the report to the Pub-
lie Utilities Commission shows.
Operating income after deducting
taxes and uncollectible was $780,
722.
Operating revenues for the
three months ended March 81
were $2,264,510, compared with
$2,126,572 for the same period
last year. Operating income for
the quarter after deducting taxes
and uncollectible was $528,411,
compared with $402,229 for the
first quarter Of 1880.
Balance net income for the
quarter was $419,60S, compared
with $311,901 for last year.
March taxes were $56, 1877, an
increase of $9,555 over the same
month last year. Taxes for the
quarter were $163,69 an in
crease of $25,006 over the same
period last year.
Capital expenditures for new
plant and equipment in the Dis
trict Of Columbia for the three
months were $529,213. Gross re-
'tirements for the period were
$277,340, making net additions
$251, 1878.
Washington was served by 170,-
921 telephones on March 81, 2,449
having been added to the system
since January 1. Patrons made
100000 calls in March which
was an increase of is per cent
over the number made the same
month last year.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, April % U.N.s).--Hogs--
Receipts, 21,OOO; market to 10 cents
lower. Top. $3.50: bulk $S'16 S1,4O; - .;
weight, $7@75O: lightweight, $3.50 @
1886; light lights, $7.35 @7.50; packing
sows. $6.10@6.1O: pigs. S.65@7.SS; hold
overs, 5000. ooo .. ,...dv
Beef steers-Good and choice, 1915 @
9.75; common and medium, $3.50 @S;
yearlinEs, 5000. Butcher cattle
Heifers, $5@s; cows. $3.50 O@S.25; bulls
$3.5O@6: calves, $S@s; feeder steers,
stocker cows and heifers, $4.5OQ7.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000; market weak
to 25 cents lower. Medium and choice
lambs. $s@S.S5; culls and common
and choice ewes, $1@3.75; feeder lambs
$750@S.50.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
UNION CARBIDE NET

Union Carbide and Carbon Cor"
poration and subsidiaries report
for quarter ended March 81, 1881.
net income of $4,613,670 after
taxes, depreciation, interest, pre-
ferred dividends of subsidiaries,
ETC., equivalent to 81 cents q
share on 9,OOO,743 nopar shares
Of stock. This compares with
$6,472,783, or 72 cents a share,
on $685. 1903 shares in the first
quarter of 1880.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
Schi0UOne Observes
Rirthd0u Number 81

joseph Schiavone, president Of
the International exchange e
Bank, has just celebrated his
50th birthday.
He started his second half
century by inaugurating an am
bilious program of expansion for
the institution he heads.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
Church Federation
PQyS Banker Honor
Fractions represent SgndS
IOII meIts IOI 1-S2

Charles E. Howe, treasurer of
the American Security and Trust
Company, has been elected treas
urer of the Washington Fedora
tion of Churches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
China Would Revive
Virtues of Ancestors

SHANGHAI-Virtues such as loyalty,
filial piety. fidelity and benevolence.
-honored in China. are to be re-
vived If the Marking government has
ANYTHING to say on the matter. The
government, however, is convinced that
these characteristics have steadily been
losing their hold on the people because
of and since the influx OF western
civilization.
The legislative branch of the govern
ment. whose duty it is to codlfy the new
laws, has produced one of its own pro-
viding that the public henceforth should
recognize virtue when 1t sees 1t.
The Is articles Of the new Jaw pro-
vide that tablets or medals OF honor
shall be conferred upon persons under
either of the two following categories:
Those who are distinguished for moral
eminence through the practice OF the
virtues of loyalty. filial piety benevo-
lence, love, faithfulness, fidelity ana
peace.
Those who either promote and spon-
sor or make substantial financial con-
tributions to such institutions as public
schools, philanthropic societies ana
other enterprises devoted to the promo
ton Of public welfare.
thorities are to investigate any such
instances calling for public commenda-
ton.
The new law was sponsored by Pres
ident Chang Kai-Shek, who has often
called upon the people to return TO the
honorable virtues of their ancestors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
Hawaii Is Maintaining
Large Tourist Business

HONOLULU. = Hawaiis success In
maintaining a large tourist business
when many other tourist resorts abroad
have shown tremendous declines in pat
ronage has determined the Hawaii Tour
ist Bureau to continue and somewhat
enlarge its national advertising cam
paign.
Hawaii was one of the first places in
the United States to adopt community
advertising" and perhaps the only tour
list resort which has been advertising
without interruption Except during the
World War; for more than 20 years.
Its average expenditure for advertising
in national media exceeds 100000, and
to this must be added the very large
advertising appropriations OF steamship
companies, hotels and other corpora
lions interested in attracting visitors to
Hawaii.
One result OF this advertising has
been to make Hawaii a Summer as well
as a Winter resort, and the month of
July has proved one Of the peak"
months of the last 10 years In point Of
tourist arrivals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

HELSINKI.-A new nauonalism has
changed the name of Finland to Suomi,
which is Finnish and not Swedish.
tossed Helsingfors and other cities into
the discard and given Finnish the pref
erence as the national language of the
country.
The first Firms crossed the Gulf of
Esthonia in the first century CT this
era, SWedeS came in the Viking age
and in 1854 started the crusades which
gave them possession of the country.
Russia got it in 1903 and in 1918 the
Firms wrested their independence
from the Bolsheviks. Sweden declined
to help, which, with that Kingdoms
claim to the Aaland Islands did not
increase Suomi's love for things Swed-
ish. Only the most virile race could
survive $50 years of alien rule, often
bloody and oppressive. never thoroughly
conquered as the cars realized, and
emerge with its nationalism intact.
The race shows in the change which
has come over the country since 1t
took its place in the comfy of nations
1t has proSpered, and. except for 1928
and 1929. due to poor harvest and
low lumber prices. its trade balance
has been favorable. Helsingfors, or
Helsinki, is transformed with new
buildings an immense government
palace. new hotels and the largest de-
partment store north of Berlin. AS far
as hotels are concerned. the city is
overbuilt several years ahead of its
needs, with consequent disaster for
those with speculative backing.
Port on Arctic Ocean.
The country now has a port on the
Arctic Ocean. where the gulf stream
sweeps around the northern end of
the Scandinavian peninsula. ice free
when ports hundreds of miles farther
south arc closed. The new port was the
little fishing village Of Petsamo, in the
district of the same name. on a little
bay off Varanger ford. 1t is in Lap
land in the narrow strip of Finnish SOIL
in one place only 10 miles wide. which
separates Norway from the Soviet union
The cost of the highway from the rail-
road at Rovanieni through Sodankya
To the Arctic port was $1,250,000, and
the construction required several years
Suomi's north with its promise of nickel
silver, coal, diamonds and other min
erals may be what Alaska is to the
United States.
Buffer Against Soviet.
Suomi, like Poland, is looked upon
by other countries Of Europe as buffer
against possible Soviet advance west
ward. Finland always has been the
boundary for the Slavic hordes and
now that its own nationality must be
preserved, opposition to Soviet influence
or Communist ideas is particularly in
tense. Treat 'em rough" is habit
OF the Finn with his ever ready
''puukko". or little knife, and the vigor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
Society to Promote
France-U. S. Amity

PARIS.-For the purpose CT further
ing Franco-American relations, Mile.
Andree de Cuers has just founded in
Paris society which will group the
descendants of the 10000 French SOL
oilers who fought in the American War
of Independence under Gen. Lafayette.
This Iscciety is called LES Compag-
mons de Lafayette" The founder is the
great granddaughter of one of Lafay-
cites officers She was war nurse
at the sge of 10.
Asked how she expected to find and
group the descendants of Lafayette's
soldiers, she answered, THE war min
istry recently published a full list Ct
the m mbers of tie eXpeditionary corps
which fought in the United States,
numbering more than 10000. This list
will be used to trace the soldiers de-
scendants, meny of whom We have al
ready located"
She added that memb-rs of the ssso-
ciaticn plan to visit the United States
soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

" HE days Of important interna-
tional diplomatic negotiations by
means Of sending formal notes
Il through duly accredited AM
basSadors are as much a thing
Of the past as the covered wagon or the
horse drawn street car. The present.
day diplomatic negotiations are taking
more and more the form of real talks
from man to man, conversations where
the human element will play prepon-
derant role.
This new diplomatic method was ex-
perimented first in 1929, when British
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
came to Washington to talk to Presi-
dent Hoover personally about the in
tricate naval situation, which had
caused so much bad feeling between
Great Britain and the United States.
What formal international conferences
and diplomatic notes had not been able
to do in almost two years, the President
and the British prime minister settled
within less than a week. When the
British and the American delegates met
in London formally in January, 1880,
they had nothing else to do but put into
legal shape the principles agreed upon
by the two leaders a few months
earlier
Based on the success of this expert
ment, the President suggested last jan
uary to Secretary of State Henry L.
Stimson that he go to Europe and
talk personally with the prime ministers
of the leading European countries re-
garding the best means toward achiev-
ing an understanding which would
make the coming general disarmament
conference a probable success. Here the
difficulties will be much greater than
at the London Naval Conference. More
nations with greater political and racial
differences are going to meet next year
at Geneva and the President felt that
unless some sort of personal friendly
contact were established between these
men it would be difficult to iron out
all their differences in the formal at
mosphere of an international con-
ference.
Stimson Gets Results.
Our own role at that conference from
the actual point Of view of disarn1a-
ment is not very great, Our Army Is
one Of the smallest in the world and
the position of the Navy has been tenn
porarily settled by the London naval
pact. =,
But our role as a link of good will
among the European nations is great.
due to our prestige in the world.
Consequently, Secretary Stimson set
upon his errand to get the Europeans
together early in July, and the result
Of his two months trip has fully justl-
fed the wisdom of the policy that moth
ing but personal contacts can hope to
solve the complicated problems the
world is confronted with at the present
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tary; Pierre Laval. Julius Curtius
Heinrich Bruening. Ramsay MacDon-
aid and Mr. Stimson met one another
daily during the trying days of the
German crisis and their mutual good
will and friendly relations helped more
than the public imagines to settle sat
isfactorily the question OF financial
assistance to Germany.
In international conferences 1t is
very important to avoid troubles and
delays. Here again personal contact
is all-important. The London Finan-
cial Conference might have gone on
the rocks had it not been for the per-
sonal interest of the individual dele
gates who ironed out most OF the diff
ficulties in private conversations. Even
in the ponderouS official atmosphere
of conference a little touch Of humor
can save a difficult situation, provided
the men know and understand each
other.
During the difficult negotiations at
the London Financial Conference Sec
rotary Stimson had to answer a ques-
ton he had rather left unanswered.
When the question was put to him he
was putting heavily at one Of those
small cigars Secretary Of the Treasury
Andrew w. Mellon has made specially
for himself.
Mr.. Stimson thought for minute,
then replied:
Gentlemen, I have been promoted
to be financial expert only during
although I am smoking one OF Mr.
Melons own cigars, I am afraid that
I cannot consider myself sufficiently
qualified to discuss this complicated
financial matter yet"
Roar of Laughter Follows.
As is customary at international con-
ferences, the Secretary's statement was
translated into French. German and
Italian by important looking interpre-
ters, who put in the most official and
literary French, German and Italian
the Secretary's joke. A roar Of laugh
ter followed and nobody insisted on
having a definite answer from the
American official delegate.
The great importance of the London
financial conference is not only that
Germany has regained confidence in
herself and is now seriously striving to
seek her salvation In her own capacity
to produce and work, but that 1t has
also started series Of bilateral con-
| ferences between groups of powers. tt
come to an understanding about the
disarmament question.
France and Italy Germany and
France. Germany and Italy and some
of the minor groups today are having d
| series of important private converse
lions. which, it Is hoped here, will lead
| to a general understanding among the
rival nations Of Europe. In spite OF
what is said publicly in Europe. al
the European nations are seriously wor-
ried about what may happen in theil
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Finland's Name Is Changed to Suomi
AS Nation Prospers Under New Rule

Gus action of the Lappo movement
actuated by LutheraniSm as we'll as
politics, has driven Communist under
cover. at least for the time being.
About 100000, or 80 per cent of the
population of the country. Is engaged
in agriculture and some 175,oc0 in in
dustrial occupations. Suomi is a pleas
ant country with lakes and wooded re-
sorts in Summer and a sociable, cheer
full people, racially short in stature,
with bright china blue eyes and f1axen
hair.
lCopyrisht. 1917,
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Italian Families Live
In Congested Homes

ROME-Thirty-e people, all be-
longing to one family and living in one
house is the Italian record for congestion
of population. according to latest census
statistics. The Poggi family. which lives
in the high Alps, consists Of eight sons
who have married. The entire family
lives in a farmhouse of rather modest
proportions and earns its living from the
soil. In Italian cities there are tene-
ment buildings containing hundreds Of
people, cremped together at the rate
of 10 or IL people to the room, but in
no case does any one family contain
as many as SO members. At the same
time families of Is or 20 members are
common, and families of the lower
classes consider it the thing to do to
have eight or ten children, no matter
what their joint incomes may be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
ENT CONFUSION.

not be saved from dcstruction-the
ideals of peace and international under
standing. Faith in Europe's will to live
is therefore implicit in my faith in the
ultimate victory Of democracy.
The idea of Political democracy is at
present strongly opposed and even de-
rided in many quarters in Germany,
and particularly by the new generation,
severely tried by the war and the subse-
quent economic crisis. Youths antago-
nism toward the present. democratic
system Of government springs from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

Mr.. Stimson met in Europe most of
the leading statesmen who are going
to play a leading role next year at
Geneva and indirectly got them to meet
each other in friendly frame OF mind.
He met most of them officially and
then had private heart-to- heart talks
which showed him that even the men
most feared for their reactionary ideas
and nationalistic ambitions were just
ordinary human beings enjoying good
joke and a good cigar and were as
much concerned about the future OF
the world as any ordinary citizen is
distress.
Premier Benito Mussolini, whom the
Secretary of State met for the first
time this Summer, likes, of course, Of
fetal brilliancy and pomp. He is
great Snowman, who likes to impress
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poverty and widespread economic hope
lessness. This poverty and horelessness
is exploited by demagogues, m:n who
are far more interested in a reversion
to unsettled conditions than in Ger
many's future, but who are capable of
endowing their political prcpag
among the new generation with the
false glamour of revolutionary move
ment directed toward the future.
The general crisis in which our civil
ization has landed hes left the new
CONTINUED on Fourth Fage)
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the public But in the quiet atmos-
phere of his private study he is just
as human as any other ordinary citi-
zen. He is cordial pleasant and COM
municative, once the formalities of an
official meeting are over.
Pierre Laval French premier. Is a
new man whom very few people in the
international world know. He Is the
son of humble parents and consequent
ly somewhat shy. He met the Ameri-
can Secretary of State with great cor
diality and the relations between the
two men became so friendly within the
space of a few days Mr.. Stimson spent
in Paris that he allowed the Secretary
to convince him Of the necessity Of his
going to the London financial confer
ence after he had virtually decided
not to.
Dino Grand, italian foreign secre-
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leveling down. the supremacy Of the
masses, end the tyranny Of standards
But that can never apply to Europe,
which has always appreciated indi-
vidualism and individual values.
In declaring my fifth in democracy
have in mind a democracy which COR
responds most closely to the Euro pean
conception of the State end to the
political consciousness which has bsen
prevailing among the nations for long
time. Moreover, democracy embodies
those ideals without which Europe cam
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countries if the disarmament question is
not solved.
The German crisis has opened their
eyes.
The principal European statesmen are
now meeting each other regularly and
are making earnest endeavors to re-
solve their principal difficulties.
(Copyright 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

Of faith In democratic government.
Democracy is. OF course, a wide and
variously interpreted conception, and
all opposition to the democratic prin-
ciple would be comprehensive If it
meant nothing more than a general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
BY THOMAS MANN.

n Y opinion as to the political fu-
~ ture Of Europe-that Is to say,
VI the dominant political princi-
' Il pie of Europe of tomorrow
may be eXpre ssed by an svowal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

IT. He collapse of the German.
Austrian tariff union project,
which is the outstanding cir
i cumstance of the recent Geneva
session. marks the end of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-01-22
LADIES NIGHT OBSERVED
BY LOCAL ROTARY CLUB
Rev. ''Dick" Aspinall Was Chief
Speaker at The Dinner

The Oakland Rotary Club celebrat-
ed Ladies' Night at the William
James Hotel last Friday evening, the
program, which was arranged by Wal
ter w. Dawson, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, being a well
thought out and proving an interest
ing bit of work.
E. R. Jones presided following a
few remarks by President Charles w.
Ream. The program included group
singing, vocal solos by Mr.. C. B.
Kendall, of Terra Alta, readings by
Miss Elaine Boughner, finished ar
fist, of Confluence, Pa, and an ad-
dress by Rev. "Dick" Aspinall, for
mer Governor of Rotary in the West
Virginia District, and who is now
connected with the West Virginia
University as a publicity man.
Mr.. Aspinalps address was mas
terpiece of witticisms and philoso-
ply, his SUBJECT being the philosophy
of Socrates, the Athenian pagan and
wise man of his day, from whose
teachings, the SPEAKER declared, phil
osophy and that good fellowship ex-
listing between man and man had its
foundation.
The dinner was enjoyed by more
than sixty men and women, the favors
for the ladies being small bouquets
of rose buds and sweet peas, while the
men received carnations from the
Weber gardens. A drawing for prizes
was participated in by the ladies,
which created a lot of interest and
entertainment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-01-22
Ministerial Association Holds Its
Monthly Meeting

Ten ministers were present at the
meeting of the Mountain Top Minis
ters' association last Monday morn
ing. Rev. W. L. Disc, vice-president,
was in charge in the absence of Rev.
David C. Trimble, president.
The paper for the day, "Systematiz-
ing the Minister'S Work." was read
by Rev. Bernard Gibbs, of Terra
Alta. All joined in discussing the
paper after its presentation.
Decision to meet the third Monday
morning of each month, at 1880
o'clock, in the Masonic club room on
the third floor of the First National
Bank building. The February meet
ing will be held February 16, and will
be a lenten discussion. The speaker
is to be chosen by the executive COM
mittee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-01-22
Fifty Present at Monthly Meet
ing of Brotherhood

About fifty were present at the
regular monthly meeting of st.
Marks Brotherhood last Tuesday eve
ming. Miss Jane Robinson, accom-
panied by her father, DR.. J. G. Robin
SON, sang beautiful solo. The pro-
gram was in the form of round
table discussion of the history and
problems of the church, and H. c.
Sincell, T. C. Bittinger, Prof, Erwin
Smith, T. C. limbaugh, Bert WEIGH,
and Wellington Yutzy gave short
talks.
It was decided to hold the annual
Turkey supper on the evening of
February IL, Lincoln's birthday.
Seventy-five cents will be charged.
After the program the members of
the Brotherhood went to the Oakland
Model Bakery where Henry Lauer
had prepared an oyster roast.
The next meeting will be held Tues
day, February II, and will be in
charge of Ralph Smouse, D. E. Oren-
dorf, Clayton Winters, Bert Welch,
and Bud Winters.