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RUGS MADE FROM OLD RUGS OR WOOL
en- materials; plain or al!-oyer patterns;
ate or Fall delivery. SOUTHERN RUG co.
Phnne North 2442
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ABSOLUTELY NO CASH
REQUIRED FOR HOME IMPROVEMENTS.
YOUR HOME SHOULD CONE FIRST
it the, very foundation of your life
1t pays to keep it in good condition. and
remembei-General Contracting gives you
the best Job at the lowest possible cost.
branches:
PAINTING. PAPERINd. PLUMBING. CAR
PENTERING, ELECTRIC WIRING, ROOF
ING. CEMENT WORK. GARAGES. Wealth
ER-STRIpPIEG. etc. Try our easy payment
The GENERAL CONTRACTING co.
921 New York Ave. NV Dist 5Oa2
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ALL DRESSES AND LADIES COATS
cleaned. 81; mems suits and overcoatS. Use.
HowardS Odorless Cleaners. Stores all over
town. KaSh and KarrY
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UNUSUAL DECORATIVE OIL PANELS
masterpieces OF landscape art: suitable for
homes or spacious apartments will sacri-
nee. Call Potomac 1901 for appointment. :
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NURSE WILL, ACCOMMODATE nIvALIDssS
and aged people; lovely home; best care; 500
nor Wis A353
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PRIVATE SCHOOL OPENS SUMNER ST.
pervised play, spacious playground 10th st;
games, dancing. ages 3 to To- transport a.
ton. Columbia 1896.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

BEAUTY SHOP, on busy thoroughfare NV;
beautifully equipped; very reasonable rent;
will sell for 5000 cash. Address Box 132-M,
Star once
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WOMAN, colored. wants morning work or
cook dinners; references Adams 1878. 23Oc
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DOGS, PETS, ETC.

GERMAN POLICE PUPPTES-Three. femal
3 thorouRhbred; pedigreed. North II
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ELECTRIC WIRING AND FIXTURES--Six
sUaranteed. Get our estimate; save time and
money Modern Electric Store. Showroom
once and Shop, GIG Pa. ave sc. LINCOLN
O288 open 100 IN Close pm. ~
ELECTRIC WIRING AND FIXTURES. six
rooms, two halls, bath, complete $50, guar
anteed When good wiring can be done Tor
less I will do it. Get my estimate: save
time and money. H. NJ. CARPENTER, North
nBS5 10
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WOMAN wants days work or part-time
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sITUATIoN-DoMEsTIC.

WOMAN coiored, wants laundry to take
home; reasonable prices. Atlantic 5o27: g
WOMAN wishes general housework or part
time work. Phone Adams f0O4-W,
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CHILDREN-WELL OR CONvALESCENT;
under s. TO care for on farm mother reg.
nurse Phone Ashton l32-F-3l.
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| FURNITURE sPECIALS-5-pIece fber sun
| elders and swings. fiber and felt base rugs,
retrigerstors and top icers, clothes hamp-
beds, springs and mattresses, bressfaSt and
dinettc sets. odd dressers and chests. We
are not only out OF the high rent district.
Better still-we have no rent to pay at all.
II enables us TO sell for less. Liberal terms.
New BARGAIN House. 2004 l4th st. NV. Open
evenings North 3942
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WANTED-BABIES FOR SUMMER: REA-
eonable keep; Christian foster mother; short
distance out: nice home Lincoln oiLI-1.-
YOUNG WOMAN OF REFINEMENT AND
experience desires position as companion and
nurse 10 invalid; reference. Ga. 277l.
DRESSMAKING. REMODELING. ALTERING;
o. work on short notice: prices satisfactory;
perfect TT and workmanship Dec. 1882.
&ANTED-REFINED GIRL TO SHARE
fvo-room apt. with another; furnish own
apt: reasonable. Pot. 900. Apt. SPA
WILL BOARD MOTHER AND LITTLE GIRL;
viii care for child while mother works.
Cleveland 5666.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
Washington Fashions
BY Wilma La Vile

1t is interesting to watch
the evolution of the cape.
Every time we hear Of a new
cape coat, we wonder what the
cape is up to this time. Like
new hats Except when they
are an entire garmenD, they
are getting smaller and smaller.
Smaller, but better, as the
coat Sketched proves. The
cape has done awfully well by
itself in this coat, and is a
striking example of just what
the smart cape should be. 1t
could almost be called a fischu
since it is just drop shoulder
length, but it creates a lovely
shoulder line.
Fur-Trimmed Coat
Although we hear and see a
lot about self scarf collars, and
collarless lines in coats, the fur
trimmed coat is still the most
popular. Women know and
won't give up the flattering
beauty of fur. Now in this
coat, the cape wears a band of
golden-toned Canadian wolf, a
fine pelt which is gorgeous
against the black of the coat,
and lends the luxury that
feminine fashions demand. Fav,
ored chongella fashions the
coat which is beautifully tail
ored. 1t closes to the side,
has a smart belt and new, flar-
ing sleeves.
A Work of Art
This coat is a work of lrt
from every standpoint and
fashion right as we'll. In it we
have color contrast, the pre-
ferred silhouette and elegance
of fabric and fur. It's just
the thing you would expect a
spring bride to include in her
trousseau, for it's good looking
enough for that important mis-
sion.
Miss LaVilIe will gladly an.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
NOtables Are
Sponsoring
Puppets

Among the patrons and pa
tronesSes for the series of mar
ionette shows being shown by
Theodore Tiller I'd, in his mar
ionette studio, at 2505 Cham
plain st. N. W., are Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward E. Gam, Senator
and Mrs. James j. Davis, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips,
Baroness Won Below, Mrs. j.
Borden Hartman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl A. Droop, Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin Musser, Mrs. R. L.
Shanafelt, Mrs. Frank Bacon,
Mrs. Grace RheinStrom, Mrs.
Joseph Keyes, Mrs. Emil c.
Vrisaki of the Greek Legation
staff, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl van
Valkenburg, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
S. Townsand, of Rochester,
Pa; Major and Mrs. George
Oakley Totten, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wallace Witcover and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Graves.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Cans, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B.
Steele. Mrs. Leo P. Harlow,
Mrs. w. H. Lipscomb, DR.. and
Mrs. Stanley Rinehart, Mrs.
Robert Hinckley, Mr.. and Mrs.
jefferson Myers, Mrs. Harvey
Smith, John j. Noonan, Miss
Helen Colhoun, Mrs. James
w. Orme, Mrs. Walter Wyatt,
Mrs. Sol Bloom, Mrs. Merchant
Mahoney, Mrs. Samuel H.
Kaufman, Mr.. and Mrs. David
H. Blair, Mrs. Leonard Block,
Mrs. Edward Clifford, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Lisner, Gen. and Mrs.
Amos A. Fries, Mrs. Ashmead
Fuller, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Flaherty, Senator and Mrs.
Wallace White, Mrs. Ida M.
Dexter, Miss Isabel Dexter, Mr..
and Mrs. King-Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Brantley and Mrs.
Theodore P. Moves,
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
LetJAUGO
Shaping
BY Patricia Lee


For names of the shops t1here
you can find the articles de-
Scribed beloD, address Patricia
Lee, care of The Washington
Times, or telephone District
$3.50, Extension 165, betUeen
the hours of $3.50 and 5.
EXPENSIVE LOOKING
NEW HATS, $3.50
A really wonderful collection
of super smart hats. Included
are tricornes, bicornes, new
brims, and many copies of Paris
successes. They are trimmed in
the new manner with dainty
camelias, feather fancies and
The Washington times., 1931-03-12

too. Stands Of a shiny metal
with a finish like chromium
in smart modernistic designs.
These hold from one to three
flower pots which are shown in
several brilliant colorS.
TWIN PRINTS COMBINE
IN NEW JACKET FROCK, IS
So pretty that you'd never
think it could sell for so little
Sleeveless frock of chiffon in
lovely flower pattern in deep
gold, wistaria and black. The
perky little jacket has a belt
and a peplum and though made
of crepe it repeats the pattern
of the chiffon.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
The Touch Of
.Tintex Will
Make II New!
II Brings Fresh
Color to Fqbries
In JUST a Jiffy

Those lovely underthingS
that are so faded - Tintex will
make them ne,U in next to no time!
Those curtains the color of
which you never haze quite liked
-Tintex will give them a nerU
and different color in matter of
minutes!
Millions of women depend
on Tintex to keep their wardrobes
and their homes always bright,
cheerful and colorful!
There is no home .tinting
or dyeing task that Tintex will
not do beautifully, easily and
almost instantly.
THE TINTEX GROUP
Tintex Cray Box-Tints and dyes all
materials.
Tintex Blue Boz = For lace.trimmed
silks-tints the silk, lace remains
original color.
Tfntex Color Remover Removes old
color from any material so it can
be dyed a new color.
Whitex-A bluing for restoring white
ness to allyellowed white materials.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12

ribbon. Featured in springs
newest colors.
TINY MESH FLOWERS
PATTERN NEW HOSE, 81
Right when mesh stockings
are the smartest things in hose,
we find this new lacy effect for
one dollar. Tiny flowers in close
formation make these hose look
more like lace than mesh. They
are shown in the new tan, taupe
and greyish colors so good for
spring.
NEW STANDS FOR
SPRING PLANTS
Right when you want some
thing novel for growing plants
The Washington times., 1931-03-12

Words cannot deceive the palate.
Advertising cannot put flavor in a
coffee cup.
The drinking thereof is the proof of
the coffee. The flavor must be there
or you will not buy again.
That's why the outstanding leader
ship of Maxwell House Coffee seems
to us, frankly, to be proof positive
of its superiority.
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HIGHER u. S. LIVING STANDARD
IS URGED BY SENATOR WAGNER

cized this policy as certain to lead to
greater dissatisfaction and suffering.
Wage scales are no longer to be de-
termined by the best bargain that can
be driven" he said. 1.-The level of
wages must hereafter be regarded as
affected with public interest. In my
judgment it is sign of genuine prog
reSs that an increasing group of en-
ployers are veering toward recognition
of that fact"
Wants Incomes Raised.
An increase of $40, OO0, oOO, 900 in the
annual income of those gainfully en-
ployed was suggested by Senator Wag-
ner as goal to be attained within the
next six years. He said he considered
the program a major undertaking for
the common good which could be real
lied by conscious effort.
If the average annual income Is in
creased by $1,000, the national income
would be higher by $40 900, 00O,-
000,' Senator Wagner said. The &C
compltshment of such project would
still not mean luxury for the average
wage-earning family. 1t would sim
ply make possible a little better hous-
ing, trifle less drudgery for the house
wife and little more schooling for the
children.
Upon American industry it would
impose the burden OF satisfying an ad-
ditional demand for $4,000 000, 900
worth of goods and service That is a
burden under which business would
thrive. To maintain the pace neces-
sary to satisfy such a demand all
forms of waste would have to be elm
mated, including child labor, the cruel
est form of human waste. The aged
would have to be comfortably retired
The involuntarily idle must be adequate
ly insured"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE organ
ization of an economic general STAFF
to plan the increased we'll being of the
Nation was proposed by Senator Rob-
ert F. Wagner in an address at a dinner
given in his honor by the New York
Conference for Unemployment Insur-
ance Legislation. He suggested as goals
in the NATIONAL economic program higher
wages, elimination of child labor, I'M
employment insurance, enaction OF old
age pension laws and a general reduc-
ton in the hours of employment.
A chief cause of the present national
difficulties is that the power to produce
in this country has run away from
the standards of living" Senator Wag-
ner asserted. Economic troubles are
bound to recur with increasing severity
unless increased productivity is equal
lied by rising standard OF living" he
declared.
Warns Of Unrest.
He decried the fact that only one
experiment in national planning was
under way, that of the public works
bill recently passed by Congress.
This bill, it is true, calls for plan
ming in but a single segment OF the
economic activity OF the country, out
thereby it also tests a principle which
If valid can be applied successfully to
private enterprise" the Senator asserted.
The wage-earning~ classes are lin a
ferment of dissatisfaction and rebel
lion" as the result of the current bust
ness depression, he added. Such STIR
rings cause unrest even in the very
citadels of smugness," he said. Declar-
ing that some capitalists had responded
to this unrest by demand for reduce
ton of wages, Senator Wagner criti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11
oil STERILIZATION.
PLAN WINS FAVOR
Leaders in Industry Approve
Policy Adopted at Meet
ing Here.
BY BRADLEY w. TRENT.
Special Dispatch to The star.

SpeclaI OlspaJcn TO Inc star.
NEW YORK, April 11-Oil industry
leaders and business executives in gen.
eral have hailed with satisfaction the
sterilization pact adopted at the Pc
troleum Conservation Conference ir
Washington on Thursday and approved
by President Hoover as the most con-
structive step yet taken toward curbine
the evils Of overproduction.
While the sterilization plan as ap-
proved by the Federal Oil Conservation
Board differs from the so-called Tex
arkana plan, in that it makes no refer
ence to price-fxing, it makes effective
an interstate agreement for the CO.
ordination Of conservation methods In
the oil-producing States.
Members Of the Oil States Advisory
Committee, who spent three days con-
ferring with Government officials at
Washington, have returned to st. Louis,
where they will hold a meeting with
the marketing end of the industry on
April Is and Is. This session of the
American Petroleum Institutes division
Of refining will represent the $5,000,-
100000 refining branch Of the country S
$4,000, 100000 petroleum industry.
Plant Production.
The st. Louis meeting gives the tech
nicians opportunity to present to the
country a picture of the business oper-
alton of the more than 400 refineries
which, located in 80 States, comprise
more than IS per cent of the worlds
refinery capacity. At present these
plants are producing more than 2,000,-
900 barrels Of oil daily, though their
capacity Is double that amount. Texas
is in the lead with more than 100 re-
flneries. California Is second, Okla
hona third and Pennsylvania fourth.
also have many refining plants.
The rapid expansion Of cracking
plants, producing cracked" gasoline,
has been a big factor In the steady
growth Of this industry, whose annual
production Is valued at more than So
100000 900. Refined petroleum prod
ucts are thus ranked fifth in value
among all the products manufactured
in the United States.
Oil men say that what they at
tempted to bring out at the Washing
ton conference, and will emphasize
again at st. Louis, is that they are not
attempting through proation agree
mentS to have the petroleum industry
prosper at the expense Of any other sec
ton OF the country or any other In
dustry. They aim to impress on the
public the fact that prosperity in the
oil industry is essential to that of count
less other lines Of business.
Pipe Line Increase.
One Of these Is transportation. De-
spite the increase in pipe line milea4~
in recent years it is a matter of record
that for several years refined petroleum
products have exceeded all other manu-
featured goods in volume of railroad
shipments. Figures of the Interstate
Commerce Commission show that In
1880 petroleum products comprised 15.5
per cent of all carloads of manufac-
tured goods moved by rail, filing 1871
500 cars.
tCopyrisht, 1872
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Special Dispatch TO The star.


NEW YORK, April Insignificant
recent developments in the field Of pub
lie finance, such as Treasury deficits,
delinquent taxes and defaults in funded
debt, demonstrate that warnings against
increasing costs Of Government have
not been mere cries of Wolff" it Is
declared by Felix M. McWhirter, presi-
dent Peoples State Bank, Indianapolis,
in an article in the current issue Of
the American Bankers Association Jour-
nal.
For the first time since the war we
have in Federal finance the unpalatable
prospect Of a period of deficit financing, "
says Mr.. McWhirter in part. IF tax
rates are changed, revisions are more
likely to be upward than downward.
"a second development is an increas-
ing number Of States confronted with
deficits in spite of large revenues re-
ceived as a result Of advancing taxes
on property and business to discour-
agtngly high levels.
Disturbing Symptoms.
Perhaps the two most disturbing
symptoms are sharp increases in prop
erty tax delinquencies rather generally
throughout the country and an abnor-
mally large volume of municipal securt-
ties in default"
Current tax delinquencies reflect in
considerable measure reduced employ
ment and drought and crop conditions
in rural areas and to that extent may
be regarded as a temporary element,
says Mr.. McWhirter. He adds:
But these passing influences by no
means disclose the whole story. Other
more fundamental, longer-range ele-
ments are involved. The principal
cause of unpaid taxes is that increases
in rate on real property are coming
more and more to produce increases in
delinquencies rather than additional
revenues. Even in a comparatively
wealthy industrial city of the Middle
West it recently was reported that 1885,
900 parcels Of property out Of 1000, 900
parcels within the city were delinquent
in taxes for more than one year and
were soon to be sold"
In a majority of cases the condition
is due, he says, not to temporary or
special circumstances, but to taxes being
continuously higher than the earnings
Of the property are able to support.
Crises in State and municipal finance
are not simply passing phases of acute
business unSettlement," says Mr.. Nc
Whittier. 1.-The latter may have has
tened their appearance, but the prob
lens themselves have been present ever
since the upward march Of govern
mental costs was started o decade ago.
These increases have been concealed
from popular realization by the bolster
Gus enthusiasm of an inflated era. Real
and imaginary profits and effortless en-
hancement of capital values have pro-
6uced confidence that taxpaying ability
would catch up with the burdens placed
upon It before any harm was done.
e1Eg, however. that the margin Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11
RISING COSTS OF GOVERNMENT
BRING WARNING FROM BANKER
Felix NJ. McWhirter Comments Upon
Prospect Of Period of Deficit Financ-
ing-Fears Increased Tax Rates.

safety against confihcation Of capital
values through excessive taxation has
been reduced, some very real problems
stand revealed to challenge our In
genuity. Basic factors out of which
have grown the present acute symptoms
OF fiscal distress are:
First, the total cost of Government
has increased from $4,000, 10000 in
1918 to $4,000, 900 900 in 1927 and
probably to $13,500, 00o,o 900 or $4,000
100000 in 1880.
Second, between 1918 and 1928
population has increased by one-slxth.
Thus, per capita cost has increased
more than three times over.
Third, in 1918 the ratio of public
expenditures to national income was be-
tween 6 per cent and z per cent. Be-
and national income has approximately
doubled. The ratio of expenditures to
income is now between Is per cent and
THE causes of the trend are partly
apparent, partly hidden. Great cities
with their enormous maintenance costs
and public works by the billion, new
social concepts with their broadening of
the humanitarian activities of govern
ment, thousands of miles OF pavement
for the operation Of 25,000,000 automo-
bileS acquired in a few years, revised
ideas Of public educational responsible
ties, with their hundreds of millions Of
dollars for school plant, maintenance
and operation-these causes stand out
plainly.
Expansion Of Functions.
LESS obvious is the startling expan-
sion of commonplace functions and
services, particularly of municipal gov
eminent. to perform which machinery
has been created which is unique in its
parallelism of function, duplication Of
service and diffusion of Independent
taxing and spending authority.
This is no outcry against all taxes,
only against those manifeStly excessive
and beyond the ability Of the rank and
file Of people to pay. This is no diatribe
against all community progress, only
against that entered upon hastily and
without careful reckoning of the ulti-
mate cost. We must recognize that we
cannot permit the excuses and abuses
to continue undated without risking
the appearance Of more serious emer-
gencieS later"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11
PROSPERITY OF RAILROADS
HELD VITAL TO u. S. BUSINESS
Carrier President Claims Government
Uses Rail Industry as Tax-Collectins
Agency for It's Own Support

Many counties and smaller sub
divisions OF Government throughout the
United States have become and are al
most wholly dependent on railway taxes
for their support. For instance. there
are counties in some of the States that
collect so per cent OF all their taxes
from railroads. and in some counties
they collect as high as 81 per cent of
all their taxes from railroads"
Turning to the question of bus and
truck competition, Mr.. Sargent had
some very pertinent comment on the
economic relation of these forms of
transportation. saying:
Much of the increase in motor truck
activity IS due to popular notion that
the cost is less than by rail, whereas
with relation to a large per cent of the
business the contrary is true. For in
stance, University of Illinois Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, at Urbana.
Ill, bulletin says that the live stock
shippers of Illinois would have saved
over 100000 in 1927 If the 1,115.6O6
head of live stock shipped by truck to
three markets had been shipped by rail-
Position of Railways.
mo one questions that our farmers
have been going through a period of
deflation for the last 10 years, but in
the State Of Illinois they could have i'm
proved their condition to the extent Of
over 100000 and saved this amount for
themselves had they shipped their live
stock to the three markets referred to
by rail instead of by truck.
The railways still are and apparently
for many years must continue to be our
chisf means of economical transporta-
ton for the great bulk of the countrys
commerce. Railways, however, like all
other forms of business, are dependent
upon volume if they are to hold down
their unit costs of transportation and
at the same time produce enough mar
gin to pay service charges on bonds
and fair returns to stockholders. 1t is,
therefore. important that the people
give earnest consideration to both local
and national policies relating to the
transportation problem as a whole so as
to avoid unnecessary and costly duplica-
tons Of service"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11
RECOVERY IN DAIRY
INDUSTRY IS SEEN
Losses Suffered in Drought
May Be Turned Into Gains
This Year.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 1.-THE dairy in
dustry is "perking up" bit this year
and. by strange paradox, heavy losses
suffered in the 1880 drought are bring
ing it about.
The output Of all manufactured dairy
products was lower in 1880 than in
1929 because encyclopaedia pas
lures offered little feed for dairy herds
during the months when production Is
ordinarily heaviest. The year 1929 had
been an excellent one for dairy produc-
ton and staggering supplies had been
carried over in storage. The storage
holdings on January /, 1880. were the
largest ever known. Since. however,
thanks to the drought, holdings have
been cut approximately Is per cent.
Government Figures.
Traders in dairy products around the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange profess to
see encoura cement in the sharply re-
duced storage stocks of butter with
supplies of cheese, condensed and evap-
Grated milks also showing some reduc-
tions. although not on the scale with
butter.
They quote Government figures that