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The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Tennessee Physicist i
Rites Set Tomorrow

FRONT ROYAL. Va. Aug. %.
DR.. James T. Porter, head of the
department Of physics in the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
and assistant dean, who died at
his home in Knoxville Thursday
after several months illness Of
heart trouble will be buried in
Front Royal tomorrow.
He is survived by his wife, wb
was Miss Margaret Davidson Of
Washington; three sisters, Mrs.
B. F. Marks, Washington, and
Misses Lille and Mamie Porter, of
Front Royal. DR.. Porter formerly
resided here.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
2 Bushels Peaches
His Wedding Fee

HENDERSON, KY, Aug. %.
For marrying Miss Mary Louise
Ferver. of Chattanooga, Tenn,
to George Lee Bugg, of Evans
vile, Ind, yesterday, Magistrate
Louis Kleider received two bushels
Of peaches as his fee.
The couple were the first to
take advantage of a recent offer
Of theN magistrate to perform
marriages for two bushels of
grain or fruit during the .depres-
sion. The iruit was turned over
to the Welfare Association for
distribution to the poor.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
DERMOTT FACES
THEFT CHARGE

Facing q charge Of larceny,
William P. Dermott, Of Bowling
Green, Va, was released from the
Prince Georges County Jail at
Upper Marlboro on $500 bond.
Dermott was first. arrested in
washington in connection with
the case of Mrs. Ana Noble
Sparks, who died as a result Of
injuries sustained when run over
on the Bladenburg Road.
Police declared that she was
thrown or jumped from a car
driven by Dermott and Robert
Howard BOulden. A Prince
Georges county coroner's jury.
however, cleared both men of the
death.
Dermott is now charged with
stealing q valuable wrIsJ watch
and cash from Mrs. Sparks on
the night of the accident.
He had previously been freed
on $4,000 bond, and was re-
arrested when Mrs. Sparks died.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Sc WEIR SYSTEM
F. IN ARLINGTON
UP TONIGHT
Richmond Engineers Will Be
Guests of Bureau of Water
for Discussion of Project

J. Allan Saville and Lee H.
Williamson, consulting engineers
of Richmond, will be the guests
of the Bureau Of Water and
Sewers of the Arlington county
Chamber of Commerce at a spe-
cial meeting in Clarendon to-
night.
The purpose of the meeting
is to plan for a countrywide
sewer system for Arlington, &C
cording to Chamber of Commerce
officials the most important prob
lem facing the county today.
Less than IA months ago,
voters Of the county defeated a
bond issue proposal for the in
stallation of sewers, but it is the
opinion Of the commerce body
that the bond issue can be sue.
ceSsfully carried out if sufficient
knowledge of the results such a
project would have upon real
estate values could be gained.
At present. the principal sub
divisions of the county are Served
by individual sewer systems, in
stalled by the developers of the
subdivisions, while dwellings in
the outlying portions of the
county are served by individual
septic tanks.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Runs Into Car, Boy
Badly Cut, Bruised

John Fletcher, 8, Of 712 North
Columbus St.. Alexandria, was
badly cut on the face and bruised
last night when he ran into the
side of a car driven by Thomas
Nottingham, of Syracuse. N. Y.
He was taken to the Alexandria
Hospital by Nottingham and
treated by DR.. Moore.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Alleged Mostyn Hold Up
Victim Tells Story

The version of the victim of an
alleged hold-up by James Mostyn
suspended First precinct detective
as told to The Times today, varies
greatly from the story shown on
official records in District Su,
preme Court.
James A. Brown, guard at the
Smithsonian Institution, who lives
at 216 Twelfth st. N. E., declared
that Mostyn held him up in the
w. B. 81 A. Station on February
II, 1925. In an exclusive inter,
view with The Times, Mr.. Brown
said:
Il was passing the w. b. &
A. terminal station and stopped
in the comfort room. AS
walked in. someone stepped
from behind a locker and struck
me on the back of the head.
He struck two blows.
Points Gun at Him
II wheeled around, with my
hands thrown up, and he de-
Rvered the third blow. I
begged him not to hit me any
more and he pushed his revOl-
yer into my stomach and said:
Get In the locker and give me
your money or I'll kill yOu.'
when i refused to give him
my money he backed me into
tMe locker.
Just at this time some one
came in and my attaCker started
TO run out Of the door and 1
ran after him. A taxi driver
saw us come out and joined the
chase"
|, Later, Mr., Brown said, a police
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Hall Cleared in ROuU
With Liquor Agents

Robert L. Hall, jr., of Upper
Marlboro, was cleared of assault
charges on two Federal prohibit
ton agents in Federal court in
Baltimore yesterday.
The charges grew out of a
fight on Main Street in Upper
Marlboro early this month, when
Hall told the agents that they
were parked in a restricted area.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
SACRED CONCERT

The Montgomery County Band
and Chorus will give a free sa-
cred concert Sunday at 7:30
p. m. at the Grange Pavilion in
Burtonsville.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
POLLARD ACCEPTS BID

Gov. John Garland Pollard has
accepted an invitation to attend
the Washington parade and
celebration at Alexandria, Va,
next February %.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Times Staff Photo

MISS ENSIGN WITH SALUKI
HERE IS ONE of the famous gazelle hounds OF
Egypt, with Miss Madeline Ensign at the country estate
of Mrs Joseph E. Willard Fairfax Va. 1t is known
sauk and tradition has it that Cleopatra presented
Caesar with pair of Them The dogs very and
Mrs. Willard widow of the late United States ambassador
to Spain, owns the largest pack in America.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
Sales of Firearms Through
Nation Under Attack

Washington alone its demands for laws here that
will restrict the sales of firearms and other deadly weapons
States and Cities viewing crime conditions in
serious manner, considering the firearms problem
Some wnentioned persons think the best to fight
criminals is for honest citizens to weapons have them
around their homes dangerous to children and causing more
loss of life through accidents than to criminals
Governor Roosevelt of New York recommends that the State
legislature amend the antfears law Of that State, and
drastic law just going into effect in Pennsylvania
provision Of which requires the payment of license fee in
the purchase of deadly weapons.
The Sullivan law Of New York is considered Of the most
effective in the country but Governor Roosevelt wishes to
II frightened still further.
There two interesting features Of Mr. Rooseves
mendaons One that all applicants for firearms be finger
printed and another is that the possession of machine guns
private citizens be made crime.
It is wonder that drastic laws have not long been
enacted to the sales possession Of machine guns the
favorite ath-dealing weapons of gunner.
not be overlooked that local laws only partially
successful New York laws do not prevent criminals going
into neighborng States and cities get firearms law here
would not prevent them going elsewhere, This be
remeded to extent by cooperation among States and
cities.
Congress in the end will probably pass interstate law
that will aid State and city laws to reach criminals buying
firearms
It does look if the nation that forbds the making
drinking Of beer and wine by its citizens might take steps to
cut down the sales and possession Of murderous deadly
weapons. .''"''.''''-.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
Cutting New Traffic Lights
May Not Be Wise

Ths community will commend the District Commissioners
for cutting to bone all estimates for local appropriations
for the fiscal year beginning July next
It will approve legitimate reduction Of expenses in every
possible way that taxes may be held down.
There is much doubt however to the wisdom OF re-
ducng appropriations requested by the Director Of Traffic for
new traffic lights for the next fiscal year.
Shaving these light estimates from $1O0O to $4,000 will
mean that few traffic lights will be installed and these
few will be after July 1, 1882.
As normal needs Washington might do with the ex-
penditure proposed by the Commissioners The point that
next year will not be normal year in Washington 1t is the
year Of the George Washington Bcentennial events Hun
dreds of thousands people will be here than in ordinary
years. Large numbers Of them will in machines They
accustomed traffic lights for the smallest towns in the
nation have them Their mission is well understood and
spected.
It would be the sensible thing for the Commissioners to
approve every dollar requested for traffic lights and to ask
Congress make these appropriations Immediately available
that new lights may be installed early in 1882
We will need all the traffic safety get next year.
We need it all the time but next year exceptional year.
We all possible of safety to visitors coming
here
There complaints of undermanned police force
Congress is be asked for It is not likely to
authorize them. Additional traffic lights important
thoroughares equipped with these signals will
the services Of policemen who going to be called on
to handle large crowds.
More traffic lights extravaganza. Their installation
is good judgment and good We should spend much
more money than do for Lighting our streets
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

When President Hoover pro-
posed a moratorium as to
reparations and debts for one
year, we suggested in this
column that uneasiness in the
business world and in Germany
would persist because of the
impossibility of resuming pay
ments in so short a time.
Now comes the National City
Bank, in an analysis Of the
situation, with the assertion
that the uncertainty as to what
will happen at the end of next
June is having a "blighting ef-
feet" on business recovery. It
says:
$50 long as no one knows
what is going to happen in
Europe, business cannot be ex-
pected to go ahead with con-
fident plans for the future, and
this hesitancy is one of the fac
tors tendi-4g to depreSs the
commodity markets."
In Germany, as we know, the
one year moratorium is &C.
cepted as a mere breathing
spell between tortures. The
trouble goes back to the dis
position to place upon one
country the burden of paying
for the most devastating war
in history. It can't be done.
In commenting upon what it
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

900 people. Of these, 5000 are
jobless, without the means of
buying what health, comfort
and self-respect requires. The
factories and fields have pro-
duced enough for the 10000.
The result is what the econo-
mists call "overproduction."
The narrow business solution is
to produce only for the 1000
who have the money to buy.
This makes no provision for the
5000. Specifically, it is good
business to adopt this policy;
in the long rule, the 5000 who
are blotted out will revolt
against their elimination from
consideration-against the eco
nomic and social system that
ignores their human needs.
The trouble today is not
"overproduction," but "under.
consumption" and the problem
is to work out a more humane
method of distribution. Upon
the solution of that problem de-
pends the preservation of our
social system. And that is a
problem that business men and
bankers must help to solve.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
ONCE-OVERS
Too Easy?

In your dealings with people
do you show so much kindness
that they are constantly over
stepping?
It depends of course, upon
what sort of persons yor have
around you.
But very often a boss who
means to be kind is too easy
and then, when he finds his
men are "out Of hand" he
has to be severe and harsh in
order to get the respect which
is his due.
wouldn't it be better to show
yourself strict in the beginning?
Wouldn't it be wiser to make
your men understand that you
are just but particular and you
expect prompt attention to
orders?
Also that you expect definite
standards to be maintained if
they hold their jobs?
isn't it kinder in the long
run to be careful In detail and
require that sort of service
rather than be lenient and al
low work to go through in a
slipshod manner?
To begin by being too consid-
crate means that eventually
you win have to be unrelent-
tngly harsh to get what you
want A-AAl nl
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

} If there were only something
you could do about them.
There is.
In the first place, get over
the idiotic notion that you
have a monopoly on ups and
downs. Stop using that notion
as a sop for your vanity and
an alibi for your laziness and
cowardice. EVERYBODY HAS
UPS AND DOWNS. Everybody
has spells Of restlessness, timid-
1ty, rebellion, self-pity and in
ertia. And there's no getting
rid Of these spells, FOR UPS
AND DOWNS ARE THE PRICE
WE PAY FOR OUR HALF
BAKED HUMANITY.
No one is 100 per cent human
yet. Human being are still part
brute, part man. Sometimes
more brute than man. But al
ways there's that struggle going
on inside, between the two
natures between brute fear
and man courage brute
stupidity and man intelligence
brute 1aziness and man
ambition brute indiffer.
ence and man pride.
The Great Struggle
ALWAYS THAT STRUGGLE
GOING ON, WITH THE MAN
PULLING FORWARD AND
THE BRUTE TUGGING BACK.
Why do you have the ups and
downs? That's why. Because
the brute and the man in you
are yanking you in different di-
rections. Every time you fight
for the "up" you're helping man
every time you yield to a
"down" you are surrendering to
the brute.
Ups and downs course
you have them. Be glad You
have them. Stop peeving about
them. Be glad you have them.
They are a sign of something
great in you. THEY ARE A
CHALLENGE.
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syndSAto. 1ne.J
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
Regatta Success Assured

With known civic agency diligently cooperating with
the Cornthn Yacht Club and the Chesapeake Potomac
Power Boat Association the Of the Fifth Presidents
Cup Regatta assured Already the racing committee
ports hundred entries for the various and
the finance committee is confident that the required funds
will be fully subscribed.
Many pretentious affairs have been staged in the Nations
Capital in past but the event to be held September IS
and 10 the Eastern Branch of the Potomac bids fair to
rank with the best With society out in force diplomats
from every foreign country Army and Navy uniforms plen
fu hundreds Of craft resting the water there will be
q most colorful affair.
Washington indeed fortunate in having the splendid water
facilities at its door necessary to stage such event. It
dOuby fortunate in having fine citizens give unsntngy of
their time efforts and money offer such wonderful
gram to its citizens and the water sporOvng people Of the
country.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
TIMES TEST

Give the author and poem
from which the following lines
were taken:
/. "Frail creatures are we all!
To be the best
Is but the fewest faults we
have"
2. Gather ye rosebuds while
we may,
Old Time is still e-flying."
8. Gods in His heaven:
All's right with the world"
4. "'Tis strange but true; for
truth is always
strange
Stranger than fiction"
5. Fear not, then, thou child
infirm;
There's no god dare wrong
a worm"
Fill out each blank:
6. A twin city, the capital Of
Hungary, on the Danube is
7.'The Thousand Islands were
called the garden spot Of
America" by -.
8. The first coined money
was made by the in
eighth century B. c.
9. was a distinguished
Spanish sculptor patronized by
Napoleon.
10. An affected, bombastic
style of language is called -.
Do you know:
II. What was the Banting
system?
IL. Where was the first steam
ship built which engaged in q
regular transatlantic carrying
trade?
13. What are the three divi-
sions of Greater London?
IA. What is Belgium's most
celebrated university?
Is. How did the word Antilles
originator
IAnSwers on Ma zine PaEeE
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
The Cause Of the
Whole Business

- AN SDSA0S VA OAAS
Whole Business
"Such q distribute Of
wealth and income concentrates
wealth largely in the hands of
a few, while it leaves the masses
Of workers with insufficient in
come to buy the goods which,
with the help Of modern ma
chinery, they are now able to
produce. Hence we have what
is called 'OverprOductiOn,' but
which, perhaps, should be called
'undercOnSumptiOn.' Purchasing
power has not been Scientifi-
cally adjusted to production"
Here we have millions Of
people hungry-and vast stores
of wheat are being held for
higher prices.
Here we have millions with
insufficient clothing at the be-
ginning of winter-and it is
proposed to destroy half the
cotton crop to increase prices!
If this is the best that govern
mental and business brains can
- Cney are bankrupt.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

You'd like to do something
in life; like to put over some
thing big, and you're sure you
could if only you didn't have
$50 many ups and downs"
Ups and downs-they're your
heaviest handicap, aren't they?
Everything will be going fine.
You'll be contented, confident,
full of energy and ambition.
Then, suddenly, for no good
reason, down you'll go in the
dumps. Happiness-blotto. Am
bition-a flop. Energy-nil.
Why?
You don't know why. Your
health is good enough. Condi-
tions are fair. Yet there you
are, wiped off the list just as
you were getting a nice start.
Ups and Downs
Ever since you were a child
it has been like that. At first
your ups and downs bewildered
you. Spoiled all your fun.
Then you decided that you had
a secret ailment, peculiar to
you. Other people weren't like
that-you could tell it by the
way they acted, so sure and
easy. They couldn't possibly
suffer as you did and act that
way. No, you were different.
More sensitive and high-strung.
Things hurt you worse-left
scars on you. Inferiority COM
plexes.
There was a melancholy salts
faction in believing this. Of
course, it didn't cure the ups
and downs, but it secretly flat
tered you to think that you
weren't like everybody else.
And, besides, it made a won
derful alibi when you fell down
on a job.
Not Just q Snap
Yet, as the years have gone
on, you've come to feel that
it isn't such a snap to be the
way you are-that ups and
downs are O serious nuisance.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
And Polly Is Right

Listen to Polly Morans opinion of this city, the finest
city earth to live in.
Polly Moran, popular movie actress appearing in person
ct Washington theater and receiving big ovaons Besides
Ewering many inquiries reaching her from admirers.
correspondent asked Polly whether she would 20 back
TO the stage and the movie star asserts that when she
through with the moviessome off, for she has five
conraCshe is going to settle down fright here in
Washington. love this town, and you don't know how
lucky you are to live here No fooln'.'
Polly Moran has travelled much and she like all who have
travelled extensively Washington h after ALL the most beau
ul city p the world and the most agreeable to live in
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
and Want = By Claude G. Bowers

conceives as some improvements
in the situation at home, the
National City Bank makes one
point which ignores the root Of
our economic troubles. "PrOduc-
tiOn," it says, els being gradu-
ally brought into line with
consumption"
Just now there are 50,e00,-
900 men, women and children
in America, embracing the TO-
100000 involved in unemploy-
ment, and the 30,000,O00 on
the farms, who are unable to
buy what they actually need
to eat and wear.
The Result Is
OverprOductiOn
To limit production to meet
the requirements Of those able
to buy what they want and
need is to wipe out Of con-
sideration the millions who can
not buy the present surplus,
of which they are in need.
Business cannot so lightly
brush aside millions Of human
beings.
Here, for example, are TO-.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

More to the point is the
Labor Day message to the
churches, prepared by the Fed
eral Council of the Churches Of
Christ. It goes to the root Of
our troubles.
It comments upon the vast
wealth and the appalling pow
erty; the enormous surplus" in
food and clothing, and the suf-
fering of millions who cannot
buy; the fact that under our
economic system 10 per cent of
the people own 81 per cent of
the nations wealth.
And it, like the bank, has
something to say about ''oVer-
production:
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

But there are wanderers DER
Eternity
Whose bark drives on and on,
and anchor'd ne'er shall be.
Byron.
Love as though some day you
would have to hate; hate as
though some day you would
have to love %chtlo.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever;
It's loveliness increases; 1t will
never
Pass into nothingness.
Keats.
It Is not best to swap horses
while crossing the river.
-Lineoi9
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

All three Of the snakes in these pictures poisonous
snakes possessing venom deadly each other and to other
animals. . .
The display Of cannbalism illustrated above described
bv F. W. Fzsmons director of the Port Elizabeth Scientific
Snake Farm on which the incident occurred.
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
THE COBRA COMES.
GETS HIS SHARE.

swarms the which dwe highly developed hu
You may think you like about the CAUSES but there
is no doubt as to the HATRED.
The sight of harmless garter snake will make many men
and nearly all women turn pale.
And the soft feeling rat darting from under your
The Washington times., 1931-09-04
BIG CAPE COBRA OBSERVES PROCEEDINGS.

Scientists tell you that woman fear Of the snake
based fact that millions of years ago. when still
lived in trees snakes would climb up out along the limb
take sleeping infant from the half human mother and
disappears into the night.
Rats were hated dreaded because they invaded in
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

Both the schaapstecker and
the night adder two quite COM
mon, venOmOuS South African
snakes) are very tenacious crea-
lures, particularly with regard
to their food.
"Once the cobra had Joined
in and the heads Of the three
snakes met, it became a queS-
ton of which had the largest
mouth, for none would let go.
Realizing their peril too late,
the smaller pair made wild
struggles to escape. But the
cobra's wider cape enabled his
teeth to get a firm grip on
their heads. Gradually his
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

These are not pleasant pictures but they 1NsTRUc
They show how Nature keeps things the earth bal
anced the big snake devourg the two smaller snakes plus
the frog and that bigger in his turn destroyed by the
active mongoose and other enemies
Human beings especially loathe and fear snakes
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

feet gives as great shock to the would the
pected appearance Of really dangerous wild animal
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

subtle, nerve-paralyzing venom
took effect and when they lay
helpless the cobra swallowed
them. The swallowing capacity
of a large snake is remarkable,
- for a serpent whose head Is
no wider than a mans thumb
is capable of devOuring q full
size rat. 1t is made possible
by the fIexibility Of the lower
jaws Joined together at the
front by q flexible ligament.
This stretches in conjunction
with the skin Of the throat and
by a series Of forward jerks
and steady thruStS the prey is
forced into the guIlet."
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

AFTER THE FEAST, SWALLOWING THE FROG AND BOTH
SNAKES, THEIR TAILS STILL PROJECT FROM HIS
MOUTH
The Washington times., 1931-09-04

These repulsive pictures of Natures remoreess
work in the lower realms of life interest from many points
Of view One poisonous snake destroys two Others and the
moor harmless frog is the victim of all three.
We admire the Wisdom that directs the millions Of strange
eforms that make up this earths population from the eagle
that flies above clouds to the strange fish that lives in the
oceans depths
Business of certain kind will see In these snake pic
lures reproduction of their own experience
Two little competing each trying to get the frog
which is the customers have often been approached by what
looks to them like large cobra the chain store
And when the dust Settles the big chain store has swa
lowed the two little competitors and the customerfrog But
that's almost TOO sad to think, talk write about