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which Mayor Thompson expressed
as follows:
ut must be apparent to every
member of your honorable body,
as it is to me, that the action
Of Mr.. Hearst in directing to
have the article published in the
Chicago Evening American of
February 8, 1881. printed in all
the Hearst newspapers through
out the country, in order to get
the widest possible publicity, is
a most gracious act on his part,
and one of vital Importance to
the residents and business
people of Chicago. and, in my
opinion, entities him to receive
an official appreciation from the
city council of the city of
Chicago.
"The action of the ASsOcia-
tiOn of Commerce in publishing
this chart in its official organ
should receive official recOgni-
tiOn and appreciation on the
Part of your honorable body
and SO i recommend"
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.STERBER FREED .G|RL SURVIVES
IN CAR DEATH FATAL BURNS
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Edna Mae Bonner. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bonner,
913 Massachusetts, Ave. N. E., yes,
terday celebrated her seventh
birthday.
Last July physi clans said she
could not live because of burns
suffered while playing with
matches. Her life hung in the
balance for several weeks, during
which skingraft operations were
performed at Casualty Hospital,
where she had been taken.
Now her hair has grown back
in golden ringlets, her skin is
without a blemish, and no sign
of the unhappy accident could be
seen by twelve little friends who
gathered at her home last night
to help her celebrate.
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thought home-brewing was per-
miSsible, ought to be radically
revised. He believed it out of
line with the spirit of the Con-
Stitution.
Swedish System Urged
Another interesting fact brought
out was that John Motley More
head. United States minister to
Sweden and himself a man who
voted dry, recommended that the
Swedish system of liquor regula-
ton be adopted.
The Senate probably will do
nothing with the report except to
read it at its individual leisure,
and extract from 1t such evil
dence as it desires to bolster in
dividual arguments for and
against prohibition. From that
standpoint, the evidence will be
dribbled into the Congressional
RECORD, bit by bit. for many
months to come. Both the vets
and the drys can find plenty in
it to support their positions.
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LAW UNENF ORCEABLE,
DRY CHIEF HOLDS

not county or district option,
but home option.
"If a citizen possesses liquor,
or makes liquor in his home,
and in such way as not to be
observed by the public, and If
he properly supports his family,
this policy would require that he
be not disturbed.
"If he fails in a single public
duty, If he breaks the peace in
any way, If he fails to take care
of his family, If he fails to keep
himself fit to perform any pub
lie duty, the State steps in and
Furnishes.
This plan makes unlawful
all commerce in liquor, does not
compel the dry to support q
State diSpensary, leaves the wet
in full enjoyment of any right
which he believes he has, which
may be exercised without affect
ing anyone else"
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DRIVE ON DRUGS
GETS SUPPORT
Of HOOVER
World Conference Informed
Children Are Involved in
the Illicit Use Of Drugs

NEW YORK, Feb. 81 U.s0.
The world conference on narcotic
education yesterday received a
telegram from President Hoover
expressing approval of the pro-
gram for international and ma
tional action to end the illicit drug
traffic. The Presidents message
read:
81 deeply sympathize with
the SteadfaSt campaign of
American organizations work
ing to bring about international
agreements for limiting the
manufacture of narcotic drugs
and to energize the police pow
erS of the several States of this
Union to destroy the illicit traf-
fic in narcotics"
Children Trapped
E. George Payne, assistant
dean of the school of education
of New York University, asserted
in q speech:
"a survey of the schools has
shown that many children are
involved in the illicit use and
sale of narcotic drugs"
But, he said, as result OF
the educational campaign Waged
by organizations, high school
children generally have been
taught the danger of addiction.
John. I. Cutter, of the Court
of Special Sessions, declared that
American laws against drugs are
among the wisest in the world,
and added:
Between 80 and 95 per cent
Of all the narcotics illicitly
dealt in here are smuggied into
the country. Even the ships of
Rum Row are engage" in the
traffic. But our laws place the
United States in the VANGUARD
of the fight against the evil"
$1,OOO,OOO, 900 a Year
Capt. Lawrence S. Adams, U.
S. NJ, read a paper from C. K.
Crane, narcotic limitation expert,
of Los Angeles, in which the
cost of lllicit drugs to America
was estimated at 100000. 900
year. This estimate 4ncluded
the value of property lost
through thieves acting under in
fluence of an appetite fpr drGgS.
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Knock That
Cold In
A Jiffy
Relief Now Almost
Before You Know Il

If you want quick relief from a
cold, go back to first principles
and use something you kno1U does
the business - don't start try.
ing" a lot of fancy ideas or
remedies. Even a little" cold is
too dangerous to take chances on.
Get Hills CaScara Quinine. A
scientific formula made to do
ONE THING WELL: to knock a
cold in a jitty, not to cure a hun
dred different things.
Take two tablets now. Then
follow directions on box. Drink
lots of water, too-that's all. Soon
those mean, aching pains in head
and body begin to go; the cold
breaks up; poisons leave your sys.
tenn. Almost before you know it,
you feel like new person.
If it doesn't to do that, your
money back. Get a box now.
You'll be surprised at the speed
with which it works. Costs only
a few cents.
Cascara Quinine
k1kLL y Compound
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for anyone to withhold knOwI-
edge Of q felony.
2. A financial subsidy to the
States from the Federal Gov
ernment, CONDITIONED upon
their bringing their law en-
fOrcement agencies to a certain
standard"
3. A direct payment to State
officials for each successful
prosecution.
4. A special staff in each en-
fOrcement district to make in
veStigatiOnS and to lay evidence
before the local prosecuting
agencies.
Some of these suggestions, il
carried out, he admitted, might
be conducive to abuses. Ap
parently the commission was OF
the same opinion, for it incor
porated none of them in its
The Washington times., 1931-02-21
John F. LettOn Made
Raleigh Hotel Head

John F.. Letton, former man
ager of hotels in Atlanta, Ga,
and Pennsylvania cities, will be-
come manager of the Raleigh
Hotel here March l, it was
learned yesterday.
1t is understood L. G. Sizer,
present manager, will become
manager of the Roosevelt. Let
ton, who is now in Atlantic City,
will retain his interest IN several
PENNSYLVANIA hoStelrieS.
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Chest to Announce
Nominees March 10

Names of nominees for the
board of trustees of the Com
munity Chest will be announced
at the annual meeting at the
Willard Hotel March 10.
The nominations already are
in the hands of the nominating
committee, of which Frank R..
Jelleff is chairman. A ballot will
be taken by mail
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District Hibernians
Begin Mar. II Plans

Shamrocks were being brushed
off yesterday, as the Ancient
Order of Hibernians began plans
for celebrating st. Patrick's
Day.
Solemn high mass will be OBJ
served at st. Patrick's Church
March II at 10 a. m. A ban
quet is planned that night at the
MayfloWer Hotel.
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Three Under Arrest
As Hen Coop Raiders

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Feb.
21.-James Meadows and Harvey
Cox, alias Meadows, believed by
police to have been members Of
a band of thieves that have been
raiding chicken houses in Fred
erick county, Md, were arrested
at an apartment house here at
the request of Sheriff Crum, of
Frederick.
Frederick Baldwin, said to be
another member of the gang, fled,
but was later apprehended in
Washington.
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(C0ntLHued From rage ~
dorsement. He indOrsed 1t be.
cause he saw no way Of ade.
quately infOrcing the law against
It.
Home option" was the phrase
used by the prohibition director
in describing the policy he be-
lieved best calculated to apply to
the situation. Under home OPP
ton" those who want peer and
wine may have them, and those
who don't want them don't have
to have them.
In presenting his theory, Colonel
Woodcock said:
81 suggest, in reasoning
which has much Of SOphiStry,
but a gleam of common sense
and of prophecy, Of what may
be the final evolution Of this
troublesome question, not State,
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Hearst Lauded for Crime
Table Publication

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-William
Randolph Hearst is officially
thanked in a resolution adopted
by the city council here for pub
fishing in all of his newspapers
the statistics showing that St
cities Of more than 100000 in the
United States have more crime
than Chicago. The resolution
presented by Alderman Oscar F.
Nelson declares:
"The action of the Hon. Will
lam Randolph Hearst, in ar
ranging to have this article
published in all the Hearst
papers throughout the nation,
will have the result of proclaim
ing to the world the truth
about Chicago and must, Of ne
cesSity, result in great benefit
to all classes of citizens in the
city Of Chicago"
Mayor Sends Message
Mayor William Hale Thompson,
in a message to the city council,
stated that the crime statistics
published had been obtained from
an exhaustive tabulation of known
offenses which had been prepared
by the head of the municipal ref
erence library.
The table comprised reports
from 81 cities and was based on
figures compiled by the bureau of
investigation of the United States
Department of Justice and pub
liShed on pages 6 and Z of the
Federal pamphlet entitled, uni.
form Crime Reports" dated Sep
tember, 1880.
The members of the city coun,
Gil indorsed the warm praise
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BOohegger Is Giving
Address Pencils
OPatrOnS
Well. it's happened!

wen, us happened!
For years everyone has been
wondering when-since the Gov
ernment has been poisoning
alcohol or putting in harm
less" denaturantS which merely
make one deathly ill-will boot
leggerS start giving out pencils
so that persons blinded by their
product can start right into
business.
They began today. One boot
Logging firm" began distribu-
ton this morning of pencils
with it's name, address and
telephone number printed on
the wood. Under this adver-
tisement was the slogan:
"BOttles-and what goes in
Ah@vAt9 80 $50 n'.~
eASA4AA-
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VIRGINIA TO BUY OIL

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 21.-BiGS
will be received by the Virginia
State highway commission up to
10 a. M. March 10, on 1,494, 900
gallons of gasoline and 82,550 gal
Ions of lubricating oil for use by
the department in the six months
beginning April IS, it has been
announced here.
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AUTO PATROL FETE

School boy members of the
American Automobile Association
patrol will be entertained Monday
at st. Peters parochial school.
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES
DErARTUREs FROM NORMAL

DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess Of temperature
since January /, 1891. 1S9.
Excess of temperature since February
l, 1881. "a.
Accumulated deficiency of precipita-
ton since January l, 1881. 3.09.
Deficiency of precipitation since Feb
ruary l, 1891 los.
TIDE TABLES
Today-High tides. 1875 a. m. and
10:52 p. m; low tides, 4:oS a. m an"
Tomorrow-High tides. 11:11 a. m.
and 11:29 p m; low tides, 5:27 p. nj.
and 600 p. m.
THE Sun AND THE MOON
The sun rose today, 6:54 a. m. and
sets. 5:J1 p. m.
The sun rises Sunday, G:52 a. m. and
sets 5:52 p. IN.
The moon rises today, SAB a. m and
sets 9:53 y. m.
The moon rises Sunday, 9:04 a. m.
and SETS 1855 p. m.
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
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WEATHER DETAILS

FORECAST TILL 8 r. NJ SUNDAY
For the District of C0lumb bia-Cloudy
toright. minimum temperature about 81
degrees; Sunday, fair; gentle northwest
winds.
For Vfrgnia-Partly cloudy, slightly
colder in west central portion to night
Sunday fair; fresh north winds, dhmin-
iShfng.
The Washington times., 1931-12-02

Work of erecting a memorial
costing $l0o,OOO to Samuel Com
pers, former president of the
American Federation Of Labor,
will be begun within the next few
days, according to an announce
met today.
. The statue will be erected on
a small triangular plot of ground
The Washington times., 1931-12-02
"GGs" Consumption
Gains is Per Cent

Gasoline used by motorists dur
AnR the first six months Of 1891
totalled 7,1l7,874,233 gallons, &C
cording to figures compiled by the
American Automobile Association.
The increase of as per cent as
compared to figures for the same
period last year is attributed to
higher gas taxes.
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GOU. Pollard limited
To Alexandria Fete

Gov. John Garland Pollard. OF
Virginia. yesterday accepted an
invitation to the February %
George washington birthday cele-
bration in Alexandra. The in
vitation was extended by Former
Mayor w. Albert Smoot, presi.
dent of the George Washington
Birthday Association.
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WORK BEGUN on GOMPERS MEMORIAL

on Massachusetts, Avenue N. W.,
between Tenth and Eleventh
Streets, already allotted to the
federation by a special act of
Congress. Robert Aitken, Of New
York, Is the sculptor
The seated figure Of Gompe-s
will face the East. On the oppo.
site side of the shaft a group of
The Washington times., 1931-12-02
Xmas Checks Mailed
To COunty Residents

Montgomery banks have mailed
out checks totaling $330,977.71 to
their Christmas saving depositors,
an increase of $20,977.71 over the
amount paid last year.
It is estimated that county resi-
dents having money in Wash
ington banks will receive an equal
aTnnIlnt
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figures symbolic of Labor ami
Education will be portrayed,
Funds for the memorial were
raised over a period of several
years by donations from unions
affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Travel economically in one Of the
good used cars advertised for sale to-
day in the Classified Section
Evening star., 1931-11-29
The REASONABLE Alfonso.

Safe in the recesSes of comfortable
exile in the aristocratic environs of
Paris, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, former
King Of Spain, is probably not worried
over recent events in the Constituent
Assembly at Madrid. Charged before
that republican body with high treason,
the depoSed monarch was declared out
lawed and banished.
Thus the haplesS Alfonso joins the
long-dead Charles Stuart of England
and Louis Capet Of France as the third
once all-powerful Western European
sovereign to be found guilty by revo-
lutionary government. Alfonso lives in
more modern times, else the execution
ers block or the guillotine might today
be his lot instead of merely an indefi-
mite sentence of remorseful isolation
from the land and people over which
he formerly held sway.
Alfonso XIII is denied the poor
solace of rejecting that he was con-
victed CT treason by a divided house
in which were many friends. The
vote against him was by acclamation.
1t was delivered after lone dramatic
protest by the aged and once influen-
tial Count de Romanohes, who, as the
Associated Press picturesquely narrates
forty years ago dandled the baby
Bourbon on his knee at Escorial Palace
The loyal old courtier's plea that the
discredited ruler never forced his min
isters to sign DEGREES was ineffective.
The polo-playing, pleasure-loving
King had numerous agreeable sides.
His love of Spain was proverbial and
no doubt genuine. But as the rising
tide of democracy rolled In upon his
country, Alfonso proved too weak to
resist the archaic pretensions of the
army, the nobility and the state
church. AS a result he missed his
opportunity to identify himself with
the new aspirations of the Spanish
people and went the way Of all men
royal or otherwise-who are blind be-
cause they will not see.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Foot Ball Still Supreme.

With yesterdays foot ball games, the
regular gridiron season of 1881 comes
to close. For sweet charity's sake
there will be few other contests, not
ably the Army Navy clash in New York
on December IL, and some intersec-
tional games on the Pacific Coast dur
ing the approaching holidays. But
public interest in foot ball is generally
over for this year.
The course of the season just ended
was observed with more than ordinary
interest, and not without concern, by
lovers of Americas greatest college
sport. University officials, the Car
negie Foundation, athletic authorities
and others showed signs of viewing with
alarm the semi professionalism racket"
as college foot ball recently was irrev-
erently described by Columbia campus
paper. The fear was taking root that
the game was doomed to fall into ire
trfePaole disrepute through the sheer
weight of its vast popularity, with the
emphasis laid upon huge gates" Of
65, 900 and upward and the CONNER
cialism seen as inseparable from admis-
sion receipts running into the hundreds
Of thousands of dollars per game.
But the test of whether foot ball is
wanted by the public lies in its invinci-
BILE drawing power. With all its semi
professionalism" If by that is meant
the acme of perfection which many
teams achieve, the sport has been kept
clean. That accounts in large meas
ure for the peoples love Of foot ball.
They feel that it is played by splendidly
trained young Americans in spirit Of
laudable ambition to excel, but inspired
always by the desire to do so only by
fair means. The roughneck in the line
Of scrimmage or the backfield nowadays
is detected almost as speedily by the
crowds in the stands as by the umpires
on the gridiron. and the way Of such
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Policies of Representative HI. T. Rainey
Prospective Democratic House Leader

notes that European countries are just
as ambitious to diminish agricultural
importations from us as we are to en-
large agricultural expectations to them.
It is in this light that he now con-
siders the revived proposal for "the
equalization fee" and the debenture
plan."
Farm Relief and Tariff. Mr. Rainey
observes that present European tariffs
against foreign farm products indicate
firm determination to adopt counter
vailing devices against us If we should
attempt to facilitate agricultural eX-
portationS through "the equalization
fee" or "the debenture plan" He feels
that a new face has been put upon
such plans by the new protective poll
cies on the other side Of the Atlantic.
He is convinced that the American
farm relief problem has now been
caught up into the larger general inter-
national tariff problem. He thinks that
it is now necessary to solve both prob
lens by international action. He main-
tains that the international tariff con-
ferences which he favorS should be so
conducted as to enlarge our foreign
markets for our agricultural commodi-
ties and thus render possible genuine
ly workable farm relief" scheme.
X X X r
House Rules. Mr. Rainey favors re-
vising the rules of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the direction of making
it easier to rescue a bill from a hostile
committee and to debate 1t and pass
it or reject it on the House floor.
The Norris Lame Duck" Constitu-
tional Amendment. Mr.. Rainey IS for
it. He thinks that the Congress should
come into session reasonably soon after
receiving its mandate from the people.
Muscle Shoals. Mr.. Rainey is for
public-and not private-mastery Of the
Muscle Shoals plant
Unemployment Insurance. Mr.. Raj
ney tends toward favoring Federal en-
couragement to unemployment insur-
ance more or less in line with the sug-
gestions OF Senator Wagner of New
York.
Employment Exchanges. Mr.. Rainey
supports the Wagner bill for Federal as
Sistance to State agencies engaged In
the finding of employment for the un-
employed.
Anti-injunction. Mr.. Rainey believes
that the present power Of judges in the
issuances of injunctionS in labor dis
putes should be narrowed.
In General. The legislative influence
of Mr.. Rainey will be toward what
might be called "progressivism with
out too much free wheeling"
Copyright, 1s31)
Evening star., 1931-11-29
The Christmas Seals.

The sale of Christmas seals for the
benefit Of the organized forces fighting
| the spread of tuberculosis long since
reached the desirable status of an ac-
cepted custom. Washington has always
responded generously to the appeal that
is voiced through these cheerful re-
| minders of the season, so easily utilized
to spread greetings and at the same
time doing their part to furnish the
hard cash necessary to carry on the
praiseworthy work Of the tuberculosis
Association. Last year Washington's
sale per capita was next to the highest
in any city of the Nation, and the reve-
nue. yielded from this source was ap-
proximately $4,000 The tuberculosis
Association relies chiefly on the sale Of
these seals to carry forward its work.
This year it is hoped to realize $4,000
from the seal sales to support an en-
larged program. The tuberculosis As
sociation wishes to broaden the work
of the children's clinic, now held two
half-days week. 1t hopes to increase
the scope Of the service of the work.
ers who follow up the cases reported
through the Health Department. 1t
hopes to take the step demanded by
, the increasing number of applicants
and establish a Summer camp for chill
dren that will take care Of all those
who seek admission, moving the camp
from its present congested quarters at
Fourteenth and Upshur streets to a site
in the country, and it hopes to extend
the work of visitation, advice and help
among the colored.
These are tangible parts Of pro-
gram, the success of which depends
upon a generous response to the silent
appeal of the little green stickerS. Your
purchase Of these seals, their use on
packages and letters, will guarantee the
success that the tuberculosis Associa-
ton deserves.
There are other steps in the pro-
gram that are more dependent upon
legislation and the support Of the COM
munity through increased appropria-
tions Of public funds-one Of these be-
ing the acquisition of enlarged facil-
tiles for the care of adult patients at
the tuberculosis Hospital. 1t is an
old axiom in the fight against tuber-
culosis that the number of hospital
beds for patients should at least equal
the number Of deaths. In Washington
there are only 230 beds available, thirty
Of these being in temporary quarters
at Gallinger. The deaths from tubercu-
losis reported last year totaled $40, and
it is probable that there were others
not so classified.
While the money has been appro-
priated, the land bought and plans
drawn for the children's Sanitarium,
which would IN such a long felt need
in Washington, bids on this project are
yet to be advertised. It is hoped that
developments at the coming session
Of Congress will make up for the un-
pardonable delay thus far encountered
at the District Building.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Cutting the Hollywood Scale.

From Hollywood comes a report that
conference of motion picture pro-
ducers and distributors IN progress
there is considering the application of
a twenty per cent cut in the pay of
high-priced film stars and directors. 1t
is stated that the officials have virtually
agreed to such a reduction in all the
iesEef studios, notwithstanding the ex-
istence of contracts. This economy is
understood as necessary to keep the in
dustry. out Of the red" No report
comes of the reaction of the film IA
vorites to this proposed reduction of
pay. 1t is likely, however, that there
will be no strike
For some time past the film industry
has been in financial difficulties. Pat
ronage has lessened somewhat within
the prevalence Of the depression; there
have been some costly failures Of ex-
pensive productions to draw audiences;
the banker element, which now controls
the industry to a great extent, has de-
manded that the business be brought
down to the basis of balanced budgets.
Some years ago much was made Of
the lavish salaries paid to film perform
ers. The publicity promoters Of the
industry exploited the princely stipends
paid to studio leaders. Then the public
grew rather impatient. 1t became less
tnteRted Ia the personal fortunes OF