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SALE OR RENT-CoBB ISLAND ooTTAo
large shaded grounds. water front dan
ball on water, good for business. 10
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SALE Or EXCHANGE.

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SPLENDID BARGAIN.
MODERN sIx-RooM DETACHED RESI-
DENCE, h.-w.h., stone fireplace, large lot,
garage, paved alley. old trees near Mnlttlsr
scnool. Only So 75u; 900 cash, OWNER,
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6chools. Georgia 2T47-J
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A. H sHLLINGTON.
Assistant Secretary.
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7-RoOM BRICK HOUSE, AMI, NEW
stream in front and high hills in rear. pos
Siblilties Tor beautiful country estate; 10
acres. Florist owner nov making $4,000
year ia miles from Alexandria and Ia
miles from washington on hard-surtaced
road ai2 500, reasonable cash payment.
NJ. +. CHURCH,
The Washington times., 1931-08-18
Hawks AND GIRL
ESCAPE FINES

Treasury officials announced
today that the $500 fine levied
against Captain Frank Hawks,
premier speed pilot, for landing
illegally in the United States
from Montreal, will be refunded.
The fine was assessed against
Captain Hawks by Deputy Gus
toms Collector Benjamin Heath
at Burlington, VT, on Sunday
when the noted aviator failed
to report at either of the two
nearby ports of entry.
A similar fine was levied on
Miss Maude Cate Of Springfield,
Mass, who was flying a plane
directly behind Captain Hawks
as he crossed the border from
Montreal. That too, will be re-
mitted.
Commissioner of Customs F. x.
A. Eble said in stating the Treas
ury Departments position on the
fines:
1--WE haven't the slightest
doubt that Captain Hawks OBJ
served all laws against bring
ing cOntraband into the cOun.
try. Undoubtedly he did not
bring in any goods requiring
tariff duty"
The Washington times., 1931-08-18
DroUe Drunk's Car
Without Permit,
Boy Freed

Charles H. Davis. colored. IS,
did a good deed the other
day.
When he was arraigned be-
fore Judge Charles II. Wood
ward in police court at Rock
vile yesterday upon a charge
of driving without a permit,
the testimony showed that
young Davis was walking on
Norbeck Road. near Silver
Spring, when he observed a
drunken driver weaving back
and forth across the highway,
and apparently almost helpless.
The boy preferred his assist
ance and, taking the wheel.
drove the man until he met a
police officer, who srrested
both of them. Judge Wood
ward did not hesitate after
he heard the testimony to dis,
miss the youth.
The Washington times., 1931-08-18
Life Underwriters
To Picnic Thursday

Outing of the District of Co
lumbia Life Underwriters will be
held at the Congressional Coun-
try Club next Thursday. There
will be progressive bridge tour
nament in the afternoon open
to all women and to men who pre-
fer bridge to golf. There will
be a swim in the early evening
to be followed by dancing.
HoStesSeS will be Mrs. Paul
Sleeper and Mrs. j. Allen Maphis.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Street Car Merger
Desirable for Companies and Public

Street riders of this city been suffering many
years under the inconvenience and extravaganza resulting
from the operation of two street companies
The public has not always borne this hardship compaceny
and occasions has exered its efforts bring
about unificaton of the street systems.
The competing companies have likewise suffered because
of their mutual existence Operating expenses high and
revenues low, for both Of the companies
Recently the situation has become particularly ACUTE espec
ally for the companies Revenues have been the tobggn
due in part to the increased competition of taxcabs and priv
ate automobiles.
Considerable could be saved the companies both
weak they could be merged into single strong organza
tion.
Considerable inconvenience could be the public
the companies neither of which is giving the highest
type of SERVICE could be merged into efficient organza
ton.
Officials of the companies on various occasions have
shat they favor merger
Certainly the people of Washington have indicated that
they want the companies to get together
The Public Utilities Commission has resubmted to Con-
gress merger resolution which failed of action during the
recent short session.
For the good of the companies their stockholders the
public Congress should speedily take the resolution thrash
out whatever differences may arise Details and give the
city unified and efficient street service under economic
management.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Tax Sale Moratorium
Welcome, But Dangerous

Only the severe economic crisis through which the country
passing would make advisable the proposal of Representative
Mary Norton chairman of the District Committee that
those who delinquent in real estate taxes be given
of grace
Under existing conditions Mrs Nortons suggestion wise
and humane should be the first local passed by
the Congress.
Unless her bill is enacted of $1,000 pieces of real
tate in the city will their property sold for back taxes
Their only alternative in most cases. would be
lenders loan sharks and borrow enough money exorbtant
rates to satisfy the government.
The District government is rue is suffering decn-
ing just the Federal and other municipal gov
ernmen But it not feeling the pinch any than
its humble citizens
Some of those citizens stand chance of losing entirely their
life savings invested in real estate at least of having their
titles tainted by tax sales
danger undoubtedly arises when certain group of citizens
Is allowed special privilege in matters of taxation
But Mrs Norton tax sale moratorium bill guards against
the danger by providing that the eniency thus shown shall
carry beyond January, 1888
Until that date at least emergency condition will exist
emergency which entities pressed citizens
consideration from their government
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Unable to Make
Both Ends Meet

The press comments IN
Berlin reveal the fact that
Germany has had no idea OF
the seriousness of the crisis
here. "Germania" finds
evidence in the Presidents
confession of "a worse de-
preston in the United States
than had been generally ap-
parent. Z" To the nations
prone to look upon us as
the world Santa Claus, it
must be disturbing to learn
that we ourselves are un-
able at present to make both
ends meet.
It is going to take some
time to balance our own
budget; and it will be longer
before we again smugly and
sternly call On Europe to
balance hers. Certainly we
are in no condition to play
the benefactor of mankind
by taking over the debts OF
other nations and paying
them out Of the pockets OF
our own people.
There is not a scintilla Of
doubt that the Administra-
ton, in it's policies and
through it's conversations
with the debtor nations, is
moving toward further re-
ductions or, what it amounts
to in the end, the transfer
of the debts of other nations
to the taxpayers of this
country. This plan, ready or
in the making, is to be i'm
posed upon us because oYr
bankers have made extrava-
giant private loans in Eu-
rope which cannot be read
lily liquidated if the people
in the nations where the
loans were placed are to be
taxed to repay what they
borrowed from the Ameri-
can vernme ment. The
"butcher, the baker, the
candlestick maker" are to
be taxed to pay the debts
of foreign governments so
that the private loan may
be paid at good interest to
the American banker.
That makes these private
loans the public's business.
And that justifies the de-
mand of Senator johnson.
I'VE want to know who
floated these loans, under
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

sometimes" he conceded reluct-
antly. But what I meant was
this. Take four men discussing
a business deal. They'll sit down.
Make themselves comfortable.
Light their pipes or cigars. Ease
into the proposition gradually.
Tell a few good stories. Kid
each other awhile. Swap golf
scores. Then gradually work
their way around to the reason
for the meeting.
"All this while, of course, each
man will have his own idea Of
what he wants to do and will be
Sparring for his opening. But
he doesn't get burnt up while
he is waiting. He is used to that
sort of thing. all the men
before him have been used to it.
Business doesn't get his goat
not if he's a regular fellow. He
takes it as part Of the days
work."
"Well-doesn't a woman?
Even if women aren't as used
to business as men, they have
hung up some mighty fine rec
ords."
They Burn Up
IT know they have. But they
go at it differently. Women, in
business, are much more intense
than men. They use them
selves up more than men. They
get personal and excited-Take
those four men doing business.
Generally speaking, as long as
men are working with men,
things go easily. They may put
some swift ones over on each
other. They may drive each
other into tight corners. But
they don't lose their heads
while they're doing it.
But let a woman come into
the situation. She may be
just as smart as the men-even
smarter. But from the minute
she enters the combination, the
starts complications. Know
how the air gets charged with
electricity sometimes - until
everything crackles if you touch
1t? That's what most women
do to a business situation. Even
If a woman doesn't open her
mouth you can actually FEEL
the excitement that's in her
the suspicion and resentment
the determination to have her
say and get her own way,
Women can't touch business
without getting personal. And
the minute you get personal
about a business deal, there's
trouble.
That's what I called static
And that's why men don't like
to work with women in busi-
ness"
That's what he said. That's
what I said. What do YOU
say? Let's hear.
Copyright, 1881, King Features
syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

stockings were then 81 a pair.
And can't you picture poor,
tired Dad reading THAT one
aloud to Mother and the girls?
But as yet, there have been
no casualties from silk stock
ings-and the only lightning
they ever attracted was the
lightning of fathers wrath.
The loudest boo" of all,
which rose to a roar of protest,
was the "boo" against the
votes for women. If women got
the ballot, they would become
masculine - and UNATTRAC-
TIVE! They would lose their
lovely curves. and grow mus
taches and develop bass voices!
Worst of all, with the coming
of equal rights" all masculine
CHIVALRY would disappear!
And that time they guessed
right! For, with the coming
of feminism, masculine chivalry
HAS disappeared. And we
mourn its loss. But, perhaps,
some of the younger set, who
never knew it's charms and
thrills, would find it rather
stuffy beside modern comara-
derie. Just as those, who have
never tasted pre-war liquor
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

THE London News -Chron-
l. icle, commenting on the
revelations or American
conditions in the President s
message, conclu d e s that
"the United States is a very
sick country" and the Lon
don M orning Telegraph
says:
President Hoover un-
folded a melancholy story,
showing that the Federal
Treasury is in a far worse
position than the British
exchequer."
To Americans, who have
been fed by the AdminiStra-
ton on Pollyanna reassur-
ances, this will be startling.
We are constantly hearing
from Administration quar-
ters that the United States
is most fortunate in not be-
ing in such a bad condition
as the countries of Europe.
We have pointed out the in
sincerity of this statement
many times. It is sheer
nonsense, it is pure fabrica-
tion, to imply that France
is in as bad a condition as
the United States. In COM
parison, France is rolling in
prosperity, wit h out our
deficit, without our neces-
sity enormously to increase
taxes, and with but 100000
jobless men to our 6,5OO,OOO.
In England, as the Lon
don paper says, the ex-
chequer is not confronted,
even proportionately, with
anything like the deficit that
confronts us now; and pro-
portionately she has no more
unemployed than we have.
We are now forced to sub
nit to a most drastic in
crease in taxation which is
not likely to hasten the re-
turn Of normal conditions.
Under these circumstances,
what is to be said Of a gov
ernment that will agree to
transfer the debts of Eng
land, France and the other
debtor nations from the
shoulders of their taxpayers
to the backs of our own?
Lady Bountiful in Rags
is up against the bread-and-
butter proposition now.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

life!
Remember when they ter
rorized us with the same awful
prediction about the bob? Cut
ting the hair would soon end
it's life, and we girls should all
be in the billiard-ball class with
Grandpa (BooD.
Yet, women went right on
bobbing-and with every bob,
the hair grew thicker and
thicker, until it had to be
"thinned out That's just
Natures little way of balanc-
ing things.
Then came all the dire and
solemn warnings against the
cigarette. Not only was smok-
ing a harmful and unladylike
habit; but it would lead to
early senility. 1t would cause
WRINKLES! And WATTLES!
And yellow skin! Naughty,
naughty!
Yet, there are no signs Of
withered age or senility on the
faces of the lovely ladies who
lend their pictures and testi-
monialS to the cigarette ads.
The funniest admonition of
them all was the frightful dis
covery widely broadcast, that
silk stockings would attract
lightning. Recall that one? Silk
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

gusting to use ELSIE ROBINSON
an argument like that. An
intelligent, self-respecting wom-
an doesn't use Sex Appeal IN
business any more than a man."
I'm not saying she does.
It's just like you women to
jump to an assumption and
get all smoked up over it. BY
static" I didn't mean sex. But
I did mean emotion. I don't
like to work with women in
business because they inject
emotion into it."
But men are emotional
"Of course they are. But
they've learned how to handle
their emotions in business. They
think things through"
do you mean to say that wo-
men don't think? That's not
fair. Women have just as good
brains as men. They may not
have had as much business
training, but"
Women and Brains
That's just the point. I'm
not denying that women have
brains. But they haven't learned
how to STAND their brains.
They can't take their own intelli'
gence as a matter Of course.
They can't forget their brains
do teamwork. And so when
they try to work with men IN
business, there's trouble.
What kind of trouble? I
guess you mean that men resent
it because women are often
smarter than they?" This time
I grinned. He bristled.
"Well, I guess that's So
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

might prefer the "kick" of bad
gin to the mellow glow of old
wine. Who knows?
No doubt, way back in the
Garden of Eden, Adam said
"Boo!" every time Eve tried a
new fashion in fig-leaves or
found a new use for cocoanut
shells. But, somehow, the cry
of boo" doesn't make a
woman jump, these days.
And ladies will continue to
go platinum. just as long as
men continue to fall for high
power blondes! BOO!
Copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
THE AMPH1B1AN TANK COMES ASHORE

climbing up Shore the operator visible above the urret
This is of many things that will make the next
interesting, and UNPLEASANT.
The GREATEST of fighting machines of course will be
the airpane with its bombs and deadly gases.
But these tank monsters scurrying land and water
with arplanes above to direct and protect them, will play
important part.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

You read this column about the amphibian tanks
caerpllar invented by Captains Garden and Lloyd
Britishers.
These Garden-Loyd tanks with machine guns and heavier
guns and steel protect the operator swiftly
the land and in spite of their weight swim
any river or lake.
The upper picture shows the swimming amphibian The
lower picture shows the LAND water
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

"B e c a u S e
they're S t a.
tic. He grin
ned. I briS-
tied.
20 h, for
heavens sake
Il S u p pose
y ou m e a n
that old no.
GlOu d " U u y
women drag
ging Sex Ap-
pc al in t o
business. But
that's so stu
pid! It's dis
-,,o%;-~ %NIJCn
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
WISE WORDS

Men are able to trust one an
other, knowing the exact degree
of dishonesty they are entitled
to expect.-Leacock.
The greatest trust between
man and man is the trust Of Civ.
ing CounSel.-Bacon.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
DO YOU KNOW THAT

A small incendiary bomb,
weighing two pounds, and six and
a half inches long, designed to
pierce armament, has been de
veloped by John w. Currell.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

An engineer in Scotland has
invented a new lubricant, which
gives warning of the danger of
overheating bearings by emitting
a specific odor.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

Boo!
Boo! All platinum blondes
will soon be bald!
Bleaching th1 hair to silver
whiteness is an atrocity, which
causes it to give up the strug-
gle, and depart without warn
ing. The platinum-blonde will
soon be spurlos versankt! So
declares masculine prophet,
sadly.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

Are Women Static in Business?
Why" said I to him, don't
you like to work with women
IN hinciHncc 0O
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Simply Stopped Paying
Off the Debt"

SSFFSN ~ AAA6
Off the Debt"
The Mellon or AdminiStra-
tion tax plan will not be
adopted in it's entirety. 1t
satisfies no one. 1t is i'm
possible for any tax plan to
satisfy everyone. The retro
active feature of the pro-
posed plan, the lowering of
the income tax exemptions to
reach almost two million
people of small incomes, are
under attack.
The Democratic leaders in
the House and Senate will
formulate their substitute
proposal only after a thor
Ough study of the situation,
and Congress and the people
will have an opportunity to
pass upon the two proposals.
From Democratic sources we
hear the same suggestion
that comes from DR.. Selig-
man, the political economist
of Columbia, when he says:
1T is seriously open to
question whether it is proper
to continue the policy of re-
firing about $50O,0O0,00O of
bon ds annually, as the
United States is doing at
present"
Under the sinking furd
law this is required; but for
a decade the Administration
has prided itself on paying
off the debt faster than re-
quired by the law. And DR..
Seligman submits:
Is it wise to observe the
letter of the law at a time
when such excessive bur-
dens are to be imposed on
the community"
The nation was confronted
by precisely the same prob
lem at the time of the panic
Of 1878; and then, acting on
the spirit rather than the
letter of the law, the Gov
ernment simply stopped
paying off the debt" dur
ing the lean years. We shall
hear something of this in
Congress, we have no doubt.
To Get the Record
Straight
The Administrations s plan
of economy is worth care
full study. We are, under
this plan, to spend less on
public works to furnish en-
ployment to the breadwin-
nerS out Of work than at
any time in three years.
Evidently the Administra-
ton, which never has mani
tested notable interest in
the unemployment problem,
is not going to try. Of
course it is not planning to
supplement the funds raised
by private charity and the
appropriations of other gov
ernmental units out of the
FeHeral Treasury.
Now, no one is going to
ask it unless it is necessary
to prevent women and chill
dren from starving or dying
because of exposure and in
that event the Federal Gov
ernment is not going to
wash its hands of human
misery. The cry of "dole"
is not going to act as a
barricade between the starva-
ton of Americans and gov
ernmental action.
In the debate on the mes
sage, when the Democrats
attacked the record of the
Hoover Administration, no
attempt was made to an
swer. Instead, when one
Democratic member COM
mented on the fact that the
humanitics have no place in
the Presidents program the
Administration forces joined
in the jeering cry-"dole. "
Now, just to get the record
straight, we would like to
know: Whether the Presi-
dent does not urge county,
State and city governments
to appropriate money raised
by taxation to prevent star
vation? Whether this money
from county, city and State
treasures is a "dole q"
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Lady BOuntiful in
Rundown Heels
-Bu Claude G. BOUers

what authority, in what
quantities and how much
compensation was received.
We want to ascertain why
the American people should
be compelled as a whole to
stabilize securities held by
private bankers and enable
these banks to collect the
full amount of interest upon
these securities they hold,
while the Government col
lects nothing upon the Sc
curities it holds for all the
people"
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Oh, yea? Well, somebody is

always taking the joy out Of
life!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Heart Trouble

This my help"
Mcmillan aged 49, who collapsed from hunger
New kitchen and died later at hospital
Welfare workers." the Associated Press. attributed his
death to starvation, although the death certificate read heart
detestabe hypocrisy capitalist authority which
example lengths capitalists
Of the workers behind the claim that their miserable charities
adequately meeting the need" Of the unemployed millions
starvation undoubtedly stops
So he listed heart trouble 1t form heart trouble
from which the capitalists still ENJOYING their steaks and salads their
comfortable clothing nracuouy exempt In fact
goes misery
capitalist whole troubled
example cynical
in New York Proposed primarily and noisy by the socialists Rev
gzzng pal Haywood solution
finally the idea of city employment"
installed fat jobs
thousands.
When the City appropriate
graft wehdden legal there not
representatives the Unemployed Councils whose thousands
onstratng
attention the fact that he a CRATER.
demonstration the
cream" Tammany
supposedly
Committee which that grating
the number of heads destitute runs up to sends
adequate amouns-to only $4,000.
Besides this Committee sort
ing charity swndle
furnish employment handful of bess
jobs
unemployment keeps increasing This committee which
shkngered guidance of Al Smith, asks the city
appropriate
Corporation y legal always
Walkers opinion has advised Walker
the city charter which would
the appropriation"
This probably expressing the faconal hostility within
Tanany gentry
the
Norman Thomas registered at 500 paid him getting
unemployment SISTER fascist
copies of which the unemployed selling
This sinking high heaven it duplicated
this illustrates hypocrisy
trouble the the murder thousands
Workers employed
jobes that the capitalist
starvation policy hypocrisy and thieyery is unite
of the Council
struggle for Unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
War Dept, Legion Officials Agree
On Consumption for Coming War

There is rush for war preparations
in the United States. While the Ca
pitalists prepare their factories for
war, the War Department is already
perfecting details for mobilizing the
workers for the next slaughter. Right
after Secretary of War Hurley an
nounced Thursday that the Congress
sional Committee had completed its
CONSUMPTION scheme, the leading boss
controlled war veteran organization
officials stated " were in full agree
ment with his scheme.
Commander Ralph T. O'Neal of the
American Legion, appeared before
Secretary of War Hurley on Friday
and said he is ready to mobilize for
war He said the system of mobil-
izing for the next war should pro-
vide for immediate mobilization of
men, money. materials and food, fin
ing of prices. including wages and
regulation and distribution of pro-
duction." While the profits Of the
bosses will be guaranteed and in
creased by this CONTROL" the workers