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The Washington times., 1931-05-07
LetjAU Go
Shipping
THREE-PIECE COTTON
MESH SUITS, $5.95
BY Patricia Lex

Cotton mesh will be a sum-
mer favorite for all daytime
wear, and you'll agree that to
find three-piece suits at this
price is unusual. They are in
combinations of color, with
gored or pleated skirts, frilly
blouSeS, and jackets that are
belted, or may be worn loose.
In light colors and pastels.
Sizes IL to IT.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-02
POETIC APPEAL

Critic-The first line of your new
poem will appeal to everyone who
knows poetry.
Poet-Indeed.
Critic-Yes. It reads II would
that l were dead"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-02
THE SYMPTOMS

He speaks of the warmth of his
affection"
Does he"
"Yes, and then he says l cast a
chill over his existence"
Are you sure it is love he is de-
scribing and not malaria?"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-02

"Yes, | served in de army for four
years."
AN wuz yeh honorably dis
charged?"
discharged? Well, l should say
not. up en- quit on me own hook"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-02
"Oh, about five sodas.'

Summer Man-How can | win
you for my very own?
Summer Girl-You fellows might
get up rattle. I'm engaged to
seven of you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22

dark and there is the living spirit of Edison in the heart of million sockets.
 Get that photograph record that, too, is Edison.
 Call the grocer on the phone that's Edison.
 Step on the self-starter of your motorcar; drive it over concrete roads-all Edison.
 Even the copper cents with which you bought this newspaper are not copper at all but Edison's alloy.
 Ride the subway-thats Edi- son.
 That light over your head in bed as you become absorbed in some story is Edison.
 You will meet him hundreds of times every day. You may not know it, but he is So woven into the warp and wool of that tangled skein We call modern life that the fabric could not hold together without him.
 NEXT: The human side of the great inventor who often slept for two weeks at time in his labora- tory, though his home was only a stones throw away. Intimate details about the greatest inventive genius of the age, plain man nevertheless.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22
No. l in a Series of 12 Exclusive Stories as Told By a Lifelong Associate

preserves. It was making her restful occupation of knitting a futile and costly waste. It was starting the change that was to leave her with nothing but wo- mems club work to occupy her time, to the meetings of which she was to journey from her home in the deep recesses of mortarej steel walls.
 The change had begun. It wa,, however, waiting. It was waiting for two things-power and light.
 The crucible was sitting on the furnace, but the furnace was not hot. The work was ready to bs done, but there was not the power big enough to move the wheels.
 The industrial setup that was to- rule America had been fore shadowed, in its major outlines, but it needed the spark to make 1t go: To understand how great change occurred after 1879. one must understand that Yale pro- lessor had just issued the novel theory that oil oozing up out Of the ground could be used for light. Locomotives were doing 30 miles the hour. Whale oil was being put into lamps. and the wicks trimmed.
 There was no time for Edison to lose.
 To determine just how fast he really did his work, look at the clock Let its 12 hours represent the rise of the human species from the old femur of Pithecanthropus erectus to the grave of Edison.
 Eleven hours have gone by and still man has never known any thing better than a horse for trans portation.
 It is 11:30 and urgent calls for the doctor are achieved by shanks' mare.
 It is quarter to 12 and father home from the days grind has never seen a paper or a magazine.
 But at one and one-half min utes to midnight, the world begins to move and in the year 1879 in Il small unpretentious little frame building located in Menlo Park, N. J., sits the man whose brain IS to send progress off at such break neck speed.
 His job was to light a world!
 Edison was to help strong men carve out of the richest natural re- sources in civilization the most colossal individual fortunes on rec ord. Millions were feeling the ap- proach of that goddess of fortune. There was a vibrant optimism in hte conversation of men.
 In the twilight of this memor- able year the stage was being set for the stupendous drama that was to carry the American nation from a pastoral scene dotted with innumerable little hamlets. and with milk k-from-the-cow notions Of sanitation and convenience, into the high-powered life of our times, and our subways. airplanes. sky scrapers, whizzing automobiles our blaze of light and speed ! and restlessness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22

In this drama, of course. Thom- as Ava Edison was to be chief actor. Yet he was to have many helpers, among them Major Will liam Joseph Hammer. scientist, who in this tale permits, by his recoflections, the clear revelation of the story before the legend de- scends on 1t and confuses 1t for ever.
 Because of those recollections, there will be procession of glori- ous anecdotes, a revelation of the man Edison, in terms of human stuff, and not of myth.
 Yet to understand the material one must pause here and under stand just how plainly one era was giving way to another. Ex-ferry- boat .man, Vanderbilt was racing from his first $10,000,000 to the mammoth fortune of the hour-a cool $100,000,00
 Out in the coal fields of Penn sylvania a barefoot miner boy was asking for a loan of $50.000 from the father of Andrew w. Mellon and getting it. He was to become Prick, the audacious.
 Business was moving out of the home. It was leaving the super vision of the housewife. and setting up in struggling little factories.
 It was also to do so many other things that we cannot move through our day without coming into contact unnumbered times with the doings of Edison.
 He speaks from the grave more nightly than any other man Of any day.
 Rush to your brokers office and grab the ticker feverishly-that's Edison.
 File your telegraphic greetings to your mother on her birthday or speed g. message to your sweet heart-that's Edison. Stroll down Broadway after
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22

Someone has been bothering Thomas Alva Edison, master of the world-changers, child of his cen- tury, embodiment of human pro- gress in its clearest form.
 This someone is pompous man. He is Mir Bailey, of Puskas & Bailey, New York financier. with a great deal of money. He has been hanging around the lab oratory in Menlo Park, and an- moving Edison and his handful of workers with proposals to get ir with Edison and develop the Eu- rc~>an Edison companies.
 It is late at night, and MT Bailey has missed his last train back to New York. He wants to know where he can slepe. Edison shrugs his shoulders.
 "There is an old cot back of the organ" he says, where you can rest your Delmonico bones.'
 Bailey sniffs. But he is tired. He sees others of the Edison men sleeping on laboratory tables. and he decides that the cot will do. He stretches out. In a moment he is snoring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22
New Haven County
 Medical Society

At the meeting of the New Ha- ven County Medical association to be held this evening at the Castle Memorial building on Central ave- nue, the speakers will be Dr. Ralph H. Boots of the Presby- terian hospital in New York city and Dr. Howard w. Haggard. as- sociate professor of applied physi- ology at Yale. Admitted to the so- ciety will be five local doctors, Dr. Myron Fox. Dr. James J. Hennes- sey. pr. Edwin Pyle, Dr. Joseph J. HelZel and Dr. O. J. BiZzozero.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22

In a moment Edison and his aides surround the cot. Working with screwdrivers. they swiftly and expertly take every screw out of the frame of the pallet. One of them fastens a long copper wire to the spring. which is rolled out to the other end of the labor atory.
 The wire is yanked. The bed crashes to earth, carrying with 1t the highly alarmed and furious Bailey. His rage is frightful.
 "Sir," he bellows. "I have never been so insulted in my life" Edison shrugs his shoulders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22
WAKE UP YOUR
 LIVER BILE WITHOUT CALOMEL And You'll Jump Out of Bed in
 the Morning Karin to Go

If you feel sour and sunk and the world ioo<s punk, don't swallow . lot of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing gum and expect them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine.
 For they can't do 1t They only move the bowels and mere movement doesn't get as the cause. The reason for your down-and-out feeling is your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
 If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You have . thick, bad taste and your breath is foul, skin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head aches and you feel down and out Your whole system is poisoned.
 It takes those good, old CAMPERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel up and up." They contain wonderful, harmless, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing when it comes to making the bile flow freely.
 But don't ask for liver pills. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills Look for the name Carter's Little Liver Pills on the red label. Resent . substitute. 25c at all stores. o 1881 C. N. Ce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22

EDITORS NOTE: This is the
 first of IF exclusive stories on the
 intimate side of Thomas A. Edi-
 son, the famous inventor, as told
 by his lifelong associate and
 friend since bOyhood.
 By WILLIAM JOSEPH HAMMER Noted Scientist and Lifelong Asso-
 ciate of Thomas A. Edison, as
 Told to Willis J. BaIlinger. ( Copyright 1881 NEA Service, Incl
 Modern civilization was born on the second floor of a two-story wooden building at Menlo Park. N. J.
 It is surprising to be able to localize the place so exactly. Yet one may go a step further. It Is possible to fix the time, too.
 The year was 1879, an ominous year.
 In that year the world was gird- ing itself for the greatest leap ahead in simple, physical progress, that it had ever made-perhaps the great est leap ever to be made.
 The eighties were coming, with the strange, new kind of prosperity they were to bring. It would be a fat and lush prosperity. and IL would be prosperity such as the world had never seen before. be- cause 1t would be based on new things. To accomplish that pros perity the entire race would have to drag itself up by it's bootstraps. The worlds thinking about power, about light, about communications, would have to be changed.
 The world was to be transformed from something very close to the middle ages. to something very close to to-day-all because in that year there was thought being taken by practical men over the great unchangeables among hu- man phenomena, work, illumina. ton, transfer of words and thought.
 One would expect the heavens to cast a sombre glamour over tn, place where these practical men labored and took their thought.
 One would expect to find these men dedicated solemnly to their great tasks. living lives of denial and abnegation. preparing them selves by ritual and rite for the very important business of taking one world and making it into an- other.
 Turn to the actual picture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22
WASHINGTON PARK
 COMMUNITY CLUB

The meeting of the Washington Park Community club called for tonight has been postponed until next Thursday evening. This action was taken because it was believed everybody will be out shopping and there would not be enough present to make a quorum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22
THE STORAGE BkTTERY---
 HIS EARLY ELECTRIC AUTO

"What did you come here for. anyway" he asks. Bailey stalks out into the night, and the boys at the laboratory tables set up a great whoop of delight.
 They were about to effect the greatest changes in human kind i1 recorded history. But they be- come hysterical at the sight of the debris of the bed, and slap each other on the backs. A handful of laughing. yelling, dirty men, in disreputable clothes. eyes dull from lack of sleep. led by a rather fat, smiling young man, who-despite the legend loves to act, loves to hear a rowdy story, loves practical jokes.
 The World Changers!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-22

These, then, were the men sanctified to changing the world, at work in their dingy building on a sunny eminence in a New Jersey townlet. Take a cross-glimpse Of the world upon which they were to operate so extensively.
 It has been said that an un- precedented time of prosperity was at hand. It was also to be the longest stretch of good times in our history.
 Business was robbing mother of the chance to make her beloved
The Washington times., 1931-08-20

TUNE IN-The Battle of
MMsic-Re Regular Lucky
Strike Dance Orchestra VS..
Lucky Strike Summer Party
Orchestra IN. B. C. net.
sUorkS every Tuesday, Thurs.
day and Saturday - mail
Sour choice to Lucky Strike,
III 5th Ave, N. Y. c.
N1oal The Aoaar;esa sTNohaeea r
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
Wise Americans
Now Demand
Kruschen Salts
Keep You in Good Health
Skin Clear and Body
Free from Excess Fat

Just think of it: these new, bet
ter and different salts were only
introduced into America years
ago-yet a host of intelligent
Americans are healthier and hap
pier because of their supreme
goodness.
Kruschen Salts are the daily
health dose of millions of people
the world over.
One half teaspoon of Kruschen in a
glass of hot water every morning gently
but surely stimulates the liver, bowels
and kidneys to healthy elimination.
But the six salts in Kruschen do
more than cause regular elimination
the man or woman who takes them
regularly need have no fear Of poisons
poiluting the system which is the cause
of many annoying and depressing ills.
One bottle of Kruschen Salts nasts 4
weeks) costs but S5c and one bottle
will prove of vast benefit to people who
have constipation, headaches. indiges-
ton nervousness, rheumatism. depres-
sion acidity and auto-intoxication.
Not only that but one bottle Will
bring about body activiV-increase in
energy vigor and ambition, sparkling
ewes and freedom from pimples and
blemishes-millions know all this-you
ought to know it.
Sold by Peoples Drug Stores and
druggists America over.
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
.Anyway, Red Paper
Couldn't Pay
ShGw'S Rate

LONDON, Aug, 20.-The Daily
Worker, London's Communist
newspaper. has a grievance
against George Bernard Shaw.
To a request for an inter
view on Mr.. Shaw's impres-
sions of the Soviet Union the
authors secretary replied:
In answer to your letter Of
the 7th instant Mr.. Shaw has
asked me to say you, must keep
an eye on the capitalist press
for his articles on Russia as
he comes to call not the right
eous but sinners to repentance.
and his contracts do not allow
him to anticipate his cortri-
buttons by interviews"
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
Wife Killers Body
Is Still Unclaimed

The body of George M. Fusco
who committed suicide Monday
night after shooting his estranged
wife, was still unclaimed at the
District morgue today, and rela'
tives in Brooklyn had not com
nunicated with officials.
The shooting occurred in the
apartment of Mrs. Fuscos sister
in the Cavalier Hotel, of $500
Fourteenth st. N. W., where Mrs
Fusco had been staying. Al
Emergency Hospital, Mrs. Fusco
was said to be improving,
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
c. D. P. GOAD|NG
DEMOCRATS
ON TARIFF
Republican Strategists Aim
to Show Opponents Don't
Want a General Revision
BY WILLIAM C. MURPHY, Jt.

BY WILLIAM C. MURPHY. Jt.
The Republican national com
mittee Is endeavoring to haze the
Democrats into a serious attempt
at a general tariff revision during
the coming session of Congress.
This was revealed today from
. well informed source as the
anomalous explanation Of the flood
of tariff propaganda which has
been pouring from Republican
publicity headquarters in recent
weeks.
Despite declarations from such
Democratic leaders as Senator
Robinson, Of Arkansas, minority
leader. the Republicans are conf.
dent the Democrats will not dare
to initiate a general attack on the
tariff structure on the eve of a
presidential campaign.
See Business Fight
The Republicans base this con.
viction on a belief that a Demo
cratic drive on the tariff at this
time would ALLEVIATE support of
the business elements which the
Democrats have been at such
pains to propitiate since the 1923
election.
The Hawley-Smoot tariff law
is a Republican product, enacted
by a Republican Congress and
signed-with explanations ap-
preaching apologies-by a Re
publican President.
The strategy behind the Re-
publicans' current maneuvering
is to demonstrate to the country
that the Democrats do not really
want a tariff revision. If they
cen do that, Republican leaders
believe, the voters will sense a
ring of insincerity in Democratic
denunciations of the present law.
The G. 0. p. will use that line
of argument in the coming series
of tariff debates between Senators
Pat Harrison, Democrat, Missis-
sippi and L. j. Dickinson, Repub-
lican, Iowa.
Democrats Start 1t
The present statement-making
war had its origin in a declaration
put out by the Democratic ma
tiOnal committee a month or so
ago, praising President HOOver'S
war debtS-reparatiOns moratorium
plan but saying it was necessary
for the Administration to 60 fur
ther and revise the tariff down.
ward.
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
Bomb Hunt Pressed,
TtaLy Is Assured

The Italian government was
assured by the State Depart
ment yesterday that Pennsylva-
mia authorities are doing every
thing possible to apprehend those
responsible for bombing the Ital-
ian consulate two weeks ago.
The State Department trans
mitted to the Italian Embassy
a report from Governor Pinchot
saying the Pittsburgh police are
making an active investigation
and a special squad has been de-
tailed to the case. Damage to
the consulate was estimated at
$4,000, for which the Italian
government will be ndemnified
by the United States.
The Washington times., 1931-08-20

that Is reassuring. Nothing
flighty, see what / mean? They
stay hitched."
So declared Miss Hilda Renard,
of Franklinton, La. recently
elected beauty queen at L. S. u,
when she was asked to define the
type of man that appealed to her.
The Washington times., 1931-08-20

ist, will arrive here today with Q
song leader to conduct a weeks
revival service.
Mrs. Kennedy telephoned the
information to her former hus.
band, Guy z. What a Man" Hud.
son, now Las Vegas automobile
salesman,
The Washington times., 1931-08-20

ward P. Mulrooney announced
that he would ask for an increase
in the police force next year.
More patrolmen are needed to
cope with the crime situation, he
said, but how much of an in.
crease will be asked has not been
decided.
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
PURSE AND JEWELS LOST

A purse containing jewelry val
ued at SIT was reported lost
yesterday by Mary Morris, 1925
Ellerslie Ave. s. E. She discov-
cred the loss at First and 1
Streets Northwest, she said.
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
Beauty Queen Picks
GAY, Happy, Fat Men

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20 Q.N.SO
Fat men are jolly and happey.
They have a sense Of humOr.
There is a sOIidity about them
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
Police Head Wants
More Men for N. Y.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Despite
Mayor James j. Walkers plea
for economy in all city depart
ments. Police Commissioner Ed
The Washington times., 1931-08-20
" Ma" Will Conduct
Rp1,i1,nI .Cor1,icos

AVNOVONV OOE UUOOO
LAS VEGAS, New, Aug. 20 Il.
Minnie Ma" Ken.
nedy, mother of Aimee Semple
Mcpherson, Los Angeles evangel-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Gold.

Gold.
In connection with the present de-
cline Of the gold standard the PUBIC
Library calls attention to the folloWins
magazine articles and books available
at the central building in the reference
and circulation departments:
The Gold Standard.
Postwar Monetary Sterilization, by
Gustav Cassel. 1928. M.C277p.
"In these three essays Prof. Cassel OF
the University of Stockholm studies the
imitation and sterilization Of the worlds
currencies since the war, the stabiliza-
ton Of the value of gold and the new
gold standard" Circulation depart
ment)
CAPITAL. the Money Market and Gold,
by L. D. Edie. 1929. HC .Ed43c.
The author attempts to state facts
that should be used In any attempt TO
analyze "the business and financial out
lock Of the next or 10 years. The
analysis does not forecast the future,
but it presents some elements which
must be used by any one who sets him
self the task Of making definite FORE
cast" Circulation Department.
Bankers as Revolutionaries. by H. N.
Brailsford. New Republic. 68:l2-14.
August 10, 1881.
A frank discussion of the report OF
the Macmillan Committee on Finance
and Industry In England which antici-
pates the present debacle.
Modern Gold Standard with nlustra-
lions from South America, by Gull
lermo SubercaseauX. Translated by
H. T. Ceilings. American Economic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
Veterans of Foreign Wars

Was made of two resolutions adopted
at the thirty-second national ". F. w.
encampment, which advocated the
establishment of Armistice day as q
national holiday, and its observance by
rejoicing, with suitable ceremonies,
parades, feasts and field days, In honor
of the veterans and service men, ana
out of respect for those who have
answered the last roll call, thus per-
petuating the interests OF honorable
peace.
Gen. p. B. Glassford, general director
of the Jubilee, developed the detectives
of the Armistice ball jubilee, as pub
lished in the Bulletin No. /, which pro-
yides for the Armistice day jubilee,
under the auspices of the Veterans OF
FOREIGN Wars Of the District Of Column
bia. to provide funds for the relief
of disabled and destitute. veterans. The
concept Of the entertainment Is an I'M
mense pageant depicting Paris (n1aln
floor and Monte Carlo and Nice sec
ond fioor) on Armistice night, 1913.
Guests are requested, as lar as posSlo.e'
to appear in uniform, or in costume ap-
propriate to the occasion; special fea-
lures will be the Cafe de la Paix, the
Moulin Rouge, the Folie Bergere, the
Bar American, Red Cross canteen, Z.
M. C. A. Hut. dancing, entertainment,
M P.'s, gendarmes, midinettes, etc.
Mai. James w. Boyer, jr., director OF
publicity. read a report outlining his
program of publicity and constituting
the subcommittee and the responsible
functions attaching to each. The next
meeting Of the General COMMITTEE VIII
be held at the House Once Building
next Friday at pm.
Front Line Post was honored at its
last meeting when National Junior Vice
Comdr. James e. Van zandt Of Altoona,
Pa. formally presented to Comdr. DR..
A. Victor Cercell a check for $loO, rep
resenting third prize awarded by the
national body under the auspices OF
the recruiting campaign conducted last
Spring.
who was in charge of the post delega-
ton attending the recent national en-
campment at Kansas City, read a
lengthy report on the happenings at
the big conclave The colors Of Front
Line Post were again carried in the an
nual parade. maintaining their 100 per
cent attendance since they were first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

After a morning ceremony of honor
ing the dead, solemnized at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier, at Arlington,
Va on November IL, Americans and
Allied World War veterans will that
evening celebrate Arrnistice day at the
washington Auditorium with a mill
tary ball and pagesnt, which will have
All the color and romance of the bril-
liant victory balls marking the first
Armistice night. The only solemn note
at the festive ball will come at II
o'clock. when a prayer will be invoked
and the trumpeter will sound taps.
The third meeting of the Armistice
Ball and Jubilee Committee was held IN
the House ONCE Building last Monday
night, and was presided over by Chair
man (junior vice commander Of the
District of Columbia Department.
Nathan D. Golden. A large attendance
from the nine unit posts Of the depart
ment was recorded and important mat
fers were deliberated upon in perfect
ing the annual program. A reading