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The Washington times., 1931-04-28

UAy d GHATuS
The two sure teams will be one
from the War Department and
one from Fort Myer.
Major J. M. Swing, prominent
in national polo circles and rated
at three goals, will be shifted to
the Chief of Field Artillery Office,
at the War Department, and will
reinforce one of the War teams.
Other topnotchers who will
figure in local play are Major
George Patton, jr., rated at four
goals; Colonel Palmer and Major
Devers, both three-goal mallet-
wielders.
The tri-weekly workouts, due to
open today, have been postponed
until next Tuesday, because of
ground conditions. These work
outs. in which the War Depart
n4ent and Fort Myer teams battle
each other, are staged on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
PiggOtt Ties Hurdle
Record at M1ruL1nd

Walter Piggott, former Tech
athlete and a freshman at Mary
land tied the school mark of 16 is
seconds for the 120-yard high
hurdles in the Maryland Catholic
U. freshmen meet. He matched
the time made by Ed Pugh in
1925 and Leroy Sheriff in 1926.
Piggott might have done better
were he pressed.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
ABOUT TIME

The recent defeat of Wagner
College by Moravian College of
Bethlehem, Pa, was the latter's
first baseball victory in four
years.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
GOLF BUG BITES

Miniature golf has taken Chile
by storm and it is estimated hat
more than 1000 courses are being
operated throughout the country.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
SUMMA is HITTING

SAN FRANCISCO. April 28
With the Pacific Coast League
season three weeks old. Homer
Summa, Los Angeles outfielder,
today led the sluggers with an
average of .432.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
FOOTBALL IN GUAM

Despite the hot climate. U. S.
Marines have carried football to
Guam, playing on a palm-fringed
gridiron with bamboo goal posts.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28

: Trophy tournament, in Balti-
more, to which two Washington
teams are sure to go, and posi-
bly, a third.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
Crack Army Polo Players
Leave Local Circles
By GINO SINH

Washingtonans will miss several familiar faces during the
polo
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
THIRD RACE
Four and One-HaIf Furlongs
FOURTH RACE
Six FurIOngs

5644-Scuttle (Critchfield). ).......... 100
5641-Measure IF. Baker,. .......... 102
5640-Con Amore (Schaefer). 115
564S-Pickme Up (Watters) ........ 104
5645-Fair Sun (Martinez). ......... 100
5641-Robins Egg (Hebert) ......... 102
5642-Summer Day (Robertson). 1o2
5646-Petabit (n0 boy) ..)......... 102
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
iOnaires On Foremost Candidates for Reakness at PO May
Paddock Picks EN-
AT PIMLICO

WEATHER, CLEAR; TRACK. FAST.
ur and one-half furlongs. Purse, $1,000.
The Washington times., 1931-04-28

Tryabi sarta
The Washington times., 1931-04-28

The major fan attraction
will be the Riggs Memorial
The Washington times., 1931-04-28
SEVEN FURLONGs
MILE AND ONE-EIGHTHs

Mirbat ..................,. 1857 Is
william To-. 1857 SIS
weather. clear: track, fast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
BUMPER WHEAT
CROP FORECAST
BRINGS WORRY
Farmers and Middle Man
See Peril in follower
Grain Choking Elevators.

b. United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April B.
Producers and middlemen in the
so,thwestern wheat belt feel some
anEietv over the facilities for dis
nosino of the 1881 crop, United
Press survey inficated today
Heavy snow and rain has put the
"a 303. 900 acres of wheat in Kansas,
Nebraska, Oklahoma. Missouri and
Texas in excellent condition and the
forecast is for a bumper crop
Elevators in st Of the region
are choked with the holdover wheat
from the 1880 yield Of some 100000
900 bushels.
Unless a part Of this is removed, a
serious shortage Of storage space Is
certain to develop when the new
wheat begins to move to market
some four months hence.
Grain dealers in the larger mar
ket terminals such as Kansas City,
Omaha, Lincoln and Amarillo open
" are concerned over the outlook
Much of the holdoyer wheat be-
longs to the federal farm board, and
It is on this agency that ayerting Oh
the threatened crisis depends, in the
opinion of w. r. Scott, secretary and
traffic manager Of the Kansas City
Board of Trade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
DEADLO CKED ON
naval ACCORD
Franco-lt Italian Split Over
Limitation Confirmed.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON. April 3.-Rumors
Of a possible breakdown in the
widely heralded Franco italian
naval limitation negotiations have
been confirmed by the state depart
ment.
After a prolonged session between
Italian Ambassador De MARITIME and
the departments disarmament ex-
perts, the department corroborated
persistent rumors that the French
and Italian conferees had become
deadlocked.
While the cause CT the disagree
ment was not entirely clear, it was
understood that French demands
for certain requirements in 1886
we're unacceptable to the Italians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
ORDER PORTRAITS OUT
Futurists Painting of Hoover Taken
From Art Gallery.
By United Prose

81 Dntteu PTc8B
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Irever-
emit psychological portraits of
President Hoover and Vice-President
Curtis have been hastily removed
from the walls of the Cocoran art
gallery.
The portraits, one of a group of
sketches of prominent men by
Aurelius Battaglia, young art stu
dent, were relegated to official
limbo yesterday by G. Powell Min
nigerode, director of the gallery,
as soon as he saw them. Mimi
gerode had been out of town or,
1t was indicated, the sketches would
have come down sooner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
What a Girl
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, April ga flash
lily dressed girl got into driver
Irwin Koler's taXcab about
4:30 a. m. today, rode a few
blocks, pressed a revolver
against the back Of his head,
forced him to give her his
pants, one pocket Of which
contained $3.50, and left him
trouserless as she disappeared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
LESLIE TO CONFERENCE
Governor to Go to New York to
Help Arrange Program.

Governor Harry G. Leslie will go
to New York, April 16, to attend the
executive council meeting of the
Governors where the speaking and
business program for the annual
will be prepared.
The Governor is to be host to the
convention at the French Lick
Springs hotel, June IA.
He is expected to appoint state
committee on entertainment soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Very newest shapes. Beautifully
lined and trimmed-Easily worth
$500. While they last .............
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
HEALTH sERV1CE----
Malaria Declining Steadily in y. S.

The plasmodium of malaria was
discovered by the famous scientist,
Laveran, who received the Nobel
prize for this discovery.
It was shown by Ross and GraSSi
that the organism of malaria is
transmitted from one human be-
ing to another through the bite of
the anopheles mosquito.
AS long as the adult parasites
are present in the blood of the in
dlvidual in sufficient quantities to
infect the mosquito that bites the
individual, the person is a possible
conveyor of malaria.
Since the parasites remain in the
blood for months, provided the in
dividual is not treated properly, any
one who is not undergoing regular
treatment is a menace to those
around him.
Children suffer more severely with
the disease than does the adult.
Negroes apparently are less affected
by the disease than are the white
people.
Malaria practically has been
stamped out of northern commune
ties, and cases rarely are seen even
in large charity hospitals in the
northern part of the United States.
However, the disease appears fair
ly frequently on the coastal plains
of the southwestern states and in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
The Geist Threat

Faced by a growing and insistent demand for
lower water rates. the representatives of Clarence
-Geist, to whom the people pay tribute threaten an
end to improvements.
Of course, no one is fooled by the claim that the
water company has spent any of it's own earnings
on extending its mains service during the past
few years.
1t has borrowed money through the sale of bonds
and preferred stocks taken commission for selling
These securities and another fee for engineering and
linen put borrowed money to work
1t is not record that the owners of the COM
mon stock of that company said to be exclusively
members Of the Geist family have ever added any of
their own money since the day that the public service
commission permitted them to turn four millions
into five in the purchase of the common stock OF
the water company unless such money is represented
in bonds or other securities
The people will better understand the Geist ar
rogance if they remember this one fact for it was
this that Mayor Sullivan leveled the targets of
his argument when the first peace conference was
held.
Sullivan showed that on this common stock which
is all the investment that the Gest family has in
he plant, they have taken shocking dividends They
took $1225OOO last year That at least is the state
nent filed with the public service commission
Mayor Sullivan showed that in five years they
have taken more than four millions of dollars
So that when there is threat to stop work in this
city if the people resent extorons all that the threat
means is that in order to punish the city, no more
money will be borrowed and spent.
The threat of the water company to fight against
any reduction in revenues in this city means that
the people must organize to find method of relief
Perhaps the construction of a new water plant
owned by the people may be the ultimate solution
if there a continued insistence upon returns from
uninvested dollars. That would be quite sure
way of escaping those whose pockets bulge with dvi-
dends and who refuse to listen to reason.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
One Fine Change.

This year residents of Indianapolis will receive
their auto licenses from bureaus in charge of per-
sbns who will turn over the legal fees for service to
xhe City Employees Relief Association.
AS far as this city is concerned the distribution
of licenses will longer be political plum for pr-
waite profit, but an institution for public service
The shift in method came from an arrangement
between city officials who have been giving generously
OF their own salaries to maintain feeding places for
the jobess and the hungry and Secretary of
State Mayr
The movement might well have been made state
wide in its scope it is built upon a fine idea and
high ideal.
Some time in more prosperous days, the public
may decide not TO tax themselves quite so often for
a special service of this sort and place the work
.upon regularly elected public officials whose Office
forces have ample time to distribute plates and
drivers licenses.
But as long as every auto owner is compelled to
pay rs cents for the privilege of buying his license
plate, it is fine to have that money diverted to those
who have most need for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Tax Liquor

The Hoover Mellon tax plan ignores entirely one
Of the richest sources of potential income-the
ganized liquor industry Individuals and corpora
lions must pay and pay heavily on legitimate in
come to meet federal deficits but this fourishing and
prosperous business will escape
theoretically, there is no liquor industry Actually
there is gigantic The government itself and
the groups advocating prohibition admit this and they
admit further that all the efforts of the government
over decade have been unable to destroy it,
At this time, arguments for bringing the liquor
industry under control and taxing it, carry unusual
weight, for at time in it's modern history has the
United States treasury been in need of funds so
desperately.
Legaization of liquor without the saloon would alter
fundamental conditions only for the better 1t simply
would recognize situation that exists control that
situation and divert to the government those extor
tonate profits that go into the pockets of booteggers
and corrupt officials.
Computations based on the Wickersham report
indicate that between and half and two bill
lion dollars being spent annually liquor Other
estimates high four billions All this
taxation.
Estimates of the amount of taxes obtainable from
legazed liquor vary from $3OOOO0OO0 year for beer
alone, up to two or three times that amount and of
course greater sums, if hard liquor well beer
taxed. The government actually collected $423-
100000 from its liquor taxes in the year 918199 and
additional millions paid to Cities counties and
states.
Another powerful argument for legalization is the
employment of idle and the stimulation of allied
industries Brewers alone at time employed 100000
men, and this did not take into account those en-
poyed by coopers, bottle and machinery manufactur
ers and Others
brewing concern that made 10 per cent of the
nations beer in the old days estimated that directly
and indirectly it provided work for $4,000 men, and
that resumption of brewing would mean jobs for
100000. Mines supplying fuel and the railroads, both
in difficulties, would benefit So would farmers who
formerly cultivated 100000 acres protably to sup
ply the needs of breweries.
The protection of public health and better control
of criminal elements also to be considered Most
of the countrys modern racketS grew out of boot
Logging or way allied with it. The federal
government would $4o,OOo,00O to $5oOoO000 a
year. now spent in enforcement and states and cities
would save additional millions
There is nc answer to the argument that the giant
liquor industry should be taxed to the limit to help
meet the huge federal deficit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Action of X-RayS
THAT such repeated slant iniurl

THAT such repeated Slight injury
Il can cause cancer resulted in so
many of the early experimenters
with X-ray becoming martyrs to
their research.
Thus, we now know that the
X-ray produces an irritation if re-
peated exposures occur over a long
period of time, and the early work
ers with the X-ray apparatus, not
knowing this, failed to protect
themselves as the workers do today
and therefore produced on their
hands, and sometimes on the body,
repeated slight injury" DR.. Cutler
says.
I'm time the tissues thus injured
began to grow and unfortunately
continued to grow, acting as real
tumor does act, failing to stop
growth as if the cells for some rea-
son or other had gotten beyond the
forces which direct body growth and
could not stop growing.
Il myself, have had to remove
fingers from doctors who used the
X-ray machines without proper pro-
lection in the early days because
small skin cancers arose, creating
painful ulcers which would not heal.
Moreover, instances of the produce
ton of tumor are seen elsewhere.
I'm certain parts of India, where
bullocks draw carts by a rope placed
around their horns, repeated injury
occurs at the point where the rope
rubs at the base of the horns, and
after years of such injury skin cam
Ger sometimes Develops
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Must President Be Renominated?

Certain Republican leaders have put forward
Ambassador Dawes the party candidate for Presi-
dent in 1892 This raises the interesting question
whether a candidate eager for denomination be
headed off, Let look at it in the light of history
There is, of course, doubt that many Presidents
have failed of denomination John Tyler, thought to
have betrayed his party, set aside in 1874. Four
years later James K. Polk abandoned for Lewis
Cass Willard Fillmore refused denomination in
1852 because of a deadlock with the Webster forces
Franklin K Pierce was passed over in 1856 because
The Democrats wanted a candidate who would hold
together the northern wing of the party. James
Buchanan was selected elected and then Shelved in
1860.
Only three Republican Presidents have however
been defeated for denomination for second term.
OF these two-Johnson and Hayes-were very special
cases. and the third-Arthur-m determined
fight for denomination
The question of Hoover versus Dawes would
down. then, to whether Republican President seri
ously intent upon denomination and possessed of all
the power of patronage, be blocked
The answer of history is there has been no such
defeat in the past record of the Republican party
= Andrew Johnson's fight with the revenge and cor
rupton wing of his party put him out of the running
in 1868. He narrowly had escaped impeachment and
removal while in office. Moreover, he really
r'war Democrat"
Rutherford B. Hayes gave the country sterling
administration. Though obscure in the list of cur
Presidents he was one of the ablest and most COM
petent But he had run poorly in 1876, himself was
opposed to a second term, and had made use what
soever of the patronage. Like Johnson, he had Of
Tended the partisans of spoil and vengeance by his
generous treatment of the south and his advocacy of
civil service reform.
When we come to the case of Chester Alan Arthur
in 1884, we have the one where a Republican
President wished the denomination and failed to re-
ceive it.
When Arthur entered the White House result
of the assassination of Garfield, the country was
aghast 1t regarded him a second-rate political
hack and docile henchman of Conkling Platt and
the corruptionsts The attitude of the country
well expressed by prominent citizen of the time who
observed: "Chet Arthur President Of the United
States, good God!"
Yet Arthur proved to be of the best Presidents
we ever have had. He strengthened civil service re-
form He took the first STEPS to give the United States
respectable navy. He supported mild revision of the
tariff. He instituted regime of rigid economy and
honesty in federal expenditures. He did his best to
punish federal officials guilty of graft.
He conducted the social affairs of the adminiStra-
ton with greater dignity and grace than any Presi
dent before or since his time He showed himself the
most civilized and urbane occupant of the White
House in history, not excepting Jefferson,
Roosevelt or Wilson.
Such certainly deserved denominations and
81 earnestly desired the honor. Every ReplLlican
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16

| the Mississippi valley below st.
Louis, also in Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas, southern Missouri and Cali
fornia. Malaria in Porto Rico and
in the Philippines is serious prob
lem.
TN the more. serious types of ma
l. laria not properly treated, any
where from 10 to 80 per cent of the
people die. The milder forms of
the disease become chronic, and the
fatality rate may be less than 5
per cent.
In controlling malaria, patients
who are sick with the disease are
protected from the bites of the
mosquito. 1t has been established
that the regular use of sufficient
doses of quinine will control the
condition.
A special form of quinine, called
plaSmochin, may be. injected into
the blood and, practically sterilize
the blood of those who carry the
adult sexual form of the parasite.
The real control of malaria comes
through proper handling of the
breeding places of the mosquitoes
that carry the disease.
Oil poured on the water that can
not be removed by draining or by
other sanitary measures will pre-
vent the development of the mos
quito.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16

state convention in 1884 warmly Endorsed his admin
istration. Why did he fail?
He had not been elected to the Office originally;
hence his vote-getting strength was dubious He
alienated both wings of his party He threw Blaine
out of the cabinet. He angered Platt and Conkline
by his political integrity and support of civil service
He refused to use the federal patronage in behalf
of his denomination He conducted himself as a
dgnihed gentleman, insisting that the nomination
must come to him on his merits, if at ALL The Re-
publicans lost the house in 1892 Arthurs own candi
date for Governor of New York Charles Folger was
beaten roundly by Grover Cleveland
The way seemed open for Blaine, but he feared
that his record might defeat him He got behind
General William T Sherman, but that realistic old
warrior refused to be beguiled. He said: 81 would
account myself fool to embark anew, at 65 years OF
age in that may at any moment become
tempest tossed"
So Blaine ran himself and was defeated by a small
margin. This he might have turned in his favor if he
had kept awake at a New York political meeting and
repudiated Pastor BJUchard's Rum, Romanism, and
Rebellion" speech.
Arthur's case, then, offers little hope to Dawes
friends No President ever has been more devoted
to the cause of his denomination that Herbert Hoo
yer. None has made more copious or unconscionable
use of the patronage to effect this end.
His nomination of Judge Parker to the supreme
court illustrates Hoovers flexible conscience in this
matter.
On the other hand, it may be doubted that any
Republican President has disappointed the country so
deeply due partly to bad breaks for which Hoover
not responsible and partly to his own ineptitude for
leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A MOTHER who believes strongly in the feminine
n influence writes that in her opinion, this column
is yer ybad for women, by melting them to evil ways.
She says that far from taking her children too
seriously the average does not take hers ser
ously enough. She is alarmed at the bad propaganda
this scribbler puts out.
1 understand the fetishism of motherhood thor
oughly 1t is practiced by millions of women. To
them maternity blassed with sort of divine right
ness. After you have had baby you can't b ewrong
about anything that may affect the child from its in
fancy to its maturity.
This, it seems to be, is of the worst and most
disturbing of feminine traits 1t is arrogant and false
ard helps to cultivate general attitude of smugneSS
in group of pdiT duas wlo because Of their natural
position of authority children, should be open
minded, alert to improve themselves and possess a
minimum of conceit.
Tt the theory set forth by my correspondent had
Il been followed faithfully and every daughter had
held to the strict traditions Of her mother, where
would the race be now? Back in the dark ages of
superstition.
1t is perfectly safe to wager that every good
who has lived has gone against her mothers
opinions and beliefs, over and over again.
am not arguing that mothers influence upon a
child is not tremendous 1t is This is why it is SO
important that should not permit herself to
al into the greatest adult error firm belief in ones
own nfallibility
The wrold has suffered much from this idea
Mothers themselves have suffered from it most OF
ALL Besides all that isn't il little foolish to contend
that maternity can endow woman with supernatural
wisdom and permit her to settle all questions of right
and wrong?