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v, VA. BOY DIES
Of SHOCK

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Jan.
21.-Leonard Buster" Cromer, IL,
of Bramwell, near here, was in
stantly killed while playing with
tin can and strand of wire
which became entangled in
high-tension electric line.
Howard Barton. 10, neigh
Dor, was shocked and burned
when he attempted to rescue the
Cromer boy, and Mrs. j. T. Bar
ton, mother of the would-be res
cuer, was also injured when she
went to her sons aid. Both are
in serious condition.
The mother Of the dead boy
was a witness to the tragedy, and
also attempted to rescue her son.
The boy was freed from the wire
by w. H. Haynes, Norfolk and
Western railroad lineman. Eff
forts at artificial respiration
proved useless, physicians saying
that the 11,000 volt current had
caused instant death.
The boy threw the can into
the air and it sailed over the
electric line. carrying the wire
with it.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
H|TZ WINS O. K.
BY GROUP

The way for the confirmation
of the nomination of Justice Will
liam Hitz as a judge of the Dis
trict Court of Appeals has been
paved by a subcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator William E. Borah (RO, Of
Idaho, decided to make a favor
able report on the nomination.
This report will be submitted to
the full Judiciary Committee Mon
day and it is expected that imme-
diate action will be taken by that
group in reporting favorably 70
the Senate.
Senator Borah's subcommittee
is still considering the nomination
of Judge D. Lawrence Groner, OF
Norfolk, to be judge of the same
court,
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
5 SEEK OFFICE
IN FAIRFAX

FAIRFAX, Va, Jan. 21.-With
the announcement by DR.. F. w.
Huddleston, treasurer of Fairfax
county, that he will be a Demo
cratic candidate for reelection,
the 1881 campaign in this Sec
tion is off to a spirited start.
DR.. Huddleston, who has served
as treasurer for four terms, is
president of the local banch Of
the Federal Farm Bank, and a
director of Fairfax National Bank
The following citizens an
nounced their candidacy for cleo.
ton to the Virginia house of
delegates: John C. Mackall, OF
Mclean; Herbert Williams, Of
Vienna; Edmund H. Allen, OF
Newington, and George Harrison,
of Herndon. All candidates are
identified with business and civic
of the county.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Husband Charges
Cruelty in Suit

ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. 81.
Charging that his wife assaulted
and beat him at various times,
and that she once threatened his
life with a butcher knife, Walter
]. wilkins, of 269 Park Ave-, Ia
koma Park, Md, through his at
torney, Kenneth Lyddane, of
Rockville, has filed suit in Cir
cult Court for a limited divorce
from Mrs. Annie R. Wilkins, of
the same address.
The bill states that they were
married in May, 1918, at Bristol,
Tenn, and have three children,
William P, 10; James D., 8, and
Jack R. Wilkins, 6 years old.
The petition complains that the
defendant had accused him Of
infidelity prior to the filing of
the suit. Mr.. Wilkins asks for
the custody of the children.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
BILL DRAF TING
CONSIDERED
IN COUNTY
Several Thousand Parcels of
Land Are To Be Adver-
tised for Sale in February

SILVER SPRING. Md, Jan. 81.
The movement in Montgomery
county to ask the Maryland gen.
eral assembly for an emergency
measure creating a moratorium on
the payment Of county taxes,
thereby poStponing such payments
until next fall came nearer to a
crystallization at a confidential
conference held in Rockville, it
was learned yesterday.
It is understood that County
Treasurer j. Forest Walker and
State Senator Robert G.. Hilton
are favorable to the plan. The
latter. who is financially and
politically influential in the
county, is said to be considering
the drafting of a suitable bill,
which he may introduce as emer-
gency legislation.
Taxes Already Paid
Several bankers yesterday said
It may be too late to obtain the
full benefit from such legislation
owing to the fact that a large pro-
portion of taxpayers have paid
their 1880 taxes.
1t was learned that several
thousand parcels of property will
be advertised for taxes. The law
requires publication of such adver-
tisements for four successive
weeks prior to the second Monday
IN March Of each year.
Sale Starts in April
This will set the first of the
advertisements for the week be-
ginning February 2. After the
proper advertisement, the property
Is subject to public sale on the
second Monday in April.
It is believed that it is to re-
Ieve these thousands that the
legislation will be proposed.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
HEARING IS SET
ON UNDERPASS

ROSSLYN, Va, Jan. 81. - The
House Committee on Public Build
ings and Public Grounds to-
day will hold a hearing on the
matter of an underpass for the
branch line of the railroad serving
Rosslyn where the latter crosses
the boulevard approach to the
new Memorial Bridge.
According to reported plans of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, that body
will recommend not only an under
pass for the railroad, but also the
abolition of the Georgetown-Alex-
andria Pike which skirts the east
wall of the Arlington Cemetery
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
SLEEPY FEELING AFTER
MEALS DUE TO POISON

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Adlerika washes out BOTH upper
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ness and a dopey, sleepy feeling.
1t contains no harmful drugs. Get
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feel the wonderful cleansing effect
of this German doctors simple
remedy. Peoples Drug Stores,
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Legion Approves
Parkway Plan

CLARENDON, Va, Jan. Il.
With the passing of resolution
indorsing the proposed George
Washington Memorial Parkway by
the executive committee of Airing
ton Post, No. 139, American
Legion, proponents of the park
plan stated today that they be"
lieved this to be the most effective
step yet taken toward making the
park an actuality.
The resolution, which will be
sent to all the Legion posts
throughout the State, indorses
the present program. as provided
for in the Capper-Cramton act,
and urges the other posts Of the
Legion to lend whatever aid they
may in securing its ratification
by Virginia.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
WhitefOrd Appointed
To Assist Board

ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. 21.
Lacy Shaw, president of the
board of county commissioners
for Montgomery county, yester-
day authorized Roger ]. White
ford, of Chevy Chase, to act as
advisory counsel to Joseph C..
CiSsel, counsel to the board.
Mr.. Whiteford will assist IN
preparing bills as a program of
legislation for the 1881 session
of the general assembly as may
be desired by the State senator
and members of the house of
delegates from Montgomery coun-
ty, and approved by the board.
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Times Staff Photo


DOROTHY KERNS MISS KATHERINE SMITH
AN INNOCENT-LOOKING pencil sent Dorothy Kerns,
II years DID, of 43O Sixteenth St. S. E.. to Gainger
Hospital yesterday She poisng a pencil between
her lips when sudden blow plunged it into the roof of
her mouth, the tip breaking off Miss Katherine Smith,
nurse, is taking her pulse following firsaid treatment
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
$4,000 Suit Results
From Home Search

WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Fletcher, of
this city, have instituted a suit
for $4,000 in the United States
district court at Martinsburg, w.
Va, against William A. Sarrick,
of Hampshire county, w. Va.
Sarrick, brother of Mrs.
Fletcher, is alleged to have sworn
out a search warrant for the
Fletcher home for stolen hams,
which were not found.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
MD. TOWNS ASK
MORE POLICE

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Jan.
21.-Adequate police protection in
Cheverly and Riverdale Hills was
sought in two petitions presented
to the board of county commits
sioners yesterday. A series of
robberies has recently been re.
ported in both of these COM
munities, and G. Watson Lam,
bert, who presented the case for
Cheverly, stated that the people
there wanted reasonable assur.
ance that their homes and be.
longings would be intact during
absences.
Would Raise Funds
Led by T. Wesley Scott, for,
mer chief of the Cottage City
Volunteer Fire Department. a
delegation from the County Fire
mems Association appeared be-
fore the board seeking endorse
ment of an appropriations bill
which will later be sent to the
legislature.
Under the terms of the bill the
county allotment to this group
will be raised from $4,000 to ST..
500. 1t was pointed out that
this is considerably under the
$4,000 allowed the Montgomery
county, fire-fighterS and the $685.
600 appropriated in Anne Arundel
county.
Roads Considered
A 10 per cent depreciation al
Iowance on billboards throughout
the county, sought by the Gen
eral Advertising Company, was
refused by the commission.
The commissioners decided that
all applications for county roads
must be referred to the district
road examiners. Since the new
commission was inducted into
office, it was pointed out, it has
been beseiged by requests for
new roads.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

New model USED Cars" offering sat
isfactOry transportation can be procured
at q very reasonable cost from the
used-car merchants advertising in to-
days Classified Ads
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

Times Staff Photo
MISS LOIS HORSNELL
HERE IS the leading lady of
The Arrival of Kitty" to be
given by the Orange and Blue
Players of the Business High
School Alumni Association at
the school tomorrow and Sat
urday nights. Miss HorSnell
lives at 604 Twenty-first st.
N. w.
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WOMEN TO MEET

MT. RAINIER, Md, Jan. 81.
The executive committee of the
Prince Georges County Federation
Of Women's Clubs will meet today
in the Blue Bird Hall here. Mrs.
Rudolph S. Allen, of College Park,
Md, president of the federation,
will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
The Rail-Plane Competition.

The announcement that the Penn
sylvania railroad will proceed at once
to establish electric service between
Washington and New York, lessening
the "headway" from the present mini
mum of four and a half hours to three
and q half hours, means that the COM
petition of the airplane as q passenger
carrier is now so serious that 1t must
be met with an improved rail serv-
ice. It has been evident for some time
that in point of speed Of transit be-
tween the two cities the planes have a
decided advantage, with a three-hour
overall passage, including time re-
ouired to go from mid-city points to
the airportS. This advantage has led
TO steady increase in patronage until
the planes are now carrying about 5000
passengers a month, all Of whom have
been taken away from the railroads.
Unless the planes make faster flights
the proposed electric service on the
Pennsylvania will be only thirty minutes
slower than the air route.
1t will be two years at least before
this improvement is completed and the
service Is begun, this being the latest
estimate on the basis Of hurry-up de-
cisions by the railroad company to meet
the exgencies Of the employment stu
alton. 1t Is conceivable that within
that time there may have been an i'm
proyement in plane service, perhaps q
lowering Of the time. maybe quicker
transit between town and airport at
each end of the line. II this u actually
direct competition the planes must con-
tinue to compete in speed as well % in
comfort and safety.
This decision by the Pennsylvania
railroad at Rnce raises the question as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
THE GREATEST MOTHER
BY TIE RIGHT REY. JAMES Z. FREEMAN, D. D., L. D.
Bishop of Washington.

tude Of his mission, she says to the
attendants at the feast: Whatsoever
He saith unto you, do It," In the days
of His public ministry no one sensed
more fully than she the mighty de-
signs to which He was committed. One
of the sublime incidents recording this
mother love is in that eloquent pas
sage relating to the crucidxion story:
Now there stood by the cross Of Jesus
His mother" Here in this fragmentary
narrative is the incompatible record
of maternal love and f1lial devotion and
obedience. It Is the unapproachable
and 1nimitable expression OF the most
sacred ties Of home life. Brief and in
adequate as. the story is, it furnisheG
the ideal for every home throughout
the world.
In the rush and turmoil of our life
today 1t may be that the supreme place
which the home occupies Is being in
adequately considered. Spending and
being spent" we are prone to forget
that the security and permanence OF all
that we hold dear Is conditioned by the
character of the homes in which our
children are reared. No matter how
self-assured and opulent q nation may
be, its decline and decay begin where
the things Of parenthood and home life
are lightly esteemed or olsregaroed.
There is no single influence that has 3
more determining effect upon the moral
and spiritual life of the community than
that which Is exercised by the mother.
There Is no ONCE that more completely
determines our moral character as indi-
viduals, or as corporate society, than
that which Is exercised within the re-
stricted confines Of the home itself.
Emerson declared that the test of any
nations greatness Is disclosed In the
kind of men it turns out.
1t Is well that at least once year we
are asked on q day of worship to give
proper recognition to the supreme place
which the mother occupies in the whole
economy OF our life. This is a theme
that transcends all others: 1t is basic
and fundamental To exalt the place
Of the mother and the distinction of the
home means to insure to ourselves, our
children and children's children that
security and peace that are indispensa-
Bile to our highest development and most
enduring satisfaction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

aspects of the hypothetical question
demanding q categorical answer for
admission to citizenship in the United
States OF America, is it not rather
ridiculous, after all, to ask fifty-two-
year-old man whether he would take
up arms in defense of his country when,
as q practical matter, he would not be
allowed to take up arms? Is not COM
pulsory military service in time Of war,
universally adopted, a rather candid
admission that in this day and age the
physical act of bearing arms in defense
of ones country has little, If anything,
to do with patriotism" or whether one
chooses to bear arms?
The country Is overrun with unde-
sirable aliens and undesirable citizens.
How many of them are undesirable be-
cause Of their philosophic conceptions
regarding the degrees Of allegiance to
country and to God? Does not the
reason for denial of citizenship to the
Rev. Alexander Dougal raise the ques-
ton whether the Man of Nazareth could
today become a citizen of the United
States?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
Americans. Break Into Print
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

American publishing business IS 81 No.
100000 q year, while the value Of books
published annually Is q round billion.
Although the value Of raw materials
used by the newspapers and magazines
is greater, being S390.000, 900 as COM
pared with $3.50, 000, 900 for books and
magazines, the wages paid in the book
publishing end aggregate more. Workers
in the book publishing end receive
$3.50, 100000 a year compared with
$249. 100000 in the periodical end.
These figures have increased over the
last few years. With the exception Of
the cost Of raw materials. The vafue
of the products of the publishing in
dustry as a whole has increased 1l.9
per cent since 1927. the biggest gain
being made by the newspapers and
magazines-1S.1 per cent.
School Books Head Book List.
The little sister OF the publishing
business-the business OF manufac-
turing sheet music-has shown a de-
cline, however. The value Of its prod
ucts has dropped per cent since 1927.
Nevertheless, the industry turns out
products valued at approximately SIS
900 a year, including everything
from Bach fugueS to the latest boop-a-
dooperieS. The value added by manu-
facture is far greater in the music
publishing business. While in the pub
fishing of books and periodicals the
value Of products Is only from four
terialS, in the music publishing bust
ness, that value is enhanced tenfold.
Approximately 212,000,0 900 books were
published in the last census year. The
classification is interesting. Text books
for school use led all other classes.
numbering 100000, and Juvenile
books came next with total of nearly
37,000,000. Fiction follows with 80
600, 900 and then religion and philoSo-
ply with over 100000.
There is long gap, then, before the
next class, which includes poetry and
drama. Four million copies of such
works were published. History follows
closely and then lava Biography and
science and technology each shows
about 100000, while medicine and
travel books show each about ], 800 900.
It may come as q surprise, consider
ing all the publicity about the farmer
which the daily newspapers and the
magazines have published, to find that
the subject of agriculture stands at the
bottom of the list, with only q meager
$4,000 copies OF books published on
the subject.
In the United States the publishing
industry is carried on in a great many
large cities, although New York has
the lead. In England, however, the
industry is concentrating more and
more at London. Edinburgh used to
be q strong rival of London in the
matter of book and magazine publish
ing, but the drift has been to the great
metropolis.
Preliminary indications are that even
through the depression the publishing
industry has done well in both great
English-speaking nations, the demand
for something to read while waiting in
bread lines possibly helping to support
it. While not many new houses have
sprung up, the older ones show signs
of emerging from the depression
stronger than when they entered it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
God and Country,

On one day Of last week the President
Of the United States, addressing an
international audience, deplored the fear
OF war that keeps I'VE and q half million
of men under arms twelve years after
AsS Armistice, in spite Of the fact that
I'VE are all signatories to the Kellogg
BRAND pact, by which we have re-
nounced war as an instrument of ma
tionAl policy and agreed TO settle all
controversies by pacific means"
On the day following, a hfty-two-
year-old minister Of the gospel, an i'm
migrant from Scotland, who has per
sonally renowned war, and whose own
faith in ais God forbids him actively
to take up arms in his own defense or
in the defense Of the country he would
adopt, was denied admittance to citi-
zenship. He was denied citizenship not
because he sought TO escape the danger
that service on O battle front would
incur, which he was willing TO undergo;
not because there was pressing threat
of war and he refused TO so where he
was ordered to go; not because the
safety Of the Nation depends upon the
willingness Of fifty-two-year-old minis
ters Of the gospel 10 shoulder rifles
but because he was sincere enough In
his conscientious belief to say he would
not take up arms. Otherwise, he was
apparently good enough to be a citizen.
Leaving aside the legal and moral
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
Tariff and the World Viewpoint May
Enter Into Next Presidential Campaign

ministraton Of Harvard University,
who addressed the International Cham
Der Of Commerce in Washington this
last week and who had already COM
pressed his views into the following
sentence:
IF we base our national economy on
foreign trade, we base it on the least
stable element in the whole interna-
tional situation"
The administration thereupon is not
much moved by the plea that the
demolition of tariff barriers or the sur
render of debt claims upon European
governments or the stimulation of loans
to foreigners by American investors
would increase our expectation of COM
modities. 1t is by no means hostile to
such an increase, II it should happen,
as 1t were, without price, but 1t does
not propose to buy 1t by the means sug-
would be costly to the wages of Ameri-
can labor and to the funds of Ameri-
can capital and it is convinced that
the gains promised, being gains in for
eign trade, would be of dubious worth.
It's policies in the campaign of next
year may, thereupon, be safely fore
Swallowed as follows:
An 1nSlStence upon the maintenance
Of the American wage scale in opposi-
ton to the wage - cutting suggestions
which recently have come in large vol
ume from the New York financial dis
trict and from foreign visitors.
X * X
A firm defense of the proposition that
the American tariff law is the only one
in the world which explicitly contains
the principle that tariff duties are to
be adjusted up and down to conform
to the differences in wages and other
costs at home and abroad, and a firm
assertion to the effect that the prin-
ciple in question must be upheld.
A rejection of pleas for the abatement
of the war debts on the ground that
they constitute but q small fraction Of
the sums spent by Europe on arma-
ments and on the further grounds, as
stated by Mr.. Hoover's Department OF
Commerce in 1926. that the United
States cannot be impoverished by re-
ceiving wealth"
foreign trade by artificially induced for
eign loans.
In sum. the Democrats will tend to
embrace the doctrine that the United
States is a very new part OF the Old
World, while the Republicans will tend
to embrace the doctrine that the
United States is a new and different
world in itself. That each thesis can
be defended by able advocates Is clear.
All that is unhappily not clear Is the
verdict Of the voter.
Copyright 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

Tert: "They understood not the
saying iDhich He spdke unto them
. but His mother kept all these
savings In her heart. st. Luke,
G50-51.
While no authentic portrait exists of
the mother of Christ, the imagination
of countless artists has been employed
to give to the world a conception of
her sublime person. 1t is an interest
ing circumstance that the great artists
of every nation have sought to interpret
her features in the racial character
istics of their own people. The Italian, the
Spaniard, the Frenchman, the German
places on canvas as the highest type
of feminine loneliness the features Of
q woman Of his own kindred. Thus
every race appropriateS to itself the
mother of Christ. In song and story
the record Of her life, coupled with the
Solicitude she discloses in her relations
with her son, is graphically told. Even
among those who lack the spirit OF de-
yotion there is reverence for the sacred
intimacieS that are recorded in the
Gospel narrative, restricted as the mar
rative is, Bethlehem, the lowly birth
place; Nazareth, the homely setting of
the peasants home in which Jesus was
reared-how imagination has played
about these sacred places, and how fancy
has wrought on canvas the story of
the idyllic scenes! SO utterly sacred is
the story of the childhood and youth
of Jesus that even the Gospels them
selves fail to present any adequate pic
ture of the home life in which He was
reared. On the other hand, there are
incidents recorded of His relations with
His mother that are Of deep Signifi-
canoe. The early scene that Hofmann
has immortalized on canvas. 'The Boy
in the Temple" eagerly sought for by His
anxious mother, Is indicative Of her
tender solicitude and motherly affec-
ton. Greeting her Son. she addressed
Him with anxious words, expressive
of her concern for His safety Here
for the first time He discloses the sub
lime purpose of His life in language,
the meaning of which must have been
obscure to her mind: Know ye not
that must be about My Fathers busi-
ness?" Again, at the festive wedding
feast Of Cana, with q larger under
standing Of the purpose and magni-