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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
BOY DESERTED ON HALLOWEEN
RIDE BY DRUNKEN STRANGER
x-Year-Old Becomes Police Guest After New-Found
Friend Leaves Him to See Sights Alone.

Six-year-old Gibson Evans will long
remember Washington first city-wide
Halloween celebration.
He was the guest of the United States
park police last night at the carnival
on Constitution avenue after an excit-
ing ride from Capitol Heights, Nd,
with a drunken man.
Gibson, disconsolate over the prospect
of not seeing the parade and carnival
was accosted by the inebriate while
walking along street in Capitol
Heights, his home.
Want to see the Halloween parade.
buddy?" asked the intoxicated one
You bet, answered Gibson, eagerly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
HAM B[AMES CAR
|. DECLINE TO PUBLIC
UTILITIES BOARD
Failure to Curb Cutthroat
Taxi Competition Makes I'm
provement impossible.
DECLARES IT FOLLY
TO SPEND BIG SUMS
Popular Mass Transportation Re.
quires Cooperation, W. R.
& E. President Says.

Thts is the first OF a series Of articles
discussing the problems confronting thr
street car com pGnies OF WASHINGTON THE
merit article UiH appear tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

tCOntQued on Page ;. Column -
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
TO
REDISTRICT
FAILS AGAIN

AUSTIN. Aug. i3-lP- Another
attempt at congressional redistrict-
ing had failed today.
After working hours yesterday
and until a few minutes before ad-
tournament of the special session
last night house and senate dele
gates TO a free conference reported
they were unable TO agree on q
compromise bill.
II marked the second time this
year that congressional redistrict-
ing had failed OF realization. Com
mittees worked two weeks during
the regular session in an attempt
to obtain a suitable bill. The bill
IA passed by the house but killed
in the senate by two votes.
Both the house and senate COM
mitteeS were adamant and refused
to yield ground in the last hours.
The house bill provided a new
district for the Panhandle: another
for West Texas and the third for
the South Texas coastal area.
The senate bill would have given
East Texas a new district: and
placed one in the Panhandle and
another in the south coastal arey
Under the 1880 census, Texas is
entitled TO three new congressman
increasing the number 10 q. Failure
TO redistrict will result in the elec-
ton Of three congreSSmen-at-large
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
Association Meets

SAN BENITO, Aug. 13-Mem-
bers Of the Valley life Underwrit-
er's Assn, will bring their wives 70
the luncheon at the Reese-Wil-
Mond hotel in Harrington. at noon
Saturday, according TO j. D.. Wren,
secretary.
Ladies not only will be present
but one from Harrington. Mrs. Hat
tic HALEY. will be n OF the
speakers.
H.. H. Cook OF San Benito and
other speakers also will be present
and there will be other entertain
ment features.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
BODY PLANS
TO WITHHOLD
CROP YEAR

WASHINGTON. Aug. i3.-P1-
In a drastic effort TO restore a
fair price for cotton, the farm
board he's offered to withhold from
the market for one year 5000 900
bales If southern planters destroy
a third of the crop under cultiya-
ton.
kilograms were sent late yester-
day TO governors OF fourteen cot
ton producing states urging adop-
ton OF the proposition. Within a
short time, reports reaching Wash
tngton said the offer was not viewed
with favor in many southern re-
gions.
Price Slumps
Chairman Stone dispatched the
offer after comforting with directors
of the American Cotton Cooper
alive association and the cotton
Sterilization corporation on the
agriculture departments 1881 crop
estimate of 15.564,o0o bales. The
forecast sharply reduced the
staples market price.
II growers pillow under every third
row under cultivation, Stone said.
the American Cooperative asso-
citation would be asked 10 withhold
2.0O0, 900 bales. The board, through
the sterilization group. holds L.
100000 bales OF the 1929 crop.
Stone said the program. "is fully
carried out by southern farmers
as well as by ourselves will mean
reduction OF total supply by at
least 10000 900 bales and withhold
ing from this years market of
100000 bales more
The announcements NAT Alex
ander Legge OF Chicago. former
board chairman. and Cason j. CAL
laway OF La Grange, Georgia. had
been elected TO the directorate OF
the sterilization corporation to
'give added confidence" to the
sterilization work. preceded the
boards new proposition a few
hours. The Boards sterilization
and cooperative organizing poll
icies were originated Will. Legge
was chairman OF the $500, 900 900
government agency.
Governors Queried
The board sent the proposition
to governors OF Alabama. Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Florida.
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New
Mexico, North Carolina. Oklahoma.
South Carolina, Tennessee and
Texas.
Estimating that unless the situa-
ton be met the carry over next
yea will amount to IL ,000, 900 bales.
the telegram said this condition
occurs in spite Of the ten per cent
reduction in acreage last spring"
Drastic price declines, 1t added.
would be followed by direct
disaster TO cotton producing states
and indirect disaster TO the nation
unless abandonment could be OBJ
tanned in an organized and order
" fashion. so farmers may secure
a better return from the remainder
of the crop.
"The board recognizes" the mes
sage added. "that this suggestion
{ ills for drastic remedy for serious
emergency but commends 70 you
the thought that a major oper-
alton OF this kind rather than at
tempts at lesser measures is now
needed"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13

first permitted, the nationalist
government was struggling against
bandits and other odds, and had
no well organized political position,
but that the situation now was
changed.
my contention TO washington"
said Chen. will be that since that
time Chang Kai-Shek, nationalist
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
Board Named
Associated Press Photo

RIO HONDO. Aug. l3-The City
board of tax equalization met here
Wednesday at the city water Of
flee. Those appointed by the city
counsel TO serve on the board are
c. L. Maddox. Charles Keys, and
Charles Longbrake.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
Farm BoardAs Asks Southern Planters to Destroy One Third of Cotton Crop

president. has become a virtual
dictator. and has run China more
as n private individual -elfishly I'm
his own behalf and In the interests
OF the Soong family
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
WEATHER

For Sast Texas: Fair and slight
" warmer il west portion and on
the west coast Thursday night.
Friday fair.
Light to moderate winds on the
coast, mostly easterly.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
BULLETIN

tFirst figures. lowest tempera-
ture last night: second. highest
yesterday: third. wind velocity al
8 a. m: fourth. precipitation IL
last "a hrs
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Port Isa-
bel Friday. under normal Meteor
illogical conditions:
High ...... Sis a. m; 2.18 D. m.
Low ...... 1902 a. m; 1906 D. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13

today he would file a protest with
Pres. Hoover against the sale OF
arms from America TO the Chinese
nationalist government, rival OF
the Canton regime.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
ARMS sale
TO CHINESE
PROTESTED

TOKYO. Aug. i3-P- Eugene
Chen. foreign minister OF the new
insurgent government seated at
Canton, China, announced here
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
situation changed

Chen who has been here several
weeks as a tourist said when
arms exports from America were
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
RIVER FORECAST

The river will continue to rise
practically all along during the
next "a to SO hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 2i-Hr
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13

The woodville. Miss. Republican,
n weekly newspaper. has been pub
lished continuously for lot years
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Sterilization Laws Seldom
Enforced By States
The Districts Institution for Feeble-Mind,

Oklahoma has joined the that have laws for serza-
ton OF inmates of certain State institutions
The Oklahoma law, though appears be much
ing than those of other States provides sterilization Of
inmates OF insane ayum of institutions for the feebminded
and for prisoners in pententare and reormatoes serving
third terms for crimes.
The law is spoken of for the protection of society
and Governor Murray in signing it, positively declared that
criminals the insane and feebe-minded products Of
inheritance"
Virginia has law for the sterilization of feeble-minded
and other States have similar laws is rarely invoked
however, because of popular objections.
The District has institution for the feebeminded with
inmates old and young totang about $780, but have
law for sterilization. 1t may come at later time.
Society does need protection from the mentally diseased and
from those physically diseased making certain the
transmission of dangerous contamination in of marriage
and birth Of children.
The marriage of produce nothing
else but feeblemnded children.
In States where she feeble minded early committed to
suitable institutions for their and not allowed their free
dom sterilization may not be important Some States do
not have such institutions however and the ebemnded
intermarry at will.
Modern public places for feebemnded keep the inmates
busy with work of various kinds suitable them Otter
they quite skilled in certain things and be depended
on to do their selected work WELL
The Washington times., 1931-04-25

made we'll the house Of wasp any number of
woven birds nests.
This picture mother and child illustrates the power of
MOTHER LOVE greater than the power of Niagara
important human progress than all the earth waterfalls
and engines
The picture of the pygmy family group shows the import
ance of FAMILY LIFE from which has gradually arisen
civilization and every of great nations the nation being
the family MAGNIFIED.
Russians and Others we'll meaning planning to make
society orde sometimes forget human beings and
their social life must develop along lines of instincts and
sions implanted in them at the beginning.
This would gladly sacrifice her life to her child
pygmy sitting beside his wife in the little hut would
encounter wild beasts enemy much bigger than himself
in defense of his family.
Similarly field small bird seeing hawk ap-
proach will down and its young to protect them
instead of leaving them at the mercy of the hawk
All that have all the progress that the world has made
the deep mother love that exists all through the
animal kngdom-and that by its example, has gradually
civilized
1t exists even below the order of mammals to which
belong
female may be walking in the sunlight its
young cngg its back while the young gradually devour
the mothers body finally leaving nothing but empty she'll
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Facts About Feeding People
Of This Nation

Economic depression has reduced food consumption in this
Of Agriculture tells the Washington Academy of Sciences
Most of that decrease has been grains much of it
in meats, sugars and fruits
The people of America the best fed people EARTH
even in times of depression when actual want stares many
the face It requires the products Of two Of ground to
feed the average American only for the
German and onehal for the average Chinaman.
That is fourteen of ground carefully cultivated
grazing and raising Of cattle ought to produce suf
ficient foods and for family Of Americans
necessary food and leaving much to sell.
Our consumption of sweets is than twice
much capita other nation This sweets has
immensely increased since prohibition into effect Sugar
turns into something like alcohol during the digestive pro-
cesses.
Many good doctors who compelled keep sweets from
patients prescribe occasional drinks of whskey subst
tu Alcohol reduces the cravings of people for sweets
and the sweets reduce the craving for alcohol.
could only be assured that nobody actually in
need Of food could be satisfied with the fact that food
consumption is decreasing Americans eat too much and
eventually pay penalties for it. With less they would
be better off physically and financially.
The Washington times., 1931-04-25

For the anthropolog and for the curious inter-
ested their strange fellow creatures these two pictures
illustrate only the lives and strange bodies African pygmies
The pygmy mother above carries her heavy child sitting
flat rope of palm leaves sung the mothers
shoulders For the forest that practical than
any magnificent baby carriage with steel springs
The pygmy baby, carried by its mother until half grown,
cngs the mothers shoulders There danger that
will slip 1t does let go fall though the mother
may rush in flight logs and rough ground in the thick
forest
These forest babies have remarkable grip with their
hands Scientists call it revolution" monkey baby holds
its mothers fur with deathke grip falling the
mother jumps from limb limb in tree. And according
nauras your white baby, in the beginning of its
lfe retains this primitive monkey grip. You know how
child day Did will cling your finger 1t is said that
very young baby be lifted from bathtub holding
little stick
But that's evolution, and THIS editorial about pygmes
and the meaning of these pictures
They MORE than strange life in the forest than
strange primitive dwelling for whole famiy-a home'
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

your ability to get along with
these ornery millions.
Nor was getting along" a
simple matter of kissing them
off. 1t implied all sorts of
adroit manipulation-frankness
for one man, subtlety for the
other. open-handed gener-
oSity with one type, a calculat-
ing eye and a closed fist with
the other. It demanded an
ability to Pick EN-. And an
even greater ability to Leave
EN- Alone. Beside these quail
fications all your facts and sta
tistics and technical tips, faded
into insignificance.
Just Wooden Rules
YET THESE WE'RE PRE-
CISELY THE THINGS THEY
HAD NOT TAUGHT YOU IN
SCHOOL. INSTEAD, YOU HAD
BEEN TAUGHT TO PIN YOUR
FAITH TO ACADEMIC FACTS
A1ND "A IL SOAsO ~
THOSE MULTIPLICATION
TABLES" WHICH JOSEPH
GWINN HAS AT LAST HAD
THE SPUNK TO PUT IN
THEIR PROPER PLACE.
With what result? With the
result that a lot of glad-hand-
ling roughneckS, who'd never
gone beyond the sixth grade,
grabbed up all the choice things
in the market while you were
trying to decide which formula
to use first.
Some day, when we have real
schools, that's what We'll teach,
from kindergarten, through col
lege-THE GENTLE, AND NOT
so GENTLE, ART OF GET
TING ALONG WITH YOUR
FELLOW MAN. After that may
be we'll bone up on English Lit.
and Math.
And in the meantime, while
we're waiting-wreaths for Jo-
Seph Gwinn! That person knows
his human race.
Copyright 1881. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
ONCE-OVERS
Listening In?

Listening IN?
Does the radio cause a lot
Of quarreling in your home?
Are you unwilling to hear
what some of the others like
because you prefer something
else?
Do you want 1t run indefi-
nitely, long after the others are
tired Of it?
Do you call from somewhere
in the house: For heavens
sake, turn that thing off
just can't stand it,?
When some Of the family
want to be quiet or talk, do you
operate the loud speaker until
it sounds like bedlam?
Few evenings pass, If the
truth were told, when you do
not SelfiShly demand that only
what pleases you shall be
heard.
SuppoSing all members Of
your family found fault as you
are? Radio, which is supposed
to furnish entertainment for
all would become a source of
friction.
You have no more right to
dictate what you shall hear
over the radio than any other
member of your family.
If you don't like it, leave the
room. The others have the
same privilege, but each should
try to be careful not to disturb
peace.
CCopyrIEht. 1881, International
Features Service 1nc.4
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
TIMES TEST

Do you know:
/. Who was the prisoner re-
leased by PLATE?
2. Who makes fun OF love IN
Much Ado About Nothing?
3. How was Opheha in
Hamlet" killed?
4. How was Mason and Dixon's
line first marked out?
S. What is the greatest rice
producing State?
6. How many members will
be in the College of
Cardinals when it is COM
plete?
Z. What university gives each
year a Laetare Medal?
8. What is the deepest Great
Lake?
9. How has the names Of the
Danish West Indies been
changed?
10. What does the word Alaska
mean?
Match correctly:
II. burdenSome
turning green
II. Opaque
stimulate
13. viridescent
flog
IA. Scourge
obscure
IS. vivify
onerouS
ANSWERS on Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1931-04-25

Wreaths-big, juicy, green
ones-for Joseph Mari GWinn,
superintendent of San Francisco
schools, for he has said a large
earful of Sound Sense.
LEARNING TO GET ALONG
WITH OTHER PEOPLE," says
Mr.. Gwinn, us MORE IMPOR-
TANT IN LIFE THAN LEARN
ING THE MULTIPLICATION
TABLES"
Didn't need a school superin-
tendent to tell you that, did
you? But what a miracle to find
find one with the wit to realize
it. Long ago you discovered
that, from the day you opened
your eyes until the day you,close
them, your main job would be
just Getting Along With Other
People.
Good deal of a surprise at
first, wasn't it? You had things
sized up differently. You started
out with the firm belief that
success would depend upon the
knowledge and skill you could
amaSS and attain. You bent all
your energies to developing your
talents-to selecting certain
High Aims and Important
Projects which would set your
name in the bright lights. And
you, thereupon, proceeded to Go
Get En-. Which surely would
not be difficult if you were hon.
est, industrious, thrifty, eff
cient, Studious, alert, bought
your collars at Jones, your hat
at SnoobS' and avoided halitosis.
AS per all our best ads ard
copybook maxims.
The Big Shock
But shock awaited you! De-
spite all your flossy technique,
so painfully acquired at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers, you
found that, between you and
your goal stood several million
other humans, all of whom were
more or less Of a pain in the
neck. And your career would
flourish or flop according to
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Get Back to- Nature!

There is section of the country beautiful spring
than the District of Columbia and nearby Maryland and V
ginia.
While the thrtymile gale couple of days ago played
havoc with the cherry blossoms in Potomac Park the apple
blooms in the country adjacent to Washington in their
glory.
thousand varieties of spring flowers the air with
their perfume and for those botancay minded specimens
galore peeping amongst the fields and woodlands.
So get out the tomorrow fill the gasoline tank pack
good-Sized lunch and them
Ho for the open trail!
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Hearst Papers Advocate
0OuaSIZeu lunch and Then-
Ho! for the open trail!

friendship nations entGngling
tUith nonc"-George Washington.
Proportional representation in the United States Senate
State to haze less than Senator's Legislation enforce
prompt constitutional reGpportionmnet in the House of
Representatives.
Separate departments of the Army of the and the
Air Forces all united under Secretary of National Defense
Federal action to the limit of Federal to abolish
iHiterGcy under Secretary of Education.
Installation of the President the first of January too
inc the November election.
Selecue immigration to admit only those suited for Aer
can citizenship and American needs.
2 Deporntion undesirable aliens citizen
ship period to 10 years.
Complete publicity for income GreS to preUnt big tar
dodgers from escaping tdrGtion
Modification of the VolSteGd act to permit light Dnes
beers under Federal regulation
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

and West Virginia refused food.
They have no bread let them
eat cake" Yet, in the face Of
these facts we have one Holly
Stover, defending the coal
operators and mine owners,
ct al.
What would be the answer
of 1OO-year-old Mother Jones'"
if she we're living, to Holly
Stover, to the West Virginia
coal operators and owners, the
most callous, hard-boiled, heart
less of their class in these
United States?
What are American voters
going to do about these condi-
tions and the United States in
junction judges at the next
election.
THE poor ye always have
with you," said the One, who
had not a place to lay His
divine head! We of these
United States can spend mil
lions of dollars to feed the
hungry of other lands, but
not one cent to feed 5000 plus
of workleSs men, their starving
wives and little children.
Millions of dollars for the
hungry of other lands; not a
cent for hungry, starving Amer
ican-a new American slogan.
There is something rotten,
putrid, in our Denmark, too.
Awake, arise, ballot-act, ere it
be too late and We call upon
the mountains to fall upon and
cover us. w. E. RYAN.
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
"Give Us Low
Fares Again !"
Editor, Times:

Give US low fares again. that's what
we long for;
Six for q quarter, or five If you like.
Prices are tumbling, that's what were
strong for;
Down with the fares. and no longer
ws'Il hike.
Plague on your cars, antlquated ana
rumbling:
But hang US on straps and jam us
in there again,
We shall endure it, while profanely
grumbling,
Give us low fares again.
Give us low fares again; NO. were
not spoofing,
Why let the taxi get all of the
pelf?
Cars almost empty. and thousands
are hoofing,
why not get wise and stop kid
ding yourself?
Dividends? Blah, don't give MS that
hokum,
Everyone knows you'll be free from
your cares again;
Stop profiteering and trying to soak
'em,
Give us low fares again1
THOMAS S. CARNEY.
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
United Jewish Campaign
1t Must Not Fail!

Washington Jewry has been asked contribute the
United Jewish Campaign for Overseas Relief.
This is worthy and every person interested in
allevating the ills of suffering mankind matter where
found should not hesitate give literally to this fund.-
Officials of the campaign declare the drive has not been
successful early returns indicated.
An additional appeal is therefore made to all Washington
Jewsand those of other faiths who to contrbuteto
get busy and make the United Jewish Campaign distinct
success
Jews from other lands are calling for help.
Washington Jews must not fail to heed the call!
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Walking a Lost Art

What is trades meat another trades poison. Shoe
factories elsewhere have been trying
find out why the average normal increase in population
which they formerly based expectation of business
fails guide Their figures reveal shoe consump
ton longer keeps pace with growth of population.
Dr. Ernest Bradford head of the bureau Of business
School of Business of the College of the City
New York. explaining this phenomenon the shoe
facturer economist and his leather to fit d
mnished activity of the human foot Rubber tires millions
motor the professor points out have cut shoe wear
in half
Another authority the medical school rises to remark that
coffin makers thrive shoemaker starve because lack of
exercise is responsible large degree for the increasing
death rate from heart disease
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
Criticises Our
Economic Structure

Editor, Times:
The Roman, Marcus AureliuS,
wrote over 1000 years ago:
Look beneath the surface; let
not the several quality of a
thing, nor it's worth escape
thee" Another writer: The
poor must be wisely visited,
and literally cared for, so that
mendacity shall not be tempted
into mendicity, nor want exas-
perated into crime"
what fools ye mortalS be-"