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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-20

West Of the Mississippi, Peo-
pie Seem to Be Able to GiUe
You More for the Same
Money, and Still Make a
Fair Profit.
GAN DIEGO. Cal, Jan. 2o.-An-
- swering the question uppermost
in your mind, no matter who you
are, or where you live, business is
about the same in California as In
other parts of the country.
Only three people asked for
something" with which to buy
breakfast as we loaded up the car
at San Bernardino Monday morn
ing white similar situation pro-
duced four in San Antonio, Tex,
two weeks ago.
The Federated Trades and Labor
Council of San Diego wants the city
to provide work by appropriating
500, 900 for construction Of a new
golf course in Balboa park.
think it's good idea. We would
better pay men to carry rocks from
one side Of the street to the other
and back again than hulnihate
them with the demoralizing brand
Of charity some politicians and
philanthropistS are recommending.
A CCORDING to a government
L n report, food prices dropped Is
per cent between Jan. 1, 1880, and
Jan. 1, 1881.
Some of them can show bigger
drop than that between New York
and California.
We saw good grapefruit for rs
cents dozen and good oranges at
cent apiece in San Bernardino
stores, while prunes are cents
pound in San Diego.
That can be accounted for by the
fact that this is a fruit-growing sec
ton, but we have found the average
cost Of meals In restaurants, coffee
shops and hotel dining rooms con-
siderably lower.
West Of the Mississippi, people
seem able to give you more for the
same amount OF money and still
make fair profit. Maybe It's be-
cause they have less racketeering.
Making every allowance for the
cost of freight handling charges and
commission, New Workers. are pay
ing an unreasonable amount for
food, according to prices we have
been quoted on this trip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-20
There's Some Cheer

nUT cheer UP. The picture is not
- all dark. Professor Einstein
broadcasts a speech in German and
over nationwide lookup. It was
only twelve years ago that sixteen
OF our states prohibited the teach
ing OF German, while giving a
Wagnerian opera was about as
dangerous as waving a red flag.
Like everything else, our grown
up childishness has a way of wash
ing itself out, and many troubles
which we take seriously are due to
nothing worse.
Much Of our boaSted prosperity
amounted to no more than a
glorifled form Of poker, and much
OF the depression harks back to the
marble boarding complex.
Some of, our ableSt f1nanciers still
pretend to think that stock
gambling is a good thing, while some
Of our best officials would rather
see the Red Cross establish soup
Kitchens than provide money for a
street, park, or a building, which
though we can do without it right
row, will be needed in the next five
or ten years.
AS every one knows, there wouldn't
be work for 20 per cent of our adult
population without the luxuries and
non-essentials of civilized life. Why
are we SO ready to admit 1t in good
times and so blind to it in hard
times?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-20

bled eggs, toast and coffee to Edgar
Guest" It takes a heap Of living to
make a suite a home.
Nor can think Of anything which
might be done to assuage my BIT
ternesS and envy. In Cincinnati
the names OF Mcintyre and Guest
are craven in metal, while mine Is
writ in water. And on the side, at
that.
There doesn't seem to be very
much can do about 1t, although I
plan a forlorn hope letter to the
management of the Gibson.
I am going to suggest that Ger
tain changes be made on the plate
upon the door of 518. If I have my
way it will be changed to read,
1.-THE Presidential and Broun for
Congress Suite"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-20
Follow the FIagg

"ATOW and then in your column, :"
In writes McAlister Coleman,
you refer lovingly to a certain Jog
named Captain F1agg. And, as I re-
call it, you have inflated your love
for this animal to include dogs in
general.
Furthermore, you have from time
to time made comparisons between
dogs and cats invidious to TIE latter.
This at once sets you down as an
inveterate caninophile.
"And like your fellow dog wor-
shippers, you evidently suffer from
a complex which causes you to make
shoots In the direction of all cats
as a sort of defense mechanism. The
disease is common, but not incur
able.
1.-THE truth is, of course. that there
can be no comparison whatever be-
tween cats and dogs. Dogs, as you
must know, are descendants of
NANCY creatures, the results Of
crossing wolves and jackals.
while dogs ranged the barbarian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-20
Daily Thought

Put your trust In the Lord
Psalm As.
You may trust him in the dark
Cicero. xs.-
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
TODAY's RADIO PROGRAMS.

wOL-Modern Melodies
WJSV-Sacred Hour.
f1i1S-WRC-On Wings of Sons.
WMAL-"'KeeplnE Up. With the
Times in Fashions"
II :SO-wMAL--Columbia Revue.
WOL-Hawaiian Memories.
WJSV-Gospel Choir.
1900 NOON
wRC-Concert Music.
WMAL-Farm Talk.
WOL-Luncheon Music.
WJSV-LunCh heon Music.
WBAL-Weather Reports.
12:16-wJSV-Fairfax County Agricul
tural Agent.
12.15-WMAL-Enric Madrigueras Or
chestra.
WOL-Songs.
12:30-wRC-Nationa Farm and Home
Hour,
wMAL-Dance Music
WOL-Request Program.
100 P. M.
wMAL-Rhythm Kings.
WJSV-Old King Tut.
1:1S-wMAL-Colum artists recital.
1:30-Talk by Louis Rothschild. direc-
tor of Better Business Bureau.
WBAI-Firesids songs.
WMAL-Columbia Salon orches-
1:45-WRC-The Melody Three.
wMAL-Columbi Salon Orches-
ira.
200 P. M.
wRC-Woman's radio review.
WJSV-Luncheon music.
2:30-WMAL-The Three Doctors.
wJSV-Dance music.
Observation-Disclosures Arnold, pianist.
800 P. M.
wRC-Radio and Electric Show
Orchestra from Washingt on
Auditorium.
WMAL-Melpdy magic.
WOL-Sportk
WJSV-Ball game
WBAL-Syncopato
S:30-WRC-Dancing melodies.
WMAL--Dance orchestra.
S:45-WRC-"The Jungle Man"
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
SPEEDERS FINED

For speed exceeding 40 miles an
hour. Edward B. johnson and
Andrew G.. Smith were each fined
S25 and costs in Rockville police
court by Judge Charles W. Wood
ward.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

twinge of periodic pain.
Harmless as it is, a Midol tablet
blocks all possibility Of periodic pain
for hours at a stretch. 1t isn't a
narcotic. But it acts in seven minutes,
and let's you menstruate in comfort!
Just ask the druggist for Midol.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
How Does a
Woman Champion
Manage?

Women champions
cannot have "of
days" Day after
day of practice and
play, and matches
that permit no
post tponem ents.
Then how do they
m anage durin g
menstrual periods
when other women
are sunk with paint
They meet these
monthly emergen-
cies with Midol,
and tn ey dom t
ever experience a
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

Splendid quality border
rugs in the most attrac-
tive patterns and colors.
Marked at this eXcep-
tionally LOW PRICE for
Dollar Day only!
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
WAVE LENGTHS

wMAL-415.S meters, $40 kllO-
cycles.
WRC-31S meters, ESQ kilo-
cycles.
WOL-229 meters, 1S40 kilo-
cycles,
WJsv-2O3 meters. 1850 kilO-
WBAL CBaltimore)-1O6O kilo-
cycles.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
1900 MIDNIGHT

wRC-Earl Hines and His Or
Chestra.
wMAL-Government wea t her
Report
IL 2:3O-WRC-Don Pedro and His Or
chestra
WRC-Jane Froman ana Her
Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
400 P. M.

WRC-Ths Lady Next Door.
wMAL-"Primer for Town Farm
ers."
wBAL-Chats with PegEy Win
throp.
A:10-wMAL-Asbur Park Casino
Orchestra.
A16-wOL-Louis Rothschild direc-
tor of Better Business Nv
reau.
WEALTHY Scott, soprano.
A;30-wRC-OrEan melodies.
WMAL--Songs.
wOL-Alvin Thaden.
wBAL-"Mouth Health"
a:4S-wRC-"Famou Paintings in
Many Lands"
WMAL-Dance music.
WOLs--Nonsel sicalities.
WBAL-Stock reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Airmail From Central Africa.

Much pride and satisfaction have
been felt over the saving of hours in
mail transportation in this country by
plane. A good deal OF fuss was made
a short time ago when as much as a
whole day was cut of the time of letter
transit between the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts. After that achievement
little If anything remains to be accom-
plished in North America in the way
Of mail savings, unless it be on the
north-south lines, beyond the bound
aries of the United States, which are
but little used for postal service.
A performance has recently been ac-
complished in the way of airmail time
saving that puts in the shade all Amer
lean economies. A service was under
taken from Mwanza, en- Lake Tangan-
yika, to London. The flights required
nine days. and the mail was delivered
with saving Of twenty-three days over
the fastest previous transport by land and
water. The first consignment OF postal
matter comprised more than $4,000 let
tiers, many of which had been as
sembled at Mwanza from Central Africa
and the Sudan.
Nine days from below the Equator to
Croydon! Think of the months that
were formerly required to get any sort
of message from the explorers who were
worming their way through that ter
rifying country! They were virtually
isolated until they returned to the
coast, and even there they were, in pos
tai terms, distant many weeks from
home. Now in a few successive hops
from the heart Of the dark continent
letters are borne to London in nine
days, instead of the month required
only few weeks ago.
Airmail is an established feature of
the postal service, almost the world
over. The day may soon come when
all first-class mail VIII be airborne
over short as well as long routes. The
competition of the telephone compels
the extension of the air service and the
speeding Of all mail planes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Alfonso's Tottering Fortunes.

This King business as an irreverent
American described postwar develop
ments IN formerly mere royalist Europe,
is in a pretty bad way in Spain today,
following yesterdays communal cleo
tons throughout the country. They
resulted in Republican landslide.
In at least two-thirds of the larger
cities anti-monarchial candidates were
swept into municipal Office on straight
cut platform of abolition of the throne
and abdication of King Alfonso. The
sportsman-sovereign failed even to carry
his own wards, as it were. Madrid, San
Sebastian and Aranguez, in all Of which
places his majesty has residences, rolled
up huge Republican majorities. The
same story is recorded in Guadala jara,
home town of Count Romanones, foreign
minister in the Kings cabinet and one
Of the mainstays of Alfonso's Keeling
regime
The Madrid cabinet is meeting today
in emergency session, to consider the
question which, put in Yankee parlance,
reads: Where do we 60 from here?"
Early dispatches suggest that the
cabinet viii advise the King to go to
military dictatorship, in order to fend
OF revolt which may be the logical
sequence of the monarchial debacle at
the polls.
The Sunday municipal elections,
which brought out record vote of more
than 100000 enfranchised Spaniards,
including women who are heads of
families, do not Of themselves decide
the fate of the dynasty. This viii be
more directly at stake in May, when
the lower house Of the Cortes is to be
elected. and in June, when a new senate
VIII be voted for. The Republicans
enter the Cortes campaign victory
flushed. They demand what their party
name indicates, Obliteration of the
monarchy is their frank and irreducible
minimum
Yesterdays vote was the first exercise
Of suffrage in Spain since Dictator de
Rivera blotted popular government out
Of existence in 1923. The result must
be crushing disappointment to King
Alfonso. It was mainly at his instigation,
several months ago, that a semblance
Of free speech. free press, free assembly
and free suffrage was restored. It is
unmistakable that the medicine was not
strong enough to serve as an antidote
to the rising fever of republicanism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Tax on Unmarried.
ON the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rumania's proposal of special tax
on all unmarried persons of both sexes
strikes one at first as rather ungallant
to the bachelor girls. On second
thought, however, the reverse may seem
to be true.
Taxing the unmarried male for his
bachelorhood is as old as the ancient
Roman republic and many modern in
stances might be cited. Such tax Is
supposed to serve the double purpose
of raising revenue and promoting matri-
mony. The implication is that all UNI
married men are in single blessedneSs
as a matter of choice and unmarried
women as a matter of necessity.
The Rumanian idea Is more in line
with modern thought. The tax on I'M
married males and females alike gives
the spinsters the benefit of the doubt
socially and Is probably nearer the facts.
Certainly there are many women Of
today unmarried by choice and few If
any who would admit the contrary.
The Rumanian tax, like the rain, Is
to fall on the Just and the unjust and
to do that it viii have to take in both
sexes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13

boy begged that he should not tell any
body that ne had saved Stain from
drowning.
OF course, If Stain is so desperately
unpopular in Russia as to make such a
joke a current cause of rejoicing, he is
perhaps to be forgiven for being sensi-
tive on the subject. In such a case
this incident goes further than to ex-
plain the eviction of the writer. 1t ex-
plains much more than that. 1t re-
veals very serious condition in Russia,
especially If the "five-year plan" is, as
some well informed writer's are now re-
lating, breaking down with a heavy
casualty" list.
A tyrant without sense Of humor is
an object of pity as well as of resent
ment. Stain needs guidance in the
humanities to lessen his dangers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13

ton at the Paris Peace Conference.
bennett is an authority on the diplo-
matte history of the Far East.
Cheer up, this little old United States
Is still not only the richest country in
the world, but bullying with more gold
lnan at any time in its history The
Treasury's monetary gold stock on
April was 06O0O,000, SURPRISING
the former peak of $4,702 600, 900 on
May 16, 1927. The whole worlds stock
OF gold is $4,000, 100000. This coun-
try owns, roundly, As per cent of it.
The hoard Is being increased mainly at
the expense of Canada, Argentina and
Japan. Our yellow fortune, which some
economists consider more of blight
than blessing, Is mostly stored in
certain powerfully fortified places on
Manhattan Island. Now and then it's
proposed, for safety's sake, moving it
farther away-from salt water.
4 4
Senator Henry r. Ashurst, Democrat,
OF Arizona, has Schoolmate in Wash
lngton, now also in public life, who says
the Chesterfield of the Upper House de-
cided, while still in grammar school at
Flagstaff, to go to the Senate some day.
Ashurst was fond of scribbling in the
fyleafi of his schoolbooks: Henry
Fountain Ashurst, United States Sena-
tor from Arizona" About Is years
later-in 1911-he not only realized his
boyhood ambition, but became one of
ArizonaS first two Senators at Wash
ington. The State has kept him here
ever since.
\ X X
mick" Longworth, man of a thousand
stories, thought this one among his best,
If not the best: The late Speaker was
dining in London alongside the Chinese
Minister to Great Britain, who turned
out to be Yale man. Ever attend
the boat race at New London?" asked
Longworth, Harvard 81 and once a
member of the Crimson crew. "Oh,
yes" replied the Chinese, "I was at New
London often" Then mick" queried:
Did you see the Harvard eight row?"
Quoth the Oriental, Never" Long
worth thought that a bit queer and
wanted to know how come. II was
coxswain of the Yale crew." the Chi
nese explained.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13

rage against the administration, as 1t
frequently is? Would not such q plan
tend to break down orderly government
and also might 1t not be exceedingly
unfair to officials of the Government
who happen to come under the dis
pleasure of majority Of the Senate?
Senator Bingham has included in his
proposal new court to try impeach-
ment cases. He would have, in the
event Impeachment is started in the
Senate, court composed Of ten senior
members of each political party, and
four senior members of the Supreme
Court and the Chief Justice or Vice
President as presiding officer. II the
Impeachment proceedings arose in the
House, then the court would be COM
posed of ten Senators from each political
party, plus the members of the Supreme
Court. In this way, Senator Bingham
believes, it would be possible to obtain
a fair trial, leaving the balance of power
in the hands of the members of the
Supreme Court. The difficulty lies.
however not so much in getting a fair
trial once the impeachment has been
launched, but in the tendency that
may arise to bring frequent impeach-
ment proceedings for political reasons
primarily.
The Connecticut Senator, as a reason
for putting forward his proposal at this
time, cites the case of DR.. George Otis
Smith, chairman of the Federal Power
Commission. The Senate, Mr.. Bingham
contends, is seeking to impeach DR..
Smith because of an act he performed
after he was appointed chairman and
took office. 1t is acting by indirection
because it cannot act directly. The case
Senator Bingham cites, however, is
strongly political. an effort to get rid
OF Government official by the Senate
because that official acted contrary to
the desires Of a majority of the Senate,
not because of malfeasance in office.
If the Senate is to be allowed to bring
proceedings whenever it
wishes to attack an official of the adj
there may be no end to
the thing. Furthermore, officials will
become more and more subservient to
the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Stains. Grave Defect.

The gentleman who styles himself
Joseph Stalin-his real name being
something quite different and far less
pronounceable-who is the real ruler of
Russia. suffers from lack Of the sense
Of humor. 1t is a serious failing. It
makes his rough path of governmental
dietation even more difficult. Perhaps
psychologist would analyze him as the
victim of an inferiority complex, that
mischievous quality Of mind that makes
men afraid of their own limitations.
That Stain is thus deficient in the
humorous sense is indicated plainly by
the latest report Of his autocratic be-
havior. The story is told, without de-
NAL or correction, by the victim of his
indignation, an American woman who
has been lately residing in Russia with
her husband, an engineer serving the
Soviet government in an advisory ca
pacity. The wife, gifted with literary
ability, has been writing about Russia
for American periodicals. Recently an
article by her was printed here in a
magazine of very wide circulation. It
was entitled, See Russia and Die
Laughing" When copy reached Mos
COW and the matter was translated
Stain was greatly aggrisyed. He or
dered that the lady be sent out of the
country, her husband likewise.
Maybe any government would resent
and perhaps wish to send away a
stranger who wrote piece" with such
a title. But It would be absurd to carry
out such an order for the reason that
the Moscow foreign once frankly gave
for the eviction. Therein lies the
demonstration that Stain is deficient
in humorous perception. For the ex-
| PLANTATION was offered that it was
not the article in general or its title
that caused official ire to rise, but a
particular anecdote related in it. That
anecdote. reported as current in Moscow
to the secret joy Of the people, told
how a boy saved the life of man, who
in expressing his gratitude promised
any reward that might be nausd. say.
ing taask laa - ntaliny MheEsapna to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Gift of Sight From Surgeon
Aids Study of Human Traits

Bestowal Of sight upon Philadelphia
hospital patient, Earl Musselman, whe
had been blind from birth, Is welcomed
by modern philosophy as contribu.
ton to better understanding Of human
traits. With keen perception, and witt
alert sense Of qualities In the things
that may be observed, the young mar
of 20 Is viewed as giving better insight
into normal human reactions, unten.
pered by the monotony Of daily con-
facts. His new experience is especially
held to be an inspiration In the direc-
ton Of an optimistic conception OF the
world.
ITO him sight is miracle says the
Pittsburgh Post Gazette. He has
found q world that had only been i'm
agined. The reality is 50 far ahead OF
what he fancied as he passed his years
in darkness that he must learn life
from its beginnings, as children do. A
year or so ago similar case came to
notice in Milwaukee, Wis, when Mar
celia Calkins, then q girl of 20, became
able to see for the first time since birth
In both cases the physical condition
was practically the same; q 1ilra COW
cred the pupil. A delicate operation
was required for both cases, the film
being folded back and sight becoming
possible through the aperture thus
made SO precious is the gift Of vision
that the world viii rejoice with Mus
selman,l as it did with Miss Calkins
over the good fortune. The young man
Is expected to absorb in about three
months the knowledge Of the ordinary
branches which children gain in the
first six years of school. He has the
(o,. - % VaSr,
progress might be anticipated"
1.-THE darkness had toned down and
dimmed his conception of what light
and color and the world In general are
like" observes the Savannah Morning
News, adding: 1T was all shadowy to
him in imagination. Every
thing-the world, people, houses, the
trees, the hills-eVerything he said,
looked better than he had expected
Somehow, that statement, simply made,
is significant from one who had CROPPED
for more than 20 years. He found
things, seen in the clear light, better
than he expected Perhaps there are
many who have been In q way as blind
with full vision given them, might see
things in general brighter and better
on the whole than they had become &C.
customed to believe"
X
Emphasizing the keenness of the I'M
preSSions newly made upon a mature
mind, the Seattle Daily Times recalls
another case in which the beauty of
nature was brought to the attention of
person who was devoid of sight, with
the statement: 1.-THE glpries Of q
gorgeous sunset were described to q
blind man, who said he thought he
understood. 1t must, he said, be much
like the firing of a cannon. Could you
get more accurate conception of the