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The Washington times., 1931-07-16
Firemen and Policemen and
Extra Work

The Commissioners of the District may have legal au
thorty forbid fremen and policemen doing extra work.
for pay their time but they do have right to dis
courage this energy the part of paid servants of the pub
lie.
Moreover, they will probably find ways to carry out their
policies, despite the court ruling.
Under conditions Of prosperity, with few unemployed
and would appear good policy to restrict police
men and fremen from doing extra work for pay. Their
salaries high though reasonable and it is evidence
of good qualities in any to seek work to aid
In meeting numerous obligations as q citizen.
Under existing conditions though it is detrimental to
munty welfare that public servant should deprive unem
ployed of work and the opportunity to living.
There are doubtless instances where reen or policemen
specialists in particular lines Of work and where those
seeking to have the work done do not know where to find
competent persons employed There should not be OBJ
iections In such .'.....
There be objections fremen policemen work
ing upon their homes upon homes of relatives There
should not however be any outright competition Of public
servants with workers in need of jobs
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
Human Foibles, Frailties
And FurbelOWS

The tittstae of social and official life here gathered
In tib FORM will have its attractions for those who enjoy
reading of supposed human fraes but the financial re-
wards any, not possibly be lucrative as in the winter
when Washington society greatly increased by ad
ons from other Cities when those the outside looking
in are hungry for all whsperings'
To assemble the weaknesses pecuarites of Washington
great and great including the representatives OF foreign
powers not such hard work. gossip accepted for all
human beings have more or distinctive characteristics and
those satisfied with themselves thrilled shocked it
may be- by the actions and words of Others
This is wonderful old for gossip and people come
here from parts of the country to get earfu two
or three earfu if is to be had The sharper it is like
old cheese, the better.
Maybe we do circulate enough of this gossip through
the country get advertising Of the type that keeps Reno
and New York the SANDER map There is story from
New York for example, about young millionaire who con
templated divorce from his BRIDE former chorus girl be-
cause she used many hghsoundng phrases he simply
couldn't stand it.
Cooking and serving alleged faults for public
sumption certainly does produce curious lot Of gravies
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
In Fairness to the President By Claude G. Bowers
By Nelson
Harding

and the financial showing #
the Administration, and in the
taxes, as now. when the re-
sponsibility is his.
OF course he is as sympa-
thetic toward the Americans
suffering now as he was to-
r. ward the BelgianE suffering
then; but his was not the re-
Sponsibility then, and 1t is now.
No Great Ingenuity
Required Of Him
Then, again, he is severely
criticised on the ground that
while he has shown no initia-
tive or leadership in dealing
with the crisis in business and
unemployment here, he dis
closes qualities Of leadership
and the capacity for vigorous
action in dealing with the fl
nancial crisis in Germany.
This, too. is an unfair reflec-
tion upon his alleged coldness
toward the suffering here. 1t
is predicsted upon an erroneous
Interpretation Of his action in
the case of the moratorium. In
that he did not lead; he was
pushed.
He was pushed by dire neces-
sity. Pushed by what we now
know to have been the threat
of an almost immediate eco
nomic and financial collapse of
Germany. Pushed by the dan
ger therein to the stupendous
sums loaned by American
banking interests in Germany.
And 1t required no great
ingenuity to find the method
of relief he adopted. It was
the only possible method. And
it required no great generosity
to Germany. He merely pro-
posed to postpone payments
that could not possibly be
made at the time.
IL was not as though Ger.
many could, under the COM
pulSion Of necessity, continue
reparations; she could not, and
every one knows it now. His
action was a necessary yielding
to necessity.
Thus 1t Is unfair to say that
he should find a plan for
American relief when he found
one for the relief of Germany;
In the latter case his path
was clear before him, in the
former he has to blaze a trail.
It is easy to follow a path: it
takes courage and spirit and
self-confidence to blaze a trail.
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
TIMES TEST

Mark each statement as
True" or False:
l. The CruSades began in
2. Amelia Earhart flew from
London to Australia.
8. Germany entered d the
League Of Nations in 1926.
4. The Athenians began the
year in July.
S. The United States adopted
standard time in 1776.
6. A Lucy Stone League
member" retains her maiden
name after marriage.
Z. Still sits the schoolhouSe
by the road
: A ragged beggar summing"
8. WinSlow Homer's name Is
connected with music.
9. Lady Godiva was q tax
reliever.
10. CaSaba is a kind Of grape.
Match correctly:
II. Angel Pavement
PepyS
IL. The Great Meadow
Priestly =
13. Diary
Butler
IL. The Way Of All Flesh
Vaughan
is. OF Human Bondage
Roberts
ANSWERS on Magazine PageH -
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now and an old wood rat Is
nesting.
How long did he live there?
Why did he come? Was he look
ing for gold? Or was he some
frantic, twisted soul, running
away from his world? No one
knows. Only this is sure. They
found his skeleton in that cor
ner. The coyotes had rum
mayed his bones a bit, but the
skulls eyeless sockets still stared
at that niche in the wall.
He had built that niche more
carefully than all the rest, lining
it with fine pebbles from the
creek. Even though it was empty
when the proSpectors found
him, its use is plain. There was
a cross there once, and a candle.
A cross holding the twisted
body and the brave face OF
another lonely Man.
Out there, hundreds Of miles
from the things men consider
worth while-pleasure, romance,
trade, excitement. alone with
his grief or his greed, his hate
or remorse or bitter surrender
=. he had built that house.
But even there, at his last
stand, when he was through
with everything else. he had
made that niche to hold the
one thing that persiSted-his
faith. .
And standing there, with my
living eyes set on the place
where his dead eyes had rested.
I thought how that is the way
with all Of us. Joy comes. JOY
goes. we turn our back on
one dream after another. But
always, built somewhere in. the,
wall Of life, amongst the rocks
and the rubble and common
clay. there Is a niche. A niche
for faith. And always, through
long, empty nights, through
empty days, Q candle burns
Copyright, 1891. King Features
syndicate, Inc.l !
The Washington times., 1931-07-16

There appears to be some
controversy over the story in
a book Just published pretend
ing to describe the manner in
which Mr.. Hoover got into the
Republican party. It is to the
effect that when Franklin Lane
and Franklin Roosevelt had
almost persuaded Mr.. Hoover
to become a candidate for the
Democratic nomination in 1920,
Boise PenroSe and Henry Cabot
Lodge dissuaded him and took
him into camp.
There will be denialS, OF
course, and it does not matter.
Some of us recall Mr.. Hoover's
embarrassment in 1920, and our
own amazement when it ap-
peared that he did not know
to which party he belonged.
1t seemed strange to most Of
us that an American could
reach the mature age Of Mr..
Hoover at the time without
having any political convictions.
Long Absence Abroad
Must Be Remembered
But it was an unfair iudg-
ment. We failed to take into
consideration the fact that
most of the mature life Of Mr..
Hoover had been spent out Of
this country, that he had not
been interested in American
politics, and, we believe, had
not voted. He had returned in
the midst Of the war and had
been busy with food admins
tration. True, he had been
repatriated by President VIII
son and had at first been an
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

It's hard to find. You go up,
first, through the pine grove in
the north forty acres. easy
walking over the springy. russet
floor Of needles, through slant
ing shafts of claret light, with
the great branches spreading in
peacock smoke overhead.
Such hush! Not even the
sound Of your own moccasined
feet, shutting in and out Of the
light
Then, abruptly, you're up
against a wall Of chaparral with
the trail lost for yards at a time.
Thorny branches of greasewood
and "jimoSal" tangled above you
:. .Satiny red trunks of manza-
nita with beaten silver disks of
leaves. . and, brushing your
face as you crawl, the gummy,
aromatic mat Of mountain mis-
cry" the powdery, pink dust,
smelling like dried apples and
cinnamon.
Suddenly the chaparral lets
you down into the green, shad-
owed vault Of the creek with
the water 1isping and clucking
between the ferns and the oaks
archir:5 above you, holding
flecks Of sky-like blue tile set in
darkness.
After that. you go up for per-
hapS half q mile. hauling your.
self over great, messy houlders
:, breaking your way through
webs Of wild grape. until, hav-
ing almost forgotten what you
came for, you stumble upon the
stone hut the old Frenchman
built. /
It's in ruins, now-two Of
the walls down. Nobody knows
when it was new. Before the
Gold Rush, anyway, for the
first '49ers, prospecting up the
creek, came upon his bones.
He had died, there in the corner,
where the rocks are caved in
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
Longevity and Heredity:

Washington dead at the ripe age of 105 years
and reporters found that she had lived quiet and unusually
conentsd home le with no special program designed
prolong her years.
She from a family in which longevity common
and therein is the explanation Of her long e Insurance
company statistics reveal that longevity prevails in many
families while in others the span of life comparatively short
Heredy plays most important part here but not hundreds
of other ways supposed by people,
Life may be prolonged by in diet and in the Of
living even in shortved families It is growing longer all
the time as become better informed to ourselves and
what should do to the physical functions from
decay. ., =. - si. l.. -.
The Washington times., 1931-07-16

record with his failure to
manifest an equivalent SYM
pathy for the suffering peo-
pie here. They ascribe it to
his many years of residence in
Europe. 1t may be doubted
whether this is entirely fair.
It IS true that he asked for
staggering sums from the treas
ury Of this country to prevent
the suffering of people in
Europe; and equally true that
during the last year he has
stoutly deprecated such direct
aid from Government to those
suffering here, on the ground
that this is the work Of private
charity. But it is forgotten
that then he. had no re-
sponsibility for the treasury;
that it was not his, but Will
sons Administration that was
called upon to find the money;
that. naturally he was not so
much interested in the budget
The Washington times., 1931-07-16

ardent champion Of the League
of Nations.
If the story in the book is
true, it records a reasonable
result. After listening to Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Lane on
the one side and Mr.. Penrose
and Mr.. Lodge on the other,
it must have been apparent
at once that the two latter
spoke the language he could
best understand. It is unfair
to Mr.. Hoover to criticize him
for not having known his party
in the early part Of 1920; he
had never paid any attention
to American politics.
Not Entirely Fair
to the President
Just now the Presidents
critics are making much of
the alacrity with which he has
frequently gone to the rescue
Of the suffering peoples, in
Europe and contrasting this
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
DO YOU KNOW?

A polyphone bow has been
invented for playing on all
four strings Of violin at one
time. The bow is regulated
with the right hand while
playing.
Pure nickel is being used for
the storage Of wines IN Can
ada, the use Of wooden tanks
for such purposes having re-
suited in heavy losses through
absorption. ,,
The Washington times., 1931-07-16

what he considered good advice but chiefly to show how bril-
any he could write and think and to produce batch Of
letters that would outlast his lifetime.
successful in that nearly everybody that reads at
all read of chesterfields letters to his
This picture illustrates the difference that Lord Chester
field would detect in his greatgreat grandson Lord
Chesterfield could back and generation
the picture the descendant of 1881 supposed to be
saying to his less revered ancestor:
As for your Letters Son, great (and forth)
grandad it'd get you in wrong with all crowd
days. if they read them winner in its day. daresay,
but non-runner in mine.''
You know only too well that as the Chesterfield descendant
says: Being gentleman isn't done by the young, you
know Being lady ism done any too much by the young
either, unfortunately.
SLANG, in place of conversation, cocktail drinking, and
cocktail in place of good behaviour and other things
unpleasant might be found by Chesterfield
his descendants if he could come back
However all of this undoubtedly is offset by better quail
ties Of other kinds.
What would be our surprise if we could come back
descendants not two hundred from now but
100000 100000 years from now?
We know for science proves it that this earth will last
hundreds of millions Of years.
We know that we as we stand and as our brains work.
the products slow development changing through the
centuries development that scientists right wrong, call
evolution
know that ancestors lived in caves, fought the
mammoth, had long teeth and hairy bodies.
that only 1000 years from the late Stone
Age when only weapons sharp fin fastened to
the ends of sticks, and, perhaps bows and arrows.
We have changed greatly since ancestors hunted the
and fled from the giant bears Our chns have gone
back our jaws smaller teeth shorter fore
heads higher. 49,.
What changes remarkable should sse if could
come back in 100000 years in $4,000 years7
What would then be left Of the bodies that carry around
with us?
Should we find our descendants nearly ALL HEADS with
very little body?
Should We perhaps find daughters of few thousand
centuries hence fully developed fine girls and sons with
no work harder than pushing button dmnutve beings,
carried around by their wives in little gold mesh basket,
only taken out to be fed and state occasions?
Nobody knows what shall be like. But thing is
certain hath yet been shown what shall be- and
you could your descendants million years hence you
would million times surprised than old Lord Chest
sred would he could his descendants and watch
their manners Of today.
The Washington times., 1931-07-16
Lord CheSterfield'S
Descendant

With this excellent picture by Will Dyson, the London
Graphic illustrates clevey the difference between this day
and an earlier day.
You are familiar, with the letters that Lord Chesterfield
wrote son. long ago. egitimate by the way
Lord Chesterfield the letters partly give the
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
VICTIMS
To Be BURIED

With funeral services for two
Eastern High School boys who
met a tragic death Saturday to
be held tomorrow morning, an
noancemeng was made today that
cadets of the same corps in which
the two boys served will act as
pallbearers and a guard Of homer.
The bcvs, Leonard Bean, II,
Of 217 Tenth st. N. E., and Ebert
Gill. 16, of 1924 Charming st.
N E.. we're killed when the truck
on which they were "hitch-hik-
ing" to Chesapeake Beach over
turned.
Cjill was killed instantly and
bean died On mis- way to the Cal
vert County Hospital in Prince
Frederick. -,
Funeral services for Bean will
he held at his home at 1880 a. m.'
with the Rev. John c. Copen-
haver, of the Epworth Methodlst
Episcopal Church, officiating
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Rites for young Gill will be
held at IL a. M, with the Rev.
BENJAMIN H. Melton, pastor OF
the Ninth Street Christian
Church. officiating. Burial Will be
in Rock Greek Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
D. c. GIRLS WIN
FELLOWSH|PS

Miss Mary Augusta Kennedy,
daughter Of Will Kennedy, Wash.
ington newspaper man, of 24O5
First st. N. W., and two other
Washington girls have been
awarded fellowships to study
abroad by the Institute of Inter
national Education, it was an
nounced last night in New York.
Miss Kennedy was student at
st. Martins Parochial School and
later attended Notre Dame Acad-
emy. She will graduate this year
from Trinity College, where she
had made outstanding marks in
her various studies.
The other two Washington girls
who we're selected by DR.. Stephen
P. Duggan, of the Institute of In
ternational Education, are Miss
jeanette G. Bying, 1910 Twentieth
st. N. W., and Miss Adah L. Lee,
1705 De Sales st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
HERE'S The PRooF*

Open UP d pack Of OLD COLDS and smell
Shs tobacco. Do the some with any other
cigarette. Judge for yourself which has the
n0fUroE, pleasant, aII-tobocco aroma. rs
a favor TO your family and friends, as we'll
as 10 yourself, 10 smoke sNATURAL.FLAVoRED.
PVFs-tohaece OLD COLDS.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11

q sweet looking job. even the
motors are streamlined. they
have put the washroom back in
the tail section and increased
the cruising speed to 125 miles
per hour.
Walter Schaeffer, E. A. T.
pilot, brought the new ship
down on it's maiden trip Satur-
day, and he likes it immensely
=. there are many radical
changes in the ship that will be
watched with great interest.
George Brinkerhof. who is
now giving instruction in fly
ing at College Park Airport,
helped make newspaper his
tory Saturday when he brought
photographs of the PreakneSs
winner to Washington in time
for the early edition of the
Washington Herald, as this is
the first time this was ever
done in this city, it deserves
mention =. incidentally, you'll
find George ever ready to CO.
operate in any way where avia-
tion is concerned.
Through the American
Engineering Council we learn
of a. proposed air line to
Hawaii and the Philippines.
the Pacific-Zeppelin Transport
Company plans a 36-hour
service to Honolulu and 82-
hour service to Manila p. that
certainly sounds good. with
the International-Z eppelin
Transport Corporation serving
Europe from here and the
The Washington times., 1931-05-11

The Betsy Ross Flying Corps
got off to a great start Satur-
day, and Opal Kunz is largely
responsible for the success of
the enterprise. membership in
this organization is limited to
women pilots and offers an OPP
portunity to serve in time Of
war in q capacity similar to
that Of the Women'S Motor
Corps.
DR.. Frances Dickinson, Of
Chicago, has promised the corps
a field in Florida.
The International Air Legion,
meeting tomorrow night at the
Hamilton Hotel, promises to
hold much interest to every air.
minded person in the city the
list of speakers sounds like a
Who's Who" of aviation. by
the way, when will some smart
chap start such a volume . its
needed.
That Eastern Air Transport
crowd are certainly on their
toes. their latest stunt is to
tie up with the Postal Tele-
graph Company. now, anyone
wishing to buy a seat on any of
the E. A. T. planes. need only to
step into the nearest postal Of
flee.
w. Wronsky, director Of the
government air line Of Ger
many, was a passenger on the
E. A. T., and was high in his
praise Of the operations angle
of the line. Have you seen
the new Condor yet?.. boy, it's
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
DRY LAW PROBE
BY SCHOLARS
R|D|CULED
"A Little More Propaganda
For Prohibition" Says Cur
ran, Head of Wet Association

$50 now we have the Wood
cock Commission to investigate
the bedtime story known as
national prohibition"
In these words did Henry H.
Curran, president of the Associa-
ton Against the Prohibition
Amendment. today greet an
nouncement of the appointment of
a council of eminent educators
from some of the country'S lead,
ing universities for the purpose of
settling the "vexed question of
what is really happening in the
United States as a result of pro-
hibition."
. The council will seek to stimu,
late the interest of graduate
scholars seeking master and doc.
tor degrees to base their theses on
such subjects as How Has the
Operation of the Eighteenth
Amendment Affected Child DtIin.
quency?" or "HOw Has 1t Affected
Juvenile Drinking?"
Another Commission
Said Curran:
= Life in Washington still
seems to be just one new COM
mission after another.
The WOOdcOck commissions
personnel appears to be loaded
down with eminence, but what
is WOOdcOck up to in the grad
uate schools of the country?
"A little more prohibition
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Political Study Club
Holds First Meeting

The National Political Study
Club, an organization represent
ing nearly 100000 colored
women voters in this country.
held it's opening meeting yester-
day at the headquarters Of the
National Federation Of Colored
Women's Club, Twelfth and o
streets Northwest.
Miss Jeannette Carter, presi
dent. presided.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Police Asked to Find
MiS8inn D. C.. Woman

Police have been asked to
search for Mabel Day, %, who
has been missing from her home,
927 H St. N. w. She was de-
scribed as being 4 feet II inches
tall and weighing ITO pounds.
She wore a flowered dress. black
P~d white coat, light hose and
slippers.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
DR.. C. A. BROWNE TO TALK

DR.. c. A. Browne will speak
on Chemical Observations in
Foreign Lands" at a meeting of
the Chemical Society Of Wash
ington Thursday night at the
University of Maryland at Col
lege Park,
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Many Reservations
For Cruise Reported

Reservations for the Merchants
and Manufacturers Associations
twenty-first annual booster cruise
to be held June IL to Is on
the Potomac River and Chesa-
peake Bay are almost exhausted.
DR.. M. G. Gibbs, chairman, re-
The Washington times., 1931-05-11

propaganda paid for by tax
payers who don't believe in
prohibition"
Prohibition Bureau Director
Woodcock'S commission will meet
here in the latter part of May to
formulate plans for research into
the operation of the Eighteenth
Amendment in the field OF
sociology and political economy. "
1t will prepare a program Of sub
jects for investigation and will
supervise the working out Of its
program in the graduate schools
in various universities Of the
country.
In announcing the council,
Woodcock said :
"The reputation and Charac-
ter of the persons composing
this council insure in advance
the handling of research work
in graduate schools along purely
scientific lines. The utmost
academic freedom is to be given
directors of research and those
graduate students who elect to
investigate the subjects made
by the council. 1t is facts that
are wanted"
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
News of Skyways

Aircraft Development Corpora
ton doing the same in the
Caribbean, America will be
sitting pretty.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Friends Raise Fund
To Bury Veteran
D. E. Dentist

DR.. John A. Mclean, 70. OF
1924 E st. S. E.. who practiced
his profession of dentistry here
for half century, will be
buried today in a grave pro-
vided by commercial organiza-
tions and private parties.
When the dentist was killed
by a truck it was learned that
he was pennileSs and that rela-
tives could not provide funeral
expenses. Associations raised
a small sum, a local newspaper
raised a fund for a lot and an
undertaken agreed to furnish
the coffin and services gratis.
The service will be at the
Chambers Funeral Home at
$3.50 p. m. today, followed by
interment in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.