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The Washington times., 1931-09-23
New Test of U.C. Powers
Over TaxiS Here

The right Of taxi operators in this city to fix their
rates and zones to do about they please to the front
again in the reported action of independent operators through
a combination of their
the program is carried out by few taxi the
powers of the Public Utilities Commission
rers will again be put to the test,
The Righteousness the proposed plans not at present the
main question: which the powers of the u to handle
transit matters here to the fullest extent
probably that independent taxi losing
money under the flat rate of 20 cents for the city put
into effect by organized companies some time ago.
Il is doubtful taxi concerns organized otherwise
making just returns their investments and the long hours
put in Neither the bus lines and street railway companies
The whole transit situation here is getting more chaotic
atcutg the best description of it. The public has been
getting the best Of the fighting It will not do however
independents put in of their and their rates for
these zones differing from other rates and zones
That to lead to friction with the public in charges not
made clear when passengers enter txs The
may lead to overcharges and to personal encounters
Washington people entitled to established taxi rates and
ax operators charges that just and keeping with costs
operation The u G. must have power to set these rates
md to regulate the whole taxi business If does not have that
power-it claims that it does ought to ask Congress for it.
Unreguated taxi competition in Washington certain to lead
aessness and introduction of methods do not want
here.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
Unwise Attack Upon Rural
High Schools

The Federal Office of Education, this city makes public
bulletin that stamps rural high schools almost useless in the
scheme of public school education in this country,
According to the bulletin they trail far behind the big
city sister high schools in contribution education"
They poor limitations of the great city high schools
The teachers generally left overs who could not get
employment in city high schools
Their of study suffers and there many other
things wrong with them.
Remedies to the serious situation offered by the Federal
board Study by the States of the rural school situation
cooperation with view consolidation of schools conversion
of small senior high schools into junior high schools and
ploymen good salaries teachers who experts in
special subjects.
TO get this dcouragng whack at rural schools the
Federal Office of Education studied $4,000 rural high schools
of $50 enrolment less had number of people working
Probably every rural community in this nation wishes that
it could have better high graded schools teachers
and and equipment similar to those in large city
schools How they to do this in sparsey-seed regions
with taxes already high and general conditions bad?
Children compelled to attend these rural high schools cannot
60 city high schools without greater cost than parents
afford They entitled to get the best their parents
and their neighbors afford Isn't better that they
should have the best they get rather than at a7
The faults found by the Federal Office of Education
probably we'll known in communities having small high
schools The people of communities will better
they In fact they constantly improving their schools
Are bulletins of this kind helpful of educational
progess Is their motive the enlargement of bureaus of this
kind? Is this bureau able to fully understand local conditions
needs and finances in $4,000 more communities?
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

higher percentage are accepted,
our survey shows.
""The younger girl is refused
more jobs, gets more jobs and
holds them a shorter time than
the older woman.
I'VE find that beauty is prac-
tically non-essential, but the
attractiveness of appearance
which comes from good groom
ing is highly important. Good
dressing, in the estimation OF
the employer, is neatness and
suitability. Elaborate or expen-
sive dressing has kept more
women out of jobs that lack
of clothes.
WELL, STRONG WOMEN
OF ALERT MINDS ARE PRE-
FERRED OVER YOUNG
GIRLS OF LOW PHYSICAL
RESISTANCE"
Then why can't I get a
iob?" cries desperate Widow
Brown, home from her tenth
day of fruitless tramping after
a Job. II have all she says I
should have. I'm neat and well
groomed, I'm trained and de-
pendable and still quick, and
my minds alert-if I'm not wor-
ried sick. Yet they turn me
down every time and give the
place to some little nitwit."
A Total Loss
Yes, Widow Brown has most
of the essentials. But, nine
times out of ten. she has some
thing else which discounts all
her virtues and makes her "a
Total Loss as a worker.
"SELF.PITY AND DULL OR
PESSIMIST1C ATTIT U D ES
ARE THE WORST HANDICAP
OF OLDER WOMEN" says
Mrs. Hinrichson.
Not the bloom of the pretty
face beside you, but the sneer
and sag on your own face,
licks you, sister.
You don't HAVE to have
that sneer and sag. The years
may rob your skin of its beauty
but they cannot rob your heart
of it's blitheness-UNLESS YOU
LET THEM. That sneer and
sag mean that you've taken
the count. You are no longer
sure of yourself. WHY SHOULD
AN EMPLOYER FEEL SURE
OF YOU IF YOU DON'T FEEL
SURE OF YOURSELF2
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
Christmas Is Coming
Why Not Shop NOW I

Why not starand fnishyour Christmas shopping now
That may sound foolish, but think it over
Prices low they will be- and maybe lower
About everything you want is in stock
Weather for the next few weeks will be ideal for shopping
Crowds comparatively small You take all the time
need to make your selections with top service from
salespeope
You will your and your ncke and when the
Christmas rolls around you gaze pyngy
friends caught in the jam and scramble Of the rush
Another hngChristmas is not far away Look back at
the Fourth of July That nearly three months ago.
most of like two weeks December 25 will be here
before you know it. Time use and startling expires.
sion, flies.
Shop The wise ones are already
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

The working woman over 40
HOW MUCH CHANCE HAS
SHE AGAINST THE YOUNG,
PRETTY GIRL WHO MAY
NOT HAVE HALF AS MUCH
SENSE BUT HAS ALL THE
SCENERY?
"She hasn't a chance!" thou-
sands of discouraged, older wo-
men will cry. ''The job AL
WAYS goes to the young. pretty
woman. She may be a perfect
little fool. lazy and unreliable.
And the older woman may be
trained. steady and intelll.
gent-hut the tiny waistline and
the unlined face win out"
That is what practically
every older woman worker will
tell YOU, and that is what she
honestly believes. But the Wo-
mems Bureau of the Illinois
Manufa c turers' Association
didn't believe it. They had
heard that statement-count-
less 'times-but they felt there
was a. catch in it. So they de-
cided to make a survey
scotch the boogie, if such 1t
was.
Older Women Favored
It was a thorough survey,
through all Illinios manutac-
turing concerns, and it accumu-
lated mountains of reports.
And, at the end of it. Miss
Anne Hinrichson, director OF
the bureau, announced that IT
proved that
THE BEST JOBS GO TO
THE OLDER WOMEN!
Which is going to be plenty
of news to many a disgusted
lady-and it's dollars to dough
nuts that she won't believe it.
"The older woman worker"
saws Miss Hinrichson, has
decided advantage where quail
ties of Judgment, attention to
detail, sustained perseverance
and patience are required.
WHERE SPEED IS REQUIRED
THE YOUNGER WOMAN HAS
THE BETTER OPPORTUNITY.
ITY.
Hold Shorter Time
Between the unframed older
woman and the unframed girl,
the latter has the advantage.
More than two-thirds of the
applicants for Jobs in factories
are young girls, but Of the
older women who apply, o
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
TIMES TEST

Fill each blank:
/. Molars are adapted for
because they have a
broad surface.
2. Rome Is built on
hills.
3. Mount Vesuvius overlooks
the bay of --.
4. Versailles Is just outside Of
the city of
5. When iron is galvanized 1t
means that it is coated with
6. The Lion of Lucerne is in
memory. of the Swiss Guards
who fell in defending the
7. THE Angelus," by Millet,
hangs in --.
8. is. the largest silk
market in Europe.
9. Florence, Italy, Is on the
- River.
10. Keats and Shelley are
buried in .--.
Do you know:
II. Who said. Better be first
in a village than second in
Rome?
IL. What two men are re-
Sponsible for The Mikado"?
13. What are dried grapes
called?
IA. What style of architecture
is Milan Cathedral?
Is. What duchess Of Brittany
married a king Of France?
(Answers On Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
Bad for Business
Don t Do It

who married three times without changing her
has to light at Pttsfied ILL., She is Mrs Rosa
Moorehead By her second marriage she Mrs Rosa Moore
head and by her first she Mrs Rosa Moorehad Before
that she Miss Rosa Haskins
These successive adventures in matrmony under the
title convenient for the BRIDE admits The silver
not have to be remarked The monograms the tablecoh
the bedpeads and the towels do not have be changed The
Moorehead crest the personal is good
But bad for business No supplies to be purchased
except for normal and tear No job the ewee the
sewing the painters No way of helping the country
out of the depression.
Women should change their whenever they marry
puts money into circulation That is public duty these
days.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
TWO-ThirdS of a Loaf
Better Than None

Roosevelt wisely accepts the compromise relief
BILL emerges from the fight with the Old Guard Republi-
cans a substantial if not complete winner.
He gets the main features of his plan unimpaired-that s
the definite of $2o0oooo appropriated and nonpoca
commission to administer it.
his program the Old Guard its face and the
State can of its citizens from hardship who
otherwise would have had to wait much longer for help This
is about as satisfactory an could be expected
Credit the result goes to the Governor he has acted
the wise principle that half loaf is better than none-and
two.thirds is still better,
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
Sky-Gumsh0eing
What NextH

Despite belief to the contrary there is something under
the the latest example Of being supplied by pigeon
airplane and the New York police.
The pigeon of those sent last month to Municipal
Justice Edward F. Hazleton of Queens with demand for
$4,000 when thought that his son been kidnapped
The police took the pigeon painted orange and turned
loose sergt Allen Van Hagen Of the air squadron followed
his plane By signalling ground police he had the
picketed which the pigeon landed An followed
This is offered the first of ygumshoeing in
history of crime Congratulations be due to the police
on aerial detective workand thanks to the pigeon for
cooperating
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

It is unfair to charge that
the Hoover Administration is
doing nothing in reference to
the unprecedented depression
and human misery. 1t is labor
ing hard at the oar to show
that there is nothing in a ma
tional crisis that the National
Government should do.
Mr.. Mitchell, the Attorney
General, has taken to the air
in an attempt to awaken the
public to the monstrosity of
the idea that the Federal Gov
ernment should do anything.
The very thought is shocking
to his patriotism, to his love
for the Constitution, to the
traditional Republican devotion
to Estate Rights"
And he assumes that all the
Federal Government can be
asked to do is to resort to the
dole" And yet neither Mr..
Mitchell nor anyone else has
heard anyone asking that a
certain amount of money be
paid regularly to the unem-
ployed out of the Federal
treasury. That is a dole" A
dole is giving something for
nothing. No one proposes it.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

and no governmental effort. we
may emerge tomorrow doing
business as usual" The crisis
calls for initiative, audacity
and vision, and we have none
in Administration circles. To
these we would commend the
words of Nicholas Murray But
Ter:
81 can see nothing either
in the causes or in the prob
able effects of the present
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

economic and financial situa.
tiOn at all comparable to those
depreSsiOnS which are recalled
to the American mind by the
naming of the years 1887, 1873,
1893 or 1907. Those gentlemen
who come to us with their
easy diagnosis, with their cures
and their SNUG prophecies, will
find no field or opportunity for
the application of their theories
in the present circumstances"
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

"No One Will Starve"
Promised a Year Ago
The editor of the Business
Economic Digest reports that
we have suffered in this coun-
try a loss of $50,000,000,0 900 in
income.
The official figures show that
in August the unemployment
was increased by 3 per cent.
This means that, month by
month, the number of unem-
ployed to be saved from star
vation this winter is in
creasing.
Owen D. Young, emerging
from a conference at the White
House, announces that mo one
will be permitted to starve."
That is precisely the promise
made more than a year ago by
President Hoover. Our objec-
ton to these statements is that
men and children have starved,
and are starving, and will
starve unless organized society,
represented, in part we hope,
by the Federal Government. re-
sorts to extraordinary efforts
and measures to prevent it.
Mr.. Mitchell, the Attorney
General, is distressed lest we
do something to prevent star
walton that may hurt the Con-
stitution. May we suggest that
the surest way to hurt the
Constitution is to create the
impression that we have a sys-
tenn which obligates the Ma
tional Government to stand
still while people starve?
In war, we can resort to
extraordinary measures in
government and We are facing
a graver crisis than we faced
in 1917 and 1918.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
Furnish Employment
Or Face the Dole

vi EaCC VIC DUAE
Among some men of means.
with little vision and no reali-
zation of the gravity of the
situation, we hear the fear ex.
pressed that when Congress
meets, it may do something. OF
course, it will do something.
IT MUST.
The duty of the hour is two
fold: We must find a way to
prevent starvation and furnish
employment now, or face the
dole; and We must work out
what once would be called
radical reforms in our indus
trial and social system. This
will take more time. It is non-
sensical to assume that we
can now go back to precisely
the same system which has
collapsed because of its weak
nesses.
The Washington times., 1931-09-23
By Harding

And We would have them
ponder on DR.. Buffers thought
that the existing crisis "is a
period like the fall of the
Roman Empire, like the Renais-
sance, like the beginning of
the political and social revolu-
tions in England and France
in the 18th and 18th centuries
in some ways more powerful
than them ALL"
The Washington times., 1931-09-23

Administration Lacks
Initiative and Audacity.
The appalling thing about the
Hoover Administration is its
apparent inability even now to
realize that this is not just an
ordinary depression, and it's
theory, that with no changes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-10
gRROOKLAND ASKS NEW
lSCHOOL STRUCTURE
tFwelve-Room Building Sought at
Tenth and Monroe-Street
Work Requested.

The Brookland Citizens Association
adopted a resolution last night request
! ing the District Commissioners to APP
prove erection of new 12-room school
! building on the site now used by the
Brookland School, Tenth and Monroe
J streets northeast.
Marvin M. Mclean, who introduced
, the resolution, pointed out that the IL
rooms could possibly be added to the
old building. Part of the present
Brookland School was said by members
to be more than 40 years old and totally
unfit for use"
Dr. George r. Ellis, president Of the
association, presided over the meeting,
held in the Masonic Hall, Twelfth and
Monroe streets northeast.
Opening of Eighth street northeast
from Monroe street south to Franklin
street was requested. Enlargement of
the sidewalks on Twelfth street from
Newton to Monroe streets northeast and
the institution of traffic signal lights at
the intersection of Twelfth and Monroe
streets also was requested.
Miss Margaret Pepper, principal OF
the Brookland School, thanked the as
ISOLATION for its efforts in securing for
the Brookland School its additional
property and E. H. Cravin of the Amer
Jean Red Cross outlined in an address
delivered before the association the &C.
tivities of that organization and told Of
Its functions during major disaster.
Announcement was made that the
next meeting would be held the second
Monday in December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-10
HONOR PAID THREE
SUFFRAGE LEADERS
Exercises Are Held Before
Monument for Pioneers
at Capitol.

In asserting that Gin Cuba we are
still working to gain the vote, but our
fight is made easier for us by the fact
that women are voting in the United
States" Sonora Alicia Bruen de Reisler
paid tribute yesterday to three suffrage
pioneers, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretla
Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at
exercises held before the monument Tor
these leaders in the crypt OF the Ma
tional Capitol.
Representatives of the National
Womans Party, which presented the
monument to the United States, and
Miss Adelaide johnson, its sculptor,
were present.
Senior Conchita Rivas de Macmillan
and Sonora Alicia Toscano de Wilmott
also expressed the deep interest OF
Cuban women in the feminist progress
in the United States and the solidarity
of women the world over, which they
said causes a gain for equality in one
country to be reflected quickly in
others.
Wreath Is Placed.
Speaking in behalf of the AlianZa
Nacional Feminista of Cuba as she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-10
WHEELER SCORES
EUROPE'S ARMIES
Back in D. c., He Opposes
! Cut in Debts as Aid to Arms.
Urges BimetaIism.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
! Senator Wheeler of Montana came
back from Europe yesterday to advocate
a return to bimetallism and express op-
position to cancellation of war debts
unless ornaments are reduced.
The Montana Democrat, who at
+ tended a meeting of the Interparlia-
fnentary Union, said what impressed
him most abroad was that all coun-
tries are loaded up with great stand
ing armies"
. Most of them are absolutely unable
!. to maintain them except by borrowing
\ more and more" he said. Many are
borrowing from France, who Is loaning
because she wants to control them for
political purposes.
Says France Rules Borrowers.
"They are not much more than vas
. sails of France and have to vote in the
League of Nations and other interna-
tional conferences as France tells them
to do.
81 would not favor cancellation of
i debts unless it was accompanied by
9some positive agreement to reduce
i tournaments Of all kinds because it
Ewould mean merely that France would
4 be able to loan more money to build up
the armies and navies of Europe"
He said that under the circumstances
the United States should certainly keep
out of ANY entangling alliances.
Advocates Bimetalism.
Wheeler commended the recon-
! mendations of an International Cham
her of Commerce Committee for re-
lieving the silver problem and urged a
return to bimetalism.
II doubt if we can do 1t by our
selves" he said.
1T should come through agreement
of the leading powers. There is grow
ing sentiment in Great Britain and
other European countries that some
thing of this kind has got to be done"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-10
PHONE OPEN TO RUMANIA
Officials 1naugurate Service Be-

Officials 1naugurate Service Be-
tween Two Countries.
Speaking in English while nine others
listened in on this end, the American
and Rumanian foreign secretaries yes
terday inaugurated transatlantic tele-
phone service between the two coun-
tries
The conversation marked the baptism
of the unique equipment newly installed
in the Office of Secretary Stimson at
the State Department by means of
which his entire staff of assistants may
hear what is being said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-10
Slipper-ShodPilOt
With TOmahawk
Sets Air Record
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORT DARWIN, Australia,
November 10.-Flying one of the
smallest airplanes in the world,
wearing carpet slippers for COM
fort and carrying a tomahawk
for a weapon, c. A. Butler, Eng
lish aviator, landed at ABS pm.
yesterday and set a new record
for a flight from England to Aus
Butler clipped hour and AZ
tralia.
minutes of the previous record
made by C. w. A. Scott, who COW
cred the 1887 miles in 8 days,
4 hours and IL minutes.
Butler left Lympne, England,
at dawn october 81. He hoped
to complete the flight in eight
days, but was delayed in Burma
and Batavia by adverse winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-10

placed a wreath at the base Of the
monument, Mrs. ReiSler said Cuban
women feel I'VE owe a great debt to
these three women of North America,
who have fought a battle which has
helped women the world over"
Preceding the ceremony at the Cap
itol, Sonora de ReiSler, Sonora de Mac
MILAN and Sonora de Wilmott, accom-
panied by Sonora Ada Macmillan Ca
denas, called upon Ambassador Ferrara
of Cuba, thanking him in the name of
the alianZa for his work on behalf of
equal nationality during the September
League Of Nations Assembly in Geneva.
The Ambassador was said to have as
sured the deputation he would be
faithful to his promise to do all he
could to bring about an equal ma
tionality code throughout the world.
Headed Deputation.
Mrs. Reisler had previously headed
a deputation to DR.. James Brown Scott,
president of the American Institute of
International Law; DR.. Victor M. Maur
tua of Peru, secretary general, and DR..
Manuel Cicero Peregino da Silva, rep
reseEtative of Brazil on the governing
board, to express the appreciation OF
Latin American women for the indorSe-
ment Of the equal rights treaty by the
American Institute of International
Law at its meeting October 80 to 81,
and for their action in nominating Miss
Doris Stevens as the first woman men,
Der of the institute
This deputation included DR.. Juan j.
Soler, chairman of the BolivianPara-
guayan Boundary Commission; Sonora
de Soler and Senoritas Anna Maria
and Haidee Soler; the Charge d'Affaires
of Paraguay and Sonora Ynsfran, who
is representative of Paraguay on the
Inter-American Commission of Women;
Sonora Maria D. de Arias of Panama
and Sonora Rivas Macmillan, of Cuba.
midas jute yield this year is esti-
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India's jute yield this year is esti-
mated at 5,559,000 bales.