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The Washington times., 1931-07-29
Protest Eviction of Miners = By Claude G. Bowers

lures, but the call for the cut
. ting of the budgets cannot be
described as an emergency
measure to meet the American
crisis.
$3.50, 100000 Rusting
While 100000 Are Idle
This is not true of the Pres
ident's action in ordering a
"re-examination" of all Fed
eral activies to see what can
be done to make the vast sums
appropriated by Congress for
public work, to give employ
ment, serve their purpose.
This action cannot be de-
scribed, however, as an act of
the President ito increase jobs
for the idle"
That action was taken by
the Congress which adjourned
five months ago, and the ap-
preparation was made long be-
fore it adjourned.
Startling, to Say
The Least
1t is, therefore, startling, in
view of the suffering from un-
employment, to read the admis-
sion that of. the $70O,OOO,OO0
appropriated for the emergency
construction program there will
be in the Treasury $3.50, ,0O0, 900
after paying the cost of all the
work yet completed or even
contracted for.
Five hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars rusting in idleness
while 100000 bread winners
wait for jobs. There is no de-
fence to be made for that,
though a clear explanation can
be given.
The Washington times., 1931-07-29
WISE WORDS

The mind is not always in
the same state: being at times
cheerful, melancholy, severe,
peevish. These different states
may not improperly be denomi-
mated tones. Lord Kames.
Nothing is anything more
unjust than an ignorant man
who thinks nothing done
properly unless he himself has
done it. Terrence.
There are few mortals so in
sensible that their affections
cannot be gained by mildness,
their confidence by sincerity,
their hatred by scorn or neglect.
Zimmerman.
Study is the bane Of boyhood,
the aiIment of youth, the in
dulgence of manhood, and the
restorative of old age.
-Landor.
Remembrance and reflection
how allied!
What thin partitions sense
from thought divide. Pope.
Imitation is natural to man
from intancY-Spenser
The Washington times., 1931-07-29

partment heads to "cut their
demands to the bone" And in
the end we always hear that
this or that department has re-
duced by so many millions, and
then we are all expected to
cheer.
But. each department always
wants as much as it can get,
and each knows that the PreSi-
dent, whoever he may be, will
ask it to cut it's demands to the
utmost; and so each asks for
some millions more than it ex-
poets to get, or really wants;
and thus it is always able to
respond with a cut"
Naturally. with a deficit OF
almost a billion. there should be
no extravaganza in expendi-
The Washington times., 1931-07-29
To Eliminate PuShcartS

Business civic groups of New York seeking to e
nate push and certain types Of vegetable and fruit stands
along upper Broadway The cys license commissioner may
deny them licenses to operate.
The push carts of New York other days. used to sell
almost everything and filled many principal streets
Traffic congestion lesened their number but they
still plentiful.
ration plans and traffic pers There is always reluctance
deprive people the opportunity to make living in the
ways they prefer sometimes happens that the welfare
of a whole city is paramount to the wishes of few.
The lineup of push carts along Pennsylvania Avenue
R other points we'll to Washington They
tbute in no to the appearance of thu city They may
possibly be convenient to few people. I.
The Washington times., 1931-07-29
But What About These =?

Sir Arthur Keith learned British scientist, says pooling
of blood" is the only thing that will bring international
brotherhood and world peace"
wants all peoples mix in marriage and thus produce
race would be represented and hatred would
die out.
Sir Arthur Keith learned British scientist, says pooling
bushmen hardy Nordc would contribute something
such "blood pooling"
Every race says he "back brown yellow and white"
would thus distribute in common progeny inheritance
which by their uphill struggle through the
leagues of prehistoric time toward the present.
It is all interesting, but somewhat remote
What about the savage ladies and gentlemen in the picture
above with their dstended lips making their faces hdeous?
What white will marry of them?
other samples human beings right here in
our modern civilization and WHITE great deal
desirable than these in the picture.
In the end doubtless perhaps million years from
possibly sooner there will be only lone human race
EARTH
It will inherit let us hope genius good qualities power
intellect of all the that have gone before and will have
eliminated all the murderous grasping selfish reacherous
qualities
But all that is speculation.
That universal perfected race might come by intermarag
blood pooling But better may in future
better have the past by killing off inferior
There time not long when Providence seemed to
work in its mysterious ways for Improvement
Famines plaques killed off the less able
But now philanthropy protects all the different races keeps
them alive saving them from plague with the help of science
and from famine with modern agriculture
There in every race with the lower classes
called race, hatred of blood mixture. In British
colonies hafcaste children mixtures Of white and native
practically outcasts.
And biologists that certain cannot be
fully mixed because the progeny nhers all the bad qualities
of the good qualities of each parent Some biologists
believe that false civilization threatens tho wise plans Of
Providence by keeping alive the interiors with not enough
| 'superiors' to preserve balance
The average moron semmoron has children three
one than the average college professor learned lady
"highbrow.''
probably all that is arranged by Wisdom far above
our conception.
We have struggled along moving upward steadily since the
Stone Age 10000 years ago. It to be presumed that we
shall struggle through the next million and the next
ten million years with equal and steady Improvement
There is doubt whatever that mixtures among
human beings have increased their power and developed v
cation.
The most mixed the greatest in antiquity the
Greek
Next the Romans with contribution from all
and greatest their time Then the French mixture
of Romans Gau Germans Basques all srSge mixtures and
France was the greatest
Then the English perhaps most thoroughly mixed of
all, and then the United States, and not doing
badly.
The greatest successful ASIA the Japanese
the most mixed there.
The Washington times., 1931-07-29

in this human crisis in America
is not yet clear.
On Sunday we learned of two
plans of the President. One
was to insist that all the heads
of departments cut their budget
demands to the utmost.
We Are Expected
To Cheer
This, however, is not a spe-
cial measure for the crisis.
Year after year, for half a
dozen years, we have heard this
same thing from Washington.
President Coolidge used to ap.
pear in the role now assumed
by President Hoover about this
time every year.
He, too, called upon the de-
The Washington times., 1931-07-29
TIMES TEST

Mark each statement as TRUE"
or False:
l. Daniel Webster was called
the Defender of the Faith.
2. A Tyre is a stringed 1nstru-
ment.
3. Dunes are oases in a
desert.
4. DR.. Primrose is. a. char
acter in uncle Toms
Cabin"
5. King Henry VIII, of Eng
land, com m n d d the
waves to retreat.
6. RooSevelt's term of office
was called the era Of good
feeling.
7. The magician in Tenny-
sons "IdylS of the King"
is Merlin.
8. A pullet is a long rope.
8. The HooSic Tunnel is cut
through the White Noun
tainS.
10. Pulmonary refers to the
lungs.
Fill each blank:
II. William Rosencrans COM
manded in the
War.
IL. Rebecca is the heroine in
SCOTS -"
13. To writhe. m ans to
violently.
IA. A settee is a medium sized
ANSWERS on Magazine Page
The Washington times., 1931-07-29

The plan for the eviction of
the miners families at Ward,
w. Va, has resulted, happily,
we think, in a protest signed
by many leading churchmen OF
the country and of various de-
nominations.
It is not alone the miners
who are to be turned out, but
their women and children. And
these are not the days for those
with power utterly to subordi-
nate the humanities to money.
The churchmen sum it up IN
a paragraph:
cat this time, with already
such bitter distress not only
in West Virginia, but through
out our land, and when pro-
found social unrest has been
stirred up among our people by
the suffering to which they
have been exposed, the evic-
tiOns of these miners seem to
us to be both inhuman and
against sound public policy. We
plead with you to stop evic-
ton proceedings"
"Inhuman," of course, but
just now that is not such a
compelling reason for a little OF
the conservatism of common
sense on the part of the opera
tors as the other-"against pub"
lie policy"
We have other and better
things to do than to make
Communists and revolutionlSts
out of these miners and their
families.
Just what the Federal Gov
ernment is going to do to help
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at the expense Ct the government IN
Guatemala In that country. At l.ast.
the sale Of government influences" will
be forgotten.
The law Of probity nrally provides
that when a government Official or en-
ploye CEASES 70 function. or even dur
ing his tenure Of Office. any person, by
mere comparison Of possessions. may
file charges against him with the state
auditor OF treasurer. who will make sn
immediate investigator and, If uac-
essary. place the facts before the. courts
1t might be well to remember, rs I
said before. in commenting upon the
Law Of probity. that facts placed be-
fore the courts" have lste1y placed for
mer government officials behind tho
bars in several other Latin American.
republics.
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Machine Age Goes to Farm

as are used in logging and road build
ing. The salesman summoned the COM
pany engineer who shook his head
We wouldn't sell yOH one of these
big fellows for wheat farming, Mfr
Price" s1id he earnestly. 1T Is much
too heavy for blowing; II wouldn't do
the work right. You'd be dissatisfied
and probably blame US Stick to the
regular farm tractor! It's designed for
the Job"
Not for my jobt" seid Price-and
left.
He picked UP a battery OF those big
fellows second -nand He took them
apart, replaced worn pieces, tuned
them up to q sweet pitch and put them
out on the Grsat Plains Then began
a new era In American agriculture The
first true super -fafm appeared.
Only few weeks ago Price exhibited
this same playful zeal for proving the
experts to be all wrong. He bought 10
Of the largest combines for this years
harvest As he watched a tractor haul
ing one Of them he felt that scarcely
half Of the power At the draw bar was
being utilized So he asked one OF the
machinery engineers about II and was
told he was right.
wen. then" asked Price. why not
hook two combines to one tractor?
/ Thatn release nine tractors for other
work"
You cannot work out any hitch that
viii pull them properly" said the engi-
neer. And the mechanical superfntend-
ents backed him UP
| Within IL hours Price had devised a
new hitch. Each of his tractors is now
pulling two OF the largest combines and
cutting a 40-foot swath. THE saving in
time, energy and cash is huge.
Price Has Lesson for u. 8.
/ Here you have the mans attitude to-
ward the whole farm problem Here
/ you see the latent ingenuity and the
keen skeptfcfsm which make for prog
ress. His closest friends say that he
inventive and the hard-boiled routine
manager No ingredient fails to melt
F.! in sweetly. Add to this his rare love
OF people. and you get the fuller picture
OF his personality no less than the Sc
cFet Of his success. His farm hands
swear by him. His ranch is run al
most Ike a big family picnic. Nobody
! has to be driven to work You get the
/ feeling that here are boys and ex-cow
ptinehefs and agricultural college gradu-
| stes and hea-bitten old farm managers
! who have somehow caught the spark of
new idea and have taken hre
/ ]. for one, think they are right The
1 world has Just begun to hear about
Hickman Price Twenty years hence.
| when food factories hundred miles
/ long sprawl across the face Of America
people who understand what it all
means viii see in this vigorous young
man the Henry Ford of the fields. II
he brings 10 the American farm moth
/ ing. but team work and the zest for
achievement, he will accomplish more
than All the tractors and combines ever
built. For the curse OF the farmer is
his petty individualisn; It has robbed
/ him Of more profits than have grass
hoppers and droual1ts and haak Let
him learn from Price the art of swing
Sne whole empires Then watch!
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the division oficer the best method Of
checking and recording progress CT en-
listed men in graspfng their duties that
he has yet seen in Use in the Navy or
Naval Reserve.
Students Of the Naval Reserve on
GERS Training Corps. composed Of coll
lege men. have recently returned from
their practice cruise. The naval r.
o. r. C. students OF the Universities
of California and Washington cruised
aboard the United States battleship
Oklahoma from San Francisco and
Seattle TO Hawaii and return Ore
hundred and ninety-two students of
all classes engaged in this cruise. dur
ing which they were instructed in and
performed the manifold duties re-
CURED OF officers serving in a naval
vessel SeamansElip, navigation, engi-
neering and gunnery we're a part OF
the subjects In which the young men
were instructed Target practice was
fired by the students In the vicinity OF
Hswait, guns OF an batteries being
used
On the East Coast the Naval r. o.
T. c. students of the Junior class
crufsed IN the destroyers Evans. Fair
fax, Philip and TIllman from the Dsia-
N6Ac DAGdAWdtCI 10 BSEMuCd ana re-
turn The students were instructed in
all phases of the duties Of destroyer
cfacer. handling the vessels during
maneuvers and firing q special tsrc 4
practice, during which they perfornlc1
the duties Of a gun crew On the Dc--
n1uds cruise were 10 students.
The drill competition for the volun..
teer Communication Reserve was
originally to be based upon drill at
tendance. the winner to be presented
with cup offered by the chief o.
naval operations. However, U7on COM
pletion of the competition year Eve
districts we're tied for first place WITH
perfect score for drill attendanes
The board then examined the recordp
for each district with reference TO tho
following: Individual station att
tendance, procedure, punctuality. oper-
ating. emergency preparedness. smart
ness In operation. judgment, accuracy
of transmltter frequencies. each %
them being considered as a separate
factor.
Resulting standings, combined WITH
! The standing for drill attendance. wefe
as follows: Ninth district. $3.50; third
district 81 90: fourth district, 81 ISL
seventh district, 9l65: twelfth dis
trict 9l45: fifth district, 1855;
eleventh district, $3.50; first district.
$3.50; eighth district. S2S5. sixth dis
trict, 1910.
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New Eyes on the Universe

OF research men for room in which to
study the plates, brought the observa-
tory authorities few months ago to an
aclfte res lization Of the congestion the,
afHictad item. Moreover, there was the
constant hazard of FIRE
Strange though IL may seem to any
thoughtful one who beholds the mag
nifleent new Harvard that has lately
srfsen along TIE River Charles and
among the quiet streets northeast Ct the
Yard, this unique astronomical collec-
ton (which cost over a million dollars
to sccun1ulata and which thousands of
Mill ms Of dollars could not replace is
housed in wooden stacks In sn over
crowded nof-firepfoof building.
win Ne InstaiIed Tkfs Year.
A committee appointed by the Har-
ward Boafd Of OverseeFs was impressed
With the med Of frepf5of building
A survey Of the remarkable sea;sSe-
ments Of the observatory during TIE last
dec de- and of the program Of research
which Dr.. Shapley and his staff have
planned impressed the committee with
claims CT other needs slso--new equip
nlent new endowment. A list Ct sp-
proved projects cafIins for sn invest
ment Of 81 500. 600 was drawn up.
Today the first Objective 81 900. 600
fund-flss been ov.rsubseribed
already the new freproof building is
rising In Cambridge Before the end Of
the year the prot graphic collection
and the astronomical laboratory viii be
installed in safs quarters. foomy snoueh
to provide for another half century Of
gro with. And already the location of
the principal item Of new equipment
the 60-inch telescope has been Ak d
Before Winter sets IN several of the
smaller telescopes which now paoto-
graph tire stars in Cambridge viii b.
moved here
The new telescope and the security Ct
the stsllar photographs are Mt ends n
themselves, how -vsr but are proposed
as steps In a progr7 m OF research larger
than anything heretofore undertaken II
the 90 yesrs' history Of Harvard Or
servstoTy. what IS that program?
We are enlarsine End inteHsifyins
our studies Of two pf1snofnena--mfteorS
and starlight" answered DR., Shapley
Systematic Watch Needed.
Millions OF MISUNDERSTANDING stars
enter the earth's atmosphere avery "a
hours. There ars theories rs to the
but little is known. It IS a question. fer
example. whether naeteors are Of the
solar system only, and represent the re-
mains Of comets or planets, or Whether
they come from the vsst outside end
are samples If what DR. Shapley has
nsnaed the Cosmoplasms- vague
uHorsanized on 6infly organized psrtf-
cles and coTpuScles that move speedily
and perhaps endlessly through inter
aalactfe soscs"
Sesrchers have been sitting through
the stsilsr photographs on the lookout
for meteor trails that may have i'm
pressed themselfe7 on the plates. and
they have found hundreds But photo
graphs can show only IN inhnitesinal
fraction Of the meteors that are visible
these exceptionally bright ones that
chance tn 6sre up in the particular sky
fed toward which the telescope hap
pened t. be pointed at the time.
DT. ShapIey has long felt thS nsed Of
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u. c.. Naval Reserve

Another feature which seems to be
not generally understood by command
ing officers as well as the enlisted per-
sonnet is the difference between service
for transfer to the feet Naval Reserve
and service for pay purposes. Prob
ably the main difficulty is failure 10
understand the constructive service
allowed on minority enlistments and
in the cast of three months early dis
charges for the convenience of The
Government in accordance with the
provisions of the odd law"
The bureau points out that It is also
interesting to note that while service
In the Marine Corps may be credited
for transfer It does not count for pay,
whereas all service In the United States
Coast Guard, regardless Of date, may be
counted for pay. but only between the
dates Of April s, 1917, and August 20,
1919. does it count for transfer to the
Reserve Also, that while all service
as an officer counts for transfer only
service between the dates of April g.
1917. and December 81. 1921, is credited
In computing q mans pay. Service in
the United States Army does not count
for pay or transfer to the Rssere but
II does count for retirement after 80
years fun active service and for 90
year retirement after transfer to the
Reserve upon the completion of Is or
20 years service.
Change in the regulations which
would make citizens Of the insular DOS
sessions of the United States eligible
for transfer to the Naval Reserve has
been proposed as follows
NO citizen of the insular posses
sions of the United States who shall
De permitted to serve In the Regular
Navy for a period Of is or % years
shall be denied the right to transfer
to the feet Naval Reserve under the
provisions Of existing Law on the ground
that he Is not citizen of the United
States"
The Bureau Of Navigation has re-
cefved letter from a Naval Reserve
division commander stating that prog
ress test pamphlets have been used
every drill night with the instruction
Of boatswain's mate, first class, and
q coxswain of the division. These men
10 was added, have been greatly inter-
estsd in the results attained, and, on
certain occasions when time was sum
Gent only for the regularly assign I'd
drill, they reported one hour in ad-
vance of drill to take the progress test
The other men of the division have
become interested and have requested
that they be permitted to take progress
tests and complete the Navy training
course for their ratings
The commanding officer further
stated that the progress tests AFFORD
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eSNfSVN VI SfAp"t PhN1fpu" psi~Voki o+5i"-
Harvard Leads In Discovery.
The prou0est event in Harlow shsp-
lay's professional career. venture 10
think is the fact that he was called 10
succeed Pickering Under Shapley's d.
rection the Photographic survey has
been carried forward consistently. and
today there are more than $50 900 plates
in tbs collection. II IL not only several
times larger than any other collection,
but il covers period Of mere than 40
years.
The 40-odd years OF photographs have
proved a nline cf surps SsinR richness
to the astronomical prospector. For ea-
ample OF the 1000 variable stars that
are known, more than 5000 were dis
covered through these Harvard photo
graphs The use cf the Cephet0 type
star rs a STANDARD candle was discoy-
xred through the study OF Harvard
photographs OF the Masellanic Clouds
and thus new ysrdetick for measuring
ir1terstellar--snd even interealactic--
distances has ben provided A major
ity Of the known novee. cr sudden b,aze'
81 starlight which occasionally fase up
In the heavens have been discovered by
searcilers Of the Harvard plates Within
the last thr.e years 10000 gaIaxie5, vast
whirls OF sta-s outside our Milky Wa
sorne II them more than 100 coo .00f
itett-yesrs distant. have been founc
through photographs r1sde at TN
seutiaeFn station
Ths 6emsnd Of the growing eoliec'
t.cp fer Grace 10 house It's rapidly ae'
eaimulatina additions, and the feques