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The Washington times., 1931-08-12
A Modest Proposal
For Raising Money

As one of the first fruits Of President HoOvers demands for
economy in the Federal Government the Prohibition Bureau
$23O0o00 This top Of increase Of 800 last year. for
which you now paying.
prohibition agents it wants without spending cent for
salaries and in fact with gain in Let auction off
prohibition enforcement jobs to the highest bidder Almost
anybody would cheerfuy pay from 5000 $4,000 year
for the privilege Of being dry agent
This would the taxpayer lot Of money, and would
give the Government enough to support few more commits
iOns to report the and cure c crime something
The Washington times., 1931-08-12
By Claude G.. Bowers

stood upon their dignity, as
they should. Millions for
defense but not one cent for
tribute" said Pinckney. The
phrase was as a bugle call in
America. It looked like war.
Then France, which wanted
no war, came off it's high
horse; and Talleyrand, to save
his face, offered to discuss the
situation with Gerry alone.
Marshall. and Pinckney left;
Gerry remained; and because
he remained there was no war;
The Washington times., 1931-08-12
wild Stories Were
C;uo,,InknG

wild Stories Were
Circulated.
When that did not serve the
purpose he went further. The
American people read in, and
through, his paper, wild stories
of the landing of the French
in South Carolina: of how they
we're marching toward Phila-
delphia, firing the country
house in Carolina, attacking
women, kidnapping young girls
and numbering old men. These
stories were graphic. Naturally
they were believed for a time
and excitement was at white
heat. To prevent the news
papers that did not want war
from telling the truth, the
sedition law was brought into
service.
The Washington times., 1931-08-12

An American Experience
With Propaganda
Here is an American expe-
rience with propaganda with
which American historians
seem more than a bit chary.
We read in history Of the
near approach Of a war with
France over the X.Y.Z. episode.
Three commissioners, John
The Washington times., 1931-08-12
Leaders Determined to
War With France

Leaders Determined to
War With France
When Marshall reached Amer.
lea he said in New York, where
he landed, that there was no
probability of war. But some of
the Federalist leaders rode out to
Philadelphia to meet him and he
did not repeat his New York
statement again. 1t was the de-
termination of these leaders that
there should be a war with
France.
Old John Adams, honest but
prejudiced, and easily imposed
upon, believed all he was told,
and made bellicose speeches. The
FederaliSt controlled Congress
provided for an army. The
flames Of prejudice were famed.
For a time almost everyone
wanted war.
The Washington times., 1931-08-12
Propaganda to the

Propaganda to the
Nth Degree
And the reason, ignored by
most historians, was that there
was propaganda to the nth de.
gree. William Cobbett, the
Englishman, was then editing
the most aggressive Federalist
paper in America at Philadel.
phia and other papers copied
from his.
He was an Englishman and
wanted war with France. When
France made no war-like move
and the excitement began to
die down, it became necessary
to stir them up again with
falsehood odS-propaganda.
Thus Cobbett published stories
Of the French navy sailing mys-
teriouSly and presumably for
American waters.
The Washington times., 1931-08-12

and yet he was blackguarded
then and by many historians
since.
One morning his wife looked
out her window in Boston on
miniature guillotine-her
husband the victim. She re-
ceived anonymous letters to the
effect that a love affair was
keeping Gerry in Paris,
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
CRABBERS SEE
BANNER YEAR

CRISFIELD, Md, May %.
With the official opening of the
grabbing season in Maryland
waters, catchers and packers in
Crisfield and other producing
centers of Somerset county have
started what they believe will be
one of the most profitable sea-
sons in many years. The supply
of crabs is said to be unusually
large for the start of the season.
Reports from the upper part of
the Chesapeake is that pound net
fishermen in the section of Ches.
ter River and along the bay shore
are catching quantities of hard
crabs about five inches in length,
indicating that the first run of
soft crabs will soon be on.
Sections of tidewater Maryland
are preparing for a heavy crab
season, including Deals Island,
Bishops Head, Hoopersville, Fish
ing Greek, Cambridge, Oxford,
Tilghmans and Kent Island, An
napolis. Solomons and the tribu-
tarieS of the Potomac River.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
NEW " BRANCH
OPENS TONIGHT

: DR.. Charming H. Tobias, senior
secretary, colored work depart
ment of the National Council of
the Y. M. c. A., will be the prin-
cipal speaker tonight at dedica-
ton of the new Anthony Bowen
branch of the Y. M. c. A.. The
ceremonies will be held at Ran
dali Junior High School.
This new extension of the Y.
M. C. A. has been named in
honor of Bowen, who was a
former resident of the southwest,
and an ardent worker to promote
colored welfare.
The committee of management
for the year includes John T.
Rhines, chairman; John F. vii.
kinSon, vice chairman; Henry
Banks, Joseph Brooks, Richard
Brooks, Arthur Lomax, Ezekial
Cunningham, James Epps, John
Henson, Mrs. Grace Humes, Ran
dali Mason, Ernest Moxley, Ma
jor Peter Robinson, James Ross,
Fred Smith, Ben Stultz, Leon
Thomas, G. Smith Wormley and
William Wilson.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
TURKEYS To GET
PROMENADE

BALTIMORE, May 22-Eight
hundred acres have been added
to the Bilmeyer State game pre-
serve, on Town Hill Mountain,
Allegany county, E. Lee LIE
Compile. State game warden. an
nounced.
The purchase was made from
Mark and Harvey Smith for a
nominal fee and is expected to
increase the preservation of
game, particularly wild turkeys.
Mr.. LIE Compile said that tur.
keys will fly down a mountain
side, but always walk back. sub
jecting themselves in the open
to heavy toll by hunters. The
additional property. he said, will
enable the game to walk up the
mountain without molestation.
A tract of 26O acres at Frog
Hollow, near Oldtown. has been
bought by the Izaak Walton
League of Allegany county, to be
used as a game preserve under
the supervision of the State game
department.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
SCHOOL HEALTH
TESTS URGED

DR.. P. M. Chichester, Arlington
county health officer, today
called attention to parents of
children who are planning to
enter public schools of the county
next session to the necessity of
having a physical examination
of each child made before en-
trance. ~,
These examinations may be
made by a private physician, in
which case proper blanks are
available at the health office in
the court house, or they may be
made by the health department
during the first part of June.
The examinations are con.
Quoted each year by the Division
Superintendent of Schools, the
Virginia Medical Society, the Vir-
ginia Pediatric Society, and the
State Department of Health and
have for their purpose the elm
ination of all physical defects
which are remediable prior to
the entrance of the child into
school so that the child will be
prepared to do it's best work,
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Service Unit Asks
For Relief MOneys

An appeal for support of the
Social Service League. the only
central relief agency in Mont
gomery county. is being made to
citizens of Washington, and par
ticularly those having business
relations with the Montgomery
county population, it was an
nounced today by w. B. Arm
strong, chairman of the finance
committee of the Social Service
League.
The league does not benefit in
any way from the Washington
Community Chest, despite the
fact that its most populous sec
tions border on Washington, and
great numbers of its citizens,
having business relations in the
city, are generous contributors to
the Chest.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
ZON|NG TANGLE
APPEAL SET

Hearing on the appeal of
Charles Puglisi. operator of a
store in Livingstone Heights, Va.
from a refusal of the county
engineer to grant him a permit to
build an addition to his store,
will be heard by the Arlington
County Board of Zoning Appeals
on May %.
The refusal was made by the
engineer, C. L. Kinnier, because
the store is in a residential
zone. having been built there
prior to the adoption of the pres
ent zoning ordinance, and under
a clause of the ordinance, addi'
tions to business property stand.
ing in residential areas are pro
hibited.
An identical application was
refused by the engineer last
month, but the refusal Of the
engineer was reversed by the
Board Of Zoning Appeals.
Later, Commemorative Attor'
ney w. c. Cloth threatened to
take the matter into the Cir
cult Court on the grounds that the
hearing of the zoning board was
not sufficiently advertised.
To avoid court action. the ap
plication was again filed and re
fused by the county engineer, and
the hearing on the appeal has
been set for May 28, to allow a
sufficient length of time for ad
vertisement of the hearing.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
F ACTOR CLAIMS
STOCK LOSSES

CHICAGO, May % GN.s).
Possibility that John Jake the;
Barber Factor was trimmed in,
the stock market was being,
investigated today.
While Factor is waiting for
hearing Monday on the evidence
sent by the British government
which wants him for swindles of ,
varying amounts, the United
States queried the erstwhile
barber on his income tax pay
ments.
Through his lawyers, Factor
was said to have denied making
any profits in this country. !.
On the contrary they said he
suffered large losses.
Factors accounts with a broker
age house here are being
examined,
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
NOMINATIONS MADE

Nominations to fill two coming
vacancies in the town council of
Kensington were made at an open
meeting of citizens. The election
will be held from 6 p. m. to
p. m. on June /.
The following were nominated
Louis Beall, Raymond F.. Burg
dorf, Alfred.L L. Geiger, and Archer
R. Woodwell. The terms of the
latter two, who are standing for
reelection, will expire June l.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
MONTGOMERY CONCERT

The Montgomery County Band
will give a concert tonight at
1880 o'clock at a. strawberry festi-
val to be given in Farmers Com
munity Hall on the Laurel road
near Burtonsville. The affair is
for the benefit of the Mems Bible
Class of Union Sunday School.
Herman Miller is in charge of the
festival arrangements. James L.
Kidwell will conduct the band
program.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
TY'SFUTURE
TIED Up WITH
QUESTION
Executive Committee Chief
Speaks at Dinner in Honor
of BaItimore's New Mayor

Proclaiming the Democratic
party as the party of progress anc
liberalism, Jouett Shouse, chair
man of the Democratic executive
committee, in a speech last night
at Baltimore, declared the bug
aboo of prohibition must not in
duce it to remain silent"
Opportunity Seen
Mr.. Shouse recognized the fact
that there is a division in the
Democratic party on the prohibi
ton issue but he said this must
not operate to make it afraid,
adding:
"COurageOusly meeting the
situation that exists, unequivO-
cally basing it's principles upon
the foundation that was laid
for it 13O years ago, will enlist
TO its banner the support of
millions of men and women
who are looking for honesty
of expression and courage of
leadership in the political life
of America today.
"It has the opportunity to
win not merely one election
through a course of expediency,
but by fOrthrightness to remain
the dominant factor in Ameri-
can life for 20 years to come.
"On such a basis, to such a
program, I appeal to forward
looking men and women every
where to join with us in the
crusade"
Ridicules G. o. P. Alibi
Speaking at a. dinner in honor
of Howard w. Jackson, newly
elected mayor of Baltimore. Mr.
Shouse devoted most of his speech
to ridiculing what he called the
great Republican alibi' for the
financial depression. This was a
reference to recent speeches by
President Hoover and Secretary
Mellon before the international
Chamber of Commerce meeting
in which they blamed the re
action of the world war for the
present depression. He said the
present situation had forever
demonstrated the false claim
of the Republican party that II
was the party of prosperity.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
H0NORED FOR SERVICE

After 26 years of teaching at
the Rockville School, Miss Mary
Brewer was honored last night at
the final meeting of the Rockville
Parent-Teacher Association, when
she was given a life membership
in the National Educational AS
sociation, a gift from the Parent
Teacher Association and the fac
ulty of the school. Miss Brewer
was given gold pin and GER
tificate of award.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Arlington Furthers
1882 Fete Program

st a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Arlington
County Bicentennial Council, to
be held tonight in the offices
of the Brumback Realty Com
pany in Clarendon, Va, plans
for Arlington county's participa-
ton in the Bicentennial Celebra-
ton will be formed.
with approximately Is organi-
cations of the county affiliated,
the Importance of organizing the
work of arranging the program
so as to avoid Implications is
apparent, according to Arthur
Orr, president of the council,
and the work of the committee
during the next few weeks will
be of the greatest Importance IN
effecting such organization.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Turtle Lives Months
Beneath Pile of
Ashes
FREDERICKSBURG, Va,

FREDE RICKSBURG, Va,
May 22-"Clean Up" week, in
stituted as a civic movement,
solved the mystery of Police
Justice Henry DannehIs lost
turtle.
Justice Dannehl is very fond
of turtle soup and late last
fall a friend presented him
with a choice specimen of the
diamond back variety. Before
the fattening process was over
the turtle disappeared. Today
a neighbor moved a pile of
ashes from a bin in his cellar
and found the turtle under
meath. alive and kicking.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Abandoned By Hens,
Chicks Mothered
By BOOSTERS

HAGERSTOWN, Nd. May
21-Two young cockerels, owned
by j. H. Hykes, a farmer living
at Paramount, have taken over
the duties of two hens that
deserted their broods of chicks
and are giving them motherly
attention except at night, when
the cockerels rooSt in trees.
Mr.. Hykes said this is the
first time in his experience
with raising chickens that
young roosters have showed
motherly instincts.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
HyattsUilIe Fights
Liuht Rate Changes

Appointment of a committee to
meet with Potomac Electric
Power officials before the Public
Utilities Commission of the Dis
trict of Columbia in order to
present a resolution opposing any
change in light rates in nearby
Maryland, has been made by
Mayor L. L. Gray, of Hyattsvllle,
Md.
Those chosen to voice the Senti-
ment of the town council were
Caser L. Aiello, C. D. Anderson
and Thomas E. Hume. The meet
ing will be held Monday in the
District Building in washington.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Old Warrant Back
In Old Water ROU

George Finger, president OF
the Common Council of Capitol
Heights, yesterday withdrew a
warrant alleging assault against
william Compton, and had a
previous warrant charging dis
orderly conduct reinstated.
Charges against Compton grew
out of an argument over waste
water, said to have run from
the accused mans home over a
neighbor's property. Mr.. Finger
and Mayor Selig Posin visited
the home of Compton and in
formed him that the condition
must be corrected.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
FINED IN RUM CASE

William Dorsey. colored, was or
dered to pay a fine of $3.50 and
costs or serve six months in the
Maryland house of correction by
Judge Charles w. Woodward, in
Rockville Police Court, where
Dorsey was found guilty of hav-
ing liquor in his possession with
intent to sell. Dorsey appealed
the case.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Ritchie PULLbearer
At Funeral of Aunt

RICHMOND. May 22.-Funeral
services will be held here this
afternoon for Mrs. Mamie Enders
Cabell, 83. aunt of Gov. Albert
Ritchie of Maryland. Mrs. Cahell
died Wednesday after a short
illness. Governor Ritchie and
James Branch Cabell, noted
author, will be among the hon
OrarV pallbearerS.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
TRASH DUMPING

Lorenzo Matthews, colored, OF
Ednor. Md, was arrested yeSter-
day afternoon by Montgomery
County Policeman windsor c.
Poole, who charged him with
dumping trash nearer than 100
feet from a public highway.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
FIREMEN TO DINE

The Gaithersburg- Washington
Grove Volunteer Fire Department
will give its annual dinner in
the Gaithersburg High School on
the evenings of Wednesday and
Thursday, June II and 18.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
FIVE BOYS HELD

Five colored boys, ranging in
age from ID to 18 years, are being
held by police for investigation.
They were arrested while driving
a North Carolina car early to-
day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

BOSTON, Jan. T. = The latest joy-killer crusade IS staI ted in the city. It is the Anti Smoking League for Women, organized for the purpose of saving the weaker sex from the alleged social, moral and physiological perils latent in tobacco"
 The noblesse incorporators of this league intende to stress nor al suasion" in their hullabaloo broadcasts. If this weapon fails they are going to scratch at the doors where legislations are creat- ed, to prevent the women from smoking by legal mandates.
 To Reform Girls
 The President of the organiza- tion, Mrs. Robert P. Williams, is very optimistic as to the success of her smoking ban plans. We fear they are doomed to the unpopu- larity enjoyed by the Anti-Saloon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

nof thern Missouri counties are will ing to sacrifice their own ambitions .and aid in the park project so there may be unity of action on the PerShing memorial.
 Pre-ent-day Laclede, where the villagers have a ready fund of an- ecdctes and "reminiscences about Pcrshing as boy, has population Of about 800.
 On it's main street are the small cottage where the general was born and the larger house where the Pershing family lived later. At the latter place, on his first visit home after the war, Pershing asked permission to look into his old bed room.
 up the stairs he went" declared Ed Allen, former mayor of La- clede and one of Pershings closest friends, three steps at a time. saw him do it, and him 58 years old!"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

LACLEDE, Mo, Jan. 7.-When John J. Pershing came home from the war, reporters ewarmed over his ship in Nev York to ask what his plans were.
 T haven't made any particular plans yet he said, except one.
 Soon as ! can get away I'm go- ing to Laclede.'
 "Lacelde?"
 "Yes, out in Missouri. I was born there."
 And just as room as he could make the trip Pershing did come to Laclede Everybody in this lit tie Linn county town was here to greet him.
 Now another homecoming is fore cast for Laclede's most illustrious son.
 A memorial in the form of large park has been projected, and Laclede, of course, expects Persh-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

League, as most Boston women are too intelligent to heed such ideas, and they will continue puffing at the weed regardless of the hot air that blows from the worlds silliest crusade.
 It appears the league has under taken tremendous task. In 1925 the women of the United States smoked nine billions of cigarettes. It was too much of job to count them in 1929. As far as we can discover there hasn't been any alarming moral breakdowns among the women who indulge in this "indelicate habit
 Doctors are frequently knocking the tobacco bogies into cooked hat. They say tobacco has no per- manent effect on the heart. Smok- ing mothers have presented 100 per cent babies to the anti-nico- tine alarmists as proof. Students
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07
CEYER GOES UP IN RANK; GOING
 TO NY. STATION
Signal Corps Member, Long Tn Service, Promoted
 and Transferred

Czerney D. GeYeI l3ng connected with the Sigma Corrs United States Army, Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph Sys- tenn, was on January promoted to the position of Staff Sergeant and has been ordered to Fort Jay New York. With Mrs. Geyer and daughter June, he will leave for his new station on the Queen next Wednesday,.
 Staff Sergeant Geyer enlisted u the Signal Corps at Fort McDoweli, California in 1912 He serYei st Fort Omaha, Nebraska; Fort Meade, South Dakota Forg Leayenworth Kansas, and Texas City, Texas Al 1916 he was on he Mexican Border at Eagle Pass. Texas.
 Geyer was first sent to Alaska in September 1919, to Sitka. Fe was transferred to Juneau in Sep tember, 1924; went to Ketchikan in June, 1926, then went to Seattle in January. 1927 and transferred back to Alaska in November, 1926, going to Seward. Geyer came to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

Juneau for his second trick in this city in February, 1930
 Miss June Geycr was raised ant. schooled in Alaska and at presen. is in the second year of the Ju- neau High School.
 The Geyer family like Alaska and are sorry at leaving the north land where they have scores of friends. They hope to return some day for a visit, if not for service.
 For some time Sergeant Geyer was stationed at the Radio station but lately has been holding down the night shift in the cable office
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07
Tue Weather
(By the U. S. Weather Bureau)

Forecast for Juneau January !:
 Probably followed tonight and Thurs day increasing souteaey fresh Thursday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

have won scholarships although they stole secret puffs in the se- clusion of their rooms, and our glorified beauties have kept their weight from the danger point by reaching for cigars.
 Smoking is nothing new in the feminine world. Way back in 1850 smoking was so popular that poets waXed warm about it. And even before that date women were fond of the fragrant tobacco leaves.
 Royalty Served Smokes
 Queens have not escaped the habit Sir Walter Raleigh was the first to give out the secret that Queen Elizabeth enjoyed smoking. Queen Victoria was prejudiced against smoking and tried to wane the popularity by royal scoldings.
 In 1885 the Princess of Wales served cigarettes to her wom e n guests after luncheon affairs and teas. This year marks the begin- ming of smoking at public func- ticns for English women. Before it had been more or less secret pleasure for them.
 The cigarette fad was introduced in the White House in 1889 by Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who offered her visitors some of the rolled to- bacco.
 Queen Mary of England likes to smoke after luncheon, and Prin- cess Juliana, of the Netherlands royal palace, is also a confirmed cigarette fan now that the royal family has given consent. Most Of the screen stars, as well as stenographers, students, salesladies, mothers and grendmothers have the habit, so the newly organized Anti-Smoke League will have to do lot of picket-fence jumping to make an impression.
 Three students of the Museum of Fine Arts School are organiz- ing league to combat the influ- ence of the Anti-Smoking League. They arc Pauline Whitman, Sal y Caswell and Barbara Burns.
 Paris celebrated t:le fourth cen tenary of Jean I,icot, who intro- duced tobacco to the French, and elected Maud Loty queen of the smokers carnival.
 Dramatics Fail
 Maude Royden, celebrated wom- an preacher was not permitted to speak in Boston because she smok- ca cigarettes, but these virtuous and puritanical matrons at their dinner table evidently thought the best thing they could do was to launch an attack on modern wom- en. We can expect further rum blings from various cities across the continent. But the majority, of course, will refrain from follow ing the mandate of the Anti Smoking League and similar dra- matics and keep right on smoking, which after all is the most effec-