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The Washington times., 1931-07-18

GATHER, GLADYS ALLEN-Departed
this life on THURSDAY. July 10. 1891. at
her late residence, 11O4 g Street North
east, GLADYS ALLEN GATHER. the de-
voted wife of Leonard Gather. Besides her
husband she leaves to mourn her depart,
ure two daughters. Clarice Gather and
Doris Gather daughter of Clara Allen and
the late Roy Allen. She also leaves one
sister. Betty Allen. and two brothers.
James Allen and Wayde Allen.
Funeral services will be conducted on
Monday afternoon, July 90. 1891. at /
o'clock. from the W: Ernest Jarvis funeral
terment will follow in Harmony Cemetery.
PRICE. JOHN HENRY-Entered into eter-
1881 at his late residence. IA Fourth
Street Northwest. JOHN HENRY. PRICE,
mains resting at the w. Ernest Jarvis
funeral church. 1432 You Street North
Notice of funeral services and inter-
ment hereafter
The Washington times., 1931-07-18
Births, Deaths, Marriages
DEATHS

% on friday. July IL, 1881. at Freedmen'S
Hospital ABRAM ROME ELLIS, the be-
loved husband of Susan Catherine Ellis.
Besides his wife, he leaves to mourn his
departure three children, one daughter.
Marie Deasy Ellis and two sons; Henry
Stewart Ellis and Raymond Alexander
Ellis: three brothers. Frank A. Ellis.
Harry H. Ellis and Walter s. Ellis. Re-
mainS resting at the W. Ernest Jarvis
funeral church. 1432 You Street North
west.
Notice of funeral services and inter
ment hereafter
The Washington times., 1931-07-18

Yes, sir, I was sorry to see
Wally 60 from the big show.
He was with five different clubs
I'm our league and he was well
liked everywhere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

Brands defeat as a presidential candidate car
be interpreted only blow at his liberal and pacific
policies No one denied that his long service fol
France had earned him the decorative reward of
the presidency. AS premier dozen times and holder
Of twenty-five cabinet Offices in as many years. he
had demonstrated his exceptional ability.
But the nationalist and chauvinists were out for
blood this time.
Frances reactonary swing to nationalism is all
the more disturbing because it probably will provoke
its counterpart in Germany. Already French oppo-
ston to the proposed Cerman-Austrian customs
union has strengthened the Fascist elements in the
Teutonic countries.
MS in turn las opened the way for CONNER
cial agreement in Rome including Italy Austria and
Hungary.
Once more the European drift is toward two hos
tile alances-France and her allies versus the cen
trail powers and Italy. France which is most fearful
of such development and which has most to lose by
it, is the chief cause of the very danger she fears
If France is to insist upon remaining the military
dictator OF Europe, aided by her military henchmen of
Poland Czechoslovakia, YugosaVia and Rumania, she
inevitably will goad the vanquished Teutonic peoples
into war of revenge and liberation.
BRAND has seen this. And for six years by one
treaty and another, he has labored for Franco
man cooperation and European unity.
Apparently he now is the victim of his peace lead
ership and his international position. The fact that
he was not unpopular in Germany. and that the
British and American newspapers spoke highly of his
reconciliation policy of the chief arguments
used by the French nationalists against him in this
election
But his nationalist enemies have not yet heard
the last of BRAND
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Giving Labor the Air

The radio is becoming ever more important as an
agency OF public education Any class that does
not have fair break on the air is at serious dis
advantage.
In an article on THE Freedom of the Air" in the
Christian Century Paul Hutchinson indicates the
handicaps placed on labor in making any statement
OF It's case over the air.
In the first place independent stations have little
effect They operate such slight power as to reach
few people On the great chain stations only con-
eervative representatives of labor like William Green
and others approved Of A F. of L. mogus speak.
Labor has tried to establish it's own stations.
WEVD was set up in New York City a memorial
to Debs But as Hutchinson points OUT 1T has been
given only 500 watts of power and a wave length Of
only 233O6 meters low assignment on the dial which
it must share with eleven other stations one in its
own city with double the power"
on top of that it recently has been suspended for
purely technical violations Of regulations that would
pass unnotced in the case of the conservative chain
stations
VIGIL in Chicago was fine station, Endorsed by
the A. F. of L. and giving splendid service Of all kinds
It also broadcast material useful to farmers. Hutch
inson describes it's fate: cts power has been re-
duced to 1900 watts; it has been placed on the dial
where it is locally blanketed by the powerful West
inghouse KYW station and where its wider reception
is interfered with seriously by Westinghouse KDKA,
and it has been forced to 60 of the air every night
at sundown the Pacific coast"
AT the same time the insult power interests bought
defunct station, were given $4,000 watts power and
q place on a cleared channel at the center Of the
broadcasting dial.
If 100000 American laborers realize these facts
and sit by quietly, then need shed no crocodile
tears over their plight 1t is not the powerful private
radio interests who are responsible here, but the
ostensible servants of the peope-the radio COM
mission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

have to pay for Hoosier-made car
of the same general type, but bet
ter car.
We do not realize that instead of
helping to relieve the depression we
merely are helping to pay huge
dividends to only few stockhold-
ers. OF course, production costs are
deducted. That much money spent
at home for home produced car
would increase our chances Of meet
ing the payments.
When we are willing to admit
that our own state-made automo-
bileS, refrigerators, radios, etc., are
just as well or even better made
than their robot competitors, and
spend our savings accordingly, then
our shops again will hum with work
and the old Hoosier landscape will
bloom out with evidence Of pros
perity and contentment.
With dependable job at fair
wage, we shall be able to pay a few
more dollars, if necessary, for a de-
sired product and meet the easy
payments much easier than We can
by trying to depend upon an I'M
certain job.
But our manufacturers must have
orders, a dependable demand for
their products before they can sup
ply regular employment for you and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Theology and Justice

It is we'll known in theory that several states in
our Union refuses to accept the testimony Of atheists
But it is assumed that in practice such medevalisn
dots not prevail Yet such rulings taking place
frequently. One is just reported in Alabama by the
New York Times. The court of appeals ruled that
the death-bsd testimony of a Negro atheist against
his wife could not be credited:
THE court Of appeals ruled today that the death
bed statement of atheist is not admissible as tes-
tmony in the courts of Alabama where an oath is
required.
THE decision reversed the judgment Of a Jeffer-
son county circuit court jury In finding Laura wright
Negro guilty Of second degree murder for the kill
ing of her husband. Wilbur Wright.
Judge w. H. Sanford OF the court Of appeals held
that the lower court erred in allowing wrights
dying statement. accusing his wife Of shooting him
to be admitted testimony. since undisputed testi-
rnony showed Wright to be atheist.
without a belief in Supreme Being, there can
be no legal oath. Judge Sanford ruled And without
legal oath witness is not competent to testify in
the courts OF Alabama
The old time theology may have justified such 3
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
New Franchises

For many years we accepted franchises and their
restrictions upon utility regulation in much the
way that we accepted earthquakes and tornadoes
There was nothing else to do about them.
But even ffty-year franchises came to an end at
last and recently they have been doing so in increas
ing numbers leaving behind the problem Of what
TO substitute
There was. for while, decided tendency to have
done with the franchise method Of control and rely
upon state rather than municipal power to protect the
public interest. But at present the swing is back
toward franchise control. It is however, not the
franchise control Of the past.
Oregon for instance, in giving back to her cities
few weeks ago the right to regulate utility service
and rates within their own borders by means Of con-
tractors franchises required that such contracts
extend no longer period than five years and be
approved by the state utilities commission.
An even more radical departure from procedure Of
the past is recommended by Dr. John Bauer director
OF the American public utilities bureau.
He suggests that something of the principle of
the ndeterminate franchise now so widely accepted
in place Of the old limited time franchise shall be
usei in regulation Of rates instead of state regula-
ton. which he considers ineffective
The indeterninate franchise makes it possible for
city to cancel the privileges it confers at any time
1t considers them misused, or to purchase a utility
property upon payment of full value. Bauer thinks
it possible, also to have flexible control Of rates
He would have cities fix rates in the first instance
but would give to state commissions the right to raise
or lower rates promptly, to meet changing economic
conditions. The state commission would have this
power only upon conditions designed to simplify its
procedure and protect the public far adequately
than in the past
Indeterminate franchises have been declared eco
nomical and sound" by the National Association of
railroad and utilities commissioners Perhaps this
new plan likewise viii find favor if it is tried
We may be that the utility problem never
will be permanently solved, but our only chance of
approaching equitable solution is by experiment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Women and Wheat

The international wheat conference, shortly to
take place in London will call in of the fashion
experts from Paris if suggestions of Henry Strude,
president of the American Bakers Association, are
followed to their conclusions
Strude believes women, and women alone, are to
blame for the wheat surplus He says they want to be
slim these days and when they start dieting the first
items to be scorned bread cereals cakes and pies
Blaming the women for the wheat surplus may be
comforting but isn't it bit illogical? There are plenty
of people in the world who would be glad to eat the
wheat if they could get it and pay for it.
The wheat conference can put its brains better to
work figuring out to the transportation and
buying power problems. If the American farmer gets
no comfort from the answers to these questions he
will be back to the farm boards advice, which simply
sroounts to an admonition to quit growing so much
wheat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
NJ. E. Tracy
GangLGnd's Greatest Strength
Comes From Loopholes IN
the Ld1O and Shyster LaW-
gers Wiling to Take Ad-
vantcgc of Them.
SAYS

THOUGH sensible, too much
l. should not be expected from
the move to cut army costs by
abandoning a few posts and me-
chanting the cavalry.
AS a measure of efficiency, II
promises something, but as meas
ure of economy it's not so hot.
Since it costs only 100000 a
year to run AL the posts, and since
the army will be kept at it's present
strength, it is difficult to see how
any great amount can be saved by
discontinuing even large portion
Of the former.
AS to the cavalry. there can be no
doubt that substitution of motor
vehicles for horses would increase
its speed. Whether the change
would result in decreased expense
is doubtful.
AS to the idea that Europe would
be influenced to curtail her military
establishments by such scheme of
reorganization in this country, it
borders on Stiffness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Remedy Helps Curb Sleep Ailment'

sorts of remedies, which is an indi-
cation that a specific remedy has
not been found. 1t has been treated
by mental suggestion and by use of
various glandular materials, but thus
far none has been found definitely
of virtue.
Quite recently workers have re-
ported interesting cases which seem
to be benefited by a new remedy, so
far as modern civilization is con-
cerned, but developed hundreds of
years ago by the Chinese.
A man 20 years of age found that
he fell asleep on all occasions, some
times while standing on the street
and talking to friends.
If the attack occurred while he
was On the street, he usually leaned
against something. but had two &C
cidents from leaning against auto
mobiles which moved away.
At first he slept only for three or
four minutes, but later as long as
half an hour. He was given the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

NUR financial wizards continue to disagree as to
~ what caused the country depression but the plain
happened.
We continued to initiate the old national balloon
until she busted"
Our fiscal wise had no difficulty whatever
IN determining what put Florida on the toboggan
some years ago and our present plight simply Flor
ida over again, only great deal more So
The International Chamber of Commerce met in
Washington. European delegates true to FORM tried
to suggest that We cancel the debts Europe owes.
The real trouble with Europe is that she is too
modest, too much of shrinking violet.
GONE of them are saying that Europe would dis
- arm if we would only forget what she owes us but
everybody knows that she would proceed to build
greater military establishments than ever.
This is exactly what she did Immediately after
we Slashed these debts some time ago.
group of Danish scientists, after experimenting
with seventy gentlemen announces to the world that
whisky will make man drunk
This is one Of the greatest discoveries of modern
times!
Justice Luring of the District of Columbia was
everlastingy right in his refusal to grant citizenship
to this Scotch gentleman who refused to take an oath
to bear arms in defense of the United States in the
event Of war.
XXTE have not quite reached The point in our ma
w tona life that are 50 hard up for inmi-
grants that forced to permit them to dictate
the terms on which they viii consent to honor us
with their society
Down in New York they are thinking Of adopt
ing an Official bird for the state.
If they ever want to select one for Tammany We
suggest the buzza I'd
The Russian government just has set aside day
to honor newspapers.
AS a mark OF esteem the government should have
given the papers new muzzleS and strait-jackets
Mayor Walker of New York has his troubles. but
after welcoming the lord mayor Of London he should
shake hands with himself because he doesn't have to
wear wig.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Plain Nonsense
TINE fact that a woman

TINE fact that woman can
i smash the elaborate plans of
two sovereign governments by the
simple process of sticking her finger
across an imaginary line in the at
mosphere hardly can be construed
otherwise than vivid Illustration
of the woefully small part played
by common sense in drawing up
those plans.
The problem Of law and its en-
forcement includes something more
than Furnishing violators.
Much of that problem is rooted
in the law itself-the endless, in
comprehensive, and often incon-
sistent volume of red tape, tech
nicality, and nonsense with which
civilization has become entangled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

ended and a problem has been
solved.
Then we will wait until some
other gangster very like him pro-
videS a similar city melodrama and
f1rst-page story.
Here he is: Francis Crowley, 20
years old, feet 3 inches tall, a
little more than 100 pounds in
weight. He was born in a New
York Slum. Before he was q year
old, his mother turned him over to
woman who ran a baby farm.
His first job was with a gang of
laborers, and he quit this after a
little while to steal parcels off rear
ends of trucks. And a little later
he became an automobile thief.
BY now we have our subject well
on the way to the final crimes for
which he has been arrested. And
the law will concern itself with
those episodes and leave the earlier
trail alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

NNE hundred fifty heavily armed
" New York policemen fought for
two hours with gas and revolvers
and AK and captured Two-Gun
Crowley. With him they took his
girl and his confederate.
It was good police work, sharp
pursuit by the detectives and diff
cult task carried out efficiently.
In spite of the number of attack
ers, the work was dangerous, for
desperate armed men in hiding can
easily pick off many who seek to
dislodge them.
And credit should go to Commits
sioner Mulrooney. They say that he
prides himself on being a good cop.
That compliment he deserves, even
though some may withhold complete
approval of his abilities as an eXecu-
tive.
But if the police came out of the
Crowley man hunt with credit, you
and I did not. It is wasteful and
an unimaginative way of life to
spend so much effort and risk of life
upon the capture of a criminal
when such indifference and care
lessness have been shown in the
matter of his genesis.
We should catch our gunner
younger and long before they have
taken their posts behind barricade
prepared to shoot it out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Another Silly Stunt

CPEAKING of citizenship and the
y way it is affected by birth,
boundaries and law, another ridicu-
lous case just has occurred.
Reginald Crudde of Detroit want
ed to marry a Scotch girl living
in Canada. He had obtained a
divorce from his former wife in
Mexico, however, which Canadian
authorities do not recognize as legal.
He could not get married in
Canada without becoming a big
amist, and American authorities
would not allow his bride to enter
this country, because she was born
in Scotland.
Circuit Judge John D. Watt solved
the problem by performing the we'd
ding ceremony on Ambassador
bridge, with Crudde standing on the
American side of the line, and his
bride standing on the Canadian side,
but holding her finger across to re-
ceive the ring.
That little trick makes her an
American citizen, but what does
it make of the American inmigra-
tion law, or the Canadian attitude
toward Mexico divorces?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
COPS Partly Right

TINE Policemen's Benevolent AS
l. ISOLATION of New York unani-
mously adopts resolution urging
motion picture producers to stop
making films which "glorify the
lives of gangsters, gunner and
racketeers."
You can't quarrel with the object,
though it is only fair to say that
motion picture producers have done
a lot on the other side.
That does not tell half the story,
however.
While gangland obviously gets its
recruits from the gullible, misguided
ranks of youth, its greatest strength
comes from loopholes in the law
and s!lyster lawyers willing to take
advantage of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Patriotism Wins

TN spite of all the comforting
L leagueing, and world counting,
Europe still thinks in terms Of
stark nationalism, as wildly was
illustrated by Brands defeat for the
presidency of France.
If his supporters had kept their
mouths shut and not told how
popular he had made himself with
the English and Americans by his
work in behalf Of peace, the chances
are that he would have won.
Such Endorsement, however, gave
the Nationalist their cue, and, rail-
lying to the support Of that ortho-
dox patriot, M. Doumer, they beat
BRAND by forty-one votes on the
first ballot, whereupon he withdrew.
Nor can we Americans afford to
be too cocky of the notion that our
international ideals are much bet
Ter than those Of Europe. We may
talk more convincingly about the
wisdom of disarmament, but we
deny citizenship to those who won't
promise ito bear arms"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
Ultra Violet and Life

DR. STETSON's studies of radio
- call to mind the studies by Dr.
c. G. Abbott of the Smithsonian
institution
DR.. Abbott believes that f1uctua-
tons in the amount Of heat radi-
ated by the sun are the cause of
changes in weather on the earth. He
believes that eventually weather
will be predicted from solar studies.
DR.. Stetson calls attention to the
| delicate balance between solar radi-
alton and life on earth.
IF the suns output Of ultraviolet
radiation fell off very much, the
human race might die out from
ricketts," he says ANY great in
crease in it might toast the human
race to a crisp and finish it off that
way.
He believes that necessity Of
studying the earth's relations to the
cosmos will become more important
every day.
AS a sample he calls attention to
the fact that a number of radio
stations picked their locations and
waves as the result of studies made
three years ago.
Today both their locations and
their waves are proving unsatisfac-
tory.
THE reason for that" he con-
tinues, "is the change in sun-spots.
In other words they didn't take cos
mic relations into account when they
made their decisions.
1T is beginning to look as though
radio, at any rate, won't be able to
get along without the aid Of astro-
nonial experts.
Time may prove the need Of
knowledge of cosmic relations in
other fields as we'll"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H EF0g%

pretend this furnishes a reasonable
school for citizenship.
1t would take money to tear down
all the novels in which the Crowleys
are born. But it also takes a lot OF
money to catch the adult Crowleys
We might very likely need some
thing as radical as free medicine and
milk to raise up the slum children
physically stunted by lack of nour-
ishment and sun.
There is, I believe, a very possible
connection between the meagerness
of this man and his passion to play
the desperate.
He couldn't have been much good
at heavy labor-this skinny f1ve-fooU
waif To him a gun provided ego
satisfaction.
It is true that as things stand
he is an enemy of society. But in
evitably there is some point along
the journey where we failed him,
I am not pretending that the task
is easy or that psychiatry, to men
ton one phase of the study, has
advanced to tie point of ultimate
wisdom. But we should try.
If New York City never had pro-
duced more than a single Crowley it
1t would be enough to track him
down, try him and convict. But
we know Of gangsters who have
been and of those who will come
after.
And so I suggest that there ought
to be some court intent upon facts
far more fundamental. The detec-
tives Of the force did skillful work
in solving the problem. Where is
Crowley?" It remain for us to meet
that even more important query,
why is Crowley"
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

new remedy and reported consider
able improvement from its use.
A boy IL years Of age had
irresistible sleep and finally was dis
missed from school because other
members of his school initiated his
behavior. He would sleep fifteen to
thirty minutes at a time.
A woman, "A, had a tendency to
fall asleep at church and at social
gatherings, which is not in way an
abnormal tendency.
Later, however, she developed loss
Of initiative and on several occasions
had fallen asleep while standing
at the cook stove.
In each of these cases there was
loss of muscular power when the
emotions were stimulated. Five out
of six people treated with the new
remedy seemed to be definitely re-
lieved Of their irresistible desire to
sleep, and further study indicates
that at last definite method of
control for this extraordinary dis
case has been discovered.