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The Washington times., 1932-12-20

} our States, these laws still
stand upon the books.
It is right" today in certain
parts of America for a parent
to give a little girl of IL in
marriage, or a boy of IA.
It is right" today, for
American parents to force little
children of six, eight and ten
to work in factories and mines.
mills and fields-and every day
tens of thousands Of little chill
dren go to such labor.
1t is right" in any State in
America for a parent to beat
a little child of any age, with
any available instrument, pro-
vided he or she does not
actually MAIN or kill that
child.
Beaten With Hose
1t is right" in many of our
American schools for a teacher
to beat a child with a length
of rubber hose.
It is fright" for American
jailors to lash men to cross
beams and flog their flesh to
bloody Strips-to torture them
in sweat boxeS-to hang them
up by the hands until their
kidneys rupture from the
strain of dragging f1esh-to
strap them in chairs and burn
them to death-to Strangle
them-to lock them in pitch
dark isolation until their brains
crack.
It is fright" to employ girls
. in sweat shops at wages of two
or three dollars a week.
Every one of these, and
countless equally abominable
acts, were and are held to be
right" They were done and
are being done today by IRE
spectacle, God-fearing men and
women" AND YOU AND I
ARE PUTTING OUR LEGAL
SANCTION ON THEM.
Also, in our private lives, we
decide that it is right" to in
dulge in endless malice, dis
honesty, intolerance, selfishness,
Conceit and criminal Stiffness
all in the name of godliness!
An unchanging standard Of
goodness? Actually, there's no
more Shifty or cuSsed institu-
ton on earth than human
morality. The Devil himself
I never pulled dirtier deals than
those which have been and are
being committed in the name of
righteousness.
The Real Truth
It has been said that man
builds his God as he goes"
You may doubt that, but this. is
sure-rnan builds his UNDER
STANDING OF GOD as he
goes.
We aren't born with an un.
derStanding of goodness. We
cannot acquire it by some
spiritual miracle, nor can any
one teach it to us. We must
achieve the knowledge of good
ness as we achieve all other
wisdom-by slow growth and
personal. hard labor.
The standard of right? It's as
tall as our brain. as wide as
our heart, as strong as our
courage. as generous as our
imagination.
How much God have you? AS
much as you use.
How good Is your God? AS
good as your vision of good
ness.
Copyright 1888, King Features
syndicate 1ne.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
GORILLA KILLED AND EATEN BY HIS SAVAGE HUMAN
RELATIVES IN AFRICA

Lady Broughton, English who hunts strange ami
mails mainly with instead Of rifle brings back from
the forests the Congo extremely interesting photographs pub
liahed in the illustrated London NeuOs.
She photographed many goras them close BY witnessed
and tells about the and 200 natives killing and de-
vourng gorlas although the law the Belgian Congo in
which they live forbds it, The picture shows the head Of
young male gorilla, dead, eaten by the savages
Concerning this unfortunate cousin those African
Lady Broughton writes:
Passing through q vii sight, dismembeed
age back portions having an appearance
evening, surprised Ll ~ Ane ~1
Ieast In progress party OF deicaSy
natives cooking killing Of
Of gorilla, which g0rilIaS
killed fairly detec
that morning. 1t tiOn Of the cuprtS
Scientists talk about the relationship between and the
higher They that the African evolved from the
gorilla the Mongoan from the goutang and
proud from the chmpanzee
Those three prmates gorilla goutang and chmpanzee
probably would not be proud of their relationship they could
the African savages eating the flesh Of their remote
cousin!
Those big too decent for such conduct They
nobody that leaves them alone They fruit leaves
meat.
Lady Broughton describes follows the and
ssvages surrounding hill which group gorillas
taken refuge:
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
When Tom Moore
Visited America

But our foreign visitors Of
distinction never learn. Many
years ago, when scarcely
more than a boy, Tom Moore,
the Irish bard, visited this
country and wrote lampoons,
poems, satires against Amer
lea and particularly against
Thomas Jefferson, who was
President. Years later, when
his poems were collected in
one volume, he wrote an
apologetic introduction, ex-
planning his offensive COM
ments on this country. First,
he said, he was young. Then
he added the real expIana-
ton:
my mind was left open
too much to the influence Of
the feelings and prejudices
Of those I chiefly consorted
with; and certainly in no
quarter was I so sure to find
concerted hostility, both to
the men and the principles
then dominant, as in the
ranks of the angry Fedora
list Opposition"
And yet that policy Of
"consorting" with just one
group and one political
school has continued through
the years. I recently read
the biographies of John Nor.
ley, John Bryce and Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, and noticing the
frequency with which cor
responde nee wit h leaders,
and very partisan leaders, Of
one school of p olitical
thOught occurred, L was cur
lous enough to search for
some evidence of friendship
with lie a d ers of the other
school.
I found none.
1t was scarcely sensible
to attempt an Interpretation
of America on the opinions
Of one group.
Perhaps it is because of
this disposition thus to in
terpret America that Europe
so frequently has been
shocked to get reactions
from America they had been
given no reason to expect.
So with the East and the
debts.
We are offering no apol-
ogy for the act of France
In defaulting; and yet it is
impossible to read the cour.
ageous and frank speech Of
Herriot, who went down to
defeat rather than be a
party to the default, with
out the conviction that some
one, speaking for the Ameri-
can Government, and not
the American people, had
created a false impression
of sentiment here which has
led the French into a serious
blunder. If that be true
France is not nearly so
much to blame for the
Franco-American mess as
soma 0na 0r soma oro11n ~
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
Europe MiSinterpretS
America
Bu Claude G. BOUerS-

Author Of The Party Battles Jackson Period Struggle
For Democracy In America jefferson and Hamilton THE
Tragio Era" and "Beverdge and the Progressive Era
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson.

How Good Is Your God?
A changing world. New ways
Of working. New ways of think
ing. I wondered how many of
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By T. E. Powers
BY Helen Rowland

who in the world would pay
two cents to read it?
When we speak of a man of
49 as "going-on-50," and of a
woman OF the same age as
lover 40"-that's real chivalry.
Speaking Of the return Of
beer-it will be easier for a
woman to enjoy the radio while
waiting for her husband to
come home evenings, if she can
picture him smuggling up to Q
glass of beer and a pretzel than
it was when she Yisioned him
making eyes at a blonde in a
speakeaSy.
It is a popular tradition that
every man is looking for a nice
sweet domestic girl who wants
to be somebody's wife"-but,
@~ I \
= q = - aJ,
GG5tS21q :! !,
w z<Azn No z re :
q = v6~:z
oh how they Shy" when you
offer to introduce them to that
kind!
Pinning your faith to a man
these days usually means just
getting stuck by the pin.
Copyright, 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-20

some sight, the dismembered
portions having an appearance
all too human. The flesh, we
learned, Is considered a great
deEcaGy, and, though the au.
thOrities forbid the killing of
gorillaS, the occurrence is a
fairly common one and detec-
tiOn Of the culpritS is rare"
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
TEACHER FIRES
SUICIDE SHOT .

= MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Dec.
Mrs. Amanda Bane, 81, for
many years a school teacher at
Marlowe, this county, took her
life at her home there yesterday
after addressing a note to a
niece in which she expressed a
fear of losing her mind.
The body, fully clothed, and
with an automatic pistol clutched
in her hand, was found lying
across a bed by neighborS who
were summoned by a child from
the school who had gone to Mrs.
Bane's home to learn the reason
for her absence from school to-
day.
Sheriff Emory Thomas and
Coroner DR.. H. G. Tonkin we're
called and latter determined an
inquest unnecessary.
A second note was found, Un-
addressed, asking the finder to
notify a teachers protective
union,
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
z SONS CLEARED
IN ARSON CASE

LURAY, Va, Dec. Leon
HouSden and Herbert Alger were
acquitted today by Page county
jury at second trial for setting
fire to buildings belonging to
Mrs. Virgie Housden Campbell,
their mother, who lives near
MarkSville, seven miles south of
Luray. The trial consumed two
days with much conflicting evi-
dence.
The main witnesses for Com
monwealth were directors of the
East Rockingham and Page
County Farmers Mutual. Fire In
surance Company, and. Luther
Freeze, a neighbor.
Evidence of defense alleged that
Freeze, himself, had the buildings
burned to Z hide bootlegging
activities.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
PATRIOTS URGE.
RED CUSTER

Opposition to cancellation or
reduction of war debts and to
recognition of Soviet Russia are
among the several stands taken in
resolutions adopted yesterday by
the American Coalition Of Patri-
otic, Civic and Fraternal Societies.
Other attitudes urge outlawing
of persons and groups who advo-
cate overthrow of the government
by force and violence; adequate
appropriations for maintenance of
defense; early passage of legisla-
ton for deportation of alien Com
munists, and enactment of legis-
lation providing for permanent
reduction of immigration.
The resolutions were submitted
by the resolutions committee,
headed by Judge Josiah A. Van
Orsdel.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
ROBBER
SUSPE CT S .
CAPTURED /.
Policeman Thomas, Takona
Park, HaIts Baltimore
Men; One Escapes

Town Policeman Earl Thomas
of Takoma Park, alone captured
three of four armed negroes whom
he suspected of attempted robbery
near the Bliss Electrical School
early this morning.
While patrolling the town
Thomas saw an auto with Balti
more tags temporarily clamped
on and tried to stop the car
The negroes speeded away toward
Silver Spring and Thomas ran
the car into the curb near the
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De.
partment. After questioning the
men, he forced them to drive to
the Silver Spring Substation
about four blocks distant.
Aim Guns at Thomas
In front OF the police station
two negroes dropped out Of the
car on one side, while the other
two on the right side of the car
levelled revolverS at Thomas.
Evidently in fear, one dropped
his gun and ran, while the other
ran also but kept his gun trained
on Thomas. This man, believed
to be John Jones, is missing, while
the other was later picked up by
Montgomery County Police Officer
Lawrence Dickson. He gave his
name saS James Jones.
Three Are Brothers
The driver of the car, Tom
Jones, %, of 1000 block Brantley
St.. Baltimore, said the three OF
them were brothers. The fourth
gave his name as Roscoe Jordan
%. of the 900 block Leadenhall
ST.. Baltimore. p
Two of them are being held
at Silver Spring and the third at
Bethesda for investigation.
With a number of .38-calibeI
and .45-caliber shells there was q
number of caps and boxes OF
clothes and tools in the car.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
NEW PARkWAY
LINK STUDIED
Times Staff Photo
ET nDTnGE

The Maryland roads commits
sion and the Baltimore commits
sion on city planning have been
invited to meet with the National
Capital and Maryland park and
planning commissions to COM
plete groundwork plans for the
development of the new Indian
Greek Parkway, high7speed
boulevard to Baltimore.
The meeting, called for Decem-
ber 9, is to be attended by Major
Joseph w. Shirley, president OF
the Baltimore group; Irving c.
Root, chief engineer of the Mary.
land commission, and probably E
Brooke Lee as member of the
State roads commission.
The plans provide for an ex'
tension through Anacostia parks
and the Indian Creek Valley to
supplement the Baltimore Boule-
ward, which is to be used then
primarily for freighting. The
creed road will utilize intersec.
ton features that will allow mo,
toriSts to maintain a speed of so
miles or more an hour.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
WIDE GUT MADE
. IN TAX RATE OF
ANNE ARUNDEL
Average Reduction 21.5 Cents
for All Districts; Many
Economies Listed

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. I.
Every Anne Arundel county tax
rate has been reduced for the
coming year. The board Of
county commissioners acted in re-
sponse to numerous requests they
have received in recent months.
The county tax rate shows q
cut of 1s cents per 500 of as
sessed property valuation in An
napolis and an average reduction
of 22.7 cents for the other seven
districts of the county. The aV-
erage cut throughout the county
including Annapolis, is 2l,5 Genus.
The general county tax rate Is
"a cents for next year, as COM
pared with 80 cents this year.
The school tax is cut to "a cents
from 81.
Realty Cuts Seen Later
The road taxes are also re
duced from 5 to 25 cents per $lOO
outside Annapolis, which pays no
road tax.
The total county tax in An
napolis will be $1.67 next year,
as compared with $1.80 this year.
The total tax rate in the other
districts ranges from $3.50 for the
fifth district to $3.05 for the
seventh.
Action by the legislature is ex-
pected during the coming year to-
ward reduction of county taxation
on real and personal property,
but the rates now announced will
stand through 1888, and any re-
lief the legislature may afford
will be reflected in the rates
for 1884.
Economies Listed
A general salary reduction,
scaling down of expenses wherever
possible, and the fact that there
will be no election next year, were
factors in the tax cut program.
The Whitney's ferry was abol-
ished with a saving of 1890, cir
cult court expenses are to be re-
duced $2,5O0, maintenance of
bridges by $4,000, reserve fund for
insolvencies, $4,000, and contin-
gent fund, $5,910,34 Two special
funds under the Melvin bill are
cut $500.
Certain items of the county
budgets are increased, among
them county pensions and the
fund for burial of paupers.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
COUNTY WOMEN
PICK MRS.PUGH
,-44os SsULf fnot0

Mrs. Edward L. Pugh, of Chevy
Chase, Md, was selected president
of the Woman's Democratic Club
of Montgomery County at its
meeting yesterday in the county
building in Bethesda.
Vice presidents chosen are Mrs.
Joseph C. CiSsel, Silver Spring;
Mrs. Edwin A. Merritt, Chevy
Chase; Mrs. James C. Chris
topher, Bethesda; Mrs. George
Edmonds, Rockville; Mrs. Laura
Gilliland, Chevy Chase: Mrs.
Clagett C. Hilton, GAINESVILLE:
Mrs. Charles E. Roach, Friend
ship Heights, and Miss Ruth
Shoemaker, Bethesda.
Other officers elected are Miss
Gertrude Schultz, Bethesda, re-
cording secretary; Miss Jean
Skinner, Kensington, correspond
ing secretary, and Mrs. F. Eliot
Middleton, Bethesda, treasurer.
Members of the executive COM
mittee are Mrs. w. Ernest Offutt,
Rockville; Mrs. w. w. Skinner
Kensington: Mrs. James C. Ord,
Chevy Chase; Mrs. James B.
Maughlin, Boyds; Mrs. Mehrle
Haines, Laytonsville; Mrs. Cliff,
ford F.. Peters, Glen Echo; Mrs
William J. T. Farquhar, Olney;
Mrs. Emory Bogley, Friendship
Heights; Mrs. Joseph C. Cissel
Silver Spring; Mrs. Claude Nor.
ton, Conduit Road, and Mrs. j,
Bond Smith, Takoma Park.
Permanent committees elected
comprise Mrs. Roger Shaw and
Mrs. Charles Maddux, program;
Mrs. Thomas w. Perry and Mrs.
A. L. Reynolds, membership; Miss
Lavinia Engle and Mrs. Marvin
Harrington, legislation; Mrs. F.
Paul Clark, publicity; Mrs. Cor.
don Stup, parliamentarian; Mrs.
Charles Y. Latimer and Mrs. F. j.
Bolduc, auditors; Mrs. w. Ernest
Offutt, Mrs. H. H. Hewlett and
Mrs. Emory Bogley, editorial
staff.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
HUNDRED EAGER
To CLEAR WIFE

While Kenneth Kronick, alias
Hundred, suspected biga mis- t
burglar and fugitive from a
Georgia chain gang, arrested in
New York in Monday, wishes to
come here to clear the name of
the Washington girl he married,
a controversy over his custody
is under way between the author
tiles of several jurisdictions.
To Tell All
Detective Sergeant Thomas P.
Bragg, just returned from New
York where he went to arrest
Kronick, said the nina told him:
II will tell everything and
show where he loot from IS
apartments has been slowed
away, if you yiII let me go back
with you and clear her. She
knew nothing.
Three months ago, in nearby
Maryland. Kronick, under the
name of Hundred" married Miss
Frances Hodges, a hygienist in a
dentists office here. Police say
the marriage was bigamous, as
Kronick had never been divorced
from his first wife, now living in
New York with their three chill
dren.
The former Miss Hodges, who
was trailed to New York from her
home here in an upper Fourteenth
Street hotel, told Bagg after her
arrest:
"If you had come to me when
you were following me and con-
WINGED me he was a thief, I
would have helped you gladly"
She said she believed his story
that he was construction en-
gineer and that gifts of jewelry
and clothing made her were from
a legitimate source.
Police files here reveal KronicE
was first arrested here under his
right name as a juvenile delin-
quent. Later, as Joseph Raw
lins," he served a, term at Lorton.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
Wife Asks DiUOrce
And Name Restored

Charging desertion, Catherine
A. Davis, of Gaithersburg, through
Attorney Kenneth Lyddane, Of
Rockville, has filed suit in Circuit
Court at Rockville for an absolute
divorce from Melvin w. Davis. of
HyattSvil,e. whom she married
August 6. 1927, in Washington.
The couple have no children.
She asks that she be allowed to
resume her maiden name Of Cath
crime A. Bohrer.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
METAL HOUSES
CALLED NEAR .

Revolutionary methods of house
building, involving new materials
as we'll as ultramodern methods to
secure more efficiency and better
results. are outlined in the
eleventh and concluding volume
of the final reports of the Presi-
dents Conference on Home Build
ing and Home Ownership, pub;
lished today.
The book suggests that houses
OF steel and copper, even of alumi-
mum, as we'll as wood and
masonry, could be built at the
factory with rooms such as the
kitchen and bath completely
equipped and the rest ready to be
assembled at the site. These
houses would be insulated against
heat, cold and noise; would cost
only half as much as today'S
houses, and could be built with
less Skillful workmen than pres
ent homes.
Adoption of the practice of
welding pipG would permit the
use of thinner sheet steel, and
would eliminate the laborious
hand-threa Ling of pipe at the
site which now makes plumbing
SO costly. This would cut the
cost of heating and plumbing in
stallation by half, the report in
dicates.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
PROTECTS
GAME BIRDS

Col. E. H. Schulz, commanding
officer at Fort Humphreys, has
organized the Fort Humphreys
Rod g. Gun Club, composed
largely of enlisted men on duty
there, as a means of protecting
game birds and preventing un-
authorized and illegal hunting
and fishing. Officers and civilians
may join the club.
County officials are cooperating
and club members are deputized
to check illegal hunting. Last
year duck hunting was adversely
affected by the destruction of
some large phosphorus shells in
marshes near the fort, for ducks
ate the phosphorus and were
killed. Measures have been taken
to prevent this in the future.
The club is limited to 100 mem
bers and has at this time exactly
that number. Included in the
membership are II Washingto.
mans.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
Rockville Merchants
Will Study Trade

Sixty-five Rockville merchants
have been invited to attend the
meeting of the committee on coop
erative advertising Of the Rock
vile Chamber of Commerce, which
will be held tomorrow night at 8
o'clock in the fire department
building at Rockville.
The purpose of the meeting is
to lay before the group plan to
bring more trade into Rockville
and to arrange for cheaper adVer-
tising.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
TAXATION
SHOWS BIC GAIN

State anG local taxes mounted
sharply in the period from 1922
to 1881, while Federal taxes de-
creased, the House Ways and
Means subcommittee on double
taxation states in it's report soon
to be made public, it was learned
today.
The total per capita tax burden
was $77.53 for 1881, as against
$68.27 for 1922. The report says:
There has been a decrease
in the Federal tax burden since
1922, but this has been more
than offset by the increase in
the case of local taxes! The
city per capita tax burden in
1922 was approximately $14.97,
as against $24,26 for 1881, an
increase of over 62 per cent"
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
PLUM SEEKERS
Of MARYLAND
IN SCRAMBLE
Lower House Members Plan
to Let County Groups
Pick PoStmaSterS

with two rivals graSping avidly
for the choice job of collector of
internal revenue at Baltimore,
and with an increasing host of
Marylanders cupping their hands
for the ripening political plums
in the State which will fall March
4, some of Maryland's Representa-
tives in Congress are agreeing on
a system which will minimize the
wrath of unsuccessful job-seekers.
Agreement Reached
Representatives David J. Lewis
(Sixth district), Stephen w. Gam
brill tFifth districD and William
P. Cole (Second district) are set
ting the pace which likely will
be followed by all the States
House delegation. They have de-
cided that county units of the
Democratic State central COM
mittee may select all first, second
and third class poStmasters.
Meanwhile, friends of State
Senator S. Scott Beck of CheS-
tertown are backing him earnest.
ly for the biggest plum in the
State. the Internal Revenue Col
lector's post now held by Galen
L, TAFT. However, friends of j!
EnoS Ray. chairman of the Demo-
cratic State central committee,
say that job by rights should go
to the party chairman.
Tydings Is AloOf
Senator Millard E. Tydings is
leaving the fight over the smaller
postoffice jobs up to the House
members, and according to GUS
tom the Recommendations of each
Representative for postmasters in
his district will be confirmed by
the Postmaster General and the
President. T. dings is concerned
only with the Baltimore postmas-
tership. However, he is being be-
sieged by friends of hundreds of
job-Seekers who laud their candi-
dates qualifications. and grand
scramble already is going on.
The Washington times., 1932-12-01
ADVERTISEMENT
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WITHOUT CALOMEL
And You'll Jump Out of Bed IN
the Morning Rarin' to Go

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