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The Washington times., 1932-02-01

"'Let's start from the top
floor and come down.
1--WE went up the fire-escape
to the top floor. One boy went
into the window to look around
the room. He went into the
other room, too, and before we
knew it he came out of the
window head first. I asked him
what he had seen. He said he
saw big white thing.
so we decided to start from
the bottom floor. We went into
the front door and explored the
first floor. When we got to the
second floor we saw some fig
ures. We started to run, but
one boy yelled it was mirror.
"It was my turn to lead now.
When we got to the top of the
stairs 1 suggested we go out
and climb up the fire escape to
the roof and look down through
the trap door. I opened the
trap door and what do you
think I saw? It was a big
white skeleton painted on the
door,"
We had a thrill letter and
photo (Which we will publish
some time soon) from Howard
Hancock, 1908 Fourteenth st.
S. E.
Howard writes:
my thrill was in school. MY
teacher was talking when a
boy started talking and holler-
ing so she said that he was to
be put off the patrol and I
was to be put in his place.
That was my biggest thrill"
Margaret C. Mills, 40 Pea
body St. N. w., submits her
thrill story in verse:
when I Joined the Adventure Club
Il have my name down with the
names >,
"Of John, Alice, Tommy and Marie"
"1t's fun to hunt up the secret word
And Til tell you a secret way
"Plav like you're in a forest
And have been hunting all the oaS
"When all at ono, you go BANG!
And the word is PLEASE GIVE
AWAY"
Margaret missed the word but
her verse is pretty good, don't
you think?
Robert Ginsburgh, 103 Hill
The Washington times., 1932-02-01
Washington Times
ADVENTURE CLUB

Top Rd., Silver Spring, Md.
has a good thrill story to tell,
And a swell story it is for a
boy just 8 years old.
"One day I was crossing New
York Harbor in a fog. I was
UP in the captains cabin when
out of the fog suddenly loomed
another boat. 1t was a big
Staten Island ferry and it came
SO suddenly it almost took my
breath away. IT hasn't sounded
its fog horn.
"The captain Of our boat
stopped the boat all of a sud-
den and the other boat just
graZed our Sides"
Well, that was thrill, Rob-
ert.
We promised to print the
two Connolly boys, Jerry and
Jimmy, today, didn't we? They
are swell and we know you will
enjoy both.
Jerry writes:
Il accompanied the Holy
Cross College baseball team to
Quantico where they played the
Marines. Jack Berry, the
manager, formerly with the
Philadelphia Athletics, was my
host. When We arrived we were
taken to a hotel for dinner.
Imagine me dining with some
of the best athletes in the
United States! Mr.. Berry and
were entertained by "Jiggs"
the marine mascot. I enjoyed
the game very much ard then
returned home after my
greatest thrill"
Jimmy writes:
II went to see Gonzaga play
Central in football. The for
mer were dressed in white
jerseys with purple numbers on
them. White and purple are
Gonzaga's colors. The Central
team wore blue jerseys and
white numbers. After a few
minutes play Gonzaga scored
a touchdown and then added
an extra point. Cheers we're
going up from the stands
throughout the games.
"Gonzaga won the game,
1910. AS I was for Gonzaga
you bet I was thrilled"
Arthur D. Herren, 322 D st.
N. E., writes his biggest thrill
was the day he was reading
the Adventure Club column and
saw he had won first prize in
the Skippy contest. He writes:
II was so thrilled I Jumped
up and let out a regular In
dian war whoop. I never ex-
pect to get a bigger thrill II
I live to be 100."
Other thrill contest winners
twhose letters we will publish
this week. were Catherine
Lewis, 41112 Seventh st. s. w.:
Robert Hall, 226 e Randolph
Ave-, Alexandria, Va: Warner
Schrenier, SIT Fern st. Clar.
endon, Va: Richard Futrovsky,
213 Seventh st. N. W., and
Anne Keele. 2111 Fourth st.
N. W.
A picture Of Cleo Homan,
who won the FatSO contest, Ia
published today in Stanley
BigelOw's radio column. II you
heard Cleo over WJSV last
Friday We are sure you will
be dOubly interested in seeing
his picture.
The Washington times., 1932-02-01

frs t. Th e
Adv e n ture
Club member
submitting it
in the con
tie S t W a S
Keith Kallio,
1747 Church
st. N. w.
Three boys
and myself
f o u n d a
h a u n t e d
house not far
from where
we live. We
decided to in
vestigate the
next Satur-
day. When
S a t urd a y
came we went
to the house
and one boy
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
Radio Men to Hear
Samuel Macdonald

Samuel K. Macdonald, chair.
man of the Washington section
of the Institute of Radio Service
Men, will speak on the Public
Address System" at a meeting
of the institute tonight at 8
o'clock in the Riggs Bank Build
ing, Fourteenth Street and Park
Road Northwest.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
New Yorker Phones
Plea for Help to
Police Here

Even outsiders have con-
fidence in the Washington Po-
lice Department.
A man, giving the name of
Charles Lester. of 344 Washing
ton ST., New York. telephoned
from New York to Inspector
Frank S. w. Burke yesterday to
tell him that he had been victim
lied by an Empire State bandit.
He asked Inspector Burke to
send several of his detectives
to clear up the case.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
TLUO Robbers Take
$3.50 From Hacker

Howard H. Hibberd, a taxi
drlVer OF 831 Rock Creek Church
Rd. N. E., told police he was held
UP and robbed of $3.50 by two
colored men near the Soldiers
Home last night
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
FIREMEN TO DANCE

The Forestville volunteer Fire
Department will hold a dance in
Shady Oak Inn, on the Mari.
boro Pike near Forestville, on
Thursday evening.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
MoToRIST FINED $40

Wendell P. Crabbe, 277l Wood
ley Pl. N. W., was fined $40 and
costs in the Hyattsville Police
Court for failing to keep to the
right and reckless driving.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
GRANGE MEETS APRIL %

The Montg gom er y Howard
County Pomona Grange will
meet April 20, in the Liberty
Grove Grange Hall at Burtons-
vile, Md.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
FINES TOTAL SAIL

Fines totaling $411.70 we're col.
lected in % cases disposed of by
Judge ]. Chew Cheriff in the
Laurel police court yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19

DietDS of Mrs. Ella A. Boole, pres
tdent of the Women'S Christian
Temperance Union.
By DOROTHY DUCAS
NEW YORK, April 10 QN.S)
National elections this year will b.
the referendum on prohibition fo1
which nearly everyone has beer
clamoring, Mrs. Ella A. Boole
president of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union, told m'
today. She said:
"It looks as if prohibition will
be the main issue of the cam
paign. Relief of economic stress
may be settled by Congress by
the time conventions meet in
June. The people will vote for
or against the Eighteenth
Amendment"
It is only by electing wet Of
dry congressman that the people
can register their approval or dis
approval of the constitutions
amendment banning liquor, the
sturdy crusader against alcoho
pointed out.
"NO Legal Means"
Although anti-prohibition organ
tzations propagandize for a direct
vote on the subject, there is nc
legal menaS for acceding to the
demand, Mrs. Boole said. She
explained:
"Our Federal Government is
q representative body. There
is no provision for direct v0t-
ing on issues. The only refer
endum possible legally is
through the election of Con-
greSSmen.
"YOu must not forget, in dis
cuSSing the Presidential cam
paign, that an entirely new
House of Representatives and
One-third of the United States
Senate is to be elected this
year. Much depends on whether
they are wet or dry"
But she smiled as she said it, q
confident CHEEKY smile.
Women Dry. Is View
Then she said in words what
the smile connoted:
Women are more alive now
on the subject of prohibition
than they were during the last
campaign. They will turn out
and show that they stand where
they have always stOod-against
the evil of drink.
II represent a large group of
women who are actuated by
their belief in a moral prin-
ciple. We are working to make
vocal the prohibition sentiment
of the country, for there has
not been as much of it in the
press Of late, as there has been
nj i-prOhibitiOn propaganda,
Steady educational work does
not make news"
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
SUPPER IN MoNTRosE

A chicken and ham supper will
be held Saturday at the Mont
rose, Md, school from 5 p. m.
until $50.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
MEET IN ROCKVILLE

The Rockville Chamber of Com
merce will hold its regular
monthly meeting tonight in the
fire house at 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-04-19
1882 ELECTION
HELD WET-DRY
REFERENDUM

In this second article of a series
by Dorothy DucnS. Of InternG-
tionGI NetDs SerDice, dealing NTH
t0omen'S activities and person.
GlitieS in the Presidential cam.
pdign. Miss DucGS presents the
DietOS of Mrs. Ella A. Boole, pres
ident of the Women'S Christian
Temperance Union.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23

All that was needed in Central Park Wednesday evening was the cry of the hunt dogs, the stamp of horses hoofs. the gay badinage of riders preparing for rash over field and brook. hedge and fence. The fox was present and eager for the hunt. Needless to say he was hunted. When } workman at the Central Park zoo rudely pushed Pete, the Swear old red fox aside as he prepared to clean out his cage. Pete be- came insulted. He resented this intrusion of his private quarters. but more than that he hated to be brushed aside by boot. We'll. he knew what gibes would be hurled in his direction by nearby zoo inmates In day the entire menagerie would know that Pete had been snubbed by mere park workman, So Pete went native and with one mighty leap cleared the ten-foot fence enclosure Central Parks vast domains loomed before him. He was off. In hot pursuit came the head keeper and other officials. Then d long line of urchins and older boys in long trousers joined the hunt It was on in all it's pristine glory. And Pete gloried in it. He doubled this way and that, He dashed in front of automobiles causinS drivers to congest park dr,veways as they never before have been. Finally exhausted (zoo animals lack the stamina of their wilder brothers and sisters) he dropped forlornly on the steps of the Central Park Casino, once the rendezvous of Jimmy Walker and others He welcomed the hand that was stretched forth to grasp him by the scruff of the neck And he sighed peacefully as he. fell sound asleep in the fast confines of his cage. He had quelled the gossipers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
If Not Insurance What?

Tt can no longer be doubted. says Wal ter Lppmann in one of his recent articles. that with the best wisdom available there is no likelihood that the next period of good times will not be succeeded by period of bad times. And if this is the truth of the matter, IS there any escape from the con- cluson that insurance funds should be ae- cumulated in the good times and a maehn- cry set up for distributing them'" Just how this is to be done, what form the in- surance will take. who will pay for. it, and other details will have to be worked out and agreed upon before any such insurance can be generally adopted and made effective. There is considerable opposition to most of the unemployment insurance and pension proposals made so far. Injustice to employ CTS or to the public has to be avoided while justice to workers is sought.
 There is one point that should not be overlooked. however. The public has to pay the bill for unemployment no matter what is done mot done. If thefe is no working insurance program of any sort. then the public has to make large contributions to relief through voluntary donations or through increased taxes. The ideal situa- ton, of course is to have work enough for everybody, and wages sufficiently above the minimum living requirements SO that indi- vduals and families may do their own pro- vding for rainy days That ideal is so far from established. however. that it is impos+ sible to avoid conviction that something has Mir Lippmann.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
The Ubiquitous Penny

Another sign of the times. The humble copper cent has come back again. No longer are values reckoned in terms of even dollars dimes and nickels. Prices of newspapers. cigarets, gasoline and hundred other neees- saries of life are such as to bring deluge of pennies in change. People find their pockets full of them. Here is opportunity for the thrifty and nuisance for everyone else.
 Children benefit from the situation. Their elders are more inclined to give them pen- nies now, and they can get more for them. The kids own business ventures profit from this form of imitation. Bigger businesses profit too. for adults are machine interests are catering more to the penny trade.
 It is curious reversion. Are we headed back for~the age when penny was days wage? Business men overwhelmed with copper cents will be interested in the fact. vouched for by grocer. The easiest way to count pennies is to weight them. A hundred weight exactly l l ounces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
Can't Fire Him

One thing is certain Mayor George A.. Quigley can't fire William M Harris, chair man of the local Mutual Aid Relief com nnittee, for his report on conditions in New Britain. We presume that the mayor had some such intention when he came to Wa terbury this week to confer with Mir Harris on the recent report he submitted as to un- employment and felief conditions in New Britain MT Harris undertook the survey at the instigaton of group of New Britain manufacturers His findings did not meet with the approval of the chief executive, it is reliably reported.
 For instance, the mayor IS said to have pointed out that perhaps when MT Harrs investigated some of the hundreds of names given him he found families in which there wasn't one wage earner, yet today these same families are not as bad off as they were during the days that Mir Harris was in the Hardware City. This is due to the fact that a New Britain manufacturing plant was closed down entirely for five-week period. but is now operating and former employees are back at work and not receiving aid from the city or any relief organizations. We hardly think that any such event could have colored Mir Harris report to the extent that it could be discredted ip the whole.
 The trouble with New Britains officials apparently seems to be an unwillingness to admit failure to cope with the situation. If we recall correctly special committee in- vestigaton of relief work only served to embitter everybody. It even resulted in the mayor demanding the resignatons of various relief board commissioners who had served on the citizens investigating group How ever. there was no punishment meted out 10 >ethe factory officials who also were on this examining board and who were as much implicated in ihe sdvsrs report s the city officials.
 Now we find Mir Harris being subjected io severe gnIins as to ibs why's and where. flores of his report. Certainly. fl Al un. biased and st the ssms time efficient finding
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
So They Say

It may take the return of the liquor traffic, liquor orgy, be- fore they (the states) are con- vinced that conditions are best under, prohibition.
 pr William Hyde Russell, foun-
 der of Anti-Saloon League.
 s
 Europe has now done all it can to restore prosperity in the United States without effective and prompt American cooperation. -Dr Nicholas Murray Butler,
 president Columbia University.
 If the time arrives when our people find 1t necessary to pay their sons salary or wages to fight in defense of the country, that day marks the beginning of the end of this republic.
 General John F. O'Ryan, U. s.
 Army.
 I have demonstrated what I set out to prove. that is. the superb ority of British airplane manu- lecturers.
 Captain James A. MolIison,
 transatlantic flyer.
 The progress of industrial main- tenance has been interrupted to such degree that today more than 50 per cent of the machinery. equipment and plant facilities in American factories is obsolete. A. W. Roberston, Pittsburgh ex-
 ecutiye.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s, 1882
Too Much Propaganda

< One of the most insidious bits of republi- { can propaganda that has been dispensed from Washington in the present campaign IS that of Joseph M. Dixon, assistant secretary of the Interior and campaign manager for the late President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. We expect republican campaign speakers to belittle the speeches of the demo- cratic nominee and to point out to the na- ton that the candidate is not offering a so- lution of this and that problem. That is part of the average politicians stock in trade He deals in that sort of thing. Never campaign passes without 1t. Demo- crats make the same statements with regard to President Hoover and his Cabinet spokes- men.
 But when Mir Dixon makes the barefaced claim that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is touring the middle west and the far west initiating Teddy Roosevelt. he is going bit too far for the average man. We know that Governor Roosevelt isn't that type of citizen and we think that most sane re- publeans will agree with us in this respect. There certainly would be no need for Franklin D. Roosevelt to attempt to capl- talize the achievements. the mannerlsms. the words of the deceased former president. He is too much gentleman to resort to any such tactics It would be inimical to his very nature to do so.
 Yet Mir Dixon, with some show of heat declares that T can no longer repress my indignation at the attempt of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to put himself before the American people in the clothing of the great president. knew President Roosevelt as few other men knew him and I have no hesitation in saying that this man in his cheap posing is endeavoring to mis- lead the American people into the notion that he is the reinearnation of his fifth cousin, which he is not. .. At Salt Lake City he had the effrontery to use one Of President Roosevelts colloquialisms to tell the people that he was "dee lighted. At Topeka he expressed his joy at being among the ney-handed farmers of which he was one, by virtue of inheritng country estate on the Hudson. ...'
 And SO on far into the night. Either MT Dixon IS a Roosevelt Zealot, of whom some few are left, and is being sadly misled, or else he is acting with base motive. His attack is akin to the whispering campaign now in progress and which Dr Francis P, Garvan of New York pointed out as a vi- cious piece of propaganda early this week. Hints that Roosevelts health was such as to prevent him ever fulfilling the duties of the president were scattered to the four winds by Dr Garvan's seathing attack and es- pousal of his good health and strong con- stitution. The Dixon claim that Franklin D. Roosevelt is aping his fifth cousin seems built on the same general plan as the above We hope the American voters know how to react to such campaign. We were treated to one in 1928, when the political career of one of this nations out standing public figures was blighted. Please, don't let it happen again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
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Political interest has cen- tered on whether Governor Roosevelt would take any public position on the bonus before elec- ton. In advance of any statement by Roosevelt, the best guesses were that he preferred to ignore the. is- sue, although 1t was believed that he would surely veto such a bill if he were president.
 The National Economy League, meanwhile, is getting an increas- ing amount of publicity and sup port and it seems likely to be the spearhead of the anti-bonus movs-
 ment. Pounded originally by Archibald Roosevelt and Green
 vile Clark, two veterans, 1t has grown rapidly and is established in
 nearly all states with the aim of
 obtaining reduction of government
 expenses.
 It announced as It's first objec- tive "the elimination of the great annual expenditures. now amount ing to more than $450,000,000 an- l nually, for those veterans of the
 Spanish American and World Wars who suffered no disability in war service"
 The league is making the most of the facts and figures of veteran legislation, pointing out that the country has already spent some $6,00O, 0O,000,b00 for World War veterans and at the present rate, which is likely to be stepped up. will have spent more than 21 bil- Hons by 1945. a A joint congressional commit tee has been named to study the whole structure of veteran legisla- ton and will report at the next session. It will be getting busy soon after election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
AUTHENTIC AUTUMN
(Nsw York Herald -Tribune) HNSn A saao ~Gseaaa nl oaifaasrala an fal

(NeW York Herald-Trtbune)
 The progress of autumn, so far as the city Is concerned, is an err ratio, undependahle transition. One day the chill breezes sweep down the avenue, and in a trice the open trolleys have gone to their winter Information, hotel managers lay down their dark carpets in the lob bies and dinner clothes again ap- pear in the theaters. The next day the sun is red and smoking. The trolley companies mourn their stuff fly conveyances; the managers wish they had retained the fountains and-cool greens of summer and the bright young men. about town la ment having sent to oblivion and mothballs until Bermuda time the white mess jackets that suddenly became the mode in July.
 In some ways at least autumn's actions are a little more regular in the country. The fali flowers in the gardens do not every third day suddenly revert to the tulips that follow fast upon tho hounds of spring. The corn that has gone into sheaves or silos doesn't on the least climatic provocation go back to the fields, like a cinema filru in reverse, and the leaves once turned on the trees stay properly turned. Indian Summer has atmosphere, but not chromatic powers.
 Yet, soon even city dwellers will feel with assurance that fall is in the air. The football ticket appli- cations will be in. The Broadway theater list is already long enough to allow at least some latitude of choice and ladies' furs are coming out of cafhphor. Life will have a vigor' about it. Even the speak easy proprietors are reporting in- creased trade. The club windows on the avenue will be filled with Arnoesque gentlemen in frock coats on Sunday and fall will be on the town. October, that's the month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-23
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Nurses Follow Lonely Trails
 To Save Lives

Back in the mountains of Ken lucky there are nurses who ride horseback.
 They are members of the Fron- tier Nursing Service, and their fob is to give medical attention to the mountain whites" of the region = the folk who ordinarily live their lives through without ever seein a doctor or a nurse, who have only ignorant native mid wives attend them at child birth and only the homemade concoc- tions and superstitious ideas of To- cal her-doctors to rely on when sickness, comes.
 Most of us, very likely, never heard of these nurses. But they are doing a great work, and their way of doing 1t has that intangible thing called romance in it.. and "Nurses on Horseback" by Ernest Poole, which is a book telling all about them, is an inspiring and fascinating story.
 In this book you not only meet the capable and courageous women who are saving the lives of moun- tain men, women and children; you meet the mountain folk themselves and you come to agree with the nurses" estimate of them-that they are basically as fine people as America contains, and that re- deeming them from the slough in which poverty, ignorance and isola-- tion have dropped them is one of the country's most important jobs.
 You'll find Nurses on Horse- back" very much worth reading. Published by the Macmillan Co, 1t retails for $1.75.