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Evening star., 1932-04-10

stodAert. later the first Secretary of the Navy
In the cabinet of John Adams and continued
for o brief period into the administration OF
Thomas jefferson. Mr.. Stoddert Is buried in
Addison chapel graveyard, in Prince Georges
County, Md
IN l7so Ssoddert and Forrest purchased
J tract OF land containing 900 acres lying 10
the north Of Georgetown between Wisconsin
avenue and Rock Greek. Four years later Gen.
Forrest bought out Mr.. Stoddest's interest,
and 1t was about this time that he built the
large frame house on the north side Of Ordway
street. q short distance east Of Wisconsin
avenue as we are told by Wilhelmus Bogart
Bryan, who some years ago gave the matter
careful consideration. saying:
I'm 1894 Mr.. Forrest acquired Mr. Stoddert's
interest and became the sole owner of the
tract, which was called Rosedale. In that
year he erected q frame house on the north
side OF Ordway street q short distance east Of
Wisconsin avenue which Is still standing and
stil In the possession Of his descendants. Here
he was living when he received the appoint
ment rs clerk. short time before, he sold
to his brother -in-law. Philip Barton Key, $50
acres OF the Rosedale tract which Mr.. Key
named Woodley. Mr. Key, who practiced law
In the District up to the year 1906. when he
transferred his business in the District 70 his
nephew, Francis Scott Key, built q house on
the south side Of woodley road still standing
and between Thirtieth and Thirty-nrst streets,
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Purchase of "Oak Vie0v" or 'Red Top" and
Development Of Area Bearing His Name:
Settlers on old 7eunakytozon Road.

in honor Of whom q bronze tablet was some
years ago placed In the yard In front Of st.
Johns Episcopal Church In Georgetown, by
the Society Of Colonial Wars in the District OF
Columbia, through the instrumentality Of
Caleb Clarke Magruder jE.
EN- FORREST, like q number Of others.
invested heavily in Washington real
estate ut . time when everybody thought 1t
to be the one and only way to get rich quick.
and, like the rest, too he suffered heavily.
When the Circuit Court Of the District was
formed In 1901. he felt complimented at being
made the clerk for Washington County; George
Deneale being appointed to serve in . like
capacity for Alexandria County. This was in
the days when the District was divided into
two counties, Washington County being to the
north Of the Potomac River and Alexandria
County lying to the south It was while Gen.
Forrest was illing this position that he died in
1905 and was buried in the Presbyterian
Cemetery in Georgetown, but later on June 81,
1883, his remains were transferred to Oak Hill.
Many Of the early Georgetown families were
related through intermarriage and so we fnd
Col. Forrest and Philip Barton Key (uncle of
Francis Scott Key brothers-in-law, both
having married daughters OF Hon. George
Platter, sixth Governor Of Maryland. Col Platers
wife was the sister Of Gen James Macubbin
Lngan. and one Of his daughters, Ann was the
first wife Of Maj. George Peter, son of Robert
Evening star., 1932-04-10

Peter whose brother Thomas married Martha
Pa1ke Cnstis, Granddaughter OF Martha wash
ingten.
Robert Peter was very thoughtful Of his
sons, and eailt six houses on X street north
west I'm groups OF two for bis sons, Thomas,
Robert, David George, Sandy and Jamex-As
stated By Christian Hines. Two Of these
houses. which stood ut the corner Of Twenty
fourth and X streets, were consumed BY nre
aeeat The time they were completed Two
othsss were at 25e6 and 25oe X street and the
others IN the block 10 the west at 26l6 and
ze2e. md was In the hast numbered house
that Thomas Peter hved and was visited by
Gen. Washanetea. The two houses between
fwsssky-hfth and Twenty-sixth streets were
renewed some years ago and the two between
Evening star., 1932-04-10

where he lived, except during the Summer,
until his death in the year 1917. Mr. Key was
acting as the legal representative of the
commissioners, when in February, 1901, he
was appointed by President Adams chief judge
Of the United States Circuit Court in Maryland,
which once Congress at the following session
abolished when the new system OF courts was
done away with"
The woodley mansion, which has quite his
tory attached 10 it, was sold In 1929 to Secre-
tary StansOn, who makes it his home
However, before this tract became the
property Of Ssoddert and Forrest, 1t was q
part Of the original tract known As the Rock
Of Daass&rtou," patented by Kenry DarnsA,
"keeper ef the great seal Of the State Of
Maryland" 30 Col Ninian Bean IN l703, and
Evening star., 1932-04-10
BY JOHN CL4GETT PROCTOR.

kHAT viii be the appearance of
the District Of Columbia so
~ years hence? This would, In
NV deed, be q dificult question for
" any enc to answer, and yet,
those who have seen the city
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02

The first suspicion of declining business has usually been a signal for drastic reduction of wages"
 Need we say more about the obligation of Government to the resident laborers of Alaska? !? They have suffered through lack .of employment-now the next group must suffer. That is a toregone conclusion. And mo- body calls Calvin Coolidge {. radical for expressing the very same sentiment that the editor of this paper has asserted for the past several years. But it should be given greater consid- eration in Alaska than the bang ings of the editor of little country weekly.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02
TURNING BACK THE
 PAGES OF HISTORY

E
 Fifteen years ago the people of Ketchikan were interested in building up a permanent fishery population in Alaska. In Grand Jury report, dated Ketchikar., November 2, 1911, the following paragraph was contained:
 we earnestly recommend that the law be so amended as to ab- solutely prohibit aliens, whether as laborers or otherwise, from drawing or assisting in drawing fish from the waters of Alaska. !"
 In spite of that recommenda- ton twenty-two years ago, the policy of importing alien laborers and fishermen has not been changed one bit-eXcept to bring iii more of them. And because of this policy, Alaska is made the goat-like it or not.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02
MARKER TO HONOR DREYFUs

Forty years ago, Lieut.. Alfred Dreyfus a Jew, was the central figure in a sensational treason case. After being convicted of treason this under officer was sent to the Island where France held her criminals. The whole world took interest in the case and even the United States used it's influence to secure the fiber tv of this persecuted Jew. Later high French officials confessed and others committed suicide following the confession so that the innocence of Dreyfus was fully established. Recently the League for Human Rights de- dicated slab to commemorate t he spot at Port Halibguer where he stepped ashore after serving five years of a life sen- tence on Devils Island follow ing conviction of his alleged reasonable acts.
 For sixteen years Tom Moon- ey, American labor leader has
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02

when relief from many Terri torial taxes should be given the people, and they will, if elected, bend their sincere efforts to sc- cure this accomplishment. Tn every department of govern ment-N National, State, Terri torial and City there is loud protest against the gradually in- creasing burden of taxation"
 At any time there was a sur- plus of one mollion dollars in the Territorial Treasury. This was a reserve sum way beyond the re- quirements of Territorial neces- sity.
 Since that time the Legislators have had an orgy of spending and tax raising. And despite all effort to the contrary, they made no change-had no desire to change. During the last legisla- tive sessions it was pointed out that the appropriations were more than a quarter of a million dollars greater than the revenue or the Territory and that the outlook in the fishery industry was poorer than in many years. But the appropriations bill was sent to the Governor for his signature-he signed it with the expectation that the increased revenue bill would also come for h:s signature. The controlling elements of the legislature fool cd him for they only sent him the old revenue bill. The next legislature will have a mighty big job ahead of it to balance a budget with decreasing revenu- es. Just how it will be done, that is their problem.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02
THE OBLIGATION
 OF THE GOVERNMENT

Calvin Coolidge, former presl- cent of the United States in a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post, declared:
 A large majority of our peo- ple are wage earners. They had come to enjoy the highest stand ards of compensation, and there fore of living, that ever existed I'll the world. Their welfare is the ultimate social obligation of our Government. In time of dis tress they have always been the first to suffer and heretofore have had the least consideration
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02

been incarcerated in a Californ- ia penitentiary for alleged parti- cipation in the bombing of a San Francisco Prepardness Pa
 rade. A photograph taken at
 2:O1 pm, on the day of the
 parade, showed the clock hands
 at that time, and to one side, 8
 man identified as Mooney wat
 ching the parade from the top of the building, Five minutes
 later bomb exploded more than
 ? mile away killing sixteen per- sons. Moneys defense claimed the photograph revealed that he could not have planted the bomb and made his way to the roof top before it exploded. Oxman the Oregon cattleman, it was proven, was not even in San Francisco at the time of the explosion al- though he swore that he saw and recognized Mooney as the man who placed the bomb on the street. He was saved from pre- jury conviction by the able senator from California but Mooney remains in prison on that prejured testimony.
 On the 20th of August work men destroyed the most import ant bit of testimony in this case by taking down the "alibl" clock on which he based his claim of innocence. Incidentally it is pointed out that this testi- nony was not permitted as evi.. dence in the trial.
 Perhaps some day, who can tell, perhaps the American peo- pie will honor Tom Mooney by a slab to commemorate his persecution and incarcera.- tion in prison for the crime of the capitalistic oppres- sion of labor. Perhaps a slab will be erected to honor Mooney and 10 commemorate once again the fundamental guarantee of Life,
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02
ABOUT TAXES IN 1926

One of the Republican candi- dates for election to the terri torial Legislature in 1926 declar- ed in his speeches:
 "At the last session of the Legislature the Republican mem berS from the First Division sought unnecessarily to bring about a policy of retrenchment in appropriations and reduc- tion in taxes. The present Re- publican Legislative nominees believe that the time has arrived
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02
cal Republican, E. A. Rasmus-

Oil.
 The strength of the Democrats i'll Alaska has never been in numerical superiority. On the contrary, conservative estimates place the normal Republican vote at 70 per cent of the total. But what the Democrats lack in numbers, they make up in guile, ballyhoo and buncombe. Through clever manipulation and foxy politics, the Bourbons have stir red up strife in the enemies camp to the end that staunch Republicans have frequently awakened on the day after elec- tion to find that they had suc- ceeded in placing their oppon- ents in office.
 The new Committeeman. MI. Rasmuson, has made an auspici :. ous start. The various dissenting factions are gathered together under united organization, with a solid front to the enemy.
 More power to the party which had the; foresight to put a real Alaskan plank in it's platform. --Stroller's Weekly.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02

And also to remind the reader it is almost time for the plund- erbund to begin soaring voters away with the vail that we should not scare capital away.
 If the truth would be known by AlaSkans-it is the bureaus which dive away capital and labor also.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02
RASMUSON: REPUBLICAN

For the first time in the his- tory of the Territory of Alaska, the Republican party is a unit, acting under the leadership of a
The Alaskan., 1932-09-02

Liberty and the Pursuit of Hap- plness. Who knows? Even though America has long since strayed from actual practice of these fundamentals, perhaps tn e people will awaken and to shame it's past history, honor the man whom they have dishonored for sixteen years.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Prohibition and the Deficit

High moral ideals were not primarily responsible
for putting over prohibition. The purposes were not
so noble as they practical
Great industrialists believed that prohibition might
accomplish two things which they desired: CD 1t
would bring the workers to the factories in the morn
unexpectedly Monday morning-sober, rested and
capable of putting in good days work. 90 it would
insure sober workers. less likely to congregate with
their fellows discuss their in saloons thus
keeping the laboring class more docile and less likely
to revolt
It was the vast financial support Of the dry ideal
lists and fanatics by such men which enabled the
Anti-Saloon League and other dry groups to organ
ize their unparalleled political propaganda and in
tmidaton which made prohibition fact in the con-
stitutional and statute law Of the United States.
But these policies hardly could have been put
so rapidly and thoroughly had there not been special
psychological condition in country. The World
war supplied this Prohibition was sneaked over
der cover of the prevalent hysercal tendency of the
people of the United States to and sacrifice to
defeat the kaiser
Prohibition was part and parcel of idealsm,
as much the freeing of repressed peoples, the
tity OF treaties the battle for democracy and the
like
Prohibition has failed in its aims. 1t has not pro-
duced dry country. 1t has debauched our liquor
habits. It has led to an appalling increase of drink
ing among the young of the nation. 1t has provided
fertile soil in which the racketeer has spawned It
has encouraged dsrespect for law and order 1t has
led to most serious nfractions our hard-won liber
ties
Yet all these things did not suffice to produce any
marked governmental revulsion against prohibition.
They will not produce militant determination upon
vision or repeal by political leaders. we get
revision, it will be due to hard, practical economic
realities which, in a different field, helped to put
prohibition.
This time it is public rather than private business
and finance which will play the decisive role. 1t is
federal deficit rather than the desire for private
prosperity which furnishes the motive power We face
a S200O00oo00 deficit in the federal budget.
We know that we we'll might collect from 81, ,000,-
100000 to S2OO0OO000O in additional taxes if le-
galized the sale of liquor and collected stiff excise
tax from the sale of lawfully obtained beverages.
The situation will do more to promote practical
action than the most dishearteing exposure of the
"Nobe Experiment" or the most rrefutable logic de-
voted to the issues of liquor consumption.
The current depression will supply the same sort
OF pressure which the World exerted in
leading to the enactment Of prohibition. Our. fear
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

Of crushing direct taxation, our anxiety about ma
tonal solvency and hope Of returning prosperity
through repeal will impe the nation to take steps
which never would have been possible in period of
prosperity and governmental surplus.
All this is we'll covered in excellent article on
Prohibitions It's Effect Taxation" by c. T. Revere
in the Review of Reviews. He estimates that with a
return to legalzed liquor-not implying at all re-
turn to the saloon-we might realize federal rev.
enue of s1,0OO,554,o99.
If We applied the British tax rate and excise sys-
tem we should be able to raise between 900
and s3OO0OO0O00.
We need not follow Mr.. Revere in his ecstatc
prediction that this also would result in rehabilitation
of railroads, the opening of closed banks the
revival of manufacturing, and the coming of un-
paralleled boom in prosperity Our depression rests
upon more fundamental issues than prohibition and
a budget deficit.
Yet it is certain beyond peradventure that repeal
enormously would relieve federal financial pres
sure and allow very considerable reduction of dis
trict taxation. That this would have beneficial eco
nomic results far beyond federal financial circles is
obvious
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

stances which are not attracted by
the magnet and which may cause
great harm if they remain in the
eye.
Sooner or later, destruction occurs
around the foreign substance;
sometimes there is infection and
not infrequently complete loss of
vision.
Flying particles of hot steel are
usually sterile. However, when the
germs are not carried into the eye
with the foreign body, they some
times are brought to the eye by the
blood and localize in the spot which
has been damaged by irritation.
Eye injuries always must be re-
garded as serious until they are
completely healed
Any such injury which does not
respond Immediately to treatment
should be taken to your physician
for treatment.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A CAPTAIN in the aviation corps argues that while
IA we spend $90OO0OO0 for battleshipS, we might
invest 81 900 in aircraft that could sink the entire
United States navy Then he Spoils his argument for
me with the usual military swagger, when he adds,
America must be supreme in the air. And the
American public will have to do its part to that
such a thing is possible"
This may be normal ambition but it is not
based on common or intelligent thought Why
should America be supreme in the air, the sea, on
the land, or anywhere else, for that matter?
1t would be and sensible for us to try to
keep peace with the rest of the world but the
Stunning ambition to be first in power has been the
downfall of many a man and many nation
1t is the ultimate mental disaster-thiS longing to
exceed in strength the brute force. If we should
strive for superiority in learning and wisdom and
righteousness that would be a different matter en-
tirey.
DUT the truth is that most people who shout for
- American might in arms are those who honestly
believe that we already have attained command of all
the spiritual excelenceS. Point out to them our
tional faults well virtues and you will get
a look that shouts Traitor"
Yet surely one of the relics of barbarism now in
midst is our present system of military training
in the schools And large share of the pap that
feeds this system is the propaganda about American
supremacy in the qualities of the mailed fist
1t is nothing at all to credit as an educated
and selfextolled peace loving people, that whereas
one school had military training century ago, 200
schools now it. This at least is the proud boast
of the mtariStS.
It's high time we were awake to such menace
Every country has its junkers who scream for ma
tional supremacy" When enough voices join the
chorus that nation is doomed. IA
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Views Of Times Readers

Editor Times-Will you please
permit former soldier of the
United States army forces, vino
served every day of the World war,
to express an opinion relative to
immediate payment of the adjusted
compensation granted veterans by
congress?
AS a result of our national leader
ship for the last three years, prac-
tically all former soldiers of the
World war find themselves in abb
ject poverty and dire need and at
least 98 per cent of all the veterans
want the adjusted compensation
paid now.
They feel that the rank and file
of the soldiers of the World war
we're double crossed and traded off
at the Detroit legion convention for
mass of Republican pottage,
largely due to the political efforts
of Theodore Roosevelt, General
Hines and other Republican poll
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Eye Injuries Need Best Of Care

It always is advisable to apply at
once to the injured eye a solution
of glycerite of tannic acid, which
neutralizes the burn and checks
the burrowing action of the caustic
soda.
DR.. Cross points out that there
still are people who look in the
end of a gun barrel to see if it
is loaded
These are the same people who
look into the end of a frozen COM
pressed air hose, who blow up water
pipes, and for whom the fool killer
is looking at all times.
The removal of a foreign sub
stance from the eyeball is a most
difficult process and one of which
only especially trained surgeons are
capable.
Use of the magnet is sometimes
helpful, but there are many sub
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Huge Magnets

EOUR laboratories, located in the
Il universities of California, Cam
bridge, Paris and Leyden, will use
intense cold in the attempt to pene-
trate the secrets of the atom.
The intense cold will be used in
connection with huge electro
magnets. These electro-magnets, as
large as an auto bus and weighing
fourteen tons, will be employed in
attempts to tear the atom apart by
magnetic pull. The cold is neces-
Sary to the operation of the magnet.
An electro-magnet is a coil of
wire wound around an iron core.
When an electric current passes
through the wire, the core becomes
magnet. The stronger the current.
the more powerful the magnet.
But as stronger and stronger cur
rents are used, a new clement en-
terS the picture. The passage of the
current through the coils of wire
generate heat. When extremely
powerful currents are used, the heat
becomes so great that the wire
melts.
The heat is generated by resis-
tance Of the molecules of the wire
to the passage of the electric cur
rent.
Experiments in the low tempera-
ture laboratory of the University of
Leyden, one of the worlds most
famous laboratories, revealed the
fact that at the temperature of
liquid helium, a temperature of 452
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. the
molecules of a ring of pure lead had
so little vibration that they offered
no resistance whatsoever to the pas
sage of an electric current.
AS a result of these experiments.
conducted by Professor Onnes, the
four huge electromagnetic have
been built.
They so are designed that LIQUID
helium is used to cool them. Con
Sequently, it will be possible to pass
currents through them which other
wise could not be used.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Tariff a BLIGHT

TINE United States was hopelesSly
Il out of line with the rest of
the world in 1923. Business and in
dustrial leaders were logical in de-
manding protection against foreign
competition Without an excessive
ly high tariff, this country would
have been flooded with foreign
goods.
Instead of adopting such tariff,
we should have lowered our price
levels, but human nature made that
well-nigh impossible. True to form,
we tried to save the bubble, re-
fusing to believe that it could not
be saved until it burst.
Now we are down where we could
compete with the rest of the world,
could rebuild our foreign trade, but
the tariff stands in the way.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Isolation Overdone

WE have carried the idea of
w splendid isolation to an ex-
treme that virtually paralyzes our
magnificent industrial structure. In
our craze to throttle the competi-
ton of foreign competitors, we have
driven them to throttle us.
The merchant fleet, from which
we hoped so much, is dying for lack
of freight. The markets on which
we depended for disposal of our
surplus are being closed, not from
necessity, but in retaliation.
The President and congress have
power to deal with this particular
source of trouble. There is no ex-
cuse for their failure to take cog
nizance of it, or do something
about it.
They can, if they will, adopt a
course which gradually would re-
open the doors of foreign trade and
give our producers and manufacA
turers a much better market thar.
is now available.