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Evening star., 1932-01-30
RESIDENCES LEAD
NEW D. c. BUILDING
Specifications Approved for
Construction of II Dwell
ings Last Week.

Specifications for the construction In
| Washington of IT private dwellings
were approved during the past week by
Col. John w. Oehmann, building in
| spector.
The projects constituted the most of
the list Of new private building opera
| tions here as well as the major part
of the total cost Of new work, which
was estimated at approximately S120,-
900. This figure was lower than the
volume for many weeks past.
Permits Issued.
Permits were issued for the follow
ing new private undertakings:
w. G. Irwin, owner and builder;
George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect four 2-story brick dwellings, 5623
| to 5629 Kansas avenue, to cost $25 900.
]. B. Tiffey owner and builder;
! George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect four 2-story brick dwellings, 315
| to 32l Ingraham street, to cost $4,000.
j. E. Fox, owner and builder; Paul
F. Fox, designer: to erect three 2-Story
brick and tile dwellings, 4510 to ASIA
South Dakota avenue northeast, to cost
$4,000.
Edwin L. and Lois B. Taylor and
Roscoe L. Wood, owners, designers and
builders: to erect one 2-story stone and
| tile dwelling, 2750 Brandywine street. to
cost $4,000.
M B. Brosius, owner and builder;
F. G. Wilcox, designer; to erect one
213- story masonry dwelling, 2915 Rit-
tenhouse street, to cost $500.
c. w. McKendrie, owner and builder;
| George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect one a-story brick dwelling, 3617
| fn
Others Approved.
Loren M. and Joseph A. Herbert jr.,
| owners and builders; George T. SAINT
myers, architect; to erect one 2-story
brick and frame dwelling, Alb Asbury
! place, to cost $1,000.
Edgar L. and Clarence V. Warder,
owners; w. D. Sours, designer and
builder; to erect one 2-story brick and
| frame dwelling, 22l7 Franklin street
northeast, to cost $500
William z. Bowie, owner; Ebert
Zirkle, designer and builder; to erect
one 1-Story concrete block and brick
dwelling, 2609 Wade road southeast, to
cost $3,50O
Grace Nicholson, owner; j. E. De
| Muth, designer; r. J. De Muth builder
to erect one 1-story brick studio 1900
Dela1leId place, 10 cost S3OUU.
Judd & Detweiler, Inc, owners;
Skinker & Garrett builders; to make
repairs, 1870 Florida avenue northeast,
to cost S2500.
Richard T. Cornwell owner and
builder; to make repairs, 1922 L street,
to cost Sl,50O.
Family Shoe Store, owners; M
Cladny Construction Co.. builders; to
make repairs, 312 Seventh street, to
cost 1000.
Evening star., 1932-01-30
COUNCIL APPROVES
IS D. G.. DWELLINGS
Architects Advisory Group 0. K S
Designs for New
Residences.

The designs drawn for IS dwellings to
be erected in the District have been
approved as meeting the standards
which should be maintained for private
buildings in the neighborhoodS by the
Architects Advisory Council. volunteer
jury sponsored by the Washington
Chapter, American Institute of Archi-
tectS.
These plans are for a dwelling for
1345 Kalmia street, Henry j. C0nnor,
designer and owner; dwellings for 1904
Piney Branch road and 1856 Aspen street,
designed by Charles E. Dillon for Or
vile Rice; dwelling for 1871 Holly
street, designed by Dillon for L. E.
Prince; dwelling for 3515 Thirtysixth
street, designed by L. Harris for Shir-
ley Stephens; two dwellings for 1900
FeSsenden street, designed by H. w.
Gaines for P N. Butt; dwelling for
1921 Fourteenth street, designed by H.
L. Breuninger for L. E. Breuninger g.
Sons.
Dwelling for 5811 Asbury place, de-
signed by George T. SantmyerS for Jo-
seph A. Herbert, jr.; two dwellings for
1439 and 1443 Juniper street, designed
by c. E. Dillon for F. P Williams
dwelling for 1886 oliver street, designed
by George S. White for Harry c. Wood
ward; dwelling for $3.50 Quesada street,
designed by j. w Kearny for Floyd O.
Miller; dwelling for 1927 Myrtle avenue
northeast, designed by A. c. Tolson for
Tolson, Kemp & Nix, and dwelling for
1851 F street northeast, designed by
Santmyers for Mrs. James See.
The council also approved plans for
store for 1915 Fourth street north
east, designed by Edward L. Bullock,
j., for Charles H. Tompkins; for an
apartment house for 5521 Colorado ave-
nue., designed by Santmyers for the
Webster Construction Co., and for two
duplex apartments for 4l06 Kansas ave-
nue., designed by William Harris for
Harry Himelfarb.
Evening star., 1932-01-30
SHOREHAM BUILDING
LEASES 1903 ROOMS
Many Suites in New Office Struc-
ture Are Let to Legal
Firms.

The leasing of approximately 108
rooms in the Shoreham Building, Fiji
teenth and H streets, during recent
weeks, a number of the transactions
involving large suites, is reported today
by the Office of McKeever g. Goss.
A suite consisting of % rooms, sub
divided to meet requirements of the
tenants, and including reception
room and three others which have been
wainscoted in walnut panels, has been
leased by the firm of Hamel, Park g.
Saunders, lawyers, headed by Charles
D. Hamel, former chairman of the
Board of Tax Appeals. Possession is
to be taken Monday.
Another suite, consisting of IS rooms.
has been leased by the firm of Slemp &
Titus, lawyers, headed by by c. Bascom
Slemp, formerly secretary to President
Coolidge, and Louis Titus.
A suite of Is rooms on the fifth floor
of the Shoreham Building has been
taken by the patent law firm of Bacon
& Thomas, Charles M. Thomas and
Francis D. Thomas. These quarters
now are being built to suit require
ments.
The firm of Doyle & Ross, headed
by Richard S. Doyle and William w
Ross, lawyers, has leased a Groom
suite on the eighth floor. These quar-
ters also include a paneled reception
room.
Evening star., 1932-01-30
In addition to Ed,cord NJ. Willis These Washington
Builders Also Modernze Their Homes With Gas:

edy-Chamberlin Develop.
ment Co.
McKeever and Goss
C. F. Mikkelson & Son
W. c. & A. n. Miller
Frederick B. Mills
C. W. Morris & Son
A. T. Newbold
Newbold, Candy & De Neale
Henry ]. Robb, Inc.
Fred Schnider
Shapiro Construction Co.
Joseph NJ. Stanley
Chas. L. Tankersley
Waverly Taylor
John B. Tiffey
Triangle Realty Company
Waple & James
Wakefield, Inc.
NJ. & r. B. Warren
c. NJ. Wilcox
C. ". Williams
P. H. Willis Realty Co.
Young & Oppenheimer
Earl Warren
Walter Vaughn
Evening star., 1932-01-30
PLAN PACKING PLANT
Permit Asked for New $15, 1000
Structure in Southwest.

Plans for the construction of four
story steel and concrete packing plant
for the N. Auth Provision Co., owners
and builders. at 623 D street southwest,
have been filed with the District gov
ernment with an application for build
ing permit.
The cost Is estimated at $4,000.
Evening star., 1932-01-30

G.. L. Bennett
L. E. Breuninger & Son
Boss & Phelps
Breuninger & Phifer
Edison W. Briggs, Inc.
Cafritz Construction Co.
Capital View Realty Co.
Casey Engineering Company
Columbia Construction Company
Henry ]. Connor
Cooley Bros.
D. ]. Dunigan, Inc.
Federal Construction Co.
Thos. ]. Fischer Co.
]. F. Fox
C. H. Gaskins
VIM. d. Goodman
Clarence W. Gosnell
B. H. Gruver
Harvard Terrace Development Co.
Fred ". Horton
VIM. A. Hill Co.
H. p. Huddleson
Independent Investment Co.
Jacobson Bros.
Thos. a. Jameson
Randolph L. Jennings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02

things no longer can be hidden
away.
What revelations we are get
ting today about everything and
everybody. Think of the myths
now exploded, the conceits pune
tured, the cowardice made plain.
THINK of the gigantic defaI-
Il cations of Ivar Kreuger, so
long deemed wizard in the realm
of finance. He was held to be a
master mind, whose operations
could not be understood by COM
mon folk, to whom genius is a
mystery. But the low tide showed
him to be falsif1er of facts, a
forger, a juggler with assets.
Oh, ebb tide is terrible ex-
perience, in its exposure of rot
tenness and sham and shame; but
it is good for us, despite deficits,
hard struggle, and poverty.
It shows that we were not as
far along as we had imagined,
and that the old virtues of hon
esty, fair-dealing, thrift, and the
spiritual values which we had for
gotten, are not out of date. 1t
shows, too, that religion must be
a thing Of every day. not a mere
profession, but performance.
COPYRIGHT 1892. United Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
BRITAIN'S DEBT PLEA

Great Brftain's note presents & strong for
war debt revision. It's case for postponement of
the Dec. IS payment, pending negotiations, is less
effective; but this is secondary to the main issue.
The British argument for revision follows the
line made familiar by previous discussions It asserts
l. Britain not afford to pay.
2. America can not afford to accept payment.
The first proposition is only partly true If
Britain would reduce her heavy armament expendi-
lures, which in turn force the United States to keep
up costly navy not afford, her financial
plight would be much less serious than it undoubted-
ly is today.
The chief weakness of the British note is that
It fails to link the related problems of debt arms
reduction Possibility of inducing congress to ratify
debt revision is virtually nil unless these twin
issues are connected definitely.
With the general argument that the United
States can not afford to collect war debts in full,
there is no disagreement on the part of any repu-
table economic expert, SO far as we know. Payment
in gold obviously is impossible without further col
lapse of foreign exchanges; without choking the
United States with too much gold, and beggaring
the debtors with too little, without destroying the
few foreign markets left for our surplus products,
and without thus increasing world depression in
general and American depression in particular.
Full payment in goods or services-the only re-
naming method of really paying foreign debts-is
not possible, because cur high tariff walls shut out
such imports. At BEST moderate tariff reduction
would permit only partial debt payment for full
payment would involve a degree of dumping of
foreign goods here which would increase American
unemployment.
But, apart from academic considerations, it is
practical fact that no sufficient American tariff
duction or world tariff reduction is in sight to
justify postponement of the immediate debt problem.
Indeed, the British note in effect threatens
further British tariff increase, an added blow to
American producers including farmers, as a way
of attempting a favorable trade balance with which
to pay our debt if we force her to pay.
Because full debt payment would deepen Amer
lean and world depression, in which we would lose
more than we would collect and because in the
funding settlements unjustly Disseminated
against Britain, our best customer by granting her
only 20 per cent reduction compared with the 80
per cent cut afforded Italy, for example, congress
should revive the debt commission to consider Great
Brtain's plea.
But the debt commission should be instructed
to negotiate only if the debtor is willing to discuss
specific joint armament reduction as a related and
larger problem in restoring prosperity.
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END THE INQUISITION
something should be done about the deport.

Something should be done about the deportation
scandals
A measure framed by the authors of the Wick
ersham commission report, is ready for submission
to congress this winter. In line with the commits
sions recommendation the Dill strips the secretary
of labor of his present autocratic powers the
lives and liberties Of aliens
board is created to which aliens could appeal
from the virtual one-nan decisions under which they
now are banished, unless they afford expensive
court action These edicts often what the
Wickersham commission called unconstitutional.
tyrannical and oppressive"
"It is doubtful" said the commission than
a year ago, IF anywhere in the entire system of
Anglo Saxon jurisprudence are government officials
given similar unfetered rights of private inquiry,
or is the exercise of government power often
characterized by violations Of fairness and decency.
The recent scandals in Buffalo, the shameful
alien roundups in New York, San Francisco and
other cities the pathetic of separated families,
the attempts to send radical aliens back to China or
Italy where certain death awaits are evils that cry
out for reform
Congress should welcome this opportunity to end
the American nquisition"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
MEN AND MACHINES

When in the middle of the eighteenth century
the first of the industrial revolutions machines
began throwing men out of jobs, the workmen
wrecked their new enemies. Today, when machines
are throwing men into the breadlines> by the mil
lions, worEmen demand saner remedy, one to make
machines befriend them They demand the shorter
work period
Nothing so reveals the tragic menace of "tech-
biological unemployment the new militancy OF
William Green, president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, as voiced in his Cincinnati speech.
Green and his executive council represent la
boris conservative element When he threatens
force if necessary, to achieve the thirty~hour week.
the situation has become serious
Today 1000 with modern machines could
harvest the entire United States wheat CROP CEN
fury ago this job took 100000 men,
Today one make as many needles in
a day as 1900 men could make century ago.
Today one man can produce 100000 bricks day,
compared with the daily output Of $50 bricks to a
man century ago; today 100 men with machines
can produce all the bricks used in the United Staes
Today one man can produce 10000 barrels of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
THE HIGH COST OF DEFENSE

When congress tackles the problem of reducing
the cost of the federal government, it ought to
remember that the situation calls for something like
a major operation Minor economies can not do
much for What is needed is something far
reaching and drastic.
We heard for instance, a good deal of talk of
the savings that could be made by aboishing gov
eminent bureaus. But if every independent COM
mission and bureau in Washington except the
Veterans bureau were abolished outright, only
little more than $54OOOOO0 would be saved.
The army and navy together cost around $780,
100000 year 1t is impossible to avoid the con-
clusion that the cost of government is to be sub
stantially reduced, good, healthy slice must come
out of the appropriations for national defense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
CHRISTMAS SEALS

Nothing better demonstrates the power of col
lective will to combat evil than the quarter century
dght which American anti-tuberculosis crusaders
have waged against the great white plague.
In 1904, out of every 100000 Americans, POI died
from tuberculosis. Despite and two depres-
sions its ravages have been decreased SO greatly that
last year its deaths only Ct per 100000. This
one-tme No. killer has been pushed to fifth place
among fatal diseases.
But some 10000 persons still die yearly from tu-
berculoss; 100000 are constant sufferers Some
two and one-half years are cut from the average
life expectancy and at least $31 900 annually
is lost in wealth producing energy from its presence
The poor the worst sufferers, and soon the
effects of the present depression will be noted Pub
lie health officials warn that the exposure malnu-
triton, hunger and worry of today will begin to show
their worst work in the tuberculosis mortality rates
Of about 1910.
The annual drive for Christmas Seals is on
Through the sale of these tiny little penny mes
Fengers of health, 1000 tuberculosis associa-
tions hope to fill their usual war chest
Their task this year will be exceedingly hard.
For the sake of todays and tomorrow's victims,
those who can should help to their utmost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02

and performing those duties
which go with robust manhood.
We disarm ourselves to prevent
crime, but only to be victimized
by armed criminals. We try pro-
hibition to prevent drunkenness,
but only to have bootleggers tempt
our children. With multitude of
statutes to stop the sale of
crooked stocks, we feel sufficient
ly safe to be bounced by any con-
fidence man.
A curious psychology has devel-
oped from all our organizing and
regulating, a psychology which
causes mass kindness to include
individual cruelty. We have de-
veloped all sorts of institutions
and agencies to take care of peo-
pie in distress, but let a person
fall or faint on the street and the
average crowd will do little to
help until the police or an ambu-
lance shows up.
That is not our true nature.
We are suppressing our better in
Stincts for the sake of efficiency,
as it is called, trying to be expert
when we want to be human.
That. more than anything else,
accounts for our inability to
break this stagnation of trade and
industry. If we only would be
ourselves, many of our troubles
and difficulties would disappear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02

-four day. in 1882 a miller was lucky to grind out
one barrel.
Today man can produce 1000 tons of pig
iron year; century ago he could have produced
only twenty-five tons
The magazine Fortune estimates that if all fac
tories, mills, and other plants Of America were to
resume production on the 1929 scale, they would
absorb few than half the present jobless There
would remain between 100000 and 100000 jobless
machine victims.
If these millions Of men are not to become
permanent charity wards industry must absorb them
by means of shorter work periods. And if industry
conserves its market, it must pay them good wages
Government can not coerce industry by means
of short-work-hour laws
But the government can create the La Toilette
national economic council to guide industry in
profitable production, adopt the Wagner plan for
a thirty-hour week for federal employees, and aid
in other ways.
The states can enforce worker security through
unemployment insurance laws and other constitu-
tional measures American industry as a whole, we
believe will find such reforms not only necessary,
but profitable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
SCIENCE
LeOnids' Fate Is Riddle
BY DAVID DIETz

A STRONOMERS must wait
IN until November of next year
for the answer to a perplexing
and interesting question, namely,
the fate of the Leonids.
The Leonids, as readers OF
course remember, constitute the
meteoric swarm expected to fur
nish shower Of shooting stars
on Nov. IA or the nights follow
ing.
Professional astronomers and
interested amateurs watched the
eastern sky between midnight and
sunrise in the hopes of the prom
ised spectacle during those days.
Cloudy weather in large por-
lions of the eastern United States
prevented observers from seeing
the sky. But where the weather
was clear, the show was disap-
pointing.
The meteors averaged only
few hundred a night whereas
thousands an hour had been ex-
pected.
The Leonids are great swarm
of meteoric material-particles OF
rock mostly the size of grains Of
sand and small pebbles-whichl
revolVe around the sun in great
orbit, one end of which is near
the planet Uranus.
Some material is scattered
throughout the whole orbit, but
most of it is concentrated in one
great swarm which takes thirty
three years to go around the sun.
The earth's orbit cuts across
that of the Leonids and so each
November when the earth crosses
through the orbit of the Leonids
there is a shower Of shooting
stars.
Usually it is quite small. But
in the past there was an unusual
" big shower every thirty-three
wears. This was when the main
swarm Of metecrs reached the
spot in the orbit where the earth
cut through.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
Every Day RELIGION
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

A HIGH school boy, who used to
L n sit in my church in Iowa
years ago, wrote me letter the
other day. He now is a preacher,
for which he holds me respon-
sible; but, he adds, you are not
to blame for my being a Presby-
terrain PREACHER did that my
self"
He sends me a sample sermon,
in which. he deals with the diff
ference between full tide and ebb
tide in the affairs of men.
When the tide is full, says my
boy friend, it throws a mantle of
forgetfulness over the rocks and
rubbish on the beach. 1t breathes
an air of amplitude and generos-
ity, and all is well. But when
the tide goes out, how revealing
it is! Rocks, logs, dead fish, bits
Of wreckage, all the litter of the
sea, mercifully hidden by high
tide, comes to light. It is an I'M
slightly and sordid scene.
Even so, today it is low tide in
the life Of the world, and we see
what the high tide of prosperity
covered up. 1t now is plain to all
that the period of plenty was also
a time of cupidity. .trickery,
stealth, deceit, instability and all
sorts of shortcomings, and these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
The Coming of the Real Mckee

NNAYOR MkEE will be here in five
A and hardly the
round the calphing evening
creon enough realize that the
company aaschlds should fall in at the end of the line
watched Mayor Mckee through inspection
70 me that he did with
Swank believe he the many wears to
make tour of the City's quarters o. he homeless
OF course don't Suppose
IMAM do that there anything
temporary shelters doctrinna indeed not to real
lie the necessity OF such stop-gap
once spent of a LODGING house
ooge ana on at occasion we'll this time
merely trpper,
1t is kept Clean and the
But have two specific criticisms manner in which New
York deals with homeless
All the shelters are concentrated the Manhattan
the part of Journey removed from n
for ~ -0N9A1s
1t should not be difficult to establish
e Guy Wnere the homeless could apply Transportation
Inr oeSunanon The Ware who undertakes ten
miles to cot and coffee cold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02
Thick as Sno1gfIakes

n ECORDS Of these unusual
n showers every thirty-three
years have been traced back for a
number /, of centuries. An excep-
tionally brilliant one occurred in
1888.
On the night Of Nov. II. 1888,
the sky was so full Of shooting
stars that at times they were as
thick as snowfiakes. Competent
observers estimated that they fell
at the rate of 10000 an hour.
Again in 1866 there was a bril-
liant shower, although it was not
as magnificent as the one in 1888.
Naturally astronomers watched
for one in 1899. But they were
disappointed. 1t failed to mate
rialiZe.
1t later was calculated by as
tronomers that the gravitational
pull of the planet Jupiter, and to
a lesser extent, that of Saturn and
Uranus, had pulled the swarm out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-02

Years ago, a physician named
O'Dwyer developed method for
permitting persons with diphthe-
ria to breathe when the mem
brane had developed to such point
that it INSTRUCTED the throat.
This method includes the use
of gold tubes, called intubation
tubes, which an expert can pass
through the throat and from the
throat into the larynx, or breath
ing tube, thus permitting the child
to breathe.
Use of such tubes requires ex-
pert knowledge: they are a most
valuable method in certain types
Of cases.
AS the condition improves I'M
der the use of suitable doses of
antitoxin, the membrane disap-
pears and the child usually coughs
up the tube and gets rid Of it.
In other instances, the physi-
clan easily removes the tube when
it no longer is needed.
Next-Susceptibility to diphthe-
ria