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The Washington times., 1932-08-20
FURLOUGH LIST
SCOPE NOW
EXTENSIVE
Vigorous Efforts Made to Aid
Workers Laid Off by
Departments

Further details of the C. fur
Tough list which the Civil
Service is establishing, in the
interest of Federal employees
who fell victims to the econ
omy acts two kinds Of fur
loughs, were made public this
week by Secretary E. Claude
Babcock, of the commission.
The plan contains these pro,
visions:
/. The list will include the fol
lowing employees with perma-
nent classified status: Those fur
loughed three months or more;
those to be dropped for reduc.
ton of force within three
months; those furloughed three
months or more; those who have
been dropped for reduction of
force within one year. These
latter to be removed from fur
Tough list one year from date Of
separation if not sooner ap-
pointed.
Cite Precedence
2. Persons separated from the
service by reduction of force
will not be eligible for re-employ-
ment so long as there are names
on the list of persons who are
still in the service or on fur
lough.
3. Both permanent and tenn
porary positions will be filled
from the list.
4. There will be no reinstate-
ments, or certifying from a cur
rent register, for filling
vacancy anywhere if the fur
Tough list has eligible persons.
5. The furlough list will not
interfere with individual trans
fers by departments, nor with
the recall of furloughed EN-.
ployes to their former positions,
List Is Open
6. All employees who are dec
Jared surplus, furloughed or drop
ped for reduction of force, who
are unqualifiedly recommended
for further employment. may ap.
ply for a place on the list.
7. Departmental heads may
make appointments for vacan-
cies directly from the list, and
if employees chosen are still on
the rolls, though inactive, of
other departments, their former
connections can be severed.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Doctors Testimony
Frees Defendant

Charged with driving while
under the influence of liquor,
Lloyd L. Britt. 1915 N st. N. W.,
was cleared when tried in Police
Court at Upper Marlboro yester-
day.
Britt. arrested by Maryland
State Policeman H. S. Eckhart,
was dismissed after a physician
testified that he was sober shortly
after the arrest.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Society Elite View World Premiere of
Marion Dauies in "Blondie"

} counselor Legation of Venezuela; ;
Hubert de Wichfield, counselor
Legation of Denmark; Dantes
Bellegarde. minister of Haiti;
Senior DR.. Don Fabio Lozano, min
lister of Colombia; Hume Wrong,
counselor Legation of Canada;
Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha, minis
ter of Egypt; Waguih Rostum,
second secretary Legation of
Egypt; Senor Don Luis o. Abelli,
minister of Bolivia; Luang Mira
darn, third secretary Legation of
Siam; Senor DR.. Horaclo F. Al
faro, minister of Panama.
Senor Don Juan B. Chevalier,
secretary Legation of Panama;
DR.. Hawking Yen, counselor Le-
cation of China; Yadollah AZodi,
charge d'affaires Legation Of Per
sia; Senor DR.. Don Luis Manuel
Debayle, charge d'affaires Lega-
ton of Nicaragua; senor Don
Manuel Gonzalez-Zeledon, coun'
selor and charge d'affaires Lega.
ton of Costa Rica; DR.. L. H.
Reichelderfer, president Board of
Commissioners; Maj. Gen. Her
bert D. Crosby, Commissioner;
Major John C. Gotwals, Engineer
Commissioner; Major Daniel Don
ovan, Auditor; Gustav Weidel,
commercial counselor Legation of
Sweden.
Mr.. Archibald Wells, Major and
Mrs. Parker West, Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Whitten, Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, Maj. Gen. Blanton Win
ship, Roy D. Chaplin, Secretary Of
Commerce; Mrs. Borden Harri-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hen
ming. Mr.. John j. Hamilton, Col.
and Mrs. Frank Andrews, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Ash, Mr.. Lawrence
Baker, Mr.. Arthur Ballantine, AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury;
Senator and Mrs. Alben Barkley,
Miss Laura Barkley, DR.. and Mrs.
Montgomery Blair, Mr.. and Mrs.
George H. Calvert.
X II
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall EXni-
cious, DR.. and Mrs. Victor Alfaro,
Mrs. Mark Reid Yates. Mrs. Camp
bell Pritchett, Mr.. Justice Nc
Reynolds, Miss Rooney, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Titus, Mr.. and Mrs.
Beverly Coleman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Condor, Mrs. Will S. Cul-
bertSon, Mr., Robert Stead, Mr..
Manning Stet-d, Mr.. and 1rs.
Charles P. Stone, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Taliaferro, Col. and Mrs.
George Thorpe, Mr.. T. A. Scott
Thropp, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman, Miss Laura T. Tucker
man, Mrs. George Tyner, Mrs.
Arthur Macarthur, Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Guy Henry, Mr.. Page Hufty
and Mr.. and Mrs. Alfons Landa.
Mrs. Sylvia Kaufman, Mobile
Giacomo de Martino, Ambassador
of Italy; Comdr. Ferdinando
Casardi, naval attache, Italian
Embassy; 1t. Col. Marco Penna-
roll, military attache. Italian En-
bassy; Senor Don GonZalo Guell,
second secretary, Cuban Embassy;
Mr.. Jules Henry, counselor of
French Embassy; Capt. Camille
Husson, naval attache. French
Embassy; Mr.. Raymond Bous-
quet, second secretary. French
Embassy; Engr. 1t. Marcel LIE
Mignon, assistant naval attache.
French Embassy. and Nine. LIE
Mignon; Mr.. Jacques Paris, third
secretary, French Embassy; Mr..
Ahmet Muhtar, Ambassador Of
Turkey, and Comdr. Paolo Sher
nadori, air att&che, Italian En-
bassy.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
P POLITICS BAR
EXTENDED

The civil service regulation -or-
bidding employees in the competl
tive classified service from ergag-
ing in political activities during
the campaign applies also to per
sons appointed to such posts By
presidential or other high author,
ity. the Civil Service Commission
stated this week.
There are some ways in which
the civil service rules can be
waived in appointment Of specially
qualified or other persons to posi-
tions usually filled by competitive
examination.
The question arose this week
whether a woman thus appointed
was restrained, as were other
Government employees, from po.
litical work.
The commissions informal
opinion held that, no matter how
she was appointed, she is Fed
eral employe now and is bound by
all rules.
The ruling affects many Gov
ernment workers in various de-
partments. The Civil Service
Commission, charged with main
tanning the purity of the merit
system operation, pointed out
that it's restrictions on political
activities would be enforced to
the letter.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
EPWORTH LEAGUE

Robert Cuff, of Ashton, will
lead the meeting of the Ashton
Epworth League at its meeting
tomorrow. night at the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
HOUSE MOVER
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Licensed Contractor and Builder
Move AnythinR-Stons. Frame or Brick
BuildinRa All Work Guaranteed
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The Washington times., 1932-08-20
MILLWORK

DAVIS d EDMONsToN
Store and Office Fixtures, Millvork
Wood Turning. Stair Work. Cabinet Work
81 B ST. S. W. S&tional b53o
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
HOSPITALS

DOWLTNG7s PRIVATE EYE HosPTTAL
DR.. Jas. c. DowIing. Medical Director
Medical and Surgical Service
18th b Yop SITS. N w North 1Ol6
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
MINSTREL SHOW

Washington Grove residents
will stage an old-fashioned min
strel show tonight.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
MILLWORK

LAYTON WOODWORKING co. INC.
Mfgs. Of High Grade Ca hinets & MiIlwork
Sash. Doors. Blinds. Wood. d.Interior Finish
21na Ga. Ave pot. $3.50 Might DE 2406
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Famine in Russia.

Official admission is forthcoming in
Russia that the f1ve-year plan for high
pressure agricultural produce has precip-
itated disastrous results in the wheat
area. In part of the Volga Basin and
other eastern districts there is a serious
crop failure, and Stain has decreed the
urgent dispatch of about million tons
Of grain to regions which face famine.
While natural causes were to certain
extent responsible for the harvest short
age, the ruthless vigor with which the
Soviet authorities raided the agrarian
sections for export wheat is revealed as
the main cause of distress.
The five-year plan calls for the pro-
duction and delivery to the state of GER
tain estimated amounts, which the
moujikS on the land must hand over
under dire penalty. The volume of
wheat available having been grossly
exaggerated by the Moscow authorities,
grain was demanded regardless of the
amounts necessary to be retained for
local consumption or for seed. Here
and there resistance was offered on the
ground that hunger would result from
excessive deliveries, but the Soviet's
ukase admits of no escape. Now, when
1t is too late, 1t Is realized that des-
perate measures are necessary If hunger
Is not to stalk through wide areas of
the grain belt and enormous acreage
left uncultivated this year. Conditions
are threatened not unlike those to which
the American Relief Administration,
under Herbert Hoover's direction, minis
tered ten years ago.
Russian land planted with wheat has
increased in extent under the fve-year
plan, but the increase has not kept pace
with the growth of the population to
be fed. The yield falls far short of
surplus sufficient to furnish the huge
quantities the Soviet desires to export.
Stains relentless endeavor is to sell
abroad as much as possible, leaving the
peasant the barest minimum for sub
Sistence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

today probably don't even know that
such a publication ever existed. But
ardent prohibitionists, blue-law en-
thusiasts and white-sleeve crusaders
ought to put up monument or some
thing. For the Police Gazette was
founded to war against vice. From
l845 to 1876 it attacked the under
world and crooked politics at every
turn"
Most of the barber shops have re-
manned loyal" attests the Cincinnati
Times-Star, but the loss of the bar
room circulation was a severe blow. At
its best it has been a valuable source
OF Americana, and two recent books
OF popular history have been compiled
from its pink archives. At it's worst it
has been more decorous than a dozen
magazines that now leer at paSsersby
from sidewalk stalls"
The Gazette has never been an
organ OF respectability," states the
Newark Evening News. yet there is
about it a lustiness, a fulI.blooded zest
for life that. over the years, has con-
tributed something to periodic litera-
ture. It's illustrators were at
their best in the days when villains
were Enthusiastically villainous, twirling
handlebar mustaches, and the ladies
of the demimonde were bedizened crea-
lures wearing overskirtS and things
above thick calves. Maulers were
training in the noble school of John
L. Sullivan and their champions wore
diamond belts and signed articles on
champa gne- bottle-strewn tables. Fox
himself always wore a silk hat with the
conventional diamond horseshoe scarf
pin, figure Of majesty"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Concentrating Great Men.

About the time the country was COM
memcrating the bicentenary Of George
birth British medical men
were clarifying the memory of DR..
Hunter, an eighteenth century surgeon
who b,azed important trails in the field
of biology and allied sciences. In the
annual Hunterian Grafton delivered be-
fore the Royal College CT Surgeons at
London DR.. Wilfred Trotter projected
the notion-not, of course, a new one
that nations err in waiting to honor
their eminent men and women until
they are long since gone. DR.. Trotter
would have mankind SAY 1t with
flowers" while its benefactors are still
eXtant and at the zenith of their use
fitness.
When We remember the difficulty OF
establishing and keeping alive the true
and unadulterated personality of the
dead" the London panegyriSt CT the
great Hunter said, I'VE must, think,
confess that the art Of ceremonial COM
memoration has to overcome obstacles
of very serious kind if it is to avoid
becoming increasingly formalized and
superficial 1t is possible that a future
and more realistic age may reach the
conclusion that the time to celebrate its
heroes is while they are alive, and not
to wait, with remarkable patience, until
they are safely dead. Such an age will
perhaps reason in its clear way that its
duty toward its great men is to get as
much out Of them as 1t can, and that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Giving the Wheat Away.

The decisive margin of votes by which
the House yesterday approved the joint
resolution to give away some of the
Farm Boards wheat-the vote being
344 to 2-dismisses all doubt as to the
ultimate enactment Of measure that
is certainly unique and which estab-
fishes an interesting precedent that may
or may not be DANCE: Gus.
But while this bill runs counter to
most of the sound principles on which
is rested opposition to direct govern
mental relief, there is, paradoxically, no
coed reason why the bill should not be
enacted For if there is a mistaken
theory of governmental responsibility
here represented, the mistake was made
long ago in the original Farm Board
legislation and not in giving away the
wheat. What the Government does now
with the surplus amassed through that
legislation does not make a great deal
of difference, and under the circum-
stances and under present conditions the
giving away Of this wheat Is much more
logical than such alternative DISPOSE
ton as, for instance, dumping it in the
ocean.
The Sterilization Corporation Of the
Federal Farm Board has on hand some
155 100000 bushels of wheat. 1t costs
something like Is cents bushel year
to store this wheat. Under the House
resolution passed yesterday the Farm
Board is to give the American Red
Cross 100000 bushels, which the
American Red Cross or its agents can
distribute as bread, flour or feed for
stock, provided the distribution can
be made at no expense to the Gov
an exchange Of wheat for -four, or flour
for bread, or through altruiStic CO.
operation from the millers, the bakers
and the railroads, the Red Cross will
be able to distribute the wheat or wheat
products to those who need it most. 1t
has been pointed out that the Farm
Board has announced the policy Of not
selling more than 100000 bushels of
wheat month, and at that rate of
disposing Of the surplus the cost of
storing the 100000 bushels now to
be given away would more than offset
the original cost of the wheat. Civ
ing it away through the Red Cross is a
reasonable proposal that saves money
in the long run.
The most logical objection to the
legislation comes from the Farm Board
and the objection is based wholly on
the practical fact that this bill gives
away the wheat without paying the
Farm Board. The wheat will cost the
Farm Board $14,OOO, 900, to be paid out
Of its working balance, reducing this
working balance to s35,0Oo,O out of
the $500,000,000 revolving fund origi-
nally furnished it to relieve agricul-
ture" The trouble with the Farm
Boards revolving fund, however, has
been the difficulty of making it revolve.
Having kissed so many millions good-by,
Congress refuses to shed tears at bid
ding farewell to a few more paltry
millions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

A correspondent tells us that the
buds" on the japanese cherry trees
are showing green and that they are
about a month ahead of last year.
No doubt he means the leaf buds.
Surely every gardener will feel that the
season is that much advanced. He will
hope it is, at any rate.
Not even the Winter enthusiasts can
have any special regard for the present
its occasional throwbacks to cold
weather and its immediate warnings up.
Such a Winter Is no Winter at all.
Spring will be great deal better.
One of the good features to growing
older land this merely means from IS
years old and up) is that one appreci-
ates Springtime more.
In youth, of the typical sort written
and sung so much about, no one ever
stops to contemplate the greening grass
and the fresh green of Shrubbery, eX-
cept when teacher points them out.
Such things. in youth. are a part of
education, and, unfortunately, nothing
which is a part of education" is inter-
estirg. At least, that was the way a
great many boys and girls felt about it,
Maybe they still do; We don't know.
One has to be getting along" as they
say, before he is inclined to stop of his
own accord and notice the beauty of
Springs burgeoning.
4 4
It is the color green, in the last analy-
sis. which makes Spring what it is in
the eye and heart OF mankind.
Green is natures great primary color.
Everything else goes back to it or comes
into being by reason of contrast to it.
Green is dominant, from the paler
shades to the darker, from fainteSt
pea green" to darkest bottle green or
shutter or bronze green.
There is a satisfactory green for every
taste. Moss green, for instance, is one
of the finest of all green's if it does not
have too much yellow in it, The in
trusion of yellow, beyond the proper
point is the surest way to spoil any
good green.
That is one reason why many do not
like the variety Of privet which is golden
in foliage. One is Solemnly assured
that few of these bushes, pMed as
accents" will do much to enhG re
ward but the truth is, as most feople
sec it, that they do nothing but make
a small place look silly.
If one wants yellow, it should be Sc
cured in one or more of the many flow
ers with yellow blossoms. The range is
wide. There is no sense in accepting
one of these off-color plants.
X
Leaves of all kinds should be green,
the greener the better, most gardeners
will feel
Nature has dedicated the color we
call green to the leaf system Of all her
plants large and small, from butter
CUPS to oak trees.
The chloroph1, or green coloring sub
stance in the leaves, is really the life
work of the leaves.
Green is Natures sign.
The fashioned city dweller. the
smart dude" of the so-called gay COS.
pleased his own sense Of the clever and
the ridiculous by calling the man from
the country "greenhorn' or branding
him green as grass"
Well, if the countryman is green, he
is quite in style with Natures eternal
effort to clothe the world with beauty,
or what strikes the eye Of man as
beauty.
The question will remain, Of course,
whether we think green is beautiful be-
cause it is natural to our eyes or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

country at the Centennial Exhibition in
Philadelphia in 1876.
x X
Though the presidential yacht May
flower is no more, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover
are not destitute of yachting facilities.
The Department of Commerce motor
ship Sequia has been converted into an
elegantly appointed cruising craft. Pur-
chased from private owners. the Sequia
has been fitted with six cabins finished
in mahogany and redwood, with dining
salon and all the other equipment of a
pleasure yacht. Mrs Hoover is now
using the yacht for cruise in South
ern waters. When she returns, the
Sequia will be tied up at the Wash
ington Navy Yard, where the Mayfower
used to berth, and placed at the dis
poSal Of the White House.
The scene was the House Judiciary
Committee, the subject the anti-in-
junction bill, the atmosphere dry, the
argument profound. James A Emery,
counsel for the National ManufactIu-
ers' Association, and Donald A. Rich
burg, representing organized labor
were engaged in a legal tilt. Judge
Emery to make his legal point cited
the Volstead act. With the mention
OF that famous statute, Chairman
Summers of Texas, presiding, raped
the table sharply with the gavel. The
committee will stand in recess for two
minutes" he said The chairman left
the room and counsel and spectators
were nonplussed. Soon he returned
and called the committee again to or
Ger, and, announcing that the hearing
would proceed, he remarked, The ref
erence of eminent counsel to the Vol
stead act served to remind me that it
was time for me to take my mid-fore-
noon glass Of buttermilk."
X
The State Department is watching
with the closest scrutiny political de-
velopments in Japan as bearing on her
future course of conduct in China. The
japanese elections on February 20 re-
suited in an Overwhelming victory for
the Setyukai (government party. COM
pletely reversing the previous majority
ncId by the Minseito party in the Diet,
ana indicating popular support for the
governments policy in China. Final
returns gave 304 seats to the Seiyukai,
lat to the Minseito, to the Probe
tarlanS and 10 to other parties. De-
spite the Seiyukai landslide, reports
from Toxic indicated that the serious
check at Shanghai might require the
formation OF new national govern
ment.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Baby Bonds May Relieve
The Economic Pressure

To the Editor OF The Star:
Thirty-eight years ago a Democratic
President faced an alarming shrinkage
of the gold reserve. Today our Repub
lican President faces a people who are
boarding their savings que to lack OF
confidence. Cleveland put the reserve
back on a solid basis by bond issue;
Hoover hopes to cure boarding by the
same means. The Democratic Executive
had as advisers ShreWd bankers pri-
marily concerned about their own in
terests; the Republican has likewise
shreWd money men, but we have reason
to believe that they hold the interests
Of the Nation as paramount. Cleveland
made a leap in the DARK; Hoover has
eXperience-hiS own and that of others
to back him up.
Cleveland made the fatal error of
playing into the hands OF the bankers.
Fifty millions in 5 per cent bonds were
thrown on the market in two issues,
both OF which were immediately taken
in by the banking interests. The third
issue was for $65, 100000 in per cent
bonds. The Government sold them to
the bankers for 1O4l2 and the bankers
put the bonds on the market for 1924,
and, to the surprise of all. the amount
was overSubScribed in a few hours. A
storm of protest arose over this seeming
COLLISION of Government and the money
interests.
In his fourth and final issue Cleve-
land did what he should have done at
first. He put on the market SI00, 900 600
of per cent bonds, which were sold to
the people direct and went for an av-
erage of Ill.
The provisions of the Hoover bond
issue all seem to be good. The bonds
are going for 2 per cent-so as not to
attract money away from the banks
The issue will be one of "baby''
bonds-for $50, 500 and 5000 as to
draw out and put into circulation the
money of the little men. And the
amount will be unlimited-bonds will be
printed as long as there is a demand
for them. The last seems to be psy-
Geological
Despite the difficulties under which
he labored, Cleveland had the satisfac-
ton of knowing that the gold reserve
was stabilized-that. despite his errors,
he had succeeded. Hoover. working un-
der much more ideal conditions will
probably succeed in releasing the bill
lion and half.
But will such release cure the de
preston? This much We can say: The
bond issue will restore confidence. and
if our economists are right In saving
that lack of confidence Is at the base
of the depression, the latter will go
when confidence returns We look for
ward with interest to March 7.
GERALD SCHNEPP.