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The Washington times., 1932-10-22
JGnitOr Escapes
TipSy Driving Charge

John S. Brady, colored janitor
at the Park Savings Bank, was
freed on a drunken driving
charge by Judge J. Chew Sheriff
at Upper Marlboro yesterday. He
was fined SIS for driving with
inadequate brakes and reckless
driving.
Arrested after an accident, five
witnesses testified that the man
was drunk.
Thomas Trott, of Baltimore,
was fined $50 for reckless driv-
ing. Trott was arrested and
placed under $6.45 collateral
after an accident which occurred
in a heavy fog on the Grain
Highway.
The Washington times., 1932-10-22
RADIO.
SINGER, DEAD

Receiving a broken neck in an
automobile accident a month ago
near Winchester, Va, resulted in
the death of AL G. Hopkins, 43,
leader of the original Hill Billies,
veteran radio entertainers and
recording artists. He succumbed
late yesterday in Walter Reed
Hospital, where he was taken fol-
lowing the accident.
Hospital attendants believed his
condition was improving and
that he would recover, when a.
sudden change for the worse took
place.
The radio entertainer was mar
ried in August to the former Miss
Orion l.. Heitt, Of Capon Ridge,
West Va.
The Hill Billies Quartet, COM
posed Of the four Hopkins broth
ers, AL, Joe, John, and Elmer, had
been on the air since 1926. Dur
ing that same year they travelled
on the Keith circuit.
Besides the widow and the
three brothers, who all live in
Washington, Hopkins is survived
by another brother, William S.
Hopkins, Of Beckley, w. Va, and
two sisters, Miss Lucy E. Hopkins,
and Mrs. Agnes Black also OF this
city.
Hopkins was a native Of the
Blue Ridge Mountains in North
Carolina, and was born near
Boone. He had made his home
in Washington for the past 20
years. Burial will be held Mon
day in Arlington National
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1932-10-22
Euchdristic Film
On VieU Tomorrow

First presentation here of the
official film of the recent Inter
national Eucharistic Congress in
Dublin will take place tomorrow
evening in st. PaurS Auditorium,
Fifteenth and V StS. N. w. 1t
will be repeated Tuesday evening
In st. Stephens Auditorium and
again on Wednesday in the
Knights of Columbus Hall.
The Washington times., 1932-10-22
EOREEITS $1O1

Harry B. Sweeney, 800 block of
Portland st. S. E., forfeited $1O1
on charges of drunken and reck-
less driving in Police Court at
Upper Marlboro yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-10-22
FINED FOR CARRYING GUN

Charged with carrying con.
cealed weapons, Arthur Wade,
colored, of Charles county, pleaded
guilty in police court at Upper
Marlboro yesterday. He was
fined SIS.
The Washington times., 1932-10-22

LICENSED TO WE'D
Linwood Butler, 25, of Branch
Vile, and Florence Ford, 18, Of
BerWyn, were licensed to marry at
Upper Marlboro Yesterday.
Evening star., 1932-12-16
Mail and Merchant Marine.

The House, in its action on the Treas
ury and Post Office Departments appro-
priation bill, has wisely retained the
provisions for the transportation Of
foreign mail in American flag merchant
vessels. Annually, when this item of
appropriation Genes up for considera-
ton in the Congress, there is assault on
mail subsidies awarded by the Gov
ernment to American merchant vessels,
The money so expended, however, makes
it possible for the United States to have
an overseas merchant marine. That is
the long and the short of it. Either
the Government must continue to aid
these American ships through mail con-
tracts, or the Government must watch
the American merchant marine, engaged
in overseas trade, vanish from the seven
seas-as it vanished in the past, before
the World War. The only alternative
would be Government owned aQd
operated merchant marine, which would
be vastly more costly to the American
people than the present mail subsidies.
An adequate merchant marine is to
the United States an essential. It is
essential because America must have a
voice in the carrying of its foreign
trade unless it is to be in position to
be Disseminated against when occasion
arises. It is essential because fast and
large merchant vessels are vitally
needed as auxiliaries to the Navy in the
event Of war. When the World War
broke out in 1914 America was not
Evening star., 1932-12-16
Criticism of Clerks by
Members of Congress

To the Editor OF The Star:
At times when business conditions
are as at present and the Government
finances are in poor shape 1t IS the bad
bit of some members of Congress to
berate the Government clerks and to
present them in the role of public para
sites with nothing to do and paid plenty
for doing that. They are accused OF pur-
Joining from the public TILL money that
has been sweated from the American
taxpayer, and the degeneracy of the civil
service is painted with fervor worthy
Of a better cause It is doubtful that
the constituents of these members OF
Congress are in sympathy with the
statements made by them but it is be-
yond doubt that a whole lot OF their
argument IS just plain bunk.
There are loafers in every walk OF
life. There are loafers in the Govern
ment service aplenty- Cause why?
Some are Office kings and queens. Mem
bers Of Congress are friends OF others.
Some have winning ways and the rest
of them are so because. like some in
authority. they just can't help it.
Many of the civil service employees
selves by special training to be fit for
the jobs they hold and passed the neces-
cAdlIlllldllCiLo Ill OlQCl W
qualify them to occupy such positions.
Generally they do the work assigned to
them satisfactorily. The majority of
Government workers should be credited
with the honesty of their endeavors
and be respected accordingly.
In times past when the administra-
ton of affairs OF state changed hands,
and especially when a different political
party came into power experienced and
thoroughly capable supervisory offl-
cials have been made to step down to
make room for new people without
training. It is then when the ordinary
Government clerk proves his true worth.
end under his experienced and capable
management the public business is car
ried on without jar. But there are
some officials holding Office whom, on
account of their natural cleverness and
special fitness for their positions, it
would be good business sense to let
remain in charge during good be-
havior Just the same wise constituent
cies will repeatedly re-elect to Office
capable and valuable members of Con-
gress CHARLES j. SIMPSON.
Evening star., 1932-12-16

long in learning how helpless the coun-
try was without Its own overseas mer-
chant marine. And when the United
States itself became involved In the
war the country, with feverish haste
and at an expenditure Of billions Of
dollars, undertook to build up mer-
chant marine as q military and naval
auxiliary to the armed forces.
Following the World War the Con-
gress determined that never again
should the United States be permitted
to suffer as it had from lack Of an ade-
quate merchant marine. For time
the Government, through the United
States Shipping Board and its Fleet
Corporation and its agents, operated
the overseas American merchant fleet.
But the intent Of Congress was to
get the Government out Of the ship
ping business as speedily as possible.
With that end in view steps were taken
to make 1t possible for Americans to
compete in the foreign carrying trade
with other nations. These included
loans to Americans desiring to extend
the merchant marine and the so-called
mail subsidies. And now, in some
quarters in this country, there is de-
mand that this policy be discontinued
There could be no more foolish and
unpatriotic course. There could be no
course that would more delight the
foreign shipping nations. These COM
petitors OF the United States in the
carrying trade had come. before the
war, to look upon the business of car
rying American commerce as a vested
right. They still so look upon it, and
they have moved heaven and earth to
disparage American shipping and to
stir up resentment against it in this
country.
There are two reasons why Ameri-
can ships cannot compete on all fours
with those of foreign nations without.
some aid from the government. First,
ships cannot be constructed in Ameri-
can shipyards for as little money as
they can be constructed in foreign
yards. Second. under the laws Of the
United States and the higher standard
Of living set in this country. they can
not be operated as cheaply as can
foreign ships. And in addition to
these reasons for government aid In
vestigation has shown that foreign
governments have given many subsidies
to their merchant marines, and are
still giving them.
The appropriation for the transpor-
tation Of the foreign mails, as 1t Is
formally called in the appropriation
bill, has still to run the gantlet Of
the Senate committee and the Senate
itself. The total carried in the bill is
s35,000,000, Of which not to exceed
s7,o00,000 may be used for carrying
foreign mail by aircraft. The total is
small in comparison to the vast
benefits which the country receives from
merchant marine that, despite the
depression, has made rapid strides in
service.
Evening star., 1932-12-16
Tea and the D. Of c.

For one hundred and ffty-nine years
the dumping Of cargo of British tea
into the murky waters of Boston harbor
has been the legendary symbol OF the
American colonists' revolt against taxa
tion without representation. BY that
picturesque method Of evincing their
determination no longer to pay on tea
a tax levied without their consent the
damental act Of tyranny. Their pur-
pose was to show, in the language OF
the subsequent Declaration of Inde-
pendence, that governments are insti-
tuted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned"
No power vested in government out
strips in importance to the individual
citizen the power to impose taxes. When
the power is exercised without consent
of the taxpayer, it is no longer a lust"
power, in the sense laid down by the
Declaration of independence, and be-
comes tyranny. Against such tyranny,
the Boston tea party was meant to in
weigh and protest.
The five hundred thousand Amer
leans resident in the District OF
Columbia protest against the tax
tyranny Of which they are doomed to
be victims. They are subject to every
Federal tax for which other citizens
are liable, but, unlike those citizens
who are inhabitants of the States,
Washingtonians have no vote or voice
| in the imposition Of Federal taxation.
Disfranchised, politically ostracized,
Disseminated against like no other
community in the Union, they are
obliged to submit meekly, helplessly, to
whatever the Congress, in which they
are not represented, sees fit to lay
upon their backs. States with individ-
ually smaller populations than the
District Of Columbia, and whose con-
tributions to the Federal Treasury are
correspondingly and immeasurably
lower, each have two spokesmen in the
United States Senate and representa-
tiyes in the House commensurate with
their voting numbers. Only Washing
ton remains an impotent entity in the
Federal scheme. 1t is an unfair. an
unjust and an utterly indefensible state
of affairs
The fight to rectify so un-American
condition is decade-old 1t will 60 on.
Temporary setbacks, popular apathy
outside of the District of columbia can
not and will not arrest it. The cause is
too solidly rooted in the bedrock OF
fundamental American justice and fair
play. It's triumph may not be within
the realm of immediate accomplish
ment. But like truth itself, crushed
to earth" it will rise again and again
until the people Of the Republic, acting
through Congress on constitutional
amendment to enfranchise the Wash
ingtonian, and eventually through rat
flying action by the States, lift the
District of Columbia out of its present
humiliating disability to the self-re-
specting level of a sovereign COM
munity entitled and able to speak for
itself on Capitol Hill and in presiden-
tial elections.
Evening star., 1932-12-16

was voted down In turn. Remembering
the ong-drawn battle over this measure
at the last session Of Congress, the
members are apparently afraid that
once the appropriation bills are left
open to amendments affecting the en-
ployes, more time Fill be consumed
than Congress can afford at this short
session.
The question which probably interests
employees above everything else in the
economy bill is whether the furlough
will be continued or changed to
straight salary cut. Spokesman for the
employees are, correctly. opposed both
to the furlough and the salary cut. But
If one Of them is inevitable, and that
fact might as well be faced, there Is
considerable merit in the proposal to
abandon the so-called legislative fur
Tough In favor OF straight pay cut;
to re-establish the leave with pay and
to retain the so-called administrative
furlough for the use that can be made
Of it in saving jobs. The basis for
that argument is that, no matter what
the intentions of It's sponsors may
originally have been, the legislative
furlough has not saved jobs and has
merely been pay cut under another
name In one Of his decisions Con-
troller General McCarl ruled that If
the furlough was applied as a five-day
week plan, the salary deduction would
be one-eleventh, instead Of one-twelfth,
of annual pay, thus imposing an actual
penalty upon those who preferred the
five-day week. The Post Office Depart
ment. where 1t was hoped the furlough
would work to give part-time employ
ment to substitutes, has been unable,
generally speaking, to apply the fur
lough because of the decrease in volume
of business. It has generally failed
everywhere to spread work. In the
light Of that failure, it is question
whether its ponderous machinery
should not be scrapped. and along with
it the unnecessary hardships" which it
imposed and which have not been
removed.
Evening star., 1932-12-16
Sales Tax Strongly Upheld
AS Hoover Advises Support

least bothersome of taxes. and in the
main the least burdensome" The Wan
Street Journal points out that the rate
could be made low, so as to impose no
hardship. and vet the tax would be
substantial producer-that is what is
wanted in any taxing system" This
financial paper also holds that it comes
nearer than anything We have vet had
to answering the description Of a tax
levied on the principle OF capacity to
pay" The Port Huron Times Herald
makes comparison with the present
revenue bill in which special excises
are inequitable and discriminatory.
and have not yielded and do not prom
ise to yield anything like enough reve-
nue. for our needs" That paper con-
cludes: What the general sales tax
will co IS perhaps no less problematical,
but it will BE- likely 10 boost the Gov
ernmentS revenue to something like
the amount which will be needed" The
Lincoln State Journal says: The ex-
else tax has not been as productive as
expected. Its expansion to eliminate
injustice and discrimination would boil
ster revenues"
1T is the fairest possible way Of OBJ
ernment," declares the Fort Worth
Star-Te,egram, with the advice that IF
it could be carried to its ultima thule
of an income that could be properly di-
vided for county, State and National
Government cost it would be approach
ing the ideal" The San Francisco
Chronicle argues: Ultimately Congress
will have TO come to a sales tax. The
Secretary'S report on collections for the
last year clearly shows that the water
level has sunk very low in the income
tax well. 1t is useless to talk Of raising
the needed revenue by soaking the big
incomes. Leaving out all other con-
siderations. there are not enough big
incomes. What were the big incomes
are no longer so big, and there are now
far fewer of them
This Congress" in the opinion OF
the Appleton Post Crescent. did ex-
actly those things, BY way OF delay.
avoidance and extravaganza. to make
such tax probably unavoidable. And
the odd part of it is that many defeated
Congressman would have been reelected
had they not tenporized and compro-
missed and surrendered to expediency.
but boldly and intelligently pointed out
the right road to follow in order to
actually balance our skyrocketing
budget"
Evening star., 1932-12-16
No Words.

Men Is the most articulate OF crea-
lures. Perhaps he may be the only
animal possessed Of the capacity 70
communicate thought, the only amman
with a language. Science does not
know for certain. If the birds OF the
mir. the creeping things of the earth,
the denizens of the jungles, have any
technique of organized utterance beyond
instructive songs or cries Of satisfaction
nr main. the fact remains to be demon
Hrated.
But the being created in the image
OF God has "a kingly prerogative." He
has q means Of sharing with his tel-
lows the inmost images of his mind, the
deepest emotions of his soul. He has
q method for describing, for reporting,
for explaining what he has seen, heard
and felt. Such, at least, is the theory.
A man may tell his needs to his COM
panions. He may reason with his
friends and challenge his foes. He may
argue and debate. He may plead. He
may pray. 1t lies within his faculties
to express all the multitudinous shades
and variations of desire, hope, fear, re-
lief, qualification and joy. He may STIR
crowds with the eloquence OF oratorlcal
art. He may lead armies to battle with
shouts of militant hate.
And yet there come moments IN every
human life when there are no words
meaningful enough to carry from one
spirit to another the thought or the
feeling which the former would SO
gladly say and the latter SO gratefully
hear. The poet Whittier knew the
handicap when he wrote:
With silence only as their benedictlon,
GODS angels come,
Where, in a shadow of a great aftllctlon,
The soul sits DUMB.
There are overtones of music, the
master composers declare, which no ear
can catch and no instrument reproduce.
So it is with even the most sensitive
and faclle of languages. Back OF any
thing that men may phrase in syllables
are concepts, muted responses of heart
to heart, for which there are no words
But possibly the incapacity to speak
the inability to express the deepest and
most intense emotions, may be In itself
a sign of understanding and love
Silence on occasion may be more mean
ingful than language ever can be
Keats believed that:
Heard melodies are sweet, but those
unheard
Are Sweeter.
And Shakespeare, mightiest master OF
the English tongue, never wrote more
poignantly than when he put into the
mouth of Richard II the lines:
My grief lies all within;
And these external manners OF lament
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence In the tortur'd d
soul.
Evening star., 1932-12-16
Parked Cars Are a Grave
Menace to Pedestrians

To The Editor Of The Star
l take my hat off TO DR. Ledendecker
We taxpayers surely need a break.
In Sundays Star the traffic depart
ment had an article referring to l3
people being killed in November by
automobiles, wondering if it were the
cause of the driver of the car or the
pedestrian.
1t is indeed difficult to see car
approaching with cars parked on both
sides Of the street One has to step
half way into the street to have clear
view of the approaching car. This is
also the case with the driver of car.
He cannot see the pedestrian in time,
due to the fact that there are cars
parked on both sides OF the street, OBJ
structing his vision.
I cannot understand why the traffic
department Goes net see this.
r. S. FIERROS.
Evening star., 1932-12-16
The Hardships Still Remain.

When the President signed the econ
omy bill last Spring with limited satis-
faction" he noted that lit imposes un-
necessary hardships on Government
employees in minor matters Of little
consequence economically. Some of these
hardships should be remedied at the
next session of Congress" In the
course of applying the provisions of the
economy act, administrative officials
soupht'N clarification from Controller
General McCarl as to its meaning. Mr.
McCarl rendered nearly three hundred
opinions.
Peculiarly enough, this activity on
the part of the controller general Is
now being used as an argument against
remedial amendment of the economy
act provisions at this short session OF
Congress. The reasoning in this con-
nection is that amending the act would
merely lead to further complications,
and that the Government personnel
has by this time become adjusted to
whatever was wrong with the workings
OF the legislation.
1t is now apparent that whatever re-
lief is afforded will come from the Econ
pmy Subcommittee of the Senate Appro-
priations Committee, and, if the Appro-
priations Committee amends the act,
changes will be worked out in confer
ence with the House. The Economy
Committee of the Senate, headed by
Senator Bingham, has shown sympa-
thetic consideration of the arguments
against the economy bill presented by
Government officials and those repre-
senting the personnel How far it will
be able to go in changing the economy
act remains to be seen. The recon-
mendations 1t makes will probably not
be known until the full Appropriations
Committee makes its report.
Passage Of the Treasury-Post Office
appropriation bill by the House yes
terday was marked by two minor
amendments by Representative La
Guardia Of New York, both of them
bringing some relief to a proportionately
small number Of employees. Many
amendments were proposed, but each
Evening star., 1932-12-16
Protests Winter Condition
OF Capitals Sidewalks

To the Editor Of The Star:
In Boston, where I come from, If the
sidewalks were not cleaned of snow or
ice after a storm we were notified by
the police and then If the work were
not done in two hours we would be
fined. I thought the law was the same
in almost every city. When I went to
church Sunday morning I nearly fell
several times As far as can see there
was no attempt to clean the sidewalks
in front of any of the apartment houses
along my route and no sand or sawdust
was sprinkled to prevent a pedestrian
from slipping In front Of only very
few of the private residences were the
sidewalks safe to walk on. And this Is
the Capital city! Not only Is there
denger Of a person breaking leg, as
an acquaintance Of mine did in the
storm of last March-she is still on
crutches-but the neglected look of this
beautiful city seems disgrace to It,.
When there are so many out Of work 1t
seems as if they might be put to work
for short time to help them and thus
improve the looks of the city.
j. H. EVERETT.