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Evening star., 1932-07-11
PECG|NC DISCUSSED.
FOR WEAK STOCKS
Wagner Proposal Spurs
Talk, but FinanCiers Still
Doubtful.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 11.-Possibly be-
cause of fears that the stock market
viii tread a still lower path before find
ing its way out of the depression, the
suggestion of Philip D. Wagner presi-
dent of the Underwood Elliott Fisher
Co, for establishing minimum prices on
securities has evoked considerable dis
cussion in Wall Street.
So far as is known, however neither
Stock Exchange officials nor banking in
terests have given the suggestion serious
consideration.
Shun Drastic Steps.
Prices have been pegged on many ex-
changes before, but in almost every in
stance the step was taken because Of
events which threatened to throw the
whole machinery of finance into chaos
Minimum prices were established on
the New York Stock Exchange after the
outbreak of the World War in 1914, but
not since that time has anything oc-
CURED to lead to a really widespread
relief in financial quarters that such
drastic measures were desirable here, il,
indeed, practicable.
While the drastic def1ation in secur-
ity values is viewed with gloom in
financial quarters, there is a disposition
to accept the idea that the situation
would be relieved merely by adopting
scale Of minimum prices. At best,
according to financial opinion, the step
would prove short-lived and wholly
artificial barrier against forces which
make for liquidation, should such in
fuences continue dominant.
Recent Gases Cited.
The most recent instances Of price
fixing on security exchanges were in
Baltimore, on all Of the Canadian stock
exchanges and the Berlin Stock Ex-
change. 1t was resorted to in all these
cases as result of the financial crisis
last Summer
1t was in December, 1914, when the
New York Stock Exchange tried the ex-
pedient of minimum prices. following a
complete suspension of business on the
exchange for about five months. Trad
ing was resumed on the basis Of mini
mum prices, which were in effect April
l, 1914, and during the period Of sus-
pension minimum prices were in effect
in over-the-count dealings in listed
securities
Evening star., 1932-07-11
WOMEN NOW ELIGIBLE
FOR ALL AIR RACES
Cleveland Rules Expanded as Re
suit of Exploits by Miss Ear
hart and Others.

As a result Of recent exploits of
woman aviators including the trans
atlantic flight of Amelia Earhart Put
nam, women pilots will be accorded the
right to enter all races at the National
Air Races, to be held in Cleveland, Au-
gust 27 to September 5, for the first
time in aviation history, 1t was an
nounced here today.
Every event in the great annual avia-
ton classic. including the 100-mile
Thompson Trophy race, the greatest
American air race, will be open to
woman flyers.
This makes the National Air Races
the only competitive sporting event Of
any magnitude in which men and
women compete on an equal footing" ."
it was explained by L. w. Greve. presi-
dent of the corporation sponsoring the
races Entry for women in the Memo
Evening star., 1932-07-11
CHICAGO PLANS CUT
IN SCHOOL COSTS
Meetings Seek Solution of Finan.
cial Complication Through
Tax Levy Reduction.
By the Associated Press.

oy tuo hSSUCldIcO TTeSS.
CHICAGO. July Ito insure OPEN
ing Of public schools in September
through drastic economies, the school
board tonight will open a series Of 10
night meetings at which the retrench-
mentS will be studied.
Unable to finance its s9o.18o,263
budget for 1892. owing $50 O73O613 to
teachers and other employees. and be-
hind millions of dollars to contractors,
supplies dealers and book concerns. the
board desires to reduce its tax levy by
$l5,00O,0O0.
The City Council has so far refused
to adopt the boards levy Of S75, 1898, ,318
offered last April Mayor Anton j.
Cermak and council members insisted
the board must economic as much as
the city to reduce the tax burden.
Cancellation of the outstanding build
ing contracts, reduction in personnel
and salaries and closing of Crane and
Normal Colleges are among items sug-
gested toward budget curtailment.
The banks are reported to have in
formed the board that they can not
lend money, nor sign notes for loans
from the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, until a larger proportion of
the taxes Is paid.
Evening star., 1932-07-11
WIFE OF MAN WHO WE'D
ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE
Bigamy Charge Pending Against
Olive Borden's Husband in
Westchester County.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N Y, July 11.-Mrs.
Pearl Haworth Spector, proprietor of a
beauty shop here, today was granted
divorce from her husband, Theodore
I. Spector. The application was un-
contested
Mrs. Spector charged her husband
married olive Borden, moving picture
actress, without obtaining divorce. A
charge of bigamy against Spector is
pending in Westchester County.
The court order, signed by Supreme
Court Justice Almon w. Lytle, granted
Mrs. Spector no alimony, but awarded
her the court costs. 1t also provided
that Spector may not remarry during
the lifetime of the plaintiff without
the express permission of the court.
Evening star., 1932-07-11
BOY SCOUT LEADER DIES

CONVICTION, KY, July II R.-
Funeral services will be held tomorrow
for Edgar F. Stallsmith, 81, former Boy
Scout executive of Northern Kentucky.
He died Saturday night.
Stallsmith came here 10 years ago
from Cleveland. He was born near
Gettysburg, Pa.
Surviving are his widow, a son. his
mother, Mrs. Anna Wilson of Gettys-
burg, and a STEP brother, Clarence Will
son, Altoona, Pa.
Evening star., 1932-07-11
100000 CUT URGED
North Carolina Treasurer Warns
Economy Is Imperative.

RALEIGH, N. c., July II P).-John
P. Stedman, treasurer Of the State Of
North Carolina, last night revealed he
has written Gov. o. Max Gardner as
serting curtailment in the cost Of
the State government Of fully $7,000,-
600" for 1928 is necessary.
THE idea OF drastic economy Is no
longer a theory. but fact" Stedman
said. UNLESS we take immediate action
we shall be very much embarrassed and
will probably have to suspend payment
Of salaries and current expenses in the
early part of this fiscal year"
Evening star., 1932-07-11
SUICIDE THEORY GAINS
Possible Staying of Film Directors S
Butler Still Probed.

LOS ANGELES, July II P.-A
theory Of suicide was given credence
yesterday by detectives investigating
the death of Albert L. Erlacher, butler
for George Fitzmaurice, film director
No arrests were made.
Erlacher was found shot through the
heart in the main entrance of the Fitz-
Maurice mansion at Bel Air late Satur-
day night. At his feet lay a revolver,
wrapped in dish towel.
Police said investigation of possible
murder was continuing, principally on
the statement of Matte Gray. cook,
that she was sitting on a bench near
the entrance, heard Erlacher say, What,
you here again?" and then a shot.
Servants said they saw no one leave
the place. The Fitzmaurice family was
absent.
Evening star., 1932-07-11
BURNING SHIP RESCUED
New York-Los Angeles Freighter
Towed Into Cristobal, Canal Zone.

COLON. Canal Zone, July II R.-
The Arrow Line freighter Constance
Chandler, on it's way from New York
to Los Angeles, was towed into Cristo-
bal yesterday with fire raging in its No.
3 hold.
It's steam steering gear was disabled
and a hand gear was used
Capt ]. jacobson said the crew had
been fighting the fire since early this
morning. The damage has not yet been
estimated, as the matches were still
c1oSed
Evening star., 1932-07-11
CITIES LAY PLANS
FOR PUBLIC WORKS
Municipal Planning Bodies
Ready to Suggest Self
Liquidating Projects.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July ll.-CongresSional
plans to provide several hundred mil
lion dollars for construction Of self
liquidating public works to relieve un-
employment will find some $50 NUM-
cipal planning commissions ready to
the ground work has already been laid
The Regional Plan Association Of
New York finds that in 1922 only SIS
communities in the Nation were zoned,
while today the total is well over ], ,OOO
Evening star., 1932-07-11
MAYOR OF JERSEY CITY
TO SUPPORT ROOSEVELT
Statewide Demonstration at Sea-
girt About Middle of August
Planned by Nague, Says Paper.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 1.-THE Times
says Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City,
stanch Smith backer. plans to give his
support to the Roosevelt candidacy in a
Statewide demonstration at Seagirt,
N. j., about the middle of August.
Gov. Roosevelt will be present" con-
tinues the Times. "and it is the inten-
tion Of Mayor Hague to make Roosevelt
day in New Jersey this year even more
of demonstration than was Smith day
in 1928, when more than 100000 Demo-
Gratis gathered at Seagirt to ratify the
nomination of Alfred E. Smith for Presi-
dent"
Evening star., 1932-07-11
Ten Drown as Ship Sinks.
MELROuF

MELBOURNE, Australia, July II (P).
Ten persons were drowned yesterday
when the coastal steamer Casino found
aged In Apollo Bay. Victoria.
Evening star., 1932-07-11

U. S. Cutters Reach Argentina.
BUENOS AIRES, July II tP)-The
United States Coast Guard cutters
Sebago and Seranac arrived here
Yesterday
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
OLD FERDINAND, FORMER TSAR OF BULGARIA.
TOTTERS TO THE COBURG WEDDING.
OLD

The the left has known much in the way of life s
pleasures and little of its power.
He formerly Tsar ruler in Bulgaria Other monarchs
covered him with stars ribbons medals ORDERS honors
of all kinds He has few of them, you see, scattered
about his person
But he also has that he needs help him walk
his knees stiff his sight is poor He looks down to
just where his feet going, not proudly outward with
his chest swelling, as he did years ago.
The stars above powerful according to the astroo
gsts they go while little planets like this earth away
But the earthly stars that kings give other kings have
little power
They cannot do the thing that the decorated kings
would ask. They sTAvE OFF OLD AGE.
The picture shows the ex-Tsar the Coburg wedding
when German royalty including members Of the Hohen
zOllern house. British royalty first time since
the big
The Prince Of Wales shortly before had landed German
soil his flight from Britain to visit relatives in the North
and had been politely welcomed.
This Coburg wedding British royalty its blood
relations Of the Hohenzollern family All smiling, the
past apparently gone although not really forgotten.
That considerable improvement the British
royalty less in earnest probably LESS planning to
hang the Kaiser, whose first cousin father of King
George his mother daughter of Queen Victoria
Blood is thicker than water, thicker than And
royalty wisely sticks together. 1T NEEDS TO STICK
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
.DiSpel the Specter
Immediate Action On Relief

The time growing perlousy short for replenishng the
lief fund of the District
Everything possible has been done to extend the life of the
pifuly small appropriation made last spring by reluctant
Congress.
The 100000 then made available has been doed such
small amounts that decent relief administration has been
possible in the National Capital.
The most penuous expenditure of the remaining
the fund.- supplemented by loan of 100000 from
nifty Chest cannot spread the relief beyond the
January.
More than week ago the Bureau of the Budget transmitted
to the House estimate for turned over to the
Board Of Public Welfare for carrying on the work.
This money must become available before the middle of
ay unhnkabe hardhp will imposed upon thousands of
our families.
Congress now plans to adjourn Friday Christmas
holidays It will not reconvene until January 8.
That means that there only about dozen working days
left for Congress to discharge its duty unfortunate c
zens of the District.
There great pressure national affairs upon the House
and Senate.
this District relief appropriation put off until the last
minute it will be possible for disgrunled Congressman
to war the will of the people the city that those in need
shall receive proper care
No such chance should be taken
The House Appropriations Committee should give its inn
mediate attention to the urgent necessities the
should promptly report this matter out not part of
general deficiency bill, but a separate measure
unless speedy action is taken hunger and cold and suffer
ing will be the lot of many fellow citizens for the new
year.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

right to be funny" Wit, like
a beard or a bass voice, is
supposed to be a purely mas
culine characteristic-and woe
to the women who can't con-
troll her sense of humor.
Any woman who wants to
preach or expound or write
uplifting advice" will be taken
seriously; but let a woman try
to be funny" for a living, and
it takes set of burglars tools
for her to break into the pro-
fession, and, Carry-Nation-
hatchet for her to hew her
way to recognition.
Marie Dressler was in her
fifties before she was recog-
nized as a great artist. and
the funniest" person on the
stage or screen. And the late
Mrs. Fiske was middle-aged
before the public realized that
she was really a great come
dienne.
There may be masculine
playwrights VINO have written
more sparkling comedies than
Rachel Crothers. and actors
who are funnier than Mary
Boland or wittier than Fannie
Brice. There may be night
club entertainers who are
cleverer at repartee than Texas
Guinan. There may be light
verSifiers who outshine Dorothy
Parker. Who knows?
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
LISTEN. WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

less; or as if I were locked
in a tight cell, shut off from
all the world. They call self
consciousness the tortures of
the damned and it is! No
wonder I feel sorry for myself.
And yet have I a right to
feel sorry for myself? Isn't
it the shameful truth that I
AM DOING THIS THING TO
MYSELF? Why am I self
conscious? Because I'M CON-
SCIOUS OF SELF. AND ISN'T
THAT JUST ANOTHER NAME
FOR EGOTISM?
Isn't self-consciousness SIM
ply Self-centeredness? I suffer
horribly; yes. But don't I
deserve to suffer horribly if
I insist on making such a fuss
over myself? Haven't I mag
nified the Importance of my
self, and the Importance of my
own acts, beyond all healthy
relationship to the rest Of the
world?
The Secret Truth
Suppose I do make a blum
der. Suppose I do get laughed
at, or fail in my plans. Is that
SO frightfully important that it
should overshadow every other
interest? Don't other people
make blunders? Aren't they
worried, too? OF course they
are. Then why do l act as if
my affairs were more important
than any others?
Il know deep in my heart
why do, but I hate to admit
it. The shameful, secret truth
is that I'm stuck on myself.
I feel that my affairs are more
important than any other af-
fairs on earth. I always think
of them first, and I think of
them all the time. I am so
preoccupied with thinking about
them that they have become
sickly obSesSionS with me-a
sort of cancer on my imagina-
ton that has eaten away all
the healthy tissue of my imagi-
nation.
"I have no imagination left
except for myself. I have no
real sympathy left except for,
myself. And what's the result?
"I'm so absorbed in self that
I have literally shut myself
away from the rest of the
world. I'm shackled-by self.
So,, when I have to face other
people, I'm like a criminal re-
leased from solitary confine-
ment. I'm lost with other
people and other interests. I
can't think of anything but
myself.
"But that isn't some cruel
affliction for which I should
be pitied. Actually, it's a con-
temptible form of self-indul.
gence for which I should be
kicked. It's nothing more or
less than exaggerated conceit.
and I deserve every bit of the
misery I suffer"
There, stranger, is the cure
for which you ask. Say that
to yourSelf-and believe it-and
act on it-and I'll guarantee
that you'll be relieved of self
consciousness within a month.
I'll also guarantee that you'll
be we'll on your way to popu-
larity, and power, and personal
peace.
But will you have the cour-
age2 wonder.
Copyright, 1892, King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
ONCE OVERS

done and how superior your
work might have been If you
had taught yourself to think
longer and in a more concen.
trated manner.
Your God-given ability has
allowed you to pass but why
limit your achievements be-
cause you are too lazy to think?
First thoughts as first i'm
preSsionS are often good but
more mature consideration has
made the great world advance
ment.
Surface thinkers do little
along an original course. They
are too light.
Try to get beneath the sur
face in thought.
The jumped-at first conclu.
sion Is seldom well-founded.
Copyright, 1889, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

secuted the idea and an
nounced their ability to
regulate their own business.
And we now know that
they can do nothing of the
sort. They have had years
. now in which to attempt
self-regulation and nothing
has been done, and nothing
even attempted, that has Of
fered any hope.
So the industry is about
PROSTATE, and coal is beiag
produced for sale at prices
ruinous to miner and opera
tor alike.
Time and again the Presi-
dent has been urged to as
sumo leadership in the at
tempt at stabilization by
calling a conference, but
always the operators have
resented the suggestion of
interference" They are
divided against themselves.
And in the meantime a great
industry, operating in &c
States, is stumbling towar(
utter ruin in the dark.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

conditions IN ELSIE RObANSON
early life" But can't I suggest
a cure?
Yes, stranger, I can. And if
you have the courage and the
sense to use it, I can guarantee
that it will work. But-have
you? Well, that's up to you.
But here's the prescription. The
next time your affliction leaps
upon you while you are facing
people, say this to yourself:
How do I get this way?
"1S it because I am afraid
Of these people? Have they
ever done anything to harm
me? Am I conscious of some
menace in them?
Conscious of Self
"No. The truth is, I'm hard
ly conscious of them at all,
I'm so overwhelmingly con-
scious of my own self. I am
consumed with misery at the
thought that I may not make
a good appearance; that I
may not do the clever thing;
that may make myself ridicu-
louS.
Il am so concerned with this
anxiety for my own welfare
that it overshadows every other
interest on earth.
II can't give my energy to
anything else. I feel as if I
we're wrapped about with
chains which render me help
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
The Times Call
For Leadership

Our trouble is that we
have too many people TODAY
who imagine that the unre-
, strained individualism" OF
prepanic days can be re-
stored. It cannot. We are
in the midst of a social and
economic evolution, very
similar, as DR.. Ely, the econo-
mist, points out, to those in
which other civilizations
have collapsed. The old for
mulas will not fit the present
necessities. We are where
we are-fighting everywhere
against ruin-because of the
old methods-and we cannot
go back to them or retain
them without tragedy.
The times call for a leader
ship with the initiative, the
courage, yes, even the au-
dacity, to seek and put new
methods in practice, to find
new formulas for an entirely
new age.
Unless we get this leader
ship, unless we find these
new methods, unless we
adopt these new formulas we
face a future, not remote,
that will be dark enough.
We cannot fold our hands
and wait. Necessarily all
this must mean the harness
ing and control of human
greed; reasonable subordi-
nation of the individual to
the imperative needs of So
ciety.
There are erous
changes in policy that may
be made within the old sys-
TEN. There are some that
mean the breaking of new
ground. or the breaking with
old traditions.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
The Result
Is Ruin

4S hu1u
It is just as we'll to let the
debts ride for a while, since
a new administration comes
in soon. We have problems
of a pressing sort here at
home. Something must be
done for agriculture, and
something is planned-some-
thing new, and in some ways
drastic. And something must
be done if the great coal in
dustry Of America is not to
collapse utterly. just now it
is practically ruined. The
operators are not making
any money; vast numbers of
mine workers are out of
work; the whole industry,
one of the greatest not long
ago, IS IN a state of chaos.
During the war, when
there was an abnormal de-
mand for coal, the mines
were urged to produce to
their utmost capacity, and
they did. Because of the
abnormal demand, everyone
who had a little coal on his
land opened a new mine, and
during the period of the
war made money. Because
of the unusual activity in
the industry great numbers
of young men became miners
with the thought of making
that their life work.
Then, with the close of
the war, the demand for
coal fell enormously; and
we found in the Overpro-
duction that we had too
m any mines, too many
miners. The operators en-
tered into a cut-throat COM
petition to live - barely to
live. The result is ruin-a
veritable state of anarchy
In one of the nations great
est industries.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
WISE WORDS

A beneficent person is like
a fountain watering the earth
and spreading fertility: it is,
therefore delightful and more
honorable to give than receive.
-Epicuris.
Our grand business undoubt-
edly is, not to see what lies
dimly at a distance, but to do
what clearly lies at hand.
Carlyle.
Absence extinguishes small
passions and increases great
ones, as the wind will blow out
a candle and blow in a fire.
La Rouchefoucauld.
Attempt the end and never
stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search
will find it out.
-Herrick.
The virtue lies
In the struggle, not the prize,
Mines.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
A Bill Pending
In Congress


A bill sponsored by the
United Mine Workers is now
pending in Congress. We do
not pretend to pass judg-
ment upon it. 1t may have
fatal Weaknesses. 1t must
have some virtues. It should
have early and careful con-
sideration, if for no other
reason than to concentrate
attention upon a serious ma
tional problem and to get
something started. 1t does
not go so far as to propose
that coal be made a public
utility subject to regulation,
1t is conservative, perhaps
too conservative.
But it is a beginning TO-
ward that stabilization of
the coal industry, and some
how this must be brought
about.
In no other great nation
would a great industry such
as this be permitted to drift
to utter ruin and fall into a
state Of complete anarchy
without even attracting the
serious attention of govern
ment; for the interest of the
entire public is involved.
When billions invested in
an industry pay no divi-
dends, and hundreds of thou
sands of workers in an in
dustry are reduced in cut
throat competition to the
wages of pauperism, or are
made objects of charity, it is
time for organized society to
interest itself.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

that he calls
IAN inferiori-
ty complex. !"
Which leads
him into all
sorts of un-
happy situa-
tionS. Some
times he's ag-
g r e s S i v e;
often too sub
m i S iv e.; a
general mess.
He thinks
he knows the
cause. "EX-
traordi n a ry
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By T. E. Powers
BY Helen Rowland

Far be it from me to claim
that women have a sense Of
humor! Or that wit, in the
female of the species, is not
an affliction rather than an
asset. But the world is full
of women wits and condolences
today, who are gradually get
ting the acknowledgment-and
the laughs-they deserve.
It is true the average woman
has had very little chance to
exercise her sense of humor;
chiefly because she has had
nothing to LAUGH at-except
herself. Every sane woman
knows that to laugh at a MAN,
is the quickest and surest form
of suicide. Any woman who
clings to life and wants to be
loved, admired or married,
promptly Suppresses the faint
est desire within her to be
bright and witty"
Many a complacent husband
has a bald spot, where his
wife'S wit or sarcasm has
skidded right over his head.
Which was lucky for both of
them. AS long as a man
doesn't suspect that a woman
is trying to be funny" there's
no harm done.
What does it matter? They
love us DUMB-so, let us firm
ly suppress any impulse to be