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Evening star., 1932-10-18
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Then we had to select II directors
In each of the IL districts. This looked
in advance as though 1t would prove .
most unweloome and difficult task. 1t
has, however. proven one Of the pleas
antest in which I have ever had q
hand. The spirit Of public service Is
SO universal in the country today that
only a handful Of those we asked re-
fused to serve-and they all had the
best of genuine reasons. And after we
had picked them, we invited the chair
man, the vice chairman and the presi-
dent of each bank to come here for
two-day conference. The telegraphic
invitations reached them on Satur-
day and all but six were here on the
following Wednesday and all but two
by Thursday. The two absenteeS were
Ill. Five come all the way from the
Pacific Coast on that short notice. And
they are all busy men Of wide inter-
ests whose service to the Home Loan
Bank System is on a purely volunteer
basis without salary. It was a most
heartening experience for us here and
I am sure will be to the public gen.
orally. We want to pay this public
tribute to their fine and unselflsh spirit.
In such hands as theirs, the system
must succeed.
All Banks Opened Saturday.
Thanks to the helpfulness Of our
regional directors, we succeeded In
formally organizing and opening every
one Of the IL banks on Saturday, Oc-
toper Is, 10 weeks after we assumed
Office. While, of course, they are not
yet fully stated, they are functioning.
At last, the mortgage lending institu-
tions of America have a central reser-
voir of credit with one hundred and
thirty-four millions Of capital and ex-
pansion possibilities through the issu-
ance of bonds which make their mini
mum ultimate size at least q billion
| and half At last, the Federal Re-
serve System for commercial banks and
the Federal Land Bank System for
farm mortgage lending institutions
have been supplemented, thanks to
President Hoover's vision and persist
ence, with a system to supply funds
primarily for urban home ownership
Conditions in the mortgage market
have been deplorable this past year.
The great mutual thrift organizations
surance companies and savings banks
have suffered, along with the CONNER
cial banks, extraordinary demands for
money. People had saved for a rainy
day and the rainy day had come. In
order to meet these demands, all Of the
| institutions had to discontinue new
mortgage loans and call old ones for
payment. New building ceased. Fore
Evening star., 1932-10-18

money and as q means Of strengthen
ing the financial structure of additional
cities, we determined to place our IL
banks, without exception, in cities that
had neither q reserve nor land bank
A second reason for avoiding Federal
Reserve cities seemed to us to exist IN
the nature Of the system we were about
to install. The Federal Reserve cities
are, and Of right should be, the domi-
mating factors in the regulation Of
short-term loans, particularly those
based on commercial transactions. We
were concerned with setting up a sys-
tenn whose chief function was the regu-
lation of long and non-liquid credits
based upon real estate. The handling
of these credits calls for different
psychology and a different type OF
Judgment from that necessarily aSso-
ciated with short-time lending. Some
Of us believed that much of the trouble
real estate Is now passing through is q
direct consequence Of the intermingling
Of the handling of loans on notes to
speculative builders, with long-term
loans on mortgages. So believing, We
felt that future stability in the whole
field of real estate investment could be
best assured by so locating the Home
Loan Banks that their atmosphere and
viewpoint might be detached from the
controlling influence Of commercial
banking.
Apartment Cities Considered.
Then we had still another reason not
applicable to all Federal Reserve cities,
but to many. The system which we are
engaged in instituting is a system Of
moderate loans on homes for less than
three families, worth not over $40, 900.
Some, at least, Of the major cities of
the country are becoming cities of
APARTMENT houses. It seemed to us
that the destiny Of our system, in its
fundamental purposes of creating indi-
vidual homes for American families,
was more secure if its management
was located in cities Of small homes
than in those where apartment houses
predominated.
After we had set up the districts and
picked the cities, our next task was to
open subscription books for the sale
of stock in the banks These under
the law had to remain open 80 days,
at the end Of which we have to deter
mine how much we will have to get
from the Treasury of the United
States.
We have fixed the capital for the
whole system at one hundred and
thirty-four million and the Treasury
will supply so much of this as we fail
to secure out of stock subscriptions up
to one hundred and twenty-five million
dollars. The subscriptions are coming
in very satisfactorily from all States
where the institutions are permitted
by their State laws to buy stock. Exact
Evening star., 1932-10-18
COL DS
GO THROUGH
3 STAGES!
And They are For Eas;ss
Stopped in the First ti.m-ia
the Second or Third!

A cold ordinarily passes through
three stages-the Dry Stage, the
first "a hours; the Watery Secretion
Stage, from ! to 8 days; and the
Mucous Secretion Stage. Relief is
twice as easy in the first stage.
For prompt relief take couple of
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine i'm
mediately upon catching cold. This
will usually expel the cold overnight
and thus prevent the spread of the
infection within your system.
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine
Is effective because it does the four
things necessary. 1t opens the bow.
els. Kills the cold germs and fever in
the system. Relieves the headache
and grippy feeling. Tones the entire
system and fortihes against further
attack.
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine
is absolutely safe to take. Contains
no narcotics and produces no bad
after effects. 1t is regarded the world
over as the standard cold tablet.
Comes in handy, pocket size box, Gel
lophone-wrapped. For sale in every
drug store in America. Make it your
first-aid in all cases of colds and
grippe.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
with other lenders and the threat a
foreclosure removed.

with other lenders and the threat az
foreclosure removed.
The Federal Home Loan Banks CON.
stltute the latest battalions mobilized by
the President for carrying on the wai
against the economic enemy-the latest
formal governmental organization Of re-
lief. We, who are commanding II. ara
making tonight our first formal report
10 the Nation. We are conscious that.
IN our haste to get into action we have
doubtless made mistakes and shall
doubtless make others But, at anv
rate. we are in action today-ready to
40 our share toward repelling the COM
mon enemy
And when the crisis has passed-as
1t surely willard America has returned
again to the enjoyment of its normal
life, then we are assured that the Home
Loan Bank System will continue for
many. many years to come, fulfilling the
dreams of its founder by adding en-
ployment in the building trades and CIV
ing to millions Of young Americans the
priceless blessing CT home
Evening star., 1932-04-21
FESTIVAL CONCERTS
BEGIN TOMORROW
Public Program at A. U. Is
Sponsored by League
of Pen Women.

The first public concert of the April
Music Festival, sponsored here by the
National League of American Pen
Women, will be presented tomorrow eve
ming at 6 o'clock at American Univer-
sity The festival will continue until
April %, with more than 300 musicians
participating in the rendition of COM
positions by members OF the League Of
Pen Women.
At tomorrow's concert josephine For
eyth of Ohio, Dorothy Radde Emery of
Maryland Marianne Genet of Pitts
burgh, Pearl Adams and Gena BranS-
combe OF New York and Mary Howe o.
this city will be among the contributors
The Women'S Glee Club and Mems
Glee Club of American University will
perform numbers written by the guest
composers.
Saturday at noon the authors break
fast will be held. Compositions by Mrs
H H. A. Beach OF New Hampshire and
Miss Gena BranScombe will be pre-
sented by double quartet. The break
fast will be open to public subscription.
Saturday night at o'clock poetry
evening" will be observed in the palm
room Of the Willard Hotel. Compost
tions of Dorothy Radde Emery, Pearl
Adams and Margaret Mcclure Stitt will
be sung by mixed quartet.
Sunday morning church music of
several of the musicians will be heard
in the churches of the city
Wednesday night, April 81, chorus
of 10 voices will sing Mrs. Beach's
"Canticle of the Sun" a composition
never before heard in Washington, at
the Mount Vernon Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1932-04-21
WASTE OF u. S. FUNDS
IS DENIED BY WOODS
Treasurer, However, Admits in St.
Louis Address That Cost of Gov
eminent Is Too High.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, April 2l-Maj. Walter
o. Woods, Treasurer of the United
States, said here last night that while
the cost of government in the United
States is too great, there has been no
waste or extravaganza in the eXpendi-
ture of funds appropriated by Con-
greSS
There is much heard about waste
and extravaganza in government" he
said. NO one denies the Government
costs too much Every one practically
agrees Congress has authorized the
spending of too much money in the
various departments of the Government,
but once appropriated by Congress for
these specific purposes, l deny the
money is expended eXtravagantly."
Maj. Woods will speak at the West
ern Regional Savings Conference here
today.
Evening star., 1932-04-21
VETERAN ATTORNEY DIES
Maj. Joshua Fry Bullitt Succumbs
in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA. April 81 [P.-Maj.
Joshua Fry Bullitt, widely known at
torney and member of an old Kentucky
family, died at his home in Chestnut
Hill yesterday after long illness He
was rs.
Maj. Bullitt was a son Of Justice
Joshua Fry Bullitt of the Kentucky
State Supreme Court, and since 1918
had been general counsel here for the
Virginia Coal g. Iron Co. He will be
buried Friday at Big Stone Gap, Va.
Evening star., 1932-04-21
GIRL ST0WAWAYS FAIL
Hunger Puts End to Their Trip to
Honolulu.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 81 (P).-Their
hopes of visit to Honolulu shattered,
two girl stowaways discovered on the
Matson liner Malolo, which sailed from
here Saturday, returned yesterday on
another ship.
The girls, who said they were Marie
Durkin, %, and Sonia Worth, 81, of
Chicago, declared they became hungry
a few hours after the Malolo sailed and
gave themselves up. The Hatson liner
Sierra was hailed in midocean and they
were transferred to it for return to San
Francisco They are held at the city
prison here on vagrancy charges
Evening star., 1932-04-21

Glasgow, Scotland. has banned all
commercial advertising on its transport
fleet.
The Washington times., 1932-06-14

States include great number that were sent across
the ocean in the war Their country should supply
them with work.
Those men were absent in the days of high wages
and fat profits They got dollar day plus an op-
portuny get gassed shot, or both When they came
back the Government agreed to pay them bonus by
way of compensation for hardshps endured and oppor
tunities missed They entitled to jobs and should
have them, supplied by the Government.
Failing that they ask that the bonus, which would
amount in all to two billion, four hundred million dollars
be paid now while many Of them need instead of
paying it to them later
Some thousands are in Washington camping out OF
DOORS piles of straw, close enough to the Senate the
House of Representatives and the White House to dis
turb the peace of mind of gentlemen that have been
appropratng Governmentmoney hundreds of millions at
tme for the relief of deserving banks railroads and
other institutions. The time has to appropriate
money to employ the veterans on needed, useful work.
Does it seem unreasonable that former soldiers OF the
United States in absolute want many of them separated
from their wives and children by poverty, should ask re-
lief from the Government jobs preferred the bonus
if no jobs offered?
THE GOVERNMENT ASKED THEM FOR RELIEF,
WHEN WAR CAME, and may need them, others like
them, again.
This newspaper believes do other newspapers owned
by W. R. Hearst throughout the country, that THE Gov
ERNMENT SHOULD GIVE THE VETERAN JOB
AND FAILING THAT, HE SHOULD HAVE HIS
BONUS to tide over this period of distress.
Jobs would be preferable, the would rather work
to solve their problems But the Governments duty if it
not will not supply work. is to pay the bonus that
has been promised and must be paid eventually in any
case.
This Government finds hundreds of millions for bank
ing institutions and railroads in need for all kinds of
financial enterprises and recently it found ten thousand
millions to help Europeans cutting each others throas
It cannot deny it's ability to find money jobs It lacks
THE WILL, not the ability.
A railroad in need of ten fifty millions, bank
quiring money to repair financial mistakes, may
pathetcally deserving to Congressman
But what about veteran in need his shoes and clothes
worn out his wife and children in want? Do not thou
sands of such veterans and their families present pic
t1re at least pathetic railroad that needs Gov
ernment cash?
The veterans make "socialistic" "communistic"
demand for public funds. They request jobs first of ALL
but if the Government will not find work for them they
demand that it pay them little in advance, the bonus
that must be paid to them eventually.
The payment of that bonus postponed in the belief
that the soldiers would have greater need of the money
as thew grow older,
The Washington times., 1932-06-14

overtaken them, their children young, in need OF
clothes and food.
This is the time that the need help, job preferred
if not their bonus and the Government could give it to
them it will not supply them jobs that would be CRATE
fully accepted.
The attitude Of certain newspapers public and high
fnanciers toward the veterans is amazing It would
be humorous, it not dangerously dsgraceful
One Senator from the West who usually talks like
American, said soemny "Not dollar for those veterans
while they remain in Washington"
The presence of veterans in Washington dsturbs this
Senator What gave him the idea that Washington, the
Capital of the nation, was made for SENATOR'S EX-
CLUSIVELY?
swarm of lobbyists not long ago settled in Washing
ton to insert their pet schemes into the tariff bill.
And another of lobbyists settled in Washington
recently to keep out of the tax bill that which did
not suit them How those lobbyists treated? They
did not sleep out of doors, straw BEDS When they
sent in for Congressman, he out, and smiled.
Nobody told THEM to get out of Washington and that
nothing would be done for them until they went home.
Apparently lobbyist is sacred compared to poorly
dressed sleeping straw, asking the Government to
member that he did his best when his country needed him.
One New York newspaper describing veterans that have
come to Washington to ask justice, says:
"This bonus army which is camping at the Capitals
gaze mas SGTange ana STRIKING personnel IL seems 10
be fair section of middeclass America. There
truck drivers and steel workers andcoal
miners, stenographers and aborers Some of them
hardly muster enough English to tell where they
from and why"
The writer of the condescendng article does not under
stand "what started it ALL What mpeed the street labor
and bowegged cowboys to leave everything familiar
behind them and start together on the open road"
When those started together the ocean to
fight for their country or, many of them suspect
to fight for the interests of international bankers their
trip applauded, they notdescribed "from
the Chicago fop-houses."
They called ''noble American heroes" not "a
section of middle-cass America"
Those that serve UPPER-CLASS AMERICA, the Amer
lea of high finance and high profits should not despse
cross-secton" made of "ruck drivers backsmith steel
workers. coal Miners laborers."
This country needed them in the and might
day need them in peace It might need them to
protect 'upperclass America from the danger called
"Red" from the communstc specter that hauns the pill
low of many foolish rich man.
The ask work. and if the country cannot or will not
give it to them, IT SHOULD PAY THE BONUS
The don't want the money to ship it to Europe,
back this foolish Skinned
The Washington times., 1932-06-14

fnanceTS later.
Every dollar that the veterans get will be spent HERE
IN AMERICA 1t will go into every retail store pay bills
and rent overdue it will help the veterans to preserve
their homes from mortgage foreclosure The money spent
by veterans should from public obs-but the ma
ton will not supply the jobs it should pay the bonus.
Would it be such dreadful calamity to have two bill
lion four hundred millions spent in every State in this
time of depression? Would it not on the contrary give
business and prosperity forward push?
This is time of Distress of economic danger time
when high finance, frightened by it's ooishness by
its shipping abroad of tens of billions of dollars holds the
purse strings tight refusing to lend to those that would
give employment if they could borrow in the ordinary way
This country faces danger greater than that of the
world war which NEVER REALLY THREATENED US,
any more than the present depression threatens financial
stability on the planet Mars.
We have now on our hands dangerous war; strange
and mysterious, that we do not understand.
1t is war of FACTS AND DEPRESSION AGAINST
PROSPERITY. The nations spending power has sud-
denly been cut down. Where there no buying there
manufacturing where there is manufacturing there
is no hiring.
AS the fields in drought require water present
national condition requires cash and it's expenditure
Money and credit we have without limit This nation
has than four billion dollars in gold locked up to
preserve our gold Standard
In the to help other nations strangers to u.s. we
creased national debt by twenty thousand millions of
dollars, not hesitang second. We proud of
Selves bands playing crowds cheering, ship
ped billions the ocean.
Money spent by the veterans and Others would start
flow of money through trade and industry Can you who
read this suggest any possible way of stimulating bus
and at the time helping those that need help as
effective creating public works to give employment?
The spending of wages thus earned would do for bus-
what irrigation does for growing plants sending the
water directly to the roots of the plant The payment of
good wages for good work would send the money received
by the soldiers directly the roots of trade and industry
It is reported in Washington that Congress will soon
adjourn TO GET AWAY FROM THE VETERANS
GATHERED IN WASHINGTON AND LEAVE THEM
STRANDED.
If Congress adjouns, and Congressman scatter, of
course there will be power in Washington that could
give the jobs their bonus.
It is not believabe that such cowardly will be
pursued that Congressman will consent to away
from their duty.
Men that have gone to for their country at
least entitled to work for living, and if their country will
not give them jobs that will support them and their am
es they entitled to payment of their bonus and
UTTTTx7 ~ AVN TN
The Washington times., 1932-06-14
WHAT ABOUT THE VETERANS?

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Evening star., 1932-12-15
UNCLE RAYS
CORNER
Old Hermit's Christmas.
AN AVALANCHE.

* you were going back to Win
r why. that's the city where
my mother used to live!"
"Indeed! replied the Old
Hermit. THAT Is most interesting.
Winnipeg is q fine city, and I enjoyed
living there: but I never intend to re-
turn. 1t would be too sad-but must
go on with my story.
"As was saying, my son and I were
starting on our return journey with a
load Of gold You know that pure gold
Is heavy but does not take up much
space We had gold nuggets In our
pockets. and thereN was gold In the
pack Of our one and only donkey.
1--WE were making our way along q
us was high, steep slope, on the other
side a deep canyon with walls which
dropped almost straight down for half
a mile. We became hungry and de-
cided to pause to cook meal We used
a long rope to tie our donkey 70 the
trunk Of a tree. Then we wandered
about for q time, gathering firewood.
"Arthur-that was the name Of my
son-walked over to the edge of the
canyon, and called back to me that
there was q beautiful view below, that
1t was almost q straight drop for half
mile. I remember that shuddered as
he said that, and I was just on the
point of warning him not to step too
close, when I heard thunderous noise
the noise Of an avalanche!"
At this point the Old Hermit wiped
his forehead with a colored handker-
chief. and inquired
Have you ever seen an avalanche?"
NO" both replied
We'll, I hope you never door at
least that you never get in the way of
one. There are rocks, loose earth, snow
and Ice on some mountain sides, and
rain, snowfall or other cause will make
them slide down the slope. Woe to any
one in their wayl
When Arthur heard this great noise.
he turned around and shouted, Look
out, father!'
These were the last words ever
heard him speak :"
The Old Hermit paused in his story.
and used his handkerchief to wipe
away q tear. UNCLE RAY.
ITO be continued)
Evening star., 1932-12-15
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who mothers all their lives we
fetching mother taking mother around to the
until be nothing but old
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monster egosm and seshne
deliberately cutting their children of from the
fun They them the happiness they hac For
building their
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DEAR MISS D1x-My wife has gone
= truth
will die short and she will
She
thinks should herself
looks this other feel that cannot face the future with
this trouble c. H.
Answer: Any a
something
all there else she would have
these pretend to forecast the u
about what going to happen than we do
a old sweetheart that simply stock
solitary middle-aged
to thing II had they
wife going
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it. Not originality.
provision Providence is that the future
knowing
death OF
and
to bear when really comes to DOROTHY DIX
Evening star., 1932-12-15

rades.) Is such an arrangement per-
miSsable?"
My answer is that have never heard
of such q wedding, but there Is no rea-
son in the world why you should not
have it. In fact, I think 1t would be
charming, and after all, that 1t shall
be beautiful to you, IS all that really
matters. Let me suggest that your
mother. wear as much silver as pos
sible-a dress brocaded with silver, and
a silver toque, and silver In the ar
rangement OF her bouquet. And under
these particular circumstances 1t would
seem best that you and she walk to-
gether, since your father, as best man,
will be waiting at the chancel with the
bridegroom If you are having ushers
and bridesmaids they would follow the
ordinary conventions.
MY dear Mrs. Post: have been en-
gagged nearly three years and we had
planned our wedding for the last
month But, instead, during that
month we both had great sorrow-my
fiance's father died first and my mother
died two weeks later. Our wedding was
to have been formal and had bought
a satin gown and bridal veil. Now
we do not want a wedding. Can I in
any way make use of these clothes?"
Answer: Certainly 1t Is always prop
er that you be dressed as q bride.
even though no one be present but
yourselves and the clergyman and the
necessary witness.
(Copyrisht. 1882