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The Washington times., 1932-03-19
SPRING ARRIVES
TOMORROW
Times Staff Photo

Spring officially arrives in
Washington at 2:45 p. m. tomor-
row.
This is the date and hour
agreed upon by astronomers
Popularity and meteorologically
however, spring has been with us
since March /, according to
United States Weather Bureau Of.
ficials. The popular conception,
therefore, is just a bit antici-
patory.
The season officially arrives
when the sun is Immediately
above the equator on its swing
northward. 1t continues until
the sun has reached its northern
limit and begins it journey south
With the thermometer regis
tering Sc at noon today, spring
is assured of a warm welcome
All this may change, however, be.
fore its astronomical arrival, as
the weather man has predicted
cloudy weather with probable
light rains for tonight and to-
morrow.
The thermometer reading this
noon was the third highest of
the month to date. The highest
was 81 on March 8.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
UNITY Of VIEWS
REACHEDAT
PARLEY
Carrier Chiefs Confer With
Dawes Group on Needs
and See President

Following "a hours of con-
ferences with all interested
parties, President Hoover to-
day issued a statement declar-
ing the financial problem con-
cerning the railroads "is of
smaller dimensions than has
been generally believed or re-
ported. y"
Between $500, 100000 and $4OO,-
100000 will take care of all needs
of the important railways in meet
ing interest charges, renewing
maturing securities, and taking
up other obligations during 1882,
Mr.. Hoover declared.
Credit Available
The Presidents statement indi-
Gated this amount could be OBJ
tained through recourse to the
Railway Credit Corporation and
to a lesser degree to the Recon
struction Finance Corporation.
Also, Mr.. Hoover said, he as
sumed that many bank loans
will be continued in the normal
way"
The White House undertook to
stress that the problem was to
handle the situation as whole n
connection with reconstruction of
the railroads and inferred that the
discussions held yesterday and
continuing today were covering
the whole broad field of finding
ways for restoring employment
and renewed confidence in the
roads and their security.
Unity Achieved
Touching upon both the matter
Of immediate financing necessities
and the problem of laying a new
foundation fol all-around return
of the roads, the Presidents state
meht concluded:
"The coordination of pro-
grams and policies has been ar
rived at by the Government and
the railway agehcies to effect
these results"
On April / another interest pay
ment comes due for the carriers.
In addition to the meeting of this
requirement. some of them are
petitioning for more Government
loans to pay taxes, short-term
bank loans, unpaid vouchers
and even wages, due on the same
date.
The roads are chatting under
the Slowness with which the In
rerState Commerce Commission is
approving their applications to
the Reconstruction Corporation
for loans,
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
LILIES
SMILE At SUN

The Easter lilies got a break
today as a bright sun gave them
new strength in Washington'S
first indication of the springtime.
And it also happens to be a
break for the purchaser because
there's a Is per cent cut in price
this year.
More than 5000 blooms have
been potted at the Guide hot
houses, Bladensburg and Mt. Oil
vet Roads Northeast, where, &C.
cording to Foreman William F..
Sharper, things are looking bright
for the final Towering Easter
Sunday.
The blooms will be shipped into
the various florists shops for the
holiday crowds next week.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
BUREAU LOSES
OLD OFFICES

The first step toward aban-
donment of five unsightly and in
sanitary temporary Government
office buildings was taken at
o'clock today when workers of
the Bureau of Efficiency in the
Winder Building closed their
desks.
Even before the last employe
has left the building, the Pub
lie Buildings Commission began
transferring office equipment to
the floor below.
The move is being made to
enable carpenters, painters and
plaSterers to completely renovate
the offices before the Bureau Of
Personnel Classification moves in.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
CAPPER, BLAINE
JOIN TLY RAP
MERCER BILL
D. c. Committee Chairman for
Measure, Excepting Power
Clause Majority FavorS

Further impediments in the
way of final passage of the
street car merger bill, favor
ably reported by the Senate
District Committee, developed
this afternoon when Chairman
Arthur Capper joined Senator
John j. Blaine in a minority
report on one important phase
of the measure.
The clause to come under the
fire Of Chairman Capper and
Senator Blaine relates to a vir-
tual continuance for is years of
the existing electric power con-
tract between the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company and the W.
R. and E. Co.
Capper'S View
After that period, the Utilities
Commission would assume full
control of power rates.
Chairman Capper said today:
II think the. merger bill as
agreed upon by the Senate
committee is the best bill of
the many suggested in recent
years."
However, 1 am not satisfied
with the power clause as ap-
proved by the majority of the
committee. / do not think it
fully protects the public in
tereSts, and I belive it shows a
certain partially to the Wash
ingtOn Railway and Electric
Company and the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company, both Of
which are concerned in the
merger legislation"
Therefore I shall join Sem
atOr Blaine in filing a minority
report ON this clause, and in de-
batting it on the Senate floor
although think that, on the
whole, the merger bill, as we
will report it, is a just prOpO-
SitiOn."
Points of Controversy
Principal controversial points
finally included in the bill were:
The merged company will not
be permitted to operate taxi
cabs, but transport. ton is con.
fined to street cars and buses;
the company is tc be relieved of
three-fourths of the cost of new
paving of streets on which tracks
are; the Public Utilities Coznmis-
n is given jurisdiction over the
reduced fares TO- school children
and its authority is generally in
creased in various provisions of
the merger bill.
Transfers are to be 5sued be-
tween street cars and between bus
lines, but the r1.rniSSion will de-
eide Whe ,1er there shall be
street-car-to-buS transfers, and
vice versa; Congress retains the
right to repeal the merger resolu-
ton; nine i the IA new COM
pany di: ctors must be district
residents: the Utilities Commits
sion is to regulate any subsidi-
aries.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
500 Boys and Girls
In rip Van WinkLe'

More than 500 boys and girls
in the dance groups of the local
community centerS appeared in
a pantomime version of RIP
Van Wrinkle" today at the an,
nual children's festival at Cen
trail Community Center, Thir-
teenth and Clifton Streets North
west.
Leading roles were enacted by
E dward E. Muth, the only
grown-up in the cast, as Rip;
Beatrice Mullen as Dame Van
Wlnkle; Betty Ballou, Rip, jr.,
and c onstance Kramer, Rips
daughter.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Commissioners FAVOR
Extending Sunday
Closing to Shops

Drug stores, del1cateSSen,
grocery stores and similar estab-
lishments should be closed one
day in every seven if pending
legislation or the Sunday clos
ing of barber shops is passed.
in the opinion of the District
Commissioners.
In a letter to Senator Arthur
Capper, chairman of the Sen
ate District Committee, con-
sidering the barber shop clos
ing bill, the Commissioners
recommended closing Of such
establishments contingent on
passing the barber shop meas
ure. They did not express ap-
proval or disapproval of the
barber shop bill.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
THREAT
BLUFF SAYS
LAGUARD|A
House Economy Group Plan
Doomed to Sure Death,
He Promises

The proposal of the House
! Economy Committee to reduce
Federal salaries from one to
20 per cent was termed
Democratic "big bluff" today
by Representative Fiorello La
Guardia (R.) of New York,
who has championed the cause
of Government employees since
the start of pay cut agitation.
LaGuardia declared that he be-
lieved any pay cut measure re-
ported out by the Economy Com
mittee would meet certain death
on the floor of the House. Not
only would it include the salaries
Of members of Congress, La
Guardia said, but also the pa
tronage jobs of the chosen few
who work for Senators and
Representatives which would
cause an outcry.
Sees Results Nil
Herbert D. Brown, chief of the
United States Bureau of Effici-
ency, in executive session with
the special committee consider
ing pay cuts, told the members
today that slashing the higher
salaries alone would not produce
the results the committee wants,
even if those salaries are reduced
Is per cent.
The committee will report to
the House on Monday, and it's
aim is to save $50,000,0OO to
500, 100000 in Government sal
aries. Mr.. Brown indicated that
to achieve this purpose it would
be necessary to impose rather
heavy burdens on employees re-
ceiving less than $1,500.
See Action Delayed
That there may be a lull in
the Congressional move to slash
salaries was indicated at both
ends of the Capitol today. The
controversy over the tax bill has
reached such white heat that the
salary question apparently will
remain temporarily in the back
ground.
The sentiment of the House.
according to Representative Nc
Duffie CD of Alabama, is to cut
all salaries, from the lowest char
woman receiving les than $500 a
year, to the highest, President
Hoover. The range is expected
to be from / per cent for salaries
up to $1,000 or slightly more, to
a 10 or 20 per cent cut for those
above $4,000.
Retaliation Blamed
The Senate however has re-
stored to all appropriations bills
in that body the automatic sal
ary increases eliminated by the
House. and the latter boby re-
stored the item in the Post
Office Treasury bill. La Guardia
led this fight and won 100 to 1855.
This victory is blamed by many
for the present. agitation to- cut
salaries, sponsored by Representa-
tive Byrns CD of Tennessee,
chairman of the economy COM
mittee and other Democrats who
are urging stringent economy
measures as part of the budget
balancing program.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Virginia Woman
Seeks UL Husband

The Washington Times today
was asked to help find Raymond
johnson and Leonard r. Spencer,
window cleaners, of Lynchburg,
Va, who have been working in
Washington for two years.
Mrs. Spencer, who lives at 1000
Dearing ST., Lynchburg. says her
husband has not been well, and
since he visited her January "a
has not been heard from.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
West End Civic Unit
Will Meet MOndNu

The West End Citizens Associa-
ton will meet Monday at 8 p.
m. in Room l, Stockton Hall,
George Washington University
Law School, Twentieth Street be-
tween G and H. The U. S. Grant
School Parent Teachers ASSocia-
ton has invited the West End
Citizens Association to meet with
them on April 4 at 8 p. m, in
the Grant School hall, to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of
the school, which is located be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty
second Streets on G Street.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Unity Truth Center
Libr1ru viii Omen

Unity Truth Center, r Street
and Rhode Island Avenue North
west, will open its circulating
library Sunday, April 3, at p. m.
Arthur P. Buck, metaphysician
and lecturer, will be the chief
speaker. The library will be open
to the public Monday, Wednesday
and Friday of each week from S
to 8 p. m,
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
U. S. GRANT TO TALK

The social value of proper city
development will be discussed be-
fore members of the P. E. o.
Sisterhood by Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant III, director of Public
Buildings and Parks, next Tues
day at a luncheon meeting at
the home of Mrs. L. H. Palger,
1900 block, Chesapeake st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Policemen, Firenuen
Pass Rescue Tests

Five Alexandria policemen and
nine firemen last night passed
the tests for advanced rescue
work under the American Red
Cross.
The policemen are Sergt. George
Everly, Corporal r. j. Mullen,
and Patrolmen F. N. Baker, C. L.
Mcdonald and j. L. Stewart.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Davis Gets $50 Days
For TOtinQ WeapON

Convicted on two charges of
carrying a concealed weapon, both
growing out of the same arrest.
John Davis, colored, 25, of 2460
Phillips Court N. w., today was
sentenced to $50 days in jail by
Police Court Judge Isaac r. Hit.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
GRADING CONTINUES

Work of grading slopes and
landseaping in the vicinity of
Lincoln Memorial, which was
temporarily halted by the recent
blizzard, will be resumed Mon
day,
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
STREET WORK APPROVED

President Hoover yeste r d a y
signed a bill providing for exten-
sion and improvement of Georgia
Avenue north of Princeton Place.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
True to Type
MANS BRIEF STORY
STARTED WITH
SHOESTRINCS
Rv GILBERT SELDES

SUPPOSE it is fifty years since men began to wear
laced Shoes yet they have neither invented easily
handled lace which will not snap ceased to believe that
special providence will protect the particular pair they
are using. The average man. after twenty years of
The Washington times., 1932-03-19

perlence, SClll curses 1lercely every
time his shoestring tears, still looks
down at the frayed edge with re-
sentiment and a touch of disbelief,
still delays putting in a new pair
until the disaster occurs, still, fails
to keep a fresh pair in reserve, still
RACES because the fresh pair he ulti-
mately buys, after various knots
prove useless, makes his old shoes
look older. Mingling a pathetic
faith and deplorable incapacity to
look ahead, man in relation to his
shoestrings proves himself the rather
attractive fool he has always been.
Special Cases
To expect an animal which has
fai1ed to adiust its life t0 ShoeStrinpS
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Post-ShoeIace Era
What About Emerson

Mr. John Forest writes to inquire what the blazes
(and other things) I meant by saying that Ralph
can go-getter. He resoutely will not believe that
meant what said which that the essay on self
reliance may have begotten as many brash, pushing
and vulgar individuals it has fathered strong and
imitaton-conformity. (But then, Emerson said so
many things; he even said that God forgives every
thing but bad manners, which I recommended to the
more boorsh of his selfreliers) "Trust thyself he
cried, not to five five hundred five thousand
people disciplined and intelligent and sefcontrolled
that they could be trusted by others He said it to the
world and whatever portion of the world did not hear
him heard him later from Ebert. Hubbart, and pres
emily intellectual boys in high school saying it to
themselves and to their grandmothers. .
FIappers Version
The go-getters, to be sure, vulgarized Emerson's
Trust thyself" to 'Be yourself and the flip genera
ton which followed improved it into "Act your age"
the best Words "Know thysef" But Emerson who
spoke pthily and noby and without regard for
sequences, encouraged people totally unequipped for
thinking in the belief that the judgment of is
superior to the Judgment of society," which is not
sarlly true and that you trust yourself you will be
naturally noble and fine and superior, which is
tanly false. Except for Emersonian people,
Pirates in Tuxedos
The type Babbitt goes to church. supports the right
clubs and charities dinner jacket under pro-
test (both wearing it and the protest according to
the best aditon) and otherwise does what his neigh
Dor does. But he does not conform when conformity
would do him any hurt reduce his profits or diminish
than his neighbor and tries to make more money than
ms rivals and speaks with authority about things he
doesn't know. When he rises in the world and be-
comes great industriast he is tyranncal the ord-
himself; he is self-trustfu as Napoleon and he has
Napoleon's bust in his office
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
TREESTOBLOOM
IN NEW PARK

A display of red, shell pink,
and white crabapple blossoms,
surprising in beauty Washing
toms famous cherry blossoms, will
commence blooming annually five
years hence in Anacostia Park,
Frank T. GartSide, chief of pub
lie parks, said today.
More than 1000 crabapple
trees have been planted during
the last three years along the
east bank of Eastern Branch, he
said. The trees will bear fruit,
but of no commercial value.
ARTHUR KR0CK TO SPEAK
Arthur Krock, chief of the
Washington bureau of the New
York Times, will speak at the
weekly luncheon of the Women's
National Press Club Tuesday at
the Willard.
The Washington times., 1932-03-19
Special Cases

GILBERT failed to ADJUST Its LIE to ShoeStfngS
to master economic processes is too much The element
of faith is too strong in him, the belief that all law
and particularly all law he does not understand, will
somehow be suspended in his favor because he is a
special He is, of but only to himself. He
goes into stock market which for a century has en-
riched only the professional (and occasion, the dis
honestl and honest amateur he expects to make
a fortune The market shoesring snaps in his hands,
and he curses not himself but the market for not
ognzng the uniqueness of his endeavors He faces an
economic crisis then and hasn't any reservenot even
another shoestrng to start business But he sticks
to the idea of miracle He gets to the point of need
ing no shoeace because he has no shoes and vndcates
his rights citizen by voting for candidates about
whom he knows considerably less than he knows about
the man who once was his banker his butcher
Post-ShoeIace Era
At the end of five thousand years he will either revert
to the sandal (n period known the breakdown OF
Western civization) go forward (n period known
the second American empire) to buckle or upper
In the latter event he will find that those coy uncertain
and impractical about whom he used to lecture
have preceded him by fifty centuries
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-05-12
SHORTENING THE WORKING DAY

4 GENERAL shortening OF the hours OF
~ labor IN all branches Of industry may
come about as one result Of the resent bllsl-
ness depression An increasing number OF
large business concerns are operating on Il
five day week There Is great deal Of dis
cussion among business men of the posi-
blity of making the siN-hour day the stan
dard 4 bill has been introduced III CON
gress for the reduction OF the working day
on government work. with 4 corresponding
reduction III compensation to each worker,
and for the adoption Of a general five-dav
week in all industries. We don't expect
very much to come out Of that. because VIC
have given UP expecting congress to do amy
thing to bring about the millennium. But
we hear encouraging reports from indus
tries that have adopted the shorter day and
the shorter week, and it wouldn't surprise
Us to see this movement grow very rapidly
OF course. the earnings Of workers arc
necessarily less, individually, when they
work shorter hours; but It takes more
workers cooperate the business and, on the
whole it seems il better thing for the nation
1T large to have everybody earning some
thing than to have few earning bic pay
and lot earning nothing. Fewer people
are going to be able to buy Injuries in the
next few years than were able to buy them
III the few years preceding the big slump
But even if everybody earned Twenty-Five
percent less for the next ten wears than
they did in the years from 1920 to 1890. our
average income and buying power would
still be much higher than that of the people
Of any other nation in the world. And if the
flve-day week and the six-hour day will re-
suit III putting everybody back to work. then
we are for it,
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-05-12
SUPPOSE WE ABOLISH ALL
TARIFFSl

lust WHAT would happen to this coun-
! try If we abolished our protective tariff
In the first place it would deprive Us oil
about S600,00000O annual revenue. ms
S6OO.OO0.000 would OF course. have to be
added to the tax bill Of the people
In the next place cheap foreign goods
Of all kinds would pour into the home mar
ket so fast as to completely stop the wheels
of industry and throw ont Of work thou
sands Of men in the United States who
work with their hands. As an instance OF
this, British India can lay down pig iron
on the Atlantic coast 81 ton less than our
American furnaces III the Pennsylvania
area could produce and deliver ton Of pig
iron The same holds relatively true OF fab
ricated steel and other products OF the iron
and steel industry from other countries.
Our own industries would be paralyzed
and the rankest free trader ought to be able
to understand that.
Now let's see what it would do to agrl-
culture. Recent Investigations Indicate that
Europe Is at present, or soon VIII be, sell
sustaining from food standpoint. From
now on she will import little II any bread
stuffs from the surplus countries.
Argentina, on the south Of Us, produces
an average of about 2SO,OOO,OOO bushels Of
wheat Of which 90 per cent is exported;
Canada. to the north, about 35O,OOO,OOO
bushels and nearly all Of it is for export;
Australia about 100000 bushels with the
same average eNportable surplus. These
countries are looking for free market.
They have cheap water freight rates. The
natural market therefore, under free trade
policy would be the United States, with the
result that our markets would be sWamped
with cheap wheat and our wheat farmers
completely wiped out.
Canada could then compete freely i'll
the New York area with dairy and poultry
products to say nothing Of beef and pork
and other table farm products Danish and
New Zealand butter would flood the Allan
tic coast states. In simple terms, our agr-
cultural population would be reduced to
producing only sufficient for their own use
or for the immediate local consuming COM
munities
The American market Is greater than
the combined markets of the world The
loss Of this great market would spell the
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-05-12

doom of the American farmer and laboring
man and at the same time bring calamity
and bankruptcy to the industrial life OF the
nation.
While this paper is convinced that a
proper. scientific tariff law Is necessary for
the prosperity of this nation, 1t freely adj
mts that ii number OF glarlng abuses have
been allowed to creep into tariff schedules.
These. Of course. should be corrected and
care should be taken to see that tariff walls
are not raised beyond all reason.
There are those who argue that II all
tariff laws were done away with It eventual
" would be better for the welfare and pros
peritv of the world. Until such times as
foreign standards Of living are raised to al
equality with those prevailing III America
and foreign wage scales are. equal to those
Of this country, we believe it would be dis
astrous for this nation to 90 onto Tree
trade basis. II that were done cheap foreign
labor-4in many instances almost slave labor
would be responsible for flood OF foreign
produced goods engalfing the markets OF
this country.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-05-12
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