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Evening star., 1933-03-24

geles, were branded last night by Capt.
Clyde Plummer, investigator for the
district attorneys office, as part Of
gold brick bunco scheme"
Plummer said an Investigation re-
vealed no gold bricks have been pur.
chased and nobody seems to know
where they are"
According to the stories, large
amount of the gold was offered for
sale at so cents on the dollar and arm
ored trucks would deliver the metal to
purchasers-that 1t, II 1t wasn't hi
lacked en- route.
Inasmuch as nobody had lost money
the investigation was closed.
Evening star., 1933-03-24
Will Meet With Farmers.

WARRENTON, Va, March "a (Spe.'
ciaD.-W. H. Daughtrey. assistant ex-ss
tension agronomist Of v. P. l., viii be
in this county next week with Joseph
Copley, county agent, to hold farmers'
meetings for the discussion Of fertilizers
and feed crops for the improvement Of
the soil. Meetings will be held at
Bealeton High School Monday at 7:30
pm: Hume School, Tuesday, 2::30 pm;
Marshall National Bank, Tuesday, 7:30
pm, and Calverton School, Wednesday,
7:30 pm,
Evening star., 1933-03-24

old Peter Myers, jr., Of Masury, near
here, would be withdrawn from the
scene Of the kidnapping until $50 pm.
today.
Withdrawal Of the officers will give
the abductors an opportunity to re-
turn the hoy or communists with his
parents. Hardman said.
Three men kidnapped the boy from In
nont OF the Myers home Saturday
night. Police at YOUNGSTOWN said yes
terday dve suspects arrested there for
questioning had been released.
Evening star., 1933-03-24
Woman Police Officer to Speak.
SILVER SPRING, Nd, March "A

SILVER SPRING. Nd, March ~
(SpeciaD Lieut.. Rhoda Milliken Of the
womans division Of the Washington
police force will discuss youth Prob
lens" at q meeting Of the Woman's
Republican Club Of Silver Spring Mon
day afternoon at the home OF Mrs. z.
w. Koch, Woodside.
There will also be brief business
Evening star., 1933-03-24

france spent nearly $4,000 900 In de-
velopment Of aviation last year.
Evening star., 1933-03-24
SHERIFF CALLS TRUCE
IN BOYS KIDNAPPING
Withdraws Deputies at Kasury,
Ohio, for Few Hours to Per-
NIT Negotiations.

BY the Associated Press.
WARREN, Ohio, March 2l.-Sherin
Roy S. Hardman Of Trumbull County
announced last night that deputies In
vestigating the Kidnapping Of 16.year-
Evening star., 1933-03-24
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,

equipping themselves for their work.
he asserts.
Evening star., 1933-03-24
SMUGGLED GOLD STORIES
LAID TO BUNCO PLOT
Reports Of $4,000, 900 Bricks
Taken to Los Angeles From
Mexico Branded as False.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 24.-Stories
Of q search for $3.000,000 in Mexican
gold, purportedly smuggled during the
last Mexican revolution into Los An
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-07
NRA IS STEP AHEAD

MORE and more it becomes clear that no
A'A matter what direction the great NRA
program is taking us, it hardly can be re-
garded as more than tentative first step.
If it fails. the second step undoubtedly will
be productive of even more fundamental and
far-reaching changes than those which al
ready have taken place. We can not cancel
years endeavor and sit back to wait for
something to turn up.
We are committed to a course of drastic
action; if the first act fopS We only can make
the second one double dose.
But We do not believe that the step will
fail And it is in looking ahead to the course
We must follow if and when this program has
succeeded that we shall have to call on all
the brain power that the country possesses.
The NRA program admittedly is an emer-
gency measure. 1t is an effort to Surmount
crisis; as such. it has to meet the problems
of the immediate present and let certain long
range detectives wait.
Taken altogether, it is magnificent thing.
But it does leave untouched the fundamental
issue of the modern world-the queer, illogical
way in which the tremendous increase in man
kinds productive capacity has been accom-
panied by rising unemployment and poverty.
For the present we are trying to meet that
problem by imposing sharp checks on pro-
duction. We are spending vast sums to keep
down our production of such basic COM
modities as wheat. pork and cotton.
We are putting oil production under curb;
We are fixing things so that the great manu-
facturers may keep from making more goods
than they can sell.
For the period of the emergency, such
steps are good. Sooner or later, however, we
must find better way of meeting the problem.
II is physically possible now for the world
to produce at such rate that every mortal
can have all that he needs of everything
Somehow, once a fair measure of prosperity
has been restored, we must find out how to
do that.
We shall have to start thinking about in
creasing production instead of checking it
our fields, our mines, our factories and our
wells must bring forth more instead of less.
That is the direction toward which the
next step after the NRA program must
carry us
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-07
AFTER REPEAL

THROUGHPUT people, vets and drys alike,
l. will be cheered by the news that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is looking to control Of the
liquor traffic.
This question is one Of the biggest con-
fronting the January session Of congress, as
Stunning repeal by that date 1t is one on which
we can afford no more mistakes. The mis-
take made thirteen years ago was catastro-
phic.
Representative Emmanuel Celler Of New
York is comforting with Attorney-General
Homer Cummings and treasury officials on
the problem, as suggested by President Roose-
velt
Public interest and government interests
are involved vitality. Distillers' profits should
rank after public safety and federal revenue.
There should be purity of product, and
reasonable prices. There should be no mon
opoly-unlesS a government monopoly. AL
ready there are reports of unreasonably high
prices for medicinal liquor, despite the liber
allied prescription rules Of the law passed
a few months ago. Already too, there are re-
ports of sale of blue sky stocks in distilleries
and breweries.
The proposal that the dstilling business be
put on a limited dividend basis will bear con-
sideration. Indeed, if distillers in the early
days after repeal pyramid their profits and
pollute their product there will be justifca-
ton for government manufacture or sale, or
both
Representative Celler is starting with the
idea of strict control Of ardent spirits and
iberality in regulation of beer and wine.
The field of conflicting state and federal
controls remains to be surveyed carefully but
it appears that the questions of monopoly,
prices, stock selling and other business prac-
tices as well as a major part of the tax rev.
enue, are distinctly within the federal province
Regulations AS to sales, highly important
from the public standpoint, are state functions
for the most part, and several legislatures
already are at work to meet this phase of the
problem. Control boards of disinterested pub
lic-spirited citizens have been set up in vari-
Gus states.
National sobriety and revenue will be the
test of any control system.
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what looks ike a suit Of athletic underwear.
Tennis players and baseball players have TO
run fast. but they contrive to run fast in a
different kind Of costume
Women athletes appear to be tending to-
ward a simpler convention, which, whatever
the sport, consists Of shirt ard shorts. The
new national tennis champion, Miss Helen
Jacobs, has even established this garb on the
courts. Before long, we doubtless shall find
it on the golf course.
Short shorts are standard on the girls
baseball diamond, Notwithstanding that men
ball players go about clothed in a manner that
women athletes would regard as unduly re-
strictive as well as prudish.
The formula adopted by the girls for sports
the fewest clothes possble-actually seems
a good deal more sensible than the elaborate
conventionalism Of the men. 1t happens at
the moment to be the subject of protest by the
ladies of an Ohio w. c. T. U. They seem to
think girls baseball games are leg shows as
well as athletic contests
1t is true that the legs do show; but this
is a sight that most of the people are used
to by now and is generally enjoyed without
terror or ecstasy.
We venture to predict that it will become
more rather than less common in sport gen.
orally. Viewing this aspect of the future, we
do not view it with alarm.
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THE QUALITY OF MERCY

THE existence in the ordinary human
u heart of soft spot for any living crea-
ture which is in bad jam never was better
demonstrated than in the elaborate efforts
made to rescue that venturesone deer which
got itself isolated on mountain ledge at
Watkins Glen, N. Y.
Ordinarily sportsmen head for the woods to
shoot deer. They spend lots of money on the
attempt, take great deal of trouble, walk their
legs off-and, occasionally, shoot one another
by mistake.
But one lone deer, scrambling along a
mountainside and getting itself hung up high
and dry at the edge of a cliff. can cause men
to make arduous and expensive attempts to
rescue it-just because it is so utterly help
less
Running through the woods, the same deer
would get shot by the first armed man who
came along. Stranded on a mountain. it be-
comes the object of genuine sympathy.
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(Times readers are invtted to express
their rieios in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 1ords or less.)
By w. j. Wilson
To a Believer in Fairness: Why,
you don't know what the word
means. 1t is too bad we had to cut
our teachers pay and couldn't pay
their last twenty days of salary, but
we will soon. We have some Won
derful teachers in our state. But
there are many citizens with chill
dren in school who never pay taxes
on their household goods, which are
pitifully small enough.
Why pick on police and flremen!
They have had a cut in wages
twice, in fact; Ia per cent.
We citizens furnish them moth
ing. We don't buy their kitchen
equipment. 1t is from their own
house or given them by some one
else. The f1remen buy their own
food and ice; pay for gas and the
next time you go into an engine
house to use their telephone, just
remember that the city does not fur
nish it.
The firemen pay for it. The tele-
phone does not belong to the tax
payer. The fireman just is extend
ing you a favor to let you use it.
Also, he pays all laundry for his
beds and buys his uniforms, which
are expensive. We furnish moth
ing.
All firemen don't use their kitch-
ems. Some carry their meals. The
wives of others carry it to them,
or they have it sent in.
No fireman makes $40 a day, I'M
less it is the chief Of the depart
ment. The fireman makes about 81
a day, 16 cents an hour for 1865
days a year, and works for the tax
payer one day every four years free,
as do all state, city and county en-
ployes. We pay police more than
our flremen, but not $40 a day.
Doesn't it mean something to you
as citizen to have one of the first
ranking fire departments in the
country, less crime than other cities,
lowest fire insurance rates?
Too bad we had to cut pay of our
teachers, police and firemen, but In
dianapolis has been able to pay
them. We citizens want an up-tQ-
date city and should have one. We
have beautiful parks and airports,
but they all cost money.
We don't need the Chamber of
Commerce and Real Estate Board to
run indianapolis. We employ a
mayor and councilmen to guide us.
And they have done some wonderful
things for Indianapols-but, again,
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IT'S the honesty of these new dealers that
i impresses us. 1t is their frank declara-
tons that theirs are experiments. not cure-alls.
They are seeking out a planned economy;
they. too. want to Danish the poorhouse from
the land. But they are not claiming that
their efforts will bring about its Punishment
overnight. Those who deal with agriculture
are endeavoring to restore farm prosperity by
balancing the poor years against the good.
They are aiming at the fundamental
troubles. but they realize, fortunately that
THEN methods up to now have been catch
as-catch-can" Upon this honest facing of
the facts they probably will attain their
fundamental aims.
Secretary of Agriculture is an example.
81 have enough of the old-time farming tradi-
ton in me-" he said, 20 feel a twist inside, as
I recently did down south, when saw thrifty
cotton being plowed under. Nevertheless, the
farmers who did that blowing were facing re-
atty. Next season the cotton south will
plant some fifteen million acres less cot
ton than it planted last year.
The present hog control plan is just as
crude and just as necessary as our first years
cotton plan. If it does not develop next year
and after into a larger effort to adjust the
corn crop. also, it will be only another piece
of patchwork, and may lead to disaster.
All that We have done so far is only the
atch-as-catch-can beginning of a longtime
effort to put our land and our immense agri-
cultural resources of skill and energy to bet
ter use"
Upon this frank basis longtime effort has
a bright chance to succeed. Secretary Wallace
is lust as frank about currency initiation. He
has no doubt that initiation will tighten each
farmers debt and tax burdens and-this is
the important part-that 1T also advances the
prices of what he buys"
Secretary Wallace knows that "it is per-
. fectlv possible -. for a situation like the
present one in agriculture to work itself out."
The toll is high. though. 1T merely takes
time and suffering and bloodshed," he said.
The new deal has declined to permit this
sort of solution. the secretary explained.
Hence he and the other new dealers are ex-
perimenting experimenting honestly. That's
{. their saving grace.
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THURSDAY. SEPT. I. 1888.
WE CONSULT LATIN AMERICA

THE Presidents sincerity and skill in deal
ing with the difficult Cuban situation is
shown by his action in calling Latin American
diplomats into consultation. There is no effort
on the part Of the administration to WELD the
big stick. The President knows that the
United States can get nothing but misery out
Of an arrogant policy.
Latin American governments have been
assured-as our own people and the Cubans
have been assured-that the United States
does not want to intervene But not stopping
with that negative statement Of policy. Mr..
Roosevelt has requested other Latin American
governments to cooperate to prevent the
necessity Of Intervention. How? BY appealing
publicly to the Cuban people to support a
Strong and effective government to curb chaos.
There is no guarantee, of course, that such
q Pan-American appeal, if made, would be
sufficient but it should do much more good
than lone appeal by us. 1t would tend to
quiet the fears of those Cubans who distrust
the United States, for they can not believe
that all Latin America is in selfish conspiracy
against them.
Apart from the effect of this Roosevelt
policy upon Cuban public opinion already it
has helped our relations with Latin America
At least the Latin American diplomatic corps
in Washington is pleased and appreciative of
the cooperative spirit which moves Mr.
Roosevelt
This is a far cry from the swagger of the
colossus which many of these same Latin
American representatives have observed in
Washington in past years
The fact that the President is trying to act
in concert with other American republics is
especially significant in this particular case
Unlike the Haitian end Nicaraguan cases, in
which the United States moved alone and
without sanction, we have special treaty rights
and obligations in Cuba.
Whether the Plat amendment and the
treaty are wise or unwise. they definitely
pledge the United States to the maintenance
of Cuban liberties and order when threatened
But even this formal treaty has not been
used by the President as an excuse for inter
vention to date. Despite the pressure of GER
tain business interests for intervention, and
despite the treaty which encourages such in
tervention, the President withhods the marines
and turns instead to joint peaceful action with
Latin America.
May this policy of peace be successful
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It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. Sept. IA gentle
~ man who preached about
Labor day assailed the NRA with
the hope that it would be but tenn
porary. And his reasons were that
short hours are not good for man.
There is" said the Rev DR.. Ray
mond L. Forman, "a prevailing fan
tasy that the best job is the easiest
one. I never have seen a capable
man in an easy Job who did not
first lose his courage, then his char
acter and. finally. his self-respect."
When I read these sentiments it
practically ruined my whole day
On numerous occasions I have
stated that I knew few jobs easier
than my own. I wonder whether it
has wrecked me. or can it be that
things would have turned out about
the same, even if I had toiled twice
or four times as hard?
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NJ. E.TracySays:

T EAVING for Europe on the very day that
IL Texas took her place as the twenty-tllrd
state to line up for repeal, Bishop James Cam
non Jr. of the Methodist Church, South, issued
statement in which he offered six reasons for
the anti-prohibition drift.
Former Governor Alfred "a Smith was one,
depression was another, and what the good
bishop is pleased to describe "falSe wet news
paper propaganda" was still another. But the
real and all-important reason, in his opinion,
was the governments failure to enforce the law.
am inclined to believe that the govern
ment's failure to dry up this country has lot
to do with the change in public sentiment, but
it was neither optional nor deliberate. In the
beginning at least, the government made an
honest effort to accomplish the impossible.
1t appropriated millions of dollars and mob
ilized a veritable army of special agents It
obtained active cooperation from most of the
states, increased the coast guard to the proper
tons of a second navy, and choked federal
courts with an endless procession of pint
peddlers.
The government did not fail without trying,
nor did the people turn against the noble ex-
pertinent" until they had convinced themselves
that it was farce.
FORMER Governor Smith was one of the
L few outstanding leaders who had the in
telligence to see the result and the courage to
name it. Depression merely accentuated the
folly of turning over all the liquor profit to
bootleggers when the government needed money.
AS to drinking most of the diminution was
in quality, while most of the proceeds went to
support racketeering.
What Bishop Cannon calls false wet news
paper propaganda" was only that disagreeable
element of truth which is bound to crop out
with free press
Newspapers whether wet or dry told the
public what was going on. 1t didn't look good
from the prohibition standpoint 1t didn't prove
that the noble experiment" was a success. But
it was not manufactured in editorial rooms, and
it was not propaganda, in the accepted sense
of the word.
Bishop Cannon falls back on the pernicous
logic of a crusader when he attempts to explain
the anti prohibition drift on any other ground
than that of disguised, disappointed and dis
illusioned public opinion.
THE eighteenth amendment was incompatible
L with the traditions of American life and the
principles Of American government. 1t took
the people twelve years to discover as much.
Leaders did not make them change their
minds, but merely voiced the change. Depres-
sion merely confirmed Judgment that already
was being formed.
The eighteenth amendment was not adopted
as the result of deep conviction or mature
thought 1t was written into the Constitution by
virtue Of a war fever which caused us to do
many foolish things
1t belongs to the era of wooden ships and
mule breeding when We regarded the price Of
wheat as fixed at So and every farm could be
mortgaged for double it's real value.
We are giving prohibition up just as France
Is giving up German reparations and for about
the same reason 1t was impossible.
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Many Sudden Deaths Due to Clot

er, eminent founder of an epoch
in medical history, himself died of
this condition. having been irri-
tated by some Of his friends in an
argument.
Since that date it has been known
that such irritation is exceedingly
serious to a person with hardening
Of the blood vessels Of the heart;
in fact, the great Hunter said that
he was at the mercy Of any one
who chose to anger him.
In recent years, postmortem ex-
aminations Of the bodies Of those
who have died suddenly have
brought to light important evidence
as to the cause of sudden pain
in the heart and sudden death as
ISOLATED with it.
1t is likely that at least one-half
of all Of the sudden deaths occur
ring in this country are due to
changes in the small blood vessels
which supply the heart with
nutrition, or else to blocking of
these vessels by some mechanism.
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:: The Message Center ::


, of something less than 800 acres
He is a real dirt farmer and not an
"agriculturiSt."
I once heard lawyer define the
terms farmer and agriculturist. A
farmer, said he, is a man who lives
on farm and tries to make the
farm furnish him a living and
money enough to pay his taxes.
An agriculturist, he said, is a
man who owns a farm and works
at something else to make money
enough to run the damned farm
Perry is not an agriculturiSt.
About twenty years ago, the peo-
pie Of Carroll county elected him
to the lower house of the general
assembly, where he served with
credit to himself and his conStitu-
entS. He recently has served his
township two terms as trustee.
Aside from this, know not OF
his holding any other positions
either elective or appointive. He is
at this time simply a private citi-
zen, trying hard to make a living
for his family and pay his taxes
and I am very sure he is not on the
state pay roll or any other public
pay roll, and receives no revenue
whatsoever from beer.
Perry has one distinction that few
men have. He is the father of trip
lets, two boys and one girl, all liv-
ing, all grown and all good citizens
The daughter, Golden Rule, has
been for several years a Carroll
county teacher of high standing.
Perry Rule is abundantly able to
take care of himself with his pen in
discussion with Worried Reader
or any one else, and needs no de-
tense from me. Being a modest
man, however, he would not care to
make free use of the personal pro-
noun, I, so I have done this much
for him.
Judging by the general tone of his
article, I should conclude that wv.
r." might stand for Worried Re-
publican" who seeks through the
columns of The Times to vent his
spleen on Paul McNutt by lambast-
ing Rule. If SO, he is a very, very
poor sport.
Why doesn't he take his medicine
with good grace, as we Democrats
used to do when wv r., Goodrich,
McCray, Jackson ct al. were running
things in Indiana, and ladling out
appointments galore to those of their
own political faith?
In conclusion let me say that am
neither a farmer nor lawyer and
not related in any way to Perry Rule
or any of his family. I simply am
defending neighbor.
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n Asst year when was in New
IL Mexico I visited the state peni-
Tertiary at Santa Fe. This year 1
went through the girls welfare home
at Albuquerque. Both excellent in
stitutions in their way, but what a
difference!
was struck by the brave efforts
made in the latter by superintend-
ent, teachers. and girls to brighten
the place where they lived with
beauty. Little touches of color, girls
painting and te-washing, hand
decorated walls and doors and
chairs, spoke. eloquently of making
the most of little money.
Although the home sadly is over
crowded, there is a happy atmos-
phere there; a sort of sisterly COM
munion of spirit, and nothing to in
dicate that either constraint or force
is used with the girls.
Wherever women are. there you