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The Washington times., 1933-08-12
CIVIL SERVICE
To LIST D. {.
LABORERS
Names of 1900 Wanted, Al
though Jobs May Not Be
Available Now

District residents who want jobs
as laborers will have, at least the
opportunity to get on Civil Ser
vice registry lists If they obtain
and fill out application blanks,
which will be distributed next
Thursday, August II, at the Gov
ernment fuel yards, Half and l.
Streets Southeast, beginning at
8 a. m.
Only $500 blanks will be given
out. The Civil Service Colnmis-
sion explains that the purpose Is
to build up a registry list for use
over a long period and that no
definite jobs are necessarily to be
filled Immediately from it.
August rs Is Deadline
The blanks, when filled out,
must be filed at the office OF
the commission, Seventh and F
Streets Northwest, not later than
August 25.
Applicants will be graded as
male senior laborers and male
junior laborers. The entrance
salary for the former grade is
$1,000 a year and for the latter
$1,000, minus the Is per cent
economy act cut and the 312 per
cent retirement deduction.
Age Limits Fixed
Applicants must nave reached
their eighteenth but not their
fortieth birthday on August 25,
except that these age limits are
waived in the case of persons
having military preference.
They will be rated on a physi-
cal examination, which include
the shouldering of a sack and
norotonatc 1rtoinhinn 1OS nn11nds
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
BOOKED
FOR D, {. FAIR

Vests World Wonder Shows
will be the main attraction at the
coming National City Fair in
Benning early next month under
plans made today by the Police
and Fire Post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
More than 300 attractions will
be offered daily at the fair, in
Guiding midway features and two
carnival bands Of SO pieces each.
Half the proceeds from the fair
will be given to the Police Charity
Organization.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
GIRL IMPROVES
WITH OXYGEN

The Fire Rescue Squad today
continued its battle to save the
life of 10-year-old Margaret
Whaley at her home in the 600
block Emerson st. N. w.
The child is suffering from
bronchial pneumonia and Fire
Rescue Squad No. l has been
administering oxygen to her since
early yesterday. She is said to
be showing Improvement.
The firemen ceased administer
ing oxygen last night to Louis
Roman, of the 700 block Prince
ton Pl. N. w., when physicians
pronounced him out of danger.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
D. {. To SEEK
ARNORY

A new National Guard armory
for Washington, to cost $780,
900, is to be asked under the
public works program by the Dis
trict Commissioners.
A letter asking that the armory
project be added to the list of
projects, already totaling $22.-
761, 500, which have been urged,
was prepared yesterday by Major
John c. Gotwals, District En-
gineer Commissioner.
The letter is to be approved
probably today, by Dr.. Luther H.
Reichelderfer, president of the
Board of Commissioners, and for
warded to the public works board.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
D. C.. Couple jailed
On LiQlGOr Charges

William j. Turner, colored, first
block G st. S. W., and his sister,
Mary Turner, were arrested yes
terday on liquor charges after po-
lice found three cases Of alleged
whisky in their automobile.
They were committed to the
Hyattsville Jail in default of bond.
Both were charged with illegal
TRANSPORTATION and possession.
They were arrested by Constable
Ralph Knight.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Church Unit Heads
To Be Nominated

The nominating committee of
the Montgomery County Christian
Endeavor Union will meet Septem-
ber 8 to draw up a slate for the
coming election, Wilton Boswell.
of Hyattsville, president of the
union, announced today.
The nominating committee con-
sists of James Kerr, jr., Mrs. C. N.
Barnes, Miss Alice Boswell, Miss
Allie Moxley, Paul Smith, Miss
Bertha Brown Miss Margaret
Plummer and Miss Mary Waters.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
"a FLY AUTOGIR0s

The Department Of Commerce
announced today that "a pilots
have been licensed to fly auto
giros only. Nine of these are
Pennsylvanians. The youngest is
Thomas w. Warner, jr., of Pasa-
dena, Calf, aged II, and the old
est Robert L. Montgomery, 81, Of
Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
HaIbert GiUen Post
On Jobs Committee

Appointment of Leroy A. Hal
bert, administrator for the D. C.
Emergency Relief Committee as
a member of the recently formed
work planning and job assign
ment committee, was announced
yesterday by the District Com
miSSiOnerS.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Silver Spring Man
Passes Bar Exam

Edward Arliss, of Silver Spring
successfully passed the Maryland
bar examination, it was an
nounced late yesterday.
A graduate of Dartmouth Col
lege and the Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School, Mr.. Arliss will be
eligible to practice law in the fall
term of the Montgomery County
Circuit Court.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Contract Awarded
For OHtfittinn School

Contract for the furnishing of
the new school building at the
Industrial Home for Colored Chill
dren at Blue Plains, D. c., was
let yesterday to E. E. Ward &
Son, of this city, by the District
Commissioners. The work will be
done at a cost of $3,199.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Winning Entries to Be Sent to National Meet
At Chicago Worlds Fair; College
Park Farley Ends Tuesday

of the girls All clubs;
classeso in live stock and poultry
judging and demonstrations in
home-making subjects.
DR.. T. B. Symons, director OF
the school extension service, will
address the delegates at a special
assembly in the afternoon.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
LICENSED TO WE'D

A marriage license was issued
at Rockville to William L. Hol-
man, "a, of Norfolk, Va, and Mel
lie L. Morris, 25, Of Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12

What beauty with beasts Illustrated here in sketches
elephant acts booked for National City Fair the week
September Bennng under the auspices Of the Police and
Fire Foreign Wars The act known Mar
garet Elephants primarily for the of chill
although expressed unWngness to
pOnderOus pachyderms perform prodgouS tea
circus off moment And the beauty
in this case Margaret EmdO nationally known animal trainer
Evening star., 1933-02-16
Constitution and the Presidency.

While the attempt last night upon the
life Of the President-elect at Miami was
happily unsuccessful, it brings imme-
diately to the mind the question of pro-
cedure in the event that it had been
otherwise. A week ago yesterday the
electoral votes cast in the several States
were counted by Congress. and Franklin
D. Roosevelt was formally declared to
have been chosen President and John
N. Garner Vice President. The electoral
college, having discharged its duty, was
no more. There Is no provision Of law
or Constitution for Its reconvening-by
State groups-to cast new ballots. Nor
was there in the Constitution, prior to
the ratification OF the twentieth amend
ment, and specific provision for the
filling of vacancy in the event of the
death Of the President designate or
President-elect, although presumably
the person chosen Vice President would
have been regarded as the qualified
successor to fill the vacancy thus created
The twentieth amendment, ratified q
short time ago, however, provides for
Just such contingency. 1t reads:
II at the time fixed for the beginning
OF the term Of the President the Presi-
dent-elect shall have died, the Vice
ilPresident-elect shall become President
Ilf President shall not have been
Vchosen before the time fixed for the
beginning OF his term, or if the Presi-
| dent-elect shall have failed to qualify
then the Vice President elect shall act
as President until President shall have
qualified; and the Congress may by law
| provide for the case whsrein neither q
Presioent-elect nor a Vice President
elect shall have qualified, declaring who
shall then act as President, or the man
Ter in which one who is to act shall b<
selected, and such person snail act ac.
cordlngly until President or Vice
President shall have qualified
The Congress may by law provide fol-
the case OF the death of any Of the per-
sons from whom the House of Repre-.
sentatives may choose President when.
ever the right Of choice shall have de.
VolVed upon them, and for the case o.
the death OF any OF the persons from
whom the Senate may choose a Vict
| President whenever the right of choic,
shall devolVe upon them.
This new section OF the Constitution
with the powers delegated to Congress
effectively provides for all conceivabl
contingencies. 1t does not, however
affect the situation of the death O
nominees for the two Offices, occurrin
before the general election or the elec
Evening star., 1933-02-16
japan Pauses.

No single piece Of news has latterly
come out Of Japan of more arresting
significance than the announcement
that before the ultimate decision Is
made in the controversy with the
League over Manchuria the Council Of
Elders, the nations most distinguished
personages, the heads Of branches Of
the imperial family, and all living ex-
premiers will be summoned for consul
tation. Japan, in ether words, intends
to look before she leaps. 1t Is at least
an augury that there Is to be no pre-
cipitate action at Tokio-that all
phases Of the critical situation are to
be explored. AL contingencies weighed
which bear on the momentous question
at issue.
Geneva, on its part, supplies time fol-
this breathing spell. The Leagues re-
port and recommendations in the Sino-
Japanese dispute will be transmitted X
an governments In the world tomorrow
The Assembly will be convened mex
Tuesday for consideration OF and &C
Evening star., 1933-02-16

ton by the State electors. Twice b
American history has death thus
occurred. In fs72 Horace Greeley,
nominated for President by the Demo-
Gratis and Liberal Republicans, died
shortly after the election in November
and the eighty-one electoral votes
which would have gone to him, against
the 286 given to Grant, were split
among four men, mainly going to
B. GratZ Brown, his running mate on
the combination ticket, or were not
counted. In 1912 James s. Sherman,
nominated by the Republicans for Vice
President with william Howard Taft,
died on the eve of the November elec-
tion and the eight votes Of the electors
of Vermont and Utah, the only States
voting the straight Republican ticket,
were cast for Nicholas Murray Butler.
In neither of these instances did the
death of the candidate in any manner
affect the procedure, as in each case
their ticket was in hopeless minority.
Had the assassin's purpose been
effected yesterday at Miami, John N.
Garner would today have been the
President-elect.
Evening star., 1933-02-16

ton upon the report Of the Committee
of Nineteen. The committees findings
are known. They call for restoration of
Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria, for
the automatic abolition Of "independ-
ent" Manchukuo, and for withdrawal of
Japanese forces from that region. BY
the same token, Of course, there Is an
implied demand for cessation Of pro-
jected japanese military measures
against Jehol
Japan yesterday served notice that
1t has ceased negotiations with the
League, but her anticipated withdrawal
from 1t is not expected for about a
month. How strained an atmosphere
is generated even by this prospect was
exemplified by the closing Of the Toxic
Stock Exchange, as well as those Of
Osaka and Nagoya. Crashes in Sc
curity prices, caused by indications of
increasing anti-Japanese sentiment at
Geneva, led to precautionary steps
which the authorities hold to be neces-
sary.
Because the government feels that
withdrawal from the League would be
"the turning point in the empires his
tory" the council of the nations best
minds has been convened. Japan can
not afford international isolation. 1t
might not prove Immediately disastrous
to her, because she is strong and more
or less self-contained. But she. no
more than any other modern nation
in these days of interlocking relation
ships, could long endure the consoli-
dated nlwill Of the rest Of the world.
Japan long ago established, both in
the arts of war and Of peace, her right
to equality with the best and highest
in the family Of nations. That she
will. and should, think twice and thrice
before rtsking the esteem and regard
In which she has come to be held is
the conclusion, the outside world must
hope, that will be come to when her
wiseSt counselors and shrewdest heads
come together to ponder the fateful
decision now imminent.
Evening star., 1933-02-16

definite line between Federal and State
taxation" is attested by the Rochester
T1mes-Union, and that paper gives the
picture OF the conditions It has OBJ
served. For years every time q new
source OF taxation has been discovered
virtually all the tax-levying bodies have
leaped upon it with glad cries. The re-
suit has been that we are today faced
with an amazing duplication Of taxes,
Mnicn olos Iair 10 get worse before 1t
can be improved. This problem has de-
manded more and more attention in
recent years, but so far nothing has
been done about it, Probably the
White House conference win not set
tie anything definitely, but the more
consideration the matter receives, the
more likely solution viii be discovered.
However, more important perhaps than
any OF the concrete issues raised In
Mr.. Roosevelt's invitation Is the fact
that such conference should have a
good effect upon public morale. The
Nation today Is holding its breath and
waiting for March 4. 1t is looking to
the incoming President to provide a
leadership dynamic in quality. It
wants action. The Governors Confer
ence will be interpreted as a response
to this demand whether or not it
achieves any definite results"
If the public is wise" suggests the
Akron Beacon Journal, at viii not
expect too much of this conference.
All the conclaves that have gone before
under the blessing of the President
have not induced the least reform in
State or national administration. The
Governors are scrambling as best they
can to fatten the revenues of their
States. without much regard to their
neighbor commonwealth of the Fede-
raj Government. When they are faced
with treasury deficits they seldom
apply the ak to administrative costa.
but try to meet them by looking for
new sources Of taxation. In our own be-
loved Ohio this quest for new tax
systems purposes to add at least 500
600, 900 to the burden upon citizens
tnat schools, contractors and groups
OF Jobholders may not be enforced to
any stint in their usual pay or profits.
How transporting the Governors en-
masse to Washington is going to induce
any better result or reform their
people" 'A1
Evening star., 1933-02-16
A Curb for Crime.
From the Cleveland News

rfom tne cleveland News. 70
DR.. Garry C. Myers, psychologist and
child expert at Western Reserve Uni-
Versity, has deterrent for crirAe In
dishwashing for boys. he announck.
As plan to keep boys off the sheets
and out OF mischief, especially ia the
evening hours. it has possibilities. A
real job may face father and mother In
making dishwashing attractive. to the
average youngster, however.
The old-time woodpile has disap-
peared. There are no longer cows to
milk, chickens or horses to feed. There
are few chores to do about the modern
house or apartment. Keeping the chill
dren OF the present generation busted
at home is admittedly more of a. pro-
lem than it used to be, for then there
were always the precedent and example
OF other homes to point to.
Probably the best way to inaplant Q
proper respect for houSework and hum
BILE domestic duties about the firesftie Ia
as DR.. Myers suggests, for father to don
an apron after dinner, seize dishpan or
drying cloth and set an example to
youngsters who normally have other
ideas on this subject.
Evening star., 1933-02-16
Help for Iowa Farm Debtors
From the Danbury News-Times.

T4oH Tue DdnOury NeWs-I1meS.
Connecticut insurance companies have
Joined to stay foreclosures on $500 OOO.-
900 Of mortgages on Iowa farms, pend
ing legislative relief Slowly the thought
Is being driven home to the American
mind that debt Is as much In need of
scaling as the price Of commodities was
at the beginning Of the change.
II all the yardsticks In the world
were suddenly changed so that yard
was twice as much, existing contracts
In yards would have to be revised. So
1t Is with debts.
Currency changes have changed the
yardstick money until each dollar
claims about twice as much as a dollar
used to- Disaster has descended upon
many classes Of debtors. President Hoo
yer, 1t will be said to his credit. ap-
preciated this condition before most
others
He did what he could. Even now
the condition is incompletely seen by
the masses of the people. A rational
reduction of debt and interest charges
IS inevitable, unless, indeed. the Nation
should 60 into scheme of aggrandized
initiation.
Evening star., 1933-02-16
Roosevelt's Danger.

The insane assault upon President-elect
Roosevelt at Miami last evening was well
described by President Hoover as "das-
tardly." The whole Nation will rejoice
in the failure of the anarchist to reach
his target and will sympathize with
Mayor Cermak and the others injured.
For the credit of the country it is well
that the crime was the work Of an in
dividual subject to identification as an
alien.
Perhaps the most significant fact In
the circumstances is that of Mr.. Roose-
velt's danger. He Is coming to the
White House at time when the whole
world Is disturbed by the effects of
long period Of depression. 1t is plain
that he must be protected against per-
sons whose minds may have been un-
balanced by suffering brought about
by unemployment and poverty. Zingara
Is symptom. OF course, he acted only
for himself and expressed only his own
lunacy, but there may be others who
are similarly afiicted. The Secret Serv-
ice, therefore, must be ceaselessly and
tirelessly ON guard to prevent any repe-
tition OF last nights incident.
But Mr.. Roosevelt's peril will be
source of strength to him. His expert
ence at Miami will result in the rallying
Of thousands Of citizens to him. It will
create In minds hitherto not particu-
larly friendly a sympathy which could
have been called into existence in no
other way. 1t Is natural that this
should be 30. When declared enemies
Of society seek his life he can be sure
Of the support Of such OF his fellow
citizens as value the social institutions
Of their country. Zingara says he hates
all Presidents. BY the same token he
hates all law and order. Mr.. Roosevelt
has been chosen by a majority OF the
electorate to personify and symbolic
the American concept Of government.
Striking at him, the anarchist struck at
all for which he stands. He failed, and
the effect Of his attempt will be a con-
tradiction of his objective.
Mr.. Roosevelt is doubly fortunate.
He escaped injury, and today he is
stronger. more popular, more deeply ap-
preciated than he was on November 8.
He has had cruel shock. but 1t has
brought to the surface growing af-
lection for him which the Nation seizes
the occasion to acknowledge.
Evening star., 1933-02-16
Scandals of the Local
Relief Situation
To the Editor Of The Star:

Three features of the unemployment
relief situation in the District of Co
lumbia deserve characterization as
public scandals. The first Is the entire
lack of provision for unemployed and
destitute unmarried men. They have
applied in vain for assistance to the pri-
vate charitable agencies and to the
Emergency Relief Division and they
have been refused shelter in q vacant
and suitable public building. The sec
ond notorious evil Is the allowance of
S365 per week per family by the
Emergency Relief Division. The blame
for this starvation allotment falls. of
course, upon Congress, which refuses
to make an adequate appropriation of
the District money for relief purposes.
However, Congress has now under con-
sideration a bill which would empower
the District of Columbia to borrow
money for the relief of the unemployed
up to the sum of $2,5O0.000 If this
money were made available, needy fam
lilies could obtain more than $365 a
week and destitute single men could
be provided with decent food and shell
ter This brings me to the third and,
in some respects. the worst of the re-
lief situation scandals A few days ago
the Federation of Citizens Associations
of the District of Columbia passed a
resolution condemning the proposal to
borrow S2,500,000 frCm the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation. The ap-
parent ground of the federation's oppo-
sition is unWillingness to meet the in
crease in taxes which the loan would
entail. This is an astonishing, almost
incredible. exhibition of inhumanity and
greed. Rather than have their taxes
slightly increased, these men would
condemn their fellow citizens to in
definite continuation Of living condi-
| tions-or starving conditions-which
are a shame and disgrace to the
community. 1t Is too bad that the
members of the Federation of Citizens
! Associations in the District of Colum-
bia who voted for this resolution
could not be compelled to change places
for a. least one week with either the
families who are being kept alive on
s3.65 week or the homeless men who
are without even that meager assur-
ance From this experience they might
obtain a new insight into the meaning
Of the Golden Rule.
REV. JOHN A. RYAN. d. q.
Evening star., 1933-02-16
High Lights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

people are alike, nor were there ever
two alike. We are all cast in different
molds, exemplifying again in this in
calculable profusion of type and senti-
ment the infinite variety Of nature.
For this reason we should never deal
with child simply as If he were q
smaller and newer edition of ourselves.
His thoughts are not necessarily our
thoughts, nor our ambitions his am
bitions.
Many parents work and worry them
selves almost to the tomb trying to
make the son facsimile of his father,
or the daughter the counterpart Of
the mother never realizing that their
offspring may be as opposite to them
in tastes, proclivity and feeling as vir-
tually any stranger they might chance
to meet upon the street.
These ardent efforts are entirely vain,
for the son Of poet is rarely a poet:
he is far more likely to become a
layer of bricks or banker We knew
once of violinist whose chief ambition
was that his son should play in the
orchestra. His son, however. possessed
In no degree whatever the musical in
sttnct, but rather that of a tailor. Even
tually dexterity with leather and a
flair for the needle combined to make
him the best known saddler in the
department of Cajamarca-more IA
nous. and certainly more aff1uent in
this vocation than his father ever be-
came as a virtuoso at Huanuco.
In this case, though an expert sad
dler, the boy became a man who was
never saddled with a paternal voca-
ton for which he had no aptitude and
IN the pursuit of which he would have
become a prodigious failure
So let your child map out his own
career. He will not err In choosing
the work, or art. or science for which
he is best suited and for success in
which his noble consciousness Is at
tuned In the range and compliments of
his traits and talents There are more
dlnerences in ability and aspiration
among men themselves than there are
between some men and monkeys, and
there Is little gained in trying to make
physician out OF any youth when
his inherent yearning is to become q
carpenter or q matador.