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The Washington times., 1933-05-23

fact that reviewers get books and plays Free makes them
uncertain guides. On side they are influenced by
the normal mans dislike of doing what he has to do
the other side they advising to pay for thing
which they valung without paying for it.
No Law
The common man is not compelled by law to read
book and seldom does His attitude is doubtful and
when he grows enthusiastic for the wrong reason,
he is expressing genuine gratitude to the author This
is however, true only after school In the forma-
tive years. educators say, reading is compulsory and
people always saying they do not like Thackeray or
Scott because they had to read them IN childhood.
This is commonplace almost universally accepted but
needs checking The haers of Scott were equally COM
PEELED to read Dickens-and probably love him to this
day. There people who read poetry-and do not
mean critics professional poetsfor the pleasure
they derive from poetry; and every mothers son and
daughter of them suffered" from obligatory poetry in
school.
BaIzac Slipping
We outgrow certain authors. In the last years of
Arnold Benefits life he began to read Balzac again
and wrote in his diary Ito be published by the Viking
s ddn that he E YOU'D lid d TRY dea add
that Bazac was going to pieces. If Balzac for Ben
nett, why not Scott for someone else? fancy that
supposed to do. The real harm comes when great
imaginative works dissected for grammar Neither
they nor the students stand that.
When we are grown, and are struggling in world
full of alarms and excursions have to choose
reading carefully We have to determine whether
we want book in the same key the Presidents
message industrial recovery book which will
'take away from all that 1t happens that the
two books have read this week of the second Sort
They both adventurous and romantic.
One is fiction: "Solal,'' by Albert Cohen French
who has written the story of Eastern Jew,
to France to conquer its most beautiful
handle its most complicated diplomacy and reject all
that Europe has to offer, in order to cling to his
Judaism The go of this story is tremendous; it has
that heapng up of events and episodes and words
which you find in the English translation of Rabeas
And it has abounding humor which, to me, is of
higher quality than its serious, rather strained,
events It is published by buttons and has made
name for itself by of enthusiastic reviews which
came without the preliminary publishers plugging,
usually so DISASTROUS to book.
The other is fact-at least assume "Congo Jake"
is fact I never thought Grader Horn" fact-nor
admired it very much-but the accent of this book,
although literary, factua haven't read this to
the end and only hasten to report because what have
read is good excitement 1t the story of English
boy who sold to be a captains errand boy
sailing vessel and who ventured in Africa It is story
of medicine and ivory smuggers and monkeys and
murderers And good. (Kendall)
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
MERGER OKAYED
BY NORTHEAST
DEPOS|TORS
Abandon Original Plan to
Open Bank As Independent
Institution

More than 400 depositors Of
the Northeast Savings Bank,
meeting at Stuart Junior High
last night, agreed to turn over
the prime" assets of that insti-
tuition to the proposed new Ham
ilton National Bank.
The decision to merge means
the abandonment of the original
plan to reopen the bank as an
independent institution. Under
the first program the depositors
were asked to allot Is per cent
of their deposits for stock.
The new plan calls for allot-
ment of only 1917 per cent.
minority" Approves
A large majority" of the
minority stockholders of the
United States Savings Bank at
a meeting yesterday voted in
favor of the proposal of merging
that institution with the Hamilton
National.
Col. Wade H. Cooper, president
and majority stockholders, did not
attend the meeting. He sent word,
it was said, from New York stating
that he would not be able to be
present. Colonel Cooper last week
submitted a plan to Treasury
officials for the reopening of the
bank as an independent bank.
Warren r. Forster, credit ex-
pert of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, is to repre-
sent the Treasury Department in
organizing the Hamilton bank,
Edwin C. Graham, president, has
announced.
Chevy Chase Bank Sold
The Chevy Chase Savings Bank
has been purchased by the Riggs
National Bank and will reopen as
the Chevy Chase Branch of that
institution about June Is, accord
ing to announcement by Robert
V. Fleming, president of Riggs,
and John C. Walker, conservator
of the Chevy Chase Bank, one of
the 13 local institutions which
failed to reopen at the close OF
the banking holiday.
The deal will release $534,000
or so per cent of the frozen
deposits, it was estimated. The
purchase requires approval of the
Comptroller of the Currency and
the District Supreme Court.
Assets not purchased by Riggs are
to be liquidated by the con-
serVator.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Baptists End Conflict, Link
Sessions For Cooperation

Ending an estrangement of 88
years, the Northern and Southern
conferences of the Baptist Church
today held a joint session in the
Washington Auditorium for pur-
poses "of cooperation, not union of
the two branches" Approximately
5000 delegates to the two conven-
tions were in attendance.
Convention of the Southern
branch ended yesterday. That of
the Northern branch starts Off
cially tomorrow. The meeting in
the auditorium followed the early
morning dedication of the Ma
tional Baptist Memorial at Six
teenth Street and Columbia Road,
built by the two conferences joint
ly. The memorial was filled to
overflowing at the dedication.
DIR. Turner Talks
In the chief speech of the joint
session, DR.. j. Clyde Turner, of
Greensboro, N. c., representing
the Southern faction, declared:
"The Baptist churches have
no desire to interfere with the
affairs of state God forbid
that the time shall come when
onr preachers will not get up
and say Nothing can be pOlit-
icaIly right which is morally
wrong"
The convention had previously
.donted a resolution Of con-
Sennation of President Roosevelt
1for using the influence and
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Missionary College
Seeks Credit Rating

Application to accredit the
Washington Missionary College,
Takoma Park, as a junior college
with the Middle States Associa.
ton of Accredited Schools has
been made by school board mem.
bers.
President H. H. Hamilton, DR..
C. S. Longacre, Prof. j. P. Neff
education secretary, and DR.. B. o.
Wilkinson, dean of theology, ap.
peared before officers of the asso-
citation in New York to make for.
NAL application. The association
will vote on it at the annual meet,
ing in September, the delegates
were told.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
SALE LIST
EYED BY POLICE

The Beverage Permit Board to-
day forwarded to the Police De-
partment approximately so appli-
cations for beer licenses which
are to be given a final checking
up prior to issuance of permanent
licenses.
This is the first group to be
finally checked and it is expected
the investigation will be ct<l-
cluded within a week or 10 days,
Immediately after which the board
will grant permanent licenses to
those dealers found to be quail
fled.
The police will check on nation
ality of the applicants, their
criminal records. if any; whether
their places of business conform
to the regulations, and other de-
tails,
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
TEACHERS FACE
GUT THURSDAY

The Board of Education Thurs
day will act on a four-point
economy program, designed to cut
the public school teacher person
mel for the 1884 fiscal year and
save 100000.
Because of drastic school
slashes in the pending District
supply bill, the school body will
take action on a plan proposed
by DR.. Frank w. Ballou, super
intendent of schools, which would
eliminate four classes of teach
ers.
The four-point plan consists
of eliminating positions as they
become vacated by death, retire
ment or resignation. 1t is also
provided that teachers reaching
10 shall be retired and the posi-
tions abandoned. Temporary
teaching positions and those of
teachers whose ratings are un-
satisfactory, will also be elimi-
mated.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
THOMAS CIRCLE.
CHANCE HIT

Meeting for the last time until
September, the Mid-City Citizens
Association last night vigorously
opposed the proposed alterations
of Thomas Circle.
The association voiced the OBJ
lection that the plan whereby
street cars would pass through
the center of the circle instead of
around would not enhance the
beauty of the circle.
A resolution was adopted in
dorsing the bill to widen and i'm
prove Thirteenth Street north
west from Massachusetts, Avenue
to Logan Circle and also request
ing crosstown bus line to oper-
ate on K Street between Thir-
teenth Street northeast and Thir-
ty-second Street northwest.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
PEP UP
JEWISH DRIVE

Efforts to speed up the $4,000
United Jewish Campaign were ex-
pected to show concrete results
in the next few days, following
a meeting of the administrative
committee of the drive yester-
day.
Drive leaders decided to inject
new life in the drive by stimu-
lating the rank and file of the
volunteer workers.
Louis E. Spiegler, drive direc'
tor, pointed out that the sue
cess of the campaign this year
must depend on reaching
greater number of prospective
giverS than ever before, as the
size of the large contributions
was not as great as had been
anticipated.
A large number Of workers
turned out yesterday for a drive
luncheon at the Jewish Center.
The guest of honor was Mrs.
Goldie Meyerson, PaleStinian
feminist leader, who spoke of the
Jewish Homeland movement.
Harold H. Levi, general man.
ager of Hecht'S, who recently re-
turned from a visit to the Holy
Land, will be the guest at to"
morrow's drive luncheon meeting.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
HOUSE AWAITS
SENATE ACT ON
GAS MERGER
Snags in Committee Cause
New Strategy by Mrs. Norton
on Utility Measure

No additional effort to bring
up the bill providing for the
merger of the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light Com
panies will be made by the House
District Committee until after
the Senate has acted, it was
learned today.
Two efforts to get the bill out
of the House committee failed
last week, because of lack of
quorum and insistence by a small
group of members that they
have additional time to study
it and its provisions.
Same Bill in Senate
A bill identical with the one
before the House committee 5
on the calendar OF the Senate
District Committee, and the pres
ent plan of Chairman Norton,
it was said, is to let the Senate
pass the bill and send it over in
routine fashion.
Then, it was said, the House
committee will take up the bill
as though it were new legislation.
The merger bill passed the
House at the last session of Con-
gress without a dissenting vote,
but did not get by the Senate be-
fore adjournment.
New Start Forced
Since passage by the House, a
new Congress and new members
of the District committee have
necessitated starting the pro-
cedure all over.
Chairman Norton hoped to get
the bill through the House again
at this session, but the attitude
of new committee members has
resulted in the decision to await
the Senate action.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
SCHOOLS ADOPT
HEALTH PLAN

The board of directors Of the
Association for the Prevention of
tuberculosis has directed its child
education committee to confer
with public school authorities re-
garding closer cooperation in
health work between the associa-
ton and schools.
The action was take yesterday
after a conference with DR.. Re-
becca Stoneroad and Miss Anita
Turner, physical education direc-
tors of the public schools.
DR.. Stoneroad explained a plan
adopted by the public schools this
year with the view of enlisting the
cooperation of parents. An en-
tire page of the pupils report is
devoted to his or her individual
health habits. Ratings are given,
DR.. Stoneroad said, on cleanliness,
posture, hygiene, weight, etc,
with statement as to gain or
loss,
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
MangLed Body
Indicates Man
Train Victim

The mangled body of an un,
identified colored man was found
beside the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad tracks near H Street
and Rhode Island Avenue North,
east.
The man is believed to have
been struck by a fast freight
train at about 6 a. m. today.
The body was decapitated and
the head was found some distance
from the torso. Portions of the
clothing were strewn along the
tracks between the head and
body.
Railroad officials said the train
crew apparently did not know the
man was struck.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
IF We CONCUR ;
FLASHED
BY DAVIS
Phrase Pointed To BY Voice
of Administration As
Geneva Safeguard
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES

DJ "COASNG ASs AAOANAGO
President Roosevelt has offered
a greater degree of American CO.
operation with other powers to
keep the world at peace. but Ad-
ministration officials maintained
today that there has been no
radical departure from Americas
traditional policy Of judging for
itself in world affairs.
Irrespective of what interpre-
tations have been placed abroad
on the speech of Norman H.
Davis at Geneva yesterday, Wash
ington has it's own Interpretation.
Davis Proposals
Stripped of diplomatic niceties,
what Davis proposed was:
The United States is willing
to enter into a pact to con-
suit" with other powers in the
event of threatened war.
The United States is willing
to cooperate with other powers
for international supervision of
armament.
The United States is willing
to forego certain neutrality
rights in the event of war, pro-
vided we, agree as to who is
the aggressor; all this in ex-
change for drastic curtailment
of armament.
There are many "ifs, ands, and
butts" in the proposals which
Davis put before the Geneva con-
ference.
Heart Of Offer
The heart of his offer was con,
tained in the following:
1--WE are willing to consult
the other States in Sc of q
threat to peace with a view
to averting conflict. Further
than that. in the event that
the States, in conference, de-
termine IT, t State has been
guilty of a breach of the peace
in violation Of its international
obligations and take measures
against the violatOr, then, if
we concur in the judgment
rendered as to the responsible
and guilty party, we will re-
frain from any action tending
to defeat such collective effort
which these States may thus
make to restore peace"
Thus, if the League Of Nations,
for example, should determine
that Japan is the aggressor in
its warfare with China, and de-
cided to impose an economic boy
colt as punishment, and if Wash
ington concurred in that verdict,
the United States would not in
sist upon its right to trade with
Japan.
"If We Concur"
Washington chooses to empha.
size the IF we concur" part of
the proposal. In that phrase,
Administration officials contend,
is contained the safeguard Of
Americas traditional policy of in.
dependent judgment and con-
clusion in matters of world policy.
It is, they admit, further than
other Administrations have ever
(cOntinued on Page II, Col. -
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

these enemies of royalty statements,
and l might add that held the same
opinion when l was reviewing both
books and plays.
The reason is not that reviewers
grow stale; some of them do, some
(like George Bernard Shaw quit
their jobs with enough freshness to
carry them into great careers, and
some grow weary and take four
month holidays. The actual reason
is that reviewers of books and plays
are under moral obligation to read
books and to see plays.
Things have come to such a pass
that a reviewer feels bound to tell,
openly, at what page or what act he
gave up the effort to follow an au-
thor. This duty, coupled with the
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
D. C. Boys Winners
In Soft Drink Contest

Two District of Columbia high
school students are among 26
winners lin the nationwide essay
contest on "Why I Drink Bottled
Carbonated Beverages" conducted
by The American Boy. They are
Bernard Kohn, 20, 1000 Ritten-
house st. N. w., and Frank T.
Hoadley, II, Che Cf sc, Md,
who received honorable mention.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
DEMOCRATS MEET

L. Stephens, of Ashland, Ken
lucky, was chief speaker at the
meeting of the Arlington County
Young Democratic Club last night
in Democratic headquarters in
Clarendon. He described the
work being done by units Of the
Young Democrats of America else
where and told of their value to
the Democratic party.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Government Worker
Robbed of Her Purse

A colored man last night
Snatched a purse from Miss
Addie E. Bourne, 1400 block
Parkwood Pl. N. w., near Six
teenth and Ogden Streets North
west, she told police today. Miss
Bouren, a Post Office Department
employe, said the purse contained
SIS, keys and personal papers.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

power of his office for repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment"
They also enjoined members of
the church from patronizing mer-
chants who sell beer.
During the afternoon the
women were to hold a mass meet
ing at Convention Hall, while the
men held one at Calvary Baptist
Church.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
True to Type
d. Take Jobs Away From Critics Of Books
-By GILBERT SELDES

T occurs to that the business of reviewing books
ought to be taken away from book-revewers just as
the business of crtczng plays ought to be taken away
from dramatic critics. | say this with freedom, at
the moment. because under the OF neither of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-19

Peaches: Core eight baking apples and place in q baking dish. Ell cavities with sliced peaches from m S.ounce can and as much sugar as they will hold. (You will need one-haif cup in alb Sprinkle rest of sugar around apples. Dust with cinnamon and dot with three tablespoons butter. Pour around them the peach syrup and about half Q cup of water, and bake until tender, about thirty minutes in n hot 400 degree-oven. Serves eight.
 Combination Salads
 Pear and Date Salad: Drain eight halves of canned pears, cover with orange juice and let chill for several hours. Drain and place each pear half in nest of lettuce. stone twenty-four dates. stuff with cream cheese, and place q whole pecan half on top of each. Put three dates on top of each pear, and garnish with cream mayonnaise. This elaborate. salad serves eight.
 Five Fruit Salad: Drain the contents of q No. 2 can of peach halves and No. can of grape fruit, and chill. Remove all the skin and fibre from two oranges, and cut in thin circles or sep- arate in sections. Cut two bananas in fingers. PIac6 half a peach in the center of q bed of lettuce, and All tho cavity with cream may onnaise to which has been added bits of preserved ginger and chopped salted almonds. Arrange the other fruits in groups around the peach, Serves eight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-19

Ask any doctor, and he will tell you that fruits are fine, healthy food. They taste good and stimu- late the appetite, and they are dieteticaily important as sources of mineral clements and vitamins. The eating of fruits is health in- surance of tho best kind.
 You have doubtless been insur! ing your health lavishly in this way all summer, and perhaps you are a little tired of the fruits that are obtainable in your part of tho country. Tn that case, here is a hint which will not only give q new zest to your fruit eating, but will prove a real economy as well.
 Combine Fresh and Canned
 Canned fruits are preserved in such gigantic quantities that they can be sold comparatively mex pensivcly. If you combine canned fruits with fresh, you immediately which you can serve from the which can be obtained in your neighborhood to fruits not only from all parts of this country but to delicious fruits from tropical lands as well.
 The fruits put up in cans com prise. apples, apricots, biackber. ries, bluoberries. cherries. cocoa- nut, cranberries, entrants, figs, gooseberries, grapes, grapefruit, loganbcrries, peaches. pears, pine. apples. rlums, prunes, quince. raisins, raspberries, rhubarb and strawberrles--many of these in several different forms such as crushed, diced, sliced, whole and in halves, and also in different combinations such as fruit cock tails, fruits for salad and wine fruit salad. and there arc also tho juices of grapes, grapefruit and pineapples in cans.
 How to Do It
 This gives some conception of the great variety of fruits in cans ready to combine with fresh fruits. or to cat by themselves, but the interesting part is to know how these combinations are made. Here arc some recipes to show how to do 1t.
 Compete of Pears and Apples: Pare two large cooking apples. core them and cut them Into eighths. Add one and one.third cups water and ono cup sugar to the syrup from q No. 2 can of pears. add q few cloves, and boil for three or four minutes. Add apples and simmer gently until
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-19

Employment in the Irish Free State is increasing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-19
Pleasing The
 Man
Chilled Kidneys On Half Tomatoes
BY CHLOE JAMIsON

When you sec signs of disinter. est in tho regulation meat course-- and this is quite likely to happen toward tho end of summer-it is very good time to turn thoughts in the direction of those least used of all meats kidneys and, in most homes. liver. They arc highly nutritious, as we all know by this time, with the additional good point of "lightness. Moreover, men consider grilied kidneys ono of the finest of deiicacies. You should see how frequently they or- der them at noontime, away from home. But of course hotel and res- taurant chefs know many many interesting recipes for preparing rarely, if ever hears about.
 which makes q good summ mer grill: Grill lambs Kidneys; also halved tomatoes and rashes of thiniy sliced bacon, encouraged to curl. On hot buttercd toast place the tomato. a kidney on top, with bacon curls around for garnish. Serve with crisped potato chips and a salad.
 Tho logical accompaniment for liver is fried onions, or bacon. But do you prepare the onions French fried? A wonderful differ- once! And add q few drops of vinegar to the liver as 1t Is frying in hot butter; this, too, gives c dc- iiciously different effect. Place the liver-fried only until tender--not dry---in tho center of platter. strew tho crisp French fried onions around us a border: garnish with parsley and you have n sum- mer meat dish that will bring c glad light to almost any mans eyes. Escailoped egg plant is a good vegetable to serve with this dish. And q salad of sliced picklcd bects with quarters of pickled hardboiied egg.
 Lamb kidneys combine very we'll with mushrooms in a recipe such as this one: In pan brown l tablespoon of butter. add table. spon of flour and brown again. Gradually stir in cupful of stock (you can use bouillon made with q cube): add 1 teaspoon of Worces- tershire sauce, # teaspoon salt and
 X teaspoon pepper. Put in l dozen mushrooms, cook minutes, then add ? pairs of lamb kidneys and cook until they are tender. Serve on toast with lyonnaise potatoes and salad of sliced tomatoes and lettuce.