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The Washington times., 1933-12-09
BUILDING BOOM
BY CWA SEEN

Possibility that the Government
will launch an extensive construc-
ton program as a still further
attack upon unemployment ap-
pears in admission by the CWA
it has approved expenditure Of
$3,50O,000 for returning archi-
tects, surveyors and engineers to
work.
The allotment will be spent
only for making an exhaustive
survey of building needs through
out the nation, but economists
see behind the project a Federal
building boom.
The survey will be made in
more than so large cities.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
Prizes for
Newstip

Do you want to make some
money for being alert? II so.
The Washington Times pre-
sents the opportunity to you.
Every week six cash
prizes are being given for
newstips telephOned in to
the Newstip Editor at Dis.
trict $3.50. Phone them
any time between $50 a.
m. and 6 p. m.
And what is a newstip? It's
the information that something
of interest to Washingtonians
has taken place or will take
place. An accident. a rescues
a deed of heroism. an ap-
pointment to public office. a
bank merger. a crime. a scien
tific discovery. an unusual
new invention, an unusual oc.
currence-each is a example
of a good newstip.
Remember-six cash prizes,
each and every week.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
Plane Crash Kills
Lieut.. E.. E., HOLtzen

1The death of Second Lient.
Ernest E. Holtzen, jr., Air Corps,
as the result of an airplane
accident near Barksdale Field,
La, yesterday, was announced at
the War Department today.
Lieut.. Holtzen was born in
Missouri January 20, 1908, and
at the time of his death was
stationed at Barksdale Field. He
is survided by his father.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
Rebeccd Francis
Heads D. of A. Unit

At an election of officers Of the
Ballston Council, No. II, Daugh-
ters of America, Mrs. Rebecca
Francis was elected councillor, it
has been announced. Other Off
GERS are Mrs. Notie Hoffman, as
Sociate councillor; Mrs. Leola
More, vice councillor; Miss A n n
Calvert, associate vice councillor;
Mrs. Effie Hackley, assistant re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Sadie Bal
lard, conductor, and Mrs. Susie
Youngman, warden,
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
7 THEORETICALLY.
HE'S RETIRED

Although Dr.. Beverly T. Gal
loway, former chief of the Bu-
reau of Plant Industry of the
Department of Agriculture, was
recently retired under the Fed
eral age-limit law, he is doing
research for the Government.
Dividing his time between the
home offices of the plant in
dustry bureau here, and his
winter home in Florida, DR.. CAL
loway is studying new plants
which might be cultivated prof
itably in the South.
DR.. Galloway joined the De-
partment of Agriculture in 1887,
and was largely responsible for
the formation of the Bureau Of
Plant Industry, of which he was
head from 1901 to 1912.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09

With the short time left it will
virtually be impossible to distrih-
ute all the tags before the dead
line, and he expects that some
Is, 900 motorists will have to use
some other form Of locomotion
to get their liquor, go to work or
travel whittier they will.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
BY JULIA A. BONWIT

Women will be drafted into SER
vice in the next war, it was pre-
dicted today by Miss Ruth Nor
gan, chairman of international
cooperation to prevent war of the
National League of Women Voters.
Miss Morgan, who is in Wash
ington for the annual meeting of
the board Of directors of the
league, declared that the great
emergence of women into all
branches of business and the pro-
fessions since the World War has
qualified them so that they will
be eligible for varied types of
service. She said:
I'm the next war, whenever it
comes, women will take a more
active part than they did in the
The Washington times., 1933-12-09

DR.. Yi-yang WI, outstanding
feminine leader in China, who
earned the title of the Flying
First Lady of Ginling," will speak
at the United Foreign Missionary
Conference here Sunday, which
marks the opening of a three-day
session in Constitution Hall.
AS president of Ginling College
at Nanking, DR.. WI flew over the
battle area during the recent war
fare between China and Japan to
attend sessions of the Institute OF
Pacific Relations in Shanghai.
Several noted missionaries will
also attend the conference, includ-
ing DR.. E. Stanley Jones, of India,
and DR.. Herman Liu, president Of
the University of Shanghai.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09

1t struck me at once that the enor-
nous investment in both could be
guaranteed against loss in the future
if the directors of each would for
moment, believe that they had
future. So far they seem to be work.
ing only for the immediate present,
confident that they can get by today
and late tonight, and that something
else will turn up by next Wednesday
fortnight.
That is, for all their enormous in
vestment and programs arranged
weeks and months in advance, they
are still on a hand-to-mouth, quickie
basis when they begin to think Of
general principles. To criticism, the
usual reply is that such and such a
type of picture or broadcast is still
The Washington times., 1933-12-09

last war. There is no country
in the world that will stop at
drafting women into active SER
vice.
81 am also convinced that
the next war will see women
flying planes right in the thick
of the conflict"
Miss Morgan believes that
groups of extreme pacifists" will
not bring about the end of war.
The way to, peace, she said, lies
in international education that
will convince all nations that war
is clumsy, brutal, and expen-
sive method" of settling disputes.
She also stated her belief that
if there had been no war 20 years
ago, there would be no depression
now.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
Maryland Co. Gets
Warehouse Contract

An allotment Of $26,53O for a
quartermaSter warehouse at Fort
Humphreys, Va, was approved by
the War Department today and
the contract for its construction
was awarded to the Minter Homes
Corporation, at Glydon, Md.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
CITIZENS TO DISCUSS RUM

Sale of liquor in Park View
community will be discussed
Monday night at the meeting Of
the Park View Citizens Associa.
ton, to be held at o'clock in
the Park View platoon school.
Officers for the next year will
be elected.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
BIOLOGISTS TO MEET

C. N. Fenner will be the speaker
at a meeting of the Geological
Society of Washington Wednes-
day night in the assembly hall
of the Cosmos Club. He will
speak on magnetic problems.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
ChiLdren's Charter
Reported PrOqreSSinQ

District public hools are
making satisfactory progress in
living up to provisions of the
Children's Charter, Robert L. Hay
cock, assistant superintendent of
schools, told the Hine Junior
High School Parent-Teacher AS
sociation yesterday. The Child
ren's Charter was adopted under
the Hoover administration.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
18TH ST. MEETS TUESDAY

Sixteenth Street Heights Citi-
zens Association will meet Tues
day night at the Shepherd School,
Fourteenth Street and Kalmia
Road at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09
True to Type
Average Day at Movies, on Air
By GILBERT SELDES

Always gutton for punishment, spent good part Of
enc day the movies and most of the evening listening
the radio The movies at neghborhood houses the
radio program had particular encountered the
average everyday product of these industries and
The Washington times., 1933-12-09


either of them further and they fall back the oustand
ing accomplishments the great successful pictures and the
elaborate broadcasts forgetting that these remain
ton and the average goes low people will quickly
fall out of the habit of patronizng radio and pictures
they fell into it.
AccidentaIs
The movies have the longer experience and have to
extent profted by Individual companies often ap
preaching the rocks long before the crash in Wall Street.
and were saved by accidens-not thing in America
whole which has always believed that special provi
dence looks after Americans and hawts The takies,
forced the by the techncan and the manufac
turing companies, obviously saved the entire picture in
dustry Without talk movies would have succumbed to
radio completely the theater succumbed to the MOVIES
The bright and brilliant comeback of the theater not
limited entirely to New York. although it naturally most
marked there Revival stirs in the Middle West;
pany has been formed to play in half dozen ces-I
the announcement in Indianapolis; fight for "the
road is beginning. 1t not succeed but it is in
Cerestlng symptom OF change.
Old Formula
About the radio report only my feelings, which
were very gum The sponsored and sustaining programs
heard six stations monotonous and lacking in
conviction. The formula the in all: puns and
music, music and puns. commentary on the news now
and en tagging several hours behind the newspaper head
lines in time and-his may be sheer prejudice-laggng
miles behind the newspapers in crspness and pungency Of
comment Then puns music the puns stale and
put over with too much heartness the music not beaut
fully rendered.
The movies, however part of audience and
there got the impression of staene strongly
famous figures and beautiful girls, in suen apathy.
There murmur of appreciation, breathess
pecancy thrill You feel these things in audience
when they occur you do not need to be mind-reader.
The usual murnur occurred when Mickey Mouse was
nouncedbut the movies the point where they need
to be saved by Disney as they saved by Mack
Sennett?
Look Ahead!
No doubt millions of people listened to the radio the
night isened the theaters to which I went mad fair
crowds which good for times like these Because have
been for 20 years critic may be overcritica of the sub
stance offered But in 20 years everyone grows critical
and each generation of listeners wants something
little better than the last 1t the absence of any sign of
growth in the average performance that eopardze the
radio and the pctures-the absence of sign that the
creators of these entertainments any way building
for the future.
What kept the heaer alive the constant emergence
of the Guild after the war; the Little Theater
tory and the Group Theaters-a of which created
audiences and produced change in the purely
theaersso that musical shows transformed and
got lease of life The costs of production in radio
and the too great for this kind of experimental
ton and the large companies must carry their trials
and So far they have been too cautious thinking
only Of the present But caution foohardy
travagance if you looking 10 years ahead.
The Washington times., 1933-12-09

either Of them further and they fall back the outstand
ing accomplishments the great successful pictures and the
elaborate broadcasts, forgetting that these remain
tons and the goes too low people will quickly
fall out of the habit Of patronizng radio and pictures
they fell into it.
Evening star., 1933-09-21
What Hitler Does Not
Control.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
The leaders of the present German
regime may read lesson from cpl
sodes like the flight of Prof. Albert
Einstein from Belgium because q Nazi
secret society was reported to be plot
ting against his life, the international
incidents created by Nazi raids into
foreign territory and the attacks upon
Americans and other foreigners in Ger
many for racial or political reasons.
None of these outrages, 1t may be as
sumed, was part of the official Nazi
program. All of them appear to have
been the work of fanatical followers
of the regime, operating on their own
initiative in ways that certainly tend
to embarraSS their leaders.
Assuming that Chancellor Adolf Hit
ler and his colleagues do not approve
of such activities, however, the fact
that they continue is significant. It
means, Of course, that the National
Socialist leadership has stirred up such
passions and prejudices In gaining Of
flee in Germany that its less RESPONSE
BILE followers are out of control. and
there Is no evidence yet to prove that
they will be brought back into line in
the near future. The danger from this
kind of violent fanaticism obviously
is not confined to foreigners and the
German opponents OF the regime. 1t
is conceivable that some Of the Nazi
leaders themselves IN time may fall
victims to the fanatical forces they
have. released.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

War Department to build roads and
make electrical connections 90 that
the new quarters, that have lately
been erected, msy soon b occupied.
Fortunately the delay has not been
50 protracted as to force the personnel
for whom these Accommodations were
designed to spend the Winter In the
temporary housings TN which they are
now living. This is q happy outcome
Of situation that might have caused
the Government dearly in the deteri-
grafton OF the unused buildings and
perhaps have led to Illness and suf-
fering on the part Of several hundred
people as well as the deprivation of
a large number Of workers of the EN-
ployment which IS urgently needed.
Another grant Of funds from the
same source will permit the continu-
ance Of work at the Army Medical
Center. Work will also be resumed
on important constructions at Fort
Myer and at Fort Humphreys. TlA
entire allotment by the Public Works
Administration for Army housing
amounts to $54, ,7os, 1858. Every dollar
OF this is required. The conditions
at the Army posts and stations have
been deplorable ever since the war.
The military establishment indeed has
been maintained most inadequately on
account of economies that have ac-
tually been ultimately wasteful of
public funds. Now this situation is
to be remedied and in a manner that
will contribute to the success of the
recovery program through the en-
ployment Of large numbers of people.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

escape. Its plight awakened pity. The
pity spread throughout the entire re-
gion OF New York State. In a couple
OF days the deer became a subject of
humane discussion in all the Northern
Atlantic States. We do not know when
IN human history a deer ever had SO
much publicity and SO much personal
attention. Obviously, the deer did not
consider his plight a serious one at any
time and he escaped from it when he
wanted to, which was as soon as he got
thoroughly disguised with furnishing
Roman holiday for curious mob. We
would give dollar to know just what
the deer thinks Of strange animals that
can show SO much concern over the
imagined trouble of a quadruped of his
genus and still have that incompre-
hensible eagerneSs to turn him into
venison at the first opportunity. It
might take us down a peg or two If
we could know ar experienced deers
opinion Of us"
Observing that "the recalcitrant buck
received more publicity than the crime
wave" the Roanoke World News con-
cludes that mot since the baby gorilla
lost his fight with pneumonia in the
Washington Zoo has an animal received
such attention" while the Dayton Daily
to suffer so long the supposed pangs of
captivity and the irksome stares of
thousands of visitors disturbs some Of
the popular notions about animals Gagged
in ZOOS. As long as the deer was eat
ing regularly and the would-be rescu-
ers did not make themselves too OBJ
noxious it seemed perfectly content
with its new lot Easy security has
kept many a man. too. .sfrom dash
for freedom. When everything is safe
and sure and sufficient why adventure
for uncertainty? So felt many of us
a few years ago. Depression drove US,
like the poets man who lost fortune and
found himself. to better sense Of
values As an object lesson the deer
episode justifies the effort of its hu-
man participants"
THE Nationwide interest in the
plight of the deer is credit to humane
instincts" AYERS the Akron Beacon
Journal, and as to its release. the Rut-
land Herald feels that 'if the crowds
and the volunteer saviors had kept out
of it, the happy release might have been
effected long before it was"
Evening star., 1933-09-21
Outlaws of the Sea.
From the Oakland Tribune.

Word comes that men who have invest.
ed fortunes in ships to run rum to the
United States are wondering what they
are going to do next. A Washington
correspondent predicts that persons in
search Of private yachts may be able
to pick up a bargain.
Another guess hazarded is that the
rum runner who decides to stay upon
the seas will turn his attention to
smuggling Of other kinds and become a
problem for more than one country.
While some fortunes may have been
made in the Illicit business, Frederic
Haskin points to the chance that q
l0-year average would show . pretty
poor rate of return. Losses OF boats
by capture at the hands of the Coast
Guard. by the challenge Of the sea, by
leakage and collision, by fines and cap
ture Of cargo, through theft and even
through the cost of bribing officials,
have cut down the profits Of the trade
enormously"
Those who stay by their fleet ships,
1t is predicted, will turn their attention
to arms smuggling. where Spain and
the African Coast are the best markets,
and In the smuggling of goods upon
which high tariffs are placed The
Mediterranean, it Is said, will draw
many OF the modern outlaws Of the
sea.
Evening star., 1933-09-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The tornado that didn't materialize
did one fine thing for washington, II
made the city realize - never before
just how beautiful sunshine Is.
Surely no three prettier days than
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Of this
week ever came into being; but that
was not the half Of It.
The other half was the fact that peo-
pie everywhere were highly and per-
sonally aware of their complete charm
The sequence Of gloomy, dull days
high wind or no high wind 0ortu-
nately the latter. resulted in much woe
among those susceptible to such things.
Fishes in home aquariums painted nc
more for breath than the average WASH
ingtonian for . sight Of the sun again.
Sure enough, here it came at last,
the genuine and indubitable orb upon
whose shining so much Of human health
and happiness depends.
Persons everywhere remarked to one
another upon the phenomenon, almost
as If the sun had never shone before
as II this visitation were something ex-
ceptional in the life Of mankind.
There's the sum-" people said.
There was no mute acceptance that
day, but full appreciation on the part
Of most everyone.
Somehow entirely taciturn persons
were jolted into paying the tribute OF
word or two.
Even those who ordinarily refuse to
make the state Of the weather q
topic for conversation that day took II
to their hearts and bosoms for once.
Here was the sun, and 1t looked good
to eyes satiated with the sight Of clouds
Into each life some rain must fall,
Longfellow wrote q long time ago, but
surely he did not mean Just days and
days Of 1t. seemingly without end.
However toughened to the impact OF
continued gloomy weather. the sanest
person alive, according to his measure
Of obduracy, will come in time to resent
the continued gloom.
Even the seasoned home gardener
for all his pirate Of loying the RAIN
because his plants like 1t. feels that
this may be just little bit too much
Of good thing
Surely the plants love the rain. At
this time Of year, too. q little lessening
in the amount Of sunshine may be more
10 tnelr liking.
The growing season, for most things.
is over and past. The work Of the year
has been done as we'll as Nature can
superintend 1t. with the gardeners as
sistance and his hopes.
Now comes the time Of annual rest;
If there Is lessened sunshine. well. that
is well. Everything that happens is
we'll, in Nature. There Is no such thing
as Ill, but 1t takes most human beings
lifetime, and more. to understand
that. If they ever do.)
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Even the gardener was glad to see
the golden rays sprinkling lawns and
hedges and trees and flowers.
The much-heralded tornado that
didn't show up, nevertheless did large
amount Of good. if for no other thing
than that it served to make SO many
persons acutely conscious Of the worth,
beauty and true value Of sunshine.
Yet on the street cars there were
just as many persons as ever grabbing
the shades and yanking them down IN
the face of the mornings bright gleam.
There were just as many persons
everywhere refusing to let the sunshine
into their lives. in the outworn belief
that the suns rays are harmful.
The idea Of the pernicious quality OF
Evening star., 1933-09-21

+ might air" long ago gave way before
the march Of science and q growing
common sense, but the belief that SUM-
shine Is better kept out Of ones life still
fingers with . curiously large percentage
of the population.
Surely the number Is curiously great,
in view Of the plain evidences Of health
and happiness to be gained from sun
shin4 in evidence on every beach and
every mountain side, on every city street,
in every restaurant and store and the
ater or other place where people gather
ip cities. \
Science has proved 1t, If proof were
necessary, but happily no other proof
Is needed than the evidence Of one s
eyes.
Seeing is believing, indeed. when 1t
called for the ladies' benefit. The lat
ter Is q better phrase, however, because
it Is more accurate. "Sunburn'' was the
early name, put on by generations OF
human beings to whom exact science
had little to offer in the way Of knowl-
edge Of light and its effects.
They used the word "sunburn" be-
cause 1t fltted the first and obvious ef-
fects. How sunburned she isl" often
said In horror, meant that the girl was
quite tanned, not that she was burned
to the ugly. and hurtful-looking red
color acquired after q too long first ex-
posure on the beach.
The modern word "suntan," therefore
Is more precise, since it rightfully re-
fers to the lasting effect, and, ac-
curately, to the feature Of sunburning
IN which lies the real good.
Perhaps those old-fashioned persons
who insist on pulling down the shades,
and in other ways fleeing the suns
rays are quite correct, after all, from
their own personal standpoints.
II they are not going to permit
enough Of the suns rays to strike them,
come tanned 1t Is perhaps better for
them not to get burned at all.
1t Is better to have loved and lost,
than never to have loved at all, how
ever, according to the old song.
If this is applied to sunshine, 1t is
equivalent to saying that 1t Is better
to have become burned q bit, than never
to have exposed ones self to the rays
at all
This is more correct philosophy. one
may insist.
While there Is no magic in sunshine,
in q sense, there Is great good in 1t,
properly handled If mankind were put
on this earth for anything discoverable
by man. surely it was that the COM
ponent members might learn to handle
the natural forces.
This is a workable philosophy, one
which has resulted in most of the real
strides in knowledge acquired by the
race.
The handling Of sunshine demands a
great deal Of common sense, backed by
use of such intelligence as one may pos
sess Nature has so tempered her rays,
however that the dumb Doras" Of the
beaches manage to get great deal Of
good from sun bathing without showing
any particular intelligence about it.
This fact shows. better than any
other single fact. the immense good to
be found in the sun bath. Even when
handled without thought. 1t most often
helps How much more benefit. there
fore. may be received by using the old
mind. too.
Even long periods Of gloomy weather
play their part, by directing the atten-
ton of the least thoughtful to one OF
life's greatest blessings. the divine sun.
shine, which falls upon the good and
the bad alike, without praise or censure.