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The Washington times., 1933-09-19
DRIVE AIDS SALE
of WOMEN s
CLOTHING
D. C. Stores Report Gains and
Praise Buy in September
Campaign Effects

Washington women are buying
more dresses and coats and un-
mentionables today than they
have been for many months past.
So say several local women's
clothiers, interviewed by The
Washington Times to gauge the
success of the NRA and the "Buy
in September" movement, being
pushed by The Times and by
Hearst newspapers throughout the
nation.
Business ''Much Better"
Byron Alderman, of M. Philips
born & Co., reports that sales in
that establishment last week were
% per cent over the same seven
days last year. He states:
Business during the past
week has been much better.
The Buy in September cam
paign? 1 think it's fine. Your
paper is helping buying"
A similar increase during the
recent past is also reported by
Joseph R. Harris, of the shop
bearing his name. He asserts.
During the last few days
we have been just as busy as
we can be. The result OF TINS
buying will be that many peO-
ple who do not have positions
now will get them soon. The
thought behind your buying
drive is commendable."
Steady Gains Seen
The clothing store Of M. Brooks
g. Company, through its mer'
chandising manager, Arthur j,
Rosenblatt, states that the recent
boost in business is enough to be
encouraging. Rosenblatt says:
1--WE are so optimistic we are
remodeling the store, which we
believe to be a progressive step
at this time and one that
shows we know business will
get steadily better"
Sales are on the upswing out
side of washington, too. Mrs. M
Solomon, manager of the Lerner
Shop, one of a chain of such
stores, reports that both in this
city and in other communities in
which the chain operates. busi
ness is going ahead considerably
So far, The washington Times
has interviewed photographers
florists, department stores, res
taurants, haberdashers. drug
gists, jewelers. and movie thea
ters. All say that better times
are here, and that the way tc
keep the ball rolling is to:
"Buy in September and Buy
American"
The Washington times., 1933-09-19

Time is valuable! save 1t when
shopping for apartments by FIRST con-
sulting the Rental Columns Of the
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
81 Beer Forbidden

l have been having trouble getting my liquor lately
legal LIQUOR plain bottled 80 beer. The facts should be
spread on the record because they excellent sign
of intelligence and progress My first difficulty was at the
Francis Scott Key Hotel in Frederick Maryland an hotel
named after the man who The StarSpangled Ban
ner happy that still waved Ger the land OF the tree
as YOU remember 1t appears that gentleman who either
owns or resides this hotel is much opposed to the sale
of beer and so Influential, that beer is not sold
IT. was on Old Defenders Day that I passed through
Marvand-the anniversary that s of Francis Scott hey
visit to the British vessel, the bombardment and tne
success Of American By happy coincidence as H. L.
Mencken pointed out this also the day on which Mary
land voted on repea-and, Mr. Mencken also noted
was his birthday Repeal passed noby IN Maryand Dut
and when return Frederick still expect to hnd no peer
At it's hotel For repeal does not make liquor obgatory
Not Even SeItzer
Nv next difficulty in Pennsylvania The Coach ana
Fonr Hotel in Coatesville pleasantly named and pleas
ontv fond stoppng place. but there even charged water
+h mnest bottled soda is unavailable for fear that 1t
rax he mixed with potent liquors. In the window OF the
coffe shon which embraced by the hotel sign makes
al clear 'No Beer Sold Here!" In Coaesvllle, when
thew mean it, they mean It,
These little difficulties of travel ANNOYING but con-
.der them as signs of future happiness They would nave
heen signs happiness in the past If the same people VINO
now say t is legal to sell beerWe Will not but otherS
nav had been liberal generation ago In few months
the evil and ignoble experiment will be memory Odo
~ for this eeneraton an improbable one for the next.
Rvond that will not predict We 60 to war after two
onorations so it is impossible that will try even
such a folly as prohibition again.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
Davis Spends
Honeymoon
In a Cell

The honeymoon is over when
the police grab the bridegroom
So Charles Davis, who was
married last Sunday, found his
honeymoon ended late yester-
day when Traffic Policeman
]. o. curtis saw him driving
a machine for which a lookout
had been sent out.
Curtis took Davis into GUS
tody for investigation in con.
nection with a number Of petty
thefts committed over the past
two months. Curtis gave his
address as the 1900 block Sixth
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
Mans Skull Injured
In Fall to Street

William j. Doyle, 80, of the
400 block Pennsylvania Ave. N.
W., was in a serious condition in
Emergency Hospital today from
injuries received yesterday when
he caught his heel on the curbing
at Sixth and c Streets north
west. He tripped and fell, suffer-
ing a possible fractured skull.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
STAGGER PLAN
MAY Be PUT IN
FORCE AGAIN
Drop in Enrolment at Central,
Gain at Eastern, Surprise
Education Officials

Superintendent of Schools Frank
w. Ballou announced that there
was an increase of 5000 pupils
over last years number enrolled
this year in the District public
schools. The figures for the tlrst
day showed that there were H,O21
students enrolled.
Commenting upon the over
crowded and adverse conditions
existing in the schools this year,
DR.. Ballou said:
"We shall have to do the best
we can, though there is every
indication that our facilities will
be Overtaxed."
Efficiency Threatened
Teaching efficiency is being
threatened seriously by the over
crowding, it being noted that
there is an excessive number OF
students to one teacher. If this
condition continues, the stagger
system in schools will have to be
repeated.
School officials we're amazed to
find that there was a decrease
in registration at Central High
School and an increase at East
ern. Central reported 1883 en-
rolled, a decrease of 228 from
last year, while Eastern reported
2,87O, an increase of 522 students,
Assistant superintendent Ste
phen E. Kramer stated that the
Eastern and Central figure S
might not mean anything, but
added that the next few days
would show whether the popu'
lation in Washington was shift
ing from the western portion to
the east.
Night Schools Open
Night schools opened last night
and showed an enrolment OF
5,249. The registration figure in
the six white schools was 1921
and in the seven colored, 2,028
These figures show a decrease ot
300 in the white schools and 20(
in the colored. E. j. Lockwood
director of white evening schools
said the decrease in registration
could be traced to the fact that
many prospective night schoo
students did not know that the
school term began last night.
The total enrolment in the in
| divid,1a1 hioh schools follows:
Central, 1855; Eastern, 2,87O;
Continued on Page 16, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-09-19

spired as a response to two impulses:
the cruelty and inhumanity of the
Nazis in Germany and the warm
friendliness of non-Jews in America,
so that the pageant which records the
romance and the suffering of the Jews
in their dispcrsions also records their
gratitude to one of the countries
which has made them feel at home,
accepted them as citizens and given
them a moderately decent chance to
live as they please.
About persecution it has been
cleverly argued that the Jews are (D
so used to it that they would miss it
if it didn't come at stated intervals,
and (2) that they deliberately bring
it upon themselves because they love
it and persecution satisfies their de-
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
AFTER EFFECTS OF WAR

Wars upset human relations for
many years after they happen. This
phase of the present world situation
was recalled by President Hoover,
in delivering a Lincoln Day address
to the National Republican club. He
attributed the troubles from which
the world is suffering primarily to
these after effects of war.
Some may disagree with him, and
say that if it had not been for the
crazy speculation that swept over
our country and others some five
years ago. business and industry
could have gone ahead without Sc
rious reaction.
/ The World War, however, led to
an extremely abnormal increase in
the prices of everything. This ad-
vance led to excessive valuations on
farms and other property. An enor-
nous mountain of debt was built
UP On lHOSc cAttSSlfc fdiudliOuSs
When the crash came, it was far
more disastrous because those val.
ues had been so inflated.
The cost of war. is not found
merely by adding the lives lost, the
soldiers crippled, and the expense of
the armies. After the war
there comes an enormous burden for
pensions and for maintaining the
soldiers and their families. The
United States will spend eventually
more on these costs after the war
closed, than il spent while the war
was proceeding.
Facing these truths, people who
favor policies likely to result in war
seem lacking in the most ordinary
sense. 1t is better to make
many concessions to our neighbors,
rather than take chances of any
more such disasters.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
wAsHINGTON'S GREAT TRAITS

School children and others who
hear on Washington's birthday about
the great deeds of George Washing
ton. will ask how lie was enabled
to do these great things.
Washington combined two quail
ties which do not always go togeth-
er. He had a supreme faith that
things could be done, and he had the
practical power to get them done. 1t
often happens that the people of
faith and vision, lack the practical
gift of organization to carry out their
dreams into reality. While the peo-
pie who have the practical gift for
organizing the details of life, are
frequently content with limited
achievement.
George Washington saw far
ahead into the unknown future. He
believed the time had come for such
a country, with such vast possibili-
ties, to order its own future, to es-
tablish its own principles of living,
and to organize human welfare on
a better basis. We owe very many
of our present blessings to his faith
and his practical ability.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
MUTTERING BEFORE A STORM!

Some observers feel that popular
discomfort with hard times has he
come so acute that there is a danger
of revolutionary disturbances. They
fear riots and mob action.
On the whole our people have
passed through these difficult times
with remarkable self control. Yet
when unemployed men have vainly
tramped the streets for weeks, when
they have written hundreds of let
ters and fined no one to hire them,
it is not strange if bitter thoughts
boil I'M their hearts.
Many of the folks who thus cher
ish bitterness, were throwing thei"
money away for luxuries, or specu-
lating with it and losing, as fast as
they earned it a few years ago. They
should aim few well directed kickc
at themselves, as well as at their
government.
The troubles from which the Unit
ed States suffers are not so bad as
those endured in Russia where the
government has taken over all in
dustry, and where it claims ii viii
establish an economic paradise.
There the people suffer from a scar
city of the necesSaTies of life, Here
our people suffer because such great
surpluses have been produced, that
the producers can't sell them, and
hence can't buy other merchandise.
A system that produces a surplus
is better than one that produces a
deficit. If you can't produce enough
food and clothing to keep your peo-
pie comfortable, it indicates some
defect in the system. |
But if You keep producing unsalable
surpluses, upsetting the business
system for a time, it is sign the
is fundamentally right, but
/ wants something like what is call
I'd timing" on an automobile. While
he muttering of the people warm us
o cure these remediable defects,
hey do not suggest that any storm is
coming that will destroy the ma
hine.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
National UNITY

One of the things most strikingly
needed at this time. is more unity of
action in promoting normal eco
nomic conditions. President-elect
Roosevelt has had a useful thought,
in asking the governors of the states
to assemble in Washington and meet
him two days after his Inauguration.
Such a meeting ought to accomplish
something toward combined and CO.
operative action in all sections.
Our nation allows much local self
government, and the rights and
privileges of the states and sections
are fairly we'll guarded. On the
whole that plan works well. Our
government would not have lasted so
long, if this fexibility had not ex-
listed.
But it also has disadvantages. AT
times when the whole nation needs
to pull together to overcome difficult
ties, there is a lack of unified action.
The quarrels of sections and states
block programs of accomplishment.
Our people do not like the way
democratic government has been
stified in countries like Russia and
Italy. But in such countries gov
erned by dictators, it is possible to
produce unity of action, which gets
certain things done promptly. The
power of the nation is unified, and
made to produce results. Our people
would not stand that Limitation of
their liberties. But they should learn
from it the lesson, that if we wish
to accomplish things as nation, we
must agree on measures to fight eco
nomic disorders. and put the whole
power of the nation behind these
measures.
When we entered the World War.
we fought az. a nation. without sec
Lional divisions. The battle against
economic loss and disaster must be /
fought in the same spirit of unity.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
GUARDING THE PRESIDENT

The deplorable attack at Miami
on President-elect Roosevelt raises
the question as to whether adequate
protection is given to presidents and
presidents-elect. The president is
always guarded by secret service
,men now. but this constant over
sight by these watchful officers is
no doubt irksOme to the chief eXecu-
tive. He must often be tempted to
slip off by himself, and enjoy a few
moments of freedom. For the sake
of the country, it is his duty to sub
NIT to whatever precautions his pro-
teetors may consider necessary.
The greatest danger to the presi-
dent comes when crowds gather
around him. containing a miscellan-
cons assortment of people. Who can
tell what crank may have come with
that bunch of enthusiastic friends?
A secret service man needs eyes like
hawk to keep watch of all those
excited folks. and make sure that
none of them has conceived some
deadly purpose of malice.
Such an affair as this attack on
the president-elect, raises the ques-
tion whether il is safe for the presi-
dent or president-elect to come in
such close contact with a crowd of
people. The removal of a president
would be very upsetting event UNI
der any circumstances, and particu-
larly so in times like these. Many
would feel better if the president
and president-elect would keep out
of such crowds. and carry on their
communications with the public
through the radio and the newspa-
pers, and orderly public gatherings
where people can be carefully
watched.
Our people are deeply thankful /
that the man whom they have chosen
for their leader has escaped this
imminent peril. They urge upon him
the necessity OF the most stringent |
care, TO make sure that no such op-
portunity is again given malicious
and demented persons who may have
designs upon him.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
THE SPILLS OF OFFICE

Government jobs were once re-
garded purely as spoils Of office, to
be handed out wholesale to the elec
ton winners. Such sweeping
changes so demoralized government
work, that the great majority of
government positions are now pro-
tected by the civil service laws,
which place a sharp limit to the raw
ages of the job hunters.
James A. Farley, chairman of the
Democratic national committee,
should be commended for stating
that while loyal Democrats will be
given the positions which the party
can dispose of, such appointees must
show the ability to serve the public
with credit. 1t will be for the in
terest of that party to insist on a
high standard, as the people would
be more than disgusted if such
change of administration put in a
bunch of incompetents to serve the
country.
If bank or factory threw out its
employees because the management
did not like their political views. It
wonld not last long. Similarly the
country suffers when officials who
have nothing to do with shaping
political policies are thrown out for
purely political reasons.
Yet when the Democrats throw
the Republicans out now, they can
show that the Republicans threw
the Democrats out in 1921. And if
the Republicans should return to
power i'm 1871, then they can say
that the action of the Democrats in
1888 would Justify another sweep.
The pot can't call the kettle black.
The time will probably come
when nOn-pOlitical functions will be
exercised without regard TO poll
Tics. The present system is wrong,
but it is so deeply intrenched that
It can't be changed in a hurry. Any
administration could win public
favor, and increase its efficiency, by
to the number of officials
who can expect to hold their Of
ices through all administrations,
without regard to their political
views, so long as they serve the pub
ic intelligently and diligently.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
WANDERING WOMEN

a Senate committee was recently
told that 100000 people are wan
dering about the country, and about
five per cent of them are supposed
to be women and girls, which would
make $4,000 Of these females wan
derers.
A man or boy tramp is problem
enough. But when the women, who
naturally cling to home life, turn in
to wanderers, our fundamental con-
ceptions of their life is violated.
The need of many of them must have
been desperate. Yet pure restless
ness starts many girls on the road.
Somehow our communities must
reach out to these rowing spirits,
and save them from the fatal de-
teriorations of such an experience.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
RENOyIzE DRIVES

"Renovize campaigns" are prov
ing a useful stimulant to business
in many places. In asking people
to renoyate and improve their build
ings, they appeal TO sound business
sense. as we'll as to desire to help
the unemployed. The general condi-
ton of buildings has run down dur
ing the past four years. Homes and
other structures that were formerly
well kept, have become shabby, and
previously shabby ones have sunk
deeper into decadenee.
There has not been a time for
years when the renovation of such
buildings could be done as cheaply
as II can be right now. Property
owners should not let the oppor-
tunity pass. Thousands of towns
have acquired a too depressing at
mosphere. If people would clean up,
paint up, and repair and renovate
their buildings. wave of new hope
and confidence would move the coun-
try.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
Milford. Friday, February 81, 1898
INAUGURATION DAY

The American people come TO an
other milestone of their progress on
March 4, when they inaugurate the
send president of the United States,
Franklin d. Roosevelt The quiet
peace in which this event takes
place, is in singular contrast to the
turmOils and revolutions through
which many nations change their
rulers. A people who control them
selves so well through the storms
of national life, will know how to
take care of themselves In all trials.
The American people lay on their
president an almost impossible task.
They make him the goat for all their
errors, and vent on him the blame
for all their sins. They blamed Her
bert Hoover for a hundred things he
never did, and they will visit the
same violent wrath ON his success
sOr.
Men and women 0f all parties
should give the new president better
support. 1t is inconceivably hard
for one man to sit alone in the
White House, and try to think out
the problems which our wisest lead
ers have come far from solving.
We need to sink partisan spirit as
never before. We fought the World
War to a successful conclusion, by
forgetting about our political par
ties. No one asked, when we were
selling liberty bonds and tying up
surgical dressings, whether people
were Republicans or Democrats.
They should not ask such questions
now, when we are fighting such enc
mics as want and unemployment. '''''''
If we will all pull together, we
can give Old Man Depression a ter
rible licking. But we can't do it. If
our political parties are maneuvering
for party strategy. nor if our poll
ticians are thinking about getting
elected. We must forget our per-
sOnaf interests, and join hands in
hearty support of the new president.
Let us be willing TO make such con-
cessions and compromises as Will
join the whole nation in one mighty
and conquering effort.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
MORE sTAYRRS WANTED

Our country is full of drifters,
people who go from one place to
another, always hoping to find some
thing better later on. They form no
strong ties anywhere, and have no
established reputation on which they
can build.
We need more folks who are will
ing to settle down for good long
time, or a lifetime. in good place
like Milford, who will work for the
upbuilding of that community and
make a reputation for themselves
so that employers will hire them and
people will patronize them. One of
the best qualities of the stayers, is
that they are disposed to buy their
supplies at home. They know their
prosperity depends on the welfare
of their home town, and they don't
wish to injure that welfare by scat
tering their money around the coun-
tTy.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
MOTIVES FOR ASSASSINATION

What causes the impulses leading
men to commit such a deed OF wick
edness as the attempted shooting of
President-elect Roosevelt at Miami?
Can anything be done to prevent
people from attempting deeds Of
such horror?
II seems probable that the Amer
lean custom of subjecting the heads
of the nation to the most bitter at
tack does much to infiame minds
capable of such a deed. 1t has be-
come the regular thing to subject
presidents and candidates for presi-
den to very violent abuse, going be-
yond all reason. They are held UT
as worthy of contempt. When per-
son distorted mentality hears such
feelings expressed, he may conceive
the idea that a harmful influence
would be destroyed if such man
could be removed. Such horrid deeds
may grow out of these abusive ex-
pressions of opinion.
People ought to realize that a man
who has been elected president or
nominated for that office. must be
one of high character and patriot
ism and human sympathy. or he |
could not possibly have gone so far |
in the public service. If they differ |
with him, they should treat him
with decent respect, and not eneour- |
age by their violence the acts of &C.
centric and dangerous persons.
Some countries have large ele-
ments of people who are so filled
with a spirit Of bitterness and vio-
lence that they constantly contem-
plate acts of this kind. There are
Too many of them in this country,
foes of organized society, and the
head of the nation may at any time
be attacked by them.
The danger of such an assault is so
ever present, that watchfulness
against it must never cease. But
very few of our people
with such acts, and they
,nly look with horror at such deeds
II unreasOn.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-24
NATIONAL ADVERTISING

Most OF the great national adver-
tisers have slashed their advertising
appropriations and an examination
of the leading local newspapers of
the country shows that these papers
have suffered the biggest cuts.
The depression" is universal, but
the reduction in what is called ''the
purchasing power" of consumers is
greatest in the large centers. But
it is in these large eenters Of popu-l
lation that the major portion of the
present-day national advertising is
being placed. Through the columns
of metropolitan dailies and general,
publications and over the radio the
large industries are competing with
unusual vigor. Their efforts seem
to be directed toward selling theiri
products to the public in larger cit.
les. One peculiarity of the situation
is that it looks like mass move
ment to "get blood out of turnip."
There are good local newspapers
printed in COCO to 10000 frst-cIass
communities in the country. None
OF these papers are thrown away at
the end of ride on the subway or
an electric line; but each paper goes
into home. These are the newspa-
pers that thoroughly cover one-half
of the population and perhaps two
thirds Of the territory of the United
States.