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The Washington times., 1933-06-30
DUR|G RETURNS
FOR BOUT WITH
HARD LUCK
Views Eviction With Serenity
But Wife Breaks Things;
BIameS Swiss Envoy

The bad luck that has pursued
Ernst Dur1g, Swiss sculptor, home
again last night after a mysteri-
GUS absence of more than a month,
is again at work.
This morning, few hours after
his return, Durig and his wife were
visited by a United States marshal
with an eviction notice for rent
due on their fashionable Connec-
ticut Avenue studio. Their house.
hold goods and pieces of Durig's
work were summarily set upon the
sidewalk.
Takes 1t Calmly
Durig, who refuses to explain
his absence other than that he
had wandered off in a fit of
despondency. took the eviction
with unWonted calm. His wife,
however, was greatly upset. She
smashed to pieces her cherished
china, glassware, and smaller bits
of the ARTISTS work, among them
a model of a statue of the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Their troubles are blamed by the
Durigs on the enmity of the Swiss
minister, Marc Peter. Lifting her
hands to the skies, standing be-
side her dispossesed goods, Nine.
Durig cried:
81 will take him back to
Switzerland. In an open arena,
before the pOpulace, our case
will be tried. 1 will tell our
people what our minister in
Washington has done to good
Swiss citizens. When 1 have
finished there will not be a
little child in all Switzerland
but will spit upon him.
Durig declared he had written
President Roosevelt of his troubles
and that later today he would
give copy of the letter to the
world.
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
DECISION WATTS
FOR president
To RETURN
Contractors Assured Profits
Under System Employed
on Wartime Jobs

Reports that public works con.
tracts authorized under the
,300,00O,000 industrial recovery
act would be issued on a cost
plus" basis-war-time profiteering
system and plan for political
favoritism-were in circulation at
the Treasury Department today.
Although it was said that no
definite policy had been fixed to
determine whether the cost
plus" basis or competitive bid
system would be used, it was de-
finitely reported that opinion is
prevalent in the Treasury and
among outside contractors that
the former system would be
adopted.
Up to Roosevelt
President Roosevelt probably
will be called upon to make a
definite decision on the two
methods when he returns from
his vacation.
BY use of the "cost-plus" basis,
Administration officials could ad-
wise contractor that if he would
build some particular work he
would be paid the cost of his labor
and materials plus certain per-
centage of profit. Under this plan,
the contractor would be assured Of
profit and would be the recipient
of political favor which might &C
crue to the benefit Of the party in
power at future elections.
Caused PrOfiteering
In wartime, the "cost-plus"
basis was used which paved the
way for excess profiteering, it is
said.
In the event that the competi.
tive bid plan is used, contractors
are now trying to "get together"
to determine on plan which
would increase the cost to the
Government regardless of which
contractor received the award.
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
LuckieSt Man
Asks $15Flne
And Gets 1t
ERNEST DURIG AND WIFE

James Shoemoker's boast that
he was "the luckiest man in
Washington" today brought him
fine of SIS, or sentence of Is
days in Jail.
Shoemaker. .arraigned before
Judge Gus A. Schultz, said:
Eyes, Judge, your honor. I
was the drunkest man in Wash
ingtOn last night"
Judge Schultz then said:
Well. that being the case.
suppose 1 fine you $40 or 10
days."
Shoemaker then said:
"That won't be enough,
Judge. Suppose you make it
1872"
Judge Schultz agreed and a
bailiff led the man away.
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
Personnel at White House
Unaffected by Economv

The White House and executive
office personnel will not be
affected by the retrenchments
which are being made in the
various Governmental establish
mentS.
The appropriation of 1868, 900
including the salaries of the
President and the Vice President
is sufficient to meet require
ments.
For maintenance of the White
House proper, the executive office
and the 18 acres of lawns and
shrubbery $120,000 has been set
out, which is only $4,000 Iess than
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
S1,918,469 D. c.
FUND READY

Several hundred persons will be
given employment in Washington
under a highway construction pro-
gram, the funds of which become
available tomorrok.
The $4O0,000,000 highway con-
Struction program, under which a
total of $1,918,469 is made avail
able for the District, actually be-
gins operation tomorrow as the
funds become available.
The entire $400,O00,O00 will be-
come available tomorrow, when
the Public Works Administration
charged with the distribution Of
$4,000, 100000 is expected to an
nounce Federal construction prof.
@ctS.
The Washington times., 1933-06-30

hltch-nlKlng TO LnumOlHS TlueS Ill
the typical graphic American man.
ner; but it strikes me that the right
of an individual to ashland the
right of another individual to grant
"a lift ought not to be regulated
by the police.
The hitch-hiker, or thumber, has
been on my mind for several days,
as the car in which I rode was oc-
cupied by two adults, two dogs and
masses of baggage; yet to the
eagerly waiting hiker it seemed spa
cious and inviting.
You see these thumbers half mile
away, getting themselves set for
their gesture, which is sometimes
an appeal and sometimes a COM
mand; and you have no way to an
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
Man, 80, SWaLIOWs
Poison: DeSpOndent

Roland Cravner. 80, was taken
by police to Gallinger Hospital
last night after he swallowed
poison at his home in the 200
block of Eleventh St. N. E. In a
fit of dependency, the man drank
from a bottle containing anti
septic, it was said.
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
Bass Season Opens
In Hills of VirUiTliU

The open season on bass fish
ing in Virginia west of the Blue
Ridge Mountains will begin to-
morrow and continue through
November /.
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
Mai. Donovan Marks Time
On 1885 D. C.. Budget

Major Daniel ]. Donovan, Dis
trict auditor, today is still await
ing instructions from the bureau
of the budget in regard to esti-
mates for the District budget for
The Washington times., 1933-06-30
True to Type
"Thumbing Rides" Brings New Morals
-By GILBERT SELDES-

you enter Uniontown, Pa, Route 40, which will
"A take you to Wheeling, you sign, "Thumbng
Rides Prohibited" l regret it. That is to say, like
the phrase which shortens the theory and practice of
The Washington times., 1933-06-30

swer them for they would not if shook your
head sadly and feetng expression of regret would not
reach them even if you timed it nicely.
Next Car Please
There ought to be something you could do something
firm but friendly indicating that under other conditions
more favorable to conversation you would be pleased to
have company. l thought of getting of those old
street-car signs: "Take next please" Or simply,
'Sorry-full up" Something bright and visible long
way off, because the hker who stops waits and seems
so sure you will take him on, breaks your heart-unti
the next one occurs.
About 25 years ago Woodrow Wilson said that nothing
had done more than the motor to emphasize class
distinctions in America 20 years later the motor car
practically wiped out distinctions Everyone had car,
and many small, cheap the equal in appear
ance and performance of the luxurious models. People
wrote essays the loss of human egs-not by amputa
on but by atrophy People also wrote essays uphold
ing the silly idea that you couldn't the scenery when
you motored. The became the universal symbol of
the American.
Amateur Thumbers
The fact that the hitch-hker persists is good omen
He is return nature after our debauch with ma
chinery. With exception all the thumbers 1 met in
a week of motoring were nonprofessionas; they
men going from place to another because they had
to get there. You could tell by their lack of equip
ment) The exception had khaki shorts, knapsack and
all the other impediments of a walking tour l had no
compunctons about letting him walk.
One looked back at us chuggng (nerrily, we
thoughD up steep hil and, approached, did not
even thumb u.s. was mortified If it hadn't been for
the dogs should gladly have turned back and insisted
that he ride with discovered afterward that other
motorists have had the experience the humbers
bit choosy. | shall remember that when next I am
given the thumb.
Not Enough Brains
Mr.. Benjamin NJ Anderson economist for great
bank, is opposed to planned econoy"-the sort of
thing we are beginning to aernpt in scheme for
dustria recoYery-and of his strikes me as
peculiar 1t is that comprehensive plan cannot be
made "The ablest and best trained brains given unm
fnH nOt do he oL1
dents of economic theory for little WHILE at times
when their energies high in theoretic outline an
abstract picture of the economic order But put flesh
and blood upon this abstract skeleton, make it
thing adequate for conscious control of industrial life
is an impossbllity The coordination of the mutudinOus
elements must be through the market and not horugh
central brain central authority"
Evening star., 1933-03-26

scale are the works Of nature. An
Indian. shown the Capitol at Washing
ton. gaZed unimpressed. Il have seen
mountains built by the Great Spirit" "
said he. The geologist engineer studies
mountains and the forces that move
them and in this latest activity he finds
beautiful illustration on a small scale
of one type of mountain making me-
chanicS.
To illustrate, cut a bar of soap dag
onaly across from top to bottom in two
directions. then push it together end
wise. Blocks that have the thin edge
turn downward will rise; those that
turn the thin edge upward will be de-
pressed If they rest on plastic foun-
dation. So it is with many blocks of
the coast range Of California. as may
be seen in miniature in the San Pedro
hills which overlook Long Beach. When
next you drive over the beautiful roads
of Los Palos Verdes, the residence dis
trict of the hills, you may notice the
marine shells thousand feet above
the sea, and the wide terraces on which
they lie.
The block of San Pedro hills is
wedge-shaped. with the thin edge
turned downward. and it is being
squeezed up and up and up in success
i've movements. Each little movement
releases the elastic strain in the foun-
Evening star., 1933-03-26

dation to 10 miles below the
surface, the rocks snap back into place
and, as men say. there is an earth
quake. But those are only little shocks.
The San Pedro block is small-not
more than 5 miles across and 10
miles long-a detail in the larger struc-
ture that is bounded by the fault or
fracture which defines the coast from
Santa Monica to San Diego. 1t is that
fault which runs through Long Beach
and which directly or indirectly concen-
trated the vibrations there.
We do not yet know just where the
earthquake focus was, but when the OBJ
servations registered at the six seismo-
graph stations maintained by the Car
negie Institution of Washington in CO.
operation with the California Institute
Of Technology shall have been deciph-
cred, it will be fixed with a close ap-
proach to the actual point at which the
shock started. The seismologists work.
ing with DR.. H. o. Wood, in charge,
and who include DR.. Beno Gutenberg
and DR.. C. NJ Richter. will be able to
point out the active fault line, which
should be avoided in building and near
which all buildings should be specially
designed.
This center Of intensive chronological
research has been engaged for more
than decade, at a cost of from $4,000
Evening star., 1933-03-26
Population of China
Given as 474, $4,000

SHANGHAI-Despite floods, famines,
wars and epidemics, China's population
still is increasing If estimates based on
preliminary census statistics made by
the ministry of interior are reasonably
near accuracy. According to these esti-
mates, recently released by the ministry,
the population of China at present is
474, ,787 ,000
Figures given for various provinces
are approximated in some instances,
but based on supposedly careful census
conducted by magistrates in others. OF
the provinces Szechuen. in the far west
and bordering Tibet, has by far the
largest number of inhabitants, 1892
282. Kiangsu Province, in which
Shanghai is located. ranks second with
34.125.857 Third is Kwangtung, cap
ital of which is Canton. The ministry S
figure for that province is 32,427, ,626
Chihli and Honan are next, each with
slightly over 80 millions Of inhabitants.
Mongolia, peopled mostly by tribes
men and nomads, is most sparsely popu-
! lated. its 100000 square miles holding
only 616,010 descendants of the great
Genghis Khan.
Copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1933-03-26
Irish War on British
Royalty Memorials

DUBL1N.-Undaunte by the tariff
war with Great Britain, some enthusi-
astic supporters of the De Valera re-
g1me are now clamoring for a war on
the statues Of British royalty in the
Irish Free State. For instance, the
Fianna Fail Club of Newtownsandes
has passed a resolution calling upon
the government to remove all me-
MORALS. statues and "other emblems or
displays embodying or perpetuating
British domination in the country"
One statue in particular irks this
body Of Fanna Failers. 1t Is the huge
Queen Victoria which stands on Lem
ster Lawn at the doorway of the Dali,
the Free State parliamentary institu-
ton. For years it has been known as
"1reland's Revenge" because 1t is such
an ugly portrayal of the Queen. There
have been frequent agitations to re-
move 1t but the authorities have con-
tinued to occupy their time with other
matters
In the rehabilitation Of several gov
ernmental buildings following the con-
flict with the crown. notably the Dub
lin post Office, the emblens Of British
royalty were removed. There is still
a fair-sized collection of statues of
King Georges ancestors scattered about
the Free State.
(Copyright, 1887
Evening star., 1933-03-26
Continued From First Page.)

(COntlnueQ From t1rSL Pdge.)
have cut operating expenses $699 900 a
year.
New types of cars are emerging from
the shops-freight cars Of steel, tank
cars with glass Innings, refrigerator cars
that generate their own refrigeration
from their moving wheels, passenger
cars built for light weight and high
speed. Both the Reading and the Penn
sylvania lately introduced a new type
of self-propelled streamlined passenger
unit in the Philadelphia suburban serv-
ice-a car Of stainless steel that rides
the rails on rubber pneumatic tires.
More recently-in February-there
was demonstrated on the Michigan
Central an "auto-tram," a light weight
car of aluminium alloy, self-propelleu
and streamlined. which is said to be
capable Of attaining speeds up to 80
miles an hour.
In freight service-which established
a new speed record in 1932-rapid de-
velopment has come in the use Of motor
trucks as an auxiliary to rail transport.
Some Of the railroads are carrying less
than-carload freight by trucks between
nearby cities.
Some are operating trucks with in
terchangeable bodies, which can be
lifted from the motor chassis and
swung into place on q railway fiat car,
to be lifted out at their destination
onto the chassis of other waiting motor
trucks, which speed the shipment to the
consignee's delivery door.
Passenger service has steadily de-
clined ever since 1920, and how to re-
gain 1t is one Of the frequently debated
questions. Some operators think that
the way lies through fare reduction.
Early in 1888 the Louisville & Nashville
petitioned the Interstate Commerce
Commission for permission to reduce its
rate for coach travel to cents a mile
The biggest single investment in rail-
way improvement last year-indeed, the
outstanding modernization project Of
the decades the electrification of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. With Phila-
delphia as a hub, operation by electric
power, heretofore extending west to
Paoli, has now been extended north to
Evening star., 1933-03-26
New Painting Depicts Mussolini in
ArmOr of CondottierO of Old

the state The pomegranate also is
supposed to be symbol Of fertility and
the abundance of riches which the
earth gives to him who known how to
dominate it.
Behind Sig. Mussolini is gold statue
Of the victory of Carso, painted after
the design for the beacon at Trieste.
Carso was one of the hardest-fought
battleflelds Of the World War.
In the background are three arched
windows. A crimson damask drape
hangs over the center opening. and
on the drape are embroidered Roman
eagle. fascist lictors and a wreath OF
oak leaves.
Through the left-hand window is
seen dawn coming over the village OF
Dovia. where Sig Mussolini was born.
The house where IL duce came into the
world, every tree and every footpath in
the town are detailed.
The right-hand window shows the
castle Of the Caminate, reconstructed,
which the province Of Forli gave to
Sig. Mussolini. 4
(Copyright 1881
Evening star., 1933-03-26
Navy Rule in Samoa
Praised and Censured

HONOLULU, Hawaii-Two varying
reports on the naval administration OF
American Samoa have just been given
publicity here. Both are informal and
unofficial, but represent the results OF
late observation.
The first was statement from Miss
Guyrah Newkirk, New York artist and
teacher, who gave an interview publish
ed in a Honolulu newspaper outlining
in great detail severe criticism of naval
administration. She alleged that naval
officials charged with looking after the
affairs Of American Samoa are un-
sympathetic, often i'll informed on
Samoan conditions and needs, and that
grave abuses of their power had oc-
Cured
Shortly after this a commission of
three educators, sent from Honolulu to
look into Samoan educational conditions
under the authority of a private educa-
tlonal foundation, returned with praise
for the naval administration. It report
ed that little complaint had been found
with the manner in which the naval
governor and others are handling
Samoan affairs.
(Copyright 19331
Evening star., 1933-03-26

ROME, Itaiy-A huge, symbolical oil
painting of Premier Benito Mussolini
has been attracting attention in win
dow on the Corso in Trieste, according
to reports reaching Rome. The artist
Cesare Sofianopulo-ha painted IL duce
q the armor of q condottiero OF the
fifteenth century.
In his right hand Sig. Mussolini holds
q naked sword, which rests on copy
of Machiavelli's realistic manual OF
politics, THE Prince" of which il duce
is known to be student. The book Is
opened at a passage which reads; The
Romans seeing so much disorder, had
recourse to a dictator, so that one per-
son might bring new order into that
which three persons had disordered.
Once alone, the dictator demonstrated,
with spirit and work and counsel, how
much he was worth; all Of which, when
there was company OF leaders, hao
been lacking"
In his left hand II duce holds q bios
eoming pomegranate, symbol OF the
COLLECTIVELY contained in the unity OF
Evening star., 1933-03-26

IONDON-As a result of the depre-
citation of sterling many foreign publi-
cations and books have become luxuries
for libraries as well as individuals IN
Great Britain According to some news
and book dealers, such foreign imports,
particularly those of American origin,
have increased in price by nearly SO
per cent.
The difficulties created by the slump
in the value of sterling is referred to
in the latest report of the curators OF
the Bodleian Library at Oxford, who
have decided to suspend purchase OF
the most expensive new foreign works
until the rate of exchange is more IA
vorable. A number of institutions with
limited budgets are, like the Bodleian,
compiling list of books for acquisition
when the pound stages comeback.
Resident Americans and m n
Britons who are not regular subscribers
for American publications have been
stunned by the prices which news deal
Evening star., 1933-03-26

NE the publishers Of Time, the weekly news maga-
zine paid me visit and remarked: "This Is the TENN
" anniversary of my first call on you DO you re-
member" -.
do remember very well. He had been sent to me by
banker who said hese boys planning to start ne"
magazine want you to tell them how foo1sh tney are
They will lose their money and their friends money but
than that they will throw away several Oh Ie oes
years of their lives" .,
So sat back and out of my wisdom and my failures,
proceeded to the young that his plan was pos
sble He listened coureously called me sir thanked me-
and went away =, ..
I had proved to them could not be done. -
When college professor OF politics announced:
Constitution of the United States never again can be
amended machinery is too unwieldy the conflctng
strong Since then the Constitution mas peen
amended four times ..,.
done about diabetes Last week spent day with man
who carries heavy work as head OF great indus
try diabetes" he said II have to follow diet and
take periodic injections of insuin 1t is bother but Is u
important shall die of something but won't be diabetes
During the depression get the notion that
everything has been sagnan Factories closed business
is at low ebb But research has been going ahead b leaps
bounds One manufacturer said 1--WE have made 100
additions improvements in line and another I'VE
have products ready to launch that our only
difficulty is to know which ones to select"
Marriages continue; births continue. And each birth
mind with hampering knowledge that
anything has been tried and proved impossible
These minds the hope OF the future They are
aso course the threat the future discouragng
number young men, since 1914 who think that
is grand adventure.
ldtmers persuade these boys that tried
wage successful that successful is
thing that positively can't be done?
copyrisht
Evening star., 1933-03-26
Transportation of Tomorrow

, New York and south to Wilmington.
The complete project calls for extension
to Washington and will cost a>total of
approximately s11O,0oO,oO0 The outlay
for materials, equipment and construc-
ton during 1882 alone provided en-
ployment for approximately $4,000 per-
sons. Seventy-two electric locomotives
have gone into service since the Au-
tumn of 1882 and tests have shown the
possibility of high-operating speeds.
Identification has added much to the
convenience and comfort and cleanli-
ness Of travel and in operating through
tunnels and in highly congested metro
politan districts it seems indispensable.
But the future of electrifcation as a
general program for American railroads
is much less confidently predicted to-
day than was the case few years ago.
ALL conditioning, which requires sealed
windows, has shut out the dust, smoke
and cinderS of steam. Steam has de-
veloped new economies and equally up
setting are the highly efficient operating
records of the new types of rail trac-
tion-and gas and Diesel-powered loco
motives and cars. with their low first
cost and low operating expense. Many
we're considered good material for the
electrif1ers are now getting along well
with these compact, self-powered units.
The transportation of tomorrow will un-
doubtedly make increasing use of these
and the yet more efficient units that
are in the laboratories.
Many problems remain to try the
wisdom and challenge the comprehen-
siveness of national transportation pol
icy-questions of regulation of the Or
ganization and scope of supervision, of
Government subsidies, of rate adjust
ment to the new price conditions, of
railway refinancing. of consolidation, CO.
ordination, integration. These minutae
of economics seem at the moment more
perplexing than the engineering prob
lens OF getting more ton-mileS of trans
portation to the ton of fuel consumed
or the hour of labor served, but in the
end the financial and administrative
and supervisory efficiencies must rest on
| the solid ground of chronological
achievement and advance-a reality al
readv attainad