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The Washington times., 1933-12-27
Something Wrong
School Buildings

There something radically wrong with Washngons school
building program.
The citys children attending Sc ools which in
dapidated or condition They overcrowded in
their classrooms
Two high schools threatened with the necessity of stag
gng classes the Spring in order to afford any educational
facilities for of the children.
YET facing these conditions school construction in the city
is at virtual standstiI.
The last appropriation bill the District carried only
small construction and the estimates which shortly
to be submitted Congress understood to have been
that they will provide far less than the minimum asked
by school authorities.
Are the taxpayers Washington going permit such
ditions to continue?
Back in 1907 1908 public sentiment here aroused
aver the condition of school buildings Many of them were
archaic longer fit for but Congress reluctant
to embark upon general building program
Congress decided to get facts the situation passed
an act creating School House Commission consisting of
the Architect of the Treasury the Engineer Commissioner
and the superintendent of Schools
That Commission set to work to find out what Washington
had in the line of schools and what it should have.
Its report masterpiece Of constructive suggestion
submitted plans for modern buildings based surveys
Of the best schools then in use in the country.
It condemned several Of Wasingtons buildings forthwith
It recommended the early abandonment of eight school
buildings
RECOMMENDED FOR ABANDONMENT IN 1908 ARE
STILL IN USE
Although those buildings were found by experts to be unfit
25 years ago. children still forced to to them for in
structon.
The commission had good to recommend the early
abandonment of these buildings.
Most of them built about the time of the Civil War
The buildings old at the time the report made They
were upon inadequate sites and the commission properly de-
cided that they could be improved fit into the
concept of modern school system.
The structures which recommended for early aba
donment in 1908 but which still in use are:
The Force School, originally built in 1879;
The Jefferson, built in 1879;
The Lincoln, built in 1871;
1884.
It is outrage that these buildings should have been
abandoned when the recommendation originally made
they old then.
It is double outrage that they should be use 25 years
later.
And is triple outrage that because mistaken zeal
for there should be prospect finally eliminating
them from the school system in the future.
The children Of Washington will either 90 these schools
for many years they will unless steps are
Immediately taken to obtain necessary appropriations
The Washington times., 1933-12-27

DR.. Haven Emerson, a noted
figure in the world of medi-
cine, comes out with a vigorous
and interesting denunciation
of euthanasia-a word which
means, simply, giving a happy
or easy death to persons suf-
fering from incurable diseases.
It is, indeed, very much in the
news, as the German ministry
Of justice proposes to authorize
physicians to end the suffering
of incurable patients. and as
similar suggestions are made
in our own country.
But it is against the whole
tendency Of civilization. as DR..
Emerson remarks. Society is
steadily assuming greater re-
sponsibility for all human be-
ings below par, whether they
are leperS, originally ostracised
and now often cured; the in
sane, who were once put in
chains but are now being cared
for in hospitals, and quite fire.
quently restored to sanity; the
physically Handicapped, who
were once left to beg their
way, or the So-called incurables.
Who Can Judge?
pI1t bouy do ,,,o l,,oor, ~ +ba
marked advance Of medical and
chemical science that they are
incurable? And who is to be
the judge of what is incurable
in these magic days? No one
can say today what will be
incurable tomorrow. The late
RegiStrar-General of England
told DR.. Emerson that he had
two sisters apparently doomed
to premature death, one by
diabetes and the other by per-
nicious enemia-diseases which
were considered incurable up
to a few years ago. Both sis
terS were saved, one by DR..
6anClIlgS discovery OF 1nSulln
in 1922, and the other by the
discovery of the effectiveness
of the liver treatment, made
by Drs. Minot and Murphy, of
Boston, in 1926.
Even in the lifetime Of our
grandparents, to diagnose tu-
berculOSiS in a child was to write
its death warrant. Today al
most everyone knows that tuber-
culosiS is durable in most
instances. All about us are
friends, relatives or associates
healthy, happy and uSeful-who
once were deemed incurable.
Cancer is still regarded as incur
able, yet the American College
of Physicians, meeting in Chi
cago, reports $4,000 cured cases
of cancer of all types; all, of
The Washington times., 1933-12-27

<AGNO 4OO LII
BE LONESOME"
Do I believe that? OF course
I do-but why cry about it?
Being lonesome because you're
good does not mean that you're
carrying cross.
1T MERELY MEANS THAT
YOU'RE TAKING A SWELL
CHANCE.
Why is goodness a lonesome
job?
Because it's a new experiment
in human behavior. And being
new, it's bound to be danger
Gus, uncomfortable and unpop-
ular.
Goodness isn't natural. We
aren't born wanting to be good.
We are born Underwriting
to be safe-dreading danger
shrinking from everything that
is new-hating everything and
everyone that represents posi-
BILE risk.
We are born lazy-loving
idleness, craving comfort-re-
senting change, pressure, hord-
ship.
We are born stupid-lazy-
minded as we'll as lazy-fleshed.
We are born selfish-Wanting
our own way-raising Cain if we
can't get it.
In short, we are born unclvil-
ized-still shuddering savageS,
only a few thousand years re-
moved from the jungle.
But goodness implies brave,
honest, industrious, unselfish,
civilized human behavior. And
that's too much for us. We're
not ready for it yet. So what?
so WE'VE FOUNDED OUR
HUMAN SOCIETY ON RE-
SPE CTABILITY RATHER
THAN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Respectability is safe. 1t
doesn't require much courage or
intelligence-and it camouflages
81 varieties of laziness and self
ishness. But Righteousness
messes everything up. Right
eousneSS issues challenges, de-
mands experiments, send a soul
off on long, lonely crusades.
WHY IS RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND WHY ARE RIGHTEOUS
PEOPLE A PAIN IN THE
NECK?
That is why. And that is why
you're lonely if you're good. A
good persona really good per-
son-is the most upsetting thing
in any neighborhood or any Soc
ial circle. His courage and
honesty make our common hu-
man cowardice and cussedneSs
look and feel like thirty cents.
Naturally the neighbors take
him for a ride!
But aren't there lots Of Good
People who don't have such
The Washington times., 1933-12-27
Appropriations Committee
Ignores Recommendations
Bv James T. Williams, Jr.
les T. Williams, J.

and left. Time and again it has
ignored the recommendations Of
the policy committee. This bad
practice is most detrimental to
the efficiency of the Federal
service. Unless it is soon stopped,
veterans of the House predict
that the centralized system Of
appropriations will be aban"
doned, and Mr.. Buchanan's COM
mittee shorn Of many of its
powers.
One Of the worst offenders
on Chairman Buchanan'S COM
mittee is the chairman of the
subcommittee on appropriations
for the War Department-Rep-
resentative Collins, Of Missis.
sippi. At the last session OF
Congress-, Chairman Collins re-
duced the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs to a nonentity. It's
hearings were ignored, the in
formation they developed was,
time after time, ignored. Mr.,
Collins summoned walking dele
gates for the League of Nations
as witnesses in an effort to
break down the evidence pre-
sented by American officials.
And the War Department appro-
priation bill was such a hodge
podge that much of it had to be
rewritten by the Senate.
Until this practice is stopped
and the Committee on Military
Affairs and other standing COM
mittees are again allowed to
function, Chairman Buchanan,
will not get very far with his
good resolution against leglsla"
tive "riders."
Needed Reform
While Mr.. Garner was Speaker
of the House, he was able to
hold the House Committee on
Appropriations more closely to
it's legitimate work than was
done at the last session Of Con-
gress. Mr.. Garner did this in
spite of the fact that the Appro--
priations Committee was headed
by one of his long-standing po-
litical enemies, Representative
Byrns of Tennessee.
But since Mr.. Garner became
Vice President, the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, under
Chairman Buchanan, has gotten
badly out Of hand.
If Chairman Buchanan Will
let it be known at the beginning
of the next session that neither
Mr.. Collins nor any other mems
ber of the Appropriations Cons
mittee is to be permitted to med
die in the business Of other COM
mitteeS, the House will support
such a reform. Federal admins
istration will benefit by such a
reform. Then there may ba
some chance of putting stop
to the practice of legislating BY
means of "riders."
But until the Chairman OF the
House Committee on Appropria
tions practices some of the orr
derly procedure of which he has
become an eloquent preacher
the House will not pay much
attention to his preachment.
Copyright 1888. the Washington Timel
The Washington times., 1933-12-27
Adult Children

Too often parents forget that
their adult children have grown
up.
They pay no more attention
to their ideas and desires than
they did in the early teen age.
Having lived longer, the par
ents want to impress the Idea
that their judgment is better
and their opinions more nearly
correct than the children's could
be.
Experience is q great teacher
and years should add to sound
ness of Judgment; and there Is
a degree Of respect due parents
of course.
But parents expect too much
when they seek to control the
thoughts and establish the opln-
ions of the younger generation.
Developments in recent years
have changed things so much
that it becomes necessary for
older people to revise their ideas
and modernize their thoughts
and themselves.
The basic principles Of right
and wrong, good and bad are
the same.
But methods Of business, lines
Of attack, social and financial,
are entirely different, and often
not approved by the older gen.
Grafton.
There should be no temper
izing with the principles to be
preserved.
But great changes have taken
place, and there may be better
way to attain the desired result;
The young clearer head may
very we'll lead.
Copyright, 1898. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1933-12-27

Congress is no exception to
the rule that spurs mankind to
spend the closing days of the
Old Year in making good reso-
lutions with which to greet the
New Year.
Now comes the Chairman Of
the House Committee on Appro-
priations-Representative Buch-
anan CD of Texas-with a
good resolution to try to prevent
legislation during the coming
session in the form Of amend
ments to one or another Of the
eleven annual appropriation
bills, which provide funds for
the operations of the Federal
Government.
Flagrant Example
Such amendments are called
legislative riders" BY means
of this device legislation can be
jammed through the House
which would fail Of enactment if
compelled to take the regular
course. Rather than see one Of
the annual supply bills fail,
many congressman are tempted
to vote for its passage even when
it carries in the form of riders"
legislation to which they are op-
posed.
It is all very we'll for Chair
man Buchanan to begin the New
Year with a resolution Of this
sort, but in making it he appears
to have "put the cart before the
horse"
Under his Craftsmanship at
the last session of Congress, and
under the Craftsmanship of
several Of his predecessors at
previous sessions, the House
Committee on Appropriation
has offered a flagrant example
Of unauthorized and bad pro-
cedure by arrogating to that
committee the determination of
questions of legislative policy.
These properly belong under
the rules of the House to other
standing committees.
When the House, in 1920,
voted to make the House Com
mittee on Appropriations its
only appropriating committee, it
did so upon the distinct under
standing that questions of policy
would be left exclusively to the
other committees. These other
committees would recommend
to the House, after careful ex-
animation, authorizations for
the expenditure Of money or
for it's non-expenditure.
The Committee on Appropria'
tions was supposed to follow
strictly tho letter and spirit OF
these authorizations in making
up the supply bills. Only in
order to meet the limitations OF
the Executive recommendations
for the budget was it intended
that the House Committee on
Appropriations should depart
from the course charted by the
other committees of the House
in their proposed authorizations.
In recent years, however, the
House Committee on Approprta'
tions has usurped power right
The Washington times., 1933-12-27
Assorted Husbands

pair Of gloves or a head Of
lettuce, If men were not so
complex and could be classi-
fled and catalogued.
You'd merely decide what
type Of man would match your
temperament and fit into your
life, and then look around un-
til you found him, or wait .un-
til he came along. Nature has
provided us with every type
and combination.
There is the Regular Hus-
band-the nice, tame, domesti-
Gated type, who works hard
at his job all day, punches a
time-clock when he comes home
to dinner every evening, pays
the bills on the first Of the
month, hangs up his own pa
jamas and never looks at any
woman except his own life.
And there Is the ornamental
husband-the charming, dash
The Washington times., 1933-12-27

terrible times? The answer to
that is-there are lots of Good
People" who aren't good. They
seem good, but actually they
are merely tidy, amiable, polite
and law-abiding.
They never go to jail. They
rarely hurt anyone's feelings.
But just try to get them to
sponsor a really righteous but
extremely unpopular cause and
watch them do fade-out.
1T ISN'T THE CRIMINAL
AND STUPID PEOPLE WHO
HAVE HELD THE WORLD
BACK IN ITS JUNGLE DARK
NESS AND CRUELTY.
1T ISN'T THE CRIMINAL
AND STUPID PEOPLE WHO
ARE ESPON SIBLE FOR
CHILD TORTURE AND CHILD
SLAVERY, FOR KIDNAPPING
AND MURDER AND WHOLE
SALE LAWLESSNESS.
IT'S THE RESPECTABLE
PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPON-
SIBLE.
THE RESPECTABLE PEO.
PILE WHO ARE AFRAID TO
GET OUT AND TAKE A
CHANCE!
Think Of these things as you
face the New Year with its
New Chance.
And the next time you're
lonely because you're good, stop
being sorry for yourself.
Wipe your chin, and lift up
your eyes, AND THANK GOD
THAT YOU HAVE WHAT IT
TAKES! For loneliness Is such
a little price to pay for the
chance to own the sky line.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate,' Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-27
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland
By T. E. Powers

ing, irresponsible playboy, who
makes life for any woman a
merry-go-round one day and a
lament the next day.
The Washington times., 1933-12-27

man W h o's
pack in g a
crouch. Why?
S m e b o d y
hasn't appre-
ciated h i m.
Good people,
he's sure, are
never appre-
ciated. There
fore goodness
doesn't pay.
So won't I
write an ar
ticle on the
old saying:
BE GOOD,
The Washington times., 1933-12-27

ing, irresponsible playboy, who
makes life for any woman a
merry-go-round one day and a
lament the next day.
There is the domestic tyrant
the big caveman, who keeps
his wife in a perpetual state OF
fear and trembling and has to
be treated like the big Pooh
Bah, and waited on like an
Oriental potentate.
And there is the delicate,
helpless but handsome fellow,
who never has grown up, and
who marries in order to get a
mother and a soft berth; who
never seems to be able to hold
down a job, and hasn't the
strength to pick up his clothes
or to steer his cigarette ashes
to the ash tray.
There is the impressive hus-
band, who looks like a judge or
a banker or a college president,
but is just six feet of proto-
plasm, who permits his capable,
overworked wife to tow him all
through life while he makes the
Big Noise and does the showing
Of.
And last, but not least, there
is the gay philanderer, who
seems to think that marriage is
just a part-time affair and that
a wife is merely an incident or
an accident.
That is to say, in plays and
novels and screen dramas, men
are all distinct "types"-he-
roes or villains, lightWeights or
false alarms.
But, in REAL LIFE, they
don't come that way. They are
WlAGuISS VI SOOO dAAO D"N' "a
brains and folly. Many a big
"caveman" has to be coddled
and mothered and pampered
like a small boy. Many a Reg
ular Husband has his little
weaknesses and his grouches.
Many a weakling Is a bully
at the same time, and many a
philanderer is a Good ProVider
and a sturdy oak"
That's why it's so foolish for
a girl to let anybody ELSE
choose her husband for her.
Because nobody can tell ANY
woman just which man will
make her HAPPY, or what type
of man would be the ideal hus-
band for HER.
Some women want a huS.
band TO lean on and cling to;
others want somebody to man
age and boss; and still others
want an ornamental husband
- IA soS%SSe~
The Washington times., 1933-12-27
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

BE Good and You'll Be
Lonesome"
New Years almost here.
Everybody making good reso-
lutions. But here's a gentle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
PRISON BREAK
FOILED; GUARDS
USE RIOT GUNS
ConviCtS Attempt to Scale
Walls of Prison at
Philadelphia.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 20
IN the face of dozen armed
guards, a small band of convicts
made a desperate bid for freedom
today at the Eastern penitentiary
here.
While more than 600 men were in
the small exercise yard within the
forty-foot walls, a group of five or
six rushed a forty-foot ladder from
the carpenter shop where it had
been secreted.
The ladder was placed against the
wall and the men started to climb.
Recovering from their surprise, the
guards, redoubled since the recent
riots, opened fire with riot guns.
Whether any of the prisoners was
struck was not disclosed but the
plotterS fell back as their comrades
set up a howl against the guards
that could be heard by residents
outside the walls.
The identity of the gang that tried
the break was not made known.
Guards said most of them joined the
throng in the yard before they could
be identified
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
z CITY FLIERS
HURT IN CRASH
Army Reserve AViatorS ES-
cape Serious Injury in
Wash Out

Two army reserve aviators. men,
bers of the Three Hundred
and Ninth observation squad
ron, Schoen field, Fl. Benjamin
Harrison, escaped serious injury yes
terday when their primary training
plane washed out" in field seven
miles south Of the city.
Lieutenant Fred Sommers. pilot,
suffered broken foot, while
Sergeant Smith H. Boring was cut
and bruised. An official report on
the accidents cause awaited the re-
turn from Washington today Of
Lieutenant Stanton T. Smith, field
commanding officer.
The ship came down in a glide.
and plowed off a utility pole, and
crashed in a field near Bunker Hill
school, on the old Shelbyville road.
NJ. E. Carter. Indianapolis,
crashed what is said to have been
I'm unlicensed monoplane near Flat
Rock yesterday, and was cut on the
head Reports were that the ship
went into a spin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
POisOns Wife, 3 Children;
Ends DUN Life With Gun
Two of Youngsters Dead,
Mother and Other Criti-
CaIIy III.
By United Press

By United Press
CLEVELAND, Nov. 20,-When his
wife and three children asked for
water, Jesse Kearney, 36, bakery
truck driver, gave them poisoned
ginger ale, then shot himself to
death today.
Two of the children died; the
mother and the other child were in
critical condition.
Breaking of a big water main on
Cleveland's west side left the Kear-
ney household without water, police
reported, climaxing a day in which
Kearney and his wife had been
quarreling.
At midnight, Mrs. Kearney and
the children asked for water. The
truck driver finally agreed to take
them out to obtain drink. Alone
for moment in the kitchen, Kear-
ney poured four drinks of ginger ale
into glasses, and added to each from
a bottle wrapped in brown paper
which he took from his pocket.
When the family entered the
room, he offered them the ginger
ale. He ordered John, 16, the eldest
son, to take the paper packet to the
basement and burn it.
The two younger children, Robert,
Is, and Ethel, II, gulped their
drinks. The mother and John, how
ever, noticed something wrong With
the ginger ale. and refused to drink
the entire contents of their glasses.
Kearney ran from the house and
to a confectionery a few blocks
away where he called police. The
officers were at the home when he
returned. The husband and wife,
police said, began to accuse each
other of poisoning the children. The
younger son and daughter already
were in commissions.
Suddenly Kearney started toward
a rear door of the house. A police
man followed, but was unable to
restrain the truck driver when he
drew a gun from his pocket and shot
himself through the head
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
TRIAL OF ROBBERY
SUSPECT CONTINUES
Evidence in Previous Trial
of Parker Barred.

Barred from introducing record of
a previous trial, the defense case of
Stanley Parker, on trial for rob-
berry before a criminal court jury.
will continue today.
Andrew Jacobs, defense attorney.
made a strenuous effort Saturday to
place in evidence the record of the
Shelby county trial of Parker on a
murder charge, which resulted in
his acquittal
Parker is being tried before Spe-
cial Judge Alex G.. Cavins on the
robbery Indictment, which was re-
turned after the murder acuuittal.
The state charges Parker with be-
ing one of the two holdup men who
attempted to rob Jack Werner. an
Indiana avenue paWnbroker, who
was killed in a gun battle with the
bandits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
In a Lather
Finds Man Shaving Be-
fore Wife-Bang!

XXTATCHING a man shaving in
W the home of his ex-wife and
hearing him call her honey" was
just too much for Harry Stack. AZ,
Of 1853 North Dearborn street, he
told Judge Dewey Meyers of
municipal court three, today and
that's why he went berserk.
Police officers testified that
Stack tried to give the visitor a
trimming of the fistic kind as he
interrupted the matinal additions.
Il went to see my two children
and there he was shaving. I just
couldn't stand it, judge. when he
called her honey" testified Stack.
Stack was fined ST and costs on
a charge of drunkenness and the
fine suspended but a former
sentence on a similar charge. of
$40 and costs, was revoked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
MAETSCHKE is
NEW CHIEF OF
INSURANCE MEN
hammers Resigns as City
Head to Take Post in
East.

Carl F. Maetschke. manager Of
the local branch office Of the Or
binary department Of the Prudential
Life Insurance Company OF America,
succeeds Martin w. hammers as
president of the Indianapolis Asso-
citation of Life Underwriters.
Mr.. hammers resignation was &C
cepted by the board of directors fol-
lowing his quitting the American
Central Life Insurance Company of
indianapolis to become manager Of
the Philadelphia agency Of the Con-
tlnental-American Life Insurance
Company Of Wilmington. Del.
Mr. Maetschke was vice president
of the local underwriters group.
Other officers advanced by the
resignation of Mr.. hammers are:
Howard f. Nyhart, vice president;
Henry L. Drake Jr., secretary: Her
bert A. Luckey,- director Other Of
flcers retaining their posts in the
association are Z. R. Blackwood
treasurer; E. 4. Crane, national
committeeman; and J. G. Wood,
executive secretary.