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Evening star., 1933-06-24
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

TINE happy family of the Federal
Government is on the verge of
the big smash
L Already 48 married women en-
ployed at the Bureau of Stand
ards have been notified Of their separa-
ton from the service and dismissal
letters were being drawn up yesterday
for more than 200 other employees.
while neart-sick officials of the big
scientific establishment were mutely
praying for some last minute miracle
that would enable them to tear up at
least few of the notices. Already
approximately so men and women en-
ployed by private industries on special
research problems in the bureau labo-
ratories have gone or are ready to go.
The Bureau of Standards has been
an institution apart. little concerned
with the most pressing personnel prob
lens that have eff1icted other Govern
ment establishments in the past. The
great majority of its employees are
either scientists or highly-trained tech
nicians. They have had common in
terest. Most of them have been neigh
bors in the immediate environment of
the bureau itself-small home owners
with common economic as well as tech
nical problems. They have constituted
largely a self-contained community.
Scene of Romances.
Within the community itself many
romances have developed Young men
and women have come to the bureau
fresh from the universities and have
worked together in the same laboratories
on common problems. DR.. Lyman G.
Briggs, newly-arpointed director, is
himself veteran in the bureau service
and has watched the antics of Cupid
in this strange environment of test
tubes and ponderous instruments Of
physical research as they led to mar
riage, home buying and families.
At least eight Of the women dis
missed were married at the bureau,
DR.. Briggs said yesterday. Some of
them were distinguished physicists or
chemists in their own right In one
case the wife had been, until quite re-
Gently her own husbands boss in charge
of one of the services.
Anywhere else it might have led to
some difficulties" she said sadly yes
terday. But we had sense enough. I
hope, to realize that there was a time
and a place for all things We had
learned how to work together and live
together. Sometimes the question was
raised as to the crippling of the Office
when we took our vacations at the
same time. That wasn't a problem be-
cause we never had a vacation. But
we used to worry sometimes about what
would happen if the whole family was
quarantined."
Actually there has hardly been any
such thing as a boss" at the Bureau
of Standards, except Tor purposes of
record. Heads of the departments have
not been disciplinary officials and their
personnel worries have been, for the
most part, exactly the opposite of those
OF most other departments. The chief
concern has been not to see that there
was no shirking of work, but that the
staff did not break down from volun-
tary overWork
Problems Are Bosses.
The Bureau Of Standards scientist
has hardly considered himself as work
ing for the Government" His boss"
has always been the problem Of the
moment-a far stricter and sterner boss
Evening star., 1933-06-24
Marriage Licenses.

Elcany Isaacs, 25 Neva. Tenn. and Eliza
beth E. Kirkland. %. Petersburg. Va;
Rev. H: W. Tolson.
William E Wood. % Alexandria. Va. and
Dorothy 5. <. Jones' II. Aroonia, Va; Rev.
Carl qsT A. Banks. n sEa s. and Pauline srookins.
Is; both of 113o 9th St. Rev. Oliver
Norman Foster. 21. a64ek Sheridan I'd.
Sc, and C. E. Everett, %. 2610 STAN
ton I'd. Sc; Rev. H. N Coleman.
Fred X. Sprinkle, jr.. %. 1921 Maryland
Rnc<vIIs ave me- Mg a9d Rel Eebeeca .5d smms 49,
walter c. Anderson II, 1870 e' st. s.e.. and
Christine L; Collins. 16, Cheverly. Md;
Barney M; Robin, %. 1927 Webster St.
and Lillian kolker. 25. 1901 Argonne
pl.; Rev. Solomon H. Metz.
Walter A. Weber. 81; 3606 Park pl.,, and
Eva c. stagner. AZ. 1925 Shepherd St;
'aGss Go4a saaord ca aas SeS st. ans
ave; Rev. H j. Smith.
Lucian Y. Ray. % 1919 G St, and Helene
Bean %. Salt Lake City. Utah; Rev. w.
Ferdinand Diegelmann. 60 1905 D st, Sc.
Asher l. Clayville, %. Catonsville. Md. and
Mildred. H. Cast %. BROOKLYN. Md Rev.
John Wedley
and Mary A. McGlynn. 2S. 907 ST. me-;
Rev. z. P: McAdams-
William, E. Harper. 81. 1611 2lst st.. and
Gertrude S. Spencer. p, 9o3 S ST. Rev
Harold R (. kvfPlsiilli Philips. ss. so51 N St. and
Ruth E, Sullivan. 90. 921 10th ST.; Rev.
Joseph r. SiZoo
Evening star., 1933-06-24
CHINA SELECTS TEXAN
FOR BIG COTTON DEAL
100000 Bales of American Staple
to Be Purchased by Charles
L. Tarver of Dallas.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Appointment of Charles L. Tarver Of
Dallas. Tex, to represent China in the
purchase of 100000 bales Of American
cotton was announced here yesterday
by the Chinese legation.
The purchase will be made with a
$50 100000 loan advanced to China by
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton. which stipulated that four -fifths
of the money was to be used in buying
cotton and the remainder in buying
wheat.
At the legation it was stated yester-
day that no agent has been designated
as yet to buy the wheat. Taryer will
cooperate with DR.. Arthur Young,
financial adviser of the Chinese govern
ment. who is now in this country but
will return shortly to China.
Tarver is a member of the cotton
brokerage firm OF Tarver & Steele,
which has Offices in Dallas, Galveston
and New York City.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
AWARDS BOND ISSUE

The War Department announced to-
day it had awarded to Kidder, Peabody
& Co. of New York City a s150,000
Puerto Rican bond issue, bearing in
terest at S per cent and maturing in
40 years
The bonds are to pay the principal and
interest of previous bonds issued to
finance the Isabel irrigation project in
the island.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
Bureau of Standards Family Facing Smash
HIT okkERs

tons, electrons and nuclear forces, Of
spectrum analyses and millimicrons.
And for recreation they wander from
the strict realm of fact into philosophic
speculation based on the facts.
Have No Place to Go.
Now, faced with the loss Of their
jobs. they have no place to go. They
have had no time for self-Seeking or for
tt. practical affairs of Efe. Politics
has been far more remote from tt.eir
world than the fourth dimension. The
reason is that they were not that kind
of men and women, and If they had
been they would have been that much
the less able scientists. For one Of the
first demands Of science Is forgetfulness
of self and of the outside world.
Within the ranks of this bureau COM
munity there have been, of course, all
the sorrows and perplexities of the
average American family. There have
been sicknesses and sudden deaths. But
the men and women have stuck to-
gether. They have had their own relief
organization, their own social organi-
zation. There are bureau dances, bureau
picnics. bureau bridge clubs, bureau
scientific symposiums.
On the whole it has probably kn~sn
a happiness unknown to most c<fl-
munitieS because there has been a
striking absence of jealousies, social
distinctions, pull" and the like. Nobody
was seeking to displace the boss because
he happened to know the first cousin
of the wife of Senator Winterbotom.
There was intense research rivalry
but such rivalry is on an ethereal plane
OF all persons it is the hardest for
the extreme specialist to find a job.
He has deliberately disqualified him
self for most profitable work by intensive
concentration in narrow field. He
finds it difficult to act and think out
of this field.
AS one of the dismissed married
women said
What can I do? I suppose I might
pick up something later on as clerk
with one of the new bureaus Thera is
nowhere can go and do my own work.
But they tell me that even if do this
somebody will make an issue of it and
I will be endangering my husbands job
here. 1t doesn't seem right that a
woman should have to pay like this for
being married"
Hoover Offices Hit.
The dismissals are to fall hardest, 1t
was admitted yesterday, on the divisions
which are not strictly technical-the
divisions of housing, of trade standards
and of simplified practice. All these
offices were special proteges of former
President Hoover. But every division
is to feel the slash severely.
DR.. Briggs said yesterday that he is
not at liberty to divulge the extent of
the reduction necessary on July Is,
since it may be possible to find funds
to save some of the doomed places be-
fore then So the disnlissals are held
up. But most of the people slated to go
know about it. They have been warned
by their immediate superiors to expect
bad news.
Few of them have saved for rainy
day. They haven't been able to, and
they haven't had business minds" If
they had had they would have been
almost worthless to the Government.
Meanwhile, mortgages are falling due
and they are mad at Uncle Sam for
falling Gown on his end of the job
while they were trustfully keeping up
their ends
Evening star., 1933-06-24
THRIFT BOOKS GET
ROvER'S APPROVAL
Revision So as to Eliminate Cou-
pons Which Would Not Be
Honored, Planned.

United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
announced today he had withdrawn his
objections to the sale of so-called
thrift books" as the result of an agree
ment reached with the promoters of
the books.
Mr.. Rover said he had been informed
the books would be revised so as to
eliminate coupons which, he said, would
not be honored. The books contain
strips of tickets which entitle the holder
to reduced rates at various places of
amusement and entertainment
Evening star., 1933-06-24
UNDERGOES "CHECK UP"
Senator Borah Goes to Baltimore
Before Taking Vacation.

Senator William E. Borah Of Idaho,
today went to Baltimore to undergo
his annual physical CHECK up" before
leaving for a vacation.
At the Senator's Office. 1t was said
his vacation plans are not known, but
that he anticipates going to Idaho and
probably will not return to the Capital
until Fall.
Borah annually undergoes thorough
physical examination. Last year he
went to Rochester, Mimi, and this
years check-up will be at Johns Hop
kius Hospital. t
Evening star., 1933-06-24
WATER BILLS TO BE CUT
10 Per Cent Discount Effective if
Paid Within IS Days.

All District water bills issued after
July / will carry discount of 10 per
cent, as provided in the 1884 District
appropriation act. The reduction will
apply to bills paid within Is days after
they are rendered
Water Department officials estimate
roughly this will result In a saving of
between $4,000 and $4,000 for water
users OF the District, depending on how
many pay their bills promptly.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
INTERMENT MONDAY
Mrs. Caroline Suydam Duer Nc
Lanahan Died in Geneva.

Burial services for Mrs. Caroline
Suydam Duer McLanahan, widow OF
George Xavier McLanahan. who died
May 18 in Geneva, Switzerland, will be
held in Rock Greek Cemetery Monday
at 10 am. Funeral services were held
in the American Church in Geneva
May 20.
Mrs. McLanahan was at one time
socially prominent in the Capital, and
was a member of a we'll known family
Her home, at 203l @ street, has been
occupied for some years by the Minister
Of Switzerland and Mime. Marc -Peter
Evening star., 1933-06-24
Deaths Reported.

Anne Q, Clark. So. National Homeopathic
Hospital.
Mary A. Keck. 81. 4917 Kansa, ave-
Luke j. Kearney. ST.. s. II K st.
BENJAMIN l.. Minor, IS, 225 Sth ST. me-
Ward KIRBY. 81. Georgetown Hospital
Cora Blummers.. 60, Sibley Hospital.
Infant ri,, Of Lester, Lester and Eleanor worch. Co
Jane Robb. 6s, 1928 Horbrook terrace ne.
Alice Y. McBelt. 81, 1903 s st.
Rosetta G. Mason, SIS. 2053 st.
Ned I, wilson. 40; Gallinger Hospital.
Rosa Cousin. 45, st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Elizabeth T. Adams. AZ. Freedmen's Hos
pital.
Ellis Kelly. 81, st. Elizabeths Hospital.
william Hawkins, 81, 207 Gordon ave- ne.
8qfeue Oryes 90 pToy1dence HaDttal
Evening star., 1933-06-24
Births Reported.

George and Marguerite Higgins. boy.
Francis G.. and Virginia Cation. boy
George w. and Ethel C. Goodwin, boy.
John c. and Marie Donehoo. girl.
Wilbur c. and Lillian E. Fielder, girl.
Jim and Josephine Alexander. girl.
Wilbur A. and Ruth F. Smith. girl.
George C. and Gertrude Campbell. girl.
Harold T. and Fannie L. Postman. boy.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
MRS. BURTON DIES

Sister-in-Law of Late Senator Sue
cumbs in Illinois.
Mrs Edward Burton, sister-in-l of
the late Senator Burton of Ohio and
mother of Miss Grace c. Burton, 2101
Connecticut avenue. died Thursday at
her home, in Lincoln, H., according to
word received here
Mrs. Burton had been here with her
daughter for the past two years and
motored West early in May.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Dance. National Federation of Federal
Employees, Indian Spring Golf Club, 9
pm.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
Dance, Western High School, Hamil-
al

Benefit card party, 602 Kennedy
tstreet. 8 pm. ..-.
Evening star., 1933-05-22

men, unaecustomed to the job. Was
overcome by the fumes and fell in, and
then the others. in attempting rescue.
also fell to their death one by one.
Here Is another case of dangerous
condition In the heart of large city,
tolerated for long time because by
good chance 1t has never caused trouble.
Yet there must have been emanations
from the vat, but nobody appears to
have thought it to be menace. Now
probably its further use will be for
hidden ON the ground Of public safety,
just another case of locking the door
after the horse is stolen. The space
the sidewalk is. of course, not
the proper place for such method OF
drainage for deadly materials. even
though the tannery is located in an
industrial section and there are very
few residences in the neishbOrhood
Official attention was probably not
called to this condition simply because
there had never been an accident. Sim
ilarly. dangerous fire hazards develop in
factories and business establishments
that escape notice until a conflasra-
ton occurs. Many lives are lost and
millions of dollars worth of property
destroyed in this country annually
through just such neglect and indif-
ference on the part Of authorities.
Evening star., 1933-05-22
South Americas War Likely
To Force New Peace Measure

over to the League at Geneva 1t Wau
cause much less anxiety there than that
abiding in the problem Of China ana
Japan"
There is no such thing as victory In
the Armageddons of today" advises the
Houston Chronicle. declaring that "Eu-
rope learned the lesson decade ago"
The Port Huron Times Herald holds
that "the pity of it Is that there are
foolish people left who are willing TO
risk the whole stake in war, rather
than try to divide it with neighbof
who certainly has jlIst as good q claim"
The Hartford Times believes that "in
cooperation with the League of Ma
tions the United States should join in
an international assurance that the diff
ferences between Paraguay and Bolivia
can be adjudicated fairly by the World
Court" The Columbia IS. c. State
offers the judgment: "a declaration OF
war is now a work of supereregatien,
and is merely put out to make the
scrap seem regular and quite in order
even if it may mean the betrayal of
whole people and the wreckage OF q
nation"
"A neglected war" is seen by the San
Francisco Chronicle, with the comment:
There has been an almost unnoticed
sanguinary conflict raging there. Air
planes. machine guns and tanks have
been operating on the frontier with
deadly effect Thousands have been
killed Yet a very small section OF
American public opinion that considers
itself fairly well informed about the
issues involved in conflict in Asia has
even the remotest notion of the fine
points in the boundary dispute that has
been raging in its own geographical
sphere"
Evening star., 1933-05-22
On an Appointment.
From the Baltimore Evening Sun.

From the Baltimore Evening sun.
Eugene r. Black, whom Mr.. Roosevelt
has just made governor Of the, Federal
Reserve Board, is, we are pleased to
record, no ordinary iobholder He has
been a lawyer and banker thfoughout
most of his mature years and there Is
no evidence in the record that he has
cherished a yearning toffte/R Attire ex-
Considering everything. this, is 9 good
augury. 1t may mean thai the Federal
Reserve Board is going back, finally, to
its original principles. ~ GTI
When the system was9iestahIshed.
hack in 1913, the intent was that it
should be as far removed from politics
as is possible in democratic land. The
first board was as nearly ideal, in this
respect. as such body could be.
But the war came on and the board,
instead of continuing as thesSerVaptI OF
the business of the country, became,
naturally enough, the servant rofI the
Government It's policies were dictated
by the national needs rather than by
ordinary banking practice, and Under
the pressure of the emergency the good
intentions with which it started~-were
wellnigh forgotten.
This was not only natural, it was also
praiseworthy, but it was upsettins.
nevertheless. to see the politicians, once
the war was over, assuming That they
would continue to control its policies.
The campaign to put q dirt farmer"
on it was characteristic of the new atti-
tude and q dirt farmer it got, though
1t turned out, of course, that the dirt
farmer selected had spent all of his
mature years playing politics In the
West and most of them on the public
pay rolls.
Evening star., 1933-05-22

they can be preserved In the memory
with any useful degree of accuracy
Far better, it would seem. 1t is to con-
centrate the attention upon the larger
more readily diseerned aspects of the
subject. Great folk movements, like the
Crusades. for example, or the expan-
sion OF Europe to the colonial areas
Of the earth. should be taught as
organic entities, not broken up into
fragments of biography and national
incident. So expounded, they would
not be found proSaic or dull.
But the current fashion for drama
tizing personalities and tendencies also
Is dangerous. Voltaire was mistaken
when he submitted that history Is
only the register of crimes and mis-
fortunes" Tacitus was nearer the
truth when he said:
The principal office Of history I take
to be this: To prevent virtuous actions
from being forgotten. and that eVli
words and deeds should fear an IN
famous reputation with posterity.
Good and bad are intermixed in hu-
man conduct ana in human recollection.
Neither should be overstressed. The
p,us values IS we'll IS those properly
considered minus should be represented
In historical writing. but neither shculo
be given greater attention than the
facts dictate. The fad for creating
monstrous imaginary portraits Of I'M
portant actors IN the world drama
should be condemned. Few. If any, OF
them have been the paragons OF vice
or virtue their biographers have pc
sumed to suppose. They have been
human beings. with all the qualities
that such status implies.
Why cannot history b, presented to
the child as a pageant? 1t was SO
viewed by Augustine B.rrell, and the
hint may be wo.th trial. Tho lite
student who hates" history has filed
an indictment against the present man
ner of teaching 1t. Her protest Is
abundantly worthy Of consideration
She speaks for her contemporaries, the
citizens of tomorrow. Which one OF
them. 1t may be wondered. would be
immune to the lure of the story OF
mankind offered in the form OF grand
parade?
Evening star., 1933-05-22
Sea Speech.
Avast there! Pipe down ON the


Ayast there! Pipe down ON the
coarse language! Stow the oatl,s!
Such is the order that goes forth
from the commander of the American
feet. Admiral Leigh directs all conf
manding officers to take immediate
1terS to eradicate the "undesirabl,
habit of profane and obscene language"
and to take suitable disciplinary action
This is decidedly what is called q
large order" For centuries seamen
have been strong takers" They have
been pioneers In profanity. They have
made vocabulary Of their own, with
sea slang of punssney that has erept
into common usage ashore. A sailor S
talk has been proverbially lurid and
diStinctively vivid.
Now there must be change. The
forecastle must be fumissted Of its
forensic fiavor. The quaint and pic
tureSQue iargon that savors OF the ssa
may be preserved If it is not profane.
"Shiyer my timb,rs" m3y come back
into vogue. though probably it has no.
been heard for long time. Sea talk
tons, n equipment, In motive power.
There is a lot of Oli-time language
that Cnce made the decks ring with
eloquence and that could not be classi-
fed with the speech which Admiral
Leigh now forbiis, under penalty Of
suitable disciplinary action
II the rule is strictly enforced doubt
less some new modes Of expression will
be invented TO meet the needs of the
"gobs" to whom straightaway polite
sxpletives are inadequate. Sailors are
tyaditionally inventive in this line, and
they will probably meet this new emsr-
gency with variants that will pass
muster ON the quarter deck.
1t Is to be feared, however, that for
time the disciplinary officers Of the
feet will have q hard task dealing with
the crews, TO whom the use OF strong
speech is as natural as the very winds
that blow through the rigging. For a
time, 1t may be they will have to be
conveniently hard Of hearing. 1t will
require veritable evolution to bring
about more modest line of lingo. Pos
Sihly classes may have to be organized
for the training Of the younger sailor
men in the substitution Of softer terms
for those that have bsen verit&bly the
prerogative Of the sea for generations.
Recruiting officers may have to put
applicants for naval jobs through tests
respecting their ability to find synonyms
for their favorite expressions. and il
thu enlisted force is to be reduced in
accord with the program for naval
economies perhaps one of the tests for
retention will be the ability Of the
jackies to conform to the new order
Of clean speech on clean decks.
Evening star., 1933-05-22
"I Hate History

A little girl, attending Washington
public school, declares. Il hate history!
There is passionate resentment in her
tone She expresses an adherence In
the utteranee of her opinion. Noting the
outburst, the question arises as to why
any small citizen should entertain such
violent dislike for the annals OF human
kind. Obviously, the case should be
quite otherwise, The story OF the evo-
luton of civilization properly should be
the most attractive, the most faScinat-
ing, Of all the branches OF knowledge,
and the student, far from hating the,
chronicle of that development instinct
lively should wish TO embrace 1t with
affectionate srdor.
Perhaps the fault may be traced back
to the method Of teaching. Certainly,
history may be rendered dull and stupid
| by overweighting 1t with meaningless
| dates, empty names and sterile philoso-
phies. Thucydides is supposed to have
said that history is philosophy learned
from examples" but there is danger in
| the idea. The writer who deals with
human records arbitrarily. manglins
them to suit his own preiudiced fancy,
exaggerating or suppressing details to
plead a special cause or promote a
particular theory, is guilty Of kind
of treason for which there can be nc
excuse The notion that characters and
events, manifestly accidental IN cause
and effect, may be editorially arranged
to support q preconceived schema,
imperiouSly chosen, Is unscientifc-s
mere literary excursion up blind alley
whose terminal wall Is total defeat
Authentic history Is no partisan con-
yenience, is susceptible to no partisan
use. On the contrary, faithful resistra.
ton of human phenomena Is dsstruc'
tive of vested interest and factiona
prosperity. This must have been thu
thought which prompted Robert Wal.
J poles reference to the "falsity" OF his.
tory. He had in mind the willful dis
, tortion Of circumstance which too Otter
: passes for the truth.
, AS for dates and names, they ar;
, but the srmsture of the story of the
J race, and overemphasis upon then
; Is unwise for a multitude Of reasons
. Granted that they may constitute ar
! outline, 1t u yiAieuleus to imAGine thai