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several large cities, and some smaller ones, in the States to turn this work into real proft-making undertaking. The plan was launched by Phiadsl- pha which coined new word-"renovizing" fit it. Started early in January, in six weeks pledges had been obtained from the citizens for more than S2l ,0000OO to be spent during the early Spring months in improvements and repairs to homes and business properties in the city.
 "Renovzing" first started there two years ago but it's greatest achievements listed this year. Business men and home owners through ex- perience learned to know its value from two angles actual bstterment to properties they owned and as an important measure of relief of unemployment. This year, 1000 canvassers, armed with pledge blanks, advice how to meet objections and book lets of suggestions for improvements took the field No repair job was too small and no improvement project too large for them to list To guard against rush of salesmen and contractors the pledge signers' names listed confidentially and com mittee directing the campaign, if requested, gave them list of firms from which to solicit bids.
 Fifty cities in the United States and Canada have asked the Philadelphia Committee for details of the campaign, Requests were received from such distant points Paris, Texas and Victoria, British Columbia And interest is spreading even more widely
 The Department of Commerce estimates that the
  prices following the World War. The authority calculates that 75 per cent of money spent in community work of this nature will be expended in the town, turning again and again contribution to prosperity's return.
 Juneau, itself in ridding the community of the winters accumulation of debris and rubbish, might list imposing array of projects for repairs and improvements, that would give many men consider able work and release money in material to local industry and business. It might do than try this "renovizing"
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Chapter 31
AN ANSWER COMES

One day, dirty ragged and squint eyed Moor unobtrusively handed letter to Margaret as she crossed the courtyard on her way from Fl Isa Beth el Aims apartments to her own.
 It was written in a somewhat spidery foreign handwriting and was apparently from Herr Schlacht who, after an absence of some days had returned to the Castle.
 will you walk in the tiled
 garden at moonrise tonight?
 Neither Raisul nor your flus-
 band will be in the castle.
 When nobody is about go to the
 doorway that leads up to the
 corridor in which We talked.
 l shall be waiting and watch ing. Trust me and come-do not
 be afraid. Your good friend"
 Once again a feeble ray of hope shone in Margaret's heart. Evident ly her own note, with it's unsigned appeal, Please help me?'-which had been entrusted to this same dirty little Moor, had reached his master
 Of course she would trust him
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No grass will grow in the streets the heavy beer trucks travel over-(Macon Telegrapho
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PARTY PLEDGES BEING FULFILLED.

For many years there has been such a marked difference between platform pledges made to the people by political parties and actual performance that common simile has come into existence: "As false political platform" Platform blanks commonly regarded bait for suckers" rath- CT than a sincere promise of service to come.
 President Roosevelt to be determined to break precedents in this matter along with his other equally distinguished smashing of precedents. From the time he flew from Albany to Chicago to receive and accept in person the Democratic nomination, he has departed in many ways from previous political practices. And almost every occasion he has deservedly won the plaudits of the country
 Since assuming the Presidency, he has supported the party platform and his campaign pledges 100 per cent This course is unusual that it has created widespread comment, wondering, and most ol it favorable.
 The first plank of the party platform adopted at Chicago last June declared against economic isolation" The State Department has for weeks been busy every day in conversations with foreign envoys looking toward the restoration of trade agree ments. More detailed conferences already in the making the same subject.
 The platform called for an immediate and drastic curtaiment of Government expenses" by reorganization and elimination and pledged itself to try to effect saving of a billion dollars this year. Early this month Budget Director Douglas had made sufficient progress a plan to predict saving of about $s00oo0,OO0. E ss
 The party promised direct relief to States where unemployment had crippled local provision Congress has already passed the Wagner bill authorizing s5000000,000. if needed for this purpose.
 The farm bill, frankly admitted by the President to be experiment that may not be successful has passed the House and is slowly working through the Senate fulfilment of Mir Roosevets promise at Topeka last Fall.
 Protection of security buyers-another platform plank-has already taken legislative form.
 Relief of farm mortgages, of small home owners, are also pending before Congress Utilities and stock exchange regulation in the making.
 Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment awaits tion by the States, and legal beer is flowing in all States in which it is not prohibited by State laws Railroad and banking reorganization lie just ahead
 Thus in little more than five weeks, the Presi- dent has taken action almost every subject of importance covered by the partys platform. He has brought party pledges back in public esteem by making the party's word 100 per cent good.
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VALIANT DUST
| q OJ EeTctvdf ChTISfOpheT Wren BEAU CESTEs

Of course she was afraid Fright ened nearly to death. But what was it that Otho used to say?
 Courage is not being without fear, young Muggie. It is conquer ing the fear you have got. Where there is no fear there is no cour- age-and no need for it."
 So she must conquer "the fear that she had got"
 Her we are" said Herr Schlacht, who could apparently see in the dark, halting at length and knocking double knock, followed by a single knock and then anoth- CT double knock, on what was pre- sumably door Margaret wonder ed whether he was knocking with 8 pistol-butt, and whether he could be persuaded to give or lend her a revolver or automatic-if he proved to be what he professed to be, friend.
 The door was opened by the lit tie Arab-aS Margaret saw by the light of the lamp, merely a brass bowl of oil and wicks-clad as us ual in ragged and dirty robes, and a head-dress that was more sweat rag than turban.
 To him, Herr Schlacht spoke in Arabic, and the man departed, aft CT lighting a cheap and ugly tin lantern, the four sides of which were panes of glass of different colors. A useful lamp for signaling thought the acutely observant Mar garet, whose mind was working quickly.
 Please to sit down on the cusll- ions, F'raulein-sor I should say Frau Maligni. But you look so young and beautiful and :. CT, will ycu have a drink? Tea-and perhaps some cakes?"
 No, thank you. You sent me a 11cito
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and go; and would not be afraid.
 Intuitively she felt that this man Schlacht was trustworthy, but what about the squint-eyed Moor? How was she to know that he had not first taken this note straight to Raisul himself. in hope and expec- tation of reward?
 Who was it had told her to be- ware of squint-eyed people? Why of course, it was Otho, one day in Big Attic, when they had been making grimaces at each other, and he had told her not to squint or the wind might change and she'd be struck like that" Laughingly he had then remarked that, if that happened, he wouldn't trust her any more.
 Oh, Otho, Otho!
 Should she risk it and go?
 Yes, the note was genuine. How should Raisu1 know where she and Herr Schlacht had met and talked?
 Unless, of course, Herr Schlacht was as bad as the rest of them, and for his own ends, was assisting RaiSul
 But no. Somehow she felt sure that Schlacht was trustworthy. He might have his own game to play undoubtedly he had, of course but he was not traitor, swind- Ter, treacherous brute who would do a thing like that. She would trust him and go
 But what was the Spanish prov erb that she had heard the Senor Pedro Maligni laug hin gly quste once or twice to Jules when a squint-eyed serving man had wait ed on them?
 Hope that fellow isn't going to poison us,' he tested "sNo hay tuer-to bueno'."
 That means that no good can come from one who squintS. We'll that was rubbish; and certainly there were plenty of people from whom no good could ever come and who did not squint. Raisul for one.
 Yes. She would risk it. Better a bad end, than no end at all, to this hideous uncertainty and suspense | Herr Schlacht alias Carl von Nit tengen was waiting in the black darkness of the corridor or tunnel that led from the doorway. As Margaret entered from the moon- lit garden a hand seized hers and a voice whispered:
 Have no fear, Frau Maligni All right, yes? It is very goot jolly fine splendid. I will lead
 Easy enough to tell her not to be afraid. But afraid she certainly was. What girl wouldn't be afraid in such circumstances-the dark ness, the sinister silence. this stranger who, although always dressed in turban and Moorish slippers, spoke German and brok- en English.
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"Yes. And you sent me one-of three words. Please help me I ! wish to help you, and I wish you to help me-"
 T want to get away from here ito escape, in fact" said Margaret. T have lost hope and faith in my husbands mother, the Lady Fl Isa Beth el Ain. Could I possibly get away from here alone? I mean without :"
 "No!" exclaimed Herr Schlacl1t "A woman-alone. No man, how ever brave and hardy, could get away from here alone-lnless he knew the only safe way-and knew the country the people the language :"
 T came here D began Mar garet.
 You were passed on-from hand to hand as it were-under the Protection of the Lance,' the an- cient Arab system Wherever you were somebody was watching you whether you knew it or not" Copyright, 1892, F. A. Stokes Co.)
 Margaret, tomorrow, makes a desperate bargain with Herr Schlacht.
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The Wrong Approach.
Seattle Star.)


 There should be no more foolish consideration of national legislation limiting working hours to thirty hours per week.
 Such legislation would not solve unemployment It would not increase buying power Humane regu- laon of working hours is fine progressive achieve ment, but attempts to effect economic recovery by enforcing arbitrary limitation of working hours are sure to fail help the national payroll would be by establishing minimum hourly wages
 man has right to work much as he can and as much as he desires. A business has right to be managed in the most efficient way.
 One man may want to work nine months in a year Another man may want to work hard for fifteen years and then retire Another may want to work hard all his life and consume more all his life Each should have the right to plan according to his own will
 There is no economic relief in splitting up wages.
 Suppose our economic system remeded to such an extent that enforced thirty hour week would give everyone a reasonably good living. If such progress had been made, would not nearly everyone jump at the chance to work longer and have higher standard of living, better automo bile finer home?
 Clear thought reduces the thirty hour plan to absurdity.
 In the interests of humanity the Government can ban child labor sweat shops, and unreasonably long hours
 In the interests of protecting the national pay roll, the Government might act to set standard of wages per hour of work.
 But the thirty y-hour week would be merely useless and futile meddling
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SYNOPSIS: Al though h he knows the vicious Raisul has insulted his wife, Margaret, again and again, Jules MaIig- nj will not defend her. Mar garet tries in every way pos sible to get away from the Moorish Citadel of Mekazzen, and return to her native Eng land, without success. At last she remembers Herr Schlacht, the supposed German agent, dealing with Raisul's father, the Kaid of Mekazzen. She writes him a note.
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20 YEARS AGO
From The Empire

President Woodrow Wilson sent the name of Robert w. Jennings to the Senate for appointment as United States District Judge ill the First Division, Alaska.
 William Geddes, of Juneau, was in Windham Bay calling on old friends while the Fox was there.
 Miss Myrtle Parr, principal of the Juneau schools, announced that there would be an exhibit of draw ing, sewing and woodwork in the window of B. M. Behrends store.
 Jack Mclean arrived from the Teslin Country and said that the strike there was yet to be proven
 A son was born to MT. and Mrs. Alex Gair, Douglas.
 Mrs. Martin Olsen Of Douglas was improving following a serious operation performed by Dr. Simp- son and Dr. J. F. Mahone.
 Mrs. Walter Harris of Portland had arrived in town to visit her sister, Mrs. Fred Garner.
 Assistant District Attorney R. ". Nye returned to Juneau from San Francisco where he had appeared before the Circuit Court of Appeals in an Indian liquor traffic case.
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 . NORTHWEST NEWS BRIEFS . . OF 25 YEARS AGO . .

SUNNYSIDE.-Arrangements are being made to open a government experimental station here with H. B. Berg, soil expert at w. s. C., in charge.
 PORT TOWNSEND.-Dr. Simon B. Conover, U. s. Senator from Florida during reconstruction days died here of old age.
 SPOKANE Eastern capitalist have subscribed to $3,000,000 worth of bonds of the Okanogan Electric Railway A. M. Dewey said. Con- struction work from Nighthawk and Brewster will begin this summer.
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Japan, having informed the world, including the League of Nations, she is still friend of peace, proceeds to drop few hundred bombs on Chinese territory.
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Here it is almost time to put up the sign
 bearing the goat to inform the neighborhood
 that book beer day is at hand-and still we have no beer.
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CARD PARTY

The Pioneers Auxiliary Friday, April Fist. Good prizes. Admission ou cents. adv
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Anyway there's lot of oldtimers who see no reason or in the Legislature making them sit down to drink beer
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MAKING THE CLEANUP CAMPAIGN
 PAY.

Juneau, in the midst of its annual paintup and cleanup campaign, might follow the example of
Evening star., 1933-03-27
TEXANS FACE SHUTDOWN.
Eastern Field Ordered to Close Thursday
BY Commissioners Here.

LONGVIEW, Tex. March 81 @-
The huge East Texas oil field faces a
shutdown Thursday Of its 10000 wells
unless operators repeat their frequently
used method Of obtaining q Federal
Railroad Commission from carrying out
such plan.
c. v. Terrell and E. O. Thompson.
members of the commission. State oil
regulatory body, were quoted from
Washington as saying their previous
order for a shutdown in the field still
stood, although postponed from 9 am.
today until 8 a m. Thursday.
Thompson and Terrell said their order
would prevail over the one issued Satur-
day BY Commissioner Lon A. Smith at
Houston. resembling the Friday order for
a shutdown today, inasmuch as together
they constituted majority on the
remember commission.
Smith. at Austin refused to comment
saying he would confer with Attorney
General ]. v. Alfred.
Sam Ross Of Kilgore. president OF the
East Texas Landowners Association has
prepared a petition for presentation to
Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson. requesting i'm
mediate executive action to prevent "vio-
lence and bloodshed" in the field.
The Longview and Kilgore Chambers
Of Commerce likewise had requested Sec
retary Ickes at washington to impose
Federal control of the great oil pool. as
serting that non observance Of the pro-
ration rules was threatening . lepse
: into chaotic conditions.
Evening star., 1933-03-27
TARIFF BARGAINING
HELD INADEQUATE
Foreign Policy Association
Urges More Drastic
U. S. Action.

More fundamental revision Of the
tarin policy Of the United States than
has been proposed by reciprocal agree
ment is essential if the world economic
crisis is to be overcome it is pointed
out in a report made public today by
the Foreign Policy Association.
1t is asserted that the principle upon
which tariff bargaining is based. the
expansion Of the export market. would
be OF doubtful benefit to the United
States in the absence of definite steps
to allow outstanding foreign obligations
to this country to be met by an even
greater expansion of our import trade.
The report. which was prepared by
Maxwell S. Stewart. of the association s
research staff, contains the following
four suggestions for affecting tariff re-
ductions:
Il. Unilateral reduction of the Amer
ican tariff by percentage to be de-
termined by Congress-as a gesture Of
good will to facilitate international ne
gotiations
-. General review Of the entire
tariff schedule by an impartial non
partisan body with view to further re-
ductions where practicable.
3. Negotiation OF bilateral recipro-
cal agreements. with provision for ex-
tending the reductions granted by means
OF the unconditional most favored ma :
tion clause
a. Negotiation Of an international
agreement at the World Economic Con-
ference for the cessation of tariff in
creases and for an additional horizontal
reduction in duties
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D. c. IS INCLUDED
IN lob RELIEF BILL
Unemployment Aid Measure
Laid Before Senate by
Three Members.

The District OF Columbia Is speci-
hcaliy included along with the States
and territories in the new emergency
unemployment relief bill laid before the
Senate today by Senators Wagner Of
New York, Costisan Of Colorado and
La Toilette of Wisconsin.
The opening paragraph setting forth
the policy Of Congress that the Federal
Government should cooperate more
effectively In meeting the unemployment
emergency mentions directly In the Dis
States and Territories. In another sec
ton Of the bill, it is provided that the
term State" in the various sections Of
the measure shall include the District
and that the term Governor" shall in
clude the Commissioners of the Dis
trict
The bill provides for . $500 900 900
fund to be distributed by 4 Federal
relief administrator in the form of
grants to the States and territories. OF
the total fund. 5000 900 900 would BE-
allocated under = formula that would
entitle each State to receive grants
equal to one-third Of the amount ex-
pended by the State or by civil subdi-
visions. out Of public money Of all
sources for relief work. These Federal
grants would be paid quarterly, Begin
ming with the second quarter of this
calendar year The remainder of the
fund would be distributed by the Fed
eral administrator where most needed
In the last Congress there were two
separate relief plans. one sponsored
jointly by Costigan and La Toilette and
the other by Wagner Both the old
bills recognized the need Of including
the District along with the rest Of the
Nation. and the three Senators have
preserved this recognition in the new
combined plan
Evening star., 1933-03-27
SOCIALISTS ASSAIL
LABOR CAMP PROJECT
Executive Committee Resolution
Declares Proposal Is Vicious
Anti.Labor Measure"
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March Socialists
made q double attack yesterday on
President Roosevelts labor camp pro-
posal, the Socialist and Labor Confer
ence on Unemployment making public
q denunciatory resolution and the ma
tional party headquarters criticizing the
plan rs inadequate.
The partyS view was expressed in q
statement by Morris Hillquit. national
chairman, announcing Socialist sup
port for continental Congress for
Economic Reconstruction" which farm
and labor leaders have called for May
and in Washington.
Hillquit made public q resolution Of
the National Executive Committee call
ing ON all locals Of the party to take
steps leading to q greater revolution" "
1t was sent to President Roosevelt, Sen
ators Wagner and Copeland and a score
of Representatives
The resolution recites that - So
called unemployment relief bill. which
proposes the creation Of . civilian con-
servation corps, which Is to concentrate
in camps about 50.000 unemployed" !"
provides that even the miserable rate
OF 81 a day Is not guaranteed" The
resolution then declares that the pro-
posal Of the President. as embodied in
the bill. Is one Of the most vicious,
anti-labor measures ever conceived"
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EMBARGO PLAN HIT
AS BOOSTING WAR
Tinkham Declares Only Worst
Result Possible in Adop-
tion of House Resolution.
BY the Associated Press.

On the eve Of action tomorrow by
the House Foreign Affairs Committee
on President Robsevelt's arms embargo
resolution, Representative George Hol-
den Tinkham, Republican. of Massa-
chusetts, member OF the committee
has denounced the proposal as q war
move, not a peace move"
It was indicated by Chairman Nc
Reynolds that the committee will be
asked to act on the resolution tomor-
row. The resolution, put forward by
both the Hoover and Roosevelt admin
istrations. was passed by the last
House but was killed by the Senate in
the closing hours of the last session
the opinion that we can get 1t
through when the time comes
Tinkham. in a formal statement, in
terpreted the proposal as meaning that
the present resolution apparently
wishes war in Asia with Japan. as its
proposed policy leads only in that di-
rection"
This resolution" he continued, lis
at this time aimed particularly at ia
pan. and indicates that the present ad-
ministration has adopted the whole
foreign policy Of the last administra-
ton, which was completely dominated
by the British foreign Office and alien
interests.
"Impartiality is the keynote Of neu-
trality. An arms embargo violates neu-
trality. and in international law the
country against which the embargo IS
placed can regard it as an unfriendly
and hostile act. and as a cause Of war.
If an embargo were placed against
Japan. Japan would have the right in
international law to take measures Of
reprisals. which might involve the seiz-
ure Of American ships, the occupation
Of the Philippines. and ultimately even
the engagement Of the American Fleet
II it came within any region which
Japan desired to conquer or to protect;
in fact. the making Of war"
Tinkham declared that the United
States refused to join the League of
Nations particularly because Of articles
10 and Is Of the Covenant. the former
guaranteeing the territory of members
and the latter providing for the use of
armed forces to protect members The
League, he said. is contemplating the
use of either or both Of these articles
against Japan.
For the United States now to take
part In the enforcement Of article 10
or article Is would be national de-
mentia," he said.
Evening star., 1933-03-27
EDWARD S. WHITING DIES
AT HOME NEAR OAKTON
Formerly Was Engaged in Ship
ping and Freight Business
on Potomac River.

Special Dispatch to The Star
FAIRFAX. Va, March 27-Edward
8. Whiting. IS. died at his home near
Oakton Saturday night after . short
illness.
Mr.. Whiting Is survived by his widow.
Mrs Ida Hill White; three daughters.
Mrs. John C. Ruman, Amsterdam.
N. Y; Mrs William H. Gross, Detroit.
Mich. and Mrs. Walter A. Aiger OF
Washington: three sons, Edward s.,
Fairfax; William 8. and r. Harry, both
Of Washington, and his mother, Mrs.
w. 8. Whiting.
Mr.. Whiting had lived near Oakton
only seven months, going there from
Washington, where he had lived for
many years. He had been engaged IN
the shipping and freight business on
the Potomac River.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock at Zion
Protestant Episcopal Church. Fairfax,
with Rev. H. A. Donovan, rector, ON
ciating. Burial will be in Fairfax
Cemetery.