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The Washington times., 1933-12-14

SAN AoC Ava OAAO
year are meet
ing with varied
reactions from
the film beau
ties whom the
singing star has
been eScorting
to Hollywood
social events.
The two girls
who have re-
ceived most of
Dicks a t t e n
ms sine e
GWenn H ell er
left here for the
Encf nrn Innn
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Fred Waring Coming

Fred Waring and his Pennsyl-
vanians make so much money
on the radio they have practi-
cally abandoned theater engage
ments. They do take an oc-
casional date for dance pro-
grams.
The Waring band will be in
Washington for the New Year
Eve gayety. They will play for
Herbert Sachs at the Washing
ton Auditorium. It will be a
dance and entertainment pro-
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Kiwanis Party

Kiwanians tossed an apprecia-
ton party at the Hotel Hamilton
last night. It was Joe Harris
idea to honor those who made
the entertainment programs OF
Kiwanis worth while affairs.
Carter Barron Of L'oew's Inc,
Vincent Callahan of WRC, Globe
Trotter Arthur Reilly, Walter
Won Herbulis, Charlie Wright,
Lew Brown and ye editor among
the extra-special guests. Bonniface
Roland Mumford did himself
proud with a Dutch luncheon and
the informal show which starred
sedate Kiwanians was heavily
encored.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14

pair is to tour
the Pacific
Northwest in an
automobile sup
plemented by a
swank trailer.
At a cost Of
$4,000, Joel is
building a veri-
table bungalow
on wheels. It
will have hot
and cold run
ming W a t e r
writing desk,
upper and low.
er Sleep n9
The Washington times., 1933-12-14

complete mu-
Sical score of
Marion Davies
latest picture,
"Going Holly
wood" broad
cast for the blue
network of the
National Broad
casting Com
pany. The time
is from 1890 to
/ q. M, and the
music will reach
from Maine to
California.
Going Holly
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
RY ANDREW II. KELLEY

Those who sit up late tomor-
row night and turn the radio
to station WMAL will hear the
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Star Holds Public
Fancy Rules
Success
Rx RENE DAVIES

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14.-Mar-
guerite Churchill tell me that she
has one very definite notion, and
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Repeal Brings Boom

Hepe8I mas 0rOuB0C b genuine
boom to the amusement business.
Hundreds of vaudeville acts who
have grown used to idleness now
find themselves in demand. Every
little New York cabaret and
restaurant is putting on a floor
show. Musicians, too, have felt
the stimulation brought about by
the revival of John Barleycorn.
Bill Levy, who books the acts
for the airport Hangar Club, re-
turned from New York yesterday,
after a few days spent trying to
induce entertainers to come down
for Potomac engagements. He
reports that there are now 110
weeks available playing time for
acts suitable for the night clubs
and gay spots. This is more work
than even the theaters can pro-
vide.
In his portmanteau, Impresario
Levy brought down orchestrationS
for two new songs by Jerry Levin
son (author of "It's the Talk Of
the TOWN., which are being
played in washington for the
first time at the Hangar Club.
They are "Ole Pappy" and "Odds
and Ends of an Old Love Affair" "
Composer Levinson, "a, is a cousin
of Bill Levy. Hence the preferen-
tial status on prerelease of his
latest songs.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Did You Know

That Lupe Velez once worked
in a Mexico City shoe store for
81 a day?
The Washington times., 1933-12-14

rivals at t h e
w a ! d o r f.
Astoria, N e W
York City.
Miss Margaret
Sullivan, S tar
Of Universal's
current screen
hit, "Only Yes
terday," is re-
turning to the
West Coast on
the Grace liner
Santa Cecilia!
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
McCrea!s $ Plan to
Tour Coast in
Auto
By HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1888, King Features
syndicate, Incl

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. IA.
Warner Brothers attempts to get
Dick Powell to sign a nor1-marrtage
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Mrs. William

Margaret SULLIVAN Gibbs McAdoo,
of Beverly Hills, entertained q
party of friends at the picture
Berkeley Square" at the new
Four Star Theater last week.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Shoreham Band to Broadcast Hits
From Marion Davies New Picture
"Goins HoIIwood"

and many others. The picture
was produced for Cosmopolitan
Productions by Walter Wanger
and was directed by Rousl Walsh.
"Going Hollywood" opens at
Loew'S Palace Theater, December
~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
Carl schurz, william Cullen Bryant.

including Carl Schurz, William Cullen Bryant.
George william Curtis and E. L. Godkin.
These men finally secured the creation Of
civil service commission in 1871 and Curtis
was put at the head Of it in 1872 Grant
yielded to the spoilsmen within year and
Curtis resigned in disgust. President Hayes
was friend Of civil service but could get no
funds TO carry on the movement. Congress
was in the hands Of spoilsmen. The chair
man Of the house committee on civil service,
for example, was none other than Benjamin F.
Butler, probably the most INSCRIPTIONS spoils-
man in the history of American politics.
Strangely enough the first real foothold
for civil service was made possible by the &C
ton Of Chester A. Arthur who had been a
notorious spokesman before becoming Presi-
dent. The Pendleton act, drawn up by Nor
man B. Eaton, leading apostle of civil service
reform, was passed in 1888. Eaton was made
head Of the commission.
Cleveland did his best to support civil
service, but it was hopeless battle in his
first term against hungry Democrats who had
been out of Office since Buchanan'S day. Presi-
dent Harrison at first gave full sway to the
spoilsmen, but later made amends by ap-
pointing Theodore Roosevelt civil service COM
missioner. The latter showed his astuteness
by bringing congress to terms. He refused
to hold examinations in the districts of con-
gressmen who voted against civil service.
From this time on the civil service move
ment has advanced steadily, though with its
ups and downs. Cleveland, in his second ad-
ministration, Roosevelt and Taft did far bet
ter than Mckinley, Wilson and Harding in
checking the raids of the spoilsmen. In 1884
there were 1890 in the federal classified
civil service and on July 81, 1890, 1921 e3
There were slightly less than 10000 outside
of the merit system in $780,
The federal civil service system thus has
grown to be formidable bulwark against the
spoils system. What weneed is equal prog
ress in state and municipal government. And,
if democracy is to survive. we shall require
rigorous civil service methods for legislators
and judges. There is no earthly reason why the
merit system should be limited to the execu-
tive department alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
Solemn Words Spoken
was dead. That mt

TEXAS was dead. That much
Il was certain. We heard the
words Of priest, ritual was read
and, outside, Taps" was sounded by
a naval bugler.
All of us were wary. No one gave
a hand TO the priest or to the chap
lain. Texas was dead And yet I
swear L seemed to hear the sound
Of wooden hammers striking tables,
laughter and the click of cleated
shoes against a hardwood floor.
There was something grotesque
about the funeral. It wasn't just
the slightly f1orid character of the
ceremony. It wasn't that any wan
dering eye met some eloquent mask
which plainly said: ct wouldn't
have done this for anybody but you,
Tex. And what wouldn't I give for
a drink" In fact, it seemed just
being dead. She remained a far
a little silly to talk about Texas
more vital living force than numer-
Gus ones among haggard hundreds
in the chapel.
I didn't go to the cemetery. That
seemed far less appropriate than
anything else in the ceremony. They
had to drive all the way to White
Plains. I think it was Texas who
said, "Once you leave New York any
town you strike is Bridgeport"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
BETTER HOUSING

TT Is reported in Washington that the huge
L federal public works program is going to
get another shot in the arm. All the $780,
100000 fund originally voted for this pro-
gram will be allotted by Jan. l. 1t is doing
the recovery effort a great deal of good, but
it begins to look as if there is not quite
enough of it.
SO now it is expected that the administra-
ton will boost it to a total of S50OOO00O
This being so, the next question to decide
is, for what shall the money be used2
We certainly need few more public build
ings. such as postoffices and courthouses.
Highways and waterways received a huge
slice from the original program. So did naval
construction.
There remains, however, one field in which
almost unlimited sums could be used properly;
a field in which money spent not only revives
industry and puts men to work, but erects
a sounder and safer foundation for all Amer
lean society.
This, of course is the field of housing
There are in American cities today some
100000 homes that belong in or close to
Tile SIuIIl CldSSl1lCdGlOn. NO program CtaC we
could finance now could replace all of them
with decent dwellings, but it is at least evil
dent that we can not take too big bite for
the size of the problem involved.
These 100000 Slum homes present a job
that the nation could work on for years.
Now, spending money on housing is one
of the most direct of all ways to promote a
business revival. 1t puts a great many men
to work, it restores realty values, it stimulates
trade in many basic raw materials and semi
finished industries. If we want to get back
to prosperity, the more money We pour into
slum clearance plans, the better.
Yet that is only half Of it.
Even in prosperous times, money put into
Stun clearance would be money well spent.
1t is hard to build a healthy society when a
large part of the society is housed unhealth-
fully.
Slums breed crime, disease, vice, and poor
citizenship generally. They cost us infinitely
more than the cost of replacing them. They
are perhaps the greatest single drag on de-
mocracys feet.
If the public works fund is to be boosted,
the administration will do well to pour every
dime available into housing program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
WHO HIT HUEY LONG?

NO. we don't know the answer yet but we
IN are getting closer. Three more names
have been eliminated. They are Tom Con-
nallv. Sam Bratton and Marvel Mills Logan,
United States senator's, respectively, from the
commonwealths OF Texas, New Mexico and
Kentucky.
On the word the imprisoned and sizzling
word. of John G.. Holland. it wasn't one OF
these three They wouldn't harm red hair
of Hueys head if Holland is to be believed.
And there is reason to believe him He is the
chief investigator of the senate committee
named to investigate the manner in which
Huey Long elected his colleague, John H.
Overflow TO the senate. The three are men,
bers of the committee.
Yesterday, down in New Orleans, Holland
let loose the disgust and anger that has been
accommodating within him the last year, during
which all his efforts to bring about a real
inquiry into that far-smelling Louisiana cleo
ton have been circumvented mysteriously.
He told what the committee has been doing
toward bringing the truth to light and it all
summed up to so near nothing that you could
hardly tell the difference.
For a long time it has seemed likely that
this senate committee would have lot of ex-
planning to do when congress reconvenes. Now
it seems certain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
RECEIVERSHIP GAME

UTnLIAM G. MADOO, United States
w senator and attorney at law, informs
through the medium of a press association
telegraph operator who isn't a lawyer, that
the senate investigators at Los Angeles are
after data upon which to base reform in the
procedure in receivershipS, or words to similar
effect.
Mr.. McAdoo will take his data back to
Washington and eventually, a congress made
up largely of lawyers may struggle with re-
form of the receivership game. Game is the
name for it, as millions of skinned creditors
of insolvent firms in receivership will make
oath.
One can not help but admire the patriotic
spirit of that senate committee. To be sure,
the whole American Bar Association always
has known the raScalities perpetrated in re-
ownership procedure as well as it knew the
first page of Blackstone, if not better-and
always ducked its patriotic and moral duty
to wipe out receivership rascality and chicane.
But, when a specially selected committee of
lawyer-packed congress points its finger at
any rottenneSS in legal procedure, possibly
reform is really in its markings.
From the viewpoint of the public, barring,
perhaps, the legal fraternity, the unSelfshness
of Mr.. McAdoo's reform endeavors must ap-
pear to be adorable In legal practice, there
are three things that might be vulgarly called
snaps" Only the abnormally greedy lawyer
will ask more than the receivership of size
able concern, or fat divorce practice, or at
torneyship for a large corporation preferably
a merger. to keep the same posted as to how
far to go and avoid jail and how to evade in
come taxation. Apparently, Mr.. McAdoo's
committee has got the finger of suspicion
stabbing at the most luscious of the snaps"
We expect that Mr. McAdoo's committee
viii turn the full light of publicity upon what
it unearths Also. congress. upon evidence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
Planned for JOY of Teas

7 HONESTLY believe that Texas
l. saw the funeral and took a very
great pride and JOY in the perform
ance. 1t was almost as big as VAL
entino's.
The universe Is intricate, and very
nice adjustments are necessary to
keep the planets from running into
one another, 1t would be a fearful
error if by any stipulation Texas
were barred from the knowledge
that the police had to fight back the
thousands.
"The colunnists made me. I want
them to follow me at the end"
Texas said before she died. They
we're there. And certainly it would
be pity if Texas did not hear 6,
prayer in which the hope was ex-
pressed that she should be "a COM
panion Of the holy angels"
Not everything is for the best in
this universe, but at least 1t does
make sense. Somebody like Spin
oza, let's say, may not even have
leaned down from the gold bar Of
heaven to watch the camera men
and the radio announcers. But I'm
sure Texas saw it all and gloried in
it. And If my notions about the
hereafter are wrong in this respect,
all I can say is that there must be
something nightly amiss with the
management.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
: A Woman's Viewpoint 4:

Such a decision reflects as much
credit upon their good sense as upon
their altruism. NO adult truthfully
can be said to bestow all the favors
in such an arrangement. For al
ways the child gives to him i'm
measurable treasures, before the last
word in their story is written. A
baby offers hundred boons, a
thousand joys a million benefits,
that are not to be described with
anything so clumsy as words.
Also there comes an hour in every
life when man must snap his fingers
at fate and thumb his nose at fear,
the nasty lurking devil. And that
hour is upon you when you begin
to discuss the adoption Of a child.
My advice may not be wise but it is
hfaest. Fortify yourself with baby
ind defy the future TO do its woJst.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
Dysentery Symptoms Are Confusing

tackled while in the midst Of appar-
ent good health. There are severe
abdominal cramps and diarrhea.
There often is toXemia with high
fever, the abdomen is sensitive, and
in some cases the symptoms become
progressively worse, so that the pa
tent may die in less than week.
Where there is a chance to re-
cover, a tendency toward improve
ment begins about the fourth or
fifth day after the illness. However,
even in these cases, the dysentery
may last for weeks.
In other cases, the condition tends
to persist over longer period, and
there are mild types of the disease
in which the onset is graduel and
the condition itself not sufficiently
serious to force the patient to bed.
In this type of case, particularly,
the true nature Of this disease may
be overlooked, yet such a patient
becomes a carrier Of the germs, and
thus may infect others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
1t Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BROUN.

NEW YORK. Nov. Isl went to
4 the funeral of Texas Guinan
and came away thinking about sur
vival after death. If there is no
continuation of individuality the
coSnic scheme of things Is built
upon blunder and I shall oppose
it and all its works.
Possibly it is a mistake to gener-
alize upon a particular emotion, but
unless the dead have the same
senses as the quick very large and
ornate ceremony was held for no
important purpose.
I heard two pallbearers in con-
versation as they waited while a
lane could be cut in the crowd to
make way for the coffin. One said:
Il know now that I would like to be
buried on some quiet Connecticut
hillside and not brought to Broad
way to be a disturber of traffic"
Yes" said the other, but this
was what Tex wanted. She would
have loved it,"
There came up then a member of
the mob, and tears were streaming
down his cheeks. He wanted conSo-
lation. Don't you think" he asked,
that this is as big as Valentines"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
CIVIL SERVICE BOOST

TINE decision Of President Roosevelt to
Il place first, second and third class post
masters under the classified civil service is a
sweeping stroke in favor Of training and eff
cheney in public service and body blow to
the spoils system.
There have been plenty of instances in
which a President has extended the civil
service at the close of his term Of Office when
the posts already had been filed with "de-
serving members of his own party But it
is rare, indeed, that any President has shown
real devotion to the principle of civil service
by taking a large bunch of plums Immediately
out of the reach of hungry members of his
own party at the outset of his term.
Plenty of precedent exists In the Roosevelt
family for such a policy. Theodore Roosevelt,
as civil service commissioner under President
Harrison was one of the main figures in put
ting civil service on its feet in our federal
government. Later, as President, he retained
his devotion to the principle.
The civil service movement represents the
chief mode of undermining the pernicious
spoils system in public administration. While
it had been adopted rather extensively in
Europe especially in Prussia. before the end
Of the eighteenth century, there was no place
for it in American politics until well after the
close of the Civil war.
Some of the earlier presidents had recog-
nized the Importance of merit and experience
in public service but Andrew Jackson, emery
ing from coon-skin economy, believed that
special training and long experience disquali-
fed rather than fitted a person for public
service. From his reign" onward the bars
were down for the spoils system.
The origins of civil service in the United
States came as phase of the general revolt
against the corruption which has reached its
dir-point in the administrations of Grant.
The pioneer figure was Charles Summer, who
studied in detail English and other European
systems of civil service. AS early as 1864 he
began to urge civil service reforms in the
United States. A congressional investigating
committee published report on European
civil service systems in 1868. The movement
attracted the support of some Of the most
eminent reformers and publicists of the era,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
wEDNEspAY. nov. Is. 1893.
THE EARLE INCIDENT

IF the American minister TO Austria is inter-
- fering in the religious and racial quarrels
Of that country, as reported, he will not last
long. Minister Earle is quoted as saying that
Austria will sacrifice the sympathy of Amer
lea If she goes anti-Semitic. We believe it
is true that a majority Of Americans hate re-
lgious and racial persecution, whether such
bigotry is practiced at home or abroad. 1t is
equally true, however, that it is not the bust
ness of an American diplomat to pass judg-
ment on the internal affairs of the country to
which he is accredited.
We Americans are very suspicious Of for
eign interference diplomatic or otherwise.
That is proper Indeed a congressional COM
mittee now is beginning an investigation of
such alleged activities on the part of German
agents here.
Unfortunately. the American government
not always has been as jealous in keeping its
nose out of the affairs of other nations as in
protecting its own sovereignty from alien en-
croachments. We have just gone through
lamentable period in which the state depart
ment tried to use diplomatic recognition as
club to force other governments to conform
to American ideas. Happily, the Roosevelt adj
ministration-as witness It's Russian negotia-
tions-has returned to the older Jeffersonian
recognition policy of noninterference in the
internal affairs of other countries.
AS regards the anti-Semitic movement
which threatens to spread from Germany to
Austria, there is nothing to prevent Americans
as individuals from thinking and doing about
it as they please, even to the point Of boycott
But such matters come within the proper
function of the United States government and
its diplomats only when the foreign govern
ment violates international obligations or the
rights of an American citizen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15
Attacks Athedrm
By Butler Grad.

BY Butler Grad.
I read the editorial on the SEN
Sationalism of Dr. Athearn'S atti-
tude toward his dismissal, and I
want to add my voice to those
many others heartily in sympathy
with the board. The only I'M
fortunate phase of the whole mat
ter has been the attitude of DR..
Athearn, and although he did lose
his position, he is no more to be
pitied than the thousands of
others who have occupied higher
positions than he but who are
now walking the streets.
DR.. Athearn was conducting a
one-man show, in which he was
the author, hero and stage car
penter, but he may have forgotten
that the public some time will get
bored and walk out on play
which has no more interest than
the one he was presenting.
Any one who feels that Butler
university is on its last legs is
about as pessimistic as can be. We
have survived without Bismarck,
Abe Lincoln, and all the other
great heroes; so Butler probably
can struggle along without DR..
Athearn, although he would have
us otherwise believe. If he were
such a success at Boston univer-
sity, why isn't he there now? Why
did he go to England? The board
certainly has the confidence of all
Butler alumni, and that's all that's
necessary. DR.. Athearn won't get
to see Butler close it's doors after
all, and isn't it pity to deprive
him of the pleasure?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-15

7 AM asked to write on the subject
l. What kind Of people should
adopt children?" A succinct reply
to that would be: Those who want
and love them"
The question of income undoubt-
edly must enter into the matter
nowadays but to a far less extent
than our normal fears would have
us think. Because your home is
humble and your income small is no
true argument against the adoption
of a child. Babies are happy in
little houses, happier there than
anywhere else, it may be, and the
main thing they want besides suf-
fcient plain food and warm clothes
IS love.
The fact that man and women
in such a situation would hesitate
before acting, however, seems to me
excellent proof Ehat they are Of the