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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN :

r HAD occasion recently to do
L little research work on the 1905
in the life Of New York City.
I was myself alive during that
golden age. although not particularly
observant. OF course. I remember
the night the Maine was sunk and
the belated news of Dewey's victory
over the Spanish feet in the harbor
of Manila.
That story came TO us just be-
fore going to school on May morn
ing. They called of classes at the
institution which attended. and
we all went into the chapel and
sang The Star-Spangled Banner
over and over again.
At least, the rest did. The teacher
told me to stop at the end Of the
second verse. She said I might
carry other children with me off
the tune. Even then I had the ca
pacity for leadership.
That age of the Merrimac. of
Hobson. of Schley, Mark Hanna and
Richard Harding Davis was a period
of flamboyancy and color in our ma
tional history I looked through
Mark Sullivan's The Turn of the
Century" which constituted the
first of his series called our
Times"
BY now he's down to 1914 in The
War Begins But I don't think he'll
ever quite catch up News is too
prolific. No commentator can keep
pace with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22
eStiOns and
Answers .

Q-Give the diameter and
weight Of trans-oceanic cables.
A-The outside diameter of the
ordinary deep-sea type of cable is
about one inch, and the weight in
air is about two tons per nautical
mile, the shore-end types are as
large as 81 inches in diameter
and weigh around thirty tons per
nautical mile.
Q-Do snakes have ears?
A--They have no external ears,
but they have a complicated in
ternal organ and can hear well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

This is the last of a series of ar
ticles by DR.. Fishbein on diseases of the
eye.
NNE of the most dangerous of
~ all diseases of the eye is glau-
coma, a condition responsible for
large proportion Of blindness that
exists today.
The cause of this disease is I'M
known. It's principal manifestation
is an increase of pressure inside the
eye.
Glaucoma causes about Is per
cent Of all blindness that occurs,
and about one-half Of all the blind
ness that occurs in adults.
The blood that comes into the eye
to nourish it must pass out or the
fluid accumulates, then there is a
sense of pressure with pain.
The eye gets hard and red, and,
from the front, the eye appears gray
and cloudy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

fire, but everything was under con-
troll in few hours time, thanks to
the navy department, fire and police
department, American Legion, Boy
Scouts, Salvation Army and the
wonderful spirit of the sunny south
lands own people.
1t is great country and great
people in it, with every confidence
of building a greater southland than
ever before. May their hopes be
realized.
By Charles Franklin
IN reply to the letter headed a Slap
- at the Democrats, in Sundays
Star, in which Constant Reader says
there is no telling what The country
would have been had congress and
citizens backed up Hoover while
President, I'll agree with him. God
knows it has gone ba6 enough with
out anyone else's support. The great
plans that you say Mr.. Hoover had
for the good of the country still are
IN his head, as none ever came out
while he was President.
l have voted the Republican ma
tional ticket from James G. Blaine
all the way down until we come to
this wonderful Hoover I still think
1 have lived life in company with
noble, open-minded bunch of Re-
publicans, for when we saw chance
to elect the greatest statesman since
Abraham Lincoln as our leader, we
dropped Mr.. Hoover like anyone
would a hot potato and voted for
Mr.. Franklin D. Roosevelt and are
proud of our actions up 20 date.
[ for one am more than pleased
by the change. You will learn some
thing later on about your forgot
ten man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

a cheerful outlook and are rebuild
ing their homes and business places.
We still can feel slight tremors.
They say it is the earth settling. I
hope it soon gets settled, for it is an
uncanny feeling to be rocked in your
house every so often, like being on a
ship on the ocean.
But I must say that they are a
great people here. A few fires broke
out and Signal HILL which is a mass
of oil wells, even was reported on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22
Daily Thought

And they that know thy name
will put their trust in thee: for
thou, Lord, has not forsaken them
that seek thee-Psalms 9:1O.
MAKE not Christ liar in dis
1V4 trusting His promise.-Ruth-
erford.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

Chicago school superintendent slipped in
BATH skinned his knee. Told convention what
this country needs is good nonskid bath tub.
Just another little matter for the new ad-
nlinistration to attend to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

Just how much motor fuel can be produced
from 6O0O0000 bushels of surplus grain hasn't
been calculated. But we know chap who
can produce a peck of trouble from a pint
of rye, if that's any help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

A Stockton (Cal0 family owns rooster
with four legs, and thus will have two extra
drumsticks for Sunday dinner. Can it be
that this imitation movement has spread to
the barn yard too?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22
A Problem for Professors

TN afraid that these professors in
l. their studies thousands of years
hence will be forced to come to the
conclusion that in certain ways we
were not quite bright. And it will
be difficult to attack the scholarship
by which this decision is reached.
I think that these gentlemen who
undertake to figure out the nature
Of lost civilization will make the
guess that we had great potential-
ties for magnificence and that we
muffed it. They'll say we meant
well. Under the dust Of the ages
there she lieS-the city of good
intentions.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

The maximum temperature on Mars is
around freezing and the nights are far below
zero, says DR.. Edison Petit, California astron-
omer. And, one might add, pretty much the
same conditions are obtained in some apart
ment buildings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

Fashion experts announce that the pre-
vailing colors for spring will be black and
blue Maybe they got the idea during the
recent skating season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

veteran baseball umpire declares it is
his ambition to die on the field Of play. All
right, just let him give couple Of bum de-
cisions against the home team this summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

Housewives are being urged to economic
by doing their own cooking Well, that's one
way to persuade husbands to eat less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

1.-The government is issuing vast quantities
of new money hot off the presses says a
Washington dispatch. Let's hope it won't be
hot enough to burn a hole in the pocket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22
M.

! a MOTHER disarmament poWWoW is on at
N Geneva, with an army double its present
size for Germany to start the horse trading.
The European situation has grown ugly Of
| late, and disarmament might ease it. The real
source Of trouble, however, goes deeper than the
caIiber of guns, or the amount of powder on
hand.
Speaking generally, Europeans are sore at
the way the war turned out-victors, as well as
vanquiShed, and neutral, as we'll as victors. They
are sore at the political and economic confusion
which resulted from tearing the map to pieces
and setting up a flock of little governments to
scramble for revenue and clutter up the field of
! trade with tariffs.
They are sore at the back-stair intrigue by
which new alliances are being formed behind
the smoke screen OF peace palaver. They are
sore at the oppressive taxes and laws under
which most of them are compelled to live.
1t is doubtful if any European government
wants war, or would not go out of it's way to
avoid war. BY the same token, it is doubtful
if large numbers of people under about every
European government are not in a mood to
fight.
THE situation calls for something more
Il statesmanlike than the scaling down of
armies and naves since if the scaling down
we're fair, it would leave the relative strength
of each government right where it is now. 1t
would have the same effect on the relative hate,
! fear, and hope. For instance if the French
feel that they could beat Italy under existing
conditions, they would feel the same way if
| the armament OF both countries were reduced
one-half.
Men in a mood to fight will use guns if they
have them. If not they will use anything on
which they can lay their hands. If they can
not lay their hands on anything, they just will
use their hands.
The influence of armament on war originates
in disparity, not the general level. If the peo-
pie OF country think they have enough men,
guns and ships to raise hell with impunity. their
military establishment may tempt them to do SO.
Reducing their military establishment along
with that of other countries in the same pro-
portion would not remove this possibility.
DISARMAMENT is desirable to liberate men,
II money and ideas for more constructive
work, but it promises about much to elinni-
nate war as prohibition did to eliminate drunk
enness Modern weapons did not teach men to
fight and something more effective than the
removal of those weapons is required to teach
them not to fight
The American people feel that they under
stand what that something is; feel that they
have proved it by example.
The American people could maintain the most
powerful army and navy on earth if they so de-
sired. They do not so desire and that simple
fact is the only sound basis of peace
AS to the European situation, the American
people are interested and hopeful, but they are
not going to fight any more wars to end on
European soil, rush to the rescue of any more
European countries with the idea of saving civ
ilzation, or advance any more big loans to make
trade for their own ammunition factories on the
theory OF promoting permanent peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22

Chicago plainclothes men foXtrotted
around the citys dime-a-dance halls; then
closed them up. That's stamping out crime,
for you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-22
Glaucoma Causes Much of Blindness

This is the last of a series of ar
ticles by DR.. Fishbein on diseases of the
eye.
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The Washington times., 1933-07-01
D. {. WAY HAVE,
NEWBREWERY'

Another brewery may be built
in the District if the Prince
Georges county commissioners
fail to change 46 acres of land
at Seat Pleasant from residential
to industrial zone.
This is revealed by Michael
Klachko, secretary and treasurer
of the Prince Georges Brewing
Company, which proposes to erect
the plant.
The hearing on rezoning will
be held before the county COM
misSioners July 10. Cheverly
citizens have complained to the
commissioners that the brewery
trucks will endanger children on
the Cheverly Road.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
CAPT. BARNARD
DEN|ESPRISON
GETS DOPE
U. S. Probes Rumor; ConviCts
Scheduled to Be Sent to
Fl. LeavenWorth, Kan.

Within the next week or 10
days a dozen drug addicts now
imprisoned at Lorton Reforma.
tory will be transferred to the
special narcotic prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, because of re.
ports that drugs we're being
smuggled to them, it was learned
today.
It was also learned that
Letcher B. Connell, of the Treas
ury Departments narcotic bureau,
has been working on the case for
some time. 1t was the request Of
the narcotic bureau that the
transfers we're ordered.
Capt. M. M. Barnard, head Of
Lorton, denied that there was any
smuggling at the institution. He
said that lot of narcotic traffic
had sprung up in this area re-
Gently, and that a sharp look
out for drugs was being MAIN
tained at the prison.
Detective Sergt. Daniel Jones,
head of the District narcotic
squad, said, however, that there
is no unusual traffic in drugs here
so far as his organization knows.
Whether all of the addicts will
be transferred to Leavenworth at
one time or whether they will be
sent separately has not been de-
cided, Captain Barnard said.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
GIRL AND YOUTH
HURT IN CRASH

Miss Vivian Chapman. 10, Of
the 500 block Somerset Pl. N. W.,
is in Casualty Hospital with a
broken collar bone and cuts about
the body sustained when thea
automobile in which she was rd
turning from a Chesapeake Bay
beach collided with another car
near Marlboro, about l O'Clock
this morning.
Her escort, Vernon Cornwell,
%, of the 1900 block Randolph
Pl. N. E., is in the hospital with
cuts on his arms and hands.
Cornwell's machine was struck
by another said to have been
occupied by three colored men
entering the main highway from
side road.
The three men placed the girl
in their car and left Cornwell in
his own car. Presumably, they
went on foot for aid, but Miss
Chapman, reviving a half.hour
later, sounded the automobile
horn and ttracted the attention
of passing motorist. This driver
took both to the hospital.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
Welded RULING
MAY HIT z
TEACHERS
School Board Tells Dozen,
With Mates on Payroll of
U. S., to Make Choice

If personnel reductions become
necessary in future in the District
schools married persons whose
husbands or wives are employed
in either the Federal or District
Government will be the first to
go, the Board of Education de-
creed today at its July meeting.
The board ordered that dis
missals in such cases should be
based on ratings, specifically set
ting out that those with the
lowest ratings would feel the ak
first.
Must Be Passed
Another regulation adopted de-
creed that in filling vacancies in
future a married person on the
eligible list whose husband or
wife remains in the employ of
the District or the United States
must be passed over.
Persons passed over in such
cases, however, will not lose their
position on the eligible list. In
the past all persons eligible for
appointment who have been
passed over for any reason have
been relegated to the foot of the
list.
DR.. Hayden johnson, chancel-
lor of National University, was
reelected president of the school
board for another term, while
Mrs. Henry Grafton Doyle was
unanimously named vice presi-
dent.
IL Teachers Warned
Henry I. Quinn, one OF the new
ly appointed members, was sworn
in. Charles H. Houston, colored,
and Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
who was renamed, however, were
absent.
The board accepted the resig-
nation of one woman whose hus-
band is employed in the Internal
Revenue Bureau. DR.. Frank w.
Ballou, superintendent. also was
to notify IL teachers
whose husbands are employed in
the General Accounting Office
that they must elect which will
resign.
Secretary Harry Hine was in
structed to send questionnaires to
all persons on the eligible list, in
quiring as to their married status.
Permanent status was given 86
teachers who have completed pro-
bationary work, a new course in
hygiene was approved as were
plans for conducting three sight
conservation classes, and DR.. Bal
lou was granted leave of alb
sence during the summer months.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
United He Stands!

Putting down the argument against Hitler, still Won
der at his success, and everything read increases h
wonder In his own mind Hitler is the head of united
country-and united country is rare and fine thing
so rare and fine that there have always been men wiling
to commit wholesale murder in order to acheVe It, Hit
ler for instance, asks America to remember tnat no
President of the United States has ever been supported
so unanimously as he himself is supported in Ger
many. He is absolutely right. We have always mad the
Democratic party.
But our argument has always been that you can sup
port your country if you do not support the par
tcuar party which is running the government Inc cur
rent German argument is that the country and the gov
ernnen are identical and that all patriotism flows into
Hitler and all patriotism must flow out of Hitler To
him and his followers it is clear that an emergency
graver than that of the war exists In such an emer
pency there is time for politics, debae divisions and
differences of opinion. 1t must be one for all (er
for the German peope) and all for (the German
people for Hitler).
Jail First
A bit of local news have just encountered may not
reach national circulation so repeat here Two
arrived at nghtfa in the town of Parkers Landing and
asked as favor be allowed to sleep in the local JAIL
The a being not overcrowded their request granted
and they retired to cell.
From this cell they issued later robbed several stores
including clothing store and with mastery lmpudence,
broke into the Jail again because they needed quiet
dressing ROOM There they changed their cothes broke
out of Jail again and their way. 1t is almost
pity to record the fact that of them presently
rested The other brilliant fellow is still at large
1t is not only for the audacity of their crime that
mention these two 1t to me that they have
established method: to Jail before commit
your crime make jail your headquarters That gives you
a certain amount of leeway 1t might be good thing
to make the system obgatory send every citizen to Jail
for two years early in life, then let him work out his
crimes later It is simpler and less costly than
ent system of waiting for the crime before trying
punish it.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
ROMAN RELIC
BROUGHT HERE

The Cathedral of SIS. Peter and
Paul, at Mt. st. Alben, yesterday
was presented with a carved stone
from the famous Appian Way.
Italian Ambassador Augusta
Rosso presented the stone to the
Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman,
bishop of Washington, in COM
memoration of the sixtieth ami
versary of st. Paurs American
Church in Rome.
The stone, which was taken
from the tomb of Cecilia Metela,
on the Roman concourse, was
first presented to the Rev. Theo-
dore Sedgwick, rector of ST. Paul's
American Church in Rome, and
he turned it over for presenta-
ton here. It weighs about 100
pounds and is carved to show the
head of a sacrificial bull.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
FROZEN ASSETS
To BE TAXED
MRS. DOYLE

Deposits in closed banks must
be included in the personal tax
returns due this month, Assessor
William P. Richards warned to-
day.
Those having money in such
banks should include it in their
returns, Mr.. Richards said, not
ing the name of the bank on the
margin of the return blanks.
If, before first half of the tax
is due in September, the bank is
liquidated and the depositor
learns exactly how much of his
money he will receive, his return
may be modified accordingly.
Otherwise, he will be taxed on the
full amount of the deposit.
When the second hal. is due, in
March, 1884, it is expected that
the bank situation will have been
cleared up sufficiently that every
depositor will know exactly where
he stands.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
RICHARDS To AID
HOME SURVEY

A local housing survey will be
undertaken by the office of Tax
Assessor William P. Richards in
cooperation with James Ring,
head of the Public Utilities Com
mission rent investigation, it was
learned today.
The survey will bring up-to-da.e
information compiled at a joint
hearing in 1925 by the House
and Senate District Committees,
when they had under considera-
ton a bill to establish a per-
manent rent commission here.
Also to be included in the sur
vey will be the number and value
of residences in Washington the
amount of land available for
residential expansion and the
types of houses.
Forms for filing rent complaints
and information are now ready.
They are Of three types: One
for complaints by apartment
dwellers, a second for persons
living in rented houses and a
third for the use of owners and
agents in supplying information.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
DISTRICT HALLS.
TAX XCUTSFOR
NEW YEAR
New Rate Lower, Assessments
Down, and Water Rates
Are SIaShed

The beginning of the new fiscal
year today finds District taxpay-
ers in a position to benefit from
number of tax savings for the
coming year.
The greatest of these savings
will result from a cut in the tax
rate on both real estate and tan
gible personal property from $1.70
per 500 to $3.50 1t is estimated
that this cut will make a differ
ence of close to $4,000,000.
In addition to the tax cut, AS
SCISSOR William P. Richards has
announced that reductions in as
sessments of property in various
parts Of. the city will total close
to 100000, 900, which will result
in a further saving.
Another break for District resi-
dents is the 10 per cent reduction
in water rates, to apply to all
bills paid within Is days from
date of rendition.
The District began it's new fis-
cal year today with a deficit es-
timated to be close to $500,000
carried over from the year which
closed yesterday.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
READY
.FORB|GPARADE

District firefighters, under the
leadership of Sergt. A. J. Bar
gagni. will assemble in the
Hamilton Hotel Monday night to
make plans for the biggest fire
mems parade in the history Of
the city. The parade, an annual
affair, will be held on Labor
Day.
Later in the week the Ladies
Auxiliary of the District Fire
mems Association, will meet at
the home of the chairman, Mrs.
E. w. Howard, jr., 1900 block
Monroe st. N. w., with Mrs.
Robert Hayes, president, in t h e
chair.
At that time details of recep-
ito for out-of f-town firemen and
their wives will be explained.
Five thousand out-of-town fire
departments will be invited to
participate in the parade this
year.
The Washington times., 1933-07-01
Capital Gains 5000
Population Since
1880 Census

The population of Washing
ton has increased 5000 since
the last official census in 1880,
according to the annual esti-
mate made by the Census
Bureau.
Washington now has 405, 1000
persons as compared with the
1880 census of 486,869. The
population of the city, accord
ing to the estimate, has in
creased 1000 since last year.
A 100000 increase for the
entire country is also estimated,
the present population standing
at 125, 5,693 900, as compared with
the 1880 figure of 122,775,0