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Evening star., 1933-07-26
100 IN BEAUTY CONTEST
Greater Washington Semi-Finals at
Chevy Chase Lake Tonight.

Semi-fnals in the Greater Washing
ton beauty contest have been postponed
until tomorrow night at Chevy Chase
Lake, it was announced this afternoon,
with about 100 girls competing for the
title of Miss District Of Columbia. The
winner will compete in the national
contest in Atlantic City in September.
Late entries will be accepted at the
lake resort until pm. Contestants
must submit proof they have never
married and are between 16 and 30.
Evening star., 1933-07-26

Of the Sixth Presbyterian Church at
Mr. Somervilleis residence, 5000 Six
teenth street.
Mr.. Somerville died yesterday at his
home. He will be buried In Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1933-07-26

Mrs. Patience Round, who recently
celebrated her 1920 birthday In Cradley
Heath, England, was chain maker for
70 years
Evening star., 1933-07-26
FUNERAL TOMORROW

Thomas Somerville Services to Be
Held at Late Residence.
Funeral services for Thomas Somer-
Vile, 76, president and treasurer Of the
plumbing and heating service which
at 1890 am, by DR.. Godfrey Chobot
Evening star., 1933-07-26
MRS. HERMAN BURIED
1nterment in Cemetery of Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation.

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Her
man, who died on Monday, were held
this morning at her residence, 2230 Cali
fcrnia street. Burial was in the ceme-
terry Of the Washington Hebrew Congre-
Evening star., 1933-07-26
DEMANDS LIQUOR LICENSE
Judge Says Men Should Have OBJ
tanned Papers.

tdlHed FaperS.
BALTIMORE [P).-In the first liquor
case in State courts here in many
years two colored men were given Is
day sentences for selling whisky with
out a beer license.
Although it was admitted the de-
PENDANTS did not sell beer, Judge
Charles F. Stein ruled they should
have obtained a license to sell beer
'or any other beverage of alcoholic
content"
Evening star., 1933-07-26

Be sure to take a jar of RILBURN
with you to the besch-apply it before
exposure to the sun and save yourself
the torture Of fiery sunburn 1t Is
greaseless and vanishing-will not harm
the clothing. Has a clean. pleasant
scert. Healing and soothing
Evening star., 1933-07-26

New styles and values.
These chic, new caps will
add imeasurably to the
attractiveness of your
bathing ensemble. Many
shapes. styles and colors
from which to choose.
Evening star., 1933-07-26

Every man in WASHINGTON will want
to take advantage Of this remarkable
value. williams Glider Brushless Shave
gives you q clean. close-cut shave
without the bother Of Q brush. It's
Evening star., 1933-07-26
ROHLEDER, GRACE IRENE. On

day, July 20. 1888. BETTE SCOTT OF
749 Kenyon st. NV. She leaves TO mourn
their loss loving husband, Albert Scott;
three daughters, Doris, Gloria and Ann!e
Scott; two sisters. Martha Freeman and
Beatrice Darden; five brothers. Lewis. Le-
roy, George, Otto and David Boykins, and
host Of other relatives and friends. Boo
temporarily resting at Malvan & Schey
funeral home. New Jersey ave. and 81
NV. until II noon Thursday, July p
Then the body will be shipped to Ports
mouth. Va.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
DRIVING OUT HARD LIQUOR

IT Is good to read that the advent of legalzed
u beer is going to be accompanied by re-
newed federal drive against the makers and
sellers of hard liquor
One of the most valid arguments against the
beer bill was the assertion that its passage
easily might mean a relaxation of all efforts
at prohibition enforcement. Both friends and
foes of prohibition can rejoice to learn that
this argument was mistaken.
If we are going to get rid of prohibition the
way to do it is to vote it out of existence.
Steps to accomplish that end have been taken,
and the nation will render its verdict in the
comparatively near future.
Meanwhile, it would be gross error to Try
TO wink the law into dsuse. We have had
enough of notification Until repeal has been
ratified, we can use all the honest enforcement
our prohibition unit can give us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06

the way Of Sums But it would be hard to
name large city IN the nation in which tene-
ments nearly as bad could not be found easily;
and it is hard to think of reason why all
these cities should not plan on Stun elimina-
ton programs Of equal magnitude for the i'm
mediate future.
First and foremost Of course, these Jobs
make work. They stimulate the construction
industry, always one Of the bellwethers of
trade.
They create a demand for large variety of
raw and finished materials They send huge
numbers of unemployed workers back to
regular pay rolls.
But in addition to that they accomplish
vitality important work. These slums are the
cancer spots in the American CITY, They must
be cleaned up if our national life is to thrive
as it should. Today our cities have magnifi-
cent chance to kill two birds with one stone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
A THIRD DECREE" ALIBI

THE evils of the police third degree" have
been discussed until everybody is tired of
hearing Of them. But every once in a while
a case comes up which points it's moral too
plainly to be overlooked.
In Cleveland recently a young man was on
trial for robbery. He had signed a confession
and the case against him seemed air-tight.
But at his trial he insisted that the police
had beaten him to make him sign the con-
fession, and although the police denied it, and
there was no evidence to corrobo1ate his story
most of the jury believed it; and eventually
the jury was discharged, after having become
deadlocked eleven to one for acquittal
Now the point in this case is that the third
degree" provided an excellent defense for this
chap, regardless of whether he actually had
been beaten.
1t helped him to escape a prison term; and
as long as the practice is continued accused
men will continue to use it to beat the rap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
CUT THE BEER PRICE

THE price of beer in Indiana is too high.
With sad memories of sixteen-ounce
scoops" for nickel, Hoosiers will pay So to
1925 a case for the new brew, with 81 extra
as deposit on bottles
The excessive cost means that the aim of
beer legalization will be defeated to an APP
preciable extent. 1t means that the vast reve-
nue., fondly expected, will shrink to a fraction
of the original estimates. For beer drinkers,
much as they may crave their favorite bever-
age can not and will not stand the gaff.
The argument may be sound that Indiana
should proceed slowly, guard against return
Of the saloon, start with bottled beer at high
er price and proceed later to draught beer at
reduced cost, allay fears Of the drys, and in
sure success Of the repeal campaign.
But the conclusion will not down that the
consumer is being mulcted so that horde Of
wholesalers, importers, retailers and political
hangers-on may reap harvest.
Added to this is the factor that the high
price is boon to bootleggers. Home brew
sellers will meet the competition by cutting
their prices, and many drinkers will take their
more potent offerings in preference to the
three-two brand which will be sold legally.
Hard liquor statesmen have taken heartsagain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
THE LURE OF OPEN SPACES

1T is a strange thing, the way an artfully
Il chosen photograph can set the mind rowing
Mr.. Ordinary Citizen sets out for his job
on spring morning. The early sunshine and
the crisp breeze chilly but carrying promise
of warmer weather a little later on already
have done things to him; made him question,
perhaps, the wisdom of life that keeps him
pent up in town all the time, led him to
draw out again that old dream of some day
living on place in the open country.
Then, opening his newspaper, he spots a
photograph of one of those open country
scenes that editors like to present once in a
while; picture, say, of a valley in western
Montana, with tumbling mountains in the
distance and fringe of trees by little
stream in the foreground
And as he looks at it he suddenly discovers
that town is poor sort of place for a man
to live. The fine new buildings the busy
streets, the lines of factories and railway yards
and so on, things which ordinarily seem to
him to be matters for proper local pride
now they have become artificial devices by
which he is cut off from contact with his own
earth.
They are obstacles in his way and he pays
for their presence by an unfulflled longing
for the sort of thing of which the photograph
speaks
And this, in turn is apt to set him specu-
lating about that sparkling new dream which
technologists have been revolving lately
Some of these men have remarked that the
era of the great city is about over; that in
the future all men will live on the doorsill of
the open country, with factory units broken
up and decentralized, with electric power pull
ing industrial and rural areas closer and closer
together, so that no worker will any longer be
held prisoner by any town.
Now all Of that, to be sure. is a long way
in the future, and Mr.. Ordinary Citizen prob
ably has moments in which he wouldn't care
much for it, anyway.
But spring morning, revival of the old.
perennial discomfort, an ordinary photograph
of a western valley-they can act powerfully
to set a mans mind adrift from its mornings.
They invite his inner self to play the truant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
A WOman's VIEWPOINT

A LREADY I am little tired of
L n beer. And a premonition of
turmoil assails me.
For there is a faint but unmis-
taxable stir in the ranks of the arid
Their lethargy is fading. A new
zest breathes from the newspaper
notices of the W. c. T. U.
The ladies still are praying, but
their prayers are less SNUG. Sur
rounded, cornered, they are CULVER
ing with anticipation of the fray.
They again are preparing to give
battle.
And their present predicament is
indeed precarious. The day of mere
moralizing has passed Not only
God, but the politician, seems for
the moment to have deserted them.
They hear on every side the clamor
Of jovial multitudes. who, having
tired Of seeking prosperity, are will
ing to cor promise on per cent
beer.
Every newsreel reminds them that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has
signed the bill. Each radio an
nouncer informs them that there is
renewed activity in the vicinity of
the breweries.
ONCE we are judged largely by
- the company we keep and the
statements. we make, have no as
surance thai the clan OF which Mrs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06

advice from anybody. I teAder this
bit, however, with the kindest in
tentions in the world.
The dry ladies, it seems now have
in their hands a powerful weapon
in their drive against the consump-
ton of beer by their fair sex (and
we must presume that this is field
Of endeavor into which they will
venture).
This weapon is a thousand times
more effective than any hatchet
even though it were welded by an
intrepid Carrie Nation. I urge them
not to overlook or to despise it.
1t is spelled with three letters
fat. Fine advance work in the
campaign against excess avoirdu-
pois has been done by our clever
writer's of advertisements. It re-
mains only for Mrs. BODIES troops
to follow it up.
To get anywhere with the girls,
there should be less talk against
bars and brews and more agitation
about overweight. Bodies rather
souls must be stressed. The mod
ern miss is not moved by any talk
Of codes, but she is concerned about
corpulence.
She doesn't fear a fathead half 50
much as she fears fat figure. So
Mrs. Boole, I suggest a new elo-
gan: There is stoutness in the
stein"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
ELIMINATE SLUMS;
MAKE WORK

CLIGHTLY more than $4,000 900 Of govern
~ ment money is going to go into big slum
elimination project in New York's congested
lower east side.
A loan recently approved at washington will
make possible the destruction of several blocks
of the worst of New Yorks tenements, which
will be replaced by model apartment buildings,
offering good housing to poor people at price
they can afford to pay.
There never was a more opportune time for
such projects than the present Organized
labor and the administration at Washington
are discussing bond issue of billions of dol
lars to make work; this New York scheme is
of type which every stable city in the
country could proftably copy.
Consider the following descriptions OF the
buildings which are to be replaced:
THE buildings to be RACED are for the most
part of five and siX-story walk-up type, rang
ing from so to approximately 100 years in age
1T is necessary in most of the buildings for
tenants to obtain drinking and sanitary water
from faucets in the court in the rear of the
buildings.
''Water and coal must be carried several
flights OF stairs to living quarters. Streets and
courts are mere slots between buildings and
sunlight sometimes never is known to jewellers
in the section"
This section, clearly, is something specialJln
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
EARL DERR BIGGERS PASSES

MO more will Charlie Chan, with marvellous
intuition and matchless patience pick up
the vague threads of crime and trail the male
factor down to meet the penalty he deserves.
Earl Derr Biggers, creator of the famed
Chinese fiction detective, is dead.
The thousands whom he enthralled with
his fascinating mystery tales will miss Earl
Derr Biggers, the author and the man. Espe-
cially will he be missed in Indianapolis for
here, at the Bobbs- Merrill Co.. his books were
published and he met many of his readers
while on business visits here.
Starting as a bookkeeper at the Bobbs-
Merrill Company after his graduation from
Harvard in 1907, he rose rapidly to fame by
his own diligence and extensive study.
While his name may not live in literature
with Conan Doyle and other creators Of noted
sleuths, he will be remembered with affection
by the multitude of fiction readers who have
spent many a pleasant hour with his brain
children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
THURSDAY. April 6. 1888.
THE 36-IIOUR WEEK

THE senate today is expected to pass a
thrty-six-hour work week bill 1t applies
to labor on industrial products in interstate
commerce.
This measure can be blessing to the ma
ton by helping to absorb possibly one-half
OF the 100000 persons now out of work If
accompanied by no loss in wages, the measure
would be Of vast benefit to all wage earners
by giving them increased leisure and security
1t would help the country generally by saw
Ing billions being spent in relief, by stmuat-
ing buying power and starting us back on the
road to better times.
What Of it's benefits to employers?
We believe it would aid employers, as we'll
as other classes, for the following reasons:
1t would make the industrial short work
day and week virtually nation wide except for
few exempted industries. 1t thus would pro-
tect the majority of employers who are
anxious to maintain decent wages full pay
rolls, and shorter hours
1t would prevent the triumph Of sweatshop
employers and other wage cutters, many
of whom are working men, women and chill
at starvation wages.
Employers paying the old wage under the
thirty-six-hour schedule would take some
temporary loss, but relatively little compared
with what labor has taken and society is TAX
ing. Heretofore, capital has won the lions
share Of machine induStrys profits
Between 1923 and 1929 the purchasing
power of wages increased Al per cent, while
dividends increased 265 per cent. This con-
centration and maldistrbution of wealth was
a major cause of the depression.
The increased efficiency of labor under
shorter hours would make up for most, if not
all, of the employers loss Labor's efficiency
has been found by experiments in certain fac
tories To be at about thirty-fve hours a week
What this increased productiveness of la
Dor did not make up to the employer, the in
creased volume and security of his market
would. The employers would gain immeas-
urably in the long run in helping to remove
from his market the vacuum of 100000
unemployed.
Industry had no answer except the share
work plan-and that has not worked. To help
industry, the government needs to act.
Whether the amended Black Connery bill
would do all that is claimed for it none knows
But its principle is right, and the conditions
1t seeks to ameiorate are intolerable.
This measure is flexible enough to soften
the shock to certain industries 1t should be
bulwarked by minimum wage and other
measures to protect the wage scale. This is
important.
Prosperity will depend on better distribu-
ton of wealth and richer mass market for
mass production. That is what intelligent
employers want but can not achieve, because
of INSCRIPTIONS competitors
1t can be achieved by law providing max
imum hours and minimum wages.
The bill is supported by Secretary of La
Dor Frances Perkins. 1t should become law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
|M.E.TracySays:

WE are hearing much about the Great Wall
w of China these days, but a marker
rather than as monument. Even the Chinese
have ceased to regard it as an obstacle to in
vaSion. No one asks whether Japan can scale
it, but whether she will.
One of the most StupendouS pieces of work
ever performed by man, the Great Wall has
ceased to be of any consequence as physical
barrier Just a windrow of rocks and earth,
1900 miles long, which means nothing to air.
planes and which can be blown up easily at any
point.
When first elected, however, and for 1900
years thereafter, this rampant with its lnnumer-
able gates and towers, its roadway along the
top, and its thousands of alert defenders, SYM
oolized a philosophy of life that made China
what she is.
THE emperor who built this wall was a re-
l. former albeit in reactionary sense. He
saw little but confusion in the natural order of
progress. Like sorae of our moderns, he wanted
a planned regime, a stabilized Setup which
would be free from interference, not only by
outsiders, but by inventors and discoverers at
home
He burned all scientific books for the same
reason that he constructed the Great Wall
stopped China in her traps limited civilization
to routine work. provided system that left little
room for change-a carefully worked out sys-
! tenn that involved little risk and little thinking
! for the masses.
1t worked we'll for many centuries, but its
final effect was to leave China far behind the
rest of the world.
Most of us can see the futility of building
rock walls, but the idea of safety through bar
riers of some kind survives. In spite of all that
has been accomplished through free intercourse
there are those who cling to the belief that ma
tons can promote their own interests by shut
ting themselves in.
THE tariffs and embargoes by which most
l. countries are trying to get revenue anc
the Great Wall They stand for the same philos-
ophy which motivated Chin when he decided
to make China self-sufhcient and self-sustain-
ing by keeping other people out, by institutine
an order that would minimize conflict, whether
as brought about by foreign foes or by innova-
| tons at home.
Chin was, to all intents and purposes, tech
nocrat an apostle of planned existence, who
conceived government as an institution to main.
tain order, provide work. and let people live
with the least possible friction.
He had no use for the turmoil Of free thought
free trade or free action. Progress did not ap.
peal to him as worth the price. He wanted
system on which people could depend, which
would function efficiently from generation Il
generation and which would not be disturbed
constantly by intrusion of new ideas.
He wanted a scheme of things which would
permit children to grow up in the trades anc
occupations of their fathers, with no more diff
cult task to perform and no more thrilling pros
pect ahead than continuous increase of expert.
ness along rigidly prescribed lines.
The result speaks for itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
BEER AND FOOD HABITS

WILL the advent Of legalized beer bring
w change in the habits of restaurant
patrons, thereby causing change in the kind
and quantity of food the restauratelrs must
keep in stock?
Fred A. simonsen of Detroit, president of
the National Restaurant Association, believes
that it will.
The popularity of certain dishes, such as
heavy meats, fish and cheese, will increase, he
believes, while fewer sweets will be sold. The
man who sits down to lunch with a schooner
of beer at his elbow is not apt to ask for a
cream puff to go with it; hot roast beef
sandwich or a vast slab Of cheese more likely
to be called for.
For beer, as a general thing demands as
an accompaniment solid food and plenty of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
It Seems
to Me
BY JOE WILLIAMS :
Batting for Haywood Broun)

THIS is no attempt 10 apply
i critical yardstick % George Ber-
nard Shaw as a pulpiteer. philoSoph-
err or parsonage. I don't know tie
man that we'll
What interests me with respect to
the distinguished Irishmans pres
ent-day status is that when his
cheer leaders call for nine rahs and
a locomotive they are given be
grudgingly if at all
And 1t wasn't so many springs ago
that the mere mention of Shaw in
any reasonably intelligent COMPANY
would be sufficient to cause demure
ladies to leap high in the air, click
ing their heels together, and strong
men to gurgle incoherent ecstasies.
That was back in the days when
anything Mr.. Shaw said was consid-
cred terribly clever and anything he
wrote was touched with a piquancy
and profundity that was quite be-
You'd the reach of normal man.
To the loyal Shavians. no doubt
Mr.. Shaw still gives utterance to
glittering nifties and still writes
with an inspired quill, but to the
larger audience he is Just a bearded
echo of an Olympian past. He has
lost the hop from his fast ball.
1t would be more gracious to re-
member Mr.. Shaw as the genius who
created Major Barbara, wrote "Cae-
Sar and Cleopatra and imagined
the unforgetable "HearthbreaE
House, but apparently this graci-
BUSINESS is to be reserved for poster
tvs ledgers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06
Nose Bleed Results From Many Causes

a greater degree of certainty, such
as packing the nose with sterilized
gauze, direct inspection with pinch
ing of the bleeding substance like
silver nitrate or chronic acid, and
the use of various solutions which
temporarily construct the blood YES
sells.
1t should be borne in mind that
the bleeding from the nose is not
in itself a disease, but rather a
symptom Of disease; that it may be
the warning sign for the onset of a
serious disorder, such as change
in the blood, or even tumor of
the adrenal glands.
On the other hand, it merely may
be due to increased mental or phys
ical excitement, or any other con-
dition that suddenly raises the blood
pressure.
In most cases the amount of blood
lost is small, but if the person has
repeated hemorrhages, the amount
lost may be sufficient to cause ane-
mia and to demand special treat
ment, for restoring the blood.