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The Washington times., 1933-10-04
Lockwood Will
Filed in County

The will of Harriet J. Lock
wood, vino died at her home
in Bethesda, September 9, was
entered for probate in Mont
gomery County Orphans Court
at Rockville yesterday.
Mrs. Lockwood ordered her
property, cash and real estate,
divided between two sons,
Franklin Wilbert Burleigh, and
David Dixton Harger, and a
granddaughter, Irma Bess e
Phipps. Her son, David, was
named executor and empowered
to refuse a bequest to any one
of the beneficiaries who con,
tested the will.
The Washington times., 1933-10-04
Salesman Ends Life
With Shot in Head

Out of work for more than a
year and despondent over illness,
Harry Witzig, 81, a salesman,
ended his life yesterday by shoot
ing himself through the head IN
his home in the 1900 block Euclid
st. N. w. Witzig's body was
found by his 11-year-old stepson,
Joseph Graham, when the boy re-
turned home from school,
The Washington times., 1933-10-04
Worlds Shortest
Bus Line ErD0ndS

NEW YORK.-The worlds short
est bus line has branched out. 1t
runh from the Beaux Arts Apart
ments in East Forty-fourth Street
to Grand Central Terminal, a dis
tance of five blocks. Now a sec
ond bus has been placed in opera
ton. It will run to Rockefeller
Plaza in Rockefeller Center. Both
buses are free to tenants of the
apartments.
The Washington times., 1933-10-04
CARD PARTY SLATED

Mrs. Howell Forsyth, Of Wood
side Park, Md, has been named
chairman for a card party to be
held in Grace Church October II.
Mrs. Joseph Cissell, Mrs. j. R. Nc
Queen and Mrs. Maud Harmon
will assist.
The Washington times., 1933-10-04
MAlLMEN TO GIVE DANCE

Capital Branch No. 142 of the
National Association Of Letter
Carriers will give a dance october
6 in Harding Hall" at the Gov
ernment Printing Office, North
Capitol and H Streets, from 9 to
IL o'clock. Music will be fur
nished by Bob Garber's Club
Orchestra"
The Washington times., 1933-10-04
CENTRAL TRAFFIC HOLDS

The New York Central's traffic
in the first five days Of the week
ended September 80 ran at about
the same level as for the CORE
spending period of the imme-
diately preceding week.
The Washington times., 1933-10-04
RESCUE SQUAD DANCE

The annual dance of Rescue
Squad No. / of Alexandria, was
held last night in the Community
Hall. L. P. Strobe, captain, was
in charge.
Evening star., 1933-05-30

public works program? What about
farm mortgages and home mortgages,
for which means of refinancing are
being provided by action Of Congress?
The task that lies ahead of the Presi-
dent is crushing in its magnitude. He
has been able to secure from Congress
the needed authority for dealing with
these problems Of tremendous interest
to the people. 1t will remain for him
to use those powers and to use them
wisely or to refrain from using them.
Administration under all the circum-
stances will require iron in the Execu-
tive The President has repeatedly
shown both courage and acumen since
his Inauguration. The months that lie
ahead are likely to demand the exercise
of both to a great degree
Signs are not lacking that actual i'm
provement in conditions is on the way.
There is a more hopeful atmosphere
among the people. After all, the sue
cess of the recovery plans rests as much
upon the shoulders of the people as it
does upon the administration. They,
the people. must play their part. or all
the laws in the world will not help
them.
Evening star., 1933-05-30

Japanese troops patrol Peiping, ancient
capital Of China, whence they dominate
vast area over which the Intellectual
Nationalist government at Nanking pro-
fessedly holds sway.
President Roosevelt painfully aware
of these urfortuitous circumstances in
Europe and Asia, bids his London dele
gates Godspeed in no spirit of mis-
guided optimism. He expects of them
that they will but do their best 1t
is a thousand pities their prospects
are not brighter. Being what they are,
the American people must steel them
selves for disappointments rather than
millennial results at London. They
must realize above all that the United
States unreadiness to make any war
debt revision commitments on the eve
of the payments which are due June
IS, but unlikely to be forthcoming,
hangs over the conference like a pail.
Our European debtors are in sullen
mood toward an America seeking eco
nomic happiness and square deal in
the world while remaining an Amer
lea stubbornly disinclined. in European
opinion. to take the one, long, essential
step leading to such results.
To what extent. under all these de-
pressing concomitants, American hopes
OF agreements for exchange and cur
rency stabilization, abolition of trade
embargoes like quota restrictions. if
not reciprocal treaties. and some form
of prolonged tariff truce can be re-
allied is decidedly on the knees of the
gods. Secretary Hull, Senator Pitt
man and the other members of this
peace A. E. F. to invade Europe carry
with them the prayers and the trust of
all their countrymen. We realize the
immensity and complexity of their task.
If 1t prove beyond accomplishment at
their hands the Government and the
citizens Of the United States will be
inclined to believe that it is an in
Surmountable task though no fault of
ouis, ouC puIely because tne world
devastating plight has not yet driven
it to a point where even its bitter needs
dominate its ancient grudges and in
vinclble animosities. - Come what may,
President Roosevelt will have no rea-
son for shame or regret. He will have
offered American leadership in a worthy
cause, even though he be doomed to
have pointed the way in vain.
Evening star., 1933-05-30
''Professors May Be Right
Echoed i'm Public. Debat>

States would have saved its people
sast hardship had the voice OF the
expert been heard more" and main
tains that "it Is the professional poll
tician whose spoils the employment Of
experts evades, whose blundering op-
erations the work Of experts discreditS
who is prejudiced against them"
DIR. Hutchins has rendered serv-
ice." declares the Asbury Park Evening
Press. The Nation has tried practical
politicians and found them lacking In
common sense and in public spirit"
The Portland Oregon Journal adds that
"for nearly four years economic condi-
lions in this country have been the
worst in American history" and con-
demns as responsible Legislation and
administration by politics and poll
ticians" Recalling that statesmen.
politicians, lawyers and captains OF in
dustry were summoned to the national
crisis, the New Castle News remarks
that they babbled like children In the
dark"
Education" according to the Okla
homa City Times, has been the mott
waiting force of mans progress since our
arboreal ancestors came down out OF
the trees. 1t is plausible that We may
gain by giving the Nations thinkers
greater influence in national govern
ment. The practical politicians led the
country into morasS Of debt, eXtrava-
gance, depression and international LII
will. The people generally have liked
the fortnight fashion in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has cut red tape and
scorned the ancient shibboleths. no
matter what advice has helped to shape
his policies Appreciable improvement
has resulted, and that is the best an
Swer"
Calling the "anti-professor drive"
silly. the Springfield Mass Republic
can asserts that the members of the
Roosevelt brain trust are comparative
ly conservative men," The St Joseph
Gazette thinks it is barely possible the
members of the brain trust are really
fact-men, and those who oppose them
theory-men, clinging to outworn judg-
ments and notions" Praise for Dr. o.
w. M. Sprague of Harvard for his work
as a banking expert, especially as
financial adviser to the Bank of Eng
land. Is given by the Buffalo Evening
News and the Youngstown Vindicator.
In humorous vein, the New York
Times says: When there Is, as at
Washington. sort of official faculty of
professors and their suggestions are fol-
lowed. there is established a body of
doctrine and authority which impresses
even doubters. There could be no bet
ter proof that this is the case than DR..
Hutchins' remark that the main. II not
the only, criticism of Mr.. Roosevelt is
that his advisers are professors Such
criticism can come only from coarse
and partisan souls. All generous ma
lures must have rejoiced In the reali-
zation of an ancient dream. Our reign
ing professors of today are the phi
losophers for whose conduct of public
affairs Plato longed. The grandiositv
of their legislation, their thorouphness
of detail. their scorn of precedentS
their exultant plunge into experiments,
their majestic contempt of expenss
leave the Nation breathless with
wonder"
Evening star., 1933-05-30
''ROOsevelt Island"
Change Not Parallel
To the Editor of The Star.

10 tne hQltOf OF Inc StRr.
I read the letters of Marvin E. Will
liams and William J. Peterson in recent
issues of The Star concerning the
action of Mr. Ickes in changing the
name of Hoover Dam" to Boulder
Dam" 1 heartily approve of what
these gentlemen have written. I do
not see the least legitimate reason for
changing the name of this great en-
ginering project.
I also read the letter of j. ]. Craw-
ford in the May "a issue of The Star,
under the heading Hoover Dam and
Roosevelt Island" He seems to think
that these two changes are in the
same spirit. That changing the name
of the island from Roosevelt" to
Theodore Roosevelt" was a mean thing
to do that could be matched only by
changing the name of Hoover Dam"
to Boulder Dam"
When another Roosevelt" came into
the picture it was perfectly natural
and in every way desirable that the
island, as well as the memorial to be
placed upon it, should bear the name
of the man whom it was designed to
honor, Theodore Roosevelt.
One of two things may have been
in the mind of Mr.. Crawford. He
might have been cherishing the hope
that the present occupant Of the White
House Is destined to be the one and
only Roosevelt; that Theodore" is
to fade from the picture, and that so
1t is an impertinence to have his name
attached to the island in the Potomac.
Or Mr.. Crawford may be awakening
to the fact that the present "Roose-
velt"-though in the White House-is
still the man IF d.; that he must
stand on his own bottom, do his own
work, make his own record-inde-
pendently of the name made famous by
another. I am perfectly willing that
he shall have fair chance. but this
may not be promising enough to sat-
datx Me-. LUCHER x. LONG.
Evening star., 1933-05-30
Administration.

Within two weeks, according to the
plans Of President Roosevelt and the
administration leaders in Congress, the
special session of the 73d Congress is
to end 1t is their expectation that the
program for recovery, so far as legis-
lation is concerned, will have been COM
pleted by June 10. If their hopes and
expectations are correct in this matter,
the Congress will have put through
legislative measures of vast Importance
'-not few, but many-in a session
lasting only three months almost to a
day. The speed and precision with
which the administration forces in the
Congress have advanced the program are
OF an abandonment of party politics
and willingness on the part Of all
members of Congress not to impede the
progress of legislation. 1t has been
possible because of the great desire Of
the country that something be done,
and because Of the backing given Presi-
dent Roosevelt throughout the country.
When Congress has completed its
sob and retreated from Washington for
the Summer, the whole task Of aiding
jn recovery Will fall upon the shoulders
of the administration. This in reality
means the President He has been
given the widest powers by Congress
to control the banks, industry, rail-
roads and agriculture. He has au-
thority to initiate the currency to an
extent that it has never before been
inflated in the history of the United
States. What is he going to do
about it?
Probably never has President of the
United States been wished success by a
greater number of the people. IRE
spective of politics, the people wish
to see the Roosevelt administration
succeed.
How far will currency imitation be
permitted by the administration to go,
and If imitation is started. can it be
controlled? This is only one of the
questions which are soon to be calling
for answers. To what extent Is the
Government to control and direct in
dustry? How far is the adrhinistra-
ton n proceed With As a2,2oe 20Q. .QQe
Evening star., 1933-05-30
Memorial Day.

Memorial day is an occasion OF Varl-
Gus aspects and it may be approached
from many different psychological
angles. IT'S most obvious significance,
of course, is that of a time set apart
for the corpora and institutional eX-
preston Of the I'll ions gratitude to its
fallen sons. of affection and appre-
citation for their memory. But as the
years pass the public concept expands
TO include an increasing number OF
others who have served their country's
good until at last all dedicated, generous
and unselfish lives may be admitted TO
the roster of those commemoratively
honored.
A day of war it brings to mind the
horror of fields of carnage. The i'm
agination conjures up brave armies
locked in struggle, battling for sacred
national ideals, willingly offering all
that men may give that those ideals
may survive and prosper. The broken
earth, the tortured sky, the shrek OF
shells, the rattle Of musketry in repeated
volleys, the cries of the wounded and
dying-all these terrible sights and
sounds are represented in the tragic
picture, fearsome to ponder. But over
them, canceling them, runs the thought
of the heroism they imply the grandeur
OF the sacrifice they entail.
A day of peace, it likewise prompts
renewed Thanksgiving for the security,
harmony and freedom which the dead
have earned for the living. The heart,
conscious of the debt. throbs with
acknowledgment of the benefaction
which they have bestowed, the blessing
which they have conferred, and the
mind, no less aware of the obligation,
soberly faces the problem of prevent
ing further armed strife, of banishing
fratricidal conflict from the world,
A day Of patriotism, it challenges
the attention for its demand upon each
citizen, its implied prescription that
each individual career shall be of use
and value to the national welfare.
Perhaps it is in this regard that it has
most compelling signiflcation-it sum-
mons the rank and file Of the land to
labor and live in obedience to the
noblest of ideals. 1t scorns hp-service,
claiming instead honest. sincere and
unfaltering dedication. No other date
In the calendar makes a more drastic
reuuisition upon the soul
A day of mourning, it calls for sorrow
for the lost. But a day of joy, it pro-
NOTES exultation in the knowledge that
when need was for immolation there
were men courageous enough and gal
liant enough to respond.
Above all day of conservation. day
of prayer, a day to pledge renewed al
legiance, it gives opportunity for the
expression of brotherhood and love for
living and dead alike. This year, espe-
cially, Memorial day has most deeply
solemn meaning. Much that those re-
membered gave "the last full measure
of devotion" to maintain and preserve
again is threatened. All the millions
who honor their consecrated example
must accept the obligation to see to it
that they have not suffered and died
In vain.
Evening star., 1933-05-30
High Lights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

too easily despairs, and are quite willing
to enter the arena in behalf of our
lmportunate friends. obliged either by
force OF circumstances, or a compara-
tive poverty, to use the street cars,
One of the chief grievances is that
the cars wait too long at transfer points.
This delay Is never less than min
uteS, and frequently is 10, Is, or even
20 minutes. Between the Avenida San
Jorge and the Parque Murillo, there
fore, anything from 80 to SO minutes
may be required to negotiate the dis
tance. 1t appears that the employees
OF the tramway company, at least, are
never in a hurry. When they spy an
acquaintance along the route, they have
no compunctions whatever about stop
ping the conveyance and indulging in a
private chat.
In fact, between the delays in transit
and the tediousness of waiting for a
tram-car, many who would otherwise
ride, walk to save time. But of those
who come to our Offices with their cen
sure and murmurirgS, most, it should
be noted, prefer to ride. rather than
walk and save their money. They walk
only because in this way they can save
their timel
When the employees are demonstrated
with, there Is no paucity of excuse and
explanation. They may not progress
more rapidly than the schedule permits;
the equipment is DID, and cannot attain
an excess of velocity. But these same
employees. who criticize the timetable
and the equipment, are generally those
most responsible for more unnecessary
delays at the intersections where the
passengers change cars, and most prone
to exchange small-talk with friends
upon the footpath.
However, we are calling the matter
again to the attention of the street car
company officials, and incidentally to
that of the city fathers who bestowed
the franchises, to the end of seeing
whether or not some remedy cannot be
applied to an absurd situation fast be-
coming, as we have already intimated,
little short 0f iOt0lerah hlp
Evening star., 1933-05-30
The London Conference,

Within twenty-four hours Americas
delegation to the World Monetary and
Economic Conference at London will
be on the high seas bound for the
opening ceremonies on June II. Seldom
has the way been paved to an inter-
national conference with more pains
taking care, an effort in which the
President of the United States took a
practical lead Yet it is unfortunately
undeniable that the nations will fcre-
gather in England a fortnight hence
under anything but favoring skies.
They will personify world house sorely
divided against itself, despite truly
herculean attempts to produce in ad-
vance a semblance of accord. President
Roosevelt's proclaimed arch-condition
precedent to economic disarmament
namely. military disarmament-iS at
this writing seemingly destined to utter
non-realization. Geneva, where 1t was
to be accomplished as a supreme
curtain-r raiser for success at London,
remains the scene of irreconcilable diff
ferences among the European conti-
mental powers, notably France and
Germany. NaZi election victories within
the Polish Corridor last Sunday, of course,
only whet Franco German military diff
ferences and suspicious. Nor, need it
be emphasized, does Japan's invasion Of
North China, on the threshold Of the
London Conference, add anything to the
sum of international hope and conf
dence. BY sinister coincidence, London
assemblies, as the original Geneva Dis
armament Conference did in February,
1882. under world cloud originating
in the remote Far East. Then, Japanese
aups we're roaring at SHANGHAI. Nov.
Evening star., 1933-05-30
Mr.. Farley's Personnel Policy.

Harllee Branch. executive assistant to
the Postmaster General. brought COM
forting hope to the meeting Of the
postal organization in Florida today
when he told them of the departments
policy under the new administration re-
garding economy. His outline of this
policy should be of great interest in
Washington. where every department Is
faced with the necessity of making re-
ductions And it would be good news
to learn that other departments, instead
of placing such great emphasis upon
the manner in which they may get rid
of personnel, would devote most Of their
attention to methods by which person
mel may be saved from wholesale dis
charges in the name of economy.
The Postmaster Generals message to
the Florida meeting was that he pro-
poses to deal with the situation brought
about by necessity for savings lin such
a way that no Civil Service employe
under the Post Office Department who
has been diligent and efficient in the
discharge of his duties will lose his
position as the result of the admins
tration's so-called economy program"
Mr.. Branch revealed that the Post
ONCE Department has received economy
suggestions by the hundreds but they
all boiled down to the same thing
the elimination of people from the
post Office pay roll by hundreds of
thousands" Mr.. Farley has insisted,
said Mr.. Branch, that retrenchment be
brought about without interference
with essential postal facilities and with
out wholesale dismissal of employees
who had devoted their lives to the
service"
His first step in making this policy
effective was the legislation, now con-
tanned in the independent Offices appro-
priation bill by which the departments
are authorized to rotate" employment
through furloughs. Other steps con-
templated to save work and jobs will be
by voluntary retirement. by cutting down
the hours of labor and by lowering the
allowances to rural mail carriers-"and
not by dismissals."
Mr.. Branch points out that the de-
partment loses about 400 employees a
month through normal separations from
the service, resulting from retirement,
death, designations and removal for
cause. The strict enforcement of the
policy not to fill any of these vacancies
becomes an enormous help in reducing
personnel without discharges. 1t has
been estimated that the total losses
through normal separations throughout
the entire Government service approx
mate 10000 year. The policy of nom
filling of vacancies, strictly followed,
ought to help elsewhere as much as it
does in the postal service in the preven-
ton of discharges.
Mr.. Farley is the only one of the
departmental heads in Washington who
has publicly announced a policy Of not
discharging personnel in carrying out
the mandate of the budget-trimmers
If he can continue this policy he will
have made one of the greatest single
contributions to economy in the Gov
ernment service. For economy ceases
TO become economy when horizontal
slashes in appropriations merely throw
more people out of work. 1t is as
important to save jobs as it is to save
money. The success of Mr.. Farley's
policy will be watched with great
interest
Evening star., 1933-05-30
ONOLULU ADVERTISER.-The
present Legislature would do
well to name a holdover COM
Il mittee to make study of

SunpllIleQ government. 1nere
are many ways in which economy and
efficiency could be promoted in admin
istering public affairs 1t would seem
that some arrangement might be ef-
fected to do away with the present
city and county governments or SIM
plify 1t to function through board to
be authorized by the Legislature and
named by the Governor. 1t is gen.
orally recognized that a great saving
could be brought about If the present
cumbersome and complicated city and
county government of Honolulu were
stripped of its political excrescences
and devoted exclusively to conducting
necessary public business.
A commission of five men could
manage the police, health, fire, high
ways and other activities of the city
with vastly less expense and probably
with a much greater degree of eff
cheney than the present mayor and
Board of Supervisors. If such board
was appointed by the Governor the
tremendous expense of biennial cleo
ton would be eliminated.
Nothing is gained by playing ostrich
and hiding our heads In the sand.
Every well informed citizen knows that
government of Honolulu and the other
counties could be improved upon. Ha-
waii is an ideal place and now Is the
best of all times to consider such an
experiment. Won't some Senator or
Representative father plan?