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Montgomery County sentinel., 1933-09-14
Gaithersburg News And
Social Items

Miss Marjorie Kane of Brooklyn,
New York is the house guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Merle Jacobs.
Mr.. William Troxell and Mr.. George
Book of Franklin, Pa, spent last
week at the home of the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas W..
Hroxell on Walker Avenue.
Mrs. Ruth Townsend of Alexandria
Va, has returned to her home in that
city after spending the summer with
her grand mother, Mrs. Robert Ka-
node.
Final arrangements for the fried
chicken supper to be held in the
Grace M. E. Church South, here on
September Is, were made at the last
regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid
on Thursday afternoon last with the
president, Mrs. Marshall Walker as
hostess. Featuring by way of spirit
ual food was a talk on "The Power
of the Tongue" by the president, with
appropriate quotations from scripture
by several of the members. Mrs. Mil
dred Towner entertained with a read
ing and Mrs. Sprigg Ward and Mrs.
Charles Phoebus with a vocal duet.
Twenty-Five members responded to
the roll call.
Mrs. W. D. Barnett has returned to
her home here on Summit Avenue
after spending the summer months
with her mother and other elatives
in Southern Texas During er stay
she enjoyed motor trips throsga the
Rio Grsnde Valley, Mexico ana re-
turned home By way Of Greei Col
Montgomery County sentinel., 1933-09-14
POLICE COURT

Judge
DONALD A. DELAsHMUTT
Clerk
afs FRANK I. DAVIS
Chief of Police
ALIVE A. MoxLEY
Telephone Rockville 800
Sab-StGtions
Bethesda. Telephone Bradley 500
Silver Spring = Telephone Silver
Spring 500.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1933-09-14

County Commissioners
LACY SHAW, Pres. Silver Spring
RICHARD E. DARBY j.. .Barnesville
DR.. GEORGE EDMoNDs. Rockville
MORGAN H. WATKINS. Damascus
JOHN B. DIAMOND. .Gaithersburg
ROBERT D. HAGNER Bethesda
DowNEY M. WILLIAMS Gaithersburg
CHARLES Y. LATIMER, Clerk, Ia
koms Park
JAMES C. CHRISTOPHER Deputy
Clerk, Bethesda
WARD w. CADDINcroN, Deputy
Clerk, Silver Spring
CIssM and WHITEFORD, Counsel
The Board of County Commits
sioners will be in session on each
Tuesday from l P. M. to 2:30 P.
M, and on each Thursday from
2:30 P. NJ. to $3.50 P. NJ, in their
office in the new Court House.
These sessions are for the purpose
of holding public hearings.
The Commissioners will be in
session on each Tuesday from 10 A.
M. to ] P. M. for the purpose of
examining accounts approved by
the Disbursement Committee and
transacting other re ltine business.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1933-09-14
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF
MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Supervisor of Assessment
LAWRENCE A. CHIswML Dickerso,
Board of Assessora 'o
:: HEMPsToNE GRIFFITH, Rockv;,,.
PHIL D. PosT0N W~aliie WAS!iie
r. E. HAMILTON. Cbav,, wo1Gslde
County Surveyor
CHARLES j. MADDOX Poo,,..u
County Engineer
HARRY B. SHAW. !. Silver Spr;n.
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JUVENILE COURT

Judge
r. GRANVILLE CURRY
Sits every Saturday morning at
the Court House.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09

not being cared for in New York" William Hodson
of the Welfare Council Of New York City, testified.
I'VE spent s830OOOO for relief in 1892" said DR..
Karl Schweinitz Of the Community Council of Phila-
delphia In 1888 we shall have to spend s1400oooO
with no increase in standards"
But why should the federal government which
provided loans for relief last summer now provide
direct grants for relief?
unless federal aid be changed from loan basis
to direct aid American cities are going to have de-
faults which will shake not only municipal credit
but the whole credit structure of the United States"
says Paul v Betters executive director of the Amer
ican Municipal Association
Cities already are asking us to petition congress
to let the r. F. c. assist them in refunding plans.
They Gripping essential services to meet relief
needs They are facing default. The present sys-
tenn is only stimulating financial chaos"
And Professor Simeon D. Leland, economist Of
the University of Chicago adds extensive data about
constitutional limitations on the taxing power of
cities counties, and states, pointing that these
make it impossible for local governments to act
quickly enough to meet the present emergency.
1t seems fair to conclude from this evidence.
that there are overwhelming reasons why the Costi-
gan-La Toilette direct relief act should be adopted
at the soonest possible moment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
AGAIN THE COLLINS

AS the legislature goes into session. the Indiana
organization of Insullism floods the state with ad
vertisements in small newspapers warning against
the passage of laws that will make ownership OF
public utilities easier and possible.
While the founder of this vast utility empire re-
mains in Greece, away from the indictments of the
Illinois courts, his tradition carries on.
The advertisements a frank appeal to the
farmer to prevent the passage of any law that would
aid public ownership on the ground Of increased
taxation.
The statement, of course is false. Fortunately,
the people have come to know something about In
sulism, and no longer accept statements from that
quarter without challenge.
Public ownership of utilities in this state and
in other states has meant saving for all the peo-
ne and freedom from extortion.
The city dweller will have more money to buy
food from the farmer if he can escape unnecessary
and unfair charges for water, gas and electricity.
1t seems impossible that any representative with
any honesty of purpose any sign OF intelligence
can be fooled by this parade of COLLINS.
The organization of mayors and officials OF cities
demanding freedom is much more reliable and much
more patriotic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
MONDAY. JAN 3 1882
A NEW NAVIGATOR

Today the state Of Indiana welcomes Paul Nc
Mutt with hope and confidence as the navigator Of
its ship of state.
The ship. it may be stated. is sadly in need Of
repairs if it be entirely safe for the perilous seas
on which it rides.
Through the last dozen years there have been
too many leaks in the fuel tanks. And very fire.
quenty it has been steered along dangerous routes
Governor McNutt goes 'nto Office at the most
critical period in the history of the state. The
hour demands even greater wisdom and stronger
hearts than were required when the nation was at
war The problems are most difficult because they
are less easily seen There is missing the emotional
solidarity which commanded universal support for
necessary war programs.
The farmers Of the state face conhscation
through tax burdens. The nome owner in the
cities meets the same situation. On every hand
there is a demand for rigid economy and reduc-
ton of the costs of government And yet, only
through government does it seem possible to care
for the increased number of unemployed workers
who must be fed or reduced to banditry rioting
Mingled with the tax problem burdens placed
upon business industry and living costs by the ex-
actions of utility services which have escaped regu
ation through the holding company method of
obtaining revenues far in excess of reasonable re-
turn on real investments.
Most pressing of ALL some real solution must be
found for the problem Of unemployment, either
through the release of business from some of its
burdens or more direct action in furnishing jobs.
Because the problems are grave and the respon-
sbiities great the opportunity of Governor McNutt
for real leadership is great
It is a situation in which to be successful he
must command, by his wisdom and his braveness,
the support of all citizens He will succeed only in
the measure that he can wipe political prejudices
from the minds of people and join them in move
ment for the common good.
To that task he brings exceptionally we'll
equipped mind and real determination for accom-
plishment. He is essentially man of action. The
times need action not beWildered waiting.
On this day the people welcome Governor Nc
Mutt with enthusiasm and every wish for his success
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
OUR CHANGING HOME LIFE

Those figures on the average family" presented
to the Association for the Advancement of Science
by Professor William F. Ogburn of the University of
Chicago, make interesting readng-and perhaps
upset few Of the commonly accepted notions about
the way Americans live.
Professor Ogburn demonstrates that the average
family has either three or four members lives in a
$4,000 home and, if it pays rent shells out $27 a
month for its living quarters.
Only family in eight lives in an apartment.
One family in three contains more than one wage
Garner.
This brief collection of figures bespeaks profound
changes that have taken place in American life in
the last generation. 1t also contains important hints
about developments which apt to in the
future
1t would repay earnest study by sociologists and
economists. The average family" today is vastly
different from the family of a few decades ago.
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WHERE THE BLAME RESTS

Congressman George Huddleston of Alabama, in
terviewed at Washington by Rodney butcher, utters
few truths that all critics of congress ought to
bear in mind.
1.-THE responsibility of congress-" says Mr.. Hud-
deston, sis secondary, for the people of the coun-
try primarily responsible for what congress does
Whatever do here is what public opinion requires
of us, and there is no informed coherent, in
telligent public opinion"
This of course, is sef-evident-but we seldom
stop to think about it. We assail congress for it's
purpoSeessness its inef1ciency and its changeabe-
ness, forgetting that congress is a most accurate
reflector of the nations state of mind.
In the last analysis the shortcomings of congress
trace directly back to the ordinary citizen; and
when we wall about congress, we simply are in
dicating ourselves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
IMMEDIATE RELIEF

If the reason for federal relief act at this SEES
sion of congress seemed obscure to any one when
Senators La Toilette and Costgan introduced their
new hill facts developed in the hearings by the
exnerts in closest touch with this problem should
Danish all uncertainty.
Families have been reduced to the basis of
prowling alley cats in Philadelphia" Dr. Jacob
Billikopf executive director of the Federation OF
Jewish charities of Philadelphia, testified.
"Our people are living on daily ratons," said
linton B. Swift of the Family Welfare Association OF
America 'If the system existing here were described
as existing in any other country, Russia for instance
we should be Mortified"
God only knows how the people in the mining
districts of West Virginia are living said Van A.
Bittner representative OF the United Mine Workers
OF America
"Semi-starvation is sweeping across the country
with the ravages of plague in its wake" said Dr.
Sidney E CIoldsten chairman of the joint committee
on unemployment.
Last year. also, conditions were painted as dis
tressing in the extreme when the first La Toilette
Costigan relief bill was pending in congress. But
now
"one-third of all the unemployed now are on
relief" according to H. L. Lurie. quoting survey
made by the American Association Of Social Workers
"More are in need of relief and relief that is given
is reverting to primitive methods.
Fears are expressed that mounting unrest may
begin to assume violent forms Of expression more
frequently if constructive and adequate for
relieving distress do not materialize in the near
future"
Lurie told of some localities where large portions
Of the population are receiving no aid at all, and of
cities where relief needs have increased much as
300 per cent in year while relief funds have in
creased only 80 per cent
Samuel A. Goldsmith, director of Jewish char
tiles of Chicago, declares that the present estimate
of unemployed in that city is 100000"
Nov less than $4,000 families in urgent need are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"WTHAT would you do" inquiries woman eff you
w had five children and worked from daylight
until dark in farm home, with husband who
abused you and the children continually, and allowed
you no penny of the money you had helped to
make?
try to live a Christian life and am too proud
to talk of these things to family friends, but feel
that the breaking point is near"
1t should be. 1t is almost impossible to state
with certainty what one would do in such stua-
ton, but I believe might abandon the Christian
life for a time discard my pride, and put on a
really active rebellion.
If this woman is telling the truth, she obviously
is married to a bully, and bully is comparatively
easy to handle if you know how to go about it.
And for that job one does not need velvet gloves.
The man who is deliberately and needlessly
cruel to wife and children because he happens to
the head of the house and carry the purse, usually
covers up strong inferiority complex with such be-
havior. Probably he feels defeated by life and in
his longing to retalate he becomes domestic ty-
rant.
OUCH men are not without aspect of pathos.
~ They grow thus warped because of some natural
deficiency of character, or from the unhappy cir
cumstances in which they have been reared.
AS for me- I infinitely should prefer being beaten
by an enraged man. stalking all to win a small
measure Of justice, than to 60 year after year.
during small prosecutions, lacking money I had
toiled to earn, and wanting the sympathy and love
that every woman situated desires and deserves.
To postpone the evil hour is only to augment the
trouble. The tyran of today, if permitted indulge
his tempers will become the brute of tomorrow and
no woman who values the happiness of her children
can afford to trust to chance for his reformation.
However, husband who remains deaf to the
voice of and affection is not always deaf to
the feminine battle cry If were in this womans
place, would make mine a veritahle war whoop
that would resound to the deepest recesses of the
rural regions.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

IN Lincoln's Inn Fields, in Lon
Il don, in front of her former
home at No. 3, stands the me-
mortal of Margaret Macdonald,
one of the greatest women OF
England. She was radiant
spirit, lovely in her life, tirelesS
in her labors.
The biography of her by her
husband, the present prime min
lister, is one of the most beautiful
books in our language-to read
which is to renew our faith in
God and man.
The memorial shows her figure,
wrought in bronze, seated with
her arms outstretched, her robes
so falling over her arms as to
suggest a brooding mother-bird,
and underneath the lowering
wings little children nestle and
play.
Nearby is a tablet in tribute to
her, written by her husband, the
last words Of which are: "She
took no rest from doing good" 1t
is quite literally true; she gave
her life in self spending love.
Often, in the dark days OF
World war, I used to stop and
study the memorial and it taught
me many things. Whence comes
the beautiful, brooding, all-giving
love which spends itself for
others, giving time, money,
strength, and even life itself, in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09

he says that we must take into
consideration the facts that ac-
cording to Einstein, mass Of weight
changes with changes in motion.
We also must take into account
the potential energy and mo-
mentum of gravitational fields.
When we do this. he SAYS. it
permits us at once to escape from
the old limitations and gloomy
predictions of classical thermo-
dynamics.
Thus, for example, classical
thermOdynamics demanded a uni
form temperature throughout a
system in equilibrium. Of course.
once this uniformity of temper
allure would be achieved through
out the universe, the universe
would have run down.
But, he points out. that once we
take into account the energy of
gravitational fields, we see that
this uniformity would not be
achieved because of differences in
gravitational fields.
This, he says, makes it pos
slble for processes in the universe
to be reversible.
AS result, he pictures the
universe as appearing to run down
and to expand for a period I'M
til certain stage is reached. when
the process would reverse itself.
The universe then would wind
itself up, so to speak. It would
begin to contract and at the
same time temperatures would be-
gin to go up. This, he believes,
could go on for inhnity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09

I'd like to be masterflh. And,
l. failing that, I wish I could
make up my mind within the
space afforded by tWenty-four
hours or a little less.
Several years ago I decided I
would sail for somewhere. That
seemed a reasonable enough de-
cision at the time. The grippe I
had insisted on lingering. 1 had
what is called a very nasty cough.
People mentioned the matter,
particularly in theaters and other
places Of public assemblage. They
said, you ought to do something
for that cough" I took Syrups and
lozenges and hot lemonades, and
still I coughed without much
diminution.
Things got so bad that finally
I hardly had energy enough to
keep from going to bed by mid
night.
The column was set down wear
lily and in perfunctory fashion. I
gnarled at friends and was coolish
toward acquaintance. Even the
revolution grew a little less i'm
pOrtant in my eyes.
ut won't do me much good" I
thought. mot with this nasty
cough"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
Should F0IIOaU FIGQ

A MEXICAN marines or mis-
IA sionaries or medical men
constantly are landing ON some
foreign shore to restore good
order, but the American dentist
rarely leaves his own fireside, and
then only fer some major city
like Berlin or Paris.
At least, there used to be an
American dentist in Paris, but
the poor fellow probably died of
overwOrk.
I remember once in Shanghai
1 was in sore distress. Friends
in the foreign colony recon-
mended German, a French, and
a British practitioner. The Ger
mans are superb scientists. The
French make lovely wine. Britain
carved out for itself a world en-
pire, but none of these people
should be trusted with anybody'S
teeth.
At last one of the group said:
"Of course, there's Underhill.
He's fugitive from justice. They
want him for murder back in
California. His hand is pretty
shaky because he's an habitual
drunkard. But he is an Amer
lean dentist" And so of course
I went to Underhill.
BY the time you see this I may
be on the high seas. 7 may not.
To ne leaving New York is al
ways an extraction. I need a
little anesthesia.
Copyright. 1888. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09

happy sacrifice for the poor, the
under privileged, and the victims
Of injustice.
Such love embodied itself in the
life CT that lovely woman, and the
world cannot forget her.
CURELY, I thought, such love is
~ not an accident, a freak, a
kind Of sublime folly and futility.
1t must have source, an origin,
reaning, a basis in the nature of
things. What is the fountain
from which flows this stream of
pity which softens and sweetens
the world, seeking to melt its
hardness into gentleness and
beauty and helpfulness?
It must be that there is love in
the heart OF nature, else it would
not be in man.
Thus, when I sought the source
of love in the life Of a good wom-
an, 1 traced it back to the COM
passionate heart of God, who is
our final solace. To what other
source can we trace it?
Here, truly, is the basis Of our
faith that God is more than power,
more than mind, and that there
is a heart of tenderness behind
the hardness of life.
AS often us I stopped to look
at the memorial Of Margare
Macdonald, I had new hope in
my heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times Result of the
contest between the city of Indi-
annapolis and the water company
brings before the thinking public
the admission of weakness of the
peoples government to safeguard
the public against the ravages of
private monopolies.
Presenting this to be a bona fide
contest between the political en-
ployes OF the community on the
one side and representatives of the
utility on the other, it points to
the helpless condition of the peo-
pie Of the city.
Inc community has granted a
monopoly to the city water COM
pany, with the implied under
standing that in return for the
right Of monopoly the water com
pany will supply water to the citi-
zenS at a rate as low as is con-
slstent with fair salaries and a
falr return on the investment.
The citizens did not grant the
4lshI OF monopoly to have the
very life squeezed from them.
Purpose back of monopoly is serv-
ice, not prof1t-making. # this
were not the idea, community
never would grant any individual
or company the right of non
competition.
In this case we have the elected
representatives of the community
claiming that the monopoly is
charging too much and giving too
little service. According to the
state utility commission. the
elected representatives of the citt-
zens OF Indianapolis are in error.
Inc interesting feature of the
me!odrama is the fading picture of
a democracy that was, with the
gradually appearing picture of a
democracy to be.
FREDERICK E. JACKSON.
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So They Say

We're going to demonstrate that
bad luck is nothing but magma
ton. When every one is convinced
that 1888 is going to be a good
luck year, business will pick up and
the depression will be routed
Sidney Strotz, Chicago, president
of the "Anti-Superstition Society,""
People have lost the art of
listening-John Masef1eld, poet
laureate Of England.
There can be no national re-
covery so long as we have 10-cent
corn, scent cotton and 30-cent
wheat. - Representative Marvin
Jones Dem, Tex, chairman
house agricultural committee.
The desires to possess COM
pletely the person one loves makes
much of the unhappiness in family
relationShip-Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, wife of the President
elect.
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Courage and imagination Needed

was not Courage and American prosperity
and they are the only qualities that restore
10 you think the railroad builders
eIS the developers of electricity
phone inquired the business they you think they
were sure OF where they would
Inns country was built by and take
ChaHce, ana IL can be maintained esane nd
oufe-Cnng bets HTecOncilable human progress
When we reach point of absolute safety adventure romance
and experiment will be 0
mere comes time When the must
eoe IoI existence when there middle
of - 0
mere comes time when the
rake all their on one hercean effort
History but the some of which
the very survival of civilization a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-09
Playing Safe Is Perilous Strateqa

AYIN safe has dangerous kind of strategy
l. especially on the of those controlling credit
Money is but phase system and uAs s
purpose only by moving. ~ 0
49, me Cne mas come for us to think of the money
Vne factories neIdS and, above all else the
we nave permitted until thnL
they depend on We have lost production barter
and exchange which O money
can not rum workshops mills hotels mines Office
% the sake OF protecting cash. without
oy is was and always will be the life from
only hope. P-
IL our people were to work there nothing to fear
what put them to work the
through the years? Was playing taking advice from
expert accountants? 9 ~ W