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The Washington times., 1933-04-17

what those first great-grand-
fathers were like but we do
know that they were nearer to
the ape in body and mind than
we are. The proportions of
their bodies were different.
They had longer and more pow
erful arms, they had shorter
legs, heavier torsoS. They could
grip with their toes as a monkey
grips, and they exercised GER
tain muscles and organs of
which we have the now useless
remnants.
Our useless tails are merely
a reminder Of bodies we have
long since outgrown. If we
understand their significance
they may keep us humble, but
otherwise they do not bother us
very much. They do not bother
us nearly so much as some
other hang-overS which we drag
through life with us.
Most Of us enter adult-life
with .hang-overS which are in
finitely more mischievous than
an extra inch or two of spine.
Emotional hang -overS-attitudeS
and ideas which we should have
shed with our baby teeth. And
because Of this, we prolong
through life problems and con.
fusionS which should have been
settled before we were twenty
five.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
SHORT JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

land and the Continent. This
made smuggling a gigantic trade
and Helgoland became head
quarters for the illicit traffic.
When the blockade was sus-
pended the people of Helgoland
established SearbathS that be-
came famous all over the world.
During the short summer sea-
son they made enough money
from the tourist trade to sup
port them throughout the year.
. But in the last part of the
nineteenth century England re-
linquished the island to Ger
many, which brought a complete
metamorphosis in Highlands
daily exiStance.
The kaiser, with an eye to
the future, set about making the
Sea-battered island his most
powerful naval outpost. A huge
naval harbor was constructed
and a great number Of barracks
were set up.
This period came to a tragic
conclusion with the World War.
When that great conflict rocked
the world, the German govern
ment, taking no chances with
the loyalty Of the islanders,
shipped them all to Hamburg
to live out the four years Of the
war in the fatherland.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

Helgoland, an island with a
history as checkered, dramatic
and tragic as any island on the
face of the earth since its dim
beginnings, has the most per-
sistent and relentless Of all nat
ural forces for an enemy. This
is the sea which for untold GEN.
turies has pounded down the
North Sea island to one-fifth Of
its original size.
The hardy folk of Helgoland
have shared the tribulations OF
their island home. Centuries ago
their livelihood depended on a
great white cliff from which q
very fine chalk was Clipped.
This was 200 feet high until a
terrific storm blew it down.
Not only was the chief finan-
cial support of the islanders
thus destroyed but also their
principal protection against
that ole davil sea-"
This occurred early in the
eighteenth century and the men
of Helgoland to sustain them
selves, turned to pilotage, lobster
catching and shooting. A wind
fall came their way in 1909
when the great Napoleon pro-
hibited commerce between Eng
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Once Overs

You fail to mention that
your father could and did use
his toolchest to advantage while
you shirked or went fishing.
If your wife were asked, she
might say that there was no
domestic science department in
her school but she never has
been able to get away with it
as far as cooking for the
family is concerned and you
know she is q fine cook.
Disposition to learn is the
principal thing.
If 60 per cent Of the people
are morons. as some claim,
about so per cent lack the will
and disposition to be known
as efficient, except in getting
out of work-So no sympathy
for you, MIR. Man.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Dodging Work

DOdging Work
There are many things that
you might do around your home
that would improve it. Old
Man.
You are not as inefficient
or as helpless as you would
have it appear.
You don't like "puttering"
about the house or the grounds.
Therefore you don't try to
make desirable changes, but
balk at the simplest things.
You might do considerable
with a hammer, a saw and
screw driver.
Instead you pay to have it
done or let it go undohe.
You are fond of making the
excuse that in your school days
there was no manual training
department.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

During the first twenty or
twenty-five years Of life we
should get our bearings.
We should come to under
stand and should establish our
proper relationship to society.
Children have no idea of
their proper relationship to
society. They hardly know
that the rest Of the world
exists. They have the view
point of animals and savages.
They think of themselves. They
are the slaves of their own
feelings.
Such egotism is natural and
right in children; it is neces-
sary for their growth. But it
should pass with childhood.
Gradually the child's viewpoint
should broaden until ne sees
and feels other needs besides
his own; until he is able to
bear disappointment and lone
illness and irritation and loss
as a grown man.
But some people never &C.
quire grown-up minds. Their
bodies mature, but their minds
remain unripe. They enter
life as some babies enter life,
with hangover tails - silly,
waggy tails Of the emotion.
They still fly into RACES If
they are thwarted.
They boast and strut like
children.
They are governed by unrea-
sonable fears and prejudices.
They cling feverishly to love
as a child clings to it's mothers
apron.
They clamor for happiness
and refuse to do their work
properly if it is denied them.
All these are the reactions of
children. They are hang-overs
from baby attitudes. They are,
if we could but realize it, as
silly as human tails.
"Infantilism," psychoanalysts
call such hang-overs.
Critics say that we Ameri.
cans, as a race, suffer from in
fantiliSm.
DO YOU SUFFER FROM
IT?
I do. That's why I can write
such a mean article about it.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

speedily de-
veloped into
an ample tail
had they been
b orn some
m ions Of
years ago.
These tiny
t W e n t i e t h
century tails
are rea ally
h g. n go v erS
from our saw
age gr e a t.
grandfather'S
e q uip ment.
We do not
know exactly
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
MAYBE I'M WRONG!
By John P. Medbury

Luv Clayton went into a
Times SQUARE restaurant the
other morning for breakfast
and ordered eggs. After wait
ing for an hour he called the
manager and explained to him
that he only wanted he eggs
boiled; not hatch d.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
COnnubial Casualties

A Long Island woman is
suing her husband for divorce
on the grounds of literary
cruelty. She says he drives
the car so fast she doesn't get
a chance to read half the bill
boards.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

According to George Mat
tuck, the theatrical attorney, a
divorce only gives a man tenn.
porary relief. He usually gets
married again.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

good one, Schnozzle Durante
claims that it's also news
when a horse falls off the
Prince of Wales.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

Joe Goodwin, the song writer,
has just written a new num-
ber called That's T.-Tarts Wor-
rying Me Now" and says he
can't get anybody to take it
off his hands.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
HANGOVER Tails

Some people are born with
tails. Not long curly tails like
Fido's, but a small elongation
Of the spine which would have
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Ace of CadS

Ace of CadS
The fellow who hates radios
so much that he has six Of them
in his Riverside Drive apart
ment and keeps them all turned
off at once.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Take It or Leave It

Take 1t or Leave 1t
Things are so tough that sew.
eral office building janitresSes
are now taking in floors to
scrub at home.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Social Accomplishments

Social Accomplishments
The house detective in a
certain Park Avenue hotel is
the most resourceful man in
the industry. When he wants
to disguise himself quickly,
he just jerks off his toupee,
rolls it up and wears it under
his nose like a moustache.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
American TRAGEDIES

There's a pretty little model
down in Greenwich Village who
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

Among the Illiterati
While that saying about the
man biting a dog may be a
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
FL|ERK|DNAPED,
HIS NOTE SAYS

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 10
G.N.SO Bride of only month,
Mrs. Mary Westphal, SO, today
declared she could not under
stand a note found by detectives
near Chicago in which her huS-
band, Harold, 26, a Navy air.
plane pilot, wrote he had been
kidnapped and was being held for
ransom.
Westphal, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Westphal, of Ell Monte,
near Los Angeles, a first class
petty officer at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, has been missing
since Friday. Police were not
notified until Chicago detectives
informed authorities here Of the
finding of the note ScraWled on
the back of an envelope on a
road near there.
Mrs. Westphal said her hus-
band may have been robbed, as
he was carrying about $125 with
him at the time. She said Chi
cago detectives told her the note
hinted certain unnamed persons
were trying to make a ''deserter
out of her husband.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
PRICE CLAUSES
IN CODE SPLIT
GROCERS
Chains Plea for Exemption
From Antirebate Section
Starts New Fight
BY International News Service

Independent grocers and food
dealers appearing before board
of Federal farm adjustment eX-
perts today protested vigorously
against efforts of the chain stores
to amend the proposed master
code for their industry by exempt
ing unbranded merchandise from
the antirebate revision.
Members of the Farm Admins
tration explained the exemptions
would permit price concessions on
bulk food and perishable COM
modities amounting in value to
$6,000,000 annually.
Price-fixing Fought
While the independents clashed
with the chain store representa-
tives in the fight over rebates and
secret price concessions, the larger
issue Of indirect price fixing on
food products running far into
the billions of dollars in annual
volume remained unsettled.
This price control as provided
in the proposed code would pro-
hibit wholesalers or manufactur-
ers from selling goods to retailers
at less than 21a per cent mark
up; and at the same time would
establish a minimum retail mark
up of 71a per cent.
Blow to Consumers Seen
Some of the Administration
economists are unalterably op-
posed to this provision, claiming
it would boost food prices to con-
sumers by a tremendous annual
total at a time when increasing
living costs already present Seri-
GUS problem to the masses OF the
people.
Recovery Administrato Hugh S.
Johnson today continued to OBJ
serve the price-fixing problem
raised by the code.
He conferred with the experts
who have opposed the "stop loss"
provisions and inquired further
into their proposed plan to end
cut-throat price competition in
the retail field with substitute
provisions that do not fix price
minimumS.
Oil Price Boost PrObed
The consumers board, headed
by Mrs. Mary Hartman Rumsey,
also charged that the prospects
of getting prices fixed under the
oil code, which contains price
management provisions not yet
applied, had led the oil industry
to jack up prices so that an
additional annual burden of $780,
100000 had been piled on con-
sumerS since June /.
In a letter to Secretary of the
Interior IckeS she pointed out
that this gigantic gouging cam
paign had gone on while the oil
industry had not increased wages
in any corresponding degree. She
said the annual payroll of the
industry probably had not been
increased in this period by as
much as $125 100000.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
MARINES SAIL;
BOUND SOUTH.

NORFOLK, Va, Oct. 10 G.N.
Battalion of United States
Marines left the naval base to-
day aboard the trading ship Wyo-
ming for Southern waters, where
they will be held in readiness
for a quick dash to Cuba should
events threaten the lives Of
American nationals.
The Wyoming headed to sea
with instructions to proceed to-
ward Florida waters but without
definite destination. The plan
is to have an adequate force OF
Marines within a few hours Of
Cuba in case internal disorders
should necessitate the evacuation
of Americans.
Although the Navy Department
maintains the Wyoming is on q
training cruise" it was learned
she probably will head for the
Dry Tortugas, off the Florida
coast.
The recently modernized battle
ship New Mexico, which forms
part of the American naval
armada in and around Cuban
waters, has been standing by at
Dry Tortugas for some time.
Officials said the Wyoming
might" go there to land Sup
plies" for the New Mexico.
Numbering approximately $40,
the Marines aboard the wyoming
represent the second battalion Of
the Seventh Regiment.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
|NSULL INSISTS
ON INNOCENCE

ATHENS. Oct. 10 G.N.sO.-Re-
iterting his conviction he again
will defeat extradition to the
United States, Samuel insult, for
mer Chicago utilities magnate, to-
day declared himself innocent of
fraud. He told International News
Service:
after two months spent in
securing the records of my two
companies, the authorities found
no evidence of personal financial
irregularity. The charges are
merely a technical infringement
of American law, not necessarily
Greek law"
insult said he 'liked" Athens
and was planning to take up
permanent residence if he de-
feats the new extradition pro-
ceedings launched following his
indictment by a Federal grand
jury in Chicago on charges of
violating the Federal bankruptcy
laws.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
Hospitals of District Take No Chances
On Mix Up of Newborn Babies
Footprinting and Bead
Systems Both
Used Here

Recently, in Spain, mother
and her daughter gave birth to
children in the same hospital on
the same day and the babies were
mixed up when a nurse forgot
how she had placed them in
their cribs. The story attracted
the attention of the world.
But this couldn't happen in
Washington, for the Columbia
Hospital for Women uses prac-
tically foolproof system OF foot
printing newborn babies and
fingerprinting their mothers a
few minutes after birth, which has
removed the possibility of switch
ing of babies.
Miss Josephine Kinsey, super
intendent of nurses, and Miss
Ethel Morse, delivery room super
visor, emphasized that the baby
is not taken from the delivery
room until a beaded necklace or
wristlet is fastened in place.
The beads spell the child's name
and are sealed with lead. Girls
wear pink beads and boys blue,
The baby's footprints and the
mothers fingerprints are i'm
pressed on the same record, which
becomes a permanent hospital re-
port.
The baby's footprints also are
put on a certificate issued to the
mother, and this record has been
used in lieu of birth certificates
in entering children at school,
Miss Kinsey said.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
500 Tons of Coal
DESTROYED by Fire

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10 G.N.S).
Sabotage and incendiarism struck
two blows, one Intellectual, in the
bituminous coal strike in western
Pennsylvania today.
At McKees Rocks, fire de-
stroyed the tipple of the Ar
buckle Mine of the Miller Coal
and Coke Company and 500 tons
of coal, with loss estimated at
$4,000.
At Isabella, south of here, an
attempt to wreck a northbound
6O-car train, heavily laden with
West Virginia coal, was fruStrat-
ed by the keen eyes of the en-
gineer, who jammed on the
brakes as the train bore down on
a railroad-tie barrier after round
ing a curve.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
CREDIT DETAILS
NEARLY READY
INV international News Service

BY International News Service
President Roosevelt put the
finishing touches to his new
credit and finance program to-
day in a series of conferences
with Comptroller of the Currency
j. F. T. O'Ccnnor and other
finance experts.
George L. Harrison, governor
of the New York Federal Reserve
Bank, was here, comforting with
Treasury experts and was ex-
pected to see the President.
Announcement Of details OF the
new plan was expected tomor-
row. Mr.. Roosevelt has had the
program in mind for more than
a month. While in New York
last week, he called in Secretary
of the Treasury Woodin, Harri'
son, and Henry Bruere, president
of the Bowery Savings Bank Of
New York. whom he has named
liaison officer for the credit
agencies of the Administration.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
ADELE ASTA|RE
LOSES INFANT

LONDON, Oct. 10 GN.s).-A
daughter born Sunday at Lismore
Castle to Lady Charles Cavendish,
the former Adele Astaire, died
after only three hours of life, it
was learned today.
The former musical comedy
star, who delighted audiences on
both sides of the Atlantic, married
Lord Charles Cavendish on May
9, 1892, abandoning her stage
caerer.
Previously Miss Astaire, who
was born in Omaha, Neb., had
never appeared on the stage with
out her brother and dancing
partner, Fred, with whom she
climbed to acclaim from the ranks
of vaudeville.
During the past social season in
London, she won wide popularity
in exclusive society circles.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
$4,000, 900 Machine
Tool Suit Started

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 10
G.N.SD.-Hearing of witnesses in
the $s,oOo,OOO suit of the Baush
Machine Tool Company, of
Springfield, Mass, against the
Aluminium Corporation of Amer
lea was to begin today before
Judge Carroll C. Hincks and a
jury in Federal Court here. The
Baush suit charges a monopoly
price control by the defendant
corporation brought it heavy
losses.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
RED FLAME FLARES HERE
Girl Labor Organizer
Wins Applause at
Textile Hearing
BY International News Service


Official Washington today took
cognizance of Ann Burlak, the
''Red Flame" of New Jersey, who
Is in the Capital as head of a
delegation of striking silk textile
workers.
This 23-year-old woman claims
10 be the youngest labor execu-
tive in America. She is secretary
Of the National Textile Workers
Union, a leftwing organization
with a membership approaching
10000.
Led Hunger March
The Red Flame" first visited
Washington during the Hoover
administration, as one of the
leaders of a hunger march. Po-
lice carted her bodily into a
patrol wagon, following a melee
in front of the Executive Offices.
She was taken to police head
quarters but later released.
Today she received many con-
gratulations for a speech de-
livered in the crowded assembly
room Of the Commerce Building
before the NRA. At the close of
this speech, in which she warned
that the silk workers would "de-
eide for themselves what condi-
tions to accept" in settlement Of
their strike, she was accorded an
ovation. Textile manufacturers
Joined in the applause.
Arrested Many Times
Miss Burlak said today:
II was born in Pennsylvania
and reared in the Bethlehem
ana Allentown districts. ]
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
Trinity Girl GiUen
Catholic Scholarship

Miss Eileen McGrath, a grad,
uate this year of Trinity College,
has been awarded one of the two
first scholarships for women ever
offered by the graduate school of
a Catholic college or university
The other winner is Miss Marea
O'Connor, of Springfield, Mass,
Miss O'Connor also is a 1888
graduate of Trinity.
The scholarships were founded
by the Catholic Daughters of
America at their convention in
Colorado Springs in July, and
each of the winners will receive
$500. Miss McGrath will study
Latin and Miss O'Connor plans
to study biology.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
DR.. LOWdern,iLk Gets
Forest Service Post

BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 10.
DR.. Walter Lowdermilk, research
expert at the Federal Forestry
Experimentation Station on the
University of California campus,
here, left today for Washington.
D. c., to become the vice direc-
tor Of the Federal Bureau Of
Erosion Control.
DR.. Lowdermilk said his first
project will be to vegetate arid
lands in the New Mexico Navajo
Indian reservation. He estimated
that $1,000.000 would be put to
use there.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
CHIEFS
SCAN PLAN To
OPEN BANKS
Billion and a Half Loan From
R. F. C. Expected to Free
Billion in Deposits
BY International News Service

ny lHLeFnhtlOnal news service
Governors of the Federal Re.
serve Banks gathered here today
for their fall session were en-
pected to go into the banking
situation in detail with relation
to release of deposits of closed
institutions, to expedite the res
opening of banks and other eco.
nomic subjects.
Reserve officials were working
in cooperation with the Treasury,
which is drafting an Administers
ton proposal for the formation
of gigantic corporation that
would make loans to closed banks
on the security of slow-moving
assets in order that more than q
billion in deposits may be re-
leased.
Loan of $1,5OO,OOO,OOO
The plan contemplated a loan
of about $1,500,000,000 from the
R. F.. C. to the new corporation.
It was expected that recon-
mendation for formation of the
corporation would go to Prest"
dent Roosevelt soon.
The governors also considered
the monetary situation and de.
tails of operations of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Questions of currency stabilization
and a permanent gold policy are
closely linked with the converse.
tions between the United States
and Great Britain relative to the
revision of the foreign debt agree.
ment
Another important question was
the refunding of the Fourth Lib
erty Loan of more than $6,000r
600 900, which is callable October
IS.
Refinancing Discussed
It was expected the reserve gov.
ernors would give the Treasury Q
complete picture of the situation
as to the possibility of a success.
full refinancing of the 414s.
The governors were more optP
mistic as to business progress
than they were at their last gath
ering.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
BARR|ERSHAKEN
AS MINERS CO
BACK To JOBS
Two Conferences Expected to
Clear Away Obstacles in
8ituminous Region

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10 Q.N.S0
Shattering of the captive mine
barrier thrown athWart the path
of industrial peace in the west
ern Pennsylvania steel and coal
districts was predicted freely to-
day as thousands of steel and
bituminous coal workers returned
to their jobs.
Two conferences, held simul-
taneously, were expected to decide
the issue. One will be held in
Pittsburgh between Philip Muir
ray, international vice president
of the United Mine Workers of
America, and Thomas Moses,
president of the H. C. Frick Coke
Company, in whose mines was
Graded the walkout that paralyzed
the entire bituminous mining re-
gion.
Meeting Slated in N. Y.
The other meeting was slated
for New York, where representa-
tives of steel companies owning
captive mines were to meet at
the main offices of the United
States Steel Corporation to de-
eide how far they would go in
comforting with union leaders.
Deep mystery shrouded the New
York meeting. George Laughlin,
jr., of the Mammoth Jones and
Laughlin Steel Company, board
ed train for New York last
night. Before leaving, he said:
80. I'm all mixed up-We all.
"I'm all mixed up-we all
are"
To Settle Dispute
The Murray-Moses conference
was expected to settle the
"check-off" controversy between
union leaders and steel company
incorporating subsidiaries. Ac
ceptance of the check-off by the
steel companies is tantamount to
union recognition, since the com
panies would be bound to deduct
mine union dues from the pay
envelopes of union miners and
turn the funds directly over to
the union treasury.
Moses wired Murray last night
he was willing to open negotia
tions-a move practically de-
manded by President Roosevelt
and Gen. Hugh S. johnson, NRA
administrator.
The Washington times., 1933-10-10
Tear Gas Bombs Hurled
At Steel Mill Crowd

WEIRTON, w. Va, Oct. II Il.
N.SO. State police hurled a half
dozen tear-gas bombs into a
crowd of several thousand strikers
and spectators outside the Weir
ton Steel Company mills today as
the steel company attempted to
reopen it's plants after weeks of
idlenesS.
The crowd, jeering the troopers,
scurried away but re-former again
and began to return.
About 200 workmen entered the
mill gates today.