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The Washington times., 1933-09-29
D, {. JEWS JOIN
BOYCOTT Of
NAz|GOODS
Committee Organized Here to
Push Campaign; Mass
Meeting Planned

Thoroughly aroused at Nazi
Germany'S treatment Of their CO
religionists, Washington Jews to-
day. on the eve Of their Day Of
Atonement, are preparing to
launch an intensive boycott
against goods manufactured IN
Germany.
Both Jews and nonJews will be
asked to join the movement and
refuse any article bearing the
stamp made in Germany" Made
in Saxony" or Made in Bavaria.
Committee Organized
A local boycott committee,
which will work in collaboration
with the American Society for the
Defense of Jewish Rights, al
ready has been organized and is
prepared to take active steps to
combat the purchase of German
made articles.
Members of the Argo Lodge of
the B'nai Birth, one of the
largest Jewish fraternal organiza-
tions, at a mass meeting earlier in
the week, unanimously indorSed a
resolution calling for the boycott.
Untermyer Heads Move
Samuel Untermyer, noted New
York lawyer, is head Of the ma
tional movement, and Lawrence
Gichner, of this city, is head of
the local committee, which will
call a mass meeting soon to pub
licize the movement and explain
plans for its functioning.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
30 Men Get Jobs
On Animal Farm

Work of clearing land on the
animal husbandry farm, operated
by the Federal Government at
Beltsville, Md, is being done by
men employed through the re-
sources of the Hyattsville office of
National Unemployment Service.
Thirty-one men were placed
yesterday at the farm by T. j.
Camfield, manager of the employ
ment office. Mr.. Camfield ex-
poets to give Al more men jobs
there on Monday.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
SQUIRREL, DOVE
SEASON ENDS

The open season on squirrels
and doves in Virginia will close
at sundown tomorrow and the
season will be closed on all game
except foxes and nighthunting
game until November Is when the
upland and wildfowl season will
open.
The Virginia Game Commits
sion has abandoned the two rest
days a week which have been in
effect on the Potomac River
during the past two years as
Virginia hunters were at a dis
advantage when Maryland had
no rest days.
In order to more rigidly en-
force the game lays in Fairfax
county, former Policeman Arthur
Mills has been appointed war
den for that county. He will
assist Warden Harry johnson on
the Potomac River also.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
S. p. Thomas Named
To Head Firemen

Samuel P. Thomas was last
night elected president Of the
Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment. Spencer j. H. Brown
was reelected chief.
Others elected were Robert Mil
Ter, vice president; Robert Cuff,
secretary; Leon Carroll, treasurer,
and Herbert Harding, sergeant-at-
arms. F.. A. Thomas, Brown,
Thomas Hyde, A. D. Farquhar and
Maurice StablSr were named to
the executive COMMITTEES. l
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
Maryland Facing
Loss of S3.564.527

BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 30.
The fate of $3,564,527 Of public
works funds allotted for road
building in Maryland has become
uncertain following a decision Of
the special board Of public works
in Washington to withdraw if pos
sible such funds from States
which have been dilatory in us
ing them.
Headed by Secretary of the In
terror IckeS, the special board
criticized States which have not
yet begun construction under the
public works grants. Fourteen
States are involved, and the
money tied up amounts to $780,.
100000,
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
Seeks $4,000 Damages
For Auto Injuries

Through Attorney Albert Bouic,
Franklin P. Henley entered suit
for $4,000 damages against Marie
Bonnelyoke in Rockville Circuit
Court yesterday.
Henley charges that on Febru-
ary 18, he was driving on the Old
Georgetown Road when the Bon
nelyoke car crashed into his in
flicting severe damages to the ma
chine and permanent injuries to
himself.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
SLAYER To DIE
IN CAS- ROOM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
Sept. 20 Q.N.S3.-Walter r. Rep
pin, 18, of Newark, N. j., today
faced sentence of death in the
lethal gas chamber at the Colo
RADIO State penitentiary.
A jury here decided that Rep
pin should die after he pleaded
guilty to the murder of Vincent
Regan, a Colorado Springs taxi
cab driver, during holdup.
Reppin was the first to be
sentenced to death in the new
gas chamber, installed after the
last session of the State legisla-
ture voted to use gas instead Of
the moose,
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
FAMILY BEAUTIES

MEDFORD, Mass. G.N.S0.-It
seems to run in the Mafera fam
ily-this beauty business. Ca
milla M. Mafera, IS, won the
title of miss Beaver Lake" at
Derry, N. H., and Marilyn, 8, her
sister, was given the title Little
Miss Comeau Beach"
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
Santiago in Panic
ODer Earth Shock

SANTIAGO, Cuba, Sept. 20
G.N.S0.-A strong earthquake
shock of from six to eight
seconds duration threw the popu.
lace Of Santiago into panic to-
day. This city was the scene of
a disastrous quake, taking a
heavy toll of lives, two years ago.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29

William F. Bleakley, before whom
the annulment case is being tried.
Mrs. Harrington says that Mrs
Harris, she is sure, would not
claim to have been married while
at the school. Because, says the
school principal:
Betty was and is the dearest
girl. We were very fond of her.
/ can't imagine how the story
that she was married while at
school here can have arisen. It
would have been imnOssible.S
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
Chaotic Housing
The City's Departments

Construction of the municipal CENTER long held allegiance
has ceased to be derablity It has become necessity
The housing of the departments of the local has
become disgrace.
Years ago these departments outgrew the District Building
and spread rented space and into buildings which have
been condemned worthless
Now the housing is chaotic Scarcely anyone knows off
hand particular of the local government to
be found And when is found is generally in quarters that
far from adequate
The city has of than 900 in
site upon which construct adequate center for its govern
mental activities.
Plans have been drawn for erecting upon that site sruc
which estimated will cost approximately $200o0000
That too much money for the city to spend as munich
paity not too much for the Capital of the Nation
project dictated by the Nation when less imposing
and less project would have fficed for local needs
In view Of this disparity between the local needs and the
tona plans is difficult understand when Federal officials
remain deaf to the plea for assistance in carrying the
project.
depletion Senator King chairman of the Senate District Com
ee preparing to make final plea to obtain assistance
from that agency It to be hoped that he will be able to make
the Administration see the light
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
"See America First"
And Save Money

One result of the dollars drop-and good one-is that it
will induce many Americans who don know America get
acquainted with it.
It is time that they did,
Because of value of the dollar of the pound
franc the cost of living Europe has almost doubled
as American visitors concerned.
On the other hand the cost of taking trip the United
States has risen and many has been reduced
Thus it would appear that American transport lines and
American resorts will cash in substantially the tourist bus
mess which used to 60 to Europe.
And it is big business
Last year. American tourists in Europe spent nearly $1
100000
In 1881 they spent nearly s2oooOoooo and in 1880 more
than $3000O0OOO
Though this shows falling off, the amount turn
to Europe is still substantial
Spending it here, whatever the ultimate effect will
tainy be immediate boon to many sections of the United
States.
It will also be permanent boon to many thousands Of
Americans who have taken the time their country
a. it should be
It Is worth seeing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
Financial Justice
For City and Nation

The Federal has definite and fixed stake in
the District of Columbia
washingtonians that constantly dnned into their
whenever they wish to proceed in direction which
might be contrary the interests of the people Of all the
United States
Washingtonians believe that dctum and accept it. They
realize that the National Capital here because of the will
Of the people of the nation that it has been brought to its
present imposing beauty because of the will Of all the people
Washing realize that while they live here and have
active community interest that interest must be subordnaed to
the will of all the people,
This situation with which the thinking Washingtonian
quarre frequently used to the disadvantage Of the local
resident and taxpayer.
It is heartenng therefore that Senator Elmer Thomas chair
man District subcommittee of the Senate Committee
Appropriations proposes the fight to have the
ton deal Justly with its Capital in the matter Of financing
Senator Thomas has announced that he is opening negota
lions with the House Committee Appropriations looking
toward the establishment of fixed percentage method
Of computing the Federal Governments obligation toward
maintenance and development Of the District
The umpsum method of determining the Federal Govern
ment share in the expenses Of the District unsatisfactory
both to the Nation and the residents Of the Capital
It places Washingtonians in the role of mendicants and
makes the determination of the to be fixed subject
for annual battle between the residents and the two houses
Of Congress.
The fight this figure overshadows all other local leg
ative problems and frequently colors the thinking Of Con
gress those legislative problems which should be solved in
impartial and methodica manner.
Some members of Congress have their ire aroused by this
annual dispute that through the OF the session they
trampe upon the ordinary petitions and rights of the city
Inc suoJect OF scal reaIon between tne TWO
Is not insoluble.
It can elements and satisfactorily adjusted
This is what Senator Thomas proposes to do
There certain things required of Washington not be-
it municipality but because is the seat Of the
National Government.
There certain things Of which Washington is deprived
for the
Certainly the minds of Congress ascertain just what
these things and determine what the citizens Of Washing
should pay and what the citizens of the nation should
Formerly Congress held that the nation responsible for
fifty cent of the of the Federal CITY, Later this
changed to forty per cent
More recently it has shifted to the umpsum figure which
has dropped below twenty per cent.
Somewhere in the midst of all these figures there is
which is just
is to be hoped that under Senator Thomas leadership
It will be found.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

surely there are certain things
we can't be-and wouldn't like
being if we could.
Do you know what those
things are, in your own life?
Do you know your own capaci-
ties or limitations? Or have
you gone through life follow
ing one will-o'- the-wisp per-
sonality after the other? De-
Gliding one day to be a Mae
West or Greta Garbo-the
next to be a Janet Gaynor or
a Lillian Gish? Or, if you're
a man seeing yourself alter
nately as sailor, hobo, aviator,
explorer, big = business man,
racketeer?
That's what you've really
done, isn't it? And then you
wondered why you we're never
satisfied with your life" But
the simple truth was-YOU
never had any life. YOU never
were any special person. You
were just a miscellaneous lot
of impulses, some of which ex-
pressed your true self and your
real ability-but the majority
of which fitted you as poorly
as tail feathers fit a turtle.
Then there's that second
question " WHAT DO YOU
WANT?
But the answer to that is
the same as the answer to the
first question. You haven't
known what you wanted any
more than you've known what
you are. You had new wants
with each new personality.
And so you drifted along-get-
ting exactly nowhere.
Unhappy? Of course you
we're. But you kept hoping
that something would turn up
that a chance would come
some day and you'd find your
place in life"
But the chance has never
come. And it never will come.
We don't FIND our place in
life-We MAKE it. We make
it by deciding WHAT WE ARE
AND WHAT WE WANT, then
eliminating all the other wish
roles and sticking to that one
program.
Can you be settled and
happy? Sure you can-IF YOU
REALLY WANT TO BE AND
WILL WORK AT THE JOB.
You have what it takes. But
will you use it? Or can't
you cut out your pipe dreams?
Copyright 1893. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27

The American Red Cross,
facing it's greatest crisis since
the war, calls for new members,
seeks new funds. What a mag
nificent roll-call Of service to
humanity is that of the Red
Cross! Let me sketch three
scenes in the great panorama
of its service.
The first scene-those lovely
hills of Lombardy, near Garda.
1t is true three o'clock of the
morning of Friday, June IA,
1859. Through the groves OF
olive in the silvery moonlight
comes the rush of martial men.
The allied armies of Victor
Emmanue's Sardinia and Ma
poleon the Thirds. France
move against the Austrians. A
young man, a Swiss tourist,
looks down on the battlefield.
He speaks to us:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
Governors of States Have
Leadership Opportunity
Blu James T. Williams. Jr.'

units of government than they
require and to support many
more local officials than are
needed for the effective per-
Torrance of local services.
In those few States where the
people have begun to meet this
challenge and embrace this op-
portunity they have been en-
abled to do so through the pow
erful leadership of strong gov
errors, like Gardner of North
Carolina, Byrd of Virginia, and
Winant of New Hampshire.
These are among the States
which have recently modernized
their machinery of government
by eliminating waste, by simpli'
flying administration and by
making government responsive
to the public will, where for
merly it was subservient to the
manipulation of special inter
ests and the greed and dictation
of an unnecessary horde of local
politicians feeding at the public
trough.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
office Stripped

1.-THE State executive Is stOW-
~ struggling upw0yd into the
same position of leadership
that has already been rOOn by
the President. For many gen.
eyations the governor WGs
mere fisurchead, because in
Colonial days he had been the
ERoyoI ExecutiUe' and, as SUCH
the ,..eons of royal oppression
and tyranny.
"When the Colonies became
States in the Revolution, they
Immediately stripped the office
Of its real authority and left
it that curious anomaly which
it has since remained until the
most recent ye0rS-0 post OF
much Onor but little poWer."
In the last few decades ex-
tensive changes in business con-
ditions have caused the activi-
ties of the several States to
increase as rapidly as those Of
the Federal Union.
The American people have
long realized the truth Of what
Calvin Coolidge said when he
was Vice President-that under
the American system of govern
ment there is no substitute for
leadership III the presidency
In recent years, the people
have come more and more to
understand that leadership in
the office of governor is no less
essential to the successful oper-
alton Of government within the
several States.
In the field Of State govern
ment, the American people face
today a challenge and an OPP
portunity. The challenge is to
be found in an obsolete system
Of State government which
taxes the people to pay for
the upkeep Of many more local
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
Today's Crisis

Spring of 1927 and Valley Of
the Mississippi. Old Man River
on rampage, with his wild
sons, Ohio, Missouri, Red and
Arkansas. From Cairo to
Natchez to New Orleans, levees
crumbling in a thousand breaks.
Six hundred and fifty thousand
people homeless and hungry.
There is nothing to stop water
once it has broken its barriers
nothing. Had it not been for
the American Red Cross thou
sands of the great horde Of
refugees would have been
dragged down by the yellow
monster.
And it was not enough to
rescue 100000 human beings.
1t was necessary to get them
back to their homes and their
farms, and help them start life
anew. And this was what the
American Red Cross did in
those terrible days down in the
Mississippi Valley.
But there was never such
widespread need for the Amer.
lean Red Cross, never such q
visitation of flood, fire, tornado,
earthquake and general human
misery, as have come upon us
in this year of great economic
stress, when unkind nature
strikes at millions already in
need of bread and a roof.
copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
People Awaking

North Carolina, Virginia and
New Hampshire have reor'
ganized their governments IN
the light of facts and recommen'
dations developed by an indie
pendent survey made by COM
petent experts. Such a survey
of Iowa has just been completed
and Governor Herring is sub
hitting to the legislature his
recommendations for reorganl'
cation, based upon the facts de-
veloped by the survey.
The reason why a survey IN
the State of Alabama was not
followed by similar reorganlza-
ton was because there was no
Gardner, Winant, or Byrd in
the office of governor to raise
up leadership powerful enough
to command the support OF an
organized and informed public
sentiment. Alabama will pres
emily draft such a man for gov
ernor and support his leader
ship.
The reason why the Federal
Government is today bearing
the whole burden Of relief work
in several States of the Union
is because the people of those
States are without the leader
ship of a governor worthy Of
the great office it ought to be
and the great office it will be-
come in the years ahead. For
in State after state, the people
are waking up to the fact that
what the President is to the Fed
eral Union the governors can
be to the several States.
Copyright, 1898, The Washington Times
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
At Solferino

"Three hundred thousand
men are standing face to face.
The line of battle is ten miles
long. Already the corps are
moving. On oil sides bugles
are playing the charge and
the drums are sounding. The
French cavalry filings itself on
the Austrian cavalry. Uhl0ns
and Huss0rs slash fuviously at
each other with their sWords.
The battlefield is Everywhere
covered with corpses of men
and horses. They appear as
if SCUM along the roads and
in the hollows, the thickets
and fields"
A sensation gripped the heart
of that onlooker, Jean Henri
Dunant. It was horror-stark
and frightening - over mans
inhumanity to man.
But, to his immortal honor,
Jean Dunant went from the
hill of SOlterlno, with lCS 4U,UUU
dead, into the village Of Cas-
tiglioni. With an eloquence that
the countryside had not known
since Peter the Hermit, he ex-
horted the peasant women and
girls to return with him to the
battlefield to care for the dy-
ing. For three days Dunant
and his little band ministered
to the wounded, the Italian
women treating the Austrians
along with their own country
men and the French.
Dunant wrote his story for
the world. Mankind took up
his cause. And one year after
Solferino, and because of SOL
ferino, the Red Cross began.
It is the sixth of December,
1917. The quaint little city of
Halifax is wrapped in it's win
ter blanket of snow. Few per-
sons are abroad in the streets,
for a gale howls and the streets
are sheeted with ice. Many OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27

miserably, if it was possible for
any man to feel settled and
happy.
Yes, it is. If you could be
settled and happy.
WHAT ARE YOU?
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
These two questions hold the
secret of your life's success or
failure?
What are you? What sort Of
a person? Have you ever tried
to discover? Chances are you
haven't. Instead of thinking
what sort of a person you really
are, you've spent your time in
thinking about what sort of a
person you'd like to be.
When you were little tad,
you spent hours in day dream
ing, imagining yourself in diff
ferent roles. You were a po-
liceman-or a beautiful actress
or a famous fighter-or a
dancer-scores of roles. And,
as a child, you never doubted
your perfect ability to fill any
Of them.
Then, later on, you realized
that mightn't be so easy. But
still you were sure that you
might be almost anything you
pleased IF you could get the
breaks" Meaning what? Mean
ing that you'd have to have
money, and pull, and the right
friends, and maybe a chance
to study. But, given these helps,
you could be what you wished.
But you we're wrong. We
cant be whatever we wish to
be" even if we have the
breaks" We have, it is true,
many sides to our natures. We
are attracted by widely differ
ent personalities. We enjoy
picturings ourselves in those
roles But we couldn't actually
LIVE those roles.
For there are certain def
mite limits within each one of
us. There are certain things
we can be-certain things we'd
enjoy being and could sue
coed In being. And just as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
The Human Side of the News
Blu EdUin C.. Hill

the men Of Halifax are over
seas, in the trenches around
Ypres and ArraS. Indoors, the
children are thinking of the
coming Christmas-t tide, but the
wives and mothers are thinking
of the bitter cold and the war
across the sea.
Out in Halifax Harbor the
captain of the French ship,
Mont Blanc, blasts his warn.
ing whistle three times to the
Norwegian steamship limo, but
the signal is disregarded and
the ships crash, head-on. A roar,
vast. appalling, indescribable
in words, like the disruption Of
a mountain, or the crack Of
doom-this explosion of 5000
tons Of munitions.
In an instant 1900 men, WON.
en- and children, in their homes
on land, dead or dying. Four
thousand others injured. Five
hundred persons blinded. FIT.
teen hundred homes destroyed
and 10000 grief-crazed human
beings homeless and destitute.
And within IL hours we, the
people, through our ever-ready
agent, the American Red Cross,
had loaded and dispatched
whole trains with clothes, food
and medical supplies for those
people. Doctors and nurses by
the hundreds were modified.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27

"Who's Who" among the gov
ernors of the 48 States of the
Union is question in which
millions of Americans, North,
East, South and West, are going
to take an increasing interest
in the years just ahead.
This interest in the office OF
governor will grow as the people
come to realize their de-
pendence upon the power OF
the leadership of the governor
for the kind of government
they get within their respective
States and communities.
In the year before the United
States entered the great war, a
distinguished student Of the
American Government and its
work made this prediction:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27

order and neatnesS, husbands
and wives dress for dinner,
EVERY day, and all the meals
are social ceremonies.
That may be the ideal home
for IS out of a hundred people.
But it's rather sad to think Of
a home" in which "dunking"
would be regarded as a major
crime and where no woman
could come down to dinner on
a hot August evening in her
lowered house-pajamas.
Husbands can be trained to
almost anything" says Miss
Borden and then tells how to
discipline" your husband.
Well, personally, I should be
bored to death with that sort
OF nome; so would any man
I'd like. Most men hate a
picky woman or a finicky
woman: and lots of men are
vagabonds at heart, and prefer
a wife with a touch of Bohe-
mianism in her nature. They
don't WANT to be "disci-
plined!"
Why can't we each and all
have the sort of husbands and
homes we want? And why, just
because a woman prefers Vaga-
bondia to a home run on board
ing-school principles or prefers
painting, music, writing or bust.