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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-09

When all bakers in Perpignan. France recently went on strike. soldiers baked bread for the entIr4 city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-09

LOST $500 ON FREAK CALF
 Haddam, Kan-(UP)--F. L. La-
Evening star., 1933-11-09
BENN|NG CITIZENS
REFLECT JAMES.
Heads Association for Fifth
Time-0ther Officers
Are Chosen.

Frank James was elected president
OF the Bennings Citizens Association
for the fifth time at last nights meet
ing of the organization in Benning
School.
Other officers chosen for the next
year are: o. N. Splitter, vice president;
Carl Beale, secretary, and R. NJ. Darrah,
treasurer All except Beale are hold
overs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement Sheriff were
elected delegates to the Federation OF
Citizens Associations,
Miss G. E. Kelsey, principal of the
school, was commended by the organi-
zation for her work, both as head OF
the school and as teacher Of the seventh
and eighth grades. She also was praised
for her work in maintaining a flower
garden in front Of the school, which is
located on Minnesota avenue northeast
Secretary Beale was instructed to
complain to officials of the Baltimore
g. Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads re-
garding smoke and unnecessary noise"
and to the engineer commissioner con-
cerning Smoke and od0r" from the
District dump between Kenilworth
avenue northeast and the Anacostia
River.
He also was directed to apply to the
District Commissioners for an allotment
from the Public Works Administration
fund for construction of an underpass
at Gault place northeast and the rail-
road tracks. A man and a girl have
been killed there during the last few
years, Mr. James pointed out,
Evening star., 1933-11-09

parade on King street, which Is TO start
at Union Station at 1880 o'clock, r. G.
sullivan, president Of the chapter. said.
The Alexandria Citizens Band. the local
Virginia National Guard unit, Junior
Red Gross Councils of local schools and
the Drum and Bugle Corps Of the. Alex
andria American Legion Post are to
take part in the parade.
This city's quota Of members for the
drive has been set at 1900. Volunteer
workers will be stationed In all local
banks and the Alexandria Post ONCE
until Thanksgiving to receive Subscrip-
ton memberships, which are 81.
Ministers of the city have been asked
to designate November II as Red Gross
Sunday and to make short addresses
relative to the roll call drive here at
their church services.
The local Red Cross headquarters at
the Westminste< Building will be open
for public inspection tomorrow night,
when volunteer workers will exhibit
garments that have been made for
Alexandria's needy. Armistead L. Boothe
is chairman Of the drive.
Evening star., 1933-11-09
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, November 9-Con-
gratulations from all parts of the world
in the form of letters, kilograms and
cables were received by Marie DresSler,
noted actress of stage and screen, on
her sixty-Second birthday anniversary
today.
Tonight the actress will be the honor
guest at a dinner given by Louis B.
Mayer, film producer. Among those in
vited are Gov. James Rolph, jr;
jeanette Macdonald, May Robson,
Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Polly
Moran and Lionel Barrymore.
Evening star., 1933-11-09

to give a description Of the man who
seized her and warned her TO keep
quiet"
The witness who was standing be-
side q tree, the woman told Barrett,
might be able to furnish q description
which would aid in locating her would
be assailant who ran away.
Evening star., 1933-11-09
POLICE SEEK WITNESS
OF ATTEMPTED ATTACK

Detective Sergt. Robert ]. Barrett,
tenth precinct, began a search today
for an unidentified man who witnessed
an attempt to assault woman about
6:10 pm. Saturday near Eleventh street
and Park road \
The woman told the detective she was
too frightened at the time to be able
Evening star., 1933-11-09
CHEST HEADS TO SPEAK
Walter B. Clarkson and Lieut.. Col
q. s. Grant to Broadcast.

Walter 3. Clarkson and Lieut.. Col
U. s. Grant, Sd, cflairmen, respectively,
of the Group Solicitation and Govern
mental Units of the Community Chest
Campaign Committee, will speak on the
radio tonight Of the activities Of their
groups.
The addresses will be during the time
regularly scheduled by Joseph d. Kauf-
man, who has announced he will dedi-
cate four radio programs during No
vember to the Chest.
Evening star., 1933-11-09
PLAN AMPUTATION POST
Veterans of Foreign Wars Here
Organize New Branch.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars or
ganization is forming an "Amputation
Post for the District of Columbia, with
membership restricted to ex-service
men who have lost an arm or leg. It
has been ascertained that there are at
least 800 veterans in Washington eligi-
BILE for membership.
The loss of a leg or an arm is not
restricted to any particular war and
may have been sustained as a result of
injuries subsequent to war service
Acting Comdr j. Orken. 612 Tower
Building, is enrolling members in the
new post,
Evening star., 1933-11-09
ADDRESS TO BEGIN
RED CROSS DRIVE.
DR.. Louis S. Greene Will Talk
During Mass Meeting
In Alexandria.
BY a staff Correspondent Of The Star.

BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, November g.
DR.. Louis S. Greene Of the American
National Red Cross headquarters at
Washington is to address the mass
meeting to be held In the Westminster
Building here at 8 o'clock tomorrow
night, which will start the annual Red
Cross roll call drive for this city, it was
announced today.
Preceding the mass meeting the Alex
andria Red Cross Chapter will stage a
Evening star., 1933-11-09
10000 Germans Exiled.

France is said to have received 10000
Germans exiled by the present German
government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25

smoothly IS he was able among people Of his
own set, including the mobiles who surrounded
the throne to which he was accredited. He fos-
tered discard among his country's enemies and
soothed personal jealousies among his coun-
try's friends. He acted as matchmaker, II oc-
casion required, obtaining the hand OF the
beautiful princess for his doddering royal
master or, if the facts were the reverse
plighting the troth Of his handsome young
ruler to the ugly duckling daughter Of the
local king
1t was quite job in its way and the am
bassador needed room to turn around in. He
was the kings proxy and he required kingly
setting. When he entertained he had to en-
terrain royalty
But all that was in another day.
Today an American ambassador has no
more use for a palace than he has for lace
cuffs. Today international issues are not dis
posed Of by discreet whisperings in scented
surroundings. Today there are few govern
ments in which the king cuts any ice. The
greatest Of the old world powers is largely, at
least. in the hands Of the labor party and
labor representatives are having a share in
nearly every other European government.
These thoughts are aroused by the news
that the new S1,297,OOO American embassy in
Paris now is ready for occupancy. 1t appears
to be twenty-room palace, handsomer than
anything of its kind in Paris, built on site
personally selected by Andrew w. Mellon,
when he was secretary of the treasury.
The United States is a republic France is
a republic Will some kind reader please tell
us why the envoy from the American
democracy to the French democracy must be
housed in the most pretentious palace in
Paris? The present ambassador is not respon-
sible, of course; he probably would prefer
merely comfortable house and an adequate
office. But our government has presented him
with palace instead Why?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
BEFORE HE SOILS 1T

A TEMPTING political gamble, it seems,
IA has been placed before President Roose-
velt by his energetic political manager, Post
MASTER General James Farley. Briefly, it is
that the President take advantage of the as
tonishing weakness Of Tammanys candidate
for mayor of New York City to seize control
of the Democratic organization in the metrop-
oils himself.
This the President would do by backing
Joseph-V Mckee as an independent Demo-
cratic candidate for the mayoralty. Mckee
would be elected, the Tammany organization
would be wrecked and the party's fortunes de-
posted in the firm hands of Mr.. Farley and
his friend, Edward ]. Flynn of the Bronx.
1t makes a very pretty plot but it involves
one or two things that are not being men
toned in the prospectuS-one or two consid-
erations that may appeal to the President
little more strongly than they have to the
postmaster general
One is that it requires knitting f1rst-class
friend, Major Fiorelo La Guardia. Another is
that it draws the President into local poll
tical fight at a time when he needs his every
strength and resource for his great national
economic fight. And these two considerations
are not unrelated entirely.
For a very real part of the Roosevelt
strength today as was true during the cam
paign, lies in the support of what commonly
are called the progressives in national poll
tics. In recent sessions of congress these have
been led in the senate by George w. Norris
and in the house by Fiorello La Guardia. These
men were fighting in washington, years before
Roosevelt arrived, for the very program that
now is lifting him to the rank Of greatness.
The NorriseS and the La Guardias did the
preparatory work. as Roosevelt frankly and
generously has admitted And he needs their
assistance still, as he will be equally ready to
admit.
To put it in language then that perhaps
Farley can understand, the President can no
more afford-even politically-to knife La
Guardia than he could afford to thus treat
George Norris. The control of his own party
organization in his own home town is some
thing to appeal to the President to be sure;
the support of those independents throughout
the country who have fought his fight all their
lives and are prepared to carry that fight on
during all the hard years that lie ahead of
him. is certain to appeal to the President
more.
These things being true, it will not be
surprising if the President gently suggests to
Mr. Farley that he return to his Job of post
master general taking with him the presi-
Dental reputation for fair dealing before he
gets it Soiled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
DEFENSE

WHATEVER else you may say about naval
w armament races. you can't deny that
they, at least, have whimsical illogicality
which. if it we're not potentially so dangerous
would be nothing less than delightful.
A brief survey Of the situation as it affects
the United States Japan and Great Britain
will show what we mean.
The United States government takes some
S23sO000OO to bring its feet up to treaty
strength 1t does this, as every one knows, be-
cause heretofore no effort has been made to
attain treaty strength. The country has vol
unfairly maintained smaller navy than 1t is
entitled to.
Consequently as any American naval ex-
pert will tell you, the American feet has suf-
fered by comparison with those of Great Brit
ain and Japan. Shipyards in those countries
have not been idle. Their naval strength has
not been permitted to lag.
However, the United States no sooner be-
gins to spend money on its navy than the au-
thorities of England and Japan wake up and
announce that times are getting parlous
English naval authorities announce that their
cruiser strength will be hopelessly below par
as soon as the American program is completed.
In sheer self-defense they have got to build
more ships. The admiralty experts even cook
up new kind Of warship, 5,o0o-ton "sloop"
armed with six-inch guns, which won't come
under treaty restrictions at all.
AS with England so with Japan. Obviously
the island empire can not allow the United
States fleet to get too big margin OF superior
ity. In the most peaceable manner imaginable,
they can do nothing else than put new keels
on the ways. If they don't, their national
security viii be threatened.
So we and the three greatest naval powers
on earth beginning . good old-fashi7ned
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
a REMARKABLE WEEK

TINE week Just past has been reilidl As0i'
i one in our national history.
crisis confronted the recovery program
real though not widely recognized Ii Oe-
came obvious that forward progress was ceaS-
ING Farm incomes were not being increase"
~.r,I1, enough to meet rising industrial prices.
Public works money was not being spehV
rapidlv enough to get men to work.
The heavy industries-steel, machinery ana
constr,Iction-where most unemployment eX-
lists had no customers, and therefore no way
of fulfilling their obligations under the IN
dustrial recovery program. Industries WHICH,
deal directly with the consumer were IN DANGER
of losing the gains made recently because Oh
this failure in the heavy industries. 1t seemed
impossible that, at the rate it was moving
the program could reduce the 100000 unem-
ploved by even 100000 before winter.
The roosevelt administration acted. Quiet
". in the space of five days. 1t took the 1oI-
lowing steps to send the recovery program
forward once more.
It announced purchase by the government
Of $4,000 900 worth of food SURPRISES to FEED
unemployed This will give the agricultural
end Of recovery an important boost.
II announced construction of S5oOOO,OOO
worth of army houses This will mean imme-
diate work for contractors and their employees
and immediate orders for material industries
It announced plans for spending s25OOOOoO
at once for building subsistence homesteads.
This is another boost for builders as well as
a wav of taking unemployed of relief rolls.
1t rushed to completion plan for loans to
cotton farmers in exchange for promises to
reduce acreage reduction next year. This
has the double effect of increasing farm pur-
chasing power at once and preventing over
production of cotton next year.
II rushed to completion, also, plans Tor
releasing s2.oOO.OooOoO to depositors in closed
banks.
The President and his interior secretary
threw the weight Of their influence into de-
nands that states and cities undertake public
construction at once with the government
money waiting their use.
There were strong indications that plans
for recognition of Russia and subsequent sale
Of cotton there were being pushed toward
Quick consummation-
This is a remarkable record Of activity
condensed into few days and the best pos
sible evidence that this new government has
not exhausted its resources.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
M.

TINE stampede for imitation is forming 1t
i was bound to come. Debt has been driv-
ing us toward it ever since the depression be-
gan. But for debt. we would be getting along all
right. Wage and price levels have little effect
on living conditions if equitably adjusted. They
have a tremendous effect however when OLD
obligations are involved. You can't pay off debt
in money that is twice as hard to get without
suffering.
All told, we owe between $50 and ITS bill
lions of dollars. That includes private, as well
as public debt. The interest charge alone rep
resentS six or eight billion dollars annually.
Amortization represents an equally large
amount
Meanwhile, the national income has shrunk
by approximately one-haH. This is due not only
to unemployment, but to the shrinkagee of prices
and wages. The debt can not be iquidated un-
der such circumstances. Prices and wages must
be restored to about the level Of 1926, as Presl-
dent Roosevelt has said, or much OF the debt
will have to be written off.
THE price and wage level can be raised or
l. restored in one of two ways-general i'm
provement of business or the cheapening Of
money Experience of the last six months would
seem to indicate that business lacks the power
to recuperate by itself and that something must
be done to devalue the dollar still more.
Advocates Of Straight-out imitation think the
best method of accomplishing this is to expand
the volume of currency by coming silver and
issuing paper money They go on the aSsump-
ton that more money means cheaper money.
The danger of this method is the likelihood
of it's getting out from under control. If it
works, there develops an inclination to overdo
it. If it doesn't work, there develops a belief
that more of it is needed.
Printing press imitation is like poker.
Whether you win or lose, you want to keep on,
once the game has been started.
IF further devaluation is desirable, why not
i do the job in definite. open way? What
is the use of beating around the bus1 trusting
to the effect Of paper money, when nobody is
quite sure Of what it would be- and creating
situation that the government might be I'M
able to control?
The President has authority to reduce the
gold content of dollars by as much as 80 per
cent The establishment of industrial codes
gives him the power to see that any reduction
of the gold content is Immediately reflected in
a wage and price rise
In other words if President Roosevelt were
to order the dollar cut down by Is or IS per
cent. he could follow it up with an order advanc-
ing wages by that specific amount.
Such a method would insure people down
below the immediate benefit of imitation, which
is something that printing press money does not
and can not insure. It also would insure bust
ness a degree Of stability which IS impossible
with the issuance Of paper cuuTencK
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
CHILDREN FIRST

TINE administration is facing the plight Of
i the nations under privileged children
with sympathy realism and action.
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins has called
a national conference at the capital on Oct.
to discuss child health recovery and prepare
for "a nationwide drive to regain the ground
lost during the depression" She says marked
increase is being found everywhere in the
number of undernourished children. How
many such unfortunates this rich country har-
bors' can be guessed from an official estimate
made by the 1880 White House conference that
in the depreSsion's first year there were
100000 The coming winter is the depres-
sions fifth, and will have a cumulative effect
Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace is
considering the proposal to include in the
new deal agreements a limitation on the
hours of toll of child beet sugar workers.
study by the childrens bureau revealed that
migratory families children as young as 6
worked in the field, under wages so low that
the majority of the families received relief
doles. Child labor prohibition in the NRA
codes do not reach the estimated 100000 child
farm hands
Another problem which the federal gov
eminent should share with the localities is the
schooling Of the former child workers. Other
wise rnanv will Join the migratory army and
increase the nations relief and crime burdens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
MONDAY. SEPT. Is. 1888.
OLD AGE PENSIONS

A SINCERE effort for just and economical
L administration of Irdiana's old age pen
sion law must consider whether human need
shall be paramount.
Another factor is dollars and cents. Neither
Marion nor any other county can give full
rein to appropriations for old age pensions.
To this matter Of aiding the needy aged.
we should apply what many Of us have learned
in the depression. the practice of doing
without"
In fixing budgets, consideration should be
given to what can be eliminated so that the
more important things can be provided for.
If we place pensions for the aged in the latter
category, then the old people Of the state are
assured of fair consideration.
It can not be said that the proponents of
pensions have given Indiana an unreasonable
law. The pensioning can not start until the
age Of 10 and the limit of payment to a pen
sioner is SIS a month. In California, one Of
twenty-five states which have adopted pension
laws, the maximum payment is twice the
amount provided in Indiana.
A recent statement by the Fraternal Order
of Eagles. which led the fight for the enact
ment Of the pension law by the 1888 state
legislature contained an estimate that $4,000
persons possibly might qualify for aid in
Indiana
Assuming that each of the $4,000 would
receive the SIS monthly maximum, the total
cost annually would be $1,O4O0OO less than
provided for only four major state educational
institutions for the present fiscal year.
Pensions. admission to poorhouses or town.
shin moor relief are the means by which the
needy aged can get public help. 1t is pointed
out by the pension advocates that the monthly
per capita cost of poorhouse inmate is s31'S0'
more than twice the maximum pension
The staggering burden carried by hunoreoS
of townships in poor relief costs is well known.
In this situation, it seems that pensionlng
e far preferable to the other forms OF relief
Indiana's poorhouse status is nothing 10 De
proud of.
We hear much now of 'mobihzing Tor hu-
man need of the heavy burden. OF caring 1or
the needy, and of the menace to schoolS que
to decline in tax receipts"
Perhaps in proper weighing OF these lac-
tors we shall get new and better deal Iol
the worthy. needy aged Of Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
Ne1U Spender Needed

TINE post of watchdog of the
i treasury is honorable and often
acclaimed, but at the moment the
type of individual needed is a Bet
You-a-Million Gates or a Coal Oil
Johnny. Surely in a time OF ma
tional emergency it will not do to
have the purse string held by a
gentleman who is inclined to sigh
and say: Bank! There goes an
other nickel"
Harold Ickes is so extraordinarily
thrifty that he can not bear to
spend even the governments money.
Two commentators on the Wash
ington show were discussing the
strange case of Ickes, and one said,
We'll, 1 must admit that he has
one limitation"
Eyes, said the other, 'just one.
He hasn't any sense"
But this is an unfair statement
of the situation. 1t fails to COM
prehend the background of the gen.
tleman from Chicago. Ickes is a
man who lived too late by many
centuries. In another age he would
have served to give Diogenes a
nights rest and a reduced bill in
lantern hire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
WHY THE PALACE?

INHERE was a day when an ambassador was
u extraordinary and plenipotentiary' just as
the title reads Today. while an ambassador
may be extraordinary. in one sense or another
none is plenipotentiary in the sense Of having
full power to act in the name Of his country
Today we have cables. wireless and trans
oceanic telephones and important decisions are
made by the home Office. Today If an am
bassador is puzzled concerning his own coun-
trys policy, he doesn't have to trust to God
and his own good Judgment. He can tell his
secretary to get the White House on the
phone.
In the dead and gone days, intrigue was
the ambassadors business. He operated =