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The Washington times., 1934-02-06
George S. Watson
A Leader and a Man

"A
The death of George Watson chief engineer Of the Dis
ct Fire Department. robs the city of of its most efficient
officials and one of its most beloved characters.
TO this than any other the National Capital IN
debted for department which ranks second to none in
effectiveness and ability.
Upon his unaerng zeal and his tremendous cour
age based the great record Of the department in recent
years
Chief Watson took command of the department at time
when fighting conditions rapidly changing and I'M
proving He introduced the changes into the local department
and his enthusiasm and wisdom that kept the depart
Inent abreast Of the times.
Chief Watson than good executive
He personal leader of the department. His cleaning
white and helmet always in the forefront Of the
ranks multiple alarm bazes Where the flames the
hottest there Chief Watson
While under his command private sent into dan
eerous position into which the Chief not ready follow
him.
Although strict discipnarian, Chief Watson always had
Che interest of his at heart He fought for and brought
about many reforms the advantage of his subodnats It
under him that hours reduced, wages in
creased free uniforms provided and other notable
forms accomplished
Chief Wasons death sad loss to the entire community
The Washington times., 1934-02-06

Tie WO1Ile11 5 GlSQCS cVcE LII
vented.
Annie, as you doubtless know,
Stuck Around for quite a while,
waiting-in the approved man.
ner-for the Boy Friend. Yes,
Annie at the start lived up 70
the best traditions of the Soggy
Sisterhood. Indeed, she had al
ready suffered and Snivelled her
way through countless roles.
We met her, back in the COS,
under the name of Sweet Alice.
How grandma sobbed to those
soulful lines:
"Oh, do you remember sweet
Alice, Ben Bolt,
"Sweet Alice, with eyes Of
brow-oW-own?
"She wept with delight
when you ga-a-ara-ve her a
smile,
"And she trem- -em-em embed
with tears
"At your frown!"
Public endorsement Of Sweet
Alice's wormish conduct was un-
animouS. It was conceded, with
out one dissenting vote, that the
dear girl was acting as all dear
girls should act. For was it not
ordained that women should
take whatever lot Man, the Mas
ter, handed them-and be
grateful if it wasn't a kick in
the jaw? 1t was. So Alice'S
snuffles were only right and
proper,
Well, the world rolled on. But
men still ran the works and
women still wrung their hands.
Along came Suffrage, Bobbed
hair, One Piece Bathing Suits,
Female Professions an every
thing, making Us Girls, sup
posedly, free as air. Yet Annie
and Alice, Rosie and Clarabelle,
still Sobbed ON and on for some
Big Bruiser'S favors.
There was Fannie Brice, tell
ing the whole world that - in
spite of a black eye, a couple
of broken ribs and maybe a
fractured skull-he was forever
more her "Ma-a-nI" Let's seei
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
MORE FAUNA
BY Robert Benchley

BILE group in the world than the
scientists of today, according to
the scientists of tomorrow. So
let's not take any back talk out
of them about gerberS and
zaylies.
We accept hippopotomi be-
cause there are a lot of them
around (too many, if you ask
mel, but why couldn't there be
an animal that has had the de-
cency to keep under cover for
a couple of thousand years but
which now, in its present gen.
Grafton, has developed a young
ster with some spirit that wants
to see the world?
DR.. William Beebe, who spends
a lot of his time under water,
says that the Loeb Ness "Sea-
serpent" is, in his opinion,
nothing but a giant squid.
What does he mean nothing,
butt? I don't care whether it
is q squid or a gerber; as long
as it is giant, I don't want 1t
following me about.
"Just a giant octopus; "juSt
a. giant beaver"-what good does
it be to know that family name.
if the thing itself looks awful?
In fact, I think that a giant
beaver would be much worse
than medium-sized zaylie, even
if the zaylie we're twice as big
as the giant beaver. I wouldn't
even want to meet a giant rao-
bit.
It makes no difference
whether you call them by the
name of some well known
species or call them "deemies." !"
That thing in the Tennessee
hills may be the offspring OF
a kangaroo escaped from a
circus and some attractive do
mestic animal it happened to
meet in the woods, or 1t may
be something that has been
saving UP ever since prehiS-
toric days to take just one
whirl in 1884 around South
Pittsburgh, Tenn. The fact re-
mains that it frightens people
just to look at it, and that's
enough. Who are we to say
that it doesn't exist?
I wish that you could just
take one look at that photo
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
Women Diplomats
Hard to Fool

Hard to FOOL
Any retail merchant will tell you that women know values
and know how to insist getting their moneys worth.
Trust woman to drive harder and sounder bargain
than man any time.
Perhaps that's why the of the world be-
ginning to select diplomats After ALL diplomacy
nothing but kind of bargaining although the fancy flub
dub Of the external formay tends to hide the hard
mon sense values underneath.
We have Mrs Owen representing Uncle Sam in Denmark
Madame Koonai is Of the acedplomats of the Soviet
Foreign Office. .s.:
Now the British contemplate following these examples
Those against the idea said women would be misled by
attey foreigners those in favor women are more
vain than men, and besides diplomacy fattery saved
on 20 thcky that sensible would be fooled by it.
The Washington times., 1934-02-06

tails at people, and then duck
ing back again. This sort OF
thing takes a mans mind off
his work.
The sea-serpent Of Loeb Ness
has had a lot of publicity, and I
have already called your re-
spectful attention to the What
Is-It which was caught off
Tampa, Fla, with legs like
a child's in a bunny-suit and a
face like the Invisible Mans.
And now comes '"The Mystery
Animal of the Tennessee Hills"
What did someone do-leaVe
the gate to He'll open?
The Mystery Animal Of the
Tennessee Hills looks, accord
ing to reports, like giant kan.
CARGO and is "fast as lightning"
It runs and leaps across fields
devours police dogs, leaving
nothing but their heads ana
shoulders, and, in general, be-
haves in a perfectly rotten man.
ner toward the livestock and
citizenry of South Pittsburgh,
Tenn.
The worst part of all this
business is that there really Is
no good reason why there
shouldn't be such anipals. why
should there be hippopotamus?
If you had never seen a hippo
potamus before, would you be-
lieve it? Would you want to
believe it? wouldn't you say
"Bosh!" if someone told you
about it?
I see no reason why we
should take the scoffings OF
scientists seriously. They don't
even take each other seriously.
There is probably no more guilt
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
Figure Economies
And District Schools

The determination the Federation of Citizens Assoca
ons fight miltany for the good of the city again
demonstrated in the vigorous stand which that organization
took at meeting looking toward improvement Of the
public school system.
: TT 1s ESSENTIAL THAT EVERY ORGANIZATION IN
THE CITY TAKE FIRM STAND NOW TO PROTECT
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FROM FURTHER RAV1sHMENT
AS THE RESULT OF MISTAKEN ZEAL FOR ECONOMY
Because of the virtual discontnuance of all funds for
school construction in recent years, WASHINGTON TO-
CETHER WITH OTHER CITIES Is RAPIDLY BUILDING
up AN ACCUMULATED DEFICIENCY OF CLAssRooMs
WHICH CANNOT BE OVERCOME FOR DECADES.
This course is ndefenbe It is particularly ndefensble
considering that in many communities the schools are
being hit hard of economy while extravaganza
and waste are flourising other governmental activities
In the pending budget for District have notable
axampe of the foolish application OF striving for gure
economy to the needs of the school system
The Board of Education after careful survey OF the
cys needs in this regard submitted estimates t0r tne com
MissIONERs CUT THESE ESTIMATES BY ABOUT ONE
MILLION DOLLARS and then forwarded them to the Bu-
yeau of the Budget -
That bureau, HAVING NO DEFINITE CONNECTION
WITH THE DISTRICT GOVERNMENT AND NO PROPER
UNDERSTANDING OF THE cTYs Pro
LOOPING OFF MORE THAN ONE MILLION DoLLAHs AO-
OPTIONAL. no
The result the budget before Congress PRO
v1DEs FOR VIRTUALLY NO NEW SCHOOL coNsTRUc-
TON.
To offset the failure to provide these very necessary build
tes for our children THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WILL HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF THE C1TY.s
TAX FUNDS PILED UP IN SURPLUS AT THE END
OF THE YEAR
The Figure economies will then have succeeded
THEY WILL HAVE SUCCEEDED IN DEPR1V1NG THE
cHILDREN OF THE CITY OF PROPER EDUCATIONAL
ADVANTAGES - -
THEY WILL HAVE SUCCEEDED IN SENDING THE
CHILDREN TO PART-TIME CLASSES
THEY WILL HAVE SUCCEEDED IN 0VER-CROWD1NG
F. nTAssRooMs AND OVER -BURDENING TEACHERS.
THEY WILL HAVE SUCCEEDED IN FORCING CH11.
DREN INTO CLAssRoOMs THAT ARE POORLY VEN
TILATED AND UNDER-HEATED.
may be sound economy in the view Of the Bureau Of
, Che Budget BUT IN THE VIEW OF THE MOTHERS AND
FATHERS OF THE DISTRICT 1T IS A WANToN DIS
REGARD OF THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF THE
CHILDREN.
The District subcommittee of the House Committee on
propriations about start hearings the new District
appropriation bills.
When those hearings started every citizen OF WASH
fnpton should be prepared his part toward obtaining
reinstatement the Board of Educaons original estimates
Sor school construction
The Washington times., 1934-02-06

how'd 1t go? something ike
this:
1t cost me a lot
But there's one thing that I'De
got
It's my nlG-G-1n!
Cold and net / do get,
But all that / soon forget
With nly nlG-G-Gn!
T1Do or three girls has he
That he likes as UeU as me-
But / loUe him
I don't k1oW 1Dhy / should;
He isn't good; he isn't true:
He beats me, too. What can I
do?
All my life it's Just despair,
But / don't care.
What's the difference
If / sag III 90 G10Gy,
When / EnolD I'U come back
On, my knees, some day?
So on and on. Yet Fannie,
remember, had the bulge over
Alice in this. Fannie was
educated and modern. She
didn't have to stand being
knocked around. She could get
a job-or call cop. But it still
wasn't being done. So Fannie
stuck around and took her pun
iShment.
Now we're in 1934-with
Annie. Annie, as noted before,
stuck to the rules in the begin
ming. She waited and wept,
grew wistful and wan, as Nice
Womanly Women are supposed
to do. In the meantime, the
Boy Friend went his care-free
way. For, like all men, he was
thoroughly sold to the classic
notion that:
MANS love is his life a thing
apart,
"Tis woman's whole exist
ence."
So the B. F.. went on being a
Thing Apart-until one day he
happened to remember Dear
Little Annie. Then he dropped
around, all ready to give the
Poor Little Woman a treat.
But-goody, goody, goody!
ANNIE DIDN'T LIVE THERE
ANY MORE!
Annie, at last, for practically
the first time in human his
tory, was fed up. BY some
miracle it had occurred to her
that the world was filled with
an infinite number of phe-
nomena more diverting than
Mean Males.
And suppose she never did
have a Romance again? Well
suppose she didn't; what Of
it? Too much Of anything
was too many. If Romance
came that high, she couldn't
use it. And if she never saw
a man again-she could still
eat and dream, laugh and work,
and be generally useful and
gay!
Copyright 1894, King Features
Syndicate. Inca
The Washington times., 1934-02-06

Some of the stories of telep-
athy and black magic told by
DR.. Alexander Cannon in his
new book, "The Invisible Influ-
ence," sound incredibly fantas-
tic. He states, for example,
that a well-known English judge,
Justice McCardie, was killed
not by his own hand, but by
telepathy. An evil spirit from
Tibet, it was,. who raised the
pistol to the temple of Justice
McCardie.
Nevertheless, as writer in
the London Sunday Chronicle
quite truly asserts, strange
things do occur-extraordinary
instances of something which
is hard to name if you don't
call it telepathy. In Paris, in
the Care de Lyons, the writer
met an old friend who was just
going to Rome by the night ex-
press. Quite casually the gen.
tleman who was leaving for
Rome asked his friend to eX-
cuse him for a few minutes
while he got in touch with a
friend who was seriously Ill.
Platinum Ball
Thinking that he wanted to
telephone, his companion said
to him. "You will have to
hurry. It takes a good half
hour to get through from Paris
to London at this time OF
night" The other man smiled
and shook his head. II do not
need to telephone" he said.
And he took out CT his waist
coat pocket a little case which
contained a ball of platinum
about the size of cherry and
hanging on a silver chain.
His friend stared at him.
If he had not known the man
with the platinum ball to be a
DISTINGUISHED diplomat, keen
sportsman and a person OF
very sane and normal instincts
and habits, he might have suS-
pected him of losing his MIND.
Paying no attention whatever
to his friends obvious aStonlsh-
ment and perturbation, the man
with the platinum ball closed
his eyes, and there in the
crowded restaurant, with wait
ers hurrying by and corks pop
ping, he laid a letter on the
table, smoothed it out and dan
gled the little ball Of platinum
above the letter.
Nothing happened. The mans
face began to grow very pale:
After a minute the ball rolled
from his fingers and fell to the
floor. His friend rescued it.
The other man, white and dis
traught, said quietly: Forgive
me. I must go out" When
he came back he said, II had to
send a telegram to the boys
mother. She is one Of my Oldest
friends"
His companion asked hastily:
"But has anything happened?"
eyes," was the reply. THE boy
her son-is dead" He took
the letter, glanced at it, shook
his head and put it back in the
dispatch case. They finished
their dinner in silence.
The following day the gentle
man who had been the amazed
witness of this extraordinary
incident learned that the death
had taken place at 10 minutes
past z o'clock in the evening.
He and his friend had sat down
to dine in the restaurant of the
Care de Lyons at 1920.
Only a little while ago a
visitor to Paris registered at a
hotel near the Seine. "IS the
room quiet?" he asked the man
ager. every quiet, indeed, mon
sieur. And see; it has a charm
ing view."
The visitor looked out. The
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
The Human Side of the News
By EduUin C. Hill
Strange Tale of athy-Werd Experience
Bu EdWin C.. Hill

view was charming, one of those
enhancing viStas that Paris, OF
all cities, seems best able to pro-
vide. In the pearl gray haze of
the morning the Eiffel Tower
was as delicate as a spiders web.
The tumbled roofs of Paris
spread out, gay and careless. as
the scribblings of a child with a
box of colored chalks. And it
was so quiet that the chirping Of
the Paris SparrowS. those i'm
pudent little gaminS of the
housetops, sounded much louder
than the far-off hum of traffic.
The manager bowed and de-
parted. The visitor left the
hotel soon after, and did not re.
turn to his room until midnight.
It was very quiet-abSolutely
still. And then the visitor was
awakened from a sound sleep by
a peculiar noise. or series Of
noises, For a moment he was
puzzled, and then his mind,
springing out of the paralysis of
sleep, graSped the fact that a
dog was barking in the next
room. It sounded muffled, but
was very clear, just the same.
The visitor listened more and
more impatiently, and then
angrily, as the barking con-
tinued. Then he heard a voice
talking to the dog, soothing it,
pleading with it.
The visitor got out of bed and
put his ear against the locked
door connecting the two hotel
rooms. He heard the voice
quite distinctly-an American
voice-talking in a sort of stran.
gled whisper: "Never mind,
never mind. It will be all right
soon." And then again, the bark
and the whine-horrible whine
that sounded almost human.
It became insufferable. The
man who had been torn from
sleep by these weird and dis
turbing sounds in the middle
of the night seized the handle
of the door and ratified it. ST.
lence came instantly. The door
was so thin that the man who
was protesting could hear the
breathing of the other man.
He, too, was close to the door.
There they Stood-two strangers
on opposite sides of a thin
door, breathing at each other
in the dark.
Dog Had Died
Feeling decidedly uncomfort-
able, the visitor climbed back
into bed. No more sounds came
from the other room, and pres
emily he fell again to sleep. But
in the morning, soon after light
came, the barking began again,
louder this time-and the Whin-
ing was even more nerve-Wrack-
ing. The visitor haStened down
stairs and to the managers Of
flee.
The manager looked troubled.
He said, as he closed his door:
There is no dog in that room,
monsieur"
what do you mean?" de-
manded the visitor. Are you
suggesting that I am mad?"
mot at ALL" said the man
ager. "But we think that Mr..
Blank is. He is an American
business man. He lost his for
tune in the crash. He had no
friends. He never spoke to any,
body but his dog, and it died
a few days ago. 1t is he who
makes the noise" He paused
for a moment, then added:
But he is leaving today. You
will not be troubled any more"
That story from real life, an
actual occurrence, belongs in
the pages of Balzac rather than
in the news of the day.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-06

MORE.
Acc ording
to the fem
inis t S, Suf-
frage marked
he Gr e a t
Step toward
female f r e e.
dom. But just
between y OH
an me, Ma
bel, I'm bet
ting IN a t
Dear Ii t. tt
Annie's Walk
out will do
more for us
girls than all
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
WISE WORDS

Incivility is the extreme OF
pride: it is built on the con-
tempt Of mankind.-Zimmer'
man.
The mind unlearps with diff
Guilty what it has long learned.
Seneca.
To be truly and really indie
pendent, is to support ourselves
by our own exertions.-Porter.
He jeStS at scars who never
felt q a-Wound.-Shakespeare.
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

"Annie Doesn't Live Here Any
MOre"-WhOOps For That!
Lady, lady, how strong I am
for that new Song-"ANNIE
DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANY
The Washington times., 1934-02-06

This seems to be the open sea
son for gerbers and zaylies.
Everywhere strange Things are
popping out of the sea and
land, wagging their heads and
The Washington times., 1934-02-06
graph of the Thing they
caught off Tampa, Fla.

Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Mr.. Benchley'S articles appear
in The Washington Times each
Tuesday, Thursday and SGtur.
day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-04
STATE RELIEF COST PUT AT
$40, 100000

Relief will have cost more than
$40, 100000 in this State by early
fall, Governor Richie estimated
Monday in his address before the
Maryland State Conference of Social
Welfare at the Southern Hotel, Bal
timore.
More than S1S,O00,0OO of State
and Federal funds already has been
spent, he said. OF this, $S,178,713
has come from Federal sources, and
about $10,500,000 represents State
funds. Baltimore city has received
S5,910,422 of the Federal fund;
the counties, $1,767,6O1 The re-
mainder of Federal money $780,
$50, represents expenditures of
$151,0S3 for organization expenses;
S3O3,9S1 for the relief of transients,
and $45,626 for adult education.
OF the Federal funds, $715,765 is
left. And the remaining 100000
of the $12,O0O,O00 in State bonds
for the use of Baltimore city will be
issued in August. The issue Of $lG,-
600, 900 to date has been augmented
by the 100000 premium on the
sale of the bonds, and proportionate
premium is anticipated on these to
be issued later.
Az for the future Governor Riteh-
lie told the social workers assembled
that program must be adopted
and adapted to meet verying needs,
flexible to provide adequate care.
but not overburdened with admins
tration expenses. 1t should be cap
able of rapid expansion to meet en-
ergencies and Of contraction when
the emergencies have subsidized"
The Governor pointed out the i'm
portance of encouragement and
stimulation of local responsibility
for providing and administering re-
lief. Emphasis should be put on
the part that the county units must
play, as they are in closest touch
with the situation in those sections.
The counties have been authorized
by law to impose tax levies, he said,
which would enable them to carry
their share of responsibility for the
relief of their INDECENT residents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-04
CHECKS BRING WHEAT RETURN
NEAR TO PARITY PRICE

The goal of the wheat plan to give
cooperating farmers parity return on
the domestically consumed portion
of their crop is being achieved for
the 1888 crop, through the adjust
ment payments of 2S cents a bushel,
DR.. T. B. Symons, director of the
University of Maryland Extension
service points out.
Adding the adjustment payment
to the average farm price, and COM
pairing this total with the parity, or
fair exchange value for wheat, shows
clearly that farmers cooperating
with the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration are getting close to
parity on their allotments.
Comparing prices in different
months shows how the adjustment
payments close the gap between the
farm price and the parity price on
the 50 per cent of the farmers base
period production which constitutes
his domestic allotment. In March,
1888, when there were no adjust
ment payments, the average farm
price for the country as whole was
"a cents bushel, while the parity
price, the amount farmers should
have received to give their wheat
fair exchange value, was 8S cents a
bushel The gap was 81 cents a
bushel In May last year, the farm
price was So cents bushel but the
farm parity price had gone to 80
cents and the gap was 81 cents.
In August the farm price was rs
cents, but parity had gone up to SO
cents bushel. However, adding 28
cents to rs cents gives re urn of
$1.03, which more than closed the
gap in that month, for the farmer s
allotment.
Payments on the 1884 crop will
be based upon the rate of the pro-
cessing tax which will be determined
this summer before the beginning of
the marketing year. The rate will
depend upon the difference between
the farm price and the farm parity
price.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-04
GEORGE *. STEWART

George K Stewart, age So, a
dairy farmer, near Elkton, died
April "a in Union Hospital, Llkton,
from gangrene poisoning following
an attack of kidney trouble. The
amputation of his right leg eight
days previous, failed to arrest the
malady. Mr.. Stewart was formerly
connected with the Sharpless Sepa-
rator Company of West Chester, Pa,
but for the past ten years had re-
sided in this county. His wife and
one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Stew
art, R. N, superintendent of Union
Hospital, survives him. The fune-
raj was held from his late home Fri
day afternoon, with interment in
Elkton cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-04
AUGUSTINE BEBE WALMSLEY

Augustine Bebe Walmsley. aged
50 years, died April &c in the hos
pital at Covington, Va, after a long
illness. The deceased was son of
the late Benjamin F. and Frances
Wilmer Walmsley, of Frederick
town, this county, where ne was
born.
For a number of years he was in
the employ of the Lehigh Valley
railroad company, in New York.
Later he conducted a general ware
house business at Bernardsville, N.
J. About fifteen years ago he To-
Gated in Elkton and was for some
time vice-president and cashier of
the Peoples Bank of Elkton. He
had resided in Covington, Va, for
the past three years.
His wife, who was Miss Flora Hol-
lingsworth Wright, of Elkton, sur
wives him with two sons-Stewart
Walmsley, of Covington, Va, and
Augustine Walmsley, of Richmond.
The remains we're brought to Elk
ton, Saturday afternoon, ana inter-
ment made in Elkton cemetery.