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The Washington times., 1934-12-22
Senorita Banos
Bride Today

The marriage of Senorita
Alicia Banos, daughter of the
Mexican Consul in Baltimore,
Senor Don Alfredo Banos, and
Sonora de BanoS, to Mr.. George
F.. Thurman. son of Mrs. Beu-
lah Thurman, of this city, took
place this afternoon at $50
O'Clock, at the Shrine of the
Sacred Heart, Rev. John Spence
officiating.
The bride, who was escorted
to the altar by her father, wore
a peacock blue crepe ensemble,
with a small black hat and
matching accessories and a bou-
quet of gardenias.
Mrs. John L. Schneider, the
former Senorita Dolores Banos.
was matron = honor and only
attendant for i.er sister, and she
wore black velvet gown, with a
hat to match, and a corsage bou-
quet Of yellow roses. Mr.. Will
liam Boynton, of Kensington,
Nd, acted as best man for Mr..
Thurman.
The couple left Immediately
after the ceremony for their
honeymoon. and they will be at
home after Christmas at Kew
Gardens.
The members of the Mexican
Embassy staff and their wives,
together with a few close friends,
attended the ceremony today,
and Senor Don Luis Banos came
from Pittsburgh, Pa, for his SIS
ter's wedding.
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n me of this enchanting
place is Plenty Springs,
given it by the Indians gen.
erations ago because it act
ually did have a number of
springs on it and was a fa-
vorite camping place with
them. Arrow heads and the
like are to be found there
and it has much natural
beauty. The two sons of the
household, oliver and Man.
ming, will act as hosts, and
the guests will be mostly
friends of theirs from the
Virginia hunting set and the
younger group here.
Mrs. Randolph Bererley
Mason, of NeW York, wiH
join her mother, Mrs.
James NJ. Johnson, here
for q visit over Christmas
before the latter leaves
to spend the 1Ointer in
Charleston, that beautiful
and historic spot IN South
Carolina, 1Chere gnrdenias
groW 1Oith an abandon hard
to realize IN these chimes,
10here many only view
them through florists win-
dOWS.
Mrs. "Pete" Moran, whose
blonde beauty causes much
admiring comment, is wear
ing one of the most stunning
evening coats I have seen
this winter. 1t is of serise
velvet, with little round
cape of rich Eastern mink,
which fits high around her
neck, and which is slashed
below the shoulders to show
the velvet sleeves. Worn
with a white crepe satin
gown sewn with rhinestones.
the effect is beautiful.
DR.. and Mrs. Irving Brot-
man, that delightful young
couple who live at the West
chester, and who spent sew
eral months in California last
summer, are back again, full
of stories about the wonder
ful times they had and the
celebrities they met.
Little Mrs. Brotm an,
1Oho is petite, and as dark
as her tall, broad-shoul-
dered husband is fair, 1core
an; aU-black ensemble at a
recent tea, aCith q shoulder
cape and tiny muff of
seolskin. Her black hat
VGs trimmed With q red
feather ornament, which
looked like q tiny question
mark.
Stella Akin, Assistant to
the Attorney General, is one
of two people I have met in
my life whose birthday ami
versary falls on Christmas
Day.
The other was Mrs. Bourks
Cochran, who, if l recall,
was presented by Robert
Louis Stevenson with a deed
drawn up in true legal form.
in which he gave his birth
day to her.
As Stella is one of the
most talented as we'll az
most beloved Portias' of
our time, wouldn't it be a
gorgeous idea for someone
who has given up celebrat-
ing his natal day to deed her
his? I, for one, would not
mind giving her mine, at all
At a recent evening party,
Miss Akin appeared in a lace
gown of a pale amber hue,
which had a long, trailing
skirt and a jacket of the lacA
cut on fitted lines. With her
auburn hair and lovely color
ing. you can imagine how
well she looked.
I'll be back on Christ.
mas Eve!
m
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Dinner Hostess
On Cruise

The Counselor Of the italian
EN- bassy and Marchioness
Rossi Longhi, with their two
children, left yesterday for a
cruise, and will return to Wash.
ington the first week in January.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crosby will
entertain at tea January 3 at
their home, 4700 Davidson Drive,
in honor of Senator elect and
Mrs. A. Harry Moore, of New
Jersey. Senator-elect Moore is
the former Governor of New
Jersey, and for many years has
been a close friend of Mr.. and
Mrs. Crosby, who have a sum-
mer home at Spring Lake, N. j.,
near Seagirt, where the Cover.
nor had his summer mansion.
Captain and Mrs. H. B.
Taylor, of New York, are in
Washington for a stay of sew.
eral days at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Mrs. H. Wardell Wilcox is
spending a few days at the
Vanderbilt Hotel in New York.
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Mrs. Isabel D. Sloane Tops List
With Race Winnings Tota|ing
$215, ,138 During Season

Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane :
and her Brookmeade Stable,
At Upperville, will wind up the
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Fetes Debutante

Miss Esterbelle McHarg, debu-
tante daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry K. McHarg, was the
guest in whose honor Miss Mar.
guerite Lee entertained at a din
ner last evening, at her resi-.
dence in Newark Street. The
company numbered "a,
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To the West Indies

The Naval Attache of the
German Embassy. Capt. Robert
Wltthoeft, and the First Sec.
retary of the Embassy, Herr
Ernst Wilhelm Meyer, have
left Washington for 0 cruise
to the West Indies.
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Cocktail Partv

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B.
Wickes will entertain at a cock.
tail party this afternoon, as a
farewell previous to their de-
parture following New Year Day
for Florida en- route to Cali
fornfa, where they will spend
the greater part of the winter.
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No AT Home"

Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman
will not be at home tomorrow
afternoon, as is her custom on
Sundays.
X
The Minister of Norway, Mr..
Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen.
stierne, has gone to New York
and will return to the Capital
on Monday.
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To Michigan

Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis A. YoSt
left today for Ann Arbor, Mich,
where they will spend the holi-
day week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Fielding Yost. They will return
to the Capital early in January.
x
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Hayne
Ellis have been Joined in their
apartment at the Shoreham by
their daughter, Miss Lucia Ellis,
vino attends the Masters School
at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y; their sons,
Robert Ellis, from Yale: Long
Ellis. from st. Georges School
Newport, R. l.. and Hayme Ellis.
jr., who attends st. Johns
School at Annapolis. all of whom
will remain through the holi.
days.
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University. The bride, who is a
graduate of Byrn Mawr, took
her Junior year at the Sorbonne,
and she also studied abroad at
the Universities of Nancy and
Vienna.
Dinner Hostess
Mrs. H. A. Dodge entertained
at dinner last evening at the
Shoreham in compliment to her
daughter, Miss Dorothy Dodge.
and a small group of the latters
friends, before the washington
Assembly.
The Minister Of Czechoslo-
vakia, DR.. Ferdinand Veverka,
has left on an official trip to
Havana, Cuba. where he will re.
main until the end of this
month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
A WARNING

A N excellent textbook for any one puzzled
L \ by the tragic turmoil which sweeps Eu-
rope these days might be Carlyles French
Revolution"
To be sure, Carlyle wrote it something like
100 years ago. But it isn't out of date, even
so. For the same lesson which he drew from
his study of the French revolution can be
drawn from the confused and bloody mess in
Europe today
The French revolution had many causes
and many effects and it was accompanied by
some very horrible happenings; but it illus
trated, said Carlyle, one great truth-that
lie can n6 endure forever.
1t showed, in other words. that if men
get their affairs into a hopelessly unsound
and unjust tangle, and fail to muster the in
telligence and the unselfshness necessary to
straighten them out, forces beyond human
control eventually will break loose in kind
of explosion an explosion which destroys good
and bad things alike and visits catastrophe
upon saint as well as upon sinner
All Of this somehow, seems to apply with
terrible force to the upheaval which today
rends Europe.
4HeSe I1OCS IN france ana austria, these
rumors of war and revolution, this massing of
troops along boundary Hnes-they didn't hap
pen just because men suddenly got perverse
and irritable over nothing.
They came, just as the French revolution
came, because human affairs had got into
dreadful mess, and because great masses of
people became convinced that nothing but
violence ever would straighten them out
The supreme folly of the World war; the
almost equal folly of the peace treaties the
stubborn inability OF men in high places to
see that repression and injustice never can
pave the way for anything but troubIe-these
are the direct and logical causes of the present
disasters.
There still is time to avoid the worst con-
sequences. Treaty revisions, removal of the
artificial economic barriers which condemn
men to starvation in the midst of plenty.
liquidation Of oppressive relationships and
Encouragement along equitable lines of ma
tional boundaries, would make possible a
peaceable solution Of ETope's troubles.
But if the rulers of Europe lack the cour-
age and the vision to apply such measures,
one only can remember Carlyles warning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
TASTE OF HARD WORK

THEREAFTER all boys and girls who desire
to enter German universities must serve
at least six months in the Nazi labor camps,
toiling with pick and shovel Just like any pro-
letarian wage Garner.
This ruling Just has been announced by
Nazi authorities in Berlin, and in many ways
it looks like an excellent idea
The lad who is permitted to attend a uni
versity is privileged He is fitting himself for
lifelong emancipation from back-breaking
physical toll. 1t is not Dad scheme this one
which would require him first to find out by
actual experience just what manual labor is
like
1t not only might help him to understand
the viewpoint and the problems of those less
fortunate than himself; it ought also to help
him see how lucky he really is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
FIRST SIGN OF SPRING

THE month of February is hardly more
- than half over and. according to the CAL
endar, winter still has about month of life
But peculiarly American harbinger of spring
already is in the air. Stories about the big
league baseball teams are beginning to appear
in the papers again.
Along about this time every winter base
ball starts TO stir out of its long Information.
We read that such and such a club will set
out presently for its spring training in such
and such q town, that so and so has signed
his contract, that Joe Whoozis still is a hold
out, and that Manager Whatzit figures his
team will land in the first division next fall
And although spring still may be quite a
way off, by the calendar. We know. as we read
these stories, that winters back has been
broken. 1t won't be long now. When the
baseball stories begin to pop. spring is Just
around the corner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
RISING FARM PRODUCTS

BUSINESS statistics usually make pretty
~ dull reading. But the average of whole
sale commodity prices, compiled recently by
the bureau of labor statistics, is something
that is well worth glancing at for moment.
This average now stands at the highest
level since 1881. Furthermore, it becomes evil
dent that the greatest gains of all have been
registered by farm products, which are up so
per cent over their level of one year ago, and
by textiles, which have gone up 40 per cent
in the same period.
This reflects direct and substantial i'm
provement in the position of the American
farmer. 1t puts more money into his hands,
it means that industrial markets are going to
be wider, it means that debts which looked
very bad a year ago are going to be good.
And if it is true as the economists say,
that general prosperity must have healthy
agricultural industry for a base, it means that
American recovery is getting established on
the right kind of foundation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
MY MOTHER WAS A LADY

DEFORE the days when crooners whispered
- through the nose and mike and rhythm
was set for snake hips. there was an age of the
popular song in America. In that quaint age
Americans actually played the piano and sang,
instead of turning on the radio to accompany
a bridge game.
And if a good song came along it lasted for
year, for many years-for it was not blared
from every loud-speaker every hour of every
day and every night until the fans were ready
to murder the next repeater 1t has been OBJ
served that few are afraid of the big bad wolf,
but many are damn sick of it. We record this
with regret because he was such nice thing
to have around-the first O01 times
This longing for the good old days when
songs were songs and Tin Pan Alley was no
synthetic studio. before sob stuff acquired an
English accent and honest dirt got filthy. was
revived in us by Edwards B. Marks They All
Sang" Viking). This is a swell book about
the has-beens. which are always coming back
Take Back Your Gold" Tell Me, Pretty
Maiden" My Mother Was a Lady," Side
walks of New York." Under the Bamboo
Tree "Alexander's Ragtime Band" Banks of
the Wabash and hundreds more.
For more than thirty years Marks has been
publishing, writing and plugging" the popular
songs of America, or has known those who did.
Now he writes about the business. about the
people in it. about Tony Pastors, the theaters
and the singers.
If you want to see and hear the Mae Vests
before they went Hollywood. read They All
Sang"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
MONDAY. FEB. u. 1894
KING ALBERT

THE death of King Albert Of Belgium on
4 a mountainside was untimely and tragic,
yet it was a fitting end to his life. He lived
as a king, or any one else should, boldly.
In appearance he resembled the old Morse
men who once ruled his land.
But he was Europe's most modern mon
arch.
Our prosperity" he said as he assembled
the throne. depends upon the prosperity of
the masses"
One Of his first acts was to abolish human
slavery and reform conditions in the Belgian
Congo, made infamous under the reign Of his
uncle, Leopold II. To know conditions among
his own working people he took jobs in the
mines. drove railway trains and learned at
first hand of the machine age. He was proud
est of his ability as a mechanic. and loved
to fly.
Though not a war-maker, when his country
was invaded he personally led his troops in
a hopeless defense and three times narrowly
escaped death. He hated pomp and pretense.
He greatly admired our Lincoln and the
Roosevelts. Among his friends were the So
cialists, Vandervelede and Verhaeren.
1t is one of Europe's many paradoxes that
Albert of the Belgians was more a man of the
people than the Fascist dictators who have
risen to lord it over their fellows in savage
absolutism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

livery man is the victim of his
II parents. And every woman,
too, for that matter.
Which is to say that the great
est good we ever can do our chill
dren is to free them, as soon as
possible, from our misconceptions.
Because nothing is farther from
truth than the prevailing idea
that our own beliefs are the cor
rect ones.
Though we fondly imagine we
are filling the minds Of our in
fants with dependable and imper-
ishable ideals, the chances are
they will make no progress in life
until they have abandoned. dis
carded. deliberately repudiated,
most of the dognas which we
have held dear.
The mother, for example. who
rears her child virtuously and du-
tifully in the sanctifled faith of
a beloved creed will have bound
it hand and foot to a formula
which may be without real mean
ing or vitality for the child-who
will be obliged to live in a world
with religions different from those
which satisfied its parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19

T LIKEWISE the woman who in
IL stills within her daughter a
Servile submission to a social code
is selling her down the river into
mental slavery which will re-
strict her in many ways more than
any physical bondage.
During the lifetime Of the wan
ing generation all good men taught
their boys that the business codes
Of that day were the only sue
ceSSfu ones. They have, there
fore, untitled their sons for ad-
justment to the new order which
is already upon us, and which
must be understood and accepted
by the ajority Of men before it
can succeed.
The only valuable knowledge is
that which is self-acquired. We
may repeat the axioms Of a for
mer day but until we are able TO
apply them to our own problems
they are Of no use to us.
This is why I repeat that the
parent who does not recognize the
changes forever going on in the
social order, in politics, business
and religion, is the parent who
will betray and hamper the de-
yelopment Of his children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
CROP REDUCTION

IT was obvious from the outset that once the
federal government set out to pay bounties
on land taken from cultivation in cotton
once it started to plan our production of cot
ton-it neither could retrace its steps nor
permit recalcitrants to raise havoc with the
whole scene.
So now. in the second season of the agri-
cultural adjustment administrations cotton
program. it is being forced to embrace compul-
sion to make the plan a success. 1t has taken
this step reluctantly, and then only because of
President Roosevelts prodding
The Presidents decision is based on a poll
taken in the south. indicating that vast
majority want the principle of compulsion
written into law This, incidentally. seems to
indicate that lot of people in the past have
been inaccurate observers. If cotton farmers
were the great individualistS they have been
pictured compulsion would be abhorent to
them Now, apparently they are ready to
accept 1t.
The voluntary control program in cotton
always has been threatened by three dangers:
Planting of more cotton by nonco-operators to
get the higher prices created by the very
program they didn't accept; foreign compe-
tition. and finally, the weather and the boil
weevil. There was in addition. the auxiliary
fear that intense cultivation of acres retained
in production would result in crops far in ex-
cess of estimates.
OF these. the fear that recalcitrants would
upset the whole plan apparently caused the
President to indorse the bill Of the Bankhead
brothers to compel cooperation in the cotton
acreage reduction scheme
Despite protests from many sources. COM
pulsion seems about to become a certainty.
It promises to raise fundamental problems af-
fecting the whole recovery program.
But if results are good. it's better than an
even bet that compulsory reduction eventually
will be applied to our other major farm crops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19

They find that had the forest underground
remained on the hillside, the rainfall would
have been stored instead Of running OF the
hills in torrents.
And so forest protection becomes matter
Of hfe-saving.
Fortunately we have in Washington an ad-
ministraton which appreciates the urgent i'm
portance to the nation Of forest conservation.
1t is hard at work trying to make up for the
neglect Of past administrations.
The money it spends for the civilian con-
servation corps, at work making the forests
safer, is one Of the pest investments ever made
by a national government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
The Sun Is RiSin,g

BY Times Reader.
1t should not be necessary to
say one word in defense of the
CWA program, but daily perusaI
of your personal comment column
shows that there exists a type of
person who does not believe in
the old adage Of live and let
live" May God substitute for
their lack Of human kindness, at
least the faculty of keeping their
mouths shut.
Such statements as 1--WE will
have to pay the taxes caused by
this work in the long run" the
CWA is nothing but vote-getting
by dollars idea" etc, are the
statements of marrow" people.
The writer speaks from authority
as he has been working as a time
keeper on four different projects
since this work began.
He too, thought he knew Of the
misery and heart breaking exist
anCe these millions of people af-
fected by the CWA were forced to
bear, but neither words nor no
picture could paint what they
really had to undergo for their
daily substance. If for only one
day, the enemies of the most hui
manitarian effort ever made by
man, could exchange places with
these men and their loved ones,
then there would be a far diff
ferent tune.
The writer has heard the re-
mark time after time, that if the
government had not done some
thing to relief their pitiful exist
ance, they would not hesitate to
take any means to better them
selves, children and wives.
AS to the petty graft Of which
the CWA often is accused, it can
not be denied it does not exist.
It exists only in a fractional
amount. Patronage on both sides
has been INDUCED in; union Or
CARNATIONS have used the utmost
pressure in promoting the we'll
being Of their membership; quail
fed skilled workmen have been
denoted to laborers because of
petty jeaIousies, but all Of this
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can and has to be expected as long
as human beings guide the des-
TIMES of mankind.
I am a married man, the sole
support Of small family, now
working for the small sum Of
$1385 a week, but I thank God
for that. I am no different than
thousands of others who at one
time held good paying positions. I
have more than ten years eXpe-
rience as a newspaper nan, but
have been unable to find work in
five states. Let some Of those
"squawkers" get out and try to
hoe the road like we have-in
silence.
AS to Mr.. Ditzenberger and
Mr. Dirks, the two young men
who have such an active part il
the Marion county CWA organ
izaion, let it be said that this
writer's observation leads him to
think that they play the game
square. I never knew the men
before this work commenced, nor
did they have any bearing in get
ting me a Job" but their accus-
erS are wrong. Chamber of Com
merce connections, notwithstand-
ing, and 1 know q few things
about those organizations, both
here and elsewhere; they are try
ing to do a good job. I know one
thing to be a fact, and that is
that they will not let individuals
or unions influence them against
former basket men.
I would appreciate your using
as much Of this copy as you can.
1t brings mist to my eyes when I
hear daily the troubles of more
than 200 men, notwithstanding sto-
rieS Of sickness, death, no clothes.
no coal, forced to move because
they could not pay Sc a month
rent on some shack and still fur
nish the barest of necessities to
keep soul and body in one place.
1t is a pitiful picture, but the
sun is slowly rising for these men.
May God be good to President
Roosevelt and the men who have
made this work possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
MONEY GROWS ON TREES

7 Asst November a forest fire burned over
= the hills back Of Los Angeles. destroying
trees. chaparral and other underground
Last January rain OF no particular sever
ity on these same hills caused food which
killed forty-one persons and DESTROYED $1,000
900 worth of property.
A definite connection between the two
events has been established by the soil erosion
service the geological survey. the forest service
and the Los Angeles food control district.
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for anything at the Indianapolis
Athletic CIub?) and compete with
taxpayers and hotel owners, so Why
should they be allowed to be slack
erS in these hard times?
1t is impossible to sell property
these days, as it is much cheaper
to rent than to own.
Then, another subject is: Why do
we pay good money for so-called
teachers to instruct our children to
play Indians, etc., Cook at any
newspaper for photos showing these
things when most Of these children
neither can spell nor add? The