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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-09

| PIANO upright apartment size. mahogany
case will sell cheap for cash or terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-09

CHILD'S STROLLER, dark blue, excellent
condition Also 3-year size tricycle.. Phone
Cleveland OS45, Apt. 500.
CHRISTMAS TREES for sale at 1Oc each
on the stump. c. Geo. Taylor. 939 M NV.
DIST 4lG3.
The Washington times., 1934-05-08
IntrOductiOnS

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
Do you think the form which
is commonly used in an intro
duction, Mrs. Brown, this is
Miss Black" is correct, or
should we say. MRS. Brown,
may I present Miss Black?
READER.
Either form is correct under
circumstances. The first form
of introduction, MRS. Brown,
this is Miss Black" is quite
all right to use for an informal
introduction, an introduction
that obviously we wish to make
casual. The form of "this is"
used in an introduction, is OF
an intimate type, the form used
in family introductionS and in
other informal introductionS.
The form, Mrs. Brown, may
I present Miss Black" would be
an excellent form to use when
we wish to make the introduc-
ton a ver.' important one, for
instance, when Mrs. Brown is
a woman much older than Miss
Black, or is a woman of special
distinction. This would, for ~
stance, be the perfect form to
use If we were presenting a
debutante (MiSs Black to Mrs.
Brown.
We show ourselves as an espe-
cially accustomed and knowing
person If we pay special atten-
ton to the iSSuanceS of introduc.
tion forms appropriate to the
occasion at hand. Added to
The Washington times., 1934-05-08
TODAy'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Frank Frisch, the we'll
known ball player?
25-CroSses
27-Who was the founder Of the
Salvation Army?
29-Period Of time
31-Anglo-Saxon money Of &C
count
34-What state did Athens SUP
plant as the leading state in
ancient Greece ?
36-Feminine name
37-Fiber obtained from the
century plant
38-Emphasis
40-1ndependently
42-Infant
44-Mature
40 Secluded narrow valley
47-Arabian chieftain
50-Air hero
51-FuSS
54-Exclamation
56-Note of the scale
The Washington times., 1934-05-08
HORIZONTAL

I-Who wrote THE Call Of the
Wild?
6-What is the capital Of Mon.
tana?
12-Concerning
14-Upright piece Of a step from
tread to tread
15-Note of the scale
16-Who collaborated with Sir
Arthur Sullivan in the writ
ing of the So-called Savoy
operas?
19-Plural pronoun
20-Worm
22-Sources Of being
23-Swampy land
24-EXpenSive
26-Wing
27-Violent wind Of the Adriatic
2S-Highway
Sentative Of Morocco
32-1n eager desire
33-Drove
35-ParadiSe
37-Narrow road
39-Cooking utensils
41-Japanese sash
43-Male red deer
45-Able
46-Trritate
Coordination Of Russian
workers
49-Egyptian sun god
EO-Mobile is the only seaport
of what State?
52-Hebrew letter
63-Mark left by thing pass
ing
65-WaSteS time
67-What was the center Of
/ Greek culture in ancient
T times
ES-Moans
The Washington times., 1934-05-08
Correct Manners
By Walt Disney
By Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

these forms that you mention
is the one in which it seems
appropriate to mention only the
names of the women whom we
are introducing. This Is the
usual form, Of course, MRS.
Brown, Mrs. Black"
Engagement Party
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
I have an invitation to a
party in a nearby city, which
is to be in honor of an en-
gagged couple. I have met the
young lady only once, but see
the young man daily at bust.
ness. Must I take a gift? If
so, what would you suggest?
I don't know whether it is to
be a shower. I was hopeful
that a wedding gift would be
the only expenditure that
would be necessary. The we'd
ding will take place in late
SpL LA1lS.
Does the young lady or her
escort suggest the after-theater
supper. K.
Under the circumstances. j..
since you have met the young
lady only once, and since it
was not made definite that the
party is to be a shower. . L do
not think that you will be ex-
pected to take a gift. And
since the wedding is to be so
soon, I'd suggest that you con-
centrate on the wedding gift.
The young lady's escort Sug-
geStS the after-theater supper.
It Is he who is the host, and
therefore it is he who suggests
the hospitality invitation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
The Merit System
A Call to Action


"The need for legislative action which uOiH
virtually all Federal positions from the grasp Of the
spoilsman and place them under the civil service
neUer has been palmer than it is today.
"The ideal of Federal public service which uOiN BE
of maximum service to the taxpayers Of the Nation;
at minimum of expense, Oiu be realized until
steps are taken make impossible the Of
present conditiOns'
With these words Luther c. Steward president of the
National Federation of Federal Employees sounds the call
for vigorous campaign to eliminate the vicious spos sys
tenn from the Governments office
It is which deserves the hearty and active support
of every taxpayer in the country.
The fight to make merit and political preference the
standard employment in the Government service is
primarily fight which should be carried by those
employed by Government although they should and
doubtedly will do their share
But the question of merit spoils" which par
ticuay deserves the attention of the average citizen the
who pays the salaries of the Government workers.
THE TAXPAYER DESERVES TO KNOW THAT WHEN
HIS DOLLAR IS BEING SPENT FOR SALARIES 1T IS
BEING SPENT FOR THE SALARIES OF MEN AND
WOMEN QUALIFIED TO CARRY OUT THE TASKS AS
SIGNED TO THEM.
have that knowledge unless civil service require
ments imposed upon every possible Government job.
The spos system has had steady growth in Washington
and in the field in recent years.
The expansion Of Government service in the last
particularly has taken place without regard to merit
qualification for appointment That of course, does not
that meritoous individuals have been given jobs
but does that the protection which the public de-
serves has not been given. 1885,. 49,.
Under the circumstances President Steward performing
public duty, duty not required by his office vet
leader Of Government employees but which is
quired by his being American citizen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09

THE WASHINGTON published
O
D. ing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
Bureaucracy Causes Friction
In Navy Department
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

They continue to have their
"home ports" on the East Coast.
It has been announced that
the United States Fleet will re-
turn to the West Coast in the
autumn. This means that the
dependents of naval officers
assigned to some destroyers of
the fleet will be given transport
tation from the East to the
West Coast but that officers
assigned to other destroyers
ordered to the West Coast will
be denied this transportation.
There is no justice in this
discrimination. 1t flouts the
plain intent of the Congress.
It is typical of the kind of dis
elimination that results not
only in the Navy Department
but in other executive depart
ments where bureaucratic sub
ordinates seem to mistake the
American system of government
for a government of men, when
it was designed to be govern
ment of law.
The Secretary of the Navy
has power to end this discrim-
ination, which affects not only
the families of many naval
officers but also the Pacific
Coast States. He can end 1t
by designating San Pedro and
San Diego as "home ports" for
vessels of the Scouting Force
as long as the Scouting Force
remains on the Pacific Coast.
The common explanation of
the failure of the Secretary of
the Navy to put a stop to this
discrimination, which started
under the Hoover adminiStra-
ton, is that more money would
then be required for payment
of the transportation and that
Congress might not grant the
money.
The fact is that the Navy
Department never asked Con-
gress for the necessary funds.
It has no right to assume either
the refusal of Congress to dis
charge it's responsibility by au-
thorlzing the small additional
amount necessary to treat all
naval officers fairly in this mat
ter, nor has it the right to as
sumo the responsibility for an
injustice that might result from
the failure of Congress to do
its duty.
The Navy Department is not
Congress. The executive
branch of Ethe Government Is
not the legislative branch. And
the respective duties of the two
branches would never be con-
fused were it not for the in
creasing tendency in the execu-
tive branch to substitute a gov
eminent of men for a govern
ment of law.
Copyright. 1884, The Washington TimesI
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09

There is one aspect of the
New Deal Administration which
is causing increasing apprehen-
sion among some of it's most
sincere supporters, who happen
also to be lifelong Democrats.
This is the tendency in GER
tain executive departments and
agencies, by administrative in
depreciation and otherwise, to
substitute a government of men
for a government of law.
Many instances could be cited
of this dangerous tendency.
The most fragrant offender
in this respect has long been
the office of the Comptroller
General. The example set by
the Comptroller Generals office
has now begun to have a bad
effect on the executive depart
ments. Because the Comp
troller Generals office so fire.
ouently substitutes bureaucratic
Interpretation for the plain in
tent of the Congress, certain
executive officials appear to
feel free to follow this sinister
example.
A case in point has arisen
with regard to the transporta-
ton allowed by the Federal Gov.
eminent for the dependents OF
naval officers, which is typical
of many cases in other depart
ments.
The law provides that when an
officer is ordered from duty at a
station or on board ship to a
new post of duty, ashore or
afloat, he shall receive transpor-
tation for his family and for his
household goods to the new sta
ton to which he is ordered. In
ali cases of officers ordered to
sea duty, the practice is to fur
nish transportation for the FAM
lilies to the home yard" or home
port" of all vessels.
Discrimination Present
vessels of the Battle Force are
assigned to home yards" at
Mare Island, Cal, and at Bre-
merton, Wash. These battle
ships, cruisers and destroyers
are assigned a "home port" at
San Pedro or San Diego.
If an officer on shore duty at
an Atlantic port is ordered to a
DESTROYER of the Battle Force. this
destroyer has a "home port" at
San Diego and a "home yard at
Mare Island. This means that
the officer can obtain tranSpor-
tation for his family to cover
the journey from Washington to
San Diego or Mare Island.
Since 1882, the cruisers and
destroyers of the Scouting Force.
now on a visit to New York.
have been based at San Pedro
and San Diego as home ports"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
Bank Aid NOW!
Delay Is Amazing


The delay which marks the action the deal
ing with the victims of the closed bank disaster strange
contrast the speed with which the Government has moved
to alleviate the distress of other groups of czenry
The banking collapse brought to head than
year ago when banks failed reopen after the gen.
eral moratorium.
Since then comparatively little has done clean up
the situation which created when licenses issued
to many of the banks.
About five months ago Representative Clarence Mcleod
of Michigan began his vigorous campaign obtain the passage
Of legislation which would clean the bank situation and at
the time promote recovery and economic sterilization
Representative McLeods program has made considerable
progress since that time but part it has yet been written
on the statute books
A CONGRESS WHICH HAS VOTED THOUSANDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BE SPENT IN EVERY CON-
CEIvABLE DIRECTION HAS HEs1TATED AND B1CK-
SUM IN THE PURCHASE OF THE ASSETS OF THE
CLOSED BANKS
Much of the money which Congress has authorized to be
spent has gone and will go directly from the Treasury without
any hope expectation of its return.
The money which Representative Mcleod asks be advanced
would least have the merit Of being backed by reasonable
security.
fairly large proportion if ALL would be returned
Treasury through the ultimate sale of the acquired
In the meantime the money would be actually at work.
ing PERMANENT RECOVERY.
would be sabzng the markets for the which the
Government would buy
would be giving the individual depositors "oe
hold recovery enisting them in army of
buyers.
WHY SUCH PROGRAM SHOULD BE Baked WHILE
MILLIONS ARE POURED OUT FOR LESS QUESTIONABLE
PROJECTS Is SIMPLY NOT UNDERSTANDABLE
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
The Human Side of the News
Stain Rules Russia With Iron Hand
BIZ EdWin C.. Hill

Thoughtful students of inter-
national affairs are more and
more convinced that the next
great war will be fought be-
tween Soviet Russia and Japan.
That war will be fought for the
mastery Of Asia. China lies
broken and dismembered. A
rich prey. Japan, selling Man
churia, throws up her first line
of defense against the Russian
hordes.
The Russian Bear stirs resent
fully under the iron hand of
that strange individual who
holds more absolute power to-
day than has been enjoyed by
any human being since the mad
monsters of Imperial Rome,
Joseph Stain. the man of steel.
In the hollow of his hand, he
holds the lives of two hundred
million people. Thousands have
died at. the nod of his head, at
the negligent gesture of his fin.
ger.
0minous Shadow
This man, who lives in the Sc
clusion of a village, casts an
oninous shadow across the face
Of the world. Born in misery
and darkness, he lays a seven
thonged knout across the bowed
back Of a coWed people, driving
them on, though wheels creak
and wrench, to what fate no
man knows. Who is he, this cold
Caesar of the Twentieth cen.
fury, whose mysterious ambi-
tons may wreck half the world?
He was first heard of when
he was a frowning, glowering
youth back in 1905. He took part
in the unsuccessful revolution of
that year. He pillaged, looted
and threw bombs.
Once, when bombs hurled
Cossack guards into struggling,
bleeding mass, he Snatched up
100000 rubleS consigned to a
Tiflis bank and got away. But
he robbed not for himself but
for the cause. Money seems to
mean nothing to him, nor the
ordinary comforts and luxuries
of life. Neither then nor now.
All those rubles went straight to
his leader, Nicolai Lenin.
He was arrested six times by
the dreaded Russian secret po-
lice. Five times he escaped and
the sixth time he was liberated
by the revolution of 1917.
The police yearned to hang
him. But he was too subtle.
The only offenses they could
pin on him were trivial. He con-
cealed his darker deeds with a
skill that the police could not
penetrate.
Lenin began to make good
use of him. But not even the
astute Lenin perceived the
craving for power gnawing in
the heart of Stain.
He reached out quietly for
the lines that controlled the
BolSheVik machine. Swagger-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09

can't be very formal, with so
many going right back to work
afterward. Just regular bus
mess clothes, probably. There'll
be only the regular bunch
there. You know, the cock
tail crowd!
Unless a stop is put to this
strange perversion of daytime
hours, we shall soon be seeing
little signs pasted in. the win
dow of our favorite breakfast
counters reading: Have you
had your matutinal absinthe
and wheat cakeS?" or when
you hear the signal, the time
will be exactly 10:45 a. m.
Time for our Special Char
treuse and Brandy Whooperoo!"
If the tea-rooms conducted ~
ladies want to celebrate cock
tail hour" at 2 p. m. that is
their own business, of course,
but they ought not to be so
doggy about it. They should
quite frankly come out with
signs saying: "Pick-Me-Up Hour!
Whisky Sours and Bismark Her
ring for Receding Heads!" or
Don't try to last the afternoon
out in your condition. A silver
fizz will at least keep your hat
on" Don't be so delicate in
the matter. Come right out for
the hangover trade.
But please, please, don't ask
us older boys to look at signs
reading Cocktail Hour" just as
we are going back to work frQR
lunch. We have got mems wc'H
in the world to do.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
They're Americans
If Their Mothers Are

Equal rights for women is still far realization But
another step this direction taken by the Federal Equaza
ton Bill which gives equal rights with in ques
tions relating to citizenship and naturalization.
BY this Federal American womans child born
outside the United States may become American citizen
when the husband is not citizen Previously citizen
ship could be derived only from the male parent
The equalization of rights is wise and sensible An
American woman already enabled by law to keep her citizen
ship no matter whom she marries should have the right
transmit her citizenship to her children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
COCKTAIL HOUR
BY Robert Benchley

1t is all very we'll for New
York and other large cities to
go cosmopolitan in their new
found freedom, and to sit at
sidewalk. cafes in the spring
time, slipping their apertifs and
demi-blondes. That was to be eX-
pected with Repeal.
But I must, merely as a pass
er-by, ask ladies who run tea
rooms not to put signs reading:
Cocktail Hour" in the windows
of their tea-shops at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. Two p. m. is
not cocktail hour" no matter
how you look at it. The very
suggestion is terrifying.
How would you like to be
walking along perfectly nor
NAL street, with the hot sun
beating down on your new straw
hat and a rather heavy corned-
Observation-Disclosures from
luncheon keeping step with you,
and suddenly to look up and
see, pasted on the window of
tea,shop, sign reading Cock
tail Hour?" I am just putting
the question to you as man to
man.
If the 2 p. m. is cocktail
hour" in a tea-shop, what do
you suppose 4::3O p. m. is? No
wonder those shops close early.
BY 9 they would be Shambles.
Do you suppose that the
habitues of these otherwise re-
spectacle places begin looking
at their watches along about
1870, just as they are finish
ing lunch, and say to each
other: Almost cocktail time
at the tea-room!", making a
little ceremony of it, the way
other people do at $50? 1t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09

ing Trotsky got the headlines,
but it was Stain, sitting like
a spider in the center Of his
web, who slowly and surely
accumulated power.
When Lenin lay dying, a
flash of insight came to him,
such as often visit souls that
cling only by a thread to this
world. He branded Stain as
ruthless man who would
eventually ruin the party.
Complete Mystery
But it was too late even for
the dying words of Lenin to
halt this supreme tyranc. Trot-
sky, Kamanev and zinoviev
plotted and schemed,. with cum
ming eyes on each other. Stain,
sure of his grip, eliminated
them one by one, until he be-
strobe helpless Russia like q
colossus.
Suspicious and resentful, the
faintest opposition brings exile,
prison or death. He lives in Cor
ky, a suburb of Moscow. The
house is heavily guarded.
When Stain leaves for his Of
flee in the Kremlin, he travels
in a closed sedan. Armed guards
precede and follow the car. I'm
doubtedly, Joseph Stain feels
that he is the last Of the Boil
Sheviki masters.
He's no loquacious orator. His
speeches are rather dry and mo-
notonous. He's no financial or
economic genius. If he has any
thoughts on literature or music
or any of the other arts, he
keeps them to himself. He lives
in complete isolation with his
30-year-old wife-his second
and their three children.
He gives his confidence to no
one, smokes, but doesn't drink
or gamble, and is said to hold
women in contempt as inferior
animals.
He is now 81, sturdy and Of
the peasant type. He goes
about in boots and rough
peasant garb. He makes a COM
plete mystery of his life.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09
WISE WORDS

Go to your bosom; knock
there. and ask your heart what
it doth know.
Force yourself to reflect on
what you read, paragraph by
Observation-Disclosures.
When men speak ill of thee.
live so as nobody may believe
them. -.
When sorrows come, they
come not single spies, but in bat.
talions.
The soul never grows Old
Longfellow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-09

One of the most monopoliStic
organizations in the world is
ready to function. 1t is the
Virgin Islands Company, which
will be financed with $1,0oO,000
capital from PWA funds.
controlling the great rum
industry and all other industries
of the Islands, the company
will be headed by three stock
holders. They are Secretary Of
Interior Harold Ickes, whose
department controls the Islands
and who is Public Works Ad-
ministratOr; Oscar L. Chapman,
and Paul M. Pearson, governor
of the Islands.
The ordinance which created
the company was adopted by
the Colonial Council of the
Island of st. Thomas and st.
John. 1t had been rejected by
the Council of the Island of st.
CroiX. Both islands are munich
palities in the Virgin Islands
and because of the adoption of
the ordinance by the st.
Thomas Council It will be
foisted upon the people of st.
Croix despite their opposition.
Under the terms of the
ordinance the company may
acquire, construct, build, equip,
administer and supervise build
ings, plants, factories, farms,
market agencies or any other
activities it desires. 1t may
buy, lease, sell, mortgage, as
sign or transfer, without re-
striction, real property of any
description.
1t may make any contracts
it wishes, borrow or lend
money, issue bonds, manufac-
ture any and all merchandise,
and carry on any business it
believes convenient" and ad-
visable.
The creating ordinance sets
up a government company, fl
nanced originally by govern
ment funds, to have an absO-
lutte monopoly over all indus
tries of the Island regardless
of the wishes of the people,
The company may and will
carry on the business of refin-
ing sugar and making rum
which is the greatest industry
of the Islands.
In addition to the three stock
holders, and only three shares
of stock are to be issued, the
ordinance provides for a board
of directors. But the directors
are to be elected by shareholders
1ckes. Chapman and Pearson.
The check on the purchases,
expenditures. and profits of the
company will be made by the
directors who have access to
the books. But the directors are
to be elected by the share
holders. A yearly financial
statement will be issued.
The ordinance says that
profits are to be used for the
economic rehabilitation" of the
Islands. AS for economic re-
habilitation." there appeared in
an Island newspaper, the
Emancipation, when the ordi-
nance was under consideration,
the following statement:
"The peoples only hope is
that the bill be not passed and
to this end they went to the
churches and prayed to the
Lord to save them from the
trap Of slavery and the hands
of IckeS and Pearson as trustees