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into bars, then revalued so that each
dollar contains between fifty and sixty
per cent of the gold which law now
specifies 1t shall contain. The treas
ury itself will receive the profit of
the transaction.
The chief opposition, constructive,
will come from the silver group who
demand provision for free coinage.
and from the group who desire an
amendment creating federal bank
with powers to coin and issue money
and regulate its value. They point
out that their plan is not inconsistent
with the Presidents plan. that it will
remove this all-impOrtant power
from hands of private bankers and
the Federal Reserve system, and that
it will eventually mean the circula
ton of only one kind of money, under
supervision that will guarantee closer
devotion to the public interest.
Whether or not this central bank
idea makes much progress in cOnnec-
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plight of that economic group, and to
speed formulation of an emergency
relief program as we'll as of long
time remedial plan.
1t is hoped that the administration
can be persuaded to broaden it's orig
inal plan for a $1O0,OOO,OO0 fund, obvi-
ously inadequate to do any real good.
Through elimination of part of the
surplus national herd by way of tu-
berculosis eradication and also by
transplanting a portion of the herd
surplus to southern states which are
not now in the marketable area for
dairy goods, spokesman for the dairy
farmers hope that an appreciate be-
ginning can be made, and that some
federal funds can then be made avail
able for the farmers who are not for
tunately located in the milk sheds
which supply the larger cities.
All recognize that the markets for
dairy products depend in large meas
ure on the restoration of the national
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ton with the present measure, in
terest in 1t Is rapidly increasing, and
1t will in turn be major issue when
the opportunity to consider it ma
turely is reached.
The bill, as stated also. provides
for the setting aside of two billion
dollars out of the devaluation profits
for the purchase and sale of gold,
foreign exchange and government Sc
curities. This is similar to funds es-
tablished by Great Britain and France
through the use of which they regu-
lated the value of their currency on
foreign exchange, and through use of
which they so successfully pegged our
dollar at its high rate with the con-
SeQuent commercial handicap to this
nation.
1t is the administration hope that
by use of this fund in similar opera
tions, our foreign exchange advan-
tages will reappear. with the result
ant recapture of foreign markets and
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with the wholesome effect at least
upon those commodities of which we
sell our surplus abroad. That school
Of thought also insists that the ex-
change rate in general governs the
level of all commodity prices, but the
writer has never been fully convinced
of the Justification for that belief
This fund Is also designed to be
used for buying and selling our fed
eral bonds and securities, thereby
maintaining their price at or near
par. Clearly, the administration is
determined that If hostile banking
groups and financial combinations at
tempt to discredit this inflationary
movement by flooding the market
with government securities in the
hope of beating down their price, as
was done with Liberty Bonds, and re-
purchasing at the lower levels, this
fund will be used to protect the fed
eral credit and prevent such deflation
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and gambling with the exchange or
with the dollar itself.

and gambling with the exchange or
with the dollar itself.
Consequently, those who have been
demanding controlled expansion of
currency and credit may now right
fully feel that the vital step has been
taken, and look forward to the actual
Increase in money which will doubt
less be ordered soon after the new
law is in effect. 1t is rumored, how
ever, that the large banking groups
which always assist the Treasury in
floating and underwriting it's bond
issues have demanded that there be
no printing press" money, under
threat of refusing to cooperate in
flotation of the huge bond issue this
spring.
Representatives of the northwest
dairy industry have been active dur
ing the past week in assisting their
members of the Senate and House
to impress upon the Agriculture De-
partment and the AAA the desperate
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THE NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
By CONG. JOHN PAUL KvALE

The Presidents bill for revaluing
the dollar and setting up the huge
sterilization fund, passed this week
by the House and slated for early &C.
ton in the Senate, has been referred
to by many members as the most i'm
portant measure that has been before
Congress in the present century.
Whether it justifies that description
or not, it is surely the greatest among
the administration so-called recov-
cry measures.
All gold now passes into the United
States treasury which heretofore has
been in monetary circulation or which
has been used as reserves for money.
Coins will be melted down and cast
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buying power, and that in the mean
time only the most vigorous steps can
show any appreciable results. But
in the meantime the dairy situation,
in company with the beef cattle in
dustry. grows more acute, and diff
ficulty continues in finding a work.
able solution.
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Her Father: l doubt very much
whether you would be able to sup
port my daughter. / can hardly do
it myself.
The Sutton brightly: Let's pool
our resOurceSi
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did you offer consolation to that
young widow" asked one citizen Of
another. Eyes, l told her that black
was very becoming to her complexion"
he replied.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
THIEVES VISIT
LIQUOR STORES

Three store windows containing
liquor displays were smashed last
night and a quantity of liquor
taken from two of them. The third
window contained liquor bottles
filled with colored water.
At the Albany Pharmacy, Sew,
teenth and K Streets Northwest,
the thief used a cast iron mo
parking" sign to break the win
dow. and got away with two pints
of the popular fluid. Third pre-
cinct police arrested William
Ennis 25, of the 1900 block of K
st. N. w., who was found in front
of the smashed pharmacy window.
Robert j. Franklin, proprietor
of the Ben Franklin Liquor Store
near the pharmacy took no
chances with his display, and the
thief there got 18 bottles of col
ored water.
At a drugstore in the 900 block
of Seventeenth st. N. w., how
ever, the thief was more success
full. He got Is pintS of liquor,
five quarts of wine and one quart
of rum.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
BUDGET GROUP
HEARS CHIEFS

Temporarily putting aside the
Blanton plan for substantially re-
ducing the District budget, the
House Appropriations D. c. sub
committee today resumed hearing
testimony of departmental Off
cials.
First to be called was Riley
Elgen, acting chairman of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission. He was
to be followed by the Commission
ers and heads of various depart
ments, including the board of
examiners, department Of insur-
ance and the surveyors office.
The subcommittee yesterday pro-
ceeded only two more pages
through the 3O0-page budget, be-
ing delayed by consideration of
the Blanton plan.
Under that proposal, admins
trative salaries would be reduced,
some offices abolished completely
and additional revenue obtained
by passage of inheritance, income
and motor vehicle weight taxes.
This, Representative Blanton de-
clares, would result in an annual
saving of $3,00O,O00 and permit re-
duction of the local tax rate from
$3.50 to 80 cents.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

Cant you cut out the airs
and the gestures? They make
me feel creepy. Then it'll be
okeh, I guess"
Pippin considered the advice
Of her nine-year-old critic as
though he were a veteran stage
director. She sat up long after
midnight agonizing over the
starry phrases that she loved.
They must go! In the end she
cut out all her airs and left only
two of her heartfelt gestures.
Lots BETTER" said young
Bruce.
"It's SWELL" offered Daaee,
who felt grown up in long pants
and his first attack of chivalry.
Secretly the boy longed to take
joins place in his sisters affec-
tions. cts a grand speech.
wish I could recite poetry the
way you do"
"Oh, you darling!" said the
young princess mistily.
They were tremulous days.
Pippin and Kathie were full of
problems and panic. They had
gone through school together and
now wondered anxiously if they
would make the same house at
college. New friends are never
as sweet as old! The whole glow
ing future moved upon them i'm
periously. Right use must be
made of it. Don't let them turn
you into empty little butterflies!
But would their gowns be right
and which bouquets to carry?
The Great Night
At last the confusion was
ended. The great night came.
All in white and with a white
strained smile on her lips, Pip
pin met her mothers happy,
miSted eyes.
"I'm so frightened, mother"
you'll make us all proud"
II hope so."
cav sure you will" from the
brothers. "Somebody'll see you
there and maybe give you job
in the movies!"
That sent Pippin up on wings.
She felt like young Joan leading
the world to glory. Some of the
gestures came back as she called
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
S4.000,O00 D. c.
RELIEF ASKED

Requests for supplemental ap-
preparations for relief and other
work during the next fiscal year
will be taken up at a conference
today between the District Com
missioners and Bureau of the
Budget.
The commissioners have asked
approval of supplemental esti.
mates totaling more than $4,000
900, to cover items for which no
provision is made in the District
appropriation bill which is now
before House committee.
The largest item in the supple
mentals is one of $2,7O0, 900 for
relief work. This, if granted,
would bring relief funds for the
Z coming year to a total of $4,000
600. as an item of $1,000, 900 is
included in the appropriation bill.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
PERMIT
REVOCATION
CASE Up
ABC Board Sets Hearing for
Monday; Overlook Co.
Involved in Sale

First hearings on revocation Of
liquor licenses will be held by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
next Monday afternoon.
The case involves the sale of q
case of whisky to a Fourteenth
Street restaurant which has an
application for a liquor license
pending.
Andrew M. Howsley, counsel to
the control board today served
notice on the Overlook Co., Inc,
wholesale liquor establishment
in the 700 block Ninth Street
Northwest, and Simon Stein, a
solicitor, to appear and show cause
why their licenses should not be
revoked because of the sale.
Under the District liquor law
wholesaler may not sell hard
liquor to any person who does not
hold a retail license.
Maj. Gen. H. P. Mccain, gover-
nor of the Soldiers Home, today
wrote to the District Commits
sioners, asking that no liquor Ii
censes be issued within two blocks
of the Home except for off-sale
of light wines and beer.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, public
librarian, also wrote to the Com
missioners asking that no license
be issued in the vicinity of the
library or it's branches. A re-
quest to issue no licenses in the
vicinity of st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital was also received.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
PROPERTY LAW
REVISE URGED

TWO changes in the law govern
ing disposal of property coming
into the hands of the police are
recommended in a letter received
today by Senator William H. King
CD of Utah, chairman of the
Senate District Committee, from
District Commissioner Melvin c..
Hazen.
One of the proposed changes
would increase from $50 to $1O0
the value of estates for which ad-
ministration papers must be OBJ
tanned from the property clerk OF
the Police Court.
Mr.. Hazen pointed out that this
change should be made because in
many cases the small amount OF
the estate is used up in the cost of
getting out the administration
papers.
The other change would reduce
from six to three months the pc
riod during which the property
clerk is required to hold certain
property, such as junked automo-
biles. before he can dispose of it.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
FINE ARTS BODY.
To VIEW SHAFT

Members of the Fine Arts Com
mission late today will inspect
the Washington Monument to
make definite plans for repairs
to the shaft, for which the PWA
has allotted 100000.
The commission today also
took under consideration arch4-
tectural designs for the proposed
administration building of the
Pan American Union. 1t is pro-
posed that this building be 10.
Gated on the triangle between
Constitution and Virginia Ave-
nues and Eighteenth and Nine
teenth Streets Northwest.
Additional architectural plans
were also taken under considera-
ton for extension of the Agricul.
ture Departments experimental
farm at Beltsville, Md This will
include research laboratory,
hospital, pumping station and
service building.
The commission took under ad.
visement sketches submitted for
the War Department barracks"
which will be situated near the
Naval Hospital. The barracks"
will be partly used for living
quarters and partly for offices,
it is understood.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
SESSION
TODAY PLANS
MADE WORK
Local CWA Body Faced by
Wage and Fund Problems in
Its Transfer to New Setup

Final plans for setting up the
proposed Works Division of
Emergency Relief will be drafted
today at a meeting of the works
planning committee of the local
Civil Works Administration.
Persons employed on CWA
projects will be transferred to
the new division April !, under
an order issued yesterday by
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Civil
Works Administrator, and CWA
projects which are not completed
by that time may be transferred
to the new setup.
Wages One Problem
One of the tasks of the COM
mittee is the selection of a wage
committee which will determine
the wage scale to be. paid by the
new division. This committee, Of
three members, will include repre-
Sentatives of labor, business, and
the relief organization.
It is expected that John Locher,
secretary of the Washington
Building Trades Council, will be
named as the labor member, and
that Capt. Howard F.. Clark, chair
man of the work planning COM
mittee, will represent relief units.
The business representative has
not been slated.
According to Captain Clark, the
5000 persons who will remain on
CWA rolls here March 81 will be
transferred to the works division
and continued on their jobs.
Other workers will be added as
they are sent to the committee by
relief officials.
Jobs For All Is Aim
1t will be the plan of the new
unit to give work to all employable
persons on relief rolls.
To accomplish this, new pro-
jects will have to be created when
the projects now under way or
planned have been, completed.
This feature also will be taken up
at today's meeting.
One problem of concern to Off
cials is the amount of money
which will be available for mate
rials. The made work" program
has exhausted the "pick and
shovel type of jobs which require
no materials.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Lost Property LGW
FOrD.C.FacesChdng

Lost and stolen property held
by the police property clerk would
be kept only three months instead
of six under the terms of a bill
introduced in the House today
by Representative Mary T. Norton
CD of New Jersey. chairman of
the House District Committee.
The bill was recommended by
the District Commissioners on the
ground that it would save the
Government money,
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with deep, impassioned earnest
ness:
LET us, born into this beau
tiful land where purple noun.
tain meets the golden sea, prove
worthy of our heritage. With
one aim, one purpose, one de-
sire, let us work to bring man
kind to noble, emancipated, re-
joicing brotherhood!"
Jonathan leaned forward and
wiped away tears. He sat there
like a mighty old king in new
tuxedo and brilliantine on his
muStache. Blinking and proud,
he nudged the stranger sitting
next him: my granddaughter.
sir! She composed that speech
all by herself-every word of
it,"
The two girls, all in a flutter,
came toward them. Pippin's
brothers, happy and important,
followed. They were loaded
with the flowers.
Then Jonathan bowed his
great head and whispered:
"Just like you were, Chickie-
girl. Just like you'll"
It made a strange tingling
up her neck. Grand old
Jonathan! Remembering only
her pride and beauty. Never
the hurt and shame.
Chickie Hides
Chickie pulled the brim of
her hat, not wanting David to
see her weep. But he leaned
(Coatinu, d on 2nd Comic Page
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Telegraph Company
Asks for ErenlDtiOn

Exemption Of communication
companies from the bill requiring
the licensing and registration of
all electricians in the District was
asked today by J. j. Lynch, gen.
eral superintendent of the Postal
Telegraph Gable Company.
Mr.. Lynch asked that an
amendment be added to the bill
providing for the exemption in a
letter to Representative Mary T.
Norton CD of New Jersey, chair
man of the House District Com
thittee.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Vet Administration
Dance Aids Named

Complete committees were ap.
pointed last night at a meeting
of the general committee to ar
range for the joint dance of the
veterans Administration and
General Accountng office
branches of Local No. 2, National
Federation of Federal Employees,
which is to be held Friday. April
6, at 2400 Sixteenth St., Mrs. AL.
bra E. Reising, general chairman,
announces.
The joint party will begin with
cards at 8 o'clock and dancing
will start at 8.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
NOW READ ON
CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XI
Pippin stood before her mirror With ringing voice and
dramatic she rehearsed her graduation speech It
noble effort asr with poetic phrase and lofty sen
ment:
Let be worthy of the beautiful setting into which the
great ArtistGod has placed us'
''Aw, that's roten-thats terrible!"
Pippin jumped.
Slowly young Bruce dragged himself from under her bed
Geeyoure vain, standing before mirror every night
and shouting face off, Guess you think you grand
"Who told you to sneak in and listen?"
Wel-I got here. I've been in the closet every night
except when late and had to peek at the door, 1t
lousy You better look out, they'll hiss
Pppn flung her hands against her face and burst into
tears. Bruce squrmed awkwardly.
"Wel-you don't need to cry about it. guess t's"not
that bad.'
It's idotic I want to die ~
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
True To
Type
Old Vaudeville
for OId-Timers
Wanted
By GILBERT SELDES

I get plenty Of entertainment
In one way or another and
enough disappointments, too.
But I wish that somebody would
turn back the hands of the
clock and restore old-fashioned
vaudeville. BY old-fashioned I
mean the vaudeville of about
eight years ago as it was known
on the Keith-Albee circuit.
It's no use telling me that
vaudeville exists in moving pic
ture houses. When I go to the
movies I resent even the inter-
ruption of an organist, and for
private reaSonS-I mean for the
comfort Of my companionS-I
never sing when words are
thrown on the screen.
The death of vaudeville strikes
strikes me as being unreaSon-
able. Actually what must have
been its last gasp was extra
ordinarily successful in New
York, when Lou Holtz was mas
ter Of ceremonies of a bill of
star acts which ran on week
after week and played to
crowded houses.
Vaudeville struck me as nearly
ideal entertainment. 1t had all
the virtues Of musical shows and
allowed you to miss the plot,
which is generally an advantage,
and it piled its talents up so
that even on a fairly good bill
there would not be more than
two dull numbers out Of a
dozen.
In the last years of vaude-
vile there was also kind of
easinesS which you can't get
in either a musical show or
in a movie short. I have seen
Joe Cook wander in on half
a dozen acts building them
up or breaking them down in
accordance with his mood of
the moment. I have heard
people kid the acts that went
before in very attractive
spirit, and most of all I
thought vaudeville an agree
able way Of spending less than
a whole evening and less than
q lot of money.
War and Christianity
So many books on current
problems are radical in tone
that to find a firm reaction
against radicalism rather
startles you. I have already
recommended the technical
side of Hoffman Nickerson's
"Can We Limit WARP" (StokeSO
think to most people the
surprise of the book i'll be
that it ends with the hope of
restoring a christian order"
Mr.. Nickerson, in fact, is
like his brilliant master, Hi
laire Belloc, and even writes
like him. saying that our an
cestors made the sword SYM
Dol mot only of dominion, but
order" and believing that "the
sword that shall establish our
peace will have its blade
straight and its hilt in the
form Of a cross"
Mr.. Nickerson, who is
realistic enough about the facts
of war, hates romanticism and
seems to believe that the pres
ent masters of Russia are
"atheist Moscow Jews" Stain
ought to hear about this.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
CFI(KIEO DAUOF7|Ek By EIenore Meherr
Graduation Excitement Ends and
Pippin Is Haunted With Sad
WistfuI Regrets
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

PRETTY Pippn daughter Chtcke KGhie McPke
Kevin M1lone a. physician
Listening describe plans Chicke
wondeS the fate DH beGu
her loDely daughter.
not to become butterfly she promises to
keep his image her heart Dhe he in Europe continuing his
studies.
Chicke Worried that her daughter into the strange
Dod OF DGDd strange bond
understanding ih his daughter comforts her, KeOn sails
and G0Grd Pppin meets Bill LODGE handsome
ensign
first letter Keutn makes her happy She writes OF her
oue for him in her diary.
She Dth KGthie dance Bills ship and is thrilled
By the youthful officers attention..
He tells her she is the retteSt girl the Dord Bill advises
Pppn not to acquire past Pippn refuses bracelet gift from
him.
EdlD1rd cautions Chickie and his mother against
their stupidity in raising their daughters He wh Katie
about her Pppin wreS long, pttUul letter to KeUn
saying "Why people spoil the word? IT DGsnt for I'd
D1nt die tonight things Gd She hoD
it might touch his heart
Pipptn wtes diary that
likes Bill but not the likes KeUin Bill spends his
last day on shore Nth Pppin. He kisses her,
Ptppin tells him she is oDe h else. Bill e1De With
Pippin watching from the shore.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
CHAMBER TO DINE

The next quarterly meeting O.
the Alexandria Chamber of Com
merce will be held between Apri
8 and 81, and will feature din
ner with prominent speakers, en-
tertainment and review of the
trade body's activities. Chester
G. Pierce is chairman of the com
mittee in charge.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
HOLY NAME BREAKFAST

Francis H. Fannon will be
toastmaster of the second annual
communion breakfast to be held
in the George Mason Hotel in
Alexndria Sunday by st. Mary's
Holy Name Society. Leo P. Har-
low will introduce the chief sueak-
er, Senator David I. Walsh of
Massachusetts.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Overturned Bakery
Truck IniureS Man

H. o. Daniels. of 211 West OK.
ford Ave, Alexandria, driver of a
truck for a Washington bakery,
received leg cuts and bruises yes
terday when his truck Skidded and
overturned on the Ft. Hunt Road.
He was treated at Alexandria Hos.
pital.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Senate
The Senate District Committee did not meet.

Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen proposes legislation
which would amend in two respects the law governing dis
posa of property coming into the hands Of the police
(Story this page.)
Senator Pat McCarran D) of Nevada will ask the
Senate Agriculture Committee to report his resolution call
ing for national investigation of the milk industry
recommended by the Secretary of Agriculture and the
Senate District Committee (Sory Page 2 this secon
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

Plans made for setting up the works program to
replace the CWA. (StOry this page)
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

The liquor board prepared hold hearings Monday the
first report of violation of the local license regulations
(StOry on this page)