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Evening star., 1934-08-21
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, SO, $3.50 pm. yesterday.
Year ago, 81. Lowest, so, $50 am.
today. Year ago, 81.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 1o1, on June 20. Lowest,
-61z, on February o.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, II per cent, at z am. to-
day. Lowest, SO per cent, at Z pm.
yesterday.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Fair and not
quite so cool tonight: tomorrow.
showers and slightly warmer; gen
tie, moderate northerly winds.
Maryland-Fsir, not quite 30 cool
In the interior tonight: tomorrow,
showers and slightly warmer.
virginia-Fair, not 30 cool In the
interior tonight; tomorrow, partly
cloudy and slightly warmer, probably
showers in north and west portions.
West virginia-Mostly cloudy, show
ers in west portion late tonight or
tomorrow and In east portion tonight;
slightly. warmer In northeast portion
tonight.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
LOST.

LOST.
Lost and Found ddUertisenents
for the daily Star DfH be accepted
Mondays to Fridays, inclusive. 10
to noon day Of issue. Saturdays
and legal holidays up to 10 am.
day OF issue. For the Sunday Star
up to II pm. Saturday.
BAR TIN-Diamond; vicinity Park road
between 14th and 18th sts.. Arcade Mar
ket. or bus going Varnum st. Call CO.
iumbia 2341. 1904 varnum. Reward.
BRACELET wATCH-Plstinum and dia-
Theater or in theater; reward. Shepherd
31a9.
BRIEF CASE-Black leather. upper style.
August 10. containing letters. papers and
only; letters are addressed to Eber w. JEFF
ferry. Return to Elsie. Jeffery at Bertha
hF RaFkfT s54s Beauty R.vsrS Shop 111s ST. Phone
BROWN PURSE containing glasses. etc.
on l4th st. car Monday morning. Reward.
Call Columbia S266.
CLOTHES AND BANK BOOK in taxicab.
night OF the 18th. Reward. 9Os Des-
DOG-small Boston bull. female; answers
to Patsy; strayed from 1871 goth st. NV.
Reward. Potomac 4317-W.
DOG. Eskimo spitz, male: Potomac
ReSI ssSdrJ 37OS SOth pl. me- Wash. D. p; G.
CLASSES. tortoise rim. in Edmonds
leather case. downtown. Monday. am.
Reward. Call GEorsia 1902.
HANDBAG August IS, containing s5s and
irreplacable items of no value to finder:
keep money. return contents of bag. 1884
East Capitol st. Atlantic 4443.
PURSE, lady's black six, Sunday evening
in East Potomac Park; containing money.
keys and vanity case. Reward: n. B. Nc
Reynolds. 2123 Eye st. NV. WEST 0076.
branch 410. after 5 pm. 21s
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Somerset Phone WI. 3676-W.
UMBRELLA. brown silk. amber bow tip
with dogs head handle, on Navy Yard
car Sunday. Reward. AT. 6110.
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to the name Of Nancy; strayed from the
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Apis. 1929 Columbia I'd. NV.
WOODEN TRIPOD. ICall Adams 57se
eve. after z. Reward.
WRIST WATCH Diamond platinum;
lady's: on Cathedral ave. near Conn. or
on Conn. ave. between Cathedral ave. and
Woodley road. Liberal reward. Phone co.
1850 bet. 8 & ewes or 8 & IL mornings.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Births Reported.

Abdollah and Margaret Entezam, boy.
T. Bailey and Emily Brewer, boy.
Harvey and Cora Proctor. boy.
Frank and Myrtle Brooks. boy.
Charlie and Annie Smith, girl,
Isadore and Millie Jacobs, girl.
Alexander and Gertrude Konouck. girl.
Harry end Marion Fowler. girl.
Melvin and Dorothy Young. girl.
Adolph and Nalie Atkinson. girl.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
FOUND.

DOG. female police. dark gray, clipped
identify and show tag. Call Capitol
HEIGHTS S5-M.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
People Say ''Never Again
They Oppose League Court, Too

The League of Nations and League Court propagandists in
this country who have been out Of commission for
Numbering their artillery for campaign
in the next Congress-
With twothrds of the Senate belonging party they
hope to put the League Court, at least,
Foreign policy was not an issue in this election.
Hence there think that the American people
have been converted the doctrine foreign enangemens
doctrine which they have always emphatcay turned down
whenever they have had the opportunity vote in the past
And may be that the summers events in Europe
the killing of Dofuss the Naz upsurge in Germany the sabre
rafting of Musson the assassination of King Alexander of
Jugoaa and Foreign Minister Barhou France-have given
America for heartfelt thanks that under obga
lions to take sides in any European dispute
is possible we suppose for compaisant Senate involve
the League Court which merely the back door the
League itself
But think that any who favored such departure
from the wise counsel of George Washington leave Europe
alone would show singular stupidity far his interests
concerned
He only to the record find where America
stands this question.
neads only at our soldiers graveyards in
to know why the American people say Never again"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
Human Side of the News = By Edwin T.. Hill

His black beard, spraying
spadelike from his curiously red
lips and his hawks beak Of a
nose, and contrasting with the
corpse-like pallor of his hollow
cheeks and his sunken eyes,
made him the frightful picture
of a creature that never should
have been born.
The guillotine, a great, heavy,
oblique, razor-edge knife, was
posed high between two up
right posts erected upon a plat
form.
Upon the platform stood the
executioner and a black-robed
priest. Around the platform
were solid lines of police agents,
and at little distance, rigidly
held back by police lines, were
the official witnesses.
Further away was the curious
crowd, drawn by inextinguish-
able curiosity to this CHASTITY tri"
umph of justice-men and wom'
en- in evening dress, homeward
bound from all-night parties;
Workingmen in their blue
smocks, Paris gamins, market
women, all kinds.
FRIGHTFUL END
AS they gazed, magnetized,
the guards led the monster to
the platform and up the steps.
For as much as half a minute,
while the executioner made his
preparations, Bluebeard moved
his burning eyes over the crowd.
His vanity was stirred. He
drew himself up proudly. He
smiled-a terrible grimace. They
offered him rum and cigarettes.
He refused with a grandiloquent
gesture. His lawyer stepped
near. Landru leaned over and
spoke four words: EAU revoir ct
merci."
Then justice seized him,
swiftly, remorseleSsly, in it's iron
clutch. Quickly he was bound
to the board beneath the poised
knife.
A signal, and down came the
great, weighted knife from it's
nine-foot height. The head of
Bluebeard leaped from his body.
And I turned away, cold with
the frightfulness of the picture,
as they carted the body away
to be buried in the Square OF
the Damned.
Copyright, 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

Why should it be shocking"
for young people to question
and criticize the muddled
methods of older folk, whose
plumbers and bad debts will
darken human life for genera"
lions to come?
Why should it be "imperti-
nent" for them to debate these
matters with the First Lady OF
the Land, who is not only 9
mother but a well-informed and
highly intelligent citizen?
If ever in human history
Youth was on a bad spot, H.
is today.
In a few months they'll have
to take over the jobs their
elders are laying down-wiD
have to make a place for
themselves in a bankrupt
world, trembling on the verge
of chaos.
They must not only face
the normal handicaps of in"
experienced Youth, but they
must shoulder dreadful bur
dens, solve shameful problems
which should never have been
theirs. and which WOULD
never have been tn eirs if
grandpa had done a little
healthy questioning and re-
belling in his own time.
WHY WAIT?
So what?
Should they resign them
selves meekly, plunge blindly
into this cruel nightmare Of
modern life-trusting luck to
carry them through?
Millions are still doing it
AND YOU AND I ARE FOOT
ING THEIR BILLS!
Or should they THINK about
what lies before them. get all
the information. make all the
preparations they can?
Should they voice a vigorous
protest against unnecessary
suffering and sacrifice. make
a vigorous demand for help in
making life cleaner, prouder,
fairer?
I'm all for demanding and
protesting. And I'm all for
doing it while the doing's good.
Why wait until little Willie
starves to death and the old
home is sold for the mortgage,
before asking the Powers That
BELOW GOMEZ"
Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
The Greatest Show
On Earth
BIZ John Snure, I.

was the pet of the administra-
ton.
Times haze changed, ho1D-
eUer, and today it is to Int
rior that the business leaders
march.
As Secretary Harold L. Ickes
heads Interior, Public Works
and other agencies, they find
it necessary to viSit him, re-
gGrdleSS.
The Department of Commerce
has lost its former glory. Big
business men coming to town
after long absences find for the
first time that it's address has
been changed.
And if the trend continues to-
ward other departments, as it
has in recent months, Mr..
Hoover may witness the realiza-
ton Of one of his declarations.
But it will be around his own
favOrite department that the
grass will grow in the streets"
Plenty of Pennsylvania po-
litical observers on both sides
OF the fence are not diSpleaSed
1Dith the outcome of the elec-
lions for other reasons than
the displacement OF Republican
DaUid A. Reed by Joseph F.
Guttey, Democrat.
The upset in the Keystone
State, which has been Overwhelm.
ingly Republican for years, per-
suadeS them that for a time at
least Pennsylvania will be the
battlefield for two parties Of
comparatively equal strength.
The result will be, OBSERVERS
hope, that both parties wilI
realize the necessity of placing
better candidates in the field
at future campaigns instead OF
filling the ballots with the
names of Uarious political
bosses.
Pennsylvania's political fu-
ture, they say, depends on
which party organizes Phila-
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tons future program, the
Chief Executive received the re-
quest lightly.
AS matter of fact, he
laughed it off and compared
the interrogations with the old
story of the lawyer who asked
the witness:
Have you stopped beating
your wife,"
The chamber was none too
pleased as its members have
always considered themselves of
the utmost Importance.
Also, the President GppGr-
emily considered the American
Bankers Association more i'm
pOrtGnt.
When the money men were
in contention here he Gd-
dressed them at vhGt might be
termed a "love feast"
The chamber was none too
pleased to think he had
snubbed it but had been
friendly with the banking fra
ternity.
Henry I. Hartman, grand
mogul of the chamber, and the
President are friendly, person
ally. But Harriman's organiza-
ton and the President are not
allied.
The chamber will hold its
next convention in May and the
Chief Executive might smooth
things over at that time.
But when that date rolls
around the most of the legisla-
tive program will have gone
over the congressional dam.
Back in the days Uhen the
late Cabin Coolidge occupied
the White House, paths to the
Department of Commerce Dere
1OGlked daily by a stream OF
big-busineSS men.
It was that. department, head
ed by the then Secretary Her
bert Hoover, that was their
mecca.
Hoover noticed that situation,
realized the Importance of his
department to business men
and built it up to a point never
before equalled.
When the man from PalO
Alto took over the reinS of gov
eminent he refused to forget
that it was in the Department
of Commerce that he contacted
many of the men who gave him
their support in the 1928 cam
paign.
And so it was that Commerce
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

part of the questioners. One
almost feels that it is a pleas
ure to work with such nice
chaps. Don't remind me in
March that I said thisD
Among the 81 questions on
the last French income tax
blank Model B, or Special
Insult Form") are:
by which Of her names do
you usually address your wife?"
IF you are a divorce. when,
where and why were you d.
vorced?"
For what period last year
did you have an airship at
your disposal?"
Then there is one, which I
may not be tranSlating cor
rectly, which seems to read:
do you take your meals at
home, and, if not, why not?"
This, you will admit. is carry.
ing paternalism pretty far.
When a government can ask you
what you call your wife. it is
time for the Revolution, or, at
any rate, a good sulk. I can
find no question What does
your wife call you?" but that
will doubtless come next.
Let us hope that our govern
ment does not take a tip from
the French and start getting
personal. We are a meek peo-
pie, taking practically anything
on the chin without a culver,
but only the more craven Of us
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

have caused many of the old
timers to change over from
Republican ranks to the Demo
cratic forces.
One youngster in the recent
election swung 1000 old Re.
publicanS to the Democrats.
Guttey, the new Democratic
SenGtor-elect, has already DEM
onStrated his ability to Sc.
cure patronage for his party
although he hasn't come into
the Senate.
Some folks say he will secure
more patronage when he takes
over his new job than did the
late Sens tor BOieS PenrOSe, who
almost Out-patronaged former
Senator Reed SmoOt, Repub-
lican, of Utah, the greatest pa
tr0nage-g etter of all time.
copyright, 1894, The Washington TimeA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

such dignitaries as Newton D.
Baker, wartime Secretary of
War; DR.. Daniel A. Polling, presi-
dent of the International Society
of Christian Endeavor; Ida M.
Tarbell, famous writer: the
presidents of nine national
character-building organizations
and that versatile lady-at-
large, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Nothing very frivolous about
such committee, nor about the
80 serious young people who
faced it-college students from
IS to 20 years of age.
Grave Questions
Nothing frivolous either about
the questions they asked.
How was jobless youth to
marry? Should young couples
have children when they had
no assurance as to the child's
future?
Why didn't the Government
substitute marriage, as in Italy
and Germany-give newlyweds
a stake?
Why wasn't it possible for
youth to obtain information
concerning birth control safely.
legally, decently?
Serious questions, sincerely
asked, yet the Eye Rollers
Union is all of a lather over
this Outrageous" incident.
But why should it be out
rageous" for young people to
discuss the serious responsible
tiles which they are about to
assumed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
Community Chest Drive
To Meet a Need

The Community Chest conducting its annual drive TO
raise the money necessary for the support Of many OF tne
citvs charitable and welfare organizations. 49,
WITHOUT ANY INTENTION OF D1CTAI1NG 10 UUh
PEOPLE HOW THEY SHOULD SPEND THEIR MONEY
TT SHOULD BE SAID THAT HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY
TO MEET AN INsIsTENT NEED.
The organizations banded together in the Chest have served
this need for anv years. Their work and their activity
need no justification the eyes Of Wasnonians who are
acquainted with their functioning
of those who are able give to cuta eliminate their
contribution the ground that the Government Is taxing
care of all those in distress.
Unfortunately that is not the THERE ARE JUST AS
DESERVING CASES WHICH ARE NOT RECEIVING AT
TENTION FROM GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AS ARE
BEING ATTENDED TO BY THEM.
The private agency has its field in the present scheme Of
things and it is vital field
There has arisen this time the report of coercion Of
tain people giving the Chest drive These reports
occur each time the Chest goes out to raise its funds
Internationally there those who overzealous in
their campaign work. They think that compuson is
necessary to make people give
That however the attitude of those who have the
best the local welfare at heart Those
realize and they undoubtedly do that any sembance of
forced giving will in the end wreck the chest and initiate
against its member agencies
person may be compelled to give year and the next
year he may be in position in which coercion be
exercised upon him. It is not likely that he will then give
THOSE WHO CAN GIVE WILL GIVE FREELY AND
VOLUNTARILY FOR THE NEED IS PRESSING. Upon
those who feel that they cannot give coercion will
should be used.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
Personal Taxes
BIZ Robert Benchley

would stand for the Treasury
Departments asking, to give a
few possibilities:
/. How can you tell when you
are drunk-or does someone
have to tell you?
2. Does your wife bruise cas-
lily?
3. Aren't you getting a little
fat?
4. Was that your wife that
you were in Chicago with on
February 10?
S. How did your wife happen
to be going to Chicago with
you?
6. Turn around and let's see
your haircut. Who cut it last,
for heavens sake?
7. Is that your own hat? II
so, what were you thinking OF!
8. What is your real name?
9. We said-what is your real
name?
10. Aren't you ashamed of
yourself?
A QUESTIONABLE like this
would arouse quite a bit Of un-
favorable comment in this coun-
try, I am afraid, and the Treas
ury Department might as well
know it now as after the blanks
are out.
The French may know a lot
about some things, and we may
be pretty docile as a nation. but
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

Now is perhaps as good a
time as any to point out some
of the good features Of our
income tax in this country.
We don't have to fill out those
blanks until March. BY then
there won't be any good fea-
lures.
But, compared to the blanks
that the French have to fill
out, ours are models of reti-
cence and good breeding on the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

A Frenchman with a curious
taste in antiques has just pur"
chased from the City of Paris
the blood-stained guillotine
whose descending knife released
the tortured souls of hundreds
of aristocrats in the days of the
Terror, when Robespierre and
st. Just were the masters of
France.
Not many Americans, in all
likelihood, have ever seen the
widow at her terrible work.
It is a spectacle which, once
seen, remains stamped in mem"
DRY.
And the mere news squib of
the sale of the old guillotine Of
the French Revolution recalls
an execution which took place
in Paris on the gray dawn Of o
February day back in 1922.
This writer was one Of a
silent crowd outside of the
prison in the Rue Georges
Clemenceau, looking on in
dread fascination, while Landru,
the French Bluebeard, walked to
his doom under the shining
knife.
He had been a swindler in his
youth and a cold and fiendish
murderer all through his later
years.
CALLOUS CRUELTY
His prey had been middle
aged and elderly women with
money, unusually unattractive,
faded women. in whose pathetic
hearts still fingered a yearn-
ing for romance, home and a
good husband.
And one by one, he had
lured eleven of these simple,
trusting creatures and slaugh-
tered them with a callous
cruelty that dwells only in the
hearts of devils escaped from
the pit to scourge mankind.
In the end he was tracked
down by the sister of one OF
the victims, and convicted on
the evidence of his own diary,
in which he had set down, with
the gloating of a fiend, the
tale of the eleven murders.
And then his hour came on
that chill and drizzly break OF
day, outside the old prison in
the Rue Clemenceau, hardly a
pistol shot from the great
palace which Louis the Four
tenth erected in the splendor
of his pride.
Never in my life have I
looked upon a man who was
so horrible of body and soul.
He was MephistopheleS in the
flesh, but a more dreadful
demon than Goethe pictured in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

d e | p h i a,
c a m p i n G
ground of the
huge machine
of Z" B 0 S S "
William Ware,
who died re-
c e n t ly a n d
left his polit-
al jugger-
n a u t in a
state of dilap-
idation.
U p S t a t e
counties are
dominated by
young Demo
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

That face-his whole figure
was cadaverous, diabolical,
like some unmentionable evil
that had escaped from the dark
est caverns of the underworld
to affront the decent sunshine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

there are limits beyond which
we will not go with the descend
ants of Lafayette.
We won't smoke their pipe to-
bacco; we won't fight their
wars, and we won't let our pub
lie officials insult us.
Well, anyway, we won't smoke
their pipe tobacco.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles BY Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Thursday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

his Faust" or that Dore ever
drew with inspired pencil.
He stepped from the prison
van with q cynical and tight
Tipped smile cleaving his
deaths head of a face.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

S o m e Ques-
tons.
You re a d
about it, of
course. De
spite horri-
fled clucks, it
was all quite
in order a
youth To-
day Hearing"
sponsored by
the 1884 MO
biliZation for
H u m a n
Needs.
It was pre-
si6ad nNnr hM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

With the opening Of Congress
in the not far Offing. certain
persons around Washington are
wondering what the attitude of
the United States Chamber Of
Commerce is going to be toward
all New Deal legislation.
Usually opposed to left-wing
tactics, the chamber is expected
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14

to be ev e n
more belliger-
e n t because
O t t h e
Slight" d l.
rected at it
by President
Roosevelt a
fe W W e e k S
ago.
When the
chamber de-
manded tn e
answers to six
questions it
rO p Ounded
regarding the
Adm / n / Stra-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
Wise Words

The beginning Of all things
are Small.-Cicero.
Pain is no longer known when
it is paSt.-PreSton.
The shortest answer is doing
the thing. e
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-14
National Guard ArmOry
Kineman Lake Project

Kingman Lake Project
The allotment of $4,000 by Public Works Administrator
Ickes to finance study Of the proposal for creation Of
municipal stadium and recreation center at the end OF East
Capitol Street is highly commendable
This project has been talked about long that mad taken
on some of the aspects of the dream world.
Most Washngtonans have given thought but no one has
been able make any real progress toward its accomplishment
SECRETARY 1cKEs MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO AP-
PROACH THE MATTER IN A SENSIBLE AND PRACTL
CAL MANNER.
It impossible to say whether would be worth the COST It
is impossible to say whether the District could finance It,
But these questions be answered readily result OF
the action of Mr. Icke allotng funds for the study
In the study there point which is hoped will be
stressed. That is the matter OF NAT4ONAL GOAED
ARMORY. .
Washington has many play spaces and
It probably could get along without serious difficulties the
Kingman Lake project not carried to conclusion
In the matter of housing for the National Guard un now
ever the District is IN W0EFUL SHAPE
How the National Capital has been able to maintain any
militia units at all is cause for WONDER 49,
We have treated the men comprise the units like STEP
VIZ HAVE ASKED THEM TO EXPEND THEIR TIME
AND THEIR ENERGY FOR THE WELFARE or TAEiE
cry AND THEIR COUNTRY AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN
PROVIDED THEM WITH DECENT ACCOMMODAI!ONs;
Just now we housing the units in an ana
antique hotel And preparing to tear tnat GOWN III
short time
Desnte the disadvantages under which has suffered as
result of PUBLIC INDIFFERENCE the local guara mas "
The DEVELOPMENT being studied could De mace tnoE
nnph1v worth while embodes armory suttlcenty
and properly equipped to meet the needs OF tne Vo"ne
guard units. . ,, - o,1on+ for +be+
oso and would provide accommodations which sorely
needed.