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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
AMERICAN GROWN
VEGETABLE POPULAR
University of Maryland Horti-
culturist Says List Is
Important.

Although few Americans may be
aware OF the fact, this country has
supplied the world with quite
stable list of important and much
used vegetables, 1t is stated by Walter
r. Ballard, horticulturiSt for the Uni
verSity of Maryland Extension Serv-
ice, who says that while the list is
not long it is relatively important in
the vegetable kingdom.
The list Includes such well-known
garden products as beans, sweet
corn, peppers, pumpkins, squash,
tomatoes. and white and sweet
potatoes.
It has been only in comparatively
recent years that the food value of
tomatoes has been recognized, he
says, as for a long time they were
considered only ornamental and poi
sonous If eaten. Today, however,
this vegetable is very popular. both
as a fresh and canned product, due,
very likely. to the fact that it con-
tsins three important vitamins In
addition. Ballard points out. sweet
corn, fresh from the garden and
steamed 81 as to lose none of its
delicious flavor, is a most popular
Summer dish. and pumpkin pie has
become a tradition in the American
home at Thanksgiving time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
$685., es5,807 VALUE
PLACED ON PROPERTY
sum IL for Tax Purposes in Phil.
Adelphia-Exempted Figure
Is s7eI, 1o7 sci.

Philadelphia property is value at
80 $50 esS.s07 for tax purposes. Tax
exempted property is valued at s7si.-
I07.86l.
Government-owned property Is
valued at sse.el5.l6o. city-owned
realty at Sass. 365. SIS. of which the
Board of Education holdings repre-
sent s97.670. $50. church property is
figured at s77,7s2 800; institutions OF
learning. s74,s1s.4OO. and hospitals.
$44. ATS. 9T6.
Pennsylvania State-owned realty IN
Philadelphia is valued at S6,3l6 500
and comprises the Delaware River
Bridge property and armorieS
Cemeteries In the city are worth
SO 622 500; public charities. si4.434,-
40l, libraries, museums and art gal
leries s6,3s4. 800, and property of
quasi corporations, SAL ,679 ,43s.
The value of urban property Is
figured at s2.sl9, l5o,5si: suburban.
$142. 672.64s. and there are farms
which the city assessors estimate are
woth sl0.054 4S0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

Washington Machine Is Gearless.
A new washing machine eliminates
gears. clutch, reversing mechanism,
can be set to stop automatically when
the washing's done and sQueezes
clothes dry by city water pressure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
PEABODY STREET FLATS
BOUGHT AS INVESTMENT
Buildings SOL Through sal, Sold
by shannon a Lueh for
$500

Sale OF a group OF six four-family
fats ct SOL through Sal Peabody
street to local investor for sp-
proximately $4,000 was a feature
OF this months activities OF shannon
g. LuchS Co. real estate frm
other sales by this flrm included:
l24S through 1881 South Carolina
avenue southeast. q group OF four
four family fats covering an entirs
block. sold to an out-of-town investor
for the Commercial National Bank
for a consideration OF approximately
t45. 900.
67Os Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda,
Md, q one-story store sold TO an
investor from Florida.
35l6 Massachusetts avenue. large
ten room and three bath residence
purchased by Or. and Mrs. Merton
English for their home.
1902 Farragut street. detached
home sold for the estate Of Prank
Altemus to Mr.. and Mrs l. L.
Raymond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
MARYLAND FARMERS
ACREAGE PACT RETAINED
Wheat Growers 10 Proceed on
Same Basis as Last Year,
Ofncial Says.

Farmers in Maryland participating
in the adjustment program for wheat
during the coming marketing year will
receive benefit payments on approx
mately the same basis as during the
present year. according to DR.. T. b.
Symons. in charge of the adjustment
programs in that State.
The acreage permitted contracting
farmers for harvest In 1885 has been
set at not less than that planted for
harvest in 1894. or IS per cent of the
average seeded acreage OF the base
period, DR.. Symons states. The pay
ments announced by the Secretary Of
Agriculture are at the rate Of % cents
bushel for the domestic allotment.
BENEFIT payments viii be obtained
from the proceeds Of processing tax
of 30 cents a buShel on wheat. The
new marketing year began July 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

nized today as the best condensed
history of the assassination.
Only in 1923. however was the
restoration of the house to as near
the condition in which it was on the
fateful night authorized by Congress.
1t was on the instance of Representa-
tive Rathbone OF Illinois, whose par
ents sat in the box with Lincoln when
Booth fired his fatal shot.
Restoration has been going forward
since that time. through donations of
furniture and other Lincolnia given
by persons who acquired it since the
night Lincoln was shot, and the
house is now much as it was when
Stanton pronounced his words COM
mending Lincoln to the ages"
Lincoln Relics in Place.
Col O. H. Oldroyd, hero worship
er" of Lincoln from the time he
first gained prominence in his native
Illinois, began collection Of Lincoln
relics before the Emancipator entered
the White House These. along with
many Others are to be found il the
old house as well as in the Ford
Theater, across the street The house
was purchased by the Government in
1897 for $4,000. and the Oldroyd
collection was taken over in 1926 for
$4,000.
Among the objects to be found in
the Oldroyd collection are the
wreaths that lay upon the casket in
Washington before the burial in
Springfield, III; a rose taken from
his bosom just before the casket was
closed; furniture used by Mrs. Lincoln
in Springfield. including her cook
stove; &he plain Office desk and chair
used by Lincoln while practicing law
With William H. Herndon:. a plain
black and white shawl worn in place
OF an overcoat; the last bit of writing
he did; the Bible from which he
learned to read, and given him by
his mother, Nancy Hanks, before he
was 8 years old; the desk on which
the Emancipation Proclamation was
written. and many documents and
prints,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

~ HE distinguished men who lived
In most of the houses written
about in this series have been
L. their chief claim to fame. but
the house at sic Tenth street
is known the country over because
OF the man who died probably
never before having been in the house.
1t is the House Where Lincoln
Died" and now owned by the United
States Government, houses a collec-
ton Of Lincolnia.
The house is opposite Fords The
ater. where an aSsassin's bullet
brought an end to the life of the
Great Emancipation
Into this house, then the home OF
one William Petersen. a prominent
Capital tailor, the wounded PreSi-
dent was carried from the theater a
few minutes after 10 o'clock on the
night of April IA, 1865. Throughout
the night he lay in the room at the
rear end of the entrance hallway. sur
rounded by his wife and son, Robert;
his private secretary, John Hay:
Secretaries Stanton. Welles and
Usher; Attorney General Speed, Sena-
tor Sumner, DR.. Gurley, his pastor,
and five physicians.
Unconscious 10 the End.
The President remained unconscious
to the end. At am. a bulletin
was issued: Symptoms of immediate
dissolution" and ~ minutes later
Lincoln died
1t was in this house that Secretary
Stanton broke the solemn silence with
the words, Now he belongs to the
ages" 1t was in an adjoining room
of the same house that Stanton, dur
ing the night-long suspense. spent
hours debating orders and preparing
an official account, which is recoe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
TWO ON MARKET BOARD
FAMILIAR IN REALTY

Two men who have been familiar
with real estate securities will be
in key positions in the administra-
ton of the Stock Exchange Control
Board. This board will take over
the functioning of the securities di-
vision of the Federal Trade Commits
sion on or about September !, it has
been announced here.
James A. Lands. formerly member
Of the Federal Trade Commission. is
a member of the new control board
Baldwin B. Bane, formerly chief of
the securities division of the COM
mission, has been appointed as execu-
tive of like division under the new
act.
All securities control will be trans
ferred from the Federal Trade Com
mission to the new board, 1t has
been announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

Note-This is the eighteenth in
a series OF articles on historic
homes in the Capital Another DiH
appear in the Real Estate Section
OF The Star merit Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Lumber Prices Gain.

General average lumber prices ad-
vanced somewhat less than $40 per
thousand board feet during 1898. but
are 10 per cent below the 1929 level.
according 10 the current issue Of
Business Conditions Monthly" pub
lished by Alexander Hamilton In
Stitute
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

Simplicity. positive results, ease of
opening are said 10 feature a new all
glass preserving jar for home use. A
high vacuum seal is effected by cool
ing OF the contents.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
T human Side Of the News - ByEdwin c. Hill

that Mayor Walmsley's ominous
portugal of Long as the Amerl-
can Hitler is what Walter Pater
would call an Imaginary por-
trait"
There have been many home.
bred Watt Tyler's in American
history. There is a deep and
tremendous momentum in this
country of ours. There was
Blood O the-Bridle Reins"
Waite, governor of Colorado, in
the Populist days, as we were
pulling out of the depression OF
the ninetieS. There was a time
when he looked even more mer-
acing than Huey P. Long does
today. There was "SockleSS
Jerry" Simpson. of Kansas, and
many others, most of them
Messianic and semi-hySterical,
some of them with a touch OF
paranoia, but in due time they
we're all washed up and the new
generation doesn't even recog-
nize their names.
MY own conviction would be
that Huey P. Long is subject
for intensive d detached
study as political phenome-
non and, again, one wishes
they could have the calm, OBJ
jective view of such brilliant
outsider as Viscount Bryce. Is
constitutional democracy work.
ing down in Louisiana, or isn't
it? Is Huey P. Long phenom-
enon of the confused and dis
rupted economy of depression
years, or does he spring from
something latent and inherent
in American political life? Is
our representative government
all too representative?
BY the time this is printed
probably every columnist in the
country will have made the
most of the fact that the
preacher lived and the snake
that bit him died. The Tura-
MAN peoples of the lower Eu-
pirates and multitudes of
others would have killed the
columnists for such levity. Far
away back in the paleollthlc
period, men have been obsessed
with the mystic lore of the SER
pent.
Well down into the fifteenth
century the LithuanianS kept
snakes for house pets. There
were ceremonial observances on
special snake days. In Europe
a few years ago, an Armenian
friend showed me a translation
of the Bible into Armenian,
made by a monk in the twelfth
century. It had been his life
work, and the marginal deco
rations on the parchment, some
of them in seven colors, carried
the constantly repeated theme
of the serpent.
The story of the Rev. Albert
Teester and the rattlesnake
soon will be forgotten, but it
is "a reminder of deep and per-
sistent patterns of human be.
havior of which we know and
heed but little.
Copyright. 1884 by King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

Newton, one-time secretary to
President Hoover, was let out on
July 81.
The board, composed OF tiue
men When all positions are filled,
is now operating with four men.
When one of the members is
out of toUn on business, as IS
usually the case, there is a bare
quorum with Which to lDork.
That situation exists at the
present time, with Chairman
John H. Fahey in Boston.
For almost two months the
job has been vacant.
In this important emergency
agency it is of extreme impor'
lance that it's quota be filled so
that it may function smoothly.
But the President, in Hyde Park,
doesn't seem the least bit con-
cerned.
However, a good progressive
Republican from the Middle
West might be able to convince
the Chief Executive that he
needed the job and could func-
ton in the New Deal.
Gallant Coast Guardsmen OBJ
jected when requested to send a
ship to Greenland to pick up
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, our
Minister to Denmark, and bring
her home.
They protested that the cost
would be great, that a reduced
budget would not bear the ex-
pense and that the ice patrol
was over.
They were overruled, however.
So the cutter Champlain was
sent north for Mrs. Owen.
The men that ordered the
Champlain north are probably
deep in thought these days.
Usually, the ChGnrplGin pa
trolls the 1DaterS south OF Scot
land Light.
1t was in those waters that
the Inflated MORO Castle be-
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

game when the odds are against
them.
If I had my way, I'd put
every youngster into boxing
gloves as soon as the young
fists could hold the padded
mitts. Boys and girls. PAR
TICULARLY GIRLS! But sup
pose they got hurt-scarred?
Well, suppose they did? What's
a cabbage ear or a split lip
compared to a Swollen Head?
Or a Pouty Disposition? Or
one of these cases of Chronic
Self-Pity.
What's the trouble with most
of us? Why do we fail in this
scrimmage we call life? Lack
of cash, or pull, or opportunity?
NO! OUR biggest trouble is
WE'VE NEVER LEARNED HOW
TO TAKE 1T.
We've enough intelligence and
charm, and enough shreWdneSs'
But we've never gotten over be-
ing Babies. We've never
learned how to grin if we have
to take second place. Take your
own case, f'rinstance.
How much can YOU take, as
an individual? Can you stand
being laughed at. lied about, i'm
posed upon, criticized, miSrepre-
Sented-and defend Yourself, yet
grin while you do it, without 60
ing to pieces or playing foul?
Or, if you're a parent, can
you stand having your child
differ with you without getting
all smoked up, and calling it
"disrespect" or "impudence?"
Are you game enough to apollo
gize to your child when you've
been in the wrong? Are you
good enough to admit that
some of your notions are anti
quated, and take a few tips
from the younger generation?
Or how do you stack up, just
as citizen? Can you listen
pdU1CIIOly WLll4C q SOC4hAAoO oVc1VC0
his vieWs-or stay cool while
someone advocates Communism?
What's your attitude toward
eugenics birth control . a
free press. sex education in
schools .stricter State and Fed,
eral supervision of children?
Are you willing that these things
should be discussed from your
pulpit, at your club or P. T. A.
." '9g? Or do you go haywire
digestion?
much time, energy and
lie emotion do you waste
year on such contests
wonder. YET YOU MIGHT
LAVE LEARNED HOW TO
TAKE ANY ONE OF THEM
WHEN YOU WE'RE ONLY
EIGHT YEARS OLD.
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

blame or rldlCule a bit too nara.
And ones little vain-always
has to be the first in every
thing, or he doesn't want to
play. And ones frankly timid.
And ones hot-tempered.
Sensitive, proud, cautious,
high Spirited-not bad qualities,
any of them, if you know how
to use them. But plenty poison
Gus if you don't. And so, we've
bought boxing gloves and every
day there's a Set-to.
Lots of fun-Sometimes. Then
again, not so funny. Sometimes
there's a bloody nose. Or a
blackened eye. Sometimes it all
ends in a free-for-all. But grad
ually they're shaping up.
Some day, four men are going
to be grateful for the drill we're
giving their small boy selves.
They may never have to raise
hand in self-defense-th ose
four men. But they'll have to
face something a lot harder to
take than a sock in the jaw.
They'll have to face CRIT
CISM.
And COMPETITION.
They'll have to stand RIDI'
GUILE.
And stand cool under an argu.
ment that isn't going their way.
Hardest of all, they'll have to
learn how to think as they run
and make quick and easy ad-
juStmentS to new people, new
conditions, new ideas.
Fifteen years from nov
will be the great profile
four young humans will
face. Now, in the quic
slam-bang Of that tussle o.
front porch, they're learnins
how to face them-how to play
fair when the Other Fellow isn't
how to stay cool when the
other Fellow won't-how to be
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
AmQgrabhS For Sale
By Robert BenchIey

chester county. Short A. L. S. one
page. To the editor of this col
umn. McGrath states that he
has been through the files and
can find no record of my ever
having paid that 1882 fine on
my 1882 State income tax. He
gives an indication that he has
the next step in mind. Very in
tereStlng .............. $V.41
Item No. 2. STEWART, DON
AID OGDEN. An especially Gu
riouS cheque for $3.50, returned
from the Bankers Trust Company
for verification of signature. The
90" in the name ogden" has
four concentric circles in con-
nection with it, as, if the writer
had got going and couldn't stop:
A valuable item for collectors OF
unusual letter "O's" $3.4O
Item No. 8. ROOSEVELT,
PHILIP j. Short A. L. S.
written to editor of this column.
In his more formal manner,
Roosevelt suggests payment OF
annual dues to Signet Society OF
Harvard University, as OF June,
1911. Very old. SOTO.
Item No. 4. IMBR1E, LES
TER w. Long, closely-wrltten
A. L. S. on ruled paper, in
pencil. In it, Imbrie implies
that he is at present being
Swallowed by agents of the Haps-
burgs with the idea of Selling
him and putting him on the
throne Of Austria. He says thaC
he does not want to be put on
the throne of Austria, as he gave
up all that sort of thing when
he abdicated in 1910 to take up
active work in the Kingdom
Come" Movement.
He feels that he is just on the
verge of success in bringing
about the Day of Judgment
and doesn't want to be taken
off the job at this crucial mo-
ment. He suggests that the
editor of this column do some
thing about it, or. at any rate,
get in touch with the Haps-
burgs. From then on, the mean
ing is not quite clear. Odd ex-
ample of Spencerian penman-
ship. Carriage charges.
Item No. S. MANUSCRIPT.
First draft of present article
with authors corrections and
large ginger-ale blister. ..$-Op-
tional with purchaser.
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday.
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

A copy of 1.-THE Autograph
Review" which has just come
to hand (having evidently been
in my pocket since 1880, as that
is the date on it,, presents a
slightly more dignified side of
the current scramble for auto
graphs than we get from those
little brown people who infest
the entrances to theatrical and
motion picture premleres.
In 1.-The Autograph Review
are listed some of the choice
items which may be had by
sending a nominal sum to the
editor. For instance, Item No. /
is described as follows:
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD.
Fine short A. L. S. autograph
Letter Signed, one page, on
card of Holyhead Hotel, March
%, 1918. To Maurice Bourgeois.
Shaw writes that he is on his
way to Ireland for an Easter
vacation and that his move
ments are very uncertain and
undecided. Signed in full, $25.
Item No. 8. HOUSMAN, LAU-
RENEE. Singular AIS. in
which Housman demonstrates
his mania for self-effacement.
He explains that he broke with
John Lane, the publisher, be-
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
Settle It!
Strike in Textile Industry Is Menace to the
Whole Nation

Strike in Textile Industry Is Menace to the
Whole Nation
Both sides in the textile strike owe it to themselves
and to their country to cooperate Loyalty with President
Roosevets board of mediation in reaching speedy
settlement. ..
That is the only patriotic course and may add the
only sensible course that they can take.
Whatever the merits Of dispute the hating of great
national industry must have serious consequences to
every man, woman and child in the United States
while any increase in the violence and bloodshed that
already have characterized the strike in quarters
will leave scars that long time will be required to
heal.
Continuation of the trouble is playing directly into
the hands of subversive influences who would like
nothing better than to the whole country plunged
into chaos in order to advance their revolutionary
doctrines.
This is one consideration which employers well
employees cannot afford to neglect.
Nor can employers employees overlook the fact that
their warfare" is pushing the nation back toward
those conditions from which it has been slowly emerg
ing and that the responsibility is theirs, not the
TONS
This is pretty heavy responsibility for anyone to
assume.
President Roosevelt has set up the machinery for
peace.
It now rests with the dsputants to take advantage
of it.
If they refuse they will have to answer to the public
for their refusal-and THE PUBLIC IS BIGGER
THAN ANY INDUSTRY, or any particular groups.
THE WASHINGTON
J j. fit.paticE managing edtOT " O N ~ ~
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

At political conventions ana
on other occasions, / have had
many opportunities to get a
closeup of Huey P. Long, who
provides a new entry in the his
tory books by Selling a SOW
ereign State. If ViScount Bryce
could return and look us over
again, he would find something
unique and interesting in this,
and possibly some thing OF great
significance.
In the past it has been in.
dictated that certain individuals
owned and operated States, but
never has such power been at
tanned by a political careerist
in this manner. It is a mistake
to write down Mr.. Long merely
as an ignorant demagogue with
q thirst for power. I realized
this a few months ago when I
saw him at a New York club,
addressing a small, urban, keen.
minded and highly critical
group.
There one saw the quality Of
the mana cool, cautious
awareness, with none OF the
yappant outcry of the swamp
orator and no tendrils Of moss
in his hair. He was calm ana
assured, quite plausible in a
way, and, in contrast to his
usual rabble-rouSing vernacular,
quite grammatical. The fact IS
that this whirling Dervish OF
the bayouS can be oStentatl-
ously grammatical when he
wants to.
One thing is always obserV-
able in Huey Long, whether on
the stump, at a Louisiana cross
roads, in a political convention
or on an occasion such as the
above, calling for decorum and
restraint. That is an Unsuitable
thirst for power. His bulk, all
his strongly accentuated physl-
cal propensities, his small, cal
culating eyes, his contempt Tor
weaker men, and, Of course, his
penchant for direct action
all reveal the hungry, unSated
ego questing for new thrones
and dominionS.
One might say, cynically, that
the menace of Huey Long, II
one so considers him, derives
from the fact that in a, country
based on representative govern
ment, he is all too representa-
tive. In background, in be-
havior, in all his mental and
ethical conditioning, he is much
more like multitudeS Of Louis
lana share choppers and river
men than Mayor Walmsley, his
college-bred foe, and. therefore,
much more representative. He,
for instance, knew he had some.
thing a few years ago, when he
famed up all that excitement
in the South about "dunking."
That was a good attention
getter.
Men of the type Of Mayor
WalmSley are less skilled in this
kind of artifice. This is merely
an attempt to view Huey Long
with detachment - something
which it is not easy to do, as