davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1934-11-18

GATEWAY HOTEL-Mrs. Ted Lar
son-Clean rooms; hot water rea-
sonable. Over Covacevich supply.
DIDO
, 1934-11-18

4 Is KARAT perfect diamond;
ladies' platinum mounting sur
rounded by IN small diamonds;
will sell cheap. need cash BOX
Est Herald. Est
, 1934-11-18

GAS STOVES - Ranges, repaired
like new, reasonable prices,
prompt, courteous service. Ridley's
Tin Shop. 10th and washington
ST., phone 161. E-5B
Evening star., 1934-09-25
BY the Associated Press.

MOUNT WILSON, Calf, Septem-
Der 25.-Dr. Charles G. Abbot of the
Smithsonian Institution puts the sun
to work for him at his Summer cot
tage heating a Solar stove.
1t bakeS bread readily. After the
sun goes down. DR.. Abbot said yes
terday, the temperature inside the
oven will drop slowly during the
night. but there is still ample heat to
broil bacon and bake biscuits in the
morning"
DR.. Abbot also has arranged solar
hot-water heater by coiling $50 feet
of garden hose on the cottage roof
1t heats five gallons of water at a
time except in cloudy weather, when
it isn't much use.
This is the way the sun stove
works: Upon the glass covered top
of a trough-shaped furnace" sun
light fails. An ordinary clock mech
aniSm keeps the face of the furnace
turned toward the sun. Due to the
curvature of the trough, light is
brought to a focus along a copper
tube which extends lengthwise
through the furnace.
The tube is surrounded by a larger
tube of special glass. thermos-bottle
fashion, the space between the tubes
being a vacuum.
The inner tube is filled with heavy
machine oil, which does not boil at
ordinary furnace heat. When heated
by the focused rays of the sun, the
Evening star., 1934-09-25
CITIZENS OPPOSE
HIGHER TAX RATE
Mid-City Association Also
Against Purchase of
Bus Lines.

Opposition to any increase in the
Sl.5O real estate tax rate was voiced
last night by the Mld-City Citizens
Association when the members unani-
mously adopted President A. j. DriS-
coils report of recommendations he
had made at the recent hearings on
District departmental estimates. The
association also opposed any ConSid-
Grafton at the present time by the
Public Utilities Commission of the
Capital Transit Co.'S offer to purchase
the Washington Rapid Transit Co.
Driscoll told the association he had
recommended either sales tax or an
additional gasoline tax to eliminate i'll
part the necessity for any drastic re-
ductions in the S5l 100000 sought by
department heads in their 1886 esti-
mates. He declared the recent rise in
rents and food prices are ample rea-
sons why we don't want an increase
in property taxes
The association voiced diSapproval
of the S843, ,23587 purchase price Of
fered by the Capital Transit Co. for
the Washington Rapid Transit Co.
Street Paving Act Favored.
A hope that the proposed act now
being formulated by the District Com
misisoners to pay for street paving out
of the general fund would be passed
by Congress at its next session was eX-
pressed by Capt, H. c. Whitehurst,
director of highways, in an address in
which he explained in detail the pro-
posed legislation.
Capt. WhitehurSt suggested the as
sociation formulate a program OF street
improvements and other Developments
believed necessary and submit the pro-
gram to the Commissioners. While
assuring them they would receive the
whole-hearted cooperation of District
officials, he cautioned the members
to consider each proposed project
carefully as to its physical condition
before submitting it.
In another resolution. the associa-
ton requested the Police Department
to rigidly enforce the one-hour park
ing regulation on Sixth and Seventh
streets between G. and K streets. The
resolution also requested the parking
of cars on the sidewalks of New York
avenue and K streets, between Sixth
and Seventh streets, be prohibited.
Other Resolutions Adopted.
Other resolutions adopted by the
group included:
Adoption of the Executive Commit
tees report on recruiting. which al
ready had been submitted to the
Public Utility Commission; indorse-
ment of the Nations Capital Blue
Eagle week; Endorsement of the Zon-
ing Committees recommendation tc
change the rear of the 1900 block
of l. street from residential TO first
commercial district. and faVcTed re-
tanning the 81 per cent recdclon
on gas bills.
1t was announced election Of officers
would be held at the October meet
ing, and a Nominating Committee
headed by William H Richardson as
chairman was appointed The other
members are Frank B. Hoffman and
Paul Graves.
G.. Howard Dunnington was named
as chairman of an Auditing Committee
to make a report of the association
finances at the next meeting. T:--
other members are Joseph Gier anC
Miss Maude Miller.
Twenty three new members were
admitted at the meeting, which was
held in the Thompson School, Twelfth
and L streets.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
U. S. EXPERTS TO REPORT
TO METALS CONGRESS
Scientific Paper to Be Presented
by Four of Bureau of Stand
ards Staff.

-Four experts from the Bureau of
Standards will go to New York to
attend meetings of the National
Metals Congress October l and de-
liver scientific papers of studies con-
Quoted here.
G.. A. Ellinger and R L. Sanford
will present paper on Prolonged
Tempering at 100 Degrees Cent?
grade and Aging at Room Tempera-
ture 08 Per Cent Carbon Steel"
S. j. Rosenberg and Louis Jordan
will deliver a paper on The Influ-
ence of Oxide Films on the Wear of
Steels."
While in New York the group also
will attend the National Metal Expo
sion held in conjunction with the
congress. All four are members of
the American Society for Metals.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Necking Brings Modesty.

PITTSBURGH L4p)-So modest are
Pittsburgh's councilmen that they
must have privacy for discussions Of
neCking.
They closeted themselves recently
to receive a report from Public
Works Director Leslie NJ. Johnston
on petting parties in the city parks.
Police guards were ordered at Sc
cluded hooks and rendezvous within
the parks.
Evening star., 1934-09-25

this group reports at 8 o'clock, each
week day morning. except Saturday.
The claims cases piled up on ac-
vount of a recent QUESTIONABLE to a
number of veterans asking about
their condition and inquiring into
the possibility of claims under the
new law. So many answers were
received that the work accumulated
and the five extra hours week were
ordered to catch up.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
ENGLISH TONGUE URGED
FOR NEW FILIPINO STATE
Committee Recommends Spanish
Be Recognized in Courts
Until 1910.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA. September 25.-A report
recommending that English be the
official tongue of the forthcoming
commonwealth government of the
Philippines. but that Spanish con-
tinue to be recognized in the Legis-
lature and courts until 1910. was
filed yesterday by the Constitutional
Conventions Language Committee.
The committee recommended that
the Legislature name an academy OF
scholars which will decide whether
it is possible to agree upon one of
the native dialects to share a posi-
ton with English.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Scientist Cooks by Suns Rays
At Mt. Wilson Summer Home

oil rises and circulates around three
sides Of the oven, which looks some
thing like a sawed-off water tower.
Leaving from 300 to 400 degrees
of heat in the oven, the cooled oil
gravitates back into the furnace to
be recharged again, and thus a lazy
circulation Of about so gallons Is
automatically maintained. Barring
leakage, the oil lasts indefinitely.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Strike Halts Shipping.

ALGECIRAS, Spain, September rs
R.-General strike declared at Al
geciras yesterday in sympathy with
the strike reported at Cadiz halted
sailings to Morocco and also resulted
in the suspension Of auto bus service
from AndaluSia to Gibraltar.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
CLAIMS OF VETERANS
CAUSE OVERTIME WORK
200 Employees Report One Hour
Earlier Each Day to
Catch Up.

About 200 employees in the claims
service of the Veterans Administra-
ton are working an hour overtime
each day in order to bring some
special claims cases current.
Instead of coming to work at 9 a m,
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Bee Frightens Women.

BRANTFORD, Ontario, September
IS R-When a bumblebee got into
the car of Charles A. Burkholder, San
Antonio, Tex, on a highway west Of
Brantford, Mrs. Burkholder became so
startled she dropped her Upper purse
containing currency out of the Car
window.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
Indy STILL YOUTHFUL

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH just has cele-
brated his thirty-second birthday, and
somehow it seems rather odd, because 1t
is hard to realize that this world figure is still
so youthful.
1t is no exaggeraticn at all to say that this
aviator is one of the eight or ten best known
men in the world; and few men in American
history ever have had more of admiration and
honest liking from their fellow-countrymen.
His exploits already are a part of American
tradition. 1t seems a long, long time since he
made that dazzling flight to Paris and stepped
into the position of Americas foremost air.
man.
And he is still only 80. IT hardly seems pos
sible. He has a record of fame and achieve
ment such as usually is won by no one except
those who have grown gray with years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
GOES FASCIST

IF ever civil war was needless. that in
Il Austria is the most futile. A weak and
hystericaI government, frightened by the Nazi
treason which it was too c~owardly to combat,
turned its artillery instead on the workers
loyal to the republic. To keep out Hitler,
DollfuSS tried to Guido Hitler.
For Austria, even more than for Germany
and Italy, FasciSm is the road to destruction.
It is the road to revolution and war. And
Austria is small. In any European upheaval
she will lose. Stronger nations wait to crush
her.
Great Britain and France could have saved
a democratic Austria. After they d~ismembered
her in 1919 she could survive only with help
from them and the League of Nations. For
a while that aid was given. But when Hitler
in Germany arose to challenge her indie
pendence, the British government withdrew
support. France. torn by scandals, riots and
general strikes, was too busy at home to think
Of Austria. And in the crisis the government
at Vienna has gone Fascist.
Doubtless Great Britain and France, now
that the damage Is done, will go through the
motions of supporting Austria when she brings
her case against Germany before the League
Of Nations. But the real battle has been won
by Hitler before it starts. His aim was to
destroy democracy in Austria and ne has
Unanswered Dollfuss into doing it for him.
Belated gestures by the powers, or Iesolu-
tons by the league which they dominate, are
not apt to change .hat tragic fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
THE DOG NUISANCE

THE town of McGraw, N. Y has got into
the headlines recently because of the
misbehavior of some pet dogs owned by its
citizens. -Four dogs attacked a little girl,
mangled her arm so badly that it may have
to be amputated-and were, as a result, sem
fenced to death by a justice of the peace.
Here is just the sort of item that is sure to
arouse the indignation of dog lovers. But it
also contains a useful little lesson for those
of us who like to keep dogs as pets.
A dog which is surly or vicious is a neigh
borhood nuisance, and often is an actual
menace to public safety. The man who owns
such a dog owes it to his n%eighborS to keep
it Gagged or tethered at all times.
If he fails to do so, he hardly can complain
if his neighbors insist that the animal be de-
stroyed-no matter how deserving of human
affection the ordinary dog may be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13

suddenly was revealed to a startled nation;
suppose that Mr.. Roosevelt, whose position
roughly corresponds with that of French
premier, had resigned in favor Of Mr.. Garner,
who presently had given way to Ogden Mills,
who had been succeeded by Norman Thomas,
who in turn had quit two weeks later to let
Senator Fess take his place.
Suppose imitation looked more ana more
likely, and that there seemed daily less and
less chance that the government could do
anything to ease the depression.
Our affairs, in short, would be in an I'M
holy mess, and if the members of the Cham
Der Of Commerce. the Communist party, and
the American Legion went out into the
streets and started breaking things, most Of us
probably would cheer them on.
This little scene Is fantastic, but it's a fair
reproduction Of Frances situation today. Is
it any wonder the country is torn by riots?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
The Real Defenders

If a man fell off a horse in
camp and broke his arm he has a
service connection and is duly
paid, but if he was shot in COM
bat it was either not service con-
nected OF below a compensate de-
gree. And if he had tuberculosis.
when he went into the service his
disability would be aggravated,
providing he remained in camp
over here, but if for any reason
he had to go across and fight, then
his condition was not affected. We
all know that an eX-serice man
years after his enlistment is not
entitled to a pension, because he
was run down by a truck, why
then should we pay a pension to
a man, who, because he could not
ride a horse fell off and broke his
arm during the war.
There is no more service con-
nection in one case than in the
other. There r too many cases
of this kind on file, which indirect
ly prevents the soldiers who we're
in actual combat from receiving
just benefits. Men who remained
in the United States deserves no
pension. They, like myself, were
fed wholesome food, received reg
ular sleep and exercise and an
improvement in health conditions
were noted in most cases. Thou
sands of dollars today are being
doled out to these CT was willing
to go, but didn't"O soldiers, while
the actual defenders with their
health broken are standing in the
bread lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
A HEALTHY SIGN

1T is not only Detroit that has reason to re-
l. joice at Henry Ford's announcement that
he has given 10000 workers a 10 per cent pay
increase and that he plans to restore the min
imum pay scale of Sc a day as rapidly as
possible.
1.-THE best economy industry can practice"
saws Mr.. Ford, "is to raise wages" A whole
lot of Americans will agree with that; and
there is nothing so persuasive, in such a mat
ter, as the power of example.
The effect of an action like this is apt to
spread far beyond the confines of the piant
in which it takes place. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
STOCK

FERDINAND PECORA, who has acted ably
l. as counsel for the senate banking COM
mittee, predicts that new legislation for con-
troll of the stock market will prohibit pool
operations entirely and place exchanges I'M
der control of the federal trade commission.
This looks very much like a healthy step
in the right direction. The revelations made
by the committee during the last year make
it pretty obvious that some sort of regula-
ton of the exchanges is needed, and there
is little reason to expect that the exchanges
themselves would handle the job any better
in the future than they have in the past.
Few people are likely to object to prohibi-
ton of pools. These arrangements whereby
a few insiders band to manipulate the mar
ket and fleece the suckers seem to serve no
useful p-urpose-except, of course, to enrich
the ~manipulators.
The stock market would be healthier if
they ceased to be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
BY H. E. Thixton.

BY H. E. Thixton.
In answer to the veteran who
says he has received a dirty deal
by the President and who has
urgently invited us to get into the
American Legion and really learn
the details of this dirty deal, I
would like to say, have you (who
called yourself a veteran) learned
anything about the American
Legion. The American Legion is
today playing politics stronger
than Governor McNutt. Why do
McNutt and Greenlee have their
noses in all conventions and mass
meetings of this organization?
You had better wake up Buddie
and learn something yourself be-
fore encouraging others to join
such a politically rotten outfit.
BY the knowledge you possess or
as it SO appears in your letter,
one who actually saw foreign
service rather would think that
you are just another Of our
feather-bed soldiers, crying be-
cause you got a cut. Tell us where
you got that wound, whether you
fell off a truck or got your foot
stepped on while drilling in the
awkward squad.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars is
the only organization today actu-
ally serving the truly service man.
1t seems that a great many for
mer service men like you must
have had your reasoning weak
ened OF you could see the Legion
in its true light. Commander
Johnson, king" of the Legion,
was and so admitted to be in favor
of the Economy act and favored
its passage and now the Legion is
condemning the provisions Of the
act and pretending now to be
fighting for adjustments. AS for
your statement that the Legion
gained $1,000 in membership, I for
one do not believe it. 1 don't be-
lieve that there were that many
shell shocked soldiers.
In your plea to the general pub
lie for sympathy, 7 will say that
that does not sound like it came
from a real soldier because they
do not ask sympathy, but only
demand their rights. AS to your
ignorant statement that Hoover
voluntarily and willingly gave you
half of your bonus, if you will ask
some peanut vendor on the street,
he will enlighten you with the
knowledge that it was passed over
his veto. Now I might add that
in justice to all, 10 greater
achievement could be added to the
accomplishments of the press than
to clean up this crazy system Of
pensions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
TUESDAY. FEB u. lss4
A REAL STATE POLICE FORCE

THE casual departure of Ernest Red)
Giberson from the NoblesviIle jail is Just
one more proof that Indiana's law enforce
ment has fallen into a sad state.
Reports indicate that all this moronic thug
had to do to escape was to put on his hat
and walk out with a casual so Long" to a
w worker.
He took little trouble to hide his where
abouts the following night. In fact, he made
the rounds of his old haunts in Indianapolis
getting drunk and insolently Haunting h[
presence before decent citizens.
GibersOn showed the utmost contempt for
law. He revealed that he had not the Slight
est fear of being overtaken. What must be
the effect of his escapades on other puny
minds planning to make crime a life career?
There is Just one way to handle gentlemen
Of Giberson's stripe. That is to have a police
force that will put the fear of God and the
law into them.
Indiana should promptly set up an ade-
quate and efficient force Of troopers whose
authority would be statewide. This force
should be a MILITARY and NOT a political
organization.
Applicants for appointment in it should
pass the most rigid physical and civil service
examinations. Preference should be given to
veterans who actually have had combat ex-
perience. It's members should be well equipped
and smartly uniformed.
In order to be really effective there should
be two troopers for every county. Then
there should be a barracks and training
school in some central location in the state
where rockies could learn the ABCs of police
work and where. together with their instruct
ors. these plebes could act as a reserve force
for use in major emergencies.
Members of the state police should re-
ceive adequate salaries and proper provision
should be made for pensions and insurance.
It should be an outfit of which the state
could be proud.
Naturally all this would cost money. But
wher could the taxpayers find a better in
vestment? What price can be placed upon the
life of one honest citizen unnecessarily MUIR
dered by human rats like Dillinger and Pier
pont2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
FRANCE AND u. S.

COMETIMES it is easier to understand q
- foreign crisis if we make an effort of the
Imagination and transplant the whole bust
ness bodily to our own shores. Maybe the
current French disorders will be less con-
fusing if We pretend the upheaval is taking
place in America.
To do that. We must start by assuming that
Ponzi. the famous old Boston s~windler. some
how had got on the inside of-say-the RFC,
and had both hands into the federal till. clear
up to the elbows.
Let us say, further. that Andy MeIlcn still
was secretary of the treasury and was con-
niving with him.
Suppose. on top of all this. that ten years
ago We had been through a disastrous period
Of imitation in which most of us had lost
something like rs per cent of our money;
and suppose that the federal budget remained
unbalanced in such way that another dose of
imitation seemed almost inevitable.
Then suppose the President was forced to
resign every time congress voted against him,
and hat the congress now sitting was not the
docile one Of 1884. but the divided. hostile, and
efervescent one of two years ago.
Suppose that the depression steadily was
getting worse instead Of better and that no
man in public life. from the President down,
had our confidence.
Suppose the United States Chamber Of
Commerce loudly was demanding a Dictator
ship. that the Communist party was twenty
times as large and active as it really is, and
that the American Legion was pressing mill
family for a change in government
Nov. with all this peculiar setup by way
OF background. suppose that the abov=-men-
toned Ponzi swindle. involving Andy Mellon
aad probably several other cabinet members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13

idea Of scanning poetry at ALP
or to hunting up ambic penta-
meters, or remembering the num-
Der of lines in a ballad, will in
evitably kill all desire ever to read
poetry again. Why not? Nothing
could be deadlier TO the imagina-
tive quality upon which the love
Of poetry feeds.
This form Of murder, for which
no adequate punishment has been
devised, has gone on and still goes
on wherever there are schools with
conformists to teach in them.
Multitudes Of children have
entered American classrooms with
eager, receptive minds that were
waiting to be filed with the magic
and beauty of lovely poetry and
splendid marching prose, and they
have come out dead set against
both, with a confirmed hatred of
such masters as Lamb, Keats,
Shakespeare, Eliot and Browning.
Could crime be more dire than
this? It is a sort of slaughter of
the innocentS. Done, no doubt, in
ignorance, but done nevertheless
mainly because the reading of
poetry has been made a task in
stead of a pleasure. One never
really learns poetry; one either
loves it ~or-leaEeS II alone.-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-13
A Woman's Viewpoint
. By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

4 MERICA'S veteran Shakes
"A pearean actor, Walter Hamp-
den, expresses a grievance against
public education that must be ap-
proved by many.
"a true and spontaneous ap-
probation of Shakespeare" he
says, ''has been ruined in this
country by the average run Of
high school English teachers. Be-
cause students have been forced
to study Shakespeare they have
learned to hate him. Put a copy
of Hamlet into the hands of
the normal adolescent and tell
him it is a mystery story. Don't
worry-he will read and like it.
But grind it into his soul in the
heat of the tedious classroom and
he will shun it the rest Of his life"
The statement explains, also,
the dislike that prevails today for
many other great masters of lit
erature. Poetry really has been
discouraged in our land by the
school-masterish desire to have the
child learn its form before he
learns its substance.
ITO set a pupil to the task Of
4 scanning--and is there not
something Sacrilegious p-the very.