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The Washington times., 1934-04-17
.BANKRUPT CASE
CITES TWO

On a plea of guilty to inducing
false claims against his bank
rupt estate, Calvin w. Green, of
Culpeper, Va, yesterday was given
in Alexandria Federal Court, a
suspended sentence of a year and
a day. Imposition Of sentence on
his son, Beckwith Green, on a
similar charge, was suspended
three years.
Using the father and son as
witnesses, the Government was at
tempting today to convict their
attorney, D. Gibson Shelton, of
Madison, Va, Of q charge of in
ducing false bankrupt claims in
the same case.
Judge Luther B. Way suspended
for two years imposition of SEN
tence on Michael Hockstra, who
pleaded guilty to assaulting two
guards at Arlington Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
MAYOR AVOIDS
. COURT ACTION

Forestalling mandamus pro-
ceedings in the Prince Georges
county circuit court to compel
an election, Mayor Thomas j.
Luckett has ordered q nominating
convention in Capitol Heights for
Thursday evening.
At the convention, nominees
for mayor and six councilmen
are to be named, says the mayor.
The meeting will be held in
the Capitol Theater, where two
weeks ago a Self-appointed citi.
zens committee met in protest
Of the so-cared lethargy Of town
officials and demanded the coun'
Gil set a registration and cleo
ton date. The citizens commit.
tee had employed State Senator
l.. G. Sasscer to push their case
In answer, the mayor is call
ing a convention for Thursday
night and registrations will be
held next week. The election is
May z.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
40 900 PAID TO HEAR D. c. SYMPHONY

titled Music Gossip After the
Opera"
The sketch, written by Helen
Fetter Cook, has setting and cos
TUNES Of the period Of the late
eighties in New York. Anecdotes
concerning famous folk and their
activities at that time, stories
about temperamental and canny
prima donnas, and music that
was popular (and in many cases
still is among the favorite selec-
tions Of the general public) will
be played and sung. Also, some
classics Of music literature will
be given.
The artists include Anne Yago
McGuffey Hazel Priest, Mary
Mathews Taylor, and c. Ridge
way Taylor.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
SENATE MARKET
BILL READY
FOR ACTION

The final revised draft Of the
stock market bill was ready today
for the Senate Banking Commit
tee. It will report 1t to the Senate
later this week.
Efforts to eliminate section two
failed in the subcommittee. The
section, regarded as important to
the constitutionality of the meas
ure, is headed necessity for regu
iations,," and reads in part:
Transitions in securities as
commonly conducted upon se-
curitieS exchanges and Over-the
counter markets are carried on
ln large volume by the public
generally and originate in large
part outside the states In which
the exchanges and Over-the-cOuEA-
ter markets are located and are
effected by means Of the mails
and instrumentalitieS Of inter-
state commerce, constitute an
important part Of the current of
interstate commerce, and are
affected with national public
interest"
The Washington times., 1934-04-17

What O difference there 10 Ia
men! Some Of them are full OF
pep, energy, ability. They ssa
there ahead of the other fellow!
What's the difFerenceI
Usually q man eats success OF
failure at the breakfast table!
Often he makes or loses q con-
tract according to what he eats
for lunch. Wise eating is the
smartsst thing q business man
can do. At least one meal q day.
especially in this warm weather,
eat Shredded Wheat, milk, and
fresh fruit.
DIFF you didn't have any other
food, you could live on this
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
STOP BAD BREATH

Thousands Of people afflicted with
bad breath find quick relief through
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets. The
pleasant, sugar-coated tablets are
taken for bad breath by all who
know.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act
gently but firmly on the bowels and
liver, stimulating them to natural
action, clearing the blood and gently
purifying the entire system. They do
that which dangerous calomel does
without any Of the bad after effects.
Olive Tablets brings no gripping
pain or any disagreeable effects.
DR.. r. M. Edwards discovered the
formula after 20 years Of practice
among patients afflicted with bowel
and liver complaint, with the at
Gendant bad breath.
Olive Tablets are purely a vegeta.
ble compound: you will know them
by their olive color. Take nightly for
q week and note the effect. 15c,
Soc, Soc.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17

washington is now faced with
the problem Of financing the Ma
tional symphony Orchestra for an
other season, and q review Of mu-
sic here during the year Is timely
for without the orchestra the ma
jor portion Of the music played,
especially the symphonic music,
would not have been heard at all.
Records show, according to
Manager c. C. Cappel, that more
than 10000 admissions were paid
at the Sunday and symphony
series concerts. This does not In
clude the thousands Of children
who heard the eight programs at
Central High School.
Those who attended the con-
certs heard, besides q generous
repertoire of music which should
be the part of every music season
in q city the size Of Washington,
an unusual number Of compost
tions now to the Capital. These
included Chausson's symphony in
B flat major, the Oriental tran
scriptions by Henry Eichheim,
the ultra modern Ring" by Philip
Lazar, Edward Potter'S Montana
Sketches" Spier'S ''Bowery Impres.
sions," John Powell'S "Rhapsodie
Negro" for piano and orchestra: !:
Sibelius' "Swan of Tuornela," and
George Schumann's Dance Of the
NymphS and Satyrs."
The fact that 10000 tickets were
sold, demonstrates clearly that the
Capitals musical needs will never
be adequately served by visiting
orchestras alone.
The National Symphony last
season added to its repertory four
major symphonies, the eighth Of
Beethoven, Brahms second, MOI
arts Cessation" and the Chaus.
son work, as well as such works
as Richard Strauss Death and
Ira n Sfiguration," Tchaikovsky's S
Francesca da Rimini," RimSky.
Korsakov's "Scheherazade," Liszt's
"Tasco," Stzavinsky's Fire Bird,
and many shorter but important
compositions, including overtures
like Wagner's Flying Dutchman,' -
Beethoven's "Prometheus," and
"Coriolanus," Tchaikovsky's 'Nut-
cracker Suite" and Weber's "Eury.
anthe." This by no means ex-
hausts the list; As compositions
were added to the orchestra 3
repertoire this year.
With Gabrilowitsch, Alber
Spalding, Ernest Hutcheson, Guio'
mar Novaes and Gloria Perkins as
SoloistS, Kinder and his men gave
concertos by Brahms, Schumann
Mendelssohn. and two by Bee
thoven.
In addition, deFalla's Eel Amor
Brujo," certainly one Of the
most significant works Of the
latter part of the nineteenth cen
tury, was given in its entirety
for the first time in Washington,
with Sophie BraSlau as soloist.
|Charlo++e ock\AIood
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at 8:15 at First Congregational
Church, under the auspices OF
the American Guild Of Organ1sts,
will include q movement from
Elgar's Sonata in G, variations
on Q chorale by j. Bernard Bach,
Samuel Wesley's Gavotte in F, a
traditional Bohemian cradle song,
and several other works, OF re-
liRious and secular character.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17

Charlotte Lockwood
Charlotte Lockwood's program
for her recital tomorrow evening
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
Sligo Park Citizens
Prep1re for Election

Selection Of q nominating CON-
mittee to prepare a slate of Off
GERS will feature a meeting Of
the Sligo Park Hills Citizens AS
sociation, at the East Silver
Spring School, Wednesday eve
ming at 8 o'clock,
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
B'nUi Israel League
To Install Officers

Members of the Young Peoples
League of the B'nai Israel Syna-
gogue will inaugurate their sum-
Iner season tomorrow night with
installation Of officers for the new
year. Abe Lerner is the new pres
ident. Miss Lillian Kahn, well
known radio pianist, will be guest
NoloiSt.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
District Visitor
Attacked, Robbed

Charles w. Morgan, visiting
here from Memphis, Tenn, was
set upon by four young boys last
night at Fifteenth and K. Streets
Northwest and was robbed Of $14,
he reported to police.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
"Music Gossip"

Lewis Lotion Moneyway, chair
man Of the entertainment com.
mittee of the University Club,
announces that the special ladies'
night program at the club Thurs
day night, will be in the form
Of q dramatic-musical sketch en-
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
SOCIETY PLANS DANCE

Elaborate arrangements are be-
ing completed for a spring dance
to be given by the Idaho State
Society, Friday night, at the
Broadmoor.
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
SCHOOL LUNCHEON

Mothers Of children in the third
and fifth grades at the Woodside
School, and their teachers will
give q benefit luncheon Wednes'
day at l p. m. in the auditorium
of the school,
The Washington times., 1934-04-17
MISS HARVEY BURIED

DANVILLE. Va, April /,
Funrela services for Miss MargarC
Harvey who died here Saturda
while visiting her sister, Mrs. F. }
CLANCY, were held Yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-08-20

The records have it that six
million persons paid good
money to see William NewellS
discovery which, in reality, was
a block of gypsum, quarried
near Fort Dodge, sculptured by
a Chicago stone-cutter, taken to
Binghamton by train and then
carted by night to Cardiff to be
buried in the spot where a well
was to be sunk.
The giant continued to make
money for 40 years before be-
coming a back number and
fetched only 5000 in 1912 when
sold for storage fees by Bos-
ton warehouse.
Now the promoters believe
him ready for a Patti perform
ance, and if it should be what
Broadway inelegantly calls a
flop" why, there is the offer
of the Syracuse Chamber of
Commerce to make him per-
manent monument in that city.
Certainly the Cardiff Giant
should be preserved for the ages
as the prime example of the
gullibility of the masses!
A picturesque figure passes
from the world stage with the
imminent retirement of the Rev.
William Inge, the Gloomy
Dean" of st. Paul's Cathedral
in London. An outSpoken lib
eral-almost a radical-he is
most celebrated for his somber
and salty discourses on the al
fairs of our times. Only his in
innate friends know what a
misnomer is the title Gloomy"
when applied to him. They have
a knowledge of the sharpness
and the brightness of his wit.
Dean Inge is Seventy-four
now and has had the two years
more of living which he asked
for on his seventy-second birth
day. AS a scholar, churchman
and writer he has been quoted
periodically on many and varied
subjects, ranging from the evils
of lipstick to the belief that
England has passed its peak as
a world power. But there is one
interview he gave which I will
hold always as a classic. A re-
porter asked him what he
counted the best things in life,
and he replied:
Happiness in the home and
success in ones field"
And what" continued the
reporter, do you count as the
proper number of years to liVe?"
The aged dean pointed to the
picture of a little girl on the
wall of his study.
That's my child" he said
simply. "She died when she
was eleven. Hers was as per-
feet life as I have ever known.
Only God knows when we have
lived our lives. 1t is He who
must try to make our term ade-
quate."
Copyright 1874, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1934-08-20

of it than that. They will
charge, as they have charged,
that the Democratic Admins
tration has violated the Consti-
tuition by uSurpation of powers
of Congress, by restrictions on
business, and in other ways.
And If Democrats UOte to seat
Mr.. Holt, they will be con-
demned for an out-Gnd-out et-
fort to violate the greatest
American document.
Job hunters are so numerous
around the PoStottice Building
that executives in the Federal
Housing Administration and the
Federal Home ODnerS Loan Cor
pOrGtiOn sometimes find it nec-
eSSGry to creep cautiously from
spot to spot.
Both organizations are filled
to capacity, but the job hunters
are hard to shake.
Not so long ago a man in the
Hole began to send applica-
tions to a friend in the Housing
Administration in search of
work. The job-seekers became
numerous and the housing Off
cial found them a nuisance that
interfered with work.
He retaliated.
In the corridors, on the
street and in restaurants he
rounded up more than a score
of people who were seeking
work.
He asked each one:
Haven't you been employed
yet?"
When they replied in the
negative he wrote the name OF
the Hole man on slip OF
paper and said:
"Take this to Mr.. -. He
will put you to work immedi-
ately!'
The horde walked in on the
Hole official in one big group.
He is still trying to recover
from the shock.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington Times.
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comes an arrogant knoW-it-all
in the presence of hiccoughs-
in somebody else.
Don't be silly he says, pa
tronizingly. Just put your head
under your arm, hold glass Of
water against the back of your
neck, and count to 500 by fives
without taking breath. 1t
never fails"
Then, when it has failed, he
blames you. You couldn't have
done it right" he says. Its alb
solutely sure-fire if you only fol-
low my directions" He also i'm
plies darkly that what is ailing
you is not just merely hiccoughs.
my method can't be expected
to cure drunkenness, you know"
he says.
To date, I have been advised
to perform the following feats
to cure hiccoughs: Bend the
body backwards until the head
touches the floor, and whistle
in reverse; place the head in a
pail of water and inhale twelve
times deeply; drink a glass of
milk from the right hand with
the right arm twisted around
the neck until the milk enters
the mouth from the left side;
hop, with the feet together, up
and down a flight of steps ten
times, screaming loudly at each
hop; roll down a long, inclined
lawn, snatching a mouthful Of
grass up each time the face is
downward.
have tried them all, with re-
sultant torn ligaments, iHcipi-
ent drowning, lockjaw and
arsenic poisoning, but. each
time, at the finish Of the act,
and a few seconds of waiting
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while my mentor says trlum-
phantly: See! What did 1 tell
you" that one, big hiccough al
ways breaks the tension, indi-
eating that the whole perform
ance has been a CHASTITY flop.
My latest fiasco came as the
result of reading the preScrip-
ton of a Boston doctor, and al
most resulted in my being put
away as an irresponsible per-
son. "All that the sufferer had
to do" wrote the doctor. was
to blow up an ordinary paper
bag. as if to explode 1t and then
hold it over the mouth and nose
tightly, breathing in and out of
the bag instead of in and out
of the open air."
This, according to the doctor,
creates an excess of carbon mon
oxide gas in the bag, which is
breathed over and over again,
acting on a nervous center Of
the brain and curing the hic-
coughs. That's what he said.
Being alone in the room at the
time, 1 blew the bag up and
held it tightly over my face, in
Guiding not only my mouth and
nose, but my eyes as we'll, like a
gas-mask. 1 subjected myself to
this treatment for possibly three
minutes, walking around the
room at the same time to keep
from getting bored.
When 1 removed the bag, I
found myself the object of the
silent, but terrified, scrutiny Of
my wife, who had entered the
room without my knowing it,
and who had already motioned
for corroborating witnesses
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come before the people of
Nebraska for approval at the
November elections. They will
vote upon a proposed amend
ment to their State constitu-
ton which, if adopted, would
establish a State legislature of
one chamber, limit membership
to between thirty to fifty mem
bers, nominated and elected on
nonpartiSan tickets.
They would be paid not a
nominal, but substantial sal
ary-one large enough to at
tract men of character and
competency to offer themselves
for legislative service.
Encouraging Sign
Although he is not the author
of this legislative proposal, Sen
ator Norris, the father of the
Lame Duck" amendment to the
Federal Constitution which
abolished the short session of
Congress, has enthusiastically
endorsed it. He is credited with
obtaining most of the one hun
dred thousand signatures to the
petition which put this amend
ment on the ballot.
A State legislature consisting
of one chamber and not more
than so members would reduce
the cost of government to the
people of Nebraska. 1t would
give them a working body,
chosen primarily for their per-
sonal qualifications and with
out regard to their political af-
filiation. If the experiment sue
ceeded in Nebraska it would
doubtless be adopted by other
States.
The fact that the people of
Nebraska have, on their own
initiative, placed such a pro-
pOsaI on the ballot offers an
other encouraging sign of the
Stiffening determination of the
people all over the country to
reduce the cost and raise the
standard of State and local gov
eminent by reducing the num-
Der of politicians on the pay
roll.
Although county government
has been described as the dark
continent of American politics"
and local government in many
States might with equal truth
be called the dismal swamp"
of American politics, there is
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Why o4C
ping a campaign to seat him
despite the prohibition of the
Constitution which bans men
under 80 years from Senate
service.
Republicans are watching the
situation with interest.
If Holt is elected and attempts
to take his seat there is little
doubt that the question of the
COnstitutiOnality of the move
UilL be raised.
Republicans will fight any at
tempt to seat Holt on the basis
that he is under the age limit
specified by the Constitution.
Democrats are expected to
point out that the same dOcu-
ment provides that each State
shall have two Senators and de-
clareS that the Senate is the
sole judge of it's membership.
They will also point out that
Henry Clay was seated when 20
years old. But the cOnstitu-
tiOnal question was not raised.
The fight on the surface will
be a question of whether Holt
will be seated.
Republicans will make more
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from the next room, two OF
whom were standing in the door
way, tranSfiXed.
My explanation that I was
curing hiccoughs did not go very
big, as what 1 had obviously
been doing was walking around
the room alone with a paper
bag over my head. This is not
a good sign.
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
Articles By Robert BenchLcy
appear each Monday, WedneS'
day and Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-08-20
Nebraska Voters Set Pace
By James T. Williams, II

lots of room for improvement in
the organization of State gov
ernmentS.
In State after State today
public money is being squan-
dered on the upkeep of two or
three times the number of ex-
ecutive departments that are
necessary to the efficient con-
duct of the public business.
And the more than 5000
county governments which the
people throughout the Union are
taxed to support could with ad-
vantage be reduced to 300.
County government in metro
politan areas is a useless eX-
pense to the people. 1t is kept
alive by pork-barrel politicians
who fill its useless offices with
their political heelerS.
County government outside
metropolitan areas can be mod
ernized by consolidation and by
the transfer to the State Of
many functions now delegated
to county government.
To bring about these reforms
in the obsolete system of
county and local government
that has come down from the
days of the oxcart consti-
tutional amendments are neceS-
Sary in most of the States.
Even where the undermining
of county government is with
in the power of the legiSla-
ture, the county political rings
have such a grip on the gov
eminent of the State that it is
hard to get county reorganiza-
ton measures through both
houses of State legislature.
In spite of these obstacles,
public sentiment seems to be
forcing governors and legiSla-
lures in an increasing number
of States to consider ways and
means of reducing the cost and
raising the standard of State
government and of moderniz-
ing the system of county and
local government.
People Demand
There seems to be a growing
realization of the fact that
these reforms must be resorted
to if the people are to b.
given what with increasing de-
termination they are demand
ing North, East, South and
West:
Fewer politicians to feed at
the public trough and more
and better public schools,
served by better trained and
better paid teachers, to train
the citizens of tomorrow.
If the people of Nebraska
vote next November to con-
solidate their legislature into
a single body the people of
other States will be encour-
aged to carry that CONSOLIDATE
ing process into the field of
county and local government.
In this way old economies
will Supplant new taxes" and
government of the people, by
the people, for the people will
overthrow government of the
politicians, by the politicians,
for the politicians.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-08-20
Another Committee
Maybe the Last

tuberculosis sufferers of the city take heart.
We are reaching the ultimate in the series of COM
mtees and commissioners which for years have toyed
with the idea of erecting hospital in which they might
have chance to be cured of their afflicton
It looks though only committee will
have to be appointed and that should begin funconing
in a short while
Since this committee is being appointed at the sug-
gestion of the President it is without undue optimism
that look for it to be the last and deciding factor in
the series
OF COURSE THERE IS POSSIBILITY THAT
AFTER THIS PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE MAKES
IT'S REPORT WE MAY NOT GET THE MONEY FOR
THE HOSPITAL.
THERE IS, TOO, THE POSSIBILITY THAT WHEN
CONGRESS MEETS AGAIN IN JANUARY 1T MAY
KICK OVER THE TRACES AND THROW OUT THE
REPORTS OF ALL THE COMMITTEES OF THE
PAST AND START PLAYING WITH THE HOSPITAL
PROPOSITION ANEW.
If these possibilities should occur thousands of suf-
ferers will die of neglect in the meantime
But if the presidential committee should be able to
conclude it's deliberations with speed and we should get
action the hospital in the future the
Der of the dead would be reduced to hundreds.
What splendid condition for the National Capital
The great model metropolis of the country!
We've been struggling to get tuberculosis hospital
more than decade
The turn of the century may see it.
c 5f F FGsU a MS nS c. Do, ware business
>. j. Fitzpatrick editor.
The Washington times., 1934-08-20

While the country marveled
or scoffed, one man bit his fin
gernails in chagrin. He was
Phineas T. Barnum, the master
Snowman of all time, who in
this instance had been outBar-
numed by group of yokels. He
offered to buy it and when re-
fused, had a 12-foot giant carved
for himself and exhibited it in
his shows as the original.
The Washington times., 1934-08-20

By Robert BenchEey

Anyone will be glad to admit
that he knows nothing about
beagling, or the Chinese stock
market, or ballistics, but there
is not a man or woman alive
who does not claim to know
how to cure hicCoughs. The
funny thing is that the hic-
coughs are never cured until
they get darned good and ready.
The most modest and unaS-
Stunning man in the world be-
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che" would have diSintegrated.
However, as usual, it was
years before the truth caught
up with the lie.
Newell refused an offer of
$4,000 for a quarter interest in
the statue and, with his part
ners, one of whom was David
Harum, the character of the
flesh Of Westcott's novel, ex-
hibited it throughout the land.
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to the United
States Senate
and add one
more stun
blingblOck to
t h e boulder
strewn p a t h
of the Demo
Gratis.
So c e rtain
a re De m O.
cratic obServ-
erS that Holt
will be elect
ed to replace
H e n r y D.
Hatfield that
thew oro mon