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The Washington times., 1934-11-01
Fancy Writing
Fine If You Like 1t

Miss Gertrude sen lately arrived her native American
shores has spent some OF ner last 81 years o. IN
She writes linguistic crossword puzzles to which not
person million find any sense harder to understand
than the mathematical herogyphcs of Enstens theory Of
RELATIVELY yet she is hailed great literary pioneer
She doesn't know why she produces such lines 1T makes
It well Remain to narrae to prepare two saints for
saints or then the ending of my beginning being in
living" Nor why ultra modern critics get ecstatc about them
~ she says write in the style that is describe
what feel and think I am essentially realst"
we-not being utramOdern crcs-can hardly grasp such
Frealsm" .
We do get the idea though that words like rea sane
and sensible obsolete far Miss Stein is concerned
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
Art for Americans
Bv Americans

The first prize of the Carnegie international exhibition the
na ribbon of the art world The most famous painters of the
world men to whom $1,000 which goes with the prize
very little vie for it.
years old is the youngest painter to get
the coveted honor also the second American since 1923
to win Sidney Laufnan New Yorker takes third prize
In painting in sculpture music Americans forging
ahead particularly young Americans We be proud of them
and proud of the fact that America now one OF the great
nations in the world of art.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

posed to check up, at the begin.
ming of each take" to see that
the actors are the same ones as
those in the previous take"
The confusion comes when
the "scrip-girl' goes out to
lunch, and goes back to the
wrong "set." Thus, we might
have one scene in "The Little
Minister" where everybody was
dressed in the costumes Of The
Scarlet Empress" only The
Little Minister" and THE Scar"
let Empress" were made on diff
ferent "lots" and at different
times.
It might happen, even at that.
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Thursday.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

across two States in the night
mare flight of an insane KID
naper. And nearly always at
the end of the record appears
this grim notation
"The man had q previous
record but was released with
q warning"
"A previous record"-some-
thing no one took very Sc
riously. A shambling loafer,
leering at women and children
-beckoning to them from park
shrubbery and cellar doors.
Gradually going further. A
brutal clutch in the darkness
"a vulgar expoSure-an obscene
letter.
The neighbors gable to the
COP on the beat. The man Is
told to "cut it out" Some.
times there's a short interval
in Jail or asylum. Tnen ne
drops out Of sight
One morning the papers
shrek with a crime that shocks
the world. Everyone is sur
prised-begins to blame the
police.
No one has a right to be
surprised-or to hang responSl-
bility on the police depart
ment.
We, the general public, are
responsible for these atrocities
through our stubborn attitude
toward such crimes and Grim
inalS!
Queer people. we Americans:
Intensely proud Of our general
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
''MOvie" BOners
By Robert BenchLeY

the old Squire does not know is
that his house is afire) and
when Elsie comes to Jim to tell
him that she can't marry him,
the clock in the sitting room
says 1920. When she leaves
it says 1920. That would make
her interview minues ten min
utes long.
In Throw Me Away" the
streetcar conductor is seen hag'
Cling with the Morelli gang
over the disposition of the body
of Artie (Muskrat) Weller. In
the next shot we see Artie hag-
Cling with the streetcar con-
ductor over the disposition Of
the bodies of the Morrell gang.
This is sloppy cutting.
In "Dr. Tanner Can't Eat"
there is a scene laid in Buda-
pest. There is no such place
as Budapest.
What the general public does
not know is that these mistakes
in detail come from the prac.
tice of "block booking" in the
moving picture industry. In
"block booking" a girl, known
as the "scrip-girl." holds the
book of the picture and Is sup
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

At that time, this column
pointed out that Farley would
not oppose Copeland.
And by way Of verification,
the Postmaster, in New York,
recently appealed to the voters
to send Copeland back to his
Senate post.
Secretary Of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes is determined to
get into the motion picture busi.
ness-Or at least some of his
employees seek to enter him in
motion picture production.
The Soil Erosion AdminiStrd.
tton, OF 1Dhich IckeS is admin
tstrGtor, not to be out-done By
other bureaus 1Dhich are max.
ing motion pictures of their
GctiUitieS, went out and bought
a couple OF motion picture
cameras last summer.
Hoping to be up to the minute
they purchased sound cameras
that had just been placed on
the market by a large communi-
cations organization that is
dabbling in motion pictures.
Equipped with their cameras
and several thousand feet of
film, Soil Erosion experts headed
for the "field" to make sound
recordings, although none seems
to know whether soil makes
noises when erOding or not.
The boys went after it, how
ever, particularly on Indian
reservations in the Far West
and around National Parks.
When the films were de-
Deloped they had some fairly
good amateur pictures as re-
suit OF their effort. But the
sounds were disappointing in
that they Uere fen and far be-
tWeen.
Somewhat worried over the
situation, one of the soil ero-
sion photographers sought the
advice Of an expert.
The expert asked:
"Of what did you make
sound pictureS?"
The photographer replied:
"Oh, lots of things-incIud-
ing Indians talking their sign
language"
He was asked what sound an
Indian makes when talking in
sign language to which he re-
Sponded:
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

1929, two months before the
crash, crying "woe" on our civil
lization, with nobody needing
him.
The newly-published book is
a reminder of what is perhaps
the most remarkable long
distance prophesying in our
history. Back in 1904, he pub
lished his Theory of Business
Enterprise" There one will
find the story of the great
depression, several decades
ahead, with an explicit and
detailed story of the struggle
between consumers goods and
capital goods in the fight to
pull out of it, with recovery
only in the field of the former.
On the day this new book
came out, Leonard P. Ayres,
the distinguished banker-eco-
nomist of Cleveland, issued a
searching study of the above
impasse, giving a startling veri-
fication of Veblen's prediction.
Unless I am mistaken, any
sound economist will tell you
today that getting capital goods
moving is the one deed of high
emprise for the depression
fighters.
In Germany and the Indus
trial Epoch" and "The Nature
Of Peace published about 18
years ago, Prof. Veblen gave us
a closeup of what would hap
pen after the war. Germany
and Japan, particularly Ger
many, would revert to romantic,
feudal patterns, set up auto
cratic and astic states,
stamp out democracy and set
up new dynamics in the
world trade war by recasting
technology in a feudal frame
work.
Prof. Veblen lectu red at
many universities and wrote
many books, in which disturb
ing ideas were skillfully and
ironically embedded in highly
professional language. Any re-
spectacle banker, or university
president, hastily would ring a
burglar alarm at the mere
mention of Veblen's name in
those days. What he was say
ing was, in effect:
You gentlemen have found
no way of safely storing sur
plus wealth; your paper pyra-
mids will collapse: your holding
companies and your affiliated
banking will bring you all down
in ruin together"
A DISTURBER
Veblen'S style was too diff
cult to get him a public hear
ing. Those in high places who
knew of him at all, regarded
him as a disturber and a kill
Joy. He was the forgotten man
Of economists.
I never saw Veblen, but an
old time reporter, who can re-
port the world of ideas as well
as the Central Emergency Hos
pital, told me something about
him.
I'm his late years, he was a
shy, timid looking little old man
with pale blue eyes and a
.Stringy white moustache, said
my friend. "I remember some
tuft hunters once getting him
to q big luncheon Of Jealous
upllfters as the guest Of honor.
He seemed to shrink in terror
and mumb1ed in his moustache
when questions were shot at
him. He was a ghostly figure,
haunting the last years OF the
boom era"
Copyright. 1894. Ny King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

edi tors cut
t h e m down
to a b a r e
out in e. A
five-year- o l d
girls tortured
b cd y tossed
into furnace
fl a m eS
another child
strangled and
sealed in a
tru n k . {.
still another
thrust into a
garage grave.
A young wife
n n
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

were Giro u
a t e d that
Postm a S ter
G e n e r a |
James A. Far
ley was going
to fight the
return Of Sen
ator Royal S.
Copeland, of
New Y ork,
Demo c attic
chairman of
the S e n a t e
Rules Co m
mittee, to the
Capitol this
MNMAno hnn
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

door Of the pool room in the
full regalia of an officer in
the huSsars. AS we pick him
up coming in the door. in the
next shot, he has on chaps
and a sombrero. Somewhere on
the threshold, he must have
changed. This is just sheer
carelesSnesS on the part Of
the director.
In 1--WE Need a New Title for
Ills" we have seen Jim, when
he came to the farm. fall in
love with Elsie, although what
Els, does not know is that
Jim is really a character from
another picture. The old Squire,
however, knows all about it
and is holding it over Jim,
threatening to expose him and
have him sent back to the
other picture, which is an in
dependent, costing only a
hundred thousand dollars.
Now, when Jim tells Elsie
that he loves her (and, before
this, we have already been told
that Elsie has been in New York.
working as secretary to a
chorus girl who was just about
to get the stars part on the
opening night) he says that he
is a full-blooded Indian, be-
cause he knows that Elsie likes
Indians. So far, so good.
But in a later sequence, when
they strike oil in ElSie's father
(in a previous shot we have
seen ElSie's father and have
learned that he has given an
option on himself to a big coal
company which is competing
with the old Squire, but what
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

One Of the most popular
paStimes among movie-fans is
picking out mistakes in the de.
tails of a pitcure. It is good
game, because it takes your
mind off the picture.
For example CTR. par er.
Gmple) in the picture called
zone Night Alone-for q
Change" the Prince enters the
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

The Able Moreux, looking
through his telescopes and
pondering over his charts in
the Observatory of Bourges,
speaks to the world this warn
ing: Beware Of 1885 and
1871"
We must listen to the Able,
for he is in high repute as an
astronomer and meteorologiSt.
He is a venerable gentleman,
wise in books and the ways Of
this and other worlds. He is
not some young fellow ex-
pounding a wild theory or
seeking to create a nine-day
wonder.
The Able does know the sun
and the moon and, by his OBJ.
servations and his research
through the centuries, he is
convinced that the sun, the
great star nearest to our earth,
has not only a known effect
on our physical growth, but
also does things to our mental
processes.
STRANGE FEVER
A sharp increase in sunspots
is due for the years 1886 and
1887 and in such periods, says
the Able, we have wars and
social disruptions.
When" he points out, there
Is minimum solar activity, the
world usually has been at peace,
while periods of maximum &C.
tivity seem to create a nervous
tension that causes peoples to
fall upc y each other in MAJ and
savage struggles. AS solar &C.
tivity augments, causing strong
magnetic deviationS, there seems
to develop a strange fever that
takes possession of humanity.
Sometimes this fever begins
somewhat before the maximum
is reached, as was the case of
the world war Of 1914. Is there
another war coming? That I
do not know. But I can say
that, according to statistics COW
ering several centuries, the
years 1886 and 1887 should be
considered as extremely danger.
ouS."
Sunspots, those seemingly
black shadows on the sun, which
often are visible to the eye,
move across the great disc. They
are really not black splotcheS as
they seem to us. but are exceed.
ingly bright and appear dark
only as compared to the far
greater brightness of the rest Of
the star. They reach a maxi
mum every eleven years and
four months.
In the past 20 years Abbe
Moreux has called attention to
the action of this solar activity
on crops, weather and humans.
"Why do the years pass on
our earth without resembling
one another?" he has been
wont to ask in expounding his
arguments. I'm it's course
around the sum-" he adds, "our
earth follows the same orbit rel
atively to the center of our
planetary system. The poles
are inclined in the same man.
ner so that summers and win
ters shall be distributed in the
same way. Yet the seasons vary
from year to year."
''In the periods of the sun.
spots, he explains, tempeStS Of
flame, terrific cyclones Of fire
sweep the sun. It is this intenSi-
fled radiation from which we
suffer because of our nearneSS
to the fiery ball" And years be-
fore the drought, which hit both
Europe and the United States,
the Able Moreux had predicted
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
''There Was a Previous
Record"

Terrible records on police
blotters these days-stories so
ghaStly in detail that sickened
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
Re-Appraisal of Assets
A Boon to DepositorS

The payment of additional dividend of thirty per
cent to the depositors of the Seventh Street Savings
Bank is an indication that progress is being made
in bringing the depostors the benefits contained in the
Steaga act enacted at the last session Of Con-
gress.
IT IS A DEMONSTRATION OF THE FACT THAT
IF THE PROVISIONS OF THAT LAW WERE MORE
AGGREssIVELY UTILIZED THE DEPOsIToRs
WITH FUNDS IN CLOSED BANKS HERE AND
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WOULD BE ABLE
TO OBTAIN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY LARGE
PART OF THE MONEY WHICH IS TIED UP.
The new dividend depositors of the Seventh Street
Savings Bank that eighty per cent of the total
deposit liability of that institution has been met
That is far better record than is held by many of
other closed banks of the city and is tribute to the
tive work of Receiver Norman R. Hamilton.
After the original dividend of fifty per cent was paid
Mr.. Hamilton went to the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration and because of the steaga provisions
was able obtain reapprasal of the assets upon which
the bank had borrowed from the corporation
AS result of that reappraisal the liberal basis
provided in the Mcleod seaga the additional dvi
dend made possible.
THE RELUCTANCE OF SOME RECEIVERS AND
OF SOME OFFICIALS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
FINANCE CORPORATION TO UTILIZE THE LIB
ERAL APPRAISAL BASIS WHICH WAS FOUGHT
FOR so EARNESTLY BY REPRESENTATIVE CLAIR
ENCE J. MLEOD IS ONE OF THE MANY MYs-
TER1Es OF THE CLOSED BANK SITUATION,
Recently Comptroller of the Currency J. F. T. OCon
nor and Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation announced that they would utilize
the provision of the Mcleod -steaga act which permits
the corporation to purchase the assets of closed banks to
wind UP ''tail-end'' receiverships.
They purpose to the provision only in connection
with receiverships which have deposit liability of less
than thirty thousand dollars.
THERE IS NO SOUND REASON WHY THIS USE
OF THE PROVISION SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED
AND IT is TO BE HOPED THAT IT WILL BE so
EXTENDED.
But in the meantime the appraisal basis provided
in that act can be made powerful weapon In the ma
tion's recovery fight.
It provides that loans may be made by the Finance
Corporation assets appraised the basis of recovery
instead of being based upon depression values.
The corporation has in its vaults great of
securities upon which original loans made and
which appraised for the purpose of those loans
upon the lowest depression prices.
By reappraising all Of those securities has been
done in the of the Seventh Street Savings Bank and
two other local institutions the corporation would
be able to make Immediately available to depotors large
sums of money.
THIS, IT SHOULD BE BORNE IN MIND WOULD
BE MADE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE PROSPECT
OF FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE CORPORATION OR
THE GOVERNMENT.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Weeks before the close Of the
last session of Congress rumorS
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

1--WE had an interpreter talk
into the mike to interpret the
signs"
Colored members of the
Montgomery county Fusion
party were holding forth in a
nearby Maryland school the
other eve.
On the platform, one of the
colored speakers Grated:
"BoyS, these Democrats will
buy your votes. They will buy
them with hOt-dogs, they will
buy them with money or
whiskey. They will pay you
to stay home and not vote.
"And now boys before 1 for
get it let me remind you that
we will serve OUR REFRESH
MENTS after this meeting!"
John H. Fahey. chairman OF
the Federal Home Loan Bank
board has his UietOS concerning
gentlemen Uho act as chair
men of meetings and introduce
speakers on U1riouS programs.
After a particularly flowery
introduction the ether day,
Fahey said of the chairman:
"He reminds me of two travel
ers who were going through a
famous EOuse in Italy.
I'm one room they noticed a
giant bed that was about ten
feet long and eight feet wide.
One of the travellers glanced at
the bed and exclaimed:
"'SOme bunk"
The Japanese-American i'm
paSse in naval negotiations in
London recall days in 1921 in
the Harding A m inistration
when washington was the meet
ing place of world dignitaries
who met to talk reductions in
naval ornaments.
In London at the present
time, the deadlock is not believed
to have increased friendly feel
ing between the American ne
gOtiatOrS and the japanese dele
gates.
The British, are m a k ing
claims that they are largely re-
sponsible for the continuation
of negotiations.
Back in 1921 when the con-
ference was held held to discuss
reductions in naval ornaments,
Washington was filled with a
group of the most eminent
statesmen of the world.
In a lengthy session they de-
b1ted the terms of treaties.
Finally they agreed on the
$50 ratio NGUGl Treaty.
Observers who remember that
in 1921 it required considerable
argument and debate before the
nations could agree are Of the
opinion that as time progresses
it becomes more difficult for dele
gates to reach terms that would
force their countries to make
reductions in sea strength and
are extremely doubtful of the
future benefits of such negotia-
tiOnS.
Copyright. 1894, The Washington TimssI
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

1--WE had an interpreter talk
into the mike to interpret the
signs"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-13

&FBcsWJz will carry at 1O:20 a, X. tomorrow. the broadcast by HHne Plus xI to the Eucharistic &onEress In Buenos Aires. Ills aoIiness' message to Catholics <froughopt the world will be de- HPtred ih Latin and will be foi- lowed by the papal benediction.
 A translation of the message in English will be given from the NEG studies in Radio City following the Eope's address. Prior to the broad cast of the message from the Vatican in Rome, prominent churchman in New York will ex- plain the composition of the Eucharistic Congress and the pur- pose of its meeting in Argentine.
 Leon BefascO and his or.
 cliestra will be heard over the
 WABC-C Columbia network In a
 grams from the Casino de Pa-
 ree, Beginning October Fl.
 The BelascO music will be
 br0Adcast on Sundays from
 i :S0 D. m. to midnight and on
 Wednesdays from 1t:O0 to
 11:S0 p. m. tEST).
 Belasco and his orchestra,
 0lie of the best known musical
 units on the air, have been
 featured during recent seasons
 at some of New Y0rk's smart-
 est dining spots, including the
 exclusive Embassy Club. the Ambassador Hotel and the Con-
 tincntal Grill of the St. Moritz
 Hotel. Belasco won his first
 musical laurcls as violin ylr-
 tuOsO. Later he organized Il
 dance orchestra in Honolulu,
 which was featured on both the radio and stage. Next came
 q concert series in Los Angeles
 and then a turn in Hollywood
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-13
'BTNC CROSBY IN
 POPULAR COMEDY
Radio, Screen Star Pro- vides Vocal Features of
 Outstanding Film

Something new and different in motion picture history has been ac- compiished; a college story has been filmed without a football game, a football player, or a col- iege musical show in the entire production. .
 The picture is ".she Loves Me Not" produced by Paramount with Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins starred. It opens tomorrow at the Warner Strand theater.
 s'She Loves Me Not" is adopted from the widely-read novel which appeared in serial form in the Sat- urday Evening Post. and also from the Broadway play of the same name. In addition to Crosby and Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlile. Ed. ward Nugent, Henry Stephenson, Warren Hymef, Lynne Overman, Judith Allen, George Barbier and Vince Barnett are included in the cast.
 Elliott Nugent, who directed s'Three- -Cornered Moon," directed this film from the screen play by Benja min Glazer.
 Besides giving Crosby ample op- pertunity to sing several brand new. typically Crosby tunes, the film is also full of comedy and suspense. A young night-club girl sees a murder committed and. fear ing to be questioned by police. she runs away. getting as far as Prin- ceton, New Jersey.
 Broke. hungry mad desperate she walks boldly into the room of Crosby, q student. By clever ruse and a little disguise, he attempts to hide her in the dormitory. She is discovered and the events that fol- low involve Crosby. the dean and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-13
GARDEN FEATURES
 STAR OF GRUMPY
Cyril Maude Returns in Orders Is Orders; Leo
 CarrillO on Program

"Orders Is Orders" which comes to the Garden theater tomorrow and Monday Is a story about a typical slangy American movie di-
 rector who chooses an English bar-
 racks as setting for a picture. He and his female assistant, Wanda,
 get the dignified old colonel in- terested in their venture-apd the fun begins. James Gleason and Charlotte Greenwood are excellent as the American director and his
 assistant, and Cyril Maude whom we always think of in connection with his famous role in Grumpy" gives an outstanding performance
 as the grouchy old Colonel. One of these three actors is always on the screen-and that is one of the req sons why ones interest cannot lag. The story unwinds at rapid pace
 --and 1t is all quite hilariously sat- isfying.
 The mixed English American cast includes, besides the three
 principles, Ian Hunter, Percy Par sons, Donald Calthrop, and Cedric
 Hardwicke. The extras were ex-
 service men from the British Legion, who were out of work. They
 made up the troops at the barracks
 which is the setting for the film. "Orders Is Orders" is based on
 a play by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong which ran for nearly g year at the Shaftsbury theater, London.