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Evening star., 1934-06-16
Interpreter Sares
Immigrant Woman
Tipping With Bills
TraueIers' Aid Society
Worker Helps Her.
Train Missed.

An elderly immigrant woman stood
beside a pile of bundles and tipped
porters with SIS bank notes.
. Amused spectators, idly waiting for
trains, edged closer The woman
muttered something in foreign Ian
guage, but her hearers only shook
their heads.
Suddenly she screamed, gathered up
her luggage and hurried through the
crowd toward a train gate.
Just then an interpreter appeared.
BY slow degrees he soothed the
anxious woman. Turning to the
crowd and a trinity dressed young
woman, who seemed to have taken
charge of the situation, he made a
brief explanation
1t seemed the woman was to meet
a son in a Midwestern city, and her
train had gone, The idea that there
would be another train for the same
destination within the same day had
not occurred to her In the old coun-
try. she said, things weren't like that.
She looked beWildered as the in
terpreter explained the paper money
she was so freely dispensing was far
more valuable than the small store of
silver and copper coins she clutched
avidly in her little bag AS a result.
the porter who eventually guided her
to a seat on the proper train, received
only thin dime. Paper money. she
told the interpreter, was not highly
regarded in many European countries
This elderly woman's troubles had
been Strengthened out by the quick ac-
ton of Miss Edna Schneider, Travel
ers' Aid Society worker, who had
spotted her in trouble and secured an
interpreter. 1t is only one Of many
such cases handled daily in their
busy lives, she explained.
Evening star., 1934-06-16
MAN UP FOR CHEATING
SELF FREED BY COURT

PHILADELPHIA. June 16 P-
'"Thot's no crime" said the magis-
trate. Case dismissed"
The defendant was william Davis,
gasoline station operator. who had
been accused by weights and meas
ures inspectors of ignoring a con-
demnation seal on his fuel pump.
Short weight?" the magistrate had
asked
No" was the reply. Overweight. p"
Evening star., 1934-06-16
TAK0MA PARK TO HAVE
PROHIBITION MEETING
Senator Frazier and Representa-
tive Guyer Among Speak
ers Today.
corr.snondsn+ of The stor

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
TAKOMA PARK, Md, June 10
Four speakers, including Senator
Frazier of North Dakota and Repre-
sentative Guyer of Kansas, will address
a temperance and prohibition rally
to be held here tomorrow afternoon a
o'clock on the Washington Mis-
sionary College campus. The rally is
sponsored by the Potomac Conference
of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Others who will talk include Rev. J.
H Mcneil, president of the Potomac
Conference, and Rev. H. Stewart Pat
terson of the Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. DR.. B,
G. Wilkinson. dean of theology of
Washington Missionary College, will
serve as chairman. ..
Evening star., 1934-06-16
Senators Surprised
Tips at Mayfower
Are Taken by Hotel

The Senate District subcom-
mittee investigating the proposed
reorganization of the Mayfiower
Hotel yesterday learned all the
details in connection with its
operation from the lips of Corneal
J. Mack, the Mayflower auditor.
The subcommittee, however.
showed greatest interest in the
hat check girl, and learned to
their apparent surprise that the
10 and rs cent tips given her
go into the Golfers of the hotel
and that she works on a salary
I'm glad to know that" re-
marked Chairman Kean. $50
am l." agreed Senator Reynolds.
Democrat, of North Carolina,
Evening star., 1934-06-16

Bridge Is to be abandoned wneD TIE
new Calvert Street Bridge, is COM
pleted, since plans require the de-
velopment Of closed pillow pit at the
west end of the span.
Evening star., 1934-06-16

mand special action bearing on use
of the open plow pit.
There now is no open plow pit on
Connecticut avenue and the one at
the east end Of the Calvert Street
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
SlanderS Aimed at Heroes
Refuted by Lindbergh
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Army had to prepare to take
it over. II you change around
the most experienced pilots we
have in mail routes, giving
them new routes, it would sim
ply take them weeks. and
probably months, before they
could fly the new route as ef-
ficientIy as the old route.
II know if I went back on
my old route, from St. Louis to
Chicago, it would take me
months to fly it as well as it
was flown by me when 1 left"
This testimony will prove
devastating to those "evl
gents" in and out of Congress
who have stopped to conquer
those who have tried to de-
fame the dead officers of the
Army Air Corps by insinuatlng
that they were killed because
they did not know how to fly.
instruments Lacking
Equally revealing was the evi-
dence given by Colonel Lind
bergh about the difference be-
tween commercial and military
equipment for flying. He said:
"It would be hardly desirable
for military planes to carry
the intricate instruments and
equipment carried on air liners.
There could not be as good
equipment in delicate mStru'
ments on military as on COM
mercial planes and still carry
out military maneuvers. For
instance, on the question Of
horoscopes, that would some
what limit the military planes
which are required to be highly
maneuverable."
Before Colonel Lindbergh gave
his testimony many Senators
and Representatives in Con.
gress revealed by their fatuouS
criticism that they did not know
that maneuverability was the
objective in designing most mil
itary planes and stability in de-
signing commercial planes to
carry passengers.
How Colonel Lindbergh did
justice to the living by his
straightforward testimony is
another chapter and must be re-
served for another day. This
testimony also speaks the truth
and it is just
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
Times Coz
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
The Times Reveals Truth
OF Air Mail Mess
A Sad Story

The Washington Times through its commentator James
Williams Jr has been giving its readers for weeks the
TRUTH about the air mail mess.
It has charged that the air companies contracts were can
Celled too hastily.
It has charged that the Army air service unequpped
and unframed to fly the air mail routes.
It charged that disasters certain to resut-and
the nation has gallant young Army iers sent to
their deaths since those charges were made.
Every line that The Washington Times has published about
Che air mail situation was abundany confirmed Friday by
Col Charles Lindbergh in his testimony before the Senate
Committee in Washington
Colonel Lindbergh we think, knows something about
flying.
He has not only flown threequarters Of the face OF
the globe but he air mail pilot himself before MS
memorable spanning of the Atlantic.
And Friday he confirmed every word Of The Times
articles this terrible bunder of the Government which mas
needlessy sacrificed ten fine young lives
We shall not 20 the testimony in detail We hope you
read it in The Washington Times Friday.
But Colonel Lndbegh did get the idea across that 1t was
criminal folly to make pilots fly routes with which they were
unfamiliar planes which neither designed nor fitted
out for the that further Of the Army fers
under those conditions would result in further loss Of lives
Colonel Lindbergh said that he himself could not fly his
old mail route between Chicago and st. Louis without the
chance Of trouble-or worse.
That good deal Of admission for flyer of his emlnence
to make.
And it proves-n any ~ng can-that this blunder must
be lquidated at the earliest possible moment
That's the way it, anyway. We hope the Govern
ment will see it that way, too.
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

vice from it's workers through spending the sixty mil
lion dollars Not that the Government worker has ever
consciously Stacked in his duties because of the pay cuts
but because the restoration of salaries would give him
renewed confidence, would eliminate many of his per-
sonal and domestic worries and would make him more
contented and happier workman
Do the conferees think that these results are worthy
buying for sixty million dollars?
If they do their course is clear.
They have but to submit reports to their respective
houses which would accept the McCarran full restoration
amendment
If they do not feel that the results to be obtained bv
paying out the sixty million dollars would justify that
expenditure under the present condition of govern
mental finances they either reach compromise en-
that sixty million dollars insist upon acceptance
of the House amendment.
BUT TO OUR MIND THE MOST IMPORTANT
ELEMENT IN THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE
CONFEREES IS SPEED.
THE DISPUTE ON THE ISSUE HAS ALREADY
LASTED TOO LONG,
THE C0NFEREEs SHOULD BRING IT TO AN
ABRUPT END
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

HerotSnl feels and never ren-
sons, and therefore is 1l,UnyS
right " " &" 1t is the state of the
soul at DGr; and its ultimate
objects are the last defiance of
J1LSehood and Drong, and the
poDer to bear all that can be
inflicted by evI agents. 1t speaks
the truth and it is Just.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
AS became the hero that he
is, the testimony given by
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
before the Senate Committee
which invited him to the stand
speaks the truth and it is
Just"
It is just first of all to the
dead-those gallant officers of
the Army Air Corps who felt
the urge Of Honour, Duty,
Country when they received
their orders, never reasoned
about the unnecessary death
that awaited them, but flew
the mails in cheerful obedience
to orders. They exemplified for
their country that Heroism
which "feels and never reasons,
and is always right"
Colonel Lindbergh complete
~ refuted the cowardly SIAN
ders Of pusillanimous politicians
in Congress, of cuckoos Of the
press, of alien intriguers in the
Federal City and Of other "evil
agents" who have attempted to
injure and insult the memory
Of these heroes of the Army Air
Corps.
Pilots Not Equipped
Denouncing the calumny that
these brave men failed as pilots
or as soldiers, Colonel Lind
bergh declared to the Senators
whom he faced:
"The Army had 10 days to
prepare to take over a system
which had been developed by
the commercial companies for
q period of over 10 years.
"The Army equipment is not
designed for the purpose Of
carrying the mail, and the
Army pilots did not have ade-
quate time to study the routes
which they were to fly.
'T do not feel that the Army
Air Corps could be expected to
take over the air-mail system
Of this country in anything
like the short time that the
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
ONCE OVERS

then often ridicule him when
speaking o. him to others.
The really sincere person does
not say so much in words Of
praise, Of course, to you as hO
does in words Of commendation
and admiration, to others.
The fulsome flatterer Is mis-
leading to those who believe
that much praise is a test Of
a staunch and reliable friend.
The guSher is mostly froth-
don't swallow too much Of It.
When conversing with effu.
sive persons you must make al
lowapce for their personal equa-
tion-don't get too puffed up;
they are merely appealing to
your vanity.
(CopyrIght, 1884. King Features
SvndieaGO, Ina)
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

living in the right environment,
working at the right job.
Then how does one get that
way? BY reading good books?
Thinking fine thoughts? Max
ing noble resolutions? Or, per.
haps, following a set Of rules?
That, too, is futile, as many
a discouraged human has dis
covered. Character can't be
learned, or taught. No one on
earth can tell us how to de.
velop our individual characters.
"Es bildet Talent SIGH in der
Stille. SIGH Elm Charaketer in
dem Strom der Welt."-"A tai
ent is developed in quiet; q
character in the stream Of the
world"
You can only learn how to
live by living. by facing the
disagreeable. discouraging, diff
ficult, dangerous experiences Of
REALITY.
AS it takes two to make q
quarrel. so it does to make
character.
YOU CAN'T DUCK CONSE-
QUENCES AND PLAY SAFE,
YET ACCUMULATE POWER
AND COMMAND RESPECT.
There Is no substitute for
character. You may fake many
things on this earth, but not
character.
Talent is developed in quiet
:. character in the stream Of
the world"
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

The Independent Offices Appropriation Bill goes to
conference with the attitude of the Senate and of the
House clearly defined.
The Senate favors restoration of five per cent of Fed
eral salaries as of February and the complete emina
tion of the pay cuts on July l.
The House. on the other hand favors restoration Of
five per cent as of February and the restoration of an
additional five per cent July l, with the remaining
five per cent left dependent upon mythical "cos of
living" figures
This leaves in dispute between the two houses only
the last five per cent Involved in that five per cent
is an item of approximately sixty million dollars.
THE QUESTION FOR THE CONFEREEs TO DE-
eide IS WHETHER UNDER THE CIRCUM-
STANCES THE FEDERAL G OVERN MENT
SHOULD INVEST THAT SIXTY MILLION DOL
LARS IN THE RECOVERY PROGRAM.
The Government has already invested thousands OF
millions of dollars in that program and will invest ad
ditional thousands of millions
All of the thousands of millions of dollars go out OF
the Treasury with the fond hope and the confident ex
pecation that they will do their part toward restoring
the purchasing power of the and stimulating tne
economic recovery of the nation as whole
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
The FulsOme Flatterer

Inc EulSOme CA6GGCAcA
There is reason to doubt the
sincerity of a person who is
extremely lavish in his praise
Of you and what you do, to
your face.
There are women. who will
rave to their hosteSSeS about
the appointment Of the latters'
homes.
Later, in talking with friends,
these gushing women are as
apt as not to refer to the
homes which they visit as
tawdry and in poor taste as
regards furnishings and gen.
eral arrangements.
There are men who will
praise another man for his un'
usual business acumen and his
ability along certain lines, ana
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

Upon many of those dollars the hope and confidence
justified Upon others the hope and confidence
doomed to disappointment
There is doubt as to the part which the sixty mil
lion dollars involved in the dispute between the Senate
and the House would play in the recovery program.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE DOLLARS WOULD
BRING BACK RECOVERY DIVIDENDS. EVERY
ONE OF THEM WOULD GO IMMEDIATELY INTO
THE RETAIL TRADE OF THE COUNTRY. EVERY
ONE OF THEM WOULD BE SPENT MANY TIMES
OVER IN THE FIRST MONTH.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE DOLLARS WOULD BE
ANOTHER VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE Sue
CESS OF THE RECOVERY PROGRAM.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE DOLLARS WOULD
STRENGTHEN THE APPEAL WHICH THE GOV
ERNMENT is MAKING TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY
TO INCREASE WAGES AND CONSEQUENTLY
THE PURCHASING POWER OF THE CONSUMER.
Those are few of the considerations which are be-
fore the conferees
There many others and important among them is
the direct result which any employer always obtains
from improving the condition of his employees.
The Government would Immediately obtain better SER
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

isn't o moral state Of mind. It's
equipment for the battle of life.
But-how do you achieve char
acter? Are people born with
character? Do they inherit it?
Move aren't born with
character. Nor can we absorb
Il Is we 60 along. Nor can
we learn its technique by as
sociating with the right people.
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

admire and
envy charac-
ter in others.
But, when it
comes right
down to do
ing q job on
yourself, you
don't know
W b ere to
start.
How does
one achieve a
Q b a ra cter?
Just what Is
ch ara c t Q r
anyway?
Cha HaNfAR
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
CHARACTER Is DEVELOPED
m THE STREAM OF THE
WORLD"

CharacCer-that has always
been plenty important. And it's
more important today than ever
before.
All this you know. You know
you need character. You know
you'll fail without one. And you
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

"Vhy quit our to stand upon foreign ground?
Why, by Intervening destiny aOith that Of any
part of Europe entangle and prosperity in
the tolls of European ambition, rUaIshp, interest,
hurnor or caprice?"-Washngton' Farewell Address.
Since the first President laid down the Of office his
The Washington times., 1934-03-19

1915
m geVStMO Washington.
q L haaDa1AohL 0dhGh
The Washington times., 1934-03-19
mo ENHANCING .ALLIANCES!'

farewell advice has been the firm cornerstone Of Americas
foreign policy
Shall depart from Washingtons patriotic ideals
and principles to seek the dangers of internationasm?
YOU want to America from European entangle
ments and keep your country out Of foreign and foreign
wars out Of your country, SIGN THIS PETITION.
Evening star., 1934-03-17
combine 70 isolate individuals from
the masses to which they belong, but
the experience of getting to work and
getting home again Is not one of them.
Dilemma of the Middleman.

The weekly pass system has faced
with a dilemma the type of car rider
hereafter known as the middleman.
The middleman is the gentleman Cor
the LADY, who from infancy was
taught to obey respectfully the ad-
monition of the conductor to Move
forward, please" He has always
moved forward, beginning &C the rear
of the car. where he had purchased a
strap franchise. and ending his jour-
ney en- the front platform. But new
times, new customs, have produced
the dilemma. Now, progressing as the
conductor intones Move forward,
please" he is startled by the sound
of a new voice from the hitherto
silent motorman. The motorman
chants: Move toward the rear of
the car, please" For the motormen,
in the new role of human compressor,
admits passengers who hold weekly
passes at the front end of the car.
Motormen and conductors are rugged
individualists, who believe in working
both ends against the middle.
Well. they say a worm will turn.
But even a worm could not turn under
such conditions. What Is the proper
technique? The middleman might
try climbing toward the roof of the
car. But the company refuses to
supply ladders. One hesitates to be-
come sensational or jingoistic about
such things, but the possibility of the
middleman's revolt is not to be
Sneezed at. You can push a middle
man just so far. If one of them, re-
spending to certain laws Of physics,
goes shooting through the top Of the
car some day like q prune seed
squeezed between thumb and index
finger-well, there is going to be
trouble, and it will not be the mid
dlemans fault, either.
Evening star., 1934-03-17
Prevention of Injustice.

The President has done we'll in de-
elining to accept the recommenda-
tons Of some Of his political advisers
to treat the Office of register Of wills
as a small portion of patronage pie,
TO be dished out to some possibly de-
serving party worker from one Of the
States at the expense of the efficient
incumbent.
The position of register of wills
has never been considered as patron
age. Corporal" Tanner held the job
for twenty-three years. Capt. Theo-
dore Cogswell, the incumbent, enter
ed the Office as a clerk under the Will
son administration in 1913 His serv-
ice there was interrupted by the war,
In which he distinguished himself,
and his promotions were achieved on
recommendation of the justices of the
court through merit. On the very
day that Corporal Tanner died the
justices recommended his promotion
to the Attorney General and that day
President Coolidge nominated him
Summarily ousting him to make way
for political appointee would have
been distinct ungratitude to gallant
soldier, and would have rendered a
disservice to the court of which the
register of wills is an office.
The recommendations which the
President declined we're apparently
based on q uaiseoncepuon Of the
Evening star., 1934-03-17
Urges Enactment of
Wheeler Silver Bill
To the Editor Of The Star:

40 tne EQlJor OF Inc star:
The Star captions an article,
wheeler Presses for Silver Vote"
The Senator has introduced q bill
providing the Government at once
begin the purchase of not less than
50,000,0O0 ounces of silver a month
at a price per ounce to be fixed
by the Secretary of the Treasury,
the purchase of the silver to termi-
nate as soon as the ratio Of is to
with gold is attained. Silver certifi-
Gates would be issued against the bull
lion and would be considered full
legal tender in discharge of all debts.
This bill was sent to the Agriculture
Committee of the Senate.
The Senator states: This measure
is the only means OF raising farm
commodity prices as long as gold and
silver standard countries use different
yardsticks for measuring the ex-
change"
This Wheeler bill is up to the
Senate and then the House. II the
Congress at this session was to pass
this bill, would the President veto
it? I am of the belief he would
not, judging from his message to
the Congress wherein he stated ia
vorable things in regard to the use
Of silver as possible primary, un-
redeemable United States money
without agreement with any other
nation or consultation with It, call
attention to the House bonus" vote
with the wide margin of 295 to
125 in favor OF the payment now
of the soldiers bonus. Every one
of these 295 House bonus sup
porters would vote for this latest
Wheeler bill for the reason that the
81. .200, 10000 could be paid in silver
certificates at once, without the issue
of fiat, Treasury press money, green
backs" and would not interfere with
the Presidents present monetary poll
cy Of non-creation Of a new national
debt. Per contra, it would distribute
in every city. town and village of the
United States $4,000, 600 900 Of ready
money! Not to be banked or boarded,
but to be spent at once, paying of
debts of these World War veterans.
1t would increase the incomes of the
smaller business men, the baker, meat
seller, grocer, the rank and file, work.
ers and producers, Of millions Of true
Americans, without one dollars cost
to Uncle Sam, but, in my belief. to his
benefit. The Wheeler bill would, in
my judgment, If enacted into law
now, be the greatest immediate step
possible to our recovery from national
depression in large part.
w. e. RYAN.
Evening star., 1934-03-17
Miss Allen Believed Headed
For Nations Highest Court

ton that women could efficiently fill
positions which formerly were re-
garded as solely within the province
of the opposite sex. Now that they
have been given the opportunity. they
are showing us what they can do.
Some one said, in spirit Of sarcasm,
perhaps, that men face facts, but
women run away from them. Owing
to the highly controversial nature Of
the claim, We refrain from voicing
an opinion. But if men do face facts
they are aware that women can stand
on an equal footing with them. That
theory became factual some years
ago"
The new deal demands liberal
judges, who can see the whole social
picture as it exists in 1884. and
Florence E. Allen Is that kind Of
jurist," in the judgment Of the Fort
Wayne Journal-Gazette, while the
jamestown IN. " Post finds "recog-
milton of the judicial poise that she
has exhibited and suggests that "the
Supreme Court of the United States
may not be beyond her reach" That
paper concludes: "It appears that
Judge Allen has a notable record for
breaking precedents. Admitted to the
bar in Cleveland twenty years ago, her
first political Office was as assistant
prosecuting attorney Of the county,
the first woman in that city to hold
such a position. Later she was elected
a Judge of the Common Pleas Court,
in which she was also the first woman
in Ohio to occupy that bench. She
continued her record of precedent
breaking in her advance to the Ohio
Supreme Court and she has not de-
parted from it in the latest instance"
"She has demonstrated the fact
Judge" AYERS the Roanoke Times,
while the Charlotte IN. c. News
points to her career in newspaper
work as contributing to her success.
The Halton Journal-News refers to
the record of President Roosevelt with
the statement: 1T has been the policy
of the President to give woman a
deserved recognition In Government;
and according to the National League
of Women Voters 13 have been named
by him to important Federal posi-
tions. There seems to be no reason
since woman has received the fran
chise and has exercised 1t so judi
ciously and independently that she
should not have a place in the Or
ganization which is called Govern
ment."