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sense, The men seem satisfied
with the prevailing social order so
long as they are allowed to make
living in the only way that
seems open to them.
4 POPULARITY is that among
4 "A the bootleggers some of the
traditional tribulations of the
capitalistic system have begun to
develop. There have been COM
plants that the more enterprising
bootleggers have hired assistants
at chiseling wages, and that wom-
en- and children have been put to
work in the bootleg holes. The
latter charge is hotly denied.
Radical commentators say the
men are following the capitalistic
pattern simply because that is the
only system they know.
There is an informal agreement
among the bootleggers that prices
must be maintained, but the
scales appear to vary in different
communities from 50 to $3.50
ton, averaged for various sizes.
Several associations have sprung
up among the men. One is known
formally as the Bootleggers Union,
while the largest, centering in the
Shamokin district, has the Off
cial title of Independent Anthra-
cite Miners of Pennsylvania.
Earl Humphreys, 81, is chair
man and president of the indie
pendent Miners. He worked in
the mines as a boy, then joined
the Army. For time he was a
noncommissioned field artillery in
structor at West Point Military
Academy Then he went back to
Shamokin, got another mine job
and lost leg in an accident.
Humphreys lives, with a wife
and child and a number of other
relatives, in a ramshackle frame
house along the tracks in Sha-
mokin. His front parlor is head
quarters for the Independent Min
ers. In the course of an hours
interview with Humphreys half a
dozen members and local leaders
of the organization came in to re-
port. He claims 10000 members,
including truckers of bootleg coal
as well as the miners.
TEN years ago." said Humph-
l. reys, rs colleries were oper-
ating in the Shamokin District.
They employed 10000 men. Thir-
teen of the collieries have been
AIN ndoned, the breakers have
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nected with the church in some
capacity-priests, monks, deacons.
A third Of the entire nation
and the nation is three times the
size of Italy-is owned by the
church. Thus it can be seen how
the church holds sway over
great proportion of the people,
and how it can whip their emo
tons into white heat of passion,
or control them by the power of
the superstition.
TINE church has been the con-
Il sentative influence on Ethio-
pia in the past, and is today. This
is the Christian element. There
still exists the Jewish sect of ma
tive Philippians, known as Fala-
shas, who are descendants of those
Jews who fled from Jerusalem. In
addition there are the wild, I'M
comfortable pagan tribes of the
frontier regions known as the
Danakils.
For most of its history-during
the Christian era at any rate.
Ethiopia was a vast collection of
provinces. Each Warred against
the other necessarily.
Topping the list of provinces
was Amhara, whose sovereign
boasted of the blood of Solomon
in his veins and called himself
Negus Negusti king of Kings
and claimed lordship over all the
other provinces. The Amharics
once, of course, we're solely ma
tives of Amhara, but through the
years they spread through the
whole of Ethiopia.
After centuries-and a century
to an Ethiopian is like a decade
to you and me-they became
Semitized by countless Arab in
vasions. Slave trading introduced
Negroes and after centuries of in
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ

THE National Research Council organized during
Il the World War by the nations leading scientists
for the promotion and direction of American re-
search. is concentrating its efforts in five fields re-
port by its chairman, DR.. Isaiah Bowman the pres
ident OF Johns Hopkins University, indicates
These five are:
l. Borderlands in science and the training for
their cultivation.
?. The educational relationships of post-doctorate
felowshipS and possible sources of future support
3. The continuation of general support for indi-
Noual grants-in-aid of research.
4. The responsibility of scientific institutions in
relation to patents that may be issued on the results
OF scientific research
government of advisory mons governmental scientific
agencies.
~ ment is list of items which profoundly will in
tuence the future trend of scientific activity in this
country and hence profoundly influence the future of
the nation.
For this reason, the informed citizen should &C.
quaint himself with the policies of the National Re-
search Council
The borderlands of science are the places where
TWO Sclentlfc tedS meet 1t is here that the
portant advances of recent years have been made.
For example. the great ducteSS glands have come
IN olochemstry, the borderland between biology and
chemistry.
Certain borderlands. such as physical chemistry
well cultivated" DR.. Bowman states in his report
which Is published in Science
Others are plainly in need of cultivation Geo-
ogy, geography, and biology for instance have re-
latonShips of special Importance in studies of land
use and soil erosion"
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

NOU may want to miss meal to give your stom-
Il ach rest, but at the time you may not
be doing your gallbadder any good.
The reason is that whenever food is eaten es-
pecialy fatty food the gallbladder empties, and
1t isn't good for your health to keep that organ filled
too long In fact you should eat something at least
three times day, to keep the gallbladder function
ing we'll.
If you have sense Of fullness and distention of
the abdomen, and you bech good deal after eat
ing, the gallbladder is no doubt responsible.
Highly seasoned, fatty and greasy foods seem to
make the galbladder disturbance worse
beneath the ribs in front at the right side but some
times goes to the back and up to the right shoulder
II there are gastones which block the gallblad-
der, the pain may be severe and may cause the
person concerned to bend over.
TNFLAMMATIONS of the gallbladder also bring
Il about disturbances elsewhere. Headache is a
common symptom. Dizziness may be associated with
the headache
People with chronic Inflammation of the gall
bladder irritable and nervous and their sleep is
disturbed. The salow complexion, yellow eye" and
apathetic appearance typical of gsllbladder in
fammaton.
Modern surgeory has been able to develop
methods for removing the galbladder completely
without harm, Certainly if there are gastones
present, and If there is accumulation of the symp-
toms that have been mentioned, delay will be dan
gerouS.
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Literary Notes

When Covici Friede signed contract with James
Wechsler for the publication of his book Revolt on
the Campus it was necessary to have guardian
appointed for the author because he was only 10
years old. He will be remembered as the militant
editor of the Columbia Spectator last year.
An English translation of AN Outline of the
History of Music" by Karl Nef. late professor of
musicoogy at the University of Basel has just been
published by the Columbia University Press as the
first in series of studies in musicology The trans
lation is by Carl Pfatteicher director of music at
Phillip Andover Academy.
More than 100 unpublished poems by Emily Dickin-
son have to light at the Dickinson family home
in Amherst. Mass, and will be published Nov. % in
limited edition of 500 copies by Little. Brown under
the title Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson.
The book will be edited by Martha Dickinson Bianch
and Alfred Leete Hampson.
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been torn down and the mines
are flooded. Only one colliery
(the Cameron, owned by an in
dependent and not the great
Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron co.. is now working steadily.
1t employees about TOO.
"The coilieries were closed when
the big companies started to CEN
tralize their operations, to make
them more profitable. We have
fought for equalization if work, or
spreading the work, but there is
nothing in the Shamokin district
now to equalize with. 1t would
cost five million dollars to get
those old collieries and mines in
shape for work"
Humphreys had bootleg hole"
of his own for two years, and also
was in the trucking end of the
business. Lately he has been CIV
ing all his time to the organiza-
ton. He is urfriendly to the
United Mine Workers. They have
been working in collision with the
big companies" he says. They
are degenerating into company
union"
T Asst week he was before a
IL Pottsville court on charges
of melting riot and resisting an
officer. Reuben Kowansky, oper-
ator of a small breaker in that
town, had a large quantity of
coal stored in his yard.
Police of the Philadelphia g.
Reading Co., with state police
protection" went with a small
gas shovel and loaded about one
third of the estimated $500 tons
on trucks. They said it was stol-
en- property-bootlegged coal from
company land.
Kowansky obtained an injunc-
ton restraining further removal
until the ownership could be de-
termined. Then the grand jury
refused to lndlct koWansky on
the charge of receiving stolen
property, and also threw out the
charge against Humphreys, who
was active in the proceedings.
Such endings of prosecutions
against the bootleggers are rou-
tine here.
There are no radicals among
us" Humphreys said. Were just
ordinary men trying to make a
living in the only way we know
how. There will be no radicalism
among us unless the coal and iron
police try to stop this without
solving the question of how we
ling to feed our families"
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NIT. CARMEL, Pa, Oct. IA
1V1 Students of social phe-
nomena have tried vainly to de
fine what is going on in the boot
leg coal zone of eastern Pennsyl-
vania.
From 10000 to $4,000 men are
daylight laWbreakers, poaching
openly from the coal companies
preserves. They have seized pri-
vate property and are using it for
their own ends-scanty incomes
that are good when they aver
age So a day.
Abortive attempts to stop them
have ceased. A Republican Gov
ernor and a Democratic Governor
have refused to buck the predom-
inant public sentiment, which ex-
cuses the men on the ground that
taking the company coal is, after
all, mot much of a crime"
The efficient Pennsylvania state
police look on good-naturedly, and
are said to be under orders to in
terfere only when there is riot
ing or fighting Even the coal
and iron cops" deputized en-
ployes of the big companies, are
said to be no more oppressive than
their superiors demand.
THERE is story of bootleg
Il community near Mt. Carmel.
The company police are expected
to make a certain number of ar
rests each month, apparently just
to keep the record straight. On
regular days they appear among
the bootleggers and ask, We'll,
who's going with us today?" The
bootleggers take turns in subject
ing themselves to arrest
They are taken before the local
justices. They plead guilty with
a smile, and are sentenced to a
few days in Jail. Sometimes they
serve an hour or two, but in most
cases the doors never shut behind
them. Frequently the prisoners"
get home before the officers.
1T is something like a revolu-
ton, but few of the men seem to
know just what they're doing"
said Miss Mile McWilliams, of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers' Office in Pittsville. Miss Nc
Williams is q friend of many of
the bootleggers, and is one of the
Socialist group that provides for
them thfe only radical support OF
any consequence.
1t may be a revolution, but GER
tainly not in the Communist
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tercourse, their physical ap-
pearance changed.
THERE are a few Amharics in
Il Ethiopia who are sufficiently
civilized-in our Occidental sense
of the Word-to think that to be
all black is an incurable sign of
inferiority and political inability.
They like to think they them
selves have a Caucasian origin
therefore they, being light of color,
can thank this origin for their
political sagacity, their ability to
rule and their craftsmanship.
But there are many students of
this enigmatic people who say
that no matter even if there are
brunette Amharics, they still hail
from fundamentally negroid
race and nothing that the upper
class and intelligent Amharics can
say to the contrary will change
that fact.
1t is, alter all, one OF those
things which will remain contro-
versial until the Judgment Day.
Still, these people believe that
they, surrounded as they are by
darker, ignorant, illiterate natives,
are the aristocracy of Ethiopia
and are born to rule. Thus they
are extraordinarily proud, high
ly sensitive and intensely national,
so national, in fact, as to be al
most fanatical on the subject.
1t is this fanaticism which faces
Mussolini's European troops, han
dicapped also by the rigors, the
plaques and the strengthening
heat of the tropics.
DUE to the Coptic religion of
~ the country the bond be-
tween Ethiopia and Egypt has
been very strong But though
the bishops we're responsible for
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THE glores of Rome reach back into the dim ages of
the past-to the days of the Cceros and the Caesars
to the days of the coming Of Christ
But Roman history IS and shiny depart
men store table compared to the odness of Ethiopia For
the story of this kingdom wrapped in the misty
legends of time To the Bible may be traced the lineage of
these dark-skinned and naughty people.
The pages of the Old Testament tell of the people of
the Land of Kush. And Kush the son of Ham, who
was the son of Noah. And the Philippians declare that
when the early scholars translated the Bible from the
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which had dropped out of sight
and been completely forgotten
for the huge span of thousand
years,
And now knocking at her doors
again, to awaken her was the
outside world in the shape OF
Portuguese explorers. They found
her rich, and took back some of
the riches to the Portuguese
kings. And, sometimes, the kings
dispatched troops to help the
Ethiopians drive off maraudlng
bands of Moslems.
Once northern Africa was
studded with Sees, presided over by
bishops, one of them being the
great Augustine, famous in an
Gent church history. Chris
tianity was driven from this ter
ritory by the Moslem raiders, but
never from Ethiopia.
And so the Mohammedans held
great affection for the Philippians.
For more than once Christian
Ethiopian armies rushed down
from the highlands to the rescue
of prosecuted Arabs, and for many
wears Abyssinia held the King
dom of Yemen in Arabia.
TINE evangelist Philip was the
L man responsible for the in
PRODUCTION of Christianity into
Ethiopia. A minister of the
Queen of Sheba was returning
from Jerusalem, when he met
Evangel Philip, and the minister's
conversion to the Christian faith
was soon accomplished.
Then two Christian mlsslonar-
les, Aedesius and st. Frumentius,
we're shipwrecked on the coast
and we're made prisoners by the
Ethiopians.
From slavery they taught the
Christian religion and before long
I L lllSllUluS wac COlloCSA ouCN a
bishop.
Like the Copts, with whom they
have always had close relations,
the Ethiopians depart from
orthodox Christianity as we know
it, in that they hold to the
Jacobite doctrine as to the nature
of Christ.
The Abyuna, or the Archbishop
of Ethiopia, is always a Copt, ap-
pointed and consecrated by the
Coptic Patriarch of Egypt's Alex
andria. And the Church exercises
a tremendous hold over the peo-
pie. Perhaps one third of the
male population of Ethiopia-and
the population runs from any
where between 6 to 10 millions
of people-are intimately con-
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the idea of developing a great
football team, possibly a national
champion, to carry his banner on
the sports pages, the most pop
ular section of the newspapers.
Mr. Meehan. famous football
Snowman. was brought to Man
hatan College for ths same reason
that he had previously been
brought to New York University.
After he had made N. Y. u.
famous throughout the United
States, N. Y U. got religion, so to
speak, reformed, relieved Mr..
Meehan and accomplished foot
ball. 1t was a shabby way of do
ing. because n Y II went into
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EUZnough
BY
WESIBR0OK PEGLER

THE football game that was to have been the first
i loud noise in a presidential boom was played
Saturday at Ebbets Field. the home of the Brooklyn
dizziness boys It brought together those two natural
rivals. Louisiana State University, Huey Longs
school, and Manhattan College. of New York,
coached by Chick Meehan. The natural rivalry Of
Louisiana State and Manhattan in football consists
in the fact that both teams are, directed by
great masters OF the art of balyhoo Huey hit upon
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possibly, the greatest of the whole
tribe Of those committed to the
task Of getting something down on
paper every day. Naturally, he
couldn't be good all the time I
understand and appreciate his
problem:
He did have a good idea for
THE Tanning of the Shrew,' but it
was not full-length notion. 1t
should have been a one-act play.
The rest is padding. He needed
collaboration.
Some of the Shakespearean fun
damentalists may object to dll the
midgets and the tumblers whom
the Theater Guild has assembled to
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help the Bard over those tough spots when his hero
and heroine not the stages While not
authorized to speak for him, doubt that William
Shakespeare would complain After all, he confessed
in his own version that his plot slight by intro
ducing the complication Of Christopher Sly.
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BLACK SHIRT 1883 BLACK SKIN

The march of Itay's great modern army
parched plains toward the rocky plateau of Ethiopia
has made that African nation the center of the
worlds ewes. And this dra matte story of Ethiopia
gives YOU the for the INVASION the story
behind the story" The 7 lines today presents the
fourth instaIlment of Boake Carriers Black Shirt,
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BR0UN

+ WOULD like to extend my fluctuations to Mss
Lynn Fontanne for the manner in which she plays
Katherine in The Tanning Of the Shrew" She and
Alfred Lunt have made good show out Of a Shake
spearean piece which Is fundamentally a little
threadbare 1t not conspicuously excellent in the
first place, and time has dealt unkindly with its
tricks and stratagems.
Mind you, not blaming Shakespeare. In
spirit he was a columnst. and the first and quite
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football exploitation for a practical purpose with
malice aforethought, but attempted to blame the
coach for the remphasis after he had done a
splendid job at the very task for which he was hired
Now he is engaged in the work in Manhat-
tan
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Coal Boot|eggers Take Turn About
When Arrests Come, Suffer No Harm
BY FRED w. PERKINS
Times Special Writer

This is the third of series Of dis
patches of coal bootlegging.
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Your Heal

Copyright. 10.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-28
CROSSING DUE
FOR REMOVAL

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 20.
Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer
of the Maryland State roads COM
mission, today expressed conf
dence the Rockville grade cross
ing elimination project would be
included in the projects to. be car
ried out by the State roads COM
mission during the next few
months with Federal funds.
It probably will be a week before
the complete list of projects is
completed, Mr.. Smith said, but he
feels certain the Montgomery
county board of commissioners
will receive funds for elimination
Of the Rockville grade crossing.
A demand for elimination Of
this crossing was voiced by county
residents and officials early this
summer, following the tragic bus
crash which cost the lives Of IA
WilliamSport, Md, high school
students, when their school bus
was struck by a speeding Balti-
more and Ohio train.
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C0NNALLY RITE
|SPLANNED

Senator Tom Connally's home.
ward trip, which doomed SO
brightly only two days ago, began
last night. enshrouded in sadness
He was accompanying the body OF
his wife, who died suddenly Mon.
day in the Senator's office after
a collapse 10 minutes previously
Mrs. Connally, too happy over
their departure for their Marlin,
Tex. home after the long SEES
sion Of Congress-, had finished
packing and was calling on her
husband after a trip downtown.
Frustrated in the elevator, she
was carried to the Senator's
office, where her husband rushed
to her side. She clasped his hand,
smiled and died.
Besides her husband, she is sur.
vived by a son, Ben, an attorney,
of Houston, Tex. Funeral ar
rangementS are being made by
Marlin relatives.
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Walking Just Exercise
For Senator Norris

What does a famous United
States Senator think about as he
strolls along F Street?
Well, apparently about getting
a little exercise as he walks to
the Capitol.
Senator George w. Norris of
Nebraska, most noted Of the
Senate's Independents, window
shopped in the shopping district
today-but not for long.
A window display in a book
store caused him to pause long
enough to look over the jacket of
Life With Father"
Movie houses held no allure.
Luggage shops got only a pass
i1:g glance.
It is doubtful if this champion
Of union labor saw sandwich
man parading with an "Unfair-to-
union-labor" sign in front Of a
bake shop.
His glance roved to drug stores,
haberdaShery windows, children's
garments, new fall frocks, bronzes
in a jewelry shop, and a dozen
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SPEED PLANE
MAKES 285
IN TESTS

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. %
'(IN.S0.-Already having attained
q speed of 2s5 miles an hour in
test flights, Ward c. Penny
Rogers, pilot Of the Delgado Maid,
flashy little racing plane from
New Orleans, was trying for in
creased speed today as tests in
preparation for the national air
races were continued.
Byron A. Armstrong, designer,
said the plane is capable Of doing
over 300 miles an hour.
The ship, a low-wing monoplane
with a Curtiss D-12 motor, was
built by students in the class of
aviation ground mechanics at the
Delgado Trades School, New Or.
leans, Of which Armstrong is the
head. Fifteen of the students
who helped in the construction
work were brought here by Arm
strong and Rogers for the races,
@AAA eSAC NoAAPAAAB OAA SAOAAASAo AA~SA
the municipal airport.
The New Orleans plane will
be entered in the Thompson
trophy race, famous speed classic,
which will be held Monday, the
final day Of the races. The
course this year has been in
creased to 15-mile, laps, and the
distance increased from 100 to
$50 miles. The prize money will
total $4,000, in place of the
former award of $4,000, in ad'
dition to the Thompson trophy.
The qualifying speed for the
Thompson race, in which the
worlds outstanding speed pilots
will compete, is 225 miles an
hour. Col. Roscoe Turner, who
won the Thompson event last
year, turned in an average speed
Of 248 miles an hour for the
10O-mile distance over an 8a'
mile course.
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NEAR
CALIFORNIA

ALAMEDA AIRPORT, Calf.
Aug. % G.N.SO.-Soaring along
at steady rate on it's homeward
flight from Honolulu, the Pan
American clipper radioed head
quarters here that it was $50 miles
from San Francisco at 7 a. m.
P.S.T0 10 a. m. (E.S.T.) today.
The great plane, favored by
good weather, was expected to ar
rive at it's base shortly before
noon g p. m. E.S.TO
When it arrives here it will have
completed a 10,O00-mile round trip
that took it to Honolulu, Midway
and Wake Islands.