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The Washington times., 1935-04-19
A School Program

long range planning program for the District public
school system proposed by Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
is one of the pressing necessities of Washington.
The local schools far construction and purchase Of
land equipment concerned have been knocked into
cooked hat in the last few years. They have steadily fallen
into dsrepa until many of them are little better than
shacks.
Others of them while in better physical condition. have
been outgrown by the school population which they
constructed to
There doesn't to be any way of catching up with the
needs of the system through utilizing the regular appropria
ton bills.
Of that fact the pending District appropriation bill an
outstanding example. The House provided in its bill for
virtually construction and while the Senate striving to
TELLING WHAT THE BILL WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN
1T ENERGIES FROM THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE
TWO HOUSES.
There hope, however, for launching the city
really forward looking school building program if such
program be carefully and properly prepared
The program could either the Endorsement of Con-
gress with subsequent appropriations it could be given
start toward accomplishment through ALLEGATION the Dis
trict of part the funds provided in the public
bill.
Once before when the District schools had fallen into
condition somewhat similar to that in which they at
present. aroused czenry able induce Congress to
adopt long improvement program It designed
to extend five and to bring the schools to the
needs of the community.
large part of that program put through but failure
to accomplish ALL along with unexpected growth of the
school population has left the District STILL USING
SCHOOL BUILDINGS THAT WERE CONDEMNED MORE
THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO.
It is time for the city wipe out these dsgracefu buildings
Commissioner Hazen able to have drawn up compre
henslve program and force it through to accomplishment he
will have done beneficial job.
The Washington times., 1935-04-19

S~AA@SNo
from the old
garden, with
the ra b b | e
a b gu t Him
and the torch
light flicker
ing across His
drawn face.
A moment
since tn e r e
had been a
m a d n eSS Of
S h o u t ing
dogs barking
men braWl.
ing, shaking
their hi k
efouae h4r,1
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t h e H o u S e
A PIP op ria
tion rs Com
mittee, Rep
resent a t i've
Will i a m B.
U m S t e a d,
Democrat, of
North c ar o.
lima, secured
adoption of a
m o t ion the
tn er day.
That motion
endangerS the
Admin S t r a.
ton program
for conStruc.
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able supervi-
sion of the
marking, en-
ployes say.
An nounced
results were
supposed to
have favored
a change and
Ickes ordered
it.
M a n y of
the employees
who had been
working over
tim e diScoV-
cred that the
"dauli0ht. saw.
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ing" merely added additional
time to their working day.
This year employees were not
given the opportunity to vote
but a daylight saving" order
was issued.
For golfing bosses the plan
works wonderfully.
But for stenOgraphers and
clerks it merely adds to the
hours that they must work over.
time.
Copyright, 1885. The Washington TimeSI
The Washington times., 1935-04-19

George Washington neUer
stopped over."-BM Nye 1880
1885,
President Roosevelt has earned
the gratitude of all true Amer
leans, especially those of Polish
ancestry, by protecting the
heroic memory of Brig. Gen.
Casimir Pulaski of the Army
of the Revolution from being
made the plaything of a group
of vote-seeking politicians in
the Seventy-fourth Congress.
The President has wisely
vetoed a joint resolution of the
Congress, adopted without rec
ord vote, calling upon the Presi-
dent to set aside each year the
anniversary of the death of
General Pulaski as day of ma
tional observance.
every American" writes the
President to the Congress in his
message accompanying his veto
Of this political proposal, SHOULD
have the deepest appreciation
Of the brilliant and gallant
services of General Pulaski in
the Revolutionary war. His de-
votion to duty ended only when
he fell in action in the service
of the Republic; he is one of our
heroes of that time and of all
time.
NOBLE COMPANY
General Pulaski was diStin-
guished among the noble COM
pany Of those who gave their
all for that cause; some were
Americans; some were from
countries across the sea.
81 do not think that General
Pulaski would have wished to be
singled out from his fellows and
comrades for more honor than
we can give to them all.
"Our tributes to the memory
Of the officers who served on
the staff of General Washing
ton will be the more fitting and
appropriate if we do not seek to
legiSlate separate memorial days
for each of them, however illus
trious they may be.
"For our own leader of the
American Revolution, the great
est of Americans, and for him
alone, have we as a people set
apart one day each year."
Of the legal or public holidays
set aside for national observ-
ance in all the States, terri
tories and insular possessions of
the United States, the only one
which marks the birthday of an
American is February % - the
birthday of George Washington.
Had the politicians who pro-
noted this ill-advised legislative
proposal taken the trouble to
familiarize themselves with the
life and distinguished service Of
General Pulaski they would not
have waited to be told by the
President that the natural mod
esty of that hero of the ReVo-
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Every day, it
turns on it's
axis pust a
little m ore
slowly. 1t isn't
much, but it's
there, every
day, century
in and CEN
fury out.
Millions of
h or e power
are expended
fore ing the
ocean waters
b a OK a n d
forth through
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Pacifistic gentlemen apparent
ly have again scuttled the Navy.
In the Navy subcommittee Of
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He Went Unfaltering

Always, on this day, think
of Him as He must have looked,
coming down the stony path
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OLD FAVORITES
A. Wish
BY Samuel Rogers

Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook that turns mill,
With many fall shall linger
The swallow oft, beneath my thatch
Shall twitter from her clay-buit nest
Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch,
And share my meal, welcome guest
Around my vied porch shall spring
Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew;
And Lucy at her wheel, shall sing
In russet-gown and apron blue.
The village-church among the trees
Where first our marrage-vows were given
With merry peals shall swell the breeze
And point with taper spre to Heaven
Readers inved to send to the editor their sugges-
tons of old favortes among the poems for reprntig in
this, &paceD
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Vacationing Made Easy
BIZ Robert BenchLey

Now is the time when the ma
tons of Europe suddenly remem-
Der that We in America are
really their cousins. Between
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Tides Take Earth's Energy

Every rise and fall of the
tide robs the Earth of a certain
amount of its rotative energy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
VICE SQUAD HEAD
AND MEN PRAISED
Commissioner Hazen and
Maj. Brown Send Letters
of Commentator.

Lieut.. George M. Little, head Of the
police vice squad. yesterday was COM
mended in letters by Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen and Police Supt.
Ernest w. Brown for work done by
him and members of his squad in
suppressing vice and gambling and
enforcing the liquor laws.
The letters gave special praise to
the squad for their work resulting in
the recent conviction of Sam Beard
and II others for conspiracy to violate
the gambling laws.
The letter from Commissioner Hazen
said:
IT would like to take this occasion
to compliment you and your men for
the splendid work you are doing, and
especially I want to compliment you
for the Beard case. You and your
men have not had the credit due you
in this case. The press has compli-
mented the jury and the prosecution
in the case. but no mention has been
made of your work. The prosecution
or the jury could not have reached the
verdict they did if it had not been
for the splendid cooperation you
showed in this case as we'll as the
splendid manner in which you pre-
pared it,"
Maj. Browns letter read:
THE major and superintendent joins
the Commissioner in commencing
Lieut.. Little and the members of his
squad for their work in the Beard
case. and the outstanding work they
are performing in the enforcement of
gambling, liquor and vice laws in this
jurisdiction. The record they have
established is an outstanding record
for this department, and the major
appreciates this service both officially
and personally"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
MANUFACTURER HITS
WAGNER LABOR BILL
R. E. Wantz of Illinois Holds
Measure Would Produce
Industrial Unrest.

BY the Associated Press.
The Wagner labor dispute bill was
denounced yesterday by r. e. Wantz.
president of the Illinois Manufac-
tuerers' Association. as a measure
that would promote industrial unrest
rather than peace.
In principle, the bill in question.
outlawing company dominated unions
and setting up the majority rule prin-
ciple for collective bargaining has re-
ceived the approval of President
Roosevelt.
Legally the National Labor Rela-
lions Board measure is of doubtful
constitutionality and is plainly at vari-
ance with the recent Supreme Court
decision in the railway pension act
case" Wantz said.
"Philosophically, the bill is sharply
opposed to the very interest it seeks
to further, since it must inevitably
bring a fascized labor program to this
country.
From an industrial point of view
the view of the plain business man
the Wagner bill contains elements
of dissension and unrest, which will
set recovery-and pay rolls-back at
least a biennium and may develop a
crop of malice and distrust that will
interfere with the creation Of healthy
and right relations between employer
and employe over an entire genera
ton"
He criticized the measure as estab-
fishing a zone of belligerency" in
employer-employe relationship, when,
he added, the purpose should be the
establishment of reasonable peace"
which would promote recovery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
5000 See Children's Circus
Performed With Enthusiasm
Community Center annual Festival Has
Criminals" Galore and Usual Three
Rings to Keep Things Moring.

The approximately 5000 children
and adults who witnessed the chill
drens circus yesterday in Central
Stadium are agreed that it had prac-
tically everything but the big top"
A thousand children, with memories
of the recently departed circus fresh
in their mind. went through the rou-
tine of a real circus with a gaiety and
enthusiasm lacking in professional
performers.
Not even the popcorn and peanuts
were lacking at the Community Cen
ter'S annual festival for ediflcation OF
the crowd which filled the stadium
stands to see the young performers go
through their PAGES.
Skies, alternately bright and cloudy,
gave threat of rain, but at the grand
finale no rain had fallen. Prepare
lions had been made, however, for
inclement weather. and the show was
ready to move into the Central High
School Auditorium at a moments
notice.
animals" Separated.
The circus had no trapeze perform
ers. but the animals" were not lack
ing, as an elephant, a llama, wild
bull and even rabbits roamed about
the field. Occasionally half of one OF
the beasts would be missing, but the
spectators didn't mind.
Then there was real live perform
ing bear, which drank milk out of
bottle. rolled over. did other tricks
and never was without a circle of
admiring. children. Three ponies, one
of which threw up his heels like a
wild mustang, gave the youngsters a
thrill.
Starting with a parade. the perform
ance moved swiftly along, each of the
20 acts taking about five or six min
utes. Accompanying the parade was
the music of the Washington Boys
Independent Band and the Washing
ton Elks Boys Band and singing by
a chorus from the Thomson and
Georgetown centers, directed by Miss
Esther Linkins.
1ucTc were IlIcc Il1lSo dllu 1Ah &C
stages, just like regular circus. and
there was something doing all the
time until the final number, when
children from the Schuster, George
town, Key, Kincannon and Wheatley
centers danced and played THE Stars
and Stripes Forever" and the audience
Joined in the "Star Spangled Ban
ner" as so Girl Scouts paraded with
a large flag and 48 Boy Scouts and
the drama groups marched with
smaller ones.
Pageants Given.
One of the first acts was pageant,
including Sleeping Beauty" willow
Pattern Tableaux" and "a Garden in
Japan" all presented simultaneously
by children Of the Petworth. Langdon,
Ben Burch, Park View and Hine CEN
tiers.
Frank Portillo, Washington's "chil-
dren's clown" led the fun-making and
directed the scores of youthful chalk
faced performers who travelled around
the track, as In real circus.
Tumblers and tap dancers, per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
Modification of Drastic
Downtown Ban May
Result at Farley.
SEVERAL MAIN STREETS
MAY BE LEFT OPEN
North-South Ways Possibly to
Be Excepted-Fine Mini
NUNS Viewed.

Considerable modification Of the
drastic parking ban for the downtown
section, ordered for the period of the
Shrine convention in June, appeared
likely last night after special session
of the Board of Commissioners was
set for tomorrow to reconsider the
order.
AS it now stands, the order would
prohibit any parking of vehicles, ex-
cept for loading and unloading.
throughout the downtown area from
8 am. on June 10 to pm. June IA,
on penalty of a fine ranging from 81
to 500, or a jail sentence of from
to 80 days.
The original order would have been
effective from June to Is, inclusive.
Still not certain that the order was
not more drastic than necessary to
prevent unmanageable congestion dur
ing the visitation of 100000 or more
expected to attend the convention,
Engineer Commissioner Sultan an
nounced yesterday the whole matter
would be reviewed by the Commits
Sioners tomorrow.
Penalties May Be Cut.
1t has been suggested a number of
the north-South streets may be ex-
empted from the order and there is
possibility the Commissioners will take
some step to slash the maximum pen
alties which may be assessed for vio-
lation of the rule.
Decision as to reconsideration was
reached by Col. Sultan after confer
ring with other District officials and
Robert Smith. director general for the
Shrine convention.
Neither the Shriners nor the Dis
trict officials wish to cause any more
inconvenience for residents than is
necessary to assure proper handling
of the great crowds that will be in
the downtown section during the con-
vention," said Col. Sultan.
I'VE do not know now just how many
will come here for the event. 1t
had been the thought to set up all
the necessary restrictions that could
be estimated in advance, and If we
found less restrictions were needed it
would be very simple matter to take
down some of the special signs and
so reduce the parking BAN"
Col. Sultan said he could not state
| definitely just what notifications
would be taken up tomorrow.
Limits of Area.
The parking ban would effect
virtually all streets within the area
bounded on the east by Second street
east of the Capitol; on the south by
independence and Maryland avenues
and D street so far west as Four
tenth street and beyond that point
by Constitution and Virginia ave-
nues and H street; on the west by
Twenty second street and by Twenty
fourth street in the vicinity of Wash
ington Circle. and on the north by
L and K streets, Vermont and MaSsa-
| chuSetts avenues. The ban also ex-
tends several blocks north Of these
limits on North Capitol and Twenty
second streets and on Fourteenth
street, south of D street, to the Vir-
GINA line.
Officials are understood to have re-
ceived protests from merchants, who
| feared their customers would not be
able to transact business, and from
residents of the area who wondered
where they would find places to park
their cars during Shrine week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26

United States excels in scientific
crime detection, police wireless" sys-
TENS and control of traffic. He told
Hoover he has seen nothing to COM
pare" with the fingerprint laboratory
and other facilities of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Sir Herbert commands a force of
3216 men-the Scotland Yard" of
Ceylon-colorful gem" of the Indian
ocean. His tour so far has taken him
to Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Shanghai, San Francisco, Berkeley.
Los Angeles. the Panama Canal Zone,
Havana and New York City. He will
90 from here to Chicago and thence to
Detroit. Toronto, Montreal and Quebec.
81 shall carry back with me three
outstanding impressions about your
notice" he said. First, the wonderful
efficiency of your police wireless-a
development in which your country
leads. In New York City was in a
wireless-equipped police car when a
stick-up flash came in and within two
minutes we were at the scene OF the
hold-up. That Is most remarkable.
Second, your excellent methods of
traffic regulation interested me. The
efficiency with which you control
movement of automobiles and the
comparative absence of motor horn
noises that we have abroad are note
worthy.
Third. your country has made
astounding progress in scientific crime
detection. Science is enabling you to
keep one step ahead of the criminal
in a battle of wits. Mr.. Hoover's bu-
reau has reached near-perfection in
this sort of thing. That fingerprint-
sorting machine-it is marvellous"
Sir Herbert concluded a two-day
study of the bureau and its operations
late yesterday. He plans to leave here
today for Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
600 PAY TRIBUTE
TO CUMMINGS HERE
National and State Leaders Join
in Honoring Attorney Gen.
eral and Wife.

Approximately 600 friends and COL
leagues of Attorney General and Mrs.
Cummings gathered last night at the
Mayflower Hotel to pay tribute to
this popular couple of the administra-
ton. circle.
Among them were Senators Ma
loney and Lonergan, Connecticut
Democrats, and the party's Repre-
sentatives from that State. Secre-
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau,
Secretary of War Dern and Post
master General Farley took occasion,
also. to honor their cabinet associate
while the other official guests in
cluded Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
majority leader, and several members
Of the Senate.
Gov. Wilbur L. Gross of Connecticut
headed a delegation which came here
for the occasion, and Robert Butler.
United States Attorney for Connect
cut, was POSTMASTER.
In responding to the compliments
paid him during the evening, the At
torney General appealed for aban-
donment of partisan disturbances and
.rivaisies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
WHOLESALE GAS
CUTS TO Be AIRED
Roberts Claims Illegal Slash
for Subsidiaries PeriIs
Retail Drop.

Claims that the Washington Gas
Light Co. has made illegal reductions
in wholesale rates to subsidiary con-
Germs. thereby adversely affecting the
possible cut in retail rates to Wash
ington consumers, will be aired at a
public hearing June before the Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
The charges we're made yesterday
by Peoples Counsel Roberts in pc
tition asking the commission to de-
clare the wholesale rate cuts illegal
and to determine what notifications
in the accounts and revenues of the
washington and the Georgetown Gas
companies would result from the
wholesale rate cuts.
The revenues of the washington
and Georgetown companies will be
substantially reduced by reason of the
reductions in wholesale rates to their
subsidiaries, he asserted. The amount
of the expected reduction of con-
sumers' rates here will be measured
by the size of profits, which are de-
pendent on revenues.
Added to Hearing.
Replying promptly to the petition,
the commission stated the matter
would come up as an item OF the
agenda for the public hearing which
previously had been called for de-
termination of the future rates locally
of the gas companies.
The peoples counsel had made the
implied charge that the wholesale
rates to subsidiaries were cut because
of a reduction in the retail rates to
consumers in Arlington County re-
Gently, this suggesting that revenues
lost in the county reduction would be
passed on to the parent companies
here and ultimately on to the Wash
ington consumers.
Roberts said he had learned on
inquiry at the Washington Gas Co.
that its directors had ordered the
following wholesale cuts:
For gas sold by the Washington
company to the Georgetown COM
pany, a reduction from So to AZ cents
per 1000 feet; for gas sold by the
Washington company to the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. of Montgomery
County, Md, from go 10 SO cents; for
gas sold by the Georgetown company
to the Georgetown Gas Light Co. of
Montgomery County, Md. from so to
SO cents, and for gas sold by the
Georgetown company to the Rosslyn
Gas Light Co, from 90 to SO cents.
Prosecution Possible.
Under the District public utilities
act, the Washington company could
be prosecuted for placing such re-
auctions in effect without notice to or
approval by the Public Utilities Com
mission, so far as local jurisdiction Is
involved Fines of 500 to 81 900 may
b elevied against the corporations
guilty of such offenses and fines of
from $50 to $100 against officers of
the companies responsible for such
violations.
The Washington company owns
outright the stock of the Georgetown
company and they control the sub
urban subsidiary concerns. The WASH
ington company is owned by the
Washington & Suburban Co.'S,
Massachusetts, common law trust,
which represents Chase National Bank
and associated financial interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26

~ OxING as an antlo0te 1or
K murder was suggested to j.
Edgar Hoover yesterday by Sir
Herbert L. Dowbiggin. in
spector general of police on the far
eastern island of Ceylon. who visited
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
in connection with world tour OF
police departments.
At least, the plan is proving effec-
tive in Ceylon, the tall, tanned Brit
Usher asserted during an inspection
trip through what he termed the bu-
reau's marvellous" Identification, re-
search laboratory and other crimi-
biological divisions.
Murder by stabbing is our most
serious crime problem in Ceylon," Sir
Herbert explained in an interview at
the Department of Justice. I'VE had
an average of one murder a day in
1888, when the depression hit us
heavily. and we had 254 murders last
year, most of them by knife wielders.
1.-THE majority of these crimes were
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in a fit
of anger. We are combating this
type of crime by teaching the natives
how to settle disputes with their fists
instead of with knives"
Sir Herbert disclosed. that Gene
Tunney. during a recent world voyage
that took him to Ceylon, was SO i'm
pressed by the boxing program of the
police that he has donated a large
silver cup as trophy to be awarded
in an annual boxing contest between
police of Ceylon and Burma. This
police also are sponsoring boys clubs
to popularize boxing as sport among
the younger generation.
Amazed" at American police eff
cheney, Sir Herbert, veteran of "a
years In police work, declared the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26

forming animals and tight-rope walk
ers. daredevil riders" and gypsies.
performing seals and wild Indians,
followed in quick order.
There was a chariot race, which
the program stated would be staged
by the Mcfarland Young Mems Club,
but both horses and riders of the
three vehicles turned out to be girls.
An simplifying system carried the
voices of announcers to all parts of
the stadium, and posted numbers en-
abled the audience to follow the per-
formances on their programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
CRASH INJURIES FATAL

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOwN, Md. May u.s.
George r. Zullinger, %. Chambers
burg, died at noon today at the WASH
ington County Hospital from a frac-
tured skull received early today near
Sharpsburg when his car crashed into
the machine Of Henry Hetzel, Keedys-
vile, Md. Hetzel and George Renner
we're slightly hurt.