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The Washington times., 1935-09-02
CONTRIB

"A NON l X l b.
L n UTOR to the
Hearst Papers speaks
of theimpractical ide-
ology inspiring the
policy of destructive
taxation.
That is a very polite
way of putting it, but
we mighta as we'll speak
politely of the playful
and impulsive acquis-
itiveness of the gentle
man who thumps us
on the head and rifles
our pockets at some
dark street corner.
AS a matter of vivid
fact, there is nothing
idealistic about the tax
racket.
The Washington times., 1935-09-02
Woman Saves Two
From Drowning

OCEAN CITY, Md, Sept. 2
(SpeciaD Two women were saved
from drowning yesterday by Mrs.
Annette Anderson, daughter Of
Walter Hopkins, Baltimore banker.
The rescued were Miss Jessie
Kaufman, Baltimore, and Mrs.
H. B. Eaton, Wilmington, Del.
The Washington times., 1935-09-02

There is nothing impractical about it,
tits the most practical piece of public robbery
In the world.
tits graft, pure and simple, and II supports
more worthless people than all the other forms of
racketeering and robbery in the country
The politicians live upon this tax graft. The
families of the politicians live upon it even to the
most distant relatives.
The friends of the politicians live upon it. The
families of the friends of the politicians live
upon it.
The supporters of the politicians live upon it
and the families of the supporters of the politi-
clans and the friends of the families of the sup
porters of the politicians and their friends and
their families live upon it.
The big feas which have little feas upon their
backs to bite em and the little feas with lesser
feas and so ad infnitum are nothing compared to
the political parasites and THEIR political
parasites and all the parasites of the PARA
SITES clustered on the backs of the taxpayers to
bite them and bleed them and live off them idly
luxuriousl y-gleefully and uselessly.
AS the taxes increase the swarms of political
parasites increase and fatten and propagate.
Approximately five thousand million dollars
in salaries to politicians are paid out every year
by the taxpayers of, this country and this enor-
nous amount is increasing every year.
Over three million two hundred and fifty
thousand politicians and their families and
friends are on the public payrolls, and this num-
Der is increasing every year.
Over ninety thousand new names were added
to the Federal payrolls alone last year, and there
were proportionate increases in all the one hun
dred and seventy-fve thousand town govern
ments, township governments, city governments,
district governments, county governments and
State governments of this afflicted nation.
All the unnecessary governments and all the
superAuous politicians are demanding and inn
posing more and more taxes on industry, more
and more taxes on property, more and more taxes
on productive pursuits, and more and more taxes
on the public generally.
The Washington times., 1935-09-02

The main business and apparently the only
business, of most of these politicians is to devise
plans to plumber the people and to secure more
money to keep more parasites on the public pay
rolls, until now over thirteen thousand million
dollars year, nearly one-thrd of the whole ma
tional income, goes toward defraying the con-
stantly mounting costs of inefficient government
and constantly increasing numbers of useless and
worthless politicians.
Moreover, these increases in expenses, these in
creases in parasitic growths upon the body poll
tic these increases in unbearable tax burdens,
will continue until the victim, who is the tax
payer, sickens and dies or until he acquires sense
enough and strength enough to rid himself of the
political vermin which infest him.
All the patient needs is good disinfecting
and the patient himself must do that job
You cannot expect the parasites to employ the
disinfectant on themselves
You cannot expect them voluntarily to give up
such satisfactory blood-Sucking.
A leech will drink until it is full and then fall
off, but politician is never full. He never lets
go. He is parasite until he dies or until the vic
tim dies
For the good of the country, the taxpayer must
not die
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
Motor Cycle Run.

Red Army commanders rode two
American and three Soviet motor
cycles in the recent Leningrad-Mos-
sow-Leningrad run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
VICTIM, ON RADIO,
DESCRIBES CRASH.
Girl Breakfasts From Hos
pitaI Bed Her Story of
Traffic Accident.

A hospital bedside radio broadcast
OF a traffic victims own story was put
On the air last night from Emergency
Hospital, the first time in the history
of the Institution a patient has spoken
over the radio.
Through the cooperation of Dr.
James F. Mitchell, surgeon in chief Of
the hospital, Miss Mary Steere. Is,
of Charlotte, N. c.. granted an in
terview on the accident which caused
her to suffer q 4-inch head laceration,
conclusion and general Commissions OF
the body.
The broadcast was arranged by The
Star as a feature Of its campaign to
drive death from Washington
streets" The program was sent out
over Station WJSV.
Doctor Sees Danger Growing.
Before Miss Steere was interviewed
by Star reporter, DR.. Mitchell, off,
cial of the hospital since shortly after
the World War. told the radio audi
ence some Of his reactions as medi-
cal man to automobile accidents.
1.-THE situation is becoming steadily
worse" he said. I'm the last five years
1t has become terrible. This is
brought about by the ever-increasing
desire for speed. Go faster. faster is
the cry on every side"
Miss Steere lay in her bed in Ward
B-3 during the broadcast. DR.. Jacques
H. Mitrani, resident surgeon, held the
microphone for her. DR.. Mitchell
watched from the foot of her bed
The other two patients in the ward
we're blocked from view by screens.
The whole hospital became quiet for
the unusual event.
Hit Just After Finding Job.
The girl was struck Saturday after
noon by car at Connecticut avenue
and M street as she started from the
sidewalk toward the street car load
ing platform.
Four days before she had obtained
a job in a hat shop after searching
for employment for almost two
InOltIlS. 0uc llNcQ WIN al uncle on
Thirteenth street.
IT had real Job for the first time"
she said over the radio. "All my life
I wanted to do something, and finally
got it, and then this had to happen"
She described being hit:
For an awful moment I had a
glimpse of something coming awfully
fast. I tried to jump back on the
sidewalk. I fell forward on my head
1 did not know anything more. A
few minutes later I came to out near
the car tracks.
MY stockings were ripped half off
My yellow blouse was torn to pieces
and dripping with blood My hat was
knocked off. My pocketbook had
flown halfway across the street.
L came to Washington to do any,
thing I could. I was getting some
where And now it has all stopped
for the time being. I have to lie
here day after day."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
Safety

Continued From First Pase.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03

Continued From First Pase)
cases, according to DR., J. r. Young,
assistant superintendent. Ten thou
sand emergency cases are handled, 10
per cent of which involve traffic VIC
tins. The two ambulances there
cover about $4,000 miles a year No
collision has occurred since last No
vember and only one person has been
injured in the last 10 years.
Safety principles have been already
outlined to the drivers. While the law
allows 80 miles an hour for ambu-
lances. the drivers at Casualty are in
tructed not to 60 over Is miles.
Hurry Carefully.
The above records of the two hos
pitfalls are praiseworthy. Considering
the fact that, as rule, whenever the
ambulances are on the streets they
are in hurry. 1t must 90 to show
that the drivers have driven care
fully.
Ambulances should have the right
Of way over regular traffic, but it Is
doubtful that any patients life has
been lost by few delayed seconds of
careful driving.
Many phases Of the traffic situa-
ton In Washington are discussed in
hundreds of letters which have been
received by The Star Safety Council.
Excerpts from some of these letters
follow:
Being particularly interested in
your safety campaign took particu-
lar notice this morning of the relative
number Of cars bearing the pledged
safe-driver" seal. Walking from near
the Lincoln Memorial to the Interstate
Commerce Commission Building I
counted 100 parked cars, of which
only 10 had the seal. That is about
per cent. Isn't that much too low a
percentage to reasonably expect even
at this time?
This Is not written in any spirit
OF criticism, but 1t seems incompre-
hensible. Reading your safety news
every day, I note that you are gain
ing the cooperation of all large or
carnations, numbering many thou
sand individuals surely, which I I'M
derstand are distributing the stickers.
Are they going into the waste basket?
Sticker Is Reminder.
I agree with the sentiment often
expressed in your paper that it is
the sticker land not the PLEDGE which
makes the pledger traffic and safety
conscious. One is led to wonder
whether. after all, there are many in
Washington who sincerely desire to
cooperate. I personally wonder
whether the prevailing sentiment is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
D. c. TAX Committee
TO MAKE ANALYSIS
Expenses as Between Mainte.
nance and Capital Expendi-
lures Are Studied.

The Municipal Tax Committee will
make an analysis Of District expendi-
lures as between maintenance and
capital expenditures for the past Is
years. 1t was announced yesterday
This is expected to be one of the
major factors used by the group in
recommending proposed revision Of
the District tax system.
Decision to make the analysis was
reached after the committee found
operating expenses OF the District
have been increasing at the rate Of
81 100000 or more a year and that
total revenues have not been rising
at the same rate.
Members of the committee are Cor
poration Counsel E. Barrett Pretty
man, chairman: Auditor Daniel j.
Donovan, Assessor william P. Rich
ards, Public Utilities Commissioner
Richmond B. Keech, Peoples Counsel
William A. Roberts and Director Of
Highways H. G. Whitehurst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
FIRST IN SAFETY.
RATING IS URGED
Rev. W. S. Abernethy Hits
ne-Drink Drivers in 0p.
timists' Speech.

Washington, the most beautiful city
In the world, should be made the
safest city and the strongest city
morally, Rev. William S. Abernethy.
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church,
told the Washington Optimists' Club
at a luncheon meeting yesterday in
the Hamilton Hotel.
At this meeting the club Endorsed
the automobile safe-driving campaign
of The Star Safety Council and en-
rolled It's entire membership In the
drive.
Street and highway safety is the
business Of every member Of society,
DR.. Abernethy told the club. There
must be a universal cooperation on
the part of every motoriSt and every
pedestrian, he reminded his listeners.
LAS we look at this appalling record
of road diSaSters-36, 900 killed in the
United States last year, 1875 killed
last year in the District of Columbia,
more than 80 killed here so far this
year-it is disgraceful." DR.. Aber-
nethy said.
Hits Drunk Driving.
The speaker stressed the menace
of drunken driving, and especially OF
the "one or two drink driver"
You can't mix alcohol and gasoline
successfully" he said. That Is a
somewhat trite saying, but one which
Is tragically true. Conditions today
are worse than before prohibition
came in and they are infinitely worse
than during prohibition at its worst.
1T Is not the fellow who is drunk
who constitutes the worst menace on
the highway: it is the chap who has
had Just a little to drink and who
thinks that he Is all right. He
would indignantly deny, if you taxed
him, that he is in an unsafe condi-
ton to drive But very often you
will find that his muscular co-ordina-
ton Is not just right and that his
mental reactions are slowed up. He
Is a menace to every one on the
road-the more so because he thinks
he is normal and makes no allowance
for his condition"
Would Bolster Morals.
DR.. Abernethy declared that, apart
from the prohibition question, there
Is a moral sag apparent today"
Something" he said, must be
done to bolster up the moral founda-
ton of the country"
Commenting on the now famous
letter of President Roosevelt to the
clergy, he said that he had written
q reply, IN which he called to the
attention of the President the biblical
passage, When they were at their
wits end then they called upon
Jehovah" He commented that the
appeal to the clergy for its support
had come about 2l2 years too late"
Under the leadership Of President
Joseph H. Rice, members OF the club,
$50 strong, signed safe-driving pledges,
which we're presented formally to a
representative of The Star Safety
Council, with the promise that the
club would cooperate in any way
possible in furthering the cause Of
safety on the streets and highways
OF Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03

safety drive. though the two main
causes of motor mortality are still un-
touched:
Il. The high speed capability Of the
car. which should be corrected at the
factory.
2. The fact that the drink evil has
been loosed by this administration
No safety drive will have any perma-
nent effect against two such factors.
II have driven for IA years, care
fully and conservatively. and will be
glad to join in with you and sign your
careful driving pledge. I wish you
much success in your most worthy
cause"
MISS GRACE E. CHURCH.
Cherrydale, Va.
The Evening Star has been a WON
derful newspaper to the people of
Washington. The safety drive OF
yours Is commendable, timely and
needed. The only trouble is-these
dumb, reckless, dangerous speeders
never read paper, a magazine, or
use their brains to analyze the results
OF their bad habits. I am both q
pedestrian and a driver, and hereby
pledge myself to each and all of the
precepts as enumerated on your card"
GEORGE P. HULER,
"A Bureau Of Public Roads,
I'D Department of Agriculture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03

not Well, I'm a good driver; let
George do it
I surely wish you all success in
your campaign. Drivers should be
willing to so cooperate that the very
absence of a sticker from a far win
dow would, in itself, indicate a men,
Der of the 'lunatic fringe A sug-
geStion; Those who work daily in
Offices should be glad to clip out the
pledge from your paper, sign 1t, and
place it on the wall or where they
can frequently see the same-as> a
reminder.
Il am not writing this for publicity.
but solely in the desire to focus your
attention on the imperative need of
getting pledgers to affix the seals.
IL. B. DUNN,
EAST Falls Church, Va"
Section q of the District traffic
regulations prescribes certain hand
signals. Having watched them in
operation, I have noted several near
collisions. due, I believe, to their be-
ing misunderstood.
THE following are simple and more
complete, and, since they have worked
satisfactorily elsewhere, are submit
ted for such consideration as you care
to give them:
Left turn. pull out from curb or
pull out Of line to left-left arm ex-
tended horizontally.
Stop Tor to park)-left arm down
at Is degrees with horizontal
Right turn-left arm up at IS
degrees with horizontal.
H. B. HOMER, Jr."
Il would be glad to join in your
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
CHANNEL FUNDS TOPIC
OF TRADE BOARD GROUP
Rivers and Harbors Committee
to Discuss Means of OBJ
tanning Money.

The Rivers and Harbors Committee
of the Washington Board Of Trade
will meet tomorrow at 4 pm. to con-
slider means of obtaining funds TO
carry out approved plans for deepen
ing channels in the Potomac and
Anacostia Rivers and in the Washing
ton Channel.
Congress authorized the program,
but money must be obtained before
work can be done.
Deepening of the Potomac River
from Giesboro Point to the Francis
Scott Key Bridge was listed as project
No. 489 by the National Emergency
Relief Council.
The committee also will consider
dredging needs off Hams Point in
the river. The committee will meet
at the Office of John A. Remon. chair
man. of the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
W.C.T.U. AT ALEXANDRIA
ENDORSES SAFETY DRIVE
Alexandria Arlington County
Unit Also Proposes an Ad-
tional Pledge.
BY a Stan Correspondent Of Tn. Star.

S ~>-o~ AoPSoCo ah 0o-
tional Pledge.
BY . Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October s.
After voting support to The Stars
safety campaign, the Alexandria
Arlington County Women,s Christian
Temperance Union proposed an addi-
tional pledge to make effective all IL
points Of the safe-driving pledge cards
at its annual meeting here this week.
The IL points Of the pledge could
be made by the initial promise, II will
not drive after drinking any alcoholic
beverage" the group decided.
Members signed pledge cards OF The
Star Safety Council and agreed to dis
tribute other cards among their fam
lilies and friends.
The group reelected the following
officers for the ensuing year:
Mrs. Martha N. Brookings, Alexan-
dria, president; Mrs. George A. Ham,
ilton, Clarendon, vice president: Mrs.
Ada H. Davidson and Miss Marion
Merrill. Cherrydale, secretaries, and
Mrs. Alice Strauss, Alexandria, treas
urer.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03

gas, or ethylene, or a combination
of them, are necessary in 20 per-
cent of the major operations. Local
or spinal may be used successfully
on the other 25 percent. A child
of five with acute appendicitis
would require a general ether anes-
thesia. A man of so with acute
ruptured gastric ulcer with spread
ing peritonitis and a diseased heart
could stand a spinal injection,
whereas ether or gas might precipi-
tate a heart attack.
4. A competent nursing staff.
This is another vital link in the
chin. Well trained nurses available
at ali times are just as important
as an autoclave or surgical equip
ment. The hands of the surgeon are
tied if any one of the four links is
broken.
5. General equipment such as
beds, linen, blankets, rubber goods.
isolation rooms and the like are
also absolutely necessary in a hos
pital that sets itself to serve the
public.
These are only a few of the re-
quirements which an institution
must possess in order for it to be
an accredited hospital of the Am
erican Medical association.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
FTFTY-ONE CARS LICENSED
THIS YEAR IN WRANGELL

Fifty-one car and IS drivers
licenses have been issued this year
by L. B. Chisholm, city clerk. Since
the last report in the Sentinel on
on March l, seven car and ten
drivers licenses were issued.
Car licenses were secured by
George Sumption, F. Angerman,
Mrs. M. A Cramer, Gus John
son, G. E. Silver, o. R. Keeney
licenses by w. d. Grant Jr., Her
bert Biorge, George Sumption, F.
Angerman, J. d. Smith, Miss Edna
Sinclair, Gus Johnson, G. E. Silver.
o. R. Keeney and F. S Barnes.
The revenue to the town derived
this year from these sources to date
has been 1920 from car licenses
and Sl36 from drivers licenses.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
COURT NEWS

From April to the end of the
month seventeen persons were in
the local courts. Each one pleaded
guilty to charges of being drunk
and disorderly. L. B. Chisholm, city
magistrate heard the following
cases:
Vim. James, April 6, fined SIS;
w. Choquette, Apr. s, fined SIS; w.
Shadesty, Apr. S, fined SIS; Mrs.
A Mather, Apr. IA. fined SIS; H. J.
Bradley, Apr IA, fined 20; J. Pet
erson, Apr IA, fined SIS. Pete Cher
nnoff, Apr. II, fined SIS; w. F.
Floyd, Apr. 81, fined SIS; H. Dan
iels, Apr. IA, fined SIS.
US. Commissioner John w. Sted-
man heard the following cases:
VIM Morrison, April 13, fined
$25 which he paid; Alice Marks,
April 13, sentenced to serve 60
days in the federal jail at Ketchi-
kan; VIM. Marks, April 13, SEN
fenced to pay $50 fine or serve 25
days in jail, served the sentence;
Herbert Willard, April 10, $40
fine, served out in jail; Mrs. An
drew Mather, April Is, fined $40.
Served two days in jail, paid SIG;
Gust Lundquist, April Is, 60 days
in jail; Albert Germond, drunk.
shooting a gun, sentenced to pay
fine of 500, or serve so days in
jail, paid fine.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Rev. Russell F. Peterson, Pastor
1920 a. m. Morning Worship:
Better than Silver and Gold"
II noon Bible School: Sin, Repen-
lance and Faith study ST.
Luke, Chapter Is
7:30 pm. Evening Worship: The
Christian Home"
Tuesday, right after school, Week
Day Bible class.
Wednesday, 7:90 pm, prayer
meeting in the church parlor.
Sensible people build for eternity.
They neither bury their heads in
the sand nor build houses upon
it,
COME. LET US WORSHIP GOD
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
FLOWER SALE

Potted plants and cut flowers for
Mothers Day on sale Friday and
Saturday, May 10 and II, next to
Mrs Jacobsons Home bakery The
cut flowers will include roses, car
nations, snap dragons, tulips and
mixed bouquets. Bedding plants for
sale include petunias, trailing lobe
liza, colored phlox, etc. Gwen Car
ruthers, Phone SO. (Adv.)
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
At the Churches
THE SALVATION ARMY

Major and Mrs. Carruthers
TUESDAY
$50 pm. Public service
FRIDAY
30 pm. Band OF Love
SUNDAY
300 pm. sunday School
80 PIN. Salvation meeting
1000 am. Holiness meeting
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03

Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Waters and
son Jack returned on the Alaska
Monday from their winter home in
Seattle. Glenora Waters, who is an
architecture student at the Univer-
sity of Washington, will come
north next month.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03

Mrs. S. c. Darlington has taken
over the rooms adjoining the Bar
rington Transportation company Of
flee, in the Matheson building, and
is fitting them UP as an attractive
apartment which she and Captain
Darlington will occupy during the
summer.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
CATHOLIC CHURCH
MAY 5

MAY 5
Second Sunday after Easter
7:30 am. Communion Mass
1000 am. Parish Mass
Sunday School
700 pm. Rosary and Benediction
Wednesday: Patronage of st.
Joseph.
Daily mass at 7:30 an.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03

Mrs. Thomas Dalgity was a medi-
cal patient last week at Bishop
Rowe General hospital. She is max
ing a good recovery from extreme
high blood pressure.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-05-03
NOTICE

A spring and summer line of
suits, coats. street and evening
dresses and hats will be on display
for a few days at Mrs. Lucille Nc
Donald's apartment. Prices reason
able (Adv.l