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Evening star., 1935-01-13
Teaching by Example
As Wen as by Precept.
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS Citizens

@OLUMBIA HEIGHTS Citizens
u Association has raised a
question as to the personal
habits of the teachers in our public
schools. This question was first
raised In the District of Co.
lrlmbia Public School Association,
which forwarded to the Board
Of Education a protest against
smoking and drinking of alcoholic
beverages by the teachers. After
this a citizen went before the
School Board and ridicuied and
denounced this action.
The Columbia Heights Associa-
tion has now taken up the matter
with the board and, if it lives up
to its well-earned reputation for
persistence, will keep at it until
there Is some Affirmative action
by the school authorities. Other
organizations have lodged similar
requests.
Columbia Heights folk hold to
the old-fashioned idea that pupils
In the schools should be taught
by "precept and example" They
contend that teaching by precept
alone is not effective, for the
teacher whose example is contrary
to the precept win exert a more
powerful influence In the opposite
direction. Furthermore, the law
makes it obligatory for our teach
ers to teach all pupils the evil
effects Of alcohol and other mar
cotics on the human system with
Q view to having pupils avoid
acquiring narcotic and alcoholic
habits. It Is pointed out that
drinking and smoking school
teachers cannot effectively teach
these subjects, - required by law.
Don't do @ ! do. Do a. ] say"
has always been considered dam
gerous.
supt. Ballou = quoted a. hold
ing that teachers Oh duty are
outside the school rules. The
School Board appears to have
disclaimed jurisdiction, except
where the rules apply, and points
out that the only rules relating
to the subject are those pro-
hibiting the use Of tobacco by en-
ployes Of the board In or about
the school building.
An interesting feature Of the
consideration Of this question by
the Board Of Education was clash
between two of its members, both
actively identified with citizens
associations, Henry Gilligan, for
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Ne,r Kenil,u0rth President
Is Resident of MARYLAND
Kenneth Buker Is Pastor
as Well as Leader in
Civic Life.
Brother Vas Track Star
in Olympic Games
of 1924.

When Kenneth Buker was elected
president of the Kenilworth Citizens
Association last week he became the
second man living in Maryland to be
elected to that ONCE.
Buker lives at SOFT Quarles street
northeast, Kenilworth, Nd, about $50
feet into Maryland. His interest IN
the progress Of the community made
him many friends in Kenilworth, d.
c., and he was elected president Of
the citizens association unanimously.
The only other man to receive the
honor was 8. Joseph Clark, who served
as president Of the Kenilworth Citi-
zens' Association Is years ago. Clark
Is now residing in the West.
Buker moved to Kenilworth, Nd,
three years ago and Immediately be-
came interested In the citizens asso-
ciation. He s 80 years old. married,
and has two girls and q boy. Born
In Waterbury, VT, he came to Wash
tngton in 1918.
Brother . Track Star.
His brother, Ray Buker, was on the
United States Olympic track team In
1924, which went TO France Tor the
Olympic games.
While attending the American uni
yersity, Buker became interested In
the question Of obtaining vote for
the citizens Of the District Of Co
lumbia. He wrote an article ON the
question.
His hobby Is the welfare Of the hu-
man kind. For the past four years
he has been serving as acting pastor
Of the Kenilworth Presbyterian
Church. He holds two services at the
church every Sunday In addition to
his other duties.
He n IN honorary member Of the
Kenilvorth branch Of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. chap
Evening star., 1935-01-13
BOY AND GIRL SCOUT
TROOPS ARE PROPOSED

A movement Is under way to or
ganize both a Boy and Girl Scout
troop in the neighborhood of the
Hillcrest Citizens Association.
Fred H. Shelledy, a member of the
association, has consented to act as
Scout master of the proposed boys
troop.
Arrangements have been made to
have a representative from the Girl
Scout headquarters give an outline
Of the requirements necessary for the
organization Of troop at tomorrow's
meeting. Invitations have been ex-
tended to all residents Of the commu-
nifty to attend the meeting of the as
ISOLATION in the East Washington
Heights Baptist Church tomorrow at
8 pm.
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Delegates from Capital

The annual convention Of the Ma
tional Retail Dry Goods Association.
to be held in New York beginning to-
morrow. will be attended by a num-
Der of Washington retail merchants,
including Harry Ulman, George NJ
Quirk, M. c. Davis, Mrs. Margaret
Schultz, Frank r. Jelleff, Sol Kann,
Adolph Sincheimer, Walter Cornell,
Sylvan King, Philip King, Ralph Gold
smith. Mark Lansburgn, Adolph weyl,
Miss E. e. Hundley, Mrs. NJ. L. Tedrow,
A. c. Case, W. F. Hisey, j. j. Hasley,
w. c. Keafauver, Sam Marks, r. w.
Koontz, E. Emerson Snyder, I. Cohen.
Arthur Stelzer, w. w. Everett, Harry
Ostermayer, J. W. Hardy, C. G. Booth,
w. c. McDermott, John A. Buete, B. A.
Stone, John Davies, Miss Daisy Reed
and p. M. Talbot.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

ASSAGE by the Senate OF
nine District of Columbia
bills on Thursday last with
i the session only one week
old is said to break all rec
ords. Civic leaders are commend
ing Senator King, chairman Of the
District Committee, for 30 promptly
getting approval Of these measures
by the committee and passage BY
the Senate. Some Of these hills
were approved by the Senate IN
the Seventy third Congress and
meet with general approval.
The anti-gambling bill II drawn
to strengthen the laws against al
types Of professional or CONNER
cial gambling and specifically In
cludes the numbers game. This
and the automobile safety bill
passed without q dissenting vote.
This safety or responsibility bill Is
q very conservative measure, re-
curing all motor-car drivers who
have been convicted Of certain
major offenses or who have un-
paid accident judgments against
them to show financial response
bility before being permitted to
drive q car again.
The other bill, Of major i'm
portance, passed by the Senate,
provides for excess and incidental
condemnation Of land In the Dis
trict In connection with the ac-
QUESTION of land for any public
purposes This bill had wide ap-
proval by the civic bodies and
would make available o system
which has proven most beneficial
In the orderly development Of other
communities.
The other bills passed are: Pro-
viding q new procedure for re-
cording and releasing deeds Of
trust; new method Of disposing Of
property in custody of police prop
erty clerk; extending free school
privileges to stepchildren Of on
GERS and employees Of the United
States residing outside Of the Dis
trict; fixing penalties for unlawful
entry on unoccupied private prop
erty in the District; making the
corporation counsel a member Of
the Healing Art Commission on
Licensure to Practice. in place Of
the United States district attor-
ney, and exempting from taxation
certain property Of the Daughters
Of Union Veterans of the Civil War
In the District of Columbia.
The House District Committee is
scheduled to meet on Wednesday
for consideration of some Of the
very problems covered by the bills
passed by the Senate. There are
indications that some Of the SEN
ate bills will meet with prompt
approval Of the House committee.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
RothSchild Away.

Louis Rotf1schild, director Of the
Washington Better Business Bureau,
left the city yesterday for New York,
where he is attending a meeting Of
the Board of Governors of the Ma
tional Association Of Better Business
Bureaus today and tomorrow,
Evening star., 1935-01-13
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
BEGUN BY BENNlNG

A membership drive will be made by
the Benning Citizens Association.
It will start with the mailing Of let
ters to all residents of Benning and
adjoining East Washington. Much has
been said of the lack Of cooperation
among the residents, and the letter
will appeal to residents to join the as
sociation in It's aims to better the COM
munity.
The letter also will contain list
of previous improvements made In
Benning due to the efforts OF the as
sociation.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
F0XHALL. VILLAGE /
GROUP PLANS ONE
MEETING AYEAR.
Special Gatherings to Be
Held Only on Call of
Ten Members.

Decreasing attendance and the grad
uAl decline IN the number Of COM
mmity problems placed In its hands
to solve, has caused the FoxhaIl Village
Citizens Association to amend its
constitution by . bylaw calling for
only one meeting of the association
o year.
The amendment was offered by
Richard Westwood. editor of Nature
Magazine and active In the community
affairs, In the November meeting Of
the group and after being considered
at two other meetings, was adopted by
vote Of II to 4.
No sooner had the amendment been
adopted when Edwin C. Reed, chair
man Of the associations Public
Utilities Committee, urged that the
group make . survey oftgas and elec-
tric rates IN 10 cities comparable to
the size Of Washington, IN which
power companies are both publicly and
privately owned, in an effort to secure
reduced gas and electric rates for the
District.
Several Projects Outlined.
Close ON the heels Of this suggestion
came the demand for reparation Of
alleys in Foxhall Village and the need
for better service, better class foods
and meats and a general shake up in
one Of the chain stores of the COM
munity. immediately after that step
came q request for a concentrated
membership drive and a demand for
more books for the school library.
Other demands made for the welfare
Of the community representing minor
street repairs, improvements in certain
unsightly parts Of the community. and
the urgent demand for better bus
service were made during the meeting.
The advisability Of sending two dele
gates to the Federation Of Citizens
Associations was also considered.
After its organization in February,
1928, the association joined the fed
Grafton, but withdrew within a year.
Reason given for this move was that
few questions discussed during the
federations meetings are of interest
to the Foxhall group.
Slc-llduoC0- Lie COululullly,
through its association, obtained
100000 public school. community
children's playground, through bus
service, defeated a move to discon-
tipue all bus service, and fastened
the widening of Reservoir road as a
boulevard and prevented the sacrific-
ing of lawns fronting on the street
In the road revision. More than
score of other community improve
ments and projects we're consummated
over short period of time.
Meeting Place Provided.
With the amendment to discontinue
all monthly meetings, providing for a
special meeting only when called by
10 members, or the Executive Com
mittee, the sudden demands made for
various minor projects. especially the
study to eventually get reduced pub
lie utility rate. hardly warrants the
absolute abandonment of monthly
meetings, Charlie F. Miller, ST, presi-
dent of the group, said.
Any additional demands Of the COM
munity will be taken care Of by Mr..
Miller himself, he declared. Projects
too complicated or involving extensive
research and consideration will be re-
ferred to the various committees ap-
pointed at the last meeting, 1t was
announced.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Civic Association Calendar
Twenty-One Groups Meeting This Week-Joint
Northeast Conference Planning Program
for Constituent Bodies.

pm, Petworth School. Program
Police and Transportation Committee
joint report on proposed one-lane
parking on all streets; Street I'm
provement Committee report on pro-
posed traffic lights at Georgia avenue
and Upshur street; report and action
on proposed increase in police force;
report on proposed bill for Q District
Garage Corp; special committee re-
port on proposed Cub Scout Pack.
wednesday. January l6.
Chevy Chase Citizens Association,
8 pm, E. v. Brown School. Program
Annual election; discussion of traf-
fic fatalities near Connecticut and
Nebraska avenues, with plans for
remedial measures: action on pro-
posed increase in powers of District
Commissioners over School Board;
discussion Of local playground facih-
ties; adoption Of memoriam on the
late s. Won Ammon, secretary, re-
Gently killed in trafhc accident.
Dahlgren Terrace Citizens Associa-
ton, 8 pm, Crosby 8. Noyes School.
Program-"Business Mems Night. +"
Discussion of trafhc situation; report
on proposed bridge over the B. & O.
Railroad tracks: action to secure ad-
dition to the Crosby Noyes School;
discussion Of various forms of taxa
ton.
Randle Highlands Citizens Associa-
ton, 8 pm, 2407 Minnesota avenue
southeast. Program-Talk by Mai.
George Oakly Totten, designer on the
Connecticut avenue bridge, on pro-
posed new Pennsylvania avenue south
east bridge; plans for card party and
dance with the Randle Highlands Par
ent-Teacher Association on jan
uary 18.
Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens
Association, 8 pm. Brightwood School
Program-Actton on proposal for more
policemen: action on proposed in
crease in powers of District Commis-
sioners; special committee report on
proposed rerouting plans Of Takoma
street car line on Fourteenth street.
Southwest Citizens Association, 3
pm, No. 4 precinct station.
Friday, January 10.
Glover Park Citizens Association, 8
pm, Industrial Home School. Pro-
gram-Address by representative Of
the Board of Public Welfare: discus
sion Of associations protest last month
in change Of Burleith- Glover Park
Trinidad bus line.
Society of Natives Of the District, 3
pm, Washington Club. Program
Report by a special committee on pro-
posed budget for the society; card
party and dance at $50 pm.
Saturday, January 10.
Federation of Citizens Associations,
8 pm, Board room, District Building.
Program-Report and action on pro-
posed enlargement of District Com
powers over citizens boards.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

mer president of the North Capt.
tol Citizens Association, and Henry
Quinn, delegate to the Fedora
tion Of Citizens Associations from
the Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association. Mr.. Gilligan
holds to the old-fashioned idea
of teaching by example as well
as by precept and Mr.. Quinn an
nounced himself as unalterably
opposed to regulating the private
lives of teachers, so long as their
personal habits do not affect their
teaching.
The advocates of a rule to cover
this question are looking to Mr..
Gilligan to sponsor this reform.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
National Representation
New Committee Headquarters.

THE Citizens Joint Committee
on National Representation
for the District Of Columbia
has changed the location of its
headquarters in The Evening Star
Building to Room 423. The COM
mittee has been located on the
third floor for more than five
years. This change has been made
necessary through the require
ment of more space by the Asso-
ciated Press Wirephoto Service.
The Citizens Joint Committee
keeps on hand at headquarters, for
free distribution, a varied assort-
ment Of informative literature re-
garding the voteless and unrepre-
sented District and the efforts
under way to cure this anomalous
condition.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

Saturday, January 10.
Federation of Citizens Associations,
pm, Board room, District Building.
Program-Report and action on pro-
posed enlargement of District Com
powers over citizens boards.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

Society Of Natives Of the District, 3
pm, Washington Club. Program
Report by a special committee on pro-
posed budget for the society; card
party and dance at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
BY JESSE C. SUTER.

/. ASSAGE by the Senate Of
nine District Of Columbia
bills on Thursday last with
the session only one week
4 l. 4 4 l.
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Glover Park Citizens Association, 8
pm, Industrial Home School. Pro-
gram-Address by a representative Of
the Board of Public Welfare: discus
sion Of associations protest last month
in change Of Burleith- Glover Park
Trinidad bus line.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens
Association, 8 pm. Brightwood School
Program-Action on proposal for more
policemen: action on proposed in
crease in powers of District Commis-
sioners; special committee report on
proposed rerouting plans Of Takoms
street car line on Fourteenth street.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

Southwest Citizens Association,
pm, No. precinct station.
The Washington times., 1935-10-28
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROUL0nd
When I'm Sorry For Men

When I'm Sorry For Men
Men have the best of it in
most things in this life. They
don't have to count the laundry,
plan the meals or get the chill.
dren off to school. They don't
even have to worry about get
ting married. 1t just happens
to them.
And yet there are times when
I feel sorry for them. They are
always running their heads into
a moose. Getting into spots"
falling in love with the wrong
woman or innocently and un.
consci iously humping into
trouble one way or another.
I feel sorry for men
When I see a man who has
made a brilliant reputation or
a startling success, being sub
jected to all sorts of unflatter-
ing publicity and held up to
ridicule by some little gold.dig-
ger who suddenly recollectS that
he broke her heart" four years
ago, and decides to sue for
balm"
When I see a worthwhile, am
bilious young man deliberately
pass UP a sincere, clear r-eyed,
home-loving girl who would
The Washington times., 1935-10-28

sibly ask someone who's Just
two jumps from suicide, to
drop in at Charles Market for
the supper steak, can you?
Wretchedness also provides
swell sops for egotism. Could
anything be more flattering
than the spectacle of ones self
standing apart. lonely and unap-
preciated, too fine and rare for
common understanding? It does
not occur to us that the lowly
skunk and the humble garlic
are likewise isolated - and
probably for much the same
reason All, no-we're far too
pleased with the notion that the
vulgar mass remains aloof
through awe and envy.
SERVE AS FOIL
A few candid words from a
frank friend would speedily
knock this stiffness out of us.
Which is why frank friends are
apt to be so extremely unpopu-
lar. For the last thing we really
want to know is the truth about
ourselves. And the last thing
we want to take is constructive
criticism.
Why do we like interiors? Why
do brilliant, solitary souls so
often surround themselves with
mental pee-wees? That's why.
A frank friend would make us
use our brilliance and raise Cain
with our solitude. So we seek,
instead, the dumbell and the
dope, whose stupidity serves as
a foil for our intelligence, and
who dasn't tell us where to head
in.
Are you still so sure that
letter didn't apply to YOU?
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc0
The Washington times., 1935-10-28

A stout pull and a minute
or two of patience bring a
shuttle of approaching feet
Sandaled feet, as the echoes
reveal-and presently, from
within, an iron bolt CRATES in
its fastenings. The door opens
a few inches and a bearded
face reveals itself to the
stranger at the portal. 1t is
bearded e soft brown, and
there are brown eyes in the
youthful face. It is the ingenu-
Gus countenance of a young
monk of the Capucine Order.
TRAGIC SAGAS
I know of no single spot in
all Europe which so grips the
imagination as this dusty, dim
lit, utterly silent resting place
of the royal dead. Over here,
in one large chamber, Is the
bronze coffin of that Haps-
burg who held back the Turks
centuries ago at the gates OF
Constantinople. One of a stack
of coffins, holds the body OF
the Hapsburg Archduke who
came nearer to defeating the
great Napoleon than any gen.
eral of his nation.
In one of the simplest Of all
these repositories of lifelesS
clay is L'Aiglon, Napoleon's own
son, the King of Rome and the
Austrian archduke by the blood
of his mother, Napoleon's en-
press, Maria Louise.
No magnificence in this grim
chamber. Coffin upon coffin in
purposeless, careless heaps;
whole chapters of thrilling his
tory; whole sagaS of incredible
tragedy. But at the heels of our
little brown monk, making out
with him some sort of dialogue
in a Ueirdly mixed patois of
combined French, Italian and
Latin, we come, finally, to the
two magnificent chambers in
the great Hapsburg crypt.
One is all old bronze, magn1-
ficently executed. It is the tomb
of Austria's Floriana, the great
Empress Maria Theresa. 1t re-
minds one, somehow, of Dante's
tomb in Verona, with the nitric
acy and splendor of its bronze
work. Maria Theresa, who
fought Frederick the Great to
the last gasp and, defeated, laid
The Washington times., 1935-10-28

hasn't made much of record
since. Reads excellent books,
talks brilliantly but is subject
to bitter moods. Feels he's
misunderstood " is becoming
daily more cynical.
The older girl has gone with
him for years. She's intelli.
gent, generous. deeply devoted
to him. She believes he has
great possibilities and is always
trying to encourage him
urging him to make the most
of himself. At first he seemed
grateful for such help but
lately he has become resent
full.
Now he seems to have thrown
her over and is constantly in
the company of brainless,
clinging little creature-one Of
the oh-aren't-you-wonderful
tribe.
The older girl is cruelty hurt.
How has she failed him-what
has she done to ALLEVIATE him?
She has, of course. done
nothing save challenge his
lazineSS and conceit. But that,
with many of us, is an unfor.
givable crime.
RESENTFUL
Theoretically, we humans are
supposed to be grateful to those
who believe in and prod up our
Better Natures. Practically,
we're anything but! We like.
of course, to moan about our
loneliness brood over mis-
understandings spend long
hours with some adoring lis.
tener, analyzing our yearnings,
asking for advice.
But when it comes to shut
ting off the broadcast and
getting down to action-that's
something else!
Actually, our misery is q
most convenient racket serving
several purposes. AS an excuse
for not Acting Regular, melan.
cholia is The Tops! A Wound
ed Heart alibis endless cuSSed.
ness. Healthy, happy humans
are expected to hustle right
along and do their chores.
And be responsible for their
blunders. But you can't pos
The Washington times., 1935-10-28

make him a devoted, intelligent
wife and marry some fluffy,
self-centered, hard-boiled, little
nitwit who will bore him to
death, worry him to death or
work him to death.
When come across a man
who has to get up early and
make .liS own coffee and burn
his own toast while his wife lies
in bed until noon so that she
will be fresh for the afternoon
bridge game.
When see a foolish young
man marry a rich or successful
woman, whUm he doesn't love,
with the silly idea that he is
getting something for nothing.
When I read of men jumping
out of windows because they
have lost their fortunes and
can't make enough money to
satisfy the little woman"
Oh. yes, there are lot of times
when I feel sorry for men. But
mostly when they have made
fools of themselves by getting
tangled up with the wrong
woman. That is the average
mans greatest failing!
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Ine.)
The Washington times., 1935-10-28
At Auction One State

Judging bv reports from Kentucky that proud and sovereign
State finds itself on the auction block with half million dol
lars offered it between and election day Will vote
Raw Deal
Such language may sound crude.
The facts would seem to be considerably cruder.
ompetent observers declare that before in history
has the Blue Grass commonwealth been openly and brazeny
flooded with Federal money distributed through Federal
ces and for what appears be the purpose Of keeping the
State in the Democratic column
The Republican candidate governor has unwtng aided
the organization Democrats by refusing to make the Raw Deal
an issue in the campaign
Bv failing to attack the Washington Administration he has
missed the WINNING issue, it is believed
This coupled with the lavish expenditure Of Federal money
Is expected to hold the State in line for Roosevelt
So saw the EXPERTS anyway and the experts right the
people Of the United States will have illustration OF Raw
Deal politics that will repay study.
It will NOT REPAY THEM, HOWEVER, THE HALF
MILLION DOLLARS which they are furnishing out of their
own pockets for Administration to pour into KentuckyD
a strange concidence-ustb before election time