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The Washington times., 1935-09-19

Have you a little musical prob
lem in your home? Parents are
invited to write the World of
Music for advice on questions OF
musical education. Answers will
be published as space and time
permit.
Many anxious parents ask about
the possibility of their children
learning to play the piano. AS
piano manufacturers have pushed
the sale of pianos by various
means for many years in America,
the piano might we'll be called the
national instrument. At least it
serves as an article of furniture
in more homes than are graced
by almost all the other instru-
mentS put together.
Naturally there are as many
piano teachers" it seems, as all
others put together. Because the
piano produces harmony, as well
as melody, when properly played,
it has been often called a basic
instrument. Because of this term
many musicians will claim that
the piano, being a basic inStru-
ment, should be mastered to some
degree before a beginner should
attempt any other instrument.
According to the old-fashioned
ideas of child education, this idea
might be tolerated. Methods Of
education in all regular grade
school subjects have undergone a
revolutionary change in the past
thirty years. Yet most of the So
called music teachers voice the
old-fashioned platitudes and make
no attempt to become versed in
modern ideas of education. We
have noticed that many musicians
who were educators in the grade
and secondary school field still
revert to the old-fashioned dog
mas when speaking of music.
The Washington times., 1935-09-19
Average Child

With this introduction, we re-
turn to the probability Of the
average child succeeding on the
piano. Judging from the expe-
rience in working with many thou
sands of children, we know that
the chances of a reasonable play
ing ability for the average child
is mighty slim. Laying aside the
educational methods, or, rather,
lack Of educational methods, evi-
denced by most teachers" it must
be remembered that the piano
presents more difficulties to the
beginner than almost any other
instrument, barring a pipe organ.
The beginner on the piano is
confronted with the necessity Of
learning the notes of two clefs,
the counting of time, and the use
of all the fingers Of both hands.
The interest ability Of the average
child is not sufficient to enjoy
this vast array of mental, nerve
response and physical actions.
Piano playing might well be
likened to geometry in the field
of mathematics. 1t is entirely
possible for a person unframed in
the elements of arithmetic and
algebra to be able to solve a prob
lem in geometry if handled by a
skilled teacher. Socrates once
caused an ignorant slave boy to
solve a geometrical problem by a
process of skillful questions. But
mathematics is not learned in the
regular process Of education by
starting with geometry.
Neither should music for the
average child be learned by being
confronted with the complexities
of the piano. Most of the other
instruments available for begin
ners use only one tone, and re-
quire that the pupil learn the
notes of only one clef. Even the
difficulties of learning a one-tone
instrument are more than many
children care to master, unless
prodded by the parents.
The Washington times., 1935-09-19
Music Briefs

The theme shown above is
taken from the Celebrated Min
uet," by Boccherini. Creatore,
the guest conductor of the Rialto
Symphony Orchestra, is featuring
the minuet this week in the string
quintet arrangement, with only
occasional leads by the woodwind
sections.
The Interstate Chorus, under
the direction of Clyd. B. Aitchi-
son, will give a concert tonight at
the auditorium on Constitution
Avenue between Twelfth and
Fourteenth SITS. N. W.. at $3.50
o'clock.
The Washington times., 1935-09-19
Over EASY Route

How much easier it is to make
music more interesting to children
by guiding them into a love of
The Washington times., 1935-09-19
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The Washington times., 1935-01-16
WHAT'S THE SOLUTION? Z?

LYNN, Mass. G.N.S).-"And
the cat came back" with the
jewels. All of the jewels stolen
from the home Of Mrs. Jennie
Snitzer were recovered except a
bracelet and wrist watch. Two
weeks later, A1ibi, the Snitzer
household cat, came home with
the wrist watch and the bracelet
clasped around it's neck.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
HUSBAND GIVEN
COURT WARNING

1t must have been love that
caused Nathan Miller, %. to fol-
low his pretty red haired young
wife from her place of employ
ment, tear her coat, and threaten
to kill her, he told Judge Gus A.
Schuldt in Police Court today.
Arrested yesterday by Policeman
Claude Richardson attached to the
First Precinct, the defendant
pleaded not guilty to a charge of
threats.
His wife, Ruth, testified her hus-
band walked into the hotel where
she was employed as a waitress
and told her he'd made a New
Year resolution to quit work and
"spend all my time bothering
you"
He kept the resolution she
stated, by tearing her coat, twist
ing her arm, calling her on the
telephone and waiting outside the
hotel until she came out.
He told her he would kill her
II he ever saw her with another
man, Mrs. Miller testified. She
said she was afraid of him and
asked the court to put him under
bond to keep the peace.
Policeman Richardson testified
he was ordered to go to the hotel
and escort Mrs. Miller to her Alex
andria bus. Miller insisted on
walking with them, the officer
stated, and annoying his wife.
Judge Schuldt remarked:
That's a poor way to show
your love, Miller. You'd better
get back to the dock and think
this over. You'll have to promise
to keep away from your wife or
I'll send you down."
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
RICHARDS HEADS
CAROL|N|ANS

The South Carolina Society Of
Washington meeting last night at
the Shoreham Hotel, Representa-
tive James P. Richards, Fifth Con-
gressional District, was elected
president, and Hugh E. Phillips,
Edgar Morris, Charles E. jackson
and j. Austin Latimer. vice presi-
dents; Ben D. Fishburne, treasurer,
and Whitney Tharin, secretary.
The new executive committee in
cludes: w. F. Stevenson, Senator
E. D. Smith, Representative
Houghton P. Fulmer, Maj. Gen.
Edward Croft, Col. Jester R. Hor-
ton, Rear Admiral Norman M.
Smith, Warren R. Clardy, Col.
John T. Kennedy, James A. Hoyt,
Edward P. Hodges, L. A. Meyer,
Harry Slattery. Mrs. Alexander
Bull, DR.. H. w. Barre, Basil Manly,
Charles M. Galloway, Mrs. r. l..
Carmichael, Miss Theresa Nc
David, Dixon Davis and w. P.
Bowers.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
WALLACE SEEN
THIRD CHOICE
FOR BIC JOB
Speculation Gains on Names
President Will Pick for
k-ReIief Program
BY EARL GOODWIN

The liveliest topic of converse
ton in the upper circles of this
Administration centers on the
man or men President Roosevelt
will choose to administer the
huge $4,000, 100000 work-reliet
program.
The liveliest topic in the ranks
is on the subject whether or not
the PWA and the FERA are to
be Scrapped, welded together-or
what? Will there be less jobs or
more jobs: and if there are to be
fewer jobs, who will be let out?
Even Cabinet members are
speculating as to the man who
will be placed in control of this
huge lump sum, the largest item
of it's kind in the history of the
world. It represents a new de-
parture in Government. It will
require an administration as large
as another Government. Four
billion dollars for the work-re-
lief program starting July is al
most as large as the sum re-
quired for the regular Govern
ment establishment. Army, Navy,
Postoffice and everything else in
the Federal establishment from
Maine to California and from
Alaska to the Virgin Islands.
Three Are Named
The speculation as to the direc-
tor of this huge project brings
forth the names of Secretary
Ickes, Federal Relief Administrao
tor Hopkins and Frank c.
Walker, formerly executive coun"
Gil secretary.
Mr.. Walker, it appears, does not
want the job. No one has learned
definitely whether or not Messrs.
Ickes and Hopkins want it; but
their friends are boosting them
and talking heatedly about the
various possibilities. Both men
have handled the two big con"
structive ends Of the relief prob"
lem.
Secretary Ickes, as Public Works
Administrator, has built huge
organiZa ton which will have to be
continued because of various prof.
ects under construction. Harry
Hopkins has handled and allo-
Gated every cent of the direct Fed
eral relief; and is an expert in So
cial welfare matters. Both men are
high in the esteem of the Presi-
dent. Not even Cabinet members
know the Presidents intentions in
the matter.
Board May Rule
Another possibility is that Of
board of three or five men to ad-
minister the huge work-relief pro-
gram. On that board the best in
formed men place Secretary Ickes,
Mr.. Hopkins and Secretary Wal
lace for the three-man. organiza.
ton; and they name the same
three, plus an Army officer and
one other man drawn from outside
the organization for a five-man
board.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
Illegal Hunting
Nets Fines for Five

Five men were fined $40 apiece
and given IS days suspended Jail
sentences, when arraigned before
Judge Paul Brown in Fairfax
county court today on charges of
hunting out of season and after
sunset.
The men are Sergt. James R.
Vann and Corp. w. H. Shuldt,
both of Fort Humphrey, Va, and
Harry and Raymond Petit and
Will Dodd, all of Ingleside.
The first two we're arrested Sat
urday night at Pohick Creek. The
others were apprehended at the
same time at Dogue Creek.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
BUDGET
GUT $4,000

Because the subcommittee Of
the House in charge of hearings
on the District supply bill for the
fiscal year 1886 believed there was
little evidence of new construc-
tion work in washington, it cut
the request for $225, 900 as recon-
mended by the Budget Bureau for
the extension of new service mains
to 5000, 900, it was disclosed today.
Capt. R. E. York, assistant en-
gineer commissioner, who was
questioned by Chairman Cannon
regarding the item, said it was
requested to cover expenditures
of laying water mains to accom-
modate new homes being built.
At this point, Chairman Can
non interjected with the remark
his committee had been told there
was virtually no new private con-
struction work being done in
Washington.
Col. Dan I. Sultan, District en-.
gineer commissioner, who was also
present at the hearing, remarked
that figures of the building in
spector showed an increase in
the construction of private homes
in Washington was more than 80
per cent greater for 1884 than for
the preceding year.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
SaarIanders Go Back
To Work Celebrating

SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 16 Il
N.SO.-Saarlanders, still in holi-
day mood, reluctantly went back
to work today-all except a few
thousand of known anti-Nazi SYM
pathies, who remained under
cover anxiously awaiting some in
dication of what their fate was
to be.
Scores were found not to have
spent the night at their homes,
while several hundred huddled for
safety in the Socialists hall here.
Most of the vast majority cele-
brating the 80 per cent vote re-
turning the Saar to Germany,
however, needed Chancellor Hit
ler's plea that discipline be main
tanned, and the international
army was not called upon to keep
order.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
Roosevelt
Denies Asking
designations

Declaring that she has "abso-
lutely no business" interfering
with the operation of Govern
ment departments, Mrs. Roose-
velt today emphatically denied
reports that she had requested
the resignation of two Depart
ment of Interior officials.
Reports were circulated a few
days ago that the Presidents
wife had asked Secretary of the
Interior Harold L. Ickes to ask
the resignation of Louis r.
CLAWS, director of investiga-
tions, and E. K. Burlew, the Sec
retary's administrative assistant.
About these reports, she de-
clared:
'T never would dream of ask
ing for the resignation or dis
Cipline of any member of any
department. That decision rests
with the heads of the depart
ments. No pure outsider has
the slightest business asking
for anybOdy's promotion or de-
notion"
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
Eddie Cantor Back,
Lauds MussOlini

NEW YORK. Jan. 16 G.N.sO.
Eddie Cantor returned from Eu.
rope yesterday with so per cent
of his family-his own way of put.
ting it-and the opinion that Mus
solini is wonderful man. Musso-
lini, he said, hadn't been able to
grasp his (Eddie's) funny stories,
but he nearly died laughing at his
eyes. Eddie said:
''Ho has q keen sense Of hu-
NOR. I had q fine audience with
him. How'd get it? Oh, easy.
A Tammany Hall man fixed it
up for me. A chap named Nc
Bride. I wore a black shirt and
gave MussOlini just the right
salute. I practiced up on it be-
fOrehand."
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
AIM
Of AUTO TRADE

DETROIT, Jan. 16 G.N.SO.
Reorganization of the automobile
industry to eliminate seasonal
employment disadvantages faced
the automobile magnates today as
a result of Donald R. Richberg's
speech before the National Auto
mobile Dealers Association.
The new auto manufacturing
code undoubtedly will be changed
to provide a wider range of year
around employment. Extension Of
the present code expires February
10. President Roosevelt's recovery
coordinator said:
"The automOtive industry has
an obligation to itself and to
the county to regularize prOduc-
tiOn, distribution and employ.
ment. A great advance in
present conditions is possible
not merely in 10 years, but in
one. The time has arrived for
less talk and more action"
The industry has been in a
state Of unrest for more than a
year and about 10 months ago,
President Roosevelt was forced to
intervene to halt a threatened
strike. At that time he named
an automobile labor board and
since has conducted study of
the industry through the research
and planning division of the
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
REMAINS MUM
ON INCOME
TAX PLAN
Commissioner Hints at Rise
In Local Levy But Fails
To Back Any Scheme

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Hazen to declare himself in favor
Of District income or inheritance
tax, the Commissioner refused.
The colloquy regarding the in
heritance tax (and this was SINH.
lar to that regarding the income
taxi follows:
@. (By Mr. BlantOn).-DO you
favor an inheritance tax for the
District? A. by Mr.. Hazen). -
Mr.. BlantOn, / have not given
1t sufficient study.
MIR. Cannon subcommittee
chairman) I'm previous hear
ingS lin which Republican-ap-
pointed commissioners have
taken part) the Board Of Com.
missiOners have gone on record,
have they not, as favOring the
levying Of an income tax and
an inheritance tax for the Dis
trict?
MIR. BlantOn.-I thought 50,
and I was trying to get theiP
present attitude on it.
Mr.. CannOn.-EvidentIy there
has been a change in the atti.
tude of the Board Of Commits
sioners.
Mr.. BlantOn-T was trying to
get at their present attitude.
] notice, Mr.. Commissioner, you
did not say anything in your
general statement about either
an income or an inheritance
tax for the District of COlum-
bia. At present you are not
willing to state you are in
favor Of such taxes?
Mr.. Hazen-NO, I am not,
MIR. BIantOn, because our board
has not discussed that mat
ter.
NO OBJECTIONS
Later in the hearings, Mr.. Blan-
ton recalled that in q previous
Congress the House passed a
bill to increase the local gasoline
tax, and asked Mr.. Hazen II he
objects to a similar measure being
enacted by this Congress. Mr..
Hazen answered.:
''NO, Sir.''
The Texan then suggested the
automobile tax here should be
increased. Mr.. Hazen responded:
81 think there ought to be q
larger tax on automobiles"
He also admitted consideration
has been given by District Of
f1cials to an automobile weight
tax.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
Road COncreting
Bids Are Opened

UPPER MARLBORO, Jan. is.
Bids were asked today by the
Maryland State Roads Commis-
sion for concreting over two miles
OF New Hampshire Avenue, ex-
tended from the District line to
University Lane.
The job is Federal aid project
and men to be used on the work
are to come from the rolls of the
National Unemployment Office
at the Metropolitan Building at
Hyattsville.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
to Provide
Baby With Throat

BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.-Mother
Nature wouldn't do it, SO Mary
land General Hospital physicians
here are giving little Miss K, three
days old, a throat.
They will not disclose her name
but say she has an excellent
chance to survive. When she was
born, nurses noticed she regurgi-
tated everything given her to swal-
low.
DR.. P. A. Insley and DR.. Robert
r. Bay, the hospitals chief sur
geon, got busy with an X-ray ma
chine and discovered the baby had
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
CARD, BINCO PARTY

A card party and bingo social
will be held tomorrow at the
Immaculate Conception Church
parish hall under supervision of
Rev. John Keating Cartwright,
The Washington times., 1935-01-16

a condition rare in medical annals,
"congenital closure"
Pictures showed that the child's
esophagus reached no nearer the
stomach than the collarbone. They
made an incision in the abdomen
and began feeding Miss x with a
rubber tube.
In a week or so, when the infant
has enough reserve strength, they
will make her a real throat. They
will use living tissue and promise
the babe an esophagus almost as
good as the one she might have
had, and much better than the
one she didn't have. The infant
is normal in other respects.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
REFUGEES
TELL FRENCH
Of SHOOTING
Hundreds Swarm Across the
Border as Territory Goes
To Nazi Germany

FORBACH, LORRAINE, France,
Jan. 16 G.N.SO.-Unconfirmed
reports Of shootings in the Saar'
land were brought here today by
many of the several hundred
refugees who swarmed into this
village, just across the border from
Saarbrucken.
Most of them carried only cloth
ing with them, so great was their
haste to leave the territory soon
to be taken over by Nazi Germany.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
Europe Currency
Move Is Denied

BY International News Service
Reports that Europe has made
definite approaches to this coun-
try concerning international sta
bilization of currency were dis
counted today by Undersecretary
of State Phillips. Mr.. Phillips
said that SO far as he knew
there had been no approaches
made recently on this question.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
U. S. to Buy Auto
For Gen. Pershing

Gen. John j. Pershing is to
have a new automobile at the
Governments expense to carry
him on tours of official inspec-
ton over cemeteries in France,
where American soldiers are
buried. A subcommittee of the
Senate Appropriations Committee
yesterday approved an allowance
of $2,4OO for the generals auto
mobile transportation in France.
Evening star., 1935-10-06

regardless Of its popular appeal If
the good Of the common people de.
manded such leadership"
The statement that Republicanism
had given the world its most success
full form of civilization" was made by
Frank Burns. Seattle delegate.
When man Of his (Roosevelt's)
charm, Of his ability to speak to the
hearts Of the common people, uses
those talents to array class against
class, he can only be accused of break
ing faith with God" said Burns in
addressing the meeting.
Silent or 1886 Plans.
Hoover gave no inkling as to what
part, If any, he would play in the
1885 campaign.
He charged Roosevelt policies had
frightened industry against increas-
ing employment normally; that en-
ployment had increased only by 700,-
900 persons since the 1882 election
and would now be even more acute
except for the enormous recovery ex-
penditures.
Against this, he pointed out that
in 1881 the Democratic Congress had
been asked to raise 81 1000, 900 900 ad-
ditional revenue and cut $500, ,000, 900
from less pressing expenses. The re-
suit. he said, was authorization Of only
q part of the extra money asked and
rejection OF more than half the re-
ductionS requested.
In 1882, he said, additional revenue
of $7o0 ,o00, 900 and reductions of $780,
100000 were refused altogether.
Hoover charged the Budget Bu-
reau report showed large items which
for years had been an essential part
Of Government expenditures have now
been styled emergency"
"Obligations which will fall upon
the taxpayer at the end of the Roose-
welt administration will exceed $751;
600, ,000,00 he added. THE cost of
the peace-time New Deal threatens to
exceed the cost Of the Great War"
Mr.. Hoover said there we're $4,000
civilian employees in the Federal Gov
ernment at the end of the Coolidge
administration, 565000 at the end Of
|
This does not include some 100000
part-time paid members of commit
tees and agencies . who all spend
money" he said.
| THE Roosevelt administration Is
now clutched in the meshes of the
gigantic spending bureaucracy which
1t has created. There Is to be no
breathing SPELL In spending, as wit
ness the $4,000, 100000 of new ap-
preparations just passed by Congress.
"One administration writer kindly
assures us that the budget will be bal
anced four years hence, in 1899. That
happy ending no doubt marks the end
Of anything to spend"
The former President acknowledged
that real relief is imperative, but its
necessary and generous cost, unmixed
with other objectives. would be but a
minor part Of this s8,oo0,o0O, 900 per
annum"
| He asserted 1t was his own admin
istration that first gave assurances
against any American going hungry,
and added:
1T (the Hoover administrator or
ganized the relief so effectively by
cooperation of the Federal Govern
ment with State and local authorities
that the public health actually i'm
proved during that whole period"
Mr.. Hoover said that until the Su-
preme Court decisions against the
New Deal last Spring "the industrial
world had been so scared as to stifle
employment. BY destroying conf
dence the administration had retard-
ed recovery.
Evening star., 1935-10-06
SHUT OFF NETWORK.

NEW YORK. October lR.-Regu-
lar II pm. network switches forced
the National Broadcasting Co. to cut
off Herbert Hoover's speech tonight
before he had finished, N. B. c.
announced.
Hoover had been informed, N. B. c.
said, that he could not continue be-
yond the set hour. The only alterna-
tiev, the company stated, would have
been to allow one set of stations to
remain without programs for some
time or to switch them onto an un-
identified speech without preliminary
announcement.
Evening star., 1935-10-06

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Republican national committeeman for
California, charged New Deal poll
cies had undermined business. He
said its program, unless halted, would
come dangerously near to the destruc-
ton not only of our fiscal system. but
also Of the fundamentals on which
the Government was founded"
Gov. Frank F. Merriam, the object
Of a favorite son movement among
young California Republicans. well
coined the delegates. by saying the
party men would champion q cause
Evening star., 1935-10-06
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