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Evening star., 1935-03-17
BY REX COLLIER.

1
Why the ponderous machinery o.
the N. r. A. should be set to work
on the problem of Miss Ida Erler's
stomach trouble was explained yes
terday by N. R. A. officials, who ap-
peared somewhat irked by publicity
given the matter in last weeks Sat-
urday Evening Post.
The pain which Miss Erler had
when she rushed through her lunch
back in New Ulm, Mimi, has been
asSuaged by reason Of a special order
approved by numerous boards and
administrators at N. r. A. headquar-
ters-but the relieved lady probably
will never know the headache her
dyspepsia has caused at Washington
| AS a matter of fact, officials made
it plain. the N. r. A. hopes fervently
that the isolated case of Miss Erler
and her indigestion will continue to
stand alone on the expansive records
of N. R. A. code exemptions.
| Not that N. r. A. authorities blame
Miss Erler for physical disability
over which she had no control
except through careful eating; nor
are they willing to criticize her en-
ployer, the proprietor of New Ulm'S
thriving Bee Hive" store, for being
so considerate of her health as to ask
formal permission of the N. r. A. to
give Ida an extra half hour for lunch
More Time Required.
Apparently the proprietor of the
bee Hive" is Stickler for rules and
regulations-especially rules and reg
ulations of the Blue Eagle. These
rules said that Miss Erler was en-
titled to one hour for lunch-no more
and no less. But Miss Erler, suffer-
ing from stomach trouble, was told
by her physician that she should rest
after each meal, and one cannot
stand in line at a cafeteria. eat lunch
and rest all in the space Of one hour
So her employer wrote to the N
R. A. last November about Miss Erler's
stomach ailment, inclosing doctors
certificate to the effect that she should
rest after lunch. The proprietor
pointed out that Miss Erler had beer
with the store 20 years and deserved
/
that she be allowed to take of ar
hour and half for lunch.
Right at this point it might bt
inserted that had the Bee Hive pro.
prietor seen fit to wink at the Blue
Eagle perched on his store window
and let Miss Erler have that extrs
half hour. regardless, the N. r. A
probably would have done some wink.
ing of its own. Officials indicated
yesterday they wished he had taker
things into his own hands instead o1
bothering headquarters here about the
crisis in Miss Erler's health.
Danger of Chiseling.
OF course nobody at the N. r. A
will come right out and say so. fol
publication. Obviously. that woulc
put N. R. A. in the position of letting
down the bars-of encouraging 'chis-
elers" to ignore this and that. anc
the other rule.
Since, however, the New Ulm mer.
chant chose to put the problem up Il
N. r. A., there was nothing the Gov.
ernment could do but to receive tn,
request through usual channels. giv'
it careful consideration, send it Il
the various boards which are required
/ to pass on requests for exemption
from code rules, and notify the mer'
chant of the result.
The customary course which such
a request must follow Is from code
authority to divisional administrator
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Bill Would Tax
Georgia Bachelors
And Grass Widows
Legislator Sponsors Sec.
Ond Measure to Ciue
Husbands Alin,Ony.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, March 16.-Single bless
edness may cost Georgians $3.50 a
year.
A bill appeared in the House today
to tax bachelors and grass widows.
The measure also would tax men
and women not living with their
spouses.
Representative H. B. Edwards, a
giant of a lawyer, living in the South
ern part of the State, is father of the
proposition.
The same fellow, whose tenacity in
legislative halls has brought him the
nickname Of Hell Bent" Is daddy of
another bill to give husbands alimony
in separations or divorce.
1--WE no sympathy for person who
is not married and particularly for a
person who is married and doesn't
have sense enough to live with her
husband or his WIFE" commented the
burly legislator.
"Of course, there are some excep-
tons, wherein it is not possible to live
with your mate, but, even at that, I
think a person should be forced to
pay q tax for having such freedom" I"
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Volta Parma. custodian Of the rare
book division, is combing the shelves
and vaults of the national library for
the books, fiction and otherwise, pub
lished for children through the nine
teenth century. There are hundreds
Of volumes-unopened and unheard
of for generations. Many OF them
now exist only in the single copies,
originally filed for copyright, which
Mr.. Parma is finding and preserving.
They furnish the material for one
of the most significant chapters in
American history-a chapter which
never has been written. 1t was on
these old books many Of them utterly
worthless as literature, that the imagi-
nation Of American children was
fostered and out of them their life
ideals were moulded In them may
be found the keys to the characteristic
behavior of generations.
Books in Three Periods.
Not that they reflect the true child
mind of the times when they were
published. The child mind itself has
not changed much since the Garden of
Eden. What they do reflect is what the
adults of different generations thought
children were and what they wanted
them to be- They are the props
against which the vines were trained.
The books being gathered by Mr.
Parma show at least three significant
periods. The first extended about 80
years after the Revolution. The
keynote of the child literature Of this
period was religious and almost un-
believably platitudinous. The authors
proceeded on the assumption that all
children were perfect and that any
form of mischief was a damnable alb
normality.
The plots of the stories were for
| the most part concerned with the
struggles of naturally good little girls
and boys to be still better-the re-
ward being reasonable assurance OF
going to Heaven. Both the economic
and the adventure motifs are almost
entirely absent. Nothing is recounted
that is the least exciting. The hor-
Evening star., 1935-03-17
ROOSEVELTS WE'D
50 YEARS TODAY
HoWe's Illness Casts Shad-
oW on Anniversary-EggS
on Dinner Menu.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelts
quietly observed the eve of their 30th
wedding anniversary last night, but
preparations for a family reunion
today showed many little signs OF
sentiment and remembrance.
Because of the illness of Louis
Howe. chief Of the Presidents secre-
tariat, the only entry thus far on the
Sunday schedule was family dinner
and on that dinners menu was
scrambled eggs.
Almost invariably during these Sc
years. the RooseveltS have served
scrambled eggs Sunday night and
that custom goes back to the wedding
day. Among the gifts was a hand
some silver chafing dish. Mrs. Roose-
welt presided over it at their flrst
Sunday night supper and she will pre-
side again tonight.
Sons May Not Arrive.
All the Presidents immediate fam
lily had planned to visit the White
House, but various developments in
terfered.
The word last night was that plans
for the flying Elliott Roosevelt to dash
home for the anniversary and for son
John Roosevelt to hurry in from COL
lege seemed unlikely to materlallze.
But the Presidents daughter and
son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Boet-
tiger, were coming from New York.
And at least three of the original
wedding family party were TO ne
present at the dinner-the Presidents
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic
A. Delano, and his aunt, Mrs. Dora
Delano Forbes.
Delano. brother of the Presidents
mother. lives here: hii sister, Mrs.
Forbes, is visiting him.
Sentiments Preserved.
Intimate friends said yesterday that
few bridal couples have preserved the
sentiment that attaches to anniver-
saries as have the President and MRS.
Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt still daily wears her
souare-cut diamond engagement ring
in its original setting; no modern
ization" for her.
She constantly wears also the gold
locket, with initials intertwned,
which he gave her as an engagement
gift. It is marked with the teeth
cutting of their children.
And as familiar as her photographs
is the wedding watch her husband
gave her; of Gibson-girl. pin-on-
style-its pin of his own design, the
three feathers of the Roosevelt crest,
the drop a heart.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
BOY KING CONFERS

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 16
R.-Eleven-year-old King Amanda
held his first audience today as ruler
of Siam, closeted in vacant Summer
hotel at Caux where he received off,
cial greetings from his native land.
The little monarch and a delega-
ton sent to inform him that he had
succeeded to the throne abdicated by
his uncle, Prajadhipok, returned to
Lausanne tonight. to be met by Ghya
Raiawangzkn, Siamese minister to
Paris.
The group will return to the noun
tain resort again tomorrow. this time
to give the minister a chance to pay
his respects.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

Where are the children Of yester-
year?
The heroes and heroines with whom
six generations of American childhood
identified themselves in their games
and their fantasies are being resur-
rected from oblivion by the rare book
division of the Library of Congress.
Fond parents of today are alarmed
when Sonny-a couple of toy pistols
at his belt and a handkerchief over
his face-imitates in his play the
latest gangster who had gained a place
in the headlines. They groan over his
pretended flights in space ships, his
fantasies of international dope rings,
etc. They blame the radio and the
lurid juvenile fiction provided by the
10-cent stores. What is to come on a
generation nursed on such mind and
character milk?
Lurid Tales of Long Ago.
Nobody knows-but when one con-
siderS the false note OF some OF the
accepted juvenile fiction of the past
and realizes that children grew up
honorable men and women in spite
of it there is little comfort.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
CHARACTER CLASS
WORK IS |NDORSED
Citizens Include Warning
AGAINST Communism in
Favoring Funds.

Efforts of the Board Of Educa-
ton and the superintendent of schools
to have the appropriation for char
acter education restored to the Dis
trict bill were Endorsed by the Feder-
alton of Citizens Associations last
night.
A proviso was made, however, that
there be inserted in the bill pro-
vision that no money appropriated
be paid to any advocate of COM
munism or un-American doctrines,
or to any one in any way connected
with any organization or agency ad-
vocating such doctrines
Quite a debate was staged over
charges of communism in the public
schools and charges leveled at "a
teacher of character education" who
draws down $50 a day expenses. The
resolution was introduced by James
G. Yaden, president of the federation.
While the schools had the atten-
tion of the federation, DR.. Charles
B. Campbell, chairman of the Public
Health Committee, told the delegates
that there are now 800 cases Of scar
let fever in the public schools of
Washington; that a real emergency
exists. He asked that he be instructed
to appear before the Senate Subcom-
mittee on Appropriations to plead
for IL part-time physicians and 10
full-time nurses to work in the public
schools, examining children as a
precautionary measure. A resolution
was adopted instructing DR.. Campbell
to appear before the committee.
Crime Probe Praised.
By unanimous agreement, delegates
went on record as commencing the
House of Representatives for the in
tense, thorough, and courageous in
vestigation being conducted by the
subcommittee on crime" The resolu-
ton to this effect was introduced by
George Sullivan, chairman of the Law
and Legislation Committee.
At the opening of the meeting,
President Yaden read a letter from
peoples counsel, Roberts, asking the
federation's reaction to the proposal
to move buses of the streets of wash
ington and set up terminals. yaden
ASoA q sCOSNk I4C Al6A W1lLUCll III 1Cpl1 4.
There are two sets of laws and
regulations in the District" Yaden
wrote, "the unwritten law for those
who have influence and pull, and I
propose to make over these laws, which
people with influence may violate with
impunity." He said he intended to
lay certain facts before the Crime
Committee.
Municipal Center Plans.
1t was proposed by the federation
to send special committees to Con-
gress in future carrying with them
drafted bills when seeking legislation.
The Committee on Civic Planning
submitted its report on the re-study
Of. the Municipal Center, which was
Evening star., 1935-03-17
EMERGENCY RELIEF SEEN
INCREASED 35 PER CENT
1S Months Load Is Costing 1913
Per Cent More, Says Indus
trial Conference.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated freSS.
NEW YORK, March l6-A rise in
18 months of 35 per cent in the num-
Der of emergency relief cases and an
increase of 1873 per cent in the month
ly cost was figured today by the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
The organiza ton, which is financed
by large industrial corporations. showed
the number of relief cases in January,
1888. was 3,908, 900 and in December,
1884, the total was 5,26l,500.
The total cost in the same period
rose from $50 ,2oo.0 900 to sits, 500. 900,
the board figured.
The average monthly cost per case
was given at $3.50 in January. 1888,
and at s3412 in December. 1884, an
increase of l22 per cent.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Farmer and Girl
Both Faint Asking
Marriage License

By the Associated Press.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, March
16. - Clarence Friend, %, o
farmer of near Continental, Ohio,
and Miss Josephine E. Knoll, 10,
of Fort Wayne, tainted here to-
day while applying for a marriage
license. a..
The girl swooned first and as
deputies revived her, the intended
bridegroom collapsed. After both
were brought to consciousness
they received the license.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

crat and co-author Of the original
bill, likewise is marking time pend
ing release of the rewritten House
bill, but is confident Of enactment Of
the legislation. -
There is no question Of our need
of such legislation" he said. Il have
been urging it for years and ! can't
understand the reasoning Of some
of those who oppose it, am inter-
ested to see what changes the House
is making. I'll have some to propose
myself when it reaches the Senate" !"
Evening star., 1935-03-17
M'FALL KERBEY TO SPEAK

McFall Kerbey, editorial stan repre-
sentative Of the National Geographic
Society in South Dakota last Summer
during the stratosphere balloon night
of the Army Air Corps, will speak be-
fore the Beta Theta Pi Alumni Asso-
ciation of Washington, at special
meeting of the association to be held
at $50 pm. Thursday in the La
Fayette Hotel.
Wives of members of the group nave
been invited to the dinner meeting.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

adopted by the federation. The re.
study makes several important changes
in the original plans of the municipal
architect. The contemplated build,
ings will be built on a scale much
smaller than that originally planned.
This, because the complete growth Of
Washington City. based on estimates
by the Census Bureau, admits of q
population of 100000 in 1904 pop
ulation that will never 60 over the
million mark because of space limita-
tionS.
The federation decided It was not
in favor of spending District of Co
lumbio funds for an airport, though
it is not opposed to Federal action on
the same project.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Give Whales Tooth.

To show their esteem, Fijians at
the World Scout Jamboree in Mel
bourne, Australia, presented Lord
Baden-Powell with a whales tooth.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Silk Prices Decline.

Uncertainty over the demand In the
United States has caused silk prices
in Japan to drop.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Library of Congress Unearths
Children's Books of Long Ago
Juvenile Fiction Reveals Changes in
American Life and Thought
Through Three Periods.

This Is the first OF q series OF
articles on children's literature OF
the past.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Minister Was the Hero.

People were supposed to be satisfied
with their lot and not try to displace
their betters. 1t would have been i'm
moral for a poor boy to have imagined
himself trading places with the rich
banker. But lowly as was his lot, he
might hope to die early and go to
Heaven if he was sufficiently heroic in
resisting temptation. The minister,
not the bank president, was his proper
hero.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

rors Of conscience after the theft Of
pot Of jam is the nearest one comes
to crime or mystery. Nor is the
making good" note struck. 1t was
an essentially aristocratic age, before
the great industrial and territorial ex-
pansion of America which opened the
doors of ambition to everybody.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Minority members of the commit
tee plan to meet as soon as the re-
written bill is handed to them to
plan their activities during considera-
tion of the measure.
Meanwhile, the Senate is marking
time on the legislation. Senator Har-
rison, Democrat, of Mississippi, whose
Finance Committee held hearings on
the bill, said no committee report
or further committee consideration
would be given the measure until the
House has brought out its version.
Being an appropriation bill, it must
first pass the House.
Senator La Toilette, Progressive. Of
Wisconsin, member of the Finance
Committee, said he expected to pro-
pose some amendments. In favor OF
such legislation himself, he predict
ed its passage in the Senate.
Senator Wagner, New York Demo-
Evening star., 1935-03-10
QUIZ OF LAWYERS
OPEN TO PUBLIC
Eight Attorneys for Gang.
SterS to Be Questioned
in Philadelphia.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March 9.-With
the public sitting down front" for
the first time in American bar his
tory, the stage was set tonight for
what a Philadelphia Bar Association
Investigating Committee has billed
as the inside story" of how gangdom
hires its lawyers.
Eight attorneys, one Pennsylvania
State Senator, will appear before the
County Board Of Judges Monday to
answer charges of unprofessional prac-
tices, including accusations that gang
ster clients paid several in advance
for continuing service to underworld
"mobs."
The eight accuSed-Senator Samuel
w. Salus; his brother Herbert, civil
service commissioner; their associate.
Albert p. Goldberg; Arthur S. VERB
lun, Fred C. Gartner, former State
Representative and former civil serv-
ice commissioner; Bernard j. Lemisch,
I. ]. Brad Brosky and Charles J.
Green-have denied the allegations.
The Board of Judges of Common
Pleas Court. after studying the re-
port of the Bar Associations Investi-
eating Committee, ordered the attor-
neys to show cause why they should
not be disciplined.
Their right to represent criminals
is unquestioned. but their methods
and intent are challenged.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
1000 TO BE GUESTS
OF DENTAL SOCIETY
Farley, Roper and Others of Note
Will Attend Five.State
Post. t.Graduate Fete.

A banquet to be attended by many
prominent guests is one of the fea-
lures of the program for the Five
State POSTGRADUATE Clinic to be held
at the Wardman Park Hotel, March
1920 Final arrangements for the
program have been made by the Dis
trict of Columbia Dental Society.
members of which will be hosts to
more than 1000 dentists from Mary
land Delaware. North Carolina, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia.
The banquet, which will be the out
standing social event of the four-day
meeting. will be held Tuesday night,
March 10. Heading the committee in
charge of the banquet and entertain
ment is DIR. w. Marion Falls, chair
man.
Among the prominent guests in
vited to attend the banquet are:
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper,
Senator William H. King, Representa-
tive Mary Norton, and Harry Hop
kins. F. E. R. A. Administrator.
Music, dancing and floor shows will
take place after the banquet.
Clinical sessions will be held every
morning and afternoon during the
meeting. DR.. ]. P. Burke is chairman
of the clinic.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
This Changing World
Hand of Great Powers Is Seen in Greek Revolt
Athens Government Wins Victories
Only on Paper.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

ized are becoming active again, plot
ting and intriguing.
Italy still has an interest in
Bulgaria. Italy does not like the
Balkan pact. Italy Uould like to
possess some OF the Greek islands
in the Dodecanese. Hence, Italy
is suspected OF encouraging Bulgaria
to mass troops at the Greek border
"tor any eUentuality."
and still more so toward Bulgaria.
France is being openly accused by the
Yugoslavs of having betrayed them.
If, without running counter to Italy,
the French government could indi-
rectly help the Yugoslavs to obtain
Saloniki. it may be that the coolness
which has developed since the Laval
visit to Rome might be changed into
a warm friendship again.
The Yugoslav ports on the Adriatic
are virtually worthless. Not only are
they difficult to develop. but the Adri-
attic can be bottled up by the Italian
navy at any time. Saloniki is mag
niflcent port and is not in danger
of being closed by a foreign power.
The Belgrade government would like
to have it.
The Turks have also dispatched i'm
portant forces to the Bulgarian from
tier. The Turks do not want any
change in the status quo OF the
Balkans, unless they could reconquer
those parts of Thrace which were
lost after the Balkan wars. But the
real reason of the Turkish concen-
tration is to checkmate Italy through
Bulgaria.
At the time when Turkey continued
to be a great power. the British Am
bassadors at Constantinople used to
begin their personal and conflden-
tial" dispatches to the foreign Sec
retary with the sentence: Before
the snow on the top of the Rillo
Mountain meltS, there will be an
other war in the Balkans" This
may become true again. Only. a
war in the Balkans will mean a war
in Europe and probably a war in
the Far East.
X
1He CdTHeSle fedCe rOunOdtlOll
which keeps branches all over Europe
to promote the cause of peace and
disarmament announced lately that
their German affihation has been
temporarily" closed.
What happened is this: There was
in Berlin an institute closely con-
nected with the Carnegie peace move
ment. Its president was a DR.. Mors-
bach. When a group of American
educators went to Germany a few
months ago they expected to be re-
ceived BY DR.. Morsbach. To their
great surprise, the German doctor
was not at the station; he could be
found nowhere. After a few days
search it was discovered that Hitler
had sent him to Jail He did not
need any peace societies.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Record'Kidnaping'
Plot Grips To,Un;
$25 RANSOM Up
AbductOrs Reported Ask.
ing SIS for School
Papers.
BY the Associated Press.

by II6 hSoOCldtcu
MOUND, Mimi, March 9.-The
deep. dark mystery of the missing
papers plunged Mounds High School
into q thrilling kidnap plot tonight
as Supt. A. C. Tibbetts begged for
no publicity, lest the captives never
return.
Publicly, the School Board offered
s25 reward for the safe return of its
records. and guaranteed mo questions
asked"
Papers, the school safe and $50 cash
disappeared last week.
A hint of negotiations with the abb
ductors went round the high school
corridors when an advertisement was
discovered in a Minneapolis neWspa-
per. It read: 20. K. Records must
be complete, advise. TibbettS."
But Tibbetts denied any knowledge
of the "ad." and denied that SIS
ransom had been asked for the papers.
Please let us alone" he pleaded,
$50 that we can get our records back"
Those claiming inside informa-
ton" said the School Board regarded
the SIS ransom as too high and feared
for the life" of the missing docu-
ments. whose destruction, it was said,
certain students had desired.