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Evening star., 1935-09-15

" located the Patent ONCE and the
city post office.
In life-as has been said with
slight omission)-it is Just one thing
after another. In days gone by, may
be you were thrown out Of buggy
and killed or met tragic end in some
other way. But there was always
some method or means to accidentally
shorten life, and so we find recorded
in the Metropolitan of April, 1886, the
following item which illustrates that
Washington was never without its
traffic troubles. The item reads:
"A dangerous accident happened
Yesterday to one of our respectable
citizens, from cause which Is a re-
proach to our police. or rather to our
laws, for we believe 1t Is only very
lately that sufficient legal authority
has been given to abate the nuisance.
The gentleman referred to, descend
ing the steps from one Of the doors
of the post office, was encountered on
the mid-pavement by q full-grown
hog, which, running against him,
threw him down. His head striking
the pavement, or curbStone, he re-
ceived injuries on his head and face
so serious that it is still doubtful
whether the injury may have been
mortal"
ON APRIL 21 the press records the
" result of the accident. saying:
"The Inflated man who was thrown
down by a hog. opposite the general
post ONCE, on Thursday as mentioned
in our last, died on Saturday from
the severe injury he sustained, his
skull being fractured by that infamous
accident.
I'VE cannot but think that the
family Of the unfortunate gentleman
(Mr. F. G. Blackford, o clerk in the
general post ofice), which have been
thus in q moment, from q cause so
reproachful. deprived Of his support,
have a good claim against the cor
poration for that abundant pecuniary
compensation, which viii be but Q
poor return to them for the invaluable
life thus suddenly cut of"
Incidentally, there are lot OF poor
people in Washington and elsewhere
who would like to be thrown down by
q hog today. But God help the hogl
Naturally. the burning Of the post
Office left the department without, q
home, but 1t did not take Postmaster
. General Amos Kendall long to secure
a temporary one, at least, until better
arrangements could be made, and so
we find by the Metropolitan OF De-
cember 10, 1886, that Fuller's, or the
City Hotel (site Of the present New
willarO, was selected as an emer-
gency measure.
Across the street from the Blodgett
Building stood for many years the
home Of W. W. Seaton, editor Of the
Evening star., 1935-09-15

Upper, left: The old E
Street Baptist Church,
between Sixth and Sew.
enth streets on E. Top,
center: Temperance or
Marini's Hall, where the
Knights of Pythias was
organized and the Ma
tional Rifles once met.
Upper, right: Burning
of the E street hospital
during the Civil War.
Left, center: The Crock.
er residence, first home
of the Post Office De.
partment in Washington,
northwest corner of
Ninth and E streets.
Evening star., 1935-09-15

Center: Old National
University Law School
Building, later Elks'
Hall. Photo of a group
of members taken about
1896. Right center:
Blodgett Hotel as it orig.
inally stood on E street
between Seventh and
Eighth streets. Lower,
center: Home of Rev.
Obadiah Brown, at 804 E
street, later the Chill
dren's Hospital.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
SHARING THE WEALTH

The trouble with most of us is
that we know SO many things that
aren't SO. Just now a great many
people are saying, and a lot of the
rest of us are believing, that if
we could only redistribute wealth
in some way everybody's troubles
would be over. But when a care
full study was made recently of
the incomes above $4,000 a year,
it was shown that if all Of the sur
plus of every individual income
above that figure were to be dis
tfibuted among the forty million
bread-winners of the nation, it
would amount to less than a 500
a year for each family.
Most of us have been letting
ourselves be sold" on the idea that
one of the auses of our economic
troubles is that we produce more
goods than we can consume. But
when we look at the actual figures
it would almost seem as if the
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
/ THANK YOU.

daughter.
I hung up, then called for a
Washington number. 1t took even
less time to get my connection
with the Senator / wanted to talk
to. I had barely finished with him
when my phone rang again. "Pitts-
burgh calling" said the operator.
And that night l got a telephone
call from another friend who was
stranded in Los Angeles and want
ed me to telegraph him enough
money to pay his hotel bill and
buy a ticket back East!
l went to sleep marvelling at the
miraculous web which the telephone
has woven all over the nation
Sixty years ago, nearly, I saw Pro-
fessor Bells first telephone, a,
the Philadelphia Centennial Of
1875. 1t was looked on as an in
genious toy, nothing more.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
THE D OF A GUN

The hunting season is on in vir-
tually all parts of the United
States. Therefore We may expect
carelessly handled guns and
thoughless hunters to kill quite a
number Of persons.
Men will shoot other men be-
cause they are too impatient to
wait and see exactly what they are
shooting at. Other men will shoot
at game without first making sure
that no human being is in line
with the target. Still other men
will carry or handle loaded guns
carelessly, while still others will
keep their weapons loaded in
camps, automobiles, dwellings, and
other places where loaded guns
should never be kept.
There are too many "acciden-
tai" deaths during the hunting
season. The number of these i.
too great a price to pay for hui
man carelessness.
Let every man who handles a
gun, therefore make the resolve tc
himself that his weapon is not 60
ing to bring injury or death to any
one. Let him keep this thought
uppermost in his mind at all times
Then he will exercise the necessary
care that will make the hunting
season a pleasure and not a curse.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1885
CHEER UP-IT MIGHT BE
WORSE

This has been the biggest year
in the automobile business since
before the depression began.
More cars have been made and
sold. and the manufacturers, who
keep their ears pretty close to the
ground, are unanimous in their ex-
pectations of making and selling
still more cars during the coming
year.
; Any way you look at it, wheth-
er you regard the automobile as a
necessity, a luxury or a menace,
facts about the motor industry
don't tally with the notion that
we are a bankrupt and starving ma
ton. Quite the opposite is the
fact. Because few of us have az
much as we did a few years ago,
and hardly any of us has as good
an income, we have fallen into a
habit of thinking that we, the peo-
pie of the United States, are very
badly off indeed. 1t is hardly
necessary to go farther than the
facts about the automobile business
to demonstrate the utter falsity of
the doctrine promulgated by the
Jeremiahs who are shedding
gloomy tears over the perilous
state of the nation.
As Professor Einstein might ex-
press it, it is all a matter of rela-
tivity. 1t is r that we are not
as we'll off, on the whole, as we
were in. 1923. But we are better
off, by comparison with the people
of all the rest of the. world, than
we were then. They have faced
and are still facing harder condi-
tons than we have ever dreamed
of, and none of them, so far as
anybody knows is as definitely on
the way back as we are in America.
1t seems probable that the Unit
ed States will continue as a going
concern for some time to come.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
PLEASURE IS "BIG BUSINESS

PLEASURE IS BIG BUSINESS
Americans are fun-seeking peo-
pie, and they love recreation,
Amusement has become a "hig
business" Information from tax
returns have led the government at
Washington to venture the state
ment that between IS and 20 per
cent of our national income goes
for recreation and amusement.
When it is remembered that our
national income this year will be
about $4,000, 900, some idea
of the amount Of money we spend
for pleasure may be obtained.
The picture has another side 1t
is a "big business" Hundreds Of
thousands Of Americans arc max
ing q liyIeg III Of our search for
a good time. Some may think the
billions of dollars we spend each
year in this manner a perfect waste
of money, but let us also remember
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
NEW DOLLAR BILLS

Money, whether in bills, or
coins, has a fascination and a
charm peculiarly its own. There is
hardly anything else that will hold
ones attention in, say, such a de-
lightful grip. All of us like to
handle it in whatever shape it
comes-and the more we handle
the better we like it.
The new 81 silver certificates
will soon be in circulation. On the
back of these bills will be pictured
both sides of the Seal of the Unit
ed States. One side of this seal
shows the American eagle with a
shield, the eagle grasping an olive
branch in one claw and a bundle
of arrows in the other.
We have all seen that side of the
seal on half dollars, but the other
side has never been used on money
before. 1t shows an unfinished
pyramid bearing the date of 1875.
Above the pyramid there is an eye
in a triangle of light beams. The
new dollar bills will be the same
size as our present paper money.
1t is to be hoped every one will
get plenty of them.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

that this waste" is keeping the
bread and butter in the mouths of
a good many persons who might
otherwise be idle. So, it is not SO
bad as it would first appear.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

NATURALLY WE are not goins
TO MENTION names today, be-
CAUSE 1T is against the rules
BUT WE would like to do it be-
CAUSE IT would add just a BIZ
TO THE story. The patient wa
VERY V II suppose
THE will be a very
DANGEROUS ONE, Doctor
HE SAID. Nonsense replied thu
DOCTOR. you couldn't buy -:
DANGEROUS TO,
I A YOU.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

truth were the other way about.
We are not producing, and never
have produced, enough goods fe
go round. S - /,
The better distribution of wealth
has got to come about by produce
ing more wealth to distribute. The
trouble with most of us is tina,
we don't recognize the distinction
between wealth and money.
Wealth consists only of commodi-
ties produced by the application Of
labor to the land and to raw mater
ials. Money is only a convenient
medium for the transmission OF
wealth from one person to another,
1t is true that most of us haven
enough of either wealth or money.
but the only way yet discovered tc
add to the worlds wealth is tc
create it by doing more produc-
tive work.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

0. Where is Osborn House?
A. This was a favorite residence
of Queen Victoria, near East Cowes
Isle of Wight. The Queen died
here in 1901. Edward VII present.
ed the house to the nation for a
home for c%onvalescent officers.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
THIS WEEK in
WASHINGTON
Continued from page ~

CONTINUED from page y
bone of the Citizens Budget Com
mission Of New York City, whose
thorough going investigation Of
the tax situation and the w~asteful-
ness of the city Government under
Tammany Hall was largely respon-
sible for the defeat Of Tammany
and the election of Mayor La
Guardia on a fusion ticket two
years ago.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

Q. What is a Urine immersion?
A. This is the name given to the
practice in the primitive church
of dipping a person who was being
baptized three times beneath the
surface of the water, at the name
of the three persons of the Holy
Trinity.
Q. Will iron burn?
A. 1t will burn, but at a very
high temperature. 1t burns freely
in pure oxygen, but oxidoizes very
slowly in air and produces a very
small amount of heat.
Q. When were the first travelling
libraries established in the United
States?
A. The first general American
travelling libraries supported by
public funds were authorized by
the New York State Legislature in
1892. 81 w.
Q. What is meant by the little
go at Cambridge University.
A. 1t is a preliminary examina-
ton of a general nature taken by
all Cambridge undergraduates Gun
less excused because certain other
examinations have been taken) be-
fore proceeding to take any exami-
nation for a degree. 1t is taken in
or before the first term.
Q. Please give the origin of the
expression, TELL it to the Marines"
A. Burton Stevenson explains as
follows: "Mr. Pepys, from the very
nature of their calling, no class OF
our subjects can have SO wide {
knowledge of seas and lands as the
officers and men Of our royal mar
time regiment. H~enceforth, when
ever we cast doubt upon a tale
that lacketh likelihood we will tell
it to the Marines. If they believe
lit, it is safe to say It is true
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
R C TO SOME EXCUS
by:A.B B.. 6

Wifey: what did you mean by
by telling the neighbors hat you
married me because / was such a
good cook-when you know very
well that I can't boil water?"
Hubby: "Well, I had to give
them some excuse, didn't I?y
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
PlCAYUNES

Q. How long did it take the
Eskimo to run to Point Barrow tc
report the deaths of Will Roger.
and Wiley Post?
A. The Eskimo, Clair Oakpeha.
covered the IS miles between the
scene of the crash and Point Bar
row in three hours.
Q. In what way does quicksand
differ from other sand?
A. Sand grains ordinarily are
roughly cubic in shape. When
these grains r piled together the
sharp edges and corners rest upon
surfaces of other grains. This
gives the mass a resistance to dis
tortion. The grains in quicksand
for some reason, probably glacial
action, have become considerably
rounded SO that this property is
lost. When the spaces between
these grains are filled with water
or very thin, fine clay, the grains
will readily slide and shift about.
An analogy might be drawn by
considering two buckets-one fill
ed with oily, steel balls, and the
other filled with dry steel cubes
1t Would be very difficult to force
ones finger through the stee]
cubes, but very easy to force one:
finger throufh the balls.
Q. Was the ouija board first
made as a serious attempt to COM
mune with the spirit world?
A. 1t was devised BY William
|Fuld and manufactured by him a:
a toy.
Q. In the World War was there
any actual fighting on German
soil?
A. Some of the fierce fighting
of the World War was on German
soil. The great battles Of Tan
nenpaum and the Mazurian Lake.
were on German soil. Until Fielo
Marshal Hindenburg was called
out Of retirement to stop them
the Russians had swept over Z
wide territory in East Prussia ane
in German Poland. No American.
were engaged in these battles
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

Charles II as recorded in "Pepys'
Dairy" The tale that had tested
the Kings credulity was one about
flying fish which his colonel of
Marines assured him was true.
Q. Is there a project to erect a
monument to Grover Cleveland in
Washington?
A. An act of Congress, approved
June 70, 1885, granted permission
to any organization organized
within two years to erect such a
statue, if approved by the Fine
Arts Commission and the Joint
Committee on the Library. A
preliminary sketch has been con-
sidered and more attention will be
given to the matter this Fall.
Q. For whom was the spinning
jenn named?
A. 1t was patented in England
in 1870 by James H~argreaves, who
named it for his daughter.
Q. What was accomplished by
Admiral Byrd's second expedition
to the Antarctic?
A. Among the accomplishments
of the expedition may be men
toned the fact that the explorers
proved by ship and airplane< that
the unmapped space north of the
18th parallel, between the 10th
and 160th meridians west, is a
part of the Pacific Ocean. They
spent 800 hours studying cosmic
rays 1000 miles farther south
than ever before. In astronomy,
thanks to the clearness of the at
mosphere, they did remarkable
work on meteors, seeing on an
average one a second. They traced
the Edsel Ford mountain range for
hundreds of miles, settling in the
affirmative the question whether
Anarctica is a single mass.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
Americans of the Army of Occu-
patton were on German soil after
the Armistice, but not before.

Q. Were examinations held for
Government positions before civil
service went into effect?
A. In 1855 examinations were
instituted to test the efficiency OF
all candidates for subordinate post.
in the Government service. Ir
1870 it was directed that appoint
ments in civil service should be fill
ed by open competition, as was al
ready the Ease with appointment:
in the Indian civil service.
Q. Who is the goddess Of order;
A. Eunomia is the Greek goddess
of order and harmony.
Q. Did Oscar Wilde write 1.-THE
Importance of Being Earnest be-
fore or after his Imprisonment?
A. "The Importance of Being
Earnest" was written in 1895,
shortly before its authors trial
and Imprisonment, and was the last
play that he wrote.
Q. Who invented mayonnaise?
A. 1t is said to have been origin
ated by the Duke de Richelieu.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
Wallace Proposes
Tax on Land Deals

Plans to check realty specula-
ton by greater taxation of land
deals are being studied by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace, he re-
vealed yesterday. He said:
IT have not actually turned the
matter over to lawyers, but I be-
ieve if the Government, through
income taxes, could take the
profits on land speculation, the
practice would be discouraged"
Secretary Wallace does not
think values of farm land should
be increased at this time, he said.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
Costly Sachem Hall
lsCIOsed at Yale
Despite Student Plea

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 7
Sachem Hall, Yale sophomore
dormitory, formerly a Sheffield
Scientific School fraternity
building, has been closed at last,
despite a vigorous campaign by
its occupants to keep it open.
Thirty-two sophomores lived in
the house at the beginning Of the
year, but with unexpected college
openings turning up for some
the list Of residents decreased
until only 13 remained. The uni.
versity said that Sachem Hall
was too expensive to operate for
these 13 and told them to obtain
seven other residents if they
wished to keep the house open.
They could round up only six.
A feature of their unsuccessful
campaign was to rent an air
plane for $85 and have it flown
over Yale Bowl during the Yale
Army game, dragging a sign
pleading Save Sachem." The
sophomore residents placed no
ticeS in the New Haven news
papers and even pleaded that
the janitor, John Jones, had lived
with his family in Sachem Hall
for 20 years and that in the
closing of the building he faced
loss Of home and job.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
GOV. TALMADGE
SEES BLOW TO
NEW DEAL
By GOV. EUGENE TALMADGE,
OF GEORGIA

ATLANTA, Nov. THE elec-
tions held on Tuesday were re-
Elected in the stock market yester-
day.
Stock market totals heralded
the election day as a rebuke to
the New Deal with buliiSh omen,
with heavy buying lifting stocks
from one to nearly three points
higher.
It is not surprising that the New
Deal received a setback. Exorbit-
ant taxes are the great handicap
for business.
Governmental regulation and
Government competition with pri-
Vate industry has held back a
natural recovery that was due
this country.
The elections on November 5
gave confidence to business. They
feel that the New Deal will meet
its waterloo" in 1885.
The elections on November 5
warrant this faith.
The elections on November 5
gave confidence to business. They
feel that the New Deal will meet
its Waterloo" in 1896.
The elections on November 5
warrant this faith.
All America needs to recover
from this economic slough is for
the communistic policies of Wash
tngton to stop.
Here's hoping that the present
Administration will about-face.
They will do this, recovery will
be here, and another Democratic
victory will be assured.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
SWdstikd Replaces
Cross in Nazi FIao

BERLIN, Nov. 7 U.S). - The
Nazi SwaStika today replaced the
imperial iron cross in the war
flags of Germany. Under decree
of Chancellor Hitler, the new
German army and navy tomor.
row will display war flags in
which the iron cross has become
a tiny corner emblem, with the
swastika as the huge central
adornment.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
ChamberIin Resiqns
Engineer Unit Posi-

American Association Of Engi
neers yesterday announced at its
board meeting in Chicago the re
tirement of national President
Donald L. Chamberlfn. vice presi'
dent of the Kennedy -Chamberlin
Development Company, Of Wash
ington. Chamberlin, the young
est man ever to hold office, and
the only president to serve more
than one year, was succeeded by
Howard P. Levering, an engineer
Of Huntington, w. Va.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
SociaIite Sues

RENO, New. 7 dN.S)-Mar-
garet Paul Irwin charged cruelty
today in her suit to divorce Sam
uel B. Irwin, social registerite Of
Philadelphia, where they were
married June 20, 1924. They have
three children.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
All Italians WORKING
On Nile Dam Fired

CAIRO, Nov. Z U.N.S).-While
military preparations on the
Italian Libyan frontier increased
today, the Egyptian public works
ministry announced its decision
to dismiss all Italians working on
the new Nile dam at Gebel,
Awliya. New long-range anti
aircraft guns have been placed
at Solloum and Mersa Matruh,
The Washington times., 1935-11-07

newspaper El Concrete. and his
wife on May IS, was sentenced to
rs years imprisonment by a court
martial.
The youth, who admitted he
was a member of the radical Apra
organization, waited for his VIC
tins and shot them as they were
walking from the Hotel Bolivar to
a luncheon at the National Club.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
G. o. P. Acts to Halt Rift

WESTPOIT, Conn, Nov. 7
U.N.SO.-An effort to smooth
over reported GOODNESS on the
part of Midwestern Young Re
publicanS to the national COM
mittee's interest in their affairs
will be made by State Senator
j. Kenneth Bradley, who left
here Monday night for a confer
ence with party leaders in Wash
ington.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
Peru Gives Slayer
OF Editor Is Years

LIMA, Peru.-Carlos Steer La
fonte, 19-year-old naturalized son
of an Englishman who assassi-
mated DR.. Antonio Miro Quessada,
for 35 years editor-in-chief Of the
The Washington times., 1935-11-07

Lumberjack style with heavy.
warm Innings: full belted models.
Broken size assortment and some
are slightly soiled; sizes 70 II
yearA
The Washington times., 1935-11-07

These are seconds Of a popular
make, yet the imperfections are
80 slight that wear will be un'
impaired. Sheer and clear chif-
fon with picot tops and plated
foot. In the new shades in sizes
81 to 10h.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-03

a while she crossed the room and
closed the tranSom. But she could
still hear the words: Well sing a
little, dance a little. love a lot
living in the middle of the moon
light"
The singer stopped abruptly and
Mrs. Cameron sighed in relief. The
girl was evidently a romantic crea
ture. Like, like-she wouldn't COM
plete the thought. But feelings
ideas that had been lying dormant
through the years we're crystalizine
under a new impetus. Perhaps it
was true that you had to direct
romance. Perhaps it had been par
TALLY her fault that Dana's mother
had wrecked her life and brought
disgrace to proud family name.
This girl seemed pliable enough
Much more so than Nancy. There
was a stubborn one for you! APP
parently in European schools they
taught respect for ones elders, if
they taught nothing else. They had
done very we'll by her granddaugh-
ter. And the girl was beautiful. 1t
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