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Evening star., 1935-01-09
CIVIL SERVICE HEAD
CITES MERIT NEEDS
H. B. Mitchell Says New Fields
of Government Require
Efficiency.

The new fields in which the Gov
ernment Is embarking require the
highest type of employees and this can
be assured only where competitive
civil service procedure is followed In
their selection. Harry B. Mitchell,
president of the Civil Service Com
mission. said In a radio address over
WJSV yesterday evening.
Never in the past has there been
greater need Of efficiency In the rank
and file Of American public service
than there is today" he said. This
Government OF ours is undertaking q
program of economic security. 1t has
been initiated and it is going on. No
matter how unselfish or how able the
men who are steering these new ven-
lures may be. there must be the great.
est possible efficiency throughout II
the best results are to be attained.
"Only by competitive examination,
followed by proof Of good work, can
that efficiency be assured"
Mitchell spoke under auspices OF the
American Federation OF Government
Employees, which is sponsoring q ma
tional Civil Service week observance,
from January 1919. to focus public
attention on the Importance OF the
merit system. The date comedies with
the fifty-second anniversary OF the en-
actment of the civil service law.
Evening star., 1935-01-09
GROUP REQUESTS
SCHOOL BUILDING
East Washington Heights
Citizens Also Ask Bet
ter Bus Service.

Better bus service and erection OF
new school In the immediate
neighborhood were asked by men,
bers of the East Washington Heights
Citizens Association at their meet
ing last night in the East Washington
Heights Methodist Church.
Parents said they have experienced
much difficulty and expense In sending
their children to classes. The near
est school is two miles away. The
present census Of houses in the
neighborhood shows that l22 children
of school age are forced to go at
least two miles to school. often In q
private car. The secretary was ol-
rected to send q letter to the Com.
missiOners and to the Board OF Edu-
cation asking them to give their at
tention to this request.
Ask Bus improvement.
The association decided 1t would
get petitions asking for an extension
OF the Hillcrest bus line to the Dis
trict line or else have bus service
from Seventeenth and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast to the District line.
The petitions are to be sent to the
Public Utilities Commission and the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
A request for additional fire boxes
brought the reply from the Fire De-
partment that the Sd Battalion chiefs.
after a survey, had decided that the
only one was necessary at Forty
fourth place and Hillside road SOUTH
east. The department stated further
that the matter had been referred to
the electrical engineer. who has charge
of the installation of fire boxes.
Electric Lights Asked.
A reply from the city Refuse De-
partment regarding ash collections
in the community stated that collec.
tions would be made once q week.
A letter was to be sent to the High
way Department asking for electric
lights on Ridge road southeast, from
Minnesota avenue to Burns street.
Final plans for card and bingo
party to be held this Friday At the
home Of the president, o. z. Robbins,
was announced by the chairman OF
the committee, Charles H. Baumbacn
Evening star., 1935-01-09
MUSCULAR
RHEUMATIC PAINS

TT takes more than "just q salve"
i to draw them out. 1t takes q
"eounter isritant"I And that's
what good old Musterole is sooth-
ing, warming, penetrating and help
full in drawing out the pain and con-
gestion when rubbed on the sore,
aching spots.
Muscular lumbagO, soreness and
stiffness generally yield promptly to
this treatment, and with continued
application, relief usually follows.
Even better results than the old
fashioned mustard plaster. Used by
millions for 25 years. Recommended
by many doctors and nurses. All
druggists. In three strengths: Regu-
lar Strength, Children's mild, and
Extra Strong. Tested and approved by
Good Housekeeping Bureau, No. 1867.
Evening star., 1935-01-09
AbAN$
Empty Your
Bladder
And You'll Feel Like q
Billion Dollars!

sleepless nights. doe-tired days. headaches:
rains In all parts OF the body--indi4cstiOn-
gas, Do you suffer from one or all?
And have you tried every medicine under
the sun. only to ind yourself back where
you started7
No wonder, for you. like Thousands Of
others have probably been treating yourself
for everything but the right thing. Get at the
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testines the most important digestive Juice
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your food sours. putrines. stomach becomes
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Evening star., 1935-01-09
RESORTS.

Temperature re warm yesterday in Miami
and Miami Beach. Fla. Every ones down
among the palms outWitting Winter.
Evening star., 1935-01-09

The association announced receipt
Of . letter from Peoples Counsel
william A. Roberts offering assistance
In presenting the associations de-
sires before the Public Utilities Com
mission and various congressional
committees.
There were IS baskets Of food dis
tributed by the association to poor
families in Georgetown during the
holiday period. according to report
from the special committee in charge
of this work.
Evening star., 1935-01-09

You are almost sure to suffer from
heartburn. sick headache. bloatins;
dr0wsiness. nausea from the gas and
acid Indigestion when you take your
meals into q stomach In which there
| is excessive acfdity.
Your food can't digest because the
activity of the vital gastric huids has
been destroyed. You can tell it by that
awful thirst. Your mouth and throat
are dry.
Bring those gastric fluids back to
activity again. Wipe out the excessive
acidity. The marvellous new way is TO
drink some water with teaspoonful OF
Placidan in 1t. Get three-ounce pack
age of Placidan from your druggtst.
Costs very little to take. 1t is very
pleasant. Will not upset you and does
not purge your bowels. Simply wipes
out the excessive acidity. fiquefes the
undigested Jumps of food. soothes the
irritated stomach so the natural gastric
fluids can become active again.
Wipe out the excessive acidity In your
stomach before 1t Gets into your bowels.
Acidity causes much constipation. just
be sure you get Placidan. the new
ble-action stomach relief. All drug
stores have Placidan. It ID not laxa-
tive. Contains NO susar.-Advertise"
mPnt
Evening star., 1935-01-09
BURLEITH CITIZENS
ASK MORE POLICE
Association Joins With Columbia
Heights Business Men in
Request.
Copyright, A. p. Wireph0to.

The Burleith Citizens Association
last night joined other civic bodies
in their request for funds for an in
crease in the police force.
The matter Of proposals for the
consolidate OF the recreational IA
cilities of the District was referred to
a committee for study.
Evening star., 1935-01-09
FAIRFAX MAN KILLED
WHEN HIT BY TRAIN
Northbound Train Running on
Southbound Track Held
Reason for Death.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
CLIFTON STATION, Va, January
9.-Tilden Cunningham, so, OF Clifton
Station was instantly killed late Mon
day when struck by . Chesapeake
& Ohio train near here.
1t was sad that because of a tie-up
on the line . northbound train had
been shifted to the southbound track
and that Cunningham looked north
ta see II train was coming from that
direction as under ordinary ctrcum-
stances when he was struck
Cunningham, q lifelong resident Of
Fairfax County, lived with q brother,
Robert Cunningham. He was unmar-
ried.
Evening star., 1935-01-09

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Evening star., 1935-01-09
Mails Sent by Rocket.

Mails were sent recently by rocket
from ships over one-half mile from
shore in the estuary of the Hoogly, in
India.
Evening star., 1935-01-09
IF YOU EXPECT
TO GET YOUR
WGOR BACK

Wipe out the excessive aeidity
which keeps SO many people un-
dernourished, underweight; they
can't sleep soundly and suffer
from gas and acid Indigestion.
Evening star., 1935-01-09
Islands Rich in Metals.

Fifteen heretofore uneharted islands
of the coast OF Nova Sembla, found
recently by Russian explorers, are said
to be rich in copper and other metals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
BUYING POWER FELT

This buying power has been felt
in many lines of business; outstand-
ing among these is the farm equip
ment industry in which employment
jumped from q per cent of the
average in October, 1882, to 116
per cent in october, 1885.
In the motor car industry, which
has found some of its best markets
on farms and in small towns, over
the same three years span employ
ment has increased from AZ per cent
to los per cent. These simple figures
show how industrial employment in
the cities has been benefited by the
improvement in the farmers con-
dition.
Increasing pay rolls in the farm
equipment and automobile industries
in turn are stimulating other lines.
Only few days ago I noted an
item in the papers which I thought
very significant. 1t told of increased
activity in the textile mills. One
reason, said the newspaper account,
was the demand for textiles in the
manufacture Of automobiles.
There you have the complete
chain. The cotton growing south,
with more money to spend, buys new
automobiles. The automobile makers
buy more cotton goods from manu-
facturers in the Northeast and these
manufacturers in turn go into the
market for more cotton. Goods are
moving again, and as goods are
moving, so is money moving once
more, and as it flows, millions of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
By United Press


CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-The text OF
President Roosevelt's address be-
fore the American Farm Bureau
convention follows:
Three years ago in addressing the
farmers of the nation, reminded
them that the economic life Of the
United States is seamless web
This was means of illustrating the
great dependence of each economic
unit in the nation upon every other
unit. Farm prosperity can not ex-
list without city prosperity, and city
prosperity can not exist without
farm prosperity.
1t is therefore especially appropri-
ate for you, as representatives of
the farmers of the nation, to meet
here in this great metropolis of the
Middle West-here in Chicago
where the interests of agriculture
are interviewer with the interests of
other industries serving the nations
needs. Here Is a common meeting
ground Of agriculture, transporta-
ton, industry and labor.
Only a few generations ago inter
dependence between agriculture and
industry was not in any way as
great as It is today; but now your
welfare depends in part on what
you in the country do and in large
part on what people do in the cities
as well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
POWER BEYOND STATES

l say "the organized power of the
nation" advisedly, because you and
1 as Americans who still believe in
our republican form of constitu-
tional government know, as a SIM
pie fact, that 48 separate sovereign
states, acting each one as a separate
unit, never were able and never will
be able to legislate or to administer
individual laws adequately to bal
ance the agricultural life of a ma
ton so greatly dependent on ma
tlonally grown crops Of many kinds.
AS first step organized agri-
culture pointed out that it was
necessary to bring agriculture into
a fair degree of equality with other
parts of our economic life. For SC
long as agriculture remained a dead
weight on economic life, sooner or
later the entire structure would
crash.
We used for temporary guidance
the idea of parity between farm
prices and industrial prices. AS you
know, the figures that we used tc
determine the degree to which agri-
cultural prices had fallen in rela
ton to other prices were based upon
the figures of 1909 to 1914. This was
a fairly satisfactory way Of measur-
ing our efforts. Those five years
preceding the beginning of the
World War were years of fair pros
perity in this country.
They were the last years before
the widespread disturbance caused
by the World War took place in our
economic life. And measured by
the figures built upon this standard
the relative purchasing power of the
farmer had fallen to less than SO
per cent of normal in early 1888.
I promised to do what 1 could to
remedy this, and without burdening
you with unnecessary figures, let the
record say that a relative purchas-
ing power of below so per cent has
now moved up today to better than
80 per cent.
AS I have pointed out before, this
rise in farm prices has meant a
very substantial improvement in the
farm income of the United States.
The best available figures show that
it has increased nearly $4,000, 900, 900
in the last two and one-half years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
PRICE FLUCTUATIONS

And yet we have shrugged our
shoulders when we have seen cot
ton run up and down the scale be-
tween Az cents and % cents, wheat
run down and UP the scale between
$3.50 and 80 cents-corn, hogs, cat
tie, potatoes, rye, peaches-all OF
them fluctuating from month to
month and from year to year in
mad gyrations, which, of necessity,
have left the growers of them specu-
lators against their will.
The measures to which we turned
to stop the decline and rout of
American agriculture originated in
the aspirations of the farmers them
selves expressed through the several
farm organizations. l turned to
these organizations and took their
counsel and sought to help them to
get these purposes embodied in the
law of the land. What you wanted
and what you and I have en-
deavored to achieve was to put an
end to the destructive forces that
were threatening American agri-
culture.
We sought to stop the rule of
tooth and claw that threw farmers
into bankruptcy or turned them vir-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
OPPOSED BY PROFITEERS

Though food prices in the cities
are not on the average as high as
they were, for example in 1929, yet
they are in many cases too high.
1t is difficult to explain why in
many cases if the farmer gets an
increase for his food crop over what
he got three years ago, the con-
sumner in the city has to pay two and
three and four times the amount of
that increase.
Lifting prices on the farm up to
the level where the farmer and his
family can live is opposed chiefly
by the few who profited heavily
from the depression. 1t is they and
their henchmen who are doing their
best to foment city people against
the farmers and the farm program
1t is that type Of political prof.
teer who seeks to discredit the vote
in favor of a continued corn-hog
program by comparing your desire
for fair price for the farmer to
the appetite of hogs for corn.
Yet know that the great masses
of city people are fair minded.
They, like yourselves, suffered deep
ly from the depression, and I be-
lieve with all my heart that mil
lions of these city people, strug-
Cling back toward better days, re-
sent the attempts of personal adj
vantage seekers and profiteers to
heap ridicule upon the recovery eff
forts that all of us are making.
Some of the same type of in
dividuals and groups are also trying
to stir up farmers against other
phases of the broad recovery pro-
gram. Dispensers of discord are
saying that farmers have been VIC
timized by the new reciprocal treaty
agreement with Canada and are
painting pictures of great flood of
imports of farm products rushing
across the border.
Just as I am confident that the
great masses of city people are fair
minded, so I am sure that the great
majority of American farmers will
be fair in their judgment of the new
trade agreement. If the calamity
howlers should happen to be right,
you have every assurance that
Canada and the United States will
Join in correcting inequalities, but
do not believe for a singla moment
that the calamity howlers are right.
Agriculture, far from being cruel
fed by this agreement, as some have
told you, actually gains from it. We
export more agricultural products to
Canada than we have imported
from her. We shall continue to do
so, for the very simple reason that
the United States, with it's larger
area of agricultural land, it's more
varied climate and it's vastly
greater population, produces far
more of most agricultural products,
including animal products, .vege-
tables, and fruits, than does Canada.
In the case of the few reductions
that have been made, quota limita-
tions are set on the amount that
may be brought in at the lower
rates.
On the other side of the picture
we believe, and most unbiased men
believe, that the general increase in
our trade with Canada, including
the exports of our factories, will so
add to the purchasing power of
hundreds of thousands of wage
earners that they will be able to
spend far more than they do today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09

for the products of our own farms,
our own forests and our own fish,
cries.
Greater trade is merely another
word for more production and more
employment. The proof OF this par
ticular pudding is in the eating; the
best way to judge the new accord
is to observe how it works out.
Analyze and remember the source
and the motives of the objections.
Remember too the old saying "it all
depends on whose baby has the
measles"
But the success that has attended
and is attending our efforts to stem
the depression and set the tide run
ming the other way can not bind us
to the necessity of looking ahead
to the permanent measures which
are necessary to a more stable,
economic life. We are regaining q
more fair balance among the groups
that constitute the nation and we
must look to the factors that Will
make that balance stable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
GOLDEN RULE JUSTICE

The thing we all are seeking is
Justice in the common sense in
depreciation of that word-the in
depreciation that means do unto
your neighbor as you would be done
by" That Interpretation means
Justice against exploitation on the
part of those who do not care much
for the lives, the happiness and the
prosperity of their neighbors. The
nation applauds the efforts OF its
agencies of government to deal
swiftly with kidnapers, gangsters and
racketeers. That is justice.
The nation applauds the efforts OF
its agencies of government to save
innocent victims from wildcat bank
ing, from watered stocks, and from
all other kinds Of confidence
games: That is justice. The ma
ton applauds the efforts of govern
men to obtain and to maintain fair
reward for labor, whether it be the
labor of the farmer or the factory
worker or the labor of the white
collar man: That is justice. The
nation applauds efforts, through the
agencies of government, to give a
greater social security to the aged
and to the unemployed, to improve
health, and to create better oppor-
tunities for our young people: That
too, is justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
LASTING PROGRESS

In this quest for justice we have
made progress. It is lasting prog
ress because the people of the ma
ton have learned more about ef-
fective cooperation in the past two
and a half years than in the pre-
vious Is years. We understand more
than ever before what that term
"the seamless web means.
We seek to balance agriculture
and we have made great strides.
But in balancing agriculture we
know that it must be in balance
not alone with itself, but with in
dustry and business as well-that
the producing public must give con-
sideration to the consuming public.
Year by year as we go on many
details, many problems will need
to be analysed and solved. Agricul-
ture and industry and business are
in overwhelming majorities Coop
Grating for a common justice as
never before. In the present days
we have seen and are seeing, not a
rebirth of material prosperity
alone: of greater significance to
our national future is that spiri-
tual reawakening, that deeper I'M
Outstanding that has come to our
land. We who strive to dispel the
bitterness and the littleness of the
few who still think and talk in
terms of the old and utter selfish
nocc Wp ora u1orlinu toWorS thn
destruction of sectionalism, of class
antagonism and of malice. We
who strive for cooperation among
all parts of our great population
in every part of the nation. we in
tend to win through to better
day. We strive for America, and
if we shall succeed, as by Gods help
we will, America will point the way
toward a better world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
SUFFERING OF AMERICA

Your own experience Of three and
four years ago doubtless brings all Of
this wildly to your minds. Your
sufferings-those sufferings Of rural
America were not because you were
not producing-for your granaries
and storehouses were bursting with
the products of your labor-but be-
cause things in city and country
had both got out of balance and
purchasing power had declined to
the point where people in the cities
did not have the money to buy farm
produce and people on the farms
did not have the money to buy city
products.
Two things were at that Time
especially clear First, that because
of almost unbelievably low prices
for farm products, the growers of
these products could not meet their
Indebtedness, could not pay their
taxes, and could not meet the living
expenses of their families.
The other fact was that in most
major groups a constantly accumu-
lating surplus had reached such alb
surdly high levels that crop price
levels could not possibly rise until
something was done to cut down to
a reasonable level the bulging sur
plus which overhung the market.
For these reasons the recovery
program that this Administration
proposed and that Congress enacted
was a many-sided one. The Ad-
ministration and the Congress that
took Office in March, 1888, recog-
nized that the emergency they faced
then came from many causes and
endangered the life of many groups.
Consequently, it put the power of
government behind not only the
railroads and banks, but the indus
trial workers of the nation, the
farmers, the small home owners, the
unemployed and the young people
who suffered from utter lack of
opportunity. 1t was great emer-
gency and it required swift action.
Mistakes were inevitable because it
was a new field.