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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-19

WOODBRIDGE, D. C.
3943 South Dakota ave. n.e-Six large
rooms. detached; 2 baths: featuring l bed
recreation room, built-in gar. large porch,
paved street and many. other features;
brick with stone. bay window Priced to
sell quickly; reasonable terms. Don't miss
seeing this charming home
1851 10th ST. NE
Six fine rooms, on prominent corner;
extra toilet on first floor; 2 real fireplaces
one in recreation room; garage An elegant
terms arranged
THESE HOUSES OPENED DAILY AND
EVENINGS For INSPEfvr10M
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SALE OR EXCHANGE

HOLLYWOOD FLA-TWO 5-ROOM FUR
nished cottages, 3 lots, clear: aged widow
must sell. Col. 7S79-W. 1900 Mozart pl.
20s
COTTAGE AT FAIRHAVEN. MD.-COM-
pletely furnished for clear lot in D. c. or
nearby Md or Va. Col. 1859. 20s
WATERFRONT FARM OF % ACRES. so
under cultivation. AZ in timber and pas
lures; good tobacco land: $50 young fruit
trees beginning to bear; barn. stable. 3
sheds. corn crib 6-room house; farm all
fenced. So p st. s.w. Phone Adams 4359
THREE CD ONE-STORY BRICK STORES
Owners will consider home, houses or lots
for equity. Act quickly
WALTER A. BROWN,
400 Z St National 1862.
RENT-DESK SPACE.
PART-TIME USE NICELY FURNISHED
private Office in suite with P. B. x. tele-
phone and secretarial service: only $40 mo.
Confidential ARRANGEMENT: mod. downtown
office bldg. Address Box 242-E. Star ONCE,
200
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SACRIFICING CORNER
HOME, 100 FIT. FRONT.
VACANT. $4,000 CASH
$4,000 MONTHLY; GROOM
HOUSE, 3 BED ROOMS.
REDUCED TO $4,650.OO.
Corner lot. 100 by 1875 feet: large front
porch, screened living room dining room.
Large kitchen with electric stove and coal
nicely arranged bed rooms upstairs: Gear
garage pipeless furnace. tool shed. shrub
HOUSE Al condition, newly papered. paint
ed inside and out. Attractive wire fence
around property. Two blocks from school
and bus line.
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TO CLOSE AN ESTATE,

1866 Clifton st. nw-Three-story and
cellar brick dwelling. 10 rooms and baths
gas. cleo. h.-w.h.; splendid condition: re-
Gently ren9yaLsd Price. $500, Appiv
ton Bldg. Phone District G:i:in
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THOMAS ]. GIBSON.
oc1H. la.o6 General Manager-
THos. J. OWEN & SON. AUCT1ONEERS.
l43I EYE ST, NV.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
FFf gFEE.sro EElN BR1cK ARb bl sToN
! DWELLING CONTAINING ELEVEN
| ROOMS AND THREE BATHS. WITH
| TWO-CAR BRICK GARAGE. KNOWN
/ AS 51l1 SIXTEENTH STREET
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NEW GROOM BUNGALOW. RECREATION
room, h.-w.h: and garage. 1904 Clark
ave. Silver Spring, Md. ? blocks from
Indian Spring Golf Club, l block off the
new four-lane Colesville pike. Price rea
sonable. VIII accept first trust notes.
stocks or bonds as down payment. Open
Sunday only for inspection. Phone Dis
trict- 3277 days. Georgia 916l evenings
for future inspection
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WANTED TO RENT-HOUSES.
SALE-HOUSES.

CHEVY CHASE, WEST OF CIRCLE-AT
saving. direct from owner: detached Colo
NAL brick, bed rooms. 2 baths. oil heat.
Real bargain. Phone Wisconsin 1857. 19'
LING PK-SEAII-DET.. r., MOD: HWD.
floors. Widow. sacrifice. 81 $50; Call me,
District 5464 ewes. Lincoln 5241. IL.
PRICE S5,45O-S1 $50 CASH PAYMENT.
balance in building loan; 6-r. and b.
Colonial brick home. 20 feet wide; 3
porcheS, all modern; very deep lot lear
garage. ll6l Morse ST. ne, or call
National on3N
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01

out troops to qdeu them next, public hearing
at which the Senator tells about wide
spread plot to assassnate him.
The thing had an odor Of comic opera, to
be sure; but it followed the blueprints Of the
real thing, and it leaves one with an uncom-
Portable feeling that next time it may go whole
hog and end up with shooting. 1t was just
little too lfe-like to be really funny.
What is happening obviously, is that in this
one state American liberties as We have known
them are giving way to one-man rule, which
is bolsterad up just as one-man rule in Italy
and Germany is bolstered. The Huey Long
model Of Fascism is running on oninous paral-
lei with the Mussolini and Hitler models.
Now it is argued, in defense II al this, that
Senator Long was preceded by al INSCRIPTIONS
and overbearing political machine so that he
is really accomplishing much for the plain
people Of his state even while ,ne takes their
civil liberties away from them.t
But even if we grant, for thd sake Of argu-
ment, that all of this is true thtre is one more
fact to remember.
This is precisely the excusel that dictators
everywhere give for their aGts. Mussolini
Hitler. Lenin-they all knew thai tale by heart,
and chanted it in season and tout Of season.
The lesson ought to be clear
BY surrendering its liberties to gain relief
from bad situation, people IS apt to get
great deal more than its bargi bins for. 1t is
easier to set up a dictatorship than it il to
knock one down.
The Baton Rouge furry is disturbing sign
to people who believe that liberty is the Amer
lean peoples most priceless possession.
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The Commonwealth Plan Advocated

disputable security, ought to read
it. 1 believe that w. H. Richards,
printer on MassachusettS-av, has
it.
To Mr.. Woll 1 should like to say
the following:
High wages will not do the trick
of bringing prosperity" back and
keep it here; neither will low
wages. The only thing that counts
is the relative difference between
wages and prices. But in order to
make the total wages approach the
total price of goods for sale it
would be necessary to squeeze out
the profits, and Mr.. Vol can
hardly expect those who won and
rule the country to take steps to-
ward economic suicide.
There is no such thing as sta
bility under the capitalistic system.
We must have either booms, in
periods of expansion, or we must
continuously go down hill. For
several reasons we can expand no
more; consequently we must go
down hill, and we are doing just
that, although government spend
ing conceals this fact and post
pones the hour of reckoning.
Fortunately the people are now
beginning to do a little economic
thinking. Amateurish to be sure,
but they are getting started. New
ideas, however impossible, are bet
ter than none at all.
There is sprouting time in the
land"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01

diseases of the common people back
home, take up their advanced eco
Monies which unfold the higher arts,
the mauves, the dove colors, and
royal puppies of the kings counting
house.
Apropos Of nothing, a distiller's
announcement the other day caught
my fancy He had paid to the
United States governmea for
period covering six months only,
$15,0000OO. I began in my simple
way playing with multiplication, adj
dition and subtraction of the pos
sible cost no longer incurred by pro-
4ibition enforcement, just a though
) were balancing my fooljh little
budget.
1t made me wish that we were
living again in the old, simple days,
when we just paid our few, govern
ment servants good salaries When
we were big people, prosperous
and had a small though efficient
government, which didn't have such
an economic problem balancing the
budget.
1t just seems to me that in about
10 years with the 20-year pay home
steads, the farm loans, the home
loans, the Civilian Conservation
Corps, etc, Washington IS going to
be the big manor house and we the
tenants of her big estate.
Thankee, marster! Thankee,
marml Yus, a pot of taS. and a
bit of tripe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
THE WIDOWS COURSE

THE widows and orphans" and their trus-
Il tees should consider the remarks of David
E. Lilienthal in New York on utility holding
company evils.
The individual investors. insurance COM
panies. banks and estate managers are being
exhorted to enter the fight against President
RooSevelt'S holding company regulations.
In the electric industry there are two
major classes of investors whose interests con-
fiict," Mr. Liienthal said. In the first class
are the owners of bonds and, to a certain eX-
tent, holders Of preferred stock, of the operat-
ing companies These bonds are to be found
in the portfolios Of most insurance companies,
banking irst.. otionS, and in fiduciary invest
ments Ard then, on the other hand, is the
equity grC up the holders of common stock in
the operating companies 49,.
The record shows that throughout the
country. with important exceptions, these COM
mon stock management groups have, in effect.
been confScating senior security values. The
trouble is chiefly that the holders of common
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
MINT JULEP Colonies

nov. RUBY LAFFOON of Kentucky has a
~ far-fung staff of cClonels. Wherever he
goes he can muster a bodyguard to help crush
the ice and press the miht.
Indeed, the Governor has passed out so
many commissions he is frequently embar-
raised by unexpected encounters with members
of his staff whose names he can not recall
There are other disadvantages AS the
faithful turn toward Mecca, these alien
colonies migrate to their adopted state oh
Derby Day to see the races and be enter
tanned by their Communicating
So it is not surprising that the Governor
at last has decided to institute a system of
merit appointments. Hereafter the Governor
will weed out those who are merely anxious
for epauets and choose only those who are
worthy
It is not unlikely that this house cleaning
project originated with the Governors wife
In any case it is she who announced the
Governors decision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
ANOTHER ANGLE OF
AGE PENSION ISSUE.
BY a Reader

By a Reader.
While the subject Of old-age pen
sion is being discussed pro and con-
I should like to tell what the effect
on me would be, provided it finally
is raised to a figure that will provide
those it is intended for decent liv-
ing.
In all respect to my aged parents,
this act will free me from almost a
life of sacrifice to them, as can not
keep them going and home for
myself, too. No one, only those who
are experiencing these things, can
ever know the sacrifice thousands
are making to provide for their par
ents. Are we not entitled to a home
and children and peace?
They may talk about the old folk
not needing so much. Perhaps the
Townsend plan, with it's 5000 a
month, is extreme for the period we
now are living in, but $50 a month
is extreme in the other direction, as
it would provide very little in re-
lieving them or their offspring Why
not add $40 TO the proposed Wagner
bill pension and take 500 off the
Townsend plan and give them 500
a month, which would enable them
to be entirely self-supporting
If they carried out Townsend
idea Of having to spend every cent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
ALONG BUSINESS LINES

CONGRESSIONAL opposition to giving
- Secretary Ickes controlling voice in
supervision of the proposed S480OOOO,OOO work
relief fund is not altogether of a type which
does much credit to Congress.
1t can be granted that Secretary Ickes has
enough to Go without taking on any more
new jobs, that he is occasionally a bit dicta-
torial and that expenditure of earlier public
works funds under his direction proceeded
much more slowly than had been expected.
But the Congressmens chief objection to
him seems to be that he insists that pro-
gram of this kind shall be strictly business
like He frownS on pork
He demands that Uncle Sam get 100 cents
worth of value for every dollar spent. He will
not appoint men to jobs Just because they
know Such-and-Such a Congressman.
Opposition based on such reasons hardly
conlmends itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
STILL LONGING TO RULE

EUROPEAN affairs these days are somber
- and discuraging enough, heaven knows;
but every now and then the needed comic
touch is supplied by one or the other of the
pfetenderS to the various unoccuped thrones.
The latest affair of this kind comes from
Prince Napoleon, who 4eeIs that by rights he
SHOULD be emperor of the French. This a.
year-olds descendant of the great Bonaparte
Ii!es safely in Switzerland, and most French
men are not aware of his existence; but he
h9s just issued a manifesto asking my peo-
pie to accept another Napoleonic regime and
h, has drawn up an elaborate program for the
Authoritarian democracy" which would result.
France has another pretender, incidentally
"a descendant of the Bourbons. Every Euro
ptan country which used to have king and
HIS none now has its pretenders
Most of them are taken seriously by no one
btt themselves; but their own extreme seri-
otsneSs is great enough to make up for this
neglect-and, incidentally, to be pretty funny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
REFRESHING DISGUST

ONCE in a while man Will decide, sud-
~ denly and unexpectedly, that he is just
naturally fed up with things.
When he does so, he is more than likely
to Go something very queer; but the very
queerness of his action sometimes makes it
rather refreshing to the pnocent bystander.
a sample is the case of the Washington
street car motorman who came abruptly to
the decision that he didn't like his work. He
reached this decision while plotting his car
through crowded traffic along a main street;
but having reached it he never hesitated.
He simply turned to his passengers, said,
TO hell with this job" got OF the car and
walked away, leaving street car and riders
to get home as best they could
This would be an odd sort of world if men
generally used that method of giving up
distasteful job
But there is, nevertheless, something humor-
ously appealing about this little story. 1t gives
the imagination something to play with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
FRIDAY FEBRUARY J. 1885
THE AVIATION MESSAGE
a sCRIPPs-HOwARD NEWSPAPER

Tor more than year our government has
i had no aviation program. Uncertainty as
TO future policies has hndered development
IN the arplane manufacturing and transport
industries. and has made the Army and Navy
hesitant TO 90 ahead with air defense plans.
This staiemate can be broken within the
next few months if Congress grapples with the
problems which President Roosevelt submit
ted yesterday when he forwarded the Federal
Aviation Commissions report. Then We may
again move forward toward the many po-
tental benefits Of air travel, transportation
communication and defense
The commission has made good use Of the
months that have elapsed since the last Con-
gress adjourned It has canvassed almost
every conceivable problem Of the present and
future ard has made definite recommends
tions. All Of its proposals may not be wise,
but an deserve consideration by Congress
The commission proposed creation of
separate air commerce commission. President
Rooscvolt's more objective viewpoint led him
to disagree with this proposal and say that
air commerce should be considered along with
interstate railroad highway and waterway
transportation. He would give aviation con-
trol-wsely we beheve-to the Interstate
Commerce Commission or its successor.
But with most Of the commissions many
Constructive proposals. the President agrees.
The immediate necessity of untangling the
airmaI is generally conceded. The ICC, after
an unbiased study of the finances of the air
lines carrying mail. has declared that revi-
sion of rates is imperative to save many of
the companies from bankrutcy. But adequate
safeguards are suggested to prevent a recur-
renee of the conditions which prevailed until
the Senate committee discovered that some
holding companies and spectators had been
bleeding operating companies.
After permanent government machinery
has been established, the commission says,
mail contracts should be let on a business
basis. the Postoffice Department paying out
only the amount that it receives from airmail
service. Then supplemental subsidies may be
granted to weaker companies if necessary.
This would be much more honest and eff
Gent that the old method of Jumping sub
sides into the Postofflce Departments deficit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
CALL FOR UNITED ACTION

IT. is to be hoped that President Roosevelt's
letter to the As state governors urging i'm
mediate action to reduce automobile fatalities
Wilt be productive of concrete results.
1t should not be necessary to say anything
further about the extreme urgency of the prob
lem. We are killing people with our autos at
the rate of $4,000 year-a record appalling
beyond words.
Something drastic needs to be done, and
concerted action by the states is about the
only possibility.
AS the president points out, proposals for
uniform state legislation have been worked
out by safety experts in cooperation with
state officials.
There is pretty general agreement as to
advisability of certain measures. The states
should act, and act promptly Here is re-
form which needs immediate attention
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01

BY II. Z. a,
In your editorial regarding MAT
thew VOLS letter you put forth a
statement which is rather sutpris-
ing. The editorial stated: Make
it possible for our people IL buy
what they would buy if they haI
the morley, and the chickeh-in-
every-pot dream could come true,
easily, ald poverty could be abol-
jShed from the land. But the COM
Pination has not been found"
AS a matter of fact the combi-
nation has been found. A news
paper, depending upon advertise
ments paid for by the followers of
a doomed economic system, may
have difficulties in admitting it,
but nevertheless, the combination
has been found.
The answer is collective owner
ship of industry and natural re-
sources. That remains the tonly
way in which it is mathematically
possible to balance production
and consumption.
Not only has that combination
been found in theory, but a def
mite plan has been worked out re-
garding how to go about it in
practice.
The Commonwealth Plan" is
the name of a booklet, written by
Paul Porter. Anybody who is in
terested in knowing how to es-
tablish the cooperative common
wealth, with its yearly income of
$4,000 for every fam ly and in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
DICTATORSHIP AND LIBERTY

NTHETHER it stirs you TO laughter tears.
w or acute boredom. Huey Longs recent
clash with the Square Dealers" of Baton
Rouge was an excellent sman-scale model of
the typical European blood purge.
About all that it lacked was blood. OF that
luckily. there was only trace. One citizen
was wounded by buckshot, and another was
badly mauled by citizens who suspected him
OF being a spy. The rest suffered injuries to
nothing but their senSibilities.
But the affair was sign and portent
nevertheless. Senator Long seems to be the
American model of the twentieth century die
tator, and this shindig was the sort of thing
that happens where relationships flourish.
Note the parallels. We had first Of all, il
oignant citizens who felt that they could not
accomplish anything at the polls and who
therefore armed and drilled in preparation for
fighting. Next we had the Senator orderiag
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
PICTURES FUTURE AS
MANOR HOUSE ERA

BY B. NJ. G.
When a man falls down the only
way to help him up is to knock him
down again. Does that make sense?
Neither do the various elaborate ex-
plantations of economic security and
how to arrive at same.
In the last two years, with plans
enthusiastically continuing. with just
the same promise for success in
keeping the balloon of prosperity
blown up, as long as the cheeks are
pulled out with the peoples money
loaned for made work charity pro-
grams-what permanency was or IS
to be accomplished?
Cant he stand up? Well, knock
him down again. We must help
the poor fellow to stand up. My
good man, don't struggle so, don't
you see we are trying to help you?"
"A little learning is a dangerous
thing" So, as an economist, I am
probably very dangerous. 1 only
read TO page 3. where it said black
is black and white is white. These
master economists, dictators, inter-
national missionaries, etc, as soon
as the votes. are counted and they
have been Faccinated against the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01

fore us why do the women folk in
sist that we he men" shave every
day in.order to simply please them?
1 am tired of shaving and also
about 95 per cent of all the men
are tired of it, too. Then, that fact
being admitted, why, shouldn't we
all rebel and appear just as nature
intended us to look?
John w. Kern, our mayors father
had a beard Gen. John A. Logan
had a beard. Visit University Square
and look at Benjamin Harrison and
see if you can discern the hirsute
appendage that adorned the lower
part of his pnysiognomy. Charles
Dickens, the author of David Cop
perfield," had Whiskers.
Half of the tillers of the soil never
shave and they are happy. Let us
men arise in our might and ignore
the female sex, if we have TO shave
in order to curry favor with them.
I would like to hear from the
women regarding this.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-01
POSTOFFICE SCANDALS

T LEGISLATION ito end scandals in the
~ Postofhce Department" is being consid-
cred by the House Postoffce Committee.
Proposals have been made to reform pur-
chasing methods to give the Controller
Central powers TO review contracts, to con-
strult or buy outright quarters for postal sub
STATE cons and garages-thereby eliminating
costly leases which reached scandalous proper
tionl in the late Republican Administration
Meanwhile, the phiatelic scandal, which has
so outraged stamp collectors, is headed for a
committee pigeon-hol Democratic Congress-
men, accustomed to berating Postmaster Gen.
eral Farley for his failure to provide more po-
litical jobs, apparently are not concerned over
Mr.. Farleys distribution of rare stamps on a
basis Of friendship. Resentment over this may
not spread far outside the ranks of collectors.
Eut there is another Postoffice Depart
merit scandal of acute interest to all taxpay-
ers' 1t is the active, continuing scandal OF
having part-time Postmaster General draw
ing lfull-time pay, dividing his allegiance be-
tween the pubic interest and the Democratic
partys political welfare.
Mr. Farley may have the qualifications to
be either a good Postmaster General or good
parry chairman but no man can handle both
jobs well at the same time Necessarily Mr..
Farley frequently has to choose between serv-
ingl the party which gave him his job or the
Taxpayer who foots the bill.
This scandal should be pulled out of vari-
Gus pigeon-holes, including the one at the
White House.