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Evening star., 1935-05-11
CITIZENS FAVOR
ARMORY FUNDING
P. W. A. Source Urged to
Include D. c. in Its
Building Plans.

In response to a letter from the Dis
trict National Guard, a motion was
passed by the Friendship Citizens As
sociation last night favoring the use
of P. w. A. funds for construction of
a National Guard Arnory in Washing
ten.
The letter stated that public works
money had been set aside for armories
in other cities, but that as yet no pro-
vision had been made for one here
Samuel J. F1ickinger, president Of the
association, pointed out that the Ma
tional Guard now used the old Ma
tional Hotel as an armory. but that
building did not fully meet require
ments. Letters were ordered sent to
President Roosevelt and Secretary Of
War Dern informing them Of the asso-
cations action
w. A. Driggers of the Kenilworth
Citizens Association spoke before the
association, asking that it support the
action favoring the old Benning race
track as site for municipal airport.
He stated that if the Gravelly Point
site were selected for the airport money
spent there would benefit Virginia resi-
dents He contended that If District
money was to be spent for an airport
it should be spent within the bound
aries of the District so that the invest
ment would bring some return. A res
olution was passed indorsing the ac-
ton of the Kenilworth Association.
In another resolution passed an ap-
preparation was asked to reduce the
deficit in the Children's Hospital
budget.
A motion was introduced by James
]. Calvin asking that the name of
Tenley Circle be changed to Friend
ship Circle. He pointed out that the
community was no longer known as
Tenleytown, but was now called
Friendship Heights. The motion was
passed.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
MAN SUICIDE WITH GAS

Norman Raymond, g., real estate
salesman, committed suicide late yes
terday with gas in his apartment in
the 1900 block of r street.
His body was found in the kitchen
by his wife, Mrs. Fannie Raymond.
All burners on the stove were open.
Members of the Fire Rescue Squad
worked for nearly an hour in an
effort to revive him. Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald issued certificate
of suicide.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
GASQUE IMPROVING

The condition of Representative
Gasque, Democrat, of South Carolina,
was reported by his wife today as
''much better" Gasque has been con-
fined at his home in the George Wash
ington Inn since last Saturday when
he was stricken with an attack of
acute indigestion and ptomaine poison
ing. doctors said.
The Representative suffered Sec
ond severe setback Wednesday and his
condition was termed critical Thurs
day. He improved steadily throughout
yesterday, however, and his complete
recovery Is expected.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Fall Proves Fatal.

Landon Lowry, AZ, colored, 1900
block of @ street, died yesterday in
Georgetown Hospital from a head in
jury suffered in a fall from a truck
in the 1900 block of Conduit road.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
GETTING AT THE CAUSE.

A IL studious Sunday school
n children are familiar with the
~ story of King Herod and his
4 \ attempts to destroy the Christ
Child through the murder Of
all male babies in his kingdom.
Well, that was the subject Of dis
cussion recently at the Faith Luth-
eran Evangelical Church in Ashton
Heights, Va. Miss Beth Turner, the
teacher, had just finished telling the
Evening star., 1935-05-11
w Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.

come to their hands, stay only long
enough to be countersigned, and then
are passed on to the butcher, the
baker and the landlord.
Now connected with the American
Federation of Government Employees,
Stengls has been active in support
of the agitation for rent control
bill for the District. The landlords,
he complains, jumped the rents as
soon as Government pay was restored
to its pre-cut level and the employees
benefited not at all.
MAN OF MANY JOBS.
DAvID LYNN, architect Of the
- Capitol. a member OF the Dis
trict zoring Commission.
member of the Commission on En-
larging the Capitol Grounds, and on
the commission to acquire the site
for the addition to the Library OF
Congress, member of the United
States Supreme Court Building Com
mission, and acting director Of the
United Stat Botanic Garden. has
also a ew other jobs which don't
sound so high and mighty.
He also is in charge Of various
shops located in the basement OF the
Capitol. where almost any kind Of re-
pair and upkeep work is done-a
paint shop, metal-workers' shop, car
penter shop, machine shop, electrical
shop, plumbers shop, upholstery and
furniture shop-and a mighty big
storeroom with all manner Of supplies
for the domestic care Of the Capitol.
QUICK RECOVERY.
"rN CASE of emergency"
| Well, it was like this. A col
ored man collapsed in the dock
of Police Judge Isaac r. Hits court
the other day anu, following the usual
custom, the clerk was informed to
summon the matron to administer
first aid.
The call developed the fact that
the matron was out, so 1t was sug-
gested that the Police Court engineer
might well handle the situation. hav-
ing upon previous occasions demon
strated his ability. especially when
the prisoners were playing possum.
Alas, the engineer was out, too. and
something had to be done, or so
court officials thought, and they de-
cided to call the assistant engineer.
He was in, so was summoned to come
Immediately to Judge Hits court.
He arrived-carrying in his hands
a hammer and chisel.
Evening star., 1935-05-11

story when 9-year-old Deanie Gable
of Lyon Village interrupted:
Miss Turner" he said, that bad
king could have saved himself lot
Of trouble by killing the stork."
II y X y
BECOME, OFFICER!
IT'S a race between the law and
the press on accidents. fires. hold
ups, etc. A 'tip" sometimes gets
reporters on the scene first, but the
long legs of the police usually win.
And then newsmen are more than
likely greeted with Stay out of here,
you guys" when they arrive.
But the tables were turned when
q laundry in the 1400 block OF K
street was held up recently. Evidently
mistaking reporters for detectives, the
manager of the place had taken them
into his confidence and given out the
whole story when the robbery squad
finally wheezed up.
Believing them to be newspaper
men, the manager hastened to lock
the door. remarking as he did so:
Nothing for the papers, boys And
the reporters echoed as they slipped
out, Beat it, you mugs"
Evening star., 1935-05-11
OLD CHINESE CUSTOM. :.

7 a RE you certain that you will never
~ be victim of amnesia, aphasia
or kidnapping?
If not, you should get in line to
hand in your fingerprints to one Of
Attorney General Cummings bright
young men at the Department of JUS
tice. They have been waiting some
six months to get your imprint-and
in that time several thousand other
careful American citizens have sent
in theirs, to be put in the Federal
files for personal use" in Wash
1ngton.
Relatively few persons you meet
each day have ever been fingerprinted
and yet it was a well-developed
custom in China some 1900 years
ago-where wisdom that would shine
in these days lies buried under the
sands of centuries.
u X u u
JUST A CLEARING HOUSE"
roRMER REPREsEN AT1vE
II CHARLES I. STENGLE, who
now describes himself as an "es-
capped Congressman" thinks Govern
ment employees have become nothing
but animated clearing houses" ;"
Government checks, he explains,
Evening star., 1935-05-11

The prisoner took one look at the
tools and exclaimed: Look here, boss,
I'm all right. Get them things away
from here, please"
X X X
POWER ON CAPITOL HILL. '--
THE Capitol power plant has a
| capacity sufficient to furnish
heat, light and power for city
of 25O,O00 inhabitants. It consumes
an average of 1000 tons of coal a
month. -.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
LABOR STANDARDS

TN creating a new Division of Labor Stand
Il ards in her department Secretary OF
Labor Perkins moved the nation bit farther
in its slow march toward unified and de-
cent standard of living for the American
masses.
Too much, of course, can not be expected
of this new service. 1t is small end poorly
financed. But its purpose is valiant, and, even
circurlscribed as it is, it should prove useful
IN helping the states, organized labor, en-
ployers, social workers and other groups to
unite for better labor standards. The division
will make available to these groups all gov
eminent information on labor laws here and
abroad. safety standards, security measures
and other steps necessary to better the lot of
the workers. 1t will help draft laws. investi-
gate industrial "sore spots" and make itself
generally handmaiden to social reform.
There has long been need for such serv-
ice. The labor laws in the 48 states are a
hash Of good, bad and Indifferent statutes.
For instance, only "a states have ratified the
Child Labor Amendment. Only 10 states have
minimum wage laws for women. Only five
states have embodied into law adequate safety
codes for industries. While "A states have
workmen's compensation, most of their laws
are below the standards set by the more for
ward-looking commonwealth. The greatest
disparity exists in the regulation of hours and
the type of work for women and children.
Secretary Perkins last year aided in the
unifcation Of standards by calling several
regional conferences on labor laws. Now, by
setting up national service for this purpose
the government hopes further TO hasten the
creation of an American standard worthy the
name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
VITO MARCANTONIO

THERE will never be another like him"
Il many persons in Washington said sadly
when Fiorello La Guardia left Congress. For
years that gusty little gamecock, now New
York City's Mayor. had been an outstanding
champion of liberal causes in the House Of
Representatives. Few approached him in eff
fective leadership.
But haIAjly the voters of IIr. La Guardia's
old district seem to have upset the dire pro-
phecy. Their new Congressman, 32-year-old
Vito Marcantonio, in a few short weeks has
displayed qualities that seem to mark him as
a second La Guardia.
Twice within a week Mr.. Marcantonio
showed his mettle. First, when he led a bril-
liant but unsuccessful fight against compul-
sorry military training in colleges. Then he
blocked passage of the Dickstein alien depor-
tation bill.
The first was an issue Of goosestep educa-
ton and the second an issue of goosestep
political thought, both of which violate the
principles of human liberty upon which this
republic was founded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09

It rounded out solid century Of service; and
then, still SO stout that it couldn't break one
place sooner than another, it simply gave way
altogether died Of old age, as you might
say.
Now Oliver Wendell Holmes, doctor, essay
ist, and poet, managed to get pretty good
exposition Of the solid, substantial unyielding
old New England character into this poem,
and few Americans have ever exemplifed that
character as well as did this poets own son,
Justice Holmes.
What life the man had, when you stop
to think about it, Soldier and statesman. man
Of letters and jurist, rising to his greatest
heights at the age when most men are past
their best powers-he seemed to grow younger
with the years, to develop a resilient indie
structibility like that Of the one-hoss shay it
self
And his end, too, was in character. No
long. painful decline, no bed-ridden and hazy-
minded years for him; there simply wasn't
ANYTHING about him that could break down.
He came to the end of long and sur
passingly useful life, and, having taken little
leisure to glance back over it, he departed
from it, quietly, easily, and swiftly.
America has seen few lives quite as adj
nirable. as well-rounded, and self-suficient
and complete, as that Of Justice Holmes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
RAH. RAH COLLEGE BOY

THE Butler Collegian. student publication
= Of the Indianapolis university. has Just
announced the results OF a poll in which the
students named the greatest "bores in the
news"
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was bore No.
10 the Butler students. Second they listed the
Dionne quintuplets and third Huey P. Long.
But the odd part comes in that Is students
named Gov. Paul v. McNutt as their No
choice. and six others picked Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. Now Mr.. McNutt holds the post Of
Governor OF the sovereign state OF Indiana
Mr.. Roosevelt merely happens TO be the Presi-
dent Of the United States OF America.
An individuals viewpoint OF course, is his
own This is the United States and a person
can express whatever views he or she happens
10 have.
But when the students Of university actu-
ally place the President Of the nation as the
outstanding bore in the news" we think it
a sad commentary on the intelligence OF the
modern American collegian.
Perhaps that rah-rah spirit gained at bas-
ketban and football games has confused them
8 bit and maybe they think Mr.. Roosevelt is
the coach OF the basketball team at Wabash
College.
For their information Mr.. Roosevelt works
n Washington
Mr.. Vaughan is coach at Wabash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
HE'S SORRY HE CAN'T
BUY, BUT HE'S BROKE
By Paul E. Smith.

By Paul e. Smith.
AS a working man I wish to ex-
tend my sympathy to all businesses,
such as department stores, auto
manufacturers, coal yards, furniture
factories and hundreds of others.
The plain facts; I am broke. I
can not buy your products. Like my
self there are 100000 others, ac-
cording to statistics, and other mil
lions not registered would, let US
say, make 20,00O,00 customers broke.
Now 7 made fair wages at one time
-s13 a day. Needless to say, we
ate what we pleased, dressed accord
ingly and felt good toward the world.
Everything, the furniture, the refrig-
orator, the washing machine, the
carpet sweeper, and the coal in my
basement, was furnished by the
business man.
They have lost a good customer
by me, as in the 100000 others
now pauperized. All these customers
are indigents who you must support
with taxes. Here is the laugh, be-
cause you had an idea the working
class was beneath your notice you
had nothing in common with them,
you believe in rugged individuallsm,
you Joined the Chamber of Com
merce. the main function Of which
seems to % against khlpgs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
TOWNSEND PLAN OFFERS
SECURITY TO THOUSANDS

BY L. L. Hopkins.
I should like to answer j. Pierce
Cummings and Charles Barnett IN
these columns Feb. 81, in regard to
the Townsend Pension Plan.
The Townsend pension bill is now
before Congress introduced by Rep.
McGroarty of California, is known
as H. r. 1857. Section 8 of this act
provides for levy of 2 per cent on
the gross dollar value of each bust
ness, commercial and or financial
transaction done within the United
States. The President is empower
ed to, by executive order, increase
or decrease the 2 per cent by not
more than so per cent when in his
discretion he deems it advisable.
In other words, the President may
make it l Il per cent or 21a per cent
at his discretion. How this could
be multiplied to cost so per cent or
40 per cent as feared by Charles
Barnett is beyond me.
Nothing would be further from
my mind than to take away from
the person getting 500 month in
order to give any one a 5000 a
month pension. However, I would
not hesitate to take from that
person two or three times 2 per
cent to provide an annuity for such
person of 5000 a month on arrival
at age of so, nor do I think that any
sensible person would object to this.
The government is taking 31a per
cent from Federal employees in
order TO provide them with an an
nuity sufficient to enable them to
live above want in their old age
and those employees are not object
ing to it. To the contrary this is
one of the reasons why govern
ment jobs are so much in demand.
The Townsend plan is not primar-
lily a pension plan. It is a business
recovery plan coupled with a gen.
eral old-age annuity plan in which
we are all, old and young, vitality
interested because we would all
eventually participate in it. It is
the only plan now proposed which
promises any immediate results.
TO Mr.. Cummings would voice
the opinion that intimate associa-
ton with the United States Cham
Der of Commerce has seldom seemed
to be conducive to sympathetic
understanding of the problems of
the workers and small business men.
The advocates of the Townsend
plan are indeed fired with zeal for
the welfare of humanity, but they
have not lost sight of facts. In
deed they seem to be about the
only ones who are willing to take
cognizance of the cold, hard facts
that stare us in the face where
ever we look. The facts of terrible
and unnecessary suffering from
Egant and destitnzQn IN . land of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
WELL-ROUNDED LIFE

THERE is something very humanity and
l. touchingly apt about the fact that the
late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the
son OF the man who wrote the poem about
the wonderful one-hoSs shay.
II you remember that famous old poem.
you Will recall that Poet Holmes wrote OF
a New England deacon who swore that he
would build a shay that couldn't break
down. The ordinary shsy-or chaiSe II you
prefer always developed a weak spot,
sooner or later. The deacons was going TO
be different.
So he got the strongest oak obtainable
anywhere FOR spokes and floor and sills: the
straightest and toughest ashwood. the finest
elm, the best iron and steel for tires. springs.
and 50 on. And when he had built it the
old dee con allowed that here, as last, was a
shay without a weak spot.
And so II was The years rolled by. and
the shay rolled over the roads without a hitch
-neTeE q breakdown. neEsr . repair Finally
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
LABORATORY TESTED

COCIAL security would be nearer at hand
- if less attention we're being paid to fan
tastic plans for it, and more to MASSACHUSETTS
successful experiment along those lines.
one form of security his been sold over
the counter in Massachusetts, for % years, at
prices every wage Garner can afford to pay
The experiment is now self-supporting. 1t has
prospered through the depression. 1t has won
the confidence and approval Of employers as
well as workers.
The plan was devised and put into opera
ton by Louis D. Brandeis before he became
Justice Of the Supreme Court. 1t is very
simple. Mutual savings banks sell life in
surance, under state supervision. Because
they have no selling costs and no extra pro-
fits to make, they sell it at rates &c per cent
lower than ordinary insurance. They sell week.
" premium insurance at SO per cent less than
private companies. Policies are never de-
clared forfeit if six months premiums have
been paid. Annuities can be bought and are
being bought faster than ever before.
Twenty-three banks have $10O000000 in
policies outstanding. The Associated Indus
tries Of Massachusetts,, at first skeptical, has
given unqualified Endorsement and has even
hired its own field agent to explain the sys-
tenn to workers.
President Roosevelt has proposed annuity
sales through the Treasury as part of his So
cal security program. 1t is most practical
and desirable part, judging by results in Massa-
chusetts, and one that should be written into
law without fail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
saruRDhY- MARcH 3. lals.
PEPPERS PARADISE

A PPARENTLY the peppers are not going 70
II get their pink slip paradise after all.
on Monday, or soon after, the House Of Rep
resentatives is expected 70 vote repeal Of the
income tax law provision opening the pink
Sins To public gaze. Senate sentiment fo- re-
peal also is growing.
ANY normal man or woman hates
snooper. That. perhaps, is the chief explain
alton Of the sweeping upswing in public oppo-
sition to pandering TO tax curiosity seekers
Experience shows that this sort Of thing works
out to the profit o; the pepper and gossip
monger rather than of the taxpayer or the
government.
Take the pioneering case Of Wisconsin.
After seven years Of experience with state
tax publicity law, the Wisconsin tax commits
sion reported:
These expected results tof fewer incor-
rect returns and Of discovering much unre-
ported income) have not materialized in any
degree in the administration OF either the in
dividuaI or the corporation returns. There
have been no instances where public inspec-
ton has brought fourth nreported income
and as to its anticipated effect in producing
more correct income returns, experience has
shown that it has had the opposite effect
a survey shows that public examination
IS almost wholly without any public motive or
significance, but that advantage IS taken of
it to serve purely private ard personal inter-
ests. our filed returns are used by credit or
carnations. Returns are examined to
prepare lists or prospective purchases Of stocks
and bonds and for other soliciting and adver-
Using purposes. A common use of returns is
to secure information in negotiating for the
purchase Of business properties and very
frequent use is made OF them in delying into
the intimate concerns Of business competitors.
Income tax files are also frequently
used for information in court actions. and
many examinations are made out of curiosity,
and at times for the sole purpose Of annoying
and harassing reporting taxpayer"
The theory behind such publicity provi-
Sions. OF course. is that the average honest
citizen by looking at his neighbor's tax return
can find errors missed by the government and
also frighten the neighbor into being honest.
But. in practice. the average honest citizen has
neither the time nor the inclination to do this
prying job. II he did pry, he would not have
sufficient expert knowledge to check the mean
ing or accuracy OF the highly intricate returns
Of upper bracket taxpayers and corporations.
There is an added reason why the pink
slips are senseless. Unlike the Wisconsin law
they do not give publicity to facts. They dis
tori facts by giving incomplete and therefore
usually misleading information. The pink
slips list only five sets Of totals: Gross in
come. total deductions. net income. total
credits against net income. and tax payable.
Il is absolutely impossible to arrive at any
fair judgment morally. much less legally,
without detailed information of the deductions
and credits which is hidden by the pink slips.
We believe that Congress should and will
promptly get rid of the pink slips.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-09
SKATING
BY MARY z. WHITE

With you, and the lake,
And the great yellow moon
Behind fieecy white clouds
In my heart love tune.
On our skates smoothly gliding,
BY the nights eerie light
Down the silvery moon-path
Straight into the night.
On the face Of the moon
Like a silhouette small
Some lonely night bird
A feather fluff ball.
On the silvery lake
BY the moons soft light
We're gliding. yes gliding,
Adown a moon-path tonight.
Away from just living
To the land of your dreams
We're gliding-yes gliding
Down the golden moon beams
Our skates are the dream ships
That will carry us away
Away from reality
In tha dream worlds ia stxaA /