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Evening star., 1935-09-07
Defense Highway Needs
Effective Police Patrol

To the Editor Of The Star:
b I have been reading your paper and
realize 1t Is time for some one who really
lives on the Defense Highway to speak.
AS the wife Of the rector Of Holy
Trinity Church, at which curve SO many
accidents have happened, beg to be
allowed to say that fast and reckless
driving ON the part Of one of the par
ties and ofttimes both, Is absolutely the
full cause of all the accidents.
The road is In need Of repair, but
this is not the thing Of the moment.
Police patrol or the help Of the police
Is what is needed at once.
To widen and straighten the Defense
Highway will make q speedway of the
road and even more accidents will oc-
cur. My husband and I have Travelled
this road for over four years and seen
many accidents, and with only the in
terest Of our clean people at heart beg
to say stop the fast driving first, i'm
prove the road later. This can be done
by halting the traffic at so-called dam
gerouS curves.
One only has to look at the front page
Of your Maryland news to realize so
many accidents are happening, and they
are not all on the Defense Highway
either. However, my opinion is that
Of course the road must be kept in
repair, but careful driving is the thing
Of the moment to be insisted upon
invite any one to come and sit on
Holy Trinity Rectory porch for per-
haps only a short time to realize that
the people who travel this road drive
entirely too fast for safety. This mes
sage comes from one who has only the
interest Of the people at heart so far as
the numerous accidents are. concerned.
EDITH @. COOK.
Evening star., 1935-09-07
Misused Members.

From the Grand Rapids tMich.) Press
A number Of those who are getting a
hand these days should be getting q
foot.
Evening star., 1935-09-07
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication OF all news oiSpsVcmhes m
credited to it or not otherwise credited in TINS
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication of special dispatches
herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1935-09-07
Social Snubbery!

Social Snubbery!
Diplomacy in distant lands
Was so polite, the world believes,
That men who smiled while shaking hands
Might still have daggers in their sleeves.
Diplomacy now lets men balk
When one denies and one afirms,
And common sense refuse to talk
Because they're not on speaking terms!
Chicken Lore.
"What has become of the old Blue
Eagle?"
1T is still in business" said Farmer
Corntossel.
what business?"
Sitting on the old nest trying to
hatch q china egg"
Evening star., 1935-09-07

t.ut epCCu
To the Editor OF The Star:
1t seems waste OF ink to keep writ
ing all over the land about automobile
accidents and casualties. Soon it will
be $4,000 year slain and more thou
sands manned. 1t is only checking the
speed mania that will do any good-the
public is speed crazed. There is no
need of such speed-most of it is for
pleasure and meaningless. I doubt
whether any car should be allowed to go
faster than IS miles per hour in the
country and over 20 miles In urban
communities. That would stop the
deaths and injuries. If something of
this kind is not done we should do
away with the automobile-abolish it.
prohibit tit is too great an implement
of death.
All other expedientS to avoid casual
ties will prove merely palliatives and
amelioratives. At high speed if there is
blowout you are gone. At such speed
you cannot stop to avoid accidents.
People will and must walk on the high
ways and are being killed by the
SpeedSters. Half the people haven't
sense enough to drive an automobile
decently. and as long as you have young
people coming on We will have these
daring and senseleSs drivers. I see alb
solutely no way to stop the slaughter
except by cutting down the speed and
keeping it so all over the country. If
that is not fast enough, get on the train
or in an airplane. Widening and
Strengthening the roads make matters
worse If had my way 1 would make
it a criminal offense to drive anywhere
In the United States faster than the
speeds here indicated.
nc. MIDDLETON.
Evening star., 1935-09-07
Speeders Scored.


To the Editor of The Star:
In defense of the articles being printed
regarding the Defense (death Highway
it is my opinion that the real cause and
remedy would be protecting the highway
by having patrolmen patrol the road
and stop reckless driving.
The road is wide enough for three
cars, and I have travelled that road my
self in the past six years at least once
or twice a week. do not drive over
40 miles an hour, but going at 40 other
cars pass that make me look like am
standing still. speeding at the rate Of
so miles or over. On one occasion / was
passed by a car which was travelling
close to 60 miles an hour, and before
reaching Washington that particular
car was wrecked.
II instead of spending the money to
widen and improve the road you would
station six or seven patrolmen to arrest
reckless drivers, that would be the solu-
tion of avoiding further accidents on
the Defense Highway. After series Of
arrests speeding and recklesSness would
soon be stopped and all accidents pre-
vented.
If you are spending money to widen
highways the Crane Highway. from the
Pigeon House to Glenburnie-which is
narrow and dangerous now-needs the
improvement far more than the Defense
Highway. j. A. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1935-09-07

Rate by MaiI-Payable in Advance.
Marxland and Xirrinia.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

listed among the disbursements
he had made the small item of
$50 gallons Of rare old North
Carolina "cawn."
The announcement was her.
aided all over the dry State.
Later, that same gentleman,
asked to run for the legisla-
ture, was skeptical. He said
that the publicity on his
"cGwn" Mould prevent his elec.
tion.
It didn't.
He was elected by a tremen.
douS majority.
Down in the Virgin Islands
they are preparing for a con.
greSSionGl Investigation of the
regime of GoU. Paul M. Pear
son.
The opposition to the Repub-
lican hold-over governor is con.
fident that it can show reasons
why he should be removed.
His supporters, however, ap-
pear on the surface to be equal.
1y confident.
They say:
"At this time when the rab-
BILE cries, Cruelty him. we
know it is futile to ask for pa
tience and an Open-minded atti-
tude."
Perhaps by the "rabble" they
mean the some 1000 persons
who in a plebiscite voted to GUST
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
More Relief Per Dollar

Whatever happens to the four billion eight hundred and
eighty million dollar works-reief BILL the Senate deserves
credit for eliminating the vicious and dangerous prevailing
wage rate" from the measure.
The Hearst newspapers opposed the prevailing wage rate
when originally written into the bill by Senators McCar
ran, Long and Wagner and their following
That rate would have made it impossible to employ
than small percentage of the obless public works
would have put the Government into direct competition
with private industry.
And of ALL it would have built up standing army
Government employees who would be content to remain
Government payroll the of their lives instead of seeking
work elsewhere.
The nationwide protest against this absurd and selfish
scheme effective
The Senate abandoned it in spite of Mr. McCarran and the
Kingfish.
New Yorks Senator Wagner note with interest changed
his mind and deserted his two parner-apparenty having
learned the lesson that is better to be correct than consistent
And that true of several others who reversed their votes
The Senate would have been entitled respect it
had from the beginning refused to bow down to the lobby
which demanded the prevailing rate
But by its later action it has at least shown that realizes
the force Of public sentiment and the danger defyng it.
Its second thought wiser than its first though
may have been due to fright rather than conviction
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

Pearson, while only 165 asked
that he be retained.
With national interest in
creasing in the Navy, there is
only one man in the House ap-
preparations subcommittee con.
sidering the Navy's supply bill
who is attempting to block ef-
forts to increase the sea service.
He is Representative William
r. Thorn, Democrat of Canton,
Ohio, where they don't need bat
tleships.
In committee meetings he is
reported to be offering various
objections to the 488-million-
dollar bill.
Many of the members are
anxious to develop the naval re.
serve.
They say that with adequate
training a reserve complement
could be developed that would
be ready for action on a mo-
ment'S notice and yet would not
cost as much as the mainte-
nance of an actual regular
force.
Others, however, contend that
the men should be recruited and
given continuous service.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Just Another Job

That self-consttuted Dtrct of Columbia Recreation
Commission the latest appendage to the multiplicity Of
agencies which tell Washngonans how and where they shall
play, is still trying to justify its existence
Apparently the confusion which followed the order to abo
sh the municipal swimming pools the Washington Monu
and which officials said the first of the
commission hasn't helped the four gentlemen comprising the
body establish themselves in favorable public opinion
stated by of the members of the commission
that "the decisions of the commission will not be binding
legally the three affected Government agencies
Well if the Commission can't do anything that the
agencies couldn't do individually why do have the com
mission?
There may clue to the existence of this commission
in the fact that is looking for superintendent"
ordinator
purposes pay this employe good salary and is cour
ing the country to find the best available. District
man. of course wouldn't do He might know something about
the play situation.
But the commission will undoubtedly have justified itself
when it creates this new job at good salary.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
In the World of Science
By Hiram Perez Maxim

chatted back and forth for As
minutes. Then he said "73"
ON Hope QSO agn GN'' and
signed off. The "73" meant
BEST regards" The "OM"
meant "Old Man" The Hope
QSO agn" meant Hope to
communicate with you again"
The "GN" was Good night"
What was it that left my wire
in Hartford and was picked up
on that distant wire in Rio
Bamba? On the face of things
it seemed unbelievable that my
apparatus could send out energy
enough to reach away down
there and induce in his wire
detachable amount of electric
ity.
The total energy used wes
only enough to light a 60-watt
light bulb, and it had radlated
in every direc tion. What
reached that little wire 5000
miles away must have been in
finitesimal indeed.
THRILLING HOBBY
It struck me as a particularly
impressive example of what
science has accomplished. BY
sending an electric current
back and forth on my wire 1
had made it radiate a form of
light" energy. The only diff
ference between the light" I
radiated and visible light was
in the number of waves per
second, which was smaller.
My South American friend
and I had each sent out about
eight million waves per second,
whereas the lowest visible light
is so million times as many
waves per second. Both lights"
travel enormous distances, the
visible variety coming from
stars so far away as to require
millions of years to reach earth.
The telescope and the photo
graphic plate receive the feeble
light from remote places in
space. An oscillating electrical
circuit receives the radio waves,
using them to trigger off local
energy for making an audible
sound in a telephone receiver.
Instead of reaching our brain
through the medium Of our
eyes. the radio wave is made to
reach us through our ears.
AS my pipe finally went out,
I thought about the human
phase of the situation. I had
just finished a chat with o
kindred spirit 5000 miles away.
He was a man of another race.
I had never been in his country
nor he in mine.
He had made a friend in
Hartford, North America, and
I had made one in Rio Bamba,
South America. Such is Anna
teur Radio, the most thrilling
and civilizing of hobbies.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday. The subject of the next
will be "WiSdOm Is Relative"
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

French submarine "Casabianca"
at Saint-Nazaire, which only
goes to show how those things
work out.
This 1885 Casabianca, how.
ever, is the last remaining
member of the family, whereas
there are two Hemans listed in
the Minneapolis telephone di-
rectory alone.
A lot of people claim that
it does no good to cram one
head with facts, but l hope
that this little essay has
proved that facts may be very
fascinating things if properly
assembled.
I am holding out one or
two facts (for example, that
Mrs. Hemans was the origi-
nal "Egeria" in Maria Jane
Jewsbury's Three Histories~,
because I didn't want to make
this too rich a mixture
I will say however. that the
French poets, Lebrun and
Chenier, both wrote poems
about the boy Casabianca
neither of which I know.
AS soon as I find out some
thing about Lebrun and
Chenier I will tip you off.
Copyright. 1898, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

} ber of these is to be reduced
and the overburdened taxpayers
will get no relief until they
compel their legislators to order
this reduction.
To be effective consolidation
must be of two kinds. There
must be geographical consolida.
ton that will erase administra.
tive boundaries no longer
needed. There must also be
functional consolidation that
will eliminate the duplicating
of administrative and taxing
areas. Only in this way can
the duplicating functions of
these local units be done away
with and independent taxing
authorities placed under one
general local taxing power.
Every State legislature in the
country should be constantly
striving for consolidation of
governmental units.
The New England States
have the greatest number OF
persons per unit of local Gov.
ernment today-3,195. In the
South Atlantic States the aver
age population per unit of local
government is 1884. In the
Middle States it is 1859. In
the Pacific group there are
800 persons per unit of local
government. In the South Cen.
trail States, ITO. In the East
North Central group, SGT. In
the Mountain States there are
424 persons per governing unit.
And in the West North Cen.
tral group the number of per-
sons per local unit of govern.
ment is only 228.
A glance at the map of the
United States divided into these
groups will show that consolida-
tion of local units of govern.
ment is most urgently needed
Il Sch States as South Dakota,
with only 139 inhabitants per
unit of local government: in
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
North Dakota, Montana, Wyo-
ming, Idaho, Colorado. Nevada,
Arizona, New Mexico, Iowa, Ne.
braS'-a, Kansas and Utah.
A PLAGUE
In England and Wales today
are approximately 17,700 persons
per unit of local government.
In the United States there are
only about 665 persons per unit
of local government.
But there will be no consoli.
dation. either geographical or
functional, in the United States
if the people wait for the poll
ticianS to do the consolidating.
To bring about this reform
State legislatures must be elected
specifically pledged to reduce
the tax burden of the people
by modernizing the obsolete
system of local and county gov.
eminent which has come from
the days of the OK cart and is
a plague upon the people in the
age of the automobile and the
airplane.
(CopyriEht, 1885, The Washinston Timea,
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Reduce Tax Burden
By James T. Williams, T.

Thousands upon thousands of
home owners, north, south, east
and west have been compelled
to mortgage their property to
the Federal Government, since
the depression set in, in order
to satisfy the demands of tax
collectors within their respec-
tive States.
Many loans extended by the
Federal Government to farmers
and other home-owners have
been for the purpose of saving
their property from being sold
to pay county taxes.
Meantime the units of gov
ernment appear to be multiply.
ing all over the United States.
During 1930-1933 there were
194,632 units of government in
this country. These were thus
divided:
The Nation, /; the States.
4S; counties lin 46 StateS) and
parishes lin one State), 1862;
incorporated places (cities, viii
lagos, ETC., and the District of
Columbia, 1861; towns and
townships in % States, 19,769;
school districts, 128,661; other
units, 22,43O.
In the same period covered
by these returns from the Cen.
Sus Bureau 182,439 of these
units of government were local.
Local government units include
counties, incorporated places,
towns nd townships, school
districts. and other units.
NEED CONSOLIDATION
Some States suffer more than
others from the evils arising
from an excessive number of
governmental units. For example,
the people of Illinois are com.
PEELED by their politicians to
maintain 16,341 units of local
government. Iowa staggers under
the burden of 11,421 units of
local government. Local govern
ments in Missouri total 11,208.
Kansas is saddled with 1903;
New York with 10,667; Mime
sofa with 10,548; Wisconsin with
1854; Michigan with 1892;
Texas with 8.742; Nebraska with
8,606; Oklahoma with 6,352;
Mississippi with 6,264.
Nevada has one government
unit per 230 population, as COM
pared to the State of New York's
1900 per governing unit.
An excellent example of con-
solidation is afforde by the Dis
trict of Columbia. It is an in.
corporated place having 487,OOO
population per single unit of
government according to the last
census. It is one of the best
governed cities in the United
States.
It's inhabitants are not called
upon to support counties, towns,
townships, school districts or
other units of local taxing gov
ernment.
There must be consolidation
of Governmental l..1its in every
State in the Union if the mum.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

did class standing, athletic rec
ords, or campus activities. Males
were males, and females were
females, and romance was ro-
nance, forever n amen. And
the love column that thrilled
grandma would thrill grand
daughter just as much.
PASSING 1T ON
So there the con ference
stalled. And now I'm passing
it on to you. What's YOUR
opinion? Suppose You were
editing a 1885 newspaper-how
would YOU talk to the Modern
Girl about love?
And how about your male
readers? What sort of girl
or love affair-do you think
would interest them? A Regu-
lar Pal? Or a Sugar Baby?
Do we really want your opin-
ion? We do! Let's have it.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate Incl
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

the modern girl?
There were six of us asking
these questions over a news"
paper conference table. Discuss
ing "love columns and how
they should be written in 1885.
Whats there to discuss?"
said the older men. Love is
the same-1835 or 1885. And
nothing will ever change it. Life
is fixed by nature and has moth
ing to do with economics. The
modern girl feels about her Boy
Friend exactly as Eve felt about
ADAM"
But the young woman editor
wouldn't agree. Love DID
change" said she. It was-like
every other institution - the
product of the times.
NO CHOICE
Women aren't naturally
clinging vines" she protested.
"Our grandmothers lived like
that because they had no
choice. There were no jobs for
women-outside of marriage
in their world. AS a conse-
quence, they were economically
dependent on men. That's the
basis of all that old.fashioned
romantic nonsense. But women
were never intended to be such
SpineleSs nit-wits.
Il remember a disgusting
song my father used to sing"
she snorted. Something about
Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt-who
wept with delight when you
gave her smile and trembled
with tears at your frown.'
And THAT was called love!
But it wasn't love at all. 1t was
either a feeble mind or a flat
purse. No self-respecting woman
would ever have felt like that
about a man if she had any de-
cent breaks. And any modern
girl will give you the ha-ha If
you try to sell her THAT kind
of romance.
Can you imagine a modern
girl weeping with delight be-
cause a young man gives her a
smile, when she's beaten all his
class and athletic records since
they were both IN kindergarten.
and is probably earning twice
as much as he is in an office.
She may love him just as much
as her grandmother loved her
grandfather, but it's not in the
same way. She loves him as an
equal, a companion, not as a
'clinging vine'."
But this the four males would
not admit. Money, they insisted,
had nothing to do with it. Nor
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Literary Notes
BY Robert BenchLeu

This being the centenary of
the death of Mrs. Felicia He.
mans, perhaps we ought to give
a thought to the boy Who
Stood on the Burning Deck"
and possibly. if time remains, to
the Breaking Waves Which
Dashed High" Those who do
not wish to join in this sport
will find falcons and shuttle.
cocks in the Great Hall. Ask
Enoch to give them to you.
Everyone knows how Mrs.
Heman's famous poem begins:
The boy stood on the burn"
ing deck,
Whence all but him had fled;
And this was odd, because it
was
The middle of the night.
The question is: How does it
go from there? Darned if I
know.
How typical this slipshod
knowledge of great literary
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Visibility Zero

Great experts aviation abound in Washington
The Armys ace pilots here. The Navy has its usual
superb representation Commercial companies represented
by their advisors The civilian branches of the Govern
en concerned with aviation have their headquarters and
their experts here.
And still there isn't enough aviation talent in the National
Capital decide upon site for decent airport and put be-
hind the decision THE ACTIVITY AND DETERMINATION
necessary to establish the port.
Despite universal condemnation of existing facilities by
pilots plane passengers still inviting the pilots to
endanger their passengers and themselves by landing at
port which is disgracefully hazardous
Neither the Federal Government the local government
the aviation themselves take any pride in the
present airport situation.
But all of them will share in the blame when DISASTER
overtakes plane tries to negotiate the difficult land
ing which obligatory every plane reaching the city
Many years ago joint Congressional commission was
created to solve this problem It held lengthy hearings and
submitted recommendations.
But you can't land plane committees recommends
tons.
Early in this session House committee held hearings the
airport situation It hasn yet submitted its recommendations
When they submitted there that they
will acted upon the present session of Congress.
And that that for years and years to pilots
coming into Washington will still be looking for landing
field and excaimng:
"Where is it?"
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

From time
to time many
opinions have
been given as
to "the most
silent men"
in the Sen
ate.
At the pres
ent tim e ,
h o W ev e r,
there is no
doubt con.
corning the
reticent ones.
They al
the Senators
from Ohio.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

h o m e made
ra 10 trans
mitter and a
h o m e made
receiver con-
meet to this
wire. In Rio
Bamba, Ecua-
dor, S ou t h
America, an.
other lit tt e
w re un S
from a win.
dow to a tree.
A homemade
radio trans
mitter and a
hnn m n-ma6n
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

Can love be
t h e S a m e
W h e n tn e
head Of the
house" is the
W if e W h o
draws the pay
check?
w a S o r
W a S n t "rO-
mantle love"
b a S e d on a
C O n d j ton
W h i ch has
ceased to eX-
ist and which
is incompre-
h e n S ible to
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John Snure, Jr.

Representative Anton ]. Sa.
bath, Democrat, of Illinois,
wants to make it mandatory for
all lobbyists around Washington
to list themselves publicly.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

They would
be forced, ac-
cording to his
plan. to make
public their
C o INJECTIONS,
their fees and
m o n ey eX-
pended.
North Caro-
lima had a
similar law.
One ener.
getic gentle
man who lob
bied around
the legisla-
f11rn n q - a