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Evening star., 1936-01-17
Live Stock for Liquor.

CLEVELAND [P)-In a petition for
divorce Mrs. Susan Hibler charges her
husband Andrew bartered the familys
live stock for liquor. Among the items
she asked the court to save by an in
junction. restraining her husband for
surrendering or encumbering them.
were: Five COWS, team Of mules. .
team of oxen. 20 ducks. 100 chickens,
bulls, II hogs and farm of 81 acres
near Huntsburg, Ohio"
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Congress Sin Brief
=
TODAY.
SENATE.


Meets at noon to consider bonus.
Commerce Committee considers
Florida canal project.
Finance subcommittee meets with
House Ways and Means subcommittee
on Clark amendment to social security.
HOUSE.
Meets at noon to complete action on
independent off1ces appropriations.
Foreign Affairs Committee meets In
executive session on neutrality legis.
lation.
Labor Committee meets on silicoas
death hearing.
Naval Affairs Committee continues
hearing on Naval Reserve bill.
TOMORROW.
SENATE:
May be In session on bonus unless
the bill Is passed this evening.
HOUSE: ..
Not expected 10 be IN session.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
HOPKINS ADMITS w. PA.
NOW is "BOONDOGGLER"
"Pleads Guilty" in Approving
Project to Prepare g. o. P.
Convention Auditorium.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, January 17.-Hary
L. Hoskins said here last night the
W. P. A., of which he is administrator,
at last pleads guilty to boom
doogling"
We've been accused of it." de-
clared Hopkins. pausing en- route to
Little Rock, Ark, but now. we plead
guilty: We've approved a project TO
prepare the Cleveland Public Audi
torium for the Republican National
Convention"
And that. I guess, is the essence
of boondoggling.
Hopkins was en- route to Little
Rock to attend funeral rites for Rob-
ert H McNair. w. P. A. ofdcial,
killed with 16 others Tuesday night
in the crash Of an airliner near
Goodwin, Ark.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
NATIONS DRAF TING
NEW FLEET CURB.
2O.Year Agreement or
Building Data Swap May
Curb Japan.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 1.-THE delega-
tions of four sea powers started today
drafting an agreement for an ex-
change of feet building information
designed to prevent an arms race de-
spite Japan's withdrawal from the In
ternational Naval Conference.
authoritative sources said they un-
derstood the American and British
delepates were making immediate new
SURVEYS of their strategic positions IN
the Pacific, to determine what steps
should be taken independently on the
question OF possible fortification OF
their possessions there.
The conference voted today to ar-
point a subcommittee to start work I'M
mediately on the new proposal for the
exchange of building information.
The full conference will meet Tues
day to consider the size and type ci
ships, guns and equipment to be ln-
corporated in the agreement.
A feature of the information ex-
change agreement was an escape
clause" to permit individual steps
against a sudden move by any power,
such as Japan, not entering into the
agreement.
Could Withdraw for Race.
Should a non-signatory power build
a new type of ship or begin an arms
race, the agreement could be set aside
by the signing powers on grounds OF
self defense.
None of the delegations now repre-
senting the United States, Britain
France and Italy in the efforts tc
maintain some sort of fleet restrictions
after the Washington and London
naval limitations treaties expire at the
end of this year, believed the new
agreement would be very extensive.
They felt, however, that they hac
japan 'in a corner" as one delegate
expressed it.
The japanese withdrew from the
conference because of opposition tc
their demands for full feet equality
but the remaining delegations believed
Japan would not launch naval build
ing race lest the other nations follow
suit.
Feel Japan May Join.
They seemed to feel that after az
agreement on an exchange Of build
ing information among themselves
in advance of any construction-wa
signed, Japan might voluntarily bint
itself to observe these rules. though
its signature would not be affixed for
mally to the pact.
The delegations were still hopeful
that Japan and other powers, sucl
as Germany and Russia, might SCI
fit to add their signatures later.
A high source told the Associated
Press the agreement for exchange o
constructions information was eX
pected to last about 20 years, and Il
be renewable for a similar period.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
HEARING DELAYED

A subcommittee of the House Dis
trict Committee today indefinitely
postponed q hearing on the Quinn
anti-vivisection bill it had scheduled
for Monday at 10 am.
The postponement was ordered
when persons interested in the meas
ure notified the subcommittee they
would be unable to attend the hear.
ing.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
FEWER CHURCHES
HELD RURAL NEED
Consolidation With Larger
Stats Urged by DR..
Malcolm Dana.

Advocating fewer churches in rural
areas, Rev. DR.. Malcolm Dana Of New
York today presented national in
terdenominational program for i'm
provement of the rural church in an
address to the National Conference on
the Rural Church at the Calvary
Baptist Church.
Larger and better churches are
needed for rural America, he declared.
and they can be achieved only by a
Evening star., 1936-01-17

united and CO.
operative Protes-
tantism.
Pre- senting a
plan which he
said has the ap-
proval of 100 au-
thorities in rural
life problems. DR..
Dana urged that
the number of
churches in rural
areas be reduced
to the poin t
W ere ea C h
church can have
a staff of four or
five nrofeSsinral
Evening star., 1936-01-17

prejudice" Doubtless the censors who turned
thumbs down on Liberty at the Crossroads"
would interpret this as q reviver Of old political
issues and prejudices.
Mr.. Hopkins is bound to keep the country
in jovial mood. He probably is holding "Uncle
Toms Cabin" In reserve.
The net result Of the censorship Of the Re-
pubIcans on the air, by the way, has been to
give their rather ordinary skit incalculably more
publicity than it could have got by regular
presentation. It has been printed in full in
hundreds of newspapers that never would have
noticed it but for the ban. 1t has been on the
independent stations, and finally was presented.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Retired Phone Official Dead.

ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, January
II @.-John Frederick Naylon, IS,
retired official OF the Bell Telephone
Co. of New Jersey, died in o hospital
yesterday. He came here six weeks
ago from Neptune, N. J. Nsylon
retired from the telephone company
recently after serving II years.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
BAR ASSOCIATION PAYS
TRIBUTE T0B. |. GASKINS
Funeral Services for Lawyer and
Educator to Be Held Tomor.
row at Noon.

Out Of respect to Benjamin L. Cas-
kins, colored lawyer and member Of
the Board of Education, who died
Tuesday night. the Washington Bar
Association last night adopted resolu-
tions Of regret and adjourned. Cas-
kins had been member of the asso-
citation for Is years.
Tomorrow the Franklin Administra-
ton Building and all school Offices
will be closed because of Gaskins' fu-
neral.
Funeral services will be held at the
Vermont Avenue Baptist Church at
noon, with Rev. Daniel E. Wiseman
officiating. Interment will be in the
family plot near Fairfax, Va.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
LUNCHEON AT Y. w. c. A.
Speakers Announced for Neigh.
borhood Council Function.

Miss Katherine F. Lenroot and Miss
Hester B. Crutcher, both of the Labor
Departments Children's Bureau, will
be guest speakers at a luncheon Of
the Executive Comittee of the Neigh
borhood Council at 1890 pm. tomor-
row at the Y. w. c. A.
DR.. Thomas w. Goslin will preside
at the luncheon.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Students Raise Race Question.

WARSAW, January II (P.-Numer-
Gus scufies broke out at the Warsaw
and Poznan Universities today when
Aryan undergraduates demanded that
Jewish students sit in q separate Sec
ton during lectures.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

= happy idea of Harry Hopkins to send
relief through the South with st about
L
such could be put the since the big broad
casting appeals emotion passion
Evening star., 1936-01-17
, WANG QUITS COURT

Reason for Chinese Resignation
at Geneva Not Given.
GENEVA, January II CP).-Wang
Chung Hui, Chinese jurist, resigned
today from the World Court bench for
unannounced reason.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Irwin s. Cobb
Says:
What Becomes of Fam.
lilies of Those Once
Prominent.
RfOn1nents

HOLLYWOOD, January 17.-Its
getting so you can tell when 81 years
Evening star., 1936-01-17
JOINT EXERCISES
Lees Birthday to Be Observed al
Capitol Tomorrow.

Capitol Tomorrow.
In celebration of Gen. Robert E.
Lees birthday anniversary on Sunday
the Mary Taliaferro Thompson South
ern Memorial Association and the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
will hold joint exercises at 2:3O pm
tomorrow at the Capitol.
Mrs. Fred Louis Volland is president
OF the memorial association.
Evening star., 1936-01-17

parently not enough Of them TO make
much difference In the grand total.
sre+ss lcopyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-01-17
FULL PARDON GRANTED
Thurman Thompson Declared Un
Justly Jailed in Robbery.

justly Jailed in Robbery.
AUSTIN, Tex, January II R.-
Gov. James v. Alfred granted q full
pardon yesterday to Thurman Thomp-
son, who served three months Of o
five-year sentence for crime he
didn't commit.
Gov. Allred's proclamation restored
full citizenship rights to Thompson,
said by State officials to have been .
victim Of mistaken identity in . rob.
berry case.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Bonus

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-01-17

in part, by O commercial sponsor on one Of Il
Censorship is as dangerous in politics o
ganns.
tcopyrignt. 1885,,
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
Three-Minute Journeys

have pointed out to you girls OF
the finest and most wealthy
families, riding dressed in native
costumes, the horses decked in
gay, colored Serapes. No up-to-the-
minute Snappy riding habits for
these lovely senoritas.
Many travellers. like to enter
Mexico by way of the 400-mile
train route from Vera Cruz. This
climb to 5000 feet takes the
traveller into the heart Of the in
terror of Mexico, the train pass
ing waterfalls, tobacco and pine
apple plantations, and cutting
through sun-drenched jungle
lands.
From the observation windows
one may glimpse the banana and
papaya trees, orchids and gar.
denias, fragrant and creamy. that
grow by the. waySide everywhere.
The train climbs up over the
great plateau in sight Of Popo'
catepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the
twin volcanoes, etched against
the blue of the sky, and then past
the pyramids of the sun and the
moon, not far from Mexico City.
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
"DO What I Say -

While Communists in the United States are whispering to
duded Americans that is wrong for any to love and
defend his native land
While these Communists spreading their doctrines
In Americas schools corruptng patriotism at its
While they protesting against the taking Of oath Of
allegiance the land which feeds and clothes and protects
them
WHAT Is RUSSIA DOING?
It is increasing its armaments, land, and air.
The cat of the bag in the words Of Viaheav M
Molotov, Soviet premier. He says:
"I the uOOrd of today it is imperative that de-
fenses should be placed the HIGHEST POSSIBLE
plane. Consequently this year must increase
markedly budget for national defense"
The REAL Communist knows that what he teaches is lie
He realizes that the aim Of Moscow is world dominion and
world plunder. But he continues to teach his lie.
And fool Americans continue to believe it!
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
MEXICO

VkG[A4NV
AS conditions right themselves
in Mexico, more and more
travellers are giving a thought to
that most beautiful country just
south of the Rio Grande.
If you want to find yourself in
an entirely different atmosphere,
exotic, colorful, entirely foreign
from anything that you know,
then trek to Mexico. It has as
much, if not more than anything
that the finest in Europe has to
offer.
Mexico is vivid, so vivid that
once you have visited it, it will be
burned indelibly in your mind and
you will never rest until you re-
turn. That has been the expert
ence of this writer, also Of almost
everyone to whom he has spoken.
The character OF Mexico is writ
ten in her monuments, her
cathedrals and lovely churches,
her costumes, houses, markets,
cafes, colorful pottery and exquiS-
ite scenery. Just watch the riders
on q smart bride path and you'll
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
SECOND THOUGHTS

Despite the flair in the House
and Senate for legislation OF curb
the powers Of the Supreme Court
and lower courts, many men who
were agitated over the question
when the greatest tribunal rejected
AAA legislation have changed
their views.
They have settled down to the
opinion that it would be unwiSe
to alter the present structure Of
government.
The effect of the recent appeal
Of Senator George w. Norris (R0
Of Nebraska on the situation can
not be predicted but it is known
that until he made his address
the general subject had Simmered
down to a quiet point.
Among legislators who represent
the farm belt and who might be
assumed to favor q change which
would permit development Of Fed
eral agencies such as the AAA
there was decided decrease in
the fury which followed the Su-
preme Courts decision.
One of the most able members
Of the farm bloc recently said off
the record:
81 have, come to the cOnclu-
sion that any change in the Com
stituti0n which would curb the
power Of the court would be one
Of the most disastrous things
that could happen.
'In the present emergency
men may say that there is need
for q change but once the change
Is made, how then could we as
sure ourselves that 1t would not
lead to grave danger In times to
Gomez"
This member Of Congress, an
outstanding Democrat, continued:
I'VE might be able to trust
the present Administration with
q changed Constitution. What
man can say what advantage
another Administration would
take Of the change?" ...'
The Washington times., 1936-02-14

end of the idea Of a federation Of
States, substituting the one big
Union.
We have a Democratic Senator,
from a State which contains just
1-300th of the country's popula-
ton, offering a bill to curb the
Supreme Court, since he is salts
fled "the people" are ready to
throw away the only anchor the
ship of state has ever had.
Yes, we even have justices OF
the Supreme Court. popularity
claSSed as liberals, putting on the
mantle of the Toryism Of Ham
ilton and Story.
What this political debate needs
as much as anything else is a
check-up on the liberals. In this
connection, the picture comes to
my mind Of Senator Tom walsh
of Montana, tryinT to run the
Democratic convention in Madi'
son Square Garden in 1924. He
did grand job as chairman, but
he must have asked one thousand
times, if he did once, this queS-
ton:
"FOr what purpose does the
gentleman arise?"
So it is now, whenever some
one gets up to speak in the name
Of liberalism I feel impelled to
ask:
"In the name Of what lib
eralism does the gentleman
arise?"
We hear a lot and will hear
lot more in the next eight
months about "the principles of
jefferson, kson and Cleve.
land" When a man says he
stands four-square On those prin
ciples he Immediately classes him
self as an American liberal.
PROTECT RIGHTS
These principles are The back.
log of the Democratic party, the
reason for its formation, the rea.
son why it has existed for the
entire life of the country, surviv.
ing even a civil war. These prin
ciples make up American lib
eralism, or they have made it
up until this year.
And what are these principles?
Not man. but most important is
their inSistenee on a strict cur
tailment Of Federal power and
the largest measure of sef-gov
eminent for the hamletS. villages
cities and States.
Jefferson and Jackson stood fol
the Interpretation of the Consti
tuition in the stricteSt sense. They
wanted no deviation from thu
exact letter of the law. Why;
Because they feared that other
wise a central government woulc
grow up. expand and usurp thu
rights and the liberties of th'
people.
1t was because they took such
a stand and made an issue of il
that the Democratic party con
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
Bow Scout Alumni

In addition the million boys and actively connected
with the Boy Scouts there than six million Scout
alumni chiefly who have graduated from Scout ranks
and are now voters taxpayers and heads Of families
What these learned from scouting and what have they
given their country a result?
Boy Scout Week recently celebrated throughout the United
States makes the question pertinent.
Though no definite be made is probable that
the six million alumni not only sounder physically than
they would without their boyhood hikes and
and civic responsibility than they had lust grOwed"
Scouting guarantee produce the perfect citizen
does however give youngsters ideas about sereance and
fair play that much of modern education does not
These assets to the nation.
There few any, Boy Scout alumni in Sing Sing in
Congress Perhaps that the best testimonial that scouting
could have.
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
Watch Your Step

The Police Department and the traffic authorities
'cracking down" on the careless and wlfuy negligent
automobile driver.
EUerubOdy hopes that their activities UiH bring
about reduction in the city's traffic toll Uhich
this vear is running about 100 per cent greater
than at the same time last year.
But effective as may be the work of the police in
necon with the drivers there another element in the
traffic situation which cannot be ignored and that is the
PEDESTRIAN.
Ordinarily the pedestrian deserves all the sympathy
he can get because he doesn't get great deal Of
sideration from some drivers.
ON THE OTHER HAND, HOWEVER, THERE ARE
MANY PEDESTRIANS WHO ARE JUST AS CARE
LESS AND JUST AS DEFIANT OF THE RULES OF
COMMON SENSE AS ARE SOME OF THE DRIVERS
Last year seventyfour of those killed on the city's
streets were pedestrians.
In very few of these cases it possible to show
that the driver of the vehicle was at fault.
In most of the cases the pedestrian to his death
through his own carelessness.
Regardless of hOw efficiently the police may
curb the reckless and speeding drtUer, the danger
to the pedestrian UW not be eliminated unless and
until the UGker learns to IUGtch Uere he is going;
to GUOid crossing streets EXCEPT at Intersections;
and to cross properly at the Intersections
We're not suggesting that the pedestrian be more
careful in order to make the drivers life more
Portable
WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT HE BE MORE
CAREFUL. IN ORDER THAT HIS OWN LIFE MAY
BE MADE MORE SAFE
It is probably true that the walker is more sinned
against than SHINING"
But firm belief that that condition exists is little
consolation to dead or to the family of dead man
IF THE POLICE TAKE CARE OF THE CARELESS
DRIVER THE CARELESS PEDESTRIAN WILL
HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF.
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROULGVad

grapefruit and a multiple-divorcee
more popular than nice home
girl.
In novels, the Boss always falls
in love with the beautiful stem
ographer-but in real life, he more
often calls her MISS JONES'"
works her as hard as he can, and
gives her a raise only when she
looks him in the eye and demands
it.
It takes time to domesticate a
bridegroom. A girl "gets married"
but a man just gradually "be-
comes" married as he becomes
bald or fat.
A man may come out of college
with a whole armful of degrees;
but not until he has built a house
that pleaseS the architect, his
wife and himself, can he call him.
self really educated"
Love and marriage, like the old
Greek gods, are always demanding
Sacrifices" and falling down on
their promised rewards.
Copyright, 1886. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
Human Side of News
By EdWin C. Hill

trolled, almost without Interrupt
tion, the country from 1903 to
1860 and might have continued to
do so much longer but for the
schism which helped greatly in
the election Of Lincoln.
James Madison, q Jeffersonian,
was the father Of the Constitu-
ton, but it was Hamilton, Wash
ington and the Federalists who
saw it through and launched the
nation successfully.
The Constitution was framed to
save the liberties which the
colonies had won in the Revolu-
ton. The 13 States had at.
tempted to live as separate
entities from the end Of that war
in 1888 until 1889 under the
articles of confederation.
They were getting nowhere.
drifting into anarchy. In 1885
Washington was to write:
Even respectable characters
speak Of a mOnarchiaI form Of
government without horror"
There was a depression in those
days with the agricultural west"
particularly hard hit because it
had raised surpluses which could
not be exported.
FEARED BUREAUCRACY
Distribution of property and
sharing of the wealth were de-
manded by those who had moth
ing to distribute and nothing to
share. No idle or decorative
words-that preamble of the Con.
stitution. Union, justice and
tranquility were needed greatly.
The merchant classes, with
Hamilton as their leader, wanted
a strong central government.
They feared most the ignorance
of the people" and were diStrust-
full of a complete democracy. The
agriculturiStS, with jefferson and
Madison as their leaders, feared
the selfishness Of rulers independ-
ent of the people"
jefferson argued that a strong
central government meant bu.
reaucracy, higher taxes and prices
and control of the government by
the "moneyed interests"
The Americans of 1900 knew all
about depressions, war and hard
ships. They knew better than
Americans today the evils Of die
tatorships and of rule by men in
stead of rule by law.
They had the same classes Of
society, merchants, farmers, pro-
fessional people and laborerS. The
lot of the small farmer and the
worker was much worse than it is
today.
jefferson, Madison and, later,
jackson were the champions Of
the masses, but equally they were
respectors Of the rights Of all
classes.
The masses believed in Jeffer-
son, believed with him that the
Constitution was to be rigidly
construed and believed with him
that the greatest danger to the
Republic would be Capitalization
of power in the Federal Govern
ment. Within 10 years Jefferson
won full control Of the country
from the Federalists on such is
sues.
OF course, jefferson and Cleve-
land may have been wrong. Per.
hapS Hamilton was right, that we
are incapable of self-government
| and nead sonoa form of feictotnr
ship.
I have my views about that and
the next fellow haf his. But when
a man tells me that he is a lib
eral and that he favors the strong
est kind of central government,
I'm going to ask:
what kind Of a liberal?"
Copyright 1886. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-02-14

wondering what
you were about,
b av n t you?
w on d erin g
what m a K e S
the music and
m a g / c "go
r o u nd a n d
round" in the
strange. locked
box of your
b o d y. And
W h a t, If any.
thing. C o u d
you do about
it all?
Ever since
The Washington times., 1936-02-14

being "ferr1ed"
to the Canal
Zone, the rea-
son given for
the failure Of
their ship was
motor trouble.
Actually those
men were risk.
ing their lives
in an obsolete
plane, one OF
many now in
use by the Army
because Of in.
adequate plane
construction for
The Washington times., 1936-02-14
Words of Wise Men

It is a mans nature which
makes him trustworthy. not his
wealth.-Aristotle.
The scholar who cherishes the
love of comfort, is not fit to be
deemed a scholar ConfuciuS.
Make haste to live, and con-
slider each day life.-Seneca.
The field Of glory is q field for
all.-Pope.
The Washington times., 1936-02-14

Honor, glory and popular praise,
rocks whereon greatest men have
ofteSt wrecked.-Milton.
Talking and eloquence are not
the same; to speak, and to speak
well, are two things.-Ben JonSon.
Real happiness Is cheap
enough, yet how dearly we pay
for its counterfeit.-Hosea Ballou.
The most difficult thing in life
Is to know yourseH.-Thales.
The Washington times., 1936-02-14

nothing is more
amusing or ag-
gravating than
the ella m or
among a certain
class for the
breaking down
Of State lines,
r e stric ction
Of the Supreme
Court and a
definite enlarge
ment of Federal
powers.
We have the
mayor of one Of
our great cities
advocating the