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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-05-29

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE
UNITED STATES
CHRISTJANSTED SUB-JUDICIAL
DISTRICT
In the Matter of the Estate of George
Alonzo Jackson, deceased
No. 23O; April Term, 1886.
Notice of Final Hearing.
I,Munroe. Clendenen, Administrator of the
above entitled Estate, in accordance with
the Order of the District Court dated May
z, 1886, do hereby give notice to all inter
The Washington times., 1936-04-23
Machine THINKING
Is ASSQiled
By Wall

Men Of today are Of fundament-
ally different habits from those
of a decade ago but to cut expert
ence loose and exchange it for
pure theory is at least as lunatic
as to be hidelbound within limits
Of past action, according to Alex
ander Wall. secretary of the Rob-
ert Morris Associates.
Speaking before the District of
Columbia Institute of Certified
Public Accountants at the Carlton
Hotel, Mr.. Wall called upon his
listeners to retain some of the
old methods in their daily affairs.
He spoke of this era as the "age
Of INFLAMMATION" and declared
that mass production has given
many the idea that the acts of
thinking, planning, and precau-
tons against the future also could
be mechanical.
Wall spoke of the trust placed
in accountants. The banker, he
said, most of all relies upon an
accountants audit as a protective
instrument through analysis of
which he may detect weaknesses
in financial structures and avoid
making marginal loans, and also,
through such analysis, to find cor
receives for such weaknesses. Con.
tinuing, Wall said:
Bank credit practice in years
gone by has been ShyIockian.
Today, believe it or not, this
phase has almost entirely van.
iShed.
The Washington times., 1936-04-23

Another wav of putting the same thing produce
things that dear prced order to make them cheap
There making things abundant unless they be
sold at such low prices that people buy them The
cheaper things the of them we can have But again.
must remember that the must the cost or the
production is not worthwhile.
The real basis of industry provide with things that
are scarce hence that they
be used consumed abundanand therefore at lower
prices.
So the abundant and cheap things the better-as
long the of producing them does not outweigh the salts
faction get from consuming them.
When however we make of a thing than be sold
competitive profit there is "overproducton The
producer loses money meanngn of this that
using costly labor and savings and enterprise
way that plenty that does pay. The of
laborng and saving and business risks outweigh enjoy
Thus you how dangerous is to give work just for
the sake of the work The trouble that this results in
making things that not worth the cost of making Most
of don't work for works sake but for the products helps
make And the products wanted enough
the cost of producing them have kind of overproducton
We have kind of plenty but not of things that
and important to
Here lies the beauty of the profits system and private enter
prise Individual employers seek to make profit and that
making things that people want In that sense they
seek produce only the things that northumberland
/: will costs.
And they compete they and should they will make
much Of the product they while still getting
profit Thus prices tend to be as low possible.
This maximum employment of labor in worthwhile
Labor is required in producing all products the
products that be made and sold proaby the
labor employed.
But that the products be sod and sold profit
Otherwise neither they the labor worthwhile the industry
does and production ought to be curtaed
This will happen if left the control of freely determined
prices and profits Prcexing and political meddling are
largely responsible for Overproduction and crises)
: This is economic theory 1t is also sense
AS things made plentiful and cheap the consumers
dollar goes further N 1t buys of the things already
have and 2 it becomes available for things Since there
is known limit human wants. there danger produc
ing much-IF ONLY PRODUCTION IS LIMITED BY
COST AND WANTS, AND THEREFORE DIRECTED To-
WARD PRODUCTS THAT ARE WORTHWHILE.
When mistakes made sudden changes in wants or
occur production has be Then temporary
unemployment Develops and relief has be provided
the sues and quickest out to encourage worthwhile
proable production, which making things
more plentiful
The Washington times., 1936-04-23

had all that we wanted up to the point where
it costs us more to make things than the bene-
fits or enjoyment we get out of them.
The theory of plenty" is just the ecOnO-
mists idea of production" which is making
scarce things abundant. We could make air
and water, but we don't because we already
have plenty of them and the cost of making
them would not be worthwhile. We don't
have all the automobiles, houses, shoes and
meat we want, so they are said to be scarce"
and we try to make more of them. But we
do this only when we want them more than
The Washington times., 1936-04-23
AYH" The More Abundant and Cheap
n IA ~ II, Things Are, the Better As Long
, AA& ~ - - AS Satisfaction outweghs Cost
By LEWIS HANEY

Professor of Economics, New York University
Pittsburgh reader write about he theory of
plenty reduced prices of restoring prosperity
"Plenty" having all that it is worthwhile to produce.
We would have plenty everything that make if
The Washington times., 1936-04-23
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The Washington times., 1936-04-23
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Volume This Year
205,S32,T5 Shares
Evening star., 1936-03-23
MARRIED WORKER
MEASURE PUSHED
Ramspeck Asks Special
Rule to Make His Bill
in Order.

Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee today filed a
House application for a special rule
to make in order his bill to liberalize
the married persons clause in the
economy act.
Ramspeck has not yet consulted
with Chairman O'Connor of the Rules
Committee, but expects a hearing in
g few days on this resolution.
His bill, which has been removed
from the consent calendar because of
objections by Chairman Cochran Of
the House Committee on Expenditures,
would repeal section 213 Of the econ
omy act, which makes either husband
or wife subject to dismissal when both
are employed by the Government.
In substitution for this section, he
proposes to leave undisturbed those
married persons already on the Gov
ernment pay roll and to limit ap-
pointments Of husbands and wives
hereafter in the Government service
only If the joint salary equals or ex-
ceeds $4,000 a year.
The principal purpose Of the legis-
lation, Ramspeck emphasized. is that
young people working for the Gov
ernment should not be prevented
from marrying. The main trouble
with the existing law, he said, Is that
1t has not been administered fairly
and has not been uniformly applied.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
CHECK ON LIQUOR
ACCOUNTS OPENS
A. B. c. Board Seeks to De-
termine Whether WhoIesaI-
ers "Carry" Retailers.

A check Of the accounts Of Wash
ingtons 90 wholesale liquor dealers
was begun by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board today in an investiga-
ton to determine whether any OF
them are carrying" retail distributors.
The investigation is expected to be
completed by the end of the week,
with five or more wholesalers submit
ting their account records daily until
the inquiry is completed.
George w. Offutt, chairman of the
board, said that If it is found that
any wholesalers are extending excess
sive or undue credit to retail dealer
they will be brought before the board
to show cause why their licenses
should not be revoked.
The District liquor regulations per-
nit wholesale dealers to extend ''rea-
sonable" amount of credit to their re-
tail customers, but several conditions
are included in the law to prohibit
the ownership or control of retail out
let's by wholesalers.
The investigation is the outgrowth
of demand by Commissioner George
E. Allen, made after he recently failed
in an effort to permit the number OF
retail on-sale licenses to remain un-
limited. Commissioners Melvin c.
Hazen and Dan I. Sultan supported
the board in its effort to have the
number gradually reduced from 400 to
800.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
u. S. Printing Office Observes
18th Anniversary This Week
Personnel Has GrO,Un From, 300 to 5000
With Equipment Valued at $l0,00O,-
OOO-Erponsion Plans Made

The press room was equipped with %
Adams presses ano three cylinder
presses. With the stable came two
horses, one wagon snd one carrysll,
and the boiler house had one 60.horse-
power boiler. SIS feet Of fire hose and
five buckets.
In the years which followed,
though. the printing ONCE began to
emerge from Its crude state.
In 1865 ssl 900 was appropriated
for additional building and equip
ment. Four years later an additional
appropriation Of $4,000 was author
tied for a new four-story structure to
care adequately for new needs.
From this period through the turn
Of the century many improvements
were effected during the rapid growth
of the office which bettered working
conditions. Fire and accident hazards
were minimized, hours Of labor were
shortened. 3o-day annual leave with
compensation was introduced, person.
mel was brought under civil service,
and in 1898 Congress appropriated
s225.000 to purchase the ground now
occupied by the main structure. This
building was completed and ready for
occupancy five years later at a cost
Of $780, 900.
These improvements were only q
few Of many which followed.
In 1903. q small room, located on
the third floor Of the old building. was
set aside as "sick room" It's equip
ment consisted OF cot, blanket and
4 small supply OF medicines con.
trtouted by the employees. This was
the nucleus from which developed
the first emergency hospital In any
Government establishment. It Is now
adequately equipped to serve the needs
Of the 5000 employees.
The present printing plant con-
sists Of the original group Of old build
ings and the new building that was
authorized in 1899 and the addition
constructed in 1880.
The original building contained 49,.
395 square feet of floor space and 1t
Is still a part Of the present plant.
which occupies $50, $50 square feet.
i lie OuuulIlRS now are VdlueO AT 3D.
100000 and the machinery and equip
ment at $5.433.0o0, making the Gov
eminent Printing Once the largest,
best equipped and most complete plant
in the world.
Expansion Underway.
The expansion plans now on foot
were outlined in a special report by
Augustus E. Giegengack. the public
printer, in January, 1885. and last
August Congress voted $4,000. 900 to
start q project whose cost-land and
buildings-will be limited to $5.s85. 900.
An eight-story building will be
raised on the ground now occupied
by the old building units of the
Printing Office, while across North
Capitol street a three-story ware
house will be erected. With these
additions the floor space will be in.
creased to STA acres.
The q. P. o. staf3 will observe the
diamond jubilee anniversary with
celebration at Wardman Park Satur.
day night. Members Of the printing
committees Of Congress will be guests.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
MEAT PRICES HERE
SENT UP BY FLOODS
Decline Due for Capital Tomor-
row as More Shipments Are
Expected to Arrive.

Meat prices rose more than 2 cents
a pound during the last week, but
Washington dealers explained today
that the rise resulted only from the
floods and Is almost certain to be
temporary.
The floods interrupted fast freight
shipments in the Pittsburgh area,
thus holding up shipments to replen-
ish butchers refrigerators, which by
now are almost empty.
There Is q premium on almost all
kinds of meat" william A. Long, man
ager Of the District Wholesale Supply
Co., said today. land what is available
Is nothing special.
Lamb that was Is cents a pound
last week is up to 81 cents and Is
hard to find. Beef and pork are up
aoout 2 cents q pound. The last car
from Chicago came In here Thursday
and reserve stocks are about ex-
hausted."
Long said that prices will drop
some tomorrow and probably will be
back to normal by Wednesday, as a
shipment Of one or more cars is due
tonight.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
FLOOD MAY DELAY
D.C.ROADPROGRAM.
Spur Track Needed to Haul
Material Washed Away
by Potomac.

Possibility of delay in the Spring
highway construction program of the
District was forseen today by Engi-
neer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan as
an indirect result Of the recent flood.
Damage to the Baltimore g. Ohio
spur track servicing building material
plants along the river, just east of
Key Bridge, will have to be repaired
before additional cement. stone. gravel
and other supplies can be made avail
able in sufficient quantities to proceed
with work already planned.
Sultan said the food caught many
Of the plants with only limited stocks
on hand-not enough to go forward
with more than a small number of
projects.
: Supplies shipped directly to the Dis
trict also have been delivered on the
spur.
The Commissioners Salo the 8. e. Q.
has been called Upon 20 rush repairs OF
the tracGage. Dut that he fears. su
available crews are already at work on
emergency repairs TO main lines. The
x street spur, ne SAID, Is compara-
lively Insignificant job when the whole
food damage to the railroad Is con-
sidered.
Whatever construction can be done
with the materials on hand, Sultan
said, will get under way on scheduled
time.
Meanwhile, Clifford R. Whyte. Dis
trict bridge engineer. and members Of
his staff, planned to make a final in
spection Of Chain Bridge today to de-
termine the extent of the food
damage.
Several preliminary inspections have
been made. but until today the waters
have been too high for thorough ex-
animation Of bridge piers and foun-
datioris.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
INSURANCE HEAD
FOR D. C. is SWORN
J. Balch Moor of Bonham, Tex,
Takes Oath as Commissioner,
Succeeding Marshall.

j. Balch Moor of Bonham, Tex, was
sworn in today as Insurance commits
sioner for the District In brief cere-
mony in the ofi1ce Of Commissionex
George E. Allen. He assumed his
duties Immediately.
Moor, formerly In the insurance
business, came to Washington to ac-
cept Q position with the National Re-
covery Administration. He Is q resi-
dent Of the home city Of Representa-
tive Rayburn, who Is said to be his
sponsor for the District job.
Moor succeeds John A. Marshall,
who has become executive head Of the
Unemployment Compensation Board.
Moor's Office Is located In the Ford
Building, Fourth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
R00FERS HURT IN FALL

Two slate workers were injured in a
25-foot fall today when a scaffolding
on. which they were working broke.
They were roofing q new house at
544l North Capitol street.
Both men were taken to Freed
mems Hospital, where william H.
Mann, foreman Of the roofing gang,
was treated for q fractured leg and
possible internal injuries. He lives at
sos Cedar avenue. Edwin Smith, 5l0
D street southeast, suffered g severe
cut on the left eye and bruises Of the
chest and left leg. Samuel Owen, who
also fell, was unhurt.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
POLICE SHIFTS MADE
Colored 0hcer Is Raised to De-
tective Sergeant.

Donald Pittman, colored. was pro-
NOTED to the rank Of detective sergeant
today in a series of Police Department
reassignments.
In other changes, Frank Smith. col-
ored, was made precinct detective Of
the second precinct; Sergt. w. H.
Bailey was transferred from the
twelfth to the ninth precinct: Sergt.
W. T. Murphy from the ninth to the
twelfth, and Samuel T. Young. col
ored, was transferred from the second
precinct to the post Of desk sergeant
at headquarterN
Evening star., 1936-03-23
Belgrade Claims Meat Record.

BELGRADE (R.-Oficial Yugo-
slavian statistics place this city first
among capitals of the world for con-
sumption of meat per capita. More
than 10000 head Of live stock are
eaten annually by Q population of
$50, 900. with pork beef and veal IA
vored in that of4er.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
INJURY FROM DOOR
FATAL TO WOMAN
Mrs. Sarah X. Wetmore, "a, Dies
Seven Weeks After Fell
in Store.

Seven weeks after q strange mishap
in q revolving door Of q department
store, Mrs. Sarah K. Wetmore, ~, of
1923 Harvard street, died early today
In Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. Wetmore was thrown to the
floor February 3 when the automatic
door hit her heel and caused her to
lose her balance. She fractured her
hip and arm, and later developed
pneumonia. Il
Mrs. Wetmore had lived In WASH
ington "a years. She was the widow
of Judge Wetmore Of Fauquier County,
Va, where she was born In 1882. She
Is survived by three daughters, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hef1in and Mrs. Zella
Eldred, 1923 Harvard street. and Mrs.
Dan Shumate, Fauquier Cdanty.
Evening star., 1936-03-23

their failure. aggregating $22. .47O. .S34.
The capital Of these banks was
$2,252, $40, and there has been levied
by the controller to October 81, 1895,
stock assessments against their share
holders In the amount Of tl,752,e20.
The collections from these assets, In
cluding earnings, offsets allowed and
collections from stock assessments as
reported by receivers to September 80,
1885, amounted to 53.o4 per cent Of
the total Of such assets and stock
assessments. Totai earnings collected
by receivers from the assets OF these
banks amounted to $797 800. or $3.50,
yer cent OF total expenses incurred. 4
The Fort Peck press., 1936-10-08

1t has no water system. They have
had 16 fires since New Year. One
side of the town has wells. The
other side hasn't any. There has
been. fortunately. no epidemic.
Prices are typical boom-towD
prices. Rents aren't bad. but food
is high. There is one small wooden
church and t*o gospel missions.
Quite lew of the boys indulge
in holdups. Motorists on the road
and cashiers behind the cash reg
lister have looked down the bar.
rel of six shooter many times.
There has been considerable
gun waving but little pulling of
the trigger The thieve take their
swag and beat it, Wheeler hasn't
developed any spectacular indiv-
idual badman such as "Curlet
Bill of old Tombstone.
Finished next week.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-10-08
WILSON NEW S
Cpniinurd fnn Front Page

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Wood
visited vrh e. - - ivs
u Poplar SUNDAY.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Casey of Fort
Keogh spent the weekend at the
home of their son Curtis.
Miss Harriet Wickum of Park
Grove was a weekend guest at the
Bracken home.
Leonard Wick of Opheim is visit
ing with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Wick.
A wedding anniversary dinner
was served at the Carl Christian
son home Saturday evening.
Guests we're Mr., and Mr.. Laurel
Dotson. Both couples were mar
fied in HarIowtown on the same
date eight years ago.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-10-08
Wheeler Known
AS Wild West
Continued from Front Page

unprintable name. 1t has no other
name. Everybody calls it by this
name. They say thousand wo-
men have heard the call and
drifted in for the easy reapings a.
mong the dam workers.
Wheeler is two-and a-half years
old 1t started with Ft. Peck dan
when some guy brought in trailer,
built hunks in it. and rented them
to dam workers for Sd a week.
Ruby Smith was the first real
settler. She started an eating
place along the road and within
80 days the town had sprung up
around her almost to its present
size.
RUBY now runs the Wheeler Inn
one of the biggest all-night hot
spots. She goes to bed at daylight
and gets up late in the afternoon.
She is coming the money.
Joe Frazier is the entrepreneur
of Wheeler Twenty years ago he
homesteaded a large batch of
practically worthless land here on
the bare Montana knobs. 1t never
did pay its way. Joe Frazier be-
came a barber in Glasgow, 20
miles away.
Then God sent Ruby Smith and
the Army Engineers. and they say
Joe Frazier will come out of it
easily with 100000. He owns all
ht land Wheeler is built on.
Wheeler won't exist six months
after the dam is finished in 1889.
So Joe Frazier doesn't try to sell
lots. He just rents them. His in
come, they say, is $500 a month
Wheeler is all wood. There isn't
a stone or steel building in town,
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The Washington times., 1936-02-14
SCHOOL LASH
'LASTRES0RT'

BALTIMORE, Feb. 14.-Only
as a '1ast resort" may corporal
punishment be- administered to
students in the public schools of
Maryland, Attorney General Her.
bert r. O'Conor ruled in a letter
sent to States Attorney James
n. Pugh, of Montgomery county,
today.
The attorney generals ruling
was given in response to a re.
quest from Mr.. Pugh several days
ago, after parents of students in
the Takoma-Silver Spring Junior
High School became aroused over
the alleged flogging of students
by Principal w. B. Marks, for
minor offenseS, and during mass
protest meeting in Silver Spring
demanded immediate repeal Of
this ancient statute.
Attorney General O'Conor, him.
self the father of four children
of school age, cited the school
law which authorizes the princi-
pal of the school to administer
corporal punishment in the pres
eAce Of a witness. However, he
carefully underlined the phrase
written into the law-"only as a
last resort"
The Washington times., 1936-02-14

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