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Evening star., 1936-12-20
BY the Associated Press.

Franklin D. Roosevelt finished
speaking in town out on the rim OF
the prairies, took firm clutch upon
the arm of August Adolph Gennerich
his bodyguard, and turned toward
the open car beside the hastily con-
structed speakers stand.
The crowd maSsed tightly against
the trembling stand, wedged against
his automobile. The handful of loca
police was lost in the cheering tumult
Gennerich, his chief in the car, got
a leg lock on the door and put hi
body between Mr.. Roosevelt and the
clawing, yelling crowd. 1t was g
friendly crowd, but Gennerich's back
was sore that night.
That was in 1882, before Mr.. Roose-
velt became President. The Secret
Service handles crowds better. But
those ideas of courage and loyalty
which put Gus" Gennerich's strong
shoulder between his chief and dam
ger were typical of the Secret Service
into which the sturdy New York de-
tective went.
The death Of Gennerich in Buenos
Aires during the Presidents South
American trip. his burial this week
brought new attention upon the work
of the Secret Service in guarding the
lives of the Presidents.
First Assignment in 1901.
The Secret Service first assigned
agents to protect the Chief Execu-
tive in 1901, following the assassina-
ton of President Mckinley.
There was no specific statutory au-
thority for the work at that time, but
an aroused public was demanding pro-
lection for the head of the Govern
ment, and the Secret Service was the
logical agency to provide it.
For four years agents guarding
the President were listed as enforcing
officers for the counterfeiting laws
Then Congress made it the job OF
the Secret Service to protect the
Executive. Later it also was given
the task of guarding the Presidents
family.
The first agent to serve as a per.
sonal bodyguard was William Craig
who lost his life on trip to Massa-
chusetts with President Theodore
Roosevelt.
Craig. a powerful blond Scotsman
who held many laurels as cham
pion fencer, was riding next to the
driver behind the prancing horses OF
the Presidents carriage near Dalton
Mass, on their way to visit with
Gov. Crane of Massachusetts,. The
carriage was struck by speeding in
terurban street car. Craig was killed
Evening star., 1936-12-20

road embankment at Garrett Park,
Md, some 3 miles in length, fol-
lowing the winding Rock Greek. Funds
for this expansion were provided by
the Federal Government in the Cap
per-Cramton Park purchase act and
under this statute, the Federal Gov
eminent makes a gift of one-third
the land purchase price and loans the
Maryland National CAPITAL Park and
Planning Commission two-thirds of
secured by bonds issued by the Mary
land authorities. The amount of money
involved was not made public, but it
Is understood that it is under
100000.
Land Purchase Pushed.
Nolen said that the Maryland Com
mission has not only pushed the pur-
Marylanders have expended large sums
Of their own on Improvements in Rock
Greek Valley, especially in road con-
struction. The park now extends
southwark from Connecticut avenue
and highway connections in the valley
are being made to link up with the
completed drive at the East-West
Highway.
The commission authorized its di-
rector of planning to appear before
the fiood-control hearing, to be held
on December 80, before First Lieut..
William j. Matteson, district engineer
for the War Department for the Wash
ington area, at the Navy Building
The planners have previously expressed
their opposition to levee in the line
of independence avenue in West Po-
tomac Park, project that has been
suggested by Army engineers. A levee
has been constructed, since the high
waters of last March, in the rear of
the Navy and Munitions Buildings
and the Washington Monument
Grounds elevation has been raised.
All flood control plans for the area
hereabouts will be considered.
A new street plan, to conform to the
topography southwest of Spring Valley
and south of Little Falls road, where
q number of fine trees exist, received
commission Endorsement, after the Dis
trict Commissioners and other inter-
ested authorities had approved it.
Evening star., 1936-12-20

Of the Board Of Assessors In the court
house. Total assessment figures for
the county will not be available until
some time In January, Basil M. De
Lashmutt. chairman Of the board, said
today.
All hearings will be held In the
court house.
In addition to Chairman De LASH
mutt. the Board Of Assessors Is COM
posed Of z. w. Comley and Thomas
j. Crack.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Recreation

Continued From Page B-l.)
Evening star., 1936-12-20

contended- the money was hers and
what she did with it was nobody's
business.
I've been in Jail this long" she
said angrily after her last hearing,
"and II they want to send me back
there to die, then that's that"
Evening star., 1936-12-20
ALDIE YOUTH AWARDED
Al CLUB GOLD MEDAL
Edwin Skinner Designated Out.
standing Member From Lou

stanulnB Memoer from Lou
doun County.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, December is.-
Edwin Skinner, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Skinner of Aldie, is the out.
standing All Club boy in Loudoun
County, and in recognition Of his
work has been presented with a gold
medal by Gordon A. Elcan Of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, State All Club
leader.
Presentation Of the medal was made
by william H. Cockerill, assistant
county agent here.
The contest is sponsored among o
million All Club members In the
United States, through the National
Committee on Boys and Girls Club
Work.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Democrats Nearly Surround
Republicans in Senate Seatin Q

Of Nevada, Henry F. Ashurst Of Ari.
1ona and David I. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts.
Last but not least. somebody should
fix the seat OF Senator Pope's chair
it's missing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
RELIEF DEBATE
BY ENGINEERS

Federal work relief and the
method of handling it will be dis
cussed at a symposium of noted
consulting engineers to be held in
the Hotel Mayflower on Octo-
Der II.
The symposium in connection
with the second annual conven-
ton of the National Society of
Professional Engineers. is an,
nounced by Willard S. Conlon, of
Washington, executive secretary,
who said:
THE society has constantly
urged the creation of a perma.
nent Federal Department of
Public Works, as advance plan
ming and proper coordination
are essential factors in making
a national program of public
works fully effective in connect.
ing the says in the business
cycle"
John w. Durham, president of
the local chapter of the society,
will act as vice chairman of the
convention committee. The meet
ings will close october Is with
election of officers.
VnTE AMEPIcAN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
PARK REPAIRS
COMPLETED

Extensive improvements for the
Identification of Meridian Hill and
Franklin Parks were completed
today.
In Franklin Park, an unpreCe-
denied design along modern lines
has been carried out for the foun-
tain, in which the plaza, pavement
and fountain are all integrated in
one piece. The fountain was de-
signed by the bureau of plans and
design of the National Park Serv-
ice.
Terraced landscaping in Merid-
ian Hill Park has been completed
and a fountain has been installed
in a niche which is to be hung
with stalactite crystals from the
roofs of caverns at. Luray. Va.
Both projects, executed by the
Works Progress Administration,
have been under way for many
months.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02

turn depends for its size on size
of the national income. When
incomes and values and tranSac-
tions are on The down grade, the
tax receipts go on the down
grade, too. If the national in
come continues to decline, then
the Government cannot run
without going into the red. The
only way to keep a government
out of the red is to keep the peo-
pie out O. the red. We had to
balance the budget of the Amer
lean people before we could bal
anCe the budget of the National
Government.
That makes common sense,
doesn't it?
refused to leave human
needs solely in the hands Of To-
cal communicated COM
munities which themselves were
almost bankrupt.
To have accepted that advice
would have been to offer bread
lines again to the American
people, knowing this time that
in many places the lines would
last far longer than the bread.
In those dark days, between us
and a balanced budget, stood
millions of needy Americans, de-
MED the promise of an Ameri-
can life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
20 in Marathon
Park Police Seek
To Lay Hands on
Hand Thief

Somebody has been playing
handles" with that gal who is
sculptured on the north side of
the fountain in Dupont Circle.
About year ago somebody who
apparently needed a handout per-
formed an act of surgery on the
statue-whose name is not dis
closed on the Park Police books
and removed her hand.
After consultation, a sculptor
was found who was able to graft
on a new hand.
But now the new hand is also
gone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02

ornaments, for building foreign
model dwellings, swimming pools
and slaughter houses, for giving
employment to the foreign un-
employed -foreign boondog-
Cling, if you will.
Those dollars we're just as
good American money-juSt as
hard earned-just as much the
reward of our thrift-aS the
dollars we have spent at home
giving work to the unemployed.
Most of those dollars sent
abroad are gone for good. Those
billions. lost to us under previ-
Gus administrations, do not in
clude the other billions loaned
by the United States to foreign
governments during and imme-
diately after the war.
l ask you the simple question:
Hasn't it been a sounder invest
ment for us during these past
three years to spend eight bill
lion dollars for American indus
try, American farms. American
homes and the care of American
citizens?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Loss of Homes

To have accepted this advice
would have meant a continued
wiping out Of people of small
meanS-the continued loss of
their homes and farms and
small businesses into the hands
Of people who still had enough
capital left to pick up those
homes and farms an businesses
at bankruptcy prices. 1t would
have meant, in a very short time,
the loss of all the resources of
a multitude of individuals and
families and small corporations.
You would have seen a concen-
tration of property ownership in
the hands of one or two per
cent of the population. a con-
centration unequalled in any
great nation since the days of
the later Roman empire.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Asbury 100 Years Old

Homecoming and an old folks
day will feature the beginning Of
the one hundredth anniversary
celebration of the founding of AS
bury M. E. Church, Eleventh and
K Streets Northwest, Sunday. Spe-
cial programs have been arranged
for each Sunday for the month Of
october.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02

A baseball park is a good
place to talk about box scores.
Tonight 1 am going to talk to
you about the box score of the
Government of the United
States. 1 am going to tell you
the story of our fight to beat
down the depression and win
recovery. From where 1 stand
it looks as though the game
is pretty well in the bag.
am convinced that when
Government finance or any
other finance is honeSt-and
when all the cards are on the
table-there are no higher
mathematics about it. 1t is
just plain, scoreboard arith-
metic.
When the present manage
ment of your team took
charge, the national score
board looked pretty bad In
fact, it looked so much like a
shutout that you voted
change of management in or
der to give the country
chance to win the game. And
today we are winning it.
When the new management
came to Washington. we began
to make plans-plans to meet
the immediate crisis-and plans
that would carry people of the
country back to decent pros
perity,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Humanity Came First

To balance our budget in 1888
or 1884 or 1885 would have been
a crime against the American
people. To do so we would either
have had to make a capital levy
that would have been confiSca-
tory, or we would have had to
set our face against human
suffering with callous indiffer-
ence. When Americans suffered.
we refused to pass by on the
other side. Humanity came
first.
No one lightly lays a burden
on the income of a nation. But
this vicious tightening circle of
our declining national income
simply had to be broken. The
bankers and the induStrialiStS
of the nation cried aloud that
private business was poWerleSS
to break it. They turned, as
they had right to turn, to the
Government. We accepted the
final responsibility of Govern
ment, after all else had failed,
to spend money when no one
else had money left to spend.
1 adopted. therefore, the
other alternative. l cast aside a
donothing or wait-and-see
policy.
AS a frs step in our program
we had to stop the quick spiral
of deflation and decline in the
national income. Having stopped
them. we went on to restore pur-
chasing power, to raise values,
and to start the national income
upward.
In 1888 we reversed the policy
of the previous administration.
For the first time since the de-
preston you had a Congress and
an administration in Washing
ton which hao the courage to
provide the necessary resources
which private interests no longer
had or no longer dared to risk.
This cost money. We knew in
March, 1888, that it would cost
money. We knew that it would
cost money for several years to
rOnop
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
HUMANITY MORE IMPORTANT
THAN BUDGET, HE DECLARES

PITTSBURGH, Oct 2.-FoUOWing is the complete
te1t of the speech delivered at Forbes Field here last
night By President Roosevelt:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Income Dropping

We saw the millions out Of
work, the business concerns run
ming in the red, the banks clos
ing. Our national income had
declined over so per Cent-and,
what was worse, it showed no
prospect of recuperating by it.
self. BY national income I mean
the total of all income of all the
125,000,000 people in this coun.
try-the total of all the pay en-
velopes. all the farm sales. all
the profits of the businesses, of
all the individuals and corpora.
tionS in America.
The box score when the Dem
oeratic administration came to
bat in 1888 showed a net deficit
in our national accounts of about
three billion dollars accumulated
IN the three previous years.
National income was in
downward spiral. Federal Gov
eminent revenues were in a
downward spiral. To pile on
vast new taxes would get us no
where because values were going
down.
On top of having to meet the
ordinary expenses of Govern
ment, I recognized the obliga-
ton of the Federal Government
to feed and take care of the
growing army Of homeless and
destitute unemployed.
Something had to be done.
A national choice had to be
made. We could do one of two
things. Some people-who sat
across my desk in those days
urged me to let nature take its
course and continue a policy
of doing nothing. l rejected
that advice. Nature was in an
angry mood.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Protected Business

And so the program of this
Administration has protected
the small business, the small
corporation, the small shop
from the wave of deflation
which threatened them. We
realized then, as we do now,
that the vast army of small
businessmen, factory owners
and shop owners form the
backbone-together with our
farmers and workers-of the in
dustrial life of America. In our
long range plan we recognized
that the prosperity of America
depended upon, and would con-
tinue to depend upon, the pros
perity of them all,
I rejected that advice for an
additional reason. I had pro-
missed, and my Administration
was determined, to keep the
people of the United States
from starvation.
During the four lean years be-
fore this Administration took
office, that national income had
declined rom eight-one billions
a year to thirty-eight billions
year-in short, you and all
of us Gogether-were making
forty-three billion dollars less in
1892 thar we made in 1929.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Commissioners Notices


COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA, Oct. l, 1885. Notice is
hereby given that under authority granted
in Public Act No. 307, approved December
10, 1882, authorizing the closing of streets
and alleys in the District OF Columbia, and
in accordance with the provisions of an
item authorizing changes in the permanent
system of highways for the District of Co.
lumbia contained in d. C.. Appropriation
Act for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1914
public Act No. 435, 62nd CongressI, ap-
proved March 4, 1913, as amended by an
act approved April 80 1925 Public Act
No. 1853, 60th Congress-, the Commission
ers OF the District of Columbia will give a
public hearing in the Board Room of said
Commissioners in the District Building on
OCTOBER 18TH, 1885, at 10 o'clock a. M,
to interested property owners to determine
as to any property rights which may be
affected, or as to the equity, justice or adj
visibility of closing the street, and concern
ing the proposed changes in the permanent
system of highways, described as follows:
o. Closing of part of Chesapeake Street
between Llnnean Avenue and Both Street,
n. w, and dedication of land for highway
purposes in lieu thereof. ca Proposed
change In the plan of the permanent system
of highways affecting proposed streets in
the southeast section within the territory
bounded on the north by Massachusetts,
Avenue, on the east by 34th Street, on the
south by n Street, and on the west by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. go Proposed
change in the plan of the permanent system
OF highways affecting proposed streets in
the northeast and northwest sections within
the territory bounded on the north by Van
Buren, Street, on the northeast by the Dis
trIct of Columbia boundary line. on the
southeast by New Hampshire Avenue, on
the south by Peabody Street. and on the
west by Blair Road az Proposed change
IN the plan Of the permanent system of
highways affecting property in the north
east section along the line Of Hamilton
Street lprOposedi between North Capitol
Street and 4th Street, n. r. (proposed) .
t5) PropOsedS change in the plan of the
permanent system of highways affecting
property in the northwest section along the
line of 18th Street (proposed) as extended
north from Kalmia Street to Eastern Ave-
nue.. Maps showing the street proposed
TO be closed. and the proposed changes in
the plan of the permanent system of high
ways are on file in the office of the sur
veyor of the District of Columbia, Room
4O5, District Building (same being known
AS Maps 1905. 1895 1897. 1903 and
1890, and may be examined by interested
parties during business hours prior to the
hearing. Said plRts will also be displayed
at the hearing, and the Commissioners will
consider any suggestions or protests con-
corning the proposed street closing and the
proposed changes as shown on above men
TONED plans. MELVIN G. HAZEN
GEORGE f. ALLEN. DAN l. SULTAN.
Commissioners Of the District Of Columbia
Announcements
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Deficit Declining

The deficit of the national
Government has been steadily
declining for three years run
ming, although, technically, this
year it did not decline, because
we paid the bonus this year in
stead of in l945. Without the
bonus the deficit would have de-
clined this year. The truth is
that we are doing better than
we anticipated in 1888. The ma
tional income has gone up faster
than we dared then to hope. De-
ficitS have been less than we ex-
pected Treasury receipts are
increasing. The national income
was thirty-eight billions in 1882.
In 1885 it was fifty-three bill
lions, and this year it will be
we'll over sixty billions. If it
keeps on rising at the present
rate, as l am confident that it
will-the receipts of the Gov
eminent, without imposing any
additional taxes, will, within a
year or two, be sufficient to care
for all ordinary and relief ex-
penSes of the government
other words, to balance the an.
nual budget.
The Government of this great
nation, solvent, sound in credit,
is coming through a crisis as
grave as war without having
sacrificed American democracy
or the ideals of American life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Rush to MicrOphOne'

Il have used the figure Of
eight billion dollars as repre-
senting the net increase in our
national debt. Immediately peo-
pie will rush into print or run
to the microphone to tell you
that my arithmetic is all wrong.
They will tell you that the in
crease in the national debt is
thirteen billions instead of
eight. That is technically and
morally just as correct as if
someone we're to try to score
you about the condition of your
bank by telling you of its liza
bilities and not telling you of
its assets.
That is technically and moral
ly just as correct as telling you
good people here in Pennsylvania
that none of your bank deposits
or insurance policies are sound.
When you are told that the
United States Treasury has thir-
teen billions more of liabilities
than it had in 1888, you should
also be told that it has six billion
dollars of increased assets to set
off against these liabilities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Keep People Out of Red

Now, the rise and fall of ma
tional income-since it tells the
story of how much you and I
and everybody else are making
is an index of the rise and fall
of national prosperity. 1t is also
an index of the prosperity of the
Government. The money to run
the Government comes from
taxes; and the tax revenue in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
Full Text of the Presidents Address

has been not a single national
bank failure in the United
States. 1t has been SIS years
since that kind of a record has
been established. You and I
can take this occasion to rejoice
in that record. 1t is proof that
the program has rJorked.
Compare the score board
which you have in Pittsburgh
now with the score board which
you had when I stood here at
second base in this field four
years ago. At that time, as I
drove through these great val
legs, I could see mile after mile
of this greatest mill and factory
area in the world, a dead piano.
rama of silent black structures
and smokeleSS stacks. I saw
ideleneSs and hunger instead of
the Whirl of machinery. Today
as I came north from West
Virginia, I saw mines operating.
I found hustle and life, the hiss
of steam, the ring of steel on
steel-the roaring song of in
dustry.
And now a word as to this
foolish fear about the crush
ing load the debt will impose
upon your children and mine.
This debt is not going to be paid
by oppressive taxation on flu
ture generations. 1t is not 60
ing to be paid by taking away
the hard-won savings Of tn e
present generation.
1t is going to be paid out
of an increased national income
and increased individual income
produced by increasing national
nr0SDeritV