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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-24
Singing of Codes

Somebody ought to do something
about the Common Cold.
Doctors don't.
They say, go to bed" or Drink
a glass of water, or Take an as
pirin tablet"
They say "The common cold
must run it's cycle" And:
"We're sorry, but if we're
frank we must admit that the
medical profession knows moth
ing about colds. Oh yes, there
are about 40 billion colds year.
And statisticians say the loss to
business, social and home eff
cheney represents millions of dol
lars. But actually, we've never
vet isolated the germ of the COM
mon cold"
Such frankness is noble.
But we lie in bed with wads OF
absorbent tissue under our pillows
and assorted cough drops on the
bedside table.
And send telephone message
saying:
your party"
We sniff and sneeze and we
bark like sea lion, while the
eyes puff up and drip and the
throat aches, and the head
throbs and the nose is like a
faucet that has lost its washer,
and the voice is as the croak OF
a frustrated bullfrog.
Meanwhile we loathe people
and they loathe us, as well they
might.
For diversion we take our tenn
perature.
Always we feel bitter about life
In general.
In the midst of such misery
we are family cheered by the re-
port that in front of the Young
ocrats Headquarters on
Fourteenth Street is now a huge
truck labeled '"Termite Extermi
majors"
The hose of the apparatus ex
tends indoors into the Young
Democratic headquarters.
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rotary of State Sumner WelleS,
former Ambassador to Cuba and
a Latin American expert; Herbert
FeiS, State Department economic
adviser; Richard Southgate, AS
Bistant Chief of Protocol, and Ed
ward L. Reed, Chief of the Division
Of Mexican Affairs.
Most of these gentlemen will be
accompanied by their wives. This
is a plan most agreeable to the
Latin Americans, who will enjoy
receiving such delightfully."- repre-
sentative group of American
women.
Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Welles and Mrs.
Southgate are certain to go. Mrs.
FeiS is undecided about leaving her
2-year-old daughter. Mrs. Reed is
remaining in Washington, accord
ing to her present plans.
The delay in the announcement
of the Washington delegation to
BuenoS Aires is attributed to
various causes, principally to the
presidential election which is keep
ing most of official Washington
hanging like a loose tooth.
The conference meets on Deem
Der /. All of the South American
countries and the United States
will be represented.
Part of the delegation, though
anticipating an important and
agreeable trip, is hoping to be
in Washington by December 20,
in time for Christmas at home.
This hope is remote. Buenos
Aires is 18 days by boat from
New York. The conferences bust
ness of maintaining peace will
have to be dispatched practically
with violence in order to keep
such a schedule.
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PRESIDENTS
BOARD HEARS
TESTIMONY
Arbitrary Figure for
u. S. Contribution to
D. c. Opposed

Continuing their efforts to clar-
ify the muddled fiscal relations
between the Federal and District
governments, members of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's special fiscal re-
lations investigating committee
this afternoon will hear additional
pleas from local citizens for a
larger Federal payment toward
the municipal budget.
Testimony has been given by
citizens that each public service
unit of the municipality has had
added financial burdens due to
the presence here of the Federal
Government.
However, it was learned, this
argument will play but a small"
part in the decisions of the CON-
mittee. Members of the commit
tee, it was learned, held that the
expenses of the District agencies
in providing services to the Fed
eral Government are but one of
many phases of fiscal relation
ship between the Federal and
local units.
Arbitrary Sum Opposed
Conflicting requests as to the
form the Federal grant should
take are being carefully studied
by the committee, it was learned.
Several of the citizens have re-
queSted that formula be devised
through which the Federal contri-
button can be determined an
rually. Others have advocated
that a lump sum much larger
than the present contribution" be
fixed.
Members of the committee
would make no commitments as
to their opinions on this point.
However, it was learned that they
are definitely opposed to an "arbi-
trary" sum fixed by Congress.
System To Be Revised
If their final recommendations
are followed, it will mean that
the present system of each year
voting a lump" sum to the Dis
trict will be revised.
The contribution might still take
the form of a lump sum, but it
will necessarily follow the "for-
mula" devised by the committee.
Members of the committee are
George McAneny, chairman; Clar-
ence A. DykStra, city manager of
Cincinnati; James w. Martin,
chairman of the Kentucky State
Commission, and j. L. Jacobs, city
planning engineer Of Chicago.
Edward F. Colladay, represent
ing the Citizens Joint Committee
on Fiscal Relations, who concluded
the hearing yesterday with his
testimony, will resume his state
ment this afternoon. Others who
spoke at yesterdays session were
Peoples Counsel William A. Rob
erts, L. A. Carruthers. Thomas
Lodge, Rufus LuSk and S. E. Katz.
VOTE AMERICAN
Lansburgh's Seeks
The Lanburgh's Brothers I'm
limited basketball team desires a
practice game. Call National 1900
and ask for apartment 302.
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the pr op o sal
that Arlington
County be in
corporated into
a city h av e
dealt ure ~
with the finan-
cial status Of
the two classes
of government,
I would like to
offer a few sim
pie facts that
in the nd
W oul d mean
more to the citi-
z e ms of the
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Emery \. HOsmer county than a
few dollars, more or less, may
mean during the next few years.
I believe that the incorporation
of Arlington into a city would I'm.
doubtedly be a step in the direc-
ton Of progress, since We have al
ready reached the point where
everybody looks upon us city,
Continued on Page IL, Col. A.
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H0SNER URGES
ARLINGTON
ASCITY
Former Head of Coun-
ty Bar Cites Reasons
For Proposal

This article is the fourth of q
series dealing Dith the proposal
to make Arlington county an in.
corporated city. Its author,
formerly president of the county
bar association, tDdS prominently
Identified SeUerGl years ago
with a Statewide move to in
corporate a number OF the coun.
ties in the State.
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American Con-
ference for the
Maintenance of
Peace.
Heading the
delegation will
be Secretary of
s t a t e Cordeu
Hull.
A h o u g h
none of h g
delegates are
y e t officially
announced it is
understood that
among those go.
ing will be.
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cinct, and there had two narrow
escapes from death.
Once a thug attacked him with
a sharp knife, and another with
a pickhandle, but in each case the
young officer managed to over
power them without using his gun.
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A native of Washington. Mr..
Haycock lives in the Michigan
Park subdivision, where he and
Mrs. Haycock will soon celebrate
their forty-fifth wedding anniver-
Sary.
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BY EMERY N. HOSMER

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, Oct. 24.-Since so many Of
the reasons offered for and against
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NOW
Diplomats Due
For Farley
THESE COLDS!
BY HELEN ESSARY

On November 7 the flower of
the State Department will set sail
Tor BuenoS Aires and the Inter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
FLOWING UNDER CONSUMERS

OUCH highly vocal champions of the abundance
~ economy as Senators Vandenberg and Borah
missed chance to aid this cause when they voted
against the Wagner consumers amendment to the
farm bill. And as result the amendment was
lost by 81 to u.s.
Senator Wagner, whose New York contains
consumers than any other state, fought valiantly
to insert consumer yardstick in the BILL which
contains nothing but the word adequate" as
standard Aided by Donald Montgomery, AAA con-
consumers counsel he drafted and redrafted the
amendment until it was finally approved by both
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the chairman
of the Senate Agriculture Committee Secretary
Wallace, it should be pointed out, has been con-
sisent advocate of plenty to eat despite criticisms
hurled at him for blowing under the little pigs"
AS presented, the Wagner amendment would have
used the nineteen twenties normal basis of
supply, when crops again curtaied under the
soil conservation system set up by the new bill.
Republicans were almost unanimous against it.
One of the sponsors of the amendment suggested
that they may intend TO this failure of con-
sumner protection in G. o. P campaign sales talks
If they do, the Democrats will be well within their
rights in demanding a look at the Record
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bottledup government, the weakest in the civilized
world. run the risk of another and greater csl-
lapse leading quite possibly to dictatorship dis
indignation.
IF We amend the Constitution, we run the risk of
congressional mistakes and an increased centraliza
ton distasteful to all of For myself, think the
greater risk is to go on as we are"
Asserting that "the power we need to make us
masters in our own house Is Federal power" he
points out that his proposed amendment would be
subject to and limited by all the other parts of the
Constitution, including the Fifth Amendment with
its provisions that the Federal government shall de-
prive of life, liberty or property without due
process of law, take private property for public
use without just compensation"
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FROM THE RECORD

ID EP. MAVERICK Cd, Texo: Mr.. Speaker. ask
unanimous consent to extend my remarks in
the Record and to include therein speech made
by the president of the Press Club at the Inaugural
ton of officers last week, and also certain headlines
and short stories which were gotten out at the Press
Club at that time.
Rep. Rich Or, Pa: Mr.. Speaker, We are going
from bad to worse. Laughter) -.
Rep. Maverick: MFR. Speaker. would like to
plain that this is from Texas. He is the presi-
dent of the Press Club and distinguished citizen.
Rep. Rich: Will the gentleman tell where
Texas is? ]. !. I object Mr.. Speaker.
Rep. Sauthof prog, Wis.,: When you the
thousands of Army and Navy officers hanging around
Washington doing nothing, you come to the conclu-
sion that they could easily BIZ cut. Is. No such
tenderness of sentiment Is shown regarding the pay
of those government jobs. The poor home
less. ill-fed, ill-csad unemployed can wait. They
have lobby, no gold braid ny social prestige. To
he'll With them--they do not countl =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
TRIAL BY ORDEAL

THE United States Supreme Court has again re-
buked states that permit brutal and cowardly
officers of the law to obtain confessions by torture
The high courts order yesterday saved from the
gallows three Mississippi Negroes under sentence of
death for murder Of white farmer. In afidavits
the three men said they had confessed only after
being hanged, beaten and otherwise cruelty abused by
a mob led by deputy sheriff.
Mississippi's Supreme Court ma jority had upheld
the convictions technicality, and Mississippi
pleaded the right to prescribe its judicial pro-
cedure. This right, however said Chief Justice
ess of law
Because state may dispense with jury trial.
it does not follow that it may substitute trial by
ordeal" he said. THE rack and the torture cham
Der may not be substituted for the witness stand"
At least one Mississippi judge had held this same
view Justice Virgil Griffith (may his tribe increase)
in his minority opinion said:
THE transcript reads like pages torn from
some medieval account, than record made within
the confines of modern civilization which aspires
to an enlightened constitutional government"
In reversing this conviction the Supreme Court
has done we'll by Mississippi and it has done the
nation service. The extortion of confessions has
been common in many communities. A report to the
Wickersham Commission by Ernest Hopkins told of
finding 81 forced confessions in Appellate Court
records alone between 1920 and 1880. How many
did not get into the record one only guess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TOHN ERSKINES latest book sounds If he
- might have been an enraged listener-in at a
D. A. r. meeting and dashed home to write THE
Influence of Wonderland It's Cure"
Although he is master at the art of glib argu-
ment, few of the ones in this volume can stand
alone; they are we'll propped up with left-handed
compliments, notable exceptions and half-hearted
apologies The author pulls his punch at the start
when he says he doesn't understand thing about
Such statement is confusing to reader
of the opposite sex, since Mr.. Erskine has earned
wide literary reputation in the last 10 years by his
subtle exposure of feminine psychology. This show
of ignorance about subject upon which he pre-
sumes to address us is so typically masculine how
ever that we seldom notice it any more.
His real mad is directed at ladies of leisure
He charges them with ganging up the men in
order to run things through their organizations and
believing as he does that orly those who produce
should have any say-so about reforms, he resents
the situation If he will turn his eyes to the mascu-
line side some of his anger might be expended there
where producers have always dictated political
and economic orders to those who do the work
Mr. Erskine thinks there are too many women in
the teaching professionally admits modern men
won't enter it.
He believes religion has become femnized-yet
deplores the fact that men won't go to church.
He wants all women to support themselves-but
fails to tell us where the Jobs are coming from.
He is alarmed at the woman's world in which he
lives-but in thousand admissions he confesses
mans inability to alter it.
His book is amusing and will no doubt have
tremendous vogue because of the controversial is
sues it raises. That's why I think he owes an
apology to the woman, on one score at least. The
group he dslikes most those supported by men, have
in their turn helped to support many writing gentle
like Mr.. Erskine who, when the fountains of
literary inspiration run dry, can always jot down an
other book about the mysterious feminine sex and
thus put more simoleons into their strong boxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION

THE Constitution should be amended to give Con-
gless power to promote the ECONOMIC welfare of
the nation, according to Lloyd K Garrison, dean of
the University of Wisconsin law school and former
chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.
Mr., Garrison, who asserts that Congress has been
made powerless to regulate modern day conditions
proposes the following constitutional amendment as
O basis for discussion:
Congress shall have power to promote the
economic welfare of the United States by such
laws in its judgment are appropriate, and to
n delegate such power in whole in part to the
states Existing state powers not affected by
this article, except as Congress may occupy par
ticular field"
MI Garrison explains that the reason for this
wording is to leave to the judiciary power to prevent
arbitrary discriminatory laws from being passed
and enforced.
The permission for Congress to delegate its powers
to the states, he argues, would permit Congress to
lay down desirable standards the states to follow
In enacting legislation social and economic SUBJ
jects
Mr. Garrison opposes the current suggestions for
amendments specifying matters upon which Congress
may legislate; such an amendment would lead to
many disputes. he believes.
But he warns that we have got to take some
chances because II We 90 on as We are with
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The HOOsier Forum
achouy disopprove of what you sdy-and aoiE
defend to the death your right to sag t.-Voltaire

pointed for life, puppets and tools
sometimes, but for the most part
very successful corporation lawyers
When nine efficiency experts for big
business have more power than the
popular vote of a nation, democracy
is very sick indeed.
Oh, for another jefferson, Jackson
or Lincoln to reverse" decisions.
1t will take such men as these to
safeguard democratic form of gov
eminent, men who fought for hui
name decisions, not moneyed deci-
sions; human rights, not property
rights.
Such men will not be found on the
platform of the major political par
ties that are nurtured and controlled
by the special privileged few. It
remains for the common man, the
real American, the forgotten man if
you please, to create his own politi-
cal party This will have to come
if democracy survives in America. If
this fails, some American Hitler will
WELD the fist and squeeze out every
vestige of liberty and human rights
that our forefathers gained in the
first American revolution.
The combined forces of the So
called Liberty Leaguers;" Grass
Rooters;:" Crusaders" "Ku Klux-
ers," etc, are easily bulldozing a
week-kneed Administration into
compromising position. These or
CARNATIONS and the Hearst Press
are Americas menace of Fascism.
Wake up Americal
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| consequently they appear darker
The color of any material depends
upon its ability to absorb some rays,
and to reflect others.
Q-Who are the fencing cham
pions for foils. epee. and saber in
the United States?
A-Joseph L. Lewis, foils: Lieut.
Thomas Sands, epee; Norman c.
Armitage. saber.
(Which actress played the role
of Mary in the motion picture.
THE Virginia Judge?
A--Marsha Hunt.
Q-Wnat does the name Esau
mean?
A-Hairy. The Esau of the Bible
narrative was also called Edom,
which means red"
Q-Name the secretaries to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
A-Louis McHenry Howe. Marvin
H. Mcintyre and Stephen Early. His
personal secretary is Marguerite lie
Hand.
Q-How old is King Edward VIII
Of Great Britain?
Ale is Il.
Q-what is the past tense of the
verb light?
.A-Either lighted or lit.
Q-What is the name and address
Of the apostolic delegate to the
United States?
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani. 1871 Biltmore-st, n. W.
Washington. ID. G.
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IT'S JUST A MATTER
OF ARITHMETIC

BY n. c.
The Supreme Court picked a bad
time to hand down all these double
barreled decisions. Ordinarily most
pepople wouldn't pay much atten-
ton to them, but this cold weather
has kept everybody by the fire where
they have plenty of time to read the
papers. In this neighborhood some
of the folks are getting downright
impatient waiting for the court to
decide a case in favor of the gov
eminent or at least in favor of
something that isn't incorporated.
We all sort of look to Eddie
Squashworth to help us out in these
things. Eddie has been around and
reads book now and then. The
other day he explained a situation
like this:
1.-THE Supreme Court reminds me
of the gambling house I played in
down in Sonora. For a week I took
$40 every night and bought chips.
The cashier gave me four for g dol
lar and every night I would lose all
40 before I quit.
''Then on the eighth night I won
a whole hatful of chips. When the
man in the cage paid me off he al
lowed me dollar for six chips.
=" Look here I told him, those
chips cost two-bits apiece. What
kind of joint is this?'
1.-The cashier looked down the end
of his nose and said, Listen, kid,
I've been here a long time and
know what I'm doing. The trouble
with fellows like you, you can't
understand our kind of arithme-
tic"
Guy Finkel got sore at that story.
He jumped up and yelled, "Looky
here, Eddie. don't you believe we
ought to uphold the Constitution
of this here country?"
eyes, sir" said Eddie. Even if
we have to send the Supreme Court
judges back to the railroads where
they came from"
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Questions and Answers

Inclose Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or i'm
formation to The Indianapolis Times
Washington Services Bureau. 1913 18th
st. N W., Washington, D. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-Wbst government department
has supervision over the Coast
Guard?
A-Treasury Department.
Q-What were the losses in lives,
planes. and money resulting from
the carriage of air mail by the
United States Army?
A-Ihe War Department reported
II persons killed. including three
passengers; Is planes destroyed or
damaged in accidents, and wreckage
expense amounting to s517 $50.
Odd jefferson Davis suggest
the model for the statue of Free
dom on the dome of the Capitol in
Washington, D. c.?
A-The statue was modelled by
Thomas Crawford in Rome. Italy,
from plans approved by Jefferson
Davis, Senator from Mississippi. who
was chairman of the Committee on
Public Buildings in 1850.
Q-Has the construction of a sub
ocean tunnel connecting Great Brit
ain with the United States ever been
attempted?
A-No.
Q-Why does cloth become a
darker shade when wet?
A-Wet materials absorb more
light rays tlaasl dry materials and
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WOMAN ALARMED BY
DISAFFECTION BILL

BY Mrs. b. J. Randall, NoblesvilIe
Perhaps the most dangerous legis-
lation in recent years is the McCor-
mick -Tydings Disaffection Bill. This
bill has, already passed the Senate
and is on the House calendar. If
enacted it will deprive the press and
the people of our country of their
constitutional right of free speech.
This bill provides in brief: Who
ever advises, counsels, urges, or So
licits any member of the Army or
Navy of the United States to dis
obey the laws or regulations (any
order issued by higher authority
governing such forces; or whoever
publishes 9. distributes any book,
pampaet, paper, print, article. letter
or other writing which advises, etc,
shall be punished by a fine of not
more than $1,000 or by imprisonment
for not more than two years, or
both"
A second section provides that
any of the writing described in the
first section might be seized from
any place or person under a search
warrant in accordance with the pro-
visions of the wartime Espionage
Act.
The third section of Title ! of
the Espionage Act (Act of June
IS, 1917 upon which the present
bill is modeleO reads in part:
Whoever, when the United
States is at war. shall willfully cause
or attempt to cause INSTRUMENTATION,
disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of duty
in the military or naval forces of
the United States" etc. The first
year after the enactment of the
Espionage Act found more than
100 prosecutions. The fact that ut
terances were made in good faith,
and with complete innocence of
any idea of direct Indictment, was
utterly ignored.
This law was bad enough in time
of war, but in time of peace such
injustice is unthinkable.
The minority report on the Nc
Cormick- Tydings bill by Rep. Nav
erick Cd, Texas and K. Vale CT. L.,
Mimi charges that the bill is I'M
constitutional, unnecessary and a
brash piece of Hitleristic Fascism,
and points out that IF a mother
wrote her son, a soldier. and told
him that the Army was no place
for him and enjoined him to get
out, she would be subject to a peni-
tertiary sentence. Any news
paper SO much as suggesting an in
crease or decrease in the Army
would be subject to its provisions.
A newspaper suggesting that the
Navy did not have the best Of bat