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STORY'S END.

S1ORY 3 END.
lust as pride goeth before a fall, so,
it seems, does personal popularity
60 before q transfer.
Riders on a certain morning bus be-
tween Alexandra and Washington be-
came so attached to their regular
driver that they staged a Christmas
party for him on recent morning.
Collecting funds for a gift. they nomi-
mated one of their regular members
to play Santa Claus and everybody
had a good time. In no time some
smart newspaper fellow heard about
it and wrote piece for the papers.
The next morning the popular bus
driver was transferred to another
route.
STATIC.
Some things do not change.
Street car rails, for instance. And
those upon mitch our trains trapel.
One Wayside operative has just
dug up the information that they
haze been the same shape since
their inpention by an engineer
named Steuens los years ago.
They've alDays been the same
T-shaped affairs.
The man who makes the point is
fuI OF street car rail lore. The
Average lite OF one, he rattles on
olibly, is IS years. although some
hdue been in use since 1855.
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BOY, IA, IS ACCUSED
OF HAMMER MURDER
Police Say Youth Admits Beating
Cousin, 6, to Death and
Injuring Father.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
UNION CITY, N. j.. January l.
Jerry May, IA. was held by police last
night after admitting they said, he
hammered his 6-year-old cousin so
severely as to cause his death and
critically slashed the child's father
Deputy Chief Edward J. Mescall said
May admitted attacking his cousin,
Sergio Sciarra. with hammer, and
his uncle, Joseph Sciarra, 80, with a
knife.
The boy, whom Mrs Nancy Sciarra
described as a frequent visitor, good
boy and firm friend" of the family.
said the attack occurred when young
May was refused money to aid him in
running away from home.
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policeman who interrupted the
hold-up yesterday.
The man, listed as Lee Walker,
entered the ofice of Miss Bonnie COL
Inns, city clerk and treasurer, and
struck her over the head with a
wrench. Police Chief A. L. Burton,
in an adjoining ofiee, heard the blow,
stepped into the room as the woman
fell, and shot.
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CITY HALL ROBBER SLAIN.

HIGH SPRINGS, Fla, January /
R).-A colored man who struck down
q woman official in an attempt to rob
the City Hall was shot to death by
Evening star., 1936-01-01
RETIREMENT SEEN
FOR CHIEF HA|GHT
Board Considers Move for
2 Veteran of Fire De-
partment.

Retirement of Battalion Chief A. S,
Haight, veteran of "a years service
in the fire department, is being con-
sidered by the Fire Retirement and
Relief Board.
, | Chief Haight recently went before
the Board of Police and Fire Sur
eeons, which found he was incapaci-
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"DRUNK BY ACCIDENT"
MAN WINS ACQUiTTAL
Somebody Stole His Frog, Used
to Measure His Intoxication,
He Tells Judge.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January IA case Of
accidental intoxication came up yes
terday in Judge Thomas A. Green's
court.
Edward O'Neil, AZ, was hailed be-
fore the Judge on combined charges
Of drinking and disorderly conduct.
IT haven't seen you in a long
while" said the judge. what hap
pened?"
ut was this way, your honor"
O'Neil explained.
Il had q pet frog I'd take with me
when I'd go into a place to drink.
I'd put him on the bar and when
he changed color / knew I'd had
enough. Well, last night somebody
stole my frog"
Discharged" said the Judge, eff
you'll get new frog for New Year
eve"
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Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.
NAME MEANINGS.

Did some one ask Uhat's in
name?
Take Charles Grete pronounced
"griet"J, for example. Correspon-
dent in Washington for years for
number OF out-ot-toton newspapers,
his friends knoto Crete as the man
oho is alDays smiling?"
Then there's the candy store
proprietor ioe knotU, a Greek,
whose day is mainly taken up tDtth
singing phile he makes his opn
contections.
His name, and lOe can point out
the sign on the front OF his shop to
proue it, is Deep Saad.
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at one end Of the line he ducked be-
hind the other subjects, raced to the
other side and took an identical posi-
ton there Pufing slightly from his
efforts, he was there waiting to take
q second look and grin at the birdie
by the time it had traversed the in
tervening distance.
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Gus breakdown. While he has i'm
proved, the surgeons found he would
not be ready to return to duty for
some time.
Learning that Haight had been
hospital patient for several months,
several members of Congress have
been indorsing other fire officials for
promotion to fill his place on retire
ment, it was said at the District
Building.
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DISENCHANTED.

A NEWLY embittered young man is
walking the streets Of the Ma
tional Capital these snowy holidays.
Behind 1t all, of course, is a young
woman 1t happened this way:
Some time before Christmas the
youth bestowed upon his favorite girl
q fraternity ring, neatly engraved
with his name. The more he thought
about the excellence of the taste rep
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tated for regular
duty and Sug-
gested that the
relief hoard con-
slider his retire.
ment. The re-
port Of the latter
agency is eX-
pected to go be-
fore the Com
miSsionerS soon.
Haight, 81. has
b e e n on Si C k
leave for several
months, and Dis
trict officials were
informed he had
suffered a nerv-
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PILOT FOR RUTH NICHOLS
HELD ACCIDENT VICTIM
Troy, N. Y, Coroner Finds Crash
of Plane October 21 Did Not
Involve Criminal Negligence.

Involve Criminal Negligence.
BY the Associated Press.
TROY, N. Y. January 1.-Coroner
Walter E. Healey found last night
that the sirplane crash which killed
Capt. Harry Euolitz, pilot for Ruth
Nichols, did not involve criminal neg
ligence and was an accident.
Huolitz, former Army pilot, was
killed october 81 when a 20-passenger
Curtiss Condor airliner crashed and
burned at the Troy Airport. Miss
Nichols. Rye, N. Y, society flyer, was
severely injured. while two mechanics
and the girls who next day became
their brides escaped with minor in.
juries.
The plane had been at the airport
a week and had taken 800 passengers
on educational air tours"
Coroner Heally, in announcing his
finding, demanded State regulation to
assume financial responsibility for all
planes carrying passengers for hire.
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and poised. Most OF his remarks were
offhand in both nature and manner
They were not premeditated, but were
brought out by questions. The per-
formance seemed not only proper
method of giving leadership to public
opinion, but was leadership at its best.
Mr.. Roosevelt began with comment
on the sale of planes to the Spanish
Loyalist government by one American
dealer. He said that many manu-
facturers had asked the State Depart
ment for licenses; the department in
all cases replied that it would grant
the licenses if they were insisted upon,
because the neutrality law is manda-
tory on the department., but the de-
partment in all cases appealed to the
manufacturers, as a public service, not
to demand the licenses and not to sell
the goods. The department asked this
as q help toward preserving neutrality.
Recalcitrant 10 Per Cent.
About the one dealer who stood on
his legal rights, Mr.. Roosevelt was
rather emphatic. He used an express
sion about such an action being not
patriotic. He then used this incident
to illustrate theme that seems funda-
mental in his thinking. He said this
is another case of the recalcitrant 10
per cent. Ninety per cent of business,
Mr.. Roosevelt has said again and
again. do the decent thing It is the
10 per cent that 60 of bounds.
From the airplane shipper, Mr..
Roosevelt turned to the matter of a
possible successor to N. r. A. He did
this not in a premeditated way, but
in answer to question. He said clearly
that he has no revival of N. r. A. in
mind. But he said there has been
in some parts Of industry lately q
tendency toward unwholesome prac-
tices-use of child labor, starvation
wages. long hours. In answer to a
question, he said that in his judgment
this can only be prevented by Federal
action-action by the States cannot
do it. He said explicitly that he has
no definite plan in mind.
From what the President said on
this and other occasions, I surmise his
point Of view to be something like
this: That the public will in time
Evening star., 1936-12-31
Tanning the 10 Per Cent
Might Substitute for Law Curling
Recalcitrant Business Minority.

come to zee that evil practices II, busi-
ness can be handled effectively only
by Federal action. and that when the
country comes to this conclusion, some
appropriate Federal action will be
found. :.
Again the 10 Per Cent.
In this connection, Mr.. Roosevelt
again returned to the 10 per cent.
Ninety per cent Of business, he re-
peated, does the decent thing. The
10 per cent that follow sweatshop
practices are q menace, an unfair
competition, to the 90 per cent that
are decent. Not only for the good of
the country. but for the protection
Of the decent 90 per cent, Mr.. Roose.
velt thinks Federal control Is indis-
pensable. He has explained that State
action will not do, because If one State
forbids child labor and DEGREES a
minimum wage, the recalcitrant 10
per cent can move their factories into
another State
Now the point Of view Of those who
differ from Mr.. Roosevelt is that we
should not put the 80 per cent, and
all America, and all OF us as indi-
vidualS, into Federal strait-jacket--
merely in order to check a recalcitrant
10 per cent. 1t Is up to those who
hold this view to show that their
contention is practicable. They should
show that the desired end can be ac-
complished by means other than
statutory law uniform for all the
varied parts Of the country-in short,
that there are ways other than merely
crying pass q law"
Can Bad Alone Be Stopped?
The airplane dealer shipping planes
to Spain is . case in point Assuming
his action is what Mr. Roosevelt says
it is. then it must be universally dis
approved. Are there, then, ways by
which this individual can be restrained
other than through passage of a
mandatory, intricate law, law which
in its effort to stop the bad is likely
to deprive the good of needed hexi-
bility?
For letting this airplane shipper
know that We regard his action as
undesirable, and for checking him,
what are our resources? There are
the newspapers. 1t would take a bold
and callous person to 60 one under
widespread exposure and condemna-
ton by the press. There are the
churches and the clergy-they are
custooians Of peace and here is a call
to action. There are the labor unions
would it not be proper and whole
some for the unions to refuse to
handle such shipments? There are
trade associations-can they not find
ways Of disciplining a man who does
something generally disapproved?
There are countless other means by
which public opinion could show dis
approval, even infiict reprisal, upon
individuals and corporations who act
in ways universally regarded rs So
cially undesirable.
During the recent presidential cam
paign there were q large number OF
persons and groups, many besides
purely political organizations, who op-
posed Mr.. Roosevelt because they op-
pose his policy Of Federal regulation.
Evening star., 1936-12-31
Folk
and What
They Do
DR.. Raymond Pearl
Bares Findings With.
out Sugar Coating.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

By LEMUEL r. PARTON.
r. RAYMOND PEARL h q
kindly. genial man, but he
does think up some unpleas-
ant things. Unlike pool play.
ers, scientists don't call their shots,
but they have q way Of breaking bad
news around Christmas or New Year.
Dr.. Pearls New Year bulletin Is that
maybe the race will commit mass sui
eide, like the little Jennings, which.
every few years, parade across Nor
way by the million and march into
the sea. We're too prolific, and when
that happens in a species, there may
be . strange mass impulse toward
self-destruction.
The great Johns Hopkins biologist
never slicks up his gloomy answers.
When I asked DR.. Robert Andrews
Millikan about his cosmic rays, he
said they might be incidental to the
fashioning of new worlds, and that,
having booted our chance to make a
civilization on this planet, We might
get another workout on another
sphere, now being specially made for
this purpose.
DR.. Pearl wouldn't know about
that. In his laboratory he CLEANS
facts and statistics, working with
roosters, rats. vinegar flies, mice and
men, and when he thinks he has
something, he lays 1t on the line and
you can take 1t or leave It, There
are no pietistic Celebrations in DR..
PEARLS science, nothing about the new
synthesis Of life which We must
achieve to make up for having inter.
fered with nature. He lets the facts
fall where they may.
At 81 he Is fairly festooned with
titles. degrees, decorations and gar.
lands; that Is, he would be If he
didn't put them away and forget
them. No avalanche of honors can
make him take his mind on his work.
He Is a native Of Pennington. N. H.,
educated at Dartmouth and the Uni
versity of Washington. He heads the
Institute for Biological Research at
Johns Hopkins
He supports birth control; he thinks
the moderate tippler may have bet
ter chance for long life than the total
abstainer, the intellectual than the
manual worker; heredity Is predomi-
nant over environment in shaping
individual destiny; the unfit are now
enabled to survive and nature can't
work things out the way she would
otherwise. DR.. Pearl sometimes seems
discouraged about the human germ
plasm. But he is too much of Q
scientist to offer any pat answers.
(Copyrisht. 1867
Evening star., 1936-12-31

was kept back by Mr.. Roosevelt's in
fluence during the campaign has be-
come more and more visible on the
horizon in the last few weeks.
Living Costs Rise.
Nineteen thirty-six saw a substantial
increase in national income, but the
rate Of increase Is still not Sufficient to
absorb comfortably the tremendous in
crease In the total cost of the Federal.
State and city governments. Taxes are
rising instead of diminishing, and the
consumer began to feel during the year
an increase in the cost of living.
Many Of the increases in price are
directly traceable to Government
policies, but the full effect will not be
noted until 1887 Is well under way.
The most significant piece Of govern
ment Intervention in business which,
unless repealed, may change the whole
course of American business, Is the law
requiring the distribution Of surpluses
lest penalty tax be paid. The use of
the taxing power ostensibly to strike at
so-called tax avoidance, but actually
to increase the distribution Of dividends
to stockholders has made q profound
impression on the arrangements Of
American corporations.
The payment Of increased wages and
bonuses in the last quarter Of 1885 was
the result in large part of the desire of
companies to avoid the effects of the
undistributed surplus tax. Many who
objected that the new tax is tax on
thrift and will some day lead to vast
unemployment because reserves will
have been depleted have been brushed
aside in q wave of enthusiasm over the
amount of purchasing power sup
posedly added to the national income
by reason of the new tax.
Devaluation Reckoning Coming.
It Is too early to estimate the effects
Of enforced spending and Of the attack
on the accustomed principles Of thrift
and prudent management. Every SYM
tom of the historic course that infla-
tion has always followed is slowly being
introduced into the national picture as
59-cent dollars more and more come to
be understood as purchasing less and
less than the old 100-cent dollars.
Some day America will understand
devaluation Of the dollar in its truest
sense-a means Of painlessly cutting
real wages or at least cutting them so
that the worker would not realize what
or who was doing the cutting Of his
wages. Some day also America will
understand what reform" taxes mean
in terms of unemployment. But when
one has said this, he must quickly add
that 1896 was, after the election, Q
period of superficial optimism which
will continue for many months and
perhaps for a couple years more until
the full effects Of governmental inter-
vention In the economic machinery
can be measured and perhaps also
evaluated in terms Of the real welfare
of the average family in America.
(Copyright. 1885,
Evening star., 1936-12-31

to emphasize the
dramatic, whether
in newspaper mar
ratives or per-
sonal converse.
ton. And If head
lines inc lu d e d
such W or ds as
"figh h t" and
"drive," that Is
because short and
striking words ac-
commodate them
selves to headline
needs.
To me, t h e
President seemed
even 4. tempered
Evening star., 1936-12-31

Indictment
sponsible for q explosion
This situation raises the old question
apparently the companies seams
the Pennsylvania hills Obviously system OF property
their purchase lease OF the coal lands roht
to mine this coal Naturally they expected coal
at loss Haze they the right to the
Idke the coal sell it? it
matter OF life and death; uth the companies, it matter of
profits in property.
There will be the a out the
national Guard OF the Union League Club demand
naonae coal This column
does not pretend to know the
does feel however
system which hnds profitable withhold
modify which people need and which
men with the STRENGTH skill and
something with political
businesses which support this organized scarcity
anthracite nneunder present oUnershp-s
Jet he companies go bankrupt sell the
ong and resume mining NTH
old system but when rugged indiptdua,ss
couldn't it.
laid with lilies shown that really
oees
Evening star., 1936-12-31

The chart is made up of official
Government figures, except the
current month, which has been
privately estimated. All figures,
except pay rolls and prices, are
adjusted for seasonal variations
and therefore represent the per-
centage of normal existing for the
period stated. Normal Q00) is
the average level for the years
1923, 1924 and 1925, except for
the price index, which Is based
on 1926.
Evening star., 1936-12-31

Note-The the
the Government The
because the Beauo Statistics
its reckoning adjusted its computations
with the 1888
will look behind the high employment will find
where unemployment lies
November locomotives industry
employed only
employed miwork
"a; brick 49, glass; millinery,
fertilizers 10. These
The best Steel o8 machinery registers 49,
machine tools l2S aircraft $780, automobiles textiles
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picking build
There expect that the
In will be strong.
factories the employment figures do not run
employment OF the non-manuacurng industries
is general merchandising there 100
oneo other industries 100.
industries Of the generally
which all
are decidedly the few months, at least
Copyrsh
Evening star., 1936-12-31
News Behind the News
Economic Bells Boom Prosperity Tune, With Some
Notable Disharmony.
BY PAUL MALLON.

PAUL MALLON.
reached. this q state
could called prosperity yet out Of the depression
1892
humming
Employment notes under the high
freight of go sales of 2 Of IL and
building a points below 1929
wiH sound louder cheerful
thano whoe makes a somewhat
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though
people When
humanity has faced situation
seeded from its institutions Bootleg mining form
appalling
the Of economic
employment
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AS the climax.
What happened
prior to November
8 must be marked
out as the deS-
perate effort Of
those who believe
In constitutional
ism Of the tradi-
tional type to
defeat those who
believe in adapt
ing the Govern
inent to the pur-
poses of a welfare
agency directly
beneftting vas t
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rscsssary The Stars Such opinions are presented n
The Stars effort De all sides questions OF interest to It's
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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apparel. 116; food. 1l3; radios. 2l0;
chemicals, 1870; oil refining, 100.
What this means is the great
bulk of large industries are now
employing more men than in the
selected normal time. Unemploy-
ment is mainly in three large in
dustries, namely. building, rail
equipment and tobacco. The to-
bacco deficiency, of course, rep
resents chronological unemploy-
r,nart Thera iS No Ekelihood of
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sumers. Prices are held high and,
where wage rates are not cut, whole
mines are shut down.
For this bootleg coal situation has
an Importance far beyond itself.
The thing which has happened in
Pennsylvania illustrates the anti
social illogicality which has been
finally identified with the old insti-
tutions Of law, property and wealth.
Whereas We are but life occupants
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believing in ''the American way of
life" to demonstrate their faith by
works.
(Copyright, 1850
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Cannot these individuals and groups
now find ways to take action to make
Mr.. Roosevelt's policy unnecessary?
Here is an opportunity for presons
Evening star., 1936-12-31
Opinion
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

HRESDENT ROOSEVELT's press
- conference Tuesday was re-
ported in the newspapers with
= the fullness called for by the
subjects discussed. II some accounts
spoke Of Mr.. Roosevelt as indignant"
that Is because all Of US tend q little
Evening star., 1936-12-31
We, the People
Bootleg Coal Problem Reveals Humanity's Secession
From Capitalism.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.


bootleg situation anthracite
stealing" ground
employed corporate
private property Supreme Court
ridiculous.
8 follows
Of companies decided shut
thereby leaving number Pennsylvania communities
still
pddled in neghboring cities While New York tried to
Manhattan nothing
to the digging.
Of Pennsylvania q of
region police
Of deporing living
Evening star., 1936-12-31

on stolen" coal. but frankly ed
mitting that the choice lies be-
tween theft and starvation, not
only for the idle miners, but also
for the business and professional
classes Of the coal country. The
only occasion on which the State
troopers had interfered with boot
leg mining was when a group Of
thieves" were working under
such dangerous conditions as to
threaten loss Of life. The only
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MRS. COOGAN WEDS

Mother of Former Child Star Mar.
ries Sons Business Manager.
LAS VEGAS, New. December 81
P,.-Mrs. Lillian r. Coogan, mother
Of Jack Coogan, former child film
actor, and Arthur L. Bernstein,
Coogan's business manager, were
married here yesterday.
Mrs. Coogan's husband. John, was
killed in May, 1885, in an automobile
accident
Evening star., 1936-12-31
Judging 1896
Is Task of
Future
Results of Controlled
Economy to Be Known
After Trial Period.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
OOKNG back over the veal

OOhlNG DaCk over tnc year
1885 from a governmental
/ viewpoint, there can be little
~ doubt that it was given over
to q titanic struggle between con-
servative and liberal forces, with the
election on November 3
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(Copyrisht, 1850
Evening star., 1936-12-31

!. RAYMOND PEARL h q
kindly. genial man, but he
does think up some unpleas-
ant things. Unlike pool play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

TTAS the influx of women into industrial and
l. white-collar fields, competing with men, Gre
ated such an excess of workers available jobs
that millions of unemployed constitute permanent
American problem?
Harry L. Hopkins the right-hand relief man of
President Roosevelt says he knows of no way to get
at the actual facts and that he has personal or
Official objection to working if they want to
do so.
But DR.. Isador Lubin the Labor Departments
commissioner of statistics said: There is nothing
to show permanent unemployment problem be-
cause of working women If there is permanent
problem it is due to other causes
Dr. Lubn declared that even If some women do
take jobs that might be filed by husbands and