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The Washington times., 1937-03-26

Churches today observed Good
Friday, many beginning three
hour services at noon. Other
groups also planned special obSer-
VanceS.
The Department of Agriculture
Chorus, under the direction Of
Robert Frederick Freund, will give
its annual performance of the
Dubois cantata at p. m. today
in the South Building auditorium.
Macfarlane'S cantata, "The Mes
sage from the Cross" will be sung
by the choir of the Church of the
Epiphany at 8 o'clock tonight, un-
der the direction of Adolph
TorovSki.
KiWaniS Service
Easter services also featured the
weekly luncheon meeting of the
Kiwanis Club at the Mayflower
Hotel yesterday, with Kiwanis
clergymen in charge of the pro-
The Washington times., 1937-03-26
st. John, IX:17

at 8 p. m. 1t will be sung at the
same hour at the st. Thomas Epis-
copal Church, where DR.. Allen J.
Miller will speak.
At Covenant First Presbyterian
Church the quartet will sing Mer-
cadante'S Seven Last Words Of
the Cross" at 5 p. m. DR.. Albert
Joseph Mccartney, pastor, will
speak.
The New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church is holding service
at 1915.
Three-hour service in the st.
Margaret'S Episcopal Church will
be conducted by the Rev. Herbert
Scott Smith.
The Washington times., 1937-03-26
BLAST REPORT
ASKSU. 5. RULE.
OF BUILDING
Gas Pressure
Blamed for Texas
School Horror

USTIN, Texas, March 26
0.N.SO.-A preliminary report Of
the military court of inquiry,
which investigated the New Lon
don school disaster, today recon-
mended creation of a Government
agency to supervise public building
construction and compulsory use
of a malodorant in domestic gas.
The report reduced to specific
finding of fact testimony that trus-
tees of the school had authorized
diSconnection Of the schools gas
system from the regular gas dis.
tributor, and connection to the
highly dangerous" residue gas
line from a gasoline plant.
THIS gas, the findings stated,
led to irregular pressureS in the
gas line, constructed for a regular
pressure of four ounces.
There resulted an explosive
mixture" which probably was fired
by knife switch on an electrical
line in the manual training room.
international News Service
At the request of school board
officials of other districts in the
vicinity of New London, Texas,
where 455 children were killed by
an explosion last week, the Bureau
of Mines today assigned five in
veStigators to make examination
Of other schools in that vicinity
for possible gas accumulation.
The Washington times., 1937-03-26
Girls Torch Slayer Hunted

NEW CASTLE, Ind, March 26
S0.-Sheriff Charles Zornes
today directed a search for two
men believed to be the slayerS of
Mabel Sutton, %, torch murder
victim whose body was found in
the woods here.
The search. was ordered when a
farmer reported seeing two myS-
teriouS men leave the woods last
Sunday. Three days later the body
of the former student at Ball State
Teachers College was found.
The Washington times., 1937-03-26
CHANGE ASKED
NC0URT PLAN
Continued from Page u

IA JAAA Il eSSS ~
both factions. One of Hatch's pro
posed amendments would limit the
Presidents proposal to name one
new justice for each justice over
10 who fails to retire, to the ap-
pointment of only one new justice
during any calendar year. This
would limit the President to nam.
ing four new justices during his
present term if no justices retired.
The second Hatch amendment
would adopt the suggestion in Mr..
Roosevelt'S original message to
Congress for flexibility in the size
of the Supreme Court.
There was no indication that
any of these compromise moves
would prove successful.
AShurst Bars Compromise
Senator Ashurst CD of Arizona,
Judiciary Committee chairman
and head of the Administration
forces, declared he opposed any
modification of the Presidential
plan. He said:
I'VE want a CIean-cut victory
or a clean-cut defeat on the
Presidents plan. There can be
no compromise. 1t is up or
down. That is what the cOun-
try desires. 1t wants a decision
NOT a compromise that may
haunt us in the future
Opposition leaders were an
gered by the Easter recess in the
hearings. They had summoned
witnesses here from distant cities
to appear on the stand today and
tomorrow. They will be heard
next week.
The opposition yesterday put on
the stand DR.. Gould Wickey, a
Lutheran educator; Dean Young
B. Smith of Columbia law school,
and Fred Brenckman, National
Grange representative.
The Washington times., 1937-03-26

Di trict Methodist Episcopal
Churches
The Washington times., 1937-03-26

Di trict Methodist Episcopal
Churches.
Walsh at St. Patrick'S
The three-hour services of Via
torian Seminary will be conducted
by the Rev. E. M. Walsh from
noon to p. M, in st. Patrick's
Catholic Church, with tenebrae at
7:30 p. m.
The discourse at the Three
Hour Agony" this afternoon at
Holy Trinity Church will be de-
livered by the Robert I. Cannon,
S. j., president of Fordham Uni
versity.
Under the direction of Norton
M. Little, the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church choir will sing
Sir John Stainer's "Crucifixion"
The Washington times., 1937-03-26
Treasury Condition

Treasury balance March "a,
1888, 1862, ,370.71: internal revenue,
$5,36S, ,994.50; customs receipts,
$41, ,901 ,214.04.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
DANGER OF EPIDEMIC

Reports of an epidemic of infiu-
enza are heard with alarm by many
who well recall the trail of weakness
and death left by this disease in
former years. particularly the ter
rible plague of 1918. Many will re-
member how the land seemed filled
with funeral professions at that
time.
United States health officials think
these fears exaggerated, and note
only 1898 cases reported for the
country for the week ending jan
uary 2. That number may have
largely increased during the sue
ceeding weeks.
Many cities report an epidemic of
hard colds and ordinary grip. and
this is the time of year when people
should watch out Their hot homes
and working places are driving up
the membranes of the nose and
throat, rendering these delicate tis-
sues peculiarly subject to infection.
Man pays penalty for his indoor
life in winter.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
Milford, Friday, February 5, 1887
RISING TO EMERGENCIES

According to Admiral Cary 7.
Grayson, national chairman of the
Red Cross. the present food situ-
alton in the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys is the greatest emergency
the country has faced since the
World War.
Whatever faults the American peo-
pie have, they do not fail to rise TO
emergencies. In ordinary times,
thev seem negligent about many
things. Many of them forget TO go
to the polls and vote at elections,
even though great national issues
are at stake. They forget to pay
their bills. they allow minor evils
u plague their home towns and the
whole country.
When some great national emerg-
ency arOuses them, their power of
action is something tremendous.
That was seen during the World
War. Ii had previously been sup
posed in Europe, that our people,
busy with money making and sports
and a hundred other things, could
never rally themselves as an effec-
tive force TO fight q war. The world
learned better. The way the Ameri-
can people rose to that emergency
was like slumbering giant who
shakes OFF his drOwsiness. and goes
into battle with incredible power.
The present food emergency is
tremendously serious. but the nation
is rising to it, and will meet it in
every respect necessary. The home
less will be cared for until they can
return to their homes. The sick
will be nursed. the threat of terrible
disease epidemics will be met with
our marvellous science.
Whatever money is necessary for
this noble cause must be raised and
spent. The American people are not
niggardly in such things. They alb
hor waste. and they do not like the
idea that their government shall
keep borrowing money for years to
come. But when they see genuine
need, they believe in relieving il to |
the limit
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
BUSINESS AND MOTOR STRIKE

Will the spreading strike in the
motor industry throw a chill over
the previously warm hopes of busi-
ness progress? With 10000 re-
ported idle a short time ago as the
result of this regrettable difficulty.
the situation is menacing. The
American people have been pinning
their hopes on revival of industry.
Are those hopes to be snatched from
their grasp?
How many of these 10000 really
wanted to quit work. or have others
do so? If the majority of them
wished to quit. they have that right.
If they do so unwillingly, it is about
time that the majority should be
heard. A secret ballot as to their
desires would seem desirable.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
LARORING AND LOAFING

How many hours day should peO-
pie work in shops. factories. and
stores? President Roosevelt recently
indicated that excessive hours of
labor should be eliminated. His
message to Congress suggests that
he will probably advocate some stat
ute taking the place of the NRA.
The older people can recall when
the ordinary workshop drilled its
men and women for 10 hours q day
They will say people were well aud
happy in those times. Yet ii was too
long a day, and it tended TO wear
the worker, out before his time
Some cautious people thought all
industry would he upset when the
eight hour day became the usual
rule.
While some men don't know how
to use leisure to their own advant-
age or that of the public. on the
whole the shorter hours promote the
general welfare.
Now the 40 hour week has become
common. though in many occupa-
tiOns people work considerably more.
Many think Il 80 hour week would
solve the unemployment problem. In
former days people said the way to
work out of depression was for
everybody 10 work harder. Today
they say. the way to make good
times. is to work less. Somehow
the idea doesn't seem to fit.
II is claimed machinery has so
speeded up production that the coun-
try can turn out all the products il
needs in 30 hours per week. One
fears the cost of production would
be so increased if people worked
only SO hours. that prices would
rise, and the peoples ability to buy
would be curtailed. There is still
much work to be done. if all the vast
range OF modern wants is to be sup
piled. Man was made primarily to
labor, rather than TO loaf
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
PUBLIC DEMANDS SETTLEMENT

If the strike in the plants of the
G .neral Motors Corporation contin-
ues. a hard blow will be dealt to
business. With our government still
paying out s2.OO0,OOO.OOO more in a
year than it is receiving, the coun-
try is in no shape for any general
tie-up of industry.
The government ought to take
steps to end this situation. An abso-
lutely secret ballot should be taken
of the workers in all these plants
to determine whether they approve
of the present strike, what kind of
a union they want, or whether they
prefer no union at all. Their de-
sires as thus expressed should be
protected. Also if the majority want
one type of representation, and the
minority something else. the minori-
~ should have its preference pro-
tected, as is done in the governments
political system.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
TRRRoRs on THE rLoop

/ The United States has seen some
very severe floods in the past ten
4 years. 1t is possible that the one
now sweeping over the Union and
Mississippi valleys will prove the
worst OF them all. Such calamity
is not mere local affair. When 400,-
900 or more people are driven from
their homes by the swirling rivers,
when water supplies are threatened,
when people lose their property, the
whole nation is affected. and must
be prepared to meet the calamity.
The historic method of protecting
the people against these disasters
is to build levees of earth or other
material to keep the river in its bed.
The floods wash vast quantities OF
sand and gravel off the hills and
fields. which is deposited in the bed
OF the river.
That raises the river level higher
and higher. In time the bottom OF
the river might be about as high as
the nearby land. so that the levees
would have to go higher and higher.
There are few more pathetic sights
than the refugees of such disaster.
perhaps huddling over some smoky
fire in the open on January night.
trying in vain to keep warm. won !
dering where the food for their /
clamoring stomachs is to come /
from.
Such calamities are another re-
minder of the glorious work done
by the American Red Cross and other
agencies. If it was not for the
labors of these blessed societies, the
misery existing in these flooded dis
tricts would he something beyond
description. II will take great
of money TO save all these
sufferers from peril and misery. and 4
the money should not he stinted for
such an errand of mercy.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
THE FREAKS OF WEATHER

The weather might be called the
worlds greatest mystery story. Who
can account for it. or predict it more
than week or two ahead? The
east has had a marvellously warm
winter so far. with rains so heavy
as to produce probably the most
terrible flood the Ohio and Missis-
sippi valleys have ever known.
If those storms had been in the
form of snow. these frozen banks
would have melted gradually, and
would not have let these vast noun
tains of water flow into the rivers
all i'm one heap.
Meanwhile the West suffers from
severe cold. and California suffers
heavy loss to its fruits.
Will science ever unravel this
mystery story of the weather and
tell us what is going to happen? SO
far the weather remains the most
unpredictable and incorrigibie force
ih the order of nature.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
THE STEALING HABIT

| A picture of the loose idea COM
monty held about property. is given
in a recent report from the Boston
Public Library. The average loss of
books from that library for n period
of ten years was IL, ,402 books year.
In 1886, 1878 books were lost. Per-
haps some of these books were mis-
land and forgotten. without any in
tention to steal them.
Probably in many cases the bor-
rowers of those books deliberately
decided TO keep them. II there is
any difference between such an act
and that OF the person who steals an
article from Il store. it is not ap-
parent.
Such actions may be sign of
C0mmunistic ideas. Some young
people may have heard so much
about the theory that all property
should be divided up equally. that
they perhaps think they have as
good right to those library books as
anybody else.
If we are going to have a success
full business system and employ
ment for all the people. the right TO
own and use property must be pro-
tected. If merchants constantly lose
stuff out of their stores, they will
have TO charge enough more for the
stun not stolen To cover their losses
from larceny. That will make goods
cost more for all honest people.
Young people should DE taught
that the only way to get the things
they want in this world. is to earn
money by honest ways. so they can
buy these desired objects. II they
steal things. they will sooner or
later get caught, and people will
not want to employ them.
In the case of public institution
like library. the habit of stealing
books or other things, deprives other
people of the chance to read these
books. II costs money to buy books |
To take the place of those lost, so 1
that the honest folks in reality have |
In pay for these thefts.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
SOCIETY IN THE BARNARD

New York society people a few
nights ago had kind of barnyard
frolic in a famous New York hotel
at which they wore ginghams and
overalls, and enjoyed their pastimes
among real cows. sheep. and hogs.
Now if the city folks would carry
that idea a step farther and spend
some time working on a real farm
here in Delaware next summer, they
should end the season with improved
health, and they would acquire some
practical and useful ideas, Man loses
when he gets out Of touch
with the real things of the soil, and
lives his artificial life amid paved
streets and skyscrapers.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
BOY SCOTT ANNIVERSARY

On February S. 1910, the Boy
Scouts of America were first char
tered. This organization was formed
by combining two societies known
as the "WOOdcraft Indians" and the
Sons of Daniel Boone"
These societies pleased the boys
because the kid mind likes pioneer
life and roughing it. The typical
boy may sulk and storm if you ask
him to do any work about your
house. But take him out in the
woods and he will labor twice as
hard to gather sticks for a camp
fire and play he is a scout or an
Indian. These organizations are a
powerful influence because they find
out what the boy wants, they give
him enjoyments he Graves. and thus
open the previously closed door to
him mind and heart.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
THE MATTsoS TRAGEDY

The country has to go back TO the
pathetic kidnapping of the Lindbergh
baby, to find anything parallel to the
distressing case Of little Charles
Mattson of Tacoma. When his
broken body was found lying in the
snow so miles from home, another
revelation was given of the depths
of cruelty OF which some men are
capable.
II would have seemed incredible a
few years ago, that men could be
found who would do such things,
who show no more human feeling
than is manifested by a tiger or a
wolf We read about the terrible
cruelties perpetrated by the bloody
Indians of Colonial days. or the saw
ages of Africa. but they seem pale
compared with the wickedness of
such a deed as this.
Was this kidnapping the work Of
some typical underworld character.
or some person of defective men
tality, or Of someone whose mind
was so stupefied by drugs that his
moral sense was completely lost?
Time only can answer such ques-
tiOns, and possibly they will never |
be answered. II seems clear enough |
that modern civilization is develop |
ing type of mind very much lower
and more degraded than the world |
ever knew before. Usually bad men
have some streak of kindness run
ming through their mostly black
hearts. But these kidnappers ap-
pear to be destitute OF any trace of
such feeling. They show complete
indifference to the terrible anxiety
and suffering endured by the family
of such victim. The man who
would beat poor little innocent
boy to death must have heart of
stone.
The desire for money, any kind of
money. even if it is dirty money. is
the usual motive behind such an act.
II is showing of the terrible things
that can happen when the madness
for money gets possession of mans
heart Truly. the Bible was right
when il said that the love of money
Is the root OF all evil
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
INCREASED PUBLICITY

The newspapers sold about IL per
cent more advertising space in 1886
than in 1885. Advertising budgets
for the year 1887 are expected to in
crease about Is TO 25 per cent, ac-
cording to the Standard Statistics
Company.
The big gain in business in 1896
could not have been accomplished
without large increase in adver-
tising. The prospects for a still fur
ther increase in advertising for 1887
make it practically certain that this
years trade will see another big
gain. The way to sell more goods
is to advertise more.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
LIVING IN FLOODED DISTRICTS

Why do people live in locations in
river valleys which are flooded over
and over again? When they have
seen tons OF dirty water pouring in
to these homes leaving masses of
filth. and perhaps carrying away the
house. why don't they get out for
good?
Yet people keep on living in such
places, just as they keep living un-
der active volcanoes which have
erupted in past years. and buried
these towns under their cinders.
Somehow people don't fear these
calamities when the sky is bright
and no sign of storm appears. In
many instances these homes are all
these folks have. and 1t is a case Of
trying the old home in an exposed
location again, or sleeping outdoors.
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05
HARDsHTPs OF FLOOD
SUFFERERS

Man proposes. but God disposes, -
said Thomas A. Kempis, the famous
religious philosopher of fiye centu-
ries ago, who wrote "The Imitation
of Christ" The tragic hardships OF
the food sufferers in the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys illustrate that
truth. There men proposed to build
their homes in happy and smiling
country along rivers that looked
serene and peaceful.
Unfortunately they did not foresee
sufficiently the floods to which these
rivers are subjected. The blame
can not be laid OF on God or Nature.
While some locations close to the
river level may not be situated for
human habitation. the country can't
allow prosperous cities to be flooded
and it must take steps to protect
them.
The machinery of civilization is
tossed aside by these raging waters
like the playthings of children. With
water supplies in some cities out of
order. how can the people keep well?
Without the usual water mains, the
firemen can't fight fire. and the great
volume of food water can't probably
he utilized much for fire fighting
since it prevents the firemen from
moving their apparatus.
II might seem that such perils are
unsurmountable. We read OF 5000 |
people caught on the upper floors
Df houses on Broadway, Louisville.
Ky. with only 30 boats available TO
lake them off. Yet we read of $780,
100 people saved from flooded homes |
n that city.
While many of them may have
on their own feet. probably
Milford chronicle., 1937-02-05

more must have been saved by some
ones energy and heroism. The peo-
pie may not exercise proper foresight
in avoiding these calamities, but
they show marvellous power when
the time of trial comes. Most OF
them rise triumphant over their sur
ferings.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Short.Wave Guide.

TO SIMPLIFY the somewhat differ
ent operations of the short-wave
feature of modern all-wav. radio sets
and to explain in popular language
just how the short waves different
from the more familiar broadcast fire..
quencies, the Department Of Com
merce's electrical division has made
available "a Guide TO Reception Of
Short Wave Broacasting Stations" 1t
was written by Lawrence c. F. Horle,
prominent radio engineer, in cooper
alton with the engineering division Of
the Radio Manufacturers Association.
The booklet, though published by
the Government. is being distributed
at nominal cost of 25 cents In SIM
pie language it sets forth the basic
phenomena involved in the trans
mission of short-wave broadcastS, and
is designed to aid users of short-wave
radios tc receive such programs with
minimum effort and greatest satisfac-
ton. No attempt is made to instruct
in the intricacieS Of serving receivers,
since each locality has its radio ex-
pertS.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
High-PO,uered ShOrt.W aue Station
Nav Be Problem for President

France particularly in the past few
years have been aiming their news,
propaganda and entertainment pro-
grams in an evident gesture that
might win them favors for their for
eign trade.
The proposals to erect a short-wave
broadcasting station in the United
States, in fact, almost invariably men,
ton also the necessity of counteract-
ing these influences in the Latin
American countries, in the evident
belief that this country must do some
thing along the same lines to protect
its trade and cultural position in the
Western Hemisphere.
The movement for such a station
began in Montevideo, Uruguay, back
in 1882, when the Pan-American con-
ference of the 81 republics comprising
the Pan-American Union, the United
States included, agreed to establish
short-wave stations for mutual ex-
changes Of programs conducive to
friendship and understanding among
themselves.
This movement gained impetus re-
Gently when Representative Celler,
Democrat, Of New York, introduced q
bill to authorize the Navy to con-
struct such station in or near Wash
ington-its programs to be provided
under the auspices of the United
States commissioner of educational
a cost of $750,000, with an additional
100000 for operation and mainte.
nance. The Celler bill provides that
programs would be aimed particularly
at Latin America and would call the
station the Pan.American station.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Women Losing Out.

TTALY'S radio system, practically
the last stronghold of women radio
announcers, is relegating them to the
background and turning over the
reading of news to men. What few
women announoers are left are used
merely to make program announce
ments, and even the famous Rome
broadcaster, Maria Luisa Boncom-
pagni, has been transferred to Turin.
In the United States and England
women announcers are the exception
rather than the rule, experience
having proved that the male is the
more popular of the species before
the microphone-even with women
listeners.