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$50 FURNITURE EXHIBITS
Semi-Annual Show Attendance
Expected to BE 10000.

Expected to Be IO,UOU.
CHICAGO, January 2 tP>.-Frank
S. Whiting. vice president of the
American Furniture Mart, predicted
today new attendance mark of more
than 10000 would be set for the
twenty-sixth semi-annual furniture
show opening at the mart Monday.
Whiting said more than $50 manu-
facturers would exhibit the latest fur
niture and furnishings. There will be
70 more lines exhibited than at the
July show, he added.
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WORKERS CALLED
Steel Group to Study Attacks on
Representative Plan.

PITTSBURGH. January tP}-A
call for meeting Of steel workers
employe representatives January S was
issued today Ito consider a resolu-
ton against the attacks on the en-
Evening star., 1937-01-03

ploye representative plan by outside
sources"
The call was issued by William B.
Hadden, secretary of the employe
group of the Pittsburgh District Cen
eral Council recently formed here.
Evening star., 1937-01-03

Wood Chopping Exercise.
DR.. c. H. Blackford, 30, pioneer
Oklahoma dentist, chops wood before
dawn as setting-up exercise.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

BOake Carter crumble to bit. His labor
friends repudiated him. He became a political
has-been. 1t broke him.
Ramsay Macdonald was often charged with
selling out his party and going conservative and
h1gh-hat. Perhaps that may be quite true in
the technical sense. But the question is: Did
Macdonald sell out his labor friends for bigger
objective-hiS country? You will find that the
great majority of men in public life try and do
their best for their party first Macdonald
think, went one step higher and sold out all his
personal prejudices desires, likes and disikes to
do what he believed was best for the nation.
"The Good Is Oft Inferred :"
The tragedy of cases like this is that the worth
of men who strive for so high an ideal are never
recognized until too late by us, the people.
Neither can the men themselves go back to the
group they sold out. That, too, is another
tragedy of public life.
Take three famous contemporary men in pub
lie ife-MacDonald, Herbert Hoover and Frank
lin Roosevelt. Circumstances make Roosevelt.
Circumstances killed Herbert Hoover's public
career. Circumstances made Macdonald sacrifice
party and personal principles for the British
nation and the British government.
In Herbert Hoover there was a man who, like
Macdonald, thought of country first, rather than
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
TOTAL
OVER S531,OOO

Community chest contributions
stood today as the week closed at
$531, ,100.55, a little more than one
fourth of the $2,O59,OOO set as the
goal for the drive scheduled to end
on November %.
Reports from several groups
soliciting funds showed the gov
ernment unit gaining, and with
the special assignments unit hold
ing the lead over other groups, be-
ing responsible between them for
three-fourths of the pledges re-
ceived.
Chest workers reported they
were set for a big drive Monday
which will reach out into the
suburbs.
It will be a weekend of work
also for hundreds of volunteer
workers.
C. B. Dulcan, ST., vice president
and general manager of the Hecht
Company, will join the Community
Chest campaign with talk to-
night over radio station WMAL.
He will be introduced by Clarence
Phelps Dodge, Chest drive chair
man.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Says Boake Carter

the people. The people slaughtered him for it.
Roosevelt is the paradox. He thinks he is serv-
ing the country by doing things for the people
first. He sets himself first, then his party. Now
whether that is right or wrong is all matter of
opinion. But before making up ones opinion,
remember these things:
That people may form, or compose, a country
but the country or nation makes the people. They
may sound synonymous, but in reality they are
not.
A country has to develop set of principles,
upon which it may operate over long period of
years to meet all conditions for all people at all
times
The people represent an everchanging, mer-
curial force wherein their struggle is to meet the
individual problem Of life itself at the moment
rather than bothering about their relations to
the Government. The one possible exception is
the one basic gift that Government can give to
people Liberty.
The Difference Is in Approach
In light of hindsight of the last five years
and hindsight as we said the other day in the
column is always better than foresight-Herbert
Hoover struggled, amid the crash Of circum
stances, to hold up and maintain the principles
of country and Government, rather than cater to
the people. He was thinking in terms not of
groups, but of the whole economic unit.
Roosevelt caters to the individuals and groups
of people from day to day. He has, for instance,
catered to the organized highpressure groups, to
the opportuniSts and emotions of the dissatisfied
Not that he should be censured for doing that.
But he has done so at the expense of the Nation
as whole, and therein it seems to me, lies the
great danger of his philosophy.
Roosevelt is trying to change all the Govern
ment and the laws to suit conditions in people
at the moment. How are we to know that after
all these changes made with only an eye to the
moment, the picture won't reverse itself in days
to come?
(BodEe Cdrter's opinions are his oDn and not
necessarily those of The Washington Tin1eS.)
Copyright Ledger Syndicate
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Dear Washington
By Helen Essary

and write down their scientific conclusions on
algae, on the spot Or else they go way off some
where in the woods and pick little wild flowers
with the teacher.
But Latin-there's subject to test parental
pride. Every night when want to be doing
something else, "hear" conjugationS and declen-
sions. The condition "of the young puella" "to"
or "for the puella" and "by the puella"-is my
constant anxiety. "Oh puella" is the climax of
my study hour.
At least the young puella is familiar and
reminiscent character. She was having her mo-
ments when I was studying Latin about three
score years ago.
LiUes Up to Reputation
But the classic activities of the bee, the hero
of the first third of the Latin book study nightly
are new to me. No Latin bee entered my life dur
ing the first year of my high school days. The
Latin student of 1887 declines" not only the
bee, but little birds and flowers and trees and
brooks in her daily prose.
Last night, for example, I learned the epic story
of Latin bee who fell into brook. The brook
was under tree. A bird dove COLUMBIA in
the original Latin), was in the tree COLUMBIA
saw the bee in the brook under the tree He saw
the water flowing over the bee in the brook under
the tree. He saw the water flowing over the bee
in the brook under the tree.
True to his reputation, COLUMBIA had a sweet
happy impulse. He flew down from the tree He
caught the bee. It might have stung him, wet
though it was. But Columbia gave this danger
never thought He held the bee in his mouth.
Carried it to the tree. And set it on leaf to dry!
Hail COLUMBIA!
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Court Ban Sought
On Store Pickets

Suit to compel the withdrawal
of pickets from the Quaker City
Linoleum Company in the 800
block Of F st. N. w. was filed yes
terday in U. S. District Court. JUS
tice Daniel w. O'Donoghue signed
an order for the appearance of
the local union of the Carpet, Limo
leum and Soft Tile Layers Union,
Stewart M. Keyser, its business
agent, and Charles ]. Hill, of the
Building Trades Division of the
AFI. in court next Tuesday to
answer the suit.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Special Buses
For Horse Show

The National Capital Parks Of
flee today announced a special bus
service for spectators of its infor-
NAL horse show in Rock Greek
Park tomorrow at II a. m. The bus
will run from Connecticut and
Nebraska AYES. at regular 15-min.
ute intervals, beginning at 10 a. m.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Suitland Ponies
In Benefit Show

sUITLAND, Md, Nov. ia
pony show for Suitland's needy
families will be staged here to-
day. Sixteen pony classes, in
cluding two championships, will
be shown. Chairman of the show
is Roland Hartman
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

fused any help by the Court
of Appeals, I became ter
ribly sick-and I mean literally
sick.
I have always had such uI-
bounded faith in our courts
that 1 cannot conceive how a
jury composed of supposedly
compassionate and understand
ing men could have convicted
Edith Maxwell of murder.
Edith and her brother came
out to lunch here at Friend
lite. a~I aFka. &alIr;ra- ~
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Filipino Party
Next Saturday

Filipinos in Washington and vi
cinity will celebrate the second
anniversary of the Philippine Com
monwealth with a dance next Sat
urday evening at the Almas
Temple, 1915 K st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

and down stairs of their sturdy
little feet. (Size six owing to
increased vogue of athletics
for girls.) Doors slam. And
their glass panes rattle. Merry
catcalls from open windows
agitate the sensitive and costly
nature of the automatic heat
er's thermostat.
The morning is a continual
cry of, Mother, may I have
four girls to lunch before the
family eats and then may
Overton drive us to the
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
By EValn Walsh Mclean

hate to see anyone sent to prison, so before
had Means arrested, told him would give
him one last chance to play the game straight.
The $104,000 I gave him was not marked.
Time and again warned Means that if he
didn't play fair with me, I would have him
locked up.
Please believe me when I say that I had
no thought Of getting my money back when I
placed the case against Means in the hands Of
that wonderful man, j. Edgar Hoover. At that
time my life and the lives of my children were
threatened.
Other Witnesses Afraid
1t would have been easy for me to drop the
case, because I truly had no idea of recovering
the money. Several other prominent people,
who could have been important witnesses, were
afraid of the publicity which surrounded the
trial, and refused to appear in the case. They
could have told the court how they, too, had
been victimized by the same blackmailer.
I prosecuted Means in the face Of all the
dreadful publicity which I knew would result
from the trial only because was convinced
Means should be placed where he could hurt
no one else. If thought Edith Maxwell a
murderess, I wouldn't raise my voice in her
behalf.
But, when girl like Edith is so clearly in
nocent, don't stand aside and let the prejudice
of backward town railroad her into Jail for
the next 20 years. implore every man and
woman who feels as do to write a letter to the
Governor of Virginia and ask him for the
pardon which, in all justice, he cannot refuse.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
eEBut-'' p

Circumstances always make or break the men
in public life. Can any man in public life, how
ever, make the circumstances?
Ramsay MacDonald's sudden death raises that
interesting point of thought. Here was this
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

man who rose from a poverty
stricken miners job to be thrice
leader of the mighty Brit
ish Empire. Officially he died
of heart disease, but more
likely he died of a broken
heart.
He had reached the pinnacle.
Power and fame had been his
for the snap of the fingers. He
was an idealiSt and a pacifits.
His eyesight failed. He lived
to see his work for peace
r1T1Voohla %o hit rTiS Iohor
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
My Say

Prejudice and intolerance have claimed their
victim in the Virginia hills, and now Edith Max
well, sweet, intelligent, and thoroughly nice
person, must go behind prison bars for 20 years.
When I read that Edith had been re-
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

This is the day Of the week when being Good
Mother is very fatiguing.
The dear little children are home from school,
The house echoes and shivers with the racings UP
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
OLD BUILDINGS.
HAMPER " 0 R K.
IN D. C. SCHOOLS.
II in Southeast Were
Built Before 1900
By ELIZABETH OLDFIELD


Steep stairs with short, slippery
steel treads and just wide enough
for two children to pass abreast;
no outside fire escape; a dental
clinic which is little more than
a hole in the wall and single
lavatory for women teachers
pieced off from the cloakroom
are just a few of the inconven-
fences of the outmoded elemen-
tary schools in the nations Cap
ital.
At least II of these buildings,
located mostly in the Southeast
section of Washington, were built
before 1900. One, the Wallach,
was constructed in 1854. The
Seaton, Lincoln, Cranch, Curtis,
Abbott Vocational and Lovejoy
were built between 1871 and 1875.
EAT IN BASEMENT
Composed of from eight to Is
classrooms, the buildings have
dark, dreary Easements where the
children eat their lunches (pro-
vided through the kindness OF
Washington'S citizens).
Though the classrooms are
large and sunny, the lavatories
are so out of date to be a definite
health menace. GymnaSiums,
assembly rooms and even decent
offices for the principals are un-
known. Lockers? Also unknown.
Every year DR.. Frank w. Ballou.
superintendent of schools, has put
in plea for funds to replace these
old buildings, for sufficient money
Continued on Page 9, Col. ~
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news tips phoned to The Times Tip Editor at
District 1000. There will be given SIS
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them, I became thoroughly convinced that she
was entirely innocent. If you searched the
country over you would not find a more dignified,
restrained or pathetic girl than she is.
Edith, and all Of us, know that she hit her
father with a slipper. We also know that more
than an hour and half elapsed between the
time she hit him and the time Of his death.
Since he was an old man, wouldn't be sur
prised if Trigg Maxwell, Ediths father, did
not die of simple heart trouble.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

movieS?" -. But why do I always have to have
that music lesson Saturday-Ive already asked the
girls to the movieS!" I'm sorry, but Overton
can't take HER to the movies or any place else
My hockey team plays today and promised that
I would. E. "But why do have to have my
hair shampooed?" -. 'It certainly isn't my satur.
day to fix the bird cage" "Other girls don't
have to wash their own stockings" etc., etc., and
etc.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Recalls Means Episode

I'm the last person in the world to ask that
justice should be merciful, where guilt is clearly
proven. think showed this when deliberately
exposed myself to much agonizing and nerve
wracking publicity to convict CASTOR Means
The Washington times., 1937-11-13

weekly for the best news tip received. $40 for
the next, and 81 prizes for the next IS.
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
Test for Parental Pride

Such little bits of Saturday child-training irri.
tates the nerves. But it's the homework of school
nights that strains this maternal intelligence.
Particularly the Latin homework The hours
spend with Latin! It was mistake to insist on
the classics for my youngest Botany would have
been pleasanter choice. Botany is learned en-
tirely away from the home. It's students squint at
drops of swamp water through school microscopes
The Washington times., 1937-11-13
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Times is offering $50 in prizes each week for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
When King George Received
the Big News from America

what appeared to be the emotion
of the king? What did he say?"
"Well, sir" said West, che
made reply characteristic of the
goodness of his heart" or words
to that effect. WE'LL he said,
If they can be happier under the
government they have chosen,
then under mine, l shall be hap
py!'"
Morse stayed four years in Eng
land where he achieved consider
able success as a portrait painter.
Then returning to his native coun-
try, he afterwards became presi-
dent of the national academy and
an eminently successful painter,
his sitters becoming so numerous
that he was unable to meet and
fill all of his orders. 1t was dur
ing his return voyage to America
in 1882, following a second visit to
Europe, that Morse got his con-
ception of the telegraph. Twelve
years later-May "a, 1844-he
gave a public demonstration of
his invention, sending a message
from Washington to Baltimore.
The rest is well known history.
Kansas City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24

his hands. sit was all over six
months ago."
"Ha!" Vicky commented and was
silent.
cts all a mess! She" He
stopped, but his tone and the long
pause were eloquent.
"Why don't you see Serena and
have it over?" Vicky asked pres
emily, quite simply.
81 have seen her." Quentin
growled.
"Since you got homer"
'There were letters waiting when
I got here, ten days ago." Quentin
said, the painful rush of his words
showing, even under the circum-
stances, his relief at finding an OPP
portunity to talk. "All that week
she telephoned, and twice she came
to the office, but I was only doing
appointment work last week and
didn't see her. Then on Saturday,
when vi and the kids were here
remember?-I went up to the barn
to see Moogy and the puppies, and
she was waiting there-said she had
been watching us on the lawn"
Good heavens!" Vicky said.
"Then it isn't that Spencer's ILL.,"
she unused. "He didn't look as if
he'd been ill today"
"Of course not!"
you've changed and she hasn't"
Vicky added, in the same reflective
tone. That's it?"
"I've made such a mess of it;
I've let you in for all this" Quentin
muttered, grinding his CRAVING hair
in his big hands. "Vic, there's no
use saying I'm sorry! There's moth
ing I can say"
"She doesn't seem to have much
shame about it," Vic observed mild
ly. "Oh, my God, to be as happy as
this again!" she said in her soul.
"Now," Quentin said, after
thought, and with a change of tone
"now she's everywhere, Vic wait
ing for me. AS far as I'm con-
cerned, it's all been over for year;
it's stale, it's cold, God knows 1
wish l need never set eyes on her
again! But nows the time she
wants to see me. She keeps asking
me, what has she done? Who has
been telling me things about herr"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
The Scales

M/HAT goes up must come
w down. Or If you wish to put
It in more scientific language: Ac-
ton is equal to reaction and in the
contrary direction.
This is the law of compensation.
1t is the one fixed, immutable law
of life and it applies to every
thing, everywhere. 1t cannot be
evaded or avoided. The working
Of it may be immediate or it
may be a matter of centuries,
but If we keep ourselves aware
Of it we may be saved disappoint-
ment and disillusion. 1,.
The extent to which we try to
restrict that law is absurd. We
speak of balanced budgets, bal
anced rations, and the balance of
trade; but we quite ignore bal
anced lives and balanced sociolo-
gy; so, in the end, Nature takes
the job off our hands, with the
consequent upheavals and disturb
ances.
We work or play to excess, we
indulge our appetites and our
senses to repletion, perhaps to
gluttony, and when we suffer dur
ing Natures work of restoring
balance, we rail at fate.
In monarchy and republic we
allow our thirst for power and
for money to overbalance our
lives, both individually and So
cially, then blame God and man
for the chaos which attends the
restoration of balance.
In all the affairs of life we may
evolve PHILOSOPHERS and devise
systems; but just so long as they
are out of balance, individually,
socially, industrially or govern
mentally, just so long will the
scale teeter up and down to our
discomfort.
If as individuals our lives are
out of balance, the structure as a
whole must also be out of bal
ance; and in time that balance
must be restored-by us or by
THOSE WHO FOLLOW.-Ray g.
Ayers in Detroit News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24

Samuel Morse, inventor of the
electric telegraph, had only one
ambition as a young man and that
was to become an artist. He stud
led under Washington Allston,
then the greatest painter in the
United States, and with Allston
went to London in 1911. There he
met Benjamin West who, although
an American, was president of the
Royal academy, and a great IA
vorite with the king, who later
made him Sir Benjamin West.
West was actually at work on a
portrait of the king when the lat
ter was handed the Declaration of
Independence. Morse heard the
piquant story from West himself.
says Ernest Greenwood in From
Amber to Amperes." Here it is
AS related by Morse:
Turning to the picture of the
king, Sir Benjamin West said:
"Do you see that picture, Mr..
Morse? Well, sir, the king
was sitting for me when the box
containing the American Declara-
ton of independence was handed
to him."
indeed" l answered, "and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
bv KATHLEEN NORRIS
@ Kathleen Norris
WNU Service.

never asked you to say" she said
evenly.
mo, you've never asked me to
say it. And it won't do any particu-
lar good for me to say it," the man
answered, his body bowed forward
now, his big hands locked between
his knees, his eyes on the fire. "But
I'd like to say this, just the same.
I've been-I'm just beginning to
realize what fool I've been! I've
known l was fool for long time
since last summer, since Mart was
born. l had time to think about it
in Germany. My God, what I went
through there, missing you all
Kenty and Sue and little Mad and
the new baby! And thought what a
fool I'd made of myself, and how
I'd hurt YOU"
Victoria left the desk and took
the chair opposite his own. The
spring night was cold, and she had
put on for dinner an old brown vel
vet gown with a deep, childish en-
broidered collar; her wave d
brushed mop, her round serious
eyes, and the flat-heeled brown vel
vet slippers she crossed on foot
stool all helped to give her the
aspect of a child.
"You mean you wish you were
done with Serena?"
81 am done with her!" Quentin
muttered, not raising his head from
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Funster Ought to Have
Recognized His Fellow

Jones de We're Jones decided il
would be fun to spend a day in
the country. Back to Nature, and
all that.
Meeting a farmer in a field he
thought to have some fun with
him.
Woodworking" he started. 81
must say l admire your part OF
the country"
Then he noticed scarecrow in
the middle of the field.
"And is that one of the Oldest
inhabitants?" hes went on, point
ing to the scarecrow.
NAV, zur," came the slow re-
ply. 'That be no oldest 'habi-
tant. Just a visitor like yourself"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
CHAPTER XIII

Victoria raised her round eyes.
SIS that the line?"
''I'm telling you about it," Quen-
tin muttered, surprised at himself.
"But you're not like most women,
you're different! I need you, even
in this. I can't get out, unless you
help get me out. ! let myself in
for it, I've nobody to blame but
myself, but l can't get myself out.
She's everywhere" he went on,
glancing up restlessly, glancing
back again. IF Johnny and / go
to lunch at the st. Francis hotel,
she's there; she comes across the
room. He knows about it, Vic;
every doctor in my Office knows.