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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
Just Fancy!

WHEN visiting foreigner tells the United States
w to build up its defense and avoid European en-
tanglements, that's news.
In fact, it is almost miracle But it happens to be
the counsel of Lord Marley, British Laborte, in
this counry-and it is welcome as it is unexpected
That has been the idea of most of the American
people ever since the war; but it has been directly
CONTRARY to the ideas of most of the eminent foreign
gentlemen who land here and start to give us fathery
advice as soon as the gangplank is down.
For once however touring lecturer from the other
side has reversed the usual procedure.
What nextH Some Englishman or Frenchman of note
may even admit that there is war debt owing to
Us, and suggest that it ought to be paid That's not
ABSOLUTELY impossible, fantastic though it sounds
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
Col. Harrison III. Dodge

THE death of Col. Harrison H. Dodge is sincerely
L regretted by every American who loves and
crates the patriotic shrine at Mount Vernon.
For more than fifty years Colonel Dodge, super
intendent of the estate of George Washington the
active director in the restoration and preservation of
this historic residence
Diligently pursuing the ideals of the Mount Vernon
Ladies Association Colonel Dodge worked as one in
spired to perpetuate this memorial to Washington.
Under his direction many important additions were
made to Mount Vernon
He not only reclaimed considerable portion of the
original estate but under his supervision the vast col
lection of Washington memorabilia was tremendously
and Importantly increased.
Colonel Dodge's service of patriotism and the
improvements which he made at Mount Vernon remain
as memorial to his loyalty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
TINE FOR THAT

Mrs. Leslie B. Wright doesn't
want an abattoir in Washington
She so told a Senate Subcommlt'
tee in no uncertain terms.
Just as she was going back to
her seat she delivered herself Of q
few remarks about the fact that
Senator Willard Tydings Of Mary.
land, who rather favorS the propo.
sition, was not present to hear
her testimony. In doing so she
heaped quite few compliments on
Senator Pat McCarran, who is con
Quoting the hearings.
Senator McCarran attempted to
stop her, but to no avail. Finally
the attorney for the stockyards at
Benning asked:
would you be in favor Of
erecting q monument to Sena-
tor TydingS and Senator Nc.
Carran?" r
(which One?" she shot back.
why, either" persisted the at
tOrney.
81 think Senator McCarran
is q very great man. 1 think he
deserves all the recognition he
gets. / think"
She was cut short in her out
burst by the attorney who re
marked:
"The reason asked that queS-
ton is because Secretary Ickes
has been quoted as saying that
IL the abattOir is rebuilt at BEN
ming it will be q monument to
Senator McCarran and Senator
TydingS and 1 wondered If You
wouldn't be in favor Of 1t on
that grounds"
Lets wait until it's built"
she replied, land then we can
decide what tn call IL"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
so THEY SAY

In the cloak rooms and in the
corridors, in fact wherever those
who like a bit Of gossip are gath
ering nowadays in the Capitol,
they are telling this one:
A Democratic and a Republican
member Of the House went out to
make a night Of it. On the way
from here to there the Democrat
suddenly asked the Republican If
he had ever met the President.
The Republican answered in the
negative.
Thereupon the Democrat
launched into long and unusually
rich presentation Of the Presidents
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
Wise Words

Gossip is a sort Of smoke that
comes from the dirty tobacco pipes
Of those who diffuse it; it proves
nothing but the bad taste Of the
smoker. George Eliot.
To have great man for an init.
mate friend seems pleasant to
those who have never tried it;
those who have it, fear it.
Horace.
Better a FOOLS paradise than q
wise mans hell.-Paulus Secondus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

Of years that
had gone to its
making Of
the tears that
W ere in it.
and the sweat
and the blood
j. and Of all
the sweet and
gentle t h ing s
as we'll
The flowers
that had bloom
ed an d faded
and bloom ed
again the
wheat that had
..S..n>Al
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson
STEP SOFTLY THERE ARE TEARS

Dwanderings and wars, the struggles
and sacrifice.
I thought Of mothers sobbing
over dead babies ;. grooming over
living, laughing ones and Of
men, beating blindly forward on
Incharted seas -. and OF chill
dren, wrapt in the radiance Of
their undimmed faith.
I thought Of the strangeness Of
it all that, out of such brutal
savagery and jungle ignorance,
such saintliness and courage could
have come!
And of how that finenesS had
been fused into one flame Of faith
that had been handed down and
down, from the dead to the living,
age after age.
ENDLESS DEBT
And again my heart shook at
the realization Of my debt ;. Of
that vast and endless debt which
I could only pay by myself keeping
that faith and handing it on.
And I said to myself
"Step softly on this earth!
Pass gently through this crowd!
There are tears here. There are
prayers and sacrifices and brave
struggles. wherever you step,
the way has been paved by the
agony Of the forgotten. Wher-
ever you look, there rms the
record Of the nameleSs. You live
because they made it possible.
For all you have, for all You are,
you are in debt. Step softly -.
pass gently remembering.
As you have taken from those
who have gone, so must you give
to those yet to come. WALK
HUMBLY -. AND CARRY THE
FAITH"
This column welcomes and
requests comments. Letters
presenting personal problems
may also be sent. All letters tDa!
be handled contidentiGlly and
answered promptly IT stamped
addressed envelopes are IN"
cLuded.)
Copyright. 1887 by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

and GhOst-Breaker, really q
GhOSt-Breaker or is he ghost
brOken?"
There seems to be q perpetual
feud between Dunninger and the
spiritualiStS. AS a magician and
a sleight-of-hand artist, he claims
that he is able to duplicate any
and all happenings Of the Seance
room which may be attributed to
supernatural agencies. He offers
$4,000 for proof of q ghost, and
processes to be diSbeliever in all
unworldly phenomena.
Dunninger seldom misses an OPP
portunity to repeat his challenge
to Spiritualists. Last month he
gave a Seance Of his own and,
among other things, duplicated
the feat Of Igo Pepitilla, a Mexi-
can medium, who moves mani
mate objects from the floor with
out touching them.
A year or so ago Dunninger in
vaded a convention Of spiritual
lists in a New York hotel. A cele-
DRAFTED medium, who had come
from California for the meeting,
was answering questions which
had been written on paper and
sealed in envelopes. Dunninger
interrupted the proceedings by
waving a handful of envelopes
and asking the man on the plat
form to tell what was written on
the enclosure. The magician was
requested to leave as a disturber.
GHOSTLY GUARD
Elizabeth the Transcriber con-
fided to queStioners that In her
anti Dunninger parade she was
surrounded by a ghostly guard,
consisting of the shades Of Conan
Doyle, Alfred Mccain and Rain
in-the-Face. If she had needed
furt her assistance, she would have
brought with her, she said, the
shades Of Abraham Lincoln and
Aristotle.
1Rain-in-the-Face," she said,
twill be President of the United
States soon. This viii happen
when he decides to make q re-
incarnation"
The beginning of modern spirit
ualism, which for all the Dunnin.
gers has many advocates, came
with the Fox cottage rappings,
first proof Of the continuity Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
Panicky Thinking

CONGRESSIONAL committees and District officials
v seem to be getting pancky the city's finan-
cial plight as the new fiscal year approaches.
Only this can account for the suggestions that the
National Capital borrow money to meet the prospec-
tive deficit of six or seven million dollars or that the
Senate add tax legislation rider to the District
appropriation BILL
Both of these suggestions should be dropped.
! THEW onlv add to the confusion of the situation
This community is virtually free of debt now.
It must be kept so if the taxpayer not to suffer
greatly in the end ..
As the suggestion for borrowing to meet the deficit
is reported it provides that the funds should be OBJ
tanned from the Federal Government.
1t doesn't make it any palatable that the city
should be placed in debt to partner in the main
tenance of the National Capital who is already in de-
fault on his obligations to the partnership.
If the Federal Government had made the appropria-
lions to the city which it is bound to under the laws
on the statute books there would not now be any need
for borrowing or any need for imposing an additional
tax burden on the shoulders Of the handful Of local
residents.
But the great danger in the borrowing proposition
is that this city would be placed in the ranks of those
who annually. take large part of the tax dollar and
spend it interest debt and in making payments
on debt.
VI
the country in it's per capita tax burden.
To add the expenses of heavy debt to our obliga-
lions would simply increase the per capita burden of
the future
While no one advocates imposing additional taxes
on our people, it would be wise to increase taxes
slightly now to meet our obligations than to have to
increase them greatly within the next year or two to
meet debt payments.
AS to the other suggestion emanatng from the Senate
committee room that legislation to raise taxes be added
to the appropriation bill, that would be unwise and
dangerous procedure.
Aside from the fact that tax legislation must originate
in the House and therefore could not legally from
the Senate committee, the rider proposal would tend
to give US iconsidered tax and would carry
on the unfortunate procedure Of mixing legislation with
appropriations
There is too much legislation in the District bill
it passed the House.
The Senate Appropriations Committee should be
figuring out how to eliminate that legislation rather
than how it add legislative provisos to the BILL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

wife Of the new
Senator from
Louisiana, AL
len Joseph FL
lender, went to
the kitchen of
the Senate res
taurant and 81
ervis e d the
cooking Of a
thorough : going
Louisiana meal
with all t h e
trimmings and
with all the
eatableS direct
from the Sena-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

She ere t e d
something Of q
conmotion a t
t h e W orld DIS
busiest corner.
F If h Avenue
q n d Forty-Sec-
ond Street, in
New York, as
she paraded up
and down bear
ing q 10-foot
sign on which
this question
was inscribed:
SIS ITOSeDh
d un n i niger,
the DehunkeP
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
The Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

virtues. In fact he said he didn't
like to see his friend go another
minute without meeting the Chief
Executive, so they would just drive
to the White House and get it over
with right away.
Down to the White House they
went, if one is to believe the whis.
perers, and a White House guard
had a very difficult and touchy
job convincing them that it was
not the time or the occasion for
a social call. That he did convince
them is one more example Of the
effectiveness Of those men who
must be as diplomatic as if they
were in the State Department.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

made into bread, gone back again
into the common mold. It n e
homely hutS and the savage dug
outs and long-forgotten mansions.
I Thought of it all, and my heart
opened at the thought. I felt
humbled and grateful. Grateful
for all that had gone into the max
ing Of the earth ! love-. and the
good food that feeds me. and the
beauty that comforts me.
I stepped on the earth-and my
heart was touched and humbled at
the thought Of the debt I owe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
OVERWHELMING

I walked in q crowd
And, as I walked, q perception Of
what that crowd meant overcame
me.
And thought Of the billions Of
lives that had gone into the max
ing of that crowd
Brutal lives - stumbling, shut
fling - still almost ape. Savage
lives Strengthening, strengthen
ing-turning to man. Simple peas
ants, wandering gypsies, living
close to the soil.
I thought of them all. OF the
long trail since first man began.
OF the risks and adventures, the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
Keep This Pledge

ReSolved: That It be The sense of thus conOentton
that committee should be appointed by the Congress
of the United States to make study Of and to report
on the ordntinq to the residents of the District of
Columbia the right OF suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia,
June 26, 1886.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

I stepped on the earth
And, as I stepped, the realiza.
ton Of what that earth meant
swept over me.
And I thought Of the millions
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
The Human Side of the News
Bu Edpin C.. Hill

Mrs. Elizabeth O'Hare, in the
world of the spiritualists, has the
title. elizabeth the TranScriber. !"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21

This is a Senate, a Senate OF
equals, of men OF individual
honor and personal character,
and of absolute INDEPENDENCE.
We krow no master, ne 1cEno.Ol-
edge no dictGtorS. This is a hall
for mutual consultation and dis
cuSsion, not an arena for the
exhibition of champions.
DANIEL WEBSTER. .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
SOUTHERN COOKING

The Senate had a new chef re-
Gently.
Mrs. Helen Calhoun ElIender,
The Washington times., 1937-10-29

Just you to know about the arrangements you make with
US! There is guesswok-nO complicated figure charts!
Everything shown you black and whte You know how much
when, and for how long you will pay!
you WILL KNOW:
The exact quality and value Of the purchase you
make.
The exact arrangement Of easy terms.
That you do not pay one penny interest or car
Yins charges.
That you honestly have full year land some-
times more) in which to pay for your pur-
chases.
That there is only one price-the same, cash or
credit!
That you can ask and will be truthfuIIy told
Evening star., 1937-04-24
TOOL
PLAN is DRAFTED
Chicago Firm Calls Special Meet
ing May Is for Action on
disqualification.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24-A plan of
recapitalization for Chicago Pneu-
matte Tool Co. will be submitted to
stockholders at a special meeting May
25, it was announced. The plan pro-
vides for reclassification of the present
$3.50 preference stock, increase of
$50, 900 shares in the common and
creation of a new $3.50 convertible
preferred
Revamping of the capital structure,
the management explained in a letter
to shareholders. is necessary because
of the early maturity of 100000 in
funded debt, an accumulation totaling
So, ,l69, 1862 on the preference stock and
existence of S842 600 in notes payable
Under the plan the present out
standing $3.50 convertible preference
stock, plus accrued dividends, would
be reclassified into one share of new
50 preference stock convertible into
IA shares of common, with dividend
cumulative from April /, and "a share
of common stock.
Common stock would be increased
to 100000 shares from 100000 and
100000 shares of new prior preferred
stock, carrying dividend rate of
$3.50 year, would be issued. Of the
latter, each share would be convertible
into l23 shares of common.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
10 L0w-Yield Bonds
By the Associated Press.

1S lle ASoOSlhleO tIeSS.
NEW YORK, April 24-Cautious
steps were taken by the bond market
today as buyers and sellers assumed
on-guard positions.
Neither side took the offensive and
prices f1uctuated narrowly in each
direction. Federal issues edged
higher for the most part, although
several bonds dropped rather sharply.
Gains ranged to a of point late in
the session, while setbacks extended
to 3s of a point. Some failed to
register any transactions.
Few of the domestic corporates
swung as much as a point. Some of
the rail bonds were up or off major
fractions, with the majority following
a downward course. st. Paul SIS OF
1875 ran into comparatively heavy
offerings and recoiled more than a
point. Major fractions were clipped
from North Western 4as, Baltimore
& Ohio 4l2s and Frisco 412s. Katy"
SIS bucked the trend for a run-up
of q or so.
American g. Foreign Power SIS
showed to advantage by adding a
major fraction, continuing a recently
launched rally. Other utility loans,
however, were hobbled by light deal
lngs. Industrials were all but neg
lected.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
CURB LIST MOVES
TO LOWER LEVELS
Break in Aluminium Co.
Widens Sharply in Gen.
eraI Decline.
Ey the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April pa break in
Aluminium Co. of America, following
a suit by the Federal Government for
dissolution of the company under anti
trust laws, widened sharply today as
renewed selling hit all sections of the
share list on the curb exchange.
Aluminium Co. shares, ordinarily
relatively inactive, encouraged heavier
offerings and fell l6 points in early
trading on top of 7-point drop in
the preceding session.
AS leading stocks on the big board"
wilted under liquidation, selling spread
in the curb list, particularly in re-
cent industrial favorites.
Losses of fractions to more than two
points were recorded in American
Cyanamid B, Electric Bond & Share,
Gulf Oil, Dow Chemical, American
Manufacturing New Mont Mining,
Northern States Power "A" and
Wayne Pump.
Utilities retreated with the market,
but showed better resistance, since
they had been depressed for some time
while industrial shares were rising.
Evening star., 1937-04-24

March Car Sales
Set New Records.
Association Finds
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Sales Of
motor cars and trucks in March set
several new records, some for that
month and others for any month,
Alfred Reeves, vice president of the
Automobile Manufacturers Associa-
ton, reported.
Preliminary estimates placed the
industry's domestic sales-eXclusive OF
those Of Ford, which is not member
Of the association-at 480,253 cars and
trucks, a new March high record, he
said. Based on these figures, he esti-
mated March deliveries Wers the
fourth largest for that month.
Sales of trucks were put at 72,840,
a new monthly high.
First-quarter deliveries set new
record for the period, Reeves esti-
mated, while retail sales of 1,04l ,301
units also represented a new peak.
Truck deliveries for the quarter were
placed at 167,414, also a record.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
MEMBER TRADING
ON EXCHANGE SHOWN
Amounts to 1904 Per Cent of All
Round Lot Transactions
During Week.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
Transactions for the personal ac-
counts of members of the New York
Stock Exchange during the week
ended March 81 amounted to 1904
per cent of all round lot transactions
on the exchange, the Securities Com
mission reported.
The member trading included 5.84
per cent in transactions initiated on
the floor of the exchange, 4.47 per cent
in transactions initiated off the floor,
and 973 per cent in transactions with
specialists.
In the same week member trading
on the New York Curb Exchange to-
tailed 17.46 per cent of all transa ctions
on that market.
The commission said the total round
lot volume on the stock exchange dur
ing that week was 7,449,44O shares
and the total curb exchange volume
was 1,851,l25 shares.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
DOEHLER DIE CASTING
0PERATESAT CAPACITY
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 24-Doehler Die
Casting Co. has been operating at
capacity in April and companys out
look is favorable, H A. Doehler, chair
man, told stockholders at the annual
meeting.
May operations should be at good
level, he said barring labor or legis-
lative disturbances, but he added the
company's labor relations were very
harmonious"
Profits for the March quarter were
1851, ,957, equal to SIPS share on
280,4 ,426 shares of common stock,
against s209,622 or Sc cents a share
on 206,l95 common share in 1886
March quarter, after preferred divi-
dends.
Evening star., 1937-04-24

dated net profit of s768,36e, after all
charges and Federal income tax and
after making provision for estimates
surtax on undistributed profits, for the
hrst quarter ended March 81. This
compares with net profit of s722,472
Tor the corresponding period last year.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.

The position of the Treasury April %
S25 ,239, SO21 balance, S1.7OS,46I,.
607 49,. customs receipts for the month
S33 3343.352.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
u, $4.015, 1872. .3S4.SS; expenditures, S6,.
1O1, 6O0,4.66.5S. including S2,31O.O5s.
PILLS Of emergency expenditures: exces,
debt. .s34. $50. .55e,777 an increase oi
S937 1896 over the previous day: gold
Il insstiys sold neudin'
Evening star., 1937-04-24
GAR WOOD SALES SOAR,
PUBLIC UTILITY

NEW YORK. April "a R.-Gar
Wood industries and subsidiaries of
Detroit sales during the first quarter
Of the year totaled $2,l83,O00, an in
crease of 80 per cent over the ST.
$4,000 in the same period of last
year, Logan Wood, vice president,
stated.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
HEADS WINCHESTER BANK

WINCHESTER, Va. April "a tSpe-
ciaD .-Hollie B. McCormac, indus
trialist, was reelected president of the
McCormac, J. Fred Thwaite, Charles
P. McVicar, John H RoSenberger,
Burr P. Harrison, Coleman Dunn, w.
A. Bailey, Julius w. Richard and
Llewellyn Jackson.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Briggs & StrattOn
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel.

kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., and subsid-
larry companies reported for the three
months ended March 81 consolidated
net profit, after all charges, including
Federal income taxes, of S177677, equal
to 81 cents share on the Glass "A"
stock. This compares with net profits
for the comparable period in 1885 of
S325 $50, or SLIP a share of Glass "A"
Evening star., 1937-04-24
1875 TONS OF LEAD SOLD.

NEW YORK, April "a (P).-The st.
Joseph Lead Co. reports that 125 tons
of pig lead from Southeast Missouri
mines were sold yesterday at $5.85
per hundred pounds, st. Louis.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. April "A GP.-Crude rubber
futures !, elosed steady, Is TO Is hiEher.
23;Ss-z0. Smoked ribbed. spot. a3.isn
90d. N-NominaL
Evening star., 1937-04-24
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL April "a LP.-Silver fu-
lures closed steady. 13 higher to II lower
No sales, May. "A 75b; July. "A 65b: Sep
tember. 44.60b. Bid.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
DU POINT EARNS
| $14,SO6,572PROF|T.
Quarters Net Compares
With $13,391,299 for
Same 1886 Period.
Ev the Associated. Press.

Ev the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24-Report of
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. of
Wilmington, Del, for March quarter
showed a balance available for COM
mon stock of S14,8O6,572, equal to
Sl34 a share. These returns included
dividends from company's General
Motors investment amounting to %
cents a share of Du Pont common
stock.
For first quarter last year balance
available for common stock was S13,-
391 ,299, equal to S121 a share. This
included dividends from General Mo-
tors investment amounting to As cents
a share on Du Pont common.
Keystone Steel e. Wire.
Keystone Steel 81 Wire Co., Peoria,
Ill, reported for March quarter net
income of s378,l54, equal to so cents
share on capital stock, against
S332,646, or a. cents share, in March
quarter last year.
Briggs & Stratton.
Briggs & Stratton Corp, makers of
automobile locks and portable gaso-
line engines, reported for the quarter
ended March 81 net profit before Fed
eral undivided profits surtax of S429,-
ITO, equal to Sl.45 a share on 297 .l49
capital shares outstanding. This COM
pares with 1921 $50, or s103 share in
the corresponding quarter last year.
The company's plants are in Milwau-
kee.