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The Washington times., 1937-06-17
DEATHS

ALRAUGH, HARRY C.-suddenly, on
at his residence, 2915 Rittenhouse Street
Northwest. HARRY c. ALBAUGH., aged
ter. Mrs. T. K. Randall, Of Washington,
Funeral services will be held at Bank.
ards funeral home. 264 East Main street
Westminster. Nd, on Friday, June TO-
'Intermenl at Westminster, Md
BREEN. RAYMOND RANDOLPH : On
St. % q, R Al HSISi RRAHpoTPH
BREEE the beloved husband of Blanche
Becker Breen and father of Leo b. Breen.
William A. Breen and Raymond H. Breen
Funeral services will be held on Fri.
day June Is, 1887, at $50 .: m from q,
Anthony's Catholic Church. where requiem
mass will be offered at 9 a. m. for the
repose of his soul.
Intermsnt in Mount olivet Cemetery.
Services by the W. W. Chambers Co.
June II 1887, ARCHIE L. CROCKETT,
the beloved husband of the late Eva
Crockett aud father of Arthur N. Crock
EFT and Miss Lena Crockett. of Baltimore.
Funeral from the W. W. Chambers Co.
funeral home, 1400 Chaplin st. N. W..
on Friday, June Is. at 1890 q. m.
Relatives and friends are invited. Inter
ment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery
REILLY. JOSEPH Don Wednesday. June
G. l6; 1897, At HE residence, 2947 Tilde1
husband Of Rose Natalie Kelly (nee Fra.
tantuono) and father Of Rose Marie and
Mary AnG Kelly.
Friday June 1S. at a. m. Requiem
mass At st Mary's Church at 80 a. m.
Relatives and friends are invited TO at
tend Interment in Mt. olivet Cemetery :
O'CONNOR, JOHN Bon THURSDAY, June
IL. 1887 JOHN b. o'CoNNOR. Of 4424
Fourteenth Street Northeast. beloved hus-
band of the late Ellen O'Connor tnee
Brosnan) and devoted father Of Mrs. John
J. Meehan.
Notice Of funeral later.
The Washington times., 1937-06-17
ADVERTISEMENT

Do you feel a
though you have
q rubber tire
around your
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your fat arms
distress you? Is
your face pudgy
looking because
Of surplus flesh?
Does that layer
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back and shoul.
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The Washington times., 1937-06-17
IN MEMORIAM

HANCOCK, MARY E.--Departed this life
two years ago today, June ~. 1895.
One who was better God never made:
A wonderful worker. so loyal and true.
One in a million-that, mother. was you
Just In your Judgment. always right:
Honest and liberal. ever upright:
Loved by your friends and all whom you
knew
Our wonderful mother-that mother was
HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.
The Washington times., 1937-06-17

KATES, LOUIS s.-Sacred to the mem
DRY of our dear husband and father
LOUIS KATES. who departed this life
one year ago today. June II. 1885,
When time and sorrow are no more
And the mists have rolled away
God promised we shall meet again
Upon that Glorious Day.
DEVOTED WIFE AND CHILDREN.
The Washington times., 1937-06-17

PINER. HAZEL C.-In loving remem-
brance of our sister and daughter.
HAZEL c. PINER. who passed away
ias4 een 'A"' Se"i' "sV ''N"'' 'U' 49,
The flowers we place upon your grave
May wither and decay.
But love for you who sleeps beneath.
Win never fade away.
DEVOTED MOTHER AND SISTERS.
The Washington times., 1937-06-17
R-K-O KETTHS

Victor Moore and Helen Broderick in
MEET THE MISSUs." with Ann Shirley.
ADDED Attraction: The Hall-Johnson Chou
in That Man Thompson"
The Washington times., 1937-06-17

Aiding the two will be Arthur
Thomas, 4440 Seventeenth st.
N. w., a WaShingtonian who en-.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Wedding at The Hague.

The people of America gladly send
greeting to the people of The Neither
lands on the occasion of the marriage of
Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard
zu Lippe- Chesterfield. A royal romance
has eliminated in q wedding which en-
lists the good wishes of the world at
large.
The Dutch nation has anticipated the
nuptials of the future Queen tor years.
Typically Holland woman, she is re-
spected and admired throughout Europe.
Wherever she has travelled her friends
are legion; at home, she is popular with
all classes. She resembles her mother,
but more particularly carries on the ira
dition of her grandmother. beloved Queen
Emma-one of the truly great ladies Of
modern times.
Naturally, Prince Bernhard is less
widely acquainted. Until the Olympic
meet at Garmisch ch-Partenkirchen he was
simply a name in a list of German no.
bles. But he has been made welcome
in the country in which he now is to
make his home. His energy. cheerful
Evening star., 1937-01-08

lax of Alexandretta. Turkey covets con-
troll Of the district, though it is wholly
within the inundated area, because
eighty per cent Of the population is
Turkish and because the port OF Alexan-
dretta is the outlet for an important part
of Asia Minor, through a branch rail-
road that runs to the sea. The present
dispute dates back to 1885, when France
granted Syrian demands for establish
ment of an independent republic under
French protection. Turkey insisted that
the Alexandretta region, which includes
ancient Antioch, be made independent
of Syria and pressed the issue, although
proposed autonomy for the country is
not due until 1899. Neither direct
Franco-Turkish diplomatic negotiations
nor League Intervention, following pres
entation of the controversy to the Coun-
Gil in December, have brought about an
agreement. France contends that the
status quo cannot be altered except in
the regular course of League procedure.
Current agitations reflect Turkish dis
content with allegedly dilatory French
tactics. They are supposed to have been
spurred by the Anglo-Italian accord and
the fear that Britain might aid Musso-
lini in gaining certain advantages over
Turkey in the Mediterranean or the
Aegean Sea.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
FrancO-Turkish Crisis.

As If the Spanish conflict and its at
tendant international perils were not
enough to preoccupy disturbed and dis
tracted Europe, a new source of danger
has suddenly developed in that tinder
box known as the Near East. France
and Turkey are at serious odds over
strip of territory abutting the Mediter-
ranean in the far northwest of Syria.
which the French hold under League
mandate. The Turkish press, which, of
course, only reflects the sentiments of
the dictator president Kemal Ataturk,
is already talking about "the lengths to
which Turks have decided to 60 to
defend their honor" and in the same
breath discusses the possibility of war.
The Paris government, admitting that
tension has arisen, stands firm and indi-
Gates 1t will not yield to any agitation
at Istanbul or Ankara, no matter how
bellicose.
The danger zone is the so-called San
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Higher Pay Needed for
Lower.Bracket Employees

To the Editor Of The Star:
In recent issue of your paper read
an article concerning some agitation by
United States Senators for an increase
in pay for Government employees in the
lower pay brackets. AS I am one Of
the employees in the lower pay brackets,
I am very much interested in the final
outcome Of this plan and therefore
submit for your consideration the follow
ing suggestions:
A great many of the lower paid Gov
eminent employees have for many years
been in the lowest pay station in a
grade, although their efficiency rating
has entitled them to advance in pay to
the middle or higher pay station. I
am in grade 3, C. A.. F., and my rate of
pay is 1880. Six years ago was adj
vanced to this grade and took the posi-
ton of an employe who was transferred
to another branch Of the Government.
NY pay has been the same for six years
and the pay of my predecessor was 81 800.
I am married and have three small chill
dren and have to rent a home. I cannot
balance my budget on my present pay.
I suggest campaign by your paper
to bring about the correction of in
justices suffered by the lower paid en-
ployes in rates of pay. believe a petit
tion for our just deserts and living
wage should be circulated throughout the
Government departments for signature
by the lower paid employees, such petit
tions to set fourth grades. rate OF pay,
employees marital status. number OF de-
pendents. etc. would help. Such petition
to be addressed to the Congress through
this President of the United States.
ANDREW j. ROBERTSON.
Oakton Va.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Mr.. Ely's Retirement.

The statutory retirement OF Selden M.
Ely has been announced by the Board
Of Education with many pleasant ex-
pressions Of regret and Of appreciation
of his praiseworthy accomplishments in
the forty-five years of distinguished
been not only the highly honored and
beloved school officer" described in the
minutes Of the board, but he has been
. valuable and constructive worker in
the interests Of better community.
His duties as supervisory principal
of one of the larger school divisions
never kept him confined to the class
room or administrative ofice. In addi-
ton to participation and leadership in
community civic affairs, his work in or
ganization Of the Boy Patrols, in CO.
operation with the police and the Amer
ican Automobile Association, hes brought
him Nationwide and even international
prominence in this highly successful
effort to protect school children from
the hazards of traffic. He was one of
the pioneers in the development Of what
we now know as the opportunity
classes" in the schools for handicapped
children and it was largely through his
efforts that the first "open window"
school in Washington, for undernour-
ished and tubercular children, was estab-
lished as the predecessor of the more
recent health schools.
Though his active career in the school
system comes to an honorable close
through retirement the statutory age"
finds Mr.. Ely enjoying good health and
does not terminate his activities as q
citizen and loyal, useful Washingtonian.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Why No ''Social Justice"
For Domestic Servants?
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In this wonderful new age Of social
justice that people talk so much about,
why doesn't somebody in Washington DO
something for us who work in private
homes?
When there are so many men and
women in public life making themselves
so busy fixing everything up lovely Tor
the poor men who have to work eight
long hours day in factories, why DO
they not do something for us who work
from IL to 16 hours a day, and at low
wages, too? Don't they care anything
at all for us, the most underprivileged
of all working people? Or Is 1t because
they never even think of us as human
beings. but only as machines, or maybe
slaves?
Why do some of the Congressman
talk so much about shorter hours and
human rights for the poor working men
and never a thing to help the women
in domestic service who need their help
so much more? Is it necessary to work
in factories to get the Government in
terested in helping people?
Three years ago many Of us were work.
ing for a couple of dollars a week, when
the N: r. A. was in force. Although we
are getting some more money now, the
hours are still the same, as long as the
lady cares to work us, which Is never
less than 10 or II, even If she is kind
and considerate, though in many places
it is as high as IS and Is hours a day.
And there was never the least effort to
help us under the N. r. A. And our
work is so hard!
1t is the same thing about this social
security. There is so much sympathy
and help for the people who work in fac
tories but nothing at all for us who work
in homes. Yet we. too, will get old some
day, and maybe sick and out Of work.
and probably sooner than factory peo-
pie. for we work twice as many hours.
Why don't they do something for us. too?
1t is so cruelty unjust. when we need
1t all SO much more. Isn't there any
body in the Government who really cares
about social justice for the people who
work in private homes? II not, then
they should stop this hypocritical talk
about helping the oppressed working
people and this grand new age of social
consciousness and human rights!"
But why doesn't anybody care about
us? FRANCES McMILLEN.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

Fattest squirrels in all the land live
out our way. feasting at their leisure on
seeds and grains intended for Winterine
wild birds.
And what frauds these rodents really
are. after all!
Here they have been played up to man.
kind over the centuries as such master
savers, burying nuts against q day OF
want, when all the time they are Just
wasters. II one may believe the evidence
Of these particular specimens.
There is 30 little intelligence in their
hiding of foodstufis that perhaps nine
tenths Of it Is lost before they get back to
it. yet they have been held up to mankind
as great examples Of foresight.
Consider that fine fat fellow with the
white border on each side of his tall
OF a pleasing medium gray. With some
brown mixed in, he was lured beneath q
feeder by handful Of raw peanuts.
The nuts. it was believed, would keep
him busy eating.
For surely squirrels like peanuts, 1t was
said.
They do. indeed, but rather to hide
than to eat.
Perhaps this fellow was so we'll fed on
bird food, particularly the seeds of the
sunfiower. the cardinals favorites, that
he did not have much appetite that day.
At any rate, he only ate two raw pea
nuts.
The remainder he started to hide.
This business took him about 10 min
utes, during which time he personally
conducted and hid more than "A nuts,
one at time.
These he scattered over the entire lawn.
They were cached "a good word which
should have an accent mark on that last
'e'D at a distance OF perhaps 10 feet
from each other.
Wriggling his little nose, his tiny ears
standing more upright than ever, Old
Man Squirrel dug feverishly at the grass.
poked in the food and frantically gave 1t
q few pats to smooth it down.
He repeated this process time after
time, but never stopped to eat again once
he had begun his time -honored labors.
When the last nut was buried he
climbed up the stake to the feeder plat
form and there spent the next hour eat
ing bird seed.
1t was impossible to believe that this
fellow would ever know just where he had
buried his finds. or that he would find
them in good shape if he could.
These peanuts had no outer shells,
being covered simply by the light tan or
brown thin skin. Surely q few weeks
just beneath the surface, subjected to
rain and cold. would tend to make them
somewhat different and undoubtedly in
ferior to their state ct planting time.
No squirrel. Of course, could know about
this. Their intelligence does not 60 that
far. We have repeatedly offered them bits
OF milk chocolate, which they have hid
den in the earth with the most solemn
air. as if doing something Of vast i'm
portance.
There can be no doubt of the i'm
portance of this act to the squirrels.
Nature and instinct combine to tell them
to bury what they find beyond their
immediate needs.
They have no way of knowing that
pieces of milk chocolate would be
wrecked in a few days in the earth.
Perhaps they have no taste whatever for
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Toward Highway Safety.

A step of major Importance in the di-
rection of highway safety through uni
form traffic and safety regulations has just
been taken by the Interstate Commerce
Commission in its promulgation Of safety
regulations applicable to interstate
busses and trucks. The great advantage
of the regulations is their uniformity
and the fact that their effectiveness is
not limited by the inadequacy of some OF
the laws in the States which have been
backward in enactment Of sound traffic
regulations. It Is not too much to hope
that the traffic code for busses and trucks
in interstate commerce will eventually
become the instrument for a national
safety code, and the fact that some forty
State legislatures are meeting this year
provides an opportunity for valuable
progress in that direction.
The authority for the Interstate Com
merce Commissions traffic regulations
comes from the motor carrier act of 1885.
The regulations just announced have
been the subject Of prolonged and careful
study by the commission, and while they
have become public now they do not
become effective until July l, 1887, al
though the special rules for the reporting
Of accidents will apply after next April.
Last July the commission issued a
booklet of proposed traffic regulations
and gave it wide distribution for the
purpose Of obtaining criticism and COM
ment. The result is represented in the
regulations just made public.
Some of the regulations-such, for in
stance, as speed limit-are governed by
the laws of the individual State. But
most of them will apply everywhere, re-
gardless of State laws. There were about
26,000, 900 motor vehicles at the end Of
1886 using the streets and highways Of
an annual loss from deaths, injuries and
damage to property exceeding 81, 500, ,00o,-
900. The proportion OF the accidents
involving motor carriers subject to safety
icy VI lIlc 1ilVCl SGdIC SOiAihClCC
Commission is, Of course, unknown. But
in addition to the immediate effect Of
uniform and carefully enforced regula-
tions on the interstate carriers them
selves, the safety regulations should have
a real and beneficial influence on the
situation in general. One of the objects
OF these regulations has been to lay
adequate stress on the basic elements Of
safety, such as the selection Of qualified
drivers, sound driving rules. adequate
brakes lights and other accessories and,
q very important element, the thorough
and Intelligent reporting Of accidents
and their causes.
The uniform regulations Of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission have done
much to enable the Nations railroads to
achieve their fine record in safe trans
portation of passengers. There is room
for great hope that the highway regu-
lations and their strict application and
strengthening will work toward the same
effect in motor vehicle transportation.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
dud If the Spanish crisis meantime flares
into an Old World conflagration.

dud If the Spanish crisis meantime flares
into an Old World conflagration.
X r
Italy's alert new Ambassador, Signor
Fulvio Suvich, was sole occupant Of the
Senate diplomatic box while the neu-
tralitv resolution was being rushed to
passage. The Fascist diplomat must
marvel, as many Americans do, at the
unquestioning alacrity with which the
Senate enacted the measure. From sad
experience. Europe is familiar with the
oppositional habits of the worlds great
est deliberate body when asked for
advice and consent in foreign affairs.
The two major rebuffs suffered by the
Roosevelt administration were Senate
reflections Of the World Court protocol
and the st. Lawrence waterway treaty.
Foreign Relations Chairman Pittman
probably hopes that the creased Light
ming neutrality job is an omen that the
Senate is going to give a different ac-
count OF itself in the international do
main. Many think the Supreme Court
decision affirming the executive preroga .
tive in that field has borne prompt fruit
in the temperamental treaty-making
branch Of Congress.
X X \
One Of the interesting House new
comers Is Representative Henry Teigan.
Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, who re-
turns to the Capitol after having first
known it IA years ago, when he came
here as secretary to leather -lunged
Senator Magnus johnson. Mr.. Teigan.
native Iowan, and newspaper man by
profession, was one of the rising young
factors in Northwestern politics 20 years
ago as secretary of the National Nom
Partisan League. He enters Congress
after q term in the Minnesota State
Senate. In the budding third party
movement among the bakers dozen of
House Farmer-Laborites and Progress
sives from Minnesota and Wisconsin, Mr..
Teigan, who represents q Minneapolis
district, is destined to play a leading part.
4 r 4 u
Among new occupations and profess
sions represented by freshmen members
of the Seventy-f1ft Congress is chicken
Matching with which worthy industry
Representative Elmer H. Wene. Demo-
crat. Of New Jersey is identified. Mr..
Wene. who operates baby chick hatch
cry at Vineland, is q former president
Vi luC 4hICILldtlOLdl bdOy SAlCk hSoO-
citation. He succeeds to the Atlantic City
seat so long held by Ike Bacharach, whom
he defeated in November. Though de-
prived Of Bacharach's influential repre-
sentation at Washington the Shore" has
another spokesman of its own in the
person of Jerseys new Democratic Sena-
tor william H. Smathers, whose home
town Is the resort city.
~ \
Prior to submission of the budget mes
sage to Congress today President Roose-
welt held his usual school" for Wash
ington correspondents. At the White
House yesterday afternoon, in accord
ance with the custom established three
years ago, he communed in heart-to-
heart fashion with the scribes whose
reportorial speciality is Federal finance,
ard explained, amid free and easy
trckling, what's what in Uncle Sans
vast expense account.
(Copyrieht, 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-08

this delicacy, but smelling 1t to be food
Of some kind. think 1t will come in handy
in the future.
1t has been said that each squirrel
makes eight attempts to bury nut before
actually slowing it away in the ground.
That, 1t Is said. is to throw possible
observers of the scent.
The squirrel described above made no
attempt whatever to 60 through such
routine or to deceive any of his fellows,
although there were half dozen OF them
flirting around the yard at the time.
Some one may ask why these did not
get a share Of the raw peanuts.
The answer Is simple. The original
holder would not let them!
Every time an intruder made bold to
approach, tempted by the fine odor Of
the peanuts, which must have been over
powering strong to a rodent, the squirrel
with the fine white borders to his tail
made vigorous short run at him.
In time, evidently. the small pile Of
peanuts was looked upon rs his exclusive
property, which was respected even when
he was away in the yard burying the nuts
one by one.
There was one very little fellow, also
with white on his tail, who evidently
was q chip of the old block.
Each time the fat fellow ran out into
the yard this little fellow sneaked back
through the fence and snatched a nut.
He was gone each time before the
other returned 50 that 1t was proble-
matical whether the big fellow ever knew
any other squirrel had a paw in his
feast.
The smaller one Of these two squirrels
finally took up position on the tray of
feeder within few feet of the window.
He afforded very fine and very close
view Of himself for as long as we wanted
to look, which was for several minutes,
for it is not often that one gets chance
to observe a squirrel SO still.
These energetic, highly nervous ami
mails are so perpetually on the move
that even when one is feeding them by
hand it flirts around so that good
look" Is rather difncult.
But this small squirrel was hunched
up on the feeder. raking through the pile
for the favorite sunflower seed.
What a splendid, picturesque creature
the ordinary squirrel is. to be sure! The
fine, short black whiskers are never
noticed except when the animal is still
and close. The harmony Of coloring.
the shading from dark gray to light, and
into light brown and some cream and
white, the touch of very light mouse
gray on the ears. and the magnificent
tail, these are features to be seen at close
range to be appreciated.
A squirrel is just rat, in a sense, with
a very big tail. but surely he has some
thing in his appearance which no rat
ever had, something which sets him
apart in the rodent scheme Of things
The rat has so colored mans outlook
upon the rodents that he forgets how
charming one of this family really may
be, until he sees a squirrel at close range.
But watch out for those exceedingly
sharp teeth! Unless you are skilled at
handling wild creatures and utterly un-
afraid, we advise doing as we do, watch
ing squirrels through a window and let
ting it 60 at that. They are picturesque
and interesting enough in any event and
in any place.