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Evening star., 1937-07-14
NASH.KELVINATOR GETS
ELECTROMASTER, INC.

by the Associated ficSS.
NEW YORK, July 14.-Nash-
Kelvinator Corp. has acquired con-
trolling stock interest in Electromaster,
Inc, makers of electric ranges and
water heaters, it was disclosed today.
The transaction was effected by ac-
QUESTION Of 5000 shares of unissued
81 par capital stock of Electromaster
in accordance with an option. Nash
Kelvinator also bought from stock
holder 26,951 shares and 1885, 462 Of
per cent convertible income bonds,
which were converted into 1892
shares of stock.
Evening star., 1937-07-14
new YORK COTTON
By the Associated Press.

6J Glc aSSOClebcQ EESSSs
NEW YORK, July 14.-Early losses
in cotton today under Far Eastern
selling and owing to favorable weather
in the South were partially recovered
on trade buying and covering in July.
October advanced from 1885 to
1874 and In midafternoon was 1912,
when prices ranged from 2 points
higher on July to to net lower on
other months.
Prices rallied ut the close on cover
ing and local and New Orleans buying,
finishing steady unchanged to points
higher; July, 12.47; October, 12.47;
December, 12.38-39: January, 12.39;
March, l2.43; May, 12.46. Spot steady;
middling, 1897.
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output records in
j u n e, exceeding
the previous peak,
which was attain
ed la S t Winter.
Reporting for all
the C ON p a n US
S u b S idiaries, he
added:
Electric output
of subsidiaries for
the first half OF
1887 and for the
II months ended
June 30 broke all
records of present
subsidiaries for
half-year and H.
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SHOE SALES UP.

NEW YORK, July IA (P.-sales of
Schif1 Co., chain shoe store operators,
totaled $6,212,754 in the first six
months against $6,057, 100 in the same
period last year. June sales amounted
to s1,277,707 against s1,23l,582 last
year.
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GAS PRICE ADVANCES.

PITTSBURGH, July IA R.-The
Gulf Oil Corp. has announced a one
half cent per gallon price increase for
gasoline to its dealers in West Virginia,
Virginia and Maryland, effective I'M
medlately.
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10s BUSINESS FAILURES.

NEW YORK July IA R.-Business
failures in the United States for the
week ended July 8 totaled 108, lowest
for any week since 1920 due to the July
4 holiday, Dun & Bradstreet reports.
This compares with 155 in the full
preceding week and 140 . year ago.
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Baltimore QuOtationS

BALTIMORE. July II ,Hs.-Wheat.
No. 2 red, Winter, garlicky. spot do
nestle, l.23t2; July, 1881.
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" Private Wire Direct to The Star.
All New York markets daylight saving time.
stock
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POTOMAC POWER
OUTPUT MOUNTS
Weekly Records During June
Broke Peaks Reached
Here Last Winter.
BY EDWARD &C. STONE,

]. F. Fogarty, president of the
North American Co., in his quarterly
report on the electric output OF SUBJ
sidiaries, states that the Potomac Elec-
tric Power Co. established new weekly
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Approximate Hourly and Total Sales n T. Exchange
ll0O OA.M.---- $4,000 1900 Noon-----. $4,000
l.00PM.-- $50 900 200 PM.------- 10000
Total Sales for the day. 100000
Dividend a. given In
based the latest quarterly hayear
Unit Of trading less than 100 shares. tAnnual rate
Companies reported recevershp or being reosanized
Z Ex
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On the basis of preliminary figures
output for the second quarter of 1887
vas more than IL per cent above that
for the corresponding period of 1885,
and was within l p per cent of the
output for the first quarter, which was
the all-time peak.
The total output figures for the sub
ndiaries for corresponding periods Of
1885 and 1887 we're:
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Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat No. red, l2912; No
red, l2914 No. 3 red. 1.27'.,
28i2: No. red, l.22 ~ "a; No. 5 red
1893 %; sample grade, red, 116: No.
hard, ! .33 Z -3414 No hard, 30l2.
3li2, No. 3 hard, 128-28la; No. 4
hard, l22-24 No. hard, 119& -2l:
sample grade, hard. l09-l034; No.
mixed, new, 1.194 No. 4 hard, tough,
1882; No. S hard, tough, 11534
17$i; No. red, tough, 1l7$4; sample
hard, tough, 1.0814; No red, garlicky.
l.24t4: No. 4 red. smutty, 1.l9A No.
hard Smutty, 1.18la. Corn, No. 2
yellow, % y 80; No. yellow. .273a
No. 4 yellow, "a 2-27 Oats, No. l
mixed, 52i2; No l white. S2la; No J
white, 5l-52; No white. so; No. I
white, 4749. Rye, new crop No. l.
los. Barley. feed 53-70n; mailing,
7l90n. Nominal
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Poor Pay Scale for Lower
Rungs of Federal Ladder

To the Editor OF The Star:
An administration which repudiates
its promises invites doubt. An admins
traitor who pledges that he will balance
the budget, then coolly says he didn't
mean the real budget, naturally will find
his further representations eyed with
mistrust The current Government re-
organization, viewed in the light Of prior
events means what?
The papers say that the Brownlow
committee specifically recommended that
the proposed new set-up should provide
for finding able people who can be
brought into the Government especially
on the lower rungs of the ladder, and for
insuring opportunities for training and
promotion to able persons in the service.
Obviously. those who need training and
opportunity are not the top-rungers.
But you will find in the Presidents
adoption" of the recommended measures
no mention of the lower rungs. On the
contrary he seeks only key post salary
increases. In other words, the chosen
few are to be even more handsomely re-
munerated. step which is no doubt
commendable. But what of the average
employe. Apparently the rung he. is on
Is to be creased. Or perhaps the Presi-
dent deems it not inconceivable that
opportunity for the little fellow, like
democracy, has in it the potentiality
of becoming "a great dream
J.H. BYERS.
Evening star., 1937-01-15

sion to crime that leads to the compro-
mise with criminals which society Gus
tomarily permits. The poet Wordsworth
put into verse Rob Roy's philosophy:
THE good old rule
Sufnceth them, the simple plan
That they should take, who have the
power,
And they should keep, who can"
And a similar doctrine affiicts a vast
majority Of those who take the romantic
view of revolt against civilization. Per.
haps the most rankly heartless expression
now current in America is: you've got
to give them credit for getting away with
it." Packed in that bitter sentiment is
a contempt for principle which cannot be
too severely condemned. Yet it is uni
versal in contemporary usage. Thou
sands of citizens employ 1t in reference
to wrongdoers who know only too well
how to profit from liberation. 1t is q
basic fault of the democratic mind that
1t leaves to professionals the business of
resisting the assaults of organized in
iquity and depravity. The way of the
transgressor is not hard. On the con-
trary, it is rendered easy by lenient in
diligence.
Mr.. Hoover, therefore, is well advised
to insist on the ugliness and brutality of
outlawry. There is nothing in any of
Its phases" he says, which can be
viewed from standpoint of honor or OF
decent accomplishment. The adven-
turous vision of life without labor and
riches extorted from defenseless "suck-
ers" is delusion. If only the average
individual will grasp that fact, there will
be hope for the cure of the prevailing
pestilence of crime. The proper answer
to anarchy is rational realism.
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Nothing Romantic.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation, Department
of Justice, recently told the student body
Of Notre Dame University: There is
nothing romantic about crime The
verdict of such an expert, of course, is
eminently newsworthy. 1t merits the
consideration of all who are concerned
to understand the waves of lawlessness
which periodically sweep the world.
And crime certainly must be compre-
hended. No solution of the problem of
anti-social non-conformity ever can be
achieved until the mental processes of
malefactors and the mental attitude of
their victims toward them have been
analyzed. To illustrate the difficulty, an
incident Of several years ago may be
cited. Half dozen men were discussing
the celebrated Teapot Dome scandal. One
of the number told in brief outline the
cost to the Nation involved in the mis-
management of the oil reserves of the
Navy. Then, when he had finished his
summary, another participant In the
conversation cynically demanded: isn't
1t human to take personal advantage of
public neglect? If the people refuse re-
sponsibility for the protection Of their
property, isn't it natural for them to be
robbed?" The group gasped at the sar-
donic frankness of the challenge.
But It. Is exactly that sort OF conces-
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Inferiority Complex of
Disfranchised District
To the Editor OF The Star:

10 tne EDITOR OF Inc star.
Although not a resident of the District
of Columbia. I was born there in 1875.
That dste Of birth and the fact that my
father was considerably prominent in
the affairs of the District of Columbia
and the City of Washington during that
era is probably the reason that the affairs
OF that small section of land ceded by
the State of Maryland holds for me not
uncertain interest
The citizens of the District OF Colum-
bia would seem to demonstrate a most
excellently developed case of inferiority
complex.
This condition may be the natural
result of the fact that they have no vote.
and are. hence, citizens of the United
States of America by courtesy only.
They are taxed without representa-
tion, they are tolerated as citizens by the
Representatives Of the Congress (Senate
and the House,. whose constituents are
free citizens of the Nation, with the right
to express disapprobation on law enact
ments which might "disfranchise" them,
as they have the citizens Of the District
of Columbia.
In fact. the condition of the citizen
of the District of Columbia is comparable
to that of those indentured men who.
many years past. did do much to build
a Nation. But with the vast difference
that the indentured servant was only
held for four years as more or less of a
slave, while in the District Of Columbia
it is life sentence for the individual
and his offspring.
There must be something undeniably
true in that this inferiority complex is
real
do not know how many of the several
hundred thousand residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia are native born, but
there are surely q sufficient number to
have produced q two-hsted, fighting
leader who would lead them out Of
political servitude.
After all. the Senators and Repre-
sentatives on Capitol Hill and their
constituents are only human beings.
There Is actually no reason why citizen
Of the District Of Columbia who pays
his heavy taxes, does his days work and
dons the military uniform when wars
come, should bend the knee to greater
extent than does any citizen of the 48
States. GRANT SHEPHERD.
La Plata, Md.
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Shooting Stars.
BY PHuANDER JOHNSON.

Bigger and Better Investigation.
Let us investigate each day
And reach results as best we may.
Let us look into every cause
And give our views on natures laws.
Let us investigate the rules
Observed in various kinds of schools.
Let us inspect the Government
And learn what causes discomfort.
Nor fail to find q reason clear
When drought makes harsh the atmos-
phere.
Let us endeavor to explain
What planets wait with new domain
When this we leave. Let's 60 into the
sky
And learn how stars move on and why.
In short, since knowledge is at last
So accurate and still so vast
From billions which the bankers lend
To fences neighbors ought to mend,
Let's bid our seers-we might do
worse
Investigate the Universe!
Evening star., 1937-01-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

What are some OF the general meas
ures which a person can take to help
prevent catching the common cold?
Being told that one should keep in
good condition" is unsatisfactory.
A great many persons, through in
heritance and blood and tissue forma-
tions, find it impossible to ward OF colds
by such means.
1t is Just the same as telling the fear
some person to "be brave"
Good advice, undoubtedly, but one
wants the how" too.
There are certain things which almost
any one can do which will help prevent
one from catching cold, or at least
reduce its severity.
That they will be "sure-fre." or that
they will ward on all colds, is another
matter. What they will do. in all prob
ability, If persistently followed, Is to
cut down the number per year and
the severity Of each case.
Any relief. to a cold sufferer. Is very
much worth while.
1t is being realized more widely every
year that. Just as the race is not always
to the swift, 50 the catching of a cold
is not. in itself. o sign OF inferiority or
lack of condition. Multiplicity of respira-
tional diseases has made sure that there
are plenty of "bugs" to insure one or
more colds a year to practically every
body. The outdoor, athletic type Of man
Is just as liable to catch" q cold as any
one else. and If the cold happens to
turn into something more serious he
probably is worse of than the sedentary
type.
General measures which have been
found helpful are as follows:
l. Keep warm at all times.
2. Particularly avoid getting the feet
wet.
3. Do not perspire and then dry of in
cold place or in a wind.
4. Minimize starches and sugars in
the diet.
5. Get vitamin A in some form.
6. Use cool water mot necessarily cold)
as far as possible in bathing.
Z. Drink plenty Of water.
g. Use orange Juice as freely as pos
sible.
9. Avoid sneezers and persons with
colds.
10. Utilize ultraviolet light If possible.
1t will be realized at once that when
general measures are set down so sue
cinctly they lose some Of their power
through their very brevity.
They are, in other words, so easily
disputed!
1t must be kept in mind that no dis
ease has had as much battle done over
it as the so-called common cold" In
this both physicians and their patients
have taken part-and sides. Everybody
has sure cure" for a cold, but what
Is one mans medicine is another's poi
son. or at least Is useless, to put it
mildly. And any useless remedy is
harmful in that it prevents a real one
from being given in most instances.
Whatever may be the primary cause
OF any given cold. there is one sure
thing. and that is that a feeling of chill,
or cold, is at some time in the process
a very prominent symptom.
There is some reason for believing that
II one keeps warm at all times and takes
steps to become warm Immediately a
sense Of chillness is felt, much will be
done toward warding of the disease.
There are a hundred ways in which
one may get cold during the day, espe-
cially in Winter. Do not laugh at
draughts. The trouble they cause is a
real one, too often, and comes about
Evening star., 1937-01-15
SsThe Hull Doctrine.' -

Presumably with the Monroe Doctrine
in mind, one of the speakers at the
Inter-American Conference for Main
tenance' Of Peace acclaimed the eco
nomic policies of the United States Sec
retary Of State as "the Hull doctrine"
Secretary Hulls return from Buenos
Aires is fitting occasion for public
commendation OF his epochal and enec-
tive efforts to cement friendlier ties
among the republics Of the Western
Hemisphere. This country did not attain
in Argentina all of the objectives It
sought. But the primary goal was
reached-the creation Of q peace system
designed to prevent war from arising
among the sister American republics.
They have covenanted to use the same
machinery in the event of war abroad,
which might endanger the preservation
of peace in the western world. Secretary
Hull resumes his duties in Washington,
"hopeful that the effort Ne haas made,
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Doubts Comparisons in
ID. C.. Financial Report

To the Editor OF The Star:
have not had the time to 60 over
the Jacobs fiscal relation report very
carefully, but one table that noticed in
particular makes one doubt very much
the comparisons presented therein. I
refer to the table comparing the real
estate taxes of Washington with those
IN II representative and comparable"
cities on a house appraised by them at
$1,000
Previously in the report it is stated
that the rents in Washington are higher
than elsewhere.
Take the first and highest city, Jersey
City, and see what the tax OF 1891 %
would mean to the property owner. In
Washington a house costing $1,000 will
rent for $50 or SIS a month. Put the
Jersey City rent equal to the lower figure
OF $50. On an average occupancy of
eleven and a half months q year, the
yearly rental would amount to $575.
The owner would pay the agent per
cent, or $28.75, commission on the rent
collections. Depreciation at 2 per cent
dncome tax allowance rate) on the i'm
provements of $500 would be $11O,
insurance at Washington rates the re-
port states these are low on 5000 COW
erage Is IS, the taxes as given are 1891 %.
Thus, with repairs. the owners expenses
are 1894 ,98, leaving him a return of $4,000
(57 per cent? year on his $1,000 in
vestment. 1t does not seem plausible
that people will invest money in this
manner.
If the owner lives in the house the
interest at 6 per cent is $420, insurance
5. water rent (eStimated) Sl2. and taxes
1891 %, making his home cost him $78.19
a month to live in without counting re-
pairs. heat. gas and electricity, but In.
cluding depreciation.
When one applies the results above,
1t creates doubt as to the statistics in
the report. 1t creates doubt as to the
method used. or the conclusions reached
by the committee. Doubt in one part
creates doubt in the whole of a statistic
cal report. C. E. SHEETZ.
Evening star., 1937-01-15

comet. which was million miles long and
OF no material substance whatever"
\
Senator Norris acceptance of the lead
ership OF conference on amendment
OF the Constitution assures a hard, sus-
tained drive in that direction The vet
eran Progressive has a unique reputa-
ton for keeping everlaStingly at things.
Rebuffed time and again in connection
with Muscle Shoals and lame duck leg
iSlation. his stick-to-itiveneSs persisted
until the time at long last when he saw
both T. v. A and the twentieth amend
ment enacted into the law of the land.
1t was at the 1881 Power Conference in
Washington, over which Norris presided,
that the Nebraskan uttered his long
range dictum that what the country
needs is another Roosevelt in the White
House."
Suggestions are af1oat in diplomatic
quarters that the thing now nearest to
Secretary Hulls heart is a world con-
ference to promote the cause Of peace
through more equitable distribution of
raw materials. The chief of the State
Department. who is back at his desk,
wearing with characteristic modesty the
laurels he won at Buenos Aires. is cred
tied with the belief that until there's
a fair division of natural resources be-
tween the have" and "have not" ma
tions the causes of war will never be
eradicated. Here and there the guess is
hazarded that some proposals along these
lines may feature the clarion call for
world peace. which many authorities
expect President Roosevelt's inaugural
address to keynote.
~ ~
With recall to Havana of Cuban Am
bassador Patterson and simultaneous
arrival in this country of American Am
bassador Caffery, relations between the
United States and Cuba would seem to
be on the verge Of an overhauling.
There's no suggestion that Mr.. Caffery,
who has made an enviable record at
Havana under chronically difficult cir
cumstances, is to be supplanted. Since
the recent impeachment of President
Gomez and installation of government
dominated by the army, Washington is
anxious for an up-to-date, close-range
picture of the situation on the island,
such as Ambassador Caffery is in posi-
ton to paint.
That striking literary flavor which dis
tinguishes the Government reorganiza-
tion report is attributed to the journalist
member of the Presidents committee,
Louis Brownlow. Prior to his World War
presidency of the District Of Columbia
Commissioners Mr.. Brownlow was an
active newspaper man. Once upon q
time he served under "Marse Henry"
Watterson on the Louisville Courier
Journal and afterward was on Urey
Woodson's Paducah News-Democrat He
also sat in the press gallery as Washing
ton correspondent of the Nashville
Banner. Following his municipal career
here, Brownlow dedicated himself ex-
clusively to civic affairs. becoming sue
cessively city manager of Petersburg, Va,
and Knoxville, Tenn, and chairman Of
the Public Administration Committee Of
the Social Science Research Council.
Those reorganization report references to
passion for anonymity" "the wander
ing independencies and irresponsible and
headless fourth branch of the Govern
ment," and "the old and recurring in
science of ONCE" are believed to be prod.
ucts of Brownlow's newspaper pen.
(copSrisht. 1870
Evening star., 1937-01-15

will strengthen the hands Of those who
are struggling to preserve peace in Eu-
rope and elsewhere" He is confident
that "the real significance of the Buenos
Aires conference will bulk even larger
as events progress"
For the unquestionably far-reaching
moral and psychological benefits pro-
duced by the conference, the American
Secretary Of State, though he is, Of
course, too modest to claim it for him.
self was, by universal consent, chiefly
responsible. Under his astute direction.
the Washington delegation comported
itself on all occasions with restraint, con-
ciliation and tact. There was a studied
and successful effort to take Latin Amer
lean susceptibilities into account, and to
avoid suspicious that the Colossus of the
North was animated by any desire to
dominate proceedings or seek special
advantages. The net result is that the
United States prestige among our
southern neighbors emerges higher than
at any other time in pan-American his
tory. Secretary Hull is convinced that
the welding of Inter-American friend
ship has now become powerful, posi-
tive force for peace throughout the
world" He thus reflects President
Rosevelt's underlying motive in project
ing the Buenos Aires Conference
namely, the belief that it would prove
an example of good neighborliness to all
nations genuinely devoted to the estab-
lishment of warless international rela-
tions.
The American people, indissolubly
welded to the policy of unselfish, cordial
friendship with the other democracies
of the west. are proud of the eminent
service rendered to that cause at Buenos
Aires by the Secretary of State, Assistant
Secretary of State Sumner Welles and
all OF their coadjutors. What is not
inappropriately christened the Hull
doctrine" opens a new chapter in inter-
American history. which is destined to
be of lasting and world wide beneflcence.
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Director Van Duzer Favors
Publicity of License Losses
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In 1896 there were 1877 fewer personal
injuries and II less deaths in motor
vehicle accidents than in 1885. We be-
lieve the principal reason for this re-
duction is the policy to suspend drivers
permits for excessive speed and the daily
publicity given by the newspapers in
publishing the names Of those who have
been convicted in Trafic Court for
traffic violations and also the names of
those whose permits have been sus-
pended.
BY this publicity you are carrying q
traffic story each day which, we believe,
is more effective than periodic cam
paigns. w. A. VAN DUZER,
Director of Vehicles and Trafic.