davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
SINFUL WASTE
AT GREENBELT
HIT BY BYRD
Feud With Wallace
Is Reopened by Vir-
qinia Senator

Resuming his fued with Secre
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace, Senator Harry F. Byrd CD
of Virginia, last night attacked
the sinful and absurd waste" in
the Resettlement Administration
project at Greenbelt, Md.
The Senator, chairman of the
special Senate reorganization com
mittee, who has been urging the
Secretary to abandon the ReSettle
ment project in his own Shenan
ooah Valley, issued a statement
in which he assailed the "exceS
sive costs" at Greenbelt as ap
preaching a national scandal
He said:
"More than 200 projects are
being directed now by the Re-
settlement Administration, in
all the States. Much money can
be saved yet by suSpending the
program where construction has
not actually been started.
FIRST PRIZE IN WASTE
"This scheme as administered
is without a particle of COM
mon sense and it takes first
prize in wantOn waste, even in
this era when the laviShneSS of
public spending has dulIed our
consciousness to ordinary extrav-
agance."
Much money has been wasted in
the name of emergency, Byrd said
He asked:
what emergency exists ne
cessitating construction at Gov
eminent expense of homes at
$4,000? The average value by
Government statistics of all
hines in American cities is
$4,4O0."
Every Congressman should visit
TugWelltown land see where more
than $14,000,000 of public money
has been SPENT" he said.
Gives Official Figures
The Senator continued:
"The General Accounting Of
flee of the United States Gov
eminent has just furnished me
with the official figures of cost
of TugweL ;Own or Greenbelt,
near Washington. This project
comprises $50 units.
"The cost per unit will be $751;
1872 and perhaps more. This is
not a farming project. 1t is for
city workers, yet the Govern
ment purchased 12,S45 acres of
land for $1,119,957, a cost of
S9O.72 per acre, an average Of
more than IA acres per home"
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
Ken Murray
Says:

These must be tough times
for the new crop of college grad
yates Il mean the kind that
don't mind doing manual labor
so long as they don't have to
work with their hands. Because,
even though he is armed with
a diploma, a job hunter in dark
est America is liable to have
his pride wounded or be killed
by dirty looks.
More than one new graduate,
asked by an employment man.
ager Just what he learned in
college, would have to answer
If he were truthful-that he
learned to play the saxOphOne,
contract bridge and a fair game
of tennis. And stop right there.
But it's tough for some of the
college grinds, too. You take
a fellow who's studied up on
soup making, say, for four years.
He applies for job, tells them
he knows the alphabet soup
business from A to z, can split
peas $3.50, 6O-4O or any way de-
sired. and can cut up mock
turtles. Then he finds out all
the tinnerieS are canning sal
mon right now and he never
took a course in fish.
It's little Embellishments like
that which make the lot Of the
newly-made alumnuS a most un-
happy one.
(Copyright, 1887. by McNaught
Syndicate, lne.D
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
A LAMENT, OR WOMAN
HOODS GREAT PROBLEM

The major problem confronting
wornanhood today is not grocery
bills, peace, true love. or how 70
raise children. 1t it-thlnk, girls
what is it? It's what to do with the
Ieft-over stocking when the other
stocking has sprung a run ana
gone. 4,.v,
EVERY woman I know-worthy
housewife and fly-by-nlght-nas a
box of stray stockings. These sne
hopefully keeps in the bottom
bureau drawer. Someday, sne
thinks. she will match them with
other stray stockings. Will nave
perfect pairs, as good as new OF
almost. And will thus save a lou
Of money to waste in other ana
happier ways.
Men cannot understand such a
problem. Except, of course, tne
Stocking manufacturer, who ere
a+es it. BY some evil alchemy,
tie stocking manufacturer pro
duces each season stockings which
Iook like those of the year before
hut which are definitely differ
emit. A fraction of color a mere
clint advertises each vintage year
place two leftover stockings sloe
nv side and see how they fight.
Considering that the average
cost of a pair of stockings Is a
dollar, each stray stocking repre-
sents so cents. Add up the strays
in your personal life and see now
much lost cash they represent
Something ought to be done
about stockings! I gave this ultl-
matum to a Big Man in the hosiery
business today. He answered:
Nothing can be done about
stockings. Nothing can be done
to make them last, while women
persist in wearing them thinner
than the thinnest chiffon. No
spindles in the factories or in the
imagination of man can spin goS-
saner so that it will stand the
null of garterS, the rubbing Of
shoes. the strain of driving an au-
tomobile, and all the other pun
ishment modern women give their
stockings. If it's wear you women
want in your hosiery, why not be
sensible and pick out the heavy SER
vice weight?"
Good heavens! MOI" I an
swered. 1--WE could never go back
to that"
The Big Hosiery Man shrugged
his shoulders.
"Well, then" he said, ut is
your fault if the annual silk stock
ing bill runs into the billions Of
dollars"
I still think, in spite of such fine
reasoning, that something ought
to be done about stockings. ES-
aoeciallV the StrayS.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
Bed Attire, Veteran
ReliUeS Horror
Of 1918

The horrors of the World War
were wildly brought back to a
disabled veteran here yesterday
morning on the nineteenth ami
versary of his wounding July 4,
1918, when a nine-inch gun eX-
ploded near him and left him
with a half pound of jagged frag-
mentS in his hip.
He was found under his bed
at his rooming house a. 1920 I
st. N. W., badly burned and
shouting deliriously as he had
done at the time he was
wounded in the war.
The veteran, Claude I. Griffith,
native of Amarillo, Texas, is
believed to have gone to sleep
with a burning cigarette in his
hand.
1t was 3:45 a. m. yesterday
when another roomer in the
house heard the veterans shouts
for help. The second roomer
Paul M. Van Horn, law clerk,
was unable to find the man in
the smoke-filled room, and it was
not until Lieut.. Carl P. Poole, Of
No. Is Engine Company, and his
firemen in gas masks, arrived
that the veteran was found
under the bed.
The veteran had suffered
severe burns and his wooden leg,
which replaced one shot off in a
second wounding in the World
War, was badly charred
Physicians at Emergency Hos
pital said he had a good chance
to recover. although his nerves
were badly shocked.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
NOW
Reasons For
Patriotism
AFTER THE 4TH
Nv HELEN ESsARY

Some reason for personal pa
triotism. on the Day After the
Fourth.
am glad I am an American be-
cause like
Ice cream and bath tubs, hot
bread and soft shell crabs, fried
chicken and cocktail parties, base
ball and mint juleps.
Negro servants and their sott
voiced guile.
Central heating and corn on the
cob.
The Lincoln Memorial, the
Folger Library, the New York SKY
scrapers. and Pullman porters.
American dentistry, American
drug and dime stores.
The native I-am-as-good-as-you
are attitude.
American shoes and the ankles
and feet of American women.
I also like the look of Mr.. Roose
welt better than the look Of Herr
Hitler or Signor Mussolini.
And Mrs. Roosevelt is much
more entertaining than Queen
Mary or even Lady Aston.
And I think it is amusing that
an American woman should have
racked the British Empire (see
late Edwardian Abdication).
I like the Chesapeake Bay and
Pop Eye the Sailor and H. l.
Mencken and the New Deal.
I lies natchelly' like America
best.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
P.-T. A. DONATES
$3.50 T0CLIN|C

1.-TWO months of outdoor living,
proper rest, and a balanced diet"
that may result in a new lease
on life for Jerry and Pete.
1t is the result of a $3.50 gift by
the Parent Teachers Association,
of which Mrs. Walter B. Fry is
president, and it will send the two
Washington youngsters to the new
Bald Eagle Hill health camp for
tuberculosis children when it
opens it's first season of service
tomorrow.
Investigation and examination
by the tuberculosis Clinic dis
closed that through the environ
ment in which they were living,
the children had contracted the
disease in a childhood form.
Funds to provide for the case
of additional children at the camp
are being accepted by the Tubercu-
losis Association, 1922 Eleventh
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
ELM H0N0RS
DANIEL BOONE

Dedication of an elm tree to
the memory of Daniel Boone, early
backwoods rifleman, will take place
tomorrow on the Monument
Grounds under auspices of the
American Order of Patriots, now
in convention at the Washington
Hotel.
The convention is under the di-
rection of William Boone Douglass,
of $500 Lowell st. N. W., a lineal
descendant of Boone, and president
of the order, which he helped to
found.
Several Congressman are slated
to speak at the convention banquet
tonight, and wreath will be laid
on the Constitution of the United
States in the Library of Congress
tomorrow afternoon. An afternoon
business session will bring the two
day meeting to close.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05

} Reba C, Craven, no address
given, SIS.
Jerry j. Diggs, 1893 Twenty-first
st. N. W., IS.
Joseph Robinson, 1774 T st. N
w, IS.
Paul H. Jack, Virginia, S..
Martin Taitel, Maryland. SIS.
Audrey C. Turner, Maryland, S.
Joseph W. Keller, Virginia, IS.
Stewart B. Keith, 2504 Tenth st.
N. E., SIS.
Richard W. Crefelli, 1920 R St
N. W., IS.
Patrick Bacote. s8 K st, N
E., SIS.
George E. Potter, jr., 2724 Thir'
ty-siXth Pl. N. w., IS.
Merrick C. Martin, 1907 Riggs
st. N. W., SIS.
George M. Calhoun, 33 Myrtle
st. N. E., IS.
Claire Quicker, no address
given, S..
Frank C. Page, Virginia, SIS.
Carlos S. Ebert, 1914 Concord
Ave. N. W., IS.
Augustine Russell, 324 Maryland
Ave. N E., IS.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
BANKERS BODY
NANESHEADS

Appointment of members of five
standing committees was an
nounced today by Thomas j
Groom, president of the District OF
Columbia Bankers Association
Other committee appointments
will be announced in the next few
days. Committees include:
Commercial Trade Activities
William B. Willard, chairman
Aubrey o. Dooley, vice chairman;
John Alden, M. F. Calnan and
Frederick P. H. SiddonS.
Government Regulations Com
mittee-W. T. Vandoren, chair
man; w. L. Koontz, vice chair
man; Fred Mckee and Frank Stry'
ker.
Mr.. Groom appointed John A.
Reilly chairman of the insurance
committee, and Nelson B. O'Neal
vice chairman, the other members
being James c. Dulin, jr., Ralph
Endicott, Frank P. Hartman, jr.,
C. D. Radcliffe and Francis E.
Robey.
Other bankers appointed to i'm
portant committees were:
Protective Committee-Robert
H. Lacey, cashier, Columbia Ma
tional Bank, chairman; Barnum
L. Cotton, vice chairman: Earle
M. Amick, w. r. Forster, E. l.
Hillyer. C. H. Pope.
Credit Bureaus. William Mil
Ter, treasurer. Union Trust Com
pany, chairman; C. D. Radcliffe
vice chairman; Hubert T. Bis
selle, F. H. Cox, o. B. EXline, S. S
Ogilvie, William E. Scooley.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
Pile
UpU.S. Security
Holdings
international News Service

Foreigners participating in the
American securities market added
$161,219,000 worth of stocks and
bonds to their holdings during the
first quarter of 1887, Treasury
studies showed today.
Summarizing the money move
ments between the United States
and other countries, the Treasury
reported 1928, ZOO, 900 new capital
poured in from abroad between
January and March. This brought
foreign investments in the United
States past the 5000 million mark.
Net additions to foreign hold
ings in this country during the
three months included also $170,-
100000 of short term banking
funds. BY their activity in securi-
ties trading, foreigners cut down
their brokerage balances by &c.
600, 900,
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
PROTECTING
DISPLAY SET
TONIGHT
Scouts Swell Crowd
Here to Celebrate
Independence Day

With less than a score of casual.
ties due to fireworks reported,
District residents today partici-
pated in comparatively safe and
sane celebration of the Fourth of
July.
In like fashion the traffic toll
was not excessively high, and the
showers forecast for today are ex-
pected to keep both pyrotechnic
and traffic injuries low.
The highlight of the celebration
will be reached tonight when the
District will officially observe In
dependence Day with a fireworks
display, at the Ellipse.
Individual communities in the
District and sections surroundings
the city hold their own group
celebrations with fireworks dis
plays.
Scouts Swell Crowd
In addition to the throngs
which usually crowd downtown
Washington to participate in the
holiday observance, the number
of celebrants today will be swelled
by the $4,000 Boy Scouts here for
the Jamboree.
Contrasting the total of 90 per-
sons who we're injured by fire
works last year, there were only
a few persons treated at local
hospitals for injuries yesterday
and during the early hours Of to-
day. Several arrests on charge of
violation of the anti-fireworks law
were reported.
Persons treated for injuries
from fireworks we're:
Myrtle Riggs. IL, Of the 1900
block Eleventh st. S. E., burned
on the hand and chest, treated at
Casualty Hospital.
Burned BY Firecracker
Ina Harris. Is, of 51S H st.
N. W., burned on the right foot
and chest when a firecracker
which was thrown at her feet ex-
ploded.
Arthur Johnson, is, of the 1900
block S st. N. W., who shot him.
self in the left hand while han
ding a AS caliber revolver. He
was treated at Emergency Hos
pital.
Barten Bostick, IL, colored, 81
G st. N. w.. treated at Providence
Hospital for burn near his right
eye, caused by an exploding fire
cracker.
Willard Dahl, 8, of 1861 L st.
S. E., treated at Gallinger Hospital
for injuries to his head suffered
when a spent rocket struck him.
Others Injured
Alma Nilsson, 10, of 1114 Trini-
dad Ave. N. E., gunshot wound in
ankle; Lee Styers, of Alexandria,
burns on hand; Louis Jean Mein.
berg, of 1160 Neale St. N. E., burn
on lower eyelid; Max Longley, "A,
of 1348 Eleventh st. S. E., burns
on both legs; William Brown, %,
of IA A st. S. E.. burns on hand;
Walter Thomas, 7, of 400 Sixth st.
S. E., burns on hand; George Tur-
ner, 10, of l214 Half st. S. E.,
burns on hand, and Robert John
son, IT, of al Thirteenth st. S.
E., burns on hand.
One person was killed in traffic
Continued on Page IA, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
THE WAYS OF SOME
NTELLIGENTSIA

Doctor Charles G.. Abbot, head
of the. Smithsonian Institution
doesn't like any food but desserts
His idea of a perfect dinner is five
courses of sweets. Two of his favor:
ties are thick chocolate cake and
oozy cherry pie He also likes l9
kinds of ice cream. AS a change
from his lofty labors at the Smith.
sonian he sometimes plans a meal
that is a series of desserts.
DR.. Stringfellow Barr, the new
president of st. Johns College:
Annapolis. delighted the ladies OF
the Twentieth Century Club with a
recent address. They found DR.:
Barr handsome and smart and OF
the same intellectual school as the
forewaro-going DR.. Hutchins, pres
ident of the University OF Chicago
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
NEW LAND LEVY
HIT BY DC.
GROUP
Taxpayers Association
Points Out II Evils
In Measure

Protests against the new Senate
tax bill for the District were
mounting today as the Senate Dis
trict Committee prepared to hold
its final meeting before reporting
the sales and land tax measure to
the Senate.
The committee will meet tomor-
row morning to report the bill,
with only one dissenting voice,
that of Senator William H. King
CD of Utah.
In the meantime, the Washing
ton Taxpayers Association last
night issued a warning against the
ST land tax in the Senate bill,
calling it disastrous"
LuSk Assails Tax
The tax, Rufus LuSk, secretary
of the association, said in pre-
pared statement, is nothing but
a deformed posthumous child of
Henry Georges exploded single
tax theory"
Lusk listed II reasons for the
disastrous" effects of the tax, as
follows:
81. Land owners in many" in
stances will be unable to carry
the burden and may dump their
holdings on the market.
"2. Builders, being no longer
able to carry large acreage on
account Of higher taxes, will
build piecemeal, thereby prOmOt-
ing haphazard, ragged develop
ment:
"3. High land taxes in Wash
ingtOn will tend to push home
construction even faster in near
by counties.
q. Land owners, b-iDg unable
to carry their property, will let
it go for taxes, thus reducing
tax collections.
IS. It will boost the real es-
tate tax burden by $4,SOO,OOO,
or 20 per cent.
IS. Real estate now carries
too large a share of the tax
lOad-abOut 60 per cent. 1t
should be reduced.
so. The land tax increases this
load to Sc % per cent.
LEVY CALLED UNFAIR
"8. 1t imposes increased taxes
with cruel unfairneSS-,e. e., a
house renting for $50 on Seven
teenth Street will have a tax in
crease of $1l9, while one rent
ing for SIPS on Harrison Street
will be taxed only S36 more.
80. Despite the claims of its
advocates that it will not hinder
the hOmeOwner, the fact is that
the average hOmeOwner will pay
about 1876 per cent more tax
than he is now paying.
"10. 1t will disrupt the budget
of many a home buyer who is
now skating on thin ice to meet
interest, amortization charges
and taxes.
al. In time it is bound to
affect rents"
The tax measure, which may
come up in the Senate tomorrow,
provides, in addition to the 81
tax on land without improve
mentS. a 2 per cent sales tax,
which the committee chooses to
call a luxury tax" because of
the exemption of food, clothing
and medicine.
AS approved by Senator Kings
committee, the House provision
for a 20-cent increase in real
estate taxes and the business priv
lege tax of three-fifths of / per
cent on gross receipts as well as
the chain store tax are knocked
out. The committee also refused
to include the House provision for
an increase in insurance taxes.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
Parable Talks Begun
By. Rev. Stephen Gill

1.-TWO Sons" was the subject of
the sermon, the first of a series
of parallels of service, preached
yesterday by the Rev. Stephen Gill
SpottSwood, pastor of John Wesley
A. M. E. Zion Church. Music was
provided by the summer choir
under the direction of Miss Lucille
Mills, member of the faculty
of Livingstone College, Sails
bury. N. C.,
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
DR., Edwards Offers
INAUGURAL Sermons

DR.. Joseph Edwards, newly
elected pastor of Zion Baptist
Church, Third and F. street South
west, preached his inaugural SER
mons yesterday.
DR.. Edwards, a native Of Key
West, Fla, and a graduate of
Clark University and Cannon
Theological Seminary, of Atlanta,
and Howard University, succeeds
the Rev. J, M. Ellison, who
accepted a rrofessorship at Vir-
GINA Union University. The new
minister began his career in
1896. having been ordained at
Athens, Ga.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
! QUESTI0NED
IN SHOOTING

Two colored men were being
questioned today in connection
with the fatal shooting of Max
Dichter, 40, proprietor of a grocery
at 1877 L st. N. W., during an at
tempted robbery on June %.
Dichter died at Sibley Hospital
Saturday from wounds from the
bandits gun. The holdup man
shot Dichter when he tried to
throw a scale at his aSSailant.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
10000 Deaf in D. C.,
Dickson Estimates

George Dickson, president OF the
Washington Society for the Hard
of Hearing, estimates that ap-
proximately 10000 persons in the
city have partial or total hearing
defects.
He defines deafness as a condi-
ton present at birth. He explained
it also frequently follows fever
and many of the common child
hood diseases. Sometimes, he said,
the hard of hearing find silence
an advantage. He hasn't been with
out a job for A years.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
Fugitive Is Seized

A confessed fugitive from a
chain gang, who ran away only
because he wanted vacation, "
was arrested by Detective Ser
geant Howard Ogle in a res
taurant here yesterday. Ogle rec
ognized the man as Edward
Lane, 81. wanted at Spartenberg,
S. c., to serve out the rest of
his three-year term for assault
and robbery.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
81 Hams and Lard
Stolen From Farmer

ROCKVILLE, Md, July S.
Montgomery county police today
we're searching for the thief who
celebrated the weekend by break
ing into the Smokehouse of Clar-
ence Gates, Redland, Md, farmer,
stealing "a hams and a quantity
of lard, totaling 900 pounds In
weight and $240 in value.
The Washington times., 1937-07-05
Club Hears DR.. Calls

DR.. Henry A. Calls, associate
professor of medicine at the How
ard University Medical School,
addressed the Mems Brotherhood
Club at Lincoln Temple Congrega-
tional Church yesterday. His sub
ject was THE Ten Command
ments of Healthy" DR.. Robert
W. Brooks, pastor of the church,
presided.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-23
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Pressure is low this morning
from the upper Miss ssippi Valley
eastward over the North Atlantic
States, Duluth, Mimi, 1852 inch
es, and East~ort, Me-, 29.68 inch
es, and relatively low over the
West Gulf States, Abilene, Tex
as, 29.86 inches; while a moder-
ate high pressure area is crested
over northern florida, Jackson
vile, 1920 inches, and pressure is
relatively high over the northern
Rockies and Plateau States, Salt
Lake City, Utah, 30.12 inches.
Precipitation has occurred during
the last "a hours in the Ohio Val
ley, New England, portions of the
Lake region and extreme upper
Mississippi Valley, and on the
coast of Washington, the amounts
being generally light. Tempera-
lures have fallen in central and
southern Florida, and light frost
was reported this morning at Jack
sonville and Tampa; while else
where throughout the country
readings are generally near or
above normal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-23

products of this great centralizing
force.
!. The new industrial revolution Is
driven by new power--a combina-
tion of electricity and gasoline. The
electric gasoline revolution is great
deeentralizing force. 1t has destroyed
rural and small town isolation. and
is rapidly eliminating all the advan-
tages of Capitalization. 1t has opened
thousands of new fields as attractive
locations for industry. 1t is no longer
necessary for industry to remain in
any .<1rticular state nor at any par
ticular point. As matter of fact. the
rural states of the South are rapidly
becoming the most attractive field for
new industries. Small cities. towns.
villages. and rural communities are
now very active competitors with the
big cities in the location of factories.
and there is little doubt but that the
small places will win in this contest.
The lins of economic advantage led
to the centers under The steam revo-
luton. but it is leading away from the
centers under the electric-gasoline
revolution. AS the line of economic
advantage goes. so will 60 population
and civilization.
This new industrial revolution
might very properly be called the
michigan revolution" Michigan has
been the peerless leader in originals
ing and promoting this greatest in
dustrial movement of all time. To
Michigan must be conceded the honor
address questions to the du
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-23
FOR COMPARISON

Just by way of keeping up with events
in foreign countries, we call attention to a
speech recently delivered by Constantine
Kotzion, Governor of Athens, Greece.
The speaker praised the use of physi-
cal violence against those "out of harmony
with the regime" and advised his hearers
to ''use their hands,"
Some Americans may get a little salts
faction out of contrasting conditions here
with those in Athens, ancient citadel of
learning, in the Old World.