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nal Service, War Department, was
transferred to the Department Of Agri-
culture in 1891.
BY presidential appointment Willis
Ray Gregg became its chief in 1894
Pity the poor national weather prophet!
He tolls excessively, but is rarely
able to please the public. 1t has
been tough going this last year
Of droughts, cyclones, excessive rains.
The weather on Inauguration day in
Washington was most unpopular.
Gregg says mo one consulted the
Weather Bureau about changing the
Inauguration date" Gregg is amiable
about the weather banter. He Is seri-
Gus, yet in no sense solemn. with
naive eagerness to explain problems in
volved, service rendered and hopes for
betterment. I'VE are not infallible," he
says. Certainly, service will be ma
terially improved as funds become
available to organize more stations,
conduct more research"
Two hundred United States stations
send In twice daily technical reports.
The international exchange, radio
marine reports, air reports supple
ment these. They are charted on
daily maps. Within two hours fore
casts are telegraphed to 1000 dis
tributing points. which spread the
tidings to countless millions by wire,
phone, radio, newspapers, mail De-
pendent upon these reports for their
very life are predominantly the air
craft service for maintenance OF
schedules, engineers for wind pressure
on buildings, floods, etc. citrus grow
ers for freezing, ships for cyclones,
not to mention the rank and file, who
want to make their daily plans.
Gregg, born in Phoenix N. Y, has
background of meteorological edu-
cation, both self-imposed and as a
graduate of Cornell University. He
served in ohservatories at Grand
Rapids, Cheyenne, Mount Weather,
coming to Washington in 1915 as
chief of the aerological division. It
was during this period that weather
service was organized for commercial
alrWayS.
Experiments in the new robot
observer" are being pushed feverishly.
The instrument bears the name of
radiometerograph. 1t is to be sus-
pended from a small rubber ballon,
filled with hydrogen, which will
ascend over Is miles, and automati-
cally record by series of dots and
dashes its upper-ar findings. When
perfected Gregg feels that marked
Improvement in daily as we'll as long
range wea ther forecasting will come"
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so as to avoid the payment Of dues
is an "unfair labor nrarticp" I" which
(Copyright, 1881

so as to avoid the payment Of dues
is an unfair labor practice" which
is unlawful under the Wagner act.
The campaign issue in the "election"
at the Packard plant was q promise
by the c. I. o. that wage increases
would be obtained. A set Of "A de-
mands has been presented which are
now in process of being discussed be-
tween the Packard executives and the
c. I. o. representatives. II the lat
ter fail to get the main demands the
workmen have no means for whole
year of getting rid of the committee
which promised them specific ad-
vantages in return for the payment
of dues.
So far as the demands are con-
cerned, difficulty has arisen which
may produce = cessation Of employ
ment and q severe strike. The wage
increases being asked Of the Packard
management involve greater ex-
pense to that company than to its
competitors. The unions are not ne
gotiating basic scale for all auto
workers but are demanding different
things in different plants. Even II a
uniform increase is brought about,
there is no consideration given to any
neutrals-the consumers-who might
refuse to buy as many automobiles
hereafter If the prices are raised to
meet rising labor costs. It is being
reported rather widely that if the
present trend Of increased costs are
accepted by the auto arrangements,
most cars will have to be advanced
from $50 to $100, in which case 4
drop in production and hence drop
in employment would seem to be In
evitable. Maybe that's the election"
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bromacetone, nor ethylbromacetate
nor-Lord, what words!-monochlor-
methylchlorfomate I wonder il Mr.,
Roosevelt wrote that proclamation out
In long hand! He must have hated the
interruption to his fishing.
1 do not wish to jeer at the neu-
tral1ty act. 1t is a worthy law, 1t
reflects the work OF conscientious
persons, it is probably as good rs any
that could be written. But because few
will read the neutrality act, and be-
cause Of an American trait OF mind,
1t will be assumed that the new meas
ure settled everything. The new law
will be especially appealing because
an alluring phrase goes with it. It's
the ."cash and carry" law; we won't
sell any goods on credit, nor send them
IN American ships-a belligerent who
wants our goods must come after them,
pay cash, and carry them home In his
own ships.
And so-ve have law about 1t.
Therefore the whole matter is cared
for, We shall not be involved In any
war. Now that's fixed, we can 20
about our affairs in peace"
Roll Call of Laws
That optimism may give comfort to
youths who began to read yesterday.
But persons who are middle-aged or
older Will recall some history OF the
past 20 years or so. Let us call the
roll Of some other laws and procla-
nations, and conferences and slogans,
which, we thought, settled things.
There was that sonorous proclama-
ton OF President Wilson, on August
10. 1914, few weeks after the Great
War broke out in Europe: I'VE must
be impartial In thought as we'll as
in action; the United States must be
neutral In fact as well as in name"
That pious admonition, We thought,
would keep us out Of war.
Then there was the slogan on which
Wilson ran for reelection in 1915,
He kept us out OF war"-with the
implication that he would continue
to keep US out (Which. undoubtedly,
he wished to do). But less than a
month after Wilson was reinaugurated,
We were In the war.
Sees Democracy Submerged.
For the war, Wilson had a slogan.
THE war to end all wars" We fought
the war believing that-but 81 years
later we are still trying to keep out
OF war. Wilson had another slogan,
The war to make the world safe for
democracy'-and today We in America
are trying desperately to save de-
mocracy In a world in which, for 20
years beginning with the coming of
communism in Russia in October,
1917, democracy has been sub
merged in one country after another.
Then there was the Paris Peace
Conference and the Versailles treaty.
That was going to set up League OF
Nations, and the league was going
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News Behind the News
James Roosevelt's Boston Speech Sends Senators
Scurrying to Get Copy.
BY PAUL MALLON,


/OUNG James
country on his recent Boston
the serious thoughts Of his father
issued He more than surprised large gathering
declaring the problem of creating industry
solved by the States and by the
Whose problem is this of 5obs9"
the business OF the Federal Government is the business
Massachus? am convinced belongs to the Commonwealth
lhe time has come Dhen States
ngton instead OF alwdys being
pun being borne 'front.' And these
things that can best be accomplished BY States"
One Boston
TO his father In its
was made Regarded by the unoa
national administration ponoun pretty
generally His hooked
asked If he intended to seek
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the workers have forgotten about
the election which the consumers
usually hold when they are asked to
choose between buying a new car 1t
= price beyond their pocketbooks or
sticking it out with the Old car for
couple Of years more. The whole
present trend OF success In the auto
industry dates from the time they
began to bring prices down.
OCopyright, 1887
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lawyers the
Worcester
and North Adams
of those this
White House conferences preceding Mr. Roseve
finding this
to
requests
Erecupe Gouerno Mayor asked for
submit OF his need When this
oud something like this "Noo that have
State bankrupt unable
publicly
his financially
and in need OF Federal charity.
The prediction the President then that further
troubled
that his State better OF than poohose
would take of him at the election.
The proposal by Representative Woodrum
the big appropriation bills be back
blunder
prompt eto to the proposition embarrassing has
the
that could
Paul Revere the country operspendino
The administration quietly
Backstage
that the administration
stand feet
let he thinks the
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authority 1t gives
him. BY proc
lamation, duly
signed and sealed,
1t becomes un-
lawful during two
years after June
l next for any
American citizen
or corporation to
sell or ship GER
tain articles to
any belllgerent-
about a hundred
are listed. We
cannot sell phos-
gene, nor cyano-
gen chloride, nor
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neD farm bill in the drafting the
is continued, it most likely UiH
The old story that the will
applicable official Washington
members of the cabinet
planning froic
of the Kentucky
heading
at his New York Attorney
the South the courpackng fight Senators
the the
"hooky"
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.

W YE HAVE a new neutrality
A/ law. Congress has passed
w 1t, by overwhelming votes
in the Senate Al to IS, in
the House without dissenting vote.
President Roosevelt signed 1t last Sat-
urday, and at once acted upon the
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business hearings Of
meant ouaW1ng successful a notable fact that
the and other monopoc the B
Eagle continued
business OF the obligation to labor
n ~ '
Even there considerable feeling
tron is essentially unfair by
At his last press conference before his Mr. Room
De indicated that all the antitrust oue1hau
ing THIS seems inevitable uhen
Puoh has the poer stay governmental against Mr.
AndTeW MeHons Aluminium
en district OF NeW York. For the
specimen OF
TAIN Unexplained members OF the judiciary
monopoly subject the Of only one Federal 1do
and that no others
economic feudalSm scarcely
imperative unless political Government
these tremendous
daily life ~ ~ "a oo'
In revising the anti laws certain
De followed First and foremost certain nature
ought 70 be highly centralized
iron and steel railway telegraph and telephone
communications automobile manufacture etc.
On the other
IN being centralized These
ad companies motion
building materials mining general
IN tne second place those industries
should De reeonald There for example
the Birmingham steel should
reason why major national
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carry . big stick" There is reason
to believe that Theodore Roosevelt's
cousin, Franklin D., believes In that
rule. Quietly, without saying much
about it, almost as if he wished to
conceal it, President Roosevelt is
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people still fancy
themselves wealth
er prophets.
The telegraph.
barometer, ther-
mometer appeared
about q century
ago. Science be-
gan to replace tho
g u ess W ork of
oracles and prov
erbs. O bser va
tories q ppe e ared
all over the world.
The United States
Weather Bureau,
started in 1871 as
mart NJ tho Cic.
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building up our Navy to a strength
with which We can lay down . policy
of neutrality and then make others
respect it. That ought to do the trick
II anything can.
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act, there is vir-
tuauy no choice
at all between
alternatives.
The case OF the
Packard Motor
Car Co. Is one in
point. For a long
time there has
been in existence
IN the Packard
plant an organiz-
alton Of employees.
1t was not q
company" union
IN the sense of
being financially
eIIrnOrtaS b1, tho
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industries, which could thus
check on each other by natural
competition whenever their prices
got out Of line
Finally, it may be recorded
that even morally indefensible
monopoly may be quite bearable if
1t progressively reduces its prices
rather than restricts its produc-
ton. The great automotive for
tune OF Mr.. Henry Ford is based
on destructive price-cutting" Of
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At the Capitol more than
one Senator sent for = copy Of
the address. It WAS felt that
Mr.. RooSevelt's own son would
not 60 before such q gathering
the speech was delivered at q
testimonial banquet to Boston's
postmaster, Peter F. Tague-
and utter such thoughts without
presidential sanction. Special sig
niflcance was attached to these
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thinking on agricultural lines will
now be centered on plans that are
self-supporting.
One piece Of farm legislation
apparently safely tucked out of
sight is the crop insurance bill
designed to aid wheat farmers. 1t
has been given to a House agricul-
ture subcommittee on which no
wheat States are represented. The
100000 tenant farmer bill has
e. ~
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HE opinions OF the rers this page their oon not
necessarty The Stars Such opinions presented in
The Stars effort to gUe all sides OF questions interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-05-06

CerCalnIy, the New Deal has
seesawed pitifully in facing the
choice between superbusines and
supergovernment. The N. r. A.
WAS move in the direction of
monopoly. One Of its admitted
purposes was to prevent "destruc-
tive price-cutting." To the New
Dealers this phrase meant bargain
prices achieved At the expense Of
labor or Of the producer of raw
ma forials To thu fh4alx ,aeaIxaa
Evening star., 1937-05-06
An American
You Should
Know
Willis Gregg Became
Weather Bureau
Chief in 1884.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

BY DELLA PYNCHON.
Every one wants to know about tbs
weather. Since cave days people have
scanned the skies. grunted or smiled.
Oracles and proverbs nourished. Many
Evening star., 1937-05-06
Most Decisive
Election" Is
Yet toCorne
Auto Labor Still to Face
Public's View of
Higher Prices.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

DI DHVID Inv NLTNVL.
Y YHEN the average man hears
\A/ the word election" he
wv thinks of a choice between
candidates for govern
mental ONCE. But as the term is
being applied in the operation of cleo
tions under the Wagner labor relations
Evening star., 1937-05-06
We, the People
New Deal Seesaws in Choice Between Superbusiness
and Supcrgovernment.

IN.
people will perish unless administration
- income Is death to political protoplasm.
many fact that
IN order to fgt the moneved
Which ranoln0 opportunity tor the
Rooeet has been forced greater political
ton at Washington than desirable
disease
national life that it Is really
be necessary to kill the patient fever
Evening star., 1937-09-22
My Life With Amelia Earhart
By GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM.
Record Flights Didn't
Pay for Selves, But
Flyer Made Way by
Writin g and Lee
turing on Trips.

The story OF the 1porld's most
famous Womdn Aviator, as re-
nowneG parsonage and as ,lrite, is
told here BY the flyers husband,
tidely knoiDn author and editor, in
O series OF sir articles, OF l0hich
this is the fourth.
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house an say hello to the wife, would
you? Shed be tickled"
"Tickled? I can imagine, at this
time of night"
'Pshaw! Think nothin' Of it. Shed
get up fer you!"
1t had the air of trade.
All right "a. won't be able to
stay a minute though .. :"
They got to little, neat, frame
house. The cop unlocked the door
and went upstairs. A. E. could see
the foraging beam of his flashlight.
Get up Annie See what brought
yuh :"
Annie came down. PLEASED to
meet you," she said, looking dazed.
"Will YOU have piece of chocolate
cake and glass of milk?" A. E.
would. and did.
We'll, I really must get on I've
enjoyed seeing you both," she grinned
at the law.
Sure nice of you," her host re-
piled. AN say; if you're tryin' to
make time, you may get picked up
down below by Joe Ryan. Just tell
him said it was all right. Tell him
said you was in hurry"
(Copyrieht. 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
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cial aspect of A. Els flights was sub
ject of Tecurrent comment.
have before me, for instance, clip
pings describing A. E's flights (a)
as undertaken to lift the mortgage
from the old homestead, (b) that she
had always been wealthy, (c) that she
was penniless and few for the rich
rewards, and (d) that 1, "a million
aire," paid all the bills. so that money
didn't matter. 1t all leaves one slightly
confused!
Beside such imaginings, the facts
are prosaic. but perhaps worth re-
cording at that.
Neither from the stamps, nor in any
other way, did A. E. ever make profits
from any flying, venture. No single
flight showed direct returns in black
on the balance sheet. AS to her per-
sonal finances, from the time A. E.
was young woman, she made her own
way. Her flying she made pay its own
way For long months each Winter
she lectured and wrote. She ploughed
the returns back into aviation She
made it matter of pride to keep her
flying self-supporting.
Parenthetically, her technique of
lecture travel often f1abbergasted wom-
ems clubs and other audiences. - Un-
able to fly on her lecture schedules
because landing facilities we're unpre-
dictable-she always drove. Winding
up an engagement an hour before
midnight, she would get into her car
in evening clothes and earn the right
to sleep peacefully by driving the hun
dred, or two or three hundred, miles
to the next town on the list. She
wore out a lot of don't disturb" signs
in her hotels, keeping herself in good
trim.
Her nocturnal driving WAS studded
with amusing adventures.
One night, at 1870, she was speed
ing through the New England coun-
tryside to Boston and some sleep be-
fore her next engagement. From no.
where, few hundred yards behind, a
headlight appeared. Just one Very
bright. That meant motorcycle
cop, who forthwith clattered up.
Upbraided by Officer.
The laws reproving voice. Well!
Coin right along, wasn't yuh? Tsk-
tsk-an' this time o night, too. Other
people get the same idea. Makes ac-
cidents."
You see it's this way I have ;"
Sure, sure, I. know" The cops
voice was weary with the worlds S
wickedness. That's what they all
say
But :"
"Lemme see your license :"
Poking his head in the window, he
gave her quick. oblique look.
oh! So it's you! Well! Well ]
get all the big ones on this road. Once
Evening star., 1937-09-22
LEAGUE GETS FAIR BID

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 22.-The Sec
retary-general of the League of Ma
titns yesterday received an invitation
from Grover Whalen to the New York
World Fair in 1899.
Officials said the invitation would
be referred to the Committees in In
tellectual Cooperation and Finance.
with final action probably depending
on the latter committees attitude to-
ward the expense involved.
Evening star., 1937-09-22

I got the Presidents son. He had a
tale! Bout an English class. Last
week I got the Governor. He had a
hitch-hiker; asst me could I find him
a bed for the night an a job. An
now I get you'll"
well, A. E. said meekly, ''if you
could just give me the dufunny >
The cop considered. Nov looka-
here; you wouldn't come down to tn
Evening star., 1937-09-22
Honolulu, Hawaii.
January 10, 1885.


Honolulu,
January 10,
Mai Clark,
Maj. Clark
left this letter
delivered after this afternoon
the test takof satisfactory
land This sensible
It is better for all concerned "alohas
Particularly this note
alton for the assistance Wheeler
grateful for it, the
Col Emmons which possible corporation
stood that in assisting chargeab
responsibility connected with the flight implied You did
only what would do
circumstances
fully recognize
The entire responsibility for the fight I
AMELIA EARHART
Evening star., 1937-09-22

Davenport, Washington correspondent
Of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News, and
Robert Bilsborough, president Of the
Washington Federation Of Junior
Stamp Collectors.
Evening star., 1937-09-22
VALUABLE GUATEMALA
STAMPS ON EXHIBIT
H. L. Lindquist's Collection to Be
Shown Tonight at Philatelic
Society Meeting.

The most valuable collection OF the
stamps of Guatemala ever assembled
by an American will be exhibited at a
meeting this evening of the Washing
ton Philatelic Society at the Carlton
Hotel.
Lent by the owner, Harry L. Lind
quist, editor Of Stamps Magazine and
chairman of the National Federation
Of Stamp Clubs, the collection will be
shown and explained by Albert F.
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Kunze, former president Of the Society.
Other Guatemalan stamps ana COW
ers will be displayed by Mrs. Catherine
L. Manning, philatelic curator Of the
Smithsonian Institution David H.
Evening star., 1937-09-22

The government Of Guatemala viii
be represented ct the meeting by senos
Enrique Lopez-Herrarte, first secretary
Of the legation.
Evening star., 1937-09-22
A Letter From Amelia Earhart

commanding Office
Wheeler Field
California:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-28
TRAFFIC DEATHS
HERE RISE TO II

Washington's seventy-first traf-
fic victim was recorded early to-
day with the death of Ralph
Jones, SO, of 1923 West Virginia
Ave. N. E., who died in Emergency
Hospital at 7:15 a. m.
Traffic deaths in the District
at this time last year were Sc.
Jones, an employe of the Dutch
Baker Boy, Inc, was injured
August IA when the bakery de-
livery truck in which he was rid
ing collided with a sedan at Forty
sixth and Ellicott Streets North
west.
The driver Of the bakery truck,
Elmer M. Bliss, jr., %, OF $500
Twenty-seventh st. N. w., and the
driver of the sedan, Lawrence j.
Bernard, 81, of 4451 Verplank Pl.
N. w., were arrested and charged
with colliding. Police said today
that both drivers will be summoned
for a coroner's inquest. Jones died
of internal injuries and a frac-
tured skull.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-28
q D. c. ROADS
STILL BLOCKED
BY HIGH WATER
Police Seek Body
of Drowned Boy

Only two roads in the Washing
ton area remained closed early to-
day because Of flood waters, as
fair skies fastened the receding Of
streams in and around the city.
Activities at the Upper Marlboro
fair grounds were resumed today
after flood waters had forced can
collation. of the race card and
most Of the county fair exhibits
yesterday.
Meanwhile, police were still
searching for the body Of a col
ored youth drowned yesterday as
he waded in a swollen creek.
ROAD CREWS Busy
Road crews in the District and
nearby Virginia and Maryland
were busy cleaning up the storm
battered areas which suffered
from a five-day rain that tooS two
lives and caused property damage
mounting into thousan Is OF
dollars.
With Bladensburg Road at the
Peace Cross clear Of water, which
blocked all traffic early yesterday
and roadways around the Marlboro
race track also reopened, only two
Rock Greek Park roads remained
closed today. They are Beach
Drive between Military Road and
Bingham Drive, and the Parkway
Drive on Massachusetts Avenue at
the underpass.
Harbor Police reported that six
boats valued at 1925 had been re.
covered in the Potomac River
near Georgetown, after being torn
from their mornings and that four
of them had been reclaimed.
SUN WELCOMED
The welcome sunshine, which
broke through the cloudy skies
yesterday for the first time in five
days, was scheduled to continue
throughout today and tomorrow,
according to forecasts Of the
Weather Bureau.
Police revealed a total Of IS per-
sons, including seven-day-old
baby, were rescued by police and
firemen after they had been
isolated in their homes in Bunga-
low Town, in the Anacostia section.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-28
Columbus Awards
Four Scholarships

Three-year scholarships to Co
lumbus University have been
awarded to four graduates Of
Catholic secondary schools of the
city, Dean James D. Cushman Of
the university announced yester-
day. John A. Smith, II, of 1904
Calvert st. N. W., a graduate of
st. PaulS Academy, will enter the
School of Law: June Hoffman, 10,
st. Patrick's Academy: Elizabeth
Callahan, 10, Notre Dame Acad-
envy, and Joseph Mccain, IT. ST..
Anthony's High School, will all
receive free courses in the School
of Accountancy. according to the
deans announcement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-28

made it essential that its staff be
restored to- the predepreSsion
standard. The commission stated,
as an example Of its increased
work, the gross revenues of local
utilities in 1918 was $11,440,000,
while last year they were $49,-
65O.O0O.
OTHER JOBS PROPOSED
With the $45,220 increase the
commission proposes to hire a
chief electric meter inspector and
a field inspector; an investigator,
two engineers, a valuation &C.
countant, three accountant-audi-
tors, two accountants, an assist
ant accountant-auditor, a senior
accountant-auditor, a clerk-stenog-
rapher, an information clerk and
a messenger.