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The Washington times., 1938-11-09
TYPIST CREDIT REPORTEF

TYPIST CREDIT REPORTER
Rapid typst to make Investigations, type
up reports Native of District only. Not
over 27 years old. Have auto and home
telephone Good ref. only considered.
Exc. remuneration for right man See
Mr.. Byrd Wednesday morning. Person
ne, Service, 1871 G St. N. W.
YOUNG MEN over IS, for junior sale0
work: good chance for advancement. See
Mr.. Slayin RIM. 422, Bond Bldg. 14th
and n. Y Ave
The Washington times., 1938-11-09

POCKETBOOK. large black, in cab: money.
pictures. pen: rev. EN-. 2751.
The Washington times., 1938-11-09

MEDIUM SIZED black dog, red collar, re-
sembles overgrown Scottie, liberal reward.
3133 Newton St. N. E. or Pot 07S5-J.
after 4 30
The Washington times., 1938-11-09

POCKETBOOK, black, glasses. keys, driV-
ers permit, papers; rev. DU. 1852.
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view men for dealer and field manager
positions. new plan: unusual opportunity:
car helpful; replies confidential. Write
Box H-l17. Herald-Tmes, giving phone
number.
The Washington times., 1938-11-09

WELSH. TERRIER, like tiny Airedale
"Curlyh; collar & bell: rev. WA. 63S6
The Washington times., 1938-11-09

LOST-Fox terrier. male. brown: tag No
1O930: answers to Brownie; II. 7767-J
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IfOU UIUCh WUTsb N T. ME. Hofo'
WRIST WATCH-Girrs Elgin. Monday or
Georgia Ave. car or near Roosevelt High
School. Child heartbroken. Please return
Reward. Republic 1879.
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LOST ads taken until IL 80 O. m. for the
same days Times; till midnite for the
next mornings Herald FOUND ADS
are published ENTIRELY FREE Of
charge. Republic 1884.
The Washington times., 1938-11-09

GLASSES. silver rims, vic. Conn. Ave. or
18th & Col. Rd. WOodley 1909.
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BUSINESS OPP.
EMPLOYMENT

BARBER, colored. for colored shop. Apply
46C St. N, w.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17
'MUSTS" FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY

Julien H. Harvey, manag-
ing director of the National
Conservation Bureau. lists
six vital "musts" for the So
luton of Americas Number
/ accident problem = the
street and highway death and
injury toll.
First. all drivers must be
licensed, and only after strin-
gent tests.
Second, real, not perfume
tory physical examinations
of drivers at periodic inter-
walls is important.
Third, all high school stu
dents should be educated in
safe driving, through spe-
cially devised courses.
Four, there must be more
stringent enforcement of laws
affecting both drivers and
pedestrians by the police and
traffic courts.
Fifth, ticket fixing must
be 100 per cent. eliminated.
Lastly, all safety organiza-
tions should give their pri-
mary effort toward discour-
aging the speed mania
principal cause of the bulk
of the serious accidents.
These "musts" provide a
well-rounded traffic safety
program, within the power Of
any state or community to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

meet. They touch the all
important NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ton, examination and law en-
forcement. They deal with
specific cures-not more or
less meaningless generalities,
and represent the only kind
of program which has a
chance for permanent sue
cess.
America has had enough of
reckless drivers-of ignorant
youth taking the wheel for
the first time-of the ticket
fixing racket that let's the
guilty man with pull go free
of the callous indifference
toward others that the speed
maniac displays. Every one
of the 48 states, every one of
the thousands Of villages and
cities in the land, must give
its energies to solving the
traffic problem.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS

If it were a sporting event,
the contest now being waged
between the United States
and Germany in seeking for
eign markets, principally in
Latin America, could aptly be
advertised in this fashion:
"Cordell Hull and his Recip-
rOcal Trade Theory VS.. Adolf
Hitler and his German Barter
Systematic show of the CEN
tury." AS Business Week
puts it, in more sober vein,
''The political battle which
ended in the Munich truce
was fought almost entirely in
Europe. It's sequel is a vast
trade war that is going to be
fought in the Americas"
This is primarily a conflict
between two PHILOSOPHERS of
world trade. Mr.. Hull, as his
long congressional record
shows, is at heart a free
trader. He is also a realist,
and thus knows that the
ideal of free trade is not
attainable in the world at
present-and in all probable
ity will not be for decades
10 come, if ever. Therefore,
he seeks what he believes is
the next best thing-trade
agreements between this and
other countries designed to
promote the freest possible
flow of goods with the lowest
possible tariff costs. Mr..
Hull believes in this not only
because he thinks it is good
for world commerce = of
greater Importance, he feels
that strong and amicable
commercial ties between
great powers is the best
guarantee we can have of
world peace. So far a large
number of treaties have been
concluded, the most i'm
portant one being that eff
fected with Canada. And a
new and potentially more i'm
portant one still, is about
concluded with Britain, and
will go into effect, according
DO schedule, the first of next
year. Under the terms of
these treaties, the great bulk
OF deals are contaminated in
scash-dollars, pounds francs,
lire, rubles, or whatever cur
rencies are used in the
nations involved.
When you do business with
Germany, however, cash is
one thing you can't get. The
Reich has next to no foreign
credit. Therefore, at Hitlers
bidding, DIR. Schacht of the
Reichsbank put into effect a
curious and novel schere. If
you, for instance, are an
American manufacturer of
typewriters, and accept an
order for ten thousand ma
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

chimes from Germany, all you
get when they are delivered
is a credit. You may use
this credit within Germany
to buy cameras, toys, liquor,
or anything else that is pro-
duced in German territory, to
the value of the typewriters
you have sold. If you have
a market for such German
products, or if you can find
a buyer for your credit, well
and good. But otherwise
you can't get real money.
Today Germany is looking
more and more to South
America. Conquest of the
Sudetenland has greatly in
creased German industrial
production, and she must find
markets. Furthermore, she
is often able and willing to
make far better barter deals
than we can make cash deals.
In central Europe Germany
has already taken a large
part of the great market
which once was largely mo-
nopolized by the English. She
is threatening to do the same
thing to us in the Western
hemisphere.
What will come of this
growing conflict-and make
no mistake about it's serious
ness-cannot yet be forecast.
Perhaps we will change our
foreign policies somewhat in
order to successfully meet
German competition. And
perhaps still more possible, is
the chance that Hitler will
take the initiative in resum-
ing trade relations with this
country - the last trade
agreement we had with Ger
many was cancelled by Hitler
in 1884, and we have done
relatively little business with
her since. AS Business Week
also says, there are three big
reasons why Hitler might de-
sire this: (1) Germany needs
American buyers to absorb
some of the products of the
Sudeten; (2) Germany also
needs us to absorb some of
the produce of her own inter-
nal industries; (3) If the
Anglo U. S. trade agree
ment does go into effect, as
seems almost certain, this
will destroy a valuable ex-
port market for Germany,
unless adjustments can be
made.
This drama is we'll worth
watching-it is the sort of
thing that determines world
prosperity or world depres-
sion, as well as peace and
war. Whatever happens, it
is a colorful and novel chap
ter in the long history Of
international commerce.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17


Of competition set up with money
from taxpayers pockets. The rail-
roads long have been the most heav-
lily taxed Of any industry, which is
to say they helped pay for creation
of competition.
There was the creation Of the in
terstate commerce commission
some years ago as a unit of govern
ment for supervision of the rail
lines. 1t was, and is still, needed.
But its existence, too, has held down
rail earnings. This has resulted
from the control of rates. No rail-
road is permitted to charge more
than rate approved by the I. c. C.
While the competitors were creep
ing forward, under governmental
blessing, the I. c. c. was saying to
the rail lines: "You fellows obey
our orders, or else"
Subsidies out of taxpayers pockets
have gone to build up another COM
petitor, also. I refer to inland wa
terways and to coastwise shipping.
This means Of transportation has a
value that hardly can be measured.
1t is as much a part of our national
economic life as the highways and
the attendant motor transport. But
it exists, and it is able to operate
as competitor of the railroads, be-
cause of paternal government that
made things easy and gave help
ing hand wherever it could do so.
Air transportation Notu
Steps Into the Picture
Lately, air transportation has
been expanding with remarkable ra-
pidity. No nation in the world has
such efficient air service, nor as
safe air service, as is to be found in
the United States. It is carrying
increasing amounts Of freight and
express; it is Transporting thousands
upon thousands Of passengers. These
passengers are Of the type, general
ly speaking, willing and able to pay
for the luxury train service which Is
profitable when the trains are filed.
These air lines are benefiting from
government subsidy in several
ways. The air mail doesn't begin
to pay its way; the government
makes up the difference by con-
tracts that call for stated pay
ments. And consider the scores Of
great air fields throughout the coun-
.tryl The bulk of them are. built at
public expense. True, the air lines
pay for the privileges of the field,
but does anyone think that the air
lines could afford to spend $40, 000,-
900 to build such field as that which
serves metropolitan New York?
Funds for it came largely from a
federal government grant. The
same benefcent Uncle Sam il put
ting out several millions at the door
step Of the national capital here to
build proper airport.
There are other things that could
be taken up and set apart to show
how the government has helped
competitors Of the rail lines in most
practical fashion. Questions of tax
alton, grade crossing construction
Of an expensive character forced
upon the carriers, requirements for
terminals Of luxury-type construc-
ton and so on. ! believe it unnAces-
sary to recount them. Those that
have been enumerated serve to
show where the trouble Is. 1t does
not show the answer, but / believe it
points the way to an answer. The
answer, as have mentioned above,
certainly can not be found. however,
unless there is genuine study Of ~
unselfsh sort undertaken by con-
gress.
ewssssrn Nswspapsr Union.
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news developments recorded above.
And l am wondering further wheth-
er the shock of the strike threat
has awakened the country as a
whole to the need for a thorough
going re-examination of the situa-
ton in which the railroads find
themselvesl Because it is in the un-
DERIVING conditions that we are GO
ing to find solution. None can deny
that we need rail transportation;
none can deny that they either must
operate without losses or else they
are going to be left in the lap Of
the government, and what a terri
bic mess that would be, for govern
ment seldom runs anything without
making mess of it. The rail prob
lem, its relation to other forms of
transportation, the public interest,
national policy, all must be threshed
out very soon. It can not be longer
avoided without increasing the dan
gers Of genuine national suffering.
Public Has Tremendous
Responsibility to Bear
When consideration of the various
phases of the condition gets under
way, If it is done thoroughly, con-
gress must give attention to q re-
vision Of some Of its long-established
policies. They are basic. When l
am talking about the plight Of the
railroads, ! am, at the same time,
condemning to the very core some
of the high-handed brigandage, thiev-
cry, corruption, that went on among
so-called captains Of industry few
generations ago. That stealing, that
corruption Gin which politics figured
amazingly put the railroads in dis
repute as an industry. But most Of
that has ended. The highly respect
ed interstate commerce commission
saw to that job. Yet, the stigma
and lack Of public good win remains
to curse the carriers that operate
over steel rails.
So, there Is first the need for q
national acceptance Of the good faith
which most Of the railroad manage
ments now display. The public must
give credit where credit is due, and
the public has a tremendous respon-
sibility to bear in connection with
this phase.
Next, and without doubt one Of
the really important phases, Is the
question Of continued subsidy, both
direct and indirect, that has been
given by the government to compe-
tition Of the rail lines, competitors
like the bus and the truck and the
automotive industry generally.
There can be no lodging the fact
that this subsidy exists under vari-
Gus guises, and the great motor In
dustry which bred buses and trucks
and private automobiles by the mil
lions stands as a monument, o
marker. showing where that subsidy
was distributed. The thousands Of
miles Of hard roads, all-year roads,
are a part Of the subsidy that went
to competitors Of the carriers, and
who can say that such an expendi-
ture by government was not one Of
the greatest steps for progressi
Monstey of Competition
Cuts Railroad Earnings
OF course, road construction was
necessary. 1t was vital. The ma
tional policy for good highways can
only be praised. Yet, their very
existence is one of the reasons why
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

Showers of confetti, rice and rose
petals were thrown over the Rev.
Richard Batterbury, vicar of Screm-
erston, England, and his bride in
reply to the ban which he imposed
recently on this form of greeting
newlyweds.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

There is nothing that pays
bigger dividends in comfort
than pulling up an extra
blanket when q cold wave
comes at night.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

Here is a recipe for some
folks happiness, "Have faith
in your fellow man, but get
his name on the dotted line"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

Many new inventions are needed
and one Of them is a pipe that won't
make a mans breath smell like a
fertilizer factory when he is through
smoking.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17

LESSON TExT-Exodus 2o:14. M.+,h.-
5:27, %; Mark 1926. ''''"
GOLDEN TEXT-Keep thyseH pursL
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-11-17
Monster of Competition
Cuts Railroad Earnings

OF course, road construction was
necessary. 1t was vital. The ma
tional policy for good highways can
only be praised. Yet, their very
existence is one Of the reasons why
the railroads income has fallen of,
or, more properly, the normal in
crease in receipts was not realized.
Evening star., 1938-01-13

she laughed, "too much interested In
everything that's going on around the
house to sit still long enough!"
Has Plans, Though.
But she is planning to do them when
they are 4 little older and more set
tied"
Miss Helen Coolidge had pretty
firmly embarked on her career before
she met Harry Woodring. She had
established a studio In New York, and,
when her father came to Washington
as United States Senator from Massa-
chusetts. she moved it to the Shore
ham Hotel. She had ambitious plans
Tor showing her work abroad.
Then came an evening when she
attended a meeting of the Women's
Democratic Club in company with her
father. The guest speaker was a
Governor from the West, Harry H.
Woodring Of Kansas.
President Hoover then unwittingly
stepped into the role OF Dan Cupid.
He summoned a conference of Gov
ernors in Washington and Mr.. Wood
ring was included in the group. The
kansan was not long in the city before
ne mad renewed his acquaintance with
Evening star., 1938-01-13
ENFRANCH|SEMENT
AIMS AGREED ON
Panel Members at Jewish
Center Meeting Back Rep
resentation and Vote.

Agreeing that national representa-
ton and local suffrage should be the
ultimate aim Of every District resident,
the three members Of . panel discus
sion conducted by the Council Of
Jewish Junior Legislative Group de-
bated the relative importance Of the
two types OF enfranchisement at the
Jewish Community Center last night.
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, president Of
the Voteless District Of Columbia
League Of Women Voters. stressed the
importance Of working for the Capper-
Norton amendment.
THE amendment Is our most i'm
portant objective" she said. If we
had only local suffrage. the District
would be blkmed for all the things
Congress refused to do. As long as
Congress has the right to determine
our laws and the distribution Of our
appropriations, our only weapon Is
representation in Congress. Then we
could barter and trade for favors as
the States do"
Describing the plight of the District,
Mrs. Gutenberg said, I'VE are the real
forgotten men. We are remembered
only when taxes are due or war is
declared" She discussed the cum
bersome process that must be gone
through before funds are finally ap-
propriated for District needs. "And
then the budget Is slashed and changed
50 much that the original points can't
even be recognized"
Wilbur Finch, president of the Dis
trict Association for Suffrage, de-
scribed his organizations approach to
the suffrage problem. He advocated
the securing Of an enabling act from
Congress which would give citizens a
voice in their own affairs.
Mr.. Finch pointed out that the
campaign for local suffrage should go
hand in hand with the fight for
national representation since, he said,
every other citizen In the country
exercises both rights.
There is nothing in the Constitu-
tion," he said, which prevents Con-
gress from giving a complete municipal
government elected by the taxpayers
to the District"
Denying the need for a constitu-
tional amendment to obtain complete
control Of District funds and legisla-
! tive functions, Mr.. Finch declared that
an act Of Congress was all that Was
necessary for entire municipal self
government. The question led to a
prolonged discussion, with Mrs. Often
berg and members Of the audience
challenging Mr.. Finch's assertion.
Concluding the three cornered panel
discussion, Charles A. Franklin, vice
| president of the Citizens Committee
for Progressive Action, said that his
organization favored both national
representation and local suffrage but
he sided with Mr.. Finch in believing
that the latter should come first.
He indicated that th' progressive
action group would take some type
Of poll in Washington in the next
month to determine the sentiment of
the people on the question of the vote.
BY this method, he said, Congress
would learn that not just few organ
izations but the entire community
wants enfranchisement for the citi-
8ens Of the District.
Evening star., 1938-01-13

the fair daughter of Senator Coolidge.
Came the Roosevelt administration,
Harry Woodring became Assistant sec-
retAry Of War and soon there was q
Coolidge Woodring wedding. secre-
tary Dern's death elevated Mr.. Wood
ring to the cabinet.
II . Republican President was In .
measure responsible for bringing the
Woodrings together. he also Is re-
sponsible for their present comfort
able home. For the Secretary Of War
and his family live in the red brick
house on s street which bears q sign
telling you that Herbert Hoover lived
there when he was Secretary Of Com
merce and President-elect.
Il have faith in woman,s ability to
do . great many things outside Of q
home" Mrs. Woodring said slowly and
seriously. after admitting that her art
work had probably been laid aside for
years to come. "She can do things
territically well II she really goes ahead.
But I do think 4 home is q much nicer
place for her. It would be too bad
to lose the home entirely. I would
hate to see the day come when it
would be the common thing to fnd
the woman working and the man doing
the housework."
Out Of this discussion arose the sub.
tect Of women in politics:
women can do a good Job In this
field" Mrs. Woodring said, but she
added qualification. "Since they are
more temperamental than men, they
cannot sustain the fine work they can
do, over q long period of time. This
Is where the men are better fitted for
the JOHN the long run, they seem
Evening star., 1938-01-13
Mrs. " oodring Sacrificed Art
To Center Interests u, Home
Wants Public to Kno,C
Var Department Has
Big Peace Role.
mo. ) OF Series on Cabinet Wipes.)
By PAULINE FREDERICK.

tASOs " VI 6Ct eCc Wv SkOtTtCk W bUC8s/
BY PAULINE FREDERICK.
oomely and platinum blond Mrs.
Helen Coolidge Woodring, wife Of the
Secretary Of War, Is ready to make an
amusing little confession. It came out
the other day as she sat. feet tucked
under. on the steel in front of her
black marble fireplace, discussing
some Of the wrong ideas" which she
finds that lot Of people have about
the War Department.
Even l." she said, FUSED to have
some sort Of idea that the Secretary
Of War was probably a man who just
sat around, waiting for war to start!"
But, needless to say, the young artist
who = few years ago laid away her
brushes and charcoal to become the
wife Of Harry w. Woodring and the
mother Of his three blond babies, has
changed her ideas on the subject.
And as she sat In her brown and
white living room she expressed the
hope that others, too. might take the
trouble to correct spch erroneous ideas
II they held them.
Peace Time Work Galore.
"You see. many people think Of the
War Department as belligerent," she
went on in her musical voice. "As q
matter Of fact, the trouble probably
is that they don't know how much it
does in peace time, in emergencies
like forest fires, floods and tornadoes
They don't know about the work OF
the engineers in building dams and
improving rivers and harbors."
And then she offered . possible
remedy.
Perhaps" she said, "the depart
ment should be called the department
for peace or the department for ma
tional defense"
Mrs. Woodrings caller on this sun
ny winter afternoon had been ushered
into living room with dark paneled
walls, deep fireplace and high windows
through which golden sunlight poured
in profusion. A toy automobile was
stalled against chair and a doll car
riage stood over against the divan-
both deserted by two little blonds who
had been lured to an afternoon nap
upstairs.
Naturally. in talking with Mrs.
Woodring, the subject Of art comes up
as surely as does that of her hus-
bands work, or the children. or any
Of the other interests of her life.
mo, I haven't done the children, +"
she responded to the obvious question
as to whether she had sketched Mar
Gus, 3; Melissa. 2; and Cooper, 8
months old They're too wiggly,"
Evening star., 1938-01-13

to be more constant and level-headed {"
You'll md the key to Mrs. Wood.
rings philosophy on the subject in the
part Chinese women have frequently
played in the destiny Of their country
This talented woman who is finding
home-making much to her liking Is
particularly intrigued by the behind
the-scenes" role so often played by the
women Of the Orient.
Naturally in any discussion of this
type there is always one question that
comes to the fore-the chances for a
woman becoming President of these
United States.
Il am perfectly sure" said Mrs.
Woodring with q quiet smile, that a
woman will some day be President,
tCopyrisht. 1888. By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-03-10
HOW ABOUT THE SPURS,

The children had been urged by
their mother when they went out to
dinner to ask for the part Of the
chicken that no one else wanted. Lit.
tie Ben was the first served. and
when he was asked what part he
wanted. he said mournfully. Some
Of the feathers. I guess"