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Evening star., 1938-10-12

I n e Shareh0lderS
last night.
At the same
time Henry Gill;
gan was returned
to Office as vice
president and at
torney, as was F.
Wilson c a m p,
secretary = treas
urer. Organized
February /, 1911,
the Dis trio t
Building has en-
joyed s t e a d y
growth and share
holders were told
Evening star., 1938-10-12

Baker Heads Loan Association.
George A. Baker was reelected pres
ident of the District Building & Loan
Association at the annual meeting of
Evening star., 1938-10-12
LONDON BAR GOLD.

LONDON. Oct. 12 R.-Bar cold. 14ss
5d, UP 3Ad. Equivalent $34.75) Bar
silver. 19A. UP W. Equivalent, 1890
cents.)
Evening star., 1938-10-12

TotaI NablItles-- S23,U2U.Tbb.3t
'After payment of 81 ,O56,1643s on oc-
tober Z. 1887, to r.. F. c.. covering pre-
ferred dividends to January ], 1887. and
S15O,000.O0 on January "a 1888. cover
ing preferred dividends for quarter ended
March 81, 1887. No cumulative dividends
on preferred stock from April l. 1887. de-
clared or charged against undivided profits.
District of Columbia. SIS:
I. D. B. GRIFFIN, Assistant Treasurer of
that the above statement is true to the best
Of my knowledge and belief.
D. B. GRIFFIN
Assistant Treasurer.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
10th day Of October. 1888
MINOT c. MULLIGAN,
fSealD Notary Public,
My commission expires April IA. 1943.
Correct-Attest:
w. J. JOHNSON
WAYNE c. TAYLOR
HERBERT FEIS.
Trustees
Evening star., 1938-10-12
SILVER FUTURES.

MONTREAL. Oct. 12 0P.-silver futures
opened 66 points decline. Only opening
bid was 42.00 for October futures.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
ASSETS.

ASSETS.
I. Loans and discounts
2. Overdrafts $500
8. United States Govern
ment obligations, direct
and fully guaranteed
4. Other bonds, stocks, and
securities ----
8. Banking
houses ---S279,171.12
Furniture
and fixtures 23.143.53
7. Real estate owned other
than banking house
q. Reserve with approved
reserve agencies
9. Cash. balances with other
banks End cash items
in process of collection
IL. Other assets -------
Total assets
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Reserve District No. 5.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Bank of Commerce & Savings
OF WASHINGTON

OF WASHINGTON
IN the District of Columbia, at the close
OF business on September %. 1898.
Published in response to call made by
Comptroller of the Currency. under section
6211, q. S. Revised Statutes.
Evening star., 1938-10-12

Charter Nc 224 RsSsTCS pi5IriSt oH THE Mo' b.
Export-lmport Bank
of Washington
of WASHINGTON. D. G.
At the close of business on September 2e'
1885.
Published in response to call made oy
Comptroller of the Currency. under sectlon
62l1 U. S. Revised Statutes.
ASSETS.
1. Loans and discounts S17.562,32 327.44
s. Customers liability on
snces iie executed 611,439e6
8. Banking house, none;
tures ST 500 40 1,596.40
3 Cash, balances with
other banks and
cash items in process
of collection ------- 4,5s42u6. -
IA Other assets - POL 1883
Total assets- S23. .02O. 766.37
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Riggs Bank Teller Honored.

Stephen o. Porter, who has been
appointed chairman of the Athletic
Evening star., 1938-10-12

sources of sl,335,OOO were the highest
in history.
All directors were reelected, con-
sisting of John H. Davis, Charles H.
Frame, William F. Friel, Warren w.
Grimes, Otis H. Johnson. Harold Aus
tin Wood and Messrs. Baker, Camp
and Gilligan.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
faffE No. u aoSbIok N6ssESs ps5et NJ TH
Liberty National Bank

OF WASHINGTON
IN the District OF Columbia. at the close Of
business on September %. 1888
published in response to call made by
Comptroller of the Currency under section
b21l. q. 8. Revised Statutes
Evening star., 1938-10-12
S611 .439.a6
42l,141.4l

Total capital ac-
count - 21.9s7.5s5 90
Evening star., 1938-03-06

THE new Apex Building. suggesting
the gracefully rounded prov Of the
ship Of stote" os it cops the FederoI
Tr;onele ot Pennsylvania ond Consti-
tuition ovenues. Below ore views Of
the Constitution ovenue side ond Of
the CopitoI through the columns Of
the cost fncode 9 Star STAFF Photos
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
DON'T TAKE SCHOOL SAFETY FOR
GRANTED

Some of the most horrible fires in American
history have occurred in schools. And unless
remedial steps are taken, there is grave danger
that some of the most horrible fires of the future
will strike in the same place.
Surveys have shown that thousands of Ameri.
can school buildings are fire traps. And this
doesn't simply refer to DID, frame structures. That
beautiful new brick edfice, built last year at q
cost of a quarter-million dollars, may look safe
las storm cellar outside-and still contain fire
hazards of the worst type.
Inadequate exits, doors that open inward in
stead of outward improperly designed stair wells
narrow Railways down which children must pass
these are just few of the dangers that exist
lin many of our schools. Amateur inspections
usually fail to detect them. School safety is ex-
perts' work.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters, 65
John St., New York City, has prepared an illus
trated booklet entitled, CONSTRUCTION of School
Buildings and Existing Structures" which will be
sent on request of the proper authorities. The
Board has also issued school inspection blank
(which has been used in more than 800 COM
munties. Use of this blank makes it possible for
school boards to thoroughly inspect structure
and ferret out possible hazards.
Don't take it for granted that the schools your
children attend are safe. Every parent should
demand that school boards make expert in
spections periodic duty-and that every hazard
mo matter how important it may seem, be immedi-
lately corrected. That is the only 100 per cent
insurance we can have against one of the most
horrible human disasters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
HOW DESPOTISM WORKS

Japan has gone on rations and the rations are
being restricted farther, almost day by day. Not
rations of food alone; but of all things. Rubber
must not be used for toy balloons; cloth must not
be used to bind books. Metals, oil, wool, cotton,
leather and many other things have been rationed
for months, and some of them have been taken
off the market. 1t is hard to buy an iron frying
pan now; it will be impossible in few more weeks.
The shortening of the match stick it is esti-
mated, will save $29O,00O year-which, perhaps,
will maintain the army in China for an hour.
In Italy, the per capita consumption of wheat
flour, which averaged 142 Kilograms from 1926
Ito $780, was down to 118 Kilograms in 1886, and
with the short wheat crop in Italy, is doubtless
lower now. Consumption of vegetables and fruits
lis down from 1O7 Kilograms to 81 per CAPITA of
sugar from 8 kilograms to g. Of potatoes from 35
Kilograms to 20.
Germany has long boasted that she is putting
her butter money in to cannon. Now, most of her
freight cars are unavailable for business because
they are being used to rush military supplies to
the Czechosovak frontier
What fine, rich, pleasant life fascism and
nazism in all their variations, make for the COM
mon people, anyway.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
NOT A WASTE

On the surface, the mistriaI of the Harlan con-
spiracy case looks as if 100000 and II weeks at
the trial-not to mention the time spent in digging
up the evdence-had been wasted. This is miles
from being true.
Testimony at the trial backed up everything
uncovered by the Senate Civil Liberties
Committee-and a great deal more Papers and
whole regions which neglected the La Toilette
hearing gave space and to the reports of a
government suit. And as if to show what kind
of human hyenas are running things in those coal
since the trial began
Three defendants have been held in charges
of perjury and suboring witnesses;
The home of witness for the government
was wrecked by dynamite;
Another witness for the government was mur-
dered.
Also, the Senate committee did not bring out
the testimony of one woman--Which has gone to
the ends of the country-that she had been offer
ed 500 a piece for all union organizers that she
could lure to a lonely place where they could be
beaten to death
There will be another trial, it is expected But
this one, disappointing as is its outcome has been
well worth while.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

:. THURMAN w. ARNOLD !
+ i i i i + **N 49, + + I

About six feet of we'll nourished
nervous energy-thafeis one of the
first things you note ,bout Thurman
Wesley Arnold, the n " Assistant At
torney General. 1t energy under
control; he sits waiti II, to speak at a
dinner with the front Pigs of his chair
resting on his own Plls as if to hold
himself down; but thu is no sign of
idgeting or uncertaiIF Fly. On the con-
trary, there is every k,gn of confidence
tested by experience; land backed by a
forcefulness which ant prudent oppon-
ent would pause to q Innate.
He was born in LjIamie, Wyoming,
June 2, 1891, and Pgraduated from
Princeton in 1911-tfo years younger
than the average A. B. degree is re-
ceived. He took hi3 lawyers course
at Harvard-one md ire of the free
minded, aspiring Youngsters whom
Felix Frankfurter is so lucky to get
and so successful IN training. He
practiced law in Laramie; way mayor
of Laramie and gave lectures in the
law school of the University of wy
oming. Larger schools in the east
began to beckon him; he was profess
sor at Yale for quite a period before
coming to Washington.
He has grayish eyes, dark hair, reg
ular features; with that look of ner-
vous-and nervy-vigar on his face.
His attitude toward public problems
is best expressed by the phrase which
a critic applied to Justice Black-"he
thinks the sacred cows are just ordi-
nary heifers." He has gone a good
ways already; and he hasn't stopped
yet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
Railroads., Unions
End Negotiations
On Proposed Cut

Chicago (lLNS).-Efort to negoti-
ate a settlement of the proposed Is per
cent cut in railroad wages ended here
when representatives of the nations
railroads and 1S railroad unions aban-
doned further negotiation. The work
ers hatly refused to accept the pay
cut demanded by the railroads. The
next step is recourse to Federal media
ton.
George M. Harrison, chairman of
the Railway Labor Executives Associ-
alton, representing the Is unions, re-
leased the following formal statement
with which he ended labor's presenta-
tion of it's case to the carriers:
"And now, gentlemen, we have come
to the end Of our argument. We have,
in our minds, completely answered
and fully refuted every argument you
gentlemen presented as to why there
should be wage cut.
''That there may not be the slightest
doubt in anyones mind and that there
may be no room for equivocation
through words or evasions of mind,
the chief executive of the railway la
Dor organizations, representing the
men in the groups on whom the wage
reduction notice was served, solemly
and unanimously have directed me as
chairman to advise the Carriers Joint
Conference Committee at the con-
ciusion Of our defense against their
proposal for Is per cent reduction in
wages that the organizations most re-
spectfully, definitely and finally de-
cline the carriers request for any re-
duction in compensation"
Previous to failure of negotiations
between the Is unions and the rail
roads, the roads and the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen announced joint
ly that they had failed to reach an
agreement and were laying the matter
before Federal mediator. The Train
men conducted negotiations separate
from that of the other unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
HUMAN CONSERVATION

In recent address, Claude W. Farchd
General Manager Of the Association of Casualty
and Surety Executives, said: 'In the years to come
the casualty insurance industry is going to be
more and more concerned with what has been it's
secondary functOn-the actual prevention of ac-
cidents and the thwarting of crimes. Upon this
point am not sure we know our own strength
yet. Certainly the services perform this
way for business and industry, for the individual
and for society, are limitless'
For many years the industry has worked to-
ward these objectiveS-;nd now that work is be-
ing redoubled. In the field of highway safety, the
casualty industry through a central organization
is fighting continuous and aggressive battle tC
educate drivers, standardizc traffic codes, improve
law enforcement, and make streets and highways
safer by modern construction techniques 1t has
issued booklet, Creating Safer Communities,
which has been distributed officially in 81 states
Its text book Man and the Motor Car" designed
for young people, is in active use in more thar
1900 high schools.
The industry is fighting another vital battle
against the claim fraud racketeer Through its
nationwide Index Bureau System, accident re-
peaters are quickly identified. Full cooperation is
given to police and prosecuting authorities The
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
AIR CONDITION WORK PLACES
FrOm Minneapolis Labor Review

There is no longer any reason why
workers should swelter at their work.
Summer in many lines of industry
has been time of torture for those
employed in its activities. In laun-
dries and factories women workers
have suffered terribly and the hot
weather has annually been punctuated
with the deaths of workers who sue
cumbed to the intense heat under
which they were compelled to work.
Men engaged in the iron and steel
and other industries and those en-
ployed in kitchens were among those
to fare painfully from the hot spells.
Even in many Offices there was heat
Of such intensity as to be more like
the headquarters of his Satanic ma
jesty than any other headquarters.
Now air conditioning has made it
possible to change all this. IN
fortunately instead of air conditioning
being used to relieve those who suf-
fer most from the heat it has been
employed to bring comfort to those
who for the most part are never un-
comfortable.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
MACHINISTS NEGOTIATE 973 AGREEMENTS
IN SEVEN MONTHS

A striking illustration of the effectiveness of
trade union organization founded on the basic
principles of collective bargaining which animates
unions affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor is revealed in the record of the international
Association of Machnsts for the first seven
months of 1888. During this period, despite the
depression that has smitten business, the Associ-
alton negotiated 973 new and renewed agreements
with employers carrying provisions for improving
the living standards of the union members by
means of union wage rates, hours and work con-
ditions.
By months, the agreements reported by the
Association are: January, 140 agreements in 80
cities; February, 1O6 agreements in AZ cities
March, 81 agreements in AZ cities; April, 14s
agreements in As cities; May 1O6 agreements in
38 cities; June, 224 agreements in 70 cities July
165 agreements in 81 cities.
With regard to the 165 July agreements, H. w
Brown, general vice president of the Machinists
Association, declares that "n none of them did we
take wage reduction, though in some instances
management insisted that wages must be reduced
from ten to twenty per cent, but in every case we
defeated the proposed wage reductions and re-
neWed the agreements by either continuing the
wage rates then in effect secured wage increases
ranging from five cents to twenty cents an hour. ,
This same protection for wages contained in
practically all of the agreements fnazed during
the preceding six months.
Notable among the July agreements was the
one renewed with the Ramapo Ajax Corporation
of East st. Louis, Illinois, where the parties tc
the agreement the following unions Machin-
ists Electricians, Operating Engineers, Carpen-
ters, and the IIod Carriers Building and Common
Laborers. In commenting on this agreement, Mr.
Brown says: "Ihe workers of all trades and call
ing from the laborer to the skilled artisan
act jointly through federated committee for me-
gotiating one agreement covering every employe
from the basement to the attic" This agreement
is good answer to those reactonary zealots in
the c. l. o. and among it's sympathizers who claim
that industrial unionism is alien to the American
Federation of Labor and it's affiliated national and
international unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

This gives you an idea how the
potters catch fish when they go out
after them The annual trek into the
wlds of Canada came to an end Fri
day, July 20 for the potters and their
friends. They again viewed the quints
who are on display for the last year,
it is said.
George Chadwick, George Turner,
Louis Pieslock, William Watkin, Thom-
as Watkin, Charles Chadwick, Jim
Turner, Albert Ferber, Eddie Martin
and Dr. A. l.. Turner made the trip
taking Bill Thorn along as cook. You
will find very few fishing camps sport
ing doctor and undertaken.
The spirits of the party were damp
|ened at the outset when Jim Turner
was called home upon the death of his
daughter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
COMMENT ON WORLD
EvTNTC

Many near miracles have happened
| in the last few years. But if full wal
between Japan and Russia does not
follow fast, that will be what Holly
wood would call the supermiracle.
Leave China out of account for the
moment, and consider Russia and
Japan. The fighting is less than 100
miles from Russia's great Pacific sea-
port, Vladivostok. Japan has COM
plete commando of the sea. One re-
port says that she has 100000 men
quartered near the scene of fighting
so well equipped that they would need
next to nothing from Japan for a year
This must be taken with a large
amount of salt; but there is no ques-
tion that Japan can mass troops in
that region faster than Russia can.
x q
But there are factors which do not
show on the map. Russia's eastern
army is estimated at 100000 men,
actually under arms, with an equal
number of reserves. The Siberian
railroad has been double tracked
Emigration to Siberia and building
factories, especially war material fac
tories, in the same region have gone
on at high peace for years-no one
outside of Moscow knows just how
high.
The eastern Russian army is auton-
omous; that is, it is built on itself.
Only negligible amount of disaf-
fection was found in that force during
the recent purge" 1t seems to be we'll
supplied with war materials. And the
Russian soldier, in a different way, is
as good a soldier as the japanese
which is no small praise.
X X x
Now, consider China. Japan start
ed her present undeclared war in China
in July, 1887. All dispatches from
Japanese sources indicated that the
row would be over in at most few
weeks. The weeks heightened to
months. The Chinese have put up a
fight that no japanese seems to have
dreamed of; and they are full Of fight
yet. Japan can scarcely have less than
100000 men in China; and for weeks
they have been stalled, partly by
Chinese resistance, partly by the
Hoang-Ho flood.
Yet with this undecided struggle
sapping her strength and straining
her finances, Japan picks another war
with great nation, of enormous re-
sources, great present military power,
and as obstinate as any people but the
Dutch. Napoleon remarked once that
it wasn't enough to shoot a Russian
soldier; you had to push him over.
To anyone taking long view,
Japan's act is an act of madness. 1t
is possible-not likely-that she can
take Vladivostok; but what of it? 1t
will settle nothing. Russia can retreat
for hundreds of miles, collecting a
price for every yard-and doing
things in North China in the mean
time.
X X X
No recovery can be made without in
creasing buying power; wage cutting
at the present time is against the pub
lie interest.-From American Fedora
ton of Labor Monthly Survey of
Business, July-August, 1888.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
WHAT NEXT?
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Rubber from tung, soy bean
and other vegetable oils has been
made by Dayton, Ohio, inventor.
The rubber is made by heating a
mixture of vegetable oils to an ex-
tremely high temperature, which
produces rubber that can be vul-
caniZed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

result is steady decline in accident frauds, and
in fake accident rings which have been robbing
the companies and their policyholders.
In other fields, such as workmen's compensa-
ton Insurance. the industry is likewise working
in the public interest. Safer homes, communities
and industries are it's watchwords That means
conservation of the most valuable of resources
human life and health.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11
TRUTHS POWDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
D HOLD YOUR HAT
= IN DES MONIES
. HUMIDITY HIGH
. SIT ON YOUR HAT

Hold your hat
Also your temper
August is here again
You know what has been happen.
ing in the dog-days-
All over the world
Sarajova, Pekin, Madrid
Even July A, 1776-
So, look out for chances to turn the
other cheek
And keep your eye on Changkuf
eng
To say nothing of Czechoslovakia-
x X X
Out in Des Moines-
Local military cockerel-
Ruffles his feathers about military
district of Iowa.
Probably not knowing that ou1
Civil War started in April
That we started in World War also
in April
So he's a bit out of line on recent
American practice
But he's got a German name
Kraschel-
So perhaps he follows European
blood lines
1t just shows how hot things can
get in dog-days-
How Sirius the Dog-Star can be-
Especially if the humidity is high
x x X
War never settles anything
So what must it be that starts war
Unless it is just the hot weather.
Working through the sidereal sun
spots and planet pulls
Creeping up on US fool human
folks all unawares-
Heating our blood, rasping the
nerves with sweat
Breaking down balances and smash
ing poise-
Until sheer impulse to get rid of the
heat
Sends somebody off on a tangent
Everybody in the neighborhood fol-
lowing
Just because they are hot, too
x x x
Imagination is one of the war
Men get to brooding over fancied
injuries
Others build air-castles of power
and riches to be had
Where there is a good chance to
get something for nothing
Or SO they think
Megalomanias afflict minds unbal-
anced by these dreams
InAaming the ego of little men gone
Helping them to overlook large
items of fact
So that they start out and Ger
manise the world
Or believe that they can Nipponise
the West
Or Bolshevise the rest of civiliza-
Well, keep as cool as you can for
two weeks more
BY that time Vladivostok will either
be in siege
Or sending it's airplanes to bomb
Tokyo
Prague will either be holding down
the Sudetens-
Or getting messages from cannon
planted underground
From over the border of what was
Austria
While the little governor in the
west
Will have had a few cold drinks
With little historical advice
SO, sit on your hat
While it is hot
: WISDOM :
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

A foreigner going through some of
our states might wonder if the pri-
nlaries he has been seeing are just
a preliminary contest, what the big
fight will be.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

report read at the annual meeting of the
National Fire Protection Association estimated
fire losses in the United States in 1887 at $685.
100000, about $S,000000 less than in 1886. The
burning of the dirigibe Hindenburg involved a
loss of $40O0,OO0.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

We suspect that a tuba quartette
would be known as a tubafour.
Washington Columns.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

In tasks requiring mental activity,
the hardest part is IN getting started.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

And as one girl put it, Everything
| want to do is either illegal, immoral
or fattening."- ."-Grizzly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-11

The glittering words of an orator
often remind us that a small piece of
soap will make many bubbles.