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The Washington times., 1938-10-11
BACK TO WORK
BrOOdnlOOV Strike Is
ShOrt-LiUed

Building services employees Of
the Broadmoor Apartments, in the
$500 block of Connecticut Ave.
N. W., were back at their jobs to-
day after a short-lived strike.
The 80 strikers said that they
had reached a peaceful settle
ment" with Harry M. Bralove,
owner Of the fashionable apart
ment hotel.
An election will be conducted
by the National Labor Relations
Board to determine if the EN-.
ployes' union-Building Service
Employees Local 82-shall be the
exclusive bargaining agent.
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Football Special
Had Bar, Is Charge

MADISON, Wis, Oct. II G.N
S.).-Charges that a bar and
gambling things going aboard a
football special" en- route to the
Iowa game last Saturday were
under investigation by University
Of Wisconsin officials today.
IF the facts warrant" said
President Clarence DykStra, "the
case will be placed before the
faculty committee.
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Navy Orders

Capt. Allan s. Farquhar, from office
of Naval Operations to duty as chief of
staff of Atlantic squadron; Capt. Henry
c. Gearing. jr.. from Reserve Corps
Training Division, San Francisco, to
duty as Commander of destroyer squad
ron 4: Capt. Herbert e. Kays. from
destroyer squadron 4, to Norfolk Navy
Yard; Capt. Marc A. Mitseher, from
wing /: Comdr. Ralrh F, Wood, from
9Th NAVY District to command U. S. s.
wright; Lieut.. Comdr. 1elix. L. johnson.
from u. 8. Naval mission to Brazil to
command Of U. S. s. Lang; Lieut.. Cliff
ford r. Corbin, from Naval Station,
Tutulla, Samoa, to Naval Air station,
Anacostia, D. c.: Lieut.. Clarence r.
Pent3 IN. c., from Long Beach, Cal.
to Asiatic Station: Chief Pharm. Dewitt
C. Allen from Mare Island Cal. to
three Ronths sick leave
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For doors and win
dowS. Spring bronze.
1" wide (per it,, 3c)
100-ft. roll ll-----------
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new ALTIMETER
SHOWS HEIGHT
ABOVE RIDGES
United AirIineS Will
Install Device

An instrument which gives air
plane pilots their height above
the ground over which the plane
is flying was demonstrated at the
Washington Hoover Airport yeSter.
day in a specially designed "labora-
tory plane" Of the United AirlineS.
Claimed to be the first success.
full altimeter showing terrain
clearance, the new device operates
by radio, using the shortest wave
ever employed for aviation pur.
poses.
RADIO OPERATED
Peter C. Sandretto, Superin.
tendent of United's communication
laboratory and in charge Of the
demonstration over Washington
today, said:
''BaSically the invention In
volved the transmission of a
radio signal from the airplane.
The reception of which is re-
flected from the earth and the
altitude is calculated by the
elapsed time of the signal.
Despite weather conditions
or poor visibility, the pilot can
read his count directly and &C
curately whether he is several
thousand feet in the air or
merely a few feet off the
ground. In addition to the regu-
lar meter, the device may also
be equipped with a red signal
light which will automatically
flash a warning whenever the
plane descends below safe al
titude."
TEST FLIGHT
Sandretto said that the new
altimeter is so sensitive that it
will measure as close as 20 feet
from any altitude and will regis
ter when the plane passes over
ridges and high buildings. The
new altimeter will be installed on
all United planes and will be made
available to the industry in gen
eral in the near future.
Among those who made a test
flight in the plane from New York
to washington today was Edward
Noble, chairman of the Civil Avia-
ton Authority, who expressed sat
isfaction at the devices demon
Stration. Noble said that during
the trip down from New York
the device even showed when the
transport plane passed over an
Army blimp several hundred feet
below.
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New Class Officers

Hiram Haywood is the new
president of the senior class at
Cardozo High School. Other Of
ficers include Vietta Jackson, vice
president; Norma Hodge, secre-
tary; Talmadge Sturgis, treasurer.
Miss Helen Sparks is the faculty
sponsor.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

whom Old Dealers forever asking to be consistent
has been to shore up buying power, that demo-
cratic profit system may live He tried it with NRA and
~ Muoooo Cun,t Dr., AAA. He has encouraged
- labor unions, strongest
Business Can't Sell longtime agency for pushing
up buying power He has taxed the rich to
for the very poor whom unions haven't been able
ganize and help. (PWA WPA, CCC, etc.,
In the last week the President has Cd urged Congress
to pass the wage-hour BILL and (2) asked the
Social Security Board to draw up bills for broadening the
old age pension provisions of the Social Security Act
Both of these consistent with the Roosevelt
philosophy that if the can't buy, business can't
SELL Southern business leaders, saying they fear to spoil
the niggers" by paying them but actually hoping
to keep all Southern wages low bait to Northern cap
al, against the wage-hour BILL Plenty of business
leaders, surmise will be against any broadening of the
old age pension SYSTEM though such change would
that many dollars for them to 60 after.
One last suggestion for Mr. Aldrich. He complains
that business nowadays spend much time with
their lawyers with their engineers That is because
so many business trying to dodge and nuify the
laws of the land. Perhaps if they had made up their
minds in the beginning to give the New Deal measures
fair chance they and the rest of would be better off
today.
f. (From New York; News)
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hate to break off lengthy sen.
fences of love, affection and So
licitude. All these, of course,
have numbers and merely call
for a flash over the wires. Their
cheapness attracts people who
would like to send all those
words but who were appalled, at
the previous cost.
The other day I ran into an
old newspaperman acquaintance
who has turned his talents to
press-agentry and who is now
advance-man for a big circus.
He told me some things about
the "cheapogram," as he calls
it, which will make the West
ern Union sit up and take no
tice. But I don't know what
the company can do about it.
x 4
MY FRIEND informs me that
AVA a great number of the
travelling men employed in the
amusement business, such as
the films, road shows, lecture
tours. as we'll as the circuses,
use the birthday, tourate and
thank.you kilograms to inform
their offices of the progress or
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Your |. O..
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

BY SHIRLEY SPENCER
This is a general quiz. Score
ten for each question.
l. What is the difference be-
tween fawn and faun?
2. What was the name of the
Indian chief from whom the
Tammany party derived its
name?
8. Every one knows the
elephant provides us with ivory,
but there are two other animals
who also help provide the
majority of the worlds supply.
What are they?
4. In what country does the
arrangement of flowers have
special significance?
S. What is the acid called
which is found in sour milk?
6. The sum Of two numbers is
70. The greater equals five
times the smaller. What are
the numbers?
Z. What is a hedonist?
8. Who wrote, For the
colonel's lady an Judy O'Grady.
are sisters under their skins"
9. Are rocco and baroque
synonymous?
10. With four different kinds
of liquor and six different in
gradients like vermouth, ETC..
how may different tasting
drinks could one make?
ANSWERS on Page 24)
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FGUOrs Big.NaUy Bill


In spite Of Senator Borah's
eloquent grafton against it, the
naval expansion bill will be, as
it should be-enacted.
If we don't build ships and
happen to become involved in
war and get the worst Of it
as Ethiopia did-the cost of
having neither an Army or Navy
would be appalling.
And not only will the new
Navy be an insurance against
foreign agitators, it will also be
of great aid in breaking the de-
preston.
Building ships will furnish
employment to an army of
workers over a long period OF
time. After the ships are built,
manning them will furnish en-
ployment to many others.
However, I think one amend.
ment to the bill should be made.
The pay of the Marines should
be raised tc the same level as
that of other naval men. Al
though the Marines do the
hard and dangerous work of the
Navy they are paid far less than
the other naval groups. Why?
BERNARD L. HENNING.
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Misses Helen RoUUland

From the first I have been
very much disappointed in the
feature article, MY Say" by
Evalyn Walsh Mclean. She
seems to have absolutely moth
ing to say that is of general
reader interest.
I do not care to indict MY
Say" in cauStic terms such as
some of your other readers have
recently done. But 1 should
appreciate having you omit this
feature and bring back Helen
wland's "The Marry-Go-
Round" 1t was more generally
liked, as this writer's humor
and clever phraSing are always
refreshing and at least afford
a momentary advertisement. On
the other hand, the ubiquitous
perpendicular pronoun In MY
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than one. Spend more money
for rejuverating alley neighbor.
hoods, for free lunches for the
underprivileged school children,
money for more adequate police
force, and, of course, money to
keep such a splendid depart
ment as the FBI going at full
speed, money to keep the down
town streets cleaner.
Instead of building marble
palaces on Pennsylvania Ave
nue. so fast when asking dona-
tons of private citizens with
which to feed the hungry chill
dren. Seems to me taxpayers
money should serve a more
practical and constructive pur.
pose first. Perhaps suffrage
will help; I surely hope so.
Miss I. H., East Falls Church,
Va.
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1t Pays to Be Bad

This is message to my little
sisters.
Recently I read a paragraph
in The Herald which made me
feel so sorry for you. A new
Boys Club was opened and you
were pictured as enviously gaz-
ing in at the festivities from
which you were barred.
Dear little sisters, do you know
why your brothers get all these
beautifully equipped club rooms,
gymnasiums, etc.? ause
they're bad children. If they
were good, no one would pay
any more attention to their
recreational lacks than they do
to yours. But since they are
unruly, have no respect for law,
order, personal property, and, to
sum up, are generally hoodlums,
a lot of noble men decided to
give them beautiful clubs where
good times may be had by all
except, of course, sisters!
Brother gets a candy stick for
being bad, while sister gets a
spanking.
Yes. my darlings, the precept
we oldsters have taught you,
that virtue is it's own reward, is
all too true. If you want any
other reward, it seems you'll
have to take a leaf out of your
brothers book. If you want nice,
convenient clubhouses like theirs,
forget you are little ladies Go
off on rampages. go in for mis-
demeanors, make yourselves
generally obnoxious and who
knows, maybe you'll get a candy
stick, too!
In conclusion, let me give you
another precept, not elegant but
pithy: The wheel that squeaks
gets the grease!" Remember,
my little ones, no squeaking. no
clubhouSe BIG SISTER.
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Mothers Day

Coming in with the freshness
of spring, following so closely
the day of resurrection, what
could be more beautiful than a
May day set apart in which to
pay tribute to mothers every.
where.
From our earliest recollec.
tons, and on through the
years, her arms have proven
a haven for all our hurts, our
ills and our happiness.
If all the wealth of mint and
mine were assembled together
it would be worth a small
measure of the joy she has
known in calling us her own.
In the beginning she went
down into the shadows that she
might claim "the least Of one
of these" in rearing us her
life has been one of endurance
and sacrifice. She gave all Of
herself willingly, uncomplain-
ing. We came first in her heart,
in her arms.
So upon her day give honor
to her name. Give it freely, as
she gave. Not as a duty but be.
cause you want to. If you have
let thoughts Of other things
push her from your mind, make
this day a day for remembering,
remembering to write every
week, or to telephone or tele.
graph. Resolve to do this from
this day forth. Have you for.
gotten her smile of welcome or
the gentle touch or her hand,
then in mercy, let her hear
from you, on her day. Better
still go 20 her, feel her kiss upon
your cheek.
For her, pin a scarlet bloom
to a gay gown. If her footsteps
have Travelled that lone road
ahead, in remembrance wear a
pale flower pressed close to
your heart. BOBBE HAA0.
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their individual missions. All
they do is set up a code book
at headquarters. Then they hit
the road and nightly send along
their loving messages, which are
in turn translated into terse
business terms.
AS my friend explained it, the
whole business is very simple.
For example, the other day he
sent along to his boss the regu-
lar stereotyped Western Union
message Of arrival and depart.
ure. which reads:
Arrived 7 p. m. All well.
Trip and weather perfect. Leav.
ing tomorrow. Arrive Omaha
Sunday. Love-"
Ny friends boss will pick UP
that message. ruffle the pages
of the code book and decipher
as follows:
Arrived 7 p. m. The town
well papered, passes distributed,
newspapers cooperating. Field
picked up as per contract and
no objections from authorities.
Arrive Omaha Sunday. Wire
hundred"
Thus, through following the
Western Union message exactly
as laid out, the advance man
has told his boss that he has
got his billing up, made salts
factory arrangements with po-
lice, newspapers, etc., and that
he wants a hundred dollars.
Had he written in the word
Regards" the boss would have
wired 5000. And if he had set
down affection" all he would
have got was $50.
One Of the western Unions
most flowery greetings reads as
follows:
"Old friends like old wine
grow more precious with age.
So here's a toast to our friend
ship on this day of your birth"
Each word meant something
entirely different when it was
decided by the circus mans
boss. 1t was sent from San
Francisco to New York at the
birthday rate of IS cents or a
penny a word. The regular rate
is eight and one-half cents per
word.
The possibilities are endless
because the bootlegging patron
of poor old Western Union can
set up a code on letters instead
of words, work it forward, back
ward and by jumps. Thus an
entire confidential busines S
summary could be conveyed in
this syrupy connection:
Cannot tell you how much
we appreciated the week end.
thank you, my wife thanks you,
and my wife's little daughter
thanks you. Cheerio."
Copyright, 1898, Washington Times
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Eyes, to a
c e r t a in ex-
tent. I think
everyone tries
to pre- S e n t
himself to the
b e S t of his
ability, a n d
initiating our
n e G h b orS,
who have &C
c o m p | ished
m o r e than
our selves. is
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hasn't the money he is apt to
suffer in the end through debt
and establishment, and if one
is trying to show off his Supe-
rior knowledge without real in
telligence, he, too, will be found
out sooner or later"
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are two ways
of trying to
keep up with
t h e Joneses,
i n t ellectual
ly and finan-
c i a lly, and
neither an
be a &C o m
pliShed S u c.
c e S S f ! y
without t h e
proper equip
ment. IF one
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wrong. P e O.
pie who are
not sure of
t h e m S elves
will look to
t h e. JoneSes
for the thing
to do, a n d
since this is
not a natural
a c tion and
not suited to
their charac-
ter and tenn.
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Its much
better Ike e p
ing up with
he JoneSes
than S e ting
a lower stand
ard for your
S e | f. Of
course, p e o.
pie S h gu | d
not We be-
20 n d their
means, but I
do believe in
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mo. It's too
expensive and
of no use for
a n on e to
try to k e e p
up with t h e
Joneses. You
can fool some
pc o ole that
don't KIN o W
you, but every
b o dy t h a t
does know you
h a S already
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ROllin' Along
BIZ ". A. s. DOuaLQs

THE Western Union company certainly started something
when it naugurated its specially worded Christmas and
birthday greeting wires. These Of course translated
into numbers which merely call for the receiving office to
fit into the wording of the message and deliver.
Inc company mas SINCE hen lack of obtaining
enlarged its business of .,.. .-,..,,, .,..o. Al
bered kilograms to every " A ~ M
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Virgins first assistant. IF he Knew
what Wiggin was doing, he condoned it;
if he didn't know, he was dumb. Mr..
Virgins conduct in the job, as most of
US remember, was found by Ferdinand
Pecora to have been more putrid from
any point of view than the conduct for
which Richard Whitney was sent up the
river.
Mr.. Aldrich now appears to feel that
public confidence in his bank, and in
bankers in general, has been restored.
He also appears to feel that the Presi-
dent of the United States is Gargantua
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often helpful in benefiting our
selves. However, I do not be-
lieve in going into debt to get
things one can't afford"
X 4 4
L. E. Moran, 1704 West Vir-
ginia Ave. N. E., Government
clerk:
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Say" almost invariably leaves
the reader bored-and frus-
trated through loss of reading
time and industry without
compensation.
j. D. SNYDER.
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Winthrop w. Aldrich

succeeded Albert H. Wggin as head Of the Chase Ma
tional Bank of New York in January 1888 For several
years before that he had been president of the bank and
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Wise Words

Be not careless in deeds, nor
confused in words. nor ram
bling in Observation-Disclosures
Aurelius.
Frugality is the art of avoid
ing unnecessary expenditure
or the art of managing our
property with moderation
Seneca.
Somebody has said that a
king may make a nobleman'
but he cannot make a gentle
man.-Edmund Burke.
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formed an opinion. Besides,
everyone should live within his
income"
x 4 4
Miss Helen Greene, Gordon
Hotel, model:
1T doesn't pay. I find there
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con ceiv-
able sort
of holi-
day. They
also have
the "tou-
rate" tele-
6 r a m
and the
9Th a n k
you" tele-
g r a m ,
e n t huSi-
a S t i C.
g u S hing
d / i a l 1 .
W h / C h
make the
r e l.
e n t S
t h / n k
the send
ers iu S t
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cd. Note-Helen Rowland
articles now appear on Herald
Woman's Page.)
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THE ANSWERS

Mrs. Bernice Crowder, 4428
Alton Pl. N. W., Government
emnlove.
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keeping up a decent appear
ance. One has to live in good
surroundings and has to have
good clothes and be able to en-
tertain friends occasionally"
X
Milton Chase, 1907 Staples st.
N. E., engineer:
mo. The Joneses are usually
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Help the Chinese

How many of you folks recall
the episode of the Chinese who
gave his life for Priscilla STAN
infant daughter of the Rev. John
C. STAN. He and his wife were
missionaries to China in the
year 1885.
The father and mother were
slain. The infant was going to
be killed, but a Chinese stepped
up and said he would take the
place of the baby-he was killed.
The baby was returned to the
mission unframed. Therefore,
help all you can the downtrod-
den Chinese.
NANETTE C. B. Won
SCHLATTER,
Capital Heights, Md.
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savage random in the national powerhouse.
That is the impression get from Mr.. Aldrichs key
note speech delivered Monday evening at the United
States Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. The
speech was plea for breathng spell of two three
years; halt in Government spending and Government
attempts to improve economic system, with bankers
and big business given free hand to take back to the
kind of government used to have By that time,
Gargantuas term would be over; the gorilla would have
been placated until the keepers able to get him
out of the powerhouse.
Mr.. Aldrich strikes as SNUG; damned SNUG. What
about the 900 900 unemployed and their &c. 000
900 dependents? What they going to eat dur
ing this breathing spell? Air?
That is the question the Aldriches always ignore.
Roosevelt spending not out of malice insanity but
because those people have to eat and private industry
cannot hire them that they make the money to
enable them to eat The alternative is bloody revolu-
ton.
KARL MARX
into his speech by saying Marx invented the theory
that buying power must be kept up overproduc-
ton is to be prevented; by calling this falacy; and by
~ Mu.~ Gil ~ deicatey insinuating that Roose-
welt is benighted devotee of
Marx Was Right Marx
We heard that Marx held this theory; but if he
did, he right, in opinion. We don't KNOW any
economics than the bankers do-and they proved
to the nations satisfaction that they didn't KNOW much
when banker-guided government led into the 1929
smashup. But it seems to us that person who
heard of economics could grasp the idea that masspro
ducton goods cannot be sold to who have no
money to buy them. In profit SYSTEM that is
The constant and consistent aim Of
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permanent, it usually shows itself
up as a false 'front.'"
X
Miss Edna Browning, 40 Far
ragut st. N. w., secretary-book-
keeper:
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The washington Times in
viteS you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Do you believe in keeping UP
with the JoneSes?"
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Where To Spend Money

1t has always seemed to me
that the City of Washington.
as the Capital of this big coun-
try of ours, has such a splendid
opportunity to make a model
city Of herself In more ways
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE


will be omitted
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whom Old Dealers forever asking to be consistent
has been to shore up buying power that demo-
cratic profit system may live He tried it with NRA and
The Washington times., 1938-08-12
RUSS FIRE ON
JAPANESE NJ. P,

TOKYO, Aug. IL U.N.S0.-1n
a fresh Russo-Japanese incident
which may cause grave results, a
japanese member Of Parliament
and his party were fired on to-
day by Soviet guards on the Island
of Saghalien, according to a tele-
phone message from Shikuka.
One member of the party was
reported wounded.
Japanese police were dispatched
by truck from Shikuka to investi.
gate.
The shooting, according to the
message, occurred in the Handa-
zawa district of the island.
The RussO-Japanese armistice
pact was signed today. Details on
Page 2.