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The Washington times., 1938-12-30
My Say

IT was just 35 years ago this month that the
Wright brothers astounded the world by
making the first airplane flight down in the sand
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hours. We hear Of plans for a transatlantic
service, scheduled to start perhaps next year.
The development Of the plane has been a
wonderful thing. But I wonder If Orville and
Wilbur Wright had any dream Of what they
were doing when they planned their first plane?
Dist0nce Reduced
TNHEY have done much good. They have
L reduced space and distance. But they have
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system.

itics from welfare administration
and the substitution Of the merit
system.
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"No Heliurn, No Engines"

NO NSuUHI0 NO GHS"SS
0TILI, further examples the Congress may find
~ if it searched hard enough:
The Navy has ordered a 100000 cubicfoot
dirigible, which, by the way, has been castigated
by the best airship experts as pure waste Of money
because of its smallnesS
The authorities desire oil engines to drive the
ship. They approached the German Zeppelin
Company, in Frankfort, recently and asked if
MercedesBenz oil engines could be built for the
new American airship. The German Zeppelin
group courteously replied that their time was
consumed with building engines for their own
airships!
No helium, no engineSl
So outmoded gasoline engines are to be in
stalled under present plans in the new U. S.
Navy dirigible! The citizens pay for this horse
and buggy installation. They can thank Mr..
Ickes if the ship is flop!
If the Navy revealed the critical state Of affairs
Of our aircraft engine situation, it would vex the
steel group supplying its battleships.
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necessarily those OF The Washington TirnesJ
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By Evalw W|ahh Mclean

also caused much tragedy in this world of ours
Their invention took an humble young man,
Charles A. Lndbergh, and raised him to the
peak of world fame and adulation, showered
him with wealth, and later brought him the
tragedy Of the kidnapping and death of his
first son.
The airplane has saved lives, transported
persons to hospitals in time that was not possible
by any other means of transportation.
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EOi As Well As Good

EUH As Well As Good
TTNHE airplane has carried food and medicine to
persons cut off by storm Remember what
happened at Tangier Island down in Chesapeake
Bay several years ago, when doctors and nurses
were carried there, and enough food to prevent
starvation?
But while the plane has done much good it
has done much evil. Think Of the horrible bomb
ing in Spain and China. Great planes sweeping
over, dropping their cargoes of bombs on innocent
women and children, bringing death and de-
Struction
The plane is wonderful thing. But it also is
fearful thing. And God grant that the day
may never come when enemy planes may visit
our shores.
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SAYS Boake Garter

100000 the bankers have invested in tools and
equipment for past research!
Financial interests dictate the terms by which
the airline operators must abide.
Back in 1896 German air lines were operating
four-engine, oilfueled passenger ships We in
the United States are just coming around to
fourengined passenger planes-and equipping
them with inefficient. deadly and explosive gaso-
line motive power!
The 75Ghorsepower engines used on the air
lines today do not deliver that rated power be-
yond few seconds. The heat generated when
forcing the engine to deliver that rated horse
power is so great as to cause an immense loss
of power.
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Voice Of New York By Louis Sobol

up hundreds of workers ready for the big project.
And then he left town.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Vote for D. G. Is Topic
TOday's Club Program

National League American Women-Executive board
meeting, 1890 M. luncheon in honor Of president Mrs
Phyllis Fergus Hoyt and outofown guests Immediately
lowing board meeting, Willard Hotel
Womans Christian Temperance Union-Quarerly conven
tion afternoon and evening sessions beginning D.
United Brethren Church. 1700 North Capitol st.
Womans National Democratic Club-Forum luncheon 1890
Representative Robert Allen of Pennsylvania guest
speaker, clubhouse, 1884 New Hampshire Ave. N w.
Order of the Eastern Star-Colmbia Chapter
ing 7:30 home of Past Matron NJ Noreta
Juniper ST. N W.; Bethany Chapter endowment committee
1911 Kearney ST. N.
American Association of University Women-Tea an m:
program of madriga carols and folk songs presented
oy Mrs John sylvester and her Of singers
writing 245 Mrs Frances Carpenter HUNTINGTON
guest speaker international relations group M Miss M
Alice Matthews, guest speaker
Dephan Society-Quartery meeting WASHINGTON and
Arlington Chapters, Washington Seminary 364O Six
teenth st. N. w. ~
Sibyl Baker, 3100 Newark st. N. w.
Daughters Of the U. s. Army-Luncheon meeting 10 noon
Army and Navy Club. ~
United Daughters Confederacv Robert roo,
Ter NO 64eception in honor Of newlyelected officers
p M, Confederate Memorial Hail. 1922 Vermont Ave w
Sunshine and Community Society of District of Column
ola-Meeting, 1870 home of Mrs
Reno Rd N. w. '' WV"
Wv c. A-Chapter Council, meeting, II a. M; membership
committee 4:45 executive the Professional
Writers Club, M; Elizabeth Somers Glee Club 7:3o M
Girl Reserves Gee Club p
Ladies of the G. A. R, Abraham Lincoln Circle No 3-Mee
ing p. m, Willard Hotel.
WomenS City Club-Bridge, 1880 Spanish class,
Women Of the Moose, Columbia Chapter No. 36s-Eome-
making committee meeting home Of Mrs Mae Sine 500
Eighth St. N E.
ParentTeacher ASSocation-Sart Junior High Founders
celebration; Powell board and grade mothers meeting, 15
Keene, board meeting 1870 EdnondsMaury
ecuive meeting, 1880 Bowen Greeneaf executive
ing, Whittier, executive meeting 1880 p. m.
Sigma Phi Omga Alpha Chapter-Meetne 73O D. M; Eng.
lish Room Raleigh Hotel.
Kappa Gamma Sorority-Meeting 7:3O Green Room,
Raleigh Hotel.
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Washington Seminary, 1850 Six.
teenth st. N. w.
1.-THE Sino-Japanese Conflict"
will be the topic upon which
Mrs. Walter c. Lowdermilk, Dis.
trict president Of the Womens
Foreign Missionary Society, will
speak.
Vice presidents Of the respec-
tive chapters will open the pro-
gram with three-minute talks.
They are Mrs. A. H. Norton, Ma
tional Capital Chapter; Mrs. w.
w. Spaid, Columbia Chapter;
Mrs. Lawson A. S1oyer, Roose-
velt Chapter; Mrs. Glenn Raw
ley, George Washington Chap
ter; Mrs. Harvey Zimmerman,
Alpha Zeta Chapter; Mrs. Har-
old r. Machlan, Iota Phi Delta
Chapter; Mrs. T. r. Hall, Kappa
Sigma Chapter; Mrs. C. I. STAN
ton, Arlington, and Mrs. w. E.
Miller, Oberlin Chapter.
Tea will be poured by the fol-
lowing presidents: Mrs. Thomas
F. Law, National Capital Chap
ter; Mrs. Frank M. Stuart, Co.
lumbia Chapter; Mrs. George
Lilly, George Washington Chap
ter; Mrs. George H. Milne, Al
pha Zeta: Mrs. Francis x. john
son, Theta Tau Zeta; Mrs. H.
H. Hulbirt, Iota Phi Delta; Mrs.
Ralph Teunis, Kappa Sigma;
Mrs. w. j. Graham, Roosevelt
Chapter; Mrs. Ira N. Gabriel
son. Arlington Chapter, and
Mrs. Maurice I. Smith, Oberlin.
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Auction to Aid
Blind Work

Washington Alumnae of
Delta Gamma will be hostesses
to members Of the Active Chap
ter Of American University at a
buffet supper tomorrow evening
at the Wesley Heights Club.
Following the supper there will
be a white elephant" sale, with
Miss Helen Dyer acting as auc-
tioneer. Proceeds from the sale
will be used in aiding the blind,
which is the national endeavor
Of the group.
Graduates from nine colleges
and universities will act as host
esses. They hail from Goucher
and Swathmore colleges, the
Universities of Miami, Illinois,
Syracuse, Utah, Akron, Nebraska
and American. They include
the Misses Olive Adams, Gerry
Park, Mary Alice Woodworth,
Florence Currie, Ruth Ward,
Sarah Roger and Mesdames Eric
Wendelin, Inez Dobson, Cyril
Smith. John Mertz, Gene Robb,
w. E. Conrad, Alan Burton
Brown and T. D. Greer.
Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg is
guest of honor at this social
function. The committee in
charge of arrangements is COM
posed of Mrs. Thomas Kirby,
Mrs. Perry Fellows, Mrs. Chiffon
Wright, Mrs. H. L. Merchant,
Mrs. George Titus, Mrs. Wilbur
Gray and Mrs. William Ruy-
mann.
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Women to STUDY
LOrtOn Prison

What happens when "ladies
pull time" in the District of Co
lumbia and are sentenced to
Lorton, will be learned by mem
bers of the League of Women
Voters of the District Of Colum-
bia at the February meeting of
the Department of Government
and Legal Status of Women.
The meeting will be held tomor-
row at the Woman's Division of
the District of Columbia Work
house at Lorton, Va.
Roy Huff, Superintendent of
Penal Institutions in the Dis
trict will speak on Conditions
Affecting Women in Penal Insti-
tutions in the District of Colum-
bia." A tour of inspection of the
Women'S Division will also be
made during the visit to Lorton
and members will be treated to
q taste of Lorton meals" at
supper.
The proceedings of the confer
ence on the Cause and Cure of
War, recently held here, will be
reviewed by the Leagues dele
gates, Mrs. George Maxwell, and
Mrs. William Adams Slade, at a
meeting Wednesday at 8 O'Clock,
at the home of Mrs. Lorenz, 3510
Porter st. N. w.
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Women of Moose
Mark 18th Year

Charter members and past
regents of Columbia Chapter,
Women Of the Moose, will join
in the celebration marking the
eighteenth anniversary Of the
chapter, Friday evening at 8
o'clock in Moose Hall, 1414 Eye
st. N. w. Buffet supper will be
served and a large cake with 1S
candles will decorate the table.
The Homemaking Committee
will meet this evening at 8 o'clock
at the residence of chairman
Mrs. Mae Sine, sos Eighth st.
N. w. An old-fashioned quilt
ing party will be held on this
evening, the committee working
together to complete q quilt
which will be presented on the
occasion of the grand regents
visit, February 25.
A meeting of the membership
committee will be held tomor.
row at 8 o'clock in Moose Hall.
Plans for a class of new mem
bers to be initiated at the time
of the grand regents and grand
recorders visit to the Women
of the Moose will be discussed.
Meeting with the membership
committee is the alumni COM
mittee which is in charge Of ar
rangements for the officials
visit.
Mrs. Frances Baldwin, senior
regent, will be hostess to the
executive committee on the oc-
casion of their meeting in her
home Thursday evening at 8
o'clock at 601 A st. N. E.
A dancing class for children
of the Moose, was organized last
Saturday. Miss Irma Baker is
instructress.
The regular Saturday After
noon story Hour at the Central
Union Mission Emergency Home
for Children will be conducted
Saturday at o'clock by Mrs.
Pauline Miller, child care and
training committee chairman.
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Government service, bitterly op-
posing any discrimination in
public employment based on sex
or marital status.
Although it was through the
efforts of the National Woman's
Party that the equal rights
amendment is now before Con-
gress, the league is opposing the
passage Of the bill and will fight
against any similar blanket type
of legislation. However, it does
recommend the removal Of re-
naming legal and administra-
tive determinations which pre-
vent women from having an ef.
fective equality with men.
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A.A.U.W. Plans
Many EventS

Many interesting events are
planned for this week by the
Washington branch Of the Amer.
ican Association Of University
Women. Today Mrs. John Syl.
vester, director Of the Madrigal
Singers, will present a group Of
her singers in a program Of
madrigals, carols and folk songs
following the social tea at the
clubhouse, 1884 I st. N. w.
Mrs. Frank Edgington is hostess
for the social.
Frances Carpenter Hunting
ton will speak on "Children's
Literature" before the creative
writing group today at 2:45
O'Clock in the little dining room
Of the clubhouse. At 8 p. m. an
informal discussion of Paris,
Geneva and Rome will be given
by Miss M. Alice Matthews, IL
brarian Of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace at
the meeting Of the international
relations group. Miss Matthews
recently returned from a five
months Sojourn in Europe.
Romantic Germany" will be
the subject of a travel talk in
the lounge tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock by Mr.. John George
Bucher, of the German rail-
ways information office in New
York. He will illustrate his talk
with $50 slides in color.
Prizes to the winners of the
annual poetry contest will be
awarded at a dinner in the club
house Wednesday evening at Z
o'clock. Mr.. Joseph Auslander,
conSultant in English poetry at
the Library of Congress, will be
guest speaker. Miss Anna Pearl
Cooper, chairman of the poetry
contest committee, will preside.
This is the sixth annual poetry
contest sponsored by the Martha
MacLear poetry group of the
A. A. U. w. for local colleges.
Miss Ruth Henderson is chair
man of the poetry group and a
member of the committee Spon-
soring the contest.
A pre-Valentine dance for club
members will be held Saturday
at 9 o'clock. Miss Jacqueline
Pringle is club hostess for this
month,
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Inc National League has
Issued today its proposed pro-
gram for 1938-1940, covering nine
objectives in Federal legislation,
IL objectives in State league
work, and Is general objectives
headed by that beSt-known aim
OF the organization, the merit
system in Government service.
COLLECTIVE PEACE
Miss Marguerite Wells, presi-'
dent, who believes that thorough
information in the field of pub
lie affairs is the best possible
basis for deliberative action, ex-
planned: by placing our pro-
gram in the hands Of all our
members three months in ad-
vance Of our convention, we give
opportunity for close scrutiny
OF every proposal"
The proposed program for
Federal legislation which will be
a highlight of the convention in
cludeS amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution to make amend
ing process less difficult and
more responsive to the will of
the electorate" suffrage for the
District of Columbia, and inter-
national economic cooperation,
including downward revision Of
tariffs through reciprocal trade
agreements.
Believing in the power Of a
collective peace system, the
league advocates United States
membership in the League of
Nations and a permanent court
Of international justice. wherein
this country will participate
with othe~ countries in discrimi-
natory action against any ma
tion violating treaties to which
she is Signator.
The ban of munitions, essen
tial war materials, loans and
credits to belligerents and pro
hibition of travel on belligerent
ships, to be invoked at the dis
cretion of the President, will be
recommended by the league.
RAPS ARMAMENTS
Fighting against the naval ap-
preparation bill for national de-
fense, the league will ask for a
reduction and limitation Of arnna-
ment by international agree
fnent and the establishment Of
an internatioal system for the
cotrol of trade in arms.
Munitions manufacturers are
also in the line of fire, for an
other proposal which the league
will strive to make a law Is the
Government control of the manu-
facture and shipment Of arms.
Continuing its fight against
the SpoilS system, the league will
ask for qualified personnel in
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Sigma Sigma
Dance Benefit

The Washington Alumni Club
Of Sigma Sigma Sorority Of
George Washington University
will hold a benefit dance Satur-
day, March 5, at the Carlton Ho-
tel. Proceeds will go toward the
Flora Alpert Zuker Memorial
fund, a philanthropy which
started in 1887 in memory Of one
of its deceased members. This
philanthropic endeavor is for
the purpose Of furnishing cor
rective medical appliances for
needy school children. It is
nonSectarian.
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Safety Program
Apt. A. Meet

watch Your Step" is the
topic of the Parent Teacher
weekly Forum Of the National
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers, Wednesday. from 4:30 to
S o'clock over WMAL.
Miss Marian L. Telford, SAT.
ETY. chairman Of the National
Congress, conSultant on child
safety and director Of field &C.
tivities, education division Of
the National Safety Council, is
directing the preparation of the
program. Miller McClintock, di-
rector of the Harvard Bureau
of Traffic Research, will take
part in the discussion,
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
For Double Quick Cough
Relief, Mix This at Home

cough remedy than you could buy
ready!made for four times the money.
1t keeps perfectly, tastes fine, and lasts
q family a long time.
And there is positively nothing like
it for. quick action. You can feel it
take hold instantly" 1t loosens the
phlegm, soothes the inhamed mem
branes, and helps clear the air passages.
No cough remedy, at any price, could
be more effective.
Pinex is a concentrated compound Of
Norway Pine, famous for it's prompt
action on throat and bronchial memo
braneG. Money refunded II it doeSn't
please you IN every way.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Better Than Ready.Made
Medicines. Easily Mixed.

Here's an old home remedy your
mother qssd, but; for real results, it
once, and you'll swear by it.
It's NO trouble at all. Make a syrup
by stirring 2 cups of granulated sugar
and one cup of water a few moments
until dissolved. No cooking is needed
q child could do it.
Now put pa ounces of Pinex into q
pint bottle, and add your syrup. This
gives you . full pint Of actually better
The Washington times., 1938-02-07

The Washington section of
the National Council of Jewish
Women will meet tomorrow after
noon at 2:15 o'clock in the Jew
ish Community Center. A cele-
bration of the victory rally Of
its nation wide membership CAM
paign is being planned for that
day.
Mrs. Mark Lansburgh, presi-
dent of the local club, who re-
Gently returned from the Pitts
burgh tricentennial. and sew
eral council ladies who attend
the conclave with her, will pre-
sent a skit of incidents that
happened while they were in
the Smoky City" The cast
includes Mrs. Edward Some
born, Mrs. Emanuel R. Haas,
Mrs. Lawrence Koenigsberger,
Miss Florence Cohn. Mrs. John
Berg, Mrs. Arthur stephens and
Mrs. Alexander Wolf, the au-
thor.
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Delphiar1 Group
Meets Today

Mrs. Myrtle U. Hargrave, of
New York city, general director
Of the Eastern division Of the
Delphian Society, will be the
guest Of honor of the Washing
ton and Arlington Chapters at
their second quarterly meeting
today at l o'clock at the Martha
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
League of Women Voters Plans for
Convention in St. Louis
By MARY PADGETT

Suffrage for the District of Columbia will be Of the main
discussions the biennial convention of the National League
Of Women Voters. April 25 to 90, in st. Louis
Evening star., 1938-06-04

are free from barbs, fuzzy coats,
and such defenses, SO that not over
two out Of a hundred escape the
four-footed hunters.
The armament of the cirio Is such
that birds or animals cannot build
q home amid the bayonets. The
trunk is rough and unborable and
the inner bark absorbs water so COM
pletely that any creature would soon
drown II home had been constructed
In the trunk during dry weather and
rain came along.
The name "cirio' is Spanish for
candle" or wax taper" The cirio
is member of the Ocotillo family.
A number of them growing in a
region reminds you of a standing
rebuke Of forest swept by a dew
astating fire. Somehow they make
you feel unwelcome to the land in
which they dwell.
The only ether place in the world
where you may find these trees be-
sides Lower California is along the
shore Of Sonora, and these are not so
large as those found on the desert.
Since the seeds have no equipment
for travelling, il is believed by Mr..
Glenton g. SYKES, an authority on
the cirio, that the seeds were carried
by the Indians to this spot.
Evening star., 1938-06-04

Many Fruits Exported.
Eighty-three per cent of Palestine's
exports last year consisted OF citrus
fruits.
Evening star., 1938-06-04
HOME FINANCING
~
RECORD IS SET
a.
Federal Figures Reveal a
Six-Month Mark During
Month of April.

Home financing by savings and
loan associations In the United States
during April totaled $62, ,621 900 and
set six-rnonth record, 1t was an
nounced today by Corwin A. Fergus,
director of the Division of Research
and Statistics Of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board.
April lending, which was IL per
cent above March, was the largest for
any month since last October. The
figures are 10 per cent under those for
April, 1887, which was one Of the ex-
ceptionally large months for home
financing last year.
I OF the new home loans made in
April by all associations, those by
State chartered members of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank System led ell
other groups with an aggregate Of
$26, 100000. State chartered associa-
tions which are not members of the
Federal Home Loan Bank System had
neg loans totaling $9,557,000
Home construction and home pur-
chase loans during April by all of
these institutions aggregated $36,944,-
900. Loans for refinancing Of existing
mortgages were placed at $13,872 900;
S4,681 900 was loaned for recondition-
Ing of present dwellings and loans for
other purposes were set at $7,124,000.
+ Associations in the States served by
the Federal Home Loan Bank of Win
ston-Salem, comprising Southeastern
United States from Maryland to Flor
ida, led all other districts in the in
crease in April over March with 81 per
cent. The New England States, served
by the Federal Home Loan Bank of
Boston, were a close second with 20
per cent increase.
Evening star., 1938-06-04
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.

r YAS your heating plant been
suffering with bad fiue con-
dition? This may sound lot
L L like a human lung ailment,
but, strangely enough. there is a
great similarity between the draught
for your heating plant and the breath
ing you do to keep yourself alive. They
both supply a constant flow of oxygen
which Is necessary for combustion, and
anything which interferes with that
supply prevents life-giving air from
doing its work.
As you know, the chimney fiue on
your heater must have adequate
draught to draw a quantity of air
through the fire in the heater. This
isn't such a problem where some form
of automatic heat is installed using a
forced-draught blower, although it is
still extremely important that you have
adequate draught to draw the burned
gases through the various heat pas
sages. But on the ordinary coal fur.
mace, which is entirely dependent upon
the chimney for its breathing, as well
as gas and some types of oil burners,
you must be sure that you are getting
the necessary circulation, or, in other
words, that the chimney is drawing"
Unfortunately, there are all sorts of
things which happen to chimneys
which prevent them from working the
way they should. Perhaps it is too low,
so that surrounding objects cut it off
from moving air currents, or possibly
there is bend in the construction of
the due somewhere which restricts the
opening and provides a place for SCOT
to collect. Then again air may leak
into it. floor joist may be jutting into
the space or any one of large number
Of possibilities.
Obviously the thing to do if you find
your fiue is restricted Is to remedy the
trouble some way, either by making
the necessary changes in the chimney
itself or adding something which will
create an artificial draught. The first
course is often the most expensive one
to pursue, because Of elaborate build
ing work, hence the adding of some
device Is many times the logical answer.
There is available at the present
time a small forced draft blower out
Mt which fits into your chimney right
at the place where the fiue from the
heater meets the chimney. This little
machine is nothing but small motor
driven fan which literally blows the
air up the chimney in spite of re-