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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

Do you ever get tired of
your town? Have you ever
longed for brighter lights
and more people, more noise
and hustle? Why not get
away for a couple Of weeks
and satisfy the longing?
Don't make the mistake of
selling out and packing up
the household goods before
you go. Just hop in the fam
lily bus and look around
where you figure you can edo
better. Study living con-
ditions, cost of keeping your
family, schools and check up
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

nave gone there TO enjoy the famous
climate and have the health that it
gives them. Old people are mill
family behind these schemes. That
is one of the reasons why Mr.. Down.
ey was able to boast more than a
million signatures to the petition
that made the question an issue in
California. And Florida, too, with
fine winter climate, is a fertile
field for the racketeers who pro-
mote such ridiculous programs. It
is a harsh thing to blame the
strength Of these movements, all of
which crop up during depression
times, upon elderly people. It is
nevertheless the cold fact that they
are the type among whom such
schemes are promoted, and because
they have votes, the candidate for
Office stoops to the level of adding
further to hopes that never can be
fulfilled in that manner.
To show how silly the scheme of
$3O-every-Thursday is as a cam
paign issue for Mr.. Downey-just
as an example-he is a candid0e
for the United States senate. The
pension dream he has advocated is
planned as part Of the welfare pro-
gram Of the state of California. How
Mr.. Downey can do anything about
it as a member of the United States
senate, I can not understand, and I
seriously doubt that Mr.. Downey
can explain it.
Nor will the plan work if made
into Law without bankrupting the
state OF California. I doubt that it
will work anyway, but assuming
that it may work, the state will be
assuming a burden that will cost
it so much money that the Cali
fornia books will be so far in the
red as to cause them to appear
splotched with blood. This idea of
placing STAMPS" on each warrant
each week so that an actual 81. O4
has been affixed by cash payment In
a year will stop the transfer of them
very shortly. Few storekeepers,
for example, will accept them be-
yond the necessities of their tax
payments to the state of California;
it is certain also that those who con-
tinue to accept them would not pay
the face value, and the possessor
would be forced into paying higher
prices for the things that he buys.
That is, the possessor would be buy
ing so cents worth of sugar and prob
ably would be handing over dollar
warrant for it. ALI of this is the
result Of lack Of confidence among
the people in any form of exchange
except the currency that is backed
and guaranteed by the United
States, as has been shown so many
times before.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Bruckarf's Washington Digest
Old-Age Pension Schemes Figure
In Primaries in Several States
Lead to Success of Senator Pepper in Florida and Defeat
Of McAdoo in California; Delude Aged and
Infrm Voters; Fallacy of Plans Shown.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service National Press Bldg. Washington D. C.

WASHINGTON. - A good many
Fasteners had nearly forgotten
about DR.. Francis Townsend and his
$2OO-a-month pension plan until
lately they were suddenly awak-
ened by the far South and the far
West. Sen. Claude Pepper won a
Democratic nomination to the SEN
ate in Florida largely because of
espousal of the Townsend plan and
just recently Sen. William G. Nc
Adoo had his public career abruptly
terminated because Sheridan Down.
ey, his opponent for the Democratic
senatorial nomination in California,
proposed and promised some fan
tastic scheme of paying $50 every
Thursday to persons over so years
of age.
In addition to these results, there
have been IL or Is candidates for
the nomination to the house of rep
resentatives who have won in pri-
maries by saying the Townsend
plan or the $30-every-Thursday or
some other impossible and illogical
and unsound pension plan would be
put through congress. I cannot de-
scribe them all; they are obviously
variations of the Townsend plan,
and none of them will work any
more than the Townsend bubble will
work, and each has been used to
delude aged and infirm voters
whose ballots were needed to swing
an election.
1t Is tragic that such things have
happened, and are happening to-
day. The fact cannot be ignored,
however, because the condition is
with us. The one thing to do, then,
believe, is to attempt to disillusion
those folks who have swallowed the
slick words Of those campaigners or
those racketeers who are, preying
upon the faith Of folks who, through
no fault Of their own, do not have
access to information that shows
these schemes to be rainbows. And,
as far as history records, nobody on
earth ever has found the end of the
rainbow where the pot of gold is
reputed to be.
/ am not concerned about the pub
lie career of Mr.. McAdoo who has
been in public service off and on
since 1918. He never impressed me
as being any great shakes of a
statesman. AS secretary of the
treasury, he did the job probably
about as well as the average politi-
cal appointee. never have had the
pleasure Of meeting Mr.. Downey.
So can't comment. Senator Pep
per's senate record is a great deal
like many another senator's record,
and probably will continue to be just
$3.50. In other words, here were
two average senators-one winning
with the aid Of the promises about
the Townsend plan and the other
losing because he stayed away
from such promises, although he
was thrice blessed by the President
of the United States. That situation,
along with some letters accusing me
of giving the Townsend plan ISL
lent treatment" in these columns,
seems to warrant a new analysis of
the conditions that now confront the
country.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15
1t Appears Townsendism
Is Not Dead After All

AS said there is evidence that
Townsendism is not dead at all. II
has formed the basis of dozen new
panaceas, of which the $30-every-
Thursday is but an example. It
happened that this scheme was pro-
posed in California which, particu.
larly in its southern sections, has a
vast population of aged people who
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

When a married woman
falls out with her sister-in-
law the sister-in-law sees to
it that the neighbors learn
the real age of the married
woman.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

was the favored one. This
action on the highways may
work as long as two skillful
but inattentive drivers don't
try the same stunt at the
same time coming from diff
ferent directions. Then the
deluge!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

Another reason for so many
divorces is that too many
girls get hitched up before
they are able to support a
husband.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

It's pretty safe to wager
that the man or woman who
buys without asking prices
never had to work for the
money.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15
Flrst Csc Of Firaarm.

Firearms were first used in Eu-
ropean warfare in the Fourteenth
century.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15
President Cannot Dodge
Some of Responsibility

Mr.. Roosevelt has said with en-
phasis several times that none of
these things will work. He believes
they should not be propagated and
spread, because he recognizes how
easily miserable humanity can be
lead of at a tangent. It is a type
OF hysteria, an emotion. The Presi-
dent, however, must not dodge re-
sponsibility for a part of it. AS I
said above, his methods have been
conducive to hysteria of several
kinds. These panaceas that threat
en- again to cause grief for his adj
mlnistration are but an outgrowth of
the numerous plans that have been
given birth by various persons in
official position. True, they have
been fed by the dregs of hard times.
but they had their announcement
first from illogical phases of the
New Deal.
Truer words were never spoken
than President Roosevelt uttered at
Pittsburgh, Pa, in his 1892 cam
palgn when he said: "Any govern
ment, like any family, can for a
year spend a little more than it
earns, but you and / know that
continuation Of the habit means the
poor house." Adoption of any of the
pension schemes, whatever their
variation from the Townsend plan
may be, means the poor house be-
cause there can not be enough taxes
LEVIED or collected to meet the need
@ Western Newspaper Union.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15
Ancient Persians PLAYED PoIo

Polo was played by the Persians
before the beginning of the Chris
tan era.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15

he IS elected over his Republican
opponent in November. I seem to
scent some added trouble for Pres
ident Roosevelt and his New Deal
friends who have been promising
too many things and too much of
them. Of course, many persons be-
lieve that Mr.. Roosevelt's methods
to date have encouraged all kinds of
quackeries because he has talked
at length of humanitarianism. He
has aroused the minds of elderly
persons who are suffering under
conditions not of their own making.
He has likewise aroused a lot of
flabby Drained individuals among
the younger people who live on il
lusions. 1t is made to appear that
congressional leaders, seeking to
follow presidential policies, are 60
ing to be confronted with frequent
bulges for national pensions of
kind that no nation can bear.
The number and type of these
panaceas GIBBS and flows with the
economic tide. When business is
good and there is plenty of work,
when storekeepers are able to sell
and people are able to buy, we hear
little or nothing of the dream-world
children of the Townsends and the
Downeys and the others. When
there are "hard times" and there
are thousands upon thousands with
out work and food and clothes, those
suffering minds become easy prey
to the silver tongue.
Pursuing the thought bit further,
it then becomes possible for move
ment which demands not $50 every
Thursday for persons over so, but
one demanding $40 or $50 every Fri
day or $50 every Saturday. The
amounts can be pushed up and up
and the fervor of the suffering un-
der this illusion grows greater and
greater. And always, such move
ments provide the breeding ground
for other racketeers who want to
promote dissension and dissatisfac-
ton. Always, too, there will be DO
itical champions for the "cause"
whatever it may be, because there
is something, some halo, about pub
lie office that will lead men into the
StrangeSt views.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-15
White House Ground.

The building and grounds of the
White House cover about is acres.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Visiting Nurses Made
13,4OO Calls In November

More than $500 patients were
cared for and more than 13,400
visits made by the stan Of the In
structive Visiting Nurse Society dur
ing the month of November, the
society announced today.
The report came at the monthly
meeting of the Board of Directors
Of the society yesterday. Mrs. Har-
Ian Fiske Stone presided.
At the meeting it was announced
that a 500 memorial had been
given by Mrs. Dwight Clark, for
mer member Of the board, to en-
dow one nurses work on Christmas
Day in memory Of her husband.
Mrs. Charles B. Crawford, dele
gate to the Council of Social Agen-
cies, asked for additional workers
to help make up necessary surgical
supplies.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Mine Sofety Is Topic

Methods Of promoting increased
safety IN the coal-mining industry
Will be discussed here Friday and
Saturday at conference called by
Secretary Of the Interior Ickes at
the direction Of President Roose-
welt.
Extension of the activity of the
United States Bureau Of Mines is
to be considered during the sessions,
to which have been invited mine
operators, engineers, officials of State
mine-inspection agencies and rep
resentatives Of labor and the gen.
eral public.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Froternities to Aid
Police BOYS Club

A musical "pot-pourri," including
dancing, singing an dramatic skits,
will be sponsored by the Alpha
Omega Chapter of the Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity at 8:15 pm. Friday
at the Howard Theater, $40 r street
NV, for the benefit of the Merto-
politan Police Boys Club No. 2,
Twelfth and u streets NV.
The following fraternities and
sororities will participate in the af-
fair through their local chapters:
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma
Theta and Zeta Phi Beta Sorori-
ties and Kappa Alpha Psi, Gamma
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Dr.. StockduIe to Speuk

DR.. Allan A. Stockdale, former
pastor Of the First Congregational
Church here and now head of the
Speakers Bureau of the National
Association of Manufacturers, will
speak on '"The American Business
Man" at meeting of the Washing
ton Rotary Club at 1890 pm. today
at the Willard Hotel,
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Liquor Advertising
By Radio Opposed

Liquor advertising via radio was
frowned upon yesterday by the
Board Of Directors Of the National
Association Of Broadcasters, which
adopted q resolution opposing the
practice.
The Board Of Trade Association,
which represents most Of the Ma
tion's principal broadcasting sta
tions, concluded a two-day meeting
by authorizing its president, Neville
Miller, to appoint a committee for
the purpose of recommending
changes in the code of ethics at
the next annual convention.
Evening star., 1938-12-14

Tau and Phi Beta Sigma Fraterni.
ties.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
THIS COUNTER
HAS A STORY TO TELL

There are few today who doubt that ad.
vertising pays, but there are many who
do nothing about it because they believe
that ONLY large ads bring profitable
results; every day in the year, inside
the 18th Street entrance to The Star
Building, is demonstrated the profitable
selling power of SMALL ads. Just one
visit will cure the most rabid and in.
experienced unbeliever.
At the counter, in the front office of The
Star, every day and every hour of the
day, you ,vM see that little classified ads,
avhich cost only pennies and mickels to
buy, are bringing dollars in return.
Here, ads that seek jobs, find lost
articles, sell jeavelry, furniture and all
kinds of merchandise and services -.
are anszvered. Just one question asked
of the many small advertisers aVho DO
run small ads in The Star consistently,
telling people their names, u,here they
are and hoe they can serve the bublic,
ovW Prove that little ads j.. bring BIG
results Those zvho listen to and heed
the story of The Stars front counter
can realise profit those uho ,viH
not are the losers!
\ Phone National 5000; your call will
bring an Evening Star representative
to help you with your advertising prob.
lens; he will show you HOW to adver.
tise more effectively, more economically
and .. with GREATER results.
Evening star., 1938-07-08

nothing more until that night when
he found himself in Pasadena.
After wandering around for several
days, he said, he made his way back
to San Francisco and left for home,
July /. He said he got ride As far
Is Billings. Mont. and Travelled by bus
the remainder Of the trip home.
Mr.. Peters accompanied Walte- Steb-
bins, Henry Kanak and G. M. Babyak
II Hopewell, and H. w. johnson Of
Petersburg to the West Coast city.
After Mr.. Peters disappeared, the other
members Of the party returned home
Evening star., 1938-07-08
TWO GIVE VIEWS
ON MEXICAN OIL
American and British Firms
Charged With Menacing
Nations Dignity.
By the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, July g.
American and British oil companies
with interests in Mexico were charged
today with menacing the sovereignty
and dignity of the Mexican people
and their government.
DR.. Alexandra Carrillio, representa-
tive of the Confederation of Mexican
Workers, il (an address prepared for
delivery today before the University
of virginia's Public Affairs Institute,
asserted the Mexican governments
stand in expropriating property Of for
elgn oil companies in that country had
the moral support of trade unions
throughout the world, including those
In the United States and England.
He praised President Roosevelt as a
good neighbor," but bitterly con-
demned Neville Chamberlain, British
prime minister.
Another View Presented.
Maj. T. r. Armstrong, who has rep
resented the Standard Oil Co. in con-
ferences of American and British oil
interests with the Mexican govern
ment. termed the Mexican expropria-
ton decree and outright confiscation
in violation of international law.
DR.. Carrillio. professor in the
Workers University of Mexico, said
the issue between the oil companies
and the Mexican people really was "the
struggle of the oil trusts and the labor
movements.
Mr.. Armstrong, an official of the
Standard Oil Co.. said the attempt of
Mexico by executive decree to expro-
pirate the oil properties of American
and British nationals is now disclosed
after three and half months as out
right confiscation."
The Oil company official charged
that "by failing to make payment of
compensation at or preceding the
Evening star., 1938-07-08

time of payment, which international
law requires, Mexico has grossly vio-
lated international law"
Safeguards Of Prosperity.
Expansion OF trade abroad and con-
troll Of the fiow of money at home were
recommended as safeguards of United
States prosperity by speakers last night
before the institute.
Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary
Of State, recommended the breaking
down of trade barriers and stimula ton
Of international commerce as q means
of building prosperity for every group
Of the country's population and Of
making more secure the foundation
Of peace.
James H. r. Cromwell, economist
author and member Of the New Jersey
State Tax Survey Board. asserted So
ciety must safeguard its citizens by
controlling economic forces which
''precipitate tragic paradoxes Of want
in the midst OF plenty"
Worldwide Emergency.
Mr.. Sayre said 1t was unfortunate
that the American trade agreements
program has been made a battle
ground Of politics" In this country,
as the program was not conceived Is
Democratic measure or as q Repub-
lican measure" but grew out Of
great national need and q worldwide
emergency"
He asserted the "soundest and most
effective way" to find increased mar
kets at home and abroad "is to re-
move or reduce the excessive and
economically uniustifiable trade bar
riers which since 1929 have been dis
astrously blocking the trade highways
of the world"
Mr.. Cromwell saw the cure for the
economic ills of the country as COM
ing nearer home, and recommended
that the flow of money be so regu-
lated as to be "synchronized with the
flow Of finished consumer goods in
order that purchasing power may
claim production at all times"
Much education will be required,
Mr.. Cromwell said, before money can
be used as positive mechanism in
production and consumption OF goods"
We have no problem with produc-
ton and. in my opinion. the political
expedients which seek to control it
are unwise and unsound," he asserted,
adding:
Our problem is in another field
the field Of distribution Of wealth, not
Evening star., 1938-07-08

wander for days in "daZed condition"
was recounted by Charles r. Peters,
50, upon his return here yesterday
after being reported missing since
June ~.
Mr.. Peters, Kiwanis Club president
and prominent merchant here, said he
was given . drug and robbed Of tl83
after entering what he thought was .
courtesy" car operating during the
Kiwanis International Convention. He
said he drank some coffee with the
occupants Of the machine and knew
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Returns to Screen,

CULVER CITY, Calf. July 8 Dr.
Walter Cameron, who played the sher-
III in THE Great Train Robbery" !"
the first super movie 80 years ago,
Is returning to the screen after an
absence of is sears.
Mr.. Cameron. SO, will have q char.
acter role In picture starring Carole
Lombard and James Stewart.
Evening star., 1938-07-08

in his car after obtaining permission
from Mrs. Peters to use the automobile.
Resting At home last night, Mr..
Peters was described by his physician
as in good condition and only in need
Of rest.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Dry Well Laid to Fairies.

That the wee people," meaning the
fairies. are preventing the spring from
working Is the belief Of people Of
Drummock, Northern Ireland, follow
ing the stoppage Of water In a we'll.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Child Swallows. Key.

YORK, Pa. July P)-Mr. and
Mrs. John Ketterman lost a two-and-
three-quarter-inch key to one of the
doors of their home. DR.. E. c. Roms-
burg found it-in the stomach Of
their 19-month-old daughter, Judith. ,
He said the key was removed without
i'll effects to the child.
Evening star., 1938-07-08

American Cars in Philippines.
More new American automobiles ars
seen in the Philippines than for some
time.
Evening star., 1938-07-08

its creation, and in that direction we
are stalled by an unre1ulated
money system"
Evening star., 1938-07-08
HOPEWELL KIWANIAN
RETURNS TO HOME.
Tells Of Being 'Drugged' and
Robbed While at Convention

in San Francisco.
BY the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL. Va. July 8.-The ex-
perience Of being "drugsed" and robbed
In San Francisco and then left TO
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D PACKARD 1895 sedan. 100; low mileage;
l 1st-class condition; to settle estate. Call
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LEGAL NOTICES.
MARTIN J. MCNAMARA. Attorney.

DISTRICT COURT or THE UNITED
- States for the District Of Columbia:
Parker Deceased.-No. 54 O39, Admins
tration Docket .118-Application having
been made herein for probate Of the last
for letters testamentary on said estate by
Martin, J. McNamara, 1t is ordered this
10th day OF November, AID. 1888. that
Robert Kent Parker, Howard b. Parker
and A; Elizabeth Parker, all non-residents.
and all others concerned. appear in said
Der. AID, 1898, at 10 o'clock AM, to show
cause why such application should moi. be
granted Let notice hereof be published in
the WASHINGTON Law Reporter" and eve
ming Star" once in each Of three successive
weeks, before the return day herein men,
than thirty days before said return day.
Witness. the Honorable ALFRED A. WHEAT
Of November. AID. 1893. (Seal) Attest:
VICTOR g.. MERSCH Deputy Register Of
Wills for the District Of Columbia. Clerk
n tho prnhata mol da2
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FREDERICK STOHLMAN. GEORGE A.
CASSIDY, Jr.. Attorneys for the Executors.
S1O 18th st, NV,

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for rot the District Of Co
Ss's hHsas seHssE
SATIoNtApplheation having .Ha been EN-, made s1s
McClelland. deceased and for letters tesla
Rdrasy s ON i Rsp essse by Tss
V XsmSsr' Iass. that t's Lillian his Mcclel!ana
Peck Helen Morris Rust, Wesley Morris
Kenneth Mort Morris, Robert NJ Barr ., Louise Is
E1iasbsth ASg0e MuTphy 'I Tfsncss wson
VI H Wallis Samuel vs Woolfer c1s,a Laura
Fontaine; Mary, W. F., Prickett. Imogene
Armstrong Lyle f Polk Ba1 po ElsSa6sth
ciellan, Lawrence Mcclellan. Mary P. Nc
Gst.eii. i IindIey T. COOK. Laura COOK
Hayes Fsye Cameron Hayes. Margaret z. Hayes
s:ass HAYS ssyes hss
Urshan. Ernest Gilman Baldwin, Gilman
Tiffany, Humphrey Tiffany and The un; n;
Frank McCielland.. deceased, and ali others
day Of December, AID. 1888. at ten o'clock
should not be granted that notice hereof
be published in the Washington Law Re-
porter ana The Evening Star onss during during
the return day herein mentioned. the nrst
publication to be not less than thirty 800
fsss nsSrs sia ssSurn day HE Min.'s
ssss;ss e :as e'sE 'hi s;R
tie District Of columbia. Clerk 81 the
Probate Court. no12.19,Z0.
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