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The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Legal Lottery Opposed

Vigorous opposition to the
recommendation that national lot
teries be legalized to raise revenue
for the District and funds for re-
lief, was voiced today by Repre-
sentative Ross Collins DJ Of
Mississippi.
The evils growing out Of legal.
lied gambling would far outweigh
the revenues obtained, Representa-.
tive Collins, who is chairman OF
the House subcommittee on Dis.
trict Appropriations, declared.
The proposal to legaliZe lotteries
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Tax Program Speeded for Congress

consumed a great deal of his time,
although he said he enjoyed Ger.
tain aspects Of it. He said he had
not made UP his mind definitely
100000 REVENUE
Under the combination tax
plan Of the Congressional Com,
mittee. a net revenue of $4,000, ,00O
is expected. The two taxes in
themselves, it was pointed out
will produce 100000, but
$4,000 900 would be lost from re
peal Of the business privilege tax
and another 100000 from re
peal of the Intangible property
tax. The committee recommends
that both these taxes should be
removed from the books.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Act Needs Amending

T EST our appetite get the
- best of us again. Congress
saw the wisdom of a neutrality
law that would prevent satisfy.
ing of the American profit
appetite at the inception Of a
war. The enactment provided
against the expectation of
munitions or the affording Of
loans and credits to nations at
war. Among other things it
further provided against the
presence of Americans upon the
vessels of nations at war. such
as was the ''Lusitania."
It provided too that when
nations wanted to trade with
us in commodities other than
munitions, the President, II he
elected to do so. could require
that they do so only on the cash
and carry basis, with such ma
tions assuming all risks in
transportation through war
zones. The act provides for the
invoking Of such restrictions
whenever the President finds a
state Of war to exist.
The law is not perfect. It
ought to be amended. But the
amending should be confined to
the striking-out of the choice
that is left with the President
in the cash and carry provision,
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Party
To Be Held Jan. 4

The Kenilworth Ladies Guild
will hold its annual Christmas
Party on January 4 in the 1900
block Keniworth Ave. N. e. Fol
lowing a luncheon to be served at
1880 p. m. there will be a round
of speeches, and exchange of
presents by the members. Mrs.
Joseph BrashearS is chairman of
the committee In charge,
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

Of Senator Claude Pepper Of
Florida. It's something I'M
heard Of that q dinner be given
In honor Of q New Deal Demo-
crat down here. Mr.. Perry Is
the famous newspaperman,
you know. And I'm bitter no
end that it's purely q stag af-
fair. because it'll be such Q
great success, I'm sure. To
quote the Palm Beach Post:
".Mr. Albert wagg, chairman
Of the banquet committee,
last night said the group ex-
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

combination non-wage, non-salary
income tax and retail sales tax,
which has received the approval
Of the Citizens Advisory Com
mittee on Taxation. The civic
group has made no report or
recommendations on this program,
however, because Of the fact that
two of it's members disSented.
It was learned, at the same
time, that Representative Jack
Nichols Cd, Oklahoma, chair
man in the last session Of the
House District Fiscal Affairs Sub
committee in charge of the tax
bill for this year, may resign from
the committee.
Nichols said the District work
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Replogfe To Be There

Our appetite for profits dre,0
Us into the last tDGr;; therefore,
Ue should amend the Neutrality
Act to cease trade tOtth fighting
nations arbitrarily "tDheu a
state of s0Gr eTiSts." So says
Senator Gerald p. Nye, tDho
tUill try to get Congress to do
1t at the session opening 11ert
SDeeE.
Nye, who will emerge this
coming session as leader of the
resistance to President RooSe.
Oelt's neutrality Ddea0s, tells
some 7teDS before the 7aetDS OF
the coming debate as tDeI as
the implications behind 1t in
his tollotDing guest column set
ting forth his DtefDS.
PAUL MALLON.
.-4 BY GERALD p. NYE
(world Copyright. 1888. by King
Features Syndicate. Inc, All Rights
Reserved. Reproduction in Full
or in Part Strictly Prohibited)
.NEUTRALdTY is just what
AN the word implies. Too many
people seem to labor under the
impression that the Neutrality
Act was something conceived to
help the side we liked in war
and hurt the side that we
learned to dislike.
Too many people fail to know
just what was the cause and
what constitutes the purpose be"
hind the act, which I consider
the greatest advance ever made
against the danger Of being
dragged into other peoples
wars.
Behind the Neutrality Act is
O train Of experience and an
exercise Of common sense.
Our participation in the
World War, the wealth poured
and still being poured into 1t,
the heartbreak and the broken
homes occasioned by it-thls
plus the knowledge that there
was gained no cause alleged at
the time of our entry as RESPONSE
BILE for our participation in it,
have caused Americans to want
to make sure that we don't re-
peat what has been proven ft-
tile cost and waste. To avoid
repetition first requires a knowl.
edge Of what real forces and
causes did actually take us into
that war.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Commerce Board
Luncheon Jan. .

The Rev. Arthur P. Wilson will
speak on Australian Social LegiS-
lation" before the January S
luncheon of the Junior Board Of
Commerce at the Annapolis Hotel.
The following weeks speaker will
be David Collins Shaw, of the
general counsel's office Of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Co. Finds
Profits in Beef

CLEVELAND, Dec. 2S.-The
Brewing Corporation of America,
that stopped making automobiles
(Peerless) and turned to making
beer, showed a net profit of $703,-
757, or 81 cents a share, in the fis-
cal year ended September 80,
President James A. Bohannon an
nounced.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

The Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Internal Revenue LegiS-
1ation today rushed through the
final phases Of preparing the
Districts new tax program with a
view toward shaping it up for
submission to the Senate and
House District Committees when
Congress convenes next week.
SALES TAX FAVORED
Although not obliged to report
to Congress before January 20,
the Joint committee hopes to be
able to have its tax program
ready so that final action may be
speeded.
Its report will recommend the
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Our Appetite for Profits

CTUDIEs made very definitely
- establish the fact that moth.
ing played SO large a part in tax
ing us to war as did our indi-
vidual and collective appetite
for the profits we found avail
able from Europe's war. To con-
tinue a satisfying Of that appe-
tite required pressure to set
aside every safeguard erected to
keep us out Of war. It required
finally our financing the allied
cause if our war boom was to
be continued. Never once did
the Wilson effort to maintain a
neutrality come in conflict with
this appetite for profit from war
without finding the neutrality
effort set aside. Our urge for
more and more Of profit from
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

Seeing with the eyes OF the blind.
Recent bequest Of two murderers, just
before their execution, calls attention
to the remarkable progress in the
delicate operation Of grating cOrneas
Read Of these extraordinary cases in
an illustrated popular science article
in The American Weekly,
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

came from Lewis r. Perkins, at.
torney for the Society for the
Liquidation Of the Public Debt.
In a letter to Representative r.
Il. Doughton, chairman of the
House Ways and Means Com"
mittee, Perkins suggested revenue
laws be amended to provide for 0
tax on lotteries.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

war finally found this hopeless
picture painted by Ambassador
Page in a cablegram to the
President:
". An international condi-
tion most alarming to the Amer
ican financial and industrial
outlook perhaps our going
to war is the only way in which
our trade position can be main
tanned and a panic averted.
a.. The pressure of this ap-
preaching crisis has gone be-
yond the ability of the Morgan
financial agency for the British
and French governments If
we should go to war with Ger
many we should reap the
profit Of an uninterrupted trade
over a number Of years."
To this picture there was re.
sponse in only 80 days in the
form of a declaration of war
against Germany, but not in the
name Of causes such as Mr..
Page and others were talking
about prior to our declaration.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Scientist 10 Probe
Dawn Of Medicine

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2s.-Medical
practices of $500 years ago will be
investigated by DR.. Henry E. ST.
gerest, Johns Hopkins University
scientist, on a journey to Egypt
next year. He expects to spend 10
years compiling a history Of early
medicine.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
BIZ tEUie' Robert

surprised If Atwater Kent and Hugh Dillman will
show UP. But, after all, Claude Pepper swept
Florida pretty clean in the last election after
being openly endorsed by no other than Jimmie
Roosevelt, and stands ace high In Florida as well
as around the White House, understand. In
my Saturdays column will report casualties, If
any, as well as any local dead cats"
WELL. 1t won't be long now before the old May
" flower Hotel will be the scene Of "the parade"
again, what with Congress just around the corner.
I can just see Senator and Mrs. j. Hamilton
Lewis Of Illinois. "Gypsy" is loved for her quick
wit and dependable charm on all occasions; and
no slouch is the Senator known the country over
for his after.dinner, beforedinner, at-dnner, and
no.dinnernecessary speeches.
Connally and George
TNHEN there will be Senator Tom Connaly of
l. Texas. He will lunge through the lobby with
his magnificent head held high and his long hair
trailing in the breeze he creates. Senator and
Mrs. Walter George Of Georgia-they pretty sue
cessfully keep out of "the whirl: they're strictly
"early to bed and early to rise"
The lobbyists will begin ordering drinks In the
cocktail room and the reporters will be on hand
(every hand making the guilty uncomfortable
and the righteous proud.
XX1E shall never stop missing Congresswoman
w Florence Kahn of San Francisco. She was
in Washington so long, and for one can't get
used to her not being there still. It was always
the greatest privilege to sit and chat with her, If
only for few moments. Her understanding and
intelligence surpassed that Of most men, to say
nothing of her humor and wit hope she knows
that we all in Washington feel that we have
good friend out West in that lovely person and
miss her keenly back here.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

Life too easy, 80 he killed his fam.
lily and himself. The first real trouble
chemist had to face upset him 90 much
he planned the wholesale wiping out,
with him, Of his wife and their three
children, yet he gave fate sporting
opportunity to interVene-but II didn't.
An interesting illustrated feature in
The American Weekly. the magazine
distributed with next Sundays Wash.
ingtOn Herald. Times.
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

Are you Viking? No matter, you'll
get o kick just the same from Mr..
VIII Cuppy's intimate revelations
about the uDs and downs Of skiing.
A feature illustrated I'm full color In
The American Weekly, tho magazine
diatribnted with next Sundays
The Washington times., 1938-12-28

poets today to announce q national figure who
viii serve as POSTMASTER"
IN case the Washington papers haven't already
got the SCOOP" shall modestly announce
that its to be Lawrence Wood Robert, jr., secre.
tary OF the Democratic National Committee, who
has been commandeered from off fishing
boat and into evening clothes for the occasion.
AL OF the big-wig Democrats in the State of
Florida, headed by Governor Cone, are to be here,
not to mention quite delegation of United States
Senators, these latter headed by Senator Pat Har.
Tison of Mississippi. Local New Deal winter resi-
dents will be represented by Joseph P. Kennedy
Our Ambassador to Great Britain, and Stewart
Mcdonald, Federal Housing Administrator.
RepIogfe To Be There
VOU can hear this banquet being discussed in
= whispers at the clubs, on the beaches, and in
the bars; nothing like this has ever happened
before. Haven't times changed? Believe it or
not, our good old G. o. P. friend, Leonard
Replogle will be there II understand as a full
fledged Florida Democrat), and I shouldn't be
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
Ewes Rib

PALM BEACH, F1a Dec. 2S.
ONE of the talks of the town" down here is of
~ the big dinner that John H. Perry is giving
this Friday night at the Breakers Hotel in honor
The Washington times., 1938-12-28
CITIZENS URGE
CIVIL SERVICE
PLAN FOR D. C.
Mid-City Group Backs
Parking Meters
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Association Editor

|
The Mid-City Citizens Associa.
ton was on record today as ap-
proving establishment of q sepa-
rate merit system throughout the
District of Columbia government.
The group voted to commend
the action of the Commissioner IL
drawing UP a bill providing for q
local civil service plan. urging that
it be adopted by Congress.
Under the measure, department
heads would be forced to exhaust
the District civil service list in
obtaining employees before apply
ing to the United States Civil
Service Commission.
PARKING METERS FAVORED
The Mid-City group, at a meet
ing last night, also voted to op-
pose compulsory control Of pedes-
trians throughout the city, q
scheme recently proposed here.
The members expressed them
selves as feeling thSt the plan is
unnecessary and impossible to
enforce, but they agreed a better
method Of controlling foot traffic
at downtown guarded intersec-
tions might be worked out.
In connection with the traffic
situation. it was moved and ap-
proved that the parking meters
recently installed in the down
town section be made permanent,
and that the system be extended
to other sections of washington.
BEAUTICIAN BAN HIT
Named to attend a public meet.
ing on the pedestrian control prob
lem, scheduled to be held In the
District Building tomorrow. were
w. A. Jaeger, Miss Mabel E. Girls
sey and Miss Emily E. Chapman
Strong opposition was voiced tc
the law enacted by the last session
Of Congress under which beauti
clans are forbidden to treat pa
irons In the latters' homes. It was
pointed out the statute has forced
many women out Of jobs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27
CONGRESS AND THE MOONEY
CASE

A subcommittee of the house judi
ciary committee has approved pro-
posal to have congress pass a reso-
luton urging Governor Merriam, Of
California, to pardon Tom Mooney.
The matter now goes to the full com
mittee; but with four of the five mem
bers of the subcommittee approving
and the fifth not voting, the prospects
for the resolution seem rather good
The conviction and continued inn
prisonment of Mooney is one Of the
worst n1iscarriages of justice in our
history. He was convicted on the tes-
timony of one Oman, who later ad-
mitted his perjury, and who, accord
ing to several witnesses, was across
the bay in Oakland when the explo-
sion came in San Francisco. None
Of the defendants supposed to be con-
spirators with Mooney were prose
cuted after the 0xman perjury came
out. The judge who presided at his
trial believed Mooney innocent on the
later revelations; and 10 of the II jur-
ors who convicted signed a petition
for retrial or pardon.
But the big business interests of
San Francisco are determined to keep
Mooney in jail; and for q years they
have done it. If congress can pry him
loose, it will not, indeed, right the
wrong; but it will encourage per
sistent efforts for justice, and may
convince the next persons contem-
plating frameup that the job is
not worthwhile.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1888
LABOR ON NEW FRONTS"

The public affairs committee of
New York has issued 81 ten-cent
pamphlets dealing with public affairs;
and every one of them SO far has con-
tanned information cheap at many
times the price. But the last is one
of the best. 1t is entitled Labor on
New Fronts; and if anything is left
of the stock complaints against the
national labor relations act by en-
ployers' associations and corporation
lawyers after this pamphlet is through
with them, it is something too small
to be seen with the naked eye Here
are a few Of it's more pungent re
marks:
"The Wagner act is an important
instrument for industrial peace"
American trade unions are quite
as impressed with the sacredness Of
a contract as is American business. !"
And gives Illustrations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27
WHO WANTS TIPPING?

The bad practice of tipping con-
tinues because tipping is social GUS
tom, and social customs are hard to
change. Certainly few, if any, organ
lied labor groups favor practice
that does not provide standard wages,
that in fact puts the responsibility for
living wage on the whim of the
customer And few, if any, customers
like the idea of paying for services in
this Indirect fashion as if the en-
ployment of walters, Pullman car
porters, hat check girls, servants and
countless others were their respon-
sibility. Rather let the actual en-
ployer pay a decent wage to those
whose services are essential to the
proper operation Of his business, and,
if necessary, charge the customer a
little more to cover the added expense.
From the Hartford Courant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

sional men die of tuberculosis, and
seven times as many of pneumonia.
But would not a vigorous and well
planned health drive at least miti-
gate the mortality of depression? !?
At least, it seems well worth try
ing.
America is not the only country
afflicted with extremes of wealth and
poverty Lord Butte has just sold
about half the city of Cardiff, Wales,
seaport of about 100000 inhabi-
tants, for a price estimated at around
IS100,000,000 This wireless dispatch
to the New York Times says:
"The transaction included large
part Of the city's docks, 10000 houses,
1000 shops, $50 saloons, several the
|atres, extensive agricultural lands
near the city, and number of vii
lagos Lord Butte maintains eight
homes and private estates covering
117000 acres in various parts of the
country"
Butte and other members of his fam
lily own most of the coal mines of
Wales. Many coal regions in Britain
are known as depressed districts, "
where the coal is worked out, no other
industry has come in, and the peo-
pie are saved from starving only by
the much berated dole" The present
Duke of Windsor, when he was Prince
of Wales, came back to his car from
a walk through coal village with
the remark:
"This is certainly the nadir of mis-
| Iery."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27

Tax bill, as finally passed, modifes
the undistributed profits and capital
gains taxes.
American Federation Of Labor last
February advocated modification or
repeal of these taxes.
Labor explained it was taking this
stand as step toward restoration of
business confidence.
Business didn't get all it asked
in the way of changes in the tax law
but it got a goodly slice.
Now we shall see what business
does.
1t seems up to the business lead
ers to do more than talk hopefully
about economic revival and re-em-
ployment.
Action action that gets results
will be the only thing that counts.
Will business initiate such action
Building trades unions are CO.
operating with the United States
housing authority in stabilizing pay
and eliminating jurisdiction disputes
on federal-fnanced slum clearance
and low rent housing projects.
A. f. Of L. building and construc-
tion trades department took the lead
and is urging all building labor to
follow.
Many building trades councils have
already promised cooperation
Building trades unions in Cleve-
land and other Ohio cities have agreed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27

to forego wage increases in coming
months.
This is the kind of cooperation
that will help building, which can be
the biggest factor in restoring pros
perity.
1t is in line with the cooperation
the Cherry Tree has pointed out is
badly needed
Heroes Of peace as well as Of war
deserve honor on Memorial Day.
What could be more fitting than to
remember the great company of
workers with hand and brain whose
lives have contributed to the upbuild-
ing of this nation?
Surely they deserve tribute, wheth-
er they died at their tasks as the
result of accident, were cut off before
their time as the result of gruelling
toll or died a so-called natural death.
In any event, these men and women
were heroes of peace and contributed
as much or more to the national well
fare as the heroes of war
They were the millions who, "hum-
BILE and nameless, the straight, hard
pathway plod" in every generation
and a grateful nation would honor
itself by paying them tributes.
The sit-down strike is foolish and
Illegal"
An attorney for the National La
Dor Relations Board said this and
thereby surprised a lot of people.
Lawrence Hunt was the attorney
and he was arguing before a federal
court in Illinois.
American Federation of Labor con-
demned the sit-down strike when the
fad was in its heyday more than a
year ago.
Sit-down is boomerang that harms
labor more that it helps it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.-The man
who waves the flags for the 500-mile
race believes his hands will be buster
than ever this Decoration Day.
Seth Klein is closer to the race
cars than any official at the Indianap-
oils Motor Speedway. Watch him
lean far over his platform 90 feet
above the track, directly at the start
ing line. His flags nearly brush the
top of the drivers head, yet Klein
has the knack of futtering the BAN
ners so they can't be missed by the
driver and yet don't distract his at
tention from the track, or impede his
view.
Klein has been the official starter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27

Lots more could be said against it
but this sums up the Indictment.
Far seeing persons saw early in
1887 that the sit-down would cause a
bad reaction and that it couldn't last.
They were laughed at for their
prediction.
The sit-down soon began to fade
from the industrial picture, vindicat-
ing the prediction it was on the way
out.
Now little is heard of it and where
it is still tried, it proves an unmit-
igated nuisance to those who fos-
tered it in the beginning.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-27

"The compulsory publication Of
(union) officers salaries and expense
accounts would have a good deal to
recommend it if the provisions were
also applied to the officers Of trade
associations, citizens committees,
and back to work associations.
Employers associations are not
themselves incorporated.
You might gather from this last
sentence that the public affairs COM
mittee is strongly opposed to the
compulsory incorporation Of unions.
1t is. And perhaps the best brief
summary Of the pamphlets conclu-
sions on labor issues to date is the
following paragraph:
eThe elimination of employer
controlled unions, the exposure Of la
Dor spying, the outlawry Of the vel
low-dog contract, the publicity given
to physical brutality of some employ
ers, agents toward union organizers or
sympathizers and the elimination
of blacklisting and firing for union
activities have removed important
obstacles to the growth of unions"