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The Washington times., 1938-04-14
NeuU York Fences Jaywalkers

NEW YORK, April IA GN.S0 .
Times Square, parade ground OF
the Sophisticates and the tourist,
went slightly rustic today.
Right down the middle Of the
roadway which is a combination
of Broadway and Seventh Avenue
for distance of three blocks. went
q picket fence-not to support
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rambler roses or to keep chickens
out. but to discourage jaywalkers
from risking their necks.
The fence. to be four feet high
and painted black and white, was
being erected by the WPA under
direction Of the engineering divi-
sion of the police department.
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dispenser in
w q S hingto1
was q bl e To
write a story
t h a t the
President had
aroused the
v. P. by twit-
ting the con-
gres 10 nal
leadership fo-
lie t in & the
A d m | niStra-
ton be de-
feated on the
r e org a n l.
&ation bill.
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County Civic Group
To Meet Tonight

The Prince Georges Municipal
Association Will hold its regular
monthly meeting today at 8 p. m.
in the fire house at BladenSburg,
it was announced yesterday by
Carroll Beatty, secretary.
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LegiOnnaire Wins
Membership Prize

A plaque. and a cash prize of $40
will be presented to John Carr at
the May meeting of the Vincent
B. Costello Post, No. IS, American
Legion, for bringing in the most
new members.
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MORE HEADLINES:

NA April Il, 1937-New Fed
eral Cost Study Is Ordered by
President to Meet revenue Fail
ure Sharp Cuts asked
Relief Figures Delayed -: Pres
ident Awaits Final Data on 1898
Needs Congress Move for
Aid Slashes Grows.
April Is, 1937-Roosevelt Con-
fers With His Fiscal Aides for
Message on Relief and Recast
Budget.
April 20, 1937-Roosevelt to
Ask Congress for $500, 000, 900
for Relief With No Increase in
Taxes. President Bars Leaders
Plan to Pare Sum to 81, 000, 000,-
900. Deficit Over $4,000, 000,-
900.
October %, 1937-President
Delays Revision of Taxes. =.
Thinks Relief Fund Ample.
October 80, 1937-PreSident
Silent on Tax Reductions, Cites
Low Paid. Says 80 to 40 Mil
lions Living on SubStandard In
comes Are Neglected in Reports.
November II, 1937-Morgen.
thau Asks Business to Help
Balance the Budget, Roosevelt
in Housing Drive Tax Aid
Pledged Treasury Head
Predicts Cut in Spending to
Spur Enterprise.
November is, 193T-PreSident
Asks Aid in Listing JoblesS.
SSVTlHE first and most impor-
Il tant and neceSsitouS step
in balancing our Federal budget
is to reduce expenses. Prank
lin D. Roosevelt, October 10,
1892.
If printing the pump" with
$4,000, 200, 900 in five years has
not produced lasting results,
what. then, is the sense Of pour
ing another four billions into
the pump? Russia tried
printing the pump" and went
bust. So did Germany. SO did
italy. So did France. The Brit
ish did a lot Of printing and
almost went bust in 1881.
This very day, televiSlon is
hanging fire-waiting. The air
conditioning industry Is waiting.
Acknowledging may revolution
ize our construction industry,
but this too-Waiting. The indus
try providing for frosted foods,
which may extend the farmers
season, provide greater traffic
for transport services, is hang
ing fire-Waiting.
Waiting for Mr.. Roosevelt to
eliminate, once and for all, the
general fear that a Socialist
State may be in the offing or
the profit system may be even
tually abolished.
The automobile industry grew
because it began in the days
when people knew it was safe to
make a long:range investment
on a gamble that they would
get a return on the money on
which they took a chance. The
same thing happened with the
radio industry.
When "Cjssie" Patterson said,
Its fear of you. Mr.. President"
no truer word was spoken. Great
industries are waiting for financ-
ing to employ hundreds Of thou
sands of Americans. But fear Of
Roosevelt boys them down.
Instead of printing the pump"
again, let Mr.. Roosevelt remove
the causes of the fear"
Copyright Ledger Syndicate
(Bodke Carriers opinions are
his cum and are not necessarily
those of the Washington TimeSJ
The Washington times., 1938-04-14
Widows Protest

THE old babaSSu oil is being
L laid thickly for the $1,000
900 appropriation to build
another Navy dirigible. Frank
Getty, top-notch publicity man,
has been retained by the only
American firm building these
ships. He has released an ex-
cellent brochure for Chairman
Walsh, Of the Senate Navy Com
mittee. Remnants Of the
lighter-than-air coterie in the
Navy have been teStifying be-
fore Walsh's committee, to
whoop the appropriation across.
The most important evidence,
however, will be heard in Con-
gress. Listen:
please accept my thanks for
your article, 'Dirigible Crash Be
ing Arranged being an
Akron widow, left with two chill.
dren and a poSthumous baby, I
am in a position to realize fully
what a crash means. When I
read Of the thousands and mil
lions Of dollars appropriated for
such things I feel the unfairneSs
of it. =
&c. The desperate fight we
Akron widows made to have
our monthly pensions increased
from $22 a month. the made
quate amount Of $11 q month
for the first child. 50 a month
for the second. SO a month
for the third. and all the
children's pensions stop at the
age of 10. all this makes me
resentful. The comparisons be-
tween my monthly Government
check of $4S and the millions
to be wasted is something to
think about.
People in general don't see
the personal angle and the Gov
ernment'S reaction on the part
of the families who are left.
That is where the heartache
comes in"
THIS testimony comes, as the
l. text implies, from the widow
of a Navy hero who died in the
line of duty in the last Navy
dirigible crash. Perhaps an
amendment to the appropriation
will be offered in the Senate to
care properly for those who are
still suffering from the last
dirigible experimenting, before
another is attempted.
If not, an amendment would
certainly be in order making the
Congressman who vote for these
collapSible ships personally re-
Sponsible for caring for the fam
lilies of the survivors. In equity
they are probably subject to in
dictment for manSlaughter in
view of the unbroken record Of
failure and lives lost.
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GARNER-ROOSEVELT
RIFT EXPLAINED
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
By PAUL MALLON

wd Rights Reserved
GONE little birds in the White House at the Capitol
~ always be telling what goes between the Pres
dent and the Vice President lately the birds have not been
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trialist can all sit back and en-
joy the company of the ledgers.
They are in the black. That is
where we want them to be
that is where we intend them
to be in the FUTURE. Business
didn't get out of the ditch by
itself. It was hauled out by your
Cove rnment." Franklin D.
Roosevelt, at Chicago.
October IL, 1861 tell you,
and you will agree, that we are
around the corner. Private en-
ployment is picking up. That
means that Government ex-
penditures for work and for the
unemployed are coming DOWN. !"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, at
Denver, Col.
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telling the same story.
For instance, after the set.to
this week between Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Garner, many q news
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Says BOGke Garter
HEADLINE:

HEADLINE:
IL April 8, 1e38-Roosevelt
to spend $500, 000, 000-Double-
Barreled Attack Planned on Re
cesSion Public Works To Be
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Revived ,
New Loans to
Cit les and
States Will
Be Made at
Nominal or
No interest.
October IA,
To-day
for the first
time in seven
y ca RS the
banker, the
S t o rekeeper,
the small fac
tory owner,
&hA - n nc
The Washington times., 1938-04-14
TEMPER PRICE HIGH

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April IA
U.N.SO.-Robert Lee Wright,
Pittsburgh, was sentenced 70 a life
prison term because he became
offended and fatally shot Lucille
Morris when she attempted to re-
pay a dime she borrowed from
him.
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Garner Denies 1t

" ton was not inconSider-
able. The President had in mind
an excellent column written the
preceding Wednesday april g.
by Arthur Krock, Of the New
York Times.
Mr.. Krock related that at the
preceding Roosevelt Garner con-
ference, Mr.. Garner had urged
the President to "give the cattle
Ii. e., buSineSS) q chance to put
on fat" and to "stop chivvying
them around."-A homely but
significant metaphor Of the cow
country.
Garner replied he had not
seen Krock in q year, he did
not talk out Of school to news
papermen, he paid no attention
to what was said about him in
the papers.
Then Mr.. Garner got down to
the real business of the meet
ing, which was the proposed La
Guardia- Berle- Tugwell plan to
throw around 1900, 900, 900 in
public works projects. Mr.. Gar
ner,s fist hit the taA hard,
more like Beau Dempsey than
Brummell.
He said if the President ever
put a proposition like that up
to Congress he would be de-
feated, that the recommendation
would be emasculated by con-
gresSional restrictions, that it
was no good any way.
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WEAKNESS Seen IS, C, FILIBUSTER
IN CIVIL SERVICE LASTS 20 HOURS

Civil Service mechanism in the
United States has become a
ritual" rather than a merit sys-
tenn.
Prof. Harold J. LaSki, Of the
London School OF Economics, made
this assertion last night at a
roundtable discussion at George
Washington University.
The British civil service system
has worked efficiently, said DR..
Laski. steadily supplying the var.
ious ministerial offices with com.
petent workers.
DR.. LaSki said he doubted
whether Government service in
the United States has attracted
as able men and women as in
Great Britain. He stressed the i'm.
portance of setting up high en-
trance standards for civil service
employees.
UrrE r0p auEERAcE ApRu "a
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Others Agreed

Others Agreed
MR.. GARNER was not alone
WA in this judgment. Opinions
Of the other less outSpoken lead
erS present were along the same
line. Likewise, it appears Beau
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ADVERTISER EMIT
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1898
PHILANTHROPY VS.. WAGES

A plan is being put into effect in
Brooklyn whereby any and every ex-
pectant mother in that borough may
receive full medical attendtion,
whether she can pay for it or not.
Stats Of 40 public and private hospi-
tails will grant consultation in all
cases, unless the doctor who asks the
consultation certifes that the family
is able to pay
The plan is expected to save the
lives of many mothers and babies
but why? Partly because it IS a blow
at the too great ignorance on this
subject everywhere But more be-
cause it puts at the disposal of thou
sands of families care which under
present conditions they cannot pay
for
~ ~ oile iliOAG IitSldIiI6 OI lHe way
health and life itself is tied up with
income Poverty is the deadliest di-
sease in our so-called civilized world;
and almost as fatal to mothers as
to babies. We have exact and compre-
hensive figures showing that in pro
portion to numbers, three times as
many unskilled laborers as profes-
sional men dies Of tuberculosis and
seven times as many die of pneu-
monia No such unanswerable fig
ures are available on deaths in Civ
ing birth to children; but every phys
ian and social worker knows that the
Slant is in the same direction.
Yet the Brooklyn plan, fine as it is,
IS only one more makeshift substi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13

New York has had it for years, for
the benefit of the unemployed.
Imposed as an emergency measure,
the tax has lasted because the emer-
gency has lasted.
Emergency has been and still is,
the excuse for continuing lot of
unpopular things.
Looks as if the sales tax had ere
ated an emergency" calling for labor
action
Certainly if labor doesn't want the
sales tax, it had better bestir itself
Because the sales tax is gaining
make no mistake about it.
AS said before, it is coming in by
the back and side doors, creeping in
whenever it sees chance.
Something like the federal judiciary
which Thomas Jefferson said was al
ways on the march to take in more
territory, or words to that effect.
So the sales tax, going under diff
ferent names, seeks to enlarge its
power and dominions and dig its hanc
deeper and deeper into the pockets OF
the people.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
UNMAskING THE EXCHANGE

The security and exchange commits
sion investigation of the Richard
Whitney fiasco is stripping all pre-
tense Of high-minded honor from the
New York Stock Exchange. Member
after member is shown to have known
of Whitney's double dealing; and not
one Of them did anything about it.
The final touch in this exposure was
given, appropriately enough, BY J. P.
Morgan.
Did you give any consideration at
all to your responsibilities toward the
exchange in this matter 2" asked the
counsel for the SEC.
No, none at all, said Mr.. Nor
gan.
If he cared nothing for his respon-
sibilities to his fellows on the ex-
change, how much do YOU fancy he
cares for his responsibilities to the
public? That question wasn't ask
ed; but Nj Morgan in another con-
nection, went far toward furnishing
the answer:
Every mans money said Mr.
Morgan on the stand, is entirely at
his own disposal
Most Of Us have been taught that
wealth, like other forms Of power
involves duties and responsibilities
Not Mr.. Morgan. He openly says he
can do what he pleases with his owr
money and he sat by silent while
Whitney did as he pleased with Other
peoples money. The curbing Of that
biggest of gambling houses has gone
a long ways in the last five years
But it has a longer way still to go.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
HIGHER INCOME
Reported From Beer-LiquOr
Tax

A report issued today reveals a
higher income from the profits and
gallonage tax on liquor oceasioned by
the relentless activities of the depart
ment of liquor control enforcement
division resulted in gain of per
cent in the number of aged persons
in Butler county receiving aid for
January, 1888, over January, 1886
The total distribution of checks in
Butler county for January, 1888, was
S31 ,470.35 Two years ago in January
the total amount paid aged recipients
in this county was S18,344.00
Last month, April, aid payments in
Butler county totaled $34,129.30.
Butler county received a total OF
S74,373.63 in 1887 of permit fees re-
turned to the municipalities and town
ships from funds paid to the liquor
control department by license holders
of beer and liquor permits, statistics
show. The distribution was as fol.
lows: Fairfield township, $4,000
Hanover, S65ooo; Lemon, $1,300.00
Liberty, $4,000; Monson, s105.oo
Milford, $4,000; Morgan, $500; Ok.
ford, $4,000; Reilly, $4,000; Ross
S755.oo; Union, $4,000; ST. Clair
S205.o0; Villages and cities: College
Corner, $4,000; Hamilton, $41,020.27
Jacksonburg $4,000; Middletown
So, 1886; Millville, $1,200.00; New
Maimi, $7o5.o0; Monroe, S405.o0; Ok
ford, $55000; Someryille, $4,000, an,
Trenton, $4,000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
BICYCLE RACES
FOR HAMILTON BOYS

The Hamilton Y. M. c. A. and the
Y-Indus Club will sponsor bicycle
races for boys 16 years old or under
at the Butler county fairgrounds,
Tuesday night, May II. Boys between
13 and 16 will form the senior dlvi-
sion, and those under 13 the junior
division.
Leigh Strategier, chairman OF the
committee, announced the following
events for seniors: The 100-yard dash,
220-yard dash, one-quarter-m run,
-half-mile run, one-half-mile re-
lay, and trick riding. Events for jun
iors will be 75-yard dash, 1OO-yard
dash, quarter run, one-haif-
mile relay, and trick riding.
Prizes will be awarded for first,
second, and third places in each event,
and trophy will be awarded to the
club with the most points.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
Special Names for Beds
Used by England, France

Elaborate beds in both England
and France we're known by special
names. One was called the Eng
land Bed" because the arms of
England were superbly embroidered
upon its curtains of violet velvet
and cloth of gold The "Great Bed
of Ware was widely famed for it's
size, accommodating II persons on
its ample mattress. EliZabethan
and Tudor beds carried on the ira
dition of formal grandeur and were
resplendent with richly carved
headboards and carved columns ex-
panding into bulbs of huge proper
tions in addition to carved terminal
figures of men and women and an
gels at the side of the headboard
outlined against curtains of luxuri-
Gus quality.
At the end of the Sixteenth cen
tury, according to a writer in the
New York Sun, it seemed that ex-
travagance in ornamented structure
had gone as far as it should and in
the Seventeenth century, decorative
ly speaking, there was breathing
spell for the wood carver. Bed
heads were shaped of graceful, ir-
regular curved lines, the frame
posts and cornice made of any
available wood, but they were COW
cred completely with magnificent
embroideries and handsome woven
textiles such as Genoese velvet, ap-
pliqued or embroidered wool and
silk rep and later damask. Scrolls
and gadroon borders were con-
structed in wood and covered with
skill by the upholsterer who had
reached heights of supreme excel
lence not since surpassed. The in
conspicuous framework was can
opied and supported on four slen-
der posts usually covered with the
material and sometimes they were
unobtrusively carved or painted.
The mass of embroidered detail
appeared on the headboard and the
finest examples were as elaborate
and required as great skill as did
carved wood ornament Fabulous
sums were invested in them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
Mall Structures
AT New York Fair
To Break Records

NEW YORK (Special1 Not only will
the New York Worlds Fair 1889 be the
largest exposition in history, but it will
have the most luxurious Central Mall
ever designed a mile-long walk to cost
S60000000 GroversA Whalen, president
Of the Fair corporation, announces.
And, not only will the Mall be the most
magnificent ever laid out, but it viii con-
tain a number of other 'largests' '-struc-
lures and works of art that have never
been surpassed for size or elegance, he
added
In addition to the Trylon, tallest tri
angular spire ever raised, and the Peri
sphere, largest ball ever made by man.
kind, the Mall will form a setting for the
largest portrait statue fashioned since
the Egyptians heWed the likeness OF
Rameses II from rock in the land of the
Nile 1t will portray George Washington
as he arrived for his inauguration exact.
ly $50 years previous to the opening day
of the Fair 1t will be So feet tall and its
mass will be more than 500 times that Of
an average siX-foot man.
The tallest sundial ever erected, sup.
ported by a life-size tree sculptured By
the celebrated Paul Manship, will actual.
ly tell time for Fair visitors, for the nu
merals denoting the hours of the day vii
be set in a huge, circular plot where tht
sundials shadow will fall from SO fee
above
More than million plants and a thou
sand trees will be used in landscaping the
Mall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

The report also notes that from 1914
to 1929, railroads in the United States
tended to operate larger number of
ton-miles with ever smaller tonnages
of locomotive fuel; while from 1904
to 1929, blast furnaces, steel works
and rolling mills were steadily OBJ
tanning larger sum of output with
a lesser consumption of coal and coke.
.In short it says, 'the average
fuel efficiency of industrial manufac-
turing and railroad transportation had
risen between 1909 and 1929 by ap-
proximately 33 per cent
As regards Great Britain, the re-
port cites particularly the fuel econ
omies achieved in electricity and gas
undertakings, blast furnaces Gron and
steeD and railway transportation
Bewteen 1913 and 1880, it says,
fuel efficiency in blast furnaces in
NIedt billdiH iHCIedSeu dliiloSt ~ PEI
cent, and during the last six years
alone more than II per cent; and il
cites important economies in fuel con-
sumption by steam railways.
As regards Japan, the report notes
a considerable advancement in fuel
economies in recent years. 1t points
out, for example, that coal consump-
tian at a steam-power plant was re-
duced by one-third between -914 and
1882; and that between 1920 and 1922
consumption Of fuel by railway loco
motives showed saving of about
40 per cent. A similar saving in fuel
consumption in the steel industry alsc
is noted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
IMPuDENT SUGGESTING

Lewis Gilbert, minority stock
holder of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration, put Charlie Schwab on
hot spot at the annual meeting held
at Wilmington, Delaware. recently
Mr.. Gilbert fearlessly approached the
mighty steel master and suggested
that Mr.. Schwab, who has amassed
an immense fortune and world-fame
as the first big executive to receive
salary Of $1,000,000 a year, serve
without pay during the depression.
Charles grew splutteringly indignant
and squelched all the dissenters.
Here is a new idea and it will doubt
less enbarrass many stuffed shirts in
the days to come. Some people who
like the idea of wage reductions have
never before been told that a good
place to start the slash would be on
all salaries over $4,000 year. Vol
untary action Of that sort would indi-
cate good faith in the movement.
Hundred thousand dollar men feel the
pinch of poverty if they are reduced
dime below that figure, if one may
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13

The sales tax, it seems, is always
with us.
Pronounced dead many times, it is
in reality very much alive and -four
ishing in various guises.
A general national sales tax has
thus far been successfully opposed
by labor and other forces. But the
sales tax idea has sneaked in piece
meal by back and side doors and an
nually takes an enormous toll Of money
from the masses.
Special sales taxes do the dirty
work
These special sales taxes include
federal taxes on lubricating oil, cigar
ettes, theatre tickets and other
things, all over the nation.
Aside from these, some % states
have sales taxes on many kinds Of
products, including food and other
IleIeN9lli1S III SOME states.
The gasoline tax is universal and
has been 50 long with US people take
it as a matter Of course and never
think Of it as a sales tax
But a sales tax it is, ard howl
Then there are other taxes, mostly
Of the state species, punitive and reg
ulatory, and which add to the wage
ealners' burden.
Such as the heavy tax on chain
stores, often frankly discriminatory
and regulatory, though with an alleged
social purpose.
Taxes Of this kind, akin to the sales
tax, tend to increase the cost of. liv-
ing and hit employment, much Of it
growing union employment.
Labor is beginning to look askance
at this kind of taxation, as a survey
lby the Florida Federation Of Labor is
i revealing.
The survey is indicating that the
tax worm is beginning to turn
! Philadelphia is the scene of one Of
| the outright revolts against the sales
/ tax.
A general sales tax has recently
gone into effect there and the people
don't like it.
Before it became a law, there were
big popular demonstrations against
it. But the city council put it across
Agitation against the tax is continu
ing, with the Philadelphia Record tax
ing leading part in the fight tx
end it,
Other cities have the sales tax.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13

tute for satisfactory distribution
Of national income and the greatest
single aids in getting national income
distributed properly are high and
steady wages. When all men have a
truly living wage living for them
selves and their families, there Will
be a rise in health and lengthening
Of life that no philanthropies can
bring.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13

Union, A. F. of L., was quickly fol-
lowed by individual settlements be-
tween large majority of the city's
van companies and the union. The
strike affected 1900 men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-05-13
WISDOM

Deeds are better things that words
are,
Actions mightier than boastings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow