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The Washington times., 1938-03-17
Chides Picketers

The other day the police ar
rested two score persons for
demonstrating and picketing
in front of the German EN-
bassy and the Austrian Lega-
ton in protest against NaN IN
tervention in Austria.
OF this group all but q half
The Washington times., 1938-03-17
Maniac Killing Upheld

AS q WeSterner temporarily
in your city, I cannot help but
comment on what seems to me
a most Scandalous state of at-
fairs here. The terrible uproar
over the shooting of a madman
by police possibly just in time
to prevent his Eilling several in
nocent people while wildly rush.
ing around the city streets with
a butcher knife slaShing at ran
dom, and setting houses on fire,
seems uncalled for.
I for one thank God that !.
who was driving my car along
this very street a few hours be-
fore this maniac rushed out yell
ing and brandishing his knife,
was not his victim, as certainly
could have been, along with my
younger son.
In contrast to this uproar by
members Of this mans race, the
white residents of D. c. make no
protest against the horrible dis
closure that a poor insane man
thrown into a filthy cold
dungeon without even a chair
to sit on-and in desperation,
knotted his pajama sleeve about
his throat and ended his misery!
Why such a poor miserable
creature as this man who was
twice in a D. C. hospital for men,
tai observation was allowed to
languiSh six months in Jail be-
fore being tried for forging a
check, is more than one can un-
derstand. w. J. c.
The Washington times., 1938-03-17
The Inquirine
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION
THE ANSWERS

What was your first job and
how much we're you paid?
The Washington times., 1938-03-17

Miss Alene Porter, 1921 K st.
N. W., nurse:
zone day walked into a de-
The Washington times., 1938-03-17

Mrs. Mildred B. Peterson, 725
Emerson st. N. W., telephone
company emploYe:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
It's NO Fun For Hines Trial Witnesses
 When St7ykeY LayS DOzgm Verbal Ba2Yage

Geoghan, whose removal had been demanded by an extraordinary grand jury on charges growing out of the notorious Drukman murder case. Geoghan was charged with failure to establish motive for the killing an. failure to produce and interrogate important witnesses, with having permitted the return of valuable evil dence to three men who were later convicted of the murder by special prosecutor, with consorting with known underworld characters.
 Tn August of that year, Governor Lehman began an open hearing on the charges. Stryker, as defense counsel, attacked the prosecutor, called the star witness "crazy" and "psychopathic." made wild charges against the newspaper which had pressed for an investigation of the Drukman murder. But he also destroyed the, charges against Geoghan one by one, lured the states star witness into making the ridiculous assertion that everybody was a liar except he, and won an exoneration for his client, who holds office to this day.
 i Stryker destruction of the star witness in that case is now car ried as an example in lawyers textbook called ''The Art of Cross- Examination"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
RUDOLPH CHOICE OF LOCAL s. wv.
Formal Election as Com- mander Expected at
 Meeting on Sept P

Charles H. Rudolph will be elected commander of Emerson H. Liscum camp, United Spanish-American War Veterans, at a meeting Septem- Der 9. He was nominated for the post at a meeting in the armory last night.
 Other nominees are: Senior vice. commander, Edward Schielke, of Naugatuck; junior vice-commander, Benjamin Fenn; officer of the day, Henry G. Wagner; officer of the guard, Florent Gasser; trustee for three years, retiring commander Frank Kolet.
 The annual inspection of the camps auxiliary, Davenport camp, will be held Sept. %. Charles Bunel of Norfolk, department junior vice-commander spoke at last nights meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Stenninp stones.

Stepping stones. . . Fred Stone observes fifty years on the stage this week These years have been taken up with dancing comedy, and straight drama roles the dancing and comedy occupying the majority of hS years on the stage Of late he has sde-sepped into roles Wt- out musical comedy or light opera or extravaganza background In his dancing Stone started out with Montgomery and the two perfect team one per feet foil for the other in their unique acrobatc steps,
 such as were introduced into The Wizard of Oz and other early extravaganzas They stunt men, who not only carried the show along with their dancing and acrobacs but also with their refreshing comedy Stone usually made spectacular entrance, out of the air. or popping suddenly behind stage property such as load of hay with the pan expressing dumb wonder. Stone later went in for the popular step dancing Of the day and the very popular tap which has kept him going almost to the present day. His first tendency to slip in the matter of tapping was after an airpane accident
 down Saybrook (Conn.) way. Up until that time and aS each of the little Stone girls stepped forth he kept
 pace with youth Perhaps one of the greatest hands ever given actor when he first tapped 1t off with his daughter, Miss Dorothy Stone. They opened in New Haven Stone knew all the tap steps then designed for steppers and as he danced out pattern of intricate design his daughter followed him step by step Now and then his eyes followed her with concern but at the end of their first big dance number the house burst into pon
 taneous applause Though handicapped somewhat after his arpane bustup, Stone showed that he could still dance In subsequent shows not in the sure way as in former years but he could still show us few tricks in the art of stepdancing. This Fred Stone has crashed the "summer' theater field, playing Frank Bacon's familiar role in "Lightnin'" His performances went over big in the sticks he is about to appear
 in New York City in the title role of Bill Lghtnin in the colossal hit of yesteryear Lghtnn" We venture to say he will step into that part neatly he did that of the in "The Wizard of Oz" years and years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Today's Answers so
 cRANIUM CRACKERS
Questions on the Comic Page

No. 1 watch gained 2 minutes every hour; No. 9 watch lost min utes every hour; so No 1 watch is s minutes ahead of No. 2 eevry 62 minutes by watch No. l.
 At 10 a. m. today No. 1 watch is 90 minutes ahead of No. 2, so we divide 90 by to see how many 62-minute stretches the watches ran. Ninety divided by 5 equals IS stretches, which were each 62 min- utes long Eighteen times 62 equals 1l16 minutes, or IS hours and 36 minutes.
 From 10 a. m. back to midnight is 10 hours. Ten hours from IS hours and 36 minutes equals hours and 36 minutes before midnight last night, or 3:24 p. m. yester- day, when the watches were set and started,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

Odd and interesting facts Four sealed bottles cast adr by members of the of the schooner Fife M Morrissey in 1886 have been picked up this year in Norway One travelled 4,100 miles; the others, $500 past summer Magistrate Joseph Mcdonald sat on the bench to hear reckless driving His son, John prosecutor; another son, Ronald, defense counsel Decision was reserved The First Temperance Society in the United States is the claim of "The Guardian Society for Preventing Drunkenness at London Grove Pa Europe's largest electric power station is being built under mountain at Lake Garda, Italy. Charles F Cannon, 85 of Seaford Delaware, has just had his first haircut by barber. As boy and young his mother did the trimming. After he married his wife continued the custom
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
BY PAUL ROSS

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 New York, Sept. 0.-When Lloyd Paul Stryker gets up and struts for ward to begin cross-examination of a state witness in the numbers racket trial of Jimmy Hines here, hush descends on the silent court room. If you're 8 spectator, you feel sorry for the witness. If you're a witness, you feel sorry for yourself
 For Lloyd Paul Stryker acts ex- actly like what he is one of the sharpest, cagiest, most terri flying trial lawyers in America Pulverizing a witness is his bust ness and he approaches his task with the manner of coast de- fense gun rearing to let go a 16-inch shell.
 He glances around the court room with his small, pale-blue close-set eyes as If to see if the field is clear. Then he throws the witness a look of incredible contempt.
 Next, he puts his hand on his well-clothed hips and swaggers back and forth across the well ot the court.
 His bull neck grows red. His close-cropped grey hair seems tc stand on end.
 MT. So-and-so" he booms at the witness from a distance.
 The barrage is on.
 Defending Jimmy Hines is the big gest case Lloyd Paul Stryker has had. But 1t is not the only one that made the front pages day after day and set New York seething. In 1885 there was the three -ring circus of g relief investigation he staged witt the taxpayers money and the hosan. mas of Tammany. Tn 1886, there was his brilliant success in saving District Attorney William P. x Geoghan from the peoples wrath. Lloyd Paul Stryker was born 5; years ago in Chicago. His father was for 25 years president of Hamil. ton College. Young Stryker gradual. ed from there in 1906, joined tht staff of crusading District Attorney Charles s. Whitman in 1909, married the niece of a supreme court justice in 1910, resigned from Whitmant staff in 1912 and joined the defense in the spectacular murder trial o1 Police Lieutenant Charles Becker.
 He saw service in France during the World war, returning cap tain of field artillery. He became general counsel for the Medical So. ciety of New York State. serving that body until 1880 and winning 97 pel cent of the 200 cases he tried. IT 1929, he published a book, Andrew Johnson A Study in Courage, and later a book on the legal as. poets of medicine called Courts and Doctors"
 Stryker became a campaign speaker for Joseph V. McKee's Tam many-dominated, short-lived "Re- covery Party" in 1883. Fusion was backing Republican Fiorello H. La Guardia for mayor. Stryker attacked La Guardia as one who was trying to destroy American capitalism. La- Guardia won that election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

The year 1885 was a big one in the life of Stryker. Tammany eager to embarrass the Fusion admin istration of the city, launched an in- vestigation of the relief set-up through its puppet board of alder ment. Stryker was engaged as coun- sel. He turned the investigation into a Roman holiday.
 His agents entered a certain re- lief office and took certain docu- ments jn a manner that a Tam many bigshot had to condemn as "OGPU." He put men and women on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
How true.

How true Early September will be cool and summer seems to have been chopped off. People VIII say 1t looks like early fall Premature 1rosts are threatened Yet there will be long hot wave dur ing the month, probably in the second week " The first part is true summer is indeed chopped off short and abrupt. But if F. P. Latimer of the Hartford
 Times prognosticates as correctly for this month as he did the prior August and July we'll still be able to oxcIam in disgusted tone, "Aint it hOt!".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
A TIsKET, A TAsKET
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Over the hill to the schoolhouse, Maudie and Ruth and May, Swinging a tisket, tasket
 Which at recess they play. Brown and flaxen-haired youngsters With curls manufactured and req, Swing gaily along the way
 Before the bell starts to peal Shirley Temples and,Jane Witherses, Outftted right cute and smart Swing a tisket, tasket
 And ready to take their part In addition, subtraction and division, Geography, history and grammar, Reading at first somewhat slow With a slight self-conscious stammer Johnny and Jimmy and Bill, Algernon, Percy and Paul, Swing a tisket, a tasket
 Before they file into the school hall. Over the hill to the schoolhouse, dwendolyn, Alice and Kate Swing a tisket, tasket
 C'mon kids, we'll be late
 FEM EM,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

the stand and ground them down He shattered regulations. He scat tered innuendos. But in the end the investigation did some good. Il helped to bring about a centraliza- tion in the administration of relief helped to put relief investigators in- to the civil service, helped to elim- mate chiseling.
 Tn 1886, Stryker increased his pro- fessional stature by his masterful de- fense of Brooklyn's Tammany Dis trict Attorney William F. x
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Chairman

Dr. John H. Frency, chairma of the disqualification commits of the Irish American Social clt will explain the hospitalizatit group insurance plan at 8 ineetir tonight in Canadian Legion ha George T. Ryan will preside at regular meeting, which will followed by . social program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Camera Club

Frank Calvo was elected presi- dent of the newlyy organized Chap py Camera club at a meeting We'd nesday night. Maurice Harmon was named vice president; Edward Teardo, secretary; John Harmon, treasurer; and William Currey, cor responding secretary. Others pres-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

how important 1t can be to young man just starting out. Business opportunities and chances for extra work go to the man who can be reached most quickly"
 Manager King Agrees
 Said c. F. King, Saybrook telephone man. sger. "MOst families find it difficult to decide who benefits most from the tele- phone. But they do agree that it's bar. gain. For further information about tele- phone service for your home, just call your local telephone business office, or ask any telephone employee" The Southern New England Telephone Company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Kitchener Post

Lord Kitchener post, British War Veterans, will sponsor an outing Sunday in Naugatuck, according to plans made last night at a meeting. The auxiliary will also take part.
 John McKenna and Mrs. Helen Brown head the committee on ar- engagements. The post will be repre- sented ct the Canadian Legion functions tomorrow at The Elton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

45 miles long. Many are the "Ohs" and "ahs" heard when the huge Douglas DC4 airliner rolls onto air-ieId. Built to accommodate 42 passengers this airpIane. They stand feet inches and contain 45 miles of cord tire They built at the R. F. Good rich plant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
AnsrUers To.
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
 i. The Prairie State. 9. To explore the territory west of the Mississippi River. 3. Alice Marble. {. Department of Com merce.
 $. University of Colorado. 6. 1881.
 '. South America. 6. Twice.
 Q. Five years. 10. Black Sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

One-hundred-year-old Alexandra Popova addressed 1000 housewives at an election meeting in Moscow, Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

'Now can talk with father and mother every day." she explained. land it's almost as pleasant and friendly as though they were living next door. Also, the telephone makes 1t easy to keep in touch with new aequaintanees and neighbors, as we'll as cid friends. We've been included in many informal parties, just because we could be % easily reached"
 Husband Explains Reasons
 Her husband. however, refused to take credit for his generosity. 'I wanted tele. phone in the house as much for myself as for my wife" ]" be insisted. 'because know
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

ent were J. Lambert, Peter Teardo and Alfred Benevento.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

An attic gives up it's past Nothing is more pro- ductvc of results than bit of rumaging through an attic. You'll pick up old papers and the first thing you fifty years ago and longer Labor Day souvenir pro- gram of 1901 comes to light. It was issued in Glen Park, Watert0wn N. Y. One of it's outstanding adver- tiseents was that of the Watertown Carriage Co., the oldest carriage builders in the state and advertising the "best carriages in the world for the mOney",,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

St. Swithin boomerang When St. Swithin poured down his tears last July IS, there much merr ment in official weather prognostcating circles, as the meteoroogss prepared to show by the cold figures how this old wives tale had real foundation in fact You recall well what followed. As the scenarst says "Then came the deluge" It did indeed What were those fig ures for the official 40-day Swthn period? In the elapsed quarantine there were 27 days on, which it rained If you'll think back of the eght-day rainfall beginning Monday July 18 you can find cause for mild
 inches of rain fell from July IS in the ensuing 40 days But here's another angle. From August 18 right down until September 7-Wednesday-we didn't get drop of rain in this section of the nation Which is just bad getting eight days of rain. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Wife's Mother Receives First Call
 From Newly Installed Telephone

SaybrOok Conn., Sept S-A bde monhs today voiced appreciation husbands telephone installed in their new home.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

society. The more facility we
have in the movement OF
thoughts, the better; but the
more facility in the movement OF
bodies, the worse. The automobile
is great help to the criminal;
but the telegraph, the telephone
and the radio are great helps IN
catching and circumventing him.
The bombing plane, through its
swift, unhindered transportation
of bodies, provides a horrible
weapon for the criminally-minded
nation-probably it would be bet
ter for mankind had the flying
machine never been created.
The welfare of mankind calls
for handicaps in the movement
of men, for men are not yet SUI
.ficiently developed spiritually to
be trusted with too much freedom
of movement. Probably that is
why the Almighty burdens man in
this sphere with a heavy flesh and
blood body which hampers him, as
"a wooden clog does a dangerous
or runabout dog.
Look at the recent evil effect
which the new-found freedom Of
movement of human bodies has
had on the welfare of mankind.
1t was the fear of Hitler's air
force, which could dart swiftly
over London and Paris and drop
destruction on the helpless citi-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
OLD FOLKS BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE

Back in the time and it was not long ago, when
eangster motion pictures were exceedingly popular
and stories of gang wars were featured by many
newspapers, some millions of Americans became
more or less familiar with the argot of gangland.
Ono of the expressions which came into general
use was that having to do with "being taken for a
ride The eangster who was taken for ride
raraIv returned under his own power, but usually
was hauled in to an undertaking establishment al
ter beine discovered dead in dying condition
ON some lonely road The meaning of the express
sion gradually has been broadened in common use;
nowadays. man is said to have been taken for a
ride when he has been deceived OF betrayed.
That definition of the term makes it applicable
70 a situation which has developed the nation
dur;no the last few years Millions of creduous
Americans are being taken for ride by promising
politicans Millions of persons past middle age are
being made the dupes of designing schemers
The Wichita Falls Times gives an idea, in a re-
cent editorial, of the extent to which various
anlansn for more and bigger old-age pensions are
snreadine over the nation. Here is the summary
Given bv the Times: "In California, the Democratic
nominee for senator is a supporter OF the $50
everv Thursday foolishness and the Republican gov
ernor nominated for reelection has Endorsed the
Townsend nlan. In Maine, the three Republican
nominees for congress have been Endorsed by the
Townsendites. In Minnesota, the Democratic NOM
inee for governor proposes $50 monthly pensions
for everybody of 60 or over. In Wisconsin, the
Democratic. Republican and Progressive nominees
are all in favor of much more liberal pensions In
Massachusetts,, the Democratic nominee for COVER
nor favors $40 monthly pensions for everybody 60
or over, while the Massachusetts, Republican plat
form supports the Townsend PLAN In Florida, the
Democratic nominee for senator has come out for
the Townsend plan"
1t is evident that advocacy of these wild pension
schemes is not by any means confined to politicians
of any one party. The opportunists in all parties
apparently believe that the way to get the votes of
aged persons and of individuals who help to sup
port aged persons is to cry for more pensions
bigger pensions The promises of the politicians
cannot be carried out of course The old folks are
being taken for ride, they themselves will dis
cover in due time.
To its list of states in which impossible pension
schemes are being urged The Times adds this:
There is one more state whose pension situation
should be mentioned. In Colorado, the voters will
vote next month on repeal of the $45 monthly law,
which has bankrupted the state treasury in spite
of excessive taxes" The experience of Colorado
should discourage other states from allowing them
selves to be taken on merry-go-round ride of
funny money and cockeyed economics. But will it
Texas Weekly
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
A STATISTICAL AGE

This is statistical age Millions of dollars are
spent annually to get information that is never
used. Farmers, business men, corporations and the
like are required to keep statistics and records that
are never worth the trouble and expense of gath
ering them.
more recent order to dispose of the taxpayers
money IN statewide real property survey under
taken by the WPA and sponsored by the North
Carolina State Planning Board The sum of $780,
9oo has been appropriated for this work and it is
supposed that all of the money is coming from the
Tree treasury in Washington.
The survey will provide data on the type and
construction of dwellings, their condition and age,
the presence or absence of plumbing and other
features of present day standard housing. 1t will
snow the number of persons who occupy these dwell
nngs' their age and race, the length of time they
nave hVed there, the number of roomers, etc.
We wonder if the information will be worth
SZO9,9OO. At least it will be worth that much to
the enumerators who get the jobs to do the work,
Dut IN 1910 we are to have our census taken and
why not wait until then and do both jobs at once
North Carolina is an average state. Multiply
Szoss00, the most of this survey by the 4S states
IN the Union and you get some idea as to the cost.
Senators Tydings, Bailey, George, Glass, Byrd and
others might be courageous enough to hint the cleo
ton is next week and it is not that the statistics
are SO valuable but jobs mean yotes.-Shelby Star