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Evening star., 1938-10-07
CIVIC UNIT URGES
TAX YIELD LIMIT
Connecticut Avenue Group
Would Prevent Deficit.
Lodge Is Speaker.

A District of Columbia appropria-
tion in 1910 to approximate the an
ticipated income from the present
aggregate taxation yield was approved
by the Connecticut Avenue Citizens
Association last night.
David Babp, author of the motion,
explained the action signified no ap-
proval of any rates or forms of taxa
ton. The action was declared an
attempt to prevent the District from
going in the red $10,000,000 or $15,-
100000.
Opposition was voiced to the ap-
pointment of any paid safety COM
mission or commissioner here, the
stand being taken that the director
of vehicles and traffic was paid
high salary for the maintenance of
traffic safety and should continue to
do so.
The association also approved a
motion which demanded that no
hearings be held on appeals for re-
Boning under three-year period unless
changes in the community so war
rant.
Urge Marijuana Vigilance.
Recent renewed reports that mari
1uana cigarettes were being sold here
moved the association to offer COM
plete support to authorities in at
tempting to discover any possible pos
session, sale or manufacture of the
drug. 1t was brought out that while
no evidence is available showing a
renewal of anti-narcotic law viola
tions, the danger is potential if not
actual
The Public Utilities Commission and
the Capital Transit Co. were asked
in a communication to correct alleged
defects in the service on the Con-
necticut avenue bus line. 1t was re-
quested that buses be started from
the Bureau of Standards at certain
periods all day to eliminate lack
of seats on buses travelling south of
that point, that operators be required
to announce every scheduled stop
and that the operators be cautioned
against abruptly starting and stopping.
Any increase in the gasoline tax
was opposed by the association.
A special committee to study and
report on safety within the associa-
ton territory will be appointed by
the president, it was made known.
Lodge Speaks on Taxes.
Thomas E. Lodge, former president
of the federation, who has received
Endorsements for appointment as Dis
trict of Columbia Commissioner, was
guest speaker at the meeting. Speak
ing on the local tax situation. Mr..
Lodge made several recommendations
to speed up collection.
A central tax information bureau
at the District Building, where citi-
Evening star., 1938-10-07

date Of payment and. in addition,
interest at 8 per cent on $3.50, 600
from the 1921 date to October 7, 1885,
was filed yesterday in District Court
against certain Government officials.
Represented by Attorney Stanley
Stydam, the complainants are: The
First National Steamship Co., Second
National Steamship Co., Third Ma
tional Steamship Co., New Jersey
corporations, and H. o. Schundler of
Madison, N. j., individually and as
sole stockholder. Defendants are the
United States Shipping Board, the
United States Shipping Board Merch-
ant Fleet Corporation, Secretary Of
Evening star., 1938-10-07

zens could find out the amount owed
on every type of levy, was suggested
by Mr.. Lodge as an aid to payment.
Mr.. Lodge also protested that Dis
trict citizens have been prevented
from taking part in the selection Of
their own flag.
Speaking on influence possessed by
the registered opinion of civic organi-
cations here, Mr.. Lodge said they
carried great weight with Congress
but not conclusive weight.
New members admitted to the as
sociation were Henry w. Stoehr, John
j. Nelligan, Charles Douglas and
Douglas S. de Graffenreid.
Evening star., 1938-10-07
STAR, WASHINGTON D. c, FRIDAY OCTOBER

Wardman Park Hotel at 2:30 pm.
today.
Eugene Hoover and William Sig
mund, both Of Washington, were
among the speakers scheduled for the
first session. The organization is
represented locally by the Kaufman
Agency.
The programs for later sessions in
clude: a dinner at the hotel tonight, at
which an informal discussion on radio
will be featured, sessions in the form
Of seminars, conducted by Lynn w.
Ellis of Westport, Conn, from 8 am.
to 9 pm. tomorrow, and meetings on
Evening star., 1938-10-07

Commerce Daniel G. Roper
United States Maritime Com
The court was told that 4
ernment has paid s250,000 IL
settlement of the claim which
on an alleged Indebtedness
Government for the operatiop
Shipping Board vessels by t11
tiff.
Evening star., 1938-10-07
ADVERTISERS MEET
FOR PARLEY HERE
Delegates From 20 Agencies
Attend Convention-Two DC.
Men to Speak,

Delegates from % national agencies
were scheduled to attend the annual
convention of the National Advertis-
ing Agency Network, opening at the
Evening star., 1938-10-07
SHIP FIRMS SUE U. S.
FOR OVER $384,00O
Claims Based on Operation Of Part
of Merchant Fleet in Post.
War Period.

Growing out OF the operation Of
part Of the American Merchant Fleet
in the postwar period, suit for
$384,256 outright, plus interest at 6
per cent, from January S, 1921 to the
Evening star., 1938-10-07

Sunday, with q debate scheduled for
the afternoon
Oakleigh r. French of st. Louis,
is managing director Of the national
group. |
Evening star., 1938-10-07
Starts Fishing Campaign.

To make funny fishing the sport OF
the ordinary man and woman angler,
Harold r. Hardy, secretary OF the
British Tunny Club, has started a
campaign.
Evening star., 1938-10-07

Germany has removed Austrian in
ternal taxes on champagne.
Evening star., 1938-10-07

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The Washington times., 1938-05-14
Farmers Still Buy

THERE is ray of sunshine, at least in current
l. gloomy business news, and pretty husky ray at
that The farmers buying power appears to be holding
HarUester's up nc, re"0onaD,S 414t., "en. 1,.o..o.
1hFG BEST year Company for example reports
that the fiscal year ending next October 81 will probably
be the third best year in the company history despite
the slump.
For the first half OF fiscal 1885, Harvester sales
about 1870 off sales for the corresponding period of last
year, and the eventual dip for the entire year may reach
300. But such decline would not equal the slumps that
have hit some other industries selling mainly to city
toners.
What it indicates is that farm buying power is hold
ing up Of course big crops indicated for this
in some lnes and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has
x J DL already warned against ex
WV cessive planting. If the
TN SOLId GTOUnG majority of farmers are
still the suckers for high prices that they used to be- they
will overproduce in the old way, and the
farm act may not be sufficient to prevent disastrous
fall in farm product prices.
But there to be to hope that the farmers
have learned their esson and that most of them will
cooperate to prevent overproduction.
this hope materiazes the present depression should
not last as long dig deep The Depression-the
more so because the banks thanks to bank deposit in
surance are on much frmer ground than in 1929-33.
CReprintsd from New York Daily
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
High Praise for MOser

Veterans and Government en-
ployes are alike in one way.
Both are prone to condemn in a
newspaper that which does not
meet their approval, but fail 10
commend when the reverse is
true. AS I am q veteran and q
Government employe I fear I
have a double dose of this fault.
For sometime now I have
wanted to write you and thank
The Times for affording us such
interesting reading matters in
which we are interested, by
the publication Of the column
Speaking Of Government Work
ers," by MI. j. Earl Moser. Not
only is this column by far the
best Government column in any
local paper, but to my mind it
ranks among the top row OF all
columns published locally
whether they be sports, political,
or general. I believe it is read by
all Government workers and
know that many of my friends
not in the Government service
read it every day.
A news item which in any
other column Is a drab telling
of an event becomes a thing Of
life when it appears in Mr..
MoSer'S column. I hope that it
will grow in size in order that
we in the service may have just
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

ington postmaster, whose father
Homer B. Conger, was a Sena-
tor from Michigan, chose to
take issue with Mr.. Richard
son. He declared the champagne
did not help the ham any and
that the same succulence-that
Of the pig-would have been
there had the ham been cooked
in ink.
THIS viewpoint appealed par
l. ticularly TO the large group
Of newspapermen present. not
because they were authorities
on ham-cooking, but by reason
of their close association with
ink. They backed Mr.. Conger
Up with such enthusiasm that
Re became convinced he had a
sound theory-and he Endorsed
1t with cash on the line.
Two large hams were ordered
and their preparation under.
taken by the head bartender.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
There Oughta Be a Law

@ ONE things would like to see stopped in Wash
- ington:
Double parking.
Dry sweeping of dusty streets.
Sudden stops by cruising taxis.
Honking of auto horns after 10 p m.
Chewing gum dropped sidewalks.
Destroying trees to make room for buses.
Destruction of landmarks to provide parking lots.
Races between street and taxicabs
Races between busses and other busses.
One-man street cars.
Policemen who have the idea they are the job to
work the public instead of working for the public.
Policemen who bully restaurant out of free
food and drink.
Starngs on Pennsylvania Avenue-or any avenue
Gals primping in public.
Panhandling the streets.
The persistence of rowing bootblacks.
Slow automobile drivers in the middle of the streets
The jumping of lights at intersections taxi drivers
worst offenders).
Three women with three baby carriages walking
abreast on the sidewalk.
Present condition of the Morgue
And so on ad nfinitum. (The Editor would appreciate
Suggestions.)
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
Your |. O..
By SHIRLEY SPENCER

This Is q new twist on the
mathematical quiz-a play on
words. Allow 10 minutes. Score
10 for each question.
/. What number whose let.
ters WHEN transposed make a
word for eternity?
2. What number which when
beheaded and curtailed becomes
the imperfect form Of the verb
GO?
3. What number by dropping
q letter becomes q possessive pro-
noun?
4. What odd number by
dropping one letter becomes
even?
S. What two numbers by
dropping the first letter of each
and substituting the same new
letter for both become a word
for penalty and a dilemma?
6. What number by behead-
ing becomes a word meaning to
smite with lightning?
7. What number does not
change in sound but changes in
meaning when q letter is sub
traCted?
g. Substitute the middle let
ter Of q number for the letter
which comes just before it in
the alphabet, then transpose the
five letters to make q word
meaning one who takes what
does not belong to him.
g. Take two numbers, drop
the last two letters Of one and
the first letter Of the other, add
the first to the second and the
word becomes a seven-letter
word meaning frugal.
10. Now add q number to a
letter and 1t will show this test
is finishedl
ANSWERS ON Page ~
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
ROllin' Along
BH ". A. S. DOuqLGs

NE has to hunt through yellowed clippings in news
" paper morgue to get record of the famous ham,
cookednink banquet at Shoomakers Bar Washingtons
hennewspaper row. where stands the Munsey building
1t must have been glorious drunk.
Two decades have passed but those aging and aged
who in attendance still smack their lips memories
of the succuence of the ham, the boiling material for which
from the ink vas of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing And they still chore the discontinue of the
proponents of the ham that cooked in champagne
1t that bunch Gus Noack who spent his spare
'e ooSs were Whoopng up teaching Bible class and
IN Shoomakers when Charles his assistant George William.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
Wants No Vote

Here's hoping you're satisfied
with the trouble you stirred up
with your campaign for suffrage.
No, don't say The Times and
Herald alone are guilty. The
other papers did their part-but
yours was the initial guilt.
It was 10 years ago that I
spent almost a decade in Phila-
delphia, where votes counted
only when the precinct leaders
chose to count them.
Why was it that what you
called "an overwhelming major
ity" indorsed suffrage here? I'll
tell you why. 1t was only because
everybody connected with the
vote was in favor of it. Your
paper didn't make any effort
to mobilize the mo" votes,
did it?
That vote was only a straw
vote, you admitted that much.
But it's just as bad as any other
vote. It just goes to show the
people that run things will keep
on running them.
Why couldn't you leave well
enough alone? Why pollute
Washington with a vote?
EX-SUBSCRIBER.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

like me. Every time I try to
play with a cat it arches it's
back and spits. Which, you will
admit, is no way to treat q
friendly Pekinese.
But to get back to joe louis
ellis. Why should he get all the
publicity? Is he a blue blood
like me? Was he named after
a Chinese emperor?
Understand, Mr.. Editor, I'm
not a snob-but after all q
Pekinese dog with a pedigree
and the name Of an emperor,
is not to be sneezed at.
So how about giving me a little
publicity?, I wouldn't want
much. Just a few lines every
now and then-and an occa-
sional picture.
II I do say so myself, In .
cute little dog. I weigh nine
pounds. My coat is sable. I
have big eyes and a fiat nose
which is black to match the tips
of my long ears. I photograph
well too-provided you don't put
big things back Of me. They
spoil my style-if you get what
I mean.
My missus says this letter Is
long enough. I can write as well
as that old black cat, Joe louis
ellis any day.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14


What he meant was that the courts, with special
reference to the Supreme Court set up to keep
the supposedly sovereign people and their elected law
makers and executives from going haywire. The Su-
preme Court has the last guess acts of Congress
approved by the President and the Chief Justice like
most other judges feels that this is it should be-
AS matter of fact such system is undemocratic,
in that the Federal courts not responsible to the
pie That tends to make them not responsive to the peo
ple's wishes-witness their extension of Thaddeus
Stevens "due process amendment to colored peo
pie from peorage, that nowadays educ process"
mits forbds practically anything the judges want per-
mitted forbidden
Until this court power to pass on the wisdom of
laws rather than simply interpret the laws taken away
the court fight will not down. That is why the fight
wives on the slightest provocaon-and why it good
thing that does. The talking all do about the
courts the of their of superhuman sanctity
will be stripped away, and the will come their
restoration their proper rank in the American scheme
of things. rrom tn. New York Daily News,
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
HENRY PU VI.
4 I +
Would Lift Embargo

You say in your editorials all
the time you are for the Amerl'
can way of doing things. Why
don't you write some editorials
to make the Government stop
letting the neutrality law make
possible the division OF Spain
between the Germans and the
Italians?
The President of the United
States and the Secretary OF
State will not listen to pleas
from the mothers of those Ameri'
can boys who died for the Ameri'
can principles of democracy in
Spain. I know you read a lot Of
propaganda about their being
Reds but they are not Reds. The
loyalist government is trying to
put down a band of rebels who
have joined up with foreign
powers to keep democracy out
of Spain and put in FaScism
and NaziSm.
That is none of our business,
I suppose. Well if you print one
side you ought to print both
SideS and try tn find ont why
the Government lets American
bullets be shipped to Germans
and Italians to kill American
boys with, and not let the Ameri-
can boys who are fighting for
the peoples government In
Spain have American-made guns
as well.
MRS. T. G. STEPHENSON.
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THE ANSWERS

for girls in
Mis- S issippi,
W ere m y
gra n dmoth-
er's big house
is. It will be
an ideal place
for a school.
I would like
to have a fin
ishing school
for older girls.
F r o m the
first time I
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
Working Wives

If single girls could see little
farther than the ends Of their
noses, they would realize that
the worst menace to their eco
nomic future would be legisla-
tion against the employment of
married women.
In any job, q workers eff
cheney value to the employer in
creases with experience. Since
most women marry, why should
the employer hire anyone who.
as soon as she becomes valuable,
will leave his service? The better
the job, the more this Is true.
Why should the State spend
money to train young women to
be teachers when they know that
they will work for only a few
years? The obvious answer Is,
the State will not! It will train
men to fill the jobs; men who
must work all their lives. A. E.
80 X
Sounds "Catty" to Us
While I don't exactly read
your paper, I do come in close
contact with it and feel-under
the circumstances, too, am
entitled to write you.
When I say II come in contact
with your paper" I mean that
my mistress drops the paper on
the floor after she finishes it
for me to sit on. So you Will
see my contact is pretty close.
Now what I wanted to write
about was this joe louis ellis.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not
prejudiced even if am a dog
and joe ellis is cat. I like cats.
My missus never taught me any
different so I've always taken
cats for granted.
The only trouble Is they don't
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

would prefer
to t e a c h
Latin or alge-
bra. I think
teaching is a
W o n d e r full
prof e S sion
and there is
ever so much
future for a
good teacher.
At lea t, I
hope to be a
good teacher
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

Toner Rich
a rd S n, q
pro S p erous
re al estate
dealer, began
b o a S tin G
about a ham
W h ich had
been served
at his home
the night be-
I re a n d
W h ich had
been cooked
in C h a m
payne. Frank
D. Con 9 er,
former Wash
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

star. If I can't
be t h a t, I
I would like
to be m e
other kind Of
a sin 6 er. I
hope to take
singing nd
piano lessons
soon. Mama
a n d d q d
nrO missed TO
give them to
me as soon
as they can"
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

mack tnelr lips over memories
The boiling material for which
le Bureau of Engraving and
: over the discontinue of the
S cooked in champagne.
Gus Noack, who spent his spare
time teaching a Bible class, and
his assistant, George William
son, who spent his spare time at
the race tracks. They were
washed, placed in skillets and
put on the fire. This was all
around noon Of the day. The
hams, cooking slowly in their
own juices plus ink for one and
wine for the other. were to be
ready about 6 o'clock.
WORD passed round the city
" concerning the unique con-
test. The Senate adjourned,
the House adjourned-both, Of
course, on some other pretext-
and the membership in large
majority came trooping down to
Shoomaker's bar. Government
offices emptied rapidly and eve
ming newspapers became vir-
tually hamstrung for lack Of
service. They tell me the only
persons of Importance in Wash
ington who failed to show up
were the President and the Vice
President-the first because he
stood on his dignity and the
second because he was in bed
with a bad cold.
The established bookmakerS
of the city sent over representa-
tives to get what they could out
of the contest in wagers. The
champagne people we're very
sure of themselves and offered
odds. The ink-for-gr boys
being in the majority newspa-
permen, were not as well-heeled.
but they took the short end for
all they could gather together.
The books closed with odds Of
10-to-1 still being offered that
Mr.. Richardson would be able
to differentiate between the
champagne-ham and the ink
ham.
TAME 6 o'clock-and the long
~ bar was filled to overflow
ing with Q throng whose in
dividual stomachs were so full
of liquid that even a slice Of
ham soaked literally in ink
could serve as an efficient piece
of blotting paper. With due
ceremony the pious Mr.. Noack
bore off the skillet containing
the ham the gravy for which
had. come from the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing. Mr.. Will
hanson, lover Of horsefleSh and
earthly joys, carried out the
haunch cooked in wine.
In seclusion the two barten-
ders sliced up the meat and then
brought to the bar two plates on
each of which lay thin slices OF
lam, rosy as a maiden's blush.
These were placed in front of
Mr.. Richardson while the crowd
watched and listened in church
like silence at first.
MR.. RICHARDSON nibbled
AVA first at one and then at the
other. He nibbled back and
forth in indecision while the
enthusiasm Of the ham-in-ink
proponents rose to roars of de-
rision. And at last he pushed
both plates away from him with
a gesture Of complete defeat.
"Well, I'll be damned" spoke
Mr.. Richardson.
Bets were paid-and victors
and vanquisheo made short
work Of both hams, nobody
knowing, or caring, which school
Of cookery he was patronizing.
Copyright. 1888, Washington Times
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

portunity for internati i onal
achievements. like the idea Of
travelling. I would like to attend
the School Of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University"
y X
Mary Rhoda Tackett, 1910
Hobart st. N. W., age 13:
II want to be a teacher. I
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

But I prefer
being an Or
dinary sailor.
No A n n apo
lis for me.
I've a ! W a Us
W a n t e d to
join the Navy.
Say, I have
a be a u tiful
Sailboat. It's
a b o u t u
feet long and
about 4 feet
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
Court Revives Fight

~ HIEF JUSTICE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, in his
" Thursday speech before the American Law Institute,
made two remarks which should be read with care:
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

more than anything else in the
world. would like to attend
American University when I
finish high school,"
i +
Bernard Harrison, 1927 Ken
yon st. N. W., age IA:
Lawyer. like such things
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

high. I sail it on the Lincoln
Memorial Pool and in the sum-
mertime on a lake in the noun
tains."
X \
Mabel Mildred Fetter, 3232
Nineteenth st. N. W., age 13:
"I would rather be an opera
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

It is in the judicial process that we find
the most developed and systematic effort
of democratic community to maintain
the interests of justice by opposing reason
to passion; accepted principles to un-
bridled discretion. and the requirements Of
fair play to the favoritisn Of tyranny of
OF power 49,.
-. the judicial tradition still stands forth
in testimony to the endeavor of the people
to be just and to maintain their rights
against the varied opportunities for par
TALLY and oppression in administration.
The Chief Justices remarks were pom
ferrous and legalistic, as was to be ex-
'ected. But high school graduate can
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

as parliamen'
tary proc e :
dure and ]
like to read
about politics
and govern.
m e n t al at.
fairs. I shall
S t u dy com.
mercial law
when I get to
h ig h school,.
I haven't We,
decided WhiCh
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /. 1888. is graphically
shown by the death watch.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

ei 6 n a n.
guages. I took
up Ere n c h
for that pur
p ose. There
are is Of
chances for
a dvancenent
in the for
gn service
with good sal.
aries and So
cial standing,
and the op-
The Washington times., 1938-05-14
The Inquiring
Photographer
The washington Times In
viteS you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

What profession or career do
you hope to follow when you
complete your schooling? (An-
swered by students of Powell
Junior High SchoolJ
THE ANSWERS
Jean Shirley McNair, 1434
Harvard st. N. W., age 13:
Il am going to open a school
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VOICE OF Tho PEOPLE
and addresses Of

the limited Names addresses
writers will be omitted
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

that much more interesting
reading. RALPH N. WERNER.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

began to 60 to school I have
wanted to become a teacher"
-
Bill Tenschert, 1440 Meridian
Pl. N. w., age IL:
IT am going to join the Navy.
The Washington times., 1938-05-14

IL appears that q bunch Of
the boys were whooping it up
in Shoomaker's when Charles