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Advice to F. D. r.

Someone should tell the Presi-
dent that just not cracking
down on business is not enough
to restore business confidence,
because the uncertainties which
prevent recovery and private in
veStment still remain.
What is needed is an express
statement from the President
that until recovery is evident
there will be no further Federal
experimentation or reform and
no increased taxes on business,
as well as no more Federal COM
petition with business. This will
give an opportunity for the natu-
raj resiliency of business to re-
assert itself, which it cannot do
with things as they are, and will
do more good than all the pump
printing in the world.
When the country is back on
its feet again, then it will be
time enough to think about fur
ther reforms. R. W.
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Your |. O.
By SHERLEY SPENCER


Score 10 for each information
question and 20 for No. 9, the
brainteaser.
!. From what is turpentine de-
rived?
2. What is a leu?
3. Name four of the five great
lakes.
4. What is a eunuch flute called?
S. How many dominoes in a set?
6. What is mace?
Z. Where in the U. S. is LaSsen
Volcano?
8. Did the U. S. Flag have 4s
stars in it in 1911?
9. BRAINTEAsER: Three boys
who had been helping them.
selves to Farmer Browns ap-
Piles met nine girls on their
way home. To keep the girls
from telling on them they
agreed to share the apples,
each boy giving each girl the
same number. It was then
found that they all had equal
shares Of the apples. How
many apples had the boys?
ANSWERS on Page y
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Retire These
RedctiOnGries
BOlitha Laws, Justice

rUST word of congratulaton to Bolitha ]. Laws and
J to the District Bar Association upon his appoint
associate justice of the U. S. Circuit Court for
the District of Columbia.
President Roosevelt and those of his advisers who
responsible for the nomination also due the thanks
of voteless citizens.
We have never been reconciled with the practice of
past administrations in naming political favortes from
other States to important offices in Washington.
There three justices to be appointed and we
ferventy hope the President will select Washngtonians
Which leads to repeat here the staementof Repre-
sentative Hatton Summers of Texas chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee:
Il personally have to the conclusion that there
is something inherently wrong in system under which
$4,000 Americans denied the right to participate
in their Government"
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defrauding the Brighton Elec.
trio Light Company.
From a perusal of the evi-
dence gathered that Captain
Grove was so completely shot
up while winning his Victoria
Cross that even all these years
he would be much better off
dead and done with. Having
taken all this into consideration
a grateful country had allowed
him $3.50 a year. The captain
found that his light bills were
using up the most of this pen
sion. On top of that he had
a crying need for bread and tea
on which to keep alive.
60 HE conceived the brilliant
~ idea of hooking up mis- own
light and heat conductors to a
power meter which happened TO
be in the cellar of the house
where he occupied a modest
bed-sitting room. An inspector
who had never been to war
although that evidence was
ruled out as irrelevant and i'm
material-caught up with the
captain and had him arrested.
The Brighton magistrates
fined the hero $25, which does
not seem on the face of it a very
serious penalty for the crime.
But according to Army rules and
regulations the captain is now
a convicted felon and therefore
forfeits the pension on which he
had been dragging out his
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insects, bacteria and disease,
make a mockery Of sanitation"
for which so much money is
spent in evil ways, while the eS'
Sentials thereof are ignored.
No right.minded person could
be induced to shoot at random
at any passing dog. No wonder
when the police will do so, they
fail to protect the community
from the danger connected with
the prevalence Of crime which
grows as cruelty grows.
A would.be kidnaper who re-
Gently escaped in the Glen Echo
area after his intended victim.
still unharmed, had managed to
escape in the woods, is much
more dangerous than all the
dogs of the neighborhood, and
the suggestion to SnooG at all
men, because of the danger from
this one, has not been made.
But the community accepts
without a murmur wholesale
persecution of dogs, because a
few, remarkably few, of the long
suffering dogs, driven by de-
spair, did a little biting.
No dog-bite, even if it results
in death, is comparable to the
horrors of the kidnapping and
rape cases; but which would not
have occurred if the victims had
had dog.companions, more able
than the police to guard their
cherished ones.
MARIE GUNDERSEN,
Conduit Road, Md.
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ROllin' Along
By ". A. s. Douglas

nUR English cousins, frequently term them love
" to laugh snort cruees crudities our
asnnes and bumptousness And turn gather the
degree of delight contempt the
traits of less people The word is used to
designate similarity and lack of cuurehough there
goody supplies of the latter human condiment both
sides of the Atlantic.
reminded, therefore, to compare the fates of two
wrongdoers in similar circumstances and leave to public
opinion the decision the better verdc-though perhaps
not the farest After ALL there is something in the Good
Book about tempering justice with mercy
We Will take first the of painful existence
Capt John Grove OF Brighton However greatly
England Captain comforted by the fact
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Facts On Marijuand

After dwelling on the subject
Of marijuana, Bob Kay makes
the statement: 1.-THE weed grows
in Arizona On the desert
and sheep ranges it is called
loco"
For Bob's information, there
is not the slightest similarity be-
tween marijuana and the loco
weed. The former in places
grows five or six feet in height,
and will flourish in any part Of
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Unexpected Drought Benefit

oTRANGE but perhaps the best news to come out of
~ Europe this spring is the recent of widespread
drouths IN Germany France Russia Italy, Czechosovaka
and even Englandnews which its bearers say is being
Dr, Summer nervously hushhushed by the govern
ments of the countries affected
In Europe Serious drouths would necessarily
cause wide crop failures curtalments
With their food supplies shrinking and uncertain the
affected nations would naturally hesitate to start any
serious fighting And maybe this is the rockbottom rea-
son why the innumerable scares of the last few
months have all dried up and blown away instead of pro-
ducing general hungry nation will hesitate to
fight in the first place.
(From Daily
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
On Dog Cruelties

"Long Suffering" whose let.
ter appeared recently, ought to
think less about his own diScom.
fort, more about the suffering of
dogs. The dog-owners referred
to are not true dog-lovers when
they keep the dogs in such a
miserable state. AS to noise,
more noise is often made by cry
ing babies, playing children,
automobiles, radios and at night
parties. Some too urban people
cannot even abide the native
songs Of birds.
Where are the "dog.lovers"
that Long Suffering" com.
plains Of? The community in
general does not recognize any
right for dogs whatsoever. even
though a favored few may be
cherished companions.
I noticed a recent request in
The Times to dog. to let
their dogs join a tail-waggers'
club. But what does such a
club do to oppose legalized
crueltieS such as muzzling, Wvi-
section and rabies.hysteria?
Such conditions now prevail
in the Glen Echo area on &C.
count Of quarantine following
attack by dog on a child. Per-
haps the child had teaSed the
dog, as so often happens. The
cruelties being piled upon dogs
in this area mean agonieS for
the helpless dogs, increase Of
disease among them, and con-
sequent growth in the rabies
hySteria among cowardly hu.
mans, and certain education"
in cruelty for children, urged to
get accustomed to such demoral.
izing sights.
The many dead bodies ex.
posed, causing vast increase in
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entails permitted in favor of Southern employers. The
House passed bill in which the differentias and the
Labor Standards Board were discarded and scales of
25 cents and "A hours be adjusted in three years
to 40 cents and 40 hours the Secretary of Labor to
force the law.
This joint conference is now trying to hammer out
bill which will be acceptable to both Senate and House.
The Southern bloc led by Senator A. j. Ellender Dem,
La insists that it will get dfferentals in fact by
means, filibuster the legislation to DEATH
The Southerners at this writing have succeeded in
boosting the threeyear limitation up to seven and have
begun to fight to abolish the limitation altogether.
This is bill for the benefit of the South primarily.
few Northern sweatshops pay wages below S11 week,
or work their people than foryfour hours week,
or both; but Northern labor stand
NS D"' ~ ards generally are far above these
HeIP tHe OO"t" proposed scales. In the South,
labor not so forunate and therefore employers are
not so fortunate because Southern labor has not enough
buying power to buy prosperity producing percentage
of Southern employers goods.
Yet these Southern lawmakers refuse to get this simple
mathematical proposition through their heads They
want their Chamber of Commerce constituents to go
being able to promise Northern capital Cheap docle
labor if will move South Off the record they plead
that S11 cash money a week will 'spoil the niggers"
who will collect such treasure. They refuse to believe
what the NRA proved long the Supreme Court let
it live-that higher wages in the South prosperity
for the South.
This is real reaction; and reaction of a kind which
ought to be pushover in most Southern States if the
Roosevelt Administration feels like getting out and
U1 fighting to retire these reactonaries
Ae'"e A"eOo from Senate and House.
hedCttO"UTIeS The Administration get word
to the mass of Southern voters regarding which of their
elected lawmakers fought against this bill and which
fought for it which of them felt that s11 week was
too much for Southern worker and which of them
didn't. We should think the and the wage-hour
records would be all the Southern voters would need to
know that having this information, they would boot
their misrepresentation with ballots at their earliest
opportunity. CFrom tn New York.
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the Victoria
eros SIS, h is
cou n try S
h i G h e S t
a W a I'd for
va alor. H e
W on 1t for
ca p t u r i n G
single h and
ed two fully
manned Ger
man machine
g u n S during
the w orld
War. He was
brought into
court a n d
charged with
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
A Relief Plan

A basic mistake was made in
punching unemployables with
able-bodied persons temporarily
out of work in the distribution
of relief.
Care of the helpless should be
turned over to the Red Cross,
which can make a dollar go
farther and do more good than
any other organization in the
world, public or private.
E. r. C.
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Thomas Egg ShOwer

The public rout Of Norman
Thomas in Newark is another
warning that a long,suffering
people are fed up with the antics
Of radicals bent on seizing con.
troll of this country. Rats and
stool pigeons for the Second,
Third and Fourth InternationalS
must know that Americans will
not become serfs. L. C.
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Spend the
money for re-
lief of h e
needy. by all
m e a n S
w a S hington
h a S enough
m on umentS
as IL is. Inc
a m ou n t of
Instruction
work afford
ed by build
ing a memo
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comforted by the fact that
neither His Majesty the King
nor the Brighton magistrates
can deprive him of his Victoria
Cross-which cost his country 9
cents to make.
A ND now to an example Of
"A American justice in prac-
tically similar case.
Charles Francis Hepp, a vet
eran of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces, went overseas
with his unit and managed to
gather himself a wonderful time.
Through no fault of his own, he
failed to get into action or even
to see a shot fired in warfare.
He got sick in France and was
sent to sunny Nice to recuperate.
There he mingled with other
heroes, similarly convalescenJ,
and in one historic craps game
clipped the crowd for about
$4,000. That was more money
than Mr.. Hepp had ever seen
before in his life. He used it up
absorbing the pleasures of Paris
night life-in which laudable
purpose he had the cooperation,
among others, of this writer.
Mr.. Hepp returned to his ma.
tive land and was hailed as a
conquering hero-which doubt
less he would have been had
he been given a chance. But
the life of innocent pleasure
which he had pursued in France
and, later, with the army of oc-
cupation in Coblentz, had sort
of spoiled him for humdrum
work. 1t took him several years
to readjust himself.
EINALLY he opened a small
= saloon on borrowed capital.
It didn't do so well, and, like
Captain Grove, his light bills
began bothering him. And, al
though he had never met the
English hero, the American vet
eran did exactly the same thing.
He hooked his own lights onto
those Of the office building next
door-was eventually arrested
and brought into court.
There his attorney, a fellow
ex-Soldier, appearing for him for
nothing, painted such q soul
stirring picture OF Sacritice-au
by Mr.. Hepp for Mr.. Hepp's
country-that the light COM
pany dropped the case. the
judge concurring, and a goodly
collection was taken up in
court.
Now, the only danger my
friend was ever in was during
that historic crap game in
Nice. He had accumulated
$4,000 and put it all on one roll
and threw q four.
But he made it.
CopyriEht, 1898, WashinRton Times
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the country. Loco Is strictly a
desert growth, peculiar to sand.
hills and the buffalo range:
grows flat on the ground. It is
fatal to cattle and sheep. but in
horses, after continued eating,
will produce insanity.
The seed Of marijuana, which
is a species Of hemp plant, was
formerly used for canary seed.
AS to its location, recently q
large planted area of marijuana
was located near Baltimore, and
destroyed by the narcotic squad.
If marketed, the value of the
grown area was over a million
dollars.
WILLIAM S. WAUDBY.
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uments in an
already over
crowded field.
Suppose they
do build the
memorial, and
then a lot
Of resentment
over its de-
sign,. or its
location, does
arise. Would
that either
reflect honor
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be available
to relieve the
distress Of
needy people.
I wouldn't get
much salts
faction out Of
cont empla T.
ing a temple
of bricks if I
thought the
money could
h We b e e n
more wisely
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cussing wages paid by private employer
running business which makes profit.
Yet various Southern Senators and Rep
resentatives are battling before the House
Senate conference committee on the wage
hour bill for the proposition that $11 a
week is far too good for many Southern
workers, mostly colored workers.
The Senate passed wage-hour bill set
ting up a Labor Standard Board to fix
minimum wages at 40 cents an hour and
maximum work weeks at 40 hours, with
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Az "3 SAS4 A.
I'D say the
city and the
c o u n t r y
coul d o
W t h out a
memorial t o
Jefferson for
the time be-
in G. Admit
tedly Jeffer-
S o n W a S a
gre a t Presi-
dent, but he
h as already
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than poured
into another
point of in
terest for the
S i g h t S GERS.
One more me-
mortal in a
city full of
them is of less
i'm p o rtance
than are the
hundreds and
t h o u S a ndS
here who are
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spent for bread. The memorial
is already too Jnueh a subject
of contention.
X X
Mrs. Vincent Curley, $500 New
Hampshire Ave. N. w.
"Serve the needs of the people
first, before building more mon
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U n q u eS-
tionably t h e
m e m rial
S c h e m e
Is good as a
tribute to JET
ferson, but
it hardly rep
re sc ntS the
most con
struc S t t i've
t hing that
c O u ! d be
d o n e with
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People
F. Remer

BENEDICT ARNOLD
NAIHEN Congress ehaI-
w Ienged his expenses
after he ca mp a iened
heroicaIIy, Arnold was
fierceIy resentfuI. But
peculiarly, he turned on
the man who had defend
ed him to Congress and
staunchIy befriended him
- George Washington.
Arnold planned, in be-
trayine the Am erican
cause, to kidnap and de-
liver Washington into the
hands Of the British.
Copyright 1898, by F. Romsr
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left enough memorials to him
self in his own works"
Y
Mary Ackerman, 4209 Eight
eenth st. N. W.:
If there is money available
for the memorial, it should
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Wise Words

OF all the evil spirits abroad
at this hour in the world, in.
sincerity Is the most danger.
ouS.-Froude.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

rial to jefferson would be ap-
preciable, but the actual money
would do much to aid the needy
here"
X
Maude Knight, 916 Sixteenth
st. N. W., waitress:
"I'd rather see the money
spent to help people in distress
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times in.
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Should Washington have a
memorial to Thomas jefferson,
or should the money be spent
for relief of the needy?
THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Flora Robertson, 1925
Newark st. N. W., housewife:
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Fashion, word which knaves
and fools may use, their
knavery and folly to excuse.
Churchill.
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S11 a Week Is Not Too Much
To Pay the Head of a Family

AT OR is $11 week precisely putocratic wage even
~ for single without dependents. We are not
talking about WPA wages for made work. We are dis
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Apartments

the great amount of money the
shrine would represent. People
come first"
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

to Jefferson or justify the ex-
pense of the memorial? Mean
while, people must eat.'
Luman E. James, Chastleton
Apartments.
The Washington times., 1938-06-11

Self-love is the greatest of
all flattererS. - La Rochefou-
cauld.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

limited Names addresses
the writer's will be omitted upon request
The Washington times., 1938-06-11
Traffic Toll

The list of traffic victims il
The District Of Columbia sine
January /, 1888, is graphical.
.hown by the death watch.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
H|GH-SPEED ROAD
PLAN IS PROPOSED
Would Aid u. S. Defense in
Event of War, Declares
House Member.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

In the event Of another World War,
broad, straight, high-speed highways
would be Of great importance in the
national defense. Representative Ira
w. Drew Of Philadelphia emphasized
today in conferences with Government
ofncials.
Mr.. Drew has worked out plans for
such roads, with an initial model
highway from Boston to Washington.
President Roosevelt has given encour-
agement to the Drew plan"
Representative Drew Is by no means
q warmonger. He says he would vote
against entering war unless this coun-
try was invaded. But he Is for ade-
quate preparedness and is emphatic in
declaring that just as important as
building battleships and war planes is
the construction Of highways for
speedy transportation OF the Army,
which has never before been on rub
Der" and for quickly providing food
supplies and equipment and raw mate
rlals OF all sorts that will be in demand
III (and God forbidJ war comes"
Military experts agreed with Repre-
sentative Drew that in the event of
an invasion this country would be
hopelessly entangled within "a hours
because OF lack of speed highways for
the movement Of troops and supplies.
Certainly" he said, "the proposed
highway from Boston to Washington,
the first link, should be undertaken
Just as soon as possible. That is the
most highly industrialized section and
the most congested traffic area in the
world. It would be a simple matter
to get this highway started quickly,
for the State highway departments
along the route have already made
preliminary surveys which would en-
able them to lay down the route in a
very short period Of time. BY each
State building its own section of high
way. to conform with the general
plan," he points out. "the Boston to-
Washington highway could be built
much more rapidly than under a plan
which calls for Federally constructed
road"
Most OF the preliminary work has
already been done. Mr.. Drew says.
Some special legislation is required in
Maryland and New Jersey, but Rep
reSentative Francis E. Walter Of Penn.
sylvania, who during the World War
was in the air service of the Navy, and
who has been cooperating with Rep
resentative Drew in furthering the
speed highway plan, says there is suf-
f1cient authority to build the section
OF the road through Pennsylvania
without further legislation.
Representative Drew advocates that
Evening star., 1938-09-29

drawing, viii conduct the military
training courses at Cardo3o and Arm
strong High Schools, respectively.
These are the flrst permanent ap-
pointments as instructors for the COL
ored cadets since shake-up was made
In the administration Of the regiments
last year following the discovery that
some equipment was missing.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

each State build its own section, and
all should be busy on the project at
the same time.
I'VE have material. labor and ma
chinery Immediately available" he
says. This speed highway, so urgent
ly needed for proper national defense,
could be built on a self sustaining
basis, so that it would not add q dollar
to the debt Of any State. It could be
built on bond issues sold In the open
market"
Evening star., 1938-09-29

Army Air Corps. effective October 1.
He was graduated from the Air Corps
training center at San Antonio last
June and since has been attached to
the Goth Bombardment Squadron,
Mitchell Field, N. Y,
Evening star., 1938-09-29
Named Second Lieutenant.

Francis D. Shoemaker, former Uni
versity Of. Maryland student, and son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Shoe
maker. Bethesda, Md, has been ap-
pointed a second lieutenant in the
Evening star., 1938-09-29

People from Bordeaux, France, are
called Bordelais; the man from Mont
didier Is Montdidierien.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
TWO TEACHERS NAMED
FOR COLORED CADETS
r. E. Contes and q. A. ferguson
Appointed to Cardozo and
Armstrong Positions.

Two teachers in the colored schools
have been designated to teach mill
tary science and tactics to cadets in
two OF the three colored senior high
schools, it was learned today.
r. E. Contee, q health and physi-
cal education instructor, and G. A..
Ferguson, q teacher In mechanical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-10
RITES HELD
FOR c. f. CANNON
Retired War Department
Clerk to Be Buried in Rock
Creek Cemetery.

Charles E. Cannon, rs, retired chief
clerk Of the adjutant generals office,
War Department, died Sunday in the
Good Samaritan Hospital at Cincin-
natl. Funeral services were held In
the Ohio city yesterday.
Final rites. including a brief service
at Gawler's chapel, 1855 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, are being held today.
Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mr.. Cannon and his brother the
late Lawrence E. Cannon, were widely
known here for many years as sing
ers and directors of choirs at several
Catholic churches, including those at
St. Matthew's and st. Aloysius'.
Since retiring about Is years ago
Mr.. Cannon had lived in st. Peters,
burg, Fla, during the winters and
spent the summers in Salem, Mass.
Early this month he had gone to Gin
cinnati, en- route from Florida to Mas
Sachusetts. to visit his son, Theodore
F. Cannon, manager of the Cincin-
natl Symphony Orchestra. Another
son, Charles F. Cannon. is vice presi-
dent Of the Arthur Kudner Co. of New
York. an advertising agency.
native Of Salem, Mr.. Cannon lived
in Washington from the time he was
II until he retired from Government
service. For short while he was en-
gagged In the real estate business here.
He was member of the Association
OF Oldest Inhabitants of the District
Of Columbia.