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The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Rain HOLDS UP
SCHOOL LISTING

Rain today held up school reg
istrations so that despite the open
ing of the new semester less than
10000 students enrolled.
At the statistical office at the
Franklin Administration Building,
Ma than Danowsky, statistician,
said he had not yet been able to
tabulate registrations.
The number of enrollments, how.
ever, is less than the January fig
ures which showed 91,340 pupils.
Of that number almost a thou
sand were graduated from the
senior high schools.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

In response, the company on
Friday submitted schedules which
are understood to have reduced
the number of hours to which the
maximum 3.9 cents per kilowatt
hour would be applicable and a
schedule which would lower the
rate of apartment house consump-
ton.
COMMISSION TAKES HAND
The commission itself. is believed
to have advanced other tentative
schedules which would still further
the quantity applications
of the proposed rates.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Mrs. Miller to Sing
At Arkansas Meet

Mrs. John E. Miller, wife of the
newly-elected Senator from Ar
kansas, is to sing two songs on
the Arkansas prograb broadcast
over Station WRC tonight at 1880
o'clock.
Under the auspices of the Ar.
kansas State Society, Mrs. Miller
will sing the Arkansas State song
and the alma mater hymn of Ar.
kansas State University. Mrs.
Samuel M. Wassell will speak on
Arkansas, the Wonder State"
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
ASK z MILLION
MORE OF U. S.
in D. C. BUDGET
PalmisanO Moves
For City's Aid
BY JULIA A. BONWIT

A 100000 increase in the Fed
eral contribution to District gov.
ernment was demanded today by
Representative Vincent L. Palmi.
sano CD, Maryland, chairman Of
the House District Committee as
the House began it's second day Of
debate on the $45, 100000 budget
for 1899.
Mr. Palmisano requested the in
creased contribution to make up
for property taken for Federal
Government purposes.
HIGH PERCENTAGE EXEMPT
The Federal Government owns
% per cent of taxable property in
the District, he said, and 1t is
mot fair" that the District should
be forced to bear this expense.
In addition to the Federal prop
erty exempt from taxation in the
District, there is other property,
he said, owned by private or.
ganizations which Congress from
time to time has exempted from
taxation. Only As per cent of
property here, he added, Is tax,
able.
"The actual tax receipts here
have been reduced by ST..
100000 because of this" he
pointed out.
Congress "compels" the District
of Columbia to educate the Chfl.
dren of Army and Nav officers
and United States employees out
side of the District, he observed.
The District, he said, pays well for
the presence of Government en-
ployes here by educating all their
children free of charge.
S9,OOO,OOO PLAN OUT
Previously, Mr.. Palml5ano an
nounced that he would seek a &c..
100000 Federal contribution, but
today's speech indicated that later
in the day he would submit an
for only a $4,000, 900
increase.
A sharply worded plea for an
Continued on Page %, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

heads in the State Department
(Messrs. Norman Davis, Sum-
ner Welles, Stanley Hornbeck,
J. Pierpont Moffet, Messer-
smith, Economic Adviser Feis
and others), ably assisted by
the Foreign Policy Association.
The League of Nations Asso-
citation, the Council on For
eign Relations, the English
Speaking Union of the United
States, believe that the dumb
and ignorant citizenry must be
educated because
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Ohio Society Plans
Mckinley Honor

The Ohio Society of Washington
will meet at the Raleigh Hotel
this evening at $3.50 p. m. to honor
the memory of William Mckinley.
Ohio's martyred President. Rep.
resentative Thomas A. jenkins
will speak on THE Life of Viii
liam Mckinley" Senator Rob-
ert j. Bulkley, of Ohio, will pre-.
side.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

In a memorandum attached
to his will, the late Larz Ander-
son, once Ambassador to
Japan and Belgium, and vet.
eran of the Spanish-American
War, suggested that his wife,
the gifted Isabel Anderson,
present the mansion to the
Cincinnati if she so wished.
Mr.. Anderson was a member
of the organization.
The Cincinnati, first of the
American patriotic societies.
was he011n in 17Q2 hy Eaorpe
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Dear Washington

The Larz Anderson house, at Massachusetts,
Avenue and @ Street, scene of the most bril-
liant hospitality of generation and host to
national celebrities and visiting royalty, has
been offered to the Society of the Cincinnati as
headquarters for their organization.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
DoDD GUEST SPEAKER

William E. Dodd, former United
States Ambassador to Germany,
will he the guest of honor and
speaker at a luncheon to be given
by the Women's National Press
Club at the Willard Hotel next
TUESDAY,
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
PHYSICIST TO TALK

Leroy Stockman, Bureau of
Standards physicist, will be the
principal speaker at the dinner
tomorrow night at $50 o'clock of
the Engineers Club of Catholic
University. His topic will be
Radio Meteorology."
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

prOgreSS WlCIlOuG Glelr H1lIlQS
and their ability.
I am devoted to women and
I am delighted they have the
freedom they have, but it has
been brought home to me so
forcibly since I became inter.
ested in the vote for Washing
ton that, while the women are
perfectly willing to do every
thing in their power to help,
in the end it is men like Sena-
tor Capper, Senator Lewis, and
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
By Helen Essary

eSted in seeing the Anderson house turned to
this good national use. Senator Theodore Green,
of Rhode Island; Mr.. Charles Warren, who wrote
the history of the Supreme Court; Senator Over.
ton, of Louisiana; the late Ambassador to Lon
don, Robert W. Bingham; Col. jeremiah R. M.
Taylor, Major Gist Blair Walter Bruce Howe,
Representative Hamilton Fish and Gen. John
Philip Hill are among the 15O0 distinguished
active members.
The Larz Anderson house, one of the most
magnificent in this country, has a history of
elegance The former King of Siam and his
Queen stayed there few years ago. The Duke
d'Abruzzi. brother Of the King of italy, was a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson when there were
rumors of his engagement to Katherine Elkins
daughter of Senator Elkins, of West Virginia.
MellOuO Old Tapestries
In the spacious high-ceilinged rooms and cor
ridors are mellow old tapestries and gallery
of art treasures. already a museum in itself
1t is evident that Mr.. Anderson built the house
in anticipation of some day leaving it to his or
ganizaton, because, in the hallway over the
fireplace. is the seal of the Cincinnati. One
of the drawing rooms was decorated on walls
and ceiling by Muralst Mowbray with drawings
that represent the original members of the Gin.
cinnati. On the pediment over the portico of the
house are the arms of the Cincinnati, the in.
sigma designed by L'Enfant, one of its members,
and still worn.
Mrs. Anderson. or Isabel Anderson, as she is
known in her own personality, is the author of
many enchanting stories. She lately has spent
much of her time at Weld her Brookline estate
outside Boston.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
"But" ="

A systematic campaign to educate" the Ameri.
can people into war psychosis is under way,
with the spearhead coming from Washington.
The educators" who begin at the White House
and include the Anglophile aristocratic division
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

Evalyn Walsh Mclean Representative Randolph who
have had to turn the trick and carry on to pro
duce real results.
AS everyone knows, Senator ]. Ham Lewis Is
one Of the most remarkable men that has ever
been in the Senate and when he and other i'm
portant men take an interest in a subject, the
people know full we'll that it is worthwhile and
deserves attention.
These three men have been wonderful in the
way they have come forward and tried to help
to give the citizens Of Washington the right to
vote.
Serious Conditions Here
When you think of the awful conditions right
here in the Nations Capitalize airport that is
deathtrap, the overcrowded Jail, the hungry
school children, the terrible conditions at
Gallinger Hospital, and dozen other things you
could name-it shows how serious these men con-
slider the situation and how hard they are going
to fight to try and improve it.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
My Say

Z When you come right down to 1t, men are
really remarkable institutions. The older grow,
the more I realize that we would make very little
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
PUG Meets to Aid
Small Light Users
Ponder Distribution of Savings From
Recent PepcO Rate Cut

The Public Utilities Commission met today to decide dis
rbuton Of savings to Washngton of electricity
Their order reducing returns of the Potomac Electric Power
Company flat per cent becomes effective
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

(BoGke CGrter'S opinions are his o1Dn and not
necessarily those of The Washington Tin1eSJ
Copyright, 1898, by Ledger syndicate)
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
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Other Editors Opinions
The Effective Way

tried to build boat by burning they did back
days. he would be cued The and hammer the
tools of modes Negroes equally primitive
in their efforts to get work. gain other objective from which
public opinion has been barring them.
Organization the standard doing things Protagnss
kind idea together first organize begin
their drive for whatever they Only Negroes
gether in common misery refuse the advantages of cooperation and
combination.
This thing letting differences of opinion
strife is foolish Negroes possibly agree public policies
Even with the objective they preference about the
way to
The white who get the snatorsps
fat continue belong
of their difference in political f Negroes likewise
the because they bound together tightly misery
prejudice make them
Life is too hard forget
sites of zeal for their choice party
locality They aky boat every one needed
either inspire them with the
will to work together Let's fight to herK
Call -, .e.st' e. - I'm -
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Friday, April Is, 1898
Easter a Balm for Troubled World

needed the offered by Easter it is
Christ faith that He would enter the King
Christian world the ills which
side would disappear the morning mist.
who the nations of the globe would
morning with the spirit which guided Jesus of
places worship with Faith
humanity there would need for the huge
goes threatens eng the world in
another huge conflict.
The prayers civilized world should have fuller
meaning Sunday meaning which if based the faith
which Christ had would Danish fear and between nations and
would stop the slaughter children
China check the persecution of the Jews and give to this
enjoyment peace security and the everlasting
brotherhood of
world the words from the book of
John: resurrection
give faith this world in which
balm which will be lasting and help
full to of Gods children.
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lose ground. Relations in the
South among the whites of recent
generations are being based upon
economic efficiency. The Negro
must look to himself as his great
est asset in making his way in this
life. He must make himself just
as good citizen as the man who
lives next door. He must keep his
home just as desirable looking as
that of any other in the commu-
nifty. He must do his work as sat-
isfactorily as his competitor.
What Do You Stand For
The question now is not whether
you are the descendant of an old
black nanny talking to the great
grandson of Marse Henry. But
what do you stand for? What can
you do? Can you do one thing
better than anybody else? Can you
sing a song more beautifully than
others thus engaged? Can you
write a poem to move mems
minds? Can you paint a picture
which deepens ones sense of the
beautiful? Can you champion a
social need and supply it with sane
leadership? Can you develop an
enterprise to enrich your commu-
nifty? Can you be trusted with the
public confidence? If one does not
count in some of these respects the
world will pass him by as I'M
worthy and leave him and his
troubles to perish together.
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Taft Held Many Positions

William Howard Taft had to ask
the people for their vote only once
before he was elected President de-
spite the public positions he held.
Among his positions were assistant
prosecutor, collector of internal rev.
enue, judge of the Ohio Superior
court, United States solicitor gener-
al, judge of the sixth federal Circuit
Court of Appeals, chairman of the
Philippine Islands commission, Sec
rotary of war in Theodore Roose-
velt's cabinet, civil governor of
Cuba, president and finally chief
justice of the Supreme court. And
the only election he ever faced, be-
sides that for the presidency, was
for judge of the Superior court Of
Ohio.
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Change of Attitude

years ago Minneapolis civic leader told
Arnold HILL National Urban League Industrial Secretary that his
organization did about the matter of creating industrial
tunities in the proper and logical manner
time disagreed heartily with the local mans
contenonhat the respected force in American life
and aggressive championing of
Minneapolis Urban League dinner
Hill suggest that the only effective method for
the of the tools which Dr. Brown had
told him which the Negro seeking his
dustry, could successfully.
We doubt that Mr. Hill realized it but he used almost the
by which Dr. Brown that time Urban League board
member himself his words find Hill
believer the Brown theory While Mr. Hill late in
realizing resistance glad
his awakening to the situation
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Effective Means Upheld

The right picket which socaed
negborhoods absolutely consider that
employees upheld Supreme
several days ago. 49,, ........
Pckeing always opinion of
but where merchants them the
muny which they their living pckeng becomes
Chicago New York. and Washington pick have been used
successfully call the attention storkeepe their unfair
pment methods public opinion aroused that
Immediately. ...r.....
In talking with these merchants after the
pkeng have found that who intelligent felt that
helped both Sides The appecatve of the
who finally recognized and the merchant apprave
of community which intelligent enough want improve its
economic status by working where spent money
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On April %, 1888, Great Western,
the first steamship built expressly
for transatlantic service, reached
New York, having left Bristol, Eng
land, on April 8. A few hours ear
lier, Sirius, chartered for single
trip, had arrived from Cork. Great
crowds acclaimed their arrival, Of
which one New York editor wrote,
in terms not unlike those used by
others many years later in writing
of the inauguration Of transoceanic
telephone service: "A new era has
come upon us-skill science and
enterprise have brought us in closer
contact with a fatherland :. Time
and space have been measurably
annihilated Two great nations
have had the bonds of national
friendship and fraternal feeling
more securely rooted around them"
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Must Be Good Citizen

Finally, the Negro must cease to
look entirely to those efforts which
are organized wholly from without.
The old techniques for the solution
of his problems no longer count in
the equation. Personal relations
even in the South have tended to
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Floating Steel

A piece of solid iron or steel will
sink in water. Shaped into a vessel
or container that will hold large
amount of air, it will float on wa
ter, just like our great iron ships.
Though the steel in the ship is much
heavier than the water, it Is the
weight of the ship as whole that
counts. Provided that this weight,
with its cargo and large air space,
is less than the weight of an equal
volume of water. the ship will float.
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Uncle To1nis1n' Is Obsolete;
Negro Needs New Technique
By CARTER G. WOODSON

the that hurled by
white Negro order began to koow
bum plantation fashion The white
that he had owned and
intended if he had matter before him he should
present its words your proposal?
What you say support it? What have to do with it," He
had The under procedure.
Still Cinging
was the day technique dealing other
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This was the dav for technique dealing
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1t would be superfIuous to add
that the colored people who came
from all over the Twin Cities were
deeply stirred Unfortunately proud
and humbly thankful that the
Great God had chosen one of their
people to show forth his power and
the inexhaustible glOries of his
Kingdom.
Evening star., 1938-12-07
Manners
of the
Moment

With modern family life what it is,
the matter of keeping in touch with
those with whom you live is becom-
ing serious problem. Mother
dashes of to shop and to bridge.
Father has to stay late at the Office.
Sister and brother have their club
meetings and their football games.
And they are lucky If they see one
another more than twice a week.
But somehow you are expected,
as a member of the family, to know
what the others are up to. 1t gets
embarrassing when some one you
see at meeting tells you that your
son starred in a football game yes
terday, and you didn't even know
he was playing in one. 1t looks
funny.
So I think that communications
should be devised. Some people use
bulletin board. Then as each
member of the family passes it he
chalks up his next move, leaves mes
sages for the rest of the family, and
generally keeps himself informed
about his relatives. A slate might do
the trick. Or slate apiece Junior
could write on his. Made a touch
down today" And father could say,
Congratulations. I made 5000 my
self" And mother could write. Did
you take your codliver oil?" Then.
you see. you could still have a sort
of family life without having to be
home too much. JEAN.
(Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1938-12-07
Dorothy Dix Says
Should Grown Children Obtain
Financial Aid From Parents?

How much money should parents
give their children? There are two
schools of thought on this subject.
One holds that papa and mamma
should pamper their petted darlings
and indulge them in everything they
crave. while the other contends that
father and mother have done their
full duty by their offspring when
they feed and clothe them up to
maturity and give them such educa-
ton as they will take. That then
they should be chucked out into the
world to sink or swim, without so
much as dollar for life preserver
being handed them.
The disastrous results of giving
children TOO much money is con-
tinually brought to our notice. The
papers are filled with the accounts
of murders committed by youngsters
in the high-powered automobiles
provided by their parents. Every
day we read of the scandals into
which rich playboys and girls get
themselves. We see the prodigal
sons and daughters of self made
men throwing away in dissipation
the fortunes their fathers earned in
toll and sweat. We see the men and
women. who all of their lives have
been able to buy whatever they
wanted, go down in utter failure
when they desire the things which
no money can buy or when they have
to stand on their own feet.
So it is no wonder that we say
that there is no curse SO great that
can befall a boy or girl as having
too much money given them, and
that many parents, fearing to make
this mistake with their children,
go to the other extreme and are
Evening star., 1938-12-07
Charm Rules
For Young
Ladies
Graciousness Must
Be Without ANY
Afectation
BY PATRICIA LINDSAY.

It Is interesSiilg TO note that the
day of the young hoyden has passed.
This years belle is gracious young
lady with new dignity. And her
manners are so decorous that they
bear comment.
What has inspired this welcome
change in our fledglings? The care
less, madcap, slouchy debutante is as
much out of fashion as the hideous
long-waisted, knee-length dress Of
the postwar era! Today's youthful
society does not condone shrill voices
and conspicuous manners. and their
comely sophisticatlon puts many an
older woman to shame!
Some believe the revival of roman
tic fashions to be responsible. But
I believe the current fashions were
inspired by the new trend in wo-
mans demeanor.
For basic standards of charm
change but little Variations from
those standards, (such as the brassy
manner of the postwar deb are but
f1urries soon passed. Truth, honesty
and kindness are the essentials Of
feminine beauty, and beauty is ever
current despite its occasional dim
ming by spectacular and superficial
flurries.
The wheel has turned, and time
goes on. Perhaps woman realized
that man dotes on attractive deport-
ment and she gradually refashioned
herself into thing of compelling
poise and beauty. At any rate it is
very obvious that our young girls are
living up to the dramatic importance
of being ladies'! They make their
picturesque entrances in gowns that
symbolic the feminine graces, and
their good manners seem to come
easily and naturally. OF course, I
am speaking of the bellies.
Other youngsters who have not vet
awakened to the new trend had
better get in step. For it takes time
and practice for pleasing manners
to become entirely unselfconscious,
If early training has been lacking.
Exaggerated speech and dress, con-
spicuous gestures and hoyden vo-
cabulary simply have no place in a
young girls personality today. Su-
perfcial mannerisms are never in
good taste, and less so today than
ever.
The wise little bunny will take
pride in the new trend of charm and
ever practice the good old rules of
behavior. Her grooming will be be-
yond criticism and her graciousness,
without affectation. She will avoid
doing and saying things which de-
tract from her loveliness and she will
reap great joy from being numbered
among the youthful bellies!
Secrets of Charm for the
Growing Girl is a leailet which
will help make q belle! Write me,
care The Evening Star, and in
close a self-addressed, stamped
'3-cent envelope If you would
like it.
(Copyrizht, 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-07

hard and penurious with them.
And which makes the greater error
is hard to say. For if the overly
indulgent father units his children
for life. the miserly father deprives
his children of all the gayety and
softness and beauty that belong to
youth. He makes life rough and
stony road for tender and inexperi-
enced feet to travel.
Certainly a father is right in tight
ening his purse strings when son
who is idle and worthless tries to
break into it for money to spend
on wine. women and song. But why
should he not loosen it for son
who is working and industrious
and ambitious and who could be
saved so many years of heart-break-
ing climbing if only father would
give him a boost up the ladder?
When a girl marries a poor boy.
why shouldn't her father. if he can
afford it, soft-pad the hard years in
which young couple are getting on
their feet? Why shouldn't he give
her the pretty dresses he has always
given her, and a servant, or keep
up her car for her. or give her q
nice trip now and then, instead Of
expecting her to slave her. life away
cooking and washing and ironing
and baby tending because he thinks
married people should work out their
own salvation?
OF course, the parents who refuse
to help their children when they
are young say that they will get the
money when they die. True. But
1t is an awful thing to make chill
dren desire your death in order that
they may have the things you could
have given them and didn't.