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The Washington times., 1938-04-19
LAST CHAPTER
OF Eco SPREE

The Capitals annual egg festi-
val centered at the White House,
was being concluded this morning
on the lawn of the Executive Man.
sion by Groundkeeper William s.
Reeves and his staff.
Me. Reeves and his cohorts were
engaged throughout the morning
in sweeping, raking, shoveling and
spooning from the lawn some
100000 eggs, which were variously
rolled. kicked at, stepped upon,
sat upon, thrown, dropped, and
generally trampled into the fine
turf of President RooSevelt's back
yard, by $4,000 children.
OF the $4,000 children who
threw eggs, cried, lost their eggs
or lost their parents statistics re-
vealed II were given treatment
for falnting. Cases of indigestion
were numerous but unreported.
The Washington times., 1938-04-19
Truck Strike
Is Ended
In Hour

A strike of only an hours dura-
ton at a filling project on the Lee
Highway approach to Arlington
Memorial Bridge ended yesterday
with restoration of a SIPS pay
scale for drivers.
Sixteen truck drivers refused to
work yesterday morning when the
Jacobs Company, a New Jersey
firm, under contract to the Bureau
of Public Roads, changed the rate
of drivers pay from SIPS an hour
to SIS cents a load.
The drivers, after trying the
new scale Saturday, found they
could make but two trips an hour
between the project and Bucking-
ham apartments in Arlington,
where they were obtaining dirt for
the filling.
The Washington times., 1938-04-19
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
By EOalw Walsh Mclean

OF course, in any big organization there are
few dishonest people and few people that can
be bought, but as a rule the politician is really
trying to do his best for his country and his
people and in all my long years of experience in
Washington I know very few cases where any of
them have ever been reached
1t is only human nature they should want to be
returned to their seats Of office, but I'll bet if
they had to choose between this socalled selling
out" they would tell the man who attempted to
bride them, pretty quick where to get off and
would take the chance of losing their reelection
You citizens of the District owe it to your chill
dren who will come after you, to go to the polls
on the SOth of April and vote YES so you can have
say in your own government.
Senator Capper. Representative Randolph and
Representative Rogers have been wonderful about
1t. They are giving you chance to express YOUR
wishes and Commissioner Allen and Commits.
sioner Hazen also have been splendid in helping
in every way.
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see that the whole thing was failure. Further
more, we have the experience of France as an
object lesson.
2. The Democratic party is more definitely
split, and many leading Democrats are opposed
to the New Deals highpressure selling on the in
stallment plan. Dummy, isn't it, that few
months ago the President was hauling the auto
mobile manufacturers over the Goals for in
ducing us to buy cars on easy credit. Now he
tries to exceed them by urging us all as nation
to plunge into huge borrow-and-spend Spree?)
THESE differences mean that the new program
l. probably will not go through without strong
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their thumbs, made speeches, chewed chewing
gum, and scratched their heads (you know how
lawmakers behaved. They had peeped into the
Senate and House diningrooms. Had listened
during all the tour to the wise words of their
guide and were about to pass out into the
sunshine when one of the party, woman ex-
cused herself from the rest. Hurrying back to the
elevator boy, she nreathleSsly whispered:
"Say, what building is this?"
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Spend Money Here

DEMEMBER the colored man spends his money
~ in America, while eight out of 10 foreigners
ship their money abroad. No, I am not bit
afraid of the colored vote in the District In
fact, when you have intelligent, clear-thinking
people of any race in the world, they are not as
dangerous as the poor souls who haven't the
ability or chance to weigh the pros and cons of
things.
Then another very strong point made here is
that if we have the local vote, there will be SO
much corruption in the political machine. Now,
don't happen to be one of the many many
persons who think political machines are corrupt
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only with lawmakers told it to
me. A great struggling crowd
of sightSeers were on the last
lap of their journey about the
Capitol. Led by a guide, they
had admired the heroes (all
masculine) in the Hall of
Fame. They had examined
the paintings, heard words
they had whispered re-echoed
in the rotunda. They had
looked down on the House and
the Senate while the congress
sional gentlemen twiddled
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HOUSE SEEKING
IN
AIRPORT FIGHT
Navy Battles Camp
Springs Site

With the bill proposing estab-
lishment Of District airport at
Camp Springs, Md, apparently
doomed to the scrap heap, Chair
man Fritz Lanham, Of the House
Public Buildings and Lands Com
mittee, today prepared to launch
new survey for a compromise
site.
Action on the Camp Springs
bill, advocated by President Roose-
welt and already passed by the
Senate, was blocked in the House
yesterday by Representative Carl
Vinson CD of Georgia, chairman
of the Naval Affairs Committee.
VINSON ADAMANT
Vinson today said he was will
ing to cooperate with airport adj
vocates in their search for an
other site, but emphatically de-
clared he will not consent to the
Continued on Page II, Col. y
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OF course, one difference is
that now we have all the in
creased public debt and the
enormous unused bank de-
posts that were left by the
previous spending program.
But the two differences to
which I refer are these:
/. Many of us are now surer
than ever that this sort of
public squandering does no
good. We have the record of
the previous pump-priming ex-
periments, and we can now
The Washington times., 1938-04-19
World of Finance By LEXIS Hansy

NEW YORK, April 19.-There are two differ.
q ences this time.
I mean that as the New Deal administration
starts the pumppriming game again, we should
remember that conditions are not the same as
in 1879 or 1924
The Washington times., 1938-04-19

Most certainly if our colored friends take the
trouble to study and keep up great university
like Howard, in my opinion, there is no danger
from this type of people How much better to
have intelligent, trained men who really think
out subject, than the poor illiterate immigrants
and the other nationalities in New York or in
any other big city of the United States, who
barely know enough to sign their names, and
as a rule vote the way their bosses tell them to.
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that seem uppermost in the
peoples minds and the most
serious.
First, there is that eternal
cry, 1--WE are afraid of the
COLORED vote"
Now, as I have said before
in these articles, the colored
people of Washinton are a self
respecting, well-educated class
Of people. Take Howard Uni
versity. It is one of the out
standing institutions Of learn
The Washington times., 1938-04-19
Athletics Turns to Dancing

COLLEGE athletics is no longer matter of
" Drawn and straining muscles College ath
letics now goes in for grace and gaiety and often
expresses itself in interpretive dancing. Some Of
the pretty creatures who are studying their
The Washington times., 1938-04-19
NOW Is the Time

r THE people of this city who have every
opportunity now to get the vote, turn it down,
they cap only blame themselves for the terrible
conditions here in Washington-the crowded
Jail, the closing Of the National Training School
for Girls, which is disgrace and hundred
other important matters we all should be in
terested in.
Remember the old poem, "Curfew Shall Not
Ring Tonight" Well, if you citizens of the Dis
trict do not get busy, curfew is certainly going
to ring for you on the 3Oth. After that it will
be too late to do anything You will be dumb
and helpless to protect your own beautiful city.
It is up to every man and woman in the Dis
trict now to act, not only for themselves but for
future generations. You cannot tell me that a
city which will soon have a million souls in it
should not have the right to vote. It is against
all the laws of our government and it is our duty
to put our house in order and keep it that way
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My Say

TNHE day is approaching when all citizens Of the
District will have an opportunity to say
whether they want the vote or whether they
don't want it.
have heard so many conflicting opinions on
the subject am going to take up only the ones
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Dear Washington

VOU won't believe this story. But blue-eyed
elevator boy who must be without guile be-
cause he works at the Capitol and associates
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.SpeakEnglish
Legation
Pleads

This famed Southern accent
holds no charms for the Haitian
legation.
A Times reporter whose drawl
is definitely of Southern Virginia
called the legation on the phone
today. Carefully and politely he
introduced himself, but the Hal
tain on the other end of the line
couldn't understand.
Twice more the reporter tried
it. Then the voice on the other
end said:
Whoever you are please speak
Spanish or French. Your Eng
hsh is too poor to be under
Stood"
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 80
TRADE BOARD ELECTION
The Washington Board of Trade
will hold its annual meeting and
election Of officers at the May
flower Hotel on April q at
7:30 p. m.
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tremendous. The greater percentage are filled
to capacity, so much so that many flight has
to be operated in sections One line alone carried
5000 people on their first flights after the New
England hurricane
PersOnaEized Service
PUsINEssLIKE men stand behind ticket
- counters and tend to ticket matters Porters
whsk luggage away for stowage aboard ship.
Personalized service is keynote in this business
and people like it, Newspapers of each city at
which stops are made are handed to travellers.
Carpeted floors and SOFT sinki-fied, broadcloth-
covered chairs, adjustable to any position, and
individual lights by which to read, provide con-
tentment and sense of security in a plane
impossible to conceive short time ago.
Restaurants of A-No. / rating provide good
meals for anyone stopping over for an hour
or two, waiting for another connection.
walk through the operations offices Of any one
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Keeping "EarLy Hours'

CUNDAY: He has been saying that it is very
~ foolish they should &C out night after night
and hang around in the big saloons when he
could be staying home and writing. And the
Queen says: well, l. for one would like to have
you stay home for change and not be running
around" And he says: Starting today, will be
home every night at o'clock"
They did not get in until the sun was almost
up and. like usual, woke me with their converse
ton. It seems they took the Charles Einfelds to
the Versailles and a man named George Jessel
sang songs-not good, but very funny-and also
spoke to his dear mama over the telephone.
T5EN they went to the Casa Manana, and
= Grumpo says it is probably the fastest and
finest show the Casa has had, and the Queen says:
'You said that before, don't you remember?"
And he says: well this time, I mean positively.
would like to go on record" he says, "that three
acts will become famous and have their pictures
In the magazines" The Queen says: You mean
that cute little girl who shivers all over Betty
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Says Boake Carter

of the great airlines in huge airport like this
and there are experts recording weather reports
from all over the nation.
Amazingly Air-Minded
A LONG table, with double row Of chairs,
AZ occupied by men whose sole business it is to
take care of incoming calls for reservations,
indicates how amazingly airminded the American
public has become in the last "a months
In the tower works crew. confronted with
dashboard of keys and switches and surrounded
by radio receivers. public-address system micro
phones The landing and takeoff of planes is
directed from this heavenly post, so that order
illness and precision Of ingress and egress be
maintained.
In hangers, great passenger ships are stripped
and serviced by more men who are like all the
others, experts in their particular department.
Mail trucks roll by. Gas trucks back up and
then depart.
1t is heartening to even the most confirmed
peSsimist to watch this kind of airport activity
by day and by night.
But it is also disheartening to observe the
oft-repeated efforts to infiltrate a virile group
of young Americans, who believe so gustily in
America and the future that it holds forth for
individual enterprise, with politics.
There is move afoot, for instance, to turn
all airport control over to the hands of the
Federal Government just as the Government
has hapd in all the seaports of the nation.
The airline men do not dislike the theory, but
they are afraid of sticky fingers Of constituencies
politicians if such an event comes to pass.
Copyright Ledger syndicate)
(Boake CGrter'S opinions are his ot0n and not
necessarily those of The Washington TinesJ
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scattered around in offices,
everyone going in a different
direction with a common OBJ
jective. The groups talking ex-
citedly would "Shush" as soon
as a stranger hove into sight,
look at the stranger suspicious
ly as he passed, then resume
the very "secret" conversation.
Probably discussing the wealth
er. And while on the subject.
everyone should have been
satisfied. One political group
wanted rain, while another
wanted heat We'll We had hOt
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telling the Queen she has
missed good party because
they went down to New Bruins
wick in a special car with a spe-
cial bar and some pretty girls
went along like Eleanor Whit
" and Ella Logan and Billie
Seward, also many other girls
who we're pretty, but they are
wives, he said.
The party was given by
Robert Kriendler, who is a
Rutgers man, and among the
good Rutgers men who went
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along were Ned Depinet. John OHara, shipwreck
Kelly, Charles Berns Charles Enfield, also
scotch, brandy and beer. Everything, he said
was arranged just right and, when his back was
turned so he could wave to Dan Parker up in the
press box, the Rutgers team suddenly went out
and won the game.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Had to Maintain Quiet

AT night headquarters was again different
"A story Crowds Surging all over, everyone
wanting to get in to the "sanctum-sanctorum
of Jim Farleys office. OF course, there were
a few of us in there. about 10 or H. and we all
had to be perfectly quiet while the five telephones
rang; newspapermen, State chairmen with re-
turns friends people who had made bets on
the election. Jim Farley had not the patience
of saint. He had the patience of ALL the saints.
And his secretary, Mrs. Duffy, was a lesson in
herself. Her tact and quiet manner, doing
everything she could to take the irritating part
The Washington times., 1938-11-10

this nation, such as the airport
Of this city, for two or three
hours and you sense the kind
Of spirit that made this nation
great. It is the spirit of enter
prise.
Planes arrive from all direc-
tions and depart likewise.
Their movements are an
nounced matter-of-factly. Pas
sengers debark and embark
with a savoir-faire which was
unknown three years ago.
80
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Just More Fun!

THE smaller counties elsewhere were having a
l. gay old time. checking up on the returns.
There's one district that heard about with $50
votes. Sixteen hours after the last ballot had
been cast, the counters still couldn't give any
report. Seems to me an honest child Of 10
could do better than that.
Wonder how Mr. Pearson and Mr.. Allen feel
about the overwhelming way their little pet,
Millard Tydings got in?
Amt politics grand?
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
T|But''-

GH1CAGO.-Viriity, courage and youth are not
dead in America.
Stand around any one of the great airports of
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
One of Those Things

One OF Those hIngS
ONE woman called up-the Lord knows how she
" ever got through the switchboard-and said
she was Mrs. Farley. The Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Morgenthau dropped in late,
having been somewhere else listening to returns
earlier Mr.. Morgenthau was headed back to
Washington, not with Mrs. Morgenthau, but
with a cute, tiny little Great Dane dog Of his.
We were all pretty tired after it over. Tired,
but happy. So, cleverly, instead of going on
home, off we go to Ell Morocco and sit up until
about $3.50. And just at that time, Jim Farley
and all his organization were just about get
ting into their stride, going over district re-
turns, one by one, perhaps checking up once
more, so the charts would be positively in order
with not one vote wrong r.s .. o..
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n1ARY OF coLUMN1sT's PUP:-Grumpo has
~ been to something in which men fight other
men over piece of skin off pigs back and he is
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Ewes Rib
NEW YORK.

AT DEMOCRATIC headquarters Tuesday after
"A noon all was hurry and hustle and confusion.
All the State workers were there in the Biltmore,
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Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

Hutton?" And he says: Eyes, she is marvellous
the way she sings and could really lover her
and"
Like father?" asks the Queen, quiet like, and
he snaps: Certainly how else?" And she
giggles but he goes on, "and there is that oeauti
full singer who is even more beautiful than
Jeanette Macdonald and has as fine voice, to
my way of thinking as Della Lind Also those two
funny fellows. Abbott and Costello"
"There Was Time"
MONDAY: A Mr. Marvin Schenck and Mr.
AVA Sidney Piermont have asked him (on their
verv knees YOU would think when you hear him
tell her about it, to please reconsider his decision
never again to appear on the vaudeville stage.
"I told them" he says "that there was time
when for dear old Loews State, Paul Small, and
that little piece of paper with figures on 1T at
the end Of the week was willing to make any
sacrifice, including five day; but things have
changed now" And the Queen says: They
haven't changed much for me. You still keep me
on that pitiful allowance, so that am ashamed
to look other coumnist's wives in the faces be-
cause will have to see what pretty hats they
have on over them and what smart wraps they
have on under them"
For hat and wrap would you sell me down
the river to the vaudeville people?" he asks,
sarcasticlike. And she says: ''Why not?" And
he says: Addison and Steele were never in
vaudeville" And she says: "The styles weren't
as pretty in those days.
TUESDAY: They have been talking about the
spies. and the Queen sighs: II used to think
they were such glamorous figures, and mysteri-
ous but now think spies are just ordinary"
And he says: "The kind of spies they've dug up
here in America are worse than that; they are
vicious and disloyal, even to the countries which
pay them. would rather have barn rat as
my dinner companion" And the Queen says:
II was only thinking they can't get good salaries,
because never saw any set of people who dress
in such bad TASTE"
Dear Diary: feel lik NJ would like to die
Clamp. my pretty, adorable sweetheart, was run
over by truck today.
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By ..EUie' Robert

of the very irritating things that come up at
such time off Of Jim Farley.
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"aACeu ram, Willie dLoIIleL Evie Robert
wanted heat. Well we had both in quantity.
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(Boake CGrter'S opinions are his ot0n and not
necessarily those of The Washington TimesJ
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
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Solid TaP3s RPs sIs.ao::...' hsd Twin si.: $6.
Inner Spring Mattress and q %
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walnut al. va. D'fsEs: sss.5O. S22.
Solid Mahogany Chest of CIT
Drawers Was $500. .
Walnut Finish Chest of Ct
Drawers Was $14.50 -. ~ .
Solid Maple or Walnut Desk G9N
Chest =. Was $1,000. .... 4ZVS
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quality craftsmanship with eye appeal Mahogany frame fitted will
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Damask. Z pieces. Sofa and Lounge Chair
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Solid Maple Book Rack G9 Oh
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-03
NAME EDITORS FOR
N. C. STATE !. COLLEGE D ] ! ] { !:
Dixon to Handle News;
Wade Ison to Devote En-
tire Time to Sports

College Station, Raleigh, Jan. 3-The
appointment Of a full time man to the
post of editor OF. the colleges news ser
vice has marked the beginning OF a
rev DEAF for N. C. State College pub
licity efforts.
Fred Dixon, for seven years sports
editor of the News Service, was pro-
noted to the position. Wade Ison,
sports editor of the Charlotte News,
was named sports editor in his place.
Each man will give full time service
to the department to which he has
been assigned. The college has been
without full time news service writ
er since its organization, although the
college administration and the alumni
have repeatedly urged the appoint
ment of such a person. Funds are now
available in the athletic department,
for sports writer, making it possible
for the college to have full time news
writer.
However, at the meeting of the ath-
letic council, it was decided that the
athletic department is to assume all
expenses for the sports editor, thus
making it possible for the News Serv-
ice to obtain a full time man for the
coverage of straight" college news.
Dixon will devote his time to the
writing of news and special stories
concerning departmental work and
student activities, with Ison handling
sports solely.