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Evening star., 1939-01-29

has reason to be proud of the hos
pitable welcome which was last
night given in her name to her
guests, the inventors of the coun-
try"
There are few men living today
who were at this dinner. However,
we do know that Mr.. Noyes was
there, for he was among the speak
ers, and was called upon to respond
to the toast, THE Centenary of
Washington City" After eulogizing
the American patent system he spoke
of the District Of Columbia "A Cen
tury Ago" saying in part:
when the District cornerstone
was laid, thriving Georgetown was
its nucleus of settlement on one
side of the river and Alexandria
or Belle Haven on the other. The
site of Washington itself, a plain,
fringed by gradually sloping heights,
was series of pastures, marshes,
patches of cultivated ground and
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London, yet Of a magnitude inferior
to few others in Europe
"One hundred years ago a great
mind conceived the idea of a statue
Of perfect symmetry and beauty. This
idea was impressed upon the snowy
whiteness Of the heart of a huge
block of marble and the statues out
lines lay hid beneath the stones
rough and discolored surface. For
a century at intervals men have
worked with drill and blast, with
pick and chisel, to reach the heart of
this rocky mass and to expose to
sunlight and the eyes of men the
perfect statue. Stroke by stroke
the statue is uncovered. Inch by
inch it rises in dazzling and perfect
loveliness from all that is coarse
and rude and ugly In the stone and
earth Of its surroundings, as the
goddess of beauty rose in days of
old from the rough gray surface of
the ocean. The century-old idea of
Washington is fast becoming real,
tangible, visible. 1t is for us of the
Republics second century to give
the finishing touches to the work
designed 100 years ago. Let no
blundering chisel mar the delicate
outlines of the developing statue,
whose beauty, half concealed, half
exposed, assures to America and
the world perfect embodiment of
the ideal Capital"
The question of national represen-
tation for the District of Columbia
Is matter that the board has not
only repeatedly Endorsed, but has
intellectually worked for and
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way home they stopped at The Star
Office, where Watterson wrote an
account of the drowning, his first
newspaper work"
But how interesting it is to turn
back the pages of time and visualize
the first banquet given by the Board
Of Trade, on April 10, 1891, when this
organization was still in its swad-
ding clothes. The old Arlington
Hotel, then one of the most elegant
hostelries in town, was the place,
and the dinner was in commemora-
ton of the centenary of the Amer
ican patent system-the celebration
of the beginning of the second CEN
tury of the American patent system
having just concluded its notable
sessions in this city.
This banquet was also held for
the further purpose of commemorat-
ing the laying Of the cornerstone
of the District of Columbia, at
Jones Point, near Alexandria, Va,
which occurred April Is. 1871.
The company, we are told, upon
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address Of welcome and those who
responded to the regular toast were
Mr. Justice Harlan, Secretaries Noble
and Foster, Theodore w. Noyes, Dis
trict Commissioner Douglass, j. L..
Curry, Gen. Lewis A. Grant, Assist
ant Secretary Of War; Bishop Keane,
]. X. Soley, Assistant Secretary of
the Navy; c. E. Mitchell, commits
sioner of patents; S. A. Whitfield,
First Assistant Postmaster General;
Benjamin Butterworth and Attor-
ney General Miller.
The Star, In editorially referring
to this banquet, on April IL, 1891,
had this to say:
THE banquet given last night by
the Board of Trade, commemora-
tive Of the centenary of the Amer
ican patent system and the laying
Of the cornerstone of the District,
was notable success. The Board
of Trade takes the place Of common
councils of the ordinary city in ten
deripg municipal hospitality to dis
tinguished guests, and Washington
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hills green with many trees. It was
pleasing to the eye and well adapted
to its destined purpose. but those
sections now most desirable. both
for business and residence purposes,
were then the least attractive. The
river front was the choicest portion
of the city, If the opinions of the
earliest purchasers are considered.
Capitol Hill was dense forest,
scarcely touched by the woodmans
AK. Pennsylvania avenue was
deep morass covered with alder
bushes. Massachusetts, avenue, in
the now fashionable Northwest, was
a bog, undrained in part, as late
as 1862, In which year Anthony
Trollope, the English novelist, waded
along it knee-deep through snipe
grounds. Upon this foundation the
Capital Of today has been built-the
modern Washington, the focus of
national politics, the great gather
ing place Of the people in conven-
tions assembled, with its quarter
of a million of population, rapidly
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Five Pioneer Members
Will Attend Banquet
City's Population Has Trebled
Since Initial Meeting
Half Century Ago

ton Of information relating thereto
The special attention of the Board
of Trade is directed to the promo
ton of public improvements. Its
membership is not restricted to those
engaged in commercial pursuits, but
is open to all classes of the COM
munity, the bylaws providing that
individuals, firms or corporations
engaged in business in the District
of Columbia, or individuals who are
residents of the District of Colum-
bia, though not engaged in business,
who so desire, may become members
of the Washington Board Of Trade
as herein provided
"One of the chief functions of the
board is to present to Congress and
its committees the needs of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and insofar as
it can voice them, the wishes of the
citizens with respect to subjects for
congressional action
Looking backward to that period,
we find the District of Columbia
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buildings and to open and improve
streets. Up to 1885 the citizens (the
population at that time had only
reached 10000 had expended for
street improvements, mostly around
public buildings, $430 900; the United
States, 5000 900. From 1890 to 1878,
almost century. the United States
expended (aside from public build
ings) less than $4,000 900, the citi-
zens, $45 900, 900. From 1879 to 1887
our people invested in new build
ings $32, 100000. They paid a direct
tax of $4,000 for the War of 1872
1--WE supplied our share of volun-
teers for the War of 1912 and the
Mexican War. In the late war Civil
War; we furnished our full quota
and 1872 per cent over, while but
seven States filled their quotas and
but one equaled the District. In the
late war Civil War; the first volun-
teers were citizens of the District"
The first officers of the Board of
Trade were: President. Myron M.
Parker; first vice president, S. w.
Woodward: second vice president,
s. E. Wheatley; general counsel, A.
T. Britton; treasurer, B. H. Warner,
and secretary, Alexander D. Ander-
son.
Today the officers are: President,
Francis G. Addison, jr.; first vice
president, Lawrence E. Williams;
second vice president, James E. Col
liflower; secretary, Fred A. Smith
executive secretary, Harrison Brand,
jr.; assistant executive secretary,
William H. Press; treasurer, j. Harry
Cunningham; assistant treasurer,
George Pitt, general counsel, E.
F. Colladay, and sergeant at arms,
Frank r. Strunk.
If the reader happens to be a
Washingtonian he will appreciate
all the more the type and character
Of the outstanding men who have
served this body as president from
its very beginning to the present
time, some Of whom he may have
known personally. They are: $780,
1898, Myron M. Parker; 1893 1895,
B. H. Warner; 1896 1897, S. w.
Woodward; 1898-1899, Theodore w.
Noyes; 1900-19O1, John Joy Edison;
1902-1903, Thomas w. Smith; 1904
1905, William v. Cox; 1906 1907,
Brig. Gen. John M. Wilson; 1908,
Cuno H. Rudolph: 1909, John H.
Small, jr.; 1910-1911, Maj. Gen.
George H. Harries; 1912, Thomas C.
Noyes (who died in ofIice); 1912,
Arthur c. Moses; 1918, Edward
H. Droop: 1914, Cuno H. Rudolph;
1915, william H. Singleton; 1915
1917, E. G. Brandenburg; 1918,
w. T. Galliher;, 1919, Walter A.
Brown; 1920, James F. Oyster; 1921
1922, Thomas Bradley; 1923-1924, Ed
ward F. Colladay; 1925, Samuel J.
Prescott; 1925, j. Harry Cunning
ham; 1927, Edwin G. Graham; 1928,
w. w. Everett; 1929, Edward j.
Murphy; 1880, George Pitt, ST.; 1881,
George w. Offutt; 1882, Ben T.
Webster; 1888, Claude w. Owen;
1894, Robert v. Fleming; 1885. John
Saul; 1886, Edgar Morris; 1887, Ed
ward F. Colladay, and 1888, Francis
G. Addison, jr.
Today the membership of the
Board Of Trade is approximately
1000 and is still growing in numbers
and importance.
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Of the founders Of the Republic. In
respect to the Capital we shall do
we'll II we fulfil the hopes, prophe-
cies and anticipations of the fore
fathers and not prove narrower than
they. 1t was their idea that Wash
ington should be a Federal city, de-
veloped by the Nation and subject
to its CONTROL but it was not their
idea that it should be without peo-
pie. Its grand framework indicates
the expectation of large popula-
ton. Washington's imagination
covered the fair fields and wooded
hills of his namesake city with the
homes Of a numerous, busy and
happy people, people not to out
ward appearance aliens politically.
and less than aliens judicially, but
clothed with all American rights
not absolutely inconsistent with the
fostering control by the Nation of
the National Capital. He predicted
that the city Of the Nation a century
thence, if the country kept united,
would be though not as large as
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with total population in 1890 Of
230, ,392-Georgetown having 14,C46;
Washington within its old boun-
daries, 1882, and 27,414 persons
residing in what was then known
as the County of Washington. Since
then the population has almost
trebled, until now it is estimated
by the Bureau of the Census that
the population on July l, 1887,
amounted to 627O0O And, while
we are talking about the Districts
population, the writer desires to
disabuse the minds of some un-
thinking people who seem to believe
that the population of the District
is made up almost entirely of persons
born elsewhere, whereas, as mat
ter of fact, this is far from being
the case, as the census report will
show.
For instance. the last official re-
port on the subject-that of 1890
shows the total number of natives
to be 180,864 out of a population
then given as 1863, and, of course,
after the lapse Of nine years, as the
total population would naturally be
greater-and it is now, as before
stated, said to be 627,00O-so would
the number of native residents show
a substantial increase.
And please bear in mind this, that
the District of Columbia, like all
other inhabited places, numbers
among its native citizens, past and
present, relatively as many promi-
nent Americans as any place in the
United States. This includes, strange
to say, persons born here who have
even served in Congress, among
them being Representatives Henry
R. Rathbone, William r. Coyle,
Richard Johns Bowie, Maj. George
Peter, Richard Henry Stanton, Fred
erick Perry Stanton, William Law
renee Scott and Henry May.
The Senators born in the Dis
trict include James Murray Ma
son, born on Theodore Roosevelt
(Analostan) Island; James A.
Pearce, David Colbreth Brod-
erick and Davis Elkins. "Marse"
Henry Watterson was not only born
here while his father was in the
House of Representatives, but later
also served in this branch of Con-
gress. And if you will recall, it was
in Washington that the famous
editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal spent the first 20 years of
his life and did his first reporting
work for The Evening Star. which
is said to have happened in this way:
when 13 years Of age, together
with one of his intimate boy friends,
George w. Adams, who afterward
became one of the owners of The
Star, and a boy named Phillips,
Watterson went down to the river
to swim. There were a number of
boys in the water, and a cry of boy
drowned was raised. When there
appeared to be no chance of saving
the boy they all scampered to the
shore, picked out their clothing, and
by the clothing remaining unclaimed
identified the drowned boy as young
Phillips. Watterson and Adams evil
dently had the news instinct which
was later to make them both sue.
cessful newspapermen, and on their
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04

April, month of showers, passed
in FL Centro with only .13 of an
inch of rain To break the monot-
ony of % days of brilliant sun
shine.
The month always should be
known as the month of the big
thnderclapa On the night of the
twenty-third the whole CITY was
awakened by a deafening. rever-
berating, and long -drawnout clap
Of thunder. That lone clap of thun-
der aroused more comment than
all the weather oddities in years.
Temperatures zoomed SkyWard to
reach a maximum of l04 degrees
on the tWenty-firSt The minimum
for the month was as degrees on
the seventh. The greatest range
in temperature was 40 degrees. The
average was 72.5.
Rainfall total Tor the season is
269 inches. according to records
on file at the official U. S. weather
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04

WASHINGTON, May 4. (UP)-
Influential house Democrats, con-
cerned about the record which is
being written i'll congress by the
increased and harmonious minor
ity today prepared hemlock cup
for Republicans who WOO supporters
of "Utopian" pension schemes in
their campaign for reelection in
1910.
The poison will be offered in the
form of roll cali vote on the
Townsend old-age pension bill or
the general welfare measure, both
of which have been condemned by
the treasury. One of them will be
reported without recommendation
by the ways and means committee,
a rarely used parliamentary weap-
on. a rule will be sought assuring
ample debate.
Neither proposal has chance
of congressional approval, and Ell
ther would be vetoed by President
His record is clear in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04
Wall Street Operating
On Rain Making Theories

professionals are no longer IN wall
Street The SEC has smoked them
out and driven them away.
Ten years ago it was far too
easy for a bunch OF Wall Street
operators to take the shirt off the
back of a Main Street business
man. The SEC has cleaned out
most of the graft and fast stuff
of the type that was pulled in 1929.
As in all reforms which are made,
however, someone has to pay the
price. The price for kicking the rig
gers out of Wall Street has been
the creation of the thinnest mar
ket in our history.
Yet. there is 40 real reason why
the markets should have gone pam
icky Business is 10 per cent higher
today than it was year ago. The
war scare, plus the combined SELL
ing of a bunch of chart worship
pers. has knocked the thin market
down % points. In short, Wall
Street is operating on rain-making
theories rather than on basic buSi-
ness trends. Under such conditions
the Stock Exchange may become a
paradise for two-bit spectators and
hazard for legitimate investors.
So, earnestly urge the SEC and
the New York Stock Exchange to
get together and restore some of
the old liquidity to the stock mar
ket. say again that real security
comes only through courage. The
most worthwhile charts are the Ten
commandments and the Multiple
cation table.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04

the excitement. Through the SEC
regulations and other developments
the market has been made thin.
Hence, when any market pressure
group. such as the chart readers
and their followers, get bear
tip from their dope. their selling
stampede upsetS the Big Board.
For instance, from March 25 to
April 10 stock values shrank IA per
cent, or $4,000, ,COO,0OO, with an ac-
tual exchange of ownership of only
one per cent of listed shares!
What is a thin market? A thin
market means that there are very
few people who are willing either
to buy or sell stocks. Ten years
ago it sometimes took a five-thou
sand -share-lot to move the price
of a well-known stock eighth
of a point. In the recent decline
some of these stocks broke two or
more points on feW-hundred-
share sale.
Riggers Cleaned Out
As a result Of this thin market,
Wall Street is very sensitive to
sentiment and feelings today. With
radio commentators conjuring up
war scares, it takes only a few
frightened people to start the mar
ket downhill. Ten years ago the
selling of a few timid investors
would quickly be absorbed by pro-
fessional traders and others who
were always ready to take chance
to scalp fraction of a point. To-
day, however, these scalpers, short
sellers, margin buyers, and other
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04
JOE PALOOKA
BY ROGER BABSON-

NEW YORK CITY. May AR
irving in New York. I find Wall
Street ridden by superStitionS-
market charts. resistance points,
double bottoms. etc. These in
vestment fadS remind ME of what
happened in Florida just before I
came north. Many of the country's
newspapers carried the story. A
dear old lady from Mississippi came
to Florida and made it rain AS
the place where Miss Stoate per-
formed is in the next town to Bah
son Park, Florida, naturally I OBJ
served the situation with much
interest.
The rain-maker impressed me as
an honest and Godfearing wom-
an. Apparently she earnestly be-
heves in her theory. She sat" with
her umbrella by the lakeside until
IL did rain! AS a result, great
number of people are sincerely
convinced that she brought the rain.
Now, in my humble opinion the
Wall Street chartists with their
"rain-making" theories about the
stock market are operating as did
Miss Lille Stoate.
Here is the joker about chart-read-
ing: BY the time the signals have
definitely shown that the move IS
a bull or bear market, the swing
is often practically completed.
What Is Thin Market"
Yet. New York City has been in
a furor recently about these chart
theories. Surely, this is old stuff,
but here is the explanation for all
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04
AirpIane Thief
Arrested in Ariz.

GLOBE, Ariz.. May 4. CUP) -
George C. Tibbs, "a who formerly
worked in a Santa Monica. Calf,
airplane factory, was held here to-
day by Charles r. Byrne, sheriff,
after he surrendered saying he stole
two airplanes from landing fields
IN southern California.
Sheriff Byrne said he would COM
municate with California officers
to check Tibbs' story
The sheriff said Tibbs admitted
taking a plane from Glover field at
Santa Monica and flying it to San
Diego. later abandoning it south
Of Los Angeles when it ran out of
gasoline. He said the plane was
registered to Cecil Small Los An
geles
Another plane was repeatedly
stolen from 4 field at Cotton, Cal.
and flown to Mexico where it was
burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04
Only Trace of Rain Noted inl.v.
During Month of Big ThundercIap'

bureau observatory at the city wa
ter plant.
Peak wind velocity for the month
was 81 miles an hour The total
mileage was 4,018 and the hourly
average sig miles. The prevailing
wind direction was southeast. There
were no cloudy days and only two
partly cloudy ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04
Governors Meet
On Hospital Day

Governor Culbert L. Olson of
California and Governor Sanchez
Taboada OF Baja California will
exchange international greetings
Friday May u at the Paradise VAL
ley Sanitarium and hospital Ma
tional City, when that institution
observes National Hospital Day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04
House Democrats Prepare TrapFor
Republicans on Pension Measures

opposition to pension schemes which
he has denounced as short cuts
to Utopia" House leaders are fami-
liar with this situation. A poll OF
Democrats in the house shows
about 81 per cent opposed to the
Townsend bill.
Armed with this information,
some Democratic big-wigs began
demanding action. They looked eyer
at the Republican side and saw
there several members who flirted
with the Townsend movement and
succeeded in unseating Democrats
in the last general election. They
want to place these men on record
on this issue in the 1910 race. They
believe, too, that it may be pos
Slble through this maneuver to
test the liberalism of the Republi-
can minority as a party.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04

Sell Farm Produce Through
Post-PresS Want Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04

wonder how A&P gives you such low priees-here
answer: We buy direct ship direct mon,
in-befween profits and handling from food prices W.
operate efficiently you get lower prices Beq
euftina Iivna eosfs-now-af A&Pl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-04

thai settlement summed the why 100000
customers buy ia A&? stores week and week out In fha
settlement uo The TO food budget problem
Come the hundreds of bargains. Buy hearts
content Then get the big thrill counting your savins
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-26
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By G.. LYNN INSECT

Raleigh, Jan. 26.-The Eastern Car
Dina Chamber of Commerce and the
North Carolina Grange agree that no
gasoline tax or other highway money
should be diverted to the general
fund. That is the only point of agree
ment in their respective legislative
programs Whether it augurs i'll for
the diversion idea or for the programs
is a matter of opinion at this time
The Eastern Carolina chamber, at
its annual meeting here this week,
heard Congressman Cooley extoll the
national administrations program and
then adopted a five-point program of
it's own for presentation to the State
legislature. The chamber of commerce
purports to speak for the merchants,
bankers, manufacturers and other
business interests of the eastern part
of the State. It is interesting to COM
pare this program with that of the
Grange, which purports to speak for
the farmers, largely in the middle and
western sections. The Grange is not
important in the east, which is a
stronghold of the Farmer Bureau,
which has still another program of it's
own more drastic than the Grange.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-26
LIME TAX HARDEST
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Abolition Of Tax On Bulk
Lime For Farms Is Asked
And Method Simplifiel
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, Jan. 26-Abolition of the
tax On bulk lime for agricultural pur-
poses, or change in the method of
levying and collecting it, was suggest
ed by Assistant Commissioner Colt
rane of the department of agriculture
yesterday. The 1887 legislature for the
first time taxed lime, levying five
cents a ton. Experience has proven
this to be the hardest thing to police
that the department has to handle,
said Mr. Coltrane. This is due to the
fact that so much lime comes into the
State in trucks, either bought in an
other State by the farmer who hauls
it or bought and sold by the trucker
In the first instance no tax is due,
and in the second it is virtually i'm
possible to collect. Lime shipped into
the State by. the Federal government
for soil erosion projects also compli-
Gates the situation. The five cents a
ton tax yields hardly enough to pay
for it's collection, and the depart
ment suggests either not requiring its
collection or making the task easier