Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1930, Page 14

D. . CODE MADE UP JU0F QUAINT LAWS Howard Boyd, Compiler, Tells Radio Audience Extraor- dinary Origin. Declaring that the basis of all Dis- rict of Columbia law is the “Declara- tion of Rights of the State of Mary- land.” Howard Boyd, one of the com- Pliers of the new D. C. code, explained in a radio address last night that the code consists of compilation of many laws, some of which were enacted in Latin more than 700 years ago by the British Parliament. “Probably no other code has ever been evolved from more complex, but interesting conditions,” said Mr. Boyd, aking over Station WMAL. “Its pro- visions were culled from laws made by the -British - Parliament, the respective Legislatures of Maryland, Virginia, Dis- frict of Columbia and the 47 volumes of the United States statutes at large, ‘Much of the congressional legisla- tion touching the District was hidden in appropriation acts” asserted Mr. Boyd, “and in many instances the same law has been re-enacted several times, Congress apparently not knowing of the prior enactment. In one instance an appropriation was made and actually used for the enforcement of a law that had previously been expressly repealed by words hidden in the midst of an-| other law.” Effect on Bridge Players. It may be of interest to bri play- ers, he added, “to know that a prom- ises, securities or conveyance for the | ft payment of money lost at playing cards, THE SUNDAY WOMAN LEADERS HELD FITTED TO DIRECT Are More Qualified to Get| Along With Adherents | Than Men Leaders. } Mrs. Yost and Mrs. Ross Agree That Liquor Is Bad. BY WILLIAM HARD. ‘The women at the heads of the women'’s divisions of the national organ- izations of our two major political parties seem at this time to be perhaps much more qualified to get along with each other amicably than their re- spective men leaders. It might be difficult for Prof. Simeon D. Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, to follow Mr. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Demo cratic National Committee, with en- thusiasm on the subject of Mr. Shouse’s | race horses; and it might be difficult | for Mr. Shouse to follow Prof. Fess in | a wide-awake manner on the subject | of his treatise on “American political | theory,” Mr. Shouse being more inter- | ested in practice. Mrs. Nellle Tayloe Ross, however, who marshais the women of the Democratic party in support of the principles of Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Shouse, and Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, who has just been selectsd to galvanize the women of the Republican party into organized formation in favor of the principles of Alexander Hamilton and Prof. Fess, could converse with mutually increasing interest and esteem on at least one basic feminine topic. They agree that liquor is bacd for the men olks. Mrs. Ross’ late husband, William | etc., are made null and void by a British statute enacted in 1710, and that a loss of $26.67 or more that has been paid may be recovered, and also that if at any one sitting a sum in excess of $26.67 shall be won by fraud or decep- tion the winner is liable to forfeit five times the value of the money or thing &0 _won.” Explaining that the basis of all Dis- trict law is the Declaration of Rights of the State of Maryland, the speaker said that “in harmony with the spirit of Magna Carta and=~the Declaration of Independence, it proclaimed ‘that all government of right originates from the people, is founded in compact only, and instituted solely for the good of the whole.’ . . That the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the common law of England, and the trial by Jury according to the course of that law, and of the benefit of such of the English statutes existed at the time of their first embarkation and which by experi- ence have been found applicable to €heir local and other circumstances, and Bradford Ross, is sald thoroughly to | have agreed with her on this point and | to have administered Wyoming accord- ingly while he was governor of it. Mrs. Ross, succeeding him as governor through the admiration of the people of Wyoming for her human as well as her womanly qualities, administered the State in the same spirit. She used her | gubernatorial power to cause the oust- ings of local sheriffs who falled to be | earnest and arduous prohibition en- forcers. In the meantime Mrs. Yost was rising | to rapid prominence in the circles uf‘ the Women's Christian Temperance Union and also in the rather compli- cated spirals of the Republican plrty‘ in West Virginia. She presumably in | her temperance activities had the ap- | proval of her husband, Ellis A.| Yost; for he is now, by appointment | of the Hoover administration, a coun- | selor at law for the Federal Radio Commission and presumptively a be- liever in experimental novelties of noble | purpose. Mrs. Yost soon manifested Of such others as have been since ma in England or Great Britain, and hnc‘}: Been introduced. used and practiced by the courts of law or equity.” ' Solely for District. It is important to note, Mr. Boyd Pointed out, that the code contains only general and permanent laws applicable solely to the District. Private, tempo- Tary or local laws and acts of Con- gress applicable in the District and elsewhere are not included. The speaker paid tribute to Repre- sentative Roy G. Pitzgerald of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Revi- sion of the Laws, declaring credit was due him for his “untiring patriotic ef- forts” for the legislation authorizing the code. Co-operation of “inestimable value” was accorded the compilers, the speaker sald, by Robert Klepinger, sec- retary to Mr. Fitzgerald. and Walter H. McClenon of the legislative refer- ence bureau of the Library of Congress. “The making of codes is not a new endeavor,” he said. “On the contrary, from the dawn of civilization the en- actment of laws and the compilation of codes constantly engaged the efforts and best thought of man, because without Just laws organized society cannot ‘The _world activities and conquests of the Roman Empire brought her into touch with all extant systems of law ©of the ages that had gone before. Great System Developed. “These laws and systems, tempered by Christian principles, exerted such a potent influence on the laws of Rome that the greatest system the world has Jnown was developed. “The substance of this system was embodied in the Theodosian Code, com- piled in the fifth century, and it was followed in the next century by the Justinian Code, which emphasized the #pirit of the system. This code, known as ‘Corpus Juris Civills,' is destined to exert a beneficent influence for all ages to come, because it is based on funda- mental principles of right and justice that never die. “Internal dissensions made the Ro- man Empire an easy prey to the sword of the barbaric hordes that overthrew it, but these conquerors in turn yielded to the spirit of ‘Corpus Juris Civilis,’ and its principles now rule practically the whole of Europe and South America and have had a vast influence on the law of England and America. “That same spirit gave courage to the n who procured from King John the immortal Magna Charta, and also stim- ted our own forefathers to declare themselves forever free from the gov- emment that denied to them the rights forth in that code, and we have seen tHat the laws contained in our own code re inspired by these same principles.” 0 ARRESTED IN STREET *AWL DESCRIBED AS RIOT Meighbors Appeal to Police, Who nterrupt Battle Between White and Colored Men. Interrupting a street brawl between group of white and colored men at tth Capitol and P streets last night, lice arrested two members of the up, while the remainder made their away. man who gave his name as Frank yes, 28 years old, who told police he d no permanent address, was arrest- ed by tenth precinct officers and charged with drunkenness and dis- erly conduct, while Raymond Banks, lored, 19, of 2102 Seventh street, was en into custody by Headquarters De- tetive N. 8, Hodkinson and held for estigation Police of the tenth precinct and De- tective Hodkinson were dispatched to the scene of the brawl when neighbors telephoned police headquarters and re- rted that a small size riot was in ess. Police were unable to de- mine the cause of the melee. RACER’S NECK BROKEN Bpeeding Machine Overturns on Curve of Half-Mile Track. r!W HARMONY, Ind., August 16 (). y .Pouladish, Zeigler, Ill, race ver, ‘was killed instantly here this afferneon when his ile’. overturned on the southeast e@ve of the half-mile dirt track dur- & race. e suffered a broken neck and was 4@d when picked up. Pouladish was af amateur driver and was participat- a mest astonishing power of combining propagandist endeavors with regular party affiliations and services. Propa- | gandists are usually on one side of the door of legislation and politicians on the other. Mrs. Yost made it a re- volving door and got or: both sides of it and became both president of West Virginia’s Wemen's Christian Temper- ance Union and chairman of West Vir- ginla’s Republican Woman's State Executive Committee and even chair- man of West Virginia's Republican State Convention in 1920. It is thus manifest, since not all West Virginian Republican males are eter- nally sure that liquor is bad for man folks, that Mrs. Yost must be able to conciliate wets as well as to couns°l rys. The same penetrating remark is applicable to Mrs. Ross. Mrs. Ross was able to tolerate Alfred Emanue! Smith 6f New York in the presidential campaign of 1928 and perhaps* hoped only that if he got into the White House by his own views he might thereafter be possibly improved by hers. At any rate, being a good woman, and femi- nine, she did not abandon him in his moment of crisis, but remained entirely loyal to him throughout it and is now a faithful rkh of Western desert in the midst of the political moisture of the COMING BATTLE MRS. LENNA LOWE YOST. Democratic national organization. It is entirely safely predictable that Mrs. Yost wili_exhibit a_similar loyalty to Dwight Whitney Morrow of New Jersey in his wet escapade of trying to become United States Senator through an advocacy of the repeal of Mrs, Yost' eighteenth ‘amendment. Much of the characters of both of these woman drys can be writterr in concurrence and in unison. Mrs. Ross and Mrs, Yost are both of them able to have principl:s without denying to others the ability to have them too. Neither of them has pose. Both of them have poise. Each of them has propa- gandist earnestness. Each of them at the same time has judicial balance. Both of them are endowed with great feminine attractiveness. Each of them nevertheless is possessed also—and most notably—of those qualities of impartial | cool judgment and toleration and a&c- commodation which someiines are called peculiarly masculine. Mrs. Ross has spoken on behalf of | Thomas Jefferson in some 20 States | during the last few weeks.. She pleases | audiences not only with her eloquence, but with her moderation and modesty, Mrs. Yost has won large numbers of | friends for herself in Washington, even {in the press gallery, which never has displayed any overwhelming friendship for professional prohibitionists, when male. Mrs. Yost has a son who composes songs, and whose “Dream of Dreams"” has been sung as & theme song by Rudy Vallee. He was not brought up-sad by his prohibitionist mother. Neither Mrs. Ross nor Mrs. Yost is sad. We are here beginning to be partly governed politi- | cally in our national party organizations by two determined women, but neither of them (unlike lots of their man col- leagues) is & fanatic. (Copyright, 1930.) TICKET INDORSED BY GOLDSBOROUGH Maryland Republican Ap- proves Make-Up and Takes Stand for Dry Plank. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, August 16.—An indorsement of the complete Republican State-wide ticket by Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough was read today at a meeting here of the Republican State Central Committee. The same letter insisted on a dry plank in the Repub- lican platform this year. Previously Silent. Until today Senator Goldsborough had been silent as to the make-up of the State ticket, which is to be nom- inated at the September primary with- out opposition. Today's letter said: land, an opportunity was afforded to the Republicans of our State, until August 8, for a full discussion of and the entry of candidates for Republican State nominations. That date has face the vital election of this year behind a full State ticket without the handicap of a party primary.” “I am glad to take this occasion to add my word of commendation of our party ticket and my hopes for its success.” Dry Statement. Elsewhere in his letter, Mr. Golds- | “Under the primary law of Mary-| passed. We are fortunate that we now | TRUTH SOCIETY ACQUIRES JERSEY RADIO STATION President Announces Purchase 1s First Link in National Chain of Protestant Voices. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 16.—Franklin Ford, manager and announcer of Sta- tion WHAP and president of the De- | fenders of Truth Society, announced today the society had purchased Station WOAX of Trenton, N. J., as “the first link in a proposed national chain of Protestant radio_voices. Mr. Ford declined to discuss the purchase price, but said a substantial first payment had been made by funds | donated by two New Yorkers, whose names were withheld. His soclety has applied to the Federal Radio Commis- sion for the removal of the transmitter of Station WOAX to Merchantville, N. J., near Camden, in order to serve the Philadelphia area. However, Mr. Ford sald, this change has been blocked for | the present by a protest filed by Com= missioner Clay W. Reesman, director of Camden’s station, who has sald he | would file & protest, no matter where the new site was picked. |DRIVER HELD WHEN CAR | HITS EXCURSION BUS | Children as Passengers Escape In- | jury, But Colliding Auto Is | Badly Damaged. Following a collision at Georgia ave- nue and Euclid street, in which his machine struck a Washington Railway & Electric Co. bus, loaded with chil- dren returning from excursion, James A. Carter, colored, 49 years old, was arrested by police of the tenth | precinet and held on a charge of reck- less driving. The bus was only slightly damaged, borough repeated his insistence on a | While all of the youthful passengers es- X ®| caped Injury. Carter, who 15 said to firy Dlank In the G O - 1930 plat- | { Ne given police an address i the “I'would not be true to my con- | 2200 block Park place northwest,” was victions and to my public views, as|ubburt, but his machine was badly auto- | mi pe our State platform and candi- dates in this campaign, highly successful national contest of 1928, may suitably recognize the supremacy of the national Constitution enG i amendments, and favor & | proper regard for, rather than the nullification of, laws thereunder, as long as they the laws of the land.” | as in the | HELD- IN BANK BOMBING | Woman Is Charged With Being nn‘ Accomplice to Murder. FORT WORTH, Tex., August 16 (). - ys Milam,” 21, today was chay with being an accomplice to r, in connection with the bomb- ing a week ago of the Stockyards Na- tional Bank by N. M. Martin, who first demanded $10,000. Martin and Fred L. Pelton, vice | president of the bank, were killed in the | explosion. Miss Milam has been held | in the fifth race of his career. Athletics Buy Outfielder. DALLAS, Tex., August 16 (#)—OM- cials of the Dallas, Tex., League base ball club today announced the sale of Jim Moore, an outfielder, to the Ph:‘:l; for several days, while detectives in- | vestigated a theory that Martin was | accompanied by confederates when he entered the bank. . The complaint against the woman charged that “on August 7, flzrfor to the commission of the offense, she did will- :udexy and with malice llorethfl\ltht.mld- Novels of the usual length run to exg:’mea in 1928, if I did not say that | damaged. 1 R MISSING MAN RECOVERS LOS ANGELES, August 16 (#)—G. A. Beckman, Middletown, Ohilo, busi- ness man, who has been missing since July 25, appeared at Salvation Army headquarters here today, seeking aid in_contacting his family. He told Brig. Bell he lost his memory after accepting a drink from a stranger, who, representing himself to be a sales- man, took him to look at a plece of property. LOS ANGELES, August 16 (#).— Lloyd Gimmell, 31, was arrested to- day in connection with the alleged murder last Sunday night of Barbara Boyle, 66, in her home, at Tujonga & suburb. The deputies said Gimmell's fingerprints checked exactly with blood stained prints found on the floor of the widow's home. THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road N.W. One Room, ception Hall, Kitchen and Bath four. and five volumes when printed in Braille type for the blind. ? Electrical Refrigeration STAR WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 17, 1930—PART_ONE. Super-Bargains for Tomorrow in Qur ANNUAL AUGUST SALE This great event establishes a new scale of furniture values in Washington. A revelation in the increased buy- ing power of your dollar! Many able business men say that prices are too low, and will have to be increased. 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