Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1935, Page 10

—10 HIGHWAY BEAUTY ) THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 3, 1935—PART ONE. Newest Rainey Portrait SEVEN SENTENCED IN MAIL ROBBERY rnm" Terms of One to Three A. G. Sauls, Birmingham, Ala., two years and $1,000 fine. E. E. Hamm, Jackson, Miss, two years and $1,000 fine, G. 8. Sandefur of Jackson, Miss., one year and a day. MOVE FOR ELIMINATION OF BALM SUITS SPREADS Woman Member of Ohio Legisla- ture Plans to Introduce Bill CIRCUS OWNER DIES Ernest Haag, 70, Organized Shows the “Sawdust Trail” blazers, died here yesterday of heart faflure while in Winter quarters with his circus, A native of Plymouth, Ind., he or= ganized the Haag Shows while still When Young Man. & young man. Haag continued on the MARIANNA, Fla., February 2 (#).— road with his show through last sea- son, although his health had been ADVANGE 1 SEEN Bay State Court Ruling Re- garded as Boon in Bill- board Fight. A prediction that a new impetus would be given to wide enactment of highway beautification programs was voiced yesterday by the American Automobile Association. The predic- tion was based upon reactions to a recent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in upholding the right :‘1 a State to regulate outdoor adver- sing. : The Massachusetts case, understood to be headed for the United States Supreme Court, arose out of a State constitutional amendment which de- clares “advertising on public ways and on private property within pub- | Yc view may be regulated and re- amendment, the State Department of | Years Meted Out by Ar- kansas Judge. By the Assoclated Press. JONESBORQ, Ark., February 2.— Seven men, who pleaded guilty or who were convicted this week in Federal District Court here on charges of con- spiring to handle a portion of some $200,000 in bonds stolen from the mails at Chicago and New York in 1933, to- day, were given sentences ranging from a year and a day to three years in the Federal Penitentiary. One other defendant, Sam Labow, Chicago druggist, who pleaded guilty last Fall, is already serving sentence of a year and a day. Judge John E. Martineau meted out the following sentences: John K. Gibson, three years and $5,000 fine. Jay H. Myers of Walnut Ridge, Ark., three years and $5,000 fine. J. L. McKamey of Imboden, Ark., two years and $5,000 fine. Harry Greenburg of New York, one INTEREST-FREE FUNDS ARE ASKED FOR CITIES Head of Mayors’ Conference Seeks $1,000,000,000 of Work-Relief Cash. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 2.—Paul V. Betters, director of the United States Conference of Mayors, yesterday said that American cities are ready to bor- row one-fourth of President Roosevelt's $4,000,000,000 public works program— if they can get it without interest. “If interest rates are to be charged municipal participation, even for self liquidating projects, will be practically nil, because city debts are already too high,” Betters said. He said the Government, by waiving interest charges, would be able to lend to municipalities and be relieved of the administrative costs of at least to Ban Actions. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, February 2.—An- other woman legislator championed the abolition of heart balm suits to- day as the idea spread from Indiana to Ohio. Mrs. Alma Smith, Cleveland mem- ber of the Ohio Legislature, an- nounced she will introduce a bill be- fore that body soon to outlaw heart belm suits from the ccurts of the State. The Indiana House of Representa- tives adopted yesterday a similar bill introduced by Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, The Nicholson bill, if adopted by the Indiana Senate, would end all suits for alienation of affections, breach of promise, seduction and nam- ing of co-respondents in divorce pro- ceedings. Mrs. Smith's bill will be patterned after the Indiana bill, she Ernest Haag, 70, ane of the last of failing for some time. HOT-WATER HEAT American Radiator Co. Heating Plant Completely Installed in 6 Rooms Up to 3 Years to Pay—First Payment April No Cash Down Written Guarantee Immediate Installation. No Interference With Present Heating Plant While Instaliation Is Being Made 18-inch tors, 300 Radiation Regulator that opens the draft Dproportionate. ROYAL HEATING CO. GRADUATE HEATING ENGINEERS 907 15th St. N.W. Nat. 3803 Nights and Sundays Phone Adams 8529 Estimates Day or Night Jacket Boller, six Thermostatic Damper atically. Larger plants ! stricted by law.” On the basis of this | ear and a day. $1,000,000,000. said. Public Works drafted a set of regu- | X . lations. These were attacked in 15 suits in equity, the Supreme Court ! fecision being in answer to the suits. | Owner’s Right Defined. ! On the principal contention of the suits, namely whether a State may} prescribe the use to which a man may | put his own land, the Bay State tri- bunal said: “The right to own land and to use Beeording to the owmer's conception of profit is in the main a part of the liberty secured to the individual un- der the Constitution, but that right Is subject to legislative regulation in the public interest.” The court also goes so far as to point out that advertising companies are exercising more than a “natural right” in their commercial utilization of highways and highway traffic. Such a practice, the court said, con- Chairman Keller of the House Library Committee inspects that latest portrait of the late Speaker Rainey to be received at the Capitol. This one is by Howard Chandler Christy, noted artist, whose portrait of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was purchased by the Government for the White House. The Christy painting, which reached Washington Friday, is one of several which the Library Committee is considering for purchase for the Speaker’s Gallery of the Capitol. Christy is the only artist for whom Speaker Rainey ever posed, and the painting shows him as he looked at the time he was the leader of the tariff wars in the House Ways and Means Com- mittee. - Representative Keller is from the district in Illinois which the late Speaker represented for many years. . —Star Staff Photo. stitutes “seizing for private benefit an opportunity created for quite a differ- | ent purpose by the expenditure of public money in the construction of ; public ways” The court also drew a distinction between highway adver- tising and other forms, remarking: “In the case of newspapers and magazines there must be some seeking by the one who is to see and read the advertisement. The radio can be turned off, but no so the billboard.” Safety Is Considered. Other grounds on which the court upheld the State regulations were those of traffic safety, preservation of scenic grandeur, pleasurable travel, maintenance of property value in residential areas and the securing of maximum benefits from public parks. “If the Massachusetts decision is sustained by the Supreme Court of the®United States, to which it is now headed, it cannot fail to have far- reaching effects on the future of American highways,” Thomas P. Henry, president of the A. A. A., said. “It will certainly lead to new efforts to solve what has been an urgent problem for a long time, that is, the reconciliation of the interests of com- merce on the one hand, and of safety, beauty and pleasurable travel on the other.” FRENCH STUDENTS END DRIVE ON FOREIGNERS Campaign Abandoned on Notice of Authorities Their Acts Embarrass ‘Nation. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 2.—French stu- dents late today began abandoning their anti-foreigners campaign as the authorities told them their activities were embarrassing the nation. In Paris, Bordeaux,*Lyon and Mont- pellier, where the students yesterday and today staged demonstrations for which the theme was “France for the French,” the youths started going | back to classes, apparently convinced that the government would “protect their rights.” A column of 1,000 students, fiying the French flag, marched through Paris streets today, police watching without interfering. They could find no hall for their projected mass meet- ing, however, and the ranks of the paraders rapidly dwindled as one demonstrator after another dropped out of line. An Open Letter To Newspaper Readers From Frederic J. Haskin For many years I have held that people generally do not know as much about their government as they should. I have believed that this was basically the cause of such weaknesses as we have had in our governmental structure and personnel. There have been two big I's—Ignorance and Indifference. Ignorance of what a magnificent institution has been builded upon the foundation laid by the forefathers; ignorance of how it functions; ignorance of the fact that its innumerable activities affect every American for better or for worse. And the indifference! That which keeps so many million Americans frem exercising their priceless heritage —the right to vote. That which takes no thought of who will admin- ister the affairs of the greatest business in the world. Indifference to any- thing in government—until there is an economic breakdown and incomes and salaries and wages are reduced, or wiped out, and taxes are increased. In short, you do not sit up and take notice until the political-economic or- ganization under which you live steps on your toes or on your purse. I HAVE TRIED TO HELP. So I have tried, in my way, to do something about this. I have been answering the questions of myriad newspaper readers the country over, and almost always they pertain to government. I have written a daily newspaper article dealing, as a rule, with some phase of government. Twenty-five years ago I wrote a book called “The American Gov- ernment,” which, with its revisions, ran through 81 editions and sold over 800,000 copies. Some of you may recall that the late Henry w.* Savage made a motion picture of my book that was titled “Uncle Sam at Work.” * 1 have cited all this Solely to show that my interest in government, and in informing people about their gov- ernment, is no new thing, but is real, and has dominated me over a long period of years. NEW BOOK SELLS UNCLE SAM. Now I haveebrought out a new book. 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