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a SLO THE POUGHKEEPSIE EAGLE- NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929 The Poughkeepsie Ea PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY PLATT PLATT, ING FRANCIS EDMUND PLATT. PLATT, WILLIAN D. SERLI. Managing Editor, CLIFFORD J.

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All rights of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. Official Newspaper of the City of Poughkeepsie THE EAGLE and NEWS TELEGRAPH Official Newspaper of the County of Dutchen Pattehed every Tuesday and Friday mornings, per year $2.00 NEUTRAL IN, NOTHING THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929 A USEFUL UNDERTAKING The Chamber of Commerce has given renewed evidence of its desire to be of constructive help in solving Poughkeepsie's problems in its decision yesterday to appoint a committee to investigate the. public debt problem which of late has been attracting a considerable degree of public attention. The committee of which Emmet P. Coughlan will be chairman should find plenty of material ready to hand in the report made by Mayor Segue's financial plan committee, headed by Daniel W.

Wilbur. Mr. Wilbur and his associates apparently have provided about all the data needed or obtainable with regard to the city's present and already contracted future obligations; and these data will afford an excellent basis for the work of Mr. Coughlan and his colleagues. Whether they will support the so-called Wilbur plan remains to be seen, and whether, if they do, their recommendations will be influential in obtaining acceptance for it only the future can tell.

As laudable as is the Wilbur report's insistence upon the necessity, of a business-like handling of the municipal debt and of a continuing plan for its retirement, it seems to have certain defects, particularly in some of the assumptions it makes regarding refunding, and the public has been moderately apathetic about it. As a practical matter, the question arises whether any ready made plan will marshal enough support to make it effective, and whether perhaps the best that can be hoped for is the adoption of a pay-as-you-go policy when debts come due. The present predicament of the city is the result in large measure of the evil of refunding, and the resort to makeshift methods of settlement in order to keep budgets down. A continuing financial plan on the order of that proposed by the Wilbur Committee, if not squaring with it in detail, would be highly desirable; but if it cannot be had the city could extract itself from the debt morass by paying off its obligations year by as they come due. JUDGE WINSLOW RESIGNS The resignation of Federal Judge Francis A.

Winslow of the Southern District of New York, transmitted to. President Hoover oll Monday, doubtless will serve to put an end to impeachment proceedings against him growing out of charges made in the House of Representatives concerning his handling of bankruptcy cases. The incident, now doubtless concluded, so far as Judge Winslow is concerned, emphasizes with tremendous force the duty resting upon members of the judiciary, to exercise extreme care in the discharge of their official functions as well as in their associations in their private lives. The federal bankruptey grand jury which investigated the case charged Judge Winslow only with "serious yet he apparently realizes that its findings are sufficient to put an end to his usefulness on the bench. He maintains vigorously the honesty and integrity of his intentions, and blames his difficulties to friends who betrayed him; yet unfortunately even if he had gone through the ordeal of answering, the impeachment title charges confidence and 'had upheld to public as a member of the judiciary which he has lost could never be restored to him, As The New York Times asserts, the incident "should serve to quicken public sensitiveness about judges, at the same time that it deepens in them the conviction that they must so conduct themselves on the bench to be not only beyond attack but above suspi-1 cion.

xx We like to think of a judge as only to do justice, but to keep himself in an always under a deep sense of obligation not atmosphere where low and purely personal considerations cannot live. It is not a question of judicial corruption. That very seldom occurs, happily, but there are contacts and associations which judges should avoid if they wish to preserve for themselves the reverence of the people due to a public servant clothed with great responsibility and called upon to decide questions touching the well-being not only of individual litigants but of the whole community." The resignation of Judge Winslow should have good effects in restoring public con-; fidence in the judiciary and in those on the bench of truths which he apparently forgot. He now is out of the picture, but the investigation in which he became a leading figure should not end until all of its ramifications have been cleared up. TRAFFIC AND FIRE TRUCKS The dangers resulting from the movement of motor vehicles while fire companies and officials of the department are answering alarms have been brought forcibly to public attention again by the narrow escape of Chief Chris W.

Noll at the intersection of Mill and Catharine Streets on Tuesday night. Whether, as some of the fire drivers charge, members of the police department have failed to co-operate with them in the control of traffic and have disregarded complaints against motorists who race to fires cannot be decided without an official investigation; but perhaps there is little point to delving into what has happened in the past. The prime necessity is safeguarding the members of the fire department and the public in the future against the possibility of serious accident. Ordinances prohibiting the racing of motorists to fires should be strictly enforced, and the driving public ought to be educated to the observance of the rule that traffic should come to a halt when an is sounded. In other cities know well enough that they must give the firemen the right of way, and it is high time that those in Poughkeepsie should learn it.

APPLY THE SURPLUS TO THE DEBT The disposition of administration financial leaders to look with disfavor on any proposal to utilize the Treasury surplus resulting from unexpectedly large income tax revenues for immediate further reduction in taxation is the part of wisdom. That some of the tional $100,000,000 that has found its way into the government's coffers must be pended for appropriations authorized at the last session of Congress is manifest, and considerations of prudence dictate that basing additional tax reduction on this year's 1 returns would be unwise. The increase in the 1928 returns has been traced by analysts to stock market profits, and whether such profits are to continue is at least a matter of some doubt. Should losses occur in the current year, revenues next year might well show a deficit to balance the surplus of 1929. The Treasury will do best if it uses whatever funds may be available for continuing its policy of retiring the national debt.

Progress in that direction has been steady and sure since 1921. Thanks to that policy the war debt, which in 1919 was about twenty-, five and a half billions, now is a little less than seventeen, and the country is making tremendous savings in interest charges. The time to pay debts, either for nations or individuals, is when money is available. Doubtless the Hoover administration will be able to reduce taxation as its Republican predecessors have done, and it ought, so soon as practicable, to consider lightening the burden on earned income. But there is no immediate need for reduction, and the present surplus should not be used for that purpose.

MANY MINDS Significant Sayings of the Day "Fundamentalists charge that liberalism in the Church tends to break down faith. They declare that the upshot of religious modernism is disillusionment, cynicism, and disbelief. It is true that we see people everywhere losing faith in things that are no longer tenable. But liberalism does not destroy faith. It helps people to find faith in things they can believe.

It makes it possible for people not to lose Harry Emerson Fosdick. 'The duty of religion and morality now and forever is to see that the outside, the mask wearing side, of us human beings is not confused with and does not replace the inside, the spiritual self of man. It is only because often we are blind to the spiritual side of the other person and judge him only by the exterior mask that we have so many evil forces in human relations. But religion provides the sharp eyes to see the fine spiritual side of human beings by saying, come ye all who suffer from blindness and I will teach you to Felix Adler of the New York Ethical Culture Society. "We are willy-nilly, consciously or unconsciously, at one of the pivotal points of evolution.

We feel dimly that we must be mortal. We are striving to find a reason for our belief. We cannot as yet justify it logically, but that is nothing for us to be greatly troubled about. The early crude attempts to prove immortality. by evidence of bodily resurrection have been an obstacle because they are so tied up with concepts of things of a material nature.

Immortality is not an ac- cident of time or place. Immortality is simply: the larger life of the soul and we may begin it The Rev. Charles Francis Potter. Caught in His Own Dey POLITICALLY I LAW 11 bra The Grab Bag Who am What cabinet position do I hold? In what other cabinet wits 1 secretary of war? What Polish patriot was an tant to George Washington? In what part of the world is a lage sometimes called Kraal? It ty God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh iny way perfeet." Where is this passage found In the Bible? ANSWERS ON LAST PAGE) MEASLES HEADS LIST IN NUMBER OF CASES While measles headed the list of, communicable diseases as regards the number of cases reported to the New York State Health Department for the week ended March 16, pneumonia continued in first place as cards causes of death. The reports covered all parts of the state sire of New York city.

With 1.101 cases of measles reported there were 10 deaths attributd to this cause, while the la score was 134 cases and 136 deaths. Other communicable eases were reported as follows: typhold three cases, no deaths; scarlet fever, 281 cases, three deaths; whooping cough, 254 cases, four deaths: diphtheria, 59 cases, one death; smallpox, one case, no deaths. The one case of smallpox occurred in the town of Westfield, county and, according to the health department, the patient never had been vaccinated. "Blackbirds" because he couldn't stund the impersonation of his late wife in the same revue. THINGS I NEVER KNEW TILL NOW That Horrors Liveright, the tome publisher, got his early training.

in publishing by putting up pasteboard Agures on a broker's board. That movie stars get tal now and then, but Rin Tin Tin, the dog star, actually fainted after a strenuous scene recently. That Mike Meehan, who 18 rated in the 25 millions, long ago was McBride ticket broker. for $40 per: and that Tim Mara, listed in the 15 millions, used to be the bouncer on the old Ziegfeld That Raskob, who made milion. afres of 200 of his friends, once chauffeured Wilmington (Del.) trolley.

That Joan Lewell danced the dance of the virgins (which she de. scribes in her book) over at the Roy Howards the other night, using Jack Dempsey as the subject, while Estelle Taylor looked on LOOKING BACKWARD Recollections, Local and Foreign, 10 and 20 years Ago. 10 YEARS AGO FOREIGN Paris, April news President Wilson's. bedside was from the peace delegates this evewent to news indicated ning. that president's condition was make it advisable that he such as to his room at least for remain in morrow.

Study of the case has caused Rear Admiral Grayson, the president's to reach the conclusion physician, that the president is not suffering from influenza, but that severity of the cold is such that the patient will require careful watching. The Poughkeepsie High School bating team defeated the Kingston High School team 2 to 1 on the question: Resolved, that the government should own and operate railroade, The debate was leld In Poughkeepsie. Clifford G. Loew had opened tire repair shop at 428 Main Street. The Rev.

Dr. Alexander, Griswold Cummins, rector Church, was to conduct union services to be held the next Sunday evening at the First Presbyterian Church. lie was to speak on "Liberty-Personal and Religiou; the Gift of Democracy and Protestanisin." Mrs. Theodore Gutman was elected president of the Parent -Teacher An sociation of the Fairview Heights School. Mra.

William Knauss Was elected vice president: Mrs. William Whyte, secretary; and Mrs. Fred Sabine, treasurer. Mr. and Mrs.

Edward A. Nelson, of Dwight Street were entertaining their daughter, Mrs. Edward Rusk of Yonkers. 20 YEARS AGO FOREIGN Washington, D. April cations are that diplomatic relations between this country and Nicaragua are nearing a crisis, resulting from the failure of President Zelaya to adJust the Emery claim.

In diplomatic circles it would occasion no surprise if Senor Es. pinozn, Nicaraguan minister to the United States, should shortly be told by the state department that the present difficulty has gone beyond the range of diplomatic discussion, in which event his request for passports would logically follow. LOCAL Poughkeepsle Lodge, No. 266, F. and A.

was to confer the third degree on a class of candidates at a meeting to be held in the Masonie Temple the next Tuesday evening. William W. Smith was spending several days in Atlantic City. to Poughkeepsie after absence of Almon B. Bereway had.

returned 25 years lie was to make his home at 64 Garden Street. Mrs. Jane M. Lown celebrated her elighty-fifth birthday at her home, 31 Forbus Street. The Dutches County Christian Endeavor convention was to be held at the Friends' Church in this city the next Tuesday.

Hamilton Fish, congressman from this district. had declared himself against the proposed tax on tea and that he would vote against it when it came up in the House of Represents. tives. Senator John F. Schlosser, of Fish kill, had been visiting in this city, Who's Timely Views By COLONEL WILLIAM D.

MITCHELL Attorney General (William Dewitt Mitchell 1874. He studied engineering ated from the University of In 1896, he began practicing general of the United States appointed him attorney general experience, and was stationed is a colonel in the Minnesota A country. wide Investigation conditions in all agencies which the department of control has been instituted by the department of justice. with a view of ascertaining what has been achieved what may be accomplished in law enforcement. The inquiry has been instituted in accord with the program for general inquiry which already has been nounced by Pres.

of over justice WILLIAM Mr. Hoover MITCHELI. templates the appointment of commission to examine law enforcement matters through every ment agency, while our study will be limited to gathering facts in connection with those offices in his department, whether in Washington or in the various cities of the country. It is the department's plan to find whether improvement may be inade in its own personnel, and likewise to determine whether additional bera are needed. The survey thus far has been devoted largely to examination of rerecords and statistics within tho department.

The study is to obtain all information available relating to the status of prosecutions, results obtained in past litigation. the situation regarding pending vases. the effectiveness of enforcement off cera. or lack of it, and why, together with personal reporta of view of officers who have knowledge, based on experience, of the conditions under which they work. While prohibition enforcement will be included in the inquiry.

it is ot general and broader scope. If. the study now going on shows that there, is a lack of enforcement effort, it 14 our" determination that the reasons be shown. That course may lead to changes in personnel for the good of MRS. WILLIAM BARNES ALFRED DISBROW INJURED New York, April Maude Fiero Barnes, wife of William Barnes of Albany, retired publisher an dormer chairman of the Republican State committee, died yesterday at the Hotel Gotham after an illness of three months.

She was 58 years old. Mrs. Barnes was the da A.ter of Newton Fiero. former dean of the Albany Law School, She was a teach. er in private schools of Westcherter County before her marriage in Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the Rural Cemetery, Albany.

MAC MILLAN MAY MAKE ANOTHER TRIP TO ARCTIC Chicago, April second MaeMillan-McDonald Arctic expedi. tion may get under way. in June. it was revealed yesterday in the chase of the yacht "Allegro" from the estate James Elverson, Jr. The Allegro is of 185 length and has a beam of 21 feet, two inches, weighs 559 tons and is' powered by twin screw.

engines of horse power each. The ship has 500. cruising radius of 6,000 miler. It is likely the Allegro will be taken into the Arctic in June in charge of Commander Donald B. explorer who -will be LOCAL Washington Correspondent for Cen tral Press and The Eagle-Newe) Washington, April sort of tariff revision desired by President Hoover, at the special session of congress beginning April says Rep.

resentative Henry T. Rainey of "is exactly the kind he will not get. "The president wants a few small Increases. "Never in all my experience tariff hearings'-an experience of more than a quarter of a I observed such a tion as our protected industries are showing now to shut out imports al. together." on most congressional subjects maybe a senator is a more imposing authority to quote than a mere resentative-but not when a question of financial legislation, like the if is involved.

Under the constitution, all money bills must originate in the lower house of congress. The "founding fathers" meant the representatives to hold the nation's purse strings. Until they loosen the senate can only wait. Consequently, a representative speaks first and most emphatically whenever taxation the discussion's theme. Especially a member of the resentatives' ways and micans conwhich frames our tariff laws.

Representative Rainey will be the committee's oldest member at the coming session. when John N. Garner hitherto slightly his senior, retires from it to assume the Democratic leadership of the lower house. Hoover." continued the 1111- nois congressman. "naturally to a tariff embargo on imports.

"He wishes them to come in. to provide revenue for his prosperity program--his waterways and 'all his plans for nation -wide public works. The cost will be immense. and higher direct internal taxation would be unpopular. The tariff affords a less obvious means of rais.

ing funds. But of course it cannot be a revenue -producer if it excludes takes very little intelligence" importa, see all that. "That, however, is not the tariff beneficiaries' idea. "They want a monopoly." "A few small Increases?" reflected the veteran. "Suppose we consider just three BY CHARLEN P.

STEWART schedules-only three. "Hides. The stock raisers want a few cents on hides. It will make shoe production so much more pensive that imported shoes will begin to undersell our domestic tories. They will have to have compensatory tariff on shoes or the industry will be ruined.

"Southern farmers demand a few cents on Egyptian cotton. Our mills immediately will have to have higher tariff to protect their finished product or their Industry will be ruined, too. "Wool--a few cents. To produce a suit of clothes will cost $15 or $20 more. A compensatory tarift on woollen goods.

few increases mean an increase all around." "The house of representatives may initiate tariff revision moderate form." surmised the Illinoisan, "but If so, the boost will come when the bill reaches the senate. "Senator. Smoot will see to it tliere --15 the high tariff apostle, and strong man. "Besides, his argument will be logical. Agriculture must be relieved.

True, the tariff cannot be made to relieve it, but it in the only relief known to the now dominant partyfor anything. And that kind of let administered to agriculture, will necessitate more of the sate for everything else." "The president," predicted the representative, "will be scared into It -I think can be scaredand by that thine the lower house will be acquiescent. at that, it may not prove to be a prohibitive tariff after all. "We Democrats believed that the Fordney-McCumber tariff would keep out imports heavily reduce them 80 that the higher rates would yield less revenue than the previous lower ones had done. were mistaken.

Prices of imported goods advanced instantly. but the -country was so full of money that it paid them. and revenues increased. to our astonish. ment." "Senator Smoot sure to cite that example to us this time," admitted the congressman "and perhaps it will happen again.

"Just how much inflation this balloon can stand. own I do not know. one thing la certain. If keep on inflating it more and more. indefinitely, it is bound to burst in the end." Your BROADWAY By Walter Winchell And Mine (Exclusive Central Press Dispatch to The Eagle- News) New York, April (Skip.

py) Crosby, recently divorced, will be sealed again on April 4 to Dale Locke, a Vassar grad, at the Church of the Ascension The Cholly Cheplin-Lita Grey reconcilly' rumor is the McCoy, the comic long-distane. ing her daily Ethel Delmar (the former Mrs. A. Jolson) is plotUng a two-a-day act Crosby Gaige has peddled his tome publish. Ing business to Sir.

Wells, who mar. ried Mrs. Gaige McIntyre and Life merely shock hands, snubbing the contract gag Bruce Barton polinhed up the Coolidge pieces, Bushnell Cheney, mgr and star actor of The Jitney Players, is the son of Cheney, the silk and satin man, who won't contrib a nickel to the Jitney Troupe Was. Gershwin secretly sealed two wha A507 Harry K. Thaw's latest was born at Winona, Sept.

9, at Yale university and was Minnesota in law. Admitted to the bar at st. Paul. He was named solicitor in 1925. President Hoover recently He has had considerable military at Camp Taylor, In 1918.

He National guard.) The One-Minute Pulpit The last enemy that shall be de stroyed is death: For he hath put changes under feet. But when he saith all thing. are put under him, it is manifest that he in excepted. which did put all things under him. And when all things be dued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be in Corinthians xv, 26.28.

STATE FIREMEN'S SCHOOL POSSIBLE AT ROCHESTER Rochester April 3-(P)- Methods used In training local firemen will be extended to all parts of the state under a plan of the New York State Mayor's Conference and the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs whereby 24 picked men would be sent here for instruction In fire fighting. The state would be divided Into 11 zones, each of which would send two men here for an Intensive cotirse of training from April 1 to 15. The plans have received the endorsement of George J. Nier. Rochester Commissioner of Public Safety, and steel training tower has been erected.

The tation classes will be conducted by Bab Chief Alexander Sutherland. The course will include lectures on fire prevention, care of equipment, courtest to officers and public, care and driving of motorized apparatus, first ald and resuscitation, tion, sprinkler system, 'hydraulics and fire streams. ANNUAL "HORSE PARADE" HARBINGER OF SPRING diversion is June Rivers, a pretty Philly girl Gilbert Miller put "Journey's End." great success there and here, on in London for $1,900 It would have cost him ten times that much over here Sally Milgrimm, the frock maker, hopes it's a lad. THE GARBO-GILBERTERS The local papers hinted from time to time athat U. 8.

Thompson, whose wife was the popular sepia star, Florence Milla, and Florence Emery Jones, Parisian favorite whose husband. Palmer Jones died in Paris last year, will be sealed any day now. The pair met in Europe, renewed their llarlem friendship, and by comforting each other, found love. They may be seen holding hands in the various Harlem stay. up-late places almost any yawning.

But what we started out to say was that only a few montha ago Mr. Thompson deserted the cast of Saranac Lake, N. April 3-4P -The hundreds of horses which few years ago took part in the spring horse parade of the Adirondacki have dwindled to scores, but annual event still is awaited in the littie mountain hamlets with intense Interest. Robins may come and snow and ice melt but not until the horses that have worked' throughout the winter in the various lumber campe are driven out of the woods is the mountain dweller certain that spring has arrived. The roses are equipped with large copper bells and long before their heavy hooves strike the main street the children and even the older ple of the little villages have gathe ered at doors and windows to watch their passing.

The air is filled with laughter; the rough jests of the lumbermen. happy at the ending of their long winter's toll, and the shouts of greeting from the villagers. When bering was at its peak in Adirone ducks each division of the horse par rade was made up of hundreds of horses. On the bread backs of. some were, perched the lumberman while others pulled the heavy lumber sleds carrying other lumberjacks.

Today the clank and sputter of the tractor has drowned to some tent the music of the bells and the French-Canadian chansons of the lumberjacks, but It will be a few years yet, before the horse parade becomes merely memory in the hearts of old-time Adirondack Tum: begmen. making his ninth trip into the Pols area,.