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NEWS WASHINGTON I Brooklyn Eagle CLASSIFIED COMICS FEATURES SPORTS EnttrM In lha Brooklyn rantoff i Sd I lata Mall Matlrr BROOKLYN, IN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 19311 IjQ behind the Jiiix 'f fL IV Ernest K. Lindley Mr. Roosevelt and a Third Term The 1938 election has not made a dent in the President's solid conviction that the Democratic party must remain the more progressive of the two major parties. That Is the testimony of persons who have discussed with him the election returns and their significance.

No one who has followed his career for a decade or longer would expect him to react in any other way yawn L''Zi That immovable conviction must be the starting point for any conjecture about Mr. Roosevelt's relations with the old-line Democrats through the next Presidential election, If not longer. It doesn't follow that he intends to try to force the pace of reform during the next two years. Most of his liberal advisers are agreed that one of their main jobs Is to put the New Deal machinery in better running order. They believe this can be done without sacrificing any concrete gain or important aim.

For the near future most of the further reforms to be proposed will be those essential to an impregnable national defense. The national defense program, the strengthening of north-south axis in the Western hemisphere It i When There's 12 in a Family There Are Problems, but You Can See the Goettisheiins Know How to Solve Problems, Even To Taking Turns Dish Washing Third article in a series describing typical "big" families in Brooklyn. In the modern version of the family in our town, families don't begin to be counted as big until there are at least five children. By JANE ORBY Cathy made eight pies on Tuesday and Wednesday morning there wasn't a piece of pie in the house. Did Cathy mind? No, she likes to bake.

But it gives you an idea how things go in the Goettisheim home, a big one-family house at 2516 E. 13th St. A big one-family house is needed, too, for this one family numbers 12 Mr. and Mrs. L.

J. Goettisheim and ten evenly assorted children, five boys and five girls. Roll call in this family is answered by Joseph, 24; Lawrence, 22; Mary, 21; George, 18; Agnes, 17: Catherine, 15; Dolores, 14; Thomas, 13; Rita. 12, and Edward, 10. They're all there, none missing, and most Ernest K.

Lindley and other problems created by the dismal conditions in Europe and Asia will rise above purely domestic issues. To meet these problems, the nation must be united. By naming Alf M. Landon as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference at Lima, the President has betokened the spirit of his approach to the paramount objectives of hemispherical defense and foreign policy. He'll Shape Thing to Come in 1940 But on the home front the President remains an unreconstructed liberal.

That he expects to shape the Democratic platform in 1940 and to select the Presideniial nominee, his close advisers have no doubt. Nor is there any doubt that he can accomplish both of those tasks If he remains firm. For the Democrats cannot repudiate Roosevelt and expect to win in 1940. Indeed, they can't expect to win without the active support of Mr. Roosevelt, The extreme opposition is announcing that Mr.

Roosevelt's period of dominance in the Democratic party Is a thing of the past. If so, the period of dominance of the Democratic party will come to an end in 1940. for the Democratic party as the majority pa-ty of the '30s is the party of Roosevelt. In the recent election conservative Democrats and liberal Democrats alike lost, just as In 1930 and 1932, Republicans lost whether or not they had been especially keen about Mr. Hoover.

In expressing themselves through the two-party system, the voters don't make many fine distinctions. If Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal are thoroughly discredited in 1940, the result is pretty sure to be a Republican victory. The stage is set for further economic recovery. Unless Mr.

Roosevelt has completely lost his political skill, there is no reason why he or his program should be less popular in 1940 than they are now. If there is a substantial economic advance, they should be more popular. What Mr. Farley W'nnl In any event, nobody can prevent Mr. Roosevelt from taking a hand in the Democratic National Convention in 1940.

James A. Farley and many other regular Democratic leaders have never had any doubt about the futility of going into the 1940 campaign without a candidate and a platform which Mr. Roosevelt would support. They have insisted, and still insist, that the candidate must be satisfactory also to the regular Democrats. Thev object to Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes and other Presidential favorites who do not have background of party regularity.

There is no real theoretical difficulty in reconciling the views of Mr. Farw onrt those nf the President more liberal advisers. They could be ill. JL 1 -a i i 4- Roll call in the Goettisheim home, 2516 E. 13th brings out this handsome and extensive family group.

Standing are left, Joseph, 24; Catherine, 15; Dolores, 14; Mary, 21; Agnes, 17; Lawrence, 22, and George, 18. Seated are Rita, 12; Mrs. L. J. Goettisheim and Mr.

Goettisheim holding Edward, 10, and on the end Thomas, 13. of them to be found at home, school hours and Job hunting tours permitting. Mrs. Goettisheim complained a little about the way they all hang who can't afford them. Last week the society held a card party and fashion show of these dresses at the George Hotel, which Mrs.

Goettisheim helped to make a success, and little Rita Goettisheim only as long as nearby aunts, accompanied by cousins who are contemporaries of the young Goetti-sheims, don't happen in, but they do, regularly. Every time a visitor looks around the living room it is goes to St. Mark's School, has a vast it, which is generally when they are contempt for the cultural studies doing the dishes or other chores but would like to be an inventor, around the house or when the joy In fact, he is the author of several of living demands such vocal ex-inventions already a sprinkler sys- 1 pression. The result, according to tern for his garden, winch suppujd Mrs. Goettisheim, is that the hou.se the family with "quite a few tonia- rocks with melody and it is all but toes." to quote his mother, last i impossible for anybody who gels a Slimmer, and now a new type of i telephone call to hear what is being automobile with a bottle for a rarii- said.

Any telephonic efforts must her to encounter a new face. People modeled one of the dreises just flock to the Goettisheim home. mother made. reconciled in the person of Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York if he were eligible for the Presidency which, having been born abroad, he is not.

Senator Wagner, like Mr. Roosevelt, has a background of party regularity, and at the same time is a consistent liberal. lark of Good Men Real Difficulty The real difficulty is the lack of good men who meet the dual requirement. Given the usable material, a compromise between Mr. Roosevelt and the regular Democrats probably would give the nomination to a second or third rate middle-of-the-road candidate who would be hardly distinguishable from a middle-of-the-road Republican nominee.

That is the main reason whv the third term talk will not die down. Mr. Roosevelt Is not encouraging it. His own aim has been, and still i. the nomination of a suitable successor.

But the around the house o' nights, and Sunday afternoons, and how their friends come trooping in at all houu too, but you could see she didn mean it. She complained, too, Uv the children, especially the older boys, are "always clowning," but you could see she dion't mean that either, and that probably, when it comes to clowning. Mama Gotti-sheim can give as well as she can take. Papa Likes His Velvet Chair Mrs. Goettisheim herself enjoys the quiz type of program because she can answer so many of the questions.

"Big families are a great education," she observed. "Helping first one and then the other with their geography and history and the rest of the studies keeps you freshened up on them." You'd never guess what Mrs. Goettisheim dreads most. It's the day when the children begin to leave home. "I know it's a big family, but I hate to think of having one of them go away," she said.

Tomorrow The Nine McGees Older Boys Want Jobs Careers are topics of concentrated attention in the household. Joseph Is a graduate of St. Francis College, Larry is a civil engineer, with a degree from Tri-State College, and both would like very much to know where a fellow can get a Job and go to work. George is a student at Mrs. Goettisheim, of course, is busy.

But she has her day off, too Thursday. And what do you suppose she with It? Well, she puts it in sewing SEWING, when she makes all her own and her girls' clothes for the poor! She's a prominent member of the St. Mark's Branch of the Christ Child Society, which makes first communion and confirmation dresses for children ator and unconventional features. None of the boys have shown any sign of following in their father's foot.steps and becoming, as he is. a sort of de luxe blacksmith, whose work is confined to shoeing the delicate feet of race horses.

The whole family is musical at be punctuated with "Quirt, pleases!" tossed frantically over the shoulder of the one at the Goettisheim end of the line. When the family Is not harmonizing the radio is on. Everybody has his or her favorite program, so that the dials are always being twirled by one set of fingers or another. Now Papa Goettisheim is a different type. He likes his red velvet easy chair, with the footstool, in the regular Democrats don't like the men who seem to be his favorites, and his progressive supporters can muster much enthusiasm for the regular Democrats who are available.

By 1940, the practical politicians on both sides those whose main interest is in victory-may be clamoring for a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. 'textile High School, and Tom, who least Uiey sing when they feel like How Unification Insures Removal of Fulton St 'U corner of the living room, under a good lamp and with a little table handy for his tobacco pouch and matches. Ready enough to laugh at the children's antics, but decidedly on the quieC side himself. Mama, though, is the sort of mother that grown sons interrupt, just when she's in the middle of getting supper, to bestow a and kiss that sends the Mixing spoon clattering to the kltfhen floor.

And you know what mothers of the type who get this kind of filial attention do Bm the Wau Btj Maxwell Hamilton ifj The Sievl Spider of IlrookKn I City Then Can Do as It Pleases With Its Own Property Hazing Steel Spider Will Be No. 1 on List Last in a series ol articles on what Amendments 3 and 9, grade crosiinq elimination and transit unification, A Day at Coney Island If vou are of a mind to throw a party, and are shopping around for someone to be the life thereof, wed suggest you give us a ring. We think we're your man Not that we do card tricks or sit down at the piano or anything like that. We don't. But we do have a neat little trick of our own that makes a lot of hay.

Here's the way it works: You first ask everyone in the room if hes hsan fnnpv Island and as soon as thev all And How Well Get Kid of It Q. When will the Fulton St. be demolished? A. As soon as city officials and transit companies agree on a working plan for unification. How much will it cost? A.

The Board of Transportation committee surveying expenses of razing has not yet reported its findings. Q. Who ill pay the costs ol demolition'' A. Controller McGoldrick suggests the property owners along the line, but this has to be okayed by the Hoard of Estimate. O.

When will unification come through? shout derisively that they've been there millions of A. The first conference since the passage of the i unification amendment will be held in a few days. Ex- I respectively, mean to Brooklyn. By LESTER DAVID The steel spider which Is the Fulton St. elevated line will be wiped off the face of Brooklyn pillar by pillar and track by track as soon as the privately owned transit companies and city officials evolve a definite unification plan.

Tlie go-ahead signal for bargaining proceedings by which the city will purchase B. M. T. and I. T.

lines and fuse them Into a city-owned transportation system ha.s the cost of the razing of the structures Is to be apportioned by assessment. This would not affect the status of demolition in any way, except insofar as it confirms the fears of property owners along the route that the cost of tearing it down would he shifted to them, tost and Who Pays It I'nkown No one knows yet what the cost of removal would be and how the expense is to be apportioned. On July 16, 1937, the Board of Estimate authorized an issue of $100, 000 in special revenue bonds to defray the cost of a conducted since by the Hoard of Transportation to determine the cost of ruzing lie from Fulton Ferry to thn borough line. The survey has not yet been completed. As soon as a final figure is arrived at the Board of Estimate will a portion the casts.

May Cost City There is a however, that the property owners may be abie to avoid a considerable part of th assessment. In July of last year, S. Graham, Brooklyn rral estate operator, revealed that a responsible concern had approached him with a proposition to tear down the slrurturV from the ferry to 'J'illary St. without charge to the cilv. The firm offered to do the work providing it would be abie to keep all the scrap steel.

It is believed that other firms would readily agree to rip down other sections of the under the same times, yon whip out a dollar ana oet inai no more man one of them can tell you the name of the Coney Island Boardwalk. You'll be surprised at the results. Some will splutter and fuss and insist that Coney Island Boardwalk is the name of the Coney Island Boardwalk; others will shout that the boardwalk has no name and a third group will Jut their chins up close to yours and growl that, if you know so much what IS the name of the Coney Islnnd Boardwalk? At that point you yell "Riegelmann!" very loudly, reach for the money and your hat and sneak away. Ask Me Another We tried this trick last Sunday afternoon, and It works quite well. We enteied onto the boardwalk at the point where Ocean Ave.

meets Surf there 'In Several Weeks' firprintrtt f'rnm JJmnUvn Fcotr ol May II. Mr. Hamilton been given by electoral mandate through passage of Amendment 9 I t. State constitution, which permits the city to exfnd its borrowir.s -apacity by $315,000,000 to finance unification. perts predict several months.

facilities exist, It ran do away with the unnecessary overhead; wherever unnecessary duplication of service exists, as in the rase of the Fulton St. and the Independent subway, it can demolish what isn't needed. And since the administration has Ions; been committed to the principle of racing the nine-mile which for 53 years has straddled Brooklyn's most Important business area and thrown its over several home communities, stifling economic growth wherever it lies, demolition of the line is finally regarded as a certainty. Showdown Coming Real Soon William G. Fullen, chairman of the city's Transit Commission, would not hazard a guess on how soon the city and the transit companies can come together, but all agencies, he asserts, are pooling forces to bring about an agreement as soon as it i.s physically possible.

The fir.st conferences since lie passage of the amendment will begin In a few days and Commissioner Reuben L. Haskell, Brooklyn member of the board. believes that "a showdown should be reached soon." The latest statement on the question of came from Controller Joseph D. yesterday who said that since the line, along with the 2d and oth Ave. elevated lines in was to be acquired for demolition and not for operation, What City Can Do As soon as unification Is an accomplished fact, the city ran do what it pleases with its own property.

Wherever uneconomic competition exists, it can stop it: wherever duplication of terminals, repair shops, yards and power to sons who show such noisy affectionthey give them a floury slap and chase them right off tlk premises. Jolly Mother Type Mrs. Goettisheim is definitely the jolly type of mother. A houseful of children is no novelty to her, for she is one of the 18 childien of Mr and Mrs. Cornelius Morris of E.

14th of whom 15 are still living, as are the Goettisheim children's Grandpa and Grandma Morris. Maybe it's early environment, maybe it's a natural gift for organization, but Mrs. Goettisheim has her housework and large family completely under control. Except for Mary, who has recently acquired a Jsb at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and is therefore introduced grinningly by the boys as the "breadwinnah." none of the younger Goettixhelms have as yet been able to land a Job. The commissary department of the household has required expert handling.

In order to balance the family budget on a single salary. Makes All Clothes for Girls "I couldn't have done it if I hadn't done all the sewing for the girls." Mrs. Goettisheim explained. "I make all my own and all their clothes." She does the cooking, too, except for Catherine's contributions of pies and cakes. "She's only 15, but very few women can bake a pie or cake like Catherine turns out," said the mother, proudly, and all the rest of the family looked respectful.

Evidently Catherine's pastry Is something to sink the teeth Into. Dishes That's Something! Who does the dishes after the evening meal? Oh, that's no problem at all In this household. The girls take turns, nights on duty, nights off. And it's noi the washing of the family meal dishes that causes even a momentary qualm among the young Goettlsheims. They think nothing of the dishes, unless there has company.

There often is. Last Sunday, for instance, 30 sat down to supper and though a higher than average number, it was not unprecedented, or even much above the average. "It's always open house here." one of the older boys remarked cheerfully. IC probably can be done, but on a single visit it is difficult to Ret the older Goettlsheims tagged with their Individual names. II nil ding tliv Fair The Promised Land Meyer has wa'ked a long road during his lifetime.

The vear 1939 will bring him to a milestone from which he may see-perhaps dimly through the mist of the troubles of Ins race abroad -the promised land that is his goal. Born In Poland. Meyer came to the United States at the anc of nine. As a vouriBster In the nubhc schools he where two birr stone columns flank both sides of the promenade. On each of these columns is inscribed the boardwalk name.

"Riegelmann Boardwalk," it savs, "Edward Riegelmann, President of the Borough of Brooklyn, 1920." Well, sir. we strolled along for a little bit. and then sidled up to a rhap who was leaning on the rail staring out to sea. He said his name was Benny Roselli and that he lived at 2875 Atlantic Ave. "By the way, Mr.

Roselli." we said, "do you happen to know the name of this walk you're standing on?" He looked at us in a way that convinced us that we had a pigeon roosting on our hat. "Why. it's the boardwalk." he muttered, "the Coney Island Boardwalk. Yeh, that's It!" He almost fell Into the ocean when we told him that that wasn't it. A little farther along we came across Mr.

John Farrell. Mr. Farrefl slood pensively to one side, watching life as it ebbed and flowed before him, and. with boldness, we sprung our question on him. "Why.

I don't know," he smiled. "I've always called it Just simply the boardwalk. But, then again, I'm not from around here. I come from Jersey City; in fact, 1 was born and raised right in Mayor Hague's Horseshoe. I'll tell them that name back home; they'll be interested to hear it." Old Citizen Irving Levine, our next victim, admitted to living at 6301 Bay Parkway, and said he was manager of the rolling chair concession.

We came on 'him as he was counting up the day's kill. "Riegelmann?" he bellowed. "Why. say, I've worked on this walk for 13 years and never knew that before. And I'll bet If you ask a million people they won't know it cither." We stopped for a picture postcard at the souvenir shop of George Zaitchick, 1516 Boardwalk, and while we were sending it to the folks back home, we asked George if he knew about the boardwalk name.

George scotched his head a bit and then gave up. "It's a mystery to me," he "I've lived in Coney Island all my life and never heard no other name than Boardwalk." Alex Grenz of 643 E. 7th St. was caught strolling along whistling a tune, so we put the bee on him. "Gosh, I don't know," he grumbled.

"I've been coming down here as long as I can remember, and the name's always been Just plain Boardwalk to me. I'll have to remember the Riegelmann part of it." We were almost cut In two when we stopped to fling our question at Sylvia Cohen of 1516 Sedgwick the Bronx, Miss Cohen us of having evil designs, and, purely in self-defense, she had at us with her umbrella. We put. her at rest with our little bromide about the name Picaclmann, and she ended by thanking us profusely. "Gee, how ya to know if they don't tell you?" was the way she put it, The Man in a Million At Steeplechase, howi ver.

ve met the kind of gent that makes belting a dangerous way to make a living. He was Thomas Bennett of 4 Kister Court, Coney Island, and he's the watchman at Steeplechase. We were feeling pretty cocky by this time, and we even Imagined we'd be out there all Winter asking people this same question. But Mr. Bennett set us back (in our flanks.

"Why, it's the Riegelmann Boardwalk, of course," he Anybody knows that!" Want to make a bet, Mr. BcnncLlt Ilr Kiisteiie Dullois delays and at great flnanrial cost to its sponsors, it was considered the most magnificent thing of its kind ever atiempted. It did not make money, but It moved hearts, and Mr. Wrisgal considered it well worth the sacrifices Involved. The milestone winch this man will reach in 1939 is the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair.

It was his idea, ami lie is its general director. I. had originally been planned to call this simpiv the Pali stsne Pavilion, but the British Foreign ()1I1 stepped and announced that tie would have to include exhibits of Arab art and culture it lie used ihi.s name. This was manifestly impossible, and so ilie r.anir was cepted, although Mr. Weisgal makes it clear that his building is a national lather than a religious exhibit I 'ov Land of Yesterday and Tomorrow' lis Theme Jewish architects and designers In Palestine have worked out the plans for the building and the material to be dsplaved within.

The motif of the structure will the spirit of the Fast, but in the construction idiom of today. It will be a severely simple bii'lding. its tower topped by the symbolic seven-branch candlestick, and inside its eternal flame burn-j lug as a memorial to the men and women who have died in the delensc ol the Jewish homeland. i "The Holy Land of Yesterday and Tomoi row'" Is the theme nf lie exhibit material, now being prepared Palest ne About Jan. 15 the chs-! plays will be sent to New York on a chiutcied ship, which will also bring the Jewish designers and workmen who set them up in the Fan Pavilion.

These exhibits will show how Haifa has been made Into modern seaport how the arid soil has been irrigated and tilled to produce 1 how refugers from centra! Europe have been se'tled on the land and how they have built up new industries and homes attains! the gre.iie.st odds. earned a little money selling matches and newspapers. He was poor, but is quest for education was aided by his contact with the students who patronized his little st.uid on 116th Manhattan, near Columbia University. He managed to work his way thiouuh the general course at this institution ol learning-, and upon graduation decided to devote his life to the Zionist movement. For ten years, until 1933.

he served as executive secretary of the Zionist Organization of America. Bet wen 1930 and 1931 he wrote weekly articles on Jewish affairs for the Brooklyn Eagle and continuously since he lias taken an actie part in every worthwhile enterprise designed iinv. a i ntilinnnl terms, since the junk value of the structure would more than compensate for the work. When Is Down Business Will Boom Ultimate victory In tug-of-war for removal which has waged for jears will end the blight which lias retarded the growth of Fulton Si. and give Brooklyn a main street tree from noise, traltic interferences and all attendant dangers.

The fight against the is older than the structure it.self. Before It wa.s erected in 1885, considerable opposition was manitesled to the project, with clvio leaders prophesying that the structure would eventually throttle the development of the thoroughfare. Hut the "1." wa.s built and campaign alter campaign wa.s conducted to rip it clown During mo-t of this time one of the greatest arguments against demolition wa.s lack of a paralleling rapid transit line to absorb the But 'his was squashed In 1936 with 'he opening of the Fill-to i St. line of the Independent subway, which lollows an identical route far as Rockawav Ave. At present the Inriejendent Is far from salura'ion: it can easily accommodate the 13.320.000 who traveled on the Fulton Una from the lorry to Kockaway Ava.

year. divert IU I uirirflu mill I it uinif in homeland. Tl WnUnnl r. f-lltlri IVeil tllP IflPIl flf 'A TIllV Tlltv 3-at the Chlrayo Exposition In and it was he who produced and 1 a -if Handsome Crowd The boys are all tall, very good- UIHflCU UlC rtUJUHUCe Ul i-run "iinii 1 131.000 to Soldiers Field. This tiranwtir specta-le was later taken to New York and In 22 performances the Kingsbridge Armory was seen by looking and lively.

The girls are all beauties, all slim and smiling. Lined up, the blond heads seem as numerous as the bruivtle ones and only little fnlr-halred Rita, and the still little-boy Thomas and Edward can be separated readily from the rest of the gay troupe. Even this much mental order can be achieved suu.uuu people ann earned nan a muimu huiihis iui vm- niinuirc num. Palestine Pavilion In 1935 Mr Wel.sgal and his associates started work on a super-pageant of the Jewish rare Ine Eternal Road." It was a pageant for the whole people not alone lor the Zlonists-and when it was finally presented during the Winter of 1937, after many discouragements and rilis Is lirooklvn Hill Mo.illi Today's Wide imitation! "Keep thy loiifiiie from and thy lips from siieakiiif! f-nile." Psalm Head also: Mark 43. n7.

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