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cannot understand.
I'm sorry for working men
and women-for husbands and
WiVeS-caught in the cruel trap
of our industrial SmaSh-up.
But most of all I'm sorry for
young people-the young people
of 18 and 20 who have just left
childhood, who should now be
entering into the first glowing
adventures of manhood and
Womanhood.
Everywhere I meet them
these young people. Travelling
across the country, I have seen
them wandering in wolfish
packs, drifting, homeless and
idle, away from the shelter of
civilization, into jungle lawless-
ness.
Going up and down the
streets I pass them lounging at
corners, congregating around
poolrooms, the dream dying out
of their eyes, the sneer creep
ing into their lips.
And in the homes I find
them-restless, unhappy, brood
ing bitterly because there is no
place for them, and everyone
seems against them.
Everywhere I see them-the
Cheated Generation. And
whenever I see them I am
stirred by pity and lashed by
shame.
FOR I AND ALL MY GEN
GRAFTON ARE RESPONSE
BILE FOR THOSE WARPED
YOUNG LIVES. WE ARE TO
BLAME FOR THEIR MISERY,
THEIR BITTERNESS AND BE-
WILDERMENT.
We are responsible for them,
as our parents were responsible
for us.
1t was up to us to give them
an orderly world in which to
live.
1t was up to us to hand on
decent standards of living
standards of honesty, sobriety
and fair play.
It was up to us to prepare
the way so they could work;
so they could build homes and
careers for themselves; so they
could carry on the race.
1t was up to us to do all
these things. But, instead
what have we done?
WE, THE OLDER GENERA
TON, HAVE SPENT so
YEARS PLAYING AROUND
AND PAMPERING OUR OWN
GREEDY SELVES.
We have worked hard; yes.
But we have not thought hard.
We have refused to consider
where all our machines were
driving us: what our war extrava-
agance would impose upon Us;
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Not far from the Sphinx is
famous hotel, where a wide We
randall, shady palms and cool
drinks do much to disperse the
dust of the desert. But instead
of the wall of native instru-
mentS there is a fast stepping
Jazz band. But in the city there
are all kinds of wonderful or
chestras, including the latest
Argentine tango aggregation
and a wonderful Magyar TZi-
game band.
The bazaars are fascinating
and all over the city are mosques
and temples, as befits the city
that is the original of the city
of Caliphs. The Cairo museum
is in itself we'll worth a visit to
Egypt. In it is the marvellous
gold coffin of Tutankhamen.
Even the most Indifferent visitor
to museums becomes fascinated
by the display at the Cairo mu-
scum, with its links of a bygone
age.
It is an experience to play
golf on the desert sand courses
at Heliopolis. But at Geriza
there are beautiful smooth grass
courses. There are tennis courts
wherever there is a European
settlement.
At Gezira, Mena, Heliopolis
and other places there are well
equipped swimming pools. At
Mena and Heluan, you will also
find good grass golf links. There
is racing two days a week
through the season at the two
excellent race tracks at Cairo.
Dog racing has been the rage
for a couple of, years and usu-
ally is held in the evening.
There are plenty Of cabarets,
ranging from the pretentious
place to the real dive" There
is always a good performance at
the Royal Opera House, dra-
matte as well as operatic.
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Enemies of Labor
Are Short Sighted

One of the most striking
and disturbing discoveries Of
the committee is this:
1.-The membership Of the
American trade unions de-
clined from 5 million in
1920 to 3.3 million in 1881,
the first time in American
history that the unions did
not gain in membership in
a period of prosperity"
This means a decline Of the
power of labor in the matter
of collective bargaining, a
decrease in it's ability to pro-
tect itself without recourse
to governmental agencies.
This drives the unprotected
to radical theories and meas
ures. We never have been
able to understand why con-
servatives or reactionaries
would like to see the trade
unions destroyed. Where
they have been prohibited, as
in certain mining sections,
the workers have turned to
socialism, and some to COM
munistic ideas. We wonder
if the enemies of organized
labor are so short-sighted as
to be jubilant over the de-
cline of trade unionism in
America,
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A FTER three years, the
"A committee appointed by
President Hoover and fl
nanced by the Rockefeller
Foundation to report upon
social trends in America has
concluded it's work. 1t has
produced an intensely in
teresting social document.
A hasty reading does not
reveal many facts not hither-
to known, but this is the
first time an effort has been
made to take a comprehen-
sive survey of the whole
field in a single document.
1t therefore has a great his
torical value for the future,
if no warnings for our own
day that will be needed.
Some may find the prelimi-
nary report sensational and
depressing; but no report
can be more depressing than
existing conditions.
We are so glad that this
committee, composed of men
and women Of science having
no relation to politics, has
reached this conclusion:
Indications are that even
in our late period of pros
perity there was much pow
erty in certain industries
and localities, in rural Sec
'tions as we'll as in cities,
which was not a temporary
or accidental thing"
Some of us were saying
this very thing during the
"period of prosperity" and
were jeered as demagogues
with an emotional out
look.'' The truth is, of
course, that the depression
is an inevitable result of the
conditions during the few
years before the collapse
when the average man with
a job, and complacently
reading the market page of
newspapers, was convinced
that we were reeking with
prosperity.
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driven from
t h ir la S t
S h e | t e r,
fore d to
face a terror
W i tn which
they cannot
cope.
I'm sorry
for little chill
d re n e x
posed in their
pitiful help
leSSneSS Suf-
f e ring an
agony t h e y
do no de-
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WISE WORDS

Any man may make a mis-
take; none but a fool will stick
to it. Second thoughts are the
best. Cicero.
The musician who always
plays on the same string is
laughed at. Horace.
A laugh costs too much when
bought at the eXpense Of virtue.
-Q1intiian.
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IN THIS MAGNIFICENT HOME, ON A BLUFF OVERLOOK
,s,{ ING THE HUDSON, FRANKLIN d.
,.a ROOSEVELT WAS BORN.

to be published successivey in Good Housekeeping Magazine
In them Governor Rooseves mother will tell about her boy
who grew to be President The first is January
number of Good Housekeeping others will appear in future
numbers.
These pictures will interest all that know the part that
environment comfort and luxury the lack of them play
the building up of human being w h.
Readers will contrast thoughully the beautiful old
the Hudson in which Governor Roosevelt born and
grew up with the little cabin in which Abraham Lincoln
was born, where he lived dirt floor and smoky fire.
They will contrast the clothing of the little Roosevelt
with the rough homespuns that Lincoln must have and
contrast Lincoln reading by the light Of wood fire. using to
write h lessons boards that he shavedAof after they
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able school of the United States and thence to- Harvard the
fashionable college. ..-.
Mothers of little boys will think Of Nancy Hanks the
mother of Lincoln and of Sara Deano Roosevelt mother of
the next President They will observe with satisfaction that
Governor Roosev mother possessed the strength of char
acer the FORCE that enabled Nancy Hanks to give such
a man as Lincok to his country,
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dwelling the human beings with whom the individual
in direct contact the kind of life poverty or wealth. every
forms his character increasing diminishing his will power
and other qualities.
Third and important although less important than hered
y education FACTS instlled in young mind and
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theories beliefs religious teachings and preudices the lack
Of them that make UP education Fathers and mothers
especially interested in these pictures reproduced by
permission from Good Housekeeping Magazine for January
They show under what conditions President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt grew up from childhood to his present
position in the nation.
These illustrations taken the first three articles
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An Interesting Social
Document
Bv Claude G.. BOWers

Party Jackson
Democracy in America" Jefferson and Hamilton "The
Tragic Era" and "Beverdge and the Progressive Era"
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Next to he
redity, in i'm
portance, comes
E ~ V IP o N
MEN1', the sur
roundi n gs in
which the indi-
vidual lives,
while his char
acter and mind
are forming. In
envir o n m e n t
YOU include the
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heavy costs which they i'm
pose upon society; but it is
also impressed by the in
articulate misery of the hun
dreds of thousands or mil
lions of bread-winners who
are deprived of their liveli-
hood through no fault of
their own"
We hope this will not be
put down as an emotional"
or "hysterical" approach.
The committee suggests
that one way to force society
to a serious consideration of
the problems of unemploy-
ment is to place this very
"heavy cost" upon it.
The idea of unemployment
insurance, old-age pensions,
ETC., is not without its cham
pions among public men of
vision. Wagner of New York
has been urging action in the
Senate for four years, but
with scant support from the
press, and with too little
sympathy in the Senate. Ger
tainly there has been a stub
born hostility against such
measures from the man to
whom the report is ad-
dressed. Mr.. Roosevelt has
indicated a program of social
justice which may mean the
accomplishment of some
thing along the line of the
committee report
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The Cheated Generation
I'm sorry for a lot of people
these days.
I'm sorry for old people
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TWOPreSidentS the U.S.A.
Just How Important Is Environment?

Three things make up First, and most important
HEREDITY which ancestry, the physical and mental
inheritance from fathers and mothers great gandathrs and
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THE MOTHER OF OUR NEXT PRESIDENT,
WHO WAS MISS SARA DELANO ROOSE-
WELT BEFORE SHE MARRIED GOVERNOR
ROOSEVELT'S FATHER. THE NEW PRESI-
DENT INHERITs STRENGTH, ENERGY AND
DETERMINATION FROM HIS MOTHER.
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gra ndmothers
reaching thou
sands of years
back. Ev er y
one of tn e m
has contributed
somethi n G to
the living man.
In HEREDITY
is the greatest
of all influ-
ences. Only a
miracle of the
old kind could
possibly make
a Lincoln or
an Edison out
of a human be-
ing whose an
cestry should
con sist exclu-
sively of Afri-
can bushmen.
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One Suggestion
Shocks Timid


Here, then, is the feature
OF the report that is sure to
shock the timid and the
ultra-conservative:
After r legislation has
been passed, it must be in
terpreted in the light of the
Constitution and given judi
cial review where the social
phllosophies of judges be-
come a factor in determining
legality"
This is a mere bald state
ment of a fact.
Has any one forgotten the
desperate attempts made in
Wilson's time to prevent the
confirmation of the appoint
ment of Louis Brandeis to
the Supreme Court? Was
this opposition based on his
ignorance of the law? No
one suggested anything so
absurd. Was it due to any
thing lacking in his charac-
ter! No such thought. The
objection to Brandeis was
that his social philosophy"
did not fit in with the pluto
crate tendencies of the times.
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covered with writing with the education Of next Pres
dent who in his childhood to Groton the utraashion
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Government Must
Study Conditions

Another interesting sug-
gestlon in the report: It
finds that the laws of the ma
tion are tagging behind the
social necessities of the
people. Every student of an
cient history knows that the
primary cause for the fall of
the Roman civilization was
the fact that the government
did not keep up with the
social conditions of the times.
1t is not an easy matter to
make certain reforms under
our governmental forms.
How many times have meas
ures, imperatively demanded
for the welfare of society,
been passed by Congress and
shunted aside by the Su-
preme Court on the ground
that they are prohibited by
the Constitution?
This merely means that
the trainers of the Constitu-
tlon could not foresee condi-
tlons a century and a half
LATER Thus we have a lack
Of elasticity here that other
governments possess. That
Is the reason that England
has more of a democracy
than America.
But all this goes, after all,
to a considerable extent to
the tn personnel of the Suprsme
Court. More than a century
ago, John Marshall read into
the fundamental law powers
not dr. e a m e d of by the
trainers: A few years ago
the brilliant biographer of
Marshall, in an address be-
fore a bar association, took
the position that anything
needful to the nation may be
done under the Constitution.
He was referring to things
that John Marshall had done.
Evening star., 1933-12-19

The Executive Assistant to the Sec
retary of the Treasury and Mrs. Wal
ter J. Cummings will entertain at din
ner this evening in honor of the Min
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SOCIETY
Mrs. Roosevelt Luncheon Guest Today Of
Mrs. Swanson, Wife of the
Secretary of the Navy.

I'M guest at luncheon today Of
V Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
4 wife of the Secretary of the
Navy. who entertained in her
home on r street. The luncheon was
the fourth of the series planned in
honor of the First Lady by the wives
of the cabinet hostesses. In the COM
pany today were, Lady Lindsay, wife
of the Ambassador of Great Britain;
Mime. de Laboulaye. wife of the Ambass-
Rdor of France; Nine. Simopoulos, wife
of the Minister of Greece; Mrs Her.
ridge, wife of the Minister of Canada,
Nine. Peter, wife of the Minister of
Switzerland; Mrs. William H. Standley,
wife of the Chief of Naval Operations:
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry,
Mrs Chamcey Depew Mrs. Frederic
Delano, Miss Mary patten and Mrs.
Mrs. Roosevelt will go to New York
tomorrow to remain for several days,
returning to the White House in time
to be present at the Fox Theater Sat-
nrday morning at GAS o'clock for the
distribution of gifts. Saturday after
distribution of Christmas baskets at
the Salvation Army.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
be Joined Saturday by the formers
mother, Mrs James Roosevelt, and
they also will have with them their
daughter, Mrs. Curtis B. Dali, and their
younger sons, Mr.. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, jr, and Mr.. John Roosevelt,
rs well as little Sistie and Buzzie Dali.
grandchildren Of the hosts.
Christmas dinner at the White House
will be family party, the company in
cluding, in addition to the house guests,
the Presidents uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederic A. Delano. and Mr.
Delano's sister, Mr.. D. Delano Forbes of
Paris, who will be with them for the
holidays; Mr.. and Mrs. w. Forbes
Morgan and the formers son, Mr.. w.
Forbes Morgan, jr., who is Mrs. Roose-
selt's first cousin; former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Theo-
Eiore Douglas Robinson. cousins Of the
Chief Executive and First Lady, and
their sons-in-law and daughters. Mr.
hnd Mrs. j. Blaise de Sibour of WASH
fngton; Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Hlnckley,
who are at the Anchorage for the holl-
days and will return to Ottawa. Canada,
early in January, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth S. Walker of New York. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson Of New
York, son and daughter-in-law Of Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson.
This morning Mrs. Roosevelt re-
ceived a Christmas tree presented by
the Girl Scouts Of New Hampshire
which will be placed In the west end
of the corridor on the second floor
and Will be the tree from which the
gifts will be distributed within the
Family circle. A giant fir tree pre-
sented by New York organization for
The preservation Of trees will be placed
In the east room, its decorations to be
entirely Of white and silver
Mrs. Roosevelt will attend the con-
tert Of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Mr..
leopold Stokowsh, conducting, this
evening in Constitution Hall and will
have several guests with her.
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The Acting Secretary Of State and
Mrs. William Phillips entertained at
luncheon yesterday in their home in
honor of the Japanese Minister to
Canada, Mr.. Tokugawa. who Is In
Washington for a few days.
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and her daughter, Miss Helen Eames
Doherty, and Mrs. John Allen Dough-
erty.
The naval attache of the Japanese
embassy and Nine. Kobayashi will be
hosts at dinner this evening in honor
Of tie Japanese Minister TO Canada,
Mr.. Iyemasa Tokugawa, who Is spend
ing several days in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cowen Let's, who
are at the Huntington in Pasadena,
Calf, for the Winter, will have with
them there their son-in-law and daugh-
ters and grandchildren, Mr.. ald Mrs.
William NJ Guthrie and little Ann
Guthrie and Mrs. Catherine Let's Jones
and little Emile Jones, who left last
week for the Pacific Coast. The visitors
will remain with Mr.. and Mrs. Let's
until after January 8, when they will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary Of
their marriage. Mr.. and Mrs. Let's
will entertain at dinner that evening
in celebration Of the anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rockwell Put
nam have issued cards for a tea from
to o'clock Tuesday afternoon, De-
cember 26, in their home at 2126 Ban
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de Prieto, Mrs. William Howard Taft,
Baroness Won Below, Baroness Won Red
Itch, Mrs. j. j. Mack. Mrs. A. B. Ben
nett, Mrs. Jouett Shouse and Miss
Gildersleeve. The house had a Christ
mas atmosphere, with logs blazing in
each of the fireplaceS, and the table
was decorated with pink roses and
sweet peas and lighted by candles.
The Minister of Venezuela and Sonora
de Arcaya will give reception this
afternoon from to o'clock in cele-
bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of peace which resulted when Gen.
Gomez gained power. The Minister and
Sonora de Arcaya will be assisted by
the members of the legation staff and
their wives. ID their guests will include
officials, dir IS and members of resi-
dent society.
Senator and Mrs. Robert D. Carey Of
Careyhurst, WyO., are occupying
apartment at Wardrlan Park Hotel for
the coming congressional session. They
arrived here and opened their apart
ment yesterday.
Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom
will entertain at luncheon tomorrow in
compliment to Miss Nora Jeanne Bern
stein of New York, who will come to
Washington to present her portrait Of
the President to the Chief Executive.
Miss Bernstein was awarded the prize
for the best portrait of President Roose-
welt, having won the award over the
$50 members of the Junior League
in New York. Representative Bloom will
present her to the President shortly
before the luncheon.
Representative and Mrs George Burn
ham of California are taking possession
of an apartment tomorrow at the May
flower, where they will make their
home during the coming session of
Congress. Mr.. Burnham has been in
washington for the past 10 days and
Mrs. Burnham is arriving today from
San Diego.
Representative and Mrs. H. P. Kop-
pleman of Connecticut are spending a
day or two at the Mayfower before
leaving tomorrow for PinehurSt, N. c.,
to spend the holidays. They will oc-
cupy an apartment at the Mayflower
again this season.
The Acting Secretary Of State and
Mrs. William Phillips entertained at
luncheon yesterday in their home in
honor Of the japanese Minister to
Canada, Mr.. Tokugawa, who Is In
Washington for few days.
The Executive Assistant to the Sec
retary of the Treasury and Mrs. Wal
ter J. Cummings will entertain at din
ner this evening in honor of the Min
lister of Greece and Mn,e. Simopoulos.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister Of
the former Vice President, Mr.. Charles
Curtis, who is spending some time in
Florida, was the honor guest yesterday
at meeting of the Miami branch of
the American Association of University
Women. Others who attended the
meeting were, Mrs. Henry L. Doherty
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croft .place, when they will present
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Duncan
Putnam.
Miss Patsy Benton will make her
debut on Thursday at a tea dance to
be given at the Mayhower, by her
mother, Mrs. George M. Marx.
Mrs. William G. Brantley is enter
tanning at luncheon on Thursday at the
Mayfiower for her daughter. Miss Mary
E. Brantley, who will have as her guests
the debutanteS of the season. Miss
Brantley attended school in Washington
with many Of the young girls being pre-
sented this season, but preferred con-
tinuing her studies at Smith College in
stead of making formal debut.
Miss Emiscah Gale Davis has re-
turned to Washington after spending
a fortnight in Chicago with Miss Mary
Ruden.
Miss Hope jackson, debutante daugh-
ter of Mr.. Robert Jackson, is arriving
today from the Sarah Lawrence Col
lege in Bronxville, N. Y, and will spend
the holidays in Washington. She will
divide her time between her fathers
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apartment at the Mayflower and with
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Forbes Morgan. at their home,
on Observatory Circle.
Miss Mildred English and Miss Peggy
English, debutante daughters Of DR.. and
Mrs. Merton A. English, will be guests
Of honor at luncheon to be given to-
morrow at the Mayflower by Miss Betty
West.
The Misses English will be formally
presented at a tea dance to be given
by their parents Thursday, December
2s, at the Mayfiower.
Brilliant Company Awaits
Philadelphia Orchestra.
Many parties are being planned for
the concert by the Philadelphia orches-
ira tonight at Constitution Hall, when
Leopold Stokowsh will conduct.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller
will entertain in their box Mrs. Wood
row wilson and Mr.. Justice Cardoza.
MRS. Lawrence Townsend will have
in her box Mr.. Wladyslaw Sokolowska,
counselor OF the Polish embassy, and
Nine. Sokolowska; Signor Giuseppe
bassy. and Mrs. Frank Let's.
Others entertaining in boxes are Mrs.
Robert Wood Bliss, Mrs. Frederic A.
Delano, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, Miss
Alice Clapp, Miss Mabel Boardman,
MRS. +. A. Keep, Mrs. Stokes Halkett,
Mrs. William Crozier and Mrs. Oscar
Jarecki.
Others attending are Mrs. William
-of
Bailey. Mrs. Arthur Suiiard ia eEs Frauiein
Gertrude Luther and Fraulein Marie
Luther, daughters of the Ambassador
OF Germany; Mrs. John H. Gibbon, Mrs.
Roger M. Makins of the British en-
bassy. Mr.. Edwin c. Wilson, Senor Dr.
Don Luis de Padilla Nervo, counselor OF
the Mexican embassy, and Sonora de
Padilla Nervo
Among others there will be attend
ing are Mrs. w. H. Baldwin, Mrs. Trux-
ton Beale, Mrs. Joseph H. Brad
ley, Mrs. Robert S. Brookings. Rear
Admiral and Mrs. w. L. Capps. Mrs.
and Mrs. Denys. Mrs. r. Golden
Donaldson, Mrs Tracy Dovs. Mr.. Carl
Engel, Mrs. Pierre Gaillard, Mr..
Maurice Rodney Grieffenhagen of the
British embassy and Mrs. Chandler
Hale.
Mrs. Thomas c. Dawson and her
daughter, Miss Lilita Dawson, are now
in their home on Nineteenth street after
spending several months with Mrs
Dawson's son. Mr.. Allan Dawson, who
is connected with the American lega-
ton in Colombia.
Mrs. w. L. Friedell. wife of Capt.
Friedell, U. S. N, will be a luncheon
hostess Saturday at the Mayflower. en-
tertaining for her debutante daughter