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Evening star., 1934-04-08
sacrificing things Of tested worth, for
things of very doubtful value.

sacrificing things Of tested worth, for
things Of very doubtful value.
Government Is Organic.
We are doing these things under
panic. We are taking the 90-day
view Of Government trying to make
ourselves believe that we can simply
disregard or forget our institutions
and operate experimentally on other
lines for few months or years, and
then return suddenly, if necessary,
to our basic principles, without seri-
GUS loss. But Government is not a
mechanical thing, such as a flrehose,
to be coupled up and uncoupled. by
stop-watch, on short notice. 1t is
an organic thing, grown out Of long
past. When its members are severed,
something is definitely gone.
And as for Socialism, it not only
never has proved its worth, but its
very foundation refutes it. Socialism
says that rapacious human nature
will be changed into universal, or
practically universal, benevolence by
alteration of institutions, rather than
of the men under those institutions.
This, on its very face, is absurd. Yet
men must be predominantly benevo-
leRt under Socialism. else it cannot
work even moderately well, for it is
based on the fantastic hope that men
will work as diligently for others as
for themselves.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
THREElIHLE GIRLS
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Pedestrian Also Injured in Sec.
ond Accident-Driver Is
Detained.

Three young girls, two of them sis
ters, were injured last night when
the automobile in which they were
riding collided with another car at
Third and c streets southwest.
Frances Spasaro, 9: Josephine Spa
saro, II, and their cousin, Mary Spa
saro, 8, we're treated at Providence
Hospital for cuts and bruises. They
we're riding with Mary's mother, Mrs.
Catherine Spasaro, %, Of the 600
block of Pennsylvania avenue. The
other machine was driven by Frank
Mriguld, 26, soldier at Fort WASH
ington. Md, according to police.
Bernard Jacobs, II, of 618 Sixth
street, was believed seriously injured
last night when struck by an auto
mobile near his home. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital for cuts on the
head and was under observation for
q possible skull fracture. Albert
Weistock, 10, of the TOO block Of Four
and-a-haH street southwest, was de-
tailed by police pending the outcome
of Jacobs injuries.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
GUILD PURCHASES
IMPROVE
$4,000 x-Ray and Mat
tresses Bought for SibIey.
Annual Tea Held.

Reports Friday to the annual linen
shower and tea of the Woman's Guild
of Sibley Memorial Hospital revealed
the guild, among other accomplish
ments, purchased a $4,000 X-ray ma
chine and equipped every bed in the
hospital with modern inner-spring
mattresses.
A reception was held for guests be-
tween 3 and pm, with the follow
ing in the receiving line: DR.. Charles
S. Cole, superintendent of the hos
pital, and Mrs. Cole; Mrs. s. A.
Mooers, president Of the guild; DR..
B. j. Meeks and Mrs. Meeks, Mrs.
]. Elmer Morgan. Mrs. c. E. Burn
side, Mrs. r. Hoskinson, Mrs. T. w.
Stanton, Mrs. Ralph Smith and Mrs.
ception the guests were served with
tea.
A potted plant was presented to
Mrs. Roscoe Lehman, chairman of the
Linen Committee, in appreciation Of
the fact that 5000 pieces of linen
were prepared for the hospital dur
ing the past year by women of various
churches under her supervision.
Another plant was presented to Mrs.
Mooers for her work as president Of
the guild
From $50 to 7:30 supper was served
to the guests by the senior class of
nurses, under direction of Mrs. Ed
Dutton. The evening program opened
with a playlet entitled Gossip" by
members of Petworth Methodist
Episcopal Church, followed by several
vocal selections. Members of Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church gave
playlet, Not Quite Such a Goose"
Evening star., 1934-04-08
PEPCO employees
APPOINT COUNCIL
Constitution of Association Being
Written-Deny It Is a
Company Union

The newly formed Potomac Electric
Power Co. Employees Association has
named council" of five men. who
already have begun to act as a special
committee to draw up a constitution
and bylaws for the organization.
w. c. Brown. who Friday was elected
temporary president" reiterated last
night that the group was not a So
called company union, as charged by
group of other employees, who are
organizing a local union Of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers.
H. A. Lee, who called the first meet
ing Of employees also denied charges
that the new association was con-
trolled by the power company. The
idea originated among employees them
selves, he said, and delegates were
chosen from various departments.
Among advantages Of the association
Lee said, would be a pension and in
surance plan in addition to that al
ready furnished by the corporation
The association also would adjust COM
plants, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
u. S. Is Seen about to Turn
Toward Socialist Doctrines
Present Form of Government Has Out
stripped All Others in Prouiding i
Equality of Opportunity. <

(Note-This is the nth OF q
series OF articles by Mr.. Leigh DEAL
ing ioith the administration pro-
gram as it Affects the fundamentals
OF American institutions as laid
doun in the Constitution of the
United States. Mr.. Leigh Uas
director general of the National
OrGtoricGl Contest on the Constitu-
tion for the 10 years during Which
it tUds conducted by leading news-
papers OF the country and pdrtici-
pdted in. directly and indirectly, BY
more than 100000 people. He
is the author OF several books on
constitutional subjects and is rated
q national authority thereon)
BY RANDOLPH LEIGH.
= OCIALISM is the revolt of the
That generalization. like most
- generalizations, suffers from
stating too much and too little.
Nevertheless, it Is a workable deflni-
ton.
Revolt against what, and unfit for
WHAT" are questions which such @
definition Immediately brings to mind
The revolt is against the institution
Of private property and all that it has
come to signify. Shaw states that
clearly: Socialism means the COM
plete discarding of private property
by Transforming it into public prop
erty. and the division Of the resultant
public property among the entire pop
ulation, equally and Unfortunately"
Leaders Are Brilliant.
When one comes to the question of
whether or not those in revolt are
"fit" or unfit" one faces q strange
set OF facts. Few movements have
Evening star., 1934-04-08

The Australians are inclined t.
view the japanese sea power expan
sion very much like Britain used t.
view the expansion of the German
sea power before the war. They fee
themselves at the mercy Of a powerful
japanese navy and are convinced thai
Britain alone can adequately protect
them. Because of this fear of the
Australian people, the annual nava
and military conference at Singapore
which had been in allegiance for si1
years, was revived this year.
X X X X
Colombia has decided to hare q
real nary. 1t has purchased from
Great Britain a modern destroyer.
The trouble is that tt has no crew
for this modern craft and the CO.
lombidn government ,Dds compelled
to hire British naval reserpe men
to man the neD Colombian flag
ship.
This ship may come in handy mex
June when, with the departure OF tht
commission of the League Of Nations
the dispute between Colombia ane
Peru over Letitia may flare up again
X X \ X
There are so many important people
involved in the sensational Stavisk.
scandal that the chairman of the In
vestigating Committee believes the in
vestigation was started at the wronl
end. They should have found out frs
who was not involved in this affair.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
This
Changing
World
Japan's New Attitude
Fails to Settle
Pacific Fears.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

DX NONCA hN4AN ohOWNs ]
~ EsPITE the apparent change
Of attitude of the Japanese
government toward the
- United States and the adop-
ton of q less bellicose atti-
tude toward its neighbors, the situa-
tion in the Pacific continues to be
regarded as dangerous. The British
and Soviet governments are even more
suspicious of the diplomatic moves
of the Japanese than the State De-
partment.
\ X \ X
The Soviets accept the peaceful
declarations of the Toxic foreign Of
flee with a smile. They don't in
tend to change their attitude toward
Japan yet The Russian diplomats
say the Soviet Republics don't want
war, but they want to be ready
for any emergency. Troops, modern
war equipment and supplies continue
to be sent to Siberia hurriedly.
X X u X
In the present situation in the
Far East Russia is preoccupied
,Uith the problem of the defense
OF VladiDostock, its principal out.
let to the jdcifc. Moscow keeps
confidential its napal building pro-
gram.
Recently the Soviet government has
sent to the Limitation of Arms COM
mittee the returns of its naval
strength. In the column on ship
building" appear the words mo de-
tails available" and in the column
on ships projected" Is the announce
ment mo program has been issued
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Naval authorities believe she is pre-.
pairing to defend Valdivostock with
powerful feet Of submarines, which
are said to be transported in sections
by rail, to Valdivostock, where they
are being put together.
The Germans adopted this methoe
during the World War. when they SEN
overland to the Austrian port of Pola
submarines manufactured in Ger
many.
1t appears beyond doubt that tn,
Russians are Strengthening their navy
During the annual Baltic visit of tn
British squadron, the Russian au
thorities showed themselves so per.
turbed lest the British ships approach
their waters that they openly threat
ened to mine them.
X X r 4
The British, and especially the
Australians, are equally tDorried
about the situation in the Pacific.
The Australian government, tphict
under the Scullin administration
had completely neglected the napal
defense and refused to cooperate
nth the British fleet, has changed
its mind and is dnrious to rene1D
the old relations 1pith the napy
OF the metropolis.
X i X
The British are sending the cruiser
Sussex to Australia, with Prince
George. on board. The son Of tn.
King Of England will represent tht
monarch at the centenary celebra
tions of the state of Victoria. But
the cruiser will remain in Australian
waters and the Prince will return II
England in an Australian cruiser
which will do turn of duty with th'
British fleet.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
SEWAGE DISPOSAL
|SPOLLUT|0N CURE
Experts Report Recon-.
mends Buildings on Site
at Blue Plains, D. c.

(Note: This Is the third and
final article in q series on Pot0-
mac Riper pollution and the pro.
posed sewage treatment plant for
the District)
Previous articles in this series have
described the present sewer system
and its effect on the Potomac River.
The cure, recommended by q COM
mission Of experts retained by the
Commissioners to study the subject,
Is the treatment Of the sewage in .
plant to be built at an estimated cost
Of $7,s00,00O.
For the housing Of the tanks and
other apparatus involved in the sew
age treatments, the report recon-
mends buildings on a site now owned
by the District as part Of the extern
Slve area used for the Home for the
Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains, D. G.
The westerly route Of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway passes
through this site, but the report states
that the route can be SO arranged as
to allow the use Of the site for the
oSWd6C 0cdtLlcuL pldIlt.
Aeration Plant Cost $l,760,000.
The elaborateness of the apparatus
to be required may be shown from the
fact that the plans make provisions
for batteries Of preliminary sedimen.
tat1on tanks, sludge balancing tanks
and gas holders, aeration tanks, grease
separation tanks, mixing tanks, sludge
digestion tanks, q power and blower
plant, final settlement tanks, an ad-
ministration building, besides pump
ing and metering equipment, and the
sludge dewatering plant.
The most expensive plant listed in
the cost estimates is the aeration
tanks and their operating galleries,
estimated at $l,760,000. The build
Ing OF water supply for the plant
Is set down at $1,081, 900. The final
sludge settling tanks will cost ST.
10000.
Other items Of expense are the pre-
llminary sedimentation tanks. 1929.
600; sludge digestion tanks. $3.50 600; +;
dewatering plant. $439.000; sewage
pumping station. $500, 900; grit cham
bers, $4,000; outlet conduits, s307..
600; exterior piping. $306 900: grading
and landscaping, s105, 900, and many
smaller items.
Four Years to Build Plant,
The estimates Of cost for operating
through year are: Labor, $l66 800;
fuel oil, $22,400: chemicals for con-
ditioning sludge, $4,000; miscel-
laneous supplies. $4,000, and main
tenance and repairs, $l17,60O, a to-
tai of $394,000.
The experts estimated that it would
take four years to build the COM
pleted plant and that its cost would
be spread as follows: First year
s500,000; second year, $4,000, 900:
third year, $4,000, 900; fourth year
So soc. .000-total 100000.
The reason for the relatively small
amount Of expenditure in the first
year Is that about nine months of that
time would be consumed in making
additional surveys, borings and other
preliminary investigations on which
to base detailed designs.
When finally built, the plant will
be able to treat 200 gallons of sew.
age per capita per day, or equivalent
to 130,0o0,o00 gallons per day in
1850 and 17o,000,00O gallons per day
in 1870. Until it Is built, however
millions Of gallons Of raw sewage
must continue to be poured into the
Potomac to make it the polluted and
contaminated stream so universally
deplored
Evening star., 1934-04-08
M. E. TEMPERANCE UNIT
PREDICTS LIQUORS. END
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, Del, April THE
Temperance Committee of the Will
mington Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church today criticized the
legalization of liquor and predicted
the eventual death of the legalized
liquor traffic"
"As Methodists we have not sold
our principles for taxes and revenue"
the report said
The conference postponed until
later in the day action on the pro-
posed plan to reduce the number of
districts in the conference from four
to three.
Bishop Edwin H Hughes of WASH
ington, who is presiding. was asked
to request the Board of Bishops to fix
March q, 1885, as the date for the
conference next year.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
COMMUNIST PARTY
LINKED TO .R|0TS|
Secretary Admits Organic.
ing Men Evidence Con-
vinces Minnesota Governor.
By the Associated Press.

~ tne A1Societeo Tree9.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 7.-Police
Chief Michael Johannes tonight
blamed professional Communist agi-
tators for yesterdays riots of 5000
unemployed at the Minneapolis City
Hall Court House.
Chief Johannes made his ACCUSE
tton at q conference with Gov. Floyd
B. Olson, who began an investigation
into causes Of the disturbance, and
j. T. Edmunds, Midwest Federal Re-
lief Administrator.
The chief said the riots were not
inspired by bonafide G. w. A. work.
ers seeking relief and he produced
Communist membership cards which
he asserted had been taken from q
dozen Of the 50 men arrested during
the trouble.
Declaring his satisfaction with the
evidence given him by Chief Jo-
hannes. Gov. Olson said he would
join Edmunds in assuring national
administration officials in Washing
ton that the riot .was the work Of
paid Communist agitators.
Olson Convinced.
II stepped into this investigation
with Mr.. Edmunds to arrive at the
causes Of the demonstration and to
intercede with the court in behalf
of the prisoners If they were bona
fide G. w. A. men," said Gov. Olson
1.-The outcome Of our inquiry Is
however, that this demonstration was
not an effort of the laid-oh c. w. A
workers trying to obtain redress OF
wrongs. We are convinced that we
should not intercede, but let the Law
take its course"
Following the conference, which
also delved into public relief prob
lens. Gov. Olson said he and the
Federal Government were concerned
with whether 1t was a question Of
inadequate relief or objection to
methods Of handling it that had
caused the riot.
The committee sent to the City
Council to discuss a new relief pro-
gram during the demonstration, Olson
said, was not composed of men who
had been taken of the c. w. A. pay
rolls and chosen by their fellows as
representatives. The leaders Of the
committee, he asserted, were recog-
nized Communists.
Party Halls "Victory."
Earl Browder, general secretary oi
the Communist party, in a statement
at Cleveland, said that some OF The
| workers who took part in the disorders
were organized by Communists"
He described the demonstration q!
a victory" in noting that the Min
neapolis council voted to recommend
demands of the rioters. These in.
cluded continuance of the c. w. A
and increased relief allowances.
But a committee of five aldermen
! appointed to carry the rioters griev.
ances to Washington. decided tonight
to postpone their trip until after 6
conference with Gov. Olson.
Those arrested in the disturbance
face trial Monday.
While police continued their vigi-
lance, guarding the city hall an6
patrolling areas where they believed
agitators might seek to start new dis
orders, none Of the rumored plots ma
terialized.
One said the court house would be
bombed.
Most of those injured Yesterday
when rioters missiles mingled. with
police night sticks and tear gas bombs
had recovered.
LABOR DRIVE PLANNED.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
LABOR DRIVE PLANNED.
Communist Says Members Instructed
to Join Trade Unions.

CLEVELAND, April z R.-An as
sertion that some of the participants
in yesterdays riotous demonstration
by unemployed workers at Minneapo-
lis were organized Communists" was
made late today by Earl Browder,
general secretary, as the party ended
its national convention in Cleveland.
A complete summary of the con-
vention possibly will not be made
public for several days. One resolu-
ton adopted, Browder said, required
all members of the party, If eligible,
to become members of trade unions,
the theory being, he explained. that
these workers would thus have an
opportunity to present Communistic
views in the hope of winning converts
in the union organizations.
The secretary said there are about
24,500 active members of the party in
the United States, and about SOC, 900
in other organizations occasionally
under Communistic leadership, al
though not directly afiliated.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

tainly these were men would could
have remained hidden In almost no
type of society. The list might be
greatly extended If some of the giants
on the borderland Of Socialism are
accepted as belonging to its ranks
Plato, for instance, in his half-mad,
ha1f-divine phantasy called 1.-The Re-
public; or that strange herdsman,
Amos, with social voice more an
cient and stronger. though less re-
fined, than that of the Greek; and so
on, through a long list indeed.
Surely, these men cannot be called
unfit" tn any sense of the word
But such men have been merely the
voices, often quixotic and always cut
of from the very persons to whom
they offered guidance, calling down to
the "proletariat in its an
cient sense, meant "the spawners."
Incapacities Are Cited.
The numerical strength of Socialism
has been found through generations
in the ranks of those who have proved
themselves unfit to advance, or even
satisfactorily maintain themselves, in
the different forms of civilization
created in various lands. This has
been characteristic of Socialism to q
degree known to no other popular
movement.
Spokesmen for the Socialists have
used the very mcapacity Of their fol-
lowers as an argument for their So
cial program, maintaining that failure
Of the proletariat to advance, or even
to hold its own satisfactorily, Is not
proof of any deficiency in that group,
but rather Of fundamental flaw in
the social structure In which they
find themselves. It Is as If q rock,
dropped into pool, should, in sink
ing, exclaim: 1.-THE fact that I go to
the bottom does not prove that I am
unsuited to staying on the top, but
simply that the laws Of physics should
be so altered as to keep me up."
Nevertheless, Socialism has made
tremendous progress In recent years.
In the 16 leading nations having
representative systems, approximately
% per cent Of the legislators are listed
formally as Socialists, term which
today varies more than ever widely in
its meaning, but generally points to-
ward the common goal Of righting the
ills Of mankind by distributing private
property equally among all the people,
through the agency Of government.
United States Unique.
It has made this advance by FORM
ing a working union Of genuinely
socialistic groups, and groups which
are only interested in specific and
limited governmental reforms or ex-
periments and which believe they can
prevent their new associates from
going the full limit Of socialstic doc.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
OFFICIAL is HONORED
q. s. Marshal Made Bar

Deputy q. s. Marshal Made Bar
Association Member.
Deputy United States Marshal
James s. Mccarthy, for many years
q familiar figure around the District
Supreme Court, was elected to mem
bership In the District Bar Associa-
ton yesterday.
Thirty-f1ve years ago, Mccarthy
practiced law at Memphis, Tenn. He
also spent several years in the West
as inspector Of public lands and was
at one time secretary to Senator Aus
tin j. McLaurin of Mississippi.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

numbered among
their leaders men
Of greater bril-
lance and allure
than are to be
found a m o n &
many of the men
whose names are
associated with
Socialism.
Robert o W e n
and w Willi a m
Morris in Eng
and; S in t.
Simon and Foul
rier in France;
Karl M ark in
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Rockefellers at Naples.

NAPLES, April Z R.-Mr. and
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., arrived
today on the S. S. Rex from the
United States. They are to sail to-
night aboard the S. S. Roma for
Taormina.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Bow Bicyclist Injured.

e. Lee Engelberg. 13, Of 3716 Yuma
street, was treated at Emergency
Hospital yesterday afternoon for a
broken collarbone received when he
fell from his bicycle while riding In
the 400 block Of Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Back to the kitchen" is the Nazi
slogan for women. Hitler asserts the
Marxist regime, which ruled Germany
since the revolution, modernized
women and robbed them Of their souls,
of their truly womanly instincts.
DR.. Ley, a leading Nazi, declared
at meeting at Cdssel, before
10000 ponaen, that the "iDomen,s
movement must regard its highest
aim the guiding OF the Wonan
back to the family and to mother
hood"
+ r 4 II
The Nazi soldier-state believes the
woman should serve both the state
and the man. One of the official writ
ers for the government puts this
philosophy neatly in the sentence:
"Wehrphicht (the obligation to carry
arms) is the natural privilege Of man;
motherhood the natural duty and
honor of woman"
As a result of this move, thousands
of women are quietly. but gradually
ousted from shops, Offices and fac
tories.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Coffee Record Set.

Coffee shipped from Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. in recent month filled 1885,
900 bags, Q new high record.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
More Firms Survive.

More small firms In China survived
the Chinese New Year settlement OF
their dehtt than for several years.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
391ST CODE APPROVED

Eight Added Include Shoe Ma
chinery and Roofing Tile.
Approval of eight more codes, bring
ing the total in effect to 391, was an
nounced yesterday by N. r. A.
The new codes: Umbrella frame
manufacturing, steel plate fabricating,
shoe machinery, sandstone industry,
railroad special track equipment, in
sectide and disinfectant manufactur-
ing. clay and shale roofing tile, snap
fastener manufacturing.
Minimum wages were mostly In the
IS to 40 cents an hour range, with
as low as Is cents in the clay tile
industry in Southern States.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Tax Sale Called Off.

Fifty cents was offered in Water
ford, Ireland, for six bullocks seized
recently from farmer for taxes, and
the sale was called off.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
First Editions Sold.

A first edition of Fieldings "Tom
Jones' brought S140 and first edi-
ton of SteVenSon's Treasure Island
realized Sl35 in London recently.