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The Washington times., 1934-02-02
CLUBMEN TOLD
Of ROOSEVELT
BY THOMAS F. CULLEN

Ambrose O'Connell, executive
assistant to Postmaster General
Farley. last night addressed the
Alexandria Young Democrats Club
on Roosevelt. the Man" He
described the President as his
friends and fellow workers see
him, paying tribute to his ever
present good humor and sym
pathy.
A resolution was passed by the
club demanding the appointment
of a committee to revise the con-
stitution and bylaws with refer
ence to the term of office of the
officers, Armistead L. Booth,
treasurer. who offered the resolu-
ton, said there had developed
considerable opposition to the
four-year term of the present
officers
The committee will report to
the club March /.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
BY International News Service

Organized labor today hailed
President Roosevelt's order giving
the national labor board authority
to supervise employe elections Of
delegates to represent them to
their employers when requested by
a substantial number Of en-
ployes, or even a group Of en-
ployes."
The MIRA said the order resulted
from the growing tendency on
the part of industrial management
to build up company unions in
their plants" and circumvent the
law which grants workers the
right to elect their own represen-
tatives in bargaining collectively
with their employers on working
conditions.
The law gives the employees the
right to choose union or non-union
men as their delegates.
Company unions are operated by
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
AUTO FATALITY
STARTS SUIT

Maryland has entered suit in
Montgomery County Circuit Court
against Rebecca M. Fields for $500
damages.
The suit is filed on behalf Of
Mrs. Margaret j. Norris, widow Of
George A. Norris, who, it is al
legged, died as the result Of in
juries he sustained when struck
by an automobile operated by Miss
Fields. Norris five children, four
of whom are minors, also are
listed as plaintiffs in the declara-
tion, inasmuch as it is alleged
that their father was their sole
means Of support.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
UNION ORDER IS PRAISED

employees representatives chosen
by the employer rather than by
the employees.
The labor board already has dis
patched a representative to Weir
ton, w. Va, to determine If a
sufficient number of the Weirton
steel company workers want it to
supervise an election for them.
The workers held an election last
year under company domination
and the management barred the
boards supervisors from the
grounds
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
Concert
Set for SATURDAY.

Gov. Albert c. Ritchie Of Mary
land, Commissioner Melvin C.
Hazen and Mrs. Hazen, and Mayor
and Mrs. Frederick L. Lewton, of
Takoma Park, have been invited
to act as patrons and patronesses
Of a charity concert to be held
Saturday evening, February 10.
in the auditorium of the Washing
ton Missionary College.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
THIEF ENTERS HOME

The thief who entered the win
dow Of the home Of David w.
Utz, in the $500 block Of Field
Place, N. w. early today, left his
footprints in the snow behind him.
but took with him clothing and
a ring worth $40.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02

came q suspect IN LHe EtdnGptng
and murder OF Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr., mainly through his
curiosity and interest in that
puzzling crime.
BY THOMAS F. CULLEN
CHICAGO, Feb. 2 G.N.SO.
Verne sankey. deflated kidnaper,
Is on his way to Pierre, S. D.,
6oday to face the indictment
charging him with the kidnapping
of Charles Boetcher. 2nd, of
Denver.
He is not on his way to New
Jersey to answer for the murder
Of the Lindbergh baby, and in
my opinion will never have to
60 to New Jersey on this charge.
Sankey's Curiosity
Sankey was not connected with
the kidnapping of Americas most
famous baby and had never been
suspected of being implicated in
that crime until a few weeks ago
when Mike Kinkead, hard-hit-
ting prosecuting attorney at st.
Paul, announced that he believed
this former tinhorn gambler
might have had a hand in that
CaSe.
There is no doubt that Sankey
was interested in the Sonrland
Mountain tragedy, and there is
reason to think he may have
learned a lesson from it.
Whoever did it succeeded in
not only collecting the ransom
after this most heinouS murder
but so far has escaped detection,
or anything approaching detec-
ton.
Gig Up" in Two Cases
If REQ Verne Sankey, as he
seems to have been christened,
had been a party to the Lind
bergh crime, it would have been
known long before this.
Sankey confessed to the Boett-
cher kidnapping and that of Has
kell Bohn Of st. Paul for one
reason only. He knew it was no
use to try to evade responsibility
for them. The evidence is COM
plete and convincing without any
aid from him.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
Included:

Black kids, BOucle, calls
(and some suedes)-new
pumps, straps, OxfOrds,
gore pumps. Continental,
Louis, and plenty of the
practical Cuban heels. All
sizes in combined lot.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
SANKEY CALLED
A Debated
K|DNAPER

Thomas +. Cullen, former De.
pdrtment OF Justice official,
herewith points out that Verne
Sdnkey, confessed Eidndper, be-
came suspect in the kidnapping
and murder of Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr., mainly through his
curiosity and interest in that
puszling crime.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
VIEWS AND REVIEWS.

R. E. LEE. A Biography. Two vols.
BY Douglas Southan Freeman.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
TO DO approximate justice to this
definitive biography of Robert
E. Lee, which, when complete,
l. will be in volumes, con-
tanning 65 pages of illustra-
tionS from photographs and documents
and about $50 specially drawn maps
and plans, an exhaustive and schol-
arly review will be necessary in
specifically historical journal. Here
little more can be done than to call
attention to its value and the high
qualifications of the author. DR.. Free
man, editor of the Richmond News
Leader, former fellow in history at
Johns Hopkins, has spent much of
his life in historical research. He is
an expert in military history and is
considered the outstanding authority
on the military history of the Civil
War and on Robert E. Lee. He was
chosen to write the biography of
Robert E. Lee for the Dictionary of
American Biography. During the
World War he wrote what were es-
teemed authoritative editorials on mill
tary operations. Since 1915 he has
been conducting his research for this
Lee biography and his sources have
included unpublished letters, letter.
books, War Department archives, files
of personal narratives, Lees military
papers and interesting illustrations
never before reproduced.
Volume I of "R. E. Lee" covers the
period from the birth of Robert E. Lee.
fourth child of "Light-HorS Harry"
Lee and Ann Carter Lee, at Stratford,
through the selection of Lee in Novem-
ber, 1861, by Jefferson Davis as COM
mander of the military department
of the southeastern coast Of the Con-
federacy. Volume II extends through
the disaster at Fredericksburg and the
death Of "Stonewall" Jackson, Lees
Right Arm Though DR.. Freeman
is q native Virginian and a thorough
admirer of Lee, his treatment of his
subject is fair, bealanced and objec-
tive. His attitude is that the scholar,
whose interest is in facts and their
proper relation, with reasoned judg-
4AO OAAOoC AoNSo, AAoe AZ SAAAo-
tional reactions. He indicates this at
titude In his foreword. 1T may be
that I shall irritate some readers by
restraint and disappoint others by
failing to answer some Of Lees de-
tractors. On the one point, it seems
to me that the fame of no man is pro-
NOTED by extravagant utterance. Truth
is not furthered thereby. Seventy
years after the event, assertive rhetoric
has no place in historical narrative" ="
The stress in these two volumes is
upon Lees military career. This will
also undoubtedly be the case in the
last two volumes. When work on the
book was begun, several Of Gen. Lees
staff officers were still living and one
of "Stonewall' Jackson's staff officers
was a neighbor of DR.. Freeman, who
discussed with all of them military
problems which developed in his in
uuiry and found that many complex
questions in connection with the Army
of Northern Virginia were settled for
him by these men who were young IN
the COS and had the most vivid recol-
lections of all that happened. Stu
dents of military history will find the
thorough study of the campaigns OF
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Political Scene Is ClOuded

unaware Of the fundamental changes
which the Nation must undergo If
many of the New Deal policies be-
come permanent To dramatic these
changes is difficult. Too often discus
sionS about them are so abstruse that
they are of interest only to a handful
of students of political science. They
involve basic principles of the Amer
ican constitutional system; they run
counter to our traditional theory Of
the balance Of power between the
executive, legislative and judicial
branches of the Government; they
tend to strengthen the Federal Cow
ernment at the expense Of the States;
they concentrate powers in the hands
of the Executive which for a century
and a half have been specifically re-
served to the Legislature. Many OF
these powers are in turn delegated by
the President to youthful and mex
perienced appointees responsible to
no one but himself, who exercise func-
tions ordinarily reserved to the Legis-
lature or the judiciary.
Basic Conflict Goes On.
AS if this were not enough, there
is the basic conflict between the
democratic form of Government and
the inevitable dictatorship that lies
at the end Of the road Of regimenta-
ton. Up to the present we have not
gone far down this road. In fact We
have made only a few sallies. We
have attempted little planned econ
omy here and a little there, without
realizing that such planning, unless
on a Nation wide scale, Is doomed TO
failure, or that such planning. II 1t
be actually all-inclusive, is the direct
antithesis of democracy. We cannot
have at the same time regimentation
and repubhcanism. The two are
mutually exclusive.
The growing realization that basic
PHILOSOPHERS of life and government
are at stake in the country today is
probably the unconscious cause of the
political chaos of the moment. This
chaos has produced much more un-
certainty than is likely to appear at
the polls. Until the opposing courses
are more clearly charted, the people
in their doubt are likely to be domi-
mated by their hopes. They still hope
that the New Deal will succeed. AS,
however. the probable results Of its
various policies make themselves clear.
we may expect to see new clariflca-
ton in the political lineup.
The late Theodore Roosevelt once
remarked that in his contacts with
American political life one Of the
things that had struck him most was
how invariably the American people
made a correct decision once they
had all the facts placed before them.
Their errors were mostly made before
the facts were understood. Today
there are many new developments in
our political and economic life which
have not yet been fully explained.
The need is for discussion and frank
criticism-the more the better-so
that the country be not turned aside
blindly from the road which it has
travelled so successfully for . CEN
tury and a half
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Attitude of Little Entente Rebuff
To Foreign Policies of MussOlini

regards the attitude Of the Little En-
tente. The deep hostility shown by
YugoSlavia to the protective attitude
of Italy toward Austria, and the only
slightly reduced display of feeling in
CzechoSlovakia has served both as q
surprise and a warning to this coun-
try. Until the very day of the as
sassination of Chancellor Engelbert
Dollfuss and the march of the Italian
troops to the border there had been
q feeling in Rome that some progress
was being made toward persuading the
other countries in Central Europe to
join with Italy, Austria and Hungary
in that economic and political coop
Grafton which was looked upon as
about the only substitute for Ans
chluSS."
Groups Hard TO Dominate.
The display of hostility from Gen.
trail Europe has warned Italy that the
often vaunted French domination OF
the Little Entente has limits. Perhaps
in its way the revelation of the Yugo-
slavian backing of the NaH move
ment in Austria shocked the Italians
more than did the evidences of the
German hand in the events. Ger
many's part already had been as
sumed; apparently the danger from
Yugoslavia had been underestimate
by many. In Italy only one conclu-
sion can be drawn; The Little Entente
would prefer even to see Austria ab-
sorbed by Germany than protected By
Mussolini.
(Copyright, 1e34.l -
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Republicans on Defensive.

ROME.-A rude shock has been
administered to Italian foreign policy
as an aftermath Of the crisis over
Austria. Moving troops to the border
may have been effective as a means
of preserving Austrian independence
in a moment of actual danger, but in
the last analysis the policy of Premier
Benito Mussolini in that direction is
or was-based on other means.
Chief among them was the plan
for. Danublan cooperation which al
ready had been put into effect so far
as Italy, Austria and Hungary are
concerned, but which, for anything
like complete fulf1llment, presupposed
eventual cooperation of the countries
Of the Little Entente, and at least a
minimum Of hostility on the part of
Germany.
Italy Shying Germany.
Under the circumstances Italy may
be willing to write of an open and
ugly quarrel with Germany as in
evitable. The short duration allowed
the campaign of the Fascist press
against Germany, and the almost COM
piete taboo since placed on mention
even of the name of that country in
public discussions, may be taken as
indicative Of q desire to avoid aggra-
waiting a break with Hitler.
Its disappointments are recognized
without admitting that they cannot
ever be overcome. Where, however.
disappointment has been the most
unexpected, hence most resented, is as
Evening star., 1934-10-07
AGE PENSION GAINS LEAD
AS u. S. CONTROVERSY
Welfare Experts Find Cure-Alls Numer-
ous-None More So Than Offered for
Care of Feeble-Europe Sets Pace.

salary earners. There are about 600
formal industrial retirement plans in
operation, including more than s.
900, 900 persons. However. this is only
one-tenth Of the wage-earning popula-
ton.
From the Government standpoint,
however, until recently the aged poor
incapable Of employment had to de-
pend on State, county or municipal
institutions for their care in aims
houses and poorhouses. The States
have made the greatest progress in
legislation. The pension system was
launched in Montana in 1923. Since
that time 26 other States-Arizona,
California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah,
Washington. West Virginia, Wisconsin
and Wyoming-have enacted old-age
security laws. The Territories Of
Alaska and Hawaii have done like
wise.
The pensionable age is set at 10 in
IA of these States, while l3 pay pen
sions at 65. North Dakota allows a
pension of $3.50 per year: Hawaii and
Indiana, SIS a month; Nebraska. 500
per month Kentucky. $3.50 a year;
Delaware. Idaho, Montana, Ohio and
Utah pay SIS monthly; Arizona,
California, Colorado, Maine, Mary
land, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada,
New Jersey, oregon, Pennsylvania,
Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
and Wyoming pay $40 a month.
New York and Massachusetts, set no
specific maximum, but allow ad-
ministrative officials to use their dis
cretion in individual cases. The costs
are shared in various ways. Some
States reimburse counties, elsewhere
States and counties share the costs
equally; in IA States the entire cost
is borne by the counties. Proponents
OF old-age pensions point out the many
benefits Of the social legislation in
these States. But they deplore the
many high age limits, and find the
remedy to the problem as a whole in
immediate Federal aid legislation.
Copyright. 1934D
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Italy's Doctors Told to "Cure' Patients
OF Failure to Appreciate Fascism

ROME, Italy-Under Fascism in
italy today the family doctor ought to
cure not only the mumps, the measles
and the other Affections of the body,
but also any moral Affections which
might cause his patients to fail to ap-
preciate the regime and what it has
done for the country, in the opinion
of DR.. Eugenio Morelli, national sec
retary of the Italian Medical Asso-
citation.
In an address opening the academic
year at the School for Military Medi-
cine at Florence. Dr. Morelli pointed
out the responsibilities of the doctor
as a propagandist On behalf of Fa-
cism and outlined some of the policies
of the regime for which he said ply
sicianS should be grateful and which
they should praise to their patients.
DR.. Morelli is director of the Benito
Mussolini Sanitarium, which is in
tended to be the leading institution in
Italy for the study and cure of dis
orders Of the respiratory system.
In cooperation with the regime,
doctors should encourage large FAM
lies, discourage Wnen tney cannot
prevent women from reducing, praise
the work which Fascism has done
for public health, sports and other
recreations in Italy. and urge patients
to buy Italian medicines and consult
italian doctors in preference to for
eign ones, Dr. Morelli told his listeners
"The doctor penetrates into the
family at the moment in which the
mind is most sensitive" the speaker
said, "in the moment in which he
represents hope, and his word there
fore is taken to heart. Conscious OF
this advantage, the physician should
feel the duty of pointing out to his
patients the beauty of the newly re-
stored fatherland and the greatness
of him prime Minister Benito Mus
solinD whose interest is always di-
rected toward the humble.
Evening star., 1934-10-07

I'VE shall not be like the ancient
priests, who, by supernatural pre-
lenses, helped the rulers deceive the
people and maintain them in sub
lection, but the wise counselors who
help the authorities to protect the
physical and moral health of the
people" he said.
Referring to the birth rate and the
presumptive effect on it of women's S
reducing, the speaker reminded his
hearers of Mussolini's insistence on
larger families and of his criticism OF
reducing and went on:
You doctors, who can adequately
appreciate the dangers of reducing,
are responsible for pointing out those
dangers. How much tuberculosis is
there among these women who. in
order to reduce, subject themselves
to the severest sacrifices, who SUBJ
stitute vinegar for their drinking
water, and who know the drugs which
cause loss of weight better than many
doctors themselves do?"
(Copyright. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-10-07

Of the Chinese quarter in San Fran
cisco during a visitation of the bu-
bonic plague in 1900, or, in lighter
vein, "a Stage in the Thirties," done
inimicably as an illustration Of jan
vier's Greenwich Village" Or, of
particular local interest, Speakers
Lobby, House Of Representatives" in
which portraits of we'll known mem
bers may be identified. Again this
exhibition manifests, as did its prede-
cessors, the extraordinary skill and
competence OF those who constituted
the school of American illustration
in the 9Os and early 19oos-a brilliant
coterie of very genuine artists.
After the war a school for illus
traitors" was established in New York
for disabled soldiers under the Fed
eral Board of Vocational Training
and w. A. Rogers became a director
and instructor therein. Two years
later he moved to Washington, bought
an old house in Georgetown in which
he made his home. did cartoons, wrote
and drew. During this period his
drawings we're chiefly Of old George
lOWH HOUSES anu SCelleS dlOIlS Illc EO-
tomac which he reproduced as litho-
graphs. This period is represented in
the library's collection, but not in the
exhibition, which is limited to illus
tration. When Mr.. Rogers died in
October, 1881, he was by no means
enfeebled by age. Always modest and
retiring, he retained to the end his
gift of companionability. his sparkling
wit and his firm conviction that nfe
as whole, and the life of an artist
in particular, was eminently worth
while" AS is almost invariably the
case, what the man was is to be seen
today in his work.
X X
THE Cocoran Gallery Of Art an
nourced during the Summer its
fourteenth biennial exhibition of con-
temporary American oil paintings,
fa he hold MT in the earlv Winter aS
Evening star., 1934-10-07
In the World of Books
REVIEWS -ByS

Paris, witnessed the first break in his
health, was constant in attendance
during the tragic illness which began
in the Autumn of 1919, and comments
sadly that in few short months he
was changed from giant to a
pigmy in every wise"
Very little of what went on in the
White House and very few of the per-
sonal pecul!aritieS OF Presidents and
their families seem to have escaped
Mr.. Hoover's notice. Yet at times
there is reserve and we are sure he
could have said more on certain sub
jects. Cleveland appeared to him to
work harder to accomplish the same
results than other men; Mrs. Cleve-
land was to him brilliant and af-
fable lady" and he welcomed her back
for the second term with joy. The
Theodore Roosevelt administration was
the most interesting" of all, and the
children, roller skating, bicycling and
walking on stills all over the house
and taking their pony for rides in the
elevator. furnished continuous enter
tainment for the staff. But the
whole family were fiends when it came
to reading" When Taft came to the
White House he had lost much of
his good nature and seemed cross and
uncomfortable-very different from
his former self" Taft's faux pas in
insisting on accepting Wilson's per-
functory invitation to lunch after the
latter's Inauguration, in spite of the
tactful efforts of Hilles to persuade
him to leave, Is described in detail.
Coolidge did not endear himself to
Mr.. Hoover, who found him a man of
RACES, more economical in private ex-
penditures than with that charged to
Government. and much chagrined that
he was not drafted" for third term.
Herbert Hoover he considered the least
egotistical and self-conscious of all
the Presidents he served, the hardest
worker and the one who worried most.
Mrs. Coolidge was "the only First Lady
whom have known to smoke
and she never did so in public" Per-
hapS the most interesting section Of
Mr.. Hoover'S book is Part III, Com
parsons and Verdicts." Libraries will
classify "Forty-Two Years in the
White House" as autobiography, with
OANoo ASASAS4A ~ dAA tAAC @oA0CAASo
mentioned, but that will not tell the
whole story. The real classification
should be as patrician gossip. But
future historians must consider 1t
source, though a minor one.
y II ~
BEYOND THE NEW DEAL. BY
David Lawrence. New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
"EMERGENCY ills require extraor-
dinary remedies" admits David
Lawrence, but he is concerned over
the questions when emergency reme-
dies are to end and where they are
likely to leave us. Mr.. Lawrence, as
editor and widely known commenta-
tor on national affairs, has through
his columns from the beginning con-
veyed sometimes his approval and
sometimes his fears regarding various
New Deal policies and their implica-
tions to constitutional Government
and to individuals. His book, writ
ten for the average citizen, arranges
and co-ordinates his views on the
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