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Evening star., 1936-02-25

teacher violates the law. Any ques-
ton involving an individual ID In the
hands Of the controller general. who
may arbitrarily withhold pay.
Presents Oaths.
Ballou presented the series Of oaths
required by the controller general for
teachers, clerks, janitors and miscel-
laneous employees" and the committee
members led the resulting laughter.
Because the rider accomplishes the
opposite purpose to that intended,
regard the time devoted to 1t as a
waste Of time" he said.
The oaths alone require 10 deys Of
clerks time each month to prepare.
He had not computed the cost, he
told the committee, but whatever it is,
he said, Is waste and loss.
Baalou also said there has never
been case of complaint against a
teacher for violating the law.
The rider, he continued, has re-
suited in pupils laughing at the
teachers inability to answer their
questions" AS result, the rider has
accomplished the opposite Of its pur-
pose.
Dr.. Ballou explained how maga-
zines are being reviewed because of
the rider. Chairman Kennedy asked
about Scholastic and criticized list
of reference books carried by the pub
lications.
Recess Called.
Representative Maverick. Democrat.
of Texas appeared as DR.. Ballou COM
pleted his testimony. He asked to
be heard, but Chairman Kennedy and
the subcommittee agreed to hear him
Thursday.
The hearing then recessed until
Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock.
The place to be announced later.
Immediately after the recess was
declared, Representative Jenckes,
Democrat, of Indiana, stanch sup
porter of the rider, issued statement
explaining her absence from the hear
ing. She explained that she was kept
at home at the advice of her physi-
clans and regretted her absence.
LAS a member Of the Subcommittee
on Education" she said, Il have re-
quested that the hearings be extended
and continued in order that I might
file brief which will show that the
Board of Education of the District of
Columbia is wholly unfit to admin
lister the sacred trust of educating
children OF the District of Columbia.
the National Capital"
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Reds
Continued From First Page

of Maryland, a committee member,
interrupted to ask the effect Of the
rider.
Mrs. Doyle pointed out it had in
creased the curiosity of the chill
dren and allowed them to learn about
communism without proper patriotic
supervision.
Sisson had the witness read the
teachers oath into the records. 1t
was brought out that it is the same
as that taken by all United States
employees.
The board president outlined pres
ent courses required in American his
tory. civics and economics.
All machinery known or available
to combat Communism or other sub
versive teachings is used in the Dis
trict schools, Sisson brought out.
Long before the hearing was sched-
uled to begin. the small committee
room was filled beyond capacity.
Among the late arrivals were men,
bers Of the Board of Education.
Among the first to appear were George
E. Sullivan of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, E. Brooke Fetty Of
the American Legion and Gen. Amos
A. Fries of the Public School Associa-
tion, outspoken supporters of the rider.
Fetty and Fries had asked in advance
to be heard and are expected to be
called later in the week.
Although Corporation Counsel E.
Barrett Prettyman was present. Mrs.
Doyle was asked for and gave Pretty
mans Interpretation of the meaning of
the rider.
The Prettyman ruling, however, the
witness said, did not settle the ques-
tion as to the meaning of the law.
There was much resulting con-
fusion" she said. Teachers and even
Evening star., 1936-02-25
new DEAL AGENCY
HITS FREED REPORT
Says It Fails to Point Means to
Obtain Lower Home
Financing.
By the Associated Press.

6y tIlc AoSUCldtcu EIcoos
A New Deal lending agency was dis
closed yesterday to have prepared a
confidential report sharply criticizing
some of the findings of the Committee
for Economic Recovery.
The committee, headed by A. S.
Freed, New York taxi manufacturer,
is composed entirely of business ex-
ecutives who, in an advisory capacity,
have been drafting plans for Govern
ment, industry, finance and labor.
The confidential report dealt en-
tirely with the committees housing
recommendations.
Although saying the Freed program
Is dramatic, concise and forceful'
and that its objectives "are well ex-
pressed" the memorandum added that
the committee suggested lower home
financing costs but failed "to point
out the means by which this objective
can be attained"
Evening star., 1936-02-25

was made manifest to the court In
various ways. 80
Outstanding is the fact that petit
toner never chastised or physically
punished her child. -.
Many witnesses were called who
testified to the affectiotiate relations
that existed between petitioner and
her child.
There are in evidence many let
ters from the child to petitioner writ
ten from the time the child was or Z
years of age. These letters breathe
affection and love and contain Ks and
circles denoting hugs and kisses.
"The fact that petitioner had pre-
served these childish letters over the
years speaks eloquently Of her affec-
ton for the child"
Evening star., 1936-02-25
HELLENIC SPIRIT
q
LAUDED BY DERN
'
Example Seen in Develop.
ment of y. S.-SiciIianos
Is Speaker. I

Successful development Of the United
ctates was attributed largely to the
Hellenic example of keeping the Gov
ernment close to the people by Secre.
tary Of War Dern last night in ad-
dressing the national banquet Of the
Order Of Ahepa at the Mayfiower
Hotel.
More than TOO persons, including.
besides prominent Greeks of the coun-
try, Senators, Representatives and
prominent Federal ofiicials and citi-
zens, attended the banquet and dance.
The Ahepa order was lauded in other
addresses by Senator King OF Utah
and the Minister Of Greece, Demetrios
Sicilianos. v. I. Chebithes, Ahepa su-
preme president, also spoke.
Democracy was born in Greco" !"
Secretary Dern declared. "Our New
England town meetings are a direct
descendant of similar meetings held IN
Greece"
Dern pointed out that science, liter
ature and art were Graded in ancient
Greece and that architecture, juris-
prudence and eloquence fiourished
there centuries before Europeans be-
gan to till the soil.
Obligations to Forbears.
"Your society does WELL" Dern said,
ito perpetuate the memory of both the
ancient and modern Greeks. hope
that we shall never be so engrossed
in the utilitarian pursuits of the mo-
ment as tG forget our obligations to
our forbears."
Minister Sicilianos praised the order
for its work in promoting closer rela-
tionship between the United States
and Greece, stressing the friendship
existing between the two countries.
THE latest gesture of friendship
of the Greek nation" he said, was
accepted by this Government. and has
become an added link in series Of
friendly acts uniting the two coun-
tries" He spoke Of the acceptance by
the United States of Greece's offer
to pay IS per cent of the serving
charge of the loan of 1929, which loan
had its origin N the World War COM
mitments.
Payments Cited.
Minister Sicilianos explained that
as result Of thiS off1 and accept
ance. every MAY And.? November Of
each year, and until world conditions
improve or a definite settlement is
reached, Greece will pay to the United
States $4,000.
These may be small matters" the
speaker said, but they are no doubt
quite essential in maintaining friendly
ties between countries" Last year
the United States exported A per cent
more goods to Greece than during the
previous year. Sicilianos said, adding
that in the same period Greece's ex-
ports to the United States increased
IA per cent.
Senator King lauded the order for
providing 500 students with scholastic
funds and for its work in aiding thou
sands of persons to obtain naturaliza-
tion papers.
Evening star., 1936-02-25
J. J. QUERTINMONT DIES
Was Pioneer in Cooperative
Glass Business in u. S

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, February
Is (P.-Jules J. Quertinmont, ST., rs,
pioneer in the cooperative glass busi-
ness in the United States, died yes
terday in the county hospital.
He came here for treatment from his
home in Pit. Marion, Pa.
A native of France, Quertinmont
learned the glass business in Belgium
and came to the United States at
the age of "a to work in factories at
Meadville. Pa; Fostoria, Ohio, and
Jeannette, Pa.
In 1900 he organized the jean
nette Window Glass Co. of Pit.
Marion. the first cooperative or
ganlzation of its kind in the country.
Workers subscribed part of their earn
ings for stock, and in 20-year period
cash dividends totaling 979 per cent
were paid.
Evening star., 1936-02-25
Buffalo Bill" Statue Hit.

DALLAS, Tex, February 25 (P.-A
proposal to include life-size statue
of Col. William F. Buffalo Bill'' Cody
in the Museum of Fine Arts at the
Texas Centennial Exposition drew fire
yesterday from the United Daughters
of the Confederacy.
Said Mrs. G. c. Cameron, State
president:
HE was a Union spy. His only
connection with Texas was his Wild
West Show"
Evening star., 1936-02-25
DR.. Roth to Speak.

Renewal of Jewish Life" will be
the subject of a lecture by DR.. Cecil
Roth, Anglo Jewish historian at $50
pm. Thursday at the Jewish Commu-
nifty Center. The Washington Zionist
district will sponsor the meeting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-15
THE RELIEF BABY
ObServer.

From the very nature of political parties, rehel
as the Democrats are administering 1t and rehe1 aS
the Republicans promise to administer 1t would De-
a. far as spoils are concerned, six of one and
haf-dozen of the other 1t is true that the abuses
of the Democrats are so fragrant and so 1reSh Dis
partly TO obscure what went on when the Repuo-
leans were in charge, but that was bad enough
Even so, Governor LandOn's speech at Cleveland
last night on the roomy topic of relief had ltS
points. It's best point, based on the Republican
platform, was the proposal to hold the state ana
local governments responsible along with the led
eral government for the provision of relief on-
doubtedly Governor Landon was good psyche
logical ground when he said:
"A direct financial responsibility is the best
guarantee we can have that the taxpayers
money will not be squandered."
The problem of relief in North Carolina wouiu,
we daresay. be reduced to understandable terms IL
the state and it's subordinate entities were lorceu
TO put up half the money Unemployment woul'
become their baby and relief would be realis'ic
task instead Of the wndfall it is now with r'e''
JINGLE Sam supplying all the money and support
ing a great many Tar Heels in style TO "hich
+bev were never accustomed before.
There was time when the state and local gov
ernments, many of them, were totally unable to
carry their fair share of the relief load. The fed
eral government, whose credit was unlimited, came
10 their rescue, and for that return thanks. But
the time has come when division of the load
is not only feasible but desirable We could wish
il were the Democrats rather than the Republicans
who urged it-Charlotte News.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
A BETTER RELIEF PLAN

Governor Landon. speaking at Columbus, pro-
rosas if elected president, drastic revision of
the present relief program, pedging himself and
his administration to liberal" policy in this heId
Inn, based upon federal grants to the states which
would no given the function of handling their own
needy and unemployed.
That in the judgment of The Observer, Is pref
ornbIc 70 the present fcderazed plan in relief ad-
miniStration.
This newspaper came to that conclusion long be-
fore the Republican party put the pledge OF sueh
Motley in its platform or knew that Landon would
be its nominee.
Il remains our opinion that broken-down ad-
ministraton of relief into and through lesser po-
Gtical subdivisions than the central government at
Washington is by far the most practical, econom-
cal and efficient method of managing this difficult
governmental business
The Republicans promise that relief administra-
ton will be returned to such local non-poIit'ca
agencies and be separated from public works
The federal government would provide grants-n-
AID 10 the states on these conditions:
First a fair proportion of the total relief
finances to be provided by the states or their local
governments;
Second. all relief administrators to be selected
ON the basis of fitness;
Third. adequate encouragement to be given all
irving and aspiring to be self-supporting
The, Democrats might well have put the same
Milan into their platform instead of leaving relief
administration insofar as policy is concerned
where, i, has been lodged during the Roosevelt adj
miniS;raton.
The return of this function to the states would
Of course not produce the Utopian condition OF
which Governor Landon SpeakS-it would certainly
mn, remove relief administration totally from the
range and realm of politics!
I'm, j, would tend to lessen the partisan empha-
81. that is being given such administration so long
As +, is under federal control and further teHd to
rrevcr, the building up of powerful political MI
roritv Of nationwide sympathy and sentiment from
among those who are federally relieved
The surprising phase of the whole matter is that
the Democratic party did not commit itself to the
pl,nk which Governor Landon and his Republican
platform are StrcSSing.
Knowing that federally administered relief mas
been shot through with abuses and waStetunesS'
some OF which, perhaps, was unavoidable IN the
narckv state of the public mind at the moment,
and knowing further that with economic conditions
vastly improved. the problem of relief can now be
more practically and Systematically handled than
was the case during the more critical moments Oh
.be depression. the Democratic chieftains might
we'll have foreSeen the advantage which the re
publican nominee would have in coming out clearly
on a platform promising to return this admlnlStra-
ton to where it belongs, and thus spared them
selves the necessity of a weak defenSe.-Charlote
Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-15
AN OUTSIDE CHANCE

Examining. the figures in the Literary Digest
national poll, and the Baltimore Sun papers Mary
land poll Mark Sullivan contends with some show
of CONTINGENCIES that Governor Landon is to be
winner.
Against that, place Dr.. George Gallup, whose
American Institute of Public Opinion finds Mr..
Roosevelt today with majority of the electoral
vote
w. A. Hildebrand, Washington correspondent of
the Greensboro News, is not conducting poll nor
has he any personal or political reasons that The
Times knows of FOR fayoring the candidacy of Mr..
Roosevelt. Yet in the Sunday News he says that
newspaper men who have surveyed the field on the
Landon and Roosevelt special trains, WHO have Wis
tied both camps and talked to the strategsts give
Landon IAN outside chance to win-far outside
Some doubt exists as to pivotal states, Mr.. Hill
debrand continues, but basic conditions favor the
president in most if not all those states, ne con-
cludes-Asheville Times.
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THANKS, LLOYD GEORGE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

not news to those who were OBJ
servant of what was going on;
such declaration is no more Il
surprise than the one also made
by Lloyd George that the Amcri-
can soldiers were magnificent.
Anybody who knows anything
about the politics of this nation
realizes what usually happens
when taxpayers money is spent.
Like most nations we are ego
ti>tical and cocky. We think We
are Just about the smartcst people
that God ever let the sun shine
on. II we were half as smart as
We think we are, we should never
have become mircd down in the
great economic depression which
still grips uS--and there will be
more dcprcSSions-probably worse
unless We change our ways and
on rthoughts.
Humility won't hurt us; we need
it; and the way to get it is TO stop
being defiant when the kinks in
us are pointed out to us, and to
set to work sincerely and earnest
~ to Straightcn out our kinks. We
are a long way from being per-
feet, and there is no sense in pre-
tending we are perfect.
The first step toward making
Improvement is to realize that
there can and should be improve
mont
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should do we'll TO examine our
selves. Our critics are our
friends; they are likely to tell us
the truth about ourselves, they
point out things in us that we
should know about, think about
and do something about.
Instead of flying into a rage
when we are told we have short
comings, we should look things
over intelligently and searching
ly. Should a man say to motor
list, "You have a flat tire" the
motoriSt would not yell angriIy:
to his informant. you're a liar.
He would say, Thank YOU" But
if the same man should observe to
the same motorist. "Iou are dis
honest" the motorist would prob
ably want to fight, though the
statement be true.
That there were waste and IN
efficiency in the part the United
States played in the World war is
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-15
TYPHOON TOLL
EXCEEDS 500
Now Revealed Over 100
Miners Swept to
Sea by Flood

MANILA. p. J.. Oct. -. tOP),
More than 100 miners were
drowned when floods i'm the Hom-
bales region swept their home into
the sen near Subic Bay, the Ma
Mia Herald reported Wednesday.
The mass drowning was believed
70 have brought the death toll III
Philippine floods and ,typhoons
during the past week to more than
500.
Customs officials reported three
dead. six missing and four surviy-
ors Of the motorship Taliba. which
sank off Mindsra yesterday IN
heavy seas.
Commonwealth officials eStimat-
ed that 10000 persons were home
less as the result of foundations
which swept through the northern
provinces of LuzOn.
New pcrilS added to the suffer
inc of the food and typhoon ref
ucces. Cholera and dystentery
we're reported spreading and vac
cincs were rushed northward by
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-15
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN TIE CAMPAIGN

tary Wallace, who has been inter-
cstcd in crop insurance since 1922,
finally talked the president into IT.
SINCE different cheat, corn, ana
~ cotton areas would pay differ
cnt premiums. il is argued that po-
litjcal pressure for premium rate
changes would become so great as
TO prevent operation on a purely
actuarial basis.
This appears TO present one Of
the most difficult problems, but
government agricultural experts in
both Republican and Democratic
administrations have studied the
PROPOSAL more than anyone else
and seem to think they can avoid
political complications.
ROOSEVELT appointed three
IL men TO the Maritime Author
ity. which will operate the new
merchant marine act-but to serve
only on temporary paSS'
His intention Of naming a full
fivc-man permanent commission
was given up temporarily when
Interstate Commerce Commits
sioncr Joseph B. EASTMAN, former
co ordinator of transportation,
definitely refused to be chairman
Of the authority.
THE battle between shipping
l. interests and liberals who want
commission representing tho
. public rather than the induStr!
still goes on. Roosevelt passed up
some important campaign co1tri.
buttons when he refused TO acccda
TO demands Of the former.
II will be interesting 10 see
whether even Vincent AStor, the
multimillionairc who has Shippin3
Investments and was formerly
considered a close personal friend
; of the president, will "kici in" for
the Democratic war chest this
year. w ~, ~
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By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service stan Correspondent

WTASHINGTON.-That more or
w less comic episode wherein
Landon and Roosevelt scrambled
to get credit for original espouSal
Of crop insurance has some pre-
viouSly undiScloSed background,
You will recall that on Sunday,
Sept. 20. Roosevelt appointed
committee TO study crop nSur-
ancc. The next day Landon
fastened TO announce that he mad
decided, several days before, 10
favor crop insurance, and, to prove
it. gave out two paragraphs OF
the speech he was TO make in DcS
Moines the following night.
Well. just TO show you the way
things go. Roosevelt some threc
weeks previously had decided TO
come out for crop inSwance--or
for a study of tin the "iircside
talk" he delivered the night OF
Sept. 6. .ic changed his mind.
Nearly all the notable New
A.
Dealers, it seems, were IN on inc
writing of that talk. Everybody
had ideas. At one time the speech
was to be mostly about uncmploy-
ment At least one final draft
was torn up and completely re-
placed.
MONG the confcrccS was AM
~ bassador Bill Bullitt - for
merly to Russia, now to France.
Bullitt talked crop insurance right
out Of the speech. He argued that
It was jus: another half-baked
idea that wouldn't work.
Roosevelt dropped it-for a
while. Why he picked it up again
isn't certain.
Republicans think the Demo-
cratic espionage service, which
seems to be at least as good as
the C. o. P.'s. reported that Lam
don would endorse it in Des
.Aoines. Or it may be that Secre-
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AUTOCRACIES TO BLAME FOR MEN
ACE OF WAR
CIV BRUCE CATION

Recent news from Europe may be botn
confusing and OminouS, but it does seem
to prove once more that il is the autocracE
and not the democracy which is menace
10 world peace.
The reason is simple: An autocracy can
get very hard-boiled in an international
crisis without stopping to find out how the
man on the street corner feels about 1t. A
democracy cannot.
The democracy looks for a peaceable
way to settle things; the autocracy lays It's
chip on the line and invites anyone who
thinks it is buffing to call the bet.
The Spanish rebellion offers an inStruc-
tive example.
The two principle democracieS of Eu-
rope, England and France, have worked
desperately from the start TO keep the
trouble from spreading. Obviously, they
do not want TO go to WARRIOR the excel
lent reason that their statesmen know per-
fectlv we'll the ordinary Englishman and
the ordinary Frenchman wouldn't stand
for il.
So the English and the French devised
non-interference pact and went around
Europe coaxing everyone to sign it.
Now look at the record of the dictator
ships. The Italians gave contemptuous
lip service to the agreement and sent
flock of military airplanes to the Spanish
rebels. The Germans sent naval squad
ron to Spanish waters, acted very tough
with it, and circulated the impression that
they were ready to move up horse, foot,
and guns if anyone didn't like it.
Then the Russian dictatorship followed
suit, denouncing the Germans and Italians
in a way that has led Europe much closer
to the edge of war than most people like
to think about.
All of which creates one more tense sit
uation which the statesmen from London
and Paris are trying frantically to ease.
The thing to bear in mind is that all the
warlike moves have come from the dicta-
torships, and all the peaceful moves from
the democracies.
The dictators are perfectly willing to
skate right up to the edge OF the preclplce
UP to point where the smallest "inci-
dent" could send them and the rest Of
Europe over the brink.
The democracies are doing their level
best to stay as far away from the precipice
as the law allows.
Now the ordinary German, the ordinary
Italian, and the ordinary Russian may not
feel any more like going out and getting
shot on some foreign battlefield than dc
the ordinary Englishman and the ordinary
Frenchman, who don't feel like it at all
But the point is that what the German
the Italian, and the Russian feel like is OF
no Importance. They have to do as they
are told and like it.
1t is only in the democracies that the
citizens adherence of war is something
that need be taken into account.
Nearly 20 years ago we were advised
that we must make the world safe for de-
mocracy. The advice is still sound. A die
tatorship is standing menace to world
peace.