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steps to be taken to prevent a recur-
renee of such catastrophe
Shortly after Mr.. Bingham's S return tl
the United States for disqualification,
there were reports in Washington
that he had resigned as Ambassador
and would be succeeded by Joseph p
Kennedy, chairman of the United
States Maritime Commission and for
mer head of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission
President Roosevelt would not con-
firm the reports. Under diplomatic
precedent, there would be no vacancy
until acceptance by Great Britain of
a proposed successor.
Mr.. Bingham was one of the earliest
diplomatic appointees of the New
Deal administration. His nomina-
ton was sent to the Senate March 49,
He was confirmed March % and
sailed for his post May TO-
From the start he was the target
for various criticisms, some based upon
his politics, others alleging that he was
an Anglophile. His first public address
in England, on May 81, 1888, pledged
the United States to a reduction of
tariffs on British products and
brought angry comment from protec-
tionists in Congress.
Was Conference Leader.
After the World Economic Confer
ence in London that summer he was
appointed permanent American dele
gate to the International Wheat Ad-
visory Committee and his labors on
complicated problem of world wheat
control, lasted through 1885. In the
final stages of this organizati ton he was
permanent chairman The commit
tee failed to achieve its object when
Argentina refused to be bound by ex-
port restrictions.
Other notable issues which arose
during his term as Ambassador in
cluded the departure of the United
States from the gold standard and the
resulting efforts at international cur
rency stabilizaion; the conversations
on naval policies before and after
Japan terminated the 5-5-3 fleet ratio
pact, and the complicated situations
arising from the Spanish, Ethiopian
and Chinese wars.
Mr.. Bingham represented the United
States at the silver jubilee of George
v in 1885. He was on vacation in the
United States when that monarch died
in 1896, but he was one of the Amer
lean delegates at the coronation cere-
sonies of George VI. He and Mrs.
Bingham were the only American
guests at the wedding of the Duke of
Kent to Princess Marina of Greece on
November 20. 1884.
Popular in England.
Mr.. Bingham was popular in England
He was the first American to receive
honorary degrees from the three prin-
cipal English universities, London
1888, Cambride (l935) and oxford
1880. When King George vi was
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N. /. R. B. TO SUBPOENA
FORD CORRESPONDENCE
Motor Company to Retaliats by
Calling for Membership
Records Of Union.

b the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1s.-Attorneys for
the National Labor Relations Board
announced today they would subpoena
all kilograms and other correspond
ence Of the Ford Motor Co. relat-
ing to labor questions at its st. Louis
assembly plant.
In turn, Daniel Bartlett, Ford law
yer, said he would request q subpoena
for the membership and dues rec
ords of Local 325 of the United
Automobile Workers Of America.
The Labor Boards inquiry into
the unions charges Of unfair labor
practices at the plant was adjourned
until Monday.
William Kimberlang, president of
the local, testified the union had 8O2
members last September, when the
plant closed to prepare for produc-
ton Of 1898 models. 1t reopened No.
vember 81, and strike was called
three days %ater because OF the COM
pany's alleged discrimination against
union men in rehiring workers.
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Miss Aleen Muldoon, Of Louisville, in
London.
Mr.. Bingham was a member of the
Episcopal Church. He was county at
torney Of Jefferson County in 1904
Mayor of Louisville in 1907 and chan.
cellor of the Jefferson Circuit Court
in 1911.
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Admits Manslaughter.

KNOX, Ind, Dec. 18 R.-Ernest
Smith, farmer. pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the fatal beating of
his 7-year-old niece, Katherine Smith,
and was sentenced last night to to 81
years in prison. The child, who died
November 4, was the daughter of
Smiths brother, William Smith OF
Flint, Mich,
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FAIR UNIT ELECTS

WOODSTOCK, Va, Dec. 1s (spe-
ciaD.-The Shenandoah Fair Asso-
clatlon yesterday reelected DR.,
James H. Smoot of Woodstock presi-
dent. P. M. S. Bird, jr., of Mount
jackson, was elected to succeed
George r. Geary, who died during the
year, as vice president. The follow
ing Executive Committee was named
T. +. Colladay, j. Walter Bailey,
George K. Logan, Frank M. Fravel
and F. c. Dinges.
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Named Envoy in 1898.

Mr. Bingham-Judge Bingham to
kentuckians-Went to London as AM
bassador to the Court of ST. James in
1888, appointed by President Roose-
velt soon after the latter took Office
for his first term.
He returned to this country No.
vember 25. 1887. and entered Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, for OBJ
servation and treatment, saying he
had had recurrence of malaria.
At the hospital at the time of his
death were his third wife, Mrs Aleen
Muldoon Hilliard Bingham, and two
children by his first wife Barry Bing-
ham of Louisville, co-publisher of the
Courier-Journal and the Louisville
Times, and Miss Henrietta Bingham,
who has spent most of her time in
London. Another son by Mr.. Bing-
hams first marriage, Robert W., jr.,
lives in Edinburg. Scotland, and was
unable to be present.
Though he was a former Mayor of
Louisville, Mr.. Bingham was best known
nationally as publisher of the two
Louisville newspapers His interests
were widespread and reached into
nearly every phase of the Common
Wealth'S life.
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Kennedy Rumored Successor.

His interest in Louisville, his adopt
ed home town, was demonstrated most
recently after the January, 1887,
flood, when he hurried home from
London to aid in reha utilization work
and discuss with other civic leaders
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tagious. For more than a month the
Washington girl existed in fever Of
anxiety. The slightest headache, the
merest suggestion of a cold, filled her
heart with terror. But the ordeal taught
her the value of health. II never knew
before how good 1t is to be WE'LL" she
told her parents. And her sympathies
were quickened likewise. She had been
educated in charity and mercy, in fellow
feeling. In effect, she had put on spir-
itual spectacles.
People ought not to regret acquaint-
ance with trouble. Without intimate
knowledge Of sorrow, how are they to
appreciate joy? If they never are de-
feated, how can they comprehend occa-
sional victory? James Truslow Adams
once declared: "The very hrst step to-
ward a cultivated mind is the develop
ment of ability to discriminate between
varying values" In other words, hui
manity needs a criterion. Civilization
depends upon measuring sticks, scales,
a philosophy Of intelligent and liberal
judgment. Lacking the imperative equip
ment. no soul ever can see or hear or
speak the glorious truth about creation.
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EQUIPPING YOUTH
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D, ILL., D. D. c. L.
BISHOP WASHINGTON.

"Thou shalt write them upon the door
posts Of thine house and on thy gates"
This was the commandment given to a
people by their great leader. He was
demanding that they should inscribe
in the most conspicuous place, upon the
entrance to their homes and upon their
gates, the fundamental and governing
commandments of God. The purpose of
such plan is obvious, namely, to place
before the growing children of the
household those principles of life that
have to do with it's highest development
and conservation.
1t Is worthy of note that these record
principles of life were to be as an open
testimony to the world at large of the
ideals and convictions of the household
within. In other words, religious con-
yictions were to be given an outstanding
place. They were not to be apologized
for or repudiated. The relation of reli-
gion to the life Of the home must be
immediate and intimate, and we believe
it to be the judgment of the leaders
Of thought and action throughout the
world today that the conspicuous prob
lem of the twentieth century relates to
home and child life. We seem to have
fallen upon time when religion in the
home and the application of its princi-
Piles to children is thing indifferently
recognized and still more indifferently
practiced. 1t seems to be something to
be apologized for, especially where it
intrudes upon our convenience or in
fringes any social habit or practice.
Some time ago mother wrote me
urging the mobilization Of the religious
forces of America" What did she mean?
The church forces? The forces repre-
sented by the clergy and official agents
of the church? We think not. She
meant the forces behind all these, that
constitute the only safeguard OF our
religious agencies, namely, the home
and home ideals. those deep religious
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Spiritual Spectacles.

Once upon time, there was boy
who was half blind and did not know it.
His world was clouded, but he took it
for granted that everybody's was. An
adult neighbor discovered his near
sightedness by accident and procured
glasses for him. The result was an ex-
pansion of the universe for the child.
Such things happen not quite often
enough. Especially in the realm of
thought, there is paucity of the kind
of experience which represents revela-
ton. To illustrate the difference be-
tween common and unusual contact
with life, the story of Washington girl
may be told: During several weeks of the
past Summer she had as house guest
a school friend who complained of
stiff arm. No one In the family guessed
what the pain might signify. Yet
few days after the visitor had returned
home she was stricken with infantile
paralysis. News of her illness was re-
cetved with horror. The disease Is con-
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principles translated into terms of
wholesome, clean living.
1t was true OF Rome as Edward Glib
bon indicates, that her decline BEGAN
with the decay of the home and the
weakening of the moral character Of the
people. II our sons are to become what
the war President called sons OF
freedom" we must see to it that be-
hind them stands something more than
the pledged wealth and power OF Amer
lea or the pledged industrial strength
OF the country. They must feel that
they have behind them and with them,
to inspire them and encourage them and
to give zest to their enterprise, the
pledged and deeply recognized religious
and moral convictions of the homes of
America. There is great deal of talk
nowadays about ideals" but where shall
we look for the making of ideals and of
what they imply of character and worth,
unless to the home and its unfailing
standards of righteousness?
At this time millions of children and
young men and women over this broad
land are returning to their schools and
universities. They are going in order
that they may enrich themselves men
tally and equip themselves for the
activities OF life. Educational and
cultural values have their indispensable
place, and they were never more needed
than today. Beyond these values, there
are still deeper and more enduring
values-the values of character, of moral
worth, of a finer understanding of what
we call the things of the spirit. Let us
give due recognition to the high place
that education and culture occupy in
the scheme of life, but let us remember
that to bulwark and undergrad these
our chief concern is the development in
our youth of those rich and enduring
principles that equip it to meet the
exigencies of life. There is no substitute
for the home in the doing of this.
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however expensive, for the elimination

however expensive, for the elimination
of slums.
But 1t is an error to suppose that SO
serious an evil can be cured with no
medicine save that of money. If all the
depressed areas" were rebuilt and all
the novels replaced with palaces, crime
would not disappear. Correction of en-
vironmcntal conditions leaves the basic
pattern Of behavior largely unaItered.
What is demanded is something more
comprehensive than the renovation of
tenements. Vienna made that discov-
cry after the World War, and a similar
observation may be registered for
London.
Perhaps the best argument for slum-
clearance is the one which promises i'm
provement in health. Crime frequently,
if not invariably, develops in correla-
ton with physical and mental disease.
1t therefore is worth while to think. OF
model cities" in terms of bulwarks
against plaques like tuberculosis and in
fantile paralysis.
The author Of Dead End" however,
understands all this. He has indicated
social neglect of the underprivileged, and
he is justified in his challenge to the
Nation. The problem he has spot
lighted must have attention. 1t can be
solved only by the cooperation of the
entire population and through wise and
idealistic development of every ,institu-
ton of democratic civilization.
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Red Cross Enrolment.

There is no compulsion about Joining
the Red Cross. No citizen is coerced
into support of "the greatest mother in
the world" Indeed, the essential char
acter of such an institution of mercy
would be violated if it ceased to be a
voluntary association. But, just because
enrolment Is privilege and represents
freedom of choice, it should appeal to
everybody
People like to do as they please and
customarily they please to do generous
things. The psychology of giving is
deeply personal. A sense of satisfaction
accrues to the offering of help uncom-
manded. The Red Cross symbolizes the
instinct of fellowship which distinguishes
millions of men, women and children and
perhaps derives from the Infinite. Mere
gregariousness does not explain it.
Rather, it is individualistic by nature.
One subscribes to crafty an Unborn
impulse-and thereby justifies a place
in the universal human family.
This year the annual roll call of the
District of Columbia Red Cross Chapter
should be notably successful. Last Win
ter's floods have not been forgotten. The
public is conscious Of the service which
the Red Cross rendered to the inhabi-
tants of the devastated Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Valleys. 1t also is aware of the
inevitability of similar calls for assistance
in the twelve months which lie ahead.
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Dead Ends.

Dead End" at first stage play and
now deservedly popular movie, drama
tizes a problem which is not peculiar to
New York. There are dead ends in
every community. Even in Washington
and within sight of the Capitol, streets
and alleys may be found as ugly, as
noisome and as certain to produce crime
as any in the world.
The time when it was necessary to
demonstrate the relation between pow
erty and law-breaking has passed. Most
thoughtful people know that the con-
nection is direct and real-a matter OF
cause and effect. Hence. the support
which commonly is given to any scheme,
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o. and William Green, with his A. F.

o., and William Green, with his A. F..
of L.
These two men are out to use the
new labor act to further the interests of
their particular labor organizations. Mr..
Green offers the craft as his special
unit of organiza ton for American work.
ers. while Mr. Lewis offers an industrial
unit that cuts across crafts and tries to
interest workers in one big union.
The law imposes upon the Labor
Board the task of determining the unit
that is to represent workers in collec-
tive bargaining. That task throws the
board into the heart of the conflict rag
ing between the A. F. of L. and the
c. I. o. Enforcement of this task has
brought charges from the Federation of
Labor that the N. l.. r. B. is favorable
to the Lewis c. I. 0. The board mem
bers themselves are blowing straight
ahead, hoping that they can avoid q
fatal collision on the issues involved.
A collision during the next session of
Congress new appears inevitable. This
collision will come from a clash with
employer interests who are not yet ready
to subscribe to the idea that the Gov
ernment should help all workers to or
ganize into unions. 1t also will come
from a clash with the interests of some
groups of workers who feel that the law
is rigged against them.
But while this fight goes on, the con-
stitutional principles underlying the Ia
Dor law are going to be put to use in the
construction of other portions of sec
ond New Deal. The Supreme Court
seems to have edged itself out of the
center Of the legislative battle and to
have left the Labor Board in Its place.
(Copyrtsht, 1o37.)
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Good IntpntiOns

Good Intentions.
Good intentions may 60 wrong.
Let us still be going strong.
Some won't work out as they should,
When they are misunderstood.
Yet, who would stand idly by
Drift and dream and never try
Holding from the passing hour
What may lie within his powr.
Good Intention" signifies
Effort toward purpose wise:
Better, though results be small,
Than no good intent at all.
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Nobody has any doubt as to what
James A. Farley is going to do. He will
60 into the business of automobile sales
manship, where it will be his privilege
to sell a man car with no questions
to be asked excepting as to prospects
financial capacity.
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Peace-DictatOr Model.

AMID an apotheosis of Fascist glorv
designed to outstrip even the barbaric
ponp Of Kaiser days, Premier Mussolini
has arrived in Germany on a weeks
visit to Chancellor Hitler. With every
device at the disposal of DR.. Goebbels'
resourceful propaganda machinery, plus
the regimented popular" enthusiasm
producible for such occasions, II Duce's
sojourn on Nazi soil is to be depicted
to the German and italian peoples, to
Europe and the world at large, but par
ticularly to the despised democracies Of
both hen1ispheres, as mighty evidence
of the "Berlin-Rome axis" and its pur-
pose and power to make nations rotate
round it.
Pinnacle of Der Fuehrer's spectacular
hospitality to the glamorous pilgrim from
the Tiber Is to be gigantic mass meeting
in Berlin Tuesday night. at which both
host and guest will speak over world
wide broadcast network. Their outgiv-
ings are heralded as "a mutual message
for peace, which might form the basis
for lasting understanding in Europe"
Never to be forgotten by trusting souls
on both sides of the Atlantic is that the
twin dictators' peace, like the Einstein
theory, is a matter of relativity. A
gangster who can kidnap a millionaire,
hold up bank or bump off rival is
all for peaceable attainment of his objec-
tive. The Dillingers are not bloodthirsty
by instinct. The risks to life and Sc
curity are too great to be run if loot
can be lifted without resort to brute force
In the shape of six-shooters or machine
guns.
Japan, to cite current example, would
not have flung her war machine into
China if the Chinese people had Co
operated" in the Toxic war lords altru-
istic aspirations in Central Asia. Simi-
larly, Mussolini and Hitler crave peace"
in Europe if they can get it on their
terms. If Great Britain, France and
Russia will close their eyes to Italy's
designs on peninsular and insular Spain,
Victor Emmanuels domain across North
eastern Africa and the Mediterranean
until it comprehends Palestine, Arabia
and the Near East-granted that, II
Duce is ready without further ado to
convert the fasces into a dove as the
emblem of his cult.
AS for Hitler, his conditions for trans
forming the sWastika into an olive
branch are no less simple. Let the
Western democracies but look the other
way as the Nazis overrun Austria,
Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine, Poland, the
Baltic states and the Balkan peninsula
until Germany, in realization of the
program envisioned in Der Fuehrer's
"Mein Kampf," bestrides Europe in Ma
poleonic dimensions-granted that, the
Berlin dictator will be as peace minded
as his Roman brother in the blood.
Hitler would sing in even more stridently
pacific key if, at British initiative, the
Versailles treaty powers were also to
restore Germany's lost colonies.
There will be no discriminating admis-
sions of these Italo-German hopes and
plans when Duce and Fuehrer stir the
frenzied passions of the Nazi multitude
In Berlin's Olympic stadium. But they
are notoriously the things at the back
of their heads, for it is of such stuff
that the dctators' dreams of peace are
as the peace Of international blackmail.
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If you demand hero in your news do
not fail to remember the vociferous con-
tender in political argument; also
learn to give ear intelligently to the
various dialects employed in a dis
cussion of sports.
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There have been temperamental strata
of irritation in this country, but of late
even the whist players have managed to
play their cards without threats of vio-
lence.
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The extraordinary gifts of James A.
Farley will soon claim unanimous recog-
milton. Though in the midst of political
rancor he has avoided saying anything
that would make fellow citizen refuse
to buy one of his automobiles.
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1t may be relief to European coun-
tries to meet so many distinguished
Americans who are expected to offer
their most competent explanations at
home and not abroad.
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1t is noted that Mr.. Roosevelt always
speaks with respect and even affection
of the United States Constitution. The
men who made it we're not all lawyers
and this fact may assist in explaining
why professional lawyers do not attack
1t with confidence.
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Mussolini's son is in Hollywood, which
develops many signs of war, but always
finds American money at hand in suffi-
cient quantity to promote peace.
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When Hitler and Mussolini exchange
greetings, they both recall royal families
that are not working on the old familiar
tasks at present.
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When Stain announces a sacrifice to
be made he manages to make it impress
sive without undertaking the record that
an Oriental conqueror assumes.
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Back to the Old Home.

Back to the Old Home.
"You say the boys are coming back
to the old home?"
yes" answered Farmer Corntossel.
"They have tried all the quick lunches
In town and begin to hunger for fried
chicken"
Power" said HI Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown, "often enables It's possessor
to do no more than give foolishness
unlimited publicity"
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Grandma to the Rescue.

Grandma to the Rescue.
Grandpa was a gambling man,
Who wasted his estate.
Grandma does the best she can
To conquer cruel fate.
Although the silverware has gone
Into forgotten ways,
We base new family hopes upon
The game of bridge she plays.
"Dar Is two men dats mistaken" saic
Uncle Eben. "One thinks everything Il
wrong an de other takes 1t for granted
everything Is Ill right"
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True Relaxation,

did you enjoy your Summer"
VERY much" answered Senator
Sorghum. "It's relief now and then
to get away from home and send picture
cards instead of campaign interviews"
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BEGINNING a Career.

The gal who won the beauty prize
In print will stand before us
And grace, when next she meets our
eyes,
The back row of the chorus.
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Jud Tunkins says he likes poetry ex-
cept when it is chopped-up prose so as
to make an optical illusion.
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11th st ana Pennsylvania Ave
New York once: Ito East 42nd ST.
Chicago O.sce: 435 North Michigan Ave
Evening star., 1937-01-05

CHAMBERMAID-W AITR E SIS. young
white. for permanent position: experience
not necessary; references required. Call
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Dinner dance, West Virginia State
Society, Raleigh Hotel, 7 pm.