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Evening star., 1937-10-09
PPORTUNITY is to be given
this season to members of the
A Cappella Choir to sing solos
and duets at its services II

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the First Congregational Church
which will also feature guest soloists
who may not have been heard hereto
fore in Washington at its special mu-
sical services during the season. There
b room for one lyric soprano, two
bexes, one first alto and first tenor
in the choir, application for which
should be made to the director, Ruby
Smith Stahl, mornings by telephone
Florence Vincent Yeager, well-known
teacher of voice and piano, has ac-
repted the position of director of mu-
sic at Mount Tabor Methodist Protes-
tant Church at Thirty-fifth and Wis
consin avenue, Georgetown. Additions
for new choir members are held every
Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Louis Dreeben, baritone, accompa-
MED by Henrietta Hallam, pianist, will
give the first musical program of the
season for the members of the Wom-
ems City Club tomorrow at o'clock.
Margaret Tolson will begin her &C.
tivity this week at the Madeira School
where she has recently been appointed
assistant piano instructor. Her pri-
vate studio work will be continued.
The Washington Alumnae Club o.
Mu Phi Epsilon will hold its first meet
ing of the season Monday evening a.
the home of Helen LeFevre Lyon, 174(
Poplar street, who will be assisted BY
Gertrude Dyre Parsons, Dorothy Sorn
borger and Dorothy Russell Todd. New
officers, who will assume their dutie
at that time, are Vera Neeley Ross
president; Ruth Bradford, vice presi
dent: Quinta Frey, secretary; Doroth.
Sornborger, treasurer; Helen Lyon his
torian, and Mary Burnett, chaplain.
The choir of the Takoma Parl
Presbyterian Church has resumed re
hearsals for the year. The followinl
officers were elected at the first meet
ing: President, F. H. Townsend; sec
retary, Mrs. Walter w. SWEET; treas
urer, Harold Seaman; librarian, Davit
Brooks; custodian OF robes, Mrs. G. w
Rouse; Mrs. Albert w. Volkmer is di
rector and Mrs. Dudley c. Jackson, or
ganist.
Mrs. John Simmons of the Washing
ton Opera Guild and the Chevy Chas
Women's Club is opening her concer
season in Fort Worth, Tex, where he
Jenny Lind costume recitals will b
accompanied by Mrs. George Conner
who formerly toured in similar re
eitals with Nine. Van zandt.
Irene Kandzie of the Washington
Opera Guild has been engaged to Civ
q costume recital in Town Hall, Ne,
York City, late in November.
Betty Baum, pianist, was the SOLOS
at the opening meeting Of the JUNO
Hsdassah, which took place on Octo
beY 4 in the auditorium Of the Jewisl
Community Center.
Otto Torney Simon will present tn
crpheus Quartet In Shakespeare lyric
Evening star., 1937-10-09
In Local Music Circles

! with the Shakespeare Society, DR.. -.
V. Wilcox, president. to be given in the
auditorium. Sixteenth and S streets
northwest, Monday evening The men,
bers Of the quartet are Hazel Gem
Hughes. soprano; Elaine Sebring Ford,
contralto; Jesse Nussear, tenor; Rich
ard Fairman, bass.
The Washington Civic Orchestra
announces that DR.. Kurt Hetsel has
joined the organization in the capacity
of conductor. DR.. Hetzel is now pre-
pairing programs for the season 1887
1888
The Newcomb-B Bethesda Community
Singers announce the addition OF the
following new members for the coming
season: Sopranos Marie Martel, Mrs.
l.. M. Griffith, jr.; Babette Griffith,
Mrs. P. F. SLING and Mrs. J. P.
Glandon; altos, Esther Marlowe, Eliza
beth Buckley and Catherine Terhune.
The singers are preparing a program
OF Winter music for their first appear
ance this season which will be in the
latter part Of November under the di-
rection Of Ruth L. Morgan and with
Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee, accom-
panist.
The Church Of Two Worlds. holding
services every Sunday and Wednes-
day evenings in the ball room Of the
Continental Hotel, has newly Or
ganized choir which sang for the
first time last Sunday. The soloists
are Mamie Rouse, soprano; Evelyn
Mitchell, contralto; Franklin Holmes,
tenor; Jones Douglass, baritone; Eber
Riley, bass, and Mrs. Henry Hunt
Mckee, director and accompanist.
Carroll Marvin Fcwell, youthful
washington composer, who has been
studying composition with Deane
Shure for the past two seasons, has
been awarded the scholarship in COM
position at the Peabody Institute of
Music in Baltimore. He is a graduate
OF Roosevelt High School and has
written several numbers for symphony
orchestra under Mr.. Shure's tutelage.
Eleanore Van Fleet, Atlanta. Ga.
composer, is spending the Winter in
Washington and studying composition
with Mr.. Shure.
Evening star., 1937-10-09

Lucia Mackenzie Hendley School of
Musical Education will give a re-
cital on Friday evening at 8 O'Clock.
presenting Shirley Levin. Gertrude
Troutman, Anna Marie Walsh and
william Drewry.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Supreme Test of Music
Is Found in Its Tone
Performer and Hearer Under
Necessity of Reaching
High Standard.
Bv Alice EvwSman.

JUDGE from the small amount Of attention paid to its cultivation
hardly that would
attribute that able
it.
Evening star., 1937-10-09

Notices intended for the
Saturday Music Page Of The
Evening Star must be re-
ceived by the Music Editor
not later than the preced-
ing Tuesday and must be
typewriter.
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Dorothy Remington
Leading Soprano Chicago
Chicago Civic Opera

mi VHHt0 ana Uperatfc Studios
Professional Connections
Public Performance for Capable Students
Scientific Corrective Work
Washington Studio y. Y. Studio
1875 Conn. Ave. 500 sth Az.
Dec. 3646 Near t2rd ST.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THEY CALL IT DEMOCRACY

If you examine Mr. Wallace's argument for his
bill to goose-step the farmer, you will find that no
compulsory control goes into effect without APP
proyaI of two-thirds Of the farmers voting" That
so the argument runs, removes from the bill any
ASPECT of RECOMMENDATION or farm faScsm That is
agricultural democracy"
Yet under the rule proposed to be written
into the law as few as per cent Of the farmers
affected could be "two-thirds OF the farmers Vot-
ing" and one-tenth of one per cent of the farm
lands affected could give Mr.. Wallace the whip to
crack over the other 80 9-10 per cent.
Who holds these elections? The guy who pro-
poses the control. Through his county agents and
his proposed Committee of Farmers" to be COM
pensatcd under his direction, Comrade Commissar
Wallace sits at the center of far more pervasive
OGPU than Comrade Stalin's. Every farm town
shin in the country is in this web 1t is in the hearts
of the Comrades Assistant Commissars to make
Mr. Wallace Comrade President, by use of this net
work its billions of dollars of patronage and its
now proposed stranglehold Compulsory control.
OF course, Comrade Henry knows nothing about
this. His faithesS assistants putting this over
on him.
The truth is that the seemingly guelesS Com
missar of Farmers, his plans and these develop
ments, ore just about the most threatening, dan
gerous and sinister leaven in our present national
loaf
Where do they get this majority of those vot-
ing" racket? They get it squarely out of our sys-
tenn of political elections. It's fine superficial
argument. why that's exactly the way We elect
governor-that is the very essence of democracy
If YOU don't vote mo-, you are assumed to assent
by not voting"
As in the labor example given, you are frequent
ly forecloSed from the opportunity to say: IL don't
want any union by the form Of the ballot Let's
pass that. When YOU vote for a governor there
must under the Constitution, be some governor
You merely express selection in the inevitable
You are giving up no constitutional right when you
don't vote But constitutionally you don't have to
join union and you don't have to let Mr.. Wallace
run your farm. 1t is just like saying: 'f you
don't say no, you're married to Calamity Jane
If you don't say no, one per cent of your neigh
bors can take your property. If you don't say
mo-, you lose your right to sell your labor.
Hugh Johnson in Charlotte News.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
IS THE FARMER SUCH AN ORPHAN AS THIS!

The national administration figures it can afford
TO subsidize the American farmer IN MS alegeu
predicament to the extent of $50OOOO,OOO.
Well. half billion is only pocket change when
compared with the lavish outlays the government
has been making during the depths of the depres-
sion to feed the various economic orphans.
But with congressman afflicted with the we'll
known disease of pork-barrelitiS, 1t is not enough
They are figuring on raising the bonus a couple
of more billions. And the southern cotton farmers
will come in handsomely on this dole, if allowed.
Is American agriculture in the sort of distress
to demand such orbitant outlay as would make
it imperative that taxes be increased and the ma
tional budget remain all the more permanently out
of balance?
Are the facts in the case Of the farmers situa-
ton sufficient to justify that action?
When the statistics are consulted, the answer
is an easy and swift negative.
The gross farm income this year in America, we
are told by the experts, will be around $4,000
100000.
That is the highest since 1929 when it was $ll,-
OO,OOO,000.
The net income of the American farmer for
present crops is likely to be $4,000, 100000 where
as in 1929, the biggest of all the big years, It was
$4,000, 100000.
we would not DC gulIty Oh heresy Vi 'ie"S"etS ,
in the matter Of dealing with the justice of the
case of the American farmer, notably the southern
cotton planter who seems to have almost sufocat-
ed himself in an over-producton of his staple this
season.
But in the face of the simple and irrefutable
facts, and on a relative and comparative basis, is
his plight so serious to warrant continued SUBJ
sides from his government that would Justify such
lavish emoumentS as the bonus-brgade Is now de-
termined 10 provide?--Charlotte News.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
MAN, IGNORANT OF
HIS LONG MARRIAGE,
ASKS ANNULMENT

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Dec. H.
(UP)--Dr. a. ProStkof went to
chancery court yesterday to annul
his marriage Of August, 1880, an
event of which he was ignorant
until this year.
Seven years ago PrOstkofr was
a medical student at the Univcrs-
itv of Tennessee here. He was in
love with a girl and on trip to
Paducah, KY. they took out a Ii
censc to be used aS Il bond be
tween them.
Dr.. ProstkoT admitted that both
he and his sweetheart signed GER
tain affidavitS at the request OF 4
justice Of the peace. But only re-
Gently did he learn this constitut-
edlngal marriage i'll Kentucky.
The girl, also ignorant OF the
Kentucky ruling, later married an
other man. She now lives III New
York, City and has a scvcn-month-
old babS !
The times-news., 1937-12-11
OUGHT TO CLEAN HOUSE

Vermonts Governor George Aiken declares that
the Republican party should purge its national
committee representation in the South, saying OF
southern members that the character of their rep
resentation is such as to preclude any possibility
of securing the cooperation of millions of patriotic
citizens south of the Potomac and the Ohio; and
their prominence in party councils repels right
minded voters elsewhere"
Governor Aiken puts his finger directly on
chief cause of his party's lack of progress
Others have put their fingers there before but
without more than temporary results.
Some day the Solid South will be split, as it
should be for its own good and for the nations
good but party that clings to the disgusting pat
ronage-born system of the Republicans in the South
cannot hope to do it-GreenMe Piedmont.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
BREVARD WOODMEN 81
STAGE ELECTIONS

BREVARD. Dec. IL. CSpcciaD.
Fred w. Grogan has been re-
elected consul commander of the
Brcvard Woodmcn of the World
camp.
Other officers elected for the
ensuing year include: Melvin l..
Gillespie, past consul commander;
Dean C. Whitlock, advisory lieu
tenant; T.. Roger Hayes, banker;
Thomas w. Phillips, escort; Lloyd
Jenkins, watchman; Horace Ma
son, sentry: L. S. English. physi-
clan; w. s. Price, Jr., jess A..
Galloway and w. Pat kinney,
auditors.
The following junior officers
have been elected: Arthur W. Gil.
lcspie, past consul commander: c..
Carl Bryson, consul commander
d. Guy Dean, advisory lieutenant; !;
James V. Walden, banker: Row H..
McCall,- escort; John Collins,
watchman; Leonard W. BonnelI,
sentry.
These officers will be installed
at the first meeting on January.
In addition to the elective Of
ficcrs, Ralph W. Lyday has been
appointed secretary of the local
camp.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
THE NEW . E 4 L
IN WASHIN GTON
-eY RODNEY BUTCHER.

Leagues executive secretary, was
entirely responsible for organiza-
ton by liberals Of last summers
rebelliouS caucus which resulted
in Rayburn's promise to fight for
the bill and paved the way for
the discharge petition.
Hundreds OF kilograms went
out to local unions with requests
for pressure on individual con-
greSSmen. A girl at League head
quarters kept telephoning men,
berS' Offices to ask il they had
signed. Those who stalled often
found fires breaking out back
home.
Several congressman found
themselves preSSured by farm or
panizationS with which the League
has connections. Lieut.-Gov. Tom
Kennedy Of Pennsylvania, United
Mine Workers vice-preSident,
transformed Boland from
lukewarm into an active worker
MARYLAND congressman signed
after an Amalgamated Clothing
Workers delegation came visiting.
New York'S American Labor Party
made the Tammany boys hit the
trail. The A. F. OF LIS. brewery
workers went TO bat hard. Some
Florida signatures were driven 10
by A. F. Of l.. unions.
Field generalship was provided
by Rayburn, who became angry
and made it a personal issue, by
Boland and such progressives as
Maverick Of Texas, Healey oi
Massachusetts, VoorhiS Of Califor-
MIA, Keller of Illinois and the Wis
consin and Washington groups.
The threat Of urban congress
men to block an amendment te
the farm bill which would cover
the next cotton crop brought in al
least ten signatures.
In the end il was Rayburn who
through personal pressure, sent
Mansfield Of Texas rolling up II
a wheel chair to add the 2l8tf
signature
CCopyrigh, 1881. NEA Service. I$e.&
The times-news., 1937-12-11
CONGRESS-, Eboksa!!!...1%&, a!!..&,
tt" AS Cure For
Business Slump
Babson Saws Refusal to Re-
main Rubber Stamp"
Would do the Work

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. H.
(UP)-Thrcc sit-down strikes
bv labor, Wall Street and the CON
sumcr-causcd the present busl-
ness slump and a fourth, with con-
crcSs refusing TO remain "a rub
Der stamp for the White House."
is needed to bring the nation out
Of it, Roger ". Bahson, famed
economist and Statistician. sa 4
yesterday.
81 believe congress will sec th
light and do this" he told mem
b"rs of the Penn Athletic club.
Hence. | believe that the present
slump is only temporary. Much
better business is ahead. Do not
lose faith in America yet"
BabSOn said the labor Sit.downS
were the outstanding feature Of
1887 Last spring, h. continued,
labor was enjoying boom just as
.hu stock market was enjoying i
boom in the spring of 1929.
Labor leaders, however. over
rCjcnCd thlS wear aS inc bankers
Oycr-rcachcd in 1929. This labor
sit-down strike was very effective
in forcing employers to increase
wages and in forcing congress to
reduce hours. Labor leaders have
since learned, however, that no
sit-dowu Strik evil force the pub
lie To buy goods" he said.
The times-news., 1937-12-11

lVTASHINGTON.-Thc cold re-
" ception given the A. F. of LIS
atest proposal for wage-hour leg
station is largely due 10 prevalent
jelief that il couldn't possibly
BASS Congress and that, even If 1t
became law, It could not be en-
'vrced.
President William Green and
MS executive council aren't being
taken quite so seriously since
friends Of the pending wage-hour
oill spanked them by forcing the
measure out Of the House Rules
Committee.
The executive councils demand
for a rigid wage minimum OF
10 cents an hour is generally con-
;idered unreahStic and impossible
Of acceptance. The pending pro-
oosal would permit q board to set
lower wage rates in the South and
other areas where immediate i'm
position of 4 SIC weekly wage or a
maximum f0-hour week would be
impractical"
Accumulation Of 2l8 signatures
to the petition forcing the House
Labor Committees bill 20 the floor,
coming after Green's denunciation
Of the measure, was most OF all
a victory for the House bloc OF 40
Or so progresSiveS and Labor's
Partisan League, acting in
concert and with the active sup
port Of Majority Leader Sam Ray
burn of Texas and Democratic
Whip Paddy Boland OF FennSyl-
vania.
Perhaps the most surprising
aspect Of the battle was the de-
gree to which many A. F. OF l..
groups, repudiating Green, went to
bat with the League in its pres
sure campaign, although the bulk
IF pressure came from {. |. .. and
independent unions.
Most of the old familiar lob
bying tricks, so often denounced
by pro-labor liberals in Congress,
we're used. E. l.. Oliver, the
The times-news., 1937-12-11
thousand years?

The proposed farm control scheme IS
merely a link in the chain that alien radi-
calism is forging to bind this country and
its people to the chariot wheels Of a CEN
tralized dictatorship in Washington. The
Black Comery bill is another link in the
chain. Practically all of the so-called new
deal legislation is to be so classified.
Can any class of honest, patriotic Ameri-
cans afford to swallow the bait of federal
tax money distribution and temporarily
feast on new deal pottage, to realize at last
that they have permitted the transforma-
ton of the Republic into a replica of Rus
sia or Germany?
The times-news., 1937-12-11

have, Is That the present NNIIcIN
is not hereditary, and is kin. er.
1t is as biz Il step forward for
those countries to have this new
type of dictator az it was for our
country to shake off the rule Of
King George and become free.
With us Americans, after $50
years of liberty, 4 dictator would
be as welcome az apartment life
to a bird dog. OF course there are
persons over here who want n die
tatOr Their minds are naturally
like that. In one way or anothc;
perhaps they are used to it-do-
mcstically, maybe.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
COULD YOU BEAT IT!

The other day after three dcs-
peratc criminals had broken priS-
ON and there was 4 widespread
hunt for them, the police in u
c1'tain city were tipped off THAI
.cnr escaped convictS were in Il
certain upstairs room in a certain
house. SO 4 detail Of officers
went to the house, broke in. and
captured TWO of the criminals. The
third, the ringleadcr and the most
dangerous, escaped by the simple
act Of going out rear window.
Now wouldn't it seem that even
q person totally inexperienced in
criminal-catching would have had
that house surrounded to head off
exactly such an escape? Wouldn't
,hat have been one Of the first
thoughts 20 enter your head" The
wonder was that the other two
couNicts did not get away too, for
the police gave plenty Of noisy
notice that they were coming --
breaking down three doors --
while leaving a back exit unguard-
ed, Could you beat il?
The times-news., 1937-12-11
THOUGHTS WHILE THINKING
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

inals who, not realizing who was
after them, fired first and found
out later.
Now the F.B.l. agents can snap
out. "G-mcn Just like that -
and everybody understands every.
body.
OF course another reason G.
men are not being killed so much
nowadays is the admirable prac-
ticc Of rclcntlessly hunting down
G-men Slaycrs and incarccrating
or cXecuting them.
The times-news., 1937-12-11

accuSto m e d I o
the idea Of rigid
monachial rule.
1t is traditional
with them; they
were wcaned on
it, and 50 were
their ancestors.
4 dictator fits
naturally int .
their mental pro-
ccSscS. The only
difference b " o.
tween the kind
they now hav"
and tlit kin i
I n e Y use d { o
The times-news., 1937-12-11
ABANDCNS IDEA: Trustee.

AD@NDSNS lbES: lrustees
and friends Of Fluitland Institute
had hoped that the Works Prog
rcSS Administration educational
program would be able to accom-
plsh something in the way of a
training dCDartmcnt at FrultlAnd.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. MOrriss, State
Director Of WPA Education Pro-
gram and Mrs. J. VI. Day, Field
Representative Of the WPA Edu-
cation Program, jointly write that
Mrs. MorliSs recently talked with
Dr. l.. K. Alderman, national head
of the educational WPA program
and that he did not think such u
PROGRAM wise ut this time.
"His opinion, in addition to our
so-far. unsuccessful efforts to Sc
cure necessary funds. would seem
to indicate that we must give up
this dream very dear to our
hearts. We have thought about it,
talked about it, planned for It and
worked for il until il seems al
most part Of us" they jointly
write.
These ladies had Il very ambi-
tious dream and while we didn't
have enough vision to penetrate
the veil to something OF a perma-
could launch something cvcnshru
ncnt nature, we did hope that
they could launch something even
though it might not prove pcrma-
nput.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
NOT SURPRISING

There is one particularly out
standing difference between those
nations which are under dictatOrS
and the United States.
EYerY one Of those nations Is
The times-news., 1937-12-11
ODD SUICIDE NOTE

TORONTO. (UP) Life savers
vainly dragged the waters of To-
Ornto harbor when an unsigned
message was found chalkcd on Il
pipe on the water front whcih
said: "Im tired Of the Canadian
government. They have stolen my
pension. am half-starvcd. This
is what | got for fighting for Can
ada"
The times-news., 1937-12-11
SAFER NOW

Formerly when G. men ap-
preached criminals to arrest them
they were required to say, eve
are special agents of the Fedora
Bureau of investigation" Before
they could get all that rigamaroie
out, they got shot by the Grim
The times-news., 1937-12-11

The distance by water from
New York to Boston is La miles
shorter by the Cape Cod canal
than by Nantucket lightship.
The times-news., 1937-12-11
WANTS WAR ON FOXES

FREEPORT, Ill. - (UP) -
move aiming to eXterminate foxes
in northwestern Illinois has been
launched by the Stephenson coun-
ty board of supervisors. The board
proposes that five counties pay
bountics Of $3.50 a head on foxes,
which supervisors say have caused
poultry farmers serious loss IN re-
cent years.
The times-news., 1937-12-11

The finance department Of the
United States army disburses al,
funds appropriated for nationai
The times-news., 1937-12-11

Portugal now has 80 cmcmaS.
The times-news., 1937-12-11

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The times-news., 1937-12-11
RIBLE THOUGHT
xNn 0rnAn nE DApED

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all as'
eptat;on that Christ Jesus came into the world to
IL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as he looked at the opening of the Music Hall theater, a unit of the tre- mendOuS Center development in which he is giving New York a
 city within a city.
 workmen at Rockefeller Center, he replied: Any time you want to hear a good speech, you can turn on the radio. I just want to compliment you men on your fine work" Later 1t was learned that he had dis carded a speech written for him, in favor of his own simple approach.
 The Nelson Rockefellers are seen occasionally dancing at sedate New York night spots," other than the Rainbow Room at their own center where John D. Jr., occasionally in- dulges his fondness for dancing. As a member of the executive commit tee in charge of Rockefeller Center the rental and administrative work there is Nelson'S chief interest though he is also a director of the Creole Petroleum Corp. They have three children, Rodman, Ann and Steven.
 Laurance Spelman Rockefeller the third son, followed his older brother at Princeton, where he was graduated in 1882. After a course at Harvard Law School, he went out on his own hook and got himself a job with Milbank. Hope, Tweed and Webb, which pleased his father nc end, as he has made it a settled policy to give his boys all possible freedom in their choice of a career