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The Washington times., 1937-12-04
Neu,S and Notes
About the Clubs


Gamma Rho Chapter of
Sigma Phi Gamma, Interna-
tional Sorority, will hold its an
nual dance tonight at 10 o'clock
in the Lafayette Hotel.
Miss Hilma E. Sturdyvin, SO.
cial secretary Of the chapter. is
chairman in charge Of arrange
ments. She has as her assist
ants, Mrs. Jessie Bigley, presi-
dent. and Mrs. Mary Michael,
vice-president.
Members Of the North Caro-
lima Democratic Club will cele-
brate tonight at their annual
pref Christmas ball in the Raj
eigh Hotel at $50 p. m.
Distinguished guests will in
clude: Senator and Mrs. Josiah
w. Bailey, Senator Robert r.
Reynolds, Representative and
Mrs. John H. Kerr, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Graham A. Bar
den, Representative and Mrs.
Harold D. Cooley, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Frank Hancock,
Representative and Mrs. Will
liam Umstead, Representative
and Mrs. j. Bayard Clark, Rep
resentative. J.. Walter Lambert,
Representative and Mrs. Robert
L. Doughton, Representative
and Mrs. A. L. Bulwinkle. Rep
resentative and Mrs. zebulon
Weaver.
All persons from Ohio and
their friends are invited to
tonight's dance to be given
by the Ohio Girls Clubs at
the Raleigh Hotel. Mrs. Ernie
Scheible is chairman of the
dance committee, assisted by
Miss Edna Miller, Miss Lucille
Armentrout and Miss Jeanette
Clark. Miss Bess Lemon is
president of the club. Dancing
will be from 9 to IL o'clock in
the Queen Elizabeth Room.
The Women's Democratic Club
of Seventeenth District, Prince
Georges County, will hold its
first dance of the season
tonig hit at 10 o'clock at
the Lord Calvert Inn. Among
the distinguished guests invited
are State Senator and Mrs.
Lansdale G.. Sasscer. Mrs. Fran.
ces E. McFadden is chairman
of the dance.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Unity
Circle of 1703 K St. N. w., will
hold a bazaar, with cards and
other games and sale of articles,
tonight from 7 to II o'clock
at the Thomas Circle Club,
1926 Mass. Ave. N. w.
An informal rush party will
be given by Beta chapter, of Phi
Delta Gamma, George Wash,
ington University's graduate
women's sorority, tonight at the
Hay-Adams House. The same
body will hold an important
meeting tomorrow afternoon al
3 o'clock in the Columbia House
Twenty-firSt and G Streets
Northwest. Hostesses for tomor
rows meeting are Elizabeth
Hewston, Elizabeth Teepe and
Ellen Anderson.
Mrs Henry F. Sawtelle will
be hostess to members of the
District Of Columbia Sunshine
and Community Society Monday
afternoon at 1870 o'clock at heI
residence. 5000 Connecticut Ave
N. w. Mrs. Charles H. Bair
president, will conduct the meet
ing.
XII Chapter. Iota Tau Tau, ma
tional legal sorority, will hold
q tea tomorrow afternoon from
4 to Z o'clock in the Wardmar
Park Hotel in honor of the fresh
men Of National University anc
the Washington College of Law
1t will not be a rush tea, how
ever. Before the tea, Mis-.
Fannye Neyman, of the Fedora
Communications Commission
will be initiated as an honorary
member. Mrs. Charlotte A. Han
kin, outstanding woman at
torney, will be the speaker.
The Washington times., 1937-12-04
PHELPH URGES
DISTRICT FIGHT
FOR HOME RULE.
WheIan Named to Give
Pending Bills Study
By A. ]. DRIsCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

ClEIEE0S ASSOCIdbLOuS GOASOA
Declaring that voteless residents
Of the District pay more in taxes
than many States and have never
shirked a duty when called upon
by the Government, Horace j.
Phelph, chairman of the Petworth
Citizens Association on Suffrage,
in a spirited address last night
urged the Chillum Heights Cltl-
zens Association to continue the
fight for local Self-government,
which Congress has the power to
grant, and also work for national
representation in the House and
Senate, which requires a conStitu-
tional amendment, through an
educational campaign among the
States.
LIQUOR PLEAS LOSE
Following his plea, oseph
Whelan, secretary, was directed to
study all pending suffrage bills
and report at the January meet
ing. The association was unani-
nous in opposing the applications
for two liquor licenses in the 5000
block of Third Street Northwest.
Cyrus Bright heads committee
appointed to obtain necessary
signatures for the widening OF
Kennedy Street between Kansas
and New Hampshire Avenues and
to urge the street be repaved from
Third to Fourteenth.
NEW MEMBERS
New members elected were Dr.
Francis Warren, Lillian Holley,
Edward L. Blessing, Charles C.
Fischer, Florence H. Vermillion,
W. R. Stewart, Louis D. Antuono,
w. L. ingalls, and F. G. Perkins.
The meeting was held in John r.
Keene School.
Central Northwest Civic Asso-
citation meeting in the Garrett
Patterson School, petitioned the
Commissioner for the erection of
a public comfort station in the
Triangle at U, Vermont Avenue
and Tenth Street. Resolutions
were adopted commencing Lieut.
John F. Flaherty, of Fifth Pre-
cinct, for his courteous reception
to a delegation from the associa-
ton.
COMMITTEE HEADS
President Woolsey w. Hall an
nounced the following committee
chairmen: Legislation, DR.. F. o.
Williston; publicity, Chauncey
Larry; membership, Mrs. Annie
Hopkins; progress, Mary Chap
man; public works, Hugh Brad
ford, and education, Mr.. Hall.
The following citizens asSocia-
tions will meet next week: Dupont
Circle, Monday, 4:30 p. M, May
flower Hotel.
MONDAY NIGHT
Bladensburg Road, Church of
Christ, Twenty-eighth and Doug.
lass Northeast.
Citizens of Takoma, Takoma
School.
Forest Hills, Ben Murch School.
11"O4 UllB 1AC111IWO1 OCk1OOAs
Manor Park, Whittier School.
Metropolis View, Crosby Noyes
School.
Michigan Park, Bunker Hill
School.
Progressive of Congress Heights,
Congress Heights Baptist Church.
Progressive of Georgetown, Cur
tbs School.
TUESDAY NIGHT
Columbia Heights, Fourth Pres
byterian Church.
North Cleveland Park, 1928 Win
dom Pl. N. w.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
American University Park, Hurst
Hall, American University.
Cathedral Heights, Cleveland
Park, st. Adams Parish Hall.
Rhode Island Avenue, Wood
ridge Branch Library.
THURSDAY NIGHT
Connecticut Avenue, All Souls
Church.
Congress Heights, Congress
Heights School.
The Washingtonians, Brighton
Hotel.
FRIDAY NIGHT
Brightwood, Paul Junior High
School.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant
Branch Library.
The Washington times., 1937-12-04
Memorial for Filler
At Cathedral Monday

The Right Reverend James Freeman, ID. LID Bishop
of Washington will continue his series of advent
Tme For Remeasurng at the choral evensong service in
the newyopened Crossing and North Transept of Washing
ton Cathedral tomorrow afternoon at clock.
The Washington times., 1937-12-04
Plan for Merger
Of Firms Given Up

CLEVELAND, Dec. 4 u.N.S),
The proposed plan for consolida.
ton Of Allegheny Corporation
and the Chesapeake Corporation
has been abandoned, it was an
nounced today following meetings
here of the board Of directors OF
the two corporations.
The Strange Lure Of the Circus That
Has GripDed a Whole Town and De-
veIoped City'a Own Big Top where
Anyb0dy Can Become q Performer.
An Illustrated Feature in The Amer
lean weekly with Sundays Herald
Times.
Evening star., 1937-06-15
BIindGrudunte, I9,
Operates Chicken
Farm in Ne1U York
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALEM, N. Y, June 15.-Nineteen-
year-old Charles Lundy came home
from the Batavia School for the Blind
today, tucked his diploma In q bureau
drawer and pitched in to help with
the farm chores.
His first job was to check on his
400 chickens, the money for which he
sent home from school a year ago:
his second to determine how many
more he can buy with $50.
Blind since birth, Lundy plans to
run the poultry end of the farm while
his father takes care of the dairy and
crops. He Is certain the enterprise will
be a success.
For the past three years." he said,
Il supported myself at school with my
chickens. I cleared $3.50, out of which
I bought my clothes, paid railroad
fares and had some money left to buy
more chicks"
At school, he said, he had 30 regu-
lar customers; his hens produced be-
tween 40 and so dozens of eggs weekly.
On the farm he hopes to develop a
real poultry ranch"
Evening star., 1937-06-15
Low WAGES HELD
. BUSINESS SUICIDE
Responsibilities Of Employer
and Union Cited by Colby
N. Chester.
By the Associated Press.


BOSTON, June l5.-Colby M.
Chester, chairman of the National As
sociation Of Manufacturers, told the
Boston Chamber Of Commerce today
that modern, enlightened" business
management believes 1T is economic
suicide to advocate the paying OF un-
fairly low wages"
Chester, chairman Of the General
Foods Corp, asserted in 4 prepared
address, that enlightened manage
ment, and by that mean honest man.
. agement, wants and desires to function
harmoniously with labor; but 1t takes
two to shake hands, and the sooner
! that Is realized the sooner will the
public's patience be restored. AS a
matter Of fact, I believe the majority
a., OF employees are realizing 1t as well as
the majority Of employers
The typical worker Is a family man,
. sound citizen, proud of his position
in society and of the dignity and use
fulness of his work. The typical work
er values his good name In the COM
munity, and it Is therefore logical to
assume that pressure from within,
from the sober element among the
workers themselves, will insist that no
labor organization is qualified to rep
resent them unless 1t unhesitatingly
assumes and lives up to It's responsible
titles.
Business Financial Reports.
Business enterprises submit
audited financial reports to their
stockholders. Some unions with re-
putedly more stockholders than any
industrial corporation do not submit
financial reports to their rank and
3lle membership, and the public is
beginning to wonder why. That GER
tainly Is the businesslike thing to do;
moreover, 1t is the honest thing to do.
Perhaps labor membership will do 1t
voluntarily rather than await legal re-
Quirement
"Oficers and agents of business
concerns accept legal responsibilities
tor their acts. 1t seems only reason
able that officers and agents OF labor
organizations should accept similar
responsibility.
, Strikes today dominate the head
fines. Certainly management does
not deny labor's right to strike. But
It does ask, and in this I believe it
has public support, that a strike
should be sanctioned only when it is
approved by a majority of labor
members, acting after sober discus
sion and secret ballot.
Public Attitude on Strikes.
Il am definitely of the opinion that
. general strike, causing hardship to
countless innocent bystanders and
great financial loss to every one, does
not meet with public approval. And
certainly there is no support what
ever for the illegal occupation of prop
ETY. belonging to others. =
The public is in the mood for
good times and harmony It is say
Ing, In effect, cut out all the vran-
Cling and let's get down to business!
There's plenty of room for all and
plenty for all in this abundant land
% let's 60"
Evening star., 1937-06-15
,1,400 CANADIANS JOIN
A. F. L. PAPER MILL UNIT
Organizer Claims That Numbe
After 1900 Others Affiliate
With Green.

By the Associated Press
POWELL RIVER. B. c., June 15.-
The American Federation Of Labor
yesterday claimed approximately 1,4O0
II British Columbias paper mill
workers.
Harvey H. White OF Everett, Wash,
american Federation of Labor organi-
Fer for the Northwest, estimated the
number after announcing 265 workers
at the Port Mellon Operating Co.,
Fort Mellon, B. c., joined the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sui
Dhite and Paper Mill Workers.
Previously 1900 employees 1T the
Powell River company joined the
brotherhood.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

S1.0O to S1.39 grades!
And a limited quantity
of sanforized and pre-
shrunk fabrics. Famous
summer fabrics with bet
ter details in tailoring.
Stripes. checks and 9TH
ers. Sizes 20 to As.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

Leather sole. open toe.
Made Of washable Ara
buck. White or assorted
gay colors. Sizes 3i7 to s.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

Side hook eirdles, 26 to
36. Back lace corsets.
26 to SO. All-in- -ones.
with or without inner
belt, 80 to AS.
Montana labor news., 1937-01-28
THE CITY Sinking"
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Continued from Page 81
diction, it may now be laid down:
that ailments of the city, such as be-
ing in debt, registered warrants out
standing, funding bond issues, ct
cetera, BEGAN, WHEN CITY OFF,
GERS REFUSED TO ALLOW
THEIR OFFICIAL ACTION TO BE
CIRCUMSCRIBED BY LEGISLA-
TIVE ENACTMENT, BUT THEM
SELVES BEGAN TO ACT UNDER
THEIR OWN CAPRICIOUS "AS-
SUMPTION"
With that, there began all the
troubles, cities now are afflicted
with.
There grew up "EXTRAVA-
GANCE" in handing out its money.
This begot "INDOLENCE' on the
part of the officers, in looking after
affairs, as should be done. There
now followed as a natural sequence,
namely: that office holding was by
the officers become, a Vested
Right" With this, sharp demarca-
ton, cut off like though severed by
a sword; and the CITY OFFICERS
NOW RODE; while the city itself
became fear stricken, burdened
down in debt, and practices grown
up, foreign to decency, and without
its will.
In the FUNDING BONDS, the
cities were not allowed the right to
cast vote whether wanted or not;
then naturally followed, that City
Officers, sanctioned by Examiners, in
making report of city affairs, failed
to set forth amongst liabilities,
BONDS OUTSTANDING; and, in
ILEGERDEMAIN STEALTH" dis
appeared FUNDING BONDS "SINK-
ING FUNDS" as we'll even, AS THE
~CONTRACTUAL ITEM, SINKING
FUNDS" THE FUNDING BOND IS
SUE ORDERED.
That inefficient, slovenly, truth
suppressed way, on the part of City
Officers in the t%ransacting and hand
ling the city's affairs carried on; and
incoming City Officers continued the
same; rather than boldly meet the
issue, palliated and even found ex-
cuses for such conditions further
existence.
Shoemaker, Stick to Your Last"
THE REMEDY: is FOR THOSE AS
PIRING TO BE SERVANTS OF
THE PEOPLE, TO FIRST QUAIL
Fly THEMSELVES"
Montana labor news., 1937-01-28
PLANTERS
IN NEW ATTACK ON
LABOR COLLEGE

MENA, Ark. - (FP) - Arkansas
wealthy planters r again trying to
raise a red scare against Common
wealth College, labor school at Mena.
A year ago they exerted their in
fluence through legislative channels,
but the "sedition" bills they spon-
sored failed of passage after nation
wide protest had been aroused
against the attack on the little labor
college.
Now they are depending not only
on the legislature, but on the pulpit
of Rev. L. D. Summers, Mena Bap-
fist minister who halls from the
plantation district of eastern Arkan-
sas. DESPITE the fact that the facul-
ty includes an Episcopalian clergy
man and an officer of the Methodist
Federation for Social Service, Sum
mers has directed numerous violent
sermons against the school as lathe
istic' and the like.
With Summers now circulating
a petition denying intent of violence
against Commonwealth but seeking
its legal shutdown, the labor school
has urged the LaFollette senatorial
committee on civil liberties to send
investigators here at once for a thor
ough showdown.
State Rep. Herman Horton, %
year-old "baby solon," plans to aim a
teachers loyalty oath bill against
Commonwealth in the forthcoming
legislature.
"The college has never seen hos
tility from the general population
of Polk County, but the vicious
rantings of Rev. Summers r a real
menace to all civil and academic
freedom" says Acting Director Ar
thur Skreberg in his message to the
senate committee.
Montana labor news., 1937-01-28

ion within an industry as it is upon
the almost unanimous accord OF all
the responsible elements in that in
dustry.
81 want to call your attention to
the fact this strike is a strike of the
entire maritime profession. Every
man or boy who makes his living by
the sea from the captains right down
to the lowest rank, and including
the longshoremen and all other dock
workers, are united in firm solidarity
on the strikers side.
Against this unanimous accord Of
every man who plays any useful
part in the maritime industry, Mr.
Rossi sees fit to argue the cas- of a
small handful of shipowners-three
main companies, to be exact-repre-
senting no more than 80 stockhold-
ers.
Just a word now about Mr.. Ros-
sis record as a public official. In
his speech last Tuesday, Mayor Rossi
said:
There can be no question that
prior to 1884, working conditions
aboard ship and in the handling of
cargo at ports were not fair
THAT is what Mayor Rossi said
last Tuesday during the part of his
speech where he was seeking to ere
ate the impression of broadminded
fairness.
LET us go back to 1884 when
maritime workers were out on strike
over the whole Pacific Coast waging
a desperate and difficult struggle
to improve those conditions. This
was struggle in which fathers were
striving to win food and a decent
chance at life for their children
this was a struggle in which hungry
and exploited men were struggling
for a living wage and a square deal.
"In order to win that strike we
had to face the flaming guns of the
San Francisco police sent down to
the waterfront by Mayor Rossi. Two
of our men were shot dead during
that strike and literally hundreds
were injured.
1.-THE city of San Francisco replied
to Mayor Rossi with a general strike
of all labor, And only by that ire
mendous expression of public opin-
ion were we able to defeat this
strikebreaking assault.
Eyes, we won better conditions in
the 1894 strike. We won them by
standing up to the blazing guns of
Mayor Rossi's police.
'Mr. Rossi had a lot to say about
who is preventing a settlement of
this strike. He accused me in par
ticular of not wanting to end this
struggle. | do not care about Mr..
Rossi's personal attack upon me But
for the mayor of an American city
to deliberately and maliciously
SANDER the just cause of 10000
workers and their families, is some
thing more serious.
'Tll tell you who is preventing a
settlement of this strike. This strike
could have been settled long ago if
the employers had been willing to
sit down to honest, practical neg0tia-
tons. Did they do this? Did they
really put their heads together and
try to work out agreements? They
did NOT.
From the very day this strike
started, they have been stalling on
negotiations = marking time and
quibbling over subterfuges while
all of their real efforts have been
devoted to trying to break this strike
and break our unions in the bargain.
Mayor Rossi's speech was nothing
more or less than another effort to
break the strike instead of settling
it."
Montana labor news., 1937-01-28

is already apparent in every depart
ment of public life. Mainly because
of this training the Danish peasants
have become leaders in the political
and agricultural life of the nation
and have won the right to repre-
sentation in parliament. Moreover,
they are representatives of a new
democratic culture. From their midst
a new national poetry and art bid
fair to arise"
Most of the folk high schools are
privately founded, though most of
them have subventions from the
state. The pupils are adults, most
of whom have worked for some time
before coming to these schools. There
are no examinations.
1--WE DEEM" said Director Hoegs-
bro of one of these schools, "the de-
velopment of the will and the emo
tons more important than the exer-
cizing of the memory and the intel
lect. The aim is to achieve in secular
matters what the church does in the
religious field. 1t is of far greater
significance to our school to have
succeeded in arousing a feeling for
what is high and noble among the
students and to have stimulated the
accomplishment of great ends than
to have taught them any new facts
or the solving of a mathematical
problem"
Montana labor news., 1937-01-28
UNIONS ASKED TO
OPPOSE COPELAND
SAFETY AT 5EALAW
Continued from Page 81
nj

/ WuIIV z OUIIJ I" VIE01
We trust that your organization
will support our stand on this ques-
Montana labor news., 1937-01-28
THE NATIONS HONOR
ROLL FOR 1896
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llOntlnutu from rage 81
editor of the Tupelo (Mississippi)
Daily Journal, who has for the past
year successfully conducted a liberal
newspaper in the dark regions of
Mississippi, where poverty and po-
litical dictatorship have combined to
produce our first cooperative state.
Paul c. Smith, editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, who went to
Salinas, California, to see for himself
in the best editorial tradition, what
was actually happening to the lettuce
strikers and wrote a series of plain
speaking and vigorous articles en-
titled 1t DID Happen Here.
Jay Allen, of the Chicago Tribune,
Lawrence Fernsworth, of the New
York Times, and Louis Fischer, of
The Nation, for courageous, inform
alive, and unprecedented reporting of
the civil war in Spain.
Paul w. Ward, for his reporting
of the election campaign, which
demonstrates that news writers are
likely to be successful at pre-
dieting election results than are the
most scientific" straw votes.
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, member
of the American Legion, for his
pamphlet "Americanism - What Is
IT."
Art Young, for his great contribu-
ton to the art of the political car
toon in America and for his firm,
good-humored faith that the world
can be unprecedented has persist
ed against heavy odds for half a CEN
fury.
The American Council of Learned
Societies, Dumas Malone and the late
Allen Johnson as editors, and an able
staff, for the completion of the "Dic-
tionary of American Biography" a
work conceived and executed on a
plan which makes it unequaled by
anything else of the sort in England
or America.
H. L. Mencken, for the joyous as
we'll as solid scholarship of his
american Language" appearing
this year in a completely revised edi-
ton.
John Gunther, for Inside Europe"
a brilliant piece of journalism which
has contributed much to the Ameri-
can public's understanding of Euro
pean affairs.
Van Wyck Brooks, for "The Flow
ering of New England" probably the
most notable work yet written by a
man long regarded as one of Amer
ica's finest critics.
John Dos Passos, for carrying to
completion in 'The Big Money" a
trilogy which affords in terms of the
novel an analysis of recent American
society.
Carl Sandburg, for "The People,
Yesl"-a new poem celebrating, as
have all his important works, the
American folk tradition as a histori-
cal and cultural force.
Robert Turney, for Daughters of
Atreus," one of the most distin-
guished plays composed in this coun-
try.
Spencer Tracy and Fritz Lang, for
their work in Fury" a courageous
film indictment of lynching.