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NAVY ORDERS.

White, Capt. Paul G., Dental Corps,
detached Naval Training Station,
Great Lakes, Ill.,, to Naval Academy;
June.
Hoover, Capt. John H., detached
Army War College, to Naval Air Sta
ton. Norfolk, Va; June.
Weber, Lieut.. Comdr. George K,
detached Bureau OF Engineers, to
Navy Yard, Charleston, S. c.; June.
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Bailey, Lieut.. Comdr Charles s.,
Supply Corps, detached U. g. s. Erie,
continue Norfolk Naval Hospital,
Portsmouth, Va.
Welles, Lieut.. Comdr. RatclifYe c.,
detached Naval Observatory, to U. S.
s. Chester; June 26.
Koepke, Lieut.. O.g) Lyle L.. de-
tached Naval Air Station, AnAcostia,
to U. 8. 8. Enterprise; June.
Moffett, Lieut.. q. g. William A.,
jr., detached Naval Air Station, Ana
costa. to U. 8. S. Maryland; June.
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ley Field, Va, to Fort Riley, Kans. !;
June 80.
Gregory, First Lieut.. Hollingsworth
F.. Air Corps, Fort Sill, Okla. to
Langley Field, Va.
Evening star., 1937-05-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Breakfast Nocturnal Alteration So
eiety, Willard Hotel, 10 am.
Ball, Hotel and Restaurant EN-
ployes and Bartenders' Union, Raj
elgh Hotel, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon Life Underwriters AS
Sociation, Willard Hotel, 1880 am.
Meeting. Family Betterment Com
mittee, 1880 S street, 3 pm.
Meeting, Fourth Degree, knights OF
Columbus, Mayf1ower Hotel 8 pm.
Smoker. Variety Club, Willard Ho-
eel, 9 pm.
Dinner dance, Norwegian Society,
la Fayette Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Ladies Auxiliary, District
Optometric Society, La Fayette Hotel,
pm.
Meeting, Lodge No. 8, American
Federation of Government Employees,
Hamilton Hotel, SIS pm.
Dinner and card party, Five Hun
dred Club, Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Card party, Mothers Club. Immac-
ulate Conception School, Knights of
Columbus Hall, 920 Tenth street,
pm.
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56-Piece Breakfast Outfit

Consists Of Drop-Leaf Table
and four Chairs, attractively
finished and decorated; = 25-
piece set Of Dishes and q 26-
piece set Of fine Tableware.
See it tomorrow.
Evening star., 1937-05-16

MARINE ORDERS.
Bleasdale, Maj. Victor F., detached
Evening star., 1937-11-07

is that the health Of the people, not
just the under privileged, but Of all,
is the direct concern Of Government
Any national health policy should be
formulated on this basis.
1t is not this committees theory
that the whole responsibility should
be dumped upon the Government; an
other principle specifically states that
four agencies are concerned in the
provision Of medical care-voluntary
agencies, such as privately-endowed
medical schools, community organiza-
tions. voluntary hospitals, ct cetera,
and local, State and Federal Govern
ment.
The proposals, however, clearly indi-
cate that public funds are needed in
greater degree than they now exist
to supplement private resources.
Fund Needed for Prevention.
One of the most urgent needs for
an increased use Of public funds Is
in the field of preventive medicine.
Prevention is the keynote of the medi-
cine Of the future. Its success in
control of infectious diseases like
smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid, of mem
tai diseases by the recognition OF
economic and environmental condi-
tions is ample evidence Of what should
be carried even further in the future
The present national efforts looking
toward the control of syphilis con-
stitute another vast experiment in
preventive medicine. As medical re-
search increasingly brings to light
the causes Of cancer, arthritis and
other only partly probed scourges, the
possibilities of preventive medicine can
be practically applied in an ever-ex-
panding degree.
And with this expansion, the Gov
ernment's present functioning in the
field of preventive medicine must OBJ
viously increase.
Another proposal recognizes as an
immediate problem "the provision of
adequate medical care for the medi-
cally INDECENT" the cost to be met
from public funds. local funds so far
as they are available. but supple
mented by State aid, or Federal aid
where State funds do not suffice.
Other proposals contemplate public
funds-local, State or Federal-to sup
plement present provision for medical
Evening star., 1937-11-07
WAGE BILL ANALYSIS
SHOWS DICTATOR TREND
Heavy Hand of Government, Totali-
tartan Kind, Is Seen i'm Document
of 1850 Words.

fixed standard Of maximum hours.
The decent nine-tenths of industry
would like to be protected against the
"chiseling" one-tenth, whose only
method OF competition Is to underpay
labor, or overwork it.
But the wage and hour bill does more
than set up simple standards, vastly
more. II the bill did only that. it
would not use up SIS pages and 1880
words. If understand the bill, the
board can under certain conditions not
only fix the minimum wage but can
regulate the whole range of wages.
Certainly the board would have enor-
nous powers. And it could practice
literally unrestrained discrimination.
THE board may classify persons and
matters within its Jurisdiction and
prescribe different requirements for
different classes Of persons or matters"
With that power, what could the board
not do?
Other Powers.
In another section. the board is
given power to Classify employers
employees and employments ac-
cording to localities, the population Of
communities, the number of en-
ployes employed, the nature and VOL
ume OF the goods produced, and such
other differentiating circumstances as
the board finds necessary or appro-
pirate"
Under those sweeping powers Of
discrimination the board could:
Fix one standard of wages for one
industry and different standard for
other industries.
Fix one standard for one member
of an industry and a different standard
for other members.
Fix one standard for one section Of
the country and different standard
| for other sections.
The board could so use its power as
to cause the whole of one industry to
move to one part of the country. and
the whole of another industry to move
to different part of the country.
The board is given power to grant
exemptions. This is a very great
PO"Si. n DOdiu ulSpOStO 10 De par
tisan could use the power of exemp-
tions to give advantage to one indi-.
vidual in an industry, and put another
individual under disadvantage.
True, the board before issuing any
order, must hold a hearing. But it is
not a judicial hearing. The board
does not need to be bound by testimony
given at the hearing. 1t does not need
to pay any attention to testimony.
The hearing is not like a trial before
jury. The hearing is like the Judge
saying to the prisoner. after he is
convicted: Before 1 sentence you to
10 years in Jail, have you anything to
say?"
And of course there are penalties.
Any one who violates ANY act, duty
or obligation" put upon him BY the
board. is subject to a fine of $500 or
Imprisonment for not more than six
months.
(Copyright. 1887
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Extinction COnfrOnts
Hartebeest in Africa

CA1RO.-Because their tails fur
nish what are considered to be excel
lent swatters for the insect-plagued
natives Of South Africa, the harte-
beest in this region are facing ex-
tinction, 1t has been discovered. Ma
tives kill the animals and sell the
tails Of the beasts as fly swatters for
a sum Of about rs cents each, and the
practice is rapidly thinning out the
hartebeest herds. Also threatened
with extinction, but for different
causes, is the hippopotamus, which
has practically disappeared south of
the zambesi, from the lower waters
Of the Nile and on the West coast
from Gambia to the Cameroons, their
principal habitats now being restrict
ed to the big rivers Of Tanganyika and
the swamps Of the Central African
lakes.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
BY BERTRAM BENEDICT.

r CONOMIC ROYALIST- - Now,
H Lunatic Fringe, maybe you'll
admit at last you were wrong
about this capital gains tax.
after that nose dive the stock market
took since August. Twenty-Five or
thirty cool billions in values wiped out!
All the gain gone since about March
OF '35! That's big enough wallop
to make even New Dealer change his
bright little mind-always assuming
that New Dealer has a mind.
New Dealer - Listen, Nineteenth
Century, If it weren't for that tax
the Treasury would be getting less
revenue. Then you'd have to dig
down even further into that fat wallet
Of yours before we'd get the balanced
budget you're always screaming your.
self blue in the face about. And you
know how well you'd like that.
E. Royalist-Never mind about the
budget-weIn come to that in a min
ute. Just now we're talking about
how the capital gains tax kept stocks
too high too long, then made 'em fall
too low too fast.
This fool tax-it makes a man add
to his income, when he's filling out
his income tax blank, all the profits
he got from selling stocks and bonds.
Now, you know as well as I do, most
OF those profits are made by the fat
boys in the top brackets. You've
socked 'em with surtaxes till they're
dizzy. What's the resultr
The result is they don't sell their
holdings when they've got fair profit
on 'em. What's the use Of making
$4,000 when you've got to turn
$4,000 or so Of it right back to the
Government in income taxes? So
they hold on to their securities, profit
or no profit, till hell freezes over.
That means stocks 60 much too
high. That's what they were last
summer; that's why they fell 50 far.
You get hurt more when you fall off
the roof than when you fall of the
second-story porch.
N. Dealer-But the law makes some
allowance there. If you've held the
stock for more than q year, you need
put down only 80 per cent. of your
profit for the income tax. II more
than two years, only go per cent.
And so on, down the line, until it's
only 40 per cent If you've had the
stock more than Ave years, and only
80 per cent If you've had it 10 years
or more.
E. R-Say, what's 20 or 80 per
cent reduction when your surtaxes
come to so or go per cent? Anyhow,
most of the boys with the big profits
realize 'em in less than . year. There's
no reduction then.
And that's only hall the story. Look
what happens when the market breaks
and they have leases! The law lsts
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Only, when he misses the boat, he
blames it on the capital gains tax
instead Of on his own bad judgment.
That's about what the late Ogden L.
Mills said, though maybe not in so
many words, years ago; and you fell
lows call him the greatest Secretary
OF the Treasury since Mellon.
E. R.-All right, now it's my turn.
You remember how you beefed all
over the place because the Morgan
partners didn't pay any income tax
during the depression? That was be-
cause than they could charge off capi-
tai losses against capital gains.
N. Dyes, but before the depres-
sion they paid plenty of income tax,
because they had more gains than
losses That helped reduce public
debt in those days.
E. R.-But in prosperity the public
debt isn't so important. It's when the
depression comes that it's as i'm
portant as all get-out. 1t would be
better to get less from the Morgans
during the good times and more in
the bad times. That's what they do
in England. They disregard both capi-
tai gains and losses.
Different in England.
N. Dts different in England
There aren't so many stocks, and
they're mostly held by the well-to-do
for investment, not for profit. Over
there the little fellows take their gam
bling instinct out in horse-racing in
stead. In this country the outcry would
be terrific if you taxed one man on his
income from farming or business or
salary and didn't tax another on what
he made IN the stock market. Here's q
farmer.
E. R-Most farmers don't pay in
come tax, no matter how much money
they make in good years.
N. Dali right, here's q business
man who makes $4,000 year, and
works hard for it. And here's an
executive who gets $4,000 salary and
works just as hard for it. Then here's
a gent with capital who bought some
stock in 1888 and now sells it at $40, 900
profit. And you want Congress to tax
the first two, who made their money
by working, but not the third man,
whose money worked for him. It's all
wrong in principle.
E. R.-Well, if you're talking about
principle, how about not letting
man deduct all he loses on stocks in
nic hod wears hl,t ta yinu hin, for III
he makes in his good years? Take
that executive you were talking about
who makes $4,000 = year. Well, let's
say one year he makes. in addition,
$4,000 net from selling stocks, be-
cause his judgment is good. You tax
him on all 10000.
Next year he loses $4,000 on stocks,
but do you let him deduct that from
his salary and tax him only "a @io,.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Railroads for Children
Being Built in Russia

MOSCOW (P.-A new system of
railroads is being built in Russia
system intended only for children.
Thirty lines now are under con-
struction, all patterned after the one
in Dniepropetrovsk, which has a loco
motive and six cars and makes 80 daily
trips on a 1 " -kilometer road.
Six hundred thirty children are the
locomotive engineers, conductors, dis
patchers, station masters and other
employees Of the Dniepropetrovsk road.
Their activity is encouraged by the
Soviet government on the ground that
they are acquiring an education in
railroading along with recreation.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

is the man who should sublimate
the knowledge of the specialist in all
fields, interpret the specialist to the
patient and the patient to the spe-
cialist.
The problem of how the individual
patient is to find the physician he
needs is of first Importance, and can
not be solved without intelligent medi-
cal advices This again points to
the family physician. acquainted with
the individual in health as we'll as
in sickness, as the guide.
AS to the cost of modern scientific
medical care-all the world knows
that it is too great for average iii
comes.
For many years I had wondered how
widely medical men recognized the
existence of these problems. The re-
port of the American Foundation last
spring, with its summarized views CT
some thousands Of leading physicians
in all branches of medicine, including
general practice, was the best express
sion I have ever seen of the extent
of widespread thought by medical
men on these three and allied prob
lens.
The report contained at once the
analysis of the situation and the in
dications for solutions.
Because the report itself presented
no conclusions, however. a self-ap-
pointed group of medical men made
an intensive study of it and formu-
lated certain principles and proposals
with which We thought great many
other medical men throughout the
country would agree.
Draft Is Indorsed.
This committee Of roughly a dozen
men sent the draft of their principles
and proposals to a number of COL
Leagues throughout the country, acts
ing purely as individuals. Even this
informal presentation resulted in in
dorsement of the draft, and signature
to 1t. by 430 undoubted leaders in
medical practice and science.
The committees statement has now
been sent to the organizations of
medicine, including the American
Medical Association, for consideration
and action.
THESE principles and proposals are
Simple in the extreme. The foremost
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Courtesy of the Congressional Library.
education, medical research, voluntary
hospitals, laboratory, diagnostic and
consultative service.
The proposal that public funds
should be made available for med
ical education and research rests or
the belief that there must be con-
slant support for the scientific ap-
proach to medicine and for its con.
slant modernization. The Medica
Educational Institution, including the
hospital, Is not a profit-making or
ganization. 1t is working only fol
the public good and public funds are
essential to keep it in its high estate
as they are for police and fire pro.
lection. Public funds for medical re-
search belong in the same category
The stake of government in health
is already great. Its contribution to
prevention as well as to repair has
been outstanding It's assumed re-
sponsibilities for disqualification, fol
child welfare. for the elimination oi
parasitic and infectious diseases in
clude in its scope both preventive ano
curative aspects. 1t is Fundamental
for these functions and aspects to be
united in a department that will have
its proper place among other Gov
ernment departments.
The outstanding agency to point
the way for medical cooperation ir
solving the health problems before the
country is obviously the American
Medical Association Its long his
tory of understanding of past prob
lens gives it the capacity to aid ir
the formulation of constructive pol.
icy. 1t is true that the A. M. A
must approach every new step with
an extremely judicial attitude, and bt
sure whether it is leading before il
embarks on a program. In order te
retain its constituency, however. the
A. M. A. must certainly exercise a
genuine leadership and this is the
time for it.
The principles and proposals out
lined above have, as stated, been
sent to the A. M. A., in the hope
that the next few months will see a
recognition of the need, and a CO.
operative effort on the part of medi-
cal men, sociologists and Government
to evolve broad program of health
organization
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900? You do not! All you allow is
$4,000 deduction. He still has to pay
on the $4,000, or rather on $4,000,
just as il he hadn't lost the 10000.
Do you call that principle?
N. D.-ITl admit that's illogical,
but it has to be done, because other
wise we'd get less from the income
tax, and the Treasury needs every
penny it can get-I'm tempted to say
no matter how it can get it.
E. R.-That's like everything else
you New Dealers have done these last
four and half years. This admin
istration just hasn't any sense Of right
ard wrong. 1t takes the easiest way
out OF every mess it gets into. tell
you, we're living under a form Of
government today.
N. Dwell, E. r., if you don't like
the way we run our Government, why
don't you 60 back where you came
from?
E. R.-Where I came from! Say,
my forebearers came to this country
in. Oh, come on, let's 20 get a
drink. I'm dry and so are YOU. from
all this bum argument that doesn't
get either Of us anywhere.
(Copyr.ght. 1877
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Morocco Sticks to Use
OF Fingers for Eating

NICE-The old rule that fingers
were made before forks still holds good
In Morocco. Soups and stews there
are dipped up with bread, and chicken
and meats are torn apart with the
fingers. A meal at the palace of a
Moorish pasha may consist Of as
many as IL courses, mostly of fowl
and lamb. Pigeon may be served in
a very light pastry, chicken in a thick
stew or with stufing. Double pan
cakes with little honey inside them.
vermicelli and lamb served In a variety
Of ways make up the rest Of the meal,
which u generally topped OF with tea.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Taxes and the Market Slumn
or What's the Use of Making Money

EN- credit losses from stocks only
against gains from stocks. and for
$4,000 more. When they've sold at a
profit earlier in the year, of course
they sell to establish an equal loss
when stocks fall later in the year. So
this dumb capital gains tax makes
more selling when there ought to be
less. just as it makes less when there
ought to be more.
Can't Have 1t Both Ways,
N. D.-Yeu're contradicting yourself.
You were saying just a minute ago
that the tax kept people from selling
for a profit. Now you're saying it
makes 'em sell at loss to counter
balance the profit they already made
from selling. You can't have it both
ways.
E. R.-All right, all right, let's put
it this way, then: They sell at a
profit and sell at loss at the same
time. Get rid Of their cats and dogs
and their blue chips at the same time,
so one cancels out the other.
N. D.-But they could do that Just
as well when stocks are high, when
the market ought to have more selling
Probably they still have some losses
then.
E. R.-Maybe they could in theory,
but in practice they don't. They wait
until
N. Dwell, if you're talking about
theory VS.. practice, I've got a few
words to say. You take one of these
fat boys-I don't care whether he's an
investor, or speculator, or both. He's
got, say, hundred shares of q blue
chip he bought at so and now it's gone
up to $50. He's made a $4,000 profit.
You're trying to tell me he won't
take his $4,000 profit because he'll
have to give maybe $1,000 of it back
in income tax. Well, that still leaves
him $4,000, and I'm telling you that if
he's got any sense he'd rather take
that or nothing.
You say he won't sell even il he
knows $50 is tops. Well, suppose it
falls to 100. Then he's got only IS 900
profit, and he'll have to pay, say,
$4,000 Of that in income tax. That
leaves him $4,000. Well, $4,000 isn't
as much as $4,000 And If he waits
until the market skids all the way
down. to SO, then he'll have no profit,
and that's not as good as either $1,000
or $4,000.
Sells When He Thinks 1t Best.
And-another thing-if he's got
something he bought too high at 100,
and it's at rs, and he thinks it isn't
going any higher, he's going to sell 1t
at that and take his loss-even II he
can't deduct it from his income tax.
If he waits until it falls to so, he'll
have even more loss. He sells when
he thinks it's best, high Or low, loss OF
gain. blue chip Of cat and dog.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Bullfights Are Staged
To Order for Tourists

LISBON (P).-Bull fights are made
to order now for foreign tourists in
this Portuguese capital.
In the past, visitors were shown the
bull ring, allowed to inspect some of
the brocaded tunics worn by famous
toreadors and told by guides how the
bull was played.
Now, whenever cruising liner ar
rives, special fight is staged if more
than 80 tourists ask for one. The show
can be put on within an hour after
the request is received. The bulls are
not killed at these affairs, so they can
be used over and over again.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
BY MILTON C. WINTERNITZ, MD

DS MILL ON y. WIN NlEhNlIZ, M. ID.
written for the Associated Press)
n YEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. g.
nj The general unrest in recent
" day medicine shows that
neither the physician nor the
patient is satisfied.
To me, this unrest is demonstrated
IN three fundamental problems:
/. How can We give the individual
the benefit of the amassed medical
knowledge of today?
2. How is the individual, in the
complex medical practice OF today,
going to decide what he is to do
when he is ill2 Where is he to find
the right doctor?
3. How is the public at large 90
ing to meet the expense of modern
medicine?
The complexity of modern medical
science has resulted naturally in the
division of medicine into a grouping of
specialists. There has been a tendency
for the poorer medical students to be
relegated to general practice. Yet.
obviously, the field of general prac-
tice requires efficiency Of at least as
high a type as that needed in any
specially. The general practitioner
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Special Berlin Streets
Designated for Cycles

BERLIN (P.-Bicycles cause 20
many traffic accidents In Berlin that
several hundred miles Of, main streets
have been set aside especially for
them.
A census showed that on the aver
age working day these special streets
are travelled by 10000 cyclists, ana
that on Sundays between 10000 and
49, 900 men, women and children use
thsm GA cycling hoiidAyA
Evening star., 1937-11-07

Under the direction of Esther
Euerett Lape, the American
Foundation last spring published
the results OF its tioo-year inquiry
into the organization of medical
care. The report, entitled "Ameri-
can Medicine-Erpert Testimony
Out OF Court" has been Gidely
discussed in medical circles in sub
SeQuent months. A group OF
prominent medical men, acting
upon the material contained in the
report. made public today certain
Independent conclusions, agreed
upon statement of principles and
advanced proposals looking toUard
the cooperation of Government
and medical men in a tar-reaching
national medical policy. DR.. Mil
ton C. Winternitz, former dean of
the Yale School OF Medicine and
one of the directors OF the Jane
Coffin child cancer research fund
at Yale, discusses this groups vieus
in the tollowing article.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Railroads

Continued From Page C-1)
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Nv MARK Sullivan.

BY MAHk SULLIVAN.
w YHEN the authors Of the wage
\AI and hour bill were writing
Wv the original draft they
wished to make an excen-