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usesh Representative Mitchell
calls such delicate matters
thing that 434
election that they the other
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To Observe Suns Eclipse.
An American expedition will 60 to
Lima, Peru, to observe the most
spectacular solar eclipse in 1900
years, which takes place on June 8.
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War on Riches
Menacing
Property
New Phase of Fight of
"Have Nots" and
"Haves" Entered.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
- EDUCED to its simplest terms
} the entire Washington situa-
Y ton today may be expressed
y in a phrase-a drive against
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nations have been enslaved by being
kept in good order. A nation
which asks nothing Of its govern
ment but the maintenance Of order
is already a slave at heart"
Here is q forecast of the "eco-
nomic royalists": 80 The manu-
featuring aristocracy OF our age
first impoverishes and debases the
men who serve 1t, and then aban-
donS them to be supported by the
charity OF the public. . The
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have recently amused myself by
asking, high and low, whether po-
Itical commentators and admin
ttrators here have ever studied
the brilliant Frenchman's work. I
have yet to meet one who has, al
though I guess that President
Roosevelt and Marx Sullivan, as
students Of Americana, are familiar
with this truly great book. To be
quite honest, had never read a line
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further materially increased, extra
budgetary outlays for housing, farm
tenancy, P. w. A., c. G. c., etc,
must be avoided entirely or kept
down to a small experimental basis.
Old-fashioned arithmetic Is again
likely to become necessary-if not
popular. The Eccles- Morgenthau
school Of thought has triumphed.
X X \
The troubles OF the Govern
mont hopd marriott thew saw are
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chewing gum and cosmetics, more
earth dams and postholes in the
prairies. I have always had pas
sion for postholes. More overcoats
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BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

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HOME OWNERSHIP
URGED BY EXPERT
British Authority Declares
Beautiful Houses Cheaper
Than Tenements.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 30.-John
w. Laing. British housing expert, says
good homes could be provided for IS
per cent of the people in this country
without Government subsidy, if
l. People realized the national
value of home ownership.
2. Good class builders or we'll
formed companies undertook house
building on a large scale.
g. "The Government assisted, if
necessary, in the matter of land loans. y
Laing, who is studying housing in
America. told the New York Building
Congress and the Committee for Eco
nomic and Social Progress at a Joint
luncheon:
Beautiful homes and gardens cost
only two-thirds as much as tenement
homes, and the man who is housed in
the tenement is not nearly such a good
national asset as the man with sep
arate home and garden"
He said the Government could help
the private builder in two ways: BY
purchase of land, by negotiation or
compulsion. in large areas, at the
cheapest price, and selling 1t to build
ers at cost for the erection of suit
able houses" and "by making, where
necessary, loans to permit house pur-
chase, at the lowest possible rate of
interest"
Lewis H. Brown, chairman of the
luncheon, said general interest in
housing is increased due to recent en-
actment of the Wagner housing bill.
An attempt by government to pro-
vide low-rent housing for great ma
jority of the people is impossible and
tends toward a socialism which has
no place in America" Brown said. but
the eradication of slums should be "a
field of public housing assistance"
He said he believed the Wagner
housing bill was mot entirely sound"
in some of its provisions, and will have
to be amended.
Stewart Mcdonald. Federal housing
administrator. told the building con-
gress that mortgage insurance is now
helping approximately $500 families
week to finance their homes.
Evening star., 1937-09-30
BRIEF FREEDOM FETED
BY GERMAN VILLAGE
Echwenten Declares Itself Inde-
pendent State to Evade
Polish Armies.

To commemorate the brief time 1t
was one of the free states of Europe.
the German village of Schwenten.
near the frontier OF Poland, has been
celebrating.
In speech and song was related
how for 2l8 days it waved its flag of
independence when, just after the
ermstice Poland was still capturing
many villages. Records in Berlin
show that to evade the Poles, Schwen-
ten declared itself an independent
state of Europe, electing the village
pastor president, the chairman of the
parish council minister of the in
terror and the forester minister of
war.
The new states army consisted Of
ll0 men with shotguns and two ma
chine guns. The Polish invaders rec
ognized the new state of 1000 people
and eventually the commission ap-
pointed to fix the German-Polish from
tier permitted it to unite with Ger
many.
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WOMAN T0STUDY
PAC|F F|C'S FLOOR
0ceanographer Leaves D. C.
to Discover Secret of
Earth's Past.

r,ist what is at the bottom Of the
Pacific Ocean?
That is the question DR.. Stina
Gripenberg, noted Finnish oceanog-
rspher is asking today as she speeds
towards San Diego, Calf, to study
the little known sediments which
form thin covering on the bottom
Of the Pacific from $4,000 feet on
down.
DR.. Gripenberg left Washington yes
terday afternoon after weeks stay
as guest of the Legation of Finland
and of Dr. Parker Trask of the
Geological Survey.
These deep ocean silts long have
been a source of much speculation
among biologists and many extraor-
dinary things have been discovered
about them.
Odd Discoveries Made.
For instance, in certain areas the
entire ocean floor is covered with
nothing more or less than the ear
bpAhNo Va W AtoANS anu III OLllNl pldNCS
with sharks teeth. Elsewhere meteor
fragments. which have fallen into
the ocean for hundreds of millions
OF years, line the bottom, or ooze is
composed of the microscopic shells
of one-celled organisms.
None. as far as science knows, has
ever been uplifted above the waters
surface as have the sands and clays
of the continental masses. Discovery
of the exact composition of some of
the less known of these inaccessible
materials may throw considerable
light on the earth's past.
DR.. Gripenberg, who took her Phi.
d. on a thesis about Baltic Sea sedi-
ments at the Marine Research In
stitute in Helsingfors, is the second
scientist to be awarded an interna-
tional fellowship by the American As
sociation of University Women. One
is appointed each year. She is to
study samples-Some taken specially
for her by the United States Coast
Guard in the Arctic Ocean during the
Summer-at the Scripps Institute of
Oceanography, Lajolle. Calf
Il am deeply grateful to the Ameri-
can Association of University Wom-
en- for enabling me to carry on my
work in this country" she said as
she waited for the train to pull out
yesterday at the Union Station.
First Big Ocean Study.
This is the first time I've had an
opportunity to study real oceanic
sediments. You see, our Baltic sedi-
ments are derived from land and
carried to the water as are those of
all shallow seas" added the tall blond
Finn in her soft accent.
The particular red clays DR.. Gripen-
berg is to study are not organic as
are those mentioned above. As far as
Is known, they are formed by the in
teraction of sea water with the ocean
floor and may have remained in place
since earliest geologic time.
AS rule they are extremely thin.
as very little loose mineral material
Is present in the deep ocean.
Samples have been taken by means
OF container on the end of a long
wire and have been obtained in some
cases from depths as great as 10000
feet.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Birthday Address Text
President Points Out Tasks of Mercy Which
Receipts Care For.
Receipts Care For.

the Nation has made in answering
the call of suffering which comes to
us from the Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys. Truly, lone touch of ma
ture makes the whole world kin"
Proba bility of Floods
in Future May Be Cut.
The preliminary response to the
Red Cross appeal has been gener-
Gus and I know that every dollar
necessary to help the flood suffer-
ers will be forthcoming from the
rest Of the Nation. The appeal for
our friends in the food areas Is
one Of high emergency. Through
national effort on a national scale,
We shall hope in the days to come
to decrease the probability Of fu-
ture floods and similar disasters.
In the meantime, We propose to
meet this emergency.
The problem of infantile pa
ralysis is not in the same sense an
immediate emergency. 1t is with
us every one of the 365 days of the
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year. It Is an insidious and per-
fidious foe. 1t turks in unexpected
places and its special prey is lit
tie children. 1t may appear in epi-
demic form, in any community.
May I tell you q little history?
As most Of you know. the Warm
Springs Foundation undertook
treatment and investigation Of in
fantile paralysis in a very small
way in 1927. The first birthday
parties were held three years ago.
on January 80, 1884.
The proceeds from these parties
were used, in part, for necessary
equipment at Warm Springs, n
part for taking care Of patients
from every section Of the country
who could not afford the cost Of
the treatment and. In part. in
studying the whole national prob
lem Of infantile paralysis. As this
study developed three years ago,
we came to the conclusion that the
work Of the Warm Springs Foun.
dation should concern itself far
more with the broad national
problem Of infantile paralysis than
with the work of taking care of
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The text Of President Roosevelt's
address follows:

The text Of President Roosevelt's
birthday address follows:
You are participating in the
finest birthday present which you
could possibly give me; and at the
same time. you are participating
in birthday presents to many thou
sands Of children in every part Of
the country.
Because devoted volunteers. who
have worked for the success Of the
parties tonight, are numbered by
the tens of thousands, I cannot, I
regret, make personal acknowledg-
ment to each and every one Of my
appreciation Of their unselfish serv-
ices. I take this occasion, there
fore, to thank you all and, in addi-
tion, to thank the many other
thousands who have written me and
telegraphed me.
cannot express this word Of
heartfelt appreciation without ac-
knowledging with pride and with
satisfaction the splendid response
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another one Of Hollywood's gifts to
romantic women, who Is being groomed
as the successor to Clark Gable, had
his share Of feminine admirers, too.
Hysteria Among Women.
Actually, women screamed hyster-
ically at the approach of Taylor The
demonstration they gave him at the
Hamilton Hotel was most pronounced.
And the men. Most of them did
everything but break leg to see the
gorgeous Jean Harlow, even more
beautiful in an ermine coat than she
is on the screen. Marsha Hunt, too,
must have caused many men to forget
home ties for moment. Mitzi Green,
who seems to be growing into woman-
hood, was another object of attention.
But what happened to Joe E. Brown,
the cinema clown, whose mouth has
been his fortune? Hardie Meakin,
manager of R-K-O Keith's, had been
promising for several days that Brown
would be in Washington to join his
colleagues from the film colony. Tele-
grams to the newspapers from Meakin
have had Brown, who was supposed
to have been flying to the Nations
Capital, grounded in various cities east
Of the Rockies. Anyhow, the broad
mouth comedian did not reach WASH
1ngton in time to make the rounds of
the hotels.
The concert stage, and radio. con-
tributed its share to the entertainment
at the hotels. Frederick Jagel Of the
Metropolitan Opera Co., for instance,
provided the operatic atmosphere. and
Nine. Maria Gambarelli. whose dane
ing toes the late S. L. (Roxy) Rothafel
helped to make famous, piouretted
around the ball rooms. In addition
there was Benny Fields with his
inimitable brand Of comedy, Irving
Caesar, who writes songs, and zon
Zelayo, also of radio fame. Other en-
tertainers included Amanda Snow,
"The Spirit of Minneapolis" and
Charlse Barnes, tap dancer.
Many Tour Seven Hotels.
Hundreds of those who attended the
balls, remained at the first hotel they
reached, but many others, in what de-
veloped to be futile effort'to escape
crowds, made the tour of all Of the
places. The great concentration points
appeared to be the Shoreham, May
flower and Raleigh Hotels. In fact
the crowd was so great outside of
the Shoreham that Marine reserves
on duty there had difficulty in opening
passage for Mrs. Roosevelt and her
party.
Police Supt Ernest w. Brown, out
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Of uniform and in formal attire.
trailed Mrs. Roosevelt around to all
of the hotels to make certain that
his subordinates carried out orders
explicitly. Incidentally, he had 145
of the 1900 members Of the force
who own or look attractive. in
tuxedos, stationed around the various
hotels to preserve order in the event
Of disorder, or to pick up the nimble-
fingered dips who operate in such
crowds.
The Police Department was not
able to cope with the problem OF
handling the crowds and the traffic,
and members of the District National
Guard the Marine Reserve and
Naval Reserve. were called into serv-
ice. And Maj. Browns own boys
members of the Police Department
Boys Club. in scarlet coats-sold the
official ball programs.
Difficulties in Traffic.
TRAFFIC, Of course. was snarled In
vicinity Of all the hotels. Taxicabs,
and there were hundreds of them,
moved slowly at times, If at all.
Newspaper reporters and photogra-
pliers assigned to "cover" the seven
balls and follow Mrs. Roosevelt and
the Hollywood celebrities, had the
advantage of special bus for
transportation, with police escort,
but it had difficulty at times in
squeezing through the congestion
around the hotels. The bus lost Mrs.
Roosevelt completely at several stops,
but caught up with her again at the
Raleigh Hotel, where she cut huge
birthday cake, as newreel cameras
clicked and the hundreds in the ball
room cheered or applauded.
Maj Brown. who covered" last
years balls just as extensively as he
did those this year, would not hazard
a guess as to the number Of persons
who took part. There must have
been $4,000 at least" he said. But
I do know the crowd this year was
greater than the one last year."
The crowning social event of the
ball was a midnight breakfast" at
the Carlton Hotel, which cost $25 for
a gold ticket and breakfast of rich
delicacies that people do not ordi-
narily eat at that meal.
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Through q special Research Com
mission. with the help Of Medical
Advisory Committee, outright
grants for nearly $500 900 have
been made to about Is Of the lead
ing research laboratories scat
tered through the country.
Much has been learned, much
has been accomplished. While 1t
is too early to say that infantile
paralysis. in its epidemic form. can
be stopped. we hope that through
new methods we can soon arrive
at q substantial decrease in the
numbers Of children who become
infected. We believe that we arc
on the right track.
Coordination Once
Is Established.
The second function has taken
the form Of establishing a central
office Of coordination. Every year
there come thousands Of letters
from every part of the country,
from parents OF children who were
attacked and crippled years ago by
infantile paralysis.
When the individual case is
brought TO the attention Of this
ONCE OF coordination, 1t Is care
fully checked and sent to an Or
thopedic surgeon or an ortho-
pedic hospital or to a nursing
service or clinic or to a State
society for the handicapped. Some
kind Of help is obtained-per-
haps an operation. or a new wheel
chair, or a new brace or a new
corset. In many cases good ad-
vice or q careful medical exami-
nation gives helpful results.
You will see, therefore. that the
Foundation has been putting the
care Of infantile paralysis and the
research into its causes on o ma
tional basis for the first time. Thc
expense of research and OF thc
national coordination Of these
cases entirely absorbs the 80 per
cent Of the proceeds Of these
birthday parties.
You are giving tremendous
help. not only to the crippled
children of your own community
but also to the fight against tine
continuance Of infantile paraly-
sis in the Nation. The work, with
your help, is going on. 1t will rot
cease until some day the disease
itself Is brought under control and
proper aid has been rendered to
all.
I wish that some physical way
might be found for me to come in
person to each of your parties
tonight. I am with you in spirit
I am grateful to you for the splen-
did work that you are doing. snd
I thank you from the bottom OF
my heart.
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only q few hundred children each
year at Warm Springs. with its
necessarily limited accommoda-
tions.
70 Per Cent Of Money Goes
to Own Communities.
Therefore, with the birthday
parties on January 80, 1885. and
in 1896, the proceeds from these
parties in thousands Of communi-
ties were devoted and, in 1887,
will be devoted not to the work at
Warm Springs but to the broader
national problem of infantile pa
ralysis. Seventy per cent OF all
the money which has been raised
has gone and goes to the care Of
children crippled by infantile pa
ralysis within their own COM
munities. A committee of doctors
and Of leading citizens determines
how best that money shall be spent
in each community. With that
determination Warm Springs has
nothing to do.
The other 80 per cent Of the
proceeds goes primarily to two OBJ
jectives. The first is research.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
mrs. ROOSEVELT
HAILED AT BALL
'Throngs of Admirers Meet
Presidents Wife at
Eight Hotels.

- Il Robert Taylor had expected to
steal all the attention of feminine
e. dancers at the Presidents birthday
ball in the Capital last night, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt probably
changed his mind.
Making the rounds Of the seven ho-
tel parties in the city and adding the
George Mason Hotel in Alexandria for
good measure, the Presidents wife
was greeted with mobs of admirers
and prolonged cheers in series Of
brief personal appearances through
out the evening.
Her destination shrouded in secrecy,
Mrs. Roosevelt was an ubiquitous f1g-
ure-and managed. as usual, to keep
up with her schedule with time to
spare.
Greeted by Happy Days"
Wearing a silver lame gown and the
diamond necklace which was an
Inauguration gift from Mrs. Henry
Parish, in whose home she and the
President were married, Mrs. Roosevelt
arrived at Wardman Park shortly after
10 o'clock. Greeted by the strains Of
Happy Days Are Here Again" played
by q tubilant orchestra, the Presidents
wife took her place in front OF the
microphone and declared:
II am so happy to be here. I thank
you for what you are doing for the
children my husband and I am SO
interested in"
Wardman Park dancers, who had
cheered Jean Harlow a few moments
earlier, received q Doubt thrill when
, the two shook hands and chatted-
Jean In an ermine wrap. smiling up
happily into the eyes Of the Presi-
dents wife as they stood together.
The high light Of the evening-the
Presidents broadcast Of his birthday
greeting-found his wife at the
Raleigh Hotel, seated in a thronelike
chair, with huge birthday cake on
o table at her left.
Cuts Cake for Party.
She listened quietly as her husbands
voice filled the ball room and when the
broadcast was completed cut the cake
for the assembled party and made a
hasty departure to continue her
rounds.
Earlier she had held an animated
conversation with Taylor-the two
meeting in the thronged ball room Of
the Hamilton Hotel
Accompanied by a White House aide
and police escort, Mrs. Roosevelt left
the White House around $50 o'clock,
after attending the dinner at which
the President entertained his birthday
gang"
Her appearances. beginning at Ward
man Park Hotel. continued on to the
Shoreham. Mayfiower, Hamilton. Raj
eigh. Willard, Washington and George
Mason Hotel in Alexandria.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Two "Peking' Skulls Found.

Skulls of a man and woman dis
covered by a Chinese scientist in
cave at Chou Kou Tien are believe
to be q million years old and hay
been identified as Of the same type .
the Peking man, one Of the Garlic.
known.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Movie Stars Snowbound.

Movie Stars Sn0wbound.
IOWA CITY, Iowa, January 80 H).
Lee Tracy, Mary Brian and Florence
Lake, Hollywood celebrities, were
among the passengers that were snow
bound at the Iowa City Airport here
tonight
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Birthday

Continued From First Page.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-27
THE BEACH.

!. more my own than any
house soljtude of windy sands
+; datins hing crabshells, barrel
sta't We seas transparent count
les5 laser y, than my room. The
c4", sss 5rf piles deep Eso ..roons,, wood
that rocks - shadows waver.
slOT the logs long-soaked and full
Of .p po'a are nine; and mine the
f''se .sore-front smells,
s s1sss. the ruboish' all the bay
hslV 9TH all its waited buoy bells.
1 nlll' a's slack with age and fish
= and lar, Ills that HESS its
nd the upii''' S'''-'
ace, ro than human here; I am
this place. ,7,.uohotb Robm
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-27
White Family In
Reunion Aug. IS

The Whit family held a reunion at
the old home of o. B. Whit near
Clarksville, Va, on Sunday, August Is.
A picnic dinner was served to over a
hundred relatives.
Those who attended were: Mr.. and
Mrs. G. M. Buchanan and family, of
GAINESVILLE, Va; Miss Virginia Buch-
| anan, of Richmond, Va; Mrs. j. G.
Ellixson and son, Graham, of Virginia
Va; Mrs. ]. H. Long, Republican
Grove, Va; Mrs. M. N. Ragland and
daughter, Frances, of Danville, Va;
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Averett, Henry
Swanson, and Huston Averett, and
Mrs. Garrett Satterwhite and chill
dren, all of Henderson; Mr.. and Mrs.
c. H. Guerrant and children, Bruce
and Eta, Mr.. and'Mrs. Herman Sneed
and daughter, Betsy, Mr.. and Mrs,
Woodrow Neathery, of Henderson; J.
j. Holmes, Mrs. w. H. Green, Mrs r.
B. Pearce, Mrs. Willie Pearce, Mrs.
Sid Ramey, and son, Fred, all Of
', Franklinton; Mrs. Clyde Pearce, of
Youngsville; Mr.. and Mrs. J. T..
Holmes and family, of Wilson; Mr..
and Mrs. D. B. Holmes and family, of
Louisburg; Mr.. and Mrs. HINTON
Whit, of Norlina; Henry Whit, of
GAINESVILLE, Va; Mr.. and Mrs. E. o.
Whit and children, Shirley, Francis,
Dorothy, William, and Ernest, of
Chase City, Va; Mr.. and Mrs. P. j.
Wilkins and Daughter, Maurine, Mr..
and Mrs. Cortella Wilkins and son,
all of McKenney, Va. Lemuel Lewis,
Jr., of Richmond, Va: Miss Rachel
Averett, of Mckinney, Va; Mrs. J. z.
Whit, Mrs. P. R. Pollard, Jr., Of
Richmond Va; Mr. and Mrs Yuell
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-27
Mrs. w. K. Sturges
Hostess Thursday

Mrs. w. K. Sturges was hostess at
bridge on Thursday afternoon honor
ing her daughter, Mrs. H. Blount
Bryan, Of Oxford, and Miss Aline E.
Hughes, of New York City.
Mrs. Andrew Harris was awarded
high score, and the honorees were
presented attractive gifts.
A salad course was served to the
following guests Mrs H. Blount
Bryan and Miss Aline Hughes,
1onorees; Mrs. Andrew Harris, Mrs.
I. w. Hughes, Mrs. William F. Hor-
ner, Mrs Conrad B. Sturges, and
Misses Jennie Dunn and Alice Boyd.