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Evening star., 1937-09-04

0n,
but
Job At expect many as
four editions with speeches that
On August l6 when the
adjournment authorized
of the bodies might
deadlne
No matter
quotations from the classics
the
oo OF the Senate and Official Stenograph
especially Shakespeare
myriad msquoaons
Amer uspaper Incl
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Roosevelt Philanthropy
Absurdities Noted in Government Attempt to Aid
Low.Income Group and Farmers.

their eyes and saying, For Gods sake
don't promote mel"
S2,10o Man Worse or.
Or, consider a person already getting
$2,l00 year. He lives IN . house
very inferior to the ones at Greenbelt.
He sees the superior Greenbelt houses
restricted to persons getting $4,000
year. One wonders what are the re-
Elections OF that s2,loo-a-year man.
Does he begin to question the value of
energy, talent and ambition?
It is not in captiousness that this
question is raised. 1t is to bring out
the philosophy inherent in Mr.. Roose-
velt's actions. 1t certainly seems as If
Re subsidies inertia. He put a pre-
MUM on lack OF ambition. As q phi
losophy Of society, can anything more
extraordinary be imagined? It is
perversion of everything we have ever
been taught.
The Greenbelt houses are not the
only example. There is another. At
one Of the nesettlement farm projects
the administration takes farmers from
backward mountain communities.
These farmers it settles on we'll
equipped farms costing about $4,000
each. The farmers to whom this pref
erential treatment Is given are re-
garded by the administration as back
ward. Whether they are or not do
not know. The administration does
l,oir boin k1o to
the farms successfully. The admins
tration is going to provide them with
continuing superintendence. The ad-
ministration is subsidizing backward
ness.
But there are millions Of young men
on farms who are not backward They
are farmers sons who would like to
have farms themselves. but have not
the money to buy them. They are
capable OF managing a farm success
fully from the first day they occupy
it. But the administration has not
given them an $4,000 farm, nor any
farm at all.
Philanthropy Admirable.
What is wrong with this picture?
Philanthropy as an individual trait is
admirable. Concern for the backward
is admirable. Benevolence is admir-
able, as an individual trait. That far
We can be sure For Mr. Roosevelt as
AN individual to give So, 900 Of his own
money to put a backward family on
farm would be generous and would be
his own concern. But to give $4,000
Of the Governments money and do it
in wholesale way, as a policy. raises
puzzling questions. AS social or eco
nomic policy it seems cockeyed Just
what Is wrong with it l cannot say
except that it just seems queer. Maybe
We had better leave philanthropy to
the philanthropic individuals and the
philanthropic foundations. Maybe the
Government had better stick to gov
ernment.
One would like to have the judg-
ment OF some authentic philosophers
about it, including the biologists. Does
religion throw any light on it? What
kind of society would we arrive at in
so years under continuing policy Of
subsidizing backwardness?
All l know Just now is that I don't
know the answer It's hot in WASH
ington. I'm going to the farm over
Labor day. After I come back maybe
can figure it out. Meantime per-
haps some Of my readers will enlighten
me.
tcopyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-09-04

The President will a to
names He will Classify groups Economic royals
These speeches will New
and ant-New Deal candidates competing
Mr. Farley will continue spread the benign
He will continue
Both the he
mill keep out Of local
the rnty making plain
against the administration they
obiectues"
The will BE-
GuHeys and the Greens will be wild
Before the 1910 election
General Farley will be of
CHAIRMAN Farley Will
talent to the PierceArrow
lrends OF the official family his
1t is William HoWes his First
The unheralded turns
chandsing rights Geenbelt
over 10 consumer cooperative
Local merchants have already complained
be a blast from the United OF
latter already
aid
congress to Kill these nonploht competitors
Inc New Deal started with
consumer ooperatVes-bu later faded
Provisions
ne" Deal esslaton but they on
tenancy and housing bills when they
commission set brauely of to Europe
odck
OF opnon on the part Of members
d1on uos aosed that the material dynamite
80 "hen GreenoeJ signed up, eyebrows
me organization OF the C'reenbet
that it's organized from the
phanhropS starts 1t going Then the
acquire the shares and eventually take
Actually the w..
Filene project exclusive - So ~
While miles behind England n,rh
outstanding consumer co-operaives notably
"hch runs Its own oil refinery and ships oil has
Evening star., 1937-09-04
ESCAPES CHECKED

ATLANTA, September 4 P.-
Convict-conscious Gov. E. D. Rivers
looked today to drastic firing order
to check chain gang escapes that
have run to 100 in month and ap-
preached scandal proportions.
Weary Of escapes and of fighting
extradition battles with State execu-
tives who frown on Georgias penal
system, Gov. Rivers decreed yesterday
that affected camp wardens and
guards would be dismissed automat-
ically when breaks occur.
The Governor made no immediate
claims for his stringent order, but
noted that there had been no escape
attempts in nearly two days. He de-
clined to say whether he felt this due
to chance or to the possible psycho-
logical effect Of guns freshly oiled by
guards. A
Evening star., 1937-09-04
BARRYMORE'S YACHT
BOUGHT FOR $77,5OO
Purchase by New Yorker Injects
New Ozone Into Financial
Breathing SPELL"

New OZOne Into Financial
breathing SPELL"
BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. September 4-
John Barrymore's yacht. Infanta. pur-
chased eight years ago for sl5o,o00.
had new skipper today and thus was
injected shot of ozone into the
actors financial breathing spell"
The Infanta was sold yesterday in
Federal Bankruptcy Court to E P
Lawson, wealthy New Yorker. for
SIT 500.
Barrymore did not have great deal
OF cash from the sale
Walter c. burst, Barrymore's at
tornev, said a $40. 900 mortgage against
the ship will be satisfied. also a Gov
ernment lien of s35.ooo for past due
income taxes
Barrymore filed a petition in bank
ruptcy last March. setting forth his
assets as s261 ,597o5, his liabilities as
sl6l, ,5O382.
He emphasized he was solvent: he
merely wanted a breathing SPELL
from such matters as a milk bill of
s3425, florists bill and a $40 debt to
the New York Geological Society.
Since then things have been look
ing up for Barrymore. He has a new
and fat picture contract and also ap-
pears on the radio.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Hirota's Dress Habits
Reflect Conflict in
Japanese Minds.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

FRIEND Of this writer who
" lived several years In Japan
~ suggests that If, by accident.
a Foreign Minister Koki Hirota
should find himself dressed in spats
and pin-stripe trousers, but with an
Oriental robe instead of a morning
coat, he would find middle way and
solve the dilemma Of Japans half
feudal, halfmodern industrial state.
He hates his morning coat and
striped pants" said my friend. When
ne gets home at night he never loses
a minute in getting into Oriental
clothes. In the dress of an Occidental
diplomat, he works like one, As Uilv
as the best Of them, given to strategy
and trick reasoning At home, in
beautifully embroidered japanese
gown, he reads Confucius, as pupil
OF the aged scholar, Mitsuru Toyama.
/ cite this duality of mind and drex
merely as symbolic of the internal
contending forces of Japan. vestigeal
feudalism and twentieth century in
dustrial imperialism. In a very lit
eral sense, this dead center of old and
new epochs accounts for much in cur
rent japanese statecraft that is be-
Ullderlng to the modern mind"
My friend, with business interests in
Japan, expects to return to that coun-
try in few weeks, and for this rea-
son did not wish his name to be used.
He likes the japanese people and Is a
sympathetic and reliable informant.
'Hirota is not of the Samurai caste"
he said, but he stems from romantic
old Japan and goes only part of the
way with the Mitsuis and Mitsubishis
Of the great industrial dynasties who
think they can shoot their way through
to vast Asiatic empire. In his youth.
he was jealous leader Of the Zen
sect. tonsured Buddhists, whose gospel
was humility, pacifsm and turning the
other check. Suddenly, he switched 70
the Black Sea Society. a fire. eating
outfit Of militarists and ungoes. Sew
eral times in his career he has thus
swung back and forth between mystic
aScetlclsm and rampant nationallsm.
prenticed as a stone cutter, and edu-
Gated by the Geneyosha. ferved
patriotic society. with simplicity for
its motto. In his first effort, he failed
to pass his examinations for entrance
to the Imperial University, but tried
again and was successful He began
as government clerk. was advanced,
entered the Diet and finally the cab
met.
He is an intelligent man. keenly
aware Of the anomalies and anachron-
lsms Of Japan's politics and social
structure. Before becoming foreign
minister, he had quoted the MARQUIS
komura, previous foreign minister:
Foreign policy is as a matter of fact,
nothing more nor less than internal
policy"
Evening star., 1937-09-04
FETE AT ANT|ETAM
LAUNCHED TODAY
Pageant Depicting History
of Hagerstown Area to Be
Opened by Tydings.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAGERSTOWN, Nd, September T.
"A dainty miss stepped out Of the past
last night to become for two weeks
the symbol of romance and Of daring.
She doffed her modern times man.
nerisms to revert to the customs and
the costumes of the past symbolizing
the spirit that took the boys Of Blue
and those of Gray to battle on
Antietam fields
Miss Julia Brandt curtseyed before
throngs gathered in an ampitheater
last night: arose as Miss Antietam'-
the title she will bear for the next two
weeks
William P Lane. former Attorney
General of Maryland, aided by Park
T. w. 10y and Mayor E. Lee Elgin,
presented to her the symbols Of her
post Of honor.
Coronation" Is Prevue.
Her coronation" was prevue Of
a pageant depicting the history Of
Hagerstown through the ages was an
unofficial opening of the national An
tietam commemoration.
Formally the commemoration does
not open until today Then Senator
Millard E. Tydings. chairman of the
United States Antietam Celebration
Commission, officially will declare the
program started
The pageant showing George Wash
ington on visits to this mountain
surrounded section Of Maryland: the
westward push of pioneers; finally the
battles Of the Civil War will be pre-
sented Immediately after Tydings
opens the program.
President to Attend.
Twice again today the pageant will
be shown for the thousands Of persons
who have made reservations In hotels
and private homes for miles around.
A climax to the big anniversary cele-
bration is scheduled for September II.
Then the battle Of Antietam will be
re-enacted on the battlefield still bear
ing scars Of the war.
President Roosevelt has expressed
intention Of being present for the sham
battle. He is expected to bring with
him a large group Of Washington
ofhcials.
On Wednesday Of next week Gov.
Harry w. Nice will be the guest of
honor ut the celebration program.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
BISCUIT COMPANY
IS SUED BY j. s,
$4,000 Sought for Failure
to Submit Trade Data
Asked in Survey.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 4.-The
Government is suing the National
Biscuit Co. for o.O00 for not answer
ing fully a Federal Trade Commission
questionnaire.
The questionnaire resulted from a
1885 act of Congress providing for a
survey of the incomes OF farmers and
users Of flour, sugar, molasses, milk,
butter, cheese, eggs, raisins and pea
nuts in milling, baking and other
processing
The biscuit company was asked how
much wheat and other produce, bread,
cake and biscuits it bought, manu-
factured and sold in 1885; the names
and purchase amounts of chain store
and cooperative customers; and its
income and expenses and tie salaries
and other compensations of its officers.
In February, 1896, Vice President
c. S. Stillwell Of the company wrote
the Trade Commission that I'VE are
very hesitant to make public disclosure
OF informa ton relating to our business
with particular customers and our
total volume of business, because we
believe the dissemination of such in
formation would place us at distinct
competitive disadvantage" and asked
that the company be excused from
answering.
The commission insisted and the
company asked how the information
would be used. requesting that sales
figures not be made public
The commission told the company
in April. 1896, that 1t had to give
the data identified by companies to
Congress, but that 1t would not disclose
lin identified form data presented by
individual companies and by them re-
garded as confidential"
The company continued to refuse on
the ground that it had successfully
opposed similar requests Of the Secu-
rifles and Exchange Commission,
which sued similarly last year and
then discontinued the suits.
The $40, 900 represents fine Of 500
day fixed by Congress for delay in
answering the QUESTIONABLE.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS.

DRIVING WHILE DRUNK.
Jessie B. Garner, 1922 w street
southeast, SIS.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Hester Allen, Maryland, IS.
Thomas E. Morey, Maryland. $40.
william b. Smoot, Albee Building,
$40.
Bert Friedman, Maryland, IS.
David c. Wilson, Gil Kentucky ave-
nue. southeast, $40.
Andrew o. Brown, no address given,
elo.
Walter T. McDorman, 1921 Thir-
teenth street, IS.
Howard F. Talbert. 1885 @ street, IS.
Ross G. Thompson, Maryland, $40.
Charles r. Shelton, 1906 Rhode
Island avenue, IS.
Leroy Chase, 84l Ninth street, IS.
Leonard 8. Fortress, 6l36 Thirty
first street. IS.
Fay D. Zirkin. Maryland, IS.
Robert Sinclair, Maryland, IS.
Eugene A. Conway, 2727 Georgia
r--nue, IS. o.,
Evening star., 1937-09-04
BENNY MUSICAL BACK
AT THE METROPOLITAN
Martha Raye, Ida Lupino and
Sandra Storme Featured
in Revue,
A RTIsTs AND MODELS" the lat.

A RTISTS AND MODELS" the lat
est Jack Benny picture, is back
on a local screen. at the Metropolitan
this time. 1t may resemble a BRO
gram on the old Orpheum Circuit
translated to celluloid, but after all
there were some good programs on the
Orpheum Circuit. and Artists and
Models proves a pleasing conglomer-
alton Of vaudeville acts, with Jack
Benny cracking wise all along the
route and doing so in more amusing
fashion than in his previous vehicles.
Judy Canova gets her big chance"
here and makes the most Of it, which
is good thing to do with big chance.
More will be seen Of Judy because the
people who buy tickets to moompitcher
shows will want to see more of her.
On the feminine side, there are more
items worthy of mention. There is
Martha Raye swinging out to the ac-
compartment of Louis Armstrong;
trumpet Eyes, Louis Armstrong is play
ing the trumpet). there is Ida Lupino,
there is Sandra Storme, who is that
very nice British person of whom 1t
is hoped that more will be seen, too.
In addition there are many beautiful
girls named Josephine who seem to
be swarming around all the time. It
is a very pleasant swarming act that
they do
Ben Blue is good. Connie Boswell is
good, Andre Kostalanetz's Orchestra
is good. the Yacht Club Boys are good
dt might be we'll to add "of course"
after saying that the Yacht Club Boys
are good. The plot is not 80 very
good (oh, yes. there is plot), but
one notices that deficiency only for a
part Of the time. II they put the
show on stage. "vaude" might start
on the way back. ed. note: To
WHEREBY C. Am,
Evening star., 1937-09-04
BURIED ALIVE

L1GONIER. Pa, September 4 tR.-
Six tons Of rock and dirt buried Ed
ward Piper alive while he was digging
his last load Of coal for the day in
the Barnett Coal Co. mine.
Twenty-Five miners dug for l6
hours before recovering the crushed
body Of the 66-year-old digger yes
terday.
He was trapped under more than
six feet Of debris, together with 4
mine car and horse Four others.
who had re-entered the pit when Piper
refused to stop work ut the regular
quitting time, escaped 4
Evening star., 1937-09-04
SPANISH AID UNITS
COLLECT s376,926
But They Sent Only S139,l93 to
Loyallsts-Remainder Went
for Administration.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
yesterday that "a organization COL
lectlng money for use in war-torn
Spain reported that they received
s376.926 in the United States in Nav.
June and July and sent sl39,l93 to
Spain in that period.
The reports, required bv the neu-
trality act, showed aggregate expendi-
lures of sl24,986 for administration
and publicity
The data, as given out by the de-
partment. showed that:
The Medical Bureau TO aid Spanish
democracy, New York, reported the
largest sum collected s96,92l, of which
s58.743 had been sent to Spain.
The North American Committee TO
Aid Spanish Democracy. New York,
reported SOL 597 contributed. sl8.s4l
sent to Spain and s36,866 expended
Tor administration and publicity.
The American Committee for Spanish
Relief. New York, reported $50, 753
contributed, nothing dispatched to
Spain and s25,7o3 expenditures for
administration and publicity.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

doubt il Miss
Thompson finds
a n y consistent,
identihable phi
losophy. I sus-
pect she is as
much puzzled as
Gen. Hugh john
son is.
Gen. Johnson
says that with
Russia safe for
communism, Ger
many and Italy
safe for fascism,
God only knows
where we are
headed ourselves
Evening star., 1937-09-04
d. C.. Need of More Iron Llngs'
Cited by 2 Hospitals Heads
Miss Matte Gibson and DR.. E. 4. BOcOch
Think City Is in Danger of Crisis
Like That IL, Denrer.

Only through exceedingly good for
tune has Washington been spared
having to share one of its two
Iron lungs" AS was the case in
Denver, Colo, recently, resulting in
the death of one of two children.
This sentiment was jointly ex-
pressed today by Miss Matte Gibson
and DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, superin-
tendents OF Children's and Gallinger
Hospitals, respectively. These institu-
tions each possess respirator, the
only ones in the city.
Maybelle Outcalt, IA, died Thursday
in Denver, when, as one of the two
infantile paralysis victims, she was
forced for many hours to share that
citys one lung" with two o-and-a half
year-old Shirley Krause, who now is
doing nicely"
Lung Rushed From Chicago
Faced with the possibility for az
hours Of having to choose which of
the children should be given the
chance for life in case it became
necessary for both girls to need the
respirator at the same time, another
iron" lung had to be rushed to the
Colorado city from Chicago. As it
happened the lung" had so helped
Shirley, she was able to be removed
a ;Ato~yols to ,ory,it N6ovhallo t,,rp
This same situation could as well
happen here" Miss Gibson said en-
phatically Il have been worried over
the situation for some time, long
before the Denver incident brought it
again to mind.
"Often we have adults rushed here,
and though the hospitals primary
purpose Is the treatment of children,
we cannot refuse the grown-ups aid,
nor would we want to, in any case.
Population Size Cited.
Not long ago we had 34-year-old
father occupying our iron lung. Un-
fortunately, he died, leaving three
children and a young wife, an ex-
pectant mother We could not have
done a thing had another patient been
rushed here I. of course. would have
sent them to Gallinger. but there Is
no assurance that hospitals respira-
tor also would not be in use After
all, Washington is city Of more
than soc, 900 persons.
In another insance q young girl
was rushed to Children's Hospital
from another local hospital. She
lived rs a result Of the artificial
breathing"
Miss Gibson explained the respira-
tor at Children's Hospital was donated
by the Rotary Club in 1892. It
cost $3.50
DR.. Bocock likewise stressed the sit
uation that might occur here at
any time.
One Has Proved Sufficient.
Fortunately" he said. "our respi-
rator has proved sumcient to handle
the cases we've had. That is more
from good luck than good manage
ment."
The lung" will breathe for 4 per-
son under any conditions, DR.. Bocock
explained. adding that it gave per-
Evening star., 1937-09-04
INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY
EXPORTS RISE IN JULY
Farm Equipment Shipments Ex-
ceed Those of Any Month
Since February, 1881.

BY the Associated Press.
Industrial machinery exports hit an
eight-year peak in July, while farm
equipment exports exceeded those Of
any month since February, 1881. the
Commerce Department reported yes
terday.
The $23, ,736,206 in industrial ma
chinery sold abroad in July represent
ed the highest monthly average since
1929. Sales were So per cent more
than those for July, 1885, when $15,-
0l2,150 was exported.
Tractors, harvesting machinery and
cultivating implements led farm
equipment exports totaling ss,186, 400
in July, the highest monthly value
since February, 1881.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

~ OROTHY THOMPSON has re-
Gently written some articles
entitled "Mr Roosevelts
~ Philosophy" She referred to
the philosophy reflected by Mr.. Roose-
yelt in one speech, his recent one at
Roanoke Island In Mr.. Roosevelt's
utterances and actions as whole
Evening star., 1937-09-04


1 shall not pretend to find con-
sistent philosophy in Mr.. Roosevelt,
| for I am not able to. But in the
course Of much thinking about it l
find remarkable thread running
through some Incidents now in the
news.
At Greenbelt, Md the administra-
ton has built dwellings that will
house 885 families. The cost is about
$4,000 per dwelling For house cost
ing that the normal rent would be
about 81 900 year. But the admins
tration is not going to charge that.
1t is going to charge from $2l6 to
s492 year, an average yearly charge
Of 1884. The difference between this
and the normal rent is s646. That
amount. s646 year, is what is saved
by any one who rents those Greenbelt
houses
Subsidy Of s646 Yearly.
The Greenbelt houses will he rented
only to persons of low incomes, in
comes below $4,000 year. To these
persons, therefore, the Government Is
going to make a present. give sub
sidy, in the form OF reduction from
normal rent, amounting to $646 a
year.
Now any person of generous human
feeling likes to see persons with low
incomes have comfortable homes. One
would like to see every family in the
United States have homes like those
Greenbelt ones. But We must examine
| the thing as workable scheme of
society.
| Looking at it thus, let US ask a
! question. Suppose a man getting
$4,000 year rents one Of these Gov
eminent dwellings. And suppose that
he. being an energetic person diligent
at his work, gets a raise in salary TO
81, 100 a year. What happens to him
then? Must he move out of the Gov
ernment house? II he must do that,
and il he wishes to find another house
as good as the Government one he will
have to pay about $646 a year more
in rent. He gets a raise in salary of
800 a Eear-but his rent goes up S646.
Obviously it would be better for him
not to accept the raise in salary, bet
ter tor him to hold himself down to
the $4,000 class. Shall we see en-
ployes going to the boss with tears in
Evening star., 1937-09-04

son chance for life, II nature, mean
time. would heal their ills.
The respirator cannot cure a per-
son." he said. but when their breath
ing apparatus is paralyzed. it will
carry on that end of the job until
nature heals the wound. 1t gives
them that one chance for living. which
they otherwise would not have in
cases of paralysis
Gallinger Hospitals lung is a
larger type, though of the same make
AS Childrens. 1t cost approximately
$500.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
AIDE IN DEVELOPMENT
OF SUB "LUNG" IN D, C.,
Lieut.. Comdr. C. B. Momsen to
Take Charge of Experimental
Diving Unit at Navy Yard,

Lieut.. Comdr. Charles B. Momsen,
noted for his contribution in develop
ing the lung" to aid in escape from
submerged submarines, next week
will take charge of the experimental
diving unit at the Washington Navy
Yard.
Comdr. Momsen, who takes over
these duties Friday, has just arrived
in the Capital from the Orient. where
he served aboard the Augusta, flag
ship Of the Asiatic Fleet.
In his new post he will succeed
Lieut. John A. Hollowell, who has
been in command of the diving unit
for two and half years. Lieut..
Hollouell goes to duty aboard the
U, S. S. Wyoming