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Evening star., 1938-01-03

1oO were dI1lDltlOuS ana weren't
getting anywhere, in spite Of all
your New Year resolutions, and
you saw chance to score by
climbing the skeleton of a half-built
skyscraper and walking an eyebeam,
IS stories up, where the boys were
playing basket ball with hot rivets-
II that happened, you might make the
climb, and then again you might not.
Gregory La Cava did. He kept on
climbing, and now the New York film
critics vote him the best director OF
the year, for his handling Of stage
Door,"
He was a story builder for Para
mount at Astoria. In the Richard
Dix film, THE Shock Punch" the
script called for rivet rodeo high in
the air. They picked the New York
Telephone Building, with its steel
frame just then taking shape. None of
the boss directors liked this kind of
ground and lofty directing, so young
La Cava volunteered. 1t was a good
film, and thereafter they handed him
| most OF the long chances in the di.
recting department-notably in dare.
devil automobile race near Lakewood,
N. j., in which the director had to
pace the pack with the cameraman.
Out Of spills and hazards he emerged
with another box-oftice smash. He
was on his way up. Along came a
string of Dix comedies, then Gallant
Lady," Gabriel Over the White
House." ""Bed Of Roses" and many other
films which disclosed Mr.. La Cava's
remarkable range of talent-action,
emotion, romance and political subtle
ties.
But 1t was as an artist rather than
as an athlete that he finally attained
success. He was newspaper car
toonist on the old New York World
and other papers, and was for num-
Der Of years the maker af animated
cartoons before he joined Paramount,
From his home town of Tonawanda,
Pa, he went to the Chicago Art III
stitute in 1911 and 1912 later study
ing at the National Academy of De-
sign and the Robert Henri School of
Portraiture. Animating Mutt and
jeff" cartoons made him resolve to
seek wider range for his artistic
training and talent. He had to climb
skyscraper skeleton before he
| found it.
Copyright 1889
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Validity Of Criticism
Very Process of Thinking Is Bludgeoned by Roosevelt
Administration, Writer SAYS.

Of over-investment at the cost OF the
workers or under investment because
profits disappear.
Says Attempt Has Failed.
Now even the New Statesman and
Nation, whose contributors show some
structure in their thinking, know
that at this moment 1t Is the second
OF these dilemmas which menaces us,
and again, to quote this publication:
president Roosevelt's attempt to kick
American capitalism into prosperity
and hold 1t up by deliberately 1nflat-
ing the purchasing power Of the con-
sumner has failed"
I find 1t intolerable that in this sit
uation high officials Of the United
States Government should make such
banal statements as that the villains
are go American families" I wish it
were so. Then it would be simple
We could guillotine them. Or that
capital has gone on a sit-doWn
strike" Just what does that mean?
The presumption that we are asked
w dSSCpt ID tlldU CllClC 40 d cCIlCI
conspiracy OF few big business men
to bring down the Roosevelt admins
tration by strangling the American
economy.
Also we are told that the object
Of this conspiracy is to force Con-
gress to repeal all that has been
gained in the last five years. Now
just what has been gained? A lot of
red ink has been transferred from
business to the Governments books
at the cost Of the American tax
payer. There have been definite gains
in social consciousness on the part
Of the American public. including
most Of business, and for them we
have the spirit Of the first New
Deal to thank.
There has been much technical
criticism OF many Of the acts which
have been passed, but the point Is
that it has been technical But the
administration has constantly tried
to twist that criticism, even when it
has come from the leading and most
disinterested experts Of the country,
into heartless attacks on the poor
and helpless.
The ideal which Mr.. Ickes en-
visioned in the last sentence Of his
speech-"A new America must be a
land of free business, not of ruth
less big buSiness-a land of free
men, not OF economic slaves" is the
ideal of 80 per cent of the Ameri-
can people. But there are manifold
| differences Of opinion as to how this
ideal is to be achieved, and the
democratic process implies that those
differences Of opinion will be given
hearing.
But the very process Of thinking
is bludgeoned by this administration.
Name Them, Mr.. Ickes.
Mr.. Ickes talks about certain kept
newspapers and kept commentators"
who have been criticizing the admin
istration, and he advises big business
to call of its newspapers and COM
mentators." Apart from the fact that
even big business enjoys certain con-
stitutional rights, name names Mr..
Ickes
Because If you do not name them
you smear with that allegation every
commentator who disagrees with the
program of this administration in
whole or in part. And that is cow
ards trick, and not worthy Of you,
Mr. Ickes!
It is up to this New Years Con-
gress to begin examining the valid
| ity of the criticism that is coming from
Evening star., 1938-01-03

is producing its nemesis. Up to a
point American recovery could and
did proceed merrily on the basis Of
cheap and ample supply Of banking
credit supporting a consumer demand
which was expanded by vast relief ex-
penditure and, subsequently, rapid
wage increases"
This is the comment Of labor organ
on the theory of so-called Washington
economists that our whole trouble is
still an absence of consumer demand
and that everything can be solved by
increasing labor purchasing power
1.-The penalty" continues the New
Statesman, was the absence of any
proportionate revival of investment in
the capital goods notwithstanding,
railways and the power utilities. Partly
because rising wages and costs bade
fair to destroy profit margins, partly
through mistrust of Governments pro-
clivities, American capital has hung
| back, as French capital has done, from
investment, in fixed plants and con-
Struction. Without such investment
consumer demand reached this sum-
| mer, as it was bound to, temporary
| saturation point Stocks OF COM
modltles now show heavy
| inventory losses at current prices. If
negative investment develops on a
large scale, the reactions on the prices
Of raw materials, and hence on the
prosperity of primary producers, may
easily convert what is so far a mod
crate setback to American activity
into another world economic crisis. "
Incompat tible Policies.
Here. then, is a Socialist publica-
ton agreeing with an analysis sub
mitted as early as last March by a
liberal economist who has always
| championed the social objectives of
this administration, that deflationary
| and under-investnlentp policies were, as
| early as then, Threatening a crisis in
the monetary Institutional setting of
capital goods activity and recovery"
The Socialist organ which I am
quoting points out that negative in
vestment, which is not the result of
conspiracy but flows automatically
from certain conditions, Is adverse
upon the primary producers.
The problems We have to try to work
out are terrifically complicated. They
have to do with certain factors that
are beyond our control as q domestic
economy and with perennial para
doxes inside any system of private
enterprise: The recurrent dilemma
Evening star., 1938-01-03

some form of price control Is COM
ing. 1t is coming presumably because
business has failed to find q way to
hold prices down and labor has failed
to take into account the problem
of fair return for capital and neither
one has considered the resistance OF
the party of the third part-the con-
sumner.
(CopyriKht, 1881
Evening star., 1938-01-03

liberals and conservatives alike, and
that Is coming on some questions with
a quite astonishing amount of una
nimity. wish for us all. for the new
year. a Congress that is no longer will
ing to be q Nan Reichstag.
copyright, 1888, New York Tribune, Inc)
Evening star., 1938-01-03

opinion of the administration, sue
ceeding and that as a sequel to
N. r. A. some form of governmental
control was necessary.
The problem will be approached
first through the antitrust law re-
vision and, Of course, it will be up
to Congress to decide what the exact
method shall be.
All that can be said now is that
Evening star., 1938-01-03

overwhelmed by the material their
When crushing
Madrid will
mark signal victory
In the the conflict
conqueng ambitions Now they proceeding according plan tho
conquest Of the other important Of China.
Shantung already their Canton uH
month"; Kong
The Of this amazing
victory the obtained China
Western independent Asac
will the domination of
whites.
already which
hundred will
leaving behind their
Southeastern wtH together NTH Ger
Italy reacionay block Europe today effectively
divided into two
comprises Britain, Belgium, Nordto
Holland Csechooudkd
tries the liberal form of government still preuais.
The other extends from the Rhine the Russian border and the
the other side
combination Of ulamodern ommunisc
with other They impose
ideas OF
ntoerant toward each other.
contaminated
diplomats
Of
ideals with changes
weakness displayed the
Evening star., 1938-01-03

democratic world.
On October 8
the New States
man and Nation,
W h i C h, as an
English Socialist
paper, shows q
grasp o. the prob
lens of capitalism
which we sin
cerely wish were
quite as clear to
Washington, said:
In the case of
the United States,
1t is becoming
evi d ent that
1lnCer-inveSt,nent,
Evening star., 1938-01-03

He As married to attractive wife and has children At
home jamestown he lives the farm
father
He exceedingly successful
terror of the corporations He has penetrating
equipment information
He enjoys the pleasures the world
His political
strongly held Altogether he will make candidate well
good if he makes a candidate a
North
Evening star., 1938-01-03


other of destruction National
1888 following
spend much
that
Of employment millions
that will
Evening star., 1938-01-03

with the sound
ness of the ad-
m j n i S t r atoms
policies, it is i'm
portant to set
them forth accu-
rately for what
they are and
what they intend
for the future.
To understand
the administra-
tons decision
and it has been
an evolutionary
rather than a
sudden develop
Evening star., 1938-01-03
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

1T IS the awful frivolity OF speeches
like those of Mr.. Jackson and Mr..
Ickes that is really distressing. I
= use the word frivolity/ advisedly.
The world we live in Is excessively
dangerous, and this moment in this
country is excessively dangerous. not
only for us, but for the whole civilized
Evening star., 1938-01-03

THE opinions OF the ters this page oun
necessarly The Stars Such optntons presented IN
The Stars etort to all sides questions
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

1NV 1HK' O"tNoO3K ID PC0tJ 1C2V
wing and has raced his own
horses. Trust busting is an un-
usual form of self Indulgence in
bank directors. Yet Mr.. Jackson
not only is a director of the Bank
of jamestown, but was the man to
whom the jamestown business
community turned for help when
the Bank Of jamestown had to be
built from three depression-weak-
ened prefincessorS
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Price Control
BIG Theme
Of 1888
Anti I rust Law Revision
Will Be First
Approach.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

"HE answer Of the Roosevelt
administration to the problem
of 100000 unemployed and
the decline in business is more
experimentation. This is said not in
an unfriendly or critical but in an
explanatory sense.
For whether one agrees or disagrees
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Navy Warning Motorists.

The British Navy is placing signs.
showing road casualty figures and
urging special care, on highways in
parts Of England
Evening star., 1938-01-03

the leaders of New York'S Ameri-
can Labor party and the close
presidential advisers of the strictest
New Deal sect.
In these conversations tie two
most powerful men in the Labor
party, Sidney Hillman of the Cloth
ing Workers and David Dubinsky
of the Ladies' Garment Workers,
have signified their willingness to
make Mr.. Jackson the party's can
didate for Governor of New York
Evening star., 1938-01-03
The Capital Parade
Jackson Believed Favored to Succeed Roosevelt.
Governorship Held First Hurdle.
PHI AISOP and RORERT KINTNER

JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER
HOUGHWOUT JACKSON Assistant
- the sold
y a great antimonopoy
Of ALL
subject strictly highly
Evening star., 1938-01-03

tent to help the proponents Of die
tatorships in their task.
\ X
And while the slogan Of the
great democracies is still peace"
the coming year will witness a still
greater expenditure on armaments.
1t is safe to say that every
country In the world will become
in the course OF this and the next
yaar b,,oo orsopolc poop1o u,il1 bo
Evening star., 1938-01-03

dictatorship idea will continue
with . greater impetus than in tho
past.
In Spain, the Nationalists,
who now have control Of the sea,
continue 10 receive fresh war ma
terial and men. This enables them
to push the Loyalists and an early
victory OF Gen. Franco is ex-
pected.
At Teruel 1t was shown that,
DESPITE their heroism. the IOyalist
Evening star., 1938-01-03
This Changing World
Celebrations of Joy for New Year Contrast With
Prospects of More Trouble for World.
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

CONSTANTINE BROWN.
1898 usheed into the world with the usual cebra
tons Of Joy. But these did the
everybody that this might
a history
affairs would Quite
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Gregory La Cava Went
to Success on
Girders.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON,

F YOU were ambitious and weren't
getting anywhere, in spite Of all
YOUR New Year resolutions and
The Washington times., 1938-02-11

10 O:O0-TWENTY YEARS AGO-A N d
TODAY-Five contrasts between
1918 and the present day will be
offered. High spots include q
dramatizatiOn Of a strike by stage
hands at the Metropolitan Opera
and Herbert HOOVer's work as .
The Washington times., 1938-02-11
D. C, MAGISTRATE
BILL IN HOUSE

Amagistrate court bill, which
would do for the Police Court
what the poor mans court" is
designed to do for the Municipal
Court, was before the House Dis
trict Committee today. It carries
an appropriation of $4,000.
According to Mr.. Palmisano,
the bill would speed up handling
of cases of minor infractions of
the law, saving time both for the
policemen and the accused.
The measure would establish
four magisterial districts, provid-
ing that court would be held in
one police precinct station in each
district every day from 8 to 10
a. m. and from to S p. m.
Four magistrates would be ap-
pointed by the President, at a sal
ary of $4,000 a year each, and
three alternate magistrates would
be paid IS every day.
The magistrates courts would
hear cases of traffic violations, in
toxication, diSorderly conduct and
violations of police and health reg
ulations. There would be no jury
trials.
The Washington times., 1938-02-11
MARION BATTLE.
CHOSEN TO TAKE|
RHODES PLACE
By GEORGE NJ. GREEN

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 11.-De-
spite the fact that Gov. James H.
Price is not expected to make an
nouncement Of additional major
appointments until next week, it
was learned here today that
Marion S. Battle, of Radford,
Va, was the chief executives
choice to succeed John @. Rhodes
as director of the Virginia Motor
Vehicle Commission.
Another appointment, con-
sidGred certain in political circles
around capitol square today, was
that Of G. Walter Mapp, former
candidate for governor, to succeed
Richard Armstrong as commits
Sioner Of fisheries.
CALENDAR IN ASSEMBLY
Several other major appoint
mentS, in which present depart
mental heads would be ouSted,
are expected to be announced next
week.
The Senate and House devoted
most Of their time today to
routine calendar work.
The big argument in the House
yesterday was over the women'S
eight-hour work day. AS finally
adopted this bill will maintain the
48-hour limit per week for women
in Virginia, but would permit cer-
tain classes of employees to work
nine and ten hours a day. Those
exempt include stenographerS,
secretaries and office managers;
women employed in seasonal in
dustrieS such as the canning OF
fruits and vegetables and others
whose daily routine is not def
nitely timed.
Women employees in the tobacco
and peanut industry would also be
permitted to work more than a
nine-hour day during the peak
season but such exemptions would
be limited to a 90-day period in
any one year.
REAPPORTIONMENT ASKED
A bill introduced in the house
here yesterday to reapportion the
membership of the house was to-
day said to have little chance Of
coming out of the committee. The
bill. introduced by Delegate Frank
lin Daniel, of Lynchburg, would
not affect the senate.
The Washington times., 1938-02-11

MOSCOW, Z p. M.-News and
and Program for English Listeners.
RAN, 81 m, 9.6 meg.
ROME, 7:3O p. M.-GueSt Night;
Amy Bernardy: "Rome's Midnight
Voice." 2RO, 3l.1. M, 9:63 meg;
IRF, 30.5 M, 9.63 meg.
BOSTON, 7:4y p. M.-Pathways
to Peace. W1XAL, 49.6 M, 6.04
meg.
BOSTON, 9 P. M. Broadcast
The Washington times., 1938-02-11
OPERETTA

0 D:OO-MIKADO, ACT $50 great has
been the response to the Gilbert
and Sullivan operas, as per-
formed by the WLW Opera gr0up,
that the "MikadO'' will De re-
peated. The second part will be
heard next week at the same
time ................... VOL
The Washington times., 1938-02-11

Continued from Local Page)
for a year and likewise calling a
halt in the construction program.
The budget estimates called for
a new elementary school to re-
place the Jones School, but this
project was sidetracked in the
House and appeared likely today
to encounter similar objection in
the Senate.
Superintendent Ballou and al.
most a score Of school officials,
including members of the Board
of Education, were closeted with
the Senators in charge of the bill.
If their plea for additional ap-
preparations weakened the COM
mittee in its determination to hold
down all 1889 expenditures in the
District, it was not apparent as
they emerged.
POLICE STAND TO LOSE
There appeared to be a further
possibility that the Police Depart
ment will lose out on its proposed
$500, 900 headquarters building, in
tended as the first unit in a mu-
nicipal center building to cost ST.
100000. Except for this item, the
committee seemingly was prepared
to approve the police appropria-
tionS as they stand. The new
building came under the critical
scrutiny of Senator Elmer Thomas,
chairman of the subcommittee,
who has announced his personal
opposition to all new building prof.
ectS, including proposed traffic
underpasSes and bridges.
A conflict Of legal opinion was
apparent in divergent views as to
The Washington times., 1938-02-11
Federal food administrator dur
ing the World War. ......W VOL
DRAMA

Federal food administrator dur
Ing the World War. ........ VOL
DRAMA
S:OO-GRAND CENTRAL STATION
Helen Claire, young dramatiS
actress, plays the role Of news.
paper candid camerawOman in .
play built around New York
financier ...............W .WMAL
s:SO-DEATH VALLEY DAYsThe
gripping story Of . wife's devO-
tiOn to a lazy husband will be
told by the Old Ranger .WMAL
9:3O-TRUE sTOR Y-"My Business
Women" a true story by Ted
Peckham, who heads a male es-
cOrt bureau. will be dramatiEed
by A. L. Alexander. ,WRC
1O:OO-FTRsT NIGHTER-Barbara Lud.
Runaway X mH% his LADY, S'cS = COMEDY s'GTs TO.
nance by Calvin GFinnen In
which an opera star falls in love
with q cowboy y.............W .WRC
DISCUSSIONS
145-BOAKE CARTER-News. com.
mentatOr. (His column appears
daily In the Washington Tlmcsl.
WJSV
9:15-HOWARD MARSHALI-British
journalist will discuss the pres
ent Irish situation. ...... WMAL
1O:OO-FOUNDERs' DAY PROGRAM
Clarence Dykstra, president Of
the University Of wisconsin, and
William Green, president Of the
AFL, speakers, Green will speak
on THE Science Of Labor Rela-
tiOns, while Dykstra discusses the
Significance Of Wisconsin's Found
ers' Day y..........,.......W .WMAL
~ UvrTp rhoJ--,. NJ
the board Of the National steel
Corporation of Pittsburgh. "Na.
tiOnal Income. "............W .WJSV
ORCHESTRA DANCE TUNES
1 :OO-GLEN GRAY. .WJSV
II :3O-SAMMY WATKINS. ....... VOL
I 12:OO-GUY LOMBARDO. .... VOL
12:3O-TED FTORITO .......... .WJSV
1:OO-LAWRENCE WELK. .....W VOL
1:3O-BOB CAUSER. R............W VOL
The Washington times., 1938-02-11

S:OO-LUCILLE MANNERs-The noted
sopranos solos include the de-
llghtfuI aria, "COnnais tu Ie
pays?" from Thomas opera,
'rMignon." DIR. Frank Blacks
orchestra offers Gliere's Dance Of
the Russian Sailors from THE
Red Poppy" among other num-
bers .........',.....,.. W hC
s:3O-ROTH STRING QUARTET-Pre-
sents greater part of j. s. Bach's
monumental, "The Art of the
FuEue," in two brOadcasts to be
given under the auspices Of the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge FOun.
datiOn. The second broadcast
will be heard tomorrow at 4
p. m...............W .WRC, WMAL
The Washington times., 1938-02-11

flor Latin America (in SpanlSh)
l." the auspices of the Par
American Union. W1XAL, 25.4 m,
11.79 meg.
CARACAS, 9:15 p. Unpopular
Music. YV5RC, SIT m, So meg.
LONDON, 9:2O P. M. - w. H.
Berry as Mr.. Micawber." GSD,
25.5 M, ITS meg: Csc, 31.3 m,
9.58 meg; GSB, 31.5 m, 9.51 meg;
.GSL, 49.1 m, GIL meg.
The Washington times., 1938-02-11
Budget Hearings
Drawing to Close

whether Congress may divert the
existing or prospective surplus In
the highway fund to general pur-
poses by language contained in
the appropriation bill. Senator
Thomas gave it as his own curb
stone opinion that it could be
done by a. simple legislative rider,
to be written into the House bill.
District authorities and the auto
mobile clubs, diSputing this, stood
on the language of the revenue
act creating the highway fund
and specifying the uses to be made
of the money collected from Dis
trict motorists.
POINT OF ORDER
It was admitted that any Sen
ate amendment which could be
construed to constitute new legis-
lation would be subject to point
OF order in the House or Senate,
or both, if Incorporated in the
appropriation measure. This sug-
geStion was met by Senator
Thomas with the rejoinder that
if necessary Congress could &C.
complish the diversion by the
natural legislative method of
amending the present law.
His purpose, he indicated, is to
hold the 1889 appropriations
down to a level which will make
it unnecessary to levy additional
taxes next year.
Citizens associations are ex-
pected to have their innings be-
fore the committee Monday and
Tuesday, after which Senator
Thomas indicated speedy de-
ciSionS will be reached on all
rtroVo"Sial items.
The Washington times., 1938-02-11
Today's Foreign Short Wave Radio Schedule

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Club. W8XK, 48.8 M, 6.14 meg.
LONDON, 1885 p. M. - The
BIC En.r ire Orchestra. Csc, 31.3
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PARIS, HAS p. M. - Musical
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