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The Washington times., 1938-08-03

The big doctors and the
Medical Association who have
been against this movement
have known for a long time
that something was bound to
happen If they did not take &C.
ton themselves. It has simply
reached q point. as I have said
over and over, when the poor
people cannot get any decent
attention in this city If they
are sick. I am not speaking
Just of what I have read in the
newspapers. I am speaking
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Doctors Turned Down

TNHE inside on this astounding
- new national New Deal move
as the physicians see 1t is simply
this:
Mr.. Roosevelt likes the group
health associations, thinks they
are q good thing. He said as
much at o recent press confer
ence. The Justice Department
has, therefore, decided to help
the Group Health people fight the
American Medical Association
and subsidiaries by a novel con-
Struction Of the antitrust law
which permits punitive court &C
ton, thus to frighten the medics
into concessions.
The. inner slant Of the JUS
tice Department is q longer and
more circuitouS story, to wit:
The Group Health Association
Is a coop now composed Of
1858 Government employees who
pay $3.50 a month for a family
membership and 1920 for an in
dividual membership. For this
they get surgical operations, pro-
feSSional advice, home calls,
disqualification in semi.private
or private rooms, limited to the
first 81 days Of illness.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
HURRY OR LOSE.
OUT ON PWA AID,'.
.|CKES' WARNING
Fund Going Fast, and
1st Come, 1st Served

G.N.s) The Public Works Ad-
ministration today formally warn,
ed municipalities and States seek
ing Federal funds for public works
to file their applications quickly,
or stand the chance of being left
out in the cold.
The warning was issued over the
name of PWA Administrator Har-
old L. Ickes by his Ieutenants.
1ckes Is now on q combined vaca-
tion'inSpection trip to Alaska.
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
Many projects will not come un-
der the fire unless there is imme-
diate action, IckeS said, pointing
out that first come will be first
served.
1ckes pointed out that nearly So
per cent of the PWA'S recovery
fund of $1,365, 900 900 fund has al
ready been allocated, with but So
days remaining in which applica-
tlonS may be filed. Thus hun
dredS Of localities will fail to OBJ
tain Federal funds for their pro-
posed projects.
With 4,227 new applications for
PWA loans and grants on file,
and $50 more coming in every day
from the seven regional offices,
the PWA recovery chest will be
empty long before a majority of
these can be passed upon.
PREDICTIONS WRONG
These facts directly contravene
predictions made by leaders of the
defunct Seventy.fifth Congress
during hearings on the Presidents
50. .755 100000 recovery bill which
retinanced PWA. They maintained
that debt-burdened municipalities
would show little interest in Fed
eral aid for public works due to
the requirement that project-spon-
Sors pay IS per cent of construc-
ton costs.
Even PWA Administrator 1ckes,
who talked congressional leaders
into increasing the appropriation
from $1,000, ,000,0 900 to 81, 1896 900.
600, said only a month ago that
he hoped" for more project appli.
cations than PWA had funds to
finance. but added that he was not
optimistic.
REFLECTIONS CERTAIN
Comparison Of the PWA pro-
gram approved to date and appli-
cations now pending show plainly
the impossibility of extending aid
to all the cities which seek it.
A total Of 4,185 projects, with
construction values of slightly over
81 ,O8l 900 900, have been approved.
Applications now before the bu-
reau total 1927, with construc-
ton values of $1,315,348,O16.
PWA is approving an average
Of 100 projects per day while its
regional offices take in approx
mately $50 daily for examination.
PWA has already loaned and
granted funds of approximately
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

Dorm in Ohio his opponents called him "Yan.
kee Carpetbasger." He retorted that his
mothers favorite brother, shot on q Southern
battlefield wrote to her and said If she ever had
q son call him Lee, after Gen. Robert E. Lee in
tribute to Southern hospitality.
When someone dug up a story that he was
Wilbert in Kingman, Kan. and had failed in
business as bookkeeper, he retorted: MY
Sainted mother" named him Wilbert after the
corner grocer who gave her a basket Of food at a
time when she was washing clothes for 50 cents
O basket.
The band played Marvellous Mother" and 2o,-
200 Texans observed one minute Of silence.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

$3.50 900, 900 for projects approved,
while those being examined would
require loans and grants of $751;
094 1898.
If receiving Of applications was
terminated today, and all ap-
plications on hand approved, ex-
penditure of PWA funds would
therefore total more than $780,
600, ,000-and Ickes' agency has
only about 81 300, 900, 900 to spend.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

Unscrupulous infrin g ers on
trademarks have too often
Seaped unjust rewards at the
expense of originators. The i'm
mediate copying and reproduc-
ton, usually in inferior quality.
Of original dress and other de-
signs has been a flagrant evil.
e The British apparently have
strict ideas on such matters.
A Canadian court has granted
the Coca-Cola Company q
sweeping verdict against an
other concern which includes
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

they are Q
m on poly.
They h q v E
not had much
to say about
It in the press.
but they have
. good law
yer or two
q nd h q v =
been private
ly info r m e d
that II they
are Q mo.
nopoly so is
the American
Bar ASSocia-
Eion, tn Q
s tAndin 4
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

mentS as q platform and q hill.
billy band for his chief instru-
ment, Is the slickest psychologi-
cal study since Roosevelt cap
tured the White House and
Huey Long tried to make
"every man a king"
Unknown four months ago.
today the next governor of the
Lone Star State. He was at
tackled more than all the other
candidates put together, yet he
won. His expenses were paid
from collections at rallies. He's
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

THE point which interests both
politicians and lawyers is
the method which the Govern
ment chose to aid Group Health.
Instead of lending it money, or
appointing a National Medical
Relations Board or taking any
of the customary steps to pro-
mote group interests, the Gov
ernment is using the law en-
forcement agency in q punitive
way to promote q coop against
established business.
This is in accordance with the
developing Justice Department
theory, first pronounced by AS
Sistant Attorney General Robert
jackson before q Senate COM
mittee and practiced in the auto
case, oil cases and others, name
ly-that the law enforcement
agency Of Government is using
the law as q blackjack to beat
whomSoever it conceiveS to be q
social or economic adversary
into submission. It would SIM
ply mean the Justice Depart
ment is misnamed and has be-
come instead a prosecution de-
partment to enforce, not alone
the law, but social and economic
theories.
&&A
THIS INTERPRE TATION,
l. some very eminent lawyers
say, might give Mr.. Roosevelt
Jurisdiction over the American
Bar Association, the newsmen
here and others, If his prosecu-
ton department thought he
would like to get II,
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

not native Texan. He plugged his brand of
flour on radio program. His listeners gave
him "the call" He lit out through Texas with
bus and a hillbilly band
He stood upon four planks: The Ten Com
mandments and the Golden Rule: clean out the
professional politicians: $soa-month pension for
everyone beyond IS years; "a businessmans Rov
ernment." His advertising slogan was the com,
mon peoples candidate"
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

AV A4AA SOAIIOl I've nave never uGAIQ Oh OQCs
Big Doctors Kind
EVERYONE knows the big doctors do untold
good and take many many poor patients for
nothing but they work hard, endless hours and
with their wealthy clientele, they cannot be ex.
pected to give up all their time to the poor souls
who are penniless.
think the hospitals have been greatly to blame
for the dread most poor people have in going into
them. Take my own experience. I would no
more think Of sending q servant down to a hos
pital alone than flying to the moon, knowing
only too well the treatment she would be apt to
get. One night took Q very sick maid in and
told her she must go up to the desk, sign her own
admission papers and do the whole thing herself
while stayed in the background and simply
watched. Well. believe me, when I heard the
way that flip nurse talked to that poor soul, I
didn't stand in the background long. And what
. change came over the hospital office when
they heard wanted private room and q nurse.
These are the things that make person so angry.
HOspitals Waking Up
REALLY believe now that the hospitals are
beginning to wake up to the fact that instead
of throwing q shroud Of mystery around them
they will have to throw their doors wide open,
let the public realize thoroughly what they are
trying to do, and take the outside world into their
confidence.
The hospitals have been very slow in trying to
build up this goodwill and they have been still
slower in using that familiar business slogan.
THE customer is always right" OF course, this
is partly due to the fact that date. the patient
has never been regarded as q customer, but as an
individual suffering from some maladjustment re-
qliring prescribed treatment administered under
professional routine sacred and inviolable.
BY all means let ANY group or body Of men
that can provide proper care and medical atten-
tion for the poor be given encouragement and let
the hospitalS-and this includes lot Of the flip
nurses-try and be more human. more honey.
and, above ALL let them try to give better food to
the poor sick people under their roofs.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03


through my own personal experiences and from
letters have before me.
For long time have been for the group
disqualification in New York. There you pay Q
fixed sum and If q working man or his family
are taken ILL., they can 60 straight to one Of the
best hospitals and have the best care.
A Crying Shame!
IT is true that when you join the National Hos
pital Service Society here in the District it
entities you to 60 into hospital, but there are
no doctors or nurses fees connected with this
It is q crying and outrageous shame that the
only places In this District with free wards are
GaInger and Freedmen's hospitals. Emergency
cases are taken gratis at Casualty, Emergency
and Children's hospitals.
Bellevue Hospital, in New York, Is run by the
city 1t Is absolutely free, has a wonderful board
Of directors and have never been in cleaner,
more upto-date and splendid hospital. Johns
Hopkins in Baltimore Is the same way. The poor
est person who goes there can have every check-up
imaginable made on him and it will only cost him
Q couple Of dollars
No. simply do not understand why the doctors
In the District are fighting this so. They say it
means the regimentation Of doctors. Well, take
the Mayo Clinic. If that isn't thoroughly reg
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

Committee Of Wa hington
Newspaper Correspondents and
every other professional group
maintaining arbitrary standards
for their profession.
Consequently there does not
seem to be much of a prospect
that the medical association will
accept the Government invita-.
tion to come around and fix
things up by promising to let
the Group Health Association
have hospital and surgical stand
ing.
The doctors first Judgment
was that 1t would be better to
let q court decide whether the
Justice Department knows what
. monopoly is.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
"UnethicaL Conduct"

QUT they cannot get the
~ boards Of hospitals here to
approve their surgeons. Every
time one Of the members needs
an operation, the association
must employ a surgeon in good
Medical Association Cor at least
in good hoSpitaD standing.
One of their doctors was for
merly a member of the District
Of Columbia Medical Society.
He resigned on joining Group
Health, withdrew his reSigna-
ton, requested recognition, was
denied 1t and thereafter was
expelled for "unethical con-
duct" which may or may not
have consisted Of joining Group
Health.
A Group Health surgeon,
member of the Texas Medical
Association (alSo a subsidiary Of
the A. M. AZ, was turned down
by the board Of one of the fore
most Washington hospitals when
he tried to get in.
The Justice Department suS-
poets and will try to prove that
the D. c. M. S., acting under
guidance of the A. M. A., is go.
ing "around whispering to hos
pital boards that the Group
Health doctors should not be
allowed in,
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

-diSSolves It away and leaves your
plate sweet and clean as new.
Your breath will be fresher, your
mouth feel cleaner-and your plate
last longer and look better. Polident
Is approved by dental authorities,
Good HOUSEKEEPING and tens Of
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
WASTE PURIFIED:
BALTIMORE SEWAGE
PLANT INSPIRES D. c..

District engineers are studying
the Baltimore sewage-disposal
plant on Back River, six miles
from the heart of Baltimore, with
a view to Incorporating its salient
features in the unit proposed for
publication Of the Anacostia
River.
The sewage is processed through
plain Sedimentation and the waste
AnupnnnS
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
My Say

JUSTICE BAILEY certainly handed down fair
and square ruling the other day when he said
the Group Health Association had perfect right
to function in the District Of Columbia If it
wyaVkAd 70
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

treated in a 30-acre outdoor
sprinkling filtration plant. The
S9, 100000 gallons of treated water
which is sent into Back River are
so pure that no ill effects would
result if drunk.
Shell fish, which require clean
water, thrive in Back River be-
low the disposal plant.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
News Behind.
The News
BY PAUL MALLON
(world Copyright 1898 by King Fea-
lures Syndicate. Inc. All Rights
Reserved. Reproduction in Full
of in Part Strictly Prohibited.)

THE DOCTORS were not
u much excited over the JUS
tice Departments decision that
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Partners in Servi &c

Service to an Amoco Dealer means a
lot more than checking tires and cleaning
windshields. Yes, indeed! Service to
US includes the products as we'll as the men!
Amoco and Orange American Gas give you
service that saves you money .. the kind
that keeps your car running its best month
in and month out!
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
But" il"

W. LEE oDAN1E1' Fort Worth cTexo flour
" merchant who grabbed the governorship of
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Be Forbes Says

A MERICA'S business laws long have been too
"A lax in certain respects. Pirates of inventions
and patents have too often got away with It,"
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

breath so bad that friends
shudder. It can breed de-
cay-bacteria that infect
your other teeth, actually
hurt your health and spoil
your pleasure.
Ordinary brushing can't
get this scum on plate or
bridge-can't protect you
against "denture breath"
But just try Polidenti Poll
dent not only cleans-it actui
purtfes plates and bridges wi
out brushing. It gets every
Of scum, tarniSh, stain and o,
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
why FALSE Teeth WEARERS
Have BAD BREATH
Millions Suffer Without Knowing!

You can't notice any odor from your
plate or bridge-but Others canl
Dentists call this odor "denture
breath" and it's serious. It comes
from q mucin-scum that collects on
plates and bridges. This scum is al
most invisible but it can make your
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
By EValyr7 Walsh Mclean

mented concern just for few doctors who own
1t and control It. have never heard Of one.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

ADVERTISEMENT
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04
May 8. 1888

was not cheap publicity stunt. The
floor had been soiled; it looked bad;
there one around to tidy up, and
so the Treasurer Of CnC. undertook to do
that job himself. -.
We salute the democratic and practi-
cal spirit Of Herbert E. Evans; we con-
graduate the CDC for having secured his
services; and congratulate ourselves,
for our assoc on with CDC.
We feel that long as the eoopera-
tive movement in our country retains
its Leaders men Of Mr.. Evens' type men
who combine theoretic knowledge with a.,
fine practicality; q jealous ideolism,
with ability to get things done - so
long such men lead it. the cooperative
movement will not fail. ., . SIM.
:...."4 TIPPING --- ENCORE -: g.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04
Page nine

raising crocodile wall over the terri
bic oppression they supposedly suffer. at
the hands Of the government, what with
their, good money being flung to the four
winds, this answer Of Mrs. Roosevelt -....
rings. clear and true. These gent emen
found it worthy Of only the highest
praise when the Reconstructio on Finance
Corporation gave them help and money, -. .
but now that government resources are :" ,
being used to cid the, humble and under
privileged, these gentry must needs CRY
out in holy, horror. Reckless. spending,
boondogg1ing, our good taxes used to d:
support the shiftless"; that is the -
refrain Of their song. -:
The fact that undertakings like =. g..
Greenbelt and others in construction.
provide decent housing for those who
could not otherwise afford it means noth-
ing to them. The fact that such prof ects
provide work for, thousands more is also
without Significance to these financial
interests. The money is not going into
their pockets. That is enough to make
it reckless spending. IS. SIN. 49,.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04
"RECKLESS SPENDING"

One night last week Hrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt was asked, How can teach
our chi ldren thrift when the administra-
tt on is spending so reck1ess1y?"
Mrs. Roosevelt replied, ut depends
Of course, what you call reckless
spending. Spending is never reckless
when it is for something that will bring
valid returns".: .. 1850:
more timely and fitting answer
could hardly have been made to this
suesti on. Today, when the financial
bigwigs and the newspapers they own are
Keys For hose connections at manager's
offices NO CHARGE. .-.~".
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04

N. p H..


90 >.,~ The Cooperator Observed with some .
pride and wonder the fact that within a
fortni ght after it's editorial on
"Greenbelt. Speed Limit, advocating .
lower speed limit in town, and q higher -.
speed on Crescent Road between the High
School and Hillside Road, that the IS
mile markers on outlying Crescent Road
were replaced by IS mile markers.
NJ. However, knowing that government
action is seldom so expeditions, we
cannot believe that we had anything to
do with the change. .-.
We advocated, outlying Crescent
Road, As mile speed limit (standord on
the open road in Maryland). We have,
however, no objection to the IS mile
limit provided thot it can be and will w..
be enforced. Our quarrel, as stated
before, is with unenforseable unen-
forced laws viii CHI lead to disrespect Of
better considered statutes. ..
The more important recommendation
in the editorial referred to, activated
by g. letter to the editor by Mr.. Joseph
Stark (pub4 shed in the same issue),
had TODD with lowering the speed limit
in settled Greenbe1t from IS miles to
20 miles per hour, and placing
CONSPICUOUS: signs a hundred yards SO
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04

The Cooperotor welcomes the announce
ment Of Greenbelt Consumer Services that
in it's stores no tipping will be permitted
The citizens Of Greenbelt consequent
ly~cantbe sure that our stores prices
for goods and services include allowance
for fair salaries to employees, that en-
ployees are not dependent upon gratutties
for income, and, that service is to be
uniform and not in proportion to dona-
Greenbeltian endorsement Of this
plan is to: be found in our 1nquiring:
Reporters, column Of March l6, 1888.
We have heard great deal, concern
ing the significance Of an application
Of democratic principles to: business
enterprise, Here is q little material
evidence that the Significance is not ell
theoreti col. W.R.V.
Evening star., 1938-01-20

being likely to take over when the
Three Ms rest.
Bamboo Gardens-Featured in the
current revue are Purnell and Eddie,
whose adasio number is one OF the
best and whose ballroom dances are
among the smoothest. Also there are
dances by Martha and Frances, by the
Six Paramount steppers and specialties
by lot Of other people. Music for
dancing u by Russ Cullen and his
orchestra, with songs by Mary Martin.
LetD-The Dance Cocktails Go
bright new numbers for their third
and final week and they're aided now
by songs and dances by the Three
Adorables. who are. Featured dancers
are the Florios in ballroom numbers
and Corinne and Claude in novelty
comedy dances. AL Norton is the
master Of ceremonies and Bill Strick-
lands Capitolians play for dancing.
II Il -
Maryland Club Gardens-There are
floor shows and dancing every night
at the handsomely decorated lounge
Of the popular suburban resort. Lo-
Gated out the Marlboro pike. just 4
short distance beyond the District line.
X
Hamilton Hotel-The Rainbow room
continues every week, every month one
Of the towns favorite downtown dance
rendezvous and apparently never has
Evening star., 1938-01-20
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places.
BY the Spectator.
Trade Marx Registered. Q. .. Patent once.

Representative Vincent Harrington
=. At the Mayflower Lounge: Tony
de Balasy Of the Hungarian Legation
:. Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, wife Of the
newly-named Supreme Court Justice
-. Mrs. Charles L.. McNary. wife Of
the Oregon Senator =. Mrs. Leslie
G. Stevens, recently returned from
London, where her husband was naval
air attache for the past five years
-. At the Cartons Shar-Zad: SEN
ator and Mrs. Claude Pepper, with
guests, including Mrs. Catherine Con-
nor. the Democratic committeewoman
from Kentucky Lyle O'Rourke,
local legal light and Junior Chamber
OF Commerce booster
- Heigh-Ho Macias has up and
run away from the SHOWS and sleets
and the gloom Of night dashed
down to Florida to rest and II
he comes back here looking vigorous
and sun-tanned he'd better be ready
to run Johnny (Madrillon) Shaw
tells us the other night he has -four
new tunes from Bng Crosbys new
picture and they're both swell' {.
Not much time left to see the cleverest
line Of gals to play local night spot
In long time :. Those Dance Cock
tails being in their third and last week
at the Lotus :. Who invented cheese
popcorn? And why? Next
time you see Ray Donahue, of Wilbert
cCan You Use My Picture?) strick-
lands Capitolians, thank him twice
for NOT saying 1nSPEYEration when
he sings Star Dust" The
Russian Troika's Nick Hope almost
was an international incident the
other night
Evening star., 1938-01-20
Supper Club Notes

and specialties, performed BY Vera
Veraga, Mischa Markof1, Asia Dor
Ian, Dancers Lolik and Orlik, Nick
Hope, Dena Larena, Emil Vladimoff
and Durward Bowersox. Dancing Is
to music by Sasha Bartnovsky's Or
chestra.
ShOreham Modification and Juli-
ette, direct from three-month stay
at New York's st. Moritz Hotel, are
featured dancers in the two nightly
shows in the Blue ROOM Also contrib
uting to the entertainment are Henry
Nestor and Henry Haviland, both of
whom are popular locally. Music, of
course, is in the Barnee manner, by
the Barnee- -batoned Maxim Lowe
Orchestra.
X X X
Wardman Park HOtel-Paul Kahn
and that music with swing continue
to fascinate the lads and lassies who
like their music fast and furious and
definitely not frigid. The boys are
on hand in the Metronome Room from
10 until 2.
X X
Raleigh Hotel-The Pail Mall Room
continues to operate with music by