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Evening star., 1938-02-06

Practical and Cultural Subjects Offered, With
Some instruction by Persons Con.
nected With Government.

The District ORGANIZING Committee Is
a delegate body of all U. F. w. A,
locals in Washington. AS set forth in
the announcement issued by the CON-
mlttee, the avowed purpose of the
school is:
"* To give expression to the
needs and interests Of all people III
the District Of Columbia 4 1t
has frankly planned its Glasses so that
out of them there will arise better
understanding of the problems of la
Dor.
Deliberately, too, the school offers
a wide variety of courses, for it be-
lleves that workers are interested in
everything in the world around them
Nor are the classes limited only to
general cultural subjects. The school
offers to Washington employees an op-
portunity to gain technical competence
in order to qualify for better job"
The curriculum consists Of more
than 20 courses, each class meeting
once week The subjects fall into
two ategOrieS-practica and cultural.
In the first classification are courses
designed to give the student an un-
derstanding of his position in the
world as worker; in the second are
courses which aim at broadening his
cultural background. No textbooks are
used. In his own experiences and OBJ
servations the student is prompted to
seek solutions of problems. He is, in
short, his own textbook.
INCLUDED in the practical courses
are several designed to meet the
needs of students interested in job ad-
vancement. These courses are directed
by Government department and bu-
reau administrators. Some of the
courses are technical, others deal with
the development of professional tech
niques, and still others concern them
selves with Government administrative
problems.
In the cultural group are courses in
dancing, both tap and ballroom; jour-
nalism, creative writing, contemporary
literature, drama and photography.
The advent of the New Deal ad-
ministration brought thousands of
people into the Government service,
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" HE first program we put on was
nearly our last" said Mr.. Bout
we'll recently, looking backward over
the first two years accomplishments.
"A Washington newspaper man wrote
an advance story IN which he gently
ridiculed the broadcast. Now, to be
laughed a. is serious matter to a
Government enterprise in education.
As I look back at 1t. I realize that
We were open TO some criticiSm-in
this case becauEe of the relative
triVlalIty Of the bject-matter-and
the volley directed against Us SO
helped us to correct our aim, refine
our methods Of planning and writing
the scrlp:S, that the project has re-
ceIved almost no adverse criticism
since then.
Out Of the nearly 100000 letters and
cards that We have received from our
audiences, up to the present, only
about a hundred have been definitely
unfayOvabIe. On the other hand, hay-
ing taken as our field the area Of
adult education ana adult interest
crather than planning our progran5
for the use Of schools IN schoolt!me)
we have received letters from al Sec
tons OF the country and all age
groups commencing our experiments.
A boy Of y, who gave his occupation
as "a laWn-moWer.' was Just as enthu-
slastic about our World Is Yours
program, which originates with the
scientists and experts of the Smith
sonian Institution here in Washington.
as was member Of a STATE supreme
court
Our series Of dramatizatons Of tie
historic struggle for what we call civil
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The courses on the curriculum were
selected as result of a poll among
L. F. ". a. members. Other courses
requested, which may be included at
future date, are in appreciation Of art
and music. sociology, tvpewritng.
dress designing and Russian.
It was the aforementioned poll.
too which resulted in the setting of
the tuition fees They are s. per
course for c. l. o. union members.
$3.50 for non-membcrs. The poll was
conducted by Committee on Edu-
cation. chairmanned by DR.. Ralph w.
Turner formerly of the University of
Pitts burgh and now an employe of the
Social Security Board. d.. Turner is
director of the school. The business
manager is Arthur GoldschmiQt, vice
president OF the union, former Gov
ernment employe.
Government Of the schoo! is by
tri-partite body made up of a stu
dent council, the faculty and the
union. Two Representatives of each
class form the council.
To date the faculty is serving with
out remuneration. II the enrolment
grows sufficiently the school directors
hope to put the faculty on a salary
basis. The directors speak. too. of
starting series of workers schools
, throughout the District At present
volunteers among the student body are
making tranScrlptions of all class dis
! CuSslOnS. The tranSCriptionS are
! available to groups of workers unable
to attend the school because of time
or distance difficulties.
The school has been a boon for
many Government employees finan-
cially unable to attend the colleges in
the District. Now they, too, have
joined the throngs of Federal workers
who hurry from office to classroom.
And in the building at Seventeenth
and F streets NV, headquarters of
| the U. F.. w. A., this building that
| once served as Civil War head
quarters for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
and echoed and re-echoed to the
booted feet of military messengers. a
new generation of Government en-
! plpyes is seeking knowledge.
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Close of First Semester Shows Students
Enrolment of More Than 800, Some
Holding Degrees.

Department Of Labor. A guest speaker
Will be Sterling Spero. author of The
Labor Movement in the Government
Industry Employer and Employe in
the Government Service and The
Black Worker
Washington newspaper correspond
ents are assisting in the teaching of
the course in Public Relations and
Trade Unions Conductor of the class
is a Government employe. chairman
of the D. o. C's Subcommittee on
Publicity.
Competent instructors in the career
aiding courses include a statistician
from the Division of Economic Re-
search Of the Department of Com
merce; Fred Sewer, former planning
analyst with the w. P. A: a member
of the Personnel Division of the Social
Security Board and guest speakers
from other divisions: Isaac Mcbride,
national organizer for the U. F. w. A.
and Camelia Colon. formerly with the
University of Puerto Rico.
Jack Yeaman Bryan, author of
stories published in numerous periodi-
Gals. leads the course in Creative
Writing" Contemporary Literature
is symposium under the direction of
Lewis Carliner. former Government
employe. now editor of the Federal
Organizer, the U. F. w. A. organ.
Guest speakers will include Floyd
Dell Jay DuVon, Eugene Holmes,
Sterling Brown, Murray Goodwin, Jerre
Mangione, George Cronyn, Vergil
Geddes and Henry Alsberg of the Fed
eral Writer'S Project. w. P A. The
speakers are recognized writer's in the
various fields of criticism, novels, short
stories, poetry and philosophy
EXPERIENCE on the staff of the
Living Newspaper of the Federal
Theater Project. and on several
Broadway productions, is the back
ground of the Government employe
conducting the course in Drama.
In the class of almost 80 only one
student has had previous training.
The heaviest class enrollments are
in economic order" modern
dance" statistics" creative writ
ing" and history of American labor
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some under civil service, some outside;
many individuals who. under normal
conditions, would never have con-
sldered entering the field of public
service. They came to Government
offices from factories, from offices,
from newspaper city rooms, from taxi
cabs and from mills. An attempt to
raise the standards Of Government
employees, and to encourage careerists
in the service, brought thousands of
young empolyeS from among recent
college and university graduates. This
influx of employees, subsequent to
1882, had seen the ravages of the de-
preston at first hand. Many had
been victims of it. Tie majority of
them, following the trend of labor in
private industry, joined unions.
IN SPONSORING a workers school,
the U. F. w. A. is setting a prece-
dent among Government employe Or
ganizations, but not among trade
unions. For several years the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union has been operating such schools
in New York and in other parts of
the country.
A survey of the educational back
grounds of students attending the
Federal workers school reveals that
of the total enrolment of approXi-
mately 300 SO per cent have never
graduated from high school or at
tended college. while 81 per cent hold
bachelor degrees. The remaining 33
per cent are divided among those who
have attended college for one, two or
three years and those who hold one
or more degrees in, addition to their
A. BIS. In a class divided between
students with no college training and
baccalaureates, are graduates of Yale,
Harvard, Smith, Ohio State and other
colleges and universities in the higher
brackets. The complete roster of COL
leges compiled from the registration
cards reads like a list of American
schools of higher education. -Four
students are graduates of business
colleges, five are normal school gradu-
ates with teaching experience; and
there is a graduate of a conservatory
of music, one of a dramatic school.
one of a school of design and even one
student who attended the Coast
Guard Academy.
Approximately tWo-thirds of the
schools attendance is from the Fed
eral service. AS Government work.
ers, they are employed in varying ca
pacities from messengers to admins
trative assistants. The majority of
them, however, are clerks, typists and
stenographers. The non-Government
employees on the schools register are
almost a cross-section of Washing
tons private industry. Among them
Evening star., 1938-02-06

MEXICAN, Cdln0llC, George
" town. George Washington, Ma
~ tional-the roster OF universe
4 n ties ard colleges in the Dis
trict Of Columbia is a long one. They
draw students from every corner of the
country and from every nation in the
world. They offer courses in an ever
increasing list of subjects. OF late,
several OF the schools have initiated
programs designed to meet the needs
of the Government worker, for Gov
eminent workers make up a large per-
centage of collegiate rolls
The boys and girls who work for
Uncle Sam are a schoo!-going lot.
They go in for every branch of culture
from sketchlng to international diplo-
macy. You'll find them enrolling for
second semesters in every school open
for owl sessions, dancing schools on
Connecticut avenue, language schools
in old houses on side streets, dramatic
schools in studios. You'll find Federal
employees studying physical chemistry
IN campus clasSrooms, mouthing Latin
verbs in high school studies, peering
through microscopes in college labora-
tories and making researches in the
melloWed atmosphere of Congressional
Library.
Now another school sends out its
second semester prospectus to Govern
ment employees. 1t is the Federal
Workers School of the District of Co.
lumbia. More than 800 Federal En-
ployes were enrolled in the school dur
ing the first semester of its existence
November Is, 1887, to February 4,
1888. They more than attended the
school. They ran it. It's their school.
Government employees were students,
instructors and administrators. To it
they invited all the workers in the
District, for the school is what the
name implies-a school for workers.
THE Federal Workers School is spon-
sored by the District Organizing
Committee of the United Federal
Workers of America, Government en-
ploye union affiliated with the Com
.mittee for Industrial ORGANIZATION.
Evening star., 1938-02-06

THE World Is Yours series, currently
an average Of about three and one
half persons Cthe kind Of persons
known to the StatlsticianSD are assem-
bled about each loud speaker for the
evening programs, and two and one
half for those broadcast during the
daytlme-Which suggests that the
audience for the Smithsonian pro-
gram is well over half a million 1t
must be several times that, now, for
the Monday evening dramatic broad
casts of Latin American history. A
class of million or two creates edu-
cational responsibilities, and problems
in technique and directlon-not to
say diplomacy and public policy-as
well as fundamental objective, better
left to the imagination than described
in short article!
WHO are the men behind these
magical mlcrophones, and what
kind of organization has been built
up to deliver such ambitious pro-
grams OF entertainment and educa-
ton Oh scheduled time? Commits
slcner Studebaker placed the man
who had served for several years
as the editor OF school Life" tthe
monthly journal published bv the
office OF education), al the head Of
the Radio Project-William Dow Bout
Evening star., 1938-09-12
NOT GUILTY
IN Staying OF GIRL
1tinerant Barber Held Without
Bail-Governor Visits
Prisoner in Cell.
By the Associated Press.

AAAooASA AA WILL
By the Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Sept. IA
Herbert w. sprague, 50, of Portland
Me-. an itinerant barber, today pleaded
innocent in Municipal Court to 4
charge Of numbering Barbara Dris-
coll. 8, whose skull-crushed body was
found stuffed under building in a
railroad yard early September 4.
Judge J. r. Waldron held him with
out bail and continued his case for
. week on request of Rockingham
County Solicitor Stephen Wheeler, who
was awaiting pathological analysis of
blood stains allegedly found on
Sprague's clothing.
AS Sprague was arraigned, 1t was
announced that Gov. Francis P. Muir
ply had visited him last night in his
cell and urged him to commune with
his God" because of the serious charge
against him. Gov Murphy also COM
mended the Portsmouth police for
their efficiency"
Sprague was arrested last night
when police said they found him asleep
in An abandoned warehouse.
Inspector Dennis Kelly questioned
Sprague about the Driscoll Staying
when he said he noticed stains which
appeared to be blood on green sweat
er the man was wearing. A man
in a green sweater" had been sought
after the Driscoll child's body was
found. Neighbors said their children
complained of annoyances by a man
wearing garment Of that color.
Prosecutor Wheeler said Sprague ad-
mitted striking the child with a stone
when she repulsed his advances after
he lured her to the toolshed.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

1ODA1.
Meeting, Southeast Business Mems
Association, 3l4 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, BIS pm.
Meeting, Business and Professional
Women's Club, Lafayette Hotel, 7:30
pm.
Meeting. District Optometric So
ciety. Lafayette Hotel. 8 pm.
Meeting, Tau Beta Phi Sorority,
May1ower Hotel, SPIN.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Variety Club, Willard
Hotel. pm.
Luncheon, Washington Sales Repre-
sentatives, Lafayette Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Interna tional Medical
Club, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Luncheon, Optimist Club, Mayfower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Civitan Club, Mayfiower
Hotel. 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Board of Directors, Lions
Club, Mayf1ower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, District Pharmaceutical So
ciety. Wardman Park Hotel, 8pm.
Dinner, Royal Order OF testers, May
flower Hotel, E15 pm
Meeting, Connecticut Avenue Asso-
citation, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner-meeting, National Press
Club Post, No. 20, American Legion,
National Press Club, $50 pm.
Meeting, Women's Union, No. los,
Bureau Of Engraving, N. F. F. E., Will
lard Hotel, 8 pm
Evening star., 1938-09-12
SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
FOR REPUBLICAN DINNER

Frederick H. Stinchfield, Minneapo-
lis, president of the American Bar
Association during the battle against
the Presidents Supreme Court packing
plan, and George R. Farnum, Boston,
Assistant Attorney General under
President Hoover. will be the princi-
pal speakers at the Republican Con-
stitution Day dinner Saturday in the
Willard Hotel, Clyde D. Garrett, chair
man, announced today.
The Republican National Commit
tee is sponsoring Constitution Day
dinners throughout the Nation.
Speeches made at some of the rallies
will be broadcast over q national hook
up Among the speakers are Senators
McNary of Oregon and Capper Of
Kansas; Arthur M. Hyde, former Sec
retary of Agriculture; Representa-
tives Dewey Short of Missouri and
Bruce Barton of New York, and John
D. M. Hamilton. national chairman.
William H. Mondell, chairman Of
the local ticket committee, reported
today that more than a dozen tables
for 10 have been reserved.
Evening star., 1938-09-12

the fight in Spain is anything other
than q battle for the very existence Of
democracy.
I'VE hear on all sides that the Cath
olic Church Is lined up in the fight
against Communism. That it is Com
n,unism against Fascism, and SO on;
but there is not word Of truth in any
Of these statements. The fact Is.
Spain Is Catholic country-and
Catholics are aligned against Cath
olics. The religious motif has Moth
ing whatsoever to do with it. This
is q battle between two different types
of government"
Children Suffer Most.
Little children are getting the brunt
OF the whole fight, as DR.. Barsky sees
it-and little children in Spain have
known more hardship and suffering
than many of their elders in any
other country on earth For these
children he hopes the American food
ship will leave soon, laden with whole
some food.
Believe it or not" he said, "some
Of those kids over there have had
nothing to eat but Goldfish for the past
yearvand the only way the govern
ment could make this Goldfish palatable
was to issue recipes for its cooking in
so different ways. Even then it wasn't
so good"
Dr. Barsky is Of the opinion that the
rebel forces, under Gen. Franco, will
never capture Valencia. Madrid OF
Barcelona-and that the end Of the
fighting will see victory for the
Loyalists.
AS he puts 1t, "You can't defeat 4
people who have set their hearts on
liberty--and the Spanish people want
that over and above all else"
Evening star., 1938-09-12

that the fugitive, John Lewis Freeman,
~, surrendered to Sheriff 0eorce Z.
Hemp At Cumberland.
Sheriff Walker Sdded that when
Freeman escaped in September, 1925.
An appeal Of his conviction for MUIR
der WA pending and that the Court
Of Appeals later granted = new trial.
The sheriff said ihe would send Of
1icers to Cumberland this week to
bring Freeman tAck for his second
trial on the murder charge.
The fugitive had been sentenced to
life imprisonment In the slaying OF
Arthur Sumner here In February,
1878, Sheriff Walker said.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
Civilians Suffer Most in War,
Says Loyalist Medical Chief
DR.. Barsky Finds U. S.
Blissfully Ignorant
of Horrors.
BY JOHN J. DAILY,

ny SOAhIN - DhA1s
War Is war and peace is peace-and
never the twain shall meet. So para
phrases DR.. Edward K. Barsky, chief
Of all medical aid to Spain, who came
to Washington over the week end fresh
from the front-line trenches, the big
city medical units and the wayside
irst-aid stations.
In Washington as guest at q recep-
tion in the home Of DR.. and Mrs. s. s.
JANE, 407 Dorsett avenue, Somerset,
Nd, DR.. Barsky unburdened himself
on the situation in Spain;
1T is," he said, somewhat sadly, "a
foreshadow Of what might be expect
ed from world war. ="
That q world war is imminent, DR..
Barsky does not doubt-and Spain is
the laboratory in which European
powers are. experimenting; especially
Italy and Germany, according to this
authority.
Finds Americans Sheltered.
DR.. Barsky believes that Americans,
secure In their own homes, have not
the slightest idea of the horrors Of war
as he experienced it in II months as
medical man, operating eight hos
pitab for the Loyalists. He recalled
for instance, the time one OF his hos
pitak was bombed; when An Amer
ican nurse had her skull fractured,
Spanish nurse was killed outright and
the chauffeur in the medical unit was
blasted into oblivion. On that oc-
casion, the doctor had q miraculous
escape by going to the door of the
hospital tent for a smoke.
How those Spaniards love Ameri-
can cigarettes" DR.. Barsky recalled.
Primarily, he came back to America
to see that food ship gets started
from these shores some time in the
middle of October-tO take food to
children who have scarcely enough
to live on, to q civilian population
almost famished.
I'VE might as we'll tell the truth" DR..
Barsky said, "the soldiers get all the
best food-and the civilian population
Of Spain is almost on the verge Of
starvation"
$250,000 Cargo Planned.
When the Americas food ship shoves
off from New York, some time next
month, it will carry cargo of food
stuffs valued in the neighborhood Of
$3.50, 900. Washington Friends of
Spanish Democracy have already sub
scribed more than $500, out of
$4,000 quota-and New York is well
over the 100000 mark-according to
DR.. Barsky. He decries the idea that
Evening star., 1938-09-12
FUGITIVE WILL FACE
new MURDER HEARING

By the Associated Press.
WHITLEY CITY, KY, Sept. IA
fugitive who escaped from jail here
10 years ago and was being held to-
day At Cumberland. Nd, viii be
brought back, not to serve Z life term
for murder, as he expected, but to
stand a new trial.
McCreary County Sheriff George
Walker said he had received word
Evening star., 1938-09-12
HAGUE INVESTIGATION
is STILL UNDER WAY
Cummings Says Department Is
Still Probing Charges Civil
Rights Were Suppressed.

Fy the Associated Press.
A Justice Department inquiry, Attor-
ney Gen. Cummings said today, still
Is being made of charges that civil
rights were suppressed in Jersey City
last spring.
Reports were given out last week
by other department officials that the
investigation was finished and had
not shown any violations of Federal
laws. Mr.. Cummings said in a state
ment that these reports were not true
and that no department oficial had
issued them
An announcement will be made, he
said. when the inquiry is completed.
The department began the investi-
CATION last May after receiving COM
plants that Mayor Frank Hagues
administration had required permits
for public addresses.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
Clothes Sent to Flood Zone.

Two hundred and fifty-six garments
for adults and children, made by vol
unteers at the District Red Cross
Chapter, were shipped yesterday. to
residents Of Brown County, KY, re-
Gently the scene Of cloudburst that
left more than 100 families destitute.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
FIRST FALL Meeting

Board of Trade Committee to
Dine at 6 Pm. Today.
The Public Order Committee Of the
Board Of Trade will hold Its first fall
meeting Ut pm. today At the WASH
instop Golf and Country Club.
Col. David McCosch, jr., new En-
g1neer Commissioner; Commissioner
Melvin G. Hazen and Capt. Patrick H
Tansey, Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner, will be guests Of the committee
At dinner. Discussion at the meeting
Evening star., 1938-09-12
CONTEST RULES
Read Carefully and Start
Saving Whsaties Box.Tops

Contest opened Tuesday. August 18th.
and ,ndo VIII close Saturday. Sept. 18th.
Winner will be the person who turns
In the GREATEST NUMBER OF
WHEATIES BOx-TOPS.
Each box-top must bear the identif-
cation Of the D. G. 8. store Cor stores,
from which the package Cor packages,
OF WHEAT1ES were purchased. Box
NOT BE COUNTED. No box-tops will
Box-tops of each contestant should be
wrapped In an individual package with
the name and address of the sender
printed clearly on a separate piece of
paper and inclosed with the box-tops.
Address box-tops to the ID. G. s.
WHEATIES WORLD SERIES CONTEST, u
4th and D Streets S.W.. Washing ton,
ID: c. BoX-tops must reach the above
address BY PM. Saturday. September
l'th. II delivered. or bear postmark of
September 1.th if mailed.
bex-teps will net be accepted for the
contest BY any D. G. s; store At any
explained above on the LAST DAY Of the
The judges Of the contest will be Arch
Mcdonald, popular ballcaster Of station
WJSV: Kirk Miller. Sports Writer Of the
washington Times. and Shirley Povich
featured baseball writer Of the Washing
ton Post. The decision Of the judges will
be hnal. Winner will be announced
Thursday. Sept. goth, in this newspaper
D. G. 8. members. their families. en-
ployes or D. @. 8. warehouse employees
are NOT eligible to compete in this
contest.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
will center % The budget requirements
for next year .of the Pdaice and Fire
Departments. sttf -t

American costume jewelry is to be
introduced into Alexandria, Egypt.