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The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Three Issues Before CONGRESS-

'be cut down as the bill move
through the legislative mill. But
whether Hopkins goes to the De.
partment of Commerce or stays
where he is, the reliefers needn't
lose any sleep over the possibility
that Congress will shoot S a mt a
Claus.
Beyond that, it may be assumed
that the Hatch bill to take the
WPA out Of politics, will certainly
be passed, and Hopkins will as
certainly be abused, whether he
becames Secretary Of Commerce
or not.
Not too much can be said as to
the conclusions reached in the
field Of foreign policy. But from
Chairman Key Pittman Of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee down to the humbleSt Con-
gressional student of foreign af-
fairs, there is a feeling that it
might be a good idea to let Japan
and Germany know that the
United States isn't having any TO-
talitarianism. thank you, nor is it
afraid Of what the little Napoleons
of Europe and the Far East may
do or threaten to do.
THIRD TERM ISSUE
AS to the third term, the best
guess Is that the Senate will pass
a resolution saving it's all wrong
as 1t did a few years ago when
there was talk Of a third term for
Coolidge. It won't mean much in
itself, but it may mean a good
deal as reflecting public sentiment
back home.
If it should be passed whooping
with votes to spare, you'll be safe
in betting that the country is
"ag'in" a third term. If the vote
should be close. the answer will
be "yes and no."
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Homes Attract
SightSeers

People are tramping Washing
ton streets for the sheer pleasure
of looking at the lovely Christmas
home decorations.
The doorways and lawns of
Washington homes have taken
on a beauty unprecedented here
as a result Of The Patterson
Newspapers contest for outdoor
decorations this Christmas season.
Fourteen silver loving cups will
be presented by The Washington
Times and The Washington Her
aid for the best decorated homes
in the city and the suburbs, and
thousands of homes have been
embellished with trees and shrubs
sparkling with multi-colored lights.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

the American republics into a
closer defense and trade accord
is well timed, further. as an off
set to increasing distrust of his
reciprocal trade policy in some
of the farm States.
COSTER EXPOSE
In its timing, even the Musica.
Coster expose could be interpreted
as a buildup for further Tightening
OF New Deal control over cor.
porate activities, and the indict.
ment Of the nations medical lead.
ers as a carefully planned prelude
to the launching Of a new national
health program.
But with it all, it is equally evi.
dent that congressional shock
troops are hurrying to the Capital
with ideas of their own as to what
should be done in practically every
field in which there is q likeli.
hood Of action. And with a de.
termination, in addition, to stir
up few hornets nests such as
the third term issue which the
President and his New Deal ad.
vlsers would rather leave undiS-
turbed.
Offhand it can be said that the
WPA will not be shut down in
February, March or any other
month. Regardless Of how Con.
gress feels about the Honorable
Hopkins, it isn't going to cut off
the relief army or refuse the ad.
ditional appropriations to be
Sought in the deficiency bill to
be sent to Congress in January.
SANTA TO STAY
There will be plenty of talk, and
the amount asked to carry the
WPA through the remainder ot
i the fiscal year, to June 80, may
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Annual Feast Held
BY FTC Attorneys

Attorney-examiners of the Fed
eral Trade Commission are the
"mainstays of democracy in their
fight against monopoly" FTC
Commissioner Charles H. March
declared last night at the fifth
annual dinner of the examiners
division at the Carlton Hotel.
More than 100 examiners watched
satrical skits, one of which port
rayed James A. Horton, FTC chief
examiner, as the virtual dictator
Of the economic life Of the coun-
try"
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Behind the News By Paul Mallon

some recommendations now be-
ing written.
No Senators will be accused,
at least not by name. But the
primaries in three States will be
mentioned specifically, and
WPA activities will be openly
deplored. Several straight cor
receives are likely to be sug.
gested: .
l. Creation of a permanent
Senate committee with a per-
manent staff to look into all
senatorial elections. (Hap-
hazard selection of investigators
just before each election usually
results in many greenhorns
being chosen, whereas a
systematized method of policing
senatorial elections would be
more efficiently
2. Existing law should be
amended to permit wider
authority for investigating pri-
maries. Court rulings have
clouded the right of congress
sional investigators to delve
further than strictly congress
sional elections, thus exempting
allied gubernatorial candidates,
for inStance.)
The report will certainly con-
demn political activity by Gov
ernment officials mentioning
bureaus but not officials, by
name). It may also say officials
who call in their clerks and an
nounce Nov I am not coercing
you but this administration has
given me a job and I am voting
for so-and-so" should be stopped.
Just what the Senate will do
with such recommendations is
not yet apparent.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
RUTLAND SEEKS
FUNDS TO AID
T.B. SANATORIA
Survey to Show Need Is
Pressed by Official

Health Officer George C.. Ruh.
land today pressed his survey Of
local disqualification in an effort
to enable the District Commis-
sioners before the first Of the year
to request of the Budget Bureau
deficiency appropriations suf-
.ficient to open the Glenn Dale
Sanatoria to urgent tuberculous
cases.
The survey is expected to show
that the two score tuberculosis
victims now on the Glenn Dale
waiting lists can be admitted and
treated through next June for
about $35, 900. For an additional
$4,000, the 700-bed capacity Of
the sanatoria could be operated
throughout the 1910 fiscal year.
LACK OF FUNDS
Currently. the 400 beds in the
adults building are filled, but al
most 100 of the 300 beds in the
children's building cannot be oc-
cupied for lack of funds.
1t Is the announced intention
of Rutland to house 200 adults in
the children's building and reduce
the child population to 100. who
will be segregated on the first
floor of the structure. There are
now 189 children and Is adults in
the building.
Reason for this move, the
health officer said, is that tu-
berculosis infections in childen
often are oUtgrown or thrown off,
whereas pulmonary Affections in
adults require hospital treatment
more frequently.
OPINIONS DIFFER
This brought from other Dis
trict officials the observation that
there apparently are differences
of medical opinion. They pointed
out that when construction of the
Glenn Dale sanatoria was first
proposed several years ago, medi.
cal authorities insisted on con.
struction of the children's build
ing before providing quarters for
adults.
1t was with this in mind, they
explained, that objections were
raised to DR.. Ruhland's proposal to
allow adults beds in the children'S
building.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

(world copyright, 1888. by King
Features Syndicate, Inc. All rights
reserved. Reproduction in full or in
part strictly prohibited)
THE Justice Department is
4 none too sure Of its case
against the American Medical
Association.
If you can catch the prosecu-
tors in chambers. you will find
no bets at even money that the
Government can prove the in
dicted groups Of doctors were
restraining trade and COM
merce" by opposing group
health.
No one, not even the Justice
Department. is ready to con-
tend physicians are in trade
or commerce" and therefore sub
ject to antitrust laws when
they are healing the sick. This
is recognized, even by law
(Which sometimes develops as
tigmatisrns) as a purely profes-
sional service.
So the Governments case will
rest mainly on the idea that
Group Health is in trade and
commerce"-a possibility which
might stretch an ordinary
imagination to the legal limit.
If not beyond.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Tuberculosis Group
Re-eIeCts Townsend

The board of directors of the
District tuberculosis Association
yesterday reelected DR.. James G.
Townsend, director of health of
the indian Bureau, as president
for the ensuing year. Other Off
GERS elected included DR.. Luther
H. Reichelderfer, former District
Commissioner, vice president; Will
lard c. Smith. of the Social Sc,
curity Board, vice president; DR..
J. Winthrop Peabody, superinten-
dent of District tuberculosis hos
pitals, secretary. and Walter S.
Pratt, building and loan associa-
ton executive, treasurer.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

he had already treated more
persons than his salary justifies.
But even if this arrangement
is legally like an insurance COM
pany. the Justice Department
will still have to face several
court decisions in which insur-
ance companies have been ruled
to be outside interstate COM
merce, and therefore exempt
from the antitrust law.
Competent outside legal opin-
ion expects the first judge may
throw out the indictments, in
which case the Government will
make an immediate appeal to
the Supreme Court and get a
prompt ruling.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
TYD|NGS VISIONS
EUROPE At WAR

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Describ
ing Europe as in the throes o1
intolerance and barbarism," Sena
tor Millard F. Tydings (D) OF
Maryland, returned home from
aboard today with the prediction
that war would occur in a year
or two.
"Rearmament is in a progress
sive stage all over Europe" he
said. Most of the people I met
believe that the catastrophe of
a European war is likely in the
next year or two.
Europe is in a great wave of
intolerance and barbarism. The
condition of women and chill
dren in many places is pitiful."
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

pondents, Lambert was head of
the Universal Service in the Capt.
tai.
Prior to coming to Washington
he was member Of the staff of
the Boston Evening American and
the Boston Sunday Advertiser,
and was an intimate friend of the
late President Coolidge.
While in washington he was
elected a member of the Gridiron
Club, and was president of the
White House Correspondents AS
sociation.
He returned to Boston in 1887
to become associate publisher Of
the Boston American, from which
post he recently resigned.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
COOperatiUes

GROUP HEALTH has a facial
VI resemblance to an insurance
company. The resemblance does
not run very deep in fact, be-
cause health groups do not in
vest their income for profit.
They are cooperative organize
tions in which you pay so cents
o week or month and expect,
when you are i'll, expert medical
assistance from physician who
is On a monthly salary.
That is, his will be expert at
tention if the physician you
draw happens to be expert in
the particular disease from
which you are suffering, and
happens not to be working on a
monthly salary merely because
he cannot make a living in COM
petitive medicine. Also if he is
the conscientious kind of a man
who does not appreciate the fact
that his salary will be the same
whether or not you are treated
properly or adequately, and if
you do not come to him at the
end of a long hard day in which
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

perfectly comfortable as to
make the cottage.livers jealous.
Imagine the Joy of simply de-
Gliding one fine morning to pick
UP the anchor and go for a nice
cruise up the lake or out in the
ocean! The famous opera
singer, John Charles Thomas,
and his petite and thoroughly
charming wife, Dorothy, do the
same thing. Their boat comes
down and they live aboard.
He, of course, flies all over the
country to fill singing engage
ments, but he's here now, m
INV
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Times, has af-
filiated with the
management of
the S u f f o k
Do W ms &C e
track at BoS-
ton, it was an
nounced today.
He will also be-
come a director
of the Eastern
Racing Associa-
ton,
One of the
b e S t KIN o W n
members of the
corps of Wash
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Glass Blast Expected

0ENATOR CARTER GLASS
- has been working for two
months on the speech he will
deliver opposing confirmation Of
Judge Roberts to the Western
Virginia Federal judgeShip.
Those who have seen Snatches
expect the dissenter from the
New Deal to cover the entire
pending political situation in
his usual caustic style.
Glass was requested by the
White House to recommend two
names for the job; both his
choices were turned down and
the appointment went to a
nominee suggested by Repre-
sentative Flanagan, Of Virginia.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
"As Normal as a Horse''

"As Normal as Horse"
DEOPLE usually think of great singer as being
temperamental and peculiar, but this is not
true OF John. Someone said the other day that
hes as normal as horse" He's great fun loves
good story (and good meal might add,
swims, plays golf, and is in no way impressed with
himself. Really great people usually are simple,
I've found.
The incredibly chic" little A1ibi Bar opens this
afternoon, and I guess it'll be packed and
jammed. It's amusing to see people who have
magnificent houses and gardens, loads Of room,
all crowded (by choice) into tiny place. There's
something gay and happy-making about little
bar. Then too, for those who are lazy by nature,
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Jock McLeans Doll Up

THE young Jock" McLeans are here They
l. both looked swell. They were shopping and
rushing through the famous Worth Avenue
looking here and there for just the appropriate
gifts. What an energetic two they are Today
didn't have to be the shortest day in the year for
most people. If it were the longest it would
still be too short. Everyone busy. remembering
the laSt-minuters, telephoning home, autograph
ing books picking up little things for some for
gotten pal consulting lists. Well, it'll soon be all
oyer, and then something else will come up It's
all fun, and it's all good stuff"
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
214 NAVY men
PROMOTED TO
COMMANDERS
Many in Capital Area
Included on List

Promotion Of 214 Navy officers
from the grade Of lieutenant COM
mander to commander. as recon-
nended by the Line Selection
Board has been approved by the
President.
Among the promoted officers,
these are stationed in or near
Washington:
Charles Ambrose Nicholson, 3D.,
and Lucien Mckee Grant, 4501
Cathedral Ave-, Bureau of Aero
nautics: Harry Browning Slocum,
Naval Gun Factory, Navy Yard,
JULIAN NOBLE NAMED
Julian Bennett Noble, office Of
Chief Of Naval Operations; Eliot
Hinmar Bryant and Paul Frantz
Lee, Bureau of Engineering; !;
Stuart Shadrick Murray, Bureau
Of Navigation.
Robert McLanahan, jr.; Ralph
Edward Jennings and John Ro-
land Redman. all Of Office of Chief
Of Naval Operations (ordered.
Robert Harris Harrell, Naval
Air Station, AnacoStia, D. C. lex
ecutive officer; John Fred Veg
forth, Bureau of Aeronautics:
Harold John Walker, Office of
Chief Of Naval Operations.
William Moultrie, Bureau of
Ordnance; Charles Bowers Nom
sen, Navy Yard Gin charge of ex-
perimental diving; Edgar Paul
Kranzfelder, Bureau of Engineer
ing; Felix Locke Baker, Bureau of
Aeronautics.
DASHIELL ADVANCED
Robert Brooke Dashiell, Navy
Yard; Leonard Doughty, jr., Naval
Gun Factory; John Hayes jenkins,
Arthur Blaine McCrary and Bron.
son Poindexter Vosbury, Navy
Yard; Albert Lockett Hutson, Of
ficer in charge, Naval Radio Sta
ton, Cheltenham. Md; Herbert
John Meneratti, Navy Yard.
The following promoted officers.
now stationed elsewhere, have
homes in Washington or nearby:
John Wesley Roper, 1859 Alaska
Ave. N. w., on duty at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Md. Carl
Kenneth Fink, 1926 Fifteenth st.
N. w., on duty as navigator of the
U. S. S. Arizona; Lloyd Harrison,
of Branchville, Md, on duty at
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
Hugh st. Clare Sease, $40 Var
mum st. N. w., on duty at the
Naval aircraft factory, Philadel-
phia; Volney Oral Clark, 2006 Co
lumbia Rd. N. w., on duty at the
Office of Inspector of Naval Mate
Irial, San Francisco.
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Edmund Du Val Duckett, Bla-
densburg, Md, on duty as execu-
tive officer of the U. S. S. Salinas;
Clyde Charles Laws, 4534 Burling-
ton Pl. N. w., on duty at the Fifth
Naval District, Norfolk, Va; Jo-
seph Bruce Anderson, Hyattsville,
Md, on duty, Sixteenth Naval Dis
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
NEWSMAN WINS
RACING BERTH

John T. Lambert, nationally
known newspaperman and for
mer publisher of The Washington
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Biggest Point

THE Government did not stress
l. its biggest point in the indict-
ment "a resolution allegedly
adopted November 3, 1887, by
the District Of Columbia Medical
Society. This resolution re-
ferred to the possibility that
physicians could obstruct "the
successful operation of Group
Health Association, Inc. if it
can prevent patients Of physi-
clans in its employ being re.
ceived in local private hos
pitals."
The Washington times., 1938-12-23


friends. I love it, myself
All Three Want Train
WENT into the famous toy store, Schwartz
w and there ran across a group Of three big
industrialists There was but one electric train
left and these three watched to see who would
buy it. 1t seems their great friend. q retired
railroad executive whose name is as well known
in railroad circles as Gould, Hill or Hartman
had made the remark that he wished he were
back in the "od game again" So New Year
Eve he's to be guest of honor at dinner and
the table decoration Is to be an electric train
all set up on the table, with the controls and
switches at his plate. First. they want to re-
tire; then they wish they were back in the swim
Amt they queer? In any case, they never grow
up, which, I guess, is a good thing, at that.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Ewes Rib
PALM BEACH, Fla, Dec. %.

I'VE SEEN good deal of the George Dobynes,
who are down here with their lovely boat
They live on it, and they live like kings It's so
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Surprises Are Due

THE mild hammered Senate
L committee which has been re-
strainedly investigating elections
will surprise the Senate with
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
NATIONAL DEFENSE

2-Foreign affairs, with con-
gressional thinking centering on
the idea of Stiffening American
resistance to totalitarian aggreS-
sions, as one phase of which
President Roosevelt seems likely
to get anything he asks within
reason for the national defense.
3-The third term - with a
nice fight in prospect in the
Senate over the Holt or some
other resolution declaring it con-
trary to public policy.
Meanwhile it has not gone un
noted around town that there ha!
been a well-timed and unusually
thorough buildup for the Admin
istration's relief and national de
fenSe programs. The Lima confer
ence and Secretary Ickes' blast!
at Germany also come on the evI
of congressional session in which
Americas foreign policy may tt
some extent be redefined.
Secretary Hull's effort to bring
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
BY THEODORE HUNTLEY

Vacationing legislators are re
turning to Washington with Their
ideas pretty well crystallized. What
they are saying publicly and pri
vately shows pretty we'll the direc
ton of the prevailing winds.
In general, it can be said even
now that most of them are think
ing chiefly about three things:
1-Relief administration and
expenditures, with Harry Hop
kins' fate as probable nominee
for Secretary of Commerce tied
up to some extent with what the
Senate decides to do about them.
(The best guess is that Hopkins,
If named by President Roose-
yelt, will be confirmed)
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
By 'EUie' Robert

it's nice not to have to go so far to see your
friends I love it, myself.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Edmund Du Val Duckett, Bla-
densburg, Nd, on duty as execu-
tive officer of the U. S. S. Salinas;
Clyde Charles Laws, 4534 Burling-
ton Pl. N. w., on duty at the Fifth
Naval District, Norfolk, Va; Jo-
seph Bruce Anderson, Hyattsville,
Nd, on duty, Sixteenth Naval Dis
trict, Cavite, P. I. Astrological Off
Ger supervising weather reports) {.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
SANTA TO STAY

There will be plenty of talk, and
the amount asked to carry the
WPA through the remainder of
the fiscal year, to June 80, may
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13
NATIONAL HYMN
 CAUSES STRIFE.
Two Orchestra Leaders Are in Controversy Over
 Changing of Anthem

Washington, May 13 = UP) - President Roosevelt and congress were involved today in a controversy over the national anthem.
 A presidential proclamation or an act of congress may be necessady to decide whether the Star Spangled Banner is singable as is or needs streamlining.
 Vincent Lopez, an orchestra lead- CT, said that most voices cannot reach the high notes. Kay Kyser, another orchestra leader, believes that the song is singable as written.
 Kyser asked the president to is sue proclamation against tam pering" with the song. Then Lopez wired the president presenting his side of the controversy.
 Threat, Counter Threat
 Lopez said that he would seek legislation eliminating the songs high notes. Kyser countered with a threat to ask congress to pass a law making Lopez version illegal.
 Congress, more anxious at this time of year to sing Home, Sweet Home," quaked at the prospect of having to tackle the Star Spangled Banner, with or without high notes.
 Congrcsmen with offices near those of Rep. Harold D. Cooley, Democrat. North Carolina, got their first lesson yesterday when Kyser hummed the tune to prove he could reach the high notes. He carried his campaign to the White House where he delivered an embossed scroll signed by himself, Walter Damrosch Frede Grofe, Ben Bernie, Shep Fields, Carl Hoff, Horace Heidt, Reed Lawton, Hal Kemp and Abe Lyman.
 He told Presidential Secretary Marvin Mcintyre that Lopez pro- posal was 'unthinkable." Mcintyre promised that the petition would receive MT. Roosevelt's personal at- tention and that an answer would be given within a few days"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

who has the misfortune to spend time in my jail for crimes he may have committed, want to help him get new hold on life. l want to impress upon him that be- cause he made one mistake his life Is not ruined that there is still a chance and if I succeed even in 8 small way in helping those unfor- tunate, will fell gratified."
 Speakers
 Among those who spoke at the meeting last evening were Philip Hewes, executive secretary to Gov ernor Wilbur L. Cross; former Sen- ator Francis w. Hogan; Charles Harrington of Kent; Patrick R. Phalen of Torrington, democratic central committeeman, J. Francis Smith of Waterbury, Democratic state chairman and many others.
 P. Francis Hicks of Winsted was elected president of the Beckwith club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-13

and boss are
 constant wrsnge about what the end the oumnst gets his strangng his toast-he that handling matters in the world lets ot anything that into his noodle The boss can always column away. Hey, Westbrook?