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The Washington times., 1938-10-21
MEDICAL COSTS.
UNDER FIRE IN
JURY INCUR Y.
CHA Officials Expected
to Testify

With group health advocates be-
ginning to testify, the extraordi-
nary grand jury that is investigat-
ing charges of antitrust activities
against the American Medical AS
sociation and the District Medical
Society, today was concluding the
first week of it's unprecedented pro-
ceeding.
Department of Justice lawyers
today are believed to have sum-
moned several CHA officials and
individual members to begin testi-
mony either today or join the par
Gde of witnesses next week.
COST UNDER FIRE
The present trend of testimony
was shown late yesterday when
r. R. Zimmerman, a pioneer pro-
moter of group health enterprises
and personnel director Of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board, said
after emerging from the grand
jury room:
"The cost of medical services
as practiced today is just too
expensive for the pocketbooks
Of most people.
There can be no question
that there is growing sentiment
in this country and particularly
among people who work for
wages and salaries that there
is need for an improvement in
the administration of medical
services. There can be no
doubt of that"
BUILDING UP CASE
Mr.. Zimmerman's testimony is
believed to have been the first
actually to form part of the pic
ture of antitrust activity which
Department of Justice lawyers are
Sketching for the grand jurors.
Previous witnesses are believed
to have been of the type necessary
to provide background" for the
probers.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
FLEE EHALF CLAD
Store Blaze En1pties
Quarters AbOUe

Scantily clothed, a half dozen
families living in apartments over
the Philip Sures and Company,
jewelry store, 3012 Fourteenth st.
N. W., were driven into the streets
early today by smoke from two
alarm fire in the office of the
jewelry firm.
Both the office and rear of the
store were badly damaged by the
flames, smoke and water. The
loss is as yet undetermined.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
CHILD CRIPPLES
TO ATTEND new
CLINIC MONDAY
Classroom, Hospital
Combined in Plan

Every crippled child in Wash
ington today stood on the thresh-
old Of a broader life as the
machinery for opening clinic in
the basement of Gallinger Hos
pital began to function.
Monday should see the COM
bined classroom and hospital in
actual operation, with 16 visiting
teachers, selected by the Board of
Education in cooperation with the
WPA, employed to teach the young
Shut-ins.
AVAILABLE UP TO I'll
The Gallinger project will be
available to cripples up to 81 years
Of age, according to DR.. Daniel l..
Seckinger, assistant health officer
of the District.
Operating on an appointment
basis, Tuesday afternoon at l
O'Clock, cripples will be interviewed
at the hospital for their medical
history, social history and ex-
animation. Thursday at the same
time, those under IL will receive
medical examinations.
Ambulatory care will be given
to those classified as crippled
children" who have non-orthopedic
conditions at the Tuesday and
Thursday afternoon clinics. Mon
day mornings at 9 there will be a
clinic for white orthopedic cases,
and Wednesday mornings there
will be a clinic for colored ortho-
pedic cases.
CONDITIONS CLASSIFIED
Gripping conditions" for which
care is offered at the clinic are
classified as:
!. Diseases, defects, and injuries
Of the muscles, bones, and joints,
congenital or acquired.
. 2. Cardiac diseases or potential
cardiac diseases.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
Church Will Hold
Straw Ride Tonight

The senior choir of the Dumba:.
ton M. E. Church will hold its an
nual straw ride tonight. The truck
will leave the church at 7::30.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
CONDITIONS CLASSIFIED
Printing Office
Post 10 Install

Government Printing office
Post, American Legion, will install
officers at New Colonial Hotel
at 8 D. m. tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21

TDO IUeeks ago fUe ambitious boys TaOma Park decided
the problem of unemployed youth might easily be sOLUed the
lvOrd to knOW that unempLOyed youth Daned to urOrk
So under the guidance of I8yedOLd Richard Ellis boys
organized the "TGkOG General JObbers AssOcatiOn and an
The Washington times., 1938-10-21

nOunced UiG the handful route that De v do anything the
form of OOrk and guarantee the quality of SerUce rendered.
The idea to call to the attention of prospective employ
ers that the bOyske any typical American yOus-ere
capable of doing jobs ranging from plumbing babynding
Evening star., 1938-11-27

IF you mean that you distrust either Len,
here. or myself, then perhaps -
"Of course not. Carl! That S absurd. But
isn't 1t true that none of us know what he
might do under the press of circumstances?
You can't tell; might be the one to crack up
under the strain
SO they had added to the pact that they
would take no arms of any kind with them
which one might use against the others. and
that if any one should in any way be unfair
or try to be unfair. with the others, then that
one was to lose the whole of his share of what
ever treasure they might discover.
Of course Seifert had signed with the other
two, but he had smiled to himself, secretly, for
he had already made his plans.
At Nassau they had bought a boat and out
fitted for the trip The night before they had
landed on the island: three bright-eyed. talk
ative men who had behaved, in their excite
ment. like school boys.
At sunrise they had been up. Seifert had
made the coffee. Into two of the cups he had
dropped small portions of a white powder
he had brought for that purpose. Knowles and
Anderson had tossed off the hot, bitter liquid
without noticing its added flavor; in five
minutes they had crumpled up on the sand.
They would remain unconscious for four hours
at least perhaps six
1t was well-conceved plan. and it had
worked out perfectly. If, by any chance, the
map was hoax he would pretend to be sick
also, and they would all three sail back
together, good friends still. If the gold were
there. he would dispose of Anderson; then
give Knowles his choice of sharing Anderson's
fate or accepting one fourth the treasure for
his help and his silence. Sefert knew his
cousin he was quite certain the sailor would
accept his terms.
Evening star., 1938-11-27

Bones' The bones of the men who had helped
bring the treasure here and who had helped
dig the pit wherein the treasure lay Thought
full Brahm Fenning had even brought large
and empty chest to serve as a coffin for the
workmen he had murdered, 50 that there
might be no undue settling of the sand to
mark the spot. The chest with the treasure lay
underneath these brittle bones.
Seifert looked up. The surface of the ground
was level with his eyes. Suddenly he desired
above all things to be out of this, where he
would be free to move, and the bones of dead
men would not tear at his legs like talons.
He jerked one foot free and dug it into the
santing side of the pit As he put his weight
upon it, great cascade of hot golden sand
came pouring down upon him. He tried again,
frantically and the slippery. glinting par
ticles slid whispering down the incline, hinder
ing his movements -. binding him
trapping him ...
For minutes he fought the sand with
degree of intelligence: then like mad beast,
whlmperng, storming, gasping, until at last,
wet with the sweat which poured from him,
so weak that he retched from sheer sick
exhaustion, his head lolled sideways upon the
gritty stuff which engulfed him to his shoul-
ders There was no fight left in him.
He was baking in the hot sand which
pressed about his body. The heat of the sun
upon his unprotected head was like the scar
ing flame of blowtorch. 1t would be hours
before Anderson and Knowles would come to,
and find him. marked Enthusiastically by his
guilt. They would find him. and he would for
felt his share of the treasure.
But somehow. at the moment, that did not
concern Carl Seifert He only wondered
whether Anderson and Knowles would reach
him before he went entirely mad there in the
sun. with the bones of dead men clutChing at
his ankles
Evening star., 1938-11-27

And now the treasure was beneath the
point of his spade, Three -fourths of it. and
not miserly quarter. would be his.
A wild desire actually to see the gold. to dig
his fingers into it., came upon the man like an
ague. He fell to work frantically, and the dry
fine sand flew from his spade.
An expanse of time-darkened oak rewarded
him. With cry of eagerness he leaped down
into the pit he had dug, that he might more
quickly scoop away the sand.
His feet struck the wood: it cracked softly
and gave way under him. He plunged on
downward for another foot or so, while sharp
points raked and slashed his ankles.
Carl Seifert cursed, and stared down at his
feet. Then he cried out shrilly in frantic hor
ror. for he was standing almost knee deep in
brittle tangle Of human bones
1t came to him, then, what Brafm Fenning
had meant when he wrote that the first
chest :" Z. . contained naught of value save
to those who first possessed what is therein.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Naval Ordnance

Now is the time for President
Roosevelt to reopen the naval
ordnance plant at Charleston,
w. Va, as a nationl defense and
to save our taxpayers money
in the manufacture Of gun cast
ings, steel forgings and armor
plate.
This plant was built at a cost
Of $24,500, 900, because the Steel
trust was gouging the Govern
ment by a combination Of steel
prices. 1t is in a section safe
from air raids, near iron, COAL
natural gas and cheap iva cleo
tricity-all used in making steel
castings, gun forgings and armor
plate.
Armor plate was made at
this plant for 1854 a ton and
the next armor plate to be pur-
chased for the new battleshipS
will cost about $700 a ton, the
metal used in making a ton Of
armor plate (using the Steel
trusts own figures, given the
Nye committee was $51 or less,
according to the Government
nickel specifications.
This plant, by spending $4,.
OO0, 900, could be made the sec
ond largest in the world, and it
could be making steel castings
in three months by first class
steel makers. not naval officers,
who could be gotten together in
two weeks.
This plant should be reopaned
as a business proposition, not to
benefit the members Of the Navy
League, who own steel mills, nor
to give a hundred or so naval
officers a place to spend a years
vacation on land when their
services are needed on ships,
which they are better qualified to
man. JOHN RIGGLES,
Seabrook, Md.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

United States and the editor
Of a great New York newspaper.
SGVTHE real test Of your demo
l. cratic institutions" de-
clared Bismarck, 70 years ago,
will come when, after the dis
appearance of the exceptional
opportunities springing from
your natural resources-which
are in a sense common prop
erty-your political struggles
become, as they surely will be-
come, struggles between the
poor and the rich, between the
few who have and the many
vino want"
The Iron Chancellor does not
seem at this day and age to
have been very far from the
truth.
He and Schurz had fallen into
discussion of Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, nephew Of the great
Napoleon and, like his uncle.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Enough Is Plenty

NNHE citizens Of Silver Spring to be congratulated
l. on their firm resolve that valuations shall
be held in their vicinity committee has been chosen
faithful its purpose Neville Chamberlain has been to
that of England
Therefore, the citizens of the village and those who
reside the outside fringe of the District of Columbia
can change their minds about plans to their resi-
dences-evolved while the horror upon them. For
almost month, early seep-the enter
OLeep M00e ing wedge of sound seep-was made i'm
T,.nooa:LI possible by the music to which the con-
testants shuffed, grunted and groaned,
and by the loudspeaker bellows of the master of
monies in the tent beside the Baltimore and Ohio station
Valuations belong in the tenderon sections of great
cities where night owls toot-and not in peaceful
suburbs quiet sensible communities such Silver
Spring. The contest should have been permitted
In the first place.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

nendous financial responsibility
o world governments. No doubt
it has been the fount at which
hundreds of idealiSts, theorists
and reformists, who have gained
steady employment from it, have
set forth their plans for a bet
ter world. It has been helpful
in the gathering Of data on
world labor and social problems.
But it has failed to prove its
craftsmanship in a serious world
crisis.
Therefore, if one is to judge
from the triumph Of world pub
lie opinion which has been in
strumental in getting the world
leaders to settle their differ
ences logically and reasonably,
is it not conceivable that an as
sociation of world leaders, with
the supreme authority in each
nation acting in behalf Of his
people, could do more for the
general welfare of humanity
than a league of nations with
all its far.flung subsidiaries
working at cross purposes to
solve these world problems?
TOP HAT.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Your |. Q.
By SHIRLEY SPENCER

Match the following names to
the immortal line below. Score
five for each correct matching
and five for name Of poem.
Score Is for No. 6 and Is for
No. 7.
/. THE paths Of glory lead
but to the grave"
2. "A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn"
3. And muSing on the little
lives Of men,
And how they mar this little by
their feuds."
4. Man wants but little here
below,
Nor wants that little long"
S. II fled Him, down the
nights and down the days;
IT fled Him, down the arches
of the years."
} Goldsmith, { } Tennyson,
( } Gray, } Coleridge, {
Thompson.
6. WORD GAME: Make 10
four-letter words out of STEW
ENSON in three minutes.
Z. PUZZLE: How many
squares can you make out Of
the following dart board throw
ing four darts at a time (sup-
poSedly being able to hit the let
tiers you try for).
ABB
EFGHIJ
KLMNOP
OR
ST
ANSWERS on Page 81
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
HoIV John Does 1t

I'll tell you how John Roose-
velt pays 500 a month rent
on $1S week salary.
Probably not being an Ameri-
can, you are unaware that there
has been wealth in the Roose-
velt family for years. including
large incomes from inherited
holdings.
What I'd like to know is how
people on relief have expensive
cars and spend vacations at ex-
pensive resorts. You answer
that one, Rose.
ANTT.TROUBLEMAKER.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
GOvernOrship Fight

THE Republicans have nominated Thomas E. Dewey,
/ the Democrats Herbert H. Lehman, for governor.
We want to go on record now as considering each of
these men an honest, courageous
4WO WOTLHy public servant with good record.
Candidates were determined not TO get neateo
up during the campaign to the point
Of calling the other of them crook fool The
important difference between them of social att
tude Lehman is thought to be somewhat of lib
eral than Dewey-though that isn't proved yet.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
ROllin' Along
By W. A. s. Douglas

"A which has contact with the European troubles be-
ing brought to hopedfor close interview be-
tween the patriot Carl Schur and Prince
Bismarck Germanys Iron Chancellor The meeting referred
to took place in Bismarcks palace the Whemstrase in
Berlin and the time winter of the year 186S70
ago.
During its course Bismarck made three predictions One
concerned the French peopand true two years later
The second drew comparison between the rule of Prus
sian monarchno newfoundland the rule of ad
In this portion of the talk the Iron Chancellor
canniy described Adolf Hitler and prophesed his downfall
as soon as he runs out of things to give the people,
Germanys greatest states the French. Bis
living dead made his the
prediction
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

I still believe that a married
woman'S place is in the home.
with the husband as the main
support. Despite this, believe
women on the whole are hap
pier today. She has more in
terestS to keep her occupied,
and the fact that men and
women have more in common,
puts the sexes on a happier
footing"
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

engineered" the Danish-Ger
man war and the Austro-G Ger
man war, both bringing wealth
and glory to the empire, the
building of which was his life
work.
Napoleon" said Bismarck,
would have liked to step into
the war with Austria and posi-
bly, have brought about a diff
ferent ending. But he had
weakened himself in his fan
tastic Mexican venture (the
placing Of Macmillan, younger
brother of Emperor Franz
Joseph Of Austria, on the Mex
tcan throne).
I'VE Germany are growing
and this is being accomplished
without anything compensatory
in the way of territory for
France. So we shall have war
win France. 1t will be forced
upon us by the French emperor.
bismarck omitted the matter
Of clever goading by himself0
My calculation is that this will
come in about two years"
Bismarck and Schurz held
this conversation in 1868 and
the Franco-PrusSian war began
in 1870.
THE picture Of Hitler, drawn
by the chancellor, the sub
ject of which still lacked 20
years of being born, follows:
IAN adventurer on the throne
differs from a legitimate sov.
ereign, such rs the King Of
Prussia, because people are at
tached to a dynasty. A king
may make mistakes or suffer
misfortune, or even humili.
ations, but traditional loyalty
will not give way though it may
be disturbed in spots.
But the adventurer on the
throne has no such traditional
sentiment behind him. He has
constantly to play to the gal
leries. His security depends
upon personal prestige and that
prestige upon sensational
effects which must follow one
another in rapid succession to
remain fresh and satisfactory to
the ambition or to the pride or.
if you will, to the vanity of tho
people"
Could any reporter writing
today draw more faithful pic.
ture Of the performances so far
of Der Fuehrer?
copyright, 1898 Washington
Herald-Times)
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

are working. IN the Old days
a wife was willing to take her
place in the home, taking care
of her children and allowing
her husband to look after the
finances. I'm happy that I
have an old-fashioned girl for a
wife, who is a happy mother to
our two children"
X \ X
Miss Charlotte Kahn, 5709
Sixteenth st. N. w., University
of Michigan graduate:
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

may have as many outside con-
facts as she wants and is capa-
bic of handling. Formerly a
woman corld not easily COM
bine business and marriage,
but today this is possible.
Mothers To-Day are wiser and
more understanding wives"
=
Bertin TOulOtte, 720 N. Fill
more ST., Arlington, Va, real
estate employe:
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Italian IncOnsist tency?

The abomin able nerve of a
nation that considers itself
Christian is evidenced in the
news from Italy that all Jews
who arrived after 1918 are to
be expelled, but that Jewish
tourists are still welcome to
spend their money there. If this
isn't a rip-Snorting subject for
an editorial what Is?
JOHN w. HESSON.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
What is Needed

What the world needs today
is not a league Of nations but
an understanding between world
leaders. A sort of international
association of the supreme au-
thorities of the governments OF
the world. Recent European de
velopments clearly demonstrate
this need.
I think Ivy Ledbetter Lee, late
dean Of public relations experts
in the United States, enviSioned
some sort of future understand
ing between world leaders when
he addressed a private group of
persons concerned with inter
national affairs in London on
July 8, 1884. He said in part:
Propaganda
'"The word propaganda ha
an unfortunate connotation
Derivatively the word has 8
precise meaning-the projec
tion Of ideas. But in practice
the process of propaganda has
been so often polluted, poisoned
and proStituted that it is diff
cult to think of it in its strictly
deriVative sense.
"It is probably true" Mr.. Lee
added, which bring us to the
point Of international events as
they appear today, that much
of the international anarchy
which prevails today arises
from the inadequacy and fu-
tility Of present-day methods of
inter national communication
which prevent effective, healthy
interplay between the different
views Of nations and make i'm
possible the development Of
such a thing as an intelligent
world public opinion.
1T must be assumed that. if
nations are to undertake con-
Sciously to seek the goodwill
Of other peoples, they will do so
because they have in fact a de-
cent respect for the opinion of
mankind They will also real
ize that error when exposed to
light will not long survive.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

rightfully belong to men. OF
course, today a woman is a per-
sonality, free to do the things
she feels fitted to do, but I be-
lieve the modern woman also
prefers the masculine protec-
ton she enjoyed formerly"
\
Kenneth G. Reed, 926 Four
teenth st. S. E., cigar sales
man:
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

good in the long run. In the
old days a woman didn't have
to work ant she was well taken
care Of. In fact, most women
don't know what to do with
their freedom"
X X X
Mrs. Ethel Marsh, 1907 East
West Highway, Silver Spring,
Md, beautician:
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

mo, m cd er n
women are n o t
happier. Women
are never satisfied,
regardless Of what
they have. Today
women have too
much fre e d o m,
which does them
more harm than
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

II don't object
to women working.
In fact. they should
work if they are
single, but I do OBJ
ject to the modern
idea that wives
should work to as
SiSt in maintain
ing the household.
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U n i t e d
States. Mind
you he was
talking to a
man who had
fled Germany
as a revolu-
zionist a n d
who became
in his adopt
ed country q
general of the
army, a Sen
ator Of the
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

II don't think
so. Putting her on
a double standard
and on a competi-
tive b asiS with
men, W hile it
has given her more
freedom, has not
made her really
happy. There are
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

There are many
opportunities that
freedom and equal
rights offer women
which make them
happier than the
older G en n e ration
ever was. Then a
woman was just a
woman. Today she
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

mot most women.
Economic cond j.
tions keep many
women in the buSi.
ness world when
they would prefer
to be home-makers.
Most women do
not really want
the places that
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

exceptions, but generally men
are superior in business. The
woman executive isn't the hap
piest as woman is not essen
TALLY dominant"
=
Elmo Cobb, 1901 Holly st.,
Alexandria, Va, soda dispenser:
The Washington times., 1938-10-01

! QOu Z DelLSVS
so, for the simple
reason that there
was more real en-
joyment Of living
in the old-fash-
ioned family than
there is today in
a family where
often both parents
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
League Fails

What we ourselves need to
do in this latter-day world is
not so much to get rid of the
lawyer and the diplomat. We
need them both. but we should
get rid Of the cap-and-wagon
spirit and persuade foreign Of
fices to talk to each other In
language to be understood by
the people,"
A league Of nations is q TIRE"
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Wise Words

Gratitude is a fruit Of great
cultivation; you do not find it
among gross people.-Samuel
johnson.
Hope thinks nothing diff
cult; despair tells us that diff
Guilty Is insurmountable.-Dr.
I. Watts.
Behind the cloud the star light
turks,
Through showers the sunbeamS
fall:
For God, who loveth all his
works,
Has left his Hope with all.
Whittier.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
heInquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Does the freedom and equal
rights afforded the modern
woman make her any happier
than she was?
THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Lyla HickenbOtham,
2O09 F st. N. W., Government
Stenoprapher'
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
ne District Of Columbia since
anuary /, 1898, is graphically
lown by the death watch.