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Naval Affairs and Military Affairs
Committees. and We fear that YOU are
not today being properly informed
concerning the use Of aircraft in our
national defense structure"
Mr.. Dodge, 81 years old, is a widely
known industrialist and engineer. a
son Of James Mapes Dodge and a
grandson Of Mary Mapes Dodge. the
writer. Active in public affairs
throughout his career, he had q single
turn IN political office. with the usual
Illustration Of the engineer In politics.
whose slide rule doesn't measure
human variables. In December, 1881,
ne became director Of public safety,
highly important Office in Philadel-
phia. He was out in 1893, turning
back to instruments Of precision, after
two years fighting goblins. He is a
licensed pilot as are his daughter,
Jane, and his son. Donald. He was
educated at Drexel Institute and is a
former president of the American
Society Of Engineers.
Copyright, 1889
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issued Government agents. both in New York and
IN London watched the
good many weeks Not
ana BRUSH markets were ripe for rise action taken
Now that possible gauge effects of
timing They believe political
crisis IN Europe to start tide OF optimism
matted until
Austria they could haze done nothing.
Their idea is not that the statement
are the OF the
Will get better prophesng
action
the price statement has cleared the
Apparently philosophy that the President last
week defended the consistency Of his
mad been no change in basic policy
Franklin Deano Roosevelt and John Lewis
side by side these the feeling
mas grown colder colder
one outright suspicion
the Presidents handling repeating and It
be that few hard words
about "pig-headed labor leaders,"
b.nd
IN important OF the 1898
New Deal involved struggle Majority Leader Aben
w Bakey and
nomination Kentucky.
Senator Barkey has been the obedient
House. jolouin1 the rhe
has been Endorsed openly as possible Gop
Chandler on the other hand untndly
way OF talking about government tendency raise
the nomnoton-dnd in
cient and weH oed-he New Deal through the
country ~ wv
At present the betting soon change
Kentucky State now freely If
somewhat reluctantly allowed vote troubles in
support has satisfaction Mr. Lewis
will effect has already been
passed to local Kentucky c. l. o. bg-wigs
One Of the most amusing Washington scene the
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wealth and Southern system. is will
ing to leave the price to a board of
three such well-known liberals as
President Dykstra Of the University
Of Wisconsin. President Compton of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology and Professor Felix Frank
furter Of the Harvard Law School.
Taxes Will Evaporate.
A man in the utility business doesn't
offer to leave the price to any such
group unless he is sure that the prop
critics are worth enough to salvage
something for the investors who paid
hard cash for their securities and
who doubtless will have to take some
loss on their investment.
incidentally, when the deal is COM
pleted, s10,000,000 a year in Federal,
State and city taxes will evaporate,
and the States Of Tennessee, Missis-
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nitely to a climax toward which it
has for several months been drifting.
The principle involved is so far
reaching in its implications that the
American people may want to decide
at the coming congressional elections
whether public ownership is to be
q national policy.
The step is 50 tremendous that pri-
vate investors will not want to lend
any utility companies nickel for
needed expansion anywhere in the
United States till they see just what
kind of confiscation policy the Fed
eral Government follows toward util-
tiles in general For the price that
Uncle Sam now pays for the private
utility system it proposes to buy out
right in the Tennessee Valley must
be fair and equitable. or else it will
be construed by all investors to be q
forced sale"
S175,o00,O0o Deal.
Inside the administration are many
who believe in that idea. They think
that a utility company which has
built up list Of customers and good
will can be turned out of its terri
tory by a city government whenever
franchise is terminated. so that this
is a hazard the utilities must face
and investors also. But the fly in
the ointment is that the city govern
ments are not buying out the utility
systems with their own money, nor
will they face the operating costs or
general interest charges they would
have faced If they simply went into
the business of municipal ownership
as competitive proposition. The
cities are being given IS per cent
outright gift of Federal funds, and
1t Is logical for utility investors to
feel that all American citizens should
be treated alike, and that if there is
any money being handed out free
the least the Federal Government can
do Is to pay the actual cost.
It is estimated that it will take
somewhere between $150.0O0OOo and
$l75,000,000 for the purchase of the
Commonwealth and Southern and
other properties included in the T.
v. A. area 80 as to give a monopoly
Of power in that section to the Ten
nessee Valley Authority and the cities
to whom the power is to be sold.
Here We have q situation in which
one man-David Lilienthal-makes a
deal involving $l50,000,000 to $175,-
100000 of public money-and he
doesn't have to report to Congress
or get legislative authority for the
ENHANCEMENT Of the Federal Govern
ment in such a heavy commitment.
Mr.. Lilienthal controls because he Is
one Of the three directors of the T.
v. A. and he dominates his fellow
director-Harcout Morgan He doesn't
dominate the third, namely DR.. Arthur
Morgan. who is demanding a con-
gressional investigation and hints at
scandal and mismanagement.
The advocates of state socialism
for that is their true classification
are saying, OF course, that there will
not be any Federal money paid out
for "watered stock" but, in this in
stance, Mr.. Lilienthal is not buying
any stock, but actual plant and equip
ment. and he says he is willing to
pay cost less depreciation. On that
basis alone, the properties about to
be forced out of private ownership
will bring somewhere between $780,
100000 and $175,000.000.
It is interesting to note that Wen
dell Willkie. president of the Common
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L'Affaire Morgan
There Is Grave Danger a Distinguished Public
Servant May Be Purged.

L'anaire Morgan, like l'afYaire Drey-
flv. is something for the reformers
to take up, not the reactjonaries.
The more 20, because Of the person
involved. For 1t Is quite impossible to
smear" Arthur Morgan. or to turn
the issue either into . question Of
majority versus minority rule, or Of
practical realism versus Impractical
idealism. or of progress versus reaction.
all Of which Mr.. Morgan's associates
and their hackers are trying to do.
The fact Is that Mr.. Arthur Morgan
Is by all odds the best equipped and
most practical member Of the COM
mission. He has done more than any
member Of the commission and as
much as any man in the United States
In carrying out Creat engineering
schemes for interstate flood control
In the course Of which he has de-
veloped appropriate instruments OF
cooperation between the States and
the Federal Government.
That the President called him to the
task Of director Of the T. ". A. showed
the Presidents intelligence and I'M
agination.
Arthur Morgan Is . great and i'm
aginative enegineer, great and i'm.
aginative educator-responsible for the
Antioch College project, which is q
synthesis OF vocational equipment and
cultural training-and he has . career
behind him Of practical and idealistic
achievement which dissipatees all the
malace and innuendo which will pres
entity be heaped upon him.
Attacked for Moralism.
That he also happens to be q NOR
alist, would, one should think, be, in
the minds Of liberals. an additional
and tremendous asset. But, on the
contrary, those once liberal organs,
the Nation and the New Republic,
have criticized him on this very ground
by the implication that simple NOR
ality is incompatible with the hard
boiled realism that tight with private
utilities demands!
At this moment Mr.. Arthur Morgan
is asking for Just one thing: The
fullest and most open public inquiry
by the elected representatives Of the
American people. On the basis Of that
inquiry he is willing to rest his case.
His associates, however, want no such
inquiry. They wish the investiga-
ton to be put into the hands Of the
Federal Trade Commission. That is
to say. they want commission, ap-
pointed by and responsible to the
President. to be judged by another
commission appointed by and re-
sponsible to the President.
Why?
With the Federal Trade Commission
the Presidents influence has been
conspicuously powerful. and In this
dispute the President has already, un-
fortunately. made himself parti pris.
The President has had the acts of
the T. v. A. majority repeatedly
called to his attention. without any
corrective action on his part, and 1t
is well known, or. at least, universally
believed, that his mind has already
been made up. for the majority. in
advance of any investigation.
A Federal Trade Commission in
quiry would therefore be suspect, in
advance. Nor is one Federal agency
fully competent to investigate an
other The Federal Trade Commits
sion is limited by statute on what
it may ask witnesses It cannot delve
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sippi and Alabama and the cities
therein which engaged in the power
business will have to impose extra
tax burdens on their own citizens
to make up the difference.
Or maybe they expect the gullible
citizenry of New York and New Jersey
and Pennsylvania and Ohio or the
other big taxpaying States to foot the
bill as they now must do in order that
the state socialism theories Of q few
reformers may be put into effect and
so that President Roosevelt may be
able to keep his left wing from attack
ing him at time when he has almost
been completely abandoned by the
right wing and stands in grave danger
Of losing the truly controlling middle
class which swings elections.
tCcpyright 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc.)
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pany Act administration Of S. E.. c.
plan said been within
the agencys friends
tended the direction the White
the power commission really ought
problems because the administration
coordination
The drive ended in the was
up and raised Cain There
ended when James Roosevelt called the
10 MS White House otce and told
would change the and
E. c. authorities are breathing
(copyrisht 1898. Newspap
Evening star., 1938-03-07
The Capital Parade
Afect of Presidents Price Talk Pleases Proponents
Lewis to Aid New Deal.
BY JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT KINTNl

BY JOSEPH ALs0P ROBERT KNTNER
Presidents price statement seemed puzingy
uncaled for White economics Actually however
carefully calculated psychological for business
What Secretary the Henry Morgenhau
other participated preparation
lighted with its
thing
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The Brish administaton OF Kenyd considered At
mp being made bar than 100000
Indians highlands,
ernnent anrious the
publication delayed British
ernnt which discussing at the the
distinguished
exploitation doing
C3erman to
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service, unchal-
lenged personal
integrity a n d
complete incor-
ruptibila,ty will be
railroaded, out of
ONCE. "purged"
and "li7uidated,' -
In fact, in q
manner no less
5 h q m e ! e 8 s.
though somewhat
more insidious,
than that we
have become ac-
customed to con-
denim in coun-
tries which do
Evening star., 1938-03-07
This Changing World
London and Paris Sharpen Gold Saw to Cut at
Rome.Beriin Axis.
K0me.Befill1 AXIS.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

EoRIs from Paris indicate that Asson had ordered the with
dawa whole division from Bremen few days before
Chancellor schuschnisg invited" Berchtesgaden
this unmisakable connvance with
regarding absorption Austria London still believed
that gold damage
oador Grand With tempting suggestions for loan low rate Of
interest Musson them talking with these
the possibility Ethiopian
beer added TO the Brenner garrison.
chancelor including
Japanese Of China.
It pointed that
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poses that unless
this system sells
at q price he
himself, through
his suhordinates,
will approve, the
said utility sys-
tenn will face de-
struction a n d
the investors a
loss Of all their
savings.
ev elopments
over the week
end have clari-
fed the utility
prob ! e m and
moved II, ded.
Evening star., 1938-03-07
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Head of Air Defense
League Denounces
Criticism.
BY LEMUEL z. PARTON.

BY LEMUEL r. PARTON,
~ ERN DODGE of Philadelphia,
president Of the Air Defense
n League. swirgs his organisa-
= n ton into the rising challenge
OF the air groups against . runaway
battleship defense program. It Is
coming to be sharply spotlighted
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national issue.
Mr.. Dodge writes
President Rooee-
velt as follows:
I'VE charge
that the present
Army and Navy
policies prohibit
an honest state
'nent concerning
the effectiveness
Of aviation, that
testimony given
Is often not ac-
curate, that GER
tain records are
suppressed an d
lzAxa$ &c., A.
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colored subjects In Africa is likely
to be q bombshell when 1t is pub
lished. Lord HALEY has been
working on that for three years and
his conclusions are that the British
colored subjects are worse of than
their brethren in American or
Portuguese possessions.
The report points out that
medical care is seriously lacking.
In the British African protectorates
there Is only one doctor to 10000
inhat6tan nt4
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nothing the best the
these days
Schuchntrg hoUer. that he obtained pcory
the painful hours conversations at Berchte
a
chunoc smokers he'll Finally probably because
tension said that he dloyed to light
cigarette could continue the conversations Hitler relared
polite by all nenns he reported to
that cigarettes and matches should
placed the disposal Of his rdssal
delighted victory anything
delight incidents
the within Reich frequently
becomes serious
desperate.
happen quite
probable
will not the He counts the fact
asking the Austrian whether
with Germany held today least 10
population
Anschus
which a
Germany
HALEY the subject
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BY DOROTHY THOMPSON

BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
7 MESS the people Of the
Il United States Immediately
ask their Senators and Rep
resentatives in Washington
for full congressional investigation
by committee Of both Houses, there
Is grave danger that distinguished
public servant, q man Of unselfsh
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oally maneuVer1ng by agencies Of
the Government to kidnap the
powers and perquisites of rival
agencies. OF tate, the Federal
Power Commission has been un-
usually active in this fashion.
Miffed by the increasing importance
in the utilities field conferred on
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission by the Holding Company
Act, the power commission has put
on = drive to take Holding Com
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into everything, but is restricted by
strict rules of evidence. A joint con-
gressional committee, on the other
hand. can conduct q complete in
vestigation over the whole ground OF
Evening star., 1938-03-07
LECTURE TONIGHT
Miss Harlean James to Speak at
Central High School,

Miss Harlean James, secretary of
the American Planning and Civic
Association. will speak on "Commun-
ity Planning" at Central High School,
Thirteenth and Clifton streets NV,
at BIS O'Clock tonight. Her talk
will be the first in a series Of free
lectures on community relationships,
sponsored by the Public Library,
night schools. colleges, universities
and newspapers.
Other lectures in the series will
cover housing, public health. recrea-
ton and education. A short reading
list on the subject of each lecture has
been prepared by the Public Library
for free distribution at the meetings.
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the controversy, including matters
Of fundamental policy, and this Is
what the magnitude Of the issue de-
mandS
(copyright. 1888, New York Tribune Ine.)
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THE opinions OF the rtters page their on not
secsssa,y TIE Stars Such optnsons are presented Il
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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who invented it knew well that q
few presidential paragraphs call
ing commodity prices too low
could only stimulate If uttered at
the proper time. They also knew
that If words failed to stimulate
once, wolf" would have been
cried, and words would never be
listened to again.
Therefore the most elaborate
study Of the commodity markets
was made before the statement was
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wanted Their K1ng-y0ung OTTO
back, the Little Entente modified
and threatened them; when in 1881
the Austrian Government came to
IN agreement with Streseman's
Germany regarding q tariff union,
the French threatened Vienna and
Berlin with war II such an ar
rangement were completed.
At time when Germany and
Austria were too weak to resist
France and the Little Entente,
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II. S. Utilities,
WhoWillPav
for Them?
Government Taking
Tremendous Step
in Venture.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
- decided to put the Federal
Government into the biggest
a business venture it has ever
entered-the electric light and power
business. He has put a gun to the
head Of one Of the biggest utility sys-
TENS in the country, and now pro-
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Germany has a society for the pres
ervatien of German mountains.
Evening star., 1938-03-07

TODAY. more than ever, the Lincoln
l. Zephyr VIZ is a car in class by itself! I!
It is still the only medium.priced Ameri.
can car to give you the thrill of 12-cylin.
der performance -. a VIZ engine that
delivers IA to l8 miles per gallon of gaso.
line! And to these unique advantages it
now adds increased size, distinctive new
styling, greater luxury and still wider
choice of body types. Your Lincoln.
Zephyr Dealer invites you to drive this
new and finer motor car-today!
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buled and threatened when Germany become
nothing but the best tn
Auia don't make verbal
these
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Notre Dame Led
To 81 Victory
By Rofer
UnheroIded Quarter
Tones Savage Cats
With Run, Kick
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY.

EVANSTON, ILL.,, Nov. l9.-Notre
Danes Fighting Irish" striving
for national championship honors
they last achieved under Knute
Rockne In 1880, cleared the semi
final hurdle in their path by con-
quering q stubborn Northwestern
eleven, 9 to 7, today before q SELL
out crowd of 1880.
Only Southern California. to be
played in Los Angeles December
3, remains the last obstacle ahead
of Notre Dame in the champion
ship drive, with eight straight VIC
tories already in the throne room
The name of Willard Hofer, q
22-year-old second-string. unherald-
ed quarterback Of Rock Island, ILL.,,
where his mother and father run
restaurant, must be gloriously writ
ten in the victory Of the Irish"
In two smooth maneuvers, typical
of the Irish" rise to football emer-
gencies. young Hofer scored all the
points that whipped Northwest
ern.
In the second period, Hofer inter-
cepted a pass and ran it back IS
yards for touchdown. In the third
period. with the Irish trailing, 7 to
6, he kicked q goal from placement
sQuarely between the uprights from
the 20-yard line to give Notre Dame
go N0~E nA1FE Deco ny
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Perfect Record
.Fina||yComes
To Hoyas
KoshIop and Kercher
Stage Aerial Act
To Gain Victory
By FRANCIS E. STAN.

A 64-year -old dream of an un-
beaten. united football power came
true for Georgetown, sole major
survivor in the East, when hard
hitting Blue and Gray machine bat
tered down the University of Mary
lands desperate inspired defenses
to win a dramatic 14-to-7 victory
yesterday at College Park.
The result. but not the score, was
expected by the crowd Of 5000
which, through large part Of the
game. braved a downpour OF rain
to watch an amazing Maryland
team, prohibitive underdog and al
ready beaten six times, force the
vaunted Hoyas to the limit.
Starting with visions of a post
season bowl game" the Hoyas at
one stage found themselves trail
ing. CT, to a team whose season
record seemed to stamp it as one
of the weakest of modern Mary
land elevens. In the end, although
the Hoyas outplayed the Terrapins
at every turn. it required two touch
down passes from sophomore
halfback to a sophomore end and
a spectacular punt by another soph-
omore to bring victory.
The end of Georgetown's most
successful season "a campaign
which saw the Hilltoppers modestly
start with minor victories over Roa-
noke, Hampden-Sydney and Ran
dolph- Macon and finish with a
rush by defeating Manhattan, Tenn
Pile, Bucknell, West Virginia and
Maryland-brought with it Wild
goal-post uprooting as dusk set
tied over wet, glistening Byrd Sta
dium.
Fans Rumpus Is Mild.
Several hundred partisan custom
ers swarmed down from the George
town side of the stands and rushed
for the north end shafts. In a
twinkling the iron posts were hauled
down by the mob, which reached
such proportion that State troop
ers intervened. A few fist fights
broke out but for the most part it
was just a free-for-all involving
industrious pushing and showing.
The stronger, better balanced
team won the game. but not even
the most fearsome Georgetown sup
porters anticipated battle as close
as that yesterday. Maryland's job
was to have been we'll done If
Georgetown won by only two touch
downs. AS it was, the Terps mar
rowly missed making off with this
sections biggest upset Of the sea-
son.
1t was the forward-passing team
of Julius Koshlap. a 19-year-old
Polish boy from wellington, N. j.,
to Frank Kercher, tall end from
Evansville. Ind. that spelled disaster
to Maryland's hopes of salvaging an
entire season with a single mighty
effort. Twice the stocky. smbidex-
trous Koshlap, throwing right
handed all afternoon, whipped
deadly aerials to Kercher, who
grabbed both, shook of Maryland
tacklers, and dove across the goal
line for touchdowns. Neither Of
the placement kicks Of Quarterback
(see GEORGETOWN, Page B-O
Evening star., 1938-11-20
BY PAUL NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

PRINCETON, N. j., Nov. 10
Army at last knows the glory of a
victory over the Princeton Tiger on
the football field.
After IS years, a span that found
the two natural rivals playing only
eight games with the Tiger thrice
tied, but never kicked into defeat by
the Army mule, the Cadets marched
through the rain before 10000 soaked
spectators today to 1877 triumph
that left no one in doubt as to their
full superiority.
The victory, gained by land and
air over comparatively easy and
steady stages, left the Cadets set and
ready for their final classic against
Navy q week from today and ended
one of Princeton's dismal seasons
with q record of three wins, four de-
feats and a tie.
The Army line, led by Bob Little
from South Gate, KY, a 175-pound
guard who did about everything but
steal the stadium and stop the rain
that ranged from driZzle to pelt-
ing storm, was the big difference be-
tween the teams. The Cadet for
wards held the fine Tiger backs to
a total of 35 yards by rushing, a
stone wall that was penetrated only
by Dave Alledice's fine passing and
a great catch by Tom Mountain that
netted the Tigers their only touch
down.
Cadets Never Headed.
The Cadets, spanked by a fine
aerial attack and slashing runs and
punt returns by Art Frontczak,
Charley Long and Woodrow Wilson,
never were headed. They scored in
the first, second and third periods
by medium Of almost everything in
footballs book-a blocked punt,
passing, and plunging. The game,
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Iowa Takes BEATING
From Cornhuskers
To End Season
Py the Associated Press.


IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 19.-Ne-
braska's Cornhuskers, none too sue
cessful themselves this fall, put a
drab finish on an already dismal
football season for Iowa today by
handing the Hawkeyes a 14-to-0 de-
feat before approximately $4,000
fans.
The loss was Iowa's sixth in eight
starts. the Hawkeyes having beaten
only Chicago and tied Purdue. 1t
was welcome victory for the Corn
huskers, who had won only one
game, lost five and tied one in pre-
vious engagements.
Nebraska produced the scoring
punch on drives through the line
when opportunity beckoned. Her
man Rohrig of the Cornhuskers
slammed across from the 4-yard
line late in the first quarter and
Substitute George Porter added the
final touchdown late In the game on
| . drive from the 2-yAzd line.