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Evening star., 1939-01-03
No Magic Formula
Seen for Solution
OF Rail Problem
FULLEST" Study Urged
Of Consolidation Plans
By !. c. c. Report

Declaring the railroad problem is
only one phase Of much broader
question involving the whole field of
transportation, and that there is
no magic formula for solution, the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
in its annual report, today called
for active leadership by the Gov
ernment to restore order in the
industry.
Refraining from making legisla-
tive recommendations in any de-
tail because Of the likelihood that
Congress will explore every avenue
offering possibility of aid, the COM
mission emphasized that the prin-
ciple of CO. ordination and consolida-
ton should be given the fullest
study, even in the face of certain
hostility from rail management and
labor.
They make q serious mistake who
regard the elimination of the wastes
which are now inherent in the
present railroad set-up and in the
relations of all agencies of trans
portation as mere means of cheese
pairing economy and depriving more
men of work. the commission said,
amplifying:
Consolidation. coordination and
the better adjustment of competi-
tive conditions will reduce transpor-
tation costs, but they can also open
the door to better service and lower
prices which will create new busi-
ness and employment"
The commission said that mo
fixed program is possible or even
desirable" but that the aim should
be to determine the relative econo-
my and fitness of the various types
of carriers with a view to encour-
aging and promoting the use of
each for purposes which 1t can serve
best and most economically, while
avoiding such use as is merely harm
full to agencies better suited to the
work"
1t was emphasized also that "any
appraisals of the relative economy
and real utility of the various types
of carriers must clearly take into
consideration the part of the capital
cost which is borne by the Govern
ment and the extent to which this
imposes burden on general taxa
| ton"
Evening star., 1939-01-03

who are bitten by the mad dog of
aggression?"
A professor of missions at the
Union Theological Seminary, New
York, feels increasingly mortified"
as he considers the American export
of war materials to Japan. Cannot
you devise some way, direct or in
direct" he asks, Ito keep us from
being partner in this onslaught
on the Chinese people?"
A professor in Clark University,
Worcester, Mass. as an American
citizen, is ashamed and very sorry
that American people are helping
Japan" The student body of St.
Olaf College, Northfield, Mimi,
called upon the President "to stop
the expectation to Japan Of all ma
terials useful in war, and to dis
courage the extension of economic
aid to Japan, thus vindicating our
position as a people opposed to ag-
gression and inhumanity."
A Chicago man says "the war sus-
tanning traffic between the United
States and Japan is certainly
not the will of the American people. "
An Emporia. Kans., clergyman ex-
presses the belief that the present
Neutrality Act is mot applicable to
this Far Eastern situation, nor is 1t
in keeping with the American spirit
of fair play and justice
Some are brief and to the point,
thanks to a phrase President Roose-
welt provided them. Quarantine
the aggressor (six) nations!" Lift
the embargo against Spain and
Boycott the aggressor (six) ma
tions!" is the whole message con-
tanned on hundreds of post cards.
One Miami woman writes she has
seen this old iron being loaded all
the past year and still are doing So
and she says she is ashamed OF
America in her greed for money tc
help murder innocent people"
Many form letters respectfully
and urgently" ask passage of res
olution introduced in the last ses-
sion by Representative j. j. O'Con-
nell 1t remains for clerks to in.
form those who sent these that this
resolution died with the last session
and cannot be considered unless re-
introduced at this session.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Mrs. Kerr Heads ". P. A.
Women's 5 Division

Appointment of Mrs. Florence S.
Kerr to succeed Ellen S. Woodward
as assistant administrator of w. P.
A. in charge of Women's and Profess
sional Division was announced today
by Administrator F. c. Harrington.
Mrs. Woodward recently resigned
to become member of the Social
Security Board, and her successor
has been regional director for the
division in l3 MidWestern States.
A native of Hartman. Tenn, and
former college professor. Mrs. Kerr
assumed direction of what was then
| called the women's division in the
Midwest as w. P. A. operations
began in July 1885 She expanded
the program for this division and
had 3500O0 persons under her direc-
ton at the time of her new appoint
ment Headquarters had been in
Chicago.
Mrs. Kerr is expected in Washing
ton late this week to assume her
duties as assistant administrator.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa and
has written and lectured extensively
on social and economic problems af-
fecting women.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Potmon Again
Introduces
| Bill No. !

Representative Patman. Democrat,
Of Texas today regained his title of
No l bill introducer.
He beat all his colleagues to the
bill hopper with chain-stOre tax
measure that will be House bill No
in the Seventy-siXth Congress.
The Texan has made something
of a practice of getting one of his
bills listed first. 1t used to be the
soldiers bonus bill, but he finally got
that enacted
Since many of the lit new men,
bers are taking their first legislative
steps cautiously, the number of bills
submitted on the first day of the
session was only about one-fourth as
large as usual.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Congress De|uged
With Proposals
On Neutrality
All Sections of U. 5.
Offer Suggestions
For New Legislation

When Congress. beginning its
Seventy-siXth session today, gets
around to considering neutrality
legislation the lawmakers will not
lack for advice as to what to do.
A sizeable part of the population,
It seems. has felt called upon to
offer advice on neutrality legislation
Mail bags going to the Capitol these
days are extra heavy with letters
and postal cards on the subject.
kilograms and telephones bring
other additional messages. All want
something done about the existing
neutrality legislation.
Propaganda Signs.
A large part of the correspondence
bears the marks of an organized
propaganda effort. Form letters and
form postal cards are used. But not
entirely. Some quite evidently reveal
a personal view, as the letter from
an Ann Arbor, Mich. lecturer which
hluntly described the existing neu-
trality law as "tte height OF I'M
morality and stupidity
While all sections of the country
are represented in the correspon-
dence the bulk of it comes from the
heavily populated sections OF the
East seaboard and the West Coast.
The plight of China seems to have
aroused the peoples feelings and
outraged what many of them con-
slider the American spirit of justice
and fair play Many condemn the
sale by the United States to Japan
of goods which can be converted
into war materials, and hold this
country in a measure responsible for
what is taking place.
Typical Letter.
Typical of this attitude is letter
from the president of a Parent
Teacher association in Yonkers, N
Y. which asks change in the neu-
trality law SO that "the destruction
of human lives may no longer be the
responsibility and discredit OF the
Government of the United States.
Another asks change that will
"enable this country to help main
tain international law and honor.
This writer, a resident of New York
wanted to know if I'VE are just golne
to drift back with the tide or "art
we going to try to quarantine those
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Congress
Continued From First Pageo

change in party control, no election
of officers was necessary.
Before the Senate met its Repub-
lican members reelected Senator
McNary of Oregon as minority lead
er at party caucus.
1T was the unbroken voice of the
caucus that we would cooperate
with any group to decrease Gov
ernment expenditures without doing
injustice to those in need of dis
tress or in need of relief" Senator
McNary said.
That was the only legislative is
sue discussed at the caucus, he said.
pointing out that the minority will
wait to see what is in the Presidents S
message before considering the pro-
gram of the session generally.
Senator Hale of Maine was re-
elected secretary of the caucus.
Preparation of committee assign
ments was put off until a final
agreement is reached with Demo-
cratic leaders on a new ratio of
party representation on committees.
House Democratic and Republican
leaders agreed. meanwhile, on a g.
to-2 division of committee strength
between the majority and minority
parties.
That means on major committees
with Is members, such as the i'm
portant Ways and Means group
Democrats will have Is members
and Republicans 10.
Only two exceptions Weye made
The Appropriations Committee will
be increased by one member-to
40-and the Democrats will have
Is and the Republicans IS on it
The Rules Committee lineup will
remain the same at 10 Democrats
and 4 Republicans.
Annual Message Tomorrow.
Today's session, while it brought
crowded galleries and hundreds OF
relatives and friends of new mem
bers, was merely a warm up fol
the joint meeting of both houses al
l pm. tomorrow, when President
Roosevelt will deliver his annual
message on The State of the Union
While Congress got its prelimi.
naries out of the way. Mr.. Roosevelt
brushed up the final draft of hi!
message, which will be broadcast tt
the Nation by the three radio sys.
TENS. White House officials sale
they doubted that the President
would announce any more impor-
tant appointments before Thursday
They said he wished to get hi.
legislative and budget messages Out
of the way before turning to the
long list of nominations to be sent tt
the Senate for confirmation.
In the House, the Speaker appoint
ed Majority Leader Rayburn, Minor
ity Leader Martin and Chairman
Doughton of the Ways and Means
Committee as a committee to joir
Evening star., 1939-01-03
First MARRIAGE
License Goes
To 'Firster'
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Omero G.
Catan, the young man who is nearly
always first in line at civic and his
toric functions, such as the opening
of a new bridge or subway, scored
again today.
He turned up at the Municipal
Building to get the first marriage
license in Manhattan in 1899. His
bride-to-be is Jean Tobolya, 81, q
stenographer.
Mr.. Catan, "a, is vacuum cleaner
salesman, who began making an
avocation of "firsts" a few years ago.
This is his big year-he expects to
be first at the New York Worlds
Fair, and at a couple Of bridge OPEN
ings.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
LEGAL NOTICES.
FRANCIS W: TAYLOR. Att

FRANCIS w. TAYLOR. Attorney,
m THE pisrRfcf SIS sfSa se;SiR coGRr OF THE
United States for the District Of Column
ALPHoNsE JOSEPH GLADYCH alias Ber.
nard J. Harley, Defendant-No. 6s-111 i.
tain an absolute divorce from the defend
ant Alphonse Joseph Gladych, alias Bernard
J. Harley. 303 s. Scott St.. Baltimore, Nd. =.
motion OF, the plaintiff. it is this 3Oth day
Of November. 1898. ordered that the de-
Bernard J. Harley. cause his appearance to
be entered herein on or before the fortieth
day. exclusive of Sundays and legal holt
publication of this order: otherwise the
cause will be proceeded with as in case
be published once, a week for three sue
cessive weeks in the Washington Law Re
porter and the Evening Star before said
day. o, r. LUARING, Justice seal
BY. SOPHIE LYMAN. Assistant Clerk NJ
Evening star., 1939-01-03

found in operation before the session
ends
In the Senate Republicans have
% seats; Democrats, SO Progressives
/; Independents. !. and Farmer
Laborites. g. The House has 261
Democrats, 1863 Republicans, 2 Pro-
gressives. / Farmer-Laborite and !
American Labor Party member
There is one vacancy.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Monument Elevator to Halt

Elevator service in the Washing
ton Monument will be discontinued
for three days beginning tomorrow
to permit renewal of the cables, the
National Park Service announced
The stairway will be kept open fol
the use of visitors of the more ath.
letic type.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Jewish Youth Meetino

The United Jewish Youth Groups
will meet tomorrow at $50 pm.
at 1929 Sixteenth street NV, to
ratify a new constitution and nomi-
nate officers.
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04

harmonious, in~destructible image.
Be ready for this aggressive sugges-
ton whenever or wherever it would
rear its unlovely head. Recognize it
as not a valid idea or thought pro-
ceeding from the Father-M Mother
Mind, but mortal-mind suggestion,
which, to use Jesus words, is a liar,
and the father of it." So, as long
as God, Truth, is not telling you
that you r afraid, you recognize
the argument of fear as not your
real thought, but only mortal mind
talking about itself. Says the Scrip
ture, There were they in great fear,
where no fear was! Truly may we
thank God that
There's nothing to fear
Since God is here"
Fear is darkness, ignorance, which
flees before the sunshine Of Truth.
THE HANDLING OF
AGGRESSIVE SUGGESTION
The inspired Leader of the Chris
tian Science movement saw the need
of alertness in the matter of hand
Continued on Page Al
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
TEXTBOOK

Someone may say, But I have
read Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures,
and do not find it easy to under
stand" The question might be
asked here, How is one approaching
this volume? - %belligerently, self
righteously, or hungrily, humbly, and
with a desire to be taught? A child
just able to read will take this text
book and gain a healing message
therefrom, while some elder will
shut out the light by intellectual
bubbles. For example: A little girl
had been allowed to come to the
Christian Science Sunday School,
although her parents were not Sci
entists. There the child learned to
love and understand the textbook.
One day, however, she became quite
i'll, and the mother, in alarm, told
the child that she intended to sum
mon a physician. The little thing
looked at her mother tearfully and
said, why, mummy, you know what
heals mel" And sick though she
seemed to be, the child arose from
the bed, walked unsteadily across
the room, secured her textbook, Sci
ence and Health, and returned to
the bed. Opening the book at the
first page, she proceeded to read to
her mother: 'The prayer that re-
forms the sinner and heals the sick
is an absolute faith that all things
are possible to Coda spiritual I'M
d~erstanding of Him, an unsettled
love-" Then rolling %reproachful eyes
at her mother, she continued the
paragraph: Regardless of what an
other may say or think on this sub
ject, l speak from experience Need
it be said that the textbook was not
difficult for this child to under
stand? And may l say that the
child's faith, in conjunction with
the work of a Christian Science
practitioner, which she demanded,
brought about a speedy healing?
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
A~FFIRMATIONS

What does the Christian Scientist
affirm in his healing prayer? In
Science and Health Up. 275) we read,
1.-THE starting-point of divine Science
is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and
that there is no other might nor
Mind,-that God is Love, and there
fore He is divine Principle" Man
is the expression, the manifestation,
the reflection of this Infinitely good
and loving intelligence. Affirming
these glorious truths about God and
man, the Scientist strives to gain
that correct view Of man" which,
the textbook states, heals the sick
(Science and Health, p. 477). He
realizes that that which material
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04

banished at once and forever the
fundamental error of faith in things
material" Not only did she find that
the capitalization of her thinking
wrought a physical cure in her own
experience, but shortly thereafter
this uplifted consciousness was evil
denced in extraordinary healing
work for others.
MRS. EDDY'S GREAT WORK
It is not to be wondered at that
this exhibition of spiritual power
aroused the so-called "seven thun-
ders of evil" It did it in Jesus day.
When the skeptics and the materi-
ally-minded were confronted with
some undeniable cure wrought by
the Master, they dismissed it with
the SNUG statement that undoubt-
edly Jesus healed by Beelzebub; in
other words, the mighty work was
probably the result of some mes
merle or magical operation of
thought. The same vain objections
were raised when Mrs, Eddy began
her great work of healing and teach
ing. The critics charged that her
spiritual system originated with a
mesmerist or magnetic healer-as
if Christ's Christianity, the opposite
of mesmerism II suggestion, could
originate in the carnal mind To be
sure, Mrs. Eddy had once had an ex-
perience with a drugless or mesmeric
healer, but her Christian students
and followers know that this pearl
of great price'-Christian Science
came from God, and not from NOR
tai man. At every step was this rare
Christian woman assailed, maligned,
misrepresented; but like her great
Way-shower, she went her brave,
lone, loving way, meekly telling her
students to follow her only so far
as she followed Christ" message
to The Mother Church for 1901, p.
34). She once wrote miscellaneous
Writings, p. ID, 81 would enjoy
taking by the hand all who love me
not, and saying to them, I love you,
and would not knowingly harm
you" Here we have the secret of
Mrs. Eddy's wonderful life and
work; here the reason that she was
enabled to walk with US until her
ninetieth year, and see established
on a firm foundation the great heal
ing Christian Science movement.
Generations yet unborn will acclaim.
her great service to the human fam
lily, for she it was who rescued the
vitalizing, healing message of Christ
Jesus from the cobwebs of intellec-
tual and dogmatic Christianity, and
has made it practical and under
standable for those who have eyes
to see and ears to hear.
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04
HEALING PRAYER BOTH
PETITION AND AFFIRMATION

The question may be asked, "Then
is the Scientists prayer one of af-
firmation only?" If we pattern our
prayers after the perfect model
given us by the Master, we must see
that true Christian prayer must be
both petition and affirmation. In
the spiritual Interpretation given in
the textbook of the Lords Prayer we
find a petitioning for grace, under
standing, love, and strength to re-
sist temptation, and then a glorious
affirmation of Gods omnipotence
and o~mnipresence. Mrs. Eddy, in
these few inspirational words,
graphically describes the healing
prayer of Christian Science: in the
quiet sanctuary of earnest longings,
we must deny sin and plead Gods
allness" (Science and Health, p. 15).
The alert student Of Science, there
fore, will be found praying for light
and love and spiritual understand
ing, and denying in his thinking any
lurking sense of hate, resentment,
or self-will, before addressing the
thought of his patient. Christ Jesus
warned his followers against the
error of bringing a gift to the altar,
whilst one harbored an unloving
sense towards a brother; and Mrs.
Eddy writes, pertinently (Science
and Health, p. 448), 'Fettered by
sin yourself, it is difficult to free
another from the letters of disease"
So the healing prayer must begin
with a fervent desire, a longing on
the part of the Scientist, for more
love, for honesty, clean hands, and
selflessness. Striving to clean up his
own mental windowpane, his con-
seriousness thus becomes what the
textbook calls "a better transparency
for Truth" (p. 295). One needs al
ways to remember that this system
is Christian Science, and only the
man or woman consistently striving
to Christianize his thinking can
hope to demonstrate its healing
power.
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04
appeared.
GREATEST IN
REALM OF RELIGION

Without fear of successful contra
diction, I wish to make a seemingly
bold statement: The most impor-
tant embodiment or discovery in the
realm of religion since the days of
the Nazarene has come to humanity
in this age, and it has come from
the pen of a Christian woman. Sim
ply, but f~earlessly, she takes issue
with the centuries-old conception Of
the Master as a wonder worker, and
reveals him as one who understood
and demonstrated a perfect law and
Principle of being. Calmly and I'M
afraid, she turns her face from COM
monty accepted belief and dogma
about Christ Jesus, and accepts him
at his own appraisal, not as God, but
as the Son of God, the Saviour, de-
l%iverer, and light of men, whose
mission was to demonstrate how
spiritual understanding and reliance
upon divine Principle enables man
kind now and forever to triumph
over the flesh and every mortal dis
cord. His Father in heaven is QUE
Father; his ability to prove mans
oneness with this spiritual power
belongs to every believing heart in
our day. Instantly the Master be-
comes a tender, understanding Elder
Brother and Friend, a Teacher whose
precepts, when followed, enable his
students to solve problems of sin,
sickness, lack, and the like, as did
he. Without doubt, Mary Baker
Eddy's revelation of the truth about
Christ Jesus and his mission is the
most necessary, the most vital and
glorious message humanity has re-
ceived, since the first or second cen
tury of the Christian era.
Montana labor news., 1939-05-04
HEALING THROUGH STUDY
OF THE TEXTBOOK

1t would be difficult indeed to
~overstate the immense good that
Science and Health, 'the voice of
Truth to this age" Up. 1850, is bring
ing to mankind. Again and again
sickness disappears and the answer
to a problem appears when one
opens its God-inspired pages. The
last hundred pages are given over
to statements of men and women
who have been brought out of prac-
tically all forms of human bondage,
simply through their own reading
and study Of the book, without other
treatment. One may read here of
the healing of rheumatism, hernia,
spinal trouble, cataracts, astigma-
tism, fibroid tumor, valvular heart
disease, cancer, and consumption;
depraved appetites have been over
come; deaf ears have been I'M
stopped, ct cetera. When Jesus sent
a message to John the Baptist about
his healing work, he thus effectively
answered Johns inquiry: art thou
he that should come? or look we for