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Evening star., 1939-01-11
Group Health Complaint

The latest controversy concerning
Group Health Association presents a
situation which calls for TIE fullest
investigation. DR.. Richard H. Price,
resigning as physician in charge of
internal medicine for the associa-
ton, charged that the members are
not receiving proper medical care.
William c. Kirkpatrick, president Of
the association, has denied the
charge.
In this case, however, the mere
making Of charge and its denial is
not enough. DR.. Price, in justice to
himself, to the association and to
the public, which has very real in
terest in the matter, should be willing
to come forward with specific in
stances and facts in support of his
general allegations. And II that is
true OF DR.. Price, it is even more true
of Mr.. kirkpatrick and his denial.
The charges 60 to the heart of the
complaint that has been made
against Group Health since its incep-
tion, namely that such an organiza-
ton, because Of its very nature, can
not preserve a desirable relationship
between physician and patient. It
follows, then, that if DR.. Price is in
error, it is incumbent upon Mr.. Kirk
patrick to establish that fact to the
satisfaction of the public.
And If Motif DR.. Price is correct
in whole or in part-then it is up to
Group Health to show that the de-
f1ciencies can and will be remedied.
Group Health has represented the
most crucial test Of cooperative
medicine yet attempted in this coun-
try. 1t has accomplished something,
particularly in the direction of arous-
ing organized medicine to the task
of putting It's own house in order. 1t
is to the interest Of all concerned
that Group Health have a fair test
at this time, and it is to be hoped
that such test will not be made i'm
possible by negligence on the part of
the association, want of access to
hospitals, or the active opposition OF
those who believe this experiment in
cooperative medicine was fore
doomed.
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ployed Of the Nation can be cared
for by the appropriation of $725 900. =
900 between now and June 80:
President Roosevelt apparently felt
that such needs required $875, 900 900.
Without all the facts and figures
available to both, 1t is difficult for a
third party to hazard an opinion on
which may be right.
1t IS not amiss, however, to point
out: First, that If $875 900 900 is
needed, then the reduction of this
sum by $15o,ooo,000 is a false econ
omy indeed, and second, that II the
administration merely jumped its
request from earlier estimates as a
leverage for bargaining it is follow
ing an unbusinesslike and DANGEROUS
practice.
For the first of these would BE an
evasion of the responsibility which
the Federal Government has taken
unto itself in recent years and which
1T must not relinquish until feasible
and humanitarian alternative can
be devised. And the second would
be merely a manner of playing poll
tics with relief" practice for which
condemnation should be real as we'll
as oratorical.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Dealing in Millions

1t is to be hoped that action of q
House subcommittee in cutting W.
P. A. appropriations by $3.50, ,OO0,0 ,000
from the figure submitted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt is neither one OF
capriciousness nor Of bargaining.
In these days of astronomical CAL
culations there can, of course, exist
an honest difference of opinion as to
whether a certain need amounts to
$725, ,00o,0 or $50 000, 900 more than
that. The House subcommittee ap-
parently feels that the needy unsm.
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across that Indian principality from
Rangoon, via Kipling's Mandalay, to
the Chinese border, where 1t turns
sharply toward Yunnan, capital OF
the Chinese province of the same
name. The route follows the gen.
eral line of an ancient caravan route.
Not the least remarkable feature of
its construction is that it was built
in about eight months. Scores Of
new bridges had to be erected and
supposedly insurmountable topo-
graphical handicaps overcome at
nearly every stage.
China pins great expectations on
her new supplies artery. Her Amer
lean friends sincerely hope they may
be realized,
Evening star., 1939-01-11
THIS AND THAT,
BY Charles +. Trace,oeH.

What has become Of our other pal,
Of cariinals7 =.
For the past four years our yard has
boasted at least two pair, or pairs, and
on one snowy memorable Christmas we
had nine.
This year. for no apparent reason, but
one pair graces our feeding stations by
the rose vines.
One pair. however, is far better than
none.
The nuthatches are perhaps the most
faithful Of all our birds.
They have come every year since feed
ing operations were started, and have
not failed to put in appearance almost
every day.
While 1t Is impossible to swear that
they are the same birds, year after year,
an observer may feel pretty sure that
they are.
The very fact of their appearance is
enough.
Surely there are few better birds than
the nuthatch.
He Is the fellow who walks upside
down on the tree That is the reason 1t
is a mighty fine thing to place at least
one small feeding station on a tree
trunk, If such an arrangement is possible.
1t will insure the spectacle Of the
nuthatch feeding, always interesting to
the bird lover.
Il X
Nuthatches do not eat directly out of q
station, as many birds do but come down
the trunk head first, seize seed, and
then walk aloft with it.
There, on some branch, they crack the
outer covering and eat the softer inner
part which contains the nutriment.
Cardinals, bluejays and sparrows eat
at the feeder.
Titmice and chickadees like to take
a seed or bit of grain in their bill, and
fly away with it.
The different feeding habits of the
songsters are mighty interesting watch
ing on some cold winter day. That is,
all persons interested in nature should
make sure that they feed day by day, If
it is at all feasible for them to do so.
1t is not always possible, Of course,
and then the friend of birds must be
content with putting out few crumbs,
now and then, which is much better
than nothing, of course
- X
Consistent feeding is to be preferred,
not only from the standpoint of bird
life, but especially from the viewpoint
of the watcher.
In this way only will the observer
get the full spectacle of winter feeding
in calm days and rough. in sunshiny
and snowy weather, in cold and ice, and
rain.
That is why some provision must be
made to keep the seed and grain as
free from rain and snow as possible.
Some sort of covering over a feeding
station is highly desirable, but this does
not mean that the open table, or even
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Mr.. BiIIopp
on
Plans
PIuns

Advanced planning is essential II q
household is to be run smoothly. In
making plans man can be of inesti.
mable help to his wife.
Thus, for example, a wife may an
nounce that they have an invitation to
dinner with the Browns on Thursday
night. But Thursday is cooks night out,
which means that nobody will be left in
the house with Johnny. What is to be
done about it?
Should they decline the invitation?
But they have already declined several
invitations to the Browns and you know
how touchy Lizzie Brown is. She may
take 1t as personal, and 1t would never
DO to offend her, as she is rather danger
Gus when she takes dislike to you.
OR should the cook be asked to shift
her night out from Thursday to Friday?
But then she will feel imposed upon.
Cooks never like to have their nights
shifted. 1t always puts them out, and
the next thing she may be giving notice.
Or could Johnny be trusted in the
house alone? OF course, he is intelligent
and would not do anything hazardous.
But there is always the danger of fire.
Or he might fall down and hurt himself
and not be able to reach a telephone.
You read of such awful things happen-
ing. Perhaps the Smiths would invite
him to dinner; but, of course, on the
distinct understanding that he will take
his books with him and start work i'm.
mediately after dinner. But even at that,
he would be. up late before he can be
collected and brought home and he
hasn't been getting enough sleep as 1t
Is. Then you wouldn't want the Smiths
to feel that you are making use Of them.
There is always . hazard in getting
under obligations to people The Smiths
might ask return Of the favor at some
inconvenient time.
A decision has got to be made, as the
Browns want to know if you are coming,
so that, II you are not, they can ask
somebody else. Now what shall 1t be?
Here Is an opportunity for a husband,
with his experience of the world, his vast
knowledge and sound judgment, to solve
simple, everyday domestic problem by
working out a practical plan Of action.
Il It not unfortunate that, under the
circumstances, so many husbands give
the matter . moments passing thought
as they look up from their newspaper,
and then reply that whatever their
wives decide will be quite all right with
thens CHRISTOPHER BIiLOpP,
Evening star., 1939-01-11
The Burmu Rood

It Is along "the road to Mandalay"
that China now hopes to move up
sufficient foreign war supplies to en-
able her to prolong the resistance
to the japanese aggressor. The in
itial accounts of Chang Kai-shek's
new lifeline reach the outside world
from American Ambassador Nelson
T. Johnson, who at the end of De-
cember was the first to traverse it
by motor, on the opening leg of his
return journey to. the United States
by air via France and England. He
is sailing from Europe today and is
due in Washington next week.
Cut of directly from sea-borne
supplies through Hong Kong and
Saigon, the Burma road now becomes
China's only completely practicable
route for the acquisition of NUM-
tions and other sinews of war from
abroad. Mr.. johnson, who covered the
distance of 2,100 miles (from Chung
king to Rangoon) in seventeen days,
describes the road as triumph of
highway construction accomplished
under incredibly difficult conditions.
It Is striking manifestation alike
Of Chinese efficiency and patriotism.
The entire road was laid out, sur
veyed and built by native labor with
out single piece of road-building
equipment. Chinese workmen, using
bullock carts to haul away material,
had to fabricate stone rollers carved
out Of rock to smooth down the sur
face. The fact that the ambassa-
dorial party accomplished the jour-
ney, roughly the distance between
New York and Denver, smoothly and
easily In a light car, travelling in
some cases through mountain passes
1000 feet above sea level, convinces
experts that trucks, carrying NUM-
tions and other goods, can make the
trip with equal or greater ease.
The Burma road runs straight
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Simple Things

did not ask for that which lay
Beyond your giving,
But was content to flll each day
With simple living:
The song of wren on willow bough,
Forsythia cleaning;
And then at night loves ancient vow,
An hour for dreaming;
A mutual love shorn clean Of fear
No need for masking.
The simple things were all, my dear,
That I Was asking.
MTTU 2I6HAAD0 xY10A.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Calls Attention to Errors
In Roosevelt Speech.

TO the Editor OF Ine Star:
Thoughtful students of American his
tory will find it hard to agree with the
Presidents assertion to Jackson Day
diners that "Jackson's successor, re-
putedly smart politician i. and the
Democratic party -. were turned out at
the next national election in 1910 be-
cause they failed to keep the pork barrel
locked up in the cellar" The main rea-
son that Van Buren-yes-man whom
Jackson virtually appointed to carry on
his policies-was not reelected in 1910
was the depression of 1887, worst bank
ing panic in our history. directly caused
by Jacksons misguided, stubborn fiscal
policies. Another IN B." for the Presi-
dent is that it was not so much during
Van Burens term that the pork barrel
was unlocked, as in the reign" of An
drew Jackson, who introduced the
shameless spoils system in the Federal
patronage, in marked contrast to his
predecessor, John Quincy Adams, de-
scribed by Carl Schurz as "suicidally up
right in the matter Of patronage"
In view OF the financial chaos which
followed Andrew Jackson's vindictive
war on the United States Bank, and his
transfer of Federal deposits to pet
banks" that soon became insolvent, it is
both ironical and alarming that Mr..
Roosevelt, as clever as "Old Hickory" at
rabble-rousing, continues to vent his
spleen against all bankers and critics of
his reckless Spendinp policv Might We
not have hoped that the really fine part
of the Presidents message to Congress,
calling the Nation to unite in defense
of the democratic ideal, would be backed
up by the assurance that he would meet
businessmen halfway in wise and mod
crate tax revision?
EDWIN p. HALSEY.
Cambridge, Mass.
January 8.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Shooting Stors
By PHnANDER JOHNSON.
Sublime.

Sublime.
A wise man said: Il shall disdain
The little things Of life 50 vain;
shall not waste my thoughtful power
On what may fade as fades the flower.
"The sun in his majestic sway
Directs the planets far away.
IT'S thus that my Joy shall find
Remote, with trifles left behind"
And then bud to blossom came,
The wise mans face grew flushed with
shame.
He murmured: How hast thou replied
Unto my folly and my pride!
THAT monarch Of the universe,
With might to shatter and coerce,
Doth gently color, as he glows
The petal of the fragile rose!"
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Two Resolutions

Representative Mary T. Norton of
New Jersey and Senator Arthur
Capper Of Kansas have reintroduced
their joint resolution providing for
representation for the people of
Washington. They propose an
amendment to the Constitution CIV
Ing Congress power Ito admit to the
status of citizens" the residents of the
District of Columbia, emitting them
to access to the Federal Courts, to
elect "one or two Senators as de-
termined by the Congress or such
other representative in the Senate as
Congress may provide for" to choose
Representatives in the House &C
cording to their numbers as deter
mined by the decennial enumera-
tion," and to name presidential
electors equal in number to their ag-
gregate representation In the House
and Senate or as Congress may pro-
vide"
In non-technical language, If
these proposals were adopted, Wash
ingtonians would have a voice in
the National Legislature and the
right and the duty to influence the
National Government in it's control
and management Of the Districts
affairs-a privilege and an obliga-
tion akin to that which every other
community in the United States hon
orably enjoys to its own and the Ma
tion's advantage. When ratified by
the Legislatures of the several States,
the amendment would afford District
citizens the fundamental American
dignity Of voting representation in
the councils of their country. The
Norton-Capper resolution does not
contemplate statehood, 1t in no way
endangers Federal authority, its sole
purpose is to meet the demand of
the people of the Nations Capital
Tor share in the democracy already
possessed by their neighbors far and
near.
Another joint resolution looking
toward elimination Of the civic dis
abilities of Washingtonians, intro
duced by Representative Jennings
Randolph of West Virginia, is de-
signed to give the Congress power to
establish a republican form of gov
ernment for the District" with the
necessary legislative, executive and
judicial officers required for such an
approximation of statehood as well
as the granting Of the popular right
to elect "one or two Senator's" Rep
resentatives and electors.
There is no hostility between the
two resolutions, the Randolph
amendment going further than the
Capper-Norton amendment in vital
amendment of the Constitution.
The judge, in the decision between
them, is Congress and the people of
the District can support both in the
thought that the objectives are sub
stantially the same and that ad-
vocacy of the principle represented
IN both is of greater Importance than
the differences between them.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Federal Quiz Game

reports that has been submitted to
President Roosevelt by special COM
mittee headed by Stuart A. Rice,
chairman of the Central Statistical
Board, but II 1t succeeds in its worthy
objective OF reducing the number OF
reports demanded OF industry by the
Government, it will have performed
a service for which harassed report
makers will be everlastingly grateful.
The extent of the gratitude which
businessmen, their auditors, ac-
countants, controllers and other
statisticians will feel over any relief
afforded them may be cleaned from
the committees disclosure that more
than 135,OO0,000 reports or other in
formation forms were submitted to
Federal agencies last year by firms
and individuals.
Expansion of the Government, with
its creation of many new agencies
and their entry into new fields Of
Federal activity-such as social Sc
curity and regulation of securities
have brought veritable avalanche
OF questlonnaires and report forms
upon industrial concerns. There has
been to date no real correlation Of the
varied requests for information from
unrelated Federal establishments, al
though, as the committee points out,
much of the data are duplicated.
The burden became so oppressive
and complaints to the White House
so insistent that President Roosevelt
last May asked Chairman Rice to
direct thorough study of the prob
lem and to make recommendations
for executive and legislative rene
dies.
The committee has corroborated
industry's contention that it is being
forced to accept an unnecessarily
oppressive burden due to lack of CO.
ordination among governmental sta
tistical groups. Nine recommended
tions are made for alienation of the
burden, including establishment of a
statistical co ordinating agency
with adequate powers" The pres
ent Central Statistical Board has
been severely handicapped by limited
funds and restricted authority. An
overhauling of the tax laws so as to
provide for consolidated return in
certain instances was one suggestion.
A general clearing house where all
reports would be classified and in
dexed was another proposal.
A recommendation also was made
that confidential information COL
hcted by one agency be made avail
able to other agencies, under rules
safeguarding interests of those max
ing the reports. While this plan
would simplify procedure for agen-
cies authorized to obtain conf1den-
tial data of similar import, definite
precautions would have to be taken
to prevent unauthorized persons
from taking unfair advantage of the
secret information. The Government
must keep faith with its informants
II it expects them to keep faith in
return. Congress and the President
will extend to business a real gesture
OF friendship by studying carefully
the committees proposals with q
view to translating them promptly
into concrete reforms.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Propaganda" and
Contempt of the Senate.

To the Editor Of The Star:
In today's (Tuesday's) Star, the as
sertion is made that urged the Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee to treat as
contempt" of the Senate press propa-
ganda" in support of Franhurter. As no
such assertion was made, and such an
assertion would be inherently ridiculous
II made by any one, trust you will lose
no time in making proper correction.
What did say was in writing, and
perfectly plain. I called attention to
recent press propaganda seeking to
convince every one that it is useless to
protest against Frankfurter)," and that
any protest will receive only routine
consideration" and that confirmation
is inevitable" As such propaganda is
not merely propaganda in favor of the
nominee, but directly tends to persuade
prospective witnesses not to appear be-
fore the Senate committee by leading
them to believe that the committee will
give their testimony only routine" con-
sideration, urged that that kind Of
propaganda should be dealt with "as q
contempt committed against the Senate
Of the United States" In other words,
1t is analogous to propaganda directly
tending to persuade prospective wit
nesses not to appear before a court.
Propaganda in favor Of, or against, q
nominee is one thing; but propaganda
misrepresenting to the public that an
official committee is not going to act
regularly, but is only going to give "rou-
tine" consideration to what witnesses
may present does not come within any
realm Of freedom, constituting, instead,
plain contempt of the official body.
GEO. E. SULLIVAN.
Editors Note-The Stars statement in
its news report to which Mr.. Sullivan
takes exception was this:
. Mr.. Sullivan closed by urging that
"press propaganda" in support Of the
nominee be dealt with as contempt"
Of the Senate.
The Star prints Mr.. SulNvans letter
as amplification OF his point.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

on you, since there were no other parties
to the negotiations over the sit-down
strikes?
Were you induced to refrain from
enforcing the laws of the State of Michi-
gan because you feared bloodshed by the
c. I. o. pickets?
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York City.
January g.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Believes America Should
Mind Own Business.
To the Editor Of The Star:

How the Presidents address to Con-
gress illustrates such proverbs as crying
wolf, dragging herring across the trail
etc.! A year ago it was peace, peace"
but now that his purge dictatorship
drive ran amuck, as all the rest Of this
New Deal foolishness is bound to do,
there arises another political hue and
cry that "the enemy is at our door"
and We must arm to the teeth. Ridicu-
lous. BE q good neighbor" and mind
our own business, keeping out Of Euro
pean entanglements and we will not be
at war-not II We don't intermeddle-
with 1000 miles Of oceans around US q
far - any sizable enemy Is concerned.
January 3. AMERICAN.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Questions to Attorney
General Suggested.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Among the questions that should be
submitted to Attorney General Murphy
by the Senate judiciary Committee are
these:
Have you read the statement given
out by the President, in which he pro-
tested against the admission by the Dies
investigating committee of testimony re-
lating to your action, or inaction, at the
time Of the sit-down strikes in Michi-
gan's motor vehicle factories2
Do you agree with the Presidents at
tempt to defend your failure to enforce
the laws Of the State of Michigan by his
/, statement that Gov. Murphy was con-
fronted with the same kind Of situation"
(referring to the Czecho- -slovakia dis
pute) 'on q smaller scale. He knew that
If negotiations were broken OF bloodshed
was inevitable?
= Were you afraid that If you enforced
the laws Of the State Of Michigan there
would be bloodshed?
II there had been bloodshed, who would
have been responsible?
Would 1t have been the non striking
workers, who merely wished to continue
working to support themselves and their
families?
Would it have been the employers,
who were simply asking for protection
for their employees who wanted to stick
to their jobs?
II not the non strikers or their en-
ployers, would it have been the gangs
of G. I. o. pickets who surrounded the
factories to prevent the non n-strikers
from working7
II not on these picksts, would the re-
apendblUty Ioe bloodsh0d have 1oetoa
Evening star., 1939-01-11

Back in 1887 Congress decreed
that the public debt must not exceed
forty-flve billion dollars. To phara-
phrase another famous political re-
mark, whats budget or two be-
tween friends"?
Evening star., 1939-01-11

II reckohs," said Uncle Eben, dat one
O. de hardest things fob Congressman
to do is to tell whether de public u pre-
ciatin' his arguments Or do neat way hs
has q oxpeoonn' hieoo1.s
Evening star., 1939-01-11
The Country Roy.

"As soon as my boy Josh gets little
Older" said Farmer Corntossel, I'm 60
ing to run him for the legislature"
What for?"
"Well, he's that headstrong and unruly,
we can't do nothin' with him. I'd like to
see governor take hold Of him an
make him stand around"
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Taking . Chance

A public gift may sometimes be
The most uncertain thing on earth:
In wisdom 1t Is hard to see
Just when you've got your money
worth.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1oriter, although the use OF
a pseudoayn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Big BuSineS2.

Though courts may draw judicial lines
And levy penalties with care;
We raise our prices, pay our fines,
And still have some small change Il
spare.