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Evening star., 1939-10-12
Leaders to Conduct
Utah Conference

Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, direc-
tor of the Women's Division, Demo-
cratic National Committee, and Mrs.
May Thompson Evans, assistant di-
rector, left this week for Salt Lake
City, Utah, to conduct a regional
conference there Friday and Satur-
day. Mrs. McAllister will follow the
conference with a speaking tour in
a number of Western States, while
Mrs. Evans will go to South Dakota
and Minnesota to conduct meetings
there.
Miss Josephine Roche, chairman
of the Presidents Committee to Co.
ordinate Health and Welfare Activi-
ties: Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman,
former Representative from Oregon,
and DR.. Ben Cherrington, chief of
the Division of Cultural Relations
of the State Department, will be
among conference speakers.
Mrs. McAllister will share speak
ing honors with Mrs. Anna Roose-
welt Boettiger at a meeting in Sc
attic.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Vile to Be Guest
OF Book Club

Frederic William Vile, whose new
book, News Is Where You Find 1t, !"
has just been published. will be the
guest author at meeting of the
Friday Morning Book Club tomor-
row at 1870 am. in the studio of
the D. c. League of American Pen
Women at the Grafton Hotel His
address will be followed by two re-
views of recent books by Mrs. H.
Lyle Campbell, vice president of
the National Story League Of
America.
Among those who are expected to
attend the meeting are Mrs. Paul v.
McNutt, Mrs Louis B. Montfort,
Mrs. David Blair, Mrs. Edward A..
Hartman. Mrs Robert Clay Sher-
rill, Mrs. Helen Orr Watson, presi-
dent of the D. c. League of Amer
lean Pen Women; Mrs. Nathaniel
B. Dial, Mrs. Jessie Nicholson, Mrs.
Auguste Boas, Mrs. Inez Sheldon
Tyler, Mrs. Robert j. Bates, Mrs.
Harold j. Braman, Mrs. Virgie Scho-
field, president of the D. c. Daugh-
tiers of 1912; Mrs. Georgette Ross
Howard Mrs. Nell " Smith. presi-
dent of the Professional Writers
Club, and Mrs. Grace Porter Hopkins.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
i. S. Defense
Cost Justified,
B. p. w. Told
Nationals S President
Says Americas MAY
Face Crucial Test

Declaring the Americas may vet
have the job of preserving the basic
factors of democracy, and possibly
of civilization itself, DR.. Minnie L.
Maffett, president of the National
Federation of Business and Profess
sional Women's Clubs, last night ex-
pressed the opinion that to meet
these obligations and to preserve
the peace the country is justified in
spending what may seem colossal
sums" for adequate national defense
In our own hemisphere.
DR.. Maffett, who stressed the fact
she was speaking for herself and
not for any group, addressed the
Business and Professional Women's
Club of the District at a dinner in
her honor at the Shoreham Hotel.
The occasion was high light of the
local clubs observance of National
Businesswomen's Week.
II am at all times for peace, and
equally at all times against war;"
she said. Il am not, however, a
pacifist at any price. Any doctor
can tell you how easy 1t is to estab-
lish-but that it often takes strong
and stern measures to enforce-a
quarantine
Must Keep Shores Safe.
America must not, through weak
ness and unpreparedness, be forced
In an emergency to either bluff or
muddle her way through a crisis"
she continued. 1T is evident at
this time that the dictators of Eu-
rope are not bluffing and we may
well need, therefore, great amounts
OF money, arms and men to establish
such an effective quarantine of
European power, politics and fanat-
icism as to make our own shores
safe from attack"
Dr.. Maffett further contended
that "an informed citizen is democ-
racy's safeguard in these dark
hours"
A prominent physician of Dallas,
Tex, DR.. Matfett continued her visit
IN washington today, her program
calling for luncheon with Senator
Tom Connally of Texas, at the Cap
itol, a call on Vice President Garner
and a visit to the Senate to hear a
part of the neutrality debate. Yes
terday she was received by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, conferred
with DR.. Thomas Parran and called
on Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins and Miss Mary Anderson, chief
Of the Woman's Bureau.
Mrs. Lucy S. Howorth, president
of the local club, entertained her at
luncheon yesterday and later DR..
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Cultural Union
Among Americas
Urged by Arts Official
Present Is Good Time
Because Of European
War, He Asserts

Because the war has "blacked out
art In Europe" the need for the
birth of great ter-American
cultural union is more pressing today
than before, Edward Bruce, chief
Of the section of fine arts, Federal
Buildings Administration, today told
the Conference on Inter american
Relations in the Field of Art.
The conference, which closes its
two-day session this afternoon, is
being held at the State Department.
Mr.. Bruce, without mentioning
names, bemoaned the fact that "by
some freak Of fate a fanatic is in
power in Europe" This fanatic"
threatens civilization, he claimed,
and said the drive to curb him
through military opposition has led
already to a situation where art,
subordinated to the needs of battle,
us in complete blackout in Europe"
But the situation is different in
the Western Hemisphere. He re-
marked: There never was a time
when it is more appropriate than
today that things of culture and
art be given the greatest attention.
Despite the war, this country of
ours will find time to give to art"
Educator Exchanges Discussed.
Mr.. Bruce's remarks opened a
morning session devoted to discus
sion of opportunities for student
and professor exchange between
American republics, and about the
role of the motion picture as
medium for art exchange.
Secretary of State Hull, who spoke
informally late yesterday afternoon
at the conference in the State De-
partment, predicted the work of the
gathering would have a vast and
far-reaching effect on Latin-Amer-
ican relations. The development Of
closer friendship along educational
and cultural lines among the
American Republics, he said now
was among the most important
parts of the whole internati ational
program of good will in this hem
isphere.
Mr. Bruce presided at the ses-
Evening star., 1939-10-12

Maffett met with the press, when
she discussed, among other things,
impressions she received during re-
cent visits to clubs in towns and
cities from Texas to Ohio and In
New York State.
Less Hysteria in West.
There Is less hysteria and less
unbridled emotionalism In the West
than in the East, she observed, but
every one is keenly conscious of the
emergency in world affairs. Avoid
1t If you can; fight If you can't" Is
the Midwest attitude toward the war
situation she said.
DR.. Maffett also urged the busi-
ness women to refrain from criti-
cizing Congress as a body. Lam
bast individual members If you will"
she said, "but remember, should this
country enter war, the sons of men,
bers of Congress, as we'll as those
of other citizens, would die on the
battlefield"
Mrs. Howorth presided at the
dinner last night, and Miss Earlene
White, honorary national president,
presented the speaker. Guests in
cluded Senator Connally, Mrs. Nor
ris Sheppard, wife of the Senator
from Texas; Representative Caroline
ODay, Mrs. Thomas Parran, Miss
Bertha Nienburg and DR.. Louise
Taylor Jones. Three presidents of
State federations also were pres
ent: Mrs. Amelia Kopenhaver of
Tennessee, Miss Virgie Harris of
West Virginia and Mrs. Dess Gurg-
anus of North Carolina. Mrs. Pam
coast, president of the Alexandria
club, and Mrs. Jacobs, president of
the Arlington club, also attended.
Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, Social
Security Board member and a men,
Der of the club, read the collect.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Policemen to Take
Promotion Tests

Future promotions in the Police
Department will hinge on the out
come Of written examinations to be
held october 21 at. Mckinley High
School.
Four hundred and seventy EIGHT
officers of various grades already
have signifled their intention of TAX
ing the tests, which will determine
their civil service rating.
Privates on the force for seven
years are eligible to take the exam
ination for sergeant's rating.
Sergeants of two years standing will
try the test for a lieutenancy. In
turn those who have been lieuten-
ants for two years will seek to pass
the captains test.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Catholic 1heo|ogian
To Lecture al T.. j.

Father Reginald Garrigou-La-
grange, o. p, theological writer and
lecturer of the Institutum Angeli-
cum at Rome, will make his first
American appearance at Catholic
University tomorrow at pm. as
contribution of the School of
Sacred Theology to the university's
year of golden jubilee.
Theologians from the leading
Catholic educational centers of this
region are expected to attend the
lecture by the church scholar, a list
of whose writings filled "a pages in
the 1887 European Theological Re-
view. The entire discourse will be
in Latin.
Since his arrival on this continent
this summer, Father Garrigou-
Lagrange has lectured at Laval Uni
versity in Quebec and the University
of Ottawa.
Among those expected to be pres
ent Friday are faculty members from
the Dominican College. Georgetown
University, st. Bernard's Seminary,
Rochester, N. Y; Woodstock College,
Md, and other schools.
Evening star., 1939-10-12

sion this morning, and discussion Of
the question Of student and profess
sor exchange was led by DR.. Walter
w. s. Cook, Director OF the Institute
Of Fine Arts, New York University.
Motion Pictures Are Topic.
The role Of motion pictures as
medium Of art exchange was to be
discussed by DR.. Charles F. Hoban,
jr., director OF the Motion Picture
Project, American Council of Edu-
cation, John Abbott, executive vice
president of the Museum Of Modern
Art, New York City, and others.
The conference was to come to
a close late today with recommends
tions based on a report Of the find-
ings committee. The conference is
sponsored by the Division of Cul-
tural Relations Of the State Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
District Vote
Is Discussed
By Hour Club
Will Continue
Sending Literature
To States

Without national representation
the citizens of the District of Co.
lumbia will have no part in any
action taken by Congress which
would affect either war or peace, it
was argued at meeting of the Club
of the Hour yesterday in The Star
Building Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley
reviewed questions ''of the hour
before the club. preceding a general
discussion, and Mrs. Lloyd A. Nor
rison, club president, presided.
The club, which was organized last
year with national representation
for the District as one of its prin-
cipal objectives, decided to continue
Its program of sending literature on
the lack of national representation
in the District to the people in the
States. The belief was expressed
that such an educational program in
the States is of prime Importance at
this time.
The club also voted to study the
question of whether the price of
milk in the District is affected by
the practice here of not returning
milk bottles to the dairies Plans
also were made to take an active
part in Red Cross activities.
In reviewing current questions,
Mrs. Wiley discussed arguments on
the pending revisions in the neu-
trality laws, expressing herself as
personally supporting repeal of the
arms embargo. She also discussed
the Hitler peace proposals and made
a careful analysis of the situation
in the Balkans and the Baltic Sea
area. The book, Adjusting Your
Business to War" by Leo M. Cherne,
also was discussed and its interpre-
tation of extraordinary powers
which would be acquired by the ad-
ministration in the event of war
presented as further argument for
this country to stay out of war.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Virginia Conference
Holds Closing Session
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. -
DANVILLE, Va, Oct. 1.-THE old
Virginia Conference of the Method
ist Church met for the last time to-
day to hear addresses by Bishop
Clare Purcell Of Charlotte and DR..
j. N. Latham Of Richmond.
Bishop Purcells topic was "The
Future Of Methodism," and DR..
Latham was to discuss the history
Of the Methodist Church in Virginia
The Board Of Temperance and
Social Service completed its report,
which will be made tc the new Vir-
ginia Conference of the United
Church at Its initial meeting in
Richmond next week.
Ministerial assignments also will
be made at Richmond.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Accepts Position

Miss Janet M. Grubb, daughter OF
MI. and Mrs. Charles E. Grubb of
Newark, N. j., who resided here for
several years, has accepted posi-
ton in the research laboratory OF
the New Haven Hospital at New
Haven, Conn. Miss Grubb is a for
mer resident of Bethesda, Md. She
majored in chemistry at the Univer-
sity Of Delaware, where she was an
honor student and took prominent
part in university activities. The
New Haven Hospital, with which
she is now associated, is a part OF
the Yale School of MedicIne.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Ort Leader to Speak

DR.. David Lvovitch, vice chair
man Of the Central Board of the
World Ort Union, who has just re-
turned from Poland, will discuss the
erect OF war in Europe on Ort ac-
tivities in Poland and elsewhere at
a meeting of the Washington Chap
ter Of Woman's American Ort to-
night at 8 pm. at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustave Miller, 310l
Northampton street NV.
DR.. Lvovitch, who has long worked
to ameliorate the economic and
cultural conditions of Jewish life
In Eastern Europe, has been asso-
ciated with most of the leading
Jewish philanthropists and philo-
sophical thinkers.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Smith College Club
Plans Luncheon

The Smith College Club of Wash
ington will hold a luncheon meet
ing at the Little Tea House, Ar
lington, Va, Saturday as the first
event of the new club season
Washington girls who have just
graduated from Smith and other
alumnae who are newcomers to the
city will be introduced.
Reports on the last commence
ment and on the alumnae college
reunion will be given.
Mrs. Kenneth Holland is the
clubs president, other officers be-
ing Mrs. Howard Wilkinson, vice
president; Miss Ruth McClelland,
corresponding secretary, and Mrs.
A. j. Ronk, treasurer.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
w. W.C.T.U.AEIects

Officers receptly elected by the
Stella Clayton Woman's Christian
Temperance Union include Mrs.
Stella Clayton, president; Mrs. Ar
thur Fisher, first vice president;
Mrs. M. Hooper, secretary, and Mrs.
Turner Cox, treasurer. Fall pro-
grams of the union have included a
drama, in memory of Frances E..
Willard, directed by Mildred Parker.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Birth Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon w. Ball of
Arlington, Va, announce the birth
of a daughter. Dorothy Dea Ball,
Saturday, October 7, at Georgetown
University Hospital.
Mrs. Ball is the former Miss Doro-
thy Edith Thomas, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Thomas of Airing
ton,
Evening star., 1939-10-12
CIubwomen to Hear Dies

NEW YORK. Oct. IL R.-Repre-
sentative Dies, chairman of the
congressional committee Investigate
ing un-American activities, will
speak October q before the New
York City Federation of Womens
Clubs,
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Mrs. Durgin Hostess

The Alpha Gamma Alumnae Club
OF Washington and vicinity will be
entertained at dinner at 7 o'clock
tonight at the home of Mrs. Casper
M. Durgin, 5118 Chevy Chase park
way. Mrs. Clinton Sigel and Mrs.
Vernon Clark will assist the hos
tess.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Fetes Patrol Club

Mrs. Lila White entertained men,
bers of the Patrol Club of Samla
Temple, Daughters of the Nile,
Tuesday evening at her home at
2OO2 Klingle road Mrs. White Is
captain of the patrol.
Evening star., 1939-10-12
Women to Meet

FALLS CHURCH, Va, Oct. IL
(SpeciaD The Women's Club of
Falls Church will hold its first meet
ing Of the fall season tomorrow at
the home of Mrs. T. w. Jones.
Evening star., 1939-10-12

Panama is trying to induce Its
drinkers to consume Panama beer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
More Profit in Selling
Only Infertile Eggs

BY producing only infertile eggs
for market, Illinois farmers have a
chance to boost their poultry profits
by thousands of dollars annually,
according to H. H. Alp, poultry ex-
tension specialist, College Of Agri'
culture, University of Illinois.
1T is almost an impossibility to
market eggs of high quality when
they are fertile" he said. This
is especially true during hot wealth
er since a fertile egg will start in
cubation at a temperature slightly
above 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Blood
rings are a natural result of par
tial incubation in fertile eggs.
"A high percentage of fertile eggs
will eventually be thrown away as
rots. This loss backs up to the
producer and is one of the biggest
losses he suffers.
There is only one way to elimi-
nate fertile eggs and that is to re-
move all males from the laying flock
Immediately following the close of
the breeding season"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Bruckart's Washington Digest
In Z. S. Alone Of All World Is
There Real Freedom Of Speech
Disturbing Signs Recently Indicate All Is Not Well;
Administration Trades Against Press Become FIRE.
quent; Concerted Effort to Get Rid of Critics.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg washington n G.

WASHINGTON One of Ameri-
cas- greatest and most glorious ira
ditions is the jealousy with which its
citizens guard the right of free
speech and free press. There is
no nation in the world now, and
there never has been one, where
such freedom for expression of opin-
ion is accorded as we have in the
United States. For proof, if proof
be needed, simply take the old atlas
and examine the countries, one by
one, and abundant evidence will be
found. Here. alone in all of the
world, can an individual or a group
have its untrammeled say.
There have been some signs late
ly, however, that are disturbing. l
do not mean TO over-emphasize
them by a discussion of them, but
the greatest lesson that l have
learned is that the American people
will correct conditions, or prevent
their development, if they know
what the facts are and find them
adverse.
During the last several months,
there have been frequent TRADES
against the press of the nation.
Some of the. denunciations have
come from President Roosevelt in
reply to press criticism Of some of
his policies. Other administration
spokesmen have followed the Presi-
dents lead. Notably among them,
and certainly the most vicious, is
the secretary Of the interior, Harold
l.. Ickes, who seems, in this in
stance, to be the lord high chief
verbal executioner of opposition
writer's and newspapers.
Mr. Roosevelts recent assertion
that some newspaper owners are de-
liberately misrepresenting the facts
and Mr.. Ickes' assertion that 'our
newspapers are not as free as they
ought to be in a democracy" con-
stitute serious accusations. even aft
er one forgets how constantly Mr..
Ickes gets out on limb. 1t seems
TO me. therefore, that there ought
to be some Qualification of the situa-
ton. 1t might be asked, and prop
erly, l believe, why Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr. Ickes do not point out those
newspapers that are charged, in eff
feet. as plain liars.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Utilities

Until early February only one
half of Tennessee's power came
from the Tennessee Valley author
ity. Then Wendell l.. Wilkie, stormy
petrol of Commonwealth and South
ern, agreed to sell his firms Tennes-
see electric properties. For the first
time in its campaign to acquire
choice Tennessee power fields, IVA
recognized common stock value in
utility financial structures. Ten
days later IVA rode again, this
time into Memphis, where Memphis
Power and Light company sold most
of its facilities to IVA and the city
for SIT, 800, 900. M P. & LIS COM
petitor, a city-owned corporation,
gets its electric and natural gas
distribution business. Taking stock,
IVA now finds it has all Tennessee
as a non-competitive power market
except for upper eastern areas
served mainly by small private util-
tiles. All the states principal cit
les - Memphis, NASHVILLE, Chatta-
nooga and Knoxville-are included
in the fold.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Presidents Trusted Adviser
Drafts Reorganization Bill

So, to link the Roosevelt denuncia-
ton of newspapers and the Wheeler
radio bill, one has only to know that
Chairman Frank McNinch, the
Presidents most trusted radio ad-
wiser, largely drafted the Wheeler
reorganization bill That measure,
it should be added, reduces the
communications commission to
membership of three. There would
be administrative assistants" APP
pointed for each of the major types
of communication, and, thus, one
individual becomes car of radio,
another of wire communication and
so on. And, while the members of
the commission must be named by
and with the advice and consent of
the senate" the administrative as
sistant may be anyone who has the
necessary political pull
l repeat that the statements re-
lated above represent the belief of a
good many persons.
One Of the swift changes that has
taken place in this country is the
switch in the attitude of the bulk of
the newspapers. 1t will be recalled
that when Mr. Roosevelt and the
New Deal took over the govern
ment, there were so few editorial
criticisms of the Presidents pro-
gram that any outcry was negligi-
BILE in effect The corps of news
writer's who attended the Presidents
twice-a-Week press conferences &C
copied his statements without equiv
ocation, or without question. 1t was
a press relationship more friendly
than any other President ever had.
Then, some of the New Deal ideas
proved flops and editors started ask
ing questions. Their Washington
correspondents searched deeper
than just official handouts. 1t was
about this time that the personnel
of various agencies for press rela-
tons" began to undergo expansion.
Time after time, well known cor
respondents were hires, and they
could not be blamed because the
jobs were lucrative. was offered
one By coincidence, of course, the
quantity of Statements for the
press" increased, accordingly.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Administration Seeks to
Get Rid of the Critics

Now, to turn abruptly from one
phase of the situation to another,
attention should be directed to the
recent bill introduced in the senate
by Senator Wheeler. the Montana
Democrat The bill proposes re-
organization of the federal commu-
nications commission, the agency
that controls radio. Radio, of course,
is the free speech" just as the
newspapers are the free press"
that is one of the guarantees of the
national Constitution.
There can be no doubt that the
federal communications commission
is shot through with dissension.
There is no doubt that it has de-
veloped one of the worst messes in
government supervision of any in
dustry 1t is a shameful situation,
and there appears to be no solution
except to get rid of the bulk of the
personnel, from the commissioners
on down the line, until all trouble
makers have been eliminated. l
have written frequently in these col
umns that the best law can be de-
stroyed by selection of buns to ad-
minister it; and the general ap-
praisal here is that the members of
the federal communications COM
mission are a pretty sickly lot of
government officials. The appoint
ments the commission has made
also do not constitute list of men
tai giants.
Well, you ask, how does this have
anything to do with President Roose-
velt's denunciation of the neWspa-
pers. Where does it touch free
speech that may be adverse to the
New Deal administration?
The answer lies in a belief, now
held by great many observers in
Washington, that somewhere in the
administration is a concerted effort
to get rid of the critics. There is
little political pressure that can be
exerted upon the newspapers, be-
cause they will speak their views
through their columns, but with the
radio, government supervised, Ii
censed, a weighty club over its head
at all times, the situation is differ
Pnt