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Evening star., 1939-08-15
low-Income Families
Hail Program Of
Birth Control
Was Launched in
Brunswick, Co., in 1887
By Unanimous Vote
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, Aug. 15.-A
birth-control program for mothers
of low-income families has been well
coined as an "unmixed blessing" in
this Georgia city of $4,000, DR.. M. E.
Winchester, county health commits
sioner, said today in describing the
programs operation.
DR.. Winchester announced ap-
proximately rs mothers of very low
income groups" have been given
birth-control instructions, only,
however, where there were medi-
cal indications of its necessity"
These mothers" he related, have
welcomed the program with open
arms, expressing appreciation that
they, too, now have an opportunity
for instruction that already had
been available to mothers in better
circumstances. If I may quote the
words of Dr. Roy Norton of Raleigh,
N. c., writing in the American Jour-
nal of Public Health about BIRTH
control program in his State:
1--WE have no imposing statistics
to offer, but, in the short time OF
operation and with the small num-
ber of patients served, those familiar
with conditions know that the medi-
cal need and the public desire JUS
tify the beginning of the program.
Patients and others in the commu-
nifty have expressed appreciation for
the service.
Programs Co-ordinated.
The county health officer said an
other paragraph from the Norton
article also would apply in Bruins
wick:
The program has in each case
been co-ordinated with the general
maternal and infant health pro-
gram. The encouragement Of hav-
ing larger families in selected cases
and even enabling some couples
hitherto sterile to have babies has
been as much part OF the program
as has the assistance in the pre-
vention of conception wherever med
ical considerations have justified it."
DR.. Winchester explained the local
program was inaugurated by the
Glynn County Medical Society in
1887 by a unanimous vote. Follow
ing in general the plan of the Birth
Control Federation of America, he
said, a committee of three medical
society members was appointed to
review and approve the application
of every married woman applying
for birth-control information to the
County Board of Health. Cases are
referred to a birth-control clinic of
the County Health Board by physi-
clans and mother and child welfare
agencies.
Infant Mortality Reduced.
Among the medical Indications
listed as justifying the giving of
the birth-control information were:
Diseases that would make child
birth hazardous; frequency of
pregnancies that would overtaX the
mother; mental or physical defects
of the father that might be trans
mitted to the child, marital dis
harmony and economic conditions.
There is no doubt" the health
officer said, that this program has
played a part in reducing our infant
mortality by limiting mothers with
syphilis and other diseases from
having babies until they are cured,
improving the general health of this
group of mothers and giving them
a better chance in life, and, perhaps,
preventing an increase in the num-
ber of our handicapped children"
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Spain Planning to Free
American Prisoners
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Aug. Is.
PLANS for freeing more than a
score of American prisoners of the
Spanish civil war, including Harold
(Whitey) Dahl, aviator captured by
the Nationalists in 1887, have ad-
vanced to the point of working on a
schedule for their release. However
10 dates have yet been fixed.
The Spanish foreign ministry, it
was learned today, has so advised
the United States Embassy. The
prisoners, now scattered in several
jails, will be concentrated near San
Sebastian before crossing the from
tier bridge at Irun into France.
Evening star., 1939-08-15

take the position that they did not
entirely fail, for the objective of
their search was the baggage room
of the wreck, and they reached that.
There was some discussion of plans
for returning next year to try to
reach the purser's strong room of
the Merida, but Comdr. Faggian re-
fused to comment, on the posi-
bility.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Veterans to Hold Outino

The District of Columbia Chap
ter, Rainbow Division Veterans, will
have its annual midsummer outing
Saturday afternoon and evening at
the estate of DR.. Albert M. Kloczew-
ski, Herald Harbor, Md. All for
mer members of the Rainbow Di-
vision are invited with their FAM
lilies and friends, according to Ber-
nard V. Rhodes, chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Hearing Is Ordered
For Airline Chunqe
Ry the Associated preSS

BY the Associated Press.
The Civil AeronauticS Authority
today ordered hearing on August
% on an application by American
Airlines, United Airlines and Trans
continental & Western Air for per-
mission to substitute North Beach
IN. " Airport for Newark, N. j.,
as terminal for the various lines.
Newark would become an inter-
mediate point.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
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Shed Them Off

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most troublesome corns. Deadens
pain. loosens corn and then the
entire corn peels right off. Works
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it. Only 35c at drug stores.
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Central and South Americans. The
idea is to loan them money and
help them buy products OF the Unit
ed States-and thus keep the Euro
peans out OF our neighbor countries.
do not know enough about the pro-
gram to analyze IL because IL is a
far-fetched and intricate scheme.
Probably, we ought to do something
to keep the Americas for the Amer
leans, but It was only December Is
that we were reminded again that
the United States loaned something
like Sill ,000,000,000 to a flock OF Eu-
ropean nations to help make the
world safe for democracy.
On December IS, according to the
treasury figures, there was q little
over S2,000,000000 of that money
due-and unpaid. The original debts
were refunded. That is to say, the
debtor nations were given a period
OF years over which TO repay the
loans. They started out to meet the
payments, but first one and then
another found a reason for not
making the semi-annual payments
that were due in June and Deem
Der, until now only little, but re-
spectacle, Finland is making the
payments as they are due.
The nations in default are Great
Britain, France, Italy, Belgium,
Czechosloyakia, Hungary, Poland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania
and Yugoslavia. In addition to all
OF these, the Russian empire, which
is no more, obtained several hun
dred millions and the Soviet of this
day knows nothing Of the obliga-
tion."
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'1t has been the policy Of my
administration to cut the cloth to
fit-cut it to what we could pay for
If our state income was due to be
less, I insisted that we spend less
After all I guess that is your an
swer-spend less when you have less
income"
How about those taxes?
well, it's much the same story"
Mr.. Cochran went on. I'VE feel
that agriculture and manufacturing,
retailing and service, every kind of
industry, has right to survive.
believe those engaged in it have
a right to reasonable profit, a
reward for their work and efficiency
in that work. Every time a new tax
is added it comes out of the whole
people. This statement that taxes
can be shifted around is all the
bunk. The whole people is going
to pay and it is unfair for a state
government to take everything. The
state exists for the people; not the
people for state"
Shows Results of Minority
Pressure From Many Angles ....
I called the governors attention
that in the current fiscal year, the
national government is scheduled to
spend something like $4,000, OOO, 600
whereas its income, at the most,
will hardly exceed five billions. The
observation struck fire.
That's what you get for letting
government go into fields where it
does not belong" he shot back.
There you have the results Of mi
nority pressure from many angles.
In my campaign last fall, I told
every audience that I had been
taught it was wrong for a candidate
to buy votes with his own money
and think it is worse to buy votes
with other peoples money or tax
payers money.
"And here is something for you
to think about; as long as you plan
on pensions or aids or security or
whatever name the thing is-if you
plan on fixed amounts to pay peo-
ple-however deserving they may
be, you are going to have pressure
for more and more. What must be
done is the nation must face the
facts call this stuff what it is
call it charity. and make it unpopu-
lar. Unless you do, the thing that
faces this country is a huge popula-
ton of panhandlers."
, Within a few days after Governor
eochran's visit, word was given out |
at the White House that President
Roosevelt will send special mes
sage to congress early in the new
session, asking that the social Sc
curity act be broadened to cover |
more people The act, as it stands,
vas described as having many in
equities, many injustices, and it
night have been added safely that
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Buried Beneath a Pile of wreckage.


stage The train stopped coanche to
there he missed.
And that a tran-on the same
track his train using-whch Davenport
him and was coming along a stops
How It Feels to Be in a Collision.
George anything had been told
about it later But that second trana B.
behind Them smashed right through the George
smashed up two freight ahead of the caboose
Figure Georges chances out for yourself sleeping
away good money
thing Of was terrible crashing
that broke into mber
bodily by some giant hand and thrown distance.
m opened my just then and the sight appa
ing. Everything about be breaking
were tearing from the walls and bending angles
The floor was bucking and heaving For lust small
part Of second watched the falling to pieces-and then
George doesn't reganed
he buried beneath pile of
e ddnt know His body nbed by the the debris
na held him down He tried look
anu see IL ne was bleeding but he was pinned fast
Then He Heard the Deadly Steam.
i was held down tightly thing
escaping steam began for HELM then but the noise
" Tile steam was so loud that voice couldn't be heard"
again George screamed and again! The sound of the
threw him into a panic. engine has
sealded many
means But this steam wasn't close enough George
freight heard cries.
Fancy dragging body prying up
at but fighting
VI ene stuff that was bearing down his body.
md ANYTHING but badly fatally injured
locomotive crashes through smashing machwood. you
WHAT GEORGE DID, ~ ~ ~ 10000
mnen they got him out there nothing but
s " They took him couldn't
~ else wrong with him either outside Of of
ana George isn't of Faes whte-headed
copyght.-wNu Service.
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it contains many impossibilities
Senator Vandenburg, Michigan Re
publican, long has complained abou;
some Of these and he has urgently
called for amendment OF the law.
provision that would set up a IRE.
serve fund" This reserve fund, cal.
culated to reach the fantastic figure
of $4,000, 000, 900, eventually, is SUD.
posed to be invested and the inter-
est rom that investment is sup
posed to be enough to pay the old
age pensions, etc.
Social Security Money Goes
Into Treasury General Fund
The Michigan senator repeatedly
has sought information from the So
called experts as to how this money
could be invested in government Sc
curities, and has had no answer.
The truth is that there has been no
cash reserve set up at all. The
money paid in for social security
tax mas gone into the treasury's
general fund to be appropriated and
spent like any other dollars. And
the further truth is that if there
had to be full payment now, con-
gress would have to appropriate
other money to pay it.
There is no way to forecast what
is going to come out of the congress
on the Presidents projected propo-
sal In some quarters, one hears
declarations that congressional in
vestigation of the whole cobwebby
situation is the only way to arrive
at a firm foundation. Other places
are sources for observations to the
effect that the federal government
can handle charity or pensions or
assistance matters of any kind
without sinking fumes coming
therefrom. Besides all of these, the
experts in the field of social science
and the inner circle of radicals who
conceived the gigantic So
cial security program will tell you
in a most convincing way that the
federal government can not shirk
its duty to the destitute. From their
standpoint getting the money to
make the payments is the easiest
part of the whole job.
Adverting again to what may
come from the all Of the discussion
concerning social security, one can
not ignore the possibility of whole
sale revision of the law SO that a |
fixed monthly sum will be paid to |
persons attaining some stated adj |
age. There were too many
members Of the house and too many
members Of the senate elected last
November after having limited they |
were favorable to such course
when they were hunting for votes.
As a matter of fact, there are prob
ably about 100 house members who
pledged themselves outright to vote
some type Of Townsend plan or who
said they would support a modifica-
ion Of the present law to provide !,
Early and large cash payments.
And Loans to European
Countries Remain Unpaid
AS hear these various plans dis
;ussed and as I hear other ways of
spending money projected, I am
more and more impressed with the
ound thinking of Nebraska's Gov
'rnor Cochran. Where is all of this
money coming from? / have neither
he money, nor the answer.
In the midst of all of this, what
hould be catapulted upon the scene
'ut a proposal to loan money to the
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lloyd &&6o.,S
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
or PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
''The Crack of DOOM
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

IJELLO EVERYBODY:
II Fate plays dirty tricks of us-and to others
it gives all the breaks. George Keser of Clinton Iowa.
must of Fates favorites George woke up day
out of sound sleep to listen to the Crack of Doom-and
he lived to tell the story -.~ 49,.
a
adventure him 1884, when working
p railroad a Nahant and Green
Island, Iowa.
the morning of April The night before George
restaurant Nahant
tainted
sick with lot of the symptoms poisoning
felt pretty bad-bu he thought the feeling
of he pitched in and worked Bit 1t freight
and when the
But that terrible feeling Instead
got
George Was Sick and Went to the Caboose.
to his job perform duties until the
reached Claire
ing
conductor called the him
take over Georges work.
George went back to the caboose thankful for chance
wouldn't he
that the caboose to be the spot
George lay down bunk began dropped
on sound Sleep and while he sleeping Fate
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The -,
|C.-R. WEEKLY.
|SCRAPBOOK.


Southern Corn Pudding: 2 cups
corn, 2 eggs, teaspoon salt, ! "a
teaspoon pepper, 2 tablespoons OF
melted fat, 2 tablespoons sugar, q
cup scalded milk. Chop the corn.
Beat eggs slightly and mix all in
gradients together. Pour into a
creased pudding dish and make in
moderate oven until firm. Serves
six. You can add " cup chopped
walnuts and 2 teaspoons grated on
ion IL desired.
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- - s~settskt es&SgSA wv
Kennewick, Washington.
Gentlemen:
Why I should have been born q
heavy-duty truck is more than /
can figure. Whenever some light,
shiny coupe whips past me on
the road / feel like skidding over
and smacking 1t one.
I've been working eight and
ten hours day as long as I can
remember, Sundays even. What
wouldn't i give to live In q nice
coy garage and have a new coat
OF polish every week or sol
Work. That's all / ever get.
Then when i get through with q
tough day the boss drives me to
one side and climbs into his
snappy little roadster for a good
time. I'll break that things back
some time.
Is there no justiceP
Yours,
August Brakerod.
Dear Mr.. Brakerod:
Sure there's justice. You don't
get half the abuse these little
high-speed bird-cages are sub
jected to. You'll be on the road
when most Of the cars you see
today are in the junk heap.
You earn the boss bread and
butter. That's why he knows IL
pays TO keep you in repair, even
If he would let his roadster fall
to pieces.
Yours truly,
Z. c. Smith Motor Co.
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Don't forget to oil the vacuum
cleaner and electric washer. This
keeps them in good condition and
they wear longer -.
If your carpet sweeper squeaks,
apply oil on a feather or from a
small can. Use the oil on the bear
ings and around the wheels. Then
run the sweeper over paper to
catch any surplus oil SO it won't
drip on your rugs.
Polishing Points
A bottle Of furniture polish on a
clean dry mop works wonders on
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Measurement Reminders

Two cups Of solid fat equal one
pound as do 2 cups of granulated
sugar. 2 2k3 cups of regular flour
and 4 cups Of pastry flour. Three
teaspoons equal one tablespoon. Six
teen tablespoons equal one cup. Two
cups make one pint.
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Bruckarts Washington Digest
Unusual Coincidence Attends
Visit of Gov ernOr of Nebraska
Executive of State WithO ut Debt Appears Moment
Treasury Announces III uge Federal Debt; Spend
Less When Income Dr0 ps, Cornhusker Formula
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
National Press Bldg, Washington

WASHINGTON Gov. R. L. Coch.
ran OF Nebraska visited Washington
recently. Governors of states gel
around to Washington visits every
now and then, but in the case OF
Governor Cochran's visit, there was
a very unusual coincidence. On the
day Of his arrival, the treasury de-
partment happened to make public
its routine monthly statement of
the national debt and expenditures.
It was late in December, so the
treasury statement served to mark
half of the federal governments
fiscal year.
There was, of course, nothing
spectacular about the fact that the
treasury issued a debt statement.
The government has lots of debt.
But it was spectacular, even sensa-
tional, that the treasury statement
OF that day should reveal new high
record for the national debt on the
day of arrival of one of the state
governors, the chief executive of a
state that has no state debt. Not a
penny does the state of Nebraska
owe. It bound itself by its consti-
tuition never to accumulate state
debt and, further, it restricted its
counties and cities in the amount of
debt they can create
Some may disagree with me but
I was very much impressed with
the facts In the case Of these two
political jurisdictions. Our national
government now is in debt to the
staggering amount Of $50 500, 00O, 900
in direct obligations, and If one adds
the outstanding bonds and notes of
agencies and government-owned
corporations which amount to about
$4,000, DOC, 900, your Uncle Samuel
some way, some how, must pay
nearly $45, 200, 100000 And this at
q time when one of its states, Ne.
braSka, does not owe thin dimel
OAVsO4AAVA GARA1AAAS k1OW
His State Kept Out of Debt
I had quite a conversation with
Governor Cochran, who was elected
for the third successive term only
last MISUNDERSTANDING one of two
Democratic governors in northern
states to be reelected about how
the state had come through the de-
preston with taxes low and no state
debt.
I reminded him that most every
other state had added to its debt;
that taxes were higher and new
taxes were added in every direc-
ton, and yet Nebraska, with many
OF the same problems, had kept its
record clear. So, exactly what is |
the answer?
The answer is very simple" the
governor replied. 1T is so simple
that there is hardly a news story in
it.
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InspiratiOnal
Wherefore seeing we also are
compaSsed about with so great a
cloud OF witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let
us run with patience the race that
is set before us.
Evening star., 1939-02-22
Mrs. Roosevelt Heads
List of Patronesses :.
For Recital

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
head the list of patrons for the re-
cital of Amy Lowell's Bronze
Horses" to be given by Florence
Locke on Monday at the Washington
Hotel under auspices of the District
branch of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom.
In addition to Mrs. Roosevelt, the
patrons and patronesses include
Justice and Mrs. Harlan F. Stone,
Senator and Mrs. William H. King,
Mr.. Joseph Quincy Adams, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Banfield, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ebert Burlew. Mrs. Avery Coonley,
Mrs. Henry w. Edgerton, Mrs. John
H. Gibbons, Mrs Harry January, Mr..
and Mrs. Milton King, Mr.. and Mrs.
Royal T. McKenna, Mr.. and Mrs.
Milo R. Perkins, Miss Mabel Turner,
Mrs. Louis S. Post, Mrs. David L.
Wing, DR.. John Studebaker and Miss
BesS Davis Schreiner.
Tickets for the recital may be
secured at 1874 F. street NV, the
Washington Hotel and from men,
bers of the committee including Miss
Olive P Williams, treasurer: Mrs.
Ebert K. Berlew, Mrs. William A.
Slade, Mrs. Waldron Faulkner, Mrs.
David Williams, Mrs. Harold N.
Marsh, Mrs. Howard Browning and
Mrs. Daniel L. Borden.
Evening star., 1939-02-22
DR.. Pergler Guest
Speaker at Tea

DR.. Charles Pergler, dean of the
National University Law School and
former Czecho-Slovak Minister to
Japan, will be the guest speaker at
the silver tea and open house meet
ing of the Women's Auxiliary of
B'nai Birth Argo Lodge to De held
in honor of new members Friday at
2 pm. at the Jewish Community
Center.
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., hon.
orary president of the auxiliary;
Representative Mary Norton of New
Jersey and Mrs. Sol Bloom, wife of
the Representative from New York,
will be among the guests of honor.
The program also will include a
dramatic presentation. Waiting"
produced and directed by Mrs. Hyde
G. Butler.
1t is stated that $50 new members
expect to join the auxiliary. Mrs
Morris GeWirz Is president.
Evening star., 1939-02-22
Woman Democrats
Place Wreath on
Wilson Tomb

A pilgrimage to the National Ca
thedral for the placing of wreath
on the tomb of Woodrow Wilson
marked the opening of the annual
meeting of the Woman's National
Democratic Club today. The serv-
ices at the Cathedral included a
brief talk by Mrs. Howell Moorhead,
program chairman.
The annual business meeting was
to get underway at 2 pm. follow
Ing luncheon at the clubhouse at
1926 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard, club presi-
dent, will preside at the session,
when annual reports of the Stand
Ing and Nominating Committees will
be made.
Polls will be open today from 2
to o'clock for the election of Of
flcers, and at the annual dinner
at the clubhouse tomorrow night
the new president will receive the
gavel from Mrs. Hubbard.