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Evening star., 1939-03-21
Democratic Women
From Is States =.
\
Open Convention :
BorkIey and Royburn
Will Speak Tonight
At Dinner

Democratic club women from Is
states registered this morning for
the fourth biennial conference of
the Woman's National Democratic
CLUB and affiliated organizations
opening a three-day meeting today
at club headquarters. 1926 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
A luncheon at the clubhouse to-
Gay with Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife
OF Senator Pepper of Florida and
vice president of the club, presiding
was the first feature of the program,
and was to be followed in the after
moon by conference reports of the
various clubs, with Mrs. Samuel
Herrlck, conference chairman, pre-
siding. Approximately 300 women
attended the luncheon, with Senator
Hattie Caraway and Representatives
Mary T. Norton and Caroline O'Day
as the honor guests.
Guests at Dinner.
Senator Alben w. Barklev, ma
Jorlty leader of the Senate; Repre-
sentative Sam Rayburn, majority
leader of the House, and Senator
, Pepper are to be honor guests and
speakers at dinner at the club
house tonight at 7:3O pm. to well
come the delegates. Mrs. Pepper is
to preside at the dinner.
With the settlement of the hotel
strike here, the original plans TO
have mass meeting tomorrow
night at the Shoreham Hotel and
a banquet Thursday at the MAJ
flower Hotel have been resumed.
The subject for the mass meeting,
international Cooperation - Its
Political, Economic and Moral
Aspects will be discussed by Assist
ant Secretary of State Francis B.
Sayre; Clark Eichelberger, president
OF the League of Nations Association
OF America, and DR.. Frank Bohn,
lecturer.
Wives of ENJOYS Invited.
Many of the wives of ambassadors
and ministers in Was lington have
been invited as guest of honor to
the meeting which is open to the
public.
Among the prominent women
who are to sit at the speakers table
are Mrs Mark Bristol, four women
members of the National Demo-
cratic Committee: Mrs. Henry F.
Grady of California, Mrs. John G.
Catlett of Oklahoma, Mrs. Emma
Guffey Miller of Pennsylvania and
Mrs. Esther Jones of South Dakota,
and Mrs. F.. T. Quinn, State vice
chairman from Alabama; Mrs. Nora
Harris, vice chairman from Con-
necticut; Mrs. Sanford K Trippet,
vice chairman from Indiana; Mrs.
Jasper Russell, vice chairman from
Minnesota; Mrs. w. B. Murphy,
vice chairman from North Carolina:
Mrs. j. Henry Shields, vice chair
man from Oklahoma, and Mrs. Edith
B. Dewitt, vice chairman from
Pennsylvania.
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Ellen Mussey Tent
Holds Meeting

Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No. 1,
Daughters of Union Veterans, met
with Acting President Jessie Lewis
presiding. The annual inspection
was made by National President
Mrs Anne Raeyling of Philadelphia
~4Brief addresses were made by the
following guests: Miss Grace Hurd,
national treasurer; Mrs. Eva Garis.
national legislative member: Mrs.
Ida Cole HultZ, Charlottesville, Ind,
and Mrs. Ethel Coppedge, Still
water, Fla. A new member, Miss
Abby johnson, was initiated.
A St. Patrick's program was pre-
sented. Those assisting were: Mrs.
Anna Hausman, solo, accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. Mildred Poore;
talk on St. Patrick, Mrs. Nan Thur
ber, and a recitation by Miss Ruth
Woodruff.
The tent will take part in the
exercises at Stevensons statue at
1920 pm, and also march in the
Army Day parade April 6.
The next meeting is April 3.
Evening star., 1939-03-21
|Wfe-Beuter
| Loshed 5 Times
In Baltimore
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 2l.-Louis
Woolshlager was strapped to a post
In the city Jail today and lashed
five times with a cat-o'-nine-tails
for beating.
The 200-pound seaman, stripped
to the waist was pale when his
wrists were strapped to the cross
arm on a 7-foot timber in the iail
informary. Sheriff Joseph C. Deegan
lashed him once, but Woolshlager
did not vince. He moved his body
on the second and third blows. but
did. not cry out. Red welts appeared
after the fourth and fifth lashes
:" His back was bathed in alcohol
and his shirt was restored as he was
led back to his cell to serve the rest
OF a 30-day sentence, imposed in
conjunction with the lashing decree
Woolshlager was sentenced last
week after Mrs. Margaret WOOL
shlager testified he struck her in
the eye.
Evening star., 1939-03-21
Religious PIoy Toniqht

THE Third Cross" religious play,
will be presented for the second time
tonight at $50 in Holy Name audi
torium, West Virginia avenue and
Neal street NE, by the Catholic
Players Guild
Prof. Anton Lang, jr., of George
town University, son of the re-
nowned "Christus" of the Oberam-
mergau Passion Play, was guest of
honor at the first performance last
night and the st. Matthews Church
Choir, under the direction of Milton
Boyce, sang.
Evening star., 1939-03-21
WONDERFUL HOW
P0SLA S00THES
ECzEmA'S ITCH

Instead of scratching and suffer-
ing why not apply soothing, cool
ing Poslam? Often the very first
application brings welcome relief
to this distress and with the irri-
taton gone, the skin at rest, heal
ing is greatly aided. Even old and
stubborn cases are comforted, be-
cause Poslam readily penetrates
the outer layers of the skin, favor
tins speedy action. Get a box to-
day from your druggist, SOC, and
say bood-bye to eczema's discom-
forts.
[pOSLAM
Evening star., 1939-11-18
I'D. c. Men Appointed
Reserve Officers

Two District of Columbia residents
are among number of appointees in
the Officers Reserve Corps an
nounced today by the War Depart
ment.
They are Pvt. Richard Gerard
Cooley, I'd Staff Squadron, Army
Air Corps, Boiling Field. commits
stoned a second lieutenant in the
Field Artillery Reserve. and William
Arnold Suto, 2817 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, commissioned a second
lieutenant in the QuartermaSer Re-
serve.
Paul D. Charles, Eastern Air Lines
pilot, Gambler Field, Atlanta. Ga,
who flies on the Washington route,
was commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the Air Corps Reserve His
brother, Shelley Charles, is Civil
Aeronautics Authority inspector.
Evening star., 1939-11-18

the coming campaign, Miss Martin
replied that the whole issue lies in
the definition of terms.
IF you mean liberalism in the
sense that Jefferson meant 1.-THE
protection of human rights-then
the Republican party has always
been liberal" she said. adding that
her party would be against that
form of liberalism which includes
"paternalism in government.
Reporting for West Virginia. Mrs.
Ann S. Wilson of Huntington said
there are So clubs in the SIS counties
of her State.
Mrs. Arneill appointed Mrs. Hum
bert B Powell of Devon, Pa, chair
man of the Program Committee.
Mrs. Fred T. Murphy of Crosse
Point Mich, was named chairman
of the Committee on Organization
Extension and Mrs. Albert Vestal
Anderson of Indiana was appointed
chairman of publicity.
Also attending the meeting were
Mrs. William E. Scott, Washington,
secretary of the national fedora
ton; Mrs. Charles w. Lewis, Balti-
more, treasurer; Mrs. Edward E.
Gam, Washington; Mrs. Eleanor
B. Snodgrass, Nashville, Ind; Mrs.
Julia Gaylord, Lansing, Mich; Mrs.
Clarence Mitchell, Far Hills, N. j.;
Miss Jane Todd, Tarrytown, N. Y,
and Mrs. Miller Chase of Riverdale,
Md.
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Movie Tonight to Aid
Spanish Refugees

A motion picture record of the
flight of thousands of Spanish refu-
gees across the Pyrenees before the
advance of Gen. Frances army will
be shown at midnight tonight at the
Little Theater, Ninth and G streets
NV, for the benefit of the Spanish
refugee relief campaign. with head
quarters at 1410 H street NV.
The money will go to the support
OF refugee children at lie de Re,
France. A series of dutch treat"
parties will be held for the benefit
of the fund prior to the moving
picture show A number of promi-
nent Washingtoniars have opened
their homes for the parties.
The Washington chapter has COL
lected S1,700 toward a quta of IS 900
in a $4,000 national campaign for
a Christmas relief fund.
Evening star., 1939-11-18

And What
They Do
British Economist
Strong Advocate Of
Planned Economy
By LEMUEL r. PARTON.

The theories of John Maynard
Keynes, the British economist, are
said to have been the inspiration,
If not the blueprint, of President
Roosevelt's pump priming and
spending policies. Several years ago
this writer undertook to check on
that story. He could discover only
circumstantial evidence, although
there was one intimate adviser OF
the President, in the early New Deal
days, who carried with him Mr..
Keynes book, THE End of Laissez-
Faire," and professed to find there
in the rallying call to a planned
economy.
Currently, Mr. Keynes is for more
and more emergency planning. On
the installment plan one may buy
his right to live. Under Mr.. Keynes
proposed new system of compulsory
savings for Britain, any range of
income above S750 a year is gov
ernment domain and portions of
this surplus may be taken, either
for taxes or for enforced savings,
the latter to draw interest and to
be returned after the war. The
plan is expounded and editorially
sanctioned in the London Times.
We can't say Mr.. Keynes didn't
give us warning. His book, The
Economic Consequences of the
Peace" published just after the
Versailles treaty, was quite specific
in its prophecy of the ruin the
treaty would bring and big, bad
trouble thereafter. Able critics later
charged against him the classic
following this, therefore caused by
this" fallacy, but it is true that, in
this and in several other books and
essays, he has been unpleasantly
accurate in his prophecies.
He left his post as principal repre-
sentative of the British treasury at
the Versailles conference to write
the above challenge and dissent. He
has an easy, colloquial style, some
times bit sardonic, in spite of his
long service with the dismal science.
Happening to be overseas soon
afterward, this writer noted that
one angry old-line British economist
was provoked to the extent of II
Greek characters in making up his
formulas to blast Mr.. Keynes in
four column assault in the London
Times.
Mr.. Keynes, Sc years old. is now
quite an old settler in the wilderness
in which he has been crying, but
others are moving in He thinks
the capitalist system can be saved,
but it must learn to lift itself by
its own bootstraps.
1Released by Consolidated News FesturesJ
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Buyer Sovereignty
Advanced as Best
U. ). Economic System
Dr.. Kreps Addresses
Conference Watching
Profiteerine in War

Warning against straight jecket-
ting" plans for United States econ
omy during the present war abroad
DR.. Theodore Kreps, business eco
nomics professor of Leland STAN
ford University, declared last night
before the Consumers Conference
on High Prices and Profiteering
that the sovereignty of consumers
was "the only economic system for
Americans.
Although the consumer has re-
covered from the initial fright OF
September, the speaker declared,
grave dangers still lie ahead for the
American way of economics"
1--WE must beware of the time
when markets are fixed by gov
ernment for the benefit solely of
that governments policy" DR..
Kreps, who is serving as economic
adviser for the Temporary National
Economic Committee, declared.
Sees Peril for Democracy.
The gearing of United States in
dustries to war standards, he warn
ed. would be the beginning of sub
versive regimentation, 1.-The real
danger to democracy"
While pointing out that the mill
tary must be kept out of the eco
nomic system, DR.. Kreps stated
that business, as a whole, is not
proflteering or interested in the
United States entering the present
war
Likewise he secuted theories of
profiteering in agricultural products
as in 1914. Capacity of farmers to
raise larger crops and planned con-
troll through the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration would off,
set, he said, any prof1teering during
tro present crisis.
Germany's plan for self -suff1cien-
cy through manufacturing of er-
satz products has been under way
in Great Britain since the close OF
the last war, he maintained. With
the United States possessing chem
istry industry capable of producing
nearly all of it's needs, it is no longer
necessary for this country to de.
pend on Germany, he said.
Urges Rational Buying.
He urged rational government
buying" as a sound economic pro.
gram during the present war.
Formed of individual consumer.
and delegates of groups with con.
sumer interest soon after the out.
break of war in Europe. the loca
Consumers Conference met las1
night to formulate long-range pro.
gram. A report of its research divi.
sion outlined the following points:
A weekly broadcast of a market.
ing survey, with funds to be supplied
by the Department of Agriculture.
Insistence that merchants inform
through labels, of the cheapening il
quality of all products, even though
the price remains the same.
Compulsory grading Of meats b.
the government.
Mrs. M. o. Lorenz presided at th'
meeting, which was held at 70,
jackson place NV.
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Non-Mi|itory Planes
To Visit D. c. En- Musse

The greatest massed fight of nom
military aircraft ever to visit the
National Capital is expected here
early in January as prelude to the
au-American air maneuvers in
Miami, beginning January 5.
The total of 80 airplanes which
have visited Washington in connec-
ton with the maneuvers in past
years is expected to be exceeded by
a considerable margin, according to
entries already received.
More than 1900 airplanes of all
types are expected to land at the
Miami municipal airport and the
adjoining master airport" now be-
ing constructed, it was announced.
The airplanes which will visit Wash
ington will be chiefly entrants in
the Bernarr Macfadden Trophy race
for sportsmen pilots, and the annual
sportsman pilots winter cruise.
Following the Miami meet 100
planes are expected to cruise to Ha-
vana to become the guests of the
Cuban government for three-day
air show featuring American air.
Aplanes and pilots. y
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Citizens Warned
Of Candy Sales for Fund

Citizens were warned today that in
dividuals who may approach them
soliciting funds or selling candy
under the name of the Army and
Navy Union are unauthorized.
A number of inquiries concerning
the attempted sale of boxes of
candy, at 50 and SIS box, have
reached the Better Business Bureau.
Milton j. Eckert, commander of
the unions department of the
Potomac, declared: Il would like
to inform the public that the ARMY
and Navy Union is not soliciting
funds nor sponsoring candy sale
and that any one who uses our
name in such sales is acting with
out the knowledge and consent of
this organization and that we are
deriving no funds from such sales"
Evening star., 1939-11-18
8-Point Platform
For Health Program
Drawn by Doctors
Obiectives Stated in
View Of Pending
Federal Legislation
BY the Associated Press

BS tne Associated fTeSS
CHICAGO, Nov. l8.-The Amer
ican Medical Associations objectives
and principles relative to national
health program were set forth today
in a unique eight-point platform.
Trustees representing some 115.OO0
member physicians yesterday
adopted the platform, the first OF
it's kind in association history.
DR. Nathan B. Van Etten OF New
York, president-elect. said the asso-
citation desired to state its detectives
in view of pending Federal legisla-
ton.
Trustees expressed the hope the
platform might aid authorities
drafting Federal legislation. The
Wagner national health bill now is
before a Senate subcommittee.
Medical Agency Favored.
The platform follows:
l. Establishment of an agency to
coordinate and administer all
medical and health functions of the
Federal Government exclusive OF
those of the Army and Navy.
2. The allotment of such funds as
the Congress may make available
to any State in actual need for the
prevention of disease, the promotion
of health and the care of the sick
on proof of such need.
3. The principle that the care of
the public health and the provision
of medical service to the sick is
primarily a local responsibility.
4. The development of mechan-
ism for meeting the needs of ex-
pansion Of preventive medical serv-
ices with local determination Of
needs and local control of admin
istration.
Care for Indigent.
5. The extension of medical care
for the INDECENT and the medically
INDECENT with local determination
of needs and local control of ad-
ministration.
6. In the extension of medical
services to all the people, the utmost
utilization of qualified medical and
hospital facilities already estab-
liShed.
z. The continued development OF
the private practice of medicine
subject to such changes as may be
necessary to maintain the quality
of medical services and and to in
crease their availability.
8. Expansion of public health and
medical services consistent with the
American system of democracy.
Oppose Compulsory Insurance.
The trustees registered opposition
to compulsory sickness insurance
state medicine and similar tech
nics," which they contended results
in "a trend toward Communism OF
totalitarianism and away from
democracy"
I'm these times" they added
when the maintenance of the
American democracy seems to be
the most important objective for all
the people of the country, the people
may well consider whether some o1
the plans and programs that have
been offered for changing the ma
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Virginia Warns Public
Of Rabbit Disease
By the Associated Press.

DS Vic AoSOCldIcu HTcSS
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 18.-Dr.
I. C. Riggin, State health commits
sioner, issued warning yesterday
to the public to exercise caution in
handling rabbits, pointing out that
tularemia, sometimes called rabbit
disease, is more prevalent in hunt
ing season than at any other time.
DR.. Riggin urged that rubber
gloves be worn by persons dressing
rabbits. 1T is the one safe defense
against acquiring tularemia from
this source" he said.
Last year the State Health De-
partment received reports of IA
tularemia cases, of which IL proved
fatal.
Evening star., 1939-11-18

ing Republican
and Democratic
citizens of the
State, reSpec =
lively. The one
Is a potential
very potential
possibility for
the G. o. p.
pre- S | d e n t ! ial
nomination next
year. The other
Is regarded as
the most likely
appointee to the
Supreme Court
of the United
States to fill the
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Plans 10 Mobilize
Women for 6. 0. P.
Discussed
Republican Clubs
Unit Hears Report
Of Expansion

Expressing confidence in a Re-
publican victory in 1910, members of
the Advisory Committee of the Ma
tional Federation of Women's Re-
publican Clubs yesterday discussed
plans for mobilizing the Nation S
women for the presidential election
and the groups 1910 convention
next fall.
Presiding over the semi-annual
one-day meeting of the committee
was Mrs. James r. Arneill, jr., of
Denver, president of the national
federation. Mrs. Charles w. Weis OF
Rochester, N. Y, was named chair
man of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, which will be responsible for
the selection of a convention city.
The committee also heard reports
on the program of the national Or
ganization.
600 New Clubs Added.
Miss Marion E. Martin, executive
director of the national federation,
reported that more than 600 new
clubs have been admitted to the
federation since the initial meeting
of the organization in September.
1898. Of these, Miss Martin pointed
out, 564 are member clubs of State
wide Republican women's organiza-
tions in Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico
New York, West Virginia and
Wyoming. The remainder, she said
are individual clubs scattered
throughout other States.
At a, press conference Mrs
Arneill declared the committee did
not meet as a policy-forming or pro-
gram unit but rather to lay plans for
the education" of the Nations
women in following the policies OF
the Republican party and its leaders
Asked if the Republican party
proposed to swing toward more
liberal or conservative course in
Evening star., 1939-11-18
Thespions Open Season

The Thespian Club of Washing
ton will open its season by present.
ing The Late Christopher Bean"
at $40 o'clock tonight in the Gar
net-Patterson Junior High School,
Vermont avenue and u street NV.
The comedy vii be under the direc-
ton of James Butcher, jr.
Evening star., 1939-11-18

uncle sam tnlS
year as he faces
the problem OF
planning a ma
tional defense
budget.
If anbody in
the world will
kindly tell the
Government Of
{ he U n t e d
States how long
he pres e n t
European W a r
will last and
how it will come
out, there might
l., = co,,;,,n nf of
Evening star., 1939-11-18

vacancy recently caused by the
death of Associate Justice Pierce
Butler.
Had Attorney General Murphy
been reelected Governor OF his
State in 1888 he, too, might have
been in the running for preSi-
dental nomination. Michigan, how
ever, last year swung back to its
traditional Republican moorlngs
and Mr.. Murphy was out Of a job,
until President Roosevelt named
him Attorney General in place of
Homer Cummings of Connecticut,
who was resigning.
There were threats that serious
opposition to Mr. Murphy's appoint
ment to be Attorney General might
develop in the Senate. He had
been aSsailed frequently because OF
his failure to put down the sit-down
strikes in Detroit and other Michi-
gan cities with a strong hand. 1t
was charged he was too radical" ="
But the serious opposition dWindled
to a vote of seven Senators when
the showdown came in the Senate.
Seventy eight Senators, On the
other hand, were recorded n favor
Of confirmation, including Is Re-
publicanS.
Vandenberg Voted No"
Senator Vandenberg. who will be
called upon to pass on Mr.. Murphy's
qualifications for the Supreme Court
If he is appointed to the bench,
was one OF those who voted no on
the roll call on his appointment to
be Attorney General. The Michigan
Senator at that time told his Senate
colleagues the voters of Michigan
had recently rejected Mr.. Murphy at
the polls, largely on the ground that
he had failed to enforce law and
order during the sit-down strikes.
He said he felt it necessary to be
governed in his vote on Mr.. Murphy
by the feelings of his constituents.
What would be Senator Vanden-
bergs position on an appointment of
Mr.. Murphy to be member of the
Supreme Court he has not dis
closed. Mr.. Murphy has made an
excellent record as Attorney Gen.
eral. He has brought into the De-
partment of Justice many healthy
reforms. All of this might have it's
effect on the Michigan Senator.
Furthermore, the judicial appoint
ment, if it comes. will be long after
the adverse vote of the people of
Michigan on his candidacy for re-
election as Governor.
Mr.. Murphy has been suggested
more than once as a possible vice
presidential candidate on New
Deal ticket with President Roosevelt
running for a third term next year.
No one knows. however. whether
the President is to be a candidate
for another term. OF course, if the
President has that in mind, and also
would like to have Mr. Murphy as
running mate, he will doubtless
not appoint Mr. Murphy to the
bench.
Attack to Be Expected.
The Murphy appointment to the
Supreme Court would be signal
for attack on his qualiflcations-but
such attacks would be far more
mild than they would have been had
he been appointed to the Supreme
Court without having had his year
Evening star., 1939-11-18
The Capital Parade
Appointment Of Murphy to Supreme Court
May Move up, in Turn, Joekson and Cohen

ATTORNEY General Frank Mrpy appointment to the Supreme Court
probable that interest chiefly concentrates
the ladder behind him. certain
Solicitor General Robert jackson will Mphys place
that Murphy will inherit Justice
high
legal JOB In the country the main prize offered for competition
1t strikngy interesting that today
least chance win it. Being reng
Evening star., 1939-11-18

ture of medical service are not in
effect the first step toward an aban-
donment of the self-reliance. free
will and personal responsibility that
must be the basis of a democratic
system of government"
Evening star., 1939-11-18

the two men IN American public
life whom he most admired,
The photographs were done by
a German refugee, Ferdinand Vogel.
Vogel a friend of Commissioner of
Labor Statistics Isador Lubin, has
been making portrait gallery of
American public men. Lubin took
some of Vogel's work to the Presi-
dent, in order to persuade him to
sit for the photographer. The Pres
idarat MoS deenlN irarreSsed hu the