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Evening star., 1939-04-03
Residential
Social
Notes
Mrs. Taft to End
f Weeks Stay
In Charleston

Mrs. William Howard Taft Is ex-
pected to return to her Washington
home today or tomorrow from
Charleston, S. c., where she is COM
pleting her annual spring visit Of
six weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben r. Clark and
their children. Philip and Shirley,
of Scarsdale, N. Y, are visiting in
the former home of Mrs. Clark on
Newark street, Cleveland Park.
Mr.. Clark, also formerly of WASH
ington, recently became a member Of
the law firm of Carter, Ledyard &
Milburn, New York City.
Mrs. Frank Campbell Nickels of
washington and Minneapolis. will
leave Wednesday for New Orleans,
Fort Sam Houston, Tex; Chicago
and Minneapolis. Mrs. Nickels has
been with friends here during the
winter, having recently returned
from an extensive visit to the Far
East. She has been lecturing on
foreign affairs and her experiences
AL LA1C 0A1O-OdpoAICoC AOoVAAAtACos
DR.. j. Lawn Thompson, who has
been in Florida recuperating from
q recent illness, has returned to the
city.
Mrs. Frederick Young, who has
been spending week visiting in
Baltimore, has return to her home
on Euclid street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry j. Henning
entertained at dinner at the Hotel
Raleigh Saturday in honor of their
son and daughter law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry L. Henning, who were
celebrating their third wedding an
niversary. The guests at the ami
versary dinner included Miss Dor
othy King, Mr.. Theodore Sheckles
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Carr.
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Miss Mary Mitchell
To Wed Mr.. Balch

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert F. Mitchell
of Hyattsville, Nd, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Mary 10, to Mr.. Clyde w. Balch,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry G. Balch
of Hyattsville.
Miss Mitchell will graduate from
George washington University in
June, where she is member of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, is
president of the Mortar Board,
Senior Women's Honorary Activities
sorority; former editor of the Cherry
Tree, George Washington yearbook;
q member of the Phi Epsilon hon.
orary Journalistic fraternity, and
Alpha Pi Epsilon, honorary home
economics sorority.
Mr.. Balch was graduated from
the University of Maryland in the
class of 1887 and took his masters
degree in 1898. He is a member of
Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chem
istry fraternity, and is working tn
the Naval Research Laboratories.
Evening star., 1939-04-03
Daughter of Chen
To Appear Here

Plans are being completed by
members of the Washington Com
mittee for Aid to China for the
appearance here on April II of Miss
Si-lan Chen, daughter of the former
foreign minister, Eugene Chen, and
Miss Lily Mehlman in program
of modern and classic dances. Miss
Chen is making a tour to raise re-
lief funds for Chinese war victims,
the money to be distributed through
the Chinese Red Cross.
Members of the Committee on Ar
rangements are: Miss Ruth Weiner,
Mrs. Arthur Clarendon Smith, Miss
Ann Goodman, Miss Adelaide Trues-
dell, Mrs. j. j. Butterfly and Mrs.
T. Y. HUI.
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Arlington, Va, and Mr.. Harlan H.
Knapp, son of Mrs. Grace Knapp
of Washington, which took place
Tuesday evening, March 81, In the
parsonage of Concordia Lutheran
Church, Washington. The cere.
mony was performed by the rastor
Of the Church, the Rev. Charles
Enders, in the presence Of q few
relatives.
Mrs. Knapp was married in navy
blue ensemble, with matching access
sories, and her flowers were a cor
sage bouquet of red roses. She was
attended by her sister-in-law. Mrs.
Wade H. Thomas, jr., and Mr..
Thomas acted as best man for Mr..
Knapp.
The couple are making their home
at 1101 Seventeenth street south,
in Arlington and will go on a belated
wedding trip to California in June.
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To Present Comedy

The Coleman Jennings Volunteer
Workers, who have been active in
charity work for the past year, will
present "The Travellers" a one-act
comedy by Booth Harrington, April
II, in the Western Presbyterian
Church.
Members who will take part are
Miss Martha Talley, Miss Kearsley
Caldwell, Miss Suzanne Happier and
Miss Janice Punch. Other roles will
be played by William Morgan, Ard
Hoyt, Edward Trip, Emmett Muir
ply, John Snyder and Robert Liv-
ingston.
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u. D. c.. Card Party

The Robert E. Lee Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, will hold a card party for
the relief of needy Confederate
women this evening at $3.50 o'clock
at Confederate Memorial Hall, 1922
Vermont avenue.
Prizes will be awarded at each
table and refreshments will be
served.
Mrs. r. B. Whitehurst, chairman
of entertainment, is in charge Of
arrangements.
Miss Liza Ellen Carpenter is pres
ident of the chapter.
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ployed in the Treasury Department
for the past two years.
Mr.. Langtry is a graduate of the
Law School Of George Washington
University and is a member Of the
Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was ad-
mitted to the bar Of the District OF
Columbia In April, 1888, and is now
connected with the legal department
of the District Unemployment Com
penSation Board.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lantry are making
their home in Washington.
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Sail Tomorrow

Mrs. Earl Taggart will go to New
York today to join her son, Mr.. Earl
Broderick Taggart, and they will
sail tomorrow aboard the Ancon
for Panama to join Mr.. Taggart,
who has been there since January.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taggart and their son
will return to Washington the end
of April.
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Miss Kinsley Is Married
To Mr.. A. B. Parrot.

Miss Colony Kinsley of Plainf1eld,
N. j., was married to Mr.. Alton Ben
jamin Parrot of East Falls Church.
Va, Wednesday, March 20, In Chi
cago.. The ceremony was performed
in the Unitarian Chapel at Fifty
seventh and WoodlaWn at noon.
Mrs. Lawrence Stevens of Chicago
was matron of honor and Mr.. Law
renee Nye Stevens was best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parrot will make
their home at 5455 Everett avenue,
in Chicago, where Mr.. Parrott is a
radio engineer for the Civil Aero
nautics Authority. Mrs. Parrot Is
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Kinsley of Plainf1eld, N. j., and was
graduated from Vassar College in
the class of 1885. Mr.. Parrot at
tended the University of Wisconsin,
the University of Arizona and was
graduated from George Washington
University,
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Wilson Teachers College and is q
graduate Of Georgetown University
School Of Nursing. DR.. Finnigan
was graduated from the Holy Cross
College at Worcester, Mass, and the
Georgetown University School of
Medicine in the class Of 1887.
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Ftnnigan-Dickie Wedding
Is Announced.

Is Announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Dickie
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Kathryn Elaine, to DR..
Charles Albert Finnigan, Wednes-
day, January II. The wedding took
place at st. Mary's Church in
Hagerstown, Md, the Rev. S. E.
Kenny ofi1ciating.
DR.. and Mrs. Finnigan will be at
home after April 20 at 2311 Con-
necticut avenue where they have
taken an apartment in the Wood
ward. Mrs. Finnigan studied at
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By the Way
Continued From Page B-3)

cocktail with william this
popular supervise completion
Of ranch there.
Mrs Benjamin Ihaw a navy crepe
blue and white polka dotted silk her
fit after trip George Marye
brought her house guest Mrs Sidney Coman the latter
frock with mink coat
arrived with the good that Ballard
olyve Grae will arrive Monday
Edges dance, and will remain with the Brstols
Mrs Marshall Exncos looked chic in
black chaed with
Benjamin Plunkett Walach Merriam
Pettengu and William Taylor
One Of the most attractive
Monoroney wife Of the Representative from Oklahoma will
Tuesday April H. the charming old
Monoroneys have recently leased Assisting the will
William Jennings Price, Mrs Bernard Josh and
Mrs Edward Megs
Orn1sby McCammon returned a
mervle s. Aiken, and Rawls
from Aiken to visit her mother Mrs John Williams,
here route to her house at Hills and Mrs Harry
the Williamsburg, Letter,
returned Washington
whirl that until the middle
Lothrop Stoddards
United Military Attache in Bucharest, Rumana.
BY THE Way
lovely blond wife
Mayower Hotel Schoz told they
thought would
old friends before going to their
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Weddings
Of Recent
Interest
Miss Mildred Booth
Becomes Bride of
DR.. Albright
Continued From Page B-3)

Refugee Maternity Hospital. Be-
fore leaving China she spent three
months travelling In the interior
and returned to America via San
Francisco, completing a round-the-
world trip.
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Miss Morgan Is Bride
OF Mr.. w. w. LanHtry, Jr.

Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Reid Morgan
Of Americus, Ga, announce the
marriage Of their daughter Annie
Reid to Mr.. Wilbur w. Langtry, tr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. LanRtry,
Of this city, Friday.
The bride attended George WASH
ington University and has been en-
Evening star., 1939-04-03

The policeman on the corner Is in
position to see the whole traffic
picture better than you can from
the sidelines. Observe his signals.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
GALLUP POLL A SPUR
TO PARTY HARMONY

If anything can encourage the Demo-
cratic party harmony sought by group
of influential senators and congressman
in Washington, it should be the result OF
the Gallup Poll, conducted by the Amer
lean Institute of Public Opinion. II any
thing prevents return of the much sought
Democratic harmony, it will be the left
wing branch of the Democratic party
itself, which has announced several times
recently that there will be no compro-
mise with conservative elements within
the party.
The Gallup Poll indicated:
l. That only % per cent of the voters
today favor a third term for President
Roosevelt.
?. That 93 per cent would be inclined
TO vote for him if he decided to run for
third term.
3. That if President Roosevelt ran for
a third term and was opposed by Thomas
E. Dewey, young New York racket bust
er, on the Republican ticket, Dewey
would be elected.
The Gallup Poll is ordinarily accept
ed by both politicians and business men
as reliable, but it must be remembered
that the straw vote from which the cur
rent deductions were taken was cast
without the fanfare Of political cam
paign, which changes many votes. Thus
the poll assumes no great Importance
except as an indication.
Importance of the poll to those driv
ing for Democratic harmony lies in the
fact that President Roosevelt is still
conceded to be the best vote getter in the
Democratic party. If he could not win,
it is not likely another man could. Har-
mony within the party, to the nth degree,
would be necessary to give the Demo-
Gratis a fighting chance in 1910
Standing in the way of harmony may
be the New Deal itself. although it will
be the biggest loser through continued
unharmonious relations. Thus far the
New Deal has refused flatly to recognize
the growing demand within party ranks
for greater conservatism. The New Deal
makes the mistake Of labelling "conserva-
tives" in the same category with "reac-
tionaries." The mistake may be the down.
fall of the party in 1940.
Harmony in the party will be achived
by compromise, not by absolute surren-
der of the conservative element. For the
good of the government during the period
between 1910, if not for the sake of
the party in the 1910 campaign, har-
mony should be achieved.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
WHEN THE SHOE PINCHES
THE OTHER FOOT

George c. Kidwell, direcor of the Cali
fornia state department of industrial
relations, might have been relating facts
when he testified before a congressional
committee at Washington that Westwood
labor strife was fomented by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor to discredit the
National Labor Relations Board and the
Committee of Industrial Organizations
but even if he were telling the truth it
does not modify the proof Westwood
offered of NLRB bias.
Even now, after almost year, the
labor board has refused to call cOllec-
tive bargaining election in Westwood.
Is it because the labor board knows the
AFL would win such an election? All
indications point that way.
The labor board or course, says it will
not call an election until terrorism"
stops in Westwood Yet there has been
no hesitation on the part of the labor
board to call elections elsewhere, even
in the midst Of strikes and rioting, where
it appeared the CIO would win
Anyone, state official or otherwise,
who attempts to defend the labor board
by blackening the AFL is merely trying
to hide a pig Sty behind a mud puddle
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

or make them pay higher ton-mile
taxes than domestic trucks.
There are now in existence up
wards of ITO different state laws
on the grading and labelling OF
farm products. The agriculture de-
partment looks on these laws as
good things, but declares that when
they lack uniformity - as, among
these 170-odd laws, they emphati-
cally do-they are a decided him
drance to agricultural trade.
The whole problem is highly
complex, and it cannot be solved
by the federal government alone.
One idea is to have the states
adopt a standard milk ordinance
which would protect the public
health but, by its uniformity would
not halt the free flow of dairy
products. This might be supplement
ted by system of federal inSpec-
ton.
Uniformity in motor truck laws
and regulations might be obtained
by agreement between the states;
or, it is suggested, the federal gov
elnment might step in by stipulat-
ing that no further registrations
could be required of any motor
vehicle moving in interstate COM
merce that was properly registered
in its home state and held an In
terstate Commerce Commission reg
iStratiOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10

WASHINGTON. - One of the
toughest Of Uncle Sans economic
problems is just beginning to at
tract public notice. II is the con-
Stantly growing system of state
line barriers to the movement OF
trade within the United States.
The recent conference on inter
state trade barriers in Chicago
helped to focus public attention
on this problem. You are due to
hear a good deal more about it
from Washington during succeed
ing months. In the opinion of some
high officials here, the problem is
one of the most pressing before
the country.
Although the prosperity of the
nation was built on a free move
ment OF trade inside the national
boundaries, Secretary Wallace re-
Gently remarked that today I'VE
cannot say that we have free trade
between the states In the depart
mentS OF commerce and agriculture
the situation s considered eX-
tremely serious
These barriers are of many
kinds. There are truck and motor
vehicles regulations and taxes,
special taxes on products like oleo-
margarine, fruit and vegetable
quarantineS and inspection fees
restrictions on the movement of
beer and liquor, regulations on the
movement OF dairy products, ports
of entry, restrictions on retailers,
and taxes designed TO keep resi-
dents OF a state from buying goods
produced outside of the state.
These laws come from two
sourceS-to protect the business in
terests within state. and to find
new funds for hard pressed state
governments.
IL either case, their effect is to
set Up tariff barriers along state
lines Today, according to a recent
survey made by the agriculture
department, practically every state
has put restrictions of one sort or
another on interstate trade in foods
or other commodities.
Some of these taxes are retalia-
tory Arkansas, for instance, puts
25 per cent tax on milk, butter
cheese and apples from Washing
ton, Minnesota, Iowa and Wiscon-
sin, and these states in turn lay
special tax on Arkansas cottonseed
oil and its by-products.
Restrictions on interstate truck
movements arc considered equally
serious. Some stateS-Arizona Kan
saS. Oklahoma and Wyoming-re-
quire practically all QUITO Estate
trucks to register and pay a fee,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10

travel fifteen hundred miles to see
this cripple? Because he CONSIDERED
this man a striking example ol
courage. And courage Is a quality
the old General likes. ,-,
During the war, E. Wade Patrlck
was a ground mechanic in an ava
ton factory There was an accident
in the plant, and when 1t was over
he had TO walk on crutcheS. But
he got worse. and had to get around
in a Wheelchair. His condition con-
tinued to grow worse. He had to 90
TO bed with paralyzed and afro
phied legs.
Did he give up and say, "Oh,
what's the use? I'm a cripple. l
can't do anything" No indeed he
didn't. He had courage.
He started a business right there
in bed He had frame built over
his bed so that he would suspend
a typewriter from it. He had Spe-
cial rigging put on the wall and a
telephone fastened to it. He had
a buzzer system put in, which com
municated with every room in the
house. He was ready to 90 into
business!
He hired salesman and sent
him out 10 sell radios He directed
the salesman by telephone. He
wrote TO radio cabinet manufactur-
ing companies and became the
representative in his town for one
Of them
He wrote pamphlets and adver-
tising literature and mailed them
10 prospects.
He did so well with radio that
he decided to expand. Think of
that. Starting 10 expand a buSi-
ness IN bed. He added ironing ma
chimes, washing machines, electric
ironing machines, vacuum sweep
ers. He had TO put on another sales
man. And another And now-right
this minute-he has five statesmen.
He directs them by telephone They
call him twice a day, and he tells
them what 10 do and where TO go.
And not once has he let a sales
man make a sale because his boss
was cripple No, indeed. Very few
OF the people who buy know that
the head man is confined TO a bed.
Has he succeeded? A man with
spirit and courage like that will
almost never fail! I have a letter
from him dated February 21st Of
this year; in it ne tells me that
his ed-conducted business for 1888
was $4,000.
And so l say, Hats off to E.
Wade Patrick" Can you read aouut
him without feeling little more
courageous? can't. No wonder
General Pershing went TO see ilim
as a fine example of what soldier
admires most.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
CHISELERS
ON RELIEF
(Oroville Mercury-Register)


Brief investigation has disclosed that
10000 chiSelers have falsely obtained
more than 1927, 900 from the State Re-
lief Administration Those 10000 repre-
sent less than half of the 900 cases
of chseling reported since 1886, and SEN
ator Nielsen of Sacramento estimates
that the state has been robbed of more
than a million dollars in this manner.
Senator Nelson uses this information
as further inducement to enforce rigid
economy in conduct of the SRA in Cali
fornia. without doubt. he says, 'the
SRA should be well policed if economy
in giving away relief money is to be eff
fected.'
Those entitled to relief, it seems, should
be the best source cf information, in
hunting out these chiselers. The offend
erS have been claiming larger families
than they really support, are persons
with incomes or are persons who have
employment although they have applied
for and obtained relief. There are many
other cases where the actions of chisel-
ers have been covered up" by those who
should have exposed them, land without
doubt, states Nielsen. there are scores
of cases of colluSion that have not come
to light"
1t is the civic duty of everyone to re-
port all suspected cases. Among the
21.000 cases eported 2200 are in the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
Probably many more exist. Let us find
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
Willis Thornton's Editorial Or
Productivity Rises; Jobs Do Not

However. it is the rise III pro
ductiyity per man-hour that Is
most interesting. with an almost
continual rise from 100 in l929 10
l179 in 1888. That means that
each workman, in each hour ne
worked. turned out from % to 80
per cent more work than he did
in 1929.
What ought to be the result OF
this? Why, cheaper goods, making
it possible for more people TO nave
them. And it is certainly true that
to some extent this result has been
achieved. A great many things are
certainly cheaper than they were
in 1929. But wages, in terms oil
annual income for the average FAC
tory worker are also under the
1929 level in terms Of buying power.
What is the answer to all this?
We don't know any one single, con-
elusive, comprehensive answer. But
the first thing is to recognize the
problem, and the next is to learn
more about 1t.
Certainly high productivity per
man-hour is a desirable thing. Ger
tainly our efforts must be Centered
on producing more, not less, goods.
This problem We have pretty well
solved
But the problem of how to tran
slate this higher production into
benefits for all those who make it
possible, with smaller loss between
producer and consumer is the cry
ing problem of our time.
Every person who cares for the
future welfare of his country and
his people must give his best
thought to it until it is solved.
For just as the times presented our
forefathers with the problem of
opening up and exploiting a great
continent so we are given the prob
lem of making available to all the
results Of that successful cxploita-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10

The American workman is turn
ing out between 25 and 80 per
cent more goods for every man
hour he works than he did in l929,
But somewhere between the ma
chine and the masses, much OF the
benefit of this admirable produc-
tive efficiency has been lost.
A condition. which should bring
a greater abundance of goods and
jobs to all people has failed to do
so. Why?
The answer is probably not as
simple as some of the vendors OF
patent economic pills would like
to have us believe. But it must
be found.
Here, according TO study by Leigh
S. Plummer in the Wall Street
Journal, based on findings Of the
National Conference board and the
Federal Reserve board, is what has
been happening:
Taking the year 1929 as 100 the
output per man-hour has risen
gradually to 1178 in 1888. But fac
tory employment has fallen to 81.9,
and the total man-hours in fac
tories to 500, Manufacturing pro-
duction itself reached GIG in 1897,
fell to 706 in 1898.
There it is Note that while fac
tory production has fallen to 70,
employment was l. Employment did
not fall as much as production. But
total man-hours fell much farther.
That would indicate much part
time employment but it would also
indicate an effort 10 keep as many
men on the job as permitted by
falling production.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
The DIGNITY
OF CITIZENSHIP
Riverside Press

One of the finest developments in Am
erican life today is the tendency to make
more impressive ceremony of natural
iZation.
IN many cities and counties special
effort is made to impress the new citizen
with the dignity and honor of his status
1t is especially significant that in Riv-
erside the American Legion, through its
Americanization program, stresses this
feature.
an spite of the great volume of cases
and insufficient personnel says a rep
esentative of the federal revenue depart
ment, wherever possible appropriate
ceremonies are encouraged and they lend
to the process of naturalization the pres
tige which that high honor merits"
1t is high honor indeed, and is felt
to be such.
Increasingly in these times when the
world is upset and millions are clamor-
ing at our doors naturally we choose
them more carefully than we used to, and
get on the whole superior class of i'm
migrants.
A new estimate is placed on citizen
ship by those who have been here for
years but formerly were indifferent to
such honors and privileges. Their change
of heart is confirmed when the act of
naturalization is made a dignified cere-
mony.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-10
You re TeIIinq Me-

An Illinois politician passed out
l6,930 candy bars to children. Such
foresight-going after the 1852 vote
already!
One reason we prefer winter is
because we never hear the neighbor
next door when he uses the snow
shovel early Sunday mornings.
Hitler tears up one non-aggrcS-
sion pact and then seeks to write
six new ones-all in the same week.
Evidently his right hand doesn't
know what his left is doing.