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Evening star., 1940-01-01
Crouch Club
Names Ickes
'Grouch of Year
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. 1.-The
Crouch Club Of America, which has
been threatening almost from the
day of its organization to name the
"grouch OF the year." announced yes
terday that the title went to Secre-
tary of the Interior 1ckes.
Runnerup honors were won by
Ned Sparks, sourpuss film and radio
comedian. Donald Duck, the ami
mated screen character who ex-
presses annoyance at almost every
thing, came in third, handful Of
votes ahead of George Bernard
Shaw, the dramatist.
Willard B. Rogers, president and
founder of the Crouch Club, said
6,4OO of the organizations 1000
members voted in the poll and gave
Secretary Ickes a lead of about 700
over Sparks.
Mr.. Rogers said the announce
ment might have been withheld,
pending receipt of more votes, ex-
cept that officials were sure that
Mr.. Ickes rated the title because he
turned down our beautiful invita-
ton to Join the club"
Evening star., 1940-01-01
U.S.. Begins Checkup
On All Passports 10
Bar Use by Spies
Thumbprints Used,
VuIidutions Limited
To Six Months
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A vast checkup on American pass
ports will 60 into effect with the
New Year In an effort to combat
espionage carried on abroad under
protection Of American Government
documents.
From today on. Americans living.
working or travelling abroad will be
required to report to the nearest
American consulate. which will
validate their passports through q
new system embracing thumb
printing.
The valuation has these main
points:
/. 1t makes the passport good only
for six months. at the end OF which
time the bearer must return to an
American consulate for a further
valuation. This means that Amer
ican officials will have constant
check on United States passports.
2. 1t makes the passport good only
for travel in certain countries. The
bearer cannot travel about at will
as he does at present. Nations at
war with each other will not be
included on one passport, thus pre-
venting Americans from travelling,
for instance, from Germany to Eng
land through neutral country. and
vice versa.
3. At the moment of valuation
the passport bearer must present
two new photographs of himself. On
the pnotos the Consul will impress
the bearers thumbprint and send
them to the State Department for
comparison with the photograph on
the original application on file here.
to make sure that the person carry
ing the passport is really the one
who originally applied for 1t and
received 1t.
4. The passport valuation will
bear the thumbprint of the Amer
ican Consul, thus placing major
obstacle in the way of counterfeit
ing passports.
Evening star., 1940-01-01
Police Puzzled by Murder
OF State Senator Aide

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IA mur-
der with no apparent motive con-
fronted police today as they sought
a solution of the fatal beating of
Harvey Hess, 32-year-old Cape May
IN. j. choir singer and secretary
to the majority leader of the New
Jersey State Senate.
A trail of blood staining the snow
covered ground led Richard Axe, 16,
to the almost nude body of Mr..
Hess on the banks of the Schuylkill
River yesterday. Maj Samuel w.
Gerhardt of the Cheltenham Town
ship police said Mr.. Hess head and
face had been crushed and his body
thrown over retaining wall to the
spot where it was found.
Investigators said only small
amount of money in Mr. Hess pock-
cts indicated he might have been
robbed. His body had been stripped
and the clothing was piled nearby.
Mr.. Hess had left home Saturday
to spend the New Year in Phila-
delphia. He was unmarried.
Evening star., 1940-01-01
Jack Johnson Seriously
III of Pneumonia
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. Jack
Johnson, former heavyweight box
ing champion of the world, was
taken to a hospital last night, suf-
fering from pneumonia. His physi-
clan said his condition was serious.
johnson has been here two weeks
with a museum sideshoW.
Evening star., 1940-01-01

Big savings for the who have the wisdom to buy now Fine
quality that will you the reputation for being we'll
dressed fraction of what would for them regularly
Handsome two and three button single breasted
ed and drape model suits exper tailored from all wool worsted
rough tweed twists and chevo feeces and
hard finished fabrics Topcoa with raglan bamacaan and
en sleeves And coats whose lining zps and provide
overcoat warmth or topcoa ightness.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

nous, he has staged a comeback
and now is directing work on a big
project.
Pounds Colored Chapter.
An older member is lumberman
who feels Alcoholics Anonymous
has corrected his illness. A promi-
nent business man in the group
has established a colored chapter
that meets each Thursday night in
an Arlington CVa) church. Finding
that some of his employees needed
help to find freedom from rum, he
is taking them to A. A. meetings.
Trial has proved that an alcoholic
must be willing to accept council.
Often, he must be "defogged," per-
haps in a hospital, before he is
capable of receiving ideas. It is
at this point that the ex-rummies
step in and do their work.
This work is done in many places
and at many times during a 24-hour
day. Washington members think
Evening star., 1940-05-05

in the reconstructed houses In
Yorktown. In one room Is a beauti-
full walnut lock bookcase, a library
stool copied from one in the Metro
politan Museum, a Windsor chair
copied from one at the historic
Moore House in Yorktown, BAN
ister-back chair with a sunburst
top, stretcher table. a three-legged
saddle-seat stool-all made by c. c.
c. enrollees.
The furnishings for Swan Tavern
Kitchen are made by c. C. c. enroll
ees in this furniture shop. Swan
Taern Kitchen is reconstructed
tavern kitchen of the year 1872.
Forty-seven-year-old colored Mel
son George guides visitors through
Swan Tavern Kitchen. In his
starched white apron and cap, he
shows tourists how hot Goals were
Evening star., 1940-05-05

up to date in their skills, were dis
charged from the camps to accept
employment. Approximately $4,000
veterans of their own volition par
ticipated in the educational pro-
gram in veteran camps during that
period. That is an indication that
veterans will try to help themselves
if we offer them the opportunity"
said Mr. OXley.
National Employment Week and
Employment Sunday are appeals
for cooperation in placing in jobs
these veterans who are in c. C. C.
camps. Veterans who, as President
Roosevelt said, have a particular
appeal to our national sense of re-
sponsibility."
Evening star., 1940-05-05

ing golf course over the historic
battle ground.
Old Tasks Return.
This reconstruction work allows
opportunity for the veterans to
brush up on their original skills in
performing their daily work on the
job. In the blacksmith shop molds
are made of antique cannons and
gun carriages. In the concrete shop
the guns themselves are made of
concrete, so they will be permanent
and require no upkeep. In the
concrete shop are made gun plat
forms. Skill in painting is rede-
veloped when the cannons are
painted a dull bronze with black
carriages.
These colored veterans make au-
thentic reproductions of antique
furniture. This furniture is used
Evening star., 1940-05-05

vitation Of physician, a specialist
who has studied the movement
closely and finds it succeeds where
other efforts to secure alcoholic re-
coveries often times fail.
Speakers-those who act as lead
ers but want the new A. AS to
become active-seldom stand when
they speak. They usually sit be-
hind table, or even sit on the side
of it, and talk in an informal
fashion, that makes the newcomer
feel at home and believe that every
body else present wants to help him.
One of the leaders is a former
salesman and gentleman farmer.
Another is a youthful attorney in
a Government agency. Still another
is a young but successful engineer
whose employers recognized his
ability and efficiency but deplored
his weakness for liquor. He lost
one big construction job, but with
the impetus of Alcoholics Anony-
Evening star., 1940-05-05

in c. c. c. camps for possible place.
ment in industry or in self-sup-
porting businesses of their own is
not confined to white veterans
alone. At Yorktown, Va, there is
C. C. C. camp made up of 200
colored veterans They are recon-
structing the Colonial Battlefield
the historic battle ground where the
last engagement in the Revolution
ary War was fought. A large per-
centage of the colored veterans from
the District Of Columbia who Sc
cure admission into C. c. c. are sent
to this camp.
In this beautiful park, so rich in
history, are redoubts and fortifica-
tionS restored by these colored war
veterans. Many of the restored
Notifications serve as modern bunk
ers, traps and rough in an interest
Evening star., 1940-05-05

Many alcoholics have horror
of dope. The fact is they are just
as big dopes' as the users of other
narcotics, but do anything to avoid
acknowledging it. They rarely stop
to mirror themselves. They resent
anything which brings to their own
consciousness the picture of them
selves as they are"
Cites Danger Signs"
While confirmed alcoholics know
the danger signs" the doctor often
cites the warning signals for new
members. Some of these are:
Il. A sort of mental reminder
each day that it Is time for a cock
tail or highball and the fact that
it is necessary to have at least one
drink each day.
%. The fact that there are good
reasons for drinking, such as to be
congenial, to prevent illness, to
avoid lonesomeness, to get a lift
to warm up or to cool of, to en-
hance wit, social prestige or busi-
ness.
"3. A headache the next morning
and the need for drink to settle
the nerves or the stomach.
a. Becoming touchy on the sub
ject Of excessive drinking.
IS. Hiding liquor about Just TO
have it handy and the desire to
sneak a drink.
Is. Becoming sullen, quarrelsome
or boastful when drinking.
81. Having tried to quit and
fallen or again.
IS. Loss of q promotion, a job or
q sale because of drinking"
These are only few of the dan
ger signs" ..,
The ex-rummies and their doctor
friend and adviser agree that, Tor
the alcoholic, beer, wine or liquor
are all equally dangerous The
name Of the beverage is unimpor-
tant. It is the fact that they all
contain alcohol to some degree.
Something new comes out at each
meeting. At the end, however, the
spirit of brotherly love stands out
even more strongly when some
"A. A." brother gets up on a chair
and announces that Mr.. So-and-so,
brother on the way back, needs q
job. The others rise to the occasion.
If they have no job open, in the
case Of members who are employers,
If they do not know of a job some
where, they collectively 60 to work
to find one for the man.
It's another case of all for one
and one for all. The Alcoholics
Anonymous are making it work, and
one way is to help recovered rum
mics to get back to work II they
have slipped far enough % hse
their Jobs.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

The organization has no salaried
officers, no dues, no house organ.
Furthermore, it is not soliciting
funds. Each member Is one-man
or one-woman membership commit
tee, bringing to meetings friends or
new acquaintances who need help
in their fight against alcohol.
With this preface to Alcoholics
Anonymous, the origin and history
of the movement is next in order.
1t originated in the mind of a 43-
year-old native of Vermont when he
had reached the end of John Barley
corn road. The keystone is religion,
the recognition of Greater Power
that can help the alcohol victim.
This Vermonter, now the national
leader of Alcoholics Anonymous, lay
in a New York hospital five years
ago. He had been an alcoholic for
18 years. From the World War, in
which he had been an officer, he
emerged into Wall Street and be-
came a broker. His greatest enemy
was alcohol. It affected his busi-
ness career and upset the life of
his family. He had tried all the
cures" all the lodges and all the
expedients. He was a confirmed
alcoholic-and he knew it.
Something came over me in that
hospital" he said. First, it was to
emerge from the fog. I got to think
ing this thing out. I felt that some
where there was an answer. It came
to me suddenly. It was q spiritual
experience. I felt as If my whole
body and mind had been cleansed.
"The idea occurred to me that
might talk to other alcoholic pa
tients, especially when they, were
tempted. Doctors in the hospital
were skeptical at first, but they
finally yielded. I talked to the
alcoholics in their own language,
tried to assist them with their prob
lens and to infuse them with the
spiritual feeling that had come over
me-"
Has National Headquarters.
Thus, Alcoholics Anonymous was
born. Today it has national head
quarters in New York. The mail
address is Alcoholic Foundation, Box
658, Church Street Annex Post Office,
New York City. Communications
from alcoholics who need-and,
above all, want-help are answered
as quickly as possible by the founder
and the other volunteers who carry
on the work.
Chapters are operating in New
York, Jersey City, Cleveland, Akron,
Chicago, Houston and Washington
and other large cities. Alcoholics In
Baltimore and Richmond are organ
izing as offshoots of the Washington
group. The movement spreads by
travel Of individual members and
BY word Of mouth.
The movement adhG0s str1ctly
Evening star., 1940-05-05

nothing OF being called from their
beds at night to go to the side of q
new brother who may be weakening
on account of distressing personal
problems. or an alcoholic deep "in
his cups" and about to become a
wreck.
An alcoholics condition is similar
to that of squirrel confined to the
same old cage and the same old
runway, from which there seems no
escape. A. AS have found their
new field SO great that they cannot
carry out all the recovery work that
confronts them.
Many people are just now going
over the edge, and we are getting to
them first" leader explained. I'VE
are beginning to reach some who
haven't yet lost their businesses,
their families and friends. When
we straighten them out, they find
others. 1t Is not what I can. dot
is what can set In motion. We are
practicing Ben Franklin's philos-
ophy: If we don't hang together,
we will all hang separately"
Wives Aid Groups.
Recovery for an alcoholic means
the recovery Of a lot Of people, this
same member pointed out. "The
wife gets just as sick as an alcoholic.
The children get fed up with their
father. When the wife finds free
dom from fixing up her husband,
she, in turn, becomes useful to Alco-
holics Anonymous and finds other
wives whose husbands need assist
ance."
The organizations founder con-
tends its recoveries have run as high
as SO to 90 per cent. They are cases
of men and women who haven't
gone back" for periods Of weeks to
5 years, the period usually depending
on the time when they actually be-
came imbued with the ideals of Al
coholcs Anonymous and made them
work.
As for the total number Of re-
coveries, the founder places the
number at about 600. The move
ment Is expanding so rapidly, how
ever, that its leaders hope this num-
ber will be multiplied many times
during the next year.
The physician who attends the
meetings often talks briefly on some
of the medical aspects of alcoholism
and gives the Alcoholics Anonymous
the benefit of his own experiences in
treating drunkards and his own re-
search into the causes of drunk
enness.
"All alcoholics start out as 'one-
drink men," he declared. There
Is no such animal as q normal
drinker. An individual Is normal
before taking q drink. After i'm
bibing he becomes what he Is not
(uormally) and inaStuss that hs u
what he'd Ike 70 b.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
heaped upon the top Of a cooking

'heaped upon the top Of a cooking
vessel.
Every man discharged from a
c. c. c. camp makes room for an
other veteran to share in the vo-
cational training which will fit him
for place once again in industry
or business. Records in the office
of the director of C. C. c. reveal
that only one of each three vet
erans making application for en-
rollment in c. C. c. camps can be
accommodated. Howard w. Oxley,
director of C. c. c. camp educa-
ton, stated that during the fiscal
year 1899 more than 5000 veterans
In G. c. c. camps, who were brought
Evening star., 1940-05-05

These veterans built model as
sembly hall with a stage. moving
picture screen and a sloping floor.
Movies are shown on How to Raise
Hogs How to Build Concrete
Roads," as well as Bachelor Moth
err" starring Ginger Rogers.
Among these veterans at Black
horse Camp there are always at
least two piano players, generally
few mouth organ and bones"
artists.
Their barracks bear such fostalgic
names as "Argonne," "Marne" and
Chateau Thierry."
This program of training veterans
Evening star., 1940-05-05
By Robert Il. Er.vin.

Alcoholics Anonymous, the Nation
wide brotherhood of alcoholics who
have banded together to help one
another lick their common illness
alcoholism-has established itself in
Washington.
This movement, and such it has
become, reaches the Nations Capital
after five years of successful trial in
other cities, trial that helps to prove
the contention that an alcoholic
understands the problems Of an alco-
holic better than anybody else.
The brotherhood now meets every
Tuesday night in a downtown club
house. It's members, its spirit and
its atmosphere are informal.
Magazines, medical journals and
newspapers have analyzed the work
of Alcoholics Anonymous and have
found the movement and its results
almost revolutionary. The rum
mics" are finding in their own ranks
the road to recovery, road that in
thousands of cases physicians, sani-
tariums and hospitals, families and
employers have been unable to show
them.
Know danger Signs"
| After all. as veterans of the drink
ing evil, they know all the danger
signs" the so-called lodges used by
an alcoholic to mitigate his drinking
and the thoughts in his mind as he
emerges from the fog.
Alcoholics Anonymous is steering
a clear and well-deflned course. Its
leaders-and they keep a cloak of
anonymity that they feel necessary
for protection of this anonymous
movement-stick so religiously to
this course that they insist upon de-
bunking any misconceptions.
They insist that theirs is not a
"cure'. organizations; that there is
no such thing as cure for alco-
holism nor cured alcoholic. What
we have" they say, "is conditional
reprieve. We stay so busy helping
others that we don't think of our
selves, and thus we keep our own
problem solved"
One primary thesis Of the move
ment is that alcoholism very def
nitely is an illness, not just a bad
habit the victims of which are far
different from those suffering from
other diseases. The Double A's'
feel that general recognition of al
coholism as an illness and better
provision for its treatment will
save society from the untold damage
that it is now suffering"
Above all, the Alcoholics Anony-
nous insist they are not reformers,
missionaries or social workers. They
don't expect to save the world over
night" Or to snatch heavy and Segv-
lar drinkers from the jaxs Of hell." ."
Evening star., 1940-05-05

to religious freedom. Sectarianism
is not allowed to enter the organi-
zation. Members, however, must
recognize that there is a Supreme
Being.
The message of Alcoholics Anony-
nous is concentrated in the form Of
a book of the same name, a COM
pilation of 80 case histories of re-
covered alcoholics. including that
of the founder of the movement.
The Rev. DR.. Harry Emerson Fos-
dick, internationally noted Baptist
leader, said in review of the book
that it deserves the careful at
tention of any one interested in
the problem of alcoholism. Whether
as victims, friends of victims, ply
sicians, clergymen, psychiatrists or
social workers, there are many such,
and this book will give them, as no
other treatise known to this re-
viewer will, an inside view of the
problem which the alcoholic faces.
It is noted for its sober, careful,
tolerant sympathetic treatment of
tn, alcoholics problem and of the
successful techniques by which Its
co-authors have won their free
DOM"
Rockefeller Gives Dinner.
Attention was drawn to the move
ment recently by a dinner that John
d. Rockefeller. ir lono ir,terested
in temperance, gave for 60 A. AS
at the Union Club N New York.
Many of them told their own stories
Of their fight against alcoholism.
Getting back to the Washington
Chapter-who are its members?
Briefly, the answer Is: Doctor
lawyer, merchant, chief, butcher,
baker and candlestick maker.
Membership has no class line. The
writer thus far has attended three
meetings of the chapter by in
Evening star., 1940-05-05

tunities to learn farming while in
camp he can make a living on such
a farm.
Placements outside camp are OBJ
viously aided by the training these
veterans receive in camp. Just last
month one veteran left camp to
start a small poultry farm. An
other left to take a truck driving
job. Another married woman
who owned a farm and left camp
to run it for her. One got his old
plumbing job back in Washington
partly because he had added
knowledge of welding to his previ-
GUS knowledge of plumbing.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

shop. He is now employed by the
Appamattox Iron Works in Peters,
burg, Va, and is reported by them
as doing very we'll"
Camp Blackhorse at White Hall,
Nd, is a soil conservation project.
The technical staff instructs these
veterans in their work to arrest
soil erosion in that section. On
more than a hundred neighboring
farms these veterans introduce strip
cropping, terracing, diversion
bitches. They fight brush fires. A
veteran, in helping neighboring
farmers, learns how to make a liv-
ing on his own, such as by operat-
ing small poultry farm, a small
truck farm or a backyard green
house. If a veteran saves his pay
for two or three years in the c. C.
c. he can buy a 10-acre farm. If
he takes advantage. of the oppor-
Evening star., 1940-05-05
employment Sunday Spogh Problem Of Jobe Workers Forty
War Veterans Are Among
Beneficiaries of Efforts
To Help Unemployed
Present Year Probably to
Show Better Record Than
Was Achieved in 1889
BY Margaref OsferlOh.

Not many people realize that 10 cent Of the enroe
Civilian Conservation
is A. There q veterans living
set especially for veterans
Washington in G. camps
Sunday National Employment Week Te-
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-08-16

from September /, 1910, to September
/, 1915, inclusive. and that the City
Clerk transmit said roll to the City
Treasurer with his warrant for couec>
ton accordingly.
1 move the adoption of the forago
ing resolution.
Councilman Ford Wagar.
Supported by Councilman Benin.
Yeas: COuncilmen Benin, Brohl,
Mason, Schultz, Wagar, Wagner.
Nays: None.
Special Order
COUNCILMAN George Benin reported
on the bad condition Of lot on the cor
ner Of Third and Cherry Streets, stat
ing that building had been tern
down and the lot left in deplorabIe
condition and requested he Mayor to
instruct proper officials to investigate
said condition.
councilman George Benin requested
the Mayor to refer the complaint OF
residents in the neighborhood of Elev-
enth Street factory making rock wool
to eliminate the alleged nuisance Of
Wat ana dust emanating from said
factory.
The Mayor remarked on the weed
complaints coming in and requested
the Council to investigate and consider
the nuisance Of weeds in certain neigh
bOrhOods
Councilman Mason requested a re-
port from the Municipal Service Com
mission as to the disposition Of the
street lighting petition in the vicinity
Of the Mckinley School
Adjournment
Motion to adjourn at 9 80 p. NJ, by
Councilman Wagar, supported by COun-
Gilman Schultz.
Yeas: COuncilmen Benin, BrOhI,
Mason, Schultz, Wagar, Wagner.
Nays: None
LAWRENCE ]. LaCOURSE.
City CLERK,
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-08-16
Store Manager
Dies Suddenly

William Raul. member of an old
WyandOtte family. died suddenly from.
heart trouble at his home, ga Chest
nut street. on August T. He was ~
years Of age, and for number Of
years had been manager of the wall
paper store on the corner of Elm and
First streets.
He is survived by his wife. Hattie.
and two children. Marion and Will
lam; sister, Mrs. Catherine Gabriel.
and brother John Raul.
Funeral services were held at st.
Patrick church on Saturday morning.
with burial in Mt. Carmel cemetery.