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Evening star., 1940-01-09
Judge Bentley Seeks
Revision in Districts
|||egitimacy Laws
Present Act Contains
No Provision for Core
After Age Of IA, She Says

The Districts existing laws re-
garding illegitimate children are
ambiguous and in need of immedi-
ate revision, Judge Fay Bentley OF
the Juvenile Court yesterday told
a meeting of the Child Welfare
Committee of the local Council
of Social Agencies at the Y. w.
c. A.
Terming the Act of 1912 an anac-
ronism, Judge Bentley called for a
prompt revision to meet a very real
need" for children and their
mothers.
These young mothers need the
protection of court that can give
the most social of legal interpreta-
tions to an act" Judge Bentley
said. She cited figures gathered
during 1898, in which year 1892
illegitimate children were born in
the District. Five hundred Of the
mothers were 18 years of age, or
less, she said.
The Inconsistency" of the
present act was pointed out by
Judge Bentley who stated it made
no provisions for the care of such
children after reaching the age of
IA, although district laws hold that
children must attend school until
16 years old. A new act should
bridge this two-year gap, she said.
Other Provisions Needed.
Provisions, also, must be made
for caring of children whose par
ents live just outside of the District,
and the revised law should make
some provision for the cost of con-
finement of unwed mothers as well
as funeral expenses in the event
Of death of the child, she insisted.
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, chairman
of the legislative subcommittee of
the Child Welfare group and pre-
siding officer at yesterdays meet
ing, said the So, 900 additional ap-
preparation in the new budget for
the Board of Public Welfare was
inadequate for its present needs.
Urges Welfare Law Amendment.
Mrs. Spencer Gordon, member
Of the Public Welfare Board and
opening speaker on the program,
urged the group Of social workers
to lend their support in a proposed
amendment to the public welfare
law. Under the present regulation,
she said, it was impossible for the
board to lend aid to dependent chill
dren without q court commitment.
The speaker revealed that 500 OF
the 1900 wards now under the
boards care were cases of illegiti-
macy.
The final speaker, Miss Agnes
Hanna of the United States Chill
dren's Bureau, reported that only
four States have no agencies for
the care of children
Short reports were made by Mrs.
Olive w. Swinney, member OF the
legislative subcommittee; Mrs. Herb
ert N. Budlong. representing the
Voteless D. c. League of Women
Voters, and DR.. Crete Lenz Of the
Council Of Social Agencies.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
12-Degree Cold Due
Tonight; Slight Rise
Forecast Tomorrow
Workers Busy Clearing
Streets; Many Are
Hurt in Falls
The mercury will sink to u de-
prees In Washington tonight, the

The mercury will sink to u de-
grees in Washington tonight, the
weather man said this morning.
He saw no letup in the biting
cold which has gripped the city
for the last two weeks, predicting
that tomorrow would bring only a
slight rise in temperatures. The
sun, which was shining today, will
duck behind clouds tomorrow, II
was forecast
The mercury backslid during the
night, reaching a low of 20 degrees
at 7 a n. The high during the night
wa 2Y degrees, recorded at am.
Cutters Being Cleared.
More than 1000 laborers toiled
through the night, hacking away at
the edges of the ice that covered
the city's streets and hauling the
heaped-up snow away from curbs.
Cutters are being cleared in prepa-
ration for a thaw.
Only one traffic accident was re-
ported overnight. The victim was
10-year-old Robert Stewart, colored,
of 616 Gordon avenue NE, who
was treated at Casualty Hospital for
a possible leg fracture after being
hit by a car in the 600 block OF
Third street NE. He was allowed to
return home.
The So inches of snow which lay
on the sidewalks and streets brought
grief to pedestrians. Scores were
injured in falls, police reported.
Those who received hospital treat
ment included:
George P. Pates, As, II New York
avenue NV; Delea S. Pitcher, IS,
1910 Mckinley street NV; Mary
Chase. A, colored, OF 2427 Shows
court NV; Willis Smith, %, Hyatts-
vile, Md; Marie Gaines, %. 1929
Sixteenth street NV; Turin Boone.
60, 3435 Brown street NV; Joseph
O'Connor, 10, 1925 Thirty fifth street
NV; Nicy Bond, 20, colored. 4O8h
New Jersey avenue NV: Eta
Wright, go, 304 E street NE; Myrtle
B. Ledman, SO, 1726 Thirty-fourth
street NV; Frances jackson, 81,
colored, 3112 Thirteenth street NV,
and John Foster, IS, colored, 1928 I
street NV.
At 4 pm. yesterday IS hills were
closed to traffic and turned over TO
sledders. The Lincoln Memorial Re-
flecting Pool, however, was covered
with snow and useless to skaters.
Park authorities said that no pro-
vision had been made to clear the
snow away.
The Animal Protective Association
appealed to Washingtonians to put
food out for birds and squirrels while
the snow is on the ground.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
By RUDOLPH KAUFFMANN II,
Star Stan Correspondent.

Star Stan Correspondent.
CINCINNATI (by MaiD Gin
cinnati has adopted and has used
effectively for some years Recre-
alton Commission such as is proposed
for the District of Columbia by H.
S. Wagner and Charles G. Sauers,
collaborators who recently made
their reports on the National Capt.
tai parks to Secretary of the In
terror Ickes.
1t has accomplished much. 1t has
taken a meager. down-at-the-hee
playground system OF some 800
acres, has tripled its acreage, devel-
oped to a stage previously unknown
and increased service to the COM
munity many times over. 1t has
convinced the Cincinnati Board OF
Park Commissioners that parks have
far wider possibilities for public
service than providing mere beauty:
It has convinced the Cincinnati
Board of Education that school
grounds have extracurricular value.
It has convinced other public
agencies that it is worthwhile to
turn over land for and spend money
on recreation facilities.
Politics Avoided.
The ability Of the commission to
accomplish these things lies largely
in its makeup. On the commission
serve a member of the Board OF
Education, a member of the Board
of Park Commissioners and three
representatives taken at large.
Members of the Recreation Com
mission are appointed and are un-
paid. No politics affect the policies
Of the group, therefore, and essen
tial points of view are represented.
Because the commission members
carry weight in the community, the
director of recreation, Tam Deering,
has been able to get, at times, as
much as 30 per cent of all relief
labor in Cincinnati, special tax
levy to support its work and ap-
preparations from the City Council.
The commission owns no land
outright. Title is vested in the
city, in the Board Of Education or
in the Board of Park Commits
sioners. BY begging, borrowing,
leasing and otherwise getting the
use of parcels of land from a wide
range of land holding organizations
(some Of them private), there are
now about 1000 acres of land de-
voted to both supervised and un-
supervised recreation in Cincinnati,
from crocheting to football, from
golf to making sand pies.
Relief-Labor Built.
Relief labor has been able prac-
tically to build the entire system as
it now stands. w. P. A., F. E. r. A.,
c. w. A., N. Y. A. and local relief
have brought the areas from moth
ing but land to complete play areas,
equipped with field houses, playing
fields, heat, light, water, sewer sys-
tems-everything needed with which
to put on a wide-range program to
occupy the leisure time Of the
public.
Relief labor was even used for
maintenance work until prohibited.
Transient unemployed, cared for
by the city welfare department,
Evening star., 1940-01-09

had q plan on paper Tor a recrea-
ton system for Washington, utiliz-
ing Fairgrounds, schools and parks
as well as land owned by other local
and Federal agencies in the District
Of Columbia. Under the Capper-
Cramton Act land has been bought.
not fast enough to get ahead of real
estate developers, nor enough of it..
There have been practically no
funds with which to develop the
land, w. P. A. projects have been
few, small and limited to unskilled
grading for the most part. Mainte-
nance funds have not increased in
the least with a material increase
in land.
1t is logical to assume that. if a
commission representing schools,
parks and citizens can make con-
sistent strides toward realization of
Cincinnati's plans, it might be able
to do the same in Washington.
Rugged Topography.
The Cincinnati Board of Park
Commissioners is an organization
which. in comparison to the Recrea-
ton Commission, is hallowed by
long tradition. It's large areas, total
ing several thousand acres, crown
the hills which give this Southern
Ohio metropolis its rugged topog-
raphy. For years the board oper-
ated it's park in the tradition of
Versailles, let us say. or Meridian
Hill Park, to give Washington ex-
ample. The public was expected to
be soothed and recreated through
appreciation of planting, a con-
servatory rivaling the Botanical
Gardens in Washington and broad
vistas of the sweeping Ohio River
winding down from the Kentucky
hills.
Recently it has streamlined its
views, partly due to the education"
Of its member serving on the Recre-
alton Commission and partly due to
the example set by Cindnnati's en-
bryonic metropolitan park system,
planned to rival that of Cleveland
some day.
Saw Public's Eagerness.
In Sharon Woods, only area COM
pleted as yet in the Hamilton
County metropolitan park district,
the public may boat, swim, play
golf and follow other recreative
pursuits as we'll as appreciate
beauty. When the Board of Park
Commissioners saw thousands flock
to this new area, it began to change
its views. It started installing picnic
benches. tables and fireplaces, build
ing clubhouses which could be rent
ed for parties and other practical
facilities. It started, for instance. a
nature appreciation program for
children equaled In few other
places.
The Park Board, in short, found
that parks are always to be beauti-
full but can be beautiful and at the
same time afford a much wider use
to those who pay the bill.
A. M. Hustled, director secretary
Of the Hamilton County metropol-
itan park district, is endeavoring
and with apparent success, to give
Cincinnati's metropolitan popula-
ton such a country park system as
Cleveland's or Akron's. His one area
developed so far compares favorably
with other such systems. Land Is in
the process of being acquired and
developed (by c. C. c. and other
relief labor not under contract) at
the present time.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Park Beauty and Recreation
Go Hand in Hand in Cincinnati
Commission More Than Triples Area,
Develops 1t by Relief Labor

were taken, for instance, to do
maintenance work on golf courses,
given plainly of tobacco, never taken
near railroad and brought back to
the welfare department at the days
end.
The commissions influence has
been able to provide a recreation
staff under Mr.. Deering which. he
complains, is inadequate but which
far surpasses anything allowed
Lewis r. Barrett, director of recrea-
ton for the District of Columbia.
Besides wide variety of program
leaders In a wide variety of fields,
Mr.. Deering has at his disposal his
own engineers. his own architects,
his own landscape experts and
craftsmen, his own maintenance
crew.
Results Habitual.
Although the Cincinnati Recrea-
ton Commission still has a long
road to travel, it now has more for
the observer to see than does Wash
ington's combined Community Gen.
ter and Playground Department
under Mr.. Barrett. Further, 1t has
produced results consistently.
In the last five years the commits
sion has brought the total of tennis
courts available from so to $50 and
has built 95 new baseball diamonds.
Here's a sample of the work done
in one year by relief labor on rec
reation projects: Six concrete ten
mis- courts, "a courts resurfaced.
softball diamonds built, one hard
ball diamond built, II backstops. "a
horseshoe courts, l floodlighting
system, 3 swimming pools, 10 areas
fenced, % buildings rehabilitated,
81 children's swimming pools re-
conditioned, l shuffleboard area,
slide, 80 horizontal bars, 4 hockey
fields, handball courts, l rogue
court, 2 magazine racks, book
ends, 2 card file boxes, book racks.
8 tables, racks for storing golf
clubs, S home plates, pressure
feeding guns for trees, 6 tennis
court tool houses, 2 trailers, 4 draw
ing file cabinets, 6 miniature doll
houses, refreshment booths, golf
practice net, 2 awnings repaired.
collapsible ping pong tables. 305
baseball bats, 210 horseshoe boxes
8l5 benches, $40 ping pong paddles
272 table tennis paddles, 200
wooden bases, 100 park benches re-
paired, 701 tennis nets, 315 volley
ball nets, ITS basket ball nets, and
so on and 50 forth for as many
more items.
Work and Land Mean Recreation.
These were either built, executed
or made by relief labor besides q
large amount of grading, grubbing,
pipe laying and other things. Only
such things as this added to land
can make a recreation system.
Cincinnati's Recreation Commis-
sion has A developed Fairgrounds
It is heading for a minimum Of us
Washington had open last summer
116 Fairgrounds, but the majority
of them were small school play
grounds Of less than acre and
many Of the larger grounds were
still in virtually the same condition
plus q little grading. they were in
when acquired, some Of them al
much as 10 years ago.
For years the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission has
Evening star., 1940-01-09

The third OF a series OF articles
comparing parks and recreation
facilities OF other cities Uith those
OF the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Appeal Issued for 100
Couts for Veterans

The Presidents Own Garrison, 104,
Army and Navy Union, today issued
an appeal for 100 overcoats to taks
care of 100 needy veterans.
F. s.. Gardner, chairman Of the
Overcoat Committee, said the first
appeal had been made three weeks
ago, but only three overcoats had
been received. Goats should be sent
to the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Club, 1915 L street NV.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Dr.. CunIiffe to Speak

DR.. Rex B. Cunliffe, president of
the National Vocational Guidance
Association, will address the District
Guidance and Personnel Association
at an informal dinner tonight at
6:l5 o'clock at l703 K street NV.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Will Visit Hospital

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
visit Childrens Hospital tomorrow
morning during the special clinic
checkup Of infantile paralysis VIC
tins. The clinic will be followed by
q luncheon at the hospital.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
McNutt to Discuss Far East

Paul v. McNutt, Federal Security
|. Administrator, will discuss problems
and conditions in the Far East with
members of the Princeton Club OF
Washington at luncheon In the
Cosmos Club tomorrow at 1890
O'Clock.
Evening star., 1940-07-28
STAR, WASHINGTON c. 2s 194o-PART ONE
District of Columbia and Virginia
were presented awards and medals

District of Columbia and Virginia
were presented awards and medals
Cor proficiency in military subjects,
citizenship and athletic prowess.
Seven enrollees were awarded
medals by the George Washington
Post of the American Legion for
proficiency in military training.
Those receiving awards were Au-
gustine w. Neale, for best basic can
didate; Benjamin E. Dement,, best
Red Infantry candidate; Joseph D.
Morgan, best White Infantry candi-
date; William J. Quinn. best Blue
Infantry candidate; Virgil A. Rad
cliffe, best Red Signal candidate;
Paul F. Guthridge, best White Sig
nal candidate, and Richard w.
Wattles, best Blue Signal candidate.
Athletic events were held this
morning
Meanwhile, aboet 24O professional
and business men taking "modi-
fled basic c. NJ T. c. course" en-
gagged in their first mock war.
After camping overnight the older
men took defensive positions in
fox holes and trenches. Their
foe" consisted of an enemy"
tank and imaginary infantry and
artillery.
When the men moved into cor
rect positions, Regular Army off,
GERS credited them with the capture
Evening star., 1940-07-28
E. B. Fetty Will Head
Tukomu Leqion Post

E. Brook Fetty has been romi-
mated for commander of Takoma
Park Post, American Legion.
Other officers nominated include
Charles Hartley for first vice COM
mander, William B. Mauger for sec
ond vice commander, Philip w.
HuCk for adjutant, Daniel w. Twid-
dy for first sergeant t-arms, c..
Earle Thomas for second sergeant
alarms. w. H. Biebush for chap
lain and Victor Phillips for his
torian.
Comdr. c. Earle Thomas an
nounCes that the election will be
held August 8 AT the firehouse.
The post will be represented at
the annual State convention next
month at Cumberland by the fol-
lowing: Delegates, Mr.. Fetty, Mr..
Huck and George B. Kissinger; al
ternates, Donald D. Lamond, Carl
A. Hoglund and Mr.. Twiddy.
Evening star., 1940-07-28
BY MAI. GEORGE
FIELDING ELIOT.


Something is going on in the
Western Mediterranean that we
ought to watch very carefully. The
British naval base at Gibraltar, on
which all British operations in this
area depend, is being repeatedly
bombed by aircraft reported to be
Italian. These raids are not merely
sporadic, but are being kept up day
after day by considerable Numbers
of aircraft.
They are not coming from Italian
bases. That We may say categofi-,
cally The nearest Italian base is
on the Island of Sardinia. almost
500 miles away. The Italian air
force is not equipped for continuous
operation over any such distance,
and 1t will be noted that no mention
is made in dispatches from any
source that would indicate that
long-range, four-engine bombers are
being used Cof which the Germans
have some though not the Italians).
These raids are proceeding from
bases much closer at hand than Sar-
dinia
Let us look at the map. Such
bases can be only in certain places.
They might be in Spanish or in
French territory. The nearest French
bases are in French Morocco (close
at hand or at Mers- -El-Kebi in
Algeria, 275 miles distant. There
are very convenient Spanish bases
on the mainland of Spain, or in
Spanish Morocco; the nearest base
in the Balearic Islands is about 425
miles distant.
Spain May Be Belligerent
If therefore, Gibraltar is being
bombed from Spanish bases, this in
effect makes Spain a belligerent in
this war. If this is the case. we
/ ought to know about it.
Spain is important to us, because
of her cultural and linguistic con-
nections with Spanish America. If
Spain is now actively participating
in the war. this fact has implica-
: tlons against which we ought to be
prepared-on the political and eco
nOmlc fronts. at all events.
There is also military considera-
ton, for if Spanish bases in the
/ Mediterranean are now available to
the axis, so may also be Spanish
bases in the Canary Islands and on
| the West Coast of Africa. 1t can
not be too often repeated that we
! cannot afford, in the interests of
our own security. to see any of the
Atlantic or African bases, which
offer stepping stones for air routes
to South America, pass into the
control of powers which are pursuing
a policy of forcible expansion.
Moreover, if Spain has gone so far
as to allow Italian planes the use
! of her bases for attacks on Gibraltar.
the next step may be- to admit Ger
man troops for direct assault on
the British base, anc this might
endanger Portugals independence.
Portugal means the Azores. Ma
delra, the Cape Verdes, Portuguese
| Guinea-all places which might be
the more easily attained by Ger
Evening star., 1940-07-28
Eliot Sees PeriIs for u. S.
In Bombings of Gibraltar
Use Of Spanish Bases Would Indicate
Spuin's Be|Iigereney, Full Of Dangers

many and Italy were Britain once
driven from Gibraltar all places
which we cannot ever afford to stand
by quietly and see pass into Nazi
or Fascist control. We are concerned
not only with the limitations which
would be put on British sea power
once Gibraltar is rendered useless;
we are also concerned with the con-
comitant expansion Of the radius of
action of axis sea power.
; Especially as regards the Azores
and the Cape Verdes. we ought now
to be definitely contemplating the
necessary steps, forcible steps if
needed. to occupy them ourselves
than permit the axis to do so. This
need involve no threat to Portuguese
sovereignty over the islands, rather
its preservation, against the day
when we could hand back the islands
to Portuguese control
If 1t should turn OFT that French
bases are being made available to
Italy for attacks on Gibraltar then
we ought Immediately to take a new
attitude, and more positive one.
toward the French colonies in the
Western Hemisphere What is done
at Oran today may be done at Mar
Unique tomorrow. We cannot afford
to take chances, and we cannot af-
ford to bemuse ourselves with legal
phrases while those who care moth
ing for such phrases except as blind
folds for complacent fools move to
the accomplishment of their ends.
Dangerous Situation.
We must remember that the Ger
mans have shown remember Nor
Way2 the remarkable tenacity with
which their highly trained troops,
even in small numbers, can hold
position they have once seized. BY
far, the best method is to anticipate
such moves by moves of our own
At Martinique at the moment is a
French aircraft carrier, possibly a
cruiser, and number OF submarines
In addition to her normal compile
ment, the carrier mas on board
number of American-buil airplanes,
including some Navy dive bombers.
There is the making OF a most dan
gerouS situation here, one which
might be peril to our interests IN
the Caribbean Sea-
We are, of course watching the
situation carefully, while the nego-
tiations at Havana proceed, and no
one would wish to take any action
which might upset those negotla-
tions. Nevertheless, it ought to be
clearly recognized that proof of the
use of French bases for an axis
attack on Gibraltar would be evi-
dence radically altering our own
proper attitude toward French bases
in this hemisphere and juStifying
any measures we might take to pre-
vent such bases being used by the
axis, or seized by the British for
that matter-who would have very
definite Justification for immedi-
ately attacking Martinique. 1t is far
more likely that the Governor of
Martinique would resist British
attack than that he would resist our
forces if we decided upon a pre-
ventive occupation; and it is always
to our interest to exclude hostiities
Evening star., 1940-07-28
5000 {. N. 7. {. Boys
Parade at Fort Meade
For Gen. Parsons
George Washington
Legion Post Awards
Proficiency Medals
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
July 27.-Approximately 5000 c, NJ
T. C. trainees participated in a
visitors day parade" and were re-
viewed today by Maj. Gen. James
K. Parsons. commanding officer of
the Sd Cords Area.
1t also was pennsylvania Day"
here. Each year the fort honors
States in the Sd Corps Area which
send youths here to be trained,
About 1000 of the enrollees here are
from Pennsylvania.
Gov. James of Pennsylvania was
unable to attend, but he was repre-
sented by a high-ranking officer in
the Pennsylvania National Guard
During the parade, the trainees-
from Pennsylvania, Maryland the
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vsaTspsyxTgs rosMaI uNrTgnsYSTgsISS

AMERICAN ARTISTS TO BE GRANTED HONORS-Modes for
five postage in the Heroes were released
by the Post Office Department yesterday Included
Gilbert Charles Stuart 155828 portrait painter famous for
his studies of George Washington Thomas Jefferson
Madison James Monroe and Others 2-cent James Abbott
McNel Whistler 1884 1909 painter etcher essayst
3-cent) Augustus (1848-9O7 SCULPTOR who
created the memorial to Mrs. Henry Adams in
Cemetery the symbolic figure of Library Congress
Evening star., 1940-07-28

of an enemy company. The out
come of the "shadow-boxing" war
fare will be announced later.
The C. M. T. C. course ends here
August 3.
Evening star., 1940-07-28

the design for the 20 gold piece cent Daniel Chester
French Q850193 sculptor who executed the of Abra
ham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial the Gallaude
ment the statue of Lewis Cass at the Capitol the figure of
History in the Library of Congress and the Dupont Circle
fountain u0cent Frederic Remington Q8611909 illustrator
painter sculptor and author celebrated the delneator of
the West The stamps to be placed sale during
September Post Office Department Photos