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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1941-10-18
MAIDEN
EASTERN AVE.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. James L. Jackson. Pastor

Eastern Ave. Baptist Church
Rev. James L. jackson, Pastor
Human Weakness" was the
morning subject of the pastor
Oct. IL; in the evening the
message was equally helpful.
The senior choir sang at both
services. The Conservation Ser
vice Of the Teachers Alumni
was held in Woburn last Sunday
afternoon, Mr.. Arthur Ridley,
president.
Monday evening the Iistorl-
cal Committee for the aniver-
sary met at the home OF Rev.
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BROCKTON

LINCOLN CoNGL CHURCH
Re. Thomas ]. Bell, Minister
To Celebrate 10th Anniversary Of
DR.. Bells Passionate Oct. 10
Evening star., 1941-12-14

Christmas parties have been
scheduled by many clubs and worr-
ems organizations for the coming
week.
A program, to include choral
singing, will be featured by the
Ohio Girls Club tomorrow evening
at the Women's City Club.
The annual Christmas party of
the Insurance Women's Club of
Washington will be held tomorrow
at the home of Miss Betty P. Glib
bon, 1900 Springwood drive, Wood
side. Maryland.
The Washington Readers Club
will hold a Christmas festival at
$3.50 pm. Tuesday at the Washing
ton Club when the Lovette Choral
Club will present The Shrine Of
the Star" a Christmas story in song
and narrative. They will be ac-
companied by Elsie Crammer. There
will be Christmas readings and a
Christmas play.
"The Pine Trees Blossoming," a
short Christmas play. will be pre-
sented by members of the WASH
ington Alliance of Delta Delta
Delta at a Christmas meeting Tues
day evening at the home Of Mrs.
Ronald A. Cox. 1779 Massachusetts,
avenue NV. Carol singing will be
featured following the play. Mem
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Washington Club
Plans Book Chat
By Mrs. Stafford

A book chat featuring books with
Latin American theme tomorrow
at the Washington Club will initiate
a full program for members this
week. Mrs. Wendell P. Stafford will
review Inside Latin America" by
John Gunther, and Young Man Of
Caracas" by T. G. Ybarra.
A program Of songs and poetry,
by group of singers from the Flor
ence Howard Studio, directed by
Mrs. Howard, will be presented Tues
day at II am. Miss Josephine Yoder
will be the accompanist and Mrs.
Tamineh Irani Parsons the narra-
tor. Christmas carols by members,
led by Mrs Cloyd H. Marvin, will
conclude the program. A luncheon
for members and guests will be
served Wednesday at pm. and a
dinner followed by Christmas
party will be held Thursday at I
pm. Those entertaining will in
clude Mrs. w. w. Sloan, Mrs. Will
liam Hanny, Mrs. Lincoln Hough
Mrs. w. E. Richardson, Mrs. Paul
Reed, Mrs. Norman T. Anderson and
Miss Gertrude Lutz.
A Christmas party for younger
women in defense work and for
service men will be held next Sunday
from to 6 o'clock at the club in
conjunction with the United Serv-
ice Organization. Solos and Christ
! mas carols will be included on the
program, with Mrs. w. Carvel Hal
and Miss Ruth Drummer as pianists
Hostesses will include Miss Mabel
Cook. director for the Y. w. G. A.
! and Mrs. Frank F. Bunker.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Many Yule Parties Listed
Clubs and Women's Organizations
To Entertain During Week

bers will bring toys for a collection
to be sent to one Of the local hos
pitals.
A Christmas buffet supper will be
given by the home economics
women in business section of the
American Home Economics Associa-
ton at 6 pm. Tuesday at the A. A
U. w. clubhouse. Ten British
women will be guests of honor.
Christmas entertainment will be
presented by members of the Bank
Women's Club at a meeting at Z
pm. Tuesday at the Parrot.
Group carol singing, the exchange
of gifts, piano selections and the
reading of a Christmas story will
be included in the program of the
Delta Zeta Sorority alumnae Of
Washington, Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. w. L. Hooff, 4003 N
Glebe road. Arlington. Va.
Canned foods will be contributed
by members of the Washington
alumnae chapter of Kappa Alpha
Theta to a collection for the needy
to be taken up at the annual
Christmas party at pm. Tuesday
at the apartment of Miss Mary
Morris Wright, Hotel 2400. The
food will be distributed during the
holidays. A special style show will
be presented with members of the
sorority serving as models.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Civic and Study Clubs

American Association of University
Women-Today, 4:3O pm, Come
Christmas" tea. Tomorrow, pm,
tea. Speaker, Mrs. Laura Puffer
Morgan. Tuesday, 10:30 am,
Latin American Backgrounds;
$50 pm, beginners Spanish;
7:30 pm, sketching group.
Wednesday, 4 pm, defense worH::
5 pm, singers group. Thursday
II am, Martha MacLear poetry
group; $50 pm, advanced
Spanish; $50 pm, Junior group
dinner bridge; 7:30 pm, contem-
porary social problems group.
Friday, 7:45 pm, contract bridge.
Saturday, pm, Christmas square
dance party.
Twentieth Century Club-Tomorrow
noon, special program on Mozart
anniversary. Speaker, Miss Anita
Schade; pm, Red Cross unit
Wednesday, 10 am, Red Cross
unit.
Women's City Club-Today, 4:3O
pm. to pm, tea and musicale
Tomorrow, 6 pm, French dinner
7 pm, French class. Tuesday
1890 am, Spanish class; 1:3C
pm, bridge; 5 pm, book hour
7:30 pm, Spanish. Thursday
7::3O pm, bridge. Friday, 80 p. m.
bridge.
Voteless District League of Women
Voters-Friday, 1890 pm, Y. w
C. A., membership luncheon
Speaker, Charles Taft, "Civi
Liberties and Defense"
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Women to Give Play
In Chew Chase

christmas at Casey's," a one
act play, will be presented by the
drama section of the Woman's
Club of Chevy Chase Wednesday
following a business meeting at
pm. The play will be directed
by Mrs. F. M. Kerby and will in
clude Mrs. A. T. Davenport, Miss
Dorothy Mathews, Miss Cicely
Davenport, Irving Day, William
Rees and Prentiss Childs.
A program of Christmas carols
will be presented by the music
section and reading will be given
by Mrs. j. Allan Maphis and Mrs
Harvey Whitten.
Robert w. Horton, director OF
information service of o. P. M
will speak on Now 1t Must Be Told
at the community forum tomorrow
at 8:15 pm. The discussion is open
to the public.
Nine. Helen Lombard, author o1
washington Waltz" will be guest
speaker at a meeting of the litera-
ture section Friday at 2 pm. Mrs
Earl Trager is in charge OF thu
program and Mrs. L. E. Yocum il
tea hostess.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Mrs. L. P. Morgan
To Discuss Defense
Work bY Women

Women in national defense work
and In organization for world CO.
operation will be discussed by Mrs.
Laura Puffer Morgan at the tea to-
morrow afternoon at the American
Association of University Women.
Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr, trustee OF
George Washington University and
feature writer for The Evening
Star, will serve as hostess.
A dinner bridge will be given by
the junior group Thursday evening
and a club dinner will be held
Friday when Miss Margaret Bond
field, former Minister of Labor of
Great Britain. will be the guest
speaker
| The square dance group will hold
a Christmas party Saturday eve
ming under the direction of Miss
Laura Silsby Miss Louise Foster
and Miss Mary Naylor will serve
as hostesses.
A Christmas tea has been ar
ranged by the drama group for
this afternoon. Miss Lesley Frost,
daughter of the poet, Robert
Frost, will present a review of
her book, Come Christmas" a
Christmas anthology. Mrs. Edwin
M. Brown will be tea hostess, as
sisted by members of the Arts Com
mittee and the Hospitality Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Card Party
TOBenefit
Needy
Sunshine Society
Will Entertain
Tomorrow

A benefit card party will be given
by the Sunshine and Community
Society from 2 to pm. tomorrow
at the home of the president, Mrs.
Maurice A. Emerson, 3057 Porter
street NV. Proceeds will be used
by the Benevolent Committee for its
work. among needy families as well
as for gifts and messages of cheer
to men, women and children in hos
pitals or homes.
The benevolent works of the So
ciety include provision of bedside
bags. magazines, playing cards,
cigarettes, chewing gum and similar
items to patients in Walter Reed
and Mount Alto Hospitals under
direction of the Hospital Committee.
The group also dresses dolls, makes
scrapbooks and fills stockings for
little patients in Children's Hospital.
The Child Welfare Committee CO.
operates with the students aid
project by collecting clothes. con-
tributing cash and Quitting chill
dren for graduation.
Needy Families Aided.
Needy families not on relief are
supplied with shelter, fuel, food,
clothing and furniture. Frequently.
immediate assistance is given per-
sons who would otherwise suffer be-
fore such necessities as food, shelter
or fuel could be obtained through
regular channels.
The society is now supplying 1872
quarts of milk a month to under
nourished children and the blanket
circle has distributed So blankets to
persons in need.
A sum of $50 a year Is contributed
toward the salary of a kindergarten
teacher at the Gospel Mission and
the committee in charge OF this
project also supervises donations Of
toys. clothing and holiday parties to
children at the mission. Every
Thanksgiving. Christmas and Easter
the Gospel Mission Committee con-
tributes food to the older benefi-
ciaries of the mission.
Flowers for Patients.
Food, pocket money and personal
gifts are presented to residents in
the Georgetown Aged Woman's
Home under the direction OF a spe-
cial committee, while cards, letters
and flowers are sent to patients in
hospitals. to persons recently be-
reaved and to other "shut-lns."
A Christmas party for children
will be held by the Gospel Mission
Committee at 10 am. December %
in the kindergarten of the mission
The society has no fixed men,
bership dues and funds for its prof.
ects are raised by card parties, an
annual tea, an annual garden party
and by voluntary contributions.
The club was organized In 1912.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

world tennis champion, urges a
daily routine of exercise for every
man, woman and child.
Naturally she considers tennis
about the ideal form of exercise
and recreation, but Miss Marble
also is an enthusiastic advocate
of walking.
Walking played a major part
in her own physical comeback
from a two years illness re-
sulting from sunstroke, she re-
called last week when she spoke
to the Women's Athletic Associa.
ton of George Washington Uni
versity. She believes that her
background of bad health" was
partially responsible for her ap-
pointment as assistant director
of civilian defense in charge Of
physical training for women.
Although the war will doubt
less prevent some of its sched-
uled speakers from participating,
the midwinter board meeting of
the General Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs promises to be an ex-
ceptionally interesting session.
The program, as announced
on the eve of war, featured sew
eral forums on defense, with
galaxy of distinguished men and
women invited to take part.
Three cabinet members-Sec-
retary Morgenthau, Secretary
Knox and Secretary Perkins
are listed for addresses. Will
liam S. Knudsen, Leon Hender-
son and Donald Nelson are 9TH
ers down for discussions.
Arrangements also we're made
to present Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles, DR.. L. S.
Rowe, Paul v. McNutt, DR..
Thomas Parran, J. Edgar Hoover
and MANY others.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Mrs. Ehrlich
TOAddress
Hadassahs
Program to Include
Anniversary of
Henrietta Sold

The present status of the youth
aliyah movement will be described
by Mrs. Jacob Ehrlich at a meet
ing Tuesday of the Washington
Hadassah at 1:45 pm. at the Jew
ish Community Center.
Mrs. Ehrlich, lately of Prague,
Vienna and Palestine, has been
active in the work of training and
transferring Jewish young people
from Germany for the past seven
years.
The program Tuesday will in
clude observance of the 81st birth
day anniversary of Henrietta Sold,
founder of Hadassah, which spon-
sors youth aliyah. Miss Sold
personally supervises the care and
training of the children in Pales-
tine where $500 young people have
received refuge from the persecu-
tions in Central and Eastern Eu-
rope.
A dance pantomime will be pre-
sented by Flora Blumenthal, dance
director Of the Jewish Community
Center. Mrs. Raphael Tourover,
former president of the Washing
ton Hadassah, will give short talk
and a sale of defense stamps and
bonds will be held.
A group of children's Chanukah
parties will be given in homes of
Hadassah members Saturday from
to pm. Proceeds will go toward
the support of Hadassah's child well
fare work in Palestine where 10000
free lunches are served in the
schools every day.
A Chanukah broadcast, to be
opened by Mrs. Isadore Breslau
president of the Washington Ha-
dassah, will be given at $50 Sat-
urday evening.
The final of three lectures on
World Politics" will be given to-
morrow at 2 pm. by Julian Towster
at the Jewish Community Center
The Hadassah Institute will not
be held during the rest of De-
cember. The Hadassah Red Gross
unit will meet Wednesday at
pm. at the Walsh Mansion.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Taft to Address
Women Voters

Charles P. Taft, assistant director
of the Office of Defense Health and
Welfare Services, will speak on
civil Liberties and Defense" at a
luncheon meeting of the Voteless
District League of Women Voters al
1890 pm. Friday at the Y. w. c. A
The leagues economic welfare de-
partment has arranged to have Mrs
Max o. Lorenz speak on THE Con-
sumner Also Serves" at a meeting at
pm. tomorrow at the league office
Mrs. Lorenz is chairman of the
Consumer Interest Committee OF
the District Defense Council.
Mrs. Oscar Chapman heads the
economic welfare department.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Political Study
Club to Present
Christmas Gifts

Gifts for underpriviledged chill
dren will be brought by members
of the Political Study Club to a
Christmas party to be given Satur-
day at the Washington Club. The
gifts will be placed under tree
which will be presented to the So
ciety of Natives of the District of
Columbia in memory of Mrs. Johann
Knodrupp' Later the tree will be
sent to the Home for Foundlings.
Those in charge of the table include
Miss Luella Chase, Mrs. Ida CHS
we'll and Miss Minerve Cotton.
The program will include talk
by the Rev. Almond Eyler, rector of
St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal
Church, and songs by the George
Washington University Glee Club,
led by DIR. Robert Harmon. Mrs.
Leonard Horton will lead in the
salute to the flag.
Jean Frantz, who has collected
dolls from all over the world, will
give a talk on Christmas With
Dolls"
The receiving line, headed by the
president, Mrs. William Wintemute
Sloan, will include Sonora de Nu-
nilla, wife of the Cuban Military and
Air Attache; Mrs. Herbert Meri-
wether Griffith, Judge Fay Bentley
of the Juvenile Court, Nine. Maria
Julio, Mrs. William Hargrave, Mrs
Almond Eyler, Mrs. Harry Frantz
and Mrs. Robert Harmon.
Mrs. Ivan E. Bass, Mrs. Everett
Sanders, Miss Cornelia Bowie ano
Mrs. John Harwood will preside al
the tea table.
New members are Miss Lillian
Sample, Mrs. Charles E. Fairman
Mrs. Frederick H. Rittenour, Mrs
Charles V. Grunwell, Mrs. Joel D
Whitaker, Mrs. Thomas J. Beddow
Mrs. Lala H. Cornish, Mrs. Wilbur
v. Leech and Mrs. Berthe Ann Muir
raw
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Personaland 1mpersonal
New Junior D. A. r. Magazine
Edited by Local Member
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Women'S Club Editor,

Junior Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution now have their
own ofIicial publications. maga-
zine called Echoes, with head
quarters in Washington.
Edited by Edna Boyden Mill
ward, q member of the Mary
Washington Chapter, it made its
bow with a national defense
number. And the opinions it ex-
pressed proved to very pertinent
and up-to-date.
In its lead editorial Echoes
emphasized that 1t was a prlvl-
lege, rather than a sacrifice, to
work to keep Americas freedom.
Although in striking harmony
with a passage of the Presidents
fireside chat, the editorial was
not an echo" having been pub
hshed several days before our
entry into war.
$50 I can't be accused Of
plagiarizing," the author re-
marked.
The daughter of Russell Hast
ings Millward, explorer and for
mer member of the American
consular service, Miss Millward's
principal interests lie in the lit
erary field and she frequently as
sists her father in the prepara-
ton of magazine articles.
The family-father, mother and
daughter-have hobby printing
press which thev call the Press
of the Three Bears" 1t gives
each an opportunity to dash off
literary pieces whenever the muse
beckons.
Active In D. A. r. work as long
as she can remember, Miss Mill
ward said her dues were paid for
life when she was years old.
She was enrolled with the
Children of the American Revo-
luton until she outgrew it, and
has served in several capacities
as Junior D. A. r. Last year
she was chairman of the junior
program for the national con-
gress and chairman of the Mary
Washington Juniors.
Circulation manager of the
magazine also is a Washington
girl, Miss Mary Louise Fry, a
member of the Army and Navy
Chapter.
In her campaign to make
America physically fit for de-
fense," Alice Marble, former
Evening star., 1941-12-14

ming, Christmas program at Wom-
ans City Club.
Washington Readers Club-Tues-
day, $3.50 pm, washington Club,
Christmas festival.
National Home for Jewish Children
at Denver-Tuesday, 1:30 pm,
Jewish Community Center.
Alpha Chi Omega-Tuesday. l pm,
alumnae meeting with Mrs. Will
liam F. Ham, 2621 Woodley place
NV.
Beta Sigma Phi-Tomorrow, 8 pm,
District Council, ITO Fourteenth
street NV. Tuesday, 8 pm, XII
Alpha Exemplar Chapter, with
Miss Kathryn Mason, Mercy
nolds Apartments; 8 pm, Theta
Chapter, ITO Fourteenth street
NV; 8 pm, Eta Chapter with
Mrs. Lois Mater, 6016 Sixteenth
street, Arlington, Va, Christmas
party. Wednesday, 8 pm, Dis
trict Choral Club, with Mrs. P.
w. Pharoah, 1145 New Hamp-
shire avenue INV. Thursday, 8
pm, Kappa Chapter Christmas
party, with Miss Mary Lou Yam
cey, Glenn Dale, Md.
Phi Delta Gamma, Beta Chapter
Today, 7 pm, founders day sup
per, Kenesaw Apartment, Six
teenth and Irving streets NV.
Kappa Alpha Theta, Washington
Alumnae Chapter-Tuesday, 8
pm, annual Christmas party with
Miss Mary Morris Wright, Hotel
24OO.
Women's Christian Temperance
Union-Tuesday, 7:45 pm, Iota
Sigma Union. w. G. T. U. head
quarters, 522 Sixth street NV.
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
tion-Tuesday, 8 pm, Constitu-
tion Chapter, Chapter House;
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Phi Delta Gamma
Supper TOniaht

Founders day will be celebrated
by Beta chapter of Phi Delta Gamma
with a supper at 7 o'clock tonight
at the KeneSaw Apartment. Six
teenth and Irving streets NV.
A Christmas program will be fea-
tured. Guests will include the pa
tronesses, the founders, alumnae and
members of Alpha Chapter.
The president, Marian Scott, will
preside over the candlelight cere-
mony.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Future Meetings of Women's Clubs Announced

speaker, Mrs. Arthur c. Hough-
ton; 8 pm, Columbia Chapter,
with Mrs. j. Frank Campbell, 140
Twelfth street Sc; 8 pm, Fed
eral City Chapter, with Miss
Estelle Price, 1926 T street
NV, Christmas party program.
Wednesday, 8 pm, Fort McHenry
Chapter, Christmas party, Chap
ter house. Saturday, pm, Key
stone Chapter, Christmas party,
Chapter House.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Miscellaneous Clubs

Woman's National Democratic Club
Tomorrow, 1890 pm, luncheon;
speaker, Edward c. Eicher, De-
fense and the Securities and Ex-
change Commission"
Arts Club of Washington-Today, 7
pm, chatting dish supper follow
ing National Symphony Orchestra
concert. Wednesday, to 10 pm,
square dancing. Saturday, pm,
Christmas dinner and program;
presentation, why the Bells
Rang" and Madrigal Singers.
Housekeepers' Alliance-Tuesday, 2
pm, at 1882 Park road NV;
speaker, Janet Durham, Mexico" :"
Catholic Study Guild-Tuesday, 8:15
pm, Study Guild Catholic Lii
brary, 1725 Rhode Island avenue
NV; speaker, the Rev. James M.
Egan, "The Meaning of Religious
Life" Thursday, BIS pm, Study
Guild Catholic Library; speaker,
Francis Mackin, Review of Latin
America"
District Branch, League of Amer
ican Pen Women-Tomorrow,
pm, Yuletide gathering at studio.
Wednesday, 8 to 6 pm, poetry tea.
Friday, 8 p. m, non-f1ction group.
Ohio Girls Club-Tomorrow eve
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Mexico to Be Topic
OF Housekeepers'
Alliance Meeting

Mexico" will be the subject of a
talk by Janet Stuart Durham of
Richmond, Va, before members OF
the Housekeepers' Alliance Tuesday
at pm. at the home of Mrs. Will
liam Trauty, 1882 Park road NV.
Mrs. Durham, who has travelled
extensively, has long been interested
in the Identification of countrysides
and through her efforts legislation
was secured in Virginia controlling
billboard displays, along highways.
She also suggested the idea of Dog
wood Dell" in Richmond's Byrd
Park, where the largest number of
dogwood species in the world have
been collected.
The program will include a talk,
Color in the Home" by Miss Vienna
Curtis, head of the applied art de-
partment of the University of Mary
land. Mrs. Trauty will be assisted
by Mrs. George Beckert and Mrs.
Newton Cords Wing, whom Mrs.
Durham is visiting while in Wash
ington.
Preceding the meeting, Mrs. Har-
vey w. Wiley, president of the al
lance, will entertain at luncheon at
the A. A. U. w. clubhouse in honor
of Mrs. Durham. Other guests will
include Mrs. Ernest Humphrey
Daniel, immediate past president of
the District Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Albert N. BaggS, leader
of the Gray Ladies, and Mrs. Wing
At Tumacacori National Monu-
ment, Ariz., large olive trees trans
planted two years ago have at last
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Mrs. Matthew Stirling Likes
Jungle Housekeeping Job
Wife Serves as Camp Maker on
Trips With Smithsonian Chief
To Seek Olmic Indian Relics
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

Housekeeping In tropical unges which involves cang supplies
station wagon the rugged Central Mrs
Matthew W. Strings good time
The attractive
Of Ehnoogy the preparing
archaeological
Central America Although plans indefinite Strings
expect to leave the made
Last May they returned from scientific expedition Mexico
where at the little settlement Of Cerro
Dr. Stirling sought relics OF the Om Indians culture
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Community Clubs

Woman's Club of Chevy Chase-To-
morrow, BIS pm, Community
Forum; speaker, Robert w. Hor-
ton, Now 1t Must Be Told" Tues
day, pm, German section. We'd
Evening star., 1941-12-14

nesday, pm, club meeting and
Christmas program. Friday, 2
pm, literature section; speaker,
Nine. Helen Lombard.
Takoma Park Women's Club-Tues-
day, 1890 pm, literature depart
ment luncheon meeting with Mrs.
N. E. McIndoo, 1925 Blair road
NV. Thursday, pm, contract
bridge with Mrs. Norman Jones,
312 Cedar avenue, Takoma Park,
Md Friday, pm, Executive
Board with Mrs. D. v. Sandifer,
1904 Oakford place, Silver Spring,
Md
Evening star., 1941-12-14

At Tumacacori National Monu-
ment, Ariz., large olive trees trans
planted two years ago have at last
adjusted themselves and produced
a small crop of fruit.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-04
THE GUFFEY ACT

On April 26, the Guffey Act will.
expire. III 1t is not renewed BY
Congress- one of the most amazing
experiments with totalitarian eco
nofnics wifi pass from the Ameri-
can horizon.
The Guffey Act Is a price-fxine
scheme by which the government
sets the minimum price at which
coal can be sold. The consumer is
utterly disregarded, with the re-
suit that he turns to other fuels.
The government itself is now
an active competitor or the coal
operator, as it is In the business of
selling hydro-electric power. But
the coal operator may not, under
the Guffey Act, safeguard himself
against such competition. He can
only stand by helplessly and wait
for a slow death. And the coal
mine workers can only stand by
and wait for the wake.
The Brookings Institution vol
ume, entitled, Government and
Economic Life" appraises the val
ue of the Guffey Act as follows:
''In the long run, the prospects
of gain from the current regula-
tion, either to operators or work.