Evening star. [volume], December 12, 1936, Page A-6, Image 6

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“BALANCE WHEEL"
HELD G.O.P. ROLE
MacCracken Urges It Keep
Bases of Republic Before
People.
The function of the Republican
party today is to serve as a “balance
wheel” and to keep before the Ameri
can people the truths upon which
the Nation was established, William
p. MacCracken, Jr., former Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Aero
nautics, told members of the League
of Republican Women of the District
at a meeting yesterday in the Repub
lican Club at Scott Circle.
• “Our Government is based upon
the two-party plan and upon a sys
tem of checks and balances,” Mac
Cracken said. “There always is great
need for a real opposition party to
keep the Government from becoming
unbalanced. The preservation of our
constitutional form of government and
a sound fiscal policy are dependent
upon the maintenance of this balance.”
G. O. P. Defend* Constitution.
The real reason far American pros
perity and the great development
of the natural resources of the land
la that the American form of gov
ernment always lias provided a great
incentive to create wealth and to de
velop business and industry, Mac
Craeken said.
"The Republican party,” he said,
•"always has been the defender of the
Constitution and of the form of gov
ernment which has made possible our
growth and well-being as a Nation.
The Constitution, in turn, is the
greatest defender of individual and
property rights.
“It may be that our people, mad
In their desire to live oft the Gov
ernment and to receive that which
they have not created, will destroy
the form of governmet which our
forefathers created, but let us be sure
they do not do it without opposition.”
Form of Government at Stake.
Pleading that the party never
Should compromise with truth, be
said he would “rather see the Re
publican party defeated again and
again than to see it advocate things
we do not believe are right."
"If you will go back to the founda
tions of our Government," he said,
“you will find that some of the poli
cies of the present administration are
contrary to the fundamentals of our
Government, and so I feel that the
form of our Government Itself Is at
stake. It is this form of government
which made our country great, and
if we have a government which ap
peals to mass consciousness and class
consciousness and the spirit of ‘some
thing for nothing,’ we are in grave
danger.”
Mrs. William Fitch Kelly, presi
dent of the league, presided. Mrs.
William S. Culbertson, wife of the
former Ambassador to Chile, respond
ed to the address. A luncheon fol
lowed the meeting.
Fungi Kills Many Insects.
Fungi that kill flies, mosquitoes
and other annoying and harmful in
sects are now raised successfully In
mass cultures by a German botanist.
Freshmen to Find All Kinds
Of Sartorial Precedent on Hill
Among the problems which new
membesrt of the Seventy-fifth Con
gress will have to solve for them
selves is what to wear in the Capi
tol. This third in a series of
stories by Eddy Gilmore of the
Associated Press Washington bu
reau, offers a few hints.
BY EDDY GILMORE.
There’s no such thing as a com
mon denominator in congressional
clothes—it's every man for himself.
Utter sartorial confusion faces the
five-score newcomers to Congress,
who would peruse the past to learn
the vogue on Capitol Hill.
Tastes in the Senate range from
the soft fawn splendor of J. Hamilton
lewis' claw-tailed coats to the high
red suspenders that hold up the
trousers of Theo C. Bilbo.
Anything goes in the House. Rep
resentative Clare Hoffman of Michi
gan wear coats without pockets, and
Representative Lemke of North Da
kota sports a cap.
Standardised in the outer world,
even the wearing of a tie becomes
a many-sided fancy when subjected
to the fickle fingers of legislators.
Senator Hugo Black of Alabama
goes in for long string models, while
Representative Robert A. Green of
Florida clings to flowing Windsors.
Senator Bachman of Tennessee tucks
his neat bow beneath his collar tabs,
and Representative Flnly H. Oray of
Indiana lets his flow unfettered down
a starched shirt front.
Fledgling lawmakers can find prece
dent for virtually any kind of foot
wear. Spats have covered many a
pair of Eastern ankles, while only a
yard away the back of a chair
propped up calf-length boots from the
great Southwest.
No one has ever appeared in either
House in hip boots, although Delegate
Anthony Dimond of Alaska threat
ened to do so during Washington's
hig snow last Winter.
High-toppers still have the call
over oxfords in the Senate, but any
of the 11 pairs of freshmen feet that
itch for a new deal in footwear
might find leadership in Senator La
Follette of Wisconsin, who appeared in
baby blue socks and brown buckskin
shoes last Spring.
Congressional democracy truly runs
wild in the realm of hats. The cloak
rooms of Congress on a busy day
resemble nothing so much as a haber
dashers’ league of nations.
There is but one field of fashion
in which a definite monopoly has been
set up—carnation wearing. Through
20 years, fair weather and foul, Sen
ator Copeland of New York has ap
peared in one dally.
As a veteran doorman once re
marked:
“I never see a carnation but what
I wonder where is Senator Copeland.”
EMERGENCY FREIGHT
RATES ARE OPPOSED
Coal Spokesman Say* Third of
1115,000,000 Surcharge Total
Ii Borne by Industry.
BT the Associated Praia.
Continuance of emergency sur
charge freight rates after December 31
was strongly opposed before the Inter
state Commerce Commission yesterday
by the carriers’ best customer—coal.
Observing that this commodity bore
one-third of the surcharge total, which
is expected to yield about $115,000,000
this year, first Charles F. Hosford, jr.,
chairman of the National Bituminous
Coal Commission, and then Karl D.
Loos, counsel for the National Coal
Association, told the commission the
base rates were already too high and
should be substantially reduced.
“Only by such action can the diver
sion of coal traffic to competing forms
of transfortation be stopped,” Loos
said. “Only by such action can the
tendency to substitute other sources of
energy for coal be effectually checked.”
Hosford testified that excessive
freight rates have been one of the
major causes of the coal industry's de
pression.
Feature Length Cartoon Plan.
There never has been a feature
length cartoon In the films, but one
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and Address Pending
Arrival Tuesday.
WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT,
AT SEA, December 12.—President
Roosevelt was bound across the Carib
bean today on the last leg of his com
bined vacation and peace voyage to
South America.
The cruiser Indianapolis, bearing
the President North across the 1,667
miles from Port-of-8peln, Trinidad,
was expected to reach Charleston, 8.
C., Tuesday morning. The President
planned to entrain there to reach the
Capital by evening.
Mr. Roosevelt's cabin was stocked
with Christmas presents bis son James
hurriedly purchased in be mars ef
the British West Indian Island where
the Indianapolis and Its convoy
cruiser, the Chester, called yesterday.
The President expressed gratitude for
the cordial reception be received dur
ing his shore visit.
He deferred writing his legislative
budget message and second Inaugural
address until his return to Washington
and hoped to spend some of the last
days of his trip fishing.
His fishing gear—Including a spe
cial splnngr given him by a Trinidad
admirer—was set out waiting for the
flotilla to reach Aves, otherwise known
as Bird Island, about 350 miles north
of Port-of-8p*ln in the lesser Antilles,
where Mr. Roosevelt planned to try
his luck for several hours in a small
boat if the water were smooth enough.
Otherwise, he hoped to flsh later off
Culebra Island, east of Puerto Rico.
WILLIS LARIMER KING,
STEEL OFFICIAL, DIES
Bi the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, December 12.—Wa
lls Larimer King, 85, a director of the
Jones it Laughlin Steel Corp. and
honorary vice president of the Amer
ican Iron and Steel Institute, died yes
terday after a short illness.
King had been identified with Jones
it Laughlin for 87 years and for many
years had been known as “dean of the
steel industry.”
He was active in the formation of
the American Iron and Steel Institute
in 1908 and was a director for 20 years.
The institute awarded King its Oary
Medal in 1933 for outstanding achieve
ment in the steel industry.
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china base with gold-fin
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