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Strike Spread
May Result
in Curbs
U. S. Could Act Now,
But Outcome Would
Be Uncertain.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
GROWTH of the “sit-down”
strike as a weapon of labor
warfare throughout the
country has resulted so far
as the national administration is con
cerned in a hands-off policy. What
ever evicting or enjoining or indict
ing has to be
done will have to
be done by local
authorities—Gov
ernors, sheriffs,
ehiefs of police.
Within the ad
ministration, of
course, there are
two views about
the "sit-down1’
strike, those who
think them illegal
and those who
recognize that
sit-down strikes
may be declared
illegal but that
David Lawrrnre.
no final opinion has been rendered on
the subject by a high court.
Meanwhile, the employer whose
property is seized or the workman
whose job is stopped by the act of a
fellow wrokman will have to seek
redress through local governments.
This, of course, is in line with the
precedents because employer and em
ploye relations are considered wholly
a matter for State action except in
the few instances where interstate
commerce is clearly defined as. for
example, In the transportation busi
ness.
V. S. Could Intervene.
There is a ground on which the
Federal Government might intervene
if it desired. That is where a con
spiracy is hatched across State lines
to get a group of workmen to inter
fere with the processes of production.
The Supreme Court in the famous
Coronado case has held that any physi
cal acts of interference with the actual
production or shipment of goods could
be regarded as a conspiracy in re
straint of trade.
But such a conspiracy is difficult
to prove as is also the purpose of the
strike. The workmen would contend
that their purpose is not to prevent
shipment into interstate commerce,
but to prevent other workmen from
taking their jobs. Whether such a
contention would be accepted by a
court is something else.
It is doubtful if any such case would
ever be brought by the Federal au
thorities. This is because the entire
Federal Government at the moment
Is dominated by the view that labor
warfare is justified and that neither
the courts nor the Federal Depart
ment of Justice should be used to
interfere even remotely with the right
to strike.
Exempt From Monopoly Laws.
For many years labor unions have j
enjoyed exemption under the Federal ;
laws from being prosecuted for acts
which would amount to monopoly if
• practiced by corporations. This ex
emption is due. of course, to the po
litical power of the labor groups.
Nor is there any sympathy with the !
view so often expressed by citizens that I
the Federal Government should" take |
cognizance of the sit-down strikes j
and quell them. The administration ;
points to the fact that employers uni
formly have objected to the Wagner
labor relations act on the ground that
the Federal Government had no au
thority in labor disputes.
The Wagner act itself has been j
fought by the injunction process and
the Supreme Court has heard argu- |
ment. but has not yet rendered its
opinion on the validity of the statute.
The general guess among well-informed
lawyers Is that the Supreme Court will
decide all the various cases at about
the same time that it will uphold the
law where the company in question is
engaged in inter-State commerce and
that It will hold the act inoperative so
far as a company engaged in local pro
duction is concerned.
Seen As Growing Pains.
While the whole series of strike epi
sodes are causing widespread economic
loss and undoubtedly is interrupting
the march of.recovery, the administra
tion tends to the view that all this is
part of the inevitable growing pains of
a nation in the midst of a social reform
program. It is often pointed out here
that In Great Britain much of the
same experience was encountered and
that ultimately a degree of control or
supervision over labor union activities j
was forced upon the government. Such
a reaction comes, however, only after
labor troubles become acute and the
public becomes conscious of the ill
effects of certain aspects of labor wars.
Thus it was a general strike in England
which brought Parliament to pass the
present industrial disputes act, which
covers a certain amount of government
■uperrislon of labor unions.
The disposition here is to believe
that the labor troubles will continue
during the remainder of 1937 in more
or less sporadic form and that, per
haps, the struggle will become even
more far reaching as "sit down’’ strikes
and other labor disputes are carried
Into the larger industries.
(Copyright, 1937.>
Tanker Built in Year.
Japan topped its own world record
for speedy building of oil tankers
When it turned out the Tobo Maru in
exactly a year from the time the
order was placed at the ship yards.
B. Y. P. U. News
Calvary will be led by the Steward
ship Commission, with Bed Curtis in
charge. The topic la “Influence."
Centennial will be led by the Serv
ice Commission.
Silver Spring will be led by Mar
garet Mitchell and the Service Com
mission.
Takoma Park will be led by Marie
Nelson and the Devotional Life Com
mission.
West Washington will be led by'
Paul Hodges and the Devotional Life
Commission.
National will be led by Roberta
Clark. The topic is “The Prayer
House.” There will be special music
by the Young Men's Quartet.
Seth Parker meeting will be held
at Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Boltwood’s,
3307 Porter street northwest, imme
diately after church.
Petworth wUl be led by Robert
Kauts and the Stewardship Commis
sion.
At Plfth the program will be pre
sented by the Fellowship Commission.
Topic: "Preparing for the Days of
Darkness." Leader, Solomon Howard.
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News Behind the News
Allaying of Third Term Fears Fails to Quiet Foes
of Court Plan.
BY PAUL MALLON.
WAT President Roosevelt has been telling members of Congress
In those private conferences on court packing would make
headlines a foot high, If spoken publicly.
Three Representatives, in a group at one conference,
understood the President to say he does not want a third term. If their
ears heard aright, he has no political ambitions beyond those he is at
present enjoying. He left them with the impression also that he con
sidered talk about him becoming a
dictator as laughable and absurd.
All he wants, he said. Is to
make the people of the country as
happy and as prosperous as he can
in the remaining years of his
present term. Then he intends to
retire to Hyde Park and live the
life of a country squire. They
need have no fears about him, he
told them.
ALL I WANT iS-TOttAKE
YOU ALL HAPPY AND
- PROSPEROUS.
These statements of his per
sonal viewpoint are confirmed by a couple of Senators to whom he talked
along the same line.
Note—Mrs. Roosevelt, in her daily column, has hinted that the
President is already preparing to retire to Hyde Park, but, as far as is
known, he did not discuss the subject with officials here prior to his
recent series of congressional conferences.
* * * *
It is only fair to point out that oppositionists do not generally
suspect Mr. Roosevelt of dangerous ambitions. Rather they suspect
that the trend of affairs which, he has instituted may lead him or his
successors to need more and more power. Also some hate a notion
that the short-cut method Mr. Roosevelt is espousing is undemocratic
and may cause his opposition to fight fire with fire in the end.
The theories are not unreasonable. If the Federal Government is
to accept responsibility for fixing farm prices, maximum hours, minimum
wages, etc., it must have authority to enforce its responsibility. Some
farseeing, honest Congressmen are asking each other whether Mr. Roose
velt is limiting his authority only to his own conscience and the con
sciences of the six new judges he would appoint, and how long pure
democracy may survive with all the varying political voting groups pulling
continuously, attempting to influence the Government to fix prices, hours
and wages beneficial to their own divergent political interests (1. e. con
sumers. farmers, employers, employes).
Furthermore, as one Government official has remarked privately In
connection with another matter, the Government chooses not only its
own political weapons, but the weapons of its opposition. Democratic form
of opposition to Hitler or Mussolini, for example, would be childish. A
government maintained by reason can be overthrown by reason, but a
government maintained by undemocratic means can be contested only
by undemocratic means.
It is. therefore, Mr. Roosevelt's successors and his opposition which
are feared by many pure Democrats more than Mr. Roosevelt.
* * * *
Funsters backstage have been playing with the idea that Agricul
ture Secretary Wallace will be elected President in 1940 and will then
appoint Mr. Roosevelt as Chief Justice. With one running the executive
and legislative branches and the other running the judicial branch of
Government, the possibilities are
limited only by particular indi
vidual imaginations.
Conjurers also amuse them
selves with the possibility that
Chief Justice Roosevelt's right
hand justice would probably be the
accordion master, Thomas ("O Sole
Mio") Corcoran, ace White House
legal adviser. When Corcoran is
not writing new securities ex
change laws or working in passion
Hie anonymity upon a court proposal, ne sireicnes an accordion iurtner
than he has been able to stretch the Constitution so far—and with more
harmonious effect.
While these anticipations furnish enjoyable amusement, they do not
seem to be imminent of realization. A lot of water will flow under, over
and around a lot of bridges in the next three years.
What impressed Congressmen more than anything else in these
White House conferences was Mr. Roosevelt’s determination. The tone
he has been using is one of appeal rather than force, but he per
mitted no one to glean an indication that he would give an inch.
He discussed details of tactical and political strategy with more
frankness than he does ordinarily, and created the impression he expects
to have a majority of the people behind him.
In this connection, Congressmen say they have felt little or no
pressure from the Roosevelt party organization out in their States. The
machine heat has not yet been turned on. but you may be sure It will
be before public hearings on the proposition are started.
(CoDyneht. 1937.)
ST. STEPHEN DRIVE
SUPPLIES $45,200
One of Most Important Parishes
in Washington Saved, Says
Canon Stokes.
St. Stephen and the Incarnation
Protestant Episcopal parish l\as ex
ceeded by $200 its goal of $45,000
needed to meet pressing obligations,
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Wash
ington Cathedral, chairman of the
general committee for the fund-raising, j
announced today.
“Many persons have co-operated to
bring about this result, which means
the saving of one of the most Im
portant parishes in Washington.”
Canon Stokes said. He added that
each of II teams assigned to collect
the money exceeded its quota.
The $45,000 was subscribed by 550
members of the parish. Treasurer A. C.
Houghton reported, 400 of whom con
tributed $20,000 and 150 of whom
contributed $25,000. A third group
contributed $200.
Canon Stokes thanked these five for
making the drive a success—Rev.
George P. Dudley, rector of the parish
for 42 years; Rev. Paul D. Wilbur, who
became rector in January; Lynch
Luquer, chairman of the Parish Com
mittee; Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen, chair
man of the Laymen's Diocesan Com
mittee, and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman,
chairman of the Women's Diocesan
Committee.
Japan Aids Television.
When the Olympic games are held
in Tokio in 1940 the Japan Broadcast
ing Co., sponsored by the Japanese
government, expects to be prepared to
transmit television pictures of the con
tests within a radius of 12 miles of the
grounds. The corporation is plan
ning a campaign to arouse public in
terest in television throughout the
country.
■ --
Move for Annuity
Adds Page in Life
Of Empire Builder
—
Frank Carpenter Was
First Civilian Governor
of Moro Province.
JK> the Associated Press.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, jr„ of
Massachusetts, asking an $1,800 an
nuity for Frank W. Carpenter, added
a chapter today to the story of an
American empire builder now an in
mate of the Soldiers’ Home here.
Carpenter spent In the Philippines
23 of the 33 years he was in the Army,
became the first civilian Governor of
the Moro Province and in 1915 nego
tiated a treaty with the late Sultan
of Sulu which fixed the present status
of the 500,000 Moslem Flipinos. He
left public life when he quit the
Philippines in 1922 and since has
lived in Japan, South America and
the United States.
Lodge, at the request of former
Gov. Gen. W. Cameron Forbes, joined
Representative Richard B. Wiggles
worth of Milton. Mass., in asking Con
gress to give Carpenter the retire
ment pay of a second lieutenant.
Wigglesworth introduced a companion
bill in the House.
From the Soldiers’ Home Carpenter,
nearing 66, wrote that he was without
resources and “completely incapaci
tated" as a result of his long career
in the Tropics. He said he spent in
a vain search for health the gratuity
of one year's salary given him when
he left the Insular Government service.
In a voluminous record compiled to
bolster the plea were laudatory letters
from Gen. John J. Pershing and Maj.
Gen. James G. Harbord. among mili
tary figures, and Governors General
Leonard Wood, Henry C. Ide and Fran
cis Burton Harrison.
Young Washington
A young artist reveals his talent at the Takoma School. Lewis
Blaine Bender, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Bender, 7100 Chestnut
street. Monday: Donna Belle Robinson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl H. Robinson, at the Takoma Elementary School.
—Stir Staff Photo.
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CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may he contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
Urbanity in Criticism
Words Other Than "Lie” Can Wage War Against
Court Proposal.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
A MEMBER of the Indiana State
Senate, Republican Leader
William E. Jenner, much
excited about President Roose
velt’s court proposal, Is reported In
newspapers as saying:
"The President says the Supreme
Court docket ia
crowded. That ia
a damned lie!”
Tut, tut, Mr.
Jenner, you must
not use that
word. Yes, yes, I
know, I know,
but still you must
n't use that
word. Yes, yes, I
know all about
that, I know
more than you
do, but still you
simply must not
use that word. If
you’re going to
Mark Sullivan.
remain in public life, or do any good
in the world, you must learn the
vocabulary of urbanity. Yes, I under
stand. I cherish forthrightness and
straight shooting as much as you do,
but still I tell you you must not use
that word. You don't need to, there
are plenty of synonyms—you can find
them in any newspaper. Our best
professional writers have no trouble
in expressing themselves more forcibly
than you can. and they are able to do
so without using offensive words.
Criticism In Same Key.
Because I write books of history
after the events are over and passion
has died down, I preserve newspaper
clippings about current commotions.
As I look over the bunch I have col
lected about Mr. Roosevelt's court
action. I am struck by the repetition
of a single note, expressed in a group
of words having roughly the same
meaning:
“Misleading,” says Walter Lipp
mann, and in another passage, “too
hollow to impress any one.” The New
York Times (which supported Mr.
Roosevelt in the recent election)
speaks editorially of the President's
"political sharp practice • • • His
action leaves him fairly open to the
charge that he is endeavoring to do
by indirection what he cannot do
directly; cleverness and adroitness in
dealing with the Supreme Court are
not qualities which sober-minded citi
zens will approve.”
“Not forthright, not candid,” says
Dorothy Thompson. Indignantly she
cries, “No human being can believe
in the sincerity of this proposal * • •
Must we examine every message from
the President to see whether there is
a trick in it somewhere?”
COOK IS AIR HOST
TO TWO EXPLORERS
Buck and Father Hubbard, Also
Voice of ‘‘Donald Duck,’*
to Be Heard.
MEN who have triumphed in
exploration in the frozen
North and the jungles of
Africa will be the guests of
Joe Cook during his show on WRC
and other N. B. C. stations tonight at
9.30 o'clock.
The guest stars include Frank Buck,
who brought 'em bark alive from the
jungles, and Father Bernard Hub
bard, the ' glacier priest" of the North
country. The man who talks for
"Donald Duck in the movies and
Bozo, the talking dog, also will con
tribute to the program.
V ASU PITTS will sing a "cowboy”
duet with Jimmy Melton as a high
light of the "Saturday Night Party”
on WRC at 8. In addition Miss Pitts
will do a comedy skit in the show.
\ SPECIAL program commemo
rating the ninety-third anniver
sary of the Dominican Republic will
be broadcast by WRC at 11:15. It will
include an address by Dr. Leo S. Rowe
director general of the Pan-American
Union.
jyjARIO CHAMLEE. celebrated tenor
of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, will be featured during the
"Your Hit Parade and Sweepstakes”
program on WJSV at 10. The orches
tra. under direction of Carl Hoff, will
play the leading popular songs of the
week, which include "Good Night. My
Love,” "Plenty of Money and You”
and “Trust in Me.”
YX/ORK of the Women's Overseas
Service League will be discussed
by two of its officers. Edythe Davidson
Air Headliners
Domestic.
2.00 p.m.—WMAL. "Lucia di
Lammermoor,” by Met
ropolitan Opera Co.
3:00 p.m.—WRC, Longfellow An
niversary Program.
5:30 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star
Flashes.
Evening Programs.
7:30p.m.—WRC. Question Bee.
8:00 p.m.—WRC. Saturday,
Night Party; WMAL,
Ed Wynn.
9:00 p.m.—WRC, Snow Village
Sketches; WMAL. Na
tional Barn Dance;
WJSV, Speed Show.
9:15 p.m.—WOL, Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra.
9:30 p.m.—WRC, Joe Cook's
Show.
10:00 p.m.—WJSV, Vour Hit
Parade.
10:30 p.m.—WRC. Irvin S. Cobb.
11:00 p.m.—WMAL. Slumber
Hour.
Short-Wave Programs.
6:00 p.m.—BERLIN, Musical
Comedy, DJD, 25.4 m.,
11.77 meg.
7:25 p.m.—LONDON, "Tales of
the Sea,” GSD, 25.5 m.,
11.75 meg.
9:57 p.m—LONDON, "Conquest
of the Air. OSD, 25.5
m., 11.76 meg.
IS :60 midnight — PITTSBURGH.
Messages to the Far
• North. W8XK. 48.9 m.,
6.14 meg.
I
•'Tricky.’* says one of the most
liberal newspapers in the United
States, the Baltimore Sun. And the
Sun adds some synonyms: "Devious,”
“deceptive,” "an intent to mislead
which is not attractive in a President
of the United States.” To which the
strongly Democratic Richmond, Va.,
Time3 - Despatch adds an amen:
“Guilty of a lack of frankness which
does him little credit.'
"Adroit and not forthright,” echoes
William Allen White. He speaks of
Mr. Roosevelt's "instinctive indirec
tion.”
Just Too Clever.
Even the Scripps-Howard news
papers, ordinarily strong supporters
of the President, print in their chain
an editorial including: “Our first
reaction when we read the message
was that the plan was Just too
clever—too damned clever. Having
spent nearly every waking hour since
studying it and hoping to find a way
to like it, we are still of the same
mind.”
And Gen. Hugh Johnson (“Old
Faithful," the word-geyser) on-. No.
2 man to President Roosevelt and
loyal to him as a good army man
is to his commander-in-chief—Gen.
Johnson supports the President's pro
posal: but as to the President's
method, Gen. Johnson says: “The
President's only mistake was the
adroitness and dexterity of his ap
proach. There is sometimes such a
thing as being too clever. The argu
ment about making the court larger
so that it could work faster didn't
check out either in logic or in fact—
and it gave opponents something to
jump up and down about. Wouldn't
it have been better to say, 'Here's a
plan to check the court?' ” In an
other article Gen. Johnson uses the
phrase “slick trick"; and in anotl r,
“too damned slick."
Advisers Blamed.
Scripps-Howard Commentator John
T. Flynn is deeply disturbed by the
President's action, but in his com
ment he retains the manner of an
old-fashioned gentleman. After re
citing the President's argument for
his court plan, and after pointing
out that the principal part of it is
incorrect in fact, Flynn lives up to
the code which says that a President,
like a king, can do no wrong—the
President must have been misled:
"This is a mast unfortunate part of
the message. I wis. heartily the
President could have left it out. It
makes him appear as trying to de
ceive Congress and the people. Of
course we know the President must
depend on others for his facts and
he has unquestionably been imposed
on.”
(Copyright. 1837.)
and Mary Frances Hall, during a spe
cial broadcast over WMAL at 6. The
United States Army Band will pro
vide the musical background.
p^RACK spellers from Washington,
Philadelphia. Boston and Balti
more will compete in the Atlantic
Seaboard spelling championship on
WOL at 7.
P'HE Southernaires Quartet will con
tribute to Floyd Gibbons' "Speed
Show" on WJSV At 9. Willie and Eu
gene Howard, comedians, also will
take part.
p^HARLES T. RUSSELL, acting com
missioner of internal revenue, will
give some valuable information to em
ployers on the social security act in
a special broadcast over WRC at 6:20.
He will discuss particularly regula
tions for filing returns under form
SSL His topic is "Taxes Under the
Social Security Act.”
'pvo addresses on the President's
Court reorganization plan are on
the radio schedule tonight. The first,
by Senator Pope. Democrat, of Idaho,
will be broadcast by WJSV at 6:30.
Gov. Philip La Toilette of Wisconsin
will discuss the same subject over
WMAL at 8:30.
We, the People
Dickstein ’Actor** Protection* Bill Called Neat Device
to Land Him on Front Page.
BT JAT FRANKLIN.
WHILE the big wind of Supreme Court reform roars through the
tall timber of national politics, a considerable number of Con
gressional beavers have been gnawing away at our liberties,
constructing their little political ponds, Just as though “Stormy
Weather” had not become our national theme song.
Neatest trick of the week is that performed by Representative
Samuel Dickstein of the twelfth Tammany congressional district (lower
east side of Manhattan) in landing on the front page by the comparatively
simple device of proposing to apply a Nasi-type regimentation to the ad
mission of foreign artists to the United States.
Dickstein, as chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and
Naturalisation, has the inside track for his bill, H. R. 30, “To protect for
American actors, vocal musicians, operatic singers, and orchestral con
ductors and artistic and earning opportunities in the United States, and
for other purposes.”
stripped to its chassis, the bill
of Mr. Diclcstein—who was an
Immigrant himself—proposes that
no more foreign artists shall be ad
mitted to that country. Where
Hitler proposes to protect German
Kultur from non-Aryan artists,
Mr. Dickstein proposes simply to
protect American dollars from
foreign performers. It's a good
racket. The bill doesn't stand a
chance of becoming law in Its
present iorm, out artists name* are always good publicity and any time
that Mr. Dickstein wants headlines (as what Congressman does not?) he
need only call hearings at which the stars of the artistic world turn out
like flrenorses to protect civilization from the politicians.
Last week he drew Lawrence Tibbett of the Metropolitan Opera, Dr.
Walter Damroech of the former New York Symphony Orchestra, and
Frank Gillmore of Actors Equity, as well as lesser fry,
* * * *
What gives Mr. Dickstein his springboard is the fact that certain
foreign countries impose special restrictions on foreign artists—Ameri
cans included. The British Ministry of Labor is particularly tough when it
comes to admitting American dance orchestras.
The French deported Tex Guinan as an undesirable alien and
would not let Ted Lewis lead his band in Paris until he had assured
employment to an equivalent number of French musicians In Italy
Germany and Russia, art is ■•co-ordinated" to politics and the Americans
don t get a break.
That seems clearly to be Europe’s loss rather than cause for
our denying ourselves the best that the rest of the world has to offer
on the stage and in the orchestra. Even so, we still need Europe s
artists far more than Europe needs our artists, as Dr. Damrosch
pointed out in his statement to the Dickstein Committee. In any
case, American civilization has been created by the freest competi
tion of brains and talents recorded in history.
The secret of our rapid development in most lines, the arts included,
Is the freedom we have accorded to professional men and women to do
their best for us. In that way we have created a great reservoir of the
talents on which we draw freely as we need service. The worst thing
we could do would be to take Mr. Dickstein's attitude that the "home
market ’ for living art must be "protected" for home talent.
* * a *
Carry his 100 per cent theories a little further and see where they
land you. Are foreign-born priests and clergymen to be excluded from
American pulpits unless It can be proved that there is a shortage of
native American preachers? Is the Rockefeller Foundation not to im
port a great German biologist because Hitler discourages American doctors
from practicing in Berlin? Are General Electric and United States Steel
to be debarred from employing Czech, Russian or Japane% technicians
unless those countries agree to employ an equivalent number of Americans?
Or from the other angle, if Mr. Dickstein is correct, why should not
individual States and cities prohibit shows and concerts by out-of-town
companies because their performances threaten the livelihood of the
local boys who haven't made good?
The Dickstein bill is too Hitlerian in its political regimentation
of the artist to be allowed to pass and it will not pass. Probably its
sponsor would be greatly surprised—perhaps even disappointed—if
it did become law. as it would deprive him of a sure-fire personal pub
licity angle almost as magnificent and foolproof as Representative
Sol Blooms stranglehold on George Washington and the Constitution.
And since a Congressman's first duty is to get himself re-electM
(otherwise he ceases to be a Congressman), and since front-page publicity
doesn't hurt this process at all, Washington can look forward to an
annual show at which Mr. Samuel Dickstein puts his own name in
lights on the political Broadway by compelling the stars of opera,
orchestra, stage and screen to link him with their better advertised names
in absolutely free publicity from coast to coast.
(Copyright. 1937.)
Egg Prices Little Changed \
By V. S. Buying in Capital
From January 15 to February 20
the Department of Agriculture bought
34.000 eggs a day In the District, and
the market barely wobbled, it became
known today.
The purchase was part of a na
tional program to hold up the egg
price. Secretary Wallace spent $1,- j
807.000 altogether on 7,527,540 dozen
throughout the country, 108,000 dozen
in Maryland.
The course of prices paid to ship- [
pers in the District is thus: January
15. 25 cents a dozen for extra large
Government-graded eggs and 24 cents
for standards: February 10, 22.5 cents
for extras. 22 cents for standards:
FVbruary 20, 23 5 cents for extras, 23
cents for standards.
A leading chain store here has kept
its best egg price at 33 cents all month.
The mixed egg price. 27 cents since
February 4, rose to 29 cents vester- |
day, but the store indicated the gov- i
ernmental purchasing had little to do
with the increase. Eggs snow a
marked seasonal variation.
“The principal effect of the depart
ment's purchases." a departmental
statement explained, "has been to
keep farm prices from going down.
However, there has been a drop in
retail prices."
The department said its program
would ultimately benefit consumers
as well as farmer producers by main
taining prices at a level sufficiently
profitable to -producers to keep them
from selling off their hens. If the
producing stock of hens were reduced
there would be a shortage of eggs next
year and therefore higher retail prices.
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Soap Made From Coal.
Manufacture of soap from coal is
an industry recently established by
German companies, which distill par
affin from brown coal tar to make a
fatty acid lending itself to saponifica
tion with alkali.
CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAMS
TODAY’S PROGRAM FEBRUARY 27, 1937.
P.MJ_WRC 950k_I WMAL 630k
12:00 i Chasm Music Series Call to Youth
12:15 “ “ Genia Fonarlova
12:30 Rex Battle's Ensemble Farm and Home Hour
12:45 “ “ “ "
1:00 Whitney Ensemble Farm and Home Hour
1:15 “ "
1:30 Cameige Tech Orch. Our Bam
1:45 “ “ “ "
2:00 jPublic Education Metropolitan Opera
2:15 ! “ “ “Lucia di Lammermoor”
2:30 Longfellow Anniversary “ **
2:45 |M _I
3:00 Longfellow Anniversary Metropolitan Opera
3:15 “ “ ....
3:30 Logan's Musicale “ “
3:45 College Pounder's Day “ “ _
4:00 Sundown Revufe Metropolitan Opera
4:15 “ “ I
4:30 Spelling Bee High School Orch.
4:45 “ _1 _
5:00 Spelling Bee Sunday School lesson
5:15 ' '* “ Baron Elliott's Orch. ,
5:30 ! The Kindergarten Evening Star Flashes
5:45 ! “ *‘Southemalresj
"6:00 Dinner Dance U. 6. Army Band
6:15 Charles T. Russell
6:30 Dinner Dance Home Symphony
6:45 “ “ “ “ _
7:00 Message of Israel Santa Anita Race
7:15
7:30 Question Bee “ “
7:45 '* “_Evening Album_
_8T00~ Saturday Night Party Ed Wynn
8*15 « N •• •«
8:30 " “ Philip La Follette
8:45 “ -“ _
_9^00 Snow Village Sketches National Bam Dance
9:15 “ “ “ “
9:30 Joe Cook’s Show “ “
9:45
ToToO Joe Cook’s Show News Bulletins
10:15 i “ “ Treasure Chest
10:30 I Irvin S. Cobb Bill Strickland’s Orch.
10:45 r_“ _
11:00 News—Night Owl Slumber Hour
11:15 Dr. Leo Rowe “ “
11:30 Midnite Frolics “ “
11:45 _ “ _
12:00 Gus Amheim’s Orch. Night Watchman
12:15
12:30 Ben Bemie’s Orch. “ “
12:45 . “ “ " _
1:00 | Sign OS Night Watchman (1 hr.fl
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Dance Music *H. B~ Derr 12:00
News—Music News Bulletins 12:15
Organ Recital George Hall's Orch. 12:30
Howard Lanin's Orch. _“_12:45
Howard Lanin's Orch. Afternoon Rhythms 1:00
Afternoon Concert Mrs. Oscar Hahn 1:15
«* •• Your Home and Mine 1:30
» • Jack Shannon_1:45
Wakeman’s Sports Page IDancepators 2:00;
Dave Broudy's Orch. “ 2:15
Wakeman's Sports Page Madison Ensemble 2:30
“ •• Clyde Barrie I 2:45
Ted Lewis’ Orch. Down by Herman's 3:00
Sammy Kaye's Orch. “ 3:15
Flamingo Stakes Commerce Department 3:30
“ " Community Center 3:45
Flamingo Stakes Charles Melvain 4:00
•• “ Ann Leaf. Organist 4:15
The Pied Piper ! “ “ 4:30
" “ Moody Institute 4:45
The Pied Piper Art Shaw's Orch. 5:00
Skeeter Palmer’s Orch. Evening Rhythms 5:15
Fred Berren's Orch. Robert Horton 5:30
Canary ConcertSinging Walters5j45
Tony Wakeman Ben Feld’s Orch. 6:00
Rhumba Rhythms Senator Pope of Idaho 6:15
Enoch Light's Orch. Government News 6:30
Hawaiian Echoes Swing Session 6:45
Spelling Be* Swing Session 7:00
“ “ Olenn Carow 7:15
" “ WJSV Varieties 7:30
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Central Union Mission Prof. Qui* 8:00
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Benay Venuta Johnnie Presents 8:30
M M •• M 8 45
Howard Orchestra Speed Show 9:00
Chicago Symphony “ “ 9:15
“ •• Saturday Serenaders 9:30
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Chicago Symphony Hit Parade 10:00
m m m m 10:15
M M M M 10:30
“ “ Labor News Review 10:45
Chicago Symphony News Bulletins 11:00
Kay Kyser's Orch. Benny Goodman’s Orch. 11:15
Freddy Martin’s Orch. George Olsens Orch. 11:30
m m m m 11:45
Abe Lyman's Orch. Ted Flo Rito's Orch. 12:00
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Clyde Lucas’ Orch. Henry King's Orch. 12:30
m » “ «_ 12:45
Sterling Young’s Orch! ;8ign Off TTToo
« « I I 1:15
Utftta Oat I I 1:30
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An American^
You Sho uld
Lothrop Stoddard Has
Hobbies as Well as
Works of Fame.
BY DF.LIA PYNCHON.
WHETHER it is the strain of
business or world unrest,
more and more people are
turning to hobbies for
their rest and recreation. The fra
ternity of hobbyists, unlike lobbyists,
give time and thought to unmaterial
things.
I.othrop Stoddard.
Lothrop Stod
dard. writer,
lecturer ri*1 in
ternational au
thority, has two
hobbies to take
his mind off the
race. He is a
philatelist. Wai
ters in Washing
ton. He is an
authority on the
construction and
care of pine
needle lawns.
Summers on
Cape Cod. Mass.
wasnington knows him in tails as a
socialite. Cape Cod knows him in
blue Jeans as the skilled workman.
There, with saw and rake, he has
created out of a virgin wilderness of
sand and ragged pine trees, a small
paradise of pine needle lawns, paths
lined with pine branches (triumphs
of the joiners art) plus calculated
pine-framed vistas of sea and woods.
Stoddard begins his day with the light
and stops when it fails.
As a boost to other hobbyists with
yens to make sand wastes fairer, we
quote Stoddard's system. "I have
followed the processes of nature.
Each Spring for 10 years I hate re
moved the dense carpet of pine needles
that was distributed in certain areas.
This is my factory. I sift the needles
by hand. Underneath is the good
pine loam. This I carry in loads to
the bare sand spots, tamp it down
with a rake and over it spread the
sifted needles, like frosting on a cake."
Read Throughout World.
As a "sifter and tamper down” of
words, Lothrop Stoddard is famous.
His best known triology of books some
years ago was called by Lord North
clifTe "an international sensation.”
They have been translated into many
languages including Turkish and
Arabic. For 20 years Stoddard trav
eled extensively, gaining first-hand
knowledge of world problems and
personalities. For many years he has
lectured on these problems, thus in a
sense, following in the footsteps of
his father. John L. .—oddard. the cele
brated travel lecturer. Currently,
Stoddard has been writing magazine
articles on international affairs. His
"bons mots” on what he dubs “inter
national strip poker" are well known.
Has American Motto.
Nationally. Stoddard supports the
“cash and carry" neutrality plan with
these words. "Keep American ships,
American goods, American dollars,
American lives out of war-breeding
trouble. Sell for cash, the purchaser
to take title to goods in this country
and ship at his own risk in foreign
vessels. With such a policy, plus the
resolute intention of the American
public to be neutral, we should not
became involved in a foreign war.”
Likely Goiter Victims.
A survey showed that men most
likely to have toxic goiter are editors,
musicians, artists and others of tils
intellectual type.
Christian Endeavor
Luther Place Memorial will be the
location of the annual music festival
sponsored by the Senior Endeavor
Union, to be held Monday at 8 p.m.,
with Josephine Davis in charge. Con
tributions of merit from all groups will
be presented, and Justine Lowry, music
director at Foundry M. E., will speak.
Zelda Saunders will lead a mission
ary meeting at First Brethren tomor
row at 6:45 p.m. Pre-prayer at 6:30
p.m. will be observed. The group will
participate in a bowling tournament
with visitors from Hagerstown, Me*
on March 12.
Eastern Presbyterian and Ecking
ton Endeavorers will hold a debase
tomorrow at 6 45 p.m., cn the proposi
tion. •Resolved, That it is mere d;£i
cult to be a Christian today than f.o
years ago.” Eastern will be host and
conduct a social period from 6 p.m.
Services at the Wisconsin Avenue
Industrial Home School will be in
charge of intermediate workers at 6.30
o’clock tomorrow evening. All groups
can participate.
Junior Endeavorers will feature their
annual story-telling contest in cex
junction with a rally March 7. at
Rhode Island Avenue M. P. Church, at
3:30 p.m. Anne Widemeyer is com
pleting arrangements.
Senior and Intermediate Endeavor
ers at United Brethren will meet in
joint session at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow
with the congregation. The pastor will
speak.
Rev. G. Coyle of Sherwood Presby -
terian will be speaker at the March 10
Intermediate Union rally at his churtn
at 8 p.m. Board members will con
vene March 20 at 3:30 p.m.
Work on an Easter cantata by En
deavorers at Rhode Island Avenue
M. P. is progressing under the leader
ship of the church Music Committee.
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At 1:30 P.M.
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for the fourth in the series
of interesting episodes—
“Visiting With
the Famous”
A half-hour, from 1:30 to 2 P.M.
tomorrow—thot is full of interest
ing history and a famous romance.
Sunday at 1:30 p.mS
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