Evening star. [volume], March 05, 1939, Page A-10, Image 10

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Astoria Puts Embargo
On Scrap Iron for
Japanese Ports
Order Victory for Chinese
Who Picketed Vessel,
Preventing Loading
By the Associated Press.
ASTORIA, Oreg., March 4.—The
Port of Astoria today abruptly
stopped accepting scrap iron for
export to Japan and individuals
concerned indicated the action
might raise the question of similar
embargoes at other Pacific Coast
shipping points.
The port's order was a victory for
Chinese women and children who
for eight days had prevented load
ing of 21 cars of scrap iron aboard
the Japanese freighter Normay
Maru. They said the metal was
intended for manufacture into wai
munitions in Japan's conquest of
China.
To Picket Ship at Portland.
With posting of the embargo, the
Chinese left the rain-swept deck
and permitted longshoremen to load
the vessel. The dock workers pre
viously had refused to touch the
cargo while the Chinese “picket"
line existed.
Hardly had the docks been cleared
here than some 1.000 Chinese men,
women and children flocked to a
river terminal at Portland. 100 miles
inland. They said they would picket
any attempt to load 7.000 tons of
scrap on the Greek freighter Ann
Stathator. Longshoremen said no
gangs would be sent to the freighter
until Monday.
May Set Precedent.
Two hundred miles down the
coast at Marshfield, pickets have
prevented loading of the Greex
freighter Kostis. Longshoremen
there said it would be “dangerous"
for them to attempt to load the ship.
Two citizen-pickets said they were
knocked down while marching on
the picket line. They accused Sam
Choat, salvage and steel company
operator. who was freed on $500 bail
on an assault and battery charge.
Although there was no immediate
indication that other ports would
take action. Harry Bridges. West
Coast C. I. O. director and head of
the International Longshoremens
and Warehousemen's Union, sug
gested the Astoria move might set
a “precedent" for other shipping
points.
Federation
tContinued From First Page.)
own ideas, with which other com
mittee members did not concur.
His amendments provided that the
Federal Government should include
as its land—for purposes of the
appropriation—the property of for
eign governments here and of other
organizations of a national or in
ternational character which are now
tax exempt.
Further amendments provided that
the formula established should be
applied to the total D. C. appropria
tions, with the exception of the water
fund, and that water be supplied the
United States through metered
service—and paid for accordingly.
Further, the District would be re
lieved of financial obligations for
operation of the Zoo.
Mr. Carruthers left the chair in
order to register his opposition to the
amendments. He said he thought
that they were just demands, but
asked that the Federation accept the
Overton bill “without attaching any
Strings to it.”
“Senator Overton,” he said, “is a
member of the majority party of
Congress who has proposed, on his
own initiative, this plan. Perhaps
it is not perfect, but it stands a good
chance of being passed.
SI0,000,000 Fund Doubted.
“Under it, the District would get
$8,000,000. instead of $5,000,000, from
the Federal Government. Mr. Suter
would have us seek about $10,000,000.
It is highly doubtful if Congress
would authorize this 100 per cent
increase—while they very well might
allow us $8,000,000.
“I think it is better to take half
a loaf than none and I recommend
that we indorse the Overton plan
without reservations.”
In the debate that followed, Mr.
Suter. Mr. Edwards and others de
manded that the Federation stand
up for “its just demands.” Some
charged that the group was evi
dencing lack of backbone and was
becoming a “rubber stamp” organi
zation.
After more than an hour of de
bate, a vote was taken on the ques
tion and the Overton plan supporters
won a clear victory.
Earlier, the Federation had voted
to appoint a committee to look over
the Griffenhagen reorganization
plan in all its detail. Thomas E.
Lodge was named chairman.
This action followed complaints
by William McK. Clayton and Burd
W. Payne of the Public Utilities
Committee that there were mistakes
of fact in the report, which outlines
a plan of reorganization for the Dis
trict Government.
The organization passed resolu- I
tions which opposed the Griffen
hagen proposal for overhauling the
Public Utilities Commission and for
abolishing the office of people’s
counsel.
Another resolution demanded
that Congress do away with a rider
to the District appropriations bill
which forbids the Public Utilities
Commission to change the present
zone cab system to a meter system.
An amendment to this resolution
—proposed by Edwin S. Hege and
opposed by Harry S. Wender—ex
plained that the Federation was
not changing its position in opposi
tion to the meter system. The
amendment was passed, 28 to 27.
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Importance of Family Life
In Society Is Emphasized
Dr. P. J. Ewerhardt
Addresses Nurses
And Doctors
This is one of a series of weekly
articles discussing activities of
Community Chest agencies. This
article is based on the first of six
lectures to be given by an execu
tive of a Chest agency on "A
Mental Hygienist Looks at Life.”
Importance of the family life in
normal society was emphasized by
Dr. Paul J. Ewerhardt of the Wash
ington Institute of Mental Hygiene
in a lecture yesterday to a group of
doctors, public health nurses and
visiting nurses in the auditorium of
the United States Public Health
Service.
“Society spends vast sums of
money in building bigger and better
prisons; makes increased provisions
for caring for the insane; passes
more laws pertaining to divorce, and
still considers alcoholism as a bad
habit which it attempts to suppress
with fines and imprisonment,” Dr.
Ewerhardt said.
"Such drains on the social purse
could be better employed in learning
underlying causes for these symp
toms, and by preventing and cor
recting the causes we could promote
a healthier social structure.”
The speaker emphasized the im
portance of family in considering
mental hygiene cfcnditions. "It is
in the family that the child grows
and develops.” he said. "The person
alities of parents, the way they get
along, their ideas, their attitudes—
the whole make-up of the family is
the basic and essential foundation
upon which our social culture rests.”
Machinery Is Factor.
In the present economic system
which creates crises for the individ
ual, the family and the social group,
society, Dr. Ewerhardt said, is slow
in making adaptation to new condi
tions. Technology, machines and
inventions, temporarily dislocating
the group, creates problems for in
dividuals and groups which should
be approached and studied, the phy
sician said, in a scientific manner.
Because they all fall naturally
into the roles of mentor and advisor
to the family, mental hygiene is of
importance to the physician—to the
teacher—and to the nurse. Dr.
Ewerhardt brought out. Mental hy
giene is the concern of the physi
cian. he said, because of his intimate
knowledge of the family places him
DR. PAUL J. EWERHARDT.
_—Harris-Ewing Photo.
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symptoms of maladjustment in chil
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uncorrected, lead to serious conse
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"The gap between mind and body
has rapidly narrowed,” Dr. Ewer
hardt said. “In modern times we
tend to treat the whole patient—
and not only the illness he happens
to have at a given moment.
"Indigestion more often than not
has strong emotional elements re
sponsible for it, rather than mere
error in diet. Many conditions that
seem to be physical are actually
functional in origin.”
Mental hygiene is also of concern
to the nurse, he pointed out, be
cause "aside from her professional
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skills she is mentor and advisor to
the patient or the family in matters
far remove^ from the purely medi
cal.”
Mental hygiene becomes impor
tant to the schools, too, because
they need to recognize early evi
dences of personal dislocation as
revealed in a child’s failure in school,
failure to get his lessons, or failure
to get along in the schoolroom or on
the playgrbund. it was stated.
“The recognition of such ‘prob
lems’ and their treatment may be
expensive—but cheaper by far in
the long run.” said Dr. Ewerhardt.
“Some school systems have at
tempted to meet the situatton by
adding psychiatrists to the perma
nent staff, developing experimental
classes, or establishing visiting
teacher service.
i he visiting teacher has come
to link together the home and
school and has helped to bring them
together in harmony of considera
tion for the child.”
On the invitation of Dr. George
C. Ruhland, director of the District
Health Department, 200 doctors and
nurses from the staff of the Mater
nal and Child Welfare Department,
the School Medical Inspection Serv
ice, the Nursing Bureau of the Dis
trict health department and the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society of
the Community Chest attended the
lecture.
Five additional Saturday morning
lectures by Dr. Ewerhardt will deal
with mental hygiene in its relation
to specific human problems from
infancy up through young adult
hood. They will cover personality
development and the socializing
process, beginning with the infant
and the mother, through the child
of pre-school age, the child during
his early school years, during adoles
cence, and up through young adult
hood.
Present Crop Laws
Best Yet Offered,
Says Wallace
Proposes Series of
Amendments, Chiefly
Administrative
Bj the Associated Press.
Secretary Wallace advised Con
gress yesterday the present crop-con
trol laws “provide for a sounder and
more workable farm, program than
would be possible under any of the
suggested alternatives which have
come to my attention.”
He made the comment in a letter
to Vice President Gamer and
Speaker Bankhead.
The Secretary said that if no sub
stantial change was made in the
present program, ”1939 will be the
first year since termination of the
programs under the original A. A. A.
of 1933 that farmers will have had
a fair chance to make their crop
plans at the beginning of the season
so as to conform to the program and
participate fully therein."
Accompanying the letter was a
series of amendments, chiefly admin
istrative in character, which Secre
tary Wallace asked be made to the
Farm Act.
"It is to be expected,” he said,
"that amendments will be needed
from time to time in any legislation
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