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Health Issue
On Common
Path
U. S. Co-operation
With Medical Men
♦ Hinted by Hospitals
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
President Roosevelt's penchant
for the humanitarian objectives ol
government was never better exem
plified than in his approval of a
plan to set up 50 __
medical centers
in localities un
able to provide
the capital or
the plant for
such purposes,
but able to af
ford the main
tenance and
operating e x -
( penses.
The contro
versy over a Fed
eral health pro
gram has been
carried on rather
vehemently for Oavid Lawrence,
many months, with the Nation's
doctors plainly suspicious that Fed
4 eral plans were merely an entering
wedge for Government control of
medical facilities as a whole to the
detriment of private initiative and
talent. The doctors, through the
American Medical Association, have
recognized that the problem of pro
viding health facilities for the Na
tion needed governmental co-opera
tion with the physicians, but that
it was important to prevent bureauc
racy and politics from entering the
picture.
Having already established what
* are known as "social security” laws,
it was inevitable that grandiose
schemes would be hatched for the
enlargement of governmental bu
reacuracy and for the collection of
additional pay toll taxes. The sub
ject of health being one that lends
Itself to popular approval, the bu
reaucratically inclined have been
concocting all sorts of subjects which
meant more and more jobs, more
red tape, and plenty of other ex
crescences such as have followed
in the wake of the so-called social
security laws.
Sign of Co-operation.
So strong, however, was the op
position of the medical men to Fed
eral control of health facilities that
it looked as if the whole problem of
getting an improvement in medical
care might come a cropper. Presi
dent Roosevelt's readiness to give
right of way now to a simple plan
for about 50 hospitals to be located
in some of the Southern States and
in areas where counties are too poor
to borrow or raise funds for capital
investment is a sign that there will
be co-operation between the Gov
ernment and the medical men of the
Nation.
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Fishbein, spokesman of the Ameri
can Medical Association, was one
of spontaneous approval because the
idea is one that has been sponsored
by a committee of the association.
Presumably this first evidence of a
getting together between the Gov
ernment and the medical leaders of
the country will be regarded as an
encouraging sign, for where matters
of health are concerned, the Nation
does have confidence in the leader
ship of prominent medical men
rather than politicians.
The principle involved in the new
plan is characteristic of a growing
trend in recent years, namely, to
bring the financial resources of the
Federal Government to bear to
assist certain poorer areas of the
United States where the population
cannot meet the necessary expenses
of community facilities such as the
large cities can provide. This is
particularly true of rural districts,
where distances are great. The fact
that there are spots in the United
States where the nearest hospital
, facilities are 80 miles away and the
tax collections are too meager to
build any such medical centers is
not widely appreciated. But the
mere existence of such exceptional
areas is no justification for embark
ing upon extravagant plans to build
hospitals everywhere.
Mr. Roosevelt has been wise in
permitting a modest beginning. But,
on the other hand, once the princi
ple is accepted, there can be no
doubt that pressure will come from
Congress to build an array of Gov
ernment hospitals. Many a small
community has been having a hard
time taking care of its hospitals,
and the opening up of the Federal
Treasury to this form of aid is a
Btep of unprecedented importance.
ouppuris uju voncepi.
The belief that local committees,
through community chests, can best
take care of hospital needs and
supervise expenditures is in line
with the concept of local govern
ment from the early days of the
Republic. It is a concept that has
had hard sledding recently because
of the Federal Government’s huge
outlays through relief agencies.
The plan which the President now
!s sponsoring is one that should long
ago have been introduced, for it ap
plies not only to health care, but to
educational facilities. The United
States is not an aggregation of 48
equally wealthy States. The wealth
of America is concentrated in a few
States. The President told the press
that he would try to keep political
pressure out of the matter of select
ing medical centers, by appointing
local committees of doctors to rec
ommend where such clinics and hos
pitals should be erected. The im
mediate outline of the plan will
doubtless meet congressional ap
proval, but the execution of it in the
future will bear watching. Mean
while, Mr. Roosevelt scores again in
his effort to be regarded as the
President who does care about the
responsibility of the Federal Gov
ernment for social welfare.
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British Steamer
Damaged by Mine
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 23.—The British
Steamer Gryfevale, 4.434 tons, was
towed into a Northeast port today
after being damaged by a mine.
Part of her crew remained aboard,
but 17 took to lifeboats and were
rescued by another vessel.
The Capital Parade
Offer of Solicitor Generalship to Cohen
Shows President's Political Courage
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
The fact that the Solicitor Generalship of the United States was
offered to Benjamin V. Cohen Is at least a proof of the President's
political courage. Cohen's brilliance as a lawyer is acknowledged by his
friends and enemies. He would have made an admirable Solicitor General.
But, being the less known, he is probably the more distrusted member
of the celebrated team of Corcoran and Cohen, The presentation of
his name to the Senate would have been the signal for a record anti
New Deal uproar.
The President made the ofTer in the clearest terms, although not
directly to Cohen. Previously, the present Solicitor General, Robert H
Jackson, had asked Cohen to be his assistant. Cohen, knowing this
would have put him in line for promotion, turned Jackson down on the
double ground that he did not wish to embarrass the President and
preferred his work as counsel to National Power Policy Committee
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same reason, although his New Deal
cronies pressed him hard.
It was Cohen’s refusal of the
place, which was unexpected, that
opened the way for Judge Francis
Biddle of the Philadelphia Circuit
Court of Appeals. When Frank
Murphy leaves the Attorney Gen
eralship for the Supreme Court and
Bob Jackson moves up into the
Attorney General's office, Biddle is
. siateci ior the Solicitor Generalship. This is in accord with a tentative
I promise made Biddle by the President at the time of his appointment
to the Circuit Court.
The prospect of a vacancy on the Circuit Court, incidentally, caused
an amusing patronage row. Poor Senator Joseph F. Guffey, frantically
trying to mend his Pennsylvania fences, wanted the Circuit Court
judgeship foi Common Pleas Judge John McCann of Cambria County
Jack Kelly, the Philadelphia leader, presented Dean Herbert Goodrich
of the University ol Pennsylvania law school, as his candidate. The
administration, perhaps feeling that obligations to GufTev had been paid
in full, seems to have plumped for Goodrich. The Guffeyites are now
piously declaring that Goodrich was their choice from the start.
Kennediana
If Joseph P. Kennedy is correct, the fate of the British shipping
convoys is the thing to watch for in the war news. Our mercurial
Ambassador to England has stated that England and Prance are sure
to win, unless the Germans can cut off their supplies by air and sub
marine attacks on the great convoys of merchantmen into which trade
to the allies is being organized.
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conviction that general ruin will follow the war. Besides being gloomy,
he is not very well, having been ordered by his doctors to take a thorough
rest cure while in this country. Nevertheless, he still tells good stories
One is about Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty, the Dublin wit who was the
! original of James Joyce’s stately Buck Mulligan. Dr. Gogarty and
Kennedy were taking an evening stroll. Kennedy made a remark about
j the dangers of walking in blacked-cut London. Whereat Gogarty replied:
| ’’Well, you are safe, at any rate. These days the British care only
; for the opinions of the Almighty and the American public. And I should
i say the Almighty was a distinct second best.”
Jerry and Wendell
The new row between the administration and the utilities seems to
be boiling down to a duel between S. E. C. Chairman Jerome N, Prank
and the utilities’ chief champion. Wendell L. Willkie. of Commonwealth
<fc Southern. Pointing to the St. Lawrence River project and the pro
posed national defense grid system. Willkie has latelv been warning of
; another New Deal offensive on the power front. Frank and his henchmen
reply that Willkie's warnings are
only a cloak for an assault on the
S. E. C.'s holding company integra
tion program.
Frank hopes to beat Willkie
with Justice William O. Douglas' old
"divide and rule” strategy. Other
utilities leaders, such as Floyd L.
Carlisle of Niagara-Hudson, and
Floyd Odium, whose Atlas Corp.
controls the Utilities Power <fc Light,
v are Deing anxiously courwa Dy xne
New Deal. The New Dealers claim that the first response has been
favorable, and that the rest of the industry will not go along with
Willkie. Meanwhile, Willkie is firmly convinced that the other utilities
executives are with him to a man.
The row is already reaching the stage of name-calling. The New
Dealers say that Willkie is stirring up the utilities men to increase his
own nuisance value, because he wants to sell his Southern properties
to the T. V. A. at a good price. Willkie counters that, the pressure to sell
his Southern properties comes from the S. E. C. Meanwhile, political
considerations fortunately make the New Dealers desire to avoid a grand
bustup with the power business. If it were not for this, a grand bustup
would be certain.
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Providence Society Launches
Debs on Wholesale Basis
Assembly Ball Is Coming-Out Party
For 43 of Season's 54 Buds
By thf Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE, R. I„ Dec. 23
Providence settled a knotty debu
tante problem today with a whole
sale launching of dozens of glamor
ous misses in one swanky party—
with ft total cover of $6,500.
Taking a tip from “group” deb
presentations held each year in
Baltimore, Cleveland and Charles
ton, S. C„ Providence society gave
the nod to 43 of its record total of
54 graduates from the subdeb
league in an all-night affair designed
to eliminate a flood of individual
coming out parties during the holi
day season.
Champagne and milk were the
extremes in the liquid refreshment
line and roast duck capon gave way
to caviar as the city's first debutante
assembly ball was staged in an
atmosphere of exclusiveness so
stringent that even the 800 invited
guests were tabbed with wristlets,
made of safety-deposit seals, for ad
mittance talismen.
A 40-piece orchestra went heavy
on Viennese waltzes and dreamy
ballads, because the debs—refresh
ingly youthful in gowns of white
and pastel shades—passed up
Gen. Hines Clarifies
Compensation Deadline
A statement to clear up confusion
over the interpretation of the ‘‘dead
line” date on filing applications for
adjusted compensation with the
Veterans’ Bureau was issued yester
day by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines,
administrator.
Gen. Hines explained that Janu
ary 2 is the last date on which orig
inal applications for compensation
may be filed by veterans or their
dependents, but that this date does
not apply to applications for or cash
ing of the bonds held by veterans
who have previously received and
turned in their adjusted compen
sation certificates.
He pointed out that in case the
veteran has died prior to filing ap
plication, his widow, children, de
pendent mother or father only are
entitled to the payment of the ad
justed service credit, in that order
of preference. The dependent must
file application prior to midnight of
January 2.
“swing” music in their requests for
dancing tunes.
Proud parents, some of whom al
ready had staged lavish individual
parties for their daughters, w'atched
from the sidelines as the eager stag
line exerted the old college try in a
“cut in” technique that gave each
deb a variety of dancing.
Even the stags had to meet so
ciety's rigid specifications, because
the “bachelor list” was limited to
college lads or those who were 18 on
November 1. Older bachelors got by
on their merits.
Arriving guests all but out-New
ported Newport with a display of
formal finery that caused late
Christmas shoppers to stop and
stare.
The affair began with a dinner
held in a ballroom flanked with
cedar trees and row on row of
Southern smilax. Later, the debs
lined up in alphabetical order—no
favorites were played in the blos
soming of the buds—and were
escorted by their fathers for the
presentation to their mothers.
CT"HE 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 be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star's.
The Political Mill
Issues Raised in Next Congress
May Complicate 1940 Campaign
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Ten days hence Congress will as
semble for its last regular session
before the 1940 national political
campaign. The administration lead
ers may well
wish that the
session were be
hind them.
In the first
place the Presi
dent is expected
to recommend a
budget calling for
the expenditure
of approximate
ly $9,500,000,000
—making an es
timated $3,000.
000.000 d e f i cit
inevitable and
tncreby mcreas
| ing the national G- G- Uncoin,
debt well beyond the $45,000,000,000
statutory limit.
In the second place, Vice President
John N. Garner has announced his
candidacy for the democratic presi
dential nomination. His candidacy
is “unconditional"—in other words
he will make the race whether the
President himself is a candidate or
not.
In the third place, the third-term
issue is likely to raise its head on
the floor of one or both Houses of
Congress, unless the President
should say unequivocally that he
will not be a candidate for re
election.
New Taxes Rumored.
In the fourth place, more and
more reports are circulated that new
taxes will be attempted.
In the fifth place, a battle over
the Wagner Labor Relations Act
and the Labor Relations Board is
almost sure to develop, particularly
in view of the present revelations
before the House special committee,
headed by Representative Howard
Smith of Virginia, which has been
investigating the administration of
that law.
In the sixth place, it may be ex
pected that the Republican minority
will become more active than it has
been at any time in the last three
years.
Altogether, the opening of the
! congressional session has all the
j appearance of opening a Pandora's
box. Politics promises to play an
! important role in all the proceed
ings that follow.
One school of thought is to the
effect that the President will be
able to maintain control in the leg
islative body by withholding any
statement about his future plans—
that is, whether he will or will not
be a candidate for re-election. An
other has it that the President
could solidify the Democratic ma
jorities in the Senate and House by
announcing definitely he will not
seek another term in the White
House.
Gamer Widely Supported.
In the House, the Democratic
leader is Representative Sam Ray
burn of Texas. Mr. Rayburn was
Vice President Garner's right-hand
man in his campaign for the presi
dential nomination in 1932, and he
is firmly back of Mr. Garner in his
present quest for the 1940 presiden
tial nomination. The Vice President
went to the bat strongly for Mr.
Rayburn when the House Democrats
were in the process of selecting a
new leader, following the death of
the late Speaker Joseph W. Byms of
Tennessee, and the selection of
Speaker William B. Bankhead of
Alabama, who had been Democratic
leader of the House.
It is easily conceivable that any
move on the part of the New Dealers
in the administration to ditch Mr.
Garner might cause a serious breach
in the Democratic machinery in the
House. It is conceivable that the
third-term threat, if carried forward
strongly, might have a similar ef
fect. This might result in making it
exceedingly difficult for the admin
istration to get what it wants at
the hands of Congress.
In the Senate, where the Demo
cratic majority is more pronounced
and overwhelming than in the
House. Vice President Gamer has
many friends. Outside of the group
of 100 per cent New Dealers who
demand the renomination of Presi
dent Roosevelt, the great bulk of
the Democratic Senators are averse
to a third-term nomination—even
though many of them have made
no public statement regarding it.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the
President's choice for majority lead
er of the Senate, has again the job
of steering the administration's pro
gram through the Upper House.
And it may be a ticklish job.
Third-Term Resolution.
The Kentucky Senator, who In all
probability will have the State dele
gation supporting him for the presi
dential nomination in the Demo
cratic National Convention, is re
garded as entirely faithful to the
President. In other words, he would
support a third-term nomination if
the President wishes it.
One of the first obstacles which
Majority Leader Barkley may have
to meet is an anti-third-term reso
lution, which Senator Rush D. Holt
of West Virginia, Democrat, threat
ens to offer when Congress reassem
bles. Senator Holt has held such a
resolution in abeyance for more
than a year, acting on tfae advice
of some of the Democratic older
heads. He plans, however, to put
the Senate on record in this matter,
unless there is some, definite an
nouncement from the white House
that the President will not permit
his name to go before the national
convention. He has patterned his
resolution after one that was
adopted by the Senate in the days
of the Coolidge administration.
Nearly all of the Democratic Sena
tors—not to mention the so-called
progressive Senators—who sat in the
Upper House at that time supported
the anti-thirri-term resolution.
Whether the resolution is voted
up or voted down, it will be an
embarrassing situation for many of
the Democrats who will be called
upon to express themselves.
«mi-i,yncmng him issue.
Even more serious for the Demo
cratic leadership, however, may be
the anti-lynching bill which is due
to come up in the House January
8. It is expected to pass that body,
! as it has in the past. When it gets
to the Senate the tug of war will
come. Southern Democrats have
filibustered similar measures to
death on several occasions. The
administration leadership will be
called upon at the coming session by
important Negro organizations to
put all its strength back of the
measure and force'it through. Since
the Negro vote in many of the
Northern and Western States is ma
terial. and since the New Deal ad
ministration has come to rely upon
that vote, the pressure will be very
great,
The administration, which has
had the benefit of the labor vote
in the last two national campaigns,
must also face proposals to revan^i
the Wagner Labor Relations Act.
During the last session, the admin
istration forces were able to stave
off any consideration of amend
ments to that act. But now it is a
question whether dilatory tactics
will succeed again in postponing
consideration of the matter.
And finally, the question of ap
propriations and Government ex
penditures will force itself very far
to the front. In the election years
of 1934. 1936 and 1938. the relief
rolls mounted high—much higher
than in the off years. With a pos
sible $3,000,000,000 deficit staring
Congress in the face, what will be
the course toward large relief fund
appropriations?
Coy, Aide to McNutt,
In Serious Condition
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 23.—Marine
Hospital authorities announced yes
terday that Wayne Coy. administra
tive assistant to Federal Security
Administrator Paul V. McNutt, had
taken ‘‘a turn for the worse” during
the night.
Mr. Coy, a former Delphi. Ind,
newspaper editor, has undergone
three operations since he entered
the hospital last August with an
intestinal ailment. Physicians said
his condition had suddenly become
serious.
Mr. Coy served as Mr. McNutt’s
aide when the latter was Governor
of Indiana and Philippine high
commissioner.
This Changing World
Delay Increases Finland's Chances
Of Repulsing Russia's Attacks
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Unless Russia is able to make a real military effort in the next few
weeks, Finland will be able to resist without trouble all the Russian attacks
at least until next spring. If during this period efficient assistance is
offered that heroic republic bv the great powers there is a strong possibility
that the entire effort of the Muscovites might fail.
This is the considerate opinion of military experts in this country and
abroad based on factual information regarding the quality of the Russian
troops which are on the Finnish front at the present moment; the strategic
advantages of the Finns and the ability of Field Marshal Mannerheim to
make the utmost use of them, and the deplorable state of the ’Russian
communication system to the three fronts in Finland.
* * * * *
The Russians have massed strong armies on the Karelian front, the
Ladoga front and in Northern Finland. The total number of these forces
does not exceed 800,000 men. There
are millions of mobilized Russian
forces in the rear but it is not possi
ble to use a larger number of troops
on the Finnish front.
Until last week, it appears that
the Russian high command—what
T ever that may be—has sent young
inexperienced men to these three
fronts. Whether it has nothing bet
ter or whether it has underestimated
the ability of the Finns is a question
which nobody can answer. Moscow officials are oysterlike regarding in
formation to foreign governments. But the observers at the front who
have seen the Russians in action maintain that both the quality of the
men and the strategic conception of the general staff is far from being
what people had been led to believe of the potentialities of the Russians.
It would seem that the troops that used to be paraded in the Red Square
of Moscow before the eves of the foreign military attaches—some 50.000
men—are about the only well organized and highly trained soldiers the
Russians have.
* * * *
The same thing might be said about the Soviet war material. The
tanks appear to be made of corrugated iron; thev cannot resist
machine-gun fire of the defenders of the Finnish lines. While the reports
about the destruction of hundreds of tanks are exaggerated, there is no
doubt that the mechanized units of the Soviet Armv are extremely poor.
The Russian metallurgical industry has not had time tO|develop suffi
ciently to produce the high-grade steel required in the construction of
the modern tanks.
* * *
The Russian high command is inferior also. There is not a single
staff officer with the required military training. The Russian officers,
like the privates, get themselves killed heroically, but the high command
seems to have forgotten the old military slogan that a dead soldier is not
worth a live one.
It appears certain that the purges which Stalin has performed in
the army have left the Red troops almost without trained commanding
officers. There are a few former Czarist officers—who were junior officers
in the last war. These men have at least in them the military tradition.
But even they are kept aside, in formations in the rear. Stalin is afraid
that they might gain victories, appear in the limelight and eventually
undermine the Communist regime. This fear of the Russian dictator is
not without reason. Soldiers in time of war are soldiers, be they serving
a capitalist or a Communist regime. If the Communist troops had been
led to victory in the first real war they have had since the establishment
of the Soviet regime, there would have been a great enthusiasm for Stalin
and the other leaders. But after having suffered serious setbacks, a
flashing general who might lead them to victory would become more
popular than the Kremlin hermit. And if that general happens to have
different ideas from those of Stalin & Co. he might be able to put them
into effect with the help of the army which he has led to victory.
* * * *
The Red dictator is reported to be worried about the military aspect
of the campaign—although he welcomes any situation which might tend
to bring other nations in this Euro
| pean catastrophe. His man Friday,
Molotov, made discreet approaches
to the German foreign office regard
ing the sending of a military mis
sion to Moscow—something like the
one sent by the British and the
French last July. Ribbentrop
talked the matter over with the
Fuehrer and the Fuehrer discussed
| this proposition with his military
i men. The result has been tha* the
uerman general staff believes that it has its hands full with Germany's
own w:ar and cannot afford to detail some of the highly trained and
efficient German staff officers to Moscow. Whether the reason for this
refusal is that the German Army men are secretly pleased over the Rus
sian failure in Finland or whether they believe that their counsels would
be ignored and would not be given the free hand necessary for the effi
cient. conduct of the war has not been revealed yet. But it is certain that
so far there is no active co-operation between the general staffs of the
two allies.
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Two Navy Reserve
Officers Promoted
j Promotion of two Washington
Naval Reserve officers was an
nounced yesterday.
Alfred C. Flather of 719 Fifteenth
street N.W. was promoted to the
rank of commander, and Eulan I.
Snyder of 3023 Fourteenth street
N.W. to lieutenant commander.
Lt. Comdr. Snyder, an attorney on
the staff of the judge advocate
general of the Navy, ws one of four
Reserve officers selected to make a
voyage to England in 1937 aboard
the battleship New York for the coro
nation ceremonies. He is attached
to the staff of the commander of the
1st Battalion, United States Naval
Reserves, in the District of Co
lumbia.
Apartment Children
Given Christmas Party
Children residing in the Cavalier
; Apartments, 3500 Fourteenth street
; N.W., were entertained at a Christ
I mas party yesterday afternoon in
i the lobby of the building.
The entertainment, arranged by
i Mrs. Fred R. Foster, assistant man
ager of the apartment house, in
cluded a performance by Ken Shee
lor, a professional magician, and the
singing of carols by a quartet made
up of colored men employed there.
Members of the quartet, who sing in
a church choir, were directed by
Carlton Smith, an elevator operator.
Robert Moulton, a resident of the
building, acted as Santa Claus and
distributed toys and stockings filled
with candy, fruits and nuts to the
children. About 25 children at
tended.
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Sir Seymour Hicks
Explodes Laugh
Bombs at 78
By LEMUEL F. PARTOX.
Word comes from London that Sir
Seymour Hicks, who, last Septem
ber, became official bucker-up of
British civilians, sailors and soldiers,
is exploding laugh bombs all over
the kingdom, which eventually may
blow down the Siegfried Wall like
the trumpets of Jericho.
Sir Seymour, who had a similar
job in the World War, is England's
favorite light comedy actor, a lead
ing producer and actor-manager, a
writer of consequence and a rallying
point for both masses and classes,
as they both claim him as their own.
He is 78 years old and last month
| celebrated his 52d year on the stage.
He started life as a callboy in a
j London theater. His next Job was
I as an undertaker’s mute, a hired
mourner, sometimes filling in as an
. emergency pall-bearer and the like.
He wore black well and did nicely in
his new career, until his memories
of the theater obtruded at an un
fortunate moment. He was walking
solemnly behind a hearse, when a
distant band struck up a tune, which
carried him back-stage again. He
swung open the door of the hearse
and called out, “The overture be
gins now. sir."
That shunted him right back to
the theater, which, by all accounts,
he never should have left. He has
written and produced 64 plays and
is the author of eight books of rem
iniscence, comment and criticism.
He was knighted in 1935, and May
fair made a tremendous fuss over
him, with similar cheers from the
populace. In the World War he or
ganized concerts and shows for the
soldiers and kept up a drum-fire of
spirited humor which rated him as
| the leading empire morale-builder.
He was here first in 1890, has made
many later visits and has many
friends in this country. Currently
he is in one of his best starring roles
as Old Scrooge in a seasonal revival
of “A Christmas Carol.”
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$7,742,115 Contracts
Awarded by Army
Contracts totaling $7,742,115 wen
awarded during the first two weeks
1 of December in the Army’s procure
ment program, Assistant Secretary
of War Louis Johnson announced
yesterday.
The awards included $1,488,635 of
contracts for the Air Corps. Among
these was a $1,148,009 contract
given to the Uniter Aircraft Corp.
• Hamilton Standard Propellers Di
vision). East Hartford, Conn., for
propeller and control assemblies.
The R. C. A. Manufacturing Co.,
Camden, N. J„ received an $861,509
contract for radio receivers and
; spare parts. A $189,046 order for
transmitting equipment for radio
| sets went to the Rauland Corp.,
Chicago.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works,
Philadelphia, received a $1,114,454
order for mounts for guns.
Studebaker Sees
Obligation on Radio
Education by radio must adhere
! to American tradition and reflect
American ideology. United States
Commissioner of Education John
W. Studebaker said yesterday in a
report submitted to the Federal
! Communications Committee on the
work of the Federal Radio Education
' Committee.
The committee was created by the
commission in 1935 as an agency to
work for co-operation between edu
cators and broadcasters in the in
terests of education via radio.
Dr. Studebaker emphasized that
whether broadcasters desire it or
not, programs have an educational
effect on the listeners and there
fore radio station operators must
assume responsibility for handling
radio in the public interest.
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