Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1932, Page 8

A THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1932. = CATHOLICS ASSAL |[Pesaiomored| | T m e T 0 TR NSATI See Menace to National Well- Being in Unobstructed | Distribution. Describing the unobstructed distribu- | tion of indecent books as “one of the greatest menaces to our national well- | being,” the American Catholic ‘hier- | archy, in annual convention at Catholic | University, yesterday adopted a reso-| Jution condemning this type-of litera- | ture. His eminence, William Cardinal ©O'Connell of Boston presided over the session, which was aitended by one other cardinal, eight archbishops and more than 70 bishops from all sections of the United States. Laxity of Morals. The resolution on indecent literature said it would be “blindness not to Tec- ognize the looseness and laxity of morals which both hastened the eco- nomic chaos of the world and now plays its part in extending laxity in public morals, loss of public decency and consequently, a lowering of standards of citizenship.” 1t deplored what it described as the “increasing flood of immoral and un- moral books” and other such publica- tions, and said public opinion had “in- | fluenced the courts of the Nation to such an extent” that it was now “almost impossible to have the most obscene of | books debarred from the customs or from the mails.” Corruption of public and private morals, the resolution said, “‘wears away more surely than any other agency the foundation™ of a nation. Sensuous and Superficial. “1t is further undeniable that many writers, beggared of talent and of true literary gifts, are playing up the sexual, the sensational and the superficial, and that these books are exploited by many reviewers 8s literary productions. They <peak of the flesh rather than of the mind.” Other resalutions included one for «gincere and effective co-opefhtion” be- tween the bishops of the Catholic Wel- fare Conference and the National Wel- fare and Rellef Mobilization Committee. MANCHURIA CALLED A LAND OF PROMISE Geographic Bociety Lecture Course | te Open With Talk by Lieut. Col. Smallwood. «Manchuris—Land of Promise” is the subject of the first address to be de- livered in the 1932-1933 lecture course of the National Geographic Society to- morrow evening. The talk to be made by Lieut, Col, H. 8t. Clair Smallwood will be delivered in the Washington Auditorium. Col, Smallwood has spent many years in China and Manchuris and has served as aeronautical adviser to the Chinese government. In this capacity he laid cut the first aerial routes planned in China, one from Peiping to Urgs, the capital of Mongolis, and_the second from. Peiping to Hankow. For & decade he has written ?l a ial Par Eastern correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph and & number of other Eng- lsh journals. The talk, which will be illustrated by motion pictures and lantern slides, will deal with such outstdnding aspects of Manchuris as the mass immigration to ~hich the country has been subjected inerecent years, economic develop- ments in which the soy bean has played a prominent part, snd the growth of modern rallway tion. Motion pictures show _recent scenes in Deiren, chief port of Man- churia, as well as in Mukden and Har- ‘vin, storm centers during the past year. N U. S. TRAPSHOOTING STAR | DIES IN ATLANTIC CITY Fred Plum Was National Doubles Title Holder—Held Many Sectional Crowns. By the Assoclated Press, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, November | 17.—Fred Plum, 45, owner of a chain years one of the leading trap-shooting stars in the United States and Europe, died in the Atlantic City Hospital yes- terday of double pneumonia after a two-week iliness. Plum was one of the greatest all- around trap shooters of modern times, | of $91,285 awarded to Willlam F. and holding the national doubles title be- sides many sectional crowns. He was| Counsel for McCarl noted an appeal a member of the Uhited States trap- shooting team to the Olympic games at Antwerp. Surviving are the widow, two daugh- | Attorneys Carlin & Oarlin, 114 ters And & Son, Bia father, three brottiers | Garnett and John A. Beck -bp?-;ei 100{ and two sisters. WE SELL U. §. 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Dr. Pergler, who was Czechoslovakia's first Minister to the United States and, | more recently, that naticn's Minister to Japan, is the only man to address the Citizenship Institute twice. The Institute of Citizenship annually { draws the Nation's leading students of government to Emory University MEDICAL FACILITIES ' SEEN LACKING IN U. S. Shortage of Physicians and Hos- pital Beds Is Cited in Com- mittee Report. There is & shortage of both phy- sicians and hospital béds in the United States, according to the latest report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical | Care, made public yesterday. Despite the inadequacy of medical | personnel snd facilities, however, the committee feels that it would be unwise to attempt to improve conditions “until | the people have first been educated to demand good medical care and until satisfactory arrangements have been m" for paying for the cost of such Increase in medical personnel and facilities at this time, the report de- clares, “would result merely in ad- ditional unemployment among medical practitioners and an accumulation of unused équipment.” The report, which is the twenty- second completed by the committee, has been published by the University of Chicago Press under the title, “The Fundamentals of Good Medical Care.” It was prepared by Dr. Roger I. Lee and Lewis Webster Jones, Estimating that approximately 135 physicians are necessary to meet the “real needs” of a population group of 100,000, the points out that there were only 136 physicians per 100,000 population in 1929. ‘The estimated “real need” for den- tists is between 99 and 179 per 100,000, according to the report, but there were only 56 dentists per 100,000 in 1928. Al h it is estimated that the “real need” for ital SIS S RULES IN ECONOMY LAW RESTRICTION ON INTEREST District Bupreme Court Justice Oscar R. Luhring yesterday held that the provisions of the economy law fixing computation of interest at 4 per cent in settlement of claims does not rected the issuance of writs of man- damus against J. Raymond McCarl, low an additional 2 per cent interest on a claim of $163,247.17 awarded John L. Alcock of Maryland, and on & claim | Helen ‘8. West, Pasadena, Calif. to the District Court of Appeals. At- torneys Manton M. Wyvell and Clyde L. 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