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URGES COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS Report of Committee on Cost Proposes Basic Changes in System. o (Oontinved Prom First Page.) continuation of the present system of individual fees for those who prefer that method. It is propesed that such in- Lecturer X0 DISCUSS LIFE OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY. surance cash benefits as are intended | to compensate for wage losses due to iliness be kept entirely distinct from Ppayments for medical services. Educational Recommendations. The following recommendations are made in the ficld of professional educa- | * tion: That more attention be given to training in preventive medicine; that | more_effective efforts be made fo pro- | vide trained health officers; that “spe- cialties in medical practice” be re- | Sculptor, will give a free illustrated lec- | gogpital. DELAIDE FOHNSON, 1 | strieted to those specially qualified ac- | ture on “The Influence of the Life of cording to some objective standard. and that post graduate educational oppor- tunities be increased 1. also was recommended that the professional education of dentists and pharmacists be considerably broadencd Some members of the committee, it is Busan B. Anthony on a Century of Progress” tonight at the Y. W. C. The Susan B. Anthony Foundation sponsoring the lecture. S MEDICAL REPORT a “specialty.” Much of the rou- | e work of the dental office would be} left to non-p-ofessicnal but highly trained essistants. A broader and more thorough training is proposed for reg- | istered nurses, with the provision of less | thoroughly trained and lower paid nursing aides and attendants. | Made Extemsive Survey. The committee made an extensive survey of the medical situation through- out the country, following numerous complaints that. while the need was in- | creasing, the cost of adequate medical service was too great for the average family. As a result of this survey it was found: That people need a substantially larger volume of scientific medical serv- | ice than they now utilize. This is pars | ticularly true. it was found, for persons | with small incomes. In spite of the| large amount of free work done by hos- | pitals, elinics and indivigual practi- tioners, and in spite of the sliding scale | of fees by which most physicians try to regulate their charges to the pocket- books of their patients, it wes found that approximately one-half of the in- dividuals in the low-ineome groups re- ceive no medical or dental at{ention of any kind. That public health service be extend- .ed to & far greater percentage of the people. particularly in rural areas, and | that there be a geographical distribu- | tion of practitioners more in aceord with the actual needs of the people | ‘é‘i&"‘ of coneentration of doctors in | ‘ee Splitting” Is Hit, ‘That “fee splitting” be discontinued and that some means be found to equal- ize the ineomes of specialists and gen- eral practitioners. That there is need for reduction of waste in many directions, such as in the money spent for unnecessary medi- cation, en services of “eultists” and ‘wastes due to idle time of doctors, un- used hospital accommodstions and the high overhead of private medical and dental praetiee. That there is need for some plan whereby the unequal and sometimes crughing burden of medical expenses can be distributed, H ““The prevailing methods of purchas- ing med czl clze‘.' 1&'111 imed'i“"lud :4 unwise updirected -€; ures, to uni and’ ux'nprel!at.:E:l financlal bus for the individual and family, to neglect of health and of illness, and often to inequable remuneration for practitioners.” Cost Put at $20 to $40 Yearly. It is.estimated that prng:r medical | care for an individual can be provided, year after year, for from $20 to $40. This, it is stated, could be met by monthly or weekly payments with such an ization as the proposed com- | munity medical een The committee was created in 1027, with @ecretary Wilbur as chairman, | and has made 26 fact-finding studies. It was supported by eight foundations and twe other organigations. lurvl:- mentary studies were made for it by the American Medical Association, the Ameriean Dental Association and by several institutions. The committee was made up of 24 physicians, 11 per- sons engaged in other forms of medical and public health work and 13 economists. Two minerity reports were filed. The most significant of these was offered by & dissenting group of the committee headed bg Dr. A. C. Christie, promi- nent Washington physician. Dr. Chris- tie and his associates of the minority | group characterize the so-called medical | centers as “an idealistic plan based solely upon thecry." | Held “Mass Production.” “Therc s nothing in experience to show that it is a workable scheme,” they BIAS IS CHARGED Journal of Association to Urge Support for Mi- nority Stand. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, November 29.—The Jour- nal of the American Medical Associa- tion in its next issue, December 3, will impute bias to the majority report of the Cemmittee on the Cests of Medical Care and urge support of the minority report, which was signed by members of the American Medical Association on the committee. The editorial in the Journal, made public simultaneously today with the presentation of the report of the com- mittee In New York, will say that the mejority apd minority reports “repre- sent the difference befween incitement to revolution and a desire for gradual evolytion based on analysis and study.” The majority report of the commit- tee urged that medical practice be ren- dered largely by organized groups as- sociated with hospitals. The chief mi- nority report recommended the op- posite, that is, “that corporate practice of medicine be vigorously and persis- tently opposed.” “Proposals No Surprise.” “The recommendations of the major- ity will not come as a surprise to the thousands of physicians who have fol- Jowed closely the trend of the studies as indicated by the reports published from time to time since 1927,” the jour- pal will say. “The director of its work. Harry H. Moore, Ph. D, published a book called ‘American Medicine and the People’s Health,’ which revealed his personal bias for insurance schemes indeed, for governmental practice. ‘So_definite was the trend of the committee’s studies in this direction that one must view the expenditure of almest a million dollars by the committee and its final report with mingled amusement and regret. “The rendering of all medical care by groups or guilds of medical Soivets has been one of the pet schemes of E. A, Filene, who probably was ohiefly responsible for establishing the Com- mittee on the Costs of Medicr! Care :’nd in developing funds for its ;. -mo- jon. “Practices Are Unethieal.” “The Journal has pointed out re- peatedly that such practices will mean the destruction of private practice; that they represent exploitation of physi- cians for the gain of business; that they put medical schools into unfair cempetition with their own graduates, and that they are, in a word, ‘uneth- ical” Knowing the composition of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, it is interesting to find the pet plans of mxl‘i' of its members so sweetly elabo- ra in the majority report.” The editorial will conclude: “The American Medical Association, through its board of trustees, supports the minority report. No doubt the House of Delegates, at its seasion in Milwaukee pext June, will urge every physician affiliated with the association to do likewise.” TWO D. C. YOUTHS SENTENCED T0 JAIL THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932. TEN STATES NEVER REPRESENTED RAIL OFFICIAL DIES SUDDENLY IN CITY ungerford, Greenville, ., Collapses While on Visit Here. H (4 Homer Leslie Hungerford, 65, of Greenville, S. C. assistant general superintendent of the Southern Rail- way, at Charlotte, N. C., died suddenly after collapsing near Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue this morning. He was on his way to the Interstate Commerce Commission in connection with a case there. Mr. Hungerford was walking with Charles Clark, attorney, of 4540 Klin- gle road, when he complained of fecl- ing 1ll. The attorney hailed a taxi to take Mr. Hungerford to Emergency He died before reaching there, however. A native of Dowsgiac, Mich, where he was born November 16, 1867, Mr. Hungerford had been affiliated with the Southern for more than 40 years. He was a former superintendent and general superintndent of the line. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Hungerford, and two sons, Clark, superintendent for the Southern at Macon, Ga., and Leslie, in the traffic | department of the railway at Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Hungerford had arrived in Wash- ington this morning to attend the commission’s hearing. REYNOLDS, NEW SENATOR, HERE TO TAKE OFFICE Successor to Cameron Morrison in North Carolina to Be S8worn In on Monday. Robert R. Reynolds, newly elected Democratic Senator from North Caro- lina, has arrived at the Capitol and | will be sworn in at the opening session | of the Senate Monday. He takes office immediately because he was elected to finish the remainder of the term of the late Senator Overman as Well as for a complete term. During the last sesslon of Congress this seat was held by Cameron Morrison, who was appointed by the Governor to serve pending an election. Reynolds, who favors repeal of the eighteenth amendment, defeated Morrison, a_dry, in the Democratic primary last Sum- mer, His entrance into the Senate therefare, is an addition to the strength | of the wets in that branch of Con Tess. | : Senator-elect Reynolds said today that in addition to his stand against | prohibition, he also advocated payment | of the foreign debts due this country, and payment of the soidlers bonus as soon as the condition of the Govern- ment will make possible the liquidation | of this obligation. TRINITY CHURCH RECTOR | Formal Installation Conducted in| Takoma Park Last Night by Bishop Freeman. X vid Cartwright Clark was lo:“:ly mimuned rec{or of Trinity Chareh, Takom? Rrk. by Bishop James E, Freeman 1a&t night. Bishop Freeman stressed the need of | observance by the ll‘l{hlnd clergy of | the eanonical law of the clhu{;h :ur;m emphasized the impotrance to the - e:lup of ehureh "orrol the hearty sup- port of the laity. Qther clergymen who participated in the service were Reyv. C. Raymond | Walven of the Washington Cathedral and Rev, Christian M. Young, rector emeritus of Trinity Church. Rev. and Mrs. Clark were tendered & reception in Takoma Parish Hall fol- lowing the service. 40-HOUR WEEK ORDERED Major Movie Studios Act to Raise Employment One-Third. | HOLLYWOOD, November 29 (#).—A 40-hour week for motion picture em-| ployes who are paid on an hourly basis | will go into effect this week in all Lhei major studios. | It is estimated the plan, brought| about by union officials and members of the Motion Picture Producers and| Distributors’ Association, will inerease | employment one-third, In one studio, Paramount, where the 40-hour week inaugurated a month ago, it was said 168 additional men had been given 40 hours’ work a week. Craftsmen affected are carpenters painters, foundry workers, electricians Louisa May Alcott’s Books Are Among Best Sellers Today Renewed Tribute Is Paid in Observance of 100th Anniversary. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The books of Louisa May Alcott, whose birth 100 years ago today is being | celebrated internationally, still are | among the “best sellers” for Washing- | ton children. Parents and teachers LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S| CENTENARY NOTED Concord House Is Mecca of Pilgrimage Paying Tribute. | By the Associated Press. CONCORD, Mass, November 29— An old-fashioned, brown-stained house IN CHOICE OF CARINET MEMBERS New York Contributed Most, 47 Having| Held 53 Portfolios—Pennsylvania Is Next With 34. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt will be confronted by a list of 10 “forgotten” States when | he sets about determining the personnel of his cabinet. [ unite with booksellers and librarians to | Peside & modern highway in the out- A perusal of political pages of the had 19 cabinet members, and Delaware, also a small State, 6. North Carolina-also has had 6, but whereas cabinet mem- bers from other States were distributed among the various departments, all from North Carolina served as Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt made the most testily to her undiminished importance | as a writer of storics for “little women" and “little men." | Dr. George F. Bowerman, quoting Miss Louise P. Latimer, director of chil- | dren’s work in the Public Library sys- tem, declares: “Louisa May Alcott is | much alive. ‘Little Women,' the most | | convincing of her stories, is the most | popular girl's book today, probably be- cause, as the author said, she and her family ‘really lived most of it ‘Little Men,” ‘Jo's Boys,’ ‘Efght Cousins’ ‘Old- Fashioned Girl' and ‘Under the Lilaes' follow ‘Littl€ Women' in merit and popularity.” D. H. Edwards, manager of Bretano's, says: “Books may come and books may | o, i Touisa Alcott’s books seem to go on forever. ‘Little Women,' ‘Little Men,' “Jo's Boys' and ‘Jack and Jill’ | with their genuineness of character and | Incidents, their homely appeal and wis- | dem, continue ta ertain boys and | | girls of an era very different from the | era in which the authar lived.” | William Ballantyne & Sons report: | “Any one who ever has tried to sell | books for children of 9, 10 or 11 years kiows that one of their frequent de- mands is for books about ‘real’ chil- dren. Children of those ages are get- ting tired of fairly tales and are not vet ready for novels. They seem to crave interesting accounts of the do- ings of just such people as they them- selves are. In such contingencies, the bookseller'’s stand-by for the past 60 years has been the series of eight books by Louisa May Alcott.” Woodward & Lothrop say: “Through all the years Miss Alcott has been one of the most popular writers of chil- dren’s books and today_this popularity continues unabated. Now and then some one asks the children to vote for | their favorite book and ‘Little Women’ | invariably beads the list.” Washingtonians have a special in- terest in Louisa May Alcott’s success owing to the fact that it was here that she wrote the war letters, which, reprinted as “Hospital Sketches” in 1863, brought her the first celebrity she ever enjoved. She was a nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown in 1862- 1863, and the experience stirred her to the first really fine work she ever had done. Born on November 29, 1832, at Ger- mantown, Pa, Miss Alcott died at Boston, March 6, 1888. REFORMATORY INMATES IN REVOLT OVER FOOD| Twoscore Prisoners.at Chillicothe, Ohio, Shatter Dishes and Windows. By the Associated Press. CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, November 29. —Revolt flared for several hours in the Federal reformatory here yesterday when more than twoscore prisoners, dissatisfied with a meal, shattered dish- | ware on the floors and broke windows. Prison officials said all was quiet by | night and that the revolters had lost | their “enthusiasm.” | The sound of crashing dishes and | windows in a mess hall within the re- | formatory caused officials to call out all available guards. Order was restored without great difficulty and the prison- ers were marched to the work shops. No one was injured during the flare- up. | “Imaginary” was the term applied by Warden Albert McDonald to the griev- | ance of the prisoners. I | "JAILED FOR THEFT Grocer and Salesman Charged With | Transporting Stolen Auto. CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 29| () —Harold Roy Stingley, 31, a grocer, | and M. M. McCreight, salesmap, both of Kingman, Ohio, were in jail here| last night charged with trans a stolen automobile from Carlis] to Wilmington, Ohio. The men are wanted in Carlisle on a | Sharge of robbing Robert Brown Iast| une. Brought into Upited States District | Court here November 19, McCreight waived examination and was held for action of the Federal grand jury. Sting- ley's case was continued. They were arrested two weeks ago in Kingman, FRIGHTENED TO DEATH BELMAR, N. J—Two men who stole | a wallet from William Rugge of Pauls- | boro, N. J., also robbed him of life. Ten skirts of historic Concord was a gath- ering place today of childhood mem- ories. Here, to Orchard House, from whose trooped from the mind of their creato: a pilgrimage of men and women and children to pay tribute to the author of “Little Women” on the centenary of her birth. One hundred years ago today Louisa Aleott was born in Germantown, Pa, | Little of her life was spent there, how- ever. Her father, Bronson Alcott, im- practical dreamer and visionary, brought his family to New Engiand soon after Louisa’s birth and thereafter much of he;dh(n was spent in Boston and Con- cord. Provided for Family. It was in the house here-bought with & legacy receivel by Mrs. Alcoti— that Louica May found the means, with her pen, to provide & livelihood for the family. Here, at the behest of the publichers, for whom she had been turning out none-too-popular stories, she sat down, not overenthusiastically, to_write & book for girls It was “Little Women.” Since that day millions in every civilized country have read the book and are reading it today. No one knows how many cop- ies have been sold—more than & mil- lion and a half in this country. The copyright has expired, but it is still printed and still read, as its publishers well know from the childish letters that still come to “Miss Alcott.” Houwse Is Unchanged. Orchard House stands today much as it stood when old Bronson Alcott and his wife “Marmee” lived there witi their four lively daughters. Behind it rises the hill on which grew the fruit trees that gave it its name. Nearb; stands the building in which the fath propounded his philosophy. A few doors away stands Wavside, where for a time the Alcotts lived only to sell it to their friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. A little farther down the road, toward the village center, pre- served within the walls of a modern Colonial-type building, is the Spartan- like room once occupied by Thoreau and almost across the road stands the square. white home of that other Con- .cord philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emer- son. METROPOLI NEWCGOMER HAILED Rose Bampton of Buffalo Wins Ac- claim of New York in “La Gioconda.” By the Associated Pres Bamglan. from Buffalo, brought down the tan. From the “golden horseshoe” to the “family circle” the plaugits poured forth for the dark-eved shy lass who celebrated her 23d birthday with ber New York operatic debut. ‘The opera was “La Gioconda.” And after the second act the night belonged to Miss Bampton, who played the role of Laura, wife of the Doge of Venice. The opera allowed the young prima donna ample opportunity for her mezzo-soprano voice. And the ap- plause and praise from critics attested this quality. Several of the critics said, howevi Bampton showed the effect of her nervousness. Rosa Ponselle, in the title role of the ballad singer, gave way to the new- comer in the curtain call. As Miss Bampton stood alone on the stage, in the glare of lights and amidst the lengthy ovation, the school girl's grin spread over her pretty face. One bit of praise was silent and unknown to Miss Bampton. Gatti-Casazza, {impressrio of the Metropolitan for 25 years, did an al- most unheard of thing. He went back to his box after the first act and sat through all the opera. BABY ARTICLES SOUGHT Appeal Made by Women’s Auxil- iary to D. C. Medical Society, ‘The Women's Auxiliary to the Medical Soclety c¢f the District of Columbia | has sent out an appeal to the public, on ! bshalf of the needy, for baby carriages, cribs, baby clothes, nursery supplies and doors Meg and Jo and Beth and Amy | Louisa May Alcott, 64 years ago, came | TAN OPERA | NEW YORK, November 29.—Rose ' ouse last night at the Melropoh-l past disclosed today that these States never have been represented in the offi- ial family of any President, and that one of them—Rhode Island—is one of the original Thirteen States. The others are Florida, Nevada, Ari- zona, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Arizon: the youngest of the group, was admif ted to the Union in 1912. % New York has contributed the largest number of cabinet members of past administrations, 47 sons of the Empire State having held 53 cabinet portfolios. Next in line is Pennsylvania with 44 portfolios distributed among 34 men. Massachusetts has had 40 portfolios among 33 Presidents. Five States Represented Once. Five States have been represented but once. They are Arkansas, the residence cf Augustus H. Garland, who served as| The other three men who served un- Attorney General under Cleveland; Ala- | der three Presidents did not serve con- bama, home of Hillary H. Herbert, Sec- | secutive terms. Daniel Webster of retary of the Navy under Cleveland; | Massachuseits, served as Secretary of Washington, home State of Richard A. | State, and John J. Crittenden as At- Bellinger, Secretary of the Interior un- |torney General under Presidents Har- | der Taft; New Mexico, youngest State |rison, Tyler and Fillmore, and William |to have had a cabinet member and|Windom was Secretary of the Treasury | Which furnished Albert B. Fall as Sec- | under Garfield, Arthur and Benjamin | retary of the Interior in Harding's cabi- | Harrison. | net. and Kansas, residence of Willlam| Nine men who later became Presi- | M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture in | dent served as members of predecessors’ | Coolidge’s cabinet. cabinets. QOne of them, Monrce, was No State has the distinction of hav- | both Secretary of State and Secretary | Ing been represented in the cabinet of [of War in Madison's cabinet. The | every President, nor has any State held | others were Jefferson, Madison, J. O. | & portfolio of every department. New | Adams, Van Buren and Buchanan, Sec- | York, with all of its cabinet positions, | retaries of State; Grant and Taft, Sec- has never had Secretaries of either La- | retaries of War, and Hoover, Secretary bor or Agriculture, of Commerce. No President ever served Maryland, with only little more than | in a cabinet after retiring from the t ice_Rhode Island’s population, has | higher office. Roosevelt Thanks |FURNACE EXPLOSI(_)N Wilbur Committee | INJURES GOV. CONLEY | For Health Survey cabinet appointments. He named 29 men, there were six Secretaries of the Navy alone during his regime. Grant, | appointments. Ten Served Under Three Presidents. | Seven men have served in the same cabinet office under three Presidents. The longest term was that of James Wilson who was Secretary of Agri- culture under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. He was appointed in 1897, and relinquished the office to David F. Houston, a Wilson appointee, in 1913. Other cabinet holdovers were James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor un- der Harding, Coolidge and Hoover; An- drew W. Melion, who served under the same Presidents, and Joseph Habersham of Georgia, Postmaster General under Washington, Adams and Jefferson. ‘Chiet Executive of West Virginia | Commends Results of Narrowly Escapes Death From Study on Costs of Blown Door. Medical Care. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va, November A S 20.—Narrowly escaping death in the ex- NEW YORK, November 29.—The Piosion of a furnace in the basement of | good health record of the Amer‘u:ln‘ms nh";"d"w‘)‘;x‘;- "::““‘"‘ G- Conley was s confin d with ‘scnp!e stands outas ‘onolof the few | TIPD 0 S 1o RUL scesrg Duhe | bright spots in the iplsl three years,” | The executive, finding the house Dr. Thomas Parran, jr., New York State | chilly late Sunday night, went to the commissioner of health, told the Na- | flirmace room A Seeudy: shod et tional Committee on the Cost of Med- ‘ door with a beo“:f =y 0 e e ical Care here today. | In the explosion, from accumulated Attributing the decline in the death | §as the 100-pound furnace door was S blown directly Across "’51""’1’3 and had overnor n stan 1 mlg‘l':t have been killed. T ysiclans said Gov. Conley probabl; would be gble to resume his d':ltle! l{ | the capitol within a week. The execu- tive himself, speaking of his narrow es- cape, sald that had he not stood at the <ide of the furnace “it might have been memlx.n of me.” examination showed Conley suf- | fered burns about the entive face. a so- vere burn on the left ear, a bad burn on his left arm and painful bruises on the legs and body from the shock of the flash. The Governor’s eyebrows and velashes were burned e off and his hair not “go on indefinitely drawing divi- | dends upon past investments in indi- vidual and community health.” Dr. Parran read a telegram sent by | ov. Roosevelt from Warm Springs, Ga., which said in part: | “Those of us who belleve that the | promotion and maintenance of the pub- | lic health is a vital function of gov- ernment have long been concerned with the relation of medical care to mass | health. | “Because large groups of the popula- tion seemed unable to provide them- relves with acequate medical services, the problem was cf major importance five ars ago, when you began your | studies. It is of vastly more impor- tance now, because of the changed eco- | nomic situation. * * ¢ | “It you have been able to show us| how adequate medical care may be | made available for the entire popula-| | tion, with its tragic differdnces in abil- ity to pay * ¢ then I, as an American citizen, am honored in this | occasion to thank you fer it.” | o The committee, whose chairman is Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, has spent five years and ap- roximately $1.000,000 in a study of {“the economic aspect of the preven- {tion and care of sickness,” | Dr. Parran, expressing appreciation | of the facts already published by the | committee, voiced the hape that what- {ever plan for medical care was finally | recommended would not “drag Amer- | ican citizens through experiments which have already proven to be failures in other natigns.” Gt { gard the Governor's condition as seri- ous “unless complicitions develop.” Dr. W. 8. Shepherd, who was called in to examine Gov. Conley’s eyes, said he did neoctu :eluve his eyesight would be af- American funerals with hearses, cas- kets and other undertakers' necessities| from ;h& (‘J:v;‘ltcd States, are to be con- uc ina by a Chinese com, now being forme P $5,000 Damages Asked. with five Secretaries of War, made 25| Dr. R. A. Ireland said he did not re- L W UFFER MARLBORO, Md., November 29 (8pecial).—A suit for $5,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have HGHWAY EXPERTS TOMEET THURSDAY 1 i A {Problems in Construction and_ Use to Be Discussed at Annual Session. B | Problems that surround the construe~ *' | tion and use of the highways of the | country will be discussed by experts at . ithe twelfth annual meeting of the Highway Research Board, Division of | Engineering and Industrial Research, | National Research Council, Thursday and Friday. The sessions will be held at the building of the National Acades my of Sciences and the National Re- }a{a_‘{'Lh Council. he program for the meeting f |in two general groups—traffic -n'ui transportation and materials and con- struction. Under the former heading will come traffic law observance, lnd'nne of the principal contributions in this discuse ston will be a paper by Willlam A. Van Duzer, director of vehicles and traffic for the District, who is chairman of the Committee on Traffic. Mr. Van Duzer speaks Thursday afternoon. Into the transportation study alse will enter the subject of costs, both for building and use of highways., One paper in this symposium will be read |by T. H. MacDenald, cHairman, Cem- | mittee on Highway Finance, who is | chief of the United States Bureau of | Public Roads. The annual dinner will be held at the Washington Hotel, Thursday night, with the principal speaker Robbins B. Stoeckel, commissioner of motor ve= hicles asmconnel‘ncut. Dr. iam H. Howell, chairman of : the National Research Council will wel come the delegates at the o session, at 10 o'clock Thursday, WASHINGTON SHRINE GETS HISTORIC GUN Address Reveals Refusal to Bid Against Kenmore Association for Recently Found Musket. How Americans feel about George Washington and his shrines was dem- onstrated in an address yesterday by vrs Annie Smith of Fredericksburg, Association that is preserving the home of Betty Lewis, wife of Col. Fielding Lewis and sister of Washington, . Col. Lewis, a manufacturer of arms, is especially famous for making with | his own funds, borrawed against Ken- more as a collateral, the muskets that won the battle of Yorktown. As the Kenmore Association has no specimen, of his handiwork, the discovery of one of these guns by a farmer in the neigh borhood of Fredericksburg caused excitement among the executives of the assochtgun& On the day that the gun which bare the mazk of Col. Lewis, as well date, was to be auctioned Mrs, appeared along with the museum seekw ers and representatives of arms come panies {rom points as far away as New York and Philadelphia, ~ When -the bidding started Mrs. Smith asked the others not to bid against her, as gun belonged by all right of propriety 0 Kenmore, the home of the man whe | made it. She offered $30—all the asso= ciation could spare—and there were no other bids. Sbe took the gum and as she arrived a visitor -to mother, Mrs, Vivian Fleming, heard story and promptly gave her the $30, Mrs. Smith tald the story to members of the Elizabeth Jackson Chapter the Daughters of the American Revee lution at their monthly mee terday afternoon at the mem:), . Eugster, 3620 Ma street. hot comb Demoorats Not Snowbound. some party leaders might be bound in the Michigan Upper sula and unable to attend a_victory celebration here. Three of the men who were on a hunting-trip returned to say there was more snow in Bluffton than they encountered farther North. oW~ OVERCOATS BLUFFTON, Ind—Local Democrags ' - today laughed away their fears that . plumbers and laborers. Under the plan, | minutes after the hold-up Rugge was no employe will work more than 401‘ found slumped ovér the wheel of his hours each week. If, with overtime, & | car last night. “Ive been robbed,” he carpenter, as an example, should com- | gasped, then fainted. pl:?u his’ 40 hours by Wednesday, he| He died in a hospital, and doctors, ' | large and small toys. | been sustained in a fall while building These gifts will be collected and dis- | a house for the defendant was filed in tributed in co-operation with the Circuit Court yestrday by Alfred T. Council of Social Agencies. Persons | Spicer of Washington against Blanche having contributions to offer are a:ked | Bow of Deanwood, D. C. Spicer is rep- | to telephone Mrs. Stuart D. Foster, 2540 | resented by Attorneys W. Carroll Beatty | Massachusetts avenue, Potomac 5540. |and Frank A. Hampton. continue, “or that it would not contain | evils of its own which would be worse X than it is supposed to alleviate. 1t is Conviction on Robbery Charge the acoption by medicine of the tech- : nigue of big business: that is. mass pro- | Brings Three-and-a-Half-Year duction. The profession of medicine is | a personal service, and cannot adopt | Term at Jessup. that offer you VALUE instead of “Bargains” will be “laid off” until the followihg diagnosing the cause as & heart attack, Monday. said he was frightened to death. mass production methods without | changing its character. Medicine has rejected the idea as being destructive of the social values developed by pro- fessional traditions “The medical center plan v tablish a medical hierarchy in each community to dictate who mizght prac- tice medicine there. It would add t» the evils of medical dictatarship thasc of a new bureau in the local govern- ment, with its attendant costs.” This minority group offered six rec- emmendations of their own, the chief of which is The minority recommends that Gov- ernment competition in the practice of medicine be discontinued, and that its ities be restricted to the care of ndigent and of those patients with Ciseases which can be cared for only in overnment _institutions; to the pro- motion of public health; to the suppart dical departments in the Govern- d es- f veterans suffering from bona cted disabilities and L cept the case of t b‘(‘l- and nervous and mental dis- group recommended that G nt care of the indigent be pended with the ultimate cbject Telieving the medical profession of this burden, and that united efforts be made to restore the general practitioner to the central place in mecical practice. Dr. Edgar Sydenstricker, statistician of the United States Public Health Service here, refused to sign the geport of the committee, of which he was a member, on the grounds that “the recommendations do not, in my opinion deal adequately with the fundamental economic question which the commit- tee was formed primarily to study and sonsider.” ex- of Bootblack Kills Himself. Emet E. Buell, colcred, 25, of th 1400 block of Swann street, ended his life yesterday afternoon in a ravine near the south end of Taft Bridge by firing He was pro- | t Emergency Buell, a bootblack, is said | vim worried over possible loss | §8.500 was caused by & four bullets into his bud{ nounced dead on arrival a Hospital. to ha of worl . Be: ‘been conn tube.” | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 29.— Hold-ups, which they admitted per- petrating in the Jones Mill road neigh- borhoad last July, and which netted them but $9.50. resulted in Lawson Combs, 18. and Daniel Leatherman, 22, both of Washington, being sentenced to the House of Correction for three vears and six months by Judge Arthur D. Willard in the Circuit Court here yesterday | It was testified that the pair relieved Harry O. Decker of Baltimore, who was occupying a parked automobile with a friend late at night, of $8, and took $2 from Stephen W. Law of Kensington, &t the point of a revolver, but returned 50 cents to Law when assured that he needed the money for gas. It was also testified that they held up John A. Burch of Chevy Chase, but got nothing. They were arrested by County Police- men Webb Hersperger and Frank Soper. In one of the cases, the youths were sentenced to two years in the institu- tion &t Jessup; In another were given 18 months, and in the third case sen- tence was suspenced SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED Harvard Announces Preference for Southern Freshmen. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, November 29 (#)—Award of three scholarships in Harvard College with special reference | for freshmen from the Seuthern States was announced today by the Committee | on_Scholarshij ‘The three at the college. ames A. Rumrill scholar- ships werq assigned to Lemuel Bowden, Norfolk, Va.; James E. King, Leesburg, Fla, and Audley H. Shoemaker, Au- susta, Ga The average stipend for the scholar- hips amcunted to $480, the announce- wnent said. Blaze Damage Is $8,500. COMUS, Md. November 29 stro; s bam, h ed ; airport have | quantities of straw and '““em gym:: \‘Dl:gergrvnnd ml'fi '!Ihenilrm of 5:{:'1« ‘W. Ricketts, near here, yesterday afternoon. (Spe- :1al) —A loss estimated at approximately AND THE FOOD-UMMM! 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