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/ News of Churches By John J. Daly. g Comb the American press today and you will find that magic date line on more and more important news than any other in the world. Do the same thing tomorrow and the result will be the same, for Washington is the greatest news center in the world. Once London held that distinction: later, New York. But the earth turn: and times change, and now all ew are focussed on Washington. It is not merely in quantity of news that the National Capital leads the world, but in quality as well. In the vernacular of the news room, Wash- ing is “must. page one” everywnere in the United States and .nearly ev where else.*Even on days that are comparatively dull here the Washing- ton date line crowds local news off the first page all the way from Bos- ton to Berkeley, Calif. Why should Washington news hold £0 pre-eminent a place? For the sim- ple reason that the substance of it affects more lives directly and daily than any other news in the world. One little room in the Cheasapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. buildinz cn ‘Thirteenth street serves as a conduit through which this gigantic, endless torrent of words flows furiouslty 24 hours a day. There one finds the equip- ment of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which carries the bur- den of wordage out of Washington, a traffic which reaches—at its crest— 250,000 words a day On top of this, Western Unicr Postal Telegraph wires carry sands more words, and thou- 'I‘H.\T little room on Thirteenth street, could it talk, would have zomething to tell the world: for. aside from the legitimate news. as such, it hears a lot of gossip, rumor. conjec- ture, speculation and plain, ordinary “dope.” Because of the mechanical set-up a1l news sent from the various news agencies, bureaus and special cor- respondents in Washington must pa through this little room on Thirtee: street. Not all. but most of it-—-for the wires of he telegraph companies ar also singing away on the endless W ington story, 24 hours around clock. | You begin to get some idea of what | Washington means in world affairs, and national affairs, when you step | beaind the scenes in this enormous | network of wires carrying all the news | that's fit to print out of the National Capital. | Throughout America there are some 2,000-0dd daily newspapers hungry for rmation to pack into their columns rs and morning papers. this need there are five s associations in full opera- tion—the Associated Press, the Uni- versal Service, the International News Service, the United Press and the United News led reporters from all these news agencies are beating tattoos on the pavements of Washington day in and day out, night after night—covering | the White House and the various de- Jpartments, the bureaus, commissions | and other governmental agencies. | Aiding and abetting these trained | newspaper men are other newspaper | men, who left the ranks of journalism | to go into the Government press bu- reaus—and between the two forces the ASHINGTON, June 20—" | | by the Western Union and the other by the A. T. & T. ’l‘HOSE Associated Press stories that | g0 out over the A. T & T. must | meet in the little room on Thir- | teenth street, where other words from |, | other news services are struggling to | get out of the neck of the bottle that | routes Washington traffic informa- tion. J. W. Adams, local manager of the A. T. & T, is justly proud of the | facilities his company has built up | over the years to take care of Wash- FEATURES [ 4 EDITION ny Star Books—Art—Music WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, .1936. | ington correspondence. In the room on Thirteneth street | | may be found the last word in human | | ingenuity, so far as transmission of intelligence is concerned. While Wash- | ington grew from the little country town it was just before the Civil War, | the A. T. & T. hammered away at | improved service. There are still some old newspaper | men in town who remember when it Wwas not so easy to get their stuff | on the wires. Today all they have to do is write a little plece for the pa- pers, put it on the teletype and away | it goes—to the far corners of the! country. It has got so, this transmission n'l news, that as fast as something hap- pens in Washington the rest of the Nation —if not the world —knows about it almost instantly. This terrific speed is due in no small part to the teletype. The teletype is ! the machine that took the place of the old telegraph operator—and because it is a machine they can work it right and day, and a thousand machines side by side, and nobody gets a head- ache. (1) Central “teletype” con- trol room at the telephone company, through which tens of thousands of words for the press of the Nation pass daily. (2) Part of the long-distance exchange board, in a room where 200 women are talking at one time without a sound being audidble to the visitor. (3) Telegraph men installing cables in the basement of the greai hall where the Democratic National Con- vention meets Tuesday. (4) Sending a teletype message. (5) She’s the chief super- visor. In fact, that little room where the chinery is about as quiet as ‘he re- ception room in a convent; for there is no fuss or furbelow in the send- ing of 250.000 words each day, and unless some one pointed out the fact | that this is the greatest word shop to| in the world, that the casual tor room would never know what | was happening. SOME one has figured out that there are 1,400 correspondents in Wash- ington—men and women working for newspapers all over the land and all | — | ing public casts about for ways and (Continued on Page B-3.) DEMOCRATS HEAD NORTH Convention and Its Advance Arrangements Drain Washington of City of Washington is picked clean | each day of all the news it is humanly | possible to gather Over the wires goes this news. It goes out of here in the old- fashioned Morse code and by the new-fangled method of dissemination known as the teletype It goes by tele- phone and by letter; but mainly the new invention carries Washington in- formation to the world—the substitute for the old hand-operated “bug’—the teletype. JBECAUSE of the innovation known as the teletype the sending of news has been speeded up many, many times Because of new kinks put into the wire service the entire day's news out of Washington can be cleared in the day, whereas under the old method it might have taken two or three days to dispatch the same amount of writ- ten material Just how Washington has grown in importance as a news center may be visualized by noting the expansion of the Associated Press’ Washington Bureau. When Byron Price, who is head of the Associated Press Bureau, first came to Washington in 1914, there were some 10 men engaged in the local bureau—and some of these were tele- graph operators. Today there is not a telegraph op- erator in the Associated Press Bureau here, the news all sent out over the teletype, a mechanical-human being. ‘There are, however, 79 men actually engaged in combing the city for news and a total of 109 persons employed in the Associated Press bureau, in- , cluding those who operate the latest mystery of them all—wirephoto. Every day, day in and day out— according to Mr. Price—the Asso- ciated Press sends out an average of 50,000 words covering the activities of Washington. Those words go out over what is undoubtedly the greatest trunk-line system in the world, according to M. A. Ferrell, supervising traffic en- gineer of the Associated Press—known as the Western circuit—from Wash- ington to New York, to Kansas City. On that circuit is every spot where newspapers are published; for feeder lines break down the news and send it along to other places not on the Western circuit, places as far away as Frisco and New Orleans. ‘When it is said that 50,000 words a day go out of one bureau—the Asso- ciated Press—that is really an under- statement, for, taking it by and large, the report actually amounts to more than that. One Supreme Court day the report was 60,240 words in eight hours. The Associated Press splits " & reports into two parts, one hangted By Will P. Kennedy. FFICIAL Washington, led by some 50 Senators, at least 4 | members of the cabinet and | scores of House members and leading Government administrative officers, has moved on Philadelphia to take charge of the big convention to renominate Franklin Delano Roose- | velt, who will join them in the City | of Brotherly Love a week hence; as also will Vice President Garner, for whom a big reception is being ar- ranged. Of course, James A. Farley, Post- master General, the “Smiling Jim” of | official life, who confidently expects to be re-elected chairman of the Demo- | cratic National Convention and the | party's campaign manager, is the gen- “erallssimo of the big doings in Phila- messenger boy—“Bill” Bray, the Con- necticut youngster who won national attention as floor manager in the House. “Bill” does not know just | what his job is to be at the conven- tion, but he is ready for any assign- ment. . Right out in front, and where the work is thickest, will be Col. Edwin A. Halsey, just entering 40 years of service at the Capitol. Halsey is sec- retary of the Senate—the first man in history to work his way up to that office. As chairman of the Personnel Committee Col. Halsey has absolute charge of all personnel, and with a special committee of three Senators— Willlam Gibbs McAdoo, California; Kenneth D. McKellar, Tennessee, and Dennis A. Chavez, New Mexico—he has just completed the vexatious task of seating all delegates. Col. Halsey is sergeant at arms of the convention. And if Col. Halsey has had a tough job in seating the delegates, you should hear the sad plaint of one William W. Howes, First Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral, who had “wished on him” the task of distribution of tickets. Halsey, and Howes have had their troubles and have co-operated sympathetically. When Col. Halsey moved over to Philadelphia on Thursday to straight- en out all problems he had with him his “right-hand man,” Miss Anna Hurwitz, his secretary, who has all the convention details at her finger tips. She i1s a veteran of more than a decade of service at the Capitol, knows all the “Who's Who” in official life, and—as some Senators have called her—is “the woman behind the scenes.” FOUR members of the Senate are to have most conspicuous parts in this convention—Senator Alvin» W. | delphia next week. He will have with | |him his “Man Friday” and glorified | | Barkley of Kentucky. who is to be| | keynote speaker for the second time having sounded the welkin | Roosevelt was nominated four years ago in Chicago: Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, permanent chairman: Rob- ert E. Wagner of New York, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, wres- |tling with the party platform, and | | Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, Champ Clark, who is to be chairman | of the Rules Committee and who will |lead the fight for abolishing the two- thirds rule. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, national committee woman from the Dsitrict | of Columbia, will be official hostess }nnd is arranging for participation in | the convention of nationally-known | women, such as Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow. of the World War President; Mrs. Grover Cleveland Preston, widow of an earlier President; Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, who has been visiting friends in Washington. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Penn- sylvania, who was primarily respon- sible for taking the convention to Philadelphia, is to be an unofficial host for the affair and will entertain extensively. He has had an office in Philadelphia busy for more than a month arranging convention details. He is planning to entertain more lavishly than any Senator in many years for his colleagues attending the convention. Also prominent in entertainment plans and in being as- signed an important speech in the convention is Mrs. Emma Guffey Mil- ler, national committee woman from Pennsylvania, who made the most notable speech by any woman at the National Committee meeting and who will receive outstanding recognition in the convention. Senators Robinson ang Barkley have been busy for several weeks on their speeches, the comprehensive and co- ordinated drafts have been completed and they are now being polished off. COL. HALSEY is a all-the-year- around personal reception com- mittee for the United States Sen- ators, most of whom make his office a sort of unofficial and informal Sen- ators’ club. He is one of those offi- cials who, through efficient organiza- tion (and a super secretary), is able to accomplish much with a minimum of apparent effort. In his work as sergeant at arms of the convention, taking personal charge of the plat- form where members of the National Committee are seated, he has selected a group of assistants unmatched in any previous convention of either party. . It includes Leslie sun. secretary | Senate; when | |son of the late grand old war horse, | Its Prominent Party Figures—Women to Have Impor- tant Roles in Philadelphia Session. to the majority on the floor of the George Neville, assistant to the administrator of the Federal Housing Administration; J. Austin | Latimer, special assistant to the| Postmaster General; Charles Jack- | son, deputy commissioner of fish- | eries; Wesley E. McDonald, secretary | to Senator Reynolds of North Caro- lina; Joe L. Baker, director of public relations and editorial service of the Federal Trade Commission; RXoscoe Furtisch, commissioner of war mate- | rials; John Wattawa, nephew of the | late Senator Thomas J. Walsh, a prac- | ticising attorney in Washington: Matt | Wiltshire of Virginia; Max Kimball, secretary to Senator King of Utah, and Samuel McIntosh of Oregon. For the first time in 44 years Joseph J. Sinnott of Virginia, the ve!eran{ doorkeeper of the House, will not be‘ either doorkeeper of the convention or in charge of the platform. He asked to be relieved of arduous duties, but he will have a position of honor on the platform assisting Col. Halsey in recognition of his notable services in the past 11 Democratic National Conventions. ¥ The doorkeeper is to be R. Lee Barnes ,a veteran employe at the Capitol, secretary to the late Repre- sentative Almon of Alabama, who is now an administrative assistant to Julian N. Friant, special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. Representative Clarence Cannon of Iilinois, former secretary to the late Champ Clark, who has been parlia- mentarian of the House under three Speakers and parliamentarian of the last four national conventions and the author of several standard works on parliamentary procedure, is to be parliamentarian of the convention. Patrick J. Haltigan, reading clerk of the House since 1911, and who has been reading clerk at the last five Democratic National Conventions, is to serve again in the same capacity. He will be assisted by Emery Frazier of Kentucky, formerly reading clerk of the Kentucky State Legislature, who is now a legislative clerk in the Senate and assistant to John C. Crockett, chief clerk and reading clerk of thé Senate. . K!INNE'I‘H ROMNEY, sergeant-at- arms of the House, a veteran of more than 22 years' service at the Capitol, and in national convention is to be a tally clerk. W. Forbes Morgan, deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration, is to be secretary. C. H. Emerson of Tennessee, Demo- cratic floor manager in the Ho is (Continued on Pve B GENIUS OF WIRES MAKES WASHINGTON THE NEWS BOTTLE NECK HERE| Messages to America and to the World Bubble Forth With Aid of Teletype. Quiet Mouthpiece of Observers. 'You Can Do It by TO KEEP COOLER| A. T. & T. has installed all its ma- | Following Intelligent Health and Emotional Program, ITH the “Is-it-hot-enough- for-you?" season here, and scheduled to continue for several months. a perspir- W means of keeping cool—or at least as cool as possible Now, air-cooled movies are fine, | but we can’t stay in them all the ‘Mme—even though theater managers | report rather dolefully that a lot of | patrons sit through two and even three shows just to enjoy the | temperature. Some folk are fortunate | enough to work in air-conditioned | stores and office buildings. Fewer of | us have such climate control devices in our homes. Despite the advances in the use of artificial climate. most persons still have to spend the greater part of the Summer in typical Summer weather. What to do to stay healthy ! and comfortable? | Public health officials say that it is of primary importance to keep an unworried frame of mind and, above all, don't talk so much about the weather. Nobody ever felt any better discussing new highs for heat, they point out, and as Mark Twain intimated, all the talking about it won't do any good. | The United States Public Health| Service declares it is well to remain | “emotionally calm.” Keeping a cool | temper is literally an aid to keeping cool physically. The more one stews and frets, the warmer he becomes, say the medical men. And they are very serious when they insist that an| emotionally relaxed state will go far| toward defeating both a physical and | a mental “Summer slump.” | Having established that point, Uncle | Sam’s experts go on to list some other{ important “do’s” and ‘“don'ts” for| those who want to go through these | next few months as pleasantly and as | comfortably as possible. 'AKE clothes, for example. It would seem obvious that light ap- | parel will do much toward easing| the season’s burden of heat and humidity, yet thousands of men fail to take advantage of new improve- ments in textiles and wearables gen- erally. Research workers in the Fed- eral Bureau of Home Economies point out that men far more than women are offenders against common sense in these matters. Tight collars, heavy suits, thick shoes, constricting belts—countless men go through Summer after Sum- mer inflicting these discomforts upon themselves and at the same time complaining bitterly about the torrid weather. While it is true that con- ventions at present won't permit men to go about attired quite as sensibly as the weaker and fairer sex, there is no reason why men should not enjoy the comforts of the seasonal apparel available. To become a bit scientific about it, cool clothing generally is made of loosely woven material, is light in color and is cut on the full side. These loosely woven fabrics allow a free circulation of air, and. that is essential to the carrying off of heat and perspi- ration by ventilation and evaporation. It is pointed 6ut that the ideal clothing gives protection from the sun's rays while making little contact with the skin. That is why cool garments are cut fuller, and it also explains why the | | inhabitants of tropicg) countries like Federal Experts Say. Arabia wear the kind of clothes they do. Color has a lot to do with comfort, too. It is known. of course. that while dark colors absorb the sun's rays. the lighter hues reflect the solar radia- tions. Along w . food plays a vital role in § mfort or dis- comfort. Fol heavy Winter foods in Summer—and any number of them do, strange as it seems—may expect to generate a private supply of heat to supplement that of the sun. B--1 PAGE CENTER 700 STORIES SOLD That’s the Record of gher, Washington Phyllis Moore Galla- Girl, Who Never Had a Rejection From Editors By Vesta Cummings. | HAT does a married woman do with her leisure hours if she doesn't do her own housework? Phyllis Moore Gallagher. more than 700 short stories, asked her- self this question when she married Bernard J. Gallagher, local attorney, three years ago. | Life until then had been filled with studies, traveling and dates for the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Moore of Washington. So one morning when the rain w coming down outside and a long da; stretched before her Phyllis Gallagher dusted off a typewriter her husband had left around the bridal apartment and wrote a short story. That initial effort—the carefully typewritten pages most rs lay away fondly with an accompanying fleet of rejection slips—was bought by the first editor who saw it writer of w Phyllis Moore Gallagher at the typewriter from which hundreds of best-selling chamcte‘rj have sprung. = , ’]‘HE Department of Agriculture is emphatic in urging the importance of fruits and vegetables in the hot- weather diet. Fruits and vegetables contain bulk, water, minerals and vitamins. Which means that the diner satisfies his hunger and gets plenty of nourishment without con- suming more calories than he can handle comfortably at this season. Especial care in eating is urged. Overeating is bad at any time, but it is doubly dangerous in Summer and defeats the universal desire to| keep cool. Eat moderately, eat slowly, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables,avoid heavy, heat-generating foods of all kinds. Drink plenty of cool water. The average person needs more water in Summer; just don’t drink it to excess. Medical men are not dogmatic on the subject of Summer foods. Most of them will tell you that any digesti- ble food may be included in a hot- weather meal. The main idea is to exercise more than ordinary caution, because there is a very direct relation- ship between the food one eats—and how one eats it—and the way the individual is affected by the season's mounting temperatures. Another important point to remem- ber is that overexertion in sports such as base ball, golf, tennis and others should be strictly avoided, for not only does one become overheated and un- comfortable, but there also are sec- ondary reactions which are both un- desirable and dangerous. 4 ! Today Phyllis Gallagher is under | contract for two newspaper serials |a year for five years, a third story | being optional. The last one pub- | lished, “Lovely Little Fooi.” zppeared {in more newspapers in the United | States last year than any other serial ;story. | She produces 20 short stories a | month under contract and is the au- thor of about 10 novelectes—she doesn’t remember exactly how many. There is no analyzing why this dainty young woman, with lively in a long bob, possesses this astonish- ing capacity for work. | 1t must be that plots are germinat- ing in her consciousness every our | of the day—a personality she meets, a phrase booming from a radio, a half- | caught conversation in a restaurant— and a story editor's compete-for is born. Phyllis Gallagher must never sit down to her typewriter empty- minded, thumbs on the space bar, waiting for inspiration. She needs no notebooks and makes no outlines. APPARENTLY her story telling is a matter of selecting what she wants to do most at the moment, recording it on her portabie, and getting it in & mail box. 2 .1 brown eyes and heavy dark hair worn | Pr s Gallagher probably is the story of our times who have ney t received a rejec- tion sli vet she studies -English for three months every Fall under a woman who goes to Summer school at Columbia University 5 e to write about localities I know,” Phyllis Gallagher says. “That is why the scenes of so many of my stories are laid in Wi Her first story, “Stub! was laid in P pol, France, where fishermen leave for Iceland seasonally. 1yllis Gallagher went to a finishing school and studied art in France, liv there six years. The young writer's find bits of their lives, or scraps of their conversation. or even clothes from their wardrobes, in her stories now and then Unconsciously she puts her immediate life into her fiction “One of my friends asked me re- cently if I realize that every one of my heroes are blond,” she said “Thinking my magazine heroes over, friends must | I am forced to admit my friend was right.” Mrs. Gallagher, who is expecting r first child in October, says that e unwritten serial novel due at the syndicate in December has as char- acters a child and an obstetrician She does not believe that she has ever put a child in a story before, but thinks that from now on they will be romping on and off her pages ‘ constantly. ¥ | LTHOUGH Phyllis Gallaghe | ™ characters and the situations they get themselves into are sketched with the lightning fingers of talent, | and have something inevitable about them, she selects the scenes of their activities with an eye to the varied nterests of people living in all sec- tions of the country. All the way | from California to Maine, these people turn to the same newspaper serial in their Sunday morning papers, and she believes they like running int their own cities, mountains or coast lines now and then Her latest serial, “Afraid of Love, starting in The Star next Wednesday has among its characters a naval aviator, a scientist, a society womar of wealth, a titled foreigner and a Metropolitan Opera singer. The Navy background, Phyllis Gallagher ex- | plains, is intended to interest people | on both oceans. Scenes are laid or | 1and and sea. in Reno, at a Southern | home and a Fifth avenue drawing room, on a scientific expedition, at the (thrmer and even at a New Englanc husking bee. | Phyllis Gallagher’s tremendous out- put of fiction has never appeared ir | the “wood pulp” periodicals often as- sociated with mass production, buf has been published in “slick paper’ | magazines and neswpapers. She has written for a score of women’s maga- | zines, College Humor, Holland'’s, Brit- ish publicatiens, and has been trans- | lated for French periodicals. | SHE believes that her success—witk | which she is not yet satisfied— | may be due partly to the fact that she | writes about types of people she knows | and likes. In her opinion only the rarest author of 50 years of age can write convincingly about 19-year olds ‘Fhe high school patter of today, Phyl- lis Gallagher says she has discovere¢ from her young brother, is like a new language. Born in Waynesboro, Va., in 1907 Phyllis Gallagher has lived in Wash- ington most of her life, and now oc- cupies an apartment at the Wardmar Park Hotel. She makes light of her literary con- quests, prefering to regard herself a: a novice, because she has been writ- ing only three years. The charming first lady of the syn- dicates is as justified in that attitude however, as a general who refuses ¢ be decorated for winning a battle, pro» testing that he didn't take long enough. q