Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1936, Page 25

. SOCIAL SECURITY * BATTLE FORECAST Bitter Contest in Next Con- gress Is Held Cer- tain. i Prospect of a bitter battle in the mext Congress over the new social security program, mow a’ leading topic in the national political field, is jobecast here in the fifteenth of a series of articles based on a first-hand survey of the system in several States, as well as of the central administration in Wash- ington. BY BLAIR MOODY. The political storm now raging around the social security act, cli- maxed by Gov. Landon'’s attack on the measure as & “cruel hoax” and the subsequent resignation of John G. Winant as chairman of the security board to “fight for” the program, promises to become one of the most bitterly contested issues of the next Congress. For whoever is elected President, there are virtually certain to be sweep- ing changes in the present system. It Roosevelt wins, the security board it- self will advocate a partial revision. It it is Landon, he will try to force a hostile Senate, and a probably hos- tile House, to pull the whole program up by the roots and substitute some- thing new, the exact nature of which he has not revealed. The very fact that each Congress must appropriate anew for the much- criticized old-age annuity reserve fund is sure to create a live and recur- rent issue. The Supreme Court may force a rewriting of much or all of the act. Legislation “Here to Stay.” But whatever the fate of particular programs within the law, whatever effect its broad strength and specific weaknesses may have on the presi- dential campaign, it is a fair guess that legislated “‘security” in some form, has come to stay in this coun- try. Even Gov. Landon, who would junk the entire old-age annuity idea, re- scind unemployment insurance as a Federal undertaking, abolish the pay roll taxes but pay every one over 65 who needs it a “generous” dole pension through the States, has taken a much more liberal position than anything conceived by either major party six years ago. And no one familiar with the work- ings of Congress believes that Landon could put through his entire con- servative program. Congress already has demonstrated itself to be over- whelmingly in favor of the broad principles promulgated by President Roosevelt. Politically Mr. Roosevelt can scarce- Iy fail to reap credit for this accom- plishment. Into whatever form the system is finally moulded, the present “preliminary” act will go down in his- tory as a major piece of legislation, forerunner of a new social and eco- nomic viewpoint in the United States. Winant, a former Republican Gover- nor of New Hampshire, and other New Deal orators, will not let the voters forget that. Has Campaign Advantage. Gov. Landon, on the other hand, has the campaign advantage of being able to pick apart a broadly conceived but admittedly imperfect mechanism. He can ignore the fact that such leg- islation was as far away as the moon only a few years.ago, commandeer its fundamental purposes and point to his rival's mistakes. This he already has done with great effectiveness. Winant scarcely would have resigned to answer Lan- don as a private citizen if the admin- istration had not felt the need for dramatizing its reply. And while they are not talking about it aloud, experts within the security board recognize the need for major changes in the | act. All politicians are apparently ready to accept legislated “security” as a principle, but none has figured out a complete answer to the problem. Mr. Roosevelt and his advisors have not found it yet; neither have Mr. Landon and his. And that is no wonder, for it is the most difficult task ever un- dertaken by the Government, involv- ing the most money and affecting the most people. (Copyright. 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, (nc.) —_— Scout Council Plans Session. ‘The National Council ‘of the Boy Scouts of America will hold its an- nual meeting in Washington in con- Junction with the national ‘jamboree of Boy Scouts from June 30 to July 9, the Greater National Capital Com- mittee announced yesterday. An at- tendance of 600 is expected for the meeting. . Aviators To Give Migratory Birds Right of Way Results Can Be Serious in Colliding, Says Dr. F. C. Lincoln. BY the Associated Precs. A tip to airplane pilots not to dis- pute the right of way with birds now numerous in the lower air was given yesterday by Dr. PFrederick C. Lin- coln, war-time flyer and a division chief in the Biological Survey. Most planes travel at a higher alti- tude than the millions of birds now going south, he said in an interview, and there isn't much chance of in- terference. But when taking off or landing, he added, pilots would do ‘well to avoid the migrators, especially the larger waterfowl. “If any airplane at a low altitude and fiying at 100 miles an hour strikes a duck weighing 2 or 3 pounds and going 40 to 50 miles an hour, it can be serious,” said Dr. Lincoln. The biologist noted that most folks have an exaggerated idea about the speed of birds. “Wild ducks have an average flying speed of about 40 to 50 miles an hour, with a top of perhaps 70. Even with the old ‘fiying coffins’ of the World War, with a speed of 80 miles an hour, a fiyer could run down any duck.” He said the fastest-flying birds probably were swifts and the duck hawk, or peregrine falcon. During the World War a plane flying 68 miles an hour was circled by a swift, he said, the bird probably aitaining a speed of 100 miles an hour. A hunting duck hawk, timed with & stop-watch, reached a speed calcu- lated at 165 to 180 miles an hour, Dr. Lincoln recalled, but he noted these extremes were far below top speeds of modern planes. [} Warned | Linked With H Miss Ethel Bagley, Presi- dent, Sister of Span- ish War Hero. BY JESSIE FANT EVANS. T HAS come to be an American tradition to expect service from & Bagley. From Revolutionary times to the present, members of the family have served their country with valor. Only a few weeks ago Miss Belle Worth Bagley of this city, sister of our Spanish-American War hero, Worth Bagley, journeyed to Nor- folk to christen the third destroyer to successively bear the name of Bagley. This tribue has been paid its patriotic son by the United States Navy because Ensign Worth Bagley, as the executive officer in charge of the S. S. Wilslow was sént to attack the Spanish batteries at Cardenas, Cuba, and bravely forfeited his life in this line of duty, Nor, has the distaff side of the Bagley family been less loyal to its traditions of service for others. In our time, Mrs. Josephus Daniels, sister of Ensign Worth Bagley has served her country too, as the wife of President Wilson's war-time Secretary of Navy and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's peace-time Ambassador to Mexico. Right here in our city’s midst, a third sister, Miss Ethel Bagley, has for 18 years served others and the city’s civic needs as president of the Business Women's Council of Wash- ington, D. C. When I asked Miss Bagley how many times she thought she had been absent from meetings during this rec- ord-holding term as a club president, she modestly replied, “Well, not very many.” What I had to learn from others is, that since its inception the club has rotated its other officers, but by unanimous consent refused even to consider any one else as the chief motivator of its destinies in the office of president. i The council’s other officers are Miss Emily Day, first vice president; Miss | Ethel Martin, second vice president; | Miss Minnie Haddaway, corresponding | secretary; Miss Florence Hendershott, and treasurer, Mrs. Hattie G. Rup- part. Started by Revival. The Business Women's Council | came into being as a direct outgrowth | of Billy Sunday's Revival Services here in the Nation's Capital. One of several such Nation-wide | groups organized in the cities where | | he preached his gospel messages that | | the spirit of his teachings might be | kept alive after he had left the scene of his endeavors, it is believed that it is the only ome of them still in existence. Not only has it maintained an estab- | lished membership of 300, but it has | continued to grow in usefulness unnl]‘ it constitutes one of Washington's most purposeful organizations, with its ignoring of selfish aims that others less fortunate may be served. As its name would indicate, it is| an association of business and profes- | sional women. It might really be| called the “Unselfish Association,” for | its slogan is, “Others.” No truer exemplification exists of the old truism, “If you wish something accomplished, go to the busiest person you know,” than is apparent in the amazing rec- ord of its membership, who in the main have only their precious mo- ments of leisure in which to motivate and execute their achievements for their fellow humans. Its purpose, as stated in the unos- tentatious little monthly bulletin which it issues, is, “To' promote the spirit of helpfulness, friendliness and responsibility for others among all| business women and to associate them | in personal loyalty to Jesus Christ.” Among its charter organizing mem- bers, who are sometimes affectionately referred to as the council’s “foundling | mothers,” were the Misses Fanny, Helen and Mary Childs; Mrs. John Hervey Young and Mrs. Charles W.| Richardson. The Misses Fanny and | Mary Childs continued their interest | unabated until their deaths, and with their remaining sister, Miss Helen | Childs, held a record for attendance equal to Miss Bagley's. Miss Helen Childs continues her deep, abiding in- terest and is today one of the pillars of the council, as well as a veritable gold mine of information about its| activities and personnel. Mrs. Young | has been away from Washington sev- eral years, but her interest is continu- ing unabated from her present home at Ardmore, Pa. Mrs. Richardson de- clares she is “the grandmother” of the council and yearly renews her invitation of many years’ standing for | the group to have its Spring garden | fete at her country place. ‘While the council meets every Tues- day evening of the year, except dur- ing the month of August, at the Church of the Covenant, it is strictly non-denominational in character. In- cluded among 1its membership are those of every church denomination or | of none at all. Nor is it possible to find | a more shining example of feminine democracy, for this same membership has enrolled women from every occu- pation in Washington’s industrial and professional groups. New members are always warmly welcomed, the dues being limited to 50 cents per person a year. The good accomplished with this sum, plus the supplementations added to it by va- rious money-raising projects within the council’s midst is beyond belief and a notable example of feminine budgeteering as well as of internal management. The council has never had nor asked for any financial assist- ance from sources beyond its own midst. Artificial Cake Only Sham. In referring to one of its own pet, sure-fire money-raising stunts, the rallying around its monthly make- believe birthday cake, Miss Bagley laughingly but proudly said: “That artificial cake, is the only sham con- nected with our organization. When some of us haven't had a birthday, so that we are eligible to make our modest contributions to the council's birthday fund, we have been known to be caught honoring national heroes and the birthday anniversaries of friends and relatives.” The proceeds from this fund are used for foreign mission purposes in honor of the late | Dr. Charles Wood, for many years the pastor of the Church of the Cove- nant. Under his pastorate the coun- cil was invited to make its Sunday school chapel its place of meeting. Mrs. William Pollock is the chairman of this group, in which the widow of the late Dr. Woods naturally takes great interest, and to whose funds she materially contributes. Leper mission work is among the projects served under the leadership ot Miss Sophie Hamline Skinner. Here are some of the good deeds which redound to the credit of the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Business Women’s Council Here onored Name ¥ trouble among its own membership visited, and helped, but special groups pay monthly visits to the friendless at the Tuberculosis Hospital and the House of Detention. Yearly its mem- bership fashions hundreds of layettes and baby quilts for the babies at the Florence Crittendon Home and for others who are in need of them. The results of its handicraft in the way of attractive garments for the Gospel Mission, the Central Union Mission and other agencies are a de- light to behold and have been the means of restoring self-respect and confidence to many a discouraged girl and woman. To behold one of the council’s exhibitions of its own hand- craft from time to time is to regret that the arls of needlework and dress- making are no longer as flourishing among our young people. For many years the council entirely financed the salary of Miss Lucile Smith, originally one of its own char- ter members, as a teacher in one of the schools for Southern mountain children at Brevard, N. C., and still makes a substantial contribution toward this purpose. Miss Elizabeth | R. Groves is this group’s chairman. Hot Suppers Served. Council meetings begin with a hot | supper, which is served from 5 to supplements this special Features Committee with many delightful musi- cal evenings planned for cultural ap- preciation and diversion. Mrs, J. New- ton Baker is in charge of the musical activities and with her associates has been the means of bringing many of the best known musicians in Wash- Ington as guest performers before the Council’s membership. The needlework unit is one of the largest and most active of the organ- ization’s groups. Anything more fas- cinating than its surprise exhibitions of quilts and clothing made for the needy it is difficult to find in Wash- ington. Often lines of them are dis- played which take up the whole end of the chapei in which the Council meets, and the wonder of those who view them is the greater when it is realized that they have been fash- ioned after their donor's own business or professional day has ended. This group started from the good offices of members connected with our local stores, who brought remnants contrib- uted by our merchants. These were cut and made into useful garments by those who were adept with their needles. Such a feature of the club’s activities did this become that the Council now purchases all of its sew- ing group's materials in wholesale lots at advantageous prices from those original donors. Miss Carrie Linkins, Miss Christena Gardiner and Mrs. Williamson, who is in her 80th year, and one of the Coun- cil’s most active and valued members, are the experts who direct this activity. Another active 80-year-old member whom the Council reveres is Mrs. Annie E. Banner, whose birthday has just been celebrated around the birth- day cake with unusually happy felici- tations. It numbers among its ‘membership Miss Fanny Harr, who was the first woman in the District of Columbia to accept jury duty; Miss Ellen Foster, a graduate with the first class at Wel- lesley College, and Miss Mary Wild, who took the first prize in the first Nation-wide contest offered by the Eastman Kodak Co., and has since had the prize-winning photographs in some 12 exhibits. Miss Bagley's associates upon the Business Women's Council insist that it is primarily her spirit of unselfish service for others which is the moti- vating genius of their group in making it such a quietly effective power for | good in our community. She, on the contrary, firmly and positively states, “The accomplishments of our group are due entirely to the magnificent spirit of its membership. Out of the | richness of their own experience with 6:15. Originally the group’s own mem- bership prepared and served this sup- per at a total cost of 10 cents per person. With the advance of the years and the general increase in the cost of living the cost of this supper has gradually increased, until it now totals 35 cents. Miss Elizabeth Groves is the chairman of the Supper Group Committee. A prayer circle, under guidance of Miss Olive Brearley, immediately fol- | lows the supper. Then there is a 20-minute current topic period, after which every one joins in group singing, led by Mrs. J. Newton Baker. A Bible class is the next orcer of the weekly program,| after which there is a general social period until 7:30, when a half-hour | business meeting is called to order by Miss Bagley, after which special fea- tures occupy the next 45 minutes. The meetings always adjourn promptly at 9 oclock. From time to time the council's Prayer Circle and Bible Class are led by clergymen from different churches of the city, as well as by prominent lay churchmen. Among those who have been the council’s guests are the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington; Canon ‘Anson Phelps Stokes, Dr. Al- bert J. McCartney, the pastor of the | Church of the Covenant, to whom the council is greatly indebted for the church’s continuing hospitality and splendid co-operation in all its aims and purposes; Rev. 8. V. ‘Tucker, Rev. William S. Abernethy, Rev. Frederick B. Harris, Rev. Gove G. Johnson, Dr. H. W. Snyder, Dr. James H. Miers and such laymen and women as Dr. Larkin Glazebrook, Dr. Sinclair Bowen, Dr. Iwin Linton, Mrs. C. C. Hung, pastor of the Chinese Church of Washington. Miss Louise Newell leads the prayer circle. The chair- man of the Religious Work Committee | is Miss Helen Childs, with whom Miss | Wilhelmina Rhode has been closely associated. One of the features of this weekly meeting is the singing of a special song set to music end dedicated to the couneil by Mrs. Alfred S. Gillett, who is an honorary member of the group and a famous woman com- poser of band music, whose composi- tions are weekly broadcast over & Nation-wide hook-up by the United State Navy Band. Once a month the council's Tuber- culosis Hospital Committee, headed by Miss Edna Fitzhugh, visits the Tuberculosis Hospital, conducting & prayer service for those who are well enough to come downstairs, and spe- cial bed-side visits for those who unable to do so. A magazine and an ice cream and candy treat are provided for all Another group sponsored by Miss Oliver Brearley performs a similar service for the House of Detention. The activities of both of these groups are greatly appreciated by the inmates of the House of Detention and the Tuberculosis Hospital, as well as by their managements. Miss Gibbs is in charge of acquiring information concerning laws and leg- islation affecting women’s occupa- tions and Miss Grace Diebler is that wizard who presides over ways and means and manages to make & penny | do the work of a dime all along the way in the council's diversified activi- ties and then somehow manages to find ways of earning more and more pennies for good causes. Good Fellowship Group. Miss Ruth Boyer heads the Good Fellowship Committee, which visits the council's own sick or those who are in trouble as well as those out- side its midst whom it feels that it can help. The council believes, too, in the pleasures that far horizons can bring as well as in the joys that lie nearer it, so there is a Recreation Commit- tee, with Miss Florence Hendershott as its leader. This coterie plans all sorts of modest travel trips and ex- cursions, upon which council members and their friends journey forth over week ends or in precious vacation time. A very prs_tical committee is the one on employment, which seeks to provide positions for those of its membership who because of shifting industrial and professional tides may be temporarily out of work. Always of great service it was a veritable boon during the darkest days of the depression era, Miss Mary Van Houten is the energetic and resource- ful chairman of this group. A special features group, under the direction of Miss Edith Stiles and Miss Louise Newell, provides the weekly programs, which include a far- flung range of interests, usually, re- lated in some degree to thoss which Business Women's Council. Not only are the sick and those who are in pertain to women. The Councils Music Oommittee life they have been given an under- lsundmz of its joys and sorrows and |its needs. Theirs is the wonderful | part, mine a very minor one, and I am very grateful for the privilege of | having been associated with them for | the last 18 years, during which time | they have never once failed to whole- | heartedly rally to a call that has had to do with helping some one else, We | have worked together, we have had | good times together, tos, in a spirit | of warm fellowship cemented by the years, for there are many of us still associated with the Business Women's Council who were among its first members. I would say that the friend- liness and unselfishness which actuate their humanized work for others are the well-springs of their activities,” Schools (Continued From Page B-4) ing classes for the correction of de- fective speech. His professional name during his stage career was Jess Sid- ney. Before joining the Washington Col- lege of Music faculty, he conducted similar courses for the correction of stammering and stuttering at South- eastern University here, and before that was on the faculty at Massa- nutten Military Academy at Wood- stock, Va. Yates' methods require special study of each individual and an analysis | of the speech handicap. He uses no artificial methods in remedying de- fects, During his long stage career he appeared with many persons now active in motion pictures in Holly- wood, including Clark Gable, Ed- ward Everett Horton, Claude Rains, Madge Evans and others. 11 Awarded Scholarships. MONG the hundred-odd freshmen | who entered Benjamin Franklin ‘Univ:rsny last week were 11 honor | graduates from Washington and | nearby high schools. These students, | who were selected by the principals | of their respective high schools on | the basis of scholastic standing and | aptitude for accountancy, were | awarded scholarships by the univer- | sity. | They were Clifford W. Lovelace, | 1116 First street southeast, from | Eastern; Nelly Oeschger, 1311 P street, | from Central; Geraldine Lust, 1362 | Geranium street, from Roosevelt; | May C. Reckert, 3810 Veazey street, from Western; Helen Redmond, 51 Todd place northeast, from McKinley; James M. Boteler, 529 Fourteenth | street northeast, from Gonzaga; John F. Ligon, 30 West Underwood street, Chevy Chase, from the Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School; Mary Crosswhite of Riverdale, Md., from the Hyattsville High School; Robert L. Dujaney, 1003 Edison avenue, Arling- ton, Va., from Washington-Lee; Wil- liam Stearman, 327 East Oxford street, Alexandria, from the George Wash- ington High School, and Richard ‘Washington, 3759 Northampton street, from Western, who received a trustee’s scholarship given by Frank A. Linzel. Academy Opens Tomorrow. THE National Academy of Stage Training will begin its Fall term of 10 weeks tomorrow. The academy offers courses covering all the essen- tials necessary in the training of an actor as well as a professional course in all types of dancing and in fencing and swordsmanship. The new director of the academy is is John McKee, prominent Broadway director and formerly director of the National Theater Players of Washing- ton. He is assisted by Adelaide Hib- bard and a professional faculty. The dancing department is under the direction of Marion D. Venable and the fencing department is directed by Maj. Edward L. Dyer. Plans have been perfected to afford students opportunities for public ap- pearance and actual stage experience during, term of the academy, in addit to the student performances at the National Theater at the end of each term. CONTRIBUTES $185.22 BERRYVILLE, Va., October 3 (Spe- cial) —The Berryville Town Council appropriated this week $18522 as their part in the construction of Main street. ‘This is & Federal works project and will cost $2,635.22. The original allo- cation was $1,850. The State High- way Department switched funds to the project, bringing the total to $2,450, and leaving the balance ap- propriated by the town, D. C, OCTOBER 4, 1936—PART O More Armor for America—Navy’s New Ship LN LY N ] AN INSE 7N NS FE ANRZ PR T I X3 Vi # m ,4. X e & et - LR g Into the water splashes th e U. S. S. Enterprise, the giant mew aircraft carrier, at Norfolk, Va. All armor is in place and her turrets and guns are mounted, almost ready to parade the seas. Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of Navy, christened the ship R.T. PELL MARRIES MRS. T. B. LEONARD State Department Assistant Wed in Reno—Both Had Won Divorces. Robért Thompson Pell, European Division assistant, State Department, was married in Reno yesterday to Mrs. T. Barker Leonard, New York socialite. Mr. and Mrs. Pell flew by plane to Los Angeles after the wedding cere- mony, where they will spend a few days before returning to Washington. Pell, formerly with the American Embassy in Paris, obtained a diyorce there recently from Alice Harding Pell. Mrs. Leonard was divorced from Thomas Leonard, jr, in Reno on May 12 by default. The case was PITTSBURG Pittsburg Water Heater Corp. RUUD Ruud Manufacturing Co. AGP American Radiator Co. WHITEHEAD Monel Metal Product Cleveland Heater Co. A. P. Photo. reopened Monday, however, when Leonard filed his appearance and the decree was modified to show this, She and Leonard were married in London in July, 1931, and have one child. Pell, prominent both in Washing- ton and New York society, gave his age as 34, and that of his bride as 2¢. AT SRR T Gold production in the Philippines has established a new high. (reductions in price on size of heater purchased) - 'ime Only! GERMAN WARSHIP- FLOATED AT RITES New Scharnhorst Christened by Widow of Loser in | 1914 Sea Fight. ! By the Assoclated Press. WILHELMSHAFEN, Germany, Octo= ber 3—A proud woman in black christened Nazi Germany's first 26,000« ton battleship today for a squadron flagship sunk by the British in 1914, Frau Schulze, widow of the captain of the original Scharnhorst, which the British sent to the bottom with three others in the Falkland Islands engage- ment, smashed a bottle of champagne across the ship's armored prow as it slid down the ways, a steel symbol of Germany's reborn naval power. ‘Thousands, including survivors of the 1914 naval battle cheered the launching, but Adolf Hitler stood si~ lently as Frau Schulze christened the newest and biggest of Germany’s ships “in the name of Der Feuhrer.” ‘The battleship, built under an Anglo= German naval agreement of 1935, was named after the nineteenth century Prussian military hero, Gen. Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst. Gen. Werner von Blomberg, Naz! minister of war, who delivered the principal speech, declared the name of the new ship was doubly symbolic. Compulsory military service was created in Prussia by Von Scharnhorst, he said, and the name would also bring to mind the heroic deaths of those who went down in a naval battle second only to the battle of Jutland, Von Blomberg also recalled signifi- cantly that the last signal hoisted by the first Scharnhorst was “follow the leader.” “This ship,” he said, “therefore can bear no worthier name than that of the man who 130 years ago, when Prussia lay crushed, saw in the fusion of the army with the people, the secret of victory and the guarantee of free= dom.” Hitler did not speak. The war vessel will carry nine 1le inch guns and twelve 6-inch antie aircraft guns. dependant Whether your family consists of two or ten, you'll find the Automatic Gas Water Heater that just suits your needs among the wide variety of makes and sizes included in this big sale. 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