Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1936, Page 7

Michigan Safe for Neither Party Ovation for Roosevelt Looks Like Band- wagon Attempt. Today's dispatch deals with the situation in Michigan, thirty-sec- ond State to be visited by David Lawrence in his personal survey of the campaign in the 40 States out- side the solid South. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ETROIT, Mich,, October 17.— What do crowds mean? Bryan used to have tremen- dous gatherings of people— ond usually lost on election day. Theodore Roosevelt used to have big crowds and usually won on election day. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is getting immense g crowds — better 7 than those of ¥ Gov. Landon by far. Some of this may be stimu- lated by the or- ganizations, po- litical and labor, and some of it may be of the cu- riosity type, but anybody who saw the huge turnout here cannot but feel that the dem- onastration is cor- roborative of the point of view held by well-informed observers—the cities and industrial centers have been captured by Mr. " Roosevelt. Indeed, Michigan presents exactly the same lines of demarcation that I have found in Ohio, and in Indiana. In other words, if you can learn just how strong the ratio for Mr. Roose- velt is in the cities and factory cen- ters and how strong the ratio for Landon is in the towns and country districts, the outcome of each State “can be predicted with almost mathe- matical accuracy. Polls Show Change. 1t is precisely because the polls that have been taken are not regarded as final or conclusive as yet on these points that a State like Michigan is truly doubtful. Now, according to| reliable information that came to me here, not from anybody connected with the companies themselves but from persons who vouch for it abso- lutely, a poll was taken early last month in an important automobile | plant employing many thousands of workmen, indeed one of the big fac- tories, and the result was about 8 to | 1 for Roosevelt. A few weeks later, | in the same place, & poll was taken | and the ratio was 7 to 1 for Roosevelt | and, in the last few days, the ratio is _ sald to have been 6 to 1 for Roosevelt. | Skilled Worker Switch Seen. This is about the same story one ‘ gets in other industrial centers in in Ohio and Indiana. The Republicans are certainly making some inroads Into the labor vote. I imagine they are winning back skilled workers who are beginning to feel that Mr. Roose- velt's tieup with John Lewis can only mean moral support for the industrial type of union, instead of the craft type of union. This ultimately, it is eontended, will bring a levelling off of the wages of the skilled workers who are in the minority in order to| improve the position of the unskilled | workers, who, being in the majority, | will dominate collective bargaining operations. Then there’s the growing conversa- | tion about the pay roll tax, which levy | David Lawrence. will naturally affect the skilled worker | more than the unskilled because the former gets higher pay and will get a deeper cut in his pay envelope Janu- ary 1 when the Roosevelt administra- tion’s tax goes into effect. Many of the workers in the auto plants are of the skilled group and, if the Repub- licans manage to wean away a suf- ficient number to hold the majorities in the cities down, the country and | ftown vote may be sufficient to enable | Landon to carry Michigan. Most of the editors in various sec- tions of the State are agreed that the rural vote is heavily Republican, much stronger than 1932 with a substantial, though not overwhelming, gain this year over 1934 congressional and local elections. Michigan Appears 50-50. There seems to be a feeling that votes are being changed in these last weeks of the campeaign and that the citisens who at first were inclined merely to vote their emotions are be- ginning to ask questions dealing with the facts and logic of campaign issues. Michigan, on the whole, seems to be & 50-50 proposition to date. Maybe Mr. Roosevelt might have the edge as matters stand today, though it is| significant the Democrats are just as nervous about the outcome as are their opponents. The average observer on the outside can make up his mind that, with the precious little time available for campaigning and the job that Mr. Roosevelt has to do in New England and New York where the fight is an uphill one, there would not have been such great efforts made to bring about a demonstration in De- ::‘n“ Michigan had been “in the ~~~ The mass demonstration ides ap- pears to be an integral part of the New Desl strategy and it has a bearing on the so-called bandwagon vote which #» substantial and always goes with $be surface tides. Safe for Neither. Michigan eannot be put down as safe for either side, but the Republicans privately insist they will win by 100,000 and the Democrats privately are hop- tng for a plurality of about 25,000 or 30,000 for Mr. Roosevelt, My own impression is that, as the whole Central West goes, so Michigan will go. To put it another way, I ex- peot Ohio, Indiana and Michigan to be found in the same column on the day after election, but with variable margins. That isn't, of course, & con- wineing indication of what to expect, but it comes nearest to describing ac- eurstely the bafing character of the electorate as one finds it by talking to disinterested persons who know the State and to seasoned campaigners who are frank enough behind closed doors to tell you the truth as they oee it. (Copyright, 193t She Sells Sealskin. PARIS (#).—Leather clips closed the pockets and a leather chain fastened the collar of & black sealskin ooat in the Schiaparelli collection. A seal purse went along, and the black felt turban. had a miniature seal at top. A seal-trimmed suit intro. eed seal mittens with leather palms’# THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON News Behind the News If C. I. O. Scrap Comes Down to Money in Cash Box, Lewis Has Big Edge. BY PAUL MALLON. TH!.' significant news behind most of the labor news these days is that labor leading s in the big money. Despite the recent economic reformation, it is still possible to judge the power of some men and movements by the size of their treasury. You can scrape many a fundamental domestic or international situation and find the answer in the cash box. On that basis, the tale of Mr. John Lewis and his contest with Mr. William Green may be roughly told in the jollowing official figures: Mr. Lewis’ U. M. W. treasury balance, December, 1935, $2,- 298,021.42. Mr. Green’s A. F. of L. balance, 1935 fiscal year, $620,954.53. Two years before (1933), Lewis' United Mine Workers' Union grossed only enough to accumulate a year-end balance of $312,000, hardly enough to run a third-class strike in Nova Scotia. His 1935 U. M. W. income was eight times that much, or about $2,300,000. His income for the last six month of '35 was $1,299,072.59, which was a quarter of a million dollars more than the A. F. of L. income for the whole year, $1,032,475.31. And this was before Lewis and his C. 1.-O. union contributions were lost to the A. F. of L. by severance of diplomatic relations. This year, the disparity will be much wider, in Mr. Lewis’ favor. Note—Some of Green's unions have big money, too, one reputedly $18,000,000, but the above compari- son is apt. For one reason, Lewis is the C. I. O. and the United Mine ‘Workers, while Mr. Green is only the president of the A. F. of L. * X ok x Lewis' C. I. O. headquarters here is not much more than a mailing address. It is housed in three small offices in a downtown building and provides standing room for visitors. Lewis does not work there. His union headquarters is the entire floor of one of the best office buildings in town, the one in which the Crime Commission housed itself some years ago and provoked some criticism for extravagant furnishings. The suite is fur- nished with chairs of natural leather color and desks as expensive as those of any steel executive. There is & reception room in which a Bryn Mawr graduate attends the telephone, a small and a large conference room, & library, & lobby and Lewis' corner office, as well as about 10 more offices for the workers. The appearance and atmosphere of the place is that of an up-to-date and highly successful business organization, which is a decided contrast with the unpretentious furnishings in the old A. F. of L. building or the pictures of labor leaders assembled in the back room. The C. 1. O. is spending about $70,000 a month in its drive to organize the steel industry. The rent on its Pittsburgh headquarters is supposed to be $1,000 per month, and it has 35 subregional operators, 150 full-time field directors, 80 part-time organizers and 5,000 volunteer organizers, all work=- ing out of Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Chicago. It can go on indefinitely. The original C. I. O. fund did not tap the treasury of U. M. W. or other unions, but was merely an initial assess- ment, contributed as follows: ‘Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be raised by special assess= ment in the U. M. W.; $225,000 to be raised by $1 assessment on each member of David Dubinsky’s International Ladies’ Garment Workers: $100,000 to be raised by membership assessments on Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers; $10,000 voted by Max Zaritsky's millinery department of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Union. In addition to this $585,000, there is to be a per capita assessment of 1 cent per member per month voted by the comparatively young United Rubber Workers. Few can talk much bigger figures than these in Wall Street today. ok %o ‘The official inside explanation of Zaritsky’'s unsuccessful effort to bring Messrs. Lewis and Green into peaceful arbitration is that “Mr. Zaritsky pulled a boner.” They say Zaritsky was “idealistic,” not politically practical. Appar- ently he wanted to relieve his C. I. O. friends from responsibility for the break, and it did not work. ‘This does not, however, supersede the complete unofficial explanation that Mr: Lewis does not want peace because he thinks he can win. The Red Cross need not worry about accumulating Government bonds under Morgenthau's trusteeship. While Morgenthau is not a Trustee of the A. F. of L., that organization also has mearly all its assets in Governments. The last available A. F. of L. balance sheet showed that. out of the $620,000 of assets, $556,000 was in Gov- ernments. Lewis does not list his assefs in categories. Favorite reading material for A. F. of L. Executive Council members lately has been a 50-page comprehensive study of Lewis published by a magazine. The Magazine costs $1 per copy, but half a dozen are in circu- lation around A. F. of L. headquarters, where officials maintain the attitude publicly that they do not care what Lewis is doing. Their private comment would make lively reading, but not for the kiddies. (Copyright, 1936.) NOTHIN_DOING; CONSTITUTIONHELD LYNCHBURG FETE (SSUE IN CAMPAIGN New Deal is “Red Herring” |Rain Causes Postponement Admini§tration, Says Col. Breckinridge. By the Assoclated Press. ‘WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., October 17.— Col. Henry Breckinridge of New York said last night the issue of the present campaign was /“the maintenance of the Constitution and the integrity of the Supreme Court in its great role of shield and buckler of our liberties.” Breckinridge, in a speech prepared for & meeting of the independent coalition of American women, said Gov. Alf M. Landon “will strike down | the striped W. P. A-U. 8. A. signs * * »: will free the unemployed from their political chains and strive * * ¢ to restore them to self-respecting em- ployment.” Red Herring Administration. He called the New Deal administra- tion the “red herring administration of American political history.” He cited former Gov. Alfred E. Smith's stand against the New Deal. “Forty years in the public life of the Empire State and none can lay a finger on one single act of doubtful honor while the record of his service is blazoned on the recent political history of New York,” Breckinridge said. “Gov. Smith has made a very good Jjob of showing up all the red herrings the New Deal spread on the trall,” he added. He charged the New Deal “turned loose the Washington prope- ganda machine to smear him with every sort of epithet and insinuation” as an answer to Smith’s arguments. Landon Has Been Toiler. “Gov. Landon knows and sympe- thizes with the problems of the toiler at first hand because he has been s toiler,” Breckinridge said. “What the New Deal does not tell you is that he will restore the in- tegrity of the Civil Service which the New Deal has desiroyed. He will keep his hands free from being soiled by the political exploitation of the ca- lamity of the unemployed. He will bring economy, common sense, de- cency and orderliness into the admin- istration of the affairs of Government. He will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution in accordance with his oath of office.” —_— Next for Terry Walker TBREY WALKER, former model and night club -singer, who just completed her first role in “And Sud- den Death,” in which she plays a fea- tured role with Randolph Scott, Frances Drake and Tom Brown, prob- ably will be in the Benjamin Glazer production, “Lady Be Careful.” Mile-Long Chain Transferred. A mile-long chain with six-inch links was moved from one English town to another on four short-coupled freight cars, slack being allowed bgc tween the cars. W FINALE SETTODAY of Parade, Pageant and Aerial Rodeo. By the Associated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va. October 17— | Rain completely drowned out yester- day the finale of Lynchburg's sesqui- centennial celebration, causing the di- rectors to cancel the parade until 3 p.m. today and the postponement of the concluding episodes of the pageant for one night, A huge crowd of persons braved a relentless downpour of rain and slop- ped through the streets all day in the hope that events of the final program of the six-day festival could be run off. Occasional brightening of the skies teased the holiday throng into hoping for some brief respite in the afternoon. But it rained, and prevented the gay and colorful parade arranged by the people of Lynchburg and the first day's performance of an aerial rodeo, plan- ned for Preston Glenn Airport. o FURNISS IS ELECTED BY BURROUGHS UNIT Succeeds David A. Babp as Head of Citizens—L. F. Kreek Vice President. Robert M. Furniss last night was elected president of the Burroughs Citizens’ Association at a special meet= ing in Burroughs School. Furniss, who was not present at the meeting, succeeds David A. Babp, who held the position for two terms. ‘The special meeting was called after & mix-up pn the regular meeting date of the group, the first Friday of each month, Louis’ F. Kreek was elected vice president; Warren H. Willner, secre- tary, to succeed President Furniss; Mrs. Helen Willner, assistant secre- tary; Wilbur S. Finch, treasurer; Frederick J. Roy, financial secretary, and Babp and Finch, delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Allocation of additional W, P. A. funds for grading and seeding of Taft Park was urged in a resolution adopted. Former President Babp, since his last election, has moved from the 8s- sociation’s territory, but he announced last night he would retain member- ship and active service with the Bur- roughs group. — Influx of oversea money has eased Australia financial conditions. EDUCATIONAL. WALTER T. HOLT ‘Mandolin, banjo, guitar, Hawaiian gul- tar and ukulele. Pupils trained for home, orchestra, stage, radio playing. Ensemble Practice with Ni Chubs 1801 Col. Rd. N.W. C§1. 0946 D. :'C,, 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed t2 The Star’s. Peculiarities in Polls With Every Voter of Barometer State Polled, Machine Could Influence Results. BY MARK SULLIVAN. HE latest installment of the Literary Digest poll gives Gov. Landon just over 1,000,000 votes and President Roosevelt 728,000. That is, Landon gets 55.4 per cent of the total, Mr. Roosevelt 40.1. Unién Party Candidate Lemke gets 3.4 per cent. ... All other candi- dates combined £ get 1.1 per cent. 3 Landon’s lead } shows a slirht de- crease {rom last ency towerd & slightly lower * lead for Landon | has gone on throughout each of the six weeks' of the poll. Un- doubtedly it will continue during the remaining two weeks. One reason is that returns from large cities do not yet appear as fully as returns from rural districts. Chicago has not yet appeared. Only & small portion of the returns from New York and Phila- delphia have appeared. Everybody agrees that returns from the large cities will, speaking generally, favor Mr. Roosevelt. At the same time, most of the Digest returns must be already in. They sent out 10,000,000 ballots. Over 17 per cent have already been re- turned. The total returned, according to past experiences, is likely to be somewhat over 20 per cent, but less than 25 per cent. Giving weight to all the factors, it seems a tenable guess that the Di- gest poll, when complete, will give Landon something like 52.8 per cent of the total vote, Mr. Roosevelt some- thing like 42.5 per cent. This would forecast a strong Republican victory. Objection Discounted. Various objections have been made to the Digest poll. One, frequently heard, is that the Digest gets the bulk of its names from ‘telephone and automobile registration lists. Hence, it is argued, the Digest does not get a due proportion of its names from the lower economic stratum, those on relief or others who do not have automobiles or telephone. It is argued further that in the latter stratum Mr. Roosevelt is especially strong. To this, one answer is that the premise is not correct. The Digest does mnot rely wholly on telephone and automobile lists. In the large cities, where such lists might not be & fair cross-section of the population, the Digest follows a different method. In the present poll they have polled every third voter in Chicago, Phifa- delphia and other large cities. In some smaller cities, they have polled every voter. To all objections to the Digest poll, the broad answer is that it has been right before, again and again. Mark Sullivan. some of the previous years in which Digest polls turned out correct. For example, the conditions about relief voters today were already in existence in 1934. And in that year a Digest poll of California was correct in pre- dicting that Democratic candidate for Governor, Upton Sinclair, would be beaten, although California had an especially large number of persons on relief and consequently many observ- ers thought Sinclair would win. Has Many Believers. In short, believers in the Digest poll believe in it strongly. They regard the managers of the Digest poll as having acquired by long experience the proper The | answer is that the conditions thought to be new this year were duplicated in | technique for taking an accurate poll. They accept the Digest's forecast as l\::‘hofluuve. They think Landon will win. On the other hand, at least one other Nation-wide poll, the Gallup one, points at this stage toward victory for Mr. Roosevelt. This poll has a very narrow base. It reaches only & small fraction of the voters—while the Di- gest poll reaches about 25 per cent. Several local polls, conducted by newspapers, also point toward a Roosevelt victory. ‘About daily news- Ppaper polls, it is to be borne in mind that most of them, because of the na- ture of the territory daily papers serve, reflect city voters to a disproportionate degree. And city voters tend to vote for Mr. Roosevelt to a greater degree than rural and small town voters. Maryland Causes Confusion. The poll that has caused most ques- | tioning of the Digest poll is the Mary- |land one, conducted by the Baltimore Sun. The returns favor Mr. Roosevelt, | overwhelmingly. They give Mr. Roose- velt 63.99 per cent of the total, Lan- don only 35.38 per cent. This Maryland poll is regarded as & national barometer, because Maryland has been a barometer State. In every presidential year since and including 1892, the party that won the popular vote in Maryland has also won the na- tional election. Prom this it is as- sumed that if this year Maryland is going for Mr. Roosevelt, the Nation will do the same. Especially would this follow if Maryland goes for Roose- velt in anything like the proportion in- | dicated by the Baltimore Sun’s poll. | Because this Maryland poll points op- posite to the Digest one, it is widely re- garded as neutralizing the Digest's forecast. It may be that this year Maryland | is not as good a barometer as formerly. [There is a new factor, the Negro vote, which in Maryland is quite | large, and which this year for the first time will vote mainly Democratic. Peculiarities in Poll. | The are some extraordinary cir- | cumstances about the Maryland poll. | Ballots were sent to every voter, | 771,007 of them. Out of these, 101, | 283 were returned to the Sun by the post office, with notice that the ad- | dress was wrong or that the ad- | dressee had died or moved. That is, | more than one out of every eight reg- | | istered voters in Maryland was not | | found at the address given on the | registration lists. This is a large proportion. | | Of the roughly 670,000 voters reach- | {ed, 4165 replied. This is a most extraordinary percentage. Ordinarily, | newspapers which conduct polls do| not expect to get back more than 20 | per cent or so of the ballots they | send out. The Maryland result seems | to suggest that some one, presum- ably local political leaders or zealots, | | may have made it their business to get ballots marked and returned. If| there is anything in this surmise, ap- | parently the Democrats must have| been more energetic. | " If this innovation of straw. polls goes on, experience will teach some- thing about methods. Superficially, b it would seem that polling every voter would be the best possible method. | Actually, careful sampling of the electorate may get results more ac- curate. Polling the whole electorate, with every one knowing it is being done, gives opportunity for partisans or zealots to organize and stimulate returns for their favorites. Polling | the whole electorate amounts to du- | plicating the actual election—but with- | out the safeguards which it has been | found necessary to set up about ac- tual elections. (Copyright, 1936.) KENNEDY STREET CAR PLAN OPPOSED | Takoma Park Citizens Against Abandonment for Bus % Service. Opposition to the abandonment of the Third and Kennedy streets rail service of the Capital Transit Co. in favor of busses was voiced last night at a meeting of the Takoma Park Citizens’ Association, held in the Ta- koma Public Library. A resolution of Chester C. Waters, chairman of the Public Utilities Com- mittee of the association, which was unanimously adopted, set forth in part that the organization has cen- sistently opposed any proposal to eliminate or reduce street car service between Laurel and Eastern avenues, Takoma Park, and Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue. “It has been consistently supported in this posi- tion by the community of 6,000 per- sons, near the terminus of that line in the District and Maryland,” con- tinued the resolution. “In spite of the recent demoralized street car service many residents have preferred to ride the street cars in direct com- petition with busses. Any improve- ment whatever in the rail service | would increase the proportion of street car riders.” it stated. In the course of discussion several speakers told of the unsatisfactory service and of the uncertainty of bus service and schedules. It was pointed | out that owing to the present crowded | condition of the busses residents south | of Takoma Park were unable to se- cure passage in’the mornings for this reason. The association adopted a resolu- tion expressing regret at the resig- nation of Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts, and comending him for the | enthusiastic and unflagging zeal he | had shown in promoting the con- sumers’ welfare, JOB DENIED BY W. P. A. The Republican National Commit- tee last night made public an affi- davit attributed to William E. Jewitt of Philadelphia which said he had been denied a needed job with the W. P. A because he refused to sur- render his life insurance policy. He had been employed by W. P. A. for a time, he said, but was denied reinstatement in September because W. P. A allows those enrolled to carry only 25 cents’' insurance per week and he was paying $2.40. CHOCOLATS NUT Oh . . . fresh toasted cashew nuts frozen in your favorite ice cream « + « Rich Meadow Gold Chocolate. ~ Try some TODAY. . In bulk at all Meadow Gold Dealers. * ALSO % Rum Buttered Toffes & Chocolate Marsh- mallow in combina- tion pint packages. MEADOW GOLD Made by the CARRY {CE CREAM CO. Phone LINCOLN 5900 _Yee Cream. LUTHERANS ADOPT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1936. We, the People Line Forms on {3 I of this column. It used to be: “If you don't like it here, why don't you go back where you came from?” This was on the assumption that any critic of American institutions was s nasty alien who had no rights except to cheer for things as he found them or else hold his tongue. Now, that even Mayflower descendants and sons and daughters of the American Revolutionary see a few of the soup stains on Old Glory, native-born citizens are being told to leave their own country. From this to the institution of political ezile for opponents of the G. O. P. is not a very long step. ‘There have been many honorable exiles in history and never more so0 than today. Why should America be squeamish about deporting her own citizens if they don't like some of its ideas and institutions and seek to change them by the anclent devices of free speech and the democratic ballot? The Hearst press would probably welcome such a suggestion and, in another few years, may be advocat= ing the passage of legislation deny~ ing American citizenship to anye body who breathes & word against things-as-they-were-in-the-nineteenthe century, the Left for Today’s Version of the Deportation Ark. BY JAY FRANKLIN, F _AMEPICA isn't good enough for you, get out! Go seek the Russian tyranny yoa love so much!” writes an anonymous critic *x %% ‘There are plenty of patriots who would leap at the chance to use the threat of exile to get rid of their political opponents or business competitors. The “Soviet Ark” of 1919 would be repeated in a big way, and American steamship lines might build up a good business from Federal deportation funds for removing native born soreheads to foreign shores. P But Russia sounds pretty dreary. Why, when the world is so wide, should it be assumed that Russia is the only haven for the oppressed of the world of rugged individualists? For generations, our millionaires have wugh"t asylum from the awful fact that America had no hereditary “servant class,” by patronizing the grouse moors of Scotland, the chateaux country of Prance and the so-called watering places of Central Europe. After the war, there was a dramatic exodus of our intelligentsia, with horn-rimmed spectacles and portable typeuriters, to the Latin quarter of Paris, where by the Dome and Rotonde they soused themselves in the culture which was cruelly denied them in their inartistic surroundings at home. For 14 years, a trail of empty botties leading to Montreal, Bermuda, the Bahamas and Havana showed the unsteady passage of a regiment of temporary exiles, seeking to pursue a brand of happiness which was not Testricted to one-half of 1 per cent alcoholic content. And lest we forget, Col. Charles Lindbergh réently exiled himself to England, where his children would not be harassed by the Hearst press. Russia seems too broad a solution for all the varieties of self-criticism which the American people are . now indulging. There are some who would doubtless feel happier in Germany or Rome. Although the South Seas have been super- saturated at times with Ameri- cans striving to “get away from it all,” there is still plenty of room in the interior of New Guineau and many of us would really pre- fer breadfruit on an atoll to blackbread by Dneiperstroy. For my own part, if it comes to exile, I should like to be sent to a nice, quiet, well-mannered village on the south coast of Ireland, where I could fish, smoke, drink Guinness’ and the famous barley whiskey of the country, and watch the big liners, packed with well-upholstered Republicans, go steaming past in order to get somewhere in time to turn around and go back again. And there—you have guessed it—I would not write the Great Ameri- can Novel. It is a promise, Fascists of the future? (Copyright. 1936.) F acing Operation To Save Life, Girl Isin Happy Mood §13.200 BUDGET i“l{'; All Righ[,” S(,ys 1 1- orocessing tax law. the United States Final Unity Accomplished Year-Old Victim of Rare Within American Organi- Blood Ailment. zation. By Radio to The Star. PITTSBU — By the Associated Press. SBURGH. October 17.—Pretty | 11-year-old Rita Kohler laughed “I'm SAN ANTONIO, Tex., October 17.— a]] right” today, while surgeons pre- The ' American Lutheran ' Church pared for an emergency operation in adopted a budget of $735.200, accom- an effort to save her life. plished final unity within the church organization, and paved the way for| The little girl 15 a victim of an old-age pension set-up within the church at is annual convention here this week. Foreign missions received $160,500; educational institutions, $193,350; the Board of Aid (handling pensions for aged ministers) $59,225, in major ap- propriations. Rev. Carl C. Hein of Columbus was | re-elected president. The convention went on record in favor of an amendment to the Fed- | eral social security act which would rare blood affliction, technically known Headline Folk and What They Do Dr. Victor Heiser 40 Years “Man Against Death.” BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. N A world all set for large-scale killing, Dr. Victor Heiser becomes important news. In his 40 years as a “Man Against Death,” he has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, in many countries, fighting all the plagues and disasters of the Apocalypse. He is a big. kindly, genial man who believes in life and has held its banner high in every evil swamp and sink of human misery in the world. He probably has saved more lives than the Gran Chaco War destroyed. As president of the International Leprosy Association, he tells the New York meeting of the American Mis- sion to Lepers that this ancient human curse is slowly being beaten back. He reports no specific, but definite gains on many fronts. His career started and continued in a sweep of elemental forces In Johnstown, Pa., on May 31, 1889, his father sent him to the stable to loose two horses. Before he could return to the house, a wall of water filled the street. He floated to safety on the roof of the barn. His parents were killed. He was then 16 years old. He worked as a plumber and car- penter to get money for his medical education, at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. In the United States Marine Health Service, he began his unending war against pestilence and disease in jungle hell-holes. As come missioner of health in the Phillip~ pines he was credited with saving 100,000 lives a year, through his organization of sanitation and pree ventive medicine in the islands. Due to political misunderstanding he was subjected to much misunderstanding and misrepresentation. In 1914 he began travel and research for the Rockefeller Foundation. On land, sea and in the air he has girdled the world 16 times, trailing and | attacking dysentery, yellow fever, cholera, typhus, yaws, filiarosis and a dozen other murderous plagues. This writer regards his recent book, “An American Doctor's Odyssey,” as one of the most exciting human ‘ld\'enlure stories of our times. In the name of the United States, | Judge John D. Martin of the Federal |Court of Memphis makes a public apology to a Negro, unjustly accused and held in jail for four months in a court attache’s blunder. It is pere haps a legal apd social precedent. At any rate, it hits front pages | throughout the East and possibly elsee | where. | Judge Martin was appointed to the United States District Court of Meme [phis by President Roosevelt last year, |He has upheld the T. V. A. the labor relations act and last month he sustained the penal provisions of the 1933 securities act. He is a native of Memphis, born in 1883, an alumnus of the University |of Virginia and was a practicing lawyer until his judicial appointment, For the last 10 years he has been & member of the Tennessee State Demo« cratic Executive Committee. He is widely known for his participation in civic affairs and is a contributor ta magazines. as purpura hemorrhagipa | (Copyrisht 1836.) Physicians explained the affliction | prevents the proper coagulation of blood and resembles the “royal dis- LOOT WORTH $1,116 ease” known as haemophelia. | A few little bruises suffered while Stocks and Bonds Stolen From Geranium Street Home. | roller skating caused Rita’s iliness. The blood gathered in the bruises, formed tiny clots which traveled | Stocks, bonds and clothing which through the blood stream and grad- | he valued at $1.116 were stolen from ually became poisonous. A number of his home at 1241 Geranium street, | the clots massed near Rita's stomach. | Joseph F. Rose reported to police last | deeds and legal entities to the central | | $200,000 through alumni for additions Surgeons said they must be removed allow religious bodies to participate in to save her life. old-age benefits. Members voted to petition Congress for the passage of such a bill. The Synods of Iowa, Ohio and Bufe falo formerly granted transfer of during the night, to provide strength the operation. But, surgeons said, they were doubt- body, final step toward unity within ful—she has only a slight chance. the church organization. LTI ST Delegates voted to establish a per- . } manent charity board and appropri- | China is smoking 70,000,000,000 cig- ated $40.000 annually for support of | ATettes a year. charitable institutions. It granted permission to Capitol University of Columbus, Ohio, to raise | The Foening Har to the library and for a science hall. Just Jungle Coming Out. CHICAGO (#).—Charles Brenner was & timid baby at the age of 3, but that was two years ago. His parents taught him to be confident, self- reliant. Their efforts were more than rewarded. Chicago firemen made their fourth call in three months at the Brenner home yesterday. This time Charles was on the roof. Pre- viously he was taken down from a tree. He took to the roof because the tree was cut down to thwart him. B e f ¥ hopeless os it looks | night. 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