Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1936, Page 6

“BALANCE WHEEL" HELDG. 0. P. ROLE MacCracken Urges It Keep Bases of Republic Before People. The function of the Republican party today is to serve as a “balance wheel” and to keep before the Ameri- can people the truths upon which the Nation was established, Willlam P. MacCracken, jr., former Assistant Becretary of Commerce for Aero- nautics, told members of the League of Republican Women of the District at & meeting yesterday in the Repub- lican Club at Scott Circle. + “Our Government is based upon the two-party plan and upon & sys- tem of checks and balances,” Mac- Cracken said. “There always is great need for a real opposition party to keep the Government from becoming unbalanced. The preservation of our oonstitutional form of government and & sound fiscal policy are dependent upon the maintenance of this balance.” G. O. P. Defends Constitution. The real reason for American pros- Among the problems which new ‘membesrs of the Seventy-fifth Con- gress will have to solve jor them= selves is what to wear in the Capi- tol. This third in a series of stories by Eddy Gilmore of the Associated Press Washington bu- reau, offers @ few hints. BY EDDY GILMORE. There’s no such thing as & com- mon denominator in congressional clothes—it's every man for himself. Utter sartorial confusion faces the five-score newcomers to Col who would peruse the past to learn the vogue on Capitol Hill. Tastes in the Senate range from the soft fawn splendor of J. Hamilton Lewis' claw-tailed coats to the high red suspenders that hold up the trousers of Theo C. Bilbo. Anything goes in the House. Rep- resentative Clare Hoffman of Michi- gan wear coats without pockets, and Representative Lemke of North Da- kota sports & cap. Standardized in the outer world, even the wearing of a tie becomes s many-sided fancy when subjected to the fickle fingers of legislators. Senator Hugo Black of Alabama goes in for long string models, while perity and the great development of the natural resources of the land is that the American form of gov- emment always has provided a great incentive to create wealth and to de- velop business and industry, Mac- Cracken said. “The Republican party,” he aaid, “always has been the defender of the Constitution and of the form of gov- ernment which has made possible our growth and well-being as a Nation. ‘The Constitution, in turn, is the greatest defender of individual and property rights. “It may be that our people, mad in their desire to live off the Gov- ernment and to receive that which they have not created, will destroy the form of governmet which our fqrefathers created, but let us be sure they do not do it without opposition.” Form of Government at Stake. Pleading that the party never should compromise with truth, he said he would “rather see the Re- publican party defeated again and again than to see it advocate things we do not believe are right.” “If you will go back to the founda- tions of our Government,” he said, “you will find that some of the poli- eies of the present administration are contrary to the fundamentals of our Government, and so I feel that the form of our Government itself is at stake. It is this form of government which made our country great, and if we have a government which ap- peals to mass consciousness and class consciousness and the spirit of ‘some- thing for nothing’ we are in grave danger.” Mrs, William Pitch Kelly, presi- dent of the league, presided. Mrs. ‘William S. Culbertson, wife of the former Ambassador to Chile, respond- ed to the address. A luncheon fol- lowed the meeting. Fungi Kills Many Insects. Fungi that kill flies, mosquitoes and other annoying and harmful in- sects are now raised successfully in mass cultures by a German botanist. Representative Robert A. Green of Florida clings to flowing Windsors. Senator Bachman of Tennessee tucks his neat bow beneath his collar tabs, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1936. [Freshmen to Find All Kinds Of Sartorial Precedent on Hill and Representative Finly H. Gray of Indiana lets his flow unfettéred down & starched shirt front. Pledgling lawmakers can find prece- dent for virtually any kind of foot- wear. Spats have coveted many s pair of Eastern ankles, while only a yard away the back of a chair propped up calf-length boots from the great Southwest, No one has ever appeared in either House in hip boots, although Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska threat- ened to do so during Washington's big snow last Winter. High-toppers still have the call over oxfords in the Senate, but any of ‘the 11 pairs of freshmen feet that itch for a new deal in footwear might find leadership in Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, who appeared in baby blue socks and brown buckskin shoes last Spring. Congressional democracy truly runs wild in the realm of hats. The cloak rooms of Congress on & busy day resemble nothing so much as a haber- dashers’ Jeague of nations. There is but one fleld of fashion in which a definite monopoly has been set up—carnation wearing. Through 20 years, fair weather and foul, Sen- ator Copeland of New York has ap- peared in one daily. As a veteran doorman once re- marked: “I never see a carnation but what I wonder where is Senator Copeland.” EMERGENCY FREIGHT RATES ARE OPPOSED Coal Spokesman Says Third of $115,000,000 Surcharge Total Is Borne by Industry. BY the Associated Press. Continuance of emergency sur- charge freight rates after December 31 ‘was strongly opposed before the Inter- state Commerce Commission yesterday by the carriers’ best customer—coal. Observing that this commodity bore one-third of the surcharge total, which is expected to yield about $115,000,000 this year, first Charles F. Hosford, jr., chairman of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, and then Karl D. Loos, counsel for the National Coal Association, told the commission the base rates were already too high and should be substantially reduced. “Only by such action can the diver- sion of coal traffic to competing forms of transfortation be stopped,” Loos said. “Only by such action can the tendency to substitute other sources of energy for coal be effectually checked.” Hosford testified that excessive freight rates have been one of the major causes of the coal industry’s de- Ppression. 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Mr. Roosevell’s cabin was stocked with Christmas presents his son James of Port-of-Spain in the lesser Antilles, where Mr. Roosevelt planned to try his luck for several hours in a small boat if the water were smooth enough. ‘Otherwise, he hoped to fish later off Culebra Island, east of Puerto Rico. WILLIS LARIMER KING, STEEL OFFICIAL, DIES By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 12.—Wil- 1is Larimer King, 85, a director of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. and honorary vice president of the Amer- ican Iron and Steel Institute, died yes- terday after a short illness. King had been identified with Jones & Laughlin for 67 years and for many years had been known as “dean of the steel industry.” He was active in the formation of the American Iron and Steel Institute in 1908 and was a director for 20 years. ‘The institute awarded King its Gary Medal in 1933 for outstanding schieve- hurriedly purchased in bassars of | | the British West Indian island where the Indianapolis and its convoy cruiser, the Chester, called yesterday. ‘The President expressed gratitude for the cordial reception he received dur- ing his shore visit. He deferred writing his legislative budget measage and second inaugural address until his return to Washington and hoped to spend some of the last days of his trip fishing. His fishing gear—including a spe- cial spinner given him by a Trinidad admirer—was set out waiting for the flotilla to reach Aves, otherwise known 43 Bird Island, about 350 miles north W‘l"'lofl‘ PETWORTH ARMACY GEORGIA AVE ot UPSHUR ST. N.W. 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