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WarDebtBase Decrease Held Imprudent Long Retirement With Easy Interest May Attract France. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ELECTION of Albert Boni, who has been French minister of finance, to be French Ambassa~ dor to the United States is taken to mean here that negotia- tions will be begun shortly to attempt to settle all war debt questions between America and France, Strangely enough, there prevails in administration quarters a belief among the President’s advisers that Mr. Roasevelt, by reason of his overwhelm- ing majority in the National elections, can do about as he pleases with re- spect to war debts. g But on Capitol hill there is an en- tirely different impression. It is known that one of Mr. Roosevelt's chief supporters in Congress, a man upon whom he relies for advice and help in legislative matters, has frankly told the President within the last fortnight that he can have almost anything he wants out of Congress except & cancellation of war debts. Just why the conversation between eongressional leaders and the Presi- dent should have occurred at all is somewhat of a mystery, unless it was due to the recurrence of rumors and reports to the effect that foreign gov- ernments would like to reopen debt negotiations. Attitude Puzzies Europe. Furopean governments have been somewhat puzzled of late as to Amer- ica's attitude. They would reopen pa: leys at once if they thought the United Btates would agree to cancellation, or at least some small payment of a lJump sum. But even the foreign govern- ments are loath to believe the reports they have been getting to the effect that the last election meant cancella- tion of war debts for them. ‘The most interesting aspect of the Matter is the way the debt question, allowed to drift along for the last four years, has been put out of the minds of foreign governments again and again as a subject for concern, only to ‘flwvfl' that it is one of those lingering affairs that never seems to heal. Then Agsin European countries feel themselves on the verge of war conditions and they recognize what the friendship of the American reople might mean to them in an emergency -—and that does not by any means refer to armed help. The possibility | of embargoes going to the point of | perhaps withholding food supplies if 1t is desired to maintain meticulous | neutrality worries those European nations with a limited food supply. Tourist Trade Falls. Then there is the matter of tourist trade. Prance, for example, has not had in the last few years the tourist trade forgnerly enjoyed. It seems in- credible that this should have been sssociated with such an abstract sub- Ject as the war debts, but neverthe- leds nations sesking tourist trade are anxious to eliminate even; lm impediment, no matter what it is. The desire of the French govern- ment is to Peach some satisfactory solution of the war debt probiem. This has been indicated time and again. A basis for settiement can readily be arrived at if the French government takes a realistic view of the matter and if the United States QGovernment does likewise. ‘The essential point about a settie- ment is that the principal shall not be reduced. There has been a complete revision of interest rates throughout the world in the last couple years, so it is only fair that the war debtor countries be given the benefit of lower interest payments. This means, nat- urally, a revision of the sums to be paid annually. Obviously, nations cannot at this stage of world eco- Dbomics pay as well as they may be able to do later on. Hence, a slowly ascending scale of annual payments, with perhaps a longer spread of years, but & retention of the face amount of | the principal, as the main item of & refunding agreement would probably meet with favor as a formula on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘The coming of & new French Am- bassador specially skilled in financial matters is bound to lead to & new ap- | proach to the debt problem. It is un- | derstood also that informal conversa- tions already have begun at Paris be- tween American Ambassador Bullitt the American envoy could say any more than Secretary Hull has been saying here, namely, that the United Btates is ready and anxious to examine any new proposals for a debt settle. “ment which France or any other country owing us war debts may wish to transmit for discussion. (Copyright, 1936,) ECUADOR CLAIMS GALAPAGOS ISLES Officially Acts to Control Dots of Land Baroness Once Ruled. B the Associated Press. QUITO, Ecuador, December 26.— The government in & decree issued yesterday declared the whole terri- tory of the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean 500 miles west of Ecua- dor, was the territory of the govern ment. It said 1t would recognize claims to property ownership in the islands only in cases where the claimant has cul- Mvated the land. Although the Galapagos Islands Are admitted internationally to belong to Ecuador, that country has exer- ¢ised only a small amount of control over them. Some members of the isiands’ small eolony have declared they own the land in Archipelago. Charles Island, one of the group, was believed to have been ruled over by s mysterious baroness, Eloise Bons- quet de Wagner, over a period of years prior to 1934. The baroness had once owned & Paris gown shop. In December of that year Capl. William Borthen, who made & voy- age to the islands, declared on reach- Ing San Diego, Calif., that he believed the baroness and her mate, Robert Phillipson, were killed by Alfred Ru- doiph Lorenz, another colonist, t'n-I tause he feared them. The islands at that time had but five other inhabitants, ubled. Banana Shipments Do Picific Coast aress doubled in 193¢, compared with 1935, TINKHAM T0 ASK . TWO-TERM BAN' BY JEWEL SQUAD Republican Says Plan Would By the Associated Press. ham, bewhiskered Boston Republican, announced last night he would intro- | duce a congressional resolution to pro- hibit re-election of the President and and M. Boni, though it is not likely | %0 limit his term to six years, | take formal action on the widely dis- | cussed proposal, declared his reso- | John Meehan saw two men in an auto | lution for a constitutional samendment, <‘ trailing a carload of, Christmas cele- | where they have lived since thelr re- | if adopted, would “in view of the pres- | Prators and stopped them. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. News Behind the News New Budget to Have Blank Pages—No One Will Know Whether It Is Balanced. BY PAUL MALLON. HOSE privileged few insiders who have been permitted a peek at the budget say it is not & budget. but an unfinished symphony in arithmetic. They call it President Roosevelt's fourth unbslanced symphony. The President has done just what he did last year. He has left a few blank pages At the end of the account book for nllefl. public ;:rkn 5 e A g e and emergency estimates. ene Yo "o AZEEETT 3 will be flled in, ttem by item, trom » ) x March until next June, as soon as » the “need” is determined and the “program” is ready. As a consequence, no one knows whether the dudget will de balanced or unbalanced, and no one will de able to get a precisely accurate idea until more than a year from now, when the deficiency appro- o priations are made. Adbout all Mr, Roosevelt has been able to do is to present some harmonious figures, which look good and sound fafr, but are inconclusive, x k ox % The economic and financial effect of the budget, when it is an- nounced about three weeks hence, will be exactly nil. * ok % X A significant unofficial warning Against expecting too much in the way of economy came & few days ago from an authority best able to issue one. His incontestable viewpoint is that the only way to save Gove ernment money in a large way is to atop Government functions. This is not to be proposed. Government reorganization will promote efficiency, and save a little, but not much. The reason is obvious, The bulk of administrative expense is in the salaries of the lower groups of employes. You cannot abolith employes unless you abolish their work. Consolidations of bureaus may 1op off & few bureau chiefs, but the sum total of their salaries is small. The savings will be “a drop in the bucket,” but the reorganization will be undertaken anyway in the interest of good business management. X % ok ok A certain Congress member is showing around among his friends a telegram supposed to have been sent by Father Coughlin to one of his Natfonal Union for Social Justice clubs. It is dated two weeks before election and urges the local authorities to send all funds to Coughlin personally, instead of sending them to the national treasurer, as usual, The Congressman considers the telegram to be evidence of the ex- tensive inside trouble which Father Coughlin had with the finances of local clubs during the campaign. In a movement so large, where many inexperienced local people handle money, some cash is bound to get caught behind the till in the cash register. And, of course, Father Coughlin bore the responsibility for whatever was done by his local organizations, There is no talk of a congressional investigation now. ok ok x Most difficult problem of Agriculture Secretary Wallace is to decide what to do about the Dust Bowl. The policy of moving people out has started a strong congressional backfire. Some Congressmen are demanding money for irrigation. But other legisiators are receiving letters from the very few irrigation tarmers already op- erating in the bowl, stating that charges for their water must be dropped because they cannot pay. If you know the answer, write to Mr. Wallace, Agricultural Depart- ment, Washington, D. C. That confidential memo written by Mr. Ickes' P. W. A. attorneys critizing the Supreme Court bitterly for the Duke power ruling has not been lost to posterity. It has been published, almost word for word, in the papers by a New Deal news writer as his own view. * x x % Congressmen are hissing from the wings at the Labor Depart- ment interpretation of the Walsh-Healey bill. Compiaints are coming in from constituent factories, urging them to find out about the regulations. The bill was supposed to institute a little N. R. A. for Government contractors, dut many Congressmen are displeased with the way it is working out. oo * k% % The old “communism™ angle of the farm tenant fight is coming to the fore. One plan is being advocated in the New Deal cellar to permit the Government to buy large tracts of land and cut these up into colonies. The scheme could be turned into a “communal” or “collectivist” movement, At least 50 say advocates of a milder plgn, *x x % A hectic unpublicized scramble for Government jobs is on. Emer- gency workers, fearing that they will be cut off in the coming reorganiza- tion, are seeking permanent jobs. The result is Senators and Congress- men are having plenty of patronage trouble they did not expect. * % % x Priends of Senator Capper are denying the canard that he did not mention Gov. Landon’s name in his successful Kansas campaign for re- election. They say he nearly defeated himself by urging Landon's election among the Dust Bowl farmers, who were ardently supporting the President bcause of the aid they were getting. * x ¥ x The President plans to make his annual congressional messages night radio broadcasts, but there probably will be no eriticism about playing politics this year. The third term is too far off. His purpose this year is to reach the people with the problems of Government, (Copyrisht, 1938,) THOMORE GAUGHT Confession of Robber Plot Reported by Detail Guard- ing Wealthy Women. | B the Associated Press, Representative George Holden Tink- | NEW YORK, December 26.—The newly created “gem squad’—detectives assigned to make midtown Manhattan | safe at night for jewelry-laden wom- | en—marked up another arrest yester- idny in an effort to put a halt to a string of recent robberies. Detectives Francls McVeigh and Guarantee Preservation of Republic. ‘Tinkham, first to announce he would q’lfl opinions of the writers necessarily The Star’s. The Star’s effort to give all sid on this page are their own, not Such opinions are presented in es of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s, Politics and Education 4 Dr: Frank’s Situation Raises Issue Vital to College . BY MARK SULLIVAN. T THE University of Wiscon- sin on January 6 President Glenn Frank will answer charges brought against him by the Board of Regents, Soon there after, before January 13, President Frank will be either dismissed or re- tained—most sur- mises say the for- ¥ mer. Feeling on both sides grows. i The centroversy has engaged Na. tion-wide atten- tion and more will be heard of ! it. There are § analogous situa- tions in some other universities. The facts have been printed in many newspa- pers. The most painstaking statement I have seen is in three dispatches to the Baltimore Sun by one pf its staff, Paul W. Ward. From 4his and other accounts, it does not appear that academic freedom, in the narrower senre, is the primary issue— though, of course, academic freedom is necessarily involved in such situa- tions. There is no allegation that Dr. Frank is being dismissed because of pnything he has taught or caused to be taught. There is no serious allega- tion that the regents and Gov. La Follette want Dr. Frank out so that something they believe in shall be taught or emphasized. In the con- troversy so far, the charges made by the regents merely say, broadly, that Dr. Frank is not a good president, that he “lacks primary qualities essen- tial in the administration of a univer- sity” and that he has “lost the con- fidence of those with whom he must deal.” To this Dr. Frank replies that during his administration the Wiscon- sin graduate school “has risen from seventh to second in national rank,” and that the university has otherwise grown and improved. This answer Dr. Frank presumably will amplify on January 6. Presumably also the re- gents will amplify their charges. La Follette Men in Control. That there is some politics in the controversy most accounts state or imply. Of the 15 regents, 10 were ap« pointed by Gov. La Follette (who, with his brother, is head of the Pro- | gressive party). Of these 10, 8 are against Dr. Frank. These, it is charged, whether accurately or not, are acting in accord with Gov. La Follette's wishes. The five regents appointed by Governors other than La Foliette ail back Dr. Prank. Mark Sullivan. expressions of feeling about Dr. Frank's having made speeches at na- on other occasions. Though he went friends think that Gov. La Fnliette is jealous of him and of the power which goes with Dr. Frank's head- ship of the university. There are | suspicious, whether justified or not, | acquire a closer eontrol of the uni- versity, 80 as to get the advantage of its influence, and of its alumni's in- fluence, in State politics—or at ieast | prevent this influence from being ad- | verse. Profound Issue at Stake. This Wisconsin incident is one ex- | pression of a Nation-wide condition. The ferment at work throughout the BY the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., December 26 —Un- daunted by the “deportation” of him- self and family from South Dakota, Lyman Lee is fighting his way back to independence. | Lee and his wife and four children were evicted from their farm home in | Charles Mix County, 5. Dak., last Fall on the grounds they might Qe- | come public charges. They were | brought here because Omaha was Lee's | legal residence. | At the Douglas County Shelter, | turn, Lee has fitted up a crude labora- Throughout the controversy run | tional gatherings of the Republican | party, and anti-New Deal speeches to the university 11 years ago as & | liberal, she has recently opposed much | of the New Deal. Some of Dr. Frank's | | that Gov. La Pollette would like to| ent trend protect the United States! in the future from dictatorship, from | the rule of a demagogue.” “Governments of the people on all sides are being threatened by dictator- | | ships,” he asserted, “Demagogues | have always been the assassins of re- | publics. They do not hesitate to sac- | rifice their country for personal power | \and fame. The pages of history do not record the survival of any im- portant republic once it had known a dictatorship.” Sees Democratic Guarantee. Tinkham declared that “there is' {mow no constitutionsl guarantee | against dictatorship in this country and the consequent complete destruc- tion of the republic.” He asserted his resolution, to be ubmitted in both House and Senate | | at the next session, “would give that ' guarantee.” | Tinkham, & member of the House | Executive Departments Committee, | aatd: In contradiction to the spirit of the Constitution, the presidency has | come to represent a party. The Presi- | dent is now a party man in office and | as much of his power is party pouer“ he does not represent the people as a | whole. i Justice “Frequently Tainted.” “Judges are appointed for partisan purposes and consequently justice is tainted at its source. | “Office holders are more loyal to | | the President who appoints them than | to the public who pays them.” | Four other objectives of the reso- | lution were described by Tinkham as: | 1. “A President who is & candidate ! to succeed himseif abuses his opponent, | who in turn abuses him, thereby de- | grading the office amd the Govern- ment and bringing both into contempt. 3. “A single term of six years would | elevate the administration of the presi- dency by eliminating its competitive character after election and would | 8 “Under the present system a | Mrs. Jeanne E. Kerbs recently were | | stripped of some 865,000 worth of | with perfect public Government service by | tem. If the presidential term were | eliminating use of this service for | extended to six years the uncertainty | Guatemala’s shipments of bananas political and personal ends | President ‘continually thinks of re- After a struggle they arrested Ber- | tory for the production of a cleaning nard Sheer, 21, and Joseph Browski, | preparation from a secret formula. By 18. They said they found a fully | saving a few nickles and dimes each loaded pistol in Sheer's pocket and a | week from the $4 the court allows the heavy acrew driver, with the blade | family for relief, he has managed to taped 8o it fould be used as a bludgeon, | buy a small supply of the necessary in Browski's pocket raw materials and glass containers The detectives said the two youths | anq labels, connfessed they had planned to hold up | the carload of celebrators in much the #ame fashion as gypsy Rose Lee and gems in hold-ups less than s week apart. A zimilar effort to steal- the Jjewelry of Mra. Emile E. C. Mathis was frustrated by Mr. Math ticed the ancient art of kicking to you—to rout the bandits, AIRLINE RECORD SET Head of American Reports Big Gain in Passengers. CHICAGO, December 26 (#)—C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines, reported yesterday the company had carried more passengers and express and flown more miles in 1038 than any vear in its history. Smith said revenue passengems for 1938 would approximate 254,800, ex- press would be about 1,676,000 pounds, and total mileage flown would reach 14.820,000. Those figures compared, he said, 176,005 passengers, 599,642 pounds of express and 11,504,407 miles flown in 1935, election and builds a political machine to bring about the desired results. * ¢ ¢ A President ig continually sub- ject to the Influence of groups with selfish interests, and, if for political reasons, he heeds these groups public interest necessarily suffers, 4. “Appointments made by a Presi- dent who could not succeed himself would be less likely to be political in character than under the present sys- modeling some cla; 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. caused hy elections would occur less frequently and * * * the expense of them would be reduced.” fmde 6-A at the Seaton School. l er of A!r. and Mrs. L. R. Munari, Seaton Schi Functions. whole world has pulled to the surface and brought into debate aspects of every field of human affairs. Mat- ters which have almost been as much taken for granted as the rotation of the seasons are now subjected to dia- pute. Among them is the question who shail control and manage our educational institutions, who shall de- termine what is to be taught? It is a large question. Readers who wish to give thought to this question can make a begine ning by dividing its scope into two. First, schools which teach children under 16 or 17; second, coileges which teach adult young men and women, As to the first, there ought to be little argument. Schools for young children do not, or need not, teach subjects about which there is con- troversy. The primary subjects— arithmetic, reading, spelling, writing, elementary science and the like—con- sist almost wholly of bodies of uni- versally accepted facts. The subject about which there is most contro- versy, the so-called political and so- cial sciences, are hardly appropriate for immature pupiis. Where contro- | versy arises, parents should have the right to determine what their young children shall be taught. Parents can commonly express themselves through local school boards, made up of elected officials. Age Changes Problem. Colleges and universities are a dif- ferent matter. In them students are mature enough to think for them- selves and therefore mature enough to be taught all subjects, including the most controversial. As to what is most controversial. As to what is taught and what view expressed the faculty members are scholars, devoted to dis- interested search for absolute truth; it is indefensible that they should be interfered with by persons or groups less informed or having bias, whether these be politicians controlling State universities >r boards of trustees con- trolling private ones, To this immunity college teachers are clearly entitled so far as they remain within their func- tion- of teaching and within the sub- Jects in which they are specialists. If they go outside their fields other con- siderations arise. For if we grant to faculties com- plete academic freedom, these in turn should practice self-imposed restraint. An individual John Jones is free to say what he pleases on any subject he chooses, in any forum he likes. What he says will have the weight and the audience that John Jones has, and 10 more. He can “shoot off his mouth” from any soap box. Airing Forecast. But when John Jones is permitted to | add at the end of his name, for ex- ample, “professor at Harvard Univer- 8ity,” he gets & hearing which comes to him only by virtue of his association with a great institution. What the term “Harvard University” stands for, what it symbolizes to the public, is a coral growth, a body of thought and authority which has accrued through three centuries from the contributions of thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of students. When any one | professor takes advantage of this back- ground to give momentum to narrowly | individual views, not generally shared by his associates, he may be practic- ing a kind of larceny of approval in | the name of “academic freedom.” | This and other phases of education and its control will be aired at the coming Wisconsin hearings. The whole subject is very much to the front | everywhere. | (Copyright, 1936, Deported as Relief Problem, Family Begins to Make Good Proudly, Lee tells of his venture. “Everything is paid for, and the business is growing. It looks like we s00n will be able to move into a home of our own choosing and give some other family an opportunity to re- ceive the relief benefits now being given us.” South Dakota authorities invoked a State law to oust the Lees. The family had received some relief there, but Lee claimed at the time of the eviction he was able to support him- self and family without aid. The Chdrles Mix County sheriff loaded the Lees and their belongings into & truck last Summer, brought them to Omaha and served notice of the eviction on officials here. He explained under the State’s law, families liable to become public charges and not legally residents could be returned to the State from which they came. Young Washington He may be a famous schulptor some day, Here he is x lto form the sghinx. This is 'Robert Pierce, Pierce, 209 H street, a pupil in Monday: Julia lMunarl, daugh= ool. —Star Stafl Photo. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, Yuss. We, the People Lewis Still ‘Gunning for the Organization of Steel, Despite Apparent Lull. BY JAY FRANKLIN. HE silence which brooded over the controversy between the “ecraft” and “industrial unions” after the Tampa convention of the A. P. of L. did not mean that, in the meantime, John L. Lewis had been idle or that his Committee on Industrial Organisation had been condemned to organic monogamy. The recent C. I. O. strike in the plate glass industry reveals, like a flash of lightning, the underlying strategy of the Lewis group of the befuddle- ment of Green's Federation of Labor. ‘There has long been a small eraft union in the plate glass industry, but it never got far. Then, when the C. 1. O. started operations, the employers let it be known that they would welcome unionisation of the industry by the A. F. of L. Even then Green was too busy fighting Lewis in terms of federa- tion politics to move in on the plate glass industry at Toledo and Pittsburgh. Then the Toledo employers decided that a Christmas bonus was the thing to hold the boys in line for the dear old glass furnaces. The bonus, far from calming the workers, aimply looked like an unsubstantial tip instead of what they regarded as their rights. The C. I. O. called the strike. The workers let the furnaces go out and it will be several weeks befors the heat can be built up to the temperature for fusing glass. At the same time, the cat-and-mouse sit-down strike of the rubber workers 8t Akron is throwing tire production schedules into confusion, and there is lgo trouble in the automobile brake industry. | Already the Ford people are talking about the necessity for slowing down automobdile production and the C. I. O, {s talking about unionizing General Motors. This process seems exactly similar to the principle of “craft union” organization, but it is applied to essential parts of an industrial product instead of to essential forma of unskilled labor in an industrial process. Without regular deliveries of tires, brakes and safety glass, automobile production is thrown into confusion. ‘rnu leads to & slowing down of De- troit’s operations and leads, in turn, to a slackening of the demand for steel from Gary and Pittsburgh. In the old horse-and-buggy industries, a shortage of essential “parts” does exactly the same thing. In all this, Lewis is still gunning for the unionization of steel, Since steel is made with fuel coal from “captive mines,” this is an elemental form of self-protection for the United Mine Workers, who have fatled to unionize the “captive mines.” - The steel industry ts here—as elsewhere—the toughest gang of rugged individualists in the country. They proved stronger than the Unitel States Govern- ment in the N. R. A. drive of 1933 and have been getting ready to withstand a direct attack by Lewis for the last siz months. Lewis’ strategy is to tie up the biggest outlet the steel industry possesses ~—automobiles—by tying up the plants which manufacture the essential parts of modern automobiles. It is a bold and highly intelligent form of attack, which, if successful, promises unionization of the automobile and the steel industries at & compara- tively small cost. It hurts the “economic royalists” in their pocket- books without giving them the op- portunity for violent self-defense or retaliation of & major strike. Some- body with a good sense of industrial ecenomics must be advising John L. Lewis. . In all this campaign, William Green and the A, F. of L. seem to be reduced to the role of none too innocent bystanders. Aside from an empty threat to boycott clothing made by Sidney Hillman's garment workers, the federation has made no move since it éxpelled the C. I. O. without giving them a chance to vote. The golden opportunity to have skilled 1abor make common cause with the employers is being lost and by the time the employers discover that organized labor is determined that human effort shall not be treated like & raw material, it may be too late for the Republican pian to tie skilled 1abor to the employers—as was done 20 years ago with the Railway Brotherhoods —to succeed against the bold ¢ampaign for a few big unions which is now being waged by John L. Lewis and the New Deal administration at ‘Washington., NEUTRALITY LAWS BEING OUTLINED {Administration Experts Fa- vor Giving President Broad Discretion. | By the Associated Press. Legislation to give President Roose- velt a free hand in guiding the United States through quiet neutrality chan- nels during future international crises is developing as & major issue for ‘consideration by the new Congress. Several proposed laws may be in- | troduced, but administration experts | expressly favor delegation to the Pres- ident, of broad discretion in neutrality matters. They were encouraged recently by the enforcement of Western Hemi- | sphere peace fences at the Buenos Airese conference and by & Supreme Court decision upholding congres- sional assignment of power to the President to act in foreign affairs. (The ruling upheld an arms embargo applied during the Chaco war.) The present neutrality law, en- acted last session, expires next May 1. Lacking discretionary alternatives, this act compels the President to invoke munitions and financial embargoes against belligerents immediately upon the outbreak of hostilities. Embargoe Sentiment Grows. There is a growing sentiment in ad- ministration and some oongressional quarters that the proposed new law should give the President suthority to embargo “war materials” as well a8 munitions and money. While neutrality advocates push plans to keep the country out of war, exponents of preparedness expect to ask Army and Navy appropristions at least as great as the $1,200,000,000 voted for the services by the last Congress. The high commands of both branches hope to expand personnel and add more guns and equipment. The Navy Department s working toward a fleet of full treaty strength by 1942 Two new battleships are to be start- ed in 1937 if the President approves. Other Navy objectives are & greater combat strength in the air and im- provement of the inferior auxiliary fleet. Expiration of the London and Wash- ington naval treaties January 1 could bring alteration in these plans, es- pecially if talk of an internationai naval race after that time should go beyond mere speculation. ‘The Army, seeking greater mobility, is expected to recommend increased purchases of airplanes and mech- anized equipment and enlargement of the National Gudrd and enlisted Re- serve, The Army may ask more than the $572,000,000 last sppropriated to it, while experts estimate that Navy plans (Copyright, 1936,) interested in the question of applying neutrality safeguards to civil wars, as well as international confliets, to which the present law is limited. Among others, Senator Nye, Re- publican, of North Dakots, has ad- vanced a “cash-and-carry” plan for regulating war materials shipments. He would require countries at war to haul ali-purchases from America in their own vessels. The Supreme Court decision from which advocates of discretionary pres- idential authority drew hope involved the President’s application of em- bargoes to the Chaco conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay. The oourt held that the law was constitutional in its delegation to the President of “broad discretion” for determining whether application of neutrality bans would be & step toward re-establishment of peace. |CHAMP CHAIR ROCKER UP TO 101,000,000 MARK New York Doctor Celebrates Holi- day With Recording Machine Touching Extraordinary Figure. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, December 26.—Dr. Alexander Meyer, confessed chair- rocking champion of the United States, celebrated Christmas yesterday by ex- ecuting what, he said, was his one- hundred-and-one-millionth rock. He did it in what he terms the Meyer rockometer swayscope, & traves- ty on a rocking chair, the bottom of which rests firmly on the floor while the top part swings and which records each swing the sitter makes. Dr. Meyer won the American rock- ing title at Madison Square Garden in 1929, when for 108 consecutive hours he rocked back and forth, back and @he Foening Hlar | Headline Folk and What They Do London Society Chilly Toward Gay U. S. Divorcees. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON, N LONDON'S West BEnd the l Iatchstring is no lenger out for playful Americans. The London News Review announces that, with the accession of George VI there will be a new austerity and a new decorum not only in Bucking- ham Palace but in the higher social circles generally. “Young couples with a habit of switching husbands will cease to be received,” says the magasine. That,* of course, doesn't apply to Lady Furness, as she has done noth- ing of the sort, but it happens that which for the last 8 or 10 years, has been showing old Brittania how to have a good time. The beau- tiful brunette American, blaz- ing in London society a few years ago, was the dinner and dancing ¢ o m- panion of Wales Taty N At "BISEYIES, Deauville and the Riviera. She was the pied piper of the American social invasion which engulfed the young king-to-be and finally lured him from his throne. They contributed an en- livening dash and eolor to Britain's Mayfair—but no more of such dalli- ance, say the soclal wardens of the crown, The viscountess was one of three beautiful Morgan sisters, daughters of Harry Hayes Morgan, consul general in Buenos Aires. Her twin aister is Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, and she testified in Mrs. Vanderbilt's behalf in the famous child custody case. The . | third sister married Benjamin Thaw, ir., of Pittsburgh. Thelma Furness was once reported engaged to Richard Bennett, the ace tor, but, in 1923, she was married to Lord Furness, the British shipping magnate. They were divorced In 1933, when she obtained custody of her son, now 6 years old. She and Wales and Mrs. Wallis Simpson formed s happy and intimate trio. Algernon Swinburne heiped W. Starling Burgess streamline his youth- ful poetry. So, win or lose, England will have & hand in the design of his new candidate to defend the America's Cup. Prom the study of rhythm, line and meter in England to designing America’s Rainbow and Enterprise was an easy transition, in the linking of art and utility which is the mainspring of Mr. Burgess' genius and artifice. He entered Harvard in 1897 and left to serve as a gunner's mate in the Spahish-American War. In the after- glow of the great salons of Ruskin's day he studied and wrote poetry in England, & lean, aloof, somber young Eugene O'Neill. He was flat on his back with & se- rious iliness in England when the Wright brothers made their first fal- tering airplane crow-hop. Lying pros- trate, he designed an airplane whic! he believed ought to fly because good art. He ¢ame home and and it was the first airplane to the ground in New England. He now teaches stress and strain at Boston Tech. (Copyright, 19¥6,) ' BRIDE ENDS LIFE 20-Year-Old Wife Drinks Poison After Argument. EVANSVILLE, Ind, December 26 (#).—Leaving s note to her husband Elma to “bury your picture with me,” Mrs. Lois Bolin, 20, bride of & few weeks, ended her life yesterday by drinking poison. Her husband told Coroner Charles J. Fols that they had had “a little argument.” Coroner Fols said the woman had committed suicide because of domestic trouble. Coronation Stamp Debated. The British post office is considering & proposal to issue a special coronation stamp. ADVERTISENENTS B Manor Park Pharmacy, 6224 3rd St. N.W. 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