Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1937, Page 9

THE E ASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1937. Change Gives Lame Ducks Power Outgoing Congress Might Be Called to Choose President. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. AIN-SOAKED Washington has talked of little else this week than the risks the President and the whole official group took in the bad weather of Inaugura- tion day. Fortunately, Roosevelt came through the or- deal without any illness. His rid- ing down the Avenue in & closed car toward the Capitol was at the request of . Vice President Garner, who beg- ged him to do so, but Mr. Gar- ner was prob- ably surprised to find that Mr. Roosevelt ~ went David Lawrenee, z‘:fck w 'B’:: :;:n car in disregard of all admonition. The President's physical fortitude has perhaps not been as widely known as it is today because of his exhibition of hardihood, but most of his friends and admirers would have preferred an indoor inauguration rather than to have him or the crowd incur the risks of the day. Out of the discussion has come a suggestion that the National Cap:t_ll build & huge auditorium for public purposes. This may be done as a part of a large building program for the District of Columbia which Mr. Roose- velt has informally recommended. Other Embarrassments. The principal result of the Inaugura- tion day experience, however, concerns not so much the weather but the possible embarrassments that might arise hereafter because Election day and Inauguration day are too close together. A few days ago in these columns, I referred to a possible amendment to the Constitution on this point, but it appears that Representative Sum- mers, Democrat, of Texas, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, feels the change can be made by an act of Congress. Reference to the Constitution shows that Election day is governed by the following article: “The Congress may determine the time for choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes, which day shall be the same throughout the United States.” Could Set October Date. Congress then could fix the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Oc- tober just as well as the present No- vember day, and it could also fix the day for the meeting of the electors themselves for December, as at present. William Tyler Page. former clerk | of the House of Representatives, | writes me that a constitutional amend- | ment would not be necessary in order | to have a special session of Congress convened in the cvent that a deadlock occurred in the electoral college, some- thing that has not been taken care of by the Norris amendment in the sense that Congress now is scheduled to meet on January 3 and the in- | auguration date is only 17 days later. Mr. Page states his belief that in the event of an election thrown into the House of Representatives, the out- going Congress could choose a Presi- dent by the simple process of fixing by law a meeting of the House for that special purpose in the event of a deadlock. Amendment Need Seen. In view of public sentiment, how- ever, against lame-duck Representa- tives voting after they have been de- feated at the polls, it would require another constitutional amendment to convene Congress before January 3. In other words, if no candidate for President received a majority of the | votes of the electoral college, assum- | ing that the national elections were | held in October, it would be necessary to convene Congress to begin a solu- tion of the difficulty as now author- {zed by the Constitution. But if it is to be the same Congress which was elected on the proposed new election day, namely, in October, the Constitution would have to be changed to provide for it. The impor- | tant point is that Congress might ar- range by constitutional amendment for a special session only in the event of a dispute in the electoral college vote wherein no candidate receives a majority. In the event that the various States do mnot like to shift their election days for State officers so as to hold them on the same day provided for Mr. the presidential election by act of | Congress, some States might have two election days, thus emulating the con- spicuous example of Maine, which holds her congressional as well as Btate elections in September. Presidency Continuous. Incidentally, there has been murn conversation about the fact that the | United States was without a Presi- dent for 20 minutes o more because the Constitution now provides through the Norris amendment that the oath must be taken at “noon” and Mr. Roosevelt and his party were delayed about 20 minutes in getting to the oath-taking ceremony. Actually, however, who is to say America was really without a Presi- dent for nobody has defined *“noon” in this particular constitutional sense. Somewhere between 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock would seem to be *“noon” from a national viewpoint because whether by standard time or sun time it is not high noon throughout the United States at 12 o'clock Wash- ington time. ‘The probabilities are that the sub- Ject of an earlier election day will be covered in legislation at this session of Congress. (Copyright, 1937.) *WAYS OF GOD” TOPIC Morning Sermon at Sixth | famous circus clown; Harry F. Welch, Presbyterian Church. “The Ways of God" will be the #ubject of the sermon at the morning worship at 11 am. in the Sixth Pres- byterian Church. Dr. George H. ‘Trull, secretary of the department for specific work of the Board of For- eign Missions of the Presbyterian church in the United States, will speak at 7:45 p.m. Dr. Trull will have an interesting message based upon his tour of Pres- byterian missions in the Orient. He is especially well qualified to speak on the religious, political and sesial developments in Oriental countritS, Saturday Night Party In- News Behind the News Subotdinates’ Struggle for Power Inside New Deal Illustrated by Rumor. BY PAUL MALLON. : V. A. Chairman Arthur Morgan read in his breakfast paper the other day that he was resigning. Newsmen caught him later and discovered he had never thought of it. Said Dr. Morgan: “I ® know the source of the rumor.” U So did the newsmen. They said nothing in print. The rule of their profession requires them not to divulge sources of information. But some are beginning to weavy of protecting sources using them for inaccurate propaganda purposes. One or two A are getting around to the point where they might be willing to swear, if necessary, that the Morgan resignation rumor came from one or Morgan's subordinates in T. V. A. who may have been desirous of getting him out. ‘That has been done before in other departments. In fact, rumor planting has been something of an avocation of a few (not many) officials holding responsible positions in the new order. It is generally the result of bitter inside struggling to pull President Roosevelt this way or that on certain policies. This time it was power. The President knows what is going on. In this case, as usual, the rumor planter appears to have injured his hand seriously by overplaying it. Mr. Roosevelt gave his new Power Policy Committee only two werks to recommend a Government power policy. The reason was the President knew just about what he wanted, and so did his new committeemen. He neglected to mention it, but he already had a Power Policy Com- mittee when he named this new one. He appointed it a year ago. On it were nearly all the men named on this one, with a remarkable exception. T. V. A. Commissioner David Lilienthal was omitted. This furnished tip enough to those on the inside thet the cur- rent headlines, predicting Lilienthal will win his policy struggle with Dr. Morgan, may not pan out. A better guess would be that Mr. Roosevelt is trying to work out a broader, practical policy for each area in which the Government will sell power, probably along the lines of the policy outlined in the Bonneville bill passed last session in Congress. He will go far beyond the Lilienthal- Morgan scrap about T. V. A. pooling and establish something he hopes will stand up in court. ‘The appointment of Brain Truster Ben Cohen as legal counsel of the new committee indicated that. d * ok * % “Only Good Indian Is Dead One.” ‘What is behind the whole scrap is simply this: Lilienthal wants to use an administrative machine gun on private power interests. So does Senator Norris. They do not trust any power company anywhere. To them, there are no good ones. They want the Government to build trans- mission lines and put the private companies out of business. Dr. Morgan is not opposed to the machine gun, but would try a blackjack first. He suggests the Government make an agreement with the private companies to split the power distribution business and kill them off later, if necessary. While these principals are getting the headlines, the McNinch- Manley school of new orderers seem to be quietly running the show. They do not like machine guns or blackjacks. Chloroform is their prescription. They would make their policy painless—and legal. They would break up the T. V. A. administrative dynasty and put the power problems under themselves as chairman and No. 2 man on the Federal Power Commission. They seem likely to win. But, no matter who wins, there will never be a better example of the subordinate policy-workings within the new order. The only watchword is: “Every man for himself.” However, in the end, well-framed policies usually develop from scraps like this. * k ko “The Army and Navy Forever.” Chief of Staff Malin Craig. tough old-time Army man, led the in- augural parade as grand marshal. He rode his horse through the beating rain without umbrella or tarpaulin for himself or steed. At the end he came up to sit behind the President, his boots sloshing with rainwater. After it was all over, he went home, put his feet | in hot water, picked up the paper and read: “Gen. Craig dismounted early in the parade and finished in a closed car.” The detonation was heard as far as New York. * k¥ X It's All in the Point of View. Gov. Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico reported to the State Depart- ment that the Spanish civil war has done at least one good thing. It con- vinced many a Puerto Rican nationalist who visited Spain that the Ameri- can flag is something to have flying over him. One such former zealot for independence said he would have been satisfled in Spain to have had an American flag the size of a postage stamp. (Copyright, 1937.) spelling bee, will go to Philadiphia a few days before the broadcast to select spellers who will participate in com- petition on the air. School children who would like to try out for the program have been asked to make ap- plication to Dr. Hagen, in care of WIP. After the Philadelphia broadcast, Dr. Hagen will visit other inter-city stations in order of population of the city in which they are located. A tentative schedule follows: January 30—Station WCMB, Baltimore: Feb- ruary 6—Station WMEX, Boston; February 13—Station WOL, Washing- cludes Lederer and Pinza. NTERNATIONAL night on the Saturday Night Party program brings three stars to radio who are rarely heard on the air— Francis Lederer, Gertrude Lawrence | and Ezio Pinza. Lederer will be guest master of ceremonies of the At Takoma Lutheran Church, Rev. Party broadcast over WRC at 8 o'clock | J. Adrian Pfeiffer, pastor of the con- and besides Miss Lawrence and Pinza, | gregation, will deliver the sermon he presents Yasha Bunchuk as guest tomorrow morning. conductor, Donald Dickson, the Party’s | own baritone star; Lucia Graeser, 50- | and dinner will be held Monday at prano; Tom Howard and George 6:30 o'clock. There will be an election Shelton, comedians, and the New of officers. Yorkers chorus. nominated: Norman Gullickson, Rich- Seldom does radio gather together |ard Harries, Ralph Mahr and Ray stars from so many countries in one | Thompson. program. Lederer is from Czecho-| slovakia, Miss Lawrence from Eng-| S0 land, Pinza from Italy, Bunchuk is & | Lecture Series Is Set native of Russia. The rest are Ameri- | WDEL, Wilmington, Del. |CHURCH TO HOLD ton, D. C, and February 20—Station | ANNUAL DINNER | The annual congregational meeting | The following have been | cans except Lyn Murray, conductor of the New Yorkers chorus, who is an Englishman. The New Yorkers them- selves are from the Middle West. Miss Lawrence is currently starred on Broadway with Noel Coward in| “Tonight at 8:30” and has long been England’s leading musical comedy | star. This is only the second time she has ever been heard on the air| in this country. Ezio Pinza is the Metropolitan's leading bass and a great favorite with ‘\concert, audiences everywhere. THE mental cartwheels of the great Rube Goldberg versus the equally | goofy genius of Joe Cook gives promise | of anything but a normal Chateau | program over WRC from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. | Cartoonist Goldberg, who somehow | seems able to think up things where | the energy generated by the swish of a tail of a fish is, with infinite skill, transformed into a gadget which starts | one's automobile, will bank his “in- ventions” against the musical comedy | and stage inventions” of the waggish | Joe Cook. The meeting, optimistically, is ex- pected to settle the dubious point of which has the honor of creating the most impossible doohickys. For the rest of the hour, Cook has arranged another series of guest stars, this time based heavily on the circus. Dexter Fellows, the nationally known | circus press agent, leads the way. He | will be accompanieg by Toto, the the famous “one-man opera”; the original Memphis Five, whose musical gymnastics gave the nation its first American jazz band, and the 12-year- old singer, Giovanni Benedetto. Ernie Watson's orchestra and an- other story of life in Evansville, Ind., by Cook, will complete the program. THE National Spelling Bee .begins a tour of inter-city network cities tonight. The first of a series of broadcasts originating outside of New York will come from Station WIP in Philadelphia at 7 p.m, over WOL locally. Dr, Harry Hagen, who ¢ the For Sunday Afternoons A special prophetic lecture will be given every Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Dale Crowley, back-to-the- Bible crusader, at 311 East Capitol | street. His topic for tomorrow after- | noon will be “Have We Witnessed the Inauguration of América’s Last Demo- cratic President?” “Knowing God Personally” will be Mr. Crowley's subject for the 11 o'clock hour, and at 8 p.m. he will speak on “Will an Earthquake Hit ‘Washington in 19372” Air Headliners Domestic. 1:45 p.m.—WMAL, “The Tales of Hoffman,” by Metro- politan Opera Co. 3:30 p.m.—WRC, Week End Re- vue. 5:30 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star Flashes. Evening Programs. 7:30 pm.—WRC, Question Bee. 8:00 p.m.—WRC, Saturday Night Party, WMAL, Wynn. 9:00 p.m.—WRC, Snow Village Sketches; WMAL, Na- tional Barn Dance; ‘WJSV, Speed Show. 9:30 p.m.—WRC, The Chateau. 10:00 pm.—WJSV, Your Hit Parade. - 0 p.m.—WRC, Irvin S. Cobb. Short-Wave Programs. 5:30 p.m.—GENEVA, League of Nations News; HBL, 312 m. 9:65 meg. 6:30 p.m.—LONDON, A Program About Clocks; GSD, 25.5 m., 11.72 meg. 8:30 pm.—CARACAS, Cuban Orchestra; YV2RC, 51.7 m, 58 meg. 9:00 p.m.—LONDON, “The Shep- herd's Feast”; GSD, 25.5 m., 11.7§ meg. 'HE opinions of the writers o necessarily The Star’s. n this page are their own, not Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Roosevelt A sked to Pay Lewis’ Reminder of Debt for Election Aid May Prove Bad Tactics. BY MARK SULLIVAN, T .5 PM. Thursday Chairman John L. Lewis of C. I. O, con- ducting the strike against Gen- A eral Motors, held a press con- ference. Lewis, at all times belligerent, was on this occasion particularly belii- cose. Some of Lewis’ manner and some of what he said was Wwhat any temperamental leader might have said in the midst of a fight. Some of it might be explained as intended to bol- % ster the morale of the strikers. Some might be accounted for as being designed to offset rewspaper & stories that Lewis and his C. I. O. ‘were weakening— there had been stories that the strike had been started by over-eager lieu- tenants earlier than Lewis had in- tended, and that Lewis was embar- rassed a.d disposed to pull in his horns a little. As to all this, Lewis said: “This strike is going to be fought to a suc- cessful conclusion. General Motors might as well settle now as farther up the street * * * After General Motors has signed a contract, we'll ex- pect Mr. Ford &nd Mr. Chrysler to do a little collective bargaining.” Lewis spoke also of his intention to organize the steel industry. But the thing that stood out con- spicuously,- the thing which created the impression that Lewis had called the press conference for a specific pur- pose, were his allusions to President Roosevelt. This impression was in- creased by the fact that at the same moment Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of | Labor, Miss Perkins, was holding a series of practically continuous con-; ferences with strike leaders and Gen- eral Motors officials to settle the strike. Asks Roosevelt to Pay. Among other things, Lewis said: “We have advised the administra- | tion through the Secretary of Labor and the Governor of Michigan that for six months the economic royalists represented by General Motors, the | Du Ponts, Sloan and others contrib- | uted their money and used their energy to drive the President of the United States out of Washington, and this administration out of power. 'rhewK administration asked labor to help | it repel this attack, and labor helped the President to repel the economic | royalists. The same economic royal- | ists now have their fangs in labor, and labor expects the administration to support the auto workers in every legal way in their fight. * ¢ ¢ This| is no time for neutrality, no time for pussyfooting.” When asked by a reporter if his| statement meant the administration | had been “pussyfooting,” Lewis re-| plied: “It means what it says.” When another reporter asked Lewis if he had requested the President to inter- vene, he replied, with a manner of sarcasm: “That is for the President | | to determine; we have made no| | request. Labor intervened when the | President was in jeopardy.” Roosevelt Speaks. All that was at 5 o'clock Thursday | afternoon. It was published in the newspapers of Friday morning. At 10:30 Friday forenoon, President Roosevelt held one of his regular semi- weekly press conferences. Some one asked him if he had anything to say about the automobile strike. Mr. Roosevelt replied, with a manner of carefully choosing his words: “In the interest of peace there come moments when statements, conversations and headlines are not in order.” Mr. Rcosevelt was asked if this could be quoted. He said it could. questions, designed to bring out am- | plification of the President’s state- | Mark Sullivan, PM. 12‘.00‘ngel‘s Rhumba Orch. 12:15 b b Genia |Rex Battle’s Ensemble | Farm and Home Hour ment, were parried or refused answers. ‘The assumption is universal that . Roosevelt was thus replying through the newspapers to what Lewis had said through the news- papers. The incident, among many reasons for being interesting, illus- trates increasingly frequent use of newspaper conferences as part of the modern technique of politics and statesmanship. ‘The background of the episode goes back to early in the Roosevelt admin- istration. Lewis, as head of the United Mine Workers, felt that he and his organization were greatly benefited by some of the President's legislation and actions. Mine work- ers’ wages were raised and they were more thoroughly organized. The or- ganization retently purchased a large building in Washington for its head- quarters. Lewis Group Contributes. As Mr. Roosevelt's campaign for re- election approached, Lewis became s strong supporter. In the interest of Mr. Roosevelt's re-election, Lewis’ United Mine Workers spent a total of $469,668.01—the largest contribu- tion the New Deal received and probably the largest in history. They contributed $206,250 to the Demo- cratic National Committee, $160,878 to Labor's Non-Partisan League, which also was backing Mr. Roosevelt; $35000 to the Progressive National Committee, which was organized for the same purpose under Senator La Follette, and $40,000 to the Penn- sylvania Democratic State Committee. Among other miners’ union contri- butions were $7,500 to the Luzerne County (Pa.) branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League, $6,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $3,500 spent in Carbon, Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties, Pa. Lewis' public recalling of his sup- port of the President was undoubtedly meant to put Mr. Roosevelt “on the spot,” to “turn the heat on” him. It| must have been meant to embarrass the President, not only as a remincer of the obligation Lewis thinks the President owes him. The incident is | embarrassing to the President in an- | other respect. For when Lewis said | “labor expects,” he was covering more territory than the facts warrant. The | truth is a large part of organized labor | hates Lewis, and wants him and his | strike defeated. Tactics Dubious. About the time last Summer when Lewis was expanding his power in politics, he emparked on an am- bitious revolution in the fleld of or- ganized labor. Rebelling against the old American Federation of Labor, he started a Committee on Industrial Organization, designed to organize labor on new lines and in a much more whoiesale way. The old federa- ' tion expelled Lewis’ unions. Since last Summer there has been bitter warfare between Lewis and the old federation. During the present strike, the federation has instructed its members in the automobile industry not to join Lewis’ strike but to keep at work. Undoubtedly Lewis, in his action this week, has “stuck out hi¢ neck” pretty far. If Mr. Roosevelt felt that Lewis trying to “push him around,” he was justified in so feeling. ‘That is hardly the way to make prog- ress with a person of Mr. velt's temperament. At the same time, Lewis, from the point of view of his own ambition and purpose, can see what he needs. If he could get Mr. Roosevelt's support, he could win the strike. From winning this strike and from open support by the President, he could hope to go on to his ambition of destroying the old A. F. of L. and himself organizing all labor into a body which would be ex- Other | tremely formidable both in industry | and politics. (Copyright, 1937.) Salon Music News—Music Dance Music Howard Lanin's Or Fonariova 00 | Whitney Ensemble 1:15 | & = 1:30 Carnegie Tech Orch. 1:45 | " i | Farm and Home Hour Our Barn | Metropolitan Opera |ALLIANCE TO HEAR |DR. A. F. WEAVE We, the PeoPle : Roosevelt Inaugural Plea Against Poverty Like That of Hoover 8 Years Ago—Rain and All. : BY JAY FRANKLIN. Under a cold rain, strangely like the torrents which fell when Herbert Hoover took the oath of office eight years ago, President Roosevelt opened his second term with sn address which also reminded his hearers of the words about “the abolition of poverty” and “two chickens in every pot,” ut- tered by “Herbert the Unhappy” on the eve of the collapse of 1923. ‘The words were similar because prosperity is still our national goal, material plenty still the American dream, the promised land for which we are striving still the “happy valley” of snug and good-hearted contentment. ‘With a constantly increasing supply of milk and honey. Our morality is still the morality of childhood’s sound digestion. No high dream of ardor, of spiritual experience, of intellectual achievement has yet become good politics in these United States. ‘We are still waiting for a Savonarola to purge us of our vanities; a Peter the Hermit to preach us a crusade; a John Brown of Ossawatomie to lead us a forlorn hope. We get, instead, couched in beautifully clear English, an admirable essay on the familiar American theme that good men—men of good will— shall receive their need of property, income and standards of living. The words were like the words of Hoover, but the music was Roosevelt’s. This is important, Speeches, unlike children, should be heard and not seen, and this column is written in complete innocence of the actual text of Mr. Roosevelt's remarks. The tone of his song was far livelier than the libretto. Good Feeling Still Lacking. His reminder that our people’s Government is determined to master blind economic forces and blindly selfish men, and the overtones of his remarks upon the powers of self-governing society, swelled significantly when he pointed out that we had not yet reached the era of good feeling which has been the comfort of &he Tories since the votes were counted last November. : His hint that men of hard hearts would be sternly dealt with; his conclusion that we were still far from having reached our happy valley; his strong picture of the defects of our economic society and the sufferings of the underprivileged marked the spot where another great conservative myth lies buried. This myth was, of course, the notion that the last election was simply a great personal tribute to a popular and gallant President and that now we could all settle back to “prosperity” and abandon reform as untimely, uncomfortable and unnecessary. 5 As a matter of fact, the myth had crumbled in the week before in- augural when peace negotiations collapsed in the automobile strike and when hostilities were renewed over the T. V. A. ‘The tone of the editorials in many conservative papers, which had been balmy for a sort of political Indian Summer, suddenly shifted to a :eun and almost threatening temperature in the closing days of his first rm, For the New Deal's cause is far from won and the address showed that the President was not deceived by the fever-flush of stock market activity, year-end dividends and bonuses, etc., but regards them as possible portents of disaster. He still maintains that prosperity is empty if it is not gemeral, that—to use the churchly phrase so dear to him—we are all members one of another, and that bad morals are bad business. Forward Movement. ‘The quietism of his address bade us regard the green pastures of the happy valley as a sort of national cemetery. Instead of stirring us to high endeavor and magnificent achievement, he proposes to move forward, and not to rest on his laurels or to take the bows. ‘This seems the only possible meaning of his speech. He was not specific—music never is—and while his tone was conciliatory, he showed that he intended to keep our Government flexible and responsive to the needs and demands of the people. The problems before us are still pretty much what they were in 1933. Our mood only has changed. President Roosevelt has altered “the moral climate” of America. This is his real, his great achievement in four long years. We have as yet found no sclutions, but he is making it possible for us to find them. Those who follow him may well discover that the road to the happy valley stretches to infinity. ‘They mey also learn that happiness. contentment and prosperity are not goals in themselves, that an era of good feeling and one of good feed- ing don’t mean the same thing, and that national felicity will come only as the by-product of striving after sometning more than the regular filling of our stomachs or our pocket books. (Copyright, 1937. . TO SPEAK HERE ‘The guest preacher at Albright Me- SERMONS BY HYDE 1 The Christian and Missionary Alli- | ance announced today that Rev. P. R | Hyde will speak tomorrow at 3 p.m. at 808 I street on “Sermons in Genesis.”” The topic at 7:30 p.m is “The Generations of Jesus Christ.” | At the young people’s hour, 6:45 {pm., Miss Ruth Horn will be the | leader and the address will be made | by Mrs. C. Snyder. Tuesday evening, B.ble study at 5804 Colorado avenue; | | Thursday, prayer meeting, 7:45 pm., | at 2028 North Capitol street. | FOURTH SERVICE | Church of Epiphany Pro-! gram Issued. All confirmed members of the church school will attend the fourth| | Sunday corporate communion service | | at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning at | the Church of the Epiphany. Rev. Dr. Z. B. Phillips will deliver | the sermon at the service of morning prayer at 11 o'clock. In the evening| at 8 o'clock there will be evensong | and a short address by Rev. Dr. Rober:] Patton, president of the Church In-| stitute for Negroes, and a quintet from | the American Church Institute for | Negroes will sing spirituals, J CarrranL’s Rapio PRoGRaMs THIS AFTERNOON’S PROGRAMS | Call to Youth N. Y. Philharmonic H. B. Derr ch. News Bulletins Newark Orchestra Gang Plank ‘Matty Levine's Orc! 2:00 | Your Host Is Buffalo 2:15 | % i 2:30 2:45 Campus Capers » Metropolitan Opera “ Howard Lanin's Orch. Wakeman's Sports Page Afternoon Rhythms Jack and Jill Community Education Dancepators Emerson Gill’s Orch. | International House | Madison Ensemble 30 | |Clyde Barrie Logan's Musicale l. |Week End Revue = Metropolitan Opera. = Hialeah Stakes Wakeman's Sports Page | Down by Herman's Commerce Department Week-end Revue Contemporary Singers Golden Melodies |Metropolitan Opera. N. B. C. String Quartet Hialeah Stakes Today's Winners |Captivators |Prof. Walter Spahr Liederkranz )| Sundown Revue The Kindergarten Sunday School Lesson [High Hatters Evening Star Flashes Southernaires THIS EVENING’S PROGRAMS The Pied Piper Cocktail Capers Eddie Duchin’s Orch. Evening Rhythms Eton Boys Lee Gordon's Orch. 58 | Dinner Dance Home Dinner Club ‘Tony Wakeman Dinner Concert | News—Editorial Symphony = |Alfred Gus Karger Al Roth’s Orch. Arch McDonald Col. Stengel Swing Session Song Stories Hampton Singers Question Bee - Sport Message of Israel Evening Album |Spelling Bee Parade Swing Session Glenn Carow ‘WJSV Varieties Saturday Night Party Ed Wynn o S Meredith Wilson’s Orch. Concert Hall Columbia Workshop Snow Village Sketches The Chateau 5858585885858 D oo S| ed i National Barn Dance Howard Orchestra Heidt's Orchestra “ w Speed Show |Saturday Serenaders ) | The Chateau Irvin 8. Cobb Heidt'’s Orchestra Art “ - Harold Stoke's Orch. Preddy Martin's Orch. Labor News Review ‘s Orch. Benny News Bulletins George Olsen Orch. Gus Arnheim'’s Orch. Ben Bernie's Orch. w:re Night “ Sign OF k! Night Watchman (1 hr) ‘Watchman ‘Ted PFiorito’s Orch. “ a Larry Lee’ | morial Evangelical Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock will be Dr. A. F. | ‘Weaver, District superintendent of the York district of the Central Pennsyi- vania Conference. The minister of Albright Church, | George E. Schnabei, will preach at | 7:45 o'clock. The sermon subject will | be “Deep Water.” After the evening service the older young prople’s group will meet for a fireside fellowship hour. All Christian Endeavor groups will meet at 6:45 o'clock. Monday night at 6:30 o'clock the annual congreza- tional dinner and meeting will be held. | There will be an election of trustees | and Sunday schoo! officers. The pro- gram for the Lenten season will be launched at this meeting. | Thursday night the prayer meeting will be held at the home of Mr and | Mrs. Dahlberg, 6000 Second street. MISSIONARY UNIT PLANS STUDY WORK ‘The Lutheran Missionary Union of | Washington will conduct a mission study class Monday, beginning at 4:45 p.m., in the Luther Place Church. The book “A Preface to Racial Understanding” will be reviewed by Miss Marie Staib of Baltimore. Sup- per will be served at 6:30 in the social room of the church. Men are invited to the supper and also the evening service, beginning at 7:45. | around co-educational bars. Headline Folk and What ' They Do Gen. Terauchi Is Sup- ported by Many Peas- ants in Japanese Cerisis. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. N WASHINGTON, last February, a high official of the Japanese gov- ernment told this writer that eco- nomic pressure would force the “socialization” of wealth in Japan be- fore another year, or two years at the most. He was asked whether this meant a Fascist government. ' He shrugged and added, “The army and the big industrialists can't get aleng together. ‘There will be a change.” The above ‘In- formant put Gen. Count Julehi Terauchi, who now brings about a dissolution of the Diet, in. a setting somewhat different from the usual back- ground of the emerging iron man. He .pas with him and b- ; hind him a Jarge section of- the peasant class—the latter, perhaps | clinging precariously to a bit of tax- ridden land, are still the conservators of feudal tradition. | Many of the military leaders eome from this class, and much of agrarian | Japan is behind the upthrust and out- reach of the headstrong military | group. They charge opposing induse trialists, such as the great Mitsui ¢lan with bringing Japan to the verge of ruin. From this viewpoint, it is me- dieval Japan which is now clashing with the Diet. This explanation in- terested this writer tremendously, as it definitely fulfills a prediction made by the late Thorsten Voblen in -two books, written in 1915 and 1916. | Hara-kirl has resulted from lesser hostilities than Thursday’s clash be- | tween Gen. Terauchi and Kunimstsu | Hamada, leader of the Seiyukai party. | The fiery little general, inept in argu- ment and in all parliamentary tactics, comes from an ancient line of ruling and fighting clans. His father was the late Premier Field Marshal Count | Masakata Terauchi, who was war min« | ister in the era of the Meiji. f | He was graduated from the Nationa! Military College in 1900 and advanced to chief of staff of the Cho-sen Army. | Within two months after his appoint- ment to his present post, he had | ordered a shake-up among 3,000 of the | higher officers, bringing to the top the | generally more obstreperous and hard- | boiled men, under his sole comman¢ |and no longer sharing responsibility with the chief of general staff and the { director of military education. His | “ginger group,” they call it, all dressed up with some place to go. In a money jam, Japan devalues the ven and lets it go at that. Apparently something more drastic is now in the Terauchl. The retail wine and liquor guil¢ never did like the “moral climate® Its de- corous and dignified publicity has dis countenanced raffish drinking in the past, and now its president, Col. Ralpk C. Tobin of New York, issues a ples for “sound ethical and economic® practice in the handling of liquor— selling it or drinking it. It organizes s civic committee to bring this about There is & shushed undertone of “Bishop Cannon’ll get you if you don" watch out.” The lean. pallid, aristocratic Col Tobin, an ascetic of impeccable speech dress and deportment, is even more dignified than his publicity. Hi career, all the intense fervor of hi life, has gone into the 7th Regiment of the National Guard. There, witk 1,000 men, he has fashioned his ows world of precision, decorum and, in- cidentally, exclusiveness. This is the regiment of the social registerites, o! whom Col. Tobin, a bachelor, is one No regiment anywhere could touck this one in perfection of drill and ir all that makes up the romantic side of war. Most of this glory is all Col Tobin's doing. Although the regiment is the col- onel’s primary, not secondary, life in. The Rev. William Schicbel will be terest. he gets only $1.000 a year | barely enough to keep his uniformu and gear shipshape. The colonel in. i spires disinterested devotion, sharply Hellenic Group to Meet. denouncing “bonus racketeers” an¢ The American-Hellenic Chapter of | getting into arguments—never intem- the Democratic League of the District | perate—with the American Legion. He of Columbia will attend the special ' is not wealthy, but so impassioned. it | services and doxology to be held at | Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, | Eighth and L streets, tomorrow morn- | ing at 11:45 o'clock. Prayers will be said for the success of the second ad- ministration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. his love of the regiment that his busi- ness career is just a sideline. He leff N. Y. U. to get into the big war, as s second lieutenant: was gassed and re. turned to pay in his life for the 100- year-old regiment. (Copyrisht. 1037.) You Can’t Afford NOT to Renovize The Eberly Way Has Your Home All the Comforts? One doesn't have to be old-fashioned these days of Eberly renovizing and remodeling. The old can easily be made new. It is not a task that entails up-setting the routine of family life, nor is it prohibitive in cost under the Eberly Plan. Prominent Executive writes: “The work you have done recently in my home is very satisfactory. Your workmen have been efficient and courteous, your supervisor very considerate and accommodating, and it is a pleasure for me to inclose my check covering in full your invoice received today.” Original on fils. Why not let an Eberly Plan supervisor consult with you, indicating what improvement can be made, how readily accomplished —and under the concentrated attention and service of the Eberly Plan how reasonable withal? A. Eberly’s Sons .Our 88th Year 1108 K N.W. DL 6557 One Standard—One Responsibility—-One Modest Profit