Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1937, Page 19

Washington News NEW DEAL HELPS KEEP DEMOCRACY SAFE, BEARD SAYS Historian Hits Dictatorial Governors in Cutting Me- morial Lecture. LA GUARDIA HITS COURT FOR ‘SENILE PHILOSOPHY’ Distinguished Audience Crowds Two Auditoriums for Program in Memory of Late Senator. Charles Beard, a leading American historian, last night told 2,000 promi- nent citizens of Washington that the New Deal permits democracy the| UNIFORM SALE AGT AND 7 OTHER D. C. BILLS PASS HOUSE Approved Measures Include Detective Classification and New Building. ANOTHER INCREASES FELONY PENALTIES | Regulation of Disposal of Goods Evokes Criticism of Dis- trict Committee. The signature of President Roose- velt on Senate bill No. 936 is all that is necessary now to give the District a long-sought uniform sales act, sim- change necessary to its survival. Beard, who insisted that the safety | of American democracy is dvpendvm‘ upon our avoidance of war, added a slap at modern dictatorial anti- Democratic Governors: | “Those that do not bend, adjust or adapt, surely perish. Even despotism is tempered by assassination.” | Beard urged a mandatory neutral- ity policy to prevent war. He spoke | with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of | New York City, who was introduced by | Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and | Senator Norris of Nebraska, in the first series of the Senator Bronson Cutting Memorial Lectures, devoted to | the general question of the future of democracy. Though not indicated by the pro- gram, the trend of some of the speeches, principally those by Mayor La Guardia and Edward F. McGrady, ilar to the one in force under the laws of 34 States. The bill, which passed the Senate | February 10 last, went through the | House yesterday without amendment, along with seven other District bills on its calendar. Incidentally, it was the only one of the eight measures to provoke any discussion, chiefly be- cruse members of the District Com= mitee familiar with its details were not available to give an explanation. Sale of goods in the District will be regulated under the bill beginning July 1 next. The District Commissioners rec- ommended the legislation, and it came to Congress with the.indorsement of the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions and numerous other organiza- tions, including the Federal Bar As- | sociation, the Women's Bar Associa= | tion of the District and a special Assistant Secretary of Labor, was to show that the survival of democracy depends upon the President’s victory in his present fight to change the decisions of the judiciary as they affect social legislation, Secretary McGrady brought his hearers at the Temple Auditorium o their feet, at the close of the speeches, by a ringing declaration that the memory of Senator Cutting would bc best perpetuated if the audience went out into “the highways and byways"‘ and campaigned for the President in his fight against “the judiciary cisions of which, he indicated, now block progress. The attendance at the lectures was 80 much larger than expected that the crowd was housed in two auditoriums, the Rialto Theater and the Temple, at 820 Eighth street, and the speakers appeared before each group. Diplomats, Officials Present. i In the throng were diplomats head- ed by Ambasador Lindsay of Great Britain, officials headed by Secretary | Wallace, and many Senators and Rep-i resentatives. { The lectures are financed by Mrs. | ‘W. Bayard Cutting, mother of the| Senator from New Mexico who was killed in an airplane crash in May, | 1935, as & more fitting memorial {o | her liberal son than a monument or statue. Harold Laski of London, Eng- | land, University will deliver the next lectures here March 24 and 25. La Guardia, whose recent outbursts against Hitler brought no reaction | last night other than the absence from | the lectures of the German Ambassa- | dor, Dr. Hans Luther, belabored the | “senile philosophy” of the Supreme Court and offered this thesis in an-| swer to the strict constitutionalists: “It is for each age to decide what| government shall do or not do. We are of one economic fabric. We in this country all have common prob- lems and we have to legislate and govern accordingly. “Democracy is dynamic. The min- ute it becomes static, it crumbles and changes its form. It must be alert: and moving forward all the time. When we hear people say, ‘That was| never intended by the framers of the Constitution,” how do they know? Conditions Are Changed. “What we do know is that condi- tions of the country as it was when| the Constitution was framed have changed. Yet, there have been few constitutional changes, and some of them would not have been necessary | had it not been for a factor which retards progress in democracy, and that is a court. “Our economic system Wwill be American, but I do not know what it will be if the representatives of | the people are prevented from taking action. If an action is to be con- strued in the light of a senile philoso- | phy, it is difficult to know how to| act. It is for the country to say what is democracy, and not the court.” Beard took for his text a statement by Mussolini that “democracy is only & mask for capitalism” and proceeded to show that democracy developed long before capitalism and that their aims have not been the same; in fact are sometimes divergent. “At this very hour in the United States,” he said, “it is the spokesmen ' of democracy, not of capitalism, who seek to prevent the added concen- tration of capitalistic power and estab- lish a more equitable distribution of wealth and a greater welfare and se- eurity for society. Change Held Necessary. “The institutions of democracy pro- vide for change and depend not upon the life of any person or self-consti- tuted group of persons. They are devised to cope with the rise, flow and alteration of social and economic systems, with the creation, modifica- tion and adaptation of systems. “The most nveterate and greatest enemy of American democracy is war. It is the duty of Congress to see that no President, no Secretary of State, no matter what his menits, shall have the right to make diplomatic com- mitments that make war inevitable.” Senator Norris delivered a brief oration on the virtues of Senator Cut- ting, of whom he said: “A man of wealth, his great heart beat in unison with the downtrodden and the oppressed, and those who toil for their daiiy bread. All along the pathway of his life there are emblems of his charity, his generosity, his jus- tice and his mercy.” School Costs Rise. Expenditure on elementary educa- tion in England has risen from $21.50 for each child in 1910 to over $66 in the last year. - ) de- | nues. | ous features. Finally Representative | | Legislature is to your State. Your | understand.” | ener, after inviting him to serve on | March, “College Stunts” committee of the District Bar Asso- ! ciation. ! House Passes Dectective Bill. Other bills passed by the House, all of which require Senate action, in- | clude those establishing two classes | of detectives in the Police Depart- | ment and authorizing £ appropria= tion of $500,000 for construction ef a | new building for the recorder of deeds. A third measure would name the four new streets in the Mall Ohio, | | Missouri, Oklahoma and Maine ave- | A bill increasing the penalty for 1 second and third offense felonies also | was passed, as well as a measure au- thorizing an increase from $15,000 to | $25.000 in the appropriation for voca- ! tional rehabilitation of disabled Dis- trict residents. Another bill would authorize the . Board of Optometry to hold an ex-| amination so Dr. Welton B. Hutton can qualify for a license to practice optometry. i Debate over the uniform sales bill was initiated by Representative Mich- ener, Republican, of Michigan, who insisted on an explanation of its vari- | Chandler, Democrat, who said he studied the measure, made | the explanation. Chandler, however, | is not a member of the Dirtrict Com- | mittee. Protests “Railroading.” “We are passing legislation here we don’t know anything about,” Michener declared. “I protest against the rail- roading of such legislation through Congress.” Michener later charged that some members of the District Committee | had “run off the floor” because they | didn’t know anything about the bill. " ‘We have a lot of trouble getting District bills through,” Michener de- | clared, “and this is an illustraiton why. The District Committee doesn't | seem to realize what it is for. If we | are going to yass bills like this, why | have a committee? “This is District day and it should be a serious day. This House today is to the District what your State of Tennessee, | committee should take things seriously and not bring in here bills it don't Representative Dirksen of Illinois, ranking Republican member of the District Committee, replied to Mich- the District Committee. “It is a labor of love,” Dirksen warned Michener. “It gets no credit | back home. But all members of this committee have rendered yeoman serv- | ice to the country and to the Dis-| trict. “When you legislate for the people | here it is quite different than legislat- | ing for the people back home. We try, as far as possible, to give the people of the District a measure of home rule and let them say what legis- lation they want.” BAND CONCERTS. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. Program. Zamecnik Overture Irish, “Innesfal Koppitz Paraphrase, “The Voice of Love,” Schumann Excerpts from musical comedy, “The Dollar Princess South American tango, (Sweetheart) __ __ Valse petite, “Sweet Memories”__Joyce Lampe “The Star-Spangled Banner.” By.the Navy Band Symphony Or- chestra in the sail loft at the Navy Yard at 8 p.m. today. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor; Alexander Morris, assistant. Pry ogram. Concert overture, “In Bohemia,” Hadley Henry Tone poem, “A Night on Bald Mountain” M. Intermezzo-valse lente, “Valse -Francic Popy Three orchestral scenes, “Endymion™ (Keats) -Arthur Hinton 1. Sunrise; 2. Shepherd’s Song; 3. Dance of the Maidens. “Hungarian Dances” (Nos. 1, 2 and 3) - Johannes Brahms Rapsodie, a,” Emmanuel Chabrier “Prelude to Lohengrin,” Richard Wagner “Unfinished Symphony, No. 8" Franz Schubert 1. Allegro moderato; II. Andante con moto. *The Star-Spangled Blnner."' | cert under the direction of Dr. Hans @he Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937. ® Typical Scenes Along the Willard’s The tp their firsi and George Hollas. Bell hop and elevator boy sit-down man, Walker Sutherland, Pat Mahoney, hotographer found these waiters today in the lounge room of the Willard stixring from night’s sleep as sit-downers. Left to right: Andrew Kirk, Fred Steinbach, Eugene Meier ers pictured at the hotel today. Left to right: Paul Gut- Carl Tacker, Ed. Stone, John Davidson and Tom O’Connell. —Star Staff Photos. E3 SYMPHONY AIDES BIDTO REHEARSAL Several Hundred Solicitors Get Unusual Chance to Hear Concert. The National Symphony Orchestra's | campaign for a $110,000 sustaining | fund will be given an unusual send- off tomorrow, when the several hun- dred volunteer solicitors watch the 80 | musicians rehearse for its next con- Kindler, conductor. The “rehearsal party” will be held | at 4 pm. in Constitution Hall, and it will be the first time in the orches- tra’s history that Dr. Kindler has conducted a rehearsal before an au- | dience. Invitations have been sent | out to more than 700 guests—the corps of campaign workers. The orchestra returned to Wash- | ington today after a tour of the prin- | cipal cities of the South. Next Sun- day the orchestra will be heard in con- cert, with Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, distinguished English duo- | pianists, and on March 17 with Paul | Whiteman’s Orchestra. | After listening to the rehearsal, the campaign workers will receive final instructions from Corcoran Thom, president of the National Symphony Orchestra Association; Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, general campaign chair- man, and Harold A. Brooks, vice | chairman of the drive. i Actual work of presenting the ap- peal for financial support will begin Thursday morning and continue for eight days. With organization work nearly completed, campaign® leaders predicted the $110,000 goal will be reached before the closing date, March 18. RAINBOW ANNIVERSARY Veterans to Be Entertained by Guard Thursday: Celebrating the 18th anniversary of its founding, the District Chapter of Rainbow Division Veterans has ac- cepted the invitation of the District National- Guard to an oyster roast Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at armory, Pennsylvania avenue near Sixth street. The Rainbow Division Veterans were organized as such at Bed Neunah, where the 42d Division was part of the American Army of occupation in Germsany, March 11, 1919. | which a District vehicle was involved. | In each case, it was reported, the | “negligence in driving will not be |WOMEN ASK BETTER @ District Employes Face Dismissal for egligent Driving City Heads Warn Work- ers After Series of | Eight Accidents. Operators of District government motor vehicles were warned by the Commissioners yesterday that they ! may be subject to dismissal in the event of negligent driving. The corporation counsel’s office re- cently was forced to recommend set- tlements in eight accident cases in corporation counsel held the accident was caused by negligence on the part of the driver of the District vehicle. Only yesterday, the Commissioners received word that Washington had been awarded honorable mention in the 1936 national traffic safety con- test. It is a record which they seek to improve this year. Consequently, all department heads | were ordered to issue a warning to | drivers of District vehicles saying that tolerated” and that “in cases where negligence is apparent the driver of the vehicle involved may" be subject to dismissal.” A request also wds made for the names of any drivers who have had three or more accidents, together with information with respect to each such accident. —_—. PROTECTION BY POLICE Epectal Dispatch to The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 9.— Aroused over the recent attacks on two young Chevy Chase matrons, the ‘Woman’s Democratic Club of Leland last night adopted a resolution call- ing for more adequate police pro- tection for the Leland section of Chevy Chase. A committee, of which Mrs. Pearl Edwards is chairman, was ap- pointed to request the Montgomery County commissioners to detail a po- lice officer to patrol the Leland dis- trict regularly in an attempt to pre- vent a repetition of the recent assaults, one of which occurred near the Leland Junior High School. Purchases U. S. Goods. - Panama bought more goods from the United States last year than from any other country. RESUMED RACING SERVICE REPORTED Further Plans of Garnett in Campaign Are Awaited Here. With further plans of District At- torney Leslie C. Garnett in his cam- paign against dispensing racing in- formation being awaited here, the National Telecast, Inc., resumed busi- ness yesterday in its Fifteenth street office, it was learned from police. The latter, acting independently of the district attorney's office, raided two alleged bookmaking places yester- | day, but later were forced to release six men because they were unable to get “papers” necessary for prosecution. In the meantime, aides for the dis- trict attorney began preparation of their case against 10 men arrested on Saturday in offices of the National Telecast, Inc. Mass of Conversation Overheard. Source of their information was the great mass of recorded conversa- tions overheard by secret agents over tapped telephone wires running into the five-room Albee Building suite occupied by the racing information organization. William (Jewboy) Dietz and Wil- liam W. Cahill, described as co-chiefs of the broadcasting business, and eight fellow defendants were arraigned yesterday afternoon before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage and pleaded not guilty. All were allowed to remain at liberty un- der the bail posted Saturday night. Hearing was postpomed two weeks. Three of the men were employes of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. One of them, Charles F. Purvis, 600 block of Tuckerman street, was arrested in the Telecast offices. Officials say it was Purvis who dis- covered the tap placed by Federal men and local police on the Telecast wires, precipitating the raid. The other telephone company em- ployes involved in the alleged gambling conspiracy were Meade D. Kaufman, 1600 block of Thirty-fifth street, and Charles E. Castle, 3700 block of Twelfth street northeast. Other defendants are Raymond T. Reeve, 1300 block of Thirteenth street; Benjamin Cohen, 2120 Pennsylvania avenue; Claude R. Irving, 600 block of Park road; Samuel W. Lawder, 900 block of Kennedy street, and Samuel B. Brown, 3000 block of Rod- man street. Dietz, whose real name is said to be Abe m-?. lives in the ny Stap FH¥ Sit-Down Strike Front WILLARD HOTEL B Brsosns & Fopmiin Waitress Mabel Normand, whose discharge was the imme- diate cause of the strike. the hotel. She is vice chairman of the Waitress’ Branch, Hotel Employes’ Alliance. She was let out Sunday by A chef prepares to spend the night in the kitchen among - the pots and pans. STUDY OF JAGOBS ! Author of Report and Ad- viser Testify Before Committee. The House Subcommittee on Appro- priations, in charge of the 1938 District supply bill, resumed its study of the hopeful of concluding its examination before adjournment of two of the principal witnesses—J. L. Jacobs, Chi- cago efficiency engineer who directed the latest fiscal relations study, and George McAneny, president of the Guaranty Title Co. of New York City, who served as chairman of Jacobs’ Advisory Committee. The subcommittee spent less than two hours listening to McAneny and Jacobs discuss the new fiscal relations plan yesterday, and covered only a in which it was set out in detail. A number of members of the Dis- House sat with the subcommittee at the invitation of Chairman Collins. special subcommittees created by Chairman Norton to make independ- ent studies of the Jacobs plan. Com- missioner Melvin C. Hazen and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, two outspoken critics of the plan, also were present. Members of the District Committee who sat with the subcommittee in- cluded Representatives Kennedy of Maryland and Schulte of Indiana, Democrats, and Dirksen of Illinois, Cole of New York and Bates of Mas- sachusetts, Republicans. Kennedy is chairman of the special subcommittee of the District Legisla- tive Committee that will consider the proposed new revenue legislation in the Jacobs report. He expects to call Jacobs and McAneny before his sub- committee as soon as they complete their testimony before the Appropria- tions Subcommittee. 1700 block of Hobart street, and Cahill in Baltimore. Racing Slips Confiscated. Meanwhile, raiding two cigar store “numbers” establisments yesterday, vice squad detectives, led by Sergt. George C. Deyoe, confiscated a num- ber of racing slips, an adding ma- chine, a telecast and some numbers slips. Unable to gather sufficient evi- | dence, the officers made no arrests. Forcing an entry at the first store in the 1400 block of Eleventh street, police found several men operating an adding machine, which they con- fiscated along with the racing slips. Another store in the 2300 block of Ninth street yielded the telecast, race and numbers slips and numerous empty cigar boxgs. \ Jacobs fiscal relations plan today, | small portion of the 244-page report | trict Legislative Committee of the | These included members of the two | SAFETY DRIVING DATA GONTINUES SCHOOL OPENED 'Students Learn Deficienices as Gadgets Reveal Ac- curate Reactions. Gadgets—the latest ones—that tell you all kinds of things you don’t want to know about yourself, all but filled the room as the teacher's course in “sportsmanlike” driving opened yes- terday at George Washington Univer- sity under the auspices of the Uni- versity School of Education and the American Automobile Association. People there, of varying ages and both sexes, had a grand time being educated. There were older men, transit officials, Federal men from the Indian Service, a man from the telephone company: ng men, stu- dents at the University, a Boys’ Club representative; women, including secretaries, a community center repre- sentative, and teachers, not to men- tion an attractive co-ed. Some found out after playing with a contraption requiring them to line up several toy autos through a mir- ror giving the effect of 20-foot depth, that they had no distance judgment. Others found the sluggishness of their muscular reaction no longer private information after they had tinkered with an electric key or the automobile-like machine in the cor- ner. Still others learned that one eye looks above or below the other or that they had “tunnel vision.” The reporter left the room, satisfied with the his physical normalcy. He did not take the tests. “Sportsmanlike Driving.” All this relates to safety driving, ac- cording to Dr. F. R. Noffsinger, who conducted the opening session, be- cause it teaches you your own physical characteristics as well as those of others. The rest of the course is built around lectures and pamphlets to put out teachers on March 20 capable of instructing “sportsmanlike” driving in the schools and before other groups. The academic work of the course will be carried on daily in Building C, Twenty-first and G, from 5 to 9 p.m. with an hour out for dinner. The 2 to 4 p.m. laboratory periods from today on will provide the group with sound movies, slides, charts and other devices. And that isn't all. This training requires “roadwork” before a cer- tificate of capacity will be granted. The Automobile Association has some especially constructed dual control cars for the purpose. That is, they will have dual brakes and clutch ar- rangement but not two steering wheels. Professors’ Qualifications. Dr. Noffsinger came here from the University of Indiana where he was professor of education. He is now engaged in pmpcum of safe driving Society and General PAGE B—1 CONNALLY PLANS FIRST MEETING ON D. C. AUDITORIUM Will Confer With Ickes on Organization for Sur- vey Work. CONGRESSIONAL GROUP TO REPORT ON COST Enabling Legislation May Be Con- sidered Before End of Pres- ent Session. BY J. A. O’'LEARY. An early start will be made by the Capital Auditorium Commission on its survey of the need for a suitable as- sembly hall for large public events in Washington, it was indicated today. Chairman Connally of the Senate Public Buildings and Grounds Com= mittee, said he would confer with Secretary of Interior Ickes within a day or two to arrange an organization meeting of the Commission. Shortly after the President signed the bill creating the commission, Connally had to go to Texas to attend the funeral of the late Representative Buchanan, and | just returned yesterday. Others on Commission. In addition to Connally and Ickes, the Commission includes Senator Austin of Vermont, ranking minority member of the Senate Committee; Chairman Lanham of the House Com= mittee and Representative Taylor of Tennessee, ranking minority member of the House group. While the bill does not authorize actual construction of an auditorium, it directs the Commission to study the problem and report before the prese ent session ends on the estimated cost of a suitable structure, and how the cost should be borne. With indications that the present session will last well into the Summer, there may be time to consider the enabling legislation before adjourne ment. Movement Gains. Although the necessity for a large auditorium in Waskington, similar to those in other large cities, long has been recognized, the movement has gained greater headway in recens | months than ever before The widespread interest in the sube ject started on inauguration day, Jane | uary 20, when rain drenched the | thousands assembled for the outdooz ceremonies Senate Majority Leader Robinson introduced the bill to set up the Audi- torium Commission and it won the prompt approval of both branches of Congress ' ANSWER PREPARED TO MAXWELL PLEA | | Court to Resume Hearing Today on Teacher's Petition for Third Trial. BY the Assoctated Press. WISE, Va, March 9.—Commone« wealth’s Attorney Fred B. Geear ins dicated he would be ready this afters noon to answer charges made by defense counsel for Edith Maxwell iv its appeal to Judge .E. T. Carter tc grant a third trial for the forme) | school teacher, twice convicted of killing her father. Geear told the court, in asking fo) | the postponement yesterday, that his :| investigation would involve miner: working some distance away. Defense Attorney Charles Henry Smith said in his motio. for a new ‘tl‘ill that three members of the jury | which convicted Miss Maxwell “had definite and fixed opinions” as to her guilt before the trial. The defense motion citing 38 as signments ef error, charged amonj other things that the defendant had not had a fair trial because of “im: proper conduct” the defense attris buted to Greear. Two remarks to the jury, whick the defense held were prejudicial t%¢ its case, contributed to “impropel conduct” by the prosecution, the mo: tion declared. The two remarks by which Smithk said Greear prejudiced the cas¢ | against the defendant at the Decem: ber trail were his statement to th¢ court that Miss Maxwell and he mother, Mrs. Ann Maxwell, who i under joint indictment for Trigg Max- well's death, “were both aiding ané abetting a homicide and anything saic by either of them bearing on the homicide would be admissible.” The defense also cited a remark f said Greear made that Miss Maxwel probably decided on the night of hei father’s death, “I will go and kill—" The trial judge erred, the motior contended, in making the reply, *] think we are,” to a defense attorney's remark that “We are not dealing with an ax.” Smith contended in his motion thag the State’s medical witnesses “ad- mitted they could not testify posi- tively and beyond doubt that Trigg Maxwell died as a result of a blow on the head,” as the State charged Miss Maxwell's attorney also asserted State evidence did not “disprove” the story the defendant told at the first trial and her sister, Mary Kathryn partly repeated at the second, that Edith struck her father with a shoe while resisting his attempt to whip her. The comely young woman is accused of taking her father’s life in their Pound, Va., cabjn in July, 1035. education throughout the Uniteéd States. Prof. A. E. Neyhart, the other instructor, has had considerable ex- perience in the driver training field and is on the faculty of a number of Universities providing the subject. Both men are on the staff of the Traffic and Safety Division of the Automobile Association. The course has already been intro- duced as an experiment in Roosevell and Dunbar High Schools as part of the physical education curriculum. Ita extension to the others will depend upon its mcc:ls there.