Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1937, Page 6

A—6 ¥x FORMS AVAILABLE FOR AGE BENEFITS Security Act Procedure for Collecting Lump Sums Outlined. With claims beginning to be filed for lump-sum payments under the | old-age benefit provisions of the social security act, the procedure to be fol- lowed in obtaining them was outlined today by G. B. Parker, regional director for the Social Security Board | in this area. Eligibles for these payments, which became effective January 1, are those persons in covered employments after | 1936 who at the age of 65 either fail to have earned total wages of $2,000, or have not met the time requirement, or both. Lump-sum payments also are made at death. They amount to | s 3!z per cent of the wage earned. | Monthly Benefits in 1941. To qualify for monthly benefits, & wage earner must be 65 and his total wage of $2,000 or more must have been earned in employment periods in each of five calendar years. | These benefits start in 1941. Simple forms have been provided for those making lump claims. They are in three categories: for employers, beneficiaries, or the legatees of de- ceased workers, Generally, the maximum lump pay- ment this year will be $105 | Washington is in region four, which includes North Carolina, Virginia, part of West Virginia, and Maryland. In the local office, in the National Theater Building, in addition to Dis- trict claims, these also are handled: Maryland — Montgomery, Prince | Georges, Charles, Calvert, St. Marys, Washington and Frederick Counties. near Bayonne, France. The Mar Caspio, a government boat which was bombarded by Nationalist boats, driven ashore at the mouth of the Adour, S —Wide World Photo. MICROPHONEHELD BAY CRASH CAUSE | Control Column Jammed by Instrument, Probers Discover. Counties in Virginia. Virginia—Frederick, Clarke, Shen- | andoah, Warren, Arlington, Fairfax Loudoun, Prince William, Fauquier, | Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, | West Virginia—Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson Counties An office in Cumberland, Md. | handles the matter for Garrett and | Allegheny Counties, Maryland, and Mineral, Grant, Hardy and Hampshire | Counties in West Virginia | Other field offices are in Baltimore, Charleston and Wheeling, W. Va.; Richmond and Roanoke, Va.; Raleigh, Salisbury, Asheville, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Charlotte, N. C. An office in Pittsburgh also cares | for some of the West V. GLEN ECH 0PARKING | TO BE MADE FREE Amusement Center Acts to Elimi- nate Conduit Road Traffic Hazard. Glen Echo Park, which will open its 1937 season next Saturday, will make its automobile parking area free to the public in an effort to eliminate | a traffic hazard caused in previous | years by automobiles parking on Con- | duit road, directl t of the | amusement ¢ Officials of the park said the War Department, through surveys made last vear, found that motoring was | made hazardous by the machines | crowding both edges of Conduit road in that vicinity. The department, which has charge of the conduit from which the road | gets its name, has placed guard fences | and signs designating where parking &pace may be found There is an entrance to the amuse- ment park directly from the parking lot, which will accommodate approxi- | mately 1,00C cars. | (Continued From Pirst Page.) were necessitated by the heavy insur- | gent counter-attack, after which the Madrid troops attacked again in force near the race track along the Coruna | in the El Pardo sector. | st of dynamite isolated the be—‘ two most formidable garri- | n University City on Madrid's hwest and the Casa de Campo | Park on its west. It was set o * by gov-| 2 nt forces on “Frenchmen's | ge,” which connected the insur- | gent salients across the Manzanares | River. | Government eannon bombarded both positions. Insurgents Tighten Blockade. Augmented by the swift new war- ship Neptuno, which the government started building before the civil war | began, the insurgents tightened the | blockade against Bilbao, which, in re- | ports to Hendaye, France, was de- | scribed as on the verge of mass star- vation, cut off from supplies by sea, with its population swelled to 300,000 by the influex of war refugees Insurgent ships, lying just within the 3-mile limit, fired broadsides | day and night to cloes the coastal | highway. Land fighting, however, was at a standstill, with the insurgent Northern army holding its dominant, hill-top positions and reported poised for another attack. | The four-month old mystery of the | fate of the crew of the Russian steamer Comsomol, sunk by insur- gents in the Mediterranean last De- cember 14, was cleared up when the Italian Ambassador at Moscow ad- vised the Soviets that the men were interned near Cadiz Spain. He sald the crews of two other Russian mer- chantmen, and one of the ships, were being held similarly. | MILLIONS OF FARMS PROTECTED THIS YEAR | EY the Assoctated Press Directors of the Federal Farm pro- gram said yesterday provisions this year will help control or prevent water or wind erosion on several mil- lion farms H. R. Tolley, agricultural adjust- ment administrator, said the 1937 benefit payment program included “specific steps to combat erosion in all regions by tested methods.” These methods, developed by the Federal Soil Conservation Service and State agricultural colleges, have been worked into regional and State A. A. A. plans, he said. Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St N.W. Corner of 12tb and “L” Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. Grace Gray Delong. Reader Personal interviews §or spiritual nelp and guidance ma: arranged by a s et visit ta the Council Hi Meuvclitan 5234 Consultation {1y Demo The San Francisco Bay crash of February 9, which resulted in loss of a United Airlines plane with eight passengers and three crew members, | was due to the jamming in the control | column of a radio microphone acci- | | dentally dropped by one of the pilots, | 2 Bureau of Air Commerce Accident Board reported today The board’s investigation disclosed that the two pilots had engaged in an heroic struggle to regain control dur- ing the last four seconds of the ill- fated flight Both control wheels had been bent by the pressure exerted by the pilot | and co-pilot to clear the jam, in the opinion of the investigators. Finding themselves unable to pull the plane out of its final dive, the pilots ap- parently had used the other controls in an effort to strike the water at an angle which would result in the least hazard to their passengers Coroner’s investigations showed most of the passengers had lived through the crash, but were drowned when the wreckage sank to the bot- ilom of the bay. | As a result of the | transport planes of all the major lines | have been equipped Wwith | prevent similar accidents. The plane, one of the first 21- passenger types put into operaticn by United, was on its way from Los An- | geles to Oakland at the time of the crash. It had made one pass over the Oakland airport, its destination, and was circling back over the bay in preparation for a landing when the crash occurred. It was in charge of Pilot Joe DeCesaro. The investigation revealed marks on the co-pilot’s microphone, the seat rail | support and the control column which disclosed the microphone had been squeezed between the column and the seat. Tests with the same type of plane showed placing of a microphoye in the position indicated by the marks prevented the control column from be- ing brought back to neutrsl position, which meant that the plane could not be raised to level flight position. investigation | leather } shields around the control columns to A. R. Thompson and Co-pilot | (AL MINERS PAY - DISCUSSED HERE |Parley Seeks Resumption of | Operations in South- ; west Virginia. | By the Associated Press. Conferences looking toward re- | sumption of operations in the union- ized bituminous coal mines of South- west Virginia opened here today. Approximately 12,000 coal miners |in the area have been idle since the old district contract with the United Mine Workers expired March 31. The conferences are being held in efforts to renew the contract in con- formity with the Appalachian bitumi- nous coal agreement signed in New York April 2. As the Wage Scale Committee of the Virginia Coal Operators’ Associ- ation gathered in round table discus | sion, John Saxton, Newton, Va., presi- dent of district 28 of the United Mine Workers—comprising the Virginia soft coal area—conferred with U. M. W, officials A spokesman for the Operators’ Committee, of which J. L. Osler, Blackwood, Va, is chairman, said it was not likely the employers' group and representatives of the union would meet together before tomorrow. He said the operators, before sign- ing a two-year renewal of the con- tract, wanted certain assurances to | give them protection from competi- tive union and non-union mines. The Appalachian agreement, signed in New York, would provide coal mdners a 50-cent-a-day wage increase, | an increase of 8 cents a ton for load- ing and time and a half pay for over- time. Congress Sent Message. Roosevelt today brief special message o Congress com=- mending for favorable consideration an inclosed report from the Secretary of State to the end that legislation | may be enacted authorizing an appro- priation of $5,000 for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Tenth Pan-American Sanitary | Conference 1o convene at Bogota, | Colombia, in August, 1938 President sent a \Senator Thomas Is Author Of Book Written in Japanese BY PHILIP H. LOVE. Is there any news in the fact that a U d States Senator—a native of Utah, at that—is the author of & book written in Japanese? Senator Elbert D. Thomas doesn't think so—though he freely admits that, to the best of his knowledge, no other member of Congress ever has written such a volume as his “Sukai No Michi.” was nothing,” the scholar- from Salt Lake shrugged. “Just a little paper-covered monograph—50 or 60 pages—on the ‘Way of Salvation’ Just a little philosophical treatise, set down in Japanese. “And, after all. why shouldn't I be able to write Japanese? 1 was & missionary in Japan from 1907 until 1913, and—well, I had to learn some- thing about the language.” As a matter of fact, however, Sena- tor Thomas took up Japanese before the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) sent him and his wife to Tokio on a combination honeymoon and mission. But this fact, too, was minimized by the Senstor with the statement: “Oh, we had a few lessons—just enough to get us started.” From Japan, Thomas and his wife, the former Edna Harker, transferred their missionary activities to China. They were there only about six weeks, however, when a revolution broke out. “I had seen the beginnings of the revolt in Tokio,” the Senator ex- plained. “Sun Yat Sen and all the other Chinese revclutionary leaders were there, and—well, T had ample opportunity to study both their aims and their methods.” With their daughter, Chiyo—given the Japanese name because she was born in Tokio—the Thomases left China in the midst of the revolution, returning to the United States by way of various other Asiatic and European countries. They witnessed the begin- ning of the war between Greece and City | , Turkey and “just missed” the start of the World War Thomas was in China long enough, however, to learn “a little” Chinese. | “The Japanese use Chinese char- | acters in their writing,” he explained, | “so it wasn't so awfully difficult for me to learn enough to get by in China. Ome of the little things I learned. for instance, was that my name is ‘“Twin’ in Chinese.” Of greater interest to the Senator than his “Way of Salvation” is his more recent book, “Chinese Political Thought,” published in this country in 1927 and in England the following year. “I spent years working on that,” he said. “The other one was a compara- tively quick job—a few months, as I recall it.” Out of Thomas’ long study of Ori- ental political theories and practices has come the conviction that the sit- down strike is “nothihg new.” “On the contrary, this medium is very old,” he declared. “Some aspects of it were developed hundreds of years ago. Chinese butchers used to protest against taxes by using the sit-down method. Its ancestor was Lao Tzu | Taoist’s theory of attainment of action | by non-action—Do nothing, and | everything will be done.”” Americans, the Senator pointed out, are “playing with something they know nothing about.” The sit-down tech- nique may become “so strong in its final aspects,” he added, “that labor could easily destroy its own objectives.” Thomas, who is a member of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, taught political science, Latin and Greek before his election to the Senate in 1933. He was associated with both the University of Utah and the Uni- versity of California. Besides Chiyo, he has two other daughters—Esther, now Mrs. Wayne C. Grove, and Edna Louise. Only Chiyo followed him into the Mormon missionary field, however. She spent two years in mission work in Canada, returning about a year ago. Tarn D> TEA Tolay/ ‘SALADA , TEA . . 4“0 The Lowest Priced Fine Tea Youi Can Buy TAR, WASH NGTON, D. C APRIL 12, 1937 IMEDICAL SCIENCE HELD RETARDED Yale Professor Tells Town Hall Doctor Has to Wait for Society. ‘The failure of society to keep pace with advances in medicine will retard | future progress in that fleld, declared Dr. professor of applied physiology of Yale University at the final session of the Town Hall of Washington last night at the Shoreham Hotel. Although medical science has out- stripped economics and sociology, its further advancement depends in a large measure on their progress, he commented, so the question now is| not where medicine is headed in the fututre, but what society plans to do toward catching up. Howard W. Haggard, associate | theria, tuberculosis typhoid, small- pox and many others have been de- clining year after year as has the rate of infant mortality, the speaker observed. This death rate decline has been accompanied by an increase in the average length of life from 30 years in 1836 to 60 years in 1937, ““We may soon see the day when one- sixth of the population may be made up of individuals over 60 years of age,” Dr. Haggard predicted. “Who is to determine what we will do about these individuals is & question. The doctor can't because he has other things to do, The Government may, judging from the Social Security, and the old age pension laws.” Some People Old at 40. A discussion of the old age question came up later in the session when Dr. Thomas A. Groover, former president of the District of Columbia Medical Society and panel member asked: “Do you believe that an individual should be forced to retire on account of age?” The audience chuckled. “No. Say, what are you getting me into?” The speaker replied. The | audience laughed. | medicine, Dr. Ruhland stated, “Gov- | | Dr. Haggard smilingly continued | ernment agencies such as the Public | | his answer, “I still say no. Some peo- | Health Service can assume a part in | who said that, although the physician operating in the fleld of private prac- tice may have lost his place as No. 1 in the medical profession and given way to the specialist, he is coming back because the specialized fields are becoming overcrowded. When questioned concerning his view on socialized medicine, Dr. Hag- gard stated that if the doctor wants socialized medicine and will take the lead in bringing it about, it will be all right, but he objects to “the lay- man telling the doctor what to do.” Dr. Haggard also sald that there is a general difference between State or socialized medicine and private medi- | cine in that the first is preventative and the latter curative. He was care- ful to state, however, that this dis- tinction can not be finely drawn be- cause the two overlap. Dr. George C. Ruhland, District | health officer and third member of the | panel, also agreed that the advance- | ment in sociology is the present need and commented that this can take | place through health education, | In regard to the socialization of RESERVE OFFICERS’ UNITI '.® ESTABLISHED 186; ° HEADED BY ALEXANDRIAN|| KNOTTY PINE e || 7 To “Dress Up” Your Home For dens and receration rooms. See the new design by Barker, an actual instal- lation in our New York Avenue office. Add modern beauty to your hom: ot Barker’s low prices without . charge for delivery. GEO. M. BARKER o COMPANY o LUMBER and MILLWORK 649-651 N. Y. Ave. N.W. 1523 Tth St. N.W. NA. 1348, “The Lumber Number” BY the Associated Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April 12.—Lieut. Col. Jarvis Butier of Alex- andria assumed the duties of presi- dent of the Virginia Reserve Officers’ Association today, tc succeed the late Maj. C. M. Colony of Roanoke. Butler was elected at the annual convention, which also named Lieut. R. O. Hitz, Richmond; Lieut. Wiimer R. Burgess, Charlottesville; Lieut. Henry L. Miller, Norfolk, and Lieut. Alfred W. Croll, Roanoke, vice presi- dents. Maj. Gen. Albert J. Bowley of Bal- timore, commanding officer of the 3d Corps Area, was a guest of honor at a banquet Saturday night. FREE That social adjustment is dependent | ple are old at 40 while others are| on medical knowledge and application | young at 80.” The audience applauded. was pointed out by the physiologist.| In regard to the further advance “The many amazing readjustments| of medical sciemce Dr. Daniel L. Bor- that soclety has ever gone through|den, associate professor of surgery at | have come about because of medical | George Washington University and an- | advancement,” he said, “but these re- | other panel member, agreed with the | adjustments frequently have been | speaker that the responsibility of med- | slow. The doctor stands with his| ical progress now rests with the public. | cure and has to wait for society to| His question concerning the present | catch up.” | and future status of the general prac- | Urges Publicizing Disease. titioner was answered by the speaker ' Dr. Haggard commented that one | the fleld of medicine, but I do not want the Government to undertake treatment for everybody.” “The problem will remain socio= logical until the Public Health Service becomes adequately staffed and fi-| nanced to meet the tasks before it,” he remarked. | Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States commissioner of education, was chairman of the session, which con- | cluded the Town Hall's third season. | PARKING AT WASHINGTON’S FORTY ACRE FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK of the most important means of aid- ing the public in catching up with medicine is through publicizing cer- tain diseases. In this regard he lauded newspapers for their recent | trend of treating news concerning social diseases openly. In tracing medical progress during the last 2,500 years, the speaker pointed out that although there were | two great periods in medical advance- ment, one in the days of the Greecian and Roman Empire and the other, during Renaissance, the turning point in medical sclence came late in the last century upon the discovery of bacteriological causes of infection of diseases. “After that time medicine, as know it today, reached its peak,” said. Deaths from various diseases, dip- we he ADVEIEI"ISEMENT. 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