Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1937, Page 7

Tax Evasion New Deal Alibi Budget Couldn’t Be Balanced on 100% Collection. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HIS is the season of alibis. The experts told Presiient Roose- velt that the tax receipts would be a certain figure. The budget was made up on that basis. But since March 15 returns, it has been evident that there was a big gap. Now comes the explanation—the big millionaires evaded their taxes. President Roosevelt told the assembled correspondents § all about the tax § evaders. There ; are rich men, it seems, who do not like to pay taxes to the Govern- ment, so they § find the legal loopholes. If the loopholes aren't legal, then the rich men run the risk of going to jail and having a lot of unfavorable items in the newspapers charging them with the crime of tax evasion. Mr. Roosevelt has been led to be- lieve that a small number of tax evaders exist, but that the taxes they refuse to pay run into the millions. Just how many millions has not been disclosed. But it would appear that 1f all the income of men in the big brackets were taken 100 per cent by the Government and no deductions or exemptions of any kind were allowed, it still wouldn't have been enough to balance the budget last year. The President made it clear that he did not indict the vast majority of fncome taxpdyers. He thought the overwhelming majority were honest and fille absolutely ethical returns. His complaint was against the small group who invented the loopholes and he didn’t think loopholes should be invented, even if it is legal. Evasion Is Illegal. In other words, for years there has been a distinction between tax avold- « ance and tax evasion. The former is legal, the latter is lllegal. The difference lies in the fact that s taxpayer has a right to deduct what the law permits him to deduct. The game of inventing loopholes can be condemned a&s unethical, but it is not a bit more so than the actual prac- tice of the Government itself. Thus when the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated the process- ing taxes and these sums were re- turned to the taxpayers, the Roose- velt administration turned around and slapped an “unjust enrichment tax” on those recovered taxes. The fact that the Supreme Court said it wasn’t a true tax originally made no difference. Now as long as the Government plays a game with the taxpayer there will be avoidance. The British gov- ernment has had the same experience with the income tax. The more dis- criminatory and punitive the taxes the greater the amount of the effort of avoidance, if not evasion. The whole attitude of the Roose- velt administration has come in for | severe criticism, especially in the | matter of overassessments. It has been charged by various taxpayers that the Government agents are told to make excessive overassessments un- less waivers of the statute of limita- tions are granted. Whether there are many cases of this kind, the fact remains that tax evasion touches the question of in- tegrity and tax avoidance touches the question of fairness and equity. Spirit of Taxpayers. If the tax policy of the Govern- ment of the United States were con- cededly fair, if its tax collectors came to the taxpayers with clean hands, there would be a different spirit on the part of the taxpayers. The tendency of the Government to levy taxes irrespective of fairness, to penalize thrift and to squelch in- centive does not awaken any high sense of generosity on the part of a taxpayer when he finds he can legally deduct a ocertain item and save him- self some taxes. If it is unethical to take ad- wvantage of legal exemptions, then | officials in the Government itself lre{ to be found who do not hestiate to take advantage of every legal exemp- tion possible. The question of whether s loophole is new or can be elassed as an invention and hence 4 unethical is somewhat novel be- oause avoidance turns wholly on what lawyers say anyway and most of the big taxpayers do not make out their own returns. They would not dare to do so because the law is so com- plicated it takes a lawyer or tax ex- pert to help a taxpayer make out & fool-proof return. 5 If it is unethical for lawyers to tell their clients how té save tax money, then the question of ethics is some- thing for the legal profession to worry about. For the difference be- tween a large and a small fee in not a few instances is the difference be- tween & lawyer who tells his client how to save money legally and one ‘who doesn’t save quite as much. ‘The rolls are full of tax advisers who once worked in some branch of the Government and who tell big taxpayers how to save money. It's & practice all by itself and the process of tax avoidance is far from abol- ished either as a legal or a moral one, because few of the larger tax- payers consider the Roosevelt admin- istration fair or equitable in its tax policies. David Lawrence, (Coprright, 1837.) —_— GUNSTON HALL GROUP PRESENTS ANNUAL PLAY Cass Day Exercises to Be Held Monday—Alumnae Association to Entertain at Luncheon. Members of the classes in drama and private expression at Gunston Hall will put on the drama depart- ment’s annual play at 8 o'clock to- night in the assembly hall, 1906 Flori- da avenue. The production, “The Silver Slipper,” by H H. Davies, is under the direction of Sally Fountle- roy Lohnson. Class day exercises will be held in the auditorium at 11 a.m. Monday. ‘The class history will be read, the book signed and honors and prizes awarded. The final feature of the ceremonies will be the planting of ivy. Graduating classes will be guests the alumnae association at lunch- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, News Behind the News White House Guests Discover They Are Committee on Reorganization Plan. BY PAUL MALLON, HE average Congressman around here has learned of President Roosevelt largely by reading the newspapers. The busiest of all White House occupants has found little time and few occasions to meet personally with the great bulk of his legislators. For this reason, there was excitement in the House smoking room the other day when Mr. Roosevelt's legislative liaison man, Charles West, deliv- ered a few verbal invitations for a night visit to the White House. Not much more enthusiasm would have been aroused by a personal invitation to the Windsor-Warfield nuptials. When the guests trooped into the Executive Mansion, however, they looked at each other and discovered that they were the joint committee considering Mr. Roosevelt'’s Government reorganization plan. * ok X K This took the edge off the festivities slightly, but they had a very nice long personal chat with the Chief Ezecutive, discussing such problems as the proposed siz new erecutive secretaries, the proposed creation of two new Government departments, etc. The callers must have been further discouraged when they left and discovered no newsmen or photographers around. Their call went wholly unreported in the press thereafter, and some of them seemed to con- sider it a political, if not a social, slight. At any rate, they again con- sidered the reorganization program a few days following and discov- ered they were nowhere nearer an agreement than before their sight- seeing trip downtown. * ok X x Subsequent negotiations were - effective in pushing the committee along toward further work on its four bills. Perhaps, in the end, the White House talk was partly responsible. Legislative authorities believe there should be and probably will be more of these West-conducted tours to the Executive Mansion. Such talks represent co-operation, which is essential between the legislative and exec- utive branches. They are needed far more at this time than in the recent past because both branches now appear to be resuming their normal places, after the hectic depression period in which Congress was little more than a typewriter writing executive laws. * kX X Not much news is containei in the Government's balanced business figures this month. There have probably been few times in history when industrial production has fluctuated so narrowly in accord with seasonal expectations as since the first of the year. An average level of 117 per cent of the 1923-1925 “normal” has been closely maintained. Witness the following chart. Each figure therein is based on 1923-1925 averages as 100, except prices, which are based on the 1926 level. B £ MERE ARE ALL TERTOC NS AND REPORTERS. feg --=--- uopanpoia teinsnpug --=-- juemkordurs L100wgd ---—----snoz ssuipwol 148l JuamIedaq ampnng $I0[4d I[ESIOUM ——-----sapes 2101® -====-- spenuos 1929—Average 1836—Average 1937—January February March 118 April 118 101.7 82 88.0 May (Est.)117 102 81 872 NOTE—Lines which have been going strong lately are steel, foods, autos, tobacco, plate glass. Down are textiles, shoes and coal (after the strike threat caused cessations of demand). Current strikes may cut into steel. Prospects are that textiles will go lower. Coal is regaining. Ford production is being threatened. The imme- diate outlook, therefore, is not i F?:r,m‘g;‘fo encouraging, but would be, if the AN INDEX OF 8! strike situation cleared. ‘scomwga‘;‘“;‘ | ok ox % A A etrong economic factor lately has been farm income. The Agriculture Department has been giving out figures, generally unno- ticed, indicating that farm income for April was up to &n index of 89, as compared with 81.5 in March and about 70 a year ago. In the first four months of the year, farm purchasing power was 16 per cent higher than a year ago. It is due entirely to better prices, as the volume of marketing during the first four months was 5 per cent less than last year. * Xk kX The greatest speech which tire famous Idaho orator, Senator Borah, ever made was one which was not recorded and will never be. But it was delivered extemporaneously in a recent executive session of those members of the Senate Judiciary Committee opposed to court packing. Mr, Borah was asked by another member to name some one to write the anti-packing report. He replied that it should be a Democrat and then launched into a free expression of his opinion that these Democrats had displayed great courage on a great issue. Years hence, he said, Senators would be reading their words, just ac they are now reading Webster and Calhoun. No greater example of devotion to principle in the face of political obstacles could be found in history. At the end, two hard-boiled old Senators were actually weeping and the rest were coughing into their hu;:dkerch!e{s to keep from it. (Copyright, 1937.) 119 105 15 116 108 92 28R cazar srenvs 001 oxw 98.8 99.7 100.9 86.3 83 7.8 Washington Student at Yale Robert Debs Heinl, jr.,| Takes Mifflin Prize With Kipling Essay. Enthusiasm for the works of Rud- yard Kipling and something of Kip- ling’s own skill with words won Yale's third largest undergraduate prize for Robert Debs Heinl, jr., 20, of 2400 California street, a senior at the New Haven university. | Heinl took the $220 Lloyd Mifflin Prize with an essay on Kipling, and | his parents were not surprised at his choice of a subject. He has been an ardent Kipling fan since he learned | to read. The prize was established in 1823 through a gift from Houghton Mifflin. Annual awards are made for merit in English and American literature. Young Heinl won the English medal at St. Alban’s School, from which he was graduated in 1933. He was editor of the St. Alban’s News when ROBERT D. HEINL, Jr. Wins Coveted Literature Award it took first place in its class among the country's preparatory school pub- lcations. Heinl now is an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. He got out an edition dedicated to the life and works of Kipling after the author’s death. Incidentally, the publication is said to be the oldest monthly magazine in the United States. Heinl attended George Washington University for a year after leaving St. Alban's and since has been at Yale. He will grauate in June. TRIPLETS ARE HEAVY Two Sets of Calves Are Doing Well on Minnesota Farms. MARSHALL, Minn. (#).—Minnesots is no longer just “the land of 10,000 lakes.” It has become ‘“the land of two sets of triplet calves.” Holstein triplets, born a short time 8go on the Albert Schippleck farm near Lafayette, Minn., were reported doing well. More recently a set of Shorthorn triplets was born on the Carl Anderson farm near here. Dr. E. Osell, veterinarian, said never be- fore have triplet calves survived, but Minnesota's six are all normal and healthy. Cliff Fall Makes Isle. An island sprang suddenly from the Black Sea off the southwest coast of the Crimea, not far from Sebastopol, when a cliff collapsed. It was not the rock that formed the island, but the cave-in hit the floor of the sea so hard that it flung the bottom into folds. One of these folds rose 20 feet above the water, shaping a body of land 800 on at the school at 1 pm. feet long and 35 feet wide. ANTI-ECONOMY MEETING OPPOSED BY A. F. G. E. Seven “Liberal” Lodges of Group Warned Against Program by Union Head. The District Department, American Federation of Government Employes, last night adopted a resolution oppos- ing the anti-economy mass meeting proposed to be staged by seven local “liberal” lodges. The seven have been warned against their program by Charles I. Stengle, national president of the federation. The resolution said the meeting would be cakulated to react unfavor- ably against Federal workers and called on the national office to use “even drastic measures if found neces- 3ary” to head it off. Sponsors inter- preted this as calling for the suspen- sion of the lodges. ————g WORKMAN INJURED Douglas Roland, 28-year-old Georgia quarry worker, received a broken left leg last night when a 1500-pound granite block fell against him as he and several other workers were un- loading the stone from a truck at the Falvey Granite Co., Inc., 209 Upshur street. Roland was taken to Casualty Hos- pital, where his condition today was reported good. The accident occurred when the huge block slipped off the rollers and skids being used to remove it from the truck. ‘The stone was part of & shipment which Roland and other workers wers delivering from & quarry in Elberton, Ge o0 q'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions ma% themselves and directly opposed to T be cantradictory among e Star’s. Power in Relief Fund Control Would Give President Vast Aid in Chang- ing Form of Government. BY MARK SULLIVAN. HEN the House resumes next Tuesday, we shall see the outcome of a controversy between Congress and the President, involving far-reaching prin- ciples. The President, asked Congress ., to give him $1,- 500,000,000 for relief. He asked Congress to ap- propriate it as a : lump sum. What should be done with it, how it should be allo- cated as between one State or an- other, and as be- tween one form of relief or an- other — all this was to be deter- mined by the President, either by the President di- rectly or by his relief administrator, Mr. Harry Hopkins. In Congress the President's request gave rise to some opposition. Several groups of members said that Congress itself should allocate the $1,500,000,- 000, in part at least. One group con- tended that $55,000,000 should be used for flood and drought control. An- other group contended $150,000,000 should be ear-marked for roads and grade crossing elimination. Another group contended that $300,000,000 should be allocated for yet other spe- cific purposes. ‘The groups demanding that Con- gress “‘ear-mark” part of the $1,500,- 000,000 compose, probably, a majority of the House. They were well on their way to success on Thursday when the Democratic leader, Mr. Rayburn of Texas, asked that the House adjourn until Tuesday. To persuade the House to agree to this, Mr. Rayburn assured the House that “I believe that within a few hours we can get together with the man [Mr. Roosevelt] who must administer this law * * * and adjust this whole matter. * * * Everything humanly possible to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section and to every project will be done by me."” Thus the controversy stands. If the issue were a simple one between hav- ing Congress allocate much of the fund or letting Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins allocate it all, much might be said for the President’s position. From the point of view of economy alone, probably greater economy would be achieved by having the President con- trol the fund. At least this would be true at present, because for some weeks the President has seemed to have his mind on economy. “Pork Barrel” Method. If Congress were to allocate wholly the funds for relief, the method prac- ticed in Congress would almost surely be the “pork barrel” method. Con- gressmen from one State, wishing an appropriation for flood control in that State, would enter into bargains with Congressmen from a second State having the same wish. And so with road projects. The sum of this Na- tion-wide log-rolling would be very large. In 1933, when Mr. Garner, now Vice President, was Speaker of the House, the Democrats under his lead- ership—then being a majority, and having little consideration for the Re- publican, Mr. Hoover, who was then President—wrote a pork barrel appro- priation for relief which, as I recall, contained an appropriation for almost literally every congressional district in the country. _Also, it is fair to say, in the present situation, that if Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins are permitted to allocate the fund, more of it would go directly into wages. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins can choose, among all pos- sible projects, those which pay out the largest proportion in wages and a smaller proportion for materials. In the allocation proposed in the House, for flood control and roads, a large proportion of the funds go to pay for materials, a comparatively small pro- portion for wages. In all this I seem to be saying that the President ought to win the present controversy with the House, that it is better the $1,500,000,000 be allocated wholly by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hop- kins. Normally, that would be true. If Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins were acting merely and wholly as adminis- trators of a fund, if they had no pur- Dose or motive except to direct the money to where it is most needed and can be most fruitfully expended—in that event it would be better that they should have full control of the fund. But the actual condition is not nor- mal. There is involved an issue larger than efficiency or economy. There is a widespread feeling that Mr. Roose- velt and his subordinates use the re- lief funds s0 as to influence politics and important national policies. Would Change Government. President Roosevelt is engaged in an attempt to change the form of government of the United States. The attempt expresses itself currently Air Headliners Afternoon Programs. 2:00pm.—WRC, I.C.A. A A A, Track and Field Cham- plonship Trials. 5:00 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star Flashes. some weeks ago, Mark Sullivan, Evening Programs. 6:30 p.m.—WRC, Question Bee. 7:00 pm.—WRC, Great Lakes Exposition; W MA L, Davis Cup Resume. 8:00 pm.—WRC, “Snow Village Sketches”; WMAL, Na- tional Barn Dance; ‘WJBV, Grace Moore. 8:30pm.—WRC, Joe Cook’s Show; WOL, Old-Time Melodramas. 9:00 pm.—WJSV, “Your Hit Parade; WMAL, Metro- politan Opera Co. 11:15pm.—WMAL, Slumber Hour. Short-Wave Programs. 8:30 p.m.—BERLIN, Music From Nuremburg, DJD, 25.4 m., 11.77 meg. 9:40p.m.—SANTIAGO, Dance Music, CB960, 31.2 m, 9.60 meg. 9:50 pm.—LOND O N, Musical Program, GSI, 19.6 m., 15.26 meg.; GSF, 10.8 m, 15.14 ‘meg.; GSD, 255 m, 1175 meg; - GSC, 31.3 m, 9.58 meg. in three measures pending in Con- guess—the measure to change the courts; the executive reorganization measure, which takes many powers away from Congress and gives them to the President, and the so-called new N. 'R. A. measure, which, among other effects, would tend to greatly reduce the importance of the States and the powers and functions of State Legislatures. And if Mr. Roose- velt is given control of the relief fund, it can be used so as to promote Mr. Roosevelt's purpose of changing the form of government. Consider the case of an individual Congressman. United with other Con- gressmen, he gives the President $1,- 500,000,000 for relief. Presently the Congressman wants & small fraction of that money for a relief project in his district; he is under pressure from his district to get it; whether he gets it may determine whether he is re-elected next year. To get the appropriation for his district, the Congressman has now only one way. He must go to the President for it, or to one of the Pres- ident's subordinates. He must go hat in hand. Going as a suppliant, he must go in such a way as to make himself agreeable. And the best way to make himself agreeable is by prom- ising, directly or by implication, that he will vote for the President's meas- ures in Congress—vote for the court measure, vote for the executive re- organization measure, vote for the “new N. R. A.” In other words, Congress, by sur- rendering allocation of the relief fund, surrenders its independence; it sur- renders the thing without which Con- gress cannot be a co-ordinate branch of the Governthent. (Copyright, 1037.) “NET" 10 OFFER OPERA TONIGHT Abridged Broadcast of “II Trovatore” Scheduled on WMAL at 9. AKING one of its rare ap- pearances on the evening network schedules, the Met- ropolitan Opera Co. presents Verdi's “Il Trovatore” tonight, with WMAL carrying the broadcast locally at 9 o'clock. The airing will be abridged, only the third and fourth acts being heard, Milton J. Cross handling the commentary, as is usual with the opera broadcasts. Rose Bampton is to sing the fem- inine lead, Leonora, while Bruno Castagna, Thelma Votipka, Arthur Carron, Carlo Morelli and John Gurney are among the supporting ocast. R!CHARD BONELLI'S broadcast will be picked up from Syracuse University, where the opera star will be attending a class reunion. He is to be assisted by the university alumni glee club—WJSV at 9:45. OUIS D'ANGELO, Metropolitan Opera basso; his daughter, Louise; Rufe Davis, rustic comedian; Bert Lynn and his unique ‘“vibrolynn,” Connile Mack, Mrs. John J. McGraw, Walter Hampden and Bert Lytell con- stitute the guest list for Joe Cook's show, a WRC feature at 8:30. OAN BLONDELL is the object of George Fischer's querles on his Hollywood Whispers program, fed to WOL by Mutal at 9:15. ELEN GLEASON, star of opera and operetta, will be featured with Al ‘Goodman’s Orchestra on the Hit Parade show tonight. Peter Van Steeden is to be guest conductor— WJSV at 9 o'clock. 'Hi National Barn Dance marks Memorial day with & group of martial tunes, bugle calls and drum MAY 29, 1937, We, the People Sugar Bill Trade for Judicial Reform Would Be Met by Bitter Resistance. BY JAY FRANKLIN. IM FARLEY is reported to have remarked that Senator O'Mshoney's celebrated conscience regarding reform of the judiciary might not be so0 troublesome when he wanted a new sugar bill. Mr. Farley sajd nothing about the administration’s conscience, yet if Mr. Roose- velt trades judicial reform for the sort of bill the sugar lobby demands, he will be committing a deliberate economic crime against the American people and the more abundant life which the New Deal promised to give them. America’s sweet tooth is one of the biggest headaches of the Roose- velt administration. ‘The facts are so simple that one can only recall 8ir Wilmot Lewis' observation that the more inefficient an American business is, the louder is the noise it makes at Washington and the greater the help it receives from the Government. Ezcept for the cane-growing regions in Florida and Louisiana, sugar is not an economic crop in the continental United States. Fortunately for us, we have at our doorstep the greatest sugar-pro- ducing area in the world: Cuba and the West Indies. In addition to which we have plantations in Hawaii and the Philippines and, of course, Puerto Rico. One would erpect us to welcome the bounties of nature in the Western Hemisphere and to accept our own political geography in satisfying the tremendous demand for sugar on the part of 130,000,000 Americans. Even with the aid of tariff subsidies and quotas on sugar imports, American growers produce only 60 per cent of our annual consumption of about six and a half million tons of raw sugar. There are only about 70,000 farms in this country which produce cane or beet sugar, and the American refining industry em- ploys a bare 14,000 workers, Use of Child Labor, ‘Worse still, to grow sugar- beets requires extensive use of child labor. Oh, sure! “they” have “abolished” child labor in the West- ern beet flelds: It is only a coinci- dence that beet-pickers cannot usually get employment urfless they are married and have children, and that the public schools close down as soon as beet-picking time comes around. Picking beets is hard, dusty work. Pay is low. Migratory Mexicans are preferred—no nonsense about Ameri- can standards of living, strikes or civil liberties is likely when the threat of deportation as an “undesirable alien” hangs heavy over your head. The Department of Agriculture reckons the annual value of our domestic sugar crop—cane and beet—at about $75,000,000. Sec- retary Wallace reckons the additional cost of tariff protection and quotas to the American consumers of sugar at $350,000,000 a year. In other words, we are being gouged at the rate of nearly $3 per year Jor every man, woman and child in America, in order that little children may crawl for long hours under the hot sun, and that what used to be called the sugar trust may coin golden profits out of their misery and our necessities. The beet sugar producers, the cane sugar producers and the American refiners have gotten together in & smooth-working lobby which swings a powerful vote in Congress. What does this lobby care that in 1934 the United States Tariff Commission made an exhaustive investigation of the claims of refiners for public protection and reported to President Roose- velt that the facts did not warrant giving them protection against even foreign competition, What does this lobby care that in 1938 the United Btates Supreme Court, without a single dissenting vote, found that the cane refiners, operating under the name of the Sugar Institute (since renamed the United States Cane Sugar Re- finers' Association) had actually devised 40 different ways of re- straining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws? They have gone ahead and have intrusted new sugar legisla- tion to a select subcommittee, under the chairmanship of ‘Rep- resentative Cummings of Colorado, former president of the National Beet Growers’ Association. This subcommittee has made hay of the New Deal plans to liberalize the present sugar laws. Law Expires This Year. This law, the Jones-Costigan act of 1934, expires on December 31 of this year. It established foreign quotas of less than 3,000,000 tons of raw sugar and them, with unheard-of high-handedness, limited the right of the refiners in American possessions to refine their own quotas for the American continental market. This is the law which, in combination with an admittedly ezhorbitant tarifl, is costing the American public a $350,000,000 subsidy for a $75,000,000 crop. Will Mr. Roosevelt use the December 31 deadline as a club to force Western Senators to vote for his reform bill? group in the administration which is prepared to resist such a trade to the last ditch. arrangements, presented by the Chi- cago Board of Trade American Legion Band—WMAL, 8 o'clock. IT SEEMS that the entire village will gather to do homage to its sole Civil War veteran during the Snow Village Sketch scheduled by WRC for presentation at 8 o'clock tonight. ALUMNAE ELECTS The Alumnae Association of Arling- ton Hall School, Fort Myer, Va., has | elected Miss Beatrice Hegg, 2733 Con- necticut avenue, as its national presi- dent, it was announced yesterday. The association consists of about 500 girls from every State. Several years ago Miss Hegg was winner of a national scholarship award of the school and was later graduated with honors. From the junior college she completed her education at George Washington Uni- versity, where she was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority. She is from South Dakota. ‘opportunny for swimming, There is already a powerful (Copyright, 1937.) —_—_— e PICNIC OUTING PLANNED BY LOUISIANA SOCIETY Bwimming, Boating and Fishing Facilities to Be Available at June 13 Meeting. A picnic and all-day outing will be given by the Louisiana State Society of Washington on Sunay, June 13, at the Robichaux farm, The Oaks, near Galesville, Md. 8ponsors announce there will be boating, fishing and organized games. A 40- passenger yacht will be available for cruises on Chesapeake Bay. ‘The picnic diner, cooked and pre- pared in Louisiana style, will be served between 3 and 5 p.m, pre- ceded by a business meeting at 2 p.m.,, at which time officers will be elected and committees appointed to organive social plans for the next year. CarrtaL’s Rapio PROGRAMS TODAY’S PROGRAM WMAL—630k | WRC—950k | WOL—1,310k MAY 29, 1937. WJISV—1460k PM. Strings and Things News Bulletins ‘Whit, Farm and Home Hour News-Music ‘Cnmpus Capers Matty Levine ney Ensemble News Bulletins Happy Felton's Orch. A Capella Choir 12:00 H. B. Derr 12:15 Dr. Abram Simon 12:30 Buffalo Presents 12:45 Farm and Home Hour Bob Crosby's Orch. Your Host Is Buffalo People’s Lobby W w Golden Melodies 2 wo w Organ Music Vienna Program 8t. 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National Barn Dance »om Metropolitan Opers | i PR G Taky Bt Jamboree I Bnm’v‘ vm.:ce Sketches Joe Sook Joe '(?oot = American Homes Frank Morgan WOL Gpelling Bee Professor Quis Johnnie Presents Central Union Mission Ol'l?'. M?:fl‘e Old Melodrama Slturdl“ !“anldo » i Howard Theater Orch. |Hit fgnd: Hollywood Whispers Saturday Serenade Rhythm Show 0 [Metropolitan Opera News—Music Supper Dance Bill Strickland’s Orch. [Hugo Mariani’s Orch. Henry King's Orch. Ted Weems’ Orch. Rhythm Show Bunny Berigan’s Orch. Robert Horton Shep Field’s Orch. News Bulletins Stumber Hour The Night Watchman » o PR .- = Q'br) ~ Rudy Vallee's Orch. - w Midnight Frolic Chanty Sign Off Labor News Glen Gray's Orch. George Hamliiton's Orch. Happy Felton’s Orch. Jack Denny’s Orch. W Sterling Young's Orch. |Ray Benson's Orch. 'Tommy Tucker’s Orch. L o [Dance u\:lw » An American You Should Know John W. Studebaker Tries Some New The- ories of Education. BY DELIA PYNCHON. F DEMOCRACY is at the crosse roads, direction should be found in public education. The Presi- dent has pointed the way. Sec- retary Ickes has provided schools and meeting places in 2,000 communities. Congress and the States have turned over the funds. The National Bu- reau of Educa- tion, Department of Interior, and its commissioner, John W. Stude- baker, are direct= ing us with edu- cational flood- lights of publica= tions, confer- ences, letters, fo- rums and radio broadcasts. Seventy years ago Congress au- thorized estab- lishment of the bureau. Stude- baker is the tenth commissioner. He believes that “one of the major func- tions of education is to prepare young people by giving them abilities which have a marketable value.” He fol- lowed that course, worked his way through Leander Clark College by lay- ing brick and graduated in 1910 with an A. B.degree. Born in 1887 at McGregor, Towa, the son of a teacher, that pro- fession naturally called him. Stude- baker's contractor friend, on hearing his decision, remarked, “If you stay with me you will amount to some- thing.” Studebaker was obdurate. At Columbia University he received his master's degree. He has taught ever since. Before taking up his duties here in 1934 he established a model school system in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was superintendent for 15 years. He is no dry-as-dust teacher. Stue debaker flings arresting ideas at his pupils. It is the heady wine of free discussion and {free inquiry. The bureau’s projects have brought employment to thousands on relief. It is a ratio of nine relief workers to one Federal. Nineteen demonstration centers, forums for adult education, have brought information, articulation to 36.000 people a year. In collabora=- tion with 10 States (31 begging to Join), the bureau has uncovered data which may help consolidate some of the 127,000 school districts now stum- bling over each other throughout the country. The vocational and educa- tional guidance surveys for Negroes promise hopeful suggestions for im- provement. The radio as a method of diffusing information is in the forefront of Stu- debaker’s progresive ideas. Five times 8 week programs are broadcast on a Nation-wide hook-up to acquaint the people with government and to point new ways of educational advance- ment. Ten thousand fan letters a Wweek testify to their poplarity. 'PLAYGROUND SHIFT PLAN IS PROTESTED Anacostia Citizens' Association Discusses Plans for Annual Field Day. A resolution opposing the transfer of 18 municipal playgrounds from the Playground Department to the Com- munity Center Department of the public schools was passed at a meet- ing of the Anacostia Citizens' Asso- ciation last night. Plans for the annual Anacostia fleld |day were discussed. It was made known that eight citizens' associa« tlons, along with the Lions Club, | American Legion and the Anacostia Business Men's Association, had sig- nified their intentions of participat- ing in the event. The tentative pro- gram calls for sports and varied con- tests to be followed by a parade in the evening. The association was informed through the Highway Department that the street car tracks on Nichols avenue southeast from the Anacostia Bridge to the plow pit would be taken up and the street repaved during the™ latter part of the Summer. It was also made known that Sixteenth street southeast would be paved and the street extended into Anacostia Park across the railroad tracks. ‘The meeting, held in the Anacostia Junior-Senfor High School, Sixteentn and R streets southeast, was the la of the Summer, the association meet- ing again the fourth Friday in Sep- tember. {WISCONSIN U. HONOR | WON BY MISS PATTERSON Daughter of Safety Bureau Di- rector Given Institution’s Highest Athletic Award. Miss Jane Patterson, 20-year-old daughter of W. J. Patterson, director of the Bureau of Safety, Interstate Commerce Commission, has won the John W. Studebaker Grace Hobbins Modie Athletic & Award at the 3 University of % Wisconsin, it was announced today. The prize fis the highest ath- : letic award given to women of the - Midwest institu- tion. p Miss Patterson, a graduate of Western High School, is to re- ceive her college ARl ind Silie. Jane Patterson. She writes for Chicago and Wisconsin newspapers and also helps edit the campus publication, the Cardinal. 8She lives with her parents at 3916 Legation street. ‘Moses the Deliverer’ [f| WISV SUNDAY, 1:30 P.M. Compliments Washington Flour