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THE KEVENIN : What’s Back of It All GTON, D. C, BATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1937 We, the People G STAR, WASHIN fI’H! opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions ma% be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Charity Units| Aided by Tax Headline Folk and What | President’s Silent Threat Puts Congress to Work and Ruling Controversy on Mrs. Roosevelt’s Returns Wins Change. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. T IS an il wind that blows no good. And though the little con- troversy over tax returns may have been a bit annoying to her, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt may justly | be proud of the fact that, through | her influence, the Treasur. Depart- | ment now has made it possible for | eommunity chests, hospitals and charitable organizations to become the bene- ficiaries of mil- & lions of dollars interesting. for home, held his ranks in line pen drop in cotton prices. The demand busy at every bench When the White House first Congress. But Sam Rayburn, energetic House leader, did see it Vice President Garner, of course, was on record for going home and preaching prosperity. Though he didn't say so from the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead agreed heartily. Both felt that it was that might other- wise have been denied them Heretofore taxpaver had report As Rross fncome all sums i earned and be- } fore he or she could assign the income to fty, onme of sest welfare or equitable agencies in the world, name- Iy the Government of the United States, used to insist on its eut in the procee Now all this is ck paver apparently may a week for charity fncome directly to out having the tota counted in as income. This 1% because the Treasury Department has formally announced that it con- eurs in the informal ruling made in 1933 when Robert Jackson was gen- eral cou the Internal Revenue Bureau There are e. always people #1Ch Aas tax experts who want to take the jov out of sisting that ment doe: ean realls did, and t to assian there w against i Congressmen Take Tt Literally, | a to David Lawrence. ged A tax- work one day and assign his ch charity with- | | amount earned | gross sel of of cc v are in- Depart taxpayer | Rooseve else tries ome to charity, | tax levied | dn what some one them 3 Such a supposi a few a accepted boca the Bureau of se. would promptly liings of ! Revenue and ipreme Court held that avoid taxa- me, no matter pappened to be fine or worthy pose. But now Congress are tak- pronouncement by Depariment that a reg- broadeast, extending t a major part of the year. the same thing as an benefit by or ball would very o weeks of the United € ve and no matter how the moti the membe:s ing literally the Treasury ular weekly throughot & just sional actor One the formances of the same class w performed b side of othe mercial wo they are therefore re which perm! one day a w of the occa- an that per- not in ar services, dual along- n the com- ‘easury says taxpaver can e new rulings her to work 1 were hat this wrong and in an by Representa- request for in- eferred to stand by 1g given to Mrs. Roose- than to seem to be proving the poini so many critics have made. This pa was to the effect that tax avoidance and evasion should not be lumped together as President Roosevel: did in his mes- sage to Congress. Roosevelt called them all “clever e schemes” and gave an impress of illegality or taint to what apparently were in some eases legitimat» within the law. Mistake Could Be Rectified. Fven if Mrs advised and form to the law matter to have YThe Internal Revenue Bureau could levy an extra or deficiency assess- ment and the proceeds of one or two weekly broadeasts would easily cover She amount which, might be argued, was due the Treasury. But Mrs. Roosevelt isn't to blame # the Treasurv officials gave her poor advice. She was frank about | the transaction and disclosed it in' advance, telling the Government exactly what she planned by the! eontract. They gave her a special privilege when they ruled on her 4ax problem before the end of the ealendar year in which she earned the money. If the Treasury officials were careless or attempling to curry favor with the President’s wife by giving her a secret ruling waich hap- pens to be inconsistent with previous rulings and precedents, there is not | the slightest blame attached to Mrs. | Roosevelt But what of ofther citizens who | want the same treatment? This leads | Representative Fish of New York to write to Secretary of the Treasury | Morgenthau as follows: | “My only interest in this matter | Is to see that rich and poor, in- | fuential and lowly men and women sre given the same consideration in | regard to advisory opinions on pro- spective or consummated transactions. “I would like to advise my| econstituents that they may hereafter | devote one day a week of their | regular earned income to & chnriuble' purpose, and that it would not be necessary to report it as gross in- come. This would be highly bene- fictal to charitable organizations, but | I am afrald would serve as a loophole, particularly for economic royalists to evade payment of 60 per cent in taxes on gifts they desire to make | to charity.” | But so long as the charities get the money, it apparently is con- sidered proper. Then the Treasury's ruling in support of what Mrs. Roose- velt did is a great break for the many drives which will begin in the Autumn months. Some day the 15 per cent deduction for charity will be abolished and citizens will be permitted to give 100 per ocent of their incomes to charity. But until that day comes the charity-minded producers of wealth will have to be rcontent to use the roundabout de- vice now sponsored by Government officials and sanctioned for use by Mrs. Roosevelt. tCopyrizght M ) ansactions Ronsevell was poorly did not con- d be a simple stake rectified 1927) | stopping production lines. {CAPITAL PHOTOGRAPHER time to take a rest. But Leader Rayburn won, and the legislative mills have been heads-you-lose strategy, it didn't sink in. “adjournment” was on every tongue. It wasn't realized at first that the President might score if he could 80 to the country and display a “nothing done” record on the part of Adjournment in Background. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. HE explanation behind the apparent about-face of Congress which changed its slogan from “let's go” to “let's legislate” is simple but Sam Rayburn, House majority leader, helped stop the stampede nd then all sorts of things began to hap- ‘The cry went up for Federal help for agriculture as a result of the for an appointment of Justice Van Devanter's successor was raised. And soon it seemed that a lawmaker was privately revealed a tails-I-win- That was last week, when grinding so fast that it is quite possible they won't be able to stop by the end of the month. * o The strange tale of William Green, president of the A. F. of L. the role of king's messenger when he of Education and Labor and saved t * in galloped up to the House Committee he wages and hours bill from being adopted as the Senate passed it, has another tale behind it ‘The generally accepted version, namely that the President had broken a promise of “hands off " and was interfering with Congress, is contradicted in White House circles. This is their side: President Green got in touch with would like to strengthen the Senate He said he understood the House was the White House and said he version of the wages and hours bill. going to kill its own version in com- mittee and accept the one passed by the Senate. So a request went down to Majority Leader Rayburn, asking action in committee until Mr. Green could say his say the Hill “through channels” to if he could arrange to postpone But Ray- burn, who is all for getting things done, said there wasn't time. ‘The White House thought it had goue as far as it could was notified to this effect, but told A. F. of L. amendments were worth With that much encouragement with the idea of asking to appear. Norton came in. but was informed that it was not an open hearing. Green then said whatever he said on , Mr. Mr. Green that the President thought that the considering Green went to the committee He arrived just as Chairman Mary Mr. the subject of the President’'s views and asked for time to present his amendments. Mrs. Norton relayed the message, in a phraseology variously interpreted, and the committee adjourned, some Later Mr. Green took the blame for t of the members exceedingly wroth he “misunderstandings.” Somewhere along the line, friends of the administration say, the Presidents approval “in prin- ciple” of Mr. Green's mission was metamorphosed into a demand. * % ox & While Congress battles there are some individual going on about the air-cooling systems hereabouts. Some old- fashioned folk who don't believe you should interfere with the sea- on, battles as the Lord has decreed them have discovered that the one new build- ng in the Government t Health Service Inquiry at the office of the sur t has no air-conditioning system is the Public geon general reveals, however, that Uncle Sam's No. 1 doctor has not prescribed perspiring as a health measure He thinks installation of a piant now ing, not the health of its occupants It was Dr. Parran’s predecessor, would ruin the beauty of the build- Surgeon General Cumming, who was i ofice when the plans for the building were okayed, and he t at leas wrned thumbs down on the cooling, which, say the complainers, proves that doctors disagree on the subject There is one section of the Public Health Service building, however, which is air cooled. It is the dental clinic. equipped at a cost of $40,000 because one of its patients feit that a man in a dental chair has enough to worry about without suffering from the heat The patient was the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau The Public Health Service is under t teeth have been under treatment by t The Secretary is also credited he Treasury, and Mr. Morgenthau's he Public Health Service with having ordered the beautiful landscaping visible from the dental chairs, possibly in the hope that an esthetic anodyne may take the place of a (Copyright, OPEN NEW PARLEY Union Leaders Charge Firm | Warts to ““Build Case” Against Them. By the Associated Press DETROIT, August 7.—Representa- tives of the Plymouth Motor Co. of Chrysler Corp. and of the United Auto- mobile Workers of America return to- day to a conference that in three days has produced no indication of when the Plymouth plant, which normally employes 11,000, will reopen. Union leaders postponed a trip to Milwaukee to attend their national convention to take part in a new par- ley, although Richard Frankensteen, organization director for the U. A. W, | charged the corporation was more con- cerned with “building a case” against the union than in seeking to restore production in a slack season. Company spokesmen on their part said they had twice offered to reopen the plant, but could obtain from union conferees no assurance that U. A. W. | members would return to work. | Each faction has repeatedly accused the other of violating an agreement reached last March, following a strike which tied up all Chrysler divisions. Meanwhile, 11,000 Plymouth em- | ploves and approximately 10,000 mm‘ and women in tributary factories re- | mained idle | The union demands reinstatement of four men discharged Wedneaday after | the beating of two members of an in- | dependent labor organization of Chrys- | | ler employes, avowedly formed as a rival to the U. A. W. The company asserts the attack on | the independents touched off disturb- ances in which 10 men were injured, | leading to a riot call to Detroit police. | A sit-down strike of U. A. W. mem- | bers in a key department in protest against the dismissal of their two fol- lows necessitated the general closing order, the corporation said. The union referred to the stoppage as a “lockout” and contended its members laid down their tools only | after the company had turned off | the power in the plant, effectively | IN MEXICO IS SAFE Officlals of the National Geographic Society said today they received a cable from Louis Marden, 25-yenr-l old photographer employed by the or- ganization, who had been reported missing in Mexico. Fear had been expressed for the safety of Marden after members of the family of Samuel Revilla, a Mex- ican who accompanted the photog- rapher as guide, said they had received no word since the two left Perote, in Vera Cruz, two weeks ago. Marden is now in Mexico City, of- ficials said. He had been following the route of Cortez, sixteenth century con- queror of Mexico, in quest of pictures for the National Geographic Magazine. His home here is in the Westchester Apartments. anesthetic, 1937, 4,000 Home Limit In Bill Is Decried As ‘Birth Control’ ¥ Confines Diwellings North to Four Rooms, Critic Says. | By the Associated Press BOSTON. August 7.-—Chairman | John Carroll of the State Housing Board today characterized as “a birth control measure” a Wagner housing bill clause, approved yesterday by the Senate, which limited to $4.000 the cost of a family unit. Asserting satisfactory housing units cannot be built for less than $1.000 a room in Northern States, Carroll as- serted the clause automatically con- fined the size of units in this section of the country to four rooms. “What is going to happen to the man with four or five children?” he questioned. “It is a birth control are among those behind it. It means that no family unit larger than four rooms, excepting wood shacks, will be built. POLICEMAN AIDED BY MRS. JENCKES Josiah Lyman Swears Out War- rant for Assault After Parking Ticket Dispute. Democrat, of Indiana made a special trip to Police Court yesterday in an effort to help a citizen of her district who was accused of blackjacking in| | be early enough, | scarcity | proposed recently and was . was deferred Crop Control Pushed Senators Seek Special Session for Passage to Turn Loose Loans BY MARK SULLIVAN. INCE last Tuesday dispatches about crop-control legislation have been coming out of Washington with increasing fre- quency. The flow began when Mr, Roosevelt told a press conference there must be crop control if the prices of crops are to be kept up. New Deal Senator Hugo Black of Ala- bama has circu- lated a petition calling for a spe- cial session of Congress in Oc- tober to pass a crop control act. President Roose- velt is described as saying that the new session in January will i peovided t h e leaders of Con- gress agree to act at that time Let us see what unlies this: | Southern Congressmen go to Mr. | Roosevelt and point out that the price of cotton is going down—it has gone, roughly, from 12 cents a pound to 10. The Southern, Congressmen say to Mr. Roosevelt, “Prevent this, keep the price up.” By keeping the price up they mean the administration | should buy up the surplus cotton or loan money on it To this President Roosevelt replies He says, in effect: “I won't do it un- less you in Congress give me a law, | a crop control law, a law by which | Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and I can limit the amount of cotton grown " That's fair enough—provided you accept the principle of national plan- ning, national restriction, national But if we are going to ac- cept that principle and act on it we | ought to realize what we're heading | into. Especially ought the farmer to know Mark Sullivan. McGill-Pope Bill Deferred. Now just what is the crop control law the President wants? He doesn't say in detail. A crop control meas- ure cailed the McGill-Pope bill was to have | been considered by this Congress, but Whether this crop con- trol measure is the one the President | has in mind I don't know. I don't know what the measure is. I have not read it. No one person—not even one who gives all his time 10 it and works pretty hard at it—can read and fol- low adequately all the measures that are hurried into Congress and some of them passed by Congress. That is | one of the difficulties here. Laws are not understand them writien and passed under such pres- sure that the public does not under- stand them, sometimes Congress does | But whatever crop control law is | proposed, 1f it is to be effective it must | EMBASSY PIKET have what former A. A. A. Adminis- | trator George Peek used to call “teeth.” “Teeth” means criminal pen- alties—it means put you in jail | Consider the A. A. A. crop control we had for three vears. until the | | Supreme Court declared it unconsti- | potato control. | act was passed in August, 1935, | potatoes than the quota the admin- | the buyer of bootlegged potatoes was | to be sent to jail too. {buying potatoes from whomever he | | Government at to Farmers. tutional. That early A. A. A. crop control was wholly voluntary. The administration offered the individual farmer money if he would reduce the acreage he had been planting in cotton. The farmer could take the administration’s offer or leave it—it was purely voluntary. Some farmers took the Government money and re- duced their acreage. Some other farmers did not—they saw the ad- ministration’s purpose was to raise the price of cotton and they took a change on planting their usual acreage and selling it at the higher price the Government would bring about. Limitation Made Compulsory. In the net, on the voluntary basis, not enough farmers reduced their acreage. So then the limitation had to be made compulsory. The law was changed. Under the new system, in effect about a year, the Govern- ment told every farmer just how much cotton he co raise. Secretary Wal- lace gave each farmer a quota—so many sacres and no more. If the farmer raised more, he couldn't sell it—if he tried to sell it he was subject to criminal penaities; he would be bit by the legal teeth. Under that compulsion the admin- istration got the reduction it wanted; | millions of acres were forbidden to | cotton. But the farmers, not liking | idle acres, looked about to see what else they could raise in place of cot- ton. A good many chose to raise potatoes. Thereupon there were too many potatoes. Now there must be So a potato control | The potato control law went farther yet— it had a double row of teeth only was the farmer to be put in| jail if he ralsed and tried to sell more istration dictated to him: in addition Act Was Short-Lived. Unfortunately—or fortunately—the potato control law did not live long enough to get into operation on a crop. Tt was passed in August and the following January the Supreme Court declared it and the rest of A A A unconstitutional. America was deprived of the opportunity of seeing what America would do when the administration tried to put & farm- er in jail for raising as many potatoes as he felt like, and when it tried to put an American citizen in jail for | chose to buy them from That is what crop control by the | Washington means. That is what crop control comes to. The first form of a crop control bill | may not contain the penal feature The first form of A. A. A. did not contain it. But the penal feature | the fine and imprisonment feature, is bound to come, as it came in A. A. A, And crop eontrol means more than | | & law containing fine and imprison- | ment. It means a Supreme Oourt | that will uphold such a law. If Mr Roosevelt is to have a crop control | law with teeth, he must have a differ- | ent Supreme Court, the kind he set out to get by his court measure. Only & Roosevelt court would hold a penal | erop control law constitutional. (Copyright. 1837.) PERLS ARE CED | | Dangers of Demonstrations | Stressed in Statements by Police. | The House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee has received statements from local | police officials assigned to recent pick- | etings here which “dramatically point out the danger of such demonstrations | held adjacent to Embassies and Leg: tions,” Chairman McReynolds said yesterday. { He emphasized that the bill reported | by his committee at the request of Josiah Lyman, well-known local at-| torney, during an argument over a parking ticket. Lyman had sworn out an assault warrant against Capitol Policeman Myron Henderson after the officer al- legedly struck him over the head with the blackjack as he started to use a telephone in the guard room of the | new House Office Building. When the case came up for & hearing yesterday it was continued for a week and Representative Jenckes told the court she would be responsible for | Officer Henderson's appearance in court at that time. Henderson is from | Terre Houte, which also is Mrs. Jenckes’ home. Lyman claimed Henderson forced him to leave his car and go to the guard room after giving him a ticket for parking in a restricted zone. ENGLAND WILL EXPEL THREE NAZI NEWSMEN LONDON, August 7 (#).—Three German newspaper correspondents in London are to be expelled from Eng- land after the British home office re- fused to renew their permits, it was disclosed today. They are Herr von Crome, chief London correspondent for the Ber- liner Lokal Anseiger; Herr Wrede and Herr Langer of the newmger service Graf Reichachach. | country. measure and 1 suspect social workers | | nothing constructively to the solution Representative Virginia E. Jenckes, | 5 Y 3 | of foreign Embassies and Legations. the State Department affects freedom of speech in no sense in this | “The right of Americans to protest | the actions of their own or any other | country remains intact,” he said. “An | American’s right of petition is not | aflected; his freedom of assembly is assured.” Tacidents in Past Year. The State Department's request was made as the result of several incidents | during the last year that might easily have led to serious consequences in the foreign relations of this country, | McReynolds pointed out. “Such slo- gans as ‘Mussolini Murders Babies’ | have been paraded before the Italian | Embassy. Any thinking person will | realize that such placard can add | of foreign differences and are likely | to and have in the past incited pickets to march before the Italian Embassy chanting ‘Down With Mussolini.’ “‘On several other occasions, accord- ing to police inspectors, demonstrators have attempted to invade the property Some have gone so far as to attempt to make speeches from the steps of the Embassies.” Neutrality Legislation Cited. McReynolds pointed out that Con- gress has been devoting itself to neu- trality legislation and that the bill prohibiting picketing near Embassies | and Legations is supplemental to legis- lation assuring Americans will never again be called upon to shed their blood in wars not of their own making. “In God's name,” pleaded McReyn- olds, “let our national sense of pro- portion prevent us from the occasion for entanglements that will benefit only the grave digger.” SERVICES READ OVER AIRLINER CRASH SITE By the Associated Press. CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, August 7.—From a plane circling low over the sea where a Pan-American-Grace airliner crashed with 14 persons aboard, Chaplain L. J, Johnson of the United States Navy yesterday read services for the victims. The tribute from the sair was ren- dered at sea 20 miles west of Cristobal, 8 miles off the coast of Panama, where the big amphibian plun into the water Monday. Wreaths yere dropped. Singer Will Sue Uncle Adviser As Will Directs Luey Monroe io Carry Out Mother’s Ironical | Plea in Court. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK., August 6.—Attempt- ing to fulfill the will of her dead mother, Lucy Monroe, radio singer, today faced the strange contradiction of prosecuting & lawsuit against the man whose financial guidance she was 1 | to accept. | The mother left the young singer | {2 bequest in the form of a $41.147 | lawsuit against Miss Monroe's uncle, | Roland G. Monroe, a banker. From Surrogate James A. Foley the radio | star obtained authorization tc prose- | cute the suit. | However, another section of the will | urged Miss Monroe to accept the guidance of the man she is suing. | The clause read “I suggest that my daughter be guided by the advice of her uncle in | all money matters.” The mother, Mrs. Anna L. Mon- roe, a former Broadway ‘comedienne, ended her life by gas last April 15. Miss Monroe's attorney, Sol A. Rosen- blatt, declined t disclose the basis of Mrs. Monroe's claim against Roland Monroe. o SCOUT VISITING D. C. DIES FROM INFECTION Joseph T. Buckroyd, 16, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Succumbs at Naval Hospital. Joseph T. Buckroyd, 16, Dodge, Iows, who came here to at- tend the Boy Scout Jamboree, died in Naval Hospital last night after a month’s iliness. Joseph, a Life Scout, came here | with his brother, Jimmy, 13, and 35 other 8Scouts from Fort Dodge. He ‘was stricken & month ago today with 2 blood infection. Taken to the Gov- ernment hospital, he became a ‘“pet” patient because of his cheerfulness and good disposition. Doctors worked valiantly to save him, giving him a blood transfusion daily for the last 20 days. Realizing death was imminent, physicians on July 12 summoned the youth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville R. Buckroyd, who have since been living at 2111 G street. Joseph's body was to be viewed by other Scouts at Chamber's funeral parlor, Fourteenth and Chapin streets, today. It will be sent to Fort Dodge tonight for burial. Cape Cod Signs Ordered Down. BOSTON, August 7 (#).—The Btate moved last night to protect the beauty of Cape Cod. Public Works Commis- sioner William F. Caliahan issued an order for removal of all signs and bill- boards erected illegally along the Cape roads, a5 of Fort | | that are well | California. Conservative Southern Democrats Join G. O. P. to Gain Control of New Deal Party. BY JAY FRANKLIN. GROUP of conservative Southern Senators, secretly encouraged by the Vice President of the United States, recently joined hands with the Republicans to ignore the election returns in an effort to gain control of the New Deal party. They now seek to justify this be- trayal of their oldest and most sacred political tradition—party “regu- larity”—by raising a protest against the administration's labor reforms. Ever since the birth of the New Deal the South has had a constant and persuasive voice in shaping our national labor policy. So the effort of the Jack Garner-Pat Harrison team to prevent our having a national labor policy is something which deserves an investigation, In the closing moments of the first round of the fight to reform the Supreme Court, it was clearly understood that Mr. Roosevelt might pack the court till there was standing room only, if he would agree to drop the Black-Connery labor standards bill, openly disavow John L. Lewis and the C. 1. O. and impound 10 per cent of the current relief appropriation The President refused commit hara-kiri on these terms Later the word spread that Con- gress might well show its re- spect. for Joe Robinson’s memory "GONEWITH _J7) THEWIND" to by completely abandoning the Democratic campaign pledges of 1936 and going home at once. As these lines are written, the struggle for adjourn- ment 1s still raging and the outcome in doubt, with all the conservative press urging that Congress should not legislate hastily—after a session which has already been considering these matters for seven deadly months! In labor matters the South has a sirong claim for sympathetic con- sideration. Southern manufacturers are entitled to a wage differential which will prevent their infant industr from being strangled at birth. Southern unlonization must come along Southern lines, with due re- gard to regional ideas and institutions. The South has a right to ask that Federal relief funds be not used so as to dislocate its agricultural labor supply. The South has suffered long enough under Northern tariffs, Northern banks, Northern corporations to deserve a fair break on its natural advantages in climate, cheap electricity (if only the T. V. A elc survives the courts), economic resources and unsophisticated labor. To say that, is to say everything that Southern conservatives honestly believe. That does not mean, however, that the South has the right to demand that the National Government abandon all eflort to improve and regulate general labor standards. That does not mean that the South, which fears the C. 1. O.. has the right to demand that Roose- velt betray the industrial workers who voted for him. That does not mean that the South has the right to demand that the needy shall go hungry or unclad in order to tnsure plantation owners with half-starved sharecroppers. There should be no confusion on this issue: The South’s special problems of labor and relief require special treatment, not the general abandonment of the national eflort to raise living standards, prevent human misery and improve condi- tions of labor Under these circumstances we might ask who owns these “Southern™ industries which the Bourbons are so eager to proiect. That many of them are run as sweat shops, that there is child labor, woman labor and other symptoms of human exploitation is not the basic 1ssue. If the South could amass capital by maintaining temporary coolie conditions, the gen- eral social and economic level might rise and the “Southern differential” remove itself. The vast majority of these Dixie industries controlled by Northern monev. The profits of the sweat shops go north— to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Phila- delphia, New York, Hartford and Boston. The goods thus squeezed out of Southern workers aiso go north, to compete with and under- seil the goods produced by more generous emplovers and better- paid workmen. The problem is thus a national problem, not a sectional one—snd the North has no more intention of letting Northern capital use the South as a base from which to beat down wages and standards of labor in the North than the North had of enforcing the f e slave law The whole situation thus becomes a pretty sordid spectacie of some Southern politicians actng as a congressional front for the same Northern task masters who held the South in economic subjection for 30 years and who now propose 1o exhaust Southern resources and exploit Southern backwardness in order to beat Northern labor into becoming sibmissive- ness. The only surprise is to discover that so m Southerners in Con- &ress have become economic scalawags for the Wall Sireet carpet-baggers who now own the South, most of whose wealth and some of whose leaders they bought up at depression values—dirt cheap! (Coprright, 197 Nature’sfi 7Children however, are owned or “Whispering Fungus” (Elvela mitra) BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. MAGINE lying down in the woods to take a nap upon some soft ! fungus, besides its habit moasy bed and hearing a queer sort of whispering going on close | by! | There are several species of fungus | that put on their whispering campaign. This one can be piucked, piaced in a box with a cover and the lid removed suddenly. The whispering will con- tinue sharply at first, then fainter and | still fainter until the fungus dies. Most of the whispering members known are found in However, where there | 1 inzs found on it and one of the mast of low,” is that the stems are never alike! (Cop MRS. JAMES TARVIN 1937) ington, Ky., Former Vice President of U. D. C. Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin, 77 of Judge Tarvin of Covington, died Thursdav at her home. | Columbia road, after a short iliness. ¢ Mrs Tarvin was at one time . widow the Confederacy in Kentucky. Just a genealogy of the Pryor, Belt Young families of Kentucky. . Her body was taken last are pine woods and steep inclines. | covington, where well covered With & deep carpet of | airancements will be made pine needles, you may find numbers . gpe i of them, These fungi are composed of tWo g geanap parts, black caps and white, fluted 3 stems. On some the caps are buff | colored and the shape is convoluted night is sury her son, Assistant Attorney eral intriguing facts about the whispering “talking DIES AT HOME HERE Widow of Judge Tarvin of Cov- 1954 | vice iprpsm‘em of the United Daughters of | before her death she had completed and to funeral and burial John | W. Beit, who is an assistant to Joseph Gen- | ar | up generations’ They Do Co-Designer of Ranger Comes From a Sail- ing Family. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON THE news backwash of the America’s cup race. young Olin J. Stephens seems to have been neglected. As co-designer of tha Ranger, with the veteran W. Burgess, he was a shy, bbspectacled onlooker with nobody suspecting that he had had a hand in bringing through the fastest yacht in history “He'll clumb the rigging as his father used to do." is the refrain of the rowdy old “bell-bottomed trousers" song. In this case 1t was the grand- father. The late Olin J, Stephens was a Bronx coal dealer, holder of the Harlem River singles sculling chame pionship, a famous oarsman and ail- und yard sailing man. This grow- g file of short-take biographies shows many instances of grandson. their grandfatier's ta biological principle @f “alternation of seems to work with humans as well as ‘with vinegar flies N | and polyps Specifically, as to Olin J. Stephens, he was sailing boats from the day he could toddle. In 1913, he and his brother, Roderick, jr. won the tra ocearic race from Newport to Plv- mouth, England, and the fastnet race while they were over there. Their yaul Dorade, was less than halt he size of Columbus' Santa’ Maria. They made it in 17 davs. Olin J. phens was then 23, the young ever compe such the an with er and grandfather cheering the dock when they landed They're a sailing familv. Grandpa's Bronx coal estab- Yhers hem at back home | lished in 1853, grew to be the Stephens | Fue| Co., and he was chairman of the board ung Olin could wangle any kind of b he wanted ot of his doting grandfather. Slight in stature, studious-looking behind his glasses. he was s00n dgep in the subtleties of dr- He 1ooks like a book sailor is one. at that. but he knows build boats and sail them Harold Sterling Vanderbilt by putting on th t afterguard ever nteresting in sign and how 10 sma. d Ranger used in view of | the dazzling performancesof Stephens | | because new withhold eame d N% |E. M h and the other youngsters on Dorade. Mavbe England would dn better if it would let in some young biood somewhere along the line pYriz 7 POTOMAC FLOOD CONTROL DELAYED Division Engineer Declines Al lotments for Four Projects in Basin No work will be done this year on the four flood-control projects al- ready approved by Congress for the Potomac Basin at Cumberland. Moore- field, W. Va., Harpers Ferry and Wash- ington This report was received yesterday at the office of the Chief of Engineers, T, 8. Army from Col. Earl I. Brown, Di- vision Engineer in Richmond The theory was advanced by upoffi- cial but authoritative sources today that allotments for the four projecis were refused by the division engineer considerations in flood control have arisen at the four points since the floods of 1936 and 1937 Although the division engineer fs usually the one to grant or refuse funds for projects in his district, un- official sources the decision to from Maj. Gen. of Army Engi- sa Markham, chief neers Flood control for the Potomac Val- ley was first authorized in an omni- bus flood control bill in 1936. At that time the four above-mentioned projects were adopted. Some 30 projects and recommendations at present are in- cluded in a report made by the U S Engineer Office here, headed by Ma) Walter D. Luplow. No Need for ‘uspenderi. SEATTLE, Wash. (& —Why motormen wear red suspenders’ They don’t any more in this town Street railway superintendent iasied AN order permitting ecar operators to go without coats, but “suspenders.” he added, “are out—belts only " “There is no need for suspends while & man is operating a street car or bus,” he said > do and brainlike in form. The stems are | always white, though they may be- come stained from the inky coloring matter contained in the caps. Cut one or more of the stems open lengthwise or crosswise and you will disclose irregular canals. When the spores are ripe they are a powdery” flour which is thrown off at the right time for the wind to carry them afar. The cap tissue looks firm and brittle but it is exceedingly tough, for a fungus. Lying on a bed of moss or pine needles after you have closed your ears to all other sounds you are | familiar with, you become aware of one persistent one that reminds you of steam beig released from & small | opening. At first you are likely ta‘ regard the sound as coming from some | animal close by that has been racing madly and has stopped for breath. | Or perhaps, since you are aware of the wars waged or the private battles | fought by so many of the insects, you decide this letting off of steam is | attributed to one of these causes. | However, you see a large number or‘ strange looking fungi nearby and you g0 to investigate them. | Upon close inspection you observe | movement upon the spore gills. And under s magnifying glass you see that the spore sacs are arranged in one long receptacle, eight to each sac. Further, every tiny sac is provided | with a lid at the top! When the | apores are ready for flight, each wind i that pesses over them develops a suction of air strong enough to pull open the lids of the ripe ones. The tiny lids flying open, since there are thousands of them on & large fungus, free the spores and hence the explana- tion of the whispering! Most of the caps of the whispering fungus are- inky black. And these caps are often fastened to the upper part of the stem. Sometimes you will find the cap and stem free of each other. The, stem itself is waxy white in the early stages of its growth. It is very handsomp and always fluted. There are long ajits of rounded open- @he Foening Hfar B o Portner Pharmacy—2001 I5th St. N.W. Is an Authorized Star Branch Office result Star Class ADVERTISEMENT : RECEIVED HE¢ CLEARLY worded advertisemént under a i proper classification in The Star Classified Section is the most logical way to locate some one who can supply that want. 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