Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1940, Page 11

Republicans Hit for Stand On Hour Law Leaders’ Inaction Seen As Scuttling Needed Changes By DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The farcical performance in the| House whereby amendments to the | wage and hour law were defeated through the simple process of load- ing the measure . with extreme changes, so that the bill on final Jassage was ob- aoxious even to ¥s original gponsors, re- fects a serious veakness in the legislative proc- eis. The crux of tte situation is the absence of party responsi- bilty or leader- shb. The Re- David Lawrence. | pullican party, which is asking the | comtry to give it control of Con- | drum up trade that might otherwise be alienated by the President’s in- {also less suitable from the THE EVENING The Capital Parade Question of Possible Roosevelt Running Mates Being Discussed Among New Dealers f By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER. The New Dealers are now saying that the President will be chosen’ at Chicago willy-nilly, whether he seeks to reject or hurries to accept a third nomination. Whether or no the New Dealers are correct, the question of possible running mates for the President has begun to agitate the local wiseacres. Two alternate theories of suitability are heard in the talk One is that on a ticket with the President, the vice presidential candidate should be chosen among men who would placate the conserva- tive Democrats and promote party unity. The other theory more common in the New Deal group than else- where, is that he should be a man with large Western following, able to creasing concentration on foreign policy. In the first category, the men most often mentioned are: Sam Rayburn, House majority leader. Kindly, shrewd, moderate in his views, but not a forceful personality, Rayburn is close to Vice President John N. Garner, and well-liked both by the Democratic conservatives and the New Dealers whom he helped to put over the Utilities Holding Com- pany Act. At present, he leads the betting. James F. Byrnes, the South Carolina Senator who many think the most influential man in Con- gress. A great master of the legis- lative process, a moderate conserva- = tive, with innumerable friends in and out of the Democratic party, Byrnes would be a stronger but less well-known nominee than Rayburn. He is sectional standpoint, but if elected would probably make a Vice President much more powerful than Garner himself Burton K. Wheeler, the Montana Senator, whose strength in the gres in the next elections, avoided | takiag a position on the wage and | hour bill and, as a consequence, the smocthly functioning machinery of the ninority went to pieces. Jus. why the Republican leader- | ship ecided to scuttle the wage and hour issue and assist the ad- minist:ation in killing the measure | will probably never be explained | because, unfortunately, the various votes on the amendments are not recorded. The practice of going into the Tommittee of the Whole, | where only 100 members are needed | for a quolum and where there is| no roll cal and votes are taken by voice only, makes it possible for a measure tqcome out of the Com- | mittee of the Whole in a form that | nhobody wisles to see passed. Farm Ixtremists Step In. All this, of course, has been known for gveral days on Capitol Hill. The Republicans were told some time ajo that thev were not to be held lo party strategy, but| could vote vithout regard to the consequences 'o the bill itself. Sub- stantial suppgt had arisen in the | House for cerpin moderate amend- ments to the wage and hour law, but the extrenists in the agricul- tural group waited so many exemp- tions that it w& impossibie to write | & satisfactory neasure on the floor. Usually legisation is carefully considered in tle regular commit- tees of the Hoise and the party leaders know inadvance how they wish to see their followers line up. The crisscross of influence on wage &nd hour legislaton is not new. A year ago somethiry of the same sort faced the House vhen efforts were made to get exemptions for agri- cultural workers. Then, as now, amendments deened desirable by the administrationhad a chance ot passage. The fight goes bak to the original controversy when the law was passed. Except forRepublican aid from New England itates, the wage and hour legislatia would never have heen passed. The New Eng- | land Reputlicans sa a chance to put their Southern brethren in a ! dilemma by forcing sn the statute | books a law that tould tend to| raise costs for Soutlern busines: men, particularly in he textile ir dustry. The section] differences amounted in reality to an old- fashioned tariff fight. Leaves Inequiies Today, as a conseqence of the telfish groups in Congrss, the wage end hour law, with i§ many in- equitable provisions tha affect mil- lions of workers and tleir possible income, remains unamenjed and the chances are no bill wil be resur- rected at this session o Congress. The idea of putting a minimum | wage into law has been welcomed by liberals as a desirabk move in social progress. But the fixing of | maximum hours no longet has any- thing to do with healthor sweat &hop conditions. It is a jevice to | raise labor costs by cqnpelling “time and a half” to be pad for all | time worked above a certan maxi- mum. Since in most busineges there { cannot be an extra shift enployed economically and the “timéand-a- half” provision means more pxpense than can be passed on, thd conse- quence is a reduced output rbr man and a corresponding econor\ic loss to the nation. In France the insistencelon a 40-hour week frustrated the jroper developments of armament |plans and had more to do with the paredness of the French | i factor. Today the 40-hour we: been repealed in France und impulse of war necessity. In Al tons. All this occurs notwithstanfiing a limitation of 10 per cent alrqady imposed by law on the profits {hat manufacturers can make on njval contracts in the United States| Small Businesses Included. | Since Congress has assumed }he right to fix minimum wages &nd maximum hours—a right which the Supreme Court has never affirmed— the public ‘has been expecthg thoughtful consideration on the fe- lationship between wage and haur laws and the opportunity of small businesses, in particular, to continue to meet rising costs. Small bug- nesses, however, are forced to accept the same regultion as their more financially poweful competitors. As for wage iicreases, the middie bracket of emplayes has unquestion- ably suffered Jy reason of the arbitrary levels inposed by Congress without concern ‘or the flexible con- ditions that used to permit wage Increases on the basis of efficiency and merit. The wage and hour law has meri- torious provisions relating to mini- mume.wages, but the fixing of maxi- mum hours consttutes an inflexible formula which dnws no distinction between persons vho earn as much, {or instance, $10,000 a year and ought to work more thar 40 hours a week, and those who earn $1,000 a year and deserve som¢ of the money which otherwise his to be paid to the high salaried enployes. Congress was i a m to straighten out someo1 these kinks in the law, but the Reuplican leader- ship, despite its jrotestations of interest in the fate if small business in America, looked he other way. (Reproduction Rigts Reserved.) B o i Ulster is providing sufficient flax- seed free to cover 0,000 additional ,. &cres this year, country is equaled only by his lack of strength with the President Wheeler stands almost as well as Byrnes or Rayburn with the Demo- cratic conservatives. If it were not so likely that the President would object violently Wheeler would be the best bet of all, for he also. fits into the second theory. having many friends in the isolationist West. Other candidates mentioned under the second theory are: Henry A. Wallace, the serious Secretary of Agriculture, who is generally respected, ought to be strong with the farmers. and would not really anger any one. Harold L. Ickes, the rambunctious Secretary of the Interior, who would probably be the New Dealers’ choice if they did not have to worry about politics. Rightly or wrongly, Ickes is thought by the New Dealers to have as many Western admirers as Wheeler. Practical politicians pooh-pooh this notion, and even the New Dealers acknowledge that their favorite cabinet member would enrage the anti-New Deal Democrats, Straw in the Wind A small but important sign of the lack of opposition to the Presi- dent’s policy of “methods short of war” in aid of the democracies was the auick congressional action on the amendments to the Trading With the Enemy Act. Under this act, it will be remembered, the President issued an executive order forbidding the withdrawal from this country of Danish and Norwegian gold, dollar balances or securities. Amendments were required because the lawyers of the Guaranty Trust Co. in New York doubted the President's power to keep the Danish and Norwegian securities here. The bank’s lawyers suggested the amendments to the Treasury in a highly co-operative spirit. Secre- tary of the Treasury Henry Morgen- thau, jr, then asked the House and JUST TO STAR T Star’s eflort to give all sides 'HE opintons of the writers necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The readers, although such opinions may be contradictery among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. D. C, SATURDAY, on thts page are their own not o] questions of interest to its The Political Mill Farley, Silent on Third Terrn, Has Advantage In Playing Waiting Game With'President By G. GOULD LINCOLN. There 15 'a strange waling game going on in the Democratic party with two principal players. One is Postmaster General James A. Farley and the other is President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Farley is wait- § ing to hear what President Roose- velt says about § running for a7 third term—be- fore he himself makes any statement about a third-term nomination. Ob- viously, Mr. Far- ley does not have to say whether he will fight a third-term nomination—or that he will support it—in advance of a decision in this matter by the President. The third-term boomers would like very much to know what the Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic National Com- mittee—not to menticn chairman of the Democratic State Committee of New York—is going to do if and when the President says he will run again. There is reason to believe they do not discount Mr. Farley's very real influence with the leaders G. Gould Lincoln, of the Democratic organization in | many of the States. Furthermore, if Mr, Farley should say flatly he was opposed to a third- term nomination for Mr. Roosevelt or any other man, after Mr. Roose- velt had declared himself in the race again, and if Vice President Garner should take a similar stand —what a situation would be pre- sented to the Democratic party The President would find himself in opposition to the men who did most for his first nomination—in 1932. The one had labored for months and months to build up a Roosevelt bloc of delegates at the Democratic National The other, at the critical moment. Senate Committees on Banking and Currency that they be passed 2 ¥ promptly, st to make sure.” Both committees include several professed | isolationists: for example, Senators Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, John A. Danaher of Connecticut, and Robert A, Taft of Ohio, are all | members of the Senate committee. Yet the Treasury amendments were immediately and unanimously reported. and such objection as was offered on the floor went to the greatness of the President’s powers rather than the unneutrality of an executive order which was a direct affront to Germany. | For Consumers i i The Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department is cooking up another important series of prosecutions, this time in the foods field. As- sistant Attorney General Thurman W. Arnold feels that if he can bring down important food prices he will make trust-busting so popular with the consumers that it can't be stopped by the special interest groups. He is now dickering with Mayor F. H. La Guardia on a plan to start with milk suits in New York City (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Dr. Johnson to Preach | Services Will Mark Ascension of Christ 5 At National Bapfist Services at Grace Lutheran Dr. Gove Griffith Johnson will | Church tomorrow at 11 am. will | preach at the National Baptist Me- honor the ascension of Christ and | morial Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. n “The One Who Brings to Re- threw in his own cards and turned his delegates loose to vote for the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. Even if he rode roughshod over these men and their friends—the bitter- ness resulting might be disastrous. So there is good reason for the New Deal third termers to consider carefully what may be the final attitude of Messrs. Farley and Garner. Advantage With Farley. In this \waiting game the ad- vantage is with Mr. Farley rather than the President and his followers, There seems no way for them to pry Mr. Farley loose. If they go to him and say, for example, “Jim, are you with or against us?” they must show their hand—and Mr. Roosevelt's silence will have been broken. Mr. Farley has done no more than to say his name will go before the Democratic National Conven- tion as a candidate for the presi- dential nomination. He has inti- mated it will be presented whether the President’s also is laid before the convention or not. But he has not said he will fight a third-term Convention. | recently conferred in the Capitol or its immediate environs. Nothing has come forth from these meet- ings, however. Mr. Garner in the past has, it is reported, sought to bring Mr. Farley into line as a strong opponent of the third-term nomination. Mr. Garner himself ran in Wisconsin and Illinois presi- dential preferential primaries as a strong anti-third termer. The issue upon which the Garner campaign was based in those States was the third term, and the Garner litera- ture was not complimentary to the men who favor a third-term nomi- nation, Silence Strong Weapon. The silence of Mr. Roosevelt plus his tacit willingness to be put for- ward as a candidate in various pri- mary elections and before various State conventions electing delegates to the Democratic National Con- The silence of Mr. Farley is having its effect, too. right in not joining the Vice Presi- term campaign. There has been no opportunity for the third term- ers to crack down on Mr. Farley, which they would have had if Mr. Farley had declared himself pub- licly against renomination of the President. In the meantime Mas- sachusetts has elected a Farley-in- structed delegaticn, and there will be others. | The Wendell Willkie boom for ithe Republican presidential nomi- nation is getting more publicity, with Russell W. Davenport, manag- ing editor 'of Fortune Magazine re- signing to further the nomination of the head of Commonwealth and Southern. Practical leaders of the Republican party look on the Will- kie movement as just one of those incidents that enlivened most po- litical campaigns. One of the most practical, who is not at present boosting any of the candidates, said yesterday that if the G. O. P. nomi- nated Mr. Willkie any Democrat vember. He conceded the charm of Mr. Willkie's personality, his ability to handle himself in debate, his sturdy beliefs in American prin- ciples—as opposed to the New Deal variety—but he insisted it would be easier to elect J. P. Morgan. " he said. “is too power | consciou: The support which Mr. | Willkie is receiving now is cen- tered very largely in New York, |and it is easy to understand the | appeal he makes there.” Mrs. Longworth for Taft. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth | has just published an article in the Saturday Evening Post in which she declares for the nomi- nation of Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. With Col. Theodore Roose- velt, jr., supporting Thomas E. | Dewey, New Vork district attorney, the family the late President Theodore Roosevelt seems pretty | well divided. None of them, how- ever, is supporting President Frank- | lin D. Roosevelt. Mrs. Longworth's claim is that Senator Taft is a sound citizen and not a glamour boy, although she does not use that exact phrase. vention has been a strong weapon. | Perhaps he was| dent in an out-and-out anti-third- | named could defeat him in No- | MAY 4, 1940. We, the People Representative Smith’s Chamber Speech Declared To Show Despair of Labor Law Revisions By JAY FRANKLIN. ‘The solar plexus blow delivered by the House this week against the emasculatory wage-hour amendments proposed by Representative Graham A. Barden, Democrat, of North Carolina, has left the little bloc of anti- labor Southern Congressmen in a desperately bitter mood. ‘They are now for the first time genuinely worried about the chances for House passage of equally vicious amendments to the Wagner Labor Relations Act. as proposed by Chairman Howard W. Smith, Democrat, of Virginia, and the two Republican members of the House N. L. R. B. Investigating Committee. There is, of course, no chance that these amendments will become law this year; they both face violent Senate opposition and a presidential veto. However. until recently Smith and his cohorts considered House approval assured. That this con- fidence has been rudely shattered is evidenced hy the frantic plea for Nation-wide lobbying support of his amendments by Congressman Smith in an address on May 1 before the United States Chamber of Commerce. Smith opened his address with the statement that “the business- men of this country as a first step g to making the Wagner Act work must make up their minds that collective bargaining . . .is here to stay.” He concluded with the plea that his businessmen audience “when you go back home . if you agree with me, to go as far as you can to help me put through some honest and fair amendments.” Examples of ‘Partiality’ Cited | Between his opening and conclusion, however, Smith cited numerous = | examples of board “partiality” and “unfairness” to prove his contention that both the N. L. R. B. and the act should be drastically amended. In the selection and presentation of these examples Smith eliminated battle with clean hands He cited nearly a dozen board decisions, one of which will serve to illustrate the degree of Smith's “partiality” and *‘un- fairness.” The first was the so-called Waumbec case, now before a Federal circuit court on appeal. According tc Smith: “Two men applied for employment with the Waumbec Mills (which) were in need of a number of men. 1t so happened that the two men said they belonged to a union and there was some conversation about it . . . but the fact remains they did not get a job Two years later. this (N L R B.) board enters an order which, strange as it may seem, ordered that corporation to reinstate these | two men who had never been instated in their employment for a minute | in their lives. They (the board) further stated that they (the mills) had | been engaged in an unfair labor practice because they hadn't hired these } two men when they first applied for appointment . .. 4nd that was a unanimous opinion of that board.” What Congressman Smith was very careful not to tell his Chamber of Commerce audience was that Section 8 (3) of the Wagner Act specifi- cally states: “It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer, by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment . . . to discourage membership in any labor organization.” | Were Formerly Union Officials In other words. by terms of the law, an employer shall not refuse to hire an otherwise qualified worker because of his union affiliations! And this, the board found. was precisely what had happened in the Waumbec case. According to unrefuted testi- mony, hiring officials of the mills accepted the two applicants as qualified in every way and even accepted their applications-for em- ployment Then they discovered the two men had been—but were no longer—union officers, whereupon the hiring official observed: “We don't want no trouble here. We dont want no union.” On the basis of this unchallenged testimony, the board very naturally found that the two workers “would have been employed . . . but for | respondent’s knowledge of their past union leadership.” In view of the acts very definite language on txis point. the board —even had it wanted to—could not but rule that the two applicants had been discriminated against and should be hired and paid back wages.” | These are facts of record. All of which is a far different matter | from Smith’s version. (Released by Consolidated News Features.) WE DONT WANT NO TROUBLE WERE/ WEGONT : NOUNIoN 1T any doubt as to whether he and his anti-labor cohorts had entered the | This Changing World Slim Chance Seen To Preserve Peace In Mediterranean By CONSTANTINE BROWN. Diplomatic quarters in Washing- ton have become greatly alarmed at the situation in the Mediterranean. The chief reason why diplomats far away from their countries and ® provided only with scant inside news have be- come 50 anxious is that President Roosevelt has once more inter- vened for the maintenance of peace—this time in Rome. The best ba- rometer to indi ate fair weather or storm at pres- Constantine Brown. ent {s the White House. Tt is pointed out that when- | ever conditions reach a breaking point, the President appeals to the would-be belligerents not to spread the zone of conflict. This time the appeal was made direct to Mussolini—the man who contributed to this maintenance of peace in October, 1938, and did his best to prevent the invasion of Po- land. This time Mussolini himself is involved and he was approached by Ambassador Phillips in Rome to be asked for the sake of civilization to | avoid extension of the conflict. It is believed in responsible diplo- matic quarters that the approach to Mussolini was made after the allied | governments — especially Britain — | sounded the alarm in Washington. This alarm already was noticeable three weeks ago when the Italian fleet was concentrated in the Medi- terranean. But, it is pointed out, concentra- | tions of armies or navies do not nec- essarily mean war. They may mean bluff, pressure or blackmail. There | were indications from well-informed sources in Italy that Mussolini had not yet decided whether he wanted | to become a belligerent and that the | Italian people in general were op- | posed to another warlike adventure | with doubtful consequences. | But the -'arm gong sounded by the British made an impression. The British and the French have a re- markable fine intelligence service in Italy and it was on the basis of | these reliable reports that the allied | governments were able to inform Washington that a serious danger of war existed in the Mediterranean and that they would take every con- ceivable precautionary measure not to be caught unawares. The first | two measures taken were the order | to British ships to avoid the Mediter- ranean and to take the much longer | Cape of Good Hope route to Britain, |and the second within three days | was the dispatch of a powerful allied Dr. McCarfney fo Make Sacramental Address | per will be observed at the Cov- | enant-First Church tomorrow morn- | ing, with Dr. Albert J. McCartney making the sacramental address. The sacrament of the Lord's sup- | | [COIVUFY Methodist | fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean. There are quite a few optimists Bible ClOSS to Dme \‘who believe the combination of the The men’s Bible class of the Cal- |tW0 factors—President Roosevelt's vary Methodist Church will hold its | friendly intervention in Rome and {31st annual banquet in the Guild the show of force on the part of the | Hall next Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Allies—might still avert a catas- |1t will be preceded by the annual |trophe in the Mediterranean. But | business meeting at 6:30. Officers On the whole it is admitted that the will be elected. | situation in that section of Europe membrance.” The Lord's supper will | be observed. Howard Rees, secre- |tary of the Baptist Student Union, | speaks at 8 p.m. on “Christ and Youth’s Victory.” Miss Eleanor | Acher will offer a brief devotional | and Charles Howard will lead in the | song service. Dr. R. Elton Johnson of Pernam- | buco, Brazil, will address the Wom- |an’s Missionary Society on Tuesday at 11 am. The annual installation banquet of the Senior B. Y. P. U. will be held Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. his farewell commission to His dis- | ciples. Dr. Gerhard E. Lenski will | preach on the theme: “A Vision of | World-Wide Christianity.” Senior | and junior choirs will share in the | service. Marian Ranberg will give | 15 minutes of organ music preceding | the service. Adult Bible classes from the | church school, taught by George Emch, Dr. R. Tillman Sogge and Erich Mees, will hold a celebration | in connection with a membership | contest at 8 p.m. An address will be given by Representative Talle of | Towa on “The American Way of Life nomination of the President. It would be far easier for the New Dealers backing the third-term nomination if Mr. Farley would an- nounce now his final position. Cynical prediction has been made by at least one outstanding Repub- lican that when the showdownl comes the Democratic ticket wm; again be Roosevelt and Garner, and | that Mr. Farley will be the cam- | with him or not, Franklin D. Roose- paign manager. Anything, in his | velt has been a great leader—for opinion, the Democrats can do to | certainly a great number of people remain in office will be done, even | have followed him. to such a combination again. | the country needs a different kind Mr. Farley and Mr. Garner have | of leader, as Mrs. Longworth insists. She is sick, she insists, of the clamor for one “who will save us” or “lead us” or “pull us out,” etc. | It all has a strange sound, coming from the daughter of the most glamorous Chief Executive the coun- try ever knew—up to the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt. _Theodore Roosevelt was a great leader of the people. And whether you agree | It may be that | The Rev. Dr. John H. Rustin, i pastar of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church. is the banquet speaker. Vocal numbers will “be furnished by Helen R. Robichaux, | with Myrtle Alcoin as accompanist. The Calvary Woman's Guild, of | which Mrs. Karl R. Lesh is presi- dent, will serve the banquet. Music | will be rendered by a trio from Russ | Clarkson's orchestra. Dr. McCartney will also address the service at 5 p.m. Thursday. Theodore Schaefer, organist, will give a brief organ recital preceding this service, and in honor of national music week will play the composi- tions of two of Washington's com- posers, Edward C. Potter and R. | Deane Shure. The chancel choir | will take part in the choir festival | to be held Tuesday evening at the | Mount Vernon Methodist Church. The Business Women's Council will hold its annual home missionary dinner Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the ‘Time'sin God';-H;nds' |is more strained than ever before and the chances of preserving peace | have become extremely slim. | Test of Discipleship |Dr. Hjelm’s Theme At the service of the Augustana Lutheran Church at 11 a.m. tomor- row Dr. Arthur O. Hjelm will preach on “The Test of Christian Disciple- ship.” At the Luther League's fire- side hour at 5:30 p.m. lunch will be served after which a tour of the “Praise and Prayer for the Holy | —Past and Present.” Dr. Lenski will Spirit” will be the theme Thursday | conduct a Bible quiz. i evening. At 7 p.m. the Church| The young people will meet at 7 Board of Christian Education will | p.m. Richard Winkelman, president, | meet in the church parlor. | will lead in a round-table discussion | The fellowship hour for young of coming program topics and events. people will be held Friday from 8| Confirmation instruction for = this | to 10 p.m. | year's comfirmants will be concluded witglssessions Saturday at 9 am.| % and Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ‘Ye Shall Bear Witness’ To Be Sermon Topic ‘Partnership Standards’ Topic at Brightwood The Rev. S. Carroll Coale, who has been attending the sessions of the General Conference at Atlantic City, N. J,, will preach at Bright- wood Park Methodist Church to- morrow morning service or “Part- nership Standards” and will ad- minister the Holy Communion. New Cleveland Park Community | The Rev. Paul W. Yinger will | preach Sunday morning on “Whom | Shall We Follow?” The “Lend-a- Hand” Class will have charge of the church school service, and will! present some of the results of their studv of conditions in present-day | China. i) Dr. Philip Sidney Smith will speak | 1 to the young people at 6:30 pm. He | church, with Prof. Coltrane of Bre- | vard College, Asheville, N. C., as guest speaker. The Covenant Evening Missionary Society will hold its last meeting of the season Monday at 8 p.m. at the home of the president, Mrs. William R. Rhoades, 1901 Columbia road NW All Chicle Used All chicle produced in Guatemala church will be made. The board of trustees will meet Monday evening. Dr. Hjelm will give a paper to- morrow at a meeting of the Luth- eran Ministers’ Association of ‘Washington. The church choir is one of six | Dr.Potorf’s Topic Dr A. B. Potorf, professor of | iReligion at the American Univer- | sity, will be the guest preacher at | Hamline Methodist Church at 11| am. tomorrow. His subject will be “Time's in God's Hands.” | The annual men's banquet will | | be held Friday. The speaker will | which will participate Wednesday be Dr. Willlam E. Harrison of | night in the sacred music evening of Michigan | the May music festival. On Saturday night the Business The pastor will meet his catecheti- | Women’s Group will hold its an- | cal class at 4 p.m. Wednesday an- |Dr. J. H. Hollister At Atonement Lutheran Church tomorrow morning the Rev. James T. Powers will preach on “Ye Shall Bear Witness.” At 8 pm. he will preach the first in a series of six Sunday night sermons on “If That Snould Ever Happen to Me.” The first is “God Pity the Man.” On successive Sunday nights the sermons will be “Shadows of Dark- ness,” “The Roundabout Way,” “Troubled Souls,” “Dark Miles” and “Hath God Indeed Said—?” The Men's Brotherhood will meet in the chapel at 8 pm Monday. All men of the church are invited. The Sunday School Association will meet in the parish hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday. i Eldbrooke Methodist To Observe Communion ‘The sacrament of the Lord's sup=- per will be observed tomorrow morn- ing in Eldbrooke Methodist Church. The Rev. Dr. Walter M. Michael will preach on “Establishing Our King” and-in_the evening on “This Way Out.” There will<be a meeting of the church stewards and canvassers ‘Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Charles H. Walleigh will preside and outline plans for the every-member canvass which will begin on May 12. New memorial windows have re- cently been installed in the sanctu- ary and will be dedicated next Sun- day morning. | Bishop Will Attend Institution of Rector Bishop James E. Freeman will visit St. Mark’s Episcopal Church tomorrow at 11 o’clock for the insti- tution of the Rev. Robert Johnston Plumb as rector and for confirma- tion. Assisting at the service will be the Rev. Dr. John F. Plumb of Hartford, Conn,, executive secretary of the Diocese of Connecticut, father of the new rector of St. Mark’s. The keys of the church will be presented to the incumbent by Morris E. Marlow, recently elected junior warden. Bishop Freeman will confirm a class of more than 40 candidates, which is one of the largest classes in the parish in recent years. Announces Theme ' | “The Gospel According to You” | | will be the subject of Dr. J. H. Hol- lister's sermon at 11 a.m, tomorrow | in the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church. | The Hearthstone group at 6:15 | p.m. will continue the discussion of | “The Rise of a Race,” when Miss Barbara Winkler will present several brief biographies. Roland M. Rice will speak on Mohammedanism to the Alpha Omega group at 7:30 pm. The Fireside group will meet with | Dr. Hollister at 7:30 pm. The Col- legians and Young People’s Society will have Mrs. Olive Swinney as guest speaker in the seminar on “Social Problems in the Nation's Capital.” The Young People’s Council is sponsoring the play, “Family Por- trait.” which will be presented by the King-Smith Players at the King- Smith Playhouse next to the Shore- ham Hotel Friday evening. Georgetown Lutheran “The Greatest Wonder of All Times” will be the subject at 11 am. of the Rev. Harold E. Beatty. Chorus by combined choirs. Miss Frances Butts will address the young peo- ple at 7 pm. on “What Is My Place in My Community?” Members of the Church Council will be the guests of Mrs. J. Frank Bushong Tuesday, 8 pm. at her residence, 1411 North Harrison street, Arlington, Va. Herbert C. Tucker announces Boy Scouts’ Mothers’s Day program on May 12, 8 pm., when the chief ad- dress will be delivered by Prof. Carl D. Wells of George Washington University. Guest soloist, Miss Prudence Jackson of Mount Pleas- ant Congregational Church. Christian Endeavor “Christ'’s Call to Christian Citi- zenship” will be the topic for the May union meeting on Monday at 8 pm. at the PFirst Reformed Church. Rot Breg will be the speaker. There will be a social. The annual election of officers will be held at the June union meeting at Keller Memorial Lutheran Church. The union library is open each | have a social program on Wednes- Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at 1740 N street NW. N members will be received. Fritz Hauer will be the violin soloist. In the evening the minister will have as his topic “The Genius of Chris- tianity.” The song service will be led by the senior choir. Under the direction of A. R. Spiker, financial secretary, the an- nual every-member canvas will be started next week. The Official | Board will hold a business session | Tuesday evening with the minister presiding. The Cole Class Club will is in charge of the Alaskan Geo- logical Research day evening. The Young Men’s Bible Class will meet Friday eve- ning to complete plans for the erec- tion of their new classroom. Doctor From China To Talk Here on War Dr. Ernest H. Clay of Changli, China, will deliver an address at Union Methodist Church at 11 o'clock tomorrow on “War-Torn China, Through the es of a Christian Physician.” Dr. Clay has served as superintendent of Martyr’s Memorial Hospital in North China since 1926. He will speak to the church school at 9:30 o'clock. 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