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IN NEWS CLASSIFIED COMICS Brooklyn Eagle FEATURES SPORTS Ernest K. Lindley ft IV BROOKLYN, N. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938 Liberty League Again The most prankish New Dealer, If given a free hand to manipulate the Republican National Committee, could not have pleased his fancy more perfectly than the Republicans themselves did. By electing former Senator Daniel Hastings of Delaware to Its executive committee, the Republican National Committee hoisted the one-third of a borough banner of the American Liberty League. Senator Hastings, on his record, stands as lar to the right as the American political front extends.

Moreover, he is a representative of the du Pont interests. On the whole roster of prominent Republican politicians there Is no other so well suited to serve as a target for the Democrats unless it is Herbert Hoover, who, In fact, Ls something of a liberal in comparison with Mr. Hastings. To honor Mr. Hastings, the Republican National Committee had to rebuff Kenneth Simpson, who has revived a decaying party in New York by putting up younger and more liberal candidates.

He failed to elect his candidate for Governor, Thomas E. Dewey. But the defeat was by a very narrow margin. Considering that the Democrats had been giving the State excellent government (or 16 Ernest K. Lindley consecutive years and that they had an exceptionally strong candidate In Governor Lehman, Mr.

Dewey's race was remarkable. In several other States the tactics advocated and practiced by Mr. Simpson were successful. 4. i J' 1 1 VP ft I fttitH i'ViiMw' niniiT A The heart of the "junsle" area in the Navy Yard district slums, first in "TT JNsf Importance of Halting' Election The cry of dismay from the straight Republican New York Herald Tribune testifies to the importance of the action of the Republican National Committee.

In an editorial entitled "Gagging at Progress," the Herald Tribune said: "Nothing could be plainer than that the standpatters are still powerful in the party and have still to learn their first lesson in progress The point of view exhibited carries a plenty of depression. What the party needs above all else is newness. It needs new candidates, new eyesight, new power of imagination and creative thought." The Republican National Committee, it is true, is not the only medium of expression for the party, although its headquarters in Washington are a fountain of publicity. During the next year and a half a Republican record will be written by Republican Senators and Representatives and by the new lot of Republican Governors. The record ls sure to be a splotchy mixture of progress and reaction.

Wide Shade of Political Opinion Republicans of the type ot Senator McNary. minority leader, and Senator Capper never had much respect for either the Hooverites or the pro-Hoover Old Guard. The probable Republican leader of the House. Joseph W. Martin is several shades less conservative than the retiring minority leader.

Bertrand H. Snell of New York. And Mr. Martin's Massachusetts colleague. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is several shades more progressive than Mr.

Martin. The Republican party in Congress ranges from Senator Borah to Representative James W. Wadsworth, which is almost as broad a front as is covered by the Democratic-Progressive coalition. The new Republican Governors cover the right (as in Pennsylvania and Michigan), the middle las in Ohio and Massachusetts), and tl.e left center (as In Minnesota). Republicans in Congress or State Capitols? Who will be the more influential in shaping the future of their party the Republicai In Congress or the Republicans in the State capitols ls an opt'n quest im.

The Democratic record in Congress did not contribute much to the policies which the Democratic party embraced in 1932. The Roosevelt program had its roots in New York and in Western agrarianism. The Republicans most talked of now for the next Presidential nomination include Senators Vandenberg and Lodge, Senator-elect Taft of Ohio End Representative Barton of New York. They have to stand up and be counted for or against any numtxr of issues on which public opinion and the opinion of their own party is divided. Old Guard Still Po'ent The possibility of v.ctory in the next Presidential election should have a unifying influence on the Republicans, just as the presence of a more formidable opposition should have on the Democrats.

But in both parties the struggle to gain control in 1940 will work in the contrary direction. The elevation of former Senator Hastings is proof that the Republican party still has a potent right wing. Whatever its size in terms of voters, it has access to big campaign contributions, and it controls the party machinery in a good many States. The feelings of the Republicans who want new faces and more liberal policies can be understood sympathetically by the New Dealers. The old guard doesn't seem to purge any more easily in one party than in the other Slums Are Virtually a Luxury-It Cost Brooklyn Millions of Dollars 3Iore Each Year to Maintain Areas Of Tenements Than Modern, Sanitary Residential Communities, Says Expert By LESTER DAVID 1' I Brooklyn has no greater luxury Children in the Red Hook slums play in the shadowi of the tenements and alleys.

which make up its slums. Uptown, downtown, all around the town, fully one-third the area of the borough is infested with row upon row of ancient tenements where the cold numbs in Winter and the heat blisters in Summer; where the stairs, walls and ceilings crack and shiver and peel; where the children have alleys and gutters and refuse-cluttered backyards for playgrounds. Intara la tkt arMklyn hiMM at 24 Clin Mall Matter A row of old law tenements in the Brownsville slums, slated for demolition under Park Commissioner Robert Moses' 10-point alum clearance and housinf program. required to have Individual properties brought up to date." The Answer The answer to this program of slum prevention, he asserts, is mass rehabilitation under well-planned designs and upon a sound economic basis. He points out that innumerable three-story and basement homes can be modernized for single-family up to eight-family occupancy under guidance of progressive architects.

"Thousands at rehabilitation and modernization improvements should be going on in Brooklyn at this moment in place of a few scattered efforts which are only pointing the way, not solving the issue. "Lack of progressive leadership In Brooklyn carries a deep responsibility which cannot longer be neglected. "We have reached the crossing of the roads and something must be done about it if Brooklyn is to retain its good citizens and move forward upon a progressive and prosperous basis." patients' point of view. There Ls, for one thing, no "hospital smell Perhaps that Ls because Sister Marie Jeanne Ls a bit fanatic on the subject of ventilation, or perhaps it is because the ocean breezes sweep across the open lawns that surround the hospital, in its square block settuig on St. Mark's Ave.

But the fact Ls that St. Mary's has a distinctive atmosphere an even, pervading warmth that is at the same time fresh and invigorating. The patients'' rooms are furnished with an unhospltal-like decorative-ness that carries on the hotel Idea. The private rooms, with their own baths, are luxurious, with soft rugs on the floor, cushioned furniture, flowery chintz at the windows. Even the wards have succeeded In escaping from the traditional stark white, and the patients snuggle happily beneath blight blue striped bedspreads.

Children's Ward Sociable In the children's wards the cribs are a gay green to match the green of the walls and the frieze all around the top of the walls is just crowded with figures like the cow that Jumped over the moon, the cat and the fiddle and so on. There's a play alcove in one of the wards, with maple furnitura to scale, of course, and a table where games cm be played. In the convalescent ward, where children are recovering from broken arms and similar dLsasters, there is a little table in the middle of the room with little chairs and the children gather around It and eat their meals from the trays set on the table it's all sociable as anything, St. Mary's has an entire floor devoted to clinics prenatal and postnatal, dental and minor injuries, eve and all the genera! and specialized clinics that service to the community demand' The dental clinic is a popular place. It handles from 50 to 120 patients a day.

First Appendix Out Here Si. Mary's record of service Includes some interesting contributions to medical and hospital science. Ii was here that the first operation for appendicitis was performed In Brooklyn back in 1888 and the medical record Is still on file to prove it. Tho eperation was performed by Dr. George R.

Fowler, and many of his principles have been retained in this connection to this day. Bishop Thomas E. Molloy ls president of the board of trustees of the hospital and Mons. John L. Belford is vice president.

Its founders were ihe Rt. Rev. John Loughlln. the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Diorese of Brooklyn: Dr. John Byrne and Sister Mary Emihana of he Order of the Sisters of Charity, urban centers and by the rapid transit deficits which are piling up.

It is obvious that tax receipts from the slums do not begin to pay for the services provided by the city. If Red Hook, for example, were forced to foot its own fire and police bills, the fire tolls would roll higher and higher, criminals would find their operations unhampered and the streets would be impassable for the refuse. The burden falls upon those who fill the Wau Jr Ri i Mivuiri i Tr a. 1 Jsw than Slum clearance and the building of homes for the huge proportion ol i the population in the low-income category have been the major civic problems facing Brooklyn as well as the nation lor generations. In a scries ol articles, of which this is the last.

The Brooklyn Eagle presents a discussion o) the problems in the borough and city and what can be done toward the solution. he said, are outweighed by the depreciation of realty values the St. Mary's By JANE CORBY Ninety-eight babies made their debut at St. Mary's Hospital last month. "The other two are late." mourned Sister Marie Jeanne, superintendent, tch! tch! tch!" Sure enough, the new month was only a couple of hours old when the other two babies made their appearance.

They had dented the record slightly, though, for St. Mary's EXPECTS at least 100 babies monthly, and gets them, too It's a rare month when the record dips below the hundred mark. And how they are welcomed at this hospital! St. Mary's Is proudest of its welcome to babies of all its services, built up in the years since 1867. when it was founded.

Its nurseries have individual day and night supervisors, with nurses who have the disease-ridden rookeries Hospital Expects a Hundred Babies a Month Presto! Accompanied by two practicing witches and a gypsy, to ward offff evil spirits, your reporter went out. to Manhattan Beach the other day for a chat with Jack Trepel. We took these unusual precautions because, although we knew Mr. Trepel was a florist by trade, we read somewhere that he was treasurer of the Society of American Magicians and.as such. can afford to pay, and it Ls not difficult to see that continued maintenance of the lums is a losing proposition all around.

Loss to Realty in General Lack of vision and sound financial judgment on the entire complex problem, according to Herbert L. Carpenter, former chairman of the Brooklyn committee for better housing, has created fabulous lasses In many areas of Greater New York and particularly in Brooklyn, with from other hospitals om, from all over the country to stuciy there. Emphasizes Specis1. Nation specialization. incidentally, 'sort of hobbv at St.

Mary's. ls a The various departments are run by i assistants who have also specialized in mat particular branch of work. Nor Ls it unusual for people to come from different parts of the country for study, or for treatment at thw hospital. The "glass boot." for instance. Is one of the services which lures patients from many States.

The "glass boot" Is technically known as the Pavaex machine. It is really a glass boot, which goes over the human foot and leg to the knee or over the arm. and is connected with an electric device, producing picture, which gives passive II; was given to pulling rabbits out of hats and turning columnists into fairly decent writers. But, as a matter of fact, we needn't have worried. Mr.

Trepel doesn't go in for rabbits, and his feelings regarding columnists are merely passive. His home, which fittingly enough is at 601 Oriental Boulevard, looks about as much like a house of mystery as a monkey cage in a zoo. Mr. Trepel himself, however, looks Just like a man The United Hospitul Campaign making its annual appea' lor funds wi'h which to carry on the vast burden of work shouldered by Hie rnrious institutions and orguniza- Hons for aiding the. sick, needs YOUR help.

In this series of articles a. lew highlights these agencies are touched upon. These articles do not attempt to give an adequate picture of the scope and quality of the work done by Brooklyn hospitals and organizations, only to call to the attention of the public a few ol the widespread services. specialized In baby care. The hospital has conducted a post-graduate school in obstretrics and Infant care for the last five years, and graduates I of magic, having long, slende1' xpressive fingers and cuffs that keep shooting bar's in a nothing-up-the-sleeve manner.

He got into magic as a hobby, he said. AT starting as a boy, when he lived across the street on E. 21st St. from Harry Houdini. It is still only his hobby, he assured us, and his amateur standing remains unsullied.

Trepel started abot 20 years ago on Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Hamilton card and coin they go in for tricks and are so proficient now that psyctiometry, which is nothing more tor the result that many of the slum areas which have passed beyond redemption can only be retrieved by a broad slum clearance plan. "The greatest housing problem In Brooklyn," he says, "is slum prevention, which can only be effected by modernization and rehabilitation of thousands of the well-located and substantially built homes and multiple family apartments now being abandoned because they lack modern facilities.

"Thousands of these buildings have been starved to death by high mortgage interest rates and taxes and inability of discouraged owners to obtain bank or Federal financing exercise to the area affected. The word "pavaex" is made up of the fir.t syllables of three words: passive, vascular and exercise, and passive vascular exorcise Ls what the device gives. It is Used in circulatory troubles and a variety of ulcers and ailments like gangrene, frostbite, and Its amazing results have made it necessary to provide a complete pavaex service station at hospital, with a suite of rooms allotted to this one service, and five treatment beds, instead of the two originally installed. Like a Hotel St. Mary's ls the kind of hospital that illustrates handsomely the doctors' definition of a hospital as "a hotel where sick people may treated conveniently by physicians." A hotel is what it Ls, from the John .1.

lleSSeman that the New Deal had erected agen Mark xii: 13-27. It Isn't a very inviting commodity to be classed as a municipal indulgence. Yet it costs the borough millions of dollars more each year to maintain these miserable areas than the modern, sanitary residential communities. Costs Twice as Much" The money expended for the essential municipal services of transportation, police, fire protection and sanitation in a given slum area has been estimated at twice the sum spent in a high-class residential section of the same size, The Police Department assigns considerably more men to patrol Wliiamsburg. Red Hook, Brownsville, the Navy Yard district and sections of East New York than it does to Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park South and Park Slope.

Fire protection in the blighted areas is a much more weighty burden on the taxpayers than similar protection lor the finer homes. Public hospitals and clinics must give more attention to rases from the tumbling tenements than from thi modern apartments. Juvenile Delinquents Generated The juvenile delinquents generated in the slums must be stowed away in reformatories at $500 per delinquent a year; the crime and vice bred by slums must be punished by the courts and the guilty ones maintained in jails; the Department of Sanitation works twice as hard to keep the streets as clean as possible. Economically Destructive The point is stressed by Harold Riegelman, counsel to the Citizens Budget Commission, who. as a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, was one of the leaders in the fight for the housing amendment passed by the voters.

"Slums are morally and economically destructive," he said today "They add inexcusably to the cost of by undermining the taxable values upon which the Government depends for its revenues. "Close to the great centers of employment in Brooklyn and indeed all of New York, and within eaVv walking distance, are some of theworst living facilities in the world. The conditions are so bad that they blight some of the most valuable properties in the city. Why Government Cost Rises "Our people avoid these places If they can and move to the outer sections to secure a mite of living comfort The schools, sewers, highways and police and fire facilities remain in the deteriorating areas and must be maintained. In the outer sections additional schools and sewers must i be built, streets paved and police i and fire protection provided at a I cost out of all proportion to 1 th: growth of the entire city population." i In addition, Mr.

Riegelman pointed i out, a huge transit system Ls built and supported to carry the "emigres" to and from their places ol employment. "A large proportion of our people," i he said, "spend daily in travel a third of the time that ls left them i from sleep, work and meals. And it i is not comfortable travel, but mats transportation under exhausting and often indecent conditions." Calls Gains Illusory Th measure of comfort taken In the fact that thc-e intangible losses are offset by gains in real estate values in the suburbs. Mr. Riegelman asserted, is Illusory.

The gains, (vovcriimciitf bv Decree mniiave had In mind when he declared Something more than three decades ago a cies ol power which would be clnngeiotis to noeny in otucr nanus. with a pleasant smile and a confident air entered thp law offices of Griggs, Baldwin and Baldwin, in Pine near Nassau. He had just been graduated from law school and wanted to be associated with the firm. A keen-eyed, sharp-featured man with short white side-whiskers appraised him with a single glance and ordered that he be given a desk and an office. Old Governor Griggs he had been Governor of New Jersey and United States Attorney General could size up a man like that.

The other afternoon Martin Conboy, graying now and of portly bearing, with lines between the brows that thought and study have written there, sat on my front porch in Flatbush. In the years since he became a junior in the law firm of old Governor Grigss he has been a leader of the New York bar. was New York State Draft Director during the World War. special counsel to Governor Roosevelt and, at the President's request, serveu temporarily as United States Distiict Attorney. We were talking of the growth of government by administrative decree, a tendenry which the State Constitutional Convention recently endeavored to (Direct by the Judiciary Amendment, deientcd la'cr at the polls.

loss, either, by gum! than mind-reading. Their psychometric pyrotcch-nics have mystified even their fellow magicians, professional and amateur, and one or two of these tricks are out-and-out noneys. Their favorite is one called "word pictures" It goes like this: Members of the audience draw pictures on separate sheets of paper, fold up the sheets, initial them and toss them into a hat. Then, as Mr. Trepel nraws out the sheets, Mrs.

blindfolded mi raws the various pictures on a slate as the mister opens the sheets. It's a great trick, especially if you can do it. It took the Trepels two years to learn how. Oddly enough, although he has two daughters, Mr. Trepel doesn't lecommcnd magic for children.

"Magic is an art," he said. "A child can't possibly grasp the psychology of it." Mr. Trepel then assured us that the flower he gave us for our buttonhole positively would not turn into a bowling ball the minute we left, and as he waved his wand, we took our witches and vanished. Budget Tip Apropos of our Navy Yard yarn and whether It should be called the Brooklyn or New York Navy Yard, philatelists will be interested to know that, if you mail a letter in Brooklyn addressed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, it will cost you two cents. But if it's addressed to the New York Navy Yard it'll cost three cents no matter where you post it.

Homing In This is a success story. For years Mrs. Joseph Carney of Massapequa yearned for a don, Slie'd seen the neighbors come to the door and whistle proudly for their mutts, and the more she saw these touching little Ubleaux, the more envious she became. Then one day a dream came true; Mr. Carney brought home a dog.

Excitedly, exuberantly, Mrs. Carney turned her new prize a spaniel named Sklppy loose on the neighborhood, all the time thinking how proudly domestic she'd feel, going to the door and whistling him home for lunch, She spent that first morning literally rehearsing to herself this certaln-to-be-happy occasion, and promptly at noon when the neighbors were bound to be most plentiful at front doors she went to the fore for her big moment. Calmly, with great deliberation, she opened the door, pursed her lips and nothing happened! Mrs. Carney couldn't whistle! Well, you can imagine her chargin. She was in misery.

Life was empty, the future black. She finally caught her spaniel and gave up all hope of ever showing off her dog-calling. It was a sad ending to a pretty dream. But, suddenly. Mrs.

Carney noticed something. She noticed that the dog always came arunning when she got out the car He seemed to sense that there was a ride in prospect. Eureka That was it! Her dog' wasn't a whislle-respondcr; he was a norn-and-car-door-slam-comei-to! And to this day, when Mrs. Carney wants Sklppy, she just blows the horn or slams the car doors. Sklppy never Jails to show.

The neighbors are wild with envy. Mr. Heffernan V. S. liar Association Senses Danger The United States Bar Association has sensed tills perl, a peril which might involve educational agencies and parental right which would destroy representative government by the removal of authority from democratic control and judicial regulation.

It has offered a prize for the best es.sav on the subject, in the hope of elucidating ideas as to means of keeping our form of government and still allowing its agencies to function clficiently. mest D. Leet of Jamestown prepared a paper in favor or the New York State Judiciary Amendment from which I quote the following passage: Thf effort to plarc sonf proper btit rr.isormhlp safPRtuirrt Bcalnst ili Arbitrary fxernse ol ttdmmistrum'p uowm bfen Ktrutly flnd riminler-Pieird. is oui'f iiiiiurtil ItKil Mich rlf'irM would bp oppti.sfd by Ihosi- who have pujoyrd wcvptrm Hiuhoniy. imimnie from Judical scrutiny and who object to any ii'MiHinu over llieir coiidtici In the sixteenth century the of the Star Chamber and the pmy council were strdniousjy nppoved by those who tinderMoort duliKeiou' they were to the liberty of the common man In tins counlrv, and ihe Slate ol York we have nitnc'sed the development of system of executive tlie suh- it ul ion of adnnnist ra' ne inspection and superv.sinn and the tendency to cnmmil ail manner of problems to aovci omental boards and cimini-'ions This has been no new development.

Admumi ra tve agpncies for assessments were rrealecl our Riate as early as 17H7 '1 he formula of rtm iiii' a' se l.naliiy. however, did not become firmly rooied in ihe law of the Stale nf New York until in when the conns uplieid as roust u' loniil -0 of ihe Wt.rkmcn ComiiPiisHi urn law, holdins thai the findings of lad made by thp Industrial Board were final and ronciusive and not subiect review II has grown bv leaps and bound wullnn our own Sla Todny thpie ate innumerabic boaids, bureaus and oinmissens which esprci-e such iiiilimi'ed pnweis. Under formulas our system of government is being lapldly ttansfoimed from a representative government, recognizing the supremacy of the law to a government of executive officials Issuinu orders Since UQ2 we have seen a vast in the number ol administrative boards and in ihe powers which Ihey exercise. Societies have lived comfortably under systems that differ from our own. Italy at present seems satisfied with the Fascist form.

The medieval city states witnessed the same transformations. However, we had a government far In advance of any. a working democracy, and why should we revert to Inferior systems? Why should labor hold out its hands for the shackles? That is precisely what it does wlicn it approves a system which can be as crueliy used against it as for it. This Is Hrooklvn Hi Mr Month sV Today's ISihle tjtiolation "'or as the body uithnut the spirit is dead, so faith without uork is t'cad also." James 2:26. I had the privilege of watching Mr.

Conboy at work many years ago. and it did not need my experience of the other afternoon to convince me that he posseses one of the finest legal minds known to the Ameriran Bar. Paralysis of Judicial Branch of Government Mr. Conboy believes that the present system of commissions and bureaus, guarded against court intervention, means a change in our government which will deprive the citizen of redress against the oppressive acts of government functionaries. He sees in the extension of the system a gradual paralysis of the Judicial department of our tribranchial government.

As he sees the National Labor Relations Board, for Instance, It Is an agency which files Its own charges, investigates them and judges. Cluarded by Congressional statute against court review ns to facts, it is the sole judge of its own conduct and is an instrumentality which by its very nature cannot operate Justly. The labor organizations, or one of them, benefit by this system and there is no recourse for the employer, but should the tide turn here as it lias turned In Europe. France giving us a recent significant illustration, a plutocratic government or dictatorial government would make that system bear more ci nelly on labor than it now bears on the employing class Then the commonalty of the United States would have a very painful realization of what president Roosevelt may It cad also: t'.