1932

"Caught on the Horn of Plenty" is the title of a January bulletin from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic. Written by PingFerry, staff director of the Center's Study of the Economic Order, it develops the premise that mounting unemployment appears to result inevitably from technological progress under our existing free enterprise system. It advocates developing a system of "modern mercantilism" attuned to the age of abundanc in which we live and based on bold national planning to be authorized by Congress.

Critical comment on this interesting paper is not forthcoming from your correspondent, whose qualifications with respect to the economic order are best characterized by the "D" which he received in this subject from a particularly charitable professor circa 1932. He can only offer the information that free copies are available from the Center at Box 4068, Santa Barbara, Calif., and suggest that it appears not to constitute recommended reading for those with a tendency to conservatism and high blood pressure.

George Hahn writes from Philadelphia that in the Women's National Junior A. A. U. long-distance swimming championship meet at Lake George last summer daughter Ann, a Goucher sophomore, took first place while daughter Wissa, a Wheaton sophomore, placed fourth and daughter Tootsie, a Harriton High senior, placed tenth. Cynthianna, their oldest, is a Connecticut College junior and George Jr., the youngest, is a sophomore at Harriton High.

Of himself George says that following his resignation as Chief of Gynecology at Philadelphia General Hospital he was appointed Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Co-Director of Gynecology and Director of Pelvic Malignancy at Jefferson Medical College and Hospital. He also receied appointment as Visiting Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine and was elected President of the Wainwright Tumor Clinic Association of Pennsylvania and re-elected President of the American Cancer Society, Philadelphia Division.

He adds that last fall he attended a medical meeting in Seattle, where his host was Dr Clyde Jensen '22. While there he had a feasant visit with Charlie and Betty Odeeaard at their island retreat on Puget Sound. Back home in scrapple country he runs into Bill MacKinney and Bill Gerstley from time to time.

In Hollywood recently private detectives were guarding the home of Bob Ryan following telephoned bomb threats made in an attempt to have him withdraw from a radio program dealing with the John Birch Society. According to the show's producer the program was intended to be purely informative and neither for nor against the Society. Bob was on location in France at the time and the extent of his participation in the program was represented by several recorded passages from the blue book of Robert Welch, the Society's founder.

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