Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1921, Page 3

FOUR SHIFTS MADE ON POLICE FORCE Weedon, - Cornwell, English and Pywell Are Reassigned. Co-Workers Surprised. A police order reassigning four members of the force was promulgat- ed last night by Inspector Daniel Sul- livan, acting superintendent of po- lice. The members of the force in- volved in the order are Detectives R. E. Weedon and Frederick M. Corn- well and Privates Thomas L. English and H. E. Pywell Commissioner James F. Oyster, who has immediate supervision of the police department, approved the changes. Detective Weedon, who has served as_night chief .of ‘detectives, doing duty from midnight until 8 o’clock in thé morning, has been reassigned to active duty as a member of the detective force, Detective Cornwell succeeding him. Policeman English} has served as clerk in the detective office during W..don’s tour of duty. English has been transferred to the house of detention for duty in the wagon service, his new duties re- quiring day work every alternate week. The changes came as & complete surprise to co-workers of the men involved in _the transfer order. Weedon and Cornwell are among the older members of the detective corps and both have made splendid records, it_is stated. ‘Weedon has been a member of the force since July 11, 1884, having pre- viously served as a member of the fire department. His first promotion, made a year after his appointment. was for distinguished efficiency, and since then, up to the time of his being detailed for night work, which was about ten years ago, he partici- pated in the investigation of the more serious crimes committed in the Dis- trict. He has served as-a detective since November 16, 1892 Cornwell, who was promoted from the fire, department, was appointed a member of the force January 18, 1897, and was assigned to duty in the detective office five years later. He was one of the numerous mem- bers of the force mentioned for a promotion shortly after the death of Maj. Pullman. Policeman English has filled the de- tail at headquarters the past fifteen years and was carried as a member of the third précinct command. Py well also is a member of that com mand. NO DELAY IN TARIFF BILL,. SENATOR PENROSE SAYS Permanent Legislation to Have Due Consideration—No Plan Afoot to Displace Senator Lodge. Formal denial of reports to the ef- fect that the administration or repub- lican leaders in Congress were plan- ning to kill or unnecessarily delay the permanent tariff bill now before the Senate finance committee was made yesterday by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, chairman of the finance committee. Senator Penrose also denied that there was any plan afoot to displace nator Lodge permanently @ repub- lican leader of the Senate. “I cannot state too strongly,” said Mr. Penrose, “that the continued stories about groups or coteriés in the Senate being bent on trouble are existent only in imagination. As to the stories about a change in leader- ship, if Senator Lodge's duties as a member of the American commission to the conference on the limitation ofr armament should take him away from the Senate for a great deal of | his time, as it may or may not, doubt: less temporary arrangements would | commissioner be made to fill the office of chairman of the republican conference, which carries with it titular leadership. But whatever is done will continue the present harmonfous situation, in my opinion.” KEEP NEW YORK GOING. 2,531,637 Persons in Gainfal Oc- cupations, Census Reports. ‘There were 2,531,637 persons ten vears of age and over in New York city in 1920 engaged in gainful oc- cupations, the census bureau a nounced yesterday. The workers con- stituted 45 per cemt of the 5,620,048 persons in the city and 56 per cent of the population ten years’ of age and over. Of the gainful workers in 1920, 1,838,541 or 72.6 per cent were males and 693,096 or 27.4 per cent were fe- males. The largest number, 951,889 or 37.6 per cent were engaged in man- ufacturing and mechanical industries, while 401,434 or 159 per cent were in clerical occupations. ASSIGNED TO NAVIGATION. Lieut. Commander Bernard O. Mills has been assigned to duty in the bu- u of navigatien, Navy Department. SPECIAL NOTICES. THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEETING OF the stockholders of the Universal Development and Loan Company (Inc.) Wednesday evening, October 12, L, at o'clock at the Assem- biy Hall, Y. M. A. building, 1816 12th street B.W., by order of the bowrd of directors. Return Load Wanted Truck from Vermont unloading at Washing- ut Oct. 5. Special rase on re- on covered van load to Vermont or ngland_ states points. ERNEST L. DALL, Brookland. D.C. Phones North pianos taken in as part pavment on Victrolas. | HUGO WORGH. 1110 G n.w. Kranich & Bach | and Emerson pianos. T MY CLIENTELE—OLD beauty cultnre. Phone Col. 3245, raewor Umbrella smor REPAIRING. RECOVERING. MAD] ORDER: FR. 45%4-W. 718 13th ST. N.W. YOUR OLD WOOD FLOORS made new, planed, scraped and repolished ; new floors laid. Call any hour. C. ADAMS, Franklin 6347. 1210 O st. s.w. 3 This Btg Million-Dollar Printing Plant Oan do your printing with 1009 efficlency. The National Capital Press 1210-1212 D st. n.w. CONSOLIDATED CARS TO PACIFIO COAST— 6; Portland, Oct. 10; San ciseo, Oct. 23; subject to change. Reduced rates, with much greater securily for house- hold ‘goods, baggage, ete. SECURITY STOR- AGE €0., 1140 %5th st. Better Printing' That's what you receive when the order placed with HIGH GRADE, BUT Pre-war _prices NOT n‘l‘éfl ‘PRICED. THE SERVIC’s SHOP - ° BYRON S. ADAMS, F5immes. Let Me Call and Show You what Asbestos Roof Coating will do. . coating applied with a brush that leaks ‘and preverve any ki mates furnished free. We lr“ xusrantee five years. ~Also sold in ison Clark, 1314 Pa. av. s.c. Phone $UR TRUCKS LEAVE ‘vuamuwn'fi" elphia_and New York eve an Friday. SMITH'S TRANSFER fl%l Hair Coloring The French Hair Shop, . 700 12th Street N.W. Franklia 2223.-5% same_and bulk. Mad- Line, NEWSPAPER MAN SOLVES ' :: | PORTLAND'S ‘IDLE PROBL’E_M\ Finds Jobs for 7,000 Breadwinners by Ald Of All Business Men in Quest: For Workers. - : How a lone newspaper man solved the unemployment problem of Port- land, Oreg., is the story which is is- teresting members of the President’s unemployment conference in session here. Of course, he had help, but the “big idea” was his. 2 County and eity commissioners there dissolved their committee, and authorized the establishment of am unemployment committee to be con- ducted under the auspices of the or- ganizations of world war veterans, financed by the commissioners and directed by Charles B, Rucker, the newspaper man, who wanted to apply common sense to the problem, In- stead of theories. A hurried survey disclosed ap- proximately 7,000 breadwinners in need of employment, more than half that number. penniless and the re- mainder rapidly nearing that condi- tion. There was but one solution in the unemployment director's mind— work, not “charityy’ and though met by assurances on every hand that there was no work, of weather conditions,” etc. diately set about proving there was work by finding the work and the funds with which to pay for it, de- termined to find both in normal chan- nels and at no abnormal cost of pro- duction, in which he succeeded. The unemployment committee im- mediately announced through the daily newspapers and labor press| throughout the nation that while Oregop would take care of residents of other states already within her, gates all others seeking employment would have to stay out of the state until _the return of normal industrial conditions. This resulted in immedi- ately checking the influx of unem- ployed, and the committee set about finding employment for those Wwho were in dire need of work. Boy Scouts Aid. The Boy Scouts, aided by the moral support of the press and the motion picture screens, and by the active co- operation of the women's clubs, made a house-to-house canvass of Portland homes urging every housewife to closely scan her house and yard for a possible job for man or woman, for an hour, a day or a month. A commit- tee from the chamber of commerce systematically set about telephoning every office, store and industrial plant in the city urging a similar survey This intensive campaign resulted i discovering several thousand hours of immediate, seasonable employment, either forgotten, neglected or hereto- fore unknown to exist by housewives and business men. The several telephones in the public employment bureau, through which @11 employment was handled. kept up % constant ringing, orders poured in for domestics, yard men, carpenters, interior painters and paperhangers, factory hands, office help, chauffeurs, truck drivers, clerks and others of both sexes. This emergency measure provided temporary work for the more needy, while the unemployment dfrector set about finding more em- loyment. Pihe city commissioners, who had urged immediate relief, “thought they had no work,” and “even though they had work there were no funds to pay for it,” they declared. The unemploy- ment directordeclined to accept their gloomy assurances, and proceeded to disprove them. ‘Work on Public Parks. Portland had many parks boulevards in their natural state. The rainy season—even a Portland rainy season—was ideal for clearing land, grubbing stumps and leveling gulleys and gulches, 8o the unempl ment director delved into th park- bureau and -there found thou- Sands of dollars to pay for park and boulevard improvements. The. park “thought it impossible to do the work in the winter time; without loss of production.” He was shown his mistake, and he immedi-} ately agreed to put a small army of | family men to work on the park sites. Over 200 family men were taken from { the public welfare bureau's “chari- ty” list for this work, each provided with a half-week job, until somet! I3 better could be found for them. Sim- ilar conditions were found in other city and county departments, the same action taken and hundreds of others given either half or full-time employ- and ent. Finishing his survey of public em- | ployment _possibilities, the director then turned his attention to manufac- turing and other industries. A bridge crew had been laid off for want of Tumber. Investigation disclosed that tho mill which had the contract for, the lumber had closed down tem- porarily for “winter repairs” thus| Causing both mill and bridge crews 1o lose the employment of which they stood In stch great need. The mill owners were persuaded to forego the sepairs until a_less critical period. | the mill started up and so did the bridge work. 100 Men on Street Car Work. The street gar company, which had been® granted an inoreased fare by the public service commission, “to cover increased cost of maintefiance and repairs,” was advised by its en- gineers that certain work could not be done in the rainy season. The un- SPECIAL NOTICES. DANGER LURKS IN DIRTY RUGS. Cyclone will wash. disinfect and restore them to their original colors in one operation. | 4 ‘gallons, $1.25, delivered. PROGRESSIVE | BALES CO., 608 F n.w. Frank. 6469.J. oc: "THE ORIGINAL BIGGS. A COMFORTABLE HOME " = " = —is impossible in T with-§ Efficient | 5, aatamate neat “An orer.| Heating hauling of your ting system !I:z will assure you a cozy X SyStems' g4 New systems i1 old ones repaired. Let us estimate. The Biggs Engineering Co., 1310 14th st. n.w. Phone Franklin 317. Warren W. Biggs. President. talled ®and i fronclad Roof Paint i —will make the poor roof last so well you'll | think 1 good one. Hard, tough, fron ore | oxide and pure linseed oil. We'll apply it!! IRONCL Foofing, 1416 F st. n.w. | Company. Plhone Main 14. | Leaky Roofs Repaired | Tell Casey your troubles—he'll mlle‘ N.W. Phones t'ol. 155 and 1381 You'll Be Interested —in the Low Cash Prices quoted[ here on GARAGE DOORS, 4x8; Wall Board, Lumber and Sash. Geo. M. Barker Co., Inc. ©49-651 N. Y. ave.: 1817 7th. Tel. M. 1348. ‘The Shade Shop W. STOKEES SAMMONS. 830 13th St. % Order Window Shades Now and: Get the Low Prices ROOF PAINT Guaranteed :10 years. - Black, Red and Greem. ©. C. PAINT CO., 908 9th n.w. _ ~ Tin Roofs—SlagnRoois REPAIRED AND PA] 'ED. Call Main 760, Graft ‘Heating and_Roofine_Experts 35 Years. CLAFLIN OPTICAL CO,, Y SR Furnaces Repaired Also _ranges and stoves. Get us busy now. ; Get_our_estimate. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. - 1114 oth St. Phone North 231-282. Boofing_ Experts. & ! for paralysis of trade.” Until the gov- { tor temporary appointment in Wash- | ¢ ence of street car officials and their engineers and the city -engineer pointed out numerous repairs which cculd be made at no loss of pi ruc- tion because of weather cons ions and approximately 100 famlly ‘men were added to the street car com- pany’s repair crew. In Tractically every branch of industry this was re- PR ¢ ; owns of any consequence throughout the state were urged by the unemployment airector, through their public officials, commercial or- ganizations and patriotic societies, to put into effect in their respective communities the methods employed ir Portland. A majority of the towns did so, with the result that very soon those who had left their home towns to seek employment or afd in Portland were called back home to do the work found for them there. Seek In Vain for Idle. Before the close of the first month of the unemployment committee’s ac- tivity, Portland policemen sought in vain for unemployed men to repo: at the employment bureau for tem! porary work, the charitable organ zations had lost their able-bodied charges and the crime wave was well in hand. While an occasional arrest on a vagrancy charge was necessary to make some chronic “charity case” ac- cept work instead of alms, a vast majority gratefully accepted the op- portunity to earn _their food and shelter, and set abo@¥ “delivering the goods,” thus substantially proving their gratitude for deliverance from the demoralizing influences of alms- taking. With common laborers’ $410 a day of eight hours, and the skilled craftsman’s wages propor- tionately higher, it was not found necessary to reduce the wage scale to obtain the employment thus pr vided, and at all times the unemplo; ment committee worked in harmo: with organized labor and had the ac- tive co-operation of the Portland trades council. 4 The unemployment committee, in its formal report, insisted that its greatest achievement was in proving by actual demonstration that where charitable organizations will first ri fer all able-bodied applicants for aid W employment director called a wn!ar-. 'D it wages at b — ERSONS N HONES NENCREASE SHIH Increase in the number of persons to a awelling in the District of Co- lumbia in the ten-year period be- tween 1910 and 1920 figures made public by the census bureau, Where in 1910 there were 5.7 persons to each dwelling in the city and 5.6 persons in 1910, in 1920 there each dwelling, showed, ilies, showed, with an average of 4.5 per- sons to each family, a drop of one- tenth of 1 per cent from the 1910 average. dwelling increased throughout the nation theré was a decrease, the announcement showed. The nation’s population in 1920 was grouped into ing an a family and 5.1 persons to a dwelling. in 1910 the average number of per- sons to a family in the nation was age m 1880, since. ‘family” whether related by blood or not, liv- ing toggther in one household. person greatest in the southern states, «n the western states. »f persons to dwelling was greatest in New states and 000 through fire last year. ate in the fire preven ensus Bureau Cites High- er Average in D. C. Past Ten-Year Period. is shown in ere an average of 6.1 persons to the bureau’s figures There were 72,175 dwelli in the istrict in 1920, housing 96,194 fam- the bureau's announcement Decrease Elsewhere Shown. ile the number of persons to a in the District, W 24,351,476 families, re- ding in' 20,697,204 dwellings, mak- erage of 4.3 persons to a 5 and to a dwelling 5.2. The aver- in both cases was still higher and has declined steadily The census bureau applies the term to a group of persons One iving alone is counted as a ess of number, amily. An entire rtment house, although the home Average Size of Families. The average size of families was the showed, and smallest The number ureau’s figure; giand and middle Atlantic mallest in western states. I The American people lost $500,000,- Co-oper- on movement to the public employment bureaus, {ind help cut down that figure. giving the employment agent the op- portunity to _provide rather than charity, reduced to a mi g tee further insists that it ynquestion- ably demonstrated the nelessity for, and the practicability of, public em- ployment agents concerning them- selves with “securing jobs for men as well as supplying men for jobs.” Oregon's unemployment _problem _lhls year is not nearly so sérious as in all previous winter seasons, due to the methods inaugurated last win- ter, and the same method will be ap- plied during the present season in relieving the situation. URGES JAIL FOR MANY BLAMED FOR TRADE PLOT Charges that retailers and manu-| facturers In every state had illegally combined_ to maintain high prices, Senator King, democrat, Utah, during consideration of the tax bill yester- day, declared the Attorney General| should “send to the penitentiary thousands of conspirators responsible | ernment takes action, he added, there will be no marked decline in prices or in beginning of prosperity. Senator King censured the repubii- can party for “failure to dealiwjth the situation fearless]y. J “It is the favorite outdoor sport of wealth to attribute all economic iils to our present tax system,’ said Sen- ator King. “The evils of unemplo ment cannot be laid in whole to the effect tax laws have had on business.” Senator King said Senator Nelson republican, Minnesota, in a speech Saturday had “emphasized too much” the part labor had played in keeping up prices, and added: 3 “When " labor sees retailers and manufacturers refusing to be content | with normal profits it finds justifica- tion in combining itself to maintain high wages. WOMEN TYPISTS WANTED | Civil Service Examination October 11 Open to Both Sexes. The Civil Serviee Commission stated today that, in view of the urgent need |} for stenographer and typist eligibles l ington, the examination scheduled for | Tuesday, October 11, will be open to women as well as to men. Under- the | usual procedure such examinations are open to women once every three | months. | The salary offered is $1,440 a year, including the “bonus.” Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the office of the Civil Service Commi: 2 Syt e Commission, 1724 HOUSES Furnished and Unfurnished FOR RENT From $125 Per Month Up JOHN W. THOMPSON & CO., —INC.— 821 15tk St. Mafn 1477 HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLI Text e NEW AND USED -/ PEARLMAN'’S n9¢= 933 G Street Oxl:gx OPEN EVENINGS * Rent a Ford or Dodge:-: Drive it yourself & . North 122 Ford Car RentaD$Co, 8. E. 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O, TUESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1921 Abe Martin Says: Th’ ladies o’ th’ Art Embroid- ery €lub met for pistol practice yesterday afternoon. Burglars attempted t’ break in thl Moots home about. 4 o'clock this mornin’, but wuz scared away by Mrs. Ike Lark, who wuz sittin’ up waitin’ till her daughter got in. (Copyright National Newspaper Bervice.) ORDERED TO ANNAPOLIS. Lieut. Commander Stanley R. Ca- nine, at the naval air station, Pen- 3 sacola, Fla., has been orderéd to An- ‘amily, while the occupants of a hotel | napolis, Md., for duty at the Naval or institution, regardl are considered one ap of many families, constitutes only one dwelling in the classification of the ensus bureau. Academy. Store Hours: 8 For Enlarged The “Foot Form” g Moses, for mediator, and A. Snow, for guardian., Results will be announced at_the annual meeting, October 10. The Post Office Department and bureau of standards branches of local No. 2 meet for elections tonight. —_— ENDS DUTY AT QUANTICO. Lieut. Commander John T. Borden, Naval Medical Corps, at the marine barracks, Quantico, Va., has been a: signed to duty on the U. 8. 8. Bush- DE)\V'" secretary. nell. He ;wfll be t“ellevedo,mm fl:(! Navy Department branch nominat- | at Quantico by eut. mmander ed the following: C. D. Anderson, | Arthur E. Tounie, Naval Medical for_ president; Donald P. Scott and iCorps, now on the peceiving ship at R. York. Powell, for secreta: | GEN. LEONARD WO0OD ELECTED UNION OFFICER. WILL RETIRE TOMORROW |Davia ®. Glass Heads Public Health Service Branch. David R. Glass was elected presi- dent of the public hgalth service branch of Federal Employes’ Union, No. 2, at a meetiag held at 1423 New York avenue last night. Other officers elected are A. M. Wheeler, jr., vice president, and Mrs. Myrtle L. Other High Officers in Army Also to Go on Inactive List Soon. Two vacancies in the list of major generals of the line of the Army will occur this week. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will be placed on the retired list tomorrow, after more_than thirty-five years’ active service. His retirement is entirely voluntary, in order to enable him to accept the civil appointment of governor general of the Philippines. He probably will be succeeded in command of the 6th Corps area, with sta#on at Chicago, by Maj. Gen. Charles E. Menoher, recently relieved from duty as chief of the Army Air Service. Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, com- manding the 8th Army Corps, at San Antonio, Tex., will retire for age Thurs- day, after more thaw forty-two syears’ active gervice. No one has yet been selected to relieve him at San Antonio. Other important retirements this year are those of Gen. Peyton C. March, former chief of staff, November 1, and of Maj. Gen. John F. Morrison, com- manding the 4th Corps area, at Fort Mc- Pherson, Ga., December 20. Maj. Gen. John L. Chamberlain, inspector gen- eral of the Army, now in Europe on leave of absence, will retire for age, January 24 The Colonial School for Girls Here scholarship d , environment are tantamount — each invokes heart- lest commendation. Ask any graduate or pupil. Opening Day, October & Phone for Catalog. North 7994 “Over Thirty Years of Real Service” Stone & Fairfax, nc 1342 New York Ave. N.W. Main 2424 Members of Washington Real Estate Board EXPERIENCE Advice Is Often Questionable, But Experience Is Dependable Our Advice is Based on Long Experience The service this organization renders is and has Peen Exclusively Real Estate, and enables us to apply well tried and proved rules and methods to the successful handling of any real problem. EDMONSTON’S—Home of the Original FOOT FORM Boots and Oxfords for Men, Women and Children. AM. \to 6 P.M. The personnel of the office has been selected for the special individual capabilities of each member and his experience profits the client. Charles P. 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Advisers and Authorities on All Foot Troubles Andrew Betz, Manager 1334 F Street ’ But he couldn’t be expected to have as extensive a picture of general market conditions as a banker would; he had too many other things to do. There was a market flurry affecting a commodity of which he always COLONIAL HOMES . INSPECT TODAY 1215 to 1223 KENYONST. Room for Two Garages The Homes with the Big Lots—20 by 142—plenty room for garages, flowers and garden. « - OPEN DAILY : H. R Howenstein Co. 1314 F-Street'N.W. : new STAR BUILDI : ti»n.TheA : New STAR. Bldg. Office rooms now 3available in the magnificent P?O. at Eleventh and Penn- sylvania Avenue N.W. Conveniently .located lavatories, iced water fountains, five passenger-and one freight elevator. Reservations-made NOW for one or morerooms for October 1st. Apply Room 101 STAR BUILDING handled a big quantity. Looked like an advance. Should he plunge? Or should he simply buy for _ present needs? We had been stiudying basic condi- tions in that industry—not simply watching the market trend. " We told him what we thought about it. He took our advice. And a few weeks later he told us we had saved him a big business head- ache. Such things are every-day occur- rences here. Our depositors see in the Mt. Vernon Savings Bank more than a place to keep money. -They know that the directorate of th"is bank will help pilot them safely through the shoals of business.