Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTQN,_;’. C, FREAY,;_MARCH 7, 1924, Unif 8 . o i Nt 1 . LOW OIL PRICE-FIXING |3z 2 minuten comversation i Hines Cuts Veterans’ Bureau Cost ot T e e e i ANt i L Tiam e Spunik A0 Mloe,ox i rsen Hanarsbly die er mi o 4 regard to the Petroleum Institute and _ “That depends upon what is meant | centralized machinery of the bureau. ‘There is & big job wa! for the | be guests. various suggestions by some of the $82 i 7 “pol £ he repiled. | Hines will mot rest content until a |right man at the Veterans MOVE IN U. S. OFFICE | 5tendara”SiF wrou, a”eapr ,000,000 in First Year on Duty g of Congress are constantly man entitled to relief can get it with- |the post of medical director. of one of the Standard P out efther delay or red tape. Thit|considers it a more important job arose and mado an offer, which wis. | . - b is the decentralization goal towsrd than his own. He is looking for the s n substance, an offer up~n Whic! . to wh een working for a year. | finest medic: Thompson Declares Trade Commis. | of the Standard compe s s was Reforms Only Half Achieved, But Morale of W orkers The American people look upon | He'says he's only about half-way to it. | to_take the place. He Is willing to pared to quit fghting cullof & 8 s ¢ad representatives as their | krorty.cight Howpitals Operated. |D3Y RYthing up to 325000 o year to " war {n Tennessee I ) % - 5 sion Was Visited by Envoys | Brient the price. down to 3. cents Jumps as Finger of Suspicion No Longer Is Srokegians AE W astinaton, (T then At proseat the Vetsrans: Bureau s | saidsy Hines himselt draw 1a a gallon, The offer started a debate % & X the bu: announces it's going to | Operatin = or is only .000. . Hines .wo of Industry. with the Independent who was carry- Pamted‘—Blg Job Still Open. close & hospital, Its perfecily nat- |the direct administrative control of | ders whether the investigation mania ing on the fight. ural that an affected community |the central office at Washington prevailing at Washington may not be —_— . these fourteen are for insane psycho- | frightening top-notch medical men w Price-Fixing Move. should appeal to its congressman to STANDARD I8 NAMED| - 1 rked 4 See what can be done about It, It & |Deurotics, eighteen for tuberculous lout of accepting a position rich in op- e et Fpesred to me| BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. |clal interview, “the country can rest|service man in a certain constituency | PASIents &ne ixreon for gERere; RSt | portunity for genulne Seevies e they were trying to fix prices right| Coincident with the opening of |#ssured. The principal conditions |has a grievance, or thinks he has, the | cost of operation of hospitals has (Copyright, 1924. : up under my nose, and he agreed.|criminal which gave rise to last yea one he tells his troubles to 18 his|,eon reduced from $4.67 to $4.49 per = L Argues Against Monopoly Before | Whercupon I arose and notified the |Fi/minal proceedings in connettion gongressman. The congressman comes | capita. During th Hines adminis: | | F_ DURKINS IS CHOSEN. | »w group that I had been led up there [With Veterans' Bureau affairs, Brig.|tigation have been abolished. to us. That kind of ‘political inter- | {r2S: i Nospitals have been closed |ds s . 'l'ele llone st d Government League. under u misrepresentation, that the |Gen. Frank T. Hines, who was ap-{R0W0 (0% SriU Dasinges 0l ¢ | forence) I golng on, All the time. 400 | because they were unsuitably lo- P an —_— Sherman act was still in existence |pointed to reorganize them, has just|I'm asking Congress for 382,000,000 |uppointments for conetituents, too. | Cated: in constant need of fepats oF| plected Officer of the Day by Army || and st 1 Declaring that his first day with|mission act, bade them good-bye, and [Completed his first year as director. |less than we =pent last ve which | That's another thing the American|gonment of these Institutions result- and Navy Union. 00! the Federal Trade Commission was |TFeturned to my office.” He admits that the main job he|Vas 4000, LBt Aete ead | taxpayer has grown up to belleve he |eq in a monthly saving of $211,236 e Declaring against monopoly and ) ; insisted that every divisio has a right to ask his congressman [and in annual rentals of $195721.| The position of officer of the day 00 marked by a visit from representa- | yrging a free and open market,with |1 oo, C3lled upon to perform-—decen-|in the bureau, and every man or|to look after. Seven new hospitals, providing 3,286 President’s Own Garr!. N o tives of the leading oil interests in | competition, Mr. Thompson said: tralization—is only partially finished. woman subordirate to him, 1y to TR Asks Law Be Changed. new beds, have been opened. ~There | Of the Presidents Own Garrison, No. the country, Huston Thompson; chalr- | _“What is the use of loaning money |Since March 1, 1923, Hines has been [things as they'd run them If the Bes been' an actual decrewse of 794|104, Army and Navy Unlon, U. . A. . : to the farmer, with which he wiil wire |F08U was thelr own private bud Gen. Hines is now asking Congress |in medical personnel, saving $1,723,432 | made vacant by the resignation of —neatly fini i a man of the commission, outined the | woregage his home and his future |CUttINE his way through barbed-wire|our people have not always been Der- | ¢5 amend the law under which the (in salaries. As to Veterans' Bureau 3 Eabtier was ehed { —neatly figished in mahog- proceedings of the vislt before the | to raise crops, which he will attempt entanglements of red tape, overlap-|mitted to work under ideal condl-|pyreau operates. He is not entitled, | personnel in general, there was a re- Henry J. Xasiner, was ed last any. A convenience that unchacn Zomim of the Natlonsl Pan-| to sell in the market place controlled [ping, circumlocution and internal|tlons. ~The odium into which e ynd-r the existing law, to clothe thé |duction of 3,799 employes between |night at G. A. R. Hall by the unani- you will more than appre- ular Government League at the New | by price-fixers or monopoly? dlsorganization. The system he|bureau came had an inevitabls effect ;requ's fleld force at isolated points|March 1, 1923, and January 1, 1924, | mous election of J. F. Durkins, who ciate. Do sk ) a. . “He will receive a shrunken dollar g '® |upon morale in many cases. Men and |, nout the country with that|saving $4,658,169 in salaries.” Gen. | .o installed immediately. M+ Thompson said, in part: for his produce, and then be compel: [found In vogue was costing the gov-|women who were doing thelr level. ity "Gt action ‘Which they ousht | Hines found a vast wastage of money [ 729 In® fu 2 G Plitt Co “The meeting was held In the hear- |led to buy in a market, where he [ernment unnecessary money and ob- [best folt that they were lnhnl:ln[ to have. Hines wants Congress to |on communications. He has cut down Announcement was made that on eorgc itt oy lnc. ing room of the Federal Trade Com- | pays a hundred cents or more on the |structing the deserving service man's |an atmosphere in which the uucu-énx authorize branch offices, as distin- | expenditures for telegrams, long-dis- | March 20 the garrison will hold “open Painting, Paperhanging and mission. 1 asked the chief counsel of | dollar. Thirty-seven per cent of our |path to speedy rellef. Far reaching |finger was pointed dt all -ul_dnmm TY | guished from the present chain of |tance calls, city calls, special delivery | pouge” with an entertainment and ‘Whu}‘,“m“ the Federal Trade Commission, Mr. | farmers are already * tenants. Next |reforms have heen accomplished. But |connected with the Veterans' Bureau. (Sl Gitrict offices at fourteen central |stamps, printing and binding to the | IOMSe’ With 4% eftemainhent and e John Walsh, to accompany me. In ad- | year he must necessarily come around [Gen. Hines acknowledges there's still [1 think the worst Is over in that re- | JOt S50 %8 country, which will give lextent of $135,000 & yeur. The bureau | réfreshments. r of goidiers, |4 : W, dition to Mr. Walsh and myself, there | for an additional loan, and eventual- |a lot to be done before Veterans' Bu- [spect.” D e quiek action. 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