Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 5

VARE FIGHT LINES | GROWING TATER Blease, Democrat, to Vote to Seat Pennsylvanian—Nor- ris Probes Election. By the Associated Prees Senatorial lines were forming today for a potential contest over the seat- ing in the Seventisth Congress of Senator-elect,'Willlam S. Vare, Repub- Iltean, Pennsylvania. whose primary election expenditures have been in- vestigated by the Senate campalgn fund committee. inquiry into the Penn- sylvania situation is under way by Senator Norrie, Republican. Nebras- ka, who campaigned prior to the elec- tion on behalf of Willlam B. Wilson, the Democratic candidate. Meanwhile Senator Blease, Demo. erat, South Carolina, announced that he wonld vote to seat both Senators. elect Vare and Smith, Republican, Tiiinols, unless it could be shown that their election had heen effected by fraud or corruption, and Senator David Reed, Republican, Pennsylva- nia, reiterated his intention to vote to seat his colleague on the ground that Republican expenditures in the Keystone State had been legal. honest and necessary Probe In Philadelphia. In Philadeiphia the entire election board of one division and the Demo- cratie inspector of another, where no votes had been credited to Mr. Wilson in the unofficial returns, were ordered to appear today in the election court to explain discrepancies. On the heels of the opinion of Sena- tor Borah, Republican, Idaho, that the seventeenth constitutional amend men empowered Congress to control congressional primaries as well as general electiéons “to purge” them of “eorruption.” came an announcement from the Missouri Home of Senator James A. Reed, Democrat and chair- man of the Sengte campaign funds committee, that his committee can be called, under the Senate resolution which resulted in its appoinment. to Investigate the Pennsylvania general elections “if it can be shown that because of moneys contributed or promises made, the ballots were mis- counted or fraudulent ballots were ermitted to be cast, or votes were ught.” In announcing his personal inquiry into the Pennsylvania elections, Sena- tor Norris said that he would not hesi- tate to request the Reed committee to investigate the elections if facts were found to warrant such action. He reiterated his charge that the returns In Philadelphia disclosed that machine- control methods had been used there and that the record disclosed that no honest election had been held or that the honest results had been withheld. Reed Favors Senate Contest. In liew of a committee investigation, however, Senator James Reed sug- gested that the proper and more effec- tive method of getting the facts in the case would be a contest in the Senate, disputing Mr. Vare's right to his seat. By this method, Mr. Wilson, the de- feated candidate, would file a protest and a committee would bo appointed from the Senate to investigate all charges. Senator Blease sald his intention to vote to seat Senators-elect Vare and Smith, in the absence of a showing of fraud. was based upon his adherence to the doctrine of State's rights. He contended that a State has the indis- putable right to send to the Senate any one it chooses, and that the Senate may not go beyond the authenticity of the certificate of election issued by the governor of a State. His announcement was contrasted with previous statements of Senator Ashurst, Arizona, and other Demo- crats that they would challengo the right of Vare and Smith to their seats because of the extent of the expendi- tures in their primary campalgns. The officlal count of the ballots in Philadelphia, where Mr. Wilson was credited with no votes in 44 election divisions and only one each in 32 others, neared completion today. BOY ORATOR AND BANJO STAR NOW IN BUSINESS 1824 Contest Entrant Here Played Way to Paris Before Enter- ing Present Career. From boy orator to crack banjo layer in a college orchestra playing ts way to France and back, to repre- sentative and lecturer for a material handling equipment company, is quite & transition for a space of two years, but 1t has been accomplished by Jack Turner, 20 years old, of Birmingham, Ala., who is visiting Washington for the first time since he came here in 1924 to compete in the National Ora- torical Contest as the representative of the South. After the oratorical-contest, Tur- ner entered the University of Ala- bama, where he became banjoist and manager of the orchestra. He ar- ranged a tour for the organization which_enabled it to play its way to New York on the Clyde Line, and then to France and back on the Hol- land-American Line. While in Paris, the boys played at a Montmartre cafe Now the erstwhile boy orator is eonnected with an Illinois firm and he is here to show and explain motion plctures of his company’s products be- fore the conventicn of the American Bociety of Municipal Improvement at the Mayflower Hotel. A personal Maj. Evansr Ordered to Boston. Maj. Paul W. Evans, Signal Corps, attached to the office of the chief sig- nal officer, War Department, has been ordered to Boston for duty at head rps Area 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 §7 rooms. $6 weekiy: $10.80 rooms. $8: 13 with toilet. shower and lavatory. 2 in_room. 50 % more. Rooms ilke Mof I |OR Less than Hait of what you would have to pay in rent you can live 'in a new four room. hath and poreh apartment home in this ex. Elusive Ghivy’ Ghase iom: munity. $750 cash with $7.95 a room monthly is the actual cost of living hero while buying your Bome in 100% CO-OPERATIVE Connecticut Courts 5112 Conn. Ave. SOLD BY KASS REALTY CO. T FIVE-DAY ‘WEEK COLD BUSINESS, NOT PHILANTHROPY, SAYS FORD (Continued from First Page.) . ore business as a result of the inau guration of the eight-hour day and of the five and later the six dollar mini- mum wage. “Our people now have more leisure to enjoy life. That means they have greater need for a car and that the car requirements of those who supply their other enhanced needs will be in- creased. A new cycle of demand is created, we will be able to employ more men and that will further in- crease prosperity and the consequent demand for cars. Can't vou see it is a neyer-ending cycle?” “Mr. Ford, well-informed people in Detroit, including some of vour own employes, tell me that you are not paying six days’ pay for five days’ work—that your new policy means an actual wage decrease to your em- ployes,” I sald. “You are charged with misleading the public as to your policies.” “There has been widespread miscon- ception of our new policy, but it is the fault of the headline writers and the superficial readers—not of the Ford company. T never said that T would pay six days’ wages for five days’ work and T never will do such an un economic and impossible thing. The company would not long endure on such a basis and it would be a poor service to the 3,000,000 men, women and children who directly or indirectly get their llving from our industry. “T said that we would pay six day wage for six days’ work done in five days and that we are doing just as fast as we improve our operations to that extent. When we are gompletely on the new basis our em)h‘ [ earn more in five days than *Rev ever earned in six. But the men must earn the money first. The contents of their pay envelopes do not come out of the air. There is no secret treasury from which the unearned increment is drawn. The money comes from prod- ucts manufactured and sold. As fast as the product increases just so fast the pay increases.” “I understand, Mr. Ford, that many of your production employes have been on the five-day basis for a year or more. Would you mind telling me how many now get the six-day rate and how many have gotten in- creases?” I asked. Question is Difficult. “That is a difficult question to an- swer, because we give increasgs of 5 cents an hour to employes who showed a degree of increased produc- tion and 10 cents an hour to those who showed a larger increase. Some of the 5-cent men have received an- other 5-cent increase, making their daily wage 80 cents above what it was under the old scale. “The cook oven employes now do as much in five days as they formerly did in six, and they get the old six- day rate for their five-day week. The blast furnace employes have also at tained this rate of production and their pay will be increased according- ly. The only figures I can give you for the pay situation in other depart- ments are somewhat difficult to in- terpret. “Since the last of May we have given 39,642 raises to our 35,000 Highland Park plant employes. Of these 591 were 10-cent raises and the rest were 5-cent raises, but, as I pointed out, many of the men have got two 5-cent raises. There have been 41,205 raises among our 51,000 employes at the Fordson plant, of which 2,500 were for 10 cents. One other figure comes to mind. In April the average wage at the Highland Park plant was §5 cents. Today it is 89 cents. Hardship Only Temporary. Mr. Ford did not deny the allega- tion of his critics that the immediate effect of the flve-day-week policy is a cut off from $2.40 to $4.40 in the week- ly earnings of many thousands of his employes. Any temporary hardship in this respect will be offset by the long-run gains of increased wages and decreased hours, he replies. Asked to name a date when the entire personnel will be recetving weekly earnings under the five-day nlan as large as those under the six- lay plan, Mr. Ford sald it was im- possible to determine that date. “It all comes back to the question »f how soon we can cull out all the neffic..nt emploves and interest our rersonnel in bringing production up ‘0 the new standard. We couldn't in- stitute the higher pav rate at one stroke of the pen in all departments. That would mean little change In pro- duction, no chance to -improve the quality of our workers and an injus- tice to the men really qualified for the raise. The gradual introduction means a steady improvement in the work standards and the constant attraction of a superior type of employe to our plant. We are getting superior men by virtue of this policy, just as we %ot them by virtue of our eight-hour day and our minimum wage of $5 or $6. There is danger In too r- idly ralsing the pay of any man, w'< her he previously received $1 or $100 a day!" A very definite weeding-out process has been under way in the Ford plants. The machines have been speeded up, tasks have been increased, surplus men have been taken off the various operations, and men found loafing on the job have been given an opportunity to mend their ways or take a full-time vacation without pay. One feels this increased tempo as one goes through the plants, and it is the pride of Ford executives that the visitor will see no loafing on the Job. Denies Pace Is Too Stiff. “They say your pace is too’ stiff— that men cannot stand up under it for any length of. time,” 1 said to Mr. Ford. “No man is called upon to do more work than he Is capable of,” was the quick retort. “Look at them as you go through the plant. You will not find any one killing himself. You will not find as much hard work in all our plants as you find on the average farm. No man need rupture himself at any task in our works. Machines do the 1i'ting and straining. We ask our men to work hard, but we do not ask them to do hard work. “They have plenty of leisure, and they come to work fit as a fiddle Mon- day morning after two days of relaxa- tion—a week end long enough for them to commune with nature and enjoy life with their families. I might add, long enough for them to spend some of the fruits of the week’s labor and thus make additional labor for themselves in the form of enhanced business. The tired worker who must spend six days in the shop hasn't the leisure he needs for such purposes.” (Copyright. 1926.) Master Sergeant Retired. Master Sergt. Herman Von Oehsen, Medical Department, at the Army medical center, Walter Reed General Hospital, has been placed on the re- tired list of the Army on his own ap- plication after more than 30 years’ active service, disease germs abound during this ever changing weather. your system toned to healthful resistance. without weakening your system. Drink— eVERFRESH| In new, non-re- turnable bottles for your protection. . 1005 Pa. Ave. - RANDLE HIGHLANDS ASKS SCHOOL AID Street Improvements Also Urged at Meeting of Citizens. Resolutions to seek extensive im- provements to schools and streets in the Randle Highlands section were unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Randle Highlands Citizens’ Asso- clation In the Fountain Memorial Bap- tist Church last night. Adoption of the resolution to seek better school facilities followed charges that children attending the Orr School are liable to be made ill by escaping gasses from the furnace there and that a general congested condition_exists. The committee on schools, Mrs. P. M. Greenlaw, newly appointed chalrman, was authorized to make a detailed investigation. i Streets in the vicinity were declared to ba so muddy that it Is often hard for a person to cross them without sinking in several inches. The com- mittee on streets and lights, P. M. Greenlaw, chairman, was authorized to take up the question with the Dis- trict authorities and to urge immedi- ate improvement of Minnesota avenue southeast, Twenty-fifth street south- east and Naylor road southeast. The association adopted a resolution approving the election of James G. Yaden as president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Greenlaw, the president of the assoclation, S. E. Snyder, announced the appointment of other committee chairmen as follows: Clifford Shoemaker, public utilities: John Herath, membership; Mrs. Clif- ford Shoemaker, zoning; Mrs. Joseph Horbert, colebration; Mrs. J. H. Molineu, house; Joseph Herbert, laws and legislation; Mrs. Deborah Streit- berger, rules; D. S. Stansbury, sanita- tion, and Mrs. Bessle V. Curtls, parks and lawns. MEMORIAL FOR WILSON. Services to Be Held at Bethlehem Chapel Armistice Day. Arrangements for the Woodrow Wilson Memorial service at Bethle- hem Chapel on Armistice afternoon at 4 o'clock have been completed. As heretofore, the flowers will be carried by a small boy. This year, the eldest son of Admiral Cary Grayson, Gordon Grayson, aged five, will be the bearer. Mr. Wilson, always intensely fond of children and diverted by them, was more closely associated with Gordon in his last years than with any other child. 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