Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 6

BUILDING PROGRAM DISAPPOINTS DAVIS Labor Chnef Expects New Housing Fagilities in First Operation. Secretary of Labor Davis “feels keenly disappointed” that provision was not made in the public buildings program for a Department of Labor Euilding In the first lits of buildings to be erected. Although he realizes, he sald in his report tod that some of the la have greater probiem space, “the needs of of Labor are very cerely hope that the P u include the new livpunn\f‘nl of Labor Building In the next group of build ings to be erected.” Mr. Davis said United States Boz of #hould be hou: ment structur E square feet, making the total space needs of the department about 140,000 Bquare feet of floor space. “The build- ing planned for the department by the Public Buildings Commission in its report of December 18. 1917, showed & net floor squ feet. A building of this is what the department actually n need by the time it is pancy.”” The Labor negotiations have been ente with the owners of the buildin lease for a period of five years, on a basis of $68,000 a_year, has been ap- proved by the Public Buildings Com- nission, which can be abrogated at any time Congress falls to make ap propriation for the rental 273 Employes Added. The department pay roll showed an increase of 273 employes on June 30, 1926, as compared with the end of the previous fiscal year. Two hundred and eighty emploves were added in the fmmigration and naturalization services. Oof the total of 3,987 em ployes in the department at the clos: of the year, 426 were holding appoint- ments “at a nominal compensation of $1 per annu: believed the Mediation 000 | dy for occu- | poliey art- | ing immigrant, was the fir: troversies in American industry be: cause the habit of conciliating and me- diating disputes is growing stronger. So long as enterprising me-n and wom- en engaged in industry bend their energles toward advancemel will be differences of opinion, he said, but with the principles of conciliation hom,: more generally accepted year by year, the Nation is bound to see a great reduction in the number of dis- | putes reaching the stage where a stop- page of production occurs. Saving Wages Paid. Mr. Davis said the majority of em- ployers are paying their workmen what he termed a saving wage, “‘one that will provide for the comforts of ife and cnable him to lay by some- hing for the later years of life.” Administration of the immigration aws, vested in the Labor Depart- nent, during the past year was “the nost satisfactory since the adoption 1 of a limitation s declared. Due in part to the stationing of United States medical and immigration inspectors d, the number of immigrants ex- uded after a long journey to this country was reduced to & minimum. “Thus there has been realized the ‘ond step toward the ideal of select- immigratio “The act of 19 United States consular officers a certaln amount of discretion granting of visas where doubt as to the admissibality of an intend- The stationing of our immigration and health officers abroad in the countries furnishing 90 per cent of the immi- gration Is the second. It is my opin- ion that a third and final step in a complete process of selecting immigra- tion can be accomplished if Congress will but approve some method of pri- ority in the granting of what are now referred to as ‘mon-preference’ quota visas. “of zround of humanity, immigrants, on the quota I would provide v and'a | for preferences to be issued to hus- bands, wives and minor children of alien residents in the United States. “Wives and unmarried children un- der 18 years of a citizen of the United States are non-quota immigrants un- der the act of 1924, which is as it should be, but the class should be extended to include the husbiand of an American citizen, and a provision should be added permitting the en- trance, if the quota be exhausted, of minor unmarried children and depend- ent fathers and mothers of citizens of the United States.” The Secretary repeated recommen- dations, first made in 1925, that Ci gress allow the importation of spes t there | d. | jtors. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 2,314,905 Visited National Monuments and Parks Last Year, Director Reports A total of 2,314,905 persons visited the national parks and monuments during the past year, the highest fig- ure in the history of the Natlonal Park Service, according to the annual re- { port of Stephen T. Mather, dircctor, | submitted today to Secretary of the Interfor Work. This was a gain of 260,343, or about 12 per cent, over the year before. Mr. Mather states that final recos- nition as national parks of the Shen- andoah and Great Smoky Mountains areas awaits the acceptance of mini- mum amounts of land, specified in the organic act, by the Secretary of the Interior. There wa the revenue: during the year, total this year pared with $67 vious fiscal year. Adjustments of boundaries were made several of the national par! increasing the areas available for vis The Sequoia Park, in Califor- nia, was enlarged by the inclusion of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States, and the scenic Kern River area. A net reduction of 18,007 acres in private holdings in the various parks also took plac The educational fa- cilities of the parks, particularly thpse at Yellowstone, were enlarged so that a large number of educational institu- tions throughout the country took ad- a substantial increase in of the national parks Mr. Mather says. The < '$826,454.1 20.98 during the pre- immigration possible, he suggested, should be balanced off by empowering the President to shut off immigration entirely during periods of industrial depression in the United States. Never has the Nation been in a situation more prosperous and con- tented, Mr. Davis said. “‘America is today the richest coun- try that has ever existed,” he de- clared. “The prosperity of America is one in which the American workers fully share. The poor we still have with us, but hopeless poverty—except, perhaps, among the aged &nd infirm— is now almost unknown.’ Lactobacillus Afldopl.lhu Call our product, = A" Mix For intestinal disorders. Ask your physleian about’ it. NATIONAL VACCINE AND or skilled labor, under careful re. Secretary Davis saw real hope for a on in the number of labor con- SO A Colorful Collection of Fine " Nm ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE Phone North 89. 1516 U St. N.W. Featuring Now " [addition, GO~ vantage of them for Summer schools ! and special nature study courses. | During the year an arrangement was made with the Bureau of Public | Rouds of the Department of Agricul- ture to supervise major engineering projects within the park areas. Al- ready $4.500,000 have been expended under the road budget, with obliga- tions of $1,500,000. A total of $7,500,- 000 is to be expended in the improve- ment of the roads and trails. N =5 10,013 Go to Canada. OTTAWA, December 8 (®).—Immi- grants to Canada in October totaled 10,013, of whom 1,799 came from the United States, according to a_state- ment by the department of immigra- | tion and colonization yesterday. In 4,036 Canadians returned from the United States during the month. Ehristmas, 1926 Shop Early—Mail Early For Better Service $0.00 o Pittsburgh SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12 SPECIAL TRAIN Leaves Saturday Night, Dec. 11 Lv, Wn‘fihm:lnn (Union Sta- A% Bl .} \uetgll“'!‘rmn 1““11‘ lrt‘; e ©. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBFR 8, 19%. ! mmmmfi P.M. . 345" £ Vislt Schenley Bark. Phipos ot . Fhipos, o M sou; d An Gallery, Hugeary and At Guflesy .:‘.:'z'&’" places of inter Pennsylvania Railroad Oriental and Chinese Rugs At Temptingly Low Christmas Prices BRAND-NEW ghip- ment! 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