Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1929, Page 46

CANADA IN DRIVE ON RAILWAY PERILS Federal and Road Official Unite in Campaign to Elim- inate Level Crossings. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. OTTAWA, July 13.—Another official; drive to eliminate the level crossing, missioners, the road departments of the provincial governments and the vailw: executives all co-operating in' an en-| deavor to arrive at an agreement on! an immediate joint course of action. At/ the present. time, information and sta- tistics are being gathered from ail over the Dominion. and it is confidently expected in official circles heve, that the coming year will see a hig move in the interests of safety. Crossings Being C| The provincial officials are now en- gaged in classifying the crossings from the, point of view of the degree cf danger and the nature of the protection needed. When this has been done the board, the provinces and the railways will confer and decide where the greatest urgency lies. These most dan-| gerous crossings will be eliminated or ified. y | what in Government contracts. It un- ‘Spending a Billion Dollars Of His Work as Director S than $25,000,000,090 in Government As Told to William P. Helm, Jr. A highly efficient organization, desig- nated by a jaw-breaking title—the In- terdepartmental Board of Contracts and Adjustments—was set up by the Budget, Bureau, and Gordon A. Ramsay, Chi- cago lawyer of ability, was made chair- man. ‘That board started to find what was covered a situation so appalling as to be almost incredible. In the first place, the Government was writing more than 200 kinds of contracts for supplies and | other requirements. Few contracts were | identical, even in the size of paper on which forms were printed. There was almost inconceivable variation in the | wording of certain clauses covering gen- | eral provisions of law. The utmost un- certainty and confusion resulted in the minds of those who had contractual relations with the Government. Indeed, more than a few firms de-| clined absolutely to do business with| the Government, saying the contracts were ambiguous, vague, difficult to in- terpret and sometimes unfair to the seller. Deprived of Some Competition. protected first The program to be drawn up wil require from $500.000 to $1.0000.000 a federal ~government, | 0/ 000 to $3.000,000 annually. ld--l crossing fund which has been replen- izhed at the rate of $200.000 a year for | many years is proving insufficient since | the campaign of the iast few years inaugurated by Hon. Charles Dunning, minister of railways. | Fund Reduced to $120,000. | At present it is down to about $120 000 and Mr. Dunning probably will a Parliament next session to increase the £200.000 to the larger amount TUnder the provisions of the federal grant the fund, which is administered | by the rallway board. will pay up to| 40 per cent of the cost of any crossing | elimination and protection, the sther 60 per cent being divided between the | yallways and the municipalities. The board may order a railway or a nunici- pality to pay the whole cost or the larger share so that the fund is only a fraction of the amount to be actually | spent. i (Coprright. 1929.) ARMY AND NAVY NEWS Army. Brig. Gen. George 8. Simonds, G. 8., iz head of the board now in session that was appointed to conduct com- petitive tests of semi-automatic shoul- der rifies. The rifles before the board, are the Garand and Pederson, designed | and psoduced at Springfield Armory. Mass.. a Thomson, a Browning, Zrauning from Belgium and Czechq slovakian model ZH29, all of which were | disassembled and assembled by 'ht; board. Preliminary firings of the rifles | were made before the board at Congress Heights, D. C., last week and later competitive firings and tests will be made at Aberdeen proving ground, Md. The other members of the board ar Lieut. Cols. Edwin Butcher, Infantry James O'Hara, Cavalry; John N. Hodges, C. E., and Ralph Talbot, jr. G. S.; Comdr. Ernest W. McKee, U. §. N.; Majs. Robert Du R. Harden, M. C.; Charles G. Mettler, O. D.; Ralph Brush, G. S.: Albert W. Waldron, F. A.; Clesen H. Tenney, C. A. C. and Harold C. Pierce, U. 8. M. C.. with Capt. James | L. Hatcher, O. D., as recorder. | A complaie agreement has been reached by the members of the inter-| departmental pay board on the pay schedules to be incorporated in the bill for revision of pay of the military- naval service. It is understood that the recommendations of the hoard will be for an increase in pay for all ranks and ratings in the two services, com- missioned and warrant officers, nurses and enlisted men. It is not believed that much difficulty will be experienced in reaching a solution of the pay sit uation of the enlisted personnel of t| various services. There are some dif- ferences in the base pay of the enlisted men of the Army and Navy, for ex- ample, the rates for the Army being, first grade, $126; second, $84: third, £72; fourth, $54. fifth: $42; sixth, $30, and seventh, $21, while the rates for the Navy are: First grade, $126 (per- manent appointment) and $99 (actin appointment): second. $84: third, $72; fourth, $60: fifth, $54; sixth, $36, and seventh, $21. Another difference in favor of the enlisted men of the Navy is that they receive 10 per cent increased pay for longevity for the first four years of gervice, while the enlisted men of the Army receive but 5 per cent; the en- listed man of the Navy reaching the top pay of 25 per cent after 16 years' service, while the enlisted man of the Army must serve 20° years to get the same longevity pay. Another fact to be considered is that the number of en- listed men in the different pay grades is fixed by specific provisions of law for the Army, while in the Navy it is the subject of appropriations. Navy. The U. S. 8. Oklahoma and the U. 8. S. Nevada. which have just about completed their modernization, will be placed in full commission on July 15 and August 1, respectively. They have been assigned to battleship division 3, which division will remain in Atlantic waters and attached to the mmw fleet until March 16, 1930, when it wil return to the battle fleet. The U. S. S. Arizona and the U. S. S. Pennsylvania are to be modernized next and they will be_ placed in reduced com: n on July 15, and on September 1 they will be ' transferred from battleship di- vision 2. Destroyer division 45, consisting of the U. S. 8. William S. Preston, Hul- bert, Preble, Noa, Pruitt and Sicard, under orders for transfer from the Asiatic fleet to the battle fleet, will be assigned to squadron 11 of the latter fleet, replacing division 30, consisting of the U. 8. S. Doyen. Henshaw, Moody and McCawley. Division 30 will be- come the extra division in the fleet, taking the place of division 28, consist- ing of the U. S. 8. Smith-Thompson, John D. Edwards, Borie, Whipple, Par- ker and Tracy, which is under orders to Asiatic station. Thus the Government was deprived of some of the competition that would have resulted for its business under a more equitable contract. Because of the form of contract. bigs were high and | the Government was charged more than rent vouchers. private business. “Why should I do business with the Government?" one contractor asked Mr. Ramsay. “Under the contract it offers me the GZ\'emmrnt has all the advan- tage. It doesn't inferest me.” “How do, T make up my bid, and why is it so high?" repeated another con- tractor. “Well, you see, it's like this 1 figure my cost and add my profit | Then I add $1.000 for each paragraph ' savings have been extensive and are of fine print. There are 10 in my con- tract. so I add $10,000. “Why do I do that? Because I don't understand . They may be all right and they may 1 take the risk at $1,000 a paragraph. l Harsh Penalties by Government. | Harsh penalties seemed the vogue in Government contract-making. = One man was fined $100 day for failing to complete & smokestack on time. The Government didn’t need the smokestack | in a hurry. The contractor’s faflure to | keep his contract to the minute was due to a blizzard that tied up the rail- roads so he couldnt get supplies promptly. Under the contract the Government had no option. blizzard or no blizzard. The fine was imposed. Never again, the contractor swore. would he do business with the Gov. ernment. Mr. Ramsay and his associates tackled their job and stuck to it. One of their first accomplishments was a standard lease which has saved the Government many thousands of dollars. Other standard forms followed, correct: ing Government abuses, clarifying pub- lic business. These resulted in lower prices to the Government and savings o _taxpayers. Many changes were worked out after patient exchange of views between the board and representatives of industries. Another thing Mr. Ramsay discovered was that there are nearly 300 separate laws governing the purchase of supplies | by the Government. Some date to the | earliest days of the Republic. Scores are entirely out of date. Others are TALKING IT HENRY This is_one of a_series giving The Star and the In these interviews Mr. DETROIT, Mich, July 13—“Faith | is the substance of things hoped for. the evidence of things not seen.” and St. Paul could have condensed the defi- nition to three words, “Faith is experi- | . in the opinion of Henry Ford. | You don't get evidence of any sort 5r substance except wrapped up in ex- perience,” Mr. Ford said. “A man has faith>—Yes, because of | experience. Old, experienced souls are | the great believers—because they know. | To regard falth as a substitute for | knowledge is wrong. Faith is know edge; it is the quintessence of exper: ence. ‘Experience is the residue of things forgotte! For example, can you recall | the detalls of what you did and thought at 10 o'clock yesterday, not to say a month ago or 10 years ago? But what you are today is based on what was of value or use to you in ever: past_experience. Now, it is that sub- | stratum of past values built into experi- ence, and carried over, inconsciously for the greater part, into the present, that T would call faith. That is the substance and evidence we stand on and by which we live. We may be as unconscjous of it most of the time as we are unconscious of the fact that we are breathing, but nevertheless it is by this that we really | live. Experience Produces Faith. “There’s no use painting a fanciful oicture of the future, hoping it will com, true and calling tl hope ‘f: . don’t mean that people should not be | ambitious and dream dreams and work toward something better than they now are and have. “What T mean is that they should keep | their feet on the solid ground of their own experience that produces the faith | that moves mountains. Nothing else | will. Some people have a lot of faith of this sort, whether they are in the | church or not.” | “What do you think of the churches?” | Mr. Ford was asked. | “Good. = All right. Doing a lot of | he replied. “For one thing, | churches and social gatherings create the chance for nice young people to get | acquainted with each other. A church | is a good place to choose a wife.” “But you don't mean to put churches and social gatherings in the same class, do you?” “In the matter of getting folks tc- gether and getting em acquainted, Bright Berets Protect Tots. Paris mothers have found & new use for the Basque head dress known as the beret which has become so popular in sport dress. Because of the growing dangers of the road, children ars beir. gent to school wearing berets of bri lant vermillion. Half the school ch dren in towns and villages on the ma roads of traffic outside the city are also wearing them. Motorists welcome the red caps cause they can see the wearers at a distance, and the many children playing in roads of France have become a nightmare to drivers. The berets have averted hundreds of accidents. Ad Pillars Honored. Berlin, Germany, recently celebrated the seventy-fifth birthday anniversa:y of the “Litfass” pillars, the unique ad- e g posts at nearly every street corner in the city and in many subu ban streets, by erecting the three thou- sandth pillar. Until the World War the SIT this shop of unique things in cos- tume jewelry and handbags before you leave for a vaca- tion, A new and varied stock always here to beguile the feminine shopper. pillars kept out the disfiguring posters on boardings. Since then the neat lit- tle -dv;nl;!’ulmmm o: \‘ihe pillars wme:: replace large and glai ones took up the entire space. m were named for Litfass, a m- who_erected about the fence on which to. paste G FINNIN’S 1304 F St., Next to Palace HERBERT M. LORD’S OWN STORY This is one of a series of personal reminiscences, after seven years’ service, during which Gen. Lord supervised the expenditure of more | istence an inventory of the Govern- | occupied or unoccupt | money-saving machinery | No additional drain-pipes have been | most without exception. and attend to | at_first. | census. “Ministers of Religion Have Got to Work Hard t0 Find Out What the People Need, and Give It to Them.” of weekly interviews which Henry Ford is North. American Newspaper Alliance exclusively. Ford will present his viewpoini on subjects of current interest, both mational and international. of United States Budget. Jfunds. dead letters because they were framed to meet conditions that no - longer exist. The whole fabric was and still is in dire need of renovation, and a new and simplified statute has been drawn for consideration by Congress. It'is designed to replace all that has }one before, to dispel the accumulated og of more than a century, to substi- tute for the present legal patchwork | a single inclusive measure giving ernment and contractor a square deal. Real Estate Board's Work. Other efforts at co-ordination were made. Among these was the establish- ment of the Federal Real Estate Board. Before its organization, even so elemental a thing as the value of the Government's real estate holdings was unknown. There was nowhere in ex- ment’s realty. Each department, of course, knew of its own Eoldln.x (al- though not always of their value), but there was no general inventory show- ing the Government's real estate. The Federal Real Estate Board took inventory and started its work. One of the things it has now in hand is the leasing of space needed by Government workers. No branch of the Govern- ment can go out and lease an office without consulting the board. h leases must clear through the board. Otherwise the controller disallows the The board has a full working chart of all space federally owned or leased, | If a branch | of the Government wants space, let us | say in Cincinnati, the board ascertains | if there is unoccupied space available. If so the occupled space is allotted. Only where no space may be had in Government buildings or under existing | lease is additional space granted. The continuing. So far as I know the ruling has been universally followed, with only a single notable exception. That concerned a high official who, not recalling the rule, leased space for an out-of-Washington activity of his office. He was astounded when his rental voucher was suspended | because he didn't have a clearance from | the real estate board showing no Gov- ernment space was available. There are other coordinating boards of equal importance, but the foregoing illustrate the thought I have in mind. They function under an executive or- der of the President. No new legisla- tion has been necessary to start this| in motion. | laid into the Treasury. Members of | these boards have their daily tasks to perform in the Government service. al- their board duties in addition and with- out additional pay. The idea has been growing during | the last eight years. It has spread until | it is now the accepted doctrine of the entire Federal establishment. Like the idea of holding expense within revenues it was a bit of a shock to many persons Some of the savings effected in this manner have been rather startling. One concerns the taking of the 1930 by North American News t, 19 (Copxcit r Alllance.) (Next—Reducing the cost of the census.) OVER WITH FORD he replied. “If a young man does happen to have come from a family | and surroundings in which the church fizured as a social medium, naturally he will go to the places where his kind of | people congre; .te_for social purposes.| That is where the good social club| serves a lot of people, just as the church serves a lot of others. Church Safest Bet. “But T see the drift of your question —the mixture of churches and dance halls seem too far-fetched. yes, than in selecting your church. There are disreputable dance halls, but no/ disreputable churches. The safest bet | is the church. It is different these days. was young most of the young men and women met at church. But nowadays | thousands of young people who are out | of tune with the church of their child- hood, or never had any such connection must meet their kind somewhere. The; ought to. They should get acquainted. and in the lot they meet they will fin their mates. “It is & good idea to go into decent, fun-loving society d look over the crowd before making a final choice. All social institutions Ip in this. The church does. And that has really been one of the great contributions of the church in all times—getting people ac- quainted with each other early in life l;m enabling them to meet on a high plane.” “But what of the religious experience | ‘When 1 | LILLIAS PERMANENT WAVES —are enjoying the largest and most prosperous season of their career. Such spectacular growth in five years from obscurity to Watfii'ngron’l Foremost Perma- nent Waving Institution, war- rants your careful consideration. . erful wave that made this salon famous —at the un- usually low price of— 12 During July and August Only Our Finger\ Waves Are a Work of Art 2817 14th St. N.W. Columbia 10412—3413 s e out what it is the people need and give it to them,” Mr. Ford replied. ¥ “Religion either fills a need or it does not. Men either have a religious need or they have not. If they have no such need, religious effort is useless. If they have such a need and it is not being filled, then the church has proved it- self useiess, Church Must Fill Need. “You always see people flocking where they can get wlat they need. You don't .|have to coax hungry people to go to the baker's shop. If there is a falling off of in':vest In the churches, it must mean that there is a shortage in the service which the church renders to| the needs of men, I don't mean new fads and fancies. Some of the old doctrines which our ‘smart’ generation rides spiritual rullt{ which, it seems to me, is fundamental in the thought and in- tuitions of the rac f ministers are fully meeting a ..eed, they are not com- plaining of lack of opportunit ‘ake, for example, this dectrine of immortality. It has always been lieved, in one form or Tt seems to me an essential part of the deepest human experiencg. It is the ‘faith’ that 18 rummed u$ in the hu- man e; lence of millions of years. re lving right in the midst of immortality and eternity now. I don't look for eternal life to begin at some distant day or at the beginning of some new and so-called divine dis- p‘enl?mon. Eternal life is not a length | o fe, but & kind of life. “We are all immortal—now—but most of us do not realize it. We IHve as though we had only a few days and not the spacious ages before us. Fhe Divine dispensation is here. Now. Ths past and future have always seemed more sacred than the present. What a lofl'n we have suffered through that error! “We Are Here to Learn.” “One of my articles of faith is that we are here on earth for experience. Not to ‘be happy, not to be successful, but to learn. The man or woman who finishes the course of life here a little wiser has lived a successful life. That is permanent gain. “The sum total of experience gathered in any human life here is solid vaules which accumulate and grow until in some other later stage of human life we become more finished characters. Every human being is placed here for some purpose, and personal education by experience, “I see no argument for the proposi- tion that when our bodies die our spirits also dié, or, as I prefer to say, instead of spirits, our personalities. Of course, 11 do not think the matter is for argu- | ment at all. The mind either has at- tained the apprehension of immortality or it has not. If it has not, it will at- tain it some day. “There is no use damning people for | what they do not or cannot believe. We are net all in _the same grade in the sahool of life. What is true shall be believed and known by all of us one day. That also is my faith. The race shall all come to the unity of the falth :}I‘Id the bond of peace. I never doubt at.” “But what of faith defined in terms of religious doctrines>” “I don't know why we should worry about doctrines, either new or nld. The Twin border effects of patent leather...narrow at the center...widen to- ward the side...edge the counter and vamp . . . form ‘slender strap. Solid black heel . . . exquisite slender lines. This model also in natural watersnake with brown Sierra kid trim......$16.50 Sorosis Shop— Street Floor ~ Are you Suntan y,ith white It’s Smart! Yes, that glorious sunburnt color “Suntan” adds that bit of dash, .offset the monotony of an all-white costume. To Be Doubly Smart Select a pair of Suntan in style No. 499 with the double pointed heel . . . that adds grace to the ankle. 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