Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1930, Page 3

CELEBRATION GROUP WILL BE ORGANIZED | | | Lansburgh Calls Meeting for Next Week to Plan for Centennial. Quickly responding to a direct sug-: gestion by Representative Bloom of New York. an associate director of the Wash- ington Bicentennial Celebration Com- mussion, that a joint citizens’ committee be prompily formed here to plan local features of the extensive program, Mark Lansburgh, president of the Merchans and Manufacturers' Association, today , issued an invitation to heads of all the | larger civic and professional bodies to meet next week to set up a temporary organization. The request that an unofficial joint | citizens' committee immediately set to work to prepare suggestions for Wash- ington’s own participation in the cele- bration in honor of the Nation's first President was made yesterday after- noon by Mr. Bloom in an address be- | fore the board of governors of the Mer- chants’ Association. After Mr. Bloom had outlined gen- erally the national program being per- fected for the great celebration, point- | ing out the opportunities and responsi- bilities resting on this city, where mar leading events wil be staged, President Lansburgh pledged full co-operation of his association, and today sent out the call for a joint conference With spokes- men from other local groups. Calls on Other Associations. Included among associations to be urged to have delegates at the organiza- tion meeting next week, he said, will be the Board of Trade, Washington Cham- ber of Commerce, Federation of Citi~ zens’ Associations, District Bankers' As- sociation, Real Estate Board, District Bar Association and the Operative Builders’ Association. ‘While local groups have been await- ing formation of an official local cen- tral commission to lead the way in plans for local participation, merchant officials decided, following the sugges- tion ‘of Mr. Bloom, that an unofficial joint organization should be set to work immediately .and that its plans and suggestions later could be co-ordinated with the official District movement when that is organized. There is much to be done by local citizens here, as well as in every city of the country, Mr. Bloom told the board, and work should be started now. ‘Washington will be the central stage in the celebration, Bloom said. The curtain will be rung up on February 22, 1932, and will be dropped only at the conclusion of the great series of events on Thanksgiving day of that year, he said. ‘The Federal Government will finance the national pageantry and country- wide celebration, but each city must provide its own celebrations, he sald. Commercialized programs are not to have place in the bicentennial, which rather will be on an educational plane, he pointed out. Talkie Is Being Planned. One of the special features planned is the development of a “talking” mo- tion picture of historical character trac- ing the life of George Washington, this to be shown to the public in connection with official programs. All national organizations and other important bodies holding conventions during the time of the bicentennial are to be urged to build their programs on the Washington celebration idea. For- eign socleties will be asked to stage their conventions in Washington and foreign nations will be asked to send ‘warships and other delegated vessels 1o ‘Washington. With thousands of visitors thus to be flocking into this city, the people of ‘Washington will have the responsibility of largely assisting in their entertain- ment, and, organized hospitality should be ready in store for these visitors, Mr. Bloom declared. The Washington Bicentennial Com- mission, its associate director said, wants the assurance that local organi- gations will be ready to aid in the cele- bration and will welcome suggestions as to what programs and preparations should be made. To this end, he said, all local organizations should quickly name representatives on a joint citizens’ committee. JOHN McCORfiACK‘SAILS. Irish Tenor Will Fill Engagement | Abroad. 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Phone National 0650 We are E “% ON A MATTRESS - condition b; pared at the request of President Hoover THE EVENIXNG SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION FOR PAY BILL IS EXPECTED Interdcpart mental Board's Report and Comments of Officers Will Be Given Careful Attent: nzn[zut::urho{aufiuo’ ] a on the proposal now pending- | before President Hoover and Con- | gress to revise and increase the pay | Schedules of the Army, Navy, Marine | Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health | Service and Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey. The concluding article will appear tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Congress is réady to give sympathetic consideration to the apparently unani- | mous request of the officers and enlisted | personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Public Health Service, Coast Guard and Coast and Geodetic Sur- ! vey for an increase in pay and the elimination of inequalities and irregu- larities in the present pay law. This is indicated by an informal canvass of m:{:lyd gen:gou m‘n{ih Ripresentn‘nves, g those e “key"” itions in both branches. s To what extent the “sympathetic consideration” will be translated into more money in the pay envelope is a question yet to be determined, but there are some straws that show how the wind is blowing. An_ overwhelming sentiment was found to exist at the Capitol in favor of giving careful consideration to the in- terdepartmental pay board’s report, and ; to various comments on the report by | groups of officers—some of whom do | not fully agree with it—by the Bureau | of Efficiency, which has questioned some of its comparative figures, and by other | Government agencies, along with esti- | mates of the Budget Bureau as to the cost of the proposed pay increase. Service Men Favor Report. The ultimate action of Congress on this question and the time when it will | be taken will doubtless dépend, as in most other cases, on the decision of the | leaders in both branches. The Stai has obtained the views of these “key” men, insofar as they have been for- mulated up to this time, and they will be included in the final article of this series tomorrow morning. Every officer and enlisted man, whether of high or low degree, who has been interviewed by The Star in the preparation of these articles has been eager, naturally enough, to learn what are the prospects for early enactment of a new pay act that will give them in- creased compensation and iron out the inequalities and” irregularities of the present law. Asfar as it is possible to read the future—and every one fa- miliar with Congress knows how diffi- cult it is to predict what it will do—it may be read by those who will consider the opinions that have been gathered in the last few days at the Capitol. Although, as pointed out before, there are some officers in the Army who disagree with certain phases, or. the underlying principle of the pay board’s plan, the weight of opinion in the six services has been found to be behind it. ‘The members of joint congressional pay_committee, of which Senator Jones of Washington is chairman and Repre- sentative French of Idaho 1s vice chair- man, have been recently studying the board’s report, including the proposed new pay tables, in the light of much other data, some of which has been pre- and some at the request of the joint committee itself by various.Goverpment agencies. Data Makes Voluminous Record. Liaison officers of the six services, who are assisting the joint committee, have submitted at its request numerous reports on various phases of the sub- ject. The data before the .committee now makes a voluminous record. addition to what was already available some 22 reports were transmitted to Chairman Jones and Vice Chairman French a few days ago. At the suggestion of Representative Prench the War Department has desig- nated representatives of the warrant officers, commissioned warrant officers, enlisted men and nurses to appear as witnesses before the joint committee in addition to the commissioned officers who are to present their side of the case. “I have no doubt,” wrote Vice Chals man French to Secretary of War Hur ley, “that the officers who may appet before the committee would be compe- tent thoroughly and satisfactorily to advise as to ail- matters affecting the entire service with which they may be affiliated, but at the same time I believe that the subordinate branches would feel better satisfied if one of their own number, carefully chosen, were permit- ted to be present to speak for their own cause or to supplement statements made by their superiors. ¢ “I wish, therefore, that you would see that a member of each subordinate branch of the Army personnel is chosen who can be depended upon actually to on in Congress. which identified, and that’the persons 50 chosen may be afforded every facility to prepare themselves for their allotted tasks.” Similar opportunities will be afforded the subordinate branches of the other services. Secretary Hurley has designated the following persons to appear before the committee in response to this request: For Army warrant officers, Carl Witch- ef; for Army nurses, Maj. Julla C. Stimson: for the enlisted men of the Army, Master Sergt. Fred Lind, office of the chief of Field Artillery; First Sergt. Thomas D. Moffett, Troop F, 3 Cavalry, stationed at Fort Myer: First Sergt. Donet C. Smith, Battery B, 16th Pleld Artillery, Fort Myer, and Sergt. A. J. Brown, Company L, 12th Infantry. Fort Washington. Sees Erroneous Comparison. From John Vernon, vice president and chairman of the publicity committee of the Warrant Officers’ Association of the Army, writing in behalf of the nationai council of the association, The Star has received a letter directing attention to what the association considers an erro- neous comparison made by the Pay Board between the proposed new pay schedule and the 1908 or later scheduls “The proposed schedule,” says the Pay Board in its report, “will effect a mean increase of pay of 87 per cent for the warrant officers and 113 per cent for the commissioned warrant of- ficers over the 1908 (or later) pay schedule.” “It is believed,” writes Mr. Vernon, “that the percentage of increase—87 per cent—is arrived at by the board by taking the minimum base pay for war- rant officers, U. S. Army, at lar $1,320 (which is minus monetary allow- ances for quarters, light and heat and which they were entitled to under the law), and. subtracting this sum from the present minimum pay for the same grade, $2,475 (which includes therem all allowances for quarters, light and by the first amount, $1,320, to get the percentage of inctease. “To thus take pay of one period of time that is stripped of all allowances and compare it with pay of another period which includes all allowances is obviously erroneous.” In as much as the percentage of in- crease that the board says the warrant officers would receive in the proposed legislation is considerably greater than that which the board says the commis- sioned grade would receive under simi- lar conditions, it is “very obvious,” ex- plains Mr. Vernon, “that the board's statement would be greatly to the dis- advantage of the warrant grade of the Army when public opinion and Con- gress decide this matter.” Mr. Vernon told The Star's representative that he had talked this matter over with War Department; officials and that the error in the percentage was admitted and would be corrected. 93,000,000 Pay Amusement Tax. 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Open and Lighted Until 9 O’Clock P.M. INCORPORATED 131 H STREET NORTHWEST heat), and dividing the result, 81,155, | STAR, WASHINGTON, SNYDER ATTAGKS R AT U. S. Marshal Calls on Citi-| zens for New Baptism of Americanism. o il o8 Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.— This Indian, Gandhi, is trying to defeat the British government (who con- trol political affairs in India) by “passive resistance.” It won't work. The Democrats have tried it here for almost a generation. ‘The biggest ad California ever had is Lindy. He has been prowl- ing up and down the State for two months trying to get wind enough to stay up. His last hope is Capi- Dramatically waving the latest Com- | munistic pamphlet circulated among | students of the Macfarland Junior High | School, Col. Edgar C. Snyder, United | States marshal for the District of Co- | therance of law observance United the Pr in_the| Ftates and absolute support of | ident. The occasion was the | the National League of Masonic Clubs, | jheld at Picardl’s Restaurant. Every| Masonic club in the city was repre- sented among the nearly 125 prominent Masons present. Declaring that he stood for a census of all the aliens in the United States, “in order that we may check the Com- munism that is rampant in our country, that may be the planning of the ele- ments that would undermine organized government,” Col. Snyder denounced the attitude into which the citizenry of tfie Nation was permitting itself to slip. “We are patriots in war and slackers in peace,” he asserted. “Let us have n} new baptism of Americanism in the United States—a new birth of patriot-| ism. It is up to us as exemplers of the | service, that we as Masons have, to| dedicate ourselves to a stand for more allegiance to the Government of our c‘ouk:ltry and less relationship to personal | rights.” Lauds Ballou Order. The recent order by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools for| the District of Columbia, commanding | a salute of the flag for a least one-half of the assemblies held in schools each month and a recitation of the pledge | of allegiance, was highly commended | by Col. Snyder, who added: | “If I were an officer in a school, I| | would make it compulsory to salute the | flag and recite the pledge of allegiance twice, or at least once, every week. I| believe allegiance to the flag should be | made mandatory.” ; ‘The pamphlet, which Col. Snyder de- | scribed as “a disgraceful example of the | kind of thing that is going on in our| public schools,” was one issued by an organization terming itself “The Young| Pioneers of America.” Among other things, it demanded free carfare for school children and in general censured conditions in the Macfarland School. Communistic activities in this coun- try were attributed by Capt. Chaney L. Bertholf, national president of the Na- tional League of Masonic Clubs, who ment. 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LESS THAN $12.50 PER MONTH PER ROOM tol Hill, Washington, during the confirming of Mr. Hoover’s next ap- pointment to the Supreme Court. —————————————————————— | lumbia, last night called on Masons| urged support of the school of foreignthey will manufacture salt in violation here to dedicate themselves to the fur- | seryice of George Washington Univer- | of the British sity, declaring it was the school created by Congress, and as such should have the patriotic support. of every American second annual get-together banquet of | interested in the men who in future are | to select the immigrants from foreign countries that shall enter the United States. Prank A. Bergfeld, president of the | advisory board, acted as toastmaster. James A. West, grand master of Masons in the District of Columbia, made a brief talk, outlining the history of Ma- sonry and extolling its value as a patri- otic fraternity. . G. Adams, State secretary of the National League for New York, who was in Washington for the banquet, made a short address. Other prominent Masons present were Melville D. Hensey, third vice president of the national league and past presi- dent of the advisory board; Lynn H. Troutman. past president of the na- | tional league, past president of the advisory board and chairman of the education foundation of the national league, and John O. Bowen, past presi- dent, secretary of the board and State resident of the national league, and Twenty-two clubs were represented. e e s JEAN RUSSELL ILL. Word has been received in Washing- ton that Jean Russell, 5-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Russell | of 2331 Cathedral avenue, was operated on in New York several days ago by Prof. Adolf Lorenz, noted Austrian sur- geon. Mr. Russell is vice president of the National Broadcasting Co. 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