Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 4

HOSPITAL ADDITION 10 BE OPENED SOON Finishing Touches Now Being Put on New Emergency East Wing. Housing the latest equipment devised for care of the sick, the nine-story ad- dition to the Central and Emergency Hospital, at 1711 New York avenue, will be thrown open to the pub- e within 10 days, marking the com- gl:‘uon of a construction program that converted the institution into what physicians and surgeons describe as one of the most efficiently and elaborat 'y equipped hospitals in the East. Pinishing touches are now being put to the addition, which becomes the east wing of the hospital. The construction program was initiated 16 months ago and entailed the building of a new main entrance to the hospital and important mfl;oln"mmu in the central and west gs. Officials of the hospital said today that utility, sanitation and noiselessness were determining factors in the selec- tion of materials and equipment. The ‘work, completed at an estimated cost of $450,000, was superintended by a building committee of which Karl Corby is chairman, and Dr. Harry M. Kauf- man, chief of the hospital medical staff, is vice chairman. Before the work was undertaken the superintendent of the hospital, B. B. Sandidge, inspected leading hospitals in New York, Philadelphis and Boston, and the new wing and additions to the central and west buildings were delelsnod to tncormlu the latest devices medical science devel for efficlency and utility in the treatment of medical and surgical cases. Mental Effects Considered. A tour of the new nine-story build- ing discloses that in an ultra-modern THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2 1930. VIEWS IN NEW ADDITION hospital surroundings may be pleasing and soothing as well as the equipment and furnishings comfortable. Sound- proof walls and floors, ball-bearing doors that open noiselessly, radio and telephone fitted to each room, floor hts that can be kept on through the ht without irritation to the patient. obviating the necessity for overhesd m radln{,m; newly de- ped vertical {llumniat lamp whose rays are reflected from the ceiling— these are some of the details of equip- ment furnished in each of the 22 private | Tooms which are located on three floors. Two floors in the new wing are dedi- eation floors. The seventh floor, one of three housing private rooms, is known #s the Slocum pavilion. It was do- nated to the hospital by Gen. Stephen L. H. Slocum in memory of his wife, the late Mrs. Luna Garrison Slocum. ed so that the nurse can tend to the patient’s every need without having to leave the room, and decorations are features of Tooms. sixth and fifth floors also contain ks Furnishings and deco- . | or closed hurriedly or vigorously. On t | $65,000, caring for the patient. Mm:‘uuml study, medical science has established that the color light green is the least conducive to eye strain and that color predominates in the elaborately equipped operating floor, the Four main rating rooms are to the am- operating room, which h[ in the main building. Surgeons can operate for the longest length of time without eye strain 2 back- ground of light green and for that rea- son the operating rooms are decorated in green, even to the fittings on the test | Femarkable degree, and that it furnishes ® basis of great tribute to our people| this rooms. Here, " Bullt-In Steritizers. ther part of the floor are five m'“‘.’m—m-m. the latest in design, t | being of their children, the security of nurses in & Toom seating 120. ‘Two_floors Mm.hoen added to the ' fioor are numerous separate and con. nected rooms designed to house diag- nostic, therspeutic, X-ray and radium Moore, specialist in X-ray is | express the gratitude of our country- Upper left: The information and su- perintendent’s office in the lobby. Up- per right: One of the model rooms in the new section. Center: Onme of the operating rooms. Lower right: Plaque to the memory of Lyna Garri- son Slocum placed in the new Slocum pavilion, —Star Staft Photos. work and a member of the Groover, Christie & Merritt organization, is com- ing from the Mayo Clinic to take charge of that work in Emergency Hospital. Not a door in the hospital's accom- modations for patients has a knob. The use of & hooklike device extending from the door, inside and outside, enables a nurse, however laden with trays or in- struments, to open the door by fittin an arm under the hook and the ball- bearing fittings insure noiselessness, re- gardless of whether the door is opened the three private room floors the rooms are equipped with wall doors, thus be- ing convertible into suites of two rooms. ot least in the hospital's develop- ment program was the establishment of a new boller system, at a cost of ble, officials believe, of institution through later expansion. . In addition to Mr. Corby and Dr. Kaufman, thé hospital building com- mittee was composed of Woodbury Blair, President of Hospital George W. nnwhm, ‘Treasurer for 3 g with Mrs, Wagga- man on the ladies’ committee on fur- nishings and decorations were Mrs, H. Jer, Arthur T. Brice, . Wil Clark, Karl Corby, Mrs, James F. Cur- Harry King and Supt. | C, tis, George Fleming, Dr. H. A, Fowler, Mrs. J. C. Frazer, Mrs, Z. E. Gaff, Julius Garfinckel, John O. LaGoroe, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, William F. Gude, Dr. B. L. Hardin, Mrs. Reginald Huldekoper, P. 8. Hight, Dr. Edward R. Gookin, Mrs, Simon Kann, Dr. H. M. Kaufman, Harry King, C. P. Light, C. 3 box;s, Mrs. A. G. McClintock, Dr. C. C. Marbury, Dr. Willlam B. Mason, Mrs. Rose Merriam, Dr. G. Brown Mil- ler, Dr. James F. Mitchell, Barry Mo~ hun, Dr. Thomas S. Neill, Frank B. Noyes, Col. Arthur O'Brien, H. L. Rust, Dr. l: R. Bh.lnu lgl. H‘w{. um, Merle Thorpe, Mrs. Ployd Waggaman, Dr. Reginald R. Walker, Dr. John W. iam E.| Warner, Dr. Charles Stanley White and George W. White. Text of Hoover’s Speech Tells Chamber of Commerce Gathering Nation Has Weathered Economic Storm and **With Continued Unity of Effort We Shall Rapidly Recover.” ‘The text of President Hoover’s speech to the United States Chamber of Com- merce last night follows: Gentlemen of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce: place six months ago, I am convinced we have now the worst, and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty in the future of & people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States—that is, prosperity. On the occasion of this great storm we have for the first time attempted a great economic experiment, possibly one of the greatest of our history. By co- operation between Guvem:nenl officials P tions and public suthorities, we have undertaken to stabilize economic forces; to mitigate the effects of the crash and to shorten its destructive period. I be- lieve I can say with assurance that our Joint undertaking has succeeded to & for unity of action in time of national em cy. To those many business leaders present here I know that I men, It is unfortunate, in a sense, that any useful discussion of the problems be- hind and before us has t0 be expressed wholly in the cold e of econom- ics, for I realize as keenly as any one can that individually they are not roblems in science, but are the most juman questions in the world. They involve the immediate fears of men and women for their daily bread, the well- their homes. They are intensely per- sonal questions, fraught with living| significance to everything they hold dear. The officers of a ship in heavy seas have as deep a consciousness of the human values involved in the pas- sengers and crew whose lives are in their keeping, but they can best serve them by taking counsel of their charts, compass and barometer, and by devo- tion to navigation and the boilers. In like manner the individual welfare can best be served by us if we devote our- selves to the amelioration of destructive forces, for thereby we serve millions of our e. Mmpo are the inexorable conse- quences of the destructive forces of booms. If we inquire into the primary changes tast find it rests ex: year, we mainly upon certain forces inherent in human mind. When our Nation has traveled on the high road to prosperi for a considerable term of years, the of our people energy the only real source of prosperi —to stimulate waste, extravagance and unsound enterprise, with the inevitable out of Grest erashes hitherto great boom on the stock| thi there has always come a long train of destructive forces. A vast number g{ wings deepest, gnn-unlm; fear of the future chokes tiative and enterprise; monetary stringencies, security and commodity panics in our exchanges, bankruptcies and other losses all contribute to stifle consumj , decrease production, and finally express themselves in unemploy- ment, decreased wages, strikes, lock- outs, and a long period of stagnation. Many have looked upon all this rise and fall as a disease which must run its course and for which nothing could be done either in prevention, or to recovery, or to relieve the hard- p which wreaks itself especially upon workers, farmers. and smaller business people. I do not accept the fatalistic view that the discovery of the means to restrain destructive speculation is beyo?.d the genius of the American people, Our immediate problem, however, has been the necessity to mitigate the effect of the recent crash, and to get back onto the road of prosperity as quickly as possible. This is the first time an effort has been made by the united community to this end. The success of effort is of paramount importance, not only for our immediate needs but the possibilities it opens for the future. ‘The intensity of the speculative boom on this occasion was, in my view, as great as or greater than any of our major manias before. The intensity of the slump has been greatly diminished by _the efforts that have been made. We—and as we I speak of many men and many institutions—have followed several major lines of action. OQur pro- gram was one of deliberate purpose to do everything possible to uphold gen- eral confidence which liés at the root of maintained initiative and enterprise; to check monetary, security and com- modity panics in our exchanges; to assure an sbundance of capital at de- creasing rates of interest so as to enable the resumption of business; to accel- ::Abe comtrucltlon work so as to absorb many employes as possible from in- dustries hit by decreased demand; to hold up the level of wages by voluntary agreement and thus maintain the living standards of the vast majority who re- main in employment; to avoid acceler- ating the depression by the hardship and disarrangement of strikes and lockouts, and by upholding consuming power of the wage earners to in turn support agriculture. Confidence and Courage. We may well inquire into our progress us ‘e have succeeded in main- taining confidence and "courage. We have avoided monetary panic and credit stringency. Those dangers are behind us. PFrom the moment of the crash, interest rates have steadily decreased and capital has become steadily more abundant. Our investment markets have absorbed over two billions of new securities since the crash. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely be- us. ‘The acceleration of construction pro- has been successful ond our . ‘The great utilities, ti} railways innocent people are directly involved losses. B ity | and the large manufacture: Eovernment. has. ot sy expedied s works but Congress has su- |t thorized TO EMERGENCY HOSPITAL governors, mayors and other authorities have everywhere been doing their full part. The result has been the placing of contracts of this character to the value of about $500,000,000 during the first four months of 1930, or nearly three times the amount brought into be- ing in the corresponding four months of the last great depression of eight years ago. All of which contributes not only to direct employment but also a long train of jobs in the material and trans- rtation industries. We are suffering m a decrease in residential construc- tion, but despite this we have reason to believe that the total construction will still further expand, and we should during 1930 witness a larger gross vol- ume of improvement work than normal. For the first time in the history of great slumps we have had no substantial reductions in wages and we have had no strikes or lockouts which were in way connected with this situation. The accelerated construction has nat- urally not been able to absorb all the unemployment brought by the injuries of the boom and crash. Unfortunately we have no adequate statistics upon the volume of unemployment. The maxi- mum point of depression was about the first_of the year, when, severe as the shock was, the unemployment was much less proportionately than in our two last major depressions. A telegraphic canvass of the governors and mayors Who are co-operating so ably with us in organizing public works brings with one exception the unanimous response of continuously decreasing unemployment each month and the assurance of further decreases again in May. All these widespread activities of our business men and our institutions offer sharp contrast with the activities of pre- vious major crashes and our experiences from them. As a consequence we have attained a stage of recovery within this short period greater than that attained during the whole year or more following previous equally great storms. Lessons to Be Heeded. While we are today chiefly concerned with continuing the measures. we have in process for relief from this storm, and in which we must have no relaxation, we must not neglect the lessons we have had from it, and we must consider the measures which we can undertake both for prevention of such storms and for relief from them. Economic health like human health requires prevention of in- fection as well as cure of it. I take it that the outstanding prob- lem and the ideal of our economic sys- tem is to secure freedom of initiative and to preserve stability in the economic structure i order that the door of op- portunity and equality of opportunity may be held open to all our citizens; that every business man shall go about his affairs with confidence in the future; that it shall give assurance to our people of & job for every one who wishes to work: that it shall, by steady improvement through research and in- vention, advance standards of living to the whole of our people. That will con- stitute the conquest of poverty, which is the great human aspiration of our economic life. . And these economic storms are the most serious interruptions to this prog- ress which we have to face. Some of you will recollect that following the great boom and slump of eight years , 88 Secretary of Commerce, I initi- :gd a series of conferences and investi- gations by representative men into the experiences of that occasion and to make therefrom recommendations for the future. It is worth a moment to examine our conclusions that time as tested in this present crisis. The first of the conclusions at that time was that our credit machinery should be strengthened to stand the shock of crash; t the adjustment of interest rates through the Federal Re- serve System should retard destructive speculation and support enterprise dur- ing the depression. Our credit machinery has proved it- self able to stand shock in the commer- cial field through the Federal Reserve System, in the industrial fleld through the bond market and the investment houses, in the farm-mortgage field to some extent through the Farm Loan System; and in the installment-buying field through the organization of pow- erful finance corporations. But if we examine the strains during the past six months we d one area of credit which is most inade- quately organized and which almost ceased to function under the present stress. This is the provision of a steady flow of capital to the home builder. From a social point of view this 18 one of the most vital segments of credit and ld be placed in such a defl- nitely mobilized and organized form as would assure its continuous and stable flow. The ownership of homes, the im- provement of residential conditions to our people, is the first anchor in social stability and social progress. Here is the greatest fleld for expanded organi- zation of capital and at the same time stimulation to increased standards of living and social service that lies open to our great loan institutions. The result of the inability to freely secure capital has been a great diminu- tion in home construction and a lary segment of unemployment which could have been avoided had there been a more systematic capital supply organ- ized with the adequacy and ‘efficiency of the other segments of finance. We need Yight now an especial effort of our loan titutions in all of the country to increase the capital available for this purpose as & of the remedy of the present situation. Reserve System’s Service. ‘There can be no doubt of the service of the Federal Reserve System in not only withstanding the shock but also in promoting the luggly of capital after the collapse, We have, however, & new experience in the effect of it rates and other actions of the system in attempts to retard speculation. 8ys- tem and banks managed throughout the whole of the speculative period to maintain interest rates on money for commercial use at 5 to 6 per cent per annum, and by their efforts they segre- gated the use of capital for speculation in such fashion that the rates upon such capital ran up to or over 18 per cent per annum. But even these h rates on speculative capital offered little real retardation to the speculative mania of the country. They served, in fact, to attract capital from productive enter- prise, and this was one of the factors in producing the crash itself. The alternative, however, of lifting commercial rates in orde:- to check speculation by checl 1s also debatable. The whole of Interest rates upon speculation stable production requires exhaustive consideration in view of these new ex- periences. One of the subsidiary proposals in our examination seven ago, directed that improved to increase stabilily, was services should be created indicate of statistical world and the country. Great improve- ments were made in the statistical serv- ices, and by reading the signals thou- sands of business men avoided the maelstrom of speculation and our ma- jor industries came through strong and unimpaired—though the people general- ly did not grasp these warnings, or this crisis would not have happened. We shouid have even more accurate services in the future and a wider understanding of their use. We need particularly a knowledge of employmeny at all times, if we are intelligently to ‘plan a proper functioning of our economic system. I have interested myself in seeing that the census we are taking today makes for the first time a real determination of unemployment. I have hopes that upon this foundation we can regularly secure information of first importance to daily conduct in our economic Y | world. In remedial measures we have fol- lowed the recommendations of seven years ago as to the acceleration of con- struction work, the most practicable remedy for unemployment. It has been organized effectively in most important directions, and the success of organiza- tion in certain local communities points the way to even more effective action in the future by definite plans of decen- zation. Another of the by-products of this experience which has been vividly brought to the front is the whole ques- tion of agencies for placing the unem- ployed in contact with possible jobs. In this fleld is also the problem of what is termed technologi unemployment. The great expansion in scientific and industrial research, the multiplicity of inventions and increasing efficiency of business, is shifting men in industry with & speed we have never hitherto known. The whole subject is one of profound importance. Advance in Methods. ‘We have advanced in-all these meth- ods of stability in recent years. The development of our credit system, our statistics, our methods of security and relief in depression all show progrcss. We have developed further steps dur- ing the t six months. But the whole range of our experiences from this boom and slump should be placed under ac- curate examination, with a view to broad determination of what can be done to achieve greater stability for the future, both in prevention and in rem- edy. If such an exhaustive examina- tion meets with general approval, I shall when the situation clears a little move to organize a body—representa- tive of business, economics, labor and agriculture—to undertake it. 1 do believe that our experience shows that we can produce helpful and wholesome effects in our economic sys- And it is my view that in this fleld of co-operative action, outside of gov= ernment, lies the hope of intelligent information and wise planning. The Government can be helpful in emer- gency; it can be helpful to secure and spread information. Such action, however, as may be de- veloped must adhere steadfastly to the very bones of our economic system, which are the framework of progress; and that progress must come from in- dividual initiative, and in time of stress it must be mobilized through co-opera- tive action. ‘The constructive activities of the great voluntary organizations in the community provide the highest form of economic self-government. Perma- nent advance in the Republic will lie in the initiative of the people them- selves. We are not yet entirely through the difficulties of our situation. We have need to maintain every agency and every force that we have placed in mo- tion until we are far along on the road to_stable prosperity. He would be a rash man who would state that we can produce the economic millenfum, but there is great assurance that America is finding herself upon the road to secure social satisfaction, with the preservation of private indus- try, initiative and a full opportunity for the development of the individual, It is true that these economic things are not the objective of life itself. If by their steady improvement we shall yet further reduce poverty, shall create and secure more happy homes, we shall have served to make better men and women and a greater Nation. —_— U. S. DELEGATES NAMED Drs. E. A. Auchter, X. A. Ryerson and L. M. Hutehins of the horticultural divi- sion of the Department of Agriculture have been designated by the President as delegates of the United States Gov- ernment to the Ninth Horticultural Con- gu which is to. be held at London, gland, August 7-15 next. Dr. Auchter will represent the United States also at the International Congress of Tropical Agriculture to be held at Antwerp, Bel- gium, July 2! C. OF C. ASKS LIMIT ON FARM AID POWER Resolution to Repeal Board’s Use of U. S. Funds in Dis- tribution Is Voted. Except for a meeting of the new board of directors today, the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, which de- voted 25 sessions to the deliberation of problems ahead for business, ended its eighteenth annual convention late yes- terday with a final attack on Federal Farm Board, the only serious controversial issue raised during the four-day sessions. Rebuked by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde Wedpesday for its “misapprehen- sions” concerning the agricultural farm- ing act, the national chamber, however, got in the final word of the controversy by adopting a resolution proposing an amendment to repeal the power of the Farm Board to use Federal funds for the “purpose of participation in business in competition with established agencies.” ‘The proposal, which is aimed at strip- ping the board of all its authority except its privilege of disseminating information, was adopted over the pro- test of a small minority. Warning was given the chamber by Charles Brandt of Minneapolis, that its action would put the national body in the position of being accused as “unfriendly” to agriculture, He reminded the chamber finally take his seat he was given an ovation. Secretary of Commerce Lamont was the only member of the cabinet that attended the dinner, but the Treasury Department was represented by Gov. Roy A. Young of the Federal Reserve. John Joy Edson of Washington, veteran treasurer of the chamber, was intro- duced as the “grand old man of busi- ness.” ‘The roll of honor guests, representing, as Mr. Grant c:lnbed out, the leaders of American , reminded the toastmaster of advertising and business slogans familiar to every household and every industry in the land. The recital of these slogans met with general mer- riment from the diners. Each of the officers and directors also was invited to stand as his name was read. The Canadian delegation, earlier in the day had re test, through their spokesman, % H. Woods, against American tariff bar- riers, was given a demonstration. “There is really world hope,” said Mr. the | Grant, “in the fact that nothing can break down the tles that hold the Eng- lish-speaking peoples together.” List of Honor Guests. ‘The list of honor guests included the following: Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, New York, N. Y.; Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce; Dr. John W. Ross, Montreal, Canada; Gen. James G. Harbord, cl an of the board, Radio Corporation of America, New York, N. Y.; H. Smith Richardson, Greensboro, N. C.; Homer L. Ferguson, Newport News, Va.; W. M. Ritter, Co- lumbus, Ohio; W. Rufus Abbott, Chi- cago, Ill.; Charles W. Lonsdale, Kansas City, Mo.; Theodore Swann, Birming- ham, Ala.; John Joy Edson, Washing- ton, D. C.; Edward N. Hurley, Chicago, Il.; George H. Baldwin, Jacksonville, Fla.; Patrick E. Crowley, New York, that the farmers had not “welched” |N. Y. when business imposed on agriculture tariff inequities far greater than the inequities under the Farm Board act. Claims Benefits Unrealized. ‘The resolution said in rt: “The anticipated benefits to the farming in- terests as a whole have not been real- ized. On the contrary there has been impairment of the marketing structure and prevention of support which ether- wise would have been given to the marketing of’ _agricultural products which were affected by the use of public monies. Without benefit to agri- culture there has been imposed unbear- able hardship upon business enterprises unable to maintain their position against discriminatory competition from the Government.” ‘To meet the situation the chamber voted to recommend the calling of a conference, with farm co-operative lead- ers represented, to study and define measures of “sound and effective aid to agriculture.” Earlier in the day Chairman Alexan- der Legge of the Federal Farm Board said his challenge to wealthy members of the chamber to match him dollar for dollar in contributing to a study of the agricultural situation still holds good. Eighteen Directors Are Ratified. In its closing hour the chamber adopt- ed a score of other resolutions, re-elected most of its officers and ratified the nom- ination of 18 new directors. President Hoover, who addressed the chamber at its annual dinner last night, was praised for his co-operative action in meeting the recent stock market slump. “We feel that private business has re- sponded in a most effective manner,” the resolution said. Other resolutions recommended great- er public economy, the construction of a “great inter-American highway,” oppo- sition to the creation of State automo- bile insurance funds, continuance of the work of the National Business Survey Conference, an increase in pay in the Army, Navy and Marine forces; exten- sion of Federal reclamation to furnish water to land already sparsely settled and the provision of funds to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly. Adequate provision for the adminis- tration of the Patent Office to the end that it may continue “in a position to perform its functions with that prompt- ness and that accuracy which are es- sential for the welfare of American business enterprises” was urged in an- other resolution, Gives Car Liability Stand. To the increase in pay for personnel of the armed forces, the chamber also (L;kedd for the igcl\lflhn of the Coast uard, Coast and Geodetic Survey an Pu&};th Health Service. e Tespect to automobile insuran a resolution said: “The National O'hlm“-' ber has stated that Government should scrupulously refrain from entering any phase of business when it can be suc- cessfully undertaken and conducted by private enterprise, and it hereby records its opposition specifically to the creation of State automobile insurance funds. Continued development of airports and airways was urged in another resolution, as “vital to the efficiency and safety of afr transportation.” ~ The chamber welcomed legislation which is being enacted to enable the Post- master General to place air mail con- tracts on a basis of equitable compensa- tion and urged that legislation of this character should keep pace with the trend of progress in aviation “as needed for our business and development of foreign trade.” ‘The development of the use of gliders also should be encouraged, the cham- ber declared. The chamber re-elected William But- terworth as president and Julius H. Barnes as chairman of the board. Karl Delaittre of Minneapolis was the only new vice president named. Five others were re-elected. The 18 directors nomi- nated Monday were elected. 2,000 Crowd Auditorium. Nearly 2,000 delegates, including more than 60 guests of honor representing the “brains and leaders” of the Nation’s biggest business and industrial interests, crowded the Washington Auditorium lzst night at the annual banquet of the chamber, at which President Hoover proposed to call a new business confer- ence to determine what can be done to | achieve greater stability for the future. The President arrived at 9:15 o'clock in the midst of the introductions of the honor guests, and waited about 10 min- utes outside the main hall so as not to interrupt Toastmaster Richard F. Grant in paying individual honor to each of the guests. When Hoover did Ten years ago it was not so easy to make a loan on such reasonable terms The Morris Plan Bank . Va.; John H. Fahey, Boston, G. M. Williams, Indianapolis, Ind.; H. ‘W. Hoover, North Canton, Ohio; Daniel A. Millett, Denver, Colo.; Louis J. Ta- ber, Columbus, Ohio; E. L. Carpenter, Minneapolis, Minn.; Benjamin Franklin Affleck, Chicago, F. A. Merrick, East Pittsburgh, Stuart W. Cramer, Cramerton, N. C.; W. H. Albers, Cin- cinnati, Ohio; Amadeo P. Glannini, San Francisco, (‘GLIL; 8. Bruce Black, Bos ton, Mass.; W. E. Wells, Newell, W. Va. ‘William Butterworth, Moline, Iil.; Lieut. Col. J. H.:Voodl. Calgary, Alberta, Rig] . . 3 . D., Bishop of Washington; je A Martin, Cleveland, ohlo;"gay m“. Washington, D. C.; S. B. Hunt, New York, N. Y.; F. Edson White, Chicago, IIL; Willis H. Booth, New York, N. Y. Col. Willlam C. Proctor, Cincinnati, Ohio; Paul W. Chapman, New York, N. Y.; Lewis E. Plerson, New York, N. Y.; Medfield Proctor, Proctor, Vt.; John G. Lonsdale, St. Louls, Mo.; Silas H. Strawn, Chicago, Ill; H. L. Doherty, STUDY IS PROPOSED AS AID TO BUSINESS President Would Examine Experiences to Help Eco- nomic Security. (Continued From First Page.) declared that “with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.” “There is one certainty in the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States—that is prosperity,” he said. Chief Executive described the The united efforts of Government and busi- ness to bring order out of recent chaos as one of the greatest economic experi- ments of the Nation's history, and one that “has succeeded to a remark- able degree.” He told his audience that he regretted his subject needed discussion in the cold language of economics, for, he said, “I realize as keenly as any one can that individually they are not problems of science, but are the most human questions in the ‘world.” ‘These lems, Mr. Hoover said, “involve the immediate fears of men and women for their daily bread, the well being of their children, the security of their homes. They are intensely personal questions fraught with nvms ail'nm ince to everything they hol ear. Refe to his proposal for » thorough study of economic conditions, the President said: “I do believe that our experience shows that we can pro- duce helpful and wholesome effects in our economic system by voluntary co- operation through the great associations representative of business, industry, labor and agriculture, both nationally and locally.” ‘The President said, that in his opin- ion, the intensity of the speculative boom which reached its climax in the crash last Fall was as great or greater than that of “any of our major manias before,” but that the intensity of the slump has been greatly diminished by the efforts that have been made. WISCONSIN H{GH CLOSES SO STUDENTS MAY FISH Trout Season Opens and Officials Dismiss Students, Who Usually Are Absent May 1. By the Associated Press. New York, N. Y.; Herbert F. Perkins, Chicago, IIl.; Robert R. Ellis, Memphis, Tenn.; Magnus W. Alexander, York, N. Y.; James R. MacColl, Paw- tucket, R. I; A. J. Brosseau, New York, N. Y.; Mortimer L. Schiff, New York, N. Y. Joshua Green, Seattle, Wash.; William T. Payne, Kingston, Pa.; Ed- ward J. Cornish, New York, N. Y.; J. S. Crutchfield, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Saunders Norvell, New York, N. Y.; R. C. Holmes, New York, N. Y., W. H. Schellberg, South Omaha, Nebr.; Charles Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn.; Charles R. Miller, Bal- tlmore, Md.; J. W. Spangler, Seattle, Ev‘:shi‘nnd C. B. Warkentin, Kansas Y . .I-IGGE COMMENTS ON STAND. C. of C. Plans Parley to Provide Sym- ‘pathy, Farm Aid Head Says. By the Associated Press. fih&gflmn tltf'tze '.:f the Parm Board saf ay that the purpose of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in urging revision of the law under which the board operates was to make “the Farm Board nt. The chamber yesterday adopted a resolution which condemned policles of the board and in effect urged that its loans to co-operatives to aid in market- ing commodities cease. In a statement, Legge said the cham- TOMAH, Wis, May 2—The_trout season opened yesterday, £0 the Tomah High School closed. Tired of too many unexplained absences on May 1 of each year, school officials decided to dismiss students for the day. ber proposed to “sponsor another n: tional conference to adopt some more resolutions of sympathy for agriculture.” He asserted that the board intended to continue to serve the farmer. He said the chamber’s action “simply confirms what we told the membership of that organization Wednesday.” “They are for something to help the farmer only until they find out it works,” he added. “Naturally, we had hoped they would support our efforts to aid agriculture, but if they are going to oppose us we are glad they have come out in the open. s much easier to deal with an enemy who is squarely against you than one who pretends to be friendly, but fights you bel your back. “Our client is the farmer, and we are going to continue to serve him just as the agricultural marketing act intended 'we should—for his benefit, not the bene- fit of some one else.” Legge and Secretary Hyde criticized the Chamber of Commerce attitude to- ward the board in speeches before the chamber Wednesday. SemmmmmmWASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE! RALEIGH HABERDASHER 1310 F Street A Special Sale of $2.5 English Broadcloth Shirts $ 1.85 Guaranteed Not to Shrink! Blue, tan, green and white! 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