Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1930, Page 14

CEREMONY TOMARK FIRST MAIL FLIGHT High Government and Com. mercial Aviation Officials to Cover Route. By the Associated Press. A first flight of historic dimensions for the Atlantic-Los Angeles route, a ! pioneer under the MoNary-Waters air- mail act, was announced yesterday by the Post Office Department. The highest officials in the Post Office Department, notable governmental and civil figures in commeteial aviation, and three women fiyers were included in plans for coast-to-coast ceremonies October 14 and 15. October 15, the day of the actual in- auguration, will see climax of the cere- monies at Fort Worth, Tex., where the Eastbound ' first flight will meet the Westbound first flight on the daylight schedule to be in effect until the route is lighted. Radio to Inform Nation. Rad/ccastine from the Westbound fleet of four Fokkers, which will carry BY CLARA LOUISE JOHN. “This Way to Mother Jones” read the guide posts along & well beaten country road 10 miles out of Washing- {ton, It is likely that they will soon be |removed. In an upstairs room of the uiet farm house of Mr. and Mrs. Walter urgess lies Mother Jones, “grand old woman of American Lavor.~ with 100 years of strenuous life to her credit she 1s just about ready to start on '-he Great Jlmwy from the sheer exhaustion of her physical ener&y‘ has gradually ebbld n'lv and now no longer re- ceives visitors. “‘Mother” Mary nes passed her one hunundm blrthdu annivers sary May 1, 1930. Until recently her mind was as active as ever. Only l lew weeks ago we found her résting ami several soft pillows, her head eov- ered abundantly with snowy white hair. preserved hand hnd stretched out in dered sheet. Her expression was a the Postmaster General and other gov- ernmental officials, was arranged to keep the Nation informed of the prog- ress of that portion of the flight. Postmaster General Brown and As- sistant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover, in charge of aviation activities, were named as the postal figures to par- ticipate in the ceremonies. Col. Clarence M. Young Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, will rep- resent that phase of the Federal in- terest in aeronautics. Aviation Corporation, one of the operators of the new route, included three of its highest officials in the first flight plans, F. G. Coburn, president; Hainer Hinshaw, assistant to the presi- dent, and G. B. Grosvenor, vice chaire man of the board of directors. Three Women on Flight. Ruth Elder, Ruth Nichols and Elinor Smith were the three women chosen to make the flight, and to Miss Smith was given the distinction of being named broadcaster of a description and inci- dents of the journey to be carried over the Natinal Broadcasting Co. chain. Erle Halliburton, chairman of the board of ulrecwn of the Southern Air co-contractors with Avia- !-lon and Will Rogers, hum= mm official party on the Eastbound flight. The official fleet will leave Bolling Field shoflly before noon Tuesday, and wfl! attend the ceremonies that beenlrmxedlormndnma e next. st Atianta, Jacksin, Miss.: Shree , La., and Dallas and Fort X. BOY SCOUTS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO M'RAE Groups Will Meet Train Bearing Body of Publisher and Philanthropist. | wil keep thém from 1m mencn c&l,ucmvu:lmw-ldm and charter member of the Boy Scouts of America. He was_elected to flll u\e umxp!rea term of President J. after Mr. Storrow’s dn\‘.htn 1926. ——has. EVANGELIST ARRESTED ON MANN ACT WARRANT Con; tion Raises Toward nhnh ey s in umm Defense of Pastor Arraigned on Girl Transportation Count. By the Associated Press. -lmetwd.ymflwnbwsulmlcmm of violating the )fann act. He was arrested last night at a church revival at Jeffersonville, Ind., on a war- rant involving charges that Alice Lee Garrison, 17, nooga, Tenn., to this city. Members of his congregation said they ‘would stand by him and contributed $60 toward his defense. He sald he would waive extradition to ‘Tennessee and was held in prison nv\un,-‘ Isn"l‘uthe arrival of officers from that | RESPIRATOR SAVING MAN Dentist Kept Alive Through Crit- {cal Infantile Paralysis Attack. DITRDIT October 11 (#).—Dr. Fred Haan, 8 Grand Rapids dentist, criti- vally 11l of infantile paralysis, was being | kept alive here today by the use of a mechanical respirator. the only one of its kind in Michigan, | is maintained by the city in Herman | Kiefer Hospital. Dr. Haan, who has been il in Gflnd Rapids for several days, was brought | here by ambulance today. In the ambulance with him were two physicians, who took turns applying arti- ficlal respiration, keeping him alive un- til he was placed in the machine. The ruslnwr subjects the lungs to increased decreased air pressure, after the! ordinary manner of breathing. ———— BANK LEADERS TO MEET Mother 11830. “My father,” she explained, "“l' One reporter came after she had gone Her volce was strong and it took very little prompting to draw from her ar- dent _expressions of her opi the things for which she had fought for the greater part of a century. “And we've won out!” she said, when she talked about the work that has always laid closest to her heart—the laws regulating child labor. “Women can do so much if they only realize their power!” The statement was detached and deep and she elung to the words in a way to make one feel that this is the torch she wanted to fling to other hands before letting slip her hold on life. Summarizes Modern Conditions. “Nobody takes a dollar to the grave!” she added, impressively, and then she launched into a fiery summary of her opinions about modern conditions. For even thén Mother Jones was not think- ing about death, but about the indus- trial problems of the machine age in relation to American labor. She re- called Aristotle’s prediction that the time would come when an inanimate object would do the work of a dozen slaves, "m.y " she said, “modern moumds f production have far outstrip, pewer of America to consume the ?nro- duct of labor. And now that we're the machine age, neither the Govern- ment nor the people are preparing for it. The only thing that can be done now is for the Government to take hold | g and reduce the worklnihoun A five- day week and a six-hour day would mean work for everybody. But a.hn people don’t get the idea. Also, President should apmnr more puhnc works. Why he get about bullding that md to_Soutn” Americar I believe Borah would find work for everybody if he were President! “Prohibition 15 one of the greatest affiictions that has been laid on the Nation. They can't ram it down peo- ple’s throats. “I'm more radical thm T ever wa she snapped, with a hint of her old- time energy. “I've M @ lot of chance to think hwly md the mm‘e I think the more radi ‘The capitalists are still & Imnch high-class_robbers and burglars, and I'm for nnytmm people. And if the unanploymnn uw. much worse men afe going & do wmethtnx lbout it. If f.&:y u'n‘;: ‘work wages they m #0 they can. . “People should study! Study!” 1In Prison at 87. “How old were you the last time you were in prison?” The question sounded organized the famous March H.ha ume Children, mq 1t 18 this erl- remember Mother Jones was particular about be- |*! ing “primped up.” A warm and well |1 welcome from the folds of & blue bor- | B¢ inions_about | Vi incongruous. “Eighty-seven,” she said, dennuy. after a moment's reflection. “They kept in seven months.” She couldn’t remember the number times the Rockefellers had put her but her most ou en- i “'m.h them - 5'in connéetion dw‘l idiow massacre mines in 1014. As Mother Jones was muds sprayed the lit- miners and nfl 21 women and chil- the Rockefeller inter- le for the slaugh- result of her agitations she hlnfl the bars for nine weeks. id capital the Rocke- t hl(ev iter disdained sul to dinner !rom them on lc- rltld o) uMher Jones, m m-n‘: &nm And with pxso g;gn aheteet in my people can \mder- public is the bunch you ever saw. You've m [ wake them up! Then you get action!” Recalls Irish Revoit. Jones was born in Ireland in one of zhe leaders in & revolt England. I remember it all plainly. was only 5 years old. I sat by the wln- dow and I saw the soldiers come march- { ing down the street with human heads stuck on the of thelr bayonets. I didn't know t it all meant. My father and 81 uther men flzd and put out to sea on & ship and hoisted the American fiag. They came to Ameneu I was 6 when my mother and two| borthers and two sisters followed my father here.” Mother Jones has drunk deeply of the cup of life. She married an iron molder in Memphis, Tenn. She gave birth to four children in five years. In {1867 the yellow fever took all four children and also her husband. She, herself, prepared their bodies for the The Tespirator, | death cart and then sat alone in the house 10 days before the quarantine was lifted. Four’ years later she set {up a dressmaking shop in Chicago. e great fire destroyed it. As & refugee, she an spending mai e:{ of ‘her evenings attending labor m at the old Knights of Labor Tem) e there. Circumstances fanned her in- terest to a heat. Soon afterard she started on her active career in behalf jof labor. Her first work was in Pitts- | burgh, where she went to_aid a atrike | on the Baltimore & Ohlo d. After that, whenever labor had a hard battle to fight lflhore, Mother Jones was more than likely to be there and in the front ranks. Tho war be- Security and Investment Problems |tween capital and labor in those days Will Be Discussed. was sometimes brutal and even bl NEW. ORLEANS, October 11 (#).— ‘The problems, status and probable fu- ture of foreign, mumclpnl and public| service securities, as well as other phases of investment banking’ will hold prime positions here Monday as subjects of discussion at the nineteenth annual con- vention of tl soclation of America. Several hundred of the Nation's lead- ers and foremost fl(uru in the secur- will attend the three-day principa. de- llvered by Silas H. former ent of the Association, and the assoclation’s presi- dent, Trowbridge Calloway of New York. ‘When the Statue of Liberty was t up in New York Harbor Bartholdi, eculptor, invited his friends to a b-n- Investment Bankers' As-| Mother Jones often I'vaod in where other labor leaders been kul.a but somehow she 'll never Once du:;lx.\g & strike in West Vlr‘iflh she clim! a hill in the face of a machine gun and bluffed its crew into | thinking she had 600 armed miners waiting to follow her. She was & pic- turesque in those days, with thick white curls poking out from {nnur her black bonnet, and in her y black dress. going about address- i.nc hcnel! to Presidents or paupers with equal boldmu dflyflu injustice and demanding decent wages and the . | eight-hour day. Went to Work In Mines. Her heart still aches with the recol- lection of many children in those days, forced to work, wearing down their little bodles until they were so tired that food would from _their ml(ht bt m.uven in the leg of the statue. was plenty of room in the knee 1: a dinner pnn{ &(‘ ”ub& climbed their places at the of hdder? and the dishes were m by pulleys. mouths at mealtime. found working in mills or 20 cents a day, or less. She reulh a strike in Ablanm:m:lg whlch :hll- were "!ewldnatmhnnyfl-v mm T donned & calico dress and over- - huconelm-n—u #dE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D C., OCTOBER 12, “We’ve Won Out!” Thought Consoling to *Mother” Jones, but She Says Labor Is Still Unprepared for Present Machine Age, Despite Many Victories. alls to get the truth. I exposed eve mlfl(ll\ got results.” "i‘ sode that she seems to the greatest pride. “During & strike T was called for,” “While I hem | heen diverted into the bootleg trade. Adventure. Stricken to her bed last| years ol paradox of tenacity and tenderness. ™ ayer. hot arguments I got a permit and we marched up Fifth avenue to Madison Square where we held our meeting and took pictures of the children’s hands, which I told people we were crucify- ing for dollars. Got Bill Passed. “We drew up a bill, which was pre- sented to Congress and which was passed and whith was the ‘mother of the child labor law.” Mother Jones has been called the Angel of Merty, who placed human e A e i e 00 1o 4 eels e yurs old, Mother Jones confessed. “I wish could live to be another hundred, just to see the changes. In Another hun- dred years all the industries will be controlled by the people.” Many a noted nue-m will re- member having lMo that pstairs room only to have hiy Solicitudé surpeised out of him by some ;xm -lmed It of wit or irony from stairway. ioned rvul stairs. (They eat so early on che farm!) After poorly camou Mrs. Burgess for ha to hum on we “gave in” to her itations. and tayed. "Ohxummwmpu with Mother Janu." chattered Mrs. &ue- over dinner table that day. “I read the papers to her every day and take her correcting of comments on certain public mttm and pronun- clation of certain names as gracefully as I can. She never misses a thing and you can't trip her on anything. An interviewer once asked me for her opinions about Soviet Russia and I told him that was & subject she didn’t follow. ahe ovahenrfi me and after he had gone she sald to me, ‘Don't you dare tell them I don’t know things un- less eyqoultell me nnu' ’rhfl'h:he ro- ceeded _to expound to ings on in Russia since before I wes born. Likes the Country. “She's been with me over two years. She used to live in the city. We were friends and her visits out here on her to hington lasf ‘Winter because I thought she would be more comfortable where she eould have ¢ity convent but she ‘Dam- mit, if you go off and leave me I'll take ) m:n "t‘l? follow WM! I(olh;r likes it ere e country. It's & sharp con- trllt the nflh‘:‘nt life she has al- No,. hasn't & living lived. nhuv :lumuh mng letters | taste.” from “. e d‘:lm rela- nvu." The home-made ice cream and were being served and in the midst of the jocularity which Mrs. num cmuu & lusty eall sounded np- - | Spirited Debate Precedes Vote on||[f| Resolution at Holston 1 cause she doun't kniow whther she'’s all right or not, and I tell her, ‘Great Ceasar's Ghost, one that can holler and scare me like that is far from dead!” Then she says she’ll live a long time Just to spite me.” Incessant bantering went on between these two women, very amrnm in age, but both very ng t heart. “Before her '100th birthday )(omer had been right on her back for five months,” e ed Mrs. Burgess. “But she had told us that when her birthday came she wculd dress and eehfih‘l‘nn. came at 11 pm. fo bed. He wantad her picture for his paper and r poor fellow ;he lmlltaed that of bed and let him it. ‘06 ahead and shoot,’ she said, ‘if it will help you with your employer.’ “Knew How to Talk. “There were 326 visitors here that | day, yes, and we fed them all. ‘Mother’ iways wants people to be fed. We had tubs full of punch, dosens of home- made cakes, sandwiches, and, well, it was_almost & barbacue! “Just before the movietone man had her perform for him, he tried to mamm her regarding what to say. ‘What th h—— do_you know about it? lhe retorted, ‘I was making speeches before you were born! “She was dressed in her best black silk, her cheeks were pink with excite- ment, she faced the cameras, took a A X O aunched in promptu speec! which brought louq s?:llun ‘Power,” she told them, the hands of labor to retain Ameflun liberty, but labor has not yet learned how to the power. A wonderful power Il the hands of women, too, but the; know how to use it. Caj hluhlldl- track the women into clubs and make ladies of them. wants & lady. ‘They want women! Ladies are parlor parasites!” Saw Only Purposes. you sat by the bed and talked to Mncm Jones her m.u uexmd to OF Honid.thoUgR You o8t 8. mn of 10ug! rou you could almost see W the world old enigma of a soul imprisoned in body for her :vtrlt blelmu out as & thing apart and in Kvu presence you uemed to ml Mt;ym, not only obstacles, buf though she )ooled ht out beyond at has to do with places or the present, and saw only purposes. And she's “won out!” More jmpres- she has single urponnomnurwlutm tn( Eou house seemed to ml -ndonohnm tront door mmu with the courage to defy life's obluelu the same way that Mother Jones has , not her own, but obstacles confronting m of the big human family. PRCE TN ‘Ten-year-old Annie Murray ne‘luy ascended the 4.300 high, in M‘.M 1s the first child to accomplishh £ . | the perfumery a; 7 | of supporting only such cand! perance 1 Service ,," nnde its report dlsposlnz o{ pmmhmon | h the declaration that “we reaffirm || %| the teachings of Christ.” Rev. J. Tyler Frasier of IBOOTLEG ALCOHOL | OPINION l]IVII]F.DL Woodcock and Doran at Odds || Over lllicit Industrial Liquor. —— By the Associated Press. | The Treasury and the Dreumnmem of Justice were at odds yesterday over the amount of industrial alcohol that had James H. Doran, the industrial alcos hol commh'f‘unerv,o issued & adulem;lrln Ing exception res made public Prohibition mn%g £ o v’m and m. latter’ cxiakte was Thz ‘100 hi J First mnm. It was the first difference of opinion belwnn these two units since they were with the mmm- of the Pro- Nion Bureau Trorm. the "Teeasury o the Depnnmem of Justice last July. In & momlnph on liquor production issued a Week 'oodeock sald 4,000,000 gallons ol illielt beverages | could have been made during the fiscal year of 1030 Irom aleohol diverted from | d toilet water trade. | Doran yesterday termed this figure "mlny times excessive.” He said 2,000,- 000 gallons of aleohol would have been necessary to produce 4,000,000 gallons of liquor, or lbwt 40 per cent of the total amount of legal alcohol manu- | factured for the use of the perfumery and toilet water makers. Says Diversion Small. He added that statistics in his bureau | showed the diversion from this branch of the industrial alcohol field was small “ and nothing like the amount Wood- cotk’s figures indicated. Doran said he felt injustice had been done to the manufacturers of toilet water lndxerlume'ry who, he said, have co-operale ith the Treuury in every way in its effort to prevent the diversion of aleohol intended for their use. ‘Woodcock returned yesterday from an | Inspection tour of New York and de clined to coMment upon Doran’s state- ment. He Jeft last night for Chicago and will devote this week to a survey of organization conditions in Iilinols, eding from that State into the 'ar, West. Police Al Agents. IQIVln‘ he said police of Yor City were gi ooyl substantial w enforce Iry laws. Of 500 cases filed in || the al courts of the metropolitan | | section, he uld ovldenee for half came to{ from city w Ol terming it a “factual -ur It| dealt ¥ith prohibition in its economic effect upon lustry, upon the body o 1% relation 1o uimaben accidents “From “this short review of & very|| compnhe.ulva subject,” the monograph sald, “the deduction seems apparent that criticisms of the hibition laws and their enforcement ignore the value the people and communities who do not. observe the law, but choose to plnce themselves above law as perso: are not and need not be unemblewl Crities Are Criticized. “In the last analysis, crities of pro- | hibition laws and their enforcement | are :fluclllnl and indicting the com- | munities, officials and citisens to whom | they refer,” it added. “It is no just| criticism of the laws against homicide o point out that America produces more | | homicides than any other civilised || country. “It 18 equally unfair to lay at the doors of the b the prohibition laws ’l‘/he lessness and unbridled selfishness of a lhould show stréngth of character enough not to commit themselves to the that they are above the law Iml will choose only such laws to ob- serve s suit their own convenience and M. E. BODY RENEWS PROHIBITION STAND Conference. By the Associated Press. | BRISTOL, Va., October 11.—A spirit- ed debate over prohibition today result- i ea m thz I(nlnwn Conference of the | M llChurch ?oam | or a resolution “re- ‘mm our supvon the eighteenth ' amendment and urging the imj tm;ce es for office as are pledged to its enforcement.” ‘The debate arose whzn l.hg Oommu- tee on Tem that the nunufmtun, ulo Snd use of | intoxicating luzum 18 inconsistent with made an address dealing with the “wet” and “dry” con- \rwony. and Rev. J. A. Baylor of Blue- field introduced the amendment to the ‘Temperance Committee’s report. luv Sullins atuut amnaeu the com- mittee's report. P. Martin of Abingdon, oné 6f the (our ministers who fecently flled new charges inst Bishop James Oanon, jr., offered the | motion for adoption of the amendment and the motion carried overwhelmingly. | Lavis Thomas of Chattanooga said he | believed the committee report covered the issue, “but inasmuc¢h as an issue || has been made of this I ask for passage of the amendment.” Bishop Horace M. Dubose took the ! floor during the discussion explaining his stand in the presidential campairn of 1928, and asserting that he would be “glad to see the word prohibition re- tired from usage.” i INSTITUTE ORGANIZED. Newagk Merchant and Sister Give!| $5,000,000 for Research. | NEW YORK, October 11 (#).—Dr.| Abraham Fiexner of the Rockefeller In-} stitute announced today Ehn'. the Insti- tute for Advanced St adt university, for the foun Louis Bambe: Newnrk chant, and recently gave an initial mdowmam e of 05000000 has been formally organized. 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