Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1931, Page 24

UNIFORM LABOR PRUI[E"UN URGED Only Member of Fair Sex on Wickersham Body Is Governors See Equalization of Industrial Taxes as Employment Aid. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., January 24—Uni- formity of protection to labor and equalization of industrial taxes have presented_themselves to the Governors of seven Northeastern industrial States as steps toward solution of the unem- ployment problem. Concluding the second session of a conference called to consider unem- ployment as a long-time problem, the Governors or Tepresentatives of the seven States decided to make a com- plete examination of their labor -and corporate tax laws through a series of meetings of representatives of the sev- eral State departments having to do with those laws. ‘Today's executive conference was at- tended by Govs. White of Ohio, Larson of New Jersey, Cross of Connecticut, Case of Rhode Island, Ely of Massa- chusetts and Roosevelt of New York and by Dr. Charles Ritell, representative of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania During the session a small parade of unemployed workers bearings placards demanding relief appeared in the street outside the executive mansion. Later the Governors received two delegates from the group to hear their requests. The unemployment demonstration, staged by a group of fewer than 20 persons, was orderly. Two delegates visited the Governor later, telling . Gov. Roosevelt they requested cash relief, no evictions for non-payment of rent and free shelter in State armories. Gov. Roosevelt explained the confer- ence was called not to consider imme- diate relief, but to prevent future un- employment periods. He called their attention to a clauce in the State consti- tution prohibiting the use of State funds for direct aid to persons or _corporations and told them that last December he had written the mayor of each city in the State, offering the use of State armories if municipal facilities were inadequate. I C. C. WOULD QUIT RAIL EXCESS PLAN Recommends Abandonment of Effort of U. S. to Collect Surplus Earnings. THE SUNDAY ILOQUACIOUS CAPITAL MEN END - MYTH OF TALKATIVE WOMAN Example. STAR By the Associated Press. | Abandonment by Congress of the Government's attempt to collect excess | Well, and does talk, and talk every| | few” minutes, on almost any topic of earnings from the country’s railroads and a revision of the present legal | ndard by which the level of all Sisters in Public Life Ap- parently Intimidated by Male Speakers. BY WILLIAM HARD. Miss Ada L. Comstock scored & areat victory for the so-called garrulous womanhood of the world in her report as a_member of the Wickersham Com- mission It took Judge William S. Kenyon, | a representative of the supnosedly suc- cinct sex, 40 pages in the Wickersham volume to express. as a member of the commission, his views of liquor and of | law enforcement and of the enfarce- ment personnel and of politics and of civilization and of other topies. without arriving at any instant positive recipe for improvement except that of a refer- endum through which everybody else ¥ould be asked to express some views also. It took even Mr. Newton D. Baker, briefest of all the men members of the commission, a full page to state his convictions. Mi’s Comstock stated hers in four sentences, and in those four sentences contrived to express a com- plete argument and a complete con- clusion. The conclusion happened to be for the revision of the eighteenth amend- ment, but the true merit of Miss Com- stock’s performance is held here to be the "lesson it conveys to the talkative males who dominate Washington. May Have Been Bluffed. The theory is also held here, how- ever, that Miss Comstock may possibly be thoroughly talkative back in her home town of Cambridge, Mass.. and was simply intimidated and over borne by the superlor talkativeness of the variety of mas-uline human being | {hnt arrives and thrives in Washing- on Speaking generally, Washington con- sists at its core of politicians and jour- nalists, and both types got here by slinging words. This town contains a larger proportion of professionally wordy men than any other town in the country. Here a woman has just really hardly any chance at all The women in the House of Rep- resentatives bow before this fact. Any {one of them has the same right to talk to the House as anv man membe; has. Yet they talk to the House ver: seldom: and, when thev do talk, the: talk very concisely. They listen t Representative La Guardia of New York, for instance, and apparently they Just . give up. S Mr. La Guardia can talk, and talk legislation before the House or nof before the House. There is not woman in the House who has either __MISS ADA L. COMSTOCK. ber of the Wickersham Commission and the one member who came for- ward with a positive ided regarding a new liquor control system in definite substitution for the eighteenth amend- ment. Mr. Anderson, if his State of | Virginia were a Republican State, would undoubtedly be a United States Senator. He can and does talk in public and orate in private without pause on the | race problem, the experimental popu- lar democracy of ancient Athens, the place of Tartars in the scheme of existence, literacy tests for the exer- cise of the suffrage, the origins of written constitutions, railroad con- solidations, the rights of minority | stockholders, the geological experiences | of the Appalachian Mountains, and any other subject that may occur to him or that may occur to anybody else who incautiously -mentions it. Mr. Anderson at once takes it up and makes an admirable speech about it till somebody thinks of another sub- | ject on which he thcn makes an ad- mirable speech Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey docs the same thing—as an individual off-stage ~though not yet |as a Senator on the floor. Mr. Mor- | row must be suffering intensely. Being a new Senator, and having sense, he sits at his desk on the Senate floor hour after hour and day after dav saying nothing. Accordingly, off the fioor, he now discourses on all problems within the rangs of human intelligence or aspiration with a continuity which no woman can break. Mr. Morrow is | pretty nearly omniscient shd also pretty | nearly omniloquent. Thinking and Studying. His family have to turn him in the | right direction in which to go when he leaves the house to go anywhere. He | goes abstractedly thinking and study- ing and probably preparing what to say next. He is a sublime clue to th> rea- son why possibly the women in Wash- ington get out-talked. The men here want to talk about all sorts of vague, lofty generalized public s transportation rates is determined was | his versatility of legislative interest or | Problems in their most technical as- recommended yesterday by the Inter- | state Commerce Commission. In a letter to the Senate Interstate | Commerce Committee, signed by Joseph B. Eastman in behalf of his colleagues, the commission said there was the | “menace of extensive and prolonged | litigation” over the recapture situation and that railroads are now “faced with continually increased competition from other forms of transportatiom* An acceptance by Congress of the policy 'd would wipe off the rec- ords claims based on present law by ‘which the Government has been in the- ory endeavoring to collect about $400,. 000,000. This amount represented one half the earnings the country's more sperous railroads have obtained dur- m'me last decade in excess of 6 per cent of their valuation. All of the commission's attempts to fix valuations on particular railroads which would allow recapture proceed- ings, however, have been entangled in | litigation, which still is unsettled. In its proposals to change the legal | basis for rate fixing, the Eastman let- | ter outlined two amendments to the Howell bill, now pending before the Senate. They would direct the rate- maintain a credit sufclent to at- | tract the capital required to meet transportation needs” and to “furnish ion service to shippers and travelers at the lowest rates consistent ‘with adequate service. The present legislative rule requires| the commission to maintain schedules | which would enable the railroads to earn under 53, per cent on their de-| termined valuation. ‘The commission amendment, while proposing that a fair return on rail- road property should be sought, would allow more than this amount to be earned in prosperous periods and less in depressed periods without necessarily shifting rates. DANCE FOR RELIEF FUND IS PLANNED Arkansas State Society to Enlist Distinguished Backers for Event. ‘To raise funds for the stricken peo- ple of Arkansas a charity ball and en- tertainment will be held at the Willard Hotel on February 3, under auspices of a distinguished special committee headed by Representative Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas. president of the Arkansas State Society. Plans for the ball were inaugurated At & meeting of the officers of the so- clety Priday and arrangements are be- ing made for an elaborate program de- signed to attract throngs. ‘The hotel has made special conces- sions with a view to aiding the cause. Music will be furnished by Horace “Happy” Walker's Orchestra and the local theaters are being asked to do- nate the services of some of their en- tertainment staff. Ten thousand letters are being mailed to Washingtonians in the in- terest of the entertainment, and it is announced that tickets can be obtained at the Willard Hotel, the A. A. A, Wil- son-Greene Theatrical Agency and Droops Music Store. A distinguished list of patrons and tronesses will sponsor the ball. The ident and Mrs. Hoover are to be waited upon by the congressional dele- @ates to appeal for the President's patronage. The General Committee and committee chairmen are as fol- lows: Representative Fuller, general chairman: Senator Joseph T. Robinson, vice chairman; Senator T. H. Caraway, vice chairman; Maj. Gen. Douglas Mc- Arthur, Partons: Harcld R. Young. Re- ception; Maj. Robert W. Brown, I'loor; Mrs. J. L. Horner, Entertainment: J. G. Whiteside, Puplicity, and Hugh Brewster, Finance. The Winton-Stanley 1411 Harvard St. N.W. Four Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Reasonable Rentals Just Think of It— ‘The Star delivered to your his voluminousness of linguistic ca- pacity. Moreover, he has several men tion, overwhelming and unmatchable, he ‘women sit for the most part stun- ned and silent. Anderson Talks Well. Miss Comstock may have succumbed to this environment. Perhaps in par- ticular she succumbed to her proximity to Mr. Henry W. Anderson, also a mem- Today's low prices will save you as much as 259 to 407, on all alterations and build- ing. EXTERIOR MODERNIZING We Build Homes; Additions, Garages Basements. Found tions, Roofing, En- close Porches. INTERIOR MODERNIZING Painting, Papering, Plumbing, Plastering. 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There is an appropriation of $250,000 now available for a start on the work and & request is before Con- gress for the balance in the 1932 ap- propriation bill. There will be no in- terruption to traffic during the taking down of the old bridge and the’ con- struction of the new. AT aaite suals While the use of electricity is in- creasing steadily in the Union of South | = Africa, progress is slow in the sale of | appliances because. of the man of the Woman's domestic . 'WOMEN DEMAND JOBS Party Urges Gov. Roosevelt Not to Make Discrimination. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who has called a Conference of Governors on Unemployment, was urged yesterday by the National Woman's Party to consider married employed women on the same basis with married en. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, nlfin:ul chair- Y, Slightly Injured in Collision. George C. 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