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© A4 GAYETY REIGNS Luxury in Bold Relief Where Hard Times Theaten National Revolt. now has her moratorium. his 45 the Thi g forth man leaders must s BY WADE WERNER, Associated Press Staft Correspondent. (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN (#).—Despite the seriousness of her plight, Germany is not wholly gl)oom:x desperate and out-at-the-el- = The superficial observer is likely to be impressed by three things. He sees plenty of luxury spending, plenty of cash-bought public gayety in the big city play places. He sees, in the streets of the cities, crowds of well dressed people who look substantial and at ease with the world. He sees laughing par- | tiss of picnickers at swimming and boat- ing places these warm week ends. These three factors are enough to convince any one who doesn't go below the surface that everything is well with Germany, that she is merely crying wolf. What is the truth? Luxury in Bold Relief. Start with the luxury spender. the first place, they are common to all natfons at all times. against a background of sober frugality, such as Germanv now must live in, they stand out in boyd relief. The story of the 1922 inflatlon during which the mark went crazy and economic laws were repealed, is being repeated. There are bound to be persons who remember how that inflation wiped out their life savings, and who say, therefore, that you might as well enjoy your mark while it still will buy something. ‘The superficial observer, looking at the crowds of well dressed people in the city streets, is likely to forget what he himself would do if desperate hard times hit him. The German is doing what any one would do. He is clinging to his polished his properly pressed clothes and | te collar because his natural pride makes him want to look solvent as long as he can. The look of solvency may be based on a series of pawn tickets. But the world needn’t know that. The throngs at the boating and swimming places on week e.ds indicate that plenty of Germans still have jobs and still have c They are pleasant geiherings to sce, and they bear no witness to impending financial crash. Fear of Government. The government is fearful that un- less something is done to relieve the pressure on Germany, the Songs sung by e picnickers will turn into revolu- tionary shouts. There have been rumblings. same Berlin where the splurgers do their big-time spending small groups of the jobless periodically raid food stores. The Hitler movement, only a short time ago looked upon as a threat turned into semi-farce, again is taken with com- plete seriousness. ‘To be sure, the yearly drain of rep- arations payments may not be wholly the cause of Germany's travail. Cer- tainly some of the larger cities for instance, floated too many bond issues during the hopeful period from 1925 to_1927. But, whatever the cause, the effect is apparent—apparent to President Hoover and Ramsay MacDonald as well as to any observer who cares to look beyond Unter den Linden and Pariser Platz. The surface extravagance, the white | collars and the singing picnickers are only part of the vast German canvas. BENJAMIN APPOINTED In | Moreover, placed | In the | | | | i BY CONSTANTINE BROWN TALY'S Ambassador to Washington, | Nobile Giacomo de Martino, is one | of the very rare foreign diplomats who can boast that he really knows | the American mentality. How does | he do it? It's all very simple: He sees | as many people as he can, reads as | | l;“:;:h as possible and chins with every- | ody. Signor de Martino is a passionate motorist. Unattended, he travels hundreds of miles and when he is| | hungry or thirsty, he does not stop at a swanky hotel or any “Ye Olde Inn,” | but at a simple “barbecue.” Nobody | knows who he is, since he speaks Eng- lish as well as any Italian who has lived in New York or Chicago for the | Jast 25 years, and people are always CLUBSDEADLOKED ONMEETING PLACE | Women’s Federation Board | to Name Committee for Selection. 1 '| Knows American Mentality IN GERMAN CRISIS SIGNOR DE MARTINO MINGLES WITH PEOPLE AS MUCH AS POSSI SIGNOR NOBILE GIACOMO DE By the Associated Press. | RICHMOND, Va, July 11.—Unable| to decide between Springfield, IIL;| Northampton, Mass, and Milwauke: Wis., the principal bidders for the bi- | ennial convention of the Federation of SOCIAL HYGIENE HEAD | Business and Professional Women’s | Nationally Known Worker and Writer Will Direct Society Here. Paul Benjamin, prominc<nt social | worker, L. has been appointed executive | director of the Social Hygiene Society| 2 of Washington, it was announced ycs- terday. He has been associate gencral secre- tary of the Asosciated Charities of Min- neapolis, a ficld director of the National ‘Tuberculosis Association, and associate editor of The Survey, social work maga- zine. He had charge of “after care work” for disabled soldiers and sallors for the Red Cross, was general secretary of the Family Service Organization of Louisville, Ky., and more recently direc- tor of public relations for the Commit- t(’z:onlheconoifledlwcmol this city. gfl‘, Benjamin attended the New York School of Social Work, taught \at the University of Louisville, and for the ast year has been chairman of the amily division of the National Con- ference of Social Work. He 1s a writer of note on soclal work and public health questions. GAS COMPANY OUTING PROMISED BIG CROWD ‘Water Sports at Chesapeake Beach ‘Wednesday to Be in Charge of Harry Enight. A crowd of about 1,500 is expected to attend the forty-second annual out- ing of employes of the Washington Gas Light Co. next Wednesday at Chesa- peake Beach. ' Harry Knight, local canoeist, who rep- resented and won honors for the Wash- ington Canoe Club in the 1924 Paris| Olympic games, will have charge of all water sports during the outing. En- tertainment_includes a bathing beauty contest, swimming meet, & prize dance contest and games for children. Judges in the beauty contest, it was said, will be_chosen from the executives. Louis B. Hart, in charge of arrange- ments, will bring to the beach the gas company’s “clown band” to accompany them on the first train, which will leave | ‘Washington about 10:30 a.m. Clubs, the board of directors today was | instructed to appoint a committee to | consider merits of the threc cities and to | announce its decision at a later date. | This decision was reached by the | board in a series of executive sessions following the close of the Old Dominion | conventjon which officially ended with | ball last night. Today, however, while the board of directors, composed | of national officers, State presidents | and national committee chairmen, was| winding up affairs, about 500 of the | delegates to the convention here were | tnl]cen on a tour of the Virginia Penin- sula, After visiting Williamsburg, York- town and Jamestown today, the dele- | gates, who have not already started | for_their homes, were invited to attend a luncheon and sight-seeing trip in Petersburg tomorrow. The board of directors will be entertained at lunch- eon at Williamsburg. At their meeting today the directors | decided on places and times for the 1932 regional conferences as follows: Northeastern region, at Niagara Falls, during the second week in October; | Seutheastern at Blue Ridge, Tenn, in August; North Central at St. Paul, Minn,, in July immediately after the annual meeting of the board of direc- tors; South Central at Tulsa, Okla., in September; West Central at Santa Fe, N. Mex,, early in June, and Western at Berkeley, Calif. _ Athens, Greece, is to have auto bus lines which will compete with the street car servic e TN | | ANTIQUE FURNITURE REPRODUCTIONS Antiques reproduced perfectly. Our cabinet building experience for two generations assures you entire satis- faction. Estimates given without ob- ligation. || Established Two Generations SEGAL BROS. 1232 14th St. N.W. “We Live Our Profession” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARTINO willing to talk to him. To the ordinary | patron of barbecue on the high roads. | he is just another Itallan. He likes it and sometimes, as during the Butler- | Mussolini incident, he had the oppor- tunity of hearing an earful. Sounds Public Opinien. Signor de Martino spends a good | deal of money on newspapers and press | clippings. 1 don’t think that there is a single story on Italy published in any | newspaper or magazine in the United States which is not brought to ‘his at- tention. Files of clippings are laid on his desk every day by the embassy attaches and in this way he knows what people in this country think about his country. In this manner he is able to form a fair opinion of how the “wind blows” in this country in regard to Italy. His method seems to be right because he is able to inform his government | with a great deal of accuracy about | what should and what should not be | done in order to gain the sympathy of | the American people. When Premier | Mussolini decided to accept the Hoo- ver proposal with the reservation that the Germans should give up their tariff union project with Austria, Signor de | Martino realized the mistake and urged his government not to make accep- tance conditional on anything. They know in Rome the Ambassador's method of sounding public opinion, and they took his advice. Tinkers With Cars. The Italian Ambassador is popular | in Washington because of his simple, democratic_manners. He is still more | popular with second-hand motor car dealers. They scramble to buy his used cars because Signor de Martino is an expert_mechanic. Any car which has been through his hands for six months | tod: He | is better than when it was new. tinkers and_fusses for hours at a time with the engine and when he has been able to tune it to perfection he loses interest in the car and sells it in order | to buy and improve a new car. (Copyright, 1931.) FINANGEMAY RALLY T0 GERMANY'S AID Possibility of President Mov- ing to Forestall Collapse Seen. By the Associated Press. Mobilization of American financial power to bulwark Germany, as one way to alleviate the distress of that coun- , has become the subject of discus- :znl in whi l’; }’li‘{lmldmlnlflrlllon offi- clals are cipating. Dhmrbg‘ reports of the German financial status reached officialdom here No comment was forthcom- ing, however. President Hoover and Acting Secre- tary Castle of the State Department were at the President’s Rapidan camp in Virginia. Both State and Treasury Departments kept in close touch with the acute situation reported confronting the Bruening government. Some officials expressed the private opinfon Mr. Hoover would undertake some action to prevent a disastrous eventuality in Germany. The Ameri- can Government itself cannot act di- rectly, and there was no specification of what course the President might con- sider he could take. Three Courses Outlined. ‘Three ible methods of assistance were outlined unofficially by financial experts of the administration. These were: Unlimited credits by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the Reichsbank, either by direct credits or the honcring of drafts; a massing of credits to Germany by private bankers; indirect credits to Germany through | the Bank of England. The Federal Reserve system is an organization independent of the execu- tive branch of the Government. Whether the President would feel called upon to suggest that it assist Germany was not known tonight. Acting Secretary Castle said some days ago, the President could, if he de- sired, make suggestions to the Federal Reserve Board as to a course of action in emergenclu. Banks Have Not Helped. So far, officials pointed out, the pow- erful influence of American bankers has played little or no part in the ef- forts to alleviate the situation in Ger- many. State and Treasury Depart- ment officials sald that in their conver- sations with the bankers, they had found “a united sentiment” behind the President’s efforts. There was no doubt in their minds that the bankers would respond if called vpon. ‘Word from Berlin that the German government was contemplating drastic domestic measures to meet the situation was said to be in line with repeated | admenitions to the Reich by other na- tions. Germany has been cautioned to meet the situation so far as possible by domestic measures. Assistant Secretary Rogers of the State Department, speaking in the ab- sence of Mr. Castle, said yesterday the question of a moratorium on private | loans to Germany had not been dis- cussed. The re-establishment of confidence appeared tonight to be the thought uppermost in the minds of American officials. - THREE HURT IN RIOT Santiago, Cuba, Policeman Among Red Demonstration Victims. SANTIAGO, Cuba, July 11 (#).— Three persons, including a policeman, were severely wounded when Commu- nists attempted to stage a demonstra- tion at a free food dispensary here ay. One of the demonstrators waved a red flag, whiie another exhorted the bread-line crowd to revolt. Police attempted to disperse the crowd quietly, but when they failed they opened fire. A number of arrests ‘were made. LANSBURGH'S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store Big 22x44-Inch Absorbent “Cannon” Turkish Towels, 4 for sl Summertime is towel time. Tomorrow is saving time! ders and hems. Hefty, soft Cannon towels, with colored bor- Very specially priced! . 18x36-In. Boott Mills Huck Towels, 6 for s Hand Towels of exceptional softness and absorbency, neatly finished with colored he: mstitched hems. They'll stand a lot of hard wear and laundering. | Than Scientist Thinks Ancients Happier People Today Value of Achievements Compared in Address Before Engineers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 11.—Dr. C. E. Ken- neth Mees,research director of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y., sald today he seriously doubted whether the modern farmer, with his radio and market reports, tractors and filvver, is as happy as his predecessor of 4,000 years ago, in the valley of the Nile. Dr. Mees, speaking before the En- gineering Foundation, a research agency of major engineering socleties, ques- tioned the value of sclence and en- gineering. “The one great gift of sclence has b:ledn the dimunition of disease,” he 81 3 “In & few countries—especiall; the United States—machinery. 1 huydul.:nln- | ished the heavy labor of the old-time farmer and added many_comforts |to his domestic happiness. ~But it is now undermining his status, and nmy perhaps end by eliminating him.” JAIL-BREAKER FREED Conditional Pardon Given Sing Sing Inmate by Gov. Roosevelt. OSSINING, N. Y., July 11 (#).—Gov. { Franklin D. 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CLEVELAND, July 11.—A banquet set for 1,500 under a sheik’s tent 90 feet long and 150 feet wide made of red, yellow and green artificial silk— A public square with a setting of giant palm trees under which will ride “statuesque shelks on statuesque steeds”— A stage 400 feet long set with an lrnr’rtll palace amid an Orlental eity— treet dances and gnudel, including & parade at night lighted in colors— These are some of the things to be seen starting tomorrow, when Cleve- land will have the setting of an Orien- tal gem. 100,000 Visitors Due in City. Approximately 100,000 persons from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Hawall will arrive with 1,200 members of the Imperial Council of the Anclent Arabic Order’ of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for their fifty-seventh annual convention. ‘There will be choruses, bands and chanters, ballet dancers and Oriental animals, such as zebras, elephants and camels. ‘Tomorrow, the first day, will be given over to devotional services at the Cleve- land Municipal Stadium. Monday will be all-Ohio day, with the six Ohio temples participating in a parade and initiation ceremonies. Will March Tuesday. Tuesday will be the most eventful day. In the morning 10,000 men in Oriental uniforms, approximately 50 bands and other musicians will pass in Teview before Imperial Potentate Esten A. Fletcher of hester, N. Y., and Frosbey's sweetheart, who, it is said, | other imperial representatives at the assisted him in some of his Jail-breaks, | stadium. In the afternoon 60 drill teams will participate in exhibitions and military maneuvers. At the public auditorium that eve- ning will be the grand banquet under the h shelk’s tent. After the ban- quet come the biggest show of the convention. Attack and Disaster Slated, ‘The 400-foot stage will be set at one end of the lum. Muezzins from Prayer. - The Orlental ‘eity Wil begin yer. nl y Emfl%m;mbmkh:{‘ummn; ive as caravans camels and elephants. $ entertainment of their guests, citizens will perform on three platforms in the arena of stadium. The city then will be by n:bber bands and all destroyed by vol- canoes. illuminated parade will be held the following night, and on Thursday night there will be a of th - repetition e Booth Rites Planned. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 11 (A).—A memorial service for the late American Minister to Denmark, Ralph H. Booth, will be held here Monday. Minister Booth died June 20 at Bad- Gastein, Czechoslovakia. 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