Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1931, Page 5

GIFFORD NAMES NEW COMMITTEE The Dole in England Editor Finds Faults of Benefit System Are Due to Politics, and Therefore More THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, HIGH-POWER RADID RULING DUE SOON J. R. Garfield Heads Group| Difficult to Cure. Commission Takes Up Prob- W SSRER NG and ', T | s T aivesion, and v dversin 10 O 50,000-Wat Sta- Unemployment. LR R 8 S | oviing thae e mot sty wa-| NS This Week. ole upon every class of Walter 8. Gifford, director of unem- & ployment relief work, yesterday named ! NS ::":':g:'“‘: 2 speclal committee to concern itself |~ ' of with the general national program of | Probably no place I have visited con- public works and its relations to unem- |1ains so many typical results of Eng- | flg&?‘g‘h‘llb. '}mrns‘eg:&:}da?'fi’& {land's declared intention to “cure un- | employment without substantiaily re- terior, was named chairman. | Gifford said the committee “will con- | ducing the standard of life” as Man- chester and the Northwestern labor sider whether, in its judgment, any fur- ther useful Federal public works could | division of which it is the official center. Out of an insurable labor population be_undertaken to advantage.” This group, the fifth committee ap-|of 2,584,000 the unemployed upon the pointed by Gifford, will study the en-|dolc are 430,000 men, 240,000 women and 30,000 juvenlles, or a total in the tire present program of public works— Federal, State and local. Efforts will|district of 700,000 idle out of 2,580,000 be made to bring these programs to tlic | said an official at one of the exchanges, “amounts to highest employment peak possible. Gifford designated the following mem- about half of what their normal wage is whén fuliy employed. bers of his relief organization's Adv! ory Committee to serve on Garfield’s The conditions, so far as surface in- dications go, are probably better than | public works group: normal because there is practically no populaticn. Nini upon I it} ALLEN, tor and Governor | te! Gifford Picks Members. William C. Procter, Cincinnati; Ray- | nesses in England today are tobaceo| and liquor.” fact that the Imperial Tobacco Co. has declared a half-vearly dividend of £6,500,000 (over $30,000,000), thal Iy 3,000,000 idle persons in England have time to smoke and money to buy tobacco has that business just as it has upon the beer business. The British workers’ natural instinct for thrift, which would tighten under a half wage, breaks down under a dole. on the part of the beneficiaries it also careless about the future. The empha- sis on individual responsibility is being transferred to the government both by employed and unemployed.” " as in other parts of the kingdom. to | train men for labor other than that in which they formerly were engaged. After more than a year of delibera- | tion. the Pederal Radio Commission this week plans to dispose of one of its most turbulent issues—high power for broad- casting. The commission will begin considera- tion Thursday of this vexatious ques- tion, presumably to k the matter before it until finally decided.' It is considered likely the case will be de- cided within a few hours, and it seems evident the commission, by a record vote, will turn thumbs down on pro- posals that all of the stations—some 55 —operating on the 40 cleared channels be allowed the maximum power of 50,- 000 watts. Competitive applications of 24 sta- tions are involved, all admittedly of first rank, for the right to use the maxi- mum power, which, they contend, will permit vastly improved service, not only to their regular listeners, but to the re- mote areas where service is really needed. ‘This educator called attention to tb; “The unemployed haven't smoked all " He sald, “but the fact that near- uced ‘an_emphasis on “In addition to discouraging thrift nds to make the regular employed An honest effort is being made here, P SE | that 1t would be wastetu to permit sta- luam to spend about $250,000 each for 50,000-watt transmitters only to have | their whole positions changed by ad- vances in technique. The commission has before it & volu- minous record overwhelmingly favoring lifting the restriction. Hardly a mur- | mur of opposition has been heard to 1 this plea, except from the commission’s own witnesses. Before the commission also is the report of its chief examiner, Ellis A. Yost, who first recommended the com- mission amend its regulations and per- mit all cleared channel stations to use the maximum power. The commission tossed this report back to Mr. Yost and instructed him to select the eight sta- tions to fill the existing vacancies from among 28 applicants. Mr, Yost recommended stations WJZ, New York; WCAU, Philadelphia; WSM, Nashville; WSB, Atlanta; WGN, Chi- | cago; WCCO, Minneapolis: KOA, Den- | ver, and KPO, San Francisco. Whether | the commission will follow Mr. Yost's second recommendation is problemat- ical. It is likely votes will be cast on the applications by zones and the sta- tions obmnln’[s.the majority votes of the five commissioners will be accorded the grants. Notice has been served that there will be litigation if the com- mission does not amend its present reg- ulation and permit all of the applicant stations the maximum power. (Copyright, 1031.) q Licensed to Wed. | LEONARDTOWN, Md., September 29 | (Special).—Two marriage licenses have | just been issued at the Leonardtown | Court House over the week end to the following: TUESDAY. -— | mond Robins, Brooksville, Fla. Vincent, Greenwich, Conn.; Rufus Ab- bott, Chicago; Homer Ferguson, New- | {one in the district now who has not George | g steady income, while in normal times there was always an appreciable per | without work. | cent of casual labo: Varous schemes for relieving unem- ployment are put forward, the greatest being the building of a $15,000,000 road Only Eight Vacancies. But there are of eight vacancles for ort News, Va.; Matthew WoM, Wash- | Thus while they lessened the re from Manchester to Liverpool. assignments of this power under com- Luke Philman Slye, 42, of Washing- ton, and Mary Pearl Malty, 27, of Blue- mont, Va. John Quincy Carter, 21, of Avenue, L PICKED BY GRIDDERS AT LOUISIANA STATE. WILLIE FAYE HOPE of McComb, Miss, Who Was chosen sponsor for this year's foot ball team at SOVIET GASOLINE GARGO NEARS U.S. 400,000 Gallons Is First of 2,700,000-Gailon Consign- ment to Detroit. | By the Associated Press. | | DETROIT, September 29.—A 400,000- | |gallon cargo of gasoline, part of a| | 2,700,000-gallon consignment from So- viet Russia to Detroit, was reported | nearing port today to compete with do- | mestic fuel on a market which, dealers assert, already is glutted. | Col. Walter C. Cole, executive vice| president of the Union League Club of | ]Mlthl‘ln, gave information concerning | the shipment last night in a statement ! based on researches begun in June of | reports that Detroft was to be made | the dumping grounds of the Russian! gasoline output. First on St. Lawrence. | The initial shipment is due today, he | said, and will become the first ever re- | ceived in the Detroit area by way of the St. Lawrence waterway. ‘ The remainder of the consignment, | he said, has reached Montreal from | Constanza, Rumania, and is in storage ' * A ned to the Sunny Bervice of Detroit. | Perre o Charles E. Austin, g&mc of that company, declined either to affirm or deny Col. Coie’s statemenit. com- pany recently establ! marine stor- age facilities with 1,00p,000-gallon ea- pacity here. * Normal monthly consumption of - oline in the Detroit area at this l-nw,h is estimated at 30.000,000 gallons. was no information a ble here at to the base cost of the Russian fuel. — Stock Brokers Given Dole. BERLIN, September 29 (#).—Even a stock broker has to eat. A number of | members of the Berlin Exchange, em- barrassed by indefinite suspension of the Bourse, have been placed on the dole by the federal and Prussian gov- ernments. ‘They have appropriated $25,000 for temporary relief, and it is hoj time this fund is exhaus changes will be ope: a\IERFRESH CITRATE or MAGNESIA BETTER e JASTE e LFFECT IN CLEAN EW BOTTLES 25 Md., and Emily Maddox, 19, of Oakley, Md. there. Col. Cole said he was informed mission regulations, with a dozen such P. Photo.|from Montreal that the shipment i . ont at e shipment is One of the difficulties attendant upon ! Louisiana State Unlversl_t_)", ington; Col. Leonard P. A , Cleve- o) r Y ark Gity: | Sults of unemployment upen the in- |, B0 % Yaimonlty of breaking down | Positions aiready occupied. land; John D: Ryan, New York City: e Milton Esberg, San Francisco; Jacob H. :;:f;flgp;ffi:fif and kept UD PUbLe |the fixed habits of the English worker. | The commission must decide whether Hollander, Baltimore, and John F. Tins- % u Tf he has been a coal miner all his life it will stick to its present regulations, ley, Worcester, Mass, they have increased the number of |, U S M O i his mining district, | which specity that only 30 of the 40 Unemployment relief also brought | PO" idlers. | where oftentimes he owns a home and |cleared channels may be occupied George Akerson, former secretary to An Editor's Observations. { where his ancesters mined coal. If he |50.000-watt stations, or whether it wil President Hoover, back to the White| one of the editors of the district, a | comes away for a casual job he hurries | 1ift the restriction and allow il «0 House yesterday. He called at the EX- | close observer, whose study of the prob- | back to the home town as soon as the | channels to accommodate such power ecutive offices to discuss activities be- |jor has had the sympathetic attitude |job runs out. The effort to bulld up |on equal basis. A majority of the com- ing organized by the motion picture | of an editor in @ labor community, said: | 8n_elastic crowd of road bulilders for |mission already has indicated opposi- industry, Akerson resigned as an aide |1y the first place, I do not know what WOrk in various parts of England has tion to the blanket increase on the to dent Hoover several months 8go | would have happened to us at the | not been too successful, because the or- |ground engineering experiments are in to accept a position with one of the | ritical time in 1920 if we had not | dinary man would rather live at home | progress which might change the whole major moving picture corporations, taken the leap that landed us in the |oOn & smaller benefit allowance than go |complexion of the allocations. As & Akerson Offers Ald. It isn't quite fair to hw consequence the argument is advanced Al he did not see President Hoover, the former secretary said he ‘would later and offer the co- operation of the organization set up by the motion picture industry. He said it was the plan of the mo- tion picture executives to “mesh in and co-ordinate” their efforts toward help- ing the jobless with those of the Presi- dent’s organization. SUSPECT ESC.APES DRY CHARGE AND PAYS FINE $25 Assessed Against Man for Breaking Glass in Street When Stopped by U. 8. Agent. Frank P. O'Brien's quick thinking may have saved him from conviction on a liquor possession charge in Police Court yesterday, but he had to pay a $25 fine for breaking glass on the street. Free Auto Parking—E Street, Between 6th and 7th THE HECHT CO. F Street at Seventh NAtional 5100 that has broken down the origin: rds and multiplied the beneficiaries. | ‘A‘fl‘mm unemployed men and women | have votes. ‘l%e candidates of every party are conscious of this. “What do you think would occur in a New York district if 700,000 unem- | ployed, unconsciously drawn together | by a common cause, such as Govern- | ment insurance for idleness, should be daily maniest to your candidates for | Congress in that district? Would not | these politicians go even farther than | the more reasonable of the unemployed | expected them to go? ‘The faults of | the system are of natural political con- sequence, and, being political, they are | the more difficult to cure. As the list | of beneficiaries grows their power in- | creases, even though I do not think the | unemployed are as conscious of this as | are the politicians.” | The last line of this statement was carried out by several interviews with upper-class working people who are on the dole. They were distinctly against OIL BURNER Combines Quality with Low Cost SOLD—INSTALLED—SERVICED Two half-gallon jars of liquor were | the shirkers and resentful of the abuses | 2 found in O 's ‘automobile when it | Which have crept in. By Direct Factory Branch was_sf on the street September | In one group there were five men, . two of whom were regularly employed. Said one of these: ‘““Why should this | man, with exactly the same family as my , receive for complete idleness was 15 Years’ Successful Performance 14, Prohibition Agent G. C. Deyoe tes- ified. t R “I told him,” said h R t 7ou this timey and n?‘g&m thl?:v e jars on ughed In, [ ana against than half as much as I get for 44 hours a week?” His remark not resented by the dole recipient to whom it referred. A Complete System of Automatic Oil Heating and Sid, “You've ot Do Lifetime Free Service with Fuel Oil Delivery. ¥ ¥ Pay for Diversion. 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