Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1931, Page 6

DR MARTIN PLEADS FOR HEALTH WORK Head of Surgeons Urges Community Chest to Pro- vide Adequate Facilities. Public health should be safeguarded during the depression, Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago, director general of the American Congress of Surgeons, de- clared in a special plea to the Wash- ington Community Chest and similar organizations throughout the country. Dr. Martin sald American surgeons were rteady to contribute the full strength of their influence to the work of the President’s Organization on Un- employment Relief. He said they were particularly in_accord with apolicy enunciated by Walter S. Gifford, chair- man, that while emphasis must of necessity be placed upon direct relief to the unemployed. it is important that careful considc.ation be given to well- rounded community programs, including adequate provision for public health agencies, institutions and facilities. Doctors Aware of Need. “Few people.” Dr. Morgan added eept possibly the social workers, are &s intimately familiar with the needs of the poor and the unemployed as the doctors. They know how necessary it is to provide food. clothing and shelter for the suffering and how urgent it is that communities organize without de- lay and without red tape to provide these essentials. But the doctors also realize how equally necessary it is to safeguard the public health during this critical period. y feel confident that commun- ities, by exercising foresight and social vision and by administering public and private funds with some degree of statesmanship, Wil be able to meet their direct relief needs without jeopar- dizing those preventive and constructive activities which —are contributing - so substantially to maintaining this coun- try's enviable high standards of pub- lic health, Appeals for Hospitals. “Through the Community Chests of the country, therefore, which are co- operating with Mr. Giffard’s organiza- tion and through emergency committees being created in cities which do not have Community Chests, I am making a special appeal at this time in behalf of hospitals and other health services. There is hardly a hospital in the coun- try whose facilities have not been under increased pressure during the cepres- slon. “This Increased demand for service has been evident not only in the num- ber of house patients, but in demands upon clinics and dispensaries. Similar demands for expanded activity are re- ported by nursing services and other organizations performing out-patient work. The hospitals and all these other services must at least be kept up to normal during the depression. I am sure business leaders and public offi- cials responsible for making community budgets and for apportioning funds to be raised in the various communities this Winter will see that it would be bad social economy to do otherwise.” CELEBRATION PLANNED ON PAVING OF STREETS Colmar Manor Improvement As- sociation Arranging Program for Halloween Night. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLMAR MANOR, Md., October 12. —An elaborate: celebration of the pav- ing of the streets in this town will be held Halloween night. Present plans call for several speakers and band music. The event is being arranged by the Colmar Manor Improvement Associa- tion, headed by C. J. Dorr, president. Mrs. G. A. Wood is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. AMONG HOGS TO BE LIFTED Near Martinsburg Re- ported Clearing—Blackleg Case Found in County. Epidemic Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., October 12, ~—With more than 150 hogs victims, a scourge of hog cholera was reported clearing here today by Deputy State Veterinarian A. A. Johnson, and s quarantine, imposed 10 days ago by the State department, will be lifted shortly. Further loss of cases now infected is expected before the scourge has been controlled, however. The quarantine was imposed follow- ing reports of 20 outbreaks in the county. The spread has been arrested, it was stated, Jefferson County, adjoin- ing on the east, has been touched less severely, the report showed. One case of blackleg, a dreaded and contaglous disease among cattle, has been located in Eagle School district. W. 0. W. IN BLADENSBURG Special Dispatch to The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md, October 12— Arrangements for a rally the night of October 22 will be made at a meeting of Colonial Camp, No. 1399, Modern )\:Imdmcn of America, tomorrow night ere. Officials expected to attend the rally include A. D. Clauser of Reading, Pa.; S. W. S. Ruby, deputy for Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia; A. W. Milard of Washington, district deputy, and J. C. Diamond, na- tional lecturer, Edward A. Hayes, prominent Wood- man official, will speak. Woodman drill teams under the direction of Capts. May and Mason will give exhibitions. HORSES EAT THEMSELVES TO DEATH IN WHEAT BARN Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va. October 12, ur valuable horses on Federal Hill farm of George M. Hough fatally gorped themselves on wheat Friday night, and two others are ill from & similar_experience. Two of the dead horses were valued at $500 each by the owners, ‘The horses broke into the barn dur- ing the night and ate themselves to death on the wheat which had been stored there just previousl FAMOUS HOTEL SOLD Grant, Hayes and Cleveland Enter- tained in Deer Park Hostelry. EBpecial Dispatch to The Star. DEER PARK, Md, October 12.—Sale of the famous old Deer Park Hotel, where Grant, Hayes and Cleveland were once entertained, and nine cottages has been consummated by E. R. Jones and Walter W. Dawson, attorneys, who ac- quired the property at a tax sale in October, 1929. Since that time the property has remained vacant. ‘The deed was filed for record today in the name of Crappine Kupritz of Pittsburgh, who it is understood, pur- chased: it for the purpose of op? home@: aged Slovakian people, | | wage levels between the two countries THE EVENING The Dole in Germany Federal Jobless Insurance Would Cost Over $7,000,- 000,000 Yearly With Administration—Only 50 Per Cent Would Reach Needy. BY HENRY J. ALLEN, Former United States Senator and Governor of Kansas (Who, after a comprehensive first- hand survey of the development and present operation of the dole in England, has continued that survey in the Fatherland. Following is the fifth and last of a series of articles giving the results of his study.) One afternoon last July & young woman with a gift for emotional ora- tory addressed a street crowd in New York City. In concluding a vigorous de- liverance upon the subject of the Gov- ernment’s responsibility for the indi- vidual, she said: “It's the duty of the Government of the United States to pay every unem- ployed man and woman $15 per week.” The tabloids called her the “Joan of Arc” of the movement for Government insurance of the unemployed. It was evident that she had at least a superficial knowledge of the system in England. Her definite demand for $15 per week compares well with the sum the English dole-taker has been receiving, when the difference in the is taken into consideration. $105,000,000 a Week. England’s unemployed are drawing a | dole equal on the average to half of | normal wage. England’s wages are | about half those of the United States. | Thus our dole on the English basis of | a halz wage would be twice the English | dole. Fifteen dollars per week, there- | fore, wasn't far out of the way as a lump-sum estimate if we were to follow | England’s plan. For several weeks as I | studied the English situation I found | myself applying these figures to possible | unemployment conditions in the United | States upon the basis of English experi- | ence. If, &s 1s commonly predicted, we | shall have 7,000,000 unemployed this Winter, it would mean, on a basis of $15 per week, an outlay of $105,000,000 each week, or practically $5.500.000.000 per year. I checked this result of multi- | plication with the English cost on the | basis of her actual experience, When England's unemployed reached 2,500,000 | her dole system was costing around a | billion dollars a_year. Germany, with | 5,000,000 unemployed, was paying out about the same amount, and her wage level is substantially half that of Eng- land and her dole will average half the German wage. If England’s 2,500,000 unemploved cost $1,000,000,000 yer vear, the same number would cost us, upon the relative basis, $2,000,000,000, and 7,000,000 un- employed would cost up $8,500,000,000 per year. As & matter of fact, it would cost us much more. What our Joan of Arc did not stop to explain was that in ad- dition to the $15 per week for each unemplcyed we should have to pay for a Federal administration of the system. England used 30,000 employes to take care of the unemployed when she had only 2,500,000 in her ranks. (She now has 3,000,000." Every added 150 unem- ployed calls for one more member of the civil service. On this basis, with 7,000,000 unemployed, we should have | a_ Civil Service machine of 85,000 em- ployes or more, if we did as well as| the English do in keeping down admin- | istrative expenses. It costs England 20 per cent to ad- talk of technique and systems, “double-wing-back” a thrusts.” King Football reigns supreme. ssociated Press minister her dole. We probably could not do it for less. Therefore, we should have to add a billion for administration. It is estimated that the liberal terms of England’s system have added 30 per cent to the sonnel; that is, 30 per cent who could have gotten along with- out the dole, but who took it as a sub- stitute for work. Therefore, if we have 7,000,000 legitimate and worthy unem- ployed and our law worked out as does England’s, we would entice 30 per cent more into the ranks of dole takers. This would be an added million and a )11:1( and would cost another billion dol- TS, Thus, if we adopted the English scheme, with its carefully studied pro- visions, and the American unemployed responded to all their opportunities as did the English, and the American politiclan espousea the enemployed’s cause as did the British politican, then our dole would cost us in the neighbor- hood of $7,000,000,000 per year. The English estimate is that 50 cents out of every dollar does not reach the needy, since 20 per cent goes for ad- ministration and 30 per cent for abuses. | We are a rich Nation, but it's a cogent speculation as to how long we would | keep our credit secure and our gold dol- lar stable if we were spending seven bil- lion dollars a year for payment of un- i employed. ‘This comparison of our possible con- dition, worked out on a basis of Eng- land’s plan, does not mean that we cannot take care of our unemployed. It means simply that we cannot do it upon the basis of England’s experience without eventually coming to the same plight that England is now reaching | and that months ago. It is unthinkable that any unem- ployed person should be permitted to suffer. The emergency of preventing this is already upon us. Doubtless we could not stop now to create a system of unemployment insurance any more than we could insure a house against fire after the blaze had started. We Germany reached some | can only summon the volunteer and at- tack the problem with direct and whole-hearted co-operation. The immediate course left us is to meet the emergency this Winter by local comrhittees thoroughly organized, who will know definitely the problems as they exist in each community. The simplification of having the work ad- ministered in each community by each community will save both time and money. It provides the best guarantee that every worthy case will be looked | after under a sympathetic application of the test of need. In England this | test today would reduce her unemploy- ment problem by 30 per cent. U. S. Can Escape Dangers. Under this system, we will save up- ward of a billion dollars on adminis- tration, because under proper organi- zation the local committees will be impressed with the necessity of get- ting both capable and honest results. We shall escape also the introduction | of the devastating influence of politics which has driven on the rocks the sys- tem of aid in England and Germany. Moreover, we shall secure that saving strength which comes to help us in emergencies, when the whole public is mobilized to co-operate in a humane | cause. If the United States lives up to her traditions this Winter there should be no actual suffering in any community. Meanwhile, when normal have returned we shall have passed through an experience to give us wisdom and determination to considex ,!mlrd- for the future. course, §f the well- to-do people of the United States who are responsible for this task shirk ft, then the problem will become one for government. In any event, after the emergencies of the Winter are over the problem is n!%tulglved; the subject will not thus be ¢l : ‘The present situation has brought to us all a profound query as to whether the brains that built the great indus- trial system of America will be ade- quate to meet the emergency tests that challenge 1it. It will remain a matter of deep re- flection upon the system that, during the past dozen years of prosperous ac- tivity, the industrial captains as a class have not given heed to the subject of unemployment. Outside of a dozen outstanding industries, which have worked out unemployment insurance | schemes of their own and which have proven the ease with which this can | be done when taken in normal times, the situation has been allowed to dril | Even the subject of technological ui | employment has received nothing more |than academic _attention. Industries | without number have replaced men by | machinery, taking the full profit of | labor-saving devices and giving little | thought to the question as to whether ‘the displaced workers could be ab- ‘sorhcd in other employments. | That such amazing lack of humiew | foresight should characterize a system | butlded by men peculiarly gifted with | leadership is proof of the complete ab- | sorption of industrial leaders in ma terfal benefits. It will be tragically un- fortunate if the emergency of this hour fails to inculcate a lesson that will not | be_forgotten. |1t is gratifying to note that all lead- ers are in accord upon the conviction | that no man, woman or child shall be permitted to suffer from hunger, cold | or preventable sickness this Winter. Industries Insure Selves. ‘Meanwhile great industrial leaders will be called upon not only to protect this situation, but to give thought to plans for taking care of unemployment as a duty of industry when something like normal times have returned. It is fortunate that a sufficlent number of successful self-insuring schemes are al- ready existent to point the way. Even in England and Germany, in spite of industrial and economic chaos, there are a few successful examples of self- insurance by industries and their bene- ficiaries. Most certainly this subject will not die with the passing of this Winter's emergency. Either industries must do this for themselves and their employes in the future or suffer it to be done more wastefully under the com- pulsion of government. While it is not true, as our New York Joan of Arc said, that the Government owes every unemployed person $15 per that the obligation rests upon organized soclety to see to it that no one suffers | in a land of plenty for the necessities of life and health. | Nothing, therefore, is so certain in | this hour as this that no responsible, | well-to-do citizen in America can shirk his personal obligation without endan- { gering peace and order. The United | States is the only nation left in which this obligation is squarely up to indi- | vidual responsibility. In England today the mobs of unem- ployed are led by radical Socialists and | Communists who hope to upset the gov- | ernment and earry cn in England until they have fulfilled their dream of trans- ferring private property to a Soctalistic | state. In Germany the hope of salvation | trom Communist uprising is in the dic- tatorship of & centralized government cteals the SHOW ! THE curtain is up for another season. New players, coaches and theories are striving for supremacy. Millions of fans fill the ait with STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, week, in the highest sense it is true; In the United States the only specu- | nd “weak-side- GREEN FINDS AIMS OF LABOR BACKED Industries Adopt - Five-Day Week and Assure Jobs, Leader Reports. By the Associated Press. VANCOUVER, B. C., Uctober 12.— Although the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor is only half over and important pronounce- ments are still in the formative stage, Willlam Green, the greuldenc, said to- day many sources had indicated ap- proval of its program to aid the worker. An unusual amount of correspond- ence has been recelved from all over the United States and Canada, Green said, and concrete application of labor's Dl?.n.! alread$ is in evidence. ‘Several large industries have placed the five-day week in operation and have promised their employes that they are assured of their jobs during the com- ing Winter,” Green said. Expect Developments. “We expect other developments soon after our return to Washington from ihe convention.” He stated the report of the federa- tion’s executive council, advocating le- | galization of 275 per cent beer and setting forth labor's ?oliuon in regard to unemployment relief, seemed to be metting with the overwhelming sup- port of the delegates. | Committees labored to have their re- delegates here tomorrow after a week | end recess. | Chest Campaigns Succeed. Green sald reports received from sev- eral large citles in the United States indicated Community Chest campaigns were more successful than in other years. “The Community Chest and other similar agencies must take care of im- mediate or emergency rellef,” Green said. “Labor’s plan for a shorter week ' and a shorter work day will have to| be applied gradually to balance the | | number of workers with the amount | of work available.” | | HEART ATTACK FATAL | | Harpers Ferry Woman Dies Whilel | | Visiting in Winchester. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | WINCHESTER, Va. October 12— Miss Mary McFaden, 76, died here yes- | terday of a heart attack at the home of her brother. Rev. Dr. Frank T. Mc- | | Faden, Presbyterian clei an, whom | | she was visiting. She was a daughter |of the late Rev. Joseph A. McFaden | | and born near Baltimore, but had lived | | at Harpers Ferry more than 50 years. | | Her brother and one sister, Mrs. J. W. | | Benjamin, Harpers Ferry, survive. | Funeral services will be held at 3:30 | tomorrow afternoon in the Methodist | lation is as to whether we are to be | | worthy of those traditions of humane | co-operation which have grown up in a | country still dependent upon the free will of the individual citizen. (Covyrieht, 1931 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS nation-wide staff brings you all the news of the sport. Because they Anow the game, these reporters write vividly and clearly of games, stars and campaigns. Their dispatches are interesting to the casual fan and the rabid follower alike. “AP” News, Feature and Pictures Daily he St A Member, Newspaper. of the Associated Press MONDAY, OCTOBER ports ready for the reconvening of the | id 12, 1931. WEST VIRGINIA MASONS SELECT STATE OFFICIALS Sessions Held in Fairmount—Blue- field Will Be Host at 1932 Lodge Convention. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., October 12.—John W. De Vebre of Ronceverte was elected grand master of the Grand of West Virginia Masons at the concluding session in Fairmont. Frank F. Flagg of Parkersburg was named deputy grand master, Lawson D. Willis, Kenova, senior grand warden; I. Wade Coffman, Charleston, junior grand warden; F. C. Steinbrecker, Wheeling, grand treasurer; George Laidley, Charleston, grand secretary; W. H. 8. White, Shepherdstown, grand lecturer; Willi L. Gravatt, Charles- ton, grand chaplain; John W. Ashley, Charleston, senior grand deacon; H. H. Rose, Fairmont, junior grand deacon: ‘W. Henry Ahrens, Wheeling, grand marshal; Walter 8. Sugden, Sisters- ville, grand pursuivant; T. Willlam Stobbs, Wheeling, grand tiler. The 1932 meeting will be held in Bluefield. BARN AND SHED BURN Hay, Tobacco and Apples Are De- stroyed at Woodbine. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT AIRY, Md., October 12.— Fire of undetermined origin_destroyed 8 barn owned by E. W. Pickett of Woocbine and an adjacent storage shed | belonging to his father, Willard Pick- | ett. The barn contalned a quantity of bay and tobacco, while a large amount of ‘apples had just been placed in the storage shed yesterday. Although the ' local volunteer fire company responded, the bulldings were too far gone when they arrived on the scene for them to render any assistance. Loss was placed at $1,000, partly covered by insurance. Another fire, which broke out yester- cay at noon in the home of Frank Esworthy, near Plane No. 4, was quick- ly brought under control by the Mount Airy Fire Department before any serious damage resulted. Licensed to Wed. LEONARDTOWN, Md., October 12 (Special).—Two marriage licenses have been issued at the Leonardtown court house to the following: John Bertram Louden, 27, and Barbara Catherine Dean, 18, both of Great Mills, Md.; Charles E. Tucker, 20, of Hollywood, Md., and Margaret R. Wallace, 18, of Baltimore, Md. 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