Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1931, Page 3

| e —— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1931. INSURANCE OF JOBS BYU. 5. DEMANDED Unemployment Session Ends With Protection Asked for Marchers. Unemployment insurance for Ameri- can workers was demanded by Harry W. Laidler, director of the League for Industrial Democracy, last night at the closing meeting of the Joint Committee | on Unemployment, in the Hamilton | Hotel Laidler contended the American workers year to 3 He said s { nsecurity of | is continuing from increasing all the time ch conditions exist regardless of the fact that this country has the greatest natural resources under de- velopment of any nation in the world increased the productivity of » worker beyond that found Protection for Marchers Asked. “Ten countries of the world,” Laidler said, “have compulsory systems of un- employment insurance covering about | 45,000,000 workers, while eight other countries have systems of voluntary in- surance “Despite the criticism of unemploy- ment insurance systems in detail” he added, “th Belfour Commission in 1929 declared that ‘in Great Britain the establishment of a practically uni- versal system of unemployment insur- @nce is one of the greatest advances in mocial amelioration made during the past century,” and in no country is there | any thought of returning to the old haphazard method of relieving desti- tution due to unemploymeng. Yet in the United States no State has as yet passed any legislation looking toward unemployment insurance, while the va- rlous company schemes cover only about 1 per cent of the workers in the coun- oy ‘The organization adopted resolutions demanding protection for the unem- loyed marchers expected to arrive in Vashington for the opening of Con- gress. Delegation Calls on Senators. A delegation from the joint commit- tee called on a group of eight or nine Senators, headed by Senator Frazier Republican, of North Dakota yesterday in the Senate Office Building. The committee members urged the law- makers to provide Federal aid for the jobless. Conditions in widely scattered sections of the country were cited. An appeal was made for & $5,000,000,000 Federal loan fund to ald those in dis tress. The commitfee members advo- cated creation of jobs through a huge public works program. Speakers representing the committee included Mayor William A. Anderson of Minneapolis, Darwin J. Meserole, SERGEANT AT ARMS OF HOUSE ANTICIPATES Joseph G. Rodgers Ready to| Meet Reds Expected to Come to Capitol. Congressional Banker Checks‘ List of Members Drawing Their Final Pay. By the Associated Press. Policeman and banker of the House for many years, Sergeant at Arms | Joseph G. Rodgers has a glint in his | eye these days at the chance of one last busy week before he retires with the rest of the Republican officials. If the congregaticn in Washington next week of demonstrators from all sections of the country brings outbreaks at the Capitol, it will be Rodgers’ job to handle them. He knows, demonstrators personally— particularlySCommunists. He served summcnses on them all over the United States when he went traveling with the Hamilton Fish com- mittee. Knows Them by Hundreds. In New York, Detroit, Chicago, Seat- tle, San Francisco, Los Angeles he vis- ited their headquarters, called upon their leaders. And he has arrested them in the House gallery for attempting demonstrations “I know them by hundreds, their habits and their leaders,” said Rodgers With a bright red rose in his button- hole, Rodgers walked jauntily about the corridors today, one of the most cheer- ful figures in the regime which must end if the Democrats organize the House. He did not even grieve when he went down the alphabetical list of members signing their pay checks for the last time As the House banker Rodgers has been running an institution in which deposits Tun around $250,000 and LAST BUSY WEEK [ JOSEPH G. RODGERS. | monthly requisitions require $367,083.33. | His duty it has been to summons all witnesses and handle all cash for com- mittees. Twice this task has taken him to Europe. | Also Served Conventions. | When prominent men die, it has been his job to organize funeral arrange ments. President Wilson, President | Herding and Speaker Longworth have | been among the 150 persons for whom | he has performed_this offie. | Liberalization Plan Fails to| | fore, |this Congress a WETS GAIN LITTLE IN HOUSE RULES Remove Control by Dry Majority. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The action of Republican Candidate for Speaker Snell and the Republican caucus committing the party to “liberal- zation” of the rules of the House makes | it certain liberalization will take place, because the Democrats as a whole are fully as sure to favor the innovation as the Republicans. Indeed, the Demo- crats may be said to have favored it first. The change in the rules, there- can be taken completely for granted. From this the deduction is almost niversally made that there will be in vote on prohibition. Liberalization of the House rules and liberalization of the Volstead law, or of prohibition generally, are commonly mentioned together, as if the two were coupled. A frequent assumption is that after liberalization of the rules the wets in Congress will be able to force a vote on prohibitio: ‘This is by no means correct. Liberalization of the House rules is certain to come. Action by the House on some phase of prohibition may come in this session or it may not. Probably the better guess is it will not. Clarification Necessary. | As a side line Rodgers has enjoyed | | serving as sergeant at arms at many a Republican con | In that capacity he was in Penrose's rcoms in the Congress Hotel in Chicago when Harding was picked as a presi- dential candidate Rodgers came to Capitol Hill 40 years ago as a doorkeeper and worked his way up through clerkships to his pres- ent position. POLICE MAP PLANS ON RADICAL MARCH Glassford Tells Captains All Agencies Will Be Mobilized Monday. Plans for the mobilization of all available police, secret service and other WILLIAM 1. COLLINS SENKTE PRESS HEAD Succeeds James D. Preston as Upper House Gallery | Superintendent. | | William J. Collins is in charge today ntion | d |it is less than a majority of the House, | Quite | move to bring a wet bill to a vote. | can only move to bring it to a vote. The confusion on this point is so nearly universal as to make clarification desirable. The clarification can be best achieved by starting with the wet group in the House. The wets say they num- ber 170. This, if correct, is large, but which is 218. The wets can, and will, introduce a wet bill. The bill will be referred to committee. Under the old rules, in the past, the bill remained in committee and never came on the floor for a vote, because the committee and the Republican party leaders took the safe ground that there was no majority favoring the holding of a vote on pro- hibition. It is this power of the com- mittee to hold the bill off the fioor that the change in rules is meant to reduce. Under the proposed new rule, 100 members or 125 or 150, depending on which figure is finally chosen, can by petition move to bring a wet measure or any other measure out of committee, certainly 100 wet members, if that is the number chosen, will thus It s right here that the universal mistake is made. The wet members cannot bring their wet bill to a vote. They Dry Majority to Rule. hat the wets can accomplish under liberalization of the rules is to make the House vote on whether the bill should Will Rogers ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.—This ocean is just, as in- nocent looking today, yu‘;?” e it hadn't done a thing. We have fol- lowed the great circle route and swung away up north. If we had gone ashore T would have been tell- ing my Repub- lican “jokes to an Eskimo and I expect the Republicans wish they was with the Eskimos about now. This morning’s wireless reports Mix better, which is good news he has given many a grown up and all kids a thrill In 1905 at Madison Square Gar- den Tom and I made our New York horseback debut with Zack Mul- hall's wild west. Sure glad Charley Dawes has stopped this war and I can change it into a kimono shopping tour of Japan and China. COXEY DOUBTS REDS BACK HUNGER MARCH “General” Jacob Sechler Coxey, who led his famous “army” on the Capital in 1894, does not believe that the so-called “hunger march” to Washington next Tuesday is a Communistic move. He said this much in his Willard Hotel quarters, where he is staying while in Washington as mayor-elect of Massillon, Ohio, in the interest of monetary legis- lation. Sympathetic, but not connected with the new march, he asserted that the demonstrators should be treated prop- erly. 'We wouldn’t have had any trouble in '94,” he said, “if it hadn't been for the police here in Washington. Of course, the Communist agitators are bound to get into a thing like this. That is their means of working. But I don’t think this is a Communistic move.” Asked if he believed “demonstrations” do any good, Coxey replied he did, re- calling that he “won out.” He also recalled that he served 20 days in jail as a result of his own march on the Capital, this sentence being meted out following his arrest on the Capitol steps on a charge of “treading upon the turf and grass and injuring property.” the rules will read cannot be known un- | tii after the thing is done early next week. | Affects Other Issues. | One typical proposal put forward by | an important Democrat, Crisp, Georgia, liberalizes the rules, but re- frains from opening the door to chaos. | Under Mr. Crisp's bill, a bill must have of [ CHEST COLLECTION UNDER 1350 MARK Prompt Payment of Pledges Necessary to Avoid Deficit, Street Declares. Community Chest collections in the first 11 months this year fell off in Ppercentage, as compared with those last year, officials disclosed today. Collections totaled $1,660,833.54 for | the first 11 months this year, or 84! per cent of the total amount pledged, $1,955,171.95. Recelpts up to Decem- ber 1, 1930, amounted to $1,418,119.21, or 83 per cent of the net sum pledged, $1,604,199.87. Elwood Street, Chest director. today stressed the necessity of prompt col- lections if the organization is to start the new year without a deficit. He explained a deficlt already exists due to extra allocations to family welfare organizations necessitated by unem- ployment rellef needs. “We promised that no one need go hungry in Washington,” Street said. | “We_ have lived up to that promise. | We have met every demand for relief so far, but it has been necessary in order to do this to allocate additional funds to the welfare organizations. Our budgets were based upon the pledges made by the people of Washington and unless we collect these pledges we are going to face a much more gerious deficit than is now in prospect and even now it promises to be large. I hope everybody will regard his pledge as just that—a pledge, and will help us to meet the present emergency by paying it promptly. —_— Sentenced by Irish Court. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, December 2 ().—A sentence of three months’ im- prisonment for contempt of court was imposed today on Richard Stephens by the military tribunal established under the new public safety act. Stephens had declined to plead in an- swer to a charge of membership in a Republican organization, illegal under the new act. FIRST RELIEF EXPENSE MOUNTS DURING PAST TWO YEARS 88 Citles Spend $41,779,000 for Family Aid First Half of 1931. Emergency relief expenditures in American cities have more than quad- rupled within the past two years, it was indicated in @ report made by the Chil- dren’s Bureau today. Eighty-eight cities in' the United States spent $41,779,000 for family aid during the first six exsomhs of this year, the bureau estimated, while in the en- tire year 1829, 100 cities had a relief bill of only $20,891,000. During 1930 the same 100 expended $39,000,000. Statistics issued from 66 cities this year show that 70 per cent of the re- lief funds are drawn from the public treasury. Last vear 75 citles reported | an average of 72 per cent of charity burdens borne by the municipal treas- uries. The figures for the first half of 1931 are based on a period including slightly more than half of the cold weather months, when family aid costs are ‘highest. Maybe it comes from eye strain. Are you nervous? You'd better come in and let us examine your eyes and be on the safe side. ETZ Optometrist 1217 G S8t. N.W. 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He was selected | come to the Capital for the opening of | vesterday afternoon by the Standing Congress on Monday, were outlined to- | committee of Correspondents to suc- day to all police captains by Gen. Pel- | oo™y 100 O, COTEROnCEnS 0 e ham D. Glassford, chief of police, recently as superintendent of the gal- Gen. Glassford told the captains po- | jery to become Senate librarian. lice detalls would be distributed at varl- | “preston, who won the esteem and | make a certain amount of progress. To ous strateglc points, alded by the Fed- | friendship of hundreds of nEWsDADeT |express It accurately, the wets can eral officers. men and members of the Senate during | make the drys go on record s to | Meanwhile Herbert Benjamin, local| : g| drys j representative of the marchers, issued | s long service as head of the gal-| yhether they are willing to vote on § lery, entered yesterday upon his new | prohibition. The wets cannot make the L acmng el ‘;::,‘;‘;:fl position as librarian, where he Will | drys actually vote on prohibition itself. by Judge Isaac R. Hitt of Police Court. | Still be in close touch with the prog-| The wets will be able to make the Each of the defendants drew sentences | 755 Of legislation. drys and others go on record in a roll of $100 fine or six months mprison- | COllnS began &s a newspaper mes- | call with their refusal to vote on & pro- president of the National Unemploy- ment League; J. B. Matthews, repre- senting the Fellowship of Reconcilia- tion' Howard Y. Williams, secretar~ | the League for Independent Politica: Action, and I. M. Rubinow, represent- ing a fraternal organization. be brought out of committee. They cannot make the House vote on the bill itself., Since & majority of the House is dry, presumably a majority would vote to leave the wet measure in the committee. It is true the wets will be able to been in committee 30 days before an attempt can be made to get it out. Mr. Crisp’s bill proposes 100 as the number of members necessary to sign the petition. Other proposals suggest 125 or 150. Under Mr. Crisp’s proposal, the new rule can only be invoked as to | any measure once in a session. Liber- | alization of the rules applies, of course, | to every kind of legislation and it will | have much real importance in many | fields of legislation beside prohihition. | Marlow Coal Co. 811 E St. N.W. NAtional 0311 Dependable Coal Service Since 1858 FAMOUS PAINTER HERE T0 PORTRAY PRESIDENT Philip A. De Laszlo Calls on Hoo- ver With Ex-Secretary Kellogg, 4y but Fails to See Him. Philip A. de Laszlo, famous. British painter, who is to do a portrait of Presi- dent Hoover for the engineer socleties of the United States, called at the ‘White House yesterday with former Becretary of State Prank B. Kellogg. The President was in session with his cabinet, however, so they did not see On leaving the White House, Mr. de Laszlo said the President probably would sit for his portrait early in Janu- ery, after the first rush of official busi- ness connected with the opening of Congress is over. The portrait painter, whose home is in London, painted portraits of Presi- dent Coolidge and Mrs. Harding, wife of the late President Harding. He also has painted two portraits of Mr. Kellogg. ment. The 14, charged with unlawful parading in front of the White House, were released today on $500 bond pend- ing appeal of their cases. Judge Hitt refused to lower the bail. The 13 men and one woman were re- leased in the custody of Milton Kron- heim, professional bondsman. Assist- ant U. 8. Attorney Milford F. Schwartz represented ihe Government. Circulars were being issued today about the Capital, purporting to come from “the Communist Party of Amer- ica,” calling upon “fellow workers, black and white, to organize your forces and prepare to take by force of arms the mines, mills, factories, farms, railroads, etc, and run all these things in the interests of the workers—under Com- munism.” The poster closes with the cry, “Down with the United States Government and all its racketeers.” Portugal Feels Quake. ALVITO, Portugal, December 2 (#).— A sharp earthquake shock was felt here yesterday, but there were no casualties or material damag SPECIAL NOTICES. ot THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOC holders n ing Assoc “the election of on) 193 of the association. Washington, D. C. FRED A. SMITH. 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