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= (Continued From Pirst Page.) fcal of the new spirit among industrial leaders. He called his staff together and addressed them somewhat as follows “You have heard a great deal about depression and unemployment. You have heard of business and bank fall- ures and of mergers particularly in the Publishing field. You know plenty of people who are out of work and perhaps have some friend or relative in this un- | fortunate position. Naturally this has | worried you. You are wondering whether you will be discharged and | foreed to look for another job just when | Jobs are so difficult to find. Pledges Against Cuts. “It 1s easy enough for me to tell you not to worry, It is easy for me to say that prosperity is just around the cor- ner. But that doesn’t reassure you as to your particular status with this organi- zation, although that what most deeply concerns you and your families So, instead of promises I'm going to give my personal pledge. I want you to w that no man will be dropped from the pay roll. No one will have his or her sala: cut, No one will be released from this organization because other | companies are cutting down, or because business isn't what it was two {un‘ ago. There's just one thing that will get | you fired from here—it's the same thing | that would have brought about your dis- | missal in the boom days of 1928. And that is plain inefficiency | ‘8o don't worry about your jobs—any They are safe so long as you work. And because you can't your pest work when you are afraid let out, or are worried about check, I want you to know bs are secure. Now, let's all ¥ dc of being ployer was even better than Not only have there been no dismissals”; there have ac- tually by some salary increases. His business going steadily ahead, and| his employes, instead of hoarding all| they can scrape together, are living u\d\ spending very much as usual, putting money into eirculetion, buying things they otherwise would have denied them, selves; making, in the last analysis, more jobs for others. They have been relieved of fear for their jobs. Directors Had Courage. And here is a concern in the Middle | ¢ which manufactures domestic ofl | burners. The matter of retrenchment | e up for discussion—not because | the company was losing money—in fact, the sales were showing a generous in- crease. But other companies were cut- | nd & pare-to-the-bone | my the watchword of the | Why shouldn't they do the Perhaps they could trim the pay roll or eliminate some of in the advertising and other | ‘They would be justified | by similar actions in many other or- | ganizations. | But the Board of Directors had other | deas, plus the courage to carry them | out. The was no retrenchment: ex- | W Lctory e peor was conducte: specter of dismissal did not threaten the cmployes of this firm. When this | declsion was made known to the work- | ers confidence gpread through all the ranks, from executives to factory | hands—a confidence no money could buy. Their money went into eircula- tion in their local communities, thus | creating a widening circle of pros- | perity. There is a sequel: The com- pany's sales so far this year are some 40 per cent ahead of 1930. Not all companies, however, are 50 fortunate as to be making a profit. Certainly they will not continue to nrwml;l very long if, when sales shrink, they still maintain a prosperity pro- | duetion schedule. The executives have one of two choices—elther reduce the number of Workers on the pay roll or cut down the working hours of em- ployes. The General Electric Co. has found a solution in a plan which as- sures the jobs of some 39,000 workers. Plan to Divide Work. President Gerard Swope describes it as a plan “to divide the work so that there will be no further layoffs for lack of work between November 1, 1931, and April 30, 1932, without compensation; and so that all those on the pay roll November 1 will receive during this period not less than the equivalent of | one-half their weekly earnings for full | time, but In no case more than the | average of $15 a week.” Where the actual earnings exceed that average > employe. what he.gamns. Should it prove necessary to do so the employes will be assigned to work outside ¢f their usual duties and paid at the fates prevalling for this type | of labok” To assure the success of this plag.the company’s unemployment fund is Bing added to by contributions from thege who are now working more than hgif time. The company matches this sum with a similar one, thus dou- of course, is to receive | was | some trimming would hav | another item to add to his |and put it.on the market. bling the amount which goes into the runZ, In the ‘event that these re- sources are found inadequate the Board of Directors will be asked to authoriz: further payments by the company, with no increase in contributions by | the employes. It is interesting to know that this program was submitted to the workers | themselves before adoption. Of those | eligible to vote 89.5 per cent cast their ballots and 97 per cent of these were in favor of the plan Beyond question one result of the depression will be the more general use of stabilization programs, the best preventives of unemployment the Na- tion has vet seen. A notable expo- nent of this method is an Eastern con- cern, Ten years ago lay-offs ran as high as 14 per cent. During 1930 they were 2.5 per cent, only slightly more than in a normal year, which averages 2 per cent. Sales forecasts, careful planning, scheduling of production, building up inventories in slack sea- sons, educating the public againct sea- sonal buying. diversification of prod- ucts, price concessions in off seasons— these are the ingredients of which this company's plan is made. And this plan enables the firm to protect the Jobs of some 13,000 workers Guaranteed 48 Weeks of Work, A similar system is functioning hap- pily for the 10,000 employes of a Cin- cinnati concern, who are guaranteed 48 weeks of work every year, and have been for the last seven years. In pre- vious slump years, before this plan in effect, it was necessary to close sgme of the factories. But in 1920-30 not one hour's time was lost During this period the company ex- pended $260.000 to keep the 48 weeks' work schedule in effect—yet this was | a saving, compared to the loss from stoppages and replacements which @ shutdown would have made necessary Stabilization not only guaranteed these thousands of jobs; in this case it ac- tually saved money for the company. Because of this assured security. at & time when others are worried, these Hnldployll can continue to buy houses and automobiles, groceries and furni- ture and normally about the busi- ness of living and lfichd"ll In Michigan another system is busily at work protecting the pay envelopes of thousands of workers. “Load u the plant, Full speed on production’’— that was the order which put the fac- torles on a 24-hour-a-day operating schedule, with four shifts of 6 hours There are no stops for lunch, and the cafeteria, which had operated 8t a loss, is closed, thus saving a con- siderable sum No cuts have besn made in hourly wages and in some in- stances the rate of pay has been in- creased. Of all the many yarious forces which are helping to stabilize employment, ideas, perhaps, are the most important. Never before has there been & greater need for constructive thinking and productive ideas, Such an idea was recently put into splendid effect by the president of a food products company, and it came at ® time when it was most needed. De- spite all efforts, sales and profits had llen off in 1930. It looked as though e to be done ~the pay roll cut, workers thrown out of jobs, others put on short shifts and reduced wages. It was a gloomy out- look. Something must be done, The president studied his products &5 he had never studied them before. He surveyed the market, his competi- tors’ wares, the changing buying mood of the public. And at last he concluded that the one thing that would meet the need was & new product. Not fust line, but an entirely different kind of food that ‘l'ould create its own market. Has Increased Force. Eventually he created such a product No need to quote sales figures, ealthough they soared; measured by the yardstick of suuumged employment and job confi- lence, it was a striking success. Since January he has increased the number of his employes by 33 per cent. Here, also, is demonstrated the wid- ening influence of a really productive idea. For this new product required & new type of machine, and machin- ery manufacturers have been working day and night to keep up with their orders. Makers of cartons for the new product, lithographers, printers and othess have been able to safeguard the jobs of their workers. Like murder or scandal, depression and unemlployment have in them the sensational elements which make them news. We hear about them constantly and have lived with them more than two years now No one would wish to minimize their importance; no one would wish to avoid doing his share toward rehabilitatin; the unemployed. Still, it is a grateful thing to know that business, in many cases, is determinedly and courageously carrying on; that nearly 50,000.000 of us are at work, that we have $28,000,- 000,000 in the banks, and that, more and more, our jobs are being made safe Daredevils of the Skies (Continued Prom Third Page.) —= L the United States, with Mexico and Centrgl America thrown in, He re- memblrs an adventure that befell him o=ce Just outside Tampico, Mexico when he and Capt. Frank M. Hawks were making some maps for the ofl companies there Hawks was at the s andl his open-cockpit biplane had | jlist ‘tefcen off for the.morning’s jaunt tc 18000 feet, the altitude from which the map was to be made. Suddenly there was a terrific com- | motion under the motor hood. The hood bréke away from its fastenings | and fluttered up and down in spasms, | C from underneath came a five-foot diamond - head _ rattlesnake, which hered along the sleek surface of the cowling, making straight for Hawks' The pilot immediately realized what had happened. The snake had crawled the hood, probably to get out of Tampico airport. When up, the exhaust hot and_the from it, lazily But snake had been s the sizzling | h manifold Snakes resent. being treated like that This one decided Hawks was to blame and came at him. Snake Takes to Grass, Hawks held the ship In a steep dive , reached for the fire ex- i the other and let the | right in the eye. By the | nake could see again the ship Hawks and Smith got out ss the clearing. The out its forked tongue in zesture of derision, dropped off the r wing and writhed away into the | | iere is another aerial photographer, | ey O. Bonnick, who remembers | ) & bit too vividly, He was drying | film after a week's hard flying | the jungles, when a local revolu- broke out. Without warning the camp was surrounded by olive-skinned peons with enormous sombreros and welly olled rifies. The commandante stréiled in, pulling at the tips of his ‘waxed mustaches, and told Bonnick he was under arrest. Bonnick shook the developer off his hands and asked to be Jet in on the gag. But it was no gag, as & glance outside showed. The local army was drawn up around his plane and his supply shack. He would be re- quired, the commandante told Bonnick, to take an offccr up over the federal lines and make some pictures of the federal army. Bonnick refused, bluntly. The commandante was sorry, but Bonnick would have to do it; otherwise he would be kept under guard until the revolution was over. So Bomnick paced the floor about ten days. snake ac | there | before. things like that did happen once in a while. And when they marched him beside & blank wall he was sure of it He listened anxiously for the command to halt; it didnt come, and the cor- poral's guard kept marching until they had taken Bonnick before the revolu- tionary general, who announced that the photographer was a free man! When his work in Mexico was com- pleted, Bonnick flew up into the back- woods of Labrador in six jumps, and mapped thousands of square miles that had never seen an airplane He has just returned. His ad- ventures give one an idea of the itin- erant nature of the aerial photogra- pher's job. Here today and a thousand miles away tomorrow. | Mexico has been good hunting for the aerial camera for the last several years. Until very recently that country was almost totally without maps to guide the horde of miners, oil drillers and engineers who had begun to tap its enormous mineral wealth. Since most Mexican scenery s a combination of mountains, jungles, for- ests and swamps, these men could not spend the weary years required to map their concessions in the usual way— with a surveying crew on the ground. | The aerial camera, whisking over these obstructions at 100 miles an hour, was the answer. Capt. Smith has mapped | 1,800 square miles of mountain and jungle on 12 fast flights, and had the map ready within 30 days of the start. Solves Engineers’ Problems. ‘There are times when the mapping camera has solved problems that have | stumped engineers for a generation or more. One of the most spectacular jobs & mapping camera ever did was Yaqui River Dam survey of a century engineers had been try ing to put up a $6,000,000 irrigation dam across this river. The Yaqui Indians, who hed a reservation around that point, are bitter enemies of the white man and the Mexican government had isolated them on this lonely plateau, a six-week trip from civilization by pack mule. Engineers, with characteristic stubbornness, decided that the huge dam had to go right in the middle of the Yaqui reservation. When the Yaquis heard about it t! took their rifles and stood guard over the pass by which the white man must get in. Year after year the need for the dam became more urgent, but the Yaguis never relaxed their guard. Fir»lly the | government decided to design the dam anyway. An aerial mapping concern from Los Angeles sent & crew down to look over |the situation. And from an altitude |of 11,000 feet, out of sight and out of hearing of the Indians, they mapped the whole river course. Finally & corporal's guard marc! a ot « \ i (B heart-rending | the | For a quarter | | e e s TS » o o | ww‘“&%"mfi T u?.myu(mwhummmm' gallon This was in the days when Gen. Alvaro Obregon was President of Mex- ico. Obregon, one of the most energetic executives our sister republic has ever seen, plunged into the work with both feet and his one arm. He strode about the sandy wastes of Sonora Province, giving orders, summoning crews and promising the photographers everything they need to make the job a success. H The first thing they needed was some sort of landing field within striking dis- | tance of the job, but not within striking | distance of the vengeful Yaquis. Ob-| regon called together an army of labor- ers and cleared a square mile of land The crew felt grateful, but there was something else. Would the president guarantee that the base would be safe from Yaqui attack? He would. He did. He had & company of Mexican regulars on the fleld day and night. The fleld was 150 miles from the dam site, and close to the provincial capital, “Hermosillo. Obregon stayed there during the latter part of the mapping work, straying into the photo- |graphers' hut, grinning beneath his | clipped mustache and watching the as- sembling of the mep, To the presi | dent’s credit, be it sald that he never romised anything he didn't deliver. If e agreed to furnish a guard or a field | it was there on time | The whole idea of this mtmmothi irrigation project originated with Ob-; regon, lan he backed it enthusiasti- | cally, Toward the latter part of the mapping work, I remember, he was asked how he would get the dam built after it had been des ed, Our map- ping crew, high above the Yaqui pla- teau, could snap its fingers at the In- dians; but the contractor couldn't. He'd have to shove them aside and get lht:i‘joh up, standing right in their midst. Needed Strong Force, {_ “I'll bulld it,” Obregon declared, “if | I have to use the whole army to do it!"” He didn't need all the army, but he | did need & cavalry regiment and all the troops he could muster from Sonora. | But to get back to the map. That had been completed after about six weeks of intermittent flying, and was ready for the engineers who were to de- sign the dam, Obregon was delighted. He strode into the hanger, congratu- lated all hands and announced that he was going to fly with the map to Mex- ico City—right away. Waving his stump arm toward our old- plane, he asked that he be flown to the capital. The boss shook his head. The plane was not built for such a trip. It would mean crossing the Slerras at 19,000 feet end flying a prodigious distance before it could land and refuel. The ship could &0 high enough to cross the range, but it did not have the gasoline capacity for such a long hop. But Obregon was firm. There in the office shack he pounded a pine tabe top with his artificial arm. He was going He wasn't afraid to make the trip if the | pilot was willing to try it! He pounded the table again “Shucks,” barked the pilot. “I'm not | scared either. Tell him to climb in We might do it!"” ‘No, you don't,” 11 send a radi If they want t let him go. goat if Mexfwo!” Banned by Headguarters, Headquarters didn't allow it. It was too risky. The message was given to Obregon and he gave up the idea. He understood. ~ He went to Hermosillo and boarded a train for Mexico City, arriving intact with the map. A short time later he was assassinated Today the .billions of gallons of frri- { gation water in the Yaqui River are | held back by a mammoth dam, and the | | valley is growing melons and grain and | | thriving with more than a thousand | | homesteaders | Irrigation and drainage are two of | civilization’s biggest bugbears. In these | | fields the aerial mapping camera is do- Ing things every day that would have looked like witchcraft 300 years ago. The Everglades, at the tip of Florida, | has been attacked by successful gener- ations since the days of the Spanish | conquistadors. The aerial photographer has done more to drain that swamp than any other single agency. But the first attempt nearly came to grief, Capt. Smith played one of the prin- cipal roles in that drama. He was| busily cranking film past the huge lens on a hot afternoon in May in an old, creaky airplane with & peculiar sort of cubby built over the back eockpit, when his pilot, E. P. Lott, let out a yell. | 8mith craned his neck out of the tiny port hole to see what was the matter. The ancient motor, a war-time relic, was giving up the ghost. Its water Jacket had cracked. The motor prompt- ly became overheated and stuck. There they were 12,000 feet above a desolate swamp and 40 miles from their base. Dead Stick Landing. Lott came down with a dead stick and managed to find a dry clearing. He made a masterful landing in grass waist high, and the old al:lrlg Tolled to a stop without damage, e clearing they had found was a poisoned water hole Strewn about were the bones of count- less swamp animals. The first day and the second were an- noying, as the two men had no water and only three cans of beans which Smith had brought along on & hunch. But by the third day things began to look serious. Smith félt as if he were dving of thirst. He got some of the brownish liquid out of the water hole and boiled it in a bean can. It tasted, he says, like a mixture of developing fluid and kerosene. Lott, the pilot, would have nothing to do with it. Om the afternoon of the fifth day they were found by a rescue squadron, with George Haldeman, the transatlantic fiyer in the lead. Two days later they had the motor repaired and were back on the job. | This time they finished it. | Most aerial mappers have abandoned that type of airplane now and use spe- cially ‘equipped cabin monoplanes with all sorts of queer contrivances in them. Has Ingenious Installation. W. A. Kuenzel, one of the expert news photographers, has an ingenious installation. The interior of his plane is padded and upholstered in soft leather. There are luxurious, deep- cushioned chairs for guests. But Kuen- zel himself sits opposite the cabin door {on a plain, flat pine board. The door has most of its area cut away, so the . camera’s snout can move about in a | Bood-sized circle. Beside his ear is a | voice tube that connects with a set of ear phones in the pilot's helmet. The camera_itself is slung from & spring suspension support, so that its weight is removed from Kuenzel's forearms. Capt. Smith does not believe in 8o much luxury, He is & pioneer among fiying camera men and does not find modern improvements necessary. A trip with him is something to shudder about. He leaves the door completely off his cabin monoplane and sits on a folding camp stool, holding the forty- peund camera between his two steel- muscled fists. Smith himself is an expert aviator, and he knows what the ship ought to be able to do. R. C. (“Kiddy”) Bar- rows, his pilot, sees that the plane does it. They may know what they are do- ing, these two, but to a visitor riding | with them it appears that they are trying to toss him out of the empty door. I have had to grab windowsills, clutch framework and even brace my feet against the side wall to keep from diving out into 10,000 feet of empty alr. growled the boss ogram to headquarters take the responsibility, But I'm not going to be the our ship kills the president of Sits Tight en Chair. ‘Through all the sudden twists and turns Smith sits calmly on his little folding chair, squinting through the camera sights and paying no attention to the leaps and dives of the ship. Bar- rows is secure in his safety belt, but (one of the unsolved mysteries of the air is what holds Smith fast to his chair, | Yet Smith has spent more than 1,000 hows in the air over New York City alene, end has never fallen out of the plan; t. He carries a parachute quite | & e of hebit | mi has left his New York office HE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTOX, | several times in recent years to take part in tropical surveys for scientific expeditions, such as the University of Pennsylvania visit to the @ archealogical D. dent of a New York bank, A a fashionable resort C., DECEMBER 13, BRUCE BARTON. YOUNG man, who is vice presi- told me that he dined recently at “All the other guests were very rich,” he said. “They were older peo- ple, many of them retired. They were shakin, in their boots. They afraid ere will be a social uphe: are aval and that their money will be taken away.” I told him I thought these “The social order will not B eople had a right to worry. e overturned,” I said, geople like your friends be stripped of their possessions. But I do elieve thai, when this dzp and the poor will have a have never possessed before. body.” In saying this, I am taking a own selfish interests, for, while I I have an income that is much above the average. ression is over, the rich will be poorer egree of comfort and security that they And this will be better for every- position which is contrary to my am not and never shalf be rich, If taxes are higher, mine will go up with the rest But shouldn’t they? as I get out of life? ou may answer: ambitious and intslligent, this country can do well.” is 1s not a complete answer. But where did I work the hardest? What .have I done to deserve as much “You have worked hard. You have been Any man who will apply himself in To be sure, I have worked. On a farm one Summer (I :flll ache when I think about it). And in Montana in a construc- fon camp. and at night On the f{; cnm? it was $656 a month, f I have increased harder, but because I haj one that is much easier If T have used intelligence, to college, and my expenses were Many rich people who bear a larger burden in the they give me a pain. Surely, we who have had the going to be wise enough to recogni: our full share of the load. The hours, in each case, were more than 12 a day, we were too weary for anything but bed. arm my Income was $1 a day; in the construction my income it is not because I have worked ppened to get out of these tough jobs into and much better paid. it is not greatly to my credit. happened to have been born into a home of culture, paid are worried for fear they will have to future h plus the added advantage of inherite 3 I was sent ave had all these advantages, d wealth. When they grumble best luck in this country are ze it and to assume cheerfully (Copyright, 1931.) D. A. R. ACTIVITIES. The State Executive Committee met | December 5. The State regent, Miss Helen Harman, as well as several other | State officers and committee members | were In attendance. Miss Harman stat- ed that 284 District of Columbia D. A R's were in the party that attended the Yorktown celebration on the steam- ship Southland. The Conservation and Thrift Com- mittee reported 42 chapters have sub- scribed to the trees for the Washington Grove, which is to be planted in con- nection with the George Washington Bicentennial celebration. | Announcement was made of the first | State conference of the Sons and Daughters of the Republic, to be held at Wilson Teaches' College, December 12. Upon the recommendation of the State Historic Committee, it was voted that a D. A. R. marker be placed upon the grave of Dr. Stephen N. Balch in Oak Hill Cemetery | Two real daughters of the Revolu- | tion, Miss Sarah Pool and Mrs. Mary | Pool Newsome, of Gibson, Ga. were adopted as protegees of the State ex- ecutive. | It was voted to expend the unused moving picture trailer fund for the purchase of some historical picture for the use of the District of Columbia D. A. R. The vice-president general, Mrs. David D. Caldwell, presented to the executive a portrait of George Wash- ington, which will be hung in the Dis- trict D, A, R. room in the Hay-Adams House. Resolutions on the death of Mrs. Frank Foster Greenawalt, State regent of the District of Columbia in 1914-15, | T ——— five men in America Who can take an | aerial camera to the North Pole or the | Equator, do all their own darkroom and | printing work, make maps and bring back an accurate scientific record. Ex- Eedl!lon work demands a good working nowledge of geology, topography, car- tography and several other things, and uncanny ingenuity. Those who can | meet the requirements are in constant demand. Army Has Experts, The Army Air Corps, naturally, is | looked upon as a source of supply for mapping experts. Two officers have come to the front in recent years as acknowledged experts—Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. George W. Goddard, Each has done a good deal of scientific expedition work. Stevens and Lieut, Walter Hinton of transatlantic fame invaded South American junglely to explore the headwaters of Brazilian rivers. Goddard undertook a dengerous mission in the Philippines, landing at weird-sounding places and studying lost Malay and Polynesian races Lieut. Goddard. inventor of the spec- tacular method of night aerial photog- raphy now used by the Army, nearly | lost his life—and Stevens nearly lost his too—just before sailing for the Ori~ ent on this mission. They had gone up, with two civillans representing a flashlight-powder concern, to test night flash bombs. These bombs hold about 40 pounds of highly explosive powder. One of them fell out of the bomb rack soon after the plane had taken off from Dayton, Ohio, one dark night and ex- ploded beneath the plane's wing. The result was as bad as a direct hit with an anti-aircraft shell. It Jammed the controls and threw the plane into a convulsive skid. Lieut. Eugent C. Batten, one of the Air Corps' most skilled pilots, was at the stick. He nearly wrenched the steel tubing apart | trying to free the controls while the ship plowed downwarq through the darkness. | Felt Floor Give Way. [ Back of him in the plane's intericr, Stevens felt the floor give w him and grabbed for a pair of bracing wires. You can still see the marks of those wires in Stevens' palm. Goddard wzs knocked to the rear and | fell semi-conscious on the floor. His foot went through the fabric fuselage and stuck there. Beside his head was the hole in the floor. Nobody could croas it to rescue him; his foot, thrust through the fabric, was the only thing that kept him from falling into space. The others, clinging to the tubing that Wwas not bent out of shape by the blast, welted breathlessly while Batten wrenched and jerked at the controls. The ship wobbled about in crazy lurches. Somehow Batten brought the crippled plane under control ang landed It without further injury to his pas- sengers. One of the foremost requirements for an acrial photographer’s job is the abil- ity to laugh at danger. Working on the Tof of the world, bending over intri- | gate instruments in a temperature of | 50 or. 60 degrees below zero, hoppi from fever-infesteq jungles to the ‘be mmst ing bit- - ‘come, take | its December meet | during the Bice: | Violet were adopted. Miss Church of Cross- nore School, spoke. The Conservation and Thrift Com- mittee met December 4 at the Hays- Adams House. The chairman, Mrs. Daniel C. Walser, presided. It was announced that 42 chapters had subscribed to trees for the “Wash- | Ington Grove” to be planted to honor the memory of George Washington. This planting will take place next | March or April. Miss Keane of Colum- bia Chapter, reported that a tree would be planted in honor of each new mem- ber of her chapter. December 6, six trees were planted on Norton street Deborah Knapp Chapter reported plant- Ing of 375 trees, President Monroe, 3. American Eagle, 6; Little John Beyden, 4; ol John Washington,” 4; Potomac, A message from Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman of the United States Bicen- tennial Commission, called “tree living memorials” was read Colonel John Donelson Chapter held ing at the Hay-Adams House, Mrs. Harry C. Oberholser, re- gent, presiding. Mrs. L. D. Parkhurst announced the chapter stood twelfth on the list of chapters planning to plant trecs in honor of George Washington ntennial. Mrs. John H. Axford, a member of the State Consti- tutional Hall Finance Committee, said that the exterior column on Constitu- tion Hall paid for by the District had been dedicated to the State regent, Miss Helen Harman. Reporting for the Flag Committee, Miss Virginia Gibson gave the members copies of the Flag Code. Mrs. George J. Jones urged gifts ol wool and cotton to be sent to Ellis Island The chapter house annual card party will be held January 19. Cards were read announcing the can- didacy of Mrs. C. Edward Murray of New Jersey and Mrs. Frank Hamilton Marshall of Oklahoma 1or the office of vice president general from their re- spective States at the Continental Con- gress in April, 1932, Mrs. Tonnis J. Holzberg and Miss ‘Thelma Church, representing the Cross- nore School at Crossnore, N. C., made addresses. The chapter adjourned to meet at the home of Mrs. J. H. Axford in January. The Judge Lynn Chapter met at the home of Mrs. F. E. Hornaday, with Mrs. Harry R. Fulton, Mrs. Bertha M. Rob- bins,” Mrs. Estelle Lawrence and Miss Ruth Smith assisting the hostess. Mrs. J. Milton Jester, regent, presided. Mrs. Earll, of .the State Historical Committee, reported on a talk by Mrs. Arnold, historian of President Monroe | Chapter, on “The Life of Monroe,” and Mrs. Walker's prize paper on “The Sig- nificance of the Siege of Yorktown.” Mrs, Fulton advised that the D. A. R. Student Loan Committee was arranging a benefit card party to be heid at the home of Mrs, Caldwell in January. Mrs. Cobey reported for the Patriotic Edu- cation Committee and told of the needs of the Kate Duncan Smith and Helen Winslow Schools. Mrs. Cobey, reporting for the Lieut. John Staw Chapter, C. A. R, told about the tree which has been planted by that society at her home and also reported that each child had earned 10 cents to help furnish the Washington room at Wakefield. Mrs, Stratton was unanimously elected to membership in the chapter. The name of Mrs. George Keeler was presented as a prospective member. Miss Virginia Price read a paper which had received third prize in es- says on the part women played in the Revolutionary War. Col. John Washington Chapter met Tuesday at the Hay-Adams House. Re- ports were given by officers and mem- bers of state committees. A scholar- ship of $50 was voted for Crossmore School. The regent, Mrs. James Stan: field, made an address. The next mee! ing will be held January 12. Descendants of '76 Chapter met at the home of the regent, l’]:dl‘f Constance Goodman. Assisting hostesses were M?gs Pence, Miss Stewart, Mrs. Wor- ford, Mrs. Salter and Mrs. Knight. Guests. were Mrs. David C. Caldwell, vice president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Al- fred E. T. Hansmann, state treasurer; Miss Kathrina L. Harvey, state his- torian, and Mrs. Albion W. Tuck, re- gent of Thirteen Colonies Chapter. Miss Church of Crossnore School, North Carolina, was a guest speaker. Entertainment in the nature of a Christmas party was rendered by Miss Warren Pierson, Mrs. Dorothy Sherman Plerson and William Pierson. Dolly Madison Chapter met at the home of Mrs. Ralph P. Barnard, 1443 Euclid street, December 8, with Mrs. Charles Keefer, Mrs. Frank H. Towner, Mrs. Rice W. Means. 1931 PART TWO. gent, Mrs. J. M. Beavers, presided. The transfer of Mrs. Vi H. S. Brown lh’om the Anne Adams Tufts Chapter, Somerville, Mass., was approved. Mrs. Charles Keefer gave musical se- lections. The guest speakers were Mrs. James H. Harper, State director, C. A. R., and Miss Church, secretary to the president of Crossnore School. | The Patriots’ Memorial Chapter met at the Hay-Adams House Tuesday eve- ning, ‘with the regent, Mrs. Joel T, Curry, presiding. The hostesses were Mrs. George P. Conway, Miss Anna | Bragdon and Mrs. F. Edwin Hale, Mrs, Curry presented a report on the State executive meeting. The historian, Mrs, George P. Conway, gave & report. The chapter voted to provide for the place- ment of a memorial tree, under the auspices of the State Committee on Conservation and Thrift, in connection with the Bicentennial celebration in 1932. The chapter voted $5 for the work of the Committee on Girl Home Makers. Plans were discussed for the annual card party to be given early in January, in charge of Mrs. W. H. Linkins and Mrs. L. E. Collier, The Louisa Adams Chapter met at the Hay-Adams House Tuesday eve- ning. Miss Catherine Watkins, regent, presided. The program was in charge of Miss Margaret Brown. The host- esses were Mrs. Frank Hickey and Miss Mary F. Bickford. Miss Bickford reported on the recent meeting of the Sons and Daughters of the Republic, a unit of D. A. R. work in the District of Columbia. A report was presented ;‘lg‘guby Miss Fannie Corson on chapter PUBLIC LIBRARY Famous Actresses and Actors. In connection with the reappearance of Maude Adams on the American stage in the distinguished company of Otis Skinner, the Public Library calls at- tention to the following books on ac- tresses and actors. All of the books may be borrowed from the Central Li- brary, many of them from the neig borhood branches, The Actress. Maude Adams, by Acton Davies. 1901, E.Adl43d. Perhaps one of the results of Miss Adams’ return to the stage will be to EVe ll’lrl a really comprehensive story of er life, The Real Sarah Bernhardt, by Mme, Pierre Berton. 1928, E.B4564b.E. The “Divine Sarah” in an intimate portrait by a friend who has taken most of her information from the great actress herself. My Life and Some Letters, hy Mys. Patrick Campbell. 1922. E.Cl1536. “Her book is the revelation of a woman whose spirit is both large and high, whose history has been amusin; stirring, tragic and rounded. You wi be sure to like her.”—Ruth Hale. Eleonora Duse, by Jeanne Bordeux. 1925, E.D943b. “Opinion may differ as to the merits of this blography of Duse, but it is certain that none can gainsay the fact that the story of the life of the great tragedienne was written with genuine feeling for the theme, and it is absorb- im‘Iy interesting.” Julia Marlowe, Her Life and Art, by C. E. Russell. 1926. E.M3436r. He makes clea: “the tremendous amount of study and hard work which went into all her impessonations, the seriousness of her purpose and the gravity of her mind and finally the downright pugnacity of will."—W. P. Eaton. Memories and Impressions of Helen Modjeska. 1910. E.M725. “Something of the Eamoc. the - sion, the intensity of her Polish blood shows itself in her writing, and imparts to her pages a vividness and a depth and richness of human feeling that en- thrall the reader and carry him a will- ing captive to the end. No better book of its kind could be desired.”—P. F. Bicknel. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw; a cor- respondence. 1931, E.T275a. “Miss Terry triumphs over Shaw, over his theater, over Irving, and has in her shrewdness (for she was shrewd as well as wise) a timelessness that makes the great dramatist seem oddly old-fashioned.”—Richard Sunne. Keeping Off the Shelf, by Mrs. Thomas %flfen 1928. E.W5724. Delightful reminiscences of a long life on the stage in association with John Drew and other celebrities. The Actor. |Up the Years From Bloomsbury, by George Arliss. 1927. E.Ar53. “Each chapter bears the stamp of | euthenticity; each paragraph proclalms that pleasant Arliss blend of urbanity and humor."—F. F. Bond. Confessions of an_Actor, by John Barry- more. 1926. E.B28. “This is a volume which, escaping by |2 wide margin the feeble mediocrity of | most of its kind, affords the reader a vigorous and sprightly life story, told | with great charm.”—Philo Highl Behind the Scenes with Edwin Booth, by Katherine Goodale. 1331, E.B645go. “A book of light and pleasant the- atrical reminsicence which helps to bring before the public the genius and fine and graclous characcer of America’s greatest tragic actor and contains much sundry illumination of the American stage in the period of romance and tragedy. sthe Stage, by John Drew. 22, My Years on 1922. D “A book about the stage that will delight the casual reader and be also a faithful source of satisfaction to any student of the drama."—Francis Wil- son. A Player Under Three Reigns, by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. 1925. E.F7429. “Sir Johnston writes with a light touch; he has many good stories to tell, and such of them as have been told are worth retelling. Lest 1 Forget, by Cyril Maude. 1928. E.M441. “Readers of all ages will take pleas- ure in the literary charm and the genial kindliness of heart with which Mr. Maude has set down his reminis- censes of a long, busy and apparently happy life spent in the entertaining of the English and American public.” Footlights and Spotlights, by Ottis Skinner. 1924. E.Sk36. “A stalwart actor of the old school, a battle-scarred trouper thick with the dust of the road, has here set down the print of his remembrance. It is the good story of a good life, simply and "lgrwmbly told."—Alexander Woollcott. Melancholy Tale of “Me,” by E. H. Sothern. 1916. E.So76. “Mr. Sothern’s exuberant vojume, full of buxom humor, mock heroics and | Bood fellowship, calls forth the cry of “Pickwick!" the intonation of that cry depending entirely on the literary pre!- lgfi;{;& of the individual"—Doris ‘ebb. Princess Intrigues Europe. Europe is much intrigued by a thor- oughly m:dern young woman who is to occupy a throne in India. She is Princess “Abida Sultan, eldest of the three daughters of the Nawab of Bhopal, one of the delegates to the Round Table Conference. Bhopal is the only state in’India in which the crown always devolves upon the eldest child, irrespective of sex. Hence Princess Abida Sultan is the heir ap- parent and would succeed to the €,_even if the Bhopal had a son now. Eighteen years of age, she drives OWn car, plays tennis well and is an accomplished musician. . 2 Dog, Late, Goes Home by Bus. Being late to ride home with its mas- ter coes not bother a dog of Edinburgh, Scotland. = The master, a contractor, visits Haddington three times a week and his pet rides in his automobile with him, then explores Haddington on Lis own. If it does not return to the ¢ar in time to ride back with its owner ’tmlulm t.he-b.ua station and when araws up prowplly (Continued From First_Page.) of “Answers"—brother Harold asked himself what would happen if war came and stopped the paper supply from Scandinavia, or if the manufac- turers realized what a chance they had to get these big buyers into a corner and put up the price on them. They | were using 2,000 tons & week. Suppose the supply failed? He did not see the business as North- cliffe saw it, in human terms. He saw it in manufacturing terms. What, in fact, were they doing? They were buy- ing large quantities of paper, printing a variety of things thereon and persuad- ing the masses to buy the finished prod- uct in such vast quantities that after all bills had been met there remained a huge profit for brothers Alfred and , impatient, asked what they ought to do, and Harold gloomily re- plied that they ought to organize their own supply. That idea stirred Alfred, as the idea of new worlds to conquer stirred Alexander. He became enthus- iastic and instantly saw himself as a paper potentate, Off went an expert to scour the lands where grew the par- ticular kind of spruce from which news- print is made. He went t» Sweden, Norway, Russia, Finland, Canada. Eventually a carabou hunter put the brothers on the track of a possible site in Newfoundland. Rothermere went out and negotiated with the Newfoundland government an arrangement whereby the two British capitalists got a 198- year's lease of a tract of virgin forest land as big as the State of Massachu- setts. They built a town—now second only to St. John's tho capital—roads, a rail- {way, a great dam on the falls rcaring jover red sandstone. But Northeliffe could not keep up his enthusiasm for this sideline. The big things in his life were his papers and the game of in- fluencing public opinion. Sees Colony Oustrip Daily Mail. It was otherwise with Rothermere. To him the papers were ephemeral things. The real solid and enduring things were the raw material supplies behind those papers—solid property, real estate, land, railways, towns, buildings, ships, a port, mineral wealth, a pulp and paper mak- ing plant, forests which ever renew themselves, although 2,000,000 trees are felled yearly to supply the insatiable machines spewing printed matter over the little crowded island 3,000 miles away in the North Atlantic. of how Harold said as much to Alfred cne dsy at the latter's country estate. Harold said he could foresee the time when this new colony of theirs would be one of the world's great business or- ganizations, with its own cities, mills, mines, railroads, ports and 2 big popu- lation which they would supply with all the necessities and luxuries of life. “Attached to this great enterprise,” mused Harold, “will be a little news- paper called the Daily Mail. People will ask how the connection between them was established and we shall dis- cuss the question of cutting ourselves away from it. It will be a nuisance, a hindrance. Eventually we shall let it go." Northcliffe was annoyed. talking nonsense. Come on, let's get on with the game” Newfoundland was useful, in his view, only in so far as it served his papers. In this profcund and fundamental difference of outlook may be found the explanation of all that happened after Northcliffe died and the whole enor- ““You're fell into Rothermere’s capacious hands, to be broken up, reorganized, this part sold and that retained, refinanced, sold to the public at a mighty profit on the original price at which Rothermere and his associates had acquired the shares, Bought Estate’s Shares. In a wooden hut, put up on the roof of his London mansion to give him air and isolation, Northcliffe died in 1922. In his lifetime he had overshadowed his dour brother. The latter was an inti- when Northcliffe was violently attacking Britain's war dictator. Rothermere’s son, the Honorable Esmond Harmsworth, tall, handsome, the youngest member of Parliament, married to a vivacious and charming girl, was Lloyd George's mili- tary aide at the Paris Peace Confer- ence—a conference which Northcliffe wished to attend as a negotiator, only to be turned down with an emphatic “Go to hell!” by Lloyd George, now sure of his hold upon the people what- ever guns the affronted Northcliffe might turn upon him. Made a baronet in 1909 and a baron in 1914, Rothermere received his vis- countcy from Lloyd George in the year of that conference. During the war he had had two spells of office. He was put in as director general of the army clothing -~ department following some scandals in 1916, and cleaned up in drastic fashion, and the followin, year, brother Alfred having Aenublonl’ly Te- fused the air ministry, gave the job to Rothermere. But Roth- ermere cid not get on with the airmen 50 successfully, and it was not long be- fore he resigned. Still he remained little known and nothing of a national flg’\;n xl’fil& N:nhcllfle was alive. orthcliffe dead, everything changed. The dead man had left hu‘ execu'n:gs instructions to hand over his controll- ing shares to his brother for disposal, Rothermere decided to buy them for himself. Soon after he bought a chain of competing national and provincial papers from Northcliffe's dying rival, Hulton, neatly beating the ambitious Berry Brothers in the rush. He was now a regular press octopus and the roar of apprehension about the new press trust was loud and long. However, he kept the Hulton group only long enough to whet the Berry appetite. He resold them in slices and at a large profit. Then he found they would like the huge publishing business of the Amalgamated Press, and that in turn he let them have at his own price. Never had there been such a bull market in newspapers and publishing businesses. Single papers and whole groups changed hands, with the public clamoring for shares and subscribing hundreds of millions of dollars for new issues. Rothermere sold bonds and de- bentures and preferred shares, but kept ordinary shares for himself. His enter- prises were so prosperous that he could borrow up to almost any amount from the public at 6 per cent and use the money to make 40 per cent in his busi- ness. When he was through with his adroit and complicated financial operations, he had realized all his newspaper and periodical holdings except the strongest and most compact block, backed and fed by the Newfoundland paper business. His papers today comprise the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail, the Sunday Pictorial and the Sunday Dispatch and the Evening News. These papers have an aggregate circulation of around 33,- 000,000 a week, the two dailies selling around 4,000,000 daily, the Sundays 2,- 000,000 and 1,000,000, respectively, an the t\r':‘nmx t]Jnlpel' 1,000,000. In addi- tion, he controls a new even: er chain_in the chief provinch‘lnzceg:frs. In influence and financial resources his is the most powerful group in the island. Wells Gag Starts Criticism, Rothermere does not use or inde- pendent writers. He wn.m:" Mgt to his commands, and only such men to mav?hm purpose are . once employ a famous pen—that of H. G. Wells, who was covering the Naval Conference at ‘Washington in 1921. But to the alarm of the Rothermere organization, which at that time was violently pro-French and trying to put over a “hats off to France” slogan in Britain, Wells' dis- patches took on an increasingly anti- French tone. So Wells was suppressed— to the delight of Beaverbrook's Express, which promptly tock him over and spent barrels of money on advertising the Express 8s the paper which had de. termined that the voice of Wells should be heard. From thal moment ecriticism of Rothermere One of their associates tells a story | mous newspaper and periodical empire | mate of Lloyd George, even at a time | Lloyd George ' England’s Lord of the Press qualities which make for popularity or picturesqueness, or if he came out into | the open and met the men he attacks |in his newspapers. Beaverbrook, shrewder in these things, has not sought shelter behind his papers, but has made a point of contacting with the crowd and orating in public and in the Upper | Chamber. Rothermere, while shouting {incessantly in the public ear, remains | aloof and remote from the public eye. Is Member of House of Lords. An occasional photograph appears, illustrating one of the assertive an dogmatic articles which carry the Roth- ermere signature, but few people ever set eyes on him. He makes no publis appearances, One rarely sees him any- where except in the one or two opulent hotel restaurants he frequents in Paris |and London, and in the Sporting Club at Monte Carlo. He attends no func- tions, Smart soclety kngws him not. Even when Hungary wanted to honor him for his intensive propaganda on her behalf he sent his son, as & king might send his crown prince, By virtue of his viscountcy he is a member of the House of Lords, but he never occupies his red bench or par- ticipates in a debate. He makes no speeches, addresses no public gather- ings. The public hears about him only when one or another of his public ere- mies attacks him (and few do, uot desiring to incur Rothermere’s enmity, SHerting ;x:diu tariffs .g' puhllcu:‘:. affect] a, 2 pendit‘\‘;‘n or the national prosperity, in which his own interests are so closely bound up. Has hg a high purpcse? If so, he has gone the wrong way about making it known. He is a generous man in private life, has given large sums to | hospitals and to establish chairs at uni- versities, He does not drink nor smoke |and. visiting Mussolini, was exceed- | ingly gratified to discover that Il Duce was equally abstemious, Thinks Mussolini Is Hero. He indulges in no sport, owns mo race horses, plays some golf and tennis, but otherwise is not physically strenu- ous and, liking fcod—a weakness, this, he shgres with his hero of the Palazzo chm—ind.mmkmx v;m. -%.-nuy. he sometimes imposes & - sei and this, added to the operations of & Swedish masseur, who is & perma- nt member of his entcurage, enables ¥im to lose some pounds and acquire a noticeably less massive outline. That pleases him as much as any- thing ever does please him in his strange life of a super-rich and wor- ried big business man, who sees things going awry and is desolated by his impctence to apply in the larger realm of a kingdom and an empire the same arbitrary methods which have been so successful in his own business affairs. The music hour will be held at the Y. W. C. A. at Seventeenth and K streets today at 5 o'clock, with Miss Grace Lincoln Temple presenting “The Madonna and Nativity Legend,” assisted by the Elizabeth Somers and the Girl Reserve Glee Clubs, Tea will be served from 4 to 5 o'clock, with the members of the May Day Chapter as hostesses. The annual dinner for foreign stu- dents, held under the auspices of the World Fellowship Committee, will take place December 16 at 6:30 o'clock. A meeting of the board of directors will be held December 17 at 10:30 o'clock. Other meetings during the week will be the Executive Committee, Monday at 11 o'tlock and the health education at 2 o'clock; Tuesday the Rooms Registry Committee at the Elizabeth Somers Residence at 11:30 o'clock, and on Wednesday the Pub- licity-Finance Committee at 3 o'clock. Cleveland Park Chapter will meet tomorrow in the home of Mrs. Robert M. Richards, 3307 Macomb street, at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Richards will be assisted by Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Dowell and Mrs. Weeks. The Sunday music hour program at E street will be given at 4 o'clock by the Girls' Chape{‘chcl:lr ot‘l'hbth):l:l‘g‘::l City Christian Church under & tion of Miss Helen Turley. Tea will be served at 5 o'clock. A Christmas program will be given at the children’s music hour, Decem- ber 19, at 2:30 o'clock. There will be Christmas carols and a miniature Christmas operetta which the children have worked out. Officers were elected at the last meeting, Miss Ruth Dale Smith, president, and Miss Alice Dav- enport, secretary. ’E‘%u Optimist Club will meet Tuesday to plan the program for the open house on_Christmas eve. The bridge classes are closing their serfes of lessons with a joint bridge ty. p‘;‘he Amicitia, Premere, Hitika and K. G. Clubs will have their regular monthly assembly Tuesday. The pro- gram will include readings by Mrs. Morse and ial music by the B. and P. Glee Club. After the program each club will &: to" its club room to wrap gifts for the Children's Hospital, Gospel Mission, Central Union Missi and Blue Plains. The Blue Triangle and Silverells Clubs will have a combined Christmas rty Thursday. The toys which will B: exchanged the party will be sent to the Central Union Mission for dis- tribution. ‘The Girl Reserves at Western High School will be in charge of the school assembly Tuesday morning. Girl Re- serves costume will present songs and dances from the “Toy Shop.” Girl Reserves at Dennison Vocational School will present a pageant, “The Christmas Story,” in Barker Hall, Thursday at 2 o'clock. The Girl Reserves at Hine Junior High School will have a Christmas party at the school Priday at 2:30 o'clock and at 3:15 o'clock the Girl Reserves at the Buchanan School will entertain 10 children from the Gospel Mission. ‘The Central High School Girl Re- serve Club will have & “tacky party” Friday evening at the home of ‘Miss Ruth Murray. The Les Comrades Girl Reserve Club of Eistern High School will have a “smile social” Priday evening at the home of Miss Lois Lainhart. ‘The Fidelis Girl Reserve Club of Eastern High School plan to have a “splash party” Saturday afternoof. Rehearsals for “Why the Chimes Ring” will be held Friday afternoon and Saturday morning in Barker Hall. New Discoveries. Visitors at the ~General ¥lectric “House of Magic” are shown a number of wonderful demonstrations of the application of recent discoveries in electricity which are spectacular and puzzling. ‘There are the door that opens at a knock, the incandescent lamp that lights with a match, the coin that cries out when any one at- tempts to remove it and now they have the sound that no one can locate. By speaking or blowing into an ordinary telephone transmitter the visitor starts an ordinary buzzer, and the location of the sound offers no problem. At an- other verbal command to the trans- mitter a pure 1,000-cycle note, emanat- waves, 5o called, and like most sounds or_noises, is made up of notes having different frequencies. This being the case, the sound waves striking the two ears are unequal or different, unconsciously rotating the