Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1932, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, I )] JA NUARY .7 NORRIS MAY WIN SHIFT IN SESSION House Held Ready to Back “Lame Duck” Fight, Long Pressed. By the Associated Press The dogged determination of Senator George W. Norris may be rewarded with victory at last For the seventh time put through the Senate his to abolish tthe “lame duck Congress Six times the proposal has gone down to defeat in the House, either shunted aside by the controlling leadership or adopted in such altered form that the Nebraskan would have nothing to do with it The Democratic_ leaders s across the Capitol now, are for resolution is in their hands probably for study in a sympathetic committee, and headed for fairly ea adoption. Sentiment in the House mem- bership generally is favorable Referendum Necessary. 1f Norris wins through, the people will have another constitutional amend- ment to vote upon. The proposal is to alter present provisions so Congress Will meet each year on January 2, the Jan- uary succeeding the November elections. The President and Vice President would take office on January 15 instead of on March 4 No statutory limit would remain on any session of Congress. As things stand now the second session I s only from December to h. when terms of the members expire. The members elected before that secona session opens do not. begin legislating—barring a special gession— until next December, 13 months after he voters have chosen them yesterday, he resolution sessions of who run The short term finds legislation ini-| d by Representatives and Senators who have been defeated by their constituents—"lame ducks.” Longworth Stood in Way. { The greatest House opponent of the | amendment is now gone. Nicholas | Tongworth, as Speaker, blocked it year | after year. Last vear he agreed to its passage, but only after changing it so that one session of Congress would be | limited to a brief period. Hc feared | Congress eventually would get to stay | in session continuously | Longworth's argument was brought | tiated and passe | While copponents History of Fi How House, Under Its (This is the fourth of a series of | special | of fiscal relations and how the problem | has been dealt with in the past.) i \A | local taxation, together with | proportional Federal funds. with the | Tesult that a surplus of District tax | money accumulated in the Treasury This situation prompted Congress in 1922 to create another Joint Select Committee of the Senate and House to | delve into the fiscal relations problem | for the purpose of deteraining the Dis- trict'’s claim to this surplus. That committee, after an exhaustive study of the accounts between the United States | and District of Columbia back to the early days of the city’s history, reported early in 1923 that the District had a free surplus to its credit amounting to 1$4,438,154.92. The committee recom- mended that it be held in the Treasury “subject to appropriation by the Con- gress, as a part of the District’s share of the expenses of maintairing its gov- ernment in accordance with the law.” Two years elapsed, however, before it ‘was possible to get through both branches of Congress, early in 1925, the T v legislation recognizing the ex- !isterce of the surplus. In®the mean- | while, those members of the House who objected to the definite percentage method under which the United Siates | and District of Columbia had shared in | capital development for nearly half a century, already had succeeded in per- suading Congress to turn, in the fiscal | year 1925, as a temporary, exceptional, annual appropriation practice from the fixed ratio to the $9,000,000 lJump sum. BOUT the time of the World War Congress in & number of years failed to appropriate all the money then being exacted in Getting Around the Law. | Thus, while the District taxpayers were securing a measure of justice in the recognition of their accumulated surplus, the beneficial effects of it were more than offset by the consequences of being deprived of the safeguard the fixed ratio method had given them against an inequitzble apportionment of the definite pro- portion rule were not able to have the up in the Senate by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, but he was voted down, | 47 to 18, in an effort to amend the | resolution. This was then passed, 63 | 1. { | NEW YEAR CELEBRATED | substantive 60-40 law repealed, they established by indirection a precedent which has continued for eight years The 60-40 ratio had been in effect only a few years when in 1924 the House introduced the practice of de- parting from this substantive law by substituting a lump-sum Federal con- tribution. The first lump-sum provi- Existence of District Surplus Recognized by Inquiry. cal Relations No. 4 Own Rules, Overthrew Fixed Ratio Without Repealing Statute Requiring It—Later Developments. permitted its accumulation. Applica- | articles discussing the history | tion of surplus under any other ratio|By the Associated Press is inequitable.’ How Surplus Was Spent. Not only was the surplus not ex- pended with a corresponding contribu- | tion from the United States under lhe; half-and-half law, but the United States made no contribution whatever to it, of 40 per cent (under the 60-40 ratin) or of any percentage contribution. In- deed. surplus was to be applied to the Dis- | trict’s share of the cost of maintaining | the Capital., a considerable part of it| was expended to meet the Nation's share of national or semi-national proj- ccts. as, for example, to complete acqui- sition of the parkway connecting Poto- mac and Rock Creek Parks. One of the changes in District financing Congress had made when it created the Senate and House Committee to study the surplus was the enactment of a provision requiring the District to build ,up within five years a reserve fund sufficient to en- able the municipality to begin in 1927 operating on a cash basis at the outset of each fiscal year. The fact that that requirement placed future burdens on the taxpavers of that day also was de- veloped by the Citizens' Joint Commit- tee in its brief at that time. Summing | up the situation as it then existed, the Citizens' Committee, in a brief filed | carly in 1923, declared “The taxpayers of today—that is, of the period 1916 to 1926—are weighed down with the tax burdens of the past, present and future: (1) They are bur- dened with alleged indebtedness of the remote past, especially those arising from the blunders or neglects of agents of the Federal Government between 1874 and 1878. Many thousand dollars of such alleged indebtedness have been thus inequitably collected from them and they are now menaced (in violation of the spirit of the statute of limita- tions) with the revivification, to their injury, of debts apparently settled or forgiven more than 40 years ago and with demand for payment of interest on these alleged ancient debts. (2) ! They have been burdened with the avy war taxes of this decade, of which they have paid their full share, more in 1918-19 than any one of 15 States, more than 5 States combined. They have met all their obligatians in | municipal expenditure. They have been | taxed municipally so as to raise, in| addition to what thev were permitted | to spend. several millions of surplus taxes under the half-and-half law, and though the law indicated that the | Welfare of mankind than the hours left JULIUS ROSENWALD DIES AT AGE OF 63 Philanthropist to Be Buried in Quiet Funeral Some Time Today. CHICAGO, January 7. Julius Ro- senwald, the philanthropist, is dead, but the philanthropiese which ~brought im international renown, will live on for many years to come. The 69-year-old merchant prince, who began a brilliant business career by pumping an organ in a Springfield, Til, church at 5 cents an hour, was more concerned by his gifts for the for him to live. “Mr. Rosenwald was mentally alert through his illness.” said Dr. Herbert Follack, who attended him until his death at 2:55 p.m. yesterday. “He had apparently lost all interest in his vast business enterprises and was interested only in his philanthropies to the last.” Mr. Rosenwald became ill about two years ago. Physicians diagnosed his complaint as hardening of the arteries. He was never confined to his bed, how- ever, for any length of time until last April. At that time the original trouble as aggravated by heart disease and a kidney ailment, and he was ordered to | ed. Gave Away $40,000,000. Mr. Rosenwald, head of Sears-Roe- buck & Co., gave away approximately $40,000,000 during his life. He was vig- orously opposed to “the dead hand in | philanthropy.” as expressed in per- petual endowments and foundations “I am certain,” he wrote in the At- lantic Monthly in 1929, “that those who seem by perpetuities to create for them- | selves a kind of immortality on_ earth will fail, if only because no institution and no foundation can live forever.” Believing this, and with the state- ment that “charity” is the one pleasure that never wears out,” Mr. Rosenwald established the Julius Rosenwald Fund October 30, 1917. Its chartered pur- pose was “the wellbeing of mankind.” The endowment was $35,000,000. He had already given away hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he wanted this to be something a little different. And so, on January 1. 1928, the fund was reorganized and the administration was placed in the hands of a board of trustees and a staff of officers, with Edwin R. Embree as president and Al- fred K. Stern as director The charter and constittion of the fund provided that the principal, as well as the current income. be spent at any time in the discretion of the| trustees, but both principal and interest must pe expended within 25 years of | the death of the founder. Last year the fund gave away $2.- JULIUS ROSENWALD. Russia. Other hundreds of thousands were given to similar Jewish coloniza- tion plans, although he never believed in the Zionist movement for establish- ing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In February, 1921, Mr. Rosenwald headed a committee of 25 Jews who visited the stricken peoples of Europe. This was in preparation for & campaign conducted by the American Jewish Re- lief Committee, which brought $14,- 000,000 in contributions | He subsequently gave $1000,000 for Jewish relief and colonization in Eu- rope, subscribed $5,000,000 to the Amer- ican-Jewish Joint Agricultural Corpora- tion, gave $5,000,000 to the Jewish Theological Seminary as a memorial to | Louis Marshall, noted lawyer, and aided | financially libraries and museums of the Near East. Born Near Lincoln’s Home. Mr. Rosenwald was born in a house close to the old home of Abraham Lin- coln, in Springfield, Ill, August 12 1862, and was one of five children. His two brothers and two sisters reside in Chicago. The mother, Mrs. Augusta Rosenwald, died there on February 4, 1921. She was born in Germany, came to America in 1853 and married Samuel R. Rosenwald in Baltimore in 1857. Of his boyhood, Julius Rosenwald | often said: “I was uneducated in the public schools From Springfield he went, at the! age of 16, to New York as a clerk in| the clothing store of Hammerslough | Bros., conducted by his uncles. At 21 he opened a stgre of his own on Fifth | avenue, but it $ad indifferent success | His next venture was partnership in Chicago with Julius Weil. Begin in 1885 the firm manufactured cloth-| ng. In 1895 it became Rosenwald & Co. and sold much of its output to R BOBBITT'S BODY TAKEN T0 ELKINS Farmer and Trapper Dis- cover Dead Pilot Sitting in Burned Plane. By the Associated Press. ELKINS, W. Va. January body of Lieut. E. H. Bobbitt, ir. was brought to Elkins this morning from the mountains where his Army plane crashed on a homebound flight Christmas day The burned body of the Army aviator was carried three miles to a highway from a lonely peak in the Cheat Moun- tains. Preparations were to take it to Hot Springs, Va., late today The flver apparently was the crash and not by fire that fol- lowed. The throttle of the ship was wide open. Bobbitt's watch stopped at 1:10, apparently in the afternoon, since he left Uniontown, Pa., shortly after noon Christmas day. Seven and one-half hours were re- quired to remcve the body from the wilderness where the flyer died. Bobbitt's father came here from Hot sSprings and will accompany the body home. Bobbitt's body, sitting in the cockpit of his burned plane, was found late yesterday by a farmer and a trafiper. They had scaled Pool's Knob to look out over the surrounding country for the missing plane. The ship struck a tree and burned at_the very peak of the crag. The aviator disappezred Christmas day whi'e en route frem Selfridge Field. Mich., to his heme at Hot Springs, Va to spend the holidays with his parents killed by For two weeks hundreds of men and a| number of aviators had the mountains. Carl Reefer, the trapper, and M. § Simmons, farmer, hurried down to the town of Valley Head to notify State police. Last night back along the trail that the pair had marked with hatchets on trees. searched Bolling Officers Leave. Maj. Louis M. Field, Bolling Field flight surgeon, and Lieut. W. A. R Robertson, one cf a number of Bolling Field pilets who took part in the aerial search for Lieut. E. H. Bobbitt, today flew to Elkins, W. Va., to take charge for the Army Air Corps of funeral ar- rangements. ‘The two officers tock off from Bolling Field in an Army observation plane at | 7:40 o'clock this morning, expecting to land at Elkins Washington this afternoon. WINS ELECTRICAL PRIZE 7—The | 24, | the police started | They were to return to | VOTE FOR DISTRICT D IN SESSION | \ e | | } | i URE 'Rug Cleaners’ Institute Dele- gates Asked to Back Rep- resentation Fight. Delegates to the twelfth annual con- vention of the Rug Cleaners' Institute of America, which opened its sessions today at the Raleigh Hotel, were urged to work in behalf of national represen- | tation for the District of Columbia by | Robert Lee Pyle, chairman of the local | committee. In welcoming the convention Mr Pyle reminded the delegates that Wash- ington, as the National Capital of the country, was their city. “I want to suggest to you that when you leave Washington to carry back | home with you the fact that we have no vote in this Capital,” he said. | “We are subject to taxes, to fight | in wars, but have no voice in our| Government. So when you return | home I request that you ask your Con- | gressman to think about our condition | and put in a plug for us. We ought | to_have national representation.” | The convention session will continue through Saturday, when a tour will be made of cleaning plants In this city The election of officers will be held to- morrow, followed by the annual din ner at the Raleigh in the evéning. This | afternoon was devoted tc technical sub- jects. led by C. C. Hubbard of Wash- ington f‘hllll’“ P. Gott, manager of the trade association deparémeat of the United States Chamber of Commerce was the other speaker at the morning session. Tomorrow the institute delegates will | discuss the expansion of the rug-clean- ing industry to take in the cleaning of furniture as a new business in the United States. A. R. Gutterson, presi- dent of the Institute of Carpet Manu- facturers, and John W. Stephenson, trade journal editor, will be the prin- cipal speakers. | MOSES RETAINS OFFICE AS DEADLOCK REMAINS The determined and silent struggle waged by Western Republican insur- gents against the re-elaction of Senato Moses of New Hampshire as presiden | pro tempore was shoved aside yesterday, aving Moses in the office. Twenty-five ballots had failed ¢ break the deadlock and in th> absence of an election Moses carries on. ‘Tha New Hampshire Republican had in- curred the displeasure of his Western 705 ACUTE INDIGESTION strik e "« Night! (when drug stores are closed.) ‘Why not be safe with Bell-ans on hand . , , Now! BELL-ANS @g FOR INDIGESTION Basement Office for Rent at 1719 Eye Street W. GROOMES cooking GULDENS Mustard B No Thoroughfarel When a man protects his home with" K METAL WEATHERSTRIPS he puts a “no thoroughfare” signbeforeall incomingcold and outgoing heat. The sav- ing in fuel is a revelation to those who have never koown the comfort of a draftless home and the satis- faction of a painless fuel bill. This saving continues as long as the building stands every job is fully guar- anteed. May we help you save? Folder on request Telephone National 4311 Wolfe Rated First | colleagu"s through a speech made more |than a year ago, referring to them as the “sons of the wild jackass. | sion got through the House under the | Holman rule, as a legislative rider on 500,000. Most of it was spent for the welfare of colored children of the A < a mail order house. At thai| Home of G. W. time Sears needed more capital and | Accurate Metal Weather Strip Co. 1931 New Ye ve. N.W., Wash,, D.C. now the question is raised whether they shall be permitted ‘to spend for their BY FRIENDSHIP CITIZENS in Christmas Contest. First Prize for Best Home Electri- cal Display Is Won by J. ‘W. Barrett. The Friendship Citizens' Association celebrated the new year last night with % dance and entertainment in the au-| ditorium of the Janney School | A cup was awarded to J. W. Bar- | rett, 4222 Wisconsin, avenue, as first | priz> for the best home electrical display during th» Christmas season. The con- test was sponsored by the Federation of | Citizens' Assoclations and the Electric | YLeague of Washington. Honorable men- | tion was given Dr. Thomas Foster, ( 4211 Chesapeake street, and H. Le Rone Walther, 5028 Wisconsin avenue. Harry Friedman, president of the | association, presided during the enter- | tainment P A short business meeting preceded | SPECIAL NOT! | woman n a 8 p.m. Cen- ! the appropriation bill for 1925. on a theory that it was in order if it meant a reduction or retrenchment in the Fed- eral Government's obligation. It got through the Senate by threat of no appropriation bill for the District if the Senate refused to yield. When the lump-sum provision was offered on the floor of the House in the | Spring of 1924 as an amendment to the District appropriation bill, points of order were raised against it. In the ensuing debate those who felt such an amendment was not in order on an appropriation bill pointed out that it did not seek to reduce the total carried by the bill, but merely the Federal share, and that to comply with the in- tent of the rule it should be a re- duction in the amount to be expended under the bill Supporters of the lump- sum amendment insisted it was only | necessary that it be a retrenchment in the Federal expenditure to be in order The points of order were overruled and the amendment went into the bill | Thus, it was held, in effect, that the substantive 60-40 ratio could be de- parted from for the purpose of reliev- _ | ing Uncle Sam of a part of his obliga- ., | tion s and come before the e bank at 3 o'clock 12, N M. DeMARCO. Cash ting, will be on’ Tuesdas. SUITABLE FOR weddings and TRAN othe OF THE SHARE- | Trust Company te the ebruary 86, 245 secured by said rated herein MEETING, ockholders of CKHOLDERS 1'be NOTICE anr i be held 36th and M on Thursda 4 from 11 o'clock am N, D CRAM 7] ROOMS _PA ave Do Daper all Col 3588 @RCHIDS BOUGHT PAPERHANGING ERED. Ples_ ¢ SOLD AND RESTORE Address Box 1 WANTED—LOADS YORK th and We: we al anywhere STORAGE CO. North_3342-3343. This resvice get you back The Naudnarle Ca;a FLA. AVE.. 3rd and N N.E. Linc. 6060 ROOF WORK— = will times. —of any nature promptly and capably per- | the surplus was accumulated under the | Gull b District 0933 Tormed by practical roofers up! Roofing npany. Make Comfortable, Livable! Rooms With CELOTEX D your Senate Forced to Yield. | The Senate yielded reluctantly to the | House in that first departure from the | | definite proportion system in 1924. The | | original House amendment proposed | $8.000,000 as & lump sum. The Senate | wanted either to adhere to the 60-40 law or a $14,000,000 lump sum. The | $8.000,000 figure finally emerged as a compromise in order to pass the bill Returning to the question of the city's accumulated surplus, the District did | not win recognition of its right to that | fund without overcoming _opposition |1t had to combat efforts which were made during the 1922 inquiry to show that the municipality was indebted to the United States in a variety of ways which, if sustained, would have eaten up the surplus. As a striking example. {the Joint Select Committce was asked | to go back prior to 1880 and reopen | old claims of the United States against the District, long since settled for- | given and forgotten. Some of these | were claims on which the United States | had accepted the principal amor | without charging interest, an | committee was asked to fig | on these claims. ever, came to this conclusion “While the Congress has. of course. extensive powers with relation to t District of Columbia, it is our viction that the collection of on these paid-up accounts, partic when it is specified that settlemen in full’ or ‘in full settlement.’ can be supported, either on legal or eq; ble_principles.” The committee reached a general conclusion that in making any settle- ments as the result of its report no interest be held to be due from the one government to the other. » It also was urged upon the comm | that, under the language of the resolu ! tion, it was required to make a list fc the information of Congress of all sums spent by the United States in beau: fying and upbuilding the National Capi- | tal since 1874, regardless of whetk such sums had ever been considercd affecting fiscal relations between | Federal and local governments witness, using the Lincoln Memoria an illustration, took the view that whi ttee gard such Federal projects as sub. -50 or 60-40 ratios, yet it wa | duty of the committee to Teport on & | such items for.the consideration of Cc gress in determining the surplus qu tion National Projects Excluded. Phe committee stated in its report that no portion of expenditures made wholly out of Federal funds for the pur pose of constructing national memorials monuments in honor of any national hero or character, or commemorating any national event, should be charge- able to the District in making up the organizations in Washington n the Citizens' Joint Committee iscal Relations, answered fully all of the claims suggested as possible off- | sets against the District's surplus and lnlm listed a number of counter claims | which could equitably have been put | forward by the District if Congress had 1| decided to go back to 1874 and reopen | closed matters ital PrCSSi The Joint Committee of District Citi- | zens not only submitted arguments to | demonstrate the existence of the sur- | plus, but stressed the point that since | half-and-half law, it should have been made available on that basis to meet accumulated municipal needs. The sur- plus, however, was made available with. out being matched by the Federal Gov- ernment. In its brief dealing with the.surplus You can make a spare room of YOUr | problem in 1922, the Citizens' Commit- sitic, basement porch, etc. with Celotex “No order too small.” . FRANK KELLY, Inc 131 Ga. Ave. N.W. Lumber—Millwork—Paint— Cosl—Sand—Grovel—Cement garage, “Budden Service " North 1343 +| tee _contended “The legal and moral obligation thus demonstrated to exist is equitably sat- isfled only by the application of the urplus in accordance with the half- and-half law under which it was ac- cumulated to meet the District'’s half of the expense of neglected municipal needs of the war-timeJwhich neglects own benefit the surplus which they have | thus accumulated. through violation by | Congress, their exclusive Legislature, of the literal terms of the act of 1878, ] (3) They are not only thus burdened | with the resurrected alleged indebted- ness long ago dead, buried and de- cayed. of the remote past, and are not | only thus held from.the use of mil- lions of taxes, collected from them in ! the last three years, constituting their | tax revenue of the present, but they are menaced with imposition of the bur- | dens of the taxpayers of the futue by | the requirement that in addition to | current taxes for current maintenance | they shall be taxed to raise millions to | meet the first half-year expenditure of 1927-28 under the new so-called pay-as you-go policy, recently proclaimed by Congress. s pay-as-you-go policy obviously exposes itself as really a pay- before-you-go policy.” Surplus Computed. After weighing the miscellaneous as- sortment of matters that had been sug- | gested as possible offsets against the | money of the District taxpayers in the | Treasury, the Joint Senate and House Committee found that the District had, as its people contended. a surplus of | local tax money in the Treasury. The| committee found the surplus to be | $4,671,196.97, but it approved three ad- justments in the accounts which re- duced ‘he ftotal to a net surplus of | $4,438,154.9: These adjustments con- sisted of a portion of the cost of addi- tional land the Government had bought | for the National Zoological Park, a por- tion of the $240 war-time bonus paid to local employes and half of the amount of a special relief bill Congress had | passed Before the bill recognizing the surplus became a law, in 1925, the District gov- ernment called attention of Congress to a further sum of $819,373.83, which it regarded as belonging to the city. Con- gress left this claim up to the controller general, who later that year ruled in favor of the District, which made the surplus fund $5,257.528. As enacted, the law recognizing the surplus required it to be used for school buildings, parks and playgrounds, As the total of District appropriation bills began to mount under the $9,000,- 000 lump-sum arrangement, which meant, of course, that the District was bearing the whole hyrden of annual increases, the Senate continued its ef- forts-to obtain a more equitable settle- ment of the question. The Senate had ielded reluctantly to the House in that departure from the definite pro- portion system in 1924. When House members first_decided in that year to throw aside the substantive 60-40 law for an arbitrary lump-sum contribution, they proposed $8,000,000. The Senate wanted either to adhere to the 60-40 ratio or a $14,000,000 lump sum. The $9.000.000 figure finally emerged as a compromise. During the ensuing six years the enate, Tecognizing that the gap be- ween $9,000,000 and the total required annually to maintain the Capital was growing constantly wider, made repeat- cd efforts to have the Federal partner pay a more equitable share either by an increase in the lump sum or by re- turning to some percentage ratio. On each occasion, however, the House succeeded in having its way by holding to the $9,000,000 figure, until 1930, ‘en the Senate, by standing firmly its contention for some increase in Federal share, secured an agreement the closing hours of the session, in- creasing the lump sum to $9.500,000. At the same time that the House reed to this increase in the lump sum i adopted the resolution creating the Special House Committee, the Mapes Committee, which has recently de- livered its report. a (Next Article—House Efforts to Re- peal Pixed Ratio Law.) Leisenring Reappointed. M. Leisenring, a member of the rd of Examiners and Registrars of ccts, was reappointed for a five- term, beginning January 17, by the Commissioners yesterday. Will Rogers L Bo | ,SINGAPORE —You heard about he Equator. Well, here is a town that is straddle of it. It runs right through my_hotel room, and in all the beds they have a long, narrow pillow that lays longwa: s. | It's pupposed to be some aid to you in keep- ing cool, and it’s called Dutch ¥ife. This used to be a wild port, but this Dutch wife is the extent of 1% devilment now, South. It was a characteristic of Mr. Rosenwald that in this, as well as other projects, his gifts should have been only a part of the total to be expended. The rest was to be furnished by those benefited The largest part of Mr. Rosenwald's philanthropies have been expended for the welfare of colored people and Jews, | but his generosities had no racial| limitations and his _gifts flowed to whites as well as blacks, to gentiles as_well as to Jews It was in line with his philosophy that his children, some two weeks ago, incorporated the Rosenwald Children's Association Foundation, which was de- signed to carry on, in a slightly differ- ent way, the work of their father. Supported Employes. As Rosenwald helped the men of many strange streets. so did he also help his “co-workers,” as he preferred to call his employes. Perhaps his most spectacular gesture to the employes | came on October 30, 1929, on the fourth | day of the stock market crash. With millions of dollars in paper profits van- ishing every hour, he announced that | he would personally guarantee the ac- counts of any and all of his employes to avert the danger of their savings be- ing sewept away. Almost_as soon as he died messages of condolence began pouring into his Ravinia_home. President Hoover said his death “de- prives the country of an outstanding citizen” Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago said “he was a type of which there are few left.” Clarence Darrow called him “a man of broad ideas and humanitarian in- stincts. He did a great deal of good.” Jane Addams, director of Hull House, Chicago, expressed “a keen sorrow over the death of a dear friend.” Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden said his “was a | very fine and useful life filled with love | for his fellow man of whatever race or creed.” Mr. Rosenwald’s body will be buried some time today. When and where the services will be held are being kept a secret by the family, in accordance with one of the capitalist’s last wishes. “I want,” he said, “a small and in- conspicuous funeral Had Been Newsboy. Julius Rosenwald devoted many mil- lions of the dollars which he amassed in business to hammering at racial and creedal prejudices and to encouraging thrift “The besetting sin of America is ex- travagance,” he said over and over again. His earning power started in 1873, when he pumped a church organ at | Springfield, Ill, for 5 cents an hour. It | | cuiminated in 1910, when he became head of the Chicago mail-order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co. ; He built up this business until its an- | nual turnover exceeded $300,000,000 and its branches could be found in almost every sizable town from coast to coast. In the interim he had been a newsboy in Springfield, a clothing store clerk in New York, a shopkeeper on Fifth ave- nue and a manufacturer of men’s clothing. Buildings at the University of Chi- cago and the Rosenwald Industrial Museum testified to his civic helpful- ness. His work as a dollar-a-year man |in the World War and a gift of $1.- 000,000 in 1913 to the Council of Grain Exchanges for research work in crop improvement_ were evidences of his patriotism. In 1923 the Sears-Roebuck | Agricultural Research Foundation was established as a step in actual farm re- lief through scientific marketing. His interest in the Negro was aroused by Booker T.Washington, famous Negro educator and head of the Tuskegee In- stitute. From donations to the insti- tute, the interest developed into a campaign for primary and secondary schools for Negroes. Negroes and whites co-operated, State and county governments agreed | to operate the schools and the program | | became so ambitious that in 1917 the| | Rotenwald Fund was _established 'in Chicago. For the first 10 years Mr. Rosenwald personally directed this work. In 1928, however, he became ohairman of the fund's board of di- Tectors and active management was placed in the hands of a full-time | stafr. Built Colored Y. M. C. A, an $5,000,000 had been de- vagretou:he work by the end of 1830 and 5,075 schools for Negro children, housed in clean, modern, airy buildings, dotted the Southern States from Mary- ‘Texas. ln%‘:l‘fbmhm?nt in Chicage of the first | Negro Y. M. C. A. was largely through | Mr. Rosenwald's efforts. After several yehrs of successful operation he made a standing offer of $25.000 to any city which would raise $125,000 for a similar Christian center for Negroes. As a re- sult, more than $625,000 was given by him for such buildings in many cities. Mr. Rosenwald’s Jewish charities were more direct and larger than his Negro benefactions. He spent $5,000,000 to hel Russian Jewish farmers back on lenguttn cr:r;nel after they had other sections of 1 | when Mr. , States to be so nervous and depressed | will be solved. | Mr. Rosenwald bought a half interest | in tre business for $70.000. A vear later he became vice president and in 1910, Sears died, he was made president Rocbuck & Co. had become werth | $150.000,000. Mr. Rosenwald established the revo- lutionary policy in the mail order busi- | ness of refunding purchase money to dissatisfied - customers without (lllP‘-| tion. The wisdom of this step was at- tested by the growth of his house From $11000.000 in 1900, the sales jumped to $50,000,000 in 1906, to $100.- 000000 in 1014 and $270,000,000 in| 1919. Mr. Rosenwald was married twice. | His first wife was Augusta Nusbaum of Chicago, to whom he was wed April 8, 1890. She died in May, 1929, and the | following January he married _the mother-in-law of his eldest _son, Les- ting Rosenwald, She was Mrs. Ade- | laide Goodkind, widow of & merchant at St. Paul, Minn. The wedding took place at the Les- sing Rosenwald home, near Philadel- phia. By a prenuptial agreement. Mrs. Goodkind was given $1,000,000 and waived dower rights in the Rosen- wald estate HOOVER PAYS TRXUBUTE. President Says Nation Is Deprived of Outstanding Citizen. The Nation was deprived of an out- standing citizen and a man of far- reaching humanitarian _ activities through the death of Julius Rosenwald President Hoover said yesterday shortly after being informed of the death of the Chicago philanthropist. ‘The President paid Mr. this_tribute: “The death of Julius Rosenwald de- prives the country of an outstanding citizen. His business ability found ex- pression in commercial achievements! of great magnitude and | Rosenwald importance. | His patriotism was reflected both in| his services in the cause of nationalf defense during the war, and in his devotion to the upbuilding of the life of the community and the country in times of peacg, “One of h most conspicuous con- tributions to the public welfare was through his humanitarian activities. His warmhearted human sympathy for all mankind resulted in munificient gifts for the advancement of public health, education, housing and the wide reach of social amelioration. He was a distinguished patron of the arts. The foundation which he created for the ‘well being of mankind' constitutes a monument to his vision, sympathy and generosity.” KREUGER, MATCH KING, CONFERS WITH HObVER No Reason for Americans to Worry About Conditions in Europe, He Says. There is no reason for the United over economic conditions in Europe, according to Ivar Kreuger, president of the Swedish Match Co., and one of the outstanding capitalists of Europe, who was one of President Hoover's callers today. In giving this reassuring view to the President, Mr. Kreuger stated that, while Europe has its problems, they Moreover, even though | they are serious, the situation is not sufficiently grave in Europe to cause any panicky feeling in America. The Swedish match King was accom- panied to the White House by Minis- ter Bostrom of Sweden and they were with the President for more than 20 minutes. Passengers—U.S. Air Mail ROUND TRIP New York $20 Norfolk $18 18 passenger Cutiss Condors leave 5 and arrive at Washington-Hoover Airport oa frequent and convenient schedules, with non-stop_section for New York ac 3:30 p.m. Curtiss Condors are the most luxurious airiines in service in U. 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