Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1932, Page 13

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 6. 19 —PART ONE. TRADECOMMISSON BREMDOHNLOONS 200 Face Job Loss if House Cuts Appropriation by $460,000. Dismissal by July 1 of 200 employes, %5 or 80 of whom face loss of their Jobs this month, and a breakdown in the machinery of the Federal Trade Commission, was declared yesterday by Chairman Willlam E. Humphrey to be inevitable if the half-million-dollor slash in the 1933 appropriation bill just reported to the House goes through. The trouble lies, he explained, in the fact the House Appropriations Com- mittee, in framing the measure, went along with the Budget Bureau and knocked out $460,000 requested by the commission to pursue investigations or- dered by the Senate into four indus- tries. It then, however, directed that two of these inquirles—utilities and chain stores—be financed to the extent of $300.000 out of the lump sum al- Jotted the commission. Fund Diversion Looms. Consequently, to get the money for this special work, it will be necessary to divert it from the amount that should be allowed for the regular quasi-judicial functions of the com- ission, hampering these activities and hitting the personnel i Further, the two oth nvestigations under way at the behest of the Senate, namely, cement and building mate- rials, must be halted to avoid & de- ficlency. ‘This will account for the rest of the reduction in force. 1t is temporary workers engaged principally in these two inquiries, de- signed to uncover price-fixing, who will lose out around the middle of this month, unless congressional aid is forthcoming, it was said. The remaining 125 or so, due for dis- missal in June, however, are for the most part regular employes who would have to step out in order that the tem- porary forces on the utilities and chain stores inquiries could continue with their work. Unless there is a new deal, Chairman Humphrey asserted, “it means that in- stead of Congress giving an appropria- tion to carry on work that it has ordered, we will have to discharge regular em- Ployes to care for it.” He summed up the situation by de- fi:rmg it would “disrupt and disorgan- the whole work of the commission.” Failed to Provide Money. Chairman Humphrey blames the present development on what he ex- plains has been the practice of the Sen- mte to order an investigation, without providing money to do the work. The commission has been going ahead with the inquiries, taking care of them out of available funds, and then balancing mccounts by later authorization or de- fclency appropriations. At present there are six such inquirles on the docket, two of which, covering the cottonseed and peanut industries, virtually are wound up. In only one case, he says, was an appropriation made at the time investigation was launched. $150,000 being provided for the chain stores survey The commission policy of shifting sbout appropriations to meet deman: upon it, £rst ran into a snag in con- nection with the cement and bullding materials investigations. The first-named was sponsored in & resolution by Senator Norris, Republi- can, of Nebraska; the second, by Sena- tor Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, of Minne- sota. The cement investigation was to take in not only domestic production, but foreign importations. The second inquiry was intended to establish if there had been any collusion in fur- nishing materials for the Nation-wide Government building program. Both were ordered after the Trade Commission had submitted its esti- mated expenditures for the fiscal year 1932, but they were begun Wwith other funds, the commission utilizing about $70,000 in this work. Appropriation Refused. When & deficlency appropriation was sought the Budget Bureau turned down the request, on the ground, according to the commission, that the principle involved was wrong, that work should not be begun until it had been pro- | vided for. This attitude was adopted, it was sald by Chairman Humphrey, despite the fact the commission had simply fol- lowed a precedent of years' standing When the commission submitted its estimates to the Budget Bureau, it was said, $390,000 was lopped off that would have taken care of investigations in the next fiscal year, and the House Appro- priztions Committee backed up this cut and also rejected the request of the commission for an additional 870,000 to care for the item previously turned down by the Budget Bureau. Holding the commission appropria- tion then to $1,236,500, the committee specified that “$300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be Thomas Beecham Has Given Million Pounds to Opera. Recalls Two Previous Visits, One to Lead Orchestra Four Years Ago. | sir Thomas Beecham, distinguished British musician and patron of music, an energetic “music-minded” million- aire, will come to Washington Tuesday | to conduct the third and final program | here this season by the New York | Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Sir Thomas is not well known here, as he has been in America only twice | before. The first time he was but 15 The second time, four years ago, he made a fying trip of two weeks’ dura- tion as guest leader of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. He appeared in Washington leading that orchestra at the Washington Auditorium Sir Thomas, whose father made a | fortune “by making the inhabitants of Alblon pill-conscious™—as one New York reporter put it in an interview with Sir Thomas last Sunday, has been a keen student of music since his earliest days. Both his first school and his college at Oxford found him spe- cializing in music studles. Then he be- gan his career as a musician in earnest, conducting for & touring opera company in 1902 and having his first concert of symphony music in Queen’s Hall, Lon- don, three years later. Has Neat Goatee. Sir Thomas is a dapper, short person with a neatly tailored goatee. He is unusually responsive to the music he conducts. He has lost as much as a| million English pounds in the cause of opera. His chief hobby is his Imperial | Opera League, which, he told reporters | last week, “has a membership of 40,000 and considerable money.” On his previous flying visit Sir Thomas created a definite impression that he felt the British to be generally an unmusical race. He was consider- ably quoted to that effect. He gave real news to Americans gen- erally in the statement that opera today is subsidized by the British government to the extent of £20,000 a year, & plan started by the Labor government. Of | the famous Bach choir of Bethlehem, | Pa.. he said: “Does your Bach choir ever sing Bach? The reason I ask is that in| England we have a Haendel Society. | So far as T am able to discover, they sing anything and everything but Haendel.” Haendel Festival Pictured. His description of the annual Haendel festival at the Crystal Palace was amusing. “There are 4,000 people, all singing | away for dear life,” he explained, “under & glass roof, surrounded by some 20,000 | audif . It always takes place on the | hottest days of the year. You can im- againe what effect the rays of the sun must have, beating down on that glass roof. And you can also judge for your- self from the fact that they have to have 30 or 40 trained nurses in at- tendance. “It is most embarrassing for a con- ductor, because the performances are constantly punctuated by singers faint- ing all over the place. No sooner have they dragged out an unconscious soprano than one of the contraltos col- lapses with much commotion. It is an amazing spectacle; you really should see it some time. And so English!” Sir Thomas will conduct an unusual | program of three full symphonies here Tuesday. He presents works by Haydn, Mozart, his favorite composer, and Cesar Franck., Mrs. Robert Low Bacon is chairman of sponsors of the Washington com- mittee arranging for the concert, which | will be held at 4:30 o'clock at Constitu- | | tion Hall. | TED BRITISH MUSIC PATRON HERE TO CONDUCT PROGRAM |FATAL EXPLOSION CAUSES 2 ARRESTS [ Manslaughter Charged in Garage | Accident Which Caused Death of Martin Swan. A coroner’s jury yesterday held two men for the grand jury in connection with the death Friday of Martin Swan, 28, of 1257 Oates street northeast, from injuries received Tuesday when a gaso- line tank near which he was working | exploded. 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