Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1932, Page 5

HOUSE ECONOMY UNIT SEEKS STATUS Vote Today May Give Special Committee Power to Re- port Own Bills. The Special Economy Committee in search of ways to cut down the cost | of Government sought from the House today the same standing in reporting Jegislation that the regular committees enjoy. Although it has as yet drawn no bills for consolidating cr eliminating any Government functions, the committee has asked authority to report its own measures directly for action instead of having to go thrugh the rcutine of obtaining their approval by standing committees. A vote on the point was scheduled for today and approval was expected. So far little definite progress has been made toward achieving the big slash needed to meke any dent in the fcur-billion-dollar annual budget. Hearings Under Way. The regular Expenditures Committee of the House is holding hearings on a bill to set up a public works adminis- tration to consolidate most of the Gov- ernment’s building forces, but its Gov- ernment witnesses have been advising the committee to turn the job over to President Hoover, as he himself origi- nally suggested. The much-sdvertised plan for con- solidating the War and Navy Depart- ments, after two attempts were made to report it to the House, attained a state of suspended animation on thel committee’s table. Its sponsors will not admit that it is dead or shelved, but no definite plans have been announced for getting it under way again. Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader, said: “There is a perceptible swing toward the sales tax among the membership, despite the onslaughts of the opposition. ‘The turning point came yesterday with the speech of Representative Huddle- ston, Democrat, Alabama. We have not given up hope. Instead, we have more confidence in our belief that it will be adopted.” La Guardia Sees Defeat. On_the other hand, Representative | La Guardia, Republican, New York, author of a substitute plan, forecast the 2.25 per cent levy on sales would be defeated. He predicted it would be sent back to the Ways and Means Commit- tee with instructions to substitute heavy levies on selected industries and an in- crease in first-class postage. Acting Chairman Crisp plans to call the committee tomorrow to consider proposed amendments to the sales pro- ‘vision looking to the elimination of ad- ditional foods, canned and otherwise processed, which would reduce the rev- enue from about $595,000,000 to $585,- 000,000. Meanwhile general debate will enter the fourth day today and will be permitted to run late into the week in order that every member desiring to discuss the measure will have his chance. “We have won our major objective in making the House and the people of the country realize the importance of balancing the budget in 1933,” Rainey sald. “Those who have opposed the sales tax have definitely committed themselves to voting for heavy levies on automobiles, gasoline, radios and in- creasing postage, and they can't back out. Determined to Meet Deficit. | “We are going to a bill to meet the prospective $1,241,000,000 deficit, if we have to stay here all Summer. It must be done, either through the just sales tax or the irritable and obnoxious war-time taxes.” With the full indorsement of the bill given by Secretary Mills at a con- ference yesterday with Speaker Garner and last night in a radio address, a majority of the Republicans is expected by Representative Snell of New York, party leader, to vote with the Demo- cratic stalwarts. However, a poll made by Democratic leaders indicated that about 60 per cent of their forces were against the sales tax. Snell said he belleved the bipartisan support “will put it over.” Jouett Shouse, chairman of the| Democratic National Executive Com- mittee, said in a statement through the National Committee, that as a result of the victory in 1930 elections that gave it control of the House “the Democratic party is in the position of having to meet a deficit for which it is in no wise responsible, but the budget must be balanced if the credit of the Government is to be maintained.” Tax Held Necessary. “No one can be more Gefinitely op- d to a general sales tax than am " Shouse sald. “I consider it wholly undesirable, but if the present so-called manufacturers’ tax, recommended by the Ways and Means Committee and embodied in the revenue bill, should not be adopted, where can a substitute be found that will yield the necessary money and that will not prove more inequitable and more undesirable than the sales tax?” Shouse said he was personally “in accord with those who would so change our laws as to permit the manufacture of beer with the alcoholic content of approximately 3 per cent and would place upon this beverage a tax suffi- cient to secure a sum virtually equal to that contemplated from the manu- facturers’ tax.” “I appreciate the situation in which Democrats find themselves when they have properly opposed the theory of a sales tax and when now they are confronted with a deficit created not | by s Democratic administration, but | by & Republican administration, which | they are asked to care for,” he said.| Must Meet Crisis. | “It seems to me, however, that in present circumstances there is but one ition to take, and that is that a | condition as serious as the crisis of | war has to be met, and the only way | it can be met is by preserving beyond attack the credit of our Government.| ‘Whatever sacrifice may be necessary to_that end must be made.” Representative Ayres, Democrat, Kansas, in a statement questioned the | accuracy of the estimate of the Treas- ury that but $5,000,000 would be de- rived from the 1-cent-a-gallon tax in the bill on imported petroleum. The Kansan said the Treasury had made mistakes of hundreds of millions in estimates of revenue from time to | time and expressed the opinion that if | the annual importations of foreign oil | fell below the 105,000,000 barrels of im- | ported oil and refined products which entered this country at the very time that American producers had curtailed their uction 109,000,000 barrels be- low the figures of the previous years, it would still be sufficiently large to net a pleasant revenue.” “Any reduction in the importation of foreign oil would be compensated by the increased production of American petroleum, which pays heavy State taxes and pays to the Federal Govern- ment large sums in corporation taxes and income taxes” he said. “These taxes have not been very considerable in the past few years, when the for- eign ofl dominated the American mar- Meanwhile, letters and telegrams in on the House members pro- y all phases of the rev- enue bill. —e. Beed Loan Group Formed. o ent fun o ) d to make another - i THE EVENING Anti-Hoarding Letters Last Installment Received Judges and Prizes in Contest Considered by Will Be Awarded This Week. DLE dollars were brought out from under the carpet, from the safety deposit box and other hiding places and put to work, according to testi- mony of Washingtonians in the last installment of letters received in The Star’s anti-hoarding letter contest. | Judges now have the letters under; consideration for the prizes of $100 for | the best letter; $50 for the second best and $25 for the third best. The prizes | will be awarded this week. | The last installment of letters fol- | lows: Spending Helps Others. “Come out of hiding, all you dol- lars hiding in mattresses, old socks and dark corners; you're tying up credit. Do you know what that means? The longer you stay in hid- ing, the less you are worth, you are losing weight. Your buying power gets rusty. Come out into the day- light and get busy. Get yourselves deposited in a savings account to- day. “Spending helps others. My lit- tle money helps the man who runs the smail business. Put the idle dollars in circulation, the unem- ployed would have plenty of work, there would not be any poverty. “When we realize that strict economy is no longer stylish, and that hoarding seemed criminal, we decided that our plan of a hard- time fund hidden away was wrong and unnecessary.” $100 Put to Work. “I have stopped hoarding. In good faith and sincerity of the cause I have responded to the call of ‘stop hoarding’ by depositing $100 in a savings bank for the purpose of cir- culation and doing its little bit to- ward the help of mankind. “I have listened to the pleadings of authorities on hoarding, and it seems to be a pathetic and baffling situation. To my mind the only solution is for the hoarding public to put all of their idle dollars into circulation, and by doing this the frozen credits will become thawed out and will flow to the natural channel of prosperity, which will cause the death of ‘Old Man Depres- sion’ forever, I sincerely hope.” Moved by Addresses. “Had $100 hid away for safety un- der the carpet. Heard Knox, Hoo- ver, Robinson, Dawes and Coolidge speak over the radio Sunday evening. Quite convincing was Knox's in- troductory, Hoover’s talk, Robinson's flowery language—but Gen. Dawes’ sledge-hammer sentences brought about a climax and a knockout feel- ing regarding the sanity of having money hidden away. Hearing Cool- idge’s statement read later, thal Uncle Sam absolutely guaranteed payment of these short-term bonds in 2 to 12 months, and allowing 2 per cent interest yearly thereon— suddenly it was plain as daylight how dumb any one was not to spend the $100 for a bond.” Thought for the Needy. “About & week ago I was acci- dentally placed in very trying cir- cumstances. I went one whole day without any food to eat or fire to keep me warm. Although I was none the worse for my experience, since I had food and proper care the next day, I began to think about my less fortunate brothers. “If 1 was weak from hunger by going one day without food, how about the jobless people who perhaps go many days hungry and cold? “I decided then that if my few hoarded dollars would help comfort innocent sufferers, I would gladly release them.” Investment and Success. “This is a hard-headed letter, free of emotion or elation. Not to hoard is actually to be benignly selfish. At no time during the decline of the stock market was I tempted to sell my securities, even when current market values were lower than those that prevailed when I purchased them. Let it be said at the offset, however, that my purchases were not speculative, nor was there any margin tied to any of them. I bought them to hang on to. Twenty- five shares of copper stock I have carried through one war and two depressions. “So long as there is copper in the ground (United States domain), peo- ple to mine and industry to use it, those shares will be good. The cop- per industry can keep that money busier than I can, and yet it re- mains my money. When I do want it I will reap not once my original ‘stake,” but several times that stake. “People who are now leaving their money with, say, the electrical in- dustry, will ald in discovering new uses for copper, and there you are! My dollar helps the other investor, and his helps me. Both industries gain, also. “T don’t mind having my money | in banks and in industries—out of range of the naked eye. Should the country go bankrupt, that same money would be no more valuable to me because it had been hoarded in a sock or under a creaky board in my floor. Just because it had re- mained ‘under my thumb’ would be no guarantee of maintained value. The value of money is directly de- pendent upon the health and secur- ity of the United States of America —that is, the Government. So long as the country is whole the money will be worth something—and my money will not be worth more or less than the money of someone else. It the country falls, my money will not be worth a grain of sand. “Given the choice of risks, I elect to have my dollars out from under my feet instead of hoarded. A dol- lar's worth of loose change in my pocket (for carfare, newspapers aind lunch) and a check book in my pocket, with people around me who are ready to honor my checks, is all I ask. That's all any fellow can ask. “I haven't got time to keep my dollars out of mischief, there are so many good and trained bankers, railroaders, shippers, industrialists, ete., who can devote all of their time to that job. Let them make my dollars stop loafing. I have already given such men power of attorney to discipline my dollars. I can prove it by showing you my stock certifi- cates that bear dates preceding the Wall Street crash. My dollars will loaf less and work more effectively if your dollars are permitted to work should to shoulder with them. Team- work of that sort will lighten the load all along the line.” Hoarding Folly Halted. “When everybody was talking bank failures I put my money away in a safety box and there it lay until the anti-hoarding campaign appealed to my reason and sense of justice. Then I brought my money out. I bought a fur coat and passed my old one on to a needy person. I installed electric refrigeration in my kitchen, work for the good of the Nation and to help restore in our country’s business Anticipation Is Realized. ized in the now known ‘anti-hoard- ing plan’ “Now, knowing that my savings are ylelding beneficial resuits to my- self and others, I feel contented and safeguarded. Why shouldn't 12 What did the proverbial miser profit?” My savings are guaranteed by the Government now. My neigh- bor gets a chance to handle the dusty dollar. The community will hnve' less dependents and the State’s industrial activities will be- gin to stir. You can help likewise. Why hoard?” Why Hoarding Stopped. “Money, symbolical of wealth, Is @ means of exchange. It may rep- resent land, buildings, live stock or commodities. The value of it de- pends upon demand. If in circula- tion, money enables man to procure necessities that he has been unable to acquire otherwise. This process makes a cycle which may be broken by stopping the flow (hcarding). That actually happened. The Gov- ernment _authorities then estab- lished a place for investment, so as to bring returns to the investor and also to make the exchange medium accessible to others, thus restoring the cycle and finally reviving trade. This is why hoarding was stcpped.” Confidence “Aids Prosperity. “With confidence returning, pros- perity is surely just around the corner. “We accept the President’ d that it is now time fo put. our money in the banks again, buy baby government bonds, refurnish our- selves, our familes and our homes. ‘Give whatever surplus we can manage to those less fortunate than ourselves, to those out of present employment but willing to work. ‘With this in view every mem- gar?y hourseth:ld is making daily urchases of 0se th v feelwwe need. s h e “We do this with a feeling of fi]t]ri%tetsm B:m:o a realization th:z 1t al our person: - fort and happiness.” Deomlcou | TWO BURNED TO DEATH AS STOLEN CAR CRASHES | Speeding Auto, Believed Carrying Liquor, Bursts Into Flames as It Hits Bridge. By the Assocated Press. DOTHAN, Ala, March 14—Two un- identified men sped to their death in a stolen automobile near Bonifay, Fla., yesterday as the machine crashed into a bridge and caught fire. A_motorist said the car passed him at high speed and crashed head-on into the bridge railing and immediately the wreckage was enveloped in flames. Persons attracted by the screams of the trapped men were unable to ap- grm:ch the car because of the intense eat. Officers said a number of cans in the wreckage indicated that the men may have been running whisky, and that the liquor intensified the flames. The car was stolen from W. L, Fitch here Saturday. The bodies of the men were brought here from Bonifay, but no one could identify them. LEGION PLAY.COMMITTEE HEADED BY MRS. FAINTER “The College Flapper” Will Be Presented by Snyder-Farmer Post in Hyattsville. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 4— Mrs. Mary Fainter yesterday was made chairman of the Cast Committee for the play, “The College Flapper,” to be presented under a Farmer Post, American nings of March 31 and National Guard ere. It was announced that the first meet- ing of the Cast Committee will be held Wednesday night in the post club Tooms here at 8 o'clock and Caesar L. Alello, who has been named an assist- ant to Mrs. Fainter; James Rogers, Dr. Robert W. McCullough, Miss Margaret Fainter and Kenneth A. McRae will be among those taking leading roles. ROOSEVELT BABY BORN BOSTON, March 14 (#)—A girl was born to Mrs. James Roosevelt, daugh- ter-in-law of Gov. Pranklin D. Roose- velt of New York, at the Richardson House of the Boston Lying-in Hospital early yesterday. The baby weighed 8 pounds and has been named Sarah Delano Roosevelt, after her great-grandmother. Mrs. Roosevelt is the daughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing of Boston, noted brain surgeon. Lynchburg Woman Dies. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 14 (Spe- cial).—Mrs. Ida C. Layne, 70, dled(BrD- gfln);: at r:er home near Gladys, Camp- ounty. She is children, among me“‘.'Xvfif’nf"c.”:"xf Wills, Thomas E. La Miss Lane of Hopewell. e snd by STAR, WASHINGTON, RODGERS ROMANCE - STIRS FAMILY ROW Girl’s Kin Insist Wedding to Occur—Youth’s Father Disagrees. By the Associated Press | ROME, March 14—The frustrated | romance of the young titled Italian, | the Marchese Lorenzo Solari and | Alicia Rodgers, 18, granddaughter of the late American Ambassador to Italy, | today apparently had become an inter- family dispute. They hn?fly of Miss Rodgers yester- day said the young couple would be married as soon as the necessary for- malities could be arranged. | The marchese’'s family apparently was standing on its assertion of Sat- urday that the young people had not eloped, and that there would be no | marriage. | Both Back at Home. | The only agreed facts were that the marchese and Alicia were back at | home with relatives. | "Miss Rodgers was with her grand- | mother, Mrs. George Von L. Meyer, widow of the late ambassador, and her aunt, the Contessa Brambilla. “We really opposed the marriage,” the contessa said, “only because we had no desire for Alicia to marry into a family that objected to this marriage. But youth is youth—and the youngi people, because of opposition from both sides, took matters into their own hands and ran off together Wednesday. “We would have preferred a normal, dignified wedding, of course. Since the young people are in love with each | other, we expect they will be married shortly. “The young marchese is 22 years old, and therefore over the age of the re- cent marriage law and needs no paren- tal consent. He is now with the militia, but various formalities, such as publi- cation of the banns, as required in Italy, doubtless will be arranged soon.” Disagree on His Age. Saturday the lad's father, head of the Marconi interests in Italy, insisted the marchese was ill and under his care, adding that elopement reports were absolutely false. “I am unalterably opposed to any such marriage and it will not take place,” he said. “My son has not tried to get married. He is only 20 and has military service to do.” ‘The two families apparently dis- agreed as to the youth's age. MOTHER, HERE, SILENT. Knows Nothing of Conflicting Reports on Romance. Miss Alicia Rodgers is the daughter of Capt. Christopher R. P. Rodgers, U. 8. N, retired, of 1621 New Hamp- shire avenue, and Mrs. Philip Coffin of 2110 S street. She formerly attended school here, but for the past three years has been educated abroad. Her sister, Miss Virginia Rodgers, resides in Wash- ington and is well known as an esques- trienne. In Rome, Alicia Rodgers lived with }vl? f!-ndmother. the widow of George n Meyer, one the most prominent American public figures during the Roosevelt and Taft administrations. Mr. Meyer was Ambassador to Italy from 1900 to 1905, Ambassador to Russia from 1905 to 1907, served as Postmaster General in the Roosevelt cabinet from 1907 to 1909 and held the portfolio of Secretary of the Navy under President ‘Taft from 1909 to 19i3. Mrs. Coffin said today she “knew abso- lutely nothing about” the conflicting re- ports of the elopement incident and that pending receipt of information from abroad she had no statement to make. Employes in Capt. Rodgers’ home said he was out of town and insisted they did not know where he could be located. They refused to answer questions con- cerning the marriage. BOYCOTT OF U. S. GOODS THREATENED IN MANILA Cable Sent to Hoover After Meet- ing of Radical Indepndence Organization. By the Associated Press. MANILA, Philippine Islands, March 14—A threat of a boycott against “American imperialist products” was cabled to President Hoover yesterday after a mass meeting of the Philippine Civic Union, a radical independence organization. The cablegram demanded “prompt fulfillment of the promise of independ- ence embodied in the Jones law before we take the bitter step of boycotting American imperialist products.” Police interfered, halting the flow of oratory with the explanation that the time limit for the use of the sta- dium where the meeting was held had expired. More than a thousand persons heard charges that the Philippine Independ- ence Mission in Washington, D. C., was betraying independence by negotiating for a long transition period. P.-T. A. Planning Dance. BRADBURY HEIGHTS, Md., March 14 (Special). —A dance under the auspices and for the benefit of the Parent-Teacher Association of Brad- bury Helghts School will be held to- morrow evening in the school audi- torium. work done. 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