Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1932, Page 6

BARNES PRAISES STABILITY OF U.S. Trade Board Hears Business Leaders on Depression and Relief Activities. Praise for the speedy manner in which opposing parties in Congress co-operated in enacting reconstruction legislation, and a declaration of confidence in American _ stability, were voiced last night by Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in an cddress be= fore the Washington Bo-rd of Trade At the same time, Mr. Barnes ?letms “outgrown” regulatory laws affectin| prlv:!v.e business which he described as “‘shackles” that are proving disastrous to many concerns in unrestricted com- pe;}‘eim::e(emd to the prohibition in Pederal statutes against price fixing by mpetitors. lepstid Lawrence, head of the Con- solidated Press Association and of the United States Daily, who preceded M. Barnes on the program, gave an analys! of depression, tracing it back to the World War and the consequent eso- nomic and social upheaval. Relief Program Lauded. Mr. Lawrence declared the program of emergency relief legislation enacted by Congress had served not only to strengthen the economic structure of this country and to lift up public con- fdence, but would make changes that would last long waer the curreat de- ion had passe pri“muesuon of how private Susiness concerns may lend valuable aid to the community program for Telieving un- employment conditions by creating work was given by Fleming Newbold, business manager of The Star, at the request of the directors of the Board of_Trade. In keeping with the objective of the Jocal Work Creation Committee, head- ed by E. Goring Bliss, he pointed out The Evening Star Newspaper Co. re- cently placed in force & plan under which its employes could obtain loans to be used for various types of home {mprovements, which would benefit them and at the same time provide work for the unemployed mechanics and tradesmen. ; Mr. Newbold expressed the belief that if such a plan or similar arrangements were adopted by a large number of lo- cal business institutions, there would result unemployment relief on a large scale. Savings Fund Employed. The Star, he explained, employed in S o THE EVENING STAR, WASHING i TON Seeks to Arouse Hoarded Dollars “YOICE FROM THE SKY” APPEALS FOR MONEY &y ¥ i A E New York, which sends this giant airplane aloft to ground. It is part of President Hoover's anti-hoarding campaign. CIRCULATION. A startling method of getting the public's ear has been adopted by the Citizens’ Reconstruction Organization of | 4 5 > “sky-cast” an anti-hoarding message that can be heard on the —A. P. Pheto. .. BAN DEBATED WASHINGTON FETE ON STAGE CHILDREN Theatrical Life for Minors N 122 DESLRBED Centennial Celebration Pic- the later history of the island’s owner- Memorial Society. A biographical sketch of John Bell Larner, famous Washington financier and philanthropist, was presented to the society by Walter S. Pratt, jr. who declared “the blood currents of Lar- ner’s heritage brought forth gentle- ness, ablity and intellectuality.” His life, Mr. Pratt said, was comparable to | the eye of day” and made no compro- ship to its acquisition by the Roosevelt |iS that of Lincoln, in that he “lived in | D. D.C.PLANREVEALED Twenty-seven Recommenda- tions Offered After Study. Health Work Stressed. Twenty-seven recommendations for improvement of the public welfare service in the District were urged upon the House District Committee today in a report from the District Commission- ers pursuant ('»P:\ b!’F Ny 25 ittee February 25, Fesolution called upon the Commission- ers to direct and supervise a study of | the conditions of health and welfare of children in the District and to submit 2 comprehensive plan to improve gen- eral conditions of health and physical development of children, to foster the use of the best known methods of | mental hygiene and to increase and ex- tend the opportunities for all children of developing into healthy, capable and socially :eaxnble citizens. The committee which made this study com| of Dr. W. C. Fowler, Dis- | trict Health Officer; George S. Watson, director of public welfare; Miss Sibyl Baker, supervisor of playgrounds; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools; Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court, Marion Wade Doyle and Thomas G. Walsh, assistant corporation counsel. Judge Sellers Missed. | stated that it had not had the benefit ON CHLD WELARE = In making its report this conference | MARCH 16, 1932. recommendations submitted are follows: (1) That a division of health educa- be established in the Health De- partment. (2) A more adequate provision be made for the control of contagious dis- eases, especially with respect immunization against diphtheria, ty- phoid, etc. (3) The establishment of a division of tuberculosis in the Health Depart- ment under a full-time director tuberculosis dispensaries Health Department. | (5) The establishment of a division under the of venereal diseases for the Health De- | | partment under a full-time director (6) The establishment of additional venereal disease dispensaries under the Health Department. (7) The erection of a modern isola- tion hospital for conts SR i the site of and as part of Galli Hospital. | New Hygiene Stations Urged. | (8) The establishment of | child hygiene station the District not now sery (9) The establishment of additional dental clinics in the public schools. (10) Additional medical inspectors and nurses in the public schools. (11) A supervising nurse for the nursing corps in the public schools. (12) An assembly gymnasium for each elementary school building of 16 rooms or more for indoor play, together with at least four or five acres of play space for outdoor games and sports, (13) Separate gymnasiums in the junior high schools for boys and girls and a playfield of five or more acres | suitably equipped to provide both sex with opportunity for exercise, games, fonal ons of ete. (14) Indoor gymnasiums in senior high schools for each sex appropriately | equipped to provide for exercises, cor- to the | (4) The establishment of additional | colleges for each sex ly to provide for exercises, B ics, etc., and an athletic el 5o vide for outdoor games, SPOTts, etc., both boys and k&m 6) The establishmen| or [ hood Playgrol in where school grounds are inadequate to [ supply recreational needs. Labor Inspectors Needed. (17) Additional inspectors for en- forcement of provisions of the child | labor law. | (18) ‘That provision be made for the | support of all children in homes found | to be eligible under- the terms of the | mothers’ pension act. (19) That appropriate -legislation be | enacted to provide for the proper super- | vision of child boarding homes and agencies in the District of Columbia. (20) That the amount contributed in non-support cases by men commit- ted to tire workhouse in the District be increased from 50 cents to 81 a da (21) That the existing law relating to commitment of dependent children in the District be changed to per the Board of Public of Welfare to sume care and custody of dependent children without court commitment (22) That sufficient addition to the staff of field workers under the Boara of Public Welfare be made to insure adequate provision of placement of chil- dren under its care. (23) That community recreation cen- | ters serving a radius of approximately one mile be established and developed | throughout the District when practica- | ble, including i their equipment suita- | ble swimming pools. | (24) The development of nursery | | playgtounds to care fo the small chil- | dren under school age. | (25) That the administration of recre- | ation for the District, now disiributed | under the Commissioners, the Board of | Education, the Office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks, be co-ordinated to prevent duplication of effort. (26) That the present accommoda- tions in the school buildings now being used for crippled children be replaced the Congress give early confedration to the subject of the deliquent child with a view to amending present law to meet the changing views and prac- tices relat! the handl of delinquent, t and n children in the District of Columbia. The House District Committee ordered | that this report be printed. 3 | N HURLEY CHICAGO BOUND | Secretary of War Hurley took off from | Bolling Fleld at 10:25 am. today for | Chicago, where he is to speak tomorrow | night at the St. Patrick’s day anni | xorsacy dinner of the Irish Pellowship Tu The Secretary was accompanied by M. Paul Claudel, Prench Ambassador. They T oted by Lieut. C. W. Cousland tor which makes the flight to Chicago in from five to six hours. They will be met by city officials at the Chi- cago Municipal Airport. New South Wales, tal classes have to discover whether while to spend extra money education of children of superior ability, Cook Your Eggs at the Table the NEW Way, with a HANKSCRAFT EGG SERVICE Electric Ege Cooker, 4 e, M6 iened 'In ‘sof blue or yellow. Limited Formerly $11.50. NOW.. Includ Cups_ani lustrous green offer % MUDDIMAN & Both Defended and Criticized. The bill pending in Congress to amend the District child labor law by lifting the existing prohibition against minors appearing in professional the- atrical productions was alternately de- fended and assailed at a three-hour hearing yesterday afternoon before the Senate District Committee. Proponents of the bill, led by Stephen E. Cochran, manager of the National Theater, painted a roseate picture of the virtues of the stage and the oppor- tunities it holds out for juvenile dra- matic talent. The opponents were equally as vigorous in condemning stage life for a child, chiefly on the ground that the travel, hotel life, late hours and the nervous strain involved is detri- mental to normal development. Cochran strongly defended the mor- he ith and intelligence of the stage and pointed out that the child this plan a savings fund which was created about 12 years ago for the pur- pose of aiding its employes in the pur- chase of their homes. Firms not hav- ing such a fund available, he pointed out, might obtain funds from banlu' to loan to their employes, thus provid- ing capital which the employes &s in- dividuals could not command. George W. Offutt, president of the Board of Trade, announced that the directors of his organization would consider means of fostering widespread | sdoption of the plan. Tribute Paid Leaders, Mr. Barnes, in a general outline of the causes of the depression here and abroad, paid a high tribute to Govern- ment leaders and private citizens for efforts to overcome economic ills. “The generous co-operation mani- fested by Congress in speedily enacting & program of reconstruction legislation was one of the most heartening demon- strations of the capacity of the Amer- ican people for self-government in the country’s history. “As @ resuls of this co-operation, we | have a right to feel confident and hope- ful of Americals future. We are prov- ing under the test of world disaster that our political theory of government of fixed terms of responsibility has many advantages over the unstable European theory of so-called responsible ministry. “We have seen for weeks the over- hanging world question of reparations sheived because three great countries of Europe had to pass through elections brought on by the repudiation of ad- ministrative government almost with- out warning. At least at home we are sure of national administrative policies for a fixed term of four years when we elect a national President. Restraint and Public Spirit. “We have shown in the conduct of legislation this Winter that we have re- straint and public spirit above partisan influence when great questions of na- tional welfare required the enactment of natior legislation. We have a right to believe, based on the intelli- gence end public spirit shown by both the people and their representatives that the problems yet to be settled will § be dealt with in the same spirit of helpful co-operation.” The United States was peculiarly ex- posed to the shocks of the depressicn that enveloped foreign countries, he pointed out. Forty per cent of the American population, he said, were in the earning class, with a new army of woman workers being taken fnto in- dustry, displacing men, 8s & result of the war. More than half of the wealth of the country was invested in real estate, the investment returns cof which suf- fered heavily with the coming of the depression, he said, pointing out that in a decade the United States shifted its position from that of a debtor na- tion to a creditor nation, with the re- sult that the economic structure of this country received a shock when the in- come from investmenis abroad were virtually cut off by depression and credit and currency troubles there. Industry fn Revolution. Also, he said. there was a tremendous revolution in industry during the dec- ade preceding the depression, with the production of the world running ahead of consumption, giving rise to a situation in which there was no pre- cedent to foliow. This, he said, led to price-cutting competition | This created a problem of how to control and conserve production. The “commonsense” way to solve this probe lem, he said, would have been for com- titors to agree on mininfum prices ow which they could not go without entering a field of destructive compe- tition “But,” he declared, “40 yeers ago we made it a criminal act to do the com- monsense thing and this decision that grew out of the ‘trust-busting’ move- ment we have perpetuated and today it is a shackle that is not fitting & revo- lutionized industry.” Sales Tax Approved. Edward F. Colladay submitted & re- port on referendum 60 of the United States Chamber of Commerce, recom- mending approval of 11 of the 13 pro- concerning the tax program now | This was approved he trade body. { The proposals recommend a balancing of the national budget by June, 1934; a broadening of the tax basis, includ- ing adoption of the excise or sales tax, and reduction of expenditurgs to the maximum possible extent The trade body also went on record opposing abolition of capital punish- ment for the District in adopting a re- port by Odell 8. Smith, chairman of the Public Order Committee. Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the board. outlined plans for the raising of a fund to continue the work of the Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the board, organized last year to promote Washingion interests and business on a national basis. A $50,000 budget for the past year was oversubscribed by $10,000. The work of the committee, he reported, h-d brought an estimated total of $10,- is an essential element in numerous theatrical productions. “Green Pas- tures,” a ic of the modern stage, and many other outstanding produc- tions having minors in their casts, he said, cannot be presented in Wishing- ton under existing law. Reveals Safeguards. “I don't think the stage is terrible place,” Cochran SR pro safeguarded and p: more, 1 believe the stage chil intelligent than the average school.” Cochrane mentioned the names of a number of stage celebrities, including Helen Hayes, Elsie Janis and Ina Claire, child in also recited that 3 girls of 20 in the latest Ziegfeld extravaganza, “Hot Cha,” are accompanied by their mothers, and read a letier frcm Helen Hayes in de- fense of the morals and health of the stage child. Cochrane was supported in his plea for passage of the bill by W. W. Keeler of the Central Labor Union, the Actors’ Equity Association, the Theatrical Pro- tective Union, Washington Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Northeast Washington Citizens’ Association, Mid- City Cif ' Association, Levi Cooke of the District Bar Association and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church. The agpotmon was directed by Mrs. ‘Walter 8. Ufford of the Voteless Dis- trict League of Woman Voters, who read to the committee a long list of District organizations opposed to the bill, and introduced more than a dozen witnessses who were unanimous in the constitute a lowering of the standards of child labor protection. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride told the committee the Commis- sioners indorsed the bill with several amendments. One of the proposed changes would limit the appearance of the child on the stage to 4 hours a day and 28 hours a week, Another would require an application for a permit to be filed with the Board of Education at least 21 days before the for a study of the script. Speakers for the opposition included Miss Selma M. Borchardt of the Ameri- can Federation of Teachers, Miss Anne Davis of the National Child Labor Com- mittee, Rev. John A. Ryan of the Na- tional Consumers’ League, Roy F. Woodbury of the Children's Aid So- ciety of Erie County, N. Y.; Miss Fay L. Bentley, director of the Department of School Attendance and Work Per- mits; Lieut, Rhoda J. Mjlliken, director of the Woman's Bureau of the Police Department; Mrs. Clara Mortenson Beyer, director of the industrial division of the Children’s Bureau of the Depart- ment of Labor; Matilda Lindsay of the ‘Women's Trade Union League of Amer- ica and Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders of the District Congress of Parents and Teach- ers. Mrs. Ufford had inserted in the rec- ord of the hearing & recent editorial in The Evening Star opposing passage of the bill. She also filed with the committee letters from organizations opposing the bill. Among them we; The Monday Evening Club, the Vote- less District League of Woman Voters, the Woman's Council of the Federa- tion of Churches, the Washington Branch of the American Association of University Women, the District Federation of Women's Clubs, the Na- tional League of Woman Voters, the National Child Labor Committee, the Washington Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Was ington Chapter of Hadassah, the Sis- terbood of Adas Israel and the United Hebrew Reliefl On Sale Daily 16-DAY Reduced Round Trip Tickels to All Points in FLORIDA Havana, and Various Gulf st Points 15-DAY EASTER HOLIDAY TICKETS Now on Sale to All Points in SOUTH i AR T One Fare Plus §1 for Round Trip 600,000 in trade to Washington. Entertainment was provided by the Chevy Chese Chantors, & male chorus of fl‘lnkfi< oo eaboard AIR LINE RAILWAY opinion that passage of the bill would | performance to allow sufficlent time | tured by A. C. Clark Before Historical Society. | How the Capital pald tribute to | George Washington 100 years ago, on the occasion of the centennial celebra- tion of his birth, was described to the Columbia Historical Society last night by its president, Allen C. Clark. Some half a hundred members of the soclety, meeting in the assembly room at the Cosmos Club, heard Mr. Clark | quote from the diary of John Quincy Adams and describe a brilliant centen- nial banquet held at a then-famous hotel and addressed by Daniel Webster, famous orator, | 'The celebration of 1832, like that of the present year, included many balls |and social functions attended by bril- liant assemblages,: Mr. Clark introduced James F. Du- hamel, who traced the history of Ana- lostan Island and Belvoir, a famous | Colenial estate, the site of which 1s now occupied by Fort Humphrey. Nothing remains of the mansion buflt by John Mason, son of George Mason of Gunston Hall, on Analostan Island, or of that built at Belvoir in 1740 by the relatives of Lord Thomas Fairfax. There are bills before Congress, however, Mr. Duhamel said, for the acquisition of Analostan Island by the Government as a Roosevelt memorial and for the restoration of Belvoir Mansion as an officers’ dwelling at Fort Humphrey. erring to the Fairfax family, which once lived at Belvoir, where George Washington met Lord Fairfax and ob- tained his first commission as a sur- veyor, Mr. Duhamel said that “George William Fairfax, the grand-nephew of Lord Thomas Fairfax and son of the first owner and builder of the mansion, was a few years older than Washington lww his sister married Lawrence n. ‘ashingtos “Two of the Fairfax boys had died in the British service, one in the Navy and the other in the Army, at Quebec. With this martial association, there s little wonder that Washington should have aspired at an early age to mili- tary honors, and that the influence was great is evinced by his own statement that he regarded Belvoir as his second home.” The speakér asserted Washington's | assoclation with the Mason family was | & stimulating influence on his growth |asa statesman. It was George Mason, Mr. Duhamel said, who acquired Ana- | lostan Island and left it to his son, | John Mason, later to become one of the most influential men in the first 10 years of existence of the City of ‘Washington. “During this time,” Mr. Duhamel said, “John Mason was the commander of the militia, president I the first Dis- | trict of Columbia Bank and eventually owner of the Foxall or Columbia Foun- dry that supplied our Government with ?rslgzfianfla of cannon between 1800 and | _Mr. Duhamel told how Capt. 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