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* JOB-SEEKING GIRLS © SEED.CAS SANTA Arrive Thinking Positions Are Available for Those “On the Scene.” In view of the wide discussion of the problem of unemplosed women, the fol- owing article, by one of them, is of in- terest. The writer, a college graduate, has endeavored in this article to de- scribe part of the problem as she sees it in Washington. Living for the most part in private Tooming houses, but also at the Y. W. C. A and at the Salvation Army Emergency Home, are the large number of women and girls who come to the Nation's Capital to seek work. I think it would be hard to know just how many of these lone, unemployed ‘women there are. They do not claim attention. No one ever sees groups of them on the streets, their clothes and manner pointing out, as sometimes in the case of men, an assemblage of the unemployed. Men and boys, wanderers from place to place, exchanging their experiences in t of religious agencies while they await admission for meals and other aid, do not have their counterpart in & sisterhood of wanderers. Granting the ubiquitous exceptions, girls and women seeking employment in ‘Washington are not of the number who | would wander from city to city quest of werk, food and shelter. Th are not hitch-hikers and it would be hard to imagine any of them hopping trains, Travel in Day Coaches. Jobless women who seek work in on come for the most part in the day ccaches of passenger trains, avalling themselves, whenever possible, of excursion rates. Those who come choose the Capital City of their country a5 their specific destination. Their home communities comprise even the most far-flung places cf the Nation. These workers do not want to move on. They want to stay and to become absorbed in the busy life of the city. They arrive generally with enough money, or with what they think will be enough money, to tide them over until they get jobs. They arrive as- suredly with a firm conviction that ‘When all else has failed—"the Nation's Capital cannot fail.” Their belief in their Representatives’ {;h-g!ltmg prowess is amazing. Many ve never been in Washington before and have invested the city with a cer- tain benignity. Their imaginations are fired by the various possibilities that one of the world's capitals must afford. Requirements Vague. They know there must be office jobs. If not office work right away then it should not be hard to get work in the family of a diplomat as a governess. ‘The girl who knows a foreign I age thinks that such knowledge uld ve an ever-present help in time of ancial stress—‘“tutoring, you know.” ‘Their concept of Washington as a year-round Santa Claus with a pack Tull of jobs does not permit of the pos- abmcy th-l: any wistful seeker should y. Civil service requirements and op- portunities for examinations are vague | Famous Mus THE SUNDAY icians End Convention Here CONCLUDE MEETING AT HOTEL WASHINGTON WITH ELECTION. {Widely Known Churchman | SE are some of the notables who attended the four-day annual convention of the Music Teachers' National jociation at the Hotel Washington, which concluded Friday. e Julliard School of Music; Karl Gehrkens, retiring vice president of the association; Albert Riemenschneider the Baldwin-Wallace, Berea, Ohio, incoming president; Donald M. Swarthout, University of Kansas, retiring nro-ddent, and Deems Taylor, America's foremost composer. Left to right: George Wedge, noted pianist of —Harris-Ewing Photo. .0.P.INILLINOIS Maps Out Effort to Recover Patronage, Controlled by Democrats. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, December 31.—Bereft of nearly all of its patronage—local, State and national—after the turn of the year, the Republican party organization in Illinois is seeking a way to return to its old state of prosperity Never since the party gave the Na- tion its first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, has this political organization been in such straits in Illi- nois. So sweeping is the change that now takes place that Republicans have been asserting that the Democrats wauld be unable to find enough quali- fied party members to fill available positions, and would have to fall back on the old office-holders. ‘This crumb of comfort to the office- holding Republicans was blown away ed deserving Democrats were available | for all offices. Party managers Il'e‘ busy right now trying to allot the thousands of appointment plums that | have fallen into their lap. Seek to Erase Factions. At the same time Republican leaders are calling publicly for a thorough re- | in the minds o. far too many girls. ‘Then there is the occasional girl, too, whose name is on the civil service register. She has sat at home wonder- ing why she is not called and finally has concluded that if she were “right on the ground,” in some way she might get a job. Mistaken notions of women employ- ment seekers in Washington often in- dicate the depths of despair sounded by women with a history of work, with unmistakable education and evidences of good stock. They are willing to }n‘nb at anything with a semblance of woman who comes to Washing- ton seeking work is of the type who is more likely to want to return home in case of defeat than, with persistent hope, to desire going to another city of which she knows nothing. Wash- ington, being the Nation's Capital, is, in a sense, her home city. In case of defeat she has the consoling thought that at least she has tried in the city of her specific desire and knows now by experience that the evils left at home may be no worse than those she may fly to, not knowing of them. Many Become Domestics. Of the girls who stay in Washington, either because they see some remote fxulhm(y of employment in their ire generally some form of office work, or because ‘one place is as bad as another,” and they feel that they might a5 well stay where they are, many are reduced to the necessity of working as domestics or as_mothers’ helpers for their room and board. Many of these girls are pitiably ex- ploited. One girl's bitter experience was to go to a home where she was promised maintenance for the Winter, but where, instead, she was dismissed after three weeks, The girl was in no position to dictate terms, and so, when confronted with the accumulated laun- dry work of many weeks, she did it all. ‘Then she cleaned the entire house from , cellar to garret and polished all the wocdwork and washed the windows, When these labors were accomplished she was told that with “Christmas so near and all the expense” her services were no longer needed. Exemplified in this crisis is the great pride of women, their tight-lipped stlence “More men than women apply to the Y. W. C. A. for aid and meals” said Miss Mattie P. Anderson, executive secretary of this organiaztion in Wash- ington. “It is hard to know just how badly off a girl is." 2 Girls living in “light housekeeping” rooms, having their own gas plate, are likely to have a fairly good breakfast and dinner, so well have they mastered the fine art of marketing, but lunch when it means using car tokens to get to the gas plate and to return to the center of job-seeking activities, gen- erally goes uneaten. When too often that goes for teleph up in the morning,” s body in an office. Plump goes a r some- nickel the half of a dime, which is the price | of & lunch. Few girls hard hit by unemployment can answer an advertisement by send- ing a letter. They must, instead, walk 10 the newspaper office to save the 3 cents. To buy a stamp or a newspaper 1s a hardship to more girls in Washing- ton than one likes to think. After tramping the streets all day hunting work, a girl will wash and iron her clothes, mend the tiniest eaks In her stockings—'"because they get to be runners’—or will add brave touches to her dress and hat. The last string of her life to be snapped is her desire to lock nice. SECOND FORUM SERIES Rev. George Johnson of Catholic University Will Speak. ‘The second series of weekly discourses conducted by the Catholic Information Forum at St. Gabriel's Cbhurch on Grant circle will open Monday, January 9, with a talk by Rev. George Johnson of Catholic University on “The Church and the School.” ‘The first series was completed just before the holidays, and the group to start January 9 will -include discussions by Rev. George Strohaver, 8. J., of Georgetown University; Rev. John K. Cartwright, Rev. Felix Kirsch and Rev. provided | ; with a slender store for lunch money, |” organization of the party. They seek to eliminate the factionalism that has | wrought havoc in recent years. “Big { Bill” Thompson, former Chicago mayor, | o mature, unbiased consideration from and Len Small, former Illinois Govern- | or, along with William Lorimer and Col. Frank L. Smith, both ousted from United States Senate seats, are the objects of attack. Col. Smith at pres- ent is head of the State Central Com- mittee, but without patronage to dis- tribute the office is likely to dwindle in importance. A program of reorganization for IN- nois Republicans has been submitted by | the Chicago Daily News, whose publish- | er, Col. Frank Knox, is a close {rlend] of President Hoover. His plan has nine points, including: | May Revise Election Laws. | Drastic revision of the election laws | to safeguard the ballot, including | provision making fraud against the sanctity of the ballot a felony instead of a misdemeanor; restoration of the | party convention system instead of the | primary election; elimination of gov- | ernmental competition of every sort with private business; retention of the protective tariff; co-ordination of tax policies between States and the Na- | tional Government; honest application of Clvil Service rules; protection against graft on the part of public officials by requiring sworn statements of ex- penditures and adding the crime of | perjury to that of conspiracy in graft | cases; revision of criminal laws; oppo- | sition to the return of the saloon, but restoring control of the liquor problem | to_the States. { There are now four major faction: within the Illinois Republican party and the differences between them fre- quently involve as much or more bit- terness than the antagonism between the Republicans and the Democrats, Former Senator Charles S. Deneen | heads one faction; another is headed | by Louis L. Emmerson, retiring Gov- | ernor; another by Len Small and Wil- | liam Hale Thompson, and the fourth by William H. Weber, county Republic- an chairman (Co C. M. CHAPIN, NEPHEW OF MARK HANNA, DIES New York and New Jersey Sports- man and Business Man Victim of Heart Attack. By the Associated Press THOMASVILLE, Ga., December 31.— Charles M. Chapin, New York and Bernardsville, N. J, sportsman and business man, died at his Winter home here today after a heart attack. He was a member of several York clubs He had been in business 1 1 street many years Mr. Chapin, a nephew of the late Senator Mark Hanna, was a native of Cleveland He was one of the old guard in the | colony of Winter estates here and was a in civic and benevolent enter- | in this section. He was the er of the first golf club in this {part of the countyy in 1896. | _ Funeral services will be held tomor- | row at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, |of which he had been junior warden |40 years. Afterward the body will be sent to Bernardsville for further serv- ices Tuesday at St. Bernard’s Church, Burial will be in Bernardsville, Surviving are a son, Charles Merrill | Chapin of New York; a daughter, Mrs. Shepard Krech of New York, and four grandchildren. OPPONENT OF W. J. BRYAN IN SILVER DEBATES DIES Former Representative U. S. Hall Fought Plan for Coinage at 18-to-1 Ratio. By the Assoctated Press. COLUMBIA, Mo, December 31.— Former Representative U, S. Hall, who met Willlam Jennings Bryan in de- bates in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska on the silver issue, is dead here at the age of 80. Hall took issue with Bryan in 1896 when the latter was advocating coinage PLANS REFORMS by the Democratic leaders, who assert- | | usable form the benefit of careful, hon ! by a London mob, HOUSE MEMBERS FIND CHANCE TO EXCHANGE IDEAS AT FORUM 'Some 100 Taking Deep Interest in Meetings Wl’lere problems Can Be DiSCuSSed Without Publicity or Formality. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. closure on a farm home roots the fam- i ; ily out of the home and the head of {i; Tiouse Femnheny iR e SARILESA 81 G s Lonc hot aniie o on Duses | | forua for discussion of the mOSt iM-| taics away his tools and usually forces portant and complex subjects of vital| the family to move out of the com- interests to the country which some | munity. |of the closest students of government |and legislative procedure believe will | continue as an extraconstitutional ad- [ ; Junct $o the jegislative machinery. Farm Loan Foreclosures—Representa~ [ perbls forum 1 W o O e acy | tives Sandlin, Louisians, - chairman: | interest provides an cpportunity for free E{f;fi‘;‘“’,’\’fl“&m"t Osry, ¥ etk exchange of ideas and unembarrassed . sals : \ | Patterson, Alabama; Browning, Te) contribution of judgment or opinion ! . 4 without restraint of the more formal | Dcssee; Larrabee, Indlana; Whittin | deliberations in the House itself. It fon Missiseippt; Hastings, Oklahom: represents an earnest effort by the ]‘Sgr d Ml‘;mm_a ODM{S o e members to get at the truth regard-!M Keown, Obiahana: Mk W 7t |ing legislative proposals and to work | McKeown, Oklahoma; Mrs. Wingo, Ar- | out co-operatively what seems best for | kansas: Mrs. Eslick, Tennessee; Lank- | - | ford, Virginia; Major, Illinois; Allgood, the people and to make that agree | ment effective in law. | Alabama, and Lankford, Georgia. These discussions are non-partisan | Currency Reform — Representatives and non-sectional. The forum aims to | Busby, Texas, chairman; Montet, Louls- work with the leaders and the regular | 1ane; Gilbert, Kentucky: Howard, Ne- committees. It supplements the formal | braska; Hill, Alabama; May, Kentuck work of the committees by informal | Arentz, Nevada; Kvale, Minnesota; M thrashing over of subjects, drawing out | SWain, South Carglina; Parsons, Illi- the suggestions, opinions, views and | Dois: Johnson, Texas; Somers, New ideas of members. York; Patman, Texas; Lamneck, Ohio; It saves the time of the House and | Feisenger, Ohio; De Rouen, Louisiana, committees by having the major ques- | and Spence, Kentucky. E tions of legislation carefully and even | Farm relief—Representative Arnold, exhaustively considered in advance, sloj;(llller;)acl:é fgggnxfmgmsxmh ‘n:all.::?lunr; that when presented they are the resuit Xif(‘m“' Gionlat Ot OhéoikGlok“’"'- vith bulk | Arkansas: Hill, Washington; Polk, Ohio; :},;,,’;;‘;‘L‘e;:(;‘“;’;,g’,';s',’;';g,‘;‘ Under- | Romjue, Missouri; Cross, Texas; Lewls, standing of each subject by a larger | Maryland; Doughton, North Carolina, percentage of the members. | and ‘Barton, Missouri. | City co-operation — Representative Farm Problem Tackled. | Mead, New York, chairman; McMillan, se just now the great problems | South Carolina; Crosser, Ohio; Thoma- of Bte}f:u::uxj:é:y x;c;e mngmm PAnd be- | son, Texas: McCormack, Massachusetts; | cause it is generally recognized that Wilson, Louisiana; Lonergan, Con- the plight of the farmer is s key to |Decticut: Crump, Tennessee; Prall, New the whole situation, the forum Is giving | York: Fernandez, Louisiana; Douglass, concentrated thought to that program, | Massachusetts; = Disney, Oklahoma; The forum is safeguarded against being | Dieterich, Illinois, and Boland Penn- & narrow, selfish bloc because a large | Sylvania i i percentage of its members are from This forum of informal “meeting of the big cities and the subjects are being | the minds” is expected to continue as studieq more from the standpoint of | AN extra-constitutional adjunct of the interest of the entire country and all | legislative system, because the growth business and industry rather than m\i ;;fi &n‘c\;lgpfie‘r&; ‘x”mfzoc\}::m;?xf;i;;o;f ul vi of a particular | ho DarE v Lo il needs. It was thus that two houses of It is a sincere effort to provide an | lcgislation came into existence. The opportunity to draw out and get ints | independent of Parliament was fixed | The integrity of judiciary from Accept Membership. | Those who have accepted member- ‘ ship on the four commitiees are: est, public-spirited thinking of a greal STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., INJURIES ARE FATAL many persons. This forum had its inception in the last session of Congress when a very small group of members started the custom of getting together and talking over legislative problems that bothered them. It has grown as other members heard of these conferences and asked to be permitted to join in them. Iv was Representative Hatton W. Sumners of Texes, chairman of the House Judicia- ry Committee, with 20 years of consecu- tive service, and a close student of the history of government and of people, who started the forum in an humble | way. He started with the con\'lctlan‘ that Congress hadn't got started rlghju on economic relief, and that “we can't | borrow ourselves out of debt.” He is chairman, and Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma is secretary. The forum is divided into four groups: One is considering farm loan fore-| | | executive domination was preserved by the people holding the power to im- peach. They demanded immunity for legislators and freedom of the press, and held them. Thus, the principal features of all government have grown up by experience, following the course of nature. Filis Distinct Need. And it is just along this line that the forum has come into operation in the House to meet a distinct need. Due to the rapid increase in Federal Gov- ernmental business and the limitations that are placed on the House regarding debating, there has grown up a real need for some agency for deliberative study, where members of the House interested in any particular subject can get together without being hampered by strict rules of procedure and talk it over, express their views, argue it out, without witnesses in | closures, a cecond is considering cur- the galleries, |rency reformn. a third group hhh‘f b‘:';‘ | discussing farm relief, and the fou Members of the House i |city co-operation. Members of _thel ;" the forum vxplnmutha)z)mi‘:wx?agex:g | regular committces of the House which | fectiy evident that there eomes 5 fone {have jurisdiction over these or related | whon elected persons. in the formatio | times of policy, must have a chance to | talk questions over man to man, getting and weighing each others views, that | without press correspondents and official stenographers to keep a recard. | subjects, such as the Banking and Cur- rency Committee and the Committee | on Agriculture, are represented in this forum by individual members, but they | in no way dominate discussion. Meeting Set Tuesday. ‘There is to be a meeting of the forum next Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock | in the Judiciary Committee room in the | House Office Building, on the general subject of economic relief. There is to be & meeting of the special group on currency reform next Thursday eve- ning. The meetings usually last about two hours. Chairman Sumners has announced that in dealing with these particular subjects it is assumed that some things are known, and that it is a waste of time and dissipation of effort to de- bate what is kncwn and on which the members are in agreement. He holds any attempt along this line out of order. There is no oratory. There is no opportunity for exercise of pride of authorship or reference to “my bill. No outsiders are admitted, just mem- bers of Congress.. No propagandists or lobbyists or selfish interests are heard. Speeches are limited to five minutes. No record is kept of the discussion There iz no association with running for office. There is no consideration of political benefit for any person. ‘When a legislative proposal comes up for consideration in the House the only members having sufficient knowledge of the details to have independent judg- ment are those who are members of the particular committee to which that bill was referred. The forum offers an ovportunity to spread out the knowledge and comprehension that is now concen- trated in the committee, and to have it spread out before it is time for consid- eration and debate in the House. It is operating toward a better under- | standing of community interests and | co-operative endeavor. For example, the city relations group is bridging over the breach between the farm com- munity and the city. It is bringing to the farm people and the city people a better realization of their interdepend- ence and economic relationship. It is developing co-operation between them in dealing with problems of cocmmon interest. It has been emphasized that the foreclosure on a farm home is a each may give the best that is in him | toward solution of matters of public interest. He must have, they say, an opportunity to think out aloud, and t4 match his views with those of his col- leagues so that they can co-operate for | the public welfare. ‘MONKEYS MADE IMMUNE | TO INFANTILE PARALYSIS Daring New Experiments Being Conducted With Virus and Convalescent Serum. By the Assoclated Press | ANN ARBOR, Mich., December 31. —A daring new experiment with in- fantile paralysis, which is giving a fair | amount of immunity to monkeys, was | reported o the Society of Arnerican Bacteriologists Wednesday by Maurice Brodie of McGill University, Montreal. The monkeys are innoculated with the virus of the disease itself and at the same time with human convalescent serum, thc fluid so generally used in Tecent epidemics as a possible pre- ventive for human beings. Innoculation with the raw virus, the invisible substance which causes in- fantile paralysis, should give the mon- keys the disease and probably kill them. But when counter-balanced with the serum it gave, Dr. Brodie reports, “considerable immunity.” The treatment has not been tried on human beings, as it is too dangerous until a great deal more is found out about the peculiar combination of virus and serum. Dr. Hrodie said the correct | ;‘b.lance of serum and virus” is impor- | tant. | | —_— | Bolivia Rejects Foreign Fighters. | SAO PAULO. Frezil (P)—Many ap- 1puc-!kms from fo:eigzers to serve with the Bolivian Army in the Gran Chaco | have been declined, with thanks, by the Boliviar consulate here. John M. Nelligan, with an illustrated ! of silver at the 16-to-1 ratio and the lecture on the ma: Tons of Rain Fall. GLASGOW (P —Thirteen million ftons of rain—4 inches—fell here the ‘Week end before C) debates attracted wide attention be- cause of the oratorical powers of the speakers. A debate at Huntsville, Mo., doomed Hall in Missouri politics that year and he did not seek re-election after his second term in Congress, | much more serious matter than the | foreclosure on - ‘city home, both from | a social and economic standpoin'.” The | | foreclosure on a city home’ does not | mean that the supporter of the home | also loses his job or his business ar | | that t::le family is forced to move out k . Hibernian Leader Dies. PHILADELPHYA, December 31 () — Patrick Fitzgerald, former national treasurer of the ArfcientgOrder uf Hi- bernighs, died yesterday in & hospital He was 63, neighborhogd. But the fore- | of pneumonia. v JANUARY T0DR. MACDONALD and Daughter Lose Lives in Jersey Accident. Dr. Frank MacDonald, widely known Methodist churchman, educator and| lecturer, died yesterday in Trenton,| N. J., of injuries received Thursday in| an automobile accident near Borden- | town, N. J,, in which his daughter, Mary Louise, was killed and another daugh- ter, Margaret, injured. A double funeral for Dr. MacDonald | and Miss Mary MacDonald will be held | tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 from | Wright's funeral home. Burial will be at Glenwood Cemetery. Relatives of the family here said Miss | Margaret MacDonald is in a critical | condition at the Mercer Hospital in Trenton. Spent Holiday Here. Dr. MacDonald and his daughters were returning to their home at Lima, | N. Y., after spending the Christmas | holiday with relatives here when the | accident occurred. Dr. MacDonald was born at Frost- burg, Md., August 18, 1872. the son of | Humphrey Carroll MacDonald and Mrs. | Mary Ann (Leech) MacDonald. He studied et Shepherd Coliege, Shep- herdstown, W. Va., and took the degrees | of A. B, A. M. and D. D. at Dickinson College. " He also traveled in Europe following post-graduate work at New York University. | After serving as pastor in New Jer- | sey for a peripd he was headmaster of the Pennington, N. J., School for Boys from 1910 to 1921. Former Head of Seminary. Later he served as endowment secre- tary to the Methodist iChurch of New Jersey, as president of the Genesee | Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y., and | as president of the Secondary Schools of Methodism. He was a member of the Newark Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, the College Associ- | atlon of the Methodist Church, Asso-| clation of Preparatory Schools of Mid- | dle States and Maryland, the New Jer- sey Classical Association, the New Jer- sey Editorial Association and the Hos- pital and Home Association of his church. Recently he had been connected with the Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Church in Philadelphia. MRS. SNIPES FEARS | LAW WILL TAKE SON IExpectnnt'Mother, Facing Chair, Insists on Retaining Contrel of Boy, 6. | By the Assoclated Press. * COLUMBIA, 8. C, Decemucr 31.— Facing the ordeal of wiotherhood in a few days, and living under the shadow of a death sentence in the electric chair, Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29- year-old former mill worker, confessed & new source of mental trouble today. It was a fear that the law, which de- creed she must die April 7 for the mur- der of a rural policeman, would take her 6-year-old son Clyde away from her control. The son is in/the custody of the Co- lumbia Juvenile Court. Judge Heyward | Brockington has ordered a physical ex- amination of the lad with a view to his | possible adoption by some one ‘“who | W;ll give him the best opportunity in life.” | Admitting she was “worried to death” | over this prospect, Mrs. Snipes wrote | her attorney, W. M. Easterling, as fol- lows: | “I mean I will not sign papers for no one to take him but my uncle, W. D. | Hilton, for .I know he is capable of keeping him and sending him to school.” “I think I should have a.say-§0 in | this,” the letter said, “for he is my | child.” | Hilton lives at Mineral Springs. N. C. The boy was sent to him after his mother was convicted, and remained with him until Christmas, when he was brought to €olumbia to his mother | and father, also serving a short prison | sentence, a holiday, visit. NIAGARA FALLS HOTEL | DESTROYED BY FIRE MillionDollar Loss Reported in Oldi Clifton Blaze in Which Fire- | man Is Hurt. ‘ By the Associated Press. ! NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Decem- ber 31.—The old Clifton Hotel on the brink of Niagara Falls, known to thou- sands of visitors States, was destroyed today by fire, the property loss approaching $1,000,000. A fireman from Niagara Falls, N. Y., was seriously injured When a piece of wreckage fell upon him and several others from this town and the neighbor | city across the border were overcome by smoke. Their combined efforts could not save the rambling frame structure. | ‘The Clifton was a famous hobfl;! King Edward VII stayed there once, and. not o long ago the Prince of | Wales. S | | MINERAL YIELD DROPS Alaska Production Put at $10,938,- 000 for 1932. | The 1932 production of minerals in| Alaska was estimated yesterday by the Interior Department at $10,938,000, compared with $12,278,000 for the pre- vious year. 1 Gold production was estimated at $9,539,000, against $9.507,000; copper, $531,000, against $1,877,000; silver, $73.- 000, against $102,000; coal, $535,000, against $556,000, and other minerals $260,000, against $236,000. 19 NEW U. S. BUILDINGS WILL PAY ‘ FOR THEMSELVES IN 40 YEARS| from the United 06 Bo—PART ONE.: Will Liquidate First Cost in Saving of BigL Rentals, Says Karl J. Hardy in American Civic Annual. The new public buildings being) erected here by the Federal Government “will liquidate their first cost and pay for themselves in 40 years,” according | to Karl J Hardy, until recently secre- | tary of the Public Buildings Commis- | sion, writing in the American Civic | Annual, issued yesterday by the Ameri- | can Civic Association. | “Already,” he says, “with the com- | pletion of the Commerce Building and | its occupancy this year, and the Agri- | cultural Extensible Building, 16 leases covering 350,571 square feet of expen- sive rented space have been discontinued, | saving $302,558.65 for the fiscal year | 1933. Considering that the amortiza- | tion life of a modern Government | building is at least 40 years, the amount | saved, when all rented space is released, | will amount. to about one-fifth of the total to be expended for public build- ings. A computation made by the Public Buildings Commission based on rents paid in privately owned buildings, the cost of new buildings, the annual expense of their maintenance, and in- cluding the possible loss of taxes, shows that the new buildings will liquidate their first cost and pay for themselves, if occupied, in 40 years.” Cost of Commerce Space. Mr. Hardy sets the yearly rental value of the space in the new Department of Commerce Building, as an illustration, at $2,292,665.50 and he says that the yearly cost of the space is $1502,700, | divided as follows: Amortization ($17,- 500,000, the cost of the building for 40 | vears), $437,500; interest on $20,000,000 (which represents the cost of the butld- ing and the land) at 4 per cent average per_year, $410,000 and maintenance, $655,200. 'To these, he adds taxes lost | to the Government on the land, com- | puting at $1.70 per hundred, reaching | the figure of $32,500; income tax lost | on return of 6 per cent of $2,291,665.50, at $19,457.54, and taxes lost on build- ing ($1.70 per hundred on 65 per cent of construction cost), $193,375, making a total yearly cost of $1,748,032.54. Savings each year over the 40-year period he places at $543,632,96, with the total savings in 40 years at $21,745,- 318.40. The cost of upkeep of outworn tem- porary buildings is excessive, he con- tends, characterizing the public build- ings program here “one of true con- structive economy.” “Personnel and files of one depart- ment were divided recently among 49 buildings, and another department was | scattered through 18 bulldings, some | more than a mile apart,” Mr. Hardy asserts. “This required extra trucking | service to handle supplies and malil, and additional workers for operation, all in- creasing the cost of Government. While it would be difficult to compute with accuracy the value of co-ordinating Federal activities in one or a few adja- cent buildings, it is evident that econ- omies do result from concentration, by elimination of expensive communication services and delays, and by more ef- fective administrative supervision.” Cites Fire Hazard. 1 A real danger in temporary buildmgsi is the fire hazard, Mr. Hardy says, | 2dding: “Even with prohibitions against | smoking and great care to avoid fire | risks, 603 fires have started in the| last eight years, and but for the special | vigilance of the guards and the precau- tlons taken, any one of these might | have proved disastrous.” ‘The Arlington Memorial Bridge is| now carrying a daily traffic average of | 20,000 cars to the Mount Vernon Memo- | rial Highway and this will be doubled when connections are made to Arling- ton National Cemetery and to the | Northern Virginia road system, Maj D. H. Gillette, assistant executive offi- | cer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge | Commission, says in The Annual. | Maj. Gillette challenges the assertion that the bridge is a “$14,000,000 lux- | ury,” pointing out that “less than half | of the appropriation is for the bridge | itself.” The balance of the fund, he | explains, 1s being expended for neces- | sary streets and approaches, which must be monumental in character. | “Another misunderstanding in the public mind concerns the necessity for extending and widening Constitution avenue to the Capitol as a part of the bridge project,” Maj. Gillette writes “Such & cross-town thoroughfare of ample capacity is an absolutely essen- tial provision for the great increase of traffic that is being caused by the new Federal buildings. But this improve- ment has a sentimental as well a5 a utilitarian motive. Until the construc- tion of the Arlington Bridge there was no dignified and appropriate route over | which to properly conduct the funerals | of outstanding national heroes. Such ceremonial processions have in the past | been forced to go through slums and | narrow, busy, commercial streets, block- | ing traffic and causing annoyance rather than inspiring respect and honor to the dead. When Constitution avenue is completed as planned, these funerals. many of which originate at the Union Station, will pass entirely along hand- some avenues and park drives of ade- quate width to eliminate the necessity for the marchers to change formation at any point due to constricted space.” | | Other Parkway Projects. | This prediction is set down in the Annual by Gilmore D. Clarke, land- scape architect: “The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway is the forerunner of | other parkway projects destined to trav- | erse the length and breadth of the en- | tire country. These parkways will by- | pass all centers of population and aid | in protecting belts of countryside so ! that travel by motor will be a delight.” | The suggestion is made by Morley| J. Williams, assistant professor, School | of landscape Architecture, Harvard | University, in the Annual that Mount | Vernon, as improved by George Wash- ington, may have been patterned after his own family shield. He says: “By inspecting either plan or airview of the mansion and immediate sur-| roundings, the skape of a shield stands out too strongly to be overlooked. It | is outlined by the wall of the deer park, the two east walls, the south | wall of the vegetable garden and north side of the flower garden and by the curving west ends of these gardens. “The curving lines of both of these walls were continued to the west en- trance of the bowling green by mean: of holly hedges planted by Washing- | ton and these hedges, as they turned | parallel to the entrance, formed the point of the shield. In the Washirg- ton shield itself will be seen three stars across the upper part. If the mansion | could be considered as the central star, | the other two would be represented by two groves of trees which we know to have existed, one at each end of the house. The suggestion of cross- bars of about the right proportionate width can be found in the spacing of the cross-walks of the gardens and in the cross-drive. Of further significance is the fact that this is the ‘family’ area and all outside of it is farm. It is not possible to say that this form and similarity were definitely planned, but if not, they offer a remarkable coincidence.” Prof. Williams says that restoration of the plans on paper is the aim, but | “how completely possible this will remains to be seen.” BECOME PARTNERS IN MORGAN OFFICES| 39-Year-0ld Chicagoan and Son of | Titled Englishman Named to Paris and London Places. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 31.—J. P.| Morgan & Co. announced today that a 39-year-old native of Chicago had been admitted to partnership in its Paris| office and that the son of a titled Eng- | lishman had been admitted to partner- | ship in its London office. | There were no year end changes in| membership in the American offices. | Alan Vasey Arracon becomes a mem- | ber of Morgan & Cie of Paris. He will be one of the youngest partners in the firm. He was graduated from North-| western Unijversity in 1914, received a master’s degree & vear later, instructed in Iowa State College until 1917 and| served with the Artillery in France.| Leaving the- Army in 1919, he joined | the staff of tHe First National Bank in| Chicago and a_ year later became a | member of the Morgan staff in Paris. | Francis Rennell Rodd becomes & | partner in Morgan, Grenfell & Co., | London. He is the son of Sir Rennell | Rodd, who is a Knight of the Bath and privy councilor. " The son was decorntedl by the Italian government during the war. At one time he was connected with the Bank of England. He also has| distinguished himself by his explo- | rations. | EOCER YEAR ENDS ALL WRONG | Motorist Keeps Calling Police as| Thieves Hang About Auto. | OKLAHOMA CITY, December 31 (#). | —E. L. Curtis knows all about ending | the old year wrong. He put two well | packed handbags in his motor car, de- | parted, and when he came out the handbags were gone. | The police came and investigated. An | hour later Curtis called the police sta- | tion again to report a wheel had been stolen from the machine. Back came | the policemen and investigated some | more. Thirty minutes later Curtis| phoned headquarters for the third time. | ‘Some one's stolen another wheel,” he | shouted. “Can you do anything about saving the car?” By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, December 31.—Sociol- ogists were told of efforts to measure whether Mr. and Mrs. John J. Public are hapy though married. Jmlsysemnrd of Washington Uni- versity told the American Sociological Soclety of a method she has evolved of “sampling” the complex behavior pat- terns which make up the attitude of | dem man to wife and wife to husband. The result is a score, somewhere be- tween nothing and 100. Her conclusion was that, unlike golf, attaining a score of 61 to 65 » ex-ting marital disaster. She's tried it, she said, on 115 men and 137 women in St. Lguis, Seattle and Los Angeles. Among et findings are: That husbands are most satismed when they are as old, or up to 10 years older, than their wives. UNLIKE GOLF, SCORE OF 61 TO 65 FOUND RISKY IN MARRIED LIFE Sociologist Finds Husband Should Be Oldest—Education and Income Not Factors. ‘That wives like their husbands as old, or up to five years older than them- selves. ‘That family income has nothing to do with marital happiness. Neither does education. In another paper, Leonard S. Cot- trell of the University of Chicago sug- gested the basis of happy marriage is laid in childhood. His idea is another onstration of the old saw that “the | child is father to the man.” Miss Bernard's measurements were | obtained through a form of question- naire, as much like three ballots as anything. The studies, she said, indicate that 13 per cent of women are dissatisfied with marriage, while 18 per cent of the men, though inclined to ‘“rate their wives higher than the wives rate them, pethaps through grea generosity,” are dissatisfied. FORTITUDE DURING 1933 URGED BY MRS. FERGUSON Governor-elect of Texas Declares Self-Sacrifice Will Make Ob- stacles Easier. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex. December 31.—Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, Governor-elect of | Texas, today advocated “fortitude and | determination” in meeting wWhatever | may be in store for the country in the | new year. “While the general outlook for 1933 | is not altogether one of optimism,” she said, “and while the final result of con- dition is yet undetermined, yet our burdens may be lightened and our trou- bles may be lessened if we as a people will firmly resolve that we are going to meet whatever is in store for us with fortituce and determination. “If we will resolve that we are go- ing to divide our crust with our neigh- bor and that we are not going to live unto ourselves, it will be easier and possible for us to solve our troubles and overcome all obstacles.’ ‘OPEN HOUSE' FETE AT"Y' TOMORROW IEvery Department to Aid in Schedule of Varied Entertainment. . ‘The Young Men's Christian Assocta- tion will celebrate the New Year tomor- row with an all-day “open house” pro- gram of festivities for its thousands of members and their friends. Every department of the assoclation will contribute (o the schedule of va- ried entertainment, which will range from music, dancing, movies and d matics to athletic demonstrations, w ter pageant and religious and educa- tional exhibits. A high light of the fete will be the first public concert by the Y. M. C. A. Symphony Orchestra, under leadership of John A. Van Zuylen. The concert at 2 o'clock in the lobby of the Central Building at 1736 G street will signal the opening of the main program, follow- ing a morning devoted to boys' sports in thé adjoining Boys' Department Building. Other entertainment in the lobby will include a concert by the Y. M. C. A, Glee Club, led by J. Nelson Anderson, at 2:30 o'clock; a concert by Justin Lawrie, tenor soloist and choir director of Foundry M. E. Church, assisted by the vested choir of that church, from 3 to 4 o'clock. and a free sound movie show, featuring George Arliss in “The Man Who Played * at 7:30 o'clock. The Y. M. C. A. Dramatic Club will give a short play at 4 o'clock in_the members’ room, under direction of Miss Lillian Krause. Walter B. Crossan is chairman of & committee of “Y" members supervising the celebration. Other committeemen are W. M. Aitchison, Florian Miller, John Ruppert, Fred L. Eberz, A. E. Lausen, James T. Lewis, jr., and Rob- ert M. Carrico. The following officers of the Y. M. C. A. staff will assist: C. E. Fleming, director of service; Ralph B. Foster, director of physical education; Dr. James A. Bell, director of education; Page McK. Etchison, religlous work di- rector, and Paul Brindle, dormitory secretary. Leonard W. DeGast. general secre- tary, and other officials of the Y. M. C. A. will welcome the guests. At MICHIGAN JURY CONVICTS YOUTH, 16, OF MURDER Verdict Carries Mandatory Life Sentence for Gasoline Sta- tion Killing. By the Assocldted Press. MUSKEGON, Mich., December 31.— A Circuit Court jury early today con- victed James Regis Martin, 16-year-old Towa City, Towa, youth, of murder for the slaying of Hans Nielsen, 3 station proprietor, here. A defense of | insanity had been offered. ‘The case went to the jury at 2:50 pm. and the verdict was returned at 1:35 am. The conviction carries a mandatory life sentence. Judge John Vanderwerp is expected to defer sen- tence until next week. A number of physicians, several from Towa, had testified that the youth was suffering from dementia praecox when he shot and killed the filling' station proprietor, and was unable to distin. guish right from wrong. —_———— HEISS TO ADDRESS K. OF C. be | “Telephone Night?' Program Wil Be Given Wednesday. P. V. B. Heiss, general sales manager, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., will be honor guest and principal speaker at the Washington General As- sembly, Knights of Columbus, at Mayflower Hotel Wednesday night. 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