Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1933, Page 4

. — RESDENT LAUDS “Sivcor s SOCAL RESEARA IN PRESENT ORDER __(Continued Prom Pirst Page) groups, and violence may subordinate THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, will make the results of Te- search and experiment iff medicine available to all at reasonable cost. ‘Revolutionary developments of com- munication already have shown the inadequacies of the present boundaries of local governments organized in sim- ple days, and on a larger scale fore- shadow rearrangements in the relations of nations, with the possibility always of that most tragic of human prob- | technical intelligence in social advance. | Jems—war Calls Survey First Effort to! Study Both Facts and Problems. By the Associated Press. 3 In a statement issued at the White House, President Hocver last night de- acribed the report of his Research Com- mittee on soclal trends, issued from New York. as “a co-operative effort on & very broad scale” for the study of social problems The President’s comment was pre- ed before he left for his fishing trip Southern waters, He characterized the report as the first attempt ever made to study simultaneously the fun- damental social facts underlying Amer- dcan social problems “The effort here has been to relate all the facts and present them under | a common standard of measurement,” he said. Scientifically Studied. i The text c of the Prestdent's state- | “Unless there can be a more impres- 8 integration of social skills and; fusing of social purposes than is re- | vealed by recent trends, there can no assurance that these alternatives, with their sccompaniments of violent revolution, dark periods of serious re- pression of libertarian and democratic forms, the proscription and loss of many useful elements in the present produc- tive system, can be averted. | Avoids Alarmist Attitude. | ‘Fully realizing its mission, the com- ttee does not wish to assume ¢n at- | on the other hand it would be highly ' negligent to gloss over the stark and| bitter realities of the social situation | and to ignore the imminent perils in| machinery over crumbling roads and | shaking bridges. There are times when silence is not neutrality, but assent.” In a discussion of the democratic | form of government, the findings say: | M:ny have been led to conciude re- | luctantly that the emergence of some | recognized and avowed form of pluto- dictatorship is not far away, * * * | “An_interpretation which seems to| “The advance of science and inven- tion may * give & premium In crop production to the larger farms or the more level farms, and it will lead to reduction in the number of people en- gaged in commercial agriculture and to further shifts in population.” There is an urgent need “of prevent- ing individuals with undesired inheri- table traits from having offspring.” Americans Growing Taller. “Americans are grewing taller than they used to be because of dietary changes and a recuction of the dis-| !titude of alarmist irresponsibility, but| eases or childhood. * * * At the same time bad housing and the reduction of violet rays by the smoky skies of cities are forces operating against growth.” “Even national units (of government) | further advance of our heavy technical | may be too small in the future.” “A larger proportion of work by machines and & smaller proportion of human labor is to be expected in the future. * * * There are indeed a few cases of wholly automatic factores.” “The depression has put employers under the severest pressure to devise more economical methods of produc- tion, which means in many cases the use of less labor to turn out a given volume of goods. At best, the problem of technological unemployment prom- ises to remain grave in the years to come. One hope for a solution is that inventions of new products will add to employment more rapidly than the in- vention of labor-saving machines and methods reduces it.” “Strikes have declined 80 per cent since the World War.” “The membership of American trade unfons declined from_5.000,000 in 1920 0 3,300,000 in 1931. * * * When other functions than membership are con- tion of labor has not gone forward as have other parts of the economic system.” “Americans have but scanty tradi- | tional equipment for amusing them- selves gracefully and wholesomely. “The data seem to show an increase in crime since the beginning of the century, but hardly a crime wave.” Members of the group presenting the sidered, it is clear that the organiza- |@ report are Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, pro- fessor of economics, Columbia Univer- sity, chairman; Dr. Willlam P. urn, ofessor of sociol University of &l research; s professor and ment of politi- cal science, Universitv of Chicago; Dr. Howard W. Odum, director of the In- stitute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolin: < Hamilton, Harvard School of Public | Healty. and Shelby M. Harrison, gen- eral director of the Russell Sage Foun- dation. Edward Eyre Hunt is executive secretary. CONDITION IMPROVED | Wman®Who Fell From Winches- | ter Hotel Reported Better. | |” WINCHESTER, Va. January 2 ()— The coudition of Mrs. D. C. Kline of | Harrisburg, Pa., who suffered a frac- tured hip and internal injuries in a | fall from the fourth story of a Win- | chester hotel Saturday, was somewhat | imprdved yesterday, hospital attendants | sald. |, They said. nowever. that her condi- | tion was still regarded as serioug D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1933 1933 FINDS BIGGER CITY OF DANVILLE ?Anqenfion Boosts Population of‘ Virginia Community to 27,382. to The Star. ANVILLE, Va., January 2.—Dan- ville greeted the new ' as & city, with the decree 6f ann o effective at the stroke night Baturday. The annexed areas doub'es the size of the city and adds 5000 to the population, bringing area from 257 square miles to 6.02 Special Dispateh D. miles and the population from 22,247 to 27,382 ‘vhabitants. Taxable properties in the new city sections tofal a million dollars. E: tending ecity services to the. ritory and the task of pul | ments will be ‘vaccpnme el | larged, with city en! en) L, th: employment of more persons in several of them. FAIL TO FIND FLYERS Coast Guardmen Continue Search | for Two Bodies. NAHANT, Mass, January 2 (P —A diver y searched in vain vard freshman, to their deaths last Thursday. Coast Guard patron boats also aided in the work. will continue today and “until plane is found and the bodies recovered,” Lieut. E. G. Rose of the Coast Guard sald. THREE DIE IN SMASH QUINCY, Fla., January 2 (#).—Three | persons were kiiled and two small chil- | dren were injured in an automobile ac- cident near here yesterday when the car | struck & bridge abutment, The dead: Mr, and Mrs. Bustis Woodam and Mrs, Z. P. Shaw of Plant City. ‘Two young sons of the Woodams were gjm seriously and were not expect- ve. BODY FQUND IN:SNOW | HELD AWAITING FUNDS | Ritchie, Md., Undertaker Pusaled | for Solutidn! ot Case of Orville Brown, 72. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md, January | 2 —Disposition of the of Orville | Brown, 72 years old, who lived at the | Blue Plains, D. C., Almshouse, is wor- | rying Ritchie Brothers, undertakers, of Ritchie, Md. The body was found in the snow by Justice of Peace George N. Cox of Oxon Hill 10 days ago and | to the undertaking establishment. | was decided the man became lost and died of exposure. To_date however, both the District and Prince Georges County authorities have declined to adv-nce the funds for | burial, It Several thousand live fish have been taken across the desert in railway tanks |t Lake Karoun, in the upper waters of the Nile in Egypt. ment follows { have a margin of advantage is that of “In commenting upon the publication | {he prospect of a continuance of the | of the report of the President'’s Re-)democratic regime, with higher stand- | search Committee on Social Trends. 1| ards of achievement, with a more high- | LIEETINE deem it worth while to expand some- | what the prefatory note which I pre-, pared some months ago for publication with it. That foreward is as follows: “In the Autoumn of 1929 I asked & group of eminent scientists to examine | into the feasibility of a national survey | of social trends in the United States, | and in December of that year I named tae present committee under the chair- manship of Dr. Weslev C. Mitchell to | undertake the researches and make a re . The survey is enti the \\:»Tk‘ of the committee and its experts, as it was my desire to have a complete, im- partial examination of the facts. The committee’s own report, which is the first section of the published work and 1s signed by members, reflects their col- lective judgment of the material and sets forth matters of opinion as well s of strict scientific determination. Cites Unstable Elements. “Since the task assigned to the com- mittee was to inquire into changing trends, the result is emphasis on ele- ments of instability rather than stabil- ity in our social structure. “This study is the latest and most somprehensive of & series, some of them | governmental and others privately spon- | sored, beginning in 1921 with the re- port on ‘Waste in Industry’ under my chafrmanship. 1t should serve to help | all of us to see where social stresses are | occurring and where major efforts | should be undertaken to deal with them constructively.” “T wish to add to the foregoing the | observation that the significance of this | report lies primerily, first, n the fact |y that it is a co-operative effort on a| very broad scale to project into the fleld of social thought the scientific mood and the scientific method as correctives to undiscriminating emo- | tional approach and to insecure factual basis in seeking for constructive reme- dies of great social problems. The sec- ond significance of the undertaking is | that, so far as I can learn, it is the first attempt ever made to study simul- | taneously all of the fundamental social facts which underlie all our social pro- blems. Much ineffective thinking and many impracticable proposals of remedy have in the past been due to un- familarity with facts in flelds related | to that in which a given problem lies. ‘The effort here has been to relate all the facts and present them under a common standard of measurement “I regard these aspects of the re- | port as of far greater significance and value than any of its details, admirable though these studies ai DEATH RATE DROPS Mew York / Experiences Most Healthful Year on Record. NEW YORK, January 2 (#)—The eity's death rate for 1932 was the low- est in history, Health Commissioner | Shirley W. Wynne reported to Mayor John P. O'Brien yesterday. “Heretofore 1927 had been the most | healthful year experienced by New York City,” the report Said. “In that year the generzl death rate from all causes ‘was 10.71 per 1,000 population and the infant death rate 56 per 1,000 birt] | In 1931, the respective rates were 10. and 556. During the year just closed the general death rate was only 10.3 | per 1,000 of population and the intant | mortality rate was 509 per 1,000 births.” i ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 2 (Spe- cial) —The Alexandria Hospital yester- | day reported the birth of two babies as the first of the new year. Both were| girls. The first infant arrived 3 hours | and 43 minutes after the birth of the, new year. Its mother is Mrs. Lillian | Dyson, 21, of 517 Duke street. The sec- | ond infant was born 1 minute before midnight last night to Mrs. Nellie Kapp | of 323 North Columbus street | When an automobile he was driving | oollided with a parked machine in the 300 block Commerce street last night, | Earl McLane was cut about the fore- | hesd, police report. The chine is the property of H. W. Bright 1453 Duke street, police said. McLane was treated at the Alexandria Hospita The Alexandria Fire Department was kept busy over New Y answering slarms for five small fires. Fireman Henry Scott of No. 1 Engine Company | sustained a possible fractured hand at & fire at 419 Queen street Salmda\‘ night when he grabbed an extinguishe which had slipped from the hands of | another: fireman Two women were Alexandria Hospital mnoon for tre yest fractured arins Mrs. B. E. Gerland street, and Mrs block ‘King street More than 5,000 school child the city, who have had & 10-day tion over the holidey period turn to their studies at 9 o'clock to- morrow morning Services for Miss Annie C. Tyler, 56 who died Saturday night at the hom of her sister, Mrs. G. M. Myer: Bouth Patrick street, are to be held at the residence tomorrow afte o'clock. In addition to her sister deceased is survived by two half br ers, Marshall Dobie of this city Cherles Dobie of Washington, wil be in Bethel Cemetery | ed at the | uy affer- y were 213 _Commerce Jennie Finch, 200 By Deaths R.eporled. Emma A Burns. 8] Hospital wys, Children's | 1. 61, 3002 Stanton | 7. Gallinser Hospita | Providence Hospital r en route Casually Hos- | a1 Edjth Mathews. 24, Preedmen's Hospital Bylvester Lincoln linger Hospital Anns L. Butler. 18’ Gallineer Hospital Reuben Jenkins, 18 months, Gallinger Mospital Loranzo Wilsen, 15 months, Children’s Hospital Clarerice * Monroe. 1 . Oullinger Hospital Quincella Robinson, % 2 months, 728 18i A AN Infuit to Jesse men's Hospita! Tofunt o Gibert and OLle Chandier. n's Hospita ’"%u";'t to John and Elizabeth Proctor, Tith et Yo" Walter and Asles Pyles, 1311 d Marie Stover, Freed- parked ma- ! | ing &t a rapid rate, Iy unified and stronger government, with sounder types of civic training, | with a broader social program and & | sharper-edged purpose to diffuse more promptly and widely the gains of eivili- zation, with control over social ten- sions of the time, with less lag between | soclal change and governmental adap- | tation and with more pre-vision and contriving spirit. 2cific ways and means wing research and for the tion of concrete policies, ‘as well the administration of the lines of action indicated,” the committee says a national advisory council may emerge, | Such & council would include “scien- tific, educational, - governmental, eco- | nomic (industrial, agricultural and labor) points of contact.” The committee found that the type of planning now needed “must include the scientific, the educational, as well as the economic and also the govern- mental.” the findings Among were these: “A change in the distribution of in- come which puts more purchasing power In the hands of wage earners weuld enormously increase the market for many staples and go far toward providing places for all competent workers, but for the near future we see little prospect for & rapid increase | of wage disbursements above the 1929 level.” “A Tariff-Ridden World.” “Another possibility is a great ex- | pansion of exports, but in a tarifi- | ridden world that also seems & dim | committee's The six-hour day and five-day week 1 are methods of disiributing the loss of Jobs in a less inequitable fashion.” “A sclvent unemployment fund would do much to mitigate the distress which many now suffer before finding new openings.” | “An_extension of old-age pensions to | care for * * * victims of progress may bulk large in future discussions.” “People whose property is rendered | valueless by new methocs may in future demand compensation after some fash- ion. For example, investors in public utilities which have become unprofita- | ble by reason of competition which they cannot meet and which the State will not prevent may demand that Government buy their holdings.” “Economic planning is called for.' * * The best which any group of economic planners can do with the data now at hand * * is to lay plans for making plans. “It is conceivable that without any | surrender of our bellef in the merits of private property, individual enter- | prise and self help, the American people I‘ will press toward & larger measure of public control to promote the common | welfare, One possibility is & further extension of the list of public utilities to include coal mining and perhaps other industries.” | “Progressive taxes may be graded at | still steeper rates. An upper limit may | be put upon inheritances.” 1 “Death rates are still much higher in | the lower income groups than in others. | Until a point is reached where the | death rate does not vary according to income, it seems paradoxical to claim that wage earners are receiving a lving wage.” | “Indications are that even in our late | period of unexampled prosperity there | was much poverty in certain industries and localities, in rural sections as well | as in citles, which was not a temporary | or accicental thing.” H Millions Live Meagerly. “In the best of years milligns of families are limited to & meager living.” “Unless there is & speeding up of social invention cr a slowing down of mechanical inventlons, grave malad- Justments are certain to result.” In this fild (of government) the most disquieting developments have been those of the intrusion of the graft sys tem in the domain of the Pederal G ernment, especially in the form of boot- legging, but also touching the cabinet in the Teapot Dome case and th: rise of racketeering in certain urban com- munitles “The lower forms of collusion between crime, the intermediate okerage in judgeships fined manifestations remissness are a challenge | uctive statesmanship and times an occasion of profound de- spair | The American standard of living for the very near future may decline be-' cause of the lower wages caused by mémployment, possible slowness of ss recovery and the weakness of mass action by employes. Two great social organizations, the economic and governmental, “are grow- " while two others, | the church and the family, “have de in social significance, although iman_value.” 1 and family have lost manj regulatory Influences over be- . Government, been backward soclal services “If pre: like the family, has in strengthening its | to meet new conditions. ! t trends continue, one of every fiv six bridal couples of the present year will ultimately have their marriage broken in the divorce court.” | Stagnant Population Seen. | Immigration restriction and birth | control are slowing up population growth so that the United States may have a stationary population before the | end of the century, with the proportion | of children growing less and with the total population close to 145,000,000 | The idea of a national minimum | standard—in health, in education, in | culture, &s well as incomes—below | which citizens should not be allow=d to | 1 applicable to localities as well 0 “a growing spirit of nmodation” in the relations of ves and white | Moral guidance is peculiarly diffi- cult * * * 50 that we have the anom- alies of prehibition end easy divorce, | strict censorship and risque plays and | literature. scientific research and laws forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution, contraceptive information le- gally outlawed but widely utilized.” “The committee does not believe in & moratorium upon research in physical ! science and invention,” but, “on the contrary, it holds that social invention has to b2 stimulated to keep pace with mechanical invention " rere is o serious dearth of phvsi- clans in rural districts, an oversupply m cifes 1;.'” Charles and Rose Jones, Freed- il Births Reported. ! Wesler and Sarah Livingston. sirl. | trial, The school is a center of both “hop2 and concern,” and changes in indus- economic and, social conditions demand a radically different kind of education than that of the past. A medical system 15 needed which Now Come The . FURNITURE AFTER-INVENTORY SAVINGS with many fine suites and Those who have waited until after the holidays for savings on good, dependable Lifetime Furni- ture will find tomorrow many suites and pieces sharply reduced. Dining, Living and Bed Rooms. STYLE 1 Twin Bed Suite, 8 pieces, walnut chiefly. 1 Full size Bed Suite, 6 pieces, walnut and gumwocd. 3 Early English type suites, 6 pieces, full size bed. 1 Twin Bed Suite, 8 pieces, 17th century English type. 1 Twin Bed Sheraton style suite of 8 fine pieces. 1 Twin Bed Suite. 8 pleces, Early American influence. STYLE 2 Jacobean Type Suites, In oak; 10 pleces 1 18th Century Type Suite, Phyfe style table; 10 pieces.. Carved Tudor refectory table; 1 Exquisitely Oak Suite 10 pieces 2 Sheraton Type Suites, with inlay; 10 pleces 4 Dining Suites, Early English Type; walnut; 10 pieces 7 Modified Elizabethan Style Suites, walnut, oak and gum- wood STYLE 1 2-Piece Karpen Down Pillow-Back Group; luxurious. 1 Roomy Tapestry Group, sofa and armchair; Karpen. 1 Karpen 2-Plece Group, in green tapestry, stripe and floral effects. 1 Rust Velvet 2-Piece Karpen Group, rever- sible cushions. Many Other These are all fine, regular quality Lifetime pieces and suites at prices newly lowered for immediate clearance. early. Many only 1 and 2 LIFETIME BEDROOM SUITES NOW $195% 5|75 $150 5175 5150 WAS 472, 3795 $250-00 $295% 510% 2200 STYLE 11 All-mahogany Colonial Type Suites. 6 pieces. 1 Cclonial Type Mahogany and Gumwood Suite. 6 pieces. 1 Provincial wormy chestnut. Style Suite, 6 pleces. 1 Berkey & Gay Enamel decorated Suite, 6 fine pieces. 11 1 Twin Bed Suite, walnut with marquetry, 8 fine pieces. 1 Twin Bed Suite in mahog- any, Biedermier style, 8 pieces. DINING ROOM SUITES WAS 5325 53] 0 $700:° 5265 527300 295 NOW $195% $ | 95.00 250 STYLE 1 18th Century Type Suite, with 8-foot extension table; 10 pieces 1 Jacobean Type Suite, wal- nut and gumwood; 10 pieces.. 1 Biedermeler Suite, mahog- any and camaroon; 10 pieces, 1 Fine 18th Century Mahog- any Style Suite; 10 pieces.... 1 Pine Sheraton Mahogany Suite; 10 pieces, with inlay.. 1 Pine Crotch Mahogany Suite, 18th Century English Type; 10 pleces.... LIVING ROOM GROUPS WAS NOwW 2152 5500 52 | 500 $ | 25.00 $29500 $] QK00 8240.00 $ I 50.00 STYLE 1 Small Wing Style Kar- pen Sofa and Chalr, rust artrea velvet. Green Frizette Tapes- try Karpen Sofa and Club Chair. Antique Velvet Kar- pen Group, in rust shade; 2 pieces. Wisteria Mohair Kar- pen Tuxedo Group; 2 pleces. WAS 8265.00 3195 3665 3998200 WAS $285% 495 5750 51025 %538 $95 .00 WAS $200:%° 5225 245 $235 of a kind. Come All are offered subject to prior sale. NOW 5169 5159 3250.00 5395 3495 5350 98.00 NOW 5225 $295% %95 5365 %495 NOW 5135 5150 5145 5160 Suites At Special Reductions MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D &E pieces reduced Odd Bedroom Pieces marked very low for clearance These pieces are mostly all arranged on the fifth floor of our new annex. All are greatly reduced and prior sale. So come offered subject to real early, please. DRESSERS 1 45-inch Dresser, mahogany and gumwood. Was $57.00. Now $34.50 1 Tudor Oak Dresser, hanging mirror. Was $88.00. Now $49.50 3 Grand Rapids Made Dress- ers, walnut chiefly. Were §95.00. Now $55.00 Walnut and Gumwood Dresser. Was $47.00. Now $29.75 1 1 Dresser, in mahogany and gumwood. Was $47.00, Now $20.75 Dresser, with hanging mir- ror; walnut chiefly. Was $62.50. Now $39.50 Dresser, beautified with crotch walnut, * ‘Was $66.00. Now $49.50 Beech Dresser, with hang- ing mirror. Was $95.00, Now $45.00 CHESTS 4 Chests of Drawers, mahog- any and wood. Were $59.00. Now $39.75 1 Maple Chest of Drawers. Was $33.00. Now $22.50 2 Fine Maple Chesis of Drawers. Were $55.00. Now $29.75 1 Mahogany and Gumwood Chest. Was $32.00. Now $24.75 DRESSING 1 Vanity, made in Grand Rapids. Was $73.00. Now $34.50 3 Vanities, beautified with crotch mahogany. ‘Were $63.00. Now $39.75 4 Maple Dressing Tables, 2 drawers. Were $31.00. Now $19.75 Vanity. 1 S-drawer Maple Was $50.00. Now $24.75 2 Pine Chests of Drawers. Were $41.50. Now $24.78 5-drawer Chest, walnub and gumwood. Was $35.00. Now $24.78 Colonial Type Chest of Drawers. Was $85.00. Now $49.50 11M|€le Chest, serpentine i 0! Was $43.00. Now $20.50 TABLES 1 Walnut and Gumwood 7- drawer Vanity. Was $95.00. Now $47.50 2 Vanities, in walnut and gumwood. Were $45.00. Now $24.75 1 !e:key & Gay Vanity, wal- nut. Was $150.00. Now $39.75 1 Avodoire Vanity, 5-drawer. Was $92.00. Now $49.50 . 1 Bedroom Benches and Chairs from $4.95 upward Poster Beds Priced Now from $9.75 upward SPECIAL GROUP Axminster Rugs 9x12 Ft. and 8Y4x10; Ft. Sizes $19.95 These are good quality, seamless Axminster Rugs in beautiful, desirable patterns—every one perfect first quality. Made by famous nationally known manufacturer whose name is withheld. These rugs are all in lovely, desirable colorings and they are mostly all in the 9x12-ft. - size. There are, however, several rugs in the 874x1074-ft. size. Many Occasional Pieces Throughout the Store at Newly Lowered Prices MAYER Seventh Street & CO. Between D and E