Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1933, Page 4

0 SALO0FROLEY ‘HouDs ShYLews Senator Denies European Re- ports, and Cites Harmony % Is Only Aim. w that the Roosevelt adminis- trition intended to abendon the his-| torie policy of the United States to keep alpof from forelgn entanglements was made by Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinols, Democratic Whip of the Sepate, in an address in the Senate yes- | terday. Benator Lewis undertook to answer Teports from Europe that the President hdd agreed with representatives of for- eign governments to have the United States enter into a ‘consulting pact” under which this country would, in the evpnt of any conflict between European or Asiatic nations, “sit in, give advice, in who is the aggressor and ad- ih.m the punishment for violations of ct.” statements” said Senator Lewis, “leave the impression that the United States has reversed its historical palicy of all the to-gake upon itself the direction of Eu- = countries along the lines of po- tue—and wherever either of these is viplated, s to the judgment of those who sit in consultation, there shall be punishment inflicted as may be directed or concurred in by the United States. Intimated Punishment. "This punishment is° intimated as bejng something in the form of financiel withdra of credit, withdrawal of « ercial association and the supply- of necessary force if conflict is brought on through the assault of what is called the aggressor. #It 1s pertinent to state that these ln:reulum left by these high authori- tiés of Europe are misleading to their own people and are doing a great in- Justice to the United States. ¢The only consulting pact the people oféthis Nation would direct its Presi- dept to enter into is one that would be of counsel looking toward adjust- m‘mz settlement of conflict by some Plén of family harmony. Under no cir- cumstances does the United States agree or will it agree to enter any pact oryto be a party to any pact that shall deeide as to the duty of a foreign na- tidn to another foreign nation, or to adjudge ane guilty of omission or com- mission in its relation to another for- eign nation; and under no circum- s now presented to civilization wijl the United States enter into an understanding or be a party to an a 'ment that PIIEC! us and the Army the Navy of the United States be- hind any conflict between European or tic aggressors in any controversy one Asiatic country and an- of , or one European country with T, or of the European or Asiatic er. ! ¢ Invitation Would Be Needed. ¥The consulting pact that the United Bt would enter into is to sit in at invitation to merely listen to the {31! as they may be produced, and lor jts counsel as a good friend and its ‘ald ‘wherever its aid could be had through friendship, counsel or contribu- tion of effort to avoid by all means of persuasion and kindly intercession any conflict that would lead to r or any ‘war that would be possible. “This the United States would do without regard to a pact and would do such. as_the natural instinct of its hu- T and peaceful people, but it must not be assumed that our President has lent himself to any arrangement with ntatives of foreign nations that bind this Nation to make herself a t0 a war should such be en- fojiced as between European and Asiatic ble as any conflict would be, ble yet it would be that States could through the of European or Asiatic na- | 5 be brought into a conflict, mili- | or naval, or in the antagonisms of h and vengeance against or in be- of any foreign nation in any part ofiithe world. ‘At the outset as we enter upon con- n!-mom looking to the amelioration | ofytrade operation and directed to melt- the barriers of fi and just trade een a just peoplg,’ theére must be ngthing done or said with the pur- of ardusing the suspicion of na- tiens against the United States or the pédple of the United States shocked a fear that they are being led what could be a military conflict on; obligations of financial security of agy foreign lands to the bewilderment antl embarrassment of the credit and t and proposes now | 1 morality and international vir-| CREW, LED B By the Associated Press. GROTON, Mass, May 20—With a broad smile of satisfaction, the “First Lady of the Land today saw a Groton crew captained and stroked by her third son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr, win by two lengths a race with Belmont Hill School on the Nashua River. near the| school which her husband and all her sons have attended Mrs. Roosevelt saw the race from the | Greton School which operated by youn son of her cou ir. As the shel toward the fini she stood up in the stern with her eldest s-n, James, a for- mer member of a Groton crew, Sees Base Ball Game, in the lpunch, she rode back to the ficat and alone walked up the steep and dusty road through the wi to the school base bell diamond, she saw the end of a game Greton and Belmont Hill Several surpriscd parents, d from the boat house with the! offered her lifts, but she smilin fused. “It was a. nice victory," she said of the race, “and Jimmy thought Frankli; jr., did pretty well, but he hopcs they'l show more speed at-the finish in their next race,” Driving up through the New England countryside, where apple trees bloomed | along the rcad, Mrs. r | at Groton just befo: REALTY TAX R "IN 5 ASKD Theo swung round th | } ‘Then Woman Voters’ League Dis- | With Government. A review and discussion of the ques- | tion of fiseal relations betwecn the Fed- eral Government and the local com- | munity and the manner in which the local government collects and spends its money were the features of a rocent | meeting of the District of Columbia Voteless League of Woman Voters, neld under the auspices of the local league’s Committee on Efficiency in Government. | Members of the committee delivered re-| ports on the various aspects of the fiscal relations quesiicn, some of which were accompanied by carefully pre- pared diagrams and charts illustrating the subject under discussion. | _Mrs, Edith L. Johnston, chairman of { the committee, outlined in brief the gencral fiscal relationship between the | Federal Government and the local com- munity and gave some of its historical backgrounds. She discussed, in addi- ticn, the real estate tox situa | ing out that while Wash | by reason of ~cértain d 'among the cities that are relatively low figure, it ‘of fact, among the | higher than some cities of greate! ulation and greater th in taxables. Situation Explained, This situation in pagt results, she said, from the fact that the law r uiring an actual 100 per cent valua- tion of real estate for taxation purposes 18" more strictly complied with here than in other cities, where the assessors, politically chcsen, are responsive to the sentiment of voting texpayers and in- terpret’ assessment laws liberally. She urged that there be relief here from the high burden of real state taxation, in line with the trend in other cjties of re- ducing the realty tax burden by redut- tions in the tax rate or-the-assestment or both. Mrs. Johnston,2lso advocated ! a reduction in the tax on intangibles. A _report on the gasoline’ and water | taxes was delivered by Mrs, Elizabeth | Smith Friedman. - She developed in her | |report the fact that surpluses have ac- | cumulated in both water and gasol tax_ funds, to which the Federal Cov- | erninent m n, ~yet which the Fedrral Government refuses to make avail for necded local ex- | penditures. She called on th> league | members to take under consideration the question w r Congress shculd be to _make MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES GROTON Y SON, WIN RACE Witnesses Belmont Hill School Defeat:in Contest on Nashua River—Also Watches Ball Game. | had spent the night at Mayflower Inn, in Washington. Ccnn., motoring there | from New York the night before. | Just after she rode up to parents | house at Groton School, her son James and his wife drove in from Boston, and they, together with Mr. and Mrs. John Cutter of Boston, young Franklin and his brother John "and some of théir friends were Mrs. Rcosevelt's guests at luncheon. Entertains at Dinner. Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt and and Mrs. Cutter left for Boston im- tately after the race, and tonight Mrs. Roosevelt had her sons and several of their friends as guests at dinner. After watching the finish of the base ball game, Mrs. Roosevelt had tea with the rector of the schol, Rev, Endicott Peabody, and Mrs. Peabody. Dr. Pea- body was rector of Groton when her husband was a student here, and he officiated at the wedding of the Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt 28 years ago. Mrs. Roosevelt will attend chapel with her scns tomorrow morning, and im- medately after Junch will staft back to | New York, driving her roadster. In New York Monday night she will attend a military ball, the @roceeds of which are to go toward the supnort of two best rocms for unempl-yed girls ! started several months ago. Before the ball a dinner is to be given in her hencr by Mrs. Willlam Randolph Hearst, chairman of the committee in chagge of the ball. She will return to Wash- ington (n Tueeday. WORK ON NEWD. . BUDGET 0 BEGIN Estimates of 1935 to Be Pre- } pletes Present Bill. As soon as Congress has completed action on the District appropriation bill for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District au- ditor and budget officer, will call upon exscutives of departments of the local government to prepare estimates for the fiscal year 1935. These new estimates will be studied during the Summer in preparation for their submission to Oongress when it reconvenes next January. It is likely work on the 1933 budget will begin in the next two or three weeks, since Con- gress hopes to bring the special session to a close early in June. Maj. Donovan ssid yesterday, how- ever, that compilation of the 1935 esti- mates would have to wait upon issuance of instructions fre the Bureau of the Budzet as to a nimber of important metters One {s whether the 1935'budget should allow for the 15 per cent cut from the basic salaries of District employes, as was the case with the 1934 budget now pending. ' Last Summer the District department head than $49.000,000. The Commisisoners slashed these to $44,915240 and the Budget Bureau submitted to Congress last December a bill carrving $39,700, 000. That bill died with the old Con- gress. The new bill submitted by the Budget Bureau to the rew Congress called for an appropriation of $32,999,700. passed by the House this measure car- ried items totaling $34,664.942, includ- ing the permanent, indefinite and trust fund appropriations. and the Senate bill totaled $34,418,305. g WASHINGTON BOYS CLUB SEEKS PRINTING AWARD Exhibit Sent to Chicago to Compete for Fourteenth Consecutive Year. For the fourteenth consecutive year the Boys’ Club of Washington hes en- tered an exhibit in arts and printing submitted estimates totaling more | As| FRENCH AWAIT U.S. CURRENCY DECISION Ready to Join Equalization Activities Under Direction of Washington. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 20.—The French gov- ernment has urged the United States to stabilize the dollar soon at a high level, | and it is ready to assist in market oper- | ations to that end, an official of the | government said today. | _ Both the' Bank of France and the French treasury are anxious to avert a clash of the American, British and | French currencies. It is the belief of | officials of these two institutions that | an American declaration of stabiiization | policy is a vital preliminary to the | World Economic Conference opening in | London June 12. U. 8. Decision Awaited. The Bank of France, it was said, would be glad to open a franc credit | and to participate in exchange equali- | zatlon activities under the direction of | Washington. The government is await- ing a declsion by the United States on | when stabilization may be expected and | at ‘what level. “The dollar will take care of itself and require little handling,” a spokes- man sald, no matter what rate is de- | cided on for stabilization, Although France has urged the United States, to act, it was made clear that the government “has not been asked to join | any stabilization scheme. either for the dollar or for the British pound, but if so requested it would be entirely favor- able.” | Dollar Shows Strength. | At the Bank of France and the treas- ury the belief was expressed that an an- (nouncement of its stabilization plans { should be made.by Washington before any equalization operations are started in the market. | The dollar showed strength today bg- | cause of the heavy buying, whicl flected the belief of brokers that stabil >thlnn is not far off. It opened at 22.25 | francs, an overnight increase in value | of 15 centimes, rose to 22.35 and steadied at 22.25. | - cusses Fiscal Relations | pared When Congress Com- ROBINSON TO SPEAK AT MEMORIAL RITE Indiena Senator to Address Ladies } of the Grand Army of the | Rerublic Today. | Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana will make the principal address at the | memorial service to be held this after- noon at 2:30 o'clock by the Ladies of |'y the Grand Army of the Republic in | i the rotunda of the Capitol. The program is sponcored by Ulysses | Grant Circle No. 1, Mrs. Ella W. South- ; § ard, president, Circle No. 3 d _Abraham Lincoln iss Rebecca L. Blaine president. Miss Blaine will act as pre- siding officer. Mrs. Southard will make the address of welcome Dr. Allen A. Stockdale, pastor of the First Congregational Church, will pre nounce the invocation and also wi talk on “The Religlous Life of Abraham Lincoln.” Massing of the colors and a floral procession are included part of the program. Vecal selections will be ren= | dered by Mrs. Vivienne A, Gillmore and | Miss Janette McCaflrey. R LED] t PLAYER PIANOS MAY 2 TWO CF CABINET 0 SPEAK NAY 30 Swanson and Dern on Memo- rial Day Program at Arlington Cemetery. Secretary of the Navy Swanson and Secretary of War Dern will make the principal addresses at services to be held in Arlington Cemetery Tuesday, May 30, by the Grand Army of the Re- ,bublic Memorial Day Corporation. The corporation is composed of the Grand Army of the Republic, United Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of For- eign Wars, the American Legion, and the Disabled Veterans of the World War. The compleled program for the exer- eises, as anmounced yesterday, follo 12" o'clock noon—Tomb of ‘the U: known Soldier, placing of wreaths; au- spices of the Department of the District of Columbia, Veterans of Foreign Wars, O. W. Hollingsworth, department com- mander; American Legion, Norman B. Landreau, department commander, and { Disabled American Veterans of World War, Joeegh A. Ashi, department commander, each organization to have charge of a third portion of the pro- gram. 12:45 o'clock, Amphitheater—Assem- bly, bugler of Marine Band; presenta- tion ot colors, Percy Parker; overture, Marine Band; call to order, John H. { Shepherd, department commander, G. A. R, introducing James G. Yaden, president G. A. R. Memorial Day Cor- poration, presiding officer; invocation, Rev. V. O. Anderson; “Star Spangled | Banner,” Jeannette Elizabeth McCaf- | frey, Marine Band accompanying; Gen. Logan's order establishing Memorial day, Joseph A. Ashi; “Out of the Night the Bugle Blows,” Gertrude Lyons; | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Harlan | Wood; “There Is No Death," Elsie | Jorss Reilley, Marine Band accompany- | ing; address, Secretary Dern; address, | Secretary Swanson: “Eternal Father, ! Strong to Save,” Ma). Charles T. Titt- - | man, and benediction, Capt. Sydney K. | Evans, nited States Navy. ORPHANS ARE FETED Boys from the 8t. John's Orphanage were guests yesterday afternoon of the | Northeast Boys’ Club at the club house, { 1663 Kraemer street northeast. The entertainment was in charge of ! Prank T. Peckham, chairman of the | Kiwanis Club Boys' Work Committee. chaplain corps, le » Landscaping! ¥ For Permanent Beauty Let pecia] do _the actual . srading and planting. Expert ' workmanship _insures ter ~ growth. ren: dens, 1ly_ponds. EBTIMATES HYATTSVILLE Evergr rock gar- etc. RORL GREENWOOD 2274 e I S I Y §JOE HIGH F'our PLUMBER’ | | 1933—PART ONE FRENCH BUDGET 0. K. Senate Action Leaves Deficit of $157,400,000. \ 30 (/).—The Senate TR0 Desmen sy expenditures totaling 49, ,000 cs ($2,208,545,000) and re enue of 45,581,000,000 francs ($3,08: 145,000). This leaves & deficit of 3,498,000,000 francs ($157,400,000). cd the dges, measure, i wil be shut- e measure, uf tled between the two houses until an agreement is reached. CAR MERGER PROGRAM REPORTED BY OFFICIALS Negotiations Continue, With Finan- cial and Stock Allocation Problems Foremost. Representatives of the Capital Trac- tion Co. and the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. are continuing negotia- tions looking to an agreement for merger of the street car companies of Washington, Msj. Gen. Mason M. Pat- Sale Extraordinary Our Stock of Fine Clothes, Hats and Furnishings must be sold New Spring Suits—Greys, Tans, Fawns, Brown, and the New Blu#é Steel effects in plain and basket weaves—All the Latest and Newest Fabrics and Colors—Glen Plaids in all variations—all tailored by the famous SCHLOSS SUITS SCHLOSS SUITS SCHLOSS SUITS New Sennit STRAW HATS All-Wool Pull-Over SWEATERS Were $3.50 1331 F Street $1.95 SCHLOSS BROS. & CO.osamvore at tremendous reductions prices that we are confident you will never see again made to sell at $30.00 and $35.00 Sale Price, $14.75 Sale Price, $16.85 Sale Price, $22.35 made to sell at $35.00 and $40.00 made to sell at $40.00 and $45.00 SCHLOSS TROPICAL SUITS made to seu at s30 and 35 Sllfi Price, 313,85 31.65 Bought to Sell at $2.50 New Genuine lr ok §2.45 Bought to Sell at $5 Reyem SHIRTS ‘l 00 Plain Color — Neat Stripes kA R ] 95 Bought to Sell at $7.50 SHORTS s 29 3 for 85¢ Neckties — Robes — Pajamas — Bathing Suits — Sochks All at sacrifice reductions Why not look—it costs you nothing 1331 F Street Outstanding Style and Quality in Summer Furniture and Rugs You will bring a note of brightness and comfort into the home furnished with these attractive pieces. Regard. less of the price—it is all “Furniture of Merit.” péfceful standing of the-United States urged available for ex-|for the annual exposition held in co snfl to the dishonor and discredit of 1t4] peace-loving people. f, Position of Good Friend. #The United States enters upon the T of a good friend to all peaceful well meaning nations, but it in ng, wise becomes the agent of any peo- ple in any foreign world to take on penditure on " necessary local the funds collected from water and | gasoline taxes, or whether both of these | taxes should be reduced, thus prevent- ing the accumulation of surplus funds that are piled up in the Treasury. Charts and Diagrams Shown. Mrs. §. H. Horne presented a series of projects | junction with the convention of Boys'| Clubs of America, Inc., -in Chicago | June 5, 6 and 7. The Washingtcn club | | has_placed among the first four every | ¥ it has competed. Last year the | | boys received second prize for general | | printing and the first prize for an in- | dividual plece of work. | Charles M. Fyte, director of the Capi- Some like new. Buy for your Summer cot- tage or basement recre- ation room. tiéir military conflict or to bear their | charts and diagrams and tables, illus- | ta) cub, will receive his 15-year medal burden of quarrels or contest born of the envy of people, the jealousy of na- | trating the growth the local governmen expenditures by of t, the source of its | at this year's national convention. Be- | des Mr. Fyfe, A. Boyd Hinds, director Fiber Rugs An excellent grade, famous for its durability and in striking color harmonies and decorative designs. A W - S s or the desire to embroil the United | receipts, the function States of America in such maze of en- | €X tapglement where it must imperil its |t new peaceful and independent status beéfore the world. X in the District and #And now as to the conferegces tiat | those of a group of cit hose —= iy comg on as to the mollifying terms udy by the Detroit B ofithe war debts which are now dye ernmental Rescarch. os/any extenuation or changes in the 'tureau figures w pigsent status of these debts, let it be | table Mrs. ¥ understood that this particular subject | presentation of the tables by a discu mmatter should be taken up indendently -sion of comp tax burdens and of the other questions now at issue and (an explanation of e of the factors toibe assured of a conference free of |that enter into su £ tH¢ influences of prejudices or an ad-| In a report E verse environment admitting or looking { libraries M Jean B. Spaulding peinted to‘any new status of the debts, such |to the gravity of the condition facing cghference to be held in the ited | ihese institutions on of the d: States and approximately at the Capital | tically reduced propriations in the Cljy of Washington. | pending 1934 District bill. Although “In this manner, all countries will|cnrollment and building needs are in- be’ represented in a land and within -a--creasing, the schools must continue to syfrounding where no past prujudices|function in the face of a 30 per cent osrany ancient conflicts could influenée | reduction in appropriations on the basis of: bend the surroundings into an en-|of the 1934 District bill, she said. She tanglement that deprives all engaged in |pointed out the threatened effects of a the consideration of every fairness and | large reduct brary appropria- of all justice.” I tions, despite the fact that there hat classification of | cf the Northeast Boys' Club; Bert Shel- nditures, the manner in which each | gon, secretary, and Martin O'Phelan, dollar in the District is utilized in | girector of the Merrick Boys' Club, will » and comparisons be- | attend the convention. Special varnish finish. Size 9x12 £x10 Manufacturer’s Outlet & Storage Warehouse 625 New York Ave. -$8.75 -$7.95 t been an increase of 60 per cent in ons of the public library since 1929, | accomganied by a circulation gain in books of a million. Mrs. Gardner Jackson reviewed and | explatned the local expenditures on | health and recreation. | Buy Kohler Quality Plumbing Fixtures NOW . .. 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