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THE EVENING STAR. WASHIN #TON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1933. FORD IS EXPECTED TOGETBLUE EAGLE Writer Believes Controversy Will Result in Amicable Settlement. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. What can Henry Ford do and what| can the Government do about the issues | that have arisen under the N. R. A.> Pirst, the Ford company does not have to sign the automobile code. but can offer a code of its own. so long as the proposal is in conformity with the law and is acceptable to the N. R. A Second, the Government can license the automobile industry and refuse to give the Ford company a license, but only if it discovers that the company s carrying on ‘“activities contrary to| the policy of the law.” Suppose Henry Ford the minimum wages—he is paying bet- | ter than that now — and makes his hours of work conform to what is speci- fied in the code and he complies in| Spirit with the requirements as to hours and wages, could he be punished? Public Would Be Judge. The Government would have to prov that Mr. Ford or his associates diq something contrary to law before they | could be prosecufed. And if, as re- ported from Detroit. Mr. Ford simply does not want to sign the automobile code and put himself under Govern- ment jurisdiction and yet obeys the Provisions of the new code he cannot be interfered with. He would not get the Blue Eagle—and that would mean 0] € 'OVErsy wi p ns- | m;;;xa to the public. T hetmans The question of whether the urgin Companies that have the Blue Eagle would affect the Ford Co. is something | \hich would depend on how effectively the Ford side of the argument was pre- sented to the people of the country As a matter of fact, the expecta- “‘"n gfin- is thatthe Ford Co. will get | e Blue Eagle. but that c come by the signing of the same. cho that was offered by the National Agr. therefore, pays | Half of Cabinet is Speech-Making Today for N. R. A. By the Associated Press. Half President Roosevelt's cab- inet and Hugh S. Johnson, recov- ery chieftain, turned to speech- making today and most of them discussed the Blue Eagle's Labor day significance, Here's a list of the headliners: Gen. Johnson at Chicago. Secretary Perkins at Boston. Secretaries Dern and Roper in ‘Washington, Dern before visiting firemen and Roper before the American Flag Association. Postmaster General Farley to the letter carriers in Atlantic Secretary Wallace at the Syra- Y. State Fair. iam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, at Akron, Ohio. Donald Richberg, N. R. A. counsel, at Ottumwa, Iowa, and Memphis, Tenn. cuse, OIL COMMITTEE 0.KSICKES STAND Agree Decision to Try to Con- trol Production Is Wise. By the Associated Press. Secretary Ickes' decision to try to control producticn of oil before at- tempting to fix prices under the indus- try’s code is “the wise thing to do.” in the opinion of leaders of the faction favoring Federal price regulation. Several members of the petroleum trade’s Planning and Co-ordinating Committee, administrative ag-ncy with Ickes in supervising the $12.000,000,00 industry in the recovery campaign, ap- proved his verdict yesterday. “We must make haste a little bit mobile Chamber of Commerce. The | . R A. has established the precedent | of receiving codes from what might be called “an integrated company.” Thus | the American Telephone & Tclegraph | Co. presented a code and it was ac. ! cepted. So the Ford Motor Car O could offer a code and urge acceptance by the N. R. A on the ground tha the Ford interests constitited n- tegrated company er treatmetit as the A, T. & T, other large business institution. Required by Law, But in the Bell system code the pro- visions about recognizing collective bargaining rights are included as is Tequired, of course, by law. It has been repcrted that Mr. Ford would not ac- cept the clauses relating to collective bargaining. but this is believed here to be without foundation. The main objection that Mr. Ford is presumed to ainst the automobile code as 1 is that it provides for certain ex- ges of business data with a group will be dominated by his_competitor R pelbe difficulty over the Ford case has been much gerated and in the end s v predicted her. will fiy the Blue Eagle e (Copyright. 1033.) JUDGES MILE AWAY FOR HUSBAND CALLING | Baltimore Champion to Be Selected | for “Boost Brooklyn Celebration.” ted Press BALTIMORE, Scptember 4—As g | part of the “boost Brooklyn celebration” | ]Iw_rrls;xmns eek t to determine ! Baltimore’s champion husban is to be held. o caller Bookiyn i & subdivision of Balti- | The contest is to be staged in a| st s staged in a g,anmc p.l\uhnna and all married women | e city and suburbs are el ! of the ¢ eligible to Judges are to be stationed at t wo Points—two of the judges a mile away across the Patapsco River to determine the quality of a voice on the water and two others on a high hill landward, a mile in the other direction Each contestant is to call her hus- band as though he were being sum.- moned to supper. They will use the same words, with the exception of the surname of their respective husbands as for ance: “You, Henry, tome home to supper.” ) { Contestants may use their hands or a megaphone not to exceed 12 S in length inctes By thie Assoc EX-ATHLETE AND WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Thomas E. Stull, Ohio State U. Base Ball Star, Dies—Two Others Injured. By the Associated Pres CINCINNATI, September 4 —Thomas E. Swll, jr, reporter for the Cin- cinnati Enquirer and captain of the ©Ohio State University base ball team in 1930, was killed Saturday when an automobile struck a culvert and over- turned at Port Washington, Ohio. Mrs. Ida Rogers of West Lafayette, ©Ohio, was killed, and Stull's wife Jos phine and Mrs. Rogers' husband, M. J. Rogers. were injured seriously. Rogers was driving the machine. Stull, who formerly lived in Coshoc- ton. Ohio, was given a trial with the New York Yankces after his gradua- tion from Ohio State. After a short period he was farmed out to Bridge- port of the Eastern League. From re he went to Wheeling of the Mid- antic League. Stull joined the Enquirer at the close of the Lase ball season in 1931. STAB WOUND FATAL Mcrris Lee, Colored, Dies Follow- ing Altercation With Wife. Morris _Lee, colored, 24, who was siabbed Saturday during an altercation with his wife, Geneva, in their homz in the 1500 block of Fourth street, died in Freedman's Hospital last night. The weman is held under guard in Gallinger Hospital on a murder charge. The is being treated for stab wounds :aid to have been inflicted by her hus- ban ~ SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECTAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.000 m padded vans: guaranteed service: lo- cal ing also. Phone NA. 1 NAT. DEL. ASSOC.. INC. 1317 N. Y. ave. WHEN YOU NFED AN ELECTRICIAN CALL the Electric Shop on Wheels. Inc. A compleie ghop on_wheels will be sent to your door Phones Wisconsin 4821. COlumbia_2400. _ FURNACES Sreened by vacuum . $2.50. Parts for every furnace. Heatl stems. installed and re- 4-hour_servi Robey, Inc.. Ave. NE 440 6 3395 Fl L L ‘ELLETT FOR TILE WORK, N REPAIRIN 1 X H 1s one of the larg- | CHAMBERS s 0ne ot the larg; the world. Complete funerals as low as $75 up. 6 chapels, 12 parlors, 17 cars, hearses and ambulances. 25 undertakers and assistants. ROOF WORK —of any mature capably performed by practical rooters. Call us for estimate. ROOFING 933 V St. N.W. COMPANY NOrth 4433 h N.W. | agreed | the Theatrical | of America, Inc. slowly and not several agreed, “and we must wait and see what the various States do with respect to the Federal allocation of production.” Committee memb:rs discounted re- ports of sharp wrangling in the group's sessions, and all of them who could be reached said privately they feit the whole industry would give fullest sup- port to the administration's program. Decline Formal Comment. Because committee members have that any statement of their position should be made public through Secretary Ickes, they declined formal comment, but one of the most out- spoken advocates of full-price regula- tion. said: “The Secretary's course was the only normal and natural thing te do. The first major step is the allocation and control of production. The second nat- ural step will be price regulation if it becomes necessary in the opinion of the administration.” In announcing the code in effect without any price control, Ickes said that “no door was closed” by his de- cision. fully with President Roosevelt this vital point of administration principle and policy this week. As allocated by the administration, the national oil production daily after 7 a.m. Friday will be 2,409,700 barrels, a decrease of around 350,000 barrels as compared with present output, which last week averaged about 2,738,000. Texas Gets Largest Quota. Texas received the largest single al- lotment, 975.200 barrels under Ickes' order: 540,000 went to Oklahoma, and 480,000 to California. Kansas was alloted 111,000 barrels, but because of a typographical error in copying the formal order, the State was credited with 112,000. - The production allocation. was slightly higher than had been expected | in oil circles, but the increase was at- tributed to the prohibition against withdrawals from the storage for the! time being. The code allows, subject to administrative approval, a daily with- drawal from the country’s stock as a whole, of 100,000 barrels. but this pro- vision was voided by Ickes' order. Members of the committee will meet again Wednesday to continue its study of price, production, distribution, marketing and other problems for recommendations to Ickes. COSTUMERS DRAW CODE Agreement of Theatrical Covers Even Rental of Wigs. NEW YORK. September 4 —A code Group | of fair competition for the Nation's | theatrical | thing from the renting of wigs to the | work week and minimum wage agree- | costumers, covering every- ments, was en route to Washington to- day for official vonsideration. The pro- posed code was adopted last night by Costumers’ It would employ no worker under 16 years of age, fix mini- mum wages of not less than 35 cents an hour and set up a maximum work week of not more than 40 hours when averaged over any period of six months, with certain classification exceptions. WIFE FALLS FROM CLIFF Husband Says She Disappeared When He Turned Around. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.. Sep- | tember 4 () —William Scully, Spring- ficld, told police last night his_wife, Dillie, 28, had fallen from “Devil's Puipit,” a cliff high over a ravine on Monument Mountain. Scully said he had climbed to the cliff with his wife. He said as they sat there he turned for a moment and she disappeared. It was several hundred feet from the cliff to the rock-strewn bettom of the ravine. Police and Boy Scouts started a search for the body. Legend has it that an Indian maiden once leaped from “Devil's Pulpit” to death on the rocks below. PAY ROLL UP 507PE§ CENT Franklin Co. Reports 40 Per Cent More Employment. SYRACUSE, N. Y., September 4 (). —A 50 per cent higher pay roll in August than in July was reported Sat- |urday by the H. H. Franklin Manu- facturing Co.. automobile producer, making wages and salaries for the month just past the largest for the year. . The average employment for August was 40 per cent higher than that for July. August was the first month in which the 10 per cent increase was in effect at the automobile plant. FRATERNITY TO DANCE The four-day convention of the Up- silon Lambda Phi National Fraternity will close this afternoon with a dance at the Fa Fayette Hotel. Two Wash- ington youths were among the officers inducted into office at the final busi- ness meeting of the organization yes- terday. They are Joseph Bulman, dep- uty master, and Philip Geldstein, sec- retary. Other officers installed were Benja- min Asbell of Camden, N. J, master, and Lewis Chernoff, New Britain, Conn., treasurer.. Among activities yes- terday were a supper- dance at the 121 and a %ightseeing tour. City. ,, S Wi i make any mistakes,” | He was expected to talk over! Association | DEADLINE ON CODE Car Maker Gives Every Indi- cation of Continuing Va- cation Schedule. By the Associated Press. BIG BAY, Mich, September 4.— Whatever may be Henry Ford's plans for compliance, or non-compliance with the national automobile code, the motor magnate apparently is not going to let them interferc with the vacation he and his wife are enjoying in their Huron Mountain retreat, far from a telephone or telegraph office. With the deadline for acceptance of the code less than 24 hours away, there were no indications that Mr. Ford planned an early return to Detroit. In fact, the best information available was | that he would remain in his 16-room “cabin” until Friday or Saturday. No Action Indicated. Neither was there any indication that, he was taking steps to compose his differences with promulgators and ad- ministrators of the automotive code and the national recovery act. Those differences pivot about the pro- visions for collective bargaining with workers and the right of the board ad- ministrating the code to inspect the books of signatory companies. Ford ob- jects to letting competitors View the inside workings of the close corpora- tion which he fathered and dominates. The information that Ford would not return to Detroit until the last of the week was in sharp contradiction to cur- rent reports that he was planning a quick return trip today, either by spe- cial train or by plane. Railroad officials denied that any special train had been ordered, and the plane rumor was given little | credence because of the known reluc- tance of Mr. Ford to travel by air. Keturn to $5 Day Seen. It was generally accepted that his plans in connection with the N. R. A. movement called either for compliance or for a vigorous counter-offensive— possibly a return to the famous $5 & day minimum wage which brought him world-wide acclaim some years back. The minimum wage has since been re- duced to $4 for an eight-hour day. Already he has announced a mini- mum wage of 50 cents an hour, eight hours a day and five days a week, and compared that scale with the 35-hour- week and the 35-cents-an-hour mini- mum prescribea by the code for the Dettoit area. He also announced—choosing the day when Detroit was celebrating re-em- ployment attributed to the N. R. A— that between 3.000 and 4,000 former employes are being called back to his Detroit plants. The present employment figure in Ford plants was estimated at 42,000. MOLLISONS MAY REPEAT DOUBLE ATLANTIC FLIGHT New Plane to Be Presented Soon by Lord Wakefield to Couple That Cracked Up. By the Assoctated Press LONDON, September 4—A double Atlantic crossing and a long-distance fiight may again be attempted by Capt. and Mrs. James A. Mollison within the next few weeks, it was un- derstood today. _ Builders of a new plane which Lord Wakefield will present to the Mollisons to replace their Seafarer, wrecked ai Bridgeport, Conn., July 23 after a transatlantic jaunt that was to have been the first leg of a three-way record attempt, say they hope to have the machine finished by the end of this week. i “Mollison is out of town this week end.” said one of his friends, “but on his return will consider the possibility of repeating the double Atlantic at- tempt. i “A final decision, however. is un- likely until Mrs. Mollison has had time to state her views. “Mollison had the double attempt in mind on his return from America re- cently, provided the new plane was ready before October.” 1,000TH LANDING CAKE AWARDED 18TH PILOT Navy Tradition Observed Aboard Carrier Saratoga; Mate H. D. McPherron Winner. Among the unique naval customs which aviation has brought to the serv- ice is that aboard airplane carriers of presenting a cake to the pilot making each thousandth landing aboard. The eighteenth cake, celebrating 18,000 landings aboard the U. S. S. Saratoga, \vas presented a few days ago by Ad- miral John Halligan to Aviation Ma- chinist's Mate H. A. McPherron, a naval aviation pilot | Admiral Halligan, who presented the first cake aboard the Saratoga, said | he believed “the landings are better now than they were then and prob- ably the cakes are, too.” McPherron's cake is the fourth to go | to members of VT Squadron 2B torpedo plane outfit. Planes of this squadron made the 5000th, 10,000th, 17,000th and 18,000th landings aboard the Saratoga. oS ACTOR’S WIFE BETTER Mrs. Von Stroheim Has Chance to Recover, Say Doctors. LOS ANGELES, September 4 (#).— Physicians said yesterday Mrs. Valerie von Strcheim, wife of Erich von Stro- heim, motion picture actor and pro- ducer, had a good chance to recover from burns suffered Saturday in a Hol- lywood beauty shop. She was somewhat improved. Mrs. Von Stroheim was burned about ithe face and shouiders and her lungs | were seared as she swallowed flames ignited by a short circuit in a hair- drying machine. N. R. A. Score 18 Codes Approved. 30 Others Heard. 20 Set For Hearing to Date. By the Associated Press. Henry Ford was Labor day’s chief N. R. A. hold-out. While awaiting Ford's decision, N. R. A. officials surveyed their ac- complishments to find: President Roosevelt has promulgated 18 _codes. Deputy administrators were drafting reports on 30 more on which hearings have been ccmpleted. The trouble- tome soft coal code was one of the chief still unsigned. Hearings were set for 20 recom- mended codes More than 250 temporary wage and hour scales were approved. § Hugh S. Johnson estimated that vir- tually all employers were operating either under codes or presidential agreements. , Officials estimated 350 codes would be needed to sign up all industries. NEWERAINN.R.A. House District Committee Chairman Urges Support of President. Conviction that “history will prob- ably record the national recovery act as the beginning of a new era” is ex- pressed by Representative Mary T. Nor- ton, chairman of the House District Ccmmittee, who particularly urges every heme maker in the National Capital to support the President’s program. Declaring that she is proud to have voted for this measure, Mrs. Norton said she believed “the decade of selfish- ness, with large profit, the only goal of incustry, will be followed by years of greater equality among men." She advises the residents of the Dis- trict to “do their duty—to stand four- square behind the President for suc- cess of the national recovery act. He cannot succeed without our concerted effort,” Mrs. Norton stressed. “Unless we think in terms of winning this war we cannot win. If ¢ rery woman in the District of Columbi~ will organize her- self as a unit of ¢ e in this great ad- venture, thinking success, buying from those who are trying to support the President and boycotting the chiselers 25 we despised the slackers and prof- iteers during the World War, we shall succeed.” Name Exactly Suited. Mrs. Norton points out that the na- tional recovery act is exactly what its name implies. Nothing could be more comprehensive or better named, for when the benefits of this act are known from one end of our country to the otker, I have no hesitancy in predict- ing that we shall have arrived at a better understanding of the problems of labor, and a better division of the responsibility that should rest with every individual in working out our own_ salvation. / “The years of prosperity following the Great War seemed to destroy that feeling of helpfulrfess we had during the war. Somehow we became selfish Large profits seemed the only goal of those engaged in industry. We lost our sense of proportion. and when the crash came we were dazed and knew not where to go. For three long years this continued. We seemed incapable of thinking straight—of finding any solu- tion to our misfortune. “If we act as one great unit we can destroy the evil force of poverty. You know that during the past four years we have had more than 12,000,000 un-! employed in the richest country in the world, Evidently something was fun- damentally wrong with our order, else this could not happen. Today, in ‘Washington, the brains of the country have come together to combat this hor- rible nightmare. From early morning until late into the night leaders are trying to find the solution of the prob- lem. President Roosevelt says there is a solution. He is trying every method known to men find it. He will find it if we will continue to trust him, be- lieve in him, and help him whenever and wherever we can. Putting People in Jobs. “The question that seems to be in the mind of every one today is, ‘How will the N. R. A. program send people back to work?' The answer seems very | simple if every employer of labor wiil live up to the specifications of the con- | tract he signed with the President: that is. a shorter working day and a greater | wage for each of his employes. This| will, of necessity, create the employment of a greater number of people. If these employers do not live up-to the letter of the law then they are retarding the purpose of this act, and only retarding | | national recovery, ' which is the only| thing that will be responsible for in- dividual recovery. So that the em- ployer with any kind of vision will re- alize that in helping other people he is | helping himself, even if this very help- | ing entails some hardship on his part.! He is the person with whom the entire success of this act rests. When a great- er number of people are given employ- ment there will, of necessity, be a much greater purchasing power, and this ‘buying power’ is one of the fundamen- tal requisites to the success of the re- act. This is evidenced daily if you will follow the reports published in the newspapere of the business revival in a great many places throughout the country. “We know that Industry has been crippled. that the employer had lost his courage. and we also know that since President Roosevelt assumed control of the machinery of govern- \ment much courage has been revived There is nothing that will help employ- ers more than to see their sales in- crease, and when their sales increase the people they employ must have more money to spend because of increased wages. There is nothing very difficult about this proposition. In the final analysis it comes down to you and to me. The things we buy from day to day will improve economic conditions if they are bought from a dealer who displays a Blue Eagle in his window. Therefore, it is our individual task at this time. if it is at all possible, to make the necessary improvements in our home that we have been putting off ,during the past years of depression. Let's paint our houses if they need paint, let's buy that new chair we want so badly, buy the tires our automobile needs so badly if we can't afford to buy a new car—in other words, buy, buy, buy, to the very limit of your ability, and buy from dealers recognized under the national recovery act. Co-operation Is Necessary. You can do your part just as I can do mine, but not unless we all pull to- gether and realize the gravity of the situation that faces us and that the only way to success is through sincere and whole-hearted co-operation. There is nothing more important to the aver- age person than to have his courage. confidence in the future, and hope re- stored. It is the foundation upon which we build everything worth while and the lack of it perhaps more than any- thing else has been the great destructive force that overtook us three years ago. . “If we believe that our civilization is to go on, if we believe that the old order is changing and that the new order will bring us more equality, hap- piness, and everything that goes to make life worth living, then un- doubtedly we will get behind the Presi- dent's program and each of us will do all that we can to make it a success. “For many years child labor has been one of the greatest evils in our economic system. Bills have been introduced to remedy this evil, but to no avail. Then came the recovery act and in one day by the code established by the cotton and textile workers, the evil was abol- ished. That was one of the greatest steps forward our civilization has ever known and it was accomplished in one day under the leadership of our Franklin Roosevelt. If he never did another thing for us, that, in itself would be a monument to him. But he will not stop there. He means to send your brother or husband or you back to work at a salary that wil enable you to buy the necessities of life and some of the luxuries. He will do it and he can do it if each one of us helps him. Never before has the time been so auspicious as it is now for a wholesale recovery. We were dis- couraged, we might as well admit it, and we were losing faith and confi- dence. We couldn't start from a better foundation, for every renewing of these qualities is a step upward for us. e Vassar Professor Dies. CAPE MAY, N. J.. September 4 (®). —Dr. Woodbridge Riley, author, edu- cator and professor of philoscphy at Vassar College since 1908, died Satur- day at his Summer cottage. -He was 65. Dr. Riley’s writings on philo~ sophical subjects Included a consider- able treatise of) Mormonism. { members cf ui FORD WILL IGNORE MRS, NORTON SEES | Gen. John A. Johnston, U. S. A, retired, presented medals to heroes of the Police and Fire Departments at memorial services at the Sylvan Theater yesterday. Left to right—Gen. Johnston. Pireman Warren A. Dues of Flint, Mich., who received a gold medal for bravery: Pvt. Francis C. O'Connell, bronze .ar; Pvt. Arthur C.. Poulsen, gold medal; Pvt. George R. Wallrodt, silver medal, and C. F. Roberts, who accepted a bronze bar for Pvt. Herman L. Lay, now in a hospital suffering from a bullet wound inflicted by a prisoner. —Star Staff Photo. HARRIMAN STAND WOENS LR A RFT U. S. Chamber of Commerce Head Squarely Opposed to Labor on Open Shop. By the Associated Prss. A demand frcm Henry I. Harriman, By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 4 —The ad- !venture of Peter Christopholis, the or- Orphan, Millionaire Adopted, ' May Have Ended Fairy Dream "outh, Who “Couldn’t Stand Prosperity,” Not Believed to Have Filled Place of Drowned Son. sbout an orphanage, go motor boating ana attend parties. They were saying at Paterson today that all the attention showered upon president of the Chamber of Commerc~ Phan, was understood to have come to him had somehow gone to Peter's head. of the United States, for recognition of the cpen shop in industry served further today to broaden the breach between labor and capital over the con- struction to be placed upon the pro- visions of the national recovery act Harriman, a member cf the National Recovery _Administration's Industrial Advisory Board, which is composed of nationally-known bus} men, aligned himself squarely against the stand taken by the Labor Advisory Board and the American Federation of Labor In a letter to all members of the chamber Harriman urged inclusion in all codes of language similar to that placed in the automobile industry's charter asserting an intention to hire, discharge cr advance employes cn a basis of merit withcut regard to union or non-union affiliation. Approved by President. This provision was approved in the auto code by President Roosevelt over the protest of the Labor Advisory Board. Spokcsmen for labor have stated absolute opposition to its inclu- sion in cther ccdes, but at lcast a dozen industries are known to be prepared to ask for it. Harrisan said collective bargaining under any manncr chosen by employes was their right, but that this did not cg mean a clcsed shop for employes not ons. Any move by the Labor Advisory Cemmittee to force the “closed shop” upon all industry would be inconsistent. he said Such a move, he added, would be “contrary to the statement of the ad- ministrator of industrial recovery, who has cmphatically declared that it is not a function of the Recovery Admin- istration to favor either unionization or the real open ship." “The recovery ac Harrman wrote, not only does not attempt to require employes to exercise a right of collective bargaining, but it does not specify in any degree the extent or the basis for collective bargaining if the right is used. * * * There is nothing in the recovery act suggesting that collective bargaining as already practiced should be discontinued.” Against Discrimination. Harriman asserted it was not the function of the recovery act to enthrone any national labor organization or to dissolve any local organization. The chamber. he added. has always used the term “open shop” as meaning a policy of employment without discrimi- nation against or in favor of men on account of their membership or non- membership in labor organizations. Under the law, the chamber head said, employes may choose whether they will bargain individually with their employes, whether they will bargain ccl- lectively through trade unicn: or whether they will bargain collectively through company unions. 5,000 C. C. C. WORKERS ON DISASTER PROJECTS Engaged in Fighting Forest Fires and Rehabilitating Areas Dam- aged by Recent Storms. By the'dssociated Press Five thousand men of the Civilian Conservation Corps were put on dis- aster prevention and relief work last week in the wake of fires and floods. In Virginia 600 members of the corps in the Colonial National Park and the Richmond Battlefield areas were hast- ened to the seacoast to aid rehabilita- tion of the storm-swept area. For more than a week 1,800 men from conservation camps have fought a devastating forest fire in Oregon, be- tween Portland and Tillamook. Timber estimated in value at between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 already has been de- stroyed. One thousand workers from the Santa Barbara National Forest turned to fire fighting in that region. Near Boise, Idaho, a thousand from the camps are battling flames in five national forests. Other forest fire work has been re- ported from conservation camps in Min- nesota and Maine. “See Etz and See Better” ‘Without seeing well your boy or girl cannot do good work at school. The first thing to know is that their eyes are right. ETZ Optometrists 1217 G St. NW. an end. Only a few weeks ago the future ap- peared bright and untroubled for the 14-year-old lad from Father Flanagan's Orphanage at Omana. He was offered what all orphans yearn for most—a home, with parents, a sister and all the things that go to ‘make a lad's life pleasant. Jean Stengs, wealthy Paterson.N.J dyer. saw Peter’s picture in a new paper and remarked the striking resem- blance Peter bore to a son of the Stengs :ho had drowned a year ago. The thought came to the Paterson man that perhaps Peter could fill in part the place of the son who had gone. Surrounded by Luxury. | A “trial adoption” arranged Peter Christopholis came Eas. from the Omaha orphanage and was taken into the Stengs family. There were the motor cars. the boats. the_luxurious surroundings. Opportunity, seemingly. had knocked at the door of the orphan boy, just as is does sometimes in books The papers carried pictures of Peter reveling in his new life. Much fuss was made over him—much more fuss. in- cGeed: than one could ever hope to re- ive at Father Flanagan's Orphanage. One cannot. for instance, loll and laze the gay days, | They said he “couldn’t stand prosperity,” just as many much older persons than | Peter Christopholis have been unable to stand prosperity. They said further that Stengs. eager as he was to find a lad to fill the void his son's death had made in his heart, was disappointed. Believed on Way Back. No member of the Stengs family cculd be found to say just what the status of Peter Christopholis is. The cne thing definite was that Father Flanagan had departed from Paterson and, traveling by motor car, was due tack in Omaha Wednesday The general belief was that his com- panion was Peter Christopholis. In a way, it is something like an Horatio Alger, jr. story, with the last chapter written by a gloomy Gorky. REDUCED BRIEF PRICES BYRON S. ADAMS I Never 7 durab about their business in half-light. ment in these pages. Shoddy merchandise cannot be advertised. A3 i WALLACE PLEADS FORNEW OUTLOOK Says Roosevelt Administra- tion Is Building New So- cial Machinery. By the Associated Press. HERSHEY, Pa., September 4.—Henry A. Wallace, United States Secretary of Agriculture, yesterday appealed to the Nation to change from its forefathers’ spirit of “rugged individualism” to one of “genuine concern for your neighbor.” Speaking at the dedication of the $3,000,000 community center of Her- shey, he asserted the “new social ma- chinery” being built under President Roosevelt's economic program demands the change to a broad national outlook. “If we cannot attain this broader view,” he said, “our material wealth will only intensify the inevitable crash.” “We are building a social machinery in Washington.” he continued, “and I am convinced that social machinery will fail uniess there is going along with it a definite change in the human heart. * * * Federal Action Scored. “One of the most disturbing things in Washington today is to see how the so-called radicals approach things in a mean, brittle manner. Equally disturb- ing has been the cow-like attitude of those who think they have a divine right to get more than a fair share of the national income.” Asserting “we at Washington are going to make mistakes,” Secretary Wallace saild the present plan of the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- tion is not ideal. . The Agriculture Secretary said “the shifting of the United States from a | debtor to a creditor nation” had been the principal factor in unsettling the agriculture and general economic con- ditions of the country. Predicts Leisure Era. Under the new spirit of nationalism, Secretary Wallace said he hopes to see the time when “we stop sweating our farm labor, even as we have stopped sweating our industrial labor.” With the perfection of the “new social ma- chinery,” he added, will be developed | a general knowledge of the art of “en- | joying leisure.” The dedication was part of a four-day celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the town by Milton S. Hershey. 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