Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 3

DR. GLENN FRANK HALS DEMOCRAGY Educator, First Town Hall Speaker, Sees Need to Curb Nationalism. With nationalism running amuck throughout the Western world, the setting up of dictatorships is a sign of weakness, and as social, economic and political problems become more complex the necessity for clinging to democratic forms of government be- comes more imperative. This conclusion was drawn last night by Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, who delivered the principal address at the first meeting of the new Town Hall of ‘Washington in the auditorium of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The auditorium was filled to its seating capacity of 900, with close to 100 standing around the walls. Outside, several minutes before the 8 o'clock opening hour, close to 250 pro- spective patrons were turned away for | lack of space. Those inside repre- sented the “intelligentsia of Washing- ton,” as described by Huston Thomp- son, president of the Town Hall's Board of Directors. Many distin- guished officials, leaders in Govern- ment, education, journalism, diplo- macy and society were present. Questioned by Panel. Dr. Frank's assertion that dictator- ship, while appearing now as a “strong” form of government, is in reality a sign of weakness, came as & part of the open forum that followed his formal address. The question was raised from the floor by Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, who as- serted that the problems of today can be worked out without changing the present form of our Government. Earlier Dr. Frank had been sub- Jected to a series of questions by Sec- retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal- lace. Dr. Ernest Gruening, director of the Bureau of Territories and Insular Possessions; W. M. Kiplinger, busi- ness writer, and Lothrop Stoddard, author, who formed the “panel” for open discussions of the questions raised by Dr. Frank. Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States Commis- sioner of Education, who presided, also took part in the discussions. Dr. Frank, discussing “America’s Hour of Decision,” raised the question, “Do the American people know what they want?” Dr. Gruening answered by saying are secking “the more abundant life” and then asked what the Gov- ernment should have done or should have left undone during the past two years. Without attempting to an- swer the question in detail, Dr. Frank asserted that the recasting of the re- lation of Government and business, as exemplified by the N. R. A, is a con- tribution to progress of historic im- portance. Likewise the wider distribu- tion of wealth through an improved program of wages and hours is like- wise of importance. As to the means of accomplishing these two steps, how- ever, he declined to praise the meth- ods created for the purpose. “Marvelous progress has been made,” he said, “and we should not scrap a good idea merely because of bad mechanism.” Foreign Trade Necessary. In answer to questions by Kiplinger, Dr. Frank asserted that government is merely a means to an end, not the ultimate goal itself. He declined to fix a definite period of time as con- stituting the present “transient emer- gency,” and in answer to a question by Secretary Wallace declared that the experimental processes now being tried by the administration should continue 80 long as the financing can hold out and there is hope of definite results. Dr. Frank also pleaded for more reciprocal trade agreements to offset the old favored-nation type of treaties, declaring that larger importations of foreign goods are necessary, unless as a creditor nation, we are bidding for economic suicide. In his formal address, preceding the panel discussions, Dr. Frank de- clared: “The dominant question that emerges from the events of the time is this: Can we ride the storm and make the revisions of political and economic policy which the effective operation of an age of potential plenty re- quires, without subjecting the Amer- ican order of private enterprise and political liberty to subversive changes that may bring ultimate ruin in the wake of a transient recovery? * * ¢ “One thing should by now be clear to all literate Americans, namely, that the temper of the crowd and the turn of aflairs combine to create a situation in which beating the tom- tom for obsolete traditions of politics and economics can neither satisfy the mass mind nor bring recovery and stabilization to our enterprise.” Changes Since World War, After tracing the many changes that have taken place since the World War, particularly as they affect public lead- ership and government, Dr. Frank de- clared: “From one end of the Western World to the other * * * the slow gains of generations have been set aside in a frantic search for new foundations of national being. 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A WILLIAM THE EVENING STAR, Inaugurate Town Hall of Washington This group occupied the stage at the United States Chamber of Com- merce last night at the first meeting of the newly organized Town Hall of Washington. Left to right, Huston Thompson, president of the Town Hall's Board of Trustees; Lothrop Stoddard, author, and W. M. Kiplinger, busi- ness writer, member of the “panel”;*Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, principal speaker; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and Dr. Ernest Gruening, and Insular Possessions, also members of the “panel”; director of the Bureau of Territories Dr. Robert H. Ely, director of the Town Hall of New York, and Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States commissioner of education, who presided. —Star Staff Photo. nounced. Science is betrayed. Edu- cation is hamstrung. Religion is tied to the cart tail of the state. National- ism runs amuck. * * * ““We are part of the Western civiliza- |tion, and, despite the distinctiveness | we seek to maintain, are not of ne- cessity immune to the distempers that have raced through the minds of peoples elsewhere in the West. The winds of doctrines that have shaken ancient traditions of government and economic organizations in Europe blow across our Judgments as well. * * “Where once men's minds were cer- tain they are now cynical. Where once men were animated by a buoyant con- fidence that human genius was equal to the conquest and control of nature, human nature, and social organization, despair now darkens their outlook. * * * In the face of the manifest pos- sibility of plenty in this age of sci- ence, technology and power produc- tion, a heightened resentment of wide differentials of wealth arises. We witness a resurgence throughout Eu- rope of the gospel of equality. And hitherto docile masses everywhere seem set to take affairs into their own hands or lodge them in the hands of leaders who speak their language of urgency. *'* * Loyal to Democracy. “It is easy, given the requisite tem- perament, to follow the lead of the dogmatic reactionary and beat the drums for anything and everything traditional. It is easy, granted the turn of mind, to follow the lead of the dogmatic radical and gamble reck- lessly with the lives of 125,000,000 Americans as if they were pasteboard pawns in a game of chance. Either path, it seems to me, is likely to lead us in the abyss. * * * “If inflexible tradition controls, we shall inevitably go the way that peo- ples have always gone when they have lost the capacity or lacked the will intelligently to adjust their institu- tions to new circumstances. * * * “If flexible intelligence controls, we shall, with a due admixture of caution and courage, adapt the traditional policies and mechanisms of our life and enterprise to the new circum- stances of this new age of science, technology, power production and the political sovereignty of the masses. “We shall revise the procedure but remain unreservedly loyal to the prin- ciples of democratic self-government.” Next Sunday night Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Capitalism.” Members of the panel to join in the discussion are to be an- nounced later this week. S. A. E. SMOKER TONIGHT Fraternity Will Discuss Plans for Convention. Wayne Williams, special assistant to the Attorney General, will be the principal speaker at a smoker to be given tonight by Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the local chapter house, 1128 Six- teenth street. Plans for the fraternity’s seventh- eighth national convention, which is to be held in Washington December 27, 28 and 29, will be discussed by Charles Allen, convention chairman, and Lauren Foreman of Chicago, editor of the fraternity’s official pub- lication. A Robert Davidson, baritone, will sing to the accompaniment of Stewart Moore and the S. A. E. Quartet. Six-Hour Day Seen For U. S. Industry By Ford Official “Work Is Plentiful and Production Ample,” \ Says W. J. Cameron. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 3—William J. Cameron, Ford Motor Co. official and close associate of Henry Ford, said last night that because “work is plentiful and production is ample,” the 6-hour day will come into prac- tical use in American industry. A continuous decrease in standard working hours in years past, he ex- plained, was due “not to a growing scarcity of work to be done, but to better ways of doing it.” “There is nothing new to use in the idea of a 6-hour day,” Mr. Cameron added. “Seven years ago Mr. Ford was discussing plans to put it in operation. No one was asking for It then, just as no one was asking for the 5-day week when we established it in 1926. But we believed then and believe now that a shorter work day is coming. “Social improvements of this char- acter are not commanded, but created. * * * Higher wages and shorter hours cannot be established by mohey dipped out of a company’s treasury. They come from economies, improvements and refinements of manufacturing methods and these come from the in- cessant labor and creative experience of management.” WHERE TO DINE. OOKING FOR A Good Place to Eat? An Atmosphere Yowll Enjoy. Try 17th CAFETERIA 24 171) W.. 7l h!kNu nemlarhlm 35 25¢. 35e. 50c _50c, 65¢ ”‘ °Auo A LA CARTE Institution, will discuss “The Ethics of | NEW U. S. BONDS RECEIVED WELL, MORGENTHAU SAYS (Continued From First Page.) 3% works and the plans for the low cost housing program, which has reached the stage where it is becoming closely related to the public works program; Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, who arrived Saturday is still here to assist in the planning, especially as it affects relief; Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersecretary of Agriculture, who is one of the President’s principal as- sistants in_planning, is still here to | give suggestions and other aid. As- | sistant Secretary of Interior Chapman, who is not a frequent attendant at such highly important presidential conferences, is sitting-in on this one today. P. W. A. Due to Continue. There seems to be no doubt about | the policy plan making sufficient pro- vision for the public works continuin, on its broad scale for some time to come. It is the opinion of admm-y istration heads that there must be | provision for P. W. A. until better times have arrived and the employ- ment situation has improved or until private capital steps in and takes some of the load off P. W. A. Speaking of this today, Secretary of Interior Ickes, who is public works administrator, said “Private, capital is not doing what we had hoped it would do. We expect it to do better in the near future. Until then public works must do the trick.” Secretary Ickes stated that despite the fact that P. W. A. has received more than $3,700,000,000, it has not had enough money to bring the de- sired results and has lacked a con- tinuous program. He said “a consid- erable portion of the amount of money turned over to public works was ear- marked for other activities, among them being T. V. A,, and therefore the actual amount spent by public works has been reasonably low consldermg everything.” Land Law Change. Tckes expressed the opinion that in advancing the public works program there must be some: improvement in the law governing the Governmem's| taking over the land it desires for P.| W. A. developments. He intimated | that provision will be made in the | President's general policy plan for new | legislation improving the present land law. Ickes said he did not anticipate any conflict between himself and Har- ry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, in mapping out the newly designed low- cost housing program. James A. Farley, Postmaster Gen- eral, is expected to join the President late this afternoon. He is delivering an address in Gainesville, Ga., more than 100 miles from here, where a new post office building is being dedicated. Sees Georgia Leaders. The President yesterday conferred with Senator George of Georgia and former Senator John Cohen, Atlanta newspaper publisher. These two Georgians, however, were not re- ceived together. Both said after- ward that their call was “merely social.” Senator George, who voted against the bonus the last time it came before the Senate, said today that he would probably vote for it if it comes up. Further insight into the President’s amazing versatility was revealed here yesterday when he astonished a group by carrying on a conversation with an infantile paralysis patient here who is also deaf and dumb. As the President drove up to the front entrance of the main building of the Warm Springs Foundation, he was attracted by James Carney of New York, a youth of 16, talking to another youth and using the sign language. Both were in wheel chairs, and both were so absorbed in their conversation that they had not no- ticed the presence of the President. Mr. Roosevelt looked on for a few seconds and then entered the “con- versatiol After the exchange of a few “words” he learned that Carney, who fell a victim of infantile paralysis about three years ago, has been a deaf mute since birth, and at the time of the President’s interruption he was trying to teach his companion in the wheel chair beside him, how to converse with his hands. To the amazement of those with him the President conversed with signs_so rapidly that it was readily seen he was no novice. So deftly did his talking fingers move, that of the two lads before him, only young Carney understood what he was say- ing and could “talk” back. This proud youth said afterward that the President wanted to know all about him and said he hoped they would have a lot more conversations togetner. Carney, who is a modest and timid lad, seemed reluctant aft- erward to discuss the incident. Upon arriving at the Warm Springs Foundation to be treated for his paralysis, Carney found his muteness a sereve handicap. No one among the sanitarium attaches or the pa- tients could understand the manual speech, He finally decided to over- | come this handicap. He sent back | home for a text book on the subject, and with this book and with rare patience, numerous attaches, nurses and patients now can “converse” with him, 2nd as a result, Carney is not handicaped and no longer lonely. This additional evidence of Mr. Roosevelt's versatility naturally caused his astonished associates and friends who stood by looking on during the “finger conversation” to wonder how he happened to know the manual speech and how long had he known it. The President gave only a smile in answer to these questions and con- tinued on his way. DEBT TO HIT 28 BILLION. $900,000,000 Loan This Month Will Set New Record. By the Associated Press. ‘The Government plans to borrow $900,000,000 this month, and the pub- {lic debt will be pushed to another record high of more than $28,500,- 000,000. The latter figure, equivalent to about $226 for every person in the United States, is some $2,500,000,000 short of the $31,000,000,00 debt with which " President Roosevelt has esti- mated the Government would emerge from the fiscal year ending next June 30. The $900,000.000 borrowing, an- nounced last night as the Winter re- lief task neared. is part of a financing operation totaling at least $1.892,- 496,500. The new money, the Treas- ury said, is expected to meet all needs to March 15. Bonds and Notes Offered. The loan was divided into bonds and notes. The Treasury offered for cash $450,000,000 in 15-18 year 3's per cent bonds, dated December 15 and maturing December 15, 1952, but callable after December 15, 1949. It offered for cash $450,000,000 in 18- month 1; per cent notes, dated De- cember 15 and maturing June 15, 1936. In addition, two conversion offers were made to holders of $992,496,500 in 2% per cent certificates maturing December 15. The public debt surpassed the World War peak last November 7. The vast expenditures in war in 1918 and 1919 carried the debt to $26,- 597,000,000 on August 31, 1919, Low Point in 1930. After the war there was a succes- sion of surpluses which, combined with the operation of the sinking fund, reduced the debt at the rate of $1,000,000,000 each year until a low point of $16,026,000,000 was reached at the close of 1930. Then came the depression. To com- bat it the Government evolved a series of extraordinary or emergency expen- ditures, still continued. This spend- ing, plus reduced income, caused the cumulative deficits to swell the debt to its present proportions. Emer- R SSATTR AR gency spending has totaled almost $7,000,000,000 during the last 29 | months. A deficit of $1,432,240,962 was piled up by the Federal Government in the first five months of the current fiscal year, compared with $772,465,574 a year ago. These figures were made public by | the Treasury today as it entered the | market for the $900,000,000 of new | money. A check on the Treasury's cash position at the end of November showed total expenditures of $2,892,- | 632,093, of which $1,501,965,244 was charged to emergency recovery costs, and $1,390,666,848 to routine Govern- ment operating expenses. Against these outlays the Treasury had collected $1,460,391,130. November spending dropped below October’s total, the high month for the current fiscal period. July's total outlays were $466,~ 000,000, August's, $513,000,000; Sep- tember’s, $515,000,000; October’s $758,- 000,000, and November, $638,000,000. October showed the largest monthly deficit of $498,000,000 and September —when their-quarter income tax pay- ments are due—the smallest of $66,- 000.000. The Emergency Relief Administra- tion, with $483,969,231, was credited with the largest emergency spending. | CANTACUZENE WED TO FORMER CLERK Ex-Husband of Mrs. Julia Canta- cuzene-Grant Married in Florida. SARASOTA, Fla., December 3 (#).— Prince Michael Cantacuzene-Grant Speransky, former major general in the Russian Czar's army but more re- cently vice president of a bank and supervisor of a large citrus grove, and Miss Jeanette Draper were married yesterday, it was learned here today. Miss Draper was formerly a clerk in his bank. The ceremony was unannounced and was performed by a retired Baptist minister at the home of a sister of the bride. Recently the prince was divorced from Princess Julia Cantacuzene, who is now living in Washington, D. C., as Mrs. Julia Cantacuzene-Grant. In applying for the marriage li- cense Prince Cantacuzene gave his age as 56, while the bride said she was 36. She is a native of Hopkins- ville, Ky., and one of several sisters living in Sarasota. After the ceremony the prince and his bride left on a brief wedding trip. They will make their home here. —_— Club Suspends Luncheons. Washington Advertising Club meet- ings have been suspended so members may “do their Christmas shopping early,” Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the club, announced today. The meetings will be resumed with the reg- ular Tuesday luncheon meeting, Jan- uary 8, in the National Press Club. Turn your old trinkets, jewelry and watches into MONEY at A.KXahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 42 YEARS at 935 F STREET SIMIIRZRSE | LAWYERS’ BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS “See Etz and See Better” As a suitable gift for father or mother, let us suggest a pair of ETZ glasses. ETZ Optometrists 1217 G St. N.W. 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Hurley will preside at the inaugural assembly of the national conference, called to discuss plans for intensifying the war on gangsters, racketeers and other outlaws. The conference will be organized at the opening meeting. Governors to Attend. ‘The succeeding sessions will be held December 11, 12 and 13 in Memorial Continental Hall. More than three dozen persons prominent in the realm of law enforcement and social work will address the hundreds of dele- gates, who will include Governors, mayors, police officials, members of the judiciary, representatives of the bar and others interested in law and order. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Jus- tice Department’s Division of Investi- gation, will be the first speaker at the initial business session on the morn- ing of December 11. He will discuss “Detection and Apprehension.” Among other speakers and their topics will be: Attorney General John J. Bennett of New York, “Commercial Racketeering”; Gordon Dean, special attorney, Department of Justice, “In- terstate Compacts for Crime Control”; George Z. Medalie, former United | States attorney, New York City, “Ef- | fective Prosecution”; Ferdinand Pe- | cora, member, Federal Securities Com- | mission, “Are the Criminal Courts| Doing Their Duty?”; Dr. Willlam A.| White, superintendent, St. Elizabeth’s | Hospital, “Judicial vs. Administrative Process at Prosecution Stage”; Warden | James Johnson of Alcatraz Prison, “The Furction of the Modern Prison’ Dr. Wilmer Souder, Bureau of Stand ards, “Scientific Crime Detection Sanford Bates, Federal director of prisons, “A Protectitve Penal Policy”; William Stanley, assistant to the At- torney General, “How the Department | of Justice Functions”; Bruce Smith, | Institute of Public Administration, | “Co-ordination of Police Units”; As- sistant Attorney General Joseph B.| Keenan, “The Federal Government and the Crime Problem”; Harry J. Anslinger, narcotics commissioner, “The Narcotic Evil"; Katharine Len- | root, Children's Bureau, “Old and | New Methods of Dealing With Va- | grants and Delinquents.” Chairmen to Preside. Each session will be conducted by a | different presiding officer. The chair- | men will include Clarence E. Martin, | Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo | Blade and president of the American | Society of Newspaper Editors; Dr. | Raymond Moley, editor of Today; | Scott M. Loftin, president of the Amer- ican Bar Association; Peter J. Siccardi, president of the International Associa- | tion of Chiefs of Police; Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Repre- sentative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, | chairman of the House Judiciary Com- mittee, and Mrs. Grace Morrison Pocle, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Sweden Seeks Drug Control. STOCKHOLM (P).—A state mon- opoly in Sweden for pharmaceutical supplies has been proposed by a com- mittee of experts. The project would | parallel the present state liquor and tobacco monopolies with the govern- | ment holding a majority of the stock | in a distributing corporation. Witness THOMAS N. McCARTER. —A. P. Photo. CONSPIRACY TO FIX INCOME TAX CASE WILL BE CHARGED (Continued From First Page.) ing that period are being scrutinized by investigators. The investigation and subsequent dismissals have stirred the bureau deeply, as the employes alleged to be involved had been' held in high esteem. Financial affairs of persons incrim- inated in the alleged plot are said to be under examination. The case to be presented to the grand jury this week may be the first of several that will be brought to the attention of prosecutors. The total | amount of taxes involved may not be established for weeks. The Government will charge the conspirators with plotting to defraud the Government by compromising in- come tax cases which should have been prosecuted in criminal courts or considered by the Board of Tax Ap- | peals. S VIENNA CURBS CRITICS Press Censorship Hints Under- standing With Germany. VIENNA, December 3 (#).—A closer political understanding between Aus- tria and Germany were seen by polit- ical circles today in the latest govern- | ment decree to the Austrian press. ‘The newspapers were informed that no unfavorable comment regarding | Germany's preparation for the Saar plebiscite could be printed, and that the papers must also maintain silence in connection with the armament of Germany. Violation of this order means the confiscation of the offend- ing newspaper. Keep Your Eye Peeled N on your coal supply. time of year. Reading Anthracite, A3 NAVY PROMOTIONS STUDIED BY BOARD Six Captains to Be Raised to Rank of Rear Admiral. Six captains in the Navy are to be chosen for the rank of rear admiral and 22 new captains are to be recom- mended from the present list of the commanders, by a line selection board, that convened today at the Navy De- partment. Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, com- mander in chief of the United States Fleet, is president of the board, which will be in session at least 10 days go'ug over the records of the senior officers of the Navy, eligible for promotion. Serving with Admiral Reeves on the board are: Vice Admiral Edward H. Campbell, commander of the Scout= ing Force; Rear Admirals Wat T. Cluvertus, commandant of the 9th Naval District at Great Lakes, IIl; Arthur J. Hepburn, commander of the destroyers of the Battle Force; Walton R. Sexton, member of the general board; Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of naval operations, who has been acting as chief in the absence of Admiral William H. Standley, who is absent in London in conjunction with the preliminary naval disarmament conversations; Edward C. Kalbfus, president of the Naval War College at Newport, R. 1; John W. Greenslade, member of the general board, and Alfred W. Johnson, commander of aircraft of the Base Force. Serving as recorder of the board is Commander Louis E. Denfeld of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. Secretary Swanson in the latter part of October ordered the board con- vened today. The board will deliberate and make its recommendations to the cabinet officer, who will transmit the findings to President Roosevelt. The Chief Executive is expected to send these nominations to the Senate for confirmation, shortly after Congress convenes, next month. MARYLAND COLONIAL ESTATE 600 acres on either side of good road Wonderful old. Colonial brick mansion built in 1774. Fireplace in each room. PRICE $30,000 L. W. 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