Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 5

MRS, ROOSEVELT | 10 OPEN PARLEY Many Wil Attend Slum Clearance and Rehous- ing Conference. Mis. Pranklin D. Roosevelt will open the second national conference on slum clearance and rehousing to convene at the Willard Hotel January 18, with delegates in attendance repre- senting labor groups, social agencies, church bodies, technical associations | and others interested in the problem. | The three-day conference will be held under auspices of the National Public Housing Conference. Aspects ' of the Government’s housing program and progress of municipal housing au- | thorities, thus far created, will form | the basis of discussion at the con- vention. Growing Demand Shown. The replies received by the National Public Housing Conference to a ques- tionnaire recently sent to the gov- ernors and mayors in all States in the Union are evidence of the growing demand for public housing projects | by cities, Miss Helen Alfred, national secretary of the conference, said yes- terday. “Recognition of public hous- ing as a social necessity, entirely aside from its value as an instrument of economic recovery, has grown steadily since the housing division of the Pub- lic Works Administration began its activities.” Miss Alfred said the primary pur- pose of the Washington conference, the second national conference of the National Public Housing Conference, would this year be to seek the plan of a permanent method of co-opera- tion between the municipal nulhori-! ties and the Housing Division, P. W. A. The other purpose of the Washing- ton conference, Miss Alfred stated as being replenishment of the now ex- hausted funds of the Housing Division, P. W A Speakers Listed. Prominent among the speakers listed for the three-day conference are the following: Public Works Administra- tor Harold L. Ickes, under whom the Housing Division, P. W. A, has been H THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 6, 1935—PART ONE. Yanderbilt and Bride Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr.. 36, writer and former publisher, and his bride, formerly Miss Helen Warner, 26, of Clarksburg, W. Va., shown after their wedding yesterday at Albuquerque, N. Mex. —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto, In Capital Letters Lobbies Bustle About as Congress Comes to Town. Labor, Veterans and Women, Too, Are Active, BY GENEVIEVE FORBES HERRICK. ERBERT HOOVER, when | represent 5,000,000 American women,” President, referred once with | and so on. considerable exasperation to | Pepper Bursts Claims. the “locust swarm of lobby-| ., George Wharton Pepper of ists” which had descended on n e w Washington to plague Congress. The | :::‘af’;;‘:“é’; “::.\:’S“t xghs:?e!:finm phrase found instant shelter in the | y At 8. more men readers than similar sec- tions in newspapers anywhere else in America. “Aha,” says Senator So-and-So, as he reads of a swank party some rich “special interest” gave. “I see Brother Bill (meaning another Senator) has been taken into camp. Very interest- ing.” And he tucks the information away for a rainy day in the Senate. i Though the social lobby exists, it is not as blatant as it was some years ago. As a matter of fact, it was in its flower a long time ago, in Presi- jdent Garfield's time, when old Sam Ward, king of the lobbyists, received $12,000 from one client, merely for dinner expenses, with which to buy champagne and terrapin for Congress- men whose votes he wished to woo. Lawyers are in demand as lobbyists, particularly lawyers known to be friendly to the ruling political party. Sometimes defeated Congressmen try their hand at lobbying. If it's a wom- an lobbyist, a pretty face is no liabil- ity. The most famous lady lobbyist is Dorothy Detzer, good-looking, t smart-thinking young woman, who is | credited with really starting the mu- nitions investigation. She is executive secretary of the Women's League for International Peace and Freedom, of which Chicago's Jane Addams is in- ternational president. 1 “I believe in a controlled lobby,” Miss Detzer's plea. She favors Men’s If vou were in our place, you wouldn’t be one objective on which to focus the fight, not a variety of aims. The National Woman's Party has one major objective—passage of the equal rights amendment. It's going to make a fight for it this year. The Committee on Federal Legisla- tion for Birth Control, led by Mar- garet Sanger, comes to Congress this year determined to push through its bill. Its most effective lobbyist, by the way, is Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, mother of the famous Katharine. With Federal relief allotments and public works allocations in the fore- ground, Governors of States and may- ors of cities are fast becoming lobby- ists. They head delegations of “gimme boys” almost daily to Washington and make the rounds, It's only a short step and the Congressman himself will be a lobbyist, working for his own State, his own district. So you see to what proportions has grown that “locust swarm of lobbyists.” « right. 1935, by North American CoPy T spapes Alliance. Ine Geological Body to Meet. The Geological Society of Washing- ton will meet Wednesday evening in the Cosmos Club to hear E. D. McKee, G. A. Cooper, J. C. Reed and J. N. Hansell give illustrated lectures. After each lecture there will be general dis- cussions. DRIVE RENEWED FORCENTER BANK Goldsbhorough Bill for Fed- eral Monetary Author- ity Introduced. By the assoclated Press. House advocates of a cen.ral bank yesterday renewed their campaign for legislation to establish such an agency. Representative Goldsborough, Dem- ocrat, of Maryland, a member of the House Banking Committee, reintro- duced his bill for a Federal monetary authority which would have the sole | power to issue currency. To all appearances, e administra- tion will oppose any attempt to estab- lish at this sessicn the authority, which would function as a central bank. The word has gone out from Chairman Fletcher of the Senate legislation is looked for before ad- journment. Reports have persisted, however, that amendments to give the administration additional authority over credit and currency are con- templated. The monetary authority proposed by Goldsborough could buy and sell gold and silver, take over currency powers of the Federal Reserve and other banks, rediscount Federal Re- to sound sentiment and speak on the subject next Monday. Chairman Steagall, Democrat, of Alabama of the House Banking Com- mittee said today there “is consider- central bank.” A subcommittee headed by Goldsborough last ression held extensive hearings on the bill. Steagall today agreed no major banking legislation seemed likely. He added, however, “something probably will be done” about the permanent deposit insurance law and said there were various technical administrative changes to be made in the banking act. able sentiment in the House for a | A5 VISITOR WILL LECTURE Miss Nina Strandberg to Show Film on Finland. By invitation of the National Park Service, Miss Nina Strandberg, unoffi- clal representative of the Finnish peo= ple in the United States, will lecture and show her new picture on “Fine serve notes and the like. He plans)land” at 8 p.m. Thursday in the audi- torium of the Interior Building. Miss Strandberg began her first lec~ | ture tour in the United States here last year and was favorably received. She has been in the service of her government since 1931, both at the foreign office at Helsingfors and in the Finnish Legation at Madrid. She holds riany national and civiz offices | in her own country. [SORRY! We can't make immediate de- livery on the new Philco Side Employes to Meet. District Building Lodge, American Federation of Government Employes, will elect officers tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. William F. Franklin is un- Banking Committee that little banking opposed for the presidency. Chair Radio. The factory is swamped with orders. Our shipment is due in 10 days, but we will be glad to take your order. George’s Radio ACT 11 in the Half-Yearly Grosner Clearance Furnishings and Hats—added! But CLEARANCE is CLEARANCE at Grosner's—and you may have them at sub- particularly keen about cutting the prices ve the stantial cuts from their fair, regular of these good-looking furnishings— developed: Col. Horatio B. Hackett, s Woman after woman proclaimed her- . g s | speech of many a Congressman, as he | ° chief of the Housing Division; Nor- sputtered over the growth of law by\““ the spokesman for millions of man Thomas, economist, sociologist lobby. ‘her sisters. Senator Pepper began to and author; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, That was a few years ago when we jot down figures. Finally, when a active in public affairs and vice presi- | ¢ ucht ‘we had reached the peak of | ¥oman had announced. “I come to dent National Public Housing Conter- ence; Dean Joseph Hudnut of the Co- lumbia University School of Archi- tecture; Dr. Kendall Emerson, director of the American Tuberculosis Asso- ciation;: Mrs. Mary K. Simkhovitch, president of the National Public Hous- ing Conference and director of Green- wich House Settlement in New York City, and Ellen Wilkinson, former Labor member of Parliament from Middleboro, Sussex, England. FARM PURCHASING POWER STILL LOW Index Shows Scale Above Pre- ‘War Parity, but Other Costs Are Much Higher. By the Associated Press. The index of prices received by farmers on December 15 was reported yesterday by the Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics tq have been 1 per cent above pre-war parity. Prices paid by farmers were, how- ever, 26 per cent above the pre-war level, leaving a ratio of prices re- ceived to prices paid at 80 per cent, indicating a continuation of the low level of purchasing power of farm commodities. The December 15 index of prices received was the same as on Novem- ber 15, but was 23 points above the index of December 15, 1933. The 126 per cent estimate of prices paid by farmers was also unchanged during the month. It was 10 points higher than on December 15, 1933. Corn and barley were added to the commodities for which farmers were receiving parity prices or better on December 15. Others were oats, cot- tonseed and tobacco. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB COMMITTEES NAMED Presentation of Medal for Out- standing Civic Service in 1934 First Event on Program. Announcing plans for the coming year, Lewis A. Payne, newly-elected president of the Cosmopolitan Club, yesterday made public his standing committees for the year. the system. The minor lobbies were many. The major lobbies were pow- erful. notably the “Big Three"—the dry lobby, fighting possible repeal of the eighteenth amendment: the sol- dier lobby and the many-headed and not always mutually-agreeing farm lobby. The prohibition lobby was fought by the repeal lobby, in which pretty Polly Sabin and her “lady wets” played such a decisive part. These two powerful lobbies disappeared from the scene, theoretically at least, but the depres- sion sharpened the spearhead of the | soldier lobby, with its determined | fight for the bonus. The A. A. A. spurred on the farm lobby to offer still more plans for agricultural relief. The N. R. A. strengthened the position of organized labor, and the labor lobby, long a strong one, is ready for a big battle in favor of the 30-hour week. In addition, the new emphasis on social security has spurred on the women’s organizations, to- gether with many others, to push for unemployment insurance, old- age pensions and other details of a social program. The women, however, still fight shy of that word “lobbyist.” They prefer to call their workers “legislative chairmen.” Besides these major interests, which will have their emissaries button-hol- ing Senators this Winter, there are literally hundreds of pet projects and silly schemes which will have envoys at court. All of which moved a cynical Rep- resentative to remark the other day: | “The leaders are busy shaping plans | for the Seventy-fourth Congress. It's really a waste of time. The lobbyists | have had Congress’ work laid out for months.” And what is this work? Labor Lobby Active. One of the most important lobbies this year will be the soldier lobby, fighting for immediate payment of the bonus. ‘The labor lobby, mouthpiece for William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, will push for passage of the new 30-hour bill, which Alabama’s Senator Black will again introduce and which the adminis- | tration is not very crazy about. And, since lobbying, like politics, | nakes some strange bedfellows, we find organizations which may or may not be in favor of the bonus or the Black bill, smiling sweetly on both the American Legion and the A. F. of L., The first big event under the new regime will be the awarding of the Cosmopolitan Club medal to the citi- zen who has performed the most out- standing civic service for Washington during 1934¢. This will take place January 17, with Dr. J. Rozier Biggs, chairman of the Cosmopolitan Club Distinguished Service Medal Commit- tee, making the presentation. The Executive Committee of the club will consist of President Payne, Vice President C. Emery Galliher, Sec- retary Michael D. Schaefer and Treas- urer Edmund O. Carl, together with William L. King, A. Hamilton Wilson, A. W. Lee, Wooten E. Young, Thomas J. Groom and Roswell S. Wilkes, mem- bers of the Executive Committee. MASS MEETING CALLED ON D. C. HEALTH WORK Garnet-Patterson Junior High Will Be Scene of Session Tomorrow Night. A mass meeting in the interest of better public health administration in the District will be held tomorrow night at the auditorium of the Gar- net-Patterson Junior High School. Among the guest speakers will be Ross Garrett, co-ordinator of the Dis- trict Health and Hospital Council, and Dr. willlam J. Thompkins, recorder of deeds of the District. A brief mu- sical program will be featured. The meeting is to be called at 8 o'clock by the Citizens’ Joint Confer- ence of Civic, Welfare and Educational Groups at the invitation of the Fed- eration of Civic Associations, confer- ence of local colored civic groups. The public is invited. _———— GAS CAUSES CITY ROW HARDIN, Mont., January 5 (®).— This citys latest natural gas develop- ment is causing its residents no end of concern: With several wells already brought in in the heart of town, one group op- posed to the development as creating & serious hazard obtained a restrain- ing order this week to halt further exploration and development. 2 1 because both these groups have come out in favor of the child labor amend- ment, which the other organizations (National League of Women Voters, National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, etc.) have so heartily in- dorsed. For years mow, every hearing before the Agriculture Committee of either Senate or House has been packed with gentlemen with brief cases and speeches in them— gentlemen who maintained that they spoke for the farmer. But invariably each has spoken a dif- Jerent piece, until the bewildered Congressman doesn't know who represents the jarmer. Up until a few years ago, every time a “legislative chairman” for a womah's organization appeared to testify at a congressional hearing, she would preface her remarks with the you as the representative of 3,460,000 | American wives and mothers,” Senator | Pepper interrupted. | “Madame,” he said, “I have listened to what the other witnesses have said and the claims they have made for representation of women. Their fig- | ures total something over 102,000,000 | women. Now the census says there |are only about 120,000,000 people, | men, women and children, in the Unied States. Something must be wrong.” The roar of laughter that filled the room echoed through the country. Since then the woman witness has been careful not to claim too much | territory. In fact, the most effective | lady lobbyist last year began simply, | “I speak officially for no one but my- | self. But I have some information for you.” The men listened. | One of the first things a new Con- | gressman will hear, when he gets into the swing of things, is the “women's | joint.” Yes, it will puzzle him. And | he’ll be entirely wrong. The “women’s joint” is the nick- name for the serious-minded civic- minded Women’s Joint Congres- sional Committee organized in 1920 and now numbering 19 of the lead- ing national women’s organiza- tions. Included in it are the American Association of Univer- sity Women, the American Federa= tion of Teachers, the National Board of the Y. W. C. A, the National League of Women Voters and National Women's Trade Union League. When five member groups have taken similar action on a congres- sional measure, their representatives on the “women’s joint” may consti- tute a legislative committee on that measure. The committee itself does not propose or promote any measures. One of the most industrious and intelligently informed workers for the “women’s joint” is Elizabeth East- man, sister of Joseph B. Eastman, Federal railroad administrator. ‘These women follow the course of & bill through committee; they sound out Senators; and, when the time is ripe, they tell the folks back home all about it. For, contrary to the story- book tales of the power of the social lobby, it is really vastly overrated. A Senator may squeeze a pretty woman'’s hand in the moonlight; but next morning, when he casts his vote on an important measure, he is much more likely to be guided by the letters and telegrams from the folks back home than by the smile of the beau- tiful lady up in the gallery. 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