Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1935, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935. e ITY NEWS IN BRIEF. on, A. I. M. E., Yac! ub, 6: . i< <o flg e Plenty of Winter ahead —and the Admiral Peoples Gets Big Job e P s As Ickes Fights, Back to Wall|xs..s: i S, 2| e s ot + o is on at Washington’s Finest Men’s Wear Store NATIONAL §YSTEM OF FORUMS URGED Commissioner of Education Declares Democracy Needs Discussion. iy Meeting, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Buffet supper and dance, in com- | Tent, No. 1, Daughters of Union Vet- memoration of 176th anniversary of | erans, 930 H street, 8 pm. the birth of Robert Burns, Clan Mc- Clennan Lodge No. 229, O. 8. C., and TOMORROW. Ladies’ Auxiliary of Scotia, Lee House,| Dinner, Phi Delta Gamma FPra- ternity, Carlton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. 7 pm. _ Educational forum, District Federa- | Dinner dance, Continental Employes’ tion of Federal Employes’ Unions, 710 | Relief Association, Mayflower Hotel, Fourteenth street, 8 p.m. 8:30 pm. Dance, Pennsylvania State Society,| Dinner, The Thirteen Club, Willard Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. Hotel, 7:30 p.m. -wide sy: f public for- | Dinner, Washington Round Table,| Dance, Welfare Association, Bureau A Nation-wide system of pul National Press Club, 7 p.m. of Internal Revenue, Willard Hotel, 9 ums to weigh and discuss current | of I problems was advocated last night by | Dr. John W. Studebaker, commis- sloner of education, as a means of adult education necessary to the suc- cess of a democratic form of govern- ment. Dr. Studebaker led a panel discus- sion of the Des Moines Forum Idea at Roosevelt High School, and suggested the same system, or one similar, could be utilized under the direction of boards of education throughout the country. In describing the Des Moines plan, which he launched with a grant of $125,000 from the Carnegie Founda- | tion and which is now in its third year, he said a total of 578 forums | were held in the Iowa city last year. The meetings extended over 36 weeks with four hired professional leaders | each conducting five forums per week. Disillusioned on Schools. In Des Moines, he said, at least 50 per cent of the population are gradu- ates of high school or college, but he found he had been “disillusioned about the ability of the school ma- | chine to turn out the type of citizens democracy demands.” “It occurred to me,” there must be some reason why the Americar. people, as typified by the people of Des Moines, were not inter- | ested in government. There must be some reasons for their gross ignorance of public questions.” It was in seeking an answer to the question raised that the forum idea was tried out. Dr. Studebaker described the Town | Hall of Washington, which he helped organize, as the “grand opera of pub- lic forums.” By the Associated Press. The star of a 59-year-old admiral | was rising in the public works firma- chief, Harold L. Ickes, was hitting back at opponents who are intent on seeing that his star shall set. | Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples | was said in an authoritative source to have been selected for an important post in the new agency to handle the | $400,000,000 work relief drive. [ He was said to be slated to direct | T the “projects division"—which would | | suggest undertakings to President Roosevelt. There would be two other | He praised its purposes, | divisions, but neither Ickes nor Relief | & REAR ADMIRAL CHRISTIAN J. PEOPLES. —A. P. Photo. jobs and projects I couldn't comply with,” he said. As for other foes, he called them “a choice collection * * * contractors, " he said, “that | ment today while the present P. W. A. | o] interests, public utility interests.” | Ickes apologized yesterday to At- torney General Cummings, Postmas- ter General Farley and Senator Har- rison, Democrat, of Mississippi for the Interior Department’s action in preparing reprints of a magazine article criticizing them. The article, | in the Nation, had attacked Judge Webber Wilson of the Virgin | Islands and held the three officials | responsible for his appointment. Ickes said the circulation of the article was “slip-up” that happened in his but said too few people are reached | Administrator Hopkins is mentioned | absence. by it. Questioned by Panel. At the conclusion of his formal de- scription of the plan, the commis- sioner was guestioned by a panel composed of Dr. Willard E. Givens, secretary of the National Education Association; Miss Elizabeth Hummer, supervising rrincipal of the seventh division of the public schools; Miss Grace Roper of the Tariff Commis- | sion, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent of schools, and M. J. Nel- son, assistant principal of Western High School The meeting was sponsored by the District Education Association and 13 other civic, patriotic and religious or- ganizations. Business Area Hit by Fire. ATHENS, Ala., January 25 (#).— Fire, originating in a novelty store and fanned by a strong wind, last night destroyed half a block in the business section of Athens. Loss estimated at at present in connection with the new ‘sfl!-up. President Roosevelt would be | in direct control of all three divisions. | ! Procurement Division Head. | | Peoples, native of Iowa, is on leave | ‘rrom the Navy to head the Procure- | ment Division of the Treasury. He al- | ready has surveyed $50,000,000.000 of | possible projects for President Roose- | | velt. “What a bunch of enemies & man | can acquire in a short time if he | works hard at it,” Secretary Ickes said yesterday when reporters asked about | recent displays of opposition to him. | These included a drive by Democratic insurgents in the House, who obtained assurances that President Roosevelt himself would allot the money for the new works drive. About the complaints of Congress members that he failed to show them | proper politeness, he said: | “If that's all the criticism of the ‘ public works during by administration, I can stand that.” “I've had to say ‘no’ on a good | many occasions to applications for Complaint by Harrison. Harrison had called at the White | House and made a complaint about what he called interference by a cabinet officer with the judiciary. | Ickes also made a brief comment yesterday on another controversy— centering around his stand that Robert W. Moses cannot hold .~unul-lr Bingo and card party, benefit St. Francis de Sales Church, Twentieth street and Rhode Island avenue north- east, 8:30 p.m. Address, Miss Ellen Newbold La | Motte, on “Opium,” before Washing- ton Public Affairs Forum, 3034 P street, 8 pm. Lecture, “Law of Retribution in Civilization,” by Rabbi Metz, Adas Israel Snyagogue, Sixth and I streets, | 8 pm. Banquet, Emory College Alumni, La Fayette Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Insurance Club of Washing- ton, La Fayette Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Smoker, Variety Club, Willard Hotel, 9 pm. Musicale, Wheatley Parent-Teacher Association. school auditorium, Mon- tello avenue and Neal street north- east, 8:15 p.m. Dance, Forestry Service, Carlton| Hotel, 9 p.m. : Annual oyster roast, Washington taneously the posts of park commis- | sioner of New York and member of the authority constructing the Tri- | Borough Bridge, which is being built | in New York with the aid of public works funds. | He said he hadn’t “rescinded, modi- fied or repealed my order.” Appar- | ently in answer to protests from the Empire State, he said he did not | know “that New York had only one honest and efficient man to serve @s| a public official.” BLACK WALNUT » ICE CREAM ASK YOUR COLONIAL ¥ ; DEA Dance, Veterans of Foreign Wers, La Fayette Hotel, 9 p.m. Address, “Proofs of Immortality,” by James A. Edgerton, before League for the Larger Life, 1414 Sixteenth street, 8 p.m. Dance, New York State Society, Shoreham Hotel, § p.m. Dance, Job's Daughters, Bethel Chapter, No. 10, Hamilton Hotel, 10 p.m. KIWANIS HONORS LEWIS Senator Lewis of Illinois was the guest of the Kiwnnis Club at a luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel yes- terday. Introduced by Albert V. Van Voorhees, the Senator spoke on the | effect of non-payment of interna- tional debts on the Nation’s recov- ery and urged that the Government stop lending money abroad | He also advocated separate com- mercial arrangements of American business with foreign governments, ' under the aegis of the State ,Depart- ment Harold N. Marsh, president of Ki- j wanis, preside SCHEDULE CHANGE Effective January 27, 1935, Train No. 35 will leave Washington, D. C., at 1:25 p.m. instead of 1:35 p.m. Southern Railway System CE CREAM LER 5 A PRODUCT OF COLONIAL ICE CREAM COMPANY, LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED. 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