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A—2 % MESSAGE HELPFUL IN MONEY CRISIS President on Side of Econ- omists Who See Peril in Excess Spending. BY DAVID LAWRENCE There was more real interest in President Roosevelt’s comments on the economic and financial aspects of spending and continued borrowing than on what he said about the merits of the soldier bonus itself. For the Capital takes it for granted there will be payment of the bonus in some form before the present ses- sion of Congress adjourns. What was really more important as ad indication of future governmental policy was the President’s reasoning on the subject of printing press money and on the kind of spending that really helps economic recovery. Mr. Roosevelt’s observations are caunted as distinctly helpful and en- couraging to the school of thought which believes that we cannot spend our way out of the depression or bor- row our way indefinitely either. ‘Even more significant was the Pres- {dent’s apparent readiness to accept a point of view which for two years now has been urging him to consider the plight of the heavy goods indus- tries. where the bulk of the unem- ployment is to be found. Mr. Roose- velt argued that payment of the bonus would aid consumer industries and retail trade, where there is less need of expansion than in the other in- dustries. Basis of Capital Credit. Mr. Roosevelt was siding with the economists, too, who have all along sald that spending of a certain kind merely piles up excess reserves in the banks and does not become the basis of capital credit so essential in the refinancing of industries and manu- facturing plants and in the creating of employment that is enduring and not temporary. The President’s flat statement that the payment of the bonus by Treas- ury notes that do not pay interest and are simply a printing-press a dition to the currency would be mere- ly the beginning of a series of such steps is directly contrary to what Senator McAdoo and others contended in the recent Senate debate. It shows that Mr. Roosevelt feels that if the Government used printing-press money to pay one debt, it would be tempted to do so to pay current deficits, all of which would simply lead to dan- gerous inflation, Without using the word “inflation,” the President described the hazards of a money panic such as occurred in Germany when people with fixed in- comes suffered because of the sky- rocketing of prices due to lack of faith in paper money. The fact that Mr. Roosevelt him- gel! made the all-too-familiar argu- ment is the first word the business| and financial communities of the country have had that he is just as aware of the limits to which the pres- ent fiscal situation can be carried as anybody in the orthodox group of financial or economic observers. The following paragraph in the President’s address will be regarded as a pledge for the future on all expenditures, ir- respective of the soldier bonus: “A government, like an individual, must ultimately meet legitimate ob- ligations out of the production of wealth by the labor of human beings applied to the resources of nature. Every country that has attempted the form of meeting its obligations which is here provided (in the Patman bill) has suffered disastrous consequences.” Coercion by Minarities. Mr. Roosevelt was careful to remove an impression given by the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, at a recent Senate Finance Commit- tee hearing, when he intimated that the payment of $2,200,000,000 stood between the Government and an im- pairment of its credit. The President said he could not honestly make such an assertion, “but it cannot ultimately | be safe if we engage in a policy of vielding to each and all of the groups | that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special considera- tion.” He added this vital point: “To do s0 is to abandon the prin- eiple of government by and for the | American people and to put in its place government by and for coercion by political minorities.” Unfortunately the foregoing test could not be applied without embar- rassment to other parts of its legislative program. There can be no doubt that the spending of bililons without a concrete program that is recognized as a sound contribution to recovery, the creation | of dozens of alphabetical agencies, the | haphazard schemes for use of works relief funds all have produced an im- pression on Congress that if money is to be spent without really attaining a specific objective, the sums owed to the soldiers might as well be paid now. The trend toward spending and huge borrowings has proved a Frankenstein for this administration. That’s why, although Mr. Roosevelt can be sus- tained on the veto of the Patman bill, | the Congress will pass over his veto another type of measure clearing up the bonus question through the issu- ance of Government bonds. (Copyright 1935.) o Boy Eating His Clothes. Specialists in Japan are interested in the case of a primary school boy in | Kita Sendo-mura who thrives on a diet of his own clothing. He has re- cently consumed three Summer suits and two Winter outfits. He considers himself a clothes epicure, flavoring his meals with out-of-season fabrics. The lad is considered normal other- FEATURES EDWIN C. STONE writes on the financial situation . . . sales reports . . . banking . . . stocks and bonds. Section A, Page 18 the administration to | What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt’s Strength Conceded by G. O. P. Congress Leaders. A tion that President Roosevelt will be re-elected next year. This is substantially the private view of some of the most astute Repub- licans in Congress, as expressed during the last two weeks. What they believe is that the Demo- crats have “Tammanyized” the coun- try, as they call it. What they mean is that Mr. Roosevelt's associates have | built up strong precinct organizations | out through the country. These cer- | tainly comprise the strongest national | political organization the Democrats | ever had. The nucleus of the old perpetu- ating Republican organization was largely centered in postmasterships and regular Federal offices. The Democrats have doubled or trebled the extent of this old dasis through various Government organizations. For instance, there are 3,000 county agents in the A. A. A. who have their hands always on the grass roots. BY PAUL MALLON. LEADING non-partisan finan- clal prognosticator has burst into headlines with a predic- | | spend upward of four billions out in the country during the next 18 months before election, No opposition can hope to match these two practical technical influ- ences, the importance of which is rec- ognized by all who study the science of politics. | These underlying advantages have | been overlooked by all except the poli- ticians lately, because the opposition has had an edge in publicity. For the first two years of the New Deal the opposition publicity could not get started. Pro-administration agitation | predominated in the newspapers, on | the radio, etc. During the last six months this advantage has been grad- ually weakened, until now the opposi- tion is getting as much or more public attention than the New Deal. | } This is so obvious that all per- sons with the sense of sight or hearing already know it. But the politicians are mot overestimating | the influence of it. | In fact, one of the reasons why some Republicans are talking down | | their chances now is to hold back on | the spread of anti-New Deal publicity. They believe it got started too soon, | that there will be a natural reaction. They realize fully the equal or greater importance of organization and ex- penditures. The status of these three major fac- | tors may be altered within the coming | year. It is, therefore, too early now !for anything except good guesses. That is all these current opinions are. | Gain in House Seen. | | Another financial authority has | made a survey, predicting the Repub- | licans will gain 90 seats in the House { next time. This is almost ridiculous. The issue next time will be Mr. Roose- velt. Congressional candidacies will not matter. The people of this coun- try have not been educated to splitting | | tickets. Whichever way Mr. Roosevelt | goes, the average Democratic candi- date for Congressman and dog catcher will go with him. | Chairman Joseph Kennedy of the | Securities and Exchange Commission | is supposed to be quietly preparing to leave his job in the Fall. His personal business affairs are (or were) exten- sive. with the understanding he would go back to private business when the | commission was fully organized and operating. Of course, there is always the chance that Mr. Roosevelt will talk him into staying a while longer. However, the outlook suggests that the President is going to have to get year. N. R. A. June 16, in accordance with the agreement made with labor weeks ago. Ace Farley is supposed to leave the cabinet to handle the campaign around the first of the year. In each reshuffie, of course, there is always the possibility of drawing deuces, as well as aces. The Senate Progressives planned for a week to walk out silently and in- dignantly when the oath was ad- ministered to Senator Chavez The unique idea seems to have originated with Senator Borah. He and his associates were careful to be in their | seats at noon each day for several days prior to the incident, so they would not miss the opportunity. ‘The press galleries had been tipped to watch for it. Otherwise they might not have noticed. It was done un- ostentatiously. The inner purpose was to impress the White House with their deep re- sentment because of the administra- tion's efforts to defeat their friend, Senator Cutting. It is really the only | thing they hold against Mr. Roosevelt, | and they blame that on Postmaster | General Farley. A Psychic Trick. ‘The old telegram and letter method of lobbying is beginning to lose its influence on Congressmen. For example, capable Senator Min- ton’s secretary was thumbing through the marning mail the other day. An observer noted that he threw half the letters into the waste basket without opening them, and inquired why. “Oh, those are all utility letters against the holding company bill,” the secretary replied. This was doubted by the observer, who noticed that the envelopes were of different size and were addressed by different hands. Plunging into the waste basket, the observer opened each letter and discovered the secretary | was correct. The secretary explained his psychic trick by pointing out that the letters of one day usually came from the same town, next day from another town. That day they happened to be from Troy, N. Y. Next day, he said, they would probably be from Buffalo, ete. | In addition, the administration will | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, AF. OFL []PPUSES Treasury Dept. Shaft Burns NEW DEAL PACTS Toledo Strike Has Been Di- rected Against Automo- bile Labor Board. This is the last of a series of three articles in which the writer, who has just completed a seven- month tour of the United States, presents his observations on the country’s present temper toward the New Deal and its policies. BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY. ‘The strike in Toledo was not aimed at General Motors. It has been a strike against the Automobile Labor Board. It is the first line attack of | the American Federation of Labor against a democratic method of select- ing labor’s representatives for collec- tive bargaining. As a matter of fact, very few men have been involved in the factory in Toledo, but the impli- cations are Nation-wide and involve all industrial labor in the country. On my recent seven months’ tour of the country I found that labor di- vides itself into two definite camps, with, of course, overlappings—namely, the employed and the unemployed workers. There are no statistics of un- employment in the United States which even approximate accuracy, But it is safe to say that at no time dur- ing the last 24 months were fewer than 28,000,000 men employed in in- dustry. In most discussions of the la- bor problem such emphasis is placed upon unemployment that the black- ness of the picture smudges out the important fact that there is no con- clusive evidence that much less than three-fourths of the industrialized la- bor, as of 1929, was at work during any period of the depression. Lumps Two Groups Together. In a word, the problems of labor | take on this characteristic, namely, the attitude of the approximately three-quarters at work and the atti- tude of the one-quarter who are out of work because of the depression. | For political purposes the American | Federation of Labor lumps the two groups together and speaks of them as labor. For purposes of forwarding the Wagner bill the claims of the uncm- ployed workers are emphasized, | whereas the attitude of the employed workers is either ignored or is de- scribed as a resultant of employer co=- ercion. I have studied the attitude of la- bor in many parts of the country, in every automobile city, in San Fran- cisco, in Akron, where the rubber industry flourishes: in Sheboygan, of which Kohler Village is & suburb. Everywhere I found the same cleav- age between employed and unem- oloved workers, with this exception— | that some workers are confirmed A. | F. of L. adherents just as some work- ers are confirmed Communists or confirmed individualists In the automobile industry the la- bor situation is particularly important because this industry has reiovered and is operating under normal con- ditions. Not faced any longer by a resistant market, the industrys con- tinuec recovery is only imperiled by the possibility of political strikes cur- tailing output. The Toledo strike is an example of a political strike and it will for a long time serve as a reminder of the unfortunate nipedi- ments to the normalization of indus- | trial production as long as the A. F. of L. has prospects of political recog- nition by act of Congress. Repudiate A. F. of L. In the automobile industry, by & | democratic vote of the total employed | workers in the industry, the workers repudiated the A. F. or L. Under the terms of the President’s settlement in the industry the workers could have accepted the A. F. of L. as their representative for collective bargain- ing or they could have selected a | Communist or an individualist group. | No restrictions were placed upon | them, Oui of 191618 voters eligible to 85 per cent voted, thus definitely fix- ing this method as satisfactory to the workers. Of this number 8.6 per cent elected the A. F., of L. representa- tives; 81.9 per cent voted either for | no affiliation or for company unions. | In the Toledo General Motors fac- i tory the A. F. of L. carried every elec- ! tion district in the primary ewction. a group of new aces during the next | Hitherto the A. F. of L. opposed the | gy, Ace Richberg is leaving the election and indicated that its men | jpcelf: ! would not serve if chosen. In Toledo | the local A. F. of L. represeatative | not only ran, but he was elected. | The President’s settlement of March | 25, 1934, was accepted by the manufac- | turers and by labor, An Automobile Labor Board was appointed by the President, consisting of Dr. Leo Wol= man, for years economist of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers; Nicholas Kelley, lawyer for Chrysler and son of Florence Kelley, the feminist labor leader of another generation, and Richard L. Byrd, representing the workers and chosen by their repre- sentatives. Sailing Has Been Rough. ‘The board’s principal task is to supervise the selection of labor’s rep- resentatives for collective bargaining and to prevent discrimination and co- ercion by capital. The manufacturers, most of the workers and most impar- tial observers adjudge that the board has been nandling a complicated situ- ation with fairness and ability. Of course, there have been criticisms, but with s0o many agencies, the Depart- ment of Labor, the N. R. A, the N. I. R. A. and even the President himself taking an active hand in labor prob- lems, there has never been smooth sailing. The American Federation of Labor has at no time been sympathetic. And quite naturally so, because if the workers select their own represent- atives annually there is no particular necessity for the A. F. of L. Further- more, any democratic method in labor leaves the labor organizer controlled from any central agency in Washing- ton or New York or elsewhere out of the picture. It has been the A. F. of L.’s public policy to wreck the Auto- mobile Labor Board and the Presi- dent’s settlement and to install in their stead the Wagner bill, which gives all power to the A. F. of L. ‘This is not the first instance of re- sistance by organized labor to peace- ful settlement either by the President or a Government agency like the N. R. A. Take, for instance, the Kohler situation. ‘Workers Opposed Strike. The Kohler strike was called July 16, 1934. Most of the workers stood by the company and actually defended the plant against violence. I was in Kohler Village during the strike period and spoke to the emplyed workers and found they opposed the strike and op- posed the re-employment of the strikers. A vote was held under the auspices of the Government to determide the agency for collective bargaining. This vote disclosed that 1,063 workers stood Travelers from the Delta report that the territory down there is now un- officially known as Hueysiana. (Cepyright. 18850 ' by the Kohler workers' association, while 643 workers favored the A. P. of L. The Government stood by that vote and recognised that the Kohler r TREASURY i " DAMAGESLGHT Frank A. Birgfeld, left, chief clerk of the Treasury Department, and W. N. Thompson an administrative assistant, shown today inspecting the shaft in the Treasury Building on the Fifteenth street side which caught fire early today. Firemen soon had the blaze under control, | SOCIAL WORKERS FLAYED BY LABOR D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1935. COUGHLIN FLAYS ROOSEVELT VETO Links President to “Money Changers” and Urges Appeal to Senate. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23.—With bitter denunciation of the President and “plutocratic capitalism,” Rev. Charles E. Coughlin called on a wildly re- sponsive throng to deluge the United States Senate today with telegrams | demanding enactment of the bonus | Greets Throng Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. LITILE REACHES QUARTER-FINALS Defending Champion Wins, While Three Compatriots - Are Beaten, By the Associated Press ST. ANNES-ON-THE-SEA, Eng- land, May 23.—Pressed all the way, | Wiliam Lawson Little, jr., of San | Francisco, the defending champion, defeated James L. Black, former Welsh | champion, 2 up this afternoon to gain | the quarter-final round of the British bill. The occasion was the Michigan | priest’s organization of a New York unit of his National Union for Social Justice last night in his campaign to “restore America to the Americans.” The thousands who filled Madison Square Garden—it seats 18,000—gave tremendous ovations to his tirades against “pampered creators of money,” to his demand for & “proper distribu- tion” of the products of labor and to his attack on the presidential veto of the Patman bonus bill. Vetoed American People. | Dwelling on the veto, his voice sharpened by his critical words, Father Coughlin declared: “You heard the President of the United States condemn class legisia- tion, as he called it, while for years he and his predecessors in office have been upholding this very class legisla- tion for the benefit of the tin-cup bankers. “Wednesday, May 22, 1935 once more has demonstrated that no one dare breathe against their will. “I'm afraid it wasn't the soldiers alone who were vetoed. It was the American people.” The “real contest” in the bonus fight, the priest said, “is identified with this question: ‘Has or has not Congress the right to coin and regu- late money?' " After declaring that the bankers have created a false structure of wealth by manipulating the creation of credit and the flow of money, Father Coughlin said: | “Here, then. is the real printing press money of the Nation. Any job |printer can stamp out the blank |checks and the promissory notes. | Here is how the money of the United ' FATHER COUGHLIN Shown last night az he greeted the thousands gathered in Madison Square Garden to hear his speech. MINE WAR FEARED IFNLR.A.STORS Short-Circuit in Wiring Be- D. C.-Maryland Body lieved to Have Been | Cause of Blaze. | | Fire swept up a pipe and electric | wire shaft early today in the Treasury | Department, near the Fifteenth street | | entrance, causing damage estimated from $3,000 to $4,000. Firemen, who responded to the two alarms turned in, had the fire under control about 20 minutes after their | arrival, shortly before 1 a.m. | | The blaze was confined to the shaft between the second and fifth floors | with the exception of the fourth | floor, where it spread to a corridor, and charred part of the flooring and scorched paint. Fire Chief Charles E. Schrom, who led the fire- ‘flghbers. estimated the blaze probably had started about an hour before it | was discovered by Sam Brown, a sheet | metal worker. Brown notifled guards, | who turned in an alarm. A short circuit in wiring in the shaft about the third floor is thought to ave started the blaze. A quantity of writing paper on one of the floors was burned and some additional damage was done by water from a hose which broke. A cordon of guards was thrown |around the building, the guard force | |on duty being supplemented by all | available downtown police who hur- | ried to the scene. | An exact estimate of the damage of | the fire was to be determined today | | when a representative of the fire mar- | | shal's office confers with Frank A.| Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury, | | and other officials. He left them to take the job| vote in this election Up 10 April 19, | m————————— company had complied with Section | 7-A of the N. I. R. A. Under the law that should have ended the strike. iNeverlhelm. to this day the Kohler plant is being picketed and a Nation- wide propaganda against Kohler prod- | ucts is apparently being pursued. In both instances cited, and there e many others, this fact presents | | Apparently under Section 7-A of the N. I. R. A. or a President’s set- tlement or a decision of the N. R. A., | when there has been a dispute, the industrialist is bound to abide by any | decision reached by the Government, | but organized labor is not so bound. | The industrialist must do as he is told |by the Government, but organized labor is free to pursue any policy it | chooses. The manufacturers must rec- ognize any agency for collective bar- | gaining designated by the workers, but ' organized labor can call strikes to wreck a settlement. | Confusing to Workers, T have found that this irresponsibil- | ity on the part of labor is most con- fusing not only to the industrialist, but to the worker. The worker does not | know where he stands. He assumes | that when the Government orders a vote he as a free citizen expresses his | opinion and that this should be final | for & stated period. When, however, | the vote turns out to be meaningless and he is subjected to continuing agitation and social coercion by some of his colleagues to strike anyhow, then he grows resentful. In all my travels I have not found a single instance of active opposition by any large industrialist to collective bargaining in principle. But I did find ample evidence to prove that the A. F. of L. opposed collective bargain- ing, except on one condition; namely, that the A. F. of L. and its afliated union should be the sole agency of collective bargaining. This is prac-| tically the purpose of the Wagner bill. | Those who control large industries will not and cannot accept the A. F. of L., a political agency, as repre. senting labor unless the workers by a secret governmentally-controlled vote select the A. F. of L. Continues to Delay Recovery. Unfortunately for the country, this struggle continues to delay recovery because capital is nervous in the face of recurrent labor troubles due to political causes, and therefore re- employment in industry is delayed. I found everywhere among indus- trialists & ready response to the sug- gestion that either by law or by agree- ment collective bargaining representa- tion be judicially reviewable and that, once an sgreement has been reached in an industry, strikes should be pro- bargaining shall have been exhausted. Labor leaders denounce enforced arbi- tration and the labor court as Fascist, but it is apparent that the task facing the Nation is to get men back to work, and that this grows increasingly diffi- cult in the face of annual Spring strikes to influence legislation in Con- gress. 5 wo-m#_. 1036, 'imm‘ llogi“m- g | unanimously. hibited until every agency of collective | bill. Charges They Are Only In- | terested in Higher Pay. | By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., May 23.—Organ- ized labor of Maryland and the District of Columbia was on record | today with a formal resolution charg- ing social workers administering re- lief funds are “primarily and solely interested o perpetuation of - their jobs at wages higher than those an- nounced in the executive order.” | At its closing sessions of a three- day convention here, the Maryland- District of Columbia Federation of | Labor asserted social workers were making “little effort or none at all” to eliminate poverty amcog the distressed. Text of Resolution. A motion of the executive council attacking relief personnel was adopted It read as follows: “It is apparent that social workers administering this relief fund under the executive order and those repre- senting them to the administration are primarily and solely interested in perpetuation of their jobs at wages higher than those announced in the executive order. “If they (social workers) are in- terested in terminating relief, they would follow the policy of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor in the fight for higher wages. “It is our belief that little effort, or none at all, is being made by these social workers to eliminate poverty among the distressed in this country.” Joseph P. McCurdy, who was re- elected president of the federation, pointing out that resolutions were adopted pledging full co-operation be- tween organized labor and workers on relief rolls, asserted the federation was “going to bat” with the national administration on the Federal works- relief wage scale. He sald the organization would carry the resolution out “to the limit.” Resolution Voted Down. | Five resolutions seeking to link the federation membership with a third party movement were voted down in favor of a final substitute resolution which would align the organization with & third party only in the event such action was deemed justifiable | by the executive council. It was de- cided to hold the 1936 convention in Cumberland. Included among resolutions adopted at yesterday’s session were: | Protesting military training in the State’s schools and colleges. Protesting further restrictions on parking in Washington and requesting that the Government establish free parking areas. Calling for a commission to con- trol residential rentals in Washington and fix the maximum rate at that prevailing January 1, 1934. Calling for unionization of all Gov- ernment employes and provision for collective bargaining. Opposing sectional differences in public works wage scales. Dawes Has Grandson. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23 (#).— A grandson of Charles G. Dawes, for- mer Vice President of the United States, was reported “doing nicely” in White Cross Hospital today. The boy, born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Dana McCrutcheon Dawes, was named after the former Vice President. Debates motion to sustain Presi- dent’s veto of bonus bill. House. Transacts miscellaneous business. Ways and Means Committee con- tinues hearings on N. R. A. extension. Military Committee takes more testimony on T. V. A. legislation. TOMORROW. Senate. Continuation of naval appropriation Commerce Committee, further hear- ings on river and harbor bill. Military Affairs Committee, regular weekly meeting. Banking subcommittee, continuing hearings on omnibus banking bill. House. Considers consent calendar. District Committee resumes consid- eration of crime report at 10:30 am. L | States comes into being” Hits Inflation Fears. In issuing new currency to pay the bonus. as provided in the Patman bill, the priest said, “we could have more than $1 in gold for every dol- lar of currency—and they call it in- flation.” Father Coughlin declared the regu- lation of money must be stripped from the bankers and returned to Con- gress. “Social justice teaches that the elected representatives of the people have the sole right to regulate the value of money.” he cried out. “This is Christianity. It is not Com- munism.” The emotions of the audience were pitched to the priest's words. When he dwelt with scorn or derision the thousands burst out with prolonged boos and hisses. As he surveyed the throng with smiles of satisfaction they velled and stamped in approval. The priest frequently motioned to- ward the reporters’ tables in assaults on the press. On oue occasion, fling- ing one arm high in the air, pounding his pulpitlike stand with his fist, he shouted: “I'm about fed up with the news- papers.” The press, he declared, has paid heed to “the thin, selfish voice of the financier” and “more or less sup- pressed the voice of the people.” Linked to “Money Changers.” ‘The priest once again linked the President and the “money changers” in his attack on the wage scale of public works projects. “If we are forcing men to work for $19, or $50,” he declared, “then this plutocratic system must be constitu. tionally voted out of existence, “We must pay them a decent, liv ing, American wage. We dare not of- fer them less, because that is the breeder of communism.” This, he said, “is social injustice of the rankest kind. It is a poison which will permeate every artery of the eco- nomic body. It is the most devastating example ever sanctioned by our Gov- | ernment. “The banker is demanding that he retain his customary standard of liv- ing and forces on the American public a cruel exploitation by which those about to be engaged in emergency work will be paid slave wages. “How, in the name of democracy {and in the name of God, can the un- derprivileged be lifted up and the overprivileged be weeded out by such a betrayal of promise which proposed | to drive the money changers out of | the temple?” Praises Henry Ford. ‘The priest reflected for a moment, then added: “At least, I come from Detroit and can thank God for a Henry Ford | who's raised his minimum to $6 a day.” The ‘“organization” of this vast throng into a New York unit was simply accomplished. At the con- clusion of his address, he pleaded: “If 1 come into the midst of this city which, in the minds of most Americans has consecrated itself in Wall Street, I come not to criticise | I come to lift | or berate individuals. my voice on the doorsteps of a mod- ern mammon only to condemn a sys- tem of private money control. “I ask you in the name of Chris- tianity, which abhors communism, in the name of patriotism, to carry on to victory. “I ask you, if you are with me, to rise in your places to restore America to the Americans.” The assemblage arose with roars of assent. Not only was the night one of “organization” of the New York unit of the priest’s union; it was a night of profit for the union. The Garden rental was $4,000. The receipts totaled between $15.000 and $17,000. Some seats sold for $2. — BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmer- mann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, associate leader. March, “Archduke Albrecht,” Komzak Overture, “All'Hands on Deck,” ‘Von Suppe Entr'Acte— (a) “Minuet in E Flat”. (b) “Melodies in A Flaf Zimmermann musical comedy— .Mozart Excerpts from “Robin Hood Popular— “Let's All Sing Lil Sing” . “Amapola” . o Valse de Concert, “The Ambassador,” Strauss Pinale, “The American Colors,” Panella “The Star Spangled Banner.” - 2 Birdies ke the . Evans Coal Producer Tells House' I Committee Benefits of Present. By the Associated Press. 1 Prediction that conditions tanta- mount to “civil war” would be re- stored in the bituminous coal in- dustry if N. R. A. died was made to- day before the House Ways and Means Committee by & coal pro- ducer. Eugene McAuliffe of Omaha, pres- ident of the Union Pacific Coal Co., the witness, described as “totally in- | adequate” the Senate-approved reso- lution extending N. R. A. for nine and one-half months “That,” McAuliffe said, “would ef- fectively kill the N. I. R. A. There has been some talk about what would happen if N. R. A. lapsed. I am speaking only for the bituminous coal industry, but I know what conditions existed before the codes. | Guidance Held Vital. “There were starvation wages; in some sections there was practically civil war. Without the guidance of the Federal Government through N. R. A. we would have to return to that He contended, too, if N. R. A codes went out of existence, coal { miners and producers would have to give up a “better, more uniform, hap- pier relationship.” | L. E. Wood of Huntington, W. Va., representing coal producers in the Appalachian region south of the attitude. Aid of Stabilization. | “The N. R. A. has done more for the stabilization of the coal industry than any action heretofore taken,” he said. Hours of Jabor for mine workers, he | stated, had dropped from eight to| { seven per day, while average earnings | had risen from $450 a year to “ap- proximately $900.” Wood denied codes had driven small operators out of business. “For every 2 small mines that have gone out of business, 10 new ones have started up,” Wood said. WATER PROTEST PROBE CONTINUED “Cross Connection” in Plant Plumbing Checked as Pos- sible Cause. | Investigation of a *“cross connec- tion” in the plumbing of the Simpson | Bros. Dairy in the first block of L | street southeast, was started today by | District officials to determine if it was the source of complaints from a number of Southeast residents against their city water supply. District plumbing officials told Engi- | neer Commissioner Sultan they had | found there was a cross connection |in the dairy plant between city water | lines and those of an artesian well used by the company. Col. Sultan said this was not per- | mitted under District plumbing regu- lations and ordered that such con- | nections must be eliminated. Capt. | Robert E. York, assistant en(melr“ commissioner, said he was convinced | this reported filtration of the well | water into the city water lines was| the cause of complaints. | The dairy, however, had eliminated | this cross connection before the order | reached them, it was learned. | Chemists were asked yesterday to analyze samples of water taken in the vicinity of First and M streets south- east to determine if it was safe. Chemists found there was a certain amount of colon bacille in the water, but declared there had been a steady improvement since elimination of the cross connection. Officials were informed a number of children in the section recently were made ill. YOUTH GETS 15 YEARS HARTFORD, Conn., May 23 (P).— | Peter Zmindak, 22, Bridgeport butcher | boy, was sentenced to 15 years in the Federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. yesterday In the United States | District Court, after pleading guilty | to four counts of extortion. The sen- tences are to run concurrently. | Zmindak was indicted on four | counts of extortion for sending threat letters to Annie Burr Jennings of Bridgeport and Mrs. Henry W, Farnum of New Haven. | 4 amateur golf championship. | Three of Little'’s compatriots wer- | eliminated during the course of the | two rounds of the fourth day of the | championship. Capt. A. Bullock- Webster of Monterey, Calif,, passed | from the tournament this morning, | losing to Morton Dykes, 4 and 2, and | then Richard M. (Dick) Chapman |and Dan R. Topping of Greenwich, | Conn., were victims of the fifth round | after victorious morning matches. Robert Sweeny, formerly of New York and now living in London, gained the round of eight by eliminating | W. M. Robb, 1 up, in a 19-hole match. Chapman conquered Olav Austreng 6 and 4, in the fourth round and bowed out to Eric Fiddian. runner-up | in the 1932 championship, by 2 and 1 ! this afterncon. Topping eked out a 1-up victory over Edward Kyle this morning and then was eliminated by .G. 4. Q. Henriques of the home club, 4 and 3. Becomes “Dark Horse.” Henriques, who by virtue of his con- secutive victories over Leorard Craw- ley, Leslie Garnett and Topping. has become the “dark horse” of the cham- pionship, filling the role played by Jim Wallace at Prestwick a year ago. meets Little tomorrow morning in the quater-final round. He's a nervous fellow—a stock | broker by profession—who says he just “hates tournament play.” |” “I wouldn't go through this torture again for 100 pounds,” he said. But he keeps on winning just the same | In the quarter-finals tomorrow morning Fiddian will play Dr. William Tweddell, champion in 1927. and Tony Torrance, veteran Walker Cup player. will be matched against J. Morton Dykes Fourth Round Resuits, Richard M. Chapman, Greenwich | Conn., defeated Olav Austreng, Eng- land, 6 and 4 Morton Dykes, England, defeated Capt. A. Bullock-Webster, Monterey, Calif., 4 and 2. e Eustace Storey, England. defeated G. P. Simmons, England, one up, 19 holes. Eric Fiddian, England, defeated John Burke, England, one up. Tony Torrance, England, defeated E. Gibbs. England, 3 and 1. Jimmy Donovan, Winnipeg. defeated J. H. Thompson, England, one up. W. Lawson Little, jr, San Fran- cisco, defeated H. G. McCallum, Scotland, 2 and 1. Dan R. Topping, Greenwich, Conn., defeated Edward Kyle, England, one up Robert Sweeney, ex-New York, de- feated Brig. Gen. A. C. Critchley, England, 6 and 4 G. L. Q. Henriques, feated Leslie Garnett, and 3. England. de- England, 4 Fifth Round Results. Eric Fiddian. England. defeatel Richard M. Chapman, Greenwich, Conn,, 2 and 1. Dr. William Tweddell. England. de- feated Eustace Storey, England, 3 and 2 Tony Torrance, England, defeate.l | H. L. Holden, England, 1 up, 19 holes J. Morton Dykes, England, defeated Jimmy Donovan, Canada, 1 up. W. Lawson Little, jr.. San Francisco, defeated J. L. Black. England, 3 up. G. L. Q. Henriques, England. de- feated Dan R. Topping, Greenwich Conn.. 4 and 3 Alex Walker, England. defeated | Mason-Dixon line, expressed a similar | A ciie Goodwin, England, 7 and 5 Robert Sweeney, formerly of New | York, defeated W. M. Robb, England. 1 up, 19 holes. ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL TALKS SEEN IN 10 DAYS Final Arrnngemen!:Exprcfed to Be Made Between Repre- sentatives in Berlin. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 23.—Anglo-Germsa naval talks, long in prospect, wil begin in London in about 10 days, a high German source said today. Final arrangements for the con- versations are expected to be made in Berlin by Baron Konstantin von Neurath, German foreign minister, and Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador = TRAFFIC TIPS by the NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL 7 A Bum Steer. If auto designers had felt that one hand “was sufficient to drive they would have used door knobs instead of steering wheels. ‘With nearly 25,000,000 cars in use, driving today is a two-fisted job. But when both hands are used steering is such a simple part of the operation that many drivers feel one hand can do the work of two. So they use one hand to light-up, or they use one arm to hug their sweetie. Often they reach back, while speeding, to slam a door shut. If it were not for emergency one hand might suffice. for in the modern uto the s\i'hb‘sl pressure brings in- stantaneous>response. But the un- seen hazards are what make one-hand driving dangerous. Such things are pavement holes or bumps, unnoticed obstacles on the road, or circumstances which require sudden turns or quick brake work. Then the full strength of two hands is needed. So. just to be sure. try to keep both hands on the wheel. In self-defense, you know, two hands are always better than one, ‘