Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 21

Washington News DR. WALSH FLAYS NEW DEAL AND FOE IN URGING REFORM Tells Students’ Union an “Enlightened Capitalism” Would Curb {Red Peril. FAVORS PROFIT-SHARING FOR NATION’S WORKERS Advocates Creation of Economic| Council, With Government Standing Aloof. A\ " Astailing both the New Deal and its erities in addressing the newly-formed Students’ Union of George Washing- ton University last night, Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J, vice president of Georgetown Uni- versity and regent of the School of Foreign Service. proposed a two- | point program to | create an ‘“en- lightened capital- ism” to end the menace of com- munism. “The time has| come for a decla- ration of depend- | ence,” the educa- | Father Walsh. ¢or declared in re- viewing the breakdown of the old eco- nomic system and directing sarcasm at the ' “overheated imaginations” which, he declared, are undermining New Deal efforts to bring about eco- nomic recovery. He had been invited to address the newly-elected union, organized to guid: | the political thought of the student body along self-expressed lines, the second students’ movement of its kind in this country patterned after the unions at Oxford and Cambridge. The session was held in the audi- torium of the United States Chamber of Commerce, with John Bracken, temporary chairman, administering the oath of office to Theodore Pierson, president of the new organization. Pierson then formally instal®d 101 delegates of the Center, Right and Left parties and nearly 250 charter members of the union. Suggests Profit Sharing In proposing his theory of economic reform, Dr. Walsh declared “the day on which ‘labor shares’ become uni- versally adopted in the constitution of American industry will mark the end of communism.” Making a distinction between wagcs and dividends, he offered as the second point of his program a profit-sharing plan to be known as “labor shares." He declared the new wealth created by capital and labor jointly has not only a social but an individual aspect. Favors Economic Council. As the first point of his program, Dr, ‘Walsh advoeated creation of an eco- nomic council, an unofficial adminis- trative body by which industry, capital, labor, consumers, church and educa- tional institutions, should co-operate in voluntary regulation, with the Gov- ernment being the last resort for en- forcement. Such a council, he claimed, “could command the best brains in every walk of life,” and would operate for the | general welfare instead of special in- terests. As its chairman, he advo- cated a representative of $he con- sumer interest who has the confidence of capital as well as labor. “We have had enough of declara- tions of independence,” Dr. Walsh | said, as he struck both at the New | Deal and its critics, who, he inti- mated, were responsible for the “trou- bles” of Maj. George L. Berry's N.R. A. conference. Says New Deal “Ran Away.” After discussing the “follies” of the machine age and the mechanical harshness of university credit ratings, Dr. Walsh turned suddenly to the New Deal—to March 4, 1933, when three things had to be effected—relief, recovery and reform. He prlised‘ handling of the banking crisis, but then, he said, the Government ran | away with itself to effect everything | at once. He continued: | “It was as if a fire department, | on arriving at the scene of a dan- | gerous conflagration, split its already | limited membership into two groups, | one of which withdrew from its pri- mary obligation of putting out the | fire, in order to incorporate itself | into an architectural institute, | “By light from the still burning | edifice they sketched a set of ex- cellent blue prints for the future ideal structure to arise on the ashes of | the old—not yet cold. | “But a further incorporation took place simultaneously with the first A philosophical academy was char- tered and launched on the spot for the purpose of determining the line- | aments, the height, breadth and moral | qualifications of the new tenants who should be admitted to the hygenic quarters in the hypothetical civiliz- ation which was to arise, phoenix- %,“mdwhenmeflrewueverput} ! | “Runners were then dispatched in triplicate to -the four corners of the land, bearing copies of the mandatory future in their bulging brief cases. The strange terminology, the super- cllious vocabulary and the superior profanity of these new and constantly multiplying apparitions bewildered the honest denizens of the countryside, frightened the timid under their beds, scared capital into hiding or diverted 1s overseas, and gave rise to embattled minute men and guardians of es- sential liberties. { Supreme Court to Rescue. But the Supreme Court came to the rescue, Dr. Walsh said, and “tension has been relaxed and reason is return- ing to the council chamber. ““As the President bids farewell, one after another (o each resigning em- piricist on the expiration of their in- effective and costly experiments,” he continued, “he invites industry to take the ball and see what business can do before the next election. “Tacit confession is made that re- covery is intrusted to the co-operative conscience of industry, of industry’s partner, labor, and of that silent and long-suffering, but indispensable auxil- iary to both industry and labor—the | gram, newspaper clippings about the WASHINGTON, D. Y. W.C. A. Cerner Stone Laid Y. W. C. A. for a girls' residence. CORNERSTONELAD FORY. . BULDNG Donor, Leaving Sick Room, Crash Near Oxon Hill Sends | Uses Silver Trowel | in Ceremony. ! Leaving a sick room where she had | been confined for more than a year, | Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong picked up a silver trowe] today and laid the corner | stone of the eight-story brick building | she donated to the Y. W. C. A. as a residence for girls. | The building will house 200 girls. It is located on Seventeenth street back of the “Y"” Administration Build- | ing at Seventeenth and K streets, to | which its residents will have access through a passage-way so they can use the swimming pool, gymnasium, club and dining rooms. The gift of the building by Mrs. Strong was announced last January, with the condition that the necessary land be given by friends of the Y. W. C. A. Money for this purpose was | contributed in amounts ranging from a dime per square inch up. Young | business women using the “Y” and | little Girl Reserves joined more affluent contributors. 10,910 Cared for Last Year. Need for the building was demon- strated to Y. W. C. A. officials by the fact the organization took care of 10,910 girls last year, most of them transients seeking work and a place to live here. They were housed in | the transient residence, 614 E street; the Elizabeth Somers Home, Eleventh | and M streets, or in private houses. | Girls coming to the “Y" next year will be accommodated in the new residence. Mrs. Albert Atwood, president of the Washington Y. W. C. A., presided at | the corner-stone laying ceremonies. She introduced Mrs. Frederic M. Paist, president of the National Board of Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States, and other mem- bers of the National Board, including Mrs. John Finley, Mrs. James Cush- man, Mrs. Thomas Hewitt and Miss Margaret Mead. Mrs. Atwood reviewed the history of the new residence and recited a poem, “The Mystery of a Building.” Miss Elsa Peterson, chairman of the Building Committee, presented a sealed box containing a New Testament, the names of Y. W. C. A. trustees, direc- tors, staff members and members of the Building Committee; an archi- tect’s drawing of the building, a list of donors of the land, a picture of Mrs. Strong, a copy of today’s pro- building and two brochures about the Sealed With Silver Trowel. This box was placed insidefjhe cor- ner stone and sealed by Mrs. Strong with the silver trowel given her by the Rochester (N. Y.) Y. W. C, A, board at the time of the laying of the corner stone of the Rochester “Y” administration building, the gift of her iate husband, in 1912. Mrs. Strong then was president of the Rochester Y. W.C A Dr. William 8. Abernethy, Y. W. C. A. chaplain, offered a prayer, which was concluded by an “Amen” sung by members of the “Y” glee clubs from windows of the administration build- ing. Guests then adjourned to Bar- ker Hall for a luncheon given by the Corner Stone Committee, Mrs. Harlan Piske Stone, Mrs. Wilson Compton and Miss Peterson, The new building was designed by Alexander Trowbridge, former dean of the College of Architecture at Cornell University, and Waldron Faulkner. It was constructed by the William P. Lipscomb Co. It has a center private court to be landscaped as an outdoor sitting room, single and double rooms with running water, sewing rooms, tea pantries, parlors, game rooms and a roof garden. Typewriter Dealers Elect. Paul R. Barnaby, president of Type- writers, Inc., was elected president of the District Typewriter Dealers’ Asso- ‘tiation last night at the Hamilton Hotel. Other officers elected are Paul guuumer in the trenches.” - C. High, vice president, and Herman H. Hampel, secretary. > | school. | MRS. HENRY ALVAH STRONG Is shown laying the cornerstone of the building she donated to the —Star Staff Photo. FOUR ARE INJURED I AUTO ACEDENT Two Girls, Youth and Man to Hospital. Traffic deaths to December Two Washington girls and a youth were injured last night in an automo- bile accident near Oxon Hill, Md. They are Helen Magnuson, 19, of 9 Fourth street northeast, and Ethel Feldon, 19, and William Feldon, 20, both of 1007 E street northeast. All eni TH SUNDAY MORNING - o APPROVAL GV T2NOREPROLEETS TOADIND.G President Sanctions W.P.A. Jobs Here Which Will Cost $620,776. 10,183 PERSONS NOW ASSIGNED TO TASKS Search for Site of Camp for In- cipient Tuberculosis Cases Continues. Notice of presidential approval of the District, which would cost $620,- 776 and provide steady jobs for 745 today by District Works Administrator George E. Allen. At the same time, District officials released a report showing there are now 10,183 persons assigned to W. P. | A. projects, with 3,899 others await- ing assignment. During the past 20 | days, the report showed, 1712 were | assigned to the W. P. A, but many of these still are dependent on the District for relief payments, since wages under the W. P. A. are not yet due. Meanwhile, Distriet officials con- tinued their search for a site for the proposed camp for incipient tubercu- losis cases, to be used as an adjunct to the Children's Tuberculosis Sana- torium. For this project Controller General McCarl has authorized use of $79,200 of W. P. A. funds allocated to the District. Donation of $5,000 Asked. Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the District Tuberculosis | Association, has appealed for a dona- tion of about $5,000 to buy a site, since | District officials so far have been un- able to find available Government land for the purpose. Approval of the new projects pro- |In other words, if the projects are | carried out, their cost must come out of funds already granted, unless additional grants are made later To date, the District has been granted $5,648,622 for approved pro- jects, the total cost of which has beea estimated at $8,306,753. This leaves ~ differential of $2,668.131 still needed if al Ithe approved programs are to be carried to completion It has been estimated the present program will be carried through March 15 with present available grants an approved work programs. They largest of the new projects approved Qy President Roosevelt is one for filing and codifying of old | records of the public school system. This wids estimated to cost $268,704 and give work to 311 persons. Other Projects Catalogued. Other items were listed as follows: | Clerical and library work at the HURSDAY. 12 additional W. P. A. projects for | persons on the relief list, was received | | vides no additional W. P. A. grants. !¢ DECEMBER zs 2% 30x Upper: A portion of the 14-acre tract on Benning road as it appears to architects planning the first | P.W. A. low-cost housing develop- ment for Washington. Lower: One of the row houses. DETECTVE BEATE N SSIOROBBERY Safe Blasted by Bandits Said to Be Owned by “Numbers” Operator. | | | detective who unwittingly interrupted | their plans, a gang of bandits late yesterday staged a daring robbery in a private house in the 1800 block of First street and escaped with between 4,000 and $5,000. Sergt. Howard W. Smith, colored, 57, veteran member of the robbery squad, who called at the house to see a witness in a robbery case, was thrown down a flight of cellar steps and left bound and gagged while his ascsailants blew open a safe contain- ing the money. Owned by “Numbers” Operator. The safe, police said. was the prop- | erty of a “numbers” operator who re- cently has been “keeping book” on a large scale in Washington, Baltimore and Atlantic City. | Odell Williams, 40. colored, a resi- | dent at the First street house, told police five or six white men entered with a duplicate key and drew guns on several persons there. The occu- pants of the house were tied and mad= | to lie on the dining room floor. | A couple of the bandits stood guard | downstairs while the others went to a second-floor bed room where the safe was kept. While they were try- were taken to Casualty Hospital, along ‘ Zoo, $0,852, giving work to 13 per- | ing to open the safe, Smith, who hap- with Samuel E. Hungerford, 26, of |5ONs: repairs to the Municipal Fish pened to be in the neighborhood on Oxon Hill, who was cut and bruised | Market, $39,490, 90 persons; research | his day off, rang the doorbell. in the same crash Physicians said the girls were cut | (not the traffic survey). $26.136, 38 thrown to the floor about the head and body, while Miss Magnuson may have a broken ankle. Feldon also was cut. Two traffic mishaps were reported here in the past 24 hours. ‘Wade Potter, 11, of 1321 Buchanan street, received head injuries not be- lieved serious when he ran into the side of an automobile on his way to The accident occurred at Thirteenth street and Spring road. The boy was taken to Garfleld Hospital. Samuel Hutton, 55, of 1229 I street, was cut on the neck when knocked down near his home by a machine police said was driven by Gratton Rol- linson, 33, of 924 M street. He was treated at George Washington Hospi- tal. John L. Moring, 35, of 454 Randolph streft, and several other persons escaped injury early today when a machine driven by Moring crashed into & guard rail on the Mount Ver- non Memorial Highway. | studies for the Traffi= Department persons; filing and recording of docu- ments at the District Morgue, dating from 1900 to 1934, 2 persons; reclassi- fying old records at Gallinger Hospi- tal, $20,880, 30 persons. school buildings, police and fire sta- tions, $3,600, 4 persons; rehabilitatidh of books and files of the Public Library, $23,844, 32 persons; binding and re- binding books of the recorder of deeds, $4,404, 5 persons. Organizing and conducting recrea- | tion programs under the District Play- |grounds Department, $136,680, 190 | persons; a physical inventory of the 50 | branch stations of the District Health | Department, $612, 3 persons, and a Park, $33,926, 27 persons. Gorky Library. to house 1,000,000 books as a me- morial to Maxim Gorky. Young Washington attends the sixth grade of streets. Tomorrow—Kenneth Lubar, son of Mr. and Jack Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs, William R. Kelly. students at the Thomson Preparation of histosical records of | topographical survey of Rock Creek | Moscow, Russia, is to have ¢ library | The detective was pulled inside and One of the | bandits held a pistol to his head and another searched him. Discovering his badge and revolver, the men struck Smith with a gun, kicked him and threw him into the cellar. Muffled Explosion Heard. Smith said he heard a muffied ex- plosion shortly afterward and then the sound of persons running from the [ house. When the police came the tective was removed to Freedmen’s Hospital, where he was treated for scalp lacerations. He is not seriously | injured. An examination of the safe revealed | it had been blown open with nitro- glycerin in a manner that indicated | the yeggs were experts. Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, had all available men search the city for the bandits last g;ght and the hunt was continuing to- | day. | 'EDFORD L. WALTER KILLED IN PLANE Two Victims in Crash Near Buffalo. | Edford L. walter, 42, of Larchmont, |N. Y, a former Washington resident. | who has two brothers living here, and Dewey L. Noyes, 36, of Elizabeth, N. J.. pilot, were killed in the crash of their airplane at Nunda, N. Y., near Buffalo, during a» rain and sleet storm yester- day, according to an Associated Press dispatch. A joint investigation of the crash is being made todayg by officials of the Department of Cothmerce and of Liv- ingston County, N, Y. The plane was flying east, apparently headed for Newark or New York, according to the dispatch. The men were killed when the plane plunged through fog, snow and sleet into a wooded patch near Nunda. A. Henry Walter, local attorney, with offices in the Southern Building, a brother of the dead passenger, was notified last night and left at once for Buffalo. Another brother, Roscoe F. Walter, lives at 1706 Summit place. A third brother, Luther M. Walter, formerly an attorney with the Inter- state Commerce Commission, now is head of a law firm in Chicago, and recently was appointed a trustee for the Chicago Great Western Railway. Rl R TEAR DISCOVERS BODY Figure in Loring Murder Finds Patient Hanging From Pipe. Walter Cross, 28, a patient at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, was found dead last night in a wash room at the pmt;:m“m hanging from a ceiling case. Cross was hanging by a sheet which had been made into a noose at one end. The coroner’s office is ipvestigating. | Former D. C. Resident Is One of ny Star 12, 1935. PR s s maw BrR3 PAGE B—1 INITIAL CONTRACT LETFORLANGSTON HOUSING PROJECT (Work Will Start Soon on Apartments for Colored Families. |BID OF $44,840 WINS FOUNDATION AWARD Beats President's Deadline on P. W. A. Low-Cost Jobs by Three Days. More than two years after low-cost housing for Washington was first con- sidered by P. W. A, a contract was awarded today by Administrator Ickes to start work on the $1,600,000 Lang- * 4 i | Beating and binding a headquarters PROGRAM ADOPTED THOMAS T0 SPEAK FORLLS VORKERS AT CAVERT SPA Legislative Council Votes Oklahoma Senator Will De- Five Points—Officers | liver Address at Opening Are Elected. ’ Ceremonies. A five-point program in the interest | Further details of plans for dedica- of Government workers was adopted tion of the new $1.175,000 Calvert by the National Legislative Council of Street Bridge next Thursday night Federal Employe Organizations, in a | have been worked out by the com- session climaxed last night by elec- mMittee in charge and Chairman tion of officers. The council also George C.Shinn today announced that went on record in favor of main- Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma tenance of present postal rates on Will deliver the principal address. first-class mail, the step being taken The program will begin with a in view of the fight expected o be | parade at 7:30 pm. starting on made in the next Congress to restere Eighteenth street. just off Florida 2-cent postage for non-local delivery. avenue. It will move out Eighteenth The council program is made up of street to Calvert street and to the jtems that previously have been in- | bridge, where it will halt long enough | dorsed by its constituent units, which | for two girls to cut the ribbon across include the National Federation of | the entrance. The Commissioners and Federal Employes and several postal & €roup of guests will be the first to | groups. cross after this formal opening. | Points in Program. The parade will then continue across | 1t follows: the bridge and circle the edge of Rock | Preservation and extension of the Creek Park to a position under the | merit system. | sPan, where the formal addresses of Optional retirement at the age of | dedication will be delivered. Later | 60, after 30 years' service, and where | there will be a fireworks display and | the employe desires, a lesser annuity a dance. | so payments may cover the life of | The girls chosen to cut the rib- | & survivor. |bons and open the bridge to traffic Liberalized sick and annual leave | are Geraldine Clark, daughter of legislation, which passed the House at | Capt. Howard F. Clark, assistant En- the last session, but was snagged in |gineer Commissioner, and Mrs. Clark, the Senate. and Ann Laser, daughter of Mr. Extension of classification. and Mrs. Elmer C: Laser, 4915 Quarles | Passage of the McCarran-Boylan | street northeast. bond premium bill, under which the ( L. Gardner Moore and Thomas D. Government would pay the premium | Carson, members of the committee, for employes whose duties require announced today that Calvert Hall, them to make bond. near the bridge, has been offered the . committee for the dedication cere- Al o Guasd Clvl Seruior. monies and dance in case the weather John J. Barrett, president of the |proves too bad to hold the program United National Association of Post|beneath the bridge. Office Clerks, re-elected head of the | council, said the principal objective | guests and officials, L. P. Steuart Co. | would be to safeguard civil service. | has tendered the committee the use J. Ed Cooper, president of the Na- | of a sufficient number of automobiles | tional Rural Letter Carriers’ Associa- | Herman F. Carl, chairman of the | tion, was named secretary-treasurer, | Transportation Committee, also an- succeeding W. G. Armstrong and |nounced that & bus will be supplied Luther C. Steward, president of the | to carry children who will participate National Federation of Federal Em- | to and from the ceremonies. ployes, again will head the Legisla- | A series of radio talks is being pre- tive Committee. sented by the committee. Socialite Reweds H usband, Missing Since | |Romance Comes Again' | to Mrs. Catherine Letts Jones. Obtained Divorce After 4 Three Years With- out Message. A romance blighted by the stock | market crash has bloomed anew for Mrs. Catherine Letts Jones, daughter jof a gocially prominent Washington The attractive and popular member of the Capital social set has remar- ried F. H. Jones, whom she divorced three years ago, after she had failed to. hear from him since the financial collapse of 1929, it was learned today. The ceremony was performed last Priday in San Francisco, where Mrs. Jones went to meet her former hus- band" after he wrote her about six weeks ago. They will make their home in the California city, where Jones is now employed. ‘They were first married in have an ‘11-year-old daughter. They lived happily until the market crash and then Jones left their home in Youngstown, Qhio, and dropped from | with her family here and will place sight. her daughter in a private school be- mmu&m.nm fore returning tq.the West, k. %8 g 3 CATHERINE LETTS JONES. learned, he served with the Army in Panama. Not knowing whether her husband was dead or alive, Mrs. Jones obtained 1923 and | & divorce and came here to live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Letts, 3200 Ellicott street. Mrs. Jones will spend the holiday To take care of the distinguished | Market Crash| ston project in the Northeast section— first and only development of its kind in the District for which funds are available. Foundation excavation work on the 14-acre site on Benning road, be- tween Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth streets, where colored families of low | income will live eventually under the most modern conditions, will be don= by the Charles H. Tompkins Co. of this city. Its low bid of $44,840 was approved and work will start as soon as contract documents are executed, | Ickes said. By approving the contract at this time the Housing Division beat oy | three days the deadline set by Presi- dent Roosevelt. Planned for Months. The Langston project is the consum- mation of months of planning to pro- vide a_model experiment in housing here. Two other similar projects were abandoned earlier in the year. One was “killed” by property owners in Southwest Washington who protested | condemnation proceedings. Another, | planned in Southeast Washington, was eliminated when the P. W. A. housing program was scaled down by order of the President The Langston project, however, is expected to get under way within a week or so. Plans call for 22 groups of buildings, providing 19 two-room units, 161 three-room units, 120 four- Toom units and 20 five-room units. The development will contain ample play areas for children, its build: covering only 21 per cent of 14-acre tract. Plans Incorporate Innovations. Ickes said the development will be an innovation in design and arrange- ment in the District, built accordinz to Housing Division standards. Plans being developed by a staff of archi- tects working under Hilyard Robinson. Irving S. Porter and Paul Williams, incorporate such features as grouping of plumbing, elimination of corridor space and economy of room arrange- ment. For each square foot of floor space in each room there will be an equal amount of window space, mak- ing sunlight available in each room during some portion of the day. The big problem confronting the housing division—that of finding tenants and the decision on the rents to be charged—will be left until last Rents will depend upon the final cost of the project, which may ex- ceed the $1,600,000 allotted. With payments extended over 2 long period of years, however, it is expected the rentals will not exceed $25 a month. Since Government property in Washington escapes direct taxation, the housing division faces no such problem of computing the real estate tax with the rent, as in other muni- cipalities, where low-rent homes are being built CONTESTS TO FEATURE EASTERN HIGH PROGRAM Musical and Theatrical Numbers Also to Be Presented at As- sociation Meeting. the Three contests and a musical and theatrical program will be presented tonight at the monthly meeting of the Home and School Association of Eastern High School in the school auditorium, beginning at 8 o'clock. A. H. Gregory, president, assisted by Mrs. Curtis E. McCalip. secretary, and Mrs. Maude M. Horne, treasurer, will present the program. Thirty-two students will participate in an information contest to be judged by Henry Flory, Mrs. Moylin M. Sams and Mrs. May E. Morin. The same number of selected students will take | part in a spelling contest and 32 others will participate in a pronoun | ing match. | WINS $10 PRIZE | District Woman's Slogan Accord- ed Honor by Voters’ League. | “Mrs. Mae S. Crawford, 4117 Thirty- seventh street, won $10 for her second | prize slogan, “Let Ability, Not Poli~ tics, Be the Yardstick,” in the na- | tional contest of the National League |of Women Voters for a slogan in- | tended to improve Government per | sonnel, an Associated Press dispatch {said today. | The slogan, “Find the Man for the | Job, Not _the Job for the Man,” sub- mitted by Mrs. Thomas Reed Powell, wife of a Harvard University law pro- | fessor, won the $25 first prize. The money was turned over by Mrs. Powell |to the Cambridge League of Women Voters. ON WAY TO ETHIOPIA Navy Radio Man Will Operate Addis Ababa Station. William Lee Pitts, radio man, first class, U. 8. N., who was on duty here in the Office of Naval Communica« tions until a few days ago, is on his way to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to man the radio station there. The Navy Department said Pitts sailed from New York Tuesday. He is to replace John L. Cauthen, who is be- | ing returned to this country because | of illness. Cauthen was recently op= erated on for appendicitis at Addis Ababa. | |