Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1935, Page 18

A—18 ALL POSTS FILLED ONTARIFF BOARD Qommission, Its Duties ¢ Heavier, Now Has Full Membership. ©7 the Associated Press. The Tariff Commission, collector of | the voluminous data on which the| President and Congress imeasure the | effects of existing trade policies and | work out new ones, now has a full | membership for the first time in more than a year. President Roosevelt last week ap- pointed Edward Dana Durand of Minnesota to fill the vacancy that has | existed since June 16, 1934, when the term of John Lee Coulter of North Dakota ex- pired. The ap- pointment gave the commission three Republican end three Demo- cratic members. RaymondB. Btevens of New Hampshire, a Democrat, was named to the commission last August and it has bhad a Democratic majority since. Prior to Stevens’ appointment the commission had been functioning with only four members—two of each party. Durand has been chief economist of | the commission since 1930 and was} active in gathering information on which the reciprocal tariff program was worked out. Duties Have Grown. The new duties necessary to the establishment of trade agreements now account for most of the commission’s work. That agency is designated as a | source of information and advice for the President in negotiating agree- ments. | The technical staff of the commis- | sion has the task of preparing especial studies for the State Department and | the various inter-departmental com- | mittees working on reciprocal trade | negotiations. | In earlier years the commission acted | largely in an advisory capacity to Con- | gress in tariff revisions. Now it must | examine carefully such things as the | probable international effects of tarifl‘ changes, the value of proffered con- | cessions and the American interest benefited or injured by a proposed | change in duty. | Other Duties Dwindle. | It also must determine the country | which—because of its geographic or | economic position—is likely to benefit most from a change in duty. Other duties of the commission, in- cluding investigations of applications for revision in duties, still are carried on, but they have dwindled in im- | portance compared with its new work on the trade agreements program. ©One new duty assigned the commis- sion by the New Deal was eiiminated | when the Supreme Court invalidated | N.R. A, | Under the recovery act it was, charged with investigating cases in which foreign competition made in- effective the N. R. A. codes for do- mestic producers. CONFERENCE DISCUSSES SCHOOL PUPILS’ HEALTH EBafety of Montgomery Students Also Topic at Rockville Meeting. &pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 14.— | To discuss matters pertaining to the health and safety of the public school children of Montgomery County, a conference was held here yesterday afternoon under direction of Edwin ‘W. Broome, county superintendent of schools. It was attended by a large number of managers and workers of school | cafeterias, physical education teachers, principals of schools, home arts teach- ers, P.-T. A. committees on cafeterias and others. With Miss Julia Foley, county school nurse; Mrs: Fern Schneider, county supervisor of high schools, and Dr. Broome taking leading parts, such things as lunch, posture, | return of pupils after sickness, eye | testing, hearing, weight, morning in- spections, toilet rooms, mental hy- giene and first aid were considered. E. D. Durand. § | a suit of clothes. | with the | testimony was offered in the descrip- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 15 1935—PART ONE. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. - THE PAY-OFF. lT‘s A little hard to believe that there ever was another Govern- ment official as “tough” as Con- troller General McCarl in watch- ing out for unauthorized expendi- tures, but Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, recalls an incident of years ago that would be almost calculated to make McCarl look like a spend- thrift. It was during Steward’s term in charge of the immigration office at El Paso that one of his men broke up an extensive alien smuggling plot across the river in Mexico, and then only escaped with his evidence from an unfriendly shore by the well- known skin of his teeth. In his walking-swimming-wading progress across the Rio Grande, facil- itated by the thought of artillery to the rear, the agent, naturally, ruined He put in a claim Government, Supporting tion of the valuable work he had done. All he collected was a pointed | declaration from an auditing officer that what had happened to his ward- robe was something for him to worry about—that it was of no concern in Washington. % X “MY TIME,” ETC. ‘HAT Piccadilly-tailored young man whose dark glasses may have aroused your pity during the past week KITT'S FOR MUSIC For Your COSTS NO MORE. THE GIFT THAT really didn't need it. It was only Rudy Vallee trying, and succeeding, in getting away from it all. 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Stop and see the set tomorrow! Palais Royal—Main Floor. GIraTH™ Joyal victed with him recently in District Supreme Court of a conspiracy to sell a West Point appointment for $1,000, also tried to get into the Military Academy. During the trial, it was disclosed young Hoeppel was nominated for the Academy, but failed to pass the requi- site mental examination. The exami- nation marks tell why Algebra, 37; geometry, 55; grammar, 54, and literature and history, 56. * ok ok X ENTRANCED. THl day after the Post Office De- partment fire, one of The Star’s “copy boys” showed up for work in a pair of oversized rubbers, and without shoes or socks. “Sore feet?" sympathetically. “Naw,” was the reply. “I got my feet and legs wet watching the fire somebody inquired and didn’t have time to go home for a change. * o RECOVERY. HREE carpenters working on a residence on Quackenbos street Stein Bloch Clothes Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts Interwoven Hose Beau Brummel Ties Separate Men’s Entrance on Tenth Street returned to work Monday morning to find their tools missing from a closet in which they had locked them the Saturday before, There was nothing to do but knock off work a few hours and go buy some more. About noon, when all three were hack at the job trying to make up for lost time, one suddenly sald to his companion: “Say, what are you doing with my saw?” “Your saw? This is mine.” “That’s my mark on it,” the first insisted. “And that’s my hammer, 00" % “I just bought these thi¢ morning,” the puzzled workman said. So all three stopped work once more and hurried to the second-hand store where the purchpse had been made. There an examination, with the aid of & policeman, brought to light the stolen tools of all three. TR THEY GOT RHYTHM. It's a fact that the younger gen- eration just hasn’t got the self- control that the older generation had. It was the plight of a strug- gling Wayside Sunday school teacher the other day to have to contend with @ choir made up of quite a few youngsters. She was doing her best to teach them how to sing “Jingle Bells” correctly. They had mastered the tune in a commendable manner, but insisted in giving the song red hot rhythm. They even went so far as to stomp their jeet in time to the music. Ja PUPLSSCRUTIEE HORRORS OF WAR High School Students Crit- ical of Cannon-Fodder Possibilities. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14—A group of New York High School stu- dents, none over 16 years old, took a look at war figures, put their heads together and wrote a book. ¢ | It is not a big book, as books about war go, but it is full of big figures and big facts. It appeared first in mimeographed form, with linoleum cut illustrations. It has now been printed, and is being distributed by peace organizations. It is called “The Student Looks at War.” One of the things he saw when he looked at the World War was that 40,000,000, “or about the population of France,” were killed in battle, were wounded, were taken prisoner or were missing or died of disease. Race Suicide. Another thing he saw was best ex- pressed in the words of a major gen- eral, whom they quote: “The entire system of war tends to shelter from its scourge the physically weak, the mental defectives. * * * It sends into the fire of battle for potential destruction the young men of the lands who are fitted in all re- spects, War is actually the most ef- fective form of race suicide known to man.” Of the generation of 1914, the book states: “They followed the fife and drum and the promise of glory—to their graves.” The book is divided into six chap- ters: The price they paid, the weapons men have used, what war does to men, what war does to society, why men fought and fight and what can we do about it? Ends With Decision. In the final chapter the young stu- students at the Fieldston unit of the Ethical Culture Schools of New York City. Their book was engendered, discussed and launched without out- side aid. PIOFRENTON GUFFEY ACT CONTRACT APPLIED TO ALL ALIKE By the Associated Press. The Bituminous Coal Commission ruled yesterday that the contract sece tion of the Guffey act would apply to producers who have not assented to the code as well as to those who have, The section prohibits the delivery of coal under contracts made before dents of war and its causes discuss| August 30, 1935, at prices below the plans for peace, and conclude, ad- dressing their own generation: “After all, it's very important to you whether you grow up to become a useful citi- zen or cannon fodder, isn't it?” Commenting upon the book, Wil- liam T. 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