Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1936, Page 26

BY GIVIG THEATER 1,500 Season’s Members Goal in Drive for New Group. A city-wide campaign was begun to- day seeking 1,50¢ seascn membership subscriptions for the newly organized Washington Civic Theater, which hopes to give to Washington in the drama what the National Symphony Orchestra has given it musically. Under present plans eight plays will be produced yearly—one a month from October through May—at Wardman Park Theater, with the eventful aim of establishing here a fully equipped and modern theater building for con- tinuous productions. Day Tuttle and William Girvan will serve as directors for the first season, backed with leading local talent. Commissioner Hazen, a member of the theater’s Advisory Council, said: “It should be supported in friendly and spirited fashion so that it may best serve to fill the long-felt need it answers, providing entertainment and enjoyment for its members and au- diences and adding to the city’s cul- tural institutions.” ‘The Advisory Council has not yet been completed, but members an- nounced thus far include Mrs. Lloyd Biddle, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs; Albert E. Con- radis, president of the Junior Board of Commerce; Mrs. John Allen Dough- erty, Mrs. Karl Fenning, president of the Twentieth Century Club; Edwin C. Graham, president of the Hamil- ton Bank; Mrs. Richard Hogue, presi- dent of the Women's University Club; ‘Thomas Ellis Lodge, Mrs. W. W. Mackall, jr, president of the Junior League: Lowell Mellett, editor of the Daily News; Felix Morley, editor of the Washington Post; Edgar Morris, president of the Washington Board of Trade; Dr. William McClellan, presi- dent of the Potomac Electric & Power Co.; Huston Thompson, president of ffown Hall; Miss Ella Werner, presi- dent of the Soroptimists, and Mrs. Harvey Wiley, president of the Wom- an’s City Club. The Board of Governors is headed by Lee D. Butler and includes Oliver Gasch, first vice president; Dorothea J. Lewis, second vice president; John Garland Pollard, jr., treasurer; Dr. Frederick V. Rand, secretary, and | Marvin Beers, Nelson B. Bell, Olin | Dows, Selma Klein, Margery Rice and | Caroline Thompson. Five members | of this board and Richard P. Creyke,} Eileen Fowler, Robert M. Miller and | Ethel Prince make up the Production Committee. Membership in the theater's produc- tion group is open to every one. Ap- plications may be obtained from the theater's business office at the Raleigh Hotel. First tryouts for the opening production, Shaw's “Caesar and Cleopatra,” will be held Wednesday and Thursday. Tuttle will come directly to Wash- $ngton from his famous Westchester Play House in Mount Kisco, N. Y. At this theater and also at the Ridgeway Theater at White Plains, N. Y., he| has directed some 30 plays in the last | three Summer seasons and such famous stars as Burgess Meredith, Ina Claire, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan and Henry Hull. A graduate of the Yale Drama School and a former member of the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara and the American Laboratory Theater, he also is known &s an actor and playwright. HOUSE BREAKER GETS $150 HIDDEN IN PIANO Mary A. Stevens Reports Theft to Police—Colored Man Snatches Purse Containing $50. ‘The thief who entered the home of Mary A. Stevens, 652 B street south- east, apparently had a turn for music. At any rate, the $150 which had been secreted in her piano is gone, she told police today. Myrtle Cronkhite, 1801 Sixteenth street, reported her purse, containing $50, was snatched from her hands by & colored man while she was walk- ing on Sixteenth street, near Caro- lina place, late Saturday night. Theft of surgical instruments valued @t $97 from his automobile last night was reported by Dr. J. Francis War- ren, 3121 Sixteenth street. He said the theft occurred while his car was parked in the 1800 block of Mintwood place. PRISONER IN HOSPITAL Found bleeding from several cuts on his wrist in his first precinct cell, Amory A. Sibley, 32, of 521 First street ‘was under mental observation in Gal- linger Hospital today. He was sent there yesterday, police said, when he was unable to explain how he received the injuries, which, it was said, were slight. Policeman Francis Knott noticed Bibley sitting in his cell with blood dripping from his wrist. Sibley had been arrested Saturday night and held for investigation. He was given first aid at the precinct before being taken to Gallinger, . AUTOPSY éCHEDULED An autopsy was scheduled today in the case of Thomas Mason, 77, of 606 Maryland avenue southwest, who died yesterday in Casualty Hospital, where he had been confined since walking into a parked automobile and breaking his leg on August 15. The accident occurred in front of his home. Funeral services will be held at the Maryland avenue address at 2 p.m. ‘Wednesday. Burial will be in Pros- pect Hill Cemetery. of Agriculture Wallace and Morris L. Cooke, administra- tor, Rural Electrification Administra- tion, to serve as respective chairmen of two committees to work out a crop insurance plan, follow: Dear Mr. Secretary: The Government's long-time drought and land-use program should be com- pleted and put into operation at the earliest possible moment and imme- diate steps are to be taken with this objective, I am appointing two commitees of representatives of Federal agencies to head up this work, te confer with farm organization leaders and others on the problems and to develop spe- cific programs. One committee, on which I want you to serve as chairman, and in your absence Dr. A. G. Black, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, is to work out a plan of crop insurance. The other, which is to succeed the temporary Great Plains Drought Area Committee, is to work out plans for & land-use program for beter perma- nent protection against drought. The Crop Insurance Committee will consist of yourself and Dr. Black, H. R. Tolley, administrator of the Ag- ricultural Adjustment Administration; Wayne C. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Ernest G. Draper, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Wants Farm Leaders’ Advice. The Crop Insurance Committee is directed to prepare a report and rec- ommendations for legislation provid- ing a plan of “all risk” crop insur- ance. In preparing its report the committee should utilize the extensive crop insurance studies now being THE text of President Roose- velt's letters asking Secretary | made in the Department of Agricul- ture. Final recommendations for leg- islation should be formulated with the advice and assistance of national farm organization leaders so that the plans can be submitted to Congress with the approval and support of the repre- sentatives of the farmers. I suggest that it may be found wise for the first year to limit the application of the plan to one or two major crops as a start. My general suggestions to your committee follow: In the past three and one-half years the Government has helped farmers to meet emergencies of two kinds. The first was a collapse of prices resulting from huge surpluses for which the foreign markets disappeared. The second was a failure of crops in wide areas resulting from drought. Each of these emergencies, except for Gov- ernment action to assist farmers, would have had devastating cons quences to consumers and business as well as to farmers. The time has come to work out permanent measures guarding farm- ers and consumers against disasters of both kinds. Crop insurance and a system of storage reserves should operate so that the surpluses of fat years could be carried over for use in the lean years. ‘Three-Point Protection. Measures of this kind should make three important contributions to the general welfare of the country as a whole: First, protection of the indi- vidual farmer’s income against the hazards of crop failure or price col- lapse; second, protection of consum- ers against shortages of food supplies and against extremes of prices, and third, assistance to both business and employment through providing an even flow of farm supplies and the establishing of stability in farm buy- ing power. Since 1933 the A. A. A. payments have proved their useful- ness to agriculture as well as business in assuring farmers some income, both in time of price collapse and in time of crop failure. I have been impressed by the work of the Department of Agriculture in developing actuarially sound methods for affording farmers the use of the insurance principle in protecting them against hazards which for centuries have handicapped their occupation. I am especially interested in its stud- ies of a plan providing for the pay- ment of premiums and insurance in commodities. This should make it possible to base the premium rates on the productivity of the individual farms as shown by records of past production, a.large number of which the A. A. A. County Committees already have on fille. This method should avoid making farmers of one region pay for the risks of another region. By making this insurance available only to farmers co-operat- ing in farm and soil conservation pro- grams, the plan would be safeguarded from the price dangers which the Federal Farm Board operations in- vited in the years from 1929 to 1932. By using existing records’ of co-op- Wood’s School Established 1885 710 14th St. N.W. Met. 5051 New Classes Now Forming COURSES Business Administrative, 2 Years Ezecutive Secretarial, 1 Year Stenographic, 10 Months Calculating 'Machines, '3 Months Comptometer Positions for Graduates. 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NA. 8250 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. [}AMPA'[;N BEGUN Text of President’s Letters Roosevelt Asks Wallace and Morris L. Cooke to Head Committees to Develop Crop Insurance and Suggests Hearing Farm Leaders. erating farmers and farm committee- men it would appear that premiums based on risk experience could be as fairly assessed as with existing forms of private insurance. Cites Cost to Nation. The expense in the past to Federal, State and local governments of bur- dens caused by drought shows it is time to begin using the economical principle of insurance ‘to lessen the financial and human costs of drought in the future. ‘There should be no question that the welfare of the entire Nation would be served by including, as key- stones of our agricultural policy, crop insurance and storage of reserves along with conservation of soil and water, better land use and increased farm income. Crop insurance properly worked out should give adequate abundance to consumers even though there are sev- eral years of severe drought while at the same time farmers would be pro- tected from the low prices like those of 1932 which might result from sev- eral years of good weather. I am sending similar letters to Ad- ministrator Tolley, Assistant Secre- tary Taylor. Assistant Secretary Draper and Dr. Black. Very sincerely yours, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Letter to Cooke. The President’s letter to Morris L. Cooke, administrator Rural Electrifi- cation Administration, dated Septem- ber 17, follows: My Dear Mr. Cooke: I am writing to ask you to serve as chairman of a special committee whose duty it will be to make a report to me not later than January 1 on a long-term program for the efficient | utilization of the resources of the Great Plains area. I am anxious that | we leave no stone unturned in explor- ing and reporting on all the possi- bilities of this region, as one in which reasonable standards of living can be maintained by the largest possible population. We should face the fact that the climatic conditions make special safeguards absolutely neces- sary. I would like your report to include such recommendations for legislation as you may deem neces- sary. The report now called for is an amplification of the recommenda- tions presented to me at Bismarck. In the letter appointing the earlier committee I said: “We have supposed that the modes of settlement and of development which have been prevalent repre- | sented the ordinary course of civili- | zation. But perhaps in this area of | relatively little fain, practices brought | from the more humid part of the country are not most suitable under | the prevailing natural conditions. 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