Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1936, Page 27

-RICHBERG ADVISES SAFETY ECONOMY Would Guard U. S. Against “Zeal in Promotion of Special Interests.” BY the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, October 17.—Donald R. Richberg, former N. R. A. chief- tain, called tonight for “a planned national economy” which he said should “serve primarily as the guardian of the general interest against an excess of zeal in the pro- motion of special interests.” In a speech before the closing ses- sion of the Seventeenth Annual Con- " vention of the American Trade As- sociation Executives, Richberg said he opposed any revival of the N. R. A.— but believed there was a pressing need for an integrated set of laws affecting business. Richberg, who 23 years ago drafted the three bills embodying the anti- trust program of the Progressive party, said his proposed planned economy would preserve the Ameri- ~ can system of private enterprise and at the same time outlaw “the abuses of competition, the oppressive uses of economic power, which will destroy free and fair competition if they are not check.” Richberg criticized those who, he said, “for political purposes try to persuade us that any planned econ- omy is a device of socialism and that any regulated competition means necessarily a bureaucratic control of business.” The trade association executives elected the following officers: Harold R. Young, Washington, o president: Harry Meixell, New York, vice president; O. L. Moore, Chicago, vice president; Herman Fakler, ‘Washington, treasurer, and Miss Syl- via L. Pacelle, Washington, executive secretary. IHLDER TO DISCUSS HOUSING SITUATION Monday Evening Club Discussion to Follow Dinner—Pretty- man Will Preside. Problems in connection with the housing of low-income families will be discussed by John Ihider, execu- tive officer of the Alley Dwelling Au- thority, at the op-ning meeting of the fortieth year of the Monday Eve- ning Club at the Y. W. C. A. Build- ing, Seventeenth and K streets, to- morrow evening. The discussion, part of a “Fall round-up” will follow a dinner at 53 6:30 pm. E. Barrett Prettyman, for- mer District corporation counsel, pres= ident of the club, will preside. Following Ihl- der's talk there will be an open- forum discussion of the subject, in which repre= sentatives of wel- fare agencies, business, labor and Government will pdrticipate. The Monday Evening Club, under Pretty- man’s leadership, will continue this year to interest itself in the study and discussion of subjects relating to the philanthropic, charitable and correctional needs of the District, it was announced. Topics to be dealt with at future meetings this season include social welfare and insurance features of the social security act, public health, status of the unem- » ployed in the District, a model adult correctional system, child welfare and Juvenile delinquency. Officers of the club serving with Prettyman are Mrs. Jesse C. Adkins, first vice president; Mrs. Philip Syd- ney Smith, second vice “president; Edgar M. Gerlach, recording secre- tary; Herbert L. Willett, jr., corre- sponding esecretary, and Morris Klass, treasurer. " LANDON RIDICULED BY GEN. JOHNSON “Just a Substitute Hoover, Dressed Up as a Jayhawker,” Says Ex-N. R. A. Chief. By tne Assoctated Press. CLEVELAND, October 17.—Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, once keeper of the N. R. A. Blue Eagle but now a news- & Daper columnist, told the City Club today that Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas is “just a substitute Hoover, dressed up as a jayhawker.” < “I have nothing against him as & man,” Johnson said, “but he was nominated as the answer to a politi- cal equation—x plus y plus z equals candidate.” Johnson said “x” stood for a West- erner, “y” for a liberal progressive and “z” for economy and a balanced budget. “But that added up to no one of importance in the Republican party. ;. So they went out to the sticks and _oRpt a Republican Governor who had been elected in a New Deal year by posing as a New Dealer. The scouts said he would be O. K. and listen to reason. “The S E. B. Prettyman. leaders didn’t want any part of him but he was the only possible answer. to the only possible political equation. When they saw him they + took one astonished look at him and writhed in anguished agony. Then they decided to sell us on the idea that we need an average man in the ‘White House.. That's how they sold us on Harding.” MRS. FISHERS FUNERAL IS HELD IN DETROIT By the Associated Press, NORWALK, Ohio, October 17.-- Puneral services for Mrs. Margaret T. Pisher, mother of the seven Fisher brothers, automobile leaders of Cleve- land and Detroit, were held today at St. Paul's Catholic Church. A wreath of orchids from Henry Ford and messages from President Roosevelt and Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, Republican presidential candidate, were included among other expressions of sympathy. Py Bishop Karl Alter of the Toledo diocase, assisted by 20 priests, cele- ‘ prated the pontifical requiem mass. Bishop Alater also preached the ser- mon. Grandsons were pallbearers. Tactics Tamed By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 17.—Catch-as- catch-can salesmanship was outlawed in storied Maxwell street today by order of the court. Conventional methods of wooing trade were decreed for the market that is one of the metropolitan show places—a noisy, noisome lane crowded | with small shops and a heterogeneous shoes, ham, sea food, fish, books, household furnishings, fruits, clocks, vegetables, jewelry, second-hand goods, frocks, stoves, suits, hats, overcoats and oysters. Time was when no holds were barred along the short thoroughfare tucked away in the teeming Southwest Side. array of open air booths crammed with | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Street Famed for Rough Sales by Court Edict Fair days brought throngs, money in hand, from ccttages and tenements in the melting pot area. Competition was brisk. Selling prac- tices were forthright and forceful. Salesmen stood in the street, hawking their wares and running sharp eyes over the buying public. At the first faint flicker of interest, they went into action. They leaped out, laid strong hands on coat iapels and dragged prospective customers into their business establishments. Kingfish Levinsky was once a mem- ber of this strong-arm clique. The muscles he flexes in the prize ring were developed in the days he spent dispensing mackerel and trout at one of Maxwell street's favorite fish stalls. But Circuit Judge Harry M. Fisher put an end to this “pulling” method of merchandising. He issued a permanent injunction restraining 36 merchants in the neigh- borhood from “standing upon the pub- lic sidewalks for the purpose of selling to pedestrians or passers-by or making any noise of any kind by crying, call- ing or shouting.” TRADE PLAN URGED NEW ORLEANS, October 17 (#).— Ben J.oWilliams, president of the Southern Cotton Shippers’ Associa- tion, in an open letter to President Reosevelt, Gov. Alf ‘M. Landon and Willlam Lemke, declared that open channels of trade are necessary for the prosperity of the South. Willlams advanced a four-point program, which specifically requested a “material lowering of all tariff " “sound and stabilized cur- a “free flow of gold between and a “free flow of invest- ment capital in desirable directions.” D. C., OCTOBER 18, 1936—PART ONE. Tribute Paid Airline Hostesses As They Lose Job to Stewards Bs the Assoclated Pre NEW YORK, October 17.—With a gallant parting salute to the hostesses of the air, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker has turned to the task of enrolling a | small army of men and putting them in uniforms to replace the women on Eastern Airline ships. “It's a man's job,” Rickenbacker says, “with ships getting bigger all the time.” Henceforward his company will hire stewards, not hostesses, to minister to | the wants and comfort of air passen- gers. The emphasis, he says, is on men with previous contact with the public in a serving capacity. Waiters, bellhops, even filling station attend- ants, will not be overlooked in the search for personnel. “In effect,” says Capt. Rickenbacker, “they will be like good head waiters, learn to know people and their wants, serve their meals, see to their comfort. “Women have shown themselves ex- tremely heroic in emergencies. No- body can take that away from them, and nobody should want to. But planes are getting bigger, there is more to do in them, and men are the logical answer. In the best domestic and continental restaurants men, not women, serve.” Rickenbacker is gencral manager | of Eastern Airlines, = - Washington Pioneer. George Washington was the first to use the word “administration” in its | modern American political sense, it || Fall Is Feeding Time is said. 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